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SOUTHERN BANNER. JULY 16, 1878. 7 A Wonderful Castle. Vi.it III tlit Sows ot l.ulhor';. Straggle* Von Bor V«*olwi'iilo> Triumph*. i:\ns prom out tiie storied past ,F THE WARTBURG, OR TANN- HAUSER AN'I) ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY. fciul Correspondence on llie Boston Post.] Kisknach, May, 187?.. - On the Li ije of the Thuringian forest, under lie shadow of the Wartlmrg, in the e old town of Eisenach—could ivlhiiig be more delightful ? Anti not much altered, I am sure, M i ce the days when Martin Luther ,s a little school boy here and lived The brisk edge of the ___.. .. — perhaps the only in- t >vation he would find could he re- ^|im to the scene of his early exploits, il its consequence, thin coscyest and leasantest of hotels opposite it, so £^jgte:tn and comfortable, with such ®l»ooo!au\ and a dinner fit to set be- e a king for S4 centf. We order- a carriage to bo in waiting early Qi take us to llie “ Wartburg,” but id of the humble vehicle of derate discomfort which we ox cted, a large landcau dashed up to lie door just aa we finished breakfast, ;lrawn by two fine, well-groomed a i.nue scnooi uoy ner J tli the good Fran Cotts. ihvay station at the e wn would be perhaps Coining out into the cou< l again, J which she brought, with her in her wti pass through a second raid much I larger one guarded by an tfneient, massive square tower, which frowns over the brow ol the mountain. ! An Irish soldier railed out to his I companion: “Hollo, Pat! I have The Grand Duke has managed, in j taken a prisoner.” “ Bring him piteof disadvantages, to make his j along, then : liring him along!” “ He ||iK>rsrs, the coauhniiiii in a mustard klorcd livery with several tiers of littU‘ capes, quite grand to behold, ami before we had recoveted from our Basedeeker tells us ” that castle, founded in 1070, has been recently restored to its original shape,” but I doubt if Germany of the eleventh century boasted a fresco-)-a : nter like Schwind of the nineteeth, who has done no end of beautiful work here. The most interesting is the series of pictures in the Eli/abath gallery, telling the story of Si;. Elizabeth of Hungary, daughter of a king and wife ot a Thuringian landgrave, lie ginning with her arrival at the “ Wartburg,” a child of four years old, with a halo already around her little head and its fur-trimmed hood, on through her eventful, tragic life, the agonized parting from her hus band, who goes to the holy wars ; her flight front the “ Wartlmrg,” with her fatherless children; her death on a pallet ol straw on the floor ot her convent cell, and Iter royal burial, where an emperor and his knights carry the bier. The rooms we next came to were real “ baronial halls,’’ with t raditions of a very different sort, from fair girls or doughty old warriors ot .the fiti.b. Here the Minnesingers of Germany were wont to assemble in the days of this old, art-loving landgraves of Thuringia, and in one room sp’eadid- i ly decorated by Schwind in com- j| H octore we mm recoveieu iroiiiuiu j mo 5n nation of the event, occurred surprise we were da-hing off at a ; ihoiiinioiis “• Tournament of Song,” break neck speed which never re laxed until the little town and its ad miring inhabitants were left far be- itii> 1. Soon we began to wind around the mountain on which the “ Wart- I burg’’ stands. Everywhere, as far *8 we could see, was softness, undula v> iis and perfect loveliness. Some of the undulations were very bold, with quite mountain-like peaks, and finally the one we had all been eager ly looking for came iu view, the ■ Tannhauser ” Mountain, where tra dition has placed the Venus cave, with which and the minstrel knight, Lrho learned its fatal charms Wagner ] the r.. mis are as made ves ail so familiar. Alter j Gih mnn from which Wagner has immortalized, where the sweet singer Walter von der Vogehvaide won the laurels, and poor Tannbauser, who was a real minstrel knight known in the dining-room invi ing and most in teresting. A great, hospitable fire- plucc gives it cheerfulness, as do the silver and cryst; 1 drinking-horns and tankards which crowd the old side- hoards. One of these, designed by Dnrer, is a work of art iu i s way—a perfect lace-work of dark wood-varv- ing over dead-gilt panels, lint the treasures of the room bung on the walls—four lutes ot quaint design, such as w.e see suspended about the necks of troubadours and minstrel* in old engravings and chronicles. Some of u-', l think, turned pale, as if we had seen a ghost, when the castellan said, pointing oone: “This bite was Walter von der Vogel- weide’s, and lie played on it at the great tournament of the Minnesin gers, and this was Tanuhauser’s!’’ Such power have trifles to make the dead past live again and to realize it jo us as all the histories and essays in the world cannot do. This is the wonderful power of the whole * Wartburg,’’ being a perfect record, as it is, of such far oft* times—most charming and interesting of all places, both for what, it is and has beey ! We passed in a dream oat of the courts where the sweet Elizabeth had so often fliti d, spirit-like, on her errands of mercy to the viilage below where the gown of good Dr. Luther had flapped in the wind as ho paced to and fro, pondering deep and dar ing things; where I he gay iniosirei knights in silken -.oublcl and hose stood under their ladies’ windows rhyming new couplets to their praise ; where knights in armor sallied forth TO THE AFFLICTED! IN CALLING THE PUBLIC ATTENTION TO THE Indian Compound Co ugh TVI ixture Consumption and all diseases of the Lungs and Throat, I say that nothin* surpasses it dknMr d in'! ra ? 1,8 *,*,*?“ fronjold age down to the cradle with iinpnnity, and withovt , B n e professional world is so full of Amtdgiiousness and Egotism, that anything pat be- w ,'nd * ” ,e and reliable Remedy for certain diseases is scoffed at and pronounced wonh^ ^ tr jM‘ bef,re y ° U COnJ , emn . lt ’ «!?»' give you the na.Jies of eve” bTrb, v'i! it U /! s . COIU P° s ®d of, whic t you can examine at your leisure: M * e, ‘ An ^roiueda, Arborea, Arctium Leppa, Inula Hefe- ticid’entam,'sViuphy 1010*0fiehiale^ 1 '' Uorehwachshener Wasserdost, Cephalantboo Vf^nt^nTisin/h^n^n ^ 1 ^ Pea . chtr ?L St -’ At,ant *’ Ga - where it can be had in any quantity. turnetl° ne U in * wl say lhat has Joue them no gtKKl, return the bottle and get your money re- Life and Money Saved by the use of the Southern Remedy ! EOIt IT WILD CURE Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus, and Cutting Teeth ot Children! i"? no »f‘ x ?uV ,n the following eercifleites, w'tich are enough to sitistv any reasonable man, MsilMi'n'k aa imp »s t on pal meit off „n the iwop'o. To prove it. get a bottle, ar.d a " 1 y ,!"- wi ," b > «“ a hei that it Is all that is ebimed for it. Itispre- pareu purely from ?e.;etables a medicinal property. r won’t con’t omit*.*’ “Then come yourself.” “ He won’t let me ’* Edison has perfected a fog-horn that can he heard ten miles, but when it comes to an invention for getting his hired girl up in the morn ing, he smiles sadly and falls to mus ing <>n the infinite. The man who has never seen two women in Shaker bonnets trying to kiss each other has never experienced the rejuvenating power -id a laugh that could throw him down and kick him in the ribs. • The Senate has decided that it would he unwise to change the to bacco tax. The tax is all right; what the people of America demands I moataiia^in f1fit, ‘.Y? u fyou/ Southern Remedy in my family, Ibavo found it the ...... . . I m j piotwmt medicine ws children t*> take, and the most satisfactory to cure I hare ever met I have is a law by which they can hang the a“i d e\iM«v^autruuhl«.^iT d ™. T8r *|* 0,r “ , y» elf be, without/mm of non hand, aud its tiu^e. i , ® Ml trouble aud dinger. I have always felt if you had no other lnim to the nuhlir eon. titan who never chew’s Ink own tobac- I ® « 8 m* t V n 11 *!""? sho , ,,IJ » iTe ii to you, and both, fame and fortune adled, if you I woulJ on, y Z a ' lverU3e “ 10 Iet tha worlJ k “'>w its healing and^benefits ’ 7 Th 0a bove isfrom the Ex-Chief Justice Supieme <kmrt of Georgia. °* LOCHI:ANE - KUKEICA. bUltbKA ! (I hive foun l it. My wife ani tar4 children w«rA tl.twn with Rhwviv . ^ I JH?