New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-02


knees, without managing to convey il up the car
rioge with some decency. 1.-The touch OF rea
wOman's dress" says Mr.. Troll0pc, with admira
bic nalvete, sis in Itself delicate but these blow.
from Laspy's fns axe loathsome." You vii
meet these women. we are informed, daily, hour
iy, everywhere in tho streets. Now and then you
Will FIND them in society, making themselves even
more odious there than elsewhere.
Mr.. Trollope respectfully declines TO give the
Fifth Avenue his unqualified admiration. lie
thinks II is certainly very ine street. The houses
in it are magnificent, with an air of comfortable
luxury and commercial wealth, though without
the aristocra.c look of many of the detached Lon
don residences or the pala.ial appearance OF an
old .iashioned boiel in Paris. The churches on
each side Oh Fifth Avenue add much TO the beauty
Of the street. Blu. nil The splendor Of TIE place
makes no impression but that of the prido OF
wealth. No great man, no celebrated statesman,
40 philanthropst of peculiar note, as far rs snown
to the author, ever lived in Fifth Avenue. ILt
gentleman on tie right made million OF dollars
by nventing a shif'-collhr the one on the iei'
electrified the world b. a loiiou; as to the gentle
man at the corner, there are rumors about mm
and the Cuban saye-,rade; but they have MOI yei
been proved 10 DC tue. h.r Trollope penslve'y
confesses that if he could make million o. dollars
By on eye-rasb or Il hair-dyc, he would be emit
tied to place among the denizcns OF Fun
Avenue
The descriptions Of Western life IN which hr.
Iroiopo lu1uriaies, appear 70 BE- experimental
studies in The exercise OF his function az a writer
Of romance. They ere painted in the darkest cot
ors. His experience of tie people OF the Wes'
was bitter disappointment. lie iouGd Inc hel
gloomy ard srnt almost suilCn. 4 dozen ei them
viii sit for hours round y stove sPeechless. ihe!
chew tobacco and rumina,e. They arc not "
Tended if you speak to them, but they are moi
pleased. They answer with rnouOsyllnhles, OF
perhaps with only gesture O. tho head. They
are essentially dirty people. Indifference 70 AZ
pearances is matter OF pride. foul SHIT is
Gag Of triumph. A craving for soap AID water i'
IA the wall of tho weak and the confession Of
cowardice. No men love money with more
eager love; bu. they bear the loss ci il os an In
dian bears his torture at the stake. They are eli
ergetic in trade, fond Of deep speculation; but ~
they are Slow ~ motion, Loving to loaf about.
They drink. but ale seldom drunk 10 the eye
They begin il carly in the morning, aud iahe II II
a solemn sulea, ugly manner, standing a"a!s 81
Z bar; swallowing their spirits ard saying nothinf
"a they swallow il. Tie women are intelligent
Ike AL nsliSc American women, but 10 the fancy
Of Mr. Trollope, are anything bat lovely or low
able. They arc a. sharp as nails, and also al
hard. They doubtless bnow MI that they cush'
to know, but then tlry know 30 much more thai
they ought 10 know. They have faith in the DIES
tiny Of their country, # IN nothing else; but they
believe that tina, dcst.ny II to be worked out by
The spirit and t'lcut Of tie ing women.
H. Boston vlcrs Mr. Troopc landed on biz
arrival in the United States, lie appears 70 have
been received with friendly attentions by many r.
spectacle persons, ard TO have enjoyed create
intimacy With tie refined classes %, society than
tons. Every hing in ID; capital Of New-Ensiand
accordingly, !, painted in the rosicst colors. IL,
knows 10 place al which an EngGshuan may droI
down suddenly among II plensnn'er circle OF ac-
qualntauce, or find himself with more clever sol
Of men. Boston Las ugh: 10 be proud Of what
hae done FOX letters; j. ~ proud but its pride j.
not carried TOO far. Every man, woman, and
child IL that city shows tie sottening influence Of
education. Although al old Puritan settlement,
III which the s,dctrst Roundhead sentiments aud
laws used to prevail, oy-a-dnys ginger is hot IL
The mouth there aud in spite OF The war there
were cakes and ale. II 10 not the thing IN Bos
ton TO sIcoke IN The streets during the day; bul
the vises,, The ssges. the most holy, seldom re-
fuse q cigar in the dlnug-rCoin as soon as the H.
dies have gone. TIE Maine liquor law ia stlll III,
law OF the land, but il has il,len very much out O.
are. 81 any rate, il had lot reached the house,
of the gentlemen win whom Mr. Trollope had tAe
pleasure Of making acquaintance. Still, he So"
but one drunken man through oil New England
and be was very respectable. He was, however,
80 LDcOiiilnbIg uiuIh- t'at H' hIBh' "c "h'"t "
to count for two OF three. The lLntals Of Bos-
ton are, Of course, simple in their hah.ia AID SIM
pie in their expenses. Champagne and canvas.
back ducks are the provisions most ~ vogue
among those Hho desire to adhere ciosely to tbt
manners of their forchthas. The Yankee Pun
tan may bo an uncommooly pleasant fellow. but
MI Trollopc could not get over the bore Of half
past two O'Clock dinner.
Our Traveller cherished becoming curiosity
with regard 70 TIE celebrated Americans whose
names were familiar TO him at home, aad he re-
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