The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-05-10
Editorial Correspondence.
CINCINNATI May Sd. 186


A brief notice of things by the way, it was
thought might perhaps be Acceptable. word
about the country and its prospects in an agri-
Gu ltural view, may not be anss. Travelling
by railroad by way of indianapolis to Cincinnati
the growing crops could not fail to attract atten.
ton along This route. The growing winter
wheat about indianapolis. and some fifty miles
onward towards Cincinnati, looks exceedingly
promising. Spring crops also,aro looking we'll !;
farmers say the prospect for a bountiful harvest
has not appeared so favorable at this season of
the year, for many years past. Fruit, especially
apples, through the portion of Indiana travelled
by the Cincinnati road will be failure; the
frost on Tuesday night the Goth April, il is said
ruined it entirely In the vicinity of Cincinnati
however, there are no complaints Of the late
frosts. The farms in Indiana, particularly on
the line of the railroad are generally small; the
farm buildings will by no means compare with
those in Wisconsin good share of the farm
houses are still of the primitive kind called log
houses. Notwithstanding the cheap improve
ments on the farms, We were surprised to learn,
llldb pllCCo dShSu pGt StCl0 lOL are dDOuL
three times as much as in Wisconsin. 1t was
stated ON reliable authority, that the average
price per acre, is from $75 to 800. The mos
undesirable farms cannot be bought for less
than 500, per acre. The staples grown on these
farms are corn and wheat the former being the
most important crop. The farmers are now
through planting.
After getting as low down as Shelbyville in
Indiana, the forests are now clothed in theil
summer green, As we approach Cincinnati the
country becomes rough and billy; the soil is
nevertheless good and highly productive. The
hill sides are extensively appropriated to the
cultivation Of the grape. The grape is not plan
ted as with us, along fences and by the side Of
buildings but in the open field, and has strong
resemblance to a plantation of hops excep
that the poles or stakes are only about one third
as tall as hop poles, and only a single grape
vine is trimmed TO each pole Parallel ston,
walls some six or eight rods apart are built OF
the hill sides, to keep the soil from washing ava,
by the heavy rains.
Cincinnati, it is almost needless to say, is
place of large business, and increasing in impor
lance the city has been so often described tina
but little new or interesting can be said respect
ing it. One great drawback to the beauty o
the city, is its narrow streets. It has many
buildings both public and private, which indi
cafe wealth and taste. If any one will take til,
pains to ascend one of the high bluffs which
overlook the city, it be seen in its full length
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quite up to the foot of the bluff, and its onl,
chance of expansion now, is up or down the riv
er bank. The view of Cincinnati from the higl
bluff above the town, is not pleasing one j
disappoints for the toll necessary to gain one o
these nights dense cloud Of smoke from tn
quantities of coal used in its numerous manufac
e turing establishments, hovers over the place
the city looks somber and dingy indeed it ap
pears as if having been scorched and blackene
by terrible fire. There is not an editce of an
sort in Cincinnati painted white-dwellinps sbop
stores, are all eolored dusky brown. Whit
painting would be useless-it probably would no
retain its original color a month.
COvington on the opposite side of the river o
the Kentucky side, is pleasantly situated town
1t has many fine residences, many of which ar
owned and occupied by gentlemen doing bus
ness in Cincinnati. Covington has some 16, 90
lnhabitants-most of its streets are narrow, ye
have rather pleasing aspect, from the fact tina
several OF them have rows of large trees on eth
er side, whose long branches meet each other
forming an arch over the travelled street; adj
to this, that these trees are now in full foliage
and abe prospect cat be imagined. Notwithstan
IS ding CovingtOn has quite large population
bushes it has none its main thoroughfares ar