The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-19
DAILY LEADER
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1t is not often the good fortune of the
mountain tramper TO enjoy the compan.
ionship of a genuine artist. But it is ours
Colonel F. is q professional Landscape
painter Of no mean responsibility; an en-.
thusiAstic lover of nature and of his profess
sion q Seotchman of genial disposition
snd broad culture; was run twice as q
Union candidate for Congress IN New
York City, and was Of course defeated
ssrved more than half the war at the head
of regiment and brigade, and has since
returned TO his studio on Fifth Avenue.
With such q companion smong these
natural wonders, one is like 3 Pilgrim
with an Interpreter, and you cannot i'm.
agine what 8 feast We erjoy as We sit upon
the versndA Studying sky and color and
the points of beauty in the hills thst occu-
Ply our field of view or when we stroll q
few miles up the Moose river road 10 visit
the bi Oh trees, which are to have 3 place
in the next picture for the Academy of
Design. It Unjust be scomfort to our artist
that his work viii be appreciated at home,
lift is not here. FOr, as he sits skesching
an old yellow birch that shows the hSrd-
ships of mountain life, bending over the
river, and yet seeking to recover itself By
sending up a strong perpendicular arm, an
'fndigenos" f4tters the art by the follow
ing comments "Guess they's about two
cords and a half of wood in that old teller
amt they2 Say, how much can you Eellers
make at that business 2" The Colonel,
thinking it not best to impose so great q
burden upon the credulity of the inquirer
IS the whole truth would make, replies,
''sbOut two dollars and q half q day.
With a word of establishment, the aun-
~relires. But it will not trouble
our Post Rsphselite to make that two and
; half cords of wood 8 worthy accessory to
grand mountain scene, in which the old
birch will tell its own story of mountain
life.
1 have Just returned from the ETip Ton !
and find my emotions considerably !
complicated and mingled by - objects l !
AVE seen. I shall not attempt to describe
he barn or the wood pile, which were thel
'nly extraordinary objects visible in the
midst OF the rain storm that greeted US on
he summit of Mt WashiDg ton. But it v
vas certainly grand and sublime to hear l
he thunder rolling beneath our feet and
o be wrapped in the cloud that was wet
ing the parched lips Of the valley below.
no words can possibly describe the
lectures we saw when the Storm subsidized.
nd we began to descend from the summit .
t appeared that the storm had been car. Z
led on by q stratum of cumulus cloud
eneath, while above a bright sky, hecked
nth cirri like the ordinary sky of 8 fair :
az, had been undistutbed. We came be- u
Ween the two. And OIL Whist views met
through the riffs of the lower cloud {
eld-the face of the mountains, the trees Z
nd the valleys just washed by the RAIN.
he drops still glIstening in the sunshine :
ke pearls, and the effect of zach view =
eightened by the picture frames made by T.
ie clouds through which each was seen. e
lch 8 scene rarely rewards The ascent of I
lief mountain. n,
What then, o Resder, has complicated
y feelings2 1 will tell you. Our ar =
It has greatly interested US in observing
Q characteristics of particular trees and y
Well, when We approach the Glen
ouse, and Mts. Washington and Madison =
Q frowning upon ia too near to be beau. n
nj, we are about to pass between two
lge rocks. Ot course we begin to exam.
Q their mass, shape cracks and sesms, n
ID TO wonder at their history, when the i
sgon brings Us directly between them and N
behold, whst2 An inscription written H
the sordid hand of sverice GDrake's jus
antati0n Bitters, s. T. 1860. x" The :
1sation is i~ndescnbable which one must IT
n~arianna in passing f-4~ sko ~>sso si~o
lated by the sublimity of the everlasting !
ks 70 the nsuseous image of Plantation =
We pass on and begin to ascend II
3 mountain road when smother glorious :
X is disgrsced by Biters. A little fur
n up where You get q look out, and your
3 il met by the Inevitable Buffers. But IA
rst of all, when 1 had run myself out of =
ssth TO visit Glen Ellis Falls, and stood In
above, then farther and farther down
} gorgeto get every ~effectto be produced
this unique cataract and / reached
bottom of the chssm-s lively basin A
o which the silver column pours full n
hly fset,-snd looked straight up to the III
Of Mt. Carter, three thousand feet
ove, green to the top, n thsn TO the =
10 sky, which this tubular gorge cuts w
g q die and then cast my eyes about
nsported by the wildness ofthe beauty
oek, large yet, washed IS round as 8
bile, attracted my notice. 1 looked,
j behold the trTepTeSsibLe bitteTS. Is it
ssible thought l that Mr. Drake, flor 1 n
m that he superintendent this sdVertis-
in person. like any other duck could 4
nix of nothing else when he came near =
!, water han whether he could make
20 eat from it, Whist business y
We plantation 6itters among mountains a
4 iAls2 What right has Mr.. d. thus to .
figure the most charming scenery BE Ii
y be 8 clever man for aught I know,
t one thing Glen Ellis Falls may attest
1t I solemnly resolved never to have 4
to do with Mr. Drake or his bit. NM
8 until he shall wash the stains of his Hi
brush from the mountain rockS. nj,
Mr.. D. were tried for this crime and
guilty, and it were my duty TO pro- IN,
unce his sentence, 1 should not consign
n to the gsllows. Mol worse than that LIN
hould sentence him to years imprison-
mt upon his own bitteTS. L To,
We must leave you White Hills. GoCd v
et-YousaIe the Esrth's rough fingers SoI
hitting 20 her Creator. You are Natures We,
nitary Commission gathering the sick IA
d wounded 70 your embrace from the :.
nfict of life. You are splended Doctors. YER
g gave you q weak body andtired brain. as.
~ nav returned them to US fresh and I
and for another years work. H.
Mon DENIES.
N. H. Sept A. E
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