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[Foreign Correspondence of the Kura! New-Yorker ] 
A STROLL IN FLORENCE. 
Nothing in or about Florence so disappoints the 
keen-eyed lover of beauty, as the color of the Arno. 
We have read, we have dreamed of the beauties of 
the Val d' Arno; we know the river is narrow in 
some places, but still we unconsciously expect to see 
sncii » stream as one of those which glide in beauty 
through our unrivaled woods and fields and villages, 
with clear and joyous ripple over stones, which one 
may see glittering in the sun. Then come to the 
Arno,—it is dull, dark, dingy, yellow brick green 
color. When Byron so eloquently apostrophises the 
Tiber, 
“Rise with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress,’’ 
we fancy the “yellow waves” to be very grand. 
Long ago, we were greatly enamored of a paragraph 
of Hallam’s, where he speaks of the “yellow Arno, 
stealing silently through its long reaches to the sea.” 
But when “yellow” is translated by the eye to mean 
mud, simply mud, one cannot help feeling disap¬ 
pointed. Still, after all, it is the Arno; and when 
swollen by mins, and a greenish tint added, our 
enthusiasm somewhat revives. 
This street here is termed the Lung l’ Arno, and is 
quite wide. Passing the Ponte Santa Triuita, that 
bridge which with its fonr marble statues and its 
beautiful arches has stood for hundreds of years, the 
admiration of the world, wc are stopped by a vender 
of small cakes, who has his station at the corner. 
He utters a peculiar wailing cry, of “Galotti,” 
(little cakes,) which is very disagreeable. On the 
opposite corner of the bridge is a blind nnt seller, 
with a placard on bis breast, “Avengle.” He looks 
dirty enough, poor creature, to deserve canonization. 
Look at this fellow n few steps further, lying at foil 
length on the stone sill of an old palace, with his 
brigand's hat pulled over his eyes. Here it is the 
sixth day of April, and warm as our summer, and bo 
lies in this scorching sun fast asleep. 
What a pity one caanotexteud enthusiasm from 
the aggregate to the individual. Here we foci such 
interest in Italy, and her glorious hopes and possi¬ 
bilities, that we can hardly read, without a heart- 
[Frora Mason’s Normal Singer, by permissio* 
BIRDS, BEKS AND SQUIRRELS. 
ifcs: 
1. I’ve been sit - ting 
2. I’ve been stand-ing 
3. I’ve been look-iug 
hill - side, Where the birds flew gay - ly 
gar - den, Where the bees are buzz - ing 
mead - ow, 
swal - lows o’er the 
round; 
round; 
brook• 
U V 
W tint a 
What a 
What a 
> r 
J Z 
> u» 
, What a 
sing - mg, W hat a 
huni-niing-, Go - ing, 
dip-ping. What a 
springing, From their nestlings to the ground; What a 
com-ing, As their hon-ey cells they found; What a 
1 • Ti « 111 , . v , .... 
dripping, 
is droll o - nough to look; What a 
J'J' 
* V '*'+'*'* | 
sing-ing, What a springing, From their nestlings to, the ground, ground, 
humming. Go-ing, com-ing, As their hon - ey cells they found 
dip - ping, What a dripping, It is droll e - nough to look. 
J'J'J'J' J' ^ 
I've been wandering by the woodland, 
Where the squirrels * sport so free, 
What a springing. 
Running, leaping, 
Up and down, from tree to tree. 
5. While all creatures are so happy, 
While they sport in beaming light, 
I’ll be striving, 
Ill be thriving, 
Ever cheerful, ever bright. 
6. Soon the neighbors now will join us. 
With the sun’s departing ray, 
Then with singing, 
Voices ringing, 
We will close a happy day. 
* Pronounce either syuiml (short i as in the first syllable of nnracle), or sgurrel. 
Vecchio, erected in 1298, ns a residence for the Gon- 
faloniere, and magistracy of the then Republic of 
Florence; opposite is the post-office, and othei 
offices, and for several hours each day thiR square i« 
crowded with Florentine business men, like another 
Wall street. 
Here comes, first of all, the devout Art-Pilgrim, 
and what a feast of enjoyment is here I Pre-eminent, 
before the l’alazzo Vecchio, stands one of the great¬ 
est creations of the greatest mind of mediaeval times, 
the David of Michael Anoklo. The. grand majesty 
of this figure, triumphant with the strength and glory 
of a conqueror, erect in conscious pride as the 
throb, the last news, but for one of her sons >ve feel deliverer of Israel, makes a powerful impression. 
nothing hut disgust—losi va i! mondo. 