* We had two doctor*, as guo-I as any in the city, and found no relie’. My baby 7 months old t er, who came in rather late for din- Remedy 6 ^thefclT,!rof X J^h ,e w ,s J . < ! l ^ f ' > l tWO '!! e ^ el ‘ 3, w , U m ^‘"5 In luced to try Hr. Higgera 1 Southern I Kemeily. the rdlof^of each was. m irvetous, and are at present doing well. I tried it on myself for the C. DAVIS, Atlanta, G». TESTIMONIALS. Atlanta, July 1st, 1871. “ Alary,” vaid a lady to her datigh- Fiux'^voVo-n mr, “ifyou want your dinner you “ med ^’“’ and -oV P »ie^ f«b.2G.8m. von Ofierdingen being still under the dire enchantment of the “ Venus Cave,” terrified all the far company by his wild, strange songs and was driven out with execrations to wan der through the world, shunned of men, until the Holy Father at Rome iniuht shrive him of his mortal sin. On t! e beautiful feesctTed wa'Ms of verses in quaint old the songs winch the “ Peerage” of his day as Henrich j with braving trumpets ami flying standards to fierce combat; an J, in a dream, wo commenced the steep descent an-1 heard iho birds we had so cruelly deceived still singing gayly in the thickets the very so g.s they used to sing to Walter von der Vo- elweide, who loved them so ten derlv and reverently. Early fruit catches the worm, is reliable. ach winding wi, reached the bridge iver tfee narrow moat, and stood at e great gate of the castle. Baed eker says: “ It is one of llie finest xisting secular buildings iu the Romanesque style but, once in the ouTt yard, one no longer thinks or arts for styles, being wholly e»- dnrtiWl with what he sees. Tl e building is immensely long and min ding, incloses two courts, the first ntered the “Vorbutg,’’ with an old tone well in the middle, and sur rounded liy low, vine-covered build- [sings, with sleep projecting tiled roofs, i hideous gargoyle grinning over one and a beautiful little old oriel window peering from under another, with the glass in tinv round lead casings. From this quiet little court, sugges tive of anything but knightly sports and teats of arms, we entered an un pretending doorway leading into a narrow hall, passed up a flight of crude stairs and entered a ruin ot •moderate dimensions, with riule board partitions, one side only boast big of plaster. A beautiful old carved bookcase, a bodstead that must have been quite grand tor its day, a writing table, a wooden chair that would be an acquisition to a museum, a quaint old stove of colored ties and .a few portraits by Cranach made up the furniture of the simple, primitive room. The deep recessed window fj'ks out in the Tannbauser Mountain and the dark Thuringian forests. In this little quiet retreat, far above the observation of a busy world, was the arena where the great struggle for religious ligerty began, for this was Luther’* room, and here, under the prouv iott of bis friend, the Elector Frederick the Wise, at this very table, which we touched with rever ence, lie, toiling through long winter nights and summer days, finished his translation of the Bible. His books and letters, the portraits of his father and mother—homely, hard featured, iOas'De it, strong, old faces—and vari- < us other relies, with the furniture, have here been scarcely preserved through all these centuries. minstrels sang at the “ Tournament.” Up winding stairs, through rooms with bewildering frescoes, and views from little, narrow, deep windows which make you feel that you could spend the test of your life at any one of them, we came to the great ban queting ball that rises up to the roof of the castle. It is magnificent iu s'ze and decoration. A gallery runs the whole length, where the minstrels used to play while the feast went on. The polished floor reflects like a mjrror, and the great vaulted celling is a triumph of wood-carving, while the long lines of deep niched windows look like the stalls of an old Gothic cathedral choit, but arc decorated as gorgeously as the court of a Moorish palace. But more than knights and minstrels and flying princesses hail the image of the sweet young St Elizabeth taken hold of our imagin: lion, and we longed to see the very rooms where she had lived, and although we knew tin y were in had better set yourself on some eggs.” Thank you, mother,” she replied, “ I don’t propose to set.’’ Elizabeth Allen, iu a poem, asks : “ Oh, willow, why forever weep ?” Elizabeth is a little .Mistaken as to to the facts. It isn’t the willow that weeps; it is the boy who dances un- d'.T the liuiticf e <d of it. The wicked stand in slippery pla- rs—but tor a pi-ruct picture of IBRIDY upi'l insecurity, you ouiy want to look it a frightened woman trying to stand on an old camp stool to keep out of the way of a mouse. Two gentlemen were arguing in a asture field, with only a goat tor an audience. Iu reply to a statement of one the other said; “ I know. But—’’ Tlieu;oat took him at his word, and th^ argument was contin ued on -.he other side of the fence. Dr. ED SMITH. &&R&&3S SROf This part of the castle not usually shown to strangers, as Llie ducal family was away, the old castellan yielded to our persuasions, and led us through wildernesses of old dismantled rooms, across the court with the old watch lower, the huge bunch of keys rat tliugall the while and opening all kinds of queer and ancient doors, until we stood at last in the large, low, square room on the ground floor. The walls of tremendous thickness were pierced, high up, with narrow windows intended only to admit light but no sights of the pleasant outside world, altogether a place which resembled more the crypt of a church than a grand ducal dining-room, which purpose it at present serves, though it is one of the suite where the little Princess, with the halo around her head, found her home when she came from far-off savage Hungary to be teared at the court of her betrothed. Her bed room next it and identical with it still has a pair of old brass candle sticks, a crucifix and a bit of rich, People with colds in their heads belong to a generation of wipers. A three-lieadcd chicken ! A Jer sey hen is accused of doing it with her little hatchet. The hymn sung at the Woman’s Hotel: “ I want a man—I want a man—I want a mansion in the skies.’’ We sometimes hear of public men taking care ot their friends, but Sitting Bull knoweth bow to take hair of his enemies. When t,wo girls meet they kiss When two young men meet, they don’t. That sho ws who wants kissing the worst. Somebody has taken the trouble to write a book about “ how to find the Stars.’’—Don’t want to read it step on a bit of orange peel. Whittier, who wrote about “ The Man with the Branded Hand,’’ about to set to music “ The Woman with the Brand ied Peaches.” .3-A.W XTOTICES. r e.thrasbx:r, .VrfiSrtlsEY AT J LAV/, Watkinsville, Ga. Office in former Ordinary’s Office. jnn25-].876-ly p G. TUOMSON, ATTORNEY’ AT LAW, special attention paid to criminal practice. For reference applj to Ex-Gov. T. II. Watts iu-1 Hon. David Oloptou, Montgomery, Ala. 0 iice over Host-Office Athens, Ga. ieM-1875-tf Ilroal Sircet. Over Mamieville’s Jewelry Store. FOREST CITY Foundry And Machine Works, 170 Femvick Street, opposite Water Tower, Augusta, Georgia, GI50. It. LOMBARD & CO., Proprietors, Manufacture Portable and Stationery Steam Engines, an i Roiic.s Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Shafting Pulleys, Gearing, Hnngcrs, etc., Iron and Bras.-. Castings, Plantation and Mill Work of any kind, Cane Mi Is aud K. tiles, Horse Powers, Graham’s Improved Solid Kim t.nd otl er styles of Gin Gear. Special attention given to Repairing andOver- hnn’ins Machinery. Promptness and good work guaranteed. Send CatrVgue of Mill Gearing. Agents for the Celebrated Hip=e ifo, Donb'e Turbin Water Wheel, the Judson Governor, the Niagara !§£■ Steam Pi.inp and Nordike, Nlarmon & to’s Plantation Mills. 5 Send for Circular. may.21 ,.ly.l878.GEO. K. LOMBARD & CO., Proprietors. D. C. Ua merer, Jk Pops Harrow. garrow Itros., ATTORNEYS AT LAV/, Office over Talmadge, Hodgson A.Co. jani-ly HILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, • Athens, Gaq Prompt attention given to aU,bnsiaess and 'he same respectfully‘solicited. ianll-ly Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb. H. COBB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athens, Ga Office in Deupree Building, fel)22-1876-ly PLANTERS’ HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. 