Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-05-26


all their dirt and sombre hues, sometimes
charm one BY the beautiful faces they con-
tain. For the Jewesses as q class are
enchanting, with their luxuriant glossy
hair black as the ravens wing, their DARK
piercing, large, expressive, diamond-llke
eyes, their white teeth and clear complex
ions, their fiue round figures and graceful
movements-I tell you, sir, l have seen
many Rebeccas, but like 1vanhoe l am
welded to the Saxon.
Frankfurt is said to have been founded
by Charlemagne, and called Frankfurt
(Ford- fthe-Franks) in honor of his ford
ing the river Mayne at that place. For a
long time it was an imperialcity, and has
been and is one of the principal CONNER
cial cities in Germany. During the Rev
olution in ls4S, Parliament held its NEE
tings in St. Paups Lutheran Church. 1t
is one Of those few cities in Germany IN
which the Constructive principle has kept
pace with the Destructive, where the New
has risen upon the ruins Of the Antique,
where the Has Been is mingled with the
Is, and the To Be looks bright and glori-
ous 1t reminds one in many respects Of
an American city: the hum and hurry Of
business are there, and one Involuntary
stops to bear the putting engine, the heavy
stroke of the forge-hammer, and the clear
ringing sound of the falling metal
One bright morning, we left Frankfurt
to visit an Exhibition Of Flowers by the
Duke Of Nassau, to be held at Bieberich,
distant 25 miles, on the Rhine, where the
Duke has his summer palace, on the bank
of the river, nearly opposite Mayence. A
description Of its old chesnuts and weeping
willows, its CLASSY lakes and sparkling
fountains, belongs to the province of the
painter. In the park are the ruins of an
old Robbers Castle, partly repaired. The
view from its turrets is fine, and at present
it has another attraction in the sarcopha-
gus of the late Duchess Russian prin-
cess Of exceeding beauty, who brought a
royal dowry to her husband, and ended her
career on earth at the age Of 2l. The
sarcophagus is beautiful production Of
art. She is represented as lying at full
length on the upper slab, while the sides
are adorned with figures of Tho Apostles.
1t is to be placed in Greek Chapel the
Duke is building in honor Of his wife on
a high knob Of Taunus Mountain, near to
the watering. g.place Of Wissbaden, the seat
of the Court of the Duke of Nassau.
1t is utterly impossible for me to make
a description of the Exhibition. My ina
gination in its widest flights never pictured
anything half SO beautiful. Every zone
had its representatives, and then the
arrangement was superb. Long alleys ol
plants, archways covered with vines, jet
ting fountains, ministure lakes filed with
golden fishes, rustic summer houses, old
moss-covered oaks with luxuriant ivies
twinins around their branches, artificial
hills, rocky precipices, groves Of palm trees,
gay -plumaged birds, and the fragrant air.
delighted and charmed the senses.
i Having returned to Frankfurt, after q
few day. VIC all took the cars for Hannah,
where l bade my friends farewell, hoping
20 meet them again on the shores Of Anne
. rica. They intended proceeding to Hei
, delburg. 1 took the coach for Aschaffen
, burg, where l remained few hours tt
visit the palace Pompeium, whose prone
, made grounds are inferior to any have yet
, seen. The palace is a quadrangular bull
, ding, (Which looks best at distance. Pom
. peium is q villa, not quite finished, built
by the King Of Bavaria in exact imitation
of that of Castor & Pollux, excavated al
+ Pompei 1t has no windows, according te
the style of the lst and I'd centuries, and
is lighted entirely from the open halls.
At my hotel, 1 saw a number Of emig
, rants for America. The governments ol
Germany, feeling tho effects Of the vast
emigration which is yearly taking place
have enacted law by which every fathel
desirous Of leaving the country and having
sons over ten years, give bail or pay si1
hundred dollars, which sum is returned
provided his son returns and performs mi
litary duty. This must to a great extent
prevent the poorer classes from leaving.
At four o'clock 1 seated myself on the
outside of the coach, and two o'clock the
next morning found me quietly preparing
for nights rest at the Krom Prinz
Wurzburg. d.
! ADVANTAGE OF PA1ING FOR NEWS
PAPER IN ADvANcE.-One Of the facts
put in evidence at the trial in the supreme
|, court, to sustain the will Of the late VIM
Russell, was, that only few days before
he made his will, he called at the Office O
the Democrat and paid for his paper yea