Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-17

light was still brilliant in the west, she'd
ding farewell fervor over the hills, and
gliding down the valleys in silent yellow
beams, filling them with an atmos-
phere of gold. On one side in the distance
all was light and life, and gorgeous rays
while up in the east remorscless night came
crowding on sitting out the brilliant wood.
land with dull gray haze, and making
the mountains loom heavily through the
darkness from the heavens like clouds of
coming storm. Close and sheer above the
train rose precipicc, worried and riven
into such fan tastic ruins as only the decay
of mountains show--stained with raw
blotches, whose watercourse trickled down
into old gray pinnacles, draped with si-
lent moss, and here and there long cree
pers dropping softly down from stone TO
stone in rills of vegetation, rustling and
waving gently with the wind. Above the
rock, like sunset clouds, the forest rose in
all its glory, with festoons of glowing
weeds, like old tern banners, hanging in
melancholy grandeur from their boughs,
with clumps of underwood, and sweet wild
flowers still alive with bloom, with hum
bic, timid willows, bending in low obei-
sance before these severe lords of the
woods the dark, tall, sombre, Enchanting
pine. Maple and sumachs, swamp ash
and hemlocks, oaks, sycamorcs, larchcs,
chestnuts, and aspens, all crowded togeth-
er in every form and hue of leaf, in every
shape of branch, huddling their tinted
leaves together like huge pavilion, to
screen in and shroud from view the deep,
long, silent vistas that wandered into
darkness between their stems. There was
such life of color, such death of sound
upon the scene, that even the rush Of the
river below came up hushed like fading
breeze, and it seemed as if all nature, with
the coming darkness, had sunk to slumbcr
There were no stars in the heavens, but
little dots of light shone out like spanglei
over tho plain below, marking where cot
tages stood, with here and there littlt
constellation, showing where rising vii
lagc struggled loosely round in picturesque
confusion.
The Prince saw the whole Of this grant
, panorama, to the very best advantage, fo
at the commencement of the ascent he lef
his carriage and proceeded to the engine
: on which he rode till the whole of th
! Alleghanies had been crossed The des
cent from tue summit is 9 miles in length
, always at so steep an incline that, even wit
. the brakes oil, the train slides down at al
most full speed. Round Retaining Poir
D there is one incline with two awfully sudde
e curve3, where in little more than mile II
way dcsccnds SO feet. This path, wine
h ing round the edge of n terrific precipic
q is oHc Of the most awful railway passages
S ever saw or heard Of Some idea may
formed of the sharp nature of the cur'
d when two trains travel for miles in th
O same direction, though one is going we
t and the other east,
S At the pretty little village of Altoni
: where there is one Of the best railway he
t tells in the kingdom, the party were to hay
n stopped for dinner. This intention, how
t ever, was abandoned, for it was nightfa
1 and Harrisburg was still some $50 mil(
r distant, so the train was pushed on throug
s the wild mountain rood called "Jack's Ma
= rows" amid much the same rich magnit
= cence of scenery as on the Hudson, at We
: Point. From this it traversed along II
/ Juniata river, and thence by the broac
: shallow stream of the Susquehanna, file
f with its thousands of little marshy island
C At l l the train reached Uarrisburg--ti
c legislative capital of Pennsylvania, aut
e like most legislative capitals in this coul
y try, small, quiet, and rather faded lool
: ing. Only short stay, merely to get
h nights rest, is to be made by the Roy
T. party, and to morrow the endless jonrne.
C ing commence with the route to Washin;
IS ton.
- ThE PRINCES RECEPTION AT WASH.
II INGToN.-The Prince has arrived at til
j. strange city, whose streets of ofill-built hous
:. connect the most noble public building
. and where one has to admire the city as
If city always in the future tense. 1t W
ID and must in history be one of the gaeat(
he capitals that the world has seen, but as J
!, 4! it seems to want deal of building, alter
m tons, and improvements before it can be
le worthy legislative centre of this great el
IF piro, Another hour, however, must suff
e, for recording my impression of this gre
r, strange, unequal city, for / have barc
at time now to do more than jot down f
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