Litchfield enquirer., 1844-03-14


Garrison church We saw also his lnanuscSiSs
writing with the comments Of Voltaire. Th.ra are
three four royal palaces here. H,r il il almost
impossible to describe Iii one II would seem as
if there wej nothing but soldiers here, the King of
Prussia having a standing army Of 6OO,OOO, and
can at any time raise one Of million, so that the
streets in all the cities here seem gay from the
number and variety of the uniforms and the fine
martial music heard every now and then. They
are fine looking soldiers, less for SOsc and more for
service than the English. Our next place was Der.
lin (the capital of Prussial 12 miles distant. Ber-
lin Is literally city Of palaces. The Ct Frederick
determined to have splendid capital, enclosed
large tract, and ordered it to be built upon and it
was done in manner scOrthy Of royalty. There
is great display here of dress and eQupage, and
apparently good deal of courtly style. On the
evening of our arrival here had the pleasure and
good fortune to hear Garcia sing the sister Of NAL
ibran) the gems Of several different operas in the
Kings Opera House, and in presence of the King
and Queen and other members of the royal house,
hold which afforded us fine opportunity Of seeing
them all. There is beautiful Park commencing
inside the walls, half mile in width, and extend
ing four miles, with streets running through it in
every direction, and beautiful villas here and there
in every part. We visited the studio of Professor
Raach the sculptor of the two celebrated statues Of
the Queen, and he is now busy in making cores
pondent one of the late King her husband, and also
of Frederick the Great, and considered ourselves
very fortunate in obtaining sight of the sculptor,
fine looking man, himself model for statue
We went through the Kings Library, where we
were shown " sozae dRtsQsntses" that wonld have
pleased much some .tolks that know They were no
less than Bible in manuscript belonging to Luther
and ,C'itten By himself, with comments and correc-
tions in red ink made by himself at later time.
1t was in German text on parchment, and the ink
as black as if done yesterday, and the text true
and more beautiful than print. We saw also Luz
theirs album, containing full length miniature
likenesses of some half dozen of his friends taken
in their robes, land the Elector Frederick of Saxony
in full dress, and underneath each verse from
scripture, and the name of each one written by him
self Another curiosity was an illuminated Prayer
Book of the 9th century. The red letter parts were
raised, and the pictures were beautifully cOlored,
and filed in with gold The last evening we were
in Berlin, about half past 10, we were alarmed by
the cry of fire, which was very near u.s. In short
time we told that it the opera house where
so lately had seen the Royal Family, and listen
ed to the thrilling notes of -" Garcia" 1t was a
magnificent sight, the building itself was of the
most beautiful of this beautiful city, and an inn
mense pile, ornamented with statuary and stucco
work on all sides, made an illumination which
showed off with fine effect the magnificent palaces
about it. AS Mrs. T. remarked, "the moon shin
ing in all its glory, 1t appeared as they were try
ing to Guido each other in brilliancy." Thousands
of people were at the scene-Women crying while
the other sex stood in awe-no noise; while one
man went about the streets blowing trumpet for
the &arm, while another beat drum. We were
particularly struck with the manner they manage
fress different from In fact five should do the
same our city would be consumed before assistance
could arrive The only engines they had were sledges
drawn by two horses with half hogshead Of water
upon each, and unusual is it in this part Of the
world to have fire that the people appeared fright
ened to DEATH The military were called out to
house, which fortunately stood Hpon an open square
with space each side nearly as large as oar
Park, or the conAagration would have been much
greater. In the morning when we left, this noble
pile was smoking ruin with its fallen statues ly-
ing about it, We left Berlin at in the morning
by railroad. rs
On the passage from Amsterdam to Hamburger,
which took US some thirty six hours, we had two
X Xo M e1tle5%ea a%on The a s
.n.p!ia,, acquired the year he formerly spent in
-Es,rope) formed a speaking acquaintance. AT
Hanftssrgh we met them at Cafe Tor public gar
deny where we went.like the res OF the world to
get our tea and hear the good music n.y joined
themselves to our party, and we made ourselves
as sociabla as Our broken French and their broken
English would admit. We found they were going
.on the next morning in the steamer with us to
potsdam and we continued together to Berlin, aid
were soon domesticated in the same hotel BY this
time the acquaintance had progressed considerably,
and as Mr.. c. was better enabled to converse with
them he soon became quite favorite, and was fire.
uuentlv admitted to their apartments and treated in
the most cordial and friendly manner. will pre-
mise to YOU that they were both young, handsome,
fine looking men, not quite as old as Mr.. c. BY
this time cards had been exchanged, and we had
discovered that they were Austrian officers, one
physician and the other az noble Compile Ehime
Medin," one of his Majesty's Guards of Honor, (of
of the highest rank bat polite affable
and laxative. and seemingly very much pleased
with our acquaintance Mr.. C. and myself passed
every evening with them either at Cafe or Public
Garden, and one evening as we were returning to-
gether in a carriage l. Compile said he wished me,
when went to Venice, to see his infant son-he
being a wdower, and the little Count Medin three
years old, and was travelling apparently for the
purpose Of driving away melancholy. He was very |
polite TO during stay, and wrote for us the night
before left aletter Of introduction to his brother
at Venice, and rose at 6 in the morning to see US
of, and make his "les a dieux." He dined with
the King at Potsdam, brought me '"bon-bon"
from thence, saying perhaps | would value 1t as
coming from @'lG tGble du ron"
There is one thing am happy to find in my
travels and that is the kindness and good feeling
with which Americans are received by persons OF
all nations, and am happy to find that American
manner does in great measure conhteract the
sour feelings caused by the (as they consider it)
National reputation, which CALLED them very
much. Even in England we found as soon as they
discovered that we were g Yankee English" they
opened themselves to us directly, and came out Of
their shells. where like snals they had kept them
selves while they supposed US English; for they are
more reserved and shy Of each other, whether at
home or abroad, than they are Of any other people
with the American it is dfferent-he owns coun-
tryman for brother wherever and whoever he may
be. The venetians spoke of told US we should
nl,vays proclaim ourselves Americans; for, from
our language, we would be naturally taken for Eng
lish-the English having made themselves very dis