Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-11-26
WHOLE NUMBER 77S.

This gives us new idea ofa Roman
city, Pompcii was heretofore little more
Than plan. Streets with ruined walls OF
houses on oachSide Now ve'ean,scs The
Sity as i was, The careful preservation, Of
fragments, noting positions iu which found.
anu a,i ooser ting minuiesi particulars, enables
oignor Fiorelli TO rtstorc ibe entire bouse.
,n'eau o' leaving it dilapidated rtiid kas
heretofore Bat the most remarLahIe die.
covery Of Signor Fiorelli isto he mention.
| ed. ln The eruption. which destroved 'iho
city the nsheS fell 10 some places vi,
considerable quantities of water formlsv
in fact. mad or paste, which hstdtusai
over many objects. This fact, hsdrbeen
'uoiiced 10 one or two .ihs'pnces, and ,he
great show article Of he thusthm had beea
The lmprsssion of q female Breast 10 The
! hardened mould, But Fiorelli has gone
father, and obiaipcd casts of the efIsire
body 10 several Instances. Y lie has fOu,d
the monds were the Ihad formed lrodnd
The bodies Of tle dying Pompeiians, mi
pouring lasler into The hollow, he obtains
fac simiIe staine OF the man or wonietii
Jus as he or she yielded 10 the terrible
catastrophe. The elcqseDee oftbese stat
ues surpasses all description. There were
four bodies found in one street. Among
them were evidently mother and dauch.
ter. The mother died calmly, lying oa' her
side, perhaps suifocated The laughter
yielded not 60 easily. She was not sixteen
year old. Her Limbs, restored on plaster
cast. are IN an attitude of pain, ber, small
lingets 'cienchcd 10 The agony OF the death
struggle. She had thrown Ter veil over
her face, mud bowed her head in her hands
10 shield her face from The blast of the
fiery s!o; ~. The very fashion of herodress
is petfccily shown. in the cast, anddhereEis
a s,arll;pg peeuliarity in the exhibilioDiDf
Tue smo3ih skin aud rounded feshI where
there are rents iu. her garments, There
can be no criticism Of such statues as these.
They are the reproduction out Of the dis
,ant pasi Of the very agony of death com.
lng on the Roman mother and her child -
There is no failure iu the copy. Therea'it
Is-as he storm Of ashes caused and iipre-
served it-iG solid mould, the human an.
guish that the casting nowreveals. Book
ing at il, one hears The very moan of sthe
young girl as she buries her face in, her
arms, and yislds to the terror of that awful
night in Pompeii - aas hep-si Nss1 o'e"
The other Two of the four 6tdse thentfon.
ed are thus described by a writer in tie
q linburg Review
At-some' distance from this group lay a
third woman. She appears TO have been
about 25yea of age. aud To have belong.
ed 10 better class than the bother0otwO
On one of her fingers were two silyeririugs,
and her garments were VI o fner texture.
Her liuen head dress. falling over her
shoulders like that IF q matronin Roman
statue, can still be Distinguished. She
bad fAI!en on her side, overcome by the
heat and gases but terrible struggle
seems 10 have preceded her last agony
One arm is raised in despair, the hands are
cienched eonvulSiysly Her garffeGfs afe
gathered up on one side, leaving exposeda a
hmh of beautiful shape So perfect b
mould of it has been formed by the soft anu
yielding muG, that the cast would seem to
be taken from an xquisite work Of Greek
art She huh fed with her little treasure,
which lay scattered around her-two silver
cups, iesj4wels. aud some dvz,n silver
coins. Nor had she, like q good shouse-
wife, forgotten her keys. lafet having pToba-
bly, locked up her stores before seeking 20
escape They were found by her side. il3d