The Democratic Watchman.
BY P. OKAY MEEK
JOE W. FTJUEti, Assorirrt E 1,17011
Terms, $2 per Annum, in Advanoe
BELLEFONTE, PA
Friday Morning, June 23, 1871
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
INIVODITOR 11 ES F.
CIEN! \VILMADf M, N PLESS,
OF rtilLA NA PIII %.
FOR SUM' E Volt oEls KRAL
CAPT. .1 AM h> . , 11: Co( )1z,11.,
OF LAwßr,Ncr, cot . NTY
Lewisburg Centre & Spruce Creek
Railroad Matters.
The annual meeting of the stock
holdefa 01 the Lewisburg Centre &
Spruce Creek railroad for the I piirpose
of electini officers, was held nt the
office of the company in Philadelphia,
on the 13th inst, lion. tiro. F. Mit,
LIM, wee re.elected President, and Eli
WARD F. G kY, If tell vAI .1. Lomnsar,
EDWARD S MITII, W .1. 1 1 oii ARO,
JAR. P. COW RN, ROUT. IV I I. AN
and WUHAN Pontes, directors for
the ensuing year. Col. ATREN, we no
derst and , (feel] tied a re election, and
Mr. Pit ILI rq 11110 clioNeri to fill lie
place. A resolution requiring the lirml
installment of Five Dollars per share
to the capital stock of the company,
subscribed in the townships 01 Ifarriti,
Potter, Gregg, Penn and Haines, to be
paid on the flrAt day of July, and live
dollars per share on the firet day of
each succeeding month, was passed.
This to our 1111,11 WOlllll look like
butnuess,liall it not been for the pas
cage of the following
open a full I nreatication of the
merits of the Narrow Image for rutruuJ+, n•
to economy of conetrnet ion and operation ,
ft Is I..elies rd that it would he toIN 'rabic to
C2tE3t=l
& 8 1 Jtxtlrv,a,t !nom 'Pyronel t.. Lew PO nirg•
1"1 , 11t10 , 11tIt Retturtirnti, that the .cork holder.
recommend to the heard ct directors to en
tablinh the gunge of the 1. t• & M C nntirrec/
from 'I yrone to Lewhatmrg, at three (3) foot
What the company tnttrided by this
last resolve, we of course, do riot know,
—What it effected by it is very easily
to determine—disputes, dinsention, dig
sat is faction, doubts, delays and the
probabledefeat of the enterprise. Th.s
alone, we fear,w ill be the result of such
action.
We look upon this movement in
thin light not only because VIP are op
Eased to it, but because we honestly
believe such work by the board of ,11
rectors will result in the defeat of the
enterprlse. We are mgt certain rt was
nol so Intendal --Intended to get up
divisions, diaputes and dissatisfaction
among the subscribers to the stock
throughout this county, and when that
is accomplished, say, 'Now gentlemen,
settle your difficulties email your
and then we will go 01 with
the work '
The President of the rompaii‘ and
the 1,411 director.; from thia county at
least, know, that none-tt !ohs of the
subacribera to the i.toek along Penn,'
valle4 are opposed to making a Narrow
Gimp, road on the proposed runty
They know that the charter 12 ii,tend
ed lor a road of the ordinary guage -
that the eurveya were made on that
basiti, that Filitiscription and the right
of way wax secarell wit'l the tinder
standing that the road was to b e an
ordinary guage road, and they kemw
also that the beginning of tile collec
tion of I , llbreript 1011'1 to the stock, with
the above renoltition staring those or.
tereeted in the face, will be but the be
g
Minn , n of almo Almon lin»tleii4
turmoil and truuhle, and the cones
quoit reittlt, the abandonment of the
enterpnne.
There is no use of them 'say ing that
there Iv not sultieient fllllllB to build
an ordinary gouge road. The entire
length of the route, counting in the
branch to Bellefonte, is 109 miles
The highest estimates for grading,
building and equipping completely,
have never exceeded two million eight
hundred dollars. (If thia the people
of Blair, Centre and Union counties
have subscribed about five hundred
thousand dollars. The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company to fulfil its part of
contract mould be responsible for five
hundred thousand, making in all one
million dollars. This was to be the
basis for the two million trichigage
authorized by act of assembly during
the last session, which would make
the entire amount of available 'fun*
three millions of dollars, or two hun
dred thousand dollars more than the
estimated coet of the road. Where
then is the excuse for any one to say
that we must take a 'Narrow (luage or
nothing Y'—'That there is not sufficient
!uncle secured to go on with the enter.
prisuas it was at. first contemplated?'
