Fremont Journal, 1853-08-20

A Visit to Pisa. Advancing nlonoj tlie banks of tho A mo, after a pleasant drive, w e nrrived, somewhat early in the day, at Pisa. All visitors must have felt the ell'eet of this city g si 1 1 li ii I ii r nsj.ecl upun tlie mind, it is not, like several ancient cities of the East des- J rted. lis buildings have not fallen into ru ins ; its hi ret is are not entirely silent; yrnss does not wave on lis highways nnd public i places, liut it is fast upproacliinij; this slate. At iliebis and Memphis, Uiibylon iSmeveli, am! lVrsepolis, iou see the pioress of d- s jln . . . . . . i : i i fi-i .: . . i. , 1 111 " "t;i oinpusiieii. I lie nniinus n.ai iiinao iiinao-broli"lit - broli"lit iiinao-broli"lit ! 'lljd them hnve died out; the languages tiny !....!. . r . . ir. . I: . .. .... I . J "u "ru lorgoiien. j lieu msiorv una ue- come a lable, ilietr religion a uiockeiy- .seated among their ciuniblinj' fiagnunls, jour I. curt is oppressed by sorrow, by the fate which had overtaken so many millions of human beings once quid;, like youiself, iih life, nnd ngi ngi-taled - taled ngi-taled by the lieic sway of the passions. You be'iold them marching, in endless procession, as it were, down the great highway of eter eternity, - nity, eternity, emereing from darkness, and swallowed up by daikness. What infinite untold histo histories - ries histories have perished with them! what loves! whaht iilreds! what struggles for fame! what bitter and agonizing disappointments! liut those generations havo been so long at rest, that you contemplate their fate with serenity, as you do the general aspec's of nature. Yi u acquiesce iu the iuvpad of lime; you imagine they have been reconciled to death. Certain you are that unbroken peace broods over thim with its dove-like wing, nnd soothes them in their everlasting repose. Uut walking through Pisa is almost like sitting beside a death-bed. Strength, nnd health, and vivacity, are gone; the form is at attenuated, - tenuated, attenuated, the uir languid nnd painful, the voice reuuecd by decay almost to an inaudi inaudible - ble inaudible whisper. Sometimes you imagine that the whole active population musl have gone forth i.n some great expedition, or for the cel celebration - ebration celebration of somo mighty religious fcstavnl in the mountains, and left tlieir dwellings deso desolate - late desolate for a season. Sometimes the thought strikes you that the city was buill in expectation of inhabitants, who have never come to take possession of il; so many of the houses are empty; without the half-cheerful, hull-melancholy intimation that they are to let. This would indicate a , j I vp. la ladies - dies ladies sonic hope ; but the poor Pisai.s have none, except when a few English families arrive, and excite in them the idea that more may fol follow, - low, follow, and infuse life into those dreary cham-lic-a which have not echoed to a human foot footstep - step footstep for centuries. Yet there is after all, ' an inexpressible charm in thojjihico, especially when the brill brilliance - iance brilliance of autumn is dill used over it, like sun shine over a hectic cheek. There is a slrage pleasure in linking yourself with dying things, which, by the force of imagination, you en endow - dow endow nub a pail of your own consciousness, and send forward, ns il were, like pioneers or exoloi er.-i into the rcliejon of death. " You imagine you can look through in agonies oi tltc-ir S)HII3 into vue wonu urvunu nit: yii-. Exactly so is it with a dying city; and Pisa is in ixlreiith leady to have the last rites ot reiioion rand lo it, before it is paclici" up in the eollin nnd sent to the universal cem etery. lit. John's litre and There. n- mm und in Mr. iron . will quali qualities: - ties: qualities: try trying, - ing, trying, stii- po of civiu civiu-zat - zat civiu-zat earth, the The Angel's Gifts to Spain. "In the early ages of Christianity," said a heimit, "there "lived in a cave, somewhere about llio source of the Manx inaies, an extremely old hermit. Ilis piety was great, his charity extensive, and his love of Spain predominant over nil other feelings. Youths and muidei.E in love; young mothers disirous of offspring; worldings opj ressed by debts nnd dihVuliy relijiotia men and women struggling with their sins, repined constantly lo cosull the holy man, who sunt them in turn all away, re refreshed - freshed refreshed and comforted. " A little tim before his death, ono of the angels, who foresaw he was soon to be their companion, descended, throurh impatience, to converse with bun a Utile beforehand, or else commissioned lo b. stow on bim a blessing. The saint had probably been used to such visitants, and therefore experienced little or no surprise when, with his large while wings, he entered into his cave. On the contrary, lie oolitelv snlu'.ed him, desired linn to be sea ted on a smooth ledge of rotk, close beside himself and then courteously inquired to what circumstance he owed tho honor of his visit. M ' 1 urn come," replied tho angel, 'to be bestow - stow bestow on you a blessing.' " 'If I have found favor in vour eves,' said the holy man, 'let not your blessing be for me, but for' my country. Heaven has already oiven me more than I can desire. 1 have had a Ion" and happy life, I have closed the eyes of mv parents amid abundant blessings, have' beheld my sisters aud my brothers grow up in h n sty at d inigiity and have h besides, the inestimable satisfaction of aug augmenting - menting augmenting thu happiness of thousands. Let now, therefore, obtain for those whom I never could reach or aid, or comfort, the blessing which my Lord is pleased to offer me.' " '1 consent,' answered the angel, "to be be-sto.v - sto.v be-sto.v your country not one, but many blcss blcss-inus. - inus. blcss-inus. Choose for her and bn not bashful, I know not where I shall stop. " 'Then.'s.iid the saint, I u;k a f ir climate. " 'It is granted.' "'I ask for magnificent mountains.' " 'You shall havo them , "'Next, for lei tile i.lains and noblo rivers.' " 'Tiii-e nre vours .' - ' . i .... , , "'Then for beaulilnll women anu uruve men to inhabit this glorious land.' " 'I accede- lo your wishes. I'l,,.,, (,,r excellent fruits and rich harvest, and oil and wine, and whatever else the loll of life may need.' " 'I concede all you demand.' "Last of all., said the hermit, 'I pray to ensure us good government to complete and form tho crown of tho blessings you lavished on Spain. ' "Tho angel rose in haste, if not in '"You ask ton much friend,' said ho, the rest vou shall have nnd welcome; good government oh, no that is never bo granted to Spain, while kings are idols, and palaoes your tamplus. "So saying ho extended his wings, out of the cave and in a moment was lost the bloc depths of space." 5. J here and Jitck aaatn.

Tho monument of Oeorgo Wnshingion stands yet unfininhed upon the bunks of the I'otomac ye! nnd thero it is likely to stntid to our disirrticu be it spoken, for wnnt ol iiiiiua iu curry u ine req'ii.sne iieim. erei;l indignant that tho numory of George Washington with nil its in-'pirini,' ns ns-socinlions, - socinlions, ns-socinlions, is thus (rented with seeming con contempt, - tempt, contempt, by the people who scarcely liva suns ago went to celebrate their national independ ence. And who under God with bis energies nnil uiitlincliiiijr patiiotistn, our land hue an nnnv with banners out in the holy light ol freedom . UeorgH Washing Washington - ton Washington I Who when men were few and faith fee ble, still kept the titled powers of monarchy nt bay? Geory;.! Washington! Who when be had won the applause of a world, niodestly laid his manlle of lame at the feet of liberty. and unvokino- I is oxen billowed them into the field and became the "tiller of the around!" That sain-' Washington whose country would seem to be too poor to do him reverence. And has the tire of patriotism burnt low ? Not in wommi't breast, her hear! thrills with electric tire. When she takes her babe upon her knee and tells him, as every mother should, the story of America's redemption, her pulses beat faster with llie wartmh of love nnd gratitude as she looks upon her chil children, - dren, children, and then upon tho glorious heritage bequeathed them by George Washington. Lady readers wo are about to propose n plan by which ihe wives and mothers of Co lutnbia may show how well they appreciate the very trees and heal th stones of America. The Olive branch wo say it wiih all modes modesty - ty modesty has never been a laggard in tho cause of Immunity nnd justice And ils noble pat pat-ions - ions pat-ions as wo sue in a recent occurrence, come up to its suggestions, and with liberal hearts and full hands, aid the poor and the deserving-. Now here is a nationul want what say sisters! shall we not raise a Ladies' Wash Washington - ington Washington