New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-06
--w TRACKS ON OLD ROADS. No. TX

Tho broad cushioned seats OF the easy
,,ov;ne csrs ON a Bavarian railroad, are o'.'''
.,..n;., vs,ters this unusually hot summer than
Al. .os, hsd n n German hotel. SO It was not
rom n superficial travelling nap oue "o" D.op
.l,esml,ss slumber that the very po''e co""u0'''
al. ma nj three o'clock IN the morning. u "o
80. 90 IN, Il ,tion Of Markt Schorgdst-one OF
a.. ..,,;,st,;Ilsres between Banberg and Lepslc
when came TO see it by full daylight, ami was
fold by the stupid keeper OF its dirty ma tnat
there WAS no vehcular escape from it till evening,
sueh desolate, cast-awsy feeling came over me,
that II temporary suicide were yet invented nan
certainly committed il. The discomfort OF the
inn, where swarm Of hungry flies had disputed
for nv breakfast drove me out OF doors. The
stricken air OF houses aud people, present
" shamed me out Of grumbling at my lesser ms
fortune. The harsh soil OF the district refuses
nourishnent TO the more generous grams IN the
best seasons, and last year was here, as through
out Germany, very bad one for the potato crop
which is the man stay of the peasantTy. 1 m-V
lank. i'll. clothed women carrying heavy LOADS OF
new cut grass. and saw Others out 10 the helds,
engaged in labor which with us belong only to
men. Il may be pretty salyo to our sings to
saw they are used to it. 1t WAS the execut'oner
and not the culprit who thought one might get
used to hanging. Their daily wages are ten
kreuzers lseyen cents and nourlstmeot, sucn as
Il is. After oil, this is not wOrse-probably Tor
the physcal or. allure and the moral better-than
the nav and condition of - hundreds Tor thou
..ndsi of seam.tresses in our cities. Still. this
European sight Of women doing the work OF our
men, though OF daily occurrence, Is one to which
the American sense (oi the Northern States hardly
recoociles itself Another German reSersion OF Gus
tom has something Of the ludcrOus. In the large
towns one may tlwoys STE the signs OF ToD1eH
sailors, and looking through the window as an
inquisitiye traveller is justified in doing, may see
full grown men stitching away at corsages, bod
dces and all the other delicate elements OF female
apporel. This confusion Of sex, as IL seem TO US,
extend, to the German cows, who are htched
fneither gender is yoked in this country to
ell the hard services of the sterner bovine sex,
instead Of Enjoying the lady-like leisure of their
American sisters.
The post.m at Narkt- SchOrgast, who
promised me a seat in an extra post wagon, that
would leave at noon for WunsrdeI, commended me
meanwhile TO walk down the celebrated inclined
plain Of the r,ilroad as the only amusement which
that part of the country offered. For some miles
the road inclinef, was told in the proportion OF
one foot forty butas any one forty feet bears the
closest resemblance to the preceding and follow
ing forty feet the amusement grows monotonous
after the FIST mile. Telegraph posts are stationed
within sight Of each other along the entire line oil
the Hawaiian railroads, each attended by watch
man. who sigpalizes to the next station the ap-
proach Of the locomotive or to the engineer any
obstacle in the path. One of these men, in the
shadow Of whose cabin stopped to rest told me
that he remained at his post, unreeased, through
the year. He could leave il, or venture TO sleep,
sply in the intervals between I've passing ira ms,
the longest of which was five hours. The slight
est failure in his duties, would be punished IN the
first instance, by n fine OF three guden, IN the
se6 Ond BY OF Fix gulden; the third would be
followed by final disnission. Ih" road IL owned
and directed Oy the state which admits no quali-
6catiOn of these rules. nor any appeal from their
strict application. The Objectionable POM in
this effective system Of protection 10 uayel-rs, rs
The small paw OF the watchnan. HIS mont ily
wages are hut eighteen guiden (S|J, slightly n
creased after a long term OF uncxceptlonable ser
vice. Besides this, he Is furnished with reguia-
tion-hat and jacket. After telling mo these
things, my informant inquired about America, ana
law, who is now landholdeT in On3 OF our West
em states.
The house is still standing in Wunsiedel, where
wsa born Jean Paul Richter, the first of humOr-
ists-Rabtlsis aud Sttrue M one, with sense OF
truth apd beauty BROADER and deeper than theirs.
The room in which he first saw light is much the
same as at his buth The house has been en-
larstdb b, additions since his fathers tinv hut IS
used as It then was for school mouse, AMI as
dwelling for the teachers. Before il u monu'
u,e,t with the simple ns1iptioD, " Wuhsl-d'l to
it's Jean Paul" suImourted bya oust of hteher'
Exc, pting pfsaaps, upocry phai bedstt adj other
relics or memorials Of the great poet are not
to re found at his birth place. tits ielio"-ciu
zeps ns one OF the III, whose father had knlwn
him we'll assured me, were among the last Yer
mans who kntw OF his fame. Wunsiedel differs
from most small German towns IN heing new and
cleanl, IN appearance tins II owing 10 a pufslng
fire. which consumed the greater part OF u IN
1888 II hes IN pretty valley among the cica'
teisebirse hills up which and down which the
po,t horses tugged and clauertd rom midnight
MI early morning. And so We came 10 Chrb
Ch.b is as vet my sole requirement IN the Czech
language and like TO make the most OF 1t 1t Is
Bohemian for Eyer. The city was once OF mnch
mthtary importance and had strong toItihcations
which were broken dow in Napoleons time. The
imperial castle, formerly Inhabited by kings and
kaisers is now in ruins. One visits II 20 s-e the
remains of the dining hall where Wallenstein :
friends were murdered at banquet gwen oy
Gordon the commandment of Eyer. Siuce that
bloody deed the castle has never been inhabited
In the BugeImeister's house - shown the room
where the lnshmap, ID 'Everoux, afsw hours ait-r,
Killed the great Fnedlander. >chiller's dramatic
master piece, read long ago, gave interest to all
this Little else of interest does Eyer contain
SO AFTER dinner walked overto Franz, nsbad. Th's
is pleasant village Of seventy houses about sixty
of which are arranged for the accommodation OF
visitors IL hiss in su inner a floating population,
which, taken at ts full July ebb, numbers between
two and thrre Thousand. The, are tnr the most
part real inyalids, IN s'srch Of neslth ana new
Sensations HON the use Of the waters. Tne RI
ectve properties of the springs iron, carb )aic
acid gas and sperient sslts. Bathing is more re-
lied on than drinking. Over the meadow land Just
outside Of the village. lies hsli-segetable, h IT.
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