The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1867, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1867.~TRIPLE SHEET, CHARLES DIC ? ee rl Choice Excerpts from “ Ameri- ean Notes,” by Boz. American Society, Law, Legislation and “Journalism Described. How Our People Eat, Drink and Roost.”’ Scenes at the White House and the Vive Poiats, % but Dickens and Wife Nothing 16 Wear? Boston, in consequence of some wml after dark, £ received iny e oity iu Walking down to the Cus Taiog after our arrival, which was Invitations to Che fiave Ag we did not ian detention ait a Srst impress ons of tow House ou ¢ Sypday, Iuia afraid to say, by the way, how many ofers of pews “tS om Cuuren for that moruivg were Ynuio to ue, by formal note of imvitation, oofore Wohadwal! Gosved our rst dimner in America, du’, if ke @ moderate guess, without son, I shoud say that at least ye fYered us as Would have ac. CMM Cdutod x score or Wo ol grown up ‘aunilies, Tue Bowper oi creeds aud forms of religion to wuich the plealure of our compauy was requested was in very (air PR porion Not bers able, 1 the abseuce of any Ciwnge of clo'hes, to go to church that day, we were Com, elivd to deciia: these Kindnesses oue and ail. Kepertot a Law Case by Dickens. Tn the civil cour’ at Boston, an‘ action was trying, for damages sustained in sone accident upon a raiiway, The winess bad been exam.ned, and counsel woe ad- dressing the Jury be learned genityman (like a few of Bis Engish brethrea) was desperately long-winced, and bad arew b @ capac.ly Of saying the sane b):ag over Qud over aguin, lie gieat theme was “ Warren the Gugine driver,” woom he preased into the service every Se.iieuce be ule: i i{stened to him for about a quar- ter of aa uour; and, coming out of court at the expira- bon of that \ime, without tue faintest ray of enlighten- ment as iv the merits of the case, felt asif i were at home again. Boston society-Boston Ladies=Boston Lec- tures—iKeitus Considered as a Condim The tone of society in Boston 1s one of perfect polite- ess, Courtesy aud ood breeding. The ladies are un- ue-bonadly very Leauuful—~in face; but there I a peiled fo stop. Their education i8 mich as with us; Beither beter gor Wore [nad heard gome very mar. Vellous slorivs in Luis respect; but not believing them was ol d Sa) poi Dmay bo shove! ee many ¥it age wor a, Bive ladies there are, in Boston; Dut ike philosophers of that color and sex im moat Other itt des, tury rather desire to be thought supe- iui to be -o, Evaugeiical ladies there are, hice- jose wiiachment to the forms of religion, and horror of iheatrical eotertais are most exemplary Ladios who vave # passion {i ending lectures are to be found among aii ciasses aud all conditions In the kind of provincial ite which prevails in ciies such as Sis, the pulpit Gas creat imtiueuee, The peculiar pro Vince of the pul New England (always excepiing the Unitarian a would appear to be the de Douncewent of wil iviocemt and ratioual amusemonis, ‘The cuuren, tue cia; and . the leciure room are Lao Ouly teans of exc tement excepted; aud to (he churct the chapel and tue iscture room the iadies resort in crowds. Wuherever religion is resorted to, as a strong drink QD! as an escape irom the dull, monotonous round of home, (uo-e of it: in nisters wuO pepper the highest wil! De ihe surest to please. They who strew ibe Eteruii Path witu the yreates: amount of brimstone, and who Most rucbiessly tread down the flowers aud leaves that Grow by the wayside, will be voted the mort right-o Bud they who epiarge with the greatest pertinacity ou the didiculty of getting inw heaven, will be cunsiiered by aii true believers ceriain of going tuere; thouga it wou d be bard to say by what process of reasoning thir Conclusion is arrived at. It is so at bume, and it is so abroad. Witu regard (o the other meaus of exciiemen' the lectar», it brs at ieast (ve merit of oeing always new, Que Jeciure treads so quickly on the heels of anotier* tbat nove are remeuib: red ; and the course of this month may be saiely repeated ext, with its charm of novelly Unbroken ani its inverest unavated, The fruits o; the earth have toeir growth 10 corrup- tion, Uutuf tue rottenness of these things there Las Sprupe up, 10 Boston, a sect of pitlosopuers known a: ‘Transcendeuiatists, On inquiring what this eitation Migat Le supposed vo sigaity, I was given to undersiand ‘bat whatever was auintelligibie would be cerianly tranecendeutal. Not deriving much comfort from tis @lucdation, I pursued the inquiry stil! farther, ani found tha: the iranscendentalists are followers of my friend, sir. Carlyle, or, I should rather suy, of a follower Of bs, Me. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Tuis gentleman na writien a voiumn of essays, in whiet, among mucn (bat fg areainy aud fanciful (ti ue will pardou me for saying 80), there is much more that ig true and manly, houest nu bold. Transcendentatism bas ite occasional vagaries hat -chool bag not ?), but 1s bas good, bealibful yuali- io spite of them; uot least among the number « heariy uiezust of caui, and an aptitude to detect her in @l the milion varieties of her everlasting wardrobe, And Mreiore, if I wero a Bostonian, | think I would be @ Aranscendentalist, Report of a Marine Sermon by Dickens. ‘The only prescuer 1 heard in Boston was Mr. laylor, who adaresses uimeeif peculiarly to seamon, ana wie was ouce a mariuer uiwroil, The service commenced, with a hymna, to whici suc. pucceeded @Xiemporary prayer. it done, he ed luis discourse, baking (or bis text a pascage from Songs of Suiomon, iad upon the desk beiore the Commencement of itie sermon by some unknown mem- Ber of the cuugregauoa:—"Who is this comiog up bas the wilderness, leaping on the arm of Ler be- wed f + He handled this text in ail kinds of waye, and twisted itintoall manuer of stapes; but always ingeviousiy and with a rud» eloquence weil adi 40 the com, hension ef hw bearers. indeed, if I be not mistaxea, De studied their sympathies aud undersiandings muck 1 »: e more than (he dispiay of his own powers, His ee Wes ail drawu from tho sea and trom jucidents of @ seaman’s itfe, and was o.ten Tomarkaviy good, lie epuke to them of “ba: glorious wan, Lord Newou,” and of Collingwood; Qnd drow nothing ia, as (ne saying ia, by the bead aud ders, but brougus it to bear Upon bis purpose nata ily, aUd Wiu a alurp mind to tts effect. Some tues, hem much exXciied with bis subyect, he had an odd —compouuded of Johu Bunyan and Baitour uf juriey—ol waking | ‘eat quarto Libie under bis ara pacing up aud@.dvwo ue pulpit with it, lvoking ly duwa, weautine, into the widst of the cougre- gation. buy, wuen be applied bis text to the uret Qasembiage of his wearers, and piciured ihe wonder of the church at their presumpuon in forshing a congrega- Won among themselves, ce stopped short With his Bivie } me iy arm 1 (oe manuer { have described, and pur- ed vis discourse ater tuis mann ‘bey—who are these fellows ? ? where ary they going to? ‘ome from! What's the auswert’ jeaving out of the ipt, and pomiag downward with his right baud— "Frou below!” siarting back again, aud lovking at 0 suilors before him—From below, my brevaren. Yom under tue haicues of sin, battened down avove Jou by tucevil vue hats where you came fromi'’ BS waik up aud down toe pulpit—and where are you going” —stopping abraptiy, “where are you going? Slotd"—very sottiy, aud pomting upward. “Aiotti"” Touder—“‘alofi!”” iouder stili—“Lhav’s where you are eS @ fair wind—all taut and trim, steering rectly tor Heaven in ite gor mere where are no Storms OF foul Weaiher, anu Where tbe Wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest,’ —Anotuer ait. “That's wuere you are golag to, my friends, ‘uae’ it, Thaw’s the place, abat’s ibe por. Thav’s The Laven, & blessed harbor—sil! waier there, in li changes of winds and tides; no driving ashore upon dhe rocks, or slipping your cabies and runoing out to Bea, Wore. e— -peace—ai el” Another k, and patting tue Gioie under bis feft arm—“ Woe ti Those te are coming irom the wilderness, ere they es. From the dreary, biig! wih dernoss of Iuiquity, whose only crop i9 Death. But do they lean upon anything—do they lean upoo Bothing, these poor seamen?’ tnree raps upon tho Bidie. “Ob, you Yes They lean upon the arin of their Beloved’ —three more “apom the arm of ‘th ir Beiwved"—three more, walk—“Ptiot, guid- Ing star aud compass, all in one, to ali Lands—bere it fe”’—three more—“here it ia They can do th meu's duty waniully, and be easy in their minds Utuost perli and dauger, with this”—two more. “fhey these poor fellows cau come, from whe wing ow Whe arm of their Beloved, and go ‘—raising his band higher and bigner as ep—up—up’ ‘every repevition of tue word, so that be stood with it at Jast stretched above ois nead, regarding them ina Strange, rapt manuer, and pressing the Kk tridur Pbavily to bis breast, uttil he gradually subsided into gome ovher portion of bis discourse. Hotel Lite<tiow the (iucsts Eat, Drink, “Koost” and Smoke. ‘There is no smoking room in any hotel, and there was Bone consequently ia ours; but the bar ts a large room, With @ stone floor, and there peopie stand and smoke, and ioungs about, ail the e i dropping io and out a humer kes them, The too, the stranger is faitihied into them; o ga-cline, cocktail, sam. wep, Sherry oubdbier, umber doodle and fing. the charge for which dim! Ghe aky to roust. A public table is in, somo bali for breakiast, and for dij The party sitting down together to these meale will vary to two bundred; apes from 01 advent of each of these epocbs in claimed by ap awful gong, which shakes dow frames as it reverberaves turough horribiy disturbs nervous foreig pary for ladies aud an ordinary ( ivate room the cloth could not for uny earthly consid. ration have beon laid for dinner without a huge ginss dish of aig EI iF middie of the table; and break. wou we unless the prince were a deformed beefsteak, with a great tel boss the centre, swimming m hot butter, and + With the very biackest of all possivio pepper. Dickens Among the Lowell Factory Girls. Sears rash ap jaa jor gentlemen. In our KENS. |: } ther work; Indeed, the-staire of the mil! were throngs where they dance and | strangers, not wiih shame, but pride: its’ face not The suite of rooms en the ground floo maslusended, Caoey were wil well dre th rovgh designs of shins, | turned towards tie wail, itself not taken down and | up «: military band was playing in tne hi by » wy thinking above their condi on; for I like d Amorean Eagles ou! of numo r; | Ourved, is the wuan aration of the th smalier drawing room, the centre of @ circle of com. to see the ses of socieiy careful of their | ruined houses, open to tho s, Whence through wide | United States of pany, Were the President and 018 daugh: who dress and appearance, andeven, if they please, dec». {| gaps in the wails, of raivs loom upoa the eye, as | &!! men are created @ acted ag the lady of the mansion, and a very \ sting, rated with such litte winkets as come within the com- | though the world of vice avd misery tad notiug el-e to | Creator with (ue inaliona’ graceful and accomplished iady, to. One geu'lomin Pursutt of hayyi pass of ther means, Supposing it confived within rea- | 300%; hideous tenements which take their nane from who stond among this group appeared to take upon him. sonable limits, [would always encourage this kind of | robbery aud murder; ail that is loatusome, drooping | It was m since this same Dedy had sst | soit ine functions of amamer ot the ceremonies. | s: pride, as a worthy elemne self-respect, in any por- | and decayed ts be calmly by ay 2 man, one of themselves, wilo | no othr officers or attendanta, and none Were needed, eatas which beg ei their’ demic reject, cut another's thr Tuero bo not crushed by the general feeling of the mit as good a man as any. Our \eider bas bi Jmack’s,”? ande Is w us from the bottom of the step; for the assombly reom of tue Five Point fashionabies is ap proacbed oy a descout, Shail we go in? It is bute Son Lemployed; aud should uo more be deterred from doing #0 because some wretched semale referred her (ali to @ love of ress, than I would allow my construction of the reai intent and meaning of the Sabnath to be influ. great drawing room, which I have already mea. nd tie other chambers on the ground floor, were crowded to exoess, The company was nat, in our sense of the terra, select, for it comprehended persons of very encet by any warning to the well disposed, fonnded on | moment, wag Dut & Wook to come, and another of that | many grain aud classes; nor was there aay great dis- his backslidings on that partioular day, which might em- | | Hevday! the landlady of Atmack’s thrives, A baxom | body, for doing bis duiy to those who sent bim thers— | Day of acy, auc asses; uot was there way great die anate from the rather doubtful authority of @ murderer | fa, mulatto woman, with sparkling eyes, whose head is | for claiming in @ republic the liberty and freedom of We Leen, for aught 1 know, grotesq ough, But in Newgaie, dajnsily orgameuted with a handkeroniet of many | expressing their sentiments and making known their decordin aud propriety of behavior which prevailed These giria, as Thave anid, were all well dressed, and | o lors, Nor is tho landiord much beniad her in mis | prayer—wonid bo tried, found guiliy amd have strong | were unbroveu by ane sate oF deacrecabie. tockien that purase necessarily includes extreme cleaniiness, being attired in a smart blue jacket, like a spip’s | Ceusare passed upou him by the rest, was a 8°80 | and every man, even amoug the misceilancous crowd in They had serviceable bonnets, good warm cloaks and with & ‘hick gold ring upon iis little Gnger, | Ottence inderd; tor yoars before ue had risom up and | tho hail, who were aden (ted without any ordors or showls and were not above clogs and patteng, More- nd his neck a gicaming gold watch guard, How | @&d, “Agung of milo and ferale slaves for sale, war- | tickets tol, kK on, appeared (o teal tha: he waa a part over, there were places in the mii! in wich they could | giad bets to see us! Woat will we please to call for? | ranted to breod liko cartle, inked toeach other by Won | of the Enstiustion, and was Tesponeible for xte preserving depos t these things witout Injury. and there were con- | A dance? It shail bo dono directly, sir; ‘+a regular | fetiers, wre passing now along tho open street beneath tie | 4 pecomins character, and appeared to the best a veniencea for wasning ihey were bealhy in appear- | bresk-cown."” windows of aple of Equality! Look!” But | vantage, 1 Ance, many of them remarkably 50, and had the man- | Tue corpulent black dddter, and his friend who plays | theroare many Linus ot aunters eugaced in the pursuitol |” Thar thess tors, too, whatever their station, wera happtoess, aud t alienaole rigut of ss after their bappin: the tambouriue, siainp u rased orchestra in whic! measure. Five ur six oc: sly armed, It ig the ine m4® among them to tako the fletd equipped with eat and cart whip, bers and deportment of young women—not of degraded brutes of burden. If 1 had seen in one of those mills tbut [did not, although i looked for something of this on the boarding of the sunail hh they sit and play a lively iples come upon the floor, mar- Rot without some reilacmen of intellectua! gifts, and gra the peace’ ui exercise of great of taste and appreciation to those mon who, by ites, shed new charms kod with @ sharp eve), the most lisping, mineng, | bailed by a lively youag uegro, who is the wit of the | stocks and iron x id to shoat thoir viow hallool | and acacciatious npon tho homes of their aotrymen, affected and ridiculous young creature tuat my imagine amembiy, and the ereatest dancer known, He uever Glare hee = erty), to the music of clanking | and elevat» their character In other lacde was moet 0. surgeat, I should bave thought of theeare- | leaves off mak weer faces, and 1s tho delight loody stripes, tly teatitled WP receptior Vashingion Ir Men could suse . q % h} Where sat the many legislators of coarse threats; of-| ORrnestly teatiiled be their reception of Washing’ou Ir of all the rest, woo grin from car to ear incessantly, Among the daucers are two young mulatto girls, wiih large, black, drooping eves, and head gear after the fashion of ‘he hostess, who are as shy, or fe'gn to be, as though tuey never danced before, and so ook down before thé vistiors, tia: their partners can sve nothing but the long frined tubes, But the dance commences, Every gentleman sets as long as he likes to tie onposite lady, and tue opposite