Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-05-13

then laying myself at full length. upon it, |
began 10 float down the stream
THE BURYING PLACE AT NAPLES.
| had read so many narrowing accounts
OF the burial place al Naples, that went
with an American OF my acquaintance TO
visit It. An old man opened The iron door
ana we entered clean, spacious, and well
paved area, with long rows Of iron rings in
the heavy slabs Of the pavement. Without
asking question: the old man walked
across 10 the farthest corner, where stood
movable lever, and fastening the chain into
the fixture, raised the massive stone cover
OF PIT. He requested us TO stand back for
few minutes, to give the etfiuvia time to es-
cape and then, sheliering our eyes with our
hats. we looked ill., You have read. OF
course, that there are three hundred and six.
,y-fiye pits in this place, one OF which is
opened every day for the dead of the city
They are thrown in. without shroud or
coffin, and the pit is sealed up at night for a
year. They are thirty or fouy feet deep,
and each would contain. perhaps, two hun
dred bodies. Ii was some time before we
could distinguish any thing in the darkness
OF the abyss Fixing my eyes on the spot
however. the outlines OF body became de-
fined gradually, and in few minutes. shell
lering my eyes completely from the sun
above. could see the horrors of the scene
bat too distinctly. Eight corpses. all Of
grown persons lay in confused heap TO.
geiher os they had been thrown 10 one after
another in the course of the day The last
was powerfully made old man. who had
ALLEN fiat on his back. with his right hand
man. BY his full limbs and chest, and the
darker color Of his legs below the knee, be
was probably one Of the lazzaroni, and had
met with sudden death. His right heel
lay on the forehead of young man, emacia-
ted to the last degree, his chest thrown up
as he lay, and bis ribs showing like skele
ton covered with skin. The close black
curls of the latter, as his head rested on an
other body, were in such strong relief that
could have counted them OFF to the right,
quite distinct from the heap, lay. in bcaut-
| fu attitude, girl as well as | could Judge,
of not more than fifteen or twenty. She had
fallen on the pile, and rolled or slid away
Her hair was very long and covered her
left shoulder and hosomt her arm was across
her body, and il her mother had laid her
down to sleep, she could not have disposed
her limbs more decently. The head had
fallen little way TO the right, and the feet,
which were small. even for lady, were
pressed one against the other. as if she were
about turning on her side. The sexton said
that young man had come with the body,
and was very i'll for some time after i was
thrown in We asked him if respectable
people were brought here Yes" he said,
"many.n None but the rich would go to
the expense of separate grave for their re-
Iations. People were often brought in hand
some grave clothes, but they were always
stripped before they were left. The shroud
whenever there was one, was the perqulste
of the undertakers And thus are flung into
this noisome pit like beasts, the greater par
of the population of this vast city the young
land the old. the vicious ana The virtuous to-
eether; without the decency even of a rag
TO keep up the distinctions of life Can hui
man beings be thus thrown away men
like ourselves-women, children, like oul
sisters and brothers | never was so hui
INFLATED in my life MS by this horrid specta
Gle did not think that a man-a ielor
even, or a leper-what you will, that il
guilty or debased-l did not think any tina
: had been human could be so recklessl
abandoned Poh 1t makes one sick a
heart God grant that may never die a
= Naples.
WANT OF DEcIsIoN.--rerhaps in M
way do mothers more etiectually destroy
their own influence with their children, anC
; iniure them lSan by neglecting to practice
+ decision, The following little fact will illus
rrate the pernicous influence OF this course
of conduct
A little girl remarked short time since
that beaver hats were quite fashionable ant
that she would have one Have you for
/ gotten, said |, that your mother yesterda.
: remarked that the hat you wore last winte
is still quite neat, and that she did not intent
E to encourage extravagance, and love
' fashion in her little girl q-'Ah, WELL re
! piled she, no matter for that for mothe
E said that sister Susan should not go to MISS
WIS party the other evening, because she
1 was afraid there would be dancing there
:, but when sister cried about it, and made