The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-11-11
From our Travelling Correspondent.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Oct. Is, 1871

| PITTSBURG, Pa, Oct. Is, 1871.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Supposing you and your
readers have survived the last dose of oil
administered, now propose to follow it up
! with the iniiiction OF another written pre-
scription.
/ Remaining in Pittsburg a week, you will
! doubtless be surprised when inform you
| I've had gratutously conferred on me a
degree Of ID. Yet I'm not alone-theil
numbers are legions--not Dicines, but dirty
d-s. Everybody is black. or dark Lru-
nette-all "kinder" chimney sweep shade,
on the face of which perspiration has a
married effect. The face becomes map
channels Of perspiration representing riv-
ers; the top-head the sooty, frowning noun
tain; the nose the projecting rock; and the
mouth, in its ampleness, the maelstrom of
destruction. Nariegated noses surmount,
in many cases, cavities that have taken in
barrels Of beer, gallons of zour grout, and
pretzels enough to form chain around the
world.
Having described the people as I saw
them, L will away to more imp ortant items.
Business Of all kinds active, lager spe-
cialty, )-tOundries, iron mills. factories,
&c. $4,000 people, all told, the populations
of Pittsburg, proper, Allegheny, East Lib
in style or size are their buildings notice
able; all are ordinary, blackened. begrim-
med, clouded and sbrouded in SCOT, with
the exception of their iron manufacturing
establshments-they are simply imm ense
in size and appointments. Capital and
enterprise, seconded by labor and emerge, ic
application of mechanical genius has give "
this iron city the lead in its particular
branch, consequently its wealth is enor-
nous. Situated, as it is. between two riv-
ers, its location naturally is one of the very
best on the continent, in point of CONNER
cial interest, as well as for health: but the
Destroyer will come; for weeks past this
community has been scourged with some
thing akin to leprosy. If not plague, it's
cousin thereto, called by the physicians.
Black Small Pox. So all sections have
their drawbacks. This one is dreadfully
afflicted with the Blacks-in shape of sooty
atmosphere, Black Small Pox, and Black
Republlcanism; and it seems to me it is u
fitting place for an epidemic to vent itself.
AS dirt and disease go hand in baud, Won
der not at the prevalence of disease herein.
The sanitary condition is SID indeed; but
in all her blackness, wealth has given her
artistic beauty. The rivers, with their
pebly beds, adorned by their constantly
pdidNC oNGInuHG dU Two
points with most beautiful and substantial
suspension bridges. approached and crossed
by city railways, afford to the view a grand
picture, in the bach. ground of which are
seen, abruptly rising thousands of feet, the
sentlnels OF time mountains. surmountcd
by the rock of ages. Not yet is the pic
ture finished: look again: Sta nding respect
fully bacffrom the ripping streamlet which
is seen struggling, suicide-like, to the very
brink, to be transformed into cascade in
twinllling, are the monster cottage homes
of many of their iron princes; in design. Il
mixture of everything; in style, presenting
a conglomeration of tastes, Dutchly ertl'a1-
ogant-vermillion window sash, blue win
dow sills, &c. The rainbow itself MIST
pale in point of variety in shade, when
compared with ornamented ruralstic taste
hereabouts.