The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-08-05
From Evansville TO Philadelphia
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From Evansville TO Philadelphia
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Observation-Disclosures.
CONTINENTAL HOTEL,
PHILADELPHIA, Iuly 81.
Editors Journal:
A trip from Evansville to Philadel-
phia, via the Evansville and Craw-
louisville, Terre Haute and Indian
apolis, indianapolis and Cincinnati.
the Panhandle and the Pennsylvania
Central Railroads, is the most de-
lightfulithat we could suggest to any
one who has the slightest appreeia-
ton Of personal comfort, or the
grandly sublime and beautiful in ma
ture. To one who had been shut up
in a dusty and sweltering oity during
the late !" heated term" it could not
fail to prove source Of infinite de-
light.
Circumstances rendered our jour
ney thither unusually pleasant, having
enabled US to make almost stne entire
distance In daylight, affordIng an eX-
eellent opportunity to fully appreciate
the innumerable beauties that cluster
along the way.
The Evansville and Charlottesville
Railroad was never In so excellent
condition as at present, not a jar or
| Jolt having been felt from Evansville
to Terre Haute. The Terre Haute
and indianapolis Road still merits the
title it has long maintained" the
| best and most pleasant short road on
| the Continent" The officers of both
roads have been exceedingly felici-
| tous In the selection of Conductors,
| for George Nelson, Jim Ferry, John
| Chambers and Mr.. SaWtrel are fully
sup In their role" From Indiana
polls to Cincinnati, by that admirably
managed road, the indianapolis and
Cincinnati, the road is not only safe
and pleasant, but is made at lightning
speed.
Leaving indianapolis in. the even
ing at 6:30, by l AN. you find your
| self ready to enjoy a deep, refreshing
sleep at the Spencer House, where
every attention is shown you by those
| pleasant and accomplished gentle
men, Captain Drawn and Mr.. SWeny,
the present proprietors, or by their
attentive representatives, j. q. Pitts
and Charley Marseh. The Spencer
House :under the new management
has been unspeakably improved in
very many respects. Prominent
among the improvements are three
verandas, where the guests of the
house may sit In the shade and enjoy
the pure air and watch the busy ac-
tive life that is usually manifest in
that live city. We can cordially rec
ommend the "Spencer to all your
readers. Leave Cincinnati by the
$3.50 P. NJ. train, and after q pleasant
and comfortable trip over the Little
Miami and the Pan Handle route, In
silver palace sleeping cars, if you de-
sire, you will reach PIttsburg at 4 30,
and making close connection at Pitts
burg with the Pennsylvania Central,
/ you are enabled 10 make the run over
the mountains entirely in daylight.
| A slight accident to the westward
bound train from Pittsburg, at Bur-
getstoWn, threw us fifty minutes be-
hind time at Pittsburg, which you ap-
proach upon high trestle work, which
enables you to look down into the
flaming chimnies of the innumerable
furnaces and machine shops of Bir-
mingham. Just as the train passes
over the Monongahela it dives be-
meath the city and emerges into the
extensive depot of the Pennsylvania
Central, near the Allegheny. Here
you change cars, for which, on this
occasion, only FIVE minutes were
allowed, as the train was already de-
layed fifty minutes, and, like wasted
hours in human life, these minutes
/ lost can never more be regained, but
/ are lost forever. A description of
| the run from Pittsburg to Philadel-
| phia would make this epistle too long,
and we will defer it till tomorrow,
and close by brief mention of few
observations made between Evans
vile and Pittsburg.
The crops have been frequently and
almost universally extolled through
out the whole country. No
words can do the subject JUS
tice. To say the wheat crop
is immense conveys an in
adequate idea of the real facts. From
Evansville to indianapolis and thence
to Pittsburg, wherever you turn your
eyes they meet countless shocks of
| golden grain, or huge heaps of straw
| from which the grain has been thresh-
ed. The breadth of land soYn last
Fall was more than double that of
any proceeding year, and the yield per
acre was nearly double. Even on the
sterile hills of West Virginia, the yield
% the acre is twenty bushels or more.
as you go North and East the quality
anu Quantity of oats increase, though
some very good oats were seen be-
tween, Evansville and Vincennes.
Slngularly enough the reverse is frne
as respects the corn cron AZ Won 90
North and East the pFosnao3c ~ e. 81 =
good corn crop grow small bv degrees
and painfully less. On the WI ~
bottoms above Vineennes. to-
several paintings have been w" A.
stroyed by as many SUCCESSIVE
floods in that classic stream, and -
we passed up on Monday the bottoms
above Vincennes were deeply sub
merged. We saw but little real COCO
corn after leaving indianapolis, ex
cept in the Miami bottoms. In thu
/ Sciota Valley there was too much rain
! Passing up the Muskingum and Tus
caravans valleys in the night, we ar,
unable to speak of the crops in thos
: sections. We saw a few good field
of corn In Eastern Ohio along tn
] river, and one or two luxuriant field
! in West Virginia.
The hay crop through Indiana i
> scarcely a medium crop, though tn
g increased number Of acres devoted T.
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