Will sotne of the dead-weights who
Ire controling this matter answer
The people of our county have done
all that has been required of them.
They have worked and waited for
about forty years. Secured a charter
with supplement after supplement to
it, and transferred all to the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company, on condi
lions that that company would help
construct the road.—Accepted the pro
positions of that company and raised
the money that was required of them,
secured the right of way, and done all,
everything that was asked, and now,
after all their waiting and working
and hopeing, are to be compelled, if it
is possible to compel them, to accept
a road that can connect with no place,
or "no interests whater, er, simply be
cause the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany are desirous of shirking their
part of die agreement ? and the board
of directors of the Lewisburg Centre,
A Spruce Creek Railroad Company,
seem willing dint they should do so.
Against such action we protest 11109 t
earnestly—protest because we believe
at is calculated to delay, even if it does
not defeat the building of the road.
We want to see Pennsvalley get a
railroad, and we want to see the pros
peaty that must follow an completion,
but we don't believe that thie kind of
tooling and (limning round is calculated
Ili help the enterprise along.
l•et the work go on as the President
and directore of the road said it would.
Let it go On an our people subscribed
to hate it go on. Let it go on ns the
aiitertisentent for proposals now in
than paper, intended It should go on,
and if the present hoard of directors
don't want it to go on in that wiry, let
them resign, and let other men who
will push the enterprise along take
charge of it.
We have grown tired of these inter
minable resolutions, this endless talk,
and no work. If the road is to be
built, as our people subscribed to have
it bull( let at be done, if not, let us
know at,
if .We Must Have a Narrow Guage,
Let u• Have a New Deal
Notwithstanding the fact (hat pro
pose's for the grading and bridging of
the L. C. & C. railroad to Oak Ball,
are now advertised, we have but the
slightest hope now that anything look
mg to the construction of the enter
prise will be done the present season
We Bay this because the history of
this contemplated enterprise has been
nothing but a series of hopes, doubts
arid delays, delays,hopes and doubts--
resolutions, speeches, talk and nothing
more. We mean nothing more on
tliv yen of those controling the
matter. our people have (lone all
that they could do,two three or
four truer,, just when they thought
they were certain of the speedy
completion of the road, something
I would turn up lust am the narrow guage
movement ham turned up, to de/ay and
eventually (tetrat anything being dune.
Now, the men who have coraroled
this matter for yearn and are still Con
troling it, may he railroad men of
the first waler, but for the life of us
'we can't see it.' They hare started and
stopped, talked and resolved so much
without doing anything else, that we
have almost conic to the conclusion
that that is till they can do. They
Irate had ellrplernent after supplement
to their charter, paneled resolution at.
ter resolution, made sun my after cur
rey, estimate after estima,l,raised cub
script:ion after subscriptio 1, and tune
and time and again haute tl ey had Our
people believe that the road was to he
constructed at once, arid every trine,
Just as it now is, something would turn
up that would atop Lire work, delay the
letting, and allow the enterprise to
die. Is 011,4 good inanageistent 7 We
think not.
It is not the fault of our people that
such 114 tie can• • , because they have
done all that the Company required of
them. The estimated amount that
each township should furnish in order
to secure the building of an ordinary
guage road was levied, and we believe
raised. At leant, their subscription
books and guarantees were accepted by
the Directors, arid the road advertised
to be let. Now If they had not enough
to go to work on, as is asserted as an
excuse wily we should make a narrow
guage road, why did they advertise for
proposals? if enough, wly back out
and stop the work ? Mire is Borne.
thing wrong somewhere, and our lion
est conviction is, I,hat if we are to have
a new kind orrailrostd, - new - kind of
cars, a ncw enterprise and a new move
ment—as this narrow guage idea in•
dioates, we had better have a new corn•
party and new men to control it.
