New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-05

and hands with the Major, singing after Scott,
Good bye. Mrs. Brown,
Lam going ont OF town,
Over dale, over down.
where bugs bite not
Whore dodgers 81 yht not
Where below YOU c0ctcrS drink not,
Where beside you cutters stink not,
But all is fresh and clear and gay,
And merry lambkins sport and pay
And they toss with rakes uncomm0nly snort
hay
Uncommonly Shorthand very sweet toto be sure
nvas the hay we saw the men shaving rather than
moving with their broad .baded, short scythes, and
ps women tossing with wooden pitchforks as We
ne along the valley meadows from Basic TO Berne. AT
asralwy station we met the Minister Of the United
s,s,es at the Swiss capital No in or out of our
CT aDy other countrys diplomatic or other service has
more lofty pure and noble views than this gentleman
he windows OF whose hOspitable cottage look out on
tbe panorama Of the snow-cOvered BerneSe Alps. he
va good enough to point out to US the Mrabiia and
Memorabilia Of the place an Office for which his large
trdness his high intelligence and long residence make
In plenipotentia
The wayarer through this Vitys streets, though as
nach Of a focl as Slender need not ask: BE there
bears = the town The good town, when, indeed, it
vas only litle hamlet, snugged around the Castle
On Germany Bar plural Bdren), which was in sort
Mrsa Aeor as Didsbury says foster-mother and god
h.her to the infant settlement Which now grown up
Sueat city estate st holds lis namesake in high and
r.nifoli honorable respects. painted bear stands
rampant the city shield. large carved end molten
Images Of him in stone and brass all tours back
rdrump and in every possible bruinesque posture.
s,o-n the public monuments. His lesser edola abound
bpveler,' an / toy.shOp windows, done 10 ounningly
an wood and in precous metals and stones, ami in
voOd.euts and lead and tin. And tie bakers do him
/, rsstry and Observation-Disclosures parents and
snndparens fondly giving in that form to good
little BerDese who recite their fourth commandment and
Kings H @ "A "a favorite scripture in these parts
WITH proper clibness The Capital Of Switzerland
ernts 30 900 inhabitants-sous Sc alled doubt IT,
trakne and scraping al the back streets so many as
9eAildren could be gathered WHO would dare to say
anv,liDg disrespeetfu to q baldhesde1 traveller
K.a ly ono Of he briaos that leads the bean
! tal swiitnow1ng Asre and main entIance-way 10
he city, is the plltia len where half dozen bears
rsiepi elegant care, the eitys guests 1t is cir
GUAR court yard suak ten feet below the surface
Of The surrounding public walk, paved with stone,
rparated in two equal parts by a diame.rica stone
val surrounded BY handsome breas: high parapet in
tsrs for its inhabitants and pretty pavilion for
theI resident guardians There stalls the public
walk where old women their bread by selling
snail Oayes to kindydesgned visitors. who throw the
net1as down in morsels TO the citys guests. These,
Expecting such things, 60 through formula Of greatly
itnorous antics as regularly as a guide book could
ID them to put themselves into a solitude quite human
harvard and await their breadfee with open jaws.
II o.. hf,l ol.,
Lsttne down to gather the smaller crumbs, so cum.
srss and confident among these big fellows the big
Rows making no quarrel charitably good-natured in
4 tsr strength.
sot that they are alSays good nstured: even they
nOgnize a point beyond which bearing indulgence
aes 70 be a virtue. just that point was unhappily
supon by one Of party Of late dining Englishmen
! lshg that way one night some four years ago The
1 tsy gentleman mismanaged to climb or tumble him.
Nrto the den. Instead Of his being sobered by the
rlatsn down there, Of bis boon companions above
FiS contemplation Of it. he and they must needs dis
eA ana generally initiate the bears the eldest Of whom
I hly-to make long story short munched and ate
HIeatleman 10 death. Meantime some Of the uncon-
insd members Of the party had or staggered of
Il NAep and brought up a eensdarme TO the scene.
LIE every reason. deducable from the intelligent
4 'fii national character In general and from the
cAacieT Of Swiss chosen for posts Of duty in psrcu
Y that this did all that could be done-which at
uNaase Of the wretched case. was nothing 10 save
l N'le Of he victim OF zoo much wine. But report
IA has run into local legendary form with the English
UaoDi TO the effect that the policeman who was
s-e and might by hurrying up and promptly shoot.
que eear have saved the man. did rather cooy look
' Case ron the point Of view of the clown in the
"~'eft Tale: IN go see If the bear be gone from
y ssateuan, and lew much he hath eaten: they are
eus' but when they are hungry If there be any
WIN LEFT I'll bury it,
'N nett year there came, among the multitude Of
e oeeent sensible English tourists who throng
switzerland every Summer. John Bull Of the
"aaeo' pEeadliOn.and.unicorn type One of that
e =" persons, Of which every nation furnishes the
,ungent Of foreign travellers, that give all the
a., '~a most the false notions TO foreigners re-
r.- vac entire nation. Wen, this fellow. very
~ Lord Palnerston and bis personal riglt as
~ N'@e7iers' $50 once heard one Of the sorl
r. Hand pray don't make haste 10 speer exclu
l" ~h general reader-:here is not n 6O IN cbnose
,r,. ignorance and in-breedug Of a Britisber,
h,,.' s1erman or Freedman as there is moth.
"'odra' e1 ekoiz for pleasant companions
a. ven all in nine cases ont Of ton, We'll this
sNSAhg sufficient bad German or worse French
hsp'se' found, or fanced he had found, the very
~ wac bad let a British subject" 20 to the
~, "a'' Of all things on the continent. OF
Ia 80 Switzerland which, you know, like
ts AhoV Just lives on the English gold we spend
Il rs Nov He took the man to task and reproved
ts-,,..'.1cA was ever so much more unbeorable
NJ 49, nm IL regard to bis criminal negligence
ssn. year. The stout civil worthy man
"a, '@Q Gernan and the inns ,tineroo 40 Ionc ~