Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-08-17
FROM THE OLD WORLD.
From New York to Hanover---A Pleasant
Sail Over the ssas---Germany as Seen
Through Wilmingtonisn's Eyes.
peeisl UorrespOudeucs Of EvERy EvISlso. J
NTEAMNNIF UEVTHUHLANDs
NRw YORK HARBOR, July ID, 1872.


NRw YORK HARBoR, July I'd, 1879. !
Dear Readers II wish You were here
you would he interested in the scene before
me. The better side of human nature re-
vcals itself in the thrOng that gathers on
board a departing European steamer and
! would not like to trust the man who
could iuok upon IL unmoved. tits scene
ct parting whose Incidents belong TO the
sacred retirement of home, and upon
which no stranger could gaze with rude
ness.
But the signal of departure has sounded.
Husbands aud wives, mothers and chill
dren, sweet learts and lovers must part,
aud now rs the last strong line that binds
US to the new world is lOosened and the
great ship moves, the scene that was Just l
nov one of suppressed emotion, suddenly |
hurst into wild enthusiasm as the hun
drcds On the deck and the hundreds upon |
the pier shout aud wave their last adhus, |
until the inspiring strains of the band on |
board have drowned the defiant murmur
that Is still waited toward us from the
shore.
Tue ship rounds proudly out and bears
away upon her course and thus Adleu,
my native land Adieu, fair Wilmington.
What now Of life so suddenly narrowed
from the freedom of broad and bouute
Gus land 10 an Isolated speck upon the
great watrrsi Our ships the iron mall
: came Deufschldnd, Of the line known as
tire Nur,h German Lloyd, whose vessels
have their points Of departure In America
tom New York, Baltimore and New Or
cans. thence to Bremen touching at
Southampton.
BluR fairly We winds kiss gently ye
waves, the good steamer Deutschland
she hears four hundred souls, with all
heir joys and SORROWS, with all their
hopes aud fears, bet We, tue broad, blue
| sky and the broad, blue sea AID now sue
is on, ON the rolling deep rocking, rock.
| ne, rocking, and the Wind is sighing a
gulle lullaby through the rigging, but
| with all the rocking and the signing, some
ut M are sadly ont Of tune lying about
| ungncciuIly upon the deck, OF leaning in
/ peculiar attitudes over the side Of our sea-
| grit cradle. How charming the scenes OF
| childhood thus revived How appropriate
| To our circumstances Is good MIR. Shakes
/ pears description of "thc first stage of
man -
| THURSDAY, July tlth.-Wc have crossed
the Atlantic most prOsperously and are
now gliding along the very calm surface
OF the German ocean which at other sea
sons Of the year is subject to the most
dangerous storms. Yesterday We enioyed
a variety of attractive scenery while skirt
ing the southern coast Of England cs-
pocially while passing between the heauti-
| ful Isle of Wight and the main land
| where we anchored for an hour of south.
amptun to land passengers for France and
| England. Our voyage has been a very
pleasant one and the gradual assimilation
shat results from contact has given tenn
| pornry unity to the diverse material OF
| which our little floating world Il com.
posed. We are German, American, Eng.
fish, italian. Danish and French Catholic
and Protestant Christieu, intdel and
jew, bnt meeting upon the ground OF q
common humanity, we anticipate, in oul
community, the destined harmony Of The
race.
The Germans, of whom our passenger
i,t is chiefly composed are mostly upon
. | visit to the Fa,hcrand and Il Is touchinI
, TO observe the allyrtion with which the
speak Of the AT old home To which afle
1 long years Of absence they are returning
| l was Just now talking 10 a laboring mai
whose patient interest has secured for hin
home in the New World. 81 AIN twenty
q six years in America now ! 20 back 1
II see my Old mother once more, thought
would gOnrXt wear, then think may h
hpforc that time she ~ head 30 lust =
now, It's a Ions lime since left, CUES
l. she won't know me any murc," His fa
c turc, suddenly relaxed and his heart nvel
N tlowod, but he did not seem ashamed
the tears thai rau down his weather b owl
ed face. II is OF this sturdy true hcnrir
l. Glars that The greater pr, of the ptrsel
" German cinig alton 10 Amrrita {. cOmpo
, cl and tue iart that Il is sic,di!y incTru
iug promises well tor the future unr cOul
Do try. May II ppsscsr the gtcaL west In ~
vance Hess desirable RACES. WceVpcci
I'd reach Bremen, tomorrow aud if the nov
SCENES of German life present any hin
likely 10 inter. ST you viii wri e otcasio
81 allv.
