Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-29
APrnssinn in Americn.

The Berlin Staatsburger Zeitung contains the
following amusing letter from member of the
Prussian baud now in the United States:
"0ur passage to America was agreeable. We
had not to struggle either with storms or too
high pillows. The seasickness we drove into
the ocean; let il be buried there. On the 18Th
of June we landed at Hoboken, where we were
received by the municipal authorities with music,
singing, flags and firing of cannon, with hur-
rahs, haadshaking and embraces, so that the
cordially of the reception almost turned our
heads, and we finally began to believe we had de-
liYered America, without knowing it, from some
enemy or other. The deputation that babe us
welcome appeared in the uniform of Prussan
officers, with helmets and horsetails, and the
musicians wore PruSsian caps. The only thing
we missed where the pretty maids in white. But
they omitted them solely because many mem
bers of our band are married men, and a re-
cepton by pretty girls, the good people of HO-
bOlen feared, might give offence to our wives at
home
81 don't remember how often they played and
sung to us the Watch on the Rhine;' but re-
call the fact that we were escorted in the midst
of them in triumph by an immense concourse
Of people to the first hotel of the city. The
hands of beautiful ladies waved handkerchiefS
from all the windows; they threw to us fragrant
nosegays and wreaths, and some even threw
kisses-but that you need not tell our wives and
sweethearts But it was not until we were seat
ed at the breakfast table that our hosts found
out what havoc we Prussians can make in a
charge; and splendid wines and champagne
flowed here so literally that we finally had to
decline them with thanks; and you know best
what that means in the case of member of the
Prussian band In our gratitude we would have
gladly played for the good people of Hobokcn;
but we were absolutely unable so to do; the
mouthpieces finally could no longer find the
mouths.
''If our reception in Hoboken was bewilder-
ing, in Boston il was absolutely mad. Imagine
our triumphal entry into Berlin after the war,
and you have something like picture Of our
reception in Boston. The French musicians,
who, in 1867, received the prize together with
us, did not even look at us. AT first we were
afraid they would burst with envy in the street !;
but | think that their physical constitution is,
after all, quite solid. AT first we greeted them
from sheer pity; but the parlezUOaSes passed us
like surly oxen. 'Allez-UouSenP we said, and
now we raise our hands no longer to our caps.
The Englishmen, on the other hand, are our best
friends. The band, under Godfrey'S leadership,
plays splendidly. 1t holds hut little intercourse
with the French. To enable us to accept all the
invitations we receive here from private citizens,
it would be necessary for the day to contain nine
times twenty.iour hours and the night twice as
many.
GAS for the jubilee, to tell you the sober
truth, it is a tremendous, truly American hum
bug! We do not believe that the persons who
undertook it will make their expenses. The
Boston booksellers will certainly do thriving
business with the little work, Deafness is
Curable.' When we are done in Boston, we
shall golelsewhere; but where? The gods know,
perhaps. We are overwhelmed with invitations
from all quarters, and Saro has already serious
ly considered whether to comply with all de-
mands, he had not better send one Of us TO every
city that wants us. | might tell you a
good deal more, but the heat here is nearly al
ways fully thirty carats,' and one does not feel
like doing anything but drinking The beer is
not good, and ! would give the whole French
band for one keg of Berlin Tivoli beer on ice p