Monument I'mid? Every woman who reads the Olive Jirancli, may surely sp-re sjiV.o trilling sum by a little self-denial and lo! the nggiuU'' a TI)OSC tllQ (-llvu l5r:ini;h to have one bundled tliutisau 1 readers al allowing - lowing allowing three or four ladies to each family. If each of these sent merely tho lillla uum t'1 twenty-live cents there are twenty live thou thousand - sand thousand dollars! Surely union is 6trenglh. And should oilier papers join in this great enterprise, before six monihs, we should hear from llie Seoietary, who now writes so d-;4-pondingly, that ho had tlu req lisit amount. That, Washington M mument shall no longer rear its uuliniahed front the laborers stah stah-diuj; - diuj; stah-diuj; idle about its base and ils mute i lo -queue iui,iloi'in! fat we forget not George Washington. Hut the ladies ol amenou have completed the noblest woik of the age. Ladies, will you join with us, or do wo feel and wriie earnestly in vain'.' There is no m e.l of parade, or noise. In villages, in towns, in cities, let some central point be designated .vlu re ii iili .t nti'ji s niny be ielt, each m a lo lly's name. Encourage the children to send in tb.-ir mile or e se vou will lillisn vwicn untirini' out in to to you think of the silver and gold, poured out 1'ieelv as water on the occasion of our recent celebration. Wo are certain this call will not be neglected, for il is not faithless. Wc are sure there is not one lady reader of the Olive Branch but will cheerfully hasten to 'give what sin) can.' The poorest will labor harder that she may add her mite. Washington .Monu .Monument - ment .Monument must io up. We feel ashamed of ils desolate appearance. We long lo seo our Waybill. non lrfied towards the heaven where his soul eulls lo-ii iv. W e commence by donation of one dollar; others can give mure many not s i much. Tlioso who cm aiford but little, might club togeter, and so collect an amount easily ttiinslerable by letter. On llie ensuing 2'Jd of February, it can bo as ascertained - certained ascertained on application, how much the as8lJ. oialion has reee.ved from the "Ladies' Wash Washington - ington Washington Montimi nt Funds," and u new ac account - count account opened. Come ladies! you will not lay this by and forget it. If our husbands, immersed in bus bus-mess, - mess, bus-mess, full of the cares of life, forget this" du duly, - ly, duly, wo will j"g tlu ir memory. And surely.il wiih oui "supjii ir net," fir which you give ,w i-r..ilii' r,'iith-nu-n. we can mniiene. lo tit'.d an open sesame to llio pocket-book, on the oc occasion - casion occasion o' a new silk dres-1, we can for an ob ject a thousand times moro noblo than selt selt-gra'.iliealion, - gra'.iliealion, selt-gra'.iliealion, obtain twenty-live, lifty, seventy- live cents, or one or a lew dollars. Again wo say, the Monument must go Andwhat satisfaction will it bo to look upon it complete in all its beauty, and say the of the Washington Monument Fond, said of the uational M uniment "let it lie fin finished', - ished', finished', and ' it uux done." JJustou Olive Urunchr

The Lone; Island Hail Head may it live forever! Its mannejers mny they never jjrow old! Not that the former has yet done tho first thino; to accommodate the public iuirntionnllv.or that tho latter have for a moment failed to look out lirstfor their own interest, and sometime after that, for the peo people's, - ple's, people's, providing it wns perfectly convenient. We entreat for them lone; life, however, lest when tiny die, there will ba left no perfect . lll(J iu0 proct ,.njy y illustration of the extremes! order of mean nes. Here is n fact for nineteenth century peo people - ple people to masticate. Long Islanders aro hav having - ing having n solemn lime over it now. Heretofore between $-1,000 and $5,000 was de'-med suilicienl fur carrying ihe mails on their slow conch' through ihe Island. But tho Crys Crystal - tal Crystal Palace is open; meat has lisen in the mm kit; and the able directors think it worth fcSI.000 to carry il foi the cum'ng year. Un Uncle - cle Uncle Sam offers $7,000 for the job but that won't do. So, yesterday, a lunse team was started for the East End, with tho mails on board. That is the way the story is t. Id us. For the credit of nil hands, we hope il will be denied, and with authority. Well, now what is the extraordinary service the Road offers to do for the $:),000, without which it won't carry a