There is a regiment of Neapolitan soldiers just ar¬ 
rived to-day; there is one, with a knot of loungers 
about him, telling, perhaps, how the young King left 
Gaeta. There is a Bessagliere, or Sardinian rifleman; 
the faces of these boys, for they are all young, are 
very interesting. They are generally dark, with a 
bold and fearless air, that has the vigor of their own 
mountains. 
Look down that street; there is a characteristic 
scene: two men are playing on harps, and a third Is 
dancing in the middle of the street, soliciting rrogit 
by the most ludicrous Jumpings and twirlings of his 
body, going through such a scries of changes as no 
ordinary joints aud muscles could achieve. There 
goesun old woman, and a little hoy running, to see 
all they can, and peasants with their Happing straw 
hats. The street will he lull iu a moment. We will 
cross the Ponte Vecchio. This curious old bridge, like 
the Rialto at Venice, is a street of shops, and ia 
roofed over from end to end. It ia often called the 
“Jewelers’ Bridge," for it is lined with shops of gold¬ 
smiths and Jewelers. Their vindowa and stalls glit¬ 
ter with precious stones, and the bridge ia always 
thronged. Tuscans are very fond of jewels, but none 
of the meanest peasants will wear any article made 
of impure gold. The precious stones, Lapis Lagnli, 
Agate, Molachite, Ao., with us so costly, can here be 
bought at very low prices. 
In Florence you see at every turn some work of 
art. At the head of tho bridge is a statue of A.iax. 
Here Is a (lock of monks coming. I always wonder, 
when I see them walking about amongst the people, 
what mischief they are brewing. Their influence has 
again and again crushed ont the hopes and the 
strivings of the Italians and given Liberty its death- 
stab. The lines of Giresti, (which in his lifetime 
were prohibited, but are now widely circulated,) in 
his bitter and severely-niournful satire, “La Terra de 
llorti, the Land of the Dead,—often come to one’s 
lips on passing the black-robed monks,— 
“ Oh Fr&ti soprestanti, 
Ob birri inqnisitori, 
Posate tli cen»»ri,” &c. 
But these thoughts of the dark past, and the future, 
where Hope beckons among the clonds, 
“ An Iris amidst the surge,” 
jeguile us from onr walk. Let us proceed. Notice 
the extreme cleanliness of these broad stone pave- 
uents. It shames our cities in America. Men with 
Criticism cannot detract, from it. Another colossal 
statue of Hercules subduing Cacns, by Baooio Bon- 
ihnklli, is on tho other side of the entrance. To the 
right Btreteh out tho Colonnades of the Uffiz/.i, or character is more remarkable than admirable. With 
Imperial Gallery of paintings aud sculptures, with 
their rows of colossal statues. 
The Loggia do Lonzi, or Arcade, 1ms three circu¬ 
lar arches, with columns with Corinthian capitals. 
Under these magnificent arches are the statues, 
whose names are so familiar. Foremost is Perseus 
tho endowments of a fine intellect, a clear Judgment, 
a taste for literature, a capacity for practical affairs, 
attablo presence, and agreeable person, he might 
have been the hero, rather than the capitalist of hk- 
age. Liut his mean devotion to self-interest, his nar¬ 
row policy, which knew no noble purpose, pursued 
with the head of Medusa; it is more interesting for through years of laborious effort, and through depths 
what it suggests of the sweet story of Andromeda, 
and of Kingsley’s fine poem, than for its own sake, 
animated and vigorous though it is. There is the 
Roman and the Sabine maiden, by John of Bologna; 
tho Judith of Donatello, tho dying Ajax, the Ceu- 
tanr, two Greek lions, who look as stern as becomes 
of infamy, which make his name conspicuous as one 
of the calculating “Trimmers” of history, after all 
betrayed him to the dungeon in which he met his 
miserable death. 
