Washington sentinel., 1853-12-20
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How they Bury their Dead in NapIes.--N
p. Willis, in account Of his visit 10 Italy speaks
OF the burial vaults in Naples in the following
manner:
An old man opened the iron door, and we en-
tered clean, spacious, and well paved area with
| long rows Of iron rings in the heavy slabs Of the
| pavement. Without asking a question, the old
man walked across to the farther corner where
stood movable lever, and fastening the chain into
the fixture, raised the massive stone cover Of
| PIT. lie requested us to stand back for few
minutes 10 give the efluvia time 10 escape, and
then, shetering our eyes with our hats, we looked
IN You have read, of course. that there are three
hundred and sixty-fve 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 year. They are
thirty or forty feet deep, and each would contain,
/ perhaps, two hundred bodies. Lime is thrown
upon tbe daily heap, and il soon mets into mass
OF garbage, and by the end Of the year the bottom
OF the pit is covered with dry white bones.
II was some time before we could distinguish
| any thing in the darkness of the abyss. Fixing
my eyes on one spot, however, the outlines of a
body became defined gradually, and in few
| minutes, sheltering my eyes completely from the
sun above, could see all the horrors ofthe scene
but too distinctly. Eight corpses, all grown per-
sons, lay in confused heap together, as they had
been thrown in one after another in the course of
| the day. The last was powerfully made gray
old man, who had fallen fiat on his back with his
right hand lying across and half covering the face
of woman. BY his full limbs and chest, and the
darker co.or of his legs below the knee, he was
probably one of the lazzaroni, and had met with
| sudden death.
His right heel lay the forehead Of young
man, emaciated to the last degree, his chest
thrown up as he lay, and his ribs showing like
skeleton covered with skin. The close black curls
OF the latter, as his head rested another body,
were in such strong reliefthat could have count
/ ed them. Of to the right, quite distinct from the
heap, lay in beautiful attitude, girl, as far as
could Judge, of not more than nineteen or twenty.
She had fallen on the pile and rolled or slid away.
Her hair was very long, and covered her left
shoulder and bosom; her across her
body and if her mother had laid her down 10 sleep,
| she could not have disposed her limbs more de-
| Gently 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
was 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 it was thrown in. We
asked him il respectable people were brought
| here. eyes," he said, many. None but the
| rich would go TO the expense Of separate grave
for their relations. People were often brought in
handsome grave clothes, but they were always
stripped before they were left. The shrond when
ever there was one, was the perquisite Of the un-
dertakers" And thus are flung into this noisome
pit, like beasts the greater part Of the population
ofthis vast city-the young and the DID, the vicious
| and the virtuous together, without the decency
even Of a rag TO keep up the distinction Of life!
Can human beings thus be thrown away? men
like ourselves-women, children, like our sisters
| and brothers never was SO humiliated in my
life as by this horrd spectacle, did not think a
man-felon even, or leper-what you will, that is
guilty or debased-I did not think anything that
had been human could be SO recklessy aban-
doned. Pah! Il makes one sick at heart! God
grant may never die at Naples!
Christian Troops in Turkey.-A letter from
Constantinople of the 18th ult in the De5ats says
You are doubtless aware that among the irregu-i
lar corps of the Ottoman army there are already
certain number Of Chrstiansj they are said TO
amount TO 1000 or 5000, mostly Catholics of Bos-
MIA Albania. Il is now IN contemplation to
form regular corps of Christians The govern
ment will commence by regiment of Cossacks
Christians Of the Greek church, who emigrated
in the time ofthe Greater Catharine, and TO whom
The Turkish government gave land in Dobrodia,
on the right bank of the Danube A regiment Of
900 horscmen is TO be raised which will be COM
manded by Sadyk Pacha. Pole by birth, and
who, after having made the campaign OF Poland
in $780, came and demanded an asylum in France;
and, when the republic withdrew from him the
passport which secured to him French protection,
he went to Turkey. M. Chaikowsky their be-
came Sadyk E1endi, and has only recently been
raised to the rank of Pacha. He is one of the
.noet dstssminsd onomics of the Russian govern
ment, and his well-known sentiments have caused
him to be, on two OCCASIONS, personally named in
the dispatches from St. Petersburg to the Divan
This regiment will be formed at Constantinople
and to prove that Mussulmans can live on good
terms with Christians, these Cossacks during the
time necessary for their instruction. will be quar-
tered in barrack partly occupied by regiment
of Turkish cavalry. e
Amazon Gold Nines.-The following pub
lished in the Panama Herald, and taken from the
Aurora Cgjamacer oftha 7th Of September, is the
most definite in relation TO the new discovery of
anything we have yet seen. II says;
Santiago de Borja is at present the subject of
ma nrO Without
being led away by fables or vague report, VIC can
speak confidently about what we know to he the
exact truth. 1t is true the washings (lavaderos)
extend distance Of forty leagues, but miner
cannot, is reported, wash out an arroba (25 lbs9
of gold per day the most that can be procured
by man daily is half pound. The existence of
the said washngs is an ascertaned fact as, not
withstanding the risk run by Messrs Moteza, No
jar, and many other persons, who proceeded with
them to the mines, from the attack of the heathen
undans) they were at the mines, remained there
few hours, and extracted large quantity ofgold.
In short, by next steamer, | shall send you news
Of the conclusion Of the road, and anything that
| may occur.
Cnriositics Of TPade.--Amopg the importa-
tions into this country, isa certain class of articles
embracing an almost endless variety, which are
called the "nonenumerated." Some ofthem cost
a mere trife. and little used; others equally
cheap, are of such general use that their aggre
| gate value is considerable. Few persons know
that these articles enter into commercial trans
actions, During the year ending June 30th,
1853, the value Of slate pencils, entered at the
New York custom-house, was 1878; Of sausage
skins, 1924 little night tapers, s267; loothpicks,
$34l; bladders, S1,257; orange-peel, 5S4; peanh-
kcrnels, s.; goose-skins, S766; rose-eaves, $773;
skeletons, S35l; mushrooms, 81 1908; sand, SO;
goose-livcr oil, s1sl; spunk, $l4. This list Of in
congruous articles could be enlarged 10 great
extent
Marshall Narvaez and the Queen Of Spain.
The following is the last of the ingenious stories
told of Narvaez and Queen Isabella On the even
ing of the Sth Narvaez proceeded to the palace to
present his homages 10 the queen. The audience
was very short. The marshal thanked the queen
for her kindness in allowing him TO return 10
Spain for the benefit of his health. The queen is
said to have replied TO him---"I perceive with
pleasure that your health is good thought YOU
were i'll. Had known thai yop enjoyed such
good health, would have insisted on your going
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