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CORSICA.—THE BIRTh-PLACE OF THE
BONAPARTES.
, JJ-sHon. S. S. Cox, formerly a mem
■er ct Congress, irom Ohio, and now’
from New York, writes to the New York
( , or [d some charming letters about
Corsica. We extract the following :
1 e ft woke m the morning at 7, after
a nap of twelve hours,, within an hour
of the northwest coast of Corsica. We
are opposite to Calvi; but our vessel,
for natural reasons, to avoid the rough
sea, hugs the coast. It thus gives us a
near view of its crested white moun
tains, the macehie-covered land, the
chestnut, olive and orange-clad valleys
and hills, and its wonderful fringe of
white breakers foaming among the rocky
indentations, whose peaks are decorated
with the Old Genoese towers. At first
the island reminded me of the Archipe
lage of Greece. It looked so nude and
rockey, almost destitute; only this, that
the scenery was thoroughly Alpine, back
from the sea. The interior seemed one
magnificent range of mountains. No
plains, no marshes were vissible. Indeed,
Corsica has but two ranges of moun
tains. You never lose sight of its prim
itive granite, it near the coast
at Isola Rossa, and bounds upward eight
thousand feet, and “keeps it up,” long
itudinally, the length of the island,
which is one hundred and fifty miles.
The eastern range is secondary and cal
careous, like the mountains along the
coast of France and Italy. The granite
range has not been washed away to any
perceivable extent. Its grand grotesque,
and imposing forms twisted and writhed
by the fires which heaved t}iem from the
ocean, are to-day as they were countless
ages ago. The eastern range has been
worn. Some alluvial and unhealthy
plains result. Brackish ponds and deadly
malaria are incidents of the eastern side
of the island, but not of the western.
Hence, this side has been selected by
such eminent physicians as Dr. Bennet,
of Mentono, and D. Ribton, of Ajaccio,
as health stations. The mountains, es
pecially around Ajaccio, shelter the
City of Ajaccio; and the weak in throat
and lung find relief, and often cure. But
I anticipate. We have not yet landed.
Nor yet have we reached Ajaccio. First,
we must pass within the gates, Sangui
naires ! By which address I mean that,
two or three or more picturesque islands,
almost rocks, called Sanguinary (where
fore called I can not guess,) guard the
outer harbor. These rocks were neither
red nor bloody, but grotesque and brown,
and were under a white veil us we ap
proached. The sea covered them with
the finest spray from the breakers, which
howled among their caves and hallooed
over their sides. Passing between them
at once, ns if by magic, the sea is calm
and the air is balm. The fine bay of
Ajaccio is spread out to the view. It is
surrounded on every side by mountain
ranges. Many parts are snow covered,
and their sides checkered by shade and
sun. The air was balm; not alone
because the exposure was to the south
west, and the bay was so inland as to be
protected from the mistral or sea breezes;
but because the air was freighted with
the perfume of the mountains. Will
your readers in New York, where you
are on the same line of latitude as
Corsica, believe it that here, at forty two
degrees north latitude, the very weeds
are the fragrant fluwers of the New
York conservatory ! The very scrubs
are the sweet scented shrubs of the lady
of Fifth avenue ! The very winter air
is redolent with a burden of lemon,
orange, and myrtle aroma, to which
Arabia has no paraded in summer, and
the mind of the stranger has no concep
tion till he inhales it. Do you remember
wiiat Napoleon said, from his rockey is
land prison of St. Helena ? “A I'odeur
seuleje clevinerais la Corse, les yeux
ferities Now, as I write, in the af
ternoon, in a villa with open window,
with a gentle breeze blowing across
the bay from the sea toward Corte, the
realization of Napoleon’s words is faith
ful to satiety. The heraldic shield of
Corsica once was that of a Saracen’s
head, with eyes bandaged. It seems as
if there were here such an affluence lor
one sense, that sight was superfluous.
Besides, we have nightingales in plenty,
whose song is ordor to the ear.
As we ploughed our path up the bay,
we asked one of the passengers the
question asked by many a stranger
before: “What are those beautiful little
houses, so oddly ma le, lining the shore?”
These are the villages of the dead.” The
dead lived in these towns, as an Irish
friend remarked to me .soon after, on our
conversation about these mortuaries.
Cemeteries there are none, and since,
while among the mountains, we found
many of these old places of sepultnre.
