Dl t liittsbuti4 itaittit • AND AIM IN tutor& 1ti0:44 . , The Bay of Naples—The , , Landlng at Capri--Joirney to - the , Hotel—The Peasant Guquette—Caprl French— The Hotel--Tne Mountain—Excursion —Villa Jovls—The Hermit—The Green . Grotto--The Felice FamillyWomarve Labor—A Chapel—Beggars- - -A Cos mopolitan isuselord—Tne Return: From our Special Correspondent. - Cana, May 15th. Every one knews that Capri is an is land in the . Bay of Naples, but every onewho goes to Naples ought to know more than that, for there is no place in Italy that better repays a visit. Naples itself was so dusty, crowded anddirty that we were only ) too glad to get; away from it to Sorrento. From there you have even more lovely, views of .Mout Vesuving and the Bay than from Naples it t lf, and the q uiet and re , pose of the co try is far mitre in keep . ing with the surpassing loveliness of that far•famed Bay than the heat and bustle of a great: City: For days, Capri lay before ' our eyes, a blue cloud by da - y, a golden one at . .innset, when its sharp outlines seemed Ito melt into the glowing western sky. We longed to know it mdte nearly, so one bright morning we set'off to see what beauties were hidden withinit. Six stout rowers pulled us out of the Bay of Sorrento, and the moment we rounded the point and a fresh breeze struck us, in came the oars and up went the great triangular sail. Never will an Italian pull an oar if a breeze can he coaxed to help him along I The deep blue water flashed in the sunlight; the strange looking crew, with their brown bare feet and legs and queer costumes, lounged on the seats and kept an incessant chattering and laughing in their unknown tongue. Capri grew'more and more distinct, rising inimmense perpendicular cliffs from'the sea, and aa we drew nearer opening Into green and fruitful valleys. As our boat approached the shore the whole population seemed rushing to meet us; down the steep banks came the don key-girls, one tugging at the bridle, one belaboring the unhappy beast behind; old men and women, young men and maidens, all came rushing with one accord, with deafening : cries and shouts. Half a dozen old hags struggled together to place a ,bench for na to step out on, and as I walked along it I was seized by my ankles, . my hands, my clothes, and stunnedwith cries: "Signora! bona Signora! into eaioe,', anti &sae." In sheer desperation I fleeted mYself on thefirst donkey I•Saw, and the guide, announcing her victory by . shrill cries of triumph, dragged me off at a trot. In •vain fl...called ar me, in. vain I expoatuiated . and ,'deaWed I would =not move, one step more.without him! He was mounted before he well knew how, on another donkey. We had thrown some "baiocchi" (a bateceki is one cent) to the crowd, and were rattling away up the bank. When we' had time to draw - breath we found we had escaped very well. G: went before with a small boy leading his donkey, and a very hand some girl walking behind to' do the beat . ing. I followed, with - a black-eyed little girl, about six years old, leading my donkey, a quite unnecessary operation, but worth a baiocchi to her, and a rather homely , girl for beater. By my side walked the sun-burned Captain of our lit tle boat, carrying my bag, and the pro cession was closed by a small boyearry rying my shawl. Only one full-grown man, two women, two donkeys and ree small children to convey two travel rs a short had" mile to the hotel! The handsome girl before me be a most unblushing 'course of flirtation ith Cl—, sh& laughed and showed her bite teeth, she tossed her pretty head till her black hair shone again in the sun ligh and with those splendid dark eyes and - ow- ing brown complexion, well might she i know - her beauty and be proud oit ! She caught our names and shouted em -. back to her coMpanion, she told hero wn andpart of her family history, and fin y di actually coaxed 0-- into paying half a franc for four small red shells about \as big as beans! My attendant, too, brought out a paper of shells and coral and tried hard to induce me to buy, but a girl, and a rather homely one, had no chance at all with me. Our Captain fared better, all the way up the steep ascent he was coax ing me to ask my husband to give him more than he had engaged to pay. "All that went to the owner of the boat, Sig nora, I want a little something for myself to drink. Signora, he will give it to me if you will ask him, ac., Jr.c.' Of course I. could not resist such delicate flattery. I promised and he got his desire. Theway these common people pick up French is astonishing. The common sailor, the donkey drivers, the cabmen waiters, and railway porters, all speak it It is generally very bad French indee , and requires some little practice to under stand, having a strong Italian flavor to it; but owing not one word of the lan guage, wahave had no trouble whateVer. -, Of course this only holds good 'on the Main routes of travel. „One donkey