The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-09-15

iainlly, Is on visit TO his parents III Ter
many, is writing some very interesting
letters 10 the New York Ereniag Post
from one of which we clip the following.
which shows very clearly in what a dil.
ferent light Sunday is viewed to what ii
is generally here:
FROM THE SoUTH OF GERMANY
August ] 1853.
PUBLIC ADJUSTMENTS.
Nothing must appear stranger 10 an
Englishman or to an American, than the
peculiar outdoor life OF continental Eu.
ropeans. Every city, yes. every town
abounds with public promenades, public
pleasure. gardens, and public resorts OF
all descriptions on hill and dale. Every
family visits them regularly, and no part
Of society is excluded from them. Preach.
ers, doctors. lawyers, governors and gov
erned, all meet there in very republican
way-decent clothes being the only pass,
port. Every evening and afternoon, Sun.
day not excluded, finds the citizen him
self in some public place, drinking beer
or wine, playing nine.pins, (not ten-pins,
as with us, and conversing freely on all
subjects. Several times week the family
participate width him, and often bands
OF music and dancing enliven The scenes.
These amusements are very cheap. For
instance, the other evening visited such
place of public amusement an old cas-
tie, once the abode of proud mobiles
now the resort Of sight and enjoyment.
loving burghers, for it affords . splendid
view-wth three ladies d three children.
We had coffee, cake, beer, cheese and
bread, and music. plenty for all, and on
asking for the bill it was fliY-six kreuzers,
less than forty cents.
| stated above. that breaches, too. par
ticipated in this, their country's custom.
This many Of your readers may doubt,
but it is the sober truth. Yesterday [Sun.
day sat at public hotel between two
preachers, and at the side OF bne sat his
wife, at the side of the other his daughter.
Both the preachers had beer belor them.
and their companions were slipping coffee.
One preacher was smoking his cigar the
other his pipe. They are both orthodox
clergymen, and informed them that
their colleagues in America would con.
slider such things as derogatory to a
Drnnohar'S . n q ron,ar oYd No, "a ,.,,,,,s 80,
deble even in unclerical persons. They
laughed heartily, and one Of them re.
marked. "Why, you in America must
have revived the cry Pharisees." In an
another corner of the hall sat the great
poet Schiller son, (of whom more anon,
playing, whist with three nobemen. and
in another were hirls playing the piano
and dancing cheerily. The preacher
daughter being soon one Of them. How
strange being is man, thought one
does innocentIy IN one country what in
anothe land is said to lead 10 immoruity
and vice. purposely turned the converse
tion on religion, and found the two precb.
ers TO be of the strictest regular Protes.
tant sect, LuheranS.
AS we rode home we passed a Catholic
town, and near it public pleasure.gar.
den. In it sat the Catholic chaplain, near
a nine-pin alley, smoking and drinking.
as unconscious, no doubt, as the Prntes-
tent preachers, of anything evil in such
a practice, Every clerical person here
has his wine in his cellar. and every one
to whom | mentioned the general preva.
lence Of temperance notions dmong our
clergy, shook his head; and it was 10 them
a new and very strange idea. Who is
right! The answer may lie in geograph-
ical and other causes, which may ac-
count for the difference. My business is
to state facts, and having done so, leave
the subject.
A minister of the Gospel, who acciden.
tally stood at my elbow as wrote the
and to whom translated it,
laughed heartily at the fact that this
should be new" 10 Americans. Why"
said he, "Gll the ministers OF the Gospel
here meet regularly every week, and their
families. at the public garden, restaurant,
smoke there, and drink, the man beer or
wine. and the ladies and children. coffee
or tea Such recreation in public re.
Staurant is more agreeable and far cheap
er to us all than to have our meetings al
our own houses. Each pays his part.
and enjoys good pure air, all are pleased,
none dream Of evil"