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and a wash-table. In this cabin there are ten of these state-rooms, 
five on each side, and, besides, near the windows in the stern of 
the ship, there are two state-rooms having but one bed, so that 
twenty-two gentlemen may be accommodated. The mizen-mast 
passes through the cabin and table. The cabin is lighted partly 
by the windows in the stern and partly by a large skylight; the 
state-rooms receive their light by patent deck-lights. There is 
another room in front of the dining room, for the ladies, near the 
mainmast, where the motion of the vessel is the least felt; on each 
side of their room, are two state-rooms, for eight ladies. The sides of 
the dining room and ladies cabin are of mahogany and curled ma¬ 
ple, with elegant looking-glasses. In the Pacific, between every 
two state-rooms there are columns of white marble. All the set¬ 
tees are of mahogany covered with black horse hair cushions, and 
the floors of both cabins are richly carpeted. The stairs which 
lead into the dining room, are likewise of mahogany and covered 
by a shelter, under which sea-sick passengers may sit on benches. 
There is likewise a roof over the poop, where passengers may 
walk and be sheltered from the rain and sun. The passage from 
New York to Liverpool costs but thirty guineas, for which price 
passengers are perfectly accommodated. Each packet is of about 
five hundred tons, and they sometimes make the passage in se¬ 
venteen days. On the 1st and 16th of each month, one of the eight 
vessels of this line leaves New York for Liverpool, and on the 
same day another leaves Liverpool for New York. 
On the first Sunday of my stay in New York, I visited the new 
Lutheran church, with the consul, Mr. Zimmerman. The service 
was in English, because there are at New York but few descend¬ 
ants of German parents who understand the German language. 
Dr. Schaeffer preached: he is a native of Philadelphia, and the 
son of a German clergyman; his sermon was good and not too 
long, but after the sermon came a lamentation upon the miserable 
state of the church funds, which was not particularly edifying. 
There appeared to be a deficit of eighteen thousand dollars, which 
the consistory tried to make up by subscription, to which the 
congregation was invited to contribute. Dr. Schaeffer’s con¬ 
gregation formerly belonged to an older Lutheran church, still 
existing in this city, but they parted from the latter and establish- 
ed a new church, though rather in too extravagant a style, as their 
expenses were disproportioned to their income. The minister 
besides complained of his own small salary, and implied that an 
augmentation would not be unpleasant to him, as he stood in need 
of it. 
It is a difficult matter to ride in a carriage through the streets 
on Sunday, because there are chains stretched across in front of 
