, 1859-03-05
Of the Reu and Tribunal

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Correspondents Of The preu and Tribunal
GAtzaA+ March !. 1ssa.
Perhaps To some Of The dxeilers in tho City Of
ths Plain (no refsrsnce TO Sodom) brief DE-
ssription Of town and enviro.s, in almos. every
respect 30 dill aren't from Chicago, would be in
tarestinK; 70 di8sesnt, indeed, from most other
towns that even rsndence In it fails 10 entirely
overcome the aingularity Of its aspect.
Among all the town sites which nature indi.
cated ages sgo By amnothing. the rough places
and making the high plsees low, and which
indication thousands Of town proprietors are
willing to interpret in their own favor, she either
1otxns aalsns or alse intended that it should be
populssed with q remarkably enterprisiug com.
munity, for when the first courageous surveyor
began to lsy out streets, al that portion Of ths
site Of GaleDa which w1s not swamp WAS Inclined
Ut An angle Of sbous twenty degreea from tho
perpendicular.
Year by Yesr, however, in benches OF one
sided streets. where the roof Of ope mans house
became tho play ground Of the children Of his
nelghbor in the next street back-tho town
climbed the steep hill-side until now It is city
OF abont twelve thousand souls- The two prin-
cipal streets-Msin and Bench-sre about q
hundred feet apart aud one fifty feet above the
other 10 that most Of tha houses On either street
front on both, the frat Aoor on one street being
the third Aoor on the next The town is built
in substantial manner, almost entirely Of
brick.
AA the visitor winds his way out OF town, the
rosd il hemmed in on both sldes By steep hills,
some of which are 50 barren and stony TINT they
present the appearance Of having been Mead.
anizad from top to bottom others are covered
With dense growth at bruahwood and young
timber, but nowhere il there anything approach.
iug to forest Every hill is spotted with little
mounds Of yellow earth, and is o. full Of holes
ss q Worm.eaten cheese.
Some winding rosd at length brings you to
the top Of one Of these bare. bleak hills, and to
= larger mound Of the same yellowish earth,
With which the whole country in aight is mot
tied. On top OF this mound Of earth asands d
windlass, and man is winding up tubs full of
dirt and rock which continually increase the
pile under hia feet. Beneath him-forty--flty
- hundred feet underground, isthe miner. As
we look around and on every ridge SEQ the wind
lass-men and know thst beneath each one q
smutty faced miner is burrowing By the light Of
dim candle. We arc reminded Of the legend in
the mythology Of the old Norse.folk, which runs
that when the sons Of Bor hsd slain the Giant
Yuer, they carried his body cut into the mid
die Of Ginunga-gap, and thers they made, the
sea Of his blood the earth Of his body, the noun.
tans Of his bones, the trees Of his hair, aod bis
brain they scattered in the air, where il became
the grand and gloomy Clouds That Dark-elyes
or Dwarves were qu,ckened, as maggots, in the
dead giants flesh, Who received the forms and
understandings Of men, but whose abode WAS in
the earth and The rocka where they were doomed
to delve and work continually among the met
gls"
But let III deseend into tho mines and zee the
mine aud zee the "Dark-eIves" at their work.
The windlassman makes loop in the end of the
rope inio which you put one foot, and, claspiuR
at the same time the rope with one hand. slowly
you begin to 70 down; down it grows darker
and darker; damp, graye-llke smell comes up
from below, and yon grow dizzy with the con.in.
ual whirling around, until, when you reach the
bottom aud look up at the one small spot Of day.
light through Which you came down, you Start
with alarm al the great mass Of rocks and earth
oyer your head seems tn he xv.y;no and tn,o-
bling in. You draw your breath little more
freely, however. when you perceive that it was
o,,v your own dizzipea, ar tba scuddino of Tho
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