Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-01-20

very comfortable. At one place we see away
across the ravine tunnel, through which our
Guide Book. says we must pass, going in an
opposite directon, but how we are to get there
is query. Soon we are in long, dark pas
sage, and when we come out the sun is on the
other side of us, q across the ravine we see the
old roae down below us, showing that we had
made gradual but severe curve and ascent
within the mountain through which we pass
ed. Now by the Indicating numbers, and slant
of the frequent signs, we see we are descend
ing rapidly our height of over 1000. f. above
the level of the sea. In about three hours or
less, having passed through II tunnels, we are
fairly over tia pass, and the air Is already
warmer, and in the warm afternoon sun, am
glad to exchange thi.n cloak for a shawl
At one place we stop for poor dinner, and
then buy grapes, figs apples, peaches and
pears for retreshmenL Now the vineyards are
frequent, and the grapes hang heavy and
large. 1t is interesting to see where the boun-
dares of Austria stop and those of Italy be-
gin; for one or two stations the two. people
quarrel over the names, and the signs are put
up in both languages.
/ At Go'clook, we found ourselves ut Veyona
and felt the first inoonseni0nee ees of Italy in the
long waiting for the omnibuscs to get ready
to start. Motto tempo they are always saying !;
and in getting our trunks examined they were
| very slow. AS we went within the walls OF
the city, an officer put his head in the door of
our omnibus to see If he could spy any taxa
ble goods. We came TO the hotel Due Tore"
! Qwo towcre), and like al others in this coun-
try, 1t is untidy, with u frowzy.headed cham
Der maid and poor meals There is II large
court in the centre, around which are corridors
open to the sky, 50 if it rains we must get wet
in going down to meals, as we must pass
along these 10 the hall The floors are OF a
certain cement with bits of marble in it which
iOpnls very durable floor, but is ugly enough.
The bedrooms are covered with old, faded
carpets. and, Italian style, the. curtains, rugs
and sofa, must be of divers colors--red, green,
blue and yellow. Mosquitoes at least, are
abundant; bat it is Italy after ALL despite the
dirt, which. in this country, is picturesque,
they say
ln the morning we took long walk. and
explored the city, visited churches, crossed
bridges, visited the markets, studied bhe signs,
got lost but found the way back for breakfast
We saw notices of indulgences for sale over
tie churches. Then we took carriage and yis-
tied Basilicn which was very old and curl
ous The Arena, that we next drove to, is the
greatest object Of inttr ST hcrc-most as mag
nificent us the Colosseum of course, but better
preserved. 1t was built 200 "a d. Around
the top used to be high wall, only small
| l.. I..Tt ,.,Io
they used TO- stretch eaRYas. Under the forty
five rows of seats are the dungeons where the
lions used TO wait mpGucntly for their turn to
spring out and up through one of the open
ings between the seats into tile wide arena and
pounce upon their prey. Also rooms for the
prosecuted viclms-those without light fol
the worst ones. The whole building is IN i'm
mense circular structure; now it is used for q
summer theatre
The tomb of Shakespeare's Juliet next at
tracted us, which is in a garden--a plain little
room kept well lighted by q window, with az
old sarcophagus in it, where she put an end tC
her life in such tragieal manner tlougl
Murray most crnely rronounces it a horse
trough HGr bnusc also was pointed out tt
as. The tombs of the noted Scalngus family
are in II church-yard by themselves and are
splendid We enjoyed in one of the Cathe-
drals fine Assumption" by Titan. At2
O'Clock Saturday we were en- route again, and
at p. NJ entered beautiful Venice" Bride o
the Sea-" We had telcgraphed for rooms, SC
she man Of the hotel attended to the getting
of our baggage and gondoln, &c, which is
, good deal. We stand before u long counte
with oup hotel porter-whom we discovered
by the name on his cap-and wait and wait
until among the numerous Trunks brought il
by the railroad pOrters, we discoNer ours
then by many pontings and hailugs we sc
one of the blue irocked individuals to bring
us our baggage and carry it TO the gondo',
where we fl e him. The hotel porter does tht
, screaming and scoldng for us and then W,
show our receipts, which answer for II check
10 reach Venice our train crosses bridge o
two or three miles, S. t. l was all prepared
for the watcry city tue gliding along thC
narrow canal, under the gloomy black cove
OF the black boats, the skillGul turning at tht
corners prrceded by the cries of the gondolic
to give notice of our coming, AN seemed I,
realize my pictapes of it, The only one o
stood was "shiiir' which means "stay there
ann coming" so as to avoid collisions. Gu
heavy load required two gonduliers, one n
each end, standing up, propelng with ont
oar like paddle, though the oars are larg
and require much strength and skill, especial
ly when there is but one rover The Condo
las are always black am told for the reason
that in the days of the city's wealth and glor'
the coverings we're SO rich-Of velvet and golt
and other expensive matcrial-that IL iinall'
became too costly to have gondoa therefor
Il law was made that all should be OF black
But more of Venice hereafter. M.H,T.
The New York EGening Mail, whicl
is not political paper, says; "What
: ever may be our personal prejudices, i
!; must be conceded that the testimon,
given at the Ku Klux trials in Sout
Carolina, is conclusive as to the perpetra