Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-12-03
Letters of a Traveller.
To the Democrat & Sentinel.
No.. T..

The same stone or brick houses. for the
most part, one or two stories high, with
thatch or slated roof were still there. look
ing fresh and young, though some of them
for aught | know may be one thousand
years old. Lime is very plenty there.
and they rough cast their houses with ii.
and whitewash them, or make them some
other color, which gives them ALWAYS a
fresh and youthful appearance. The
houses and the neighboring hills bore
different aspect TO me from what / had
anticipated, the houses were smaller and
the hills less distant, the riyulets and
streams contracted and the roads narrower
L knew however that they had not changed
for hundreds of years, but myself had
changed. As was said by one of the
wisest and best of ancient poets in com
pairing Mantua to ROM,
:" SIC canibus catulos simIes. sic ,natriJus
hoedos
" Moran: sue paris oomPoncre magma
SolebdBi.'
In the United States the streams do
grow less, and sometimes dry up alto
gether, as the country is cleared out. hv
evaporation: but here umdiminisied hv
that cause, they murnur along unchanged
for centuries. In returning To the Hotel
the mail carrier had brought me some pa
pers from the United States. which Dc
stroyed my incOG. and compelled Ine To-
acknowledge the corn. After dinner the
landlord drove me To see uur relations
thirty years had made great changes on
their personal appearance, but they had
changed very little IN other respects. 1'h,
same mirthful kindly feeling that Iservadc>
the Irish character. sill aboun,lS among
them in every walk of life. and man,
things that the people of other nations
would Lament a a calamity, these people
( reli"iouSly submit TO, or els. tarn ii into
( ridicule and Jest.
In riding around the country | WAS ut
tcrly astonished TO see the improvement IN
! agriculture, land i forced to its highest
| yield by scientific farming and artificial
manures. Gueano. Gypsum. BoneduSr.
! &c, are Il De had in all the little stores Of
the country Like,
=. a time dere was, ere Englaud's grfefs
| began,
=. When every rood Of ground main:a:aet
its man.
the neisiborh"od. and was as;uni>hed 10
see how high land rated. The farm con
. sisted of SiNty-five acres of GOOD Land.
rented al - per acre. tine vendor WA
gong to try his fortune in Australia. hg
had no lease of the land WAS noihin" but
a tenant at will. but IT l. Understood there
that the landlord never ciects Il man eX-
cept for non-paymcnt of rent. or fer some
gross misbchaviour, If he would 10 other
wise his life would be in danger The
people there seem satisfied TO purchase
the tenant right, and take the landlords
implied promise for their undisturbel pos
session, and even pay more for that than
they would in the United States for the
fee simple. This farm of 90 acres. with
not very good buildings, sold very readily
for three thousand seven hundred and
fifty dollars, which would be. "a | was
informed, an average price for good land
in the province of Ulster. There are
other Mountainous regions in this province
where the land is not 50 good. and the
farms are small. These the landlords are
putting into larger farms. and giving them
TO the Scotch and English, sometimes
giving a small pittancc to the ancient in
habitantS 10 assist them TO emigrate, and
sometimes turning them out of doors with
out any compensation whatever These
inhabitants are the descendants of the
ancient Alilesians who had been driven
there by their freauent prosecutions. 1t
seems to be the settled policy of these
landlords to eradicate this race completely
from that Island. Tired with looking
around. and afraid of the pressure on nv
appetite doing me bodily injury, the land
lord and myself thought we would visit
some of the fashionable watering places
for a few days. Mounted on the ever
lasting low backed car we soon arrived at
t, Newtownlemivady, an antiquated town in
the heart OF a splendid farming country.
. Here as in other towns L thought the
, houses had grown ''small and beautifully
less" by age, but still they had a vigor-
Gus appearance. Here branch rail road
three miles long connects with the Derry
and Belfast road. We got tickets for
Port Stewart rather a famous watering
place of that country. We stopped fol
| some time at Coleraine handsome towr
built on both sides of the river Baum
) seeming 70 me 10 be the best busines.
: place of the size in the north of Ireland
We arrived at Port Stewart in good order
and located at MONEYS where the enter
tainment was good, and the landlad,
clever and landlord gentlemanly. In thi
: watering place the houses are rather stvlisl
and present fine appearance, but wha
; the people live by, is certainly a myster,
: TO me. a great many of them, an
: aware live by fishing, but there must b
some laDdsmen arnonsr tbenn ,,boso -,,,,