New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-17

BORDERS.
CORY, Penn, July 7.-On one Of the bright
est days of this Summer weather, started-a small
company to visit Panama. II miles away stage car
ried us thher; stout farmer kept the driver com
pany and settled ourselves the back seat for the
pleasant drive. Oh set on green road, and beauty
began. All the rouglness of the hcmcck country was
left behind the hills rounded and high, instead OF
sharpcncd peaks: lovely fields bordcred the road, and
farms opt up the lee OF the hills This is like tine
peaceful old cultivated valley of the Connecticut that
artists love Grass fields swept up 10 the roadside.
with the gold of but.ercups the royal time OF
the year when is sweet rgesse is abroad Old red
faunhouses crcp out of sight with the retirement OF
age behnd orchards which the last May bloom lin
gcrcd Bright runct capcd across the road at the loot
Of the steadily Uprising hills. wbrh seemed designed to
lead us up To ever fresh sights of tins dclectabe country
step by step, willing TO lose half our day along TINS
country road We climbed out the crest OF the ridges
turned by a saw-mi romantic glen, where the water
dashed through cleft IN the rocks, cut as straight as
directed by surveyors and we rolled into Panama Most
gorgeous misnomer, such foreign name for this homo
like. peaceful spot the place OF places, where II "ere
condemned TO live aud die, the sentence would seem
kind repreve. The spirit OF a New England village Is IN
this valley. and of the old names from the mother
couutry-Wentworth, Atterbury, Dorset-would seem
far more appropriate than its trading cognOmen This
is one OF the iovelcs inland towns, relic hard to find
OF the peaceful autlrrOad times Its grassbordered
streets shaded with Gins and naples and acacas that
nearly overhead, pass between rows of orderly
white houses before which honey Succs, June roses,
and gueldcr Of half ceuturys growth taking
the first love the Fair green Enclosures
allotted the churches which of scaling brown
paint ecclesiastical chocolate color; but Teverently
cared for shine in sanity white from their drdpery of
forest and willows. Everywhere the scrupu-
lous over grounds and buildings. Scarcely one
seemed to have escaped a Spring visitation of
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few workshops; and to those felt grateful
for their picturesquenesS. As guide said more
udier place he never did see" there look of
narrowness rgidity about this country beauty; the
ample lcsurcly houses with their plentiful vailing of
leaves had that most charming effect which Lord Chat
ham twas y declared belongs to ladies in white, sitting
green bank A clear Tivulet strikes through the
town the onter, and the temptation was almost
irresistible up its channel the stones the
Hampshire brooks of old These banks for art
list To loter sketcbOok under his arm so enchan
ing the natural bowers of willow and water beech,
tempting the rch green forest paths and the sunny high
hills that gently shut in the happy valley so taintess
and fair Such pleasant sky brOOds here not the firm
blue of the sky, the dazzling arch of the prai
ries but sunny, warm azure, with the lake-clouds
ecking il. The lOveest Of Summer days regned when
IL; but sunshine suited the character OF the
that shall DC able to realize that 1t rains III
Panama.
The stage left us at white hotel, with flute columns
in front, looking as retired the mansion of
Judge its dainty dignity, shaded by its locust trees
thought found the perfection Of country v
ing We were ushered into chambers big four city
hotel rooms, where the oldfashioned wall paper all
castles and estoons the knotted white spreads and the
snowy curtains combined with strctest neatness prom
ied visions fun of rest that were fain to go no
further but fully enjoy the sensation of being far away
from railroad and would live where housekeeping
is woman's first ambition. The back windows looked ON
,.1.4 oavlx-p thp from
surveyed the golden hills we came to climb Din
ner was served in long. cool dinngroom, with peach
trees looking in at the windows, and was
worthy of the place. 1 should like to take
any aspiring, discontinued woman, and set her
down in such a place. and say to her, "What
with all your culture and craving and phianderng can
you achieve that will benefit the world more than this
pure perfect housekeeping Here where five and twenty
may pass every day. each rested and cOmfOred by the
best conditions of indispensable needs Fifty women
may write mediocre poems or essays, but not one OF
them can bring the and the soothing Of this we'll
ordered home There is uplifting by it, which in the
mental world find only in the best books and the
sayings Of the worlds masters Now only woman in
ten thousand give the poem cannot do without
but the rest Of the thousand give this house
hold comfort and peace for which souls are longing
better aspire and fail do the perfect work
which lies at your handl"
An irrepressible boy who had come with had cap
tured guide. and we faces toward the ridge
which bounds the town the southwest. wanted to
otcr all the way along that pleasant village street. to
pul the bergamOt which crowded through the palings
u smell the stately Ge de u.s. that grew tall on pur
pose 10 be smet and stop and chat with the women
sewing at the open doOrways, to fish for minnows in
the brook. Such delicious, hOmely lesnrely air be-
Ionged to every thing. We climbed golden hill, where
sisused derrick left like dsmanted observatory
Somebody had sunk oil well here and given it up but
the derrick picturesque Crossinga grassy knoll we
came on rocks which have local celebrity, and on
the show-place Of the town. Under the young naples
and pines the guide suddenly stamped his foot. The
ridge rings hollow everywhere, and the rocks which ut
out here are scanned and followed into caves and aby
rinths which only the beginning Of those which eX
tend into the heart of the hills. II was pleasant strOng
among the sweet wood scents and tender LEAKAGE
plusing 10 look down black chasms that make the sun
shine seem brighter and coming out on the Table
Rock where, over the tree tops below,
We saw the town lying, peaceful and devout,
AZ our feet while the misty hills seemed guardians OF
perpetual Summer Few among our artists could give
the aerial breadth and repose of the scene ana ada the
gracious blue wherewith TO picture it. The hemlocks
wore their emerald tips smoky green branches the
little berry bushes on the rocks beside were waxcn
in leaf aud pcrfumed flower and the country wore new
green for many leagues far as we could see But we
went seamhuutng and found rents IN the rocks dark
we could not see their depth and chasm where the
snow lay over ones head and would not waste all sum
mer The rocking stone was found at last but II mas
worn into its socket that it hardly moved 1t Is
mass about co feet high, split of from the Gill; but so
poised that il will not fall though all the ldIcrs OF thc
place make il Sabbath days business TO try TO pry
quite away for the fun of seeing II fa The rocks are
u congOmerae OF quartz pebbles which washes away Dy
the rain so that inscriptions made few years since are
now efaced Everywhere they split and scanned 10
the depth OF 70 feet in creyices from foot OF
yard 20 rods wide. One is shown that Is feet
wide, with lodges on each side for foothod ana
20 feet deep which Cory man, who by the name