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people were in attendance from all parts The Diamond of the Forest— The Rmtenldtt
of the country. Ifte day fine and *he
programme of arrangements was carried Catskiu. Mountain Hot,*
out almost entire. Hen. Edward Evertt
delivered the oration. ? At the concluson
of his remarks, the Baltimore Glee Club
sang the following dedicatory hymn:—
Tis holy ground—
This spot, where, in the graves,
We place, our Country's braves,
Who fell in Freedom’s holy cause,
' Fighting for Libertiesmnd Laws—
Let tears abound
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Altoona, pa ?
SATURDAY, NOV. 28,. 1863.
▲ Talk with our Headers.
Well, friends, we know we have not
supplied you with our paper as regularly
as we should have done, during the past
fewweoks, and you have had good reason
tocomplain thereof. But there are a few
extenuating circumstances which, when
staled, wijl relieve ns of censure. All are
aware of the advance in the price of every
thing, about a year since. Printing ma
terials, paper, labor etc., advanced propor
tionately with other things. Publishers
got ova* the difficulty by diminishing the
size of their papers, by increasing the price,
and by such other expedients as seemeid
most Ukely to save them/rom loss. Fifty
cents was added to the subscription price
of three-fourths ofthe papers'that are in
circulation and an advance in the prices .■
of advertising and job work was made.
In purchasing paper, a day or two since,
we found it again advancing at the rate of
nearly 20 per cent per month, with a
fair prospect that it will go up still higher.
Notwithstanding these facts, all of which
tell with great effect on our business, so
far as our paper is concerned, we still sup
ply the Tribune at the old price, $l5O per
annum, and have not increased our rates
of advertising. Our paper should sustain
itself, if nothing .more. We have not
made a close calculation lately, but are
inclined to the opinion that if we were to
do so we should find that it was an ex
pense, rather than a source of income
We lave a large jobbing .patronage
upon which we rely for our support. On
job Work we have advanced proportion
ately with the advance on material. This
we could not avoid without sacrificing
everything. This, then, being our sup
port, it claims our first attention, conse
quently pur,paper which, as before stated,
scarcely pays expenses, must be secondary;
and when we have a rtish of job work,
such as has been thrown upon us druing
the past month, our paper must lay over
until the work is finished.
If .with tiie increased price of every
thing connected with newspaper publish
ing, ; we had but prompt 1 payments, we
might do<'better. While our receipts are
muc|i the same, the disbursements have
sweljed enormously. Notwithstanding
this business, we do not intend to
increase the price of subscription to the
Tribune or the rates of advertising therein,
hoping that the pressure will soon ease
up, and that we shall be able to save our
selves in the end.
These are our excuses for the irregular
appearance of our paper. We hope our
founds will bear with us for a time, since
wean laboring more for their benefit
than: for oar own profit in giving them a
paper weekly.
Hqrbtrt.it. Accident—A fatal accident
occurred at Gettysburg, on Friday, which
should prove a warning against the hand
ling of dangerous missiles. A gentleman
by tiie name of Williams, of Philadelphia,
attempted to remove the contents from a
. bomb-shell, when it exploded, blowing off
both his hands, mid shattering one arm
to the shoolder. A portion of the shell
also struck a boy who was standing near,
killing him almost instantly Physicians
amputated the shattered arm of Williams,
but he died directly afterwards from the
effects thereof. Williams had gone to Get
tysburg to take home the body of his son,
whp bad been killed in the battle at that
place. Through curiosity he also lost, his
life, and his remains accompanied those of
the son to their late home.
cotemporary of the Juniata
EegisUr is informed that we do not abuse
Democrats, but we are down on spurious
articles, such as he. Now, Amos, you
need not attempt to get put of that pic
ture wP drew of you last week, or drag
loyal men down with you, by claiming
that you are a Democrat. You are a
poor imitation of the genuine, and gal
vanize; yourself as you will, you cannot
pass for a “Simon pure” article, the “ Gol
den Circle” surrounding you containing
4po much alloy.
Among the novelties of the age. is a
aeedlop yiple. v A tree has been found in
limit. There arf no blossoms; the bud
lorira, had, jljitiiout any show of petals,
the fruit sets and grows, entirely destitute
of seeds. In outward appearance, the ap
ple resembles Rhode Island .Greenings. -
. Here Ictybeht rest—
And Summer's heat aikl Winter’s cold,
Shall glow and freeze iahovc (his mold—-
Athousand years shall ipusg stray —
A Nation still shall mourn.this clay
Which notr is blest.
Here, where they fell,
Oft shall the widow's fear he Shed,
Oft shall fond parents itiourn jtlieir dead.
