Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1871-10-12
Official Paper Of the State and County
Largest Circulation in the County.
Correspondent Beaufort Republican.
New HAVEN, Conn,
Sept, 1871.

New HAVEN, Conn,
Sept, 1871. !
D,ar RepuJlicon / told you last week
something concerning the situation and bu,
siness one of the industrious villages,
dignifed by the title, city of Vergennes,
in Vermont. This week, if your read
ers choose to follow me, they may catch way,
side gfmpses of New England scenery as ii
appears to the traveller, passing across the
Green mountains from the Champlain valley
into the wider and perhaps more fertile val
ley of the Connecticut and down that love-
" plain, for it expands so gently into the
bread acres of Massachusetts, that you imper-
ceptably come to realize that on the east the
mountains have mettled into low, gracefully
rounded hill5-always excepting classic Mt.
Holyoke-while the green mountains have
receded so far to the west that one feels no
more of the sensation Of being over-topped
and hcmmed in, as is somewhat the cause
while riding through the first named valley,
There IS mania for swallowing railroads at
the north which l suppose has been about
as much epidemic as Yellow Fever in
Charleston, for few late years Parties in
terested are more precise in the Use OF terms
than I need to be, and eall the devourlng OF
one road by another and wealthier corpora
ton, consolidating. ." This process has
quite obliterated the Rutland and Burllng-
ton r. R., the Vermont Central, and other
roads, and under both the lion and eagle
they are unitedly ruin, as the Vermont and
Canada line. cannot give the elevation in
figures at which the road crosses the summit
of the mountains, but am sure that it fur
nishcs grand post of observation from
whence the eye can range over wonderfully
varied AMI just now peculiarly beautiful pan
orama, that is bounded only by the capacity
of vision. The rich tintS of Autumn, which
adds so largely to the beauty of northern
scenery are beginning to array the forests,
and give rrcnon;:ions Of The glory hat shall
he revtrt>s, ,r,aG ,,.e .roS'-wDrkers have
.n., I'D cher .a'aYs NJ iy,icg. | suoH'i
t:.r. Dat RI ..r',- il, cr,arS wop!d s. Nj.
~. yl.ys, a.i d-.oair st." -. T."
awhile at such tints, though the cIculS vi
the craft it must be confessed they succeed
remarkably we'll in reproducing natures colors
in silks and stuffs for the bazaars.
The first view of the Connecticut, SHIN
mering through tall trees are very pretty,
but have none of the grandeur Of those on
the Hudson nevertheless the unrolling Of
the diversified scene, as one flies along, now
shooting through dcfles cat in the hills
that come down near to the riverside, and
hide for brief time the bright waters and
again rolling smoothly along for miles
through the yerdurc that carpets the banks
the glimpses caught of busy villages fine
farms, and historic old towns. Greenfield,
Dcerfclds, Northamptonan and the crossing and
re-crossing of the river, which has widened
into most lovely expansc of ''Sky-wrought
mosaic :" is neither tame or unlntercsting
and an acknowledging at high twelve
on Mount Holly, and gliding into delicious
September night as the cars gilde into
hartior' III |"hneo'i'"'' 'p0,' VII WIS '0"'I
adds much to the pleasant memories Ot
gentle quiet anu r0poS''u' '"i"sS ici
considerable space upon @ 'l'o nou's,, o ;';,ao
without the aid of glasses, the distance being