New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-20
PIERMONT.
Situation and Scenery-fradition-Dr and
RambIes Views from the Observatory =
Charms of a Summer Home-Andres Death
-Washington's Headquarters.
Correspondence Of The New-York Tribune

| CEDAR HILL, SATURDAY Aug 2, l-ol.
7 date from Piermont, on the Hudson, the
terminus Of that grand enterprise the Enc Railroad
A Sumner paradise, accessible twice day ~ the
Ere steamer from the foot OF Cham5erss;. and a,
almest ary hour BY the Hudson River Railroad and
the ferry at DearmAn opposite Piermont.
Piermon;, so named from the Railroad pier, which
extends full miles length INTO the rIver, was
originally called BY the unmagnat.ye Dutch settlers.
| Tappan Sloat. or dl'ch from little rvulet which
modern taste has re-baptzed the sparku. It con-
tains two thousand inhabitants, has an excellent
Academy Churches. and know Of no place that
offers so many eligible and beautiful sites fer coun-
| Try residences
About the pier new village has sprung mo ex-
ls;ence with the sudden increase Of population from
! sbroad-low dwellings. houses OF reiresAment'
Hotels" they can them and the crowded aooGes OF
lsborers and smart erooms from the stables OF the
iron horses on the pier but the village proper eK-
tending up the green and beautiful valley on botn
sides Of the little sparkill, has al The rural quiet
which makes the pretty New England villages seem
such fit places to die IN after hot busting city life
| The stream to which the village formerly oweirs
name. narrow at the junction between ancient and
modern colonization, widens plcturesQuey further
up the valley. and turns mill in It's course down
ward under overhanging willows and fragrant water
lilies and upon this placid rivulet, now abandoned
TO the ducks and minnows tradition says the short
ski1ted Dutch wives embarked, in the olden time ID
their produceladen boats with their knitting work
| IN hand 20 begue the tedium of the voyage down
the Hudson TO the New-York market, and that on
still day the click Of their knitting needles might be
heard at any imaginable distance.
| There are many charming drives and rambles
about Piermont and It's vicinity Upon the hills, all
around stand handsome residences. looking out from
the midst Of green trees. and from the observatory,
placed on the highest summit, IS a magnificent and
wide-extended view Of hill valley and river, OF me
beauty and grandeur Of which the eye never weares
Away to the left cluster the white houses OF Nyack
and from beyond the purple headland, now phed
high with the gold and crimson clouds OF sunset
innumerabe boats, with their snowy sails ou'Spread
and looking. at the hight from which write, IKE
delicate white moths, glide into the broad Tappan
Zee. and skim downward along It's CLASSY surface
Later when these shall all have passed out of sight
and the waters grow darker beneath The twilight you
NAV fancy the wide bay to be Desert stretching
afar INTO space on either hand and the lowland yon
der on the margin, with Its little settlement of shan
ties with their dark pointed roofs to be green OASIS
with its primitive encamrment of wandering Arabs
Al evening lingering on the broad PIAZZA which faces
the Tappan Zee We NAV watch the lights moving
along the waters, and recall the thought ofthe Ganges
bearing downward the tiny flower wreahed bark, la
den with the faie-lamp Of the pnlng Hlndoo maiden
Or we may sit IN the moonlight, tonight, perchance
and with the sound Of low sweet music from within the
house (house wherein abdeth genius and goodness
TO produce Christan millennium. and beau
~ enough to form a MahOmedan paradise) stealing
over our senses feel that here matterof-fact people
tft.o tpf,ful 10 IN
talk German metaphysics about "pree rstence" and
souls revealed each other former state united
again in this Who has not felt the delightful reac
ton with which, when beyond the brick walls of the
CITY, We throw of the restraints that hedged IN our
hearts and some OF the peasantest friends made IN
lifetime are onenest found amid the unresiraned
intercourse of a Summer home. The children grow
brown and brave. High up in the tree goes the
swing with It's lnfantile freight, lmpeled by the
hand that three hours ago was busy, perhaps, with
bonds and stocks and the glad laugh OF encourage
m6nt that follows the child up, up among the green
bOughs comes from the heart that has leiI It's cares
behind with the city smoke There Is BIRDS nest
low In the bushes, ITS solitary nesting yet unfedged,
and ewes that have become familiar an the great
world with the excess Of human wretchedness, watch
with the children the slow growth Of the bTdlng's
iealhery coat, and spectators in great mercantile
ventures talk with interest OF the probable time OF
brides approaching flight.
Two and half miles west Of Piermont lies Tap
pan. interesting as the place where Andre, the We
tim OF Amoid's treachery 10 hs country, and The
martyr to the uSages Of warfare, was imprisoned and
executed. They show ms prison here but It has
beenrurned INTO bail room and Ms portrait, sketched
by himself on the wall, has been nicely papered
over. but the tree whereon he hanged still stands
1aytSe said N h4r -
been the quarters Washington. 1t Is \ low. Dutch
farmhouse butt OF stone and IN the room " here
we entered stands the antique fireplace, now 50
rare boydered with tiles, cunously representing
Scripture scenes-the sacrifice OF Isaac, Jonah and
the whale etc. Here are also some dishes, and a
punch-5owl said 20 have been used Oh Washngton's
table and the elderly lady-propnetor, Who shows
the house keeps an album, wherein visitors inScrlbe
their names, and from which copied the following
spirited lines
There's a name on the page of our countryS proud
story,
Accused where the hearth.fres OF liberty glow
It's the name OF the traitor, who TO gold yleidhS
glory, =,
Would have gwen our land TO the chain OF her foe.
The srandsire grasps >iemly the brave sword ne
weareth.
While bright IN ms sye CLEANS the patriot flame
And the child shrnks, appalled, from the SOUND "eh
he heaIcth
The name IN our history written IN shame.
And the mother folds closer the babe she's caTesSng,
And breaiheS DER It's young head prayer deep
ana low,
To the God who bestowed on her children blessing,
! Who delivered her SONS from the chain OF the foe
On fllse To IN Ut ana the proud idnd thai bore "a,
Was the heart That could doom US ~ bondage again
Bu, We fought for our homes, and just God was
DER lis,
To shield Us iron tyrannys Scourge and her chain.
Would YOU ask WHO Tor golG battered country and
glory
VINO base would have yielded our land 10 her Zoe ?
| Ii - ARNOLD, the traitor accursed IN story
| Wherever the hearih.hIes OF liberty glow
| MARY l. HEWITT.
SO YOU Will observe that the Of this region IN
spires patriotism Is well as sentiment.