Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-11-26
Letters Of a Traveller
To the Democrat X Sentinel


working men and women, they never look
at person in the face. but as the slave in
the South, always touches his hat TO a
white man when he meets him. 80 does a
poor English operative male or female
droop their head when they meet a man
with good clothes. 1t Is pitiable sight
to see Stalwart men and women in these
factories on half time, and that means
half starved: because full time ONLY feels
and clothes them and half time, half
starves them. Another pitiable sight to
see, old women of sixty or seventy years
and boys of eight or nine wears, trying TO
exc out living hauling goods with
Donkey and "a cart. and add TO this, the
number of those that have no means Of
living but what they BEG. and that side OF
the picture in Liverpool l. not very fiat
tcring. But on the other side of this
living picture, YOU viii see their retired
and merchant Princes living in Villas and
Palaces in the suburbs of the CITY in the
greatest of ''otium cum degnitate" In
the evening we left this great commercial
emporium, and took the boat for Belfast.
Ireland. The boat was crowded and al
most every one was more or less sea sick
The channels and seas that surround Ire
land. are as bOiSteTouS as her sons at
Donevbrook fair, and few approach her
without sea sickness. In the morning the
most lovely of farms in the county of
Down appeared TO our view, IL we were
going up 10 Belfast. We. who had been
50 long IN America thought it strange to
see such lively coiOrs in the cultivated
fields, and we thought of Tom Moore e
- 1t was not, that nature had shed DER the
scene,
IS Her purest of Purple, her brightest OF
green.
- Twas not the soft magic Of streamiet or
rin.
- Oh! No, it was something more exquisite
still.'
We landed in Belfast just in time 10 90
10 Derry in the Belfast and Derry cars.
Altho' we had not much time to stav in
Belfast, we could observe that il was more
ike an American city than an Irish town,
there i great deal of tasteful and per
mancnt Improvement going on there. that
| gives II an air of business and comfort not
20 be met with in that Island Their
Depots there, a. are ali the others in Ire
| land and England that | have observed.
are of the most costly and substantial
! structures They have first. second and
third class cars, but they are all illv got
| ten up and uncomfortable, compared to
! those in the United States or even IN the
! CanadaS. Their cars are all small none
of them holding more than one of our old
-..n u.
attention to the comfort OF their cars. and
/ less Ia their dcpots. the travelling public
would certainly Toe under obligations To
them. We got huddled into one of these
/ ears and started a second class car.
/ believe ii Is in Ireland a. in France.
nobody travels in a first class ear except
/ Princes or fools, - we thought we wuuld
~; SsIit for either. anI had a second class
ear What a lovely AMI highly cultiva-
first place we stopped IT WAS BIllymcna-l..
a very nice smart town in the county
/ Antrim. surrounded bv elegantly cuitiva-
ted farms. Thence Ia liallymonev. Cole
raine, Castle Rock, through two Tunnels
that were perforated through the rocks OF
Magilligan. thence to NewtownIrmivadv
branch, and along the river Fovle TO the
maiden city of Londonderry This CITY
l. called the maiden city. because when
besicged she never yielded to the enemy.
In travelling along that route, we ob<er-
we'd that crops generally looked well. that
this section of the country i in Il very
high state of cultivation. anG that those
who had farms appeared more comforta-
bic, than the farmers did when we used
TO see them long time ago. The great
est drawback the farmers have. l. want %
fuel, when the season Is wet as Is this one
II Is very difficult To oct their turf dried
Aitho' there are plenty Of coal in Ireland
the farmers not being the owners of tn,
fee simple OF The soil, burst not invade IL.
bowels for the purpose of extracting Goa
Or any other mineral product Derry j.
an ancient city walled around with fnu
gates to enter. 1t has been a CITY 10
upwards of a thousand years. It's wall Is ;
mile around and an elegant place to prom
enade. Their cannon are still placed upol
the wall in good order. the largest O
which, ''RoaTng -Neg," the old inhabi
tants are very proud of. There are
however now a great many more inhabi
tants on the outside of the wall than tn
|. inside, tho it does not improve rapidly
} y city in Ireland Is a different thing from
: a city in America To constitute a cit,
there it must not only be Incorporated a
our cities, but il must be the scat of Bisho
and Cathedral Church Here the last q
my companions left me, and | regrctte
TO part with him very much. one of then
left in Liverpool, L felt degree of loneli
: ness, for kinder or better or more gentle