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TEMtJWSl 0 Ptr Vmr in .tdvancc ovllnnrily will bo charged for at tlio rnte fprreolnmn; of TO 00 A Niglit of Terror. In the Fall of 1845 I was traveling cast-ward in a stagecoach from Pitts burgh over the mountain. My follow, passengers were two gentlemen and a lady. The elder gentleman's appear ance interested mo exceedingly. In air and manner he was calm, dignified and polished ; aud the contour of his feat ures was singularly intellectual. lie conversed freely ou general topics, until tlia road became more abrupt and pre cipitous, but on my directing his atten. tioD to the great altitude of the preci pice, on the v;rgs of which our co&eh wheels were leisurely rolling, there eatno a marked change over his countenance. His eyes so lately filled with the light of mild intclligccnce, beamc wild, rest less and anxious ; the mouth twitched spasmodically, and the forehead beaded with a cold perspiration. With a Bharp, conclusive shudder, he turned his gaze from thg giddy height, and clutching my arm tightly with both hands, be clung to me like a drowning man. " Use this cologne," said the lady, handing me a bottle with the instinc tive goodness of her sex. I sprinkled a little on his face, and he soon became somewhat more compos, ed ; but it was not until we had trav ersed the mountain and descended to the country beneath, that the fin e feat, ures relaxed from their perturbed look, and assumed the placid, quiet dignity I ' had noticed. " I owe an apology to the lady," said lie, with a bland smile and gcutlc incli nation of the head to our fair compan ion, " and some explanation to my fel low travelers also, and perhaps I cannot better acquit myself of the double debt, than by recounting the cause of my re cent agitation." " It may pain your feelings," deli, cately urged the lady. " On the oontrary, it will relieve Having signified our several dot-ires to hear more, the traveler then proceed cd: At the age of eighteen I was light of foot, and I fear (here he smiled) 1 ;rht of head. A fine property on the right batik of the Ohio acknowledged lt,e us sole owner. I was hastening bru-t to enjoy it, and. delighted to get frt e from a college life. The month ' f Oclihei , the air was bracing, and ; the mode of conveyance, a stage coach iik tnis, oniy more cumorous. me Dther passengers were few but thiee ' in all an old, grey-headed planter of .Louisiana, his daughter, a joyous, be -witching creature, about seventeen, and his son, about ten years ot uge. Ihcy were just returning from France, of .which the young lady discoursed in terms so eloquent, as to absorb my en tire attention. The father was taciturn, but the .daughter was vivacious by nature, and Ve soon became so mutually well pleas ed with each other, she as a talker, I as i'lHtcnt r that it was not until a sudden ., flasili i'f lightening, and a heavy dash of rain against the coach window elicited 'au exclamation from my charming com. piuiiiu, that I noticed how night passed on. Presently there was a low, rum. bling sound, and then several tremend ous peals of thunder accompanied by .successive flashes of lightening. The rain desoended in torrents, and an angry wind began to howl and moan through the forest. I looked from the window of our ve hide. The night was as dark as ebony but the lightning revealed the darkness 'of our road. Wo were on the edge of - it frightful precipice. 1 could see at intervals huge jutting rocks far away ' down on the sides, and the sight made Die solicitous for the fate of my fiir companion. I thought of the mere hair breadths that were between us and eter nity ; a uinxh little rock in the track of the coach wheels, a tiny billet of wood stray limb of a tempest torn treo, a roatipa YiArcA rtr n nnralpaa flriVPl- fin V of these might burl us from our sublu nary existenoe with the speed ot Jthought. t . i " 'Tis a perfect tempest," said the lady, as I withdrew my head from the window. " Uow I love a sudden storm There is something so grand among the winds when fuirly loose among the hills' I never encountered a light liko this, but Ryrou's magnificent description of a thunder storm in tho Jura immcdi ately recurs to my mind. 15ut are we ou the mountain yet!" " Ye, we have begun the ascent." " It is said to be dangerous ? " " Ry no means," 1 replied, in as easy a tone as I could assume. " I only wifh it was daylight, that we might enjoy the mountain scenery. Hut Jesu Marie 1 what is that ? " And 8he covered her eyes from the glare ot a sheet of lightning that illu. initiated the rugged mountain with btil. liant intensity. Peal after peal of crash ing thunder instantly succeeded ; there was a very heavy volume of rain coming down at each thunderburst, and with the deep