Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-09-22

all the travel between this town ana Ne"
York-now we have five Steam Boats and
dozen packets employed in the same business
II won't do--somcbody will be ruined-therr
will be " sad times ameng the dry bones," an
Elder Cornell-Heaven rest his sou--used to
tell his congregation, and have not doubt,
that many man now engaged IA the business,
will rue the day, that he embarked in such an
cnterprise "My word for ii" she continued
" this competition will not answer the exigen-
cies Of the times! There is the Washington,
commanded by Captain Bunker tlie older, tho
| Fulton, by Robert the yodnger, the Connecti-
cut, by our townsman, Captain William Com.
stock, and the Long Branch by the excellent
Captain Mather, and yet the extrayagancc
, OF the age says that we must have another
! boat and so the Chapceor Livingston is put
in rcqusition "a fifth is added 10 the list.
Heaven protect us, what shall we come to!''
And then again, she added, 80 these boats arc
running race of competition, and strive to
| destroy each oiner. Such things will not do
how NY first husband would be astonished,
and how lie would grieve, if lie were only hero
to witness the folly Of the times!'
Aunt Hannah, though she is goodiy ma
! tron, and one of the elect, knows. but little
about the business Of the age, and in making
her estimates, makes but little allowance for
the increase OF population, and the increase
and facility oftrayel When she was young
woman, and listened to the sighlngs ani COO
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known; the population of the country was
sparsc-stage Coaches had hardly been in
troducod. and the travel of the country was
performed on horseback, or in cart A
Journey from this town to Boston, was cons'd-
cred equal to pilgrimage to Mecca, and eie
il was undertaken, deal Of ceremony was
had; the intended Journey was made known
10 tho whole neighborhood, some days before
il was commenced and the friends and neigh
bo.s were on the tip-toe Of anxiety, to know
, the cause oft, and 10 ascertain how the en-
pondiiurcs, incident 10 such an undertaking
could bo dofraycd Preparatory to the Jour-
; nry, the old roam marc, was taken from inc
field where the poor old creature had almost
; "ntcsses' of btan were administered TO her
appetite; ncw shoes were placed upon her
shoeless hoofs tho traveller made hN wills
the parson was requested TO remember him in
his prayers, and when all things woe ready,
tho husband, dressed in blue coat, seal skin
vest and leather iuexp,cssibles, mounted tho
y back OF the roam mare; and the wife, with an
d armfil Of love, clad in lnsey woolsey petit
g coat, q cooler, and red cloak, seated herself
:. snugly on the pilliop, behind her " bosom's
u lord and MASTER" and away trottcd tho roam
II mare with her burthen for Boston. wallet,
u containing goodly number of rye dough-nuts,
% pound o. two Of cheese, and Jug OF
} sritrhel," afforded hearty rcpas', as they
D journcycd along the road; and N the 81 pace Of
> two or three weeks, the pgrins returned TO
" their homes, TO tho parson and his flock, md
/ by the au,umnnl firc-sido, told o. the wonders
= they had seen in Boston city, cracked their
Jokes, and told many " rl,acher."
Such was the plain and uncsicntafous man
ncr, in which oar ancestors used 10 perform
their journeys. Rat times are altered, the fa-
,iltcs for travelling have increased with tho
population of tie ccuairy, and Journey Ia
Boston, OF even 20 Washington, is looked upon
IS mcro ride, and is now periorncd in haIf
the time, that waa formerly exhausted in tray-
cling 20 the Literary Emporium"
Steam Boats and Stages are at all times "a
y be had, and a traveller, after having ordered
the porter to take his trunk from the frank
Z" liz House to the &haff, jumps aboard Of a
v Steam Bout, dincs in New-Yort. takes ,ca in
" Philadelphia, dances eotillion at Xaehing-
u ton, osles the ladies' ofthc Federal Street The
y atrc, fourishcs at the Exchange, and rt, ms
," absence. All this s done, at half the cxpe,ee
" that Journey one fourth Of the distance, wss
:. fornely performed; and those who at an CARL
or period, viewed ten mile Journey as mons
sirous undertaking, can scarcely realize the
" rcoh,y Of the present expeditions moto ii
travelling.
-" Ny rdiichcr, .Ny P0tcacc." This
- expression, has by Various writers and lcxi-
- cographcts, been laid down as " ldnkcc-
ed ism." originating in the id!om Of hounvcrsal
Yankee nation. 70 prove the iallscy ftt,
'o assumption, we viii pause for moment, III
m ri,c what DIR. Robinson calls suCc.nct his
"a tory of the rise aud progress OF the expression.
In tho days Of Iia .dcdnute, there dsolt ou
the Banks OF the Avon, an old lady who had a
daughter Patience, IN whose naiLe shp even
,,, affirmed TO all her assertions, and when brouph h,