The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-05-11

a IHprsvenenss 81 the ago.
"Thc last q rhe mountain stages.r u ths
title ofan article going the rounds Of ~ news
paper press auosncing that the frst through
train from Baltimore to Wheeling arrived a
the latter city in January. With he Pea
1862 e'ssed sP the famous business of coach
riding over the Allegheny mountains. A co.
temporary speaking of this fact, ssys:-- 2 :
1.-THE rout from Baltimore to Wheeling haa
been the most remarkable stage reai ia the
Union. 1t has been the great thorough fare
between the West and East. Merchants and
statesmen Of the West who had been long q,
their respective vacations, have rolled oveI
those mountains year after year till familiag
with all their peaks. The great Nsdonslrost
usually known a. tho Cumberland road, was
the best carriage road Of considerable length
in the country. A post coach ride upon it was
not at all disagreeable, except in making the
passage over the mountains. The distance
from Cumberland at the foot Of the eastern
slope to Uniontown at the foot Of the western
was about sixty miles, and the ride between
those two points was no holiday task. The
rlow and toiIsome ascent was tedious and
weary in the extreme, while the rapid and per-
ilous descent, was quite sufficient to satisfy
the boldest lover Of adventure. In cold
weather when the cliff are glaripg with ice,
the passage was thrillingly hazardous. All
this came to an end at the begipn' ng, Of. the
present year. The back bone of the Alle-
ghanies has been broken. The great natural
partition wall between the Mississippi and the
ATLANTIC has been battered down, and, crowds
Of travellers in easy, luxurious carriages, will
roll over the iron rail from the Father Of wa.
tiers to the mighty ocean," -r,is
To show the improvement that has tskep
place in the manner of travelling within the
last forty years, we publish couple Of ex.
tracts from the journals ofour fathsr, and con.
trsst them with the present mods Of BE-
ing whirled over the same ground BY railroad
TIE first extract was written in 1918, when
the sites of our Railroads were almost impas-
SADLY muddy roads. and at time when our
western waters bore nothing on their bosomi
larger than fist-boat. The second ives writ
ten on the same shess Of pepsr s''snty-sro gears
subsequently,. .fsa1aa esf .ress8,s 80 r =
JOURNAL TO PHILADELPHIA AND BACK IN 1878.
Left Cincinuati about the let Of March, 1913,
for Philadelphia, on horseback. Went BY the
way Of Lancaster. GAINESVILLE. w heeling, to
Brownsville, in sb out ten days. The roads
being extremely muddy, and being much fati-
gued, rested there a day or two. From thence
BY the way Of Uniontowu, Hsgsrstown, to
Baltimore, in about eight days more. The
roads through the mountains in many
places being almost iupassabls. Stayed
one day in Baltimore, and proceeded on
to PiIadelphia, and arrived there in three days
more. Stayed in Philadelphia two or thres
weeks. Purchased an sssortment Of goods.
Sent them in wagons to. Pistsburg, to de de-
livered there in twenty-five days, at 81 per
hundred pounds. Sold my horse and took the
stage to Chambersburg. $50 miles. The
roads were extremely bad and verv muddy,
90 much so that had to welk considerable
part Of the way. Thence to Brownsville.
abou, $50 miles further; two of the passen-
gers in the stage, and myself, agreed to walk,
rs it was over mountains and roads exces-
sively bad. Arrived there in about ten
days. Bought boat in Brownsville. Purch.
ased iron-csstings, nails, glassware, &C.. and
boated them down to Pitisburg. Lay at the
wharf about week. waiting for my good.
for which had to pay the carriage there
Took them in the bost. snd in nine o., ten
days arrived at Cincinnati, being gone from
home about three months II. SANDERS.
JOURNAL TO PHILADELPHIA AND BACK IN 1895
Left Cincinnati on the 10th of May, 1895,
for Philadelphia, in . steam-eoat; two days
and half to Wheeling. From thence in the
stage on the national road, in two days to
Fredericktown. Thence by railroad so miles,
in one half day to Baltimore. Thence By
steam boats and rail road, hours to Phila,'el-
phis; being something less than elk days from
Cincinnati to Philadelphia. Stayed in Phil
adelphia about two weeks. Purchased an
assortment Of goods. Shipped them on the
canal to Pittsburg, to be delivered in ten days,
at Si,37 per hundred pounds, payable in
Cincinnati. Left Phi.adelphia by rail road
SO miles to Columbis, in little over one half
day. This is splendid railway. On q
small portion of which the cars are propelled
by horse power; the balancs the BY locomo-
tive steam engine. From Columbia, about
$50 miles, in two days to Holhdaysburg.-
thence by railroad through the mountains, %
miles, in few hours to Johnstown. Thence
by canal, in about one day, little over one
hundred miles, to Pittsburg; making four Days
from Philadelphia. From thence in steam
boat, in about three days to Cincinnati; max
ing little over one week from Philadelphia,
and gone from home four days less then one