Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-10-08

and some compounded of two or more.
We see it again in the church of Santo
Marco, (where rest the bones of st. Mark
whose roof is covered with strange,
morgue-like cupolas, and whose floor is
rich Mosaic of many colors of marble. The
four bronze horses that stand on the roof
over the main entrance are as celebrated
for their adventures as for their beauty.
Nero caused them to be harnessed to the
chariot of the sun which surmounted his
triumphal arch in Rome. They were re-
moved by Constantine to Constantinople.
Captured by the crusaders, they were
brought back to Venice. When Napoleon
captured Venice, he sent them 10 Paris.
After Waterloo, they were returned to We
nice. Who can tell what is to be their flu
ture fate? But can not be so minute.
THE DoGE's PALACE
Was visited-the beautiful paintings and
statuary therein were examined. L saw
the - portraits of the Doges as they hang
around the walls-many by Titan Iintor-
etto and other famous artists-saw where
one is missing and instead of a picture a
black curtain painted on the wall, on
which are these words, "Hic locus est Ma
lini Faletri decapitati pro criminibus." l
saw the cell in which he was imprisoned,
crossed the Bridge ofSighs, which connects
the Doge's palace to another building,
across a canal, which has many cells in it,
across this bridge came many prisoners,
both political and civil, to hear their doom.
Here was where the Council of Ten decided
the fate of thousands-there by the door
entering the chamber of the inquisitors is
a small hole in the wall, in which the
secret charges were formerly inserted upon
which men were tried during the day. We
wandered along the narrow walks between
the houses and examined the beautiful
Mosaic jewelry and glass, now specially
of Venice which even to see would be q
rare treat to many of our ladies at home.
l visited the arsenal, the "bridge Rialto,"
which, with single beautiful arch spans
the grand canal-the painting galleries,
&c. At night, we saw Venice, beautiful
Venice lunder a full moon, with her
sparkling white marble palaces, churches,
public aud private buildings. We
FLOAT THROUGH THE wATERY STREETS,
Where all the city seems to be out in their
gondolas gay groups Orwell dressed, hand
some men and women laughing, singing,
enjoying the salt sea breeze that floats i'll
around us. You hear no cracking of whips
and laundering and Gathering of horses
and carriages over stone pavements, but
without noise the gondolas move in an in
tricate throng up and down the grand ca
nal. Music comes floating over the water
the hours are struck by
CHIMES OF SWEET TONED BELLS.
What must Venice have been in the grand
old days of her power and splendor, when
her navies went out to conquer the nations
OF the East and returned to pour their rich
treasures into her lap. By moonlight Ven
ice is capable still of awakening all the
poetry of our nature and / sat and enjoyed
a quiet, peaceful, beautiful scene, that
night at Venice, floating through
the Grand Canal and out on the quiet
Adriatic, listening to the music dying
away in the distance, and seeing the long
paths reflected by the many lights upon
the limpid surface of the water.
From Venice we skirted along the base
Of the Appenine Mountains, by the beau
,iful blue Lago di Garda, (the sky and
axes are wonderfully blue in Italy,) by
Padua and Verona, rich with their histo-
-ies and rendered immortal by Shakes
peare, to Milan, which is q beautiful city.
Contrary to the rule in Italy, Milan has
some regularity in her streets, which have
sufficient width to make locomotion in a
carriage possible. The most wonderful
hing thing in Milan is her
CATHEDRAL.
1 have described to you the cathedral at
Cologne and st. Paul's, i'll London.
have now seen this at Milan and there is
Is st. Peters, at Rome. l send you by the
same mail that takes this, printed de-
,cription of this wonderful building. 1t
g a mountain OF white marble, commenced
n 1857 and is still unfinished, and will re-
luire yet one hundred and twenty years in
which to compile IL. The decorations of
4 part of the roof is what is wanting. 1t
Is white marble, roof and all, and has one
hundred and six pinnacles or spires, and is
with
SEVEN THOUSAND PIECES OF STATUARY,
most of them outside and on the roof and
exquisitely chiseled by the best masters
out of white marble. 1t will when finish
ed be regarded as
ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD,
and will last as long as a marble noun
tain will last. The plan is very elaborate
and intricate. Recently much work has
been done on the roof and part of it has
been finished-enough to show the design
Of the whole when completed, and it is
absolutely wonderful. In my next will
trace for you my wanderings to this beau
tiful city on the blue lake Lernan.
/ sit at my window and see the
lake, the city, and in the dis
lance Mont Blanc raises his
peak in plain view, and APP
parantly much nearer and more distinct
than are our Smoky Mountains from
Europe is full of Americans.
We find the Swiss hotels full of them.
Here we find the best hotels in Europe.)
1 crossed the Alps from Lake Maggiore
by the Simplon pass, coming down by the
sources of the Rhone, stopping at Vevay,
q beautiful summer resort.