Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-03-10
Correspondence of the Telegraph
ALRANy. N. Y. Feb. 8, 1S47.


respondents True, foreign correspondence
is principally the rage, but although may
not date my letters from either London or
Rome, or discourse OF ST.. Peters or ST.
Pauls, it is possible may say something
which will possess some little interest 10
YOUR reoders-A journey from your place
10 any portion of the eastern coun~
try during the summer or travelling season.
is q most pleasant pastime. but do assure
Won one undertaken IN the water is another
thing, and requires such a variety of I'M
uspal circumstances to make it pleasant.
that very few SO undertaken, ! mag ne,
possess in any wise, this peculiarly. The
quickest, and suppose the usually 'rav-
elled route from your place TO New York
CITY, in the winter time, is by Chicago
around the head Of Lake Michigan, across
10 Detroit, from thence through Canada
10 Buffalo, from thence 10 Albany, and
from thence through Connecticut 10 Long
Island sound, and thence to New York
The first part Of this journey, about 2lO
miles from Southport to Kalamazoo is by
stuge; from thence TO Detroit, over lG5
miles by the Michigan Central Rail Road,
from thence again by stage go miles
through Canada to Buffalo, from thence
by the rail road 10 Albany, again by rail
road to Bridgeport in Connecticut on Long
Island sound, and thence by Boat 10 The
City. Such portions oF this journey as are
taken by stages, those acquainted with this
route Of conveyance, will readily conceive
must be tedious. Twenty-sx passengers
10 an omnibus licensed to carry twelve is,
believe, an ordinary occurrences; not less
SO twelve passengers to stages, which il
not restricted by license to p1rlicular mum
bers, were intended by their builders to
these occasions is somewhat curious, and
worthy of being related--After the seats
have received the customary complement
Of passengers, the extra ones generally
about one to each seat force a small ope.
mug between those seated, place themse-
YES in it, or on II rather The Jollng Of the
STAGE in the course Of the journey, has the
odec 10 force or settle them down III H.,
,he graduu wcdging Of them n. compel ne
a compress GA into small compass OF tn
persons Of their lie gbors. When once
wcdgad in in this way, ! am told, thar
should the sage upset md even roll dow
the buk or hill il would not move them
from their places. aud am also told, lbu
have doubts abou, this latter assertion,
fiat drivers are sometimes compelled to
carry a rajl for the purpose of prying GU
the passengers at the, stopping places
You NAV imagine the effect Of beng thus
crowded without the possiblt y OF moving
Il limb. day after day and night after nigh
for several in succession. If there be any
Disposed to embark on the journey as q
matter Of pleasure, | would advise them 10
keenou.ct. Blu, sill, even such sltua ions
are not entirely devoid Of some redeem 6
quality. Companions in these minor mis-
eros seem TO feel at once the folly OF
i, humor or murm uring, and COCO
unure and jolli,y on all HAMS com
pcusate in some dcgree for the suffering
Incurred, and here let me give you pun
and pretty good one porpetFated by zone
of u.s. going 10 illustrate how different
causes may some lines produce the same
effects One OF our company was obSer-
we'd to contot his face in a manner ind ca
ting considerable degree Of pain, and on
beng questioned, clasped the limb he was
unable TO move, exclaiming "Oh the
lheumatis." The rheumaiis, exclaimed
wrv looking customer in the corner "Ihe
want o( room II. is" that troubles me-
With the exception Of incidents familiar TO
every Stage coach passenger, nothing par
i,cular occurred to mark our journey from
the place Of stating to the present terminus
of the central railroad at Kalamazoo. 1t
was my frs, view Of the country through
which we passed. and as a genera hing
found il exceedingly beautiful ana J
doubt not highly productive. After leaving
Michigan City the country presents almost
ono unbroken field of cultivation; beaui'Iu.
,i,r1 thl Ia