The tragedy of his daughter Luisa Strazzi, still 
famishes a theme for novelists, and his younger 
animals.of such royal lineage. Behind is a row of daughter, Maddaleiia Ktra/.zi, wife Of Ange Doni, is 
colossal female figures, called Sabi no goddesses, who perpetuated on the canvas of Raphael. The career 
stand in their severe draperies, liko petrified reprovers of I'hilippo Btrazzi is full of interest to us now. For 
of all impropriety. the history of that wonderful ** Kenaissaqco lime of 
The Loggia amply re-pays repeated studies. On tho awful drama iu which Kings, Popes, and Em* 
the other side of the square is the equestrian statue perors, played their part with fearful severity, and 
“ K’eu iu their ashes, lived their wonted fires," 
and kept pure the worship of Art. 
brooms are always at work, and each street is like a cbant and shrill cries, while the flames 
s dewatk. ThiH is true of all Italian cities, but Milan 
and Florence are especially noted for cleau streets. 
The streets, except uuc or two modern ones, are 
ve-y narrow, with lofty walls on each side. Turning 
frcin a sunny square into one of these cold, dark 
streamed up to the massive battlements of the old 
palace, and danced with fitful shadows in and out 
among the arches of the Loggia. 
Contrast this with tho scone two years after, when 
in the very same Bpot, instead of the llumcs of pomp 
avmues, one experiences a vast change of tempera- and Viiniti es, Savonarola himself was burned to 
tur.-—sometimes apparently twenty degrees, which, 
during winter and the early spring, is a serious draw¬ 
back. Every one walks in the middle of the street, 
death, by the inhuman order of Pope Alexander. 
“A few years more of life would have shown Savon¬ 
arola that by burning hooks and pictures he had 
ami to look forward upon the thronging multitude, a burned out ao portion whatever of wickedness from 
stringer imagines that there is some unusual excite- 
men. But it is only an every day crowd, who move 
qu etly on, swaying aside for the peculiar call and 
cra:k of the whip by which the hack drivers clear 
the r way. 
Ifie palaces are frowning, gloomy old structures, 
awiig the mind by their massive grandeur, to which 
the cold color of the stone adds an element of 
sharow and distrust. The large, rugged hossages of 
the; ower stories suggest a castle with its besiegers, 
while the lighter upper stories remind us only of fair 
and aelplcss women looking forth in terror. But as 
you -itand gazing, perchance one of thi huge iron 
dooti swings upon its hinges. As the footman in 
gay livery passes out, you catch a glimpse of a 
marble-paved court, with a fountain, aud a charming 
vista of trees, oleanders in bloom, twining ivy with its 
festoons, live oaks, and shrubs; or a long colonnade, 
with rich frescoes, and servants passing in and ont. 
Such a contrast has this view with the external 
gloom of the building, that you feel as if you had 
suddenly peeped into Blue Beard’s treasure chamber. 
Such pretty vignettes for memory I have often seen. 
We are detained for a moment by one of those 
nuisances, a match-vender. With his basket depend- 
tbe hearts of the Florentines; and Alexander had 
time to see that tho atrocious murder of the friar had 
him.” This, alas, too frequent resort of tyrants, had 
always brought the same result. What says tho old 
couplet ? 
. “ The Severn to the sea 
And Wickliffe's ashes spread shall be.” 
dress his wounds and care for his comforts for days, these lines, at 12 o’clock on Wednesday night, the 
without uttering a word. This is one of the Institu- a,arin a S ain rings, and Ihe horizoH is again lurid 
lions of the Church of Roma which partakes of tho - with dl !™ and 8, \ lo1 < e * ''' V'if b « ™ all -Y w,)rk 
. . ... . . ‘ , , incendiaries, we hope the jail ami court-room will 
true spirit of religion. It originated in the thirteenth not be defiled with their presence. The. burning 
century, and they are often mentioned aa tho Fratelli house is their lit dwelling. Ia.it them lie in the bed 
de. Hi - ' they make.” 
We turn up now the Via Strazzi, and pause with " Notice to the Would.”—U nder this caption, a 
interest before the great Btrazzi Palace. We recall, Vicksburg (Miss.) exchange remarks: 
as In a dream, that the first stone was laid on the 6th “ Every volunteer from this State and Lonisiana is 
of April. 1489. Just 372 years to-day. There was «• gentleman. He must be treated as such. No deck 
r,i -, , , r i i- passimge, no hard commons for him, if it ctm be 
Ph.lippo Btrazzi, with his proud dreams of adding, i V ol«lo3. lie is an honor as well as a defense to his 
by tho stately pile that soon should rise to the fame country.” 
