Eastern Correspondence

Buston Misa., July 20. 1847. ' iwknd Fostkr : - The flood of letters that Irnve issucd from the Corps liditorial of the Eat ön ihe recent tour to and from the Chicago Convention, gracing the columns of nlmost every daily or weelily published in our Atlantic citie. for weeks past, with vivid descriptions of every scène of iMerest, from ihe banks of' the Hudson to Ihe shores of Lake Michigan, (nnd not excepting the wondrous nnd truly far famed scènes of Lake Superior and the Mineral regional would sefm to impose upon you Western Editors an obligation to return some of ;he many favo-s thus received at hands of your Eastern brethren. Thia obligation, should aPY e.xist, I shal! not at a!l attempt to discha. ge wbile I thus address you, but simply as a business man, in the midst of business sceües, in this ever busy ciiy, drop a few thoughis that may or tnny not be interesting to your readers. On my recent joun:eyings from the West and passing from ciiy to city, among the sad evidences of the demoralizing influences which this shamefuj war in which our Nation is engaged must have upon the public raind, I was strjck to see placarded in the windows of many of the leading book store?, pictorial representations of the horrid murderous scènes of Palo Alto, Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo &c. And is it possible thought I, thai these are the scènes with which the eye of our youth is to become familiar, and to which they are to be pointed with e.xultation as descriptive of their country 's glory t and by the contemolation of which their young hearts are to be fired with enthusiasm to emulate the deeds ofthoseengag n thm, as deeds not only of heroic valor, but pra?eworthy patriotism? These aa scènes worthy of renicmbrance and to command the patriotic veneration of this free people, beside the soul touching remembrances of such scènes a3 Lexington, Monmouth or Bunker Hill ! 0!:"v degenerated country ! How must all heaven weep at such perversión ? to see this great and prosperous Nation turning aside from the true path of glory - the cultivaüon of peace, of love and good wilt towards all men, and becoming intoxicated with the false glnre of scènes which would better characterise the fiends of Satan than the inhahitants of a world redeemed by the blood of Christ, and blessed with tho influences of that gospel which breat'ies the spirit of Peace on Earth and good will toward men. As soon would I lead my boy to contémplate with approbation the hellish scènes of the Pit beneath ; where, with unrestrained malevolence all the dark passions of the human soul - wrath, malice, murder and revenge are let loose, as to lead him to the bloody fields of Mexico, cursed and made gory by the deeds of our guiliy Nation to learn to emulate them. Methinks nothing short of a direct commission from the Almighty could begin to justify the prosecution of such a war, and the enactment of such scènes as have electrified the hearts of this Nation the past year, and breathed into so large a mass of our people the bloody spirit of the Hyena. And then, when so far from finding such a warrant either in his word or providente we know, and are compelled to admit, that it is a war concieved and prosecuted for the basest of purposes - purposes that it were the height of mad presumption to claim that a singl attribu e of his could justify; slrengtheningthebondsand extending the bounds of Human Slavery. Oh! how should a sense of guüt and shame mantle our cheeks, and deep grief rather than blind mad exultation mark our conduct at the remembrance of such victories 1 and yet it was over them that as a great nation we have been called to rejoice - that the noise of our cannon has resounded from one end of the land to the othe-, the wild shoutof joy been heard amongst all ranks of our citizens, and (Oh, shameful perversión,) the bells of our Christian Churches rang the merry peal. How surprising that multitudes who have denounced that war aswicked, unjustifiable, yea disgraceful to us as a Nation, have yet joined in all these demonstrations of wild thoughtIess exultation over its success. Thai members of the dominant politicnl par:y, w'iose folly and wickedness have plunged us into it, should so act, were not surprising, we might expect them to do it, if froin no higher motive than simply to cover their iniquity by the wild shout of glory, and thus seek to escape the discriminating judgment of their fellows, which, equally with their own conscience, must condemn them. And I verily believe that had they been met in the beginning of these deeds with the honest condemnation fin deed as well as wovd) of the opposing party.it wo'd not have only hastened the day of their downfall, butto c great extent hnve saved the conscience of the Nation from polutlion. But, nlas, what have we seen ? The party who oslensibly denounce the war, vicing with the party who procured and justify it in glorying over all its abominations. Alas! what