White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-14

Valley.
If You are ever travelling down that
way, and want to visit the beautiful town
of Germantown, four miles of OF the
road. inst stop at Carlisle Station, where
you will find Col. Joe Cstrow ready to
take you through in short order. (Joe
used to be Major, but since he has been
getting married. he is Colonel; and in
q few months, we doubt not. be will be-
come q General. Bot his BUS has not
stopped on account of the weddings
the Empire says, 'there is room for one
more" By the way. rich things some
times happen in that 'Bus!) You will
be at no loss to recognize Joe-iust look
out for the "Hecnen head" If the Dos
should break down, be is stout enough to
carry You through on his back |!
The Galt House. Cincinnati. is a rea-
sonably good establishment, where they
charge unusually low. bills.
We now come to the Ohio and Missis.
sippi Railroad. broad gauge, passing
through somS:fne cesntrS but the road is
rough enough to jolt one inside out.
We never come across a grufer. crosser,
meaner dispositioned, more unaccommoda-
ting set of employees, high and low. in
OR life. than are to be found on the cas-
tern portion of this road. One would
be led to suppose that one of the strict
rules of the road was, not to speak civ
il word to passenger. The only per-
son on the road who showed any dispo-
sition to be mannerly. was a niger who
had charge of the sleeping car-and he
seemed to intuitively hold out his hand
for dime. every time he spoke a civil
word. The person who has the honor to
preside in the baggage Office at Cincin-
natl, thought it a great piece of impu-
dence for an editor to take his wife along
on the strength of q free pass, even
though the said pass expressly mention
ed the editor and lady but his wrath
knew no bounds when he found that they
had baggage. He could not have grum-
bled more, had it been his business to
carry the baggage over the road on his
back. We presume he thought persons
ought to travel for q month at a stretch,
without changing shirts or dresses. He
made it point to curse all baggage he
checked, whether it belonged to male or
female. He would lift each piece, and
demand to know what il contained-and
we observed that some persons were fools
enough to tell him. We doubt not, il
the Superintendent of the Road knew
how the underlings and boot blacks in
his employ conducted themselves, he
would dispense with their valuable servi-
ces. A young squirt, whom we took to
be q sort of sub conductor, stood at one
of the car-doors, apparently for the pur-
pose of insulting persons as they passed
in. We noticed one man take lady in
to car, then go out to attend to his bag
gage. Upon his return, he was stopped
by sub, with the remark, lyon can't go in
this car" "But have lady in there. "
said the man. Then why the hell
didn't you say so ?" was the affable re-
ply of sub. A woman with a child in
her arms. went into the sleeping car. by
mistake; upon discovering which, she
come out, and attempted to go into the
rear door of the car in front, which was
locked. She asked sub If he would not
unlock it and let her go in, when he po.
litely told her that if she wanted in, he
guessed she could get down and walk
around to the other end of the car, as it
was not his business to run around un-
locking doors for people On the edi-
tors passes there was e request for the
conductors to punch a hole in the card,
opposite the names of the respective
Roads, each time the holder of the card
passed over the road. The conductor on
this road punched hole in our pass /;
and sometime afterwards he came around
again, and punched two more holes in it
thus indicating that we had passed
over the road three times, when, in fact,
we were net half way over it for the first
time! The conductor of the sleeping
car received his fifty cents extra from
each passenger in the car, but gave no
checks; and when night came, the mig
ger did not want them to lie down until
they produced their checks He COM
PEELED all passengers to place their boots
in his care. and made them pay him q
dime in the morning. before be would
return them
As to sleeping cars. we got our belly
full. If any of our readers have de.
sire to try them. We would recommend
that they take an empty sugar hogshead
to the top of the highest hill they can