Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-11-27


seeing the trappings of royalty, for these
petty princes make IS great a show OF wealth
and spiendor as the Emperor of all the
Russias. They have put down the price Of
the railroad one-half SO that all the world
will be there in their best dresses and their
brightest smiles no doubt it will be a sight
worth seeing. But dislike GRO ~ds, aud pre-
ferred staying home with the servant to
dancing attendance on his highness. She,
good soul, in the absence of Sallie, talks to
me necessarily in German, to which inva-
riably reply ''nir forstay" Then, not be-
lieving it possible for q person to live and
move and have their being without under
standing German, she comes close to me and
screams into my ears sentence after sentence,
with an effort aud energy that ought to drive
her meaning into the dullest brain. But
alas, l can only reply, "Icb Uerstche niclt.'
Then she steps back, folds her hands and
rolls up her eyes with an expression which
says plainly, "Lord, help the woman" No
doubt she pities me for my obtuseness which
must seem to her great misfortune.
SEPTEMBER 28th.
Sallie and Madame Adele did not return
last night till half past eleven. They staid
to see the illumination, which, according to
their account, was magnificent There were
pyramids and avenues and triumphal arches
and palaces of fire. There were crowns and
wreaths and garlards and trees of fire.
There were gorgeous banners and curious
devices and beautiful transparencies and
splendid music and crowds of gaily dressed
people. And everybody smiled and shouted
and waved their handkerchiefs, and rejoiced
to their hearts content But the great attrac-
ton remains yet to bs mentioned. Every
body knew the road by which the Duke
would enter the town, and 50 everybody
planted himself as near that road as possible.
This was at an early hour in the morning.
There they stood, and the sun shone, and
the winds blew, and the long hours dragged
along, but still his highness did not come.
One might faint with hunger and thirst, but
that would be small matter compared TO
losing his place. But, by way of variety,
the soldiers rode along the lines every now
and then, with the avowed object of keep
ing the way clear; but evidently trying to
ride over the people by way of showing their
authority. But Time keeps on the even
tenor of his pace, and long as the day was
it toiled round to three O'Clock. At which
time ali the people shouted, and all the ban
ners waved, and the bugles sounded, and all
the soldiers cleared the way, and the grand
procession entered the town. There were
the Grand Duke and his bride, his mother
his two sisters, and the young Prince, who is
to marry the daughter Of Queen Victoria
Then there were all sorts Of mobiles and
grandees, and royal guards, and soldiers on
foot and anlliaro ~, horsaa "A ka Ia
young bride, (Sallie says she is very beauti.
full was dressed in blue and white, the
Duke in military costume, the sisters in
pink, and the mother in grey. And they
swept on to the palace, and the mobiles follow
ed them, and the soldiers followed the mobiles
and the people followed the soldiers, aud al
the world surrounded the palace. Then th'
royal party came out and stood on balcony
aud bowed. And ali the people shouted, anC
all tho banners waved, and all the bugle
sounded, and oil the soldiers rode up anC
down, always trying 10 ride over the people
And this was the celebration Of the Crane
Dukes return, with his young bride, to hi
palace at Carlsrhue.
- ,.. SEPTEMBER 29Tu.
We went to-day TO the village of Lichten
thai. II is two miles from here, through {
beautiful avenue Of oaks and lndens, which
starts at the Promenade, follows the graceful
curves of the Cos, and ends at the Convent o
Lichtenthal. The banks of the little rive
are graded, green, and adorned here and ther,
by clumps of gold and crimson dahlias. Tn,
bright waters dance over a paved bed, done
in mosaic, Of red and white stones. The op
posite bank is lined with white cottages, eacl
with flower garden in front, and fairy
bridge spanning the fairy river. There ar,
no two alike, but they all have bright, cheer
full look, with their white curtains, greer
window shutters, and carved porticos, hal
covered with ivy, which has blushed crimson
at the wooing of the autumn's winds. Or
either side of the little valley sit the princell
mountains, waving their black pine plume
in the sky. When we got TO the convent
which is the chief attraction Of the village
we went into the old church, which was hal
filled with little orphan children, at vespers
The nuns who keep the school, performed
the services, which you know are sung. w,
did not see them, for, according to the Vows
of their order, their faces are never seen; bu
we heard them, and such voices have neve
heard before, and never expect to hear again
The sound rung through the dim aisles anC
high arches Of the old church, like the wall o
sorrowful and suffering hearts. 1t was full o
tears, of tenderness, of pity, and of prayer
Doubtless these solitary and devoted womer
accomplish much good By their works o
charity; bat it makes one sad to think o
their crushed and subdued human affections
human hopes, and human joys. Surely God
creatures can honor him more by serving hin
in the midst of temptation, thar by hidin,
themselves away in the seclusion of the clois
ter, where the faith has fewer trials to endure
and the heart fewer temptations TO lead i
astray.
This orphan asylum, or, rather, its founder
has a strange history. 1t seems that he wa
a tailor, named Stulz, who acquired an i'm
mense fortune in London, and was created
Baron Of Gutenberg by the Grand Duke o
ting rich or for endowing the Orphan Asy
lum, history saith not.
This convent of Lichtenthal, founded il
1245, is an extensive range of buildings, sur
rounding an immense court; but they all, ex
cept the church, have neglected and forlorr
look, as if they were deserted and moulder
ing to decay. Deserted they certainly are, 70
the whole, great pile only contains, at pres
ent, eighteen nuns. .-.
The church contains Madonna which wa
considered in the old time miraculous. Ira
di.ion says, that in the year 1889, when the
Rhenish armies desolated the beautiful Cos
valley by confiagration, rapine, murder anC
destruction, the peaceable nuns new from
their cloister- home to the mountains for Sc
curity. But before going, the abbess com
manded silence; aud, while the pale, trem
bling sisters knelt in despair around her, ap
preached fair image OF the Virgin carved il
wood, the most precious ornament of tn,
church, laid the keys of the cloister on he
arm, and thus addressed her Mother o.
the Savior protect this holy house, which
has been refuge for thy faithful servants
be our safeguard during our fight and oul
efuge from The savage hordes OF the enemy
When these words were spoken, the nun,
fastened through the back door to the heights
of the Leisberg, which they had scarcely