, 1866-09-02

beW1ldercd yet delighted t0ur1St. plncR oRt l.
al fnll OF the gloEiea of that memorable even-i
Ing, Surely, II Krahwiukel WIS Of no-use In |
the world, neither did it amy harm. The: |
people looked free from cnrc, If not happy Il [
we'll fed, II not well clad and they had AMI
ing, while the women, to be sure, harnesscd
themselves to their market carts by the sames |
t1aces with their dogs. They; paid hardly,
any taxes; the evils Of conserip.fon sat light,
" upon them, and they hardly sent q thought |
Of their sight, The minor German States,
held up some Of the italian Courts to >uni-
ycrsal cxecratfon ard brought about their
downfall. With the exception Of that wicked
Elector Of Hesse- even be finds apollo
REinces Us the traculent Francis
Charles III. of Parma. They wero s:well BE-
haved, respectable set; hardly ever vcntur-
Ing beyond the indlscretlon Of left handed
%su.rrlage, Of at the ntmost, and II their
let girl. Batting q little 1ilfn1ness and obsti-
macy, those princes were not too mischiev-
Gus; not too proue to wrath or violence /
when allowed to have their Own way They
lived ea Janai7e with their subjects, full Of
them. consulting their peoples interests
their own pleasures, and careful to pnt by q
handsome sum in the Euglfsl or Dutch
funds, by way Of provision against a rainy
day.. - - -
We speak Of these things in thepast tense:
because, happen what may the good old
times of the smaller Germanstates are in all |
probability ut an end forever. There are
mnny in Germany, as-there we're In Italy.
al the small ,soyereigns,- as things out Of
date. The organization of free institutions
Is incompatible with the narrow limits Of q
Fetty community: IA. Krahwinkei Parlia-
mcnt, with twenty members to represent Its
afe FL HGo IF Is With RsFf t. dssa 5s
Office, with Its Corps Ulp1omatique, It's
notes and protocols, its Marshals, Adm}rals,
Equer1fes and Masters Of. the Horse, strikes
the hsholder as q ,wretched parody:
Like, the huge tlnse1 crown perched
teS root e,ass e the Rsaee p.ss St sHttEs5 Es
II some shadow; over half the Kngdom-the
complicated system Of a great monarchy
looks menstrous, when applied to . small
community and has only tie effect Of fully
aa asRnat5 dist R aagn sssg fgEea T. the a eas
,nnatness Of things. It's Hectors helmet on
6f6plnio1. afesqufsssa !3zer@;.,szs
narrow sphere Of social ms at Afan"laAel;;
N . place where everybody aS}T kmGws eveffX X
body where y9m eas Ser sec eveEy after
moor. .you feel as If hardly the air you breathe
ware yonr own, a certain prying,i search.
ine. gosaiping suryeillance :. is neeessati7
" exercised over every member o. me tns soni 4
munit INV MN Himself m
with his nefghbor's doings, and volunteers
his services IS m amateur detective The
despotism Of q, small Government may not
! be Tcry hard, but 1t Is somnipresent Il 3oatles
hlst1ss ties you a Th 1S9f doysrno nor
without giving him . good account q y9ns
/ every step: every word, decd or thought, day
and hight, Long habit may accnssom man
to anything; ii; bnt there really y soEe: @aat:
II f,ss ss 9F 9a sgss DrsstS ssass
There Is dWindiing Of: q mans stature
to, the: level of the contracted eommu!
nity, q stunting of his growth, q crushing O.
his thoughts; narrowing OF his range ot eli
tcrprise, and witha an ~, eft1 ststes Nv
impottauce-a sclf.satisiactfon arising honl
me nbseuce Of wholesale contrasts and com
Detition, which dwarf al Individual powers
and only allows full Development 70 sanlt5
and cnncest. There Is tendency: ~ you!
