Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-07-07
CHOICE MISCELLANY.
A New Route for Tourists

With the months Of May and June, says
he american Union, the regular routine Of
summer travel will set in, and we venture
to predict that it will be on q larger scale
this year than during any previous season.
But let not the landlords Of Saratoga, Nj
agarn, and the White Mountains, or even
Newport and Cape May, suppose that they
can now compete with the attractions that
are Cifered to the tourist elsewhere.
The close of the war has opened new
field of sight SEEING and TO it will flock the
'hroDgs of idlers who haYe hitherto made
our watering places so gay. Now that
!here are no traces of grim viSaged wpr to
| fright the souls of timid men, the people of
This country will take advantage OF every
opportunity TO see for themselves tho bat
tie fields of the Union. they will indulge
a laudable curiosity to behold the places
where American yalor has made itself i'm
mortal. Some vii go with laugh and
jest, for mere pleasure, while others, with
hearts saddened by some touching memory,
will stand with tea ful eyes. and view The
spot where loved one died.
BY the time the summer has fairly set
in. the wild geus aud sramps that environ
the now famous capital of Virginia will be
alive with sight seers. and the old battle
fields will be stripped of their present tra-
ces of war, by persistent relic hunters.
Indeed, we know of no more delightful
way Of spending the summer than by trip
TO the battle fields. They lie scattered
over SO broad surface of the conntry that
one mag choose his own route, for to visit
all in single season would be Impossible
To our mind the most famous and most
attractive Sill be those upon which were
conducted The struggles for The city of Rich
mould They extend from the Potomac to
the south of the Appomattox, and from
Lynchburg almost to the Chesapeake, -
They were the scenes Of ;ue best and most
brilliar. rmorts of The boys in blue, and the
most valiant struggles of the South. Ma
nassss, Fredericksburg. the Wilderness,
Chnncellorsyile, ,Spo'tsylyOnia Court House
the Chickahominy, Cold Harbor, Yorktown.
DIury's Bluff, Petersburg, and many others
lie within this now historic region. The
cid fields are, OF we're but few months
ago, covered with tattered fragments Oh
blue and gray cloth, broken shells, bayonet
scabbards, and other marks of battle, aud
lbe lines of earth works are 10 many instan-
ces we'll preserved Here aud there you
may see boue or skull protruding above
the q ound, where the light, sandy soil ha:
been washed away by the heavy rains
marks the resting place of some eombatant
and on the Trees are still visible the scars
made by the fatal hail which once swept
through the woods that border the Chick
ahomtny. ta. o.. .
4 We hope our oexpectaheps msy be real
izsd, for We think. much good will result
from lbe contact into which the people o.
tie two sections will thus be brought
They will then see each other as they are
and will learn from actual experience thai
each has some prejudice to cast aside, som'
mutual concession 10 make, and spirit o
kindness will follow this knowledge whicl
will do much towards pushing on the gooC
work of the restoration OF the Union. 1t
addition to this. the parties travelling
South will spend large Sums Of money
there, and will thus indirectly contribute Il
the relief of the suffering in that quarter
and help to advance the industry aud en-
terprise Of the people, whose greatest pres
eat need 10 money.