Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-02-18
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.

EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
VENICE, Dec 90, 1856.
DEAR - II will not attempt to tell you how
many times have commenced to write 10 you and
been interrupted At last had fixed upon Trieste
ms the spot from which you should receive my long
delayed reply to your letter.
The hard.hips which have encountered since
left Munich 10 my arrival on the shores Of the
Adliatc surpass description. We started from that
city, "a Peruvian and myself) in an uncommung
heavy post wagon ion runners, for the whole coun-
try was covered for 4 couple of feet with snow.)
Tie pace OF this was the slowcst some three miles
an hour or less, and at every relay we stopped
more than half In hour. Nothing in Germany
comes up 10 time. Nothing goes fast Having in
vented the clock, this people seem to consider ii
their privilege to sit smoking and drinking, and
watch the hands 60 round. They are not lazy.
There is always motion, but so dragging, so slow.
Perfect rest would be preferable. After ten hours
we found the snow was melting and then came
thirty nine long hours Of cold and damp discomfort
for we were seated so that we could not stretch our
mbs-sur knees wedged against the board in 'front.'
our heads almost touching the top, and no earthly
chance for change Of position. Night and day
over that waste of melting snow and under grey
leaden sky we dragged On. At least we were in
formed by jolting the large round stones that
we were approaching Vienna. Arrived, we with
difficulty pulled Our siened limbs out of the mar
row box and putting our effects on wheel barrow,
made the best Of our way to hotel.
What shall say 10 YOU Of Vienna or Of Austria.
Imagine Church with bal rack on one side aud
hotel on the other; facing this q palace with two
loaded canon at the door, hanked by guard house
and bureau OF police; at every door soldier with
a sword and musket. Even in the Church on Sun
day, during service and before the high altar, you
will find file Of the military drawn up, their bayo-
nets glistenrng in the light Of the WAX 'apers. Ar.
rived at the hotel, the first thing you do is 10 form
the acquaintance Of the porter. lie lives in little
room with glass door ust by III. entrance, ready
like some huge spider 10 pounce upon the traveller
whom fatigue and hunger have forced to seek shell
ter there. Worse even than the cruel spider, it is
a he can out Of the traveller, but ais, 10 cause
him to spend rs much as possible in every other
way, Just us The Physician orders the patient VIII sc
circulation is slow to BE- put into hot bath before
he is blrd Habit accusloms us to all things, and
we gel used after while to being cheated. Eut t.
see your soul and body cunrd into miserable sou.
lor this mans piliful gain SURPRISES human endu-
rance YOUR very life does not uverbalance u arth-
ing in his eyes One example is sufficient. y sran-
ger in city Of 100 900 souls, dusty and Etigurd,
you desire 4 bath and nothing casier-he knows the
very best. lie puts you i'll u hack and sends you
five miles (quadruple hackhirr) to- most miserable
bath, and the people instructed BY him charge
you three times The price. Defend y"urscif defy
any living being 10 do il. And 80 in everything.
Lie is always on the alert 10 sacrifice you for the
most paltry gain. You cannot even purchase your
safety Of him more than fly could leave one Of
his legs for black mai! in spiders web.
Al Vienna | met with our Minister, Col JACK
SON, Of Georgia. had never known him before,
but on finding out accidentally my name, he re-
crivrd me llu>t kindly. lie invited nc to dine and
afterwards to sup with him. He is tie first official
of our Government ~ whom ! have owed any
thanks.
Well, must tell you something Of Vienna. 1t
consists ola centrul nucleus grded tightly by an I'M
mense ditch and high ramPart. Beyond this a
broad open belt and then come the thirty-C'ur
suburban cities, comprising six-scvrntlls Of the
population, and containing a that is int resting eS-
cept the palaces, government buildings, and the
immense houses Of the nobility. These latter arc
sound in the nucleus or Old town. Here the build.
ngs are only remarkable for their great size. One
might think that formerly they formed but one mass,
and that afterwards, like the mud on the river
banks when exposed to the sun they had not (cry.
alisrd, for that would imply something Of regulari-
ty) but split up in cakes, leaving spaces that by
courtesy might be called streets. Call them streets
if YOU wish butJhey are among streets what Baron
Munchauscns three sticks, which were 30 crooked
they couldn't lie still, were among the sticks;
scarcely one exceeds hundred yards in length,
and the bouses of the town are numbered straight
through without any reference to them; and you
are constantly trying in vain to find No llSl, &c.,
a. b. or A. B. The living is dearer here than
any place have been to, and as the young Enlpe-
ror has ioined the Jesus, the amuscments are
poor. H.
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.