The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-08-13
Correspondence Of the Boston TRAVELLED
Letter from Vermont.

The late storm with us was n violent rain
intermittent. Sunday, July IA, VIC had the
premoniores Monday, a torrents Tuesday
and Wednesday, beautiful days, with wind
south; Thursday, dcluge; Friday, rain
Saturday, fine again. Bridges were swept
away crops in some places inundated, the
hay in harvest where exposed, carried oil.
The damage will not be greatly felt, provided
the remainder Of the harvcs, season contin-
ues favorable Wheat promises beautifully,
grass is excellent, and other crops, corn in
clu1cd, hold out the happics augurics. The
railways, beyond the mountains on both the
Vermont routes, received considerable dam
age. Both, however, as suppose, perform
their work now with little delay.
The navigation Of the St. Lawrence, and
comm uncaion by the Lake, are the great
ideas for assuring the prosperity of these
railroads. When we shalt but respond only
with facilities to the out-reaching necessities
Of the West, the greatness Of our own dcsti-
nics as the agency of her commerce and the
laboratory of her arts, will be assured to us.
To the same Offices Canada is soliciting us,
with the silent appeal of her undevelopcd re-
sourcos in the garden of the North. Let the
West tell the country its duty.
In my note 10 you Of May 80, I made
no small omission of one of the marked GER
emonies of our neighborhood for lsj0 This
is the inauguration of the monument to ST.
las Wright, assigned positively, since the uu-
der.aking, for Tuesday, August 27th, of this
season, and fully determined then TO be.
This monument is an effort of private sub
scription amongst the friends Of the repuia-
ton of Mr. Wright, of all political parties
set on foot by the wel-known, spirited and
onterprising agriculturist and citizen, S. w.
JEwETr. 1t is TO be reared in Weybridge,
a charming agricultural position, three and
a half miles northwest from Middlcbury
now become distinguished as the scene of
tie childhood and youth of the distinguish
cd Statesman but before consccrated, with
no trivial tokens of Providental favor, in its
soil and surface, and select agricultural
population, and bearing in its features the
marks Of natural attraction so gentle and
genuine as to warran! the hope Of continued
moral and intellectual exubcrance in days tc
come. These secluded towns are the nat
ural workshops of the purest gems of the
New England social system.
The monument is TO be erected at tue car
ly parochial centre of the town, on the spo
where the family Of Mr.. Wright were accus
toned to worship, in front Of the presen
church structure, commanding view of the
Oucr Creek valey in the town, its COX
bow" and the region defined by Snake
Mountain on the West, about the foot o
: which, extending into four towns, is th,
choicest collection Of farms in Addison
, county.
e The work is on a scale adapted to its po
sition, one of affection rather than Of show
yet in dignity worthy of something Of cere
mony as well as of pcrretuity. Both Mr.
Webster and Nlr. Benton have been invite
to be present. and appropriate taleut vii
doubtless be enlisted to give distinctncss an-
emphasis to the feeling or the day. This il
5 the first instance, as believe, in which mcr,
= civic talent has called out from the senti
t ment Of the New England people an ex
: preston so marked and so decided of the re
spect it awakens. We may hope that the
private virtues of social life may hereafter
, be found clustering more closely about tho
memorials Of public greatness; for it is o.
these after all, republican and kindly i'll theil
quality, that the beauty and fragrance o
Wrghfs preference with his neishbors prin
cipally consists.
t lie would have been, if living, principal
actor of those other ceremonies yet before
us, ii which the coronal of civic renown i.
to be entwined about the brow of our frsi
American Institution. This occasion, the
semi, centennial of Mddlobury College tak c.
place on the 2lst and 22d days of August,
the college classes having been organized al
the first Commencement held in 1900. The
= leading performers of the stated exercises
except the poet, are men of the clerical pro-
fcssion; those expected to add interest to the
Jubilee Dinner, and the social congralula-
tions of the time, are men of literary or pub
lie life, of whom the college boasts her share
while she coucedes everything Of courtesy to
the kindred claims Of others. Yet Wright
name, doubtless, stood first in influence and
potency of honor upon her list, while with
those OF Nelson Royce and Slale,it was link
ed in manly association of brotherhood.
Many will remain, doubtless, Of those assem-
bled to share in the college celebration, 10
participate in that which is designed 10 dis
tinguish the virtues of the civilian.
The proposed monument is to be built Of
Vermont marble, in four masses, the foun-
dation of which is laid-the principal shaft
rising TO the height OF about fifty feet The
expense, as said, is borne by general sub
seription, which still is partially incomplete,
The access most directly open to your pub
lie, who would share in or observe these GER
emones, is of course that of the Rutland and
Burlington Railway, oper both 10 tide-water
and to Lake Champlain.- way ol the lat
ter, however, from Saratoga, ard lis connec'
tons at Ticonderoea with Lake George, the
landing at Larrabees point in Shoreham is