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HF "_-"'—-——"‘-———-
C. s. G. A. BTSSELL,
Attorneys and counsellors at Law.
Oflice over J {Mallory 85 Co.7s Store
NORWALK, CONN.
Wm. W. Narramore,
IIAGIIEIIIIIAN ARTIST
Corner of State and Main Streets,
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.
fllaeorge A. Davenport,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Oflice West Side the Bridge,
NORWALK, CONN;
Jan. 1st, 1850. 3
I-Iznns .9. Hnnimuons,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
Boots, Shoes, Leather, and Findings
No. 13 Main-Street,
NORWALK, CT.
’ Hartford County
Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
GEORGE ST. JOHN, Agent.
HAS a pledged capital of about $800,000.
'-. A cash surplus of more than $3.000.—
Elnsurance on $100 about 7 cents per year.
March 12. tfI0
Spring and Summer Clothing.
' ITI-lAUER'& TURK have received their
stock of spring and summer ready-made
clothing. which they will sell at city prices,
which is much cheaper than can be purchased
at any other establishment in this place.
« Norwalk, April 12th, 1850.
Ready Made Clothing.
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keeping it good_ assortment of Ready Made
Clothing of all kinds. Also, a good assortment
of Cloths, Cussimeres, and Vestings, which
he will make up to order in good style and at
short notice.
N. B. Particular attention paid to cutting.
THOMAS RILEY-
Norwalk. Feb. 25. 1850. 9
PASHIONABLII EMPORIUM
1:. Curtis. Merchant Taylor.
No. 10 Jlfain Street, 0lmstead’s Buildings.
HE Subscriber has received, within a
few days past, a large addition to his as-
sortment of Spring Goods, consisting, in part,
of Broadcloths, of French, German, English
and American manufacture.
, CASSIMERES,
Plain Black and Doeskin ; also a large assort-
ment of Fancy Goods, ofa variety of patterns.
VESTINGS AND TRIMMINGS;
A good assortment always on hand, to all of
which I would invite an examination from my
friends and customers. and the public general-
ly. The above goods will be sold on as rea
-eonable terms as can be offered elsewhere.
Garments made. or made and Trimmed in a
most fashionable and workmanlike manner.
Cutting done as usual. ,
Fashions received every month.
ELBERT CURTIS.
J Norwalk, April 8th, 1850.
Removal.
MRS. TINDALL has
removed her Millinery
- Business to the House
_ recently occupied by
', Mrs. Gray, over the
‘ jewelry store of C. E.
Disbrow,where she is
now opening a handsome
Spring Bonnets, Rib-
bons, and every thing
Pertaining to the Milli-
nery Business. _
Norwall.-, April 9th
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A Card.
THE -Subscribers would take this method
to inform their friends and the public get)
orally, that they have associated together In
-the practice of -Dental Surgery, and will be
‘happy to serve their patrons in the best possi-
ble manner. It is their intention to perfect
such arrangements as will secure to their
friends all the advantages that the Dental Pro-
fession affords. and to execute their business
in ii style creditable to themselves. With many
thanks for past favors, they would respectfully
solicit a continuance of the same. ’ '
A. HILL. DDS.
CHAS. FITCH.
Ploughsl Ploughs! V
' AGLE PLOUGHS, warranted the be
Plough made in the United States.
Muyher’s No. 19. 20, and 21 ploughe-
Do. Horse . ———do.
Couch’s Sanford O D, 1 D, and.2 D do.
Hall's No. 3 and Horse do
Castings for the above and Warring’s
Ploughs ; just received and for sale by
WM. C. STREET.
HITE-WASH an_d_ Scrubbing Brushes,
. for sale at
BIS,S_EL_L’S.
Notice.
A HE subscriber would respectfully callthe
ttention of the public to thelargest assort-
ment of Harness who found in any similar es-
tablishment in this county, wh"ch he has on
hand, and offers for sale atthe very lowest pri-
ces. It is believed that no similar establish
ment can furnish a better or cheaper article
in his line of business. He has also a very
large lot of Carriage \Vhips, which he offers
at factory prices. It is his intention to sell any
and every article in his line as low as any other
establishment in the country. He has on hand
a large assortment of Saddlery ware,and con-
tinues to manufacture allkinds of Goods in his
line on the most reasonable terms.
