Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-26
Pennsylvania CORRESPONDENCE.
PLUMER YenangO Co., Pa,
Sept. 18th, 1860.

PLUMER fenango 20, Pa,
Sept. 18th, 1860.
EDIToR LEADER;-By the above date you
will perceive your humble servant has stroll
ed away, and if not lost, is evidently about
as near out of the world, and yet in it, as one
well can be. And by way of apology for
turning up" here or rather, as prelude to
this epistle, let me say that the effort in com
ing here had its origin in spasm. never
took much of likIn" to the California,
Pixies Peak, or any spirits after "pile, and
am not down here exactly upon this busi-
ness either. Do you believe this last re-
mark presume not
However, after letter following letter had
been received, in which were clauses stroked
underneath like these, "just come down here
and witness these marvellous freaks of nature
for yourself; when shall look for your" OF,
"it will pay you a thousand times for the ex-
pense and trouble of spending few days
here in witnessing the reality Of this eighth
wonder of the world"-I hrnessed my
spanking gray" and taking friend Easter
brook for companionly observation and chat
took the "cross lot' route for the valley
and "horrors," such a route. Did you ever
follow a fox circuit among the mountains
and wales, over hedges, under brambles,
through brooks and over bluffs? or, was it |
ever your fortune to travel where two roads
leading in precisely opposite directions reach
ed the same point five miles ahead-Where, |
in order to reach given place south, it be-
came necessary to travel east west, and even
north, at one and the same timer If either
of the above has come within your experience,
you will be able perhaps to gather something |
Of an idea Of the nature of a trip upon wheels |
from Western New York to this place.
In going down and down and still down |
terrible sleeps for mile or farther, you have |
only let yourself drop for the privilege, |
after the first revolution of your carriage |
wheels upon "the fat, to commence clam |
bering, crawling, or "tumbling up" as best
you can, a sleeper one. And thus, up and |
down, and as Crockett has it, "katering |
around, struggling between madness and |
the ridiculous, with hard work in keeping |
Madam Patience at ease, you finally land |
emong the oil gushings, jaded, cross and hun
CRY, glad to "take a lunch" upon a rough |
board.and lounge upon a slab.
" Ile' is over, under, around and upon ev- |
erything here. It furnishes the glossy exte- |
rior for every shred of wearing apparel-lu- |
bricates hands and heels-paints phizes- |
permeates the soil-perfumes the hair-oand |
faith, you hear of nothing but q lie" "ile," |
Z" lie" Every conversation, whether it |
starts upon theology, politics or war, will |
" top of" with "ile." While eating, drink
ing, riding or rambling, ilen is the only |
thing thought Of or limited at, and even when |
asleep, Morpheus cannot sOoth his charge, for |
he dreams Of swimming in a lake of oil
running Collins steamer to Liverpool and |
back with oil for fuel-or of being trans /
ported into the innermost cayerns of "mother
earth, and there gazing upon the mighty /
fires in that large furnace where this article |
IS manufactured and by some "modus oper- /
andi' jutted up through rock crevices.
If one wishes to get out of the din of poll
tics let him come here and listen to g bear
storiesi" or if he would for awhile throw off
"dull care get out of the still monotonv of
the counting room, or change the brain rack
ing tedium Of professional labor for that
which viii develOpe the physical man, tell /
them one and all, to jostle over the carriage
track TO this place. Has any one got the |
blues Advise him to come here where ev-
cry lace IS buoyant with hope, and every |
heart beats in rapid throes over Anticipated /
luxury and consequent happiness Does any |
one love the marvellous ?-hint to him that
here, Of all the places "under the SUM-" to
feast upon the reveries of greatness and gran
deur, Of changing the roughest spot upon
" terra frma" as by a twinkle into city of
paved roads and palaces, is by far the one
just at this time of greatest promise. All
this and much more can be realized here at
this period. At the table where / am now
writing is company from Pontiac Mich,
making plat of a city that Is to be at the
mouth Of Oil Greek, under the name and style
OF Petroleum City. This company have pur-
chased four hundred acres at that place, and
are about building an Oil Refinery at that
point. A paper is coon to be started there.
and all matters are expected "to be did UNI /
in grand, glorious and marvelously rapid
manner. Everything, almost, is counted |
hereabouts by its millions, hundreds and |
thousands being rather small things to dab
bic in. Excitement never rau on a higher
grade. Anticipations never loomed in more
lofty swells; and alas disappointment more
dark, doleful and chilling never awaited /
"poor souls than in my opinion impends the
" finale" Of many at present gleefll expert |
menters in this valley Of grease. Many for
tunes VIII be made here without doubt
Oil is being obtained in abundance: but vet
fortunes do not and can not await the herds
that come here. The masses never did and
never viii I'LL large Golfers; vet the few
sharpers-the "lucky fellovsp-yill, make.
as they always have, their "piles."
But l have already written more at this
time than | designed, and will close, reserv-
ing farther talk upon this oily subject till l |
have been IN the diggings" and seen the
shows. -'sa WILLARD