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

said in their behalf: that
THEY HAVE GREATLY IMPROVED
during the last dozen years. Before
the revolution which deposed the
Bourbon dynasty, there were $4,000
of the lazzaroni OF the mendicant
class; the number has since then di-
minished one half. There were no
schools in 1858; there are 10000
children of the poor now in daily at
tendance thereat. Crime has been
greatly depressed, assassinations,
robberies, larcenies, burglaries, are
far less frequent. The police are
more vigilant and active in srrest-
ing law-breakers and keeping the
criminal classes under surveillance.
There are better regulations about
the depots and wharyes for the pro-
lection of strangers from imposition
and robbery. Previous to the rev.
olution of 1859 the mountains of
Southern Italy and Sicily Nswarmed
with highway robbers, and travelling
therein was attended with great per-
sonal risk. The stage coaches were
constantly stopped, and the passen-
gers plundered of their valuables;
and those Of them who were suppOs
ed to have wealthy connections were
carried off into the mountain fast
neSses as prisoners, and kept in du-
rance vile until ransomed at enor-
nous prices or murdered if they at
tempted to escape. These bandits
have all been tracked to their hiding
places by the soldiers, and shot or
hanged. The Government is in
structing military roads IN every di-
rection among the mountains, which
enables the soldiers to follow and
pursue the robbers, who numbered
several thousand a few years ago,
and who subsisted by making raids
on the villages and by robbing trav-
elers. In gong about by rail or
turnpike now, IN Southern Italy
in perfect safety, the traveller can
have but slight conception of the
state of the country when infested
by robbers, and of the dangers that
were incurred fifteen years, ago,
under the old Bourbon regime:
1t is a constant mystery to trav-
elers how the people of Naples
MANAGE TO CANA SUBSISTENCE.
Here are $4,000 inhabitants in the
city proper, and $4,000 more in su-
burban villages. How do all these
600, 900 people live? The trade and
commerce of Naples and suburbs do
not appear to be one-tenth part as
much as that of Chicago, which has
only 100000 population; and yet
the trade of the latter is not suf-
ficient, at all times, to give all the
people employment. Naples is not
great railroad centre like Chicago.
One railroad centers from the south;
a second runs east across the peninsu-
la, to Brindisi, 12O miles; and third
extends a short distance south;
and that embraces the whole system.
The city is open to the sea, and two
or three lines of steamers touch here
on their routes. A swarm of fish
ermen's smacks make this their head
quarters, schooners from Sicily bring
cargoes of oranges and figs, the coral
divers send their products to the
manufacturers of Naples. The sur
plus olive-oil of the country south
finds it market here. Some millions
of bottles of wine, of three familiar
brands-Capria, Falernian, and
Lachryma- Christa-are produced in
the vineyards of the neighborhood
for expectation. There is also
considerable export of macaroni to
foreign countries and also of manu-
factured coral-ornaments. These
embrace the bulk of the foreign
commerce of Naples. Their aggre
gate amount cannot exceed a few
million of dollars. But there are
two other resources which constitute
the
MAIN RELIANCE OF THE PLACE.
The first is foreign visitors; the sec
ond, the landed nobility. Several
thousand English, attracted by
the mildneSs of the winter-climate
and the genial brightness of the
skies, as compared with their own
foggy, wet, and dismal climate in
winter, and for the charms of the
scenery hereabouts, spend three or
four months in Naples every season.
Many Of them own villas here, and
keep horses and carriages, and EN-
ploy a troop of servants. Next to
the English, are the Russians in
point of number and expenditures.
Then comes several hundred Ameri- |
cans and Germans, and occasionally |
a Frenchman; but the latter rarely |
travel abroad. The foreigners NIL |
the hotels and "pensions; give
occupation to the cabs and carriages,
and the cicerones who pilot them
around; patronize the operas, sup |
port the lazzaroni, on grounds of |
charity; purchase enormous guam
titles of coral and shell ornaments,
bronzes, "Pompeii curiosities'' imam !
ufactured), and Photographic views |
of scenery, Vesuvius, and other
things, and learn to eat macaroni.
Naples is the old capital of South
ern Italy, including the large Island |
Sicily, embracing a population of |
100000, and occupying territory |
of perhaps $4,000, square miles, or
half the area of Illinois. The land
belongs mainly to
THE MOBILES,
who rent it to tenants in small par,
GELS, at rental based on one halt
the annual production in crops ana
cattle. These mobiles, to the number
of several thousands, reside, for the
greater part of the year, in Naples
and there spend the bulk of their in
come It is their great ambition to
own n villa and splendid turnout.
But if they cannot afford both, they
occupy "dat" in some high, yellow
stuceo building called "palace, " and
display themselves every afternoon
on the drive-ways, behind their high
stepping English thoroughbreds,
encased in gold mounted harness,
in an omen carriaoa driven nv a