M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-07-01
Correspondence d the London Daily News.l
The Eruption OfNIOunt Vesuvius.
NAPLES, June 5, 1853.

NAPLES, June 5, 1853.
Yesnvius is still blazing away, and
since | wrote the lava has made O
steady progress down the mountain.
The spectacle from Naples is asgrand
as il can DO. Vesuvius is girdled
with fire, and from the girdlc seem to
drop down jewels OF the utmost brill
fancy. At times one spot becomes
much more brilliant than the others
and then dense cloud rises up; there
has been either a fresh gush OF lava or
a mass has fallen of from the black
ened exterior. In the intervals be.
tween the streams appear a thousand
little lights, as though they were glow.
worms. These are the torches which
visitors carry with them, but the jour.
aey ia very limited. Swiss guides
are on the mountain, and it is imposs-
able to get to the hermitage. Pal.
mieri, the director ofthe observatory,
has fed, and the instruments are
removed, for Obstruction is threatened
to it by the stream at the back which
is flowing into the Fosso di Faraone.
So high it is rising that very little
more will send it over the obseryato.
ry From Resina to Pompeii the noun
tain makes no Sigu-that is, no nfo~th
has opened in the side. wentround
it on Thursday, and people were get
ting in their fruit, and selling within
short distance Of the lava which was
destroying the property oftheir friends
seemingly as secure as though they
lived q hundred miles from VeSuvius,
and yet crater may be formed in a
moment in any quarter, for the noun
tain is in labor. From Pompeii round
to Ottajano there is more activity; the
lava has destroyed some woods be-
longing to the prince Of that name,
though it has not advanced further
Continuing the circle, one comes to
what appears from Naples to be the
left extremity Of the girdle. Here,
the stream coming down by the Fosso
di Favamc, has taken the direction OF
the stream of1S55, which flowed down
towards the villages OF Maasa di Sim
ma, San Scbastiauo, and Pellena.-
The right extremity Of the girdle ter.
inmates above Reeina, and appears to
threaten it inevitably, though efforts
are being made to diveIt its course in
to some deep valleys with which the
mountain lie traversed. Some intelli.
gent inhabitants told me that they up.
pretended no danger, as the stream
divided itself into 80 many branches,
flowing over old lava. 1t has howev.
er, destroyed much property, and it is
fearful th ought that with in an hours
distance an enemy is implacable and
irresistible as fate is hurrying down.
where, caprice or slight bend in
the mountain, or hill OF stones, may
determine.
Meanwhile the see ne at night re.
minds one of a noisy, crowded fair.
On Tuesday night, said one Of the
guides, there must have been seventy
or eighty thousand persons up the
mountain. Allowing for cxaggeration
or inability to calculate, still there
must have been an immense quantity
OF people, who were not composed
merely ofcurious strangers, but ofall
the rag.tag and bob.tail of Naples
As it was the vigil Of Corpus Christi.
a great many went up in all probaMl-
ity tor a spree. The official journal of
last night, containing it's reports Of
Vesuvius, says that the lava, which
to stop, had burst out the
day before yesterday still more strong
ly in one direction, destroying some
and surrounding a house,
and in another covering about three
PAGES of the new road to the
Observatory. The stream on the
north side, following the lava Of 1855
was proceeding towards Cercola anil
St. Giorgio, a branch read going
a district OF St Sebastian
One of the streams in the direction Of
Resina advanced ten palms--very rap.
i'd when il is considered that the width
OF the stream is five hundred and
eighty palms. After nine o'clock
P. N. its course quickened, and was
directed between the chapel OF ST. Vi
to aud the Eocelle. Last night
it was less vivid in this direction, but
on tho north side it was very splen-
did, and poured down in great force.
T We can hardly open Repub-