New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-23
THE ETERNAL CITY
Fight nj Messina-Principle wanting In the
uas.es-Infuence Of our tlag-Dr. Mar-
tin-Ruin- of Rome.

pendent and was utAtelollh 10 NC lttc livHl W.
apoitan contests Eight months have passed since
they separated themselves and It was generally
believed that the King could not raise army 10
fsht AGAINST them. But he succeeded, aud sent
~ 900 troops 10 subduo them. There Is radical de
feet in the attempted Reforms here m Europe
Everything is done on purely selfish scale. One
nauon seems D. have no respect tor the rights OF
another The same Germans who could fight at
home against Monarchy, could obey Monarch
orders Tor r1ges. aud march into Italy % hight
against those struggling Tor Freedom. 80 also the
people of Naples, b0lsterOus about Liberty, can
20 and fight the SIcIiaus VINO are virtually Tree,
and are. hy nature. manliestly designed 20 be 50
The tact is too much of the Revolutionary spirit
all over Europe is more the result OF starv alton
of personal suffering than oi increasing know edge
oi human rights or respect Tor liberal institutions.
They feel the keenness of suffering. they see
kings and courilers boz aiiuence and spendor aud
they think n they can get up revolution bless
iugs must come 10 them h0r. they never ask
There is ! fear no prHcfD'C-no fear OF God and
love OF humanity-no lofty and noble aspirations
mo- acknOW ledgmcnt of the great doctrine Of Equal
Rights. and burning desire tor universal hap
piness and good order. We IN America sadly mis-
take this whole matter, by supposing the people
OF these countries % be like ancestors, or like
ouselves acquainted with the great doctrines OF
Human Rehts-when the fact Is nineteenths OF
the actors are moved by mere personal considera
tions-I had almost said animal instincts. Oh
course many Ia France and Germany are TO be
excepted. ! speak OF the masses They want
something-to be relieved OF their suferngs-to
have something % eat and dnnk-tO be cOmiorta-
bic. Beyond that, and some indistinct notions OF
glo,y fitting across their brains, they care little
Tor Kings and less for Hepubicanism.
The difficulty is the want OF harmony betN cen
those who do uOr aud those who arc 10 w0rk mt
suffer. The former are Judged Conservatives
tariy iaithless because they do not accomplish all
AZ once, aud give complete relief m day. The
latter are thought rash, because they clamor st'
and will not be content with what is done iof
them. And too. the distinctions, a. ! have said
In former letters are too great be Obllteratod az
once. France will stand. IL has more OF the
| egalifc aud Jraier1iitt. Germany may survive a
civil war; which fear will come and be Of long
| duration and then learn what real Freedom Is.
The relics OF old Feudalism It'll must all be up
rooted. Another reformation will pave the way
to liberal institutions. OF this country have
| little hope. "Ephraim is joined to his Idols a
miracle only can save H.
| / wander from the point on which | started
| But as the news IS a rumor, aud these are so ire
quent and contradictory can say nothing about
| II The impression IS that England will step IN
and become a party in the affair and after seeing
! a pretty sharp sqabble. will generously take the
! beautiful Island under her protection, and, with
| patena feelings. adopt her as depenfeHcH.-
Such would be very like her fostering spirit Of &C
0uistion taking advantage OF others necessities 20
! aggrandize herself IL IS regretted by soIae here
/ that we have not efficient Legate at Naples
/ who would look into these these matters and give
| some advice and also a few men-Ot war % cruise
about these ports. II thought that the stars and
| striDes waving In triumph, would DO much 10 en-
courage those who are struggling To secure their
Liberties and also intmdate the oppressors OF
their fellow men. Have no idle ships which
| could be sent here The Nenetians applied 20
| the amented Dr.. Martin 10 send a man Oi-war 10
cruise Oft their port beacon Tor the friends ana
/ toes OF liberty.
Speaking OF Dr. ~ leads me 10 say that his sud
| den death IS much lamented here. The Pope spoke
70 me with apparently deep feeling on the sub
! ect. and expressed hope that another as good
| man might soon be sent % i'll the vacancy sew
eral persons, both residents and strangers, speak
OF him ia terms of the highest respect he had
| been here bat short time, but he came as the rep
| resentetive OF country rel kHOWH aud greatly
| admired. There IS not nation every" here men
toned with such respect and praise as ours and
| doubt If the Ministers OF any other Governments
could do as much 10 alay the troubled " aters OF
Europe by their advice.
| The death OF Dr. NJ was very sudden Dr. Pan
! toeon. who attended him, informed me that he
was called % see him In the evening when he
found nun with slight fever OF a few days stand.
ing, but no symptoms at all alarming. He ordered
a slight purgatiOn which operated iayoraDiy The
next morning AZ . O'Clock, he found him much bet
ter-so much so that he lDr NJ called himself
well. He complained little Of his head winch
felt some oppressed, and the veins Of the eyes IN
dicated slight congestion. He advised him %
battle bis head Ia vinegar and water fearing what
Is common here. that a nervous fever might follow
A few minutes after he left nm, the servant went
% his room - apply the vinegar, and found him as
he thought, asleep. Not long after ne went again.
and on trying 10 arouse him. found him dead
Dr.. p gives Il as his opinion that he died oil
apoplexy. and supDoses MS head had been affect
Ell for some time from the fact that he found many
scars on the'back Of bis neck, where be had been
often cupped. His death was IA 10 way the re-
suit Of the climate here. but M tue common course
oi those prOvidences BY which We must terminate
our days on earth aud 20 70 better lite.
The season here, though hot and dry, mas been
healthy. can hardly understand how that IS
possible amid such iilth and stencil as abounds IN
all parts Of the city. People OF delicate nerves. /
am sure could not abide such Influences. But me
inhabitants have become acclImated 20 these odl-
Gus things, and are able 70 endure them
No changes are wrought here save Ia pohtc Al
matters 50 that Hers from Rome 10 anything else
must never be looked for The old ruins stand
nOdding . the moon as OF yore, still hall buried
iu the debris OF their own production. 10 looks
strange u see vineyards the PalstIne NIL, sup
ported BY lofty arches, where stood the palaces OF
the CRsars- ;elt strange emotions come through
me q. walked amid carts and rubbish on earth
thirty feet above the original pavement, through
the Roman Forum, IN front Of the Temple Of
Peace, OF Romulus, Jupiter Stator, Fortuna, Jupi-
ter Tonans, and the Arch Of Severus The moon
shone bright upon the lines Of trees and cast dark
shadows from the rams that remain, rendered
more solemn a. looked down into the deeper
darkness OF the excavations around them. 1T
tie farther ! tod the very pavement OF the Via
-acra wherein mighty armies and mlgniler ora
tors once ,rod then pass through the Arch Of Il
tbs raised % honor him for destroying city 10 the
name Of one soon after itself destroyed then the
Arch Of Constantine then the Coliseum. But
shrink from rs solemn greatness and grandeur and
return from the sepulchrs silence reiguing al
around where once was heard the burning elo-
quence which controlled armies and decided the
fs.e OF distant nations. Awful contrast But
such IS human greatness Such the tate Of men
and nations Alas Alas VS.. p.
INDICTMENTS FOR MASsLAUGrER--The Grand
Jury FOR this County have indicted Jshn McPike, Of
East Boston for rasnsa-znter. N killing bis wife the
9Th Of jay and also Aanson CoGrsnd lcolored) Tor