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A VERY IMPROBABLE STORY.
KissiNa i tug: dark.
The 10.15 'raih elided from Paddington
Mav 7, 1847. In the left compartment of
of a ct rlain first-class carriage were lour
passengers ! ol lliesf, singularly enough,
two were worth description. The lady
had a smooth, while, delicate brow, strong
ly marked eye-brows, long lashes, eyes Ihat
seemed to change color, and a good sized
delicious mouth, with teeth as white as
milk. A man could not see her nose for
her eyes and mouth, her own sex could
and would have told ns some nonsense
about it. She wore an unpretending grey
ii.ll dress, buttoned to the throat, with lozenge-shaped
buttons, a Scotch shawl "hat
agreeably evaded the responsibility of col-
' ... 3 ii J.' I. ,: .1,1 l.e
or. she was line a outs, eu uji" ,"7'
plain feathers fitted her; and there she sat,
smooth, snug and delicious, with a book in
her hand, and a soupqfin of her snowy
wrist just visible as she" held it. Her op
posite neighbor was what I call a good style
of man the more to his credit, since ne
belonged to a corporation, that frequently
tnrnsrout the worst imaginable style of
youii" men. lie was a cavauy uiinn,
oged twenty-five. He had a moustache,
but not a very repulsive one; it was far
from being one of those subnasal pig-tails,
on which soup is suspended like dew on a
shrub; it was short, thick, black as a coal.
His teeth had not yet been turned by to
bacco smoke to the color of tobacco juice,
bis clothes did not stick to nor hang on
him, they sat on him ; he had an engaging
smile, aiid, what I liked the dog lor, his
vanity, which was inordinate, w.as in its
proper place, his heart, not in his face,
jostling mine and other people's, who have
none : iir a word, he was what one oltener
hears of than meets n young gentleman.
He wns conversing in an animated whisper
with a companion, a fellow officer they
were talking about, what it is far better not
to do, women. Our friend clearly did not
wish to be overheard, for he cast ever and
anon, a furtive glance at his fair vis-a-vis,
and lowered his voice. She seemed com
pletely absoiued in her book, and that le
assnre'd him. At last the two soldiers ?ame
down to a whisper, and in that whisper
(the truth must be told) the one who got
down at Slough, and was lost to posterity,
bet ten pounds to three, that he who was
going down with us to Birth and immottal
itv, would not kiss either of the ladies op
posite upon the road. "Done !" "Done !"
Now I am sorry a man I have hilheito
praised, should have lent himself, even in
a whisper, to such a speculation, but "no
body is wise at all hours," nol even when
the clock is striking five-and-t wenty : anil
you are to consider his p(ession,- his good
looks, and the temptation ten to three.
After Slough the parly was reduced to
three ; at Twyford one lady dropped her
handkerchief, Captain Doligan fell on it
ike a tiger and returned -tt like a lamb;
two or three words were interchanged on
that occasion. At Reading, the Marlbo
rough of our tale made one of the sale in
vestments of tbat day, he bought a 'Times'
and a 'Punch ;' the latter was full ol steel-
pen thrusts and wood-ciis. Valor and
autv dep'ned to laugh at some inuateei
humbug or other punctured by Punch.
Now laughing together thaws our human
ice ; Ion" before Swindon it was a talking
match at Swindon, who so devoted as
Captain Doligan he handed them out
he souped them he tough-cmcUenca mem
he brandied and cochinealed one, and
lie brandied and burnt-sugared the other ;
on tln ir return to the cairiage, one lady
passed into the inner compartment to in
spect a certain gentleman's seat on that side
the line.
R"uder, had it been vou or I, the beauty
would have been the desi'rter, the average
one would have stayed with us, till all was
blue, ourselves included: not more surely
does our slice of bread and butter, when it
scapes from our hand, revolve it ever so
often, alight face downwards on the carpet.
But this was a bit of a fop, Adonis, dragoon
so Venus remained in tete-a-tete with
liin. You have seen a dog tneet an un
known female of his species; how hand
some, how tmnresse, now expressive ne
becomes: such was Doligan alter Swin
don, and to do the dog justice, he got
handsomer anil handsomer ; and you have
seen a cat conscious of approaching cream,
such was Miss Ilaythorn, she became
demurer and demurer; presently our Cap
tain looked Oiit ol the window and laughed,
this elicited an enquiring look from Miss
Haylhorn. "We are only a mile from
the Box Tunnel." "Do you always laugh
a mile from the Box Tunnel!" said the
lady.
