The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-04-21

for the mastery. Carthage is now pretty much
In the condition of its African namesake, and
Rochester is a city probably of some fifty thou
sand inhabitants. It is one of the most astonish-
ing examples of the growth of the new settlements
surveyed for the purpose of settlement by Ma
thaniel Rochester, Charles III. Carroll, and Will
lam Fitzhugh, emigrants from Maryland l believe,
and called " Rochester" after the senior proprie-
tor. had, under the name of the " Mill LOT" been
bestowed by Gorham and Phelps on a semi-sav-
age, called Indian Allen, as an inducement tor
building mills, to grind corn and saw boards for
the few settlers at that time in this region
Messrs. Rochester, Carroll, and Fitzhugh paid
$3.50 for this hundred acre lot, which now occu-
pies a considerable part Of the City of Rochester.
Some of the land on the other side of the river
was sold by Gorham and Phelps in 1870 for
eighteen pence the acre. 1t is statements like
these, which beguile men into land speculations,
in which l shall give you the benefit of my own
experience on a mail scale, another time.
Having passed a most agreeable day IN the
amiable family circle of my hospitable hosts,
and with the advantage of making the acquaint-
anee of many of the citizens, l left Rochester at
6 p. NJ, in company with my friend the Rev.
Dr. Cressy of Auburn, who had taken charge OF
the arrangements for the repetition of my address
at that delightful village, which we reached at
about half past ten p. NJ.
1 never would willingly travel in the dark,
which deprives you of all the qualification and
benefit of seeing a country with your own eyes,
and thus getting an idea OF 1t which no guide
books can furnish. But in this intense condensa-
ton of existence to which we submit, crowding
into one week the work of three,-the leisurely
survey of the country through which you pass in
travelling, is one of the first things to be sacri-
feed. One would have thought that the vastly
increased facilities of travelling, which enableone,
on all the great routes, to do in eight or nine
hours the work of three days in old times, would
have led us to take things a little more leisurely
and comfortably. Instead of this we clamor for
more night trains, and wish to pass these eight
or nine hours under the dark, damp wings of
night.
4 great change in the weather took place
during the night of the 10th and in the morn
ing DIR. Cressy's churchyard, which lay beneath
my windows, and the fine rect which runs
through Auburn, were covereo with snow. The
weather was not tempting abroad, though i was
very desirous of seeing the penitentiary, which
occupies SO prominent a place in the history of
prison discipline,-the " Auburn system being
originally the technical designation of the plan
of social labor in the workshop, and solitary con-
fnement at meals and at night. Prevented from
going abroad, 1 passed the hours at home till it
was time to receive the visits of friends-in what
occupation think you, gentle reader? Can there
be two conjectures as to what n well-meaning
man, under engagement to furnish a weekly arti-
Gle to the :. New York Ledger" would do with
u couple Vi lclcuIcu OuIs, WHICH, III was COMptlltQ
by stress of weather to pass within doors?
The appointed hour arrives, and a full and
favoring audience welcomes us to Auburn a
village, | doubt not, though seen by me only
under its wintry shroud, far more I" sweet'' than
that from which it derives its lovely name. Com
PEELED to return to Boston by Saturday night, in
order to keep my appointments for the following
week, l was obliged to deny myself the g~rati6ca-
ton of a visit to its important public Institutions.
And so after one more genial and refreshing hour
with my hospitable host, l went with him, and
my Obliging friends Mr.. Morgan and Ludlow,
1.-THE latter so well known to many of the readers
of the Ledger as the " Hasheesh Eater') to the
Railway station, and the train soon arriving from
Rochester took me to Syracuse. The night was
cold, and one feels a little catch goldfish after
speaking two hours and SO the extra clothing of
which we spoke rather disparagingly last week,
grew nightly into favor again.
We reached Syracuse about twenty minutes
after eleven, and were to leave it for Albany by
the Western train from Buffalo, due at five min
utes before four ssan arrangement of hours, too
long to sit up and too short to 60 to bed, and
admirably adapted to cultivate the equanimity of
itinerant orators, tired of speaking and anxious
to get home. Time does not .gallop withal"
under such circumstances; in fact | am strongly
inclined to thing, that frettiny is the very best
tool for clipping his wings. At length the west
ern train arrived with the most gratifying pune
tuality, and 1 again took refuge in the sleeping
CdI. NJ ItdE II VI Ill OlutIt vi
the New York Central disturbed my slumbers,
which lasted till the break of day. / could
have wished, in fact L may say that | fond
ly expected, that they might last a little long
er. l know few places or times when one
is less tempted to wake up, than a cold Deem
Der morning in a sleeping car, after two hours
oratory at Auburn and four hours impatient
waiting at Syracuse. 1t SO happened, however,
that the berths next to me, and on opposite sides
of the car, were occupied by travellers from Chi
cago, who had probably had two nights comfort
able sleep since they left home, at any rate had
slept all the way from Buffalo. They were con-
sequently prepared to wake with the dawn.
They not only woke themselves, but fell into an
argument. that produced precisely the same effect
upon every body else in the car. They happened
to take opposite views of several important polit-
zeal questions One appeared to bea naturaliZed
foreigner, and the other was very strongly Native
American. They had both Sone through the late
electioneering campaign in Chicago, which, as
far as L could infer from their statements, was
8 animated to say the least. Their accounts of
it certainly We're. They argued, vociferated, and
shouted. Ii was an interchange of sentiment,
that might be called boisterous: taunt and re-
tort fling and sarcasm. Virgil tells us that the
muses. like alterations. 1 think that if the
muses. had been broken of their rest as much as I
had, they would change their minds a little in a
case of this kind. But though the alienation
was decidedly an alteration, it was upon the
whole good natured. Had they got to blows,
one might almost have thought that we had,
during our slumbers, been transported to WASH
ington and woke up on the floor of Congress.
Happily it was in a sleeping car the dispute was
interspersed with peals of aughterw while it lasted,
and ended in great good humor and a general
waking up.
Nothing adverse happened till we entered the
station yard at Albany. Here within a few rods
of our goal, our car which was in the rear, came
into collision with an Engine left standing in the
wrong place. The iron coupling which attached
us to the preceding car snapped like pack-thread,
and we were thrown from the track. But we
had reached our destination the damage to the
car was tri6ing, to passengers null. An engineer
as We passed out, judiciously remarked, that s we
should not have got off 80 well had the collision
taken place, while we were moving at the rate of
thirty miles an hour" Probably not; but .
whether the carelessness which cansod e p,;ch+