Each family which can 'afford it has a
private mausoleum, it is nothing here to
decorate the little garden around the
tombs. The- cypress, evergreen flowers,
and shrubs which no winter strips of
foliage or fragrance, by their own energy
of vegetation, and without even the care
of the bereaved, here preserve in pictur
esque and perpetual sweetness mourn
ful memories of the loved and lost.
But our vessel moves on. Soon we
are at the place of landing. There are
no docks. The anchor is dropped. A
throng of boats surround the vessel. It
seems, on our landing, as if there were
five hundred people oh the shore, an
eager group. We are the objects ot
scrutiny and sympathy; the sympathy
has some reference to baggage; for,
while no carriage or dray or wheeled
vehicle, not even a wheelbarrow is visa
ble, there are plenty of lazy-looking
people ready to carry, for a soil or so,
our “traps” to the hotel. We walk up
the leading street past tho allegorical
monument upon which Napoleone. I
stands in marble. Around it are some
score of women. From the spouting
mouths of the four lions at its base they
are filling their earthen jars with water.
Quite a classic comment with allowance.
But there are but few brigands left in
the island. We heard of two near Monte
Rotondo, but did not see them. At all
events, they never molest strangers.
Ajaccio would not be accounted much
except for its bay and healthy situation,
were it not the birth-place of the most
remarkable man of the past thousand
years. It has a fine gallery of paintings,
but that is a gift of one of the Napoleonic
connections, Cardinal Fesch. It has a
beautiful marble chapel, but that is a
mausoleum of the Napoleon family. It
has ail old cathedral, where Madame
Letitia was accustomed to take the
young Bonaparte to mass. It has some
fine villas; but chief among them which
we visited, was that of the Countess
Bacciochi (still Bonaparte,) which that
lady, just dead, has left to the young
Prince Imperial. All the streets bear
Napoleonic names. The cases , also,
are named after Jerome, or some others
of the family. But -chief among the
souvenirs of the great family is the
house where Napoleon was born. It is
situated next door to a hatter’s. I looked
in upon the hatter at his work; looked
through the grated windows of his shop,
and there, unconscious of his enuobliug
proximty, he was beating away at his
trade. The house where the priuces of
the earth first drew breath is next door
to a hatter’s ! “We shall all meet at the
hatter’s,” saith the homely proverb.
But let me be more precise :
Passing up a narrow street in the
heart of the town, you come upon the
Place Letitia; thence upon a little open
spot, ornamented with tropical palms,
shrubs and ilowers. This plot was open
ed by the mother of Napoleon, by tear
ing down a house iu front of her own,
She used the house on one side of the
plot as a stable and coach house. 3ly
hatter is opposite. The woman who
showed us the premises was formally a
waiting woman of Caroline Murat. She
lives iu the old stable opposite my hatter
which is neatly fitted up. Upon the
front of the Bonaparte mansion there is
an inscription, that within this house
Napoleon was born. The house is large-four
stories—stone, evidently one of the best
of its day. It is hardly excelled even
yet in Ajaccio. It shows that the
family were “well-to-do,” in the world.
In fact, Madame Letitia’s family (the
Ramolinis) were rich, and had many
estates upon the island. When she died,
she bequeathed most of her fortune to
members of her family. The present
Emperor has collected most of the arti
cles, and replaced them in the house.
Our conductress told us what each ob
ject meant, and whose room this and that
wets. The second floor was the 3ladaine , s
bed chamber, dining room, salons, Sec. —
quite commodious. The floor above it
was devoted to the sons. Here was
Napoleon’s room and his bureau ! Yonder
Joseph’s ! There, Jerome’s ! The floor
above that for the boys was occupi
ed by the daughters. There was ajvery
small terrace looking out from the re
ception room, with flowers in pots—all
in bloom. This reception-room contain
ed five little square mirrors, as high as
your head, running down each side; and
three other mirrors near them, and one
grand mirror at either end of the room.
In fact, we counted some fifteen mirrors
in the room. The Napoleons were well
provided with looking glasses. We can
not say as much for any of the other
houses we have seen. What effect these
mirrors have upon the young Napoleon,
I will leave, with other reflections, to the
reader. Two brackets for wax tapers
hung below each little mirror. The
ceiling was ribbed. It bad been newly
plastered, with some little effort at
frescoe. The mother’s portrait, very
finely executed, hung over her dressing
table. It presents her as a splendid
woman. The cabinets were jjnlaid with
every colored marble, and very antique;
some rare objects sent by Napoleon trom
Egypt were seen. But the chief attrac
tion was £he bed on which Napoleon was
born. It was a wooden, ricketty affair;
near by it was the sedan-chair of the
Madame. It is w r ell known—well, I
will put it—politely —in French—that,
Madame Letizht surprise a I'eglise par
les douleurs dc Venfanterpent le 15
Aout, ITtjU, tut rapporte a son domicile'.