Invariably."
"What for?"
"Why! hem! it a a gentleman's joke."
"Oh ! I don't mind its being silly, if it
maki's me laugh." Captain Doligan, thus
encouraged, recounted to IMiss Ilaythorn
the following : "A lady and her husband
sat together going through thn Box Tunnel
there was one gentleman opposite, it was
piteh dark ; after the tunnel, the lady said,
'George, how absurd of you to salute me
going thiough the tunnel.' 'I did no such
Ihing,' 'You rlidu'tl' -No, why?'
'Whv, because some how I thought you
did !' " Here Captain Doligan laughed, and
endeavored to lead his companion to laugh,
hut it was not to ba done. Ihe train en
tered the tunel.
Miss Haylhorn Ah !"
Doligan "What is the matter V
Miff H. "I am frightened."
Doligan (moving to her aide "Pray do
not be alarmed, I am near you."
This is suppose)) to .Hade to two esenetions ealld
. I i Ih - aarfkl Mill Ml
I port SltO .awry, man wj ,
-1 jitk. of s n.ious nature.
Miss H. "You art near me, very near
me, indeed, Captain Doligan."
Doligan "i on know my name :"
Miss Havlhorn "I heard Your friend
mention it. I wish we were out of this
dark place."
Doligan "I could be content to spend
hours here, re-assuring you, sweet lady."
Miss H. "Nonsense!"
Doligan "Pweep !" (Grave reader, do
not put your lips to the cheek of the next
pretty crealure you meet, or you will un
derstand what this means.)
Miss H. "Ee!"
Friend "What is the matter?"
Miss H. "Open the door! open the
door !".
There was a sound of hurried whispers,
the door was shut and the blind pulled
down with hostile sharpness.
If any critic falls upon me for putting
inarticulate sounds in a dialogue as above,
1 answer, with all the insolence I can
command at present, "Hit bovsasbig as
yourself." bigger perhaps, such as Sopho
cles, Euripides, and Aristophanes; they
began it, and 1 learnt it of them, sore
against my will.
Miss Haythorn's scream lost art of its
effect, because Ihe engine whistled forty
thousand murders at thp same moment ;
and fictitious grief makes itself heard when
real cannot. j
Between the funnel and Bath our young
friend had time to ask himself whether his
conduct had been marker! by that delicate
reserve which is supposed to distinguish
the perfect gentleman.
With a Jong face, real or feigned, he
held open the door, his late friends at
tempted to escape on the other side, im
possible ! they must pass him. She whom
he had insulted, (Latin for kissed,) deposited
somewhere at bis foot a look of gentle
blushing reproach ; (he olheV, whom he
had not insulted, darted red-hot daggers at
him from her eyes, and so they parted.
It was, perhaps, lortunate for Doligan
that he had the grace to be friends with
Major Hoskyns, of his regiment, a veteran
laughed at by the youngsters, for the Major
was too apt to look coldly upon billiard
balls and cigars; he had seen cannon balls
and linstocks; he had also, to tell the
truth, swallowed a good deal of mess-room
poker, but with it some sort of moral poker,
which made it as impossible for Major
Hoskyns to descend to an nngentleman
like word or action, as to brudi his own
trowsers below the knee-
Captain Doligan told this gentleman his
story in gleeful accents; but Major Hoskyns
heard him coldly, and as coldly answered
that he had known a man lose his lile for
the same thing; "Thrtt is nothing," con
tinued the Major, "but unfortunately he
deserved to lose it."
At this the blood mounted to the yoliag
man s temples, and his senior added, "1
mean to say he was thirty-five; you, I
presume, are twenty-one !"
" I wenty-five."
"That is much the same thing ; will you j
be advised bv me ?"
"If you will advise me."
"Speak to no one of this, and send White
the jL'3, that he may think you have lost
the bet."
"That is hard when I won it!"
"Do it for all that, sir."
