Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-07-24

Creeping up the 'lazy Scheldt" is rapid enough
with this tough little boat, the Pdqifo. Ia that
respect the adjective "lazy," Is misnomer. but
| the low banks that creep ont to us on either
| hand Al we go up from Flushing, give hints OF
| shadows and marshes at low tide. We go to the
Continent only half hopefully. Great Biitain
| through her people and her scenes welcomed us
/ 80 generously, that we doubt little il we will
| find such genuine pleasure any where else. To
go away from English speaking people. even
| though they do drop and add their his 30 curl
| ou-ly and 'whirr-r.r 80 roughly and un lecessa-
rily is trial, and then IN the breaking up Of our
/ own ponderous party, many pang was felt
| know for friendships and affections develop
| rapidly under circumstances OF such close pro-
| pirquty.
Some of us are in what ia called the "first sec.
| tion "and number ifty persons. There three
| other sections two Of which remain in London
for several days and then go to Paris and through
| Switzerland to Vienna. returning by the path
| we take. The remaining section which ia the
| third follows us this morning, abd will keep on
following but not ovsrtabing Us all the time of
our travel
At4 25 P. NJ. yesterday, we went out Of the
mennest depot in LoUdon the BIshopsgate and
rode very comfortable like Gagged animals. the
seventy miles between ii aud Harwich (Harrch
You must say) which has the finest harbOr on the
| eastern coast according to the Conduc or. Get
| ting on the smoky little steamer we were
| plOughiDg the German ocean for the eighty
| miles to Flushing oheersd on the way by an ex-
| ceent supper, beautiied by rare flowers, as all
| our meals have been
This love OF flowers among all classes, is GER
| tainly striking feature OF European eoclety
i rs much of 1t at least, as we have seen. VIM
| dow. gardens and pots filled almost every win
| dow OF the eight, ten and eleven stored houses
| in Edinbornugh. Botanic gardens, and crystal
| palaces OF flowers. and palm houses and fern
eTleB arc in every town, and are looked upon
| with just pride by the people, In Glasgow every
| one arked il YOU bal been to the Flower gar
Al IN.lD Il.
| beautiful. before they spoke of the ship-yards
| or the University. The latter. however. was a
conspicuous ornament Of the Park. and it's own
| yardr we're carefully and tastefuy cultivated
and seemed continuous with it. fern grotto
iii the Botanic gardens there, was the lovellest
piece OF nature IN art that have seen. II was
in Gasgow too, that we first learned to count
in English money, and such mistakes and awk-
ward calculations AZ we would make One just
holds her hand full of shilliug5 and hOrins out
and says, take and trusts; another reckons
crowns for pounds and gets hopalessly lost in
reducing TO dollars and cents. That by the way
is great bother and certainly useless to en-
deavOr to keep the relative values connected in
the mind. .s-gs
ty to forget for the time that there ever
were such convenient, light, easily managed
things as crisp new currency notes And to
think we will have to uulearn IL all,-this money
matter, and take lessons in uncountable curren-
cy in an unpronnuhceable tongue.
II had just walked up (Which havnt, for
these uaTrUw boxes called berths are not promo
tive OF late slesping,) | should know 1 was in
tue Netherlands or vicinity by the low, red
rooted villages with their sharp spires, aud the
great arms OF the wndmls beckoning to us
from the bas ks.
don't love the country though, as do Scot
land aud Ireland and even proud old England
felt thrill Of delight just to look on the lands
OF Scott aud Shakespeare and Burns.
The 4h OF July was spent in that fairest re-
gion, hAllowed by nature aud the song of Scott,
--tla lakaH of Scotland and lla TrOHAnh IeaVs
ing our " Hotel VtctTid finally, on that morn
ing. I've had still slept on the steamer though
taxing meals In the clty,) we took cars down the
CLYDE and past that noble castle OF Dunn )ai tNn
again, among the - braes of Balloch to the lit
tie town at the foot Of Loeb Llmond. Two Of
the party sang" Roy's Wife as We came along.
but whether We thought most OF the scenes OF
which they sang, or OF the sw ct voices at home
which we had been wont to hear, Is n question.
