Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1853-11-08
Foreign Correspondence.
LETTER FROM COPENHAGEN.

LII 4 LIZ L HUM 0Oi 14ANAIekS1
It affords US great pleasure to present theGoowins
highly interesting letter from Old and esteemed
friend but recently among US and one whom oui
readers viii easily recognize. Though his tour has
been attended with much of difficulty and personal
iuconvenience his fiends.congratul him upon his
safearriya at the point of his destination. May health
and happiness be his during his absence is the sin
wish of those devoted friends he has left behind
him:
CoPBNHAGEN. Get. 12, 1858.
NV dear Rcller:-I should have written to
You long ago, but for the spell OF Illness which
confined me so long In Paris. When | reached
London, rs you are aware, the cholera WAS IA
ging at Copenhagen, 10 degree Wholly TN
precedented. 1t was as f;ttal as the yellow te-
,ver has since been at New Orleans-and my
predecessor, Mr.. CURE, who kindly called to
see me, informed me that when he left, there
was no business of any sort doing. and that it
would be madness in me to go on at that time.
/ ReSrcting all this very much, ] concluded to
run over TO Paris and see some of the sLieHs''
! Of fliat world renowned city, But hardly had
j J rel,cii.,G thes. 5siI 5ii;slft IN tre
,ardius des Pautes, when / was stricken down
with violent attack of my old enemy, the bill
ious fever. which confined me to nv room, aud,
great part Of the time, TO my bed, for
more than six weeks. For about ten davs.
was reailyiIl, but during most oft.e time was
just sick enough to feel miserable, trettut, hong
sick, aud worthless. Some days | would feel
quite WE'LL and, tiattering myself that had re-
covered, would crawl out, call cab and put
oil 10 the Louvre or to some other place Of Won
dcrs, from whence | would invariably return,
either with fever or a shaking aguc upon me,
betake myself to bed again, and groan and
IL
thing continued up to "Wednesday last. Du-
ring all this time, was pucied and pIundered
at a very rascaliy rate assure you. uowev-
er, my physician proved to be christian and
a gentleman, DIR, Byland, a young American
formerly of Philadelphia, highly tintelligent,
gentlemanly and kind. With these facts be-
fore you, YOU will hardly expect me to tell you
much about Paris. | did, nevertheless, man
age to see Il few of its marve!s, and l met, be-
sides, some delightful old acquaintance, and
formed some very agreeable new ones. A
mong the former were Senator Douglass, Just
returned from his European tour; Jno. NJ. Dan
iel Charge to Turin; Robt. ID. Owen, ditto to
Naples, and L. Z. l5ayne, Esq, Of Sclden, With
crs tE Co., an excellent gentlemen, whom, | as
sure you, | was highly delighted to meet so far
from home. Among the latter, Senator Jones
of Tennessee, who has been many weeks in
j
~yijt, who, like myself, has been Ill since he
iirst entered the city; Mr. Sanford, our Charge
at Paris. silce the departure Of Mr. Rives; Mr..
NIcRac of North Carolina, our Consu! at that
place. and several others, all Of whom l shall
remember with pleasure. But, on the whole,
| shall not have the most delightful rcminis
cences Of my abode in Paris, On Sunday the
I'd inst, having been informed that the Waters
at Nersei!es would play for the last time during
the season, and having felt quite well for a day
or two past, | determined to see them, and i'll
company with Judge Douglass and Mr.. Craigh-
ton, son OF Commodore CraightOn, drove
to that place. Ii did not know that You had
already read so many descriptions of this ex-
arcs, Wrung fF5ih h 81 Yyf4lt to of So m5any mon
starving surts las been lavisheu through ~
many ages, | would attempt a littie sketch OF
it myself But knowing that-and knowing,
also that ] saw it to dIsadvantage-the day
having turned out badly, and having COM
p!etely broken down in the tenth or twelfth Gal
Icry OF paintings i'll the mighty palace, lyon
NAV Judge how many of them there are when
| tell YOU, that to catch mere glimpse OF each,
requires more than three mortal hours) | shall
say nothing about it, except that the effect up
Oh me was thoroughly bewildering, and that
returned to Paris about O'clock in the even
upon lne as ever set the teeth to chattcring in
tic head of helpless mortal. Well, ! took
to nv bed again, and the fever consequent
upon my ague, did not leave me until Wedues-
day. when | resolved to leave Paris instanter,
sick or well. So | got up and commenced
packing my trunks and paying my bills as fast
as possible, and on Friday last, at half past elc-
ven, turned my back OH La Belle Paris" and
took my seat i'll the cars for Brussels
The travel from Paris to Brussels is anything
but pleasant, the road running, the whole way,
through Il desoIate looking, Hat, sterile, and
poverty stricken part OF the world, with moth
ing but dirty little villages, and wrctched tunl-
ble-down, dreary hovcis, such as the negro
quarters in the poorest portions OF poor old
Virginia. (as the slanderers call her) would be
ashamed to be caught il company with
These are the abodes Of the poor peasants, who
scratch this barren soil for livelihood, and
who are allowed Just enough, out Of the pro
duets Of their labor, TO enable them to live and
scratch on They scratch the soil, they do not
cultivate it, and their implements of husbahdry
are funny to look at; | wish | could send n
Gle johnny Moore one OF their ploughs and
harrows, and hear his opinion OF them. We
reached Brussels about o'clock the same even
ing, and put up at the Belle Nue Hotel, as neat,
and clean. and comfortable a tavern, as ever |
set my foot into, and one, where the attend
auce Is admirable and the prices reasonable.
The glimpse which caught of Brussels in-
pressed me with the idea that it must be a
charming city, and did long to tarry there
. few DAYS. But the time had lost IN Paris
rendered it necessary that should hurry on to
my post; and we, accordingly, left brussels the
next morning at quarter past ten, having ia
ken our seats in the cars Tor Cologne. 1t is
/ impossible to imagine stronger contrast than
hat presented by the country lying betw cen
brussels aad Cologne, and that between .5rus-
sells and Paris. The latter is as bcau.dful as
any thing 1 have ever seen, and cult sated APP
plrentIy, to the ne plus ultra. IL ere is some
picturesque scenery aiso-but ger orally speak
Ing, the face of the country is IS fat and un-
broken as any Western Pr,tiri but it is green
and fertile, and a5ounding in every product
the result of proper cultivation. But there is
scarcely stick OF tim Ger to be seen ON any