Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-08-25
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1859.

VIII alilA the sanu-tuDe 10 lnc HIsl SIdlGttI
Editor?
But you have not yet been introduced fair
ly to our party for tlis charming trip over
the Alcehanies.
They all happened to be men whose later
risen full moon has paIed the fixed star of
their earlier destiny. There was the novel
ist KENNEDY, whose graphic "llorse~Shoe
Robinson" and Swallow Barn, are scarce
heard Of. alongside of his furtheranccs of Sci
ence While member OF Congress and Secreta-
Ty of the Navy. There was Judge WARREN,
who, as President OF the Boston and Provi-
dence Railroad, forgcts "lhe Bench where
the lawyers all thought him godsend of le-
gal acumen and corteous fairness. There
was Commander MAURY, who scarce thinks
Of his bright Navy-buttons while enlighten-
ing the world by taking the nonsense out of
the Almanacs and making u census of the
clouds and sea-bottoms. There was BAY
ARD TAYLOR. whom | sat upon as n poet in
"a egg, but who has feathered and crowed as
a famous traveller and lecturer till scarce
recognise the bird in lis gay plumagc
There was thompson, of the Southern
Literary" who dresses so eXquistoly Ito keep
pace with his most beautiful Of bcards,) that
he dazzlcs you into an unpreparedncss for his
keen wit and capital conversation. And
there was your humble servant, whose most
exemplary professional industry gives a CEN
trfiugally "largc circulation" to the locus-to-
mary intensities of his otherwise more hole
burning few-and-lar -betweenites. "a brief
spell for refreshmcnt.l
For or party Of eight, tthe six just named
being under the charge Of the most winning
of men, PREScoTr SMITH, "Master of Trans
portation," with lis c urteous assistant, CnAs.
WATERS, Engineer) we were provided
with three cars, most comfortably arranged
as suite Of apartments; the last one being
tile drawing room and its rear windows and
platform commanding, of course, an un-
obstructed and most desirable right and left
| view Of the track and landscape We trav-
elled by hitching on to any passing train
for what distance we pleased, and, ION bless
ed novelty J un-hitchng when the scenery
became so beautiful that We wished to stop
or when the spot became historically inter
esting was about trying to record witt
what magic ease this alternate codcil-inG ant
cutting off Of a lcisure-party, FOR short dis
tances. was managed, when ! received let.
| ter from my better Informed friend, the Rail.
way President from Massachusetts, in which
he thus recaptulatas his impressions of oul
| trip
| 1--WE can judge of road by its daily rout
| inc and, if perfect care and comfort and the
| utmost puuctnalty and completeness in all
| its arrangements constitute good road, the
| Baltimore and Ohio must assurcdly stand
in the first rank. This was no show
excursion. We hal no special trains The
regular business Of the road was not inter.
rupted on our account. We were attached
4 now to 4 passenger train, now to q tonnage
train, and saw everything as itappears in tin
ordinary course of business. We di,
not experience lindrance or an embarass
ment or jolt, in the five days we were OF
the road. or the multitude of trains meet.
ing and passing us, every one was where i
ought to be arhen it ought to be; every nal
was in his place and was evidently the righ
man for it; and every hour gave new cvi
dcuce Of the well-studlGd and systematic per.
| lection of arrangements through the Who'll,
Line
1t is interesting sometimes 10 know par.
Ocular or two that is not in the way OF busi.
| ness j: and may add to the Judges profess
| ioua testimony my own more private admi-
ration Of the lesser punctuaitics of proven
| der. Those who know Baltimore know
| 'IIenry Jakes," as those who know Fifth Av.
enue know brown )" and it was this other
Brown, only more So" Gn cumpexion,l VIII,
had the charge of orr rations ami rcfrigcra-
tons Seated around the table in the res
taurant car, we dined, and drank our clare
sherbets, like Sybartes in their palaces @
marble. with no interruption on the part %
the unconscious miles slipping from unLc
| IL, q, l., 1..c
! ternoous, came tho iced Intermediates, eacl
with its bright particular straw, lmost temp
ting Representatives of down with tht
dust. and all Of the rarcst aroma and skill
fullest subtlety Of mixture. In the luxuri
ous days that are coming, when any individ.
nal iwho can afford it, will be able to travc
with his private Jakes and locomotive, thi
picture, upon which have fingered as lh,
description Of thing unusual, will cause q
smile. Meantime, let me be excused for thu.
dove-;ailng my best adjcctiycs in its remem.
| brancc!
And, by the way, there is another novelty
Of railway stIstcnance, which learned upon
til, route, and which will mention Willie
think Of it, viz. the support Of a vast ar.
my of pigs, extending from the Chesapeake
to the Ohio, by sucking the grease from t!c
wheels of cars and engines at the diIicrc.i
stations. The Irish laborcrs, who work the
! road, have discovered that the four thousand
engines and cars, each with from four to eight
wheels well creased bring daily along an a
mount of dripping and licking, upon which
the loose pig will thrive remarkably. AS
there have been some ''sirikos' among thC
pck-axes and shovcls, and the Director.
would think twice before interfering with
Paddy's long established privileges o pig arl
COW, the free grazing Of all unencloscd grease
and grass is taciti!y conceded. At every
stoppn. place ON the route, aGcordinals, I'll,
sound of the approaching whistle puts tn,
surrounding swine into a unanimous gallnI
for the station; and for the three minutes
that the long train is motionlcss, the pis-tus.
sic for the well-oiled hubs and axle trees il
lively indeed The only part of it that Pad.
dy does not like, understand is the keep.
ing clean Of other-lok's carriage heels, ny
his family, for no pay at all d.!
As my letter, thus far, has been rather a
picking out Of things unusual, | will add to
it the mention of a striking coincidence with
our visit to lIarpur's Ferry on the 10th. The
following paragraph has gone the rounds oI
the papers:-
"Ihc HGycr's Ferry T5,nalo. This aw.
ful storm rushed up the valley Of the Poto-
mar, and, turning Il little, at its junction
with the Shenandoah, struck the covered
bridge across that stream. Strong though it
was, that massive structure was liftel from
its piers like the lightest bubble, raise into
the air and dashed into tho water beyond
leaving not splinter on the original loun-
datiuns. 1t was the c!canest operation i'm
aginabe. Fortunately no one was killed."
Onr party, an hour before, stood on the IA
nous ",Jcfferson's Rock" which commands
this glorious passage Of scenery, ana looked
down on the TWO bridges, the railrold-bridgc
crossing the Potomac and the covered bridge
crossing the Shenandoah. particularly no.
ticcd the latter, because it resembled, though
twice as long,l the covered bridge crossing