The orphan here shall kneel and weep,
And maidens; where their lovers sleep, •
Their woes shall tell.
Great God. in Heaven !
Shull all this sacred Wood he shed—
Shall we thus mourn ojar glorious dead.
Oh, shall the end bo wrath and woe,
The knell of Freedom’s overthrow—
A Country riven?
It will not be! :
1 Wo trust, Oh, God! Thy gracious Tower
To aid us in our darkest hour,
#be our prayer: “Oh Father! save
oplcs Freedom from its grave—
All prase to Thee!"
The dedicatory remarks Were then delivered by
the President as follows:
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth upon thia| continent a new Nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the propo
sition that all men are created equal. [Applause.]
Now we are engaged in a great cival war, tasting
whether that Nation or iauy Nation so conceived
and so dedicated can loiig epdurc. We arc met
on a great battle-field of that war. We are met
to dedicate a portion of it asitjie final resting place
of those .who have gave their lives that their na
tion might live. It is vdtogether fitting and
proper that we should do this. Hut in a larger
sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men
living and dead who struggled here have conse
crated it far above our power to odd or detract.—
[Applause.] It is for' us, the living, rather to be
dedicated here to the refinished work that they have
thus so nobly carried; on, [Applause.] It is
rather for us to be here dedicated to the great
task remaining before us, that from these honored
dead we take increased; devotion to that cause for
which they here gave the last 1 nil measure of de
votion ; that we here highly resolve that the dead
shall not have died in vain [applause J; that the
nation shall, nndcr God, have a birth of freedom;
and that Governments of the; people, by the peo
ple, and for the people,; shall not perish from the
earth.
From Chattanooga.
OnATANcKxiA, Nov. 25.—Wc are completely
victorious. The enemy is totally rooted and driven
from even' position. Our loss is small, while that
of the enemy is heavy in prisoners^
Finding Hooker so successful in his movement
against Lookout Mountain, the enemy evacuated
that point during the night. Hooker took pos
session this morning. The enemy moved south,
and got on Missionary Ridge.
General Hooker is said lo: have captured not
less than two thousand prisoners in his magninfi
cent assault of Lookout Miouhtain.
General Sherman, being alt prepared, began an
assault at eight A. M., to-day, upon the strong po
sition of the enemy at the north end of Missionary
Ridge. He had the day before taken a hill near
the enemy, but commanded by their artillery, he
"had to descend into a valley, and then make an
other ascent to the possition held Iw the enemy.
Two unsuccessful assaults wore mode by Sherman,
bnt with the co-operatioti of the centre, lie ulti
mately gained the position, and completed the
victory.
The brigade of General Cary, with a portion of
General Lighthew’s brigade, (imposed the storm
ing party in the first assault. They were repulsed
with quite a heavy loss, after. an attack' persisted
in for an hour, but being reinforced, were, enabled
to hold a part of the hill.
In this attack General .Cary, was wounded quite
severely in the thigh. The Twenty-seventh Ohio,
Sixth lowa and One-hnndred-and-third Illinois
were in the attack.
A second assault was made at half-past one, in
which Matthias’, Loomis’ and Paul’s brigades
were engaged. The force reached within 20 yards of
the summit of the liill and the works of the enemv,
when they were flanked and broken, retiring to
the reserves. In the assault General Mathias was”
wounded, and Colonel Putman, of the Twenty
third Ohio, killed. " •
■ Their president efforts compelled the enemy to
| mass heavily on his right, in order to hold the"po
sition of so much importance to him.
About three o’clock General Grant started two
columns against the weakened centre, and, in an
hour’s desperate fighting, succeeded in breaking
the centre, and gaining possession of the ridge in
which the enemy was posted,
i The main force was driven northward toward
Sherman, -who opened on them; and they were
’forced to break and seek safely in a disordered flgh t •
down the western slope of the ridge and across the
the western slope of the Cbiekiimauga.
We have taken not less than five thousand
prisoners, and perhaps ten thousand.
General Hooker will probably: intercept the
flying enemy in the vicinity of fiossville, and the
reigon of it.
There are reports Hint we have taken a whole
corps.
Among the casualties are Lieutenant-Colonel
Espy, of the Sixty-eight Indiana; Major McCaw
ley of the-Tenth lowa'; Colonel Omar, Ninetieth
Illinois; Major Walker,:Tenth Missouri; Major
Welsh, Fifth- Illinois; Major Tunis, Sixt lowa,
wounded. h .
