The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22
local CoRREsPoNDENuE.


/ Cressnn is now vacant The departed
! guests. however. will miss the most delight
/ ful weather Of the wear. September and Oe-
/ tober are the most ENJOYABLE of the twelve
| calander months on the Allegheny moun-
I tains During these two months the most
/ delicious breeZes toy with the surface OF the
/ mountain and set the vaTiegated leaves OF
I the forest quiverinG on the mOuntain slopes
/ It is strange that the Cresson House closed
] so early It is pitv that so many pleasure
! seekers were forced to depart, when there
| was such glorious prospect Of clear skies
! anG pleasant hreeZes. At this season OF the
wear the scenery on the mountain is such as
! the eve never tires with. The sun, as he
| comes and goes in his golden chariot, sheds
I n glorious light over al the mountain tops,
| and the morning and evening song of the
/ mountain brooks, with the fragrant air
I sweeping through the limbs and the leaves
| of the mountain trees. make music not only
/ to the ear but fill the soul with gratitude to
| God in making all these for our enjoyment
/ and pleasure.
! AS an excellent portait in oil of the late
! DR.. r NJ. Jackson, the founder of Cresson,
/ painted by DR.. Jeremy Wilson, of Hunting
! don county. has been presented TO tne
/ Mountain House bv Hon. John Scott, Ed
4 ward Smith, ESQ. Vice President of the
! Pennsylvania Railroad, and others, 1t is to be
| presumed the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
panv viii do further honor 10 the memory OF
1 the illustrious founder Of this great mountain
/ resort, by erecting a Jackson monument in
! front Of the Mountain House.
! AS 1 sit on the Callan House balcony, gaz-
! ING upon the new CressOn building. which is
said to be the finest structure Of the kind on
| the continent, and watching the great stream
/ of constantly passing trains on the Pennsyl-
/ vania Railroad, CARRYING thousands Of tons
/ of all descriptions of merchandise and traffic.
! and thousands of human beings ] think of
, the great change n half century has made
7 in the conditions of things on the Allegheny
/ mountains The husbandman who first had
| the temertv to attempt to clear the surface
Of lfa rr1 fai n
! compass, axe-and chain the first engineers
/ will If living remember the difficulty of
! chain CARRYING and rod fixing through the
| mountain thckets. The thickets were then
| so dense that IL was almost Impossible for a
| man to pass through them, being almost as
/ impenetrable as a Mexican chapparal. The
| very huutsmRn's life was In danger In at
I tempting to penetrate the iEextricahle laby-
rinths of the laurel thicketS. the laurel being
so twisted together i'm every conceivable
! shape of knots aud tortuities and so inter-
I woven as to make it difficult for an animal
! to pass through them. The first engineer
! corps that located the old Portage Railroad
across the mountain, discovered the slzeIe-
tons Of several men who had been lost and
! perished in the laurel thickets. 1 can re-
member when the man who would have
! dared to suggest the possibility of construct
ing a railroad through the narrow gOrges
! and over the mountain, would have been vo-
ted by avery large majority Of the people as
| ad inspired idiot / can remember when the
! widest IMAGINATION never dreamed OF q rail-
/ road over the AleghenieS-when a proposed
/ scheme for railway over the mountain was
! considered impractica5le, if not impossible :
but to-day ] see giant locomotives thunder
! ing along with train of cars half mile in
! length. screaming their defiance tOthe noun
| tan's heights, it's pFeciptous- cliffs and tur-
! bulent streams and haughtily steam around
and over all. awakening the echoes with the
! vOicing of their triumph. / will here incl
! dently remark that the horse. shoe curve at
. ipA m tha outo y-;E
! of the Allegheny mountain, on the Pennsyl-
/ vania Railroad, Is q triumph of science. -
! Every where on mountain crestS and in the
I yallies are traces of the indomitable energy
! and courage of the mountain pioneers ard
I their hardy and enterprising descendants.
