Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-09-05
Letter from Mrs Murray to her Pupils.
PARIS. France, 2Sth July, 1852.

/ PARIS. France, ZSth July, 1857.
To my Scholars:
So many of you asked me to
write from foreign land, that can only ac-
/ ccde to your wishes in this way. flr Thomson
willingl but from what point a letter would be
| of most interest to yOu, has been with me an
unsettled question.
/ thought of you, when tossing mp and down
! on the broad Atlantic where there is little va
riety, and much time for thought. When in
I the topmost gallery surrounding the dome of
ST. Pauls I looked over the immense city of
Z London stretching of in every direction into a
sea of smoke with the Thames spanned by 3 or
I 10 bridges winding its way among the dingy
/ looking houses, and the crowds of people and
horses creeping like pigmies through the streets
below Then again when from the top Of the
/ keep or tower of Windsor Castle I looked over
! the. beautiful hills and Na!eS of England and
old Eton College with it- cluster Of houses stood
j out in fuiI view; far off was shown the old
Church where Gray wrote his rElegy, which
none of Won viii nc likely t. forget and the
I home OF VIM Penn : family and in the dis
tance u mall island in the Thames, where old
/ King john Was made to sign the NggnG Ci4TtG.
/ the original one | saw afterwards in the British
Museum, but f.ttied | could not read a word
/ Neither was I nnmindfIl Of Won when on our
way back to the city. hundreds of children from
th, London schools appeared to be having pic
uic in the fields. some ar miles from the
crowded lanes where they are taught. In pass
nag through he streets have seen lew children,
the DfNFEutsIttS tt1 not ftu WIN tel ours
al home, 7t:4d at Crystal Palace, and IN the In
ternatiuni.i exhibition where from 30 to 1000
I people were seen daily. perhaps there were not
4 "a dozen under fifteen years of age In the cars
( of EngEtni and France, we see no children, 5hey
are not taken abru;t.i as Young America is
/ liost OF AL perhaps | have Thought of you in
/ Paris iut th,. Roll0 books Won have read at
/ home have left me little to say of this place
/ which would e to many Of you Yet l
! would like to take you with me one evening in
/ tn the Champs Elysees, which are truly charm
! ing As we pass down the broad avenue, we
/ see thousands of lights. red. green and flame
/ color, moving up tni down on the carriages:
(he borders all lighted up with gas; ans ev-
! eIy part of the gardens is thruHged with people
/ Young and old, walking, sitting cor standing
We wander On, and come upon circle surmoun-
/ ted tN "a dome under which boys aud girls are
isiin. arounii on woolen horses. lions or zehras,
/ ur ia baskets. Passing around plltS or mounds
T filled with heautitul flowers, come to n tenn
/ pie with balcony Ia front, where will he seen
ladies signing. OF acting as the case may he.
with large iiuslicucc seated in front. arouud
{ little tables, upon which refreshments are pla-
ced. Wandering on, we come upon another
scene: looking through partid screen. made
4 by the trees and shrubs, can see set dan
cling, an urchcStrt in stand performing. y
little further, and we find IL large circle lighted
/ 10y clusters of gas lights surrounding it. and
arches lighted up 10y AZ, EtrpS OF gas at each
/ corner, and = chain surrounding dome, all of
making bFftlluL SttCs iisLttl, ttil you
! will soon hear a line concert, from the building
l within which Is free to ali. And ia this way
W.. can 20 from place to place among the most
beautiful flowers and shrubs in the wUriI. until
ii late hour every night, and Sunday night as
well as any other the same scenes are % be
found There is little difference in the days
here shops are open. work of all kinds procse-
ding on Sunday on other days The garden
OF the Tuileres is thronSed during the day
with crowds of people, who seem To live out
,I r.,fft SEaslf
iron chairs of which theIe are thousands stand
ing in the gravel under the trees (or there Is ne
grass in this garden), an old wonGlu with Il bag
tied around her will come altnS very soon lia-i
ask each one of you for two sous. When we
have paid her sit rs lo..g as We like, and
read kuit. sew, enIbroiier, crOtchet, or look
about and watch Others. Many gray haired men
and women are here daily many children with
small tin buckets and wooden shnvciS, which
they use Tor amusement in the loose gravel;
man, are wandering around restessiy; bnt
mong all these crowds night and day prt,Sin-s
policemen, dressed s0icrs, who keep all
uuitt At the extreme ends of this garden are
beautiful flowers and fountains, bat she large
central Esslt is shaded 10y large trees auJ gravel
ed
If we walk aloag the buks Of the Soiue,
which YOU know lsi.ses through the city, We see
no steamers boats moving mp ant. down, uu
less il be a y3iVI sui HI boat, bat We see long
Of wash houses. sNsilA1iIil- h"ucN ana o@tn
houses; and women picking and cdri'nS wool
tu stitching II iJp mattresses, or sewing amt
Watching tleir chi.drcl, playing in The sand.
