Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-12-01
DOMESTICK NEWS.

OHEAP TRAVELLING. Cheap enough,
and cheap do they feel who travel about
these days. One dollar and found" or
rather one dollar and lost for one can
neither keep his trunk nor. his senses.
Job must have written his third and fourth
chapters after having travelled in North
River steamboat. Only fancy four humid
red and fifty Christian men, women, brats
and bandboxes. all crammed into one boat,
putting, squalling, scolding and fighting
for their " found )" which said word, be-
ing interpreted, meaneth bread, potatoes,
pig, beef and brandy. Such crowd, in
SO small space, does away all individual
ity--a man does not know whether he is
himself or something else I" Me and the
he-goat." says Billy Lackaday," didn't
know which was which," All that a" one
dollar and found" man knows. is that he
is part of a great many-headed monster,
compared with which the Siamese boys
are nothing at all. We saw woman toss
off stiff glass of brandy and water at one
gulph, and smack her lips like Kentucky
stage-driver. She evidently mistook her
self for the red-nosed old reprobate who
sat beside her. However, she got glass
of grog by the mistake.
1t is utterly impossible for a man to
travel up and down the Hudson River
without feeling like rascal. "Evil COM
munications corrupt good manners" and
of all evil communications there is moth
ing more essentially diabolical than being
jammed by $50 zone dollar and found"
men. A man inhales wickedness and
snuffs iniquity all the while. He becomes
savage, and looks like a cannibal. Two
hours before dinner yesterday, the seats
in the dining cabin were possessed by a
set of wild, fierce looking men, determined
to have the first touch of the edibles. 1t
is said that they ate one little fellow, who
ventured among them, by way of lunch
certain it is, that he went down into
the cabin, and was never seen afterwards.
However, one little fellow would hardly
stay the appetites of four hundred and fifty
one dollar and found men.
Once in while you meet with a few
decent men in steamboat, ",rari nantes
an gurguite uasto" ofathe noisy crowd.
There were four gentlemen on board yes
terday, one Of whom was the Grecian dog
Apollo. His dogsbip appeared quite
scandaiized at the conduct of his fellow
passengers, and did not wag his tail or
bark once. There were other dogs at
dinner that barked repeatedly. 1t is a
fashion introduced since the reduction of
prices-and pretty generally adopted by
the majority oflocomotive found" men.
But there are other improvements among
travellers. One lady yesterday had bas-
ket Of hens, which she put in another la
dy's birth, where they were found" at
bed time. The hen proprietor stated that
it was not convenient to carry the coop,
and so she put the cacklers in basket.
She intends bringing her pigs to New
York next week per steamboat.
To all those who travel for pleasure in
steamboats, now a-days, we recommend
the following lines of Lord Byron, as pro-
phetick of their fate -
I" Oh pleasure you're very pleasant thing,
Although one must be id for you, no doubt"
Steamboat travelling is PROFESSIONALLY
id pleasure. Y. COu. g. Eng.
TENNESSEE. Resolutions have passed
the Legislature of Tennessee, against a
renewal of the charter ofthe u. s. Bank
and also instructing their Senators and re.
questing their Representatives in Con
gress, to use their utmost exertions TO pre-.
vent any further grants from the U. S