Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-09-28

Gen. Lafayette with such imposing cere.
monies. Well, here we are at window
the walls we observe are about three feet
thick here, and although a sharp breeze
comes from the Atlantic, and it seems q
great distance to the ground, there is no
reasonable probability Of the monument
blowing down. Voices come ring.
ing up the stairway from far below,
and the echoes resound as ii in
the boundless chambers of Mammoth
Cave. The uninitiated travellers below
hear our voices and imagine they are
nearly at the top, when really they are
not half way. and finally they come to the
surface, as we did, quite out OF breath.
The view from the windows fully meets
all expectations We look and look and
look, and can only exclaim, 1t is
grand" The gorgeous panorama OF land
and sea, houses, ships and islands is too
extensive to be taken in at . glance or
studied in an hour. Trains of cars come
sweeping across the distant plains and
bridges; swift sailing vessels lance the
CLASSY waters like the wings OF birds in
the air, leaving foaming, widening path
far behind the smoke curls up, as it only
can curl in Boston, from immense smoke.
stacks far below, which look like mere
pipe stems and the pure cool air ripples
at the windows, and looking down, am
again reminded of q trip in Capt. Thomp-
sons balloon over the Catholic Church in
Memphis. Boston with her suburban
adjuncts, her harbor and bay, her forts
and public buildings and her dry dock
of hewn granite, and her navy yard and
ferry boats, workshops and railroad
depots, hotels and islands, parks, col
leges and monuments, wharves, beaches,
and thousand and one landscape beauties
lies spread at our feet like map We
fingered lsug to have pointed out to us
the old historic points of interest and the
many important features which belong
alone to the present day, and finally de-
scended slowly to the ground, an under
taking of more fatigue than going up.
When safely down we looked at a statue
of Gen. Warren, who fell here at the bat
tie of Bunker Hill, and has been we'll
preserved in native marble. The Bos-
tonians pride themselves greatly upon |
their Republicanism and love of liberty, |
but their toadyism to the sprigs of mon
archy is well illustrated by FASTING up in
conspicuous place near Warren's
statue the autograph of the Prince of
Wales and his suite who happened to
visit Bunker Hill some years ago.
This letter is growing out 80 much
longer than | expected, that shall fore
90 description of many other places of
interest visited. Among them / will
merely mention Mt. Auborn Cemetery
one Of the finest in this country-Rox-
bury aud Brighton villages; the new and
old reservoir, six miles from the city; the
public gardens; the far
famed Commons; Fsneuil Hall, one hun
dred and forty years old, called the
+" cradle of liberty" and many public
buildings. The suburbs of the city are
and seem to have bcen built
without any reference to the cost, and the
unfenced flower yards are beautiful We
also saw the home of Longfsllow. the
poet, near Harvard University, in Cam
bridge, whichis preserved by the poet just
ss "" sshi1Etsh left ii as mis- headquarters;
also, tho famous elm tree, five feet In
diameter, where Washington teok esm-
maud of the American army in It's.
The spot 10 also marked by Q stone with
an inscription. We saw the house, near
by, of Prof Webster, who killed Dr..
Psrkman, and the site Of Fresh Pond
Tavern, of historic memory, aad many
other places too numerous to mention,
but saeredly preserved by the pious
descendants of the pious Puritans. We
feel we'll repaid for our visit, and can
commend the Hub as dull place of
local pride, besides real In.
iersst, especially to the American who
died befete the late unsuccessful rebel
lion. So much for Boston. HARVEY.