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of the Conversation Haus, or the marble por-
ticoes of the Trinkhalle. You should have seen
the crush, the medley, the agony of crinolines •
coming to grief. You should have heard the jabber-
ing, the Babel of tongues ! Under all circumstances,
notwithstanding all the inclemencies of heaven and
the discomforts of earth, it is worth while for man
to go where men most do congregate. There is no
place in the world so cosmopolitan as Baden ; no-
where can you see national peculiarities so strongly
developed, so forcibly contrasted. You have speci-
mens of almost all human races in Paris or London,
at Marseilles, at Genoa ; but in a large metropolis,
or in a thriving seaport, there is one predominant
mass, and the extraneous elements are more or less
absorbed ; life there has its great objects and pur-
suits, and the mere accidents of skin, garb, or idiom
are overlooked in the general stir of business, in the
common lot of toil, in the mutual dependence of
man on man. But here at Baden we have only one
class of persons, the same class from all the regions
of the earth—that class which, at least for a season,
has both means and leisure for enjoyment, and must
strive to its utmost to turn those advantages into
sources of enjoyment. Society at Baden would, in
able hands, admit of endless analyzation. It would
be curious to sec in what a variety of ways English,
Russians, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, Yankees,
South Americans, &c., all contrive to amuse them-
selves when they go so hard to work for it, or how
admirably they succeed in ennui-izing themselves.
How they do dress, however, how they move about,
how they behave at feeding time, how they stand
the ups and downs of the gambling-table, is to be
seen at a glance. The mere outward world is as
plain as the title-page of a book. A man of many
tongues may make out a page or two more from the
scraps of conversation in the polyglot din of voices.
But, for the rest, " the noblest study of mankind'
takes time and labour—a labour but indifferently
repaid, a time that may better be spent otherwise.
I found three or four gentlemen at the Trink-
halle this morning. They had gone the round of
the various springs, and were chatechizing in English
a poor countryman, who could only answer Black-
Forest German. I volunteered my services as an
interpreter, and my offers were received with
thanks, and with many " Sirs," in that Johnsonian
style which is lost among us, but which still sur-
vives among Transatlantic Republicans. The puzzle
to them was in what the difference consisted be-
tween the water they had drunk at the spring and
the liquid the man poured out to them from a long
barrel before him. " Why, the difference," said the
fellow when he was made to understand the ques-
tion, "is merely this, that that yonder is mineral
water, and this is whey." " 'Whey, Sir !" echoed
the astonished gent from Chicago. " Why, Sir,
you do not tell me that what I have been drinking
is nothing but whey ?" " Yes, Sir ; whey from
goat's milk, Sir." " Whey, Sir !" insisted the
Michiganian in still greator perplexity. " And
what good on earth can whey do, Sir ?" " More
than 1 can tell you, lam sure." "What !Do you
never try it, Sir ?" " No, Sir." " Nor any of the
waters?" " No, Sir." " And pray, Sir, what do
you try ?" " Sometimes a pint of Steinwein or
Marcobrunner, or sometimes even a drop of Johan-
nisberger, when I can get the right stuff, and when
I can afford it. I can safely recommend it, I tell
you." The laughter into which the other Yankees
broke out at the expense of their bewildered country-
man did them, I am sure, greater good than the
most powerful Trinkhalle waters ever did.
We have the King of Prussia here, and are in
daily expectation of some of the Princes of his
Royal house. If his Majesty labours under any fit
of indigestion consequent upon having swallowed
Laueuburg, surely Kissingen or Homburg would be
the place for his complaint.

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(Front the 'Tines' Corre,pondent)
BADEN-BADEN, August 30.