« ' WM. B. SWAN.
Norwalk, Feb 12
Blacksmithing.
WILLLIAM ‘H. LAMB
- Would inform his friends and the
public that he has made arrange-
‘ 4'; ments for conducting the above
business in all its various branches, at the old
stand on Main street, where he will be found
ready to do all kinds of work usually done in a
country shop; never tires in. ironing wagons,
sleighs, and such work as his custoine_rs wish
done. By paying strict attention to his busi-
ness, and endeavoring to give perfect satisfac-
tion, he hopes to so weld the interest the inter-
est of the public with his sledge that no flaw
will prevent him from receiving a share_of
patronage. _
N. B. Horse-shoeing done in the most ap-
proved manner.
Norwalk, Jan. 1.1850.
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ROE Locxwoon & son, H
BOOXSELLERS, PUBLISHERS, AND IMPORTER3
411 Broadway, New York,
Dhectly opposite the Depot of the New York and Re!-
Hsven Railroad Company.
The Cordial Balm of Gilead,
remedy for mental and bodiiy debility.
A nervous disorders, etc. is universally ac-
knowledged to be peculiarly efficacious in_ all
inward wastings, loss of appetite, indigestion.
pepression of spirits. trembling or shaking of
the hands or limb, shortness of breath, consump-
tive habits. Iteases the most violent pains in
the head and stomach, and promotes perspira-
tion. Fo.I sale by W. E- BISSELIH
District of Westport ss Probate Court, May
9th. 1850.
UPON the application of Thomas F. Rock-
well of Westport. in said District, showing
to this Court that he is Guai'dinn to Roswell
B. Rockwell, John C. Rockwell, and Lydia
E. Rockwell. minors belonging to said district,
and that said minors are the owners of the
following real estate, viz. :—The undivided
three-eighths of the following described tracts
of land situated in Wilton, in Fairfield county,
to wit——one tract in quantity twelve acres,
bounded north by Abby Holmes and Lydia
Rockwell, east by heirs of Zalmon Dikeman
and heirs of Aurinda Lambert, south by Wil-
liam Rockwell, and west by Thomas F. Rock-
well ; another tract, in quantity two acres and
twenty-nine rods, with one half of a barn
standing thereon, bounded north by Joseph P.
Fitch, east by Joseph P. Fitch and Abby
Holmes, south by Post road and west by high-
way. Also the undivided three fifty-sixths of
the following described tracts of land situated
in said Wilton, to wit——one tract, in quantity
three roods more or less, bounded north by
Frederick Benedict, east and south by Levi
Scribner, and west by highway, with the build-
ings thereon standing; one other tract, in
quantity, five acres more or less, bounded north
by Levi Scribner, east by John We tros, ‘and
south and west‘ by highway, with the buildings
thereon standing, subject to anincuinbrance _of
three hundred dollars. One other tract, in
quantity twenty acres more or less, bounded
north by heirs of William Lockwood, deceased,
east by highway, and south and west by Sam-
uel Davenport; and one other tract at Whor-
tleberry Woods. so-called, in quantity seven
acres more or less-—nimes of adjoining own-
ers unknown, it being land of the estate of
Clapp Rockwell, late of said Wilton. de-
ceased,—the whole of said minors’ interest in
said real estate—-valued at about two hundred
and twenty dollars, and showing just and rea-
sonable cause for selling the said real estate;
praying for an order, and that he or some other
other meet person be empowered to Sell the
same, as per application on file. dated ‘the 9th
day of May, 1850, more fully appears. _
Oi'dered—'I‘hat the foregoing application be
heard at the Probate Office. in W’eSf,P0|'Ti 0!!
the 26th day of July, 1850. at 9 o'clock. fore
noon; and that notice thereof be published
in some public newspaper nea_r the place
where such real estate lies. three weeks suc-
cessively, ut least six weeks before said time
assigned. ALVA GRAY, Judge. 21
Wanted‘
' JOURNEYM AN TAILOR. Apply
, to the Subscribeii, T. RILEY;
NORWALK, or. TUESDAY, JUNE 4, isgo.
