Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-05-31
FrOm.hs New York Tribune.
Chances at Europe, No. q.
BY HORACE GREELEY.


prevailing in New York when our good steam
ship Baltic cast loose from her dock at noon
On the 10th inst, were not particularly calcu-
lated TO inspire and exhilarate the goodly num-
her who were then bidding adieu for months
ataleast % home, country and irteE-ls.-.e ,--
Before We had passed Coney Island, twas
abupdantly certain that our freshning breeze
hailed directlr from Labrador and The ice bergs
bagond, and had no idea of changing its quar-
ters By the time we fairly outside Of Sandy
Hook We were struggling with rs uncomforta-
ble and damaging cross.sea as had ever en-
larged my slender nautical experience; and
in the course ofthe next hour The high re-
solves, the yalqrous de6ances Of the scores who
had embarked ip the settled determination
that they would NOT be sea-sick. had been ex-
changed for paIlid faces aud heaging bosoms
OF our two hundred passengers, possibly one
half were able 10 face the dinner-tablo at 4
P. M less than one-ioprth mustered to sup
per at 7;--while a stern and scanty remnant
perhaps twenty in ALI answered the sum
mons 70 breakfast next morning.
was not in any one Of these categories-
So long as / was able, walked the deck and
sought to occupy my eyes, my limbs, my brain,
with something else than abe seaiand its per-
tprhalions The attempt however proved
signal fmlure. BY lhe time we were awenty-s
Eve miles of the Hook. was decided case;
another hour laid me PROSTATE, though re-
fused 10 leave the deck; At six o'clock friend
66ding me recumbent and hopeless IN the
smokers room, persuaded and helped ME to
20 below I unbooted and swaved into my
berth. which endured me, perforce for the
NEXT twenty four hours then summoned
strength to crawl on deck. because, while Ire-
manned below. my sutferings were barely less
than while walking above and my recovery
hopeless sA sass
shall not harrow up the souls, nor the
ss6naehs Of landsmen, as yetreveIling in bliss
full ignorance of rs tottures, with any descrip-
tion 81 seassickness They viii know all in
ample. season if not so much the beiter.
But naked honesty requires correction Of
Gle prevalent error chat this malady is neces.
sarily transient and easily overcome Thous-
ands who imagine they nave been sea-sick on
some River or Lake steamboat or even during
. brief aeighnde, are annually putting 70 sea
with hs little necessity or urgency as sulices
% send them on jaunt to Niagara or the
White Mountains They suppose they may
very probably be .qnalmish' for few hours,
bui that (they fancy) win but heighten the
general enjoyment Of the voyage. Now is
quite true that any green sea-goer may be
sick for few hours only. he ma even moi be
SICK at ak But the probability IS very far
from this. especially when the voyage is I'M
dertakcn in any other than one or the four sun
niest, blandest months of the year. Of every
hundred who Gross the Atlantic for the first
tine am confident that two-thirds endure
- IL -.
oaeding--more than they would do during
tHo months hard labor as conyiets in State
Prison. Ofour two hundred, sInink 6fty did
not see q healthy or really happy hour during
thepassage. while as may more were suffer-
era for at least half the time The pother
hundred were mainly Oceans old acquaint-
apces, and on that account treated more kind
lgFbut many of these had some trying hours.
& Our weather was certainly bad though not
ahew0fst We started on our course, after
leaving Sandy Ho0k, in the teeth Of a North
Easter. and i elung to us like a brother Il
faried 40 east northeast east southeast, and
occasionally condeseended to blow alittlefronl
nearly norlhor nearly south, but We had not
six hours Of westerly or emi-westerly wind
thfpughout the passage There may have
been two days in all, thenghI think mol, IN
whiehssbnae of the principal sails could be
made to draw; but they were necessarily set
n0sharply as angles with the ship as to do
Efllesor no good Usually. one or tive try sails
mereall Ahe canvass displayed. and they rath-
or served to stead the ship than add to heT
progress: while fordays together, stripped to
hexnaked spars she was compelled 10 push
her boEsprit into the winds very eye by the
force Of her engines alone. And that wind,
though no hurricane, had willaof les own;
while the waves, rolled perpetually against her
bow by so long succession of easleFly winds,
we're decided impediment 20 easterly' pro-
gress doubt whether there is another
steamship which could have made the passage
safely and without extra EFFORT in less time
than she Baltic did. 20
Our weather was not all bad, though We
had no thorougly fair day-no day entirely
free from rain---nene I'M which4the decks were
dry throughout. In fact the spray often kept
Them thoroughly 6Fenched, especially aft
when there.wasn no rain az all Daring ifouI
e fFs ofthetVelTs days we had some houl
prmera Of semi=sunshne either at morning
midday o. toward night The only gales o
much account were those of our first night of
LQng Islhpd and our last before seeing LAND
Saturday when on coming into sounding'
Oft The coast Of Ireland, We had avery decid
ed blow and (lhe ship having become very
Light ~ the consumption Of mosi Of her coal.)
fhe worst kind Of assea IL gave me my sica
esf houF. slough not my west day.aliE
Our dreariest days we're "Wednesday anC
Thursday. 23d and 24th, when we were a lit
tle more than half way across With,the wind
precisely ahead and very strong, the skiei