FOREION CORRESPONDENCE OAT rozzuom:;-1 ' 1 From an Occariomil tuerro4oottent.r„, Niew., May 4th, 18',10,—The driVe along; the Chiaja, at •NapleS, ih alinost terminable, when 4me - gotO \ tii jittte: later than was intended, andls`bohlad 'to 1:10 whole day's sight,seeing notwithstanding. So we were rather vexed than pleased at the con- - stunt interruptions from objects which had else been full off interest. The strings and huddles of donkeys with earls, and donkeys with span= niers, and donkeys with both Tarts and pan-' viers, all filled, piled up, and overhung with vegetables and fruits, .attended by pictriresque saleswomen, who extolled their wares with great 'energy and shrillnesS—these ' donkeys and their attendants, we say, were, on the in aripOrtnne Morning of March twenty-first, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy, a . ' vexation of spirit. .The bagpipes of the: vagabond musicians, and the pipe of I'an, which they professed to accompany, but really overwhelmed, sounded .most discordant. We had no music in our soul that morning, and what wonder that there was none in the voice of the instruments! The venders of coral, lava and shell jewelry, who crowded around the carriage during its frequent halts, had their trouble for their pains.; for we would not have purchased Ve suvius, with all its possible wealth, by a single look at the .trash. We were bound for - and- we-- were late getting -off ; and the driver was surly, and took infinite paius,-so we thOught,te make the most of every obStacle: Briefly, we were cross; and therefore : the bright sun was too warm, and the fresh breeze blowing -over the peerless bay was too cold; and there was too raid] dust and noise, and too many don keys j and other abominations, towards the upper end of the Chiaja, to allow us to settle down quietly and grow good-natured under the soothing influence of a ride along the shore of the blue 46, 'where 'springWati - Waving , its magic wand over the trees and shrubs and plants, and inviting to the dolce far nieute.. Bat when we finally arrived at the point where the road - enters the deep cut in that ridge which encloses Naples on .the land side, arid - Saw - the perpendicular - walls - =on -- either• - - hand out ;smooth down for. a hundred feet or -more frOm-the summit of the hill, we forgot our vexation and began to be interested. We were hardly beyond the business - of the city, aad yet euite as much in the country as we would be two hours hence. On our left arr= peared a small door; opening on-steps-which. conducted to the top of the hill, and on the --door—wasatiatice_that at once dissipated the foul vapor's that befogged our mind: "The Tomb of Virgin "0, we must go there at all events, and.no time is like the present! Hold on,.driver! we are in no hurry to reach Pox , moll; we have no doubt the - old' town will - stay there a - few hours longer. Yoastay-here!" And so we went up to the tomb of Virgil. Literally, we went up to the tomb, and we were pretty well bloWn when we reached the sum mit of-the hill, and were glad to stop and ad-• Wire the most charming view of the and Vesuvius which we have ever had. After a few minutes spent in admiring the proSpect, we turned to the right, Wound around among thebeds of a vegetablegarden, threw -a stone at a vicious-looking dog which was look ing at us from the top of an adjacent batik, picked our way over some loose stones and earth that formed a dangerous path for afew feet along the edge of the precipice, and brought ep beim° a rickety gate on which was a notice that a half a franc must be paid at - --that-point by persons Arisiting_theimulb _This trilling demand complied with, we descended a few steps and entered into a small chamber with niches for funeral urns on each side, and a modern-looking tombstone at the end op posite the entrance. The back of the tomb overhangs the road a hundred feet or more, perpendicularly, below ; and the whole notwithstanding its solid masonry, seems ready to topple over on the passing wagons. Descending from this perch, we entered at once into the Grottu di Pozzuoli, a tunnel nearly a half mile long, and varying in height from twenty-five to eighty feet, through which runs-the most direct road to Pozzuoli. Classi cal writers speak of this tunnel, as well as many others in the environs of Naples; and in the time of Nero the Crotta was used for its ,present purpose, although it had not probably reached its present dimensions. The tunnel is now lighted with gas, the pavement is good, and the roof seems to have gotten rid of any primitive disposition it may have had to drop pieces of stone on the heads of passengers. When we went through it in the morning, the air was shiveringly cold, but when we re turned in the evening the temperattire was the same as under lie open sky—the traffic of the day having changed it. Beyond the tunnel WV. passed through a di lapidated-looking village, and thence on to the plaio ' will& teaches to the 'sea. Rows of' trees lined the roadside and lengthened out till lost in the dim perspective. The fields were planted with trees and vines. The usual number of beggars displayed the usual deform ities and uttered the usual appeals for charity. Some boys ran with the carriage, sometinws ahead, sometimes alongside,ashing fur bitwelti, and making grotesque appeals by means tumbling and pantomime, until there was no resisting them. After a time we came to the sea. The island of Nosida was on our left ; in flout. tin islands of Prooda and Ischia. We turned sharp to the right and rode along the winding shores till a huge, gray wall rose up before us. frown ing 'terribly on alt new corners, and shitting out the view beyond. We climbed the hill, silenced the beggars with a few coppers, triraed w the right then to the left, then to the light again, and were in Pozzuoli. • 'I lie town is not ravishingly beautiful, and it .rtiells villainously. The dresses of the peo ple are picturesque, but nut whole or clean. 'l Le streets are not clean. The houses are nut dean. The churches are not clean. if any thing is more olWnsive than the fish and aid— reniember it is the EetiSollofLent--;,ilanything . is niece ollenive at Pozzuoli than the smell • of fish-1-U tite---mriell of ; -and if there-- o;limsive than the smell of garlic it is the tumll Forty-Firma. Cong , ress—ltiecond Nemsion The harbor of Pozzuoli seems, to our un- i in the United States Senate, yesterday, Mr nautical , ;10, 14 saiiia fur to that of N;tples. Crinkling, from the .ludit;lary Committee, ra certainly it. was 0110 the principal ports for ported the new Naturalization bill. Mr. Ed . the trade 01 the East during the period of the rounds, front the same Committee, made a Emperors. Te the Chri,tian, interestattachcs report asking to be discharged (rein considera to it as the place whew )t.. Paul landed on his tier of ,the Rhode Island election laws, there first voyage toward Rome. To the elitssVill bving-nothing-to-warrant-Congressional inter student it is. interestiug as the favorite resi, once in, the matter. The Committee were dence.Of the RPM= ari'itoiT4y, the ruins of discharged.. The Legislative Appropriation Whose villas cover every spot around.' .Here, bill was considered until adjournineut.' too, May be seen more than , one-half of the The House of Representatives passed the .20 piers of the breakwater celebrated by Seri- Northern Pacific Railroad bill, as it came from eca and Htrabo. As the breakwater was eon- strutted of mapses eoparate f.mn &Led • so as to pe4it thi3• water to flow in and oat, the, barbor Wits not fitted up, with silt ; an 1" mon . than probable; that Calignla• carried his bridgelrom the end.of these mofes.Pideolance, over to Baiae--the bridge 'betne only a coal pulary structure of;boats and barges, and un -1,), orals , of the prominence given it in history, save ,a 8 the freak uf Madinat. - Another place of interest at Pozzuoli is the Thernial establishment—the so-called retinae of Jupiter Serapis. In the centre of a quad , rangle.are timid the ,remains of 10. columus, standing in the circumference of a circle. .'Three 'Columns, which are supposed to hay. stood in front of the temple, are found to'be pierced at some' distance - up by' marine boring'shells." Hence, say some, the sea was once at , thi,s vation. NO, say others, these columns !were Once sunk by some natural convulsion,' and again elevated. We concluded, however; that they were put in their present place in - their present condition, and were appealed to in con nection with.some of the traditions or super stitions with which the • Pagans loved to suri round their altars, temples and shrines. From this "temple" we drove around the edge of the hill, on a road overlooking the har bor and adjacent shores, up to the amphi theatre back of the town. It is-very perfect yet, the scats being many of them in their places,-and the subterranean room, galleries and vaults complete and whole. We were shown apartments where the gladiators were *wont to assemble; the: school of athletes, the chamber s for arms, and all the instruments connected with the cruel sports to which the building was devoted. In this amphitheatre it is said that St. Januarius, a vial of whose ulood is so carefully kept at Naples, and which lique fies at certain seasons, was martyred in the - reign pfDioeletian. A number of self- - consti- - toted guides, consisting of boys and other beg gars, had appropriated to themselves the dif ferent portions of the building, and were firm in refusing permission to enter, save on the payment of sums varying from five sons to one franc!' A party immediately ahead of us had complied with the modest demands of the ur chins, with the ordinary readiness of Americans to pay What is demanded, no matter by whom or for what. But an appeal to the ordinary custpdeof the place at once sent the scamps off in a doien directions, laughing and hurrahing at the partial success of their well-planned Stratagem.' 