The New York herald., 1867-05-28
WEST VIRGINIA.
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE or TINE neRALD.

The Wines Of France and Spain in the Wood
Or the AlIeghanics-A Panic Among tho
Woedchsppers-Thc Herald Gas Ceal-EnB-
Gration eocieties Wanted-Irtsh Labercrs-
scarcity ef Negrees-6nmbe's Manifest Dcs-
sInt-Preduce and Pslifics In Ohio-A Grand
Crash Prcdicsed-(srand General Prsspect
fsr wheat and Germ, &C., dEc.
Dowx TIE OHIo. Nay -, 1867.
sSpeaking Of winen id an intelligent mountaineer,
q No crossing the Aleghanies o you know that
when the report OF an inevitable rupture between
France and Prussia along the wires thsre
. panic among the woodmen Of these mountains, from
Cumberland Grafton and that the price Of slaves
and all sorts Of coopsrs' stuff went DOWN."
.No, sir; nor can ! understand why such . panic
should follow such news. The manufacture OF -four
barrels would supposs, would be brisk with the
approach OF the wheat harvest whatever might be the
quaSres of Bismarck and Napoleon, and doubtless all
this coopsrs' stuff from these mountains goes down TO
Baltimore and Georgetown be worked up into -four
barrelsn %s
s. "You mistaken, sir. The thousands OF woodmen
all along the line Of the railroad over these mountains
engaged In working up the hardy white oaks OF these
forests into working for the European market
Tho wines Of Franco and Spain put into casks
made from these white oak siavcs the very wood they
want They arc shipped over In the rough, and the
casks are made the vineyards. You viii now
ders,and why few sharp words between Bismarck and
Napoleon should many Of these woodmen to leave
their work to inquire for the NEW YORK Herald and
discuss the Luxembourg question; and why, with the
news Of Queen victorias mediation, the price Of white
oak sayes in the heart Of the Alleghanies Of West
Virginia suddenly up again. An apt illustration Of
the wonderful agency OF steam and eegraphs making
the practical interests Of all nations identical"
sQuite true, and very pretty usraton OF the fact,
this binding the hoops the products of the
American Xieghanies and the vney Of France and
Spain But wDat sort Of coal Is this they digging
out of these hill sides around Grafton"
E is what hat they call gas coal The real ssminoas , nj %
biuminous coal, and is better for steam engnes We
have great country but its resources viii never be
people. All through these mountain regions, from
fennsylvauia down to Georgia. We want population to
starving in your great scaboard cities for
ploymenk system Of emigration companies CON-
nns and ynr s1 s os mnSe sS osns
tcnhs Of is poor creatures who vine from hand
mouth, by bringing those idle bread eaters here"
.Glad to find you . humanitaran my friend; but
the people along this road through Its whole extent
seem 10 be- In the mass, the poorest Of the poor,
repsly ssf ismishsd women that look vistfaIy from
tnsr shanty doon at the passing train
are TIE smss Tsr rosny - 'nc sa % r0skmen
dren and the poor women have to work night and day
But these people have mostly something laid up In
q savings bank, upoa which they intend TO draw
by.and-by for ths purpose OF bringing from
the old sod the rest Of the family. You win
among these mountains The negro. especially the
emaneipxted negro lately slave does not like solitude
He .m'ssns , Us ao%s m much more %
10 Washington, or Baltimore "r some other city or town
70 ENJOY his prayer meetings aud wedding frol,os
to slsep the tomorrow. HIS manifest destiny Is
that Of the Indian He will disappear INDECENT and
improudent the negro, relieved Of the white mans pro-
tsC1iou q his master win ock into the towns and cities
from the country and die on from idsnss vice, disease
How grand and glorious comes into view the Ohio
ing chase up and down and round about and over and
aod ridges Of the Allsghauss Il ia in Its effect some
whst Ike the descent from the Alps into the plains Of
shs Alphins chain, how pitfaI the 20 compared with
the Ohio
On the rail again aud in the Buckeye state. and on
road, a. rough TO the passenger omnibus
ecbbs stone pavement. We learn from q native who
keeps his eyes open and travelled that the
wheat crop throughout Ohio 10 In nne condition; thai
the STATE viii not produce much, however because only
small breadth Of land WAS sown, wheat having been
u &.
and are getting rich from ~ that they consider Horace
Greeley srsa. on wool including the black sheep b.. an
Gordon Benne.t makes fools OF the politicians but
makes fool Of himself; that he does not
70 know that grand crssh is coming and that u will
come when the merchants in the country and cisy
called 70 settle up in the ia thss VIII tell against ths
the Ssmocrscy IN is4C and thai We sas have political
earthquake In the great national breakdown OF the sd
in 1858 that the politicians viii not bs able 20
H. but that IL will come like the crash and reaction
against Martin Van Bursn and his pet banks
AZ the handsome inland town Of Newark. Ohio Ia the
heart Of productive state We found hour at IRON
seventeen nineteen dollars per barrel while At Win
chester and all through the shenandoah valley from
the four years rsidings and burnnss OF the war -four
nearer q ssaboard BY four hundred miles than
Newark 0hio vas selling At from eleven 70 thirteen
dollars Asking the for this, answered
1T N the specuators They have been buying mp pro-
duce. and running u Eastn Besides, 0hiu going into
the sheep and cssse bnsine hardly sses wheat enough
for home consumption hut from all appearances, the
North viii have wheat crop this year from Pennsyl
vania Minnesota which will lay out the spectators
dead the southern Couederacy, aud give the bread
az ouf a CHI N We md