Show I 1 r I 1 do not L know any point where the character of volcanic scenery is better seen as far as regards the picturesque than from the tei terraces paces faces of the monastery mon astry of I 1 a 1 I few miles out of naples these terraces ps are on the extremity of a long broken ridge fori formerly itself a part of a a volcanic one on one side we look ibok down on tho the large ancient crater eross across which at a distance of more moie than iwo wo miles rises the ridge pierced by the grotto of posillipo Po and th that at reaches to tile the pretty little extinct volcano of breaking the monotony of this other wise ase ise flat plain is the charming lake of agnano green and smiling in the broad sunlight eyell eyen in midwinter mid winter to the tho eye of the geological nn observer this might pass for 1 a I slight blight depression in a sandy plateau it is bothin nothing but jut the remains of the ashes erupted from beneath tho thol thel bottom bottom of the present lake a larie large proportion of which have been car bied rp away hy by rain and rings beyond this is the singular and most picturesque tur esque depression the caccia cacela astrom eo fo F o called because here the wild boa boars baars ra can be retained within a natural park enclosed by rather lofty hilla bilis the park being beilIg some bome two thousand acres in extent covered with vegetation and containing several pieces of water and two or three ahr ec hills within the I 1 inclosure still beyond are other oilier plains and hill hills the broken outline of the gulf I 1 of POZ cozzuli zuli zuil the headland of bil All mineno neno and t the 1 Q lalands islands of procida and ischia tha the edu educated gated eye oye wan deri derl over this scene cad ead cannot not fail feil toy tos tare a cornue peed peca peculiar ifan liar tendency ind y to f form rafi bc cones giles arid arad d craters raters ra tera clifta of eft lof liva lava all ail 11 indicating the volcanic nature eror erot of the A few small formal cones and craters like ilke 11 the monte nuovo suggest the bist bisi history lory very pointedly but everything tells the same tal la leand eind reminds one of the time when thrashes the ashes were thrown up into theair the nir air from throats vomit vomiting lug g fire and flame and find in falling accumulated tho heaps that thai now form the tiie cones IMs of little conse n s quence u e narna whether ite ide he point of view bo be from below or nr ona on a level or from a above ove whether wilether it benear bencar or distant the peculiarities bf structure ture are always to 0 o bo be mad mado trout out and the tile physical features are without a single exe exception option eption P af pf tile tho same nature but details aro are so 80 peculiar and recognizable it lt must not be supposed there are no antles antics of form vesuvius vers tory din diu prent ent parts of tho the great gulf of naples ps erom prom rom ron Sorrento and various vatious places ou on the road beyond the awin twin form ia li lost and the modo mode madoni cone is seen rising rising as ns if butof out the hollow of the broken old oid crater which hefe presents an rui zoi irregular ir rrie 1110 U lar and jagged outline in it is from oil sorrento that et the mountain mo 1 is seen in its most simple form and from this point alone it rek recalls E etna enato to tha recollection althou although h the effect is ls fesq striking les ies owing t to 0 t 16 the vicinity of other mountain former of equal magnitude and much greater variety of shape As one visits successively dinn dind crent erent parts arts of the coast while proceeding r oc ceding by b land land from naples towards sorrento ft tt is impossible not to be struck by the sin singular gular gulat changes of form that even cven this one conical mountain seems to assume and these are real in a r certain A ertain se sense ir a for although all have been caused by showers of or ashes and cpr eer currents currents rents of lava no twin eruption exhibit identical phenomena and even the distribution of the ashes depends on accidents of wind the burying of pompeii one of the most celebrated instances on record of a town rendered invisible and inflects inaccessible for nearly two thousand years by an event that was vas irremediable seems to have been caused by an accumulation precisely reels ely similar fo to that frequently produced N during a heavy fall fail of snow enow the ashes no doubt fell to some thickness over the whole plain at the foot of the volcano but the lighter and niner finer powder was drifted towards the southeast by the set of the upper current of wind in falling these aslies ashes still drifted but ml by ay iy winds wings vouching touching tho the carth earth and were thus heaped around tha til only obstacle at hanu ii and namely th walls of pompeu pompeii ind and burned the unhappy unit appy city within them everything seems to show that there was ample warning of danger and that the bulk built of the population escaped the stragglers those who endeavor endeavored cd to save some pheris cherished hed bed object some borne unlucky prisoners and perhaps som eom some crippled and infirm wretches were caught and stifled some by the ashes but more because they endeavored to penetrate covered ways which became stopped up at each end the drift of ashes on pompeii is still a loy iov mound whose th agrees with that of the walls walis of the old town yown town and the mound is too low to affect afflect the features of the landscape the scenery seon scon around naples and in the excursions made from the city is not altogether volcanic on the western side indeed it is so except from the few height heigh tp such as the camaldoli Camal doli convent eon con vent where the chain of the apen nines comes into vi view ow all on the cast side beyond the foot of vesuvius is calcareous ca reous except that at and near sor hor rento there still remain patches of some very old lu fa but the heights above the cape posillipo Po lito ilko the hills inclosing the dreuy lake ot of anano aguano those of the astrom where are re the wild boar preserves in a natural amphitheatre perhaps unrivaled