'We have money enough In our own
county to build it, and we have enter
prising and intelligent men enough lo
menage and control it, without going
to the Pennsylvanla or any other cor
poration for directors and/Aker& If
outside parties, who have heretofore
agreed to aid us in building en ordina
ry guage road will beck out of that
agrerfinent,as they are now doing,what
assurance have we that they will not
back out of the narrow guage enter
prise as soon as it is properly started?
For thirty-five years the itople of
Pennsylvania have looked to the hew
ishurg, Centre & Spruce Creek compa
ny to secutt them a railroad. To day
that company has got them into the
midst of a hiss and fight about wheth
er it shall he an ordinary gunge, a nar
row guage or no guage at all. Is it not
time something was done ? Something
real tangible. It we are to have a new
kind of a road, and a trial of a new ex
periment, we are for new men to con
trol it—for t nen who know wliM they
are doing and will do something more
than talk and promise and pass resolu
tions. We are, for a railroad, and we
want to see something besides fuss and
talk and fooling. If we are to coin
pence new let us begin new aright nail
go ahead.
Mil
11 the tstoelt holders of the Lowis
burg Centre ,f• Spruce Creel. railroad
Company eopply with the regtlefill of
the hoard of Itrectors, fltid 'rerOmmcnir
Narrow Ouhge road from Im,i4urg
ty Tyrone, what 18 to hoe' t the
`grand through ue ut,lst, much
about in President ?dim nt•s speeches,
when Pohoting subset - whom; I roll' our
peorle to build the aloresall 'erand
through hue?
11, an our friend Kt RTZ of the
Centre Hall Reporter fiia)B, 'that 11(m.
'Vito. A SCOTT list 4 asserted that all
railroads liereaMer will Inc built on the
Narrow (luage idea,' is correct, will
some one explain why some of the
money Mr. SCOTT'S COM lire nos`
ins etiting in riot used to build Narrow
(hinge roads, in place of ben expend
eil to construct routes of the ordinary
(lunge T
Ira Narrow Gunge road is as eco
inimical m construction, and an cheap
ly operated, as suggested by the hoard
of ilirecttirs of the 1,, C. , 1 C, Sul
road, would it riot SOIIII , I MOM' like the
thing, for them to advise the stock
holders to cut loose Iron' all outside
influences and control, and humid such
a road for themselves?
r we are to have a Narrow ()nage
road through Pennssalley at n cost of
six thousand dollars per toile, and if
the people along the route are to be
compelled to pay the five hundred
thousand dollars subscribed by them,
what is to be done with the five hun
Bred thousand dollare subscribed or
proposed to be subscribed by the Peru .
Sylvania railroad company T
Not Much on the ' Recommend" --
How the Narrow Guage Movement
Talk I.
The following letters on the effort to
change the Ouage on the the Lewis
burg, Centre A Spruce Creek railroad
are explicit enough to lie understood
•inhout any trouble. They are from
men who have taken a very active part
in the enterprise, and although the one
was riot intended for publication, we
give it in order that those who are,
getting up thii tsomble by acquieacing
in the Narrow livage movement, rosy
know how successfully their achenie Is
workirig. II they want to defeat the
enterprise entirely they have only to
be pepostent in their efforts to truce
Ulan our people, a road difTerent .in
every respect from the one to which
they subscribed their money to COD
struct.
Ron P ItLlt M .et —DI or R H I urn rail
road Is all ilia talk Jn•t wow err It a liar)
Itated Penn, Valley farmer to occupy a short
space in your columns, in reference to the
projected N a m., buage through t 'entre I'olln
ty, , f or Np rro ak Can,go aome would have us
believe it moat he, or no railroad at all IL
seer,,. ettrangt , that Ito 111110 Wan ever known
or said about Narrow Gunge roads until a few
weeks ago, and now the idea Is throat upon
the public with Koch vehemence that It seernx
to be dalermine•d to carry everything bocore
it Through long years"( patient Walling and
watching the Pennsylvan)a Railroad Compa
ny have talked and blow ed about the build
ing of thin railroad, Many 10,1,10M1 lIIVO
a aye looked upon their motives with rn
trust, believing that while they ha I no par
ticular Interest In It, they were more ROW
itous shout preventing the making of a mini
through (hie country by other parties, thee
desirous of building one themselves. hien
this not appear to be their design now more
than ever
They talk about the advantages of narrow
over broad gouges I know nothing or en
gineering and Must Jost accept their tlgare•
as given In their statements, but grant that all
they claim for narrow guagea in true, would
any one be foolish enough to suppose that
all our broad thoroug4fares most yield to the
Inevitable, Invincible Narrow (lunge and ho
at once discarded and cut down? And yet
the people of Centre County subscribed not for
a little local velocipede road, but for a grand
connecting link between the Fast and West.
