Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-08-27
Letter from IN. H. W.
Correspondence Gallipolis Journal
SPRINGFIELD, Mass,
August 8, 1868.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass,
August 8, 1868.
EDITOR GALLIPoLIs JOURNAL:
From New York to Springfield via
the New York and New Haven, and
New Haven, Hartford and Springfield
Rail; Road, we pass rapidly through an
uneven country, beautifully diversified
with wooded hills and cultivated fields
thriving towns and villages, replete
with busy life, and all exhibiting the
untiring industry and highly priced
neatness so eminently characteristic Of
New England homesteads. Now a
town meets the eye, its COLOSSAL facto-
ries, from which the ceaseless click
clack of the plying shuttles is heard for
moment above the fierce whirl of the
iron horse, as we dash along; ever and
anon, some spire of village church,
topping its neighboring pines. and
surrounded by its cluster Of houses,
white as fleet of sehooners, under
full sail, points with glistenirg finger
to an eternal home for all those who
faithfully worship the Great Jehovah
within its sacred portals. Over the
beautiful without Ger
flowing, fulP'-through. deep cuts in
rocky lodges, thickly studded with
"primeyal tracks" of gigantic reptiles
which. roamed at viii over earth's cool
ing surface, in the sunlight Of the dead
and buried centuries--with emotions
as varied as the panoramic landscape,
we left our compartment ear of
European model, and found we were
in Springfield,
Hail to thee, Massasoit! 1t is not
now our intention to pen an eulogy TO
the shade of the great Indian of this
valley, but to spread abroad through
Gallipolis and the surrounding region,
the merits and manifold comforts of
the 'Massasoit" of the living present.
This cannot be regarded in the light of
an inflated puff, or financial squib, as
| am unable TO discover that the Bros
Chapin advertise in the columns of the
Journal, but this the entire travelling
public may receive as an established
fact, that the Chapin's know how to
keep a hotel, and the ".Massasoit" of
this city, is offered as ineontroyertible
evidence to the truth of this assertion.
We have sojourned in the "Great
Barn" at New. Orleans; wandered
through the may labyarinths of the
st. Nicholas and Metropolitan; stayed
at the Astor; payed'i our bills at the
9th Avenue, and then sighed for an
unlimited Bank account; but we dined,
we lived at the Massasoit. This is our
beau ideal of hotel comfort. IS.
Springfield is an enterprising city,
filed with men of vim and go-aheadit-
iveness, its prominent points are purely
of a New England character. The
cleanliness of its thoroughfares, the
taste and unsurpassed neatness Of its
the busy hum of honored
labor everywhere heard, the lack of
gaudy- street attire, but its place so
amply filled by exquisitively tasteful
toilettes, which impart that peculiar
charm to- the New England belle, so
attractive and spiritualie-afe chiefly
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j Many beautiful drives around the
private domains Of its citizens are to be
enjoyed, Wealth has been lavishly
spread about To adorn and render pic
turesque this little Eden, nature and
art have been studied in its embellish-
ment, and their endeayors have crown
ed with complete success. Here are
intersecting lines of railroad to New
York, Boston, Albany and the great
West, the Southern, Western and East
ern roads here unite with the Connec-
ticut River Railroad for Brattleboro',
the White Mountains and the Canadas.
. The armory, the especial domain of
Uncle Sam, is ,splendidly located, and |
the grounds surrounding its various
buildings are artistically laid out, the
walks are uniform and graded with |
mathematical precision, the grass plots,
both centre and edges, are neatly trim
med and the whole external appearance
establishes beyond dispute that "order
IS heavens first law" as well as that
IF the Ordnance Department, The
rushing business of war times has
passed away, and the valuable machin-
cry is, only partially in use; system is
svery.where,manifsst, and the routine
IF the establishment in all its branches
obedient to law and untiring supervis-
on. 81 rssi ;,..ag ~. .a.-
?, The workmen are principally en-
gagged fitting up the new breech, load
ers, securing bayonets, cavalry sabers
and scabbards, such as have been
turned in from our disbanded volun-
Ieers, making them suitable for reis-
sue. The engine room is marvel of
'olidity, beauty, and adaptibility, and
we'll repays the visitor. The capacious
'tore-houses are filled with tens of
thousands of muskets and accoutre-
nents, ready for Immediate use and are
very desirable depots to have located
n truly loyal State, especially so, if
any of our democratic brethren, whose
leads are copper, but whose feet are
'art iron and part clay, should in the
heat Of their incorporate passions dare
2 again devastate our land with civil
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intellectual culture, open bibles, and
'ublicssehools,l generally prepare The
way for honest politics; consequently
he six New England States, viii on
he Sd of November next be found
United and counted for Grant and
Jolfax: The democracy of New Eng
and have endeavored to appear salts
led with their personal honor" ticket,
iut the democratic head is sick, and |
he whole--democratic- hearts faint
With anticipated defeat, as the day of
heir final I dissolution araweth nigh.
he contest: will be open, bold and
'itter;i it will be the last great battle of
'ur civil war; the defeat of the Repubs
lean party would again open anew the
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