Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-07-03
Surveyors who were going to La
Cross river, and we had a time Of gen.
eral rejoicing
ITO be continued
Flying Along the Railroad

Flying Along the Railroad.
Away, with shrek, and a roar,
and rattle, from the town, burrowing
among the dwellings of man, and ma
king the streets hum, flashing out into
the meadows for a moment, mining
through the damp earth, booming on
in darkness and heavy air, bursting out
again into the snnny day so bright and
wide; away, with shrek, and roar,
and rattle; through the fields, through
the woods, through the corn, through
the hay, through the chalk, through
the rock, through the mould, through
the clay; among objects close at hand
and almost in the grasp, ever flying
from the traveller, and deceitful dis
lance ever moving slowly with him;
like as the track of the remorseless
monster, Death!
Through the hollow, on the height,
by the heath, by the orchard. by the
park, by the garden. over the canal,
across the river, where the sheep are
feeding, where the mill is going, where
the barge is floating, where the dead
are lying, where the factory is smo-
king, where the stream is running,
where the village clusters, where the
great cathedral rises, where the bleak
moor lies, and the wild breeze smooths
or ruflles it at IFS inconstant will: a
way with a shrek, and roar, and a
rattle. and no trace to leave behind
but dark vapor; like as in the track of
the remorseless monster, Death!
Breasting the wind and light, the
shower and sunshine. away. and still
away ), it rolls and roars fierce and rap
i'd, smooth and certain, and great
works and massive bridges crossing up
above, fall like a beam OF shadow an
inch board upon the eye and then are
lost. Away and still away, onward
and onward ever: glimpses of cottage
homes, of houses, mansions, rich es-
tates, of husbandry and Ilandicraft, of
people, of old roads and paths that look
deserted, small and insignificant, as
they are left behind; and so they do,
and what else is there but such aglimpse
in the track of the indomitable mon
ster, Death9
Away, with shrek, and roar, and
rattle, plunging down into the earth
again, ard working out in such storm
of energy and perseverance, that a
mid the darkness and the whrlwind
the motion. seems reversed, and to
tend furiously back ward, until a ray
of light upon the wet wall shows its
surface flying past like a fierce stream.
Away once more into the day, and
through the day, with shrek Of ex-
ultation, roaring, and rafting, tearing
on, spurning everything with its dark
breath, somestimes pausing for min
ute where a crowd Of faces are, that
in minute more are not seen, now
tapping the water greedily; and before
the spout at which it drinks has ceas-
ed to drip upon the ground, shrieking,
roaring, rafting, 10 the purple dis
lance!
Louder and louder yet, it shrieks
and cries as it comes tearing resistless
to the goal; and now its way, still like
the way of Death, is strewn with ash
es thickly. Everything around is
blackened. There are dark pools of
water. muddy lanes, and miserable
habitations far below. There are jag
ged walls aud falling houses close at
hand. and through The battered roofs
and broken windows, wreiched rooms
are seen, where want, and fever hide
themselves in many wrctchcd shapes,
while smoky and crowded gables, and
distorted chimnies, and deformity OF
bricks and mortar penning up defor-
nifty OF mind and body, choke the
murky distance. As Mr.. Dombey
looks out of his carriage window, it is
never in his thoughts that the mon
ster who has brought him there has
let the light Of day in on these things;
not made or caused them. 1t was
the journeys fitting end Of every thing;
it was so ruinous and dreary Boz.
The Mines Of Merico.-We see it
stated that the number of mines IN
Mexico already known is between
three and four thousand. The largest
yield in any one year was $685.