The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-08-01

CO. Our old friend and schoolmate Char
ley Weave, now travelling in foreign lands,
writes the following interesting letter to the
Cincinnati Gazette. 1t proves that in
something's this is not such OH everlasting
smart age after ALL
POmpeii and Herculaneum.
am inclined to believe with Solomon. that
there is nothing new under the sun.
spent half day in the Museum at Naples,
porting over the relics dug from the above
mentioned cities. Arranged in glass cases,
and on the floor Of tour or five rooms, are the
implements and utensils of brass, copper,
bronze and iron, disinterred from those two
ancient places. / smiled as saw their fam
liar faces. Being an ex-hardwar man. could
better appreciate the sight than some others.
Standing before me were the articl les used in
cities buried two thousand years ago. in many
cases of the precise shape and pattern of the
present day. | saw the same cow and sheep
bells; the same fish hooks, buckles, bride bits,
pots, kettles, sauce pans, porringers, claw
hammers, AIDES, me;tocks and picks; the
identical old Dutch lamp and German COM
pass, tweezers, pincers, keys backfiap, strap
aud hook and eye hinges. In short, a thou
sand things as we now make them. | could
set up hardware store again, from this mu-
scum, and its catalogue would read very much
like one from jobber in New York. con.
TESS was astonished at the similarity of so
many articles in my old trade.
The Pompeiians knew thing or two, and
ifthey could only poke their noses through the
cinders lava that has entombed them for TWEEN.
ty centuries, they could obtain good journey
mans wages in any blacksmith shop, foundry
or tin-shop of the present day. They would
get the hang ofthings in four-and-twen ty hours
Notwithstanding Il ey had been sleeping in
the ashes nearly the same number of centu-
ries, and feel quite at home in their old voca-
tons. Inlaid center tables, folding stools,
door handles, &C., &C.. down even to the mod
ern case turner, that thought, ten years ago,
was new invention, can here be seen. So
much for the progress of the present day.
revisited the burying place of the poor at
Naples, not from any morbid curiosity, but
because on all the earth, it is in this city alone
that such sight can be seen. Twas more
Mortified the second time than the first. |
saw eleven dead naked children taken from a
single boz, where they were promiscuously
packed, and sent into the pit as fast as the
man could drop them, he keeping tally, with
a loud voice, as he chucked them i'm. Then
followed a man AMI a woman-you could hear
them fall with dull squashy sound on the
dead below. After that three more children,
of different ages-and as came away, other
bodies were entering the gate. They throw,
at this season of the year, some forty persons
in daily. The Priest waits until a dozen or SO
are collected about the mouth; he then sprin-
kles than al round, blesses them in lump,
and down they go. The whole matter is
without the last affectation of SOL
emnity, and amidst common remark and tests,
with brutality and Indifference that passes
beief-and yet the Priest seemed clever
Did chap, and the men civil fellows. They |
gave TIE every opportunity of seeing what
vas going on, and were very courteous. My
descriptions are far short OF the TRUTH saw
more than it is proper to publish, and had
only written enough to give some idea of this
disgusting spectacle that occurs every eye-
hing in the yard. take final leave of the
evolting subject, and trust my readers will
excuse Inc for having required to it-but, as
new phase of humanity, and a disgrace to
he nineteenth century, thought it worth a
lotice.
G.. NEAVE.
Naples, June, 1853.