New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-29

former butIer now engaged in the mechanical de-
partment the other the son Of former clerk in the
same department. . ,.,. ~
WashinSton Irving gives and the force of the words
he puts into the mouth OF his astonlshed Rip van
Wrinkle on awakening from his forty years nap
Recognized only by one two aboriginal relics, he
almost douhts lis own identity. And having slept
less than fourteen years out OF the 1ory nave spent
in the United States, wake up to the CONSCIOUSNESS
that as far rs Scotland il concerned thus lar she IL
"a coninieto n Metropolis IN which the past hes
buried as is the cemetery OF that name that LOOKS
down from the oyerhanslng mn upon the uaSso wv
cathedral having now but lew llhhs plhuins ~ W
the cham of current events r. A., :4o
dnction of these personal "reminiscences ana Iehcc
tons. Ii may, however, not Do a"ogeCllSl
useless thus to sketch the changes between the
period where not mile Of railroad or oil telegraph
wire existed on either continent, and tnat OlueI
period the present epoch of mental activity anu
achievements unparalleled in the history OF tue
world should be ungrateful to the Glycr OF all
good, TO close these remarks; wtno9t %
ing how favored have been IN thus living 10 SEQ
every increased physical comfort, as III travelling ~
well as TO appreciate every advance movement anu
every effort in behalf OF the great DIotherh S 40
witnessed for instance in Sunday Schools LOT inc
destitute living also to see chance tOfthe OpeSseu
i'm every land 20 better their condition by emigration
to tho Land of the Free and the SOIL Oh tne Dl'G
and wihal even to enjoy these advantages ana ne
generally with as much Zest rs when hrst daShca
barcbacked on my Shetland pony over the GROUNDS
of BTaXtield House.
boutwell, CASTLE. =,
If the Scotland Of the present day Is NeCropoNs OF
the past and the departed spirits OF antiquity, on
which, like the green grass of the cemetery nur-
tured on the decaying materials, there now springs
up an animation, quckened into activity by trans
Atlantic example for the labOring classes IN Scot
land admire and bless the United States OF AmeTlca,
then Boutwell, Castle may well serve as tho type OF
buried chivalry feudal systems, cross-boWs, afmor,
grey goose shafts and the beautiful mansion IN IT'S
| front may betokcn the days of steam telegraph,
needle guns and dynamite, submarine thought-send,
| ing miles below tho surface of the ocean, @rlai
body-sending provided our Spanish castles should
prove good waystatiOns in the atmoSpheTel as Tar
! above the Atlantic horizon as the cable ID below.
1t belongs, as well the whole estate; slnce 1871
TO the Countess of Home, since the death OF her
uncle Baron Douglass. In that family IL had been
presume ever since the time when its Lord refused
! TO shake hands with Lord MarmOn, not estceInng
him his peer, and Scott makes the latter reply
Lord Angus thou hased, and the former to shout:
Hol Warder, hOw ordering the portculis to iall,
which command is obeyed just as tho crOupe OF Mar
mions charger clears the bridge.
The walls are IL feet thick and co high, length A
width 100, a great portion covered with ivy. The
d" donon"i is plain enough and the moat may DO
readily imagined beside the Clyde flowing near ~
base ON one side must have added TO its inaccessible
ity Splendid is this ruin, humanity cannot but
rejoice that the days of it and It's conquOreTs nave
been brought TO "A close.