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

behind ye; those two laborers in holida
clothes, Of whom one carries in his han
a crumpled scrap Of paper from which b
tries to spell out hard name, while III
other looks about Tor il on all the door
and windows.
NEW YORK AT NIGHT.
But how quiet the streets sre7 Ar
there no itinerant bands no wind o
stringed instruments No, not one. B
day, are there no Punches, fantoccini.
dancing-dogs. jugelers, conlurors. orches
,rnas, or even bareIorgans No, M
one. Yes. | remember one. One barrel
organ and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
by nature, but fast fading into dull
lumpish monkey, Of the utl,tarian school
Beyond that, nothing lively, no, no, 81
much as white mouse 10 wiring cage
BALTIMORE.
The most comfortable of all the hotel
Of which ! had any experience in IL,
United States, and they were no, few
is Barnum's, in Baltimore where the
English traveller will find curtains TO his
bed, for the first, and probably the Ias
time, in America, and where he will be
likely to have enough water for washing
himself, which is not a, all a common
case.
The capital Of the State Of Maryland il
a busting, busy town. with great deal
Of Traffic o.: various kinds, and in par,icu-
lar Of water commerce. Tha, potion al
the town which il most fsvors is none oi
the cleantst, il is true; but the upper pm r,
is Of a very different character, aud has
many agreeable streets and public build
ings. The Washington Monument, which
is handsome pillar with statue on its
summit, the Medical College, and the
Battle Monument IN memory Of an on.
gagrment with the British at North Point,
are the most conspicuous among them.
There is very good prison in this city
and the State Peni,en,iary is also amung
lis institutions.
After remaining here a couple OF days,
| bound myseIf,o rigid adherence To the
plan had Land down 50 recently, and re-
solved to set forward On our western
journey, without any more DELAY. Ac.
cordinglv, having reduced the luggage
within the smallest possible compess (by
sending back to New York, TO be alter
wards forwarded to US in Canada so much
of it rs was not absolutely wanted y and
having proc ured the necessary credentials
to banklng-houses on the way, and hav.
ing moreover looked for two evenings at
the setting sun, with as wcl-dpfned an
idea Of the country before us as il we had
been going to travel into the very centre
of that PLANET; we left Baltimore by ano.
ihrr railway at half pas, eight in the
morning. and reach, d the town Of York,
some sixty miles of, by the early dinner
time Of the Hotel, which was the starting
place OF the four horse coach, wherein we
were to proceed TO Harrisburg.
VIRGINIA CHARtoTEERlYG.
Soon after nine o'clock we come to Po-
tomac Creek, where we are To land and
then comes the oldest par, ofthe journey.
Seven stage. coaches are preparing to car.
ry us on. Some Of them are ready, some
of them are not ready. Sumo OF the dr..
vers are blacks, some whites. There are
four horses TO each coach, and all the
horses, harnessed or embarrassed, are
there. The passengers are getting out
of the steamboat, and INTO the coaches,
the luggage is being transferred in noisy
wheelbarrows, the horses are frightened,
and impatient to start; tho black drivers
are chattering to them like so many mon.
keys and the white ones whoopine like
so many drovers; for the main thing TO
be done in all kinds Of hosiering here, Is
10 make as much noise as possible. The
coachrs are something like the French
coaches, but not nearly so good. In lieu
of springs, they are hung on bands Of
the strongest leather. There is very lit
tie choice Of difference between tn, m !;
and they may BIZ liken-d to the carpor.
ton Of the swings Mt an English fair, r,of.
ed, but upon sxle-trees and wheels, and
curtained with painted canvass. They
are covered with mud from the roof to ihe
wheel.tire, and have never been cleaned
Stree they were first built.
The tickets we have received on board
the steamboat, are marked No. l, so we
belong TO coach No. 1. Throw nv cos,
on the box, and hois, my wife AMI he.
maid into the inside. Il has only one
step, aud that being about yard fom
The ground, is usually approach, d BY a
char; when there is no chair, ladies trus,
to Providence. The coach holds nine in-
side, having a seat ncross from door to
door, where we IN England put our legs;
so tina, there is only one fea, more Difficult,
in the performance than getting in. and
that IS, getting out again. There is only
one outside passenger, and he sits upon
the box. AS am tina, one, climb up ;
and while they are Swapping the luggage
on the roof, and heaping il into kind OF
tray behind, have good opportunity
looking at the driver.
tie is a negro--very black indeed
tie is dressed in coarse pepper and salt
suit excessively patched and darued (par.
ticularly a, the kaees,) grey stockings,
enormous Unblacked high low shoes, and
very short trousers. lie has two odd
gloves; one OF par:i-colored worsted. and
one OF leather. He HIS very short wb p
broken in the middle and bandaged up
with string. And ye, he wears low
crowned, broad-brimed, black hat, faint.
liz shadowinp firth n kind M ,nxane i'm.