Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-06-17
Correspondence OF the Belmont Chronicle.
LOCUST HILL, Cecil Co, Md
18th June. 1858. {

18th June, 1858.
Mr.. EDITOR. left your place on Tues
day morning, 9Th inst, for the East. On
arriving in Bridgeport and finding the mud
entirely dried up, | detained day. On
Wednesday morning at $50 CARED for
Baltimore, and finding the trip SO pleasing,
even to this point, thought TO write you.
The scenery in the mountains is strikingly
.ublime at this season. Owing to the i'm
mense amount of rain that has fallen, the
fallage is exceedingly dense, while tn e
esrth, that has been washed down through
past oges fllirg the interstices of the gray
granite, gives birth to the richest variety o
flowers. Our Belmont hills dwindle into
insgnifcence when reared up in imagina-
tion by the side Of these, and then the
rocks, the grand old rocks, that have been
deluged for centuries and SCARED by the
hard of time, stand rearing their grey heads
a thousand feet above the pebble in The
plain, with imposing granduer. At about
3 O'Clock, P. NJ, we reach ed the trestle
work below Tunnelton, and were allowed
the space of ten minutes by the gentleman
" conductor to view the scenery. The iron
work of this irestle is one hundred feet in
hight, resting On solid wall of free stone,
foos oh rod
and sixty. FIVE feet from the base, while the
whole work is elevated above Cheat river.
mountains base-fve hundred feet. Nor is
this the heightk of the mountain for it
towers seyersl hundred feet above the track
and mingles with the clouds. Just opposite
the trestle ard on the North side of Cheat
stands another mountain equally as high
end more imposing, for the hand of man
has no where marred its sides. Tall pines,
stately poplars and gnarled oaks stand side
bv side, while IN almost impenetrable lie
growth Of underbrush peeps up between
The oak timber os the mountain, although
not tall, is OF excellent quality for wheei-
right purposes, or, in fact, for any purpose
for which oak is used. but 'ge:ting it out''
is laborious task.
We reached Piedmont by 7.3o and were
furnished with choice supper. | feel very
free in Recommending passengers to give
sbe present proprietor call. At O'Clock
Thursday morning we were in Baltimore,
and after an hours rest were wheeling for
Hsvre de Grace. By 9 A. M. we drew rein
in The depot. and while the train proceeded
TO Philadelphia, | took the Port Deposit
boat and in an hour afterwards was safely
anchored at the wharf Of the last named
plsce. ShouIdering my car pet sack found
nv way here during the afternoon, about
70 miles from the Susquebanna. Aitel
making the bluff, the country is very fine
Beautifully unduiating, well watered ant
timbered, but in quality it is not such as yol
grow corn in. Havre de Grace being sit
ua,ed at the mouth of the river is made al
important point through the medium of tn,
shipping.
The fishing season is well nigh past. I
is said not 10 have been very propitious
though many hundred barrels have been ia
ken. They no longer use the draw eeine
They are gilIed by means of foatin
seine, measuring, not unfrequently 2 mile
in lenoth. OF one fisherman erquired tn
length and cost of his seines. He answer
ed that the greatest length was % mile'
and the cost Of his entire lot-which wer
reeled on the beach--$lo,0o0. Corn loot
well here, and potatoes remarkable so.-
They have not been SO pesiered with raj
as we of Ohio. The fly is destroying who
fields of wheat, and the opinion is, that
the time the wee,iI and miller get their tc
the tax paying portion will be small The
are some mines of cIome and magnes
near here which / will visit soon, and wri
you again. Yours, &c.
B-PH