The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-11-12
A Belfa.ter Look. Around the Hub.

When the man said that "lf he must either
go to Boston by cars or boat, that he would
walk" he made safe but very slow remark.
Now we prefer boat; there is more chance to
move, and sea-sickness does not come within
our gifts. Let us once get meal into our
stomach and it cannot be hosted out with
government derrick. We left Belfast on the
Katahdin, and never in summer could one find
pleasanter day. The water was as smooth as
a life insurance agents story, and the boat ar
rived here early Tuesday morning. A short
time since a person representing a newspaper
published not a thousand miles from your office,
took passage on the Katahdin, and in the next
issue of the paper, thanked the gentlemanly
clerks of the Cambridge for favors received.
Please let make no such mistakes in
thanking the Captain and clerks of the katall-
din for like favors.
The first thing stranger does on entering
Boston, is to get something to eat and of eat
ing houses there are many, which will adapt
themselves to any mans wallet The same meal
can be had for various prices. You can choose
whichever you please, but we notice the cheap
er the steak the more the eater chews-and i'll
getting a steak one is very liable to make Il
mistake.
Tuesday was election day. You have heart
| about it, everybody has-eyen Ben Butler. The
Democrats make clean sweep, and the result
made the Republicans weep too The day
passed OFT very quietly, and resembled election
at home, only little more 50. Perhaps the
| tobacco juice was trifie deeper at the polling
places, but there We're more mouths to make it.
The odor from the Medtord distieries could be
grappled WITH by man with quick nose !;
but with Il favorable wind we have got SINH
lar sniff even at as great a distance rs Belfast
There was one thing about voting that strikes
Maine man as strange. 1t made US blush to
think how small and mean our ballots are. In
stead of ballot two by three inches in size, as
we use they have them here illuminated, and as
large rs posters. The man that casts it brings it
along Oh "A wheelbarrow, and It's lifted into Il
huge box with derrick and slowed away by Il
steNedore. The eXpens of an election is con-
siderable, it requires so much help and machin =
cry. In the evening the returns came in the
city presented IL lively appearance, and truth
with the memory of Washington's Ratchet fresh
i'll our mindD compels us to say that every per-
son we saw seemed pleased with the result.
We saw the Governor elect that evening. He
was much surprised AS any one, but man
aged to keep his cigar going. The next morn
ing we saw Gen. n. p. b anks at the Parker
House. He was receiving congratulations from
frie nds, and seemed calm and happy as II man
could be, who didn't have his hair combed and
who wore red stockings. We presume the
latter were colored by the blood that flowed
during the canvass.
To-day is the second anniy of the big
fire, and one can hardly realize what a warm
ing Boston had, to see her now, nearly all re-
built. Some of the buildings are remarkably
fine. The new Post Office is very handsome
and imposing, and it seems as if it was impos-
ing on the people to ask them to pay for it, 1t
| is nearly ready for occupancy.
The old State House is being fixed up for Win
ter. 1t is being painted throughout and the
dome has been gded. 1t looks a good deal bet
ter. 1t ought to; they put Sl100 worth Of gold
Leaf on it, 1t can be seen as far as you can see
anything, and as it looms up it looks like huge
ripe Bermuda onion, with the yellow jaundce.
There appears to us to be one class of articles
here that are more ornamental than useful, and
those are hacks. We never saw anybody ride
i'll one, but they look we'll drawn up in front of
a house The only times they are brought into
use is ut funerals. In Il procession the other
day the corpse Stat out 40 Of them filled full,
averaging 6 to a hack-2f0 mourners at so cents
per head. "Who is there to mourn for Logan
not one We would say that the procession
was not mourning for a man by the name of
Logan.
For cheap transportation, the horse car offers
the best inducements to the weary pedestrian
who has six cents in his trowsers that he is
anxious to spend. The Metropolitan r. X. does
the largest business, and one cannot tell how
much he can endure till he has taken Il ride in
one Of these ears. We are told that frequently
persons contemplating IA voyage to Europe ride
in these cars, SO as TO accustom themselves to
| the motion. The sailor that goes round Cape
Horn meets nothing 50 rough AS he gets on this
line.
We have had quite warm days-Indian sum
mer they call it. Some are Indian and some
are not. One cool day we stepped into Il fur
store to buy a seal skin overcoat and when the
salesman asked us if we wanted S400 or $500
one we remembered that it was warmer in the
middle OF the day, and we didn't buy one.
The ladies are doing their hair up differently
| we notice-we mean those that have any. They
| braid it behind, and then turn it up under
| double, and tie it close to the head.
| There is nothing that makes a man feel SO
| homesick as to meet an acquaintance who Is
| inebriated, and have him question you about
home You can't get rid of him, and cant
shake him of any more than you can an attack
| of chills and fever. This is one of the things
| we know.
| If you stand on the corner of Washington
| and Winter street for an hour you can see every
lady in Boston that happens to be ont shopping
| If it were not for that fact, we would have thi,
letter longer but facts can't he got around ever
with Il velocipede. GUM.