! ] presume the readers Of the FREEMAN
] will be pleased to learn that 'Chet " who at
| first intended to 90 through Virginia with
I the Malone circus as Jumbo has declined
! TO do so. After due reflection he found that
/ it would not do tC let himself out for a Jum-
/ bo to the Malone circus, with view to at
| TENT to turn the popular tide against Malone
/ in Virginia. Upon "Chet's'' refusal to play
Jumbo, the Huhbel committee decided to
! give In lieu thereof to Malone bimseIf $50
! 600, to be used in Virginia at his discretion
/ upon the implicit promise that he will see to
I it that six administration Congressman are
/ returned from the Old Dominion. 1t will he
I cOnsOling TO know that Hubbeli will never
( see that $50, 600 again, and that there is not
/ the slightest pTObabilitv-not the faiutest
|
. Of any other State. If Malone lives M to
/ his principles he viii take the money and
( put IL in his own pocket, which will be no
/ greater offence than the original abstraction
! OF it from its proper owners by HubbeH-
/ Two lower meaneT figures than Malone and
/ Hubhell were never known in American
/ politics.
! l cannot conclude this letter without say
[ ing something about the verdict of the Jury
/ of twelve men who for over one hundred
/ Ffrvrn, 70 10.
/ existence of a conspiracy, which the presid-
/ ing Judge in effect told them was as r1Iain as
| the noses on their faces. The remark able
| ending Of bv no means less rptnarka
/ BILE trial gives much food for reflection. and
! in every land where the English language is
/ spoken 1t is regarded as a clear case of Der-
/ Jury on Une part of two men and one of
Inem tne foreman of the jury. Mr.. Dickson
/ evidently believed that the Government Is a
! legitimate object of pluuder. and that a man
/ who has dealings with it is entitled TO a II he
I can steal lie acted throughout in the jurv
! room as an attorney for Brady and the Dor
/ seys. The universal Judgment is that Dick
son and Brown, one of the colored jurors for
I hlthV lucTe, sOiled their souls with Deriury
and determined that the three DrincinIe
thleVes, Brady and the two Dorseys, should
/ not be convicted, but were willing 70 inmo-
/ late the two most insignificant thieves as
I VIcarlous sacrifice. MANY citizens of Wash
( Ington, knowing the former relations of
/ DICKSON with the Dorseys and Brady. re-
{ -,'iN - "o NNlE NJfdllgt JilaJ DICKSON was
/ accepted as a Juryman, and selected to Der-
! form tie duty of foreman. When the Star
route cases began. all the citizens acouaiDted
! Win the personnel of the Jury regarded the
/ SelecuOn OF Dickson as being dangerous m
4 an honest verdict. He was objected tO nv
/ all the Government counsel except Mr. NTer
TICK who, knowing Dickson to be an educa
Ieu ana accomplished gentleman, supposed
/ nun nun 70 Oe an honest man, and favored his Sc
| lection, thinking that he wouId make on
| honest, trustworthy Juror. The cOIorpd in
/ Tor, Brown, is an illiterate uncoufh sco,y,1
/ drei, but the white juror. Dickson. is an ed
ucaleh ana accomplished scOundrel
Inc older l get and the more 7 learn of
! men ; acu0nS, the more | am confirmed in
| my belief that all the culture and Iearnina in
/ Ihe universe will not TRANSFORMS horn rascal
INTO an honest man, any more than tbev will
| transform a wise man into simpIeto6 Jf
man - porn ScOundrel education only
! equlpS MN for more SuccpSsfui v-iIfaj,,-gS
After all the instruction in tbe world tISo ~
conscience Is the final tOuchstone bv which
tne instruction itself is tried II -is bind
common sense which is most healthy and
hoIuiai NO sOphistry, however iDpe1ious
Cdh Ueiude IT, 1t Is doubtful whether mon,
UaI culture cOnduces to moral rectituda II
heeoS out little intellect to cOmprabend tbo
commands of the Mosaic decalogue or 70
grasp the purpOrt of those two later and inst
/ colIj,lIlahdhents, TO love God supremeIv. ard
i UIS > nsIshOo[ as himself. on which our Sa-
NlOuT declared. "Hang all the law and tba
prophets. Academic degrees have not
enough salt to save the wretch who nor
vereSeIy is bent on doing wrong. Nor doae
Sile lack OF even the KNOWLEDGE tauobt in
DOCKS tenu to weaken virtue or underroi,,a
sound principles 1t is rather the fannItVy
WI MIiEch dlscriminates between the good and