; Foil reports of the killed arul wounded cannot
jbe obtained, as most of die killed were m .Sher
man’s corps, and remained at dark in the bands
of the enemy. The list will be telegraphed to
morrow. .
i. The prisoners say that Bragg, was on the ridge
just Before they were taken. , s
The successful storming parties consisted of
IWbod’s and Baird’s Divisions ion the left centre
and Johnson’s and Sheridan's tin the right centre.
| Some of oar wounded were loft in the hands of
the enemy after General :Sherman’s unsuccessful
assault, but were ultimately recovered.
I Telegrams since received confirm the
above and state that Burnside is entirely
secure, Sufficient re-inlorcements are on
the way to him to enable him to follow
the example of the Army of the Cumber
land, while Meade compels Lee to keep
all his present force about him if he would
cave Richmond.
Ihe day seems somewhat longer here on the
I Mountains, Oh. lazy lounger of the valleys below!
than in the city or elsewhere on the level, except
to those connected with the business of tiellowing
out “milk, ho!” under curly windows, for there
have been certain cabalistic marks made on the
slate at the office, opposite certain other marks
that stand for K and L, indicating that these
; rooms are to be waked for the sunrise. Accor
dingly, Just as Jsontag has fallen into the sweet
' morning slumlier, which is believed to be sweeter
because it is rather a sin than otherwise to iudulge
, it, and about the time that Blossom may he sup
j to be in dreamland, fanned in the rosy clouds
j drifting along towards her morning—there comes
| a “rap! bang!” at the door, and the voice of an
j unmistakable contraband halloes • out: “Four
o’clock! snnrise!” Not that he means to indicate
that the sun hus really risen because it is four
o’clock for the Almanac would contradict his
I statement in that particular, but there are oilier
! words, not expressed but understood, which would
■ make the whole sentence, if completed, “ Four
: o’clock ! Get up hoys and girls and look alive, or
. the sun will fae up and dressed before you!” “Early
• to bed and early to rise make |ieopleget up soon in
the morning.” Little Blossom, whose shut eyelids
have the unwillingness of the llowor to he opened
I too soon, struggles herself awake at last, and the
twain succeed in making their matutinal debut on
the piazza in a few minutes, Sontag in a sad state
of a shoekhead, not the ghost of a collar, and slip-
I I* 1 ' 3 very much down in the heel. We are here on
the piazza, however, and this is enough, and we
are here before the sun has made his appearance,
and this is the other point of consequence. A cool
gray mist lies over the whole landscape, thicken
ing into clouds in the north where the view touches
the shoulder of the range, and seeming to form "a
hank far away to the East like that which some
times comes in at nightfall on the seashore and
slowly jilts before the sun next morning. Jt is vet
half dusk'd! the H udson valley, making the fea
tures, of the landsea[ie very dim and indistinct, and
even the river seems to he somewhat sullen and
glint through the mist with mi expression ot'Winn
ing the aim to warm it up eozily. It is not mi cool
on the piazza as people tell oi its being wlien thev
nseemi the Faulhuni or stand on the I‘higi Cull'd
/or the same premature ohservaliun of the God
ot day; but it is eool enough to induce a slight
shiver running electrically over the hall dozen who
have joined us in our eariv devotions,end to make
the close drawing of shawls and wrappers a thing
desirable.
There are only two points of view in the world
trom which it is worth an hours broken rest to see
the sun rise; to all the rest he eoiues very, unro
raantically and matter-of-fact. The one’ is over
the sea, from the deck of a ship or the bluff at
Long Branch or Newport, and the. other is from
the plateau of such a Mountain as that of the
Catskill. Mount Washington might be equal to
either, but from the bad habit the old monarch has
of not withdrawing bis nightcap at the proper
hour, and leaving the Visitor to gaze through a
blank mass of fog, with only the imagination made
aware that there is such a thing as a sun in the
universe. When the sullen veil is removed and
we can see the sunrise from the snmmit of Wash
ington :ah, then ! But that is now no matter of
consequence. Catskill is a far better educated
mountain, and it seldom plays tricks upon travel
lers. As the morning dawns the few absolute
clouds are all driven over the peaks from the
southwest, and the only heavy mist is climbing up
the brows of the range to the north. Eastward
we have it clear and glorious. While we have
been ruminating, the sunrise has drawn very near,
and even- eye is now bent n|jon the changing phe
nomena of the eastern sky. What a marvelous
gradation of warm lights i’s this! from the circle
immediately above the sun, where liquid gold,
seems to have been poured through the
in such proluseuess as to beggar all the uuriferous
lauds—to that one remove more distant, wliere the
orange tints are so prevalent that they vie further
back to that belt of faint purple, and the sea green
and shimmering gold, all blent and mingled so
that the eye can scarcely decide which is the pre
dominant color. There the sun comes nearer, and
Jicnciled rays go blending up through the mass of
soft color, growing more and more decided even
instant, until the eye feels that the great glory is
about to hurst forth und grows absolutely weary
with the moment of expectation. Then quick,
sharp flashes dart up and scatter themselves like
arrows above and on every side, and then—then
when the eye is after all least expecting it, there
trembles on the very verge of what apjiears to he a
fog bank, hut is really the horizon, one flattened
drop of molten gold, so unendurahly bright that it
seems to sear the sight, and the next instant it has
broadened and deepened, and the sun heaves a
quarter of its cirele into view, then pauses and
nickers a moment and presents half, and nftei a
pause of still another pioment shows the whole
disc, a shade qialer now, yet brighter and glorious
—the giver of the day—the light of the earth. It
is folly to say-, as inany do who see this great spec
tacle and yet’ sj>eal; of it from imagiatioik instead
of observation, that the whole landscaps emtles at
once in the sunlight. Many minutes must always
elapse before even! the tops of the trees in the val
ley below will be touched with the first glints of
the morning ray, and little Blossom will have
coaxer her curls into shape and lie ready for a
ramble up the cliffs that stud the South Mountain,
and kissed her fairy companion, Sunshine, a good
morning, before the people ill the valley below will
realize that the suh has risen.
