Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-07-26

f400000 per annum shall keep hundreds in
poverty around him living out their lives 10
adorn thousands of acres of valuable land with
trees and flowers and shrubs, which the propri-
etor only sees for perhaps fortnight year.-
The appearance of the buildings of all but the
gentry are small and mean in the extreme
their only redeeming feature is that each has
lis yard and garden adorned with beautiful
shrubs. This gives beauty TO the country
which wish our countrymen would initiate, it
would not consume any valuable time and be-
sides humanizing those engaged in it, would
add SO much to the appearance of their dwell
ings. Every thing almost but this seems an
cenl and old. The people that we have seen
ON The road and in the towns we have passed
through have mostly had very common ap-
pearance. There is nothing like that attention
10 dress that is with Us. The idea of subordi
nation prevails 10 great extent. The walters
at the inns are about the best dressed people
that we see in travelling, but bow and scraPe
to every word they utter and every answer
they make you see the sane IN walking
about.
The buildings in most of the towns are very
old and mean. Those that we have passed
through pu, us in mind very much OF Ire an
Glen, parts of many of the towns of Pennsyl-
vania, as Lancaster, York and the older parts
of Eason. They are generally not more than
stories high. you will often not see what we
would call handsome house in a town of 6 or
5000 inhabitants, ye, this ancient appearance
is interesting, 1t points TO bye gone days, that
history has so famiarized us with. ! mention
this peculiarly as only The most common, for
of course the palaces and seats of noblemen
and gentry are of the most superb and magnif-
icent characier-My ideas of English scenery
have been fully realized Add to that rich
beauty Of herbage, the splendid mansions and
castles scattered over the country, the towers
and turrets peering up in every direction, the
close cultivation, their beautiful hedges of
Hawthorn and Holly: the Ivy creeping over
their buildings and the ruins around, and you
have what few countries can excel. So much
now for generals, or a six days sojourn. | will
now 60 10 particulars in detail which will be
mere Journal en- route.
We landed al Liverpool about 10 NJ. Of Sat-
urday and frs, accompanied our baggage TO the
Custom House, 10 have it searched 10 see that
we had not undertaken 10 smuggle ino Her
Majesty's dominion, any conlraband articles on
which duty should be paid. We were kept
hanging about this place for some hours be-
fore il was completed and though when it came
our turn it was mere sham, moi taking hall
minute with my trunk; il was annoying 10 be
kept so long. All that was captured among
our crew was some bundles of cigars, belong
ing TO some OF our young smokers, which were
pnunced upon quite greedly. We took up our
lodgings al the Waterloo Hotel, good house,
The mode Of living at the English hotels is
new, but think we can easily fall into it
every one lives by himself aud orders such
dishes as he likes, unless he is in company
with his own party, who may then eat logelh-
er. Liverpool is very much like New York.
/ 1t is indeed called The American city, having
been raised and kept up by the American trade,
which ii has engrossed. The brick which
they build with is most miserable. We would
not use it for the poorest outside walls. /
think if one OF our Yankees would bring over
SOME Philadelphia brick, he would make a
speculation with Ihem. The most interesting
place saw in Liverpool was ST. James Gem
etery. twas formerly quarry, in the neigh
borhood of what is now the best part of the
Town, from whence was obtained most of the
building stone. After excavating a hundred
feet or Whereabouts, for perhaps or 600 yards
or more in length, and halfas many in breadth,
in different ways. they filled up the bottom 10 a
considerable depth with soil and placed The
graves there, making vaults in the rock and
planning it with trees, flowers, and shrubs in
the most picturesque manner. Here we first
saw the Laburnum, the Holly, the Yew, and
the Cypress--lhe effect was very fine. The
tomb of Huskissen, erected by the citizens of
Liverpool whose representative | think he
was, is the finest He was killed near there
on the rail road. The statue of him which is
over it, cost $4,000. The docks of Liverpool
are descrvedly lis pride. The ndes rise in
the Mersey from 90 10 80 feet and are so rapid
that vessels cannot lie along shore 10 receive
their cargoes. TO obyiate this difficulty the
merchants constructed immense baslus In front
of their warehouses, all along The river, ol
splendid hewn stone, The vessels 60 Ill al high
tide through openings, the gates Of which are
then closed, and they are shut in. The ap-
pearance presented in coming Up the river Is
very singular-no.hing Of the huls are TO be
seen, only these high walls and The tops and