New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-21
SUMMER NOTES OF 4 HOWADJI.

Correspondence of The Tribune.

Correspondence Of The Tribune
NEwBuRcn, on THE HuDsoN, July Il, le5l.
MY DEAR EDITOR | am ashamed OF my
Cockney en,husiasms Scarcely four day away
from the city, and have not yet done roaming
through the garden, thrustlng my nose INTO every
flower, and returning 10 lie upon the lawn anu
insul, the lovely landscape and the gorgeous day
with the "crqu,s,t," and d" bea9i.fU expletives
which every citizen should erase from his Vo-
calmlarlv when he cuts Cockaigno Yet where
could man first sip the Summer more perfectly
than IN the fragrant silence OF garden, whence
have emanatod the most practical and poetic
suggestions toward the greater dignity, comfort
and elegance of country life For none more
than Americans make ii a principle TO desert
the city, and none less than Americans know
how to dispense with the city. So we conpro-
mise hy taking the city with us, and the country
laughs US to scorn.
Although the day was tropical on which we
LEI, New.York, the Reindeer ran with us as If
we had been mere Laplanders, and our way a
frozen plain, instead of the broad, blue river
|, is only In the steamer that the Hudson can be
truly perceived and enjoyed For although In
the Indian Summer, the western shore, seen
from the Railroad, is a swiftly unrolhng piano.
rama OF dreams, yet the rush aud roar and sharp
steam shrek would have reused Rip Van VIM
Me himself, and the dust would have choked and
blinded him as he opened his eyes. The Rail
road will answer to deln Legislators at Al
bany, although which :" side vp Is little uncer-
tain. But the traveller who loves the law OF
Beauty and pursues pleasure, will take the
steamer and secure silence, cleanliness, suth
cient speed and an unencumbered ENJOYMENT Of
the landscape.
II the trains are as thronged as the boats they
do well. II was curious 20 SET forth upon a
river.excurslon, surrounded by hundreds bent
upon similar Summer pleasures, and yet see no
red hand-books and no state-travcling carriage
upon the forward deck, with a stste-travemg
coun,enance OF an English Milford on the inside
and the ruddy, round cheeks OF State-traveling
Abigalls, IN The rumble behind These are
Rhenish "reminiscences But they are as much
part OF journey up the Rhine as Dracheniels or
St Goal
We Americans are all at ease in the country,
which is our Continent" for the nonce even If
we hike it, and We are little afraid of 1t. Our
intense self-consciousness Keeps US very silent
and sends scarlet bushes 10 our hair when indis.
Greet friends forget themselves into raptureS.
But the English patronisc the Continent, They
ascend the Rhine lmperturhably. They feel that
they are comforting much more honor upon the
landscape by looking at 1t, than ever the sight OF
the landscape can give them pleasure. They
have even the audacious hardihOod 10 oke with
the Csr,cschawc,s" whom they encounter
John Bull going up the Rhine Is q very solemn
and edifying spectacle,
vi course these comparisons OF the travellers
upon the two rivers soon led 10 the grand cues
ton which usually consumes the three hours
from Mnrray-st TO West Pont--thc comparative
claims Of interest in the rivers themselves.
WAS severely taken to task by an un. Europe
anlzed American upon the terrace al Heidelberg,
ON the July evening OF my first Rhine ,av. for
some of those mdiscree, Rhenish raptures and
absolute hght-spesking OF the Hudson
--"Of course you do nj prefer the Rhine 3"
exclaimed my friend. with patriotic we