The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-22

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Rrmowi- Changes MO3es 81 ifaoefs''g- hoaa'
cd frws- Momipstiey-Rs APT~oranee-i'~
H,rs, Oaio.- The Maiae klis-OpPosiiios to
- pol,fie,- F5ssiksm- Lirsiinsss of The Pro
Ar,a, Dadee-O pDosii.oa 10 the AdSs.ssioa Of
1>.o, .uto ths Union- Vermont lElrbte Erpgt-
Al 10 Raly-Sc.slpiure -Raogges of hssecSs Free
S,l M.Senaesis-" The III CHER La0,' Sc, SC.
m the traveller in search OF the picturesque,
no would see The sublime and The beapti nl in
ssture mingled ia those proportions that compose
excellence, / know of nothing that be more
ssfeIy recommended than tour throagh Vermont.
There is not a iner State 10 the North than this,
and il is not slight Recommendation 10 an Old
Wmld' person lAe myself that you can had in It
More Of what New England was, t1an ia all the
ether fse States combined Time ali railways have
snOo4hsi of or down the Salient poiats Of New
ing and life, and much OF what constituted the
peculiar pecuharities' Of Yankee existence
wives only in old almanacs and iecaysd registers,
md masiy valumes of ancient Newspapers which
seem to have been printed in blood, yellow rs the
appearance OF their letters. Railroads have much
70 for in the way OF destroying picturesque
tours What indeed, under their influence has
become Of the old country radsf They are silent
a1d deserted and the teaus ana vehicles that toey
once knew they shall know more forever. What
have become Of be OLD country tayerns, that Used
% be 50 IN Of life They shat up, abandoned,
md have NO irequenters the gaosts OF departed
Aostlers, employed ID putting NJ imaginary horses,
or putting To- coaches that carried the mails when
Timothy Pickering or Gideon Granger were Post
master General. Twenty years ago, you cool jog
along hig broad at the rate of five miles an hour,
throughout entire day, every now and then fall
hne in with some farm house or conntry seat that
msd TO be in sea ofverdure. the trees, aad shrahs,
srd flowers about il apparently living in perpetual
eandisioD OF dewey freshness At night, yon would
seop st some noted /" mn" that had reputation rs
~ away a. Boston, or perhaps even vas nor m,
known on Broaagay There yoG found an hundred
horses beside yonr own pat up for the night, aod
perhaps So many bipeis Ia the baTroon, where 81
course you only vert 70 smoke r seglr, yoa heard
the freshest posical FORE ign Intelligence tha man
having an hour before brought the /" latest intei-
renee from Washington sud Lircr1ool-that fr
NE former being but tel I'D from the lat
Ter only fortyfive. G. 7er5 wise % cabinets
and servants crlticis ~ You heard OF the
Iass VIC alton Of the consultation by General jackson,
0d the last {oui ons shy which stme one u hs
loving subjects bsd -een having at Louis Philippe
through the agreea Die medium 81 an iniernal ma
chine There was an air of busy life aboat the whole
mace tla6 was calculated 70 leave very sensible Gi
preston on your mind as 10 eligibility Of tavern
existence But, az Sganatrel'e pleasantly 90
erved when giving a sort Of extempore lectlre on
IL cardiac region ;. Cfif ft0H datref0s a.5ssI, mus
sos.s aposg rh1npe f9Jt csld.n That has al been
changed The {" inn h9s gone out blown out by
n bl3st from the locomotive. Tue landlord la land
Iess; the coachmen have become literally brakemen.
The stables are empty those Of the r9bber knight
Of the Rhine valley, after tie knight himself had
mid an enforced visit % the Rlvensten. fasre are
a two places Ia the whole vide wide world 10
lie railway traveer-the station at which be gets
m and the station OF which be gets ont The tavern
exists only IN memory. II has served its purpose
and gone the way OF other venerable Institutions
nuteh cd ha DE2 III a.
Yeer il dispensed in days or yore.
