Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-08-11

Inc people seem active, industrious and happy
Inc harbor is crowded with vessels. The shops are
'ien ana attractive, and all indicates prosperous
o''y' Iho little Navy Of Sardinia in proportion to
Its size, is unsurpassed in cfoI' sud efficiency, 40
much so that sons Of good families are gad to enter
the service
some OF the local customs arc quite peculiar
mus, the right to oct as porter to carry goods
monopoly which belongs 10 n sort Of privileged
corporation Ihpso Who crrty goods from place to
pacc,are called Bergamaschi, from Bersaii6 ,icnce
they originally came, and the calling is hereditary
Ill thcit families. They may, however, sell their
privileges, and often do so, great price, to their
countrymcn. They send their wiyc, to the proper
ncighborhood to be confined that the children ma y
inherit the calling Of porter bearer of burdens.
which to look upon in Genoa We ,f,oild think the
last trade thai one would desire his children TO be
born to.
The women Of Genoa, those tina, we saw in the
streets of all classes always excepting boggars)
were neat and good looking in their persons, and
quite stylish and peculiar In their dress, which is
always graceful, even if the means of the wearer
cannot make it rich A short waist, snug bodice
reasonably short skirts, hat cap, but the well
arranged hair is covered With a white, long shawl
varying with circumstances from plain muslin TO the
finest lace, which falls from the forehead down over
the shoulders and bust behind and the ends coming
over within the arms forward, and reaching to near
tho hem of the skirt and they all to have that
beautiful accomplishment of walking modestly and
gracefully, yet confidently and with ease snd non
chalant dignity.
Genoa is remarkable for its manufactures of gold
and silver hlagrce ornaments in which three gum
made to do the work Of not only FIVE but FIVE
times five II furnishes en- interesting illustration
of tho divsibility of matter While the quantity of
matter however decreases COMMERCIALLY, tho price
decreases only automatically. The work is exceed
ingly pretty.
The city you know, rises from the circular
shores of little bay, which by the artificial add-
tions Of wall and rock is made very safe harbor.
The compact city il close upon Tho water, reaching
up in many places quite steep ascent. The streets
exceedingly narrow, Eve, six, eight and ten feet
vide. Their and more magnificent streets
are perhaps thirty snd forty feet wide. The build
ings very high, six or seven high stories, the
effect Of which is to make the city cool aud pleasant
in seasons and in weather when, with wide streets,
the heat would be ntoerable Such streets of course
are inaccessible to carriages Of any construction
known to ne. Tn, little universal donkey with his
narrow Wagon cart, goes up and down them
however, with safety and despatch, and so docs the
privileged porter.
On these street. built the palaces which abound
in the city and have given it the Of the city of
palaces, but which lose much of their architectural
beaut- Grd effect by being thus shut in all sidea.
We went through some Of the nrost aud most uxu-
rous of these palaces, belonging to and occupied by
the highest nobility. They are large, the rooms
numerous, spacious and lofty, and furnished in
sye Of luxury about equal to that Of our rich cit-
zcns in Nes York. in everything except carpets,
which IN, rnlsce. have not at all, and pictures In
every room, by the best masters Of oil nations,
which the American citizen has not. Van Dycks, and
Ttians, ard RotTaels Caracas, and Rcmbrnndts, and
Murillls, and such like, ornament the walls Of the
palace, which visited did others of great merit
hut of lrss fame No modern paintings.
The King being at the time absent at Turin, We
were also permitted to visit the royal palace and its
apartments They of great beauty and mag
niGccncc exceeding anything We had before seen.-
Tho rooms lined throughout With .he richest of
satin hangngs and embroidered tapestries Tho
floors we're Of the costliest woods, simply tesscl
lated, and now inlaid in patterns of beautiful
mosaic and polished till they slippery as ice
and the furniture of the most tasteful and expensive
patterns, material and fnish.