Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-23
Written expressly Tor the Dayton Emprel
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We reached Cape Race at daylight Sabbath
morning, and found that the fierce winds
which had detained us, had driven away the
fogs which usually are here broodng upon the
dangerous, so that we were able to pass swift
y and safely by, From this on the sea was
80 smooth that our vessel rode upon an even
keel, and our sea-sick fellow passengers, one
by one, came forth from the gloomy cabins
aud drank in new life from the gentle breezes
that ripped the face without appreciably dis
turbing the depths Of the waters. We were
not delivered from all the perils of the deep
however, and we we're frequently enveloped
in fogs so dense that the keenest eye cou Id
not pierce them distance of fifty yards, and
often by day and night we shuddered as the
whistle sent out its solemn warning, to think
of the terrible doom that would betde any
vessel in our track that should hear and not
heed it, The Scotia's iron PROV would be to
instantly to the bottom,
In all the 200 miles from Queenstown to
Cape Race we saw not one single sail, al.
though this is Kings highway in the ocean
travel ed probably by more vessels than any
other This made us realize the immensity
OF ocean as nothing ever did before 1t is
the worthy emblem Of the Infinite Our
/ thoughts cannot compass il,
After we came within the Cape, however,
sails were frequently in sight On Sabbath
afternoon we passed crowded ship under full
sail bound in the same direction as ourselves
1 We passed so near 10 her that we could see
the people thronRing upon her decks, and
could easily read the signal flags that she sent
up, one after another to the mast head She
told us she was the American ship "West
moreand, bound from Liverpool to New
York with emigrants, and asked us to report
her when We arrived in the latter city. We
promised to do so by running up our little
pennant, and then the signal flags went down
on the Westmorelaud, and the "dear old flag
sprang up in their place. 1t unfurled and
waved proudly in the air for a moment, and
then dipped IN graceful salutation TO the red
cross of England on our shiD which imme,
diately dipped in return, and thus we bade
them farewell
The last two days of our voyage were de-
lghtful The sky was bright and clear, the
autumual sun bad still heat enough to make
us comfortable on deck without our winter
wrappings and the motion Of the vessel was
no more than that ofa steamboat on the Ohio
river All day loug the wide deck was filled
with brilliant throng OF ladies and gentle.
men, promeDading, chatting, singing or read
ing AT every one Of the FIVE sum ptnous
meals that were spread for us daily the tables
we're filed, those who had been the sickest
now heing the hungriest, and but for the fact
that home was before Us, the days would have
seemed all too short
0ur Captain, although competent sailor
contributed not particle to the general
pleasure Of the voyage One would think
} that his associations during the twenty years
that he has been in command Of "Cunarder,
would have given him some little of the pol
: ish of gentleman, but be remains to this
day, what he probably was made by nature
! and education, or pGnt Of education, an IN