, 1870-02-06
a Ride for "Reminiscences,
Going to the First Congress.
1789-
The Road* and the Republic as
They Then Were.
ROLES by tho Way.
tFEoN orH OWN CORRESPONDENT

vernon 10 New yuik, on the occatton
n: Lis Inhalation to the Presidency, This
nay bs more novel Than newly; bus II will
help 10 interest 5ou IN the country between wash-
cRton aid New yo1k,-.hat dismal ride which
roa nult all make from the West when you visit
.be capital. tklFiltg Underwater, crossing broad
Ealt RIVERS on tressleE, piercing copses. swnDps,
bid tcrub-ec ecods, and for much OF tae way seeing
no :uwn Of more Than few hundred people.
ny the p tst read OF that date Q75y New York |
wts d,stnEt ffcm Mount SetLop, two hutdred |
and city niles, OF aboot twelve nltles longer than
b. the ptesclt ra!l~Ay. The journey was nc- |
c.mp,tkted BY Washington In h,a last ehaide aad |
took ore weck, CT from the 10th Of April toe4se |
c3d OF the same Eou1h. Five days waA the mini |
mum for humane traveller to make the trip by |
horse OF carriage as The roads were OF clsJ. deep
]y xakhed srd ndeoted, asd all the larger streams
we're CROSSED by ferry ooats
The main road folio red the same general line
down to the opening OF railways In Van BaFens
accl st1attor, aEd ovst It passed for nfty 5eEIE
much Of tie stage aud carriage travel between tue
North and tie sea. Of government uo1 ne,
s,elsta u.d forgotten now are Ill is many mile
eto, es md merry inns, willie the long trans dash
by IN ten hcutB tetxten c,pitst and metropolis,
ahaAtE 1he ciazy s.enhosIds which warn tho
people on the old .post roa1 to " beware Of the
locoD1tiSc."
TUE FIRST AMERICAN 0C1DE BOOK.
We Gbtaln good idea Of the road IAveFsed oy
Washington on lnla memorable inaugural
journey from what vas probably the
earliest guide bock puollsoed in tho United
Ssstes "Tnc Traveller. Directory OF Pocket
Companion; ste ewl1g the course Of tho main rohd
from philadelphia to New York, and from pnll2.
delbhls to Washington. With descriptions Of the
piscea through which he pasEes, and the lniessec.
tlon Of the cross-roada. From actual survey BY
s. s Moore aud 7. ". Jones'" A copy Of this
-H,I..+ ~ft thA
puolle bed BY Matthew Carey, In 1909 and Is q bet
Ter Enlde.tooL than We produce At the present
tsy, be,ng illustrated with twenty -th1ce hand
somely. engraved typographical plates. the ac-
ca5acJ OF which l have substant!Ated By making
the xhtlc Journey aA Washington undoubtedly
performed 1t i lew ycaIs before these plRtea were
E1cllaItd- --..
AMERICA UNDER TIE FIRST FREsIpKNr.
I.Has nov 1883, taat fourteen yeAts since the
battles ot CorcoId snd Lexington. The lotdon
Ty,ns usu been started by John Waiter the pre-
v,ous year. Napoleon Donspa,Ie WAS 10 MS
alst year George Stephenson wAs years olos ana
Uo,e., Ful,en at. II was eighteen Jeats before tne
Gyst tttanboat. CowPer, the poet, was III Tue
height OF Els fauc, aud Burns was tust becotn'
,rc kxo1n nouasesn had died the rfeviout
.year. Gibson had tust Inlahed hta history. War
rrn Hastings Has on TRIAL Simon Bolivar was .
hapg. Lafayette was the most poWerful man II
France and Ropeapierre had last been elected 1
Ftesch DEPUTY. Goethe and Schiller We1e friends
and In the meridian Of fame. BeoItmln frAhkll
and Adam Snih were TO die within year. aa
John Wesley within tEo 5earA Washingso
h,mte11 waf perhaps, the nols eminent ia
IN the world at o. years Of age. lie Ia
comn,s1ted daEiEg that War OF lrdependeIc
4ou,o40 t1oopp, IN the aggregate. aud had oeate
attore,hct, during The var, upTnfis OF l1* W
troops u1u O. tNO teamep. "FIom the oldes
General In Eu1opc 10 the greatest IN the VOID
was lue Testimony Of Frederick the Great to b
as,,,tleq, when Frederick presented him sWott
a1dtte "o!1est 1tnefal" had now hesn dea
three yea1s. s7ch was the period Of time Whe
WA4h.nkton ect ont 10 govern the country fro
the nret capital, New icTS.
The popula.lon OF WashIDgtona republic vi
nearly foar millions, and 10 take Census en-
nc1at,on The following year cost only $4s.uI
The total valuation OF Washtogtcns republic,
lA1de, fortunes, and all. was.noout e. socotN
and tie debt for which the State was rcspoQas
wasxlO C01, ,UaN. Boston had tWc1t5.1ve thonsAl
people; New Iork, thi1ty.taree thousandt Pail
aelph.a, quite forty thonsand; baltimore. pt
npps, fourteen thousand. New York aud Charlt
toa were The tnost popular cities IN the new Sta
Tor lhetr ga5etJ and tplr!t. contemporary Et
llsn Tourist gave ua mn idea OF how these CIT
sooa a1terwatdB ranked IN civilization !"
