Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-05
THE REGISTER sCRlBE's TRIP.

Special Correspondence OF Wheeling Register.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., February 3.
After three weeks sojOurn among
the West Virginia solons, in their
Capitol city, have again been dispatch
ed by the REGISTER to the seat OF Ma
tional Legislation. Here to study men,
measures, and the workings of our Gov
ernment, and occasionally to note down
some observations that may be OF inter-
est to the
Reading Public Of Wheeling.
1t is an old habit and still prevails
with the average journalist to write up
his travels, or rather the scenes and in-
cidents connected with them for the en-
liyhtGnment, and sometimes perhaps
the reverse, of his readers. therefore
may be indul ged il follow to some ex-
tent in the footsteps OF the usual cores
pondent. .
There is nothing noteworthy about
the trip on the b. 4 .. road from Wheel
Ing to Washington until the Alleghenles
are reached. The morning sun, clear as
in May, and with brightness only seen
on the mountains, greeted us over the
rising peaks OF the Alleghenies. 1t has
been nv fortune to cross these noun
tains some dozen or more times, aud
they,always bring to me new and varied
pleasure. / attempted to write on the
train that might give my impressions
OF them as they fitted by
In Endless Panorama,
but the motion OF the car on the acute
curves WAS too much for me,-would
have been too much, rather, for the
printer. There Is scarcely stop with
out romantic and historic interest; and
that great road crossing their eternal
nights, binding East aud West with
bands stronger than iron, is a wonderful
monument to the genius OF Latrobe.
The Cheat River Pass is perhaps the
most admired by travellers. The other
morning the sun lighted up with
great clearness tue mysterious
depths of the canyon above which
We glided; but recall a
night in which it rested in shadow. II
was a good many years ago, when | was
but lau Dut sue tuOsc HlOuuNa'ue
vet as they spread away before me, and
as NAV never see them again. IL was
| mid winter, as now, and there had been
a sleet. The moon was at the full and
III nm the scene more splendidly than
has ever lived on canvass. Below me,
and at A depth OF from 800 to 500 feet
rolled the sluggish waters OF Cheat river
its bosom congealed by the intense
cold. Beyond the river, in bold outline
against the northern sky, loOmed the
peaks OF the Alleghenles,
Stretching Out Their Spurs
almost 70 the waters edge and then re-
ceding but growing higher as they went
until their SUBMITS were lost In the
eternal snow that rested on them. FOL
fourteen miles rode on the platform IN
the intense cold, and looked upon
sc.ne whose like / never hope TO SEE
again. The moon, shining through the
immense forest OF trees above ant
around me, all crowned and radian'
with Natures jewels, gave to my de
lighted senses picture which no touch
nj pen or brush can make live again.
This CANYON passed,we begin IN earn
est the ascent OF the mountain. We
hear much in testing way OF God
country" as applied to special locations
IL by such appellation is meant coun
trv in which man finds il hard TO exist
| this ought to be so classed. And YET
after a fashion, with more ease possibly
and surely ripper age, than the peopi'
OF the great prairies, these
Hardy Sons Oft the Mountain
J live their uneyentiul lives. Their com