They have been told repeatedly that there
was to be no deception—no bed filth on the
part of the company and yet is !We carrying
out the original part of the contract?
The company have advertised the letting of
the row/ and hare called in ten per cent. of
each share alba subscription stock. Don't
be too much in a hurry gentlemen. Tine pan,
pie have Wafted 100$—they can wait .a little
longer. If a Narrow Gnaws meet be built they
can build it Omissive*. If you refuse to
give Us whet you promlesd, you hays no
right to expect us to fulfil our obligations and
the sooner we look to some other ochre* for
aid the bolter will It be for our Interests.
But they say, you_have not money enough
to grade the road. While we admit that the
amount subscribed may fall short, we argue
that after the subscription books were closed
the coat piny had a bll/ passed in the Loafs.
Immo allowing them to Issue bonds to Lim
amount of two million dollars—an amount
adequate to make the road not only through
Centre Cr.unty, but eastward tot Danville, as
provided In tho bill. To this there was no op
position. Tho people scorned satisfied to con
voter their subscriptions a bonus to the com
pany, only so ea to procure the long-talked-of,
long-delayed road Now then, who In at rank
it title much cherished projeel, which was at
length considered an established certainly,
shonht once more be Lariat in the imoortain
future, perhaps never to be resurrected
agatn ' Perm
Immsa HALL, June 13, lt7l.
P Gra Al Mug, PA
flue tna—your editorial of last week, "Ho
Narrow Gunge on that Route," has struck the
right cord I ent, it nut and Inclosed It In a
letter to Hon Geo. K. Miller, and asked Mtn
to rend it carefully, and told him that It re
flected the vies, and feelings of the vbgerl
bon, to the I, C. &8, C. It. R. Since 1 snw you
in iteliefontp last trebk I have spoken to rt
large number of portions who have taken
stock and many who hero given the right of
nay, and every one Is outspoken against tho
narroo gunge, and all are of 0110 mind, that
they aalll not pay their stock If the narrow
gunge is forced upon them, unletut compelled
by has
I ain 'dare (tint If I were to start out to day I
eoIMI DOI ant fut ano subscribed In Harris town
I.lmp for a narrow gunge road Werubserlbed
mar money and gave nor releases for right of
any thol the road should to built on the mall
ow-v gnaw , and if any party desires to make
an na perlrnynt we Irish there to do It at their
corn ea tornalt We want a road that we can
Connect al boll. engin and run passenger. and
freight through, anal unless we got stlett
read thern will tin trouble In the tamp and a
big right in the field hastily yours,
The State Editorial Convention a
Williamsport--•The Excursion
to Watkins Glen.
After the adjournment of the Demo
collie State Editorial Convention here
on Wednesday morning last, most of
the editors present proceeded to Wil
listrisport to . fijenil the meeting of the
state EilitH4l Convention, without
distinction of party, to be held there,
and to participate in the excursion ar
ranged to start from that city for Wat•
Luis Glen and Minnequa Springs. The
party arrived at the Herdic House at
12.40, and were at *once shown to
rooms, suitable to the editorial digni
ty, where, brushing up a little and set
tling into clean duds, paper collars and
nicely blacked boots, they descended
to the dining rooms and satisfied the
inner man with a splendid dinner, ac
companied by all the various drinka
ble% BO necessary to complete the edi
torial happiness. This completed, the
Joint editorial parties, numbering, per
haps, as many as one hundred and fif
ty, assembled in ELLiores Academy of
Music, a beautiful building, freely ten
tired by Mr. ELLIOTT for the holding
of the Convention, and proceeded to
hold a short business session, The
President of the Association, Mr. H.
