The Portland daily press., 1873-07-09


that you wouldn't so much mind the crying if
the soothing could be dispensed with.
At last you move ON and then you begin to
realize painfully that there are the alternatives
before you of being choked with dust, or
smothered with heat, according to the caprice
of your fellow passenger in whom by virtue of
being nearest the window, is vested the sole au-
thority to keep it open or shut. The chances
are that he or she, will oscillate between the
two modes of torture, and that when you are
becouded past all recognition with the dust,
| the window will be closed against its escape
and it will be left to settle upon your garments
and parch your throat. You no sooner resign
yourself with what patience you may to these
incurable discomforts, than the peripatetic
procession of peddlers begins to form and at
brief intervals you find your knees utilized as a
book-stall, newspaper stand, candy shelf,
| and prize package counter, as the various
| commodities represented thereby are placed in
your custody for an Indefinite period with the
expectation that you will buy, but with the ut
most certainty that at least you will carefully
keep them till called for.
But there are still greater trials in store for
you. The conductor appears. You have some
enquiry to make of him, touching connection
| of trains. You want to know at what hour you
| will arrive at certain station ON the line
Or possibly you desire to tarry somewhere on
the route, and propose to take the precaution of
asking his consent. With what awe he inspires
you as he approaches. His aspect repels fa-
miliarity. You have just heard him rebuke
the last interrogation, although his question
nd
even to timidity You hesitate to subject your
self to similar pulverization. But your Curl
osity gets the better of your prudence; you fall
teringly utter the query which has been on
your lips so long, and the answer, a cross be-
tween grunt and a monosyllable, falls uuintel-
Lightly on your ear, and you sink back in your
seat with the unpleasant consciousness that
every body in the car has been experiencing
amazement at your audaeity. or enjoying
amusement at your discontinue
You try to read, but the jolting of the I'M
wieldy carriage makes that a difficult exercise,
to say nothing of its injury to that delicate Or
gan, the eye. You make an effort at slumber;
but the moment you get into a comfortable
doze, the conductor relaxes his frigidity to the
degree of shaking your ticket out of you, and
|
| if he should say, ''there was no need of my ask
ing for your ticket, but don't approve the lib
erty you take of sleeping in my presence"
You fattempt conversations; bnt with such I'M
success, thut you are left in doubt whether your
| neighbors' reticence proceeds from paucity of
ideas, or an unconquerable aversion to you.
But in either case, you comprehend the hope
lessness of the attempt to find diversion in that
quarter
| Now mark what difference there is between
being whizzed along by ga nasty, wheeling,
creaking, gasping, putting, Dustin monster
always out of breath, with a shiny green and
gold back like unpleasant beetle in that ere
| gas magnifer-as to the ingeen as is always
pourin' out red hot Goals at night and black
| smoke in the day, the sensiblest thing it Does
| in my opinion, is ven there's something in the
| way, and it sets up that ere frightful scream
vich seems to say: Now here's two hundred
and forty passengers in the very extremity of
danger. and here's their two hundred and forty
screams in one what difference between
such break-neck locomotion and the stately
march through the waters of the safe, commo-
dious, and luxurious modern steamship. To
| all Maine people travelling to New York can
| by actual experience commend the sea route, as
affordiug superb facilities for enjoying the de-
licious air of the salt water and having all the
comforts of home during the voyage. The
steamer in which sailed is cleanly, spacious
enough, and well appointed, the employees all
attentive and obliging the captain is a quiet,
modest and capable officer, and the route is as
! enchanting for its scenic beauties as it is for
its historic associations. Those old familiar
names woven into many fire-side narrative,
..Of the chance and change of a sailors life,
Want and plenty, rest and strife,
| His rowing fancy, like the wind
That nothing can stay, and nothing can bind.
And the magic charms of foreign lands
| With shadows of palms and shining sands"
Nantucket, Marthas Vineyard, Holmes
Hole, Woods Hole, Falmouth, Buzzard's Bay,
Block Island, Newport, Point Judith, Mon
tauk and Long Island Sound awaken grateful
memories of the pilgrim fathers, and their
momentous voyage to New England's rock
| bound coast.
In fine weather it is impossible to suggest a
more invigorating trip. One can enjoy the
rare scenery and appetzing breezes of Port
land harbor, and greet the ocean by moonlight,
then retire to rest and rise the next morning
with the assurance of days voyage amidst
such multitude of objects of interest on sea
and shore that every moment will be agreeably
and proftably occupied. The long day be-
comes a short one while yon are looking
through natures Kaleidoscope, and in spite of
yourself you will be tempted to sit up past
midnight as the light-boats andiight-houses,
the while sails on the water and the church
spires on the near land loom up around you
as if in spirit of voiceless welcome
You will be tempted out of your berth at early
dawn to witness the passage through He'll gate
and to catch glimpse Of the great city when
| it is most nearly in slumber as the boat grad
ually winds her way to her allotted pier. You
will find in the state-room every convenience
for making your toilet, and you can go forth
long before the average New Yorker is up and
dressed, to pursue the business or to seek the
pleasure for which you came.
/ can imagine such trip being trifie rough
in mid winter, or at the time of the traditional
equinoctial storm, but as between being famed
all the way to New York by the zephy1s of the
ocean in midsummer repose, OF transported
thither is densely filled vans and a suffocating
atmosphere, the difference is as great as be-
tween unalloyed comfort and excessive misery.
The conviction and prompt sentence of Wal
worth gives entire satisfaction to the commu-
nifty. If he had been convicted of murder in
'ne nrst degree there would have been reac'
.'on Vi sympathy in his favor. As it is he will
oe consigned to his dungeon and lost sight Of
Ahere seems TO be a prevailing tendency just
now to revive those quixotic notions of cbiyalry
which lead to affairs of honor. as thew are
called, crimes of violence being the riobt term
for them. A couple of foolish bloods &C t1,;s
city as you know, lately made laughipg-stool-s
of themselves by going clear to Canada to d;sN
charge pistols. Having wisely avoided dancer
they have subsidized into mere objects of con
temptuous ridicule. But the Richmond affai,
was unfortunately tragedy instead of farce
And now comes the murder of Cooley by Rhet
in New Orleans. This last outrage demands