Loeb LomOnd scenery il too grand to be talked
about III commonplace style, aud was too much
aged with my breakfast on the boat to grow
herO,c, 10 you can go to Lake George and raise
the mountains twice az high. and crowd the lake
into half the width, and put in the msts and the
dak pines and ring /" Hail to the Chief" aud
OUe scott and his country and you will
something like Though you will not breathe the
air nur have the +" inner Consciousness" Then
at Iuversnaid right under the brow OF Ben Voir-
lich, shaded with mist you must take an outside
(for there is no other,) and crowd in, ten
aud twenty on a coach, aud CLIMB up through
aud qllet lakes see the heathcn aud the broom
aud Tie humble little shealings where the
shepherds live, and higher higher. always tower
lug upthe craggy heads OF the 'Bens This is a
pat Of the ROD Roy country and is wild enough
Tor his EXPLOITS low cottage, almost the only
one on the wa, is built oil the site OF Helen Mac
sregors home, surrounded by her " native
neaIhs." At StrJnaehlacher (cOal bins) we alight-
ed ut the head OF l. Ich ktiriue in lull view OF
Rob Roy island strongho d.
Down the Loch, and though the pass OF the
IrOsachs, we lived over again the sceues Of Fltz
James, and Ellen Douglas, mingling the ro-
nance of the poem wi II tue PATRIOTS II OF reality
shown in shouts for the Star Spangled BInuer,
which waved from every coach we met or passed..
IL was voy pleasing to notice the gradual change
from the widest uhinhAbite ed reg ions. to those at
hrst sparsely aud poorly settled, down to the
leVeler country rich iu farm laud5 aud villages.
Gallduder seemed a perfect jewel In vide rough
setting as We role down iutO it for dlnner.a goJ1
one too, aud then II hurried walk to the station,
and the first hot rids to Stirling
The thIckest of wiuter clothing had hitherto
been barely sufficient now We threw OF the
sha Is and coats and re- need in the SUMMER sun,
as We climbed the stone streets to the rocky pile
crowned by the castle, from which on every side
We had the grandest views that eye could rest
upon. The pump 1sity OF the whetzy EIghsh
guard whU guided lis to the Qleens is outlook, to
the Audience chamber of tho ancient Scottish
XII Igt, to the tcene Of Douglass murder, to
Knux's pulpit and communion table, to the arch
under which Rhodel ick Dhu was led aud various
other points Of interest in Scottish annals was
very amusing, showing III ught very nnwor-
thy sense OF properly Iu what did not rightfully
belong to hlm. Portraits OF the Siuarts IN their
hi Ih Tuffs aud pointed boards we're on the old
walls, and these, where worm eaten and mould.
cred, had BEEN re ,,aced by metal Castings III the
exact tigures OF the original wooden waluscot.
The ceiling Is the same as in tho time of Stir
lings glory, when it was the scat Of the Kings Of
Scotland,
Riding up over the Highlands, there were
| three mon in cur coach VINO did not belong to
''Pllgge's band !" on asking questions about
the locality we were surprised TO hear instead of
| broad Scotch the regular New York twang
staring rouud we said "why where did you come
| from, we thought that We monopollzed all the
| American society in this region 7" "On no,
| there are few more OF US LETT, ;, aud on farther
conversation found We had mutual acquaintan-
| ces, and mt reover that they we're QuaheIs.
They went on to Dundee however, aud we saw
| them no more after they left Stirring.
Coming down TO Edinburgh we had cars as
/ large and as elegant paror, some twenty
/ persons sat in one on cushioned seats, ranged
/ round the car Mrs. c. from Conn, brought
1 out some election cake made at home and CART
ed with her ali this distance, purposey to eat On
/ the 4th of July. 1t was broken among us anu
| eaten, with fond memories of home and cheers
| for our Independence day.
MIR. Pearoe of Kentucky made patriotic
speech AMI was loudly applauded, and we had
| altogether quite little festival on the road.
| vyhiTng aInuV aH I never did lint Onoe befOre on