The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-05
METROPOLITAN MUSINGS.

d the Uaion During that time he has had an opportu-
"a. y, s.a life from some new points of view Advised
10 travel have made up my mind that travelling Is very
r medicine for an invalid You have friend who s
veu when amidst the comforts of home, and you are
ersdulo,f enough to hope for cure by putting him
roueh course of cinders, in iventiated cars upon
dusty railroads dieting him upon the ndgestible pies and
coffee with which Satan has prompted eyil-dsposcd per-
ops TO tempt delicate stomachs into dyspepsia and in
stead of his accustomed airy chamber, causing him to
sleep in some dark den the roof of an immense
hotel and then you surprised that he does not i'm
poye But the funniest part of the treatment is in
going to ..-..-. ....-.-,
The Sea side.
Moved by the cntreaty of friends, went to the sea-
Shore near Boston, and remained there whole day-a
oggy wretched aguesh day, the precursor of subse
ouent bilious ever day long to be remembered for its
horid prs,nptings to suicide 1t wretched place,
called swampscott 10 which 1 was alured by promises
or refreshing breezcs cool airs, &C. al lived there and
found myself enveoped in dense fog, which one OF the
natives assured me would clear up by evening. Upon
mauiry found that seafog Swampscottian institu
ton and the only glimpse OF sunlight and warmth which
the poor weers by the beach obtain takes all day to
penetrate the mist in which they live. As am OF an
nouisitive temper endeavored to study the habits of
the swampscotters and found that they divided into
two classes composed Of shoemakers who go fish
ing when there shoes TO be made and tho other
Of fishermen who make shoes when there are no fish to
be caught There are several fashionable hotels near the
beach and the lady guests themselves by going
out In full dessslks, crinone and thin Shoes to-
dig clans From the sea-shore to sick chamber was
but slight transition indeed il was rather refreshing to
be made warm and comfortable under any prctext.
CabIeistic Annoyances. f' fs %
Partially restored and anxious leave nhosptable
land where overcoats and fires needed in August
turned my ce toward the centre of the centre
of all thingsthat is to say for the benefit of the
leamed--the Union office in Washington. But, alas
for human expectations, that dreadful Atlantic cable
wound itself about me in New York, and, notwithstand
ing the pressing necessity for my RETURN the greatest
event of the age would not allow me to rest until
had ate cable, drank cable, slept cable found that
everything was applicable, and that the cable was an
iradcabe BORE There have said it, and shall be
hooed for it, but you know reader that you are quite
tired of the cable am, and that while pretending
to submcrgc it, its managers have really been running it
into the ground) As to the results of the Atlantic ele
graph judging the present Indications they not
promising in literary point of view for event has
ever prompted SO much poor poetry, and many bid
puns The crimes which have been committed under the
cloak of poetic license exhibit unlicensed derrvity of
taste One individual dares to apostrophise the
maids with containing such rhymes water
and oughter Ought another modcstly requests the
cbeto undertake the slightly difficult task of shutting
up lions jaw if lions numerous and docile
at the bottom Of the Atlantic # a#f
Il Tie thou the hands of war,
strange the tyrants law s.4.r .s- .,,... a. .t.ts
up the EOn's
This Driesbachan feat is suggested by reverend Doc
tor of Divinity whose advocacy of the theatre won some
fame for him last winter. l beg to be enlightened as
TO the process of stranglng the tyrants law Would
oy aeia, be involvcdi Could it be accomplished by
HoH proa7ta2 Beyond these appliances can think OF
no legal means for strangling law AS to shutting
up the lions jaw, the figure is familiar that can
only suppose the lion to be introduced save it from
seeming somewhattrto Only extract shall dis
miss the great bundle of odes hymns epcs and anthem
which the submarine telegraph has prompted The fol-
lowing is from ode prepared for the eminently pous
city fathers Of New York by lady who is very properly
the ultra marine order @
"Ehoo the sunset Of yesterday flooded tho West
oar old mother eorntry lay far in the distance; q. "
ig the Iehtnins ha, struck wear breast
mat beautiful land that hrst gave existence"
Tho MiddeAged Man most ,lcerentially submits that
the above is great stroke for any lightning We live
IN wonderful age, indeed when stroke of lightning
can struck close to tho breast of the old mother
Btoo wonderful for me Lost | may be charged With
unaness may state that the above are far above the
Her%e of the poetic Qualifications Of this event
Serious Word, HH# zi aa
and last about the Atlantic telegraph will enable
NE to express my conviction that neither commerce ncr
diplomacy have gained the greatest triumph this last
mechanical wonder. 1t is the morast who receives the
largest instruction from the event for ii shows him how
all things are being directed by experimenting Provi-
oehee into the channel of human progress and how the
dy hasens for the acknowledgment Of the fraternity
nations, and the democratic equality and worth of hui
manty, for the sake of its simple manhood Lying se-
curely beneath the great waves, coed down In deep
chasns winding the tops Of hidden mountains sink
as into the soft embrace of waving plants that
never to reach the outer world low that can
never be disturbed by fearful cmpests that above it de-
sy the proudcst and strongest ships The chief glory of
the submarine wire is that every time 1t lots signal it
also records the puse-beating of humanity which is
common to the Old World and the New. -g,. I'D s
As will be seem disposed exaggerate the i'm.
PoItance of this event. and shall not be surprised if it
never proves half valuable in matters OF trade as it
expected TO be, but there is something unspcakably
ul Of awe in the proof which it furnishes of the
subtle potency and nexhaustibe quantity of those
ehanca agents which stored up in this world and to
Tue use OF which we are slowly arriving when begin
70 grow proud and think have exhausted oil knowl-
ese and can guage the dimensions OF the Infinite He
onounds and humbles by revealing the hidden prop
Ue Of some simple thing like the var or from boiling
water or piece of metal dissolved In an acid We stand
'Onnualiy on the border of Innty and yet the finite
~ contnualy becomes moro mysterious. Like children