Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-06-01

plulleu OH even II tnere was Iorty against
me. Any time you want to get up another
game, and there's any thing to be made by
it, Pm your man.
The boat was soon under way and all
hands adjourned to their respective callings.
A RAILROAD BY A NOVICIATE.
When we arrived by the Blus-Bottle
coach at the Basingstoke station, forty or
fifty miles from the metropolis, there was an
intultVe sense Of being already at our jour
ney g end. We felt that we had virtually
arrived in London, and that all remaining TO
do was simply to get into an omnibus, and
give up the time of an ordinary hackney
coach fare, in proceeding TO Piccadilly -
The influence Of the scene upon a novi-
ciate observe is ferociously Impressive
First, a string of horseless coaches, like the
line of king Macbeth's vision, glded with
phantom smoothness by me, propelled by
the magic touch of material imp of Vulcan,
to take their places in the train; meanwhile,
under shed at short distance, were cer-
tain other lmps, harnessing, or otherwise
preparing the fiery draggoon that was to
carry us off. Then forth the monster came.
n hideous thing, with double body Ikea
wasp! with whistle as loud as the screeh
of tormented elephant; splitting fire and
spoutlng smoke, and looking more like an
enraged demon of Vesuvius vomiting des-
truction, than docle devil, subdued TO the
service of man. 1t begun by showing offa
series of gratuttous movements to and fro,
answering to the gambols and curvettings
Of an impatient blo0dhorse, and than darted
past all the coaches as though determined
to run away from them. Anon, returning,
the first coachi n the train was hooked to his
tail; and the lengthy mass began to move
chain off one class, followed BY second, and
the second by third ike Fleet street run.
ming after LMdgate Hill, and the Strand af-
ter Fleet street. To add to the effec: of
the scene, it was dark--or, rather, dark
ness made 'vIsible' by the lamps of the
station-house and the fire of the steam-car-
rage.
Heavy and slow,
Like the first drops of thunder-shower,'
as Byron has it, were our first movements,
and accompanied by painfully deliberate
kind of cough on the part of the engine,
which appeared, to our uninitated senses,
to be sorcy hroken-wjnded. As we pro,
ceeded, however, the cough became quick
er, and less perceptlble, TIL at length it lost
its natural character, and left US happy in
the assurance that the demons lungs were
not effected. They who have Travelled in
one Of the carriages nearest the engine
will know well how 10 recite the following;
'Chkungh !-,chough !-kough !--kou6
kou! -ku!--ku, kuku, kuku, kuku, kuku,'
and away we 90 at the rate of thirty miles
an hour, with little to amuse us save us the
rapid alienation ofmlestones and policemen
| (who look like hnger-posts) as thus: 10
--loliceman--9--po -policeman--
-poiceman--6---p ollcemln-5---police-
-policemln--3--a sleeping donkey
on the rail, cut him in two-2-engine Off
the rail, blown to atoms--engneers hurled
out Of danger into horsepod--the first class
coaches crushed by the second, and the
second jammed up by the third, like Ludgate
Hll Fleet street, and the Strand, as aeore-
srid, all crammed together in st. Paul's
Churchyardl But this last is mere chance,
we will take up the train at -policeman---
--policeman-l- -poiceman---a whistle.
Oh, mercy! such a whistle! shrek, rather;
like that of a million 'mandrakes torn from
the earthF Genter-slower -moderate-
slow-softly ftly--stiLer Ler--stil-Vauyhall Ter
minus.
And now comes the most melancholy
part of the proceeding. After thirty miles
an hour, a dead stop foras long a time as it
would take you to go fifteen miles more;
while your coach is worked by hand off the
rail on the common ground again; and Two
sorry jades of horses (instead of the four
you left behind you at the other Terminus,)
with still more sorry looking, discarded
hackney coachmnn, for driver, conduct
you with tedious deberation to the Bear in
Piocadilly. This is as lame and impotent a
conclusion as ever the 'march ofmind and
mechanics has arrived at. 1t is, however,
due to say that only speak from expert
ence of one coach and one railroad, viz: the
Blue Bottle Unicorn, and the Southampton
line. Now, it really strikes me, that this
must be instantly and imperatively reformed
and would at once suggest, that set of
balloons should be in readiness, all inflated,
and strainiDg upon the start, with patent,
anyway sailing wings, to watt you up
carry you over as the crow flies---and alight
you, as the crow alights, on a lead fiat at
the top of the hotel to which you are bound;
and SO much for railroads. - Black,pood,
ANECDoTE.-Some years ago, lady no.
ticing a neighbor of hers was not in her
seat at church on Sabbath, called, on her