Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-28

dec0y 10 eaten the trade or American sail
RS. We passed down the river Mersey, out
, the channel, the millions of lights on each
lore presenting gorgeous spectacle at
| light.
| The next day at noon we made fast to the
Ter at Dublin, and endeavored to force a
assage through the crowd of porters and cab
| zen on the Quay. ssTake coach yer honor?''
Ave We any luggage sir?' Faith I'll car
yer bag up for saxpence." declined all
| .efers of assistance and soon arrived at the
Northumberland Hotel, the most central po-
Eition in the city, and convenient to all places
of amusement AT night went to the Thea
tire Royal to hear Piccolomini in the opera OF
Lucia di Lammermoor. You must know that
| Piccolomini ranks next to Mile Titiens as a
prima Donna. in the United Kingdom. She
! Is pretty little actress and sings remarkably
! well. The reception she met on landing in
Ireland was enthusiastic beyond description.
The horses were taken out of her coach and
the vehicle drawn up into the city by a pro-
cession of dublin boys" as wild set of
young devils as ever handled shillaleh.
| The Dublin Theatre is pretty little es-
tablishment with excellent scenery, though it
dwindles into insignifcance when contrasted
with those splendid palaces of amusement
| Her Majestys and Covent Garden Opera
| House in London.
| With an English audience, sacred silence is
! preserved during the performance of an OPP
era, even in the intervals between the pieces.
In Dublin it is quite the reversible yells
from the galleries were deafening-ribald
| jests and shouts of laughter, glees and cho-
ruses in which the whole range of upper-boxes
would participate, such as Pop goes the
| Weasel" and 1--WE won't go home till morn
| ing" But when the curtain rose death-like
stiffness prevailed until the close of the act.
1 will not attempt to describe Piccolomini
She is coming to America, and you will be
enabled to judge of her merits personally.
The great PreIate, Cardinal Wiseman, who
is visit to this priest-ridden island, is Gre
ating quite a furore among the Jealous Cath
olics. Speaking of Catholicism. l attended
mass at the Cathedral on Last Sunday. In
the large pOrtico in front of the building are
fixed two marble basins containing the magi-
cal 'hOly water" 1t was striking contrast
as well as a novel scene to behold the gloved
hand of some fair votarie of fashion dipped
into the sacred bowl to obtain a sprinkle of
the sin-dispelling element, and Immediately
after to witness the arm of poor wretch in
rags thrust forward to procure his bottle full
with which he would retreat to his den in the
vicinity of the -Four Courts" / enteredIthe
Cathedral and had scarcely taken my seat
when pretty little Emeraldine brushing past
stepped upon my toes. "Beg your pardon,
sir" just if the pressure of that little slip
per upon my pedal extremities demanded an
apology. 1t rather sent an electric thrill from
my toes to the region of my palpitator. The
incident furried me. In my confusion l blew
my nose on my kid gloves, forgetting that I
had left my bandanna on my room-table.
Mortified, when discovered the fatal mistake,
l left the Church precipitately, notwithstand-
ing had paid sixpence at the door to see the
ceremonies. / turned down by-street with
the express determination of spying into the
domestic sorrows of the capital of ireland,
and this is the result of my perigrinations.
The metropolis is not worthy of the country.
So fine country, and so animated people,
require better head. 1t is neither elegant,
romantic nor beautiful. There is but one
handsome street in Dublin, (Sackville street)
and very few single houses that are partcu-
larly tasteful. Its domestic architecture ap-
pears TO have reached the lowest grade of the
scale. 1t is the architecture of the last cen
tury. Doors and windows covered and ell
crusted with dust, panes broken, as if the
houses were in the hands of the Lord Chan
celor, and belonged to nobody, and many of
the stately mansions are not furnished at all
as if the owners had gone to London without
the intention of coming back. London is ev-
identity the robber OF Dublin. They have
taken away our parliament from u.s." said an
old man, who showed me the interior of Trim |
ity College, "and they wanted lately to take |
away our Lord Lieutenant also; Dublin then
would be little better than a country town"
Yesl the desolator is here. Any one who can
truly appreciate to what degradation COM |
munity may be brought 10y Popery, will see at |
once the cause of this desolation. Thus |
moralized as | proceeded in the direction of |
my hotel, and arriving at that point wrote a |
patriotic letter to the immortal QUACKLEBUM
with a request to send me clean shirt by
mail.
have seen everything in Dublin; more than
can describe at all events. Ihave an almost |
recollection of Donnybrook, Bray
Head and Kingstown. At the former place |
"fell in" with bevy of ''fast Dublin boys"
who assured me that we could ''do'' the whole
round in day. The programme opened with
n selection of punch and lemon" sung by
the full strength of the company. with goblet
and decanter accompaniment. You, Oh! Pa
trot (pardonnez moi must know the effect of
such music on the feelings of a novice!
have but dim, shadowy recollection of the
beauties of the bay of Bray; of fast, cum
ming looking priest, "doing the amiable' to
some ragged children on the strand; of
boat-ride to Kingstown and some very beau
tiful women saw there; of drive to Don
ybrook, and of dinner in the back part of
The Gresham Hotel" where to the best of
NY knowledge and belief left smiling faces
md empty bottles. to seek the quiet of my
chamber and finish this letter. Tomorrow
So you see there is no rest even for an idle
pleasure seeker. After all, what is travelg ,
Is it happiness Is il business? IL il profit? {
What does IL come TO. How does ii operate? ,,
I is change. 1t is distraction OF mind. 1t is {
food of small worries endured and forgot
en-. 1t is battle survived or a life to be
wed over again; dip in Lethe, followed by !
return to those upper regions with some /
Shat abated strength and n rougher temper, !
mt fewer frets on the mind and a slight re-
mission of those greater cares, those more OBJ !
rusive memories, and those more imperious I
abits of mind that are apt to modest the mo- I