C. SMITH, of the Lancaster fniellijien
err, occupied the chair and called the
Convention to order, Mr. R. S. MILNA•
ass, of the Printer's Circular, the Sec
retary, also being present in his seat.
The Mayor of the City of WilliaMS
port then welcomed the editors of Penn
sylvania to that city, in eloquent and
appropriate terms, and was replied to
on behalf of the A,4.ociation, by Presi
dent Slim, in n lew most felicitous
remarks. Alter this interchange of
compliments, Mr. ,Issse L. Rinawstv
read a very able and instructive essay
upon 'Printing,' and was voted thanks
for the same. The essay will appear
in the Printer's Circular next month.
After the essay canoe the poem—a
most beautiful and appropriate one,
which, in the absence of the author,
shone name we have, unfortunately,
forgotten, was read by that most getit•
al of gentleman, Mr. Euuxivic H. Muni
mix, of Philadelphia. The poem will
also appear in the Printer's Circular.
The regular business of the Cotiv - en
tion was then transacted, after which,
(this meeting being more social than
business,) it adjourned to tneet at the
banqueting hall in the Herdic Houee,
iii the evening. The members, then
aroused themselves in various ways
until the banqueting hour arrived,
when some two hundred and fifty la
dies and gentlemen sat down to ant ele
gant dinner. The following were the
regular toasts of the occasion
'The State of Pennsylvania.' This
toilet was brilliantly and eloquently to
stionded to by Mr. W. P. Fuitev, of
the Mauch Chunk Times.
'The City 431 Williamsport.' To this
toast, Mr. E. W. CANON, of the Wil
liamsport Gazelle and Bulletin,prompt
ly and It ppily responded.
IThitteraga of Pennsylvania,' This
wee responded to by H. S. Evans, of
the Village Record, West Chester,
'Our Mining and Petroleum inter
este.' Uncle JAKE ZgIULYR, of the
Buller herald, responded to this tout.
'Oor Guest's., The venerable Judge
DAVID NAAR, editorbf the Trenton,
N. .1., 7'ue American, was called on
to respond to this toast, which he did
very happily.
'The Railroad and Commercial In
tarsals of our State.' Responded to
by kr. —KtriN lyr, of the Carlisle
Valunistr.
!Women.' Responded to by J. K.
PANGDORN, Jersey City Journal, N, J•
'Netstftpaper Reporters.' Responded
to by tITOMAS M. COLEMAN, PhiWC).
pbia Ledger.
'The Art of Printing.' Responded
to by J. L. RINOWALT, Philadelphia
Evening 7eiegroph.
'Our Association.' Responded to by
HENRY T. DARLINGTON, Of the Bucks
County Int elligeneer
After the repast, those who felt so dis
posed, enjoyed themselves in dancing,
while others selected some other mode
of enjoyment, and the festivities were
kept up until a late hour. Finally,
all parties got to bed. In the morn.
ing breakfast was on the table at six
o'clock, and, at 7.15, the excursionists
started on one of the most delightful
trips ever enjoyed by any party.
We have not time nor space, how.
ever, to give the particulars of the ride
• to'Watkin'e Glen.' Sufficient to say,
it was a most pleasant one, and will
long he remembered by the jolly party
that participated in it.
Arrived at Watkins, one of the most
beautiful towns in the State of New
York, or, indeed, in the country, the
excursionists were met by numerous
hacks any' carriages, all anxious• to
convey them to the various hotels and
points of interest. Availing them
selves of these, they sought the hotels
and prepared to meet at the 'Olen
Mountain 'House,' where an elegant
free dinner had been provided.
After washing and dressing and fix
ing up generally, the fraternity with
their ladies and guests, once more re
assembled at the tables of the Olen
Mountain House, and partook of the
bountiful repast, with much Cham
pagne. ear SIMu presided, assist
ed by hie numerous editorial
and mirth and good humor prevailed
throughout. It was, indeed, a joyful
time.
Immediately alter dinner, the party
started to explore that most inagnifi
cent, beautiful, wonderful and fearful
work of nature, called
WATKINS GLEN
This is a gorge or rift in the Che
mung mountain, hundreds of feet in
depth, and abounding in ills most re
utarkable and picturesque scenery.
