New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-11
CHANCES AT EUROPE. No. XXAiV
GERMAN


At Basic, (where American Protestan;s travelling
NAV like to know that Divine worship Is regular
Nv conducted each Sabbath by an English clergy
man. At the excellent Hotel Of the Three kingsJ
I set my face again northwarc at 4 A. NJ on
Monday, crossing the Rhine (Which is here about
the size Of the Hudson at Albany directly INTO
Baden, and so leaving the soil Of glorious Swl'-
zerland the mountain home OF Liberty AMID sur
rounding despotisms. The nine first miles from
Basic TO Efringen) are traversed by Omnibus,
and thence very good Railroad runs nearly
parallel with the Rhine by Freiburg, kehi (oppo-
cite Strasburg,) Baden (at some dlstance,) Ras-
TAFT, Carlsruhe, and Heidelberg, TO Mannheim,
distant from Basic 1917 miles by Railroad, and
presume considerably further by River, as me
Rhine (unlke the Railroad as far as Heidelberg
IS not very direct in It's course There is afrench
Railroad completed on the other (~est slde OF
the riycr from Basic 10 Strasburg, and nearly
COMPLETED from Strasburg to Paris, which affords
q far more direct and expeditions route than that
have chosen, as ! wished to see something OF
Germany II IS also cheaper, believe, 10 take
the French Railroad to Strasburg, and the rver
thence by steamboats,, which ply regularly as
high as Strasburg, and might keep on to Basic,
Jpresume, if not inpeded by bridges, as the river
IL amply large enough
The Baden Railroad runs through country
descending, indeed, toward the Rhine and win
,he Rhine, but as nearly level a country well
can be- and affording the fewest possible obsta
cles TO its construction. II Is faithfully built
but instead of the numerous common roads
which cross II being carried over or under us
track, as the English Railroads are, they are
closed on each side by a swlng-bar, at which
guard is stationed-a plan which saves expense
ut the outset, but involves heavy permanent
charge | should deem the English plan pref
cradle 10 this, though men are had much cheaper
for such service in Germany than III America, or
even Great Britain. The pace is slower than
with us. We were about nine hours OF far day
light travcrsng 100 miles OF level or descending
grade, with a light passenger tram. The man
agement, however was careful and unexceplon
able.
This Railroad runs for most of the distance
much nearer to the range Of gentle hills which
bound the broad and fertile Rhine valley on the
east than to the river itself The valley nearly
bare Of trees for the most part, and has scarcely
any fences save the very slight board fence on
either side OF the Railroad In some places,
natural woods of considerable extent are per
united, but not many fruit nor shade-irees
whether in rows or scattered. The hills IN
sight, however, are very considerably wooded,
and wood is apparently the common fuel. Inc
valley rs generally, but not entirely irrigated,
though all of il easily might be, the arrange
ments for irrigation appearing much more mod
ern and unsystematlc here than IN Lomoafdy
The land is cultivated In strips as IN France
first Wheat, (thc great staple) then Rye, then
Potatoes then Clover, then BcCtS, or Hemp or
Flax, and so on. For small part of the way
Grass seems to preponderate, but generally
Whea, and Rye cover more than half the ground,
while Potatoes have a very large breadth OF II.
Rye is now being harvested, and is quite heavy
~ fact, all the crops promise abundant harvoSts
The Vine appears a. intervals, bat Is not general
through this region: Indian Corn Is also rare,
and appears IN small patches. In some places
many acres OF Wheat are seen IN one piece, b.
usually breadth of four to twenty rods Is
gwen TO one crop, and then another succeeds
and so on lpresume tins implies a diversity OF
owners, or at least of tenants.
The cultivation, though not always Judicious,
rs generally thorough, there being no lack OF
hands nor of good will. The day beng hne
and the season a hurrying one, the vast PLAN
was everywhere dotted with laborers, of whom
full half were Women, reaplng Rye bind
ing II, raking and pitching Hay, hoelng Poia-
tees, ,ransplantng Cabhages, Beets, &c. They
al Ia ief,. an Ia
as the men Blu, the most Enthusiastically
European spectacle | saw was woman unload.
my a great hay-wagon of huge cordwood a.
Railroad station, and pitching over the heavy
sticks with decided resolution and efficiency.
Ii may interest the American pioneers IN the
Grea, Pantalette (or Is II Pan,aloon y Movement
L. Know that she was atilred IN appropriate cos
tume-short frock. biped combinations and
mannish oSkin hat.-And tins reminds me that,
coming away from Rome, met, at the halfway
house 20 Civita Necchia. French marching re-
ylmsni on ITS way from Corsica 10 the Eternal
City, to which regiment two women were a.
tached as suffers, &c, who also wore the ~ ne
costume. oxcep, that their hats We're OF wool
instead OF oilskn. Thus a,tred, they had
marched twenty-five miles that hot day, and
were to march as many the next, as they had
doubtless done ON many former days. 1t osr-
iainly canno, be pretended that these women
adcp,ed iha, dress from love OF novelty, or a
desre 10 lead new fashion, or from any other
reason than sense OF lis convenience, founded
ON experience uusi therefore, that their
conscious testimony IN behalf Of the Great Move.
men, NAV moi be deemed irrelevant nor unen.
titled 70 consideration. Their social rank is GER
,ainly not the highest, but | consider them more
likely TO render correct Judgment on the merits
of the Bloomer controversy than The Lady Pa
trcneSses ot AlmackS