Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-04-02

""u pe entertained by their lively wit ana
pleasant music on the piano. We sit down to
dinner at four. The number, of course is great
and the fragrance of the viands is enhanced
and their dgestions facilitated by green pep
pers and Who'll some conversation, which latter
is by far the most useful of condiments, and
which is prolonged after the cloth is removed
and the cigars are lighted, when the ladies
again leave the hall A little before sundown
we take another ride, frequently quite II caval-
cade, upon horseback, and often do not return
llil the moon or the stars are shining brightly.
These rides are very interesting both on account
OF the intelligent and delightful company with
which we are always favored. and of the many
beautiful and curious objects which attract our
attention in the natural world. But we must
defer description of them for another letter
oentiomel .lom The other estates drop ID ana
we take stroll through the works with Mr..
C----and his guests. After which We re-
turn to the parlor to seek the society of the la
dies. On our way back to the house we can.
not help looking up again to the stars. This
perpetual summer air, which comes so balmly
and SO refreshngIy to our faces kissing away
tho hot breath of the sugar mill from our
foreheads and filling our nostrils with the de-
llghtiul fragrance OF the night blooming jes-
samlne, is so pure and transparent that the
stellcr rays come to us with ten. fold brlliancy,
none of their brightness absorbed, none of their
glory furnished by the smoky vapor which be-
dims our Northern skies. We had often loved
to watch and feast our eyes upon the beauties
Of our Pleiades and Orion on clear evenings al
home In the north but here, what SURPRISING
beauty eclpses their poor light and dazzles ou
admiring eye The seven stars of the Pleiade
are ma ltiplied to seventy and seven. and th
star-begemmed belt and scabbard Of Orion ar
almost lost amidst the blaze of lesser light
which shine by thousands around them. Th
whole milky-way, and every group aud cluster
which with US are like nubulous clouds, ar
resolved into their ori 5nal suns all distinc
and clear, shining in their separate systems, an
sending down to US their far reaching beams il
attestation Of their individual existences. Be
sides those consultations which weare f:lmil
lar with at home, bat which we here scarel
know for their increased brlliancy and for TIL
siz and number Of the stars, there are man
which never rise above our northern horizon
and which We now behold for the first time
almost with feeling Of aweas venerable strar
gers, old citizens Of the great universe, VIII
have trod their daily rounds for untold ages
bat who are to us, atoms of day, as new a,
E quaintances. Chiqfest amongst these is tt
(beantfal SoukleIa-i rnss. which Lifts its hril
iant shape eaca night above the horizon, an
shines. II beacon light for mariners in the soutl
lrn seas, with a glory only matched by our mi
iestc Ursa Major.
Conversation, music and games fill up Il
i evening the delightful evening and we 10
toljpger on the veranda and watch the sta
and.the beautiful cuculos chasing each 9th
, up and down the vault of the sky and throue
the air all round us like shooting meteors al
it is quite late ere we retire.