of his family, to their greatness and advancement. Wchopethe “World” will make a note of this fact, 
lie did not live to see its completion, but it was When a Mississippi Soldier is shirt down, ho should 
finished by his wife. Ilis sou I’hilippo Btrazzi, the have ft bed of rose loaves to die on. Ho should 
bunker of the two Medtccon Popes, was also a feed on canvas-baek ducks, and have two negroes 
schemer and full of ambition for his house. His to carry his musket. When gentlemen go to war, 
character is more remarkable than admirable. With they should have gentlemanly treatment throughout, 
tho endowments of a fine intellect, a clear Judgment, The “Red Glove Batallion,” from the South, wc 
a taste for literature, a capacity for practical affairs, understand, grease their hoots with the oil of laven- 
atlUblo presence, and agreeable person, he might der, and catch cold if they sleep in a room with a 
have been the hero, rather than the capitalist of hi;- damp tumbler. Their tents are to be filled up with 
age. But his mean devotion to self-interest,, hisnar- French bedsteads, bureaus, and looking glasses, 
row policy, which knew no noble purpose, pursued while they arc only to drill in pleasant weather, 
through years gf laborious effort, and through depths They may ho very nice troops to look at through a 
of infamy, which make his name conspicuous as one smoked glass, but they are hardly the men to contend 
of the calculating “Trimmers” of history, utter all with the brawny arms to he found In the New York 
betrayed him to the dungeon in which he met his fire brigade. The Mississippi and Louisiana troops 
miserable death. are too fine for use. Holdiers who wish to fight 
The tragedy of his daughter Luisa Btrazzi, still under umbrellas and sun-shades won’t do for rough 
furnishes a theme for novelists, and his younger work. They might better he kept at home to adorn 
daughter, Maddaleiia Strazzi, wife of Ange Doni, is picture hooks. 
perpetuated on the canvas oi Raphael. The cared - Secession in Missouri Bmothkkkd.— The seces- 
of I’hilippo Btrazzi is full of interest.to us now. For genista of Missouri are just now in a peculiarly 
the history of that womluiTul “ Renaissance time of pleasant fix and frame of mind. Their SI. Louis 
tho awlul drama iu which Kings, Popes, and Em* organ, the Republican, one of whose editors was 
perors, played their part with fearful severity, and among ttic captured rebels in Gamp Jackson, takes 
crashed out Hope and Liberty, cannot be otherwise a survey of the field, and in a spirit of true philoso- 
than replete with instruction to tho Italian of tho phy advises its friends to keep as ceol as possible, 
present day. Italian liberty has been over the turn- [t, gays: 
ing point on which hinged tho dominanceof I'apacy. *■ j„ the present temper of tho people,- wronged 
But DOW the struggle is carried on under very differ and degraded as they linvc been by recent unlawful 
ent circumstances. ami outrageous acts of men who had not even a com- 
mission to bear them out in their attack of Camp 
“The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the Jackson, and In the breasts of whom persoual malice, 
suns." had a prominent place,—-now, when thousands of 
mercenaries arc quartered among us, to overawe and 
Half Christendom now watches Italy with eager enforce uhedioncc,— it is very possible that the sag- 
sympathy. “The daysof the Papacy are numbered,” K<'rtions of (i ”"- Harney may be read with some 1m- 
/, -v„,, , , patience at tho restraint imposed upon them by a 
said Garibaldi the other day, hi las note, acknowl- j nilil „ rv dlieftaiu , Al al , ev ‘. nUi th ' ei „ oan ,, ( ,; v no 
edging tho receipt of some English Bible.-. This is mistaking the import of his orders, conveyed in 
like his simple earnest faith in the onward progress courteous but determined terras, ns they may be 
of events, in the complete redemption of this fair summed up in a few words:- Gen. Harney’s instruc- 
. ...... .... lions command him to retain Missouri in her present 
country, so long oppressed. It is this very simplicity and past position of loyalty to the Union, and this he 
and single heartedness of purpose, that gives Gari- is to do at the hazard of lighting up war all over tho 
baldisostrong a hold upon the peoplo. They idolize St!lto> b Y marching his troops to put down anyorgan- 
i,• ,. , . .. „ . , ,, . . ization which may be tortured, aa Gamp Jackson 
Imu; a Neapolitan cried the ocher day, “There is wmi> i uU , hostility to tho Federal Government. 
