Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-08-25

They are eyery thing to this stirring ill1le
region Of taverns and politics and printing
Offices. They hide its architectural de-
formiles OF State House-Court House
State Prison-sectaria Pagodas, and diI-
apidated Disiillery-beau.iful in its ruins
Some Of the others would make pretty |
ruins. We trust they will speedily be
left 10 clothe themselves in the interesting
garments of Observation-Disclosures BY the
moles and the bats. To US who do not
deal in any ofthe commodities vended at
the ware houses aforesaid ard to whom
residence in Concord might otherwise be
irksome, there is relief and reconciliation
in its glorious Trees. TIE ira 5eler would
inger as he entered the village from the
northward, under the venerable Films that
oyershadow The ancient Walker seat, and
its neighboring dwellings-and the com
pact and refreshing Maple, that trent the
respectable old residence of the late worthy
Dea. Kimball. Going on, he would halt
by Hoit's tayern,-nokto refresh himself
with the Rum that we are sorry to learn
continues to be sold there, in this day of
light and reform-when the ditch drunk
ards are everywhere rising from the gut
ter, in the majesty of awakened human
nature, and at the bugle call of Hawkins
are kindling up the torch of Reformation
about The benighted meeting houses Of the
land. 1t is shame to keep Rum
Tavern in the presence Of these noble men,
and their anxious wives and children.
Not to drink Rum would the traveller
pause here--who hastaste enough to look
at tree-but TO gaze upward at the peer
less Elms that front that taVern.-They
are remarkably lively and spirited trees.
and of peculiar delicacy of twig. He
would uncover his head, and pass slowly
down the spacious street, over-arched in
sundry places with the outrageous Elm
boughs that spring in arches from either
side until you come below the Merrimack
County Bank,-whose comeliness ofstruc.
ture IS no wise diminished to the eye. by
the tree tops-a superb row of which RICH,
+ against it hide ii from the sight. We
hardly know parch of public way SO
favored with shade at all hours of the day
! as this. Il greatly enhances the value o
the residences there. Advancing, yor
/ pass an exceedingly graceful body 0
{ Films before the DR.. Green house, dowr
> the wide, exposed, and dusty Main street
on one side Of the way, and the Cornthiar
. pile on the other-the temple of justice, o
r christian forbearance, and forgiveness O
debtors" for our County of Merrimack
You come next to where Maple decket
, Centre Street comes down against the oil
respectable Mrs Stickney House, with il
! three magnificent Elms topping out in on
Ia form they have assumed from stand
; ing together and by themselves alone
r Proceeding on, you pause TO contemplate
j with pleasure and regret the thrifty grow
springing in the Stale House yard, plea
sure at the number and beauty ofthe tree
4 and regret perchance at the unnatura
1 straightness in which they are planted
Half the number, naturally disposed, a
the English plant their parks-would fur
nish twice the ornament to the cold legis
. lative establishments that stands up in Yam
. kee stiffness in the midst Of lien. Their
! stands the Statute Factory-the Govern
!, ment House-the Politics Market,-th
fountain of annual, perennial. and perpe!
uoI Legislation ;--where they repeal o
:, modify this year, what they enacted o
! amended last,-and enact this year wha
they will modify next, and repeal III
: year after, under the increasing and vary
! ing light of the age-and at the tune
of 100000 year.--Two or three hun
!, bred, able-bodied citizens Of New Hamp
shire--capable of great usefulness at thei
respective homes, agonize their mind
here some thirty days Of each revoIvin!
years. enactments, notifications, an,
abrogations Of militia law.--of cat, fox
and crow bounty legislation, and pickere
protection--ant in bandying, from part,
, to party democratic asseverationsi eacI
: out,heroding the other, in acknowledg
ment of The sovereignty Of the laborers a