Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-06-07

serve, then. that by using due diligence, in
reference to the connection of cars, boats, DC,
traveller, who embarks at Cincinnati may
reach New York in forty-ttOo hours, Thus
the departure and arrivals will be very nearly
as follows:
Leave Cincinnati, 5,h. 20 min. A. NJ.
81 Cleveland. III P. M.
Arrive a, New York, lih. Pm
This is allowing h. 40 M, Cleveland; h.
at Dunkirk and / h. longer than the Express
train, on the Erie Railroad-m making an allow
ance of h. 40 m. beyond what is claimed
as 10 speed of the lines; but, on the other
hand, allowing for regular connection, less
than two days will be. at any rate, the trip to
New York. Such is the event of to-day.
Now, let US 60 back and take a glance at
a Cincinnati gentlemen leaving this (then
country town. in 1912, to see his relatives in
New York. No stage then run this side of
Carlisle Pennsylvania land no steamboat
on the river, and keel boat, (the best water
conveyance Of that day. might get you to
Wheeling in three or four weeks! No stage
no steamboat no rail car-there remains no
resource for the gentleman 10 take his wife and
children, but to buy his horses and sor: of
wheeled carriage, hire his driver, and get a.
long as he can. He does so; and his first
ontlay is something like $500 for his horses
and carriage. Then he hires driver at SIS
ii month, and expenses paid. Then he must
lav in an assortment of tools consisting Of axe
hammer, screwdriver, ropes. halters, and tar
bucket, with some nails and screws After
this is done, pair of pistols, a supply of am
munition and two or three blankets must be
provided. In the wardrobe trunks must be
included several pair of sheets, if there is any
expectation Of sleeping any where!
We may suppose the party now to set out,
with some hopes Of ultimately seeing the New
York-a journey fully equivalent TO one now
to the Sandwich Island. Many are the OBJ
stacles they meet with but we will recite but
two or three, by way of samples. The old
road leads by WiliiHmsburgh TO Chillicothe,
and Lancaster to Wheeling. They get along
tolerably well to beyond Williamsburgh,w where
they plunge into the Whiteoak Swamp
Then for twenty miles the road is an uninter-
rupted Rallway-the rails laid the wrong way
and composed ofiarge logs. Thump--thump
-Bang-bang! "Oh! my back!
In very despair, wife and children get out.
and crawl over the logs, till the last
remnants of shoes and stockings are visible
through the mud pasteringl At length So
litary light CLEANS in the swamp-and the
party arrive, tired, hungry wet aud cross, at
the only loge house, within fifteen miles
But when there, there is some consolation in
the hearty welcome which awaits you, and
the cheerful company of travellers arrived be-
fore you, and loaded table, which is covered
with venison, wild turkey, corn bread. hot cof-
fee and fruit, in fine such princes cannot get
hao 1lo
which was it sauce
We need not recount scenes like these,
which day after day were repeated, till the
party arrive amidst the German settlements of
East Pennsylvania We will suppose them
arrived,at Jersey City. Do you think they will
drive into a steam Ferry, in two minutes? p
No,sir. Sail Ferries were not yet abolished.
The party are to go overin half-crazy.squal-
ly kind of craft, called a Periauger-a
schooner with slab-sides The party are to
have their horses and carriage put in by main
force, and then to be got over,as they can, in a
high wind, tossing about in this petty vessel
The journey takes month, and the reader
may imagine, under such circumstances, how
much of time and money are consumed be-
fore the family returns so their home in Ohio.
Behold the contrast Forty hours and twenty
dollars take you to New York.
We hesitate not 10 say, that the danger of
journey to California is less and the care of
it greater than was journey from Cincinnati
to New York forty years since. Civilization
is now doing her work over this entire conti-
nent, Happy,are they who receive her smiles
and enjoy her gifts! But happier yet will
they be, if when passed from the rude era of
The Pioneer to that of asuperior civilization
that they shall retain something of the Vir-
tue and Simplicity, the Hardihood and inte-
gritty, which gave that Pioneer the power to
become the Founder of an Empire.