Washington telegraph., 1858-04-28

md having no factitious dignity to sup
,ort, the American roves about with the |
greatest nonchalance from country to coun-
ry and from continent to continent. In |
Iced he seems possessed Of the same spirit |
If ubiquity that characterized that mystic |
Wandering Jew-to-day
cropping his way amidst the shadowy mists
Of hyperborean reigns, and tomorrow
shaking the SHOWS from his feet upon some
tropical soil. He is oftentimes thorough
at home in any place from
Niagara to the Nile, and always and any
where animated by the same feeling that
honest GOLDSMITH gave vent to, when,
sitting under the shadows of the Alps
friendless and pcnniless, he sang chcerily,
s.Crcation's heir. the world, the world is mine
And vet the American is not good trav-
eler; he wants that quiet contentment
and placidity of temperament which is
absolutely essential to the good traveller
he has too much impulsiveness, restless
ness, 20 o-aheaditivcncss. In doing n GER
tain number of miles, mountains, muse
ums, cities, cathedrals, rivers and ruins,
he can beat the world. In travelling he
goes as if he is fighting a melee or riding
a stceplc-chase, and thinks lie has made
a bad day of it unless he has placed be-
hind him given number of mile-stones.
His first thought is how he can most ex-
peditiously get to any spot or place, the
second is how he may most speedily get
away; aud thus he keeps going at rail-
road speed over hallowed and unhallow-
ed ground, apparently bent on the pro-
ject Of the goblin Puck, "to put a girdle
round the earth in forty minutes"
Blu: despite this national peculiarly, our
country has given birth to some excellent
tourists, and no other perhaps has 50 en-
riched the Library of Travel" Upon
the muster-roll of our travellers are such
names as IRVING, SLIDELL MCKENZIE,
HILLIARD, STEPHENS, Mrs. SIGoURNEY,
BAYARD TAYLOR, TUcKERMAN, WILLIS,
MARGARET FULLER, and ENERsoN-all
Of whom ''have held the mirror up to na-
ture, and have given Us the result Of
their observations in books full of spirit,
grace and fidelity. But the most charm
ing tourist We have reserved for last-the
gifted, kind and accomplished ocrAvGA
WALTON LIZ NEEr-
~ woman Of her gentle sex
The seeming VlrasDu.'
Men have generally kind Of holy horror
OF literary women Of the regular thorough
going blue-stockiug. We expect that
malice has 4 good deal to do with this /;
spite on account Of some sharp sarcasm,
some severe discontinue; for in an eucUun-
ter Of wits meu invariably come Of sec
oud best. They have been stung 50 often
by them, so often whipped, routed aud
put to flight, that they have come to dread
one ss they would Brazilian tiger, whose
glossy beauty only eouceals its vicious Ia
SulS- n lAeNSHt A4-h tSHSa@atf Aa1H'i X -
to keep a respectable space between
them and himself, anl Is ever ready to
cry out to any friend who has been more
simple and unsuspieious than himself.
--The devil. Why man,
Pray get out q this hobbie a. fast as You can: 4:
Ioa wed with Mis- Lilac! twoull Dc your per-
ditign:
She. e. Pss', a ct,a.i,,, Ha,Gea,stcjaH:
However true this may be in general, it
has no application to Mrs. LIZ VERT. No
one ever Stunned her, no one ever turned
away at her greeting, no one ever saw her
without wishing to sec her again. Her
very look disarms suspicion, anI her soft,
swee; voice-'.an excellent thing in wo-
mau'-dispels every uncharitable thought
Like the Cuban ladies' she possesses that ad-
mirable trait never to speak disparagingly
Of another. The brilliant Persihage of
her genius never does hurt, but is only to
amuse, aud the eoruscations Of her fancy
may sparkle and dazzle, but they never
burn. She is not only accomplished, and
brilliant, and gay, and beautiful, but inf
uitcly more than all this, sho is true wo-
man, and in all places and circumstances
We find her ever true to her woman's IA
ture and woman's mission. In the Ian
guasc Of Sir PHILIP SYDNEY, cher ex-
cellencics stand in as silently as if they
had stolen upon her without her knowl-
edge"
y book by such woman is certainly
one not to be despised, and the one she
has written is worthy Of her own beautiful
and gentle naturc-full of feeling and
charity, replete with poetic beauty and