Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1853-11-11
Gales an0 ShCttbcs.
Translated for the Daily Register.
A NIGHT IN BRECZW EMCISL.
TraRsIatcd from the German Of Tzohokke.
Journey TO BRECzVEzMcIsI..

JOURNEY TO bhECLh ELAClS+-'
doubt not that the year 1896 may have mad
many terrible nights both for the Italians and
Germans. It was Napoleon BonaParte's first
year of victory, and the time Of Moroau's rctrca-.
had then just finished my acadelnical studies
at the university Of my native city, was doctor Of
law, and would have undertaken to settle the case
Of all the emperors and kings Of Europe rersUs
the French Republic of that time, if Grotius,
Pufendorff and had only been chosen as UNI
pires-
I was, however, in the meantime merely ap-
pointed to the office of Commissioner of Justice
III small town in East Prussia. Much honor
for me- To have one foot in office, and the other
in the aoademical lecture-room, is rare good for
tune That owed to the conquest or creation
ola new East Prussia, and the fall of kosziusko.
The late monarch is accused of having committed
a crying injustice when he helped to destroy an
independent nation, but had it not been for this
slight injustice Il cannot call it a crying one, J
thousands of Prussian students had remained
without places. In nature, the death of one
thing is the life ofanother The herring is made
for the stomach of the whale, and the whole ami
NAL, vegetable, and even mineral kingdom,-If
the latter were not occasionally indigestible for
that of man. Besides it can easily be proved,
that nation that outlives its independence, is as
much to blame for Its own msfortunes, as girl
who eutlives her honor. For whoever can die is
invincible. Death is the immovable fulcrum
which supports great and glorious life
Nv mo,ner gave me her best blessing, together
with clean linen and travelling money and thus
I proceeded towards my brilliant destination IN
New-East- Prussia, of which place the latest ge-
ographers know nothing. although it was by no
means magic or fairy land that comes into ex-
istence and disappers at the nod of an Oberon.
viii not tire my readers with a long account of
the Journey. Flat land, fiat people, rude post
coaches. rude post-officers miserable roads, mis-
cradle company, and every one as proud on his
dung-hiII as Persian Shah on his throne 1t Is
one of natures best ideas that she assigns every
creature its proper element, in which II can move
about with comfort. The fish pines away in the
air, and the Polish Jew in the elegance oi oou-
t1our.
Therefore, short and sweet, arrived one even
jng just before sunset at believe the place
sSas called Breczw ezmcsl, a friendly town, al
though the houses were sooty and dirty, the
streets unpaved and muddy, and the people not
over neat. But charcoal-burner may look as
friendly in his way, as opera danseus whose
capers applauded by connosseurs.
/ had imagined Breczwezmcisl, tie place of
NV calling, to be much more fearful place than
it really was; probably that was why it appear
ed so friendly to me. Ny first attempt TO pro-
no,,nee thenanne of the place came near giving
me the lock-jaw, and that, doubtless, was the
origin Of my secret fear Of the place itself. The
name always has an important influence on our
notions of things, and as good and bad in the
world dwell less in the things themselves, than
IN our conception of them, an improvement Of
name is an establishment ofhfe.
The circumstance that had never before IN
my life travelled any further from my native city
than I could see from church-tower, added not
alittle to my fear of the -Ersa-Prussian stage
ofmy future legal life Although I had learned