Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-10-08

Let,er from aIoscoyy.

The Baltimore merican contains q letter freHf
an intelligent gentleman Of that city, who spent
time in an extended tour on the continent Of
Europe, and who is now pursuing bis travels ~
Russia. The following IS extract from the saIAei
it is dated, Moscow, July ~, 1852
staid but q few days at Sc. Petersburg, and set
out on Saturday in the forenoon train, SO as to f
rive here on Sunday morning, at 81 Clock say IN
twenty-five hours This was accomplished with
the utmost punctuality. The whole distance about
400 miles, is laid off in three first class stations;
one precisely half way, and the other two internhe
date between the centres and the extremes milking
four great stages of 100 miles each We reached
the end of the first 100 miles in 81 hours where We
dined, and the centre or end of 200 miles at 10
o'clock, five and ahalf hours more where supped
The next first class station end of 500 miles, we
reached at half-past in the morning. end Aloscow
at Q O'Clock. Making the rate of our speed. after
deducting the long stoppages of supper and dinner;
to which have referred and those for lunch on the
first day. and breakfast on the second morning (to
which did not reteri not less than thirty miles
an hour tor tie running lime. -
The road is made with Il double track Throughout,
and the stations and depots for passengers engine
houses and machine workshops.are all complctedn
style of great elegance and comfort. but the En-
perOr has still to meet vast outlay for merchandise
depotS, and for the bnding of additional houses at
all the stations, for the accommodation of the nu-
merous employers on the road, including 1000 per-
sons in the service of the Messrs. Wfnans, and dis
pcrSed along the route to carry out their cetract
for twelve years not long since commenced, to keep
all the cars engines, &c. in good running order and
to retnrn them at the end of that time nimpaired
(wth due allowance for an tear. they receiv.
ing periodically compensation which is lbonght
will greatly augment the fortunes they and their
partners have realized by their former contract for
building and equipping the engines, carriages and
all other appropriate efuipages.
The first class carriages pretty full and were
as comfortable those of other railways in Europe
The cost of ticket for the 400 miles is about twen
ty silver roubles SIS The second class carriageS
Nn which | was quite as comfortable as our
first class cars, with chairs. we'll cushioned. and
the seats arranged precisely in our cars, with an
alley in the centre. and each long car holding about
fifty Or sixty persons. The cost here was thirteen
silver roub!es, or $40. The third class in which
were several decent people, AMI especially females,
are covered, with a few glass windows, arranged
to seats, like the second class cars but each scat
without any cushion, being long bench of wood;
and the price silver roubles, or S5 to So
he fourth class were uncovered cars of about the
same length as the Others with wooden benches, but
without backs to them in the third class, and the
price of tickets was, presume. very low probably
four silver roub!es, or So, 1t appeared to me the
carriages were generally FULL and observed that
occasionally persons Joined us in the second class
that had to stand until they couli fnl sea ts
If you throw out of view the Kremlin, the old
walls which surround it, those which enclose the
old city proper, and the multitude of glded or green
painted and parti colored domes of all sorts (but
the most of them in the style of mivants of oriental
architecture) which adorn or siipure the churches
there is nothing in modern Moscow, rebuilt on the
foundations OF the houses destroyed by fire in 1912.
different fiom most of the Continental cities have
visited, except that some of its streets nre very WIDE
and so far more like St. Petersburg than any other
place.
In looking out from my window, in a fine building
at the corner of two broad streets, the handsome
houses all of stone three or four stories high in
good taste: with abundant ornaments in stucco fine
doorways, etc, which are in vew only remind me
OF the fine cities Of ltal " Germany, Denmark and
Sweden and there is nothing to mark the change.
of country but the universal drosky, and the cos
tunes which distinguish the drivers of these vehicles
and various other classes of the people. For exanf-
pie, the merchant wears long black dress not ain-
like that by priests in the street. with a pecu-
liar black cap rather high and having small rim
in front; and these grave looking men of trade,
having also very long boards. unier nicer culture
than the boards Of the drosky drivers and others of
the lower classes, which never neat bat often
very much the reverse. As to. the women, they are
dressed much like other women in the ci les OF the
United States rs we'll as Of all Europe Go where
you will you see the same classes ofwomcn IN the
cities, dressed in the same fashion-the same bon:
nets shawlS wells. ribbons manties dresses of siIk
cotton, other material, and generals am inita-
ton OF what is understood to be the lmst mode in
Paris.
ought to mention that the tea houses ofgMoscow
are very numerous, and so much frequented that IL
Russian spends of his time under cover at a tea
house than in his store dwelling All bargains
made in tea houses and parties about ato max q
contract always repair to such an establishment
and proceed with their business. at the same time
slipping tea. lfthey do not finish the business they
agree to meet again at the tea house, and in fact
nothing in the way of business brought forward or
concluded here except under the influence OF tea
drinking Some of these establishments arc Of enor.
nous size and employ large number Of waters
but you find them, large or small everywhere The
tea is generally drank from glass tumBfers and with.
out milk or cream, but always with sugar and the
quality of the tea is universally geod and often sn-
perior; each establishments pridng itself on the hie
character Of the tea, which you knew sbronght over
land from China.
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