The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-20


af State and his kinsman, Marshal Sharpe,
= chatty. agreeable little man, are ut the
neer park Hotel, in these Allegheny noun
fn;ns Here, at the height OF twenty-four
hundred feet, is the coolest spot have ever
found i'm the heats OF midsummer. The re-
zion is called !" The Glades," and is unique
even in the Alleghenies, for here and IN
small adjacent part OF Pennsylvania the top
OF The mountain Is flattened Oft and coplous,
springs, llashing 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 bufiaso
also, are now replaced with multltudes OF
mich cattle, who stray up the aider-shaded
beds OF the stream stamping down the rat
tlesnakes, their thinking bells heard by the
wild pigeons in the blasted trees.
THE PRESIDENTS PLEASURES.
General Grant has rooms at the Deer
Park Hotel, sort OF Swiss construction,
with steep roof, many piazzas and Dalco-
MES, an annex for bowls and billiards,
mark with lake, mountain lawn, ana
noble woodland, pierced with drives and
-bridle-paths. Here and ut Oakland, which
is only ten minutes ride distant by rail, are
u
and asthmatics, or people suffering from
hay-feyer. Some OF the latter stay here four
or five months in the year. The hotel pro-
prietor, 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 apprehenslons.
Daily is now man of above sixty years OF
age, Mary Daily, now Mrs. Crook, was raised
at Oakland, and, being attractive and edu-
Gated, she took the eye and finally the heart
of George Crook, an Ohio West Pointer.
The Daily family came from Moorield, West
Va, and James Daily, Mrs. Crooks brother,
was attached to the independent company
of rangers commanded by Mcneil, OF Mis-
souri,, mountaineer, Graded IN THESE
ridges, who returned to their wilds Mt the
outbreak of the war, and gave every Fede-
raj commander much trouble until he was
killed. Resenting the attentions Of Crook to
his sister, on making reprisal, young Daily
and others OF McNeilPs command captured
Generals Crook and Kelly in his fathers
hotel at Cumberland, with their staffs sleep
ing Mt hand, and marched them out at the
point OF the pistol and took them to Rich
mond The father was arrested on suspi'
cion of collision, but he had no control over
his daredevil son. Crook and Jim Daily
got to like each other very much after inc
war, and lived together at camp in Arizona;
General Crook is q 1.-THE, lean, light-halreo
man, OF both military and hunter character.
He will 90 out on the desert alone and sleel
in the sace-brush, and from seeking and
studying Indians so constantly the traits OF
his mind have become like the Indians,
His bright, social wife, who has no chill
dren, accepts his solitude without com
DIaint. He trails Indians with others,
and has destroyed the Apaches, those
proud raiders into Mexico, whose cavalry
was once equal to the Marmalukes. and
whose lances flashed by thousands hospl.
tality TO the American cmigrant. General
Kelly, who fought the first battle OF the waI
and was wounded at Philippi, resides in
this county, and Is z farmer, with young
wife. The literary spirit OF the region Is
Colonel d. FL. Strother, or Porte Crayon,
the cousin OF General David Hunter. Oak
land is the county seat OF Garrett county.
Here resides brother OF the rebel cavalry
man, John Morgan. Eight miles distant, at
Fort Pendleton, the most beautiful spot in
the Allegheny, is the old house of Philip
Pendleton, once the huntingdon OF W. w.
Seaton, editor of the National Ieteltigencer,
who used to have Webster and others to
summer with him. President Grant has
ridden to these places and to West
Union, an old German settlement
near the Cheat river, where there Is cele-
brated hotel for waflles, chicken, Jam, pies,
and preserves. They smoke in these parts
a cigar called a stogey, costing one cent.
The little racking ponies that climb these
hills can be hired for two dollars day, and
thew trot by new road to Kitzmillen's, at
the falls Of the Blackwater, where trout arc
still plentiful. have killed. white pigeons
all day in this country, shooting from the
saddle. These mountains were the alma
mater OF George Washington, who spent
more time upon them surveying, and hunt
ing, and planning internal communications
than he spent in the War OF independence
or the presidency. The memory of the first
President meets in these airy solitudes the
presence of the last President. Perhaps
the future summer capital will be in these
glades, so convenient to Washington.
THE EPIC OF THE ALLEGHENIES.
] have spent two or three summers
through these Glades. Over in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania, a part OF old West
moreland, and in Somerset county, part
once OF old Lancaster, are many tine bits OF
scenery or freaks Of nature and interesting
human souvenirs. There were born or re-
sided or died Albert Gallatin, James 4.
Blaine, Andrew Stuart, Christopher Gist,
General Braddock, NJ. de rJumonville, MI
chael Cresap, Joseph and Philip Doddridge,
the parents OF Thomas Ewing, Hugh Breck-
inridge, Colonel William Crawford, tor
.tured to death by the Indians George Wash
ington, Jeremiah Black, Arthur st. Clair,
and Governor William Lindley. TO these
names must be added in Maryland Cover.
nor Francis Thomas, Philip, the father OF
George Pendleton General Kelly, OF West
Virginia, and James McHenry.
The first roadmaker in the new world
over the Allegheny chain was Sir John st.
Clair, Braddock's quartermaster.
His were the boats that hardly Descended S.
The wild Potomac to the roaring Fails;
His were the floats the soldiery befrlended
To mass the torrents under mountain walls;
His were the bridges over the OpeIuan,
And the An,ieta,m In n, inc morn no Oh niue,
TO scenerics and aestinies sublime.
After Braddock's defeat General Forbes
,e1pened this road. Then the State road
vas built from Cumberland to Clarksburg,
W. Va, about or before 1890, and was the
Srst road used by stages and wheeled yehi-
sles. Next came the National road, follow
ing nearly the line OF Braddock's route; it
IS now in ruins, having been succeeded by
the Northwestern turnpike in 1885, noble
road, now almost deserted, from Winches-
ter to Wheeling. Then followed the rail-
roads. The Baltimore and Ohio opened
over the mountains in 1852 and the Con-
nellsYille road as late as 1870, to Pittsburgh.
For the space OF one hundred years there
has been in almost perpetual agitation q
scheme OF running canal over the ALLIE
ghenies to connect the Potomac river and