driver told me he got - the priest to leaeb Wit when he was a little boy, sniecause., all the English Speak French"—so he "studied - ; his profession" as a waiter in Germany once told me,lal did. - , Bat to return to our cavalcade. Me all clattered up ~some stone :step s , the donkeys walking up like Christians, and into a paved court, where Dui-landlord came forth to meet us. His wife was a nice English woman, and ,we were soon comfortably settled, ,;a few' small coins , sending off our train quite content: Our hotel had once been a Bishop's palace, and"still bad au air of dectiYed grandeur, 'with lofty arched ceilfigs,,griat halls'and bunging,balconies- Alter nioelrtglith dbmer, we set off-for an excursion to the 4 tYllia l Juvills" a ruined Ville , or the Ein, peror. , Tiberius, of whose I luxury and cruelty traditions still linger 'among the peesanta. Tills' time we had two stout . white ponies' . • They must have been born. odd' bred on the Island,' for 16 steep lie it' * ' lit Is ill. up or down stalis;lnd These stj e erfpUted creatures seem not to mind it in the least. The cliffs are very high and s p, andel' the slopesare terraced, little loVu,stone;wolls being built seemingly to keep• eke. .soil from slipping . into I sea,' ' , and -= up these :•ternies the -- ponies -and tionkies scramble. Noit - - Words I can ' - 4onvey an idea 4 4 1 -the"etnlitite'*Unti and grandeur t o. of! . , Viiti,e l oh px4 land .. To our rig ic - rbini at l iptal 'Wii of grey incite ! ' eighteen hundred feet high, . slop* aw into a rich valley at its base, and In e centre of which rose a round I .*.•,*: z• • I .1 conical hill, terraced to its very summit, illtiterrownedly• ti greys ruined casette. erywhere - ,!the eye was delighted . .by thtkontrast'',of-,wild and savage toelui and th e richest verdure-digs, olives, mill berry-,and erange trees, vineyards - and fields of waving grain, tropical cacti and brilliant wild flowers in the greatest profusion clothed the terraces close by the savage cliffs. As we rase higher we - could see the sea on both sides of the is land at once, on one side stretching away blue and unbroken to the open sea, on thectliter WOW the' bay 'Where Mount Vesuvius , Slls neutron the ; Pure sky with its long gentle slope of matchless beauty, crowned with-its delicate plume of smoke and with white cities peacefully nestled at its feet. With many a blow and sharp gntteral cry, .our two little guides, bare-footed, bare-lieaded girls.of twelve and thirteen, got our ponies up the steep ascent. There was a restaurant with this cheerful in scription over the door: "Here Tiberius used to throw his victims into the sea." Of course we went in and gazed down the steep and horrible place, eight hun dred feet to thesie,a. I hope the poor "Tie: tims".were deed long before they reached those cruel,• 'harp rocks at the bottom I Thea‘to the crumbling ruirutel the Villa, Only a few arched :rooms are left, new. used for stables for large-eyed gentle cows, a few bits of mosaic floors, of broken columns and marble etepii. The summit of the cliff is now occupied by a small and ugly church, which a. hermit takes care ot. He also has • a book for travelers As inscribe their' names in and a very big notice asking for a trifle , for the poor her He is rather too fat and dirty to be very interesting, and the place' rather too much frequented to permit Unto be much of a The next day we took a little boat and coasted along the other side of the island. The grand cliffs, all gashed and scarred by storms, rose high above us, from 800 to 1,800 feet in height; here and there a soli tary rock stood out from the shore, one pierced with a natural arch. There are only two or three landing-places en the island, so bold and rugged are the cliffs. Soon our boat turned under a great over hanging archway of rock, that seemed to threaten to fall and crush us: This was the entrance to the Green Grotto. We rowed under a low natural arch. The water was of the most delicate wonderful green; it seemed to hold the light within it, and cast a pale, spectral glimmering reflection on the rocks overhead. Turn ing a sharp: corner, we entered a small cave, The roof was like a brilliant mo saic, stained with minerabi, blue, green, and red. The waves rolled in ; in long surges of such a wonderful living green, that words cannot deseribe it, breaking on a narrow string of white beach, with a great roar; all the cave was filled with the spray and mist of 'their breakers; it shook and quivered with the shook and roar, with its delicate purple hue ; throw big an air of perfect enchantment over _every ebject. We seemed to have pene trated to the very home of the great "eea, andits beauty Was ! _ The day before wehad seen the famous' Blue Grotto; there the effect of color is far more 'wonderful. The blue is' far more intense- and peculiar, the grotto very much more lofty; • but it can only be entered in calm weather, and tome the