New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-28

witbstood the artillery Of Duke Charles Cor tel
DAYS previous to the battle which has rendered !
famous; one old castle still overlcoks it's NARROW
streets but the pyramid of bones which, for NOR
than three ceptuIes marked the place OF slaughter
was destroyed in 1875 b. the Burgundian legion o
! the French invading army. modest obeli-k
erected On its lite in lS22 BY the Canton, more hty
make the spot where the switzers seSled in blood
The charter # their independence.
Five miles beyond Morar the little village OF
Avtnches marks and partly covers the site OF
AveDticum, the capital 81 tie Roman Helvetia.
once city Of $4,000 Inhabitants, des0laed 0y
~ successive kories Of bsrbarsns, tie 10 ter led
by Atiils, who CON 3leted its destruction. \ ruin
ed tower and a solitary column remain to tell that
q city once stood hero its dwellings irst and then
It's walls We're treated As quarries, from which 20
draw sierials for builting the cottages OF many
ReoeratiOns Of peasants; and nine-tenths OF it,
site is BOW cut up into Moderate farms, over which
the plow passes regularly, rarely encountering an
obstacle, and whence liberal harvests of grain and
grass reward the labOrs Of the husbaadman; 50
passes the glory of this word" Roman clvIllza-
ten and power were based on the enslayement
end degradation Of labor; shall the lesson Of their
overthrow be lost on the statesmen of the New
World
BAsLE, Tuesday, July 3, 1855.
! left Lausanne by diligence ss : 7. NJ. of the
lt, on the route passing north over the great ra-
vine bridge and rsiDg steadily but moderately some
six or eight miles through an arabic ard well cul-
iiyated region to she ridge which here separates
the waters of the Rbone from those OF the hhine,
whence the descent is equally gentle for some
Twelve miles TO lOerdBn at the head OF the Lake
Of Neufcbatel. over this tract the Swiss Railroad
hat is to be has been completed TO within three
Il lies OF Lausanne. From Yoerdup the road skirts
tie axe Of Neufcbatel on its northwest side tor
apother reach of twenty miles to the quaint and
venerable City of Neuichatel, built upon and
around petty spur of the Jura mountains which
here approach close TO the Lake. | judge that
this spur or promoEtory was originally priced as
stronghold otherwise no excuse can be imagined
for building city at this point and even this has
long ceased to be available, e, the eminence upon
and around which the city ia clustered is over
locked and commanded by the steep ac-
cli1ity of the neghboring mountain which
rises close beside it, terraced and yineclad
nearly 10 it's summit Neufcbatel is city OF 5000
inhabitants capital of the Canton of like name,
which is claimed by the King OF Prussia as his pos
session by virtue of the choice OF one of his ances
tors in I7O7 TO be its chief or s,adtholder-N euf-
cbatel being at that time a semi French principal
ity. whereof the French princes of Longueyille
we're nominal chiefs, though the Government was
essential, republican, in close alliance with the
SWISS ldniODk, Uut not Cvipoidt'u
with their Cobfederacy till lel4. The Prussan
so,ereipniy, interrupted by the French conquest
in I59s. was resumed after Waterloo in 1918, but
thrown off by the people during the great convul-
sions OF lS4S, and thus far successfully repeLed
since that eyentful period. the Prussian monarch
being too far away and his route to Neufchatel too
much obstTucted to admit of his backing his pre-
tensions BY force OF arms. 1t seems hardly proba-
bic that his rule will ever be resumed.
- be diligence stopped at Neufchatel at A. VI
not 10 start for Bienne and Basic till 5d-an inter
val too short for sleep and not well suited (the
time Of day COZ sidered) for anything else. No
LottJ being open, and ] being the only passenger
set down to be taken up again, walked down TO
the Lake and leisurely inspected the naked steam
bort wharf, thence up through the town 70 the
mouptainside ord To the head of the street up the
rsyine which separates that yine-clad steep from
the spur or ledge which was the citys rugged
cradle and on the summit of which towers the
castle of its ancient princes, now converted IN part
into a csntonal capital aud in part on | Judged
Alright into prison. venerable church "hich
locks as if deserted by modern worshipers for
sbrines of easier access fronts the castle, with but
a streets bre adth between them. Slowly climbing
(for ] was weary as well sleepy the devious
road that Leads up TO these editces, | gave lonely
halt hour Of the growing light to their contempla-
tion, ard then retraced my tagging steps to the
postkouse to await the gathering OF my pros
peciye fellow passengers and our start at the APP
Ioil ted minute for Benne and Basic
TIE road 10 Bienne twenty miles, runs for few
miles along the lower part of the Lake of Neut-
cl atel but strikes away before reaching its outlet
il a direct line for the southwest corner of the
ske of Riene (teD mile long, close beside which
il pursues its way through level, pleasant cOun-
try TO Biepue rising town OF some ,0DO people,
situated beside and near the outlet OF the Lake OF
Ike name al point IN which hghrOads converge
from every adjacent part of Switzerland. Here
most of our Neufchatel fellow passengers left us,
proceeding TO Soleure, and we waited an hour Tor
The diligence from Berne, which was 10 take US TO
Pasle Two miles hence our route turned abruptly
10 the left leaving the high-road TO SOleure and
ascending for miles an srduOus mOuntan-pass from
which the views backward were extensive and
pleasing cultivation giving place to pasturage and
this in turn nearly crowded out BY wOods-ln the
midst Of which We reached the summit OF the pass
and began to descend rapidly still preserving
Usst uorth.West direction, which seemed more
likely 10 take us to BesancOn, or even Lyons, than
10 Bssle In the midst OF this descent the road
passes under magnificent arch Of stone, forming
a natural mountain gateway which Is known u De
a. old as the Romans, by whom II was probably
enlarged and rendered practicable. nile tur
tber i the petty village of Tayannes, near the
head Of the valley Of the Bliss, down which our
T, sd winds hencefoTth in general north-easteriy
direction till it opens into the spacious and ierthe
vgIlev of the hhine-tle Bliss losing itself IN that
noble river lust above the city OF Basic
The valley Of the Bliss Val Moutiers) IL sur
psssed in wldpess and savage grandeur by many
ntbers. Init in beauty and romantic interest by
$50 IRE HIGH ranges which inclOse II at times