New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-12
VosuVfus.

Ercat preparations weFo oeing maae a
from the twentieth to the twenty-eighth O
February, and which will be the first sine,
the overthrow OF the BourbOns. Thes,
kilograms will add still more aetuality anC
interest to the following description of We
suvius and of Naples, written by touris
during trip there. He says that about
that time there seemed to be every proba
bility that Vesuvius would speedily make
pressly from the provinces, and returned te
eat their Christmas dinners somewhat dis.
appointed. The expectation was not, in
deed without foundation. for there were all
the usual indications of an explosion, such
as the gigantic palm tree, the black smoke,
and the rumblings and the shocks; but the
mountain is taking it's time about it, and
waite, perhaps, tor larger conc0urse of
people than we have at present in Naples.
| as the feste are over, thousands Of specta-
tors will be coming in from all points of the
compass?
Bulletins are issued daily az about q pa
| tent, and the latest of any importance is. to
the following effect: The new mouth
which, by-the.by opened on the night of
the seventh nltimo-Rreserves its modest
| the cone by the usual path can not see the
brightness of the internal fire of this mouth,
in consequence of the dense smoke whish
issues from it. We who belong to the OBJ
servatory follow another path; we ascend
the side facing the northeast, and descend
directly on the vast crater of 1872, thus ap.
preaching without any danger, at least for
the present, the very edge of the new
mouth, which, from some experiments made
Bracale, appears to be about 300 metres in
depth. Should the lava which glitters
at the bottom of this whirlpool mount
up and arrive at the edge, after hav-
ing filed the old crater, it will pour
out on the cone in the direction by
which We enter. Its force will then be
about 100 atmospheree; and if some point
in the walls of the cone be too weak to re-
sist it, the 0utpouring of the lava will be
from the sides or at the base. as has hap
pened very frequently. Non solum per
crateren,, sed per ana months lateral The
sismic instruments of the observatory, with
some slight exceptions, preserve the same
activity, which, though moderate, appears
to be greater than that which would cor
respond to the almost cessation of dynam-
ism in the crater" From this report it
direct connection between Vesuvius and
the subterranean shock which alarmed the
Neapolitans, and every one else indeed, at
the beginning of the month, the shock gave
an impulse to our mountain. For the pres
emit the alarm has eubsided into state of
expectation, which will not end, however.
in disappointment, for Palmieri has all
along said that it was impossible to
say when the grand eruption would
in the dynamic power of the interior will
cause it to rise. Those whose visit to Ma
pies has been retarded will therefore have
good chance of witnessing gorgeous spec
tacle. I forget in what year 1t was that l
witnessed from q distance an eruption from
the eide as That to which Palmieri alludes.
but the circumstances were specially inter
esting and characteristic What an enor,
nous pine that it," l eaid to . friend, II
never saw it before" "Nor l either" was
the answer, but it is No pine; look, it is
growing and expanding" Before the night
had passed the sky was darkened
as by pail, the lava was pouring forth,
and our eyes were smartiDg from the effects
CT the fhe dust. was soon on the spot,
and witnessed that beautiful though not
terrific spectacle called lava eruption,
such as we may probably have in 1876.
Christmas eve and Christmas day passed
off with indications of unusual merriment
and plenty. The markets we're full of ev-
erything to satisfy the hungry and tempt
the epicure. and somehow or other sufficient
money was forthcoming, in spite of prices
being raised, to empty shops and stalls.
Green peas and artichOkes were there, at q
price far from exorbitant, and which, could
they have been transported to Covent Gar
duced large profit. Of fish, the great |
greasy eel, called capitone, carried the day. |
No one may pass this season without par
taking of it. It is the roast beef and plumb |
pudding of Naples, and poor people will !
sell or pawn their clothes or their bedding |
to have taste. Greater curiosties to the |
eye of a foreigner we're the murena-the |
perors-and the catan,ajO. These were at |
the top of the list a. regards price, and the
at the very TOP, selling at six |
francs the robolo of thirty-six ounces. As /
regards meat, though good, it will not bear /
comparison with that of old England, and |
the least said about it the better.
Of course, it would not be Christmas in
Naples without noise. All through the
hight there was, az it were, one continued
md Roman candles. As usual, the police
prohibited such demonstrations under pain
# heavy penalties, and, as usual, the people
aughed and set them at naught. Naples
vas for many an hour like besieged city,
md the consequences were as usual. The
lames Of twenty -four persons already
Inown are published who suffered from &C.
idente, leading IN the majority OF cases TO
he amputation of thumb or finger, and in
me instance of an arm. One or two pyro-
echnic shops were blown up. 'The little
mes must have their diversion" as was
bserved to me one day by venerable
riest while watching some children who
vere whirling round their heads some
lmost lifeless birds by strings tied to their
roken legs. Public order was, however,
vell kept, and thieves did not ply their
rade, or rather, there were but few arrests.
-Ne,c York Commercial Advertiser.
The Temperature.
The thermometer at Louis Frigero's, No.
a ~ .x-oo% .koo1 M <n1lown Morch |