Jady to Lim, and 2.1 are go long about it that the sport begins to languisn, when suddenly the live y kero dashes {n to the rescue. ‘Instuntiy the fiddler grins, aud goes at it tooth and nail; there is a new energy in the tamoo rine; new laughter in the dancers; new smiies in the Jandiady; new contidence im the landlord; new bright- Dess in the very caniies. Single shuffle, double shuilie, cut and cross-cut; snapping bis fingers, roiling bis eves, turning in bis knees, presenting the backs ot his legs in front, spinning abot on his toes and heels like nothing but the man’s ingers oa the tambourine; dancing with two left legs, two right legs, two’ wooden legs, two wire logs, two spring legs—alt sorts of legs and no logs—what 13 this to vin? And ia what walls of life, or danco of life, does mu less, mop: seen (that) and 8) look upon her, The Metropolis ef America as Viewed by Sunlight. The beautiful metropolis of America is by no means 0 clean a city as Boston, bu: many O° ite streets nave the same characteristics, except that the houses are not qnite 80 fresh colored, the sign boards are not quite so gaudy, the gilded letters not quite so golden, the bricks Dot quite $0 red, the stone uot quite +o white, the blinds and area railings not quite so green, the knobs and plates Upon the strees doors not quite so brigut and twinkling. There are many by-streets, alimost as neutral in clean colors and positive in dirty ones as by-streets in Lon- don; and there is one quarter, commonly called the Five Points, which, in respect of flith and wretchedness, may be safely backed against Seven Dials or any other part of famad St. Giles, The great promenale and thoroughfare, as most peo- ple know, is Broadway—a wide and bustling street, whieb, ‘rom the Batiery Gardens to {ts opposite termi- nation in a country roa, may be four miles long, Shall g. siatterniy, degraded, duil reverse (I have ald bave been still well pleased to Ving, my dear friend, who had reven'ly beon appointed Minister at tie court of Spain, snd who was amoug ‘hem that night, ia his sew ens for the first and jast time be/are go.ng abroad, roty betiove that in all the madness of American politics fow public men would have by» so earnestly, devotedly and a'tectionstety ca- ed, 45 this most charming writo soidom, a puolic assembly more words and blows other whea they for 4 a3 coal heavors deal upon each * their breeding? On every sido. Every session } its anecdotes of that kind, and the uctors were ail there. Did Trecogaizo in this assembly a body of men who, appiyiug themeeives ia a new worid to corrct some of the falsehoods and vices of the old, purifled the avenues to public fife, paved the dirty ways to place and power, debated and made iaws for tho common good, and had no party bat their country ? { res when I saw them turning with one ‘aint ¥ orators and officers of St, and generons and hovest impulse rownd the man o pursuits; proud in his promotion as refiectiag bac! their country; and grateful to bim with tne hearts for the store of gracefal fancies he had outamong them. Long may he d spease such treasaros: with unsparing hand; and iong may they remember him as worthily I saw in them the wheeis that move the meanest per- version of political machmery thet the wo: Despicable trickery at election %3 with public ollicers; cowardiy , with scurrilous papers Cor ns for daggers; shameful truckiin’s underbanded tan, atiacks upon opp: shields and hired to mercenary kuna that every day Sinvery in Firgining In this district, 25 in al! others where slavery sis brooding (I havo’ frequontiy heard this atmitted, even by those who aro its warnaest advocates), there iaan air of ruin and decay abroad which is tuseparablo from the system. The barns and outhouses ara mouldering they sow new crops of rain with their veo: 83, Waich are tho dragou’s tooth of yore in everythin rpness; aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in tho popular m ad, and artful suppressions of all iis good influences, Such thinys ag these, aud, in & wor honest faction in ita most do- we ) loo ever get such stimulating ap- » a's a Hotel (ateine ies aba’ bese pone cf ie, Cartton House | plauso as taundera about hist, non, having denoed, ais Praved and inost unblushing form, stared out {roi every | SNAY; the shods ar» patched aud half rooilese; thy ing Now Yorsi, and wheo we are tured of looking down | Purine of er fort, aad himsolt, too, he finishes by | °OTtG 1 see atoog thers the inteliigence and refinement, | SIAY of wood) are squalid In the iast degroe, there leaping gloriously oa the bar counter, and cailing for something to drink, with the evuckle of a million of counterfeit Jim Crows. in one inimitable soand? The wr, even in these distompered paris, is fresh after the stifling atmosphere of the houses; and now, as We omerxe Into & broader street, it blows upon us with © purer oreath, and the stars iook bright again. Here are the Tomos once more, The city watch house isa part of the building. It follows naturaily on tne sights apes ne left, Let us see that, and then to ved. upon the life below, sally forth, arm in arm, and mingle with the stream? Warm weather! The sun strikes upon our heads at this open window, as though its rays were concentrated throogh a burning glass; but the day is tm its zenith, and the season an anusual one, Was there ch & nny street as this Broadway? Tho pavement stones are polished with the tread of feet until they soine again; the red bricks of the houses might be yet 1m the dry, hot kilns; aad tne roofs of those omaibuses look as though, look of decent comfort any The migerapl» </4- tions by tho railway side; the great wild woodyards, whence the engine is supplied with fuel; the negro children rolling on the ground bofore the cabin doors, with dogs and pigs: the biped beasts of burdea slinking Past; gloom aud dejection are upon them all. In tho nogro car belonging to the train in which we made this journsy were « mother and her children, who had just beon purchased, the husband and father being left behind with their old ownvr The children cried the true, honest, patriotic heart of America? Here an: there wero drops of its blood and life, but they scarcely colored tho stream of desperate adventurers which sets tuat way for profit and for pay, It is the game of these men, and of thoir prolligate organs, to muke the strife of politics so Hlorve and brutal, and ‘so destructive of all self-respect ta worthy mea, that gensitive aud delicate minded persons shail be kept aloof, and they, and such asthey, be lett to battle out their seltisn views, ane checked. ! ou thrust your cot Wenders “| And thus this lowest of all scrambling fights ~ ey sok, and smell iice. haitquenched heen, Notat of | S€ANsE the polico ‘discplise ot the” town into | £988 02, aud thoy who in olscr couatries would, from | $2 whole way, and Mounts tat the pete oe bane omnibusew here! Half a dozen have gone by within as | such holes as these? Do mon and women So ere ee cae rae anion, reek annie: to rake lay EE vas Bes bough: theme rede a the serie alt, ood ” 4 ns lo here recoil the farthest from that deg adauuon. sy tpamBgucst : > » many minutes Plenty of Tiackuey cabs and coaches, | gaint whom no crime 13° proved, lie hero all | deplete recoil the anmong a reprassntativan Of" isi pos they ‘wero every time westoyped got down to see th gale The black in “Sinbad’s Travels,” witn one eye in the middle of his forehead, woich shone like a burning coa!, was nature’s aristocrat compared with this white gentleman, night tn perfect durkuess, surrounded by the uvisome vapors which encircle that flagging lamp you light us with, and bret ing this filthy and offensive stench! Why such indecent and disgusting dungeons as these cells would bring disgrace upon the inost despotic ompire in the world! Look at them, man—you, who see them every night, and keep the kevs. Do you see what they are? Do you know bow drains are made below the stroets, and wherein these human sewers differ, except in being aiways stagnant ? Well, he don’t know. He has had five-and-twenty young women locked up in thia very cell at ono time, and you'd bardly realize what uandsome faces there were among ’em. < In God’s name, shut tho door upon the wretched crea- ture who is in it now, and put its screen before