Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-08-17
Dswa among the Yankees.

| AVoNOhi Meh5,l aug. 10, ioOls
What do you think Of fre In ones
room IN The middle Of August and that, too
Gre for the simple comfort Of the oceu.
paut2 Know, then, that this has been one
of the most cold, raw, rainy, disAgreeable
uncomfortable days that ever regular
northeast storm produced. And a north
easter doWn here upon the Atlantic coast
means a wild, fierce gale; storm before
which men Zee for shelter and cattle curl
up in corner, with their tails to wind
ward, and there shiver il out; storm
which prOstrates corn and blows down
fences; a storm which makes whoever Is
exposed TO It's influence as dull as the
leadOn sky, where not vein or CLEAN Of
silver has appeared all this hOrrid day.
And so tonight, cold, damp, and ss gloomy
as Cleveland streets after the street lamps
have been put out at midnight according
to the City Fathers time table, I have or
dered rOusing FIRE Of coal to be made up
in the CRATE before me, and, for the arst
time to-day, am warm enough.
We all know Boston 70 be The Hub Of
the Universe" but there is considerable
choice as to the radius by which one shall
travel from the periphery to the hub. II
you viii take the advice Of one who has
tried several routes, you will upon reach
ing New Haven from New York, take q
seat in Shore Line" car, rather thanh
the old Express line through Springfield
and Worcester. For BY the ashore Line"
you will have q road free from dust almost
oil the way, and will also have most charm
ing views Of the Sound and the Ocean, and
the numberless little bays, inlets, and
harbors which abound along that route,
You cross the beautiful Connecticut
river at Lyme, and the Thames at New
London, without getting out of your car, aud
have most excellent views Of the harbors of
New London, Stonington, Greenwich, Mys-
tic, and divers other places all beautiful and
all lively with Whalers, sohooners, yachts
&C, while where there are no vessels, the
rolling and tumbling of the surf is enough OF
itself to keep all your eyes employed. The
time by Express trains upon this line is the
same as that by the other and il is vastly
plessanter. All the through mails between
New York and Boston are now sent by the
Shore Line, having been transferred from the
Springfield route upon the 9Th inst.
The evidences OF being really in New Eng
land appear all along the route after leaving
New Haven. West Of that city the country
isall scultiTsted garden, wherenfthe wealthy
men of New York are proDrietors, entitled to
sit under the vines and fig trees east Of it,
the residences are less beautiful, and the cold,
rocky soil appears. We see board and rail
fences no more, for stone walls (prsbably
half Of your readers have never seen a real
Yankee stone wsll) divide the domains of the
settlers. These walls have by no means cleared
the fields, for a moving machine proprietor
would stand sghast at the stones, big and
little, which crop out over every grass field,
and where the sod is turned, there are ''two
stones to one dirt visible. The Ohio farm
er, whose corn fields are miles in extent, and
who is by no means particular as TO the edd
corners of his Virginia rail fences, would
laugh, too, at the careful and thrifty blowing
which we see hereabouts, by the sides of the
railroad, and close into every notch in tae
walls. Farming life here Is Joke. to be
all done by horse power, but it is STEADY
constant manual labor, in which the hands
become horny, and the disposition close and
calculating. So 10 not ridicule the Yankee
peddlpr ian institution almost unknown ''out
West" but superabundant here) until you
have visited bis home and worked month
upon his sterile lands.
Here at the American l find Messrs Crow
ell and Childs, L. b. Keith and s, J. Miller,
of Cleveland, who are sojourning in Athens
/ for season. 5. d. 2.