The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-14


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Description Cr.csw.
The following striking description is taken from the
recent work OF NJ Xavier Mariner:
Cracow is city the aspect OF which is at once maes
TIC and painful 10 contemplate 1t is cradle of mon
archy, and the tomb of nation; the town in which
kings were crowned, and where they now burned
the capital OF powerful empire and the poweress head
of district; the first page of heroic epoch AMI
the last line of disastrous history. II is monument OF
spendor and OF nothingness Nature adds 10 these
rss By her freshness and brightness Approaching Cra
COW from Warsaw, nothing meets the eye but large
green valley, fertile the Touraine IN France and
sirewed with trees in Normandy The Vstula waters
it, meanderng amongst golden crops, and al the horizon
the varied lines of those great chains OF noun
ttins which spread from the Black sea TO the Danube
In the middle OF this vast valley rise the Gothic peaks
the churches OF Cracow the blackened walls of
parts, and the creviced towers of its castleshe decep
work OF side by side with the eternal youth OF
lure In the interior of the town, well the country
which surrounds IT, there rs not monument which Is
not illustrated by some noble remniscence-nof brook
not hill, which does moi recall to mind historical ira
dltion fabulous legend On the steep summit of the
Wawul, Cracus, the founder of the Polish monarchy
constructed fortress, and gave his to the city
which spread itself before him Near the village of Mo-
gia buried the remains of the heroic Wanda, the first
queen of Poand daughter OF Crcus beautiful as an an
gel accon TO the old chronicles and proud and cour-
ageous as akyory Cracow. founded by Cracus at the
end OF the ,venih century, the residence of kings
t the cen, encemenf OF the seventeenth which epoch
Sgismun III established himself at Warsaw, and until
1864 preserved the privilege of crowning the sovereign OF
Poland All in town bears an imposing character Of age
rampant surrounds yet did in the time when il
was the bucker of Poland The streets are mostly tor
uous and dark like those of the middle ages and the
houses have festooned gables like Augsburg Nurem-
and covered By vines as they are in the pleasant villages
along the Rhine there are statues Of saints and further
the pala of the bishops whose favors were long since
coufed BY kings and the old UNIVERSITY the first of the
old Sclavonc universities after Prague
On all sides peaked towers and gded crosses meet the
eye There are no less than thirty-eght churches in
Cacow all remark abe-some BY their architecture 9TH
ers BY their pious traditions That of Notre Dame dates
from the thirteenth century 1t contains thirty marble
affairs That Of s. Peter and St Paul was constructed
That OF the Domincans, founded In 1920 possesses
double row OF stalls of scuptured oak wrought admira-
bly, The long political vcissudes which have desola-
ted and oppressed the people Of Ccow have vet
tinguished their religious feelings One Sunday saw
the artisans of the city, the peasants from the country
with their wide blue dresses adorned with red borders,
and the women with pieces of white linen, which they
throw in shawl fashion their shoulders, running
FROM church church, prostratng themselves in the
squares before Them and kissing the marble floors OF the
naves.
One day | crossed the marketplace ar the moment
when priest was about to take the last sacrament to
dying man He walked under canopy held over him
BY attendants four soldiers with shoudeed muskets
cored him. and young chorster went in front, ringing
bell At the sound of the bell all the by stopped
took of their hats and the greater par threw themselves
on their knees followed the pous coege as far as the
house which they entered The four soldiers established
themselves as sennes at the door, and upwards of one
hundred persons were there kneeng with their hands
crossed on their breasts and pravny In low voice until
the priest came out When we remember all that these
poor people have suffered gratifying to think that in
the midst of their suferngs they have preserved the
pietv which consoles the heart and the faith which
strengthens it.
In the centre of the city, upon high rock which
looks down upon the distant plain rises the old cas-
tie of their kings rebuilt BY Cashier the Great en-
rched by his successors and devastated by the Aus
trans In ascending the staircases and traversng
the galleries of the castle find no traces left of the
ornaments described in such glowing terms of admi-
ration by the travellers of the seventeenth century
but lis thick walls, its old towers, which still give il
80 imposing an appearance, and the recoectons of
it's former heroic jewellers, have stamped on II char
acer of submity This castle has seen six power
full dynasties pass beneath its vaulted roofs Ii has
seen one of princes seated the throne of the
Jageons, and two French women, Marie de Gonzague
Poland. The descendants OF the Great Gusavus Vasa
received the ensgns OF royalty then the descendants of
the Electors OF Saxony then the noble Stanisaus Le
sezynskn whose memory Is stIl blessed IN one OF our
provinces and, hnaiy The lover OF the Empress Cathe
nne Now all Is over with those days Of splendor with
those national festivities winch attracted the attention OF
the whole OF Europe The castle has been despoled OF
ITS wealth. and robbed OF the crowns OF the kings
hearts once beat high beneath the robes OF royalty I'M
n,rles sometimes laial m rs aspects oifen sublime