The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-11-10
Foreign Correspondence Of the I. s. Ga7efte.
Down PATRICK, Down CoUNTY,
Ireland, Sept. %, 1916.
wreck of ffae Great ESriiaia---
40 Hires Lost.

NO kxkt Us ELOSss
FRIEND CHANDLER:-I am, greatly 10
nv surprise, called to address you again
from IRELAND. The recent good passa-
ges of he Great Britain, with other con-
siderations, induced me to procure berth
in her for the 22d September. did ii,
confess, with some misgivings which the
representations of intelligent persons fl
nalv removed. Reaching Liverpool on
the 2lst, and seeing this huge monster OF
the deep for the first time, ielt no par
ticular apprehension but that she would
move in safety over the Atlantic. | still
think from the vast strength she exhibited
on the beach, and the rapidity of her
course to the scene of her misfortune,
that PROPERLY managed, she was one Of
the safest vessels that ever crossed the
sea, and most eligible for speed. This
had began TO be a general impression, so
that in leaving the docks of Liverpool,
we enrolled one hundred and eighty-four
passengers, the largest number ever en-
rolled in steam vessel to cross the ocean.
The ships crew and all It's ATTACHES
amounted to one hundred and thirty more,
making in all, more than three hundred
hnman beings. AT least one hundred of
the passengers were females, including
fifty lttle OPERA GIRLS, singers, Dc, dan
suese, with their mistresses and FIVE te-
male attendants. Some of these little
girls, dragged from their parents and
country to England, for SHOW were un-
willing TO embark, and one or two were
actually dragged screaming on board by
the female monsters who were 10 make
gain bv their soirees in New York,
said, as | saw them from s 10 IL wears of
aye hurried on board, cit Is AN ABoMINA-
TIoN'' Of cruelty and so say still. Two
Of these little ones were actually left on
the wharf as they came too late to en-
bark.
Among our passengers were the Rev.
DIR. Cox Of New York, Rev. Messrs.
Wheelock and Church of the Baptist de-
nomination, Rev. Mr.. Osgood, Baptist
Missionary returning sick with his wife
and children, from long service in Bur
nah; Rev. Mr.. Reed of Connecticut,
and two or three other clergymen. Mr..
King, Minister to London, was also with
us on our return home.
OF Phladelphians, were Mr.. Ralson
and FIVE ladies under his care; MIR. and
Mrs. Lardner; Mr.. Fallon and two ladies'
Mr.. Samuel Ashmead and some other:
besides your correspondent. We were
delighted with our company and our
selves: we had some of us been Ions
from home and our taste for travel ex
hausted longed for home, and were pleas
ed with the prospect of being soon there
We cast of from Liverpool in presence
OF thousands whom the renown OF ouI
vessel had collected to see her move IN hei
element. The skies were bright abovt
and the wind south east, fresh but no
strong as it had been from the same quar-
ter for a week. With this wind and tht
improvement of the propeller, we made
most rapid progress. The ship movet
among the huge waves almost as quietly
rs the steamers on our Delaware IN
calm. Not person was sea sick O
seemed likely to be, and we thought W
had at last solved the great problem, hoV
the Atlantic could be crossed with hom
comforts. The immense length. 800 iet
or our vessel, with . corresponding wldt'
and the clcarness OF her deck and tn
s9aciousness of her cabin. divested us
the fallacy that we were '.shut up at sea.
We started al o'clock and dined at