The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-06-21
City of Naples.

Fancy city CT 100000 inhabitants
of whom 900 are priests, 100000 idl-
ers 1000 LAWYERS, and nearly $4,000
prisoners locked up in some of the five
hundred prisons. Fancy this city in a
state of chronic seige, with the guns of
it's forts constantly pointed, not upon
its enemies, but upon its people,
Fancy a government consisting of
priest-ridden king, cruel, treacherous
and false; maintaining his power by
Swiss and German guards, most of
them kidnapped contrary to Law, in the
southern German States and Switzer-
land; so miserable an administration
that no department of the government
makes theleast pretense to efficiency but
that the police, which has its spies
everywhere, and is said to be as Fou-
CHEFS, so blind in fact that he believes
is blessing to his people and calmly
expects that God will scatter his enc
mics! Finally, fancy a people system
atical trained to idleness, servility and
ignorance; denied the privileges of free
education and the use of books
forced to kneel at.the foot of the Jes-
uits, 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 indifference
to every virtue that can exalt the race
Such is Naples!
Let u look to it in detail. The traveller
who walks through the streets to Tole-
do OF Ihiaja for the first time,on sun
ny 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 car
ried on in the open street. There are
shoemakers and tailors at their benches;
scribes inditing love-letters for amorous
SWANS f; begging monks proving clear
ly that all who do not give them car
line will be served up hot in another
world; women plucking poultry or clean
ing vegetables quack doctors forcing
their panaceas down the Threats of peas
ants from the Abruzzi cooks roasting
and frying at great fires on the sidewalk;
mothers combing their children's hair,
or turning them up and whipping them;
old women on crutches singing airs from
Lucia, and old men reciting Ariosto
with much fervor water sellers bawl-
ing iced water !; pious mlnstrels playing
doleful bagpipes under statue of the
Virgin Sicilian girls dancing the tar
antella with uncommon vigor; friars
roaring that they only want gram
more to save a soul from hell boys
fighting for water melons exchange
tables loaded with copper; lemon stands
surmounted by triumphal arches, be-
dizened with gold paper and wreaths of
flowers macaroni dealers lading huge
masses of the smoking delicacy out of
caldrons, and beseeching the crowd moi
to let it cool more monks, tinkling
little bells and knocking Punch and the
conjurer over as they hurry past with
dead man ladies in Partisan dresses,
peasant girls in scarlet rags lazaroni in
every corner, lying, crouching, squatt-
ing, running, sleeping, laughing, fight
ing, picking pockets ; and an array of
carriages, corricoli, omnibuses cavaliers
tearing and dashing along at a furious
rate, as though collisions were impossi-
BILE and bones could not be broken.-I
London Neaos.