Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-03-22
ADVANTAGES OF TRAvELlNo.-It is sur

pIISIDg HOW ituc hloChauS doOus al
steamboats,, and railways. and diligences,
and schnell. posts, and voilures. of all sorts
and hotels with every variety Of perfumes,
shakes man out of his sluggish thoughts
and opaque humors. Ii is the best of all
constitutional remedies for mind and body,
although it acts bu. slowly on the whip
cord nerves of the English. tits good for
the brains and the stomach. 1t invi gorates
The Imagination loosens the blood, and
makes it leap through the veins; dispels
the nebulous mass Of the s.ay-at home
animal aud, libera'ing the spirit from its
drowsy weight of 2rejudices. sends it re-
bounding back, lighter and brighter than
ever, with fresh morning beams ,hrobbing
in its pulses. There is nothing in this
levelling world of ours which so effec,ual
ly annihiIa,es conventional responsibility
and travelling. II tumbles down with
single blow the whole wire and gauze
puppe,, reducing its empty length and
breadth 10 mere tinery and saw dust. All
our staid solemn properties, that beset and
check us q, every hands turn like inaugu.'
upon some escoleric novi,ate every day Of
our lives-all our family pride and class
lns,incts-our local Importance and state
ly caution-paddocks and lawns-live-
ries, revenues. and ceremonials- all 90
for nothing in the swirl and roar Of the liv.
ing tide. A great landed gentleman cam
not bring his ten-fee! walls. his deer park.
or his parish church with its time-honored
slabs and monuments, in the palm Of his
hand to the continent: he cannot stick the
vicar and the oyerseer. and the bench of
justices, in his as.band; he canno. in
scribe the terror of the ,read>mil on his
travelling bag; he cannot impress every>
body abroad as he can at home, with the
awful majesty of his ga,e-house, and the
lump Of plush tina. slumbers in the padded
chair; he has passed out of the arli-
fetal medium by which he has hitherto
been SO egregiouly magnifed, and he is
forced, for once in his life, TO depend sole
ly on himself, locked of his lictors, for
whatever amount of respect, or even a,,en
ton, he can attract. This is a wholesome
and healthy ordeal, very good for The NOR
al as well as the hillary ducts. l, sets new
and unexpected value upon whatever little
or self reliance one may really possess,
and makes man understand his manhood
better in month than he could have done
in twenty years through the mirage of
false position Foreign Quarterly Rev.
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companions of our early youth Go we find ac-
companylng US 10 the after days Of LIES jour.
ney. OF those who seemed so linked with our
first joys and sorrows as to have become almcs.
part Of our own existence, some rise above.
and some sink below the course we are pursu-
ing, and If seen. are scarcely noticed. Others
try the desperate adventure Of distant climates,
and. bankrupt in hopes or i'll health, are never
again heard OF. With some, folly does the
work of time; and few, perhaps, are recogni-
missed amongst those who signalize themselves
in the feverish strife of politics, or are com.
achievement. We diverge like lines drawn
from the same point. pursuing similar direc.
tions, but seldom reunited. Our permanent
Rod, yet the heart still feels something want.
Au6s ouuS % VIC IOOA Iouuu IOI IL In vain,
the happiness of our first affections is magni6-
ed by being seen through the purer atmosphere
which the morning Of careless innoceace has
cast around them. This may be common
place; but our feelings are all SO; i, is only in
their intenseness or direction that we differ.
Gov. Dorr. Of Rhode Island, has been con.
fined in Jail four months withou, trial. The
Eastern papers are very severe, and Justly so.
on the Algerines Of that State, for their con.
duct in this affair. The offence charged a.
gainss him is, in substance, that he dared to
contend for the sovereignty Of the peopls, and
she principles contained 10 the Declaration Of
Independence. "
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