Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03
LETTER FROM GERMANY.
Trip from Bremen 10 BerIin-German
Observation-Disclosures scenes-MisceIiane-
Gus News.

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For any one who would find recreation
and excitement, without exhaustion, and
improvement by a royal road, recommend
travel in North Germany. When our good
ship dropped anchor Off Bremen Haten
and j saw, for the first time, the low fiat
country, the Anticipated buildings, and the
clumsey windmills of Deutschland, had a
somewhat different opinion. \ cutter took
us off the ship and landed us on an artii-
cial levee, built Of turf and brick and
standing twelve feet above low tide and
about the same height above the city be-
yond. We crossed ii, and descended 10y
matched pavements and stone streets TO
the railroad and were off for Bremen,
which is thirty miles up the Weser. With
small, dingy-lOoking engines, iOur-Wheelcd
cars and doors in the sides, these trains
made about twenty miles per hour, and the
passengers are quite comfortable. The
road-bed is similar to ours, but generally
covered with gravel, and without much
dust. Business appears to be dull, and
everybody to practice deliberation. This,
coming after New York, is quite refresh
ing. We We're glad enough to be on land
again, anyway, and our having time to
look about us and enjoy the scenery was
well appreciated At Bremen the same
contented style was everywhere apparent
People were walking leisurely to and fro
through the streets as well as the shaded
promenades, and seemed remarkably indif-
ferent towards care and trouble. / stopped
over one day to cultivate an intention have
for slowness l do not intend even to init
mate any disrespect for the Bremenites
they are wealthy and clever, and doubtless
travel as much of the round of human hap
piness as people can. Anyway, life is full
of compensations, and those who 90 slow,
go long, and those who enjoy little, enjoy
often. In Bremen there are old men who
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fury in a cafe or beer garden, and who are
vet walking about with the same old step
and satisfied air. They do not aim at eX-
cesseS. and seem to have no trouble in
avoiding them. They live to a good old
age, seldom changing from one pursuit to
another, and generally complete a good
average lite-work.
Bremen is over eleven hundred years old,
and many staunch old houses of medieval
origin show very well the former character
of the city and is people. There are also
plenty of recent buildings, with modern
architecture, and the windows everywhere
are lined with flowers. The streets are re-
markedly clean and the shade inviting.
The walks, or promenades, are exceeding
ly attractive, with banks of flowers in
every available space, and do not wonder
at the mania these people seem to have for
walking about. There are flowers on every
hand, and the trees are veterans | have
stopped here longer than / intended, and
now with regret | am leaving Bremen, its
oddities of architecture and antiquities and
people. If / were planning another trip,
should stop here much longer. when
the swallows homeward tiyp will hence
forth bring to me memories of Bremen,
with its red-tiled roofs, under whose caves
"a. orfsands of swallows build their homes
and twitter their vespers ceaselessly.
Our route TO Hanover lay up the valley
of the Rhine, but as the country is gene
rally fiat, il is scarcely distinguished as a
valley. The land seems to have been salt
meadow once, carefully cultivated howev-
er, and now is almost a garden. Some Of
the poorest of the land has been set out
with forest trees, generally pines oraspens,
and rs this has been done many years, we
have the remarkable phenomenon of a
forest in right lines. Double and single
rows of grand old century trees stretch
away over the fat country, sometimes till
lost in the horizon, and maiing bounda-
ries and highways. There are but few
fences, and these very fragile, generally
built of sticks not larger than walking
canes. Barley, oats, wheat and beets are
the staple products of the 2XlO-roC rectan-
giles into which the land is all divided 10y
the bitches, which are about a yard deep.
More women than men are seen working
in the fields and sometimes superintended
by storks. that stand on one leg and almost
seem to wonder that the stout peasant
should have any respect for them.
In five hours we reach Hanover, our first
rovdL city, where we see palaces and mon
uments of kings, and crOwn-capped pilas
tiers. which characterize such places. The
drives, especially TO Nelfen PlatZ ant
Georges Park, are superb under perfec
arcades of lime trees for from one to tive
miles. Here is a colossal statue of Schiller
also monument 10 Leipnitz, little dis
lance from the house he lived in.
Waterloo place, where Prussian soldier
are drilling, is an open square, with fin'
column erected in memory OF the Hanover
ians who fell in that faith. We ascende'
by one hundred and lightweight steps AM
looked out beyond the city, over the tire
tons and domes and turrets, upon the leve
lands of the spruce little kingdom tina
was, with ever recurring rectangles am
bitches, all luXuriant with vegetation
Coming down, we met moody little stu
dent Of the Polytechnic school, who toll
us of the war, and how Hanover fell int
Pussia, and showed very plainly, a. tn
old sexton did who showed US through
Martkirche that he was yet a HanOverian
/ could see it Enthusiastically as he pointe
to the statue and arms of his fallen king
and remarked, 'The people may not speal
now what they Think ! have take,
with citizens of several Of the thirty od
German sOvereignties, that We're and fin
their patriotism pretty evenly divided be
tween what might he called Estate Soyel
eighty" and North German Unity undo
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