The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-24

tn many of the faithful pictures OF Part.
Crayoa, the nam dc plume of DAVID II. STRoTH-
kR, who IS SON Of the Colonel His exqui-
site Virginia sketches published in Harper's
Monthly, and subsequently In book form won
for him national reputation.
The town of Bath is rather shackling though
the grounds of the hotel and the plateau about
the baths are beautiful. A very large and high.
iy fashionable company resort TO this Mace
every year. The only drawbacks to the local
ity that have to complain Of are the insight.
ly ruins OF the old stone court house and the
everlasting "ti-ciickety-click" of a steam en-
gine at q large tannery in the middle of the
town. don't object TO engines--I like to hear
them but this Is screaking and clacking
wooden attachment that is intolerably mono-
tonous.
Cumberland, in Allegheny county. Mary
land, occupies the site of old Fort Cumber-
iand, winch was SO prominent in the history
OF the Indian wars before the Revolution
Braddcck's army paused here while Upon
his arrival he was received with a salute of
seventeen guns. The expedition went in great
style for the day and the peculiar service The
English had horses and wagons in snch num-
hers that Washington was outraged at them
and complained much. The army little dream
Ell OF the reverse in store for it, and the men
thought they were going to drive the Indians
before them without difficulty. The discipline
was rather free and the camp was infested
with Indians. "and especially females who
were described as shaving small hands and
| feet and soft roiees - What temptations indeed
those three things must have been and it is
not surprising that letter should say The
officers are scandalously fond of them !' This
was delusiye prelude to the disaster which
soon followed. The battle was fought on the
9th July, 1855. Braddock died on the 18th and
was buried at the Great Meadows Washington
reading the Episcopal service on the occasion,
the chaplain being wounded. The remains of
the army, under Washington, reached Fort
Cumberland on the Eth.
Cumberland is 1870 miles from Baltimore-is
quaint, old fashioned place, that has not
improved under the railroad regime. 1t
is surrounded by high hills, abounding with
coal. Here the Chesapeake Canal terminates,
and here are the signs of the immense coal
business, both on canal and railway. The
coal mined here is the semi -bituminous. known
| as Cumberland coal, much used for locomo-
| tiyes and steamers. The Baltimore and Ohio
| Railroad does an almost incredible business in
| the transportation of coal from this region
There are branch roads here, running to Frost
burg, and to several mines very actively
worked.
A word abont Oakland. 1t is in the famous
| glades OF Allegheny. These are a range of
tabie-lands, on the top of the main Allegheny
ridge, and, at the point crossed by the railroad
open lands, producing fine grass and eleva-
tons covered with trees. Little streams, skirt
ed with aldars aud cranberries, intersect the
meadows, with here and there patches of marsh.
The grazing is most excellent and numerous
herds of cattle and horses are sent here to
Craze during the summer, where they thrive
unelV. Such is the attitude that grain cannot
be cultivated with success. A German gen.
tleman, who owns some 1900 acres of beauti-
ful grass land, up here, attempted last spring
| TO raise a crop of rye; but after it was headed
and nearly matnred, an untimely frost utterly
destroyedit. Nor can vegetables, except few,
be matured here.
The atmosphere of the glades is delicious
No night passes that one can sleep without a
blanket. This year the frosts have been more
severe than usual, and the trees are almost all
wearing their second suit the first they put on
having been rudely torn Off by Jack-frost.--
The water is the coolest and purest imagina-
bic. The milk and butter are unsurpassable,
so are the mutton and beef
There is small town here. The hotel is
spacious, and is very well kept by Mr.. DAILY.
| 1t affords accommodations for considerable
| company, and has been well patroniZed this
year. The delightful temperature and other
| temptations will be to make Oakland q
place of popular resort in summer. The idea
| is extending that such locality is the place
| for sumptiyes, and that the enervating in
fluences OF warm 1atitudes but hasten the
death of these sufferers. A leading physician
in Baltimore is sending some of his patients
| 10 this place.
For anglers, there is said to be good fishing
five or six miles distant and rare sport some
thirty or so, along the picturesque course of
the Blackwater which so many painters have
been to this year. The bright waters here
were no doubt full of trout in former days !;
but that lovely fish cannot endure the presence
solitude so dear to him, in places as inaccesi-
bic possible. He leads your fancy angler
of the city a real Jordan of road.