Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-09-27
ReDAY MORNING, SEPT. 81, 1856.
A sAort journey and few of It's Ii

Cidents.
DPS! APples Hho '0alas to Juy some DIP
1'ss? Three for penny apiece ! t'
| Wherever you may travel, whether through
the fhoroughfare of the great city, or tn
mos secluded village with which our Rail
road< connect, the ''appIe boy' is ever pre-
sent <cady to greet you with his wit and t,
evld<Pce to you, at once, and in the most un
aliec4d manner, the peculiarities of the sec
ton the country to which he belongs. /
/ Is lIesant, always, to meet the little urchin
for dependent of his apples, his vocation
Of 1ise'f, awakens in the mind home associa.
lions md pleasant thoughts. How often i:
s g. kever, that the boy, eager after the
prot of his traffic, is hindercd by some un.
or, 70 say the least of it, thoughtles.
pal, with thousand inconsistent
q 8 oeftainly, as general thing, not
2626|e or becoming to the partie.
c5'eE7nsd. u 3 not AZ az tent hA
the man who will, with the utmost uncon.
cern, spend his quarter at the cigar stand, oil
his half dollar at the bar, detains the ju-
venile apple yender with the details of
bargain, until the little fellow, with teal
trembling in his eye and stifed sigh escap-
ing from his lips, is hurried by the sound Of
the whistle from the cars. Old persons and
young persons forget that a penny's profit
made by the boy, in his little mercantile ope-
rations, contributes more pleasure to his
mind than does the realization Of hundred
times that amount TO the veteran in business.
The habit, then, that many men indulge in,
of interrupting and annoying the miniature
tradesman alluded to. is an outrage upon ja-
venile enterprise in general, and decency in
particular, and should be censured by every
person who experiences single recollection
of the fitful joys and sorrows of his boyhood.
The writer of this, however, has no inten.
ton of moralizing upon the virtues or i'm
moralities of the day, although the fault has
been "chqrged to his account" of pencha,,t
that way in nearly all his efforts at narrative
composition. 10 commence, then, it is un-
necessary for him to say that he enters with
great reluctance, always, upon the discharge
of such duty-partly from the fact that a
great many individuals have Travelled and
have given to the public, through the news
paper press, some most astonishing accounts
of things and places that had already been
described ten thousand times, and partly be-
cause he has too little taste for the dcscrip-
tue to enjoy making a picture of what he
has seen AMI what he has heard, rather than
what he has felt to be fact and reasoned to
be truth. During few weeks past, the
writer has travelled more than six thou
sand miles, and, although he "started OUT
with the intention of giving the readers OF
the Sentinel the benefit Of his observations
where they were benefit to himself,-yet
sickness, in the incipiency of his journey
threw him off of his balance, and he return.
ed to Indianapolis without having enligt-
caed his patrons in the slightest degree. Al
this t,0add7e, however, will illuminate tn,
conceptions of the patient and perseverine
reader but little, he will now, with a few
alternate transpositions of the third persona
pronoun singular, and the first personal pro
noun plural, commence with his
VISIT TO FoRT WAYNE.
This was begun on Thursday-one weel
and one day since the present writing. T.
go to Fort Wayne you should take the after
noon cars on the Bellefontaine Railroad "a
Bellefontaine you will meet the cars goinl
north on the Lake Eric and Mad River Rail
road, which you must leave at little tow
called Forrest, where the cars on the Ohi
and Indiana Railroad will carry you to you
hours from the moment of starting. 1t wa
our bad fortune TO take the morning instea'
of the evening train; and, as a consequence
two days and one night were consumed IL
making the trip This was a matter Of m
particular regret, as our delay gave us tn
benefit of several very agreeable acquaint
ances and of rather an intimate knowledge o
some, to us, nel0 sections of the country
Could word from his pen be a suflicien
tribute to the merits of Mr.. WARD, whoSl tn
writer met, the first time, as Conductor on tn
Bellefonsaine Railroad, it should be engrav
ed in living letters upon steel, for certainl.
it has never been oar good fortune to foril
the acquaintance of a more deserving o
efficient public agent than this gentleman
There seems to be some derangement how
ever, in the running of this road matte
probably attributable, not to any negligenc
of the parties concerned, but to the lat
change in its officers and the new nlodus ope
randi by which things arc hereafter to b
conducted. The name of Mr.. JOHN BRoUGH
connected with the Presidency, is a sufficien
guaranty to the public that every nccessar.
energy and efficiency will be given to hi
railroad management--a branch of servic
for which he is peculiarly and pre-eminentl.
qualified.
The Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad
running from Dayton TO Sandusky, is nov
doing most lucrative business. We wer
highly gratided with the evidence of pros
perity of which the immense travel upon it
cars is a certain indication We were pal
ticularly gratified with this,-on account @
the great opposition the Company in questio
has met with from competing parties, as it
proof satisfactory, that the energetic and ac
commodating management of the officer
meets the approval of the public. Anon
these gentlemen, it is the good fortune c
the writer to enjoy the acquaintance of tn
Superintendent, Mr.. f. F. OSBORNE, whor
we would now congratulate upon his pros
perity and success. Railroading is singula
we may say, Cery peculiar business. Th
men that engage in it. though frequently th
architects of great fortunes, as a body, d.
| serve the sympathies of the peo,le Frol