Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-03-10

NEW YoRK, January q

EASY 10 CIR FROM RIUHNoED.
NEW YoRK, January q.
So far ss my own experience goes,
would appear that there is no more diff
Guilty in passing from Washington Il
/ Richmond and Richmond 10 Washington
than there is in proceeding from the lat
ter place to Baltimore, or from Augusta Il
Charleston. OF course, would not have
your readers imagine that 1t is desirable
for stranger 70 follow the example Of thu
able author Of "Guy Livingstone" and "a
talk secession publicly for many weeks in
Baltimore before he hazards the expert
ment Of passing through the lines t.
Richmond. With such sntecedents he
viii probably insure failure when he
makes his effort to cross the border; bui
assuming that he possesses ordinary dis
cretion and confidence, there is nothing
10 prevent g man crossing backward and
forward when he plesses except cOnside-
rBble exposure on the Potomac river and
possibly long walk upon either bank.
LIFE IN AIoHEoND.
In Richmend the spectator has foE
months and months been familiar with
war about his psth and about his bed, and
at all his meals and under every roof War
is breathed in ct every breath, waited
upon every breeze, heard in every sound,
visible at every step. For grace and ele-
gsnce and lettered ease there is neither
time nor superfuity Of resource; nor, it
must be added, are they compatible with
the sublime esrnestness Of temper exhibi-
ted by man and woman. Sentries at the
head Of every street substsntiste the pass
er's identity and investigate his right to
be absent from the army. As earliest
dawn breaks, you are awakened BY long
monotonous chorus Of thousands Of ne
groes, engaged in completing the defen-
siVe works around Richmond, and going
forth cheerfully TO their labor, which has
long assumed such proportions as to defy
the assault Of 100000 men. This is no
idle statement Of my own, but takes from
the lips Of the eldest Ablest, and least
boastful Of confederate officers, whose name
will suggest itself to every reader. Can
non are constantly seen in the streets
either new 12-pounder Nspoleons going
up to the army from the Trsdegar works,
or guns which hsvo undergone repsir, or
feld-pieoes which are going north or
south; the Well-knoFn, lean, lsnk, ragged
agray- back" troops, with the same lordly,
defiant sir Of individuality and self as
ssrtion ss ever, constantly troop through
toe city, with their old wild, diseordant
yells, making day or night hideous. The
familiar northern tunes Of "Dixien or 'fThe
Mooking Bird" exeerably interpreted by
3 few ffes, eornet and drum, contrast
marvelously with the rich swell Of the
German bands In Washington, which rem
der to perfection the HLast Rose Of Sum-
mer," or one Of Mendelssohn's superb
marches, crashing among the distant ech-
Oes Of Pennsylvapis avenue.
LIFE IN WASHINGTON.
On every side money flows as though the
Potomac were the Pacolus. The dome OF
the Capitol, which once promised to ahare
the fate without riTRllng the beauty of
Cologne 0athedrsl, is finished, and sur
mounted by Goddess Of such Liberty as
even Madam Roland never conceived. The
hotels are thronged to bursting. Willard's
in particular, is occupied by an excited,
pink eyed, seething crowd such as vibrstes
in the e0UltSSgS or the PARTISAN boufse. At
night, theaters, gambling houses, "Vsrie-
ties and worse dens Of infamy, veiled
under no pretense at disguise, vie with the
attractions Of the ainspired maid of Phils-
delphis,n Miss Anna Dickinson.
soEEEs IN NEW YORK.
l shall not attempt TO carry Jour read
ers into Broadway thousand times de-
Fcribed, but as indescribable as Niagara
nor to enter upon any attempt st detail,
There is such matter for sll feeling in
this street that the mind sinks crushed.
Luxury, ostentation, heedlessness, heart
lessness-tbe richest furs, the gsudiest
silks, the brightest bonneta, the most gilt
tering diamonds, operas, theaters, con-
certs, cafes ehantGsts, rare shows Of every
hue-Why should l seek to prolong the
Hst2 At Delmonico's famous restaurant
or at the ka;son BoTee, Spaniards, French
men, Italians, Englishmen discuss wines
and yisnds to which nothing superior can
be exhibited ct Philippe's or Vefour's p
As for q thought Of the war, Of the Eve
hundred thousand souls which it has
hurled into eternity from the North, o.
the two hundred thousand confederatea
who have died grimly pro sri5 ct foeis-
WuI HpGeA VI huluA Ol BuCu HubhlAJ y
thsme2 Good taste forbids its mention
nevertheless, II ever among the upper ter
thousand its name is bresthed, it struck
me that four times ont Of Eve the speak
er's sympathy was with the South snt
JEFF. Davis. Stately policemen, in blue o.
gray uniforms, pstroniEe the ladies !
hustled in crowded Broadway, or take sly
drinks with sdmiring friends. Why i
it that democracy converts the hotel clerk
the steamboat or railway ond1ctor, tn
policeman and such like into q kind o
demi-god-a man not only as good ss hi
neighbOr, but vastly greater and loftier
Occasionally, with the usual faafGres o
magnificent bands, regiments 'ifresh fror
our country's glorious battle fields" psrsd
along Broadway, with battle flags tatiere
and torn, and las is insinuated) riddle
into shreds by the tornado Of shot throug
which they have passed. ] have, as ]
happens, seen too many confederate bat
tle-fsgs which (as the northern bullet
are fer more numerous than the south
ern) have been exposed to 6ercer FIRE
TO believe in this demonstration Of north
ern bloodthirstiness. But the sight neve
fails ''to bring the house down" and elici
the rapturous cheers Of Broadway.
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