Let the disbelievers in human perfecti
bility know that this dragoon, capable of a
blush, did this virtuous action, albeit with
violent reluctance, and this was Ins first
damper. A week after these events, he
was at a ball, not Ihe first, since his return,
i?'e?i enlendu. He was in that state of fac
titious discontent which belongs to us
amiable English. He was looking, in vain,
for a lady, equal in personal attractions to
the idea he had formed of George Doligan
as a man, when suddenly there glided past
him a most delightful vision ! a lady whose
beauty and symmetry took him by the
eyes another look, "It can't be!" "Yes it
is!" Miss Ilaythorn! (not that he knew
her name!) but what an apotheosis!
The duck had become a pea-hen ra
diant, dazzling, she looked twice as beauti
ful and almost twice as large a9 before.
He lost sight of her. He found her again.
She was to lovely, she made him ill and
he, alone, must not dance with her. If he
had been content to begin her acquaintance
the usual way.it might have ended in kis -
sing; hut having begun with kissing, it
must end in nothing. As she danced,
n I
sparks of beauty fell from her on all around,
but him she did not see him ; it was clear
she never would see him one gentleman
was particularly assiduous ; she smiled on
his assiduity ; he was ugly, but she smiled
on him. Doligan was surprised at his
success, his ill taste, his ugliniess, his im
pertinence, Doligan at last found himself
injured : "Who was this man ?" "and
what right had he to go on so?" "He had
never kissed her, 1 suppose," said Dolly.
Doligan could not prove it, but he felt that
somehow Ihe rights of property were inva
ded. He went home and dreamed of Miss
Haylhorn, hated all the ngiy successful.
lie spent a fortnight trying to find out who
this beauty was ; he never could encounter
her again. At last he heard of her, in this
way : a lawyer's clerk paid him a little
visit, and commenced a little action against
him, in the name of Miss Haylhorn, for
instilling her in a Railway train.
The young gentleman was shocked, en
deavored to soften the lawyer's clerk j that
machine did not thoroughly comprehend
the meaning of the term. The lady's name,
however, was at least revealed by thin un
toward incident ; from her name to her
address, was but a short step ; and the same
day, our creat-fallen hero lay in wait at
her door and many a succeeding day
without effect. But one fine afternoon, she
issued forth quite naturally, as if she did it
every day, and walked briskly on the near-
When our ueeaufiit riwl is uf ly toe blow is dou.ly
aevwe, ertuhiiif w fall by bliulgeoa we who thought
lb. keemsl npier ntif at psrehsuce tarast el u in vsiu.
lest Parade. Doligan did the same; he
met and passed her many limes on Ihe Pa
rade, and searched for pi'.y in her rytg, hut
found neither look, nor recognition, ror
any o her tentiment ; for all this she wa k
ed and walked, till all the other promt na
ders were tired and gone, then her cul
prit summoned resolution, and taking off
his hat, with a voice tremulous for the first
time, besought permission to address her.
She stopped, blushed, and neither ackr.owl
edged nor disowned his acquaintance. He
blushed, stammered out how ashamed he
was, how he deserved to he punished, how
he was punished, how little she knew how
unhappy he was; and concluded by beg
ging her not to let all the world know the
disgrace of a man, who was already morti
fied enough by the loss of her acqaintance.
She asked on explanation ; he told her the
action had been commenced in her name;
she gently shrugged her shoulders, and
said, "How stupid they are." Emboldened
bv this, lie begged to know whether or not
a life of distant unpretending devotion
would, after a lapse of many var, erase
the memory of his madness his crime!
"She did not know !"
' She must nnw bid him adieu, ns shn bad
somo preparations In make for n ball in the
orescent where everybody cos to le. They
parted, and Dolignan determined to bent the
ball, where every body wns to be. lie was
there, nnd after some time he obtained an
introduction to Miss Haylhorn, itnd be dan
ced wilh her. Her manner was gincious.
Willi iho wonderful tact of her sex, she seem
ed to have commenced ihe iicqimintnnce that
evening. That niht, for llio fi t ft time, Dj
lignan was in love. 1 wi'l spare the reader
nil a lover's arts, by which ho succeeded in
dining where she: dined, in dancing wheio
6he datieed, in overtaking her by accident,
when she rode. His devotion followed hei
even to church, where our dragoon was le.
warded by learning there is a world where
they neither polk nor smoke, tho tivo c.ipi"
tal abominations of this ni.u.