no Pamdi.sft without him; oh! (•aribaldi is Heavua* u // is no u$p to ouvre mattn** (Iod. Harney fec*U 
But it is now near five o'clock, and all the world at birnHfl , lf t ,ut ' l . , ' w ' 1 «U opposition wherever ft 
.. . , . may show itself, and t.he sigmlleance of his manifesto 
this hour goos to walk on the f ascine, so an revoir. j„ embraced in this fact alone. 8t. Louis is ovor- 
Kiorence, April 6, 1801. Ajino. awed by armed bauds of men, eager for a fray, and 
i _ —• _ seeking the opportunity to glut their vengeance upon 
those who, up to the present time, were their neigh- 
kvj Y 0W4' '¥ borH uud friends, hut who are so no longer. The 
4a It Vat I Vttt-#S Itv r W wb,)|,i eastern front of the Mississippi river is coin- 
IV V41 -V ■ ▼ V/IV W X V V-14V /W * manded in the sumo way, and tho Iowa and Kansas 
^ borders are, or souq will be, cquall/ well guarded. 
— Gen. Harney's manifesto is modest enough in not 
NEWS XDEFAIiTIvTElNra?. setting forth with some particularity these Tacts, and 
the advantages which they give lum, hot. we are 
_ restrained by no such delicacy, and notify the pen- 
ROCI1KSTER, N. Y., JUNK 1, 1861, pie of them, that they may take warning. The State 
--of Missouri is so enfiladed and controlled by the 
■ military forces levied by the United BtatOB Govern- 
THE WAR’S PROGRESS. ment, that U would Or wttrsr than madness to think of 
_ opjioswff them with any expedition of success. So 
sc ar.-i.-.KTTj.c, , . _ __ much we have felt ourselves bound to Bay by way of 
FACTS, SCENES, INCIDENTS, etc. caution to the people of Missouri.” ' 
Extracts from the Southern Press. In a subsequent issue Ihe Republican grows more 
Fob the Union.-T he Frankfort, (Ky.) Com- mild> and dlBCOurflea at Ien * th t,ie P" li «Y * nd P la ™ 
monwealth says- adopted by tho Legislature, avowedly with a view to 
“It has been a generally received opinion that ? Ut ^ !“ a COn,litio11 of defon8C a R ainat a11 
whenever the Ancient Dominion took snuff, Kentucky ho9t,le aggression, concluding "that the measures 
(her daughter,) would most dutifully sneeze. That’s are wholly impracticable and cannot he made to 
an old logy idea and ought to tie laid aside. Ken- answer the purpose intended." It closes thus: 
tacky will nevei permita rabid aud fanatical minority „ . ., 1 i .. t: . , , .. 
to saddle her with secession and bnlly her out of the And now, having disposed of these, the most mi- 
Union, us Virginia wus saddled and bullied. Never; g° rta,lt acU , rj ' . tho s ® fl91<> "» W J addr n? 8 0 " r8 . elvw v > 
no, never. The Union men of Kentucky will not the people of Missouri. ♦ * * We caution you 
consent to he transferred to Jeff. Davis like so many therefore, that a peace policy is the only one which 
chattels. Mind that. If any anob attempt is made can save this Mat.- Inm. bloodshed and nun. It m 
in this if will t... tha tv.* *tt.\i- ..„,i madness to think of anything else. * * * Let 
of all impropriety. the history of that wonderful ** ttem>iMsauue time of 
The Loggia amply re pays repeated studies. On tho awful drama iu which Kings, Popes, and Em* 
the other side of the square is the equestrian statue perors, played their part with fearful severity, and 
of Cosmo de Medici, pater patrue, first Grand Duke crushed out Hope and Liberty, cannot be otherwise 
of Tuscany. The irreverent thought would intrude than replete with instruction to tho Italian of tlui 
that this statue is no correct representation of the present day. Italian liberty has been over the turn- 
Medicl, who governed the city of Florence with whip ing point on which hinged the dominanceof Papacy, 
and goad, as one reins in a rebellious charger, and But now the struggle is carried on under very differ 
theugli often ousted from the seat of power, soeedilv ont circumstances. 
