Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1873, Page 10

CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNI "SATURDAY, DECEMBER.: 13, 1873--SUPPLEMEN 2 — — SWITZERLAND. Chamourix «~- Mont Blanc --- Coloridge’s Hymne-~The Mer de Glace. The Simplon and the Hospice of St. Bornard. Correspondence of 'The Clifeago T'ribune, Tann Mavotons, Italy, Ost, 15, 1873, On tho 20th of Soptombaor, with nn Eplecopnl olergyman, whose wife is the daughior of one of Ohicago's oldest citizons aud enrly settlors, wo startad from Lausanne for Chamounix. Wo had ‘beon waiting several days for fine weathior, and, aftor the storm which delayed us, wo were blesred with a week of absolutely cloudless weaih- er,—doys as charming as ono of our brightaat, cloarest days at home in Octolor; and I am £ure no country in the world can bosst of flner days than thoso of onr American antumn. Wo stopped the firat night opposito the Gorge de Triont, to visit this gorge and tho FALLS OF BALLENCHE, The falls ore bLonutitu), but the gorgs is o wonder. A rapid mountain-torrent rushes through a high mountain. Tho granite rocks, by some tromendous convulaion of Nature, have boon torn asuvder from bake to snmmib, and tho stronm comes rushing, fonming, ronring, over its rugged pathway, creating rap- \ds, falls, and cascados of every vorloty of form. This stream is at tho bottora of & doop ohnem; 50 doep that tho rays of the sun novor find their way to tho bottom; and ths chaam, or gorge, is only wido enough for tho stream. Over tha stream, and far above it, aud yet hundreds, and in somo places thousnnds, of feot down in the chaem, has beon suspended, by wires, fast- ened Into tho rooks, & foot-bridge, or mcaffold- ing, slong which you walk for n half-mila into tho heart of the mountain, stoadying yourself with your hands against tho rocks, snmotimes ou one ¢fde and sometimes on the other. From this bridge thus suspended, you look down to the torrout, and up, far up, to the sky, whon tho rocks do not meat over your hvad and shut out the light. ‘Ilie next morning wo started for Chamounix Dby way of Martigny and tho Toto Noir. After louving the path that leada to tho Great St, Bor- vard, wo commoncod rapidly to ascond, and spent six or cight hours in elimbing, by zigzag paths, ono mountain pass aftor anothor, until wo ronchod nud passed around tho Tate Noir, ond then JONT DLANO, with all his majoesty, burst upon us, and, for tho last four howrs of our journey, he towered up ‘efore ug, without a cloud, or oven a wisp of vapor, to interrupt our view. Thoro ho stood for hours, with his majestto dome covered with the oterual enow, catting tho clear blue sky ag sharply s tho white sails of o ship, whon tha sun sbinos full upouit. To tho right roso the slnrp and pointed pinnacles of tho Aiguillos Rouges ; and the roasy light on thoso naked granite needles, that literally plerced tho sky, suggested thoir name. Amid sconos of un- squaled majesty and grandeur, wo passcd on towards Mont Blane, but wo nover scemed to wpproach anmy nearer to it. Tho valloys wera somotimes as wild, dreary, and sombro 1 the dark sbadows of unclad rocke vising thousands of feet on each side 2 our path and mouutain torrents muebing down their sides could render thom; and at_others theio would be a green valloy, with fruit-trees and vines on its suuny side, 3wiss coltages, the swect emell of now-mown aay, and the gantlo Linkling of bells on the cows and gonts, a8 the animais cropped the rich graxs along the Lill-side, No\vnmrlhml wecould uoar THE ALTINE TORN echoing up the valleys, as the herdsman signaled ais herd or his nseociates, The mendows and pastures of theso valloys wero coyverod with the grentest profusion of the most lovely tlowers ; jometimes tho mendows wero o full of the Liue srocus, now blooming tho second timo this roa- 1om, that it would bo diflicult to placa your foot apon the greon turf without erushing them, Blue-bells, violots, sud heath, and the mont veautiful ferns, wero growing in the greatest profusion and luxuriance. We passed nt almost Evory hall-mile the way-side cross, tha shrine, tho crucifix, to suggest or stimulate the dovo- don of the herdsman nnd the traveler. Amidsy ihora varied scencs we passed ou until evening wpproached, and we Baw tho shadows soop up the eides of the moun- laius, and the rosy and purplo light linger on thelr summits, and a4 suvact wa arrived at Chamounix, directly under the shadows of ont Blanc, and at his very faet. 'I'no noxt morning early I throw my windows spen; it was quite light, but Mont Blunc was be- ‘weon mo and the sun, and I waited long before 20 1080 above tho clenr, puro snow of the sum- mit ; 6o loug I waited that I roealled the GRAND MYNN OF COLERIDGE, written in this valley, whilo waiting for the sun, Apostrophizing Mont Blane, ho exclaims ¢ tagt thou a churm to atay the morning star {n Lfs steop coursa? 8o long ho seems to pause Ju thy bold, awful head, ok sov'roign Blane [ It wos Sunday morning, and I read this sub- lime hymn, worthy of the scene in which it was writter, Let mo quote o fow moro linos : Ye living flowers that skirt the oternal frost ! Yo wild goats sporting round the cagle’s nest] Y ngies, plsymutos of tho mountain storma | {e lightninge, the dread arrow of the clouds ! Ve sfgus and wonders of the elements | Stter forth God, sud fill the hilla with praiso, Thov, too, lioar mount 1 with thy sky-pointing poaks, 2t from whose feet tho avalsnehie unheard 3lioots downyward glittering through Lho puro korene, o kingly spirit throned among the hills, £hou droud ambsssudor from earth o heavon, Great Hierarch | tell thou the silent sky, And fell the atare, and tell you rlsing sun, Sartl, with her thousand voices, praiscs God | Tt was tho Sabbath, and we all gathored in the English chapel, right under Mount Blanc, to joiu in humblo worship to tho Groat Boing whose sublimo creations wero sround us. We #erd strangors from mauy fu-off lauds, out tho Uttle room was full. Nearty all djnhmd in tho responses aud in tho hymns, wd it woe vary pleasant in this wild valloy to beur the sorvice 1o which wa wero sccustomed 1t Lomo. On Mondsy morning wo all mot at an early aour around the breakfast-table, and congratu- ated each other that wo had & bright and ¢loud- was duy for our oxonrsion to tho MEL DE GLACE. Our party had boon incroased by Ewo intarost- inz clorgymen: one from Wiscousin, and the athior from Mugsachusatts, Thoy woro of differ- Ing denominationa of Christiang; but, meostin, amoug the Alps, had liked anch othier ko wol that thoy wero making the tourof the mountaing sogother, on foot. At 8 o'clock the mulos were t tho door, and with oach a guide, We staited ap the mountaing, At flrst we psssed some groon pasturos ; and then through foreals of pine aud fir, fragrant with tho grateful smoll of svergreons, Tho cloar, braciug air of the moun- ;niud camo rushing tarough thelr hranches, and ibeso *‘ murmuring pines” recallod tho noble svergroens, the pines and hemlocks, of Otsego. Tho clergymen on foot soon overtook and sasged by our mulos, and wo 3w 1O more of them until wo roached the litile shalet whero the mules are left, and where wo croys the ico on foot,—tho Hon of Glass, Oun such wido tho mountaing rise, bigh and precipi- tous ; snd noar are somo of those peculiur granite posks callod necdies, rising thousands of feet, very ncarly perpondienlur: wo steop shat snow will not luy or lodgo on their sidan ; shoir sharp points pierco tho very clouds, The spaco batweon the mountains—from a gunrtor to o hialf, porbups lu places s mile wide—is _ocou= sied by tho gluoier, The ive was rough awd rrogular as tho waves of the seaiv wstorm, At pluces wero holos, and openings, and crovae- ses,—some small and somo large, Tliough somo of tho opumngs the water came, and you wight thrust in your slponstock and find uo vottowm. We started to wilk neross with pante- tuous rollad up o keop them diy; bub 1t was 10t vor The pakeoge wus wob vory diftis cult, jonally our patht led ovar n ridge of jco sovoral feet Ligh, with cravaases