Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-08-20


bic "sod" from which St. Patrick dro
the snakes was gratifying sight, as lol
as we could see it, for we were soon amol
the English fogs, of all fogs t
thickest, and approaching the COUNT
where the year is said to be divided in
eight months of winter and four mont
of bad weather Anchored out in Il
stream, Liverpool looms up through Il
fog, with its railroad running over Il
tops of the houses, and again passing u
der the hill, on which compact ranges
houses are built, which is very commo
way of ccoAomizing space in the cities
England and France through which raj
ways pas. The docks are all that
striking to an American just arrived i
Liverpool. We have nothing of the sol
in America. Anchored out in the stream
yousee nothing of the thousand ships i,
port, except their masts and rigging. Lat
yrinths of high, winding stone walls an
dray roads are between you and them, an,
the vessels are shut in with massive gates
The custom house opens new woll
ogain-a reunion of the royageurs of
dozen ships, perhaps. Thithcr all tn
truaks and band-boxes and carpct-bags @
our party were transported, and we SEN
toddling after them, like condemned Grim
inals; in the rain, too, and it two miles
off. The custom house is another demo
cratic place, and yet a man who under.
stands it, and has the money, can buy
himself off from close examination. This
l know took place with one of our passen-
gers,who had number of separate pounds
OF tea, besides segars, packed down in his
trunks. An artist of our number took a
different mode-his wife carried his pic
lures among the dresses she had'o at the
time, and thus he escaped paying high
duty on them. But, saying nothing of
the curiosities that were exposed to view,
as the contents of trunks were emptied
out on the floor, before the curious crowd.
and merely mentioning the fact that a
poor woman had to pay forty shillings
duty on some Daguerrotypes, after paying
an English sixpence for having her regalia
overhauled, (Which all had to pay whose
trunks were examined after 4 o'clock y
waving all that. and all comment upor
English taxation and English bluntness,
1 speak of those in the custom house.
We rest day to see the town, dry our
clothes, and get taste of the far-famed
English beef-steak. Handsome city streets
much cleaner than in New York, beef
steak unequalled but as for drying your
;clf, and remaining dried, that's impossi-
Die in Liverpool, where it either rains
ome every day, Or else there is an Egypt
an fog, almost think enough to drive a
lail into to hang your hat on. But mois-
ure makes the grass grow, and that
$ one reason why English cattle and
heep are so celebrated A railroad depot
n Liverpool is something more substan-
ial looking than anything of the kind in
america. One of these in Liverpool you
each by a winding way, an ascending
tone street. But, no. for London. There
re three grades of cars. The ten thou
lnds go in the parliamentary train-so
allied because parliament made a law that
ach railway should have one train that
harged but a penny a mile, and stopped
all the stations, for the accommodation
f the public. Lord John Russell added
} his popularity by first proposing this
lcasure. But, you take your scat in the
ars, always entering in at the side, never
the ends, look down the chimnies of
art of the town, and pass under the re-
lainder Of it, and you are out into merrie
.ngland. What's the prospect? Pros
ect garden-likc sometimes, and some.
mes anything but that. Wind mills,
spectral-looking winged things on hill
'ps); hedge fences and tall shafts (cLim-
ies) Of coal pits arc numerous but you
:e no farm houses scarcely, and you are
most tempted to inquire where does
,erybody live? The truth is there are
1t few Independent farmers the mobiles
vn the country, and the dwellings and
rms of the farmers are but poor affairs,
with those of the States. But s
is wrong with our train, the
ilroad stops" and half dozen of us 90
.lf mile up a hedged lane to see farm {
,use. 1t was long, low, vine-covered, !
lcient looking fabric, thatchcd with straw.
e pass by to the barn-yard to look at S
C stock. Everything looks fat. There's !
C philosophical looking old hog, grazing J
the lane. He merely looks out of the |
rner Of his eye at the visitors, and his '
and countenance indicates that he is en- t
ely satisfied with his present condition. t
len there are the fat ducks that won't a
= ont of the way- the yOciferous puineos u