Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-11-28

| AN INbUsTRIous TRAvELLER.-A cor,
respondent Of fhe Dos, on Courier gives the
annexed account Of what he had achieved
IN the way Of travelling and sight seeing
IN the space Of sixty days. We publish il.
as an instance Of what steam enables a
man to Go in these days.
BosToN, Oct. 8, Is43
! My las. letter under date OF August Sd,
was addressed to you from Halifax. Since
then, in the brief space Of sixty days.
have twice crossed the Atlantic, devoted a
week to London and its euvirons, ano,hcr
to Paris and Versailles, given the princ-
pal part of day 10 each OF the grea, cites
Of Liverpool, Birmingham, Brighton
Bieppe, Rouen. Nancy, Strasburgh. Heidel-
hurgh, Baden-Baden, Frankfort, Cologne,
Aaix la-Chapelle, Verviers, Liege, Malines,
Antwerp, Oxford, Derby, York, Leeds,
and Manchester; examined the Chemins do
Fer of France. Germany and Belgium, the
railways of England with the stations and
depols Of each country; travelled in tho
cars OF the first, second, third and fourth
classes, in post-chaiscs, hacres, cabriolets,
and omulbuses, Ia the various cornpar;-
menis OF diligences, on the Top Of Eng ish
post coaches; lodged in magnificent hotels
with princes and mobiles; IN commercial
houses with travellers and dissenters;
sailed down the Rhine from Mayenca by
CobIeniz to Colongue. amid towering
mountains and vine-clad hills; paused 10
admire the places and ca,hcdras that have
exhausted tho wealth ofna,ions, The clos.er-
ed abbey. and crumbling monastery: sailed
up and down the great artery Of commerce;
the Thames; trayersed the class c halls and
green laws OF Oxford; attended at an anti
corn law meeting in Oxfordshire, and seen
lords and squires pu, down by the e.oquence
and talent Of self ma e men. Exp'orea
the courts Of Westminster, the galleries
and museums Of Paris, Versailles and AM.
werp, and convcrsed with classes, + ON
the peasant and mechanic, to the most dis.
tingpished and scientific; and now, after
efiaatisg on important Negotiation, am en-.
abled by the power nf steam 70 resume nv
avocation at home almost without having
been missed.
A few years since sixty days would
scarcely have sufficei f,r one passage
across the ocean, attended with DISCOUNTS
and privaiions. But now one has barely
time to eat few pleasant dinners, TO form
few pleasant acquaintance, 10 learn
few sea phrases; take few walks on deck,
and see q few Of the chnngcful features OF
old ocean, before the steamship enters her
port, and the curtain ofthe:old world rises;
and such is the precision OF the movements
that on our return the very day is calcu-
lated, aad the wife sets her table for our
RECEIPT on.
To one reared in growing country like
ours, with few memorials Of the past, amid
enterprize and improvement, and constan,
predictions OF tho future, and in tho mids,
Of the strife and turmoil of incessant com.
petition, it is refreshing to enjoy Cor brief
space, however rapid be our movement,
the comparative calm and reprose in the
old world; to gaze atshs varying costumes
and civilization Of each region, at the an
,iqae implements of agriculture, the print
tive carriages and dwellings; and pleasan
again is il to retire TO our own city, as
have done, and be able to say, rs am
that have seen no other spot is wild.
CIRCUIT which sprpasses it, either Ia ed,,ca
its,on, general entasfIize, sagacity, rapit
growth, or prospects of future expansion