The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-10-08
travelling Experience --Crying In
Justice.

u1on. So overpowering were my
lihgs tlat, lest | mightcommit some
indiscretion, was induced to wait
until their efTervescence was somewhat
assuaged. The world is full of wrong
and outrage,
.sMy ear is panied, my soul Is sick,
With every days report"
But this enormity makes me sickest
Of all.
Its difficult to describe it. ! do
hot pretend to do justice to the sub
ieet. But let any gentleman unac-
tonpanied by a lady undertake to
aayel by car and boat, from Cincin-
natl to Boston, and see what will be-
come of him. In the first place for
I6dging-he may be in the gurret he
BIKE may find himself in the cellar, or,
olman's Win Waddle, over the oven.
lltef of puppies, with their worthy
mamma, may be turned out, homeless
and houseless to the pitiless world, in
order to accommodate him in the dark
closet behind the bar-room. Or like
John Van Buren, at s., he may
be furnished with blanket on the
floor, and serve by way of leaping
bar for the agility of all the exits and
entrances. In the cars, how will he
fare? ? If he enjoys prospect, let
him wait whole day, be the first on
board, and take a seat by the window,
he may keep it till nearly the time of
starting, and the seats are filed, when
up comes a gentleman, "Sir, will you
have the kindness to let this lady have
your seat" "Certainly," said II
mean certainly" says our traveller,
provided the lady allows me the other
part of it," No, that won't do, the
escort wants that himself. The un-
fortunate elected trusts to providence
and his own ingenuity,
We come now to the boats. Our
traveller is the first on board he OBJ
serves a long range of state rooms,
just vacated by the landed passengers.
He applies, and is informed that they
are not for him. He is introduced to
cavity below deep water mark and
the light of day, equivalent to the
after cockpit in a man-of-war--a re-
gion Of eternal candle light-the Tar
tarus of midshipmen.
He takes a view of the premises
and observes the narrowness of the
passage to them. The whole prospect
is appalling. Only one cheering re.
Election occurs, but that is brilliant
one, that as steamboats, blow up and
not down, in that contingency his limbs
will escape dispersion, the boat may
be weighed, and his body be restored
to his disconsolate friends. At last,
from sheer exhaustion, he is compel
led to take his assigned birth, the up
per shelf in the tier. He partly loses
himself in a forgetlulness of corporeal
trouble; but shadowy forms, parte-
colored demons are lowering round in
the darkness, rendered visible by the
cabin lamp. He wakes in a profuse
perspiration, endeavors to make his
escape, in his descent makes STEP
ping stool of the head of No. /, pro-
truded for fresh air, and is saluted
with a howl of anguish. The demons
have distracted his boots. He rushes
up the ladder, makes his way through
the Nomadic nations of the deck
mounts the forward ladders to the
forecastle, and seated on the heel ol
the bowsprit, like Patience with the
tooth.ache, awaits for morning.
He gets cold fragments at the third
table for breakfast, is landed and tempt'
fate again in the cars-so ends the
chapter.
Some years ago it was proposed il
the New York Legislature, to lay
tax upon bachelors of a certain age
upon what principle | cannot conceive
unless they thought to tax celibacy as
luxury. But this was not the worst o
it, Mr.. Editor, they were going to ex
onerate the dogs from taxation and
supply the fiscal deficiency by amercing
the aforesaid useful class of citizens
1t made a tremendous uproar. There
was an indignation meeting; the whole
celibacy of Wall Street turned out en-
masse. 1t unfortunately happened thai
the floor of the hall Of meeting was