The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1872, Page 5

So Many:People Are Killed.” OPENING: OF A NEW CRATER: A Party of Bxplorers Destroyed by and Bldod Bed Flames, > STREAMS QF LAVA TEN FEET DEEP. Pompeii, Torre del Greco anid ‘La ‘Cercola. Mer Genes The Roads:Crowded with Fugitives from Barning Villages and Deserted Homes, THE KING AT NAPLES. Terrible Scones in the Hospitals of Naples anti -Resina. é Narips, April 28, 1672, “The monntatahas all falion in aud ever 60 mahy peeple aro kidked,” wag the somewhat vague form $n which the fiyat mews of what will be known as the Brent eruption of Friday, 26th of April, 1872, was. ‘conveyed to me, 1 was sitting In a bower of roses, Whore I study*the att of dolce sur niente under evory advantage; but my fair informant succeeded to rousing me to.action,’ In'e few mjnutes I was on my way to Resina. it was barely midday, and ag Jooked up at tho deep blue sky, stretching as far es eye could see in “all its cloudiess beanty, and tried fx vain to sheltor myself from’ the rays of the glar- ing sun, 1 codid=not beliove- thatthe mountain ‘Whose fllaminated¢erest had dove no more the night Previous than add. to the: many charms.of the view. from Sunta Lucia, which, bad seemed merely to be @arting forth tat gmail tongue of fire for the ‘amusement of the gaping crowd, Could havo realty dparst forth in al the Mterndr of Its Tun power. But naa ‘not got ‘farther ‘than the Strada di Chiaja ‘When a peasant's cart, filled with @coniased mass of bedding and wild looking faces, told me that what I had learned to regard asa beautiful spectacie ‘was indecd 8 terrible monster of deatructivencss, THE MOUNT FROM THE MOLO, Aalcame down to the Molo, Where the monn: tain would firebcomeétn view, the sea was calm, and the mage; from the ships’ mestheads hung Almost motionjess; but in another moment I caught gwght of what resembled on enormous mags of snow, plied up in the sky by Titanic hands, on which the fall midday sunspent its fiercest glare in vain, and which sweiled and swelled siowly, asif seething in an unseen caldron, eeewiug to threaten every md- ment to fall and crush one, #0. terribly was tte evi. dent solidity out of keeping with ite cloud-like form. Suddenly, in the middie of this vast masg of snow-like vapor, a great cavern opened, black, im- netrable, ulffatiomable; above and-on‘each side, every variety ofsitver.and gray tints; beyond, the decp blue skyg *elow, the violet-tinted hills of Sor- Tento, and tye glittertig half emerald, haifsap- piire sea, Such was the~ecene before which the great tragedy was being played. Fascinated as I ‘wos by that mystertons pile of clond, against which the all-powerful Hunswas so terribly powérless, the sounds and sights of tho-road forcibly engaged my attention. Iwprossed 8. every, one must have Deon by the irony of what enchanted one seawards and what terfied one landwards, the’ first effect of tue miscellaneous crowd of burouches, Broughams, ig carts, Ghnises, wagouettes,; carts, wagons, trucks and -yohicles of every variety suddenly pressed into almost forgotten use, was to recall the return from the Derby. But the next minute enougt of sad faces had possed to remind me that Suto was no exodus of pleasure-seckers.. I amy ‘siratd | shallfajl to give any idea of the varied and yet intensely CHARACYERISTIO FEATURES OF THE SCENR. Tho first great fact that my mind grasped wos Mattresses, Red and green, biue and white, yellow ead blue, pink and black, scarlet and biuo, brown and white, of every shade and every kind of color were the mattresses, without which no ono eecmed to have svt ont on théir fight. Those who head no carta carried them on thelt donkeys, of, if they had no donkeys, they carried them on ‘thelr heads. Here was gandy colored peasant's ert, pot to the blush by a pile of red and yellow minttresses, Among which children of all sizes were tucked away; here @ carozella, literally stuied with human creatures, thrown together anyhow tu ‘ue another's laps, with (ho hood up and the mat- tresses tied on it, Ihave long ago given up trying to calculate what a Naples donkey can carry or how mach it takeg. to kill @ Naples pony.. Yesterday Ponies and donkeys outdid all previous labors, I revily am afraid to say what I saw some of them carrying; Noone Would belicve:me. I never shali forget the sublime apotheosis of selfistmess pre- sented by one cart piled twelve feet high with all inde of furniture, and on the top one man tolling, utierly unmoved, Ina black pot hat, and a large white pocket handkerchief ander it, to keep off the enn, smoking. At soy other time I should havo Thought bis two horses had more than enough tw carry; now I felt positively savage with bim bechuse he did not ofer to give a if to that poor, scared-looking bing-cyed girl shuMing along wt her father’s etde, orto that-noble open-faced boy leading his old grandfather. (this time without the mattress, for one small bundle was ali they had the strength to carry between them). Tke sight of a poor foriorn- looking bid man, his worn faco piteously lifted up toward the mountain as {f asking what all this stir and hubbnb meant, had scarcely time to make me sad before Ail my sense of humor was roused by & foil face view of a solémi-looking Man servant, {0 & gorgeous Uvéry, situuig in the rumble of a grand carriage holding @ delicate little lace parasol over his head, Leuppose to keep the sun oft-his cockade, The carriage was crammed with children’s faces, bat | fecl sare the mattresses wore somewhere Un Ger the seat. Feeuld dwellon that strange, rapidly moving procession forever. 