Those who gave. this place its present appellation
characterised it at once by that simple iteration of
the name. It is Baden-Baden; the Bath of Baths;
the very paradise of holyday:maken. I have not son
Carlsbad, nor do I like to deal in superlatives ; but
all I must say is, how very fortunate it is that men's
views and tastes so essentially differ as to allow
Wiesbaden its 20,000 average visitors, with perhaps
as many for Homburg, with 1-2,000 for Ems, and
8,000 for Carlsbad, instead of sending them all to
swell the number of 42,000 who yearly flock to this
place, as would surely happen, if the whole world
were of my own way of thinking.
I have not been on the spot, I am afraid to say
for how many years, but the first impression, which
never wore off by lapse of time or by contrast with
grander scenery or more genial climate, rushes back
upon .me at a first glance with all the full tide of
long-remembered delight. They may well talk of
Saxon and Franconian Switzerland, of the Seven
Mountains, the Giant Mountains, or any other
favourite haunts of dwarfs and goblins in any dis-
trict of-Germany ; but there is nothing north of the
Alps to compare with the Black Forest, and I am
almost tempted to question whether among the great
mountains themselves anythingcan surpass the effect
of cloud and sunshine as caught by the sable hues
of the pine forests spreading far and wide over those
beautifully rounded summits, those sombre tints
which won this enchanted region its weird appella-
tion of Schwartz-wold. Glorious Black Forest !
Leave to the glaciers of Mont Blanc and the Jung-
frau the pride of giving birth to the Rhine and the
Rhone ; men must come to look among thy narrow
valleys and shaded rills for the cradle of the Danube. I

What mad fever has come this year over all the
nations of the civilised world ? Innkeepers on the
Rhine, at the Taunus Spas, at Frankfort, every-
where, wherever I go, open their eyes and lift up
their outstretched hands, more astounded even than
delighted at the immense amount of custom this
season brings them. Their greed for their guests'
money is even less strong in them than the puzzle as
to where so many thousands of people may come
from, or how they are all to be stowed away and
disposed of. That young girl that was taken from
her convent walls for the first time, and driven out
of town as far as the bridge, where she put her
head out of window, and wondered " how wide the
world was," expressed a sensation analogous to
what any of us might feel at sight of so vast a mul-
titude of beings who can afford to be idle, and who,
having the means, are willing to spend their money
to put up with the discomfort such crowded travel-
ling must needs expose them to. "At no time has
such a thing been seen." Such is the remark with
which you are greeted by the civil landlord, as he
stops the cabman who is taking down your luggage,
and bows you from his door with the unwelcome
tidings that " he has not room for a kitten." Never
was such an invasion of Germany known to have
occurred at any former season.

Little will it avail a careful traveller to bespeak
accommodation by post or telegraph, for the num-
ber of boobies who never know how to make up
their minds is very great. Letters and messages often
come from persons who only expect they shall go to
Emmaus, when they at last decide for Jericho ;
and rooms and whole suites of apartments have so
often been got ready for parties who never made
their appearance, that the faith of mine host, at last
and no wonder, is shaken, and " the bird in the
hand" has oftentimes got the preference over that
in the bush. I know I came in for No. 1 in the
Hotel de Russie the other night, at Frankfort—No.
1 being neither more nor less than a sitting-room,
bed-room, drawing-room, and boudoir, fit for a
prince's family, simply because the hotel was-other-
wise chokef all, and the princely family who were

train, or broke down in the right one. Somehow or
other, probably because I take no heed of the mor-
row, the morrow invariably takes care of itself, and
I have not been doomed to sleep a la belle c'toile yet,
as by my improvidence I richly deserved. Here at
Baden a bedroom was too absolutely out of the
question ; but a " shakedown" has been vouchsafed
to me in a bath-room at the Stephanien Bad, and
any deficiency in light or space or furniture is so
amply made up by the attention and empressement of
the bewildered landlord that I must declare myself
perforce content.