There are effects from the newly risen light,
hu t they are only to be seen among the morning
mists that begin to creep up from the low lands,
between clout! and mist, that form, so to speak, the
floor over which the light travels to us. But these
are only pendants to the great event which we
have already seen and recorded. It is probable
that some tolismanic influence is ever at work,
making ill nature and Kauterskill Tall antagonistic’
for it has been our fortune to 1« whirled down the
r6ad past the lakes and westward to the sharp de
pression between the mountains, which supplies
the rival to Terni, and never with a company
tlmt did not combine all the elements of good
feeling and enjoyment, no matter whether the hu
manizing influence is to be found in the brisk and
bracing'mountain air which soothes the lungs
while it freshens the limbs—in the cookery which
recognizes common sense and defies indigestion—
or in the pleasant face of the young clerk which
Smiles upon ns from the office; and who always
has the best scat left, .kept or reserved for every i
one —no matter, we say, which may be the pecn- I
liar influence which keeps the old rule good in the
but certain it is that, talking the
average 'height of; male and female humanity at
five feet four, the long coach to the Sails this
monnng carries down eighty-five feet and four
inches of pleasure seeking, distributed all the way
along between pleasant dignity and schoolboy
merriment. A sprinkle of people of both sexes i
who may or may not be named some time in the ;
future, make tip the company, and any nearer ap- ’
proach to actual personalities would be an infringe- ■
ment upon special privilege which we have no -;
thought whatever of doing. Not ton minutes, in
stead of half an hoary seem to have passed, with i
the glimpses of the High Beak, the Bound Top, ;
and many other points'of range lying westward ‘
nod northward, when we break sharply down a
keener descent than any that we have ever betas
mate in the mountain road, and come ootyM B
Bwe lewd before the Laurel Hooee ami overhfek
ita the trails. At one time, 'as before recorded,
‘‘there war not water enough here to: rfroit n a reT
—mem—no allusion whatever to the toratt ab
•tractcdfrom the rag-bag—but thyt was ia late
summer and in time of drouth, when all the moun
tains were like : tinder and thirsty passengers liter
ally drank mud at the Mountain Toll-gate. At
any time when the summer drouth has not fully
set in, Kanteiskill may be depended upon for a cas
cade which makes up in depth what it lacks in
width ; and to-day, as we stream out of the lum
. lie-ring coach and into the little building ovefhang
| ing the Falls, the thunder of a very young Niagara
j is coming up, indicating (hat the’water spirit has
: not been exorcised by the sun. Wc go out, with
j the others, on a platform literally, as well as fig
j urativcly, overhanging the | Fall, apd look down
• over the balcony. We realise then more clearly
titan ever before, that Kantefskill Falls, in some
regards, has no equal. The stream may be capri
cious as that which supplies; .the tear-drop to the
eyes, but the basin into whioli it falls is ever grand
and impressive.
