Connecticut western news., 1871-08-18
A Day nt West Point. Concluded,
 Vo., Ax,l shn

You ask me to describe the public works. To tell the plain truth I was more occupied in gazing at the beautiful surroundings of the buildings, than at the buildings them selves. ''Ha Campus" or Parade ground, is beautiful level green sward of some twenty or thirty acres. This plain is bor- dered by double and triple rows of stately trees, and is planked on one side by the academy library and superintcndents office. the gymnasium, arsenal barracks and other buildings, the uses of which I'did not learn. These are all massive edifices constructed of gray stone and finished with the prevail ing mansard roof. On the west side of tho ''campus," stand the buildings oc- cupied by the officers of the Post and the academical staff, with their families. One of our Salisbury men, Prot. Albert Church has for long time filled the chair of math: ematics here.
 But as said before, the survey of the buildings occupied but little of our time ; after wich we commenced to take mental photographs of the sublime scenery. Quite accidentally we followed the very best course in SO doing. for we first followed the long winding walk by the river bank, catching occasional glimpses of the river and the opposite shore, till at last we came out at the northern boundary and upon the sum. init of the plateau. Far to the north stretched the beautiful river, the Rhine of America, in all its glory. We gazed en- tranced. Upon the left rose up the lofty height called crows nest, and upon the right on the east shore, the promon- tory of Anthony's nose. These formed the frame work of the picture upon which we looked. And while we. looked down from the mountains, back of New wburgh descended @ shower of mist and rain, through which however we could catch occasional glimpses of sunshine beyond. So, unused 1: Beyond the drill ground of this present; beyond its fashions and its follies; beyond the narrow curtain of Death itself; we may catch, as it were, occasional glimpses of the ever abiding sunshine and peace upon the banks of that river "whose gentle flow makes glad the city of our God"
 This is historic ground. Here Arnold plotted and Andre sped. Across the nar- row reach Tn the river wonder, stretched the great iron cable, and few of its mammoth links lie here at our feet. Here Washington often visited, and here in their youth and early manhood, studied and frolicked many whose names are now world renowned. Close by our seat stood the famous Ring gold battery, which belched death and destruction upon so many hard fought fields of Mexican campaigns. There are many memorials of the war with Mexico scattered about, but noticed only two, of our own civil strife, and perhaps this is just as it should be at National institution. which in better times to come, shall educate it's soldiers from all parts and sections of restored Union.
 One of the two mementoes referred to, is an immense Blakely gun captured at Fort Fisher. (The 7th Conn. had hand in it, and the other is monument to our own Sedgwick; Uncle John of the 9th army corps. But now the westward travel ing sun admonished us of the return jour ney, which was accomplished in a few brief hours, and thus pleasantly closed your correspondents, ''dsy at West Point"
 Mot.