Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-25
IN THE HARTz ssOUNTAINs
GOsIar and its Antiquities The
BrOcken.
From the New York Methodist


From the New York MethoIis.l
The BROKEN, August IL, lses
a few days ago our party, eonsistin,
of DIR. Stevens, the Rev. Mr.. Eby n
young Wesleyan minister from Canada.
and the writer, left Bremen for a brie
pedestrian tour through the Harti
Mountains. On our return from th,
cool island of Heligoland, we found tn,
weather in Bremen still intensely hot
as, indeed, it has been the whole sum
mer throughout Europe, not ever
Russia excepted. Leaving Bremen BY
the night train, we found in the same
car with us a company of German
Americans, who had Just returned to the
tatherland by steamer and had caught
the spirit Of their adopted country, a
fact which they exhibited in more ways
than one, but especially by their hearty
singing of Old John Brown" and
Tramp tramp tramp, the boys are march
ing. 1t was briugingbaek old times
to us to hear those familiar notes but
it Is not surprising that many passengers
IN the same car who knew nothing of
them before, listened to them with mute
astonishmeht.
After catching as many snatehes of
sleep as We could, in the stations and on
the cars, we reached the picturesque
town of Wolfenbuttel, which had once
been a residence of hes..Brunswick
duke, but is now left in state of com
mercial stagnation. Its old and spacious
palace Is given over to small tradesmen.
and its pillars rise from the mud and
green slime of all that is left of its
former moat. To Us, the only interest
of halt at the city lay in its celebrated
library, which contains two hundred
thousand volumes, and six thousand
MSS. The librarian showed us many
mementoes of Luther, his Ieaden ink
stand, one of his Omnipresent beer
glasses, his notes on the Psalms. in his
own exquisitely neat handwriting, and
his own revision of his translation of the
Bible. tbs significant that nearly all
his corrections are confined to the prophe-
eles Of Isaiah and Ezekiel The gentle
mani : librarian showed us other literary
euriosltles, among which were manu-
script letters of many of the most cele-
brated German litterateurs, and the first
editions of all Lessing's works. 1t was
when Leasing was librarian at Wollen-
buttel, as everybody knows, that he
published his celebrated Fragments,
which produced a conflict in Germany
that has hardly yet terminated The
present librarian, Dr. Won Heimann,
who has distinguished himself by his
contributions to German history, led
US through his house and grounds ad-
joining the library, once the home of his
celebrated predecessor. We saw the
room in which Lessing wrote his Nathan,
and, across the broad hall, the one
where his idolized wife died, and out in
the garden, the fruit-trees planted BY
his own hand. l plucked a few leaves
from them, as mementoes of the visit
Fortunately, we had copy of Lessing's
Nathan with US, and we enjoyed our
spare time before the starting of the
train by communing with the old Jew,
Saladin, the Templar, Recha, and the
other characters Of one of the greatest
but not least one-sided Of Lessing's
productions.
GosLAR AND ITS ANTIQUITIES.
But Wolfenbuttel is only in sight of
the Hartz, and a good many uphill
miles lie between it and this famous old
Broken top. After spending an after
noon at Hamburg, the hill above which
is crowned with the ruins of, first,
temple said to have been dedicated to the
worship of Wuoton, or DOnnar, and de-
stroyed by Charlemagne, who erected a
Christian church in its stead, and, second
of statley castely, built by the ill-star
red Emperor Henry ", and made the
repository of his treasures, we reached
Goslar, the most northern fortified
residence of the German Emperors,
and by far the most interesting city in
the Hartz Mountains. The ancient
character of Goslar is still we'll pre-
served The walls are standing, for the
most part, and nearly all the towers
preserve their original shape. One of
these towers forms portion of the hotel !
in which we lodged, and from its sum
NIT we had an excellent view of the
city, and the country for many miles
around My own bed leaned squarely |
against the old tower-wall, and, thanks |
to the WEAKNESS Of foot-travel, with |
knapsaek and staff, had no disturbed |
dreams of tramping invaders and de-
structive sieges. The romance of my
room, however, few to the winds when I /
found out that the intense heat of its /
atmosphere, inexplicable at first was /
produced by the cooking for the whole /
hotel, as the kitchen lay directly under [
it l was therefore compelled to spend !
nearly all my indoor daytime, for the /
two days that we were in Goslar, with /
my travelling companions, who we're
favored with cooler quarters.
Everybody who goes to Goslar is ex
pected to visit the mines of Rammels-
burg, about mile from the city. 1t is
said that'they owe their discovery to the
following circumstance When the
Emperor Otho l., the son of Henry the
Fowler, founder of the city, was on the
throne, one of his horsemen, by the
name of Ramma, was riding over the
hill, and piece of silver ore was knock
ed out of the ground by his horses hoof.
The Emperor rewarded him with gold
chain and one thousand pieces of gold,
and after SEN ing for Frankish miners,
had the mines worked ene-getically, and
with great success. They were called
Rammelsburg in honor of the discov-
srer. We were dressed in as dirty
as you would wish to see.
A Mammoth-eave suit is nothing to it,
thought DR.. Stevens had the poorest
luck of the three in fact, it would re-
luire a familiar eye to detect his ident-
ty, so utterly outlandish and subter-
,anean were his begrimed blouse, patch
ID trowsers, and the dilapidated piece of
elt for his literary head, which the ven
,rable old dame who took extravsgant
pride in assisting us in making our toilet
insisted on calling a bdsl We entered
~ the old shaft, through which the
miners had passed for nearly nine cen
uries, and in due time wound our way,