Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-08-10
LETTER FROM NEW YoRk.
San9r nm. Aurnst 2nd

AAAAAF 4AN ~ 1900
This charming village has for the
past week been my headquarters not
oh.y because Of nv serious indispos-
ton wanting homelike sympathy and
GENIAL qnietudc. but the picturesque To-
cation is convenient for me to radiate to
Saratoga, Lake George and other points
o. interest To appreciate the beauty
and grandeur Of the Lake. Won must see
u The glorious hues Of the rainbow.
The rich tints Of the setting sun. fringe
ing huge mountain tops. the soft moon
hight drapery upon the bosom Of sleep
ING waters are not often portrayed nat
nrally By artists brush, or perfectly pic
'ured by the poets imagery Hence |
shall not attempt to give YOU more than
crud, out line Of this So miles Of wa
ter, with its 800 islands, encascd by
rugged mountains, datcing the behold
ers train thickly set though their feet
be with richest Jewels Of hotels and cot
'aees Caldwell Bolton, Dresden,
Hague and Ticondcroga are the only
villages. The grand monuments Of its
antiquity are peaks among Its heaven
ward pointed hills which we're laid bare.
before the Ark was anchored Towers
built by 10 human hands. crags carved
by skill unrivalcd bv ancient or modern
scul ptors Its historical associations are
as interesting as its scenery is charming
II was part Of the highway between
New York aud Canada in colonial days.
The French and English selected near
their fields of battle, and the grim old
mountains re-cchocd the war wboops d
savage Indian braves in their mao
marches for bloody scalps The Monk
with his emblem of peace and good viii
rivaled the warrior and savage in theu
endurance Monlcalm the brave. Faith
er Ioques the phases, aud many others
have invested the Lake with fomancI
scarcely overdrawn by Copper
Four years before New York was &C
cupied by the Dutch, eleven years be
fore the Purltans prayed on plymouth
Rock; Champlain with an Indian gull
started for the Hudson river, but Herr,
Hudson, was sailing up towards Albany
Rogers aud Putnam with their cannon
mounted boats were giants in battle
with pigmy egg-shed canoes of the In
dian feet The ruins Of Fort George
mound with the simple eptaph, paint
ed Fort George, reminds me Of som
If our neglected grave ,rds in Charlie
/ County Fort William Henry at Cald
we'll, towering six stories, with corla
THAN columns and Mansard roof an
gorgeously decorated grounds impress
me with the Importance, of at least,
barbwire fence around orr graves
In Caldwell Jail a man named Willet
confined for the murder of john Pain a
tilen's Falls, whose trials have bee
from term to term Of court continue
through the legal acunen of Genera
Charles Hughes, Of Sandy Hill, tn
most eloquent criminal LAWYER in tn
region He is an Ex-mcmber of Con
gress. aud very genial gentleman. ?
Wlllett has built with a iack-knIfe
miniature church, perfect in ronstrncho
aud richly carved which attracts man.
especially lady visitors. Whether II
sympathy of the fair ones is excite
more by the handsome modest, smut
face of the young rascal, than by Il
Holy assoc: ltions connected with even
small temple to the most high, whiC
they demurely say their religious cdrio
ity prompts them to visit, | cannot d
terminc
In front of every hotel on the Lrl
are dozens of pleasure boats painted
hues. more varied than the rain-bo'
skillfully rowed by fair hands aud erac
D fully rounded arms. be- 'stug, | We
more muscle than the tabled lady Of t
Lake
t did not ascend Prospec mountai
only Two miles high, not being ilsPos
to make a seven mile journey
There is an milan cnnp near F.
William Henry. a hoary old brave di
recently, eyed 107 years. Long Po
and Bloody Pond are over-shad WED
Lake George. would be intercstin
were they called more chphoncou'
Lakes, as they deserve to he about t
latter, ali English army was befrly
' AMI morcifnlly slaughtered by the Fren
Tae steamer Horizon which AVA
the arrival of the cars to take trayeh
to the end of the lake or land them
hotels, is very comfortable, others Il
It saw we're similar to our little pIcasr
IS Yachts. The belt of land, between la
q George and Chaplain is only four mi
N 10 Ticouderago station.
l. So much is written by newspaper mt
y experts. in sitting what is most lntere
7 ing to the public, whose leisure or in'
in nation do not permit them to wan'
r from home, that | with supraorbi'al NJ
m ralgla. and malarlai rheumatism, n
he be pardoned if | tell you only wha
n familiar and omit matters of interest
h. Health permitting | shall 90 to Mont
al and Quebec. The grand scenery
m the mouth of Saquenay river which
p pours mto the St Laurence is gra
tr while Lake George is beautiful.
Thanks to suspicious Fates.
-, sun is brightly shining on the I'll
w. mometor at 100. The shower Of
" night has gently sprinbled the du
p streets. The beautiful flowers RI
cir lovely heads in gratefuness, co
| hear the thousand songs of our
I'm birds and inhale the subdueing odo
raj our wild flowers, and hear the m
on Of ice in Maryland Julep. J. d
o. would say l was happy.