Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-11-17

sy chest, such as CULVER put to sea in
from the kingdom Of Brobiignag. Their,
is great deal OF jilting, great deal Of
noise, great deal Of wall, not much win
dow. locomotive engine, shrek and a
bell.
The cars are like shabby omnibuses,
bu, Isrger-holding thirty, forty, fifty
persons. The seats, instead Of stretch
ing from end to md, are placed cross.
wise. Each seat holds two persons.
There is long row Of them on each side
Of he caravan, a narrow passage up the
middle, and door at both ends. la the
centre Of the carriage there IS generally
a stove, fed with charcoal or anthracite
coal, which is for the most part red hot.
II 10 insuffersby close, and you see the
hot air fluiiering between yourself and
any other object you may happen 10 look
at, like the ghost of smoke.
In the ladies' car there are great ma.
ny gentlemen who have ladies with :hem.
There are also a grea; many ladies' who
have nobody with them; for any lady
may travel alone from one end of the
United States TO the other, and be certain
Of the most courteous and consderate
treatment everywhere. The conductor
or check-taker, or guard, or whatever he
may be, wears no uniform. He walks up
ard down the car, and IN and out Of il, as
his fancy dictates leans against the door
With his hands in his pockets anC stares at
you, if you chance to be a stranger or
enters into conversation with the passen.
gers about him. A great many news
papers are pulled out, and lew Of them
are read. Every body talks to you, or to
anybody else who hits his fancy. lfyou
are an Eugilshman he expects that tina,
railroad is pretty much like an English
railroad.
lfyou say NO. he says Yes 7 (in,er.
roga,ively) and asks in what respect they
differ. You euumerate the heads of dill.
ference, one by one. and he says 'Yes1'
(still interrogatively, to each. Then he
guessed th.t you don't travel faster in
England; and on your replying that you
do, says yes, (stlIi interrogatvely.) and
j, is quite evident he don't believe It. AZ
ter long pause, he remarks, partly to
you and partly to the knob on the top Of
his stick, that Yankees are reckoned TO be
considerable Of a goahead people too : up.
on which you say Yes and then he says
Yes again (affirma,iveIy this time y snd
upon your looking out of the window tells
you that behind tina, hill, aud some three
miles from the next station, there is a
clever town in a smart location, where
he expects you have concluded to stop.
Your answer in the negative naturally
leads to more qu sloDs in reference TO
youi intended route always pronounced
rout y and wherever you are going, you
invariably learn that you cau't get there
without Immense difficulty and danger,
and that all the great sights are some.
where else.
If lady take fancy to any male
passengers seat, the gentleman who ac-
companies her, gives him notice of the
TACT, and he Immediately vacates it with
great politeness. Politics are much dis.
cussed, SO are banks. so is cnt,on. Quiet
people avoid the question of the Presidcn-
cy, for there will be a new election 10
three years and half, and party feeling
runs very high; the grent constitutional
feature of this institution being, that d.
rectly the acrimony Of the last election is
over, the acrimony oil the next begins,
which is an unspeakable comfort to all
strong politicians and true lovers Of their
country-,hat is to say. TO ninety nine
men and boys out Of every ninety. mine
and a quarter.
NEW YORK.
Warm weather; the sun strikes upon
our heads at this open window as though
it's rays were concentrated through u
burning glass; bot the day is in its zenith
there ever such sunny street as this
Broadway? The pavement stones are
polished with the tread of feet until they
shine again the red bricks Of the hous' $
might be yet in the dry hot kllns; and the
rouls of those omnlbusses look as though,
if water were poured on them, they would
hiss and smoke, and smell like bali
quenched fires. No stint Of omnibusses
here1 Half dozen have gone by with.
in as many minutes. Plenty Of hackney
cabs and coaches too; gigs, ph@tons,
large wheeled tilburies, and private car
riages-rather of a clumsy make, and not
very d fferent from the public vehicles,
but built for the heavy roads beyond the
city pavement. Negro coachmen and
white; in straw hats, black hats, white
hats, glazed caps, fuI caps; in coats Of
drab, black. brown, green. blue. nsnkeen,
striped jean and linen and there in that
one instance, (look while il passes or il
will be too late, in suits Of livery. Some
southern republican that. who puts his
blacks in uniform, and swells with Sultan
pomp and power. Yonder, where .ha,
pbaton with well clipped pair OF greys
has stopped standing at their heads now
lis Yorkshire groom. who has no! been
long in these parts, and looks sorrowfully
arnund for a companion pair OF top boots,
which he may traverse the city half a
year without meeting. Heaven save the
ladies, how they dress We have seen
more colcrs in these ten minutes than we
should have seen elsewhere in as many
days. What various parasols! what rain
bow silks and sa;ins what pinking ofthin
stockings. and pinching of thin shoes, and
fiuttering of TibaDds and silk fsssrls and