We have noticed that all mountain cascades
have the horse-shoe form with the water tailing
down- tlje toe tinj the space below the hollow, or
(to change the figure,) the water coming down
from the centre of the boxes of a Theatre, in front,
opposite the stage, and the bottom of the Fall the
pit or auditorium. This is the shape Of Niagara,
and the prominent feature of Kebecca’s Well in
Kittatinny Mountains, and of a dozen others that
might tie named. Nearly perpendicular, all
around three sides of the circle, rise the walls of
dark rock, chill with the eternal mist and damp in
the absence of sunshine, showing the usual moun
tain cataract feature. Under us, as we shall sdh
when by-atid-by we stand on the opposite side, the
wall hollows in so ns to make a rentable dry walk
under the Failr To the left, and immediately lie
side the little p|atforra where we are standing, the
mountain stream, four or five feet wide, comes
rapidly down, rich with the amber.green like the
St. Lawrence, and placid as if it had no premoni
tion of its fate—then it gives a start, a shudder,
and springs out into the air, a wreath of wh+te,
feathery-spray, dashes into foam as it reaches the
depth below. It is a dizzy depth to one standing
immediately over it, even the one hundred and
eighty feet of the first fall, and the nerves must be
firm and steady if the eye looks down without a
shudder. But the persecutions of the water do not
end here. But a moment has elapsed after the
fall which dashed it into fragments, and by some
power of cohesion which does not apply to human
bodies in similar cases, it has tpund its way to
gether, when—lo! there is a second fall of ninety
feet, and over the second precipice it dashes, and
blends a second low growl with the thunder of
disapprobation pt its first plunge. From each of
the Falls comes up a little wreath of mist, a very
taunt and mockery of Niagara: and here flashes
a short circle of a raiuliow, bright as'anv that ever
spanned the great cataract, and oniv needing
spall- S.J rise to the dignity ol a full circle. All
da- while down the oiien bottom ot the horse
shot; we have lieou gazing ut intervals, and voice
has - called to voice in admiration of the sunshine
and cloud-shadow playing among the peaks that
rise down the long vista and lose themselves in
the distance. We have accompanied the crowd to
the brink ol the descent, and even descended the
first Hight far enough to catch a full view ot t-he
white cascade in its arrowy flight, relieved against
the dark of the basin—we go no further hut con
nect ourseleves with that pleasant “home guard”
on the upper platform, who keep guard over the
temporarily abandoned hoop skirts, for be it known
to you, oh, gentle reader, who-have never been up
on these Mountains, that a lady in hoops, descend
ing to the bottom of Kanterskill, would as certainly
break her dear neck or remain hanging front some
gnarled root, half way down, like fruit on a gar
den espalier, as she would wish that she had con
sulted convenience instead of fashion.
From this guard and elevation we recognize the
figures of our party as they creep tremblidgly
around on the wet and slippery shelf behind the
Fall, and sec them as they clamber down the rocks
below, and hear their mem- whoops sent up
through the trees when they arc hidden away
among the damp rocks at the very bottom of the
second Fall. We purchase marvelous minerals
and stones which come from Sussin or the Rocky
Mountains, with the assurance that "they were
‘•picked up at the Fall.” Little Blossom discov
[ ers an almond shell among the bushes, and thence
forth can never ho persuaded that almonds do not
grow 1 luxuriantly all over the Catskills. The party
ai/ rung together by the use of a cracked bell at
Laurel House, whose hoarders, if thev depend
upon being called to their meals hv it, no doubt
starve in the woods.
e had a merry ride back to the Mountain
House and to dinner. After dinner little Blossom
and Suntag, accompanied hy.Thompso*—with a
/s—contraband, barber and yuide, set out to visit
Kahtcrskiil Clove. Thompson—the guides—is a
man who knows opera, and inquires after the voice
nf Brignolia and the success of lone. The guide
leads on, with a domestic alpenstock in hand, and
one for each of us which will he found useful bv
and-by, ascending and descending, if there is not
even the warning of a rattle snake in the path.—
So to sticks, and away, in Indian fdc, the guide
leading down the steep descent northeast from
the House; over a few fences, through an almost
trackless and altogether rugged path to the wood
halt a mile below the House, all the while descend
ing rapidly, thou sharp around from the road to
the right, still downward and into the almost im-
Jienatrahle wood, and by that marvelous Moses
Bock which all the year long, through rain and
drought, gushes water, confounds the philosophers
and recalls the miracle of Israel in the de.-iert.—
Almost trackless did we say ?—leave out the ad
verbial adjective altogether; for in a moment, ex
cept to the sharp eyes of the guide, the track is
lost altogether. Even the guide's eyes become
doubtful a fler a while, and unoji he pauses to trace
remembered landmarks. On, still bearing west
and evidently skirting the Mountain at seme fif
;tcuu hundred feet below the level of the Mountain
House. On find on—was there ever so laborious
mid yet so pleasant a walk, little Blossom?
