Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-04-23
YPsILANTI (MICH) WEDNESDAY, APRIL g. Is45

covered in the trearury the recenue of seven gears
boarded up on the principle OF staying up some
thing for rainy day." This seems quite unique
measure in government finance, but instead of
sIowin it to remain idle. they employed it most
wisely in works of internal improvement.
Half way between the cities of Berne and Frey
burg. the latter Canton is entered and the numer-
Gus crosses by the roadside, and shrines of the
Virgin. show at once that it is Roman Catholic.
The costumes also change as suddenly as if they
were regulated by law. There can be no more
striking indication Of the pertinacity with which
people cling to their old habits and of the little in
tercourse between different parts of even the same
country. than the circumstance that each Of the
twenty six Canions ofSwiizerland has very dis
tinct and peculiar costume of its own, never vary
ing within its limits, and never found beyond them.
The greatest oddly is seen in the head.dses of
the female peasants In Berne they wear around
their heads circle of wings of black lace spread
ing out from their faces like the sides of wind
mill. In Freyburg they have Tapping straw hats
with rims broad enough for Brobdignag, but tops
small enough for Lput. In SchUaz, they wear
on the backs of their heads white lace cap, sha.
ped like the magni6ed flower Of the sweet pea.
In AppenzelL two ornaments like eagles wings
shoot out from each ear, and are kept together by
gliltering band of beads. In Tessin, dozen
small daggers with gilded and carved handles pro.
ject from the head, which they surround like "a
dating halo, while sort of round carving knife
passes through the knot of hair behind. In the
Grisons, green lammergeyer, or vulture of the
Alps. Each varies thus, and each has a cores.
ponding dress equally peculiar and gaily pictur.
esque, and each is so distinct from the other that
practiced eye can tell at once 10 which Of the
twenty-six Cantons the wearer belongs.
FREYBURG. like Basic and Berne; is built on
the summit of a rocky hill, nearly surrounded by
river. This location. like those of the castles
of Edinboro', Stirling and Dumbarton, in Scotland
was undoubtedly selected for purposes OF Military
defence and Freburg is still surrounded by long
line of walls with serrated baitlements and feuda
watch towers, mounting over the hills and descen-
ding into the hollows. The convenience of the
inhabitants seems never to have been thought of,
and carriages enter tho town on the Berne side
were compelled to descend steep HILL cross the
river Saarne three times by three different low
bri 'ges. and then ascend the height of two hum
dred feet by road always difficult, and 10 WIN
ter often impra cticabe. All these embarrassments
have been lately removed by the construction of
iron suspension bridge. the greatest in the world
over which carriage passes, on a level and in
FIVE minutes, The valley which formerly required
an hour Of fatigue and danger. Four iron cords
of only eight inches in diameter swing across the
gorge in single beautiful curve, and from them
hangs the platform of the bridge, nine hundred
and forty feet loug, and suspended hundred and
eight feet above the valley. When shall we have
a similar one from New York to Brooklyn? The
famous Menai bridge in Wales, is little more then
half this, being only than five hundred aud eighty
feet span and a hundred and thirty feet high. The
engineer, nj. Chaley, of Lions, in an elaborate
description which he has published, states that the
experiment ofths unprecedentedly large stretch
| was made on his own responsibility (he being
contractor as well as engineer> and in opposition
to the desires of the municipality, who wished it
divided by pier in the middle. The result has
been grand vindcation of his far-sighted genius,
and the Contrast ofthe airy lighlness of the s;ruc-
ture with its firm strength makes it tie grandest of
all human works Of art, and well worthy to be
neighbor of Mount Blanc.
10 the midst of Freyburg is Bit Of romance,
such as is not often preserved in the centre o! a
crowded city. II an old and venerable lime tree,
sprung from branch borne as trophy from the
famed battle of Morat. where the Swiss in 1476
defeated Charles the Bold of Burgundy sirewing
the field with twenty thousand of his soldiers, and
p'o'inp thdt 10 InVduiIS dIIny however uunneTouS
and we'll diciplned, can Withstand the mpetuous
charge of the defenders of their native land. A
young citizen Of Freyburg, VINO had helped win
the battle, the whole way home to bear the Joy.
ful tdings He arrived on this spot, bleeding and
exhausted but with his strength he cried Vcto ry,'
and waved the lime-branch he bore in his hand,
and then fell down and expired. The branch of
lime was Immediately planted, and is now decay
ed but still living tree, twenty feet in circumfer-
ence. 1t is surrounded by circular seat, where
the gray boards can tell their children the patrio-
ic story, and its old arms are borne up by stone
pillars for here, unlike America Antiquity is VEN
Grated and it, is unnecessary to say to these peo-
pie, as with US the poet often sings in vain,-
"W goldman, spare that tree!"
LIBERIA COFFEE.--A specimen of Coffee, grown
in Liberia, has been exhibited to US the berry is
the finest We ever saw, the flavor we are yet to
test. 1t was raised by Lieut.. Governor Benedict,
now Of the colony. He commenced life as slave
| in Georgia; through the kindness of his master,
he became an intelligent well read man, and was
liberated. He took TO Liberia with him well as
sorted library Of eight hundred volumes. and has
since become one of the most enthusiastic promo.