The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1873, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1873.—TR KAISER WILHELM. Who Corman Emperor and Bismarck Visit | the American Department. {The French Revenge in the Halls of Industry. VIENNA, Oct. 25, 1873. Last evening the Emperor of Germany and Prince Bismarck left Vienna for Berlin, after @ sojourn of almost a week, and thus the brilliant series of princely visits to the Universal Exposition on the Prater has beem closed. For Vienna and the Exposition it bas been a busy, cheerful week, full of interesting ceremonial life, and for the na- tions assembled under the shadow of the Rotunda a time of friendly greetings. Last week, more than ever before, we, who spend much time on the Prater, got to look at the busy assemblage of and have there as a world in miniature, national commissioners being been national repre- sentatives, receiving the {friendly visits and greetings of princely visitors. It seemed to us as if the Emperor of Germany did look upon the Exposition as a little world, and he showed the various nations with which his government is on friendly terms marked courtesies in more than one instance. The United States came !n for @ good share of friendly attention from the Kaiser and his Premier. The latter paid a visit to our de- partment in the Machinery Hall, and the Emperor himself, on the morning of his departure, honored by his presence our somewhat meagre display in the Industrial Palace. These visits we shall de- scribe, even at the risk 0. being charged with Jen- Kinsism by persons lacking a proper appreciation of European politics and the courtesies of royalty. | THE EMPEROB'S VISITS TO THE UNIVERSAL BXPOSI- TION. The festal results of Kaiser Wilhelm’s sojourn at Vienna were not especially rich, There was the usual amount of dining and humbug and parades; but the Emperor’s time was, jor the most part, spent in looking at the treasures of the Exposi- tion, which he visited five or six times, remaining from four to five hours there on each occasion. Kaiser Wilhelm’s whole visit bore a totally different character from that of any of his predecessors. The Shah dawdled through the jong galieries as if he bad no higher ambition than to admire the beau- ties of Vienna; Victor Emmanuel was harmed through transept after transept, as if he had wished to have the thing “done,” and many of the other princes seemed to imagine that the fact of their presence was enough for any department so nonored, But Kaiser Wilhelm seemed as i! he had nations the various for the time” come to Vienna on purpose to see the Exposition, | and he had the faculty—uufeigned, we think— of making the exhibitors and departments feel that he wanted to see what they had to show, to know how the world of art and industry was progressing. Dressed mostly in simple citizen's costume, attended by bis adju- tant, likewise in a civilian’s dress, accompanied usually by Baron Schwarz, he wandered from stand to stand, from pavilion to pavilion, as if he wanted to see ail there was. Though, in fact, these visits, simply as they were made, bore a very political character, after all The Emperor's good feeling towards Italy was not only shown on the first evening of his visit during the reception of the ambassadors, when he paid marked attention to the Italian representative at this Court, shaking Bands with him somewhat ostentatiously and whispering words of (riendship and flattery in his ear, but by his frequent and protracted sojourns in the Italian department of tne Exposi- tion. And while it must be admitted that this de- partment is one of the richest in art and articles of taste, that even the most ordinary visitor would be attracted Ly the beautiful statuary and the or- maments of gold and antique therein gatuered, Kaiser Wilhelm’s visits seemed to bear a decidedly political signification, as ifhe had wished to show | the little warla dows heic how iriendly he and his country are to his ally of 1363 and nis guest of a lew weeks past, FRENCH REVENGE. It was, of course, very natural that Wilhelm’s at- tention should be muinly given to the articles ex- nibited by Austria, and the brilliant yet solid dis- play of hisown Empire. We cannot grudge him & feeling of pride at seeing the position Ger- many takes among the nations here. His visits to the French were frequent. tesy in bis power, by visiting them incognito, by endeavoring to appear there in 4s unostentatious a | manner as possivie; but, some way, or other these visits bore, after all, a very comical character, ior the brave counter jumpers leit in caarge of many of the French goods considered it to be their duty, as loyal citizens of France to resent in their own childish manner the deeats o1G:avelotte and Sedan and the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, Whenever they heard tnat the Emperor was about to visit their department they left their posts and betook themselves, until the obnoxious visitor had gone, to parts unknown, to restaurants and ca/’s, to exult at their deleat of the foe. But they were mistaken 1n the character of the man they had to deal with, On Sunday aiternoon, while they thought himself in the famuy circle at Sehoenbrunn, they were SURPRISED BY A FLANK MOVEMENT, and escape was impossible. He appeared in their midst at about three o’clock, arriving un- heralded and uudreamed of, and, visiting stall after stall, entered menin charge, asking the prices of articles and making very extensive purchases, In looking at the French department next day I saw several articies ticketed as having been “purchased by His Majesty the Emperor of Germany.” The persons in at- tendance in the French department of the Ma- chinery Hall played the same very childish game at hide and seek, Not a Frenchman was visible when be passed by, and the Kaiser and Bismarck were evidently much amused thereat. Some valiant exhibitors in this department had taken a solemn oat ty cover up their goods wuen the kmperor should pass by; but the con- demnation of such an intended act ex- pressed by the exhibitors of all other nations, and a hint from the General Director that an insult to a guest o! the Austrian Emperor would not be tolerated, prevented the carrying out of this foolish species of revenge. It 18 Only an act Of justice to add that the French commissioners Nad nothing to do with this serio-comic exhibition of feeling. it was confined to the clerks and operatives in charge of the various stalls, KAISER WILHELM VIBITS THE AMERICAN DEPART MENT. The visits of the E to the American ¢ Mperor and Prince Bismarck partinent bore a very iriendiy | character, The former visited, as I said, the display in the Industrial Palace and the latter the Machinery Hall, The Emperor paid his visit to our much-abused department in the In- dustrial Palace on the last morning of his sojourn in Vienna, It seemed as i/ he had come down = speciall; to visit this department, for he left immediately after, ascending the Rotunda to take a general view Of the grounds and the city, He nad made the special request to Baron Schwarz that our commissioners should be present, and Chief Commissioner Garretson and Assistaut Com. missioner McElrath would hardly have arrived tn time had not the General Director had the courtesy to send his carriage jor them. At about ten o’clock the Emperor arrived at the west portal, and, after the formalities of mtroducing our commissioners nad been gone through, Mr. Garretson conducted His Majesty to the principal objects of the