The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-04

~, nr r s,re will bear telling. Never
th s,pss mist hurry through IL. Heaven
has clearly Abandoned this town. and the
aenius OF Le.hargy has taken it BODY ana
souI Tt consists Of q mass OF whitewasnea
bonssa 1inmbIed together, the bare sight OF
wb;ch 10 sufficient to narcotic man from ON.
>Amsr;ea. and amongst them winds nor
IL NOVA of narrow, miserably paved,
h ,ns. -neck streets. l saw the board Of
health and sanitary police, CONSISTING OF
D D,s over his back, trying to clean
fhase thorouohfares but am afraid that
the municipal authorities nave unasr.
taken task TO which their aollitles
are not commensurate. Tne people gen
orally are q tell, muscular set OF fell
lows, abundantly capable OF WORK II they
| were made to do it, but not pleasing 70
| look upon by reason of their Dress wnicn
ia Of the Hemblsnce Of shroud, giving
them hideous likeness to community OF
ghosts !: though, fortunately for the nerves
Of ths beholder, the illusion is mitigated
/ Nv tbe color Of the Yestments, which is
far indeed from the spotless white which
ia a sine qua non with genuine ghost.
The women keep their faces covered, though
thew are not arerse from giving Christian
a oj;mnse Of their charms when 1t can be
saSeIv done. was vouchsafed two or three
rl;mnses Of this sort; and I can safely as.
Govt thst II the mugs (which / beheld
were fair samples Of Moorish beauty 1t 1s
a work of supererogation in them to cover
their countenances from my gaze.
Under the experimenting care OF our
| o,;da vs vera mounted on dopkeys, forming
q corteye which would have caused all true
friends Of ours to hang their heads IN shame
and sorrow could they have seen us, and
trotted in the most remorseless manner all
through and ell around the town. We saw
more than, have space to specify. Among
other places, we were carried into the town
residence Of the Belgian Consul during his
absence, and religiously shown everything
| in it, even to the last weeks linen that he
had shucked off that morning, and the basin
of dirty water in which his Excellency had
last washed himself. At night the guide
took me with him to show me the nocturnal
sights. The chief Of these was Moorish
coffee-house, where there were several Tan
gerire hard-crabs squatting around smoking
tobacco poisoned with Indian hemp. 1squst-
| ted with them, called for coffee for the crowd,
was treated to q love ditty sung in 8 tone
Of heart-shattering dolefulness, arose and
departed, loaded down to the very gun
| vale with heas. Many other things: the
guide desired TO show me, but I was afraid
| that he might be Q corrupter Of youth, ana
after awhile, abashed by the stern morality
of nv demeanor, he led me back to MIR.
Martins Royal Victoria Tavern. r.
NV companion, coming down first next
| morning, was at once pounced upon by this
Guide and marched off, and I, descending
| soon after, was wsylaid by one Harmed, or
Mohammed, venerable Arab, who invited
me to breakfast. This was an honor not to
| be refused, and I accompanied him to his
| house, where he did me very rare honor
| indeed he introduced me to his wife. she
was comely yellow lady, who hustled
about pretty much as other mems wives de-
| He had negro servant girl-the counter
part of our negro servant girls-whom ne
| dispatched under the bed, whence she ex-
| tracted stool, tea tray, and the estao-
| lishmcnt's best China cups; and Mrs. Mo-
manned proceeding to make coffee, we soon
| had breakfast, which was simply coffee and
biscuits, but enriched by large slice OF
nice warm bread buttered and presented to
me bv the hostess own fair hands. After
being taken all over the house to inspect its
arrangements, I departed, Mrs. NJ. running
up to me as I was leaving and presenting
me, az @ token of esteem, or, maybe, of Of
fection-who knows with large ring
shaped chunk of bread. This chunk took
with me TO Gibraltar and lugged it through
the streets Of the town as | journeyed to
| i Il ,oh 70 hn
ment Of the citizens of that place, who, of
course, could not divine the tender memo
ries clinging round it. The hospitality OF
the Arabs is proverbial, and this clrcum-
| stance may be thought too trite to be ques-
toned, but Mohammed having brought in
bill for sixty cents for the entertainment TO
which he invited me it has rather too
strong hold on my memory to be altoge-
ther suppressed.
Returning to Gibraltar, we prepared to
20 to Italy. In bidding adieu to Spain, l
repeat what I said in former letter, that
| il is o land full of interest, every way
worthy Of visit from the traveller. Its
people I found digni6ed, courteous, and
| we'll behaved. The chief defects noted in
their character were an extrayegant notion
of the power of endurance Of dumb crea-
lures, o strong proclivity for putting OFT till
tomorrow what can be done to-day, and
an invincible disposition TO pass counter
| felt money on you. We suffered grieVously
from the operation of this last propensity.
The quantity of brass dollars and pewter
| Quarters that We contriyed to accumulate
during our sojourn amongst them was truly
| disheartening, especially when it Is con-
sidered that they could never be passed
back on any Of the natives for when
| Spaniard receives coin he rings 1t, and
weighs it, and bites it with such savage
determination to ascertain lts true charao-
ter that nothing but the most unlmpeacha-
BILE metal can stand the ordeal.
We were kept an uncomfortable time at
| Gibraltar waiting for some means OF get
ting to Naples. at length ives found q
steamer bound for Alexandria which touched
at Malta, and We concluded to take our
chances by this roundabout way. The pas
sage to Malta was rendered very agreeable
| by the excellent accommodations on the
ship and by the sociableness of the passen-
gers. We here had, also, the benefit of par
ticipation in religious exercises-a privl-
lege from an intelligent exercise of which
we had long been debarred. There was an
American missionary on board going to
Australia-a good and sincere man | will
be bound-but little diffuse and hetero-
geneous in his discourse, who preached US q
sermon on Easter Sunday wherein he mixed
/ up the Prince of Wales with gorillas and
Indiana infidels in o way that moved even