Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-09-24
EDITORIAL Corrcspo ndlence.
STEAMER N. Y. ON LAKE ONTARIO,
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the good ship that has borne Us through j
seems in fair WY to make her landing a
Lewiston about noon, some four or five hours
behind her regular time From o'clock thi,
morning 10 eight,ibe gale blew fercely enough
and the rocking and grooming of the vesse
was novelty. to an inlander,by means the
most pleasant. The passengers. think. might
be properly divided into those who were too
sick TO be frightened. and too frightened to be
sick. So severe was tho rolling and pitching
OF the steamer. that many Of the hands and
crew, accustomed as they are to life on the
water.were made violently il-anj not among
the least of The sufferers as ] am told, were a
horse and dog. had not before known tha,
these noble animals shared the infirmity of
sea-sckness with man.
Since last wrote have visited Newport
Boston and Montreal, with intermediate and
adjacent localities of interest. At Newport
the company. which had been unusually large
through The season. was a good deal reduced
10y the coming on of cold weather. Those
who remained, OF fhe foshionables, seemed
Ministers Were the only persons there belong
ing to the class of celebrities. Newport, once
the seat ola yer, heavy importing trade. great
er at the time than New Yofk-is now sus.
tanned mainly by pleasure seekers. Th,, stu
alton is very beautiful andthe climate mder,
il is said both wietcr and summer than is to be
found anywhere north Of the Potomac The
sea.ba,hingis very delightful. and the pictur,
presented when the beach and surf are cov.r
ed and filed with bathers, male and female
racing, plunging. shouting and swimming
makes one open his e. first sight, as If h,
had suddenly found himself among a new race
of beings. The bathing dress for males is
wooden jacket and trousers, nolhing more
that for the other sex is Boomer costume oil
the same material. The Transform alton from
the bail rooE TO tho bath as so great that (to
use wilticisn of late British Mns;er) a
mans Oldest creditor would scarcely recognize
him. The ladies' participate ia the sport with
very great xest, AND there seems, for the time,
lorgetfulness Of all ceremony and restraint
The salt water, like poverty, makes yot, many
new companions; and swimming along at
your leasure, you are liable to have II white
little foot splash up in your face. without its
owner saying much as--"by your Leave.
sir" II there ,bc ahy question Of 1ocacy in all
this.it does not seem 10 occur 10 those no are
enjoying the sport Many persons of wealth
and fashion are making Newport place of
summer residence, and The whole environs are
filled with beautiful and costly cottages One,
which did not seem To me finer than many 9th
ers. was pointed out as having been just com
peted at cost of hundred thousand dollars
With allthesc sttractions.1 do not think South
errers,and especially Virgiuians, should desert
their own places of resort Tor health or pleas
ure, FOR this. Formally and fashion are nc
where in the South carried to SO ridiculous ar
extern. There is, too. an amount oil pretensior
aud exclusveness that forbds anything lik,
agreeable social intercourse-and degree oil
extorlion that is nsufferable.
Leaving Newport, by steamer, to Prov
dence and thence 10y railroad. we arrived il
Boston IN FIVE or SIX hours. The first words
heard ip the city OF sober notions" were
"Run for the poIce'--and the first words / rea,
were-"Beware of pick pockets" mention
these things as characteristic. have rarel,
heard the one, and never seen the other in tn.
old Dominion. Hands off and fair fight" il
more common cry with us-and as for pick
pockets we are hardly civilized yet enough TO
them. Notwithstanding these and other fea
lures of dssimilarity, the Bos,onians remint
me more of Virgnans, in all that is mos
respectable on agreeable than any people
have yet seen. They are very col dial in thei
manners, in which they resemble us--they arr
very attentive to strangers, in which, | am TO
surethat We resembethem. Politeness pervade
all classes, and as you walk the streets any in
formation or favor you seek, from wha,eve
person, is rendered with a cheerfulness an,
grace that seems as natural as they are pleas
ing. Evidences of cultivation and refnemen
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