Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-06-05


a Start-Heave-oh Sea- a-sickness Moth /
ing to Write-Future Letters.
My minister "a young gentleman we'll
known To many Ofyour readers) remarked
to me some time since, that he expected /
to see Europe from heaven, and would /
therefore save the trouble and expense ii /
would cost him to see it while in this I
world. | hope to get view of terra tirma I
from that elevated position, also, but wish
ing TO make IA closer inspection of some of
the objects which the old world contains
than bird d's-eye view" would permit, |
concluded to suffer the trouble and eX-
pense it would cost for the sake of the
qualification it would afford. According
ly, [ engaged passage on the steamship
Worcester OF the Baltimore and Liv-
erpool line, having for travelling compan- /
ions, Mr.. King and Mr. Hack, both Bal
timoreans like myself, the tirst-named Il /
special bearer of dispatches for our Gov
ernment On the afternoon of Wednesday.
May lst, we sent our baggage on board, /
and soon after, accompanied by our friends,
went on board ourselves. When the hour
for starting arrived, mutual haud-shak
ings and leaVe-takingS were hurried
through-the captain blew his whistle
some of our female friends blew their
nOSeS-bang went gun from the bow of
our VesSel-bang went another in answer
and down the Chesapeake we steamed,
with a spanking breeze to help us along.
As we proceeded down the bay the breeze
freshened into gale, and it was not long
until the vessel began to heave as if she
was struggling to break away from her
human masters, the sailors began to heaVe
at the ropes as If to re-asSert their mastery,
and the passengers began to heave over
board the contents OF their stomachs as
if they had never before cast up accounts
with old Neptune. BY the time we got
outside the Capes, your humble servant
was both Correspondent of the Gazette"
and Contributor to the .4tidHticn Have
you ever been sea-sick, Messrs. Editors?
If SO, | need not tell yOU what it is. But
many of your readers may never have
been on the mighty deep, and, consequent
ly, are ignorant Ofthc sensations produced
by this worst of all Diseases For their
benefit | transcribe a description of the
manner in which sea-sickness "takes
down. the loftiest and most pompous
character written by that illustrious fun
key, Mr.. Charles Gellowplush
"Gentle reader, ave you ever been on
the OtiOn ?-'The sea, the sea, the hopen
seal. as Barry Cromwell says. AS soon
as we entered our little vessel, and I'd
looked to masters luggitch and mine,
lmine was rapt up in very small hand
kercher,) as soon, | say, as we entered
our little vessel, as soon as / saw the
valves, black and frothy, like fresh-drawn
porter, a dashin against the rihbs of our
gallant bark, the keal, like wedge,
splittin the billoes in two, the sales "A flap
pin in the hair, the standard of Hengland
Il floating at the maSk-head. the steward
Il getting ready the basins and things, and
the captiug a proudly tredding the deck
and givin orders to the salers then, then
l felt for the first time, the mite, the mad
iisty of existence. 'Yellowp,ush, my
boy said l. liz dialog with myself your
lie Is now about to cOmmens; your career
aS a man dates from your entrans on board
this packit Be wise, be manly, be eau
tious; torgit the follcs of youth. You are
no longer a boy now, but a FOoTMAN.
Throw down your tops, your marbles,
your bOyiSh games; throw off your child
ish habits with your inky clerks iackit-,
throw up your" x Here,
| recllect, | was obleeged to stopp 4
fealin, in the first place singular, in the
next place painful, and at last completely
overpowerin, had came upon me while
was making the abutf speach, and [ now
found myself in a sityOuation which del
liXy forbids me to describe. Suf1is to say,
that l now discovered what basins were
made for, that for many, many hours /
lay i'll a hagOny of cXOStiOn, dead t. all
intence and pOrpuses, the rain patterin in
my face, the salers Il trampin@ over nay
body, and the panes of purgertory going
on inside ~
From the above you may get an idea Of
what your correspondent suffered during
the first few days after leaving dry land .
| am now well enough to pen this letter,
but still feel, in Il measure, the ''eXOstioun I.
produced by the loss Of all the meals |
had eaten for week previous tocmbark
ing on this trip. As there is nothing in
sight but the broad eXpamse of waters
around me, and the blue dome Of heaven
above me, | can write but little just now
| will close this letter by telling your
readers what they need not expect from
me when L do see something 10 write
about. ! shall not undertake to describe
foreign scenes as | have seen them de-
scr,bed by tourists who have preceded
me. | shall not write of the green fields .
of merry England, the sunny hills of
France, the glowing skies of Italy, the
beauties of the Rhine, or the gorgeous
scenery of Switzerland-not a gorge. {.
shall simply tell of matters of fact, lot
ting down whatever strikes my fancy, .
and think will interest the readers of a
weekly newspaper. And now, hoping
this may find you and your numerous
newspaper family enjoying better health
than | do at present, [ will fold up this
Introductory epistle, and mail it to you at
the earliest opportunity.
Yours, HANS. (