moaning of an animal, as if in dreadful agony, breaking upon my cars, I found that the coach had come to a dead halt. Louise, my beautiful fellow.travelcr, became as pale as ashes. She fixed her searching eyes on mine with a look of anxious dread, and turning to her fath er, hurriedly remarked : " We arc on tho mountain 1 " " I reckon so," was the unconcerned reply. With instant activity, I put my head through the window, and called to the driver, but the only answer was the heavy moaning of an agonized animal borne past me by the swift wings of the tempest. I seized the handle of the door and strained at it in vain ; it would not yield a jot. At that instant I felt a cold hand on mincj and heard Louise's voice faintly articulating in my car the appalling words : " Tho coach in being moved back, irds ! " God iu Ileavcu ! never shall I forget the fierce agony with which I tugged at the coach door, and c;illed on tho dri. ver in tones that riva'led tho force of the blast, while the dreadful couviction was burning in my brain that the coach was being moved slowly backwards. What followed was ot such swift oc currence that it seems to rue like a dream. I rushed against tho door with all my force, but it mocked my utmost efforts. One side of our vehicle was sensibly go ing down, down. The moaning of the agonized animal became deeper, and I knew from the desperate plunges against his traces, that it was one of our horses. Crash upon crash a heavy thunder rol led over the mountain, and vivid sheets of lightning played around our devoted carriage, as if iu glee at our misery. By this light I could see for a moment only a moment the old plauter stand ing erect, with hi hands on his son and daughter, his eyes raised to heaven, and his lips moving like one in prayer. I could see Louise turn her ashy cheeks and superb eyes toward me, as if im ploring my protection ; and I could see the bold glances of tho young boy flash ing indignaut defiance at the descending carriage, the war of elements, and the awful danger that awaited him. There was a roll of thunder, a desperate plunge as if of au auimal in the last throes of dissolution, a harsh grating jar, a sharp piercing scream of mortal terror, and had but time to clasp Louise firmly with one hand round the waist and seize tho leather fastenings attached to the coach roof with the other, when we were pre cinitated over tho precipice. can distinctly recollect preserving conscioubness, for a few seconds of time, how rapidly my breath was being ex hausted ; but of that tremendous de. scent I soon lost all further individual knowledge by a concussion so violent that I was instautly deprived of seuse and motion. On an humblo couch, in an humble room of a small country house, I next opened my eyes in this world of light and shade, ul joy and sorrow, of mirth and madness j gentle hands smoothed my pillow, geutlo loet glided across mj ohambtr, and a gentle voice hushed for a time all my .questionings. I was kindly tended by a lair young girl about sixteen, who refused for several days to hold any intercourse with me. At length, one morning, finding myself suf, fioiei.tly recovered to sit up, I insisted ou learning the result of the accident. " You wero discovered," he said, " sitting on a ledge of rock, amidst the branches of a shattered tree, clinging to a part of tho roof of your broken coach with one hand to the insensible form of a lady with the other." " And the lady ? " I gasped, scanning the girl's face, with an earnestness that caused her to draw back and blush. " She was saved, sir, by the same means that saved you the friendly tree." "And her father and brother?" I impatiently demanded. " Were both found crushed to pieces ; at the bottom of the precipice, a great way below the place where my father and Uncle Joe got you and the lady. Wo hurried their bodies in one grave close by the clover-patch down in our meadow ground." "Poor Louise 1 poor orphan ! Qod pity you !" I muttered in broken tones, utterly unconscious that I had a lis tener. " God pity her indeed, sir," said the young girl, with a gush of heartfelt sym pathy. " Would you like to see her ? " she added. " Take me to her," I replied. I found the orphan bathod in bitter tears, by tho grave of her buried kin. dred. She received me with sorrowful sweetness of manner. I will not detain your attention detailing the efforts I made to win her form her grict, but briefly ac. quaint you that I at least succeeded in inducing her to leave her forlorn home in the South ; and that twelve months after the dreadful occurrence which I have related, we stood at the alter to. gether as man and wife. She still lives to bless my love with her smiles, and my children with her' goods precepts ; but on tho anniversary