New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-15
Prom Bsster TO the Potomac.


wind was out east started last Monday 20 revisi. this
CITY after ten years sbSence. What pleasure Il Is
from the Imprisonment OF sickr0Om, one pulse calmly
beating With the pure uyinaton OF watercure
ery 10 BE- borne on BY the irOnwheeled cherubm ivs
hundred miles or So through this lively June weaiher
Your correspondent felt II in every hbre and II this had
no, put him in the best possible hunOr, the highly I'M
nroved arrangements on the route be Travelled 20 New
York (the Worcester and NOrwich.) and the kind and
bl;ong attentions Of all the funcOnares on this safe
and well managed line, would have done So BY tho
sv your humble servant much surprised and agree
sby sfeced az the pleasure expressed by many Kind
smile and hearty grip AZ seeing him "we enough % DO
ont How did you know had been sicki" "Sawit
in the uapers" All this notorety Of my sickness. and
uerbars as much more in every other radius from BOs
ION hsd come from a few little close agate ITEMS"
which would not have cost, If had paid for them sim
ole V Isn't this fact worth thinking Of by those CON-
mercial ndels who don't believe in the value of news
paper advertisingl
No improvement is more striking than that which has
taken place since my days Of travel the whole Rail-
road route from New York 70 Washington The days
and ughtsVhen the engineer kept the track clear Of
vagrant cows by breaking up the train and hurting
biets of bis wood az the poor animals are no more.
You no more dread pitching through rckcty bridge,
Ia Norfolk. into the GunpoNder river Even the New
Jersey monopoly Road has percep,iby made praeress
physically and morally, looking back ten years That
time aeo used TO pass it very frequently aud
the bearing OF the officials, high and low toward tho
passengers always reminded Of that which you may
see in bloated butcher driving mp Broadway or BOwe-
". toward his htapng cartfu Of lambs. Instead Of
this IL was pleasant 60 spirit of courtesy and ac-
commodaiion which, costing little or nothing makes
every body happy beyond price. EVERYBODY, coming from
almost any direction, TO cross fat New,JerSey, must
think the fare asked considering the crowd of pasen-
GERS Internationally too high. but il seems 10 me no
more than Justice say that the managers of the Road
are taking more pains than they used to take TO make
the trip worth the money. Let pray that their mo-
tyes Ia continue this commendabc course NAV be largely
increased The splendid new stationhouses of tho
Philadelphia and Baltimore and the Washington branch
Roads are really things 70 admire and be thankful for
That in Phiade pha particularly does great credit to tho
COMPANY and its architect, whoever be may be But
what admire more than the vaStness elegance aud
majesty Of the place, its awful warning to tho
smokers OF the vile weed The very walls speak 10 them
as they did once Beshazzar in blazing letters though
in this case no Daniel is needed 10 interpret The pro-
hibiton ought TO include tobacco splitting. When will
all such public places talk plainly 20 the unsayory horde
of smokers and spitters instead Of merely inviting them
IN n.ctorate into peserOus hthtrapS varying from
the size of the old fashioned mOuse-trap 20 that Of
potashkette as seen in the rOtunda of tho Capitol
Heaven speed the day when native American shall not
be tracked like snail BY his slime! A Bostonan is a
little proud think that quite probably the comfortable
and ndy improvements above mentioned and others not
ueutioned are due In some manner to the Boston OIL
GERS which these roads have recently imported may
be limited 10 other Roads that have few more leh
Of the same sort who could be spared such is the for
warduess OF The new crop.
word now from stranger in the great Federal city
the city of the magnificent future The growth of
ten wears is every where cernabc close inspection,
though almost imperceptibe az the first glance The
man Of the ereat city Is distinctly drawn upon tho
surface of the earth by the grading OF nearly all the con-
templated streets and avenues What city this grand
man shows YOU! IL will take hundred years TO realize
il at the present rate of building but the idea has no
inspiration in it. If this Republic had only done tho
viii of it, father who founded this city and honored it
III .b,fo -
have been 10 his memory It would nov have been full
of wealth and peoplehe lavOrte residence OF the vo-
tares Of art and of science and what is more the head
quarters Of our American army Of victorious industry
Ii is quite safe to say that Washington, with such unex-
celed facilities of transportation aud access TO mineral
and agricultural wealth it has with the advantage
and attraction of the Fe6era institutions and the pres
ence Of the Federal Government to boot shonld NOW
have been not less than the third city in the Republic In
population and manufactures il not in commerce.
What has hnderedf No assignabe but that ono
half the States failed to follow the example and carry
out the strongest aspiration OF the heart OF Washington
in the matter Of slavery. If Maryland and Vir-
pnia al the time when ashngtOn set the example OF
esncpang his slaves had decreed that no child there
after born ia their SOIL should be- a slave Washington
would now contain 100000 people. Its growth
would have commanded the admiration Of the world az
much az its backwardness eycites les derson L.
would have been he grand nervous OF the ReDub-
! lie and one would expect 70 find or make it's
equal as such elsewhere than the anat0mst expects 10
find an equivalent 10 the brain in the belly As mat
ters are Washington is far enough from leading the pub
lie opinion of the county-tO do which Is the function
Of great cities in modern times-it does not lead even
on the pifu subject Of party politics Very possible
this is blessing rather then otherwise but belttes
the city, considered as fitting monument OF its glorious
| founder.
In the meantime the little great grea grandchildren
Of Cheops among US are sweating 10 build a graye-stOno
/ monument 10 Washington, 500 feet high They have
got il up 100 feet already testify the shadow
of il is very cool and pleasant in a hot day Ii will
crafty many citizens aspiring TO immortality who shall
get the top OF t with pldnbago or red chalk In their
pockets VIII they not then leave q behind them
for pOsterity read and try TO get theirs Leals
bgherl lt will also afford fine view Of the valley Of
the Potomac which may likewise DO had gratis from the
| dome Of the Capitol But how such pile Of stones
/ high or bw can do anything for the memory Of Wash
inQtOp while his life and works printed By the Har
pers with steampesses and will be BY their Successors
till time and printing more is what cannot SEQ
any more than can Orion in the meridian sunshine
! Would CheOps have built bis pyramids it be bad lad
types and steam-presses As mere grave. stone mon
unent, this exguOus pile, with ali the noble and baso
Jos reefs TO be by lantern and gasght in s 500
feet Of weLhOe, cannot hold a candle 10 one Of old
Cheopss As a structure Of utility, to enlarge ennoble
and educate the American mind IL Is beat hollow by
log school house. As work Of art IL IL still worse
beaten by the Bunker Hill shaft for want of unity and
nqHestiOHdbts durability in It's material Il remains %
be seen whether in two or three hundred year,
the smart outside ego 70 meeting dress will
not fall 10 rags and expose the vulgar brown
underclothes Look at the ridcnIoas gh
Of tie marble shaft which British grattudeor vanity
raised TO the Duke of Marlborough at Benbeim Gran
ite in its subimily, may BE- depended II Is
the child OF the prneya ire, pure from all the elements
ofdecay Ofthe aqueous, carbOnferOus rOcks-Ehether
without or U p0lH-they will stand the tooth OF time,
= Al II. .I.fItu IL