The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-07-27

Correspondence of the journal.

breath of cool air, and a days rest from
he sometimes intolerable din and heat Of
he city. Among them none are perhaps
better than
NAHANT,
with its combined attractions of hillside
md seashore. The steamer Ulysses.
swifter if not more formidable than her
with the accommodating Capt.
Calden in command, leaves India wharf
three times day, Sundays not excepted,
for this delightful locality. There is
sharp, shrill scream from the steam pipe,
a whirring OF wheels, a dashing Of wa
Ter, the hurrying of feet, stentorian cry
''all aboard" and the plank and ropes are
slipped from the wharf, and down the
harbor YOU are gliding with swift, I'M
motion particularly agreeable to
those not susceptible to an inversion of
the stomach. On you 90, past little boats,
and big boats, vessels laden and wind
bound vessels discharging the rich pro-
duets of foreign shores, and vessels under
convoy Of little jerky, noisy, putting,
gasping tugs,-breathing like a small
baby under q heavy oppression. Gradu-
ally the circular sweep of the city, with
its brick faced walls, and rising spires, is
lost in its envcloping shroud of smoke.
The sun shines out clear and bright, the
breeze sweeps up cool and refreshing
from the vast expanse of the waters, the
waves lap idly against the bow of the
boat, the sky takes on newer, softer and
intense beauty whilst in the dceps below
you may gaze upon the ''bow of promise, :"
set in archcd bands of colOrs to tell YOU
that ,'the sea is His, and He made it,"
And you know and feel that, though it is
avaricious, relentless and remorseless,
though il reaches out for the fairest and
brightest, and brushes alike the mighty
and the weak, in the strength of its cruel
power; yet it shall one day submit to .
divine authority, and give up all that it
has taken.
Past Governors island-prepared in
peace for Il time of war; past Deer Island
and the industrious inhabitants of the
House of Industry; past Point Shirley
and the famous bird suppers provided by
the renowned Taft and here YOU are at
last, with Nahant rising into view-a
beautiful, green'robed, sea girdled island,
connected to the Lynn shore by long,
hard, smooth beach. Its sloping hlllsdes
are dotted alternately with trees aaI cot
tages The trees and grass are Of tender
est, brightest green, and in pretty con
trast the two-storied French on flat roofed
cottages, with flat rooted piazzas, painted
an invariable red Very pretty, as was
before remarked, is the contrast, but ter
ribly suggestive of some epidemic disease
of the red kind, say scarlet fever or
malignant erysipelas
THE LANDING
is at last reached, and almost instantane-
ously the boat is freed from her load of
black, white, blue, green, pink, scarlet,
and gray beings. All colors of the kalei-
descope are represented and the various
traits of human nature are equally dis
cernible, There are fat men and lean
men. Men odorous of wine cellars ana
suggestive OF turtle soups and vension,
STR lan
Cassius, with
"A lean ana liungry look
painfully remindful of high desks, long
legged stools, heavy ledgers and intricate
accounts. And men with apparently no
occupation at all living off the interest
of their money. or worse still, money that
belongs to somebody else. Women in
rutfles and jewels, women in braids and
curls, women in silks, women in linen,
and not one, but many 'women in white"
Large hats and little hats, long ribbons
and short ones, proud faces and meek
faces Countenances with pride lines
upon every part, and opposing counte-
nances marked with pain and care
countenances looking haughtiness and
and countenances soltened with
the kindly dew of compassion. Pretty
children and homely children. Children
gay and laughing, and children from
whom all sprightliness seems to have died
out. A little later and these individual
traits are not SO apparent. The. contlnu-
ed moaning and murmuring Of the sea
has softened them down, and the whisper
ing breezes swept them away.
THE VoYAGERs DISPENSE
in al directions. Someto cool, sequestered
suri-assaulted rocks fora quiet day-dream.
Some to higher, bolder and more sharply
cliffs, where the line may be
easily dropped and the fish enticel from
their wet retreats to short earthly career.
Some, with wilder love for adventure in
their veins, TO the boats lying at anchor,
and slowly and regularly rising and fall
ing with the breathing of the sea. Some,
in fits of curiosity, to ascertain who lives
here, there or over yonder. Quite salts
fled with the information that the pretty
little, gray, cottage so near the pier for
merly belonged to Gen. Fremont, but is
now inhabited by one of the rich family
of Tudors, and to be able to say to the
less inqulring, ''the poet Longfellow lives
just over the hill there" land in the house
adjoining resides the family of Abbot
Lawrence" Just beyond is the resi-
lence of Mr.. johnson of the firm of Hovey
& Co." and over there, near that pretty
grove, Francis Parker Esq, the we'll
known Boston lawyer is erecting a new
cottage.'' One is at last led naturally to
the belief that beneath each roof rests the
head Of some notable individual, and
his descendants. Others have availed
of seats in the pretty, cosy
picnic wagons and gone to
the great attraction of Nahant,
THE NAOLIS GARDENS.
Siam transposed but not transported
At least we never could see any resem-