a prostration before the ido] party, and the danger of trimming to the popular breeze, has the conduct of too many of the good ofour land evidenced within the past few montbs. We know ihe plea ly which ihey seek to jusiify such conduct. Palriotism! patnotism ! our glorious Country! yen, fwith too many,) right or wrong, our Country! And we know alas that l is a plea as unseemly in the lips of an honest man ns it will bc found unavniling at the bar of all searching Elernal Justice! One of the great Lions now in the City of New York is the Chinese Junk, "Keying," recently arrived lïom that far off portion of the Globe. She is ceitainly a great curiosity, and is said to be a fine specimen of the Naval or Maratime architecture of tho celestial Emp;re. She is at present attracting the visits and the gaze of thousands in that city. Notwithstanding she bears evident marks of genuine Nationaüty, yet some of the shrewd New Yorkers have dared to venture the doubt that after all it might be some yankee trick, devised for gulling them, and that the "Junk" had never enjoyed the honor of sailing in Chinese waters, and been some 300 days tossed upon the bosom of mighty oceans in her passage thitlier. But to any disposed to entertain suohdoubts, asight of the craft, nd especially of l;er crew, (some 40 of whom are regular native Chineseohould be sufficient forever to dispel them. Among the many public and private improvements of this enterprising city, I perceive the Bostoninns are folloWing the good example of their New York neighbors in that respect, and preparing to deluge their city with an abundant supply of pure and wholesome water, bro't from t'ie town of Framingham, some 30 miles distant. They are now engaged in laying the iron pipes through some of the principal streets. Those Dassing through Washington are of huge dimensions, measuring two feet in diameter, sufficient, one would suppose by looking at them, to convey water enough for the supply of a city of milüons. Spesking of these tivo cities as neighbors, they really seem such vvhen we recard the numerous faciüties for passing to anü fro between them, and the speed and ease with whicïi the jourrfey can be performed. There are now some five different daily routes, over any of which the traveler can pass in obout twelve liours time, a distance of near 300 miles. A new one recently opened by the way oi Fal! River protnises to become very popular, particularly at this season of the year, when a voyage through Long Island Sound and a short pleasant dbtance upon the broad Atlantic is to be desired rather than dreaded. I was exceedingly amused and I think not a little instructed by dropping rito Amory Hall last evening and taking an imaginary voyage on the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Missouri to New Orleans, making a brief visit to St Louis, Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez. and other smaller towns of note upon that father of waters, and on my roule stopping a moment to examine specimenes of Agriculture so interesting to humanity as some of our Southern Cotton and Sugar plantations, nd witness some of the labors of the poor Slaves under the inspecting eye and in full view of the tas master. All this I was permitted to do by witnessing the exhibit'on of "Banvard's mammoth Panorama of the Mississippi." Doubtless the largest painting in the kr.own world, painted on three miles of canvass, and embracing a view of country through which that river runs for over 1200 miles. It was truly a grand and magnificent exhibition and I would that time and rooom would allow me tu enter more fully upon a description, but they will not. - The scène commences at the mouth of the Ohio river and passing up the Mississippi to St. Lous at the mouth of the Missouri, gives you an imposing view of the scenery of the west bank of the river till you reach that place, and including a view of that city and its suburbs : then commencing again at the mouth of the Ohio it passes down the whole length of the Mississippi to New Orleans, giving a view of the scenery of the east bank of the river and adjacent country, including the towns and ciHes to which I have referred, together with specimens of the numerous craft which are continually navigating that mighty stream, from the meinest temporary float of the poor emigrant or mvoring lumberman, to the most splendid floating palaces seen upon its waters, together with an occasional specimen of animáis, wateríbwls &c, found upon its borders. The scène was nbout two hours in passipg, during which the succession of night to day, ('with moon light scènes indiscribably beautiful,) was made some four different times, corresponding to the time the traveler would besupposed lo be upon his voyage down. But 1 must close. All I can say to your readers is that if they ever come within a hundred miles of the exhibilion of this splendid work of art and representaron of some of Natu res noblest scènes, do not fuil to see it.