New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-29
IIETTER FROM JULIUS FROEBEL.
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H0yn dlucIebl paIle VI INV WIN"
neglected his best interests IN abs'aining 'roni HIS
vonted contributions TO your columns; but IL na'
not been from being less sensible than peiore 10
the ea,teripg idea Of being read by the puohc OF
Tur TRIBUNE. Your correspondent on the con-
trarv held too high an opinion OF the gooo taste OF
American readers to offer them stale ware or raw
material. as he would have done had he enter
tanned them with European tyrants or European
potato crops. Thus, his literary ambition running
HIGHER than be found himself enabled for the time
to satisfy be thought best 10 keep stl altogether.
1t is no easy matter to report new things 10 the
cid world. They have decided taste for the OLD
and venerable under these longitudes. They pre-
fer an old tooth, however aching and useless, TO a
new one, and some 60 even so far as TO contend
that the world without toothacbe would a. much
want relish as the best piece OF roastbeet With
out horsc-radis or mustard. \ European ARTIST
Will refuse 10 paint your portrait IN your clean
standipq.c collar and Your new dress-cOat; and,
from YOUR whole wardrobe, he will select your old
robe d, cham5re Of you are not such an American
backwoodsman AS to have DOne) as the precise
attire in which your likeness ought to be brought
before the public. They give preference to the
picturesque over the clean and the useful; and to
ne picturesque certain degree OF decay, enough
at least 10 make the marks Of tine visible, seems to
be an indispensable requisite. To the American
utilitaran, new houses with what he calls mod
ern improvements" may be preferable to old ones,
with venerable bedsteads and the dust OF centuries
under them: bur. on this side of the Atlantic,
people think differently. Even EDgiand-I am
speaking of the old England, on the eastern end OF
the sunken cable looked upon by the inhabitants
Of the continent as half belonging to Amerlca-eyen
England stands on the side OF Europe IN the pref
erence given to antiquities. Among The objects OF
art recently exhibited in the South KensingtOn Mu-
scum is series Of cry stal vases, cups spoons &c
mounted in enameled gold and jewels, belonging
10 the Marquis of Salisbury. These beautiful oh
iects, contained in silyer-mOunted case wer-
found at Hatfield under bed. AccOrdingto thee
opinion OF competent judges, they are of Spanish
origin, and, at least, old as the reign of Queen
Elizabeth: from which vou msv draw conclusion
on the age Of some English bedsteads. and on the
number OF centuries elapsed since the last sweeping
under them took place
~ MS ie'l'''D ), me of what happened to me al
~ rlmar. Five and twenty years had passed since
lived in that celebrated little town, when some
months ago, my way brought me there again,
While we drove in from the railroad station,
travelling companion, unaware Of the fact that
knew the place and had lived there, voluntarily
acted ar my ccer0ne in directing my attention to
some remarkable buildings. This is the house
of Mr.. -, and the gentleman just issuing from
the door is young Mr.. - himself. Old Mr..
died some years ago" Only think of my
astOnislment Young Mr.. - had been young
Mr.. ------ ive-and-twenty years ago, when knew
him; and here, while was passing in the omnibus,
he walked ont Of his house, az if nothing had hap-
pened in the intervening quarter Of d century.
After stroll through the streets where the only
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informing the stranger that "ia this house Tired
"Schtier," and q" In his house lied Goahc, " met
an old friend distinguished resident of the town.
What happy conservative place Is your Wei
mar" remarked to him, stating the fact of young
Mr.. - being still young Mr. -. Yes, said
he that it really is; aud toyOur observation III that
respect, may add the experience of lady friend
of mime who, on her return To this hotel, after
years absence, found hair-pin on the same spot
where she had left it at her former visit This
YOU see, to compare the small scale of German al
fairs with the larger scale of what may happen IN
England corresponds exactly to the precious anti
auities discovered under the old bcdstcad of the
Marquis OF Salisbury.
But whether to write on n new or on an old topic,
at any rate must renew my correspondence with
THE TRIBUNE. During my stay on the Continent
have paid much attention To the relations oi opin-
ion as well as of real intercourse, between the old
aud the new world; and in England continue u
do the same. Let me entertain your readers WIN
some of my observations and reflections Ill this de-
partment.
Among all European countries, that in which the
United States is the best known and most popular,
ia GERMANY Emigration aud mercantile relations
have produced an intercourse between the two
countries altogether astonishing IN its effects, and
of which the extent and amount Is little Known
among the generality of Anglo-Americans. There
are sections of Germany where you cannot travel
without daily meeting persons who have either
been in America are so we'll informed aoout
American affairs that YOU could not help supposing
they had been there. OF the latter class some have
their friends and relatives in the Union from whose
letters they have derived great deal ot lnicrna-
tioD: while others have read books, and some have
made study of the geography, the Constiu-
ton, and TO It certain degree even the laws and the
outlines of the history of the United States This
familiarity with American affairs is nowhere more
striking than among the middle classes OF the center
of Germany, in the small princpallties and duches
tf Thuringia and SaXony In the little town oi
Rudolstadt, the capital of the Prince Schwarz-
burg -Rudolstadt-which, by the by. has one OF the
most charming situations in Central EurOpe-a
weekly paper ispublished dedicated exclusively 10
the interests of German emigration, and letters
from all parts of the world where Germans have
emigrated and are continuing to emgratc, are re-
ceiyed by the editor. You enter his office, and
there YOU may happen 10 see people intending To
emigrate-ths one Ia Brazil that one t0 Australia,
the greater number to the United States. They
come to ask advice, or 10 make bargain for their
passage from Hamburg or Bremen to their intended
new homes. fyou enter into a conversation with
those who have chosen the United States, You will
find them generally Well informed about North
America, and about what they have 10 expect at
the place of their destination.
Last Summer | spent month at the little town
Just m, ntioned, which situated Is II - m the love-
liest valley on the eastern side of the Thjrngisn
mouutains just IN the ccutcr between Gotha, Co
burg, Jena aud Weiinar, Gall places of interest Ia
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