depart- ment, ‘The educational articles and the school fur- sniture in the transept adjoining the space allotted | Brazil were looked at by him with apparent inter- est, and then he was taken to the tropoy of South- ern cotton, when he PLUCKED A COTTON BLOSSOM and retained it as a memento. Thence he was taken into the court adjoining, and alter looking at the gyinnastic apparatus, the collection of pumps and the renowned picture of hog-killing, he was conducted by Baron Schwarz-Senborn to see the original Howe sewing machine, which seems Always to be a great attraction to the Baron, The Emperor was very much mverested in this piece of mechanism, and ater inquiring into the history of the inventor, and being introduced to nis nephew, desired to have the tinprovementa em- bodied in the modern sewing machines explained to him, The knitting maciine proved likewise attractive to the imperal party, Passing a stand Where Viennese pins and needles are vended the Emperor, smiling, asked one of the commissioners if’ these, too, were American.” ‘The co missioner blushed for his country’s fame somewhat and said, ‘No, Your Majesty ; these do not beiong to us!" These pettifogging dealers have opened their booths i all departments of the Exposition, and departments | He seemed to show every cour- | Kaiser Wilhelm to be quietly enjoying | into conversation with the | nave denea te enorts of the commissioners vo eject them. Thence the imperial party went into the transept (where our organist was grinding away at the Prussian national hymn) to the stands with gold pens and leather, patent window blinds, army untiorms and accoutrements, and finally to the photographs, Baron Schwarz making straigut ior the now renowned GROUP OF CINCINNATI BABIES, This collection of baby faces, in all expressions of ain and joy, is one Of the several things to which ‘aron Schwarz always takes his princely visitors when he wishes them tov smile. But now they are gone trom us forever, The Emperor saw t! mo | the little generation of Young America appeale: to His Hajesty’s sympatn’ he smiled, ad- mired them, felt a desire to bave them aunexed to tne German Empire, and askea Baron Schwarz if the group was jor sale. Mr. Garretson, seeing the pleasure the little photographic gem CAR to the imperal father, and wising that His ‘ajesty should take away pleasant memories of America in miniature, begged that he would be pisses “9 accept the baby picture, Hts Majesty hesitated a moment, tien laughingly accepted the present and told Baron Schwarz to see that our commissioner kept his promise. So the picture Was unbooked, and afew moments alterwards it was sent to His Majesty's carriage. ‘ihen he de- parted, suaking hands cordially with the commis- siouers, aud leaving us with the impres- sion that he had very winning ways about him, and had paid us a nice coupliment. | He ‘said some . agreeable things during the visit, expressing bis opinion on looking at the specimens of mechanical ingenuity wnat “by | and by America would have noching ieft to do by | hand. The kmperor speaks & not very Quent | English, He was greeted everywhere during | this aud former visits with great respect. | Though only a couple of police accompanied | him, to clear the way and pretene the peo- | ple (rom crowding too near the impertal presence, Pan inclined to think that he was weil guarded, | During a lormer visit to the Machinery Hail L noticed that a peasant who Was poimting out the Emperor to a triend at his side, had his arm gently but authoritatively put down by a calm-looking in-, dividual, who commanded in a somewhat sharp tone of voice, “M0 POINTING |? The Police President, Yon Madal, of Berlin, was here tor ten days before the Emperor's airival, and undoubtediy every precautionary measure possibie was taken by the Austrian authorities, Altogether his visits to the Exposition passed off very smoothly. Sometimes he was accompanied by the Austrian Emperor or the Archdukes, some- times by the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden or by Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy. When- ever the German and Austrian premiers Were seen walking arm in arm and chatting pleasantly to- gece a8 they passed through the oails of the In- ustrial Palace, or when Francis Josepa conducted | his imperial guest through the reaim of art, the crowds became impassable. The contrasts grew interestipg. Beside the stately German, with yet elastic, military tread, Fraucis Joseph appeared puny, almost insignificant, Beside whe towering, | broad-chested Pomeranian junker the spruce form of the Magyar leader of Austrian State politics was hardly noticed, Yet both were remarkabie- looking mén—the one fne-headed, strong-iramed, Weather-resisting, smiling and consciously deflant; the other of medium size, slight but compact of build, with carefully cultivated jet black Lair and Mustache, through and through the cavalier, foud oi the dance and the chase—of game, animal and | feminine. Count Andrassy’s eye lingers on every | pretty face that comes in sight; he 1s an incurable | | tirt, and a great favorite with the ladies of Pesta and Vieuna, A GERMAN COMPLIMENT. Prince Bismarck’s visit to the American depart- | Mentofthe Machinery Hail was ap event of no | little excitement and interest to our exhibitors. This department has, as you are well aware, gained for us all the real honors—if we except the educa- tional, that we have secured at Vienua, and it was flattering enough to hear the Prince say that his purpose in visiting the Machinery Hall on the aiter- noon in question was “to look at American ma- chinery, of which he had heard so much."’ Per- | haps “he had read the report made by one of the German members of the in- ternational Jury, Professor Reuleaux, to his government, who said (1 quote irom a copy of his report handed to me a few days ago) :—“In the field o1 inventions and inventive genius Amertva holds in the Exposition the first rank. Her exhibi- | tions of machinery bear almost exclusively the character of originality. It may be said that in | machine industry England has partly lost her | fo:mer undisputed leaderstup, or that she is at | least about to lose it. Tne healthy young trans | atlantic industry wiich is continually drawing irom | Us energetic and intellectual heads and robust hands makes with the aid of her gemius the most sweeping progress, and we shail soon have to tuin | Oux front from Lngland westward.’ | BISMARCK AMONG US. | Be this as it may, the Prince came to look at American machinery, and soon became so iuter- ested in eXamuning it that he forgot the lapse of | the ten minutes he had originally desigued to spend in the department, and stayed with us uearly three- | quarters of an hour—frow @ quarter before to aalf past four, His visit bears, like that of tue Emperor to the other departments, the stamp of an act of | iriendsbip towards us which we had not expected ; | the machine exhibitions of some other countries, | England among the rest, were passed over with great rapidity, im order that he might visit ours, The exhibitors had been kept on the alert all day | long, standing by their machines in the sharp air | that now so frequently prevaus, expecting tue visit of Kaiser Wil’ eim, who, however, did uot see mu€h more than the German aod Austrian depart- ments in the Machinery Hall. Prince Bismarck | was clad in civil dress, attended only | by the German Commissioner and a few | German and Austrian ofticiais, He was re- ceived by the commissioners and Mr. Pickering, the superintendent of our department of the Ma- | cuinery Hall and a few other promiment Americans, | who happened to be in the hall at the time, among them Consui General Post and Pay Director Cun- ningbam, The Prince's attention was first called by Mr. Pickering to the wood-working machinery, | Which Engineering says “finds no rivai in apy | | Part of the buliding,”’ and several of the more in- teresting machines were pnutinto operation. One of i Our most characteristic mactunes in this branch— | namely, that ior pail-making—was uuiortunately | no longer running, the owner haying taken offence at the attempt made by the Imperial Commission to levy @ smail tax on the palis made and sola, and taken hasty ieave for | more congenial climes across the big water, However, the rest of the machines worked | well, and ringe Bismarck, after putting pieces of wood ip a turuing lathe, made Mr. Pickering happy by telling him that his countrymen “had very pe- | cular notious of doing everything by machinery; | that time seemed to ve of more importance than | anything else in America, and, consequenti, | thé endeavor was to dispose-o! it mechanically. | Mr. Pickering smiled, and told the Prince that this | | class 01 machinery is run at a much greater speed | than is the case Wita similar things in Austria, and | pointed out the virtue of the coid rolled shafting that i8 made to go at 250 revolutions a minute, in- Stead oO! the 130 run in the other departments, itn | order to keep pace with the progress made by our manufacturers of wood-working machine: NEW ENGLAND SHORS AND WOOL SPINNERS. After pausing afew moments at the brush-mak- ing macaine the Prince entered the ausy corner | devoted to the New England shoe mauuiacturing | business, where a covering for the pedal extremi- ties can be sewed, pegged and polished in the Space of Six or seveu minutes or jess, He watched | With extreme minutenes= the process of manutac- | ture, examined a completed shoe just irom the ma- | chines, and told Mr. Bigelow that ‘if he (Bismarck) | Were In the shoe ousiness he would not like tu have | to compete with him,” aud that “such machinery | must knock the shoemakers’ business ali to pieces.’ He asked @ great number of questions | abuut the number of boots that coula be turned | out per day, the price they were sold at in Amer- | ica, and aiter jooking at the reversible bout heels, | which he thougut were useful for shoeing an arm his attention Was called to the display of sca! aud then he was Jed to the little enclosure o | cupled by Mr. Avery with his continuous | wool spiuner, generally termed the “gem of our machine hall,” and which promises to | thrast the old-fashioned mule spindle system to | one side. Bismarck spent a long time examin- ing the machine, and, apparentiy, he was very weil acquainted with the process of yarn spinning, seeing at once the advantage whicu Mr. Avery's has in doing away with tue mue and in imitating the motion of the human hand in feeding the wool to the spinners. The Prince said it was a beautiful and compact machine, and wanted to know if it had been introduced largely in the United States and if the German wool spinners had taken much interest in the machine, “ior,” said he, “ii, as you claim, you can do better work with one-half tue number of spindies, at less than one-half the ex- | pense, occupying, as you do, less than one-quarter | Of the space ol the most improved process, | then you will have to supply the whole worid with spindies.”” “True,’’ said our Massachusetis spin- | ner, “but there is the rub, my Prince; my patent 1s reiused in Prussia, for some Teason or other, and I shall not send 4 machine there until I am protected.” | The Prince winced @ little, smiled, and looking at tue machine, only exclaimed, “Beaatiful, so com. pact’’’ and was then taken to the rich displays ot machine tools and the gun machinery, ai of Which Might have proved interesting to the Prince had | he had time enough to study them, ‘There wa. one | article by chance in the hall which Prince Bis- | Marck could not pass by without notice, und at Hich he lingered jor over fiiteen » Wi Waares re teen minutes, We | CAPTAIN MEIGS’ MAGAZINE GUN, | of which I can spe so ‘as it 18 a | Wond tul and be ument of death, en not d. ‘The inventor 1as jn Vienna several months explain- ing merits of his gun to the Ausirians, He says, however, that he never showed it to any oni who understood @ gun bet ter than Prince Bismarck. The Meigs magazine gun bas @ capacity ol firing its reserve of 50 care tridges @ minute, and when this t the Prince he took the arm in hig hands, pointed it, felt its weight, and asked the price at which it could be manuiactured per thousand, and toid the inventor that whenever ne came to Berlin he would receive him and introduce him to the autnorities of the War Depurtinent, | Thus Captain Meigs was accidentally rewarded jor | over a decade of planning and scheming how to make an arm which, from the very jeariulness of its results, will, he trusts, make war so terrivie that nations will hesitate to fignt at all, THE SAND BLAST. Then the Prince jooked at Mr. Sellers’ machines and the great puddling machine, an article which carried Of the diploma of honor; thence to the Sand blast apparatus, to which Bismarck regretted t Was proved to | | of Bible Scenes.”” | Sometaing new for the great genius and car | tion, and she savs that, with her small boot, she ment at nove. He saw ony the sumpie pro- cess of cutting initials i but said he knew all about that it was one of the most curious and interesting things be bad ever seen, and only regretied he could not examine it in detail, The sand blast ap- aratus isindeed a wonderful invention, but still in the infancy of 1t8 application to the practical purposes ol Lie. Of course there were a score of other Interesting articles to which Prince bis- marck’s attention might have been called; for in- stance, the Howes, Babcock & Co.'s Eureka Double Aspirator and Separator, for purifying grain trom smut; the Stephenson street car, which is sold to Brussels; Winn & Mylinger’s brickmaking ma- chine, Warth’s cloth cutting machine, Fairbanks’ ex- hibiuon of scales, Fogerty’s gas making apparatus, smarck left all of which attract great attention. the di visit, ™ and thanking him cordially for his atteations, t is @ Iuct admitted by all eaginecring authori- fles that our Machinery Hall stands first in the line of progress in inventions and mechanical ap- liances, This iact was admitted by the Emperor ‘ancis Joseph when he visited the department in the early mouths of the Exhibition, In the Neues Fremden-Blatt oi June 16 we tind the following account given of His Majesty's visit:— “the bmperor appeared highly pleased with | what he saw in this section, and repeatedly ex- pressed his gratification with its many important contributions, The re. which His Majesty ex- pressed regarding the American exposition of machinery evinces his correct and practical judg- ment in stating that America stands unrivalled in new abd practical inventions,” FORLORN TAMMY. The People’s Right Gude Willie Waught for Nast. .A CYCLONE OF SYMPATHY. The Solid Mite of Friendship. New Yor, Nov. 15, 1873, To Tas Eprror oF THE HERALD:— Enclosed please fud 10 cents tor the Nast fund. Yours, A FRIEND, The City of Penn to the Man of Chalk. PHILADELPHIA, Nov, 15, 1873. