Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-04-25

A PLEASANT RipE.-Yesterday crowd
of travellers started, as usual, in the eleven
O'Clock Pontchartrain Railroad Cars, IN full
expectation of being received on board q
boat, with steam up, ready to depart for
Mobile. With their usual speed the cars
at the Lake, the baggage was car
ried out to the end oftEe wharf, and the poor
deluded passengers hurried on in breath.
less haste, little thinking that they had just
twenty-four hours 10 spare, and there was
not the slightest occasion to hurry them
selves. There lay steamboat at the end
of the wharf, though she didn't show any
of the usual signs of departure, and there
were the baggage cars unloading just as il
every thing was in regular order for the ira,
vellers to proceed. So every body hurried
on, quite satisfied that oil was right, unit
the crowd, men, women, children, brokers,
bankers, clerks, young and old ladies', pa.
pas and mammas, and nurses and little dar-
Ilngs, all arrived at the breakwater, where
the baggage had been deposited. 1t now
suddenly occurred to somebody that some
thing was wrong, and it was soon announ-
ced from one to another that there was no
boat going. The group of blank and be-
wildered faces that then surrounded the pile
of baggage would have furnished an admir-
able study for Mathews or an Alexander,
(not Vattemare, but the real Alexander, the
great ventriloquist.) One very rosy coun-
tenanced gentleman, who looked as if some
business of life and death depended upon
his present expedition, stared for a moment
in blank surprise, and then called to little
niger who stood uncovering his ivory
masticators as if he was enjoying the disap-
pointment of the travellers.
"Come here boy. Is there any boat 60
ing to-day"
Z" No, massy: no boat dis day."
"Don't you dare to tell me that, you little
lump of ebony Look here; where's the
steamboat contractors? Where's the rail-
road officers? What have they brought us
down here for if there's no boat going p
Is this the way strangers are served in this
burg of New Orleans 2"
sit can't be helped, my dear sir" said
another of the disappointed travellers, SAC.
eilents will sometimes detain the boats.h
Accidents, sir Well didn't they know
at the other end of the railroad that there
was no boat here ? What are we doing
here? What's to become of our luggage q
"Your luggage will be stored carefully
here until Tomorrow"
!" The devil, sir And where will they
store me until tomorrow
"You had better buy another railroad tick.
ct and go back to town. It's very plea.
SAINT ride"
/" A pleasant ride Oh, that's true, SC
it is. Come, ladies' and gentlemen, this is
quite pleasant affair when you come tc
reflect upon it. We shall have delightful
ride back to town. How foolish 1t would
be to get in passion, when all we have
got to do is just to go back exactly the same
way we came It's the easiest thing IN the
world. No consequence whatever about
your business being deranged, and your
time lost, and your luggage knocked about
no body is to blame, and you should have
known that there was no boat here before
you started. Come, now, this is quite a
delightful little pleasure excursion well
go back to town in the cars, and have q
pleasant ride r'--P Picayune.