The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-26
A SOLITARY HDRSEMAN.
How the Rev, Mr. Wyeoa Has Ridden fram
New Orleans to New Iersey-An
Interesting Trip.
IN. Y. SUM-

There passed through the State Of New leg
sey last week q solitary h0rseman, who at
tracted much attention. He was q Young
man with sun-hrowned face and luxuriant
beard, clad In a dark riding suit, woolen shirt,
hign riding boots and wearing on his head a
!afge white cork helmet. He rode a bay mare
that to horsefnen showed good points. His
saddle was "McCieIian,' with big leather
covered wooden stirrups, and slung behind
him were saddIebag5. Man and horse showed
indications Of maGn travel. New Jersey peo-
pie stared at the horseLnan as he rode, and
children followed him.
horseman sitting with friends in pleasant
farmhouse near the Lesser Crossroads. In
Somerset county.
IF you had not ridden so far to find me, -
said the Rev. A. n. Wycoff, Il should refuse
to have any account OF my iourneyings print
ed. / don't want to be siassed with the wheel
barrow and hag-carryiag characters that
roam through the country seeking fame. My
trip was made in search Of health and recrea-
tion simply. Last spring | received q Call to
the Canal Street Presbyterian Church in New
Orleans. had been preaching Ia the Centen-
nial Mission Chapel, In Wyckoif street, Brook
lyn. I went to New Orleans. When It came
time for me to take N = two months vacation
I decided that horseback ride to the North
would give me as much recreation, healta and
information as anything else. / had taken
such trips before, once riding on horseback
through Syria, froLa JerursaIsrI to Daraas-
Mcclellan saddle and pair OF saddlebags,
into which put change OF Woolens. aad on
June [ began my trip at in the
morning. I rode thirty-dv miles that
day and for twenty miles / neither saw
house nor human being. I had nothing to
eat until Z O'Clock that night. That was
rather d disagreeable experience for the first
day. I kept up along the jackson Railroad
for one hundred miles, tWO-thlrGs II the way
being through the great pine woods, 3 lone
some ride. Leaving the railroad, I went
n0rthe. st, to Gainesville, Ala, and thence to
Tuscaloosa, where I rested two days. From
Tuscaloosa to Gadsden my route lay through
the great cotton region Of Alabama At Gads-
den put my horse on boat and went up the
Coosa river 20 Rome, ga. The distance was
about one hundred and fifty miles, and the
trip lasted two days. 1t saved rae fifty miles,
and the distance across from CJSaSden 70
Rouae aud gave both the mare and myself
needed rest. With that exception the whole
trip was made on horseback.
'.From Rome my route was nearly due
EAST through most Interesting and pletuf-
esqae country. | passed throagh tae go-s.-
mining region Of Georgia, aud a5 Dahlonega
I saw Il kaine where 5000 worth Of ore Vas
taken out the week before. ytSfted the nCSed
Tokoa fails, crossed tee Iagasoo river, and
rode iGa0 the northwest corner 81 ooath lafC-
INA ii pIckelS county. l made an eXCu@eloL
ap to 'Ca5ar3 Head, peak OF the Blue
ridge on the line between North and south
Carolina. I came down on the fourth OF July,
and At the base OF i,f'5;lr 8 E6ad saw LIZ
stars and str<prs il front Of a farmhouse. I
rode up and 5old tEeL Was glad te see the
lIag. Iher proved to be Northern family,
and were eddent3y glad to talk WITH a Horta-
eZ1er.
..Ihencs / weat into BuEeombe county. in
sorth Carolina In 1boeviile, on the Freach
Broad river. / stopped tive days. making ex-
curaioL.s into the surrounding eou1trY and
mountains. climbed the Craggy naoIatain,
the highest leak east Of the Roe1y nouatains,
$500 fset above ths sea le7el. Passing through
the Hickory Nat Gap pass, in the b aa ridge
/ rode due. north through MaSion an4 Iur sey
| Cove, UP the LildV1ile river, stopping al tbs
! Liadvilse falls; thence through Wautags
county into Virginia by tina Bent mountain
At FIncastle halted for sever al days am
made excursions to the peaks of Otter ans
the Natural bridge. I rode TIE whole length
LOT the Shenandoah valley, visiting Wyer'
cave and Laray cave, in Page county. Lura,
cave contains the most remarkable stalac
tites have seen. At Harper's Ferry Ierosse'
the Potomac and rode through Maryland
crossed the SusoushaLna at Wrightsvllll
and the Delaware at FEenehtown, and on oas
nrday last | rode up to a friends farm a.
Flemington, n, j.. riding forty-HFe niles slia a.a
day IN order to get there. mad riaasna r =. -. g,
miles in ten weeks, resting tWentyt.ws .sot ri
: ard riding forty-eignt days. Ii az 41-'S
/ no unkind word was spoken 20 mer oo,,id visi
.I summed large towns. Inoss so---