a place quite unsurpassed in all tho vice, nogiect and deviltry of the worst old town in Furope. Are people really left all night, untried, in these black stios? Every nigat, fle watca is set at seven in the evening. The magistrate opens kis court at five im the Morning. Thats the earliest bour at which the frst prisoner can be released ; and if an officer appear axainet him be is not taken out till nine o'clock or ten, But if any one among them die in the interval, as one man did not long ago? Then ho is haifenten by the rats in an hour’s time; as that man was; and there an end. What is this intoiérablo toiling of great bells and crashing of whveis and shouting in the distance? A fire, And what that deep rod light in the opposite di- rection? Another fire. And what these charred and Diackened wails we stand before? A dwelling whore a fire has been, It was more than hinted tn an official re- port not long ago that some of thes» conflagrations wore Bot wholly accidental, and that speculation and enter- prise found @ fleid of exertion even in flames; but be this as it , there was a fire last might, there are two to-night, aud you may lay an cven wager there will be ‘at least one to-morrow. So, carrying that with us for to rl Jet us say good nigat and climb up stairs to The Tone of Philade!p! Society. My stay in Philadelphia was very short, but what I bee its society I greatly liked. Troatiug of its gene- ral characteristics, I should be di to say that it is more provincial than Boston or New York, and that there is afloat in the fair city an assumption of taste and criticisin, savoring rather of those genteel discus- sions upon the same themes, in connection with Shaks- and the musical glasses, of which we read in the “Vicar of Wakefieid.”” Photogr: of the Englishman in America. In the course of this day's journey, as on subsequent occasions, we encountered some Englisbmen (small too; xigs, poaetons, large wheelea tilbaries and private carriages, rather of a clumsy make, and not very differ. eat from the public vebicies, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement. Negro coachmen and white; in straw hats, black hais, white hats, glazed caps, for caps; in coats of drab, black, brown, green, blue, and there, in that (look while tt passes, or it’ will be too late), in suits of livery. Some southern republican that, who puts pis blacks in uniforia, and swells with Sultan pomp and power. Yonder, where that phaetoa with the well-ciipped pair of grays has stopped—stand- ing at their heads now—is a Yorkshire groom, who bas not been very long in these parts, and looks sorrowfully round for a companion pair of top-boots, which he may traverso the cisy balf a year without meeting, Heaven save the Indies, how they dress! We have seen moro colors in these tem minutes than we should have scen eisewhere in as many days. What various parasols! what rainbow silks and satins! woat pinking of thin stockings, and pinching of thin shoes, and fluttering of ribands and gilk tassels, and disp.ay of rich cloaks with gaudy hoods and liuings! The young gentlemen are fond, you see, of turniog down their sitet collars and cultivating their whiskers, expecially under the chin; but they cannot approach the ladies in their dreas or bearing, being, to say the truth, humanity of quite another sort, New York as Viewed by Gaslight—Visit to the Five Points and a Famous Dauce House— The Tombs at Midnight—Fire! Tae streets and shops are lighted now; and as tho eye travels down the tong thorougb{are (Broaa nay) dotted witn bright jets of gas, it is reminded of Oxford street or Piccadiily, Here and theie a flight of broad stone cellar siep» appear, and a painted lamp directs you to the bowl- ing saloon or ten pin alley; ten pins being a zame of mingled chance and skill, invented wh the Legislature parsed an act forbidding nine pina At other downward flights of steps are other lamps, marking the whereabout of oyster cellars—pleasant retreats, say I, mot only by reason their wonderful cookery of oysters, preiy nigh as large as choose ptates (or for thy dear sake, heartiest of Greek professors!) but because of ail kinds of eaters of fish, or lest, or fowl, in these iatitudes, che swallower of oys- tors alone are not gregarious; but subduing themseives, 4s it were, to the nature of wiat ‘hey work in, and copy- ing the coyness of the thing tuey cat, do sit apart in curiained boxes, and consort by twos, not by two hun. ple ip both houses, and among all parties, some men of high character and great abilities, Eneed not sey. The foremost among these politicians who are known in Europe, have been already doscribed, and I see no reason to depart from the rule I have laid down for my guidance, of abstaining from al! mention of individuals, It will be sufficient to add, that to the most favorable accounts that have been written of them I more than tully and most heartily subscribe; and that personal tercourse and free communication have brod within me, mot the result predicted in the yory doubtful proverb, but increased admiration and respect, They are striking mean to look at, bard to deceive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in ure of eye and gesture, Atnericans in strong and gen erous impulse, and they as well represent the honor and wisdom of their couviry at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court susiains its highest acter abroad. visited both houses nearly every day during my stay in Washington. On my initiatory vist to the House of Roprosentatives, they divided against a decision of the chair; but the chair won. ihe second time I went, the member who was speaking, beimg interrupted by o jaugti, mimicked it, ag one child would in quarrelling with another, and added, “tnt be would make honorable geatiemen opposite sing ont a litt!e more on the other side of their mouths prese: “Aap But interraptions are Tare, the speaker being usually heard in silence, ‘here are more quarrels than with 08, and moro threatonings than geniiemen are accustom to exchange in any civilized society of w we bave record; but farmyard imitations have uot as yet been imported from tho Par- Hament of the United Kingdom, The feature in oratory which appoars to be ihe most practised and most relished is the constant repetition of the samo idea or shadow of an idea in fresh words; and the inquiry out of doors fs not, {What did he gay?’ but “How long did he speak?” hese, however, are but enlargements of a principle which prevails elsewhere, The Senate is a dignified and decorous body, and its inys are conducted with much gravity and order. th houses are handsomely carpeted; but the state to which these carpets are reduced by the universal gard of the sptttoon , with which every honorabio ber is accommodated, and the extraordinary improve. Ments on the patiern which are squirted and dabbled upon it in ry direction, do not admit of being de- scribed. I will merely observe that I strongly recom- mend ail straugers noi to look at the floor; and if they happen to drop anything, though it be their purse, not to pick it up with un ungloved hand on any account. it ig somewhat remarkabie, too, at first, to say the least, to see 80 many honorable members with swelled Manners at Ment. aaid my opposite neighbor, handing @ dish of potatres, broken op in milk and butter, ‘will you try some of these fixings ??” There are few words which perform such various duties as this word ‘fx.’ It 43 the cxleb quotem ot the Américan vocabulary. You call upon a gentleman in a country town, and his help informs you that he is “ix. ing himsei(’’ Just now, but will be dowa directly, by which you are to understand that be is dressing. You inquire on board a steamboat of a fellow passenger wh °- ther breakfast will be ready soon, and he telis you he ‘hould think so, for when he was last below they were ing the tables,” in other words, faving the cloth, You beg a portor to collect your luggage, and he eutreats you not to be uneasy, ‘or he'll “fix it presentiy;” and if You complain of ind sposition, you aro advised :o have re- cours) (o Doctor so and so, who will ‘tix you” in no time. One night I ordered a bottie of muted wine at a hovel where I was stayjoy, and waited a long time for it; at Jeagth it was put upon the table, wth an apylogy (rom the landlord that he feared it wasn’t ‘fixed properiy.”” And I recollect once, at a stago coach dincer, overiear- ing @ very stern gentieman demand of a waiter who pro- sented him with a plate of underto “whether he called that {izing God A’mnighty An Irate Mississippian on a Pennsylvania Canal Passenger Boat. “This may suit you, this may, bat it don’t sult me. This may be all very wetl with Down Easters and men of Boston raising, but it won't suit my flzure, no how; and no tso ways about that; and éoltell you. Now, I'm from the brown forests of the Mississipol, 1 am, and when the sun shines on me, it does sbine—a little. I don’t glimmor where I live, the sup don’t. No, brown forester, { am. I There are no smooth roast beel, "s vi tles?)