The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-02-23
ITALY.

4 DISMAL PICTURE os TnE ETERSAL CRY.
The Turin correspondent Of the London
Tines, discussing the question oil the future
capital OF the Italian. kingdom, says:.4 +.
It!by capital VIC merely mean the sent
OF government, q place like the Hague or
Washington, the question docs not deserve
one minutes attention. People have only
to: appear on any given spot, and The
nieaner and poorer they Gt,d Il the less
chance viii there be Of aroasing tile bat.
odsy and beartburnilg Of emulo1s towns.
But il what the, lLaiiIils want is not
inerelya home for there Bureaucracy, buf
20 real centre and heaFt Of The country, i,
proper stage for real political and social
movement, the focus of Industrial aud ia,
tcllcctual life4a real metropolis Is
a standard city--thGir own Paris or Lon,
don They must he aware thHt such: q
place IL no more built in one day than
their own Rome Rfs,said 10 be; As they
know they cannot make II, tlleyfi they
they hnve IL ready.male Rome has, in
deed, been long built. IT has long been
their capital; its existence was always
wound up with the. destinlcs of the com
E1ry; but it Is q town where the past has
been crushing and killing the present, Il
I has oil the materials of q great city and
Epleuty Of room III il; but It il . town with
[out q peoples town from which The
people have fled. T. ... Fl.
Some Italian Utopists talk very glib!
about the practieability OF bringing /
people there, Of eoionisiug the ruins Of TIN
Canpagna Nitha million Of the mostIe
bust and active, population. from ever!
part of the Peninsula. But Rome IS MOI
only dead, it is eternally declying, ever
llasIingly dying; and it viii require NJ
slight induCement to allure free men int
that vast eharnel house. =. + : s,.
To all but the wrelchtd natives, Rem
| is unihhabitable for six or seven months i
the year, and even then only in tn
crowded quarters where the people huddl
together in their uoisome lanes and alleys
Outside the walls, an tho very walls, i
the open square of the Popolo, on tn
Pincian promenade, on the brow Of th
Quirinal aud the Niminal, 10 the Subnrba
villas, where nature unfolds7 her creates
charms, and the air Is open and seem
/ purest, death hogers oil throughout tn
year; and, for miles round, the berdsmal
/ who erouches in his miserable Temporal
hoyei from December To- May could no
/ be induced TO tarry on the spot from Ma
TO December for all the wealth that eve
Twas treasured up in the Vatican. Deaf
has stricken oil the limbs Of the old qnee
of the world, and is fast advancing +
pierce her to the henrt - = -
4 Turin aid Florence are little towns, btl
i they are living and thriving; they hay
Eunbounded healthy, fertile territories
tthey admit Of gradual and imaetiat
growth md expansion. They are it'll
now; they may be twice us large in: 2
i years, four times as large IN half u eel
Et1ry but Rome must be improt ed a
i once OF never. There is deadly Ecu
between her aud man. Every hour tla
passes, strikes her death knell; her dooI
might be reversed. perhaps: but scarcel
retarded. i. - .,e...s.;;. s.,.,y ~
Peerio had been elected president {
J the electoral committee at Naples, r.
1t was reported that Sardiuiau ioa
Of three hundred million francs was abo,
ito be negotiated in Paris.
= An Insignificant attempt. at Teactio
+ had been made at Naples but was east
! suppressed, Naples and the prOvinc,
} were tranquil. -. 81.
, II ip affirmed that the Published versiC
: of the pope's recent aIlocuti0n is for
: tery. The real document is mild aud j
offensive, principally dwelling on the lria
to which the church is subjected, ., ...
S The position Of Affairs NJ Gaeta was .
: changed, ISIS >...r g.. %.
E IL is stated that for some time pa
; Francis Ii, has been in the habit Of goil
{ Oh board a Spanish vessel every evening
aud rstnFniag 10 Gaeta on the folloNiu
5 morning, ~
Reports had bsGR current that tt