Medici, who governed the city of Florence with whip ing point on which hinged the dominanceof Papacy, 
and goad, as one reins in a rebellious charger, end But now the struggle is carried on under very differ 
theugli often ousted from the seat of power, speedily ont circumstances. 
vaults again to the saddle. Poor Florence! forever ,, ,, , 
“The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the 
rent between the tyranny of democracy and the suns." 
tyranny of despotism. Ami yot in all these years of 
carnage and treachery, Art maintained her sway. Half Chnstentlom now watches Italy with eager 
The taste, the skill of the wonderful Etrnscons, that s y ra P ath y- “ T be daysof the Papacy are numbered,” 
gifted and mysterious race, survived them. said Garibaldi the other day, in his note, acknowl¬ 
edging the receipt of some English Bibles. This is 
like his simple earnest, faith in the onward progress 
of events, in the complete redemption of this fair 
What scenes has this old square witnessed! What countryt H0 long oppressed. It is this very simplicity 
thoughts crowd upon us, as protean as the hues of and fl1nglo heartedness of purpose, that gives Gari- 
8 the W ^ r wbk:b , tb0 Tritona of Ne P Uinc s l> out forth baldiso strong a hold upon the people. They idolize 
m J 011 u fountain. hint; a Neapolitan cried the ocher day, " There is 
Think Of that Carnival day of 1496, when by the D0 Paradiii6 without him; oh! Garibaldi is Heaven, 
suddenly lighted zeal, which the words of Bavon- 
arola, that liorccrcfonning monk, had kindled, there But ,l ,H now ncar five °' clock ’ and a11 tbc world at 
burst forth the immense conflagration of books, per- tbla b ° ur S °° K t0 walk 011 the <Jaacine ' so au revoir ’ 
fames, shawls, dresses, musical instruments, draw- _^_ 
ing", paintings, and Imutmerabfo costly ami valuable 
e articles. The fanatics, led on by Savonarola, danced kYb Y If 
. with the monks around the blazing pyramid, a friar I ^ i 1 lYYl! 
ij and a layman joining hands, keeping up a wild “-■v 
ant and uttering shrill cries, while the flames - 
•earned up to the massive battlements of the old TSTE^WS DEPARTMENT. 
lace, and danced with fitful shadows in and ont _ _ _ 
long the arches of the Loggia. ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 1, 1861. 
THE WAR’S PROGRESS. 
FACTS, SCENES, INCIDENTS, ETC. 
Exti-ncts from the Southern Press. 
For the Union.— The Frankfort, (Ky.) Com¬ 
monwealth says: 
no powW to extinguish the spirit wlricbliad animated 
nim.^ TVllSJ Inn vaer. 1.1 inv.or.4r. /Ln. ..1. A,.. . ... .. i ..*.*.*• i i .. .. rn i ... 
But while wc arc trying to quote this, and succeed- chattels. Mi iid that. If dny such Xmpt 5 3 this Bute from bloodshed , 
mg in misquoting, we turn the cornel of Via Cal- in this State, it will he the signal for civil war, and madness to think of anything else. < 
. . . . , • . . ... . , . • \I luu/iui iimo ct,.n tlm irioltl/ilonf o .4 • 
tsuefi a contrast has this view with the external bier, covered with a black cloth, over sticks so ar- 
gloom of the building, that you feel aa if you had ranged as to arch, thus giving air to the poor sufferer 
suddenly peeped into Blue Beard’s treasure chamber, they support. They carry in this way, the very poor 
Such pretty vignettes for memory I have often seen, to the hospital, the wounded, or accidentally killed, 
Wc are detained for a moment by one of those to their friends. This Brotherhood of Mercy is a 
nuisances, a match-vender. Vi ith hi9 basket depend- voluntary association of citizens, from the Prince to 
ing from his neck, full of brushes and boxes of the poorest workman; they are tuinmond by the bell 
“Lucifers,” he constantly vociferates “two for a of their chapel near the Grand Duomo, and are hound 
cragie, oh! buy, buy, three for a cragie! It is tedi- at any hour of the night or day, no matter where or 
ous, but then one cannot be angry with these Tns- how engaged, to obey its summons. They are called 
cans, they are so good natured. to the sick and to the dying, and so complete Is the 
Here we are in the Piazza di Gron Duca; one of disguise, that no one of them knows his nearest 
the most interesting spots in all Florence. A large neighbor in good deeds, and no conversation is 
open square, where on one side rises the Palazzo allowed amongst them. They attend a poor man, 
lottery. Hark! there is the bell of the MiserLeordia 1 be <h»b*uoq papers and orators arc trying to 
p^in* from tue do. B.omo, We 
their melancholy processions; ten or twelve men hope in this way to enlist Bmithcrn sympathy, and 
clothed in black, with black hoods and masques, Jerrymander Kentucky oat ofthe Union, it will not 
which have only small spaces for the eyes, carry a 1 * r ? C 1,JHUe jf Biuill this government be 
... .... j < nya broken nn because Breckinridflre wus not elected 
broken up because Breckinridge wus not elected 
President, and wc go into a state of anarchy and mob 
rule; or shall this glorious government, the best gov¬ 
ernment the world ever saw, he sustained? 