? ton raising like this, [ am giad of it, but I'm none of th raising nor of that breed. No, This company want little fixing, it does. I’m the wrong sort of man for 'em, Tam. They won't like ine, they won't. This is piling of it up a little (oo mountainous, this ia." At the end of every one of these short sentences ho turned upon ii!s heel, and walked the othor way. checking bim soit abruptly when @e had Muished another short sentencs and turning back again. . It is impossibio or me to say what terrific meanin, was hidden in tho words of this brown fo ester, but s. But how quiet the streets are! Are there no itinerant ‘ands; po wind or stringed iustruments? No, not one. By day, aro there no Puuches, Fantoccinis, dancing ‘con: b farmers, perhaps, or country pubiicaus at bome) who | faces; and it is scarcely less remarkab!o to discover that | know that the other Passengers looked on in a sort of pea “ait ra iy gers Nigh vn were settled in America and wero travelling on their | this appearanco is caused by the quantity of tobacco they | admiring horror, and that presentlythe boat was put barrel organ and a dancing monkey —¥) vo by nature, | OWHallairs. OF ail grades and kinds of ten that josile | contrive to stow withia the hollow of the chook. It is | back to wharf, and as many of the Pioneers as coud but fast fading mto a dull, inmpish monkey, of the | °2@ 1a the public conveyances of tho States, these aro | etrange enough, tov, to seo an honorable geatleman leaa- | be coaxed or builiod into gu ng away were xot rid of. Utiitvarian sebool, Beyond that, nothing ively; ‘no, not the most intolerable and the most insufferable J ing back in his tilted chair, with his legs ont he desk be- When we started nsome of the bulgest spirits on go much as a white movee in a twirling cage, companions, United to every disagreeable character- [ foro him, shaping a convenient “plug” with bis penknife, | board made bold to say to the obvious vecasion of this Are there no amusements? Yes, There isaleeturo | is that the worst kind of American travoliers pos- | and when ‘t is quite ready for use shooting the old one improvement in our prospects, “Much obiiged to you, room actoss ‘he way, from whmh that glare of light sesa, these countrymen of ours display an | from bis mouth, as from a pop gun, and clapping the new | sir;” whereunto the brown forester (waving Lis hand ceeds, and there may be evening service for the ladies J7S0UNt of insolent’ conceit and cool assump- | one in its place, and stil! walking npaud down as before) replied, “No tion of superiority quite monstrous to behold, In tho coarse familii ity of their approach, and the effroutery of their inquisitiveness (which they are tn youan’t You're none o’ my raising utsolves, you may. You may act for Visit to the White House=Tho President and Thave paied oat the way. Down His Visitors—A Levee Described. thrice a week, or oftener. For the young gentlemen, there is the counting house, the store, the barroom; the ra and Jobnay Cakes can iollow if thay pie r! Gilly Wal ie 1hO elline meet belmersur paw great haste to assert, us if they panted to revenge them- The President’s mansion is more like an English club. an’t a Johnny Cake, Zas't. Tam (rom the brown ‘or sts ing lumps of ice, and to’ the cool pro of the | S83 upon the decent olt restraints of tome), thay | house, bo:h within aad without, than any otver kind of Uissi*Kippl, / auw’—-and 30 on, as before, He w: pounded bite, as, 'in the process of mixing, they aro | SY'PASS any native specitnons that cane within my | establishinent with which I can comparo it, The orna | unanimously vored one of tha tables for lis poured from glass to glass! No amusements? What | "¢ Of observation; and I oftea grew so paiviote | Men/al ground around it has been laid out in garden | hoq at aiht—there is a great tor are these suckers of cigars aud swalowers of strong | W200 1 saw and heard them that I would cheoriully | Walks; they ara pretty and a:rorabie to the ave, (uough tablos—in consideration of bis public services, drinks, whose hais and’ logs we seo in every poss bie | B&¥e Submiited to w reasonable Sue if 1 could bave |. they bave that uucomfurtable air of havi and he bad the warmest curser by the stove made yesterday which is far from favorable to play of such beauties. ly (rst visit to this house wagon the morning after my arrival, whon | was carried thither by an officlal gentleman, who was so kind as to charso himself with MY presenta:ion to the Iresident, Weentered aiargo hall, and baving twice or thrice rang a bell, whica nobody answerod, walked without further ceremony through the rooms on the ground floor, 4s divers other geatiomen (mostiv with their hats on and their hands im their pockets) were doing vory leisurely. Some of these had ladies with them, to whom tuey were showing tho premises, others were lounging on the chairs and sofas; others, in a perfect state of exhaustion froma listivssmess, were yawning drearily, The greater givea any other couotry in (he woole world the honor of claming them for its chiidren, The Tobacco Chewing Nuisance. As Wasbington may be calied the headquarters of tobacco-tincwured suliva, the time is como when | must confess, without any disguise, tuat the prevalence of those two odious practices of chewing and expecto- Tating began about this time to be anything but agree- abo, and soon became most offensive and sicken- ing. Im all the pubj laces of America this fithy custom is recogaot fn the courts of law the judge hag bis spittoon, the crier bis, the witness his, aad the prisoner his; while the jurymea and speciators are provided for, a8 so may men who, in the course of Sarouguont the rest of the journey. But} never couid variety of twist, doing, but amusing themselves? What are the fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawiing down tne street, and which are kept filed with- in, what are they but amusements? Not vapid water- ish amuzomenis, but good strong siulf; doa abus aad biackguard uames; pulling ‘off private houses, as the Halting Devil gid tn 3; tpg and pandering for all degrees of viclous tast gerging with coined lies puting to every wan Vilest motves ; from the stabbed and prow traie body politic every Semiraian of clear conscience and good deeds; and setting on, with yell and whistie and the clapping of toul hands, the v.lest vermin aad fiud out tua: he aid anything except sit there; nor did Thear bin epeak again ualil, im the midst of the busile aad turmoil! of gotting the luggace ashore in the dark at Pitsbure! stambled over bite as he «at smoking a cigar steps, and heard him mutiering to gimsel , laugh of defiance, “I ain't a Johnny ‘ake, from the brown forests of tne M.