New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-20
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
VENICE.


THB EVACUATION oP VENICE, AND ITS OoCUTATTON
BY THE ITALIANS.
Prom Our Special Correspondent .o.,...
The scene in Venice for these past seven days passes
IN vivdness even al that correspondent Of the American
war has noted fthat Wild wonderful struggle, tie
eupaton of Richmond the climax in the picturesque
and emotional as well in the historic view. Here, in
my hotel the Grand Canal recall its solemn e1thu-
sissms and silent try TO recall every feature of
i landscape Of fame and shadow the consecutive OK
posons Of its panc-srcken edifce those architectural
suicides that felt the desperate end Of rebellion and reeled
and fell with its people see again, In its half Iom
pesn streets, rolling with the lava Of war the spirits Of
the mountanNOrh erupted upon IT, walking with alrost
fearful and nequent huzzas up the breaches Of the baz
lng see the glazed faces Of the waiting pnsones at
the bars Of Libby whtened with sorrow and hectic with
the hearing Of the tramp Of relief
And dare believe composed try 10 be in this de-
verance of Venice that whOt hear see feel and think
make impression more fixed and more wonderful than
the last prodgious tabeau Of grand Think Of It
Sold and Citzen wboeyeris bold TO read this letter.
how generous and impatient people have been con.
Quered BY despousm for 20 long aud burning years ard
swOke only Yesterday with every glorious emotion s
also that these people had been independent and powerful
for 800 years. that their transition from Independence to
slavery was not made by slow dessdencet,
yoke, but by sudden leap from glory t.
chains With arsenes all busy like yours at CharestowD
b.
fresh from the cutter; with ships on the sea- his.
tory great and vivid TO its last page bankers and specu-
stoTs ardent in Wast.; and flag whose Hutter in
the wind made every man thrill, like the unwind
ing Of pale stars and purple strpesthese proud peO-
pie were handed away into seryude without thought or
Warning" without reckoning sent 20 their account
The strangers soldiers seized upon their ships and
churches He mounted guard upon their quays and
bridges He introduced the severest laws which remind
men that they have voon rinfuence He played on
their holy holidays his imported And be drafted
them into his srmes, judged them by his judges and
threw them into dungeons II they whispered
temperament and education that he had not one
sympathy IN common with them. BE was cold
faced, paleacei and 70 their hearts and sunny
spirits opposed nature Of phlegn, obtusenesI reserve
ice. He only reasoned where they felt. He spoke IN
monotones where they would express with lightning and
thunder roar. His presence perpetual corpse 10
them and that dead hsheyed stony corpse their master
and companion. No novel nor spostrophe can tell how
these bound bodies Of Venice felt the awful cammyness
and repulsion Of this Austrian rule This beautiful city
the sea was like the deck Of his ship 70 the
Mariner whose dead looked up through freezing ewes
and cursed him.
stve 70 what men write and say Of your country nst
tons that scarcely were the bayopes Of their
familiar the people of VENICE than scholars and citizens
Of neghbong or remote nations but lately their equsls
and vas came to their shame and celebrate IT, They
walked down the splendid wretohedness Of Venice pitt
fully supercliousy and made It's power and decline the
subject Of their songs dramas and oTatone II
NewYork Boston suddenly seized and desecraed
BY the Engshman the Spanard and tord OF swarthy
tourists among US wrote books and letters FROM the Bat
tey or Bunker Hill describing our monuments and oul
misery. all this the and women OF Venice felt e
The quick. They were siDgulaIy Ike the American
people ID pndo and seusuyeDess. All then gor'
became their reproaeh, and 10 the spectacle o.
their pTostrauon their Sons were 20 DO aceus
TONED No new material good 20 balance the ac
count q men spiritual and DatODa ue1uy On Tie con