Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-04

ton. How touching the sight of the hu-
| man bodies there to be seen. Here is the
retreating form of a mother and her
daughter, maid Of Is years There a
man has fallen ON his face to escape
the sulphur fumes and cinder dust :;
and here is one with bag of
mouey, and a woman with bunch
Of keys in her hand, overtaken.
suflocated and incased in the
hot mud that came like tidal wave and
took them into its fatal bank. One feels
like he were suddenly carried back 1900
years, and made to touch the civilization
of the Romans under Nero and Caligula.
Here Mosaic stones were shaped and made
to read, Beware the dog and there is
the word Welcome" [ saw some fine
frescoes on walls of ruined palaces, and
several good pictures, lul none that cited
to Christianity, while nearly nil indicated
honor for heroes and devotion 20 the gods.
The most valuable relics of the buried
cities are to be seen in the museum at Ma
pies. No traces of animal power are found.
The carriages of their princes and mobiles
were drawn by the slaves they had re-
duced in times of war The grooves
of the chariot wheels remain in the
paved streets, and the indications of
royalty and spiendor were not efflced
either 10y the terrible catastrophe or by
the hand Of time. The unnameable licen-
tiousness Of its inhabitants left is portrait
on the walls and IN sculptured relief. and
st. Pauls description Of their vices. re
corded in his first chapter to the Romans
is here fully illustrated, and that they
"were filed with all unrighteousness, for
nication, wickedness, maliciousness full
of envy, murder, deceit, debate, malicnitv
whisperers, back-biters, haters of God, de-
spiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents; without un-
derstanding, coyenant-hreakers, without
natural affection, impcachable, unmerci-
ful," is so plainly read from these obscene
walls, and from their designs of vases and
the general confguration of their fine arts,
as to need no better proof of the truth of
his statement.
Naples has population Of 100000 1t
IS agreat city, and by far exceeds Rome.
Our visit embraced all places of interest
we desired to see The cathedrals of Ma
pies are all extravagantly built. OF it
and of It's palaces | have no space to speak.
Its busy populace and thriving business
departments will keep it second to no other
city Of the kingdom. U wish to say to
you, Mr.. Editor, parenthetically, that [
have about lost my appetite for maccaroni.
They make it here, and the seven
pounds Of dirt which fate compels man to
eat annually is one of the principal ingre-
dients in maccaroni, so that hereafter
intend to buy it sparingly, and eat it
scarcely.) The organ-griuders of Italy
fairly keep the air vibrating with the per-
suasive tones Of 4 collection. They resort
to the entrance of dining-rooms and res
taurants to discourse their music aud col
lect their dues. Then comes the beggar,
halt and blind, to solicit his 'centime."
Beggars by necessity and beggars by pro-
fession beggars by compulsion, and beg
garS by choice. Ignorance, superstition
and filth combine to make things dis
tasteful
Want Of sanitary regulations, and indie
cent nuisances tolerated by the city au-
thorities, make Naples wear poor garb
OF pride. lie who wrote, "See Naples and
die" did not see Cairo. In Naples, the
great rush of business is on but a few of
the streets, while in Cairo there is
moving thrOng on street and avenue, the
difference is in the Oriental and European
customs of trade. Silk culture has become
prominent among the industries of Italy,
and large cargoes of it are prepared for
the market of the world in that city.
What the Pyramids and Nile ruins are to
Cairo, Nesuvius, Pompeii and Hercula-
mum are to Naples. Public thorough
fare~, hotels aud bazaars are crowded with
foreign travellers whose patronage makes
Inc,
bic here the dependence upon neighbor-
ing nations for the necessities and Injuries
of life. Ii We Americans We're shut up TO
ourselves, we would not suffer for either
But not SO here. Famine, or at least
poverty and wretchedness comes often, and
with some there is no relief. Incidence
and extravaganza are to blame for it
largely. sunny Italy has sufficient
land and commercial advantages to pro-
vide for her people both labor and support.
Wine and want OF wisdom are her greatest
curse
learned here that while the intelli-
gent Italian is better pleased with the
Government of United Italy than with
the former regime under the Popes, there
is feeling of national independence to be
seen, aud while the present disafiection
between the King and Pope obtains, and
neither can hope to please the other, the
spirit of rcpuhicaniSm, in the national ac-
ceptation Of the word, is manifesting itself,
and in neither Rome nor Florence is it
so manifest as here. | ask the states
man and the soldier what he thinks of
that strange military division of the
kingdom which the reader will infer
from this sentence: "The soldiers of
the Pope, and the soldiers of the King
They are not uniformed alike; their
equIpage differs, they are at their respec-
tive posts of duty, but these duties do
not and cannot preserve the unity of Italy
so long as the adherents of the Pope de-
mand his return to temporal power. Had
Victor Emanuel declared the freedom and
independence of Italy, he could have
united the people to defend both it and
him with greater ease than the union of
her provinces under King. Tomorrow
| shall he in Rome III. J. BECKER.
DEALERS who claim that their pTepara-
tions are ''aS good as Hoods Sarssnarilla -