The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-26

these packets and ours is that there Is so much
OF them out of the water, the main.deck being
enclosed on all sidee, and filed with casks and
goods, like any second or third floor in a stack
OF warehouses, and the promenade or hurricane
deck being atop of that again. A part of the
machinery is always above this deck where the
connectlngrod, in strong and lofty frame, is
seen working away like an iron top-sawyer
There is seldom any mast or tackle; nothing
aloft but two tall black chimneys. The
man at the helm is shut up in little house in
the forepa1t of the boat (the wheel being
connected with the rudder by iron chains
working the whole length of the deck, and
the passengers, unless the weather be very
hne Indeed, usually congregate below. Directly
they have left the wharf, all the Lille, and stir,
and hustle of packet cease. You wonder for
q long time how she goes on, for there seems
TO be nobody in charge of her; and when
another OF these dull machines comes splashng
by, you feel quite indignant with 1t as sullen,
cumbrous, ungraceful, unshplike leviathan
quite forgetting that the vessel you are on
board of is its very counterpart.
There is always clerks Office on the lower
deck, where you pay your fare; ladies' cabin,
baggage, and stowage rooms, engineers room,
and in short, a great variety of perplexites
which render the discovery of the gentlemens
cabin matter of some difficulty. 1t often occu-
pies the whole length of the boat as 1t did in this
case), and has three or four tiers ofberths in each
side. When l first descended into the cabin of
the New York, il looked in my unaccustomed
eyes, about as long as the Burlington Arcade.
The Sound which has to be crossed on
this passage is not always a very safe or
pleasant navigation, and has been the scene
OF some unfortunate accidents. 1t was a
wet morning, and very misty, and we soon
lost sight of land. The day was calm how
ever, aud frightened towards noon. After
exhausting with good help from a friend)
the larder and the stock OF bottled beer, |
lay down to sleep, being very much tired
with the fatigues Of yesterday. But
awoke from my nap In time to hurry up
and see He'll Gate, the Hogs Back, The
win Do o1,A nf fhnr nfO loo
attractive to all readers of famous "Dedrich
kuickerbocker's History We were nov in a
narrow channel, with sloping banks on either
side bespIinkled with splendid villas, and made
refreshing to the sight by turf and trees. Soon
we shot in quick succession past lighthouse,
mad-house (how the lunatics flung up their
caps and roared in sympathy with the headloLg
engine and the driving tideD, jail, and other
whose waters spaTkled in the now cloudless
sunshine, like Natures eyes turned up to
Heavelh - lsz ~ E9alll asEE Viz
Then there lay stretched out before us to the
right confused heaps of buildings, with here
and there o spire or steeple looking down upon
the herd below; and here and there again
cloud OF lazy smoke and. in, the
foreground a forest of ships masts, CHEEKY
with Tapping sails and waving flags.
Crossing from among them to the opposite
shore were steam ferry-boats, laden with people,
coaches coaches, M horses wagons: baskets, boxes;
travelling to and fro, and never idle. Stately
among these restless insects were two or three
large ships, moving with slow majestic pace, as
creatures of prouder kind, dsdainful of their
puny journeys, and making for the broad sea-
Beyond were shining heights, and islands in
the glancing river, and distance scarcely less
blue and bright than the sky it seemed to meet
The city's hum and buzz, the clinking of cap
stans, the ringing of bells the barking of dogs
the gathering of wheels, tingled IN the listening
ear. All of which life and stir, coming across
the stirring water, caught new life and anima-
IN mi h1rN A,,1o IN
ing with its buoyant spirits, ghstened as it
seemed, in sport upon its surface, and hemmed
The vessel round, and FLASHED the water high
about her sides, and, floating her gallantly into
the dock, flew off again to welcome other
comers and speed before them to the busy port
ITO be contlnaed.1