Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-20

NEW Yogk, Aug. llih. i5J6

,,,st of Fremont. executed by +. Buchanan
Tad, painter and poet. Would that the subject
Id been worihier the artist This interesting
,aang asprant 10 the Presidency emnates TENT
nsi.y aud parts hi. hair IN the mi3dle-"nr ot
tie moe deserving acts Of biz 5fr--m that II de
.erves the penteutIary. lie lives. believe, in
Fifth Auenuc. which Ia rapidIy becoming the
Fashionable route to thai popular resort.
| am Every day more aud more impressed with
,Ip lack Of what may be called the homr element
a. an almost universal Characteristic ct the III
habiiant. Of This city, and Bropklyn, which Is ITS
larmitnry And, upon reflection, do not much
wonder at il. Local attachment. which enters
rna.t largely into the home idea, a. il to he sup
pa.ed l. totally wanting. Again, the dwellings,
/ cannot call them humes, both eAteriory and IN
trnorly--n ~ pres sion. complexion. and furnish
are fnanotaupu-ly similar And # man were
not numbered. being known aud knowing himself
md innily. Il. number, Ike the Siberian exleS,
he might walk into his neiglh5r'o dinner kiss
hi. ncighbor's W.T.. whip hi ucighbor's children.
aud play the mischief with his neishbor's pros
poets generally, without immediately discovering
the mistake. Spite If the numbers. such mis-
lukes do sometimes nccur-whcn thirty seven
mistakes forty six aud forty.>ixs family for him
self thriy-ssyrn, aud his fmily. Home here is
a house where II man eat-. sleep, and keeps his
family out Of the street. 1t is a house.
ebrsile public way,
Thick sfrewn with summer da.', and great stream
Ofpcoplc hurryjng a. 9al fro
Bnt the nabobs are not homeless. Dat upon
the idenl They hive their FIRMS upon Staten
Island IL which, during tie summer Inunth-,
they retire and enjoy the scenery of those rug
ged wild- of nature. | am jnlsu-#F ayer,e To
quoting poetry but The following v'rses from
Dean Swift nre 81 apropos that must be par.
doHcd the Offence:
You scarce upon the border enter,
Before you're NJ the very centre
Though small yolrfrm it has a house
Full trae to entertain Il mouse;
Bat if its entered by rat
Thef, is room Ia bring cat
Round your garden is walk
Nn lon@rr than n ttilpr's chalk;
One salad makes Il shift II squeeze
Up through Il tutt yousall your trees
And, once year single rose
Peeps from the bud but never blows.
In vain then you'll expect its bloom,
1t cannot hIoH for want of room.'
Many of your readers. feeling an interest in
the growing literature of Virginia, it may not be
amss to state that Mr.. Jno. Esten Cookies book,
Tale Of the Virginia Frontier" has just been
Issued by Derby x Jackson. Mr. John X.
Thompson and the authoress of Light and
Darkness" have books in press-the latter in
this city A new book just out is parody on
liawatha, entitled "Mikaapatha' and purport-
ing to he translated from the original Feeee by
Marc Antony Henderson, Professor of the Fee
ee Language and Literature in the Brandywine
Female Academy. and to be published at Cincin
nati BY YekeH s. GrinAe-whieh said Cincinnati
il Il safe to aver the mss. never saw. | will con
clude my letter with the introduction, if ii be
not too long, nnd stating by the way that the
author protesses to employ the nam of John
Smith. because, in conventional use. it has come
10 express the idea Of man in the coacrett
II an individual person.
John Smith. John Smith uncle.