New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-30
Il DAY IN CONNECTICUT.

tia pecuar features have for the visitor from our new
or inland districts Cop,iog as we did from section
marked BY long, straigbtbacksd, ridgy hills clothed at
their summits ith tall forests of beech and maple d.
vided Oh their slopes into rectangular belds on whch
hardly bush sappg has started TO replace the CLEAN
swept original timber and on which the smooth tnrt
ia hardly broken by bowder ecarce ever by cliff or
mass Of rocks the seaboard part of Connecticut was
seen with all the advantages OF marked CONTRAST.
Broken into irregular elevations and hoows, dotted
with huge gray granite bowlders or bare protruoing
knobs OF the obstinate rock, manted On 81 many
Of it's slopes and frDged along many fields with
masses Of copsewood or 6 second growth OAK
aud chestnut, and beaufed by many lesser shrubs
of laurel sweet fern, huckebey, and their many as
soctes the picturesque features OF this district were
fully appreciated by us, and we coald hardly console
ourselves for the prosaic monoony OF our owoeounTy
by rejecting tina, its superior fertility was the cause OF
its wanting 80 many Of these ornamental roughnesses
Few railroad routes unite many features OF interest
as the "sho1e line which whrled past 80 many
neat villages broad reaches of viw and crooked
rocky inlets Of the ocean, to that old New-Haven
whose leafy asles III the full fCsh OF their June
luxu lance III der their shade we're gathering troops
OF visitors to witness the exercises connected with the
departure of the graduating class of the College, many
OF them evidently family groups, the father mothsr
and sters Of Senior proud Of the diploma ne was
70 receive and confident of the position hs was to win
ia the profession Of his choice Doubtful the future
may be TO these young mep they have at least store
OF pleasant nemoes accumulated in that venerable IL
sttutioD, where SO many rational or relied amuse
III, nts useful re reaons and significant observations
have grown pp to replace tee rough sports and diss
tated ndugences which were the only relief from the
oden dry routine of study. The past at least is
cure;" and pleasant past in comparison with that
shabby college life which most of their elders look
back with 20 little satisfaction
To New London through dust and cinder3 yet we
had many bright glimpse Of the green waves of the
Sound and breezy sail the Connecticut at Say
brook.
-- A. Ns~-London, the monument of bitter strife
forces itself the motto. of every wsyarer in the tall
shaft wbich crowns the bis oric nights of Groton To
visit this spot object of our journey, and
crossed TIE ferry and climbed the steep accent.
Quies and peaceful enough s old Fort Griswoli now.
AS tered the gate @ay, forced with such
pelse Of carnage, 40 lay drowsiy Eliminating ia
the shadow Of the old barrack and hen was making
herself comfortable in dusty spot of the The old
magzzipe is broken in the rsmparts are ragged and
crumbIg both embras1res and parapet obscdred In
the taving outline Of the embankment the walls are
bullying out Of form and the ditch is in parts half
filed As sat on the dfy, grassy bason,
black with powder and slippery with blood while the
swarming assaants poured over it, hardly breath
stirred the air. and sound broke the stiffness ex-
cept the cheerful ringing of the little ferrybosts bell
Wherever the old town was burned the tall stone
spires OF the pew New. London from among the
rouI ded elms which hide so many pleasant mansions,
and few blacksided whalers lay az rest after their
long cruises below, where the village Of Groton Bank
smoked snd forty wives made wido VS. on that
disastrous 9th of September few children vsi-
bic in tie street and single stood waiting at
the ferry.
We recalled all the legends of the day Of Disaster
the story of tee wagon piled with wounded in the baz-
ing run and allowed to run headlOng down the hid;
that of the ,rUther of the slain commander who not
actively sustaining the against tie English had so
much favor shown him that he obaided the parole of
the desperately wounded and their temporary proec
tom aud who repairing to the fort after the militia
had resumed possession, ordered by the seminal
(we r.ad III tee Old Testament be- anne bis Pu an
ct ck TO put the sh from off his feet before he eu-
tered on wha was already deemed holy ground of
hsaneestress OF one OF our Jary who going the
where The wounded were lad, stepped, as she said,
" over shoes 10 blood, and who reckoned seventeen
blood relations among the slain. And we remembered
too, the story always current in the family though
never in print to knowledge how brother OF the
Colonel Of tie fort while in command of West India
trader before the war; had for his supercargo Benedict
Arnold OF Norwich; and how, when the captain fell
slightly III in foreign port, Arnold lou apotlecary as
viii be remem beIed administered medicine to him. aud
be died next day; With the pregnant sequel that from
that supercargo satisfactory Of the proceeds
Of the voyage was ever obtained That there sss foul
play was ever believed by the captains relatives but
DO proof could be obtained and few would credit such
suspicion at least until after the later Developments
which exhibited Arnold in bic true character.
Few foughten fields have sadder interest than this |
little hilltop acre, ere every circumstance which |
can excite sympathy clusters round the memory of the
fallen. IL is only that those who stand firmly In
good cause have ever the regard Of brave men, aod
4 at amorg such gravely people as the
New-EnglandeTs a defea in assertion of the tight /.
more bonored than the gsudes success IN aggressive
warfare but these people were engaged in de ,per ale
defensive struggle aud against force led by the traitor
general from their valley; they had has ly re-
moved their families from the spot and hurried back
o stop the invasion before which their own homes
we're bhziDg in opsn view; they were husbandmen,
artisans, Mariners born in sight Of the spot tao flower
d the little settlement around. No list Of slaiu we
'ver read shows such family desolaton The Nance Of
30 less than nsae Averys the inscrptiou six Of
he name Of Perkins four Alyas, four Lesters Ches-
eIs Stantons. Williams and Billings, three of each;
while Of feyersl other families than one appear
IN the same melancholy record
We need not wonder that the citizens of the valley