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— We admire friend Toomas Nast and always have on the principle that “like loves like.” He is a | small man on 4 large scale, about 14inches to the foot, and his weighs are very taking, resembiing our Quaker City ale drawn from the wood. He would have his weakly car-tunes played by the Harpers of Manhattan, until thee says his wailet is played out. We pity the sorrows of the poor but romantic young man, | and enclose thee, herewith, that of which we have the most, our dividends being regular apd im wholesale ratio. It is a modicum Of that essen- tial which friend Patrick discovered in the earthe receptacle which had originally contamed the In- ebriating tonic distilied from tle cereal staples of agriculture. Our aristocratic and erratic con- nection, sir Charles Coldstream, jound an exten- sive supply of the same crater when he looked in the volcano’s mouth. If Thomas cau spare time to attend the meeting of our creditors on next sixth day, he will see considerable of the same com- modity. BROADBRIM, STRAIGHTCOAT & CO., Bankrupts. A Good Samaritan’s O11. ‘ NEw York, Nov. 14, 1873, To THE Eprrog OF THE HERALD :— Being 8 man of sympathy and of a large heart, I cannot help responding tothe appeal ot tue suf- fering Thomas Nast. Enclosed please find a bottle | of Siberian ou, well kuown to assuage the grief and heal the ills of flesh. Sorry that I cannot give cash, but will send check, payable when the banks begin to pay. Yours, MOSCOW. A Scalp Protector. To THE EDITOR OP THE HERALD:— I feels dooty bound to cum to de reskew of Mr. Nast. I hinclose a peace of kord; it will doto ty round his ed to keep is hairon. I will halso give him some dolis hies and fly payper. Acking on the diobollikal sistem, he can also receive 5 cents weakly to Keep his leetie sell from starvashon these bad times. lt Mr. Nast will korl at my resi- dens | will give him a broom & shovel to sweep the suo away. Solsays to him. So long, old pail. BILL GILL, P. 8.—Hinklosed find a cint for Mr. Nast to get a little reiresment, B. G. Tom to th, Front. New York, Nov. 15, 1873, To THE EpIToR OF THE HERALD:— Having seen in your valuable paper a subscrip tion list started for the blackboard delineator, Tom Nast, and thinking that he would like to go to our probable scrimmage with Spain, I will send | by express a suit of blue that I have got since the War o! 1812, AN OLD VETERAN. The West Awake. Sr. JosEPH, Mo., Nov. 11, 1873, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— T notice that nearly all contributions for aban. doned Tnomas come irom Eastern States, Be- lieving that the West should have a share in this | churity 1 enclose ticket of admission to “Panorama A Visit to the Show may suggest ture, His subjects have been stale for a long tim RADICAL, arving on a Large ee Tools for Wood Se New Brunswick, N. J., Nov, 15, 1873, To THE EDITOR OF THE HeRALD:— Looking very carefully over the Nast-T. fund, one—yes, one of my chums had« contributed towards it—I feel jealous towards him in not men- tioning my name before the public, as I am a great charity individual. Being in the junk business I will donate to Mr. Nast, by Titus Express, an old Saw and axe that did cut down the old stump— once adliberty pole—that braved many a storm and was a guiding star to me late at hignts, Alas! poor liberty stump! WEAK BILL, A Terrible Gift. es or DISGUSTED MATRIMONY, | VER AND AGUE COUNTY, SQUEDUNK HOLLow, Nov. 15, 1873. To THe EpiTror OF THE HERALD:— Allow ine to make @ heavy contribution to the Tom Nast fund of 200 (fighting weitt) pounds, which is my mother-in-law (large mustache), and, when dressed in male costume, resembles the Big Judge, but t# not half so good looking; wearsa small boot, No. 19, which looks like the steam shovel used on the Harlem Railroad when In mo- can 40 all of Tom's fighting and whip all contrib- utors of old stumps of cigars, chews of tobacco, empty gin botties, &c., to his reile! fund. sue wiil | come on by the Gilbert Elevated Railroad, and not stop for the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge to cross the Kast Kiver, as she has heard that they have anchored it on Long Island, and is afraid Tom will be anchored on one of the isiands of the Kast River before she can get to his relief or make @ Croton reservoir of himself, if he has consumed the barre} of salt herrings, five years old, pre- sented to him a few days ago. Please inform the poor artist of this offer as soon as possible, and oblige an old subscriber, BLUE BLOOD, Mate of the “Brown-Eyed Lass.”? THE LABOR ORISIS IN PATERSON, There is no notable change of affairs in the Paterson manufacturing establishments. at the Danforth Locomotive Works there are abont 300 men left, a Jarge portion of whom are engaged in the manufacture of cotton machinery tor South American orders unaffected by the panic, and which, consequently, will give employment thronghout the winter. The locomotive employés ‘Wwul be discharged gradually, as each man finishes the job on which he is engaged. In the Grant Works 260 men are left, and in the Rogers Works about 650, who will be gradually discharged, and the prospects are that @ month henee not one of the toree establishments named will be running. There is no prospect of their being reopened unt spring, when it is hoped that confidence will be restored sufficiently to enable ratiroads to nego- tiate thelr bonds, until which time no new loco- motives can be ordered, ‘here are many families already suffering in Paterson in consequence oi the hard times and want of work. The Ladies’ and Church Aid societies are feeding & good many; but the number is increasing beyond control, ‘ihe emptiness of the city treasury has prevented the municipal authorities trom domg as much has they had hoped; but the First National bank has agreed to advance some money, and itis now hoped that some plan of operations can be agreed upon which will enable the commencement of some public work for the employment of idle mechanics and laborers. The Commitvee of Alder- i A cabal will make a report on Monday night. ARREST POR ATTEMPTED SAPE ROBBERY. Norvoun, Va., Nov. 16, 1873. Ab employé of the Howe Sewing Machine Com- de could not wive much time. a Le bad av eneage. pany was arrested here last night in the act of at- temptng to urewk inte aud Tov the company’s sale. ST. WENZEL, ‘The Nine Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Bishopric of Prague. PRAYER, WORSHIP AND PILGRIMAGES. The National Fete Day ot Bohemia. PRAGUE, Oct. 2, 1873. For the past six weeks the ancient and to the Lord well pleasing city of Prague, sometimes called the German Rome, the seat of Prince Archbishop Schwarzenberg, has been in a state of chronic festaiexcitement. The Prince Cardinal arranged a grand ecclesiastical festival, and sent invitations out to all parts of Europe for the dignitaries of the Church t vome and join “in the festal jubilee,’ And they came, {rom Rome and from Mayence, from Vienna and Paris, the high officials of the Church, and then clergy ‘rom Bohemia and Moravia, and Capucins and Jesuits, indeed representatives of ali the many orders of Christianity, and all the bells of the hundred and five towers of che city rang out morning, noon and evening, as the pilgrims ar- rived, and pulpit and altar were occupied from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, LRAGUE—THE AUSTRIAN ROME IN FESTAL GARB. Bohemia celebrates this year the nine hundredth anniversary of the founding of the bishopric of Prague, and the occasion was conscientiously taken advantage of by the Prince Cardinal, Archbisnop von Schwarzenberg, to show the strength of his forces—in fact, to demonstrate