The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-07
Correspondence of the Evening Post
EUROPE REVISITED.
FROM THE SoUTH OF GERMANY, }
August !, 1853. !
PUBLIC ADJUSTMENTS.

PUBLIC ADJUSTMENTS.
| Nothing must appear stranger to an English
man or to an American, than the peculiar out
door life Of continental Europeans Every
city, yes, every town abounds with public prom.
enades, public pleasure gardens, and public
resorts of all descriptions hill and dale
| Every family visits them regular, and no par,
of society is excluded from them Preachers
doctors, lawyers, governors and governed, all
meet there in very republican way--decen,
clothes being the only passport Every even
ing and afternoon, Sunday not excluded, finds
the citizen himself in some public place, drink
ing beer or wine, playing nine-pins, (not ten
pins as with us) and conversng freely on all
subjects. Several times week the family par.
ticipaie with him, and often bands of music
aud dancing enlven the scenes These amuse-
ment are very cheap. For instance, the other
evening visited such place Of public amuse-
ments, an old castle, once the abode of proud
nobes-now the resort of light and enjoyment.
loving burghers, for it affords splendid view
with three ladies and three children. We had
coffee, cake. beer, cheese and bread, and mu-
sic, plenty for all, and asking for the BILL il
was fiity-six kreuzers, less than forty cents
Continental Europeans are all great walk
ers, and ladies' think nothing of walking two or
three miles to some favorite spot. No day pass
es in which the families do not walk into the
country, if the weather will at all permitit
stated above, that preachers, too, participa-
ted in this, their country's custom. This many
Of your readers may doubt, but it is the sober
truth. Yesterday ! sat at public hotel, be-
tween two preachers, and at the side ofone sat
his wife, at the side of the other his daughter.
Both the preachers had been before them, and
their companions were slipping coffee. One
preacher was smoking his cigar, the other his
pipe. They are both orthodox clergyneD, and
when | informed them that their colleagues in
America would consider such things deroga-
tory to preachers character, and not recon-
mendab'e even in unclerical persons, they
laughed heartily, and one OF them remarked
g why, you III America must have revived
the very pharsees. In another corner of the
hall sat the great poet Sch eler's son, (of whom
more anon,) playing whist with three noblemen,
and in another part were girls playing the piano
and dancing cheerly, the preachers daughter
being soon among them. How strange being
is man, thought one does innocently in one
country what in another land is said to lead to
immortality and vice. purposely turned the
conversation on religion, and found the two
preachers to be of the sirlctest regular Protes-
tant sect, LuthGrians. AS we rode home, we
passed Catholic town and near ita public
pleasure-garden. In it sat the Catholic chap
lain, near nine pin alley, smoking and drink
ing, as unconscious, 10 doubt, as the Protestant
preachers, OF anything eyln such a practice.
Every clerical person here has his wine 'n his
cellar, and every one to whom mentioned the
general prevalence oftemperance notions among
our clergy, shook his head obviously it twas TO
them new and very strange idea Who Is
right ? The answer rlay lie in geographical
and other causes, which may account tor the
difference. My business ls,o state facts, and
having done SO, leave tie subject
A minister of the Gospel, who accidentally
stood at my elbow as wrote the foregoing, and
to whom translated Il, laughed heartily at the
fact that this should be " news" to Americans
Why" said he, "al the ministers of The
Gospel, here meet regularly every week, they
aud their families, at The public garden, or res
taurani, smoke tn"re and drink, the men beer
or wine, and the ladies' and ch ldr4h, c flee or
tea. Such a recreation in pub notausant
is mere agreeable and far nono
all, than to have our meeting
es. Each pays his part. a.
air, all are pleased, nd