Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-11-22
Letter from Europe.

London 0y last tram lor arlS, Uit
Brighton. As we rolled out OF the
station house al London bridge, fell
as if the sun should have been shaken.
hands-with-if one but knew how
he was so welcome back and bad been
gone so long. The grass and my
spirits took brighter and tenderet
hue. Really, you should come to a
country where your shadow Qike I'm
diue's) strikes you as something new
to appreciate sunshine.
l was alone, in the last passenger
car of the train-riding backwards
but not 'with my back to the horses
On the contrary. / was in danger Of
having my brains kicked out by the
horses before me. A pair of bays
were boxed up in freight car hooked
on close TO my front windows, and
thirty miles an hour proved not to be
an agreeable pace to them. One pair
Of heels, after fifteen minutes inces.
SAINT kicking, made hole. about two
feet square, in the end of their dark
prison, and from that time the glitter
ing shoes few into the daylight every
minute or two till we reached Brigh-
ton. As the horse-box was lined with
tow-cloth and stuffed with straw, the
new-made window had rather COM
bustible edging, and remembering the
forty people burnt to death in the cars
at Versailles, watched the sparks in
the dark tunnels with some interest,"
All alone, in car opening only to-
wards the fire, THAT might be) l was
as prettily situated, for roasting, as a
Christmas turkey in tin Kitchen
The world would have had loss if
we had been burnt, for found, on ar
irving, that Julia Grisi was on the
other side of the partition behind me.
1t blew pretty little gale of wind
when we arrived at our place of embar-
kation. and saw at once that Grisi
was on board, and that, whether her
contraHo was to be deepened or not,
/, at least, was ticketed for sea-sick
roulade across the channel. spare
you the voyage on paper. In sim
gle second | bring you to Dieppe.-
For Grisi and me it was a dolorous
opera Of eight uncommon hours.
Romance is strange successor 10
sea-sickness, but the moon chose to
poise her full orb in an angle Of the
church-tower as / went to my hotel
looking (the moon) as if she was rest
ing her cheek upon the spread figures
of Catholic hand. The air was de.
liciously balmy, and the effect Of the
moonlight on the angular and heavy
proved buildings of the antique town,
was of very unusual beauty. J stroll
ed an hour in the narrow streets OF
Dieppe with my heart in the sky.
was awaked in the morning bv a
knock at every door in the entry, mine
among the rest, and loud call for
'Casarv A little rubbing of my eyes
recalled to me that the great Roman
was dead, and that l was in France,
and was to be called with the other
passengers bound to Paris,at six heures
The diligence was to 60 at seven. All
over the other wing Of the hotel, by
this time, resounded the knock and
the garcons call: heures!"
But it was an hours work to get
baggage weighed and examined, and
chin and passport made presentsble for
Paris; and when this was done, and
was ready for breakfast, (more ready
from having given Neptune my dinner
the day BEFORE the commissioners call
ed ne 10 take the "road to Rouen."-
had secured no seat, and there was
but one place left, though it turned
out, weather and all, to he the best in
the vehicle. mounted, hungry, to
the conductors cabriolet on the top,
and there in the corner, being eaten
and drank, were loaf Of new bread
and bottle of wine, one in the left
hand of Mr.. George Vandenhoff and
the other in his right. 1t was very
pleasant surprise TO find friend be-
hind these nourishing components of a
French breakfast. He. like me. had
been hurried from his bed to the
punctual conveyance, without coffee,
but he had dropped into the shops by
the way and laid in the substitutes of
which he now offered me a share
The postillion cracked his noisy whip
and we set off on our sunshiny ride in
to France-one passenger, at least,
much better prepared to admire the
country from having bread and wine,