01 course, we were emotion ized and pa thetic, and " lost in thought," add reflected for the orthodox period, and went away, as usual, profoundly convinced of something, we didift, know what, and impressed with something 'else, or the same thing, until we found out that we-had amazing diMetites, and therr re-, ferred all our impressions and emotions to this vulgar cause, and were not a bit ashamed ! Like the "Swiss Family Robinson" when they were hungry,. we "partook of refresh ments" and "felt b refreshed;" and then we started for the Solfatara. We went up hill on _a bad road, which became rapidly worse, until the loose stones and bed washed out warned us to take to the foot. A boy of sixteen, or thereabouts, proposed at once to guide us, while our-man was left to guard the ladies "who felt uneqVal to - thelatigue. " Presently-a-fork in the road showed us one path yellow with sulphur and another white with dust. Our youthful guide promptly took the latter with great confidence, while we, somewhat doubt ful, made inquiries - ofthe omnipresent -beggar, and_were directed to take the former. The beggar was right, and the boy wrong; :yet it is but just to say that the boy did his best, and really had never been there before, and knew nothing of the Solfataro or anything else in the neighborhood. But our alighting where he happened to be sunning himself on his travels suggested to his ready mind an oppor tunity for the exercise of that peculiar indus try which characterizes the Italian vagabond more than any other-vagabond. We reached the Solfatara. It_ is a semi-ex- Witt volcano—the crater of which is a level plain, bounded on cone side by the_ ridge .of the former cone, which ridge rises perhaps a hun dred feet above the plain of the crater. Oppo site the entrance a stream of smoke was rising under the bill. A vineyard and orchards and a vegetable garden fill the crater. Sulphur ij collected in considerable quantities. Proetniti; a guide, we made our way along the road to wards the smoke: — Soon - our - feet - felt warm. •We observed that the vegetation was far in ad vance of that of Naples. As we looked down towards our feet, the guide gave us a handful of sand. It was hot enough to be dropped without hesitation. We then stopped and lis tened, and heard the water boiling as though it were about to blow the top of The guide heaved up a stone and let it fall, and the ground shook and sounded hollow. We felt as though the place was 11'1(11)111y, and asked how far off Avernus was. "A short distance," said the guide, and we believed him. We think that Virgil was very matter of fact when he placed the mouth of Hell not far from where we stood. We went down towards the cloud of steam, and the guide lighted a torch and passed it along the sides of the cavity, and the whole ground smoked. Ile thrust the torch in the rising cloud, and its volume was doubled. Then putting the torch into a corner of the hole from which the smoke emerged, it was instantly extinguished. We got some sulphur crystals, and then went to the bath-houses. These are two galleries running horizontally into the side of the crater, a few feet apart. As we entered the first gallery, the head and upper part of the body were al most instantly in a profuse perspiration, from the current of hot air. In reply to our excla mation, the guide squatted on the ground, and we did the same. The relief was as sudden and grateful as the plunge into cold water after the scalding processes of the Russian bath. • The rush of cold air to fill the vacuum made by the ourrent above was, to our bursting beads, like the balmy breeze of Araby the Blest to the weary pilgrim of the desert. After this sweating and cooking pro'cess,both in the course of a minute, we entered the gal lery, not ten feet distant', and parallel, and found it pleasantly cool, thed a Lillie cold, then most too cold : then filloguther too cold, and rushed out into the open air, to the intense de lighl of the guide. (fur departure &mu the Solfatara was precip itate, it' not dign died. An unusual . bubbling of thc•wator caused us to turn our heads, and we ‘saw an immense volume of steam rushing frau tic:dly from the hole not twenty feet, off; we beard a little rumble all around the crater like the passing of loaded wagons; we felt a shiver run thmugh the earth; the dog stopped bark ing ; the men at work raised themselves up, and looked around interrogatively; we don't know what the guide did; we didn't wait to see ; we stood not on the order of our going, . _ • but v ent at once. amazing the rate at which thirty-odd years can get over a half a mile of volcanic crater when Vesuvius is smok ! ing can't en or and the Solfatara threatens to come to its relict'. We will only adds that "it was a false PHILADELPHIA EVENIN,Pc - BOLLETIN,. Fm t i - ) At, lIAY 27, 1870. the Senate, by a vote 1.007 . yeaa to 85 na , M: -1 . 1 , f-011111