Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-09-09

The Rail Read Conductor.

What traveller he is! Hundreds Of miles a
day ne goes, and every day of his life {! How i'm
Perious IS his haste lie must arrive by = given
minute at given place, and he cannot wait for any
hggaFd. Nothing makes him linser on hi way.
lie rushes through the most magnificent scenes o
nature, as rspidly as over barren waste. A thoa-
sand associations may belong To the spot by which
be is Fastening, but hey reach not the Conductors
bO on Oue single thought has possession Of his
mind, TO the exclusion OF all others On, on. on. as
Ii Nemesis were behind. And ali this impetus, this
relentless haste, this uGceasng and un,gerying 90
ing, how far does it carry bim ? Just to his Sta.
tion-house, and no farther ! Does not the Railroad
run on? Od yes, but he does not; the road runs it
may be, to some glorious country, or beautiful ~,
or 10 the great ocean itself But the. Conductor
runs only to his station, and there his s1rts cease
until they a'e repeated the next day, in order to
rua back again. And so all this astounding loco
motion in which his life is spent. never advances
him, but only carries him backwards and forwards
along the same old route from station to station
How many per-, rs there are, whose lives are | ke
that Of the Conductor. They are full Of haste
they allow themselves no rest-their sole thought
Is to increase to the maximum, the rapdity Of their
motion along the road Of honor, riches or pleasure
They strain every nerve to-day, and tomorrow,
trey repeat the effort. And they never make any
advance towards the land Of pure delight, aud the
beautiful city.
Tney are Ike the Conductor, bat with this all
important ference. lie stop, wi ere duty bids
him stop. When they stop it is in dvGance Of the
voice Of eternal truth, thaL cries ont 70 then, "es
cape for your liie."
VETERAN or HUxDaED FIsur,.-An aged sol
der and sailor died on the 25th nit. at Manebes.
t-r-Jos-ph Gilman. Of Aulmc Joe was hero,
a warrior, from his cradle to his death. He was
born at Little Over, near Derby. in 1853. and con
sequently in his 96th year lie fought in
more than hundred battles in lis couulry'5
cause, aud in a still greater number On his
own account. He fought under r, duey and Hood
in the West Indies IF Port Royal in April, 1882.
agains, the French Admiral Count DE- Grasse. snd
believed TO have been the last survivor of that
eveHttul Gay. Whether right or wrong, Joe was
one OF the foremost mutinfers at the Nore Joe
dictated the third the Elective telegraph messaVs
20 Dir P.tt-reme.v, Unless their demand for
double psy was granted. 10 soldiers as well as sail
ors, in ons hour they would weigh anchor, and
with City ships Of war, in four hours they would
lay London in ashesr' In this case Joe's threat.
without blows conquered both ministers and mon
arch This rebeihous act vas Joe's chief glory;
he used to say be had rendered no other service
to his cornlry, or 20 mankind to be compared with
it," Joe's favoFite, the immortal Nelson, person.
ally selected him 20 accompany him in the St.
George to the Baltic, to Copenhagen At Copen-
hagen Joe received compound fra. ture Of both
legs. lie scrved in the Royal Navy about eicb-
teen years, and was Of the forloru hope in ths
stoFming of SeringapataIu.