Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-23

n. P. WILLS on CLEYELAxD.-In the edi-
torial correspondence of the last Home
Journal, we find that Willis is travelling
through the West, and thus writes Of Ohio
and Cleveland. He reaches this city by rail
from Buffalo, and finds our streets 50 full OF
dust as to leave room for nothing else
1.-THE approach to Cleveland, for many
miles, showed the higher culture Of neigh
/ borhood to thriving metropolis. The beau
tifally undulating uplands stretching away
from the Lake were but succession Of the
finest farms each one looking like the subject
Of the prophets song Ny beloved hath o
vineyard in a very fruitful hill Indeed,
with these garden farms, and the innumeFable
fields of grain we had previously seen in our
rapid motion, it looked like country where
the staple products which money mainly
represents could never be scarce-hOwever
scarce las at present) money might be.
l saw Immediately, as we ran into the city,
that had underrated Cleveland 1t is
more of a place than they tell for. And Of
unexpected aspect too, for it looks like a
hourishing seaport rather than an inland
town. The noble Water-belt which crosses
the State, (the Canal connecting Lake Erie
with the Ohio river has here its terminus,
and its abundance of three story craft, lying
at the piers, adds largely of course to the i'm
preston of crowded wharVes. The wild
geese, who fly over, doubtless take the small
forest Of masts,' in that inland harbor, to
be but the drear sign Of the settlers blight
ing approach, the staring Of the leahess and
girdled trees
We had an hour or more of daylight for a
stroll through the town, and we took ad-
vantage of it-thOugh the inhabitants had
evidently given up outdoors, for that even
ing, to simeon. It blew gale from the
Lake; and the dust piled up like snow drifts
in the streets, was now and then lifted by a
whirlwind so as to daTken the air like a
thick cloud. The sidewalks Of the broad
thOroughfares were quite deserted, though
by the splendid windows of the shops in the
metropolitan ranges of tail buildings, they
were 'Broadways,' in fine weather. 1t is
certainly city magnifcently laid out, and
with superb public edifice of white stone
upon its central square, and plenty Of tall
spires and stately blocks but, with the evi-
dent giving up Of the freedom of the city
to wind and dust, for that afternoon, it was
like seeing a metropolis in the light of a full
moon, the hour before morning. With the
exception of the omnibus which brought US
from the railway, l do not think | saw a
moving vehicle in Cleveland.
We left Cleveland, the next morning, soon
after daylight bound to Antioch College and
Yellow Springs. Zig zag-ing about great
deal, in Ohio, before starting farther West,
we saw more Of the State than travellers in
ordinary transit, and brought away vivid
impression of its wonderful fertility and
beauty. Twill anticipate little by making
Gn another paragraph) one generalizing re-
mark as to what impressed me in the eharac-
ter of its scenery.
OhiO's very common and rather disparag-
ing nickname Of ''the Pork State, should
really be written with the substitution of an
for the 0. It is the Park State-for, the
whole impression of its scenery is that of an
English Park This is owing to several COM
bining circumstances, over and above its Gu
rious variety and beauty Of outline The in
habitants, in the first place, seem to have fol-
lowed Natures model in what are usually
known as soak openings ''-clumps Of forest
trees, proportionately sprinkled over uplands
and lowlands of verdure. So beautifully are
they left (for shade or taste, that every view
from the window of the rail-car, looks ike
composition Of wood and field, designed by
an artist Then, the immense herds Of cat
tie, grazing in the woodlands, give an acciden- /
tai refinement to every grove by browsing of
the lower branches as high as they can reach,
and Tins making II seem like cultivated
park carefully trimmed by the rangers axe.
The farms being usually extensive properties,
there are few fences; and, the surface Of the
State being wonderfully feicitous distribu-
ton of hill and dale, the effects are all large
and of the openness of park landscape. It
should be added, perhaps, that the stage Of
culture, to which most of the land Of the
State has now arrived, removes the raWness
of recent "clearings," and takes away the
pock-marked unsightliuess given to a newer
settled country by the burnt stumps."
ruL. E., A -,r-,--A