Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-20
"The beauty and the chivalry,' -

were disturbed by Napoleon just before
| Waterloo. We mounted the top of n stage
coach and while an excellent bugler made
the streets of "Belgium's fair Capitol ring
with Hail Columbia, star Spangled
Banner'' and yankee Doodle, I'VE ratified
away over the stone-paved road to. HI
WATERLOO aeI
have read several descriptions of the
field and the battle, by both English and
French, writers, but | never understood
the battle, until l stood on the ground.
Then when 1 passed through the village of
Mont Saint Jean and had pointed out
to me where the lines of the two armies
were formed, saw the form of LA Haye
Sainte," and the Chateau de Hougou-
mont" / could see where every movement
of each army was made. And having seen
/ say that the allies, with their position and
acting on the defensive ought to have defeat
ed the French, had Grouchy come and Blu
cher failed; for Wellington's position was
nearly equal to being inside regular for
tification, equal in my judgment to 20,-
600 more men. / shall hereafter have
higher regard for French valor.
While here / was seized with the pecu-
liarity of Mark Twain's Pilgrims, and
gathered, as a souvenir of the place, some
wild flowers from the banks of the fatal
"sunken road" into which the French
dragons rode, $50 well described by Victor
Hugo.)
But I can add nothing new to Waterloo,
and we will
AWAY TO COLOGNE
where we find an immense cathedral
There are now 500 workmen repairing it
and it will cost to repair it alone between
three and four millions of dollars. Here,
too, is the
CHURCH OF SAINT URSULA,
where they exhibit the bones of the II, 900
virgins who We're here slain by the Huns,
while on their return to England from a
pilgrimage to Rome.
Now away to Mayence, and back down
the famed
RHINE BY STEAMER,
the ne plus ultra of the trips of European
tourists. L have seen many wilder views
among our own grand and rugged noun
tains, but here an ever-changing piano.
rama, presenting enchanting scenes, is
spread out before you. You glide on by
the rugged, vine clad hills, terraced with
walls of stone, cutting figures of every con-
ceivable shape upon their sides.
Here you pass beautiful chateaus, nest
ling in among the hills, whose SUBMITS
are here and there crowned with Gothic
| embattled towers, old frowning castles that
| look down with a protecting air upon the
villages smiling at their feet; and grass
grown Wondering ruins that carry us back
| to feudal days-the days when Charlie
magne divided Europe. among his follow
ers. 80 G.
We'pass village after village; Coblentz,
with strong modern Notifications, "Schloss
Johannesburg" .s ....
| SWEET BINGEN ON THE RHINE"
| and find ourselves once more under the
| shadows of "the Cathedral" the pride and
glory of Cologne. But it is time to be in
Prussia's capitol with Bismarck and Will
helm, and few hours in these odd
| looking cars and running through
a beautiful country where blue
wild pinks and brilliant peoples grow
and bloom thicks among the rye, oats
and grass, covering the fields with car
| pet of bright rich colors, by clus-
tering, compact villages, built of sin.
gular saffron-colored brick and covered
with red tiles-by the potato fields where
we see more women at work than men
bare-headed and footed women, sometimes
in squads of from five to ten, (the mer
, having been killed OFT or are now a. way il
the army, or have gone to the poor man!
earthly paradse-America.)
| a few hours of such ride and we are il
BERLIN AND UNTER DEN LINDEN
j. NJ. II.