The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-07

institutions OF Rome, and zee how decays here with
about three and quarter mons-haye one OF the Anest
climates and countries in the world See whit they
make o. IT, They have about Is Or 50 miles Of rairsad
one track to Frascat another TO Gva Vecchia-though
other lines are laid out The commerce nconsiderabe,
manufactures almost nothing All the spinning and weav
culture returns to the rudsst form In ali the fertile
campagna about Rome they get but emo crop OF grain
aH% the nd Snss the :s Of the s = lies
produce the vine, the olive the fig, nuts, and various
grains Now the farmer seeks chiefly the spon.
he pastures his oxen, sheep and swine. But the
labored products Of the farm are ON the decline
year think IL Is her chief export and may be worth
two three million dollars In the city the chief indus
try after supplying the daily wants Of the back and the
belly, devoted TO the nne arts. ind that last year
Rome sold old pictures 10 tho amount Of SIG O00 and
ones 70 sla4 $50 pictures she sold 1000
she exports canoes mosaics jewels, church ornaments,
&C, TO about $500 year. Perhaps We might say her
industry in the fine arts brought her in 81 600 in 1852
But the sale Of these things quite preoarous and do
ponds the number Of strangers here It s hard time
the poor artists have this year when there few
foreigners In town. ia curious to the contrasts OF
niceness and rudeness In the street. In Q studio
men make statues Of most exquisite grace and beauty
s mind Oysr in shop us. door
they put log Of wood on two clumsy horses,
one man gets atop, another underneath, and with
to make the box. 1--WE don't make many statues in
Boston, but top sawyer y not knownD Tho ele
CANT ars are held IN nigh esteem while the useful sink
into neglect It s curious to how long takes
kind respect the industry which feeds and Clothes
houses and comforts the human The work Of ru
hocus pocas this Is thought decent and respectable; but
farm work woods work. shop work. that s mean and de-
na
and "ladies Of New England 70 day. mean with the
naental males and females Slavery is only supported
marks the South and II has its support at the North
chiefly in the same contempt Mss Observation-Disclosures
head he grandfather to this foolish thing she
ashamed OF her origin and anvil without
blush Of mortified vanity. Now, Il had son, should
sculptor or fiddler; and certainly Should rather
SHOEMAKER Srszer than an ordinary f1 third i ros
sculptor, to spoil marble and waste the time Of
men he strove 10 make statues Of How much better 10
be common house painter than stupid dauber OF
vass In America-I mean In the free Ststes-the
Of the people, in their collective action, work right
spect TO this though uncounted individuals make the
greatest mistakes; but here It is the community Is
whole that falls into the Alas for them the mise
rable rags which the clothing Of the people, and
wretched food they eat consequences Of the fatal
bunder and the haggard, melancholy faces of the COM
mon people. i'll housed, Ill clad, Ill fed the protes. Of
nature against the worship Of beauty and OF
Think Of city exporting million dollars worth
Of trinkets while she has not q mill q power
LOOM We manage this matter better in New England.
There were seven paper mills in Massachusetts,, foun.
dry at Saugus, and saw mills more than can recoect
before picture had ever been painted in all New Eng
u
ton before he made him fiddle
In Europe, you see many things which seems strange
to an American. Take the use of wne II am right,
the Europeans about $500 900 gallons Of
wne In France leave out Of account the pasture land
which not ploughed and the forests Of the actual
BILE land one third devoted 10 the culture OF the grape
Yet there are immense districts where no wine be
raised at all see stated that the government returns
make appear that the people of France drink $50
gallons Of winc and the calculation is that the amount ia
not much less than 1000, 0O00 00i Yet don't believe,
In the year 1859, there was 30 much drunkenness
In nf
the 100000 Yankees Of New England! / have
been four months at Rome there are wine shops
hours day, and have never yet seen = man drunk;
now and then one is merry, never intoxicated. The
they drink their weak vine with tn x Ss and when
they take liquors. 1t s only little gassful at . time,
(Which does not make spoonful don't believe there
and water gin and water sc: Excessive drinking is
to the taste Of the people In the north of Europe and
in Switzerland 1t is not 80. The English, without
help from the Irish and Scotch drink about coo Or 7OO
gaons Of beer every year. not 10 speak Of the
vine spirits, &C., they take to wash i down witha
Holland, and North Germany. How do you think the
Americans will settle the drink question? Certainly not
have more beer perhxps return the making Of cider
and certainly plant vines where they will grow. Drunk
enness is such monsrous and ghasty evil would do
almost anything to get rid Of IT, But sometimes think
we have taken the wrong track I am glad to see the
License law introduced to the New York legislature and
think it viii do more good than our New England scheme
So We have got republican Speaker in the House of
Representatives at las 1t is great gain: all the weight
Of tho Union must incline from the democratic party
suppose Kansas may into the Union this session.
and that shameful quarrel be ended But what violence
the part Of Shareholders what declarations that they
will dissolve the Union If Seward is elected wonder
the Union at Boston and New York do not what
fools they make Of themselves BY protesting zeal for the
Union while they strike hands with the only men who
attempt to destroy it, Just now see the South ia rich,
with her cotton crop worth $500 O0 while the North
poor-e grass crop short by thirty three per cent in
take 1t the West is greatly in debt to the
East for goods sent forward, not to speak Of
which, vii not soon be settled and into c city deS
Prospects do not look well for the West for some
Ps s1ss as ss9 and
don't 60 well together. wonder how much the slave
States are indebted TO the free for advances crops for
estimate that out Of he 500 70 be- paid ior the
cotton CROP 900 have already been taken up BY
write me etter-some time when you have nothing else
to doon the financial relations Of the South and the West
zee our exchanges with Spanish America amount TO
STA 100000 year Qs5S), and am surprised at it.
though some Americans treat it as Contemplate"
ports and imports) only make $40 100000. Now, We
get more than third, II Is quite our share.
Just now, the two prominent nations Of Europe
doing great work-inroducing liberal scheme or CON-
mercia intercourse Really, Napoleon the Little, as We
used CONTEMPORARY to call him. TO be the most
% ToSe H I a Da me
the age, and DO properly set down that little rock
Mthe end OF the world 10 point the moral Of history and
adorn its tale. dislike much that Napoleon has done,
but must confess an honest admiration for his efforts TO
berate Italy and TO advance the industrial interests Of
France After ALL s probably true that his nation de-
serves no better rule than he gives it, and IL not capable
OF more liberal institutions Those Celtic people have got
equality the old arstocrac regime s pershed utterly;
al depends on universal sufrage liberty Ia something
tney care little about strange people the French
with 10 much military courage and civil courage a all
don't see how they could live under republican 60
vernment-one Like ours am would be impossible.
THEODORE PARKER.
ABOUT eight O'Clock on Friday morning, 10th uh.,
sngn shock OF an earthquake felt In the valley OF
upper Strathearn. The tremor OF the earth was light
put, as usual, the shock accompanied by . loud
Iumong noise resembling that OF distant thunder and
camo from the southwest and proceeded to the northeast
Inc SKY was dark and lowering the time Of the earth
quake and many Of the Inhabitants imagined the noise
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