The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-07-20

quainta,sce with Jefferson. Madison. Menroe,
jackson. and Van Buren,. the latter of whom.
when President, paid the old veteran the hon.
or of q personal visit to his humble lrone in
Cheshire. A plain marble monument marks
The resting place of The revered Elder in
the village burial ground al Cheshire, which
we visited, and where we read upon their mon
unents. the names OF many others. whom, we
once knew engaged in the active scenes of life
Cheshire is a pleasant hamlet. on the North
Adams and Pitts6eld Rail Road and is a town
Of wealth and beauty. 1t is, also the resi-
dence of JOHN G. WoLcoTr Esq, one of the
most brilliant members of the Berkshire Bar,
as is universally acknowledged.
NORTH A ADAMs-Up from New York, by
way of the Hudson River Rail Road, aud the
Troy and Boston Rail Road, we entered this
Village among the mountains, through the
Little Tunnel as it is called, in contradistinc-
tion to the huge tunnel now being constructed
through the Hoosac mountain. The little
tunnel is an excavation through solid rock, a
distance of some four hundred and fifty feet.
The 'big tunnel we visited on the 4th Of
july, but, at present, attempt no description
of it, i-4
The town of Adams was named after
SAMUEL ADAMS, one of the magnates of
the old Massachusetts, Revolutionary time e,and
is divided into two villages, North and South.
each of which has extensive manufacturing
establishments, the North village, however,
taking the lead in this respect, as aIsoin wealth
and population. @
The village of North Adams, reposing in the
valley of the TIoosac. is surrounded by hills
and mountains. presenting the appearance of
a vast amphitheatrical arrangement, with old
Greylock, the highest land in Massachusetts,
lthe grand, grim, awe inspiring old Saddle
Ball of our youthful wonder and bewilder.
ment) stretching away in the distance The
population of North Adams is some FIVE thous-
and. The village, however. is not compactly
built as the several manufacturing establish
ment, located in the ravines. glens and gorges
OF the mountains where water power is to
be obtained, each presents the appearance and
aspect of villa, and some of them have
residences of great elegance and rich adorn-
ment. These manufacturing establishments
consist of Cotton Mills, Woolen Mills, Calico
Print Works, &c. &C., and give employment
to many hundreds of both sexes. re- &C.
Main street is wide and peasans street, and
'Church Hill,' is most especially delightful for
residences, of which it has goodly number.
tasteful, elegant and well shaded. Here is the
pleasant residence of Doct. WILLIAM Fl. TY
LER, in whose respected family we were fa-
vored guest during our stay in North Adams,
and with him for our cicerone we rode through
the manufacturing vias.and along the romant.
ic streams, where 7'7' ,l3a
e ssThe whispering air
Sends inspiration from the mountain heights"
To his sou-in-law Doct, HENRY P. Pull
LIPS, a successful and prominent Physician,
we were. also indebted for pleasant drive,
and for magnificent view, from a mountain
activity, of mountain scenery, where, like
the Switzer's airy view.
Hills peep oer Hills, and Alps on Alps arise"
From this view, the blue ridges stretched
away in the far, unfathomable distance, and
were lost to sight, while the main body of the
village, glistening in the sunlight. presented an
aspect of cheerful serenity. as the white bat
Elements stretched along at the base of old
Greylock ,and the Hoosac range Of mountains
AS we thus gazed, we were reminded of the
exquisite verse of BRYANT, himself native o
Berkshire: t-.
aI stand upon my native hills again, -lr+-5
Broad, round, and green, that in the summers sky,
With garniture of waving grass and grain,
Orchards and heechen forests, baskiug lie,
While deep the Mess glens are scoop'd between,
@ Where brawl DER shallow beds the streams unseen
Doct WILLIAM H. TYLER, above alluded to
is one of the most successful, eminent and dis
tinguished practitioners in Western Massachu
setts. He was a student of medicine in New
York.. in the palmy days of the celebrated
Doct Hosack, HAMILToN's 8 surgeon in his fata
duel with Col BURR He is now treadng OIL
the verge of fourscore, but with mind and in
tellect as vigorous and unclouded as ever -
His has been life of great activity and use
fulness, and now, with competence of thi
worlds goods, he is spending, in the bosom o
his devoted and affectionate family, a seren
old age, waiting with the cheerful calmness c
philosopher and the confding, buoyant hop
of christian, till his change come.
Sage sits with decent grace upon his ylsage.
And worthily becomes his silver locks;
| 90 He ears the marks of many years well spent.
Ofvirtue. truth well tried and wise experience"
North Adams was the scene o. the late dt
mestic tragedy, resulting in the death of
beautiful and once lovely young lady, the vii
tim of seduction, while her destroyer, L1rTLl
FLED, the late Cashire of the village Bank, an
q man with family, goes entirely 'un@hippe
of Justice to the amazement of many, no e
fort having been made for his arrest.
The public mind in North Adams is ye
much exercised, in view of this great and vi
lainous crime, which in its details presen,
many features of sadness and aggravatio
which the papers have not noticed. The vi
lage papers while we were there, puhIishe
several columns. explanatory of the se,whic
explanations fully sustain and vindicate th
action of the counselling physicians, and th
opinions of the experts. backed up as the
are by the opinions of the entire faculty of th
Berkshire Medical Institute at Pittsfeld.
The Springfield Republican which is az 'Ir
stitntion in Western Massachusetts,, and er
! Joys an almost unexampIed circulation in a
the villages and counties round about, take
decided ground against the views of the phys
clans, and, with an utter loss of self-respec