of unkuown depth on cach vido; bub tho guidos with thoir Iatehets cut stops, und, with tho steel-pointed aipenstoek iu une hand, und the other baud in that of tha guide, ludien can make tho pussage wilhout danger, It was auusing (o watch tho party of Lravelers croxs over tho more ditlicult plucos, Some woro quite timid and o littl diz- 2y, A very fut otd Englistunan wighed to turn buck, He stood bositating on the sido of & ridgo of ico & long time, uatil wourly ull tho party had passed, and ho looked vory wist full: towards the shore fiom which be staried, Byandbyslad of 10 or 12 yowd-avidently * Young Amorlen "—ran back and forth sevarnl tmiew norosw the difioult placs, and at st cried aut, *Come on Johuny Bnlls It Js quite safe," and o {ndeod the old gontleman found it, as ho wolzed tho haud of the guide nud mada _tho pay- sngo, Al lving crossed, wo lunchod on tho mountain uear THE **MAUVATR PAS,” and thon deacandad to the valloy, This pags in tather rorious Lo thoso who live not wirvong narves, 'The path leads along the ldes of n vory preclpitous el vising bigh above, nnd I boen mada by Llasting » pathway in tho sido of the roeks stifflcient for o passniza, A chain by which you hold on {a fastonod into tho side of the racls ; 80 yon havo o narrow path in tho racks, vith no protoction on tho lower sido, tho eluin 0 to tho rocla on the” olher, and then rocks ricing nbove you as far ns you chooso Lo look np, nnd below you. Somo hundradr, and ab placos uome thousands, of feot, 8 tho glacler,” The views 13 _we made tho derceut waro very geand, Tn addition to the wild path, the pranite poncs, Mont Blanc, the glacier, nud tho wweet yalley honoach wy, wo hnd, overy fow hundred feot, watorfalls rushing over the roeks Into tho Sen of Ico which wo hal cvogsed, On out way down, T noticod atono lime a view which I Liad naver before seen ¢ THL YALLEY OF CIAMOUNIX wag dividud into two hemisphores,—the uppor one, mada by tho hixh mounseing which incloss tho valley, conatituting tho sides, tho clear shy ovorhend bewwg tho roof, and a stratum of clouds floating half-way dpwn the sidos of tho mouataing, and on a line with us, was tho floor or basis, Donanth theso clouds we could look down into the valloy, the clouds formiug nn arel from monutain side to mountein sido; and bouentls tho arch was tho wholo vallay, with vil- lape, church, moadows, hay-mnitors, cottagos; and oceagionally the bark of u dog or tha tinklo of a boll could bo heard, as if coming from auothor sphere. Ib was to mo a sceno onticoly novel and very beautiful, In tho avoning I ealled at the hougo of an old gnide. A Russian Profossor had lost his lifo while exploring tlie glnelar the wook befora. He had beon abaudonod by his guides, and loft to dio alone on the ico; aud evory ono was justly, a8 it seemod to me, coudemning the guides, Tho old guido whom 1 was visiting (whoso namo I cannot 1ecall) told mo THE §TOLY OF 1118 DOG, a fing, noble fellow of the St. Bornard breod, who lay on tho tloor at our foot, ‘*‘Ihat dog,” #nid ho, **scems to love to explore the moun- tains, ITe knows whonever a party is going to ascond to Mont-Blane, and will always go along if I willlot him.” 1o sald his sagacity aud in- tolliganco woro almost human, o would re- turir to tho village for nid whou necosary, n way very usoful i finding tho ]n\u\ whon n party Tind gotio nutray, Ona day ho hiad slipped into doop crovasso, from which it was impossiblo fur him to escapo. As soon s it was known tho guides gathered as quickly a8 possiblo to tho place, and lowered ono of thoir numbor by ropo to tho bottom, aud both guido and dog wero drawn up in safoty. Ho sliowed mo tho copy of a sad lotter, writlon by an Tnglish gontleman to his wifo, and found aiter his death in his coat-pockot, giving the history of tho circamatances preceding IS DEATI UPON MONT LLANC. Ho had been ouno of a party of elevon—four travolors and soven guidos—wlio woro ull lost in 1860, They bad mado the secont, reachod the summit, aud wero rolurning, whon thoy were ovortakon by s torvitic snow-storm, nud lost their way. They found shelter at first in n sort of enve fu tha rocks; but, the storm continuing, they bocamo uttorly bowildered. The lottor rep- resonted that tho flrst day tho party were hopo- ful; they lind somo provisions and spirits, and with considerablo offort kept themselvos from froozing. The storm inoreasing in fury, thoir provisions_exhaustod, utterly bowildered as to their Fusltiun. they bocamo loss uud less hope- ful, 'T'ho lotter 18 in tho shapo of a journal, and rocords the various offorts mado to flud thoir lost path, aud tho continuod inerease in the violonco of the storm. 'Whoy dug with their lintchots a holo in the ice shelterod by the rocks, and for moro than twonty-four hours hoped for roscuo by the guides from tho vailey; but, none coming, thoy gradually sunlt into despair, and, whon hope dosortod thiom, rapidly one after an- othor sunk into ““tho tleop ihat knows no waking.” Tho writor scoms to hiave boen tho lagt survivor: He mentions in his lotter the names of his companious, as ono after anothor Yyiolded to tho torpor which precodes death; he then adds: * My feot aro already frozon; my hand is so nearly frozen I cau searcely guido the pencil.” Ho sonds nffoctionato messngos to lis children, commends his soul to God, and adds : 1 dio 1u tho liopo of boing saved by Christ,” aud drops bis poucil and slcops! Some years ofterwards tho bodies were found near each ftaor, andin the pocket of his coatwas found the otter. Tho striking picture of Napoleon climbing the Alps by tho Great St. Bornard is fawmiliar to all, In 1800 he determived to construct a great mili- tary road oyer the mountains into Italy, aud em- ployed, undor thoe most skillful engincers, 30,000 men for pix years, snd tho result is THE BIMPLON. Considering the obstacles overcome, it is tho finest road m tho world, aud well worthy of tho magnificont triumphal arch which at Milan com- memoratos its completion. On Tuugsday morning, Oot. 5, I left Briog, starting with my family 10 o light carriage witl four liorsos, to go over tho pass. It had boou raiuing sl day on Wednesday, and, although clear on ‘I'iureday, tho firmmd & littlo way up the mountaiu-side was white with anow, As we climbed higher, the snow was overywhere, nnd kept getting dooper_and aaeEur the furthor we ascendad ; Lut, asthe weather was not very cold, wo wera glad of an_opportunity of seeing the Alps entircly covered with Buow. It way o constant climb forsix or alghthoum,—up—ufi,_ one zigzag after another; and 88 we rose higher, peak atter peak, all around us, made their ap- pearanco, all covered with enow; or elsa the clear, clean granite was too steep for snow to lay upon,—until wo were surrounded on every sida by the bigh Alps. ‘This ride gavous a elearor iden of the wild, storn, gloomy charscter of the biglor Alps than auy tling wo lad_bofore seon. ‘Tho overgreens—tho pine, the fir, the larch—ex- tend far’ up the sidos of tho mountains; tho lenves of tho birch Liad not yet fallen ; they wero of a desp orauge, . snd contrastod most beautifully with the overgroen, and both with tho whito snow, which lay in masses upon the branches., The grass was still of a rich green, aud, wherever is could Lo seen, wo had the most beautiful coutrnsts, Flowers, too, were Lo be seen undor the over- banging rocks and_in shelterad places, and we hind the raro good fortune of seoiug BPRING, AUTUMN, AND WINTER in the some lpudscape, 'Tho rond was as perfect us the bost skill of the engincor and the most complete execution could mako it,—everywhere of » porfoct giade, hard, smooth, and thoroughly drawmed, It wasofton made by blasting onta bed first in tha solid rock,—the lower gio wus- tuinod by solid walls of masonry, 50, 100, 200 foot high; everywhoro tho beat culvorts, bridges, and agueducts o pass over, Or carry ovor or under the road the mountain-torrents tiat camo roaring down tho sides of the rocks, Along all dungorous pluces solid protection-walls wero built on tho lower side of the