The New York herald., 1868-04-19
A HOME IN THE kLleeHAY MOUNTAINS.
FRANKyILLE. Nd. April Ia

FRANKvILLE Nd, April IA, 1865
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Having suffered much through the winter in Wash
ington, Governor Thomas ugged me up here with
him on the eastern slope Of the Allegheny Mountains
whereI am resting, Illuminating and recuperating,
looking down from these sublime heights, with pity
and commiseration akin to contempt, upon the low,
paltry tricks Of mice and men in the regions below
where the mercenary herd, who doat on dust, are
walowing in the filth and mire Of political proni-
gacy, peculation and corruption; but then can look
up in awe and admiration to Him who created the
earth and these everlasting hills and stretched out
the heavens as a curtain them, and who only re-
veas Himself to man as lie did to Moses on the
mount and burning bush, pouring out his Indignation
and wrath in torrents upon the villains in the val
eys below. Here are mountains on mountains
piled, primeval forests still growing wild majestic
oaks and towering pines. Natures grandeur and
glory thus combine with uplifted hand to make an
will save it. The above is rough, rugged rhyme
We are awaiting the progress Of impeachment
the the" communion Of ali V saints, u' and % neyer Sm
seeing the NEW YORK HERALD In fact
impeachment may prevail and the President
which he sprung, and that gn0miny so Justly earned
and Wade and his friends wade in and we as igno
rant OF 1t as Nicodemus of the new birth Surely
should the HERALD Ii is as the sunlight In
the morning to US. Were we not so immensely Door
even as proverb, we would enclose you years.
subscription in advance. The air here is pure ex-
harating and invigorating, never out Of sight OF
gushing spring Of water with frequent iron and sui.
phur springs the streams all full OF brook trout and
the forests with game, deer, bear, foxes who have
holes. pheasants, &c, &c. The Governor and talk
gravely on heavenly and divine subjects; talk poll
tics and speculate on impeachment; ride over these
mountains and through the dense and immense for.
ests on horseback like Don Quixote and Sancho
PanZo. seeking wind mills and adventures with
bountiful beds and table, fresh milk. cream butter
eggs, and maple sugar and syrup, SO that our appe
tites are voracious and we eat enormously and
would make good colleagues OF the beast in Reve a.
tions, who commanded TO arise and dcvour
much flesh. In fact, we fare sumptuousy three
times every day. but are not clothed In purple or very
fine linen.
This vast region, full OF coal, and aboundinp IN
mountain streams and water power, has been over.
looked and passed by by the migration for the great
West; but the capitalists and manufacturing mono1o
lists who have such Keen eyes for tarins aud protec
tion and such voracios appetes for profits and per
cent, will sooner or later learn TO locate their manu-
factories near the coal bells and on water courses
and on the line OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and thus save the expense OF transportation and
handling OF coal and the raw material and the paving
freight and transportation on them. IL is easier fcr
Mahomet. and mammoth monopolists and manufac
turers go to the mountains full OF coal and iron
and water power, than To transport mountains of
coal. iron, WOOL cotton &c, to the East for manu-
facture. II the coal fields that Quilt up Manches
ter Sheffield. Leeds and Birmingham In England
These lands are rich and productive, but have been
owned In large bodies ia Baltimore.
THOMAS SIIANKLAND