New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-03
yIrrrr phRlslAS IN GERMANY.

VnacR II
a.,od about the time of his going thither, to
p,omb;eres, near Dijon,) for the mndipg of bis
A,oh,n physical forces, and Paris being quiet,
S..tv ard III favored under the Summer sun, I
thousht that town could do without Our O gn Cor
,..,oudent for few weeks. So takiog down
BseJeker's guide-bock for North Germany, turned
over its pages in search of cool shady place till
Icsme TO Eisensch which lies on the very edge of
the Thurineian forest, whose pine woods, hills,
md valleys, and bealthful air, are within five
minutes walk OF the main town street. With five
shirts and toothbrush-it lie great mistake to
carry weight in this age of ready made clothing
when it may be truly said the tailo- is abroad
with five shirts and tootn -Drush, then, hurried
hither. Hurried
The French Express train ls none Of the fastest
hut a German Schneiizag (quck train is, TO our
American notion, misnOmer. We were more
than eight hours on the road from Frankfort 10
Eisenach, distance of some $50 miles. That is
German for fast. However, there is cOmpensa-
ti0n here. If German fast train Is Character
istcally slow it is sure. You have comfortable
confidence that you will arrive some time or other,
at your place Of destination, entire. This CONT
dence adds much TO the pleasure which, as for
eigDer, you are travelling for. TO be distributed
In parts, like one of Dickens's novels, before the
issue of your journey, would be very disagreeable
among strangers. At home it s different
The whole number Of deaths by railroad acc-
dents in Prussia, during the year 1-J4, was one.
There is another commendabe feature in German
railroad matters, and that is the ticket. 1t ordi-
narily is of common printing paper, whereOn the
wayfarer may read the name of the road, the d.
rection he is taking, the day of the month, the
price he has to pay, the class of car he is to Oc
cupy; which last, if he be Of sense and wish
DO a C tl n,la
will always, when possible be the second or
third). This is only one side Of his ticket or
baggage check; the reverse contains quite little
chapter Of information for the passengers use,
telling what he is TO do and to forbear throughout
his journey, how much he is to pay to baggage
Emashers and hackmen at the end of it, what he
will receive for his trunk if it be lost, how he may
insure it for any value he chooses. to whom you
are to address your complaints of any sort, &c.
Besides all this, the tcketparaeraph serenh of
the ODE before me finally tells you that the
"cOmplete and particular regulations may be had
at every station on the road"
The Germans have passion for regulating
things. l remember some years ago making my
way along a crooked fOotpath through wild mar
row gorge in the Black Forest, and stopping at
the end Of it to read IA large-lettered signbOard,
whereOn 1t was forbidden, III several paragraphs,
and under penalty of fine, to travel said path on
wheels or on horseback. You could not have
carried wheel barrow through that gorge, unless
ON your head. AS for going through it on horse
back, it was not 80 "passable, not even jackass
able"
Of the regulations above cited, perhaps that re-
specting fares to be paid to the backnen is least
necessary. German hackmen are so honest that
is, Eisenach hackmen are, or at least that Else
mach hackman is OfwhOm alone | have experience.
/ geDeraze from him, and say German hackmen
it is more effective, sounds more like shrewd OBJ
servation. This hackman took possession of me,
my five linens" and the toothbrush, at the rail-
way depot, between the hours of one and tSO in
the morning, July 1lth TWAS raining in feeble,
drizzly, dismal way not light in the whole town
looking through the wet blanket of the dark. He
carried me and the articles above mentioned, to
the tavern, nearly mile distant and discharged
Us at the door. While awaiting there the coming
of the drOwsy night-bOy Of the Inn, he must have
discovered from my bad German that | was for
eigner and yet when asked bim what's to pay,
he answered "iour gre schen." Now four gros-
chen are, as nearly as may be, ten cents
That IS an honest man, / said to myself as
crossed the courtyard: there are other hackmen
German hackmen) honest, followed nimbly at the
foot of the stairs: there, tortiOrr are mechsncs
merchants, farmers, honest: and at the top of the
first fight | found the nation-the whole 60 0O0,-
G00-Me Germans honest. I'll make them honest,
said to myself in letter to THE TRIBUNE on
German characteristics.
first thing noticed was placard on the wall,
where were plainly written the prices of rooms.
meals, and everything the house could be called
on to furnish. 1t offers the guests an easy stand
ard by which TO correct any errors that may creep
into their bills This was patent honesty. The
outer window slls Of the basement story of the
hotel were close planted with flower pots. Any
one passing in the street could pluck the beautiful
flowers with small danger of being seen from the
house, yet they are quite safe from such depreda-
ton. ! do not believe that one Of them has been
touched in these two weeks that | have watched
them, except geranum on the third dining room
window sill. saw an old lady yesterday break
eprig from it, and snuff it, and then put IT 10 her
withered breast. But she was not a German.
She wasa travelling English woman and commit
ted the larceny from the inside of the house.
First she looked at the flowers awhile. and kept up
humming as she looked at them, and plucked aud
snufied and located this one. Thought that the
bumming was meant to give any one who might
chance to see her so near the pants the idea that
she was not after them. l remember always used
to stand hummiDg in that pretended innocent way
about the door OF the dark closet where the cake
and preserves we're kept. Ii might be that the
old lady was humming the air Of some song sung
long sgo-perhaps by her 10 please her lover in
her young dsyf-perhaps by him TO her IN sere-
made; and he might have brought her bouquets,
with eersnums in them, in those times. 10 Judge
by her wrinkles, that must have been great while
ago. but the association Of IDEAS and still more OF
sentiments, by OdOrs is curiOusly strong
The Esenachers, and may fairly say here from
somewhat extended former travels in Germany,
the Germans in general are fond of flowers. The
windows Ot the poor, as well the rich, are much
more frequently decked with them than is the case
in America. No one flower, by the way, seems TO
be gre ater favorite than the American cactus.
In this little town of ten thousand inhabitants there