leathern bag a rod, on any consideration? Why, furnish a 10 hy 9 corner af its baggage-car fur an agent to stand in, and keep his desk w ith the ost man's stamp and carmine dye, nnd nccommodate a j dozen or two mail bags. It never stops a minute pasi us proper lime ior stoppages, io deliver or receive its mails, it never hurt itself, or intruded a moment on the lime-table on that account. Eut perhaps we do it injustice. It is a great i esponsibility to carry a mail. Many is the rainy day, when passengers nrc scarce, and it would be convenient to sto; the train at Mattituck or Cutehogue for the night, but on account of the mail, they must run through lo Greenport. I lere would be a saving. In Winter.ii is customary lo run into a snow-bank nnd lav there till all the old ladies in the iieiohboriieod have sold out the r pies and milk at handsome profits, and to prevent starvation, they must move on. Il is a bore on such occasions, to bo pestered with the mails. The mail-agent frets, and postmas postmasters - ters postmasters along the road are all' in a fume. Slop off tho leathern bags, and the cars might lie in the snow-bank til! iha.snow thawed out, and il is doubtful if the management would feel very badly about it, or wake up to inquire where the train was delayed. ,, Good gentlemen, who hold in your hands the keys to the intelligence of the people, and can permit or forbid the Dailies to the Islan Islanders, - ders, Islanders, ns you will, pray, won't you reconsider vour action in this post-route, and if you can't bring Uncle Sam's nose to the g'ind stone, won't vou at h list ci ns- to grind the I ublic, which tain. sin 8 vou the ueigius iiim 1 wus.

of Il bu j ail. to us are The fe of Ills a by on j clo closing - sing closing the in light next The Maine Law is a sorce of trouble nnd contention in the Demonrnlic nnrty of Maine. The equivocal position f Mr. Pillsbury, Democratic nominee for Governor, is rapidly alenaling from him the support of the friendsl of tho law, and a call has been issued for mass meeting of "the Democrats of the State opposed to the proceedings of the recent Han-1 g ir Convention, to meet at the City Hall, Portland, on Thursday, the 4ih of August next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to nomi nominate - nate nominate a candidate for Govcnor, to be suppor supported - ted supported nt the next er.suin September election; and to transact all oilier business which exigencies of the times shall require." L ters have been adddressed to Messrs. Pillsbury the Democratic candidate; Crosby, llie candidate, (who now occupies the gubernato gubernatorial - rial gubernatorial Chair;) and Holmes, the Free-soil candidate for Govenor, propounding tho following intorrngnti ries : 1. Ought tho "Maine Luw," in your judg ment to be repealed : 2. If not, should Ihe law be modified respects, and if so, w hat provisions should changed and, in what restiecls .' Govenor Crosby responded in a letter pith of which is as follsws: "Believing that the object of tho law refer-' red to, is ono vf the highest importance to moral, social nnd politic;.! welfare of the ple, und that its provisions are adequate '. .- i ... r .i .... i :. .... the accomidishmijil of that object, it not, in my judgment, to be repealed. I no modifications to propose or recommend, and urn not aware of any that should be Mr. Holmes, the Fieesoil candidate, responded more i iupiialically, hi f ivir of tho and s it s that modifications uiiuht be soifrs ted which would strengthen its prohibitory character and increasu- ils stringency, he would not advibo any change in the at present. No answer has been received from Pillsbury, and it is believed that none will received. In view of ibis silence and of weli -undeibtoud fact that Mr. Pillsbury his noiiiitittiioti to anll-.Muiiio law influences, many prominent Democrats refuse to give their support, nnd tho call lor a meeting of disaffected will doubtless bring together lari'O DHlhering. Among tho Democratic newspapers, the JeiTersuman, of Bangor; a m Dl.n)ocr9lic clarion, at Showhegan. Ihe , nf.Yi 1 llol bUIUIOI V llie VHUUiutlte. AUD SAICICI : - i. - - !.:. .. ... w. i:.i n. fifteen interior cotton; per is warm in ils opposition to Mr. Pillsbury It is very evident that the full vote of Democratic, party cannot be secured for regular Convention nominee, and it is probable that llie Whig candidate, Mr.' will roap tho bene til of the disaffection.

