Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-09-07
THE .CIrY OF FREMONT"

A correspondent of the Sandusky Register,
during a recent trip down the Lake on our Pro-
peller, thus writes
Let us congratulate our enterprisiDg neigh
bors Of Fremont upon the possession OF so
dainty craft as this for l learn from her OIL
Ger. that she is owned there exclusively. She
is as trim, as tidy and as pleasant as any young
bride in her honeymoon, for it was only last
spripg that she was welded to Neptune, having
been built at Cleveland last winter. Her cost
was sixty-fye thousand dollars, and her own
ers give her very fair name for profit, while
for comfort l have rarely seen her attractions
excelled. She has twenty state-rooms neatly
upholstered, and her table is spread in the in
yitipg cabin, so that you have not to descend
into those bsleful regions of Tartarus, where no
less than thirty-niDe clearly defined odors Of
fensive cont inc to chase away ones appetite,
and the courteous and provident steward, Mr..
Pitmap, knows well how TO make you feel at
home, while Capt. Flint, Of mildly beDefcent
mien and genial presence, diffuses general
home-like impression over the whole boat
You hear no oaths, no loud commands, but ev-
erything goes on like clock-work. There are
no pentoup beasts below whose piteous means
sometimes make propeller odious to passen-
gers. but only the wealth of grain which the
bounteous West pours into the hungry mouths
of the East in such abundance that some curl
ous person estimates that if the entire corn crop
of illinois for 1865 were made into johnny
cakes, every personIon the globe might have a
cake large enough to last two days.
AS for speed, the engineer, Mr.. June, claims
great superiority over older beats and he ex-
6ibits his nicely cleaned engine with all the
pride of a mother who holds up her baby,
fresh from its bath and clad in snowy robes.
let us accept his courteous invitation to look
at this wonderful motor to which our lives are
intrusted for the time being. How simple its
operation to the thoughtless mind! Simple as
| breathing, and almost as noiseless. Yet how
complicated its structure. and how close its re-
semblance to the human system. Let the
slightest arrangement occur IN this wondrous
mechanism, and Immediately the whole system
| is affected. Especially if the boiler becomes
defled is the effect dangerous, even as the hu.
man system suffers from foul stomach.
wonder if the steam engine will ever attain
sucb perfection as to operate in silence, and SC
reach that sublime majesty with which nature
carries on her greatest achievement, namely the
growth of the animal and vegetable, the sun
rise and the sunset and the march Of the seasons
Returning to the deck, let US watch the sun
set and the moon-rise, and so forget the cares o
the day. How it refreshes and elevates one Il
he thus cut off for time from all communica
t;on with the bustling world Jean Paul-th
aOuly One" says: "Infnite care would no
enable us to sweep away the mist, but by as
cending mountain, we may leave it behind
And so when we break away from the petty an
noyances Of every day life, and ascend int
communion with nature and her Author, hoy
like mist they vanish in the pure light whic
there illumins the soul.
The moon is high and the night is in comPar
ably beautiful, but alas for poor human nature
my eyelids are heavy, and so good night.
VIAToR.