The Arkansas advocate., 1830-06-16

were buried in a hurry, and resurrec
 ton men had them out of their grave
 before they well knew they were in them
 Whatever was done, was upon the higl pressure principle. No person stopp cd to speak to another in the street
 but as they moved rapidly on their way 1 the men talked faster than women dt
 now, and the women talked twice as fast asever.-Many were bald, and on asking the reason, was given to understand that they had been great travellers and that the rapidityof modern conveyanee. literally scalped those who journcyed much in them, sweeping whiskers, eye brows, eye-lashes, in fact every thing in any way moyeable from their faces. Animal life appeared to be extinct; carts and carriages came rattling down the highways, horseless and driverless. wheelbarrows trundled along without any visible agency. Nature was out of fashion, and the world seemed to get a. long tolerably well without her.
 At the foot of the street my attention was attracted by a house they were building ofprodigious dimensions, being not less than l 7 stories high. On the top of itseyeral men were at work, when. dreadful to relate, the foot of one of them slipped, and he was precipltated to the earthwith aterrible crash. Judge ot my horror and indignation on obsefy- ing the crowd pass unheedingly by, scarcely deigning to cast look on their fellow creature, who doubtless lay welt ering in his blood, and the rest of the workmen went on with their several av- ocatlons without a moments pause in. consequence of the accident. On ap- preaching the spot, heard several iiil passing murmur the most incomprehen- slbie obserVations-SsOnly a steam man. said ono. < " ont cost much, y said another. ssiiis boilerovercharged. l suppose" cried a third, the way in which all these accidents happenm and true enough there lay man of tin and sheet iron weltering in hot water. The superintendent of the concern, who was not q steam man, but made of the pres ent materials, gave it as his opinion, that the springs were damaged, and the steam vessels q little rnptured, but not much harm done, and straitway sent the corpse to the blacksrnith's (who was a fesh-and-blood man) to be repaired. Here was then at once a new version of the old Greek fable, and modern Prome- theuses were actually as ssplentiful as hlaclzberries.n h fact found upon in- quiry, that society was now divided into two great classes, living and sslocomo- tive" men, the latter being much the better and more honest people of the two; and fashionable political econo- mist of the name of Maethus, a lineal descendant of anancient, and itappears rather inconsistent system-monger, had just published an elaborate pamphlet. showing the manifold advantages of propagating those no proyenderconsum- ing individuals in preference to any oth. CT. So that it appeared, that any in- dustrious mechanic might in three months have a full grown family about him with the full and comfortable as- surance that, as the man says in Chro- nonhotonthologos, ssthey were all his own and none of his neighbors'.
 These things astonished, but they al- so perplexed and wearied ne. Ny heart grew sick, and l longed for the old world againand the quietand peace able modes of enjoyment. Ihad no fel- lowship with the two new races of be- ings around me, and nature and her charms wereno more. All things seem ed forced, unnatural, unreal-indeed. little better than barefaced impositions. l sought the banks of my native river; it alone remained unchanged. The no bic stream flowed gently and tranquiiiy as of yore, but even here impertinen' man had been at work, and pernicious rail roads were formed to its very verge
 mcautiously crossed one of them, trust ing to my preconceiyed notions of time and space, the abhorred engine being
 about three quarters ofa mile from me but scarcely had stepped over when i flew whizziag past the spot l had jus
 quilted, and catchingmeinits eddy spur
 me around like top under the lash. l
 was laden with passengers, and wen
 with headlong fury straight towards th'
 river. Its fate seemed inevitable-an
 other instant and it would be immersed
 in the waves, when To! it suddenly sunl
 into the bosom of the earth, and in thre,
 seconds was ascending a perpendicula