The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-08-18
wEsTERN CORRESPONDENCE.
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II.
MIR EDtroR-T have lust returned
from a trip of 500 miles down the Mis-
sissipni. / went mostly for pleasure and
IA Eeecher said when he rot married
~ have been clad ever since 1t is
the cold. dead, monotonV Of life that
unstringg our nerves. cats mo our vilali.
tv and Kills us outright. An OCCASION
nj interval of rest. or change of sur
roundings will drive the ache out of the
heart, the bile out Of tho system. i'll hui
nor out of the family. ard make ,iclilv
house-Dlants whose sfupid blood freezes
in JULY. as healthy rs a rose. | believe
this sincerely. Nv head felt thick and
dizzy. | looked in the glass and found
gray hairs all along my Temples. felt
rheumatism in my shoulders q thought
to myself, q few kicks more and shall
be taking my final shuttle. Thiswould
never do. Accordingly | seized NV
carpet-bag put in a change of linen and
"lew sermons and was on my way.
As luck would have it ! soon fell in
with most agreeable company, and at
ter overcoming my usual dj.lidcnce
made myself generally useful in look
ing after luggage and heStoWiup such
other little attentions rs the case de-
mauded. We arrived in It Paul in
season to take the steamer Damscl
which we did. II was the same boat
that Gail Hamilton came up the riv-
er on and in description of which she
rather prOiancly insisted upon giving
to each Syllable of the word its literal
Specification. Travelling il d,l4htful
enough, but il has its disagrccabIe pha-
ses. Horace in his journey t. Breunlu-
SUM, was all the way sicll, sleepy and
hungry, and many since his day have
suffered as much a. he. 10 he sure Il
steamboat or railway car makes a bet
ter appearance than q canal boat drawn
by mules. Yet while one is more ele-
CANT the other il more safe, The mules
are not 80 likely 10 run away with the
boat rs the boiler j. to explode or the
| rail to break. But to-day these contin-
gencies scarcely ever enter the mind of
u traveller. "When will YOU be in New
York sir? In thirty-siX hours at
| the very least"-is the reply. There IS
! n condition however which suggest H.
self to Il timid mortal like myself. that
is, if every rivet out Of the hundred
! thousand and more which hoidthc iron
| lungs Of engines in their places is fast
| and firm, If all the countless rails be
| tween here and there are straight and
every hange upon the myriad wheels
shall keep its hold, then in "thirty-six
hours YOU NAV see New York. And
yet "Out West | should he ashamed
to disclose such reflections to a miscel-
! laueous company of fair women and
brave mon, - because people net here
upon Impulse. and il it was necessary
either for profit or pleasure to put their
heads between tle lions Jaws, they
never hesitate TO do il. On board the
steamer Damsel we found everything
neat and comfortable. excepting that
every mother was there an. had all her
own babies certain, and it seemed tome
all she could borrow for the occasion. -
They all cried together. 1t was a com
pound of discordant progressions and
consecutive fifths. | began to distln-
guish difference in babies L never
knew before. They did not cry alike.
One great Dutch boy with faxen hair
and white eyes roared frightfuIly. His
face much elongated brought the facial
angle down to lOo, his nose was almost
lost sight of beneath successive waves
of filth and fat, and his mouth going
nearly twice around his head, suggested
a ready market for generations of La
ger Beer and sourkrOut yet to come
Another delicate little fellow with large
INTELLIGENT ewes. thin Dllc checks and