Ilu made actjnaintanco with her uncle,
who liked him, nnd he saw at last wilh joy,
that her eye loved to dwell upon him, when
sho thought he tlid not observe tier.
It was three months afier the Cox Tunnel
that Captain Dolipian called ono day upon
Captain Haylhorn, K. N , whom ho hail met
twice in tris life, and slij-hlly propiiate 1 by
violently listing to a culling-uut expedition;
he called, and rn the usual iay asked per
mission to pay his addresses fn his danghler.
The worthy Captain straiyhtway begnn do
ing Quarter-Deck, when suddenly he was
summoned from the Hpartinr ut by a mysteri
ous message. On hi return, he announced,
wilh n loinl fliature of voice, that ' It was till
right, anil his vi.-imr might run nluii;:ilrt us
soon an be chose." My reader has divined
the truih ; this nautical commander, terrible
to ihe foe, was in complete and happy slIju-
gi 'ion to his daughter, our heiuiiie.
As ho wns taking leave, DViIgnan saw bis
divinity glide into the diawing-runm. He
followed her, observer a sweet consciousness
which encouraged him; that consciousness
which encouraged him ; that ron-iuMie-n
deepened into confusion she tiled to laugh,
he cried instead, and then she smiled again ?
nnd when ho kissed her hand at the d.ior, it
was "George" and "Marian," instead of Cap
lain this nnd Mi's the other A reasona
ble time niter ihi, (for my lale is merciful
and skips formalities and toiluring delaj)
these two weio very happy I hey were once
mote upon the railroad, going to enjoy their
honey-moon all by themselves. Marian Do"
lignan was dressed just as before dueklike'
and delicious ; all blight, except her clothes :
but Geotge sat beside hef ibis time instead of
opposite ; nnd she thank him genlly, from un
der her long eye lasheV "Marian," said
George, "married people should tell each
other all. Will you ever forgive me if I own
to you no "
"Yes! yes!"
'Well, then ! yon remember tne Box Tun
nel," (Ibis was the first allusion ho had ven-
lured to it,) 'I am ashamed to say I had
j bot X3 lo1. wi,h While 1 ,V0,,U kisi "
j"1 ' ladies," and George, pa'.betic
externally, chuckled within.
1 1 know that, George; I overheard you;"
was ihe demure reply.
"Oh ! you overheard rue? impossible."
"And did you not hear me wbipor to my
companion? I made a bet wilh her."
"Vou mado a bet ; how singular ! What
was il
"Only a pair of gloves, George."
"Yes, 1 know, but what about il ?''
1 Thai if you did, you thould be my hus
band, dearest."
"Oh '.but stay then you could nol have
been to very angry wilh me, love; why,
dearest, llieu who brought thai action against
me?"
Mrs. Dulignr.ii looked down.
"I was afraid you weie forgetting me!
George, you will never forgive tne!"
"Sweot angel why hei 6 is the Bux Tun
nel I"
Now, reader fie ! no ! no suoh thing!
You can't expect to ba indulged in this way,
every lime we come to a dark place be.
sides, it is not the thing. Consider, two sen
sible married people no such phenomenon,
I assure you, took place. No scream Issued
in hopeless rivalry of tho engine this time!
A prisoner in the Wilkesbarre jail, named
James Qoinn, who is under sentence of deaih,
attempted to burn the jail by salting fire to
the planks of his cell, lasl week. The smoke
nearly suffocated turn and compelled him to
give the alarm to save bis life.
REPORT
Of tilt Pitsidont of the Sutqitekanna Fiaili-oad j
C'ncfltni, fu the S'.ockhrldcrs. !