TO "MY CHILD.
BY IJZZIE J. BALI.
My child, my child I words may not tell
How much of love is thine,
.Nor how my heart doth wildly throb
With thoughts that thou art mine.
Yes, mine 3 all mine. my darling boy!
My precious, priceless one!
Earth holds no happier mother’s heart
Beneath its gladdening sun. ,
I've sat, and gazed in thy blue eyes,
I With thoughts so deep and wild,
That only tears could give them vent ;
And thou hast looked and smiled !
Smile ever thus, my niuch-loved one,
Thy mot.her’s heart to cheer;
And younger, fresher, it will grow,
With every passing year.
Ah. yes ! for love's the real fount
\Vherein the heait may lave,
And youth renew. And this, my boy,
From thee I'll ever crave. '
Give me but this, I'll ask no more
For all I've borne for thee;
But more a thousand times I'd bear. ,
Ere thou'd relinquished be.
Yet. oh! should death--no; hence the thought!
A He would not take my boy;
He'll live. he'll live to bless my love-—
My pride, my hope, my joy!
Then trials, want, or care may come,
They’ll come as nought to me,
While still is left my yearning heart
Its home, thy sire, and thee.
And now, my God, one boon I crave
From thine all-powerful hand;
Oh, give me strength to rear my child
An honor to his land I
For will not goodness make him thus‘?
And this, I humbly pray.
May the wntchword that shallguide
Him on his eai't.l'ily way.
MISCELLANY.
Marriage in a Temperance Meeting.
The St. Louis Republican endorses the
following as a true story :
In the evening of the day on which Alice
arrived at S , a great temperance meet-
ing was held in one of the churches. Her
friends who had become enthusiastic in the
cause, urged her to go to the meeting, which
Alice did, though -with reluctance. The
house was crowded above and below. The
preliminaries usually appertaining to meet-
ings having been arranged, a brief opening
address was made by one of the ministers.
A reformed man related his experience with
great effect. After he had finished ‘ there
was a pause of nearly a minute. At. length
a man who had been seated far back with
his face turned from the audience, arose
slowly and moved to the front of the stage.
A half suppressed exclamation escaped
Alice, as her eyes caught the well known
features of him who had once been her hus-
band, while a quick thrill ran through her.
Then her frame trembled in accordance with
her fluttering heart. The face of Mr. Delany
had greatly changed since she had looked
upon it. Its calm, dignified elevation had
been restored, but what a difference.
“Mr. President,” he began in a broken
voice, “although I had consented, at your
urgent solicitation, to address this large as-
semblage to-night, yet I have felt so strong a
reluctance to do so, that it has been with the
utmost difficulty that I could drag myself
forward. But I had passed my word and
could not violate it As to relating my ex-
perience, that I don’t think that I can venture
upon. The past I dare not recall. Would
to heaven that ten years of my life were
blotted out 1"’ ~
The speaker here paused a moment, al-
ready much affected. Then resuming in a
firmer voice, he said :
“ But something must be said of my own
case, or I shall fail to make that impression
on your minds which I wish to produce.
“ P-ictures of real life touch the heart with
power, while abstract presentations of truth
litter coldly in the intellectual regions of
as mind, and then fade from the perception
like figures in a diorama.
“Your speaker once stood among the first
members of the bar in a neighboring State.
Nay, more than that, he represented his
county three years in the Assembly of the
Commonwealth ; and more than that, occu-
pied a seat in Congress for two congressional
eriods.”
At this part of Mr. Delany’s remarks the
stillness of death pervaded the crowded
room.
“ And yet more than all that,” he contin-
ued in a low thrilling tone, “I had a tender
wife and two sweet children. But all those
honors have departed from me,” he contin-
ued, his voice growing louder and deeper in
his efforts to control himself; I was unwor-
thy to retain them.
“My constituents threwme ofi‘ because I
had debased myself and also disgraced them.