1 should never do jus- tice to It—to the worcen, some insanely clinging a dirty bandle containing what was not worth the carrying eway; others supporting with both hands one of those gandy lace-flotinced madonnas 0 conimon about Naples; ail who hed them, true enough to mature—thank heaven for it—hugging passionately to theirs breasta the last-born babe as if that was all the treasure they cared to bring away. THE PLIGST OA THE VUGrTIVEs. Ast got aearor to the boundaries of Portic! and Retin numbers of deserted ehops showed that tt was not from Torre del Grocd.only'the fugitives had come, At frst I thonght thas fi-fated town was the Principal polut ‘of Aanger, ntl was soon to #06 with my own €yés & proof of the terrible amount of. volcanic foree which lea hid. fen underneath ong’s seot, an. all prides of “The Mouniala Has Fallen In and Eyer The Honntain: Vomiting Porth Huge Rocks fhe great ‘a the gateway, of the Royal’ Palaoe- at -Borticly- witick looked even mir ‘than royal palaces about Raples waky do, and my,youthful driver took me ‘Tapidty past the headquarters of the Natlonal Guard up # Nytle street turning up towards the mountain. Heré I nearly fel! amony thieves; for, in adaition'to the one old man who yolunteered.to go ‘ait (ot “only a little way” with me, Ffound myself pasued by a bright-eyed, ragged young man, who excited (&e.close attention ofan ofmélal whom Imet on tie top of the drat ageomt.. This oMictas formed one of a large party of officer's, £¢, to one, ‘of whom Thad addressed myself, when I was [iter rupted by @ civil question from the oMcial as to whether-that (pointing to the ragged young man) wasmy guidé, I anéweted, “Yea, both were my gildee; they had Rindly offered,” de., &c, Tue of- ficial smiled and dismissed them; but I gave them -eomething Sst. I know it-waa, wrong; butfor the short time they had heen with me they had forborne forob! ne aud they had amuggd me very much, = ~~. THE FIRST: OUTBURST. Tt was from this party of oMeers, muntetpa) ont clals, &c., that Igot my first definite information about the calamity which bad boppened that morn- fug. Anybody who has ever tied to get at facte from an excited italian will sympathize with me in the many attempts I made yesterday to ascertain the exact truth. Indeed, such calamitics Gre fatal to accuracy in any country. ‘Phe. eccount which all the ofictais at Resta agreedin giving me was: this:—That about four or half-past four to twe o'clock in the morning @ large party of strangers and Neapolitans, men and women, had left their carriages at the observatory, as usual, and were going in the direction of the mountain, wien sud- denly 6. ANEW ORATER OPENED UNDER THE VERY FEET of some of the party, and many were instantly killed and buried in the Java. The carriages re- turned to Resina and announced the catatrophe. The National Guards, &c., in parties of two, were» instantly despatched to the aid of the wounded. They brought away several wounded severely; one, an English youag lady, died in frightful agony. at Resina after drinking four litres of water. The eBt, Whose cries for Water were fearful to hear, Wer removed tothe hospital of Naples; where they ‘all died in 4 few hours, Only three bodies, those of one young Englishman and two guides, were recovercd; these I saw afterwards,” The most moderate of my jncormants put down the loss of life at abont one hundred and fifty. After many inquiries 1 can 3" yet give you no ¢ertuin information as'to ‘the truth of thisstatement. That there ate maky persons dead, I fear, is true; but Lulso hope-that nearly alb the English and Ame;ican Jadics, md gentiomen who.so foolishly risked their jives were not killed, The list of dead have eecn at the Municipio con- tains only italian names. Aud now tgreturn to my dceeription of what T saw. I was fortunate enough to'make friends with an officer ofiths. Military College at Naples, who formed one ef the party mentioned, His friends: decilning to go any furtier he voluntesred to ac- company-me, and to him T owe it that 1 saw ONE OF THE MOST IMPRFSSIVE’ SIGHTS WITDIN THO MEMORY OF LIVING MEN« We toiled on along tiie dusty, rough road which all who have visited Vesuvius know so well. The heat of the sun, it being about two o'clock, was unasi- ally great. We both felt'a great longing for a glass of wine—a difficult thing to get—for there was no tavern near, and even in face of tho booming moun- tain the fear of the excise was before the peasant’s yes, At last, aiter wying ip vain at one or two places where the owners were too busy moving their things away to attend te us, we found a most civil and obliging peasant wine grower. Wenotouly got a delicious glass of ret Lathryma Christi at his casetta, but from the-roof we got the finest view ob- tainable of tle whole mountain. I never shall for- get the two hours we passed ther§. Burrourided by the beautiful vines wé sat on the sumny terrace; on one side that most lovely bay, in all its glory— Ischia, Nisida, Capri, Posillppo, Sorrento, Castella- Mare, all these gems Bet around and iu that ex- quisité sea, eves changing. its beautiful, tints, while on its gurfaco danced the wavelets glittering lke diamonds im the sun; above was the deep bine sky, and then, turning to the other side, what a terrible contrast! To the Might the great crater, with its numerous gatellitca, booming with a roar decp as that of all the can- nons in tho world joined {nto one, the