Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-01-27
Sailg lG.mlpiIrte.
written expressly for tho Dayton Rmpirel O.
A SU Nj M BR / NJ EUROPE,
THE RAILWAY STATION.


artist was recently paid forty Eve thousand
dollars, and which was sold by the first pur.
chnser TO its present owners for one hundred
thousand dolarsi We found it on exhibition
in little nook Of the Haymarket, paid shil-
ling at tho door entered and took our seats
on tho cushioned benches before it, and eager
ly began its inspection.
The first glance informed us that it repre-
aented the PaddingtoR station--the London
depot Of the Great Western Railway. A
train Of cars stands on the track and from
the steam that ia eacAping, and from the rush
which tha crowd are making to get on board,
we suppose ii is within few minutea Of the
time Of departure Several of tho most prom
inent features of the picture arc interesting
to us as Americans becAuae we mover SEQ
auch things in our own country Those cars,
for instance, arc not near so long as ours and
each onn is divided into three separate, un-
connected compartments, and tho doors arc
in the sidos instead Of the ends The English
were so constant in their affection for tho old
fashioned stage coach, that they required the
railway Carriages" to be made as nearly like
them az possible II il also from their attach
ment to their old ways, | suppose, that they
insist hat their "luggsge' shall be stored
away under tarpRulns on top Of the car in
which they ride, and that the ''gunrd" shall
| sit up th0re in the little box which CORES.
Nn a ha - N.R,,s h.
what queer little locomotive that is It's
body is large enough, but the wheels are d.
minutive, and the Bmoke-stack is not much
larger than an ordinary stoye-pipe And that
Immense station house There is more space
in it, than in any two passenger depots we
ever saw in all America. And those guards
and porters, wheeling the baggage along, or
storing it away on top of the cars, or holding
open tho doors for tho entering throng, how
numerous and how respectful they arc, and
and how neat in their uniform Of green velve-
teen
Bat let us take closer view Of that hurry
ing crowd Aswe look, II separates into many
groups, each one Of which has its own inter
est and its own story At this end of the
train, an officer has just laid his hand upon
tho shoulder of we'll dressed man, who is
about taking his seat in a frstclass car for a
long journey The officer coolly presents to
him a warrant for his arrest while his com
pAnion and assistant makes ready the hand
cuffs. The shock has been terrible to tho
criminal. His travelling.sAck has dropped
from his nerveleRB grasp, and his face, as hs
turns TO look, is ghAstly in its pallor He is
evidently no vulgar villain iorger perhaps,
or an embezzling railway or bank slerk, and
while You don't pity him, you cannot but feel
the tenderest compassion for that meek-eyed
woman, his wifo, who preceded him into the
car and who now looks out upon the officers
with a crushed heart and agony inexpressihls
Her husband has been doing wrong, she will
admit, but then she knows 30 many things
which palliate his crimes, and now, when he
was leaving his bad associates aud Temptations
for Australia or AmericR, where he would RS
form, make n fortune, and repay all whom no
had defrauded, he must be dragged back 10
Disgrace, 10 felons cell and punishment, 10
be lost to virtae and perhaps 10 her forever.
The detectives are very oomely, WslLappOinted
persons, who manage the niceties Of their pro-
iession, and who evidently don't care anything
about the mRn's fright or the poor wife's mis-
cry, They have cleverly .DRbbed their man
AMI are in an excellent humor with themselves
and fortune All this IL being done very
quietly, for that old gentleman in the same
apartment OF the car, with the newspaper
spread out in front Of him, il not at all dis.
turbed In hisroading, aud is evidently entirely
unconscious OF tho tragedy which is being
enacted so near him.
AZ the entrance OF the next..car, there Ia a
group pleasant 10 look upon, and think about
The transition is from agony, fear and dea-
pair, to their OppOsites-tO youth, beauty, hap
piness and hope, embodied in young, bride
and groom and their AttsndAnts They are
saving goodbye 10 each other, and in the
sweet face Of one Of the bridesmaids, there is
some sAdness, aud the little girl there is cry
ing bitterly because that handsome but cruel
Theodorois taking her pet sister away from
her The yOahg gentleman Is evidently in a
state Of serene bliaslulness, ARd althoHgh he
Dratends sOme solieiiude in regard 10 tho lug,
gage, wo can feel pretty well assured that hiG
| IDEAS on most sUbjeeia are jnst now very
crude and confused. He has his Anminta on
his arm, and che belongs TO him forever more
--of this much he ia distinctly conscious, bat
on any other points At present, he has no
opinions whatever, What does he care about
| trunks and baskets and dressing cases now Z
Those bright oyoa, loving looks and tender
smiles engross his every thought i..
Near the wedding party is a group which,
by reminding him Of his own experience, will
make every traveller laugh II he is n philoso-
pher, and swear II he is not, There Is tall,
blaek-Whisksred foreigner, with broad sWAr-
thy face which prOelains him Spaniagd oF
South American, and = dOggish looking
London cabmAn-mAy his tribe decrease
with his whip in his hand, asking tho poor
hslpleaa foreigner how be dared 0ffoF him for
lkis iaro OULJ The amouut which ihe Law allows