Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-07-30
[For the Delaware Inauirer.1

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MY EXPERIENCE AMONG THE SAND SPAN
IARDs, OR A VISIT TO THE JARsEYs.
Be not astonished, good reader, when as
sure you that | have made tour of the JAR
scys and returned unscathed to the haunts of
civilization.
Having some business in the interior OF the
Spanish country, one day last week dis
guised myself in a clean shirt,pu on my store
clothes and started off in company with a
friend to ''see what could see'' and attend to
my worldly interests in the regions of sand
beyond the river Delaware had heard a
good deal about the Cloths and Vandals of the
Spanish Notwithstanding stories of their
merciless cruelty and hatred Of good Ameri-
can citizens, and had not my business been
irresistibly urgent, you may safely believe
should not have had the courage to venture
among them. But accompanied by my friend
as have before said, early one bright sunny
morning last week. left the Wilmington de-
pot for --- county, five miles above New
Brunswick city,
Not arriving at our depot more than tho
hours before the starting of the cars, the trap
door of the ticket Office was closed against me
and was obliged to take passage, minus that
important document. The cars were crowded
as usual and as usual there were many single
ladies occupying whole seats, not one one of
whom showed the slightest inclination to make
room for myself and friend. But the
women have inalienable rights as well as
men, and am not at all inclined to inveigh
against them for the exercise of their little
prercgatiyes. Yet, many of the women being
single-that is, unmarried-I could not resist
the suspicion that if we had belonged to that
popular class of human pups known as long
bearded and handy legged handles, we should
have been rendered seats beside some lam
gushing damses. But l must not reflect
upon the general charity of the sex, so will
let that matter rest. Patience and perseye-
rance, saith the preacher, oyercometh null
titude Of tribulations, so acting upon the
sanity precept, we walked meekly along
through the train, looking alternately to the
right and left until finally we came upon a
seat, which, having neither man, woman
child, bandbox, carpet bag nor umbrella upon
it we laid claim to and occupied. We had not
been long seated when lean, lank, slab-si-
ded, fashionably bedecked individual, with
legs like double barrelled cork screw and be-
jewelled and perfumed to within an inch of
his life, approached us from a distant part of
the car and remarked that he 81 believed we
had taken his seat"
Assuming as much as possible, an air OF
stolid GOODNESS and indifference, turned to-
wards him and inquired if he was quite
sure he had prior right to the seat, and if
sc,by what tenure he held his claim. Slab-side
looked somewhat disconnected and answered
by saying "that he didn't care about going
through Chancery for a--railroad seat
and guessed he could find place to sit down
somewhere else, at the same time taking him
self out of our car and into another. His
absence, we considered good company and his
departure good radiance OF bad baggage, SO
we did not trouble ourselves about calling
him back. l was not much troubled in con
science about thus robbing the bedizzened
dandy of his seat, as, according to my interpre-
tation of the rights of railway and other trav-
ellers, all purchase equal privileges and no