Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-08-30
Correspondence of the Tribune and Tele
graph.


DEAR TRIBUNE & TELEGRAPH:-Westwa
bound-have left the solid happiness and quiet
of my Farmer Home where the merry sound of
the mowers scythc fills the ear; where all Nature
rcjoices-the rils and the birds are harpists, and
/ the tiny feet of CHILDHOOD nigh at hand, keep time
to their joyous measure. A Farmer Home is al
ways delightful; delightful, because you can
throw aside all conventonalitics, and revel in the
I halo of warm hearts around you.
! New England, Boston, and New York have
been vsitcd-old friends taken by the hand anew;
the "Good-hycs" have all been spoken, and we
find oursc!f Oh board the Erie Railroad cars, west
ward bound. We will dot DOWN few of our
/ thoughts and observations as we pass over this
| giant work of man. which you may present to
your readers, or put them under the table, as you
may judge best.
And at the outset, we must confess to an agree
able surprise at the perfect condition ofthe Road,
and its comfortableness and completeness of out
fit, so strangely in contrast with the present con-
dition of the many so-called ''best Roads, of n.
England and the Western States.
lis smoo:hncss Of surface and cvenness of rail
may make it less servccab'e to dyspeptics, yet
we opine the Life Insurance Companies would
forcgo all the minor considerations in view of the
greater safety TO life and limb thus secured.
HOMER RANSDELL, is President of the n. Y
& Erie Railroad, and when l have said this,
l,ayc said all that need be said. AS man and
tinancier, lie has performed the Herculean task of
rescuing it from its former pccuniary enlbarass-
ment, and from the jaws Of the hungry bears and
wolves of Wall Street
Indeed, the n Y & Erie Railroad may be con-
sdered the vital artery OF New York City. What
ever tends to cripple its powers or welfare, will
cripple New York; and well could the business
men and merchant princes of the Empire City,
afford to pay an assessment of million year,
rather than have its hfc-giving channels gain an
other direction. But under the management of
its present popular President and Board of Di-
rectors, we apprehcnd no future embarrassment
in its finances or usefulness.
The passengers on this Road now pass over to
Jersey City, instead of taking steamers to Pied
mont, as formerly, which very materially e1pe-
ditcs the transit of the trains. We rapidly sped
westward through the skirts of the all-important
State of Camden and Amboy," thence into the
rich and verdant region of southern New York.
Here the first standing army ofmilk-cans-tru-
~ and fecitouslv enough, the 'Milyway" of
our journey. The traveller here has abundant
assurance that the farmers of Rockland and Or
ange Counties, can ''plank the TIM as well as
cover the plank with tin cans. 1t is a matter of
record that single train in a single day, has car
red : 0UO baskets of strawberries and 10000
quarts of milk, over this end of the road to New
York.
The iron interests OF this section of the road,
are by no means unimportant and with the heavy
freight Of ores, castings, &c. must be one source
of great revenue to the Ere Road. At Ramapo
are the Augusta Iron Works." where among
Other things, lang s.ne," he immense Iron Ca
bic. thrown across the Hudson, ut West Point,
10 check the advance of the British fee. was
forged. Leaving the haunts of Vulcan, and the
romantic and picturesque scenery of Rockland
we enter the regions Of Orange, the county which
ever foweth with milk and-butter Oxford
Chester, Goshen, Mddletown, HowelFs and Otis
vile, pass in rapid view the express train flies
along on its easy six feet guage. Here we bid
adieu TO thc rogimcnt;l ranks of Milk Cans, and
enter one of the widest and most picturesque re
gious travorsed by the road. Ccdars, hemocks
rocks, mountains, streams, cascades, cataracts
m;lldaIns and Tanner;es, seem 10 be the princi
pal institutions" of this portion of the country
From Ohsvie, the road commences the ascent
Of its grade of forty feet 70 the mile, to overcome
its mountain pass little beyond. One mile on
ward is 4 cut through the solid rock, $500 fee
in length, by some 81 feet in depth-one of th'
many formidable barriers with which the Com
pany had 10 contend Through this cut, and W.
have gained the summit, aud commence our de
scent. Winding down around the mountain side
} at one time our track lies upon the solid verge
the mountain rock, at another upheld by wal
Of thousand feet in length, by some forty or fti.
feet in height, till approach the rich and eui
tiva q valley of Neversnk. Here the iron hors
halts al PORT JARVIS, thriving, busy and nois,
= little city, beautifully situated at the mountain
base in the valley of the Nevers;nk,
| There 10 a curious TACT connected with tn