Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-09-23
THE WELDON ROAD.


e1ceont forrybont and shenn the way to the break
fast house, from which, after hurried meal we race
it for seats in the Weldon cars. And passanf who
haa not discovered how utterly unsatisfactory these
Railroad meals are7 fou have scarcely succeeded in
getting one Of the kalfdistrAced serrsots to hsip
your plate before engine without gres its "hoo,
hoo" nos of preparation. Down 60 the unmastca-
ted mouthfu!s of bread and meat-three four
gulps and the coffee dsappcars,-you call for glass
of water which you just about to leave unrealizs,
when the man at the door sings out, "ten minutes
yet, gentlemen, before the Weldon cars leare."-
Ashamed Of your startled haste you conclude to try
somo Hheat-cakes and inoas,es, with glass of iced
milk. You wait patiently as possible for these
niceties. At length they come But again an engine
says hoo, hoo and the passengers arc leaving the
ROOM Neither does the at tho door speak again.
"Msko haste" says travelling companion at your
eide, f" we shall bo left" One wallop of wheat-cake
and ugar-house.syrup,-the iccd-milk drunk stand
ing-a silver half dropped in the hand Of the man at
the doorhurry -scurry, and there you are, on your
cotton velvet seat in No. 2, whore you perhaps are
allowed full six minutes and half before the cars
leave to pick your teeth and think your delight
full railroad breakfast Thus it is at least, with oil
verdant travellers and very often too with those who
"suld ken mar O. tho like O. this" There is one good
way to avoid this provoking pcrplexity Ascertain
certainly who is your conductor on the train ahoad
When ho goes tho tablo, 60 thou likewise. As long
as ho eats, ont thou also. When hc wipes his mouth
and rises then away with you. We have tried this
plan several times with great satisfaction.
But our present caption, Tho Weldon Road" is
forgotten And indeed have only to soy Of it that
it is On excellent and well-managed rosd that it
makes capital tme and almost invariably spares the
bones of its patrons. Some of the North Carolina
towns through which it passes Sccm good deal i'm
proved within the last four years During the same
time several villages have sprung into existence on
tho route, and are said to be prospcroua
At Weldon, wo took the Portsmouth Rond rough
but very expeditions ono and by sunset wo were upon
tho beautiful steamer Louisiana" moving onward
upon tho splendid bosom of
TIE CHESAPEAKE BAY.
Twilight then glilnmercd into darkness. The plash-
ing Of the gentle wveles against tho oaken breast OF
our vessel answered back the steady rumblns Of her
machinery.
The land brcczo blew mild and tho archcd sky
Looked puro rs the spirit TINT made It"
Just thor-(wc tako up facts as they come)-thc
gong sounded for supper. And ah !-appetizins IN
doed arc those suppers upon the Bay boats Good
hot coffee hot steaks, hot buiscut hot corn-broad hot
fish, hot sausagcs hot batter-cakes, what is oi
as great Importance plenty Of time to appropriate
au enjoy ones full share of these good things. Talk
MS you please of hot suppers in the general they arc
glorious sshts to hungry wayarers Tho vericst dys-
petic revcs in the necessity which compels him for
once to givo up his cold oaten cake and thin grue
and venture forth upon old fashicned Saxon feast
Nor indeed does hc ever ce tho worse for it on the
Bay bouts, especially if hc will go still further, haz-
ard pretty stiff 'nightcap, and then 'turn in with
nil his system prepared and fortified for good, long
suooze The morning fndshim refreshed and strength
ened to prosecute his journey At any rate 1t was SO
with our party. Thus it was, that ct o'clock a. M
tho next day. We all seated in the Baltimore eS-
press trai feeling much improved both rs to our in
ncr and outer men. I've had washed, shaved de-, on
the boat y thus it was that passed through the
city of brotherly ov. ut midday, still in good plight
and thus vas that We roachOd New York o'clock
in the evening, not tho jadcd and broken-down peo-
ple wo should have been, had we stuck to the Rail-
roads ria Petersburg, Richmond and Washington
Hence we say, oil praise to the Bay Line.
And now of New York; What shall we say o!
New York! abominably Lig New York! the ompori,
um Of tho American world the centro Of humbug-
reres the mother Of vast enterprises the fostereI
of scounLrcls the homo Of nonnires! tho gather
ins-rlucc IF all peoples! American New York 1ris
New York German New York And now, too, be-
coming French New York! Anything, everything Cn
| African New York! What n subject! But be not
alarmed, gentle fricnd$ purpose only to tuucl
lightly :. here and there, this and that" ms old sol"
mon in The Stranger" would say; and, i'll dolns
So We resolutely eschew prOl:xity. So first wore
about
BROADWAY.
To say that i; is Of tic greatest thoroushfarcs
OH Garth, is so true as to DC almost trisc Perhar'
neither London nor Paris can show anything cxcccd'
ing the press Of humanity (yoing 10th rays) whiri
characters I've use favore wcrl Of Ann Radcliffe
this remarkable street. And yet Broadway is in maE
respects humbng. Those brilliant shops that glitter
in tho gas light, up and down its smooth pavemcnts
!
-advcntrcrs too in the main, without the scnblant:
of cepitul. Some Of them succeed; the great bull
arc Us those who have purchased, M high figures
blank tickets in Lottcry.-Aud then the magnifcence
which dcrGratcs its fashionable promcnade,-what j.
it but the ilummery of ups;art bcaux and bcllc9, lr
vanity Of ci dirom plebians? The really elite "i
New York arc seldom seon there and then, in nils
instances on; Of tc they the least dazzling objects
in the gaudy stream which here finds It's garSh way
| What, moreover, is that immense muVing bustllne
crowd Of eager human beings seemingly engaged IL
working ou; somu great achievement 70" the advance
mcut Of man what is it but tic conglolneratcd rep
rcscntation of all the trials aud tolls, and ills ha'
flesh is heir to? Mark their faces as you meet them
Look into their eyes. Regard them separately. AM
what are they? Is one in hundred Of them equal Il
the hubles: plownaa that upturns the stubborn gcb'
| in the rccesscs Of yondcr dstnnt mountains? Wha'
they, but the slaves and tools Of the moro favored
votaries of Mammon? the unrcsisting instruments ui
Wealth. to bc cast aside as worthless and to bc forgot
ten forever, they shall fail to subscryc tie
purposes Of their masters -And the an,uscmonts
of Broadway-but Il few Of these wo will consider
| scriatm.
BCRT0NS NEW THEATRE.
This establishment Ind quite run for portion OF
the past season. We heard the opera of Ernani rem
cmphatically say. Tint compared with whit have
heard, it was humbug. Pncc tho prilna donna 0!
the evening by the side of Sontag contrast the tenor