Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-12-22
A Letter from a Clevelander In
the Principalities.

the Prlnclpalities.
We are allowed, by the kindness of Capt.
1. T. Morris, to favor our readers with such
extracts from letter received by him yes
terday. from his friend, Capt. Pennington,
of the brig D. G Pierce, as are of general
interest. M
GALArz, Moldavia, Oct. 2Sth, 1859.
ave left Cardiff, Wales, the Goth of Au-
gust, and had very good passage to
Malta. We had one pretty strong breeze
of wind and heavy sea in the Mediter-
ranean, but the vessel went along first
rate, considering the depth to which she
was loaded. Her cargo was 445 tons coal,
gross, and she drew nearly eleven feet
too much for her-but in spite of this we
got to Malta in twenty-nine days, which
was excellent time, especially when it is con-
sidered that "a days is the quickest pass
age made by any vessel this season. We
had fine chance to try the fast Mediter-
ranean traders through the Straits, there
being feet of twenty sail and the wind
being dead on end t; but they were now here,
and there was not one of them that we did
not "beat bad"
Malta, where we were fifteen days, is
very nice, clean town, but the streets are very
narrow. 1t is the strangest place I ever
saw. One can't look in any direction with
out finding forty or fifty guns pointed at
him. Our cargo was discharged on the Sd
of Oct, and the next day we set sail for
this port.
We sailed through the Dardanelles, bat
had to stop about half way up to get Bill
of Health. l don't recollect the name of
the place, but | do distinctly recollect that
there are an abundance of guns pointed
right at you, and if you don't want to stop
they would be pretty apt to make you.
We made our passageto Constantinople
in twelve and half days, which is good
time. You may talk about your places,
but that is the dirtiest, filthiest hole ever
saw or ever heard of. The streets are
about fourteen feet wide. There are no
sidewalks, and all the swill, all kinds of
fifth, dead cats and dogs, ashes, DC, are
thrown into the street-in fact it is out of
my power to describe its internal nastiness,
and will drop the subject. There are no
wagons, and the men do nearly all of the
drawing i have seen men carry on their
backsa stone, that I should think would
weigh five hundred pounds. When they
want to move pile Of dirt they use asses,
rugged with a couple of baskets on each
side, in which they can carry about two
bushels. Timber is carried by stringing
the boards on each side of the animal, and
when he is loaded you can't see him at all.
We arrived at the Bar, at the mouth of
the Danube in forty eight hours after leav-
ing Constantinople. There was considera-
BILE sea on, and we could not get in, but
stood off and on all night, and came to
anchor the next day, Friday. If ever
saw vessel roll, it was the Pierce. 1
thought she would roll her masts out, but
happily she did not, and we got inside the
next day. We were five days in getting
up to this point, where I found Capt. Smith,
of the schooner G. D. Dousman, all ready !
to sail for England. The schooner D. B.
Sexton, and barque Kershaw are at Ibrail,
twelve miles above here, and will be ready |
to leave about the 5th or 9Th of November. |
| have seen Capt. Pierce, he is now at
Ibrail. He has chartered at 9s 10d per
quatrer OF 8 bus, to direct port.
We are taking out ballast and getting
ready to load barley, and will commence to-
morrow. We lie alongside the bank of
the river, have to drive our own spiles
and build long stage to carry the stuff
aboard and ashore upon. The grain is
carried aboard in bags.
Such another place as this you never
saw. 1t looks as though it was built in the
year one, as there are no Improvements at
all. There are no houses higher than two
stories, and most of them are but one.
story. THOMAS PENNINGTON