New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-06
Nr,uv WORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 1851.

Tho other inverse !; was, II seems, once Justly
noted for III foul smells, and having once fallen
INTO bad odor with the writers Of guide-books
most travellers feel bound 70 turn up their noses
60 Soon IS thew enter rs ancient portals. and
snua Tad fumes IN their own lmayma.ion>
THIS Is for the mosf part pure prejudice. !
tIayerscl the nam streets and The SIDE streets
cf this old Roman Coloaii. and found chem no
worse e the noS'Fils than the streets of o'hcF
cities. : Washmg:on-stTeet fragrant OF can
Orange stree be hkened 20 pot OF oln,rea. fog
flavor Long years ago. one Maria Fanna made
good ColOgnc-va'er. and got him name now
there are more than twenty manufacturers OF The
article, all claiming 70 be the true successors of
the original Jean Maria Parma Indeed. one Of jhe
dis'ilers, who very especially declares himself
the real Simon Pure, The original Dr. Towns
end, 10 use an American figure, holds out the
idea that he has been making his water steadily
since 1909.
Will no. weary your readers, by adding one
10 the many descriptions Of the great Cathedral
They all are and mus, be imperfect. /, isa
great poem in stone and colors. As you look
up one hundred ana sixty feet through the
colored light to the vault Of the choir, or from
the upper roo: look down on the carved pm
nacles and flying buttresSeS YOU feel for mo-
ment smpy-but then you catch yourself Won
derlng, critciZlng, comparing what you have
read with What You see. and you lose the poem
in the notes. With nothing but notes, how can
one give an idea OF poem A. with The HAD
and the Nebelungen Lay, nothin, Is known OF
the author-his name Is guessed az. This grand
expression of the Old Catholic faith Is frag-
ment, and should remain so The spirit thar 7;
embodied. the peoples religion. that II syn.
bozcs. are dead This Is their noblest ma
terial monument For a hampagne-drnkuq
unchriStisn, Protestant King, TO attempt rs com
pction Is PROCLAMATION. OF the eleven thou
sand sets ct Virgins blessed bones In the Church
of 81 Ursula. perhaps. thc less SAID the better
saw them with my ewn eyes, and fully believe
IN the bones Indeed, one cannot get away
from :" the inside of the church IS surrounded
with bones, bie and little piled closely m cases,
arranged M ianciful patterns on the wall, Gov
cred with pearlembrodered caps, &c, &c.
! utJ VIII Nh'NA ~ htN - Al NfNAt-i'N' A'siA'f
gentleman. who picks very pretty living OIL
them in The way of fees He told me, what
was very glad to hear. that the word "VVgiHss,'
rs applied TO ST Ursua's companions, was used
IN one OF rs original Latin Specifications, mean
ing pure prisons of either sex. Il was 4 comfort
to know, even at this late day, that there were
not eleven thousand girls killed by those Huns
~. IL 4. 81 al
BoNY.
BENG one day in the Cathedral OF Cologne, Ihad
theuneXpec. ed fortune to meet with an old friend,
whom had not seen since we parted at Cam
bridge, ten years ago He took me mp TO Bonn,
where. in the snug little gasthoi of the Swan
kept by one Herr Honnecker, he procured
me good accommodation. AZ moderate prices
There. over cup of tea favored with vanilla, D
we talked over old college days, and then LAID
plans tor some excursions on foot, which Ne
carried ont during the following week. OF one
of those Journeys "acrosS-lots' up the Valley OF
the Air. and then back again to the Rhine,
coming into the quaint Old city OF Andernach
late one svenlng, ! Will say something IN my
next. Mr.. r has lived nearly two years m Ger
many, and become familiar with the manners
and customs OF It's people BY his help, | learned
more OF the condition and feelings OF the work
ing classes IN this part of Germany, m the
course Of a week, than could be gathered from
a years residence III irstciasS hotels, such as
are usually irequentcd by travellers. For the
present, word or two about Bonn. IL IS
clearly, still little city, OF about 10000 mhabit-
ants. with two churches worth looking at and
a I'nivorsiy that has been distinguished 10y the
lectures of Niehbuhr and \. W. Schlegel,
who now rest IN the little churchyard, and
where old Arndt and Dahlmaun, the historian OF
the French aud English Revolutions, still read
Kinkel was also professor here There are
some fifteen hundred well-beha'ed students n
the University, who wear gaylycoorcd caps,
smoke an astonishing deal OF tobacco, (Which
together with elegant porcelain pipes and amber
south.pleces, is sold IN shops lnnumemble,) and
are SAID to be deeply yersod in the irregular
verbs and exceptional decIens geology and
natural history receive also a tar share OF At
teption. Prince Albert studied here. klemens
Ruhe which was formerly one OF the many res
licences of the ArchblshOps OF Cologne, (who, by
agreement with the Colognese, were bound not
to pass a night in that city, is now one OF the
University buildings. L contains valuable
Cabinet of natural history, through which We
were conducted by Professor Rrmcr. This gen
tleman passed some time IN America whence
he returned two years since, bringing with hun
contributions 10 the cabinet. mostly from Texas
He is ust now getting out book on America
that will be OF great practical worth. He
showed MS here a King OF Rats tIatten-konig0
hqsas nature sufficiently remarkable to merit
a description. This specimen was composed Of
SIX individual rats, whose tails became SO knot