MT HANOVER, July, lS.--Wc landed 1T Br,
On menhavcn, theport Of Bremen, IN the r.
-, after ddclightfl voyage ut ~ DAYS then
by Iail 10 Bremen, a dir auce ui : Germi
W or about 80 English miles, How keen
Is does q person stepping upon a foreil
- shore, look about L. note every peculiar
"a, | ty Of the slrangr land and people, whii
he has SO suddenly exchanged for the (
miliar scenes of his native home He
likely To Judge ut the climate, soil al
other natural features with impartialii
hut he will find il much more difficult
look kindly and without prejudice al {
/ bAINuEt liltuNtlH ana tuhtOlllN OF lif II
1er pie, especially If difference Of lanCua
az tOrhids that form Of intercourse viii
alone can draw men as friends and
li- workers.
rr- We read Of foreign nations with inter,
my and freely commend their many eXcele
q cies, hut here, most emphatically, cd
hu tauee lends enchaniment to the view
lu when We are set down among a peOl
tea whom as whole we have been acoustic
MS ed to admire, We are exceedingly prone
Tbs turn up our PhaIisaic noses and say,
almost everything We see, "Ah, We
mas things better in our country" The tray
-cs, lcr who goes abroad in Ills spirit, will
ted turn not with the gathered treasures
led wisdom and exp riCnre hut empty haudl
AZ poorer and more selfish than when he
ing parted. | trust J may guard, in So
y a measure, against this almost uniycr
ers tendency, being resolved to look a WI
er | upon the hgtier side Of things first, and
the moderate every harsh judgement viii
thought Of the common brotherhood
MIS-. men.
ex My fret expert nee upon landing he
nam WAS in the inodiilca tlOn Of an old pre-
4 of dice ] have been accustomed al MY
.nse tn the denunCiatiun of fashion as hea
ul, less tyrant, aud have always sympthii
mid with thOsr Who rrhrllrd against It's
ncr thOrity, bat rs ! looked At the era
4 il gathered uiOn the wharf, | observed d
inn. the style of dcss was almOst id,
: 10 with that of Americans Il struck
yer. with surprise, for had not before r,
k of lied how absolutely the fashiOn-monr
linz Of Paris rule over the civilized world. a
ID then ., cognilud for the first time. n
of services to mankind. Uniformity in
not trrnal nppc ,rance is an essential cundit
tion of hrOthcrlv sympathy among the mas
Two of men. 1t is a well-knOwn fact That
is a great army can be kept together with
A /. uniform, and the same principal amp
that in all our social ruahOns Assimiiat
my m dress j. the first step toward that q
nirc plr'c unity of the nations which com
and ages may posssibly real &c. So much
the fashion. II has liz mission
y to The nest fact which | noticed was
Z TO scarcity OF new papers With what cnl
rcat ness would three or fur hundred maj
this Aincricans, landing in New York at,
= 10y two weeks voyage, have euquired for
cral latest pap Is, aud how PROMPTLY wu
ID is that peculiarly American institution,
No. newshoy, have supplied them. But
not see single copy Of a newsp,
while waiting three hOnls at Bremerha
Tor the tri', although the village dire,
across Tie RIVER ntains . population
on 5000. and the city Of B'emrn il but
ike, miles OIL. The iasengers We're gathe
Va. in " large r. cniiion hall where they
over ioNe1 tArin-rlv h that highly sOcia' M