huge con- glomerations of vapor bulging out above the black column which crowned the centre, this column flercely illuminated every now and thén by a reass of blood-red dame, whose light even the glaring stn could not dim; every niinute, with a blast that sliook theearth, thousands of stones, some aslarge as the house on which wo were, jung hundreds of yards {n the air, and swooping down like aflock of huge, ill-omened bigds on the furrowed sides of the oun- tain. The streams of lava were rushing down to- ward Pompeii and Terre dcl Greco, while closer atiil, with sluggish but deadly fire, crept from tho newiy-opencd crater the stream of lava which, only that moyning, had swallowed up so many lives, In the middle,) no inapt, illustration of sct- ence defying the fires of nature, stood the observa- tory, with its one occupant, the brave Palmieri, still at his post. To the left, just below the pht- losopher’s fortress, auother new crater, 40 full and terrible activity, was pouring A RIVER OF FIRE down the slopes on to the villages of San Sebas- tan, Alassa and La Cerola, devastating all that rich and well-cultivated country, withering up the soft green vines and crushing houses into mere heaps of cinders. Noavorde conld do justice to the awful contrast where, after one of the most terriflo bursts, I heard the nervous twittering of the birds, fnterrdpted by a song poured from the melodious throat of some bolder songster, who could not, ‘even in the neighborhood of such terrors, help pay- "ing nis grateful thanks for the bright sun and the fresh young leaves trembling with the gentle brees that blew from the lovely sea. A CHANGE OF BASE. Abont five o'clock we left our hospitable host, ‘with good wishes and prayers for his safety. His was the last inhabited house, except the observa- tory, and he seemed determined to stick by his vines and houschold gods, being of David's mind that {t was better to suffer at the hands of God than at the hands of man, in the shape of thieves, who were prowling about already intent on pltn- der. He promised to send the women away, and F hope he kept his word. , LIQUID FIRE TEN FEET DERP.. | , We were determined to make our way between the two streams of lava to the last house destroyed, and we succeeded without much difcuity; nor Were We alone. We bad got a very littie way when we met an elderly gentleman in biue spectacles, who had paid forty franca for @ donkey and guide that morning. Ue informed us that we had only twenty minutes’ wale to reach the furthest practi- Cable point. After we bad passed him a few Itallans, incinding tw6 ladies, came up with us, and near the lava we found some lazzarou! and two or three bet- ter dressed persons, But we went aione to tie smouldering ruins of the burned house, and were able to judge of the depth of the lava, which, al- though rauning only since the morning, exceeded ten feet. I confess that the atench of, the swlplur and the heat at this point were almost unbearable, and Iwas glad to return, Slowly, and lingering every tow and then to look back ut the monster as alouder explosion than usta) shook the air, we made our way back to Resina, determined to see the three dead bodies which I mentioned before. Although now nearly seven o'clock the sunlight ‘was still too strong to let us ave much of tne fire; but ‘the storm of burning stones still ‘con- tinued, and the huge masses flung up were dis- tinctly visible to the naked eyo from Resina and veven from Naples. APPEARANCE OF THE DRAD AT RESINA, T feel it diMcult to write any description of the horribie sight we had now to see. Ithas not been my lot to look at many dead bodies, and the remem- brance of those biackened, distorted, half-tinged, haif-sealded, wholly excoriated bodies will haunt me forever, My companion and I were admitted without any difficulty, thanks to lis uniform, but of the largé crowd outside oply two or threé women were admitted, who cane to wall over the body of one of the geides. Texamindd the features of tho English. inant, but dared not trwany other means to identify him, To my horroy a woman suddenly seized my tick ont Of my hand and Ufed up ‘his hal-burned vest. Tam sure ene atd not mean any disrespect to: the doad, for she burst out into cries of “paverino,”’ but.the action s:¢kened ime, We could find no clue “to the poor fellow’s idont They would have it he wasa “‘nodue stgnor Mytese," bwt from the quality of "his elothes I think he wasof the middle class, Beit as it may t could! ouly thinkof the horrid fact that he had not been recognized, The conteuts of his pockets had been ‘destroyed by the fire, The DHodies were all rightfully torn and burned, They tell me that the sufferings of all the wounded taken ine to the. hospital were frightful. Their sides, seemed scorched The nails w scakled from the fingers of some, Some were as if they bad beén soaked {n boliing water; others as if they bad been hatfrodsted plive, Tonly hope that | the number of victims is mach jess than reperted. | Most of the papers say about.two hundred. At the Municipio, where I have been to-day, thoy could | only tell me some of the names; but I shali be able to find ont more accurately Lo-morrow, as yot it ts impossible to say with a¥ certainty. ~~ “8. i SAN SEUASTIAN ON FIRB. ‘As wo wont back we stopped at a house in Porticl, where we saw part of San Sebastian burning. It was @ grand aight; for it was then dark. We could he; the trees crackling in the fire, but the lava was not asclose as itagemed, I'returned at