Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-07-31
Bdlnboro' Peop'e.

A sTEp BACK TO THE SCOTTISH oAPTTAL-AT THE
FRIENDS MEETINa-soME OF THE ACTIVE BRIT
IeH woMEN-THE BANQUET AT DEhBY-A COM
PARInoN OF FARE.
From he Commercials Special Corresp pondent.
COLOGNE, Seventh Month 18th.
will YOU 20 back with US a week, and return
to that most interesting OF cities, noble old Edin-
burgh?
How sweet are peace and calm, after tumult
So we found them on First-day morning last, in
that region OF the Old Town called the Pleas
aunce where, following up the clean, ,hard-paved
streets, we came to the UNCOVERED stonesmeet-
ing house of the Friends, and went in and sat
down among them in the sweet silence. Not
more than forty persons were present Young.
vgorous-ooking men, and one or two noble,
gray.haired patTiarchs with sweet-yoiced wo-
men in pretty dress, but not the style that our
Friends at home wear.
prayer and three short sermons were given,
in which the coming of strange faces among
them WAS alluded to, and feeling that though
outwRrdly unknown to each other, yet that we
all must be looking to the same fount or we
would not be met together, and therefore, that
there was fellowship between us.
After very long meeting, we arose and tho
friends came and spoke to us in the kindest and
most sincere manner, and we told them no"
their greeting and sympathy were like the voice
of pleasant waters i'll desert land ana they
asked us home to dinner and to tea, and intro
duced US to each other, and we did the same aud
when they found we came from WIlmlngton.you
J should have seen the mild eyes OF dear Jane
. Wigham brighten, as she said, "then you knew
| dear Thomas Garrett. We we're in c1rrespon-
dence with him for thirty years. and we nave MS
photograph at our house do not know wheth-
er that did not influence us to accept the invita-
| ton to tea for that evening for we went, and
never were strangers met with greater hospital
| ty. We could not got seated in the comfortable,
| really elegant library there were 10 many ques-
/ tions TO ask and answer, 80 many pictures, BOOKS
and relics to examine, and the two women, Jane
| and her daughter Eliza who is leading wo-
man in all the benevolent enterprises in the city,
30 we found Afterward, were 30 charming in their
conversation that We lived long time in the
| hurried hours we spent there. Then their Scot
| tish tea of sweet cakes in great variety, and
/ bread and butter ready spread in delicate thin
Slices and the tall kissing urn, aud teapot COW
| cred with an embroidered cap. 1t was half-past
pine when we sat down to tea, and there was no
| gas lighted
They talked in the most familiar man
| ner OF Americans, and spoke the names we
| love to hear, with reverence and the Kind
liest feeling. William Lloyd Garrison, WEI :
dell Phihips Samuel j.. May, Frederick
| Douglass and many others have all been well
come guests at their houses and their pictures and
host OF others that we have seen and know were
in their albums or hung upon their walls. FRIEND
| Garrett was brought out and mado one OF us /;
how natural looked his face, aud uudermark-
| ed in small gilt letters "E. Garrett, Photo
grapher" They could tell us stories OF him that
| we had never heard. Eliza is much Interested
in the elevation of woman she told with much
pride of the efforts made year ago, in which
| she took a prominent part, by which Phebe
Wynd and Flora Stevenson, two excellent and
competent women, were placed on the school di-
| recors ticket for the city of Il linbCr and nere
elected, running far ahead Of their ticket. Eliz-
abeth Nicole friend We met at meeting was
elected at the same time, director of parish
school,
She considered it great triumph, and we
thought 30 too (; not many cities IN America
would do so much our favorite, DIR. Donaldson
who gave us such beautiful welcome the even
ing before, and whose speech is very correctly
| given in the "Review" sent to Wilmington, helped
very materially in the matter, His interests
were enlisted and he is man who, "knowlng
the right dares defend it." We had another
| pleasant call not far from Jane Wighams, that
some of you may be interested in hearing Of
At Newington House, one of the handsomest
| residences OF Edinburgh, lives Duncan McLa-
rem, the NJ. p. for that city. His wife is the
sister of John Bright, and the cousin of dear
| friends in Wilmington, through whose Kindness
we had the direction, and by whose invitation
we called. The host and hostess were IN Lon
don, but we were graciously received by the
| son, who was kind enough to give us the Lon
! don address, and to entertain us very happily
| for some time.
The house aud grounds have much the appear
| ance that should judge tine English mansion
to have they were certainly beautiful and ele
giant.
These pleasant little episodes with some otheri
of like character make us remember Endinburgf
/ with delight You should have seen the noble
, looking Highlanders in their picturesque dress
playing the bagpipes at the Reception ON 7th da,
! evening eye and ear were both feasted, an6
/ will long retain the impression. Then the warm
hearty reception that we got there, and in Ire
land foo,it is enough to stir'the blood in a mum
!. my. Not that there is any particular aptnesl
in that comparison, only that we are nearly a
/ black as mummies and the cutiGle has peeled of
8 | largely too, after the sea voyage.
a We went to Melrose after Edinburgh and on
' of the tall men, when he get there, said to tn
guide in pompous tone, " Well. what building
Q is this Sr?" I" Which Sir ?" why this one,
+ {" Why Sir this is the Abbey y in great astonish
d ment and the tall one raised his glass an
/ squinted through it, and said 'Ah and for what i
u it noted 2" did not hear the guides reply. but
IS fear it would not do to put down Some of the pal
ty we're curious to find the oldest grave stone, an
e went peering and scratching among the moss,
d grey stones forgot what they found, som'
g. thing very old though. Eevery blade OF graf
d and leaf near the spot where the heart of Brno
10 is said to be buried, was plucked, there wss'r