Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-01-12
From the Baltimore Sun.
4 BALTIMOREAN AMONG THE
ORIENTALS.

write you partial account of what
has come under my observation in and
about this eastern Capital. I will not
dwell upon the short and pleasant pas
sage l had across the Atlantic in the
good ship Baltic, with its excellent Captain
Comstock; of the charming rural districts
and large commercial cities of England ;
Fof the English channel which scarcely
fails to make every person horribly sea-
sick who ventures on its waters; OF
France, with its gay capital and vine fes-
toonsd hills !; of Switzerland, with its
lovely lakes, wales and snow-clad Alps
of the beautiful and romantic lake of Co.
mo, shut out from the rude world by
Alpine hills" of Milan, Padua, and
Verona; of Venice, with its canals, in
stead of streets its gondolas in lieu of
carriages; its beautiful timshonored pa
lacss and churches, or its dungeons and
it's 90 Bridge of Sigh.;" of our voyages
among the Ionian Isles, around Greece in
the Grecian Archipelago, up the Darda-
nelles and over the Marmora. These
would afford ample material for a hun
seen within So large a circuit would be
intiicting most too much upon your col
umus and the patience of your readers.
There is one thing, however, in connec-
ton with our journey that l cannot neg
lect to mention; it 1t is the universal po-
liteness and attention we met with in the
Austrian dominions, and on board the
Austrian steamers that brought US from
Trieste to this place. We were struck
with this, from the fact that we (as is
generally the case, l think, with our
countrymen before going abroad, were
previously under the impression thatfrom
the Austrians, we would, being Ameri-
cans, of that country which afforded such
generous shelter to their most DANCE
rous foe, meet with nothing but incivility
and rudeness, bu. how widely different
was it from this. One of the most polite
men we had anywhere met in our travels
was one at Venice, in the shape of an of
fcer of the Austrian army.
The night that We entered that city,
being dark and rainy, and the nsodus ops-
randi of getting to hotel in a place
where we were strangers, and where we
had to glide over water instead of rafting
over stony streets. being an insoluble mys-
terry to us, we inquired of this gentle
man, while we were still in the cars, how
we were to proceed. He appeared solici-
tuous to give US every information was
assiduous in his attentions, assisted US in
getting our baggage, in procuring a
gondola, directed us to good hotel,
&c. He knew too, that we were Ameri-
cans, as he saw my passport
Again, on board the Austrian steamer,
the Captain, as well as the rest of the
officers, (they of course knowing that we
were citizens of the United States, as they
take every passengers passport before he
goes ON board, were exceedingly polite
and kind. The Captain. at the different
islands where we stopped. would take
US, and us only. although there were Sc
veral very respectable touristsg of other
nations on board, in his own boat to
shore, and accompanied us to the princi-
al objects of attraction. In the house of
an Austrian friend of his at Smyrna, we
spent most delightful evening. 1t will
be many years ere we forget the unre-
mitted attention shown us on board the
i" Asia during the whole of the very
pleasant voyage from Trieste to Con-
stantinople, by Captain Jules Poiret and
his worthy officers. 1 have spoken OF
their politeness, DC, not because l think
it was shown to US merely as passengers,
and new ac9uaintances, but as americans.
The captain made frequent mention OF
America, and in the most friendly man
ner. He referred to the rapid advance
ment of the arts and sciences in our coun-
try-of the American inventive genius
of the superiority of our ships. steamers.
DC. He appeared to honor the name oi
Washington. Franklin and Fulton. Upon
my telling him that we rather went ahead
of all creation in the way of steaming. he
said, "Yes, you 60 ahead most too fast,
sometimes the boiler bursts. you go APP,
and then adieur" He had heard some.
thing about certain accidents which oe-