Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
rFrom an Occasional o0rrespOndsst.l

From an Occasional correspondent
WASHINGTON, May Cd, 1866.
left the Forest City early in the week
by the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad,
enroute for this city. Ihad a safe, speedy
and p~lessurable ride to Baltimore and
made cloae connection with the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. Through the State
the winter wheat looks very badly. In
most of the fields the stand seems TO DO
too small to be worth saving. 1t would
be wisdom, in my judgment, to try a crop
of corn on most of these fields. The
pastures are thinning and the cattle are
already turned into them TO pick their
own living. The apple orchards, soOn
after leaving the vicinity of the Lake
and, it seems 10 me, the unusually cool
winds of this spring, began TO show their
blossoms. The apple crop this coming
season, if rot killed after this, will be an
abundant one in the State. The safety OF
the apples will be abundant reason for
thanksgiving 10 a benefcent Providence.
After reaching the sleeping car at Ben
wood, I yielded the drowsy lids to ma
lures sweet restorer," and knew no more
of men and things till morning at Oak
land, and from that little mountain to
Attainment, embracing between the two
stations the highest attitude Of the Ale
ghanies on our route, the trees were as
bare of the semblance of leaves as during
the winter. But getting down to Piedmont
we found something like foliage on the
trees. The lilac was in bloom filling the
air with its sweet perfume. The woods
were bedecked with blossoms of some lit
tie tree that resembled what in my boy
| hood 1 calle1the J~Lneberry tree, n with
the blossoms of the irwood, these two
were brought int beautiful contrast on
every hand with the almost purple bios
SONS of a tree called by the people the
Hred bud" The further we came this way
the more palpable or perceivable were the
external b~etokenings of the coming oil
summer. Reaching the vale Of the Poto'
mac the husbandmen were busy marking
out their fields and planting corn. And
what a beautiful valley is this Either
side is defined by q lofty range OF hills
clothed with the primeval forest. What
delightful views. Here "every prospect
plenses.' To look up and down this beau
tiful valley is to awaken pleasant thought
excite ecstasy of feeling, and to impel the
beholder in sublimity of expression to ex-
claim:
HfTis distance lends enchanimsnt to tho view,
And robes the mountain In its aZure hue.
Along this upper Potomac are sundry
evidences, in the block-houses and FORTH
cations, that "grim visaged war" was
manifest during the rebellion. AT New
Creek is an earth-work fort, said to have
been made by Colonel Mulligan, who, thf
reader will remember, was captured by
Price, in the early part of the rebellion, al
Jefferson City, Missouri. This fort wa;
taken bv the rebel General Rosser, when
Colonel Latham was in command. Colo
mel L. had drawn in his pickets thai
morning and sent out a party of troop:
south, when the rebels came riding in Will
blue coats on and took the fort without .
struggle. Colonel Latham mounted hi
horse, crossed the Potomac and escaped
to Cumberland.
The country round about Frederick
Maryland, in appearance is almost para
Gisiacal. Land is held at from $3.50 Z
Sl75 per acre for farming land.
Preached this city on Tuesday evening
whilst little spring showers were falling
and to find the shade trees clad in almos
summer verdure.
Reconstruction is still a vexation, anC
goes on slowly. 1t is said that the Cabi
met, save Secretary Harlan, are a uni
against the new Congressional plan
Then we 90, if we go at all, with n par
of the government at loggerheads wit
the other. But Congress is mighty an'
Ill nrnral