The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-31

the physical world, are the objects OF pam
full curiosity, but the compassion becomes
contempt when they affect to be normal
and when they tell you that they are the
standard size. Such is the case here; thu Sc
people sheer at all outside their territory,
Hook Hgmaringen. They rave about their
influence on the great Powers Of Europe
Peel cannot alter tariff, nor Guizot sign
treaty, that the stroke is Ievelled at them;
and they actually believe that half the war
like preparations of real nations are under
taken from covert designs against the inicg-
rity OF their own dominiOns. SO magnh-
cent are all their notions about government,
80 vast and attracting their legislative am
bition, that they pay no attention whatever
10 the actual administration, which is a 50
rIes of blunders that would be faicical II
they were not actually annoying.
Imagine a series Of rectangular streets, at
each end opening on flat country, the sides
formed Of two-stored houses Of pale vel
low or a faint blue; the pavement grass
grown, the flag way silent; not an equpage
to be seen, nor horscrnan, save some un-
happy Dragon riding away his ennui at the
cost of hi, chargers fore leA a sad looking
schoolboy with a knapsack, upon his way To
school a servant-ruaid with a TIN bucket OF
vegetables, returning from the market moth
ing else breaks ths stiffness. 10 one is abcut;
nothing is stirring; heavy tramp OF heels,
as some solitary soldier ueads along IN a
neighboring street, and walkers the echoes,
or the notes Of the belllDan proclaming d
reward for lost ornament AT ball, at The
museum, but as the jewelIy was bras and
the recompense twelve kreutzers, we wont
stop for that. Oh! the dreary heartweary-
ing monotony OF such scene Oh, iol The
laugh Of merry childhood to break the stll-
ness, OF the fitting forms Of graceful beauty
to cut those deep shadows that lie sleeping
on the path Oh, for the neighing steed,
the crush of multtudes, the stlrrng signs Of
life and manhood, to wake up this tresoIne
lethargy into some semblance Of vitality.
In the shops all is equally torpid. The
dark eye Of an Israelite peers, indeed, some
times sharply from behind the hanging dra-
peries of his window, and seems 10 vCuch
for the pleasure with which he could cheat
the CHRISTIAN" but even he seems to feel
his natural instincts tempered by tobacco
and the place. Blu. harh what is this !:
| hear the crash of wheels. Ii is the Grand
Dukes equipage an old carriage, with
two older horses, and the livery is scarlet.
How runbling the sound is over the heavy
pavement There goes another court car
rage no, il is the same-ld know the
horses among thousand they have only
turned the corner to appear there AGAIN sud
denly, and there they are a third time.
Bless his heart for II, at all events-the
sound, were pleasant, though fleeing. Ha,
but what is this! Whence came this fossil
Of another world-this chariot Of Mount
Ararat! Ii is the Her ODER Stall Meister
Won Blumerkahl training siX Of the Duke 5
horses; and though he has a postillion on
each, and holds a whip himself, the direction
seems by no means to be a matter predeter-
mined in. The beasts have a Gemanic
dignity in their heavy faces and their club
tails tied over their back they lilt their legs
with the ponderous gravity of bugomas,ers,
and they Scom to step together, doubtless 10
assert their individualisms.
What is that little old man in spectacles
performing those curious antics att To the old
lady in the flannel beo-gown at that window
yonder; for all that yellow Understandable,
and the strange poultice-lOoking envelope OF
her neither jaw, she's countess THAT is
she, kind of HOch Deutsch Lady Jersey,
who sits in high places, and takes the wall
of the Free Frau Won Donnerstadt
| Over all this dreary platitude there is an
atmosphere of Stagnani sewers, stale tobacco
smoke, and sour cabbage, iertilizing the
field in its richness, bur scarcely grateful to
the human nose. Such is the external sign
Of a Herzogliches RESIDENT the life within
is even worse.
Ii would be ngenerous to reproach peo-
lple with poverty, and the habits which pow
erty enfoIces. Small economies and house
thrift are not things to sneer al neither are
simple tastes and unos:entatious pleasures
and such are the features travellers are -
fond of attributing to Germany The com
try has been stock theme for Years past iol
tourists TO expatiate on IN praise of prinitivS
simplicity, It's unaffected good nature, it,
cordial hospitality, all heightened by the cul
tivation of mind and the diffusion OF intellec
tual tastes and pleasures. Now Of all thc
romances, in one volume or three, there new
CT was such an sbsurdity as this. The sim
pllclty Is mere coarseness; the good nature
vulganty; the Politeness is pretension sums
'in forma pauperis;" and as for the hospi
tally, is is difficult TO characterize, for th,
same reason that Won Troll did not discus
the snakes of Iceland. because Z" there wa.
none there" 1t is true there are ceremoni
al observances without end. forms aud out
ward shows of social intercourse; but al
the state is expended on the vestibulo of tn,
temPle-the worshipper gets 30 further
r There is plenty Of gold leaf over the statue
but it is mere clay within. An ill-lightec
room crowded with an addressed company
a heavy odor Of the kitchen, and a harsl
grating crash Of gutterals are the ideas tina
make up a German soirce. This. imagina
tive people discuss nothing but caserne anc
cuisine, how to dress corporals and outlets
this musical nation has scarcely an amateur
performer worth listening to. The states
men are the routine clerks Of dull :. Blu
r reaucratie are either the bcsotted worship
pers Of an absolute monarchy, or the violen
partsans of French Jacobinism. To Civ,
such a people the form Of constitutional
government is to leSalize anarchy, and t.