roud, to provout tho pomuibility of accident ; and overywuoro, nt equul distances, low granito pillars were satb along its boundury, It is a grand work, and o noble monument to tho memory of Napolaon, As you approach the sumuit, the gorgos are deeper und mora gloomy, the sides of the mountning moro precipltous, and the daogor from uva- lnuches, ospecindly in spring, greator, Rore me a serics of utone houses of great strangth, ofton built_undor tho rhadow of overhanging rocks, called ** Rofuges,"—places to which travelers, whou overtakien by storms, may go for shelter. Thore ara nine or more of thewo ; at one placo thero are six within o space of two milos. {n placos where tho danger from uvalauclios is grentest, ntone gallorics of immenso strongth navo beon built, In ono or two places waler- nlle pass ovor the rond. Tho gallorica are made by blasting o roadway through the solid rock, and this id protected by a long roof, made by turning arches from the rocks on tho upper side, oand the Jower resting on immeusa buttrossos of masonry. ‘I'hey reminded me of the base of the columus of souto zrand old eathedral, Soatrong aro thoy that uvalanchos pass over them into the valley without crushing thom in. Thoy ste in- comparably gtrongor than the snow-sheds which aro tended to protoot tho track of thio Pacilie Railway ovor the Sierra Novads, Noar'the summit Napoloon caused to be builta very luryo stono stiucture for tha MONKS OF T, DLERNAND, ‘This they keep as » lospice, TFor some time Lefora we ronched 1t, we had folt the chill of the mountainentr ; tho snow hud heon cronking undor aur enrrigge-wheohi; and, ug we drove up to the door, the welcomo-bark of n uoble St. Bernard dog sounded vory pleanautly, Tt wweet 10 liear Lo bouost watchedog Bay ;luumuoumua wolcolws we wo approach neur honio ; but never was ** wateh-dog's bark " swenter than that of ths Bt Lorburd ru wo reschod this rofuge, ‘more than 6,000 foob Ligh. Wo weto lindly welcomed and warmad by the mouks, and wo wont over the building, finding it very camforlable, Victures of Bi. Doruard and of Napoleon were in the parlor, Dy the side of oach bed we found o rug made of the skiu of u St. Borunrd dog, dressod with the hair on, and iy hoad stulfod no as to look life-like ; so thut tho oocupunt of oach bed would scom to Lo Ruarded by one of these faitliful auimula, | Wa ulopt at the LittloLamles of Slmplon, Hers, around a bright, blazing wood-fire, ond with monutaln-fare, wa were made comfortabley and 1 tLo ovaning rend in the rogister of the inn tho memorandim of & travolor wha, in pussing ovor from Itnly in Mareh, 1833, ind hoon ovortaken by natorm; had sought shelter in ono of thono rofugow, hut lind found 1t oniively burled undor au avalanoho of snow, At last, nlylol' gront dinl- culty aud dungor, ho_rucoseded i ronching the i, Toro o was detalnad five dava by the snow, Aftor vo days ho went va to tho IHowpico aud ovor to Loy, passing ovor the tops uf the gntlorirn, tho mouthi of tho Intorior bow olosod up by tho doop stiow, Tiio noxt snarnneg wo wont down tho moun- tal, tongh tho mugmtiosnt GORAT, AND VALLEY OF 0oNDO, hls I 0 narrow opooing irongh 1ocks which almoxt nieot thousands of feot over your lead, buro and steop; wih waterfaily “nnd mountain-orronts, of nmost overy shapo and lieight, at ulmont ovqrf' turn 3 with” many tun- nels blaeted through the rocks, womo of them more thun 700 loat long, and yel o well cone utructed, and o cany und porieet the grade, that you muy wnfaly drive o four-loo eartingo on utrot all the way duwn! Tu this gorge wo saw ono of the atone refugos which lad™ Leou complotely crushod In by nn avalancaa; and not far away i the valley were Lha ramains of nnow- bunles whiels woro evon then, In Octohor, yeveral foot deep, Bub szeadanlly the snow entivoly dise nppearcd, oven from a0 wides of the high moun- taius; tho grass aud folicgo boeamo more aud moro’ greon amd lnxuviaut ; pincd, ehentnuty, Dbirehetreos, dgw, nnd vinew becoms commoun n]lg;}_ #oon, muking a sharp turn around o ragped clitf, A LOVELY ITALIAN VALLEY Iny ot onr feel, A granita column marked tho boundary, Wo puliad up at the Cuistom-Houss, Tialinn girls brought us grapes, An Italian ohi- cor approashed, aud politely touched his cup, * Good morning, Biguor, hive you marchmndiso or tobae#” **No, wir.” * Paus on, Signor,” snid Do, and wo were in Italy. Iean searcoly concoive n grentor contrast than that of tho storn granaeur of tho Alps, and the darlk, wild gorge of Gondo with the sunling land- .suapo whick weleomon you u8 you spproach Lugo Muggioro, o No A ——— SAVED ALONE.” *Ewan night, and o'or th wators deop A subto mantlo sproad Tlluv Villo du Huvro u) along, hotit @ fear or dread, Biveet woro the drentns of wunny lands, OF hones amd fricnds afar, Ax night, In quiet, peaceful folds, Hud wrapped ech sluborer there, When wuddanly, 1 wild dfatress, “Flio drond Blatm wus given,— Like thandarbolt fron clondivms aky, Huclt wus the droad letut, © Uor | what torror aefzod ench heart § What anguish and doapnie ‘Were borno in ucconts wild and free Upan tho miduight atr | A ” g tho many kndred hiearts pertahod Tn tho wave, or tried with fosble arm 0 childran doar to wave; But vain tho liolp of hunian power Whero oconti-billows Inye,— Tho perits of thelr sbort 1it dono, Thoy sauk in one low grave, But ono waa left of that loved band To tell the tale of grief; #What whiall I do? " thio mothor orled O what can givo rollof ? Hopo Lide the troubled breast be calm ; holr struggles now are o'er; They’re waitiug on the other side, Upou tho sunlit shoro, Though pleasant aceuce may greot tho ey And mirth and jog ubound, & And feable fulth streteh overy nerve ‘T'o caleh ono chooring sond, Bl \\'Amrf' hours will comoe aud go, Nor will tho gloom depart ; Whilo Memory wakon, that scene of dread Must linger in the heart, ALny A, STRAUD, Cnicago, — A Litorary Curlosity, From the fan, In tho Boston Publio Library therc is a book which desorves to bo classed with the famous Portuguese '* New Guido of the Conversation," g ong of the carlosities of literature. It fa on- titled ““A Guido for Btrangers in tho City of Antworp,”" and ecoms to lave been publishod about forty yoars ago. ‘e work commences with the following *advortisoment:” ¢Lho underwritor provents overy Gontleman and Strauger that all the alterations and improve- monts which may be projected aud executed in ouo or other public establishment, shall be immediately roctitiod, and that the platos of this work shall thereforo remain uutouched. Phil- lippe Ville, the Editor,” A fow pages aro davot- ed to an hisforical account of the Gity, in which the author, with a praigowortby dovotion {o the truth, romarks that, ‘*when tliore is question of establishing the beginuing of somo famous itios, they have racourso to morveillous ovenements, and for not throwing oureelf iu the doubtlulnoss of fabnlous sutiquitics, we shall ouly keufi us to what history offers.” Ho s no need, Low- evar, to trugt ‘‘an the auualy,” a4 *‘the con- struction of her buildings vrouves its anciont- ness, and on examining tlus city, one shall find _vestiges, which will bring us fromn ago to ago.” *“Iis orign was of a middling oxtoud, His most_cousiderable augmentatiou bag boon dono by Jolu the Third in 1314 ; by CLarlos tho Vih_in 15648, tho city, could not™ coutain the prodigious nowbroe of inhabitants, who came thithor from evory vart, for estublishing thom- solves, oncournged by clio siluation of Lis Port, and tho wealth and abundunce of this trading city, au oulargemont of 1600 steps in lenth on 244 broad, was required, thut vortion of ground contains tho mugnitic Heuse-House of which wa shall still speak afterwasds.” But, leaving thoso dry details, wo pusu o Llio doscription of the bridges ¢ * Four magpific swiping bridges on the same manner s those in Iolland serve for the communication of the quais, from the citadel, till the dokw, they are placed on the entrance of four cunals, wich entor in the town, very commodious aud suro for vessold of o small desciption to load and unload thero,” A mol "Ly M. Villo is most interesting, howover, in his accounts of the various works of arb i Liy ¢ na- ture country.” Commencing with the eathedral, hasays: *‘Evoryone avoud, this templo is fure out the {Inest in tho kingdom, ita longthness is of more than 600 steps its lavgeness of 240 and its olevation of 300, ~ . . . 