The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-07-21

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IS most intolerant secession sympathizer,
and was returning, when an accident
occurred on the road. He mentions this
fact incidentally, and then goes on to mar
rate, to the Times, what he saw, what he
did, how he did it, and all about it, after
entering Cambria county. Thus:
GAN right-So ahead"
After waiting six long hours,
And with hunger almost dead,
News came that the track was mended,
And the train soon went ahead.
JohnstoUn.
Soon we passed place called Johnstown,
Filled With iron founderies,
Where the people all were working
Like lot of busy bees.
A great 5ore-Kiss in the dark.
Then we came to great tunnel:
Near me sat pretty miss,
And when all was dark as midnight,
Quick from her stole kiss.
Strategy
nOh I" she cried-the people shouted.
And before we reached the light
! was peering through the window,
In my seat again all right.
StCresson IS its name"
After passing the great tunnel,
To a place we quickly came
Upon the highest mountain top,
And Cresson Is its name;
$500 feet ADORE the Level Of the sea.
Many people IN the summer
To this pleasant spot repair,
To enjoy lis cooling waters,
And Its pure fresh mountain air.
ALtoona
At Altoona we took breakfast,
It WAS one O'Clock or more;
Such = hungry lot of mortals
meier laid eyes on before.
Short commons.
All the good things on the table
In short time did disappear,
And we all went shouting wildly
Quick, bring more breakfast here y
Hunky boy pith big mouth.
When | went to pay for breakfast,
Said the laudIord-"We must charge
You lust double price for breakfast,
For your mouth so awful large y
More strategy.
~ don't see IT, l said, "dear sir
But lust charge 1t if you will
And while you are about 1t,
Send to Uncle Sam the bill y
To Dr.. Mackay, the field of poesy is no
new thing. He has basked in it from his
youth lp 1t may be said of him, as it was
raid Of another prodigy, that she hsped
in numbers, for the numbers came" lie
possesses rare reputation as correspon-
dent for the public press, and no one can
truly say that he is pot just as good q
poet as he is q correspondent. His en-
chanting story of how, four or FIVE years
ago, he went Floating, idiing, dawdllng
down the DIississip" in a steamboat, was
eonsidered at the tine he wrote 1t chef
Re,vre of descriptive rhyme, and the
fragment we present our readers as above
we are sorry it is only a fragments
proof conclusive that with the lapse Of
time he has lost none of his former pecu-
liar poetic fire. We may add that we are
not surprised the gentleman, feeling a
jaunt across the Alleghanies to be sub
iect calling for the loftiest exercise OF his
subl:mest talents, sank the prose to which
be has accustomed himself for some time
past, ard gave us, in lines that jingle
4, the end, reflex of his thoughts, and
emotions, and actions. His naiUe expose
Of how he stole Kiss in the dark-wc
yonder whether he's married stamps
him at once as gay and festive cuss,
While his delineation Of points along the
route will commend itself to our local
leaders as eminently truthful, and evil
ience of an uucommonly observant mind.
But how the Doctor-good, observant fel-
lOv that he is-was able, while journeying
iVom Johnstown eastward, to arrive at
cresson after passing through the "great
unnel," is moro than we can see. We,
ourself, are positive, and we can procure
Twenty witnesses to swear, that up to last
Saturday night Cresson remained in pre-
'lsely the same relative position it had
always Heretofore occupied, to wit, a
Position three miles toest or the tunnel !!
The Doctor could not have been drunk,
therefore we must attribute the error to a
opsas penne Or perhaps we are to con-
haer ii as an exercise of "poetic license" ;"
Dat may it not have been, after all, only
y oet'topping Of that constitutional fail