Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-03-21
(Commu nicated.)
PITTSBURGH, PA. March /,

IlTTsBURGH, IA, March IL
lMessrs. Editors
It was near midnight when we
left the depot in Martinsburg. and
while the fierce wind that had
swept like a tornado over the val
ley for near a week had ceased.
yet 1t WAS evident that March was
not likely TO show Il lamh-like ma
ture; for as our train dashed west
ward and commenced ascending
North Mountain, we realized that
genuine winter storm was app
preaching, and this morning when
daylight came, we found ourselves
half way from Cumberland To
Pittsburg with All atmosphere
without, as cold AZ We had expe-
rienced ali winter. We we're ccin
Portable, however, IN one of the
Pullnirn's Palace csr4, free from
the attack ofthe bowling snow and
storm without.
Since the great RAILROAD war be-
tween the Pennsylvania aud the
Baltimore and ONO Companies
has been inauguraictl, there has
been large increase in the mum
Der OF travellers carried over the
B. 4 @. Co.'S. lines, especially be-
twcen Baltimore, Washington and
Pittsburgh, and the ears are
crowded with passengers. Our
train last :sig.,t was so full. that it
was difficult TO obtain seat. or
cOurse IL. such 4 crowd there is to
be found All Glasses and colOrs Of
people, a.a il Is very difficult to
please Them all. This morning |
heard quite a contest between two
wOmen AMI The porter OF the sleep
ing cars. One Of them insisted
that the porter should raise the car
window, and the other thai il
should De- Kept closed One would
be smothered with The heated air
the other would lake cold at the
window. | thought that the win
dows should have been kept down
until one sfnothered, and then
raised until the other irOze; and
that would have ended the quar-
rel. The conductor by the exer-
else of his authority, tried to end
the dispute, hut it was useless +; he
realized the truth ofthe coupiet:
HE is fool who thinks by force or
skill
To turn the current ola woman will"
We reached this city about nine
O'Clock this morning, and although
the weather is very cold and the
snow falling, yet the columns
OF black smoke every where as
cending through the falling snow,
indicate what a breezy sea of life is
in this amphitheatre of manufac-
tories.
The women ofthis and Allegha-
ny City have eu barked earnestly
in the temperance crusade. We
visited the hail where II large meet
ing Of the ladies had assembled
last evening, On the walls
were a number OF mottoes, viz:
IF meat make my brother to of
fend, / will eat no meat while the
world standeth, lest / make my
brother to offend.n "Young la :.
dies motto, LIPS that touch Ii
quor shall never touch mine" &c
Every one here seems to be al
ways in hurry. The city is pro
vided with street railways perme-
ating through all the principal
streets, crossing the rivers, and
even extending over the almost
perpendicular hills that environ
Pittsburg afiording a cheap trans
portation between all parts of the
city. The competition, so many
great railroad lines running into
or through Pittsburg, has added
largely to the manufacturing in
terests OF the place. These rail-
roads afford ready means of carry
ing away their manufactured arti-
Giles, and has brought them into
business relations with wealthy
regions of country to which they
were strangers before especially
is this true of the Pittsburg q
Connellsville road, and the Pitts
burgers contemplate great advan-
tages from the close relationship
now existing between the Iron
City and the rich and fertile re-
gion traversed by that road. And
it will be strange if the people of
the Valley OF Virginia are not
greatly benefited by this new re-
lationship.
We leave this evening for Chi
cago, from where we will write
you again.
Very respectfully,