, 1873-07-27
THE SUMMER-SEASON,
Washington to Cape May--The Presi-
dontial Pike-Road.
An Old Canal, and Life upon It.

L u.
The Capes Of the Delaware--Peo.
pie, Inns, and Shines.
From Our 0ten Correspondent.
CARR MAY, N. j., Judy a, 1879.
"1oro We aro again. said to my horse, which
tsknown by Tho namo Of Bismarck, which l take
to bo tho German for :" Mark Twain, ,"-'' horc
NO arc again, in pursuit Of change. Tho same
old sun,mer.waut Of now mir for tho children, tho
housokooper'a cry for rollef, nni tho iluttoriug
pulse Of onrself, not nyereo to distant occupa-
tion, load US over tito Presidential pike. There
Nfo
THIHTY-sI1 MILES
between I'd and Baltimore, and half tho milos
must be behind us by bcltimo."
80 Wo took tho old Dlalousbrrg road, good
enough at this season Of tho yoar, aud passed.
that groaning-loolrng village OF Lip roofs, and
tho duelting doll, and tho great aat lawn Of
Benedict Calvert, nnl then two Or throo aban-
doned tavorns, much froquontod In atago-coach
eimos. Hore was tho noBsberg Tavern, all
yawuing and roomy, with not q lont dog to howl in
tts aoreno dissolution and horo tho Gontleman'B
lun, converted to n dwelling, and its manifold
barns and foeding-shods unrcsoundiug to hoof or
halloo, except when VIC drove between. Hero
wero tho plashing florida Of tho Hources Of tho
Annoostia and tho crooks OF tho patu1ont, and
rabbits played taruoly nenr tho brink. Here
woro new hamlots, like Doltsvillo, and old ones
Like Vanvillc, gono to sleep theHo forty years.
some in lovol places. come On hill-tope; and, in
Che air, the spirit OF the atage-horn seemed to
lingor an instant, to mako Buccoeding silence
moro appealing md profound.
" Forty hosBeB stood In liarncss right before
this door whom was boy" said the cid fellow
et Vnnvi1le who gavo wator to the nag. "Eyery
night in tho weok, somo great man was In town,
and wo hoard all the nowa. But It amt any uao
to talk about it,
BAILooN-pANoY.
Perhaps tho day will como whom somc like
lonely travelor will go over tho grass-grown
track Of the railroads also. and hear the echoes Of
decaying stations, and tread with uncertain step
upon bridges and platforms docrepit with nog-
tect, while overhead, In the nmbor light beforo
twilight, tho balloon-train will whistle warning
and commueration, and philosophlo trayolora
will look down and say "That Was rum old
age, not to bo acquainted with theao paths Of
mir, while making roads at $50, 900 the mile."
LET STEAM lie FORGOTTEN,
and who eau explain the railway7
Yes, in yonder bog, the Father Of his Country
had stuck, and been pried out by poica aud fence-
rails in the hands Of Col Jarboe'a black men.
At that bottom Of tho hill, Mr. Randolph has e1-
ercised his Hp}onetio wit to franc remark rude
enough to utter whom la got to tho top. In
this inn, tho great Nick Diddle had stopped over
night.
Here had proceeded the mighty, circus and
moral entertainment, with tho elephant at its
head. to tho wonder Of the .parsonage-Doys at
tho roadsilo, who expected free tickets on
grounds Of Bome necessary connection bctwoen
the clergy mud tho animals. Tho Blave-gaugs going
mourntully OIL, with oareless singing, toward tho
Gulf, had counted those rotting nlilo-Btones
with an impotence OF geography moro wonderful
to comprehend than the idea Of eternity. Tho
panorama Of tho Western world, from Lords
unfollod down this old Venerable pikoway, wloro
now tho very pikeman had departed, ind tho
road WAS made iree and empty together. Little
or nothing o4copt the aenso Of association now
vorts, or thugs durable or monumental in tho
road work. Tie mud-lloles and corduroy-patchoB
no moro existed It WAS morelya good, plain
road Of dirt, loading right on to tho north
groves Of oaE. aid poor farm-lands, with
visitor hero aud thero wlore starlight twinkind
down lonesome, coon-haunted aisles Of marah,
or tho rising 1noon burat from aomo yellow hill
top and gave bonodiction to My Maryland"
The fast nght-trans, to and fro, drawing henry
Pullman coaches with muflled lights, screamed
and vanished down tile gorges and never heard,
as We did, the barking dogs which complained OF
thom long, after. 4 pair Of Maryland planters
occasionally passed, riding blood and touching
their hats. At night NC pulled up at Laurel, on
tho Patuzcnt, q town Of ono street milo long,
ana aome CROSS lanos built to tako advantage Of
tho wator-lower hereabout, where tho CapronB.
Buowdons, Iliicotts, aud others had long worked
III Hurfuce-oreB and wooB, andcottons, On
TIE rATU1ENI.
This s tho largest town in Maryland between
Frederick aud Baltimore aud Point Lookout, OK
cept Annapolis. 1t is studded with tho villas OF
Washington clerkp and contains q largo sum-
mor-hotol, whore wo supped and slept. In tho
morning, the proprietor told us al the news out
Of his papor, beginning with the local intolli-
gonco Of Baltimore a. most Important. We
were hitchad up and of by o'clock, and tho
road somewhat improved between Patuxent and
Patapaco. Two littlo towns, one named Water
loo, a Methodist camp,grouna, . deserted gold.
mine, and tho struggling landing -placo called
Elkridgo, whcro Com. Joshua Barney ouce
lived, were all we saw until
BALrlMonE
oame to view, with its uneQuacd profile Of spireH,
factories, and houses, compact Rs q regiment
with spcarH bayonets, aud batteries, advancing
to tho water's edge, This vas tho lrst-born
municipality Of tho nopublio. It was Of 60 littlo
momcnt IN the Revolutionary war that Lord
Howe's fleet sailed past 1t, up tho Chesapeake.
by tho War Of 1879, it was tic most aggressive
marino city In tho country, the Vonico Of them
all, scattering its clippor-shps from the Meditor-
Byatem Of turnpso-roada, and tho FIRST trunk
railroad to tho Ohio, mud now, with relatively
diminished enterprise, it enjoys tho reward ct
those early sacriilcos,-rich, butcanny, y,-domuro,
but sure.
There is ahort
CANAL
between the head of tl1e Chesapeake and tho
Delaware Bays oil which, for twenty Or thirty
years, thore lave been flying, botwi1t Baltimore
and Philadelphia, daily steamers OF the s'Erric-
son limos" these steamers aro e1actly Rccomtno-
dated to tho locks on the canal, aud aro Of about
800 tons burthon. They start from baltimore
Min hu m sfnnnintk al ,,arin1a lnntlinys Nh