of that terrible night secludes herself in her room, and devotes the hours of darkness to solitary prayer. " As for me," added tho traveler, whiles faint flush tinged hi3 noble brow at the avowal, " as for me, that accident has made a physical coward ot me, at the sisrht of a mountain precipice." Hut the driver," urged our lady passenger, who had attended to tho re cital of tho story with much attention ; what became of the driver ? or did you ever learn the reason of him deserting his post ? " " His body was found on the road, within a few yaids of the spot where the coach went on. He had been struck dead by the same flash of lightning that blinded tho restive horse," A son of John W. Forney, negro suf. frage candidate for United States Sena. tor. a captain in tho 14th U. S. Infantry, was recently found guilty by court mar tial in San Francisco of disobedience of orders and conduct unbecoming an offi cer and a gentleman. The commanding general has approved the sentence There is another of Forney's sons in the military service; but, as it happens, neither of them ever were fortunate in getting to the front or into aotive ser vice in the field. But, in this they were not an exception to the sons oi several of the present disunion leaders of the RumpCongresa and party. Brigham Young's eldest son is named " Joe." ne has traveled in Eu. rope, smokes, chews, gets drunk, swears, preaches the gospel, has three wives whom he whips and otherwise shame fully abuses, and is a good Mormon and iB full fellowship of the church. " You young rascal," said the old gentleman to the rash little boy in the street, " if that cab hid run over you where would you have been now ? " and the boy answered, " Up behind, a takin of his number ! " They are fond of titles in the east, Among his other high-sounding titles the King of Ave has that of " Lord of Twenty-Four Umbrellas." This looks as though he had prepared for a long reign ! The bursting of the Petroleum bank of Titusville bas settled the ques tion" V ill petroleum explodo f A man who got drunk at an eleo, tion said it was owing to his efforts to put down " party spirit. &.Read this paper with em. msTon v of ELK COUNTY By a North western Pennsylvania!. EARLY 6ETTLFMENT OF VI 111 WAV ANI VICINITY COMINUF.P. It has been before observed that 1833 was a marked era in Rid" way history by the commencement of the Wilcox settlement, the rwthlintr of the ills aud the conduction of the ipee by Hughes & Uickiuson at Hi lgway. In that day such an enterprise mijht be regarded a a large one, and so it wrts ; tf incur so great an expense at disrng so large and long a lace for water 'OW er was regarded by many (millwiights a particular) as a useless pnj"et " Place Viiur rriils ufoii tc bank of the stream and nut tx.i'-nd five or six tin;ii sand for a rav? ' but. xi't'i-k'tnv hni demonstrated lis bt'--crs. Jam- ! Gillis, among his cnturpri.ses, hud (ui't a saw-mill in 1824 at the "Windfall," a mile aud a quarter above the present village. Tho first or second ice flood produced a gorge, and tho whole tiling was cut out and carried away in a trinkling, and he was opposed to fur. tber trial of that sort. We have before spoko of the health- fulness of the couutry. Although set. tlcmcnt commenced at Montmorency in 1822 aud at Ridgway in 1825 the im. provements requiring a largo number ol hired laborers, in addition to tho resi. dents-yet not a single death oct urreA during that whole period of tim-' to 193311 years"! Whilst grubbing tor the race, one of the workmen, a stranger from Armstrong county, was killed by the falliug of a tree. There were chil dren at tho funeral who were large and capable of discernment, who had never seen a corpse, nor witnessed the burial of tho dead. As no burial place had ever been laid off nor selected, the re mains were interred upon tho bank of the race within tho boundaries of its survey, at what was called tho " swamp section." It may be safely avored that such an exemption from death for so long a period, aud among so many dan gers and exposures, aud by so many persons, has no parallel I in western set tlements, or even in the proverbially healthy climate of northwestern Penn sylvania. In a period of six months thereafter, there were four deaths Mis Browu, Mr. Webb, Emily Gallagher and Julia Wilraarth. The fir.t men tioned came iu from the Wilcox settle ment for e temporary sojaurn ; the sec otid was a man in the last stage of con sumption, who was traveling through the country, and was there intercepted by tbo fell destroyor; the two last were children of residents. There were no other deaths till about the year 1810-41 . Up to this latter period no burial p'aoe had been secured by title; Mr. llidg had positively declined any conveyance for