New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-12-02
VOL. sEE. no. 2O3.

five cents. Paying dime at the door, l was
given a ticket as formally as if 1t had cost fifty
times the amount, and was directed up a long
passage where the ticket admitted me to the
tdSAioaabie saloon 1t was filled with dancers
whirllng round in the waltz. with precision and
grace which only these people can attain. The
performance Of the band would put to shame
many of much higher pretensions, for music
here seems born with every one. Following the
good old maxim to do in Rome as the Romans
do, [ soon provided myself with partner whose
luxtrant black halr and olive complexion. ind-
Gated her descent from some Spanish soldier of
Charles the Fifth. In the intervals OF the dance
she conversed in the lisping French WHICH is
the dialect of this region, though "Walloon' is
the language of the more secluded peasantry.-
The French arc however very unpopular here, as
arc too the Germans, and my partner very anti
lhetlcally SAID, IAN Englislman always says
what he means; Frenchnan never and Ger
man says nothing at all'' Her ideas Of gcogra-
ply were rather indefinite, for finding that was
an American, she exclaimed, :" / met a country
man OF yours here last year," | found on inquiry
that he was from Rio Janciro.
The most perfect order and etiquette reIgned IN
this fashionoblc circle, though according to the
custom at all public balls in even the very best
society of Germany, gentleman has right to
ask any lady present, though an entire stranger,
to dance with him. Waltzcs and quadrllcs alter
mated, and after each all ad iourncd to the supper
room, whore Tho ,oct dcl;ca to Cr ono ,,onld OFF
enough for a farmers dinner, and before slipping
her wine, would ring her glass each time against
that of her partner. When | left the ball and
passed through The square, the Church was still
crowded, and the 1ctc was in full yigor. have
been thus minute in its description, from its being
SO exceedingly Characteristic Of the people and
spectacle visible only once year.
From Vervicrs onward the Railway is not yet
completed. 1t is there work OF great difficulty
and expense, the face Of the country having
changed from PLAIN to range of rocky hills
Within twenty miles there are twenty tunnels,
and seventeen bridges one of them having twen-
ty arches and being 100 feet high in the centre.
The Railroad in this part of It's course has been
well compared TO a needle run through cork
screw representing the windings of the river
Vesdre) and is highly honorable to the talents of
the chief Engineer, Mr.. Petitlcan, whose libe-
rality i'll putting all his drawings, maps and
documents at the disposal of a foreigner, cannot
omit even this inappropriate opportunity Of
warmly acknowledging.
At Eupen the Prussian frontier is reached. a
traveller has tho boundaries of count rics most
wildly impressed upon his mind by the custom.
houses which he there passes. 1t is a more CT
icctlvc than agreeable way Of teaching gcogra-
ply. Here, however, the search tho ugh strict,
was civil, and as untroublcsome as such a thing
can be- \ beam, with black and white stripes,
hanging over the road like the pole of well,
marked the line Of The Prussian dominion and
it seemed, on entering the kingdom, as if even
the trees grew sraighter and more formal under
that precise monarchy.
AK LA-CnArEiLE Called Aachen in Ger
man, as Lege is Lutticb,D is not far from the
frontier 1t is famous as the capital and burial
place of the Emperor Chorlemagne. Under the
centre of tho dome Of the Cathedral is plain
slab of marble, bearing the simple inscription,
Carolo Magno' When the vault below was
opened by the Emperor Ohio, in 991, he found
the monarch, not reclining in coffin, like the
humble dead, but seated on his imperial throne,
with the crown on his brow, the sceptrc i'll his
hand, his good sword ,Ioycusc by his side, and
on his knees a copy of the Gospels The vault
is now empty, the fragments of his body having
been eagerly carred off as relics. His throne
remains in the church. 1t is an armchair con-
struced of slabs of white marble, protected at
present by boards. The sacrstan removed these,
and the throne of the mighty Charemagno re-
celved native of a new world, undiscovered for
seven centuries after the dead monarch was
placed upon 1t (!
The Cathedral was commenced a thousand
years ago, but its Eastern end, its most beautiful
portion, has only half that age. The six win
dows, which nearly surround the choir, make it
like stupendous lantern more than "a hundred
feet high. The windows are gracefully tapcring,
dixie the five sisters i'll Yorllminstcr,) and shed
such profusion of light into the interior, and
seem SO dclicaely fragile, that you fear lest a sud-
den gust of wind might topplc down the lofty and
glittcring structure.
The treasury contains rich golden shrine
within which arc shown locket of the Virgin
Mary s HAIR, d nail of the true Cross, the sponge
which was filled with vinegar Sc. &c. Here,
too, are son,c more authentic relics, in the arm
and the skull of Charlemagne. The head, before
which the world once bowed, is now shown by a
lackey for petty fee. "To what base uses may
we come, Horatio."
At present, AK is best known as a watering
place. a German Saratoga. The magnificent
colo..a.oI e4l.f.n, e.cr The chief snrlun the