, 1853-08-06
Fr0n Our stelIacOOm COrrspOndeut.
SrrlLAcooM, July 20, 1853.

SNiJ ~SJ ACSCH
FRIEND McELRoY IL don't know how
it is with you, away up there at the head of
that almost interminable sheet of water,
Budd's Inlet" where some thousands OF
yeas ago cold Neptune" was especially
careful TO deposit an incalcuable amount Of
s'ft and yielding mud but were you down
here, am certain that with me you would
think that there is not people inhabitng
any portion Of the earth, who enjoy more
delightful weather than we have had for the
last two months; or who would be more
thankless and ungrateiul than ourselves, did
we fail TO rejoice at the genial sky over our
heads, and the almost universal good health
that prevails amongst US. The weather is
warm, decidedly : and there are few hours
in every day, when the sun has passed the
meridian, in which man actively at work,
would perspire pretty freely, and feel some
what uncomfortable; but then there is no
necessity, whatever, that men should work
in them, for the days are long, and afford
quite enough Of sufficiently cool hours for
men TO work in and when night comes
and he relres to his " rirtuous straw" his
sleep is always sound and refreshing, SO
that bright and early in the morning, before
the God of day has climbed the eastern hor-
izon hand-sPike's length, or Chandelier
has piped all hands with his shrll notes, be
is again cup and doing" with renewed
vigor of both body and mind cannot say
half enough in praise of our Summer nights,
for they are so deliciously cool, as one would
say of an iced "Sherry Cobbler," that
when one wraps the drapery of his couch
around him, and lies down 10 pleasant
dreams, his slumbers are soon to be undis
turbed by the fever of heat, or the stealing
in of frosty atmosphere as morning ap-
proaches. have not, like "old Rosin-the-
bow" travelled this wide world all over, but
have tarried for a season in many places,
in both the Torrid and Temperate zones,
without ever having found place where
man with clear conscience ian article am
proud 10 say, that is possessed by the peo-
pie of Washington Territory in an eminent
degree can lay himself out horizontally
with better grounded hope of having a
good nights rest, than here upon Puget
Sound. In many places where have been,
The people are pestered to death" las our
classical old ladies say,) by that internally
buzzing, biting, bill-preseniing,
blood extracting little wretch, called mos
quito, in such great numbers, that person
would no sooner think Of retiring for the
night, without having first thrown an imper-
vious network around his couch, than he
would Of putting his wearing apparel snug.
Iy between the sheets, and hanging himself
over the chair-back Thank Heaven, we
Are not subjected 10 that plague here at S,eil-
lcoom.
! have been led to make the weather, &c,
he subject Of this communication, by hay
ing noticed a universal spirit of rejoicing at
Ihe many fine and beautiful days we have
iad this summer, and the cheering hope
hat animates all hearts Of many more to
come. During the inclemency of last win
er, many and earnest prayers were offered
up, that the summer would bring us a clear |
md unclouded sky, and our longings seem
o have been needed, and their object gain
ID, for we are now daily basking in genial
un shine and those who, but a few months
iince, were almost ready to despair of ever
ieeing perfectly clear day again, and par
icularly loud in their denuncialions Of the
'ery wet and disagreeable weather of our
Territory, are now the most eager in their
raise of our salubrious climate, and clear,
un-shiny days. In few months the rainy
eason will again be upon US, when we can
10 longer recline at our ease in the cooling
hade, or set by the open window, and feel
pon our cheeks the grateful breeze that
lays over the tranquil bosom Of our unri-
allied bay but still, lei us be grateful for
he beautiful days that are so full of enjoy
nent 10 us now, and moi forget that with the
eturn Of summer they will come to bless us
gain. B.