llirough the dense woods, so dense that only
rarely little sunshine came peeping down through
the branches to light up onr pathway. On, past
huge piled masses of .square stone lying on either
side of the path and seeming like pulpits to the
long departed Druids of the West; over fallen
trees, huddled together like our dead upon the
Gettysburg battle-field, thisr bark slippery with
years of damp, and their branches making nn al
most impenetrable abattis; through thickets where
branches fly in the face and the brambles plav
fanfajjtic tricks with Sontag’s patent-leathers; over
marshy morasses where the moisture oozes eoollv
through the moss, and the only crossing is hv
1 springing from one to the otliief of the slippery
; stones, looking out here for a snake, mid there
f hearing the crash of tile guide'shjtick in reply to the
I of •> iiashed jiartridge or (he drumming of a
i pheasant, stopping to pick the rod berries of the
wintergifcn, fatigued hut delighted. We have
just crossed a little marshy place, and the guide
says: “ Here’s a spring; do you: want a drink ?”
Wo should lit© willing to drink, at this moment,
from any pool less green than any one in the Flor
ida woods; but what shall \Ve say of this marvel
ous liquid that reveal? itself as bur guide takes out
a glass from, liis basket, allows it to trickle fall
from the spring, and holds itj tip to the light.—
before did we fully understand the meaning
of the name “ Diamond of the Besert,” applied by
gcott to that spring around which Richard and
Saladan performed their warlike evolutions, A
Diamond indeed—every drop that drips from the
tumblerfull is as pure, as colorless, and os flashing
as any gem that sparkles upon the brow of an
Empress. Not even one tinge df color is percept
ible when the whole tumblerfull is looked through,
but the whole maSs appears to lie liquified splen
dor. Arid then, the taste—colli as if had just
poured oyer a cube of ice, and frfle from one smack
of impurity, one fleck of dust, of orie suspicion of
mineral origin. Suddenly the (bought comes to
US' that ail the wells out of which we have drank
fr*- '-f_-
since childhood, yjpStlfair dripping buckets and
theirWter that touch the patched lips
yand £ke wailing Mate With the very tbnoghfof
perfection, are pfet and unequaled no
This-fa the “Dfaknond of the Forest!” and fang iyl'.
and deep and appeared are (he draughts; that kisa l ,
lip longoOTefore prudence becomes 1 the mas-|? ri
. ter aad .we tftr oursclvesaway and go onward.
tf may lf «! mile from the spring when tM f
| break out of the forest upon a plateau a little elc
j vatod, and catch a dark mountain outline to the
I westward, running sharply down towards ns,
I and cut otf altogether from! jthat-on
i which we are i standing. “ There is the Clove,?
; says our guide -with a tone which sounds, like a
I |<atdorml>le pride of proprietorship. Two or three
hundred yards further, no longer among the trees
but through thick bashes and underbrush,'and we
: come upon a rocky platform full upon the edge of
| Iho Clove, and:with a Sight before that makes the
j tint id and nervous hold their breath. ' Wide to
I the icftlie* thoi valley of die Unison, as w* saw it
( from the Mountain House, but in view a Hjttle fur
ther down the river. Not even the Rocky Mountains
can-show so awful a view ot sheer descent, and it
is hut a moment before the shudder of the situation
conies over us imd wc draw back, and the guide
smiles. Never mind!—we have stood on the
verge of die (Hove—something that ncied not be
gaaed ui«n long to be remembered. "Is jit not res
meinliered little Bloossomi’ even after jWe hare
retraced our wean- way to the Mountain House,
pausing to take another draught from the “Dia
mond of the, Forest” :as we return. Yes, our
minds will revert back and flunk' of jit with a
pleasant sensation of fear, as wo catch our last
glijnpse of these valleys and mountains in tig!
cough, in the morning, to catch the Armenia at
Catskill Landing. And shall we not store np the
memory for the coraingjdaVs, bo they few pf many,
ambng those tilings which eopld not lie lost with-;
our abating the charm cjf existence ?
