Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-07-15
OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENTS
FROM Wilmington 10 RaItImore-u,,.,
"A"Fe-fr0m baltimore 30 pittsbure
An Old Friend, EGc.. sc.
IITTsDURG, Pa ,Jn1v e 1870

FITTsBURG, Pa, July 6, 1870
| Dear Editors Tho route from Uo,5o
TO Baltimore has been so often 5asor;I,o7
Dy yourselves and correspondents that wo
do rot feel disposed to enter unon -
again. 1t was the same old story Of pol;to
and attentive conductorso on tho Wilninoto,
ana Weldon Railroad, nm easy, quick RIM
to Portsmouth, the grand old s'Iouisiano :,
With her splendid table, clean stato-roo,oe
and attentive officers, tho stor.lit po
grim Fortress Monroe, and yielding 70 49,
regular rolling splash Of tho wheels
quiet nights rest, nwnking to breakfast ana
then walk the forward deck, pipe in month
until we enter the crowded bae;n nj RI,
timore. How much Mt home n man fools
on this routo after having travelled Il oyar
sixty times. In Baltimore We fonnd q oo,,
eral complaint Of dull times nmonrst flo
business men, but they wero looking Tor
ward to heavy Fall trade with North ond
South Carolina. Truly they aro worthy
OF It, Tor, besides being true to every dear
principle Of liberty which the Southern
mind embraces, they are foryardino !,
every possible way all improvements On,
culatcd to develop the South and place her
again on her feet cmigrant8 are heine,
urged to locate in the States South instead
OF going West. It's power has already
aided Virginia materially in this latter
respect, and will eventually reach our
State and our sister Carolina, SO that h.
fore many years wo may confidently looL
for white ascendancy again and a fixed
stable government fit for white men n
live under.
The spread Of improvements in Balti-
moro is simply amazing. The business
blocks now bailding arc mostly OF marble
and quite ornamental. The old STYLE Of
red hot brick is abandoned except for
dwellings, and everything looks az if thcy
were preparing to stay there some time.
There arc large hearts which "lhrob for
others woes" N Baltimore, and reme,a-
berIng the many times they havo cheered
tho prison hours of our men during the
late unhappy difficulty" wo cannot re-
fraln from wishing them 'God speed"
From baltimore to this place the best
route is rta Northern Central Railroad to
thence to Pittsburg uia Penn
sylvania Central. Sleeping cars run
through if you travel at night We Loft
baltimore at IL p. m., so as to cross the
mountains during the day. From Altoona.
which is tho ''Campany's Shops" Of the
Penneylvanla Railroad, you gradually aa-
cond until you get into tho III
leGhanIes, when the scenery becomes
grand, not to say exciting. You find your-
self whistling along at tho ratio of thirty
miles an hour. following two immense loco
motives and gkimming along the edge of "A
Cliff with IS blank wall of stone on one side.
and sheer descent OF several hundred
feet on the other, and occasionally you see
your engines looking as if thoy had turned
back, so sharp arc the curves, or o train
going down whiZzes by looking like .
black streak and putting smoke and cindors
IN at your window. Should you feel q lit
tie nervous, better shut your eyes until tho
tram stops and you hear tho "clink,"
- cllnk of the mon who arc EXAMINING
the wheels preparatory to tho descent Oh
the west side. tcI you have yet before yoia
that dark, horrid passage through tIlc
very bowels of tho mountain, tho tarncI
three-fourths of O milo long. Tho brake
man passes through and closes all the
windows and ventilators nt which any
smoke could get In, lights tho larnus. and
goes ont as soberly as if ho had done the
asst Offices of respect to you on carth.-
Take large drink of ice water, inhalo
'oVeraI Ion8 lnsplraClons, t0r II your luDCB
lre delicate, you viii feel as if a load was
pressing on your chest b1foro Won get
through shut your eyes and don't open
hem until you hear the "clinl." The
passage is made in about one minute and
I quarter-but the reflection that yen are
buried several hundred feet under thou
sands of tons Of granite, makes it appear
several minutes,
" Gallitzin is the summit statiop.-
Three miles from these you roach Ores
ION, the mountain retreat of this section
Hero arc largo hotels, cottages. allows.
walks, springs, bands and delightful prom
'nades. Hero you can sleep under bIan-
lets in July, and laugh ut mosquitoes, iicaa
md other Summer pests.
Descending you soon strike tho beauti
al Cownomaugh, n tributary Of tho Mo
longahela, and follow its mcanderinoe
carly to Pittsburg Your old friend 'sEtt
5iossom Joined us somewhere to-day
nd when he got in sight of the city cried
hurry up boys y :" hurry Up, " tho
Whole concern is fire % and really il
ooked SO, for one vast volume of smoke
I'D everything, but an occasional long
himney which lowered through above its
e1ghbors. The old gentIeman is on his
raVels, and says he wants to write and tell
he Major little about the world, If he
an get anybody to act as his amanuensie.
look out for a letter from him-ever
In TRANsIr.
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