Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-12
PARIS. No. z, Rue de la Renaissance,


PARIS, No. z, Rue de la Renaissance, !
June Goth. !
We are here. Have reached the goal at
last. When you last heard from me 1 was
leading, l believe, in modest way, some
What Of II Neapolitan life. Now am
full-fedged Frenchman. parley coatssmg q
III mode 4inglais, and doing the boulevards
i'll nativr-iiEe manner: But probably it
NAY he OF some interest to you to know
how got here, for, unlike Little Breech-
es." l diG not have any of those angels to
scoop d, wr" and tote me through space
to tins Eiysiun. o, no! but by steam cars,
steam boz Us, stage lines, and mule back
yes, mule back, the Staunton party has
made the round.
Returning from Naples through Rome
We reached Florence. a beautiful city on
the river .ArnO, where the world renowned
UtliZi Gallery and Pitt Palace are stu
ated, COM aiming Tue largest and finest col
lection of sl.tuary, paintings, and tapes
try work IN Eurol,e. After spending sew
eral very interesting days there we went
to
VENUE
a city of e, 600 inhabitants, situated Oh
islands ia Il bay near the gulf
OF Venice or Adriatic Sea. This was I.
most novel city to me, as the streets are
canals and the p 'ople have to do their
walking" about town in gondOlas, or
boats, thel = being only three horses in the
place, and they are kept AS curioslties.
We stood, of course, on the Bridge OF
Signs; visited the church of San Marco;
tire Ducal Palace; Shylock s and AntonioE
houses [takc it for granted you've read
Merchant of Venice] &c,
&c. We hurried on to Milan, one OF the
largest cities in northern Italy. The great
attraction here is the magnificent Cathe-
dral Of Milan, tAe Duomo, which--but you
don't want any description Of church,
know. however beautiful it may be, so, if
you will excuse me, will go on to Lake
Como, about forty miles from Milan. where
we spent day or two most delightfully."-
in boat-sailing, trout-fishing, and fine
liying-I mean dinner and things.
is considered the place of Italy, in the way
of beautiful scenery, &c. We could not
stay any length of time, for just at this
stage of our trip it began to get pretty
warm in Italy, even on the lake, and we
commenced longing for the white-capped
peaks Of Switzerland, which were visible
in the distance, SO we hurried across to
Aroma, on Lake Maggiore, and started
from there by stage coach at IL O'Clock at
night, in order to have the scenery in day
light to cross
THE ALPS
at the Simplon Pass. We were fortunate
enough to get the banquitti, the top seat,
and the best on the coach. AS we COM
menced the ascent of the Alps, about day.
light in the morning, the scenery was the
grandest l ever saw, the peaks standing
out against the sky like church steeples.
We reached the Simplon Pass about the
middle of the day, threading our way
around the mountain peaks, covered with
snow, with perpendicular cliffs of 1000
feet or more Overhanging our road Reach
ing Locher, the foot on the opposite side,
about ten O'Clock that evening, where we
spent the night, hurrying on to Martigny
the next morning, where the mules came
in. They were all drawn up in line, and
the Ex-Speaker. considering himself fins
judge of horse-fesh, judged his mule by
the same points, and made the first choice.
l had to bring up the rear and take what
was left, which was a mule. At II O'Clock
we mounted, our guide walking, and took
up our line Of march for Chamounix,
which is right at the foot Of Mont Blanc,
via the Tete Noir route, distance Of
thirty miles. For the first eight or ten
miles all moved along smoothly, when our
beasts began to get little tired, as mules
sometimes do, you know The Ex-Speak-
or, after expostulating in quiet manner
with his brute for awhile, lit into the poor
thing with club something smaller that
a fence rail, which caused hin, to shift
position in the twinkling OF an eye to q
dangling seat between muly's ears, each of
which he swung to long enough to assume
the appearance of sklnning the cat, and to
gasp forth the interrsgatory, "W on't one
of you swap with me?" That was no time
for swapping horses, ditto mules, so r.
and hurried on and left our friend and
mule to arrange matters between them,
which l don't think they ever did, as he
drew up at Chamounix that night about
two hours after us, minus his mule.
The view of Mont Blanc and the i'm
nence glacier is magnificent from this
place, but the next day being cloudy we
didn't attempt the ascent of any of the
peaks, but went on to Genoa. which is
beautifully situated on the lake of the
same name.
Resting day or two there, and making
several purchases in the way of watches,
&C., we made our way, via: Interlaken,
Berne, Lucerne, the falls Of the Rhine ,otl as
burg, where each set his wa, oh by the noted
clock, Heidelberg, and Baden Baden"
but we did not see the game played-spend-
ing day at each plac- to Mayence where
we took steamer down the Rhine to
Cologne, the scenery considered the finest
in Europe, remaining there long enough
to see the place and take cologne bath,
we went across to Brussels. the capital of
Belgium, near which the famous battle of
Waterloo was fought and from Brussels
into ia belle Francais," where you now
find me. have given you rather a con-
densed and sweeping description of nearly
q half of Europe. whole libraries having
been written about each place have men,
toned but not being much in the journal
lists business must ask your kind ildul-
gence aid beg you to consider the purpose
for which was induced TO cross the rag
ing canal. The first thing we did this
was to 60 to our Banker and en-
quired for
that we had directed to be forwarded to
us from London, all being gladdened by
good tidings from home, in the shape Of
various letters and several antiquated
editions of the INDICATOR. from which
we read with much interest the result of
The Primary. To the victors extend my
hearty congratulations. To the vanquish-
I'd my unfeigned sympathy in their sore
Have not had time to see much of Paris
ret, having only gotten here last evening,
out the first impression is very satisfaoA-
:ory one. though. as we expect to abide
or week or two, will wait before 1 ex-
press an opinion, and give you my views
If Partisan life in my next, that is if you
IAN stand the perusal of one more. and 1
IAN find the time to write. The EXPOSE
S said to be very fine. in many respects sur
passing our Centennial, but have not seen
he grounds yet and don't expect to spend 2
.reat deal of my time there. Capt. William
}. Anderson, Of R ckbridge, one of the
United States Commissioners to the expo