And worse than allthat, she who loved me
devotedly-—-she whozhad borne me two babes
—was forced to abandon me, and seek an
asylum in her father’s house. -
“ And why? Could I be so changed in a
few short years? What power was-there to
so debase me that my fellow citizens spurned,
and even the wife of my bosom turned away
heart-stricken from me? Alas! my friends,
it was a mad indulgence in a mockery; it
very demon—a curse changing the human
into the bestial. But for thisl were an hon.-
orable and useful representative in Congress,
pursuing after my country’s good, and bless.-
e.l in the home circle,_ with my wife and
children. But I have not told you all. Af-
ter my wife left me 1 sank rapidly, '
“ Sobriety brought many terrible thoughts
-.—.I therefore drank more freely, and was
rarely if ever, free from the bewili.1.4.3.r-ing.ef’-
fects of intoxication. I remained in ‘tho
-_L._Am . _
S same. village. for several. years, but; never
once ~ saw my wife during that time, nor
caught a glance at my children. At last I
became so abandoned in my I ife, that my
wife urged on by my own friends, filed an
application for a divorce ; and as cause could
not‘be easily shown why it should not be
granted, a separation was legally declared.
To complete my disgrace, at the next con-
gressional canvass, I was left off the ticket
as unfit to represent the district. I then left
the county and State where I had lived from
boyhood to the unhappy period in my life to
which I have just alluded. '
“Three years have passed since then. For
two years of that time I abandoned myself
to the fearful impulse of the appetite I had
acquired ; then I turned attention to this
movement-—the great Temperance cause —
At first I sneered, thcn wandered, hesitated,
and finally threw myself on the great wave
that was swelling onward, in the hope of
being carried by it far out of the reach of
danger, and ldid not hope in vain. It did
for me all and more than I could have dream-
ed of. It set me at once upon my feet—once
more made a man of me. A year of sobriety
earnest devotion to my profession, and fer-
vent prayer to Him who alone gives strength
in every good resolution, has restored me
much that was Iost—but not all, not the rich-
est treasure, that I prdved myself unworthy
to retain—not my wife and children. Ah!
between myself and them the law has laid
its stern and inseparable interdiction. I have
no longer children, though my heart goes
out towards those dearly beloved ones with
the tenderest yearnings. Pictures of our
early days of wedded love are ever lingering
on my imagination. Idream of the sweet
fireside circle ; I see ever before me the once
placid face of my Alice, as her eyes looked
into my own with never changing intelli-
gent confidence. I feel her arms about my
neck, the music of her voice is ever sound-
ing in my ear.” H ere the speaker’s emotion
overcame him. His utterance choked him,
and he stood silent with bowed head and
trembling limbs. The dense stillnes was
broken by half stifled sobs. At this mo-
ment there was a movement ‘in the crowd.-—
A single figure before whom every one
seemed to give way, was passing the aisle.--—
This wasnot observed by Delany pntil she
had come nearly in front of the platform
where he stood. The movement caught his
ear, and lifting his eyes, they almost imme-
diately fell on Alice, for it was she who was
pressing forwdrd.
Hebent towards her with suddenly.-up
lifted handsand eager eyes, and stood like a
statue; she gained the stand and advanced
quietly to his side. For a moment the
stood thus—the whole audience thrilled with
the scene, were apon their feet and bending
forward. Then Delany opened his arms,
and Alice threw herself upon his bosom
with a wild gesture, thus for the space of a
minute they stood, every one, by a single
intuition understanding the scene. One of
the ministers then came forward and gently
seperated them.
“No, no,” said Delany, “ you must not,
you cannot take her away from me.”
“ Heaven forbid that I should do that l’’---
replicd the minister. “By your own con-
fession she is not your wife.”
“ No, she is not,” replied Delany mourn-
fully.
“ But she is ready to renew her vows
again,” said Alice_ smiling through the tear
that now rained over her face.
Before that large assemblage, all standing,
and with few dry eyes, was uttered the word
that gave Delany and Alice to each other.-
As the minister and the aged man, with thin
white locks, finished the rite he laid his
hands upon the two he had joined in holy
bonds, and lifting up his eyes, that streamed
with drops of gladness, he said in asolcmn
voice—-“ whom God hath joined together, let
not RUM put assunder l”
“ Amen !” was responded by the whole
assembly,as with asingle voice.
