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Our Foreign Letter.
STEAMSHIP W YOMINC,
OF QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND,
January 9jth. 1873.

STEAMSHIP WYOMING,
OF QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND,
January 18th. 1873
Dear Free Press
We left New York on the afternoon of
january 18th with the thermometer at zero.
When we were out upon the Atlantic a
DAYS sail from land the thermometer stood
at Is above zero and has continued at about
that figure ever since. The weather has
been far and generally the sky clear, and
we have had no gales This will show to
those who think January very bad month
in which to cross the Atlantic, that they
are not always correct. This Is one Of the
finest steamships a1oat. 1t is of 1000 tons
burden and has all modern Improvements.
1t, cabins and staterooms. are on the deck,
which is great improvement over the old
method of having them below deck
Our Captain is that gallant old sailor,
James NJ. Price. who has twice been hon
ored with medals for saving human lives at
sea and ON the coast. He has followed the
sea since he was a small boy He is now
about sixty, but hale, hearty and vigorous
a young man He drinks no alcoholic
liquors, nor does he use tobacco in any
form. Huge Of stature and brawny of
limb he moves abont among the passenger,
and crew with something Of the look and
manner that we may suppose old Neptune
had. For more than forty-eight years he
has plOwed the sea. successful and fortunate
because competent, temperate and yigilant.
All honor to hun a. a sailor and man
Our passengers are few. but make up for
numbers by increased i0llity. We have Mr..
andIMrs. Prentice Of New York, with their
two little boys. Mr.. Prentice is one of the
largest importers Of French plate glass aud
English lead in America. He goes out to
Belgium TO arrange contracts with manu-
factories Of French plate glass
Then we have Mr.. Fred. Blossom of the
firm Of Blossom * Hayne, importers Of
naval stores, with him Is his young bride.
formerly Miss Sadie Hill. daughter Of Judge
Hill of the law firm Of Hill X Courtney, \.
Y. With them Is n sister of the bride.
beautiful blonde. Mr. Mckenzie of Ohio,
and Mr.. Wood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
make up the list. The ladies have been
troubled with seascknes,, but all
the gentlemen have remained well.
The only thing tending to mar our pleas |
ure Is the ungenerous treatment that some
Of the officers sand engineers bestow upon
the ship surgeon. He i young English !
man Of good family, fine education well |
read in his profession, courteous to all, gen |
-lemanly in his department upon every oc-
aston and possessed of true manliness. He |
is unused to the sea and has been very sick, |
but has kept about and attended to his du-
les. To annoy him and as "joke on
MIN, according to their idea of Joke,
hese - old shell-backs' have thrown his
zap overheard, broken his eye glasses. taken
fl his shoe heels, mixed his medicine and
umbled him about, seemingly accidentally.
N every convenient occasion. However, |
'redict that he will live through it and rise
o be man Of wealth. standing and inAu
nee when these fellows have oiled their en-
ines for final cruise
We shall land in Liverpool tomorrow,
aying made our passage in ten DAYS and
even hours. Yours.
TRAXUS