The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-01-11
LETTER FROM LONDON.
Interesting Account by Resident of
wheeling or a Trip Across the
AtIantie-Scenes and Incidents of
the Voyage.
IoSnoN December % 1879
Editors of the Register:

LONDON, December "A, 1870.
Editors of the Register:
In response to your request 1 begin
frs. of few occasional letters during my
short vacation in Europe. 1t is needless
to describe the journey to New York,
and | will therefore start from the In
man Company's pier in the Getty of
Berlin" on the afternoon of December
llth, few minutes after their appointed
time.
Our ship, next in length to the Great
Eastern, left the Earbor in splendid
style, the Adriatic pointing up the stream
as far as we could see her,
unable, owing to the current, to
turn round and proceed with
US; frequent occurrence with such long
vessels. For great distance the new
postotfice, Tribune, Western Union,
New York Post, Equitable Assurance
and other buildings adjacent, lowered
up above everything else, the highest
group of civil buildings in the world;
and it is not little significant that those
building are used for the diffusion of in
telligence, and amelioration of suffering,
their existence being possible only under
high state of civilization and general
culture.
There were a large number Of pas
sengers on board, most Of them
returning to England to cele-
brate the festival most dear to the
British heart, Christmas; a few coming
from the other side of the world for that
purpose.
There were Lot many Americans with
US, and they were going abroad mainly
for their health. One OF the most in
telligent gentlemen on board was an
English capitalist, returning from few
months iourneying through the States,
where he had been to see, Tor himself the
cause of the decline In trade between the
countries, and the chances for investment
in connection with the iron trade. He
had travelled through Pennsylvania,
Ohio Tennessee Alabama, Georgia and
Missouri, and was very careful, unpre-
JUDGED, and observant traveller; strongly
impressed with the Immense unlversalre-
sources ofthe States through which he had
passed, particularly Tennessee. de had
seen a model of the Haddock patent self
feeding nail machine, and had u photo
graph with statement of advantages
gained by Its use to show some OF his
friends interested in such matters; he
expects to return next spring, when we
may have him in Wheeling, We had
An extremely pleasant voyage; the Ocean
was not very rough for the time OF year,
and we only shipped one sea that dis
turbed us much, which, coming down
the companion way and through the
skvlisht of the saloon, at the close of
dinner one day, prevented some of the
passengers staying for dessert, and sent
one poor lady into Mysteries.
We arrived in the Mcrsey early
on Dececember 10Th, but owing
to the tide, and Custom House
examination, did not land until
the evening. | wish it were possible for
me to give your readers an adequate
idea of the dock accommodations OF Liver
pool, but can only state that they ex-
tend for many miles on both sides Of the
river.
The torn of Liverpool for it requires
cathedral and Episcopal See to con-
,stitute cityl is by no means clean
one. The greater part of the buildings
are old and low, but there are a few good
works of recent erection, tally st.
Georges Hall, the finest classical build
ing in the Kingdom, and the Lime
Street Hotel of the London and North
western Railroad, the largest rail-
road in the country. England, even
at this time of year, looks
like a garden; the fields are small, divid.
ed bv neat well trimmcd hedges,and trees
left growing in almost all OF them, but
so as to not impede blowing.
Quaint little villages, neat villas,
smoky towns, and asylums for the young,
the sick and the aged. meet the eye con-
s,antly rs We fly through the country at
fifty miles an hour, and soon we arrive
at Easton square and pass out by gates
which appear more like an entrance To a
park rather than railroad
depot. A great many changes
have taken place since l was
here last, and all of them, apparently,
are decided improvements, but | must
leave AN account of some of them for
another letter.
With the compliments of the season
to yourselves and readers, L remain,
Yours. Ike, j. =. +.