The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-02-28

B. ia, Niagara, America, Canada a1d Flu
ropa. Then the third edition was launch
ed. The Asia, Africa and Arabia. All
the foregoing are wooden boats and side
wheelers. Then came the fourth edition
and the age of iron. The Persia and the
Scotia were put upon the race course -
Then came an iron screw-the Australian
and another the China, followed by
the last edition, the Cuba, Java ard
Russia, all iron boats. No passage yet
made under eight days Moody, how.
ever, ran from Halifax to Queenstown in
six days and iftetn hours in the Java,
but the Adria ic, an American boat, did
the distance from St. johns to Galway
in more than day less. What a world Of
history ?
Since Cunard launched the Britannia,
Dicken', quarter of century ago, was
a passenger, lauding at Boston. Since
| chriatened my native city BozTowN l
notice it has been widely copie@ How
times wipes men on the slate. Of the
fifty New Workers that invited Dickens
to the banquet thirty are dead.
Their sons are smaller in stature,
smaller in SOUL smaller in brains. Young
New York gives no promise as yet. Del
monico dinners, cigars, drinks and race
courses. But few of the old school
merchants in New York. How impa
ticntly l wait for Dickens new edition
of American Notes. Bon Gaultier's lines
are in my memory, and B. G. was a
friend of Dickens
Sneak across the wide Atlantic, worthless
Londons pulling child,
Better that the waves should bear thee than
the land thou hast reyiled;
Better in the sitting cabin, on the sofa thou
should'st lie,
Sickening as the fetid negro bears the beans
and bacon by.
Better than upon the Broadway, thou
| should'st be at MONDAY seen,
Sinking like Tracy Tupman, with a
Mantillini mien,
With rivulet Of satin falling DER thy puny
chest,
Worse than even N. P. Willis for an evening
party drest!
Twenty-seven years of voyages. Twen-
seven years of bridal parties, poker par
ties, champagne parties. Twenty seven
years of ocean friendships, acquaintance,
condolences, marrying and given in mar,
riage How many fortunes have been
changed by an ocean voyage. When
The Worlds one hundred thousand read.
ers see these lines let each recall his or
her first voyage DER the sea. Shipboard
is the place to read character. All there
is in man pops out when he is sea.sick.
Each Cunard captain has his favorites.-
Some like one, soma another. But all
have their history. The captains in the
olden time were kings in their way. But
the old stagers are nearly all gone. No
body bat the Commodore Judkns, and
Lott left. The one has crossed three
hundred times, the other three hundred
and fifty. Think Of it--all gone but
these two. Shannon, Harrison, Lang,
Ryle, Miller-all dead Poor Harrison
after making so many ocean voyages, goes
down in the harbor from sail boat bound
to the Great Eastern, All the others met
natural death. Anderson is now Sir
James, with his three thousand year for
laying the cable. Moody has married a
pretty Pittsfeld girl, and got a pretty
English baby, and gone into manufactur-
ing in Berkshire county, with Bartlett, of
Port Hudson fame Stone, the silent,
sometimes called the Grave Stone, a
prince of fellows, ought to have the Rus
STA, but Cook got her, and Stone, disgust
ed, has resigned. So none of all the old
chiefs remain but our old friends Judkins
and Lott Lott, who, they say, has worn
one pair of blue trousers for twenty years,
till lately he had them dyed black
Where are the old steamers +? The Cam
bria was sold for $4,000 to the Fenian
Garibaldi The original boats, when
used up for carrying mails, carried
freight from IIavre to Liverpool, and
when used up for freight were sold to the
Spanish government for transports
EaSaye lin size, one sees little change
When England gets 10 the rut of custom
tits difficult to get out. Twenty,seven
years ago they started, with candlesticks
and wax candles, and wax candles and
candlcsticks they have got now. Twenty
seven years ago they gave us stewed
prunes, and stewed prupes we had to-day -;
twenty seven years ago we started with
out napkins, and We have no napkins to
this hour tweuty,seven years ago the
Sons of Temperance went up to the lar
board side to get their grog and their
grog was given them this morning out of
the same lodle Boston crackers were
on the table in 1910, and Boston crackers
are spread before US in 1868. The same
bill of fare on board the first boat is used
on board the last. Englishmen never
change. How long have you teen wait
er, George, | asked at Fenton's in 81.
James street? "Sevonteen years, and my
father before me, sir, he responded with
an air of pride Twenty,seven years ago
the captains got G450 agar they get
the same now. The walters were then
paid three pounds nonth-that is all
they get now. The engineers 9200 then
the same now. The porquisitss are
not gold mines by any means. Even
Judkins only gets his dark staterooms,
and Il commission on specie never to ex.
coed thirty pounds but even now he
is gray they refuse him pension. Nc.
lver and Cuuard only exact a pound of