-siseippi, damme!” T rn inclined to argue trom this, that ‘i no er loft olf saying so; but I could not make aildavit of that part of the story, !f required to do so by my Queea aal country. Feeding ou Board an Obio River Steamer. We aro to be on board the Messeuser tavee du the wors: birds of prey. No amusements! nature, must desire to spit incessantiy. Inthe pospitals | portion of this assem were rather aesertin: their | riving at Ciocimusti (barring accident:) on Lot us go on agan; and passing this wilderness of a | the students of modicine aro requested, by notices upon supremacy than doit oything olse, gs ‘ey hadno | morning. There are threo meals a day—breakfa:t hotel with stores about its bas, like some cvntinental | the li, 10 eject their tobacco juice inte the boxes pro- | particular business there, that anybody Knew of Afew | at seven, dinner at balf-past twelve, supper about theatre, or the London Opera House sbora of 13 culon- uade, plunge into the Fiw Points, But it is needful, first, tuat we take as our escort these two heads of the poliee, whom you would know for sharp aud weil train- ‘ad otiicers if you met thom in the GreatDesert, So true it is that certain pursuits, wherever carried on, will stamp men with toe game character, The-o two might have be m begotten, born anu bred im Bow street. vided for that purpose, aud not to discolor the stairs. In public baiidiags visitors are implored, through the sane agency, to squirt tue essence of their quids, or “pings,” as'I have beard them called by gontlemen learned in this kind of swoetmeat, into the national spittoons, and not avout the bases of the marble columas, But in sorme parts this custom Is Msopurabiy mixed up with every meal avd moraiog cali, aad with ail the six, At each thore are a great many small dishes and plates upon the table, with very iictie im them; so that asihorrh thers is every appearaace ot @ mighty “spread,” <here is seldom really more than a joint, except for those who faacy siicos of beet Toot, shreds of dried boe!, complicated euiaugtomenty of yellow pickle, maize, Indian cora, apple sauce and pumpkin. were clos ly eyemg the movabies, as if to mak» sure that tho President (who was far from popular) hud not mado away with any of the farniture, or sold the fixtures for his privat benefit. After glancing at these loungers, who were scattered over a pretiy drawing room opening tipon # terrace which commanded a beautiful prospect of the river and the adjacent country, and who wero saunteriag, too, We have seen no beggars in tho strects by night or | transactions of soctal ilie, The Stranger woo follow: about a state room called the Easiera drawing Some peop fa: all these little daintios together day; butof oiher kind of stroiera, pienty. Poverty, | the track I took myself will (ind it in its full oloom and room, We woot up stairs into another chamber where | (and sweet preverves besides), by way of relish to (heir wretonedness and vive ure rife enough where we are go. glory, luxurinot \p ail its alarming reckless: at Wash-' | were certain vistors walting for audiences. Ai sight of | roast ply. They are xe: My those dyspeptic adies aud ing now, ington, And let him not persuade biuself (as I once | my conductor, a black im.plain clothes and yellow siip- | g¢a lomea who eat unheard of quantitios of hut cora This is the ; these narrow div to the | did, to my shamo) that previous tourists have exag- | pers, who was gliding novselessty about aud whispering | bread (almost as good for the digestion as a kneaded pin right and left, aud reoking everywhere wivu dirt and | gerated its extent, The thine itself is aa exaggeration | im 3 in the ears of the more impatient, made @ | Custion) for brenikfast and for suppor. Tuose who do filth, Such Jives as are led hero bear the same froits here aseisewhere. The coarse and bivated faces at the doors bave counterparis at nome, aud ai! the wide word over, Debauchery has made tne very houses prema. turely old. See how the rotten beains are tuinbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem vo scowl dimly, Jike eyes that bave been hurt ia drunken fraye. Many of those pigs live here. Do they ever wouder why their masters walk uprigut in lieu of poing on ai! fours, aud why they taik instead of Grevteat So far nearly every Louse a iow tavern; aad ou the barroom walls are Colored prinis of Washington and Queen Victoria of Burland and the Ame.ican Eaule. Among tue pigeon holes that hold the boitties are pieces of plate glass and colored paper, for there is, in some taste for decoration even here And a3 seanoa frequent these bhaunis, there are maritime pictures by the dozen: bed go ocred betweeu saiiors and their la loves, portraits of William of the vaiiad and bis Bi: ed Susan; of Will Watch, the Bota Smuggler; of 68, the Pirate, and the like, on which the painied of Queen Victoria, and of Wasbington to boot, rest 1a a strauge Compauiousuip, a8 on most of the scenes of nastiness, which cannot be outdone, 1 was surprised to observe that even steady old chowers of great experieace are not always good marks men, which hag rather inclined me to doup: proficiency with tng rifle of wuich we bi inuch in England. Several gentlemen cali Wuo, in the course of conversation, frequently misser the Spitioon at tye paces; aud one (bat Le was certainly Short sighted) migiook the closed sash for the open wia- dow, at taree, Ou agotner occasion, wnen | dined out, find was siting with two ladies and some geniiewen round a fire before dinver, one of the company fell short of the ‘repiace six distinct toes. I am disposed to thiok, however, that thie was oceavioned by hos not alin. ing at that onjecs; as toere was white marble hearth before ihe fender, which was moro convenient, aad may Dave suiied Lis parpose better. The Heads of the Lawmakers at Washing- ton=The Americau Congress and Its Legise lation 1 was someti asked, in my progress throagh other places, whethor I had not beew very muck impressed by hol observe this custom, and who help themselves sev- eral (imes Metead, usually suck thew Knives aod forks radiatively until they have decded what to take noxt; thou pull them out of their mouiia, put them in the dist, belp themselves avd fail to work ngaio. At dinner there is nothing to drink upoa the table but great jigs full of coid water, Nobody anything, at auy meal, to anybody, Ail’ (bo passoagers are vore dismal, and seem to have iremondous secrota weighing on their minds. Tuere is 0 conversation, no laughter, no cheorlainess, no svciality, exco, tin epitting; and that ts dove in silent fellowabip round the store when the moal is over, Every man site down dali and lavguid, sxaliows bis fara as if breakfast, dinners and suppers ro necessitis of natare never to be coupled with recreation of enjoyment; and having boited bis food in a gloomy silence, bolts himeelf in the same state. But for these ani val observances you might supposo the whole malo portion of the company to be the melan- cuoly ghosts of departed bookkeepura who had fallen dead at (bs desk, soci ta (heir weary ait of business and calculation. Undortakers on duty would de. sprigatly bes.de hom, and a collation of fanorai-baked mena, in sign of recognition and glided off to annyunee tm. ‘We had previousiy fovked into another chamber fitted ali round with @ freat bare wooden desk or coun er, whereon lay files of newspapers, to which sundry geati men were referring. tuere Were No gach moans of oeguiling the Ume in this apartment, whic was as uae promising and tiresome av any wai ing roun in ono of our pablic establisumen's, or any physician's dining room during bis hours of cons Mation at home. there were some fifteen or twenty persons in the room, Ove, @ talh, wiry, muecuiar old mao, irom the Woat; sunburnt and swarthy; with a brown-wiite hat on his knows, aud @ giant umbreila resting between his legs; wivo sat bolt upright in his chair, frowning stow4il) atthe carp t, and twitcving the hard lines about hi mouth, ac if he bad made up bis mend to * tne President on what he bad to say, and wouldo’t bare by & grain, Axotl Kentucky farmer, six fect six in height, with uis hat ou, and his baads under his coat. taila, Who leaned against the wall and kick.d the floor With bis i as though he bad fime’s heal ander bia shoe, and were Iiters ly “killiog” fim. A tind, an oval-faced, biuions-looking tan, with sleek biack bair that are cuacted in their wondering presence, the heads of the lawuakers at Washingion, meauing ot | cropped clove, and whiskers and beard slaved down to | comparsou with theso menis, would bo @ sparkling What piace is this to wuich the squalid strect con. | their chiefe and loaders, but literally their adividuaiand | blue dota, woo sucked the he-dof @ thick stick, avd | fesuvity, ducts us? A kind of square of leprous vouses, some of | personal Leads, whoreoa tyoir hair grow, and woereby | trom time to time took it ont of his mouth, to seo bow Cincinnati Society. which are attainable ouly by wooden with- | ibe phremoloyical character of each legislator was ex- | it was getting on. A fourth did nothing but whistte, The soo! with which I mingled