And now dear reader Somag and little Blossom
bids yon adieu from thejse mountains, hoping that
ymi; may pass as pleasantly through the many vi-i
eisjjitudes of life, and may you always ; have aS
bright a ray of sunshine; to loom up your pathway
as We have hail from the Celestial orb while upon
our trip over the Lake, at Niagara, and npon the
Cafakills; Ever yours,
AUGUSTUS HONTAG
Nails Growing into the Flesh. —An emi
nent French physician lias published an account
of die efficiency of the sesquichloride of iron for
curing the growth of toe nails into die flesh, and
as it is of importance to) both ! the soldier and the
citizen, we give the result of tin 'experiment hy an
army surgeon. lie sajys: “ I may here remark
that ulcers about the nails are occasionally' observed
among our sflldiers, having escaped the’ attention
of the medical hoards, dr being caused by the pres
sure of the hoot during! forced marches. Under
these circumstances a ironipt and painless cure
may he allccted hy insulting the dry sesqnichloride
Utuccii tlic nail and- the protruding flesh, mid
powdering the hitter wi h ilie same substance. A
huge bandage should hti applied over all, Hoi im
pregnated with the liquid sesqnichloride. rtf iron;
if precaution which nun, however, lie useful, as
tlielhids (if the hand Iry rapidly,and preserve
their situation in a mot ! exact niaiiticr. i)n the
following day tile cxiihereilt flesh is found to have
acquired the hardnessol wood: suppuration.speed
ily ceases, mida cure ft Hows after two or tliree
applications, d'lie sim]ile and mild treahhem is
obviously far preferable 10 the numerous surgical
proceed ores hitherto recommended. In the, course
of four or five days, or ip a week at the fimhest,
tlic original pain ceasesj the swelling subsides and:
the patient is able to walk. Naught remains but
tlic hardened protruding flesh, which falls; away 1
about a month after thej application of the sesquf
chloride of lime.
“ Physical Disability.”—A good deal pf sur
prise has been felt, and iretty freely expressed, too,
of course, at the unexpected number of rejections
of drafted men, for. the nanifoldly-maimdd causes
comprehended under the general bead,of ‘fplivsi
cal disability." The in cresting feet has, however,
been established at the 1 surgical Bureau m Wash
ington. that the proport on'of our people who are
exempted from the draft on account of disability
from physibility causes s scarcely greater than in
England or trance. In the latter countries the
average |ier eemage is i shade less than fwentv
live per cent., while wit it us it does not in practice
exceed thirty. -Here tic majority of our..surgeons
are volunteers, and thej release persons fori disa
bility that experienced surgeons in the regular
army would not. The latter are supposed to l>e
heller able to jiidge what forms of weakness in
constitution or health would be bettered hv camp
liie- Again it is held, i hat as the volunteering of
a million of melitoofc the flower of onr population, it
Blight reasonably he ex] cried that a large prupor
tion of the conscripts w< aid lie exempted for disa
bility.
Railroad Ball.—yt brilliant ball was given
last Thursday night, bt Fort Wayne,, hv the
employees of the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wavnc aW Chi
cago Railroad Conpany jn their newly efected
car building, which was attended by 1600 persons.
The immense Imll, which measures two hundred
by eighty feet, was so ranch crowded, that it was
difficult for the dancers fo get thronght with the
figures. In the quadrilles there were seventy-five
setts upon the floor at one time—six hundred
tiersons. ; :
Tiie hall was, brilliant y lighted with gas,' and
by locomotive head light i, and colored trainliunpa,
and Was appropriately detorated. The train lamps,
red and blue, were hung at the windows, giving
the bni|ding a heautiiui md novel,
niere were in the roam six large locomotive
head lights, one hundred and sixty gas ligliti and
one hundred and fifty-fohr train lamps.
Pte.k Thirty DaySi —The Richmond Scbtinel
ol the 18th says; It is encouraging to those; who
look to God for deliverance' from our present
troubles to know that ih about thirty days after
each day which Has bee it set apart by the I,'resi
uciu of the Confederate I States for prayer aud fast
ing, we have had a battle and a victory. : ,
I’he Sentinel‘may seek to impress this belief on
its readers, but, if its milster Davis thought ;siich
an answer would follow tare supplication of his fol
lowers they would never;be suffered to rise from
their devotions! Fastingi has been a “permanent
institution” among the nfoels for some time; ■:
New Decqt.—The \ Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is building an immense depot at tliila
delphia. U will have a fount on Market street of
two hundred'and fourtecii feel, and a depth on
Sixteenth street of three hundred and six feet
extending to lilibert stnjet. The Market'street
front will I® oraainented f with iron eolnmufo 1 and
the: structure will he of tlfo most substantial .#mr
acter. tranks will enter the dejrot from llar
kol street, two single and; two double ones. '.The
cellars will lie used for thb storage of goods. -The
work is now progressing, fund will be finished, if
the weather wiUjiermit opr. in a few months i
The St; Paul P«fw"says: “Eighteen hbxes
containing species of an|nals, r collected by .some
naturalist in the Red Rivitr country, passed through
the.city yestetdajy directedlto the Smithsonian Insti
tute. in the sarpe lot moose-head and horns,
weighing 56 pounds, a jnojit elegant sjiccimen • also
a hiiffafo-head,''Weight SSlpouuds; twoclk (or ired
deer) heads ondlnutlers, vfeight 38 pounds. They
"'cfc dirfccted to the ‘Kingof Italy,’ and sent to hiin
tlirough the American Egress Company.”
