Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-28
A plr.bnraher in CLEVELAND.

Friend McKNeHT, of the Pittsburgh Chron-
icle, has been lucky enough to throw off the
editorial harness for a fortnight in order to
kick up his heels about the Lakes from Erie to
Superior lie was in the Forest City last week
frolicked round took trip to Niagara, and
then, happy fellow scOOled off towards the
cool sun-down of dog.days. We clip as follows
from his "jottings hereabouts
What a perfect annihilator of time and space
is your steam engine. Well has it been called
the great modern ciyizer and reyoutionizer
just think oft, ifyou are cool enough to think
We started from Pittsburgh on Wednesday
afternoon, aud we are here Oh Friday morning
sitting in a spacious roo ofthe Angler House,
with magnificent lookout upon Lake Erie,
and its refreshing and invigorating breezes dis
sheveling our editorial locks, and this too,
after having rambled all oyoT Buffalo, and Nj.
agara the echo of whose noisy cataract is still
sounding in our ears But TO begin at the be
ginning. II was only five and h'lt hours
from the time we were wheeled out of Pitts
burgh until our lungs were surprised and eX-
panded by the pure and delicious breezes of the
lake. We took a carriage and drove through
the principal streets of the Forest City, and
certainly never remember to have seen it look
better or more beautiful Euclid and Prospect
streets are assuredly two of the loveliest and
most habtabe avenues we have ever seen.
The ornamental shade trees were scattered
along the whole lengths in the most bOuntiful
proiusion, and were robed IN the full luxuriance
of their summer foliage AT some distance
back, and universally surrounded with other
trees, with flowers, or with beautiful shrub
berry, were ranged the residences Of the CleYe
land business men.
All, what happy homes they must have The
various styles and varieties of cottage archi-
lecture seem to have been completely exhaust
ed. Gothic, Grecian, Italian, English and
American, all had their numerous representa-.
tives, while numbers were fashioned in the
composite order. But the most striking and
captivating feature Of all, was the great care
which seems to have been taken to have them
all surrounded with lawns, trees, flowers,
shrubbery and climbing vines. Some of the
private residences lately completed, are really
palatial in their vastness and elegance, and the
grounds are beautifully and tastefuly decora-
ted. We noticed here, as well as at Builalo,
large cOnservatories with glass walls and roofs
aud filled With every variety Of rare fruits,
shrubs and flowers. They are exceedingly
tasteful in design, and have remarkably pretty
look so light, graceful and appro.
pirate. In Buffalo they are also quite numer-
Gus and conspicuous
The Clevelanders are also fortunate ia the
possession of excellent roads, to ride on which,
after last pair of horses, is of itself q luxury
As consequence, every person seems to own
some kind OF a quldruped as a locomotor.--
With us, on the contrary, no one rides who
can afford to walk
1t is enough to render a Pennsylvania posi-
lively melancholy to witness the great differ
cnce between his own and the New England
States, or such Lake States as are peopled from
that well known region. BE assured they make
their money 90, and their money makes them
90, much farther here than with us. For in
stance, a Clevt land householder for one-fourth
the money employed in Pittsburgh would erect
a little love Of cottage, half hidden from view
by trees and clambering vines, with smoothly
pressed lawn and hedge in front, and altogether
looking so desirable that passer by is prompt
ed to break the tenth commandment. In a
three hours buggy ride to-day along Euclid,
Prospect, Kinsman, and other streets, we must
have seen at least two hundred of Just such
houses and grounds as Pittsburgh sadly wants,
but cannot produce. They would command
with us from $500 to S4O0 rent,-here proba-
bly, from $3.50 TO $3.50 Cleveland has arisen
to the dignity of a irst-class city, and wears
her hOnors iauntilV New Water Works, Court
House, and Post Office have just been finished
of which the latter is especially beautiful and
most elegant and convenient
we have ever seen, quite throwing that of our
city into the shade. 1t is on one side of the
public park, and, as is usual here, almost con-
cealed by heavily foliaged shade trees
A noticeable feature of social life here is
that it Is quite common for the ladies' to drive
and very gracefully and spiritedly, too, do !
they perform the task. We have seen quite
number of young la les, dressed neatly and ap-
behind pair of spanking bloods,
handling the ribbons with all the dexterity Of
an "old whip" and sometimes plying the lash,
too, with much science and effect as we of
the sterner and crueler sex. Mrs Fillmore,
former wife of the eI-President, was said to
have been one of the most skillful and dashng
drivers Of Buffalo; and we dare say Mrs. Fill
more No. very well sustains the reputation
of her pred eeessor