The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-06-23
From our own Correspondent.
letter From Baltimore.

DEAR TELEGRAPH
The traveller leaving Chicago for the
east, cannot do better than avail himself
of the Pittsburgh & Eft. Wayne Railroad
for rapidity and comfort. The time from
Chicago to Baltimore distance of 812
miles is 81 hours AN averagesof over 80
miles an honr. Passing over this road q
short tine since we found the crops for
a distance of 700 miles from Chicago,
scorched and withered from drouth-eyen
worse than they were in Wisconsin. The
country between Harrisburgh and Balri-
more we found had been deluged with
rain. For the past Two weeks it has
rained every day in Baltimore.
PITTSBURGH, PA.
No one who has ever had occasion to
visit or pass through Pittsburgh will soon
forget the place. Dirty, smoky, busy
Pittsburgh! 1t probably contains more
machine shops, more foundries, more
coal, more iron and more dirty faces than
any other city in America. On a wet
day and heavy atmosphere dark cloud
hangs over and envelopes the city. It's
vast machineries and foundries give en-
ployment to thousands of men--and its
trade in coal and iron is immense. -
The scenery in passing over the Aleg.
hany Mountains is wild and beautiful in
the extreme Between Pittsburgh and
Harrisburgh--a distance of $50 miles. the
country is hilly and mountainous-w
all abundance of timber This section of
country being among the most early set
tied, had expected to find Astounding in
well improved farms, and elegant resid-
dences. In place of which, crazy log cab
ms and rail fences meet the view, with
an almost total absence of orchards or
other improvements. The soil is hight
composed of too much sand and clay to
be substantial ; yet it is quick and pro-
duces excellent crops. One of two things
is certain, the owners of these log cabins
either feel the want of market-or en-
ergy and enterprise. | incline to the
opinion that it is the latter.
BALTIMORE, ND.
This, the Monumental City contains
between four and five hundred thousand
Inhabitants, Baltimore steamers run
twice week up the broad, deep Rap
pahannock, and they sustain ferry with
the Richmond and York River Railroad.
Her railroad interests are very great.
Baltimore is rich, lazy, insolvent city,
crpable OF trading with people without
amusing or inspiring them-like rich,
dull newspaper, full of advertisements
and nothing. 1t is beautifully laid out ;
the buildings of red brick and marble
sidewalks well shaded and paved with
brick /; the streets we'll graded--paved
with cobble stones and kept very clean ;
Its monuments and places of public inter
est are SO numerous that / cannot notice
them however casually, in this letter.
The reader will remember that Baltimore
ground drank the first blood spill. in the
late war. The city isyery loyal and very
democratic At the decoration of con-
federate soldiers graves held here, few
days since, the grave of J. Wilkes Booth,
the assassin of Lincoln, was deluged with
the choicest bouquets. Humanity can but
turn with disgust from this picture of
homage and regard shown the memory of
a murderer, for such the civilized world
with one accord pronounce Booth to be.
Like all large cities Baltimore has its
palatial residences; costly
fine horses; we'll, money
moves the world a: present, and for aught
We know, will be the impetus to motion
4 thousand years hence. As the brilliant
turnout rolls along Sambo' as
coachee, big with pride--radiant in
beaver hat, broad-coth and kid gloves
it throws its dust on tie rags of the or
gan grinder-the beggar. How life and
death, misery ard happiness, poverty and
wealth jostle each other in this world
Numerous are the devices, various the
ways the mendicant resorts to, to excite
he compassion and gather the pennies of
he passer-by. Hunch- backs; all sorts CT
letormities; men without hands; men
without feet; men without legs; these,
provided with hand ORGAN. fiddle tam