The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-09-03

Mr.. Kinney, late editor of the Newark
Daily Advertiser, but who recently left to
fill the appointment of Charge at Sardinia,
gives the following description OF the voy-
age across the ocean:
An Atlantic Steamer, peopled for the sea,
is itself world, comprising specimens of al.
most every nation OH the habitable globe.
When the America left her wharf on the
9th of June, in hundred and twenty pas
sengers were included English, Scotch,
Irish Welch, Canadians, North Americans,
South Americans, West Indians, Spanish,
French, Germans, Danes, &C., the United
States representatives being Yankees, New
Yorkers, Southerners and Western men.
You will easily imagine these formed mot
Icy company when ,hcy dincd, an irregular
army when they walked and Babel when
they talked TO US, these human patterns
of all worlds would have furnished study and
amusement for the whole voyage, had there
been nothing to''wonder at, ponder, and al =
mrc in the surrounding waste" in the blue
above, and the blue below" As it was, the
studies of nature and human nature alter
nately filled up the time, so that itpasscd al
most rapid y away. Talk now TO those who
never crossed the ocean before, of its terror
and they would not understand YOU. for, TO
us the sea was a liberal friend. doubling The
smile of Heaven that bent over our heads in
cerulcan beauty; or, a caprioious mirror
golden in the sunlight, and silvered by the
moon that blessed all our nights with her
companionable beams.
But, lest we should pass over the great
deep, filled only with the sense of beauty,
the august presence of icebcrgs-those cita-
dels Of arctic seas awakened in us deep
sense Of the sublimity and reverence ever
due to Ocean, that mighty hierarch of ma
ture,' whose 'voice of many waters leads
the worship of creation. On the morning
of our first Sabbath out, the increased chill
ness of the atmosphere gave intimaions of
proximity TO these ice-mountains, which ere
noon stood round us, at safe distance, rear
ing their majestic SUBMITS, crowned with in
Vulnerable gems. They were of every shape,
from the pyramid 10 the Grecian temple-oi
the whtest white, and seemed alabaster pal
aces temples and monuments, not in mo-
ton, but to stand firm, based in the depth of
the deep, and pointing to the sun that gilded
the towers.
But to pass from the lofty scenery of Ma
ture to scene of moral sublimty more
pleasing than his mightiest works to the God
of Nature, who listens to the Sabbath bell
no less complacenily when it swings from
the masthead of an humble ship, than when
rdng out to the far hills from the temple
spire-lct me take you into the saloon Of the
" America" where the Captain sits in the
centre, with the Bible and Prayer Book be-
fore him, surrounded by his officers and bis
hardy sailors, washed and neatly attired, on
the one hard, and the congregation on the
other-like father in the midst Of his house.
hold. In clear rich voice, he reads the
services of the English Church, following il
with well>sclected and impressive sermon.
The hearty responses of the seamen-the
blessed proof that, at least, once in the week
they are reminded Of and directed 10 the
sailors truest Friend, could not but touch
the Christian heart, and more than one o.
that company of worshippers felt deeply as
they were leaving the land of religious lib
erty, how blessings brighten as they take
their fight"