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we CID not delay our journey TO look in upon his
shabby gcntily
Near this is of those relics which so forcibly
show those characteristics Of the old Romans which
enabled them to extend their empire over al
most mpossibilities. The Trophaea August, an i'm
mcnse tower now in ruins but formerly of great cx-
tent, and surmountcd by statue of Augustus and
covered with trophies, built by that Emperor to
commemorate his ultimate triumph over the tribes
Of the Lguran Alps. What perseverance, and
strength, and discipline, must have been united in
the Roman soldier to have enabled him with his
heavy to seek out and ovcrtake and subduc
on these angular, broken, and PERCEPTIONS cliffs the
wild tribes that for 100 years successfully de.
fed the Roman power, and well may Augustus have
been proud to commemorate their final subsection
by his arms.
After passing along these highlands we wind a
beautiful way down to the shore, and continue
along its plane to Genoa. | shall not attempt to
describe the various old towns through which we
passed on this interesting journey of two three
four, five ten and twenty thousand people, old and
grey, and dirty, and comfortlcss with narrow streets
and filthy lanes, the houses often communicating at
the top, two three stories up across the streets
as though it intended that the population might
pass from house to house without descending to the
street when defence escape might make it ncces-
sary' The most admirable husbandry with the ru-
dest and most primitive agricultural instruments,
and the plants and fruits Of the tropics by the way.
side and spreading ont the plains and reaching
from terrace to terrace up the hilsides, enormous
cactuscs growing wild among the rocks the oriental
palm tree, and the American aloe mixed here and
there in the landscape that covered with vast fields
of lemon and orange, and almond, and old olive,
and fig trees. All but the dwelling of man is beau
tiful, "and all but the spirit of man is divine"
1t is a singular characteristic Of the better and
more recent class of houses, that they painted
often in gay and bright colors painted of on
walls of stucco for there wooden houses thus
far, on the Continent. You will be pleased to see
that the people begin to know what airiness and
comfort are. The house in its several stories is
pierced with windows, with sashcs and blinds, and
a man is smoking comfortably by window, and
harmless necessary cat is sitting in another. You
can almost hear her purr, but when you arc near
enough to distinguish, you fluid that It is oil paint,
and that the house has but window two in real
ty, and doubtless within is as confined, dark and
comfortess as the dungeon-liko hut that made no
pretcnsion to decency The churches sometimes
painted from spirc foundation stone in bri ignite st
cUlors
The peasant girls arc great improvement upon
what VIC saw in France. Here, when dressed up,
they quite romantic in their look, The broad,
fat straw hat is set nat the top of the head, and
! the crown is a fiat cone Of about three inches in
| height The base by graceful sweeps out
into the brim, and the ribbons give it a lvclincs.
which is quite picturesque. The girls themseve,
more feminine, and you see less Of them in the
fields, while the rakish way in which the conductor
of the diligence wears his hat and the dashng nod
and heroic air with which the position cracks hi,
whip as he rumbles in or ont Of village, or by
company Of peasant girls, and the certainty thai
every Of those girls will toss turn her lcn
as always to give to every in the diligence, am
especially to the conductor and the position, sigh
Of her face, all show that YOU again among hu
mans, that have some regard to appearances, an,
desire especially to be looked upon with favor.
should have said before that the diligence ha
always two masters, the conductor who goes thu
whole route, and directs the position when to stol
and when to 60 (and 1t is always with the conducto
that the passengers cominunicate) and the position
who drives team out ami BACK post, il i
called six to ten miles, and spends the rest Of thu
time in taking of his horses and Longing o
course he is knowing his route, and al
agreeable one and good company for the girls AM
while the laboring gets franc (l9 cents)
ay, he gets two francs, and two cents passenge
each way, usually equal all told, to four francs
day. He is nabob,
saw in one of the small towns where changed
horses, a sin in large pretentions letters, ''CatI
stopped to refresh myself after thirsty ride, witt
a drink in honor Of Italian democracy | took
bottle Of what they call gaseous lemonade, but
found it poor drink enough, like the Democrat
draughts that sometimes swallowed elsewhere
All that pleasant about it, the confidence q
it, hollow pretence and it real gas, and it took
good while to get its unpalatable, taste out G
the mouth.
Our diligence was a courier, that is to say, maj
stage ; and having taken seat for large porto
of the day with the conductor on the top of tn
coach, observed his mail arrangements for he is tn
travelling post master. His packages of letters 70
each place nicely tied up and addressed an
when he came to the post Office, he threw it on tn
ground, and took from the end of reach the
change mail which was reached up to him, and tn
diligence did not stop except to change horses. Iii
mail bag a small canvass bag without any lock
and his packages of letters, well the blanks
paper and Irvine, which he distributed he wen
along in the same manner the mails, lay abou
the banquette in very careful and unsuspiciou
confusion, although there were two Of us passenger
in the banquette with him. and at every change o
horses he left his place till We ready to start
again. lie was native of Savone, one of the nices
| vii oh ich wei sspd nd was
a respectable young man, and devout Tn
little shrines and images of the Virgin are set il
inches in the rocks in the houses, in the walls, ant
elsewhere in the villages, and on the highways bu
whenever he observed passed. he raise
his hat with religious respect which the position
and the passengers aud the peasants did not do.
Some eight or ten miles before reaching tienoa,
large sweep of the shore inwards shows you that cit
on a hillside, and ali along the rest Of the way tn
lofty lighthouses, the Ions line of the mole, tn
forts which the hills all around her, and tn
palaces and villas, and converts that scattere
about the hills that surround grow and near
or, and more and more distinct as we continually 60
new sights Of them from the winding of the road
The entrance to the city Of palaces, Gcnca la su
perba, showed the hustle the activity, and the Thrift
which belong to a city that has commerce and in
dustry, ships, shipping and railroads Its railroa
depot which is on the quay Of the harbor, and tn
harbor crowded with vessels, refreshing to m
again, after my long ride through such district
primitive simplicity and ancient and modern ruin.
as lay between it and Marseiles
Yours, L, e.
Record Of Marriages.
Ma. EDITOR On reading an article in the Ne'
York Daily Times of the 10th ult, Of which tn
following is extract, my attention was drawn, n
it has often been before, the neglect in this place
similar to that complained of by the writer of tina
article.