St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-11-19
RETURN TRIP.

lnStOn, was puUlISueu III tno o"u'e "
be. of the paper wherein we mentioned
or arrival hone, it will not be necessary
to go into any detailed account Of the re-
turn trip. Suffice it TO say that the pub
lie buildings IN the Capital of the nation
the Capitol, Treasury Building, Patent
Office, White House, Smithsonian Insti-
tute with others, and the Navy Yard
constitute attractions sufficient to interest
one weeks, instead of two days, all the
length Of time We were able to remain
But aside from these, Washington is but
an ordinary p]acc-the broad streets and
detached, unimposing houses, giving it the
appearance Of large country town.
At Baltimore, the Northern Central
, connecting with the Baltimore and Ohio
and the Pennsylvania Central, presents a
pleasant and expeditions route to those
going to or from Washington. The ac-
Communications are good, and the time such
| that we made full connection at Harris
burg.
We had often heard the trip from Har-
rsburg to Pittsburs, over the Allegheny
Mountains, on the Pennsylvania Central,
described in SO glowing terms that We
scarce expected to have one-third our pre-
conceived ideas realized. But all descrip-
tons were tame, and palcd when brought
in comparison with the reality. The
mountain scenery, especially as it appears
in the ca,ly morning, as in the present
case, is truly magnificent Leaving Har-
risburg long beto,c DAYLIGHT. but with a
1ull moon revealing the country far and
wide. we rushed over hills and through
heavy cuts, until as the moon shone full
through the car window on the one side,
before disappearing, and on the other the
! morning star seemed fairly to burn and the
gray dawn to break, We were among the
grand and majestic mountains. Soon the
highest tops were gildcd with the coming
sunlight, and before long the lowest nook
was filed with its glow; while the eye new
er tired watching the change that was pre-
scented with the greatest rapidity. The
train Numbered on, mounting up, up, over
coming grades that seemed perfectly insur-
mountable for machinery ;-beow Was the
great ocean Of trees, the tops claMbcring
Q toward you from the base to the summit
c to the left the "blue Juniata' swept along,
t while in front was the ever increasing
steep. BY and by, we passed the "horsc-
y shoc," perfect wonder, and reached the
: summit. From here two locomotives were
Y dispensed 18th and the third took tn.
= train the remaining distanc. to Pit burg
j. The mountain scenery is one Of unvary-
|. ing grandeur, and is thrice reward fol
r the journey to sec it. 1t never seems mo-
J. notonous never becomes tircsomc. The
G Railroad itself is, from its pertectncss, a
+ curiosity, and has we'll earned the rcputa-
8 ton of being, in every respect, the best il
the United States. The time .i.ade over
o the mountains is almost incredible, and
J. the trip FROM pittsburg tv Philadelphia
one Of pleasure, and one which we would
- advise all our readers to make From
It Pittsburg, where We remained few days
o seeing old friends and places all alive
0 with the rccollections of schooldays, to St
h Paul, there was nothing worthy Of men
f ton and We were glad once again to steI
. on the soil Of Minnesota