The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-02-21
The ErnntIom OF YesuvIms.
Under date Of December 2s, tho Naples
correspondent Of the London Times says

correspondent Of the London Times says:
My last report OF Ncsuvius extended to
the 9th of December, aud your readers will
probably be dcsirous TO hear something
more OF tho various and ever.voryig pho
uomopa which the mountain has presented
siuce that time. So various, indeed, have
they been that it is difficult to enumerato
or describe them sometimes derived from
tho external aspects OF Nesuyius, at others
lrom its internal condition. During great
portion OF this time il has been covered
all over with snow, as it still is, dazzling
the eyes aud rendering it almost impossi.
ble to gaze npon it. Then il has sur.
rounded itself with clouds and darkness,
above which at night the upper heavens
glared with tho red light of the volcano be-
meath. Scarcely less graud were these
mysterious exhibitions than those which
were moro deGued aud which addressed
themselves moro clearly to the perceptions
and calculations of the spectators.
On the 9th instant the eruption consisted
OF ashes, but these ceasing, were succeeded
by smoke on the Sth and on the 9th new
aud lofty cone was formed. which sent
forth stones. No fewer than thirteen
streams of lava issued ut tho samo time
from various oriiccs on the summit some
of which, falling over rrecipices, presented
the glorious appearance or SO many cas-
cadCs ot fire. This was particularly the
case toward the Atrio del Covalo, aud in
the direction of Sarno; but, seen from n
distance, those streams seem tn blend to.
gcthcr aud to lathe the whole of the great
cone. On the 10th instant the lava ceased
to flow, aud instead of it huge stones were
shot forth, which, it would appear, cost the
IA l. a.,
thus rent in pieces aud thrown out, the
earthquakes were most alarming, while the
thunders were beard at least twenty miles
distant OF course, in Naples they were
very distinct, and coming upon the ear in
the dead OF the night. awakened, if not op
prehensou, at least a sentiment of awe.
III the immediate ncighbo,hood of the
mountain great awe was crea,Cd-somc
families fed from Portici and Rcsina-a
considerable portion of the population did
tue same in Tcrrc del Greco while hun.
dreds of cases of coral were dispatched TO
Naples or CuStclamnre or Sorrento. Terre
del Greco, as you know, is the great depot
Of the uuwrought coral; from the port sail
out in the spring know not how many
banks Tor this dangerous and demoraliaing
fishery. Coral, therefore, is the wealth OF
this wealthy place, and every effort was
mado to save it. On the llth these alarm
ing shocks continued all day, frightening
the people out of their wits, and it was not
until Professor P,dmicri, Director of the
Ncsuvius Observatory, visited the place
and made some Investigations that the peo
pie were tranquilzed, For the three or
four following days lava again gnshed
forth; one stream running down in tho di
rection of the city which has already suf
lered so much, and which stands on at
least five other cities all swallowed up 10y
earthquakes, or covered over with rivers
of lava.
On the l4th the dctonations oF the noun
tain were less loud and frequent, and the
was loss active, but great ap.
Ircheusiuns existed in the towns at the
base, and the authorities took all prccau-
tious for the dreaded evcntuality. On the
J Slh and 18Th NeSuviuS was invisible at
Naples; anything which a vivid imagiua-
tion could picture to itself might he going
on there, and conjecture was yet more ac.
tive at night, when the mass of cloud which
hung over it was lit mp with u deep red
color. All the scientific instruments. too
showed that there was great COnmotiOn
and indicated that another eruption of lava
might be expected, as, indeed, turned out
to be correct, for great stream poured
down from the east. 1t was observed that
when the slsmograph at the mountain was
most active shocks of earthquake were felt
at Nola and at all tho neighhoriug places
sven stronger than they were felt at Vcsu.
Wins, so that it is difficult to decide where
s the center of this volcanic action, or TO
conjecture what may be the end of it.
Scientific observers, too, declare that on
those days there were continual shocks in
Naples, impcrceptibIo to the mass perhaps,
but not less keenly marked by those whose
profession fitted them to take of such
things. "The sismograph," says one
- tells me OF these movements. but have
my own domestic sismograph, that little bit
of IRON attached to my shutter, and | sit
and watch it's vibration almost every five
From the 20th up to the pres
emf day, Vesuvins has presented no new
appearance. Enormous masses of smoke,
sent forth in jets every minute, rise high
in the air and stretch away in the distance,
and in the direction TO which the wind
bears them. This morning it is north
wind, and there are the great volumes of
smoke rolling one over the other with
GER ain amount of dignity. and one long
tending toward Capri.
The actual state of the mountain, as
learn from Cozzolna, the principal guide,
who has just left mo, is as follows: A
stream of lava is running down towards
Orticano. On the summit are formed two
small cones, close to that which has risen
within, aud far above the crater, both of
which are ejcciing stones. Then again, in
that superlalivcly grand cone there are
TIN &c oriiccs, one of which throws ont
ashes and the other two stones. On the
Path they we're ashes which were prnci-
pally thrown out bnt since that We have
seen scarcely anything hut masses Of
smoke. IL must be observed that. whereas
ashes Indicate disposition to repose,
smoke .on the contrary meuaces a greater
least so says the practical
CozzOlino and the experience OF the last
month proves the correctness of his obser-
v atoms. His desci iptOn of the effect OF
the shocks in Terre del Greco and Rrsina
where he resides is graphic. They were
as if a high wind were shaking our doors
and windows, accompanied by the whist
ling of the storm" HIS opinion is-and
though not a scientific man it is worth
something, horn and bred as lie has been
amid lava and ashes--that the eruption has
not reached it's climax, and that before all
Is over we shall have soure great ontbust
The instruments, il they are quiet one day,
renew their activity another and he never
goes up the grand cone, lie says without
fear, ''for the whole mountain rises be.
meath my feet or oscllates from side to
side"
Dir. SAW BoNLs having finished ihe ampu
tation Of leg Of one Of his patients, neaI
relative Of the latter took him aside and
said 10 him