The net to incorporate tho Susquehanna
raihoad company was passed on the 14th
day of April, 1851. By the lliird section of
said act it is provided, "lliat if the said corn
piny shall nol commence the construction
of said rnnd within three years, and complete
II in eight yenis from ihe passage of ibis
act, ihe same shall be null and void." Thu
ninth section of Ihe supplement 10 the net to
incorporate ihe Sntihnry and Erie railroad
company, passed the 57lll day of March,
1852, provides that, "if the Susquehanna
railroad company shall fail lo put thai por
tior. of ihe line of their road under contract,
between Biidgcpoi t and Sunbury, within one
year fiont the passage of this act, and com
plete the same within two years thereafter,
then and in thai case the Sunbury and Eiie.
railtoad company is hereby nuihoiized to
extend iheir road fiorn Puribuiy by tho valley
of Ihe Susquehanna, lo connect wilh ihu
Pennsylvania railioad at such point as may
be deemed most expedient by Ihe said com
pany." This company was organised on the lO'.h
day of June, 1S52, and the grading and ma
sonry of (ho entire lino from Bridgeport to
So n bu i v, vmis put under contract en thu 21th
of November, of ihe same year. The dis
tance from Bridgeport in Sunbury is 51 J
miles; upon 2(iJ miles of which Ihe grading
and masonry have boon completed. -A
portion of each mile is under way, nnd ninr
rt i nl a half miles of iho most diliicult work
have been guided for a double hack. -As
far ns Ihe wink has progressed, it has been
done in llio most permanent manner.
Tho amount expended fur guiding nnd
mrisoniv, supersti iiclute of bi idges, i i;;hl of
way, cgineeiiug, fee , is $509,502, of which
sum $-130,307 was paid in the slock of thu
company al par, and the balance, S.379 105,
ill minify. According lo ihe estimate of the
engineer, there will yet be required lo com
plete ihe grading nnd masnniy, nm! the su
perstruclnrti of biidges, SrS2C,542, which
under existing contracts, can bu met with
i-CB2.sC5 in cash, and Sl it), 137 in slock
Tl" same officer estimates life cost of the
lailway superstructure, including iron, cross
ties and laying, (at the present advanced
price of railroad iron.) at 5.000 per mile.
To meet these various '"expenditures, the
company have the following- assets, viz:
Su'jseriiition by Nnrttaimliertaiul comity SJOaO.C.OO
llo. by Union county Sao.OOO
Do. liy b ireuli i f Lewisburj. "0.000
1)... by liir.niali of Sanhury, (c ir.ditl nni,) '2",000
Imliviilii.tt siileripti.Mis, (inelniliiij e 'iilraeti'i.') JlOVriOO
i.nan l"riri Yoik und Cini.lxTlnul Kailrcail Co. 600. 000
Mukbig a toli...f fcl,3M.'M
l! I lie foiegiiiug subscriptions wero availa
ble in cash, ihe means of ihe Company would
be neailv sutiieienl lo complete the entire
road, -'lie niliiiicip.il subset ipiions having,
however, been paid in the bunds of the re
respeclive counties and borough, the Com
pany have been nimble to dispose of them at
par, and l!i-y consequently remain unsold in
the hands of thu treasurer. This has been
owing, in a great measure, to Ihe prfssuie
which has prevailed in the money market
during Iho past season. There exists no
good reason why the coupon bonds of Union
nnd Nurthnnibei laud counties should not sell
readily, and at a premium, to capitalists de
filing a safe investment of their funds, secu
red ns they are, not only by the pledged faith
of the proper county, but by an equal amount
of iho stock of this Company.
The work on the line has been greatly
retarded by ihe scarcity of luborcts, and by
ihe unusual sickness which pievailed along
the valley of tho Susquehanna (luting Ihe
past season. Notwithstanding the most ac
tive excitiuns were made by the contractors
to obtain and keep up a force sufficient to
complete the woik in ihe lime specified in
their contract, il was not until very recently
that they were able lo procure a foice a! all
adequate lo iho accomplishment rf that ob
ject. The health rif the line is, however,
now cr.lirely recovered the force employed
exceeds two thousand men and Iho con
tractors are presiiig forward thu yroik wilh
gieat eueigy. If funds are promptly provj.
di d, they can still complete ihe entire grading
and masonry, between IJiidgeport and Sun
bury, befuiu Ihe lirsl day ol August iif.vi, ihe
period stipulated in iheir coulrnut wilh ihis
company. This result is gieaily to be desi
red ; ns well to render pioductive, at the
earliest possible moment, the iuvenlmeuts of
our own stockholdeis, os In accommodate
iho vast imprests involved in connecting
roads, which depend for Iheir productiveness
and nn outlet, in a great measure on ihe com.
plelion of the Susquehanna railroad. This
is especially hue of Ihe Dauphin and Pus
qiiehanna laiiioad the Lykens Valley rail
road ihe Tievcilon railioad, and the Sun
bury and Philadelphia railroad as well ns
Iho Williamsporl and F.iuiiia railroad.
