The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-11-22
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Penmsylvanians will feel some curiosi-
osity in knowing how the Prince enjoyed
his visit in their State, and What tha news
paper-man Of his company says Of them.
The following Is from the London T'mcs
it viii likely induce European travellers
10 try our railroad:
HAKEISBURG, October 2.
Pittsburg was reached in the night
There was an immense crowd waiting to
sec ''thc Prince" IS Il matter OF course
VINO escorted him rather 6oisteroUsly U
to the handsome and comfortable hotel
where he was to stay for the night. and
which takes its name from the banks Of
the river OF which pittsburg is built, the
MononeuheIa House. From dav break
next morning there wasan immense crowd
round the hotel, which for a time preyen-
ed ali vehicles coming to the door. At
last, however, the Prince got into his
carriage. and would have driven round
the town, but for the mistaken po.itenuss
Of the Mayor. who turned out some fine
companies Of militia to prcccdc the cor
tee with their bands, at ! slow march, an
. ARRANGEMENT to which, as kind Of State
reception, his Royal Hi@hness was disin-
chned, and which, as afording al Pitts
burg an opportunity of keeping pace side
by side with his ROYAL Ilighness. must
have been in the highest degree Uncom-
Portable. and embarrassing. As with cv-
crythiug else, however, the Prince bore
this slow, trying ordeal, with hundreds
staring close into his face, for more than
an hour auda half with modest, good hu-
uored courtesy, which has won the hearts
Of all-ccrtainIy, have never seen his
frank digniicd kindness appear to greater
advantage than it did on this occasion
In Pittsburg. itself, Of course, there was
nothing to see beyond a populous thri-
wing coal and iron town, where the air
and buildings are blacker, though with
far less cause, than those Of Sheffield, and
where the sooty mud is paramount in all
the streets. 1t one 0 clock the royal
train started for Harrisburg, the band OF
the fine company Of militia playing ,j1-
2,asjs jc ne t'oabFraro5," that beautiful Ca
madam air with which all the British towns
in North America took leave Of their roy
al guest
This days journey Of two hundred and
eighty miles, was by the Pennsylvania
Genital Railway, not only through Penn
sylvania, but actually up and across the
Allegheny Morntains, probably the most
/ difficult route for railway that ever was
attempted. and certainly one the scenery
/ OF watch Is not to be equalled from any
railway in the whole world.
/ For 4 few miles the land through which
I the line passes is neither very rich look
/ ing, nor very picturesque, being merely
/ Eeiis dotted with autumn fuiiagca trees
and here aud there a huge black smoky
mound near the shafts OF coalpits. AfteI
rassing the great Cambria Iron Works
however. it soon changes, and the track
/ lies for miles between mountains, and III
Il gorge, clothed from base to summit witt
the deusesJ foliage. At any time of tht
year such rayine would be grand anC
beautiful, but now when coming Win
ter has reused the forest into quick
warm lie Of color, robed the mountain.
in celestial tints Ike rainbows, there wa
u solemn gorgeousneSs about the pass tina
is utterly iDdescribablc.
The eye ranged over mountain and val
lev tjn the mind was saturated with thei
burning richness, and you turned as j
for relief from the great scene OF tlnts t
look upon the soft un!athomabie biue 0
the distant ranges, or watched the stripe
of feecy mist gathering with the :aI 0
night, draping the hiilsin ailyery streaks
Ike the haze over Turner's gorgeous pam
tings This was the entrance winch be
gins the ascent OF the Allegheny Noun
tains, up which and amid such scenes tn
train began to wind For long, Ion.
miles it puffed, and toiled, and struggles
painfully upwards, ard always shut in be
tween these masses Of colored hills, stretch
inc upwards Oh each side like feather
tapestry.
At last the traiA emerged from the gol
geous defle near hittanning mountain, haI
way an the summit of the Alleghenie:
and nearly eighteen hundred feet abov
the level Of the line at Pittsburg. Wha
view was got froI- herel 1t was lik
looking down through prism upon tn
landscape from the summit Of the Ris
Kuhn. Distance had softened off tn
warm, deep, bright glow of the changin
trees into a rich maze of gentle color, s
varied and yet so equal in its variation
that it seemed like one grand arabesque {
nature, q vast pasture, which eovsred ss