The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-24
Talk about Travellers.
RY JOHN C. SAKE

If ever, to please my friends and TO de-
light my enemies, should make a book,
think | should choose for my subject the
behaviour of people who travel by railway.
| am confident my observations of charac
ter and conduct in my peregrinations in
twenty-five oEthirty three sovereign States,
during the last seven years, would make, if
fairly written out, a very sizable and rather
entertaining volume. Let me mention some
of the characters and characteristics of
which / would discourse. Imprimis, would
talk of the unsophisticated traveler,-the
man who is making his first journey by rail.
4 Yos. see, at a glance, that he is remote from
his ancestral halls or proprietary cabin. He
is dressed in a go-to-meeting faShion has
an uneasy look, and is anxiously inqHisi-
tive touching the safety of his baggage, and
the chance of his being on the4Fight train.
What sharp contrast to the yerdant tourist
is the old traveller? He wears the most
substantial kind of apparel; alooks about
in n free and easy manner, and has the
4 enviable faculty of monopolizing whole
seat in spite of the crowd of passengers, and
of getting the best of everything at the re-
freshment rooms. Habit has made him a
philosopher, and nothing less than COLI
sion, or other frightful accident to the train,
ever disturbs his equanimity.
If the cars are off the track he smokes or
goes to sleep till they start again. If the
connection is missed he retires to the nearest
hotel and makes himself as comfortable as
an indifferent supper and worse bed will
permit man who, in the vicissitudes of
travel, has endured everything including
the Western abomination, g fried beef
steak, and sheets that escaped dampness
from not having been washed in fortnight
Happy is the old traveller He was a fas-
tidious and orderly man not many years
ago, but he has grown wiser with experience
and goes to bed with his trousers ON (as the
last occupant did, it is plain to see), and
sleeps 4 like night policeman. The
men who travel with female companions
should make half-a-dozen chapters of my
volume at least. OF course newly married
couples, or couples about to be married,
would furnish a very abundant and piquant
theme.
The night scenes would be especially
amusing. On the whole, the gift that the
: poet prayed for--the power " to see our
selves as others see us " is net thing to be
desired. 1t would prevent great deal OF
happiness, and would spoil vast amount of
fun to observers. | shall say no more on
that head-or rather, on that pair of heads
that rests so lovingly together, and sleep,
or "seem to sleep, so sweetly. Au reste,
| should describe three several characters,
which | have seen in the cars so often, that
| know my man in twenty-five minutes as
well as if had been favored with month
acquaintance. There is lst, The man who
travels with his wife I'd, The man who
travels with his wife's sister-3d The man
who travels with another mans wife.
The first case is extremely common, and
not particularly interesting. The man is
taciturn, and sleeps, apparently, as much as
he can; the woman has slightly subdued
expression of face, and looks good deal at
, the scenery along the road, of which she
says, for the most part, nothing. When she
. does speak, as sometimes happens at the
sight of something very remarkable, she
: says: "See John, that is all The man
: looks carefully after the baggage, and as
sures his spouse, in reply to ques-
o ton, that it's all right. The woman takes
care of the /" small traps" and seems COM
!, Portable and content Altogether, they be-
: have quite nationally, and in spite of their
t seeming unsociability, are really fond Of
4 4 each other and viii make a pleasant trip oi
2 it--not only to the end of their railroad
: tour, but to the terminus of their matrimo-
NAL journey.
/, The man who travels with his wifes sis
i tercarries himself, perhaps in the main, like
: the man who travels with his WIFE But ht
II is much more talkative, and takes more
r pains to be agreeable. He feels that NOR,
: is expected of him, and, as it goes in com
mercial affairs, "the supply is equal TO thu
81 demand A pleasing thing is a wife's sis
; ter; unless, indeed, she is quite the revers'
and that is not the sort of women | an
;. thinking of. She takes the wife's place in th
I house sometimes, and may chance to maxi
an excellent step mother. Why not for i
x she not already the aunt of her neces an,
,e nephews? This sort of marriage, however
'e % is, believe, anti-Levitical and some of tn
le Theologians don't approve of (which is
to pity.
'e The man who travels with another man
wife is of much more marked behaviour
3 How attentively he is to all the real and pos
IN sible wants of the lady He respects he
ld whims even, which, you may be sure, he
husband does not, ut home or abroad Ho,
carefully he hands her in ard out! Ho,
al sedulously he plies hear with discourse !
TO And yet he imagneS people take him for til
g, lady's spouse! No, my dear sir the brake
he man in the corner knows better than tina
Ia HUSBANDS may De uXorlouS, but klndneS
such as yours is more like that of cdcaIic
eeroente-which, after all, dare say, yo
are not. It's tireSome, though, after a Will
: unless the lady is remarkably attractive, an
pays her own fare (which she sometime
forgets) and for a journey of thousan
miles, your own wife is much the mo,
sreeabe companion.
asss~On Monday of last week clerg,
man named Rev. Wm. Watson, was arrestt
N in Genwood Mills county, iowa Wht
he WAS arrested he was preaching a iuner
sermon. Previously to arresting him Il
officers searched his house, and found in Il
cellar, inks, presses, paper, rolling machine
and the entire apparatus for the manufa
ture of bank bills. They also found abo
81 900 in counterfeit bank bills, $500
which were Sl0s OH the Forest City Ban
Chicago city, and about $500 i'll So S on ii
State Bank of Ohio. lie said he was doir
evil that good might result from it, He w
locked up
GSyF A "Pike's Peaker," writing fro
Z. ST. joseph, Mo-, on the 18th, says that tow