'Chis nionument wan burned in 1533, oxcepted the choir, a great putt of it had boen damaged with- out the vigilance of the burghmaster, . « o In 1797 this magunitlec Teaple las been spolisted by profunus and sacriegious ngud. The tamo year they soid very cieap, tho precious things, which had been respected till this poriod, and soon ilio enamios of holy roligion attsined thoir wishes, this templo ropro- sonted in & fow time but a coufounded heap of ruines | If any precious things have beeu con- coived, it was only by zeal for arts, and if a wonder that we can atill ndmira this church and steople, yob eight dova sud these'two monuments werae for ovar domolished. 1u 1810, theso monn- ments took & now aanect by the cares of M. 1i——, and by thn solitudo of tho administra- tion, ‘at the pgreat sntistaction of {ho trno friends of religion.,” Foilowing tho lead of our author, we puss through tho Cathodral, stopping for au instant before * thoe Pulpit sculped by P, Verbruggen,” until wo come to Rubens” mastor-" peace,” *'Iho Deacent from the Cross,” At thiy point tho simplo descr:ptivo stylo is dropped, and lnanguage better swited Lo tho subject in used, I'he birth-throos of genius ave vividly purtiayed as fellows : * Rubans has been heaving in sov~ oral parts of this pictuie, it is smoothied una ne- complished, aud howover all ia vigorous and aniwuted.” Tho highest eloquonco is renched in tho oloking words: *“Ile dealu with the wisest discorniug to cvory figure his just pait of afllic- tiou in llfiu havd ‘ease, and with tho greatest kuowledge ha unitea sentimont of loveto that of venoration, it isan hart folling scone, which cloctrises tho soul it I8 an augdet coromoiy of roligion which ponetrates it oven to oxaltazion,” Au oxuct knowledgo of art is shown iu the criticism of unother of TRubens' works: Tt hos been acknowledged by jundiet jugoes that this pietwe . . , iy of ‘a llne drawing, and: recollect under this rapport the grandiose of tho Carnches Speaking of an * Assumption of the Virzin," M. Villa wayw: * Al is 10 movings wud occupied by tha prinoipnl aotion, these follow with thoiv oyes, ths holy Mothor . . . those umazud of tho mivacle aud belng os tranquil, cast tlwir eycs towards the glortous way . . . tha neriul sight Iy Producad thore to {ho highost top of wndor- standing.” Over the grave of Ilubeus in “a pracious picture somposed with gonins, drawad with purinoss, graceluluess seduces overywhore und at overy mowent wo dimcovar thom.” AV Cravitixion ™ by Rubous (in the Muroum) s the subjeet of this favorable eriticism’s ¢ ‘Tho Vigin is deeply ufilioted ; but the promires of his rou fortify her ugainst tho piugs of a swuon, Tho horeed ave or exguimte onuty that in tho cornor of the picture who seoms to cheer up, is & mighty good thonglt which mukes diversion” In o description of still another of Rubeuns' * workky,” woread: Y8t Fianels of Aseizo laoliuf his doad up- proaching desived (o bo led to the foot of the wltar, . , . Iluolothes ato pullod outand uaked,” DBut wo must ond our quotations, though wo have loft untouched * tho magnilio clureh burned by thuntoer," the Embaroadore, “with its two landing places, Letweon which aro double_steps of Llow mavmor,” and the ** Galary where is a picturs of Zncoheus, one of the load- b of thv ropublicans.” THE MISSING BONDS. llow $20,000 Was Taken From (e Fountain Savings Bank. And How the Money Was Re- covered. Fyom the New York Thies, 1 do not think thal any story In this Iueredu- lous ngo galns additional strongth from the an- aertion that it is foundodt on fact, Al T havoe to ey In vogpid to what follows iz that. na to tho main events of my story, what I wrile Is abso- Iutely and unequivoeaily true, and that if it way nacessnry T coutd placo my fluger to-duy on rowe of the principal actors, T have purposoly disguisod ull the nuwmos, pluces, and porsons, and Fav), with intantional catclessnoss, thrown the storg-Leller's drapery over the mnin Iacle, ag un netist inight cast o somowlnd flimsy fabrie over & Iay figure, Wall utreot is full of KTORIES OF' BTOLEN TONDS, and the efforta of the polico and dotoctives to find out whero tho misslug valuos heve gone to, o eatch the thiof i ono thing:; to find tho mwonoy slolon is nomothing elso, To detect tho fornter Is not wo very diRieult, but to find tho Intter is quite an- other talng, Itmay, T think, bo enfely eald that twico out of threo imes tho missing values aro undiacoverable, Why should we mouth it? Compounding folony le, i2 not quietly whisporod, very oftou broadty hintod at. That such arrangemonts made with thioves and robbers are of frequent oconr- ronco, no ono doubts, Human naturo is weak and dotectivos aro unroliablo, Tho bankor hns 260,000 worth of United States Louds stolan from bis snfe. This amount of money or its ropresontative suddonly withdrawn from his cap- ital iy ruin him. 1f ho lenvea tho matter with tho dotectivas, ho may or muy not got his monoy bacle; tho prooability of chancos is docidedly against it Say ho is fortunnte onough to recover his monmey; heo will have to pay, roundly for li. Tho fact of his having lost such n Inrgo amount of monoy, il his credit is soneitive, may wreck him financiully, It tho bauker or merchant is nnervous man aud of an oxcitable disposition, his namo and the circnmstancos of the robbery, printed in large lotters, will bo published in o thousand papors throughout the country. Very froquently the faots of tho lnrceny will o writton in such au oxnggerated mannor, containing oven innuendaos axprossed as to his carclessnoss and imbecility in regard to mune{‘. or just s often the sus- piclon stated that the amount was nothing like as much as was reported, that the unfortunale logor will be drivon to desporation, Ttis hard euough to losa money, withoui being callod an imbecile or a rascal, “The most cool and cold- Dlooded men often, under such civcumutancos, would bo GLAD TO COMPOUSD FELONY, Ot course I am no advocals of treating with robbors, and what I write isnot to be under- stood in the least a8 advoenting it. Tho bonds aro lost. They are worth 100 conts on tho dollar. "ho losor may hnve to pass bwelve months of constant ngony boforo ho gots thom back (we are takiug ono of tho cnses of thomore fortunato chnxnolm?, ond then hnato pay for them, in detective foes, sny but 10 per cent in money, bat at over 80 per cont in pordoual wear and tonr and montal anxioty, Say that in some mysterious way tho banker recoivos an intimation that tho thioves would like to arrango matters for a more 15 to 20 por cont, and bo sccopts? Ilo has been robbed only a weol ago, and then ho gots his honds sale back agnin, though ho may have paid scvoral thous- auds of dollars to secure them. The [fucts I have briolly descanted on aro known to muu{ on Wall and Broad streots, and on Exchange placo. Somo fivo years ago two or threa good plices woro wanted in ‘Temploton for certain QUITE RESPECTALLE OLD GENTLENEN, "They woro by uo means suporanuuated men, nor had they gono boyond thoir poriod of usefulners. Tiiose old gontlemon, who woro porfectly MY, lonost, and corroct, had beon unlucky in lifo, but wero fortunsto enough to bave vourzer frionds whom they (the old geuntlemon) hud holpod at the outsot of their carcems. Clorks lind gat to be mon of woalth and position, while the old heads of tho firms who had first om- ployad them had one down in Lho world. A savings bank, tho Fountain, with an ample cupilal, furnisbed by tho youngor mon, was faanded, not so much for the accommodation of tha thrifty poor, as for tho' pordonal advantage of tho ominontly honast, quict, and roapectablo old gontlemen, who, drawing a modost 1,500 to 81,800 & year, could manugo matters %ulm