In families we)) ordered; there is always! one
firm and sweef temper, i-hich controls, without
seetnibgito aicttslo. The {essence of all fine brfcd.
ing| is in tlie-gijftr-oC eonuliation, A man Who
possesses every . plhcr title to onr respect exoept
that of courtesy, is in daliger ol forfeiting tJieni
all. ; A, rude nidnner reiiders its owner always
liaUe to nflVont, He is ntver without Jignitv who
avoids wounding the dignity of others. | ;i'
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-v 4
PRINTING O
llavingsWithtD tta put two yaa
i lutua tuoor MtabUehment in t
jtwttw. Paper Cutter, ft
... na. Car* Fuarev Freae, and lar
~'.*i,(ncataf which are give
e«e«uf • anythin*-to the line oi
to any eatabtuhraeu
‘ r i/e* equally low.; We can execut
It, lea of
a<UU>«.S»**UO«». VUiliafl, fc
Otpculura, Pro®
mammoth posters
®oyk.&SD® lygTtfS
pamplxlets. Fay and
BLANK BC
manifests. AND BLANK I
All we Mk U a trial. fo*Uug eouii
if we have Uie omturtu
' itftice in Lowther’a boiMlatg f coru
,1,. rttretstSy opposite Superintendent
LOCAL I
Thavkuso »r Niuht am
sometimes heard it remarked!,
they would not travel by night
impression being that there is i
cidents in the dark than dnrin
first thought this would seem u
writer in the RaUroaJ Adtmit
view of the Walter, and cei
good case., ft) reys: ■
•‘Thore arc many circomsu
night running comparatively sa
ihe track : is napped- Conpa
train* arc on the read, So
ever ha likely to renudbb opel
Switches arc more likely to he
times, as they are not in use for
are locked.. The sigual fur i
iintde by light, would scarcely t
mid obeyed, and, what is iinj
-cei) at a greater distance than
daylight. The engiuecr has I
attention than in the daytime,
a rock of tree (ailing across a 1.
broad daylight is as iiineli a ' i
if encountered in the night,
would appear that one cun hike
railroad car with comparative st
So long as Old' Joe
winters will not want for savory
t ant occasions. Wc had settUs
fiction (pot to say necessity) tin
ing dinner was to consist of a),
hut, jnst at the niche of time, ti
with two nine-mouth gbblers.
specially for the printers, and wi
I (test bowsbegged us to accept
We relieved him of his load, t
if oar convictions relative to in
Long Hve our old friend. 11.
out his three-score years, hut 1
kind ness and hunu.rhc bids fail
score.
TnAKKSOlvixo, —The day \
served, in this place, by the ,s
cltanical labor, and the closing
and leaving the doors open,
whole figure and ojiened lioth ih
Divine services was held in the
Luthem Churches- Turkeydot
depopulated and foul stomach
were prevalent on Friday mon
with loss of ajijieiitc and cold
fast. .
Fair.—The fair on the hill e
fair weather favoreit, but the I
price* »JS. C. Fpstlewaits Fret
Motion Store sometimes brings i
ladies to that place, and no woi
more than fair that they give a
to make a fair living, when hi
everybody whether fair or otl
• Brant’s Row, between thev Fo
road.
The German Concert.—T
came off sic-cording to previou
Hall, on Thursday evening, am
say, was a complete success,
filled with spectators, all of whe
with the- Exhibition. The pot
Ch: Hanschel, and of Mr. 15.
volunteered his services for th
especially interesting.
Improvement.—We are plea
brick pavement is about faring I
Masonic Temple. IIo|« that i
sens will become afflicted with t
style of sidewalks, and that • t
dated concerns will find their wi
to be made into kindling wood.
Shooting Match.—Bills am
fur a grand shooting match to.
place on December 23th (Christ
moth Bcrksirc Fig only 16 mon
mg 500 pounds. Inquire of L
i«rticnhtrs.
Closed.—We leant that the
the benefit of St. John’s C
Thanksgiving evening, with a
havinjTietted the sum of!|2,t
uifti^jeertainly.
*a-lf we had an overflow v
we 1 have-a dearth this wee
elopements, runaways, or even
up the loafers or famish the b
'That’s jibe way of the world—a
Chanoe or Fibm.—James :
from tbafirnt of J. & J. Lout!
of hb interest in, the store to J
Kohck.—lf Joseph Ledg
office of Humes, J.
will learn aomethlag to his adi
SPECIAL NOTICE.—Ha
gbfterpwtof onrstoclfofgo
"Waeootataoo oar books w»i
wfih «f£&mt delay. We ba
assortment of boots, sho
diy floods Ac.,
bertha psesent rejp>l
V - ik" . ■ J. *
Oct, 31st 1833-0