, 1874-09-27


| Washington. at the ago OF %, won the fame BY
| winch lie was represented as bandit on the
stage Of the Paris theatre. and afterwards gam
ed Command Of tho American arr'es.
Fairfax was too cid for q career: He crossed
| the Dluc Ridge Q fe;s years after this stone WAS
| eet. and built the rudiments OF 4 seltlemen1
| called GreoHawav Court, where ho Avea IN a
common c!aptoa7de1 houae one story ana . nan
high, with q land-otfico aud steward 3 house ad-
! iacent and log cabins through tho woods, Whero
his 15o slaves. who cultivated the land indiner-
! emily. PROVIDED him with srstenance. WhetheE
| unfortunate in lnntrinony.. or poor except IN
land. or lazy. or morbid, ho Lived like monde
| script. and died hko siladow faAns ont 81 sun
set Tho memory Of lis hospitality vaguely re-
| mains. TIC harmed 40 one. Some Of bis de-
| 'sceulauts wcro gallant men and brilliant women.
EIGuTT-E1GHr YEARS AFTEE
+! Fairfax planted the Fairfax Stone, company or
Of anew survey. They we're to closo a long
quarrel between MARYLAND and Virginia by run
ming q line due north to Mason tE Dl1on's line
The United States Government had been called
in to arbitrate. Good old song-singlns Tom Leo
was olaryland's Commissioner; Angus McDon-
aid, Tirgluia's. Gen. 11chler, OF tho Engineers,
ran the liuc.
IL that interval, little had happened to disturb
the sccusion OF this simple mark. whero, like
a table Of stone, holding between its two
guido led the officer to tho SPOT, and disclosed
the tablet and tho letters F--A. a quarter OF
q century before this time, old Fa1fa1's vault
had been opened, and mass Of silver from the
collin n-mountingB and some mshts Of bones were
all that remained. atichlcr cut swath down
tho mountain, straight as an arrow, wide as L
road; aud there to-day the eye can look down
the groove through the gigantic forest-trees,
and SEQ how tue low underground OF seventeen
years has made no impression upon the vista
At frequent intervals ligh monumental obelisks
OF stone we're sot up,-geneIally feet high.
Tie observations Woro made by night. by day
the choppers lAil low the chestnuts, henllocks,
wild-cucumber trees, .shellbark-h!ckories. wild
cherries, locusts and asn trees. yellow
poplars aud white walnuts, beech and
oak The century-old trunks crash
ed in the rare mountain-alr. The pleas
ants 1utterel through the coverts. Ladies'
aud distinguished men visited the party from
'tWlnston and from Washington. and, since
isolation in the forcs cloi5tor. like old statute
IN the folios of law, observed beyond the nem-
oIy OF 1tsqlf.
wAn AROUND THE rA1ngAx STONE.
Scarcely had tho surveyor passed away when
whispers of coming commotion we7e made in
these inlmemorial woods. Something between
E1on in the yalleys and plains belov, la1 been
Eauttered up to tue people OF the MOUNTAINS
those old herders Of the glades and hunters'
progeny, mixed Scotch, aud German, and lslsh
stock. aud otfshoots Of provincial families. One
III. Brown lad come from nowhere TO tho Old
Dominion. Blood had been ahed. Virginia was
dividing on the issue of Union or Disuuion, and
the mountaineers and Western mon would not
march out under the new standard Of tholc low
land tinsmen. From the East came tho SOL
them to submission !; from tho North
and Ohio came columns to confirm
their loEalty and giro then them pSotee, p1,,aso
for twelve years. Down tho Potomac current.
10 miles from the Fairfax Stone, . tra1s-Alle-
gheny turnpike had been in operation since 1883
The cannon at Philippi, 10 miles to the west,
might have been family hca1d ct this boundary
mark one dnybteak in the summer Of 1861. Tho
young Mcclellan WAS driving the Rebellion SOUTH
ward, aud the ford to tue east OF tue Fairfax
Stone must not bo left open to expose his rear
and right flank. About tho middle of july, a
column OF troops, crossing the Backbone from
tho railroad at Oakland, u miles distant, ap-
peared at the North Branch bridge, where tic
wasted leyics of Ga1ne,t had already crossed re-
treating; aud there, 10 miles from Lord Fair
fax mark, the first fort in the .hleshenies Eince
the establishment Of Fort Cumberland, JOG !
years before. WAS thrown up by the troops
of the West. Tho great scarlet and
white banner Of the United States, |
raised to the flagstaff, scarcely blew above tho
10 the gaze or tho regiments |
clustered On the lofty Knob beneath it; for Fort
Pendleton occupied the place where, above all !
other y1ews il tho Allegheny, Nature il most t
loftily a1nphitheatrical; and, projected to tho |
centre OF her circle By narrow ridge Of NOUN
the hilloch Of the fort rises like !
low it the mir drops away to depths OF bIuo dis
lance, where tho Potomac creeps along in its
stony bed scarcely new enough in life to tyy its
strength To that old bridge, and tho wood be-
eond it climbing into the forest. Fort Pendloton
lirectod its cannon. both field and siege guns.
4 covered way, feet deep aud feet wide, OK
ended down the half-milo Of scarp to the bridge
tself, :nd there ri1c-pit and stockado
aphcld another battery to contest tho
passage On each sido Of the fort. d
me Of which the turnpike wound, and on the
,ummt, in the rear Of the fort, Que of the oldest
arms in the Allegheny, established By Ale1an-
lor Smith, of Scotland, in 17s4. exposed its
;enerablo apple-orchard to the sunshine.
SCENERY.
behind this fort and farm mile or two, tho
Backbone OF tho Allegheny rolled through |
ryland, its rocky ribs hardly tougher than
ho forests which had SLOWLY grown upon their
[ecay., For 50 miles this Backbone walls tho
,tate Of Maryland, broken only by = single
t1eam, through whose gap the railway ventures
It one end are Braddocks camps; at the other,
fter LOT yeers' interval, aro the rampazts of
iril war. |
This fort vas laid out by Col. Merrill,
# the United States Engineers. It was
2i 2th anu and ei:iiSa'o Eisht 6o 81 ~ nog@ents,,
he Seventeenth Indiana, and Hove's
regular Battery. The commander OF tho post
ras Col. Louis Andrews Of Ohio, once President
+ Gambler College. An exquisite picture could
o made Of this post BY restoring the wooden |
us. the wason-teanls, tho flag and uniforms, as
spot Of color and suggestion in the magnificent
ountenance Of these unaltcred mountains I
ASSOCIATIONS.
Fort peudcton was so named for the posses
ors of the two houses behind it,-Philip Pen
Teton, Of 3fartnsburs, and Col: \: 6. 4'endle~
on, Of Cincinnati, father OF 'Goutleman
Tst,a ~ I'm for