New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-11
A JOURNEY TO THE ECNlNE.
1.-THE RHINE-GERMANY.
"A Private Letter communicated for The N Y Tribune
- lii On THE DANUBE, near Ratlsbon,
May IL, 1857.

"a Private Letter communicated for The N Y. ribune
l'gii On TIE DANUBE, near Ratlsbon,
May Is, 1857.
Iwrote you last from Antwerp. We left there
in the next mornings cars for Cologne. The
road to Liege runs through region highly cult
vated. Great, level, weedless fields of blue-grcen
rye and yellow lowered rape, meadows and or
charda lie side by side, and webailt, tidy cottages,
with shade-trees and blooming roses, are every
where. Around and beyond Liege the monotony
il broken by the course of streams. The scenery
is picturesque, and it is relief to see, once more,
rocky untilIable hills. Those fertile farms are fa
tguipgly suggestive of hard work-and ugly
women, alas
We reached Cologne before sunset, without ia
tigue-having learned one important fact, to wit,
that journey by railroad is not necessarily some
thing to be dreaded as dsagreeabe ordeal through
which we consent TO pass for the sake of attainog
the desired point on the other side In our coun-
try it is nothing less than this; there forty or fifty
people are huddled together in one ear, ike flock
of sheep in a pen, all breathing the same atmOs-
pierre with forty. blue directors if the tieth pas
seDger ventures to open window; all sitting on
high seated low.backed benches, with patch OF
red plush on an iron rail for arm-rests no rest for
the head which is left to take care of Itself at the
expense Of the neck, if drOwsiDesS Overtakes one In
attitudes such os are seen nowhere el.e. But we
desire to be at some point or five hundred miles
distant, and we unhesitatiDgy cOnsign day or two
from our little store to these cars, paying for trans
portatoD With cash and personal discomfort And
our railroad Journeys are a sample of our lives.
Always looking to the future for good now terribly
imprOvident We are Of present time Here, people
seem to regard it more, and since portion OF 1t Is
To be spent on railroads, they have carriages made
in which it may be passed comfortably and not lost
to oil enjoyment
The windows of my parlor Tin the Hotel dIlol-
lapde, Cologne) commanded fine view of the
Rhine, and we sat late, all Of us, looking at the
shaded water, the shifting boat lights, the ilumi-
mated windows beyond listening to the rivers flow,
fbe city was 80 STILL or to occasional strains of mar
tial music from the quarter on the opposite side.
None of us were inclined to conversation and our
6rst acquaintance with the Rhine was MADE IN
silence: Chef with his meerschaum, Captain L..
with a thinking cap, and l-drcamlng as usual, OF
home, maybe.
and Mayence, comprise the finest passages Of Rhine
scenery, and could not fail Of impressg US deeply,
=. thev have all travellers, for hundreds of years;
but the sopinQ hills the vineyards the modern cas-
Ties and yied ruins, have been often described by
inspired -quills my poor pen is only iron, and
would succeed better D illustrating such Objects as
the floating -four mills whose water-p0wer propul-
sion is the current of the river Ctef whose veneer
able meerschaum reaches little below the sable
backerouud of uncut beard, wandered up and down
the deck, absorbed in delighted contemplation, now
of the ancient tower ON some bold Gill, now O
"the splendid working Of that (Engish) engine
which was carving him away from it, at the rate
of fifteen miles an hour. Boston employs himself IL
making acquaintance forcdrd, as usual. The Cap
tain extemporizes legend, in the vein which the
name suggests. for some desolated castle, once
fortress and a home.-I was amused, in the morn
ing, to hear German lady, who sat near, exclalm
constantly, at each new prospect, Wunder- schon,
ooh wuAder-sch0n, Before night, however,
syppa,hized with her entirely, and heard the un.
varied remark with grave satisfaction: TOR, What
better could one say, after gazing whole day OIL
The constantly changing panorama! and woman
you know, must cay something.
From Mayence to Nurcmburg is a pleasant trip
by cars Stopping several hours in Frankfort IAN
Nain), we had an opportunity to do some shopping
where the streets are wide and clean. We saw
nothing of the unsgbtly suburbs which deface mos
large towns 1t is beautiful city in luxurious estab
hsbments and extensive shOps-a country village ID
quietDess, seated pensiyely in the meadows beside
the bright little river like city belle gone out te
rurahze in elegant deshablle.
Not far from this place, we pass through the Part
epstein tunlel-the longest we have yet seen-cu,
entirely through the hill, with handsomely finished
arch of stone at either extremity. The thorough
cut. continuing beyond the tunnel, shows the nm
s,epsity Of the work. Chef whose national con
ceit about railroads had been somewhat taken do"I
by the nineteen tunnels and seventeen bridges be
tween Liege and Ax .Chapelle--a distance .
forty miles-bere CALCULATED in a melancholy tone
"ABd we think we have tunnels on the Hudson
Road ;" 4" But we've got nothing like that, | tel
you," added Boston. They were both fairly Of
guard, and did not notice the advantage this admis
slon was giving to the enemy as they evidently con
sideied the Captain and myself when we declined 4
JOIN 10 universal preference for American doings.
Oer way lay, for an hour or two, along the valley
OF little brook flowing into the Main There
are hne farms and large vineyards on the hill
ncing SCUM. In the saoons at Henberg there
Were WINE and beer in abundant variety, and, of al
tne passengers who filed the long tables, only on,
mao anything else, except, Of course, pipes ant
cigars, FOR all The men here smske all the time
Conec ana zwroacken in the carriage were de
cidedIy more refreshing to me-
At our hotel in Nuremberg the clerk npologize,
for giving q parhr, those in front be;og al
occupied. But i considered myself quite fortu1st
on that account, az otherwise, should have MISE.
view Of the interior courtyard Of the great oil,
house, which was more novel TO me than last yea r
improve meDfs in modern dwellings. The court
yard il square, quite nclosed by the building, par
Of which 10 three, part four stories high tn
roofs are ,teep, with doymer windows every
wnere little ,pires running up from uneIpecte,
eoners' gables projecting at irregular inter