The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-25
EASTERN CORREsPONDENCE.
DELAWARE WATER GAP, Penn.)
August IT. 1855.

earth, sit down to break silence which
has been. kept up much longer than in
tended when last addressed you. .r.
The reason of this has not been lack of
pleasant and awakening things to write
about In no other two weeks of my sum-
mer jauntings, have SO many interesting
scenes and objects come before my notice A
short visit TO CT esnut Hills which oft.
selfis beautiful place, and being rapidly
covered with cottages and villas by the
wealthy citizens of the Quaker City-led me
through Germantown and over the very spot
where the battle was fought. "Here," id
my friend who accompanied me, pointing out
the place where the contest was hottest,
"here is the place where the sod was wet
with the blood of those who fought the holy
battles of our Freedom" need not say
that my heart glowei with W rmer putri-
otism, and with an earnest desire that the
purchase of this blood, might be transmitted
unsullied to the latest generations. ASA.
| Twice likewise have / passed over the
ground where was fought the battle of Tren-
ton; crossing the creek, upon the banks of
which Washington left his delusive camp
( fires burning, by which means the British
were kept soundly asleep until the booming
of our cannoa, at Princeton, aroused them
to the terrible knowledge, that the game
which they supposed was in their power was
making havock their best troops.
| Al 4, Of
the Delaware," the village of Crosswicks,
where John Elliot cached the gospel to
the Indians, and where he translated the BIZ
bic into ter language. This Bible of Ell
litt It's, was the first in any language pFihted
on the Western Con inent. This language
is now in the NEST emphatic sense dead
one, and he races speaking il are also dead.
The powerful Delaware and Iriquois are all
gone. The words of the melancholy Logan
There runs not a drop of my blood in any
man VEINS have been realized in the last
Iriquois. "The pillow is on his hunting
-ound, the white mans axe rings through
his woods"
But Elliot's labo-s were not thrown away.
They to d then-they are telling now, in
their influence upon our common chrstiahi-
ty, and if no true Amer can can stand upon
the spot where freedoms blood was shed
without feeling holy glow of patriotism;
so no tire christian can tread the spot where
the Apostle Elliottoilled and preached, with
out feeling deep er thrill of devot on to the
; gospel, to dffuse which he sacrificed his life
! After returning to Philadelphia, where
met OUR friend C.. M. Griffith, and spent the
Sabbath and Monday-I made my way up
here to taste the pure air o: these hills and
glorious mountains.
"The Gap" is a Tremendous gorge in The
mountains, which tower to the altitude o.
some fourteen or fifteen hundred feet, ant
through which the waters OF lie Delaware
pass. 1t ID some eighty miles from Phiadei
: phia, and perhaps, an equal distance from
! New York, and for many summer refugees
is quite resort.
D The travel from P. for almost the entire
} distance is along the bank of the rive. TX
Easton there is Railroad. The rotlte |.
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on one side and the Delaware and Lehigl
: Canal on the other, and all of them to
: great extent hemmed in by hills and rocks
: Easton is finely located at the juction o
the Lehigh and Delaware rivers. It's popu
lation is about twelve thousand. This is til,
e bone of Governor Reeder, whose arrival il
: looked for with much interest Here also i
: located Lafayette College, perched up upoI
tremendously high and steep hill, putting
you painfully ia mind Of GLOW hard it is t.
climb the steep, where Fame's proud temple
. shines affair."" and, more painfully, Of how ev
cry students legs must ache before be cal
: take his degree. The man who heated thi
. College was regarded as an eminenlly prac
teal man, and, doubtless, in his own estima
= ton, he had no. one jot of the ro1 antic il
his composition, and yet nothing but tn
most ridiculous romance could ever hav,
suggested such rocks nest of a place 70
, College buildings. 1t is to be hoped that
:. these buildings are ever confagrated, a
% were those of the Allegheny Seminary
. reared upon a like nonsensical inaccessi
= 6ility, that the Trustees will follow the ex
\ ample of their Western brethren, and re
5 build upon a level with our common humani
L ty, thereby saving innumerable aches an
81 Sinking out of recitations.
< may say that the road, from Trenton al
q most TO Enston, passes over country over
It laying substratum of red sand stone, o
= which so many modern buildings in Philadel