Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-04-06

VeFSitY OF trades disputes with you upon tile
streets. You are stopped by carpenters bench,
YOU are lost among Shoemakers' tools; you dash
among the poets OF lazzaroni stall, or you STUN
BILE upon the implements Of some other Of the
numerous handicraft arts carried on in the
streets.
Lady Morgan has well described the first i'm.
preston of the Neapolitan population on the
mind of a stranger, that of q people formed
out of their own brilliant region "rhe fires of
YesuYius" she says, seem to circulate in their
veins; the brilliancy of their skies to be reflect
ed in their imagination. Their superintendent
vitality, fettered by their sluggish institutions,
finds vent in shrill sounds, rapid movements,
and vivaciouS GESTURES. Their organs seem more
acute, and their impressions more vivid than
those of other nations; and their language, when
kindled by passion, bursts into oriental meta
phor." Yet for the want of an appropriate
christian culture, which happily, in our more
favored land, is within the reach of all, these
noble gifts of nature too often produce only
harvest of vice and crime. That ingenuity,
which, under proper training, might cause many
Franklin, Fulton, or Morse to rise up among
them in all the beniicent and enriching power
of inventive genius, is now, in too many cases,
worse than wasted in the arts and sinuositieS of
deceit In proof of the low arts and wiles char
actcristic of the Neapolitans, DIR. Wines related
a case of one of them who seeing two English.
men enter n shop, though not one of their party,
followed them in and made signs to the shop
keeper that he had brought him couple OF
pigeons to pluck. When they had completed
their purchases, he accompanied them out Just
as if he had been employed by them as a guide.
In a few moments, however, he returned for his
share Of the profits, which the merchant paid
him rs his duo.
| Tbs poorer part of the Neapolitan population,
under the common name of laZZaroni, form an
army of nearly fifty thousand, whose only rank
in the State is their homeless hopeless irretriev
iSn ffn
than n battered shirt and trousers, and their
chief food is maccaroni Throughout most of
the year, with the sky for n canopy, they are
content to sleep on bench, o boat, or u slab of
marble; and even in the violent gusts to which
naples is subject in winter, all the shelter that
most of them get is afforded by the pOrtico Of a
palace or the colorado of church, yet under
these numerous and varied privations they are
apparently q contented and happy race. In
their delicious climate, their high spirits, and
their mOdicum of maccaroni, the wants OF the
animal arc provided for; and their few mental
cravings are amply gratitied by the multitude
of church ceremonies and the uevcr-ending va
riety of street performances
| DIR. Wines concluded his lecture with brief
view Of the political condition of the Neapoli-
tans. He remarked that he had not brought
home with him from the shores of Europe the
conclusions TO which he had listened from the
Hips of an eloquent divine, who, in the warmth
becoming the advocate and apologist Of the tot.
tering institutions and ancient abuses of Euro
pean governments. l own, said the lecturer,
that one Of the greatest advantages of foreign
travel consists in its tendency to obliterate ma
tional prejudices. l own that no folly can be
greater, no prejudice narrower, than that OF
Isupposing that our own country is the limit OF
all that is wise in policy, noble in patriotism,
and generous in virtue,-but even charity has
its limits, and to surrender the judgement on
the altar of false liberaity betrays a weak
rather than q lnagnanmous mind. - FrOlic,
laughter and gaiety are seen in the lower orders
of Neapoitan population, and might impress
the superficial observer with the idea that they
are happy. But as for those pleasures which be-
long to an intellectual and moral constitution
those enjoyments which spring from the well OF
lknowledge-that high spiritual happiness which
our nature thrsts for with intense desire, the
lives of these people are all but blank. l
thAnlt God that there are many generous spirits
in Naples-many who desire to rise to the full
dignity of their nature and the free enjoyment
of their rights. The lives of such as these are
spent in secret SighS-in unavailing wishes the
labors of Sysiphus endless yet useless, seem
no inaptemblem Of the struggles with which their
bosoms are familiar. And when / recall their
burning words of indignation against their
tyrants, their ardent aspirations for liberty, l
can but exclaim with fervent emotion Of graft
tude to God, Happy, proud America, land OF
my BIRTH and home of my hearth Though no
Virgil or Tasso has married thy mountains, thy
valleys, and thy streams to immortal verse
though patricIan palaces or royal halls
adOrn thy soil-though the splendor Of courts
is unknown to thy plebian yeonanry, yet /
would not exchange thy democratic rudeness.
thy free heart and thy hOmebred virtues for all
that Europe boasts of ancestral dignity and
modern magniticence.
TnE Losr ON TuE NAT. HoLMEs-Bodies Re-
eOUsred.-we take tho following from the Gin
cinnati Commercial of Monday:
Messrs. Lamont and Terrence, clerks of the
i'll fated Nat Holmes, were in the city on Satur.