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mans, who are invariably found wherever there is a good soil, and their patient industry and frugal habits always enable them to supplant every other class of people.

At NEWPORT, which is twenty-seven miles from Harrisburg, the Juniata makes a sharp curvature, apparently for the express purpose of meeting a little stream, called Buffalo Creek, which it gallantly carries off in its course. This ridiculous curve of the Juniata's put the railroad company to a considerable expense in constructing two elegant and substantial bridges over it, both of which would have been unnecessary had the stream kept in its straightforward course. We hate foolishness!

A short distance above Newport, which is a small village, two or three hundred yards from the railroad, the canal is transferred to the opposite side of the river. The water is deepened by a dam, and the boats towed over by a rope, in an ingenious manner.

The rope,

winding around a wheel on each side of the river, is made to travel to and fro by water-power supplied by the canal. The boats are attached to this rope, and are thus towed over.

MILLERSTOWN, one hundred and forty miles from Philadelphia,

two hundred and twenty-three from Pittsburg, and thirty-two from Harrisburg, though a small village, is still the largest one in Perry County, containing a population of about five hundred. It is beautifully situated, and contains several well-built, spacious, and neat dwellings-but it looks best when seen at a "respectful" distance. The inhabitants are mostly German, and live as Germans do-quietly, decently, soberly-never flame out with sign-boards and gim-cracks over their stores and shops-never bustle about with quills stuck above their ears-never drive "fast" horses, or give wrong changenever have meals cooked in a hurry-never serve ham and eggs without placing around them, in a little circle, dishes of apple-butter, molasses, fruit, preserves, &c.; in brief, they live coldly, and accumulate wealth prudently, and "further this deponent saith not."

The railroad, a short distance above, enters the Tuscarora Mountain, and runs along its northern slope for many miles. The country, or certain portions of it, is not so well developed in fertility as it is below-but a glimpse is now and then obtained of a good farm, sloping to the river from the mountain sides. The gorge of the mountain passed, we enter the county of Juniata, which lies wholly between the Tuscarora and Shade Mountains, running in nearly parallel order, and only a few miles apart. The county is thus about five times as long as it is broad-but situated as it is, the land is, upon the whole, rather productive. Like Perry, it has its seams of iron ore and limestone, and its furnaces have long enjoyed good reputation for the quality of the metal they produce. Tuscarora Creek runs along the mountain of that name, and empties into the Juniata near MIFFLIN,

which is the seat of justice, as well as the most populous town in the county. It is delightfully situated, like most other towns along the Juniata, on a sloping eminence, from which a view of the surrounding scenery is afforded. The canal passes under the bridge represented in the engraving, and has, of course, materially increased the trade of the town. Several little villages on the Juniata, between this place and Millerstown, are merely depots for the storage and shipment of the produce of the surrounding country, as Thompsontown, Mexico, Perryville, &c.

Opposite Mifflin the railroad company has erected several large buildings, including the hotel here exhibited, which is, in our opinion, one of the finest establishments of the kind in the United States, at the same time that it is extremely plain in its internal structure, and cost, comparatively, a trifling amount of money. Several brick hotels along this road, of about the same dimensions, but constructed by private capital, cost at least twice as much as this house, while they are palpably inferior to it in architectural beauty, convenience of arrangement, and general completeness of design and appearance. The truth is, nothing

has been more neglected in this part of the country, and generally speaking, throughout the entire State, than the subject of architecture. It is not known or recognized as an art at all; and the natural result is, the houses and buildings of every description are dull, stupid, and monotonous--destitute alike of real convenience, of harmonious proportion, and of true economic principle. They are totally unrelieved by a single meritorious feature, beyond the immediate one of protection from the elements. Ventillation-good tastein short, everything is sacrificed to produce buildings as ridiculous and clumsy in appearance as they are uncomfortable for practical Good barns, it is true, are often seen; but even these are all constructed after the same antiquated plan-not one of them deviating so far as to exhibit a neat projecting border to relieve the blankness of the roof or gable-ends; nor is there any other ornament calculated to produce a sprightly effect to a building otherwise highly creditable.

use.

The railroad company, in the construction of all its numerous buildings, has given a practical exposition of the laws of good taste and architecture, as founded on economical principles. There is not

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one of its buildings, even the little watering-stations, that does not rise far superior, in the spirit of the design, to any other on the route. And the force of our remarks will be appreciated when the above hotel is compared with other establishments characteristic of the country. It was erected with direct reference to the taste, comfort, and entertainment of the traveller-points which are too often overlooked by railway companies, when constructing their lines of improvement. They too often suppose that nothing more is expected of them beyond the mere transportation of the "flesh and blood," with the accompanying bag and baggage. No matter what inconveniences the weary traveller may be exposed to, it is no affair of theirs -it is not "found in the bond." This, however, is not the spirit that actuates the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Patterson House. -named in compliment of a former President-is one that will tempt the traveller from the fatigues of his journey, and, being tempted, will obtain a hold upon the affections of the "in'ard man." The table is sumptuous-the dining-room cool and spacious-the servants black as charcoal, and polite as a Pennsylvania sun can make 'em. The proprietor, whoever he is, is evidently a learned man in his useful profession, and seems to act upon the lines of old GoldsmithWhoe'er has travelled life's dull round-

Where'er his journeyings may have been-
Must sigh to think he still hath found,

The warmest welcome at an inn!

In the rear of the Patterson House are situated the workshops and engine-house of the railroad, for the eastern section. The buildings