The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-07-05
CHAs. W. BArnsArE,
City of Naples.

Fancy city of some 45O, 900 Inhabitants
of whom $4,000 are priests. 10000 idlers,
1000 lawyers, and nearly 10000 prisoners
of state locked up in some ofthe five hundred
royal prisons. Fancy. this city in O
state of chronic siege, with the guns of its
forts constantly pointed, not upon its enemies
but upon its people. Fancy government
consisting of a priest-ridden king, cruel,
treacherous and false; maintaining his pow,
er by the aid of Swiss and German guards,
most ofwhom are kidnapped contrary to law..
in tie southern German States and Switzer,
land so miserable an administration that
no department of the government makes the
least pretence to efficiency but the police,
which has its spies everywhere, and is said
to be as perfect as Pouches; so blind to
facts that he believes he is blessing to his
people and calmly expects that God will
scatter his enemies Finally, fancy . peo-
pie systematically trained in idleness. servili.
ty and ignorance denied the privileges of
wholesome education and the use of books
forced to kneel at the feet of the Jesuits, and
taught from their childhood that rebellion
against their authority involves not only
eternal damnation but present punishment,
educated in contempt for the laws and indif,
ference to every virtue that can exalt the race,
Such is Naples
Let uS look to it in detail The traveller
who walks through the streets to Toledo OF
Chisja for the first time on sunny day in
the cooler months, is amazed at the evidences
of life and happiness which he sees. Fifty
thousand people, they say, throng Toledo
the Broadway of Naples) daily. Every
trade is carried on in the open street. There
are shoemakers and tailors at their benches;
scribes inditing love-letters for amorous
swains begging monks proving clearly that
all who do not give them a carline will bs
served up hot in another world women
plucking poultry or cleaning vegetables
quack doctors forcing their panaceas down
the throats of peasants from the Abruzzi
cooks roasting and frying at great fires
on the sidewalk !; mothers comhing their
children's hair, or turning them up and whip
ping them old women on crutches singing
airs from Lucia, and old men reciting Ariosto
with much fervor water sellers bawling
iced water pious minstrels playing doleful
bagpipes under statue of the Virgin Sicil-
ian girls dancing the tarantuia with uncom-
mon vigor; friars roaring that they only
want gran more to save soul from he'll
boys fighting for water-melons exchange
tables loaded with copper lemon stands
surmounted by triumphal arches, bedizened
with gold paper and wreaths of flowers mac
aroni dealers lading huge masses fthe smo-
king delcacy out of caldrons, and beseeching
tia 9rasrI rot 20 10. $. .--nas,. ---~..As,
tihAlng little bells ..>iL---h.-un~- -
the conjurer over as they hurry past with .
dead man !; ladies in Partisan dresses, peas
ant girls in scarlet rags lazzaroni in every
corner, lying, crouching, squatting, running,
sleeping, laughing, fighting, picking pockets,
and an array of carriages, corricoli, omnibus
es, cavaliers, tearing and dashing along at
furious rate, as though collisions were impos-
sible and bones could not be broken-LoD-
don Ne,rs