Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-12-17
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describe, and decorated as itwss for the occas-
ion, (All Saints Dey) the Impression produced
upon the first sight truly one Of reverential
grandeur. The Cardinals ia their magnificent
robes seyeray entered and after they had gone
through with all sorts OF i1conlprehensible obeis-
ances ana seated according to precedence,
his Holiness superbly arraFed and wearing
his triple crown camo III with quite body
guard OF all sorts of richly affixed cle.icals. The
Pope conducted to his chair of State and
the services entirely choral commenced. There
was no organ. but the music, entirely vocal, was
grand and sweet beyond any have ever heard.
The Pope is fine looking old gentleman and
his voice is sonoIous and musical. The Cardin-
| as, during part OF the service kissed his hand,
but those Of the clergy of inferior dignity wore
| content or rather required to salute his digits
pedal. Altogether the whole exhibition was in
teresting, though to one uniluGiiued by the
light OF mother church it was odd and seeming
~ had bat little of the teachings OF Ike New
Testament about it.
did not intend 10 bore you with go much
about my attendance at sistine and will avoid
other details 70 this connection Though exceed
ingly ourious) and proceed to advise you Of my
tramps after leaving the great and glorious old
city of Rome. Themes we went to Naples where
we tarried nearly week, and tho objects of in
terest in the city and near it are 30 numeyous
that had not limited my absence from home
should have remained there for months. Vesuvi-
us is there ogerhanging the city, sending forth
continually volume Of steam so immense that
an American cannot avoid lamenting thatit ls not
loo ated il Massachusetts, some other OF the
New England States, where it is very certain
Yankee ingenuity would soon use it for driving
mandatory OF some kind, and if there and
occasional eruptions such those which buried
Pompeii aud Herculaneum visited the region in
dlcated it might, for Tina, cure Puritans of
many OF their isms and ultraisms.
Pompe is by far the most intensely interesting
spot have visited. One feels as though he was
having real, living, yet solemn intercourse with
it's former inhabitants. Here the very tenn
pies, theatres. houses, hal!s, bedrooms and
every sort Of room used by them, and here arc
their bodies cased in the lava which destroyed
them nearly eighteen hundred years ago, We ad-
mred the temples Of Venus, of Jupiter,
Of Mercury a.d others OF their Gods.
rsmbled ovvr the Villa Of Cicero and dned in
the house OF 9aIlpst. and saw many very curious
things, of which had rather telk of than write
about Near Naples I went into the tomb OF Vir-
Sill, and not far from a town, the name of which
1 do not reeoect, visited the spot where Cicero
was murdered.
From Naples by steamer We went to Leghorn,
whe1e we remained only some eight or ten hours,
end thence to Genoa which found a city of
much interest commercially, and nanifestly of
great wealth. Ic4nnot sop to tell yon ell I have
seen and must eontept myself With running
cata ogue OF the names Of the places at which we
stopped. From Genos TO Turin then Geneva
up the lake to Vevey, the castle of Ohilon and
one or two others of the very interesting towns
on the lake OF Geneva, and finally to Paris,
where We have been for eight or ten days, seeing
sisIl.s Of 81 l-,uds, and among the>e more prot
u women then lad ever dreamed of before
From this place we go to London and thence to
Liverpool 70 take the steamer Colorado which
sails on the LIST OF december.