Arizona citizen., 1873-09-27
FROM LONDON TO VIENNA.
A Glance at Belgium, Prussia, Ba- varia and Austria--The Rhine and
 Danube Scenery y-- Brussels, Co., Iogne, Frankfort, and Nuremberg.


 Danube Scenery -- Brussels, Co.,
 Iogne, Frankfort, and Nuremberg.
 VIENNA, Sunday, August 17.-I
 left London on Friday evening week,
 came across by @ one-horse steamer
 sleeping in the rigging like an Amer
 ican rooster should, l Isuppose-touch-
 ing a corner of Holland by daylight,
 and reaching Antwerp Gin Belgium) too late for the train. Did that old commercial would be rival of London, for a couple hours. It has cele- brated Cathedral for tourists to gawk about in for a few minutes, and a population who recklessly revel in the French language, to our annoy ance and injury. Had they talked pure Parisian-as I am used to-I should have enjoyed Brussells, the capital of the little kingdom. Owing to the uncultivated style of their French, I had to stay over night at that place. Brussells is said to be miniature Paris, but it seemed very dull Saturday night. There are mere bearded females in Belgium than would stock all the side-shows extant. Architecturally, Brussells is attract i've in spots, nothing altogether to go mad over. 1 suppose they make good lace there, just as Belfast makes lin- en,-and lots of 1t.
 From Brussels, the next point of leading interest, is Cologne. But the country between, as riding through it, pleased me more than the towns. Be- tween Liege and Verviers, in Bel gium, there is some delightful scen- cry, and everything in the landscape way possessed the French finishing touches. No fences at all, except those along the track, and a majority of the cottages were curious speci- mems of rustic work. Men and wo- men all look like hard-worked, it. literate set-devoted to the one pre- vailing feature of life in the old world, that is, fight it out on the line of their fathers before.
 The train time gave us two hours at Cologne, and carriage ride through its many narrow and strong smelling streets, was perhaps we'll enough. Here is still more cele- brated Cathedral-an immense affair truly; but 1 am just getting little fatigued with looking at Christ cru cifed in so many miserable ways. I am beginning to think He has been the worst murdered man ever heard of in any country. The Virgil. Mary has had to suffer likewise. But enough of this at present. Cologne is noted for its variety of smells. I was satisfied after counting some twenty or thirty in so short time. The old walls of the town are still 1 formidable ruins. 1 have forgotten to state that the most striking shift in the scene so far, was that back at @ little station, west of Aix la Chapelle, where the German element of this 1 country of speckled languages and money, took possession of our train, and went through our carpet-bags for stray cigars, to find other perfumery. I had not prepared for this imagi- nary boundary-thinking the Rhine was what separated the two peoples. But now am used to 1t all.
 Well, I found the delightful rest ing spot l was anxious for at Lon don. It was at Godesberg, above Co., logne about twenty-four miles, and | just where the Rhine becomes poeti- cal, historical, &c. Here are the Seven (Dragon) Hills, with Q rocky height tipped with @ more rocky ruin of castle and overlooking one of the finest pictures of valley, river and hills; of peaceful villages wrapped | in vines and studded with flowers. The prettiest have ever seen. To get this view, you cross the river to the west side, at the village of K@- nigswinter then up the mountain just back Of my hotel at Godesberg is an old tower of @ castle, built on little mountain that stands out by itself From the window 1t don't look big ger than a coffee pot, but I found on climbing up there, 1t was over one hundred feet high. These castle ruins are very deceptive that way. Godesberg Is a gem of @ place-quite 6 resort mineral springs, &c. But