The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-30
Correspondence Of THE REcoRD.]
A WINTER IN THE SUNNY SOUTH.
GULF PARK, AReo P. o.,

station, Trenton, and started on a journey
towards the Sunny South. At seven
o'clock, precisely, we reached Philadel.
phia, Broad street station, where we had
TO change cars. BY this time the mists
of the early morning had all cleared away
and sold Sol" shonc forth, once mores in
all his glory. This made the day perfect
to us. southern bound travellers. We
found the cars crowded With people
''Going SOUTH aud arrived in few
hours at WASN'T, gton, d. G. Here we
changed cars, and from the car window
we caught glimpses of the large Capitol
building.
We rather intended TO stop over here
in Washington, to view the city and its
inhabitants, but fate had ordered other
wise, and so onward we went. We next
stopped at Alexandria, also at Fredericks-
burg, Nd, for ten minutes, and then on
and on, through the great, tall majestic
looking pines. Accidents will happen
everywhere, and inopportunely, and just
before reaching Richmond, Va, the cars
being so very heavily laden, one of them
broke down. Upon our arrival at Rich
mond, we all had to vacate the car and
wait there in the station until they side
/ tracked that car and brought us another
one. After delay Of about three quar-
tiers of an hour or more, we once more re-
sumed our journey towards the summer
land OF flowers. All along here we saw
great numbers of tumble-down chimneys
standing all alone, the houses OF which
they were once part having been destroy
ed during the war We also saw great
mounds of breast-works, which had been
thrown up during The war. Next we
come to small village called Galveston.
Now we see the prison, inst below Rich
mond, (Libby Prison as it is called),
where during the war, they imprisoned
our Union men. Now it Is used as a
store house. Then two or three short tun-
nels, and as we are whirled along so swift
ly, we only catch the glimpse of a station
now and then. We next see the great
pine forests again, with now and then a
clog cabin" or little old wooden shanty,
| right In the midst Of these pines.
And now for brief description of these
houses or 'huts' as they are commonly
called. They are one.story high and
have no windows, though sometimes you
will see rude opening, which they close
by great board shutters. The door seems
to be always open, and generally stand
ing 10 the doorway you will see one or
more persons, aud sometimes you can
catch the glimpse of an open fire place,
with its great fire OF blazing logs, and no
matter how warm the weather, they al
ways seem to have a good fire on the
hearth. A plantation owners house is
called mansion and they are built some
what on the style of our northern farm
houses. Down this way they drive q
great many oxen and COWS to their wag-
ons (two-wheel cartsl and II there are
ore rorsono Than one N ride ono NJ
them sits in the wagon and the other on
,ha oxon COW or mule and these animals
instead OF being hooked side by side, us;i-
ally one will be ahead OF the other, alto
no,hor naL;,o an odd s,oht andan amus.
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