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Rambling Correspond 'noo from our ltintrant
City of Notions.
SATURDAY, June, 18th.

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DEAR LEADER,-- written you last night
upon my arrival here, and had sent you whole
sale description Boston People, as did the ia
nous traveller who wrote in his book, call the
men of Alsac are butchers, and all the women red.
haired /" because the first specimens were so, l
might have said all the men o Boston are hack.
men, and all the women wear long legged boots
/ for when | arrived at 30 yesterday, p NJ, II
met au army ofhackmen, and, It was raining heavi.
! y | met the Boston girls walking about with high
rubber boots which they fully exhibited. But
this morning see that the bright sun has brought
out streets full Of remarkably pretty women as
well as men of business Of every class OF my
passage over the ra illoads to this place, Of the
smooth and well laid tracks Of the Lake Shore
aud Central RAILROADS. of the superb sleeping cars
upon the latter, on new pattern and most ex.
ceeut one, {" nobodics" patent am tod) in
which rolled away one hundred miles in happy
Oblivion ofthe beautiful scenery along the route
from Buffalo, especially that from Syracuse (be-
fore that it was too dark to see, save by moon.
! light,) as we wound along beside the Mohawk and
admired the cultivated hills, the pleasant villages,
! the heavy forests and tue growing crops (not all
killed, by any means,) of the upland views on the
| Western r. r, as for several miles we kept the
Hudson in sight aud could see the splendid
farms on the west side and the cloud.capped Cats
kill mountains as noble background and then
OF the broken mountainous country we passed
through on the road to Springfield, winding
among the PERCEPTIONS hills like snake in the
grass, how we dived into the tunnels aud bridges,
rumbled over cross-ways, gded beside fields and
meadows whired past stations, aud finally crossed
the arm the sea and entered the crooked town
Of Boston-behold are not all these, and more re.
corded in the pages OF guide books and in the
letters oftravelers
NO remarkable incidents occurred on the pas
sage We "a pleasant party of form) talked laugh.
ed and slept, and for fifty or sixty miles before
reaching Albany, was especially edited (ARgiice-
bored) by strong m inded and bodied woman
with short dress, Bloomer pants, straw fiat, &c q,
who read from memory long homily on her nat
ural topics, with frequent oontemp tuous illusions
as to the way men bring up children, and the per.
feet obedience which her "peculiar persuasive
principle" as she termed it, always insured Well
when took my seat in the cars for Springfield,
to my dsmay, was followed by this strong mind
ed woman in scant habliments with her two child
ren, and for hour at least they fought and pull.
led hair most vigorously, putting the persuasive
principle of the woman at defiance was salts.
fled that her rule did mt work in all cases.
Saturday, being the anniversary off the battle OF
Bunker Hill, fine programme was arranged for a
celebration by the Charlestonians but the heavy
rain caused part of it to be dispensed with. The
military were out, regatta was had, and stores,
banks, Offices, &c. were closed This day will soon
be a cgalhoIiday in Massachusetts.
One finds many points OF difference between Bos
ton and our Western cities. The streets are about
as crooked as the Cuyahoga River. dare not say
how many feet narrow these streets are, Ito say
they are so many feet ioide would be perverson
of language.) Washington street, the principal
street of the city, is about as wide as Frank
fort street Many Of the cross Streets which are
paved and curbed in excellent style, are just wide
enough for a team to pass and not two feet to
spare between sidewalks. How they manage when
two teams meet Is what watched at one cross
ing fifteen minutes to find out, but they must have
a mutoul understanding all over the city, for l saw
no such case occur. The streets are all paved
The hack drivers stand in driving, and the omni-
buases, unlike those of Cleveland, dash through
the narrow streets at the rate Of seven miles per
hour and sometimes more, when on "dowu
grade" The skilCuneas of the Boston "whips'
prevents accidents. As one Of the Purihnic regu.
lationa they have a city law which imposes fine
upon a man found smoking in the streets what
say our Cleveland boys to this2
Having taken a good nights sleep, started out
this morning TO see the town. Walked through
many of the business streets down upon the
wharves where the big EAST Indiamen" le;-
through the old State House and past the "old
south" walked into and through the Common
that most beautiful Of all promenades, where Gods
sunlight streams down through leafy veiIi
upon the wavy grass; where puny children and
weary mothers can roam and draw in life and
health with every inspiration; where "The Old
Elm" in which the Indians stuck their tomahawks
five hundred years ago is now protected in its old
age by careful guards; where the pond is ever COO
and sparkling; where in a corner devoted to the
purpose, boys and girls, and those older ones who
like Holmes would be boy again. can play ball
cricket tag" and where the grass is ever green
out upon the mill dam" and looked out upon
the "baok bay" from which comes a salt sea smell
into the State House. where the statue Of Wash
inglon keeps guard over the noble bnildlng;-look
ed through the Atheneum collection Of painting
and statuary,-and now back to the Adams 1ous,
to indulge in my ordinary vocation of scrbblinl
for the readers Of the Morning Leader Pbreno
logically speaking, am lil,e the Austrian officers a
the present timo--with the bump Of flight largel!
developed, and this Of locality nowhere.
Our old Clev ,Iand iavorite @. w. Couldock
closed a successful engagement at the Howard
Atheneum last night, The people and press ar
enthusiastic over his Luke Fielding, as we'll the,
may be-
Great preparations are being made for th
Fourth Fifteen thousand dollars have been ap
proprlated by the City for a celebration. BostoI
always celebrates whether other towns do or not
Crops are injured in Massachusetts, by the frost
but are not killed to any great degree.
Could our City Councils see the operation 0
the Boston Horse Railroads they could not but b.
in favor Of them The tracks are all level with tn,
paving, and the cara are instantly stopped wheI
necessary, They are crowded with passengers oI
all trips
Don't know that have seen any Of the hterat
yet, but everybody seems to think with Holmes
that this Is the hub of creation. Well why shouldn'
they II keeps thom satisfied, don't hurt anybody
and amuses the rest Of mankind.
This Is very personal letter, but I will try 4
hunt up something worth telling Of This Afternoon
I'm of for Lowell. Yours in hurry,