Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-11
Hdisorfai Correspondence.
BALTIMORE. Oct. %. 1Se

track while passing through narrow
rocky gorge, whose rough sides and lofty
heights were not very attractive. We,
however, changed cars, and after a hal
hours delay proceeded on our way tt
invade the sacred soil of Virginia.
Better time was never made than We
made from the train on the Ohio side t.
that on the Virginia side. The train
for Pittsburg, becoming impatient at oul
delay, had taken its departure, while
that on the Baltimore & Ohio road was
Just ready to move. Persons who love
the wild and romantic scenery of noun
tain ranges, and to be propelled by
steam around continuous curves,
through dark caverns that tunnel thu
mountains base, up their sides, ovel
SUBMITS, and then dashing down grad
with breaks down, should select thi'
route, going East or West. 1t is salt
this is a dangerous road, but l give it:
managers the credit of controlling Tho
best conducted road in the country
The country through which 1t passe.
requires the greatest care on the part
those who operate the road. The track
is carefully guarded by watchmen sta
| toned ut intervals of one mile, who, al
their posts, give the signal to pass o.
halt. One tunnel on this road is mill.
and half in length, another 4 quartz
of a mile shorter. Passing through
these dark caverns, the ear of the pas
senger is greeted with the sound O
| crushing torrents" as they come pour
ing down the mountain side. w.
| thought what admirable prisonhouses
these tunnels would make for guerrillas
! whose gauntlet we must soon rum
While it was yet light, we took OCCASION
| to observe every point along this route,
related rs they all are, to the histor!
now being written with blood and steel.
At Paramount we observed an unoccu-
pied block house, guarded by single
piece of artillery. At Grafton was Il de-
tachment of Pennsylvania troops and Il
section of an Illinois battery. Guerril-
las are occasionally brought in here
We reached Martinsburg about , O'Clock
in the morning, and from the best
information we could get, concluded
that our best and most reliable route to
Sheridan is by the way o. Washington
and Alexandria.
The most os our wounded in the re-
cent battle at Cedar Creek, who were at
Martfnsburg, have been removed to this
city. talked VIZ: nlany ot the soldic.s.
who were loud in their praises of Phil.
Sheridan. l saw not one who was not a
Lincoln man. From many who came
on the train, en- route to Washington, |
learned that the feeling Of the army in
this part of the country is overwhelm-
ingly for cold Abe We were now in
q section of country where we might
anticipate at any moment Il visit from
the democratic Rangers" under Mos
by.
We reached Harper's Ferry in safety,
viewing the ruins of that place by the
light of camp fires, burning on every
side
Tn due time and season, unmolested
by Democratic Rangers" we reached
the Monumental City, where we now
are. On every street through which we
have passed are Lincoln and Johnson
banncrs-children sing the Battle cry
of Freedom" and soldiers unite with
civilians in huzzas for Lincoln and the
Unicn.n We have observed an intenser
Union sentiment here than at any other
point we have visited. What q change
in three short years. Then Union
troops were beaten down and killed
now none are SO unsafe as rebels and
their sympathiZers. Who says John
Browns soul is not marching on?'
Friends Of the Union, are you doing
al! you can to swell your majority in
Iowa: DO not he alarmed. The viii
famous ATTEMPTS of the New York Cop
perheads, under the lead of Seymour, 10
rerpetrate the most enormous frauds
upon the soldiers by forging their
names. is proving an eye-opener to
right-ninded men. Fortunately for the
country this enormous fraud has been
early discovered, and the result will be
beneficial. 1t shows the desperate
straits OF the copperheads. Satisfied
that they cannot elect Mcclellan, they
are now lending all their energies TO
save New Work and New Jersey. These
States holding the middle ground bc-
tween the East and the West, they :,ope
to.obstruct the wal policy Of Mr.. Lincoln
on this new line. Let lis swamp and
overwhelm this corrupt and vllainons
grew OF coppcrheads Work and win.
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