ope ope-ratiim - ratiim ope-ratiim of teeth, himself 10 oflhe , oppo opposite - site opposite vi here, by hope and would We be diseases have others Il diseases any cured who H I daily see parties of voung gentlemen and ladies who uro summering in tho lounlry about us. They would enjoy it. of course, tho best of their knowledge and convenience. Hut the slopes, tile rocks in tho tiolds, ihe eminences Willi a nail-nour s scmnioie, mc lire points from which tho delicious scenery around them ts best seen; and yet they walit only upon tho common road. Our own ravine of Idlewild a gem of scenery, in far down depths, which people might well take i.niineis to see was scarce known exist by summer hoarders within half a mile of it, till we made it promenadable with smooth paths. It is a very simple problem, tho rrloiious eniovmentof all nature as a show, n . . .- e . 1 ..!. in one scale' and a pair oi paieni leamei f hoes in the other. As these gentlemen tin- coneinusly prico it, scenery is proved to dear at the cost of a shoe-scratch. It is the dread of damago to sidewalU-y boots and shoes, (which English customs declare to wholly out of tasie as well out of placo tho country), that keeps duiutily-shod city gentlemen from exploring tho points of view in these magnificent Highlands of the Hud Hudson. - son. Hudson. An t they are willing to lose grace and freedom of movement into the bargain. is n thick shoo alone that treads fairly nnd lirmlvona country road. Tho gait that snares patent leather is constrained and un manly. I saw an over-dressed youth jump from a wall, a day or two since. Ilo hei-n sent into the adjoining field, by tho dy he was with, to gather a flower or a black blackberry. - berry. blackberry. Uut, as ho came to tho ground, there was an anxious three-doll.ir-trude in tho way of dividing a shock among his joints an to spare his boots which must have giv given - en given a ludicrous turn to the impression ho making on tho mind of the ladv. Would not bo good policy ns well us good philosophy, would it not "pay," even for city folks, dress plainly and un-dtmape-alif when out of town? I wish it could bo brought about. To think for ourself, if one pleases, but to look like other peoule. whether or no, is tho of a republic; and I unwillingly conform our great All aliko-dom's superGnery in country.

1 id me Wo have been sunrised at ihe confidence felt by some of the officers of tho Japan expedi expedi-lion, - lion, expedi-lion, that they should succeed in effecting a rommeicial arrangement with that country, hitherto closed to the commerce of all Chris Christendom, - tendom, Christendom, except Holland, nnd to the latter un under - der under many restrictions. Perhaps the annexed paragraph from a California paper will throw some light upon llio subject: A business transaction took place a few days since that is likely to be productive important results in the history of tho com com-meicial - meicial com-meicial world. A purchase of 100,000 lbs. lice was made by one of our most respecta respectable - ble respectable Chinese merchants, which it is proposed lo ship to Japan on board the ship Hamilton, hich is now under Chinese colors having been purchased from her Ameiioan owners by two wealthy Chinese merchants. The Chinese havo long been on trading terms with tlie Jap. mi Sr, and their vessels are nilow nilow-ed - ed nilow-ed lo enter their purls and harbors. The tin tin-dei - dei tin-dei taking is a novel one, and, in the event its buot ceding, il would not require thu fore foresight - sight foresight of a pio,diet lo predict a very sudden increase iu mercantile marine of China; whish would bo able lo show us handsome a tleet uf clippers us any nation in tho world. would not bo strange were It to happen tiiai the opening of the porls of Japan should brought about by lie Chinese who have set tled in California. Indeed we strongly incline iu the belief that such will bo tho case: and that ihe world will yet havo to ncknuu lodge themselves indebted to California for it The powerful changes going on throughout the world the result of liie gold discoveries are i-veiy day becoming more and mere up up-paranl, - paranl, up-paranl, and it would not be preunilive suppose ill it tin- pot is of Japan would be lice to the world before tin eo years, as those of China now.