Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-09-16
Letters from Germany.
DRESDEN. SAxoNY. July

ITager Olrasse. OtDer lfRnuS were there also,
filling the windows. A. lent us her aag, and
Mr.. Il. and l.. had great fun waving the stars
and stripes at one window by themselves. To
every officer that rode by II. would hurrah,
and wave the flag, and the officer (if he had
good sense enough), would look up and re.
ceiye the bows and flying kisses; so that, out
of the 300 officers, 05 threw back kisses or
bowed to them. The procession was to begin
at 10 o'clock, and one of the regulations of the
day was that no person should leave his chos-
en- place after that hour. So the people suffer-
ed the hot sun to beat on them from Q clock
a. NJ, till twelve o'clock, when the process
sion actually moved; then till O'Clock, when
1t had passed our house; but We were near
the beginning of it. 1t started at beautiful
arch, one block below u.s. erected purposely,
and passed through several streets to the Neu-
Stadt across the bridge, and through that out
into the open country where in AN open field
by the river, tents were put, and In one large
one they had grand ball at night Poor fel-
| lowsl / should think they would have been
too tired to dance, even with their sweet
hearts from whom they had been 50 long sep
arated; for some of the soldiers told the by
ISLANDERS that they had been marching since 2
o'clock A NJ, from places round about in or
der to get here in time. But what a grand,
! thrill ling sight IT was--the entire army of Sax
on troops returning to their homes again,
amidst the shouts and welcomes of their
countrymen. The lusty Hip, hip, Hurrah r
was missing but in its place the sonorous
"Hoch, Hoch, Hoch p rising up the major
| third, was equally hearty, or ii not, certainly
more beautiful. | think il is a striking illus
| ratiCn OF the difference between the Ameri-
cans and Germans. Sometimes they cried out
lIurra for change. When the procession
began with John at its head, it was just thrill
ing to hear the "Hoch" pass up the lines of
people along the streets, as one after another
caught sight of the King; and as the Crown
Prince came along, and soon after his brother
George, the shouts arose with renewed vgor.
| was so excited at first that / rushed away
from my window where ! was alone and
squeezed in with the others. | think one al
ways needs sympathy to enjoy anything SO
stirring.
After dinner we walked down Prayer See
and Schloss Strasscn to see the decorations.
These streets are combinations of each other
extending from the suburbs up to the bridge
over the Ncu Stadt Just before we came to
the bridge the street passes under the palace of
King John. If w. saw it he would not COM
plain, rs he does in the letter that received
the night before, that the great ones rob the
poor to build elegant palaces for themselves.
John did not commit that sin his place of
dwelling is a dingy, plainly built Conccrn.-
Yet w. is right in saying that of the restof
the crowned heads. A great many Of the peo-
pie here expect this wrong to cease soon, and
say there will be q republic for Germany"
The streets were really beautiful. Festoons,
wreaths and golden bells with tongues of
flowers lined the avenues, with banners
crowns, iron crosses. &c, suspended in the
middle Of the streets All the houses on the
principal thoroughtares, and also on others,
were adorned with evergreens, flowers and
flags of all nations, while everywhere we saw
casts of the royal family, and the word evil
kommen" to greet the brave ones wherever
they would turn. On the bridge were put up
two casts of angels of peace" and the flags
of the various German countries were hoisted
| along the bridge on both sides, from one end
TO the other.
We took ce-cream at the Bevidere restau-
rant, and then tiredas we were, walked home,
US the droschkes were all engaged. G., L. and
Mr. r. rode out to see the iluminations in the
evening; j. and staid at home and read in
Baedeker. 1t was day long TO be remember
ed, and am glad enough l was here, and
|, that did not go to Berlin. In the Alt Markl
Il n.
the royal people dressed in Saxon cOlors,
green and white, we girls in white and blue
One of our American girls threw wreath
aud it fell on the Crown Princes neck The
soldiers were coyered with flowers; they fell
in showers. Good bye. M.u.T.
The visit of Bishop Whtehouse at Chrsts
Church, Chicago-Rey. Mr.. Cheny's-en the
10th inst, for administering the rite of con-
firmaton, to which public attention has been
turned, was got along with, as the dispatches
inform u.s. by cordial welcome of the Bish-
op at the vestry door by the Rector and ward
ers, and the profiered hand of the Rector,
which was refused and the greeting not re-
spondcd to, AS the candidates hid declined
to be presented to the Bishop by any one but
rector Cheney, the interview lasted but u few
moments, and the Bishop retired. An i'm.
mense audience filled the house to witness the
course that things might take in this peculiar
case.
A Democratic paper in Petersburg, Va,
says-"lf the flood had occurred in the time
of MIR. Alexander H. Stephens. we verify he.
lieve that during the thirty'ninth days rain,
he would have been seen astride the ridge