1STAnR-AJNTOEMElNrT. B.a k ' ©3 Reduced to $3 per Day. HAVING LEASED THIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL, I enter upon its management by Reducing Rates, and asking ot the Travel- ng Public, especially my friends of Carolina and Georgia, a continu ance of that liberal support 'they have always given it. El. IF*. HR.OT7K7TXT, jan28 .in FORMERLY OF CHARLESTON, PROPRIETOR. Akdrsw J. Cobb. A Chicago chap advertised lor “ steady girls to help on pantaloons.’’ A fellow who can’t help on his own pantaloons ought to be ashamed to want girls to do it ? The average congressman will come home t-> find tlia; he can take up i o more roo »i on the street otr than the chap who goes about selling two lead pencils f,»r five cents. • A writer siys “ brilliant and im pulsive people are apt to have black eves.” Yes., impulsi.e people are apt to run against some fellow's clon ed hand. All all! ah ah ! the festive mosqui to is with us once again, and wc can now in the dead hour of the night lam blazes out of the old woman’s nose, and tell her we were hitting at his nibbs. All ah ! ah ah ! A small boy of the freckled, species, in the parlor where a dry goods clerk is sparking the boy’s big sister, will make the course of true love rougher than ri ling in a. lumber Albx S. Erwin. jgRWIN A COBB, VTTOBXKYS AT LAW. Athens, Ga Office on Corner of Broad and Thomas street*, & Cb. ever Childs, Nickerson < .if*b22-187S-ly J S. DORTCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ap!8-1878-tf Carnesville, Ga. TOTHE Citizens of AthensIS^hingi 1878. §pr ng is-zs. 1st, our SPRIN* l most extensiv CLOTHING, VlCllUwy_ OJ - atvl aftcr April 1st, our SPRING OPENING will take p'nce, when we will be prepared to The undersigned has this dav purchased from I exhibit the finest and most extensive Stock of MEN’S, YOUTH’S EOY’S and CHILDREN’S h s brother, Maj, THOMAS A. BURKE, his e itire interest in the BOOK AND STATION ERY BUSINESS AT ATHENS, and intends to run a First Class Book Store, ever before exhibited in this city. Onr stock lias been purchased under the present ueclme of We enumerate prices of a AT ?9. 200 GENUINE FLANNEL (Genuine Middlesex) III tt uwu, .. V4. sqq.v.mvu A'lmc, mu; ^ tUMlvl OUJ..LO Ofc -piV, w nun V*'” aassxaw.asm . found. Being connected with t.'tie well known f rom $10 $12 50, $14 and $15. In our Dress Suit Department, we are prepared to show genuine and extensive wholesale house of English and French DIAGONAL SUITS, ranging from $12 50 up. Worsted suits in endless J. W. BURKE &C0., MACON, GA. English i vanety. tarnished scarlet and gold brocade, • wagon. Iu addition to the above, ’,ve have a first-class Stock of His facilities for keeping up stock and keeping I /-j T7) _ _ _ /"i _ everything at Bottom Prices, will give him a ( -}-©ICftS H UTIllASljlllg I rOOdS, decided advantage in buying Books &e., at \_e LA ft t0 g ‘ Ve his CUBto " which for priors and quality cannot be excelled iu the State. Wo still continue to offer our spe- the tun bonent ot it, by cialty. UNLANDRIED SIliRTS, a* ?50e.. next grade 75c., extra fine $1. Hats and caps in all LING AS CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST, the latest styles. TRUNKS, UMBRELLAS, etc , ete. Extending our thanks to our patrons for He asks his old friends in and around Athens, their geneixius patronage in the par*, and soliciting a < ontinuanec of the same, when we shall 'to give him a shurc of the patxoiiflge. To ell I endeavor to Oder them inducements which will surpass nil our former efforts. ■ - ..— " — j *--- I Vcrv Respectfullv, CSABAFiS STBB.1T, Tlia CSlothisu. >1. B. In addition toonr regnlur Clothing Department, wo have made arrangements with oil 1 " tinue the patronage heretofore loeiffowed on him. I Now York Custom Tailors t > make suits to order upon short, notice. Guaranteeing a saving of JOHN W. BURKE. 25 per cent, from the regular prices charged by tailors. LHAS. STERN, June 11AL l np9-3m Broad street, opposite College C ampus, Athens, Ga. he extends a hearty invitation to come and bay. Maj. T. A. Burke will still be connected with the house, and will have charge of the business, and he asks bis friends and the public to con-