The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-08-16

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r snS hn old beyond his years and sx.ctns
tS mS.srss of beyond the eyes Of
his the privileges Of stranger and the
them ali He comes not to be the victim, madam OF an
evening soireehe has no such intentont Is his hxed
pgsoas mistake him fer jackdsw, and sport with his
plumsgs aud rustic nnocency, mark you, but they will
says town with aiusrsh. conception OF the gosling
business and for pleasure for speculaons and nrgues
for nights Of dissipation, and days Of repentance
short for all the charms and oles and OF
polished society OF strangers for which the citizens
Washington, reoev ng the compensation, have bear
in the country; but then the winter ow off
into the metropolis may be considered ample
pensaton TOR Its attending evils.
Qui bon raehefe bon ie boin
Yet the summer might be made attractive ut Wash
ington by common consent IT is seldom that the thsr
mometer here Is above 90 in draught Of air In tho
shade. The city Is roomy and the sojourner can at
least say with Falstaf
g can take mine ease in mine inn"
We have not that eternal and esrsplittug noise OF
Broadway-ws have good water. and plenty Of water
melons; have the hotels and the newspapers, ana
twice week we have music from the marine band, on
"Wednesday, from q to half past PM in the sur
psssingy beautiful grounds OF the capitol anu ou o.
evening In the pare Grounds az the View Of
the broad river and the surrounding heights ana the
sunset beyond the wooded hiis Of n.ng.on u.s.
fashions and there always stray lion and tiger or
two in the crowd Twics wesa TO- we nave .ae nns
your sordd bookworn may indulge his diosyncrasy to
repleton.
called Arlington, and there is the by the rivers
side, and the spring under the OH oak upon which
Jesse Dow Zone OF iDberitors OF the fortunes Of
John Jones in the purchase and terrific explosion
Of the Macsdonisn) has written some fns lines
the social pic MICS &C the spriug, and the ~ oon-
light quadries In the elegant shed dedicated % the
Fails Of the Potomae and ut distance Of fourteen miles
the Great Falls Of this great river, Of which Madame
Trolope, while she CONDEMNS almost every thing else in
ths country speaks in terms OF such exuta
ton that There can be no mistake about their grandeur
. and sublinity.
(hem-some time ago informed that Yam
kee company had bought up the land around falls
so ss to command all the water power, with view Of
creating Large manufacturing town up there; but OF
late hear nothing OF it, that We are afraid the
scheme has fallen through
Five miles the eastward We have the classic city Of
Bladensburg. memorable the of the most dis
creiitabe tight Of the last and the classic
settled, with about little credit to all concerned.
Mem.-We understand that last night a number Of
young mdshipmen contemplated visit to Bladensburg
affair Of pistols and coffee for two this morn
ing but that suspectiDg the vigilance OF the police,
and taking reasonable view OF the they have
hit upon smicable adjustment, Of point of honor
perhaps OF the thickness and substance OF slice OF
moonshine.l
AT Bladensburgh there is a spa spring. strongly i'm
pregnated with ron which the natives say calculated
strengthen the invalid but they have much fever
allow to credit the story that the spa" is heal-a
Still, out in the cars and q return by the next
train not bad idea OF pleasant afternoon, once in
long while.
10 the northward the country in sprinkled over with
the summer residences Of citizens, such the Cor
corans, and the Riggs and the Gales and Ssatons,
and Browns, and Shines, and others. An afternoon
drive around to the north pays for the trouble.
Seven miles below us is the ancient commercial town
Alexandria, which has been suffering under slow
sumption decline since Baltimore headed her off
by that railroad to the valley Of virginia walk
through Alexandria now next thing to stroll among
the ruins Of Balbec striking the evidences around
you Of the prosperity OF the past and the desoaton of
he in fla at and uoela Of
geese Craze thereon. What were once CONNER
cial houses have been converted into cake shops
and where ships lying thick along the wharves
the boys he trolling for catfshcat
sh-soup being great luxury among the darkies Such
will get thinner and thinner until she taps the val.
ley Of Virginia with q railroad, which will at once
Immediately west of is Georgetown; but She with
her cannon foundry, her Touring mills and her
me. and well hs conducted . cotton factory picking
morning ride along the heights and beyond the college
the very thing Tor scene painter, or admrer OF
what is called at the young ladies' boarding school, the
beauties of nature.n
On the confines OF the corporation two miles
from the Capitol you have the Congressional buryng
ground pretty thickly planted with sepulchres
ments, tomb stones and the melancholy cypress Saw
one side adds the gloom Of the place while the Aims
standing boldly out before you the eastern
branch bayou spreading wide its sluggish waters ex
hang in the from its corrupting weed grim pesti-
lence and death DER all the opete the horrors
Of The picturethe sadness the gloom and the desoa
We abandon the attempt We set out in this chap.
ter with the iapdabs design of making out good pre-
give up We confesa that 1t Is dreary summer resi-
dence to With thecity half depopulated bu-
sness suspended In the ratio OF the depopulaton ne
Their Washington, Badensburgh, nor Alexand ra
Arlington, the Little Falls nor the Great Falls
nor Gsorsetow nor the Congress burying ground nor
from these "diggns' A cabin in the ains-a
s r.. in ss 1T in crowded
hills fsberman's cabin the lake shore, anything
for change frem the heat of Pennsylvania the
dust pretty well stopped) and from the mouotony
aatay in Washington, during the summer after short
session But yet redeemng effort In behalf Of
Below Alexandria have Mount Vernon But that
is private property You cannot 60 there often
YOU woa WISH because OF the intrusion upon private
it, and keep open for the public at least the
mansion, and the immediate surrounding grounds.
There IL the Sycamore place for bathing In the Poto
mao We have frequently seen early on sunday morn
ing several hundred men boys and horses and dogs
swimming there In the TIDE toge her When John GUM
cy Adams was President and for many years after the
old man might be found there the boys on almost
river, a mile aud quarter, and back again Many are
the jokes told Of him Once his bald head WAS
mistaken FOR canvass back duck by sportsman the
bridge; but the good old saved by holding up
his hand 30 goes tue tradition.
The local society Of Washington is refined and in
telgent as that OF any city IN the Uuon-it has many
beautiful aud charming ladies Old and young among its
people ornaments 10 the metropolis and honor the
countryits situation Is aud beautiful and
there rs such grounds 40 tnoes OF the capitol
haps In the world The surroundings of the CITY
have alss many features Of novelty and rural beauty
aud when the Smithsonian Institute shall have been
completed, and the city hall repaired, and the CAPT.
to reprinted and the shantss along the super
seeded by neat brick houses aud the elegant hotels
way all finished and the canal cleaned out, and the
bridges reconstructed Of IRON and cotton factory in
operation and the Washington and Jackson monuments
built, and the National Theatre rcsuscated and the
chain OF the railroad finished to Richmond and the ca
nal to Cumberland and the avenue lighted with gas
aud all these things under advsement and most of
them in actual progress but then when they hall be
finished as they may be, and perhaps will be- by the
next census, then, MIR. Editor the city Washington
will not only be the great political centre of the Union
the seat of its but it will also the Athens
Of learning the Paris Of fashion, elegance and refine
ment the st. Petersburgh Of America In splendid build
ings the pride ofour country and the admiration the
world The only fear Is the demagogues Of the West
They would move the capital the Aeghsnies But
they may be brought to reason. IL will be an evil day
when sectional jealousy shall set aside the counses Of
the great and good Washington.
But altogether just at this time, by and LARGE and