midnight to ' the Ponte’ della Maddalena, The Image of San Gennaro was decked with drapery, and a double row-of lampaburning before it, but Bot many people | .praying., Coming back by the Porta Carmine I saw an old hag hanging a light before a representative of the same saint and rating his sanctity roundly at the sathe time in choice Neapolitan: To-day has been a bovely day, Ihave just returned from San Sebastian vory tired. Isaw the lava there in the full work of destruction, of whicn I will send you an account. Ompibuses, steamers, &c., aro still bringing away fugitives. Véesuviud has been cov- ered with a dense cloud all day long; the nolse has béen.less loud, but at San Sebastian it was fearful. The Mountain Sullen—Napica Covered with ‘Abhox-sicenes on the Road Among | the Fugttives Fleeing ‘from the Barne ding Villages and Deserted HousesAt the Mouth of the Stream of Fire—View from tae Rovf of a Villa—King Victor Emmanae! Nofping the Pvor-No Amore ioan or Hagiish Teavoilers Missing. Napirs, Apgik 2a—Night. Thoso persons who went out Last night tosee “the Magaifcent spectacle of the burning mountain” must Lave deen wofully disappoiated, unteas they wore persens tn the parliamentary sense, and, in aesorgines With tie immemorial enatom of -tadies |. and the well’known line in the Lufin grammar, they went to sce and to bo seen, Vosuvins last night was shrouded jn sullen darkness, partly the result of the atmospheric changes, partly of tho smoke rising from the victims of the lava's “burning love"? ‘The sullenness of our terIble neighbor’ took, egrly this morning, a more ageressive form; for, on look- Ing out of the window at eight o’eioek, I found the beautiful garden covered with fine ashes abont two imebes deep or more, Who fs it that calis Death the groat dustman? It sevimed aaif the great and al the little dastmen lad been sifting their heaps of ashes over Naples tiis moraing.’ The effect ts de pressing, espectally oa Sunday, when we tsnally alr our religion and our pest clothes at the same time. On'paying our homage to the Fire King wo found his hea@ crowned with a glgsatic tare of black cloud, which by no means assures us that he has lapsed into that state of tradquiility which the oMctal déspatenes of last night would have us believe. * A VISIT TO SAN SEBASTIAN AND LA CEIOOLA, I must not forget my promise to tell you some- thing about my visit yesterday to Saw Scbastian and La Cercola, for no one can presumo to judge of the effect of a grand erupiion gniess he has scen the lava streaniface to face. The side view is dig sppoioting; it ts only when you watch the great sluggish fire reptile Noundering along towards you that you can form any idea of its revolting destruc. tiveness. It was after a visit to the Municipio, where Lin vain tried to gain any accurate informa. tion as to the number and names of thedead, that, in company with the same officer, I set out for San Sebastian. It. was oppressively hot and the dust was ankle deep; the road was still tolerably crowded by the various conveyances of fugitives and their furniture, so that I cannot say it was pleasant. \My efforts to swallow as little duat as possiblo- under the circumstances were seriously impeded by the ridicttous contents of some of the carts and carriages. Looking at my written notes and récalling tiie more deeply impressed mental ones, I feel I have faliud to convey any worthy ply- tore of “718 ROAD." Z It would reqniro the pen of a Dickens and the pen- cil of a Leech to do-it justice. I can only say that any one with any descriptive and humorous power Might. have written a volume of most diverting essays on the furniture.alone, I doubt if the éxact outline of many of the articles thought worthy of transportation had been known until they were re- moved. Tlcy looked as if they had shaped them- selves by habit to abnormally shaped recesses tll their form) and purpose were equally diticult to declare... I!was just smiling familiarly at a perfectly dazzling fainily group of mattresses, whon a chealse fall of images, with -only one oid woman to guard them from vheir reckicss attempts at suigide, di- verted my attention. Lhaye been fortunate enough genuine Neapolitan of the upper middie class, or else I should have doubted the evidence of my eyes as to the contents of some of the vehicies. Tue way in which they treasure op the moat tawdry vambini and madonne memorials of ever BO Mh Jeste and giomt de Natale it is impossible to ceive, Inust not get.on this stibject or I shail re too long by the way. What was the cxact of one enormous wicker coustruction—sorr between a dirty clothes basket and one of those ecl-traps you see on the Thames—I don't kno My companion could not explain, It had a my: sort the small clothesfrom the others. Bui hoe comes acaravan, evidently of some rich proprietor. Heavens, what a cupboard! How did it ever get up to itepleasant, exalted position? Bluebeard eurry+ fog away lis secret closet, evidently. Three more wagous full—one with a very gaudy, half-drunken looking: armchair, keeping one of its arms, very un- steadily on the head of a chest of drawers, which is evidently mofe than half inclined to betray its aecreta. it of all, the proprictor—very fut, alone, well wrapped up (suppose what of his wa rove he could not pack up he had put on to sa time), With big feet. in what? -A bath? Ob, no! i must give it up—in a large glass case, like wh y pnt over O30 gorgeous clocks in lo: house drawing roows, which, by the way, uever go, execpt to the pawn ‘shop when therd has boon & . Very slack Beason. : ROED TO MALT. The dust forced'us to stup at a “Nattorie,” on te walls of which was a@ vivid fresco of @ National Guard “cutting @ snook”’ at Puleninelld, | Many of the houses—all those of well-to-do peopie—which we had lately passed were evidently empty aud stint up. Ve jad our gless of red wi both very good. We askocour hos 98 Whether they were going “seopare,” Wikely ia its dialectio sonée It fs diflloult to transiate. Perhaps “to go God Knows where” is as near as one can got to Tre answer was a strug anit cheroet, pled with an anxious look t ‘d. the smoke rom the ning lava stil some way otf. The keepers of “Nattorie” are naturally tot to go, as ‘the more rao the more money they muke. Fils ue of the last houses where no preparations for departure had beeu made; aiter (ht wo passed NOTHING BUY EMPTY HOMES ‘| or temporary e ments outside the door of homie. We satd goodby to host, hostess and the Tat baby im harness, and the pti!osopiitcal poodle, who told me" eo terry | pe did tot believe in eruptions, and were soon th Dustiand again. Here comes @ cart with a whole family (thirteon per- gons) tu it—one of them, ® very oid woman, evi- ¢ to see tho interior of more than one hore of ihe | rious grating in the middie, Perhaps that was to | and some hot | the yoong peas and beans and corn which between the trult trees. 1t was _— A vertty SAD stanT, The poor people Btood in groups, some muttering prayers, some quietly weeping, > gazing halt stnpeded at thé slowly advancing masn. Beyond nothing could be seeh—for the Liva stream wea deep—evcept rade shapes like crosses and towers and trunss of trees, a9 if the guests of what tt had destroyed were bursting thronch it. J could not help noticing here the great patience of these poor suiterers, [never heard one curse or angry word orsaw one dranken persou vil that day, course which lava wi Ko and the rate at which tt wil proceed are always Gimicuit to teil, and even within a es alpen fire every one seeriod velfeye p COU he Nl planted ov he had et would ut} eye Pi Me ite? Leaw here @ strone 1 foree of habit, Nota man oy he passed mioug within w low N Huy Miter Ute vine yi i) and pteked lis way 5 peas and beans gaff all fe were not alresdy dried up ip iat } by the hot vrewbiy” of their fiery ene- xing to and fro in iy. One woman, g nantly asked us What right wo had there ow her Iau, spofling Nev crops? My frieo? pointed te ms hot, reptile-looking, monster Mzity eaving esol ap aut Nyabere QYSP a tree, setting itin- stantiy in flames, aha daked her if she ever thought she would is corn? She tned away and resnmed hi ed walk. We tilted our hats in respect for her sorrow And passed on our way. * TGRMIBLE RERECTS OF THE HRAT. A very {nteltigens persot remarked to me how aln- avian it warthat the trees should’ barn eo flercely. aud.so easily fro: touch of the lava, We broke s} within a few fect clos nite” #0 fleree Was the heat where we were thay my logs seemed drying: np nicer me. The aic Ras been avy the last two days, wad that has made the work of destruction mictiesster, —* BORNES FROM ROOP*OP. A VILLAL Our destination was a large, cmapty villa, the rest. dence of a&. consiteratic wing ‘grower, who, of course, had left ft Wit) bis faily: end mostor the servants. Wefouid soue inon at wok racking ow the wine into ¢dsks, and up states we found one Woian servent sitting on a heap or luggage with her hands folded. “Stic df not T to move, ind swe found her exactly in tke same attitude when we came dows again, Ones upon the wo had & shionddid view bi the lava, alien stream to the right wasalmost statwnsr: ‘Ae tie Bane Wich toe nigot befote nat th Porticl On our loft we could see thu att: ad Just passed, and coul in front. of whet tt fitd left behind, ing quite flerce!s at some d i dud the freguent tong: we had seen da my ont made me (Hitk th whole ground was move nic state under the bed of lw THE KING WELPING THBP Onr Way Dick took us tho: Who were, frterin tha a dened by the prestnes'o. ia ride et a ib un Rou OR VIOTIMA, A Many Bal RTOUDS, of Kelierowiiy, and al authontt daty rend well F have been to-day to the Ragush a Bis, and, as fh 5 jeans. are sylssig. FHI N6tohy declare sitors have ir vi at number of Otseppearcd Tt Perseus SUPPORe’ twere rescued by the ATS AL re tun At bit of Priday, “The ce Italians, but the certiinly ener . ‘€ Hay it have died, ‘butt morrow. "Mhat th W OxH od at it but there is 1 kere to 1 must tr present. (sev wad the 4 moe, qu ung. Dut Seenes ou the Mount, 5 ad Badies on pia Roudeiirog of imitg Levee Vesuvtas by Day | Sides—Stveame Mr. §. L, Knight writes from Naples to, the, Lon- don Thnes as fellows:— Yesterday thorning, April 26, about: seven o'clock, Lwent out to get a carriage to con ving, and On iny Way f wat asked | looking man in th street if Thad heard the aews of the night, He then told me tit hundreds of ple who had gone up the night beforo to se borning lavain the Atrio di Cavallo w dead, had seen tte mountain at eleven o'clock before, When there was 2 stream of lava ray from the of the cons into the Atrio—that is, the valley between Vesuvius an fomnta, where there La in the uight there waa @ trememious erup- tion, @ large crater opoulng suddenly betw Mouub Vesu- A respectable. | bishops. His paper, together’ with some ot j of ttie bible by v he adjoining Lill, the | med to be a lake of fle. | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY? 17, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. carded