sntig- factorsly for the Fountain Savings Dauk, the stockholdors, the depositors, and themselves. As aconomy was & paramount consideration, no extra cleris wero to bo hived. The two old gontlomon were to ot as Cishiers, Trensurars, hookkepers, entry elorks, aud guneral acconnt- ants. Mattors went on quite pleasantly. Oceasional deposits came in, which wore iucroased, and the ohr gontlemon, cultivaling the neiglborhond, warmed up with the work, and conecieutiousiy did tbeir duty when thov advocaled thrift and cconomy. In fast, tho resulls were quito oatis- fuctory, and the old goutlemon, for a cortain tine, Wero movor happier i tholr lives thun when managing tho Fountain, Ono day, there lounged in A QUIET-LOOKING 3MAN, certainly 8 mechanie, und of the better class, too. The mun's clothes were decent, & triflo worn, and Le had on s colored shirt. There might have beou just a curl of wood-shaving mixed with Lis hair, and from the brim of hig lint, a8 ho took it off; thero foll a little showor of sawdust. In fuct, bo emolt of yellow piue, aud was, (o all iutenls and purposes, u earpenter, *TIe was not o rich man," Lo snid, ** only able to enyo a serap hiero and there. Careful wifo, Nothing like that, but & growiug family, Good boss aud ull that, and fair wages, What the boss paid him, ou & pinch, might keep them all, bnt wes dolng a fair stroke of night-work. Wasn't o apvoor, Toolk his dvink somctimen, whon lo wanted to, but not habitual, Cha gontlemon in the bank knew that s little nover did avy harm. Yes: ho thought they wero sensible. Well, passing along—ho wout by the Fountain Savings overy blessed day—thought Lo would deop i, Was'it only 6 por cent they gave ? That wasn't enough, Wasu't o busmess man much, but hnd heard that mmonoy was worth as muoh as that Ly the single manth over in New York, What did they do with their money? Well, houd and mortgago was safe, Would thoy let him have o statomont ? Didn't axpeot he would un- d_ratand much, but the old wonian and tho boas would, and Lo would cavry it home, Liked tho look of tho Fountain. Wan o pluin man himsels, and, though ho wonld bo glad enough himself to build tho jsides of somo of thouo sevings bunks, witl their vore-wood moldings and beadings, and tuat sort of thing, didu't beliove it helped a con- corn much. Would do for a botel or a burber- shop, but he wont in for what was plzin, he did, sua_hie would bid them good-morning, and Lo might or might not eall aguin.” A woolk nttorward ho did eall, accompanied by a friend, and the two old gontlamen telt suro of wupeuiug & now accout. ' IT'S TIE BOFS, Il bolloves in savings Lanks, and he and the old wolanu says thoy tuink you ara safe—thoy do,” Anid Lbo curpenter. ** Plty you hadu't thought of it before, Ioken,” snid "the bows, +¢ thongh I wn’t n bit botter off nor you What I have gob is somo mighty sorry houses—had to take ‘em for mechnuic’y hion, IHang me, if workmen uin't botter off now than the bossos, If this Liero Hosea does make n deposit or go, and n fullow vanted just a little morigage on & fair liouse—first morlgage, mind ~ you,—youn wouldn't mind obligiug & man, would you? ~ Of courso 1 know that's o matler the Directors usually looks to, _1losea, you ain't got u cireus Tar, lgve you ? Loft it'at home 7 ~ Woll, thon, tot me hinve another. 1loson, put your money in ut ouco, nud thelt's my adviee,” und, bnving given bis views, ssling for a civeunlar, the boss couned wpeaking, e journeymnn earpenter hanled out & wallet, and cotnted out slowly, oue, two, five, ton, fii- tean, twenty, tlnrty dollars,—mout of it 1 billy, und & groat doal of it 1 fractionnl curronoy and some b-cent piceos, Sume of the small bills full ou tho fluor, Now the obliping Caxhior made it 176 couls too little, and now it was 60 conts too much, In the meantime 1he other old employe wai looking up s eircular, 1o wanted o fresh one, with a pos-groun coyor, for Iloson's Bous, At lnst the count was e corvect, 8 prss-Dook was brought, and the big book for wignaturos was gruced with Howson's wignature after quite an amount of Iabor and o Llot, Tha civoulur of the Tountain Suvings Lunk, with the pea-greon cover, was then polliely Landed to llonel‘ufiswn, aud they loft, as DID AT THE BAME TINE & cortaiu tin box, containng exuotly 820,000 in Uuited Biates bouds, tho property of tue bee nl\ra;mouflonud Tountain Savings Bank of Tom- ploton. IHow it wns dono no one evor know, and no one will aver protond Lo know. All tho old genila- mon know about it wns, that when tho duy's Inbors woro ovor, somo flve hourn afierwurd, whon thay went to lock up tho safo, the blaak Ingquier box was gotol Polico! Detociiven!! Of conrso thoy woro put to It rralght, and thoy moused over it, and forroted at it, and got on & trall, which thoy declared to bo as strong 18 a eablo, which twinted itsolf into two traily, then into throo,.aud thon into athousand, eneh strand of which thrned out to bo ns flimsy 18 8_cobweb, and would wol stend any tension, Then tho Fountain Havings Banic Dircctora, with mueh good eonso and no smnll oxpoditure of monoy, GAVE THE DKTEGTIVES UL, Queenaby was one of the Divectors of tho Fouuluin, nna though tho loss of tha 520,000 nover worried him nzall, as tho Fountan way Forl‘uully unolvent, and, if necamsary, ho could iuvo mindo up any dofiolonoy i tholr oapital in {iva mtnitos, novertheluss Queonsby was curions to Iiow how thie triek wasdone, oing of & sin- gularty Pm'slntuub und obstinate nature, ho thought {v over fur months, and then was forced to giva it np. Soma ninoty daya aflor tho vobbery, Quosnuby was in tho Cowvidor lotel, in Now York, Io had au_engaramont with o oapitalist, aud was whiting for him, Prorontly n gontloman came toward Lim, looked him stialght in the face, and unid: * Ava you nol Jusaph Quosnsby 2" * 4T au,” was tho reply, ‘ “3Well, thon,” suid tho porson, prosonting o eard, **this I8 my nnme. 'Luke it, It may Lo of use to you sone day," Mr. 'Quochsby “took tho ecard and road, “ Chucor Loftug,” "?.}lr Lottus 7 And how can you be of use to mo " * Inm to bo found vory often hove,” sald Mr, Loftya,, **thopel I mnke no nppointmonts, Peoplo mostly Yind mo when thoy want me,” added Mr, Loftus, rather sharply. I am still 1gnotant of how yout enn sorve mo,” roplied My, Quoensby. “'WIIAT ABOUT THOSBE DONDAP" Inquired Mr. Loftus, in tho mnos: nonchalant way, and, bowing to Mr. Queansby, vunishod, Now thore was nothlug rematlnblo about Mr. Loftus, Mis mien was quiet and bLis Learing that of & genllemnn, Ho wore 1o jowelrs, eave o quiot guard chain, Hig “mustache wns not dyed, and there was not aven the faintest glimmer of flash about him, If ihoro was anything remarkable about tha man it wus that hin Huen was particularly well dono up, and that his hands and reet, of. peenlinrly elegant proportions, wore neatly gloved and shad, “Bonds!” raid Mr. Queonsby; ‘*‘can thin man knoyw anything svout thom? " Can lio b o recolver? Impoesible.” Nevertholess, Queons- by found it worth luy while to frequont tho Cor- ridor Hotel quito often Once ngain Chinucer Loftus, Faq., quietly ap- proached hint. The words wera fow. **Bonda! " knid the Director, Procizely,” was tho reply. You have them? " 1 novor skl so." : 7' como to business—what aro they worth ? I ask for curiosity sake. What woald we lbave to puy to got thei back 7 *TWENTY-FIVE PER GENT on the dollar—any $5,000, naitlior more nor loss," and away went Mr, Loftus, Police nud dotactives agnin. MMore chain cobles of fucts, twisted around de-~ Leotivo capstuud, Bome of thom this tims, at tho start, seom as if thoy would sland some small amount of tugging, but whou a truo strain was put on tham, thur comimenco port- ing ngain, like rotten fishing lincs. Now and then Somathing was hooked up, Lut, when it did como up, the snoods wore found oither to hiave hind thoirhooks snappad, or to luve brought to tho surfaco bunches of worthlcss wends, Lvory pousible presorve was flshod ; and at Just, somo porson was arrested who bad boen trying to #oll tho bonds. Not that tho dotectives found It out, but it came