Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1849-05-29
THE MARCu or ImPROYEMENT.
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1 haHo5l FOR THE SPIRIfa or J~EFFERsOH.
Though not he Oldest man, il is within my re-
collection that a iourneysfrom Stanton To the
Ferry occupied a week, and when the roads were
not good, longer. -
W Old Booker with his stag as l0ag and as an-
cushioned as q wood wagOn.crawled from the first
to the lastlnaped pIaee-wheTe the travelertar
rying all night, rose tieanext morning besOse day
at the it@ang of the stage-horn, and i9 q Hat
boat crossed 10 the opposite Maryland shore
Traveller. look out the next time You cross on tie
Railroad and. see below tile sort of pleasure -.
cursions it must have been. )
Ar old friend informed me, shortly since, how
he wandered into the Kitchen before day IN search
of his boots and received the harsh IN word,
who is there? from fhe old hostess, who It would
seem, never slumbeFed nor slept! And then
bounding from rock to rock, not to say PreciPlce,
wended their way 10 Frederick city, taking one
mortal dayAandthencet to Baltimore, tie next
Now upon the wings dfstram the locomotive
sweeps over all this grOundsin a brief hour or
housekeeping not more hours than days FOR
merly. Truly we live iHan age,of Improvement
This bTiRgs me to Think of the ingratitude OF
man TO man.
Returnibg TO WinelIester, there Is another cd
route 10 Baltimore, via Wizard Clip, Chat re-
nowned spot ofeueiantment,9 to ShepherdstOwp;
near the toll-gate The modern traveller, as he aP-
proaches this latter place, about tbe third house
on his right, tvill,see AlsmaA log bat. TLis dat
once contained all that was6loitAi as we!Ias i'm
NORTH of Rntnsey, the FIRST inventor of steam
fpoweFs3 Tradition Teeoants1a and history records
THAT this inventor, philosopher and great beneiac-
tor,was d~enofiinaied By the good people of that
would NOT perhapss set in lar rooms aud g~TDggerite
andSuponsstore boxes and taik !4ta .
This great man made the Fret experiment oil
motlye-pnwerbystedm upon our father of waters
the Potomac, &c shepbsTdstown, infhe presence
of hundreds, many surviving TO this4aay and tes-
ffsfufnr rn Gefaf GaREeatrEE FIsf1a4fs-fIE ll-t-
Tel il not i'm Gath! This immortal mansTe-
ceiyed no ssaid aud e5nf0Ft1 from his ioVtn &c
veTnInent, and vending his way across theiodea1
to England. made his !wayito the Philosophical
Society," OF London. and IN his lecture be
fore that learned BODY fell andezpfredl THUS
persisted one Of the 9greatestbenelactor 10 man
tsnsRor6t 0moreg
An mPosToR-Th mdisldaai calling hfmsei
HDr9SlFMs Hewlett, who has been lecllrfng OF
Temperanee here ia tie Valley, and elsewhere
in Virginia, we are soFJy 10 Etafe, isupworfby o
the confidence and respect Of the honoFabfa ana
Respectable Order Of tie Sons of Temperance, Il
tshtchlhe professes tebelong We have . lettel
Son of Temperapce al StaiiardsviIie whieirsat
Isles ns faily fhatDr- Hewiettis aseampsof III
first order. Ielectured ontEe pTopgety Ten
perance II several points nsEastern Va. tCul
+ pepper and Madison GonrtHonses included, an,
then gave before he left, a practical IlustFatioI
lot "Reminiscences n his o~n person.
DR.. IL is ia Tie h~abitofhnying public cotlee
tons taken up Tor him WHEREVER be goes; and o
qnartefing himself and family upon hose who ar
kind enough 10 take him In free Of charge.
We feel under some obliention o tbe Sonso
Temperance thus to notice tais worthy. especial
tly asthe writerofthis paragraph weskindenougl
To furnish him Recommendations at his request
Editors who wish 10 warn The Sons OF Tem
perance against an unprincipted impostor, Wild
we'll il Dr. II the benft Of a notice.
IRock1ggaain Reg