Smyrna times., 1859-03-17

conclusion, that the only wise winter residence
Tor man that means to keep warm is Canada,
or Maine, or New Brunswick for, in these
attitudes, the houses are all made for summer,
and there is not wood enough in the country To
warm them in winter. In higher, northern
lautudes, everything is in prepare ton to keep
you warm in wuter,-but here in Italy it is
freeze, Freeze freeze all the time. The
fact, however, is, that people never accustomed
TO artificial warmth do not need it, as we an-
thraclte-roasted people of America do. The
FlorentIne complains NOT, while | shiver and
shlver. lie suns himself when a lutte cold
upon the Arno, or goes a night to the opera or
theatre, where the gas and hot breath of others
keep hlm warm. We die in our hot rooms in
dried up parchment skins, with dyspepsia, &C.,
but the FlUrentlne tattens and fiourlshes in his
damp cold open alr,-sO that, If we are hot at
home, we suffer for it, while he is compensated
for his cold, aching fingers, in his better ven-
tIlatIOn or health. Never come to Italy, then,
To keep warm. Egypt is the nearest place that
the warm sun can be found in hereabout in
January. The skies of Italy are all poetry in
! tIe American eye, and only sober prose with
| the BrtOn or Northern Frenchman, to whom
The winter sun Is a I.yth or a rarity. Rcmem.
Der me writing, January 23d in two CvercoatS
aud thick big blanket, before good wood
hre as can be well got up in Florence. But be
not appalled,, however, by this discomfort
! There Is lIlte or no frost here. The living, in
a New York eye, is very, very cheap. | have
about an eighth Of big palace, four big rooms
aud more, for only about S. a day. (Reuts are
cheaper, however, now than usual, in conse-
quence of "al the world" being in Rome) =
Provisions are cheap. Almost every thing Of
the growth Of the country is cheap; and So
/ 600 per year, will, if iudiciOusly expended, 90
/ "a IN
we there spend money.
LEGHoRN AND ITS LOAFERs.
/ Leghorn turns up in the morning, and the
good Pausolippe" stops here day, too, on her
way to Malta,-but quit steamer here, aud
take railroad for Florence City, three hours off
by the locomotive. But, stop not at LrghOrn,
traveller, with family, ifyou can well help ii
en- route for the Tuscan capital. The gauntlet
of Custom House officers, OF beggars Of hack
drivers. ofvalets, is too trying to man patience
unless he is more than Christian. Your bag.
gage is overhauled we'll as you 90 into the city,
aud overhauled extra well as you go out. The
Wallets heSet you in English, in Irish, in French,
IN Italian, in every other language almost, to
/ tease, bother, and perpeX you. The crowds
light upon and fight over you as ga spoil" 10
be won, a carcase to be plundered. bone to be
! picked. The beggar is indignant that you at
tend 10 him not on the first imploration. The
passport man exacts his Tuscan dollar from
you. The Custom House man sticks his claws
into dresses, and bonnets and hats, and caps,
and smashes up, more or less, little of every
thing. new currency, as well as a new lan-
guage, at once attacks you, and on the instant
you are expected to turn from French and
francs into Tuscan and paoIi, and crazzie and
denarli. But keep cool, if you can, and if you
can't, yet keep cool. There is no more pitable
object on earth than foreigner on his first
landing in, to him, new country, ignorant of
| almost all its habits and customs, and, what is
important any thing, ignorant of its curren-
cy; for as cash rules every thing in this world,
1t is more important to know the relative value
i Of dollar than even to know the language the
people are speaking. | ran the gauntlet with
tolerablG preservation of temper A hundred
coachmen fought over me as ga SPOIL" to be
taken Ga two hours drve) to Pisa, and when
emanclpated myself from their anything but
soft sounding Italian, breathed freer and hap
pier. as rode over the rescued marshes from
Leghora to Pisa. Oh, how lhe traveller misses
the we'll organized despOtiSm of Louis Napo-
leon
PISA AND ITS CURIosIrIEs.
The route from Leghc rn to Pisa offers no.
thing interesting, unless it be the blue Appe-
with snow. Pisa, when approaching it, has he
look of the large city it once was,-for its domes
aud its towers yet attest its past splendor,-but
the 10000 inhabitants of the old RepNllc of
Pisa are now only some 10000 left. pisa
mOrtS) Happily about all that one now wishes
to see Of the once great Pisa, are reunited in
one pace,-that is to say, the Dome,-the
; Baptls,ery, the Campo Santo. and the leaning
tower,--and this place now is about as dead a
looking place as one can find in the living
world. Solitude. however, seems fitting for all
these monuments of another and bye-go age.
! They seem llIlle suited for the more practical
spirit about us, and hence the appropriate sOll-
tude of the present generation. The leaning
tower, the Yrea, curIuSlty Of the world as well
as of Pisa, has the same inclination that it had
when Ghlile0 made hi experiment upon gravi-
tatnn there. The aye and he preservation oi
all these buildings are re rkabIe. The Duo
mo was begun IN 1868. aud consecrared in
lllS. The Tower was built in liza All are
" in marble. and In wonderful preservation. The
: Campo SaniO was the Westminster Abbey fOI
the great PIsans. Fifty Pisan alleys brought
from Jerusalem there, the sacred earth to cover
the mighty mems remains The frescoes there
It that line the gothic cloIsIer piIue and puzzle
: the critics yet. aud will pigue aud puzzle then
!, more, the more time destroys them. Aud 81
:. the crIllcs IN architecture dispute over VIVA
u caused them to lean the CampanIle, the towe
e of Pisa. Was lteso built on purpose Did Ih
10 foundation sink under it, aud dd The archIlec C
y then try to remedy this failure of The foundation
u without rebuilding! Quien sabe for III
- history of the builder and the building is al
= ready goSe;
OF There is a defer-ential air about the lei
ters received by our mercha mis- from their wesI
ns ern debtors.
y Exhausted ReceiUers The parties appoint
= ed to receive the assets of the Ohio Life an