to the surfuce in a naturnl wny, Exsmiuatious took pluce, aud the court got up a blind siley. Juntice sometimes gety thoro of its own uceord, the goddass boing blind itsolf, nod that was tho ond of it. Young mau who had tho bonds honorably discharged—only saw tho bonda for a second—never handled them, and thas was tho proper conclusion, for the young man was undoubtedly innocent, Now tho Iountain Directors met aggin. Wiggles mado an improswive upeoch, a8 did Wog- gles (the latter the more oxbuustive). The two old goutlemen who took Ilosea’s %30 when ho tool their $20,000, with the ssaistanco of his Dboss, wore uatechizod for tho five hundreth time, and wero worko muddlod and more ot sea in their statements than evor, the cat in " Littlo Alice,” all they conld say was, that *‘It vanished.” The poor old geutlemon went honto, utterly oxtinguishod, aud took to thoir bods for waoks., Wigglea said: Philautliropy domand- ed that the woney must Lo found;* "and said Woggles: ** Much good can be dono with S00,000,—loss 25 por cont. Snid Wugsles, tho financiering Diroctor, “‘With great ¢are and ood judgment them twenty thousand dollars, joss 25 per cont, a8 my biother Director snys, may fructity—in faol, put us on our legs aguin,” "“The Fountain muy still give out stremns of flnid fo tho thursty,” said Wiggloa. By you are CONPOUNDING WITH FELONY," remarked Mr. Quaonsby, quite sharply. *¢ [ aslt you if thera is tho loast cuance of our otting our bonds back any other way ? ” put in Wiggles, dogmotically. **None in the least, on to sey Queensby. ‘*Aroquite as bnd as the thicves,” aroso ay ono voice, the cry of all the Diractora, * Compound then,” said Mr. Quocusby. Not one of the othor Diractors said ves; but they ail nodded, and though the book of minutes bas no record of tho fact, Ar. Queousby acted on their judgment, *¢ I{ow 1nuch now ?" asked Quocnsby, meoting Chaucer Lottus at the Corridor. “Now? [ 3¢ Tho deteotives—" went ou, 85," bonignly said Loftua, Lt was 25 before.” i &, b!,ow they aro 85; thoy may be 50 bofore long, ““]s this your sddress?” asked tho scling Director. ¥ Cortainly it i, and not ashamed of the noigh- borhood.” 3 I will think over it. I may s0o you again, perhaps to-day.” Queanaby wont to his banlk and drew s certitied ehieck for $7,000, and lurried to the addross on Mr, Loftns' card, . a It was o neat, quiot-looking residence, A tidy maid-gervant who oponed the door suid, ' Mr, Loftus is in,” and Quoenaby was ushered into thse drawing-room, The patlor was plainly, yob comfortably, furnishod; on tho walls thore bung quito & nest collection of ongravi and the teblo was covored with maguziues and with two or. threa rocoutly-published Englivh works of morit, . e, Loftus eame in aftor a fow momonts, 1 have brought with mo TILIS CERTIFIED CHECK for $7.000, sud now tho bouds,” said Mr. Quonnsby. 4 “Wist bonda! Donds? You must e mis- takon—un orror, doubtloss! I mover liad tha plensure of seeing you before, Catharine?” Mr. Loftus touched the bell, **Show this gon- tleman the door,” #+Ta thig your card, sir 7" asked dr. Queensby, onraged, “3lyeard? Btrango! Iow did it come into your handa? A mistako—a comedy of osrors. Uathiacine, show ths persou the door, and say to your mistross to have little Gortrude dressed, and that her paps intends taking s stroll with ber” Quepusby was dumbfounded at this coolness, paused & momont, then loft, Next day Lo was pgain at the Cornidor Hotel, and there was Mr. Loftus, This time he hnd to appronsh Mr. Loftus. ‘Uhis gentlomun's worda wera Liel: 1t you thinl L am HUOCH AN INFERNAL ¥0OL a8 to tako a certifind chock you muat bhavo a very poor opinion of my ability, Bring noces to the }wnuu. nuy time within “an hour' Aud Mr. Loteus, ovading auy moro conversution, lott, Queonsby drow out the money, und in an hour afierward was ot Mr, Loftus' houso, * Now, my #woot pot,” said Mr, Loftus ton protty blonde-busirod child, who was building blocks on the floor, as Mr. Queensby enter- od, *Papp has business now, and cannod bo disturbod. o, now, that's a darling ; run to Cuntharino and got drossed, and, by-and-by, paps will tnko you out for a wulk., You will ox- cuse mo, Mr. Queensby,” contiuned the fond pa- rent, an ho kissod the’ child and waved her to tho door. *Littlo girld want no much more pot- ting than boys.” Now the clild wag goue, nud Quecnsby nid Loltus wore ulone, 1lis manuor lisvdty changed, ** Al I porecive you linve the notos, You will coune thom, — Hoven thousaud dollars? Correct, You will give them to mo." * And the bonds " mquired Mr. Quosnsby. “You shall have them; but I want, and must liayo, thie money frst,” suid Mr, Laftus, just us quletly ma evor, cutilng tha leaf of ajungaziue with o mother-ot-pourl paper-knife, © What seourity have L tint tho bonds will ba volurned 2" inquired Mr. Queensby. * TUL WORD OF A THIEP, HIR,” #ald Mr, Lolftuy, closing tho book with a snap, and looking squnraly ab Queonsby. **If you vl glva mo thie money, I slall lock 1t up here, aud you must trust me, If not, take your money nway with yon, If you consont to my terins, In flve minules the bonda will bo in your ponses- sion, I could not give them to you If I wanted to, for thoy are not horo,” A¥ith o tromor Queanaby handod over the piles ot bills to Loftus, who, oponing & safo in tho baok room, locked thom nocurely up. *F Wo will now go to tho hotel "—nnd saying this Quoousby and Loftus went into the strcot. ‘I'ho wonthor ‘way cold,. and both had ou their overeonts, a A delok this raw_morning would bo excol- lent,” remarked M, Loftus, " Tho brandy at tho Corridor iu passable, 1inostly import my own in wmall quantives. In Now' York, everybody adultorates brandy so mueh. I it not a shame that Unfon Bqunre, which should ba the tidiest of all placos, in nl\m]-u in Buch o shocking con- ditfon ¢ and that ilttle scoundrol of n newsboy, who hns splashed the mud over us, No, I do nog want o newspapor,”s ho said to the newsboy, ‘“and etonr oul,” A DINTY, RAGUED NEWADOY, thua adiressed, who had n buudle_of papors under his arm, gazod at tho speaker, Mr, Loftus, for n momont with tho uttnost contempt, and than mude uno of somo docidodly impertinout oxpres- wion. Alr. Loftusmadean attompt to strike tho rudo boy with his nous wmbrella, which blow the Loy evaded, Joutling ngafust wIr, Quoonsby. LThe ucldont: was goon Lorgotten, an thoy nosred the Tolel, whon dr. Quoensby’s anxiaty incronsed, “1fave I," ho romarkod to himself,” * been fool enonzh Lo throw away $7,0007 1f lo is golng to bumbug mo, I um eapacle of shooting him, What about those bouds 7" ho suid aloud, “Bonds! Why, my dear sir, my dear Mr. Queenshy, hero you have boan u.w?'ing on Lrondsrny, in tho most erowded thoroughrare of tha cicy, tomo twenty housund dollurs’ worth of United Stulos bonds WHAPPED TP I¥ AN OLD NEWAPAPER in your pockot, It is a moroy- you huve nok beon robbed, Your essape from’ lowing thom can only bo accountod for by the fuct that the autulde of the pacitago Ly no means represonts thig value of tho contents,"” My, Queensby folc Iu Lis overcont pocket, and sure onougl thoro was a goodly-sized packago. ho hotol was renched, and "fn & privato corner the packugo Was oxamined and tho Dbonds, twonty-thousand dollars’ worth in all, 'woro found to bo corroot. Whother Quoonsby und Loftus tried the braundy ab the bar of the Gorrldor we do not know, How the bonds eame into Quoonaby's pockot can only Dbo accounted for by tho supposition that tho nowsboy put them there, but liow these bouds wora taken from tho Fountain is atill a mystery, THI 13 PRECISELY HOW, in this particular instance, u folony wes com- pounded. 