Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-08-05

length in the same.
A NIGHT IN THE MoUNrAINs-NATuRAL Gu
RIosIrIEs.-ssDiedrich," the correspondent of
the. Somerset Herald & IFhig, from whose let
ters we made extracts last week, gives the fol-
lowing account of printers fishing adven-
ture, and also of a couple of natural curiosi-
ties near Tyrone:
"Having left Clearfield and reached the top
of the mountain, new passenger entered the
coach. His costume was an otter hat, linen
coat, white vest, drab breeches, low patent
leather shoes, ard white stockings. He car
ried in his hand fishing rod in three pieces;
TO one of which a reel and line were attached.
He soon told his story to very inquisitive iron
smith, who made one of our number. He was
a printer. In connection with two other gen.
tleman, he had gone to the mountains on
fishing expedition. The poor printer fiji st lost
his companions, and then lost himself. The
day was cloudy, and the bewildered printer
wont wandering-at random through the wild
Notwithstanding over the fallen timber,
stumbling over the rocks and roots, and creep
ing through the laurel thickets, until two o.
clock in the evening, when he found stream
and determined to try his luck among the fish
es. He threw out his fly hook, but the wary
trout would not take it, and the indignant prin-
ter refused to CRAFTY them with worm. Night
came on and still the poor printer was bewil-
dcred, and knew not which way to go. Hay-
ing kindIed fire in the midst of the forest,
with rocks and laurel around him, and the dark
branches of the pine and hemlock above, he
sat down with his feet to the fire and his back
against a large pine, to spend the night alone
in the mountain, where the panther still
screams and the wild wolf turks for his prey.
He had no companion but bottle of whiskey,
and even that forsook him before morning.
But that morning opened bright over the dark
mountain, and the lost printer fixed his eyes
upon the rising sun, which brought him safely
out of the wilderness into the land of the liv-
ing. The last saw of him at the City
Hotel in Tyrone, sleeping soundly on lounge,
aud snoring boisterously. What warning to
poor printers who go angling either for the
pan Or for pleasure!
1--WE arrived at Tyrone just five minutes too
late Tor the traIn-.jnst flee minutes TOO late i!
but Just in time to pay the landlord two dol
lars for ACCOMMODATIONS before the arrival of
the,nexttraiu. This way Of making connec-
tions is altogether too common in our country,
and especially SO in the West, where it fre-
quentiy happens that the poor cinigrant and
his family arrive s.just five minutes too late
for the train,'' and are pecuniarily fayed by
-apac;ous landlords. We, however, made up
our minds to bear patiently what we had not
the power to remedy. Part of the time was
occupied in visiting natural curiosity, which
paid us we'll for the delay. A little stream
comes hurrying DOWN the mountain near
rome. 1t drives mill that saws lumber for
the town; it works an hydraulic ram that for
ces water over the hill to the brickyard; and,
having done its WORK, il resumes its course,
foaming aud dashing on, until it strikes against
perpendicular ledge of rocks, and we see il
NO more 1t sinks before our eyes. But after
vending its way through dark snbterranean
channel for nearly a mile, it appears again in
the form Of q large spring in the town OF Ty-
rome. To remove all doubts as to whether ii
he the same stream or not, it carries with 1t a
porfion of saw dust from the mill wheye II
siBks.
ssTherc is another curiosity few miles south
WIT Of Tyrone, which visited a few years
sroin company with = gentleman from AL
foona. This is an ebbing and flowing spring
NE saf down under the branches OF a large
tree 20 witness the ebbing and flowing. The
snrine vas full; but very soon tho water be.
-vsn to siuk and continued sinking lower and
lower. uutii every drop had disappeared. fcrs
soon. however, the water appeared again. and
began to al up about a. fast as 1t sunk, init
the spriug was full
ssThe time required to ebb and dow was
abont thirty minutes. And person wishing te
visit the sprinR wifl 0nd Il about eight miles
east Of Hollidsysbufg, nsea the in'sln s0'''
road. 80
FnE.aHr WAeoss.-At Stockton, Gals wag'
ons are built to run between that place and the
mines. the iron work Of which - OF the pes'