The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-04

use them. II is upon the south bank
OF the Ohio. where thers is deep water.
which secures river navigation with ell
the cities below, and It counts With
great assurance upon the trade that is
to come from the Missouri Valley and
the Upper Mississippi. But not con-
tent with river navigation and the
hesvy iseights, it is pertectiug its rail-
road Communication with Cincinnati
aud with Louisville, aud means to offer
special inducements to every traveller
in these cities coming 10 the seaboard
to pass through the streets. 1t means
to lay tribute upon oil the natural
wealth between it aad the Pacific
cosst, and between it and the Atlantic
coast. II the miner IN Nevada wsuts
picks or machinery to reduce his ores,
it mesns to stop him on his way TO the
east, and uniersell Philadelphia and
New York. ltmeans to stop the cot
toa bales aud the wool sacks on their
way to Lowell and Lawrence, aud TO
make up this raw material, and send
brosdcloths, satinets, blankets, shirts
ing sheetings. prints, aud every ar
ticle OF cottoa and woolen manu-
iacture back to the valley and the
plains and the mountains OF the West
cheaper by the value OF two thousand
miles OF transportation than Lowell can
sell them. 1t aeaas 10 make engines
for every steamer that pufs up and
down our great arteries OF commerce
II means 10 make engines and cars, aud
furnish the rolling stock Of railroads
II means to make plg-iron. bsr-lron.
and bars OF steel, and to keep the trip
h4mmers o. Ine West, s. well as lts
0wo, busy in zIaping lie rough products
into the varied 'Orns OF human use and
ornament !. means TO make steel rails
cheap enough and long enough to build
u tour track rai from Redmond 10
San Francisco. IL means 10 make
everything in he steel line. from
needle to q Rodmsn gun, and make il
cheaper AID better than aoy other city.
Huntington has 5000 people OF such
sort that, Il sarshaIlsd lu sar, one
would rh,~r ; thOn~ari, and two put
ten thoussni 20 fight In peaceful
pursuits lacv plant cites, make
wharves, N, X, streets, build houses.
slOre4 'acior,r. =lhOolhOuses, churches.
make mouey themselves and teach
others how 10 make il. A delegation
OF these live reOple met US lar out
upon ,hc railroad and we we're hSnded
oyeri,o their cIIe by Messrs. Fiske and
Perry aud the o!her officers oi the
ChcsapesI;s and Ouio Railroad Com
paDy, Who hal furnished us with 80
many facilities to zee the country
through which We had passed, and IA
voret Us with ihr,r presence. The
party expressed IN Glling term, their
scnsc OF obligation TO these gentlemen
Tor their courteous attention.
A public entertainment had been pre-.
pared tor Us 81 he Land Ofhcs 10y the
Iadies o. the CITY. and we there had the
pIeaeure OF meeting tie Mayor and
other city Cnicials, the clergy and
other profess ior.l Ard business men OF
the pace Somehow We seemed TO
have lallen suons kludrtd atd 'rieuls
OF long standing, avd tie scene was
rather reunion than the meeting OF
strangers II we did not learn all about
Huntingdon. present past and future. II
was not the fault OF our hosts. There
was homClike aspect 10 our reception
herc-,he wine and song, that we have
found nowhere else. The trsnsplsnted
Yankee and genial Virginian. fused in
a young community like this, make the
most agreeable OF hosts Our kind
friends accompanied US on board the
Fleetwood, which left at five o'clock
Tor Cincinnati. With three cheers for
Huntington, warmly responded to from
the shore, we bade them adeu.
w. c.
Steamer FIe.tcooi, Juy 10. 1873