Blue hen's chicken. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1848-1854, 1854-07-28

IN "A LlI----N T. W -AnEN-1hNfNNi' Hh-Nb
ESSEN RAIL AD--B0oNTON, &c.
Accompanied by our wife and family, on Mon
day wcei; last we started on travel intending tol
visit New York Boouton Falls, n. j., and after
wards the lakes and Niagara via tile Erie Rail
lload DunSrls and Bunlo. We left Wilmington
ia the u O'Clock train in the morning. Ourlitte
hoy had been quite sick with the summer COM
plant for some time past. Medicine appeared
~ do him but little good lie appeared to droop
.su,l get no better. by the advice OF DR.. AS
kew, our family physician, VIC hurried OH with
Him. anf strange to relate by the time we had
reached Philadelphia, sickness appeared to have
LETT him, and after arriving at Boonton Falls N
J. at night, he went to sleep, and never woke
until next morning, although for several nights
previous his suflerines every now and then dis
trrbed his rest. The "trip perfectly cured
Kim. He had nothing Of sickness the whole
titae he was gone. We recommend change of
ais to all children who are sick Of similar dis
s,ac After arriving at Philadelphia We took
the clrs at Jersey City, having been furnished
with pass by the polite and intelligent agent
~ Philadelphia, Mr.. Ga;zmer. We made the
"Trip roin Philadelphia to
NEWARK,
WNlcn Is Hbout Twelve miles from new olhs IN
iliree and half hours. Newark is city Of
'a about 90, 600 inhabitants. 1t bears about the
eamc relation to New York Wilmington does
20 Philadelphia Immense amounts OF machi-
ier carriages, leather, &C., are manufactured
lere. Ii is the hlndsomcst city we have ever
agen- 1te strccta are from two to three times Ms
arold as those Of Wilmington. They have sew
Grad pretty squares in which beautiful trees
tmuch larger proportion of The houses are
ifnne, than in this city, and they have wider
fronts. But they, as all the houses In Nor
tharn Jersey, arc built with more taste and or
giHsat than frames here, with far more liberal
iisc Of White paint, which adds greatly TO the
beauty of the building. We saw here, as we ai-
forwards saw in Williamsburg, what we consid-
erred new feature in the business OF this town,
Al least what we had not noticed at previous
visits, and that q number of large and roomy
fruit and vegetable stores, in which very large
ftecFs Of al the fruit and vegetables ofihc scs.
rerc keptand sold nj prices we thought not high
Grand We believe little owerthan those Of SINH
lar descriptions in ourovn markets. One storcwc
s1.y must have had at least 800 boxes Of elegant
raspberries exposed for sale,-the price was s
cents per box. In Newark, as in every other
Tlace in the Union, may be found Delawarians,
amongst thom is Mr.. Thomas Horn, Of Pc
ter Horn, formerly of this city. After partaking
OF IN excellent dinner at Stewards Hotel, where
we advise every one who visits that place to
stop; Ut quarter TO FIVE, we tosk the cars on
the
MoHRrs AND Essex RAN Roam
Tc Boonten Falls. This Road was commenced
some ten or twelve years ago, to connect New
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habltants not apparently any larger than Smyf-
ma in this State 1t is carried through very
mountainous country far rougher than any that
could be met with between here and the Central
Rail Road, the route Of our proposed Brandy.
wine Rail Poad, yet strange to relate, it has paid
good nteres. from the jump. 1t has since been
carried some twenty or thirty miles further into
the interior Of tic rocky, billy country through
Dover, place about the size of Delaware City
TO Haclzensack town OF little or no Importance
We were astonished at the immense amount Of
business done, and have wondered whore il
could all come from. We counted eight large
cars, crowded with passengers, which, however
were dropped at tic different depots as they
proceeded in the country, car every now and
then being detached from the train, until when
we reached Denyille, where we took the stage
seven miles TO Roonton. all tbe cars had bce0
detached nom The train Int swo. The denots
anneared IA he obout every ,wo n,,,os ~
mora trcouent stonnares vera made ,,,ss -,
sny road NE ever travelled on bcrors A. M.
road is connected with No other In, n,src,, r,,,,.
into ths conntry. creating r. o,sn h,s,,a a','
ssme estimate may be termed Of ,,,e rns;ras s,
which In time might he created IN, or pro,,a,.
,slse road, which would run througb n s,r,h,,