New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-26
A Floating Palace.

4 Floating Palace.
To the Edifor IF the Tribune
To Sir Christopher Wren whose name an ar
ch;oct will stand tie test OF time longer than Saint
Paurs of London will stand a monument to his
fame. | have been indebted for an elevation of
more than fur hundred feet, whence to contem-
plate the Emporium Of The mistress country of the
transatlantic world. From such giddy hight, Lon
don, the miniature of the world, appears As
child's toy, depicted mar, a beautiful panorama.
The mystic queen hsr princes, mobiles, dIgnltarie',
rich and besgars, appear of digit size. The mi
tried Bishop 4, he walks the tessclatcd pavement;
Peel Mebourn, Wellington, O'Connell, as they
move, appear as the figures on chess board
The ball. abbey, churches, palaces. houses, gar
dcns. rivers and waters the parts of the Christ
mas toy which a child spreads on the carpet The
horses dragging the Mayors massive coach are
less than the size of Whitingtons cat. Even the
head of Sir Robert Peel, the patriot statesman OF
purcst mind, is but OF walnut size. How insight
fcant, how worthless then is the body OF a man
which can be thus diminished, while the mind,
which more than compasseth the whole earth, in
creases in value and consequence. Feels great
ness is even acknowledged in this land He has
COMPOUNDED his enemies and drawn from their ranks
friends to himaelf. He presents an anomaly in
legisla;ion-a polil<cian no he 5 no politician;
statesman not taxing the poor, but the rich, and
himself in the greatest degree The efforts of thi,
last patriotic movement will be felt for centuries,
and Peel's name will ring through the world so
long As there are chimes of bells 10 ring merry
dadsomc peal.
Wren built palaces a. well as temples. Blen-
helm. the palace of the Duke of Marlborough is
his masterpiece. | have walked through its
grounds, where trees are planted as the men were
marshaIIed at the battle o, Blenheim. have adj
mircd the exterior walls and interior painted cell
ings and decorations | have ranged through all
the palaces from Brighton TO Hampton Court,
from Fonthl to Somerset, have Jared sumptu-
ouslv at Hotels which were palace-like, and re-
cliAed in cabins of ships and steamers from fairy
like to splendid in gorgeousness, but never was, on
WATER in such floating palace as the Hudson
steamer. the magnificent South America
In some foreign land have seen wonderful
worl, of art. which completely exhausted the pow
crs of the artist He lived to finish his work and
then died. So was told 1t is impossible tor
any one mind to have conceived, planned and car
RED out all the projections OF this greatest WORN
of art. On its com pIetlon the man would nave
died. She has the power OF hve hundred horses
and is heeter than the ilectest. She SKINS the
Hudson with scarce ripple, without noise and
barely leaves n track behind. No cloud of smoke
blackens the sky or shades the path she leaves
She neither reels, dips nor io'scs. The frosted
Iamp. which soften the lights OF the palace-llke
saloons neither tremble sor swing a. they hang,
and their flames point steadily to one point a. she
move. without jar or trembling on her course
Some fair hand NAV describe the snow-white
bcrths state-rooms, cabins, saloon and gallery OF
niciure.. while ! choose to sit on deck, where
milder moons emraradlse the night, to think OF
men and measures and catch .llmFses ri the fit
ting scenery We approach the Highlands the
hills ar, at our side now past, faster than descrp-
ZION. -Four hour. are passed on deck in conteTn-
plation. and the same time in sleep. and the i'm
pesse space OF one hundred and sixty miles are
ras.cd. and one is refreshed and invigoratcd. In
,tead of being tagged out and exhausted. Let
John Bull roar and frghten the Chinese, let him
butt down the walls Of Pekin, and paw up all the
treasures. and throw up, dust the dollars which
have been coined by the South 1meTicdns and
Standards for centuries, and the Yankees have
| psid for tea but give me 4 moonlight passage
over the Hudson IN the steamer South AMERICA
OF IN. other steamers would not speak disparag-
| ngly, but
The S.rallo-r nay twiiter and chirp on her way
The Balloon up the Hudson may pun
'SoVrH ANERIcA' beats them each day,
DE VIII CLINTON has crled out enough
The Trov' i. the length OF a city,
This vessel of bricks moves along
For her there : no Homer tis pity,
70 praise her tall chimme, IN song
When the Gov'nor again | shall see
III tell of this beautiful rdei
OF this beautiful steamer when, irre'
Goes twenty miles gainst wind and tdr'
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