There is an artful dodge, it is true, by which you
may force a landlord to take you in with the utmost
security against any chance of a " take in ;" but it
has been tried again and again with such amazing
success that it has at last been taken up by mere
bunglery and rendered now of comparatively little
avail. There was a traveller who went about clad
in very commonplace attire, and with most unpre-
tending luggage ; he never gave himself the airs of
a Prince, or affected the bustle of a Queen's Mes-
senger. He simply wrote the name " Baedeker,"
'in large white letters on his black leather portman-
teau : and oh, the talismanic powers of that name !
" Une chambre pour Monsieur ; mais comment ? Si
ce n'est que difficile, c'est fait. Si c'est impossible,
cela se fera." Baedeker, if the stay-at-home reader
knows nothing about him, is, or rather was, the
clever author of Continental guide-books—a man
who could pull down a hotel or build it up in three
days.

I only came into Baden last evening, and we had
a perfect flood of rain at nightfall. Positively, at
this season, I only know of one place where a man
can breathe at his ease, and that is the Rigi Kulm.
I have no doubt the top of that mountain will sooner
or later become the only fashionable watering place
on the Continent. I complained of Wiesbaden as
a teakettle; Baden, being on a larger scale, has the
atmosphere of a cauldron. We had a blazing sun
the whole of Saturday and Sunday—a blazing sun
throughout Germany, two or three suns at Frank-
fort. How they contrived it I know not, but the
Ziel, the Ross-market, and the adjoining broad
streets in that blessed city, seem so constructed as
to have no shade on either side in the summer,
nothing but shade in the winter. The heat
allowed us no rest day or night ; no rest if we
sat still, no respite if we moved at what they call
" schnell-pace" in their railway trains. The fact is,
the Germans have a proverbial charity and fellow-
feeling for their cattle. Horses are never over-
driven in this country, and I verily believe they
look upon a locomotive engine as an animated being,
and think more of its convenience than they do of
the comfort and patience of the traveller. The fact
is, after broiling in Frankfort we were stewed in the
train from Frankfort, so that on our arrival here we
were done well nigh to rags. Clouds gathered on
the hills as the sun declined ; big drops fell as he
went down, and there was a downpour when the
moon was in the ascendant ; but, somehow, rain
water here in these watering places is unlike rain
water anywhere else. It is nothing but vapour from
the " cooking springs" (Koch-bnoznen, 56 deg. Reau-
mur) which just rises a few hundred yards up into
the hill-encompassed atmosphere, and pours down
at once through the unelastic air, still steaming, if
not boiling, as it touches the ground. You fancy
you see the earth writhing and sweltering under the
unrefreshing showers ; and you never realise the full
extent to which the heat had arisen, till it has, as it
were, melted into rain, precisely as thawing snow or
ice give you a keener chill in a slushy day than you
are apt to feel in the bracing frost.

Still it is to these places, in these days of Cancer
and Leo, that all who have the world for them
to choose from aro so fain to resort, The rain
came rather of a sudden last evening, and after
a threat that no one had heeded; the =se-
quence was that all the " Schonewelt," as they
call it here, was out of doors ; the whole
of the 42,000 well-dressed people at Baden
Lad to throng together into the golden rooms

Jefferson Davis at Fortress Monroe.

A. correspondent of the New York. Herald, writing
from Fortress Monroe on August 15, says :
It is easy to perceive that there is a gradual relaxation
from the severity of the rules first prescribed by the
War Department in reference to the custodianship of
Jefferson Davis, or else in the enforcement of these rules.
Under those original instructions he was to be kept
closely confined to his casemate ; and this course was per-
sisted in till it nearly killed him, and there were fearful
apprehensions of his becoming a martyr in earnest. Then
no one but the commanding general and the officer of the