Boslop, New Tc1k, Philadelphia And Bafntnos'
he sayp, the state OF society Is much the sArue
In tie large towns Of Great Utitnln, such ss
E1tRhsm, Bristol, Liverpool and Manchester,
tne fou1 american toTna l have named c
1 aef2 tRes
about $4,000. New York IL a perfect coun
part Of Liverpool; III all the American elites th
are theatres and n.seI1blIea; articles OF !nx
are ope-tnlfd higher than Ia England, ns p!cio
piex glasses, carpets: there ia = predllecl
parity founded on prejudice, and partly on
tlfest IN 1aeor Of articles manufactured IN Gi
britain"
The mnrs IN the country. possibly except
military chlrts. were Of the crudest zort. Je
diAh Mor1e, tho parent OF American 4e0gfar
had resdv made his nrst effort, but Bow
Lorcna Altar, cu1rent at the lime, though mel
. gtLctatlon old, represented the fo,amac NJ
Turkey Huzra1u l4vet, and the slle OF the tut
capital Is Turkey Buxzt1d Point Condcrs
OF the United Slater, 1uhtished nSc years. Ia
auggette.l the site Of few hauets In kentu
as Bou1bon, BardstoRn, Claskesville, Loulsv
AKA Frankfort, but the only places ket dow
the cttlre Northwest we're Port Detroit
"kusEnrky." Winchester In Virginia Was
1arpcat town west OF the Blue Mountains,
e,otapeorlc, and pennsSlrania was the oaiy
die State settled to It's western l!mlts- Pttsot
hsd Geo innnbltabte, but armed packet boats
not yet begun 10 descend the Ohio 10 ~
kuaky." WHAT IL now called Little MashlnG1
In West reDrsslvaEia, WAS then Washington,
urdieIuted.
Iel the tide Of emigration had already tn,
tuRaId ine West from New England and HlE4l
Marietta and Columbia, IN Ohio, had been plA'
the rrcy,ous year, and twenty thousand pers
1t Was estimated, had descended the Oniu II
tclosc aid within the Feriod VI Washugsoa'a 4
3tnr Of rs2istracy.
TIE rtst daily paper startvd IN America
nov been In existence ore years In Philade1l
bnt New York cls. had maintained = daily p
Only pIe year.
Some OF The "mocern Improvements" emu
a,td ny Hrltsot IS pertaining to.exslted eoc.e
tsat da, were IittenhonseA pEaneiarum. Fl
Inns clectsica, conductor aud bis fireplace,
irey's Qoadralt, numscyS and Fltthis steat
sttes, Leslie d rcd reLdulnu. The SeT Ens
wha!c.buat, the Philadelphia dray with an Inc
rlane, tie Connecticut steerie CLOCK vh:t
would up by the w!rd, the Klttennouse .
Donaltkon's Eirropotauus and balance LOCK
Such we're sotne OF the perceptions Of his {
uy passing through The mind Of the nsss +
.lent-a corntry less than one, e,fouttn the ST
ou1s e1clusiyc OF Alsska, and bnt little Rr
than the rycsenr New York state IN ropuls
str1p OF cultivation beginning At the
OF the White Mountains and ttcrpiug
Georgia; tic rest wilderness and savage
sirn1d beams Of white nan piercing through.
route over waica the Grit elected preadeu
pakalng hal been the sole srea& n!gn Way bet
the North and the south tot Innuy yeass, II
lantc Ocean aud the Cue sareAle Day Only
cented, and Ike the cord connecting a
fringe, It hsA held together during the lie
the Reyo,uuon and tho tolfedczacy, the d
nec.ed and Jealous trov,pceA
RIVAL ROADS AID norTEA
SIscc vessels and Wagons hal been 1sst
between Philadelphia and baltimore thirty
yeart before (i135), crossing the Chesapeake
baltimore 10 FteLcntoHn, hamle1 oa II
thence oy wagon TO Christians, III OelaWss
nor,s' drive, ard Ineu By vessel sgafn 10 "a
mia. Two days aad n.gat was far Tine 70
the voyage So.
The earl!cst mail route In Maryland nad
established nearly n century before (feos).
between the Potomac aud rhllxd elphls f'9A
q Mar, stAiutE IRON the lower Potomac,
where Wilkes booth crossed Ia his Digit a
tnly sna hree qaa7ttta atterwast: tue:
Beped!c1,whese the Ntitssn lsudcd from tne
TO burn Washington, II 15.l. AID by ferrl
the lover PAluxent to ANA zo!ts1 whence tn
rrossed tie bay TO Kent lslapd, and Il
through The Eastern Shore 10 Sewcaat!e,
Avs1e Th!. early natl route gave l1nd cor
r.ton between Wll!!amab1rg, capital Q! V,
and the North. Nobody ever th,nta IN oar
rrnssdr g the CnesapeaEesoy ferry to uaee II
rev nor,h~ara from Washington, SC. II
fayor1te route In the time Of warrington
md from his d.ary feps during MS ires,de
aAuother ypnte between Mount $eFaon
North In The early days vas r'a Anuapi
Rock Hat, on the Eastern snore el ~
pass,rR tac lead Of S'sts!ras' "a"N
Lon, Se~castle, ADD AAm'ps"a sA.
road tA&en By washington on ms me
toovccI 'thrnnch the southern Ssates,
tpTicE o. 1871.
aus eap!page Ani attendant" " he saSs
s,s,ed Of a cnnr.ot and four horEes drofe
Mont hsrrr1e varot. and 20 horses, foe