Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-08-30

And the low sweet tones of running str cams
, Come to thee In the realm Of dreams.
The gentle zephyrs thro' the solemn pines
Echo as holy as Umbrian chimes, -
And the calm fair moon on her marble tomb.
Shine thro' the willows sombre gloom.
'Tis there she sleeps and there we long
To hear her voice from the Land of Song.
But that voice is still. and the flowers dream on
In the twilight eve and the Summer dawn.
Peace to thy slumbers, oh sainted one,
Where the wind-harp plays and the waters run
Yes, loved and lost. sleep on. where flowers
Wave DER thee through the lonely hours.
/ Letter from Maryland. -
p.. -- Hslis-f
| CUMBERLAND, Nd, Aug. 21. 1881.
DEAR SPECTATOR:-It has been
some time since you have heard from
Il me, and may therefore receive this with
3 corresponding degree of good feeling.
am, you see, in the Mountain City OF
Maryland, enjoying its most iDvig-
Grating atmosphere, which is partic~
uIarly appreciable, because of the fact
that 1 have been all the season swell.
tering in Eastern Pennsylvania. Cum.
berland is very pretty and q very
busy city. The Potomac wends its way
directly through the town and separates
the residential from the business por-
ton mainly, though, of course, many
live in the lower part of the city also.
| Passing up Baltimore street from the
FQueen City Hotel" q very costly and
handsome edifice, built by the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad Company for the
accommodation OF its passenger traffic,
and operated by them, you cross the
river, and find yourself Immediately at
the foot of old Fort Cumberland, built
by Washington on his famous retreat
from Braddock's defeat. Upon the site
of the old Fort now stands one Of the
most picturesquely beautiful churches
it has ever been my good fortune to see.
1t is an Episcopal church, and in the
evening attended services, and found
the interior in keeping with its outward
appearance. They have very large
and handsome organ, and one of Cum
how to manage 1t, and Is splendidly
supported by very fine choir. i, had
heard the music was exceptionally good
and was not disappointed. From here
you can plainly see all around you and
over the city. Thescene Is grand. You
seem to be stardiDg in one vast amphi-
theatre, while to the northwest you can
most plainly see Cumberland narrows,
through which passes Wills creek,
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Pitts
burg & Cumberland Railroad, Cumber-
land and Pennsy lvania Railroad, Bed
ford Division of Pennsylvania Rail-
road, Georges Creek & Cumberland &
Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Ma
tional Road from Baltimore to the Ohio.
So near together are the tracks of these
railroads that one ignorant of the facts
would naturally imagine that they
were all tracks of one road. The pass
is very narrow, not more, I should judge,
than 300 yards wide from side to side,
but through 1t run all the roads and the
creek.
The war whoop of the savages has
been succeeded by the shrill scream of
the locomotive, and the primeval si>
lence of the mountain forest is now
broken by the laundering of more than
half hundred heavy trains each day.
What transformation comparatively
short period of time has made in this
hill-the identical spot-once Fort Cum
berland, where the council of war was
held around the blazing campfire,
which was in turn surrounded by the
weary forms of the soldier and the pio-
neer sleeping on their arms in hourly
expectation of an assault from the saw
age foe, whose demon-like yell can be
distinctly heard in the forest, just
around on this spot stands day the
handsomest church edifice you will see
in many days ride. 70
The trade of this city is mainly its
coal. and the Chesapeake & Ohio canal
and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad seem to
vie with each other in an effort for its
transportation. noticed also a num-
ber of cars of iron ore for the Pennsyl-
vania trade passing through, and was
Informed by the dispatcher of trains
that at one time not long since he had
as many as SOC cars of iron ore in the
yard of his Company. A great deal Of
foreign ore is passed over this line from
Baltimore to Cambria Iron Company
and Pennsylvania Steel Company.
The future of Cumberland must be
bright, with SO many railroads, the ca
nal, and coal, iron, and limestone is
near. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company have large Rolling Mill
here, and work large number of hands.
The have also in connection Herewith
and night This and other industries
in this city should make money easy.
You in StauntOn have the coal, iron,
and limestone near at hand, the land
cheap, all the transportation you can
wish, and gentlemen who represent suf-
fcient capital. Why then don't they
do for StauntOn what other men Of
means do for their cities and towns?
Must we acknowledge want of enter
prise? / am afraid such is so, and we
must own we are behind in this age Of
progress. A Rolling Mi would be q
grand thing for Staunton, and Staun-
ton would be grand place for Roll
ing Mill.
twenty-five miles northwest of this
| city is Piedmont, the point from which
Hon. II. G.. Davis is running his new
road, which will eventually tap the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad at or near
White Sulphur Springs, and that will
be first class blessing to the people of
the counties of West Virginia through
which the road passes. 1t will develop
and bring to market iron, coal, and
timber of unsurpassed quality, and in
quantity almost unlimited, Within
few weeks think of taking horse
| back trip over the most of this new
| line, and should find anything of in-
terest to you shall drop you line.
| am sorry that 1 will not be at home
to give MI. Malone one more of those
silent little pellets that this fall will
cause an operation from which there
can be no reaction, and which there
fore must be fatal in its consequences.
Such day will be glorious one in the
annals Of the Old Common wealth. So
with my best wishes for such g. happy
contamination, remain, zssis. .h5f
A WANDERER.
CLEVER DOG.-Here is an authenti-
Gated instance of practical joking fitly
reciprocated A friend of mine has q
rough haired collie, wise and exquisite
Fly modelled. One evening lady Of the
household, with whom he was q special
favorite, stopped quietly as he lay half
asleep on the rug, and placing her face
close to his head, blew sharply with q
slight shout in one of his ears. Tickled