Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-09-13
LErTUR FRUM OLE PINT.
Maskyraid Borl-Tho Kumpany-The Tayble-The
Forte-The senery-Guvernur Wye.
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Maskyraid Borl-Tho Kumpany-Ihe Iaybie-Th'
Forte-The senery-Guvernur Wyse.
OLE PINT, Angus 3, 1879.
To tie Eliturs Of the Inquirer:
Ny FnExs: Sum wekes has TRANSFERRED scnst
rlt to YOU las. In the meme TYNE ! has biz
away frum the Pint. | left the mornn arlte1
the lansy.Crcss and maskyraid borl Fl hac
stadc the hole of the mex day shood have cir
YOU a sraiiik discripsion OF that gran allarc
But sense so much TYNE has Elapsed, vii
oncly rcphur to it as Inc gwinc along Wei
cvry boldly wis on tip-to, and or WIS cnlnmo
sion amung the ladyS and the bose for Seyra
DAYS prcvcyus. At las the tyne cum. The
sun ris and sot as uzual, and sumo arlter dark
tharc wis site diSpla Of .fre.wnri'. as they
call en-, which, | tel you, is Il CRATE site iol
cnnv man Ia sec. 1t wus, indedc, gran, Sublymc
oriu tcrryfik, in fax. very pretty indede, tC
sec the rockets as they went Salin and hiSSr
and whizin thruo the are, lookin like shntr
stars. aud soundin like llok of cXaspyrated
gcsc or shour of Injun arrows shot at the en-
ncmv. Wcl, then thare was n bvm shot orr
which scenes To be nothir more than big blak
borl filled with orl sorts of fire spansleS and
things, and busting butiiulyabout yorc hcd, with
n crackin SCUM like icS rs you here brcsh poi
and crak when you ar burnin new groun.
But cnuir about the lire-wurk> Ariter them
the gun fired. which WIS the signul for ell
term the ball room-and SIGH site thar WIS
hope SlIal see agin, but don't reckon will
Gcntlcmun in masks and ladyS in masks, and
i'm Or. surts of cOStoom> hcSvdeS. Thar WIS
Iniuns and PharrS, and SalcrS, and DEVILS,
and Chinese, and PattysonicnS, and every sort
Of na>ion and karraktcr. orl walkin and torkin
and danSin aroun. so tina. rot Il little con.
f,iIcd, and brwilldcrcd and Uneasy like. not
rccugnizin nobody, and lcclin rs tho had
bin sudinly transported to land of SPIRITS,
which, in one scncc woodnt uhjcc to. espe.
cially eff "Olc Mountin Due" was in the caty-
log. Bat, bymc-by, begun to fele little
more at hoomc. so | walked aroun aud sur.
waved the diIcr,nt karrakterS. Skrootynizin
thar walks and thar ways Of dansn, tic backs
of thar hcds, &c; and presently knoac Sc
vcral Of en- as akquanetanScs I had made down
here.
One Teller in partikuler Interested Inc very
mutch. He wus tori and grasc!ul. danscd ely
giutly. and seemed to think he WIS sum pun
kinS in that ring eanyhow. thort knode
him. but slIl cuu,ln't i,hatc him. ] walked
aroun him, looked ut his ictc. shuli hans with
him, ubzervei his dansc, but it want no 90.
Good nj make him out no ho". Thinks !, how
cyur. I'll try him agn, and, as the sacr> say,
on anu,hcr tax. So slept mp TO him pretty
brisk, and SEES |, ''yu ar per,l1y dissuzcd;
# hardly knodc yu myselpl;" Its terrible To
yu, aint il, TO danSc in them hcvvy close and
that mask on" For the frs tyne hrahin ~
lencr Scs he, ives, wish You wood bring that
biz fan out oil our room" All la, scs l. but
then cotch inysclph, and woo'ln't let on, fol
it want nobody else bat yung icilcr here
has knonc cyur sense lirS cam DOM. and him
and Inc WIS then rs; intymit rs brutlcrS, oh
kcrpvin the same room, number two hnndn''
and jiiiy-hui that's neither here no thar. so
won't rite the las iisur. The hOrl went orr
very finely The kunipany Wis hyly gcntclc,
and everything wis konduktc'l in rcglar apple
py order.
