Year: 1869

BosToN, Sept. 1st, 1869.
4 Ed. GAZETTE: There Is little left for us
in the city, but to strive to be contented
with our lot, and TO seek all the respite from
active labor that We can. Physical labor is
out of the question, and mental industry is
quite as impracticable. The crowds who
make their summer hegira TO the sea-shore
and the mountains, are, many of them, kind
enough to send back glowing accounts of
their fun and pleasure, their cool breezes, and
their rapidly increasing stock of good health,
with an evident desire to make us as uncom-
Portable as possible. But they can not carry
everything with them. They must leave us
our long, delicious twilights-so seductive
in wooing us from all our cares and labors-
and a good share of cool, crisp mornings,
while dash of east wind-one of Boston's
specialties-cools our fevered brows, from
time to time, when the dog-star RACES. Your
correspondent acknowledges remissness in
the performance of his duties, but pleads the



The tide of travel is setting homeward now,
and the city, which has seemed quite desert
ed, is being rapidly re-populated. The door
plates, which have had fashionable diseol-
oration for months past, are being furnished
up. Bright faces peer from the windows;
and the nut-brown compilations one meets
attest the health-giving influences to which
their owners have been subjected.


Cape Cod.


Your correspondent managed to get few
days respite for run down to Cape Cod, and
greatly enjoyed his visit The town of Den
mis-, divided into several villages, is pleasantly
situated on the line of the railroad just where
the arm of Massachusetts bends at the elbow.
Her hardy sons plow the seas, the most of
them leaving at home bevies of pretty girls
almost entirely unprotected Nor do they
seem to belong to that "anxious and aim
less" class, whose existence Gov. Andrew
thought he could render less burdensome by
legislation. Bright, cheerful, hearty, and
selfreliant, they infuse even into the city
bellies who flock there much of their own
naturalness and good humor. Perhaps the
air may have favoring influence, but certain
it is, jollier girls and harder sons than Cape
Cod produces, it would be hard to find. The
town itself, with its clumps of trees and neat,
white houses, has serene, contented air,
that has power to quiet the restless pulse
of care" and is very grateful to one tired
with the hustle of city life. The soil is
sandy, and quite unlike that which Jerrold
described, which, "if you tickled it with a
hoe, laughed with a harvest" On the con-
trary, the crops extorted from the unwilling
earth are quite meagre. l must not forget,
however, that delicious edible which adds
such zest to our Thanksgiving Dinners,
and which is exported to remote parts of the
earth. The cranberry crop this year, accord
ing 20 present Indications, will be enormous.


Nantucket.


/ left the Cape and visited the Island of
Nantucket. Very many of the inhabitants
of this town have visited your Islands in
years past, and some of them made perma-
nent residence there. remember the place
when the wbale-fshery was very active;
when the ceaseless sound of the hammer and
the anvil, was heard from morning to night;
now, there is an almost unearthly stiffness
about the place. The wharves are, most of
them, rotted away; the streets seem quite
deserted, and although the houses are neat
andbtrim, there is an air of desOlation per-
vading the town, as if the life had been
quietly crushed out of it, that is painfully
suggestive of more than Rip Van Wrinkle
sleep. The people are very hospitable, and
warmly attached to their native place. They
move in one accustomed circle from day to
day, while the arrival and departure of their
little steamer is the only ripple that disturbs
the placid surface of their daily life.


Changes In Boston.


We have been making many changes in this
city during the past few months The widen
ing of Hanover Street, from Court TO Black
stone, is nearly completed, and will make
handsome avenue out of q homely street.
The present design is 10 carry it through TO
Commercial Street, thus opening a broad and
direct thoroughfare from the North End 10
the centre of the city. fremont Street is
quite finished, and a few days since the Hotel
Pelham was moved back into line 1t is
stone building, seven stories high, and was
moved with many OF the occupants in the
building, together with massive granite
sidewalk, some fifteen feet The moving
cost the city about s25 900, and took weeks
of preparation. Myriads of small iron rollers
were placed underneath, and when the build
ing was finally in position, they were not
removed, but secured with cement Wash
ington Street is to be extended as far as Hay
market Square, and many other improve
ments are expected.


The ProhibItory Law.


There is some little excitement with refer
ence to the Prohibitory Law passed by the
last Legislature. 1t is expected that it will
exercise quite strong influence in politics,
this fall Strong efforts are making to induce
the Republicans to put prohibitory plank
in their platform at the coming Convention,
while equally strong influences are at work
to Suppress any aIlusion to the temperance
question The State Constable is actively at
work suppressing open bars. and the subject |
has never been so thoroughly canyassed be-
fore Our present Governor is in favor of
prohibition, and Will be a candidate for re-
election. The Democrats have held their