The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-02-12
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THE JITNIATA. 49,.

Perhaps there are few rivers in the
New World that figure more conspicuous,
| ly in history AID in song than ''Thc blue
Juniata!" There is scarcely a spot
along its whole course from its source
near Holiday burgh, Pa, till it en,pties
itself into the Susquehanna that does not
live on some page of history. Indeed
"the valley Of the Juniata' has its own
his.ory-writtcn by w. J. Jones, Esq,
Of Hollidaysbury
The scenery is surprisingly romantic
grandly and beautifully picture que
Here you see towering mountain or o'er-
arching rocks threatening destruction to
| the passer-by, but which for ages have
stood ''frm as the beaten anvil to the
stroke There some lovely valley
beautifully diversified with hill and dale
bursts upon your astonishcd vision
and which spreads into the "dim dim
distance until it is lost in the far-otf
haze Here some wild, mountain tor
rent comes leaping, foaming, roaring,
cataract-likc over rocks aud beneath fallen
trees and reminds you of the Natives
Mia gar -ah--and on little farther your
heart is made glad by the laughing. joy
Gus, skipping rivulet, frolicking as it
| pursues its tortuous course and with the
| Indian you again exclaim "Min-c lla-ha. "
! The scenery is not one of monotony-
not such as tires you, but ever and anon
! new pictures present themselves aud
awake in you ever increasing int rest.
have not time nor space here to no,
tiec the many natural wonders that have
| elected SO much attention such as The
! Chimney Rocks, ""The Flowing Spring, -
| "Iligh Rock" Standing Stone" &c.---
There is one locality however of which |
vii! indulge p ssiug notice. | mean
I "Stcny Bate" two miles below vii.
liamsburc on the banks of the Juniata
and in sight of Cove Forge" 1t is u
! rocky cminencc and has long been used
as IA cemetery for Northumberland as
have from time to time been found in the
raging canawl" Many's the dolcful
sound and hob goblin sight that has been
! heard and seen there, and many's the tale
! of fear tha. has been told and listened to,
no, merely by boys but by stern and har-
dy men with chin so rough and razora-
ble' In it too as in other such places
are some quaint cpitaphs | will just
copy, as a specimen, one which was CON-
posed by the Bard -css of "The Milr'
(not Milford BarJ) on the death of a
young man who was picked up at the
CROOKED Bend
| ''ender this stony hill
Lies the bones Of Edward Mills,
who was drowned at the Crooked Bend
Aud buried by the rownshir Men,"
The soil along the Juniata is limestone
and always yields to the indus'r'oas farm
er an abundant harvest Almost every
firm tUl,as an untailiug supply of the
best running water Tie Eastern Di-
vision of the Pennsylvania Canal cx-
tends a'onrrts entire length aud affords
a.Ieads a-eaas for expor,ase The "pa.
II, r. Go" have purchased the canal of
the Stasc aud are doirg their best to
make il a paying institution. Many Of
the finest fishes abound in its waters ~
the salmon, pike, trout, different species
of suckers, e-ls and catfish, and afford the
whole year round Il boun,i'ul supply Of
fresh fish. Owing to the many noun
tains and valleys through which the Ju-
uiata flows il is often visited with foods,
some Of which as ''the Pumpkin Flood"
and ''the food of ~ were frightful aud
destructive to life aud property.
Travelling in the Packet Boats
which few years ago afforded such a
lnxury has how given place to the more
swiftly, moving cars. Nor do you now
when going East by railroad strike the
.Junia.a until at Petersburgh and conse
guently you miss the most romantic and
beautiful portions-what you do see toe
is unsatisfactory and conveys very in
adequate idea Of its real beauty, because
of the speed with which you are borne
along. But did say the "luxury" Of trav.
cling in packet boats :" Yes; it ras {
luxury then. There was no incessan,
rattle of revolving whcels--no horrid
scrceching Of breakers--no continued
jarring-no binding dust or suffocatin.
smoke no terrific whistle of the loco
motive rudely awakening you from you,
already too unsa,isfying slumbcrs-n,
conductors demanding you to "shov
your tickets" every few moments. Bu
on, on were you borne smoothly, quietly
with nothing to disturb your thoughts o
slumbers but an occasional dump
which "s,irred up your pure mind b,
may of remembrance" that you were "il
lock- or if On deck, the warning or,
''low bridge" which noicas soleas yo'
were bound to make obeisance to with a
, much dispatch rs did ever Swiss Il
Ges. lcr's cap.
How pleasant on the "dewy eye' o
''stil!y night" to set on deck and hol
converse with the stars above or nature
wilds around you--to listen to the patter
ing Of the horses faet on the "tow path
to the hooting of the owl--to tn
plashinr Of some aquatic or seni-aquati
inhabitant--to the whistle or "boatman'
song" Of the hsfa slecp,lial fearful boa
driver eazo upun the pRcid waters a
they wcre>rracefuiIy parted by the pro'
OF the boat or peer into those dcopl
shdaed gIens And how naturally an
almost impcrceptibly the mind wander
back to days "'long asone' when the Ii
dian claimed all his own
wild rovcd an Indian girl
Bright Alfareta,
Where sweeps the waters Of