Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-07

upon tue mountain side where II would
seem to almost require the foot OF a Chamois 10
maintain its bold, while on the one hand is a rocky
wall stretching up for two hundred feet or more,
and covered with o sparse growth of pines and
while on the other is a preoipitous de-
scent of as great a depth with the dark waters Of
Cheat river flowing turbulently on at its base. At
times the traveller feels that he is hemmed in by
rocks, and he wonders who will speak tho Open
Sesame to make him q passage through. The
train winds guacefully along. aud the locomotive,
seemingly about to dash itself against a rock,
plunges through a tunnel, and the next panoramic
view stretches out for miles, presenting a rare
combination of river and valley. of mountain
scenery with its frs and pines and tangled laurel,
over which pass the shadows of clouds, like spec
tire ships sailing upon a sea of green.
1t is no disparagement to the mountain scenery
OF other routes-beautiful aud grand as some of
it is--to say that in grandeur and sublimity, in
all that thrills the heart with the presence of the
beautiful aud fills the soul with feelings of awe,
we have never yet seen an equal OF the psnoram.
ic views which pass-but in too rapid succession
- before the sight of those who journey upon the
road between Wheeling and Baltimore. Could we
have fingered at some of the more beautiful spots,
we should have liked it. Three or four miles an
hour would have been better speed while passing
such localities than thirty or forty; and had we
been the engineer, we suspect we should have
been sadly behind time on that occasion.
A considerable portion of the country through
which the BALTIMORE and Ohio Railroad passes is
almostas much Of a wilderness as when Washing.
ton first penetrated its Businesses, or its solitude
years ago echoed to the war whoop of the Indian.
Nature, in her unframed wildness, and Civiliza-
ton, with her ~triumphs Of 4 TT, are thus brought
face &c face with each other.
1t was not our design when we com N enced this
article to give a detaile! account of the road for that
has already been done by far ADLER pens than ours,
and to such we would commend our readers for
a full description OF its exquisite scenery from the
sublime wildness Of the Cheat river region, over
the Allegheny summit which divides the waters
between the Atlantic and the Gulf Of Mexico, to
The grand and romantic beauty of Harper's Ferry
aud lis vicinity, the name of which has recently
become Enthusiastically historical, and whoeo scene.
ry, Thomas Jefferson once said was worth a visit
across the Atlantic to see. We are not willing,
however, to lay down our pen without t~estifying
to the good management of the road, 80 far as We
we're able to judge, and to the uniform courtesy of
the employees with whom we came in con-
tact.
Not only did the kindness Of the Company ena.
bic Us to visit cities we never before had an oppor-
tunity to see, but we were brought so near our
native place that we could not resist running up
to Philadelphia, and while there visited once more
the country place where the school vacations Of
our boyhood were passed. There stood the old
brick house which our great-grand'ather built.
Its brick-paved kitchen with capacious fire place
and high mantel, were the same as in the days Of
our childhood. We again ate pie and milk as we
used TO then, only our hostess would substitute a
bowl for the tin cup OF former times; but though
the milk was rich, and the pie good, the feast
lacked the Sest it possessed in former days. We
explored tie Little Meadow, and went down to the
old well where we used to ride old Tom to water;
both were unchanged, save that the we'll seemed
less capacious and less formidable than we had
pictured it in our memory. Then we 6troiled in.
to the Long Meadow" and visited the sheep
pond in which we had learned to swim. The pond
had become so strangely contracted that we had
to allow for the perspective before we we're able to
recognize the place. The old barn that stood by
the great walnut tree had been torn dowA, but we
saw 1t in the minds pict ure gallery with it's giant
beams and rafter's, its mows and entries--capita
places tor hide and seek, and hidden hen's nests
It's cattle stalls and stables for horses. They have
a new barn now, and new horses, AMI new COWS,
but we didn't go to see them, for such things can
be seen any day, and anywhere.
When we retu rned to the house we talked over
old times with the few who were LETT, and we're
reminded that in the old mansion five Of our ances-
tors had died who we're each over ninety years OF
age, and we wondered whether we shouli live as
many years as they did and we came to the con.
clusion tina; if we did not, we should probably live
longer in the days we do number. for this is a fast
age Men labor BY steam, travel by railroad and
write by telegraph. The voyage of Capt. Cook
around the world was the result of years of toll
and marvellous adventure. and its accomplish
ment rendered his name immortal bu. now it
takes but a few days to put a girdle round the
EARTH and ere the traveller is missed from his ia
miIiar haun's he has returned from his trip to
China. There is really more of life now com
pressed into a single year of existence, than was
contained in five yearsa century ago.
Some of our readers may think there is no pos
slblo connection between our trip to Baltimore and
Washington, and our visit to our boyhood's haunts.
But there is. The one was the sequel to The 9th.
er, intimately connected in our W mind, and in
%timatcly connected in fact, Aud with the remem-
brance of some of the pleasantest scenes of our
childhood fresh upon us, with the delightful rscol-
%lections of boyhOod coming to the soul like a ia
miliar tune whose strains though seldom heard
are never forgotten, we again tender our thanks
to the source from which emanated the favor of the
excursion ticket we received, which-whether it
cos. the donors much or it;le-conferred a great
benefit on US, and procured pleasure not easily
computed by figures, or adequately acknowledged
on paper.
PROPERTY AWARDED TO EMANCIPATED
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