to the liberal peo~ ple of Vienna and other ungodly cities which have been receiving Victor Emmanuel with open arms that Pope Pius IX. is not forgotten in Bohemia. The Prince Cardinal can congratulate bLimseif on @ large measure of success. The festival lasts from | the 30th of August to the 5th of October, and em- braces besides a great number of small processions, the consecration of an altar in the unfinished | cathedral, the laying of the foundation stone tor the extension of said sacred edifice, pilgrimages to various shrines, visits to the graves. of Duke Coles- jaus the Pius, the founder of the Prague bishopric, and on the concluding Sab- bath, the sth, service in all the churches, a solemn “Te Deum Laudamus” and the ringing of bells for an hour, And as the national fete day in honur of Bobemia's patron saint, Wenzel (or Wenceslaus), fell on the 28th of September, this was. included in the list of festivities, and the Prince Archbishop thus very skilfully managed to kill two birds with one stone by gathering to his side the. Old Czechs and the leaders of the Young Czechs, the feudal and democratic parties of Czechendom. The Germans asa whole kept aloof from the fes- Uvities, if we except the clergy and some feudals, YOUNG CZECHENDOM LEAVES THE CITY. The Prague festivities and devotions must be considered in the light of a monster clerical de- monstration against what we generally term the “spirit of the age.” The Prince Cardinal and the Church have thrown themselves at the head of the Czech agitation in Bohemia, and would, appar- ently, take upon themselves the herculean task of uniting the 3,000,000 Czechs and 2,000,000 Germans constituting the Kingdom of Bohemia under the one great, almighty banner of the Church. But the task 18 no easy one. The Young Czechian party, democratically tn- clined, Matly refused to accept the alluring invita- tion to worship at the shrine of St. Wenzel and participate in the festivities of the Church at the same time; and on the morning of the great festai day, the 28th, while the vast procession lingered about the equestrian statue of St. Wenzel, on the St. Wenzel square, and the bells of St. Vitus, on the Hradisch, called the devout to prayer and wor- ship, the various guilds of the Young Czechian party, the infidel brewers and shoemakers, the tailors and bakers shook the dust of the city irom their feet and left Prague to its piety, while they rambled Inatily on picnics and excursions, But there are wicked people like these in all big cities, and the good ones feel ail the better when they do leave their haunts for a while. Not that these in- fidels do not believe in St. Wenzel, or entertain glowing hopes of the grand future awaiting for their “oppressed nattonality,”’ and their beautiful country, which has been termed with a good deal deal of justice THE IRELAND OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE. This comparison is, by the way, true, not only as regards the ‘‘lay of the jland, but the looks of the people as well,” as a friend of mine remarked the other day as we watched the processionists file by, And in truth tbe two peoples have aims almost similar, Both are connected with empires from which there is no apparent release; both are striving for national semi-independence, the home rule for Ireland, the acknowledged independence of Bohemia asa kingaom, 4 la Magyar in Austria, with Francis Joseph as their king crowned and anointed in proper style, as kings should be, What St. Patrick is to Ireland that is St. Wenzel to the Czechs of Bohemia, the patron saint, a bright legend of @ better paat, the legendary promise of a brighter future, BEVORE THE STATUE OF ST. WENZEL BY NIGHT. I arrived in Prague on the eve of St. Wenzel’s festival. Imet vast numbers of peasants on the streets as towards evening I wended my way along the interesting old city to the Wenzel’s Platz, or Square of St. Wenzel. The Platz is a long and very wide street, rather than a square, and presents @ fine appearance even by night time, being well lighted, and to-night there was before us, balf way up the square, a huge structure of colored lights, before which @ black mass of hu- manity stood—men, women and children, bare- headed—and prayed and sung to an equestrian statue under the illuminated canopy, The statue was that of St. Wenzel (or Wencesiaus), of saintly repute, the patron ofthe Czechs and their kingdom. Icould discern one individual close to the statue armed With a hymn book, and heard him repeat a few lines therefrom, which the crowd then sung. It was a low, sad chant, like the songs and hymns of most of the Sclavic peoples. The words they sung I know not. It was, I am told, a petition to the saint to bless Bohe- mia, and to restore the kingdom's ancient grandeur. Then the singers stopped and we heard the bells of the city peal out, and the bright, sil- very moon shone over usall. Slowly the crowd dis persed, and yeta jew lingered at the foot of the statue and knelt down in silence and prayed before an altar which I now saw had been erected before the monument, ‘The crowd gone, I had toe rpcasarane of noticing how the statue had been decorated for the festal occasion; how an orchestral ped, star begilded covering of wood had been erected over his august head, and the boards thereo! dec- orated With pictures from the eventful iile of the saint. A square plot about the monument had been enclosed by raiing, aud at the iront corners were two sentinel boxes, Ifound une unoceupied, In the other I discovered an old Czech peasant, fast asleep, dreaming no doubt about the glorious future of Bohemia, and with little iear in his soul that any person would commit @ sacrilegious act on the person of the patron saint, ‘True, the old man woke op after atime. He was @ curiously withered specimen of Uzecisan human- ity, and spoke poor German, He told me that he had occupied the post of sentinel tor many years past, and bad taken partin St, Wenzel’s procession up to the Hradisch even a8 a boy. He did not think there was so much enthusiasin snown how as then, and dwelt with evident pleasure on the memories | had called up of the past. He told me that the pilgrims would meet on the square again on Sunday jmorning and would then proceed over the bridge to the Hradisch, and that on Sunday | eve there would be a second gathering belure the statue of the saint. fern Md fim, aod be sunk in Into the slumber of old aze. i bia was a glorious onight night this St. Wen- zel'a Eve, and 1 wandered to the bridge that spans the’ Moldau aud passed under its curious towers, and my guide doved fis hat to St. Nepo- muk, about wiose sacred image starry lights were burning, and the pile of buildings called the Hrad- isch stood in grand relief above tne on th tof the high ill, It is a long pull ap the steep streets of the Klemnseite to reach the old castle, whose every room 1s inscribed with leaves of bohemian story. Was it not the kings Tor centuries? Up there in one of the large halls ‘did not the nobles of Bohemia swear al. legiance to their soverelgn after bis coronation t There, too, “took eg the frat acto! violence in ‘pod ort of thirty years,” when the Robles siswata Martinitz, $wo wnnopular palace of Boheinia’s | | IPLE SHEET. members of tne mmperial government, were cast out of the window of the council chamber by the indignant Protestant nobles and deputies in 1618, for Bohemia was then almost an eutirel, Protestant land. The doctrines of Huss had live: and flourished for nearly two centuries; bue the Great Thirty