The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-09-26


been re-eolored by sleeping in the ashes,
knows where there is lead mine and
silver mine in the mountains, the discoY-
cry of six mouths search in obedience
to a dream. He will sell his information.
He is busy now parrying an unexpected
attack of chills and fever with whiskey.
If he doesn't break the bar I think he
will succeed.
Stage lays over plight here. A lively
captain, just from the wars, monopolizes
the attention-he fought all the battles
and won all the victories. Hear of my
party. Stage waits an hour in the morn
ing, so as not to incommode the two
travellers who precede. Plenty of room
to-day. My fellow traveller is a clean
faced boy, with three years honorable
service passed to his credit-once the
favorite driver of this two horse vehicle.
He dyes into each house as we pass
the girls reward the soldier with some
thing more expressive than words from
their lips, and the matrons are ready with
fresh baked cake or fresh churned butter
milk. He fills up the interim with Incl
dents Of his stage ownership. He knows
the history of each house, and their &C.
cupants.
The crippled boy we overtako again,
and be mounts into our midst like an old
friend. We pass through tidy and well
named little place, Brookland, which is
the ofshoot Of Southern refugee, who
counts bis acres BY the thousand. Just
at Dightfall, after a days pluDging thro'
the branches of thick woods and thread
ing along the creeks, we come out into
clearing, where a whirlwind twenty years
ago oficiated as Toodsman and brushed a
huge pyime7al forest from a mountains
brow and slope, as you would lint from
coat. We cross the Allegany rivera
moderate sized brook bere-a1d are
dropped at that triumph Of country hotels,
which is kept By Glassmire, in Cowders-
port, Capital Of Potter Co Pa. 4 comfy
once notorious as the resort Of counter
feiters and horse thieves, but now cele-
brated as the only county in the State of
Pennsylvania where no license i: granted
for the sale of liquor. This place is as
beautiful as Nature has made it, claiming
a population of five hundred, and orna-
mented BY very fine court house aud q
very dilapidated Jail, which, for very
long time, has been unoccupied. l never
fell in with kinder community. The
landlord, who is king-fsherman in all
this region, answered all my trouting in
quiries, and offered on Saturday morning
to take me up the river few miles and
introduce me to some Of his cold water
constituents. Here, within a circuit of
few miles, rise three waters that almost
divide the Republic with their refresh.
ment. The head waters of the West
Branch Of the Susqpehanna that in myr-
lad contortIons wFiggle their way to the
Chesapeake, and verify the Indian cog
nomen, Sds,que han.ah (loDg, crooked
river, and the AlleghaDy that through
the Ohio and Mississippi helped float
Farragut into New Orleans. as it pressed
OF to the Gulf, and the Genesee, that
makes its northward way to the lakes and
the ocean. Surely here is the congress
of the waters. It would do you good, if
you have an eye for high art in angling,
10 behold mine host trife with the spotted
congressman. Such fly as he throws,
SO far, so accurate, SO sure of bis game,
He whips a stream with his delicate line
and supple pole till each square foot has
quiyered under the skipping Of his arti,
fetal fly, and many Of the largest trout
been deceived to their ruin. In fishing
a half mile and an hour or two We stopped
with nearly hundred fine felloEs Any
fisherman, who desires to be sure of his
sport, and have first rate stopping place,
can DO nc better. The party I have been
so long in search Of arrive, and next week
begins our fishing and camping in the
wilderness,
TIE HEALTHY MAN.-Ofallt the know