Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-10
A CHAPTER OF CONTINENTAL GOSSIP.
By HARRY LoRREauER.
A GERMAN GRAND pucAL CITY.


tastes, Its habits and its ambitions presenting microscopic
view OF society terb ymnute that humanity itself seems
shrunk into something like insect vitality.
There is little court and little army, little aristocracy
and little bourgeoisie, little diplomatic circle and little
ministerial clique, little city with little shops, and very, very
little money but, in compensation for these petesses
there abundance of gossip and any amount Of etiquette SO
narrowed are the interests of people who have neither
mefce nor manufactures who neither lend nor borrow nor
carry that from sheer they fall back upon the pleasures
OF ceremonial existence for occupation and for amusement
seek relief in discussing the affairs of their neghbos
Ihef little monarch is the IN their system, round which
they evove ncrces less remote rank or court favor
may determine From the highest to the lowest they Off
OF his household and not on actual duty, least by
style and title acknowledge position of dependence
exempt from this feudaism, from the Hot Marescha, who
leads the procession at dinner to the " Hot Mucus
who leads the orchestra in the theatre The result is papa
BILE society does not exist the abeand of equality is here
represented by Staircase with step above step, and in lieu
OF easy intercourse there substituted little code of obser
vances, to which the manners OF China mercy If the
gradaons to foreign eyes be SMALL mpeceptbe, the
native they clear and unmstakeabe the rank of each in
dlvldua stamped on him by Office not only cngs to himself
as he smokes in his bureau, but envelopes his wife she
stands cooking in the kitchen, and the Wohgeboner has
monopoly OF official dignity for the lady enjoys reflected
brightness and peels her onions with conscious pride of be-
ing the Gnadige Frau of Government employee.
IL then, bitterness be stamped every pursuit and every
thought of people thus circumsanced there amende
the arreachng greatness of their seleseem; for of verify
quality.
II the Government be absolute this Grand Duke greater
monarch than the Gar If they have constitution, the
English Parliament is base counterfeit compared to their
Legislative Assembly and with battalion of foot and
forty dragons they talk Of continental So with
full Of their petty nooretes-heads of departments and small
secretaries of small legaions-hey fancy they vallng
the salons of Paris and London.
Leness might pardon, and even pity the dwars Of
the social like those of the physical world objects of pain
fu curiosity but the compassion becomes contempt when they
affect be normal and when they tell you that they the
standard SIZE Such is the here these people
all outside their territory, Hook Hgmarngen. They
about their influence the great Powers of Europe Peel
cannot alter tariff Guizo sign treaty. that the stroke
is not evelled at them and they actually believe that half
the warke preparations of real nations undertaken from
covert designs against the integrity of their domnons
magnificent all their notions about government SO vast
and al-reachng their legislative ambition, that they pay
attention whatever to the actual Administrations which
res of bunders that would be cica they actually
annoying.
Imagine rectangular Streets at each end opening
fiat country, the sides formed of wo-stored houses OF
pale yellow faint blue the pavement grown, the
hagWay slen not an equpage TO be SEEM horseman
unhappy dragon riding his ennu at the of
his chargers foeegs sadooking schoolboy with KNAPP
sack, upon his way TO school servant-mad with
bucket of vegetables returning from the market nothing
else breaks the stiffness one is about nothing stng
heavy tramp of heels, solitary soldier tread along
neghb0ng street, and wakens the echoes the of
Inc Delnan poclamng reward Tor lost ornament at ball
at the useum but the ewey brass, and the
pense twelve kreuzers, won't stop for that. Oh the
ireary hearwearyng monotony of such scene On, for
The laugh OF merry childhood to break the stiffness the fit
ling forms of graceful beauty to cut those deep shadows that
lie sleeping the path Oh, for the neghng seed, the
crush of muudes the stirring signs of life and manhood
wake up this tresome ehargy into sembance OF vitality
In the shops all is equally torpid. The dark eye Of Is
raete peers, indeed sometimes sharply from behind the
hanging dperes of his window and vouch the
he CHI he hut
he feel his tempered by tobacco
and the place But bark what is this hear the crash
Of wheels 1t is the Grand Dukes equpage AN old car.
rage, with older horses and the livery is scarlet How
rumbng the sound is the heavy There goes
another court carriage no, it is the samePd know the
horses among thousand they have only turned the corner
10 appear again there suddenly and there they third
lime. Bless his heart for il all evens-the sounds were
pleasant, though fleeing. Ha but what's this Whence
this fossil of another wod-th chariot Of Mount Ara
rat Il Is the Her ober Stall Meister Blumerkahl train
ing SIX Of the Dukes horses and though he has pos,ilon
on EACH and holds whip himself the direction by
means TO DO matter predetermined in The beasts have
Genanic dignity in their heavy faces and their club tails tied
the back they lift their legs with the ponderou gravity
Of burgomasers, and they step together doubt
less 10 their individualisms
What is the little old man in the spectaces performing these
antics at To the old lady in the flannel bed gown
at that window yonder for all that yellow ndescbabe and
the strange pouceookng envelope of her neither Jaw she's
countess That is She kind OF Hoch Deutsch Lady Jer-
who sits in high places and takes the wall of the Free
Frau Won Donnersadt.
Over all this dreary patude there atmosphere of stag
sewers stale tobacco smoke and cabbage ertzng
the field in its richness but scarcely grateful 10 the human
Such is the external sign of Herzoglches Resdenz
the life within is even worse.
Il would be ungenerous TO eproach people with poverty
and the habits which poverty enorces Small economies and
house thrift not things 10 at neither simple
tastes and transformations pleasures and such the features
travellers fond of attrbutng Germany. The coun-
has been stock theme for years past for tourists to expa
tate in praise of primitive simplicity its unaffected good
nature, its cordial hospitality all heightened by the cultivation
of mind and the diffusion of intellectual and pleasures
Now Of all the romances in volume three there
was such absudity this The simplicity is
ness the goodnaure, vugarty the potencss preenon
suing in forma paupers !" and for the hospitality, is
difficult characterize, for the reason that Won Troll
did discuss the snakes of Iceland because "tre was
none there II is true there ceremonial observances
without end FORMS and outward shows of social intercourse
but all the state expended the vesbue Of the temple
the worshpper gets further There plenty of gold leaf
over the statue but it is clay within An l-lghted
room crowded with addressed company heavy odor of
the kitchen, and harsh grating crash Of rude gueras
the ideas that make up German soree. This imaginative
people discuss nought but and cuisine how dress
coporals and outlets this musical nation has scarcely
amateur performer worth listening The the
routine clerks Of dull Bureaucratic = either the beso
ted worshpper of absolute monarchy, the violent pasans
French Jacobnism To give such people tie form Of
stiuona government egaize anarchy and to confer
the liberty of the press guaranty the right Of libel
II is country with little 10 suggest hope, and still less to
create esteem Flat, stale, and improbable residence
dull to live in, and only delightful to leave.
CHEMIST DII DAS LAND" &C.