Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1871-10-12

mel, and here become nothing more than the
torment of horses who must drag heavy wa,
gons up th,i' by no means gentle declivities.
Our party had an example which is delight,
full as memory, but that was an experience
of WEAKNESS to the horse, and to those who
followed him, but could not ride because OF
the ruggedness and steepness of the way.
! Getting lost in a maze of turnings, at sunset
on Saturday evenings, is stouey fact which
we hal to note down in our calender, and
were pleased about-next day.
s:They had a way anciently in Connecticut ;
and the children do as their fathers did be-
fore them; of interring the dead, and build
ing houses of worship for the living, on the
highest and bleakest spot that could be
found in township, and hence where a
town is not compactly built up-and few are
so-the church spire and the grave yard are
the finger boards, to tell the travellers "here
is a town." Ofcourse this is suggestive, on
ly it might be more strictly true to give out
that it ,ods town before these tombs were
filled" But the dust of some of the great
men of the earlier times reposes in such con-
spicuous places, and perhaps they are wor-
thily buried, inasmuch as their greatness
lifted them to a moral eminence which is fit
ly represented by their sepulchres.
Turning again to the westward, and fol-
lowing the curvings of clear stream led
from the cold springs that rise in the sides of
the hills; with the West Rock-which used
to seem 4 vcritable mountain to our youth
full imagination, but as the New Haven Pal
ladum tells US, only 1894 feet high ON our
left, We pass down very green valley and
roll pleasantly over one of the best roads in
the land, into Westvilie, once Hotch- kiss
town-a name good enough when the writer
was baby, and the old red house, which
stands there still, (perhaps because he was
born there, who knows?) belonged to fam
lily of Hotch-kiss's.
Not far from this same old red house lives
the man who so deceived the reading public
years ago BY pretending to be Bachelor,
and to have "reverieS, when he neither
was the one nor had the other; who after
wards built house with 'seven stones,
which is all in your eye, for his "farm at
Edgewood," can't boast a building of any
kind-unless it is the pigeon roost-what
has these stones.
Whalley avenue, the principal Street by
which New Haven is entered from the north
is the continuation of the wide thoroughfare
upon the sides whereof the neat cottages of
Wcstville are builded. In going down one
of the steep hills of which we have made
mention above, a countryman was met, drlv-
ing a team of oxen with loaded cart. The
man after good d-humordly forcing his oxen
up to the very rock that bounded his side Of
the road, remarked, Gland must ha' been
scarce when this yere path was dug. We
agreed with him but at Westville found that
the conclusion was mistake; the surplus
and was waited fr front yards, they are
Ill. Of Choicc ahrubtcr and flowers. Yale
p"a. -, ..rt 5 Yale, from the Col
,.g, d,.vu to -, -gocery signs, has not III. .
dergonc so rapid transformation as many
northern cities. The old landmarks are all
there, altho' some general Improvement IS
very apparent in the form of additional Col
lege buildings, a new City Hall, &c. and the
dear old Elms, which even more than the
College are traditional glories of the Elm
City, Seem just as familiar to us as II the
long interval Of years since our eyes beheld
them had been days instead, Men have ar
gued at length, and perhaps after all have
failed to prove that natural affection exhists,
but it would be as difficult to snow that there
is not a natural and universal desire to re-
visit the scenes of childhood, while there are
many, very many, who go home to die /,
or if that be impossible, show their longing
to do so.
Seen from the grand elevation of the bell
tower on the City Hall, New Haven resem-
bles more than any other large place faml lr
to us, Park; the principal structures,
churches, colleges, manufactures and pub
lie buildings being far enough apart-much
that intervenes being hid by the great Elms
to give the effect of isolation, and to rem
der the whole view picturesque. Some OF
the noblest mansions in the city are COM
pletely embowered, SO that they can only be
discovered by riding past them, and hardly
then. At some time OF other the various
Railroad corporations centoring here will
unite to have a suitable Depot, in the place
Of the den now used, where travellers if the