Al Sunbury we reach ihe nnrlhuin termi
nus of the Sunbury and Philadelphia railroad:
Iho nutlet of iho g'eat Shamokin coal fields,
second to none in iho Stale, and possessing,
in many respects, advantages superior to the
best collieiies of the schnylkill region This
road, 20 miles in length, during the lasl sum.
mer, was relaid with a heavy T rail the en
tire distance fram Sunbury to the town of
Shamokin, in the centre of Ihe basin, and the
enterprising gentlemen who have conhol of
iho aflaiis of the company, have Iheir exten
,ion lo Mount Carmel in such a stale of for.
wardness, as lo insure Ihe completion of the
w bole line al a very early day j Ihus afford
ing every part of that extensive region direst
communication wilh the Fusquchaona rail-toadf
The vnrious coal companies now operating
in and nbnui Shamokin, are expending lurae
sums of money, in opening new dtifts, erect
ing coal-brakers and nil other machinery ne"
cessessary to enable them to work Iheir col
lieries upon tho most extensive scale. Five
hundred thousand tons, it is ihonght, would
be a moderate estimate tf the amount of
their shipments during the comrning season.
At Sunbury we also connect with tho
southern terminus of the Sunbury nuJ Erie
railroad, portion of which is now under con
tract nnd the crading nearly completed fiom
Sunbury to WilliamsDorl. C,uwrn Wit.
liamsport nnd Milion, Iho point of connection
with !hi Caltawissa railroad, it is expected
lhal iho grading will be finished, and a single
track laid eaily the ensuing summer. The
Susquehanna railroad company have author
zed, nnd placed under contract an extension
nf iheir road from Sunbury to I.ew isburg,
from which point they can either conne:t
w ild ihe Sunbury nnd Eiio Railroad, or con
linue Iheir road lo Williamsport, as may
hereafter be deemed expedient. In either
case, or should ihe Sunbury andEiiecom.
pany proseculo their wmk from Williams-
pott, by the valley of ihe Susquehanna, to
Baltimore and Philadelphia, passing over
the entire length of tho Susquuhanna rail-
road.
At illiamsport, we connect with iho
Williamsport and Elmira railroad, which
extends Irom Williamsporl on the line of the
Susquehamn, and Sunbury nnd Erie rail
roads, in rennsylvanin, lo Elmiin, on the
New York and Erie roalrnnd, in the State of
New York, a distance ot 74 miles'. Twenty
five miles of ihe Soulhren end of ihis road,
extending from Williamsport lo Rulston,
have been completed, and trains of car pass
between ihose points every day. The bal
since of Ihe road, from Ralston to Elmira, is.
ne.W.y graded, and, at the uoilhern end the
track is laid for several miles. Tho toad, it
is confidently expected, will be graded, nnd
a single hack laid from Williamsport to El.
mira, before. Ihe 1st of July next thus com-
plcting ihe last link hi the chain of rnilioads,
connecting by a north and sonlh line, lliiougli
the centre of Pennsylvania, the great North
ern Lakes wilh the Atlantic sea-board.
The whole extent of the road embraced
by ihe charier of the Susquehanna Railroad
Company, is nbit 94 miles, commencing at
ihe terminrsof the York and Cumberland
Railroad, nt Bridgeport, ppposiio 0 Harris
burg, and ending at Williamsport. Thus:
From Bridgeport to Sunbury 54J miles.
From Sunbuty to Wiliamsport 39J
To,aI- S4 miles.
