Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-11
Correspondence Of the Daily Patriot

Correspondence Of the Daily Patriot
PHILADELPHIA, June %, 1857.
MEssRs. EDITORS Il have arrived in the Quaker
City, after seeing everything of interest to traV-
elsr between here and Cincinnati. At Cincinnati,
under the guidance Of one of the natives, drove
70 all the public places, and only give you
running synopsis of the points of interest for the
benefit of those who are pleasure interest-seek-
AL who visit the Queen City should visit the
Water Works, which, to a MUD apprecative OF
yastness and beauty of mechanism, will amply re-
pay hours study. Thence, the distance Is
short, to Longworth's Wine Vaults, where, with
a candle in hand, aud a cropping itchven in
the other, you may wander through the bowels OF
the earth, where repose in growing ripeness mill
lion and half bottles of native wine; sepulchre
Of headaches-a Pandora-box of throbbing brows
q store house of jOllity and social caioric. When
you view the miles of hills covered with the lu1u
RANT vines and ref the destiny of the rpen-
ing grape, it bushes purple, you cannot help
excaimiDg-Well, it depends on your temperance
opinions what you will say you know my senti-
ments that subject. Having refreshed ourselves
with sight of that which may touch, handle"
but ''taste not" we dropped in at the Mercantile
Library, where we spent hour contemplating
Powers beautiful statue of S ence, which, to our
mind is but little inferior to his Greek Slave. You
want to hold your breath while gazing at it, so
expressive of silence is the attitude in which our
own native sculptor has moulded this beautiful
figure. May be long live as the exponent and
guide of American art
After quiet, pleasant dinner at the Broadway
House, we visited the CoVington Iron WOrks-the
place where the thermometer climbs up continually.
If you can bear a heat of 100 deg, you will be
much interested in the process of making the I.
Rail If this heat be too great for your bodily
comfort you may visit the GlasS-Works, where
the atmosphere only reaches about lib deg. The
steam re-engines Of Cinciunatare wonderful pieces
OF mechanism, whether they answer their purpose
We cannot tell from observation. We did hope
there would be fre-only small one-that we
might see the machines in operations; but the
gods were not propiious, and instead Of fire, gave
us water, for il rained very heavily. Cincinnati
seems to be motley tumble Of lager-beer saloons
under ground and overgrown stores above ground
architectural vagaries five stories high and Irish
novels without any story-hs choked with houses,
and houses picturesque, dull, small, large, stately,
strong, and ricketty-hOuses with constitutional
eruption of windows, and houses with an unrelleVed
stare OF soidity, unpierced and blank.
At six o'clock on Tuesday, we left Cincinnati
sleeping amidst the holows, and took the Little
Miami Railroad The scenery on this road rather
tame and dull Columbus wears more the appear
ance Of one of our towns than a Western or East
ern one. The Capitol is a very pretty building
The schedule on this road is arranged, that but
ten minutes is allowed for passengers to get some
thing to eat for dinner The cars stop alta mann
moth cake-shOp on the road, and the rude and
vulgar mascuines take possession of the stand, TO
the exclusion OF the unfortunates who have ladies'
or are ndisposed TO push their way through the
tobaccO-packets, who stand with plug of the weed
in one hand and huge mince-pie in the other
The pies are concocted of mnce meat varying
from an inch to halt foot in length! Think Of it,
ye gods pies By the foot! We would recommend
to the Little Miami K. r. Co. a change of pro-
gramme, or else publish to the travelling public to
bring a supply of cakes with them.
At Cresne. we took the Pittshurg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Il. R., which is laid through ex-
ceedingly interesting and romantic country. The
conductor, Mr.. A. f. Leaytt, is one of the very
few gentlemany conductors the route. Els
attention to the comfort and pleasure OF the pas
sengers spoke him one we'll calculated to fill the
responsible office of conductor on a train Of cars
Cioaded with human freight. We arrived at Pitts
burg at night, and was only too happy to get away
from the wretched yawnngs OF sleepy gas-lights,
which seemed to wink blear eyed at the ioggy at
mosphere that coated the sullen city. Heaven
help the dark, Wretcbed atmosphere OF Pit,sburg
At pittsburg we took the Pennsylvania Il. r. ut
10 o'clock, p. NJ. Being "solitary aad alone"
we were, with many more miserable bachelors,
thrust into a Gay-csr where sleep impossible,
on account of the practical seats made with math-
ematica straightness and deAl-board hardness
However, all things must end, and does tho
Pennsylvania Railroad, for which the Lord makes
truly thankful.
The crops all through Ohio are good. Corn is
looking very strong aud healthy, and the Wheat
crop will be enormous. Much damage has been
done by the storms in Western Pennsylvania and
Eastern Ohio, which will not, however, materially
affect the yield Of grain The hay-erop will be
heavy. but not so healthy nutritious, owing TO
me heavy and long continued rains.
shall write you description of the Fourth OF
July, as observed in the Quaker City.
Till then, adivH, =: