New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-14
FROM NETWORK TO NINEVEH.
PANORAMA OF THE UPPER DANUBE.

Editorial Cores pondepce OF The ~ T. Irlouhe
VIENNA, Thursday, Oct. Is, 1851.
While ploddiag along the highway from
Vienna to Linz in the Summer of lS45, fire.
auently saw the Danube, cleaning to the north
ward in the lap OF its magnificent valley.
crossed il afterward at Ulm, where II comes fresh
nom it's fountains, and parted from At with my
love for its name and associations strengthened
by the slight acquaintance. But within the last
FIVE DAYS have sailed 400 miles on its breast,
and felt its might and majesty as never before.
II has completely displaced the Rhine, which
had held to be without peer among European
rivers and as this preference is contrary to the
general opinion, (probaby because one person
visits the Danube where ten visit the Rhne,)
rapid sketch Of the scenery from Donanworth to
Vienna may help to justify 1t.
The Danube is lordly river. 1t does not drip
from the edges OF the glaciers, like the Rhine,
the Rhone and the Po but gushes at once to LIE,
q Iusty stream, in the garden OF Prince Nor
does the flood, in its waxing course, suly the no.
bilty of its birth. One race and one language
alone cannot measure It's extent, but from lts
cradle in the Black Forest till it mnges with the
Euxine, il draws its waters from Suabia and ba.
yaria and Franconia from the meadows OF the
Engaddin, in the Upper Alps, from the hills of
Bohemia from Tyrol and lllyrR from Hun
gary and Servia, and from the lands of the Turk
and the Museovite. Its youth is crystal-cear
rapid, and bears the aroma of the Northern fir
its old age stasnates in the lazy languor of the
Orient Il 10 like one of those vickings of the
eighth century. who went with the frost and fre
Of Iceland TO wallow in the luxury Of the ByZan-
tine court II bears the hymns OF Luther sung
IN the places where Luther dwelt, and ii hears
the muezzin call from his minaret the name of
Mahomet.
But it's historical interest What grander as
sociations than Attila and his Huns, or the Daci-
ans before them And is not Belgrade stirring
name, and John Sobieski's victory before the
walls Of Vienna something to remember CGur
de Lions prison looked on the river; and its
waves are still lighted with the splendor of the
Nibelungen Lay. What has the Rhine to sur
pass these Ii has much TO be sure tower
on every headland, and a legend TO every tower.
II sings a legend throughout the length OF its
highlands powerful melody" like that of
she Lorcley, but no erander strain The Rhine
10 legendary the Danube Is epic. Its associa-
tions have broad and majestic character they
are connected with historical movements more
vast and lead us back 10 more remote and Oh
scure periods. The stream itself, as 1t flows
With full current, now losing its way on inter
minable plains, now plungng into mountaln-de-
files where there seems no hope of outlet, has
something vague and undehnable in its express
IL ,~l h.
grim and silent, they have lost their histories,
or refuse to give them up. The wild woods of
the Middle Ages still keep possession of valley,
that come down from the mysterious Bohmer.
wald. and as you look up their silent depths,
home OF the stag and wild bear, you think of
the wehr.wolves with a light shiver in your
blood
forge. | am giving you the effect of the
Danube. before have shown you its landscapes.
II seeing them through my eyes does not bring
you TO the same conclusion, | am either very
indifferent Barnard, or you have hopelessly sold
yourself 10 Childe Harold" and Hyperion"
Take then. with me, an afiec,ionats leave OF
Nuremberg IL rains dismally, and the high and
barren watershed of Middle Europe, over which
she Railroad passes, is fas, becomings quagmlre.
The plains are drowned with six months of in.
eesssn, moisture, and the Low hills OF ragged
hrtrees seem ready TO sink into them We pas,
numerous dull villages and two or three ,olerable
towns, and after more than fifty miles of such
travel, strike an affueR Of the Danube and de-
scend with 1t through the hills 20 Donauworh.
Ihs town Is OF 40 note. except as being the
head OF navigation on the river We did no,
even enter 1t, but took lodgings in The Crab
which stands by the water. side, and which gave
US, without biting our heads from the pillows.
night-view OF the plain toward Ulm, and the
swollen food flashing in f'ial CLEANS of moon
light. In the morning nv brother left as. 10
proceed to Munich; Mr.. L. and myself took the
steamer for Regensbufg