New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-22
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TREvIs. Wednesday, June 30, 1851

hours. The road has just been opened to the lat
Yer city. There was great celebration on the
occasion at Manipulating off Of speeches and
balloon ascension by GODDARD, blessing
Of locomotives by bishop Of the diocese, etc. etc.
By the FIRST Of August, the only remaining unhn-
isbed section will be completed, and Paris and
Strubourg brought within twelve hours OF each
ether. This is Of some Importance to you New
Workers, this new direct route from the Upper
Rhneland by Paris to Havre. The German emf
grafton from that port already very large, will be
much increased by the additional facility. 1t will
also be an outlet in the came direction for the
crowded French population Of Eastern France,
where, as in other parts Of this revolutionary,
heavily taxed land, the spirit Of emigration is
growing. Questions about wages, prices flood
and Of land, taxes, form Of Government, ETC., in
our country, are daily asked me by persons who
think Of going there, regret that they did not go
when younger, or have friends already there.
And here a ord Of advice to American Travellers
Before coming to Europe, brush up your kno"i-
edge Of home see if you have any definite idea
of the aggregate length of our railroads, the chlei
products of our agriculture, the prices OF land and
articles Of food and particulars 81 the NE 81 ne
President; clafify your ideas on our political sys
TEN, especially as regards elections OF all kinds,
ami the distinctions of state and Federal Govern
ments, so that you can express them In few
words; bring with you good map OF the United
States, read the last number OF the American
Almanac on the voyage, and when you reach Pans
buy for travelling companion Consul Goodrch's
new book on America, just published by Gulau-
min g. Co., II Rue Richelieu; 50 you will find
yours.lf somewhat prepared to perform the func-
tons Of American representative among foreign
people. As such they will look upon you in spite
of yourself They are generally very curious to
learn of our Republic, about which they naturally
had, for the most part, but indefinite notions
often enough extremely erroneous, almost always
very favorable In return for the information gwen
ii your patriotism and beneyolence do no furnish
sufficient motNe-yOu gain from your travelling
and table acquaintance ready answers to your
intenogations, volunteered remarks and general
friendly treatment. | do not mean to say by this
that conversation is carried on here by any strict
system of exchange. ] do not remember ever to
have asked Of Frenchman or q German that
dl1 not receive DuJ 10 W 4NolCs' OPCehN-
ing after the manner of Murray, it is a cheer
full little city, with handsome square, surrounded
BY public buildings and ornamented in the center
with statue of Stanislaus, ex.King of Poland
and afterward benefcent Duke of Bar and Lor-
raine, las kings and dukes go, an egregiously
good man, with rectangular streets, cleaner than
you dust blinded, mud-bedraggled New Workers
ever see; with gateway of architectural merit
opening out into the neighborng country; with
fine park, called the Pepiatere, something larger
than all your New DIRK parks pat together and
unparalleled Boston Common thrown in; etc. ETC.
What 1 was more interested in the process
sion of the F6te DieU, which took place the day
after my arrival. AS your readers know, at the
celebration of this Gcte in Roman Catholic coun-
tries, the sacrament body of CHRISTI is borne
through the streets, attended by priests and fol-
lowed by the faithful But since 1880 this public
procession has been prohibited, at least in all the
large towns Of France and the ceremony confined,
as it still is in Paris, within the walls the i'm
mediate precincts of the churches. This year,
however permission was granted to the churches
of many provincial towns to revive the former
publicity of display. As sort of reactionary
measure, and another instance of Louis Napoleon's
wish to gain over the Church party, the restora-
tion has political interest. The number of per-
sons who took part in the professions from the diff
ferent churches was made up beside the priests and
other functionaries of the church, Of the schools
the msgstracy and women. The streets through
which they passed we're ornamented with green
boughs and flowers from the windows hung
pets, shawls, bed covers, and other gay-colored
cloths at the street corners occasional reposotrs
or chapels were erected. In the neghborhood of
these last, large crowds collected where the pro-
cession stopped. These crowds, composed of in
habitants of all classes, were invariably quiet and
respectful in their attitude, as French crowds
dinarily are, but seemed to me to look on the
affair only as a spectacle There were, apparent
ly, devout exceptions, it is true, mostly among
the female spectators. The majority appeared to
be quite Indifferent to the religious character OF
the ceremony. ] asked one man what was the
Opnien of the people regarding its revival. He
said they were suited with it, himself emnently
so, for it Z" made commerce march he was
wine dealer. Another gave nearly the same re-
ply, that it helped business. Others object to it,
not ON religious grounds, but because they see in
1t sign OF growing political influence in the
high-ehurch party, an influence that has always
been exercised against liberty. Therefore, they
were discomfort to see the Project of the depart
ment, the representative of the Central Govern
ment, taking the place in the procession which he
used to occupy twenty-five years ago IN the time Q
Charles X.
On the road from Nancy to Dieuze, met an
enormous wagon or house on wheels, one OF line
Of such vehicles employed for the transportation
Of German emgrants from SsasbrUck TO Nancy.
II contained some thirty or forty passengers of ali
ages and sexes, with their poor effects In spite
efthe long, strange journey before them and homes
behind them, they seemed TO be in cheerful mood