The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-08-30

THs PoKTRy OF BoN- THE PozTRY OF BoE-
NsTs.--A new bonnet MESA new bonnet
has been introduced in. has been introduced iu
New York, which is New York which 10
called the Snowflake, called the Snowflake,
and issad to be scarcely and is said to be scarcely
less light and ethereal less light and ethereal
than the eyanescent than the evanescent
hexagonal from which hexagonal from which
it derives its name. An it derives its name. An
other new style il COM other new style is COM
pared by q frantic art i pared by frantic art
critic, to. moonbeams critic, to moenbeams
glancing over q zephyry glancing over zephyr
wheat field. s. A clear wheat fields. A clear
case of bonnet on the case of bonnet on the
brai n.-[hynchburg brain. --.Virginian, 23d.
News, 2lst. as sa .stA 4-8 y .Dlo svi1Al
This we submit is Rather MfxED"-
rather more 50 than the Express Companies
under our treatment. VI, ~ Is .sass5p-s +
3d. On the ed the s.brain pan" said in
the columns Of the Day Book:
"In 1887 Mr. jefferson wrote that, Of some
places "the laws have said there shall be
towns; but. Nature has said there shall not,
and they remain unworthy Of enumeration.
Norfolk will probably be the emporium for
all the trade Of the Chesapeake Bay and its
waters, and canal of eight or ten miles will
bring to it all that of Albemrre Sound and
its waters" snt ,5y
On the goth yesterday our friend held
the following language: - 2te.seA
"GoD MADE THE COUNTRY, BUT MAN
MADE THE 'TowN."-So old fogy Cowper
wrote And in 1877 jefferson wrote: "Of
some places, the laws have said there shall be
towns, but nature has said there shall not be,
|, and they remain unworthy of enumeration"
Norfolk is not one of those places whose des-
tiny to be town has been vetoed by nature;
on the contrary, nature, by giving her one of
the finest harbors on the continent, with the
ocean at her door, has said emphaticaily that
Norfolk shall be town, a commercial, and
trading, and manufacturing centre, and If she
is not all this at this day it is not the fault of
nature, butts due to the apathy, and want OF
foresight, and enterprise in man. 81 -, =
Again the Day Book :.sb .A NV e. sYf5
| IA Mr., Jefferson IL" Acct, dental circumstances,
however, may control the indications Of ma
turure, and ia no instance do they do it more
| frequently than in the rise and fall Of towns"
TIE virgnia's local says: ai4.sia sue,
Accidental circumstances may control the
Indications Of nature, such as we have pointed
out, but in no instance is it more frequently
noticeable than the rise and the fall OF towns.
Day Book I'D as5,sgll5.fa sab .sfsf. .ss.I
| Norfolk will become NOT, only the en-
porium for all the trade of the Chesapeake
and of Albemarle sound 'si--
Ie Virginfan is II 81
Norfolk will in time we believe, assert and
take her appropriate place among the trading
and commercial cities Of the South. She will
probably become the emporium Of all the
trade Of the Chesapeake Bay and its waters,
aud of the Albemarle Sound and its tributa-
| ries. ssais4a
q We have made these three points in the
most paternal manner. to show our friend that
| the "pfain pan,' al we ara, called, carries a
pan handle, in the shape of memory, which
/ it is capable Of using on occasion to some pur-
pose, as we could show at greater length, i it
were necessary, AS the case stands we think
/ our brother of the quill lis l"rather" more
Hmixed@ in his chronology and rhetoric than
we were in our facts ~ ; 500 = y q
8 VINO ARE THsrq-We represent the gen
eral sentiment Of the merchants, when we
say. that recent COMMUNICATION from Viii,
son, N. c., to, our contemporary, the Virgin
/ ian, is unjust and injurious to the mercantile
class of this community. 9ai - t52Is9 'sAetisg
The general voice tnites in declaring that
the writer should have specified the parties
/ against whom his changes were directed, and
not have left conjecture to single out this or
q that individual, or firm, from the whole body
i sof cur merchants, than whom, as a class, none
are to be found more courteous and urbane in
4 their intercourse with their customers, which
/ we gave correctly elsewhere.