The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-08-04
Ponpeii.

Pompeii.
The Foreign correspondent of 3he Ohio
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Our visit 10 Ponneii will never no fo,oo,
ten. Who can see and jorpet those i, ioro
streets deserted and dead: those 10 mnles
broken and robbed of their Gods . thoss
rooms with their red and yellow paintings
and those gardens with their fountains Ana
statues their mosaies and pillars-all. nll
|resunected from the ralt of the great TRACE.
dy which primevally was here enacted The
forums are standing just as they stood when
the lake Of fire was poured upon the devoted
city. The temples and their altars-stranee
Illustrations of former worship-stand side
by side with the baker shops and tayerns.---
Barber shops and Theatres, baths and tonbs
--ail bid Ian nnwfitten history, book 81
marvels, which the fire of the mountain has
unbound with its clasps of stone, to be pom
deIed eighteen hundred years after BY won.
defing world.
The ride to this city of fire lies upon the
shore of the bay. The Apprentices bound
the vision upon the east and between them
and Naples lies the volcanic fountain. The
city Of Pompen is upon the other side of the
mountain, occupying great plain. 1t was
discovered in 1850 by peasants working in
vineyard About one third of it is uncover
ed enough to show that the Arts of paint
ing, sculpture and poetry hourighed greatly
in the midst of as luxurious and wicked q
people as ever were permitted to tester un-
der heaven; What / 8apD has neuer been
written-what saw is evidence more than
enough, even to sense of nausea, and dis.
gust, Of the deepest stains of sin, and the
deepest depths of degenerocy. Sodom and
Gomorrah were no doubt rank with ini1uity.
Pompeii it seems 10 me, met with similar
fate for similar profigacv and corruptiou.--,
No one (unless it be ladies. to whom such
sights are not permitted can 90 through
these streets. look at the signs, examine The
paintings and statues, without feeling that
God took upon himself the Office of Aven-
ger, and used his mountain of lava as the
instrument.
We enter unou ou, researches inst outside
rho walls of Pom oe;; near some stables and
tnnhs The inscr;n,;onS teIl in rerv Mn
lain The story Of tha dead We ersni~sd
wells The stones of which are worn with
rones as If inst used Yesterday Similar
annea RANGES along The cnrb;no indicate Ma
res for hiIching horses Ovens like our own
in which bread was found rotbsr we'll done
and which we saw to-day at The Museum
were scattered about The stones for grind.
inc and working the dough were verv on.
rions. The different houses are named from
some statue or bust found in them. as the
house Of Cicero. Of Sallust, of Castor and
Poilux. &c. The dining rooms as we'll as
all the other rooms are painted in yellow aod
red and adorned with eyery variety of fig.
ures. mostly nude. Birds, fruits and foliage
| in rare perfection ornament the walls. The
rooms are all small, and lack pcntillation.-
In nothing is our comfort so superior to the
ancients as in this essential to health. The
houses are Of only one story, except that Of
Diomede, which is two stories. The differ
ent places of business can be told by some
object found in them. as for instance a large
money chest indicates the banking house a
figure in the wall (Cupid mendine shoes. a
shoemaker the chair. d barber's s6op. and So
or. The Pantheon with twelve gods was
found in fine order. surrounded by lis forum.
while the Temple of Isis, with the altar for
the sacrifice and even the hole for the blood,
with lis Egyptian symbols. and The skeleton
Of the priest. stands ont monument in the
mids, of The rnins.
We lunched in fine old dining room
ass;s,ed bv orr ou;des who liked anoa7;noly
to drink he health of MS Americans in ne
Falenian. A iolly old soul was orr on;de
tHe was continually twittinq MS in broker
French ab,nt onr love of tbe g ort,,kn
tried TO carry off some trophies but his v,o;.
lance oyer,lhe "anteeksb nre vented me o
He nresenied me with a rio buo ami tried f.
catch LIZARD for INV nocket remarLing ibat
they were |" anteeks.a Every thing was ex.
ceedinoly antione 10 him The yery fiowe ,.
and orange neels took The bue of ant;onitv
He introduced me to an old gray.baired one.
eyed soldier at the qate of tbe theatre nea,
the house of Diomede, as the brother of Di
omede--" al, anteck." The old soldier chuck
led most funnilyat the old joke.
we VISITED l'.e a'npui'nea.Ie' , Wnlch you
may rehetnoer was lieu az Ille aine Oh the
great eruption IN August A. u. ~, that bu
ied the city. Few skeletons were found IN
,snts ;ncLd;n9 % those il % The tbsatres @ ''"D, ss,
cansJ | Twsnty tbonsand could find eo,ss,
r srnm The ~ mnh;,bsatre IN two minries snd 1' !
half. half ama M wander viii sncb' . nrnnhe,
90 S oor,;Sor0 I ~ aOJ doors IL 7, seonos 10 me tSs,
tho an,nh;,bsatre Of n, o,ber nlaces, ,vonid