Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
MANNHEIM.
German Watering-Place-A Warm
Welcome for the Appeal-Inter-
estiHg Letter.

By permission OF our friend, Colonel
James Coleman, we are able to present
the following interesting letter to our
readers. 1t is from the pen of Nathan
Adams, who is doing Europe for the see
Ond time:
MANNHEIM, GERMANY, August ), 1873.
You can hardly imagine the obliga-
tons am under to you for the several
files of the APPEAL which you have had
the kindness TO forward to me since
left home, and l imagine you will think
it strange when l assure you the packet
of APPEALS received here by me were
the first Memphis papers ever received
at this place. Although we have large
number of visitors here, yet it is em-
phatically a German Watering place,
and very few Americans ever come here,
although l think it in many respects the
best watering-plaee in Germany. We
have here the strongest saltwater in
Germany, and the baths are, perhaps,
more beneficial incidentally than any
other place know of. L spent a couple
OF weeks at Weisbaden, where the water
is also salt, and six degrees hotter than
the hot springs in Arkansas, and about
another week at Schwalbaeh, also a Gel
ebrsted watering-place, but think this
place is superior to any other that
know of, either in Europe or America
l have been here about two weeks, and
l think have been benefited very much
indeed. Our present intention is to re-
main a week or ten days longer, then go
to Hamburg and den-Baden, where
we viii remain couple of weeks, then
proceed direct to Vienna, uuless the
cholera increases very much. We live
here in entire ignorance of what is go
ing on in the world, as these people not
only never read, but never see an Amer
lean newspaper, and 1 think Mr.. Bow
man and myself are almost the only per-
sons who have been here this summer
from our side of the ocean, that speak
only English. had a very pleasant
trip across the Atlantic, was not sick at
all, and landed in Liverpool on the sew
enteenth of June, and proceeded imme-
distely to London, which place We found
very full of straDgers-every hotel
croWded-owing to the visit of the shah
of Persia, more especially. We re-
mained in London about two weeks,
and spent our time very pleasantly in
deed, and from there to Paris, where we
spent q couple Of weeks, and found a
number of our Memphis friends-Dlr.
and Mrs. Bayliss, Mr.. Terry, DIR. Tucker
and others-which of course made our
stay at that place the more pleasant.
From Paris we next went to Cologne,
then for the third time made the voyage
from there by steamer up that most
beautiful of all the rivers, the Rhine, to
Beerbrich--and from there to Weisbaden,
ETC., and then to this place, and so far
ends for week or two our present trip.
As am in Europe more for the benefit
of health than pleasure, l shall remain
at these German spas so long as / thin &
am improving in health, and will then
continue my trip unless 1 get home
sick, of which I think some strong
symptoms are already appearing. The
fact is, Europe loses most of its attrac-
tions after the first visit, as then every
thing is new to stranger and much
more interesting, and in second visit
be sees only a repetition of the first, and
of course ne loses much of that interest
felt on his first visit,