Years! War came, and the ‘pattle of hite Hill, when the Catholics again triumphed, and Wallenstein lived in one of the squares below ‘the custie in royal splendor on his $6,000,000 @ year, with his astronomer Sené to interpret the stars for him. But Bohemian history goes much further back than that of the Hi 8 onl, built some 500 years Seiten ania P. haps in the ruins wi , and may be traced per- ou see on the crest of the ane ean be weeny ira ‘0 the days o1 enzel an to the days of hi endom. True, we pilgrims moynt to the Hradisch to-morrow morn, because the Wisselirad no longer exists, and the remains of St. Wenzel and St. Nepomuk, and a hundred his- torieal and unhistoricai relics, are preserved in tho cathedral, whose unfinished form looms up in the mellow moonlight, But to-night we revel in mem- ories of Wissehrad, because these memories lead us to the story of St. Wenzel, with whom we have to do on the morrow, THE BOHEMIAN ACROPOLIS, The Wissehrad crowned the heights overlooking the Moldau. It is now a citadel, and remiuds you of Ehrenbreitstein, on the Rhine, or the Blocks- berg, overlookiug Buda-Pesth, on the Danube, Shail I teil the story of beautiful Libussa, princess priestess and prophetess, who once dwelt there, and who once loretold the future greatness of Prague? She was the great anoestress of the Bo- hemian dukes and kings, and consequently oO! St. Wenzel, Weill, on the crest o: that tll Queen Libuasa built her nest, She was not a Christian woman, but had @ queer habit of worshipping a very powerlul Sclavic god ef war, Swantowid by name; to whom (ye mythologists may remem- ber), like to 5t. Vit or Vitus, roosters were con- sidered as very sacred birds, Libussa had two sisters, one, Kasha, who helped to do tue governing, and Theka, & woman strong in the knowledge of herbs, who did tne doctoring. There ts a precipice close to the old castle and overiooking the river which tells sad stories about,Libussa’s life. This omunous place is called Libussa’s Bed, and here the fickle woman took her lovers as soon as she tired of aa and precipitated them trom the top of the Toc! THREE HUNDRED NOBLE CZECHS Were thus annihilated vy the glowing Princess. But these little affairs of the heart seem to have Tun the same then as now. Libussa tell in love one day with a simple peasant—whom she had caused to be captured and brought to her—whose Dame was Przemysl. He it was who captivated the Queen, escaped the fate of her other lovers and became her recognized husband and king, the an- cestor of the iong line oi Gzechian dukes and kings of Bohemia. But this is not ali the ssory. Libussa died, leaving one of her maids, by name Wiasta, who fell in iove with Pi 1 and wished to be- come Queen of the Czechs; but Przemysi being a king, and consequently of divine descent—no mat- ter whether the Queen found him a lowly peasant or not—did not see matters in this light, and told the lovely Wlasta to begone out of his sight forever. It was always so. Wlasta got mad, raging mad, and swore ske would be Queen of Bouemia and leave Przemysl out in the cold. So she leit the perch of the Wissehrad and went about the city and gathered together all the wives who lived unhappily with their husbands and armed them—there were some 400—and built a castle over the river on the side where Prague proper now stands, and made war on King Peter of the Wissehrad, conquered all the casties round about, took knights and nobles prigouers, of some cut olf noses and ears, others she cast into the wella and angen sae accepted a few as regular lovers to the army. Then they cut off the thumos ofall the boy children so that they could not draw the bow, aad the right breast of the girls so tuat they should not be hindered in handling tuat instrument of war. But one fine day King Przemysi gov very mad himself and sent all his soldiers to capsure the Amazon princess and her followers, which the, did. All the Amazon maidens then had their hea cut off, and King Przemysi thenceforward lived in peace, 8T. WENZEL. Are not these pretty little legends, you ask, like the scores that seem to attach to ull Huropean Tuins, growing there as naturally as the ivy or the moases Cling to the gray falling walls? Not so fast, here, rade historian! Weare creeping about tne roots of Bohemian history. This same Przemysl began his ruie about the year of our Lord 900. He had a nephew who succeeded him, and his name was Wenzei—St. Wenzel he has become. the traditional bearer of an idea, the Bohemian per- sonided idea of national regeneration and iude- pendence, like the Barbarossa of the Germans. Wen- zel is the patron saint of Bohemia—of the Uzechs, more properly speaking, for he 18 no iriend oi the German, And Since it is this saint’s festival we are to celebrate to-morrow, 4 few words on his life and deeds and his virtues,which caused him to be eanonized my be interesting. The pilgrims on the big square Sung his virtues to night and will invoke his aid to-morrow in restoring Bonemia’s grandeur, Wenzel’s title wes Duke of Bohemia, and after 929 his duchy was tributary to the German Empire. Duke Wenzel was a very pious prince. Had he not been so ne could never have attained to the honor of being patron saint of Czechenland. Good as he was, he had a brother wicked enough for two, who wished to rule the land, and placed himself at the head of an ingurrectionary party, who said that Wenzel was far too pious and too fond of the Church and its priests tor this world, And, in truth, Wenzel exhibited as much piety as a monk. He would prepare with his own lands the corn and grapes Jor the sacramental bread and wine; he would mow and thresh tie grain himsel! and gather and press the grapes, and sometimes, when engaged in superintending the building of churches aud in looking alter ecclesiastical affairs, would negiect those of the State. One day he was invited by Boleslaw, his brother, to attend a festival of inaugurating a church at Old Bungiaw. On the morning of the 28th of september, 936—just 937 years ago— Wenzel arose early to go to church. At the door of the sacred edifice, however, he was met by his brother and host, Boleslaw, whom he thanked for his generous hospitality of the previous day. Bolesiaw looked Hs his brother through one eye, and |, as he drew his sword and smote. his brother a hard blow on the head—‘‘True, but I will serve thee in till more hospitable way to-day.’’ A number of other rebels came about him and just murdered him as he clung to the sald door ring. When tue cathedral church of St. Vitus was built— or rather a portion of it—the remains of the Duke were transported to the historical hill, and there they still lie. By and by Duke Wenzel’s fame as a saint extended. The Church made him a saint, and the people began to look on him as a model prince, and his crown was preserved 4s a sacred inherit. ice, With which ali the rulers of Bohemia should be crowned. Two of his descendants ruled as dukes; then the dignity of royalty was awarded the Bo- hemian rulers by the German emperors, dat one time King Ottocar IL, who ruled from 1263 to 1278, gained Austria, Styria, Carniola and Carinthia, and ruled from the Baitic to the Adriatic. ST, WENZEL’S CROWN AND CZECHIAN HOPES, It is but natural that the Czech should love to dwell on the memories of Bohemia’s great past. But this past is gone forever to the present race, Forming @ constituent part of the Austrian Em- pire, they cannot and do not ask more than a nominal recognition of the independence ot St. Wenzel’s crown, They wish that