New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-09-16
NEW TRACKS ON OLD ROADS.
AN OVERLOOKED wATERING-PLACE

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I, rained steadily till noon OF the next day. The
little Oosbach rose ten fee, above It's ordinary
level driving the inhabitants in the lower part OF
the town ont Of their dwellings, invading three
Of the principal hotels situated near It's banks,
tearing away night and eft, through pleasure
gardens and streets and oyerlOwIng far and
wide the meadows lower down the stream.
Country people, who had come IN early with
marketing. were unable to return along the flood
ed roads Some of them were fearing the worst
for their homes during this forced absence
They told OF an earthquake in the night, which
had pressed the water out from It's secret springs
IN the earth-ior they said that no rain oftwelve
hours could raise the streams so high. The Inlu-
~ to property hereabout Is large, and falls on
many who can III afford 10 bear additional hard:
shin The clouds broke away for a while IN The
afternoon. when made my way up to the Sfdu-
fen. hight near the town of TWO thousand feet.
Tbcrafh was often crossed by fierce little brooks,
some thick and red with the sol through which
they quilted. Others mIk-whIo with foam, and
b,au'iml 10 sec. as they came dashIng along
down through the green forest.
From the tower on this mountain there IS
VIDE yiew-feas,ing the eye as hardly another
prospect m Germany can. II stretches over the
valley of the Rhine from Mannheim far below
Strasburg. whose famous Minister distinctly us
ihle. and on, westward to the Vosges mountains
IN France close at hand are Baden and Eber.
sieinburg and the lower Murgthal with It's riser
and villages, while eastward, north and south,
the eve rests onthe rounded hills of the Schwarz-
wald. clothed to their summit with dense
growth OF pines and frs, now in their very lus-
tlest prime of foliage add to all this the con-
tra>t of the waters on the flowed low-and, gilt
terinp like FURNISHED silver IN the slant after
noon light The view from the kaserstuhl'
above Heidelberg is a little thing IN compar-
son But the LIST Of August was not day to en-
lov tins grand panorama. All the morning had
seen poor people moving their little possessions
out of harms way. and heard them lamentng
the damage done to their neighbors and that, by
the way, was bright spot in the general gloom
the quick and uorking sympathy of the unfor-
tunate for the unfortunate poor fellow drlp-
! ping wet came into the gdstztn'n'sr, where was
/ breakfasting, and while he drank schoppln OF
wine, told us how his shop-foor was TWO feet
under water an hour afterward saw him up
to his waist IN water. with poor woman sitting
HIGH and dry on has shoulders, whom he brought
safe TO pavement At every step from the town
I'd 10 the Tower OF Mercury. roads and bridges
and pathway had suffered more or less injury
| And there was the keepers wife, one OF those
soft hearted, lachrymose, hmpsy minded crea-
lures. siitIng IN a room full OF smoke. and out
reremymg Jeremiah In washy lamentations over
the storm the earthquake, the late eclipse Of the
sun. ard such other evils and portents as had
happened, OF might happen, IN her tune. Finally,
there were The hundreds Of acres OF arabic land
under water In PLAIN sight below me. and the IA
tional fear that they would be increased by hun
dreds and hundreds more, when old Father
Rhine received the full contributions Of his tn
butaries from the Vosges and the Schwarzwald.
The crea, line OF railroad from Mannheim 10
Bale was so much damaged that no trains could
pass rom the lst TO the 4th of August. ana no
mails from The Rhine country further north than
Caglsuhehave come IN, unless, perhaps. late
this SUNDAY afternoon Night before la; two
companies Of troops marches IN here IRON tie
garrison al Rastadt one Of them told ne that
the food had done much harm there Lumbe
from the many saw-miIls on the Mug toaled
down that ryer and gathered IN such Quantities
against the railroad bridge and emoankment
near Rasiact that the swollen stream set back
threatening fearful inunoauon. The corps of
sayutrs from the garrison We're set 20 work to
break ~ this r.ft What the soldiers were
marched ever here for, neither they nor some Of
the citizens, m ebap hey ,rers qarrfved could
tell ne They were seat Tor by some city au-
thouty other. and they came In fatigue
dress Il was thouch they we've. perhaps. 20 work
on the repairing Of damages bur toward uight
they marched our Of town 70 drilling rain.
much 20 the satisfaction Of the inhabitants, with
OUT having pu; hand 10 shovel or hoe. They en-
loyej the TIP 70 the Springs very much. The
nigh--march was nor more than me daily in.l
ami the ,ownspeople. who preferred Aeeqing any
spare room they Nigh, have for cue - that would
pay more than twelve kreuzers per day. (a-l that
Is allowed 10 q householder for feeding AMI shell
ter,rc = soldier who : forced ca h.s lln-s.l 50,
them 10 the taverns. where they has vastly bet
ter fare than their ordinary rluous Reports
from other quarters I'D tie negh1orhood are d.
tie same general tenor as those from Rastait
The journals from the Rhine viii reach YOU a.
soon SIS ~ letter, ard give the extent OF the
storm and Is consequences, which ho?e vii
prove ies> than the fears OF people hersabou,
represent
The gaiety Of Baden received 4 check N these
DAYS IS you may suppose One-ha.i CT the
househodeIs. as appears by the cry directory,
which IS $50 prolonged advertisement, are
ts,euers or lessons Of furnished rooms s. any
thiRg that dlminlshes the attractions q Baden,