Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-12-21
From Herman MelxilIe.s Redburs.. ],
The shipping of the rrersev.

From Herman Melyille's :. Redbur1l.',
The Shipping of the Mersey.
Surrounded by its broad belt of masonry each Liy-
erpool dock IS walled town full of life and con.tao
ton, or rather it is small archipelago an epitome
OF the world, where all the nations of Christendom
and those Of Heathendonl, are represented For
in ITSELF each ship is island floating colony Of
the tribe to which it belongs
Here are brought together the remotest limits of
the earth and in the collective spars and timbers of
these ships all the forests of the globe are represent
ed as in grand parliament Of nasts. Canada and
New Zealand send their pines America her live oak
1ndla her teak Norway her spruce, and the Right
honorable Mahogany, member for Honduras and
Campeaehy is at his post by the wheel. Here under
the benehcent sway of the genius of commerce, all
CHIMES and countries embrace, and yardafm touches
yard-arm In brotherly love- @s@@sss@ 500
A Liverpool dock is grand carayansary inn and
hotel ON the spacious and liberal plan Of the Astor
House. Here ships are lodged at moderate charge,
and payment is not demanded till the time of depar
ture. Here they are comfortably housed and provi-
ded for sheltered from all Weathers and secured from
all calamities
| know not how many hours spent in gazing at
the shipping in Princes Dock and speculating con-
cernng their past voyages and future prospects In
llfe Some had just arrived from the most distant
ports, worn, battered and disabled others all
taunto-spruce, gay and brilliant, in readiness for
sea. =. 49, .f-.s.
Every day the Highlander had some new neighbor.
black brig from Glasgow, with its crew of sober
Scotch caps, and its staid, hriftylooking skipper
would be replaced by iovial French hermaphro-
te, It's forecase echoing with songs, and its quar-
ter-deck elastic from much dancing.
On the other side, perhaps, magnificent New
York liner, huge as seyenty-four, and suggesting
the idea Of a Mivarts Delmonico's afoat would
give way to a Sydney emigrant ship, receiving ON
board its live freight of shepherds from the Grampi-
ans long to be tending their focks on the hills
1 and downs Of New Holland. aa
| There was hardly anything witnessed in the
docks that interested me than the German emf
grants who come on board the large New York ships
several days before the sailing, to make everything
comfortable ere starting. Old men, tottering with
age, and little infants in arms; laughing girls in
brightbuttoned bodies, and astute, middleaged men,
with pictured pipes in their mouths, would be seen
mingling together in crowds of five, six, and
eight hundred, in one ship.
Every evening these countrymen of Luther and
Mclanthon gathered on the forecastle to sing and
pray. Audit was eXaltng to listen to their fine ring
ing anthems reyerberating among the crowded ship
ping, and rebounding from the lofty walls of the
docks. Shut your eyes and you would think you
were in cathedral
They keep up this custom at sea, and every night
in the dogwatch, sing the songs of Zion to the roll
OF the great ocean-organ pious custom of devout
race, who thus send over their halleluiahs before
them, as they HE to the land Of the stranger
| And among these sober Germans my country
counts the most orderly and valuable of her foreign
population. It is they who have swelled the census
OF her northwestern States and transferring theil
ploughs from the hills of Pennsylvania to the pra
ries of Wisconsin, and sowing the wheat of the Rhine
the banks of the Ohio, raise the grain that hun
dred fold increased may return to their kinsmen il
Europe. rsa
There is something in the contemplation of the
mode in which America has been settled, that, in
noble breast should forever extingush the preiudi
ces OF national diskes. Settled by the people Of al
nations, all nations may claim her for their own
You cannot spill drop of American blood withou
limo the blood of tho world Ra bnE oils
| trenchman Dane or Scot, the European who scott
at an American, calls his own brother Raca, anc
stands in danger of the judgement. We are not
narrow tribe of men, with bigoted Hebrew nation
atty, whose blood has been debased in the attemp
to ennobe it by maintaining exclusive succession
among ourselves. No; our blood is as the flood O
the Amazon made up of thousand noble current
all pouring into one. We are not nation as mucl
as world; for unless we may claim all the worl'
for our sire, like Nelchisedec, we without father
Or mother.
Fl For who was our father or our mother! Or cal
we point to any Romulus and Remus for our founders
Our ancestry is lost in the universal paternity an
Caesar and Alfred, ST. Paul and Luther, and Homer
and Shakespeare are as much ours as Washington
who is much the worlds as our own. We are tn
heirs Of all time, and with all nations we divide GU
inheritance On this western hemisphere all tribe
f and people are forming into one federated whole
= and there is future that shall see the estrange
children of Adam restored to the old hearthstone
E Eden
: The other world beyond this, which longe
for by the devout before Columbus time, was foun
in the new; and the deep-sea-lead that first struc
these soundings brought up the soil of earths par;
v disc. Not paradise then or now; but to be mac
# SO, at Gods good pleasure, and in the fitness
mellowness of time The seed is sown, and the ha
vest must come and our children's children, on tt
e worlds jubilee morning, shall all go with their sick
j, to the reaping
S THE CHANGES OF FoRTUNE-The following is
example of some Of the recent changes of fortune
Europe The Prince Of Prussia, who, in March
u last year. compelled to himself by suddC
IL flight from the rage Of the Berlin populace, ener
a. trumphantly, on the 18th of October, as the laur
crowned hero Of Baden the very gate Of the Prussi
= Ecapital through which he had fed. The compa,
Ii Of civic Rife Guards that at the former period
d pied his palace and chalked upon the walls Nato
" al property" received him now with tremendo
q cheering, and in the evening gave him serenade
10 Barring the casualties Of war and climate" Q
n serves the United Service Gazette soldiers appe
ID to be longived class, there being less than
le hundred claimants for medals for the battle of MI
It da, fought in 1905"
ie THE CABINET AT CHURCH The Postmaster Gene1
oe has taken pew in the Presbyterian Church on Fo
ie and half street. The Secretary of the Treasu
! at the Protestant Episcopal Church, and Mr. E
u u ing at ST. MATTHEW'S (Roman Catholic) church
st TEMPERANCE CELEBRATION-Th Washing