The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-09-23
OUR EASTERN TRIP.


After (as might be expected) a pleasant
ride to Detroit, we took the Great West
ern for Niagara Falls, but as we found we
could not make connections till Monday
morning, we concluded to lie over at st.
Marys, a pleasant village of 1000 inhab-
itants, situated on the Grand Trunk Rail-
road, distant twenty miles from London,
where we became the guest of L. Crutten-
den, Esq, one of the oldest and most re-
spected citizens Of the neighborhood.
On Sunday afternoon, under the guild
ance Of A. StOddart, Esq, we were driven
to London, through one of the finest farm
ing counties PERTH of which either Canada
or the States can boast An air of thrift
and independence seemed stamped upon
every homestead, while the neatly TILED
fields and well filed garners gave evidence
that if their owners were to tell al they
''knew about farming" Horace Greeley
theoretical nonsense would soon be at a
discount.
In the morning we caught the eastern
express, on board of which we found several
Chicago friends, and the venerable Mrs.
Cady Stanton, returning from her Califor-
MIA tour, whose company we enjoyed till
we reached the Falls.
We would be doing injustice to the STE
cumseh House" however, were we do dis
miss it, without recommending it to the
travelling public as live stock" institu-
ton though the companions it furnishes
"love darkness rather than Fight, because
their deeds are evil" Cleanliness is next
to Goodness, fact of which its proprietors
seem to be in blissful ignorance. We shall
shall send no hill for this complimentary
notice
The trip through Canada is one which
every tourist can enjoy. The Great West
ern is certainly one of the most substantial
and best conducted roads in the country,
and its officials are favOrably known for
their courtesy and attention.
Ingersoll, Woodstock, Paris, Dundas,
st. GATHERINGS, Hamilton, and a score Of
thriving towns engage the attention till
Natures awe-inspiriDg master piece-Ni-
agara Falls-presents the rselves to view.
This magnificent scene has been so fire.
quently described that our readers are
doubtless as familiar with it as ourselves.
At the bridge Canadian Is exchanged
for American soil-the Great Western for
the New York Central. As an evidence Of
the immense traffic on this thoroughfare,
We may state that at Utica eIeren sleeping
carS-all filed --were attached to the train.
In the morning we find ourselves skirting
the thrifty villages Of New England, and
at s o'clock we're allowed twenty minutes
for refreshments in Springfield.
tShortly after leaving Worcester, the pas
sengers are emil by the company of q
talkative old gentleman, who takes great
pleasure in announcing that be is cattle
trader, has just made an excellent sale, and
is one Of the oldest residents of the neigh.
borhood, knowing every nook and corner
for miles around. In speaking of Samp
sons Coolie experiment in North Adams,
be freely expresses the opinion that che il
smart, smart as a steel trap, and done the
right thing" Upon being asked if Bis
definition Of smartness consists 10 the ac-
ton Of cold bocded scoundrel for biz
own enrichment, throwing 800 American
workmen out of employment, nearly all Of
whom bad families dependent on their labor
for support, and who though one of the
most blatant advocates of Protection to
american Industry bad been the 6rst to
introduce servile, foreign element for the
avowed purpose Of reducing the compensa-
ton Of the American mechanic to that Of
the European serf; and if SO, whether the
penitentiary did not contain five hundred
inmates equally as smart? be replies /:
"Well, you see, | amt posted I'm cat
tie buyer, you know; | heerd folks talk.
ing SO, but | guess you're about right
yes, yes, | gress you are; that's SO you
know; see you're posted, aud amt a
politician; the price of beef is what inter
ests me. Yes, | guess you know more
about it than | do; Sampson amt so
smaat after all, though some folks say be is.
Know" After which be confines bis OBJ
servations to the beauties of the old stage
road during the remainder Of his journey.
General Butler next appears upon the
scene; bis ''last nights speech" becomes
the general topic, and although in this in
stance as in others doctors differ, it is evil
dent that the trenchant blows be is striking
at the mOnopOlists and rings, makes many
barnacle vince. $50 may it be-" we
CIRCULATE The Democratic party, as it is,
has on y a tombstone to tell what it pas,
and the SOONER the Republican party, fes-
terIng IN its corruption, shares its fate, the
sooner will the banner of the National La
Dor Union appear on the ramparts. God
speed the day and General Butler.
But here we are in Boston--the Athens,
Paris, London, Rome, Berlin, Vienna,
Madrid Of America--tbe Intellectual, social
mercantile, mechanical centre of the western
world--at least, f.om Bostonian's stand
point. We are going to the New England
Hotel, and it seems as if the omnibus were
on round-about-now you see il, and now
you don't. The story about the COW mathis