yattied indér”| METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE. Reception of Delegates from the Free Church of Italy ant the Methodist Pro- testant Church of the United Stntes—An Offset to the Catholic Sisterheods=Re- ports Read and Adopted Quark Doctors and Patent Medicines to be Lett Out in the Cota. Dr. Davin Broors, of MinnesotA, eOnducted the religions exercisés yesterday morning, ‘The journal was read and approved. A special committec on the benevolent societies of the Cure was an- nounced. The call, for petitiona, memorials and appeals, &e., was then wade by Conference, _Dr. Love, of CentraNew Yor, prosontea a paper’ | givkig thé predént™ Mehops “hd your's icave of absence from official work, and), that, any fature logistation of the Generg) Conference in regard to eplgoopal residenges. shall not apply to the present 8 ofa like characger, was referred to the: Committce on FEpisecopacy.” A memorial from the:Weman’s Foreign Missionary Society was ordered to bo printed. Tuesday, May 21, was, Oa motion, fixed as the time for electing aditional bishops, ‘tmmediately after vie rending of tite journal,’ Rev. Mr. Waring, of Iowa, offered a papor asking for: a committee of deven jurists.to doviso 9 plan for the sale and trans- fer of Church, property which shall, be uniforia in tho several States, Rev. Mr, Hugtey, of Tlinols, and Judge Warren, opposed this resolittion, as being utterly {mpracticafia, and it was lata on the table, A resolution that advertisoments of; QUAGK DOCTORS AND PATENT MEDICINR VENDERS be refused publication in the Church papers created considerable merriment. Some of the delegates wanted a défnition ‘of the term “qrrck doctors.” Dr. Eddy thought tt-was a proper subject for refe ence to the Canmittes on. uds ond Mismanage- ment. (Laughter) Dr. Os! moved: to iny it on the table, #8 unit to. be entertaind in Confereuce, Te was, However, referred to b standing committee, “The following curious and complimentiry resolu- tion concerning tho ladies, hundreds of whom were resent yestorddy in Conference, ercated un- pounded aughter among the delegates by its read- ing. It was presented by Dr. Jacoby, of Germany, Who supported ft in a few remarks :— It is tho duty of the Churet to make all her me: seiutas posihlo in her great work of love, nivters deman ly with tull'right, that to them aswel the men their Fiuauon for useftiness shall be testy nated, Providence, ay wall as the word of Gor, has dono it, and the churches of (he test ages followed their adv The hearis or women full of dynpathy, their strong power ocwilL, their gatural power to boar paln, their asility, a9 there fenderness their tine delicate Hands and inary ottse good quallries and virinen mate them esperiully Able to nur whata * Rome knows wel OMAN VAN FERRCISY as nurses of the stex, and hag fled onr fred and happ suniry Wich its Sleters of Morey, Who labor fox It fatty, ald whe Nave nerattads d many stole P i $8 ah Be 4 4Nd snany righ to leave thelr money © Suisun moiher Wanch of Leneyalence whieh js especially fn And wiley Rome his token in tis vollon of snnalte by. wl : » paina to imbur try of Reéme, 7 to toy A a certainly i ty or 1! wl matound ta ‘oat gs well out ot love for their fellow plot ihele oot o by tit ral Conference, that ) eihtort of vir Chureh (1) to estat ; the training ho butrhelfon-of small chiaven, aud to to establisit Inv all cities schools for sumall red to the Committee on Woman's Work in reed vuuen W ed In roard to the-rovision of tho Methodist “Episco. Injor pal Church, Sy Woose authority if was being done and by whom; After some renting bust- nese the order ho (gy waa taken u—noazee'y, + the RECEPTION OF TYR DELRA\TRS “FROM THE FRES ov iA In a fe The Rev. A. 5 pproprinte and conipliment rk, Intradyeed the delegates, who to dec ‘a the real successors of the Apostia Paul, itd that they prench as he preached, oaring nothli: sned tha © on of Yesavins, and tl quit I Naplea sleeping wt tts Bay of ition was reeelved with meat ap- in thele own hiv craig Quad c y Pemteed the remarks of ravings that he (Cas rGavarrt by F 4 2) 1 te of the © vai velical Ohurgh tn Ttaly, whieh has now tiirty-tive organized congregations thronghont that sunny b Vothor Gavazzi began by saying that im 1848 there was not an evangelical congrega- ‘the Waldenses worshipped tn their tion in Italy. hows under gnaid of policemon, In ree Of Fellglony ‘liber- i d 100 tsand Observatory and the Atrio di Cavano, ac the path of the visitors, 10 Is said, of ‘a? mi Giaineter. We started from Naples at eight o'c The view of tuo mouulain was Magnite fhormous cloud of denso white smok ing to an Immen' nt. popniation were in fe: what todo, aad demi to fo wine @iuwed to up w | police.