The Portland daily press., 1871-01-21
Terms $500 per anmuus. d, nd,cnoo

previous night in the vain expectat;o, y, >.
ceiving the usual visit OF the baker In IL
morning Everywhere one saw all sorts 90
| baskets let down empty from impossible ele.
VatiohS OF NTH stories and hauled up full of
bread. whenever basket of rather mora
ample dimensions than usual made its descent
the proprietor OF il was conjured on all Stiles
to take some up for his adjoining peIghbnrs
and those in the lower stories sometimes
made the basket pay toll on its Journey up.
matus; Then some young men who happen
o gu W ne the lucky owners OF boats turned
1;n..n VI oaKers, and amused themselves by
$50 ,S.,oa.iuS rolls. Afterwards, but later,
Sauie Tue real professional baker. bs market
however, seemed to have been forestalIed. es.
Pteiany as us price, L believe, was considsra-
Dly In advance of his less ampbibions frator,'i-
ty. The Government boats made renrataJ
attacks upon the bakers shops in the Corso
ehtefln9 them In all manner of ways excent
through the door. In these operations Ital-
ian activity and ingenuity shone Conspicuous
tne only wonder was how little bread got inio
the water. l did not see above half DOZEN
loaves In the water throughout the day: in
deed, the energy, good temper, and activity
displayed by officials and soldiers of all sorts
were beyond all praise.
There were all sorts of boats. I connted
nine at one time in the Corso. A couple of
Venice. The Ruspoli Palace stood out OF the
water half palace, half fortress, just like SINH
1ar aat euinces on the Grand Canal at Venice
.ue'e were no end OF raf s.; tables turned up-
Sue uoWn. with plank or two thrown across
were good deal in vogue. One table pavioa.
Tor was standing in the middle of a laf%a
sponge bath placed upon some planks across
the table. 1t appeared to be- most effectnaI
VI OUT. with long pole armed at The end
a hnnk a latI holI I<,f oIt
urge himself against the current, and bavin1
accomplished biso obieet, after warJs saw him
glidng down the stream, putting away at a ci.
gar. saw several canoes which were con.
Stantly shooting about, and on another tab
so'oier passed sitting upon plank thrown
across, with his bay on.t dangling in the wa.
ter. rowing himself with two Short shovel,
attached by Cords to his ffail bark, ana ali he
whiie pulling away at his pipe. which possibly
inspired the vigor Uf bis strokes,
Eaily IN the day tue gas authorities sent
round boat with oil lamps 'or all he srreec
lamps, 4, the inuudation oIeven ed The flow
OF the gas. These lamps were subsequently,
i'en'eo AT o'clock ill the ateruopu, a ,uIl
nour or more before they were needed: ihrir
appearance at night weie very strikiny: th.v
shore brilliantly in line lon. drawn uuf.
whue their liabt danced and spa kled on The
,lppilhe stream, besides which many ot tn.
boats carried two or three torches, winch
diuiy lighted up the dark fro wing IN uses of
arcnitpctufe on either side; the scene was
emine' u, one for an artists pencil
At 8 this morning the water had abated
some IKE or SIX metres, ard at noon about
30 inches; the current had obviously turped.
and was pouring down towards the harbor of
the Tiber.
Toe ooats with bread reappeqred this morn
ing. and tue hauling. up process recommended,
tha rats were more numerous aud better con-
structed than those OF yesterday. A boat has
just passed laden with bread Ior the soldiers
In the balrack near the Porla del Popoio At
noon the rim of The nafb blsln OF The Ilttle
'oun'a'n on the right OF st Carlo Church ap-
peared above the water. The total height of
the water had been about six or eight inches
above the point out OF which the water of this
fountain issues. AT the upprr step Of those
before st. Carlo Church was free irom wafer.
but coated with deep yellow mud. A boat
with three ladies has just passed: It's the
nrst That have seen with a fair freight. At
a quarter past one the first horse and cart az.
pared 10 The Corso since yesterday; the horse
was scarcely able to keep bis nose above the
water.
This inundation will, doubtless, 10 consid-
ered ny many Italians as OF ilI.omen. A lady,
the wife o. captain In the rope, late army.
SAID TO me yesterday that she firmly consider-
ed it Judgment OF Heaven on the people OF
Rome. l veniured 10 I-mind her that this
was not the first inundation Roma had expe-
rienced even In this century. indeed, such
inundation might be very readily and cheaply
rendered impossible by raising the level of tue
streets skrting the TIber from the Pincian
Hill to the Palatine Hill, or by raising a
causeway in the centre OF these streets aud
tapping the yer.. The necessary works APP
pear to me so plain and obvious that it seems
strange IL has never struck any one bef,re.-
Such causeway would not be much above
two miles, and its expense would be incou.
siderable, while an embankment like the
Thames would be very costly indeed.