, 1863-12-26

it becomes drinkabe water. Nevertheless,
although melted before entering the mouth,
it assuages thirst like other water, when
melted in the mouth it has the opposite ef-
feet To render this paradox more striking,
we have only to remember that ice, which
NETS more slowly in the mouth, is very
efficient in allaying thirst.
PEASANTS OF ITALY AND SOUTHERN
SwITzERLAND.-Rev. Henry Ward Beech
er, in letter from Milan, compares the
condition of the italian peasantry with that
of the laboring classes Of Southern Switzer-
land as follows:
:" have been agreeably disappointed in
the common people of Italy. Something is
to be subtracted from my favorable impress
sion on account Of the contrast between
them and that most wretched of all popula-
tions, the laboring classes of Southern
Switzerland | was sick at heart at the
condition Of this people. The women are
beasts of burden. The men are over worked.
The very children seem prematurely old. [
saw women at work in the fields even in
France but it was harvest work In Swift
zerland found them digging over dung
heaps, collecting manure in the woods, and
packing it in baskets on their backs to the
fields l saw girls of thirteen and fourteen
at work with teams of bulls, which they
were driving, and in one case saw wo-
man working at cart harnessed with an OK
Aged people had neither dignity or serenity.
1t affected my spirits. | dreaded to look on
comely young maiden for l perceived the
hideous change that was to come upon her
when she should hobbe about skinny and
eve-sore old he's, vaGt " labVi, i.t fe~oeI 20
it by the inexorable tyranny of poverty.
When, then, had crossed into Italy, L
was as one in new world. The common
people seemed happy. They laughed and
chatted they returned your greetings with
good-natured kindness. If there is not
grand future for Northern Italy, it will be
because liberty and education are withheld
from them. But they are a noble stocb.
Their brains are large, and their heads well
organized. They have grand bodies, strong
and well developed. l have not, in all my
travels, seen common people of such prom
ise as these Italian people. And [ am in
formed that facts do not belle these favora-
BILE appearances l am bound to say also,
that have been agreably disappointed in
the appearance Of the monks and priests of
Roman Catholic countries AS a general
rule, they have appeared to be clear-faced,
intelligent and sincere men. Only once or
twice did we meet the legendary type Of
monk-round, fat and worldly. In Switzer-
land and in Northern Italy the general i'm
preston produced upon me by the priests
had been highly favorable to them
A PRoPHEoY-MR CHAsE.-In a pri-
vate letter, says the Cincinnati Inquirer,
written the other day, Mr. Valandigham
says 1 observe that Mr. Chase is making
himself merry over my exile and defeat
Well, that is all right, too. But remem-
ber when, few years ago, the name Of Sal
mon p. Chase was the SYNONYM of everything
odious and vile; and when he was one of
the leaders of party not numbering in the
whole United States one-tenth part as many
as the votes which l received in Ohio at the
late election, and poor and humble enough
to be content with the crumbs that fell from
the colored peoples table at the Baker street
chapel My friend, Mr.. James Brooks, re-
members also, when he rescued Mr.. Chase
from the violence Of a mob in Dayton, and
led him, all trembling, by the arm to place
of safety. Now, Salmon p Chase is high
in wealth and position, clothed in purple and
fine linen, and faring sumptuously every
day, while I am the subject of his SCOTS as
an exile But 1 shall live to see the time
when Mr. Chase will be rent to pieces by
the whirlwind which be has contributed so
much to raise; and made the victim of the
very mob before which he now triumphs and
exults, as did Belshazzar, at his feast and
when "Uncle Abes pardon" will be Of as
little value to save him, as one Of "Uncle
Abe's vulgar jests. 1 may have to "watch
and wait for the time, but it will come;
and [ shall then be at home and in honor.
Let him and his friends laugh now
A Coon PLACE TO EMGRATE FRoM.-
A correspondent of a St. John paper, writing
from Halifax, N. S., says
1t is a strange, deplorable fact that fully
fifty per cent. Of the young men Of this Prov
ince leave it yearly, and at an age, might
say, when they are just the bone and sinew
Of the country, and seek an asylum in for
eign land, (the United States there to earn
fame as well as comfortable livelihood,
which, if they remained here a hundred years,
they never could accomplish.