Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-02-19
For the Delaware Republican.
THE DEL. RAILROAD AND ADAMS EX
PRESS


Mr.. EDITOR, DEAR SIR .-rhe facilities foI
travel and business, afforded by this noble
enterprise, have induced train Of ref ,etion,
winch has called up "reminiscences Of by.
gone days, of some thirty or forty years apo.
when the fast mail coach travelled, when ronds
were good, some thirty miles day And il
Ihe horses did not get harmed nor the Stage
Dkak down, generally reached Philadelphia in
| ABOUT threo days Fare about six dollars for
100 miles, to which add two or three DAYS board
| by the way, making it expensive travelling to
men Of small MEANS
II was very common occurrence in those
days, for business men and merchants TO tllr
passage in the sloops that carried the produce
70 Market rms with some, was 1t matter of
recreation, with Others u matter Of economy
These sloopS, to make it little more respect
able, We're called packets, and packets they were
Tor they would often have Il dozen persons
pdcked IN little cabin scarcely br g. In
preparing for the voyage over the bosterous
Delaware, ample provisions would be laid in
Tor a week or ten days. Then after bidding
adieu to friends, and kissing the wife and baby
they Ventured on board of the packet, ut the
mouth OF the creek, to wait for a fnll tide 10
float out, and favorable wind to forward them
on their Journey, which would sometimes be Il
week III making its Appearance during which
Time The stock ofprovsions would run SO low
mat It would not be safe to venture ON so Ionm
a Tourney without recruiting their stock This
IS no fancy sketch, We confess TO a little ex-
periehcc IN this line. But mark the contrast
between 1870 aud 1856. Although our geo
graphical position remains the same that il was
lorty years ago, yet it mist be confessed that
We are much nearer nGighbors now than We
were then. That noble enterprise the Delaware
K. Road has comparatively anihiated the space
tllat separated us, and we can almost say rood
morning to you of Wilmington, here's nv hand.
u uFrH
business IN New Castle, he had to start a div
or TWO beforehand in order to be there in tiinr
but now, ne may breakfast ut home, and be at
New Castle by the time Court opens And sn
Ill business. If an article otmcrChlndtz. ka
COME exhausted in wintcr, they must wait the
| opening Of navigation or resort to the tedious
and expensive road wagon. We feel here CON
strained to speak Il word in favor of Adams
Express, "a facility that is but little known and
Dut little used IN this viCinity.D We had occa-
sion to repair some machinery, and Thought
we had provided material enough. and ID
spare, but fell short; we handed an order with
/ Tue money to the hands OF Mr.. George Henry,
! the accommodating agent of Adams EXPRESS
AT fredoha stltion,) about O'Clock in TN.
| evening, and by the next morning train we
| received the article sent fOr. Without these
facilities We must have sent Il wagon to vii
mllngton, Gas the article could not be pro
| cured short Of there which would have cost
! uSSluc INC detention Of business, three times
the cost of the article, including Express
Charges These and such, as these, are some
OF the benefits to be derived from the Delaware
K. Road and its appliances. Any town with :
out them are not on an equality with those that
| nave them, and 1t seems to me that the Legis-
lature should ingrdnting any new charter have
an eye to accommodating every town that can
possibly be accommodated by any new road
to be made, mile or two difference in dis
hntd nnt h,n A 4
ton.
SEQ III the last Republican some one has
100 you into an error, in regard to MIR.
Todd's son, that was supposed to be lost in
snow bank. He did not run away as your in
dormant led you to believe. He was found this
morning, nearly mile troEl home, on an adj
joining farm. He may have wandered about So
veral hours before giving up to die. Ho was
laying lace downward, and in a good state of
preservation, not the least decomposcd, al
though he has been dead three weeks last Sun
Jay night. There has been so many false re-
ports that would not write until some of our
mon went over and seen him. G.
Kent, Feb.