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Show That the prefenco of twenty-four "Mormon" elders on board the ship would soon attract the c uriosity of some of our fellow travelers, we expected as a matter of course; and it was not long before a minister of tho Methodist Method-ist Church requested an interview with your humble servant, which was participated par-ticipated in by several other gentlemen of the first cabin. It would be perfectly superfluous to recapitulate here all the various topics discussed, as they are familiar to every elder of any experience, experi-ence, but my arguments and ideas appeared ap-peared to my interrogators of fcuch novelty novel-ty that, at their particular request, the (list lntti view was soon followed by i many more, each one occupying sometimes some-times several hur?;on allot' these oceas-j oceas-j ions, however, these Grangers riever violated vio-lated the respect which one gentleman I owes another, nor made nny remarks in J the lenst indicative of animosity n gainst our principles, polygamy excepted, up. on which latter, beyond my testimony to its divine origin, 1 had declined on the 6tart any discussion , as I had been ent to preach the first principles of the Gospel, which instruction I calculated to adhere to until otherwise directed. jTbc.-e gentlemen went even so far as to request the captain to give us permis-Ision permis-Ision for holding a meeting on deck, is which, at the close, the reverend gentle-jman gentle-jman addressed the brethren jn words that not very often may have been spoken spo-ken by a Methodist minister to a"Mor-' a"Mor-' mon"congregatiou,and which did honor to his heart and principles as a man. I If the beginning of our voyage presented pre-sented us with all the indications of a I pleasure trip, we were destined, never-Uheless, never-Uheless, to experience rough weather almost all the way through; and the usual cold spell and stormy weather near the banks of Newfoundland put on extra airs at the occasion of our ap-; ap-; proach. Rut, to complain of the inconvenience incon-venience of a voyage across the sea now that you can do it in a steamer in about two weeks, instead of, as formerly, in a sailing vessel being obliged to endure it for nearly three times as long, vouId be unjustifiable even in a steerage passenger, with ship-crackers for supper every day, and hard dumplings dump-lings for dinner three times a week. Every journey leads, finally, somewhere; some-where; and so did ours. We arrived at Liverpool, being welcomed on board by President Franklin I). IT!'-htrds and Bros. Preston and Penrose. Tims ends our voyage across the sea, and its description, des-cription, and the material for my next communication lies before me:"Througli England." Karl G. Maeskr. tf'orvejspcmilcnrr. . j From Our Fun ijn Cvrrcxpondcnt. FROM TIIK KOOKY MOUNTAINS TO THE ALPS. j ACROSS THE SEA. The good English steamer 'Manhattan" 'Manhat-tan" was the vessel that took some of usTraveling Elders across the sea. If some of those who went down upon the sea the first timJ may have realized an uncomfortable feeling in the beginning, it wore oil" when the beautiful summer afternoon unfolded to us the magniii-centseeuery magniii-centseeuery of New York harbor, which gradually receding and sinking down into the immense expanse of water, , presented solovelv an asnect that everv- i IIerIs'AU, Cant. Appenzall, 1 ; October L's, 1VJ7. J , . body cheerfully accepted it as a good ' omen of a prosperous journey. ; BepubJicanism, democracy and all ' the principles of the modern school of, politicians are ji'v.t (y on board a ship. ! There it lias been foun.d expedient to 1 retain the old monarchical system, 1 without even any of those constitutional constitution-al modifications that have been the yeast in the political bread-baking of Lurojie for the last century. Even the society on board has its distinct caate ' inasmuch as the captain and officers' only u-srviate with the first cabin pas-1 -wngers, as the aristocracy of the little1 Kingdom; while the steerage passen-, Eers, as the plebeians, are left to the care ' ot under stewards, whose attentions are ! in exact i roportion to the little considerations consid-erations you may feel inclined or able to bestow from time to time. The crew ! contained as beautiful specimens of the ?emw "rufllan" as the most fastidious1 forlr ofIvater could have wished; A great portion of the other steerage passengers being from the Green Iie, ! returning thither under various pre-, tenses, we soon found out some real live fenian3 who seemed willing to go the, l?nStu for the redemption of Ire-w Ire-w t owt sir' itasi'otthofirsttime' ati met champions of independence; fnQtf, revolution, having done something n i that line myself once; but I always ami k'e "nder the impression that in hrtt ai ai.r? Uot on,y muscle but also a ldes a Plan for tearing down Ift?r f ! a9 .ne for builJiK UP again, and " calculations for success in fight imiui6 of plated peace-are auispensable requisites of a revolution; n mi?Wevcr' 1 observed of the second of the f,Lrfposition nothing at all, and enSwK 0Dvery little tojustify any tm Sfma,MWse in such an en-' fnref n and bU,y 8hor rise up be-the be-the ttn urging from the desert of should '".u.and such a country PeS!in,hRbUed l,y a freaaud pros-SSS pros-SSS wh&' t9 U once hasleen. lxe sent co h h.ave Produced the pre-' pre-' quKr1!.0' Ils iabitants would to Vpafe re llme t0 discuss than I have |
