Washington telegraph., 1850-01-30
For the Telegraph.
ADVENTURES OF A LETTER.

ADVENTURES OF "A LETTER
would propose. in as hasty manner as possi-
BILE, to give you short history of my life and
travels 1 had my origin in the Federal city,
being formed there by of the most beautiful
young creatures in the world. A uxurant growth
OF dark brown hair fell loosely upon her snowy
neck; pair of eyes--dark rolling eyes, which
would challenge the stars for brilliancy; and
cheeks, delicately tinged with the milk and rose;
falr and expansive forehead, the appearance
oil which gave evidence of high order of intellect;
TO all this she added pair of the smallest, fairest
hands imaginable. In short, her whole appearance
was such as to lead captive the most stubborn
heart IN bacherIord0m
1t was on lovely evening, about the first day
! vi december OF the past year, that hrst "saw
the light" My mistress was seated by rich and
costly table, with my fair and sPotess form before
her. Grasping in her slender, jewelled fingers
beautiful gold pen, she soon began to freight me
with the feelings which swelleG her lovely BOSOM
! They were weIled forth i'm beauty of style and
elegance of dction at which was astonished and
stricken with admiration Soon my entire
surface covered with burning words, breathing
love, constancy and devotion. Being finished,
those same lovely hands embodied me carefully and
slipped me into beautiful fancy envelopes; sealed
me with an appropriate motto, and, with kiss
handed me to a servant to carry to the 'post."
mere L found myself in large assembage of
strangers, none of whom l knew or had ever seen
before. Upon inquiry, L learned that number
designed travelling IN the same direction l
going. After remaining with them for some time
quite clever looking gentleman came and ex-
amined each of us, when were, several in IA
package, carefully enclosed tied and placed in the
mail, which was to transport each of us to our
pont OF destination. In short time we were all
removed and placed in the cars when | found
myself flying at almost incredible speed
mountains, hills and dales were all passed ere they
could be seen; rivers and lakes were left behind
Frequently we stopped in small villages, were
merely examined and passed After several
hours L surprised to find myself unpacked
Very soon, however, l was replaced in another
package with crowd of strangers, when We were
placed upon steamboat, which gided swiftly
down the current of beautiful river. After some
days found myself upon the bosom Of the ''great
father of waters" b,rne down by the ..turbid
waters OF that mighty river--tle juguar vein Of
the western hemisphere. In the couse of two or
three days was landed and unpacked at a small
town called Napoleon, at the junction of the Ar
kansas and Mississippi rivers. With but short
delay was repacked and placed upon another
boat, and soon was powing the opposing curreLt
of the Arkansas. In few days was landed
at the city of Little Rock, the capital of the young
and fourishing State of Ark ansas. Here was
opened and closed again But o, horrible to tell.
80, thought worse than Of death.' l. who had
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i who had tr ,veled upon railroads and OH steam
boats-had known all the luxuries of traveI--now
doomed to take passage ln--wha? horrible thing
worse than a cart-that ia which, in nv native
land, the honest farmer would scorn to carry his
produce to market-nay, even to haul the manure
from his stalls to his garden-a horrible hickory
wIthed, rope-tied, nondescript concern upon two
wheels My travels had been so pleasant previ-
ously that l never had enquired who was the
proprietor OF any conveyance, but here my sersi-
bIes Were so shocked that inquired the names
OF the propretors. and was shown card. in which
Messrs. Snapp q Hanger declared themselves
"prepared to carry passengers in comfortable
and satisfactory manner, in good stages" We
left Little Rock, and instead of the former speed
at which | had travelled being accelerated, it came
down to the gait of the dull OK or stupid l
was exposed to every variety of weather, except
sunshine-snow, hail. sleet rain, mud and ice, all
had to be encountered. AT length, in our any,
thing sebut-a stage, we came to "a small creek,
"a little swollen by the recent rain, and notwitE-
standing desired to travel Immediately, the
driver declared it impossible, when perfectly
confident it was faise-ne turned back, and his
Uorthy employers retained him, liter thus Ioosng
a trip when there was no necessity under heavens
for it. l forced to remain till the next trip,
slowed away in old postofice. The next trip
came, and was started-croSsed the aloremen-
toned sream and came to the stopping place for
irozen,- having been exposed to a heavy rain on
that day. Early the next morning was ready
to start, but To- no stage had come from the other
end of the rOute-so here l had TO lie two days
without any comforts. At the expiration of that
time | started and came on, through mud and
water, till nearly night when, on the first
casion, another stream stopped US, without any
reason save the obstinacy of the driver, who knew
that he would never have to account for it, After
two more long, dreary days found myself travel
ing, and after having been on the road from Little
Rock to Washington as long from Washington
city to Little Rock, l found myself here, and the
first exclamation that greeted my ears was
"Hammond's got the contract again, by .-!'
l will only add as sequel, that when l was
unmaled here, | was taken to his room by
one who was anxiously expecting me, and his
heart made glad by the sentiments and declara-
tions which l brought. The beautiful envelope
which covered me when | started was so soiled
that you could scarcely have told my original
color, and all done between Lttle Rock and
Washington.
am. sir, with sentiments of respect,
Ever YOURS