The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-08-04
COMMUNICATIONS.
s.Stons and Marks.,,

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Anything for caption; and perhaps that
which i have placed at the head OF these notes
by the way, may be as appropriate as any
other for a "schoolmaster abroad If com
ply with your request for occasional sketches
of a journey westward, they must be literally
pencllings on the road. With such apparatus
for writing as L have extemporized l shall
succeed in making marks" enough, and
venture to promise your compositors an occa-
sional stop" to dec.phcr them.
do not intend to find anything TO interest
your readers on the familiar route from Port
land 10 Boston. Yet man with one eye open
the other full OF cinders--cannot fail to see
something to amuse or instruct himself. The
peculiar institution which has most gratified
your correspondent on the train this morning is
--''the babies. Tupper, you remember, the i'm
mortal Martin Farqnahr, says that "a babe in
the house is"-well, what was il he said? your
lady readers will remember. The purport OF it is
--some kind of an Indispensable luxury! But
when you transfer said .baby' to the railway
car, in dog-days, you may be excused for wish
ing it back again "a babe in the house."
Here for example, is one whose mother has
come with it from-thirty miles beyond Port
land-starting at daylight What wonder that
mother and child are both worn and fretted
with heat and dust and jarrng-until both
find the road to Boston and rest, very long.
What If your correspondent begs the loan of
the baby 10 relieve the mother, and amuses
the passengers by his successful practice. i'm
entertaining and quieting his foster charge
The shank you" OF that mother is worth a
quarter-very sincere as it surely was
In Boston my arrival il nearly contempora-
neous with that of Gen. Shepley your ,iistil-
guished fellow citizen, military governor of
Louisiana The one arrival is quite worthy
10 be itemized and goes into the papers OF
course. My own arrival not being noticed by
the Boston Press, am bound to leave the city
OF notions iorthwith-with more dust on my
feet than l can shake off against them.
l prefer TO make my way to Concord,
name very peaceful in It's purport-and re-
markable for the great peace demonstration
recently made there on the Fourth After
quiet nights rest at the Phenix Hotel, whose
proprietor turned up very quizzical eye, when
called Tor a cool room. l looked about the
city, for its curiosties-natural and artificial
sought IN vain for any portion of that great
mausoleum OF hearts which Ex. r. p pro-
posed TO build up TO his country somewhere in
this neighborhood! could not ascertain that
mi ''s '''''''''' mas ''' oeen sent
Was gratiiied to lind at his residence your
former enterprising citizen, o. l.. Sanborn,
Esq, who came ia from his morning labor in
the garden, ahandsoIne representative of the
New Hampshire yeomanry. Mr.. Sanborn re-
Joices In a fine intervale farm, whose outlying
acres are now burdened with grass and hay
done and undone-the catching weather.
having caught the haymakers here as in
Maine in naediis rebus. Our only suggestion
TO friend Sanborn is that the many thousands
which he accumulated In his twenty wears of
successful business in Portland, would have
beautiied and enriched some fine farm in the
suburbs Of that city. All which is respect
fully submittedl Concord is a very pleasant
Turdt city. The legislature, after their brief
summer session, have gone home to more
profitable pursuits.
Leaving Concord at o'clock, the Northern
Railroad takes us up the Connecticut Every
aspect OF nature Is very fine; the hills and
fields having been just washed in shower
lSee English Reader | am much inclined
70 expatiate on the beauties OF New England
scenery, which open up as we proceed: but
not having friend Savers happy faculty of
spreading green carpets and laying down the
dandelions, (see Ken. Jour) | must be ex-
cnsed from attempting anything in that pecu-
liar line. Now We pass through the neat lit
tie village oil Franklin, and fellow passenger
points out the house where Daniel Webster
was born. There is something which gives
interest to the birth-places OF the worlds great
men; and there is much more than Is often
thought in the natural surroundings of a per-
sons early home TO develop character and Law
the foundation for ones future distinction.
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