Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-04-03
"The gay postillion GOES
To the stall with speed he bounds,
There the startling lash he sounds
Click.claCk click, click .ClaCk click. clio

10 the stall win speed he bounds,
There the startling lash he sounds
CckCack click, click .CaCk click ciick-clack !"
The buge, or post-horn sounds, the driver
whistles lively tune, and then, what | never
heard except In Germany and France, he snaps
his long-lashed whip in perfect time with his
lively music.
Giessen is fine University city of some nine
thousand people, lying on the beautiful river
Lain, in the province of Upper Hessia, or Hes
Sc Darmstadt. The University was founded in
1907, and the Library contains one hundred
thousand volumes of books. The chemical lab
ratory is very fine and the clinical hospital un-
der the direction of the world renowned Pro-
fessor Liebig, enjoys wide celebrity. OF
course went to hear Prof. Liebig Lecture
He looks more like man of genius than any
one have seen in Europe. He would make
his mark on his times in any capacity, and
would have succeeded in any undertaking. He
has u splendid head, beautiful as that of the Bel
vedere Apollo, with fine, dark, waving hair,
carelessly straylng over high, clear forehead 4;
dark, clear eye, looking brightly out from un'
der fnely-cut brow-where one is apt to look
for genius, and where he finds it, if anywhere
nose slightly aqueline, and pleasant handsome
mouth. Indeed, he has the face and head of
poet, rather than those of chemist. His per-
son is of medium height slender, compactly but
0ra afiIllU huilf nd hia hpt
very rapid. He was clothed in black dress
coat, varied vest, light pants, and collar that
though well made and fitted, pould NOT stay
smooth. When lecturing, he speaks rapidly,
jerkingly, but with perfect enunciation; gestic-
ulates great deal, sees all Of his sixty scholars
at once, and seems to be lecturlng to each. He
constantly runs from his retort5 to his black.
board, where he writes his quantities, and runs
as hastily back again. While talking, he uses
his hand as though striving to catch something
and when he gets at the end of his explanation,
he seems to have it, when his motion is as
though he threw it at his hearers. When he
has finished his clinical lecture, he runs out Of
the room, as though he had forgotten some
thing.
He spends the present winter in Italy, and
not in America, as some of our papers have ad-
verlised. l found the great chemist to be most
affable and courteous. Among his students, |
saw Drs, Breed and Johnson, of New York.
Having presented my letters, soon made the
delightful acquaintance of several scholars, en-
inent in Germany. Besides Liebig, may ven
ture to mention DR.. Credner, Theological Lee.
turer, and Professor Bauer and Tiffenbach, the
one, Professor of Sacred Rhetoric, and the 9TH
er Professor of Mneralogy and Geology at this
Justly renowned University. | enjoyed most
pleasant and profitable intercourse with them
and their families, from whom learned much
of the present state of religious and political
matters IN Germany, and in the observance Of
whose habits l saw the social life of the people,
as it cannot be seen in hotels.
Spending an evening with large party Of
these amlable and hosptabe friends, the wine
was of course produced. An accomplished
daughter of my fair host was the fair Hebe who
profered ME u glass of the muchprized bever-
age. refused with the observation that in
common with the great mass of my people in
New England, coDscientiously abstained from
the use of wine and all spirtuous liquors. The
good wife the mother of the cup-bearer-no
exactly compreheeding the current Of my re-
mark, and never dreaming that any one could
oppose the use of good wine, but thinking per-
haps that the article might not agree with me
stepped towards the bell with the naiUe remark
-WoLlen sic etlUas rum denn habtn ?--( Won
you have little rum, then?) explained tt
her that she was thus piling Pelion upon Ossa.
went to obtain the modus operandi of Ger
man Theological teaching. The best way was
to hear the lectures of the Professors. DR.
Credner's was extempore. With a Greek Bible
IN his hand, he talked as fuently as though he
were dscoursing of commonest things. Greel
roots and Latin twigs flew about in every direc
ton, as the critical ak descended, and though
-"These students will be as fortunate as mos
of our Theoogins, if they succeed in pickin.
up few of the chips" Profound and learned
the style of the doctor ia very heavy dull, ant
uninteresting. He is substantially built, with
Lutherish face, and is slow in all his movements
When he Lectures, he puts one foot behind tn,
other, resting on his toe, and leans both arms OIL
the desk before him. He is entirely withou
gesticuation. He has talked of removing t
America, for he has great love of America, bu
fear such learned man, without great flu
eucy Of English, would not much succeed there