Flashing and dashing through it is a
splendid stream of water, which often
falls in beautiful cascades from im
mense heights, sparkling with all the
colors of the rainbow. The rocks on
each aide the ravine tower up Ilearly
two hundred test above the visitor's
head, while occasionally trees at the
top may be seen joining their branches
from either side. The stream has
formed a number of splendid pools or
basins in the solid rock, from five to
ten feet deep, beneath the pellucid vie.
tore of which may be teen every peb
ble at the bottom, The Olen is said
to look the most beautiful in October,
but, at any season of the year, it Is a
magnificent sight. Traversing the liar
row path Way and ascending the steep
stairs that nature and art combined
have made for the delighted tourist,
the mind of the beholder is filled with
awe as he views the stupendous and
solemn grandeur of the place. Words I
are too feeble to describe it, and abler
pens and more poetic minds than ours
have abandoned the task in despair.
Eminent travelers pronounce the scene
ry equal to any in the world, and far
surpassing moot places of the kind
that hate become celebrated. Glen
Cathedral is, probable, the griinde.t
part of the ravine, and, as the Philit
delphia Bulletin said, 'has all the up I
pearance of having been hollowed out
by an omnipotent ham! for the trans
action of some august event far hnels
in pre Ll-none days.' (;i1 : CiMF:II
WOW/ s Inlloll this g10r...14
hung ounce, and the f tL,aiiig
tract from her de., ' , lido', of it:
And after all, It i. Indescribable, "napalm
able." The wnr•l tileri . gives hat a faint idea o r
the gorge It is a marvelonn rift In the mono
late, which it seems most have been 'mule
by some etripendens earthquskti shook. The
gr. ni effected, took place,aceord
lag to age-.. 5, twenty yearn ago, It le eatinfac •
tory to know the exact date of an event that
moat have Paused considerable anneal ion in
that rural district. The glen, with ita dash lug
flushing, Pascadlog streare, reminds me of
aevenil famous gorge, and waterfall■ It sog.
gest& Vaticluse in the polluoid clearness and
sparkle of the wider. But Instead of the dreary,
bleated hlghta above Fetrarch's "Fountain,"
we have variegated, mossy, ferny rocks, the
most lush and lovely folisge,and wild flowers
In profusion. It faintly suggests the amither,
magnificent Pans of the Finstermuns, In the
Tyrol, but Is Infinitely brighter and more
varied. That mightlave suggested to Dante
a gorge In ono of his dreariest hells. If sug•
gusts Trenton Pails, bat Is wilder and deeper,
fifes' of till It suggest,. Ittoth.hish, In old Durk.
shlre—k, indeed, very like It, tnit is yet
more picturesque and perilous. It is not prop.
arty a glen, but a prodigious succession, a
full assortment and variety of glens, "You
pays your money, and you take. your choice.'
If one doeemot satisfy, another must; though
you b. tho most ropeolowt devour of the sub.
lime and beautiful, "here's richness" for you,
Through the boldest Yankee enterpriee,these
wild grandeura and beauties for 200 centuries
(vide Agaain), barred and buried from 010
wori 1 , h a rp been thrown open to our gaze,
awl it I. no a "radar that the tides of 1111131
err kot I, io ,, o ii , hu,n NM (Urea tiona. that
hundred• dolly climb its diaay sitalruityth
pick their way along its ledges, dodge end er
its little aide caacades,lwatch for rainbows 1,0.
side lie waterfalls, gaze down into its taohallid
mysterious pools, and speculate on its e on ,
dorful formation. We go leagues nut of ne,
way, in foreign travel, to can things far je„,,
worth seeing, like Thole and Ve1in0,1,0,1„,„
Chances, the Killarney cascades, the We 0
Avon ~the Drag)°, and the Desire Olen of
Wicklow. The" Pools" are a great curiosity
In themselves. They are smooth, round, re g .
tiler excavations like gigantic bowls, act are
always brimming with crystal clear water
130 near to those pools does the narrow path
lead In some place*, that it singlo false 11(1 3 ,
would inevitably cost you a cold:plung e
told that the Rev. TM - imam K. Beecher ow,
while allowing up the filen to a party of friend.,
took curio a sudden Involuntary shoot intotlin
deeps While In the midst of n flour' ellsserionon
on the beauties of the spot. lie had how,
time to close hie eloquent month as ho wo n t
under, but ns he rose to the surfaen ho
his sentence— wli leh certainly wee Very riw.k,
and Beecheresque.