was lotellizont, out, What les beyond this tottertog flight of ste; that creak beneath our tread? A miserably room, yy one dim candie and destitute of all comfort, Mat whic may be hidden io @ wretched bed, Bes! pro-sed; acd I almost as often struck my quest dumb with indignant consernacion by answering, * that [ didn’t remember being at all overcome,” mast, at whatever liazard, repeat tho avowal here, 1 wii follow it up dv relating my impressions on tuis subject A fifth did nothing bat spit. temen were so very pe lator particular, and dantly upow the carpet dontia! houwmaids have high wages, or, to «peak = lodeed ail these gea- ering and ene wed thett at I take it ft courteous and agreeabis, Tho inhabitants of Cinctuoad aro proud of their city, aa one of the most interest.ug in America, and with reason; for beautiful aud thriving as itia now, and Containing, a8 (t dos, a population of ted ave rgetic in this jors 80 aban- grantod tho sits ® wan; K | Afly thousaad soulk, but two-and-ffiy years havo paseod in bis hands “What ails that man!’ asea the foremost | in as {ew words as possible :— more geateeliy, an ample amount of “crmpensaiion.” | ! . - os ike oflcer, | “Fever,"" he sullenly replies, withow looking | Iu the drat placs—it may be from somo imperfect de- | which is the Ainsr-can word for salary, 1a ihe cave of ail | NAP wineO, ‘be grodnd on whic It ctaads (vous at up. Conceive the fancies of a fevered brain in such a | velopment of my orgau of veueration—I do not remem. public servants, ciuzeus were but a baodfal of dwollers in scattered log buts apon the river's chore. by ‘The Morals of “Smart” Dealing. Another prominent feature is the love of ‘mart’ piaeo as this! . Ascend these pitch dark stairs, heedful of a false footing on tho tremuling boards, and grope your way with me into thie woitish den, where neither ray of ber baying ever faiuted away, of having even been moved (0 ars of Joya) pride ab sight of any legislative body. I have borue toe house of Commons like a man, and have yielded to bo weakness, bat slumber, ia we We had not waited in this room many minutes before the black messeugor returned aud conducted us oto another of emalic: dimeusions, wi at a bumpess-like table, covered will payers, #as the Presideut fume, ght nor breath of air appears to come. A negro iad, | House of Lords. have seen elections tor boroagh | Ho looked somewhat woen’ and anxious, and woll be | dealing, which gilda over many a ewindioc and gross jartied from his eleep by the oificgr's volce—ne knows | and county, and have never been impelled (uo mater | might, being at war with everybody; but the expr: breach uf trost; many a defaication, public nad privae; it well—bat comforted by tis assurance that be hes not | wach varty won) to damage my ha: by throwing it up | ot uis face was mid and Pleasant, aod bis and epables many a knave (0 hoid his head u come on eiciousiy beatirs himself to h into she aif In tridinph, or to crack my voice by shout- | remarkably anatfoted, yontiemaniy and agreeavic. I | best, who weil deservas a baltor, though it hay hot been for ing forth any reference to our glorious constiatiwo, tho ght that ia bis whole carriage and demeanor be be- | wiihout its retnbative operauios, for this smariness as the nobie purity of owe independent voters, or thi Oaine DS station singularly well, done more in fow years to impair the publo credit impeachable integrity of our independent members Having Withs.o01 suca strong abiacks ~ yd my fortiude it ts possible thee T may be of acold and insensibie temperameai, amonoting to tem in such matiers; and thorefure my Laprossions of the live pillars of tne Being advised (at who sensible of the repab- Micaa Quart admit.od of a travelier, ike myself, decuaing, ‘WitooGt any impropriety, a@ tavitadon te dinner, which did not reso me anti 1 hed oomolided my srrange mente for leaving Wasvington some days befure tuat to and to cripple the pudiio resources than dull hones: t¥, however rev, you would be doe Capitol at Washington must be recodved with such graims | which it referred, 1 only returned te this house once. It | by," but ato considered with reference to the! of allowance as this free confession may seem to do- As OM the Occasion Of one Of those assemblies | ness, I recollect, on botm cecasieus of our passing mand, ich are held oa certain nights bevwoen ihe hours of | ili-tated Cairo on the Migsagippl, remarking on the like the countess repet: Dial eee in this public body an sssomt of mon | nine and tweire o'ci are calied, ratber oddly, | eflects such gross doceite mast have when they ex- face in some strange mirror, Dound toxoiuer in the sacred ames of itberty and [ree- | jevoos, pioded, in genorating & want of ¢onfidence abroad Mount up these ocher stairs with no less caution i xo aseorting the chaste dignicy of those tw: (there are traps and pitfalls here for those who are not dom, and #0 a y I went, with my wifo, at abont ten. There was @ Boddesers, 19 ail tocir discussions, to exalt at once the prevty dense crowd of carriages and people in the court and diecouragi T was given 80 Woll escorted a# Oursolves) Into the hosetop; whore ernal priveiplee to whieh thi mes aro given, and | yard, and eo far a2 I could make out tuere were no very | which a doal of money had been mado, and thet ie the bare beams aud rafters moet overhead, and caim | their own char and the character of tweir coun. | clear regulasions for the taking up or setting down of | smartest featuro was that they forgot these things night looks down through the crevices in the roof, men, ta the adwiring eyes of the whole world? | company, There wore certainly no policemen to soothe | abroad in a ehort time and speculated agala as Open the door of one of these cramped hutches fuli of it was bute sk einom an aged, oer & | martied horses, situer by sawing at thew bridles or ‘aa ovor, following dintogue I bave held a sleeping negroes. Pah! fhey hav Jasting honor to the land that gave bim virth, who has | fourishiog trun:heons in their eyes; and I am r to | hundred times:—Is it not @ very disgraceful circum. done good service to his country, ag his f id, | make that 00 inoffensive persons wore knocked | mance that such a man aa So-and-so should be requiring ‘and who will be reme.nbered scores upon scores of years | violently on the head or poked in their backs or | @ large by the My Peed sud odious after the worma brod iu ite corra; Tey ‘Of brought tom standetiti pay Ser. os spon mh ea perore, ine very peer Bu yo wae cmrenoe or on no dein paving dared to asgort ihe iaramy of that | feacked'the porch in ia tara, ies for 1ts accursed mercnandise men and Shouting, back! ‘and their unborn children, Yeo, pal in the same city all the while aud glazed, up for gonerpl Cd —— an Newspapers f the Americ: Presa. 2 erected Bust, Wost, iand masera taught by egos may thrive, chur omay be df ie the newspaper pi At avject ataie hich moral improves is hopeless, Year by year it must <; yoar by year the tono of pubiie feeling jowa; year by year the Congresa ant ut become ef leas acc sunt beiore all decens year by yoar the memory of the great fathers Qf a Rev oo tmust be outraged mora aad more ig sho bad Life of their degenerate child, Among the herd of journals which are published ia the States, hore are some, the read reely need be told, of erand credit, From personal mtercourse With accotplel at gontiemen connected with publi¢ne fons of this class L have derived bota pleasure aud prodt, But the uamo of these is tew, and of the otherd legion; and tie intlue counteract the mortal p Among mn of the bad, the gentry of America; among the woll ind formed and moderate; in the learned pro/ese atthe bar and on the beuch, thera ta, as there can be, batond opinion in reference to the vicious cusracter of these in‘amous journals, It is sometimes coutenced—I will ely, for if t# natural to seoc excuses fod that thete influe.ce ia not so visitor would suppose. J must be pardone! (or sayt that there is no warrant for this plea, and that eve: fact and cxcumstance tends directiy to the epposite conclusion, When any man, of avy grade of desert in intellect on charac.er, can clitad to any pablie distinc ion, no matter What, in’ America, without frst grovelling down upon the earth, and bending the kave before thiv