The average grade for Iho entire line is
under two nnd a half feet per niilo. On that
pmtion of Ihe mad under contract, between
Sunbniyntid the terminus cf the Yoik nnd
Cumberland Railroad, over 30 miles of the
road is dead level. On 16 miles tho grade is
under three feel per mile. On C miles she
grade is over ihree nnd under six feet per
mile. On 4 miles, tho grade is over six nml
under eight feet per mile. And on 2 miles,
ihe grade is above eight and under ten feet
feet per mile, In every instance the giade
is in the direction of ihe trade toward liie
seaboard. The grades above eight feet were
tendered necessary lo eflect crossing at the
points of intersection wilh the Cumberland
Valley and Shamokin P.nihoads.
Is it not rcmaikuble that a line cf railioad
possessing so many local advantages; wilh
such abundant resources supplied by the
country through which il passes, should sn
long have been overlooked or neglected?
The coal trade alone, of ihe valley of the
Susquehanna, would unquestionably render a
railioad along its borders a source of ptofi'. lo
its owners, l'ut when In this is added the
products of the richest Agricultural valleys
in Penus) Ivania tilled by Ihe most careful
husbandry the iion which is found side by
side with the coal, in exhaustible quantities
and the lumber of ihe gialest limber country
in fin y of Iho Atlantic Stales the productive
ness of such a load is rendered certain be
yond a peradvenliire. Wiih the iron trade
of the Susquehanna and i s li ibutaries, Ihe
public have long been familiar; iho value of
iho lumber hade may be judged of by the
fact ihnt a! the port of Williamsport, itlono,
theie weie shipped by canal during the
boating seasoii of the year 1S53, thirty-one
millions of feet. of plank and boards. The
value of the lumber trade of the West Branch
of the Susquehanna during ihe past year,
may safely bo estimated al S-100,000,000,
n,:d lhat of the North ibiinch, while it does
not equal the West, Is nevertheless a most
important item. The country abounds wbh
lowns and villages, and a thrifty, enterpri
sing and rapidly increasing population, wilh
all the disadvantages under which the valley
of the Susquehanna has luboied, in conse
quence of being cut ofl from tho rest of the
business world during one third of thu year,
while the liver and canals are ice-bound, il
has in ihe face of Ihose obstacles, gone on
developing its resouices and increasing its
wealth and piosperily, unlill it new embra
ces within its limits as many of the elements
and maltuialsof trade und commerce, as any
other pmtion of territory of equal extent in
the United Slates,
It has been usual in the building of rail,
roads in other portions of the country, to first
construct Ihe main stem of the road, and af
ter that Ihe lateral branches for the accomo.
datioti of the local hade ; but in the case of
the Susquehanna railroad, lateral roads ex
tending in all to near 100 miles, have been
completed in udvanue, and in anticipation of
tho const ruction of the main line. A sum of
not less than f3 000,000 has already been ex
penJed In opening railroad, losing from the
western slope of the southern aid middle
coal fields to the Susanehanna. all of which
will connect wiih and become tributary to
the Susquehanna, railroad.
There is but one estimate that time will
not falsilfy, and that is, thai every favorable
outlet will ba filled In it. lilmnl rnnnrilv.
. . .. , j-
The income on each will be measured by tho
number of Ions the improvement can carry..
The completion of the line of tailronil from
Elmira to Baltimore and Philadelphia, by
ine valley ol tne Susquehanna will open
such a thoroughfare. In distance, it has the
advantage of all others no? onnsiriieted in
grades it has no rival it local trade would
alone justify its construction in short, in
ine language oi a Uislinguished Ballimoiean,
in whatever relation ihis nw line cf mu,l
-onsidered whether in relerenr.R in n,.
wants nnd convenience or the population
upon its course, nnd of ihose who reside
within the compass of its various hibnlary
road, or whether in reference lo tbnt ,.,
body of Ihe traveling population whose occa.
sions o: uusmess or pleasure carry them
through the several Stales lo the Nona, iha
East, or the West, this line or Susquehanna
improvements must ever possess atlraciions,
which will render it one 0r ihe most desira
ble nnd piofitahle in the whole country.
By oider of ihe Board,
WM. V. PACKER, President.
Offick Scsqcehanna R. U. Co. 1
Ilarrisburp, January 0, 1854. '
A LADY'S WAJiTS.
