Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-08-17
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GhALAQELFhAAN sANE1ASs 49,
The weather for the past few days has been
Of kind utterly discouTaging to shy exertior,
mental OF physical Your correspondent finds
1t about as much as he can do comfortably to
sit on the shady side Of the hotel balustradc and
endeayOr by dint Of continual tanning. to
keep his collar, or rather the small allowance Of
starch in it, from being entirely melted away =
Chestnut street, although noisy and crowded
enough 10 snit the taste of any pedestrian,
who has to dodge about among its hoops, Po-
Iieemen and omnibusses, is quiet when eomPa-
red with what have often seen it, in the height
OF the busy season. There IS one particular
advantage about Philadelphia in warm weather,
which distinguishes 1t from all other cities that
know Of and that IS its various and spacious
breathing places. passed down through
Franklin Square, quite early this morning, be-
fore many of the pleasure people were stirring
out, and thought / never looked upon Il moro
attractive scene of the kind. There in the
midst of vast surrounding Of brick and NOR
tar. was a genuine woodland before me. The
grass just as green and the treesinst as ieaiy
and natural looking as those in the woods Tar
away from the city There, toOrswas beautiful
fountain, its many spouts sending high mp IN the
air sparkling columns of clear water, which fell
again in tho spacious basin, sending out, aN IT
were. cool breeze all around them. The SPUR
reIs fat and sleek. were skipping about over the
green sward in every direction. apparently
unconscious Of any presence but that OF their
fellows, as those which occupied these grounds
before William Penn set foot on the banks of
~ a.. tfn tran Inn
its yellow tinge contrasting with the deep green
foliage on the lower limbs, and the grounds be-
meath, Itliouglt l had never looked upon more
enchanting scene. 1t brought 10 mind all my old
readings of the beautiful lawns and parks, which
history describes as Distinguishing the abodcs
Of French royalty, in the days Of Louis the
Fourteenth, or them significantly arrayed gar
dens and parks of St. Clouds and Fontainbleau,
during the consulate and empire Of Napoleon.
Ti.oro arc other places in and about Philadel
DINA; Ittss - ----.---s-,-
Ills oneof Franklin Square. Fairnount BY day
and ParkinSon's Gardens in the evening, are
among the most enticing. The latter place Is a
grand resort from early in the summer, until
Early autumn. 1t cncloses magnificent walks,
amid green pIats and fountains, beautiful and
,uriousIy interviewer flower beds, arbors and
asteful side retreats, all brilliantly illuminated
nth the most delicate jets of gas light. In the
midst Of the garden is neatly coilstructe,itOw-
:, some thirty-fivc or forty feet high, in the
PIPER part Of which band of music, engaged
,r the whole season, plays at intervals All
yer the garden, you sec wealth, beauty and /
shion, in almost every grade of each. Near
7 you sits some ponderous business man, whose
row has become guarded, and his features
,owIed by excessive and over-WOrkins vexa-
on, plotting and tOiliug in business. He is
ERE to smoke cigar and sip julep His
,xt neigbbor is there probably to get ont of
c way of hoopdom at home "a Mr. Caudle's
sits to the races. a great many are prone
ding about, who come merely to touch their
its to Fanny Gray" \ great many others are
iere, some for better, and others for worse pur-
oses.
had intended to mention many other things
this letter, but find that have already ta-
N up my space, without even doing justice to
hat / have touched upon. c.