Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-08-30
AUGUST IS. 1850
Yankee Land,

the hub of the axle on and round which all creation
revoves We climbed up the Monument aforesaid, hav-
ing lifted and set down feet 295 times, in the &C
compishment of that feat From that elevated position
we saw if not all the Kingdoms Of the earth and the
gory thereof at least the central realm of Yankeedom
the place wherein the New Highlander displays his
most prominent traits of character-his Industry and his
notions, his philanthropy and his isms-his acueness
and his gullibilty Let us say that upon the whole,
we rather liked the looks Of things We think it pos
sbe that Boston hackman may go to heaven, for we
found more than one of them CIVIL honest and inteli-
gent in their dealiDgs-we might at one time have had
leaning to Universasm, but if we ever did feel such
an inclination little experience of New York hackmen
would have effectually cured US. AS Glass; they are
bound to take the other route and land IN the other
place There is no getting over that
When you get past New York On your way North
and East you will be struck with two things. The
ground seems made of stones. The fences are built
of stones. The supersructure of the railroad is laid
on stones more or less broken or pulyerized Eve
rything around is stone and wood appears far from
plenty, and yet the people wW have wooden hou-
ses. Out Of the large towns, nothing is built of
stone or brick but the factories, and of them are
wood all but the chimney The railroads are all in fine
ORDER and run smoothly it is possible for railroads
to do. They take you from New York to Boston, 236
miles, in eight hours for five dollars and without change
Of cars. At Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haven, Hart
ford Springfield and Worcester vast crowds get and
off Between Worcester and Boston there is constant
succession of small towns among the rest Natc whence
the Natick Cobber," Henry Wilson, one of the Uni
ted States Senators from Massachusetts. In all these
villages there is less eathern some of them
there is nothing like leather"
Agriculture in Massachusetts is not that great and
paramount interest which it is in many or indeed in
most of the States With an area of 1900 square miles
North Carolina has 5O7O4) and good deal of this
sterile and rocky in some parts mere sand and gravel
in Others the State does not raise enough grain for its
own consumption, while beef mutton and horses are
constantly received from Vermont and the West Mines
Massachusetts has none-native products for eXporta
tion she has nOne rocks and ice, and every
where Boston ice and Quincy granite By her manu-,
featuring industry she supports the densest population
in the Union, equal in 1850 to 1917 to the square
mile in 1860 perhaps equal to $50 persons to the
square mile. We alude to these facts because we can
not refuse to pay just tribute to the industry and
ergy everywhere displayed in the State referred to- and
for the further purpose Of showing how largely the peo
pie OF that State dependent upon commerce and manu-
factures and consequently upon market for these manu-
factures and yet We learned that the town of Lynn that
lives by the manufacture Of shoes mainly for the South
ern market the of the population abotionsts
none of your halfway men calling themselves Repub-
cans Free Sellers, but plain Garrisonan abolition
lists
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hant in the expectation of being gratfed by inter
view with the Sea Sarpient The Sarpient has left n
hant He has changed his habitat to Newport and the
fashionabes, like their mother Eve, tempted by the
Snaik," have followed him. The great Nahant hote
finds that its guests fed its garands dead anC
its doors shut On Friday last Monsieur Denier walked
on rope over portion Of rocks and salt water neal
the botel and drew down from Boston, On board thu
Steamer Nelly Baker, the least handsome crowd of hu
man beings that it has ever been fortune to
We looked in vain for handsome face-the only passa
BILE one was sumouned by the reddes of red hair Lynn
the place of shoe already referred to- is three niles from
the head of the peninsula where the imator of Bondr
was to do his devour Mrs Darlington has it, ant
all kinds of vehiCularity rolling IN to see the show
so that as friend remarked, the crowd 2cdG
ed large towards the end At time there were SOM
hopes that Monsieur would tumble into the water bu
he didn't. Got fish chOwder at Whitneys Village Ho
tel from piazza of same saw II. W. Longfelow in
carriage with lady, probably Mrs. L. The biggest
nosed portraits are most like him. Hibernian gentle
men in company with big bottle enquired the name
the humble writer There were three of them and tn
worst snakbit" Of the trio insisted that said humbl
individual was q candidate for the Presdency-th
shortest of the set Declined the Presdency-wouldn'
run-nor treat we are not in the field. By the way
notice that Judge Douglas has taken the stump, which
is not so remarkable as he always sort of sumpy
They say that every shop in Lynn is devoted to shoe
but the last one. Wonder if they mean any pun
Nahant is peasant-the air is bracing. There is gras
to lie upon wherever there are not rocks to sit on
The grass is full of ants who bite but that keep
up pleasant excitement From the head Of tn
Peninsula the steeples of Salem are visible, ant
the sails of the vessels entering the harbor Cap
Ann is also in sight. In fact SO small is the
Massachusetts and close the towns thatvery many
classed as independent communities really appear to
and are suburbs of Boston. In going down the harbo
the eye can take in on the Northeast Charestown
East Boston, Chelsea, Maiden and Lynn-on the South
West and South and SOUTHEAST Roxbury, South Bos
ton and Quincy, connected with Boston by nearly IN
broken rows of houses We must not forget Cambridge
the headquarters of the mutual admiration club Thes
places, with perhaps the exception Of Lynn may be re
ally called Boston, for they all connected with it, ant
derive muchof their population from it. On the height
of Roxbury and Dorchester are some Of the fines
villas in the neigLbOrhood of the city When ma
buys an unimproved lot any of these heights, tn
hrst thing hesays is bas i'll" and they blast it, for tina
is the only way of grading where solid rock has to
got out of the way levelled After while they ge
it into form and shape, and wooden villa goes u
"with all the modern improvements" The rocks ar
covered with SOIL suppose at any rate the grass il
beautiful trees are made to grow, and Summer nara