The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-08
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Nh"foNfl tn. LII July H., 1000
The excessive heat of the past week has led 10 many
disagreeabities not recorded sin the book OF marks
An undue share OF these has fallen upon travellers who
at the best OF times have little ease but when Fahren
het swels above SOC have ''na luck at a for then
the smoke OF the locomotive most pungent the dust
highest human breath most disgusting brief every
thing 10 more everything than at Other times. sol
emmy avow that the only approximation to smiles vs
bic IN the long trains Of the past week those
nected With wheaton straws and cool tumblers
Did you ever notice what batch of annoyances a
night trip from Washington to New York involves The
crowded state of the the frequent changes from
train TO tin causing to drop your knife here your
pencil case there, your last novel somewhere-the
six mile omnibus ride at Philadelphia long for six
miles and the ferocous vigor Of the pckpockets no
where 80 successful upon night trainsa these
the nocturnal fitting to be dreaded by every one who
has tried It, Oux mutual friend Saddery started with
from the federal city with Mrs s. and six little SIS
Listen to his experience: The change of cars at Bal
more cost him his wfes peace Of mind represented by
her work basket AT the ferry only four children of the
six could be counted The three omnbuses at Philade
phia were noisy with the dependency of the Juvenile
Sladderys, severed they feared forever iior was it
until the hour of restoration at Jersey City that the now
exhausted mother dared hope to meet her darngs again
Mr. sladdery will take the morning train when he
turns to Washington
The intense heat is doing good service however the
farmers Corn is growing grew before its
color being of that rich green suggestive of intellect
ual verancy Near Baltimore it he corny Is inches
high through the Connecticut valleys IL inches here,
on the fshfed hocks, or inches. Potatoes well
forward Grass is heavy the crops will be luxuriant.
Fruits such as cherries, Strawberries, &care plenty
and cheap though not sweet in former years The
promise of apples is encouraging
The visit of the Richmond Yirginia) Commandery of
Knights Iempar to the fraternity at Boston, of which
much has been said in the papers, is unquesonaby one
OF the events OF the day. and its effects in politi
cal relation not to be sneered at 1t forms topic
of general interest and while it has rendered the ancient
craft the lions of the week and revived the traditional
gores of the order amongst those who remember it in the
times before 1885, IL modifying public opinion through
out the North in relation to southern feeling You and
believe tho South, much as she is vfed In Ger
tain northern journals, is quite patriotic in her 1evo
ton to the Union as any portion of country Now,
the speeches made at Providence and Boston in wccom
ing these Masonic guests who had 700 miles to greet
their brethren redolent of principles and they
were elegantly matched by the responses. Whatever
Boston said the subject Richmond outsaid The
shadow of the Bunker Hill Monument suggested patri
otto thought the shadow of the Crawford Statue sug
gested the reply Pity that few read long newspaper
accounts of such doings many thoughts set
in Randalls address of welcome and in Gills reply
But few guests at Newport yet it is month too
early, says Bonace should have known this without
his telling hewever for remarked three infalhble
signs of duness at Newport good bedroom low down.
plenty Of food the table, attentive servants. These
may be found just now at all the hotels. Boni-
face pretends to anticipate good this season. but the
town people generally predict the the better
of course for those who and the neatest way to
by one of the iputian steamers that skim down the
bay twice in twentyfour hours from Providence. If in
this world better ride be got for fifty cents than
that thirty miles done in the little Perry in ninety min
utcs should like to be there to see
Each visitor here makes point, of course, of seeing
Franklins old printing press in the Mercury Office Com
modore Pcry's monument, Fort Adams, the Jewish
cemetery, Washington former residence and Old Dump
ling. These being DONE he srols lcsurely up to the
old tower decides at the suggestion of his conductor,
that it is mol wind mill but of Scandinavian origin, and
then hurries back to the hotel to by the dictionary
what the word means. did.
am impressed with the idea that abolitionsm Of the
rank odor formerly coveted in little Rhody is running
to seed If not the smell of it is not pungent.
Every body here talks of Uon and that the chance of
Governor Seward for nomination is nowhere and that
national candidate must be found, etc, politician of
this Sort red hot Mack went down the bay with
and actually spread himself to show how national his
folks had got to be- encouraged him in his symptoms
of returning sanity and advised him to gentle of
travel Mason and Dixons line the easiest way of
learning something about the peculiar institution.
Has it occurred to you that ready made clothing
is poorly adapted to the different sorts of currency
meets with in course Of extended travel Let
plain: purchased pair Of pants at Indianapolis few
weeks since, the pockets of which held with the utmost
fidelity whatever travelling funds had composed they
of bank notes of small denominations. But running
through Virginia and the District and getting my dis
may few dollars in silver, the garment burst in its ten
derest partthe pocketahd my boots became the silver
island OF my possession This is Queer bit Of travelling
experience admit but will to call to the readers
mind the varieties of money he meets with The best of
all is gold in large and small coins the former for railroad
fares the latter for hotels Without of this
sort the pilgrim will find himself stuck with batch of bills
scarcely found by name in counterfeit detector Speak
ing of currency rresistbly reminds that old Ja
cob Barker formerly of New Orleans yesterday at Prov
idence and that he looks anything younger than he
did in 1921
While giving advice let the traveller in these regions
beyond Jordan be warned to his flannel leave
it off any consideration Neglecng this, and sleep
ing near open window three nights snce favored
with twist in the neck this morning, which, If it
moral obliauy would consgn to the house of cor