Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-02-11

and duty unite IN teaching theoretically and
practically that the strongest bonds of
union and strength in nation are the law
full ties of family and kindred. the sacred
unity of the domestic circle and the protect
ed and favored "sacred lowe of weel placed
love- and its legitimate and enduring mutu-
atty. When the Austrian monarchs shall
feel this conviction then reform may he GER
tain and rapid.
We spent Sunday in Vienna and were
very agrecably surprised to see all business
suspended--all shops shut and the day made
day of quiet and rest apparently-proha-
bly, more day ofrclaxation than of religious
abstaining from labor-though business was
still and the noise of traffic hushed, tho good
wives sitting in their doors and yestibules
were knitting with great industry.
We attended High Mass at the Cathedral
st. Stephens, q cardinal officiating. The
church was by no means crowded, and the
ceremonies were such as are usual on such
occasions-diversifed only by the greater
richness of the vestmcnts and the nearly state
ly pomp of the ceremony. We fingered to
take better view of the interior Of the
church, and were well repaid. Notwithstand-
ing our recent look at the churches of Rome
and Florence and Venice. this excited our
admiration in the highest degree, as one of
the most magnificent specimens of the rich
est gothic, worthy in its architecture and
in all its appointments to be the cathedral
church of so proud and so wealthy y city
the capital and residence of so faithful sons
of the Roman Catholic church as the haugh
ty and absolute Ilapsburgs. 1t is 500 to 200
years old, is $50 feet long and 900 feet wide.
Its tower is an object of wonderful beauty
rising 465 feet, regularly tapcring from its
base to its top, and all the way on all sides
wrought with the most beautiful style of
gothic ornamentation. Within the church
dim religious light reveals Il CORRESPONDING
richness in precious stones and FURNISHED
silver which is exceedingly imposing. 1t
contains some ostentatious monuments Of
royal and noble personages. That Of Fred
eric III has sculptured upon it 30 figures
and 40 coats of arms and a motto, That to
Austria belongs the empire of the world.
In that beautiful tower is a looli-out which
commands the surrounding approachcs to
the city for "A great distance Here the brave
Governor Stahrembcr5 placed himself to
reconnoitre the Turkish besegcis, in the
last great seige of the Turks, under Cara
Mustapha, made 200 years ago; and here,
on the Goth day of the scigc, he saw in the
distance the waving banners of Christian Po-
land coming to his relief, while all Europe
beside looked tamely on, an not a sabre was
drawn, while on the spires Of famIshed
Christian Capital the Crescent was appa-
rently to take the place of the Cross Sobi-
eski halted his legions for a brief repose, and
from the heights looked down upon the par
alels and strategy of the Turk with smile
! and exclaimed " We shall beat him oh how
we shall beat him ~
The l4th of July, 200 900 Turks. in the
form of a crescent, had taken position about
the city, and Mustapha had issued his proc
lamation of peace and protection to those
who would submit I'D" but in case you resist,
said he, and obligc us to take the city by
force, we shall spare no one; and furthermore
we swear, by the Creator of Heaven and
Earth, we will put all to the sword we viii
take your property. and we will carry into
captivity your wives and children -
The city, with only ID 900 defenders, held
gu against hope. On the 18th Sept. S,bie-
ski, with 60 900 halfnakel Poles, swept down
upon the gorgeous camp, and the magnit
cent columns of the 200 900 turhancd Turks
and at half past seven in the evening they
were scattered and flying, and he was at east
in the tent of Mustapha, and master of hi
million of treasure. The principal hell OF
St. Stephens weighs 3j7 cwt., ard wa. cas-
from $50 cannon taken from the Turks.
The bodies of the imperial family ar,
buried in the Capuchin Church, their heart,
in the Church of the Augustines. and theii
bowels in the Cathcdral-St. stephen 5
What a strange custom Maria There's;
went every Friday for thirteen years, to wecl
beside the eviscerated and hcartless remains
of her ead husband in the vault of the Cap
uchin Church, instead of by the urn contain
ing his heart in the Church of the Angus
tines. Yours, l.. c.