Tharc is Il Very plcNint kUmpany here now.
Thare is n boil, ~ uzial, every mite. and sici
:: tayblc rs wood hay male the ole Roman ep
pykureS abjorc all SIGH dancticS a> pcccock /,
brancS and nitingalcs eyes The biggest and
the best fish in the wurld at every mclc the
best Of bcIr. and ham ard cgs. and krabS and
oistcrs and EVERY thing cteablc VIII is ii
the Sulhcrn people reforming hOom rum
the mountinS don't stop hccr and cnsoy awI
these luksur.cs Of the land and see, besides The
invggcratin salt water bath, &c, dc.
The forte lind is Il crate attraXion here.
And wei it may be- 1t is grand, butiful, i'm
pozin, formydubblc, and TREMENDOUS in its out
lyme and in its proportions, outwcTd and IN
wcrd Tharc is hundreds OF SolclcrS and \
korrcSpondln number of ollii>crs and with
thare cpcrctS. and Sashcs. and sorlS. tel You
they looks fine on Il musiur. or a drtf, a they
corS il here The forte, w kno, is kornstrnct
ed in SIGH way as to renimr it imprcggnubblc;
that is 50 no mortal cnrcnv can ;"hc 1t, ard,
also, 50 that the itclin may strike it and be
scrtan To get wnr.,cd by the hulli>ion.
This is the gratcst and the grandcSt coun
try has ever Scnc, or ever cxpccs to see until
go,c To Pary,licc. Speckin Of Parydcc. lane
conyinscd tina, mi ole irirn Joe Scgir has rec
Soned hlmsciiph into the bcleef las ] intyma,
ted bciour) that the Wcstcain tcr1nnous "i
the Cuyintun and Ohicr Ralcrode is nj or about
that happy land and no mistalk. But that's Il
dyguS>ion. or dctoor, as the nlitery men say.
As | was gwinc on to say, this is the sratcSt
country ! has ever Scne. The water Sctcry l.
indiskiibabv Sublymc, and the background is
u butilll tayb.c land rs level AZ plane and n
rich, in sum places. alino>c as the NaIy Of the
Nyle. 1t fills a fclcr'S sole with iorlty emo.
sions 10 look towards the O-ion; and
the moaning of the hrccsc and the
rorc of the waters in the soum Stiffness oil
the mite, is cuuif Ia liooyc Il marble statGic to
life, and to thortS Of things eternul Of the i'm
mcncity of spaSc, the srangeur OF thc unvcrS,
the ins;.nylikancc Of man, and the gratcneS-
aad goodness Of the krcator. Tine norcysi"nS
puSson bu; tel yu when Stan- on the beech
here a; mite when the mnne is in the ski and
the stars is all out, and the billcrS Is brcahin at
mi letc with that moarnlul solnm SCUM that
SCENES like the cyspirein sronc OF giant strnk
down, | lclcS that Tine listenin TO summon
more eloquent than Knocks, or Whlt!ell, or
Rubbcrt IIorl, or Martin loothcr ever uttered.
Imc glad TO see the Guvornur IS still Ter
ahcd Of orl critters who hay bin mcnSioncd for
the nu,ninasion at Charleston, and the sapp Is
still wy,lcnin bctwccnc EN-. BY the first OF
Nav the critters wont he i'll site Of ole Akko-
max. He's got the mcttle and the bottnm, and
he cdn, be heat. Dugglus has overreeched
hinsccph in his last manilcStoc, and lost or his
chances this time for scrtin. Hunter amt hardly
herd of. And the hole nasion scenes to he
lookcn for WySc; the Dimokrat> knosc he the
only man to Sayyc the countrcy, and the Abcr-
liShoni>;S ,lrcd$ him as Il owl du, daylitc
Yore ircn, .Jrrus JIuMYsoN.
Religious Ceremony in Rome
\ letter from Rome in the Union, says:
81 have recently witnessed the celebration
IF :, ,.i.,;ou. festival winch thc Romans ALWAYS