Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-05-12
A Flying Visit to Newburgh.

of your readers might be interested in
hasty sketch of visit lately made to the
City of Newburg, n Y, have determined
to send such one to you, claiming full al
lowance for its imperfections, and its con-
struction, plentiful enough, no doubt.
On Tuesday, April 18th, I started from
the city of Madison, Wis, on the 2 O'Clock
P. M. Express train, arriving at Chicago
about 8 o'clock P. NJ. The city was in a
terrible condition from the protracted rain
storms of the month, mud being in the
ascendent, most decidedly. A party
of Cavalry recruits were marching through
the city from one depot to another, and at
every crossing, their voices could be heard
muttering curses, "both loud and Deep" as
they plunged, waded and wallowed through
the mire and filth of the city. At ten, that
evening | left Chicago on the cars of the
Michigan Southern and Lake Shore Rail
Road, direct for Toledo. The country on
this route, after passing lonely, barren,
sandy tract on the shores Of Lake Michigan
seemed to have been dense forest, and,
although huge gaps and openings had been
made on either hand, yet the fields were
full of stumps, and timber, and looked as
if years of toll would be required to bring
them to proper tillable condition, similar
~ that nf o,,r vx-actarp rro;r;a f.rp,c Ero,,,
Toledo, which reached at nine o'clock A.
NJ, to Cleveland, the country became more
open, although the evidences of former
forests were still plentiful, still it was an
improvement on Northern Indiana, and
evidently rich agricultural country. A
number Of Indians were seated in the
Depot, engaged in beadwork, ornamenting
and selling caps, morcassins, work-bags,
&C., at a great rate. Leaving Cleveland at
2.45 Wednesday afternoon, | reached
Buffalo after ten o'clock at night, feeling
decidedly unwell Hitherto, on this journey
l had used military tickets" to procure
transportation, but at the station of the
New York and Erie Railway in Buffalo,
where | went to purchase tickets for New
burg, | was refused, on account Of the
agent not hnuing time to figure up the
difference between military and regular
ticket, mere subterfuge, as it afterwards
proved. This latter Road runs down the
vallies of the Susquehanna and Delaware
rivers, through a part of Pike county,
Pennsylvania, and the famous Orange
county, New York, were rough, stony,
mountainous country as may be found any
where in the United States, perhaps. The
high hills and mountains seemed clothed
with pine forests, which, as it was showing
heavily most of the day, held the snow, and
presented truly Arctic appearance. There
were many RATS floating on these streams,
and, at almost every turn, saw-mils and
lumber-yards met the eye. Brawling tor
rents came tumbling down the ravines, in
many places forming beautiful cascades,
and making as much fuss as possible, at
every step of their progress to the river
While extraordinarily well calculated to de-
light the eye Of an artist or lover of the
picturesque, it is just as much calculated to
grieve the heart of an agriculturist Brooks
abound, every hill is full of them, while the
fields show that they have been niggardly
dealt with in the distribution Of these geo.
logical treasures. Many farms have been
divided and subdivided into very small
fields by fences of stones gathered from
their surfaces, and yet there remains vast
quantities to be removed. Doubtless the
soil under them is good, or it would not be
so persistently and anxiously sought for,
but it must be a very tiresome operation to
reclaim such rocky ground and fit it for the
uses Of agriculture.
That Mrs. Bloomer has some disciples
and imitators in this country is demonstrat-
ed by the fact that one of the masculine
ladies', or feminine gentlemen, as you may