The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1847-10-23

praise ~
Of course, as 7 have just again left far
behind, dear friends, and the home-en-
deared scenes of my bovhood and man
hood, On the way, detected my thoughts
asking my jnsdp self,-s'Why, oh. why
my heart, this sadness!"--But when I
thought of the dear ones ahead of me,
the thermometer of my spirits rose as the
rain fH,-''Hope told a tlattering tale"
and when I embarked here, Song whis-
pered,-:'I'm atloat, Pm anoat,o and
"a ll's wei, "-and thus, orchards him
self again.
Thi, boat, you observe is the "Flnan-
cicr''-and | by .fnonciering a little, that
is lying by las it was raining when came
here, and water Iow,) TO wait for the riv-
er to rise as the rain fell, made more than
expenses, by the fall of passage. The
thing goes by the 'contraries,' as Pat said
when driving his hog-that is, low wa
ter makes high passage, for then the
! large boats can't compete with the little
light, Nern-wheelers can carry but light
freight, and these tuck it on 10 you-so,
in high water times, generally soon af-
ter the EquinoXes,) the fine, large, side
wheclers click the little 'uns;-and SO
many at it at once, bring down the fare
(Which has just been Sl5,) to Cincinnati,
to $500, or 90. Some boats charged
$40. to-day. Financed the "Financier"
down toS7.-and live in her free till she
starts tomorrow, and still board found.
The Captains name is kountz,-which
angliciscd from the German. may be lo"M
for all ! know. SO, had the honor Of
coming down the Monongahcla with an
American Consul" thc Steamers nancy
and am now to proceed to Cincinnati in
company with an able ''financier," and
am to be conducted by German Count
Hurrah for hurra' my stock s rising fast
think III sell out.
At day break, on The Consul" the
passengers We're stunned by the portcrs
/ from the various hotels, with,-'Monon-
cahcla House, 81" --:National, sa'.--St.
| Charles. Sa!'-CUnted States san--&$c sc
Dear help the world. Let it wag. It's
made up OF a strange mixture ofporters,
alcs lails) and aches.
1t is almost marvellous how, PhpniX
Ike, this city has sprung from its ashes,
since the great fire here, April 10, '45.
There are 80 steamers in view but they
are only half Of the number here at once
sometimes. The various applications OF
steam here to manufacturing, printing,
and other mechanical operations, show
that steam rises just here TO high pitch
of esteem.
| just stepped forward, aud from The
bow of the boat, | see worh of Dutch
let loose from Holland, coming INTO Ter
Vynanzccr Shtimpotc,' Md cfsoiion Of
big chests aud bag 'fXins,' and pipes e.
nough TO sink us, thrown in. Ginger,
what a good looking red-laced Young
DufcL. cyy is that smiling girl Gust fifteen,
I'll bct with the ANGLES and short petit.
OH ma Some lastidiouS asteSmight not
particularly fancy her vermiIIion hue
possibly: but commend me to your dam
sells OF no doubtful dye, but Of natures
distinctly developed tint. There is no
accounting for tastes. De e">''5"s non cS'
dt>yvtandrni, YOU know is an old saw, but
an eternal truth,-Well, they are good
hearted, Jolly, innocent creatures, and
when the boat is .j"mp'"e' the sand-bars
of the now shallow Chic they will enli-
ven us Of The copper house" with thcil
wild: Tvrolesean songs from hrjr deck
below, as others have done. There are
often songsters among them, OF style Of
execution far above that Of their eXte-
rior.
21st. If you had been in our boat all
this afternoon, in company with five 9TH
er boats, all aground on a gravclb bar, tom
of hem so much in bunch that YOU
could walk from one to another OF some
of them, and pitch a biscuit in the others
all bound downward, and several, each
with twelve to eighteen men toiIing al
capstans, running out ''Warps,' 'sparrlng
off and .jpn,Dipg' the feet OF boats over
the shoals, you would have before you ar
item of the busting, indomitable enter
prise of this one of our many inland seas
as believe Mr.. Calhoun termed our vas
interminable rivers, (which as nurseries
TO our marine, give employment and sup
port to many thousands, and prepare
some of the hardest sailors Of our navy
The numerous passengers, to relieve the
tedium, pass from boat to boat, visiting
chatting and joking like so many Cos
sips.
The temporary casual, social inter
! course kept up by members of this 'roU
) cittnq nation, thus locally converging from
, its remotcst points, imperceptlbly ye
cc,1n,uip tends to strengthen and clincl
, tighter and surer, but also to polish, at the
same time, the bonds which knit togethe
, the we'll compacted union OF our IfilR
, TY States, not to speak of our terrltorle
, de frcto and in proSpcctu.
Ninht-lnMer down the river. Z