Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-17
The Princes Visits to the Uni
ted States.
IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLsH OBSERVERS

immense crowd waiting to see the Prince,
as matter of course, who escorted him
rather boisterously up 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 on
which Pittsburgh is built, the Monongahela
House. This was much inferior to the
Burnet House, at Cincinnati, i'll external
appearance, as it was superior in real COM
fort, which is saying a great deal in few
words. From daybreak next morning,
there was an immense crowd round the
hotel, which for time prevented all ve-
hicles coming to the door. At last, how
ever, the Prince got into his carriage, and
would have driven round the town, but for
the mistaken politeness of the Mayor, who
turned out some fine companies of the
MALTA 10 precede the cortrgc with their
bands at slow march. An arrangement
to which, as n kind of State reception, his
Royal Highness was disincled, and which
as affording all Pittsburgh an opportunity
of keeping pace side by side with his Roy
al Highness, must have been in the highest
degree uncomfortable and embarrassing.
AS with everything else, however, the
Prince bore this slow, trying ordeal, with
hundreds staring close into his face for
more than an hour and half, with mod
est, good humorcd courtesy, which won,
the hearts of all-certainly, have never
seen his frank, digniGed kindness appear
to greater advantage than it did on this
occasion. In Pittsburgh itself, of course
there was nothing to see beyond popu-
lous thriving "coal and iron town." where
the air and buildings are blacker, Though
} with far less cause than those or Sheffield, :,
and where she sooty mud is paramount in
all the streets. At o'clock the Royal
train started for Harrisburg, the band of
the fine campany of Malta playing ''Ja.
naaio je ne t.oubHerai." 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 $50 miles was by
the Pennsylvania Central Railway, not
!, only through Pennsylvania, but actually
up and across the Allegheny Mountains,
d propably the most difficult route for a
railway that ever was attempted, and
,, certainly one the ccnery of which is not tc
i be cquallGd from any railway in the whole
world.
. For few miles the land through whicl
70 the line passes Is neither very rich lookin;
- nor very picturesque, being merely field
Il dotted with autumn foliagcd trees, ant
!, here and there huge black smoky mount
!, near the shafts of alpits. After passing
the great Cambria Ironworks, however i
- soon changes, and the track lays for mile!
! between mountains, and up gorge, cloth
ed from base to summit with the denses
foliage. At any time of the year such q
ravinc would be grand and beautiful, bu
n now, when the coming winter has reused
Il the forest into quick warm life of color
u and robed the mountains in celestial tintS
Il like rainbows, there was a solemn gorge
y business about the past that is utterly indie
Il scribable. The eye ranged over mount
q ain and valley till the mind was saturated
Is with their burning richness, and you turn
% ed as if for relief from the great sheen o
: tints to look upon the soft unfathomablt
: blue of the distant ranges, or watches thu
, stripes of feecy mist gathering with tn,
fall of night, draping the hills in silver.
% streaks, like the haze over Turner's gorge
- Gus paintings. This was the entrance whicl
u u begins the ascent of the Allegheny Mount
y, aims, up which and amid such scenes tn
= train began to wind. For long, long mile
~ it pulled and toiled, and struggled painful
)! ly upwards, but always shut in betwecl
~ these masses of colorod hills stretching up
- wards on each side like feathery tapestry
At last the train emerged from the gorge
a Gus dege ner Kittanning Mountain, hal
nc way up the summit of the Alleghanies, an
in nearly 800 feet above the level ofthe lin
ID at Pittsburg. What view was got here
e, 1t was like looking down through prisl
De upon the landscape from the summit of th
&c Rigi Kuhn, Distance had soitened o
ne the warm, deep, bright glow of the chang
nc ing trees into rich maze of gentle colo
e, 50 varied yet SO equal in its variations ,th
ny it seemed like one grand arabesquc of N
pc. ture, vast pasture, which covered Il
~ very mountains, and shOne up through Il
as oft blue mists that gathered in the valley
in CLEANS Of color like jewels under wat