Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1842-07-28
})opular Gales.
From Godey's Lady's Book for Joly
The Forsaken Daughter,
OR
a Day i'm n lsaiI Road Car
BIZ MISS {. NJ. sEDGwIcK.


the progress Of society shall carry the
! New England people forward to thai
| phlosophic indifference TO individual
| character and history which character
izes an older civilization. They are as
yet but an extended family circle
! Even our huge rail road cars, which
| very nearly reduce humanity to floating
particles, have not yet diYcsted our
| travellers oftheir customary social char
|, tiles and interests. was struck with
some illustrations Of this truth during a
days travel over tho rail road that
! traverscs Massachusetts,. This road
! passes through the most poPulods part
! of our State, after its magnificent pas
snge over the hills Of Berkshire, where
a work of immense labour and beautiful
art is brought into striking contrast with
savage nature, and set of with the ac-
cessorics Of fr-covered hills, wild glens,
and hcadlong mountain streams. Along
this road some of the peculiarities OF
our stirring population are manifested
\ At each village there is swarm Of fresh
passengers, aud at each station a dis
persion, and however brief their transit
may be, there is some trlling ntercom-
munication that discloscs the condition
, and objects Of the parties. In similar
situation in Europe, the individuals,
|, each comprising in his own existence a
world Of interests, purposes and hopes,
would make their entrances and exits
without exciting more sensation or in
qury than the luggage thrown into the
baggage car.
like thit social life it is the beat
ing of healthy human heart that sends
pulsations throughout the frame Of So
ciety. II may occasionally license idle
and nconvenient curiosity, but this is
trihing evil, and so considerably mti-
gated by the progress Of civilization,
that since the death Of the Dutchman
who, according to that veracious chron-
icIer ofsuch matters, Diedrch knicker-
booker, was put to the question by a
Yankee, we have never heard Of its
Involving fatal consequences.
On the OCCASION to which have allud-
cd, young friend and myself started
from Pttsfeld for Boston. In few
minutes we had glided from a neighbour
hood where each house and tree has
the familiar look Of an old acquaintance.
The passengers were all strangers to us,
and we probably betrayed the stiffness
and reserve incident to n new position,
for one Of those active minded people
who assume TO themselves the breaking
down Of all conventional fences, took
pity on us, and looking over my com
panion 5 shoulder, at volume of Childe
Harold, which she was reading, asked
her "ifsho was fond of poetry -
The sort Of smile that accompanied
her inaudiblc answer did not encourage
him to proceed, and ho broke ground
with me by asking me eff | knew a
young person in black who was sitting
alone at the end OF the car :"
81 had never seen her before
$50 unexpected, ma'am," said he
IL don't think thcro is any one in the
car does know her, for ! have asked
several. The conductor says she came
aboard at Albany. | asked her if she
lived there No. she said. asked
her whero she did live She seemed
to sigh as il were, and said she had
lived far west. She is alone, and so
bashlul, that ! did not love to ask her
many questions-may be you will DO
able to find her out, ma am"
AsI looked again at the timld girl
and caught the expression of face ot
most striking sweetness and modesty,
| secretly wished ] might.
Bat my friends lively interests did
not settle down on this pretty young
creature.
"You know that old gentleman, Of
course, ma'am ~ he said, pointing to
an eldcily gentleman little IN advance
and on ono side Of us, with u velvet cap
on his head, and an eye remarkable for
lis acuteness, rivcttcd TO tho newspaper
he was reading.
/ ] confessed did not.
"Why is it possible lie is the Ex-
! president Mr.. Adams
, naturally manifested 50 much pleas
us at this information, and gn1od at the