Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-04-13

at last OF realizing the sublimity about us.-
On the other side OF the gorge, tremendous
pyramids Of bare grey rock shoot still high
above US, and the Echo spirits which live
among them, send back the sound Of our foot
steps and voices, while we listen in childish
wonder. The poet Wardsworth once heard an
Alpine echo, and he tells Os how a single
voice, Nlra .rfet ..
Through the bleak eOnolAvs. wakes wOndrOuS
or airy voices locked in unison, -tdbthr ofr-noar
-deep-solemn and sublimel" y W
And then he adds noble thought:
$50 nom the body Of a single deed 1.
thousand ghoaily fears and haunting thoughts pro
coed "
In m hour more we stood upon the summit,
seven Thousand feet above the leYe of the sea.
We we're as high as Mount Washington, and
yet we seemed only 10 be at the feet of other
mountains near, which arose still, FIVE or six
thousand feet higher Here and there about
us, were great patches of snow which had
fallen two nights before, but il was rapidly dis
appearing now under the ferVid rays Of the
August sun. Although we were so highly ex-
alted from the warm bosom of Mother Earth,
we did not need even our oyercoals 10 protect
us from the cold The breezes came refresh
ingly upon our sun-burned faces, and weary
frames, and in few moments we had forgot
ten our fatigue. 2l a E&
Col-de-Bslme is simply depression in, a
range of mountains which separates two val
leys. From its summit grand view was
open both before and behind us. Looking
back, Martigny seemed but a little distance
of--A pigeon could reach it, thought in a
minute, with single swoop-but It was SO
far below us, that the houses seemed smaller
eAen than tho little painted toys Of children.
The first height we climbed, seemed but an in
significant hillock, and men and animals NOV =
ing across the valley were the merest specks.
At our feet in front, ,sswas the beginning of the
vale Of Chamonny, withits glaciers and its
torrents, and in full vew--though still some
ten miles distant as the bird hies--stood the
King Of the Alps, Mt Blanc. Royal robes of
white enveloped his head and hung about his
mighty statue sweeping even to the earth at
his feet But still like the great men that We
hear Of and wonder at until we see them in
the Senate, he was surrounded byA company
of such magnificent companions that we felt
like exclaiming BE his not so,much greater
than other mountains after all
We found eighteen or twenty tourists In the
little hotel at the summit waiting for dinner,
for which our exertions had given us all ex-
IhOtuiuuIy Chphtiues. oOm6 OF tbem nbO
proceeded us from Martgny--others, we're
fresh from the little town Of Chsmouny which
lies Just at the foot Of Mt. Blanc. While we
we're all sitting in the room awaiting the prep
aration Of the eatables, noticed two tall, in
telligent looking young gentlemen, whom /
set down as Americans al once, Because,
in the first place, they were the best locking
boys in party Of six, or eight who spoke
English then their words we're enunciated
clearly and distinctly and their aentences
we're free from the lAughable upward cadence
with which most Englishmen conclude theirs,
their manners we're free frank and genial, and,
most conclusive evidence Of ALL their coats
we're sacks and their boots square-toed. ap-
preached the elder and taid You are Ameri-
can $50 are you, he replied holding out
his hand "Yes." "You are from Ohio" be
continued "How do you know 7" eYou are
from Dayton" "HOto do gou knc1r r. "Your
name is --r-T "How DO YOU KNow." ="
Alter enjoying my amazemeut for time, he
told me he was the son of our former highly
respected fellow citizen II. c. Stmson ESQ,
and reminded me when we had met before II
little thought them said he, athat our next
meeting would be on top of an Alp Ers1
He aud his brother had just escaped from
College last Juue, and before setting down TO
the sober work OF manhood they had come
over for run" npou the continent They
were doing Switzerland on foot and with q
rush, Twenty-Five or thirty miles was their
ordinary days journey they said, and severe
as the labor was, they found the pleasure Of it
far oyerbalancinR the pain