monster of depraviiy ; when any private excellence is sate from ft d whon any social conudence is left unbroken it, or any tie of social de the least regard; when any man in frosdom of opinion, and presumes aad speak for himself, without thumb! for ks raimpans igav tlerly luacbes and pli who most acutely fool ite t it casts upon the bation, ttoench other, dare to set t openly, iu (ves ght of ail men; then, J ts influence is tes-oni ard men are re tas rant nfam: and the repr most denounce upon aad cras! will believe u turning tot manly sen, But that press by its evil eye in every house, wnt its block nand In evel appointment im the State, f av ttoa Ye man; while, with ri stocl trade, it is the standar 28 cl who must flod their readi they will not read at all; so loug 1 its ® upon wl country’s head, and go lony musi th works pluindy visible in the reput!i To those who are aecusioined to ng Englis! Journa’s, or to the respeerapi jo ae cont’nent of Europe; to those Who are ac velomod to anythin else 1m print and paper, it would pos bie, withou amt of extract for whic) | have seituer space now t right drench oar to af numbers ro les bim American Peopk 4 for the Amem tou, to convey an adoq ‘hese publications are to be foun form bis own opinion, Characteristics of the It would be well, there can bo n J, a ican poople, as awhole, if they loved tio real less the nes somewhat mor Ice would bo well if the were grenter encouragement to 6 of heart a gay oty, aud a wider cultivation of sveaaviful, wit out beng emiaently and divs But then, twink the general remonstriuc r) @ new count try,”” woich is so often advance! as au excuse for di fects which are quite anjust only tho slow growth of au oid ably urged, aut T yet hope vo he other national umitsement in tu newspaper politics, Tuey certaimty aro not a bumorous 5 and thet: temperament always unpressed a ofa d and gioomy charactor. In shrowdaoss nark aad cortain cast iron quaintness the Yao people Now Enyiand, unquestionably take ‘he leat, as they d@ in most oiher evidences ot ine! Gatin wave} r ri Unit lates Desid i ling about, out of the large cities, n° { Lave remarked former paris of this volume, i quite oppressed by the prevailing seriousness and me's y air of bus! neag, Which was 80 genera aud uoverying tha’ at new town 1 came to L seemed to uo very people whom I nad left behiad tt t Such de fects as aro porceptible ta the mations oer) seem mo to be reforable, ina great d@yroo, (0 this cams which has generated a duil, suilea | nce in com awages, and rejected the graces of | / eserving of Attention, There 1s no doabs tha: "ash n5’on, who w always most scrupatous and exac ints of cered mony, percoived the tendency iow tais mi oven in bis time, and did fie utmos: to correct it, ’ Tcanuot with other write 4 taese subject that the prevalence of various forms of dasemt Ant is ia any way attrio tab’c to (9 non-existence, there, of an established chareh; iniood, 1 think the temper of the people, if it admied of such an imstitae tion being founded among them, would lead them to dosort it, asa matter of course, noreiy becunse tt established. But, supposing it io «xist, I doubt probabie etlicacy ib auminoning the wandering sheep one great fold, simply because of the jm:nense amount of dissent wiicu prevails at bois; aad because I do nol find in America any one form of religiou wth which we in Europe, or even in England, are anicquaiuted, Dis- senters resort thither i ;rea: nusabers, as o\her people do, simply becauso it ig a land of resort: and great sett them are founded, because ground can be pure towns and villages reared, wherd thore were none of the human creation before, But even the Shakers from land; o'r country 18 not unkoown to hr, Josepl omit», tae apovuo of Mormonisia, or bie bonigh diacipies; Lhive betield religio.s scenes mysoif in som of our populous towafwhich cap ¥ yo surpassé by an Ainerican camp meeting, and | oo uot aware that any instauco of superstitions impos.are oa the une hand and superstiioas cred silty ov tue other bas bad its origin tu tie United States, wie we caunot moré than paraliet by toe preeed: Mire, cote, Mary Tolts, the rabbit breeder, or @ Me Tu tf Cantere bury, which jacter case aro-e some time a'ier tbe darks ages had pagsed away, The repubieao institutions of America undoubted! lead the people to assert thoir self respect and the! equality ; bal a traveler is bound |o b rose imstfttfe Mons to bis mind and not hastty tr ‘ho near ep. Proazh of a class of strangers wuo # © would Ke aloof, This cuaracteristic, when it tinetured wit no foolivt pride and stopped «lort of uo Lonest service, never offeuded ms. aad I very «sito, i ever, expert+ enced its rude or unbecoming dis; tay. Remarks on ti Sanitary - America. Thero is but one ether head oa wuich I wich to remark, and (hat ias reference to the publ 80 vast acountry, where tnero are t lions of acres of land yet unsertled ‘on every rood of which vegetable dev aly taking place; where there are Fo « and suct opposite varieties male, ial to be a gre ount of sickness a cerain veasons. Bul 1 may veniure to say, after conversing sith many memes bor. of the medical profession io America, tone Tar not Stogular in the opinion that much of the 4} Woes prevail wight be avoided, if a ew com tons were observed. Greater means 0 » ess ure indispensable to thi- eud swailowing large quantities of ani day, and rushing back to sedentary pursuis meai, must be changed; the gentler sex must go morq wisely 1 and take more healthy oxerc and i latter c.ause the males must bo inctud in public iustitutions, and throagioat tne whote of ever town and city, the eysiem of ventilatin ani drainages ead removal of impurities, requires to be thorouglx re vised, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF AN EX-A\MY OFFICER, [From the Rochestor Democra’, Sept, 12, This community was terriblo shocked iast ing by a rumor that Mejor Dan el Sharp, lao of the One Hun dred and Fifth Now York Volunteers, tad shot humeoil at the residence, of his parents, on Lake avenue, Majos Sharp came to ton about seven o'clock, after tne faroily had risen from the table. While he was atthe tabie Gis motberareat to another part of the room t¢ higbta lamp, aud while her back was turned tue expior sion of a pistol 3 heard, and on turnteg she saw het son fail to the floor. examination i was found be was sot im the left breast, in tow rogion of the hearty ‘The pistol lay on the floor. As soon a8 possible the and Condition of offer a nh. pO: there canuot ¢ to hi tho’ © imsoll after a time, and was abie to converse with avout bim, Ho did not give Any explanation cune ang tho Occarrence, and Wo do not leara that a questions were arked on that puint, It is not sup; that he can recover, as the wouod te in vital part, and the surgeon in charge wae Abie to give no encourage mont, but it i#, nevertheless, possible that he may sure vive. These the facts which we are abie to supe ply with regard to this sad travedy at present, Major sharp i a son of Mr. Dagiel Sharp, well kno as a railroad end eanal contractor. He iy avout thirty years of age. and had been for some tine past Upon & coutract entered into by his father for the struction of a railroad between Pitta ry and Erie, ty Pennsylvania. Ho has a wife aud ebild in Lock; When the reboltion broke out he went to the feld wi the Thirteenth New York volunteers, and wae ine eolos fergoant of that regimeut in the frat butle of Bull Runs He distinguished himaef by bis bravery and conte of danger in that fight, Bolng a three months’ man he Was m stered out he expiration of bis of ser om, and came home ty easet to Teccuiting organize ing the Ope Hundred and Fifth Now York volunteers, with whten ho agata went to the field. He rose to the rank Of major, aud served with galiantry in -everal engage monte, receiving @ severe Wound on one occasion. Since leaving the service Major Sharp ha been in employ meat o: hia father on Various contracts taken the tateor, Ho has been in this city for iwo or three weeks pastena visit, Hig wife and cniid are port, —__., DEFALCATION IW GEORGIA, From the Sa jeraid, . 10 The ther top 4 of conversatine eave way Nnanctai circles yesterday was ihe nows of the *uddea dicappearance on Satitday of denen al rrathera, who Log y tf srratbers held io funds belonging