Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

unhappy for the rest Of the day
England's system Of tenantry, Mr.. Mer-
riil did not fayorably view, for says he 4
g No wonder England sympathized with
the South both propagated and the one
still sustains a slavery as irrevocable as
the other would have done.s The hotel
systom Of England was about right,
though women appeared as bosses in
stead of men. There was no churlishness,
and good tables and better beds made
them what the traveller desires.
August 9Th found Col. Merrill in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, whittier he had come by
rail. It's large population, customs of
the inhabitants, its shipbuilding, &c.,
were described to the intense qualification
of the audience, Solidity seemed to be
the main feature in everything done-no-
thing was for show. Scotch scenery, among
which was the famed Grampian Hills.
was unsurpassed. Scottish travels, though
interesting in the extreme, were gener-
ally not characterized by incidents of i'm
port, except such as history had previ-
ously furnished the world.
From Scotland the speaker went again
to England, and done London, which he
described with all its characteristics, in
Guiding the Parliament buildings, West
minister Abbey, st. Paurs, Buckingham
Palace, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens,
&C., the surroundings and location of
which were elegantly spoken of. His
visits to the manufacturing towns and
districts were gone over with in such a
manner as to make the listener almost an
eyewitness of their operations.
August 14th he went to Bologne, France,
and thence to Paris, where he was present
on the 10th, the great fSte day, concern
ing which he says: "There is but one
holiday in France, that of the 10th OF
August, Fete jour- All go to mass in
the morning as early as o'clock, confess
their sins and obtain indulgence for the
rest OF the day" The customs of the peo-
pie were eloquently described, as also the
looks of the ladies, upon which he re-
marked: 81 had supposed Mademoiselle
was bewitching and beautiful. If they
are they do not appear in public, and not
to appear.is not French characteristic"
In the evening the streets were brilliantly
lighted, particularly around the Tuiller-
les. Theatres were open, concerts in open
air and such exhibitions on all sides of
French vivacity as would have made
Oliver Cromwell or Boston puritan of
the 18th century stark mad. Such out
bursts are as necessary to Paris as the
pereur understands this, provides the OBJ
jects for this annual explosion of the ma
tional heart and then, as this morning, ar
tisans and laborers go back to their vari-
Gus labors to recuperate for the next ex-
element
Paris as city is marvel. It's streets
are wide, its buildings models of archi-
lecture, and Napoleon's design of making
it the capital of the world, is everywhere
apparent A splendid monument now
stands in the Place de Concorde, memoir
able, as here the guillotine began its
bloody work with the execution of Louis
XVI, January 81, 1893. On July 18th,
Charlotte Corday was beheaded +; October
10th, Queen Marie Antoinette; Novem-
Der 14th, Louis PHILIPPE, Duke of Orleans,
and many others, beside on July 2S, 1894,
Robespierre, he who had caused the death
of all these, himself met retributive end
on the same spot and by the same means.
God is always just
Passing from this spot, dark i'll French
history, we drove to the Hospital de Inva-
lides, where a few of the First Napoleon's
old soldiers still linger, taken tenderly
along to their near end at furtherest by the
present Emperor. 1t was sadly touch
ing to see these old veterans totter-
ing about in their neat uniforms and yet
manifesting in their decay the martial air
and spirit of men conscious they were as
ISOLATED in history with the name of Ma
poleon l. The tomb of Napoleon is in
the crypt of this building directly under
the dome, the outside of which is ara
beequed with gold, done at cost OF d.
100000. francs, partly by Louis PHILIPPE and
since remodeled by the present Emperor.
The residence of Josephine, first wife
of the First Napoleon, was visited, and
found still in good state of preserva-
ton, with remaining Souvenirs of the
Emperor and Empress, as also marble
busts and pictures of Napoleon's mother
and Josephine, with others of domestic
character, "the whole, said Mr.. Merrill,
30 in harmony with all we think of the
soul of the house that honored the Napo-
laon of Josephine, for his delicacy, for
getting the later Napoleon of Marie
Louise The tombs of Josephine and
her daughter, Hortense, were visited at
the chapel of Ruiel and examined. From
here he went on to Versailles, through a
rich vineyard-covered country. The ap-
proach to the city is not inviting, and al
though the streets are wide and well
shaded, as we'll as around its residences,
the general impression is one of decay,
and of the palace, that its glory had de-
parted with Louis PHILIPPE. One comes
away. however, astonished, Salteited with
the long stretch of colonades, the rich
ness and number of its paintings, the ele-
gance and extent of the apartments, con-
stituting, as the palace now does, an his
torical museum of the works of the great
masters, upon subjects wrought from the
history of France by her statesmen, gem
erals and rulers.
The route homeward was by ST. Cloud,
through the Boie de Bologne, the New
York Central Park of Paris, which was
described as one of the handsomest and
most luxuriant places in the universe.
Another day he visited the Tuilleries and
the picture gallery of the Luxembourg, the
of which were depicted in