Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-03-05
Short Notes of a Hasty Trip.

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- ConrcntiOn AdjoWnment Of the Legislature
HARRISBURG, February 81, 1857.
Dear Rcportcr :-PEREGRINE's compliments
and hopes that you may be rich as you are
good We have been below, and are to tell
all about it. The correspondents always
inform the papers that they started. Even
Virgil particularly describes the incidents which
befel his hero in getting down to the Shades.
We began our trip do~n by going ~p to Wa
verey Our horrid anticpations of mud and
trouble were pleasantly dissipated by the chit
chat of our stage companions. The air was
balmy as May. Old Winter had really fallen
in love with very young Spring, and in the
ardor of dalliance, not finding her at all coy,
he forgot to be stern and grim. | do pray,
that her companions, the birds and buds, will
not be silly, nor tempted to follow her too close
w. for the frost king is moody old sprte, and
will yet bluster and blow, and may codly nip
their young hopes Now like an occasional
stage-coach ride 1t minds me of departed
days" 1t admits of friendly fellowship which
the cars do not Could we always have an
agile good-looking, whistling, singing, good
tempered, kind-hearted and careful driver as
JOHN, we would not pine for the completion of
the North Pennsylvania r. r. BY the way,
has that great railway found its terminus be-
low the mountains, rather than at SOdus Bay?
Or are all the North Branch improvements,
like the Canal, to be a quarter of a century in
the womb of time?
At the Erie stations we found the black
boards constantly consulted Some trains were
chalked as " on time," others two hours behind
time, and others still as abandoned At FL
mira we had some four hours waiting for
train south. Having supped, We had time to
study human nature by gas-light in the depot.
Our attention was first attracted by the bluster
of short, sleek, fat and fussy gentleman who
was vexing himself by endeavOring to scatter
crowd of provoking urchins, who should have
been in bed, but who were attracted to every
crevice, peeping in every hole, in the telegraph
Office, to catch glimpse of three returned Ca
who had been arrested as pickpockets
at this point, from some of the trains by
Hghter-fngered telegraph despatch
Need ! stop to tell you of the various faces
and characters and pOStures which humanity
exhibited in the rooms of that depot? How
some sept-how some couldn't keep still An
old lady coming from a visit to her grand chill
drcn had a promise early in the evening to tell
her when her train should come trusting to the
promise of total stranger, not at all recon-
mended by his phiz, she contentedly took a
chair and slept, or seemed to sleep. Directly
loying pair came in, with flock of children,
to wait for train to come with the small hours
The dear old lady was awake Immediately ,and
for three hours was busy in helping the young
mother amuse the children, telling them of her
own grandchildren, and from remote corners of
her inexhaustlble pockets brot cakes, nuts and
confectionery to satisfy the untimely wakeful-
ness of strange children, to whom she must
have seemed fairy Dear old soul she
" thought it couldn't possibly be time," when
her train was at length announced
The trains South are well filled by compan-
les induced by excursion tickets to crafty their
curiosity by sight of the elephants at Wash
ington. Uncle Sans camels are all landed
way down south, towards Texas and Utah,
which is to become Araby the blest." How
ever that may be- the trains are going to the
Capital to the tune of "The Campbells are
coming" How true this may prove, is doubt
full, from the reported illness of the great Elec-
ted.
How exceptionable habits will draw people
together Next to the stage COACH give me
the smoking car for shortening the tedium of
the way. Here half dozen gentlemen, from
as many different parts of the Union, and, as it
happened, from as many different Colleges,
shared each others Havanas and budgets of
news
Having been twirled over five or six differ
ent railroads, changing baggage several times,
going double the distance of direct route was
one completed to. Harrisburg, we arrived in time
for dinner. Dinner? Unfortunate reference!
for who ever had a good dinner in our stale
capital? ? The charges are high enough, in all
conscience, but heaven save the cookery
AS to the celebrities here, beginning at the
top: Our Governor is pre-eminently a good
man. He has increased in weight since l saw
him during the campaign. Where he can find
dinnnrS In IL rricl,I.r1- /