New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-08

as souvenir and repeated SchiIer's GODS Of
Greece"
Lived foT you each OLD. heroic game;
A. the s'hInus. rich with and sarlauis
ChaIiots Numbered to their goal Of fame
Two miles more broughtus to the quarres whence
Corinth and the Isthman temples were built-vast
hooxs, walled by the hewn rock, their extent de.
noting the amount OF material drawn from them.
The plain is partially cultivated, it's rich, mellow
loan, more moist than that of Attjca, producing
admirable cr0ps Of wheat
We stopped at the village Of Hexamila, about
al hours ride from Corintb, there is no habitabe
house in the latter town. and the tents furnished
by government barely suffice for the destitute in-
babitaDts. Hexamlia, though so near Corinth,
suffered less than Kalsmaki, which appears 10 have
been directly on the line Of the greatest vibration.
Lutraki, only FIVE miles distant on the western
shore of the Isthmus, escaped with comparatively
triaipg damage. We found quarters for the night
in the house of the Denarch-a handsome two
story building of hewn stone one end of which had
been thrown down. Nevertheless, enough vas left
to shelter US from the rain, which begsn TO fall
heavily. few of the houses in the village were
eyeled to the earth, but the most OF them escaped
with cracked walls, broken roofs, or the loss Of
gable. Nobody was injured, but among the hils 20
the south four peasants and about thirty goats were
killed by the falling of mass of rock, in the gr0!sO
where they were lying
The Demarch, who wae good-humored, COM
municatiye fellow, with rather more than the ordi
nary intelligence, informed me that he was in Cor
NTH when the earthquake occurred. In moment,
he says came the thunder and the shock. Tnehouses
oil fell together, and there was such dust that one
man could not zee another, standing near him.
Many Of the citizens were at the office of the De-
march, intending 10 elect new candidates. TIE
walls fell, but fortunately fell outward, and nobody
was injured. In another house number of chill
dren were dancing, while their mothers we're gath
cred together 10 talk scandal The latter succeeied
in holding up the falling roof until the children es
capped, and we're then in turn, rescued by come
men. Twenty-Five persons we're killed on the spot
or have slice died Of their wounds, and the num-
Der Of wounded is estimated st over fifty. This
slight loss Of Ife when compared with the extent
of the catastrophe, is explained by the fact that the
earthquake took place between ten and eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, wien the Inhabitants axe
mostly out of DOORS
While the Demarch was relating 20 ne these
particulars, there wa, suddenly sound Ike ds-
,ant artillery, ard the house tremb.ed slightly
L" There il is asin 2" said he; eve have heard i
every hour or two since the beginning In the
evening there was another shock; two during the
NIGHT: and at elk in the morning, while ne yet lay
in bed. ore so violent that some apnes were dis
lodged from the wall, ard ratified or the floor
over our heads. This latter was accompanied by
deep, hollow, rumbling sound, which seemed a.
the same time 10 be urder and around us. /: was
probably my imagination which gave me the iul-
preston that il came from the west AID rolled
toward the east. Although We were convinced
that the worst ws past, and that We were no long
er in SLY danger from these shocks, their uncertain
recurrence and mysterious, threatening character,
gave Us vague feeling of alarm. The Demarcb,
bis brother, their wives and children, our dgOyas
and ourselves al slept on the unpsved floor Of the
house, but the family were go accustomed TO the
shocks that they no longer pNd any attention TO
them.
As il was raining next morning, we waited until
nearly eleven o'clock, VIXEN, finding no signs Of
ehsoge we SET out IN the storm. ride Of halt an
hour brought US to Corinth-or rather what ioas
Corinth-fcr, although few houses are stand ing,
they sre cracked f,om top to bottom, and have
been abandoned. The greater part Of the ely is
shspeless hesp of ruins and most Of the inssoit-
ants seem 70 have deserted il. Some tents have
been pitched, and few rough wooden barracks
erected, which, at least, shelter them fsm the
weather The force of tie shock appears 10 hsye
been of about the same violence as at kaam,ki.
AL accounts concur in representing il as sudden
vertical uPheayal lot accompanied with horz)ntai
waves, and the fact that nearly sl the walls Re !
outward, yelIfes this statement The celiril hoe
Of the force undoubtedly passed through or very
near COInth snd Kalimski 10 a direction about L
y. +. sLd ". s. W. On either side of tal'
central line tie force must have diminished IL
ve'! rapid prcpMii n, as Hexamllit, not t"o lnes
distsnt from II, sPpesrs 70 baee been ''-;ed oy
sttck Oosdtr,bly ks vin-nt, I'D village l'e ~
III uies westward ir9 IL Corin.h, sIii-r-d on' ;."