Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-03

holl Oh, thou uccp ana dark blue ocean, roll;
Ten thousand fleets sweep DER thee in vain,
Man marks the earth with run his control
stops with the rising main,
Nor doth remain
a shadow of mans voyage save his own.
When for Il moment like drop Of rain
lie sinks into thy vest of waves with bubbling
groOn,
Without grave unkncllcd, uncoGinod and un-
known"
About the middle of the voyage the sea be-
came rough and the weather threatening, and
our good-naturcd, phlcgmatic Captain, Won
SANTEN, was OH deck much moro than usual,
sometimes two hours at time We had one
fog so thick that one could not sec half the
length OF the vessel, and one could readily sec
the danger of these dreaded ocean fogs in the
vicinity of icebcrgs, land or other ships. The
whistle was kept sounding to prevent coils
ions, and occasionally the bells of sailing YES
sells were heard, but they were long way off
and not in our path. We saw one evening a
school Of whales, spouting the water bcauti-
fuIly-;just like the pictures in your gcog,u-
ply, Mr.. Editor; but those were very modest
creatures, rctiing in their manners, and keep
ing at a respectful distance For several DAYS
the sen was quite rough-it had evidently been
lashcd into a rage and its stubborn heart was
still hcaving with sobs sufficient to make our
vessel roll frightfully from side to side Ny
Englishman chuw was awfully sca-sick again
he said if this was being "cradlcd on the
ocean and rocked by the storm" he was not
so fond of it. | tried to console him with the
words of ANEts, EorSun ct hacc oIin, me.
n,tNiSSc juu0bH."
But the most amusing part was the eating
The dishes were kept in their places by guards
or framework, fastened to the top of the table
over which it was very troublesome to cat
The passengers called it "eatng over the
fence" The walters would stagger against the
side of the cabin and spill the tlrinkablcs, and
once justas we were sitting down to dinner, Il
mighty surge sent our soup, vessel and all,
! whrling over the carpet. The sca-sick Eng
lishman, who had come to try to eat, remarked
with sad smile, that even the soup-bowl
/ secucd to be sea-scl from the way it threw
up on the carpet"
On the 18th day the sca-gulls and ships
were SO numerous that we were nearly all on
deck when toward noon Capt. Won SANrEN
came upand soon fixed hisspy-glass ON the light
} house off Lizard point, and the joyful cry of
land, land" passed from stem to stern We
soon shot.hy the Scilly isles and "mcrric Eng
| land y with her green hills and smiling villa
| gcS, rose to view. My English friend was
+. very kind to point out and name to inc most
OF the objects of interest that came in sight
/ The EddyStonc Lighthouse stands far off
from the ships course in Plymouth bay, but
the light was visible at night and awakened
| thoughts of the Pilgrim Fathers, who sailed
! from here TO the wiIds of America in search
of an asylum where they might worship God
according to the dictates of their own con
sciences. Early next morning we came in
sight of the Isle of Wight, of which Sir Wal
ter Scott in writing to his daughter, says
| That spot of earth, which, when q man has
once seen, he can never forget, no matter how
many other parts of the world he may see"
! At Cowes, opposite Southampton, we cast an
chor, and small steamer came alongside and
! took about half our passengers mail, and kegs
of money. Here we bought supply of news.
| papers, for which VIC had quite an appetite
after two weeks exclusion from the world :;
especially when we were all so deeply inter
cstcd to know what course the war in Italy
had taken, for we had feared that by this time
all Germany would be in arms, and her ports
so bIockadcd that we could not go any further
After few hours delay the anchor was
weighed and the cunnons bid good bye to our
tcllow-travcllcrs.
Weposscd soon the royal summer residence,
Osborne House, on the Isle Of Wight, where
Queen Victoria was to take up her abode in a
few days, having been detained in London bv
the change in the ministry and other important
State affairs. The Palucc itself is nothing so
very remarkable, but the situation is cxqu-
stcly beautiful, and then it was the place
where Queen Victoria entertained her royal
visitor, Napoleon, a few years ago, and where
the present invalid and mnatic, King Fred.
! William, of Prussia, was to have been kept
during this winter, had he been able to move
thlthcr After this came Portsmouth, with
its famous harbor of Spithcad, the greatest
naval station OF .hc world We only saw the
entrance to this which is quite narrow and
fortified on both sides. Along the coast /
observed great number of pillars, which [
was told were at one time used for lighting
up signal fires i'll case of invasion For short
time the coast of France was in view. The
| next day we werc'in the North sea, and along
| Sho coast of Holland saw immense numbers of
fishing smacks, drawn up in lines miles in
lengttf. This was the longest day of my life
The sun rose at 32 and set at 81, giving us
sunshnr II hours and twilight most of the
other scye.,, About midnight a pilot came
on board, ana wien / woke in the morning
we were moving nlu,vly up the Wcser River
~ sight Of the long sou, hit hnyeu.
Breurr riafcn is at the II outh of the River
and As miles p,,ow Dremeo, to which place
We were conveyed by Sat river steamer :
The scenery along the rivor ia not yc%V remark
able, except to ono who is gaming iSrst i'm
pressions The country for the mC4t port IS
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