The New York herald., 1879-09-28

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and also many bracelets, brooches, rings, COINS
kitchen utensils and earthen vases. Under
them were found wooden beams and sacks of
partially calcined corn. The objects that were
discovered will enrich the museums of Naples
and Pompeii. A spacious refreshment tent was
erected on an eminence Commanding lovely
panorama. Capital music was furnished by
orchestras fromvarious italian cities. Vesuvius
looked more threatening than usual and all day
long vomited a-continuous stream of lava and
smoke.
CURIOUS PREPARATIONS THAT WERE MADE FOR
THE EvENr--How THE sYMpATHIEs OF ITALY
AND OF ALL CULTIVATED PEOPLE WERE EN-
LISTED.
Tho tickets of admission to this unique celebration
were classic tesser9. bearing tho following in
scription in those red mural characters SO
familiar to all who have visited the buried city,
"Tessera for gratuitous admission to Pompeii--
the XIV. Of September. MDCCCLXIX-on the recur-
renee of the XVIII Centenary its destruction.
On the back of the ticket is the follow
ing brief programme:-"1O o'clock A. NJ. IN
tine Basilica. Report of the director. 103O. Visit
to view the monuments. IL 80 Excavations in the
Fifth and Fifth divisions of the Ninth region. In
vitations sent to all the archaeological and artistic
academies and institutions of Germany, France.
England and other countries. and already replies
have been received from the principal bodies
During the last three months all excava-
tions have been suspended at Pompei and
no fewer than forty new excavation were fixed upon
to made on the occasion OF the Centenary. To
behold fresh excavation in the buried city is often
very wonderful and interesting experience. Some
times the cover is drawn blank, to
speak. and no object of mark or inter-
est rewards the seekers. But often it is
otherwise. In the time of the Bourbon King Of
Naples distinguished visitors to Pompei used to be
compimented by the opening OF some fresh excava-
ton in their honor 1t is related that when the late
Lord Brougham visited Pompei such compliment
being paid to him. the result a very striking
one. point was selected under which it
fdently coDjectured there must be dwelling house,
and spade and pickaxe went to work Sure enough
there the house, and there it's closed portal
few skilful strokes opened it and revealed for
brief moment a human figure standing there within
it, The had barely time to take cognzance of this
light OF the sun after nealy two thousacd years of
dark oblivion-when in u flash it crumbled and was
ogne few handfnls OF impalpable dust alone
remained to tell OF that long buried hu.
man creature. huge volume. entitled
.'pompeii and the Region Overwhelmed by vesuvlus
in the Year LXXIX,' was published on the
occasion of the Centenary. Tie work contains
| papers written expressly by distinguished
naturalists and archaologists. The nacural-
| lists have discussed questions OF physical
science connected with Ponpei and tho catastrophe
which destroyed it. illustrating its hora and
! the principal phenomena OF its destruction. The
archseologists have added to the goodly number OF
| studies already existing upon Pompean monu-
| ments. and especially have enriched the collection
| with valuable observations on those which havo
| been discovered within the last ten years. Both
| have combined to make Pompeii Of the
| wonders OF the world. Forms aud colors Of
| the gayest beauty still adorn broken colonnade
and ruined wall. The tracks of chariot wheels that
! had polished the stone pavement with their fric-
tion glisen in the sunlight. Some Of the daintily
elegant inner courts OF the dwelling houses appear
still to echo with the sandalod foot OF fair Cam
| panian ladies' The whole place seems yet warm
with the human life which had been stilled sud-
| dgnly those many centuries ago. The mind can
scarcely connect that abyss Of time by with the
flooded city it lies still beautiful beneath its
canopy Of southern sky. Near ut hand the sleeping
| volcano looms suenly. Farther in the distance
from Vesuvius towering above the sparkling Bay of
Naples, rises thin column into the serene air-a
column that Is pillar Of smoke by day aud pillar
Of fire by night.