New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-12
SCENES AND THOUGHTS In EUROPE.
ny AN AMERICAN (G. H. Calvert. PART II.
Communicated for Tbs Tribuue.1


Going up the valley of the Neckar, one runs
over with impracticable desires, and their tanta.
hziDg importantly is an index of the overlooking
abundance OF its beauties How many sites that
one longs to halt at for a day; how many hills
that one would climb, TO compass a wider enjoy
menti But we must be at Hebronn in time to
dine before taking the railroad to Stuttgart. To
no one is dinner more important item IN the
days account than to your traveller.
Stuttgart is q Reaidenz." A " Residenz" is
German town, lifted into consequence from its
beng chosen by the Sovereign Of petty domin-
ION for the residence Of his petty self and bis
petty Court. In the body-politic Of Germany
these reiterated capitals assume to be gangia, or
nervous centers whence political vitality $50
much as there may bel is difused through the
little circle upon each dependant. They are ab.
sorbents rather, seeing that they suck in, as well
OF spiritual force as OF material substance, more
than they impart. Here, in a small theater, is
performed, the year round, the serio comedy OF
Xingship; wherein Usurpaton braZens 1t out by
q prescription OF impudeRce, and Servility is 80
low that it knows not its own lowneSs; where
the emptiest actors play often the highest parts
and where the audience is terribly out OF elbows,
being forced to forego, most of them, even some
of the necessaries OF q meager household, to ior
nish the gilded trappings OF the performers 10
m American, there is no more astonishing leat
Rre in European existence than the patience OF
the People. Their forbeGance Is to me dsuy
marvel.
Railroads lay open the landscapes of coun
try. they take to the valleys. At Geisingen,
between Stuttgart and Ulm, there Is one OF rare
beauty which, before you issue out Of its upper
end, narrows to o gorge, where the ascent
achieved being OF several hundred feet, the de-
light Of the traveller is redoubled by mans mo.
chanical Art. With noiseess ease the heavy
train rolls up the valley. True power is so unos-
tentatious. l know not clearer image, at once
of might and benefcence, than silent shower,
that slakes the thirst Of half continent. Wit.
Messing it, one wonders at the large facility OF
Nature A great Idea or Discovery, offspring OF
the prolific brain OF man, works and fertllizes with
a like breadth and bounty.
Um is historical. 1t is one Of the many Cont
mental towns stamped with sad notorety by
the fatal hand Of Napoleon. 1t was here Ia 1872,
while Europe awaited, with breathless intentness,
his descent upon England. that Napoleon. sped
by his demoniacal instinct, having rapidly ira
versed France from boulogne to SIasburg, sud
denly faced the astounded Austrians, cut in two
their forces, and by the capture OF sixty thousand
men at Ulm, opened the campaign, which IN
few weeks was to end with the victory OF Aus
terlitz.
What grasping thoughts now swelled that vivid
brain, making even the new diadem too small fer
it. AS on the daily outspread chart, the sure eye
of the General tracked the marches of the enemy,
the Imperial glance ranged far beyond the lines
Of q campaign, and kindling with dark power, de-
youred land after land on the broad map of Eu-
rope. Between him and his hope, no majestic
figure of Justice, no fearful countenance Of Hu
mainly rose up to rebuke his desires. The high.
or his eminence the less be felt the wants of his
teows AS he assembled, he pat away from him
more and more the nobler attributes OF mans
nature until, at the elimination OF bis path, be
had become an icy ambition-mastered inhu-
manity, illuminated By intellect.
He was cow rapidly mounting. From the nlSnt
gained by the victory at Ulm bis horizon wldened
Of a sudden. Into the future be glAred with ex-
initiation. The foes before him be felt were his
prey. He strobe on to clutch them. Munich he
entered as a deliverer. Elated with conquest,
exalted by Bavsrian homage, flushed with ambi-
tious visions the new Emperor seized in his au-
dacious thought boundless soyereignty.-A
courier arrives from the West. What brings be
"A hemor flashed through Nap0leons frame.
His face Is hyid. His lurid eye rolls as If Tortured
by the brain behind it. Fled are those gigantic
visions. Far away from the Austrian are his
thoughts. lie writhes with anger and with hate.
In his hand il the report Of the battle of Traalsar
Napoleon has himself said, that but for the Oh.
stinate resistance of Sir Sidney Smith at Acre.
the course Of History had been changed From
the beginning to the end Of his career, he was
bsfied by the sturdy Islanders This was part
of his Destiny At Acre at the Nile; at Ira.
falgar; at Copenhagen, where their seizure Of the
Dani,h feet disconnected again bic plans and
poured gall into the Drumming cup Of bis German
triumpbs; in Spain, where he boasted that he
would drive that Sepoy Wellington into tho At
lsntic At the high tides Of his aiiairs osue ever
this adverse potency to make an ebb IN his i0ftunes
When his fortunes had waved, il was EHSland