that purpose, and there wcra at that time incumbrances upon ull other cligi ble locations ; the difficulty existing hud become painful, and all admitted that there wus a sad neglect. A schoolhouse had been erected by private subscrip tion up.m land (located by Mr. Ay! worth, which nas transferred into the pablio school system of 183G, becoming tho property of the district. This build, ing stands upon tho " Pike," just above the residence of the late Caleb Dill, Ksq. The increasing population soon made it apparent that a more commodious build ing would bo required with more room ; an cxohi'iigo of pup-rty was effected between the then owuers of the present site of school and burial ground and the directors of the school district. Tho present burial ground was deeded to the township of Bidgway, and the Echool ground to the directors of Common Schools for the purposes therein men. tioned. As before observed, the unde. tctmined location of a burial place was a matter of painful and enibarassing discussion among the permanent citizens for the many years it3 requirements had lain dormant. The rites of burial of the dead is of a sacred character among all nations, and a neglect to discharge its duties places a community outside th pale of ohristianity and civilization ;- the citizens felt it, and perhaps they wero justifiable in their censure of Mr. Bidgway, who at that period held by murttrnge or oth-r tenure upon every pripi-r fite for the purpose, and it was not until thes-e impediments were re moved that, tho present location was fix ed. It is consul itary to the living, that although ''ofilit thou art, and unto dust thou thalt iturn," we can view without fVar of interruption rr removal the ground under which their beloved dead pre mnvldcring and returning to their untiV1 element. Tho marblo me mcnt'i, the nimplc paling, tho myrtle, the blooming rose, or the willow with with its streaming branches like m iiirnrrs toars, are objects saered to our eyes, ns we cherish affectionately the remembrances of this dead. But the writer is constantly digress inn, in ui-M-u"zing, but he has this ex ew. f, h-. :..vcd ut first that no order v. ul'1 l-jVs?rved, nor design to con iixc I '-entM ; the simple facts, or ideas iig;'-'" li'-eir conclusions, as it were, re nr. -jii.'eunusly jotted down, and the reader veiist act a part like the mechan ic when tho frame-work or the different parts ot machinery lie scattered about put them t i-eilier, vrhetlier their ap pearance or utility is congenial to their views or not. Within eighteen months after Hughes if; Dickinson broke ground in the crec. tion of their mills they wcic manufac turing boards, and thereafter commenc ed a more regular system of raAing and running lumber out of the Clarion from Ridjrway than previously. The saw mill ct'lhios Gillis had manufactured sufTi-ieot boards to test the capabilities ami lower of the staeatu. They wero making some boards on Little Toby, out of which a " run " within two years was was considered a quick trip. There was some three or four individuals in and about ridgway who had been down Toby to Pittsburgh, and they were re. garded as eminent pilots. Some funds had been raised by subscription to blast out somo of tho most dangerous and prominent rock?; and the " Duke" had spent two summers in drilling and burning powder, and ho lni-rht bo said to have a good knowledge of all the dangers of tho navigation thQ3 Henry Karns was among the first and best pi lots ; then there were Thomas Barbour and Joab Dobbin. Now Joab was for a year or two regarded as the oracle by which every rait was started on its downward voyage. When the rains fell or the spring thaws commenced, and tho turbid vatcrs gave indieition of a " flood " oars were hung, cables affixel, bread and beans baked all on tip toe for a start, awaiting the pilot. Joab would emerge from his morning nap, and sally out from his dwelling which stood near the mouth of Elk creek take look, first at the water, and then east his eye along the valley of Elk creek, and uuh'.ss the waters were high enough to submerge the roots and part of the trunk of the largo elm tree just oppo. site the mouth of Elk creek, and the fog shooting upwai ds from along its eastern course no woodchuck on Can dlemas day, emerging from his burrow an 1 seeintr hii shadow, scampering back tj his hole to abide a six week's volitio nal, cc- of c i'd weather was more certain ol hi instinct, than Joab Dobbin to retiv.it to his house and quietly peg aw-y ni his boots and shoes, if these (to him) evidences of a flood did not ap pear. A few experiments in running exploded this theory, and it was soon discerned that this mark, for a rafting flood, was at least two feet too high for all purposes of safe navigation. The