Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1869-07-22

OAKt.Sp a Correspondent Of tie
tie Cincinnati Gazette. writing from II 5
well-Snovn mountain retreat speaks OF
SEINE Of IFS attractions a. follows:
We haa been taking unt' an hour 50
late that it only remained FIR each member
Of the little PARTY to take his candle. ami
getting TO bed dream s'easant dreoms
under double blankets, For the night
air up here among the mo1atalHs Is as
cool as the recention daughter gives her
step-mother. Exactly how high We are
above the sea-lcvel l don't know, but |
am told We are only fsw feet below the
highest point on the line of the Baltimore
and OHIO road In the winter time the
place must be as blesk and desoIate as
those "Norland hills where the winds
blow salty from the Polar seas. But
four or FIVE months later ia wintry desc
lstion ripens into glorious summer, ana
Oakland becomes a Mecca 10 which 10
early July the Baltimoreans aud Wash
ingtonians, and stray Clnclnnatian or
two turn their faces For they hnd here
pure air, clear and beautiful a. the air OF
Italy, and cool nights when one sic ps as
if soothed TO slumber By the iorelel. aud
pleasant company and a good hotel, with
c'ean rooms and al excellent table. f1r
the rest thaSifnd plenty Of saddles and
horses, arS srli V paths that lead here,
there, and everywhere. Aud the ever
lasting hills tower in their beauty and
majesty on every side, One can hardly
turn his horses head wrongly, even if he
tries. You may ride out the Hoop Pole
read to the tram way passing two or three
ancient lake beds-Giades, as they are
called; or YOU may 60 to the northwest. to
Halves Hill, and look mile over mile, be-
voud bill rising in the rear Of hill into
Virginia on the one hand, and Prnnsyl-
vania on the other; or you may ride over
bride path to Alsamont or Cranberry
Summit
If longer rides are wanted, why there
are Swallow Falls, twenty miles away
A mad little river that i. always leaping
an plungiu- along in a wholly disrepu-
cable and lily regulated manner, and
whose waters are economical by dozen
thrifty lumbcrmen, widens out into 4
semi circle, aud takes a little bigger
plunge and little higher leap than u>u-
al Bat this makes o. it fail, winch 1t
is worth while to sce-uot az grand as
Niagara. nor that new mile and half, or
two mile faIt, which they say has just
been discovered in Australia; but then,
as Megcutio said of his wound, 1T will
do; it will do" Close by the leading
waters stands little saw mill, as much
Ike a Maine saw mill, as one PEA is Ike
another. In the midst of the buzz Of the
!ath saw. and the fragrance Of the newly
cut pine, and the hurry and hustle of the
work. one may Yet obtain, ii he IT tortu
nate as wa, day or two ago, the ac-
quaintance otthe broad-shuuldered brown
checked curly -heajed, hazel-eycd, Young
lamberman and learn all about the tim
Der ana its market, and a dozen other
things Of interest III connection with the
business.
IL ride by railroad is preferred to the
f0rding of streams on horseback, and the
view of lumber mill and waterfall,
then one NAV take the nine o'clock tram,
and run down tae road twenty miles to
Cheat river, whore tbe scenery in bold
ness, and i'll y tureeque beauty, is IA
nous the land over. It Is right here that
The Baltimore i OHIO road has worked
out the problem thar stared the fact III
the face. of con trucjing road across the