Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1837-10-20

GRAND FETE AT NAYENCE ~ HONOR OF
GUTENBERG, THE DI.EovERER or PRr>r,
NC Thus great festival wa hed un h,
left bank Of The Rhine at Mavcrce, Ang
ust ID and IS The Rhine. for DAYS before
vas covered alive with the depulal,uns Of
different towns. each steamer that rarr,pd
them decorated WIN he aem> and fars 81
the place. A. Mavoncp the auth,r,D,e-
and "A fin" military baud and d-cnarges o.
artillery. received thrm The IAN wa
dedicated tn the Inauguration of The new
statue to Gutenberg Tn Il pn,a'tru-
presented At the Town Han, specimens ol
typography from The different cltles--
Thence a procession to the church, where
the Bishop performed mass-ihpnce thew
repaired 10 the place de- Gn,enberg." IL
the procession were 600 children of ,hr
schonl>-'he printers of Maycnce. with
the red banner gwen hem by Fred Ill
We now translate a sentence. which rnu,t
be highly flatterlng 10 our American Prn
,eTS:-"The Mayence printers were fol
lowed by car drawn bv thee white
horses, bearing an Iron Pr,n ing Press
made on the American principle of HBgard
aud an apparatus for founding tvpes-rh.
Then followed the printer of the varlou.
cities and towns, each with their chiefs
concluding wl'h 1t. Gen. Mufl ng ,h.
commander, with The English R"vsI Dun
Of Cambridge, and brllnn, -iaff--alo
gether 1900 persons. Ga each side we've
lines Of rruss'an and Au,tncan troops
The latter rather misplaced, we snnnld
think. # Austria is to BE- deemed more
the "Exlingul-her" then ''lIlumlnator" Of
the mind. Not So Prussia. who IA exact
" he reverse, as The founder of the b">
and mast humane system for d ffiI>lnu
Knowledge maugre her forced postum II,
the Holy A Iance. At the Place was a
grand amnhl'h"a're. and IN tn, m,dd q the
statue at Gutenberg. covered with white
and red clnth. The musical performers
consisted Of "igh EN- hundred sng"r. and
ln,'rnmrniS!! who a-,oni,hrj twrnI,
thousand hearers BY splendid t. Dnm
composed for rms occasion bv the Cn.va
her Nruknm. Tn" President al III
Court of Appeal NJ PrrchaG. then pro
nounced an able discourse, AT The close Of
which the covering was suddenly rem we'd
from the statue, aud cannon cpmmpucnd
A most singular incident here "ccur"d; "nr
of the cords persisted 10 hanging around
the uock--a German Printer crrpl 40 snd
cnt n; It Wa considered he omrn uf bit,
ter tr,n'-, wh"n the Prr.s IA Europe shall
truly be- Free. The statue is of Brouzr.
by Crzr'ler OF paris. after models by
rh,rNald>cn. Tn. Press above alluded
10 threw otfa large number uf impressions
II hymn cnmpn-cd for he occas lou -
The description of the statue Is interesting
The costume Is he historic of that time.
10 his right hard package of movcab'e
charncIers--ln the left, the first great
work he printed. a Bible. The pedestal
lie of red marble with larln inscriptions and
bronze has relefs. The inscription 10
front Is
Joannem Gen-nesich de Gutenberg parrcum
nunere per ro'am European collaro posuerunt
Gives MDCCCNXXVIl.
Boliod are found the following verses:
Arlem qoa Grmcos laruit hluirque Latinus
Germhnle soers eXrudii ingeniunl
Nunc quldqud veleres sapinul sap'unlque recenles
Non sIb sed populls Omnibus III sapiunt.
One the relIcfo represents Gutenberg at
u table shaving the aStoni.hed FAUST the
movable types. Before him isa galley,
and armorlr for the types. Another, he
press, balls. &c, in acI"n. At two O'Clock
three hundred sat down to dinner at the
"lloiel de Gutenberg" After ioasts to
the soverelgns Of Germany,!!1 and To
Thorwaldsen, came one t. The Liberty OF
he Press, poor exile, from HE land To
which TIE D"ums of Homage had just been
vowed before immortal Gutenberg whose
genius IN his sublime discovery had not,
It seems, power to break the chains that
fr''er The freedom of opinion IN the very
and that first gave birth and wings to it's
ulterance. In The evening the company
repaired to the theatre, whare a grand
oratorlo entitled Gutenberg" words by
Gelscbrech', and music by Loewe, was
performed by 800 vocallsts and SO musl'
clans--'he solos By amateurs. The prin-
ces OF Prussia, &c were present, and also
the celebrated violinlst Boiler, the cheva-
her Neukom, &c. The whole population