Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-09-01


sumo they are not considered as phibiously
sociable as our sex-a new distinction, to me,
but, is it not corroborated by the fact that la
dies are often addressed in poetry as "birds,
never as fish ?" II you recollect. it is pro-
verbally my duck of husband" but, as
pruverbiaIly, my dove ofa wife" Ola man,
we say, 'lat rs porpoisc"-of womHn,
plump as partridge" 1observe, too, by
reference to geological works, that the am
phibious are designated as "thc more cool
buoded animals, who, from slower circula-
tion, can remain longer under water"-a spe-
cifc difference, between, men, las natural
walruses and seals,l and women las the warm
cr-hearted doves and humming- -birds,) which
sufficiently accounts for the "accommoda-
tions" at Berkely Springs. twill perhaps he
more generally satisfactory, however, las well
as courteous to the kind landlord who show
ed me tie prcmises,l If | copy here the prin-
ted circular which more fully enumerates the
Conveniences -
"Berk@y Springs Firginia-This watering
place is situated in Morgan county, Virginia,
two and a half miles from Sir Johns Station,
ON the Baltimore and OIiy Railroad, one
hundred and thirty miles west of Baltimore,
and two hundred and fifty miles east OF
Wheeling Virginia. From the first of June
until the first of October, visitors arriving on
the trains will find good coaches to convey
them to the Springs.
This is the only southern watering place
which is connected with all the principal ci-
ties in the United States, by uninterrupted
lines Of railroads and steamboats,, and which,
situated in q nigh and healthy mountain dis
trict, is only five hours distant from Balti-
more, six from Washington. and ten from
Wheeling the trains passing three times dai-
ly. There is also Geographic communicate
| on from Sir Johns with all the principal ci-
ties east and west. The improvements are
extensive and elegant. The baths, including
every variety, spout, shower, plunge and
swimming baths, are unriyalled. The GEN
rLEMENs Pool is sixty feet long, and con-
tains fifty thousand gallons.
| The hotel will accommodate five hundred
| persons, and is fitted up with every attention
to substantial comfort, is lighted with gas,
and is furnished with hair and spring mat
trases. About one half of the rooms are ar
ranged in suits Of two, three, and four pieces
ex prGssly for the convenience of families.
AS remedial agent, the water has main
tained a high reputation for more than CEN
tury. Its natural temperature is seventy -four
degrees Fahrenheit, and long experience has
tested its efficacy IN many disorders. In rheu-
matism the bath is considered specific, and
persons suffering from long residence in
warm, low, and damp climates, will general
y find it a complete restorative.
Southern gentlemen wishing to spend the
summer in the mountains with their families,
will find at Berkeley every facility fer health
and pleasure that art and nature can afford
PisSing from the west to the east, persons
may see the place by lying over few hours
at Sir Johns.
Those wishing to secure rooms early can
do 50 by addressing
JOHN STRoTHER,
Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, Va"
\ gay party Of ladies were assembled in the
drawing-roon after tea-ta tempting music
Of old Virginia names, in the Judges tanta-
zing report, after vcnturirg in)-but most of
us were too dusty for the dress end Of the por-
tico, to say nothing Of the exhausted end of
long day Of mergment in a rail-car. | was
very much interested, myself, in taking
look ut the pictures on the walls Of vacant
parlor. They were the early sketches of the
Strothcr 50 well known to Art tour landlords
gifted son. and mostly of humorous subjects,
all live with the boys full grown comic
imagination, which the mans skilliul hand
has since IS successfully overtalen. Some
of these would cngravc admirably, drawn
from, just as they are.
| sat over my goodnight glass of ale, on
the portico, and unused upon the historic
hauntings of The place--the summer rurali-
zings, within that close horizon of hills, Of the
Fairfaxes and Westinghouse regretted
exceedingly that our early departure, the
next morning, would not give time for the
looking up Of their doubtless wel-known
cottages and once familiar localities. What
would George" the young surveyor, have
thought, if, in his fatigue marches" across
those wild mountains, it had been whispered
to him, by any provoking spirit of the spot
that, in fifty years after his death, guests
would becoming to Berkeley Spring by ten
engines, at thirty miles an
Eour--to take room3 which had been be-
spoken by electricity, in Il minutes and half,
from Richmond or Baltimore. Let us hope
that great soul can lool, back over the gravo
as they could once look forward beyond it.
| cannot believe that the immortal Washing
,on is not still interested in the land of which
he was "the Father" and that he has not
looked down, upon its last half century of
with wonder at Gods Providence
and care
But, (hc mind travelling comparatively
slow,l please telegraph your attention west
ward for hundred miles, to the other "wa-
terins place on the Baltimore and Ohio
OAKLAND AND THE GLADEs.
The backbone Of the Alleghanies is a
wild and unfcnccd level prairie, thirty miles
broad, called "The Glades." At this ridge
summit, two thousand six hundred feet above
the level of the SEAL the streams hesitate and
divdc--of the twin drops that here part, ono
seeking the Gulf of Mexico by the Ohio and
Mississippi, the other seeking the Atlantic BY
the Potomac and Chesapeake.
1t is to mount this backbone by railway
that the train is peace-mealed, more power
full engines put on, and, for seventeen miles,
the ascent Of one hundred and sixteen feet to
to the mile is maGe-that incredible Yankee
achegement, which the unbeiieving English
engineer (as mentioned III my previous let
tori came across tEc Atlantic to make stlro