The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-06-29
winthrop, Me.
'Correspondence Of the Herald.1


Pen and Ink Sketches By the Way, by Traveller, o.
Extracts from my Journal Imposition, Nloicness
and Inferior Aceo'nmodat,os of the Camden Am
bog and Philadelphia and Trenton Ralroads-Vi-
sit to Mount AUBURN, &c.
FRIEND BENNErr-
left the busy din OF Philadelphia few days ago,
to make short tour for my health and if saw or
heard any thing that nstructs your readers they are
welcome to it. We left at IL NJ by the Camden
and Amboy Railroad, which should be known as
the Imposition Mail Line" and rode over the Bos-
ton and Portland road, ITO miles, in At hours-fare
$2-but the " snail line" was about eight hours in
coming So miles, in not fit TO transport cattle in
and fare 49, This is too bad, and the newspapers,
from Name to Texas, ought to proclaim IN tones of
thunder that forbearance towards this and the Phila
dephia and Trenton Railroad Company, has ceased
to be virtue There they charge on the latter road
Al cents per mile and poor cars while you can ira
vel in the floating palaces from New York to Albany
or Boston, for from half to three-fourths Of cent
per mile. And hope you will open the columns, OF
the Herald to expose some OF the impostlons OF this
great thoroughfare of travel from the north to the
south. At New York, our company were the guests
health, kept housed till the boat left, at o'clock,
evening. ] would, were it not too long, give you
some Of my 'sketches" we left the beautiful har
Dor of New York, and passed round to the East Ri
II,
season nature is clothed in all its luxuriance, and
the sight offered plenty Of subjects for the painters
pencil and the poets pen. And the forests OF mass,
the nuGsress the busy cnk Of the Inc
man of business. heard one man, whom took to
be from theIcountry, say, New York was getting to
be quite town. Arriving IN Providence, we took
rived at Boston in season for dinner.
| We stopped at the g New England and " john
himself is in the place we left him two years
no one places himself under his care with any doubts
He, the lrishman said, "ates We and drinks We"
in the true New England STYLE Ie is " one on um"
and "nothing else." After visiting the beautiful
Mount Auburn, for every body goes there to stroll
a few hours among the dead. ! love to visit the
church yard, and wander mid its silent walks it
calls up kind of melancholy far from disagreeable
to me- Here are seen the tomb OF some aged sire
long since gone the way Of all living. Near by was
newmade grave read, twas that Of child offve
years, perhaps the, idol Of some fond mother now
at this place. exceed by no place in the world, and
equaled by few. Within two years death has given
it many additions, and added many to its illustrious
q Chamberlain" the old revolutionary hero who
the battle Of Bunker Hill in ls4 besides numberess
others do not recollect From here you take ride
raj interesting places but shall not stop to describe
any Of them Twill take the reader to Bunkers Hill,
emitting to speak Of the "Glass Works the Nc
Lean Hospital in Somervile, or Of :. Winter Hip
which protected our gallant fathers in their retreat
from Bunker's Hil though will, perhaps, show you
on my return cannon shot we took from it, which
though once the property OF the :" Mistress OF the
hill every few years. Near here stands the relics of
the Urseline Convent" burned in 1884. As long
as once lived in Boston, confess, with shame,
that never but before visited this, of all others,
the most sacred spot to an Americana As stood on
the eminence beside the tall shaft that reaches to
the clouds, and cast my mind back seventy years, /
confess my soul was filled. On this spot, seventy
rule the world. Here sYoung America" struck
the first great blow, and proclaimed to the ma
tons Of the earth, that mid the wids of
western world, the undylng flame Of liberty
was about to break forth in more than Roman SPLEEN
DOR Here, for the first time, were the " stars and
stripes planted, and the proud eagle tapped her
new born wings, and pumed her feathers for the
grand aerial flight, that for near three-fourths Of
century has been the theme of wonder to the world,
has filled the philosophers mind, and added new
matter for the historian. / would Willingly dwell
but others have done it before me, and far better
than cam If there is anything interesting to me,
1t is the history OF the American revolution We
now take trip up about 20 feet and then from the
top of Bunker Hill monum ent we stand and gaze
till the soul is lost in wonder and admiration-as far
down the harbor as the eye can reach, it beholds
fresh themes on which to feast its fill" Around
US lay Charleston, as it were, sleeping at feet
One would say he could throw stone to Faneuil
Hall, or pitch quot to Charles river We now
descend, leave off thought, and visit the Navy
Yard, ropewalks, shipping, and Its massive dry
dock, admitting ships of the largest class. The
steamer Mississippi here fitting for sea, and will
sail soon. Here we shall leave the reader to ina
CINE our ride to Chelsea (second Paradise), but
will return to Boston, get tea, and go board that
:" Mistress of the North, j" the John Marshall. This
boat is the opposition TOT monopoly that has for
years ruled with an iron hand the navigation on
route second TO none except the North River. They
have run off all boats sent there for years. being rch
the moment any other goes on they reduce the fare
to l2a cents for 160 miles, and then when there is
no opposition, i is $3, and sometimes SO. But at
the swlftest boat these waters, and with her able
faithful, and gentlemanly commander, Andrew
Brown, all the efforts Of the old monopoly must
prove unavailing. The excitement here is great,
and each Of the other boats go crowded We had
about 600 al 81; the old company about 300 at IS
/ know the "devil' will curse me tor writing on
y do anS
try not to again. Tell him the new Post-offce law
goes into effect next week, and then wont write
on both Sides
P.S. Should the reader wish to follow me further.
in my next will try and say something more inter.
esting. We shall have arrived at the head of navi
CATION on the kennebec, and from there will take
him to the Lake near which we shall spend few
weeks. Tthere is place otreal picturesque beauty
on earth, this is the spot, and 1t cannot say some.
thing to please at least part Of your readers, the
fault shall be my own, for there is plenty ofncident
will endeavor to give him little OF the romantic
| in my next, which will be in about week
WEATHER AT THE SourH.-A letter from Colum-
bia s. c. states that the thermometer in that place
Monday, at O'Clock stood at SO deg and at o'clock nj
the cool hundred" The Savannah Sentinel states that
the mercury up to 100 in that city Monday Yes
erday, in Charleston, it did not range above "a deg
Charleston Patriot, June 90
| PRoGREss OF THE WAR.-Mr Stearns and hi
men have been indicted for riot and criminal respass
by the grand jury Of the u District Court at Boston
Their defence will be, avermcnt that the land
which they "trespasscd" and "rioedr does not belong
Uncle SAM
Police ONCE.
| JusE 2s--AN ATTEMPT kILL.--A grand occur.
red this morning in Anthony street. the Five Points
of ia aadG