Vermont &c Q fne State, Montpelier y tine
town. and worthy Of being it, capital, which station
+ has held some eghtand forty years. lt IS gem
h rich, but rather dispfopoItiened setting. The
town is low, but TO make up for that, though IN
sort Of nvsrhe lett sense, the hills Atoms high
If YOU DOUBT this try your hanl-Gr rather your feet
At ascending Cottrlts Hill, which is just behind
ne Pavilion House, and is owned by the worthy
landlord OF that agreeable cararcaseT0f. On you
are tired you saw Very likely; bdt GarD about and
ks toe feast OF TIE eye repay you for thewor Of the
legs. You are turning bas 'front.' ~ one u the
finest pictures in New Engaed The prospect is foe,
II il not, now tna. yoa have got toto proper po-
saion for seeing il: Nothiag eau be Il0rs beau
ful than the land, the water, Jhe houses, the
bills, and forth, an uniting 70 form complete
whole. That beautiful stream, yonder, Is che Orion.
Oh, breathe net iss
a its odoes How ia the name OF all the nymphae,
ADd especially Of the Naiades this most beautiful OF
AL beautiful streams should have got the most
Edeoas of al hideous names, 10 man can say Or
Uight 10 lie able % say. Shakespeare Led shen be
najd that rose By any other name would swell AZ
sweet There's great deal in namls, aud II the
Orion were called by some such namo as an ancient
Greek modern Italian would have gwen y, its
beauty would have been doubled, in idea, at least
To think that -trean for which n,tare has done
nBnch, and which along seventy miles to the
Lively Cham pain,
Through woods spi mcsds, 10 SHADE asi sun.
xascrld be lIbeiled and usultea end brelthe1 'pon
BY the name of Orion, IL enough r. nia6e one
xiveu by Some brute else N tae sprt u bitter
srsoshess, iclt h. "I9 was desiros 81 wonnd!ns
fe fae,irgs AZ frftess generations Of men-a point
In whjcs success il likely % crown his auljable
sHaLs- The Indians, WnO chastened their love Of
eaips with sentiment, and wotshiped the and
tae romantic called this stream the Winocskie |.
yss iStt for Christians - convert csoning an ap
psIlation into Onion, One is reminded III So0tts
bucanies, who altered his name from Richard Flet-
cher 10 Timothy Tugnut.on.
The top Of Cottris Hill is a better p1st Of obscr
vstson Than tile point Of 81 Ssviodrs sfeepe whence
Don Cle0fas undsr the direction NJ that most gea,e
manly Of az the desils Asmodeu- looked do Fn noon
the famous city 81 Madrid if one could but nnro)f
oil those houses, what curious Things would be re-
vealeo. And Montpelier would be good 80 Ma
drd small though j. Is for i contains within itself
a the passions, appettes Qngtngs, as1retinns, AMI
mfrmtes that so To make up hnmaD life. MlthVnl
~ Fa5vo, that delightful volume, the Latin gram
mar, profoundly remarks But Asn1deds Is busy
eAerhefe, just now and viii not help % scrnt-
uEe the toibles Of the Fermobtese. Perhaps Bar
Bum has hin sealed up Ia bottle
Speaking 81 Bsrnum a3d a bottle, an reminded
0hst Verrnc NJ ia more 81 q Maine law State than
Maine Itself. Germans ipSis GGmaa,w, Describes
Ae Vermontsse character exactly They enforce the
law hese quite riyidly with nlnch zeal and effect
~ such law can be enforced any where. They 90
% far as 70 shut ~ people who will not, or who can.
mr. tell where they get their liquor; point con-
oeriing which there has been many and such sin
gular instances Of forgetfuines3, TINT instead Of
Neir having quaned 10 rie, one nj gh. be excus-
e for believing that hPpers had been drinking from
Me waters Of oblivion. But you must not infer that
liquor is hard 10 be rot here man II spirit finds
difficulty in getting q ga2s n brandy GIN i
easily accessible 70 my vso Is rp to trap and
be must be a rum customer indeed who cannot pro-
cure santa Cruz or old Jamaica OF the most
approved home made brends--the idea Of en-
snIagng home industry being the dominant
m tbe Vermont mind. The law is IN constant course
nj violation and h h.LL IL II.