Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-02-27

M. marc lounler, IN an article In
French journal, giser the following graph
&c account Of the discovery Of human
bodies il Pompeii by N. Fiorelli:
One day in a little street, under heap
Of stones aud rubbish, vacant space was
discovered, at the bottom Of which appear
ed something looking like bones. Mr..
Florelii, was summoned in haste, and he
conceived luminous idea. He poured in
some liquid plaster, and the same opera.
ton was performed at other points where
boues had been likewise dscevered; and
as soon as the plaster was hardened, the
mould was lifted with the greatest precau.
tons, and on the hardened ashes and lava
being removed, four corpes appeared
They are now at the museum, and no more
striking sight is it possible to behold
They are not statutes, but human 0 lies
moulded by Vesuvins, and preserved from
decay by that envelope of lava which re-.
produces the clothes, the flesh, nay, almost
the appearance oflile The bones protrude
here aud there where the molten liquid did
not cover the limbs. Nowhere does any.
thing like this exist. The Egyptian mum
mics are naked, black, hideous They ap.
pear to have nothing in common with hu,
manly; they are dressed ont by the Egyp
tan undertaken for their eternal repose-
the exhumed Pompeians are hnman be-
ings in the act Of dying. One of the bod
les IS that Of woman, near whom were
found ninety one silver coins, two silver
vases, some keys and a few Jewels She
was flying, carrying her most valuable
commodities with her, when she fell in the
ht'le narrow street. Her head.dress, the
tissue Of her clothes, aud two silver riprs
on her finger, can easily be detected. One
OF the hands is broken, and the cellular
structure Of the bones exposed to view
The lett arm is raised and writing, the
delicate hand convulsively shut. The nails
appear to have entered the flesh. The
whole body appears swollen and contract.
ed; the legs alone, the rounded and deli
cate outline Of which has not suffered. are
stretched out. You can feel that she s;rug.
g'ed long in fearful pain. Her attitude is
that OF agony, no: death. Behind her, a
woman and young girl had fallen. The
former, the mother possibly, was Of hum
Ole extraction, to judge from the size of
her ears. On her finger, is a single iron
ring. Her left leg, raised aud bent, de
notes that she also struggled and suffered.
Near her reclines the young girl-almost
child. The tissue Of her dress is seen
with wondrous disiinclness-the sleeves
coming down from the wrist, and the em.
broidery on her shoes. She had with fear
probably. lift her dress over her head. She
tell with her face to the ground One of |
her hands is halt open, as though she had |
used it to keep her veil over her face. The
bones OF Ter fingers protrude through the
lava She appears to have died easily
The fourth body is that Of mana Colo.
sus. lie is stretched on bis back, as tho
be meant to meet his fate bravely hisar
and legs show no sign of struggling; his
clothes are very distinctly marked the
oracco (rousers) close fitting laced san.
dals, the soles studied with thick nails -
On one finger an iron ring; few teeth
are broken, his eyes and hair are obliter.
afed, aud it is impossible not to be struck
with the martial and resolu,e appearance
Of his features. After the women, con.
su'sively clinging to life, we see here the
man, calmly meeting his fate in the midst
Of the great convulsion-impaci,lum peri.
mt ru'ne. Nothing yet discovered at
Pompe'i offers US anything to be compar.
ed with this palpi,ating drama. /. is VIC.
lent death, with its supreme tor,ures, its
aud agonies, brought clearly
before US, and, as it were, taken in the
act, after lapse Of eighteen centuries.