The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-21

The Boston (Jubilee) correspondent Of the
New York World, who wields ready and rather
saucy pen, writes as follows Of the girls OF the
great chorus
a THE CHORUS.
Every type of Down East is set in this chorr g.
book. The traditional yeoman OF the country
comes upon you ct all times and all places, and
as you eye him with cosmopolitan curiosity,
he drops upon you with provincial familiarity.
Everywhere doubly multitudinous and alto
gether more noticeable is that common-school
ocrity OF ther great commonweaith, tie impu-
dent. smart and lnyal average ne nown East.
It's clerks, it's shopkeepers, it's nascent lawyers,
who will put away their books in yeasor two
read, the, Atlantic monthly; it's horny
it's singing g-masters, some Of them wear
ing the marx Of Iohabed Crane, in spite
it out; the choir .aislss with their faces
sharply cut hat finely tiAted, coming from
all those whieewashed homes on the hills
where the syringe and euelder rose look in at
the windows and the lilacs bloom redolently in
the doorwayss Sweet innooents, that you meet
at every turn, with meaGrc forms but vital
movenent. who sing air and counter through
tanned sailer,ss, without once suspeotine that
the gross outside world look upon them as
sopr0nj and sconlratts who have had lovers
wounded IN Massachusetts regiments who
run
pink ribbons and sewing circles till they are
eighteen, and then wake up to the broad res
p0nelbisties Of teaching school and peoplipp
the great West. Wirys saucy rustics, knowing
charmers could comprehend IN 9 lifetime. and
prettier. withal the flicker OF prudery is
in their manners, than any Vatican
shepherdess 1 ever saw; with a good deal
bones, and something Of the clear, sharp at-
:mosphere In their voices. Ready at a moments
notice, II the deacous, or town council, or the
newspapers. and above oil, If Boston call on
them to pour out sibilant psalms aud hymns
and spiritual songs, and make melody in their
hearts. provided always that half-fare tickets
are issued and the exercises are opened with
prayer, but knowing aud caring as much about
the ideal expanse OF spiritual ecstacles" as set
forth bysthe FESTIVAL 90 nmittee, as that lun-
herman who is surveying the Coliseum knows
and cares about the rhaBsodies of Ruskin. For
which love them collectively notwithstanding
tney chew gum and carry that abominable
Waverfey sucking out OF their reticules. I am
paEelcular in this specification that you may
know N>al
TIE CHARACTER OF THE CROWD.
One wonders. in surveying it. how many Nor
woods have been depOpulated by this cataplanx
OF >iilmore; or. it not depopulated, had all the
new baking aridly ON tAe hills, bereft Of pink
ribbons and shriA doxologies. The lumber
man, whose broadcoth disguise does not hide
the RED Mannei sh.rtsleeves. ie Whittier's very
call, down Northern rivers from t
Where the crystal Ambijjis
Stretches broad and clear.
=" And MilDoket's pine-biack ridges
Hide the browsing deer.
lusty Nantucket beauty, lush with sea
nursing, . very Neried at to raise nabobs, and
having two cousins hooked ON her arm, with
their mouths sweetly puckered into an organic
Re- %s has ns. astsa me na 4 d1
met. Obviously I did, and more, but one finds
how rid,cnlously limited 10 his stock OF infUr-
NATION IN such Q crlsis. From this you will see
feel. # you were here. that nothing less than
the shfewd tuckine into the festival OF the
religious and patriotic bait, would have
thus subcrned Yankeedom. The rural good
alacrity to art. Ut has been preached elo-
quently to for mouth remember; it has been
told that the national consummation Tor which
y both toiled and prayed, needed this final ra-
that the prestige Of Boston is at stake, and that
she expects every man to do his duty to her
and his country. 30 the dominant part OF
the crowd come and do it with that rigid
tioe the good without the expecting any
thing Of the beautiful. You may distinguish
this part Of the influx byits resigned enthu-
siasm and by its looking with ama2ement into
the restaurant windows, and then stepping
into unobserved streets to quaff the innOcu-
ouspop and MUNICH the frugal gingerbread. The
her and smaller part OF the crowd is one OF
open-mouthed sigb.-seers. Mem OF taste and
culture, many OF taem from all the great stiles,
not musical festival but q stupendous jollif-
cation-a big Yankee surprise; municipal
beneat fashioned upon the model Of our theatre
cal friends, with several transformations such
as the world never saw, and altogether intend
ed to be the biggest rather than the best thing
OF the Kind ever perpstrated CO. .operatiysiS.