Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-06-25
For tha DaLa,pare inquirer.
NOTES OF A SHORT JOURNEY IN VARIOUS
DIRECTIONS.

MR.. EDITOR -Tn6 seeming neat Oh Lnes
summer suns, is dreadfully trying upon moi
tai man, and oppressive alike to mind an
matter. Il extracts the oil from ones flesh
thereby willing and weakening the cute
man-it evaporates the iubricating Juices
ones brain, thereby depressing the powers
the inner man. Manual LABOR OF any sort
amid the sweltering heat, is radically AM
thoroughly disagreeable. and the man WHO'S
terrestrial surroundings are such as 10 pernll'
him to escape the legitimate penalties OF
high temperature, naturally aVaiiS hiiiseii Vi
the blessed advantages and seeks the shade'
So your humble correspondent prostrateo
even unto physical weakness by the choking
warmth, determined one day last week u
ruthlessly tear himself away from the ahec
tionate embraces of his dear friends--ih snort
to bereave the city-and 10 seek III oth"i
chimes, other winds and other weather. 'h"'
relief from the summer elements which ne
could not find amid the sultry circumstance
of his home in Wilmington. Determined
say upon stthe pursuit of happiness"
weighed anchor early one morning last Week'
and Squared away" for the hrst port tha'
CHANGED to turn up, not careing in what Ill
rection travelled nor where Went
So. going down to the depot, encased in a
Glenn shirt with corresponding outside fxins,
and swinging in one hand a small satchel,
which had freouently been nv STAY and conf
fort on MANY previous pilgrimage, took
massage in the first train that left the city.
As I before said. was careless as to the di-
rection in which travelled, my whole and
sole object being to cut myself loose from
discomforts and home scenes, and the train
bound to Baltimore. being the first to leave, the
depot, thought ''the right of way tothe city of
"Blood Tubs" ''Short Boys" and "Dead
Rabbits" In not many hours, | found my
self at another depot, and was kindly informed
bv small man with soft voice, wearing a
white metal badge lit might have been silver)
on the collar of his broadcloth coat, that /
was in Baltimore, and in tone of marked
oondescension was amably invited to alight.
Thelittle man with soft voice and metalbadge,
| supposed to be the conductor-a man whose
business il is to punch tickets, badger the
ro;,road sunes and answer civil questions in
an uncivil way-and you may be assured Mr..
Fd;,or that when he spoke in words of COM
,oor no,;tepess and eentlemanly moderation,
| was astonished-aye fairly COMPOUNDED.
,,ouo ,rova,,ed thousands unon thousands of
niIes Inv railroad. in the United States, and
ont of II. and this was one of the very first
;nstoncas in which observed trace of de
capcv in the conduct of this unchristianly
cIass of b,neds. When the time comes for the
little man to get his body ground up, or his
bra;ns butted ont. or ANYTHING of that sort.
nil ~ am LIVING Give him n good epitaph.
and sine 10 dsuns AZ his grave. left the
,ro;r NJ Ral,;mors and with NV "baggage''
ooross nv sbouIaar started I'M the first street
an a vovaoa Of discoverv. Ihad heard and
re.d ,.,r;h,e ravelations of the deem and dark
,,;,,o;n;as narnatrated in Baltimore. and con-
olra;no mon the facts. supposed myself in
a oommnn;tv of common outlaws. With NV
,,.,a, s,ont ha.r,edness and general heroism
oo,,o. 1s.r,tored along nm the street not
r,,n;,ost;ne any of the usual signs of fear.
,,,,, ho,d;no m ss,f in constant readiness for
"a. 90 ,,,oct w;sb;ne al the same
49, .,a, thov ,,,i.bt mistake me for one of
- and Ia, mo rass But strange TO
~ ~ u.1,.od throrah large number Of
~, g.. ,oo,,;ar ~ ,hoir noonle and nothing
, ,..s 'ss NV avan fsrooions glancs nor did
r .,,aa.noa .ha noo,s Of blood along the side
w,,ks which Ibad expected to find. MY faith