Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-02

w f nave n1u frequent OCCiSlOu ~ SiNONC diOHl
the European letters of the Elder Brooks, one of
the editors of the New York EEpress They
are worthy to be placed in the same category
With those of Williams, Of the Utica Herald,
from which we have quoted extensively-and
also those enchanting lectures of DIR. Wines,
which we so fully reported for the benefit of
those of our readers who were not privileged TO
attend them.
What could be more interesting than this ex-
tract from the last of Brooks letters, written
flom Cadiz:
/ am approaching cs.diz, aud the tall masfs OF
the ships of Cadiz, as we'll as the Ciomes and the
i;spires. are well visible; hut the "Pensamicnto"
has to twist much, and to turn much, before we
get into the harbor. Cadiz is long in sight be-
fore YOU get into it. Meanwhile speculate up
on what am to see. am entering the portal
of Andalusia, the land of the vine and al the
olive: of golden orange groves, and of the an
Gent EIvsian Fields. l am coming among the
EUROPEAN Orientals; into the land where the
Moor was driven ont Of Europe, and into the
land where Columbus introduced America in
But the health officers disturb my musings: the
Adunncr0s, the custom house officers, and the
impressive anxious, urgent, but yet dignlted
boatinen, dignificd in contrast with the Egypt
lians the Arabs the Italians, with Thnm have
so long been dealing. The usual work Is gone
Through The StcameriSp pronounced "healthy
The custom house officers give everything from
| Gibraltar q thorough overhnullng, IN the cas-
tom House on shore. The boatmen has to take
you from the boat, long way to the quay oil
Cadiz, and You are tossed up on shore by the
rising tide and surf The portcrs take your
luggage to the HOTEL and you tell your landlord
to nav them, leaving them the battles as to price,
and YOU rest in a Hotel, with to you a new name,
a Fonda in Spain.
We'll, this is CadiZ, pretty Cadiz, neat, tidy,
all white washed Cadiz. 1t must be the Salon,
the Boudoir Of Spain. Everything outward is
so nice and cosy, aud the people in the streets
are all so well dressed, that this cannot DC Spain,
the dirty, garlicky Spain have been hearing so
much about Boston is, or used to he the neat
est and cleanest of all tue American cities, but
Gadiz is ncater and cleaner than that staId, prlm
place, where once 1T was against the law 10
smoke in the streets. The open Atlantic bat
tiers against its wall on one side; the Atlantic
waters on all sides, and hence there is no dill
Guilty in keeping it clean, no more difficulty than
| i'm New YoTk,-if we would only try to keep
our city clean. The Alameda, the eim.waEs,
overlook the sea LOungeIs can leaf there, or
sit, and overlook the big fresh waves as they
beat in Every city in Spain has an Alameda
by the way, u public walk, where the popua-
ton go at sunset, to bow, and 10 chatte" the
besel' n i la mNRo cnbaIlero (thc kiss your
hands, Sir), the cayn T. con d0te (may you de-
part with God,) q Ia IiTgcn, land the SirginO
the Virgin, by the way, being the God of Spain,
with other like polite phrases the cxaggerations
of an orientaIism Cadiz is well built, well
lighted, well, it TO NE, in almost every.
thing The streets are narrow, and that is not
50 bad in a climate so hot. The houses are
good, have little beautiful cOnrts OF entrance
filled with flowers, or statuary, or some other
ornaments. Their iron bound widows on the
ground floor, attract attention, with the Angular
cye.holes to look up and down street hy,-and
SO do the balcony widows on the second, third,
or fourth stories, from which chattering is done
across the street. or up and down the street,
with flirting, and ogling, and love.making, that
must bc horror both 10 anxious mother, and
to those pent up maidens, who, though even
love inspired, have no wings like Cupid TO fly
from balcony to balcony. But word or tw"
upon Spanish ladies, as see thcm here in Ca
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