, 1869-09-13

Welcome Change In the Temporal
s1lEc-rhc Ancitnx Capital Of ksoJic-
n,sn n-HulIenstctnso Palace Tho
Jews, Quarters In l'rnguc-Thclr
Ancient *ynnEoSne nnd Cemetery
-Germnn IL Hurlnl Customs nnd G:cF-
MAN y ~ttnplicaty-An Historic Drudge
An EnhurpFt%cu ~Nxnnunh-Johfa
lzuss and the Catholic Church.
No, NIX
tFE1x oCE RrKGIAL LCslMkEsroSpESrl
PRAGUE, Bohemia Aug, 3, 1869.
No place more lifting. accor1iiug to the common
hut eEror sous notion, for 4 Journalist 10 write n
lette1 from than the capital Of Bonetlta- And jet,
IS one Of S'laA-reafc s clowns might say, man
can fe capital follow Without beIng 1lohcnan,
Or mar bea bohemian HAhout beiug a capital
fellow.
It rAlne-l As came Into this ancient city, an!
after the excessive heat of S'enn1 anu rrsta the
shower was ssnEuou5 delight. I shall nut
soon forget how the temperature changed as ne
entered NofaSls Dor the green ami fertile valleys,
wooded hills, due farms and villages contrasting
so charuu2ly with the manotonons, raEctIct
irear, r'iaius Of Hungary. When the great drops
began to fall. anl tilr Hehtn!ng shisered through
the shy. ! lc,t as another Icing. can endure
heat; tut like the crox. enter, don hakAr aiter
II. y burning, su!trJ da5 Is III anatIAn1t,on- I
wish most heartily :hete never wo1li b. another.
ana the1e would mol t,e II had the management
Of terrestrial Affairs. Hungary md Austria pro,cr
alc literally burned into uly trAn.
rRAGEE
has an air Of Thrift. md caufort aud modcrnnesa1
harlls expected to nl III The Old capital But the
nEeieut character OF cif!ts Is passing lwaS. Tae
apFlt OF progress has seized upon everything.
Lisbon IL c!ean mud Madr1l has EailWa5s- Europe
IS rot at all what It Eas fifteen or twenty years
ngo; indeed, We cau sec the spirit Of change here
within ~ many months Pvaguc-sne population
II reported at lis ce0-ts sdmrRby situated tn the
tn1i ef t,i, i,lnn SAhn 1Lria kILIo
and Ia the Observation-Disclosures city haze sceu
1t II not much mote Austrian than Festn Is
HEBREW CIT1zxNs.
ODe-half thc people are nohenlins, vcyJ few OF
whom epezk German aud there arc teo u tECl'c
Thousand Jewp. some Of them the mott lcarrr,l
living. This Is sort Of N1forl Of Jadalsnl, anil
Is Mecca Tor tic snbs>!6 I'll the wosil over. The
Jews have particular privileges herr, understand,
and b5 lhcr wealth Rnd Intelligence exercise great
tnruencc. They Arc Rrontng stsunRcs aua stronger
eTeET year On The rontlneat, particularly In Ft1nk
fort, Tcsth, Vienna and Paris. They arc llorA
nnancicrs, snti 6st connected II some capacity
With ufaE!J all the hanks this side o! tho Atlantic
| They have such an extraordinary capacity fur
monctGci,toR shat they Will ere long. all 1es;f1c
toIs trng rcnovSd, control the hnlk Of the Goss-
| lpE capital Of Europe.
| s1lx CktSkKsrrT
here Ia the oldest In Germany, having lecu built
| almost i've ansl halt centuries ago. It once hli
| .tutlenta from escr7 Part Of the continent: but
one Successor Of charles ", is founder, harlnS
thought ol llmitlpg the privileges Of foreigners,
thousands lcit IN holy, au4l established ,he Ial-
vrsp1sies OF Leipzig md others Like flo1oxua II
hxs greatly declined, and cnnnot now have norr
thAa fifteen hnnure,t atudcntHs
| wAitxSErE1Ss rALAcx
IN !nfercatlnx II ia nearly two hundred md mfg
| 5caIa old. knu continues in tho Possession OF The
| family. The io1nts OF Wa!!caAtrln. The old hall
aud ,.s singular casyntttes hAre bc~n restored
nCcply, but noa Of the hn!lttlng Il In 4ta original
ptatt. The sanc carpets AHl lie on the door nj
tue orAtonun where the cech: ktei warrior kpcat
TO hear na*s. In 4 stnAl! room LII the easden-a
pleasant and fracions onc--s tho stuffed horse he
Ioc In the battle OF Lus1eu and on the walls hang
I The porTa.ta Of htnself xnd hia vito, patntc! Ia
ts22, llc Iookn bold and bilious not intellectual.
tn, strong; While Ahc seems bis opposite, hc:7g =
honHr. 1ns:p.d person to whom y,ee water you'll
| he !pto1tcaunG.
notice wherever 70 that the grrai sold!es1
! who led men 10 The slaughter as ea1elets!J Il
butchers lead lambs Rnd the historic villains xert
very careful concerning thctr osA.osies aua casp.
| eli. They had no hesliatton About stealing, burn
ing, ttahttpg CT POISONING, but they would no
nlss The uaAs: for trcente burning WIS 10 thc1
as necessary as llood.1csilng.
TIE sKTa' QUARTER
! recalls the Ghetto 1t Rome. Many ot the peopl,
| living in the nAHp* faneA and dirty houses IT
po1r Cnl1i.ans, Had as the netshborhood Is, 1t
much superior to The Fire roin.a In New York o
| certain riculies IN Chicago. The Alienenschul
Is Goialc structure Of the beginning OF the tnls
teeotn century, though the tradition u that It va
3oIndsd by The hrss fus!tisea lro Jerusalem ate
. its Overthrow. A .lustr. taitcled t1S extendtc
t acrots the synagogue wAs presented to the Jew
hJ Ferd!land Ill, IN 1tts, ~ recognition Of thel
3 saior tn defending Prague from the Swedish X
I stece:s. doat think hare evcr seen sach
:, hoatJ teupte IS The Atcncusehn!e. Il any on
were 10 ten nc II wns three thousand yeasa OF aS
I should hardly doubt It. II Is small. and ore!
) grown With creeping pIaots, aud aldeEs, aud Il,
l. sttS underwood, abone them the gray old tont
4 stoEfs tn which ate cng7a1cn pitchers to tepss
seci the ts,'s Of Levi, zad two bands 70 deskuat
4 HE Descendants OF Aaron. snalI stones Il
,, p!aett on the graves nsrk Of the tIect,ou au
n t remtnbrancr Of the s4rsiyoss. speus m hu,
IS In the ancient Cemetery, "a The midst OF u
Il crowded quarter, sapt o1t aJ saict Stone wal
II RIt felt very much II hal ste7ped out Of Ii
u Present century srl Nas standing among th
relics OF tur1eLs ages. which, Indeed, HAs. Th
p.1ce has not been used rs Il cemetery for ulnet
years, sud Is one Of the most unique and tae.es
j. taS on the continent.
c. GkkAAx ECI1AL cCsruX5
}, The Gerraaes tave tho custom, At least many