“WR AltE FOR THE UNITED STATUS GOV¬ 
ERNMENT, and ice don’t core a nwUnnUtd anathema 
who knows it.” 
The Reign of Terror. —If we are to judge by the 
following extract, the predicament of the South is 
will bo well. Missouri occupies a position different 
from that of the seceded States, and a fearful respon¬ 
sibility will rest upon her authorities If, by mischance, 
a collision shuuld take place in any part of tho State.” 
Titk correspondent of the Now Orleans Delta, at 
Montgomery, writes to that journal, under date of May 
14th, as follows:—"The vail of secrecy covers all the 
deliberations of Congress; yet the opinion prevails 
here that a formal declaration of war against the 
United States will soon ho made, and that a vigorous 
attack on Washington will immediately follow. I do 
not, of course, vouch for the truth Of this statement, 
and merely give it as the index of the public mind. 
anything but pleasing. The Richmond Enquirer It is reported here that official information has been 
exclaims: received that troops from the North are pouring con* 
“Is the torch of the Northern incendiary already tiuuOusly into the capital of the old government, and 
at work in Richmond? The continual sound of lire it is thought that before we could possibly begin our 
t"iir»i“ Tniz sssrvss ws * »•*•>'»?*« *■» •» «•*■>** *... 
During the last eighteen hours there have been no supplied with all tfio engiucry of war. The time for 
less than four fires in Richmond, and while wo write taking the old teat of government without a desper¬ 
ate battle has evidently gone by; yet its doom is 
sealed. The fixed and unalterable determination to 
capture this city is the prevailing sentiment of our 
people, and satisfaction gleams from the eyes of every 
soldier whose destination is Washington.” 
The Whig, published at KIkton, Maryland, gives 
the true Union ring iu its tones, although issued in a 
Slave State, and one hoped fur by the rebels: 
“There arc but two parties iu the United States 
to-day. One of them Is in favor of sustaining, and 
tho other in favor of destroying the Government; 
and it is utterly impossibly for a man to remain 
neutral, or even to sophisticate hiH mind to such an 
extent as to believe he can do so. In the contest 
now waging between the friends and enemies of the 
Government, no American citizen cun remain in a 
neutral or Indifferent position. It is an impossibility. 
It ia contrary to human nature; aud the man who 
asserts that he can and does, asserts that which ho 
knows to be false. Every man, and woman too, is 
on one side or the other is arranged with those who 
are for the Flag, or those who are against it —is a 
loyal American or a traitor. 
“ The day of reckoning is not far distant, in which 
it will be decided that those who are not for their 
country were against it. Every consideration of 
honor, of duty, and of safety, then, behooves you to 
sustain the Star Bpangled Banner. For depend upon 
it, long after this wicked and unnatural rebellion has 
been crashed out, those who in any way aided and 
abetted, or even sympathized with it, will he re¬ 
membered and made to feel the vengeance of an 
offended people, and the majesty and power of a 
violated law. Whoso readeth let him understand.” 
Recession in Kentucky received a staggering blow 
on Saturday, (suys the Louisville Journal,) and Louis¬ 
ville covered herself with imperishable honor.— 
There were 8,112 votes cast for the Union delegate 
ticket, when the aggregate vote of the city at the 
Presidential election was only 7,453., Bourbon county 
gives 730 majority for the Union; Nicholas county 
1,200 majority for tho Union; Mason county 2,233 
majority for the Union; Lewis county 1,340 majority 
for the Union; Fleming county 1,600 majority for 
tho Union, and wc might thus cuumorato nine-tenths 
of the counties in “Old Kaitituck.” 
Tun Memphis Avalanche perceives signs of trouble 
from the negroes In that city, and calls upon the Gov¬ 
ernment to take every possible precaution. 
Protection from Hmi-Stroke — Cap Covers. 