rafting and running of lumber out of the Clarion twenty-five years ago and tho year 1860 were vastly unlike at the present period calculations must be made for every fourth raft being stove , and a good bit lost j there was neccssa. rily a good deal of " gigging back " (as Jr-ab would call it), in consequence of low water, or being picked up by some forgotten rock, or unskillful inexper ienced steering. There were no roads or guides for the returning raf tmcn save the stresm itself or the boundaries of the " windfall," which ofton"times en. tioed the weary traveler within where the eddying blast had caused a bay or estuary along its line, soon to entangle iU victim among the logs and brambles, a fatigucing rctraccmcnt of steps adding to iU Taxations and hardships. Other tmbarassnicnts in the way of "Entertainment" along the livcrwero a source of much discomfort. Thero were but few houses along the margin of the stream, and it was sometimes dif. Ccu't " to make " those stopping places for a shelter. Soon, however, raftmen came up from Armstrong county, who had acquaintances along the river, and tho well known insignia, a red "warn est," generally insured a reception which would otherwise bo denied to what was then denominated a " Yan kee frcm the Giliis settlement." A short period sufficed to dispel theso fears, and tho Yankee's mor.ey ceased to burn in their pockets. Tho concom itants of these Ridgwayites, with their legends of tpooka and tcitchts eoou evaporated, and in a few years ample accommodations were provided p.nd raftmen were mads comfortable. There aro many yet who have had business upon the Clnion waieij who can attest to these rcmitiisciciices. JONATHAN COLEGROVE. This gentleman so of;cn mentioned in these chapters : though residing iu Me Kean county, is intimately connected with this vicinity; coming there as ear ly as the year 1827 was born in Nor. wich, Chenango ciiunty, N. Y. IIi3 commcntfed improving a farm in tho town of Norwich, iu tho valley of I'ota. toe creek. He was a surveyor and as such surveyed nearly all the lands in that section, and particularly for Mr. Ridgway both in McKean and Jefferson, (now Elk). Uo was iu tact the confi. dential ngent, in all matters relating to his lands, selling, receiving paymout, executing deeds &c, continuing his ser. vices to the surviving heir, John Ridg way, Esq , now resiling in Paris, until age and love of quiet, admonished him tosurvcudi.r the trust to his sou William Colegrove, E.-q., who is now the urbane and popular agent in his stead. As a citizen, Mr. Colegrove has always taken an active and prominent part in all con cerns of a public character within a large district of coucrry ; possessed of a strong constitution and iuured to cxer. cifc, he was proverbially a surveyor who made hard work for his assistants. Axe and chain men must travel fast to keep up with tho compass. It made no dif ference whether be was running line.i by the mile or day. So familiar had ho become in tracing tho old surveys of 1790, that tho least vestige of a scar upon a tree that iudicated a survey mark, was sure to bo recognized. One who had often cavried the axe for him, declared he i' would as leave follow a Rear through tho woods, as follow Mr. Cole: rovc." lie was a member of tho Pennsylvania Legislature for the year 1828, during the Governorship of A. Shultz and representing the then dis. trict of Lycoming, Tioga, Potter and McKean. To reach the scat of govern ment he went via Bcllfotite on horseback thence by stage. He has filled other various ofdees in his county; rigid and indefatigable in the discharge of every duty, he was liberal iu its exorcise. As a manager and coadjutor in the con struction of the Miiesburgh and Smcth port turnpike road. No one iu his de. partment spent more of his time, nor more prompt on all occasions to forward the cntcrprie. The difficulties attend ing that important work has been men tioned, much of its success may bo attri buted to Jonathan Colegrove. During the mauy years of application to tho Legislature for the erection of Elk county, out of McKean, Jefferson and Clearfield ; Mr. Colegrove, although" a slice was to bo cut off his county, was liberally active iu its favor, from pura publio regard aud its utility and inter, est to this section of country. Mr. Colegrove is now in the " sere and yel low leaf " being 81 years of age and must, as ull iciil soon do, be gathered to his fathers Ic&ving a large family aud an unblemibhcd reputation their best inheritance. to be conttsved. Urownlow is sending insulting dis patches with referenoe to the President. .Indrew Johnson can survive his blame, but praise from such a quarter would bo fatal. . WVOTE FOR CLYMER. !
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