The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-06-20

gait and maddening brain, when his visit
ful and eager eyes catch a first glimpse OF
the distant well. may family imagine what
we're our sensations. When the first drop
touched our shrivelled lips and fell on our
ihronhIng temples, every gasping mouth
was ''stended wide 10 heaven for the fall
ing mama; our parched Threats heaved
and swel!ed like the waves. Fervent pray
eis were uttered by men who would have
dieh IN battle disappearing; but they avail
ed not; the watery cloud on which their
iiVes were suspended mockingly displayed
us riches nlggardly sprinkled them with a
lew scanty drops, as sample of the inesti-
maole treasure it contained, and heeted on
wards TIL they beheld it mingle its waters
IN -waste,--ln the brIny ocean! They COW
cred In despair their inAamed ewes with
their cracked and spongy hands, and groan-
ed in agony
But who can go on describing tortures
such as these men endured, every instant
aughehting, comprising an eternity of i'm
m'tigable suffering, though marked in the
calendar but as seven days and seven
hours "a space so fieeting to the free
and happy that it passes by and is scarce
~ noted, while on these forlorn seamcn
seven days dil the work of seventy years.
With rheumed, CLASSY, blood-shot eyes,
haggard, wrinkled and hollow cheeks,
sunken mouth, swollen, slaty and cracked
lips, contracted nostrils. thnned and whit
ened hair, collapsed muscles, feeble and
tottering gait, sepulchral and inarticulate
voices, Cabling more like brutes than men ::
can the EXTREMIST age TO which human ex
istehce has yet been stretched, with all its
whitening. palsy and impotency. do more !?
In seven days and few hours, youth, in
teliect, strength, were thus blasted! Let
me be- scorched 10 death in a volcano, blown
into the air from a cannon, buried alive in
the earth, drowned in water, but let me not
die by wanting it
Two, in their phrenzy, threw themselves
into the sea, slaked their thirst in its briny
waters and died under its cool canopy.-
One, after lying in idotic insensibility, burst
INTO fierce, yelling madness, tore the living
flesh from his limbs, sucked his own blood,
lay down, slept, and awoke no more. Four.
besides the officer, remained on the seventh
day. The sky, the ocean, the boat. eyerv
thing looked burning red and fiery. They
mad no hope, when on the morning of the
eighth day we rescued them from their
shattered boat. What q crazed, wild. and
CHASTITY band were they more like corpses
uncharnelled than living men. The weak
est OF the party, the mate, seemed alone
TO have retained his senses. After he was
nolsted on the deck, and had collectedlv
looked around, he said, awe are DIVING
the death of the damned Give nv men
some water!" Then, as if his last duty
was performed, he pointed to his fIotby lin
but could not speak and the spirit, which
had horne him up while contending with
danger, now released fiom its post Of duty.
seemed to flee away, and his body sunk
down lifeless.
CHIEF JUSTICE Parsons. 1t was rule
of the bar in Essex County, Mass, tina. no
lawyer should take into his office more than
three students. But it happened that the
celebrity Of Parsons, then practising law.
yer in Newburypo1t, had gained him more
than his due, and he was accused before
the bar of having five students. He denied
the charge; but it being clearly proved
that there were five young gentlemen aim
ing at the law in his office, it was matter
of curious speculation among his legal
brethren how he could get himself clear of
the accusation. "Why, gentlemen" said
he, g. have positively but three students
and believe | can prove it to YOUR en-
tire satisfaction. 1t is true, | have five
young men in my Office, but one of them is
dandy, and another a fiddler"
CITIES OF THE DEAD. One of the Enc.
llsh journals mentions the discovery of
another overwhelmed city near the base of
Vesuvlus, between that mountain and Pom
pen, at place called Bosco ire Case
Here professor Zahn has caused several
excavations to be made, which scarcely
leave doubt that city was buried there,
supposed by the discoverer to have been
called Toso, and which with Pompei Her
culaneum, and Stabia, makes the fourth of
the cities submerged by the same terrible
eruption. One of the excavations is des
criSed as follows:
You descend thirty palms perpendicular
into n deep hollow, into a peristyle sur.
rounded with pillars. Thence four subter-
ranean galleries have been eXcavated. in
the direction of Naples, Sarno, and Vesu-
vlns. In the first some chambers have been
discovered, containing paintings and many
bas-rellefs. These chambers which have
been only partially excavated, give the
promise of rich harvest. In the gallery
leading to Pompeii, an ancient road has
been traced in the direction from Naples 10
Sarno. In the two other galleries, there
are various fragments of beautiful paint
lngs, terracotta, iron and bronze. Some
human skeletons, and one of a hog, have al
so been found there; likewise much car.
bombed wood.
From the " II. State Herald.
| Mr.. Editor read the other day, from the
Albany Argus, labored recommendation of
| Mr.. Van Buren, and his principles, prepared
with view of making him acceptable to Vir.
ginia. He is represented as being opposed to
internal improvements, against the Bank, and
| as holding Virginia's opinions on all subjects.
The same recommendation says that Van
Burens opinions on The tariff agree precisely
with Gen Jackson's. This definite exposition
of Van Burens opinions on the tariff reminds
me of an anecdote Of black servant and his
master.
Master-Sambo, where is the plough'
Sercant-Long wild de harrow.
Mastsr-Where is the harrow?
Serrdnt-Long wild de plough
Master-Where are both the plough and
harrow2