The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03
AMONG THE GREEN MOUNTAINS.
ST. ALBANs. VT. Julv %. 1871

for four staples, linen, women, maple sugar
and horses. The first are strong, the last are
fleet, the second and third are exceedingly
sweet, and are all are uncommonly hard to
beat" We have long since formed the same
opinion. Leaving Montpelier we " rallied y
it to this place over the Vermont Central
Railroad, passing through some of the finest
scenery in New England. All along the route
from White River Junction to this station,
the road winds through the mountains, pre-
senting continuous panorama of hills and
beautiful valleys, interspersed with smart,
thrifty villages, and is one of the pleasantest
pleasure routes on the continent. The cars
are of the best and most elaborate workman
ship, and the employees are Green Mountain
Boys-that is enough to insure good usage to
passengers.
At Waterbury, eleven miles north Of Mont
pelier, we get the fist glimpse of Mt. Mans
field and Cancels Hump, two of the highest
peaks of the Green Mountains. Both reared
their heads far above the clouds, and many
in the train wished themselves at the summit
where they might get cooled off as the wealth
er was uncomfortably warm in the valley.
Mr.. Bingham, the gentlemanly proprietor of
the Mt. Mansfield House, has the reputation
| of " dishing up the highest kind of grub,' q
give the expression as heard it), and in a
few days we intend to test the uisiaae of his
establishment.
At Essex junction we leave the main line
of the road and branch off to Burlington.
Burlington is one of the old fogy places of
Vermont, has been city since 1865, and con-
tains an immense lumber mill-newspapers
say the largest one in the world. The Ver-
mont College, located at this point, has turn
ed out some of the smartest men in the coun
try, and have no doubt that some of the
worst men have been turned out of the same
institution. The city does considerable ira
ding on Lake Champlain, several fine steam
ers making frequent trips during the day to
ports on the opposite shore. In the winter
time the lake generally freezes over, and it
is no unusual thing for party of the bellies
and beaux of the city to cross the lake in
sleighs to attend cotillion parties IN York
state. The ride is attended with danger how
ever, and is one we would rather be excused
from, though we are exceedingly fond of trip
ping the "ight fantastic" The lake during
the season of navigation, occasionally works
itself up into passion, but we never heard
of it's waves rolling mountains high" Bur-
lington has some fine churches, first class ho-
tells, and once had medical college of good
reputation. John G. SAKE is a native of this
place, and [ believe his brother James still
keeps grocery establishment on the main
street of the town. It is u pleasant place to
live in, but as l remarked before, is trife
old-fogyish.
st. Adams, besides being smart business
town, has separate history in itself. 1t is
noted as being the scene of the rebel raid
from Canada in the fall of 1864, one of the
most impudent and rascally undertakings
ever carried to a successful termination by
the rebels and their INSCRIPTIONS sympathi-
zers in Canada. Think of the idea of half
dozen men capturing town of several thou
sand inhabitants Some six or eight men
came in on the cars from Montreal and stop
ped at different hotels in the place long
enough to find out the locality of the various
banks. When their plans were matured they
selected time when there were few persons
on the streets !; two dashed into each of the
banks, and while one presented revolvers atthe
heads OF the heads of the bankers, the other
made general sweep of everything in the
shape of money. 1t was a rich haul, and the
men who were carrying out the plan were
desperate. On coming out Of the banks the
raiders seized the first horses in their way
cutting the traces of horses hitched to far
mers wagons on the streets-and started on
the run for the Canada line, some thirteen
miles away, and escaped. One or two shots
were fired at them, after they were out of
range. During the raid the rebels shot two
or three of the citizens of the place, and bull
let holes made by the raiders are still shown
to the strangers who visit the place. They
preserve the bullet holes as trophies. Il be-
lieve the banks eventually recovered the
greater part of the money taken, by suit
through the Canadian courts.
It would astonish the dairymen of Kenosha
| County if should tell them Of the immense
amount of butter, cheese and eggs shipped at
stated days from the depot in this place, but
won't tell them because I-doa't kno1o. The
amount is astonishing, however, and that is
one of the chief things for which st. Adams
is noted. Once or twice each week-on Shut
ter day''-the farmers from the surrounding
country bring in their butter and cheese for
shipment to Boston, and the pile is simply
monstrous. aast $50 t.l2"
The new depot of the Central railroad is
magnificent affair, and is credit to the CON-
pany who own it and to the architect who
engineered its construction. The workshops