Francis Joseph may be induced to grant thei a semi-independent national existence, to be’ crowned with the crown ol St Wenzel, at Prague, just ashe submitted to be crowned with the crown of St. Stephen at Pesta, and be anointed in due form King of Bo- hemia. Time and time again the Czechs have fancied themseives on the eve of attaining their demands, in which old and young Czechs are united, but Francis Joseph has so far managed to escape uncrowned, Two or three years ago they were exulting at the prospective ceremony, and I remember to have purchased some books of an old Frankiort antiquarian to post myself ap about the expected ceremonies, but both the Czechs 5 and myself were disappointed, But up there, in one of the chapels of the cathedral, in @ Diche kuown, only to a few mortals, are preserved the Wenzel crown, the sceptre, the apple and sword and other precious paraphernalia necessary for the coronation, an- bointinent aud inauguration of a full-blooded Bohemian king. How far or near the Czechs may be irom attaining their ends cannot be said with any degree of certainty, They have already man- aged to almost taboo 4! German language in Bo- hemia. It 18 painiul for @ pure-blooded Czech to be thought a German “cuckoo” or a German “chafer,”’ If you address 4 man on the streets of Prague in German he js likely enough to shake nis head and say, “Nix Deutsch!” although he speaks tt as well asyou do. The Czechs wish now to Czechianize the 2,000,000 Germans in the land. The confilct be- tween the German and Sclavic elements has been carried on since 1448 with great passion and is not yet tnished. ‘Though the Czecus have a fair amount of literature, fully equal in excellence, or, perhaps, superior, to the Austrian (not German), it seems to me a sellisn and short-sighted policy jor the present Czech leaders to attempt to ensconce themselves Dehind their national brogue, and thas deprive their descendants of the culture and re- th found in the storehouse of German litera- ure, ST, NEPOMUK, THE PATRON OF BRIDGES. Enough of night thoughts, you say; but this old bridge across tbe Moiduu is Such @ Very interest- ing spot that I could talk about it and Its twenty. eight siatues of satuts and Saviour, of bishops and Virgin, its two gua: dian towers that have held so Many defenders, for anotucr column or two, but must coniine myseil to St. Join Nepomuk, saint of this very bridge, to whom all true Czechs doit the hat as they go by, while the G Than passes Onin his pride, Nearly all ancient Luropean bridges have something very interesting about them, legends of battles for their possession, about the devil aiding in their constuction, or some such fabulous matter, This bridge took 150 years to complete, which proves to my satisfaction that Satan vad nothing at ail to do with tts building, for that genveman is a rapid worker and built up two arches of @ briuge at Frankiort-cn-the-Main ina single night. His price was high, however; it Was the first live being that suould pass over the bridge, In which bargain the city fathers outwitte His Satanic Majesty by driving & tooster across, and then the devil tore his hair in just indignation, But to St. Nepomuk. | guide has @iready dotted his cap for the second or third time wo him as we passed, and I heard hit mumbling once a snort the prayer, which he afterwards told me was to , St, Nepomuk! Save that we meet not With such .mistortune as happened to thee on this bridge!) Then Ferguson begins to tell me the story of St. Nepomuk’s life, and says how he en- joys a festal day just ike st. Wenzel’s, when thou. sands of peasants visit the statue on the bridge, aud pray belore bis shrine in the catpedral on tha Hradisch, and that all the bridges in Bonemia are pluced under his special care. A LUMINOUS MIRACLE, Nevomuak—or John of Nepomuk—was court preaes and father confessor to the Queen of Bohemia, who dwelt ap on the Hradisch. Wenzel V., a descendant Of the saint, was a jealous monarch, and wanted Nepomuk to reveal to nim all that bis fair consort contessed. Nepomuk, like a faithful Spirttnal father as he was, rejused to tell, The ing was raging mad, and historians tell us that on that same day he ordered his cook to be roasted on aspitover hisown fire because be had senta badly roasted pheasant or partridge to the royal table, and ordered Nepomuk to come to his castie, The priest came, but &3 he would make no revela- tions King Wenzel commanded his servants to bind him fast, hand and feet, and at night to take him to the bridge and cast him into the Moidau. The King Imagined that the foul deed would never be known, But God reveals His will in wondrous ways. Not oply did the body float miraculously up the stream some distance, but bright lights began to hover over the spot where tho corpse lay—a phenomenon which soon attracted the attention of tue people. Then, to complete the miracle, all the water of the river receded irom tat part of the bed where tne corpse lay, and thus tie fate of the good Nepomuk was revealed. ‘Lhis was in 1333, He was canonized in 1729, since Which time his fame spread wits wonder/ul ra- pidity in Bohemia, Moravia and parts of Poland and Austria, and is eenereny accepted as the pro- tecting saint of rivers and bridges. There are a great many songs and hymns in the Czech tongue im honor of tue Saint, and a great many stories about his might in cases of inundations; and Ican conscientiously recommend him to the considera- tion of some of our railroad companies, as he might prove of especial service in preventing disasters rom bridges crashing tn under their loada, LONGINUS, A HEATHEN CONVERT, FLOATS TO EUROPE. {have not heard any doubt raised as to the au- Shen sicity: of the Nepomuk supernatural occur- rences, Indeed, up above, on the Wissehrad, far greater miracles than this took place, to the glory of God and the Ozechs, Up there, we!l guarded, 1a St. Peter's, the body of St.. Longinus, in @ strong stone coflin, may be seen. Longinus was that blind Roman captain who was made to see by some blood from the Saviour’s side falling upon his eye, and then he (the heathen Roman) swore after that that Christ was in truth the anointed, His fellow soldiers were wrath thereat, stoned him to death, placed the corpse in a stone coffin and threw it into the water. I do not know how the coifin got from Jerusalem to the sea, but its course thence to Prague 18 weil authenticated. From Joppa or Jaifa, or somewhere thereabouts, it foatea smoothly across the Mediterranean and was then carried by an underground current through the Straits of Constantinople and through the Black Sea to the mouth of the Danube. Thence it floated up stream under the surface past all the heathen populations along the banks as lar a3 Vienna, and, it is prob- able, would uave stayed there but for the remack- ble intervention of Providence in the matter. There were vast inundations, the Danube over- flowed its banks, and St. Longinus took this favorable opportunity of swimming overland with his stone comin into the Moldau, and, in due course of time, arrived at Prague, where he made his presence known, was rescued and carriea up to the church on the hill. There he reposed in saintly rest meny hundreds of years until the arch-heretic John Huss cane to sow discord in Czechenland. The siussites sacked the church and cast St. Lon- ginus, coffin and all, into the Moldau, swearing a! the time the saint was a humbug. There it re- mained many, many years. One day, however, when the liussites had been annitilated, the old, blind