Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-10-18


works deiacing the green mantle of Mature
and our pension to every dweiler on IN
shore who. has painted his fence white, and
smoothed his lawn TO the river; and sooner
shan we used to do by some five or SIX
hours, (ere rail roads had suppanted thu
ploughing and crawling coaches to Science.
tada,) we fed our eyes on the .slumbering
and broad valley of the Mohawk.
How startled must be the Naiad of this
lovely river to find her willowy 70, m embrac
ed between railroad and canal one intruder
on either side of the bed so sacredly over.
shaded Pity but there were a new knigh
OF La Mancha to avenge the hamadryads
and water.nymphs of their wrongs from
wood-cutters and contractors! Where
sleep Pan and vengefIl Dread, when
Yankee settler news me down twenty wood
nymphs of morning There lie the bod
les, limbess trunks. on the banks of the
Mohawk, yet no dutchman stands sprout.
ing into leaves near by, nor wooden jacket
turning into bark, as in the retribuied OIL
den time We are abandoned of these
gods of Already! They like not the smoke
of steam funnels
Talking of smoke reminds me Of ashes
Is there no way OF frequenting railroads
without the loss of on's eyes. Must one
pay for velocity as dearly as Cacus for his
oxen! Really this new invention is n
blessing--to the oculst Ten thousand
small crystals Of carborn cutting right and
left among the fine vessels al delicate
membranes of the eye. aud all this amid
glorious scenery where TO go bandaged.
,as needs must.) is to slight The master
work ofnature Either run your rail- roads
from the river courses gentlemen contrac.
ors. or find some other place thaG your
passengers eyes to bestow your waste
ashes have heard of.ties in smiles,' bu'
here's lyp in tears that touches the sen.
sibiIities more nearly
There is drowsy beauty in these Cor
man flats that seems strangely profaned by
y smoky monster whisking along twenty
niles 10 an hour. The g,ntle canal boat
was more homogeneous the scene. The
nils lay off from the river in easy and
sleepy curves, and the amber Mohawk
crecps down over its shallow gravel with
Laboratories altogether and abomnably
out of tune with the iron rails. Perhaps j;
IS the rails out Of tune with the river but
INV way there is discord. am content
see the Mohawk, canal and railroad ill.,
elusive, but once year.
We reached the head waters of the Che
ango river by what Miss Marineau cele-
,rates as an 'exclusive EXTRA" in an after
.oon's ride from Utica. The latter thrifty
md hospiiable town was as redolent OF red
Kicks and sunshine as usual ; and the
reefs, TO my regret, had grown no mar
| over. They who laid out the future leg
sative capital of New York must have been
| overs of winters wind and summers sun.
| they forgot the troubles Of the near sigh.
edit requires spectaclcs TO read the signs
or see the shops from one side 10 the other;)
hey forgot the perils of old women and
children in the wide crossings they forgot
the pleasures of shelter and shade, ofneigh.
borly pisa ris of comfortable lookiagness.
| maintain that Utica is not comfortable
cooking town. II affects me like the clown
in the pantomine. when he sets down with.
ont bending his legs-by mere straddling.
| would not say any thing so ungracious OF
it were it not to suggest remedy "a shady
mall up and down The middle What a
beautiful town it will be-ike an old fash
toned shirt. bosom with frill OF elms =
Your children would walk safely within the
rails, and your country neighbors would
expose their 'sa'ace,' and cool their tired
oxen in the shade. We felt ourselves
rpensaled for paying nearly double price
for extra by the remarkable alacrity with
which the coach came to the door after the
bargain was concluded, and the polteness
with which the gentleman who made ou
The way BILL acceded to our stipulation.
He bowed us off, expressed his happiness
10 serve us, and away we went.
The Chenango, one of the largest tribu
tares to the Susquehannah, began to show
itself, like small brook, some fifteen OF
twenty miles from UTICA. Its course lay
directly southland the new canal kept a
long its bank, as deserted, but thousand
times less beautiful in its loneliness thar
the river, whose rambling curves ii seemed
made TO straighten. We were not in the
best humor, for our double.prced extra
turned out to be the regular stage ant
while we we're delivering and waiting 70
mails. and taking in passengers, the trool
of idlers at tavern-doors amused them
selves with reading the imaginative produc
ton called om 'ertra way-bill,' as it wa
transferred, with sagacIous wink, from
one drivers hat TO the other. thought o
Paddy's sedan-chair, with the bottom out
III it were not for the name of the thing,
t said he, as he trotted along with box owe
his head.
r say we we're not 10 the best of humor
with our prompt an polite friend at Utica
but even through these bilious specables
, the Chenango was beautiful. It's valley
. wide and wild, and the reaches of the capri
cious stream through the farms and wood
e along which it letters, were among the pref
' test effects of water scenery have eve
: met. There is a strange loneliness abou
it; and the small towns which were sprin
5 killed. along the hundred miles OF its course
:, seem rather the pioneers INTO wilderness
1 than settlements so near the great thorough
: fare to the lakes. 1t is adeIIcious valley I
a travel through, barring corduroy. IRE
b mendous cxclaims the traveller, as tn
: coach drops into pit between two log
!. and surges up again heaven ony Know
}, how. And, as my fellow-passenger re
n marked, it is a wonder the road does n
J. echo" tree mendus!"
Five miles before reaching the Susqut
a hannah tina Dad bpoap IN mend. the hill