Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-08-20


through remembrance Of The wrongs lately
suffered at the hands Of Prussia On the con.
trarv. we have found the enthusiasm as great
in Frankfort, and Darmstadi and Baden. as in
Cologne. In foreign war, Germany, with
the exception Of Austria, is ore and this as
sault ON the part Of France will hasten the or
ranic union of Germany which she 50 much
breads, end to prevent which she has drawn
the sword.
To return 10 our trip. Cologne is n city Of
high houses and narrow streets-sidewalks av-
eraging two feet 50 width-in one part Of the
main street ten iIisbes It's city also, as you
are aware of smells not over sweet-though |
its condition in this respect has been, as al
most everything European much exaggerat-
cd OF course We visited riie famous Cathe- |
dral which has been in course Of construction |
for so many centuries. As the lrishman said |
of New York, It will be great cathedral
when il is finished, but as several millions Of
dollars more are required, and this war will
exhaust men and means Its completion, proba-
bly,, awaits the ages TO come. We were much
more interested in the Chapel Of st. Ursula,
not for its beauty or grandeur, for it possesses
neither, but for its Singular history, and its
weird, horrible ghostliness. 1t is a church of
skulls and bones. Eleven thousand virgins
that is, their skeletons-.re said TO be en-
tombed within these walls hnd whether they
were virgins OF not We eaS we'll believe there
are IL 900. For at every step you meet them,
? Here five hundred skulls stare at you as earn
estly as skulls can stare. On yonder walls are
bones of every description, arranged fantastic
ally enough to form q regiment were there
another Ezekiel To call them TO life. You walk
over bones You can scarcely move without
touching disjOinted skeletons N this vial is
the blood of the saints and martyrs; that
piece of bone is the finger joint of ST. Stepha-
o mas and that box, which reminds you of an
= ancient dentist shop, contains the teeth of
> thousands of virgins. 1t is wen they were not
c extracted till after death, for the amount of
e agony in the shape Of dentistry, suggested by
y such pile of teeth is horrible
y But enough of this To realize the exhi-
bition you must see it, and ever afterwards
:, we give you assurance, you will feel it in
- your bones From Cologne, up the Rhine
:, poets and painters have so often described
: this river it would be presumption in me, who
am peither the one nor the other,to attempt The
task. You have read of the "vine-c hills
and castellated towers" They are all here
All sorts of unpronouncabe names distinguish
one ruined castle from its fellows. Only in on
point would rob the quotation above of il
poetry. The hills are not improved in ap
- pearance, though they are in material value
" bv being vine-clad The un-clad hills ar
u much the most charming. There are excep
~ tions to this statement in the wonderful ter
nc races which are cut and built in the solid rock
Vi and which tower above one another, some
-" times to the number of twenty or more, eac
VI terrace crowned with its plateau of vines. Blu
III in general, the vines remind you of raspbcl
" ry patch They are planted from two to thre
~ feet apart, and tied each to a single STAKE
lS' But they are the wealth of this Rhine cour
'i try, even if nature unadorned would be NOR
p beautiful.
n We spent the Sabbath at Coblentz, in fror
of Ehrenbreitstein, the strongest frotress
Prussia, second in strength to Gibralter anon
the fortresses Of Europe. Many thousands
"' soldiers were collecting here. This is til
!" "" Summer residence of the King Of Prussia, an
' we had the pleasure of taking off our hats
'' the Queen, who rode through the streets-tl
vision of royalty did not quite overcome II
~. We stopped at Frankfort city containin
. NV the finest private residences we have seen;
n0 Darmstadt, capitol of the Electorate Of Hess
60 at Heidelburg the home of the old Duto
." catechism, and of the celebrated Evangelic
W University, now almost broken up by the wa
Also at Baden Baden, the famous aristocrat
~ watering place, now almost deserted. Tt
LII thousand visitors let in two days. affright'
oio at the sound of battle. Still there are son
'"' hundreds remaining, and the gambling, Fl
~ which this place is noted, was going forwa
n ln openly. and to our inexperienced eyes, exte
- sjvely
the We were obliged to pass by Strasburg, wi
orv its famous clock, and its cathedral with t
rL- highest sp,re in the world we saw the spi
.. from the train, but we could not cross t
in Rhine, for the bridge has been blown up, al
the ho COMMUNICATIONS Is suHeio' 'o'"e' "
many and France. And so, forward to Basl
nm and we have reached neutral country; a
ZOO we thank God that we have traversed Germ
ion nv from North to South in time of war wi
Il = but three hours detention, and with the loss
a., but one point of interest from our program
.or, And here will relieve the patience of yC
Won readers and reserve Switzerland, Provider
tt,o prospecting us in our journey, tor a future
,,,,0 ter Yours truly,
a. J.N. McGFFERT