The national Republican., 1866-11-02
FROM WASHINGTON TO BOSTON.
JoTTIHus BY THE WAY.
New England and Bssisn as tAsy APPEAR TO tAe
Naked Eye Of our Chief Assistant.


and ever will be purgatory. While you
are nominally sleeping your soul undergoes
torments that DANTE could not have i'm
agined any more than be could have i'm
agined railroad. The rugged path" Of
the Sons Of Malta is the only parallel to o
ride in sleeping car that occurs at present
to the subscriber. Your hopes, fears and
doubts are jumbled together in terrible con-
fusion at every crossing Of q bridge, every
run through deep cut or an echoing tun-
mel. The result OF all these is that you ar
rive in New York from Washington (pro-
vided you make that trip with demoral-
lied nervous system. It's possible in the
great city, however, to bring yourself round
by remedial measures with little time and
patience.
was in New York thus invalided last
Sunday, and my physician, Professor N
W, prescribed q ride in Central Park
after the afternoon service. 1t proved to be
exhilarating. The trees are not in full dress,
to be sure, but the Park was all there, and
We had q delicious drive. One thing is no
ticeable in this grand arena Of recreation,
son with his shaggy colt and his queer sulky
or buggy, the soap boiler with his pair Of
clumsy horses and rusty harness attached to
a numbering old carryall, trot along in the
"ruck" with rs much self-satsfaction as the
most arstocratic resident Of the Fifth Ave-
nue., or the owner of the most brilliant pair
Of flyers on the road Each and all are doing
their best, and each one feels sublime indiE
ference towards each and every other person
on the ground-tempered perhaps with q
benevolent wish that all the rest may enjoy
themselves.
What variety Of carriages may be seen on
the @. P. in the afternoon. The close car
riage with liveried driver and footman out
side, and the plants Of aristocracy so delicate
that they must be kept "under glass" inside;
the open barouche in which beautiful forms
shrink from the chilly atmosphere under the
robes Of soft furs that overflow the carriage;
the smart double team Of trotters; the spider,
with its skeleton under-gear, its calash top,
its overspreading mud dashers and its dimin-
utve body suspended, like Mahomet's coffin,
between the high wheels; the common buggy;
the trotting sulky; the English dog cart, and
those cunningly devised road wagons made for
a single person, which look as IL their owners
had been measured for them as the old
dame in Connecticut was measured fol her
new side -saddle-all these are mixed together
in the throng, and the most outre turnout
hardly calls out word Of comment, or even
a stare from the multitude.
We distributed ourselves over the Park as
widely as possible in one short hour, noting
the lady-like airs Of the swans in the lake,
and the swan-like airs Of the ladies on the
mall, studying the panoramic views from
the most elevated points in that picturesque
spot.
Then we switched off upon the road lead
ing to Harlem river, called Harlem Lane,
and here we met the trotters and the fast
pleasure riders. Spokes were glancing in
the sun so swiftly they looked like Catharine
wheels in aFourth-of.July fireworks. People
drove as recklessly and as fast as they pleased
down the road until near the horse-railroad
track, where q policeman was stationed to
prevent them from damaging the street cars.
As we logged along we met fine horse
tearing down the road with harness on, but
minus buggy and driver. Some distance
ahead Of us we saw smashed top-buggy, q
great crowd, and huddle Of carriages Of all
sorts under large tree. Arriving there and
pressing through the throng, we found
stretched upon the grass q young man and a
young woman, the former groaning family,
but unable to move, and the latter perfectly
senseless, with dark blood oozing from her
mouth, nose, and ears, and crimsoning her
marble face. All was confusion, those i'm
mediately about the injured persons calling
frantically for camphor, whisky, or any other
stimulant to relieve them. had small
bottle Of cholera mixture, compounded Of
camphor, chloroform, and opium, which /
handed to the craziest man in the group, and
who had assumed especial charge Of the
young lady, and he began to dash 1t about
her nostrils and face, but with no apparent
effect. We could do nothing to help, and
rode on. When we returned, few minutes
afterwards, the young woman was being
lifted into an open barouche, apparently life
less, and some parties were placing the young
man in another carriage, while he shrieked
with anguish at every movement OF his body.
Ii was said they were thrown against the tree
under which we found them lying. Accidents
frequently occur on that road, but not as
often as one would expect when such multi
tudes drive there so jehu-like. In the Park,
the boys in grey"-the special Park police
do not allow a faster gait than seven miles
an hour.
From New York to Boston by rail the
journey presents the same old features. Cars
comfortable, track smooth, locomotives fast,
landscape growing ruggeder and rocker as
you proceed. The trees in New England
have put on their brown and russet, their
scarlet and purple, their orange and golden
hued livery, to be worn only for brief season,
until old Boreas strips them to the skin. The
lily ponds without their lilies looked vacant
and chilly, and everything seemed to shiver
with the cold. The cabbages in fields were
trying to hide their diminished heads from
the agueish drizzle that came down perse.
veringly. The only thing in the landscape,
except the snug dwellings,, were the hay
stacks, with heaps of great golden pumpkins
nesting at their foot. At the railroad sta
tons, there was the same old kissing scenes
kissing Of arriving and departing friends
kisses Of joy and Of sorrow, and some kissing
that was very tantalizing to spectators con
demned TO witness raptures in which they
couldn't participate.
Stands Boston where it did p
No, my good friend it hath moved out
upon the Back Bay and into the suburban
towns and villages, struggling as hard as eycl
u city could to get away from herself. The
old nucleus Of the city has not changed ma
terially. The streets are no crookeder mol
narrower than they were. The most marked
change in the localities is going on at For