The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-16
a PILGRIMAGE TO wHEATLAND.

wait on Bucnanan-An Anectang SOenc-
Fort, Sherry and Madcirn-A First Glass
Hotel an Lsncaster-A Ratification Meeting
NO Douglas-Disappointme OF the
SOvereIgns, &c., &c.
.s,ror loUR SPECIAL coRREspoypEycE.l f
#h3 tDh MIcHAEIs HOTEL
LANCASTER, Pa, June Is, 1856.
Over the Jersey ferry, fine morning in the cafy
month Of June, went your correspondent with several
shundred other victims Of the New Jersey Transportation
and Camden and Amboy Companies. Transportation is
'geod. expresses it exactly Blu. no words could OK
press the souls calm sunshine and that heartfelt
Joy which is experienced when one gets his
tscket of leave at Tacony Konsngon Camden or
some other horse town. For it Is singular ccccn-
trcy OF these humorous Jcrseymcn, to have two rail
road companies to transport man ono hundred miles,
and to pretend to carry him from New York to Phadcl
phia when in reality they simply transport him fro
Ucfsc somc point OF the locality of which he Is
ignorant Then he is consigned TO the mercy the en-
poyes Of the company, buicd staged steamboated and
generally knocked about till he finds himself in view of
wharf, where he undcrgoes another purgaon and Sc
we're skrmish with tho hack drivers, who arc moro un-
crupulous than the Bash zouks moro agile than the
louaves and more light Of foot than the Chasseurs.
When he escapes from all these perils he
has that he has travelled over the most
uncomfortable road in the United States and he swcars
little at Jersey confident that the recording angel
must drop tear to blot out il he has to borrow
en- onion to provoke the necessary chrymn discharge
It is midday, but Philadelphia sumbcrs. The inter-
nablc rows Of little two story, rcd brick houses with
their painfully whitc Shutters TO have dropped
down by accident and idea Of their being inhabited
enters ones mind No of trade-no sound OF busy
hammers-no scream Of locomoves-no New York bus
lie breaks the stiffness Of this atmosphere would have
you TO Know, sir, that in respectable city, where
the people have had ancesors-where they pronounce
The vowed ''a at-whcre they dress and deport them
selves in quiet, subdued very respectable manner
You don't like to be quiet, respectable and subdued
You arc deaf to the music Of Parnsons band you con-
slider Chestnut street humbug, and Philadelphia farce
&eally am astonshcd at your want of appreciation
But we will do something for you Hero VIC are at the
station OF the Pennsylvania Central Road model in its
way. Commodore Stockton ought to take look at it,
and give his experience at tho meeting OF the Cam
den and Amboy Company whose road 1t is difficult to
distinguish between the passenger stations and the Irish
ehantes We will 60 to Lancaster the residence of Penn
sylvanias favortc son. Lancaster Is sixty eight miles
west Of Philadelphia and 60 there in three hours
We dsbursc fourteen York shlngs for ticket and arc
porse powered up Market street In o slew, re-
spectacle, Philadcphia-likc manner We scour "a
p'dly over pleasant country, here and there
disclosing traces Of those mineral deposits for
which Pennsylvania Is famous and we arc at what
arrived at slow place. There station where you can
buy porter, ale, sarsapara, prctzcl Baltimore oysters
ana other articles humorousy called refreshments. In
tne night there Is not the slightest sign of o about the
LACE There Is little old broken down, its last legs,
Gvern, opposite the station. Inwardy thinking OF how
special correspondents bleed for the public goodhow
shamefuly Indifferent tAc public is to sucrngs, and
how persons of nautical OF mind tell seek any
port in a storm-wc shoulder shirt collar and break
for the tavern, where, Shenstonc says, man always
finds his warmcst welcome. The bed is little lumpy
but it is clean, and what you expect for two
shllings 1t is more than some Of the patriots who
ominatcd Mr. Buchanan, got in Cincinnati for twenty.
] would recommend this tavern to needy politicians
who may have occasion 10 come here and ask Mr.. Bu
chanan for Office 1t is not the establishment from which
ths letter is dated. we shall come to that anon
Wow Of lancaster by daylight does not make US fall
in love with it, II is like Philadelphia quiet subducd,
respectable dull sleepy. has little red brick houses
with white shutters like Philadelphia. It has market
house like Philadelphia, and its pet idosyncracy seems
to be small taycrns-the number of which is legion The
German type is predominant among the nhabitants-thc
number Of small boys dogs loafers and pretty girls is
about the in small towns generally said town
II beg pardon. lancaster is city Lancaster has
seventeen thousand inhabitants Lancaster is the county
eat Of the richest county in Pennsylvania, except
philadelphia. Lancaster has court house with
Cornthan facade Lancaster has great many lawyers,
several newspapers large number Of straight whiss
Sossilizcd. Lancaster has seminary for young ladies
who are allowed TO accept invitations to ride, walk,
or VISIT receive calls from suspicious cousins in slight
snoustachcs and patent leather boots Finally Lancaster
is the homo Of James Buchanan, whom our Southern
brethren will insist upon calling Jeems Buchanan. Can
q union with people who talk N that bo lasnga
james Buchanan the democratic candidate for President
af fhpcc itnd
-favoritc son, adorcd by the keystone Club James
Buchanan familiarity termed Old Buck, irrever-
emily called "Tcn Cent Jimmy" and profancly de-
nominated in my hearing by person in a
cred flannel Shirt "a id bloody old federaist
who could not, by no manner of means, have hs-the
gentleman in the rcd shirt-"wotc."
Altogether, VIC may write down lancaster, at this
juncturc very interesting place. The residence of q
Presidential candidate with plenty OF patriotism, native
whskey roses small tavcrns, queer old streets largo
Pennsylvania horses, stage coaches strawberries and
pretty girls
Now, If you please, will ''hre q hos" " and take
peep at whcaand, Mr. Buchanan's residence. wo have
had various its locality and distance from
the city Some say it's milo and half two miles,
three miles Off think they right The s'hoss will
cost twelve shllings We keep him three hours.
c Is q slow, quiet respectable Lancaster horsc-walks
all the hills and don't dare to trot down the other sdc
The wagon is like our rockaways.
And now are fairly on tho road TO the modern Mec.
ca where the brceches OF tho democratic prophet vcto
.<ious on so many hard fought fields yesterday
raised in the air and will float till November and then
the glory of the faithful be transferred to the White
House. Or alas be consigned TO musty old garret
in that red brick house which peepng through
the trees yondcr. Allah Allah! There is democracy
but The Pierce democracy, and Buchanan Is its prophet
ismllah Boyl hold the hoss, whilo get out, and
owing three tmcs towards wheatland, say Saladm
.Aldxim.
Jordan, are informed by Wool's Min strcs is hard
road to travel. So is Wheatland One side has been
ewly mocadamizcd and the other Is full Of rus. How
many applicants for full missions consuatos fat
,ollectorshe, will curse the and sIaclam they
make the weary pilgrimage to worship the rising sun.
But wc arc there at last This Is the homo Of genius
Here rosts the statesman who (if he gets tyotcs''