The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-07-21

what "Gath- Had % Say About the
Presidents Visit-Perssnal sketch

what "Gath" Had 70 Soy About the
Presidents visit-Persssai sketeh-
e., etc.
During President Grants recent visit
to Deer Park, in the Glades of the Al
legeny mountains, aGath" took occa-
sion to write one of his characteristic let.
ters about the neighborhood, its people
and its memories. "Gath" Is not much
for facts, but his fctions are very pleas
ant to read, especially in the GUNNER
time-he is so cool and impudent. We
make the following extracts:
DEER PARK, Md, July Is.
Here, at the height of twenty-four
hundred feet, is the coolest spot have
ever found in the heats of midsummer.
The region is called "The Glades," and
is unique even IN the Alleghenies, for
here in small adjacent part Of Pennsyl-
vania the top of the mountain is flattened
of, and copious springs, rushing from the
ground, wind through meadows of sour
grass spangled with flowers, and formerly
filled with herds of deer and the streams
with thousands of trout. These animals,
and the bear, the panther, the wolf, and
anciently the buffalo also, are now re-
placed with multitudes OF milch cattle,
who stray up the alder-shaded beds of the
stream, stamping down the rattlesnakes,
their tinkling bells heard by
wild pigeons in the blasted trees. The
Glade country comprises Garrett county,
Nd, and part of Somerset and Fayette
counties, Pa, but the paradise Of the re-
gion Is here in Maryland. The infnity
of these rowing streams, curling hither
and th.ther to seek an outlet down the
mountain, either by the Youghiougheny
into the Ohio or by the Potomac, cools
the atmosphere. The air and the waters
are populous with the oppressed animal
creation, flying hither for breath, and
while l have suffered from cold weather
at Saratoga, the sea shore and
in the White Mountains, 1 never
telt oppressive heat, particularly at
night, in this region Of the Glades.
Here the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
under the influence and suggestion of Mr..
Keyser, its vice-president, has erected two
large and stylish hotels, six miles apart,
connected by park Of broad forest
drives and clearings in the woods and on
the SUBMITS Deer Park and Oakland
are the names of the small villages clus.
tering about these hotels. The Little
Youghiogheny river and the railroad also
run from Deer Park to Oakland. All the
glades have names.
lGen. Grant had rooms at the Deer
Park Hotel, sort of Swiss construc.
ton, with steep roof, many piazzas and
balconies, an annex tor bowls and bill
lizards, park with lake, mountain
lawn, and noble woodland, pierced with
drives and bridle.p paths. Here and at
Oakland, which Is only ten minutes
ride distant by rail, are numbers Of
trout.hshers, pleasure seekers and asth-
matics, or people suffering from hay
fever. Some of the latter stay here four
or five months in the year.
The hotel proprietor, who keeps both
houses, is John Daily, the father.in-law
OF General Crook, whose long absence
in the Sioux country has given rise to
the worst apprehensions. Daily is nowa
man of above sixty years of age. Mary
Daily, now Mrs. Crook, was raised at
Oakland, and being attractive and edu.
Gated took the eye and finally the heart
of George Crook, an Ohio West Pointer.
The Daily family came from Moorield,
West Virginia, rebel stronghold, and
John Daily, Mrs. Crooks brother, was
attached to the independent COM
panv of rangers commanded by
Mcneil, of Missouri, noun
laineer, Graded in these ridges, who re-
turned to their wilds at the outbreak of
the war and gave every federal COM
mander much trouble until he was killed.
Resenting the attentions of Crook to his
sister, on making reprisal, young Daily
an others of McNeilPs command cap
tured Gems. Crook and Kelly in his
fathers hotel at Cumberland, with their
stats sleeping at hand, and marched them
out at the point of the pistol and took
them to Richmond. The father was ar
rested OH suspicion of collision, but he
had no control over his dare
devil son. Crook and Jim Daily
got to like each other very much after the
war, and lived together in camp at Ari-
IONA.
Gen. Crook is 1.-the, lean. lIght-haired
man. of both military and hunter char
acter. He will 60 out in the desert alone
and sleep in the sage brush, and from
seeking and studying SO constantly the
traits OF his mind have become like the
Indians. His bright, social wife, who
has no children, accepts his solitude
without complaint. He trails the In
dams with others, and has destroyed the
Apaches, those proud raiders into Mex
leo, whose cavalry was equal to the
Marine lukes, and whose lances flashed by
thousands hospitality to the American
emigrsnt.
General Kelly, who fought the first
battle of the war and was wounded at
Ph,ilippl, resides in this county, and is
farmer, with young wife. The literary
spirit of the region is Colonel D. d.
Strothcr, or Porte Crsyon, the cousin OF
Gene,a al Davis Hunter. Oakland is the
county seat of Garrett county. Here re-
sides q brother Of the rebel cavalryman,
John Morgan. Eight miles distant, at
Fort Pendleton, the most beautiful spot
on the Allcgany, IS the old mousse Oh
Philip Pendleton, once the hunting box
of w. w. Seaton, editor OF the National
Mtelliqsncer, who used to have Webster
and others to summer with him.
President Grant has ridden TO these
places and to West Union, an old Ger
man settlement near the Cheat River,
where there IS a celebrated hotel for
waffles, chickens, jam, pies and preserves;
They smoke in these parts cigar called
a stogey, costing one cent. The little
racking ponies that climb these hills can
be- hired for two dollars q day, and they
trot by new road to Kitzmiller's at the
falls of the Blackwates. where trout are
still plentiful. l haze killed white
pigeons all day in this coun-
try, shooting from the saddle. These
mountains we're the alma mater OF George
Washington, who spent more time upon