Red Wing sentinel., 1861-03-27

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Ye hoped your tongue would blister
Then Rose rcplicd--but first she sighed
AS pensivcly she sat
How cud say to Patrick nay?
My heart said Pity lat."
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AN INCIDENT IN TIE BAY OF
NAPLES. e
The march of civilization, with the
wonderful discoveries Of modern times
have given q fatal blow to Superstition
One by ono, the extraordinary stories
our simple fathers SO implicitly believed
in, and handed down from generation
TO generation, have been explained on
natural grounds; and the huge super.
structure Of Ignorance Frustrated by
the "sling and stone" of Science. The
Giants Of the lIartz Mountains have
disappeared forever; the Rip Van
Wrinkles have awokc from their sleep
Of centuries; Witches and Warlocks
no longer take their midnight aeria!
journeys on broomsticks in t'Merrie
England" nor Ghouls haunt kirk yards
to "ylower" ut atfriGhtcd rustics in
"Bonnic Scotland" The "Good Pco-
|ple' too, o,havc fors aiken the ''troths and
secluded glcns of the Emerald Isle,
and in their place, the "schoolmastcr
! is abroad.'' The armed hosts seen
fighting in the air by the ancients, will,
the relationships sailing OH the
clouds, so much dreaded by the super.
stitious mariner, arc now fully account
cd for by simple science.
But though Superstition has received
its death blow, and fingers fecbly in
the haunts of Ignorance, still there
are some things that have occurred
even in modern times, which cannot
be accounted for on natural grounds,
and which possibly may never be re-
vcalcd on this side Of the grave, or till
the matured sciences Of after ages will
have made those things as plain to our
fathers in the supcrstitions arc palpa-
blc to us now.
The following narrative will be found
a case in point; aud, as it was attcstcd
10 by many witnesses, We will relate
the incident as told us by an aged
relative many years ago, and leave the
reader to form his own conclusions rs
TO the cause.
! At time when Liberty is raising
her head in centuries oppressed Italy,
anything connected with that 'sland OF
song and sunny Skies will he read
with interest by. the liberty loving pco-
pie ofthis vast continent; and hence a
few introductory remarks respecting
the ancient village of Sorrento. near
the scene Of our adventure, may not
here be out of place:
On the southern shore of the Bay OF
Naples, lies the celebrated village OF
Sorrento, renowned in classic lorc.-
Within its limits once stood the dwell.
lings of cmpcrors. Here the great
Caesar sought retirement from the
cares Of state, and the bloody Nero
luxuriated i'll the warm springs which
arc yet called Ncro's Baths. 1t was
here Caligula attempted to build his
ambitious bridge, and the vile Nero
had his own mothers life attempted
1t is asserted that st. Paul landed here
when he journcycd prisoner to Rome
The small island fronting it is called
Nisida, where Marcus Brutus retired
after the decd at the foot of Pompcy's
statue, and from whence he and Cas-
lsius embarked, to meet the shade o1
the murdered Caesar at Philippi.-
Virgil, the father of italian classics, i.
). said to reposc here; and not far re,nov
ed from Sorrento, l:cs the buried cit,
OF Pompeii, which, in one night, by ar
eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was en-
tombcd for centuries, and whose sight
was, seventeen handred years after
: revealed, by accident, to a peasant
who was til!ing the ground.
Some fifty years since, an Englisl
merchant vessel, after discharging hc1
cargo in Naples, lay bccalmed in til.
bay. The breczcs which had wafte(
her to her destination had ceased t<
r blow, and not even Il gentle zerhy1
ruf1cd the placid waters, which la.
like sheet Of glass underneath, saw
i. when some agile member of the finn.
tribo caused a few cddies to mov'
around, i'll his attempt to catch the fic
that sportcd q few inches above th
surface. The sun blazcd down with
: hercencss little removed from tn
i tropics, which caused the sea to spal
: kle, like precious gems, from the re
Election Of his rays. Although som
miles distant from the burning mou,
- tain, scorin and ashes fell in shower
on the deck, and the air was hot an
sutfocating in the extreme. And thi
= will not be wondered at, when we ar
assured that Vcsuvius has thrown it
8 ashes as far as Constantinople, Syri:
and Egypt, and that it hurled stone
eight pounds weight, to Pompeii,
distance of six miles!
; Day after day, the captain and crc,
had been hoping that favorabl
: breeze would spring up, that the
might proceed on their homcwar
voyage, and again behold those love
ones from whom they had been S
a long seaparted; lut day af,cr day W. r