The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-10-29
CORRE REsPoNDENCE.

This is the Sth day we have been
out from st. Louis and at this present
writing we are now passing Coum-
bia, Arkansas. The river is very low,
navigation tedious and somewhat dan
gerous. TO one accustomed to travel
on the rails, this steamboating is dull
business indeed. In very short while
but few will travel by steamboats, and
our magnificent floating palaces will be
laid up to rot or turned into carriers
Of freight. just so SOON as tho Mobile
road Is completed to Cairo and the
New Orleans road to Nashville, pas
sengers will all take those routes and
the Father Of Waters will no longer
bear on his mighty bosom the great
travelling Public. Already the road
from Cincinnati to Cairo is completed
and in two weeks, the cars will be
running. From Cairo to Chicago, the
road will be certainly finished by the
1st Of next March. Thus soon, very
soon we will ride on the delightful
ya,i from N. Orleans to Montreal. II
we will only think Of it, we have
great country. Our railroads would
encircle the whole world, our Cotton
makes clothes for all creation, our Su-
gar swectens the tea and coffee Of half
the civilized world. while our Tobacco
supplies "bitter cud' for jew. Gen
tile and turbaned Turk" Our meat
and bread reach the starving mouths
Of Europe, while our hemp hangs the
felops of all lands and on all seas. If
we can only live quietly and content
edly together for quarter Of centu-
~ longer, only twenty five years, what
a country we would have Every rail.
road now projected would then be
completed, and trip from N. York
to San Francisco would be an every
day affair. Every public building
now commenced would DO finished and
the banks Of the Mississippi from the
BaliKe to St. Paul would blossom as
the rose and present the grandcst
scene of mineral and agricultural
wealth the world ever saw God grant
that those horrid spectres of our polit-
ical death, Abolitionism and disunion.
may be driven from the land, and that
our country may continue to march
on, in her glorious career, with her
banners high advanced among the
great nations of the earth.
We have very pleasant party on
our boat returning home. Our fellow
citizens, Messrs. James and G. G..
Mediation with their amiable and ac-
complishel wives are on board. We
have. good many young ladies,
among them Miss w. late of Ky,
now Of Mo. This is a very pretty
young lazy, with the richest suit of
raven hair | almost ever saw. Hav-
ing just left school and visiting our
country in company with her relatives,
she has all the buoyaucy Of life and
gaiety Of disposition, peculiar to the
Ky. girls. Every evening after tea,
we bring up the fiddler and have
dance, then we have waltz aud always
wind up with the fancies. This dane
ing off the ills Of life is great thing.
Show me the lady who indulges much
in tripping the fantastic toe or
gentleman who is very fond of dancing
and | will show you one who never has
the blues, those horrid incubi that
carry in their train vexation, trouble,
woe and suicide.
Our good friend Capt. Tunnard is
on board He is the favorite of every
for true to his character he
has beer acting the good samaritan {
all the way. On the tirst day he was
asked by the clerk to take the Capt's
place at the table, and being a very s
accommodating man. he compiled {
Ever since, Le has KEEP: his place aud :
many take him to bo the bona6de
Capt. Of Che boat Al old lady went
up to him the other day and asked I
him for dose of purgative pills with ,
out any caIomal in them. The Capt. t
made the pills and gave them to her,
adding as be gave them he hoped they i.
would soork her we'll Soon he was L
called in to see cholera patient. The r
Capt prescribed and in little while d