'Thero is no salor savings bank thun tho FPountaitr ot Tomploton, and during the late pauic thora was nol even & ran on it, Of courso, no pilcher can always koop going totho well aud not get broken. So Chaucer Loftus, l'lm} , or the forgar and bond-thiof, whouo ronl namo {8’ Spencer or **Spouco” Poltis, got hauled up in duo process of time, and is now an inninto of tho Btats P'rison of Massnclnsatte— but not on nccount of auy little irregularity with tho Fouutaiu Suvings Dauk. RECOLLECTIONS OF WEIMAR. Ilomes of Goethe, Schiller, Wies dyand fRerder==ihe Fwo Courts of it German Grand Dachy. Wainar (Nov.16,) Correapondence of the New York Eveniug Poat, You have little idea how insignifieant Weimar igto looka:. You may tryto face down the firat impression Dy ropoating over to yoursolf, o8 a sort of shibbolotl, the names of Gootho, Sehiller, Wieland, aud Hardor, but it is of lictlo use. Your idoals will shvink away bofore the microscopio reality ns wild-cat yailrond bonds shrinic in o Wall gtreot panic. Bub you moy ask, “Why come to Weimor with such preconceived theories of its matorinl greatnesa 7~ 'Lhere is no suthority for it. Hag not Qootho himuolf sung: Tetty smony the Germuan Princes Is cortainly my Princo; 8hort aud narrow bia land, ete, But T can only urgo, in justification of my first imprassions, that, in an ago with such a strong drift townrd matorinlism a8 the present ono, the human mind will throw overboard sentiment and cling to the materinl point of view. Thore uro in the outskirts of Weimar one or two prosonta- blo strecls, and the Grand Ducal Palace, tho Musoum building, and one or two villas attract attention; but the contro, tho nuclous, what way all of Welmur = contury ngo, is o crooked littlo village of tho humblest protensions. 0lr] how solo-torturing is its pavemont! That of Rome, gomewhat famous i the snmo line, igsoft a8 butterod biscuit in comporison, At fivgt I consolcd mysolf that it Lad also tor- Lurod the sole of gonius, but I was draggod bacik from my oxcwsion into the ideal in loarn- ing that a century ago genius walked about hove in the mud, without any pavoment at all! With afl that, T cannot bring myself to look upon tho pavement of Weimar ey a modern improvemont. Stumbling along, ono comes to humble abodes ovor whoso doors are to bo read tho simplo in- seriptions, * Hero lived Schiller,” or * Hore lived Hordor," or * Wicland.” TUE CHANGES OF A CENTURY. On tho border of the park siands Goothe’s country house whoro ho pessod seven happy years ; & houso which would now suit vory weil i doy laborer, but with which a bachelor liko Goothe, whose mind was his kingdom, might well bo contont, espoocinlly. it ‘tho Graud Duchesses who camo would. now, as then, ba mercy over beer and cold meat, aud go away ro- joicing over the uow poem rend to them from the frosh manuscript, Smallest and humblost of all ig tho littlo back hut in_tho park, which Gootko hind Lind built in threo days as_a pare of the miso on scono of o birthday frole, but which the Grand Duko Clarles Augustus toolc for & summer obode. From this little hut, whore the gardonors wow keop tholr hoes and wheelbarrows, the Duko wrote enthusiastic lotters about politude and tho charms of Dbathivg by moonlight in tho Ilm. I would not ndvisc any oo to rise up from the reading of these lotters and walk direotly down to tho Tim ; if ho doas, ho risks cmbitter- ing lns oxistenco by the shack of disonchant- ment. 'Lho river is at prosant o Lorriblo veget- ablo brew, but in tho intereat of wontiment and all that is truo and beautiful, I hope it is the dams aud tho milla that Lavo dono it, aud that, asin the cese of tho stroot pavemeut, things wera battor a century ago. GOETHE'S PARK, Fortunately, as in that wondorful fairy tale whore, just ag you begin to feel uncomfortaolo from outing the dendliest poison, the sutidote is found growing on the next tree, so hero the beauty of tho Enrk lightons tho dinnppoint- mont caused by tho fllthiness of the river. The park is so very lovely, and so much more im- portaut a feature hiers than tho town, that ong sees at onco the justuess of that deseription of Weimar, which ealled it o patk with a_town in it 'Phora i the furthor charm abont the park, that it was entirely rolaid out by tho Dulia aud Gootho, sud in its_prosent beauty is worthy to bo classed, ns Wielind suggested, nmong Goothe's poems. Landecano guvdening was ono of Goethe's passions; le trents of it lurgely in his botanical writings, aund iu the novel, * Eleo- tive Afinitien,” love-making aud laying out parks go hand in linnd, THE BTATUARY, Bronze statuos of the four graator lights of Weimatr's flrmnmont graco its atroets. Herdor's staudy in frout of the churoh of which he was wo long pastor, Wicland's sdoris an opon Aquare which bears his name, The Goothe-Bchiller roup ie placad in front of the theatre, in whose fihemlah they labored go mony yenrs in commnon. T'he group is by Rietschol, of Dresdon, Guotho stunds ilrmly orect with one liaud on Schillor’s shaulder, and with tho other olfors to Schiller n laurel wreath, Schiller holds in his hand a man- uecript to which ho has just conflded lhis thoughts, and gazing upword, with head slightly thrown bacle, anif tho fit wero still on him, ho with {he disengaged haud coquots with tho offored wrenth., Dlodestysuysno, merit says yos, and so ha pushes away and yot accepts the proffered hanor, CUoothio is roprokonted nt abont the ago of 69, Sehillor at 40, ‘I'ho group is mloresting and the concoption pootic. Nehillar It tho niost succoss- fully delientod, and was natueal, for hin chay- acter lends itself moro rendily 1o ontward ex- Dresion thian the serouo aud tranquil wisdum of Guoothe, . GOETHE'S JHOME. Goothe's town hoase—thoe houso presentod to him on his return from Italy by the Gramd Duke —tuyms an oxcoption among the humble abodes of Weimm's poots, and risos consplenonsly abova tho lowly voofs by which i6 18 wur- ronnded. The upper rooms, which Gootho used o8 drawing aud recoption rooms, are let, and tho lower floor s ocenpiod by its owners, Goothe's two unmarsied grandsons, who koop their grandfuther’s bodioom and atudy une changod and carefully guarded from the public oye, 1 nmunot fond of golug toa poot’s houso to seo his old clothos and Jocks of “halr, which aro usnally what his doscendunts havo to aliow ; but in the cage of Uootho, his houso ix 8o fu- miliar to us from hia letters and from the hun- druds of books which hive been writlon about him and his surroundings, that I join in the regrot that is ovorywhoro oxprossen in Wol- mur ot ity insccossilllity, The owners look upon these rooms with so oxaggoratod urav- oronco that thoy treat thom us a sanciuury; but this viow 1 not at all in consonanco with Uonthe's own idoas, for Lis wholo writings aro full'of himselt, his thoughts, feolings, omotions aud motives; and novor having in any way on. deayozed to Lide his lifo Zrom the public kiowle edgo, it in not llkul{lm wonld have thought # nceessary that aftor hin denth his chairs und tas bios should be Lid away from anybody who felt n desiva Lo sea thom. In Wicland's and ordor's houses thore nre not oven ald clathes or lacks of hair to Lo seon, Dt In Schiller’s house, his study, In which ho od, s proservod, ng nunrl! a8 possible, iu it original conditton ; and oa “the houss has beon purchased by the town of Wolmar, this room I8 opon to all visitors, Hohtller montions in o lattor that tho room had a palo graon wall-paper, and a scrap of it having beon found still clinging to the wall, the panor- hanger has carofully coplod It, 8o {hat we feol nsu{xmd that at lonst™ tho **lacal color™ Iu cor reet, I need not. {:u into an inventory of tho furnie ture; moro utoroullu‘i; aro specimenn of tha noet's manusoript nud lottors, and espeolnily his draft of tho assignmont of parts for tho first_porformanco of * Willimm Tell.” I may mention the writing-tabls, bocauso it is the ono of which ono drawer was always kept full of decaying apples, whone odor wau agreenble ta the poet. 1f any ono woro Lo mako ont n lat of tha various stimulants to thought which goning has mado uso of, this one would eoriainly liguro wmmony tho oddest. Goothe, situng down by chaneo one day at this tablo, was overcomo by Ubis odor nearly to fainting, ~ 'This trifling ci eumstapco rominds us of tho groat contrast bo- tween the two friends in physical constitution, Guoetho, a8 ovory ono knows, wnes an Apollo in munly boauty, IIe had o love of pure air whick his