thunder of the great waves in the Green Giotto more than makes up in grandeur' for the quiet beauty of color in the other. However, most travelers would not agree with me, and I can only advise every one to see and decide for himself. At the end of the island our ponies met us—this time the little girls were accom- panied by their mother. The father "Fe. lice," is , as his name suggests, a happy man. He owns two stout ponies, a stout wife, and these two, half.grown girls, and should marriage deprive him of them in coarse of time, he has a brood of smaller ones to take their place. Felice-is etont, handsome and quite the gentleman in his dress and manners; he has a book full of recommendations ' f rom Mrs. Oliphant and other English , great people. He sits in the shade and smokes his cigar, while his wife and daughters trot from one end of the is- I land tathe other,driving the ponies and at tending the strangere. Mrs. Felice looks ten years older than her husband, is lean, brown and withered. She is dressed in rage, goes bare-footed and bareheaded, and the girls are her copies in miniature. When we arrive, after a long scramble, she and the girls stand by,panting and hot, while Felice, cool and composed, pockets the money. The 3 expect nothing, for Felice gets the universal additional fee "to drink;" but they look• pleased and delighted if you slip any sum, how ever small, info their bands, and the girls generally ask for "uno bioe." What would that matt say should he hear a breath of woman's rights? Mrs. Felice at least has "the right to labor." They seem very merry with their lot.. As we climbed those steep terraces we often told them to stop and relit, but they would laugh• and say they were not tired, and would constantly make little excursions up the banks and into the fields to gather flowers for us. _ We stopped -once ,at a little way-side , inn, where, sitting under a porch covered with green boughs, we drank the, sweet Capri, wine and eat deliCious oranges—enough tor ourselves 'and our three attendants for a mere trifle. Once we stopped to ice a churCh, evi dently a great wonder, ()Part in the eYea of. the people. , The floor was covered With tiles painted to represent the Crea tion. There were Adam and Eve, the angel with a wonderful flaming' sword, and all the animals from' the' elephant to tho mouse: On the walls 'were rainy votive.offerings, silver hearts, antis,' and hands,' and one picture, painted by tbe order, and presented by five ,seamea, „It wu a wonderful representation of very , wild:waves. A big ship- had • thrust its 1 bowsprit through the sail of a little one, the Ove seamen were , making' a , great out.. 0 7, and way up 'in the two corners was the, madonua standing on;.the black clouds, and a smiling saint. , The outside mo l e: population • hadeassembled (ergotto stare as we came out; they althoote beg,: 110 buiyi:were they in using their eyes. This universal be g 0 gets to 'be itbsurd;' peelple'whe are no means in want, do Was a mat te,r 9 ojurse: 'AU the an nut after l e l, you hi:tiding out roses and, wild flowers, or offering zothipg, elm* tutertuS the universal ery for ,"uno bloc!" 0" pre on girl, carrying a :heavy, sailor's 'chest on her head, hastened to set it idown• •that she • might extend her , hand, and ' Say "Signore, very tired, , a -bide!" Sher get her penny, for her load was one a stoat man would have:, grumbled' 'at.. The , women soon lose . their.( bOltY I Pader , their hard Work, but when young are very beautiful. 1 • All the peasants about Naples have the -- 5wg4.114,::*at.:71„4.4„ PI TSB .-.. strangeht 'my of droppipg. s 4be last aria bleoltheb' wo . ; Sorrentobecome "Sor rent;" Amalfi "Amalie' Signorita,- "Sig nark," and the' ever preient bloccus "bloc." We were • - tly inzzlea as to the na tionality of o . landlord; he spoke Eng lish fluently, g letwith some strange: slips —when we t our bill it was explained, for on the back were some advertisements ingeniously arranged to suit all custom ers; the first in English,- spoke of ,the English landlady and the fine views; l the second to French, dwelt winch on I the good wines; the third in German, said the landlord was German, and the pricei of both the French and German were two francs less than the English. Our charming visit drew to its close. We had seen a more primitive and hand some peasantry, and nature under a newer and more lovely phase than anywhere', else in Italy, and we could have lingered long in that lovely . Island. Four stout oars men took us back to Sorrento, actually working harder than any Italians I ever i saw. It was very mini,' so their oars ad to do all the work. • Their dress is ery slight, a' coarse linen shirt, and trew era cut short at the knee, with a cap, w ch is only along bag. hanging over on one side. Suck stout . brown legs a nd arms l museles that' an 'athlete might envy and i painter ' ' long to - copy I • They stand and ' push the oar, throwing