New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-13
Thine !. 3.aaa--a.a2I.
The Passage Of the AlIeghnnies.

The following glowing and highly wrought de 4
serption of the passage of the English party with
the Prince of Wales, over the Pennsylvania rail-
way, is from correspondent of the London Times:
After passing the great Cambria Iron works, the
scenery soon changes, and the track lays for miles
between mountains, and mp gorge, clothed from
base to summit with the densest foliage. Al any
time of the year, such rayine would be grand and
beautiful but now, when the coming winter has
reused the forest into quick warm life Of color,
and robed the mountains in celestial tints like rain
bows, there was solemn gorgeousness about the
pass that is utterly ndeseribabie.
The eye ranged over mountain and valley till
the mind saturated with their burning richness
and you turned as il for relief from the great
sheen of tnts to look upon The soft unfathomable
blue of the distant ranges, watched the stripes
of heecy mist gathering with the fall of night,
draping the hills in siiyery streaks like the haze
over Turner's gorgeous paintings. This was the
entrance which begins the ascent of the Allegheny
Mountains, up which and amid such scenes the
train to wind. For long, long miles it pulled,
and toiled, and struggled painfully upwards, blt
always shut in between these masses of eoluFed
hills, stretching upwards on each side like featheTy
tapestry.
At last the train emerged from the gorgeous de
file near kibanning Mountain, haHf way up the
summit Of the Alleghanies, and nearly $500 feet
above the level Of the line at Pittsburg. What a
view was got from here! TWAS like looking down
through prism upon the landscape from the sum
nit of the Rigi Kuhn Distance had softened off
the warm, deep, bright glow of the changing trees
into rich maze of gentle color SO varied yet so
equal TO its vibrations, that it seemed like one
grand arabesqne of nature, ayast pasture, which
covered the very mountains and shone up through
the soft blue msts that gathered in the valleys in
CLEANS of color like Jewels under water. The sun
had set but its train of rainbow light was still brill
liant in the West, shedding farewell ferYor5 over
the hills, and gliding down the valleys in Yeilaw
beams, filling them with an atmosphere Of gold
On one side in the distance all was light and life
and gorgeous rays; while up in the east remofse-
less night came providing on, sitting out the brill
liar trOn With l1il h1y and
the mountains loom heavily through the darkness.
from the heavens like clouds of coming storm
Close and sheer above the train rose preeipees.
worried aud rven into sneh fantastic ruins as only
the decay of mountains show-stained with raw
blotches, whose water course triekled down into
old gray pnnacles, draped with silent moss, and
here and there long creepers dropping softly down
from stone to stone in rs of vegetation rustling
and waving gently with the wind. Above the rock
like sunset Clouds the forest in all its glory,
with festoons of glowing weeds like old torn ban
ners, hanging in melancholy grandeur from their
boughs, with elumps of underwood, and sweet
wild flowers still alive with bloom, with humble
timid willows, bending in low obeisance beforethe
lords Of the woods, the dark tall sombre unehang-
ing pine. Maple and sumachs, swamp-ash and
hemlocks, oaks, syeamores, larGhes, shestnuts and
aspens, all crowded together in every form and hne
OF leaf, in every shape of branch budding their
tinted leaves together like huge pavilion, to
screen in and shroud from view the deep, long,
silent vistas that wandered into darkness between
the stems.
THE MAIL RoBBER HuDsoN.-The train-boy de-
teeted in robbing the mails on the G.. b. and A. II.
X. was examined yesterday afternoon, before
United states Commissioner Hayne, and commit
ted for trial in default of $1,000 ball. The name
Hudson, it seems, is an alias; his real name Is John
Campbell. He is the son of Alexander Campbell
very worthy and esteemed Seotchman--a retired
gyman-residing at Newport, St. Clair county,
Michigan, on the river st. Clair, midway between
the lake of that name and Lake Huron. He is
about twenty-one. and of youthful appearance for
his age. For the past three months he has occa-
pied the position OF train boy, in which he was en-
gagged at the time of his arrest.
During that time he has robbed the mails of an
amount of mail matterin face value reaching np-H
wards Of twelve thousand dollars He declared that
ne mad no aceomplice, aud this Is made probable
by the nature and value of the stolen drafts and
land warrants found in his trunk at the Marble
Pillar Saloon, near the Illinois Central railroad
depot, which one more expert in crime wonld ufl--
doubtedly have at once realized upon in some man.
ner, instead Of which young Campbell had hidden
them away.
His manner of robbing the mails was to select
always one OF the canvass sacks, in too common
use, and as he lay upon the pile, break up and
crush apart the packages in the bag then slowly
work them down to the mouth, where By intro
ducng finger or two, the letters would be drawn
out. He never opened mail bag and yet auee
actually abstraeted the entire contents of bag
sent from chicago to Quincy, leaving nothing but
the wrapping paper ana Irvine of the packages
within, 10 the greatest nystifcation of the POST
office officials
He makes full confession. and indeed every.
thing Is teo clear against him to admit Of defence
lie is entirely broken down by his terrible position
and Wept bitterly [Ghicago Joarnal.
There are q numberof curious anecdotes related
Of Mr.. O., popular wardrobe keeper, who oees-
sonallf figures in a small part when required so to
do. One night at the Sheffield theater he went on
for Francisco in q Hamlet when, instead OF the
speech commencing, +" Last night of all. 2 he gave
the following truly original version:
. Last night Of 81, when yonder sun had gone
Msrceins, myself and the bell, struck cna ~ =757
hearty laugh succeeded in which the Ghost
joined.
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