American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-08-14


On which the advance payment expires.
Correspondence Of the American Republican,.
NEwBuRyroRr, Mass. July 26, 1916.
The Dangerous Effects of Cac9thes Scribendt-
Baltimore .abrOad-The Girls in an Omnibus
on the Sea Shore-SnaiI-olo gy-.4 Blessing.
What strange disease, Messrs Editors, is
this CacGtkes Scribendi-this scrbbling Itch
Like that dreaded and mortal evil cancer it
first shows itself in small spot scarcely per-
ceptibe TO the human eye, and unless speedily
eradcated, or etfectually remeded in this insp-
ent stage, it gradually spreads wider and
wider, and becomes more and more angry, I'M
til it envelopes with disease gland, an organ,
or member, and eventually saps the fountain
of life itself; or, like that still more curious
malady, EliPha,liasiS, it goes on, increasing the
size of the limb it attacks, swells it larger and
larger until it becomes a burden to the patient,
and an incubus upon all his movements. How
seriously tins disease has attacked us, and what
a powerful hold it still has on our SYSTEM may
be seen by the fact, that here are we again
writing TO you long letter from this same
place, land that, too, without terminating our
correspondence when we almost promised in
our first communication, that we would not
trouble you with more than two letters
The kindly notice which you were pleased
to bestow editorially on our first letter, has
served but as a palliation to our disease, and
yon find it breaking forth with increased viru-
lence, so soon as the mere soothing effects of
the remedy are over. If in the course of your
long experience, you have met with cltholi-
con for this now raging epidemic, (for we find
you are bored with letters from every section, J
you would confer lasting obligation by put
IN, 81 ,nr
your valuable journal can return to this Sec
ton of the Union.
By the way, how true it is that one must go
abroad to learn news No one can properly
appreciate the size of London by walking about
its streets. He must see it from some point of
elevation, or at some distance from its centre,
properly to comprehend its vast extent; and
DICE versa, the insignifcance of the third city in
the Union can only be properly understood by
going as far North as Newburyport, where it
is impossible, either at the Reading Room Tex
tensive as it ISL or at any of the Newspaper
Offices, TO get Baltimore paper. Can this
arise, Messrs Editors, from the fact that you
are unwilling to exchange with them? or is it
true, that we overrate the importance of our
city, Please resolve this query for us, at the
same time that you furnish us with the sover-
eign remedy for Cac4thes.
What delightful day we spent on last Tues
day! About two o'clock, some of the young
gentleman of the town, together with several
Of the most interesting acquaintance among
the ladies that we have made here, intended
going in company, to witness the launch of the
barque -, and we were invited to Join them.
Our Omnibus contained as pleasant and lively
a party of ladies as could we'll be assembled.
There was the sprighty and fascinating Miss
E. B. A., the lively and laughing Miss S. w.
S. and her quiet and intelligent sister; there,
too, was the agreeable Miss G. G., and others,
"sparklng and BRIGHT" whose deep blue, and
brilliant black eyes, were shedding ''their liquid
light around us. We were a merry set, and
soon (by the aid of a friend at my elbow, who
has lived so long at the South as TO be altogether
in feeling, and almost, in fact, Southerner, }
the whole Omnibus was in roar of Taught
Peal followed upon peal, and wittcism and re.
partee trod so closely upon each other that il
was difficult to say which excited the laughter
loving god, "holding both his Sides" to the
most uproarious out-bursts. In an incredibly
short period we arrived at the ship-yard, jus,
in time to witness a most beautiful launch
when it was determined to finish the day by
visiting Plumb Island in body; and in few
moments more we were again safely slowed
into the Omnibus and en- route for the Island
Soon we were fairly under way for the froc
Our sides were shaken, and our eyes wet with
laughing. Plumb Island, $50 called from a
species of wild plum that grows on it, is situa-
ted two miles from Newburyport, right out in
the OCEAN. Over our shoe-tops in the sand,
we waded TO the beach, on the other side of the
Island, and there, on the sea shore, with the
waves breaking over the strand, and the green
water glistenng in the beams of the setting
sun. we listened to the roar of Natures grand
est element and admired the sublimitvv of the
hmitless prospect that lay stretched in all it.
vastness before us. Animated by the exhilara
ton and the spirits Of the beautiful girls, who
accompanied us, and listening 10 their lively
and naive remarks, and their EXPLANATIONS
admiration at the grandeur of the scene before
them, we did not lose altogether, the opportu
nifty of gaining instruction, For student
Natural History joined eur party, and with
snail ''impaled on the fcint OF penknlie, al
rected our attention to the wonderful adapta
tons and nice dependencies Of animated crea
ton. He showed us why the poor snail creep
lazily with its testaccous house upon It's back
and why man
- has not microscopic eye
For this plain reason, man is not N.Y.
He taught US why the various shells OF mu:
ces were provided with what witty compair
ion called "windows,n and, indeed, initiated l
into many Of the phcnomenops OF Nature
We are are sorry that his studies were int
rurted by the too great generosity OF KIN
old lady at the Island, who borrowed his ''na
liral curiosity" and presented it to her-la
Cog After gratifying our tastes for the ''su
lime and the beautiful for some time longe
we turned our steps towards the house on Il
Island, to look after the "substantial." An e.