Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-01-04
"reminiscences u Trayek
NUMBER ONE.


iss, | am now seated for the purpose
Of giving you 1 few sketches Of my
travels and observation during a trip
to the ssLand Of Flowers In the
outset | will not trouble you With a
concise detailof incidents during the
first few days, for the most Of your
readers are perhaps we'll acquainted
with the route.by hack and railroad
from Fayetteville to Atlanta OF. Ma
con. Thus far on our journey we
observed nothing more than is COM
monty observable, in railroad travel.
ling, BY any one, who is a close OBJ
server and a1student Of human ma.
lture. When we mounted the Fesrn,
giinoas crttur at Decherdi 5 depot.
|and we're being hurled alorg oye1
I ! 49,
mountain cragsy and yawnipg cav
erns, we felt as if we had been ia
tkene up into the circulation of the
/ great commercial system; and aftel
coursiug along for q length Of time
through its various !. ramifcations
would be finally cast upon the bo
som Of "Old Oceans wave" which
we found to, be so after looking II
! 1.-THE glass. On board of the cars
/ found men Of various sorts and sizes
Las you might expec:s. and also Of wa
lrious tempers and dispositions, from
"a clever-hearted, unsuspeoting lay
} man, up to the learned and dignifiee
herald Fof the cross; and from theme,
down to the most ldetestable spur
that ever smoked cigar or wore
La three cent moustache in Broadway
i | have often read Of Know Moth
J, tings, but in travelling it has gener
orally been my lot TO find a grea
many who know it ALL judginl
from their looks, And ! have seel
ladies who came so near. talking it all
that l have often wondered if the,
Il were not related to- the. Frenchmal
and Englishman who had q talkinI
match, a few years, ago in New Or
slleans; the result Of which was, that al
liter a certain lapse Of TIM, the Eng
iishman was found dead and Ii
Frencbman lying whispering in III
ear. When | see a gentleman tray
cling on the cars with, his fine cane
his moustache curled, his hair stat
!, quo, his kids on, and entirelywrappe
up in the latest novel; his over-coa
and himself individually, we alway
feel curious to know where lie go
his Jrouyhtsn APP and whether hi
dear mamma has a knowledge of hi
: whereabouts. When / look over in
to that back seat at those two fin
young ladies who seem to think NOR
,, of themselves than anybody else,
at once think how much few yard
Of domestic and silk benr''s greas
and pearl white, Whale-bone and 9th
er stufling, do assist in making al
object so killing, so NICE $50 ad
! mirable. In another seat there sit
an old man reading a newspaper, n
doubt eagerly searching for the spric,
of cotton, the amount Of hog
packed at Louisville or Cincinnati
and don't care If there was not
yard Of silk in the world. I'll be
his daughter (if he has one) cal
! make loom quake, milk a COW, cool
a nice dinner or make soap-suds fl,
equal to a young steamer. Tier,
) sits smother young lady on the otheI
side who looks SO nice, so primp, 81
angelic. Roll on silver moon.
1 thinks Ito myself. What, a wife 70,
4 poor man! But I reckon she's go1
the dough. yhose eyes too beautiful
/ 70 look on anything but that, upor
(which nature has ,layished her rich
est tints. b Having a heart full 8,
] joy and glsdness; Syren songs AID
wakefdl ,melodies; dreams Of love
and happiness fitting across hei
Emental vision and all 10 all too sweet
q creature to dwell 1on this sad earth
| where misery and wretchedness SO
often meetthe gaze. Hoot,o boot
goes theengino and we oyertakes an.
other depot. Alasl there goes our
sweet, angelic creature. She is going
Ito leave US. My mental vision goes
along With her; Iasee her at home:
THERE'S a log cabin and little tow
headed children standing IN the door,
half a dozen old calicy dresses hanrs
ing round the wall, the old lady Sit
ting in one corner smoking, and the
old Tome in the other about half
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