Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-04-21
TOTAL. 1883. 3d.
Public Gardens in yienna.

A wholesome lesson is laugh in the following ex
tract Of letter f ON the travelling correspondent O.
the New Bedford Mercury, dated Vienna, October,
18th:
"Do you know what Vienna public garden is?
Come with me TO the 'WasseI gaces' or The sVolks
g4rten Your entrance money is some twenty-four
kreuizers, about ninepence New England currency
and for that you may have the finest instrumental
music If Europe from five O'Clock till ten and dis,
play oil fireworks. When there are no hre-woi ks
you pay about four pence only. The music is not
form either, but as one band is done another
begins, and you alternate between the band of Strauss
and that OF the first curassier regiment now led by
Wanek You are in a garden, so caled,-a sort
oil park IN reality, like quarter OF Boston Common
rallied Oft, OF the public square in New Bedford that
is to he,-lighted with thousand coored lamps
and filled with handsome and well dressed not TO saw
well-behaved people. The iarest faces of Vienna
and few Giles eau boast lairer-pass YOU at every
turn; there, al plenty OF little tables at which YOU
can take seat aud have ices any similar refresh.
ment aud stay as long you WILL You cannot detect
single Insaace Of rudeness inciviIity, or miscon.
duct. There must be lhousan people pres.
ent for ii rs festival night, and Strauss has his net
pieces on the bill, but such quiet and good nature
you may 60 far to find There are two characters
whose very names are unknown here, and those are
'loaier' and 'rowdy.' ! have known Of Americans
who have travelled with these honorable titles on
their passports, but Otherwise You will not meet eth
er animal IN Europe. don't mean 10 exall the life
OF Europe over our own; far from it. There are
many things that have seen here and elsewhere
that are anything but uabe or pleasant 10 New
England eyes, but it impossible 10 note the absence
Of snch social nnisances without wishing il were so
at home. strict police such as is here with its
armed ministers at every street corner is no bless.
ing; but when II utterly exlermnates that horrible
GLASS; so abundant in our great cities, of Young men
Without education, means, morals or character, who
live on the bounty Of the unfortunate and abandoned
oil the other sex, who supply their dissipation with
petty crime, and who ready join in every serial
disturbance, from an Asorpace riot 10 Cuban pira.
cy, they have done than police should do
everywhere. While We associate Austria with des.
potism and use its government to point the flaming
sentences OF our annual jubilant orations; while we
love TO dwell on the contrast between the free insti.
tutIons al home aud the slavery abroad,-- is vel
also to know and 10 remember that in this capital
absoluism, you may walk safe at night as al noon
day; that ladies' may venture out night una tend.
ed, without the risk of insult or violence; and that
the poorest, well as the richest are under the
protection Of powerful and energetic law Cab the
great city Of New York, ready sing pieans over
every popular victory in Europe, say as much? Do
not mistake me. | that all this is obtained biz
the sacrGce Of all political freedom. But do ear.
nestly hope thai may learn the lesson that even
absolutlsm may teach us--tbat political freedom is
little WORTH unless il also secures PEI sona freedom
the protection OF every individual m bis own rights
and lawful pleasures, aud that this is only compat
BILE with firm, equal, and wesuslamed law