Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-02-27

IN WEEKLY
Ono auuare, ephtp d4is effi week .. ..~ .ti 90
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Term. V.' tr ,isii,,iiis oasapyTs great
sice, for longer period than above specified, nrti
known y, The CouaNrd RoInt. se-Ail adveresemtlil
.os9 g' iae % pioo. r. 81 iG All fasnSl
yerasense.s mqsl b pe,d ler ls ~, advance
pictures Of Quentin Matsis, the blacksmith i.3
who oOurted an artist daughter and was reti
jeced by the old gentleman because be was
not a painter BE took diT his leather apron,
laid d wn the hammer and left the forge aud in is
the course Of a year or two, produced better
picture than prospective inther-n-law ever
had made. The marriage took piace opiAt.
course, aud the people Of Antwerp take great Ida.
pride in showing bis pictures and beautiful
iron canopy over one OF their fountains
which was also the work of his hands In NV iaH
opinion he was a better blacksmith than pain i,ii
ter
he services IL all the churches were cdnl'nr
Gluded by one clock in the afternoon, aiidllu.
from that time on through all the balance pl
the day, the streets were filled with gay, plea
5ure-seeking people, Tie music and beer gar-'
dens werp in fnlloperati0n, and the city WAS 4
in every respect more lively than il ever Is
upon q week day.
At dinner we fourd upon our plates an in auii
vitniiou in most uneHcepiouabc language ..
aud stationery from the managers Of the Roy
al Society Of llarmOny,to attend a concert fn
their gr0unaR that evening Our cOusciepces d. ui
offered faint protest, but such is the ndu-
ence of the example OF associhtes, we did not 'N'
heed them, but 0eni-Awaiktd around through. e
an elegant park with o crowd OF gentlemen
and ladies' enjoying the beauty of the scene
and the xqlisite rendering of operate getS hiH
by the well trained band, until the evening
was far spent ...I ............
This was u very peculiar, aud to my mini
an improper way ofspending the day whiclaet
has been set apart as holy unto the Lord,
bot a great many oi the Protestant faith
even such a Luther and Calvin and their fol 'liAi
lowers-have Thought differently and Ltherei ipI
fore find no point here on which can he based
any special denunciation of the religion %
the country. Ht
A, the hotel, We met Young gentleman ,ts.
from Hartford, Connecticut, whose adyen-
lures during the past two years illustrate '
hand 'omely the self relinnce OF the Yankee .iugi
He lril home ia Il sailing vessel in search Of .
health wandered among the Moors, the Egyp
itians, Turks Russians, and Italians, alone, .ns.-
and most of the time foot, wi thout knows i'i
ledge Of any language but his mother opgug .is
He had been in some pretty tight
phces' he said, but escaped without serious ali
difficulty, and now, after a walk through Hoi ,.i
land OF which We assured him he would soon
get enough, be was going back home, "a ''
hearty and rs rugged as Heennn ...a.l
/. We could have satisfied ourselves for some
time in Antwerp, but we knew that we would
fnd those thing which pleased us most there
In greater abundance in the cities which we're %
still before us, aud SO next morning we push
ed on TO Brussels, which is only twenty eight
miles distant POD. .rl
We found il Il much finer city than Anir
werp, containing three tunes as many nhabi-
tants The houses are mostly Of beautiful I''''
cream color; the streets in.the upper partol
I
perlectlyclean and great parks, filled with trees,
lakes, fountains and slatuary, are owned and
kept up by the government free to every boJy..als
We have nothing in America to compare with
the magt iicent public grounds traveller finds
everywhere in Europe, With hand AZ dol-D.
lar an a quarter an acre, the founders u our
cities have had none TO spare for such pur-
poses The Central Park, New York is
ardy step in the right direction. .'I
Ia our first Stroll through the city, in search
of the HOtekde-uiHe (Which, for the iulorma-
ton Of those who are no better informed than
| WIS | may say is not hotel in our sense OF ul
the word, but u splendid City HalD and the
Mannikiu iountain We succeeded in getting
lost and had to take cab. We alighted In
front Of the Hotel, and ga2ed with admiration
upon its peculiar architecture; the great num I'd.
bers o statues, standing ulon brackets, and
covered with caU0plcs, carved irom white
stone and It's rich and graceful spre VIZ De
walked around back Of it, and there at the
corner Of street We found the fountain II
is a little bronze baby, about two feet high,
and the stream OF water comes with a natural %
ness absolutely startling. Bradshaw says,
"Honi soit qui NAL y pcRse G, aud !, IN
advance took one look and hurried on on
friend followed, protesting 10 his wife ASH
soemuly as possible, that he really did not
know what sort thing it was or he would not
have come to see it, and the jolly cablnau.
lau thcd untl tears rolled down his cheeks
The guide books say the Beeans prize this
TITLE figure which has been there time on; .l
OF mind above all others in their capital, aud .a
guard /, as carefully as II 1t were the pnln
dium Of their liberties
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