“ However, @ guide on t co A fow minite dows a dead bod, } bodiés—at leasi to od Living. ‘They wi face and Landa, and some, ebairs, ina sivtiug positon, jects, Furthe Ww paceutly—« rT At length, wh had he Obs li below t road got sur ficer Who Nas ch minut go orf; i down ine | 28 getting a justict to a ttt ted not to take | us to oud abov | jally as Ldid wot wish to m loft the ca | ) foot with the guide b mountain sid Wy ay errr Af length we stood on th. sloping to the foot of the Currents of lava | } were runmng down on both sides oi as far below, | but the craters frouwhic iowed were hidded by the sm ke Were ascending trom | the top of the cone, and the lava still pourd to the Attic. ‘The roar ©: imouutain, ¥ had first beard at Portict, was now continous, and unlike wuything elset eve ike Malitions of peals of thunder rolling at the time, Whon suddenly, about noon, tuere was 4 ocs- sation with alow rolling sound, and one heard the clicking and rippling of the lava currents pouring down the hillsides beigw. ‘Then, in about @ tnlaatoy canis a di ug Tear, s' ig the ground under our feet, and @ new crater burst forth just ou the further bide of the Observatory us it seemed to us, | and dense clouds of 4 and Stones were thrown: | ap into the air.on the left hand of, and mingling, wi o great white cloud, making agreat contrast with ube dark-brown dust and ashes which rose | perpendicuia:ly to,au tmmonse aeight. The roaring continued and kept oniucicusing til it became | deafening, dad I began to think it migit injure “4, We stayed thers about an hour anda half, ca The Keene was Magniliceut, tho amuke-occastonaily | cleartug away and giving ua the view towards the Atrio, that towards tho cope heing always clear; | | but aa some Of our party faucicd the ground might { } open under our feet and thut we might find our polves in uo Midst of @ New crater, 11 leagth Inctantly seat the goltie toUituy up the carr Hed Leen aivne f should have stayed there evening. When we had gone down a short di a. 0. the same pachompna again appe Tue sudden cesgation of the tremendors roaring, the etick’ng | and. rippling of the falling lava and tue low muttering bocame Len ays le; then the and the sbukiag of ground, and | ter burst forth on the flank of the | Observatory, sending up | clouds of dust and aati hich roligd over ami over til they reached oh éndrindud helght, put eye separate from the other clouds, All this tine the aun Was shinings iy an italian sky without a | cloud, After stopping some time to’ admixe the scene we coutinued ofr descent, but before wa reached the bottom of tle hill We #aw the lave from the lass crater tearing Its way down through the vineyards to our right with wonderfal rapidity, Just an boar after we left the top of the hill tic Jeatful roar another er mountain, dently dying, and snenlont ae not poleate ‘ed to die where she had been so lon Lhe lion. Next a father with @ sick child on his 6 der, the poor ittle head han, Hatlessly down aud the little atm too limp and feeble to put around papa's ne: PACE TO PACE WITH TRE DESTROYER. At last we reached the point where we would get out and walk to the mouth of the lava stream—a mouth greedily occupied In devouring one of the Tichest tracts of country about Naples, C) ath Was crowded with peasants, mo} tly goin: look at the destruction of. their sole means of Uving—their soio source of labor. Some visitors from mere Curiosity there were, but th were stopped by the cordon of National Oulrd drawn 0; in the court. yard of a deserted villa, The officer in command pasuod oo and in o few moments we were, face to face with the advancing destroyer, Through the ae green vines wo could sce .a great das smoking wall, built us it Were of yiassos of hot cin- papa able which, as.we got hoarer, we could. sea the tongues of fame shooting avery now and then ora great Ted-hot block slowly rolling over onuid coue conimenced sending vp _ torrents of stones, waieh fell in all directions, bub wheter the red hot hail reacied ovr osition on the height I know not hen ¥4, reached Resina it was curious to age the congratulations for what they. a nt our escape on the faces of the people, Ths Mkogrfginty and tie panic Were gove, and they we: ly pack: ing op their becs and the few thin carry, and starting with ever, to pul their Gi tdian Saint, St. Getmuro, between them aud the danger. When d started fvom Naples L expected to find all the world. at the top of the mountsit: but, to my great surprise, there was not @ single stranger there—ouly the few persons cin | played iG bringing down the dead. Delleve the | poilce prevented oer cartioge passing after ours, he awful roaring oF the mountain continued and | increased till midnight, when it ceased, and ouly roared again for ashort timo about four o'civek. To-day the monptain is quieter, and the Neapolitans are @ trite lew pale. The view of tie mountain at hey conia sort of conveyance for atte great flesces of cotton lan, a delegat i Tever saw. could see the fava rusning fr AN HVA JANCD HORALD. ral dpemings to the right, ofand above the ‘i His Char hts ; any a ight 7 i tary, bat ». The lava + it is fiee vor ail state Interferences, Tn answer ing from the cone Inve the. var. dnat. | t ave Jnquiry Why le did not tntro- was thrown up, We drove the | 2 y, the venerable 2 flat ground | ¢ rj} t the done those ciibed hareies. Lamon; church at and in 1909, turongh th t city, and coupe! was holdin th Jus aeAiNAl His, » jualonsy it woull futro: | rogen, tnd the eon iets that Statian.