Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-08-25

ments. The two centre houses are frame,
each largo enough tn make fair-sized Ho-
tel, while the third 10 a very large new and
splendid cdi6ce on tine villa style Of architec-
ture These four are connected by porches,
and stand "all in row" along tho base Of
mountain.
In front'oi tho first building Tho Hotel
proper), are graveled walks and carriage
drives, and fountain encirced by grass
plots. whose water, falling, trickles down
| ward over rock work into the basin below.
Running parallel with the mountain against
which tho previously described buildings
stand, is another Of equal height and beau
IT, md between these two lies The Valley
of the Blest,' with lts cool brcc2es and Efe-
giving waters.
A space As level as ballroom floor, D
| collection rf Springs go entirely different in
their nature and effect gathered together In
| a small compass, md all reached with easr.
Gae scenery, and healthfu brazing air--all
show that Dame Nature did her part toward
making Bedford resting-place for the wea-
| ~ ones Of earth.
| The most pleasant time at which 10 view
the Springs establishment, ns n whole, is.
| from lttlo before six, P. NJ, far into the
night. Go ont into the grove and prop your
self in an arm chair against one Of its trees
The Negro band plays til the supper lcll
rings--thcn CONG spirits in white crinolne
ard black, blue crinoline and grey, from all
parts, sailing gaiiy along the porcbes. And
again, ladies and gentlemen return slowly
from the various Springs, from the Ten-Pin
Alley, Billiard Saloon, Paths, and the Archie
ry Grounds (kept by one James Prince, a
cunning Briton, who only charges l2l cents
for flight Of arrows), all pursuing 1.-The e.
ven tenor Of their way to tie tea-room.
BY this time the lamps arc lit in front Of
the Hotel and porches, and thu long-extend-
ed line Of lights, with mountain for back
ground, glmmer through the trees Of the
grove.
Tea-tim past, tho old mon gather on the
piazza and discuss politics, religion and the
crops--some of the ladies, seating themselves
on the sofas and lounges, are busily engaged
in doing nothing with needles and white
worsted tllread-others. with their attendant
cavaliers cross over to where the faint light,
like star at the mountains foot. marks the
locality Of the celebrated Bedford Mineral
Water Spring-while still others flash swift
ly by il their carriages, on their way for a
drive towards the town Of Bedford.
While sitting contcptcdly with the leaves
rustling and shimmcrlng in The moonlight O.
verhead--tho busy hum of conversation, the
pratt'e Of children, the chattering and laugh
ing Of strolling groups, the Checking sound
from the neighhoring saloon where Young
America drives "ivory balls across n velvet
evel'--all, mingling, reach your ear. FL
Hally, the ballroom banl strikes up--bnt
want Of space fjrhids me from describing the
dancers" &c, with its attendant glory
However, who, while gazing on such scene,
can forget the words Of De Quincy?
" q the reader may comprehend
if he should rot happen expcrmcntally to
have felt, that a spectacle of Young men and
women fowing through the muzcs of nm utri-
cate dance, under full volume Of music,
taken with all the ciryumstantal adjuHct' OF
su h scene in rich mems halls, the blaze OF
lights and jewels, the life, the motion, the
sea-likc undulation of heads, the interweav-
ing Of the figures, the GnahWkiosis, or scl-rt =
volvng, both of the dance aud the music
ucver-ending, still beginning, and tie con-
tiuual regeneration OF order from system
Of motions which srem forever to approach
the very brink Of confusion; that such q
Sp, c'acle, with such circumstances, may hap
pen 10 nc CHpabIG OF cA'llIlS anu SUNLi'iIIlIiS
the very grandest emotions Of phi'osnpljc
melancholy to which the human spirit is
open"
Suffice it for me to say that at midnight
the ball is flushed, the ladies' hover around
the Reception Room fVr q short time and dis
appear, the young men sauEtsr to the Bar
Room aud imbihe slightly oi the foaming
inlop and amber-tintel cobler. then watch
ing their white cigar smoke wreath slowly
upward, finally stroll to their apartments
hardly casting a thought on another day %
time that's dead Amt! now, to the care-worr
man of business, aud his often much more
care-worn wife, the presiding genius, Hygcia
calls
"Come forth. 0 ye children Of gladness, come J!
Away from the dwellings Of c,re-worn mon,
The ,edters are sparkling in grote and glen
Away from the chamber and sullen hearth,
The Dung leaves are dancing in breezy mirth
Their light stems thrill 10 the will-woo,
strains,
And youth is abroad in my green domains