Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-11-24

In digging out tlha bins Of Pompeii, every
lurn or the spade b IS up some relic oi
ancient life, some Waess of Imperial lux;
Jury. For lar the Nser par, Of these rel.
les have merely ,,ops interest; they be-
long 10 archaougy bnd fihd a9propriale
resting places III Il.s ical museums. But
there are some exca Ions. Here, for in
stance, The excaeoi0 drops, an uninyised
guest, upon The Did ..ei---,here, he unex.
pecledly obIrudss self into a tomb. In
one place he fingz miser covering on bis
heap another d1o1s him bones of 2an-
cling girls and bfak nsirumen,s Of music
Lying on The marlI Dor, in The mids, Of
painted chambers .tills, halls, columns.
fountains -amon' splendid evidences Of
material wealth. Sometimes slumbIes
upon simple ia ID, touching human
lslory. such as SiI |he imagination and
lsuggesis Che moufnluI interests of the great
disaster-a the sudden sigh, ola wounded
soldier conjnies up The horrors Of a field Of
balile. Such, 10 our mind, is The lales. dis
covery of The excava,ors Of this melancholy
field. II is ugroup Of skeletons in The act
OF flighl accompanied by a dog. There are
three human beings, one Of them young
girl, with gold rings and jewels still on her
fingers. The fugitives had bags Of gold and
silver with them, snalched up no doubt in
haste and darkness. Blu, The fiery food
was on their track, and vain their wealth,
their flight, the age of one and The youth oi
the other. The burning lava rolled above
them and beyond; and The faithful dog turned
back 10 share The fortunes Of It's mistress
dying al her side.
Seen by the light OF such an incident, how
vividly that night Of horrors looms upon the
sensel Does not imagination picture that
lhle group, in their own house, by The side
Of their evening fountain, languldIy chatting
over the days events and Of the unusual
heat? Does Ii moi hear, with ;hem, the
troubled waters Of the bay-see, as they do
how the night comes down in sudden
slrangeness, how the sky opens over head
and flames break out, while scorle. sand
and molten rocks come pouring down?-
What movement. what emo,ion, what sur.
prise! Fhe scene grows darker every in.
stanl--lhe hollow monotone Of The buy is
lifted into wells and shrieks-lhe air grows
thick with dust and ho, with dames--and at
the mounlain's foot is heard The deadly
roll Of the liquid lava. Jewels, household
gods, gold and silver coins are snatched up
in an instant. No lime TO say farewt II;
darkness in front and fire behind, they
rush into The slreel-.siree,s choked with
falling houses and flying ci,izens. How
find The way through passages no longer
oulets?--confusion. danger, darkness, up.
roar everywhere;-,he shouts Of parted
friends, The agony Of men struck down BY
falling coumns;- madness, and dis.
pair unchanged; here Penury cutching
gold ii cannot keep---ihere, Gultony,
feeding on lis final meal, and Phrenzy slri.
king in the dark 10 foreslal death
Through all, fancy hears the young girls
screams-lhe fire is on her jcweled hand.
No lime for lhoughl--no pause-.he no,d
rolls on-and beauty, wisdom, age and
youth, with The stories Of their love, their
hopes, their rank, wealth, grealness-all The
once affluen' life are gone forever, When
unearshed, after many ages, the nameess
group has no other importance 10 mankind
Than as il may serve 10 point Gu, a moral or
adorn tale. '--London Aheneum.