Litchfield enquirer., 1876-03-23

the Governor, turning away with sigh said, weariIy, Come, darling, it is too cold for you on deck" With one last look, through blinding rain of tears, at the shores she was leaving forever, and sobbing, ''Exiles! exiles" Frances Went worth turned away and followed her hus- band.
 A little eastward of Lake Winnipiseo- gee are ruins that still attract attention the ruins of an elegsnt English mansion. Tradition says that fine lawn surrounded it, and that orchards and gardens swept away from it's rear, Dissolving time has left of the house only the cellar. This is choked with wild brush. Graceful blackberry vines riot luxuriantly against it's ancient walls, broad dock leaves over lie them, velvet. leaved, golden lowered mullein stalks rise stately and tall from it's rubbish. In the orchards the trees, from long want of cultivation, have returned to their wild state. In the direc- tion of the lake moss-covered, stone bridge crosses a little stream, on the far ther side of which is a tract of land. for merly deer park. On the southern side of the cellar is the garden. Towering above it's other trees, and almost gone to decay, the gigantic column of a Lombar- dy poplar seems a meet type not only of the general Tdesolation of a spot now so silent but teeming with historical recol- lections, but also of former government, exotic and dead like itself. Tradition and history still speak of the men and women who once gathered here. Death and dis tance gave tinge of romantic melan- chely to the place. Persons whose names are celebrated in history once gathered within those vanished walls, promenaded those garden walks, and gazed upon the unfading beauty of this landscape: Dr. Wheelock, who first conceived the plan of Dartmouth College, and who became its first presidant; Benjamin Thompson after ward the illusrriors Count Rumford; Rev. George Whitefeld; the elite of Portsmouth socletys its fair women and brave men, strong, honOred, powerful once, less than shadows now, fading memories in the minds of mankind. Sic transit. gloria ngH'adi. More thrn fifty years ago the builder of the house, Sir John Went worth,f died, and-a somewhat singular and poetical coincidepce- house was accidentally burned the following month. But the revolving years in their silent course have enveloped in verdure these remains of royalty in the old Granite 0tAtes ana as the freshness Ot Sprlng-tlme has sprung from the ruins of the dwelling, so out of the ruins of oppression has grown the beauty of freedom.
 Row that the smoke and tin of its battles have cleared away, and we able to look dispassonatey at the men and events of te Rsvoluton the character Of Governor Wentworth appears in it's true light The fact that after the lapse of century his memory is stihad in reveren and loving estimation by the peo pie Of that region proves that be all that tradition and the scant records of history portray nina
 hearted sympathetic friend, able Governor prsc tcal business man profound scholar botl as to sci ence and b6sLeres, and, in short, Christian gentle Although compelled by the force of crcum- stances to sustain the Troy side in the Revolution may well believe that the result of that not wholly dissatisactOry to him. It one of the pfin ctpes of his character to keep promise to the letter spoken promise was to him sacred as R written He had taken solemn oath of allegiance to the English government, and perhaps that, and that onIy was the cause of bis not espousng the American side of the question, for at heGTt he a demo crat