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Show Mlitlounr) l,t:iicrlr rillLADXLIIIIA, I'a., Nov, 15, IflCO. EnnoaTiMia I tblnk terhipi a few Iinei from here may be ot Intereit to tome of your rtad-en. rtad-en. I left Bait Lake with a company ol mltilonarlti Nov lltli Had a good trip. Btayed over one da; in Chicago and took In tome of tbe tight!. Chicago li a great ilty, an lumenii volume ol uuilneii being done tbcre. It bai tome One building! and tome very high onei. The Matonle Temple hai twenty-three ttoriet. Chicago did not Imprcti me very favorably it ii not lo be compared with l'liilidelphla (or cleanllnen or public bulldlogt ai far ai I could lie, We patted through a See coon country coun-try in eatlern Nebraska cd alio eait of the Mlttouil Rlitr We patted through tome line modern AineiUan cltirs while truellng through Indlina, Iowa and 11-llnolt, 11-llnolt, ami In viewing the beautiful rolling roll-ing countr) tboic ttattt contain, itudded with grovei of lotutt tirtt I could not help but feel regret that tbe founder! of the commonwealth of Vtih ihouldbe forced to abandon inline a country aud bavvtopuih aetlwaid 1000 mllci Into unknown ilirti ana ImlitiO valleyi. TLe cuuntrv leUem UiIciiko and lltlilmrg It Icauufut miJ paitlcg through tbe Allegheney mountain! wn delightful. Then as we approached Phil iJelihla and the old roaming ground! of Win. renn'i coloniiti, the country wai magnificent, Tbe green fields had more the appearance of iprlng than late fall. Thi blllildti were covered with coxy bomeitodi and fine groves el primevlal forett, , Jhlladelf hlalia clean and magnificent magnifi-cent city, abounding In flue bulldlngi, buiy streets and historical placet of Intereit. In-tereit. I visited Independence Hall, and taw tbe room, desk and Inkstand used In framing tbe Declaration of Independence, Independ-ence, also the portraits of the old Revolutionary Revo-lutionary leaden, The Town Hall li a rnsgol6cent building, erected of granite and marble, and cost, they lay, 23,0O0,-000 23,0O0,-000 and will cost 13,000.000 lo flnlih It, Tbe "Kbynland." tbe steamship we all on, wai billed to lcae on the 181b, lot did not return from her last trip till ytsleiday, She bad been tixteen days out from Liverpool and experienced unusually un-usually heavy sen. All cabin and iteer-agipaiiengiri iteer-agipaiiengiri wero ihut upfordayi during the storm, bbe sails for Liverpool Liver-pool on the 10th, tomorrow, when we lay good bye to America and all we hold dear for a time. Reipcctfully yo in, J b.lUu.. |