New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-20

serted them Her course proves what hiss been
often surrnsed thas shA made use Of the relations
existing betwee Denmark and Holstein az a vent
for the restless patriotism OF her own soil 0u'
Prussisn honor is appreciated rightly now
an enssary of The Berlin Cabinet VINO
quarter of a year ago would have ooen
received with bouftss and expressions VI
10Y by the Government Of HolEteln' nsS only -
much courtesy show him as will grant DIN fos~
chaiEe by which TO leave the Dukedom. iuV -
bsbitsnts Of the Duchie5 have much stFeD5'n u
character and will. Their natural Teutonic 'hao'
nendenca hss been hardened into obsHnecy ~ tu0
b,,,b,.ss If their Northern climate They are In
rn,t tbe descendants Of those hardy Dltmmsians
IL a,cces,fuJly resisted the attacks OF the war
Tke Danes for centuries, and only yielded when
their habitations were destroyed, and one'hah Oh
.hsi- ,,eoDle slaughtered. The sons retain the
characteristics of their fatbers, and grea: sacr
foe of humanity upon the CORY altar Of contest
will be required before the Mortimer obtain per
manens foothold il the territory Of Holstein.
The old city from which write was once the
chief town Of that wonderful confederaiIon-the
Hanseaac League.--The commercial monsrchs Of
the middle ages here eat in council and ruled the
broad realm Of trade, and those ce&rsighted plans
which in their development caused the commerce
OF tho earth to center ia the Baltic and Northern
Seas, originated here The proud and wealthy
merchants embeIlished the place with the lavleh
muniacence which Characterized them, and To-Day
naceg of its great Past are everywhere visible
They are seen in the dwellings OF its old ourghers'
nutwardly rich in the quaint beauty OF Flemish
architecture, and nwardly adorned with the gilt
tering gplendor Of Flemish art; il the curiousiy
carved doorways and arcbed passages which Il!
the streets and markotpleces-but most OF all IN
its vast and lofty churches OF brick. They are
paved 18th the graves Of the dead, from whose
memorial stones the trace Of generations has
erased the long Inscriptions and heavy armorisl
bearings The waIls labor under their bUrdens o
bronze and marble, perpetaatng names great IN
the history of The Hanse people. Maltitudes OF
asatues stand in wonderfully built inches, soma re
presenting saints and others celebrated insrcnants
mingled alteration Of God and Plusus. The dust
covered banners OF the free cities bang from the
arched ceiling, and the portraits OF men who have
horne or honored them sdorn the columns o. tue
chancel. AS | walked through the brass decorated
aisles OF the double to#ered cathedral, the mem
bers Of an infan. school in the nave, surrounded
everywhere by mural monuments OF the dead,
were repeating the cstechiam-forclbly reminding
ma of the two extremes of material eXstence,
and the shri tones Of childhood rang through the
long corridor in harsh dissonance with the deep,
solemn voices which were perpetuay uttered by
the hollow sepulchres.
Something of the ambitious energy which built
the great League, ages ago, has yet g home among
the people of Lubbock. By the aid Of that power
full revolution worker, atesm, they are striving TO
bestow again on their city portion OF the com
mercia Importance it once possessed. Two or
three railroads are in progress one running through
the wheat neds OF Holssein to Hamburg, and
another to the mouth Of her own river-the Trave
Yesterday visited the ANAL sown Of 6egeberg,
which lies in the heart of Holsten, from the center
whereof rges a mountain OF I've or six hundred
fact in hieht circular and Of ANAL circumference.
Around it, broad and wide the plain stretches to
the blue OF heaven, Hat and level as the surface
i of the map that paints ii, | ascended the foot
wearying path that leads up ss steep aide. To-
ward sunset were two little lakes, upon which the
golden sunset caro- down as quietly and warm
az kindness on the heart OF man TO the eastward
were che tall spires OF half dozen churches, which
looked dark sad and somber as the light OF day
was leaving them. Beside the lskes, the spires
and the roofs of the village beneath, there were
only broad and extended fields for .maay long
miles. Nothing but the greatness of ocean has
ever given me the idea and emotion OF the subim,
itv of extended space which knew and felt as |
stood ON this summit Of the mountain. stayed
there anti the pail of night thrown on tho vast
landscape and saw She Stars come silently out OF
their mysterous reoeases and look smilingIy and
oheerully oarthward o-,-
Tomorrow evening shall be In Copenhagen,
from which my next letter Will be dated; onnrvo