¢ hot of Pa Avan, beet no Olt the namo, 2 famous wh) aunong {he >not Apollos, or ¢ Lord Jeena Cich tv has the th ion nt e Church of ital, the spirit dd satyation of his couutty. In nuswer to. another {equiry, why he dtd not stay refomu wal hia hoanttal lie hand ov wn arm y chure ant thy to ho gave an illnstration from vribaldi, When # finger, @ igrened the Aurgeon Gus off no resbot the body; butat the Vell, y dil not, eut the body thine that conid be dy to the under- i od is the con- ) uireh of ay. Before tho i Seent tha eh mugs b rerarmed; berore it adopted tte tntuillt other @u have been saved char ia now gangrened from head to What is there, he asked, to reform? All now be done with ttl iu regard to THO MLVLODIVL MISSION IN ITALY, Father, Gavaze commended the — Amarican Methodiat Rpiscopa! Glurch to unite wit! Jish Wesi Uhurcly and that only one Methoc nom inn ablivied there, A cont will do 4 harm to his Taian C) y jather then asked the M United States for pec 10 neharge Jin which the serves are held f Ho wants ity to establish a ege ty Rome for t ning of evangeli aay pulldiags will cost about $75,000, ancl ty rount Ofessor's chatr, and h er mericans owe every! v Columbue he andien ntellectual aud Ul » And hy knew, toat. | ‘ould not aceept bene | Nid therelure 5 vane tho the ¥ fi ‘ gation “before him, thelr kidd sud gentic hearts fits without compensation. sell tag mighty, Ame righ ¢ elization of his v fathiot And ta WU € yo! Methodist Protestant y ented the grovt. & postion of thely Conier » gccompanted with a fe several Methodist denomination shoald in the way of each wiion. “Dre Te J. Mir Chureh of th ATRICAN Mfr topter carly part ot this month, was ree the Comnittes on Union. Lt asks Wat Jarier eforta to union e stayed wnlil the Atiican Church, ‘wh sn0W Afvided, shail by united, > ee The report, of tue Comnutt y Support of the FEpiscopicy W te ihe r of The day for the morning, afte 2 journal, ~ » on, Missions was } 1¢ andl Conferences into Hwelve » Which districts are to elect one ve at Liraé eaeh, and the Board of sign- ¥ are to clict twelve of their nuniher, who, | ther with the bishops and tho oficers of th i eoustitnte the Getleral Committee of jfonary Society, The repoyt, without ty plan of gronpiog the conierenhs, wad adopt ¥ and the latter was referred to a spodial committee, conalsting of the chairmen and secretaries of the standing “ominittees on Episcopacy, Chureh bx- tension, Missions, Book Coucern and Freedmep, to consider and report thereon. Adjourned. p road. It divides mission. (sf repres€! = fvoxa thé Roof ary ee House. At on early hour yesterday morning Mrs. Barbara SmiUi, thirty-seven roars of age, while Lege eatet inane in cousequence of the loss of a child, do- ver : wv tng roof of the four story tone- wit burg, and was instantly killed, THe pueeman aod properly cated for. Her husband, of a Four Story She Leaps , aift of the present Legislature. | firndreds of his paper, the Courant, HME CONVECTICET SEN.TORSTL, APTER THE BATTLE HAS BEEN WON. gree tn The Scoret of the Coalitlon—An Old Gradge ed Governor English—The Forged Despatch About Ropeaters—The Moral of Hawloy'’s Nefeat. —eeeendieencentieronte Perry Declared To Eo a Liberal Republican. ’ New Maven, May 16, 1872. The day after the battle develops no new coms binations in the political parties of the States There avo but few mombers present, scores having retired to their rural homes to think over the e: citing. scenes of the week and the remarkabl combination: made by the democrat# and hberag republicans to defeat Mr. Hawley, the adminis- tration candidate. It {s openly charged by menl- bers of tho vanqnished party that ; A CORRUPT BARGAIN WAS MADR between the followers of Governor Enyitsh ang the republican friends of Ferry, and that the demow crate are to have a finger it the porquiaites in the This has been 8Q explicitly dented by the Ferry republican organé and'the home organs of the democracy that ong would have supposed that it would long ago hava been set atvest, But upon this string the friends: of Hawley stil harp, [ have positive knowledgd tat Assemblyman Chapman, the first democrat who voted “Ferry” on Tnesday, wasanxtous tex? plain his vote, and had he been given an oppor} tunity to do so he would have satisfied the hou that there was no bargain made with the demo¢ crats, NOR PLEDGES OIVEN BY FERRY, Spoaker Troak, however, cut off all explanation by rullng that no member could explain his vote, an® the opportunity was lost. The Regtster of last night, however, gives the real reasons that Hawioy’s ambitious article, under the heading, ‘ Hone MORAL OF IT. After complimenting the democrats “upon thd’ defeats of thelr mogt bitter enemy and moss unserus puions opponent,” “the Mberal men of nll parties upon the defeat ef the champion of poiitioa! bigd the people geucrally “upon the a of tha, ring that has atterapted to rule us,f and “Govefnor, Engilsh pon the aefeat of his sianderer” the editor Proceeds to say i Now that Generai Maw has a sickness whicl 13 not confined to ‘his legs’? he may wast to know What cansod it, Of course He ts convinced thu thors has bech Abargain between the democratic members of the Legisatn aud Senator, Perry. Pork ips it will appear in the Courant that Senator verry h muted to atrend tha. Baltimore Cons vention utup Connecticut for its candidates, aypiise uait General Hawley should prove tat i SENATOR FENRY IS IN PAVOR OF PAYING THE CONS FEDERAVE DELT y. Toa man tn Genera position. these (ings seem possible, Bul Xpiain tue vote of hues (that hy man, not even ni to becom a persiatent ents, it does not pay to be bitter aud extreme. Those wito knew Gonevak ey years ago would not suppose It possible, come the man he now There {3 not 5 prompted the democratic chieftain to sottle Mr, ssplrations, in the sollow! If Would ne alanderes of po! teal op Haw for iim 60 be adem not t paign ot 187L Ti INSULTED EVE when he asserted that raphed to New York for repeat? nwing, as ha fia that the ver was false, © was'no ex. couse for it. dy srill thinks that honesty {@ pot whe best wwe would point him to thi: "1 1 Hawi: OMMOORAT IN THT STATR, | sh had tele- coud r gard General Hawley as @ 1 After training two or three yea broken down in the very first heat, F But this coutest has not been wholly personal. General Hawley has