New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-03
Arsp1ork Dailp Gribmne.
AN AMERICAN IN EUROPE.....L
FROM NETWORK TO GENEVA - THE
SCHOOLS THERE.
sDeeisl Correspondence of The N. Y. Tribune.


sneesl Correspondence Of The ~ Y. Tribune
GENEVA, (Swi'zerland,) Aug. 13, 1855.
1t only very recently that have get my
bows placed en- pension, and fad myself honest J
at liberty to begin epi-tolatiag half suspect
myself Of having nothing TO say; but am so uu-
feipuedly content with the sigh. once m,re Of
ink. and and pen tuat cannot fo1bear tryiag to
shy that probable nothing across the water to
THE TRIBUNE.
Until We reached Geneva We did little else
but suffer from the hotel-keepers aud enjoy deli
cious Summer weather. The Paris hot9ls ex-
e,ed the London onss in the enormlty 81 their
.6r,srpt charges, aud beside do not serve you
half so well If any Of your readers are crossing
the Atlantic this Summer 10 See the Exposition,
let me beg them not to fail, if they land at Liver
pool 20 put up ut the Queens Hotel IN that city,
which is in erery respect capital house and by
al means to avoid, when they reach Paris, the Ho,
tel Westminster, Rue de Ia Pax which IL IN no re-
spect capital hOufe, save that OF SITUATION.
All our sea-steaners have good captains nodoubt
but suppose none of these latter difiuses quite so
much seieuty in the busoms of his passengers as
Csptsin West of the Atlantic. 1t is not merely that
Cant. w. exhibits all needful vigilance and self
possession; il ls that he is so manly aud GOOD.
hearted, 10 full of kindness toward all who need
klpdpess aboard ship, SO helpful TO the sics' 90
cheerful to the tiRid, SO cOnsldefate IN SNORT Oh
ever, body who falls in his way, that you somehow
feel The menace Pluche' out OF every STORM you
encounter in such good company, and look upon
Neptune as bound to give YOU for his sake " a sale
"deliyerance" We had very nasty weather nearly
the whole Of the passage; but ample amends have
been made us ever since. The English weather
was charming but the French and Swiss has been
almost uninterrupted sunshine. Those VINO nave
Lad any experience of continental Summers, know
how little they exhaust the animal frame in com.
parison with our fervid cline. If all the readers
OF THE TRIBUNE knew as much, they would insist
upon Mr.. Burden building one Of those big ships
he long since devised forthwith and bringing them
over to cool themselves in the shadow of these
lovely Alps / have no thermometer bat the
original one of my sensations, and these cry aloud
ia favor If the CHS. Atlsntic skies. We are Occu-
r,irc an apartment of five or six beautiful rooms
IL yilla-or rs villas are called in these parts,
Canpaene-GerebsOw lovely place within a
st,rt'e throw almost of Geneva with grounds run
ing down to the junction OF the Arve and the
ltODe, and commanding very satisfactory
view Of Mont Blanc. My bedroom windows open
full upon his majestic brow, and as | uncose them
IN the morning 10 nbale the delicious breath Of
tie orange-bloss0ms which whiten our garden,
niahtcap mods to night.cap with the frienlliest
recognition. Such snowy, spotess cap as the
old fellow wesis, TO b. sure How it gistens in
the morning sun as no hdn6hiSssUSe here below can
ever hope to mike mine gsten We pay at the
Campsene Gerebsow-but thus is the dear seasol--
ten dollars q week and we I've in far more cOAiDrt
than we have ever before enjoyed out Of our oSi
house. Tlic table i, ample without being lOxurl-
Gus. and the cooking entirely oOmme II fam. Our
laDdlsdy moreover is genuine lady, az motherly
ard human as though eur Tie was one Of friend.
shin instead of francs, best1NiDg every graceful
and unstinted courtesy upon Us through the day,
AID treating II gignt to the most exquisite NOR
CeauI 10 be culled from the musical repertories vi
Italy aid Gerrany.
From III can learn here Of John Calvin and
bis influence I should regard him as sort OF
nit del Rcstonisn-sO entirely did Oil his laoors
tend TO tho promotion OF the municipal veal |
know that in Boston itself he is looked upon a.
tWin.bTOtler 10 Mont Blanc, only with more hre
At the head ana more ice at the heart; but the
Boston mans know only the theOl0gian. As civic
ruler he was man exactly after B0stOns heart
and indeed worthy Of all honor. II is true that be
burned Seryetus out Of pure theological rancor-
III least have seen no satistactOry exculeaton oil
him from this charge but what then ; Ii liz quite
possible for Nan TO be as to his private soul as to
those interior sympathies which ally him with
GOD, a very meager and icy person, aud at the
same time % be as 10 bis public soul, or bic social
rmpathies, person OF great judgment and benell-
eence. Calvin may possibly have illustrated this
possibility He may have been spiritually very
poor specimen Of humanity, but this IL Exclusively
lis affair and the Lords, and you and and the
Bostonians have nothing whatever to do with u.
Tie good Lord alone knows BIN thoroughly on
that side and lie doubtless will everIn0re do all
lie can TO mitigate Whatever native cruelty aud
rtge lie discovers either In him or US We are
concerned With our brother John only In his public
hrpect or In relation 10 that great municipal wis