New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-25

books form the most important part Of the trade Of
Lepsc amounting TO nine ten millions OF rsncs an
nu1l'y There are hundred hook publishers and book
sellers here, and ave ak hundred more here
sterdihg the fair. vent this morning thrUukn
'r' street devoted 10 printing and oisding rhs rat
Ting Il presses ard the clicking % typs snuaisd fsn
lIy / then called upon ar roucknltz. who /. the
harper OF L.psic whose establishment ren8ds me- OF
that great American publishing house Mr.. rOuckaitz
repuokhes, In Engi.h, cheap editions OF al the best
woFn II EHgii.h and American authors. Ia his ware
rooms, besides tuns of Enesh volumes were the v-rk
Of W~bingtOn Irving and J. Feninore Cooper, com
plete. Mr.. TOucknfzs books are 30 throughout Eu-
rope The PRESENT head Of the house Is young II
cultivated mind and agreeable manners, xho. 10 NE
mode Of dis0achns businsss and receiving Strangers
reminds you Of Fletcher Harper.
The University Of Lepsic has world wide fsm-. and
next % Prague The Oldest in Germany. thss upward
Of 20 Professor and over loo students
In cellar the market place, Dr. Faustus
supposed TO have lived In COLLISION with him OF tue
Cloven Foot The unrket-plaee itself is queer from
peculiar order, disorder OF architecture Hsreis the
twn house In which the Allied Soserelg a, met, waen
alter irene ndOIs bSue, they had driSen NsoOlson
from Lepsc TIsi battle lasted three days Blnsparte
confer ded during that rme. with his $4,000 troops
sgainst an sled army OF 10000 The odds sere roo
CREST and after performing progdie- Of vlor, Napoleon
passed cut OF Lepsc 81 one gate while the allies were
enrerint at smother IL Is said that but for the gal
laDtry OF Macdonald ard PonatowskL In covering bis
retreat the French Emperor would have been taken
prisoner. The gallant Pole ost bis life Ia attempting
swim the river with two wounds bis horse having been
killed from under him Tue regiment which niso sski
comma nded raised a monument TO his memory tho
spot where he was drowned
We saw TOO nesr LeiJsic, the spot which was fer
iz for many years by the blood and bones OF those
who fell in the terrific battle between Marshal Nsy and
the Crown Prince OF Sweden, and where the SAxons
went over to the allies.
FRANKFORT on THE. MAIN May 10.
We have been passing to-day through
region OF country rich alike Ia historic and classic s'.o
Citations Every town. and almost every house, hiss its
history or its legend and you are constantly passing
Castles consecrsted either by the gaanry, the wisdom
or the genius OF German warriors, philosophers or
poets
LutzeD as you k0ow, is memorable the thester In
which two great military chitfaius figured, GdsfSvus
AdOlphus in 1881, and Bonsparte in 1906 aud 1873
Here immense boulder from the ScaniinaS ian noun
tame and IN iron canopy, marks the spo' where the
Lion Of the North Tell Here, too, Napoeou
triumphant In 1900, AMI suffered defeat in 1873 Here
Marshal Butcher was wounded
Weissentels 10 but few miles from Lutzen. To this
place the BODY of Gustavus Adophus brought and
embamed. Hts body scanned With five gun shots,
two saher ana 'aveln wound The splendid castle
Of the Dukes of W.issenels is barrsck. 10 pass
ing from Wesseniels TO Nsumberg you see the raned
castles Of SchODburgh and Guzech
NaumbeTg is town of 10000 inhabitants, snugy en-
sconced In valley Of the River Saale, surrounded by
smphitbeser of hils covered with vines. Us cathe-
drais imposing and curious mixing up, dOes, half
a dozen sty les OF architecture
Then comes Weimar, another town of 10000 lnhsbt
ante surrounded by rich agricultural country broken
by splendid forests OF which are OF beech as large
ana thrifty thOse Of America W-imar is still the re
sideDcc Of the Ducs fsniy whose uame II bears. ~ ~
believe the pre- ent head of the family IL that Grant
Duke Of SsNe.Weimsr who was many years ago Ia
America be 10 even more distinguished Tor his talents
than his rank.
The Grand Dukes Of Wemsr have been liberal
patrons genius. Though neither of the tn the
manor bonn" Yet Goethe. Schiller, Wieland II srier,
sc &c, resided here many years as the guests AL
friends Of the Grand Dukes Goethe and Herder died
No alaga mark nd Gar nj IA A
stretch AL ny the river Hon.
