Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-05-16
On THE WING

Correspondence of The StarJ
FkoA PHILADELPHIA TO CENTRAL PENNsYLvAN1S
G-ooINs UP THE ScHuYLKILL-GErrISG INTO
IHE Rural DIsTRIcTs"-A RoUGH CouNTRS
W GOD SLIDEs-HOw MoRT6AGEp PRoPKRTy
Is fLAcAkDED IN PENNsYLVANIA-SrRIKIN orr
FOR THE Recommendations A PokERIsB
RAIL.
CATAwIssA, May 9, 1850.
left Philadelphia by the Z 30 train this morn.
log, for the wild region Of Center PENNSYLVANIA.
coming by the Philadelphia and Elmira road
FOR the hrsf hundred miles Of the way we shot uu
me beautiful valley of the Schuylkill;-rast Fair
mount and the new Park, (ex-Lemon Hill of mic.
mic renown) which the Philadelphians fondly
believe is to surpass the New York CITY Central
Park; past the barge houses Of the "SchuvlkiIl
feeti" past Laurel Hill, the Odd Fellows, Gene
tery, Mount Vernon, and the half dozen other
sweet rural cemeteries which line the ScbuvIkiIl.
past fdwn-colored, lemon-colored and e.,
eoiored rough-cast houses with red roofs remind
Ing the traveller OF such in France and Belgium:
PAS casue,hke mansions of gray building stone
suCn ds tne merchant princes Of Philadel nhia
fondly Incline to for suburban residences and
such as w ashington has the material for in abpn5
ance on the line of the Aqueduct past Manavunk
where Nixon makes printing name, out ~ st.,
for the Philadelphia Ledger folks mast the hns',
manufacturing place of Norristown; mast inn
mensely long coal trains from the mine. soIna-
Tunes numbering one hundred and twenty cars to
sue u6ihi past continuous line of canal baroes
ioddeo with lime and coal; past WAGONS M.
hlgh with empty lager beer barrels; and Al nm
pas, Reading and Port Clinton, at which place
pau Rot very much rougher and vegetation more
backward tnan al the commencement of the
mornings ride. Rocks, blackened stumns .nd
lsouhain sloes seathed by FIRE met the eve instead
ci We Id. green fields of the lower SchuylkiIl
Gooole-s Ione FENCES, such as one sees I'm New
England, made their appearance and The ,,onnJ
was heaped with stores Of similar fenciSg M,
teIIM, curious feature OF the view was the
countess shutes or slides where cord-vood b,d
been precipitated down the mountain - in
burrows almost as close and regular al the strnes
on a "daown easters' trousers Another odd
wrlnkle was the following announcement painted
conspicuously upon the cars Of the Port Clinton
ana Catawissa road ''Mortgaged April II. Is5s
In the hands Of the receiver . - ~
IL seems that in consequence of the number NJ
proved enc of the most expensive in nas
IN the STATE hence the mortgage and by State
law tne mortgage must be thus publicly an
We now enter upon the lumbe, ,s,io, -. A.
upper Sehuylkill, and for many miles the road
was Hned with piles Of pine boards shjn1Ies
yoss, &c, and the sprightly little river was kent
e.useY employed indeed all along In driving
so".nails dhd DINER lumber cutting machinery
AT Ianaqua, however, there was a diversion
from The lumber business; all hands yre,s hns,
c IN algeihg coal from the mountain sides, and 50
oling the huge Jumps OF coal could be witneSssd
from the very car windows
OceaslonalIy rich valley glade was disclosed
as me cars went on, but was unprepared to find
90 much land untitled for agricultural nninose.
In this portion Of the State r0'
hefeao bouts our road. which had SO long hupped
1Iose 70 tne SchuylkilI, seemed to despair of fol
rowing It's brook-like sinuosities further. and
plunged away through the hills to the ri9bt in
9uest OF TIE Susquehanna, which il found AT
CatawiSsa. The road along Catawissa creek I,
rather Of the ''Pokerish' Sort and for the first
une, L Relieve, In my railroad travelling expert
enees, felt bit nervous as the cars swayed tor
ana Iro while dashing along the very verge of
stretches OF unrailed timber sleepers. bTisginS
Eawnlng gulfs water courses, and deem valleys
but we soon emerged into a rich smiling country
OF Ihe fertile Piedmont lands of Virginia. '
we are now ESQ p M at Catawissa. Column
Ola county, Pa, right In amongst the iron mi ne.
ana furnaces, and stacks Of iron ''Tn rails manu-
piles Of lumber along the road. C sN