contemporaries thought fanaticism, Behillor was always siclly; wroto most wt night amid this odor of vogetable docay, snd was hurried hg‘ consumption to tho vo at the enxly age of 40, HOMILLER'S NONES, Twonty vears after Schilloc's denth o cortain urpomaster, Sehwabe, took it into his hond tg got Selnllor’s hend an & procious relic, Ilo bad the vault oponed, whete the romains lad beon laid with those of ton other mortals, but to his Aiemoy the collins wero all docayed’ wav, aud there ivasnothing but o contused” mass of bones at tho bottom of the vauit, ile took home tho elaven akulls, numberad them, rangod them iu a row and fnvited ovoryone in Weltnnr who hnd been porsounally acquninted with Sehillor to come nnd seo theny, * 'tho viitora wora taken ona by one futo tho room, and _invited to write down their opiuions ns to which was Schiller'n skul without the opportunity of consultation, Al agreed upon tho samo wumber, and then Prof. Belroter, of Jens, after much dili. cnlty, sortod out tho bonges of the ekeleton from tho hosp, awd the whole was pluced m tha Tibrary ut Weimar, It is ovident that tho ideps of tho present day in regard to tho sanclity of the grave wore ‘not then prevelont. Goethe wroto sotne boautiful lines to tha ekull, and ovorything was pretty and plossant, aud xecalls to us Hamlot and the grave-diggors, Sovernl yonrs after, iing Lonis L of Davavin, camoto Weimar, Ilo was o man of what, in ordinnry people, would bo called great rudeness of apeech, but, being a King, it was only blunt. nond, Jing Louis was vory much astonishail tg find Schillor's romains treated a8 & curiosity, 1 do not lmow how it was that he come to diffor from tho contemporary sontiment; it mignt have beon thint, being & Ioman Cntho- lio, ho thought humau ~bones had bottor bo in conseerated ground than rattling about in library drawers. - 1owover, tho Kiug wagged his rough tunfi,vuu to sueh offect that a8 soon ag lie had gone the Grand Duke wrote to Goethe hat, to avoid further remnrks, he desired him te have ® propor coflin prapared for Schiller's bonog, sud to have them laidin the Grand-Duacal vault. Gootho had a simpla oaiion box made, and on i had placed tha singlo word * Selitlor | in bronzo lottors, TIIR DURIAL-PLACE OF GOETHE AND SCIILLER, Whon Goothe aied & similar cofin was proc paved for Lim, and thoy now lie side by side iu the Grand-Ducal vault, surrounded by th tombs of thie Grand-Ducal family, * Goelho," * Schiller,"—these nro their epitaphs; not a word of thieir titles a4 counsollors, or of tha no- bility which Charles Augustus was finally driven to confor upon them by the imurmurs of hia cour. tinvs at Linving to assaciate with theso ploboians, I'ho wiko Goztha know when ho placed tho one word *8ehiller™ on tho cofin that postority would demaud no mwore, and they who direoted Groothoe's interment did woll to follow tho preco dout ho hind made. TUE GEAND-DUOAL LIDRARY, The most interesting place in Weimar is the Graud-Ducal Library. I am not _going to cail il & \Vallinllo,” as overy Garman does who writog about it, for the Wallinlln was only & heaven of savazes, and tho name hias beon made ludicrous by lfiuf Louis’' Bavarlan-Groele folly at Ratise bon. 1t s & charming iden to decorate a library with _tha ofligies of thoso who, by word or deed, have onlarged the domain of buman _thought, and this_has been dona lere with o simplicity and au absonce of protension in thorough harmony with the epirit of Welmar's most brilliant opoch. On entering 1 find myself directly opposito & full-longth por- teatt of Chnrles Augustns, near which aro ulso tho portraits of the Grand Duchesses Awmolis, Lis mother, and Louais, his wifa. Tho Gran Duke, whose most distinguished title fs that ha was * Goetho's Graud Duke,"” was not simply a Priuce who eould confer fuvorsand gatbor about Lim colobrated mon, which any Privco could do; but by the singular force and bonuty of his chay- actor he leld them lore, and retnined thoir csteem snd affection through long years of familiar intercowse. A man whom Goothe could so lovo must have been more than a meoro princely Mwoeonss, nor to n weak princo would Goothe bhavo sddrossed thoso attributes of affectlon ihich, how- avor much they mpy vount his virtues, do not sparo his faults. A fow words from Goathe will suflice to cnaractorizo the Grand Duchess Awmelia, **\WWhatever cen give graco or charm to lifo,” Lo ays, “'shio sought, with wiso mouder- ation, to colloct around hor,”* *+ * =+ “she dalighted in tho conversation of persons of talont, aud songht ocensious of formityg connoes tious of tuis kind, of maintaining thom, sud of turning them to account; indoed, there is na one of any note connected with Weimar whoro powors were not, soouor or later, called forth in }wr airclo.” Tho Grand Duchegs Louisn wrs of « high-gouled, self-contained nnturo, Bhe was tho Hort of person to say tho right thing at tho right moment. Aftor tho battle of Joua, in tho m‘idut of tho sncking of Woimar, she received Napolaon with a beaving sonoble ns to oxtort from him tho osclamution, *Voila uno femma qu'avee nos deux cent caLONS NOUA N'uVOUS pu fairo tromblor!” Thoso threo form tho central group sround which the kacioly of Weimnr rovolved & century ago, Tho two courts of Woeimar, as Goethe jest- ingly eallod thom, the princoly ouoand tho ine tolicotunl one, frunt us in tho library from bust and portrait. I spare you a list of names, but, to shiow the richness of the colleotion, I may mention that there are of Goothe thioa busts, throe or four portraits, aud u dozen or moro dif- fevent copperplatos ; of Hordor thrao busts ; of Schiller, two; of Wioland, & bust and two pore traits ; of Chnrlos Angustus, threo or four por- teaits nnd & bust. I will not dwell upon the stars of thoe second magnitude; suiiciont to say that in tha whole nesemblago’ thore are abeut forly busts ond fitty portraits, not ijwcluding tho largo collection” of ~copperpluto likenosses, Among tho many cuciositios 15 {he diplomaof oitizensliip sout to Behiller Ly the French Lle- public_in 1793, and signed by Roland aud Dan- ton, Similar ones wora forwarded ntthe sama timo to Washington, Franklin, Thomas Puine, and Anacharsis Cloots. Schiller's dl[)lom:b way given to tho Commander-in-Chief, Custine, to Do gent across the lines, and, with the dolightful Fronch inaceuraoy in regard to this side of tho Rhino, way addrossed to “* M. Gille, publicisiy allemand.” Tor glx years nothing was heard of it until it scems to have fullen into some ona’s hauds who suspected that Qilte might possibly wmonn Seluller, and forwardoed it to Weimar, Ly that time (1793) the Goneral to whoso earc it had Dicon eutrusted, and tho Ministors who had sign- od it, bad alrently porished on tho scaffold, Ilero it is, in" this library, that ono finds the truo signilicanco of Welmay, and thov who may La oppreased by tho wmaterinl insignifleanco of tho town go away from the library comforted, —_———— LIGHT, The nlght lias & thousand oyes, And tna day but one; Tol lio light of (b bright world dles With thie dyiug wun, o mind hos & thousand 0yos, At tho heurt but ong 3 Yot the light of a wholo Jifo dles When love 1a doue, —Londen Spectutor, et e f Intluenco of a Drenme Presssnys that the sito of the Siate . Clinreh, in that eity, was selocted through the instrumentality of o dremm. Dr. Jobn Londen, u provunent physician, wiodied upward of fifty fonns ago, was b loading member and worker of the Methodist denomiuation, and ubout tho time it was proposed toeract an odifico in the vicimty of Stato strcet, tho good doclor dreamed that ho eaw a flock of wiite doves allht on tho lots at tho corner of Htnto And Lutth streots. The impression of the vision wns 80 vivid that the Doctor could : ot shake it off, Ho fusintod that it way o good omon, and ihat the elwreh should bo erected on the Jota nbova numod, o sirennous was Lo in this that ho carriod his point, and tho old Stato street sanotu- ary was oroctad, to glyo way in due timo to tho Lenutiful edifico now located ou tho aite of the old Luick stanctura,