his conversation to answering his questions,. which
must not be permitted to go beyond the range of mat-
ters appertaining to his condition and necessities as a
prisoner. At the present time the freest sort of conver-
sation is daily held between the officers of the guard and
himself. There has been no diminution in tho guard whose
duty it is to see that Jefferson is kept secure. The number
of guard, including officers, placed over him and his associ-
ate State prisoners, occupying adjacent casemates (C. C.
Clay and John Mitchel), is about 80, and 4 soldiers are still
kept continually night and day in his casemate, two in the
front and two in the back room. It will be seen, therefore,
that in regard to his safe and sure durance there is still no
let up. Restricting his reading to the Bible, and prevent-
ing his receiving or writing any letters even to his own
family, are two of the original rules still enforced. The
necessity or great good to be gained through these prohibi-
tions cannot be seen by many, and it is urged' that such
alleged useless inhibitions are among the things that
magnify him into a martyr. He is much more cheerful
than formerly—a change to be ascribed to his daily out-
door walks and improved change in health. He smokes
more frequently, and is much more agreeable in his man-
ners, and talks with increased freedom and vivacity. To
some officers of the guard he takes a fancy, and is very
polite and communicative, while he will not say a word
to others. His meals are of excellent quality, and he
highly appreciates the kindness shown him in this regard.
Spare as he is in flesh—for, as all know, he is of Cassius'
genus of lean men pronounced dangerous—he has the
bon vivant's relish of fine dishes. He is entirely indebted
to the liberality of the Government and Dr. Crave; his
medical, attendant for the excellent fare furnished him,
since no money is allowed him with which to buy table
luxuries he might fancy, and no friends are permitted to
send him anything. An hour each day is spent in his
daily walks in the fortress and on the ramparts. At first
these walks were at a stated hour, between five and six
p.m. ; but it was found as soon this fact became known
that a crowd of idle spectators wore on the qui vice to get a
'glimpse of him. These spectators were both inside and
outside the fortress, as from his walking on the parapet he
can easily be seen on either side. To put a stop to this
General Miles had his hours of walking changed, so that
no one knows now when to look for him and when he will
make his appearance. His health most rapidly improved
from the commencement of this outdoor exercise. He says
himself that he is in much better health than he has been
for years. Never a strong man, ho was nearly broken
down at the time of his capture. The immense responsi-
bilities and labours devolving on him as President of the
Confederacy wore terribly trying and wearing on his feeble
constitution. The wonder to him is that he lived through
it. On arriving hero, and fully comprehending the fate be-
fore him, he confesses to having derived some consolation
from the fact that he would not live a month. With all
his labours, he had been in the habit of taking outdoor
exercise every day ; and deprived of this altogether as he
was in the outset of his imprisonment, and expected to be
during its continuance, he felt positive he would not long
survive it. But the Fates have willed it otherwise. Free-
dom from care, his present daily walks, wholesome food,
and the sea air have recuperated his energies and given
him a new lease of life. He wears the same rebet.grey suit
and light felt hat. He has had no opportunity of cultivat-
ing the acquaintance of rebels. But the rebel grey is of
the first quality of fineness, and so is the hat. The coat
has a black velvet collar. He always has worn gloves when
coining outdoors. Latterly he, has made his appearance
in a white vest, and has done away with his goggles.
His boots are finely polished, and, with his clean wrist-
bands and spotless linen bosom and collar, there is
nothing in his appearance belying the genuine gentleman.
If ono did not know the restraints placed on his sartorial
tastes and realise his situation, the first impression at see-
ing him would lead one to set him down as a rather feeble
representative of faded smartness and shoddy gentility. Ho
walks very erect, and with proud and dignified step. Never
less than one officer and always four soldiers attend him.
He sits down when, he pleases, and in his free moods talks
away with a warmth and animation most agreeably enter-
tabling and instructive. He is a man of most varied infor-
mation. ne.talks of ancienthistory and ancient heroes, old
wars and modern wars,mining and agricultural operations,
poetry and the arts, gunboats and forts, Church and State
matters, constructing dry docks and laying the Atlantic
cable, with astonishing familiarity, correctness of theory
and assertion. Coleridge, from all descriptions, could not
have been a better convzosationalist.

THE HARVEST.—The harvest may now be said
to be pretty well concluded in the eastern district. Tho
weather about Stamford has been favourable for several
days past, and a large breadth of land has been cleared. In
the neighbourhood of Whittlesey a good deal of corn has
been housed, but much of it is in anything but good con-
dition. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday wore fine,
considerable progress was made in clearing the fields, and
there will be little corn out b 7 this (Saturday) evening.

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