Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-05
Letters from 1spivins.' No.

ThanksEfvisg Dowu East-Hov
| 10 Get 10 -Bosa0n-A m AN nt6ceu
sseamer, and q Pleasant Trip
| How Roston Locke To q. Green
horn - Charlestoyvnp water
works, Faaeuil Hail, Banker
Hill Monument, &c.. &c.
h REVERE HoUsE, ,BosToN, Nov. "a. 81.
Here we are, on Thanksgiving Day, i,
B>ston, the city where the festival wss in
vented. and where it is carried out in tn,
highest style Of the art. The trains arriv
ing this morning are flied with the SON
and daughters Of New England. Fastening
to take their Thanksgiving turkey with tn,
old folks. Nothing but sickness or deatf
will keep your pure Yankee from the ole
homestead on this day if he can be within
q dayior two's journey of home 1t Is ,
grand custom, this assembling of all tn,
hildren and their families around the fam.
I lily table at least once in each year. There,
heart in it.
. Talking of arriving In Boston, naturally
leads one to talk of the best mode of reach.
inga it. Those who may prefer railroad
travelling will find conveyance by the New
Haven route fromSNew York, but the best
route is up the Sound, either by the Bristol
or Fa lriver line. AS l told you in my
last letter, when we took our quiet smash.
up on leaving New York, we were trans.
ferred to the steamer Bristol, but I am OF
the opinion that did not tell you what a
msgnititent' craft she was. Well, then, she
and her sister steamer, the Providence, is
of 5000 tons burden, and cost 81 900, ,O00.-
She is 373 feet in length, width OF hull As
feet, with a depth of l6 feet; is built with
watertight compartments, and is one oil
the most magnificent vessels ever saw
Her cabin is built with gallery overhead,
extending around the entire length of the
steamer, with tier OF ststerooms off of
the gallery ~ Leaning over the railing of
the baiustrade, the traveller has splendid
view of the palatisl cabin below and its
ever; changing scene of busy humanity
for people viii be busy even when travel
ing for pleasure. u ~ -z7er-sF L aaiasiu
Having travelled up the Sound, we arrive
at Bristol, in Long Island, and take the
ears for Providepce-fourteeni miles. Here
Boston passengers can eitherremain on the
car in which they are placed on entering,
or can take the horse cars across the city to
the Boston depot, which last did and
would recommend. 80 You get a chance to
see Providence. In the cars for Boston and
away we go. At Pawtucket we meet those
who remained in their original seats,
hitch on to the car and are making about
twenty miles per hour across the most mis-
cradle and God-forsaken looking country,
agriculturally considered, we ever travelled
over. .ei,9 .ss @ga sFae = 90
> My idea is that the Creator has ordered
all things for the best. Had the first set
tiers of this country landed on the Pacific
shores, and, by eastern emigration, reached
The fertile plains of Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio, this country could never have been
settled by any possibility. As it is, this is
the workshop and mandatory of America,
as our own dear-W is its granery.rs
Well, now, for the Hub, the Athens of
America. The first thing that strikes a
stranger all Of heap, is its wonderfully
crooked Streets 1T the old town of Boston
was not laid out by some chap under the
influence of benzine, am mistaken. Why
you can't walk quarter of an hour in any
direction without having your head swim
turning so many corners, the street car
horses have all got bob tails from being
driven so fast around the multitudinous
short. curves To use an Irishism, all the
squares are three cornered or half round.
That you may form an idea of these extra
ordinary streets. 1 will tell you how we
reached the Revere House from Selwyn's
new and beautiful theater. First surmis-
ing that the two points are on an almost
direct line, we first bore north, then west,
then northwest, then north, then east, then
south, then east again, and then north, and
in doing this little bit, we whisked round
1L50S crooked corners. oh, but it is bull
Iy town for crooked man. The person
who couldn't get lost In this village with
out trying, is of no earthly use but to live
here. s''' 80 - z
But if the town be crooked, the people
are not. They have Treated us like prince o.
Every attention possible has been shown
us by the authorities, and I only wish ]
knew the names Of all the gentlemen that
might introduce them to our readers as
gentlemen, who unite with the shrewdness
and wealth of the New Englander, the
lordly hospitality of the Southerner and
the genial whole-souled welcome If a
Western man. They are glorious fellows
all, and fit to rule over this noble city, for,
maugre its crooked streets, it is bully
village. "a "a =, .ssi9. ~ ID = .. 90 E. fi
Our old citizens will be pleased to know
that met here Gen. VIM. Schouler, form-
erIy an editor of tie Journal in the o4f
Whig days, and latterly Adjutant General
of Massachusetts,. He has Just been elect
ed to the State Senate on the anti-prohibi.
ton ticket. from the Lynn District by
majority OF 300 votes over the regular Rad
al nominee. a district, by the by. wni I
gave Ben. Butler some 800 or 1000 majority
Gen. Schouler has reason to be proud O
his success for he had to fight the Boutwell,
| and Ben. Butler interest alo ie, and righ
handsomely he whipped tn, m, es
i. in company with Levi Wilson ant
Councilman Jaeger made a flying trip thi
| morning to Cam orid ge to see Harva Col
lege. As it was raining and most disagree
able-as it has been by the by, ever sine,
we left tPhiladelphia-we d d not get out o
the street cars, but contented ourselve
with looking at the buildings, standing
| irregu AT and WI h ut regard to symme
terry or order of architecture, on the green
The grounds must be very handsome whel
they can be seen under favorable circum
stances. The car conductor pointed out t.
us the stone marking the spot where Gen
1 Washington stood when he took comman,