The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-08-08
CORREsPONDENCE.
STEAMER SARATOGA, LAKE ERIE, }

July outti, lSOU.
Nix DEAR SANDERS But few of our peo-
pie in the West have formed any correct
ideas OF the facilities offered both 10 travel
ers and those who stay at home, by The in
PRODUCTION OF Railroads. With us in EvaI s.
vile there is one road BY which we can take
mail coach early in the morning, and after
being shaken hard all day, can sleep tfty-tive
miles from where we set out, and there is on
ly one road on which we can enjoy that ques-
tionable pleasure. In any other direction by
land if one can sleep after whole days
travel by land, forty miles from home we think
we have done well. These rates are attain
ed when the roads are COOL, but for weeks
and even months in the year, notwilh stand-
ing the business and prosperity of our city.
we can scarcely travel from or 10 it by land
at any speed, and to make a journey OF twen-
ty miles, by land, at those seasons is 10 en-
counter u positive hardship and gencrally Sc
rious exposure. How widely different is the
situation OF those towns and cities where rail-
roads have been constructed. 1t is common
Tor men 20 spend the summer with their fam
lilies, at what We call a day's-journcy from
their business, and yet 90 in to their business
every morning and out TO their families every
evening. Ii we, after the heat oil the sum-
mer's day is over, mount horse and ride
five miles into the country and back to a late
tea, we think we have been very active bot
one afternoon, when in Boston, started az
ter o'clock, went out thirty-iive miles on
one railroad, then in another: and twenty
five miles on another road, stopping at doz-
en- or more towns on the way, and took tea
by daylight. The following day spent till
between four and five O'Clock, in the country,
and then returned TO tea at Boston By two
other railroads about the same distance.
Leaving New York about O'Clock p. NJ.
by the New Haven Railroad, you reach y.
Haven, distant rs miles from n. Y, before
sunset. You then cross the middle of Con-
necucut and run TO Springfield, far 10 the
State of Massachusetts, 10 tea Getting into
the cars again at Springfield, you rush on,
through the darkness, and about midnight
find yourself in Bosion-two hundred and
thirty miles from where you started late in
the afternoon.
The route most generally travelled from
New York to Buffalo affords fine specimen
Of both speed and comfort in travelling ai
half-past six in the afternoon. You take one
of the Hudson steamers< The most magnifi-
cent in the country. You get Il nights rest
on board, amidst all the comforts and neccs-
saries of well flrnitured stateIoom. You
find yourself at Albany by daylight in the
morning-dstant from New York $50 miles
At a quarter past A. NJ, you take the
RI ilroad for Buffalo. running over seven dis
tine; yail dads, through beautiful country
and stopping ut r'any beautiful towns and
cities. YOU arrive in Bu:9.slO at nine o'clock in
the eveniog-ihree hundred and twenty-five
miles from where you breaklasteo, or i0uT
hundred aud seveEly-liye miles from whe.'e
you took boat the evening previous.
These are the things that rdosi of our peo-
pie now only hear of. II they choose they
may, in three our four years. see similar
things in their own State. Yours
b.