, 1873-09-21
From Our o,on Correspondent.

Oakland, juHt beside tho ratlroa1-stAtion, where
threc oxprebB-trains por diem stop each way.
This house has boen iillol all summer with its
old patrons, md ls still open nndromalns 30 tbs
year round. First conlp tho trout-nshors; no1t
tho aummor-guosts escaping from the hoat the
hay-feyor people arrive in August aud tho gun
nerA, huntors, and baBs-faers in September.
Tho air is delicious; the food abundant aud
well>cooked; and the village affords all tho ac-
comnlolationH Of larger towns in shops, cur
riagoB. markets, and churches. A road has been
1aa out tAis yoar from Door Park TO Oakland,
40 foot wide, and grnded for fast teams.
THE WAY UP.
After leaving Harpcr'n Felty, tho Baltimore q
Ollo Railrund runs 1,u more tu Maryland fur 01
milos. untii it crossoa tho North N;anoh bniow
Cumberland but, for almost all this dlatanco,
it ia right aeroHs tho Potomac, opEas,te tho
MARYLAND shore. As II ropouting for this in
conntanoy to the bride Of its youth, tho 1nilroad
leavos Maryland but onco more for oil thu rost
Of the 10 miles Of Rtfotoh pf 1hat stato, being
lotl asido for matter OF miles below Pio,mont.
Ru1nor has it that tho limo ia to DO atra'ghtoned
tins fail so to miss Cumberland aud nlHo
MArtiuHburg with through freight traias,-tho
Fur 100 mllob tho railroad at proaont paases
through Of within sight Of the westornrnoat and
richest IMMORAL county in Maryland, Allegheny,
"A county 80 tim aud long that it haa recently
Carrot, after tho President Of tho railroad.
He is tho only rullroaI.'nan thus honoFc1
iu nny Of The Atlantic States, and
great hopes 1re entertained lhat he VII 1ospona
tho poor nouutain- people. The present Court
House is the Glades Hotel, and anl using, the
Jnaye's chair and the County Clerks pinc-deBk
to make newhpapor-lettor. hlr. Garrett* de,
ceased brother, Henry Garrott, iB com1nomoratod
at OAkund by pretty ntone church. At the
Glu.ios we have 100 guests from baltimore
rt:Itatlelphia, Wheeling, Cincinnati Cleveland,
Clicago, St. Louis, aud snnltor iutoror towns.
Georgo Pondlctou il hero, aud it Id tho hoisht
of the bass-hshing season.
our LANDLORD.
Our hotcl-koepar is woll-known throughout
tho country HI tho pioneer host OF tlio G1ades
country, air. Dalloy. lie il the father-n-lnw Of
tho celebrated Indian trailer aud cavalryman,
in Arizona, whore ho has tamed the Apaollea.
Tho marriage OF Crook and Miss Daley was
quito romance, and was rudely interrupted at
one tino by :disB Dailey's brother outorlng Cum
rylng Crook out Of his fathers house, although
the town was occupied by 5000 Federal troops,
Tho outer picket was seized, tho conntersign
forced from him, and tho audacions 1tobols
prosaod to the donorals room, and. within boar
Ing OF his staff, carried on both himself and
Gen. Kelley. Tie latter Is now at 0aAland still
depressed 6y tho closing OF his military in
such fashion !; but the young captor of Crook
is now at Camp Whippte. in Arizona, having
bridgcd over tho bloody cbaBm and gone into
! aftor hia capture.
THE AsuEsr OF THE MouSrA1N.
Tho nRceut to oahlanl bogins very close to
tho Atlantic tidewater, Leaving Baltimore or
mountainous cllaractor is PARIS Ridge with q
dotachea knob near the potomac called tho SUI
gar-Lonf Mountain. 1900 foet high. Next is
tho Cahoctoa Mountain; not 30 high to the eye.
vest is tho South Mountain, 1,o6o; wost the
North Mountain, 2,2do !; noxt, knobs, or ridges,
Of which the latter aro tho Tonooway, tho Side
| long, Tower. Ragged, Warrior. Martins, Evitts,
Wills. Dams, Savage, Little Savage, Red,
Laurel iill. Tho highest point ATTAINED by tho
Baltimore & Ohio Ruad is at Atamont, on tho
| Savage, or Great Baok-Dono Mountain Of tho
Aleghany, 2,G20 foot. This s II milos above Pied
| mont, at the foot OF the mountain. Detweon Al
| lamont aud Cranberry Summit lie tho celebrated
nLaDEa
Of the Alloghany. and Cranberry Summit Is z, $50
| feet high. Tllun tho gladoa aro suspended be-
I tween two lofty rock-trcssels, and arc pastures
Of growth watored by cloar streams, which rove
In circles through laurel aud underground, gone.
| times riprlfpg down in trouty rapids and all
| tho rara air which horers above them watta tlu
tinkle Of many cow-bolls from grazing mulch.
ki,lo in copsos ulheen to the travellers eye. a
calm and lofty forost-follage on thu hill-alopot
eittA all those ,neandorng glados tho farms arc
sn,all und frequent; tho pooslo simple, in-
dependent, and law-oboylng, and often quaint
| without loHing their native character. Wood
graasos Of The gladea, and almost every visitol
hriuga Lia gun TO shoot n bird for breakfast Of
tea.
| SO NEAR AND YET 20 FAR.
| Atlcghany County, Md. IL probably the bosi
county i'll the Union, nceoasiblo BY ralroad, anG
| central to several millions Of people, where
willtsoss aud civilization are noigLbors, yet dc
not assiniIuto. At Oakland, tho telegraph, the
maila twice day, palace. e.scoping cars, fruit
| rates, and good Accommodations. with Pitts
| hurgl, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Baltimore, aud
Wnalilngton nenr at hand, nlalo convenience
all tho stranger in TINT fow l'ollrs' rido o'
walklug will taAo the visitor to q cplutry scarce
ly more explored thau tho YoIlowstono or tAe
Colorado. Three difreront yalteys. eacl
within cannon-Hound. ara uninhabitcd ak
unexplorcd ! the North Branch OF tho 20
to zig f9Hshiogh91y, Ha,t FIX non,otiht and iht
hereabout ia so t4in as to recall Tho carl,
| n,oueor layg of Kouton and Crosap, and It fudcl
on fow miles from Oakland to uninhabitct
wilderness, whcro the rast1esnaho mover strucl
the flavor Of mou,.ialr!-inuttol,, tho baltimore
4 Ohio lairoad s kloa!dor stroais Of light a''t
life across this Appalachian land Of nlystory
Tho State OF Maryland, which is very narrow
| scarcely lnnd-SrAat OF 1U SECTIONS III with
anywhere wcat ot the. Monooacy, has Ind no IN
torost In developing tho adlolning parts Of ylr
ginta, aud Virginia Ind nn communications 0
population to til thon,. Oakland lios in tina
ttloop wetlso Of maryland which sink
into Weas Virginia as far as th
Fp!sfsx steno, wloro tho width q
Maryland IL 90 miles; whereas, 30 mIles to th
eastward, 1t il bu, Q miles wide. Aorosa thi
Is miles os Western boundary, tho scarcoly-iu
hablted YougLioglleny runs like q dororto
mont Just beyond, IN West Virginia, The Choat
or Little Monongalela, poura down from its tou
Old Dominion, and aro townloss aud wthou
fagma. The North Branch of tho Potomac
ouually sayago stream, from Piedmont to th
| Fairfnx Stone and far boyoul,-a bOundhr