Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-09-01
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

ANT ROUTE-CAPB MAY-RoLLICklSG IN The
suRF-APPEARANcE OF THE VILLAGE PROM THE
srEAMER-LADIEs IN BArHfse RIs.-rHsn
DIMENSIONS CONSIDERABLY REDucxp-LAaKs T
BAREFOOT-A Corn DocToR NEEDEp-UNTrD !
STATES, ATLANTIC, AND WHITE HALL Pa
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/ Editorial Correspondence Of 1hs Star.
On THE STEAMER KKNNxBkc,
Atlantic Ocean, between ". York and Cape May. |
mo. 81. August l3-5 a. m. } |
j rose with the dawn this morning to enjoy the |
view of the New Jersey coast, down which we
are steaming-the haze, however, sadly interfering
with thepruspeet, ind The trip has been de-
lightful, the boats OF this line comfortable
and convenient, and all on board have escaped
sea sickness. Last evening was spent by the Ken
nebec's fifty OF sixty passengers-most Of them
bound for Cape May-on the upper deck, in Hftie
knots, enjoying the delightful breeze while en-
gagged in conversation BY taking this route from
New York many hours of journeying ~ well az
all rail travelling is avoided-both important con-
siderations with the experiences tourist p .
Cape May 10 now opposite us, and as we steam
within half mile of the beach i've hundred per-
sons are in sight upon 1t, half of them being en-
gagged In bathing in the surf We see their rolIck-
ing plainly, though we cannot hear the shouts
which invariably accompany their amusement
The village has a conspicuous and imposing ap-
pearance from the deck Of the steamer, Its two
light houses dozen mammoth pavilfons and hun
dreds of cottages orneeand other buildings, being
all in sight. We landed at a m, and drive of
two and half miles in a Jersey wagon brought us
into the heart Of the village, whose population now
numbers quite 600 souls, though except in its sea-
son, ! presume it does not usually contain 800.
Nineteen-twentieths Of its buildings are designed
only to accommodate summer visitors, and are
tall 70 hat and NIT tod
States Hotel, kept by Mr.. Houston, formerly Of
Barnum's in Baltimore.
The streets full of bathers Of both sexes, in
surf rig carrying in hand their bathing clothes.
Ladies' charms are by no means set OF to remark.
able advantage by their dress for the surf belted
wooden shirt and wooden drawers or trousers and
4 straw hat tied closely under the chin with
strips of white tape. But one must see four or
five hundred Of the dear creatures coming out Of
the bath to realize how completely the surf at
Cape May takes tine starch out of them, reducing
their individual amplitude to the smallest con-
ceivable dimensions.
l wish some one would invent a bathing shoe
that will not wash off in the surf Something of
the sort is sadly needed by the dear creatures in
these times when tight and too thin shoes together
generates huge excresccnces upon their dear toes
| which look for all the world like red carbuncles
they come pattering their bare feet on the hard
sand from the water up to the bathing closets In
which they don other clothing What harvest
a good corn doctor might reap at Cape May y
Never before did realize the force Of the first line
of the old song. The girls are all neetng show
for mans delusion given"-as when seeing hun
dreds Of them coming out Of the surf this morning
| looking like SO many halfdrowned kittens, with
their scanty garments clnging to their apparently
| scaDtier persons. ..-
Nevertheless, the habit Of bathing at Cape Nav
is an excellent one, and am glad that the lad es
venture to cut such figures they do for the ben
eft Of their health. They appear to be a joyous
set here Very little ceremony PREVAILS and every
one amuses himself herself according to his or
her own TASTE every description Of watering place
amusement being Of course at hand and at reason.
able charges. The United States Atlantic and
White Hall Pavilions are most popular and best
Pafronized this season; all Of them being exceed
ingly well kept w.D.W-u.
Mr.. DOUGLAs's POsITIoN-Hs ENDS AND AIys
The comments of the press upon what was pub.
lisEed from the pen OF Mr.. Stephen Arnold Dong
las in the last number Of Haypers Magas inc. lin
lieu Of Its usual instalment of Punch which was
for the first time omitted show the accuracy of
our late explanations Of the points Mr. Douglas
aims to accomplish, well as the true meaning
of his measures to accomplish those points Thus
the Cincinnati Daily Gazette Of the Goth saws of
his essay in Harp,rs' Magazine:
--'twithout following this fallacious essav fur.
ther in detail 1T present, let look for a moment
its probable effect. In the first place as to the
Republican party, will Mr.. Douglas succeed in
his support, By such document as this, Ger.
tainly not. 4 Will this essay improy. his
standing at the South, Certainly not 1t must
only widen the breach that was already apparentIy
hxyft
VIII be chiefly in promoting per1aan emf dirtsion
OF me Democratic party. Douglas 10 evidently
srikl ng out for an independent In 1850 trust
ING 70 the House and 20 the Republicans to give
him, In default Of popular election that position
which he now well understands he can never re-
ceive by the aid Of the south. This is the real
meaning Of this last manifesto Of DoueIas AL
ready he insinctively feels that his oufv hone q,
safety is in the strong antsiavery sentiment OF the
The Psnnsylranidn Of the same date says of il
= The meaning Of this pu blication is obvious
Judge Douglas has discovered as some men n, va
done under similar circumstances before him, NAT
ne can make no considerable breach in the o,,ran
lkation Of the National Democratic party. lie
which he hopes to rally promiscuous crowd ~
pretended democrats, Black Republicans. and
hnow Nothings, with view to a contemplated
Independent Northern movement for IN. fp,e.;
dency, all Of which was preshadowed month.
ago In the Pres. We predict however a com
plete failure Of the schelne,'
The Richmond Enquirer, not very long since an
enthusiastic supporter OF Douglas, now SAYS Of
him: .--....
Between the non-intervention ist Douglas and
the anolltonlst Seward the di ference Ia .i,y n
tweedle dun and tweeale dec, NN[-.-
we have no space at command to-day in which
70 insert more such extracts. as brief as we have
oeeh compelled TO make them.
ine ashington correspondent of the New
iolA Journal OF tomnieree notoriously partj an
OF the Illinois Senator, repeats in his letter Of the
2'tn August, the roofback alleging that the Dem
ocIaue convention OF Berks county (Pa } had
t'ken ground for Douglas. This letter was writ
ten long after all here knew well that The conv.n
non In question was not that Of the Democratic
Partyof Berks, but Of the Forneytcs of the county
who voted against the Democratic marty and its
nominee for Congress in the special election of a
successor TO J. CLANCY Jones, and by uniting with
The Republican party Of Berks, succeeded in de.
feating that nominee, 1t will be remembered
That this roorback should, under such circum.
| Stances he Palmed OF upon the readers Of the
JonTnat 81 Com'neTes, proves that the strikers,,
nf h,,a 81.