Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-02-13
Daily Gmpirt,
written expressly fer the Dayton rnpire.l
A SUMNER In EUROPE.


Waterloo, which was to thke us FRONT the old
city Of London, which we had begun 10 love
and to regard as our old-word home, to Rot
terdam and the other dams Of Holland Al
l1io'elock we pushed out into the great ss'Oey
which Englishmen persist in calling the river
Thames We were much interested in boat
race which was progressing as we started, and
in the queer craft that lined the wharfs, and
the places Of interest on the banks and go,
holding our noses, we remained on deck, nl
though the efiuvia from the filthy stream was
scarcely 10 be endured even theh. We pass
cd, as we moved slowly down, the old three
decker Dreaduaught1 now moorsd in the
stream at Greenwich and occupied as ma
rine hospital, tho armory buildings at Wool
wich, the dismautledlhu in the shi PSI bone
yard at Shesrness, aud after three or four
hours welcomed with delight the sweet breezes
from the sea at the More. IYii
The weather was fine and tho waves we're
o. rest and with music aud agreeable fellow
I voysgers We managed to pass the evening
very pleasantly. We saw only one person
overcome by the motion Of the vessel, and he
h was soon restored to comfort by one Of the
\ lemons with which we had prtdently supplied
y ourselves on starting. Old OCEAN was still
kind to us, aud we spoke Of it MS before, only
to admire and praise. i''' g'
l. We arose next morning at daylight to 6ud
ourselves far inland, steaming up the estuary
upon whose banks Rotterdam is built The
\ view before US was Of n country lowor than
the level of the water upon which we we're
sailing, protected from overflow by immense
\ dikes or evees, its fiat surface unbroken by a
\ single natural elevation az far az the eye could
I reach; of windmillsi whirling their long arms
4 around on every acre, suggesting the idea
that the country was standing on its head and
\ kicking its thousand little Dutch legs 10 the
air; of innnmerable small houses with steep
roofs, covered With red tiles, and of dozens Of
luegers and shallops with bows constructed on
the model Of the cOnvexity Of saucer, war
A ranted safe and sure for a speed of three
H knots under q ten knot breeze. The custom
H house officers, three of them, young, iuteli-
A gent, gentlehIsnly fellows, were already on
n board, and the baggage was all arranged on
deck for their inspection. We pointed out
\ ours to them, and proceeded to unlock and
II unstrap, but recognizing it as American they
n stopped US and marked il all ''entered, with
Q ,arcely preteHse of an examination.
4 We found numbers Of people at the wharf
\ who spoke English, and also at the hotel, and
4 although we were much amused at the signs
we saw over tho doors and the barbarous
h SQUADS which the natives emitted in address.
4 ing each other, we were not for some time
\ made 10 realizs how annoying It is to be in a
4 strange land, with no acquaintance with its
language Some time after wards, while walk
ing thr0uek the market, stepped up TO q
Il fruit stand and picked up pear, and said to
II a Jolly woman In charge, SLOW much3'-
H aNiz cor stay "Wie vielR Nix pOr stay %
4 "Com bienG "Ni1 S0r sfagf' laid the
Y pear down and walked on, leaving the fruit
A woman very much amused st the stupid young
foreigner who could not even talk low Dutch,
II Mr. H. soon had similar experience in an
4 attempt to buy bouquet After trying pan
II tomims 10 vain, he at last accomplished the
purchase by permitting the sharp little AoW-
i er merchant TO take from handful Of silver
n enough 10 satisfy him. |'H|
i Those broad aud deep canals running tkcO'
the city in every direction, struck us very sim
ga lsrly Almost any citizen of the place may
step 0nt OF bis home and find vssselin front
OF hi.I doom Which eAE carry him aud his
goods, Wlthout sihBic tIhns'aulphenti 10 an
country on the globe whose shores are wash
ed by an ocean; 10 HF'
We visi. Ted the cathedral vhieh, being a
Protestant one, is as plain aud interesting as
possible. 4 here is an immense organ in il,
which costa ins six thousand Eve hundred
pipes, the lsr, rest OF which is four feet ia cir.
cam(erense, a nd monuments to De Ruyter
and Van BrakA !, which, compared with those
10 Westminste-, are tame afairA -..
Upon tall a. arrow house, nov all newly
painted aud white washed and used as q shop
by manu- iaetarea and retailer OF mineral
water. We sRw an il lseription which informed
Us that this was ''thI small house in which the
great Erasmgs vas born, We examined i,
Il with interest, not b,'cause we had any spe-
eial admiration for his character but because
We had been de. pply concerned in a recent Pc
rusal of Charles Reade's novel, The "Cloister
and the Hearth, WhieL tells Of the lives,
loves, adventures aud sorrows Of his parents,
the faithful Marga. 'et and Gt raid. D'Aubigne
gives a condemned 'ketch OF their lives in his
History OF the Reio rmatiOa upon which the
novelist has construe, ed hia story, 80 IL is eS-
sy for us 10 believe, as We aEe very willing "a
do, that the novel is all trae- .rla
In the gallery OF pain eags "a rhe huseGm
there were two pictures ud Snly $50, which
looked at twice One was the Dead savior
a most ghastly eOrpse-the otlefs ts0eifer and
Beelzehnb lying on the burr asg mari Of Hell
The ideas Of the latter struc me as better
thon its execution The face 0t heelEebnt
has nothing in Il but blank tertC rtlAad despalr
bat in Lneifers, as he rises up N bis elbo~
and looks upto Heaven there il silh an ca
urassion Of fury and mn go, .,ua+..a hate IL ln