New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-18
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orrIcIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
Especial Correspondence Republican,
TEN DAYS IN MASSACHUSETTS

Especial Correspondence Republican,
TEN DAYS IN MASSACHUSETTS.
WAYNE COUNTY, N. T., September 5.
Since last writing to you from this place.
have made a ten days trip to the ''Old Bay
State" to visit friends at East Lexington,
and to see Boston. This, which would have
been serious undertaking some years
since, is now no more trouble than to go
from Carrollton to Canal street.
Starting ON bright Friday afternoon,
took the sleeping car at Palmyra. steamed
away from the setting sun, amid the charm
ing scenery of Western New York, and, on
awakening next morning. found myself
near Springfield, in Massachusetts, and sur
rounded by scenery still more beautiful than
that I had left behind. The road ran
through an enchanting valley; and close be-
side it danced slender stream, glittering
in the rays Of the rising sun. Ever and
anon the shy creature would dart away and
hide herself in the woods, but only to return
again and brighten with her smiles the toll
some path Of her rude companion. He, like
a steady, sensible fellow, went straight on
about his business, Indifferent apparently
to the frequent absences and speedy returns
Of his lively spouse, but at heart delighting
in her presence.
Thus they journeyed on together, like
MANN another couple, each the complement
of the other; he doing the hard work, with
out which life could not be maintained: she
( Frightening it with the beauty, without
which it could hardly be endured.
On each side of the road, nearer or more
remote, were lofty hills some rising into al
most mountainous grandeur, their sides coy
cred with verdure, and broken here and
there into picturesque roIghness by huge
: masses of protruding rocks. Through this
beautiful scenery, over-arched by as blue
sky as ever shone upon Italy or Louisiana.
and surrounded by as balmy an atmosphere.
I passed, exhilerated with pleasure. and
quite surprised that SO many of my fellow
passengers should be stolidly devoting
themselves to the perusal of their news
papers and books.
When the cars reached Boston, found at
the depot the gentleman whose family had
came to visit; and there being barely time
TO catch the train for East Lexington, we
whirled through Boston with only passing
glance at its thronged streets and stately
rows of buildings An hour later, at East
Lexington, I stepped, for the first time, with
a thrill of patriotic pride, upon the historic
soil of New England. Here, along the
very road upon which we were now saun-
: tering, had once thronged the reused yeo-
many of revolutionary times, eager to
meet and drive back the scornful foe, and
quite unconscious that in following the sim
pie dictates Of enlightened selfinterest they
were earning for themselves undying fame.
East Lexington, in fact. is only prolonga-
ton of that village which has given its
name to the most memorable skirmish
ON record, and shares in the same
historical recollectiOns. Some of its most
influential families at the present time are
descendants of those who led the heroes of
that eventful day. In point of beauty. it
is not excelled by any Of the irregular. pic
turesaue, elm-shaded villages that environ
Boston, and that is saying much. Among
other points Of interest 1t boasts possession
of an eminence proudly called 'The Noun
tain," from which may be seen charming
view, most beautiful at sunset. Of wellcul-
tivated fields, and rustling woods, and ele-
giant villa-like farmhouses, and lovely vii
lagos, from each one of which the Heaven
pointing spires of more than one church in
dicate the aspirations of its inhabitants.
just here may be noted the fact that, in
this part of the country, the people seem
divided chiefly into ''liberal Christians and
Roman Catholics; that form of Christianity
which arrogates the title "Evangelical' be-
ing in hopeless minority.
The next day after my arrival being Sun
day, we rode to Arlington, a village. three
miles distant, to the Universalist Church,
where we listened to a very able discourse
from TIE Rev. w. T.,Stowe, of New Orleans,
who is spending his vacation in this place.
Passing along the high road, enjoyed the
beauty of the country even more than on
viewing it from the car windows or the
mountain top. The extreme neatness of
that portion of the farms bordering on the
road was striking feature, and to me an
entirely new one.
In other places it is always the distant
view that charms. Here it is also that i'm
mediately on your right and left the whole
country is a perfect garden in which moth
ing unsightly appears, but only what is ele-
CANT and beautiful; while the many wind
ings of the roads, and the rolling, billy ma
ture of the country, furnish constant sur
prises; ever new pictures spread out for the
enjoyment of the beholder.
The worship of nature and of "nature' S
God" to which the Sabbath had been de-
voted, was followed the next day by visit
to Boston; cody, wicked, busting Boston;
the "cradle of liberty" the home of pro-
gress, from whose busy fingers and teeming
brains the whole country is supplied with
emotions" and with ideas, whose multi
: farious population represents every degree
of human culture from the lamest preu-
dice to the loftiest iberality.
The most prominent building in Boston
is the State House, its dome being two hun
dred and thirty feet above the level of the
sea. 1t is of pure, white marble, and il
point of elegance and grandeur is a temple
worthy of the assembled wisdom of Massa
chusetts. The view from the dome is sale
to be surpassed only by that from Bunke
Hill Monument. We reserved ourselves 70
the latter. One of the most interestin!
buildings in the city to ME was the little. old
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