Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-05-01
Correspondence of the HERALD
"Reminiscences of TicOnderega.
BY ONE "ro THE MANOR BORN"

BATES HOUSE, RUTLAND, April %.
Editor Rutza71d Herald: = Willing
away few hours, waiting for the cars
for Burlington, whittier | am bound on
a visit to my cousin, Mr.. Albert Catlin,
find myself reading the letter of your
Ticonderoga correspondent, . T." Hav-
ING passed a sleepless night on the cars
from Buffalo, could not have found a
better or more pleasant restorative than
this letter, fresh from the town of my
birth.
Will you, Mr.. Editor, allow me to
indite few passing remarks, mainly to
apprise my CID school mates aud friends
in Ticonder0ga, that on my way to my
Western home, / shall take the old town
which ct" so much idolizes, in my path,
and hope to find still living many long
remembered faces. My father settled
in Old I'll. in 1900 My Uncle Ashbel
settled in Bridport about the same time,
and il was he who furnished the men and
bows of all the country round about with
the good old fashioned wool hats, all of his
own making My brother Linus was
born the next year, and | three years al
ter. | left the town in 1910, amidst the
excitement of the Log Cabin campaign.
Fortune has favored me as tothis worlds
Goods and otherwise. Lave one son,
Bow with me, twenty-five years OF age.
He is cashier of the First National Bank
of Sioux City, Iowa.
From the letter Of ''T, " l find that old
things are done away and things have
become new. Shall find the old Blue
Joints. and Museum sawmills at the up
er falls, or Uncle Ormsbee's trip-ham-
mer shop, and OBJ, and Kad-the mimi
table Kad? Shall l find Thornton and
Peter, and can Thornton play like the
Warner boys yet? Uncle Stone with his
specimens of Mica, and the paint mill
must be gone Il and so must Captain
! Bailey, Beers Tomlinson, John Harris,
. GUY Baldwin, Northrup and Haskell
so perhaps may he Cete Athurton, and
Luke and Holden, Win Spencer, do
YOU take?) Harve Church, Harry Bliss,
| Charles Grant. and Bige NiCkerson,
names and faces az familiar to me as
household words DR. John Smith kept
! me posted until within a few years. His
| silence leads me to think he has gone TO
that better place, where no physicians
are needed.
The improvements going on in Old III.
astonish me. Think of new streets and
avenues being laid out-in my time we
| had nothing but common roads-and to
| think of the new tangled names too
" Fenton Avenue" First Families III F"
street, Brooklyn and "Blockhouse"
| avenues, etc. IT" says this is laid out
at the base of Mount Defiance, upon the
site of the old military turnpike road,
which with its bitches and culverts, are
now plainly visible. This avenue, it
! seems, passes through the lands of Cas-
sey & Ward, and has been opened by
them, as it presents a good site for pri-
yate residences, both from the beautiful
view said to be obtained, and from the
! many historic associations surrounding it.
| l knew these gentlemen well in boyhood,
| as well also as the inimitable and accen-
| tric ct, /" all of whom had the stamp of
! genius and success, which was visible to
me at an early day. All started in life
/ upon AOhCi lOullNtS VI tIC lHA
all by their energy have climbed to a
very reputable hight This DR.. Smith
informed me in his last letter, in 1868.
MIR. Cassey's ancestors were from
France. His father was interested in
the Hudson Bay Company, engaged in
travelling between Hudson Bay and
Montreal, in charge of the company's
furs. The original name was De Cour-
cey, changed years ago to Courcey, and
is now Casey. Mr.. George c. Ward is
one of the celebrated family of Wards
of Connecticut His grandfather owned
Wards island, and he is more or
less related to Henry Ward Beecher,
whose precepts and example, it is said,
! be closely follows. at least, so said DR..
Smith
Your correspondent 1T" is a relative
of John Quincy Adams, and resembles
him in marked degree, except that he
is not quite SO eorpulent. The doctor
wrote me long time ago that st" had
| taken a strong dislike to the fair sex.
| and like Mr.. Adams, his hair was showing
signs of an early departure, caused by
| excessive thinking. May success still
attend these gentlemen. God bless the
good old town of I'll. May the appeal
made to the reform commissioner of high
ways to pass around the hat for the
drainage of the Casey hill and the flats
above, be not in vain
ZIBA CATLIN.