The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1854-08-18

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W, CONNECTED ~iia ibc mysterious no,se--
Il being boihing more uar less u,au The
saund 81 huge sieam sh.siie attached 10
ne engine d, ihs Machine Shop a Rat
land nepo,--to cal the hands, and co. 9TH.
or purposes connected with The pork,
iou msy laugh st all ih.. bat assure
you g iras al The time no laughing uaitcr
rc't4 ~ and nov, should you usk hat all
this has 10 30 with Eph's not reading your
letter ; ~i'ltsil You. Eph. ia his VISIT TO the
depot an the occasion referred 20, formed
the acquaintance II one or two hfomen and
a brakeman npon the road bee saw the
mysteries 81 the Machine shop, and the
wonders Of the Mound house IN his visits
there sHr,. be has made the farther &c
quaiuiancc ftwo or three engineers,
conductor or two, and IN one If his night
amblcs be sirullod into the round house
aud fell m" with the man that "sets mp
onights7 to watch the engine; and the
Consequence is,-Eph Is now engaged in
the preparatory reading Of an address to be
delivered upon the occasion Of n "pIats
prsscrtai,oH; to be made 10 the man who
"tunks" the wheels Of the ears when they
stop, TO sec tina, "al is night 50 that they
can again "go ahead" This man, as |
understand II, Is particularly deserving Of
this tribute ! learn that he has been In the
service ofthe Co. for a long time that he
has never "tunkcd" wheel so hard as To
break IT. and # he has ever failed to dis
cover a flaw or imperiee,ion--th conduc-
tor has usually iouad it out coon after
which perhaps is Just as well.
In that portion of your letter in which
you alludc TO the politics Of our County
and State, and when you ask how man
can consistently act az Chairman, or as an
ncquiescing member even, Of our County
Convention which endorsed the resolutions
and adopted The nominations Of the Rut-
land Convention OF the eth June, and then
support or favor the nominations Of a sub
sequeDt meeting one universal she can't"
arose from among rs and so emphatic
wss the response that our feathcred o.
chestra took for a time a hasty departure
and for the instant the noise of the brook
was si'enced. At this juncture, Uncle
Hezekiah lscnior) felt called upon to ex-
press his entire disspprobation of any such
course as was here alluded to, and express
sed his surprise that any true Vernonter
( could thus stultiiy him and thereby cndan-
ger the giving Of that expression Of senti-
ment which the Green Mountain state
owes to the cause of freedom in our land
Uncle Hez was exceedingly happy las you
know he usually is) in this oirhand effort
and within the twenty minutes which he oc-
cupied, though the birds were not noticed
they had rctunod-and though the muir
muring of the brook was not heard-i,
might have been but for the close attention
I paid to Uncle llez. In the course of his
remarks he said that we at the Hermitage
should countcnaDce no such Hopei de
does as this; lac said that no man howev-
or strait or however crooked he might be
however bent; whether naturally leaning
backwards or forwards, could consistently
or safely thus stand with one foot on one
| platform and the other on another: and
THIS, added he, is as plain as the wart on
aunt Inpha's nose Now il might not
have been right hardly think il was
for Uncle Ilez thus to bring his compari-
son home so directlyto Aunt Ziphs, and for
a time 1t was matter of uncertainty as to
how she would take it. 1t is true that
Aunt Zilpha has arrived at that age when
1t is supposed that most Of the idle yanities
I OF youth have left her--and yet, when
thought OF the reply which the French lady
Of ninety made 10 Talleyrand, when he
asked her " at what ags woman lost her
love for the gallantries of mcn 2" confess
my fears for the result. But all suspense
was OF short duration. Aunt ZilI ha wav.
ing her hand as signal that she had some
thing to say, arose, in the frs, place" as
she said, to toreire Uncle lIez for the al
lision TO her person, which he had made,
and to say tina, II was not the first time. she
had been called upon 10 suffer for the cause
held 50 dear at the Hermitage. II was not
strange 10 her, as Uncle llez was at the in.
slant looking directly at her, that the idea
II the eomparison occurred 10 him. She
said she supposed that she, or rather her
nose, stood, in the way Of an illustration.
before Uncle ilez,--yery much as the ten
perance cause did before Dr. Powers and
his followers al tie Mass Convention Al
MonipelieF,--a hiaP 10 Be handled and
she would only add IN behalfboih Of the