In this very sedan the mother of the
great Emperor was borne from the church
and on this very couch, the “little cor
poral ?” first drew his breath. From this
bed to St. Helena; from the capital to
the Tarpeian Rock ! Fill up the gap
—Arcoli, Austerltz, Waterloo ! Here,
in this house, he passed his time, play
ing at soldiers with his fellows, and
mourning because he had no moustache
the age of fifteen, he k entered
the militaty school at Brienne. He re
turned home for vacations, and mixing
his young ambition with the daily round
for boyhood pleasures and walks, he, at
the same time, imbibed from the peculiar
characteristics of the Corsicans, their
feuds and feelings, which his grand,
gloomy and marvelous after life illustra
ted. Just above us—where I write—we
are pointed out a grotto made by the
bowlders, and surrounded with foilage
and musical with birds, as the favorite
study-spot of the young Napoleon. The
spot commands a beautiful view of the
bay and the snow clad mountains around
From it can be seen, upon a clear day
the island of the Sardinia. Gardens of
oranges, from which we are permitted
to pluck at pleasure, cover the slopes
near by. Hedges of cactus—cactus
piled on cactus—the famous inacchie, so,
sweetly scented; the arbutus, the myrtle,
the olive, and every kind of color of trea
and flower here grow in the air of winter.
It was within the circle of such in
fluences of sun, sky, and land and water
that the young Napoleon formed his
plans of life. How many of them were
failed, or how many of them were realiz
ed, we can only guess. One thing
remains to be said—that in the hurly
burly of his active career he never
forgot Corsica. He afways intended to
do m-ore for her than lie did. His last
thoughts were about his native isle.
Error Corrected.— We learn from
Right Reverend Augustin Yerot, Bishop
of Savannah that the old Scarborough
house on West broad Street, which was
purchased by him a short time since is
to be appropriated to the use of the
“Barry 3lale Orphan Asylum,” not
for the acommodation of a colored
school, as we were led to believe from
information which we deemed to be
reliable. »
The Sisters of St. Joseph are now
teaching about one hundred colored
children, and are only prevented from
teaching many more for the want of
sufficient school house accommodations.
They are quietly and unostentatiously
accomplishing an immense amount of
good amongst the colored people of this
city, by teaching them their duty to their
God, their neighbors andthemselves•
The are highly educated and accom
plished ladies, who have dedicated
themselves by the most solemn vows,
exclusively to the service of God,
by devoting their whole time and ener
gies to the education of youth, and by ad
ministering to the temporal and spiritual
wants of the poor and-distressed, whether
white or colored. Their exemplary
piety is exercising an almost irresistible
influence for good upon the minds of all
the colored people with whom they ai e
brought in contact, by the exercise of
the sublimely charitable vocation to
which they have been called.
They are not political’emissaries sent
here by some foreign influence to poison
the minds of the colored people educate
them to believe that the white people are
their natural enemies, but they are here
to train them in the practice of virtue and
religion, and to teach them how to conduct
themselves in the sphere which nature
and nature’s God has assigned them.
Savannah Republican Sept. 10th.
(Lp* Thk wonderful properties of
the Pyrafuge is showing itself daily in
the blooming cheeks of our former ema
ciated citizens, all of whom declare that
until they tried this great chill and fever
expeller, they knew not what it was to
be clear, even for a few days, of the
scourge of our Southern country; but
thanks to science and our enterprising
townsman, we need no longer fear this
great scourge, and we can now go on
our way rejoicing that at last a conqueror
is at our hands which will instantly
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dumb ague, and those diseases incidental
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TF 8 * Kayton’s Pills cure sick head
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CHOLERA.
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The pain Killer, as an internal reined
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Its action is like magic, whenl externalY
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Sept. 4—4
[From Tallahassee Floridian.]
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great benefit from its use, and can con
scientiously recommend it as an excellent
remedy for diseases of the stomach and
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their invaluable merits as a remedy for
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