the whole weight of their body upon it, and they sing and . laugh for "magoaroni," with the higwho humor. One merry fellow c ould speak a few words of English, made constant adroifallusions to "maccaroni," enceuraging the others to • renewed ex ertions by assuring them "11; Signor would give them quantities of mecca roni at Sorrento.' Making suggestive pantomime with his fingers and mouth, showing how fast he would eat it, sing ing song after song, in which the "Isola Bella" figured largely, but all of them had the singular peculiarity , of ending with a refrain.of "Maccarom. ! Really, these people are so adroit, so good na tured and cheerful with all their invet erate begging, that you cannot 'help giv ing to them. oradually the deep green valleys and terraces of Capri faded away, then the bold perpendicular, _cliffs lost their gray ' hue and the beautiful Island faded away into the well known dark blue cloud, whom high, sharp edge, cutting clear against the sky, no one can ever forget haviag once seen. FRANCISCA. General Thomas on the Way to the Pa• Among our 13assengers was Gen. °ed. H. Thomas, 8$ route for his new field— the entire Pacific coast, with headquarters at San Francisco. We of the East are hardly aware of the admiration, the en thusiasm, the personal affection for Thom as throughout the West. Everywhere one hears Zuni spoken of as 'Old Relia ble," "Pap Thomas," "The Rock of . bhickarnauga," I "That t ' Splendid Old Man." .In Point of fact, his age 'is only tlfty-two; battle grave, kindly demeanor does carry a patents! suggestion. Ile is certainly one of the finest characters brought out by the war. President Lincoln, when first desired to make him a Major General, replied with a distrust born of many disapments. "No; he is from the South; I will wait till he earns it Thomas heard of this—and how glori ously did he earn the Major General ship and every honor he has received. He was always at this post, and for three years he did not once see his wife. He never got whipped; he never Com plained of anything; he never accepted any promotion until it was fairly thrust upon him; "he never committed an act that had to be explained or apologized Tor." Since the war his rare qualities have grown steadily upon the people, -When he declined the house offered to him by the Cincinnatituis, he did it with perfect modesty and unostentatiousness. 'The Government," he said, "has always paid me amply, and all my wants are provided for. To accept such a present would not be consistent with my sense of duty." A few weeks ago some of his old officers in Nashville—in token of their affection, as he .was about leaving for the West, proffered him a table service of silver. He replied: "I am really touched by this evidence of your regard, but I can .not accept it. In my judgment it would be injurious to the discipline of the Army for officers to receive gifts from those who are or have beht, their subordinates:" Some have thought Thomas over-fastidi ous on this Subject; but the American peo ple are now in a mood to pardon a great deal of fastidiousness in that direction. General Thomas would attract notice in any crowd. He is large, broad-shoul dered, massive, with hair and beard brown, but now turning to gray, mild, kindly eyes and proininentnosa strong, marked face. He inherited no property, but by Careful, frugal habits, he has saved a Compettmee from his salary. He has no children.- This is his'second visit to Cal ifonda; fifteen years ago when he was a Captain in the Third Artillery, he was stationed at Fort' Yuma for twelve months. He and his staff are as delighted as school-boys turned loose to escape from Kentucky and West Tennessee . into a thoroughly loyal atmosphere.—Omaha Cor, N. Y. Tribune. Tun 011 Wells in Itatiiree, British Burnish, have 'ronentiy,been examined by an !English civil officer. The number of , the wells is not mentioned, but the deep est is described. It is , forty-eight,: , feet, deep ! with . the walls supported by strong timber work. .In In Order to , obtain'the o:ii, two hop) are sent down the well ( 0 scoop out the liquid ,petroleum from , ,a hollow-.four;:inches,-square. ,The pro duct of each well iis twelve 'quarts a day. The oil when brought to the env face of the ground - looks like a blue white water with's dark sediment. The aut.' fade liquid it 'the ofic: and the apparent seditrierni is 'Onto water. " The oil, 'When poured into a recclver, gives out brilliant straw•colored rays and emits a aVong, , pungent,gaseous smell used for light, but is highly; inflammable. In Up per Burnie there are several hundred wells dug in the earth • to the depth of three hundred feet, and yielding an un limited supply of olive green oil, turn ing brown on exposure to the air. The working of the littrinah wells- has been seriously affected by the supply obtained from the oetzroltSuniltpring.s in Pennsyl-:, verde. 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