Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-02


jolting consequent elsewhere upon the unequal
height of the point of the rails where joined,
growing out of the springing,of the end bolts
or spikes. This effective precaution is, doubt
less, the result of the great experience OF the
Managers of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad in
the TRANSFORMATION of the heaviest freight in the
country Its cost is next to nothing when CON-
pared with its results in preventing unneces-
sary and undue wear and tear of machinery
and annoyance to travellers.
At the Frederick Junction, large crowd of
the neighboring people, we'll dressed and well
behaved, embracing picnic party of luscious
looking country girls, met us and devoted their
eyes for some minutes to characteristic search
for and scrutiny of the handsome young dogs
on the train (such as my friend the Hon. Sid
ney Dean, NJ c., from Connecticut, who sits at
my elbOw,) whom they manage to pick out in
stantly and intuitively from anon; the crowd
of as no-account looking voyagers who invaria-
bly, make up the mass of those on all railroad
trains
The magnificent country in the immediate
vicinity of the Buckeystown Depot THAT never
looked more lovely was the admiration to-day
Of one of the finest agricultural regions on the
continent-cultvated, too, as wcll-to-do farm
ers, who believe in the " American Farmer as
the Hard-Shell Baptists in the virtue of INNER
sion, know how to work their lands.
We are just now nearing the Point of Rocks
at the rate of twenty-five miles per hour, being
at this instant for the first time in sight of the
Potomac. W. d. WI.
No. of - Notes on the Way has not come
to hand; probably having been miscarried
STEANING on THE ROAD.-NO. v.
MONDAY. June 10 pm
At Martinsburg, though two hundred bounced
from the train into the dining hall-hungry BIZ
peds every mothers son and daughter of us
We got, on the whole, very comfortable dinner
with an abundance Of green peas, (still luxu-
ry below) asparagus, to say nothing of Virginia
corn bread There was the usual growing in
cident to making a meal on railroad time, to the
great discomfort of the wel-bred folks at table.
and the obfuscation of the servants who did their
best to make all comfortable without neglecting
any. L could have wished for a better cook for
the roast beef, but his absence was by no means
as great drawback to the comfort of the occa-
sion as the growing aforesaid. Folks who find
fault aloud at railroad tables invariably - lose
deal, the running schedule not being arranged
to allow time for both eating and grumbling
over ones meat
After leaving Martinsburg, our route con-
tinued for miles through lovely country much
more hilly, however, than that from Marper's
Ferry to that point. We lost at Martinsburg
much of a fair breeze which helped to make the
trip that far a very pleasurable one. This loss
was more inconveniently felt after passing the
deep rock cut west of the North Mountain station
when we entered a rugged, broken and muck
more uncultiyated country; for it is far less
fertile As we rush through it, openings in the
hills give US occasional glimpses of the noun
tains and the rich and lovely plateau skirting
their base, on which my eyes turn with the
fondness of lover dreaming over the charms
OF the dear one from whom he has Just torn
himself away. We soon again entered pla-
teau at Cherry Run, the valley Of which, though
small, is fertile and well cultivated. Unfortu-
nately for our comfort, however, we skirted the
hills on the leeward side, and thus were COM
PEELED to whistle for the breeze necessary to re-
shine and the concentrated animal heat of a
packed and damned train. Ere long we once
more emerged out on the bank os the Potomac,
where its shrunken dimensions told how rapidly
we had been rushing up-country towards its
sources.
Hancock, Nd. only made its appearance on
the other side of the river at quarter before
o'clock, rising gradually from the low grounds
until reaching half WY up right smart" hill
There was nought remarkable in its tout enseUt-
be- save very decided flushed contour. that
told plainly that it is not place of business in
which many men of capital fail annually
Here We began to approach spurs of the Ale
gany range, most of them cultivable. and
many cultivated, from base to ridge. The
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal skirts the rivers
margin here on the other side. The absence of
the busy boats upon it tells the tale Of the cruel
policy pursued by Maryland towards the stock
holders of that magnificent improvement whom
she has As shamefully as shamelessly robbed,
lest 1T might interfere in time with the profits
and monopolizing advantages Baltimore draws
from this railroad. At the Sir John 5 Run sta
ton we again entered a mountain country.
there being no valley on the Virginia side and
very little on that of Maryland; the Allega-
ny spurs running well down to the rivers edge,
apparently.
Thus we glide on-up, up, up towards the
heart Of the mountain region, the river (Poto-
mac) becoming perceptibly small by degrees
and beautifully less" momentarily The I'd
pidity Of our journey is SO great as to make the
gradual decrease of the width and depth of the
river plain to all. At about lGU or 10 miles
out from Baltimore, it has assumed, so far as its
volume Is concerned, the appearance of Rock
creek at Georgetown Ere reaching there, We
dived twice or three times into the bowels of the
earth-one Of these tunnels being nearly
fourth Of mile long-tO the establishment of
Messieurs Cent. Per Centum of Wall, Chestnut
and State streets, who, though famous railroad
men IN their way, know railroads only through
the medium of stock-sales quotations
Ere reaching Nelson's creek we obtained n