Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

was surprised to see the size, beauty,
cleanliness and material prosperity of
TINS very old town. Its magnificent
cathedral is said to date back to the
year 26O, after Christ, which may be a
little doubtful, but it is indeed a very
ancient structure, grasses and moss
growing on its walls, and hundreds of
twittering birds building their nests
in the exquisitely carved terraces of its
towers. Being in a somewhat devout
frame of mind, | attended service in
four different churches, was well pleased
with what was seen, but not much edit
ed with what was heard, for it was all in
a strange tongue, and the priests at the
affairs were so far away from my stand
point that they appeared like puppets
mechanically performing their several
parts. Joan De Arc was burned to death
here, and being an ardent admirer of
t00n1GnS herOtSD1, paid a visit to the
beautiful monument erected to her
memory
AT 2 p. m. l left this old Normandic
town for Paris, reaching my destination
at o'clock p. m. Having dined at the
Hotel st. Petersburg, / went out to see
this modern Babylon, and easily found
the noted place of public resort
''Champs Elysee'-where in the shade
of trees, surrounded by fountains of
water and beds of fragrant flowers,
thousands of the people of this great,
beautiful, gay and wicked city sit, smoke,
drink wine, and listen to vocal and in
strumental music, such as Vermonters
would consider very good.
During a stay of five days, Ihaye very
faithfully done Paris, visiting her
churches, monuments, palaces, parks,
galleries of art, and notable fountains.
Everywhere the eye rested upon what
neither pen nor tongue can fully de-
scribe, the places of greatest interest
being the Louvre, Tuileries, Hotel DIES
Invalides, Palais de Justice, Saint
Chapelle, Palais Royal, Versailles,
Madelaine, Pantheon, Luxembourg,
Palais L'Industrie and Champs Elysee.
In these places the visitor ravishes eye,
head, and heart with thousands of speci-
mems of architecture, sculpture and
paintings, those of the Louvre, Versailles
and LIndustrie being the best. The
terrible results of the late war are yet to
be seen on every hand, the Tuileries,
Palais Royal, Hotel de Vile Getty Hall)
and many other buildings being still in
ruins. .sE....
With everything else to most en-
phatically Justify her claim as the queen
! of cities, Paris is destitute of the Chris
| t5dn 4Sa65atH-stores and shops all open,
| building houses, repairing the streets,
| markets crowded with people and mer-
| chandise. the streets vocal with the cries
! of fish women, news boys and vendors
! of various wares, the side walks filled
with people sitting at little tables, snlok-
ing and drinking wine.
Speaking Of wine, you meet 1t every
where; nice, good wine, so they say;
| cheap as milk in Vermont; wine on the
table at your hotel; wine is brought to
wash down your tea at the restaurant,
and to soften the music in the gardens.
| Our temperance principles have cost us
something in France, for we have to pay
for wine whether we drink it or not
The bottle is there, you drink or not as
YOU choose, but you pay for the whole
bottle, or at least that is my experience
up to this hour.
At $50 o'clock n. m, yesterday, May
2Sth, I left beautiful Paris, for this
city, a distance of 316 miles, arriving at
7:3O p. m, having, during the day,
passed through fruitful and beautiful
wine-producing section of the country /;
grass and rye being garnered. and all
other crops in q very forward condl-
ton. ....
This city is very large, pretentiously
grand, and beautifully situated between
the Rhone and Loire, both of which are
broad, deep and rapid streams. thanked
by broad quays, built of dressed granite.
The Rhone is spanned by nine and the
Loire by eight bridges, all well built and
graceful structures. The eastern por-
ton of the city is built in terraces, on
the side of very high and abrupt hill,
on the summit of which is built the
church Laurvieres', from the observa-
tory of which | got first glimpse
of the Alps and Mont Blanc to-day.
The city of Lyons is devoted to sllb
manufacture; there being 10000 Sill
weavers in the city, and they are con
sidered a very dangerous class, full Of
sedition and revolution; hence the city
is crowded with soldiers, every bridge
bank and public building being guarded
night and day. There is here fine col
lection of classic sculpture, paintings
bas-reliefs, ETC., etc, which, like all sucl
collections in France, are open 10 TIT
5 public use. ...... ...
l leave early tomorrow morning
for Marseilles, expecting to sleep to-mor
row night on the shores of the Medlter
ranean and pass the Sabbath in Genoa
7 Italy. ANGLO.