The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-07-23
WHOLE NO. 1918.
Vienna.

From one of DR.. Hurst's letters to the
-nethodiSi, we select the following descrip-
ton of Vienna
: About an hour and half before reach
ing Vienna the hills subsidized and the
whole country became a vast plain, with
vegetation and soil much like some of the
: lower sections traversed by the Mississippi
Then came Il hilly country again, and lust
beyond sharp turn in the river lay the
German Paris. 1t had been lust thirteen
years since | had been in Vienna, and SO
great are the changes that, except the
Cathedral of ST. Stephens, saw not sin
gle familiar object The city has been
turned over to the mason and the carpenter
as fully as Paris under IIaussman's pre-
lecture. The Emperor Francis Joseph did
shrewd thing when he gave large sec
ton of land in the suburbs to any persons
willing to put up palatial houses on the
lots. That is now the Ring street. and a
magnificent boulevard it is, difficult to sur
pass anywhere. 1t is a drive, walk, and
Il splendid street combined-a big slice of
the Central Park and all Fifth Avenue
joined together. We here saw the equpa-
ges of the Empress, the Crown Prince of
Hanover, an archduke or two. and still
others Of the nobility, move almost noise
lessly over the clean and hoor-like street.
On the Prater, the greatest drive into the
country which the Eiennesc have, and the
only approach to the Bots de Boulogne OF
Parisians, we spent couple of hours on
two successive evenings. We had q good
opportunity here to see Baron Won Beust,
the Austrian Premier, and father of all
Austrian reform in the last four years;
| brother Of the Emperor, who looked rs if
he might have been the original for Maxi
miian's portraits; the ambassadors of var
ious nations; and tho ex-Duke of Nassau
and numerous other deposcd greater and
smaller rulers. Vienna, you know, has
somehow grown into Botany Bay for
crownless heads. Sometimes it becomes
last resting-place for some of them. In the
crypt Of the Capuchin Church we saw the
sarcophagus of Maximilian of Mexico, al
most covered with dried and dusty wreaths.
On one end lies a beautiful chaplet of pure
silver, the tribute of nameless Mexican
friends to the fallen ones memory. His
body rests close beside a little daughter of
the present Emperor. In other parts of
this Austrian Westminster Abby we saw
the collins, in either bronze or solid silver,
of Maria Theresa; her husband, Francis:
her son, joseph H.; the Duko of Reich
stadt, the eXilcd son of the first Napoleon.
1t was really a relefto us when the friar
blew out his torch and led us up out of this
damp and gloomy sepulchere of seventy
royal bodies.
We took an afternoon train for Prague,
and passed directly over the battlefield of
Wagram, and SKINNED along the left of
that of AastcIlitz. At Pardubitz, in Be-
hemia, we spent the night in plain coun
try inn, and took the train next morning
for Koniggratz, twelve miles distant. Ar
irving there, we took Il carriage for a ride
over the battlefield of Sadowa On reach
ing the position of the Austrian centre |
the little village of Chlum, we assembled |
the church tower, and enjoyed a view Of
the whole scene of the greatest European
conflict since Waterloo, and one withal |
which is sue to be quite as important in |
results as that General Fisk as military
man, was already familiar with the details
of the battle, and our guide did but little
more than corroborate his Impressions
An old woman had a little collection of
memcntoes from the field, and we soon |
found ourselves in possession of nearly her |
entire lot. In a few years the supply will
no doubt be drawn from Birmingham,
where Waterloo has long been getting its |
relies from.
We reached Prague that afternoon, and
spent the remainder of the day in visiting
the chief points of interest. In the Cathe-
dral we had view of tie wonderful relics
namely, bones of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob; the Virgin Mary's pocket-handller-
chief; piece of the true cross, enclosing a
bit of the sponge put on hyssop; two
thorns of the crown of thorns; and one of
the palm-branches strewed in Christ's way
as he entered Jerusalem.
We asked our guide, as we entered the
house, where John Huss had lived, if he /
didn't think they treated Huss cruelty at
Constance cit was his own fault" re-
piled he; "they wouldn't have burnt him if
he had taken back what he said - Here,
| thought, is about all the reason and the
oogy you will find in the Catholics justifi-
cation of persecution in all times.
We reached Berlin on Saturday night,
and enjoyed news from home and good
nights rest On Sunday morning, while
on the way to the Methodist church, we
passed carriage in which the Emperor of
Russia and the King of Prussia were seated.
They were proceeding to the railway-sta-
ton. The Emperor was on his way to the
Bath of Ems and the King was attending
him to the station. The sons of both, and
host of nobility, outsiders, and lackeys,
followed in their train. Does royalty make
practice of travelling on Sunday here on
the Continent? Yes, and everybody else
who has a mind to be misled into adopting
the prevalent unchristian and often immoral
mode of spending the holy day. If an
American does not become all the fonder
of his Anglo-Saxon Sunday by seeing its
abuse here, he may set it down that there
is something wrong in him as well as with
these nations of ath-desecrators. If |
were writing these words just on the south
ern bank Main, which glistens in the sun
light but short distance through my win
dow, ! might have something to say on
Protestant Prussia's Sabbath-desecration
and its sanction by the government, in the
way of military reviews and the attendance
of royalty at the Sunday theatre and opera.
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