The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-06-22

IS a HoosIER SsRL EAST.
Ths following letter Was written by
) Hoesise lsdy, lately married and on .
visit to the parents Of her husband East.
70 her Amily in this city:
.rs. Vineyard Grove. June s, 20
On leaving the dilspidated Old depot.
at Richmond. 1st Of june, Saturday
night, We arrived at Columbus about 8
O'Clock in the morning-changed cars
and arrived u Pittsburgh 1t noon. That
city 10 superlatively dirty place-hous-
e., ground and people arc nearly one
color black snd-tan. S a1aAa
Sunday evening. at S, we were on the
top OF the mountains. swinging around
the horseshoe bend at . place called
Altoma--s pretty view. Crossed the
Ohio, Allegheny, Susquehanna, AID Dell
aware rivers on bridges--one Of which
was one mils-and-a-quarter lorg--and
arrived in Philadelphia Monday morning |
about 4 O'Clock. It is beautiful city!
No piece on the route looked As neat |
and clean as Richmond, until We came
here. This city Of the illustrious Penn
il grand and picturesque Lighthouses and
door yards perfectly tidy, as We have
thou 10 our little Quaker city. The
next place Of note Ne arrived At was N
York city, SO miles further, which we
reached q O'Clock, and 'tosted' our
bagsags 10 the steamer Bristol-a most
magnificent boat; then We started out
to zee this second Tweed-Sodom. Took
. street car for the Aston House and
Ceutsal Park: there We took coach and
had . drive oil over the Park, more
than three miles, and to the great rsser-
voir that supplies the city with water.
This Park 10 splendid, bat shall have
to tell you about il some other time in
stead Of discharging my thoughts about
it At you on paper. We walked and
rode over the city all day until 5 o'cl'k.
Castle Garden, where oil the foreigs pas
sepgers (many Of whom could not speak
one word Of English) land, was crowd
ed. We went to large restaurant for
cur dinnsrs-every thing.was excellent
.-tomatoss and everything that the most
finished gourmond or refined epicure
could crave olored men, with their
clean, white linen coats, were waters
We ate with what appeared to be silver
knives. forks and spoons cthink Of that.
master Brookl) and on the table were
silver sugar fowls, cream mugs, castors.
etc. Was ever Hoosisr 90 magnifi
Gently dined! called for Indian pud-
ding and mutton: Mr.. Westc,t. for plum
pudding and beef. and Henry for spple
dumplisss asd veal We isastsd salts
factoTiIy. 81 90 a4A
saw the PostofIice, Tribune Build
ing, Stewart & ClaHin,s Store, Town
Hall. Promanaded Broadway with %
big feeling and with - much impor-
lance - anybody I met there! I wa
on Fifth Avenue and Wall Street. Saw
George Washipstonis. Shakspeare's and
Mosss's (not A. J.) statues, and others;
looked for Grsslsy's, JEFF Davis's, Tom
Hendricks and George w. Jalian'a
statues. in group, but couldn't find 'em
-suppossd they were not flushed yet
somebody else may look for them there
Immediately after the Baltimore Demo.
cratic National Convention.
We got on board of the grand oa,
built by Jay Gould ard the notorious
Jim Flake, costing over Z million dol,
lars. for Fall River City. This boat has
800 state rooms, four large parlors, din
ing rooms-sll its appointments perfect
A band travels with it, and played unit
10 o'clock. / remained Oh deck ~ Ions
as I could see. and had the sight o
Trinity Church and many other object.
Of interest. I went to bed aud slep
some-this boat glided along so gently
that could not perceive any motion a
al. In the morning, we landed 1t Fal
2 River City. There saw some larg'
cotton factories Eve stories high; on tn,
side Of one Of these factories counted
three hundred windows! We hero tool
the cars and rode to New Bedford tool
hack and rode down to the wharf,
was then about half past on Tuesday
morning. We waited unit! 8 o'clock 70
the steamer Massachusetts, to convey u
to Oak Bluff wharf This was q regu
lar ocean steamer. and left for the Blu
at 2 o'clock where we arrived ct 8. W
had, as some Of the passengers said,
very rough voysge. WANTED 70 see q
Ipossibly could, and stood ON the dec
nearly oil tho way-felt no symptoms
sea sickness, but l assure you l wa
tired looking 20 much. We wash q
oombed our hair, changed our clothes, q
~ if We were q homo up stall
and down, and talked with most every
body. Passing on the east side Of Ii
Island Of Marthas Vineyard, saw Davi
(my "tother' hsli) and waived my HAND
ksrchief ct him,s but he didn't notice
wasn't expecting us-and We soo
landed ct "Woods' Holsn
Like my nav mother and hthsr rigl
y vsile-tR tGa1ss psst6 vsu- prs