Kshx1klaifs R 4 isa 70 oaiyefse - cry out
With VT the Tuscan Of old, 'oh, why l. not the
world % ali Krnhwinkel:'' 1.,,x :,
,"M ia cnstomary, we are aware, to talk Q!
the influence of those petty German Coufts
on the progress. .. ars a ana rat ,,nnrrtend{n =
and even holnely, intel1ectua! Life Developing
itse,f III those still, and retired, yet genia
riTc1es. Efforts to patronize. rising talents
to encourage It by royal smiles 6y sa1rss IT.;
made by tits and starts by some Of the Ger
man Princes, and we all know what Eala1
Of genius flou1ished for while ct the Couf
Of Weimar; but 1t was the :comp!411l
Of, indeed; the .poast, Of those Mie w.
mar stars-of - Schiller mmse5M'na I'm a51d y
, It's own native strength, and owing nothn7
; 10 an Aueustan or Medecean patronage. =
+ the good will and friendship Of royal a
, csenas could scarcely reconcile real genius
the unutterahls drsariness q tnese Hsssd, Hssn,
/ and Vienna, there is hardly German capii
. that is not a failure, none Of them TINT Is =
d d wilderness Of grass grown streets, none
!; them that Is not the abode Of irrecla1mAt
d dullness.. Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Cass
:, Hapover, and ever 80 many more are o.
q King.made cities, and Jet there isno count
IN ffae world where those cities that are ma
bv the people-say Frankfort Or sHanbu
:Bambefg, Nuremberg, Augsburg and c7er =
Z: many more-thrive SO well :sas IN.
9l many, In the came manner, ar, tea1
81 which has left such great and original moi
'iS ~ rments. both In stone and canvass, IN tht
III teeminc German Middle. Ages, 90 long a
r. relied only on private support. and Pnt
~ murihcence, has; lost au good sel1-Feitan
Il, all spontaneous impulse, since ne I'm:
a. | accepted the, fostering care OF pr1ncelJ
IA IA irons. BY the side Of such lofty piles g
~. Minister cf Cologne and the steeple of ST.
en burEh place the wretched copies or GREG
g. and Halfan edifces Of Munich. spien
ed fcollections of pictures were, no oos
5s, the Saxon capitals; bnt the ''Dusseis
,tp ,q school, which owed: !: It's rise to no ffil
ior. achieyed no. less. than those Of MN
and Dresden. j. Ina country: where
many attained the; highest proacteue
! art, merely depending on pnhlte ssons enssom
.en, to keeD score: and = half Of Princes L
,nes " for the hope that their Royal seadel
ous may send forth into the world real at
Bor.' say even Cornelius or an Overheck, one
:ep- twice IN q century: But, when az Is sa'q
nas ins | would be the last to deny tnat even
cen Eerman Princes and dynasties may have
nre their mission, more or less Important 70
10 / public good. So bad begging mon9s
Felenins Popes, and many other lnsttsni
r. Of which we had enongh b9t y % o. ~ waien ae
me shonld never have been fin tat tSev Ab had
and i;1rd their daY Of usefulness, and that
rsas ms world might ret on ysEy: we'll Without +
T. OF !. x,a,,road fu the White Mounts
estts "A correspondent OF the Boston Jon
, Es- writing from the White Mountains, 81,
'as ,utS. description Of the proposed railroad tc
Who summit of Mount Washington. He Say
aqu. :aIs The point Of accent with this work Is
,Rs , hss the Wefl known ..Cold Spring, = on one
done earliest OF the paths up Mount Washtn
i not one mile and half below the famous sJa
J, for ladier,' ascent. The length Of the I
oSds, toSs line Of mountain railway VIII be. tive
Ell; nth seyen-eighths miles, ct q grade, aver
1aa,. Tnn1 thirteen hundred feet to the mile. The
onal:: lion already completed, to;be, tested BY
gress eepecrs tomorrow, Is one-Quarter Of q
bertJ ofcthe steepest part. The grade OF tn
rise Of seventeen hundred feet to the mi
givo The railway. consists Of three rails;
,tsa1: GS two outside ones makes an4 ordinary
Id Of with the difference. only that the u
5lfaI, secured to longitudinal aills and tne
a arc cross ties The centre, which Is the
eding, thing, Is q cog rail, made of angle Hon On
aainS aha wrought iron pins, al Of great stsenEsl
'A4~" cast iron Ia allowed about tnls TIL.
ID 'as locomotive on the road, to dtaN ohs
Eress. issenget car. With fry parsons, oGsr nen
skers, tons, and Is Of thirty-ave horse pv"eI q,
"a e boiler 1s hung upright On isunagTfs Thss =
onaS' be at a level on all gIndes. III tnI y
,19t wheel Ii an. eighteen fnch eog ~:
, "m.g nv; iron: four inch pitch, runntn8 u ~
Il H. rrfchnt fastened to the Ties N tne u 81.
II tooF ;tSa ~ The engine fs held 20 INC
b de hV Nv mans Of ffiction rollers running
y:Te. ,nss.fh.ths: ~ coE of!centra nil, the:eo