Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-10-27
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.

Here am again, my good old Aolrcrtiser! Was
ever any one so faithful to you bcorc Whether this
great devotion arises from disnterested affection, or
is the result Of that desire to be heard which all
have more or less cannot exactly sny. 'Twere bet
ter however, for the sake Of easy conscience not
to look further into the matter.
May I, without appearing egotistical, tell you of n
dream had tho other night? Well then, was sit
ting with several well beloved friends before Mr..
BaaeSs store and upon the cellar doors were three
or four MARSH watermelons, already laid open. !
was eating out of half one and was ain Abruham's
bosom" Suddenly I uwoke,and found myself in u
land where MARSH watermeons or any inferior sort,
or any sort Mt ALL wore never heard Of The beloved
friends and the cellar doors were also nowhere to be
And ACCORDION WINS playing in tho street be-
low me. To wake out of such n blissful dream and
hear ACCORDION! /! The horror of the thing speaks
for itsel-By the way, have you had much fruit and
many watermelons this season? Here, the pears,
pums and apples little short of celestial, and one
cent of American money will buy enough to last a
day. The only species Of melon is m inferior cante
lopo, raised in forcing houses and alarmingly DEAR
rs " PlhShPPiest onc h"s " P"J NV uoA~'S
for merely looking at them.
Now am going to rambc on without the slightest
rhyme or reason. A friend of mine, one well nc
quainted with EdgcGcld, who has travelled ately in
company with Alexandra Dumas the great French
novelist, informs that he is tic express image of
the departed Davo Frazier, and is firmly convinced
that Dave wus his elder brother. Dumas, as is we'll
, 1nI 4 bnr, ;,C CT
where there. Now, although Intimate terms with
Dave while he yet roamcd in lif and supcrintcndcd
the forge, still never climbed his genealogical tree.
Who can throw light on the subject? I read that
people in our Southern regions are building houses of
cotton. What wont we do finally? You cant imagine
how shuckingly slow Germans urc What is accom-
pshed in one day in America, and with caso, de-
mands here five days or week. If you ever hear
tell Of German industry, don't credit it in the slightest
degree. The miserable women do what is dono A
dumb brute in America is better OF than German
peasant woman. And the poor people poor beyond
belief Peter lIilliard, who requested to be taken
"any where but to the Poor House Or the Pottery
(accordng to Dr.. D@aa) would have been in saxony
q rich man.
Whit shall shy further of Germans, rs have fallen
upon the subject? German young Indies are not per-
mitted to take the arm Of young gentleman until
she is engaged to him, and they have been publicly
botrothcl, nor can she walk alone with him withort
the arm. The damscl goes 10 and fro escorted by the
house or chamber maid, un,ler whose protection she
is considered as safe If she were in the Daste.
At the Theatres and public places, the passages and
entrances arc always crowded with maids waiting for
their charges. The maid is invariably tic prctticst.
Young men in Germany arc much moro natural and
unsophiscatcd than in America; they don't seem to
think it ut all necessary to suppress thor thoughts or
feelings upon any occasion. They weep und betray
emotion, anu say tender things, and bring about
scenes just the sumo rs the softer SEX German men,
women children never treat or do anything Of tha
it is quite unhenrd Of IIo that treats liberal
ye mctc it shall be measured to you again." puts
his foot into it, for nothing of The sort will como
pass.
German cooking, especially of meats and veg
etable, is abominable. Oh the unmcntonabe messes
and CHASTITY sauces Germans too lack in high de-
gree the virtue esteemed next to godncss. The whole
country with its contents Of cvcry sort needs the
generating influence Of the wash tub! Thcprsvang
style of boauty is the bull dog stylc-faces that look
as if an elephant had trod upon hom in carly youth
But Germans are exceedingly delightful people for
all that go warm hearted, soeia artistic, cul
tivated. And Germany too is heavenly land to live
in. So much pleasure one has hero or can have and
such pleasure ho doesn't rcpronch himself for shar
ing-not even when it comes on Sunday, rs tho most
of it does!
Before long must tell you of the peculiar manner
in which they conduct betrothnls marriages, births
and Deaths have no idea of giving you up, .Adrer-
tiser! If you are tired of mo, my brave cid friend,
you'll only get rid Of me by a toegrnphic despatch
saying, Z" You are one too many" j. T. 3.