in the world those surrounding the Cam Catu and Avenius the monte eNu nuovo ovo the monto monte barbaro the cliffs inclosing the bay of bain baia ISIl senus procida and ischia are all strictly vole voie volcanic inic most of them being either cones of eruption or imperfect craters the fragment of an imperfect crater is always ridge shaped and an dwing dowing to the softness of the tyl fufa aana and the occa presence of hard laya lava is generally crrz irregular guiar gular water worn and precipitous looking down from any of the heights on the western district dist lot lct or that of the Ph legien en fields the crater form of all the hills is very strikingly seen been these hills are generally generall yIn independent dependent of lava currents and thus the appearance differs muli much from the aspect of the country as seen from the summit of vesuvius or tile heights of etna This thia however la is more curious than pleasing the re rather grotesque grote aque than picturesque pic pie i fresqu ur 4 t id in theo the odd twisted forms and ana in olor bolor of ps th that it sli sip spread read ont out like ilke like ilke r distorted 1 ll 11 limbs ba from tiie tile whence hence the eruption amill eneas iview cd ed closely the ilie effect ja 3 ni store ore striking b ut still it it sh ow hittie mittie of olde true hug aj picturesque c tur esque prod Prof professor asor ansted in ta aft art rt Journ alof alor se september F FAMINE lur amr n IN INDIA indian the of the famine in ih indea indra is still continuing and the mortality is ever increasing creasing hi the state of the country is said sald to ta be frightful A correspondent dent of autta Guib ilva of the ath who has made a 4 tour of the Me fusil sends a nar mar 1 summering suffering and death which has rarely been paralleled even in the history of such calamities in four Til yli villages lages chih he visited there were not teh ten houses at that did not contain one or more dead bodies III in another small place there apra four hundred dead most of them unburied the truth appears to be that the boasted administrative machinery of the indian government has completely broken down plenty of food has been brought but somehow or other it does not reach the starving ships ladell laden with rice are unable finable to discharge their cargoes for want of boats much of the misery is is attributed to the fact that the author gitles have haic given orders that only eight clot annas worth of rice should be sold to one individual lat at a time everyday writes a correspondent thor therenie ther there eare enre are hundreds of people coming coming and laying ais arz down their mone monc prostrating pro aristr A cwg t them h em selves on ob their face nidhan and dabag to buy guy ribe rice but butth b re officers cannot cotsell sell seli it owing to td the tife orders they have received in calcutta alone twenty thousand persons are subsisting on native charity which has proved far sore more effect effective ivd lyd than the thib organization uni af pf th the c government F lingasin IN the frankfort seat sept ad correspondence of tile tiie eun run lias haa the following if one oni wants to know quickly the present state of public opinion at our new Pius prussian sian alan possessions frankfort one need oni only y to travel in the second class cars of tile the different railroads thac that center clenter lire liere in the third class the people have become reconciled reconell ed to the thol thought aught that they are now prussians sinns one hears bears but praise of our soldiers astonish astonishment at our successes and above all the tile expectation that now under prussian rule there will be true equality before the law for the poor as well as the rich jn the second class the tone la a already different here prevails the wounded pride ol 01 of the free citizens and the spoiled childr enof germany but in first class the people are wild with rage that the accustomed arrangement and church stee steeple pie policy should cease in these cars they cant forget that the mayor of frankfort at the congress 4 of princes 1861 sat like ilke like ilke a colleague by the side of the emperor of austria at the table and ate of the historic beef the hostility of the patricians of frankfort it will be impo impossible for along jong a while to overcome I 1 iio lio Iro HOOPING opi orl G COUGH it is now pretty well known that the emanations of 0 gas a works are an admirable specific for t the h e hoo hooping i pili g cough but it is not always convenient W n ien ion t to go there especially when the distance is considerable NI 1 I 1 na iter lter in such cases recommends phenol phenoi carbolic acid as an excellent eum he states that hooping cough having lately broken out in an epi epidemic demie demic form at laffitte a village not many miles wiles from paris on the rouen railway allway 11 he caused some phenol to be bt pou pon poured r ed into three or four plates in ithe til a house ofin friend of his whose children were wore attacked the tho disease a and tet in the course of a week they recovered completely after this success a dozen daoro children were treated in the sawo same manne rland with a similar result tins tips jq q not surprising since phenol iss tho tile ingredients above alluded to 0 ilu ill kan vas SAS ncr ivr A UNIVERSAL COINAGE Z thag av amell ts of or frann france belgium abaly and switzerland signed on J L ad i nf december deg DeV embler isa ISU i an blu agreement re d a monetary uni onby the tile terms term of which fhe coins coina of all fill these states a aro are hereafter to be of one uniform we weight t aud ami fineness fine fint goo parts al nine fine ife and t the a treasuries of each state aro are at fit alltis all ali times W receive tha monies bf all oll the qt others 0 con cov trading parties in the same samo terms term tas is sas their own cir clr anores ANoris IN F cor coi ida the british mint has hab hag has ceased ased to comm corn half crowns for some years past in like manner the foura enny enns piece Is Js made to give place to the no boiu boin con ton of off the ap hp aring in the returns since marel 11 av 14 1 l kif sif |