Year: 1873

refreshing. On this train we find choice specimen of that noxious and obnoxious biped very correctly denominated ''rail road hog" Although the several ladies ahead cannot find seat, he persists in oc curylng whole one. He is very small man, but very large hog. As we get into Ohio, we find the country quite sparsely settled, (more so than at any place beyond as far as we went, Omaha, owing undoubt- edly to the fact of the comparatively great difficulty in clearing the land of it's i'm mense growth of timber and preparing it for cultivation.) The primitive log hut, puttied up with mud was everywhere visi- ble, and not unfrequently we saw by the side of the stately mansion of well to do farmer, one of these log huts, and why is this unseemly structure permitted to remain to belittle the dignified and more modern ''Mansard," is Il very natural question in the mind of the beholder. It tells it's own story and most eloquently. This log hut is the monument of hls early struggles: With ln those walls of logs his children were born, and there were enacted the scenes of his pioneer life, and he prizes this structure as the apple of his eye: Although grown in wealth and living in his more luxurious mansion, his pride has not been permitted to efface this memorial, and it stands, not to mar his neatly kept and well arranged grounds, but when it's story is known, to add tho usandfold to the beauty of the surroundings.

 It is nearly 10 o'clock at night, and AS we ride only by day Night, we are admonished by our fellow passengers it is about bed time and we must stop at the next station. We said we were aEmonished by the pass ergers, &c.; let's see how they look. They evidently design to ride all night: Gent No. l ahead is doubled up in the shape of K. This damsel who was so fair to gaze upon this afternoon has lost her bloom. Her mouth is slightly ajsr, and-well. Gent No. ?, with posteTior extremities akimbo forms study for an artist, and gent 3. with feet as large as raisen boxes pointing from top of back of seat ahead of him heavenward, is otherwise completely knocked into pi. Further On-we are ashamed of all of them, and as the whistle blows for the station we are approaching, we'll grasp our travelling satchel and get where we can make good square business of going to bed. The conductor shouts Crestline (Ohio,) and here we are.

 The Penn. Central railroad company, which has leased and is managing the Pitts burgh, Ft. Wayne and Chicago road, and is running that road in connection with their own to the very best advantage in the way of close connections, seems not to have forgotten anything that will conduce to the comfort of their patrons. They have established at suitable distances along the entire route from New York to Chicago, large and elegant hotels, where passengers can get the very best of hotel fare at ordi- nary prices. and the trains are required to stop long enough to give ample time for meals. We stopped over night at two ot these hotels. Cat Altoona, Penn. and Crest line, Ohio,) and can testify fully to the

 truth of tho above statement. The com

 pany find it for their interest to provide fOI their patrons in this way, instead of allow

 ing them to be robbed in price for the poor

 est fare and no time to eat it. Such atten.

 ton makes their route 8 popular one to the

 West, and the immense pass nger traffic ot the road is evidence that u y are reapine their reward.

 ITO be continuel.l