Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-08-02
MONTPELIER vt.
Morning, Aug. 2, 1850.
Editorial Correspondence.

DEAR FREEMAN - W hen promised myself a
few days respite from the chair EDITORIAL and
the perplcxties of "more copy &c., NC, |
did not premise that should take up more time,
and give more attention to a correspondence, by
any means but a pen 50 used to sticking
sticks can't be idle.
From this you will see that have gone over
the line to the Granite State,-not that was
never oat of Vermont before, nor that the Gran
lite Republicans need my services in the Presi-
Dental campaign. This State Of rough land
of rock and stone " is as firm in her adhesion
to true Democratic principles as her granite
hills. But am here, like large number of
others, to climb to the topmost point OF land
in New England, if, perchance, we may get
nearer Nature and Natures God. | never shall
never climb the ladder of fame to very high
point and may be excused, with many others,
for getting up another way.
This annual return of summer birds is good
subject for study. Fashion is coming 10 Craw-
ford as we'll as to Saratoga and Mansfield. The
late hours, carly intoxications, high dinners,
low dresses, cigars, sherry cobblers, brandy
smashers, fumes Of tobacco and liquor, are al
ready here ia abundance. Why says Miss
Julep, just turned Of thirty, "wby, there was
no dress at all in the parlor last eve, and not a
really handsome lady there" There are some
fifty thousand expended here, annually, for
horses, carriage rides, &c, &c. There are
bears, and bug-bears, and guide-boards to any
number of places, which, if once visited, will
never be longed for again.
Here is one guide board that says, Mt
Washington seven miles. and verify, after Il
horse back ride over mud and water, stumps
and logs, and on railroads, some call them
corduroy, and through them, with images of
broken legs, broken heads, and along up the
scaling mountain height, climbing rocks, and
over stones and pebbles, with only mis-step
between you and eternity, for full four hours,
and perchanco you ask the guide how far it is
Well, he says, " the guide board say seven
miles, but we 60 round "a little, and call it nine
and some rOdS'' which, if three hundred and
twenty make Il mile, will count good ten, and
nothing thrown in for broken heads or aching
limbs.
Up "a zig gag path, over piles of rocks, and
comes the Summit House, and dollar apiece
for dinner, with west wind that threatens all
your upper stories, and cold enough for bleak
ank windy March, " coming in like a lion and
going out like lamb" You get inside to
have chance to breathe, and encounter set
of college chums, sons of Southern and city
wealth, which we in homey parlance call
"rowdies, with their jests, oaths, tobacco smoke
and whisky bottles, and 10 and behold, you
are on Mt. Washington, the highest of noun
tains, as Washington was Of our high men,
Now what are you to see? Why, you have
already made your eyes ache, straining to see
the broad Atlantic, just as if you could have
seen the squadron with Queen Vc's pimp,
" coming over " to be lionizod by the "outside
barbarians." But you can't see = Lord Rem
few" nor the Atlantic, either, nor the great
humbug-tho Great Eastern. You can see
mountain after mountain piled mountain high
here Jefferson, Franklin, Lafayette, Madison,
Monroe, &c, &C., each seeming less and less,
and placed an " everlasting hill - to the memo
ry of our fathers. Not one was named Lincoln
or Hamlin, not one dubbed the 80 Little Giant -
nor johnson, but with the winding, circuitous
route down, now here, now there, now up, and
Aanon turning and twisting, and you crossed
lny Breckenridge and winding Lane as il
ostIo the traveller into admiration by thei1
uous demands upon his patience.
bur, long hours more, and you have traV
Il and dale, and come back to Crawl
HI take u seat" to the Wiley Ii
lizard, to Ammonoosuc Falls
I've g seen the elephant and WIN
your " BILL" you will think SO, cdf.
Here it is:
JOHN JONES,
To CRAWFORD House, DIR.
Board for self, wife and child six days, at $3.50
each, per day, $3.50
Three horses to Mt. Washington, 9,0C
Guides and extras do. 800