The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-11-04
C50itorial Correspondence.
Notes of TrayeH~aNO. i.
CANTON, N. Y, Oct. 18th, 1857.

CANTON, N Y, Oct. 18th, 1881.
A newspaper is a monopoly. The
successful editor must watch for matters
of intcrest-must coin all his thoughts
and experience into copy and so, dear
readers of the JOURNAL, partly from incli-
nation, and partly from sense of duty,
we sit down to dash off few Notes of
Travel"
Left Prescott on the Key City-a fine
boat. Went into our berth and found
there being Of the genus homo, minus
coat, vest, pants, boots, his only remain
ing article of clothing call tattered and
torn," breath smelling dreadfully Of bad
whisky, eyes about as luminous rs those
of deceased porker, and face red as
scalded LOBSTER save some few scabby por-
tons, evidently the result Of a pugilistic
encounter IN which he came off "second
best" We left without leaving cur card
and obtained another berth. The next
we saw of this poor unfortunate, he was
starting for the bar, and boy of some
twelve summers was pleading with him
not to drink any moro. Verify, strong
drink is raging; aohoso IS deceived there
By IS not arise"
The tedium of travel was beguiled first
by listening to interesting "reminiscences
of tho West from few Of its old pioneers,
and secondly by ali exciting race between
the Key City and Ocean Wave. We
noticed with pleasure that the banks on
the Mississippi are still firm, though there
has been RIM on them for long time.
About dark took the cars at Prairie du
Chen, or rather the cars took us. Prairie
du Chen is getting to be quite a city it is
built mostly of-houses. Being tired we
composed ourselves in placida pace, in
other words we went to sleep. We have
heard much of the beauty Of Madison, and
have long been DESTROYS to 90 there.
Woke up in tho night and asked q friend
if we had been to Madison, though for
any idea of the place we might have ira
veled as cats sometimes do-in bag.
Didn't sleep any moro. Reason was, we
couldn't. The road from GAINESVILLE to
Chicago is the ronghest, miserablest, most
joltingist over which we ever Travelled.
One would think the track was q success
sion of acute angles. Passengers desert
bed angles Of all kinds, acute and other
wise. We would suggest to the company
the propriety of inserting iron rings in
the car seats, aud strapping the passengers
in, as stage drivers strap on baggage.
At least we think the windows should be
grated, so that passengers need not fear
being split out.
Arriving at Chicago we were highly
gratifed to find that large number Of
our devoted friends were gathered at the
depot to receive us. There were ''mor'n
forty" of them, each with an elegant car
riage, and each anxious to convey us to
an elegant mansion prepared for our re-
ccption. The sohcitude manifested for us
was really almost paternal, and affected
us quite deeply. Who shall say this
world is totally depraved, when such anx-
iety for another's good is manifested by 8
class of persons, who too frequently show
by strong and ungua,ded expressions, that
they are not the recipients of Sabbath
school and sanctuary blessings.
Took the ears at Chicago for Detroit
The route was familiar, and nothing of
interest occurred, except partaking of
peaches, and of s. really excellent dinner
at Marshall. We have always disliked
6aggy brooches, in fact we detest them;
but now when we calmly reflect on the
amount Of peaches we ate on that day, we
do fear that our clothing had baggy look
about it. Another night ride from De-
troit to Suspension Bridge