New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-05
BADEN-BADEN AND WHAT rs DONE THERE

Correspondence OF The ~ y. Tribune.
BADEN BADEN July Z, 1854.
Ii was King DagObert who took the lead in the mod
srn movement of high society toward Baden Baden, as
q place Of cure for govt, rheumatism scrOfula, and
blue devils. Long before his time indeed the themes
of Ciras aureiia aqnensis known and priced by
the cleanly Romans Some remains of their baths
still TO be seen-by candle-ight under the guidance OF
n lame tailor who lets you down to them through
trap door in the street pavement. They were acct
deDtally discovered few years ago by some workmen
who laying down gas pipe. The moderns are
steamed in large establishment for vapOr baths
ted over part of them. In the Museum hard by is
collection of Roman antiquities found in this neighbOr
hOod-me stones, vOtive monuments, grave stones,
and the like Among them is that in the time of
its setting up intended to he sacred TO the
DRY Of Lucius Kmilus Crescens. Upon the lower
part is a sculptured representation of chariot and
horses. which probably signified to passing Romans
that the late l.. A. Crescens kept his horse aud gig
lived respected and died lanented rs we should en-
grave in analogous modern instance. After 1t had
for certain period less failed OF Its purpose
to keep alive the memory of that worthy knight among
his cOuntrymen the latter all driven out OF these
parts by the advancing barbarans. Baths and other
monuments fell ia ruins, buried in oblivion and their
own rubbish Something like a town may have con
tnued to exist about the springs.
The old castle whose shattered battlements stand
ing out on the cliffs of the mountain mile distant
seem still 10 command the valley OF the Cos built
at least nine centuries ago, was inhabited BY the Mar
graves of Baden for six hundred years. Now as the
Margraves of Baden were never known to earn an
honest livelihood by their own hands, still less could
have built the castle with their own hands, they must
have village here OF ser and vassas TO tax and tor
ment and hang and lead out to war. AT later date
the Capuchins erected large kOser ON the banks OF
the Cos into the walls of which the grave stone OF
Lucus Esnhus Crescens WAS seryiceaby worked.
Still aterward many questions being asked about the
curious stone the monks, who were rather wise IN
their generation than learned in classical antiquities
saw in il a which they preached nearly as fol
lnxxK lnep thara az a
"the castle led unediiyng life spent IN all manner
"Of riot and debauchey. For mere wantonness they
caused passage to be made at an enormous expense
(which led underground from the castle to the Cois
"ter of the Capuchins. Aud this passage was made
80 80 high and broad that they could drive through
lit with herse and wagon. Now one day me of
80 the noble knights came down 10 the town this
sway and reached the door of the church just at the
"moment of high mass when the priest Offering
the elevated Host to the alteration OF the assembled
faithful. The nobemen troubled themselves in no
wise ON this account but dashed along without SO
" mech as crossing themselves or bareng their heads
:. in token of reverence. And punishment followed
IL asst the heels of their sin, for suddenly the earth
20 aped beneath them and swallowed up the sacrile
N 'Ous jewellers, with bag and baggage. And so the
Nv lcon and horses carved upon stone and set
int the wall of the monastery tur memorial and
a. for a warning to all who lead fast HE This
story told by the monks was wiGoly circulated and
Obtain ed general belief for ases; at least So says Hip
nol,t shreiber, "A high authority in these matters.
the NuNxlm is in come sort restored 80 It's origins
thin or hays taken reverse turn with the odd hive
The ranks which is ranstOrmed into Z rst-class ho
tei ore of the largest in the place-whoSc gay and
i, cable g1lests have either never heard of the acei
Dent Mat besell the riG knights, or consider the
ikehh,,e A Of anoslcr cstaclysm of the snd as too
dial to- check them in the pursuit OF pleasure
-Nothhs short al series of earthquakes, cppesrlng
SEN. wee Ny, would answer fIr Baden now-adsvs when
thu 10 se rapid going and coming of the travelling
.nw nude Indeed. Ns occasional swallowing mp of a
wagon lead 81 persona would be likely 20 mere ise the
throng of yIenors. For. to sey nothing of the large
class Of in gnisitive trsyecrs whOAe OmnvsrOus
curiosity is ever III search OF new wonders 10 g0lble
vour geAogists would come TO make observations and
explanations aud secure he phenomenon :or theirtes
tive TIA cries; Masses wcsd cone to dr. We over the
me- runn,e the risk for the sake Of new sensation:
srosatric ESglishmen would eome t. take rooms oves
Iok INC the spot and ait all dsy az the window watch
inc tnr A csta. trophe; Yankees sSoud come with self
acting rotary apparatus 10 bnde the gap on the
instant: wriiers for the newspapers would 10 re-
port il an As e is the numbs Of visitors last year
was nearly forty fhousand-most 81 thels staying but
a few DAYS The number OF stranS'Fs in Ba1en any
me day in the hight of the season, vas estimated CT
.yer seven thousand, thousand more than the ea
TIE resident popna:ios lie is the most reqpented Of
All Che German wafeiinA places. The United states
have OF the present wrNh some thirty or forty repre-
.eutatiyes-two from San Rrsnciscoin this lniorpal
Concrass Of Nations. The French are ia NEXT greatest
oree 70 the Germans and thov speak two words to
M body else one and as their language and manner
IRE much affected by people who @ere born 20 better
nee of Their own they give quite trench air 70 the
,lseevtereby it loses. Not but thatthe French are
- seu az other people in their way; but other people
their ways make up tIll wOrk Of r. tbOug. oteu on
. dovnward uath while th6y IN other roopes wye
ecu. misplaced should hhe Bao'H teft'T Il itNere