Elizabeth, Iho daughter of Si, John Spen
oei, who flourished in Ihe middle of lie siy.
tecmh century, nnd was known as ihe "Rich
Spencer," married an EnalMi noblemen, to
whom, a few years after her marriage, tht
addressed the follow ing leller ;
"My Sweet Life, Now thai I declared to
yon my mind for Ihe settling of your estate,
I suppose it were best for me to bethink what
allowance were best for me j for, consider
ing what enre 1 ever had of vour estate, nnd
how respectfully I deait wiih those which,
both by the law of God, nature, and civil po
licy, wit, religion, government, and honesty,
you, my dear, are bound to, I pray und be
seech you to giant lo tne, your kind and lov
ing wife, the sum of one thousand pounds
per annum, quarterly lo l,e paid.
"Also, I would, besides that allowance for
my apparel, have six hundred pounds added,
yearly, for the performance of chaiitable
works; these things I would not, neither, be
accountable for.
' Also, 1 will have three horsrs for mv own
saddle, ihnt none may dare lo lend or l or-
row , none icnil but I, none borrw but you.
"Also, I would have two gentlewomen.
lest ine should bn ;,!. ,.Ln 1, ol;.,.- ;,
, ' ' - , hVlll.!W IV
would ba and indecent think for a gentlewo
man lo stand mumping alone, w hen God lias
uiessea ineir lord anil lady wilh a great
estate.
"Also, when I ride hunting or hawking, or
travel from one house to another, I will have
them attending, so for each of those said wo
men I must havo a horse.
"Also, I will have six or eiuht r?ent!empn
and will have two coaches; one lined wilh
' myell, wjth four very fair horses;
and a coach for mv wompn. i;b.i ...;,i, ...ui
cloth, o'eilaid wiih gold; ihe other wiih
..... .1.. II I . . '
..a.ie., iui ,a,i, win, watchet lace and silver,
with four good horses. Also, I will have
two coachmen, one for myself, ihe other for
my women.
"Also, w hencver I travel, I will bo allowed
not only coaches and spare horses for mo
and my women, but such carriages as shall
be filling for all; orderly, not pestering my
ihiuss with my women's, nor theirs wiih
chambermaids', nor iheiis with washmaida.'
"Also laundresses, when I travel; Iwill
have Ihem sent away with Ihe carriages to
see all safe and the chambermaids shali to
before w ith the grooms, lhat the chambers
may bo ready, sweet and clean.
"And for myself, besides my yearly allow
ance, I would have twenty gowns apparel,
six of Ihem excellent good ones, eight of '
them for the country, and six others of them
excellent good ones.
"Also, I would have to pit in my pursn
Uvo thousand pounds and two hundred
pounds, and so you to pay my debls. Also
would have eight thousand pounds lo buy
ihe jewels, and the six thousand pound for a
pearl chain.
"N ow, 6eeing, I have been, and am so
reiisoriab'e unto you, I prny you to find
my children appearel, and Iheir schooling.
and ail my setvants, men and women, their
wages.
'Also, I will have all my house furnished,
and all my lodging chambers lo be suil.nl
with all such lurmiure as is lit, as beds
stools, chairs, cuehions, caipels, silver warming-pans,
cupboards of pkiie, lair hangings,
ko.; for my drawing chambers, in ull
bouses, I will have Ihem delicately furnished
wiih hangings, couch, canopy, cuihiona, car
pets, &ia
''Also, my desire that ycu would pay your
debts, build up Ashley House, nd pmenase
lands, and letnl no money (as you love God)
lo Lord Chamberlin, which would h.tve all
pei haps your life, Irom you; remember hii
son, my Lord Wildan, what enteitHinment
he gave me when you were al the Tiliyardj
I you were dead, he said, he would be a"
husband, a father, a brother, end aaij he
would many me. I protest, I grieve to
the poor old man have to litilu wit and hon
esty to use his friend so vilely ; ,0, he fed
me wiih untmths concerning the Chaiier
House; but lhat is the least ; he wi.h. s me
much harm-yon know how. God keep vou
and me from hun, and ,ich as ha is
"So now 1 have declared la roy mind
what I would have, and wha? I w?,n,T "5
have I pray y0fl whn E. (ft u
low a thousand pound, more lhat, ow I d.
sire, and double attendance.
I oyr lovinn; wife,
1 ,tSlu. CMrrt)3.!
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