The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-10-06
Letter from EurOpe.--NO. I.
HIBERNIAN HOTEL, DUBLIN,
Sept. 10, 1865. (

casional letter to the many dear friends
who will be kind enough to wish to hear
from me, which shall not belong the less
to each one Of them for being printed in
The CALIFORNIAN, and so communicated
to many who may have only general in
terest in what the letter may contain. In
deed, it will save me much trouble to do
so-if l may trouble you to send such pa
pers as contain this private correspondence
to few friends Of mine, whose names l
will send you. Especially my friends in
St. Johnsbury will understand that l mean
them severally, as much as if l had adj
dressed myself to every one of them by
name.
1t is the evening of the Lords day, and
l am just returned to my lodgings after
most delightful evening service in one of
the Presbyterian churches here, DR.. Halls.
The day has been very different from that
which l passed just fortnight since, ready
to depart on the morrow. The Lord has
carried our little company safely across the
ocean, and given us abundant occasion to
90 into his courts with rejoicing.
We have seen the works of the Lord,
even his wonders in the deep. We have
felt some wonder that deep so mighty,
so measureless, so battling the reckonings
Of inexperienced and sometimes of expe-
rienced men, should ever have been cross
ed at all but though once crossed, there
is surprise remaining still for the triumph
of art which enables us to 60 over it now
with such rapidity and comparative COM
fort. 1t is not, however, a pleasant trip
usually. All high sentiments seem to re-
tire deep within-to become latent in
word. while the common consciousness Is
that of viilainous nauseating sensations.
| can say the best things of the officers
and men through whose efforts our COM
fort and safety were secured. Courtesy
and even bcnevolence seemed to govern
their conduct. When, on Sunday, the
Captain read the service of the English
church. lust to know that the thing was
done. gave one new sense of the signiti-
canoe of a national worship. There were
persons of many nations and many-church-
es but here was the common prayer of
the English church, and the Captain prop
erly represented the majesty and faith of
England in the use of that beautiful rit-
ual
Saturday morning, the 18th day from
Boston, through the misty air the coast
of Ireland greeted us. Even the Alderney
COW on board showed tokens of special an
imation at the approach to land. began
to understand what Emerald Isle " sig
niiied, as the green ridges loomed up be-
fore us, greener as the light increased.
We passed Old Head of Kinsale Light,
which pretty soon gave way to the broad
davlioht. and after short run we, with 4
number oftellow-pasSengers, we had learn
ed to value, and an immense mail were
transferred to small steamer which took
us to Queenstown.
The officials of the Custom House were
not troublesome. We landed in quiet
RAIN. and waited about an hour for a train
to Cork. where we breakf;.Stch. A little
before noon we were on the train for Dub
lin. and teasting our eyes on the ample
and beautiful landscape Oh what fine
and beautiful country. Gently it rolls
away toward the distant hills, divided by
ridges. adorned with fair ranks of trees,
dotted here and there with family resi-
dences, and picturesque with towering rrl-
ins up which the ivy creeps, and around
whose existence cling those legends of long
AGO too uncertain and indefinite to be
: called history.
But this country, SO productive and
wholly under cultivation, does not seem
popuious. The little huts of the peasant
", with their matched roofs or covering
Of turf sometimes almost as green as the
ground, seem, indeed, to be parts of tho
glebe The pcasantry and the cattle seem
to belong alike to the fields-and alike
to exist not for themselves but for the
landlord; only the cattle are fattened and
killed, while the people 60 hungry Or emf
CRATE What will the end be?
We found our fellow-passengers very
kindly and ready to give us any informa-
ton we might desire. The people here
are very glad to have Americans come to
them; for usually they spend money free
, ly, "and that" as clergyman remarked
to me, sis what is wanted in Ireland
now" / think it is wanted everywhere
and always.
went this morning to St. Patrick's Ca
thedral, where would gladly have seen