Litchfield enquirer., 1867-07-25
HoLL1DAYsBURc PA.

ME. EDIroR:-At last I am east of the AlIeghany mountains. For more than a week have been daily climbing them, yet the ascent is very gradual; you scarcely perceive that you ara nearing the great watershed of the continent. The country west of the mountains is very uneven; you are constantly going over such hills as tray erse Litchfeld county from North to South On the summit of each you see before you little higher hilltop. and ere long begin to feel a peculiar sensation of upness, a kind of exalted feeling, The air is clear, cool and pure, the wind bracing, and vege- tation more and more backward You leave the Alleghany river at Kittaning, smoky dingy town, of perhaps three thou sand people busy with Iron works and country trade The river here isa fourth of milo wide. not as at Condersport lit tie creek scarce deep enough for trout to tempt anglers in. It is wide quiet stream. evidently proud of its journey through the primerval pine forests and of it's easy pas age through Oildom, proud of carrying i'm mense rafts to market and of the oil that constantly floats to the sea over its surface Grand mission enough for any river! Trout, Lumber and Oil; pleasure, profit, and humbug. Good bye old friend, have waterea my horses in thy first spring, where thou vert impid and pure, and now half thousand miles distant. in thy dirty. oily torrent. How like human life art thou. The childhood's spring is pure as heaven itself, age rolls along it's course and it gath CTS all manner of life's impurities till grey hairs cover only sin md disease
 From Kittaning l went to Indiana, coun- ty seat of Indiana county, twenty-six miles distant and over successive hills, through a fine fertile and well cultivated region, beautiful meadows of tall waving grass, fields of corn scarce a foot high and hill sides of yellow ripening grain, valleys with sluggish streams skirted with oaks, beeches and naples, in whoss branches singing birds hide, ravines opening and revealing seams of black bituminous coal, old log houses, and huge bark barns, painted gay colors. focks of newly shorn sheep and fat happy lambs, herds of spotted cattle, and nice good looking horses with now and then Q noble, honest looking mule, were every where scattered along The general idea of the whole country is Us,-!f. Indiana is town little larger than Litchfeld, it is the end of 8 branch railroad of the Penn. Central, and has large trade with the county, for twen- ty miles around. Early in the morning I was awakened by the noise of the big six mule wagons rumbling by the hotel and laden heavily with -four, pork, salt, fish, &c.,, and in the afternoons similar teams came to town with large loads of lumber, wheat, oats, and hemlock bark and like productions of the back country.
 From Indiana to Blairsville l passed through twenty miles of good farming country. Blairsvi]le is very romantically situated upon the Conemaugh River, and was once place of considerable import ance before the railroad days. Its glory has now departed and it is the dullest, and quietest town have seen in the State. When l drove through the place all the peo- pie rushed to the windows to see strang- CT. and as I wended my way along over the stony, grass grown street, l felt as if guilty of breaking the Sabbath. From there I went to Evensburg in Cambria county thirty three miles over broad stone pike, now little used, formerly the great High way over the Alleghanies, between the East and West. It was once fine road now it is rough and stony. At every step new and beautiful panorama IS presented, the river refecting the sun till it breaks through the mountains in @ deep gorge, the long line of woody mountains stretch ing far to the North and South. Then you climb, cross, and descend Laurel Noun
 tain, gazing. wondering and enraptured all the way. Way off to the right is Johns- l town where the Cambria Iron Go. have the largest Iron works in America. This Cam bria county is wonderful one in mineral wealth, solid mass of Iron and coal, sand wiched in these mountain ranges Finally I reached Ebensburg, beyond which lay, the summit, going over which will furnish an- other letter from
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