Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-07-24

puiplt. lhe pews--the TWO galleries one
above ahother-are unaltered. 1t would
have been q pleasure could I have sat
down to the organ and played that grand
old choral of the grc't reformer-the
Judgment Hymn, or Monmouth. as we
cali it-and "0ld Hundred both cOmpos-
ed by Luther. but the organ was closed /;
yet it was an unspeakable pleasure to sit
down in one Of the old pews. and, forget
ting the present, recall the scenes Of three
and hall centuries ago-the crowded
auditory, old burghcrs and their wives in
quaint costume the good Elector Frcde.
rick of Saxory coming in from the palace,
the found tower of which joins the church !;
the peasantry in coarse garments, filling
all the aisles, piled up tier on tier in the
galleries, listening to the words of the
fearless man and singing his music, which
to day is the grandest doxology in Chris
tendon.
1t is only in some such favored spot
that we feel the full force of the power Of
association, that which takes us out of
the present and carries us to the past, and
which clearly unfolds to US the historic
page. 1t was more than a pleasure-it
was Joy to sit there and think what had
come from such bcginniugs-7-to trace the
glorious march Of freedom, to recall the
great struggles in Germany, the scenes of
heroic devotion on the battlefield of count
Sickcngen, of GustaVus Kdolphus, Of Ber.
nard of SAKE Weimar, to follow the strug.
gle out of Germany to France and she
day of St. Bartholomew, to England aDd
the contest of Edgehill, to America. to
the rock of Plymouth, the green sward of
of Lexington, and the cemetery Of Gettys.
burg You live three and half centu-
ries 10 half hour, and you leave such a
spot refreshed in soul with stronger
heart, with a deepning conviction that
Freedom, Justice, Right and Truth are of
infinite yalue, ana enduring as eternity
I,EIpsIG.
1t is but two hours ride to Leipsig,
the greatest book manufacturing city in
the world, one of the most thriving towns
in Germany, with $4,000 inhabitants.
lively, busting streets, and population
rapidly increasing The old walls have
been torn down, the space planted with
trees, laid out in beautiful walks, so that
there is delightful promenade around
the heart of the town. Three fairs are
held here annually. each continuing three
weeks. attracting merchants from every
country of the globe-from America,
China, rartary, Russia, India, Egypt and
all European nations The money traus,
actions of these fairS Ore said to amount
to seventy-fve million dollars per annum
The streets aud squares are filled with
booths, every hotel and lodging house is
occupied strange faces and costumes ap-
pear on the streets-Americans. Jews,
Turks, Arabs, Tartars and all the MKT
ure of European and Asiatic races. Pia-
nos, books and cloths are the principal
articles disposed of. Here you may have
printed book in any language urder The
sun, and at astonishingly cheap rates
AT Leipsig was fought tie greatest Of
all Napoleon's battles-on those four
bloody October days, in 1918, 10000
Frenchmca and 3O0O00 Of the allies took
part in that contest, in which Napoleon
was defeated and driven out Of the town
aud across the little river Elster, with a
loss of GO 900, nearly one. haTf Of whom
were cut off by the premature blowing up
Of bridge Here Poniatowski was lost
in the attempt to swim the stream. 1t is
quite small-a mere ditch-but deep and
miry. Thousands were attempting with
him to escape and were drowned in the
stream, literally filled up with dying and
dead Napoleon barely escaped.
The allied vereisns-Aiexander OF
Russia, Francis Of Austria, and Frederick
William Of Prussia-mdt and emtFaced
each other joyfully in the market squares
in front Of the old town hall, upon the
spot now occupied by market stalls, kept
by old women aud young girls. Near by
is wine and beer celler in which Goethe
used to carouse in his younger years, aud
which be has made the locality Of a sceue
in his tragedy Of Faust--that in which the
drunken students are supplied with wins
of various kinds, from holes bored in the
table by Mepbistopheles lii tie cellal
you may see the veritable book of magic
with its unintelligible red lines---apglcs
triapgles--which the best mathematician
of Harvard or Yale could not reduce {,
formula, which Doctor Faustus used.
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Ten miles west of Leipsig. over a leve
plain, is the field of Lutzen. You Sc
the village mile south OF the railroad