Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-06
NOTES BY THE WAY.
lEdffoTtaf Correspondence OF The Starl
sTEAh1NG ON THE ROAD-PENNED By STEAM
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MEANING ON THE RoAD-PENNED By STEAM
JUNE 2-225 p m.
We are about to be off per the Marietta and
Cincinnati rail cars, that being one Of the roads
the opening Of which lin oratorical parlance)
"calls rs together" The portion from the op-
posite side of the Muskingum at Marietta to
Chiilieothe, Is the new road. We reached Ma
rietta on the dashed steamers two hours AGO
amid the booming Of cannon and beating of
drums, to be received by a motley crowd of per-
haps thousand sOuls-American and German
men, women, boys and girls, all, it seemed to
me, bitten with what long since came to con-
slider the Northwest mania, for untidiness
Of personal appearance and gamcherie of man.
ner. L am always disagreeably affected on
crossing the Ohio with the suddenness of the
change of race manifested in the persons and
presence" OF the two populations-the one on
the eastern and the other on the western side of
the river On climbing up to where the crowd
was stationed lin sort Of procession headed bv
General Cas- and Mayor Swami of Baltimore.
followed by members of the Maryland govern
ment, Of that Of the Baltimore and Ohio. and
Northwestern Virginia Railroads invited guests
and pell-mell crOwd) Governor Chase of Ohio.
who had been invited to make the reception
address, stood, imperceptible, in the crowd
above US, which opened sufficiently to let the
General and Mayor Swami into its midst. and
then suddenly closed so that few indeed of the
arriving company could hear what was said or
see what was then and there done The speech
Of Governor Chase was carefully written ont
beforehand; the reply Of General Cass being an
lmpromPtu effort, L regret exceedingly that
failed to be able to hear it, for il has been de.
scTibed to me, by very competent critic. As
having been one of his happiest speeches of
such occasions, wherein he rarely fails to shine
brilliantly Mayor Swami beiDgcalIed on also
spoke On behalf Of his city, and the MARYLAND
Secretary Of State on Maryland's behalf. Col.
tand now Cow Fayette McMullin also deliver.
ed an address on behalf Of the Old Dominion. |
presume that not more than fifty of the throny
heard the speeches, the ladies even being showed
pretty unceremOniously into the back ground
coming from region where the most boorisb
man VIII politely give place under any and all
circumstances 10 any and all females. il struck
US as being very odd TO see them ON this occ.-
son treated with aught but the Difference iustIv
their due
"hen the speaking was over and the cannon
ceased to boom, some Of us went ont IN the cal
ebrated Indian mound, situated in the ,n;ds, os
the town cemetery. Marietta il bniIt nm ,b-aa
plateaus, rising one above the other A. ,ha,, 80
eede from the riyer-their different levels 49,,
ing to have been formed by persistent aetio, ~,
level Of the stream in past ages On the ride
out to the mound. saw little worthy of esns.
eial notice. Perhaps / should mention. how.
ever, a miniature Unitarian chapel, which.
being erected with some pretensions to archi-
tectural taste and finish, was evidently regard
ed with wonder and pride by the unwashed
portion of our welcomers. look on my ride to
the luminous a. an event to be remembered /
had never before inspected one Of these relics
Of long departed race; for place little con-
hdenee in the theory that they are the hand-
craft Of the AbOrigines inhabiting the Missis-
siPpi Valley on its discovery by the whites, who
nave invariably declared that they know nc
tning even from tradition Of their origin. In
addition to the qualification received from a
careful inspection Of this one-forty feet high
rising up from the plain surrounded by A wide
ditch or moat fifty feet from its base-ip the
shape OF cavaliers hat have neither time
nor space to Speculate on its origin here, and
therefore leave the reader to the books sar f,r
Their (and most confounding and inconclusive IN
all of them) information upon this subject The
view from the top of the mound, though not