The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-09-29
From the New-York Express.
THOUGHTS ALOUD.
BY JAMES BROOKS.

, near by, is the bridge, which the French blew
up when forced to retreat from Dresden
| There come now waited over the waters,
notes from bugles, horns, trumpcts and other
brass instruments, the music Of wandering
, bands, that seem to be everywhere in this
D Saxon city. Music is mnlpresent---uniycr-
/. sal-eternal-I was about to add. Where
people have no politics to rave about, they
rave about music, about artists-mae and le-
, male; about pictures, statuary, the fine arts,
etc, etc. Hence Jenny Lind, who lives here
is potentate here--a real power in the
state. Just row she is at some watering
place in Bohemia. She gives concerts at
times, here, in Berlin, and in Vienna, rets
any price, and thus adds to her store of bank
notes, with which, however, ell here declare
!, she is liberal. The critics say, that since the
birth Of her child, she has lost not little in
the birdlike delicacy of her voice, but that
she has made up for it, and more, in the rich
ness Of her art. She is very pous, it is add
ed, and reads her Bible as much as her music
books. Her splendid success, OF course,
makes everybody music mad. Just as we
discuss politics in our pot-houses, they dis
cuss music here in their gardens, (they have
no pot-houses, and there is no Maine law.)-
A Swede tells me, companion Of mine en-
route, who is great iron man in Stockholm
but tender enough in music matters-that
they are raising another Jenny Lind in Stock
holm, and that they will soon let the bird out
of the cage, to astonish the world. My iron
(Swede) man tells me, too, that Miss Bremen
has written herself out in Sweden, ard that
oF hart iu ir,,,,
man, by-the-by, speaking English well,
French some, German well, too, presume,
and, Of course, his own tongue, who runs op-
4 era-mad also every night, and who even crti-
cises in literature with zeal
Musical people, artists Of all classes, have a
higher position, it is easy to see, on the Con-
tinent of Europe, than in England or in AM
erica. And hence, perhaps, in part, the de-
gotion to music in Germany. Their social
rank here, if they win fame in their profess
sion, is high one. Orders and ribands may
adorn them. But there mus, be in the people
some innate love of music, such as there is not
in our race. The streets of Dresden appear
to be full Of floating bands of musicians, and
the suburbs of Leipsic, Berlin and Dresden
abound in gardens, in which are stationed 9TH
er bands-thus holding out the strongest in
ducemcnts for people to assemble there.
How these people live out Of doors! It is
a damp, not warm morning; and the tables IN
the hotel garden under my WINDOW, are fun
of Germans sipp ing their coffee, and eating
.heir butter Sead--'lhat is, their breaklast-in
the open air An American woman would
not te hired to expose herself, her skin, her
health (D, in this way, for any consideration;
but out here are men, women and children,
breakfasting on the grass, as if they were
shepherds aud shepherdesses, with their little
flocks! 1t is sweet, pretty picture of human
ity, this garden life, and wish we had more
of it. The coffee after dinner is taken in the
like way. The supper is often eaten So
Frankfort, Leipsic, Berlin and Dresden (doubt-
less all Germany have this garden life. In
Berlin, in the Thiergarten, as it is called, is
an immense establishment, known as Kroll's,
somev hat as Nibos was, when il was less OF
theatre inside, and more of garden outside,
but an establishment four times as large S !
Niblo's. 1t costs small sum to get in (ten
groschen, | think,) and when in, you have
light German plays, or vaudevilles, in an i'm
mense theatre; and when the acting is over
the eating garden in the rear, where are ta-
bles to hold, and servants to supply, anything
you ask for. The Germans there take in
their hearty suppers and drink their wines; |,
others their coffee, or their ices, or the ia.
nous Bavarian beer. In other places, there
are cheaper gardens. | was in one tonight,
on the Grand Terrace of Dresden, overlook
ing the Elbe, and commanding view for
lies around, the Gdmittance to which was
only two groschen, Give cents) aband of mu-
sic played from five o'clock till nine p. NJ,
the airs of the greatest masters in music. Ia
bes were before everybody for coffee, beer or
wine, or other light drinks; but everything |
was order and sobrety. The people were
perfectly well-behaved, and conducted them
selves towards each other with the greatest |
propriety. 1t seems to be a custom now, as
five or six o'clock approaches, for the whole |
population of the cities to rush to the gar
dens, to hear the music, to talk, to chat, to
drink and to gossip. The women 60, as well
as the men--and the women go alone, or in
couples, or parties, as they wlll' l was, the
other evening, in another of these gardens,
over the EIbe, in the suburbs of the new city,
in beautiful wood, commanding charming
WV of The elaaner the hills in its back
,sl, and Of the villas above Dresden, on the
ks Of the Ebc The enhance was about
six cents of our money. .The programme of
the concert was in four parts, and OF sixteen
different pieces, from the best composers,
performed by powerful band. One of the
pieces was German all over--"A Mist-cloud,'
''Sound- pictures" iss-landscape, with the
sun rising,""A Sea-storm'"A Gipsy Scene,
"a G;psy March," "Coronaton Spectacle"
etc., etc. The first people in the city appear
ed to be out, judging by their equipnges, their
dresses, manners, etc. Some were slipping
coffee, others drinking light wines, others
beer, (Bavarian beer, I suppose,) others all
sorts {, { German water inventionsj some eat
ing pretty hearty supper--all were chatting,
or gossipping-quetly, soberly and dscreety
i presume, from this pantomme. Mamma
had brought out her boys and babies; the first
of whom were on flying horse machines or in
the swings, and the latter were:rundled about
in nice wicker-wugons. My lady neighbors