Smyrna times., 1859-03-17
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European Glimpses Thoughts out loud.
James Brooks. senior Editor Of the New York
Express, is now on tour through Europe, and
sends home to his paper the following, which
we Gull from variety Of interesting "gIlmp.
ses:'
From Paris TO Italy! Lo, presto it is done
and much is not done in the doing either The
Alps lnterpose. as usual, and they are Just as
snowy, just as icy. just as bad. as in the old
days OF Hannibal, or the later days of Napo.
leon; but a railroad is run now frcm Paris to
Venice, save over Mount Gents, VIII lch they are
trying to tunnel, the lime only 56 hours, ii of
winch are spent on Mt. Gems, Fare. lst class,
$50; I'd class, $2l Rails run to Genoa, too.
10 Lake Como, TO Manlua, from I.eghurn TO
Florence, 10 Sienna, and they are threatened
even IN the Papal States. but none are yet tione
there, not even that from Rome To Clvila Vec-
! cha. Numerous railroads are in contempla-
ton, aud, sooner or later. The bar rba rlan4. the
Cloths and Huns of the North, will r.de over, or
ride under, the Alps and the Appenlncs, from
The boot of Naples to st. Petersburg. The
world. however, moves slowly here. 1t i. not
fast generation, and II Is never in hurry
The ral will run from New York TO San Fran.
cisco about as soon as 1t runs from ST. Peters.
burgh to Naples.
sCAMPcR OVER FRANCE.
Fonanbeau! Sens! Dion! Chalons.
sur-Saonc! Macun One is wise that fits
through big places in the pent-up cars of
Railroad, but life is short. and Roads are long,
-RalrOads too,-and could not stop even to
see FOntalnbeau. Lyons is a city of 100000
people, and exploded it in a snow storm, be-
tween and 10 a. IN. (great exploratory but
II Is not much 10 see, except silk luOms,-not
even SILK worms,-though they make IT rich
and thrifty was ia hurry for Marsellles,
and so pushed On,-wlthOut waiting to stop
at even AvlgnOn, the Old home of the Popes-
when the Church had two heads instead of one
| MarSeIlles too is a -- to me,-but sea pOrt
| towns are about the same everywhere, from
| New York To Liverpool and on, and around
elsewhere. Commerce has ships, ard ships
have sailors, and there hang about them innu-
merabe loufers. So Marse!les has more
! l4OaferlSh look and saucier air than any other
CITY | have seen in France. The little boot
blacks in instant detect your Anglo Saxon
look, and jaunlIly ask you IN broken English,
"B.ck er boo's, sir! - &c. | can well imagine
that the country have been passing through,
though rather sOmbre now, to be cheerful CAV
and beautiful IN summer The country be-
comes more Southern The gates of the South
are opened The POmegrauIte Tree aud the
lnJn6e take place IN the hedges of the prIvct,
the brIar and the hawthorn. The olive and the
/ Lg tree interrupt from time to time, the monol-
"ny OF the vineyards, which covers the rocky
dec'ivItles. Upon the horizon, the brown and
rocky hills are painted with a neatness unknown
IN the landscapes Of the North. Groups of
white poplars, which IN the least eleva ed pa rts
of the plain, border the banks of the Rhoue,
alone recall the North.
FROM MARsEILLEs TO GENOA
1t is only a long nights run from Mlrseiles
TO Genoa and the " La Geneva Superba," the
hillside built City of Palaces, presents its an.
giles 10 us, and on a beautiful morning. The
sun shines once more, the sun Of Italy," but
II IS cold dry sun now. What, and how che
quered history has this Genoa! Republic,
Arls'ocracy, Ohgnrchy, Monarchy, it tried al {,
aud losI in all! Turbulen' now, and cringing
then, domlneerng, savIsh, heroic, and coward.
y, 1t has been every thing grand and every
ihIng mean, 10 its varied day. The first of the
old Italian Republics, that the American trav.
eler falls upon IN coming 10 the Medlterraneau
he cannot but muse over its prInce-merchonta
their wealth, their pride, ihelr palaces, and
then bring up their history of the past to con.
trast with our history present. What Genoa
Pisa, Florence, Venice were in the middle
ages, New York Is rapidly becoming in this ouI
age, with It's long stretched out arms of com,
merce, It's enormous increasing wealth, aud it,
turbulent people. The palaces aud the art,
} OF Genoa, now attest It's magnificent past, ant
will attest that magnihcence IN ali time Il
come. We land upon the quay, running Tn,
usual gauntlet of boatmen, and we frs, hea
the new and softer tongue of Italy from thcs
!, bnatmen, wranglIng under the sides of ih
O steamer. We are struck halt dumb by Iht
, strange odd alleys called streets-alleys 81
narrow That the suns direct rays never ente
them-that The mule only (no carriage) Cal
y lhreau thSHl, ana where transportation. there
O fore, Is on the backs aud the sides of the poo
;, mules, that turns up to US buried in waud. /,
barrels, or in hay. .
L OF palace. churches, paintings, &c I nigh
!. fill pages, but cui bono! Let them pass as VI
b sons, as dreams of the day. The only in
preston realty left upon the mind after a har
days exercise, was, not the dead palaces bt
the living, laughing Villa Pallavacina of tn
10 environs,-a villa OF fantasy that cost mIllor
I. Of francs. where lakes, (arI6cIaD grottos, ca
Il erns, cascades, delight, confuse aud arnuse yol
where walks and woods have been created d
paradises out Of rocks,-where man has exc
cIsed his utmost ingenuity in defying natur
and succeeded in the defiance.
KEEPING WARM IN FLORENCE.
in How do people keep warm in hot cIimat,
i. during the winter! | am seeing aud solvu
,, this riddle daily. Fire wood is dear,-of CO..
there is none except the imported. aud hent
ld the problem Of keeping warm is a problem il
deed. The " natives" keep with them 10 the
shops and places of business little earthel
..,tsL k.-I Ifna - A. 4 =
u with ashes. This they hold by their fingers
n- keep between their legs, and this is their m,
40 thod Of keeping warm. They sometimes ha,
II large pot in the middle of the room for ge
cral use, which they sometimes cover over, b
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