New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-11
FROM WESTMINSTER.
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Correspondence of The N. Y Tribune.
SING SING, July %, 1857.
Having in a former communication "done' the
Romance and the History, az well the Geology and
Mineralogy, Of Westchester shall now endesvor TO
reflect it for you from some other points Of view.
Westchester is what the French call pays acct
dtnte; that is, with plenty of ups and downs in it.
The Matieawan Mountains its northwestern cor
ner A high ridge rurs from Mount Pleasant on the
Hudson, eastward through Newcastle, Bedford, Pound.
ridge and Salem, into Connecticut. This constitutes
the southern watershed of the CrotOn well as the
northern one of the Nepcra or Sawmill and Bronx
rivers ard MsmaiCneck creek. Lying as it does upon
primitive rock the coil is naturally STERILE Sklful
husbandry has however, "cOddled it up" Its wheat
does not amount to much, but its grass grows rather
de cidedly, and market vegetables vuIgo, garden
s'a acorn a't the landscape Calves lambs, pigs and
fruit, sprout in happy harmony; and am happy 70
add that Wes.chester county toes the mark with its
corn which usually sends to New Workers in the
Butter and milk, those cOncoustants of cows, tell Of
the fatness of the land" There marble quarries
at Sing Sing and at Kingsbrdge and copper %iae a.
Mount Pleasant whence some individuals tried form
cry to raise some "coppers; but Kobold with his
gromes supposed resisted go much that it didn't
pay, and they msgnanimously let it alone There is
also in the nelghbOrhoOd silver uine belonging to
Dr. BranGreth. The doctor undertook to work his
nine but when he came to count the cost he found
bis expenses per diem $780, and his net gains tysir
cents, whereupon his counteDance became "scklied
DER with the pale of thought until he thought
ii rot worth thinking Of and "cut his silver nine in
order that his silver mine might not cut him. But
akir it altogether, it will be that Westcheste
County is after ALL as Katy Haynes would say, no
Having disposed as well could Of the county,
rhall now endeayor TO say something more partica'
srly about Sing Sing. If man wishes to rise IN the
woIlo let him 60 to Sig Sing There is MI to De
at once ii he have the backbone TO endure it, or "iet
him down peg" if he have any weakness 10 the
joints. When first saw men, women aud horses
climbing that hill with such perfect " nonchalance
could think Of nothing but flies walking mp pane OF
glass could not Jude rstand it until reflected tdat
they most probably stuck to their business, and so
got up in the world" had contracted with the
| pilot Of vehicle to be "toted" up the hill. When
saw what hill it ] was going to GET our, In
mercy to the poor brutes; but when looked around
and lived SO many sitting quietly in tUel severa
cOnveyaIces, and allowing themselves to DC Dragged
by the horses INCREASINGLY up the hill, CONDUCTED
TO lc The cust,m Of IT, place; so sank DacS ana
thought OF the German proyerb which my old friend
| Hen MagIus, used to quote: When you're under
the wolves you must howl along with them. when
you do get up, however, the view richly repeys you
The Tapaan s. spreads its broad expanse upon your
left IL front il ROckland, with it, cooling memories:
little q your right Croton Point formerly Telers
Point bends gracefully around, with its two popars
standing sehtry at the extreme end Tar OFT INTO tne
boom of the ater Still fu her up the RICH. is
Verplanck's Point and towering on the opposite eide
q the noble STEAM rises the three.peaked summit Of
Big Tom while behid are the ranges Of the Ma',es-
| wan and Shaw spgunk When the sun is sinking 10
bis soe en- glory Behind Big Torn msnng the illand
ridges ana airg up their ptei vening valleys With bus
dusky gold while the broad mirror Of the most noble
Hudson reflects the rOe the orange, the crimson and
the purple of the coulter clouds that taropg the ante.
chamber to his couch, the delighted gazer may well
doubt whether broad ocean bounded land can oner
10 the eyes Of any Of its sovereigns loveIer scene
| than this. .r
from the small table land on the top Of the fret bill,
on which the larger part Of the village stands, other
bills rse On the south and give still wider views
| Among the drives " be taken IL one cahed oy the
wits Of the yilsge THAT profane ride" out 70 the
Cro,cn Dam: cid not, however, ilad mucn 20 al
niIe in it. Tie sheet of falling water 10 too regular
The rouI ded edge Of the masonry looked like huge
roller rolDg out rapids at 50 much yard just be-
low the dam they building aveIy nice house Tor
the Commissioners. which 1t Is said will cost muen
| c, npleted, some $4,000 Considering the small
amount of time spent here by them, it Is dfhcuit -
see the necessity for this expenditure. The dnve
Gown tow ard lrvrgton is very pleasant but ne VINO
goes that way must net forget to return by way OF
| Sleepy Hollow, and to time his coming back so as TO
Jet The soping shadows Of the setting sun fah upon
it's hiIsdet, so shall the still oslmness Of Samner
Sunday brUod for brief period, at least, in his
tbougbt-troubed bosom, and he shall drive down the
long slope Of its lat hill prepared 10 take up with
fiesher spirit the daily burden of bis duties aud stretch
with stronger stride to gain the goal OF his desires
A day, however, to be marked, for me at least, with
| white stone, wac that which, with pleasant
party, drove out to the end Of Croton Point. The
CYotoD River debOuches into the Hudson lst at the
neck Of the point, through romantic gorge, full Of
wild beauties, and is crossed by an old bridge. Al
every tu,n Of the road there ae cops snty chsngies
views Of the river, and at one part broad expanse Of
caitsil marsh spreads ont, intersected BY narrow
channels, and representing in miniature the many
cbsppeled swamps around the lower part Of the Tgr:
ard Euphrates, Interestingly described by Laysri
in his last work on Mesopotamia Our driver told u.
ho WA lost once in this swamp, whiia out boating
At high tide the channels have four fet IF wa'e
in Them and the PUSHES are so high that i@Poss
entered the marsh be met two women who were fish
ire. and Who appeared to be quite at home, The,
ma 10 him. "foupg man, you'll get lost here,