During a summer campaign in the Southern 
States, our soldiers mnst, of necessity, suffer a great 
deal from heat, and incur much danger from the 
effects of the sun. The matter has already engaged 
the attention of patriotic and philanthropic individ¬ 
uals, and various measures have been suggested to 
lessen the danger of sun stroke, and other affections 
of the sort. Among the contrivances designed to 
accomplish this object, is tho “ Havelock ” cap cover, 
a description of which is embodied iu an article sub¬ 
joined, taken from the New York Times, of May 6th, 
with some additions. 
Experience haH shown that troops serving in warm 
climates greatly need protection from sun-stroke, 
often quite as dangerous and fatal as the fire of the 
enemy. The provident car- and foresight of the 
British officers, in the recent campaigns in India and 
in the Crimea, protected their soldiers from the 
danger, by thick white linen caji covers, having a cape 
protecting the hack of the neck, which rejected 
instead of absorbing the heat ofthe sun. They were 
also extensively worn by tho French troops in the 
campaign of Boll'erlno. They derive their name, 
" Havelock,” from being worn by the soldiers under 
his command in defending Lucknow against the 
Sepoys. 
The regions in and about Washington, say from 
latitude 37° to 40", iu which our troops may soon 
take the field, have an average temperature quite as 
high as that of Lombardy or of the Crimea, In lati¬ 
tude 45°. An exact pattern of the cap cover used in 
the Crimea, was furnished last week by a British 
officer to an association of patriotic ladies in New 
York city, who have already completed one thousand 
for tho use of one of our Regiments at Washington. 
Another association of ladies has since entered on a 
similar labor of love, to supply a liko number to 
another Regiment. We trust that these examples 
may be followed, without dolay, until all our troops 
shall he protected from needless exposure or hard¬ 
ship on the scorching plains of the South. 
Tho material and patterns of the covers sent to 
those two Regiments, have been submitted to and 
approved by military officers high In command. 
There is no difficulty or delay in forwarding these 
cap covers to the Regiments, A traveling trunk of 
ordinary size will hold at least eight hundred, and can 
be Bent by express iu twenty-four hours. To avoid 
delay, (now very important,) it should he sent directly 
to the Colonel or Regimental Quarter-Master. About 
fifty covers can he made from a piece of linen of 
twenty-threo yards, costing about thirty cents per 
yard. The covers should he cut to suit the size and 
shape of the particular cap worn by the Regiment. 
Allaii-s at Pensacola. 
A correspondent of the New York TimeB, on 
hoard the Powhattan, writes under date of May 16th: 
“There is now no use of concealing tho fact that 
tho fight here will be one of the most desperate of tho 
war. Our preparations are progressing rapidly, and 
fully justify ua in the opinion that Fort Pickens is 
almost Impregnable. But tho gigantic strides making 
by Bragg’s command, may well prevent us from antici¬ 
pating a quiet capture of tho Navy Yard and Barran¬ 
cas, the poBsoHsion of which is necessary to end 
hostilities iu these parts. Now, it Is on the best 
authority that 1 inform you that the Secessionists 
ashore muster 10,000 available fighting men, notwith¬ 
standing previous estimates. They are scattered for 
miles around, and have some of the best officers in 
America to regulate their movements.- There are at 
least six batteries that may open on Fort Pickens, 
now concealed, aud of course the exact places iu 
which they are situated no one of us can find out. 
The skill of three United States military and naval 
officers has been concentrated to make these most 
powerful, and Cummings’ Point ravages on Sumter 
indicate what a hidden battery may do. 
Let it be distinctly understood then, that on land, at 
present, the Secessionists number at least five times more 
than the Federal troops. Take all your available men 
from the ships, and you cannot make up one-third of 
our enemy’s strength. There have been serious imped¬ 
iments, too, placed in the water within eight days, 
and it is now very doubtful whether, forts left out, 
ships could go up to the Yard. Then Montgomery 
and Warrington are connected by the iron railway 
horse, and reinforcements may he poured in. I 
mention these matters only to plainly establish one 
fact — namely: We cannot take a permanent offen¬ 
sive stand in Florida with 1,500 men. Defend Pick¬ 
ens, hold Rosas Island, batter down McRae and Bar¬ 
rancas, we may, hut will tho American people be 
satisfied w ith this? Let the Cabinet decide whether 
Federal forces are concentrated here to defend Pick¬ 
ens until it shall be made of little consequence, or to 
take the Navy Yard, and make the fort impregnable 
in time. 
