The Republican journal., 1881-06-30
Western Wanderings.
Correspondence of the journal.

En- ROUTE, June Is
EDITOR JoCRVAL: If | bore your readers let
1t be urged in your correspondents behalf that he
has himself been subjected to great bore"-al
most five miles long-and for the space Of s! min
utes. After that, what can be expected of HIM but
retaliation in some form. Owing to the insensi
bihty of the Hoosac Tunnel, a victim must be
found in the sensible readers of the Journal Be
sides, small bore" can be more vexatious than
big one.
The GREAT lore
Speaking of the Hoosac Tunnel-emotionally it
is failure was ready and waiting for a sensation.
but none came. 1t was Just under ground for
little while and then out again. 1t is to be hoped
that the Resurrection will not be so commonplace
Still 1t may turn out that shall find ourselves
simply living right along after death with few or
none of the dramatic effects that have commonly
been supposed to be associated with the change.
Never mind, be it that we are living with clear
track ahead 1t was certainly pleasant to emerge
from the Funnel among the Berkshire Hills and
have no doubt that it will be infinitely to
ascend from the valley of the shadow of death
up among the hills of the blest"
But in business point of view the Hoosac
Tunnel is grand success. Six hundred car loads
of freight pass through it daily from the West to
Boston about all that single track is capable Of
Hence they are pushing the laying of a second
| track TO accommodate the rapidly increasing vol
ume of business. Another index of the import
ance Of this line to the business of Boston and in
directly to the whole State, is in the fact that
lust before its completion only three steamers per
/ month cleared from Boston for European ports
now the number has risen to seventeen per week
After making all due allowance for the increase OF
business over the other lines centenng in Boston,
and for the supplanting of sails by steam. it will
still remain true that the Hoosac Tunnel Line has
doubled the export trade Of the metropolis Of New
England. Upon this showing the apparent folly
of the State, in aiding this enterprse-to the ex
tent Of nearly seventeen million dollars, If my
memory is not at tault-comes to look very much
like wisdom Would that every bore. big and
little. could be turned to as profitable account In
that event, Mr.. Editor. have no doubt that you
would become speedily and immensely rich.
SCENERY
| got a sensation and a very agreeable one in
approaching the Tunnel If not from the Tunnel
itself The ride up the valley OF the Becrhed
River is an unbroken Succession Of landscape sur
prlses The combination Of hill and valley bluf
and plain, with fertile fields, ti,nbered slopes, and
rocky adlunets, the nesting of farm houses and
| hamlets among the trees and in the valleys lett
nothing for the eye to desire, from the tender aud
quiet to the picturesque and the bold One almost
anticipates discovering skulkIng band OF Indians
| here amid their classic haunts ready to re enact
the tragedy of Deerield or herd of startled deer
l,
wonder they were once numerous as to give its
name to the river and the valley. They could not
| have found more attractive home. Nor can the
| tourists in all New England happen upon mere
| enchanting panorama of natural effects Were
obliged to cross the Atlantic to enjoy its beauties
we should sigh for the pen Of the poet the brush
o. the painter with which fifty to delineate it.
But as write are speeding westward through
| the more commonplace but more fertile valleys OF
| the Mohawk and tennessee. All along from west
| eru Massachusetts to Buffalo, the farmers are al
ready busy with the hay harvest; the broad fields
OF crimson show that the clover is ready for the
mower, although cultivated crops excepting win
ter wheat, are uniformly backward. The latter is
looking well, and is lust healing, having attained
a vigorous growth.
| ALONG TIE CANADA SOUTHERN Il. r.
Here the lands equally fertile and the crops
look equally vigorous, but it is evident at glance
that we are in another country. Here is general
want Of thrift, an air Of squaor and neglect about
many OF the buildings On the farms and in the vii,
lagos quite unlike the New York farms and vii
lagos among which Lave been journeying
Explain 1t as You will there is certainly superior
degree OF thrift and enterprise on the American
side. Or can it bo that our national vanity warp.
our individual Judgment One is however. only
confirmed in the opinion, on recrossing into Mich-
gan and coming down into Ohio. There here a
life and vieor which was not there
TOLEDO
is chiefly noted for the keenness and temper oflts
Blade through whose columns the inimitabe Mas
by letters first see the light. Otherwise we might
neyer have heard OF this ambitious northwestern
city OF ONO. But the Blade betrays an inexcusa
bic strata of Ignorance when it ndorses a state.
ment that Massachusetts women thin and
bony that not only have the men fled the State,
and left them in a large majority but that even
the mosquitoes are dying for want OF sustenanee
Now my observation is that while the Massachu
setts ladies may not quite equal the altitude OF
lively deficient in latitude and that Maine ladies
are ahead IN both respects. Come East and see
for yourself, Bro. Blade
Through Indiana aud Illinois my trip most
ly by night, but made good use of all the day
light there was. The wheat crop looks to me to
be small in both these States and the corn e1--
ceedingy backward The latter may come for
ward with d favorable season bnt the wheat yield
will be light
IN MISSOURI.
Here we are in Missouri-a glorious State anu
destined to take front rank in grain and stock rails
ing. food improved lands can be bought here at
from ten to forty dollars per acre and rapidly r7
| ing in value The eastern farmer, with eye to
a western location should consider the advantages
offered il Missouri. The richest soil mild climate,
large railroad facilities and Soodeducationa sys-
ten. 1t is no longer best to rush through Missouri
to locate IN Kansas. Here are as good and cheaper
lands, better imbered no grasshoppers less liabili
ty TO drouth and an improving state of society /
observe great general improvement as compared
with the condition of things ten years ago when
| was last through the State. Missouri is prac-
tically Northern State, and is destined to pass
wholly under the influence Of Northern ideas and
methods.
l have just been made to feel that am indeed
far from home. Says my chance acquaintance. at
my elbow-a Missouran born and bred-polnting
to village that we approaching Thar is
right smart town, and that is right pooty street
that leads through it, $ e.
Brazil Line Vlclssitudes
With regret, but not unexpectedly, we announC
ed the suspension OF the American Steamship