Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-02-01
PLAQ QUEMINE:
ss tSA ATURDAY,. FEBRUARY i, 1851.
Venice.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Conn


Advertiser gives US the following informatio
about Venice at the present day: ~
I The aRiato and the Square Of st. Mark ar
very noisy places and always crowded wit
people but the other parts of the city are quit
/ silent and differently frequented. 1nmany sec
i tions the bridges as well as the streets AM
squares are over grown with grass. have seel
small focks of sheep turned out to Craze il
some of these places.
/ In the course of a walk one day viewed The
ruins of the church of the sSerri" Thi.
church had twenty y-eight altars they are.now oil
| thrown down--nothing but the naked walls 81
the temple remain; the floor IS deepF earthed
and grass grown, and tall trees lift Their Stately
theads above the ruins Of the main altar
Trees and gardens are real luxury in We.
nice. They areas grateful to the eye as plants
and flowers onboard ship. Here the scent
Iof cultivated fields is unknown If you leave
|sthe thickly-settled parts and travel to the su-
B Eburds for fresh air, you get the sea air Of the
Adriatic. Omnibus (gondolas) ply between the
extremity Of the Grand Canal and st Mark s
Square; fare FIVE cents; distance one mile and
ahalf Sign boardsat the station of departure
may be seen, which read thus: aOmnibus per
st. Mare 3 t5
q Sea weeds cling to the marble steps of.the
palaces; crabs sometimes leave The canals and
crawl upon them Lots are very high in
Venice, because the ground is so-scarce. go
8 Ihave visited the houses where the following
eminent men once lived, Viz. Goldoni Titan,
Marco Polo. Dodge Foscari, Dodge Marino Fa-
liero, Canoya, Petrarch and Byron. sss
The females Of the plebeian classes wesr.
rni haf
rich hair, whichstHey braid and arrange in the
form Of a Roman helmet.
The Turks have small mosque on the grand
canal. The Jews are rathernnmerous and have
eight synasogues The head and front ofthei
offending appears on both occasions to have
been usury
d asss i Venice ssl!ss Parish of
= There I sre twenIy.four I shops upon The BRIDGE
OF the Rialto. Fl was in the square close by
the bridge tlht the sEx xchange" was formerly
held, 14fe place where merchants mostdid con-
gregate," and where Antony ''spat on the Jews
gaberdine. Shylock' s favorite post may still be
found. The Exchange is now held IN the Square
Of st. Mark, and the Square of the Rialto IS
turned into a vegetable market.
The average depth,o the canals IS about SIX
feet, but the channel of the canals is from eigh-
Ieen to twenty feet deep 4 noticedsa "a topsaiI
schooner, Of about $50 tons, called the Nina,
IT anchor close by the Riolto. The chief arti-
icle Of expectation IS beads; many cargoes are
annually sent to England, destined for the East
indian, South American and African markets.
The arsenal is two miles IN circuit, and con
aims arms, in six apartments, for SO, 900 men,.
rded with strong walls and towers.
cofins at Venice are merely rough pine
,oxes without either paint 81 bellishmentofI /
my kind. a shape they bear some resemblance
o seaman nadrant case. The seams are
coated with bldek pitch.
The narrowcanals and secluded parts of the
ity are, as have already observed, not much
requented. Il you shonld happen to walk over
oard of dark night such sections, you
tight splash about III d1y.break before any
ody would hear You orcome toAhelp you
ut.