[ shuIul like TO take yCu along the streets.
iIic,t with windows Containing al LlingS oe.tu-
tit!i tse would iooiA al cu.sZ4tv3ns5s aatt ploto
graphs anu pictures; cal vc,t ivory, bone ana
Svuad weak; elegant articles oi SILVER and god;
s.lulnuuds and gems, very tempting 10 the eye
Here ana there come upon = window hilcd
with an aquarium, with hl4e varc2ate'l leaTed
plt{s Yiltt .s,ii ii, ia some ttnEIiui glass dish
a., with !; siitu fountain perhaps introduced in
sncii u manner to give the ii9h fresh water
continually. taris = itsii "i l"uui5t!ilH couStG
IL l5iuyi. and Yet Il II the most difficult place
Wr haze found Ia winch 10 procure = drink OF
cold water. Oti aiaA ai!d women stand III the
corners OF tne stree,s with 4 wooden or metal
churn like vessel strapped OH their backs, with
bands coming over tnelr shoulders IN front, on
winch are hung several gltsSes OF cups IN wires;
they iungie Il little bell Us We piss, AMI II we ask
iur water they give warhish drink tasting
ut orange peel "a bitter sweet. We ask for wa
ter at the cake or fruit stands Ia the gnrdeus
and We find the same; it seems to he the univer-
sal drink. At our hotel We can have good ice
water.
Aug eth, NEvAY. Switzerland.
Iuur letter has had long journey, but not in
the right direction 10 ind YOU Ii must turn
huin.-wHrd from this place, leaving its writer i
ziug UpwartiS 10 the Alps. since ictVInT Paris
we nave passed over the level finely cu;ti waited
iieisio al belgium; spent some hours at Brussels
and vt Antwerp; in the former going to the top
ot Il beautiful spire to look tie city aad coun-
4 try aruundi ia the latter coini, iEto oil Cathe-
al,,is 10 look at hoiy car, cd puiplts ami ratings
uf wood and marble, and into Museums to see
Rcuhens paintings while my brother is of on
| his IN to tiEe L.undtic Asy lums. On our
way to the thine at Dusseldorf passed old
| Castle Of Charlemdgues hear AK Ia Chapelle,
I where he lived with mis- life IrlStradli some OF
YOU VIII remember the story of her ring; this is
I The place. On our way over this tenceieSS c0un-
i try We see women ut work plowiug with COW.
or hauling grass vegetabeswith donkey or
dog haruessed to Il curt or reaping witha sickle.
the men taking the grain home in wheel-bar-
row; the hills covelesl with wind mills; the roads
burleIcd with long rows OF IEDmJIrdy poplars.-
We came up this grand old river leisurely. step
ping in Prussia at Bonn to stay over Sunday; at
Cologne to stay one night, buy bottle of the "a
med Eau de Cologne look at an old Cathedral
which has been hu!lding Gao years and not near
the end; at Cubleutz to % up into the old Fort
ress o. Ehrenbreitstein, which Rolla deScrbes.--
Leaving the Rhine at Mnyence, with regret
with its vine covered Mills, its old ruIus OF Cas-
ties. its clustering villages, it's immense rock,
and sunny wales. OF Heideburg and its old ruin:
| YOU must read the history; have not time now
to write. From your friend,
! ]. MJRRAY