QUICK THoUGn'r.——Your genuine Hiber-
nian is one of the happiest fellows in the
world at a prompt excuse. The Edinburg
Courant says that an‘ Jishman having acci-
dentally broken a pane of glass in a window
of a house in Queen street, was making the
best of his way to get out of sight as well as
out.of mind ; but unfortunately for Pat, the
proprietor stole a march on him, and having
seized him by the collar, exclaimed, “You
broke my window, fellow, did ye not Cl” ' To
be sure I did,” said Pat, “and didn’t you see
me running home for money to pay for it 2”
. (lg? Miss Mary G. Willis, of Concord,
lately advertised for a husband. In the ad-
vertisement it was stated that the lady was in
“ a peculiar condition,” rendering early pro-
posals very desirable. Subsequently it was
suggested that the printer had made a mistake
inserting peculiar for pecuniary. I The error
was corrected,‘ proposals were sent in, and
Mary has been married. Advertising is a
great advantage to all classes of persons.
The last Speech of Mrs. Partington.-—“ Fif-
t -two sons of Temperance,” exclaimed the
o d lady, “ and twenty-five Daughters too!
Why bless me, how many children has aunt
Tempy got? And I hear them talk of Cadets
of ' Temperance. What sort of debts are
them .5 But no wonder she owes debts when
she has so many children to maintain-how
Ipiiy the critter.” _And the old lady pulled
her spectalces down on her nose and resumed
her knitting. ‘
Anecdotes-“ We must be unanimous,”
said Hancock on the occasion of signing the
Declaration of Independence, “' there must be
no pulling different ways.”
“ Yes,” observed Franklin, “ we ‘must all
hang together, or most assuredly ' we‘ shall
all hang separately. -
fir What a changing world this is.
‘AT TWO DOLLARS rm. ANNUM.
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fitanufattures. 0
VOLUME XXXIII.-‘-NUMBER 923.
Terrors -of Vesuvius-
A graphic account of the late eruptions of
Vesuvius has scarcely yet appeared in the
journals of this country. We imagine the
following comparatively vivid outline, ex-
tracted from a London paper, may not be
uninterestingto our‘ readers :—
The insufferable dullness and gloom which
have reigned in Naples for some weeks past,
malgre the Carnival and the usual balls and
gaieties, have at last been dispelled by the
excitement caused by one of the finest erup-
tions of Mount Vesuvius ever known. For
some twalveor fourteen days the mountains
has been in labor, giving manifest indications
by groans and wailings, of bringing forth
speedily something more than a mouse. On
the 6th, volumes of smoke and vapor, with
occasional sheets of flame, were succeeded,
from time to time, by awful sdbterranean
rumblings; and on the morning of the 7th,
the lava made its appearance, running down
the mountain, on the side of Torre Annun-
ziata, in seven or eight distinct streams. On
the evening of the latter day, a party of us as-
cended to the hermitage, and thence,on foot
with guides and torches, to the cone, from
ighence a fine view was obtained of the lava
at a white heat, as it was pumped out of the
crater, and thence bent its way in the direc-
tion of Pompeii and the Bosco Reale. This
ascent was very fatiguing and disagreable,
and one of the party had a narrow escape
from fracturing a limb by a fall. During
the night of the 8th, the roaring and bellow-
ing of the crater kept most people from en-
joying their rest, and on the whole of the 9th,
volumes of smoke, lava, and vapor, together
with huge stones and serriaa, were rejected
without intermission. On the evening of
this day, a special train was announced to
leave Naples at six o’clock, for Torre An-
nunziata, returning at eleven. About 400
natives and foreigners availed themselves of
this opportunity ; and a strong party of
Inglesi, with guides and torches, and mules
and donkeys, proceeded from the station at
Torrey Annunziata to the - Bosco Reale,
which is about five miles, through narrow
lanes and country roads. There was no
cause for apprehension, however, as‘ the
Government had taken care to send strong
bodies of troops both horse and foot, for the
' protection of life and property, and the pres-
ervation of order. The sight that met our
view on our arrivalat the Bosco was grand
in the extreme. The lava presented fl fron-
tage of at least a mile and a half, and was
advancing slowly but steadily and sure, and
devouring everything in its way. On the
road we had met parties of poor peasants
carrying beds, chairs, pots, pans, and other
moveablc furniture, which they had been
able to save from the devouring liquid ; the
the women and children tending the air with
their groans and cries and supplications to
the San Gennaro, the patron safnt of these
parts. These poor wretches were thrown
on the world homeless and pennyless.
