Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-03
pIcKENs COURT HOUSE, S. c. SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1860

me of the trouble of stiyinu orders ,bont m,,
baggage and engaging carriooc. we soon
went whirling over the stone pavcmepts of the
the narrow, crooked streets between fail tile-
covered houses, venerable with the smoke and
dust of centuries AZ lcnoth wn cor,n 70
beautiful open lawn, where a company Of sold
icrs were drillinn. with - bras. h.nl 'd;.oou,s
inc military music. Which had attrnctoJ =
large multitude of peopc ON tbrir w,v homo
from church. Bremen is one Of tho free cit
les, with 10000 Inhabitants. and a form Of
government very mach like that of the United
States Next day went sipht.yecinr. The
most remarkable thing saw was the {" Blc
kcllar" or Lcad.celnr whcrc nI,nbrr nf
human bodies are in remarkable state Of
preservation. after having lain there several
centuries. he antiscptic proncrty is owng
to vast quantities of lead having been melted
there, The old lady who showed them to us
described each one very particularly, and put
her hand on the bodies as though they had
been statues The Raths wcinkcllor contain
wiucs one hundred and fifty or two hundred
years old ore immense casll said to contain
| I20 bbs., and in another room II casks named
after the Apostles. Judas is said to be the
best But the most beautiful thing ! noticed
was the grass paths and beds of roses aud
flowers of all kinds, along beautiful mote or
canal, whore wcro great numbers of nurses
with their charges, watching the swans, ducks
and geese in the water, or looking at the pret-
ty flowers without daring to pluck thcm. On
the 2Sth took leave of my fellow passengers
and "minc host" of llilman's ilotel, and
sat out for lIcipsic, first having had my pass
| port "vlSacd and my baggage searched -
llhe ola Jew had robbed the Erenchn'an and
was arrested in Brcmen.) The railway to
Hanover runs through a level ana fertile
country, in the highest state of cultivation,
looking like one great garden, or as one whirs
along in the cars, like one of those beautiful
patch-work quilts made 10y your mother and
mlne, Mr. Editor.
! 1t is rather embarrassing to a foreigner not
we'll acquainted with the language OF the
country IN which he is travelling, to change
cars IN hurry at place where half dozen
trains arc ruInbing III and out; but got ev-
| crythng straight, and was very agrccably sur
prised to find in the "coupio" with me
| Herman Professor, from Berlin, who spoke
English, and with whom had most delight
iui ride as far as Nladgeburg. The cars arc
not like ours, all in one great room, but cut
up INTO short couples, holding six persons,
with doors at each side, which arc locked up
while the cars are IN motion. The trains do
| not run quite as fast as ours, but the quick
.ra'h9 NschhciI Zug) do not stop often, and by
'nat means MAKE greater average than most
Oh our railroads. passed that day by llano-
yer, brunswick, Magdcburg, Cocthcn and
ilai'c' ana arrived at LcipsIc after an eight
ho1rS 10 rae. i1crG | went to the Hotel dc
l@!o%nc, where mad the pleasure OF meeting
oo"th t"rollhlan, to whom had letter Of
l,.Vro'ucl,oh' y! ana the next day just before
u'lnei' the ~. - COhSul ior SaNony, Air,
nTocKroN' OF N; > +, arrived at the same ilo-
,cl, 80 tnot l mad the pleasure OF dining with
.Mo o' my co""'fymcn, Doth OF whom gave me
,.'.r experiences ana great many useful
l'n's "oout no" TO I'VE pleasantly IN tins
tH e"u",ry, After visiting AnerDacI s-kc'ler,
tnc Datue,gro"nd, ana other Schcnsurer-
e'SKe"en IN ana around Le!pslc, set off
.ol Dlesuon' no 'lh% TO visit heipsic again dn-
rug one Oh ltS gor'dreho"ned FAIRS This
P'rl Vi '''e roao was III coupee with fine
."oM,n8 Scnlic"ian VINO was gong to some
"''cr'is pace WIN his lnVaid Wifc and
JunS',allIicNe ~ I0uGhtcr. On learning from
my p"u Tcrlnan that l was an american, the
olu gonSi"'i:ah ~ 'hIoFmed me that his daughter
good, opportunity for her to practice what she
had been learning at school. She was quite
shy at first, but tlattercd her upon her Eng-
liSh, and we soon got into Al lively chat, which
lasted to our journeys end. The old gentle
man, meanwhile, seemed to regret very much
having turned US loose into something he
| could not understand, Dresden is Il beautiful
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