Roman thought it time to get on ary la! again. Some fishermen saw a big oright star hovering one night over the water. They ran for the clergy, Who immediately caused an examina- tion of the spot to be made and found, to their great joy, the jong-lost coffin of stone. Amidgreat popular rejoicings he was borne back to St. Peter’s, where he still remains. ST. WENZEL'S DAY, Sunday, the 28th of September, was ushered in by the ringing 0/ all the church bells of tne city, and the sun shone with autumn brightness over the quaint old city and illumined tue towers of the iifty churches and tue heights of the Wissehrad and the Hradisch aud came softly down into the quaint streets and alleys, gayly decorated with flags and banners, and on pilgrim and peasant riests and white-robed maidens as they hastene in groups or in procession at an early hour to the place of assembly before the statue of St. Wenzel. it took over an hour for tne pilgrims to collect, and a8 procession after procession poured from every street into the long broad square and formed into lines, with banners aud insignia, and from churches and house windows the flags of the Em- pire, ol Bohemia and o1 Rome fluttered gently in he breeze, @ sceue was presented of wonderful richness in color and character. Then hymus were sung, the musicians played sweet, 6: melodies: and the bells rang out, and we all expected that the iron steed of St. Wenzel would take oo wings and fly up to the Hradisch for very joy. Then we leit the square and drove up to the Hradisch, to wait for the arrival of the procession. The streets are decorated with banners and flags, and lined with thousands upon thousands of people all the way irom St. Wenzel’s square to the Hradisch; all were dressed in their best, and the windows of the houses are crowded with faces of young Chechian beauties, with black hair and dark, flery eyes, and pleasant, winning features, om which it is pleasant to gaze. We pass over the bridge and under the towers, in one of which two figures in complete armour have been posted, and our horses have dimiculty in cumbing: the steep hill that leads us finally to the Hradisch. At last wo are there, aud stand in {rout of the historical castle, where now an ex-Emperor dwells—Ferdi- nand, once Kaiser of Ausiria, who was compelled to abdicate in favor of bis nephew, Francis Joseph, in the year 1848, and now holds his court here—an old, disappyinted and vain man, who swore when he lett Vienna to take up his residence in the castle of the kings of Bohemia, that he would never more tread the streets of Austria’s capital. DETHRONED GRANDEUR. And he has kept his word. And it pleases the Old man to think that the Viennese never see him; that he bas tt still in his power to withdraw his beneficent presence trom them. I have lived in Vienna six months, and I must admit that till this morning | had hever heard lus name men- tioned by uny o! his old citizens. Poor, disap- pointed, vain old man! He fondly thinks the world has not forgotten him! Then down below the hill, in another castle, Withtwo Austrian sen- tinels before the door, lives another live, de- throned monarch, the ex-Klector of Hesse, driv.o from his throne by Prussia in 1866. Austria still pays military honor to him. It is just possible that if I had had time | might have scared up a few more dethroned kings, priuces and emperore in or about the beautilul, curious old city, which one German emperor, many, many years ago, called ‘a garden o/ joy, in whieh kings could live and be happy.”’ For does not tne Ozecnian peasant sing of the beauties of this land ot dethroned royalty :— Where is my house ? © 18 my home? The waters are rippling over the meadows, Over the rocks the brooks are murmuring, Everywhere spring-time and tlowers are blooming— A trde, terrestrial paradise. And this Is the beautiful land, Bouema—my fatherland | Where is my house? Where is my home ? Know’st thou the land where God himself dwells t Where the nubie soul livein as well-tormed body, Where the clear eye destroyeth each hostile power; That is the noble race of the Czechs, Among the Czechs my home is tound. THE PILGRIMS COMING, Along, hoarse murmur comes up to us here on the crest o1 the hull, away up from the hundred- Spired city that basks in the pleasant autuinn sun this peaceful Sabbath morning. The procession is Moving. It enters the bridge. The tones o1 & dozen music bands comes up in uninteiligible con- fusion. Now the head of tne line has just climved the long, steep lilll, while the rear is buried in the narrow streets o1 the city. Its course is tortuous and winding, and it moves slowly along, snake like, a long interminable serpentine line of brijliant and varied color. Now the head of the ten thousand a aes and asit enters the gates of the Hrad- isch and passes through the court yards we can see what it is composed of. How the musicians play, the one quite regard- less of the other, the tunes mingling in utter confusion. Then follow the singers, each provided with a littie book of Bohemian hymns, and each group Singing its own songs, regardless of those preceding and those following. And what curious roups of humanity! First come the Civic Guard in gay uniforms, and then the nobles and Catholic aristocracy of Bobemia, fine, stately men, with nifled mien, singing well together, Then come eae of peasants from all parts of Bovemia and Oravia, men of giant stature, some of them, clad in a black light dress and high boots, ail singing in disharmony, but evidently going in with heart and soul. Then the various guilds of the city, with banners and insignia, men of low degree, evidently, Czechs who have been arrested in intellectual development, but all singing. Then come the 500 virgins in white, so much spoken of—very young ones, it is true, ranging irom eight to fifteen, all clad in white and ail singing, some With squeaking Voices that peal out right iustily, More peasants and guilds and then the clergy, 600 in number, monks in garb of penance and priests in lace and embroidery and higher dignitaries in purple and gold, And they sing too, the younger priests as tenor, the elder ones bass, and the good natured, stout ithers from the rural district: gioaning taking ad- vantage ol every halt in the procession to wipe the streaning perspiration from tueir brows, ‘They have come frem all parts of Bonemia, not alone, but of Austria, at the cali of the Prince Archbishop- Cardinal, noble looking schwarzenberg, to take part in the celebration of the nine hundredth anni~ versary of the founding of the bishopric, and to do ee at the saine time to St. Wenzel, the national saint. INSIDE THE HRADISCH. Then the procession passed im through courk after court toto the square about the Cathedral, where they took up positions in iront of three altars that had been erected in the open air. Very few, indeed, could have sound room inside the « cred edit It i¥ a rand arrangement this of Catholic Church, by which the altar can be ex 08 the public street or on the green the nigh vaulting of the sky serves Ins. the rool of t urch, ‘Thus can the brate divine service on Corpus Christi on to lage mead, or, if he live among lake dwellers, on the wooded shores, or on the Mountain sides, ay everywuere he reads the Gospel or elevates a6 Host, and the faithiul feel ennobled and inspired by the mysteries of religton and the charms of na- ture exerting their influence upon the soul, So here the services were grand and impressive, and the flery wards of the three eloquent proeagbers ta te