Litchfield enquirer., 1850-09-26

Co SuSn rom US own mouth and stomach i; as well as from the engine's brazen ab domen.
 "Do my eyes deceive me {? "ciied :" What on earth is this ! living crea ture ? ifso, he is own brother to the en zine that he rides upon!''
 Poh, poh, you are obtuse '" said Mr Smooth>it>away, with a hearty laugh "Don't you know Apollyn, Christian. , old enemy, with whom he fought SC fierce battle in the Valley of Humilia, tion? He was the very fellow to man, age the engine and so we have recon oiled him to the custom of going on pilgrimage. and engaged him as chief conductor.
 Bravo, bravow exclaimed I, with irrepressible enthusiasm, "this shows the liberality of the age; this proves, if any thing can, that all musty prejudices are in a fair way to be obliterated. And how will Christian rejoice to hear of this happy transformation of his old antago. mist! I promise myself great pleasure in informing him of it, when we reach the Celestial City"
 The passengers being all comfortably seated, we now rattle away merrily, ac- complishing greater distance in ten minutes than Christian probably trudged over in day. It was laughable while we glanced along, as it were, at the tail of thunderbolt, to observe two dusty foot travellers, in the old pilgrim guise, with cockleshell and staff, their mystic rolls of parchment in their hands, and their intolerable burthens on their backs. The preposterous obstinacy of these honest people, in persisting to groan and stumble along the difficult pathway, rather. than take advantage of modern improvements, excited great mirth among our wiser brotherhood We greeted the two pilgrims with many pleasant gibes, and a roar of laughter whereupon, they gazed at us with such woeful and ab- surdly compassionate visages, that our merriment grew tenfold more obstreper- ous. Apollyon, also. entered heartily into the fun, and contrived to flirt the smoke and flame of the engine, or of his own breath, into their faces, and envelope them in an atmosphere of scalding steam. These little practical jokes amused us nightly, and. doubtless, afforded the pilgrims the qualification of considering themselves martyrs. .5.. Al some distance from the railroad. Mr. Smooth-it.away pointed to a large antique edi6ce, which, he observed, was a tavern of long standing, and had for merly been a noted stopping place for pilgrims. In Bunyan's road book, it is mentioned as the Interpreters House.
 "I have long had curiosityt to visit that old mansion" remarked I.
 "It is not one of our stations, as you perceive" said my companion. "The keeper was violently opposed to the rail road and well he might be, as the track left his house of entertainment on one side, and thus was pretty certain to de- prive him of all his reputable customers. But the foot-path still passes his door and the old gentleman now and then res ceives call from some simple traveller, and entertains them with fare as old fashioned as himself. ...f..
 Before our talk on this subject came to a conclusion, we were rushing by the place where Christians burthen, fell from his shoulders, at the sight of the Cross. This served as theme for Mir. Smooth it-away, Mr. Iive-for-the>world, Mr. Hide-sin-in>the hearth, Mr. Scaly-con- science. and knot of gentlemen from the town of Shun-repentance, to descant upon the inestimable advantages result. ing from the safety of our baggage. My self and all the passengers indeed, joined with great unanimity, in this view of the of the matter; for our burthens were rich in many things, esteemed precious throughout the world; and especially, we each of us possessed great variety of favorite Habits, which we trusted would not be out of fashion, even in the polite circles of the Celestial City. Il would have been sad spectacle to set such an assortment of valuable article, tumbling into the sepulchre. Thu pleasantly conversing on the favorable circumstances of our position, as compar ed with those of past pilgrims, and o narrow minded ones at the present day we soon found ourselves at the foot o the Hill Difficulty. Through the very heart of this rocky mountain, a tunnel ha been constructed, of most admirable ar chitecture. with lofty arch, and spa cious double track so that, unless tn earth and rocks should chance to crum ble down. it will remain an eternal mon ument of the builders skill and enterprise It is great, though incidenta! advantage that the materials from the heart of th' Hill Difficulty have been employed in fil ling up the Valley of Humiliation thu obviating the necessity of descending in to that disagreeable and unwholesom' hollow.
 "This Is a wonderful; improvement indeed" said I. "Yet l should have been glad of an opportunity to visit thu