Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-23
susJEoFs ARE SUGGESTED BY THE SEASONS.

FROM THE NEWARK DAILY Apvrpr,s, ~ 49,.
ouec'S OF thought are impressed TO great extent bv
the seasons In the winter, ideas 70 ibustorng rsvs
IA orange groves, coffee fields and sugar plantations -
the tropics Then Cuba and Hayt rise up in rich mi
rage to the fancy Of politicians by profession sn
tunate Adventures and Mr. Thrasher perform
ted parts in the melodrama. AT that cold season 10 49,
to babble OF anthracite and hot baths as well as ~
fields; and men congregate in Legislatures and IN Con-
crosses, where they get the hot steam up to warm
them during the reign Of the frost king To see how the
greatest number Of people be crowded in the
est possible space the most serious OCCUPATIONS
Of the rich and fashionable every evening in the cities
ana 10 try how little they do when thus packed the
cunningest art OF legislators in our capitals
But now when the approaches the lion the fervd
imagination flies for comfort to the icebergs Of the Arctic
Circle pursues the muchamented Franklin and his brave
companions beyond the DEvIL's THUMB, and does not
stop till has passed the short degrees of longitude in
vicinity Of the pole and cooled itself the spout
ING whales Of behring's Strait The hot summer Is the
season. too when every goes, or pants to CO. ash-
ing and live where there IS plenty of c9ld water Inc
seasepen reappears upon the stormy cape Of assachu
Bay, and helps to allay irritation from the intoler
able drought of our parched-up lands
With the coming of the summer sostice, the question
of the Northeastern Fishery begins to be discussed afresh
just nothing had been said before since talking
about fishing possibly be STALE though the FISH
themselves may be- but will be ever pleasant topic for
amusement in hot weather. We hove right to fancy
that Mr.. Cnrroa viii have now pleasant dish Of dis
course on cod and mackere with Mr.. NANCY as he did
before with his great friend WEBSTER. We like to think
OF this, know 1t must be difficult to get the
tons or their representatives about the proprety
OF our eating cod mackere in dog days wherever he
may be caught he risesout Of the bright and
dripping with Its big cold drops So keen sportsman
as the English Minister, who lately killed within our
waters and sent to the President bass Of size almost
unparalleled cannot look upon jolly fisherman the
coasts OF Nova Scotia and Labrador with sinister eye
On the contrary he will doubtless as much as possible
soften down the temper Of old Admiral Seymour and keep
the fishery Of the North during many year to come for
rious chowders have been eaten g agreeable dis
cusson, and libations without number measure drank
These will continue to be pleasant yearly pastime to
diplomats whose business is rather discussion than de-
cision, till the fish, which form the main thing in
dispute shall be wanted used up for bait catch some
other interest product of still higher value. If the
provncals can only get reciprocity their hook cod and
and mackere will not be regarded such important cha
- ---- *R~- hove haan Int will he left to their own
racteAe .n~y
nmbe fins, with nobody to protect them from the pork
balted Lines OF the maraudng Yankees Till that time
shall arrive the will enter Leo without our
Americans regard much as they do distant thunder
and not in the least afraid Of being by either
1t this manifest propensity attention at
this to the cold and the North to which we
attribute the present talk about the Northern bear When
the European body polite seems melting away; when
individual corporations at any dissolving with
heat, think of the White Mountains Mont Blanc
Chimborazo, and the Gar But our studies on thee
subjects will all die away by winter when the Gar ST.
bera and the Icy Cape will be alike forgotten or post
poned to another torrid season.