The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-11-22
From the London Tines.
Copenhagen.

filled with spacious and lofty houses Of unspot,ed
Whlteness, ard built with great regularity, re.
mind one Of Bath but that the ground is level.
many oi :hem all but equal, in breadth, To thu
Irishmens test Of street architectare-Sacaville-
street Dublin, But large squares break UP their
continuous lines, and the eve re8ts on tine Statues,
noble palaces, and splendid buildings devoted
to the arts, to amusement, TO Justice, or to tha
purposes of religion in every part Of the city.
Copenhagen is but creatieI Of the last century.
and after little time spent there, a large por.
ton OF It gives the idea that it was built all ufa
sudden, by some Danish Giissell and Potto, nc.
cordHS TO contract. Surrounded ty deep ross,
by ramparts and Entertainments, def, ,nied by
formidable forts and batteries, filed with the
balls of kings, with churches, mu.eums and cas-
ties, It combines the appearance Of new cut
made by the royal commissioners through soma
old London rookery, with the air Of M old feudal
town. The moat prohibits any considerable OK.
tension, Seen under bright, cold sky. the
blanched fronts Of the houses, the white walls OF
the publice edfces, the 2gularsy of the streets,
conveyei an impresson ofcleanilcss, which could
only betestroyed when one happened 10 look
down at his Feet OF ceased to keep guard over
his nose. The paving is 1f the style which may
be called Tltantic, and was never intended for
any foot gark less defencivs than sabot or a
cdhqa. The drainage is superfcial--that is. all
liquid refuse Of the city runs, or rather walks
very lelsurey. along grooves in the pavement
aforesaid, wlch are covered over BY boards, in
various stages of decomposition, IN summer,
the city must be worse than Berlin, (which ty
the way It very much resembles in many re.
speets) In sprlng time, after lain. my own ex.
perence time, after RAIN, my own experience
tells NE II suggests f0rcble rrmini.cencrs Of tho
antique odors Of Fleet Ditch. One thing whicl.
soon strikes the stranger i. the appa,er. want Of
shops.-liut they are to be found by these who
want them. Nearly every trader carries On his
business very mode-ly in ha front parlor md
makes n moderate display Of his stock in the or
dnary window, SO that the iluaory and enchan-
ting department of trade is quite gone a Dan
ish gentleman can walk out with hia wife without
the slightest fear that he will = victim 10 "a stu
pcndous sacrifice or be inundated on the altar
81 IAN imperative necessity TO clear out in
week.
Moving through these streets il quiet sober.
ly-atIred population Bigger than most foreign.
cts, an! with great rOunduess Of muscle and sise
OF bone, your Dane wants tie dappcr mir of the
Frenchnan, or the solennty OF the Spaniard,
While lie IL no: bearded or so dirty as tho
German. But then he smokes so prodigiuusly.
dresses modra'ely IN the English style i addc-
ted to jcNelry in excess, nnd has habit Of plod-
ding along, straight IN them d,Ile OF the road
with his head down, which mu,t be n matter Of
considerable annoyance 10 the native cabman.
He Is, however, amazingly polite. lie not only
takes of his hat to every one he knows but gives
any lady acquaintance the trouble Of recognizing
him, by bOWIug to her before she has made up
her mind whether the individual is known or no.
Another fhis peculiaritIes il, that he alwaysha
dog. should say more correctly, there is a.
ways dog following him-for have seer an
animal, which seemed 10 be bound by the closest
ties to particular gentleman, placidly leave him
at the corner Of street, and ret Of on an inde-
pendent walk by itself These dogs are in fact
Il feature Of the place by themselves Ii mum.
Der they car only be exccled by the canine scay-
engers Of Cairo or Constannople, and in mon
grelncss and ugliness by 10 place in the world
not even in luum before the potato rot They
get up little extemporary hunts through the
squares, the trail being generally the remnant of
an oldrat, carried away by the foremost, and dash
between your legs from unexpected apertures in
walls anu houses 80 as to cause very unpleasant
consequences 20 the nervous or feeble so ulUurnsr.
On seeking an explanation @! their great abun
dance was Informed they were kept to kill rate
Bot this IL mere delusion
The dogs are far too wise to lose their health
by keeping late hours in pursuit Of yermin No.
they retire rs soon darkness sets n and with
the darkres out comes the rats in the mos, per.
feet sccuritr Such rats they are as big az kit.
tens, and their squeakng under the wooden
p,tnas oi the cutters as You walk home is ANA.
zng. The celebrated dog Billy would have died
IN week Of violent exercise in any one street Of
Copenhagen, giving him his usual allowance Of
murder. | must say, that in the matter of pa
wing dogs, rats, sewers, water, and lights Copen
j. IL 4 n. ,c,i, A.
to the lights, they are sparely placed and a. vet
gas i not used With laudable economy, the
ul wick, are exngui,hed when the moon shines,
and the result is that sometimes an envious cloud
leaves the whole city in Cimmerian darkness for
the rest Of the night, in conseq quence Of FIVE min.
uies moonshne in the early part, az once put out,
they are not again resumed.
Ia the crowd YOU meet with pale sorrow sr.ck-
en- women IN mourning and now and .hen poor
soldier llmps before yon, with recen, bandages on
his stump, or hobbies along limpingly, with per
haps a sabre cut across his face, or an empty coat.
sleeve dangling fromlhia shoulder; and then YOU
remember all the horrors the late war must have
caused Denmark, when out of her small popula.
ton, ninety thousand men We're under arms in
the field 1t can scarcely atone for this sight to
meet dashng hussais, with their red caps and
sheep skin calpacks heavy dragons in light blue
and dark green lagers in smart irucks of olive
green, decorated with stars aud rbinds, md
staggering along in all the pride ofhayiug snel,
powder aud done their duty They are numer-
Gus enough, indeed every third mar is a soldier !,
but one ui these sad widows or orphans is an an
tjdotc to the glores Of these fine heroes, scarcely
les powerful than that Of the spectacle of their
mulilatcd and manged comrades. This war has
reused tie national spirit Of Denmark; it has
caused her to make powerful effort TO shake of
all connection with Germany, or dependence on
her Gcmouc subjects, but it has cost her SIS
100000 of money, and it has left many a home
dcsolate forever