Jens another of Bonapartes sanguinsry bsttlefeds,
Hes +, W miles south Of Weimar.
The German Diet talks OF pu chasing tho mouse OF
Goethe with its contents for preservation. The turn
ture Is plain and the house of but little value, except
a the house Of the great poet
On arrival at WeimRr, we learned that the En-
peroT of Russta only few hours behind US in an
extra train Some troops, with the municipal author-
ties and the carriage and suite Of the Grsnd Duke (or
whom the visit Is lDteDded) we're In waiting several
hundred citizens bad also collected ut the station Toe
Emperor finally amid al outpourtng ot rain, so
that bis reception necessarily buried and Int rus
Mex, comes Erfurt, where BOnaparte assembled
Congress Of Soveregns Ia lSO7. ltconsains upward OF
"a eco Inhabitants, but IL not interesting except Tor US
associations Here in 1928 Martin Luther catered the
Augustine Convent. The building Is now an Orphan
Asylum but is cell containing his portrait aud Blole,
Near Erfurt /, Gotha, where the dukes of SAKE CO.
burg have Palsce and reside portions OF iheir time
And here, believe, Prince Albert husband oil Queen
Victoria VAS bred eno born"
Fulda town of 1900 inhs otants, boasts Of CAhe-
dral In which the remains OF ST. BOnliace were de-
Esenach has 10 900 Inhabitants The Castle OF wsrt
burg here the Land OF Thurngia once resided
aud which, in 1871 afforded an asylum for Luther
Uhen after his bold assertion of tie truth In the Diet OF
Worms, his HE endangered. During the year he
passed here he completed large portion vi his transa
uon Of the Bible Esenach Is situs,ed on tue edge OF
the great ThuIngeTwsd forest through paH OF which
passed, and which, after all the barren mountains
and naked valleys had seen, was truly refreshing
There is now continuous railway from Leipsic to
Fran kor the last lnk having been supplied by toe
completion o. the road y distance Of twelve miles.
which we performed by diligence, that being msT last
sppea snce the train 70 so through on the fO
lowing day.
The az chitecture of some Of the comparatively an
etnt German houses on the Mohawk River may D. ais
tiuct, traced 10 some OF the towns through which We
have passed And am persuaded that the Germans
around Philadelphia must have originally emgrated
from Frankfort for in the old fsrmhouses barns 20,
as wei In the agculur aspects Oi both tho suburbs
OF Philadelphia ia America, ano FranktDrtOnthe Main,
there are so many common peculiirtes and kindred
features ~ show that at some period FranklH sent
nal y Of Its citizens 70 Philadelphia
Frankfort 10 one Of the free cities whose representa-
tyes constitute the German Diet IL Is situated on tue
river Main which forms junction with the khine
twelve miles below. 1t contains 1OOOO Inhabitants, VINO
ii every outEard slRn and all the usual Indications %
mot eceptise are prosperous and happy people, or
II not happy they must be an ungrateul people LOT OF
all the beautiful cies have SEEM this IA the most love
IT, There many rich peOple-many more Win
Commonwealth more who are growing nch-snd yer
more who live well upon their earnings. The hackmen
arc porers are well off, Walters the hotels are In
ttlleeut gentleuanly young men. II there be any
moor mere they Keep or are kept out Of sight And from
all can see il is no place for poor PEOPLE dont be-
eve that they stay poor il they try This looksex
iravag,nt and is so, perhaps, but there Is such an
air of thrift all around you, and everybody LOOKS so IL
der enden nj and cozy that am charmed with the place
There Il Boulevard all round the city and WITHIN ave
min u,es walk from every point rejoicing groves sro
a. AnA an mir -
de OF the boulevard are splendid mansions With taste
ful gardens There three Railway Stations which
NJ, readily be mistaken tor palaces.
We drove Yesterday 10 the Jews Qusreri % SEQ
me house IN which the Rothschlds were born aad In
vtch their mother died recently. One Of the brothers
reside, here in bur not osteDtaiious mansion on
the BoUevards Toe Jews Of rapkfort1 (soine o."VJ
ar, Ij,b They are not pent up As tormely Their
. 0narer s rerv old and their bulldIngs are dlspl.