Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-05-02
NAPLES, March %, 1874.

"See Napoli and die" in an Italian
meaning is that there is nothing more
worth living for after enjoying the
sight, as it is the climax of earth's
beauty and perfection. But the pro-
verb cannot apply TO an introspect-
i've view OF the city, by any means,
only to the panoramic one, which
must include the bay, shores, noun
tains, islands, headlands, glens,
plains, valleys, volcanoes-extinct
and active, villages and villas, and,
III short, the whole vista of 40 or 50
miles called NAPLES" Around this
hOrseshoe-shaped bay, with Naples
at the toe, is undoubtedly the
MOST CHARMING AND BEAUTIFUL
variety and combination of land and
water, hill and dale, of mirror bright
hess and mountain ruggedness, blue
skies and radiant sunshine, to be
found on the face of the earth. A
climate of delicious softness, where
no sharp extremes of heat or cold
put strife between man and Nature.
Wooded heights, such as the genius
of Greek poetry peopled with beard
ed Satyrs and buSkined wood-nymphs
and "made vocal with the reeds of
Pan, and the hounds and horn of
Artemis. - Over the whole region
there is smiling expression of Joy
aud happiness. Nature has lavished
her gifts with prodigal hand, and
man has made park and garden of
hill and dale. Every square foot of
the surface of the earth is cultivated
to the utmost In vines and fruits,
grains and grasses, shrubs and flow
ers. The population all around these
enchanted shores appear good-natur-
ed and smiling; and among them, for
many centuries, there was no discus
sion of politics, science, literature or
religion, but a uniform level of
IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION.
1t is only within a decade that thev
have awakened from q sleep of I2
centuries, and now, for the first time
in fifty generations, they begin to
think, read, doubt, discuss and in
quire. But there are those in Italv
who insist that ignorance is bliss,an
that it is not only. folly, but a crime,
to be wise.
In the City of Naples there are
few objects of curiosity, except the
people and their manners and Gus
toms. There is no church or relIg-
ious edifce, out of 800, which de-
serves mention, except the Convent
of San Martino, on "Mount Calva-
ry," and it is only remarkable for
its beautiful marbles, mosaics and
pictures. The exterior of the build
ing is plain and uninviting. There
are no churches or public buildings
where architecture attracts the eye;
no private picture-galleries which re-
quire description. There are no struc-
lures of any kind which will induce
the stranger to visit them a second
time, except the great Royal Muse.
um, filled with statuary, and objects
dug from the ruins of Pompeii and
Herculaneum. The two Royal pal
aces-the one on the bay and the
other on the hill overlooking the
city-contain many fine pictures, but
cannot compare with what may be
seen in Rome or Florence.
There are no "ruins" of the an
clent Roman period to be seen in Ma
pies; nothing that antedates the pc
rod OF the Crusades. Still, it is
handsome city looked at inside, and
eXquisitely'beautiful when seen from
distance. Nearly all the houses
are from five to seven stories high,
and covered with colored stuccos,
which impart a smooth, bright aspect
to the streets as one passes through
them, and ala distance, makes the
great city glitter and sparkle in the
sunlight. The street facing the bay
is wide, and several miles in length.
1t is not continuous to the view, but
irregular and angular, and goes by
many names. 1t is on this front
street
THE LAZZARONI
swarm by thousands. Along the
wide sidewalks, tagged with lava
stone, they sit, squat, and sprawl,
summing themselves, thick as flies
about 4 sugar-hogshead. They are
of all ages, and sexes, and degrees of
filthiness, squalor, and rags. They
have on sympathetic exhibition ev-
cry imaginable variety of cripples,
halt, lame and blind, who are thrust
at the prosecuted stranger who walks
this chief thoroughfare. In whining
accents and piteOus moans, they be-
seech him for coppers with which to
''bgY macaronim The distorted limb,
the arniess or legless trunk, or fes,
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