The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-21
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE
From our regular correspondent.

mer solstice, with the thermometer M IO9 ~ ~ sun
and men and horses dropping down dead fros1 'e =
effects of heat, when the air is cool and ot u
with the sighs ofgroves." The present weak ".sag
ever-memorable for ITS remarkably Oppressive W.
er. In thirtytwo years, "A succession of snrL Sae
warmth has not occurred | tried to escOrs gal
running away into tie green and healthy roa n y
but the heat, like some inveteTate and imns N
foe, followed me everywhere, with its hot M
my brow, and its dry, dusty, and oppre ys,s"
sphere, full of excavation and disease, a@
ry place. Last Tuesday evening, which snssI es
Harrisburg, was fearfally hot. The breezes ~
heavens had died away, and seemed 10 have ,O.. 20
sleep in their mountain caves, from very fesr y,
contest with the intense warmth and he a.
moon," usually so cool and modest, seemed - .as
down food of heat from her beams. Ifvor ~. PVI
ed, the perspiration rolled almost in toryen,, 1 -
your person; if you sought TO WOO the osrS'
zephyr TO your brows, you returned oppresssd ny
anguor, and disappointment and ifyou tried o.
or succeeded in sleeping, you rose, weakened ~
tired, from repose usually SO full OF rest. To Wy
for cool weather IN the country, during ,bs va
week, was like hunting for the phiIosop6er,s ~ ivy
or sounding the fathomess deep for its buried IVY.
urei and returned homewards from the interior
rapidly as one of Mr.. Longs locomotives MI,
carry me-fuly impressed, for once, tina, tho soS'
try was warmer than the city II, then, h1SS
my usual contributions to the columns of the In
| you know the cause of the failure. hold il mrd.s
sir, TO be a self-eviden fact that, during such u.
son as we are now suffering in, there should hs
little toll as possible and that all classes of ~
should pause when the sun pours down his a.,
and angry beams upon the dry and parchine e,rS !
There is, know, one class who can claim no =.
! from absorbing, never-ending duties and M,
those who supply the materials for the press n,
them, neither heat nor cold, spring, summer or wa
ter, night or day, bring repose cessation from
! ties that demand all their time. Like the miner, :,
England, they toll on, and toll always; and Inc M
| of the week, which comes laden with repose n al
ers, is only new beginning, or new pause
their long and weary task.
| The wheat harvest in Pennsylvania is the best v.
have had in many years. The crops are he,r.
err cleaner, and freer from rust, than thew usp,g
are. Grass has been rather light; oats promise \
be only tolerabe; but the corn will be yery heav,
The times will be greatly, and, Of course beneficial
ly affected by the favorable returns of the wheat a
corn crops; for it is fact which all experience n,
established, that if the agricultural interests SNIFF
all other interests feel the same effects, and soma
| times much more senslbly.
| Some of our papers here have an idea which ot.
does all the notions ofpatriotism that have ever ben
conceived. Ii is that Of converting Paul Berk,
patent-shot tower, in this city, into monument n
George Washington You will remember-evrv
body remembers enterprise started few vesn
ago, TO erect suitable, imposing, and magnifcer
monument to Washington. Ii was alleged an
most truly, that the national taste had not vet MAJ
even distant approach to such memorial and Aa
the national gratitude, deep and absorbing as il vn
| should be represented by something exquisite al
perfect as work of art, and grand and striking
every beholder /; such pile, indeed, as would
tower skywards, and be seen far off, on sea All
land, by the traveller, homeward or outward bound
and cause his heart to swell with high and goiOu
emotions. The object was good one bu,
roared too loudly in the index" So well assure
were the originators Of the project that it woua
| succeed beyond all that had ever gone before, that
no person was permitted to give more than one d.
lar, although | remember well, that when il STARED
subscribe largely. The design was, that all cllzeu
should beequaly represented in the erection Of d.
monument; thus conveying the appropriate ida
that in this country, and under the blessings Of Tie
! liberty achieved and sustained by Washington al
men are equal. Nothing could be more ably con-
ceived--nothing ever was more strongly urged AMI
now behold the miserable sequel A shot tower
erected for the base purposes of gain, and possibly
for speculation, is proposed to be transformed nol
! Washington monument! A heap of ungainy bricks
| and vile mortar, erected without reference to TASTE
or symmetry, to personify a structure that was b
out-top Pompey's Needle, Nelson's pillar, or The
great statue of Peter the Great and TO ouyie best
| specimens Of Grecian architecture Well may wl
exclaim, How unworthy Of the object the age
or the MANI" But it will be cheaper to DO %
Ay, cheaper! Ever the miser's reason--eyr DEL
excuse of the huckster, who haggles for sxpaa
and will not buy, unless he gets bargain wi
shame for shame Patriotism cannot be meaSnl
| by the dollar. Gratitude, like that which revn
the name, and has embalmed in memory the W
| vices of Washington, keeping them fresh ores
green in immortal youth, cannot be typifed by nII
human device, no matter how heaven-defyng all
exquisite least Of ALL it is not one Of those eemss|
which have price, and cannot be estimated Is 4
man would reckon his lands or his wares. bel
who talks of economy on this subject-and least
ALL such economy as that which proposes to NAH
Paul Beck's shot factory Washington monumen-
is like the miscreant immortazed by Paud
| Henry, who, when the American arms had won "
great fight of the reyoluton could think Of noting
| else, but the price of his beef! He is like R
miser who refused to let his neighbor light en-
die at his hearth, because he had hardly enough
for himself Such man, if made the Judge of@
reward of great general returning from triumphn
war, and from field on which, amid death sa
carnage, he had established his countrys ndepHs
ence, would begin by asking him what would
the lowest he could take If this sublime idea sha
be carried out, claim the credit of being the hrS
say (if not to hope) that the bricks should be Whit
| washed; and that to make the monument more gooF
looking, its now stunted and rather dwarfedfppf
tons should be eked out with substantial weather
boarding. Nobody at distance could tell that hvra
not marble, and then it would cost so much less
such is to be the termination of what commences
under auspices so inspiring in every particular,
shall be deeply panied, and so will millions OF hos
warm hearts who believed Washington to have ben
all that was great and good. And the future wv
prove, hundreds Of years hence, or while time n
dures, how really worthy he was of the una@pa
gratitude of his countrymen:
| "All earth will be his sepuchre
| The mind his monument sublime"
A great enterprise is now on foot in the Insnt
OF this Stale, to erect cotton factories. The coun!
of Lancaster has taken the lead, and there is aIsa
subscribed over 100000 as beginning nm
scheme shall succeed, as | have no doubt i VIII
/ will be the beginning to trade that will eaye "
manufactures Of New England, and ultimately y
England herself far--far in the rear for the rga
in which il has been commenced is one Of gn
wealth, and is inhabited by those who, the moae
they are assured Of the safety of the inves'mTT.s
will risk millions Of dollars in the business ~
cotton manufactures not SO dependent upO..
tariff as the other manufacturing interests; i@
grow the raw material here for England and asa
not incur the expense of carrying IT, which 'u'
now obliged to pay. Much experience has Nv
ever, given to Great Britain great superiority ~
us, and hence it is that she is still enabled 10 uuu
sell us i'm most of those fabrics which are mace