Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-11
Do sctIption Of The Iourney 20 Washlpston.

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The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Tribune writes on the 14.h inst.
rs followsi il Do 81. | fe
If novelty is source ofhappiness, a trip
Washington, Via Annapolis, must give
pleasure approaching to beatitude. The frat
rude disturbance to the traditions of ancient
travel is Mt the foot of Courtlandt street,
where the courteous Camden and Amboy
Withhold the brs7en pledge of their liability
and fidelity to deliver your baggage at
Washington with q curt Don't check any
further than Pblsdelphia; y SO you pocket
both the sharp reply and the short dated
metallic collateral for your trunk, and walk
aboard the boat AT Philadelphia, the horse
power trains interpose in the broken con
necton, and take you TO Broad street. The
cars are nearly ready for a departure, but
where is your baRgage2 Agitated gentle.
men hurry to and fro. Where is the express
wagon Z" "At which door does il drive ~
"Will the train wait2' The locomotive
backs in; the connection. bolt drops to its
place, and ell is ready. Porters look anx-
iously, and passengers strain their eyes for
ap out Of time package delivery. Just at the
last moment the cry is, "Here they arer'
Then comes the din and babel OF City men,
each anxious for the first parceling Of sew
eniy' i've trunks Out they come and on
they 60, in a disorder not to be admired,
The bandbarrows rattle at high speed with
Tho loud Hurry, up of the conductor The
demand for checks to any point is met by
the declaration that no checks are given; aud
so, with a cabalistic chalk inscription, you
leave your personally and rush for seat in
the cars. Arriving at Perryville, the mill
ta1y superyenes over the civil. My own
trunk, having an aspect of Saratoga or the
sessbore in Summer, and the Fifth avenue
or Metropolitan in Winter had no scrutiny;
but travelling companion, who had com.
foIting re endorsements of compact provi-
sions for one OF the Massachusetts battaions
in three of more common exterior than mine,
had to submit TO a rigid cross. examination
In fact, the paintsd canvas covering did
rather suggest associations with descend
ant of the Twelve Tribes; and induce sus.
picions of well-selected stock of the con.
trabaDd of trade, il not war, in the form of
meretricious gauzes and manufactured gold
jewelry, after the manner of modern Jewry.
The detention was slight, however, and
we were with short delay shipped aboard
the propeller William Wilidin, bound for
Annapolis. She was, 10 the days of the
myrtle and olive, q peach transport, plying
between Pbiladelphia and Port Deposit; but
now, under the joint auspices of Bellona and
Gen. Scott, made Government steamer to
convey soldiers with guns, and citizens with
satchels,- to Annapolis. The craft is a slight
pine structure of narrow model, high cabin,
and large wind surface, like Mississippi
River line boat, The wind was fresh, with
a heavy sea. Qualmishness of stomach came
early. Stepping out on the forecastle for q
current OF air, and in thinking of one ele-
ment, oblivious to the other, was saluted,
before had fully inflated my lungs, by a
heavy swell which struck her quarter, and
drenChed me from mizzen- peak to kelsOn. |
need not add that my visit was brief one.
AT eight o'clock, evening, we made the
| dock of the Naval Academy, and landed.
Here military sway became practical Step
ping ashore, CROPPED my. way in utter ig-
norance of all topography. After a few
PAGES a sentry blockaded the way. Down
came the musket, with its bristling glitter,
with the ''You can't go this way Of the
| yigilant seneschal. The soul, in the era of
the Roman Cato, and the days of the English
| Addison, may have smiled at the drawn
dagger, but the modern stomach, with a
leveled bayonet pointed at the locality
where breathing ceases and digestion begins,
does not incline to complacency nor mirth-
fulnsss- / changed my direction, and again,
and yetagain, a fiery son of Mars stayed my
progress. V5g @ so1oH H1 90 "i
Vigorous travel will exhaust even the re-
sources of the extensive demesnes of the
Naval School inelosure, and finally reached
the. gravel outlet. Here not one, but many
took their stand, and a squad with deadly
weapons forbade my egress. "Haye you a
pass 7" "Ne; | did not know that needed
one" GU can't go out" 2
"But what shall do2 l am loyal citi.
zen of these United States including South
Carolina and Florida (Heaven pardon me for
this last implication y, was born of honest
and respectable parents, am clansman ol
| Abraham Lincoln, was shipped In good order
on the transport William Wittdin, but aban-
doned to the Underwriters at the pier, and
now, am seeking the warmest welcome of the
! warmest inn in Annapolis, under difficulties
| manifold, with delays and vexations." "You
cant 60 through the gate without pass
1 This, If not civiL was military, and / felt
| myself approaching a crisis. .s. d.
| Dripping with sea water, sick, wearied,
and hungry, | opened the valve of my accu.
mulsted wrath. Secession, jefferson Davis,
| Maryland, Baltimore, bullets, and bloody
murder, were the heads of an impromptu
address, which made up in terseness and
rhetorical energy for the lack of the softer
graces OF oratory. 1t was an effective speech
l may judge from the subdued martha
chuckle which, followed my retiring foot,
steps. l l0ds in dilemma. | did not kno v
where General Buffers quarters were, and
without his sign manual, or signet ring, j
was in the condition Of Sterne's Gagged starl-
ing. But L did pass the barrier, a moments
reflection, suggesting a stratagem venial in
war. .b - a., st.a0 y sasI m
Falling in with an old negro. who looked
as II he might have polished General Wash.
iDgton's boots when he resigned his COM
mission, or held the horse of Charles Carroll
Of CaTrollton, at the time the Continen tai
Congress deliberated in its OIpital, +" Are
there many Union men here 2" inquired my
friend, on the way. "Ahl Massa,'' said he
with sly cock of his octogenarian3 eve
there is heap more than before your folks
came here," Annapolis possesses old build.
ings, whose bricks were minted in Liverpool
thatcbed with green moss, plentiful, and very
poor whisky, taverps, where they serve badly
| parodjzed coffee, with beafsteak cut from the
region of the horns, with lassitude and iazi-
ness enough to leaven whole slave com
monwealth. But enough. A run of I'm hour
and a half placed US in the Federal Capital,
where an outstretched palm, waiting the com.
pensating quarter, assured me that Washing
ton was unchanged, and that here the mill
tary did not usurp the civil power.
The pain having rested with me, the
moral of my strain is, that if you wish to
make Washington through Annapolis you
should secure pass from General Patterson
and put money in your purse, through the
kind agency of your friend, the Cashier o.
the Bank of Commerce, say $780, being par
tieular to have at least fifty of them iu
American quarters and, If you can, keep in
the companionshjp Of an acquaintance who
has double that sum, as your specie reserve
will be well nigh, il not entirely, exhausted
when you land at your ultimate destination
The VIEW THAT ENGLAND TAXES OF IT,
A gentleman who Arrived here in the las
steamer from Europe says there is not a mar
in England in favor Of recognizing any
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United States. Hea states that England 1
| ready 10 snnnlv ns " ith any nnaniit In nf ann