The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-13
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! min, ana lBuOTduCe we nuNe gut lhtD
vet, except that African perditiOn they
call Tangier, which is just like 1t. The
| people here live in alleys two yards
| wide. 1t Is lucky the alleys are not
| wide, because they hold as much smell
now as u person can stand, and of
course, If they were wider, they would
hold more, and then the people would
! die. These alleys are paved with stone
| and carpeted with slush, and decnyed
rags, and decomposed vegetable tops;
and remains of old boots, all soaked
with dishwater, and the people sit
around on stools and enjoy II. They
are indolent, as a general thing, and
/ yet have few pustimes. They work two
or three hours at time, but not hard,
aud then they knock Oft and catch flies.
| This does not require talent, because
1 they have only to gTab-if they do not
get the one they are after, they get an
other. 1t is all the same to them. They
are not particular. They have no par
tialities. Whichever one they get Is the
one they want. They have other kinds
of insects, but it does not make them
arrogant. They are very quiet uupre-
I tending people. They have more of
| this kind of things than any other
communities, but they do not brag.
| They are very uncleanly, these peo-
| When they see anybody with clean
shirt on, It arouses their scorn. The
women wash clothes halfthe day at the
public fountains, but they are prooa.
! bly, somebody else's; or may be they
keep one suit to wear and another 10
wash, because they never wear any
that have .ever been washed, When
they get done washing, they sit in the
| ALLEYS and nurse their cubs. All the
women in Ciyita Necchia have large
families. They nurse one ut time,
and the others scratch their backs
I Il .aRd ERtl
| All the people scratch. IL is their de-
! light. There is a rusty shrine here
| and there along the streets, where the
| people can watch and pray; but they
/ don't do that; they scratch and pray.
They like it better.
All this country is presided over by
| the Pope. They do not appear TO have
| any schools here, and only one billiard
table. Their education is at a very low
stage. One portion of the men go into
| the military, another into the priest
| hood, third into the shoemaking bu-
siness, and the balance "lay around"
| They keep up the passp' ri system
/ here yet, but SO they do in turkey.
This shows that Turkey is not a whit
more enlightened than the papncy,
whatever malignant villains may say
to the contrary. l had to get my pass
port vised iu Florence, and then they
| would not let me come ashore here from
| Leghoru till degraded policeman had
examined it on the wharf and sent the
| II permit. They did not even dare TO
| let me take my passport i'll my hands
| for u hours, 1 looked so formidable.
They judged it best to let me cool down.
| They thought l wanted to take the town;
| likely. But sucn was not my desire
not ii had n chance to swap oil ana
take the smallpox, any how. They
examined my baggage at the depot
IA while ago. They passed my
shirts, but they held on to my tooth
| brush, SO as TO lay IL before the Board
| of Commissioners and let them ind out
| what il is for, and whether there is any
\ harm in IL or not. This was uniortu-
nate, because l borrowed ii from my
shipmnle, who is particular about his
| teeth to Hn extent which is ridiculous.
] And they took one of my ableSt Jokes
! ft WIS one OF those extraordinary con
| uudrums which l get up sometimes),
and read il over carefully, and then
/ read IL again; and finally tnrned II
around, and read II the wrong way.
| But It was too deep for them. They
| handed II around, and everybody
| ciphered at II while, but 1t was no use.
| They all had to pass. 1t was no com
mon Joke. AT last one of the Oldest of
the officers, apparently, and certainly
| one of the most abandoned and ignu-
rant men / have ever looked upon,
spelled it over very slowly and labOri-
| ously, and then shook his head three or
| four times, and said that in his opinion
| il was seditiOus. That was the nrst
| time l WAS alarmed. j immediately
said would explain the document, and
they crowded around. And so In that
/ sweltering place l explained, and per-
spired, and perspired, and explained,
with my coat off, and they took notes OF
| all | said, but the more IeXpllined the
more they couldn't understand, and
when they desisted at last, and summed
up their notes, couldn't understand it
myself. They said they believed it was
an incsndiary document, leveled at the.
Government. 1 declared 1t was not,
| but they only shook their heads, and
would not be satisfied. And then they
| consulted, and consulted, and consult
ed good while, and finally they con-
| tiscated it, ! cannot tell how much L
was grieved; because l had worked u
| long time or that joke, aud took good
deal of pride i'll it, and now shall new
| er see ii any more. Isuppose IL Will be
sent up and slowed away among the
criminal archives of Rome, and Will al
ways be regarded as IA mysterious IN
fernal machine which woulu have
blown up like a mine, and scattered the
good Pope all around, but for n miracu,
| lous Providential interference. And
suppose that all the time am in Rome
the police will dog me about from place
| to place because they think am a dam
! gerous character. .y.
1t is fearfnlly hot in Civita Necchia.
The streets are made very narrow, and
| the houses built very solid, and heavy
and high, as a protection against the
heat. This Is the first italian town
have seen, which does not seem to have
"A patron saint. suppose no saint but
the one that went up in the fiery char
| lot could stand the climate. This is a
/ miserable town. They haven't any
wonders here at all TO exhibit to stranE-
ers. They haven't even a cathedral,
with eleven tuus of solid silver arch
bishops In the back-room, and petri-
fed saint in the cellar; and they don't
show you any rusty buildings that are
seven thousand years old, nor any
! rntty, smoke-dr old hre-screens.
| which are splendid chef d'RpUreS of Ii
tian, or Simpson. or Reubene, or Fer
guson, or any of those parties. l am
going 10 Rome-there'S nothing to see
here. This town is the worst swindls
yet. MARK TWAIN.
THR special train in which the En-
peror Napoleon went with his suite
i from Paris to SalzburH is described as
exceeding in comfort and elegance any
thing of the kind that has hitherto been
\ known. The train consisted of nine
lcarriages, communicating with each
other by tastefully decorated bridges.
In the middle was "A hRndsome sitting
room, furnished with chairs, ottomans,
sofas, mirrors, pictures, clocks and
chandeliers. On one side of this room
was the dining room, and on the other
the EmperOr's study. In the middle OF
the dining room there was table, ca
pable OF being extended or contract ed