Such is Watkins Olen, New York,
at the head of Seneca Lake--one of the
most glorious spots in the wide world,
But even here, arbid all the solem n
grandeur of the place, funny ti
sometimes occur which tickle the rilm
and excite the H 8010114.8 of the oh
(loming down the Olen, aflrt
MEM
having been to the top, in company
with our brother "quill" of the Ahn,v.
town Democrat, we saw a sight. Lek
urely strolling up the Men, w ith a
handsome young Indy to keep him eon
pany, came our friend Gmtuct i of The
4pe, of Syracuse, New Yorh, hush
surveying the wonderful scenery, %Tuft
undisguised admiration. lust as Ne t
are about to pass them, slip goes the
lady's feet, and down She comes like
so much lend on the slimy rocky, one
neatly gloved hand Imputing itself
A puddle of dirty water. Oratahrt gal
1810 , starts to the rescue, when up
goes his heels in the air and down
comes the back of his head on the
stony pavement. Hastily we reach the
lady'', side, and assist her to her trot,
anxiously inquiring if she is hurt. she
'tweedy responds that she is riot, and
blushes till her cheeks are hke the red
wild flowers that gush from the es,
ern's rocky summit. Turning then to
fIARHETT, we condole with lion, while
he tries to hide. his confusion by hru.h
ing oft the dirty mud and water thin
adhere to lice clothes. . It was a 1:1
ny sight, and yet we dare not :aught
out of consideration for the Pri,tig.o,
the fallen couple But after lea, ~r j
them, we made the Glen re echoiau
the merriment that would no loicrr
be restrained.
But we have only time and room to
say further that in the evening the par
ty took an excursion np Seneca Lake,
and viewed the beautiful scenery alag
its shores, returning in good season to
trip the light fantastic toe. In the
morning, the exciirsionlete left \Vat
Inns fur ilifintiequa Spri age, where a
glorious dinner was partaken oft at the
expense of Mr. PETER HERDIC, Or Wll
liatosport, the owner of them, and a
must enjoyable tone was hail, Ic
the evening the party returned to
hanisport, and from there sought their
various homes. At Watkins, Idinne
and Troy the hotels were tree to the
editors and there were no bills to ps
The ildendid dinner at the Glen Mow,
lain House was given free by Mr E
B. P takova, the proprietor of the iten,
a must whole-souled and hoe
gentleman, and the Pleasant
Wine Company furnished ahun
of excellent champagne. Thim cm
y manufacture some of the her,
the world. Everything wits d
accommodate and oblige, as
whole affair peened off gloriously.
fie itotela at Watkins are enti
editorial tliankH throughout the
"I be Fal I brook , the lelhereoi
other hoonek there, are kept by
top set or feltowii, who know
Lat. 'We are particularly
to It %KEIL tk: SoN, of the Fall
Wt , laity have more to saj
Wat hie hereafter. The tewl I,
ia 1,0 !,Cllltilrerh, the S,heyter
Democrat anti the Watkins laj
both well-edited and capable of 'dery
ing tip their local advantages, which
they do. Watkins Glen is hegeqn
to come prominently into Hooey, ;eh
will ere long be the finest entering
place in the land. The conntry artso , l
it is magnificent—the finest, , su thin ,
we have ever seen,
But we must stop here. \Ve ha"
omitted many things, hut there 19 a
limit to newspaper columns an well
to everything else. We conclude
the whole affair was splendidly
Managed and was a grand mute"
Much of this was dile to Ittev 4 15, oi
the Printer's Circular, who labored
unceasingly for the entertainment al
the editorial host. But, for die prey
eat, adieu
o'lB in a sivitil 111
Onto run a blaeloyalth shop all by
themselvt.. They dress ID Itbanoer
costume iti, t l 'Aloe a home just lud weh
as a man.
—An exchange calls lien butler
'an old buster.' According to the
tender tale of a negro wench
()d
who fo l .
lowed him North from New eans,
he is en old buster an well. In fact,
lien in nn old ail% (fling tie de%ii
him for