By the time of our arrival, which was
about 9 o’cloek, the lava had taken complete
possession of the wood, having devoured it
for half a mile. At times a row of three or
four hundred saplings caught fire simulta-
neously, producing a vivid flame that lighted
up the country for miles around. Some
splendid full-grown ilex, oak, and ash trees,
offered in their ponderous trunks a momen-
tary resistance; but it was to no purpose,
the larger ones generally exploding with a
loud report and a leap of twelve or fourteen
feet in the air, to be consumed like tinder in
their descent. It was curious to observe,
when from a sudden rush of lava, which
always occurred after a temporary obstruc-
tion, how the larger trees gave out tens of
thousands of little jets of steam from the
knees and elbows of the smaller branches.
It was owing to the roots and trunks coming
immediately and suddenly in contact with
the lava, and before the whole tree had had
a preparatory roasting previously to its final
combustion. In these cases the tree gener-
ally exploded; those on the contrary, that
had had their initory grilling, generally
bowed their heads slowly and majestically,
dying, like Caesar, in their dignity. As this
novel and bfilliani spectacle quite absorbed
our attention, the majority of - us lost the re-
turn train to Naples, and decided to pass the
night on the spot. There was no moon, but
the stars shone :clearly, and the sky was
cloudless ; a cold tremontmm, however, on
one side, and the insupportable beat of the
advancing furnace on the other, made it ne-
cessary for us to keep revolving from time
to time like bottle jacks before the lava, to
obviate being frozen on one side, and baked
on the other. At about three o’clock in the
morning the eruption was at its height. The
amount of lava was quintupled, and the
masses of stands which shot up into the air
descending with a reverberating crash. It
was the discharge of these stones which
caused a noise that rendered our voices in-
audible. I can only compare it to the con-
cussion produced by the broadside of a three
decker. The ground at times trembled un-
der our feet, and a wailing, sobbing, distress-
ing sound, seemed to indicate that Nature
was undergoing a horrible subterranean con-
vulsion; and thus gave vent to the “throes
and throbs” of her agony. At about 4 o'clk
the destroyer advanced to a farm-house and
outbuilding, which seemed, from their solid-
ity, being built of rubble stone, and joined
with the well known Roman cement, likely
to offer a stout resistance. And here
the lava seemed to be endowed with con-
sciousncss and instinct. No isooner did it
feel the momentary check than it commenc-
erl rising like the water in the‘ lock of a
canal, and from being at its arrival about
twelve feet deep, speedily rose to about thirty,
and attacking the bomb-shaped solid stone
roof of the ,main building, and at the same
time running in at the windows and doors,
caused a rarification and condensation of air,
that made the whole concern router with a
terrific report.
?=_ _ , . _.,
’ When no_. traces of the farm or offices
wereany longer visible, being covered by a
smooth surface of liquid fire, the poor agri-
culturist, the proprietor, "together with his
sposa, -their children, together with some
half. dozen louts,set up a yell, beat their
breasts, and tore their hair in the Neapolitan
style. -Instead of saving as much as they
could from destruction, beyond their mere’
bedding, they did not attempt to remove a
single thing-; thus all the doors and fittings,’
mangers, troughs, also about an acre of cab-'
bages, carrots, and celery, together with
various gates and farming utensils, were
allowed to be destroyed. There was ample
time to move those things, but they preferred
howling and calling on San Gennaio -either
to do it for them or stop the torrent of lava.
A still more interesting and affecting
spectable was presented about an hour after
by the destruction of a small church, embo-
somed in this hapless wood. The lava here,
as at the farm had rather a tough job, from
the extreme solidity of the edifice; and,
with a sort ofa instinct conscious pride in
its own irresistible powerit dashes forward
to the attack, despite the moons and chants
of a parcel of Franciscian friars connected,
with the church, and of the mute sorrow of
the poor cure. The ornament of the alter,
together with the pictures, statues, and finery
of the Virgin and the patron saints, and the
parish records had all been removed; but
the incessant entreaties of the cure failed to
induce his parishioners to put their should-
ers to two fine doors, and lift them off their
hinges to a place of security, which they
could easily have done. The bells also
might have been saved with little exertion.
No; the Virgin or the patron saint would
either appear corporeally, that is, visible,
and stop the sacrilegious destroyer, or the
edifice would resist and go scathless. From
time to time the bells were tolled mournful-
ly, and cure monks, and parishioners, chant-
ed the funeral dirge of the sacred edifice
where most of them had been baptised, and
which was associated with all the prominent
parts of their little secluded lives. The lava
here insinuated itself into the crypt of the
building thereby undermining it so that it
was literallya“ a temple rent in twain,”
the two nearly equal portions of which rock-
ed and totterered to their base, and then fell,
belfry, bells, and all into the burning gulf.-
Several passages of the “ Inferno” of Dante
were called to recollection this night, and‘
the divine poet ably describes what here
palpably and tangibly represented hell,‘
though upon the earth. For half an hour
an intense green flame played over where
one stood the doomed edifice, caused perhaps
by the fusson of the bell-metal below. In
other parts blue flames of various degrees of
intensity and depth of color played and flick-
ered about. All night parties arrived from
Naples, who had missed the train; and the
wood was glitering with torches approach-
ing and receeding in the distance. The ar-
rival of a large body of priests, mounted on
jackasses and mules produced an immense
sensation among the peasantry, as there was.’
little doubt that these worthy men would
soon settle the business of the ruthless ene-
my, and put things to rights; so to it they
went, clergy and laity ; and on our departure
from this scene of desolation and we, the sky
resoundeil with the exertion of some hundred
pairs of lungs. Much of the beauty of the ef-
fect faded on the approach of daylight, the
lurid glare of the lava was followed by a
black carbonaceous dullness, with onlyhere
and there a deep red glow; the volume of.
lava had also diminished,and the crater was
hushed. Nature seemed to have a slight in-
termission ot her pangs, to be resumed the
following evening.
On our return to Naples, we learned that
a tragedy of another and a more sanguinary
kind had been enacted elsewhere during the
night. Hundreds visited the crater itself,
and the mountain was literally dotted with
little bright star-like points, ascending and
flitting like will-o’-the-wisps. The effect
was picturesque in the extreme.
American officers of the squadron here, with
characteristic and national rashncss and cu-
riosity, approached too near, and one of the
officers, a fine, handsome young fellow, re-
ceived a mass of hot, calcareous matter on
the right shoulder, which stripped the flesh
to the bone as far as the elbow. There was
no actual fracture, but the hemorrhage was
so violent, and so long a time elapsed before
he received proper medical aid, that he lies
with little hope of recovery. All the Ga-
Ienic skill of the place is attending him.
He is only 2'2, remarkably amiable and
handsome, and quite the, pet of the squadron
and the ladies. He holds the position of
Commodoi'e’s naval aid-dc-camp, and is a.
lieutenant in rank. Only a few nights
since we had seen him at a ball, the gayest
of the gay, his fine, manly form and features
making him almost “the observed of all
observers.” But another accident, within
ten yards of the same spot and almost at the
same time, terminated fatally. The victim
of this rashness was a Polish a officer, who
received a mass of stone, of some tons’
weight, on his left thigh, which“caused a
compound fracture, and there he lay, and
bled to death, his blood running down into
the very crater itself, where it boiled, and
hissed, and steamed. A Neapolitan gentle-
man, who related the particulars to us, near-
ly lost his life in his exertions to bring the
body down the side o_f the mountain ; for, at
the time, the lava and stones fell in all direc-
tions, thick and fast. Another individual, a
native, had the dexter side of his lower jaw
completely removed by a stone, which was
shot obliquely out of the crater, while he
was stretching 0%, peering into its fiery
depth. The list of personal mishaps on the
night in question, would almost fill a whole
column. The fair sex, too, who have more
courage than we give them credit for, proof of
whichis seen in delicate little women going
up to gratify curiosity-—.a sti'on'g.ins'tin,ct mi dit
in their nature-—being always «in the van of
danger, many of whom received injury.
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