Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-02-21


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Correspondence of the Times.
WESTERN, PENNSYLVANIA,
'7 .. January, 29th 1850.
Mr.. EDITOR, Were you everin Yves.
tern Pennsylvania If so you must have
been delighted with the picturesque and
romantic scenery, every where surroun-
ding you, and struck with admiration
at the neat little villages, and the rustic
cottages Of the enterprizing farmer,
scattered in rich, yet strange profusion,
here and there, over hill and dale
How ones heart swells with veneration,
as he scans those grand old hills frown.
ing muje s,ically above him, each one of
which recalls TO recollection, the par.
,iculars Of some remarkable occurrence,
which he has often heard related in the
licensed jargon Of that venered Patri-
arch Fa,her--"the Oldest nhaJitant."
He sees The same laughing rll leap
ing down the mountain side, that the
lurking Savage saw century ago, the
same insurmountable crags ofrock pro-
truding their ample fronts, that was
once his dreaded ambuscade. .....
But how mutable is the apparel of
nature. The very air he brealhes tells
oftime gone by, and melancholy SER
entity spreads gloom over the whole
But the lover ofmodern civilization, in.
experienced in the pleasures of antique
rusticity, boasts fairer season, and a
happier time in the present enlightened
age. To him, the plough-boy's merry
song is sweeler than the savage yell,
fertile fields more pleasing than the In.
dian's hunting grounds, and those
cultivated hill tops, over which immense
flocks of sheep now wander, holier than
when covered by the deep forest shade,
and sacred 10 the silence of unciyilized
life. ... rarr r,... ...
Two hours ride in a western direction
from Pittsburg brings YOU to Washing
ton County, which is most beautiful
highly cultivated and fertile section oi
the country. Its beauty consists, moi
in barren, unbroken plains, such as
characterize the far west, nor in the
never-f fading pine forests that skirt the
Sea coast, but in that pleasing variety
of undulatoty scenery TO portray which
the poetic genius of every age has beer
employed, and which painters have sc
unsuccessfuly striven to delineate. Bu
its chief recommendation consists in it
its resources Of wealth. '
Its deposits of Coal are unsurpassed
by any in the known world, in quantity
and quality, whilst the abundance Of
iron ore mingles with it, serves to prove
the Providence of the creator, in throw
ing the two together, thus enhancing
the value of both. Its peculiar adaptiol
to the raising of wool,i also a theme o
universal interest, enlisting the atten
ton Of the entsrprising speculator al
well as that of the thriving wool-grow
! er himself. Htt'.
Noble streams intersect every por
lion Of the country, which afford nu
merous facilities for the application O
, mater-p power machinery. and becom
} a source of incalculabie advantage T.
any community. The combination o
0 these renders Washington one oftb
. most enlerprising counties in the State
5 and must ever make it grand medium
of much wealth, and nucleus of grea
: affluence. sH'agT ara.1
A It's literary advantages are of tn
5 best description, and in the general dit
fusion Of knowledge, rivals yankeedor
itself. Jefferson College, situated {
CsnonsbuIg, which isihc oldes, lns,ilt
,;op &C Iearpinn N west of tho Iiarbe Ia