Smyrna times., 1858-08-05
ORIGINAL EMCE.
Correspondence Of The Smyrna Times
PINEvILLE, Bucks Co., PENNA.

Correspondence Of The Smyrna Times
PINEvILLE, Bucks Co, PENNA.
DEAR MEs:--Perhaps it has fallen to your
fortune at come time since your advent to this
mundane sphere, TO have stepped on board OF
some OF those Floating Palaces" which ride
so majestically upon the surface of the broad
Atlantic, bringing into so intimate conncc-
tion the inhabitants of this young America OF
ours. and our own maternal ancestry. After
bidding adieu to all those upon whom were
centred all the fond associations 6f the past,
ana the Joyous anticipations of the future, you
have felt the rolling of that little world to
which you have entrusted YOURSELF for voy-
age across the briny deep, as, yielding TO the
swelling OF the waves and driven on by the
mighty power within her, she looscs from her
moorlngs, moves heavily upon the water, and is
soon under way,-then, as the throbbings of
that mighty heart grew stronger and stronger,
and faster and faster increased the distance be-
tween yourself and household Penates, till the
land which gave you birth sinks into the west
ern horizon, becomes less and less until il wanes
TO mere speck, finally disappears,-then, so-
lated as you are from the world at large, with
but plank between yourself and the vastly
deep, your thoughts would instinctivcly turn
within themselves, and review in fond memory
the scenes and times of the ast,-home and
the loved ones that in days gone by were wont
to congregate around the old paternal hearth,
and there would you live again the days of
Aud Lang Syne. This happens to not form
lHy part ofmy experience in leaving your happy
little town. But, rather before was ready, the
6 Bus " and four, which plies daily between
Smyrna and Long Point, was before the door,
" All-aboard and we were on our winding
way" with nothing particular to arrest our at
tentlon or awaken us from a state Of dreamy
torgettulness so incident to the wearisome mo-
notony of travelling in a stagc-coach, except an
occasional admonisher in the shape of slap
on the side of the face, aiming due destruction
to some mosquitoes, which, driven into the
coach by the gentle rain that had commenced
falling, were making their way to the feelings
In way not to be mistaken. Arriving at the
Landing before the boat, which comes from
Philadelphia, in walking about the wharf we
were much surprised to see the buckets and
baskets Of berries there awaiting the boat
evidently near two hundred and, making the
acquaintance of an Agent on the Delaware
Railroad, he said, sometimes as many as thou.
sand baskets passed over the road in a day,
generally several hundreds. The passage on
the boat is very pleasant. though somewhat
tedious. Arriving in Philadelphia in the even
ing, we were obliged to remain over night
Of course, there are no objects of attraction in
the city at this season of the year, the mercury
ia the nnelles and the heat intolerable. The
ton are at some of the fashionable watering
places, seeing and being seen, and paying about
double the price Of good accommodations in
other places for the privilege of being cooped
up in by room at night, and RECALLING them
selves by day with walking upon the sandy
beach beneath the genial rays of vertical sun,
without tree, bush or shrub to restrict its in.
vlgoratlng influence. The fashionable PRONE
nadcs of the street are deserted; for those who
cannot raise the TN for the trip with fashiona-
BILE society, are shut up in the back part of their
houses, free from the gaze Of caYping popu.
loce, who are left to receive the impression
"they are not at home" The dust is not
brushed from the front steps-cobwebs are suf-
fered to accumulate in the front windows-the
husband may be noticed with hurried steps at
an early hour in the morning leaving his domi-
Gil for his place of business, and returning late
in the evening, with faltcring steps and down.
cast looks, as if he did not feel altogether salts
fed or the "goose question,"-but the visions
of Saratoga, Cape Island or Atlantic City, are
brought before his disordered ina agnation in
manner more easily pictured in the mnd of
some devoted Benedict than described in the
limited space of this communication.
At an early hour in the morning, bag and
baggage are are on board steamer, loaded
with passengers for short but pleasant trip up
the Delaware to Bristol--whence disembark.
ing, we are soon crowded into q small mail.
coach, behind driver whose mouth-if we can
Judge by his breath-is never-failing recepta-
Gle for bad whiskey and poor tobacco, to which
he, with any other fellow-passenger thus dis
posed, is SO blandly invited at every few miles
on the route by those legalized pests of society,
! the Rumsellers. A few hours riding at the
rate of about five miles per hour, and we are al
the place of destination. But more anon.
3 Correspondence Of Me Smyrna Tunes
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