The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-12
LETTER FROM-A TOURIST.
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New YORK, August D. 1867

ting" and if the Boston idea is COR
rect, have approached very nearly
that point of perfect rest round
{ which all things else revolve. Bos-
ton is not a bad name for city, but
to pronounce it hub " is certainly
erroneous. It's, population does not
exceed that of London. its chief
rulers are not greater than Alexander
was, nor the fame of its scholars and
philosophers more lasting than that
of Coperineus. The city has many
things of which she may well be
proud. Bunker Hill, the Webster
statute, Faneuil Hall, the Common,
the Athen8um, and her many schools,
scholars, and public libraries, are OBJ
jects of interest and things of value.
But of all these you have been fully
advised long since, by the live Yam
KEGS and Yankee schoolmarms at the
West, and also through the medium
Of their atlantic Monthly and other
periodicals
To make a map of Boston, take
new unbroken cob-web, tear a hole in
it, the smaller part of the whole to-
ward the center of the web, the larger
part toward the circumference, call
the hole Boston Common, and when
your imagination CONSTITUTES this into
the plot of city, you will be ready
for your second lesson. Your CORES
pondent got into street car while
there, and rode some distance look
ing out the window trying to catch
glimpse of the city We picked up
passengers as we went along, until
the car was considerably over full.
| got up to give my seat to lady,
when | made the strange discovery
that they we're all ladies, or very near
ly SO, for there was but one other
man in the car. The census shows
forty thousand more women than
men In that State.
One who has received his educa-
ton at the hands Of New England
petagogue, as many young men of the
West have done, IS apt to be disap
pointed when he looks for that gen
eral intelligence in New England, of
which he has heard so much.
AT New Haven, Conn, a business
man on one of the principal streets
could not tell me the name of a good
hotel in city of near 10000 inhabi-
tants. only eighteen miles away. The
fishermen are as neat and Intelligent
In their appearance as Green River
fisherman and not bit more so.
The faces of our Western farmers.
even, those away down In the much |
abused pocket, look just as intelligent |
as any the same distance from the
cities in New England 1t may be
that the New England farmer has
spent longer winter evenings and more |
of them in reading Flavius Josephus
and the works of Dr. Dix, but there
are -things in practical life a know
edge of which is of greater value than
even this.
As "a general proposition. the
4 Yankee gal " is all right. Always
intelligent, often Of fine complexion,
with a rosy cheek, full of life, spry |
as a cricket, and always good com. /
pany. But they DO not always pos
sess all these qualities. The sandy !
haired and freckled faced are apt to t
pass thirty in single blesseaness, /
and become strong minded - Eali
Everybody who reads the newspa- |
pers has heard of the beauty Of the /
scenery on the Hudson. I cams.
down from Albany on the day I
boat, 2 and was happily disappointed. /
Let every one do likewise.
New York, to the tourist, is mus
cum of curiosities, some of which he
has seen before, of some of which he
has heard, and some of which he had l
never dreamed. To the business man
it is the vortex by which the skllful
pass with great profit, and inewhicL
the unskillful are always lost To the
dissolute and licentious it is the car
nival of vice. To the righteous. the 4
point from which Christian enterprise
projects its greatest undertakings. 1t
is the place where the clean and the
unclean lie down together, and the
Metropolitan police lead them
:. Your correspondent was very much
disappointed IN the appearance of
broadway. We have heard so much
OF the wealth and elegance of New
ork, that one would naturally ex-
pect to see more fine architecture on
the great Broadway-to see nothing
but the fottiest houses with the most
elaborate fronts. There are houses
no better than the Shanklin corner
on Broadway, many blocks below the |
Fifth Avenue Hotel.ss z
When the Great Republic was at
our wharf on her first trip,a gentleman
from the East stated that She was "a
fine as any boat on Hudson river. I be-
.lieyed it then, but my mind has been
wholly disabused of that. When. I
came to see the steamers Drew and
st. John, running on North river.
and the Sound steamers Providence
and Bristol, Ike the Queen of Sheba
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