Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-03
COMMUNICATIONS
Correspondence Of the Keowee Courier.
BEnL1N. Prussia. ian. 81, 1860


BENIN, Prussia, Jan. 21 1860.
Mr Etlitor: Your hatterins reception of
my former communication inclincs me to COM
ply with your request to furnish you some uc-
count OF my journey hithcr:
L arrived in New York on the evening of
June 9th, and spent the next day in making
inquiries about the various bankers doing
business in Europe, and after learning the
terms OF the most prominent ones, concluded
to accept those Of Brown, Brothers e Co., to
whom obtained a letter of introduction from
the President Of the Fulton Bank They
took my money and sent bill of exchange to
their factors in Liverpool, requesting them to
send me letter of credit, which authorizes
me to call Oh all the principal bankers in Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa, for money TO the
amount deposited, on my identifying myself
by my passport, and signing receipt in their
presence, 50 that my signature can be com
pared with that in the letter and passport [
then secured Il passage berth in the steamer
" New ork, which was to leave for Bremen
next day. Precisely at II o'clock, june lth,
the great guns OF the steamer Numbered forth
our farewell to America, amid the smiles and
tears and waving Of handkcrchiofs of those on
the ship and those on the shore and the
mighty ship glidcd gently from her moorings.
AS | had no friends there ! was an idle spec
tator of the scene, except that | was bidding
goodbye to my native land and trusting my
self to the trcacherous deep. As soon as we
were out of the harbor the pilot Gall large
insured ships have to employ pilots to enter
and leave llarbors,) climbed down Il ropc into
his little boat and the Captain took command
Nnon the shores began to grow more and more
GlndlSunct--a mere Spcck in the horizon and
the sun went dowu behind the waves There
were on the ship some seventy five or eighty
ngers-Gcrmans, Americans, English.
French, SpaniNrdS, Italians and Cubans, talk
ing in all the languages OF the civilized world.
The moon rose early and rs / walked the
deck and looked out upon the calm waters,
delightful meditations filled my mind | was
going to realize what had long been my fond.
est desire viz visit to the Old World with
her boaStcd splcndors and venerable antimi-
ties; but above all, | hoped soon to be drink
ing from her ineXhaustblc fountains of Sci
encc and Literature These, and thousand
other glowing thoughts, filed my mind-in-
terruptcd now and then by observations of the
passengers and sailors, and especially the
mate who, on his scafold over the deck,
paced backward and forward like great un-
easy bear. The first evening, a Frcncbman s
yalisc was broken open and robbed of money,
bilIs OF exchange aud a passport The Cap
tam was urged to institute a search but he
declined doing so, assuring the Frenchman
that he would give the custom house officers
n hint when we came to our destination. Sus-
pieioa fastened upona skulking German Jew.
AZ night the scene was very beautiful. The
rnocn was shining brightly upon the calm blue
WaterA, over whose Mpruffied urfaco no breeze
was stirring, with here and there a few sailing
vessels, whose sails appeared t. hang almost
useless. 1t was very late at night Lafore !
could get my own consent to go dow, and
court tired natures sweet rcstorcr, bali7Y
sleep The next day was Sunday, but none
OF the passengers seemed aware of the fact,
ana everything was SO new and strange that
t was difficult to " remember the Sabbath
d." though everything around seemed cal
cuYntcd 10 awan IN thorGhts huited to the day.
A few of tho passengcfs were -Ie'''ys sea SICK,
but as for myself ate four hearty me-, is every
day during the voyage, and toward the cnd "a
it eonld have taken a fifth rs well as not.
e Ono day a poor Theatre actor, who had I'M
dertaken to work his passage over and found
tho work too hard, threw himself overheard.
Tho engine suddenly stopped, tile sailors went
to work to launeh.a boat, ar | the passengers
made frightful confusion with their running
hithlrand thithcrand talking English, French,
German, Spahish,and italian. There wero
few moments of awful suspense before those
who knew had timo to tell what the matter
was, and have it translated into eyerybody's
language. Tho mate, with half dozen sail
yors, royctl back some distance to look for the
body but did not find it. After an hour or
two they came back, and on we went with the
: same Hthump, thump y of tho mighty engine,
rs though nothing had happened. That night
thppght of Ryr0ps address to the ocean;