Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-21
Hancaster fnteIIigellrer.
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. q, 1880.
Western Correspondence.

MARION, Ohio, Sept. 49, looV.
EDITORS INTELL1GENcRR: We left
Minneapolis with regret on Tuesday
at 11:3O a. m. That mornings
papers have the cheering news
from Maine. We endeavored to
comfort our Republican friends and re-
joiced with our Democratic brethren in the
unexpected disaster to the former, and
equally unlooked-for good luck to the lat
ter. Our friend Judge Rea came with us
as far as Hastings, where he was booked
for a Republican speech that night. fear
it partook more of the character of fun
eral sermon.
We soon reach St. Paul, of which We
have not tho opportunity of seeing much
from the railroad. It is, however, an ac-
tive business city, having extensive rail-
road connections both east and west.
There is great rivalry between st. Paul
and Minneapolis for the trade of the
Northwest. The former had the lead in
this regard in the past, but she is fast
losing her grip, owing to the rapid strides
OF her rival in commercial point of view,
the census showing that Minneapolis leads
in population several thousand, rs we'll as
in manufactures.
We regard the location of Minneapolis
as more favorable than St. Paul for the
building up of a great city, the site of the
former being level plain, while the latter
is on high bluff, but the most marked
feature in favor of the former is its advan-
tages in manufactures, arising from its
water power.
We are soon speeding on our way down
past Hastings, Red Wing, Reeds Land
ing, Lake City, Winona, &C., to La
Crosse, where VIC cross the Mississippi and
stop for supper.
The railroad from st. Paul to Lacrosse
follows the line of the river pretty closely,
occasionally leaving it for a short time at
country through which we pass is by no
means inviting; steep and rugged bluffs
rise up all along the river, in some in
stances receding from the shore 4 few
hundred yards. The narrow bottom lands
are sparcly settled by population whose
wretchcd appearance gives anything but a
cheering prospect to the passing traveller.
Night overtakcs us soon after leaving
Lacrosse; daylight finds US again ap-
preaching Chicago, where we soon arrive,
and arc transferred through its busy
streets to what was once the great Illinois
Central depot, but which was destroyed by
the great fire. A portion of the walls are
still standing and a temporary wooden
shed has been built on the ruined walls.
Hero after hasty breakfast We take the
cars for Cincinnati on the c., C. & L. R.R.
Immediately alongside of the railroad
outside of the city arc being erected the
immense works of tho Pullman palace car
company for the manufacture of their
cars. They arc just being put under roof
and are the most extensive of the kind in
the world.
The same general appearance of the
country through Illinois is noticed by this
route, going homie, rs that of the approach
to the city by the Fort Wayne route.
After passing the Indiana state line we
find the country a good deal broken and
primitive in its buildings, farming apar-
atus, file. We cross the Wabash and Tip
pecanoe, the latter near Lafayette, near
which place is the famous battlc-g ground
of Tippecanoc, of which we, then young
man, heard SO much in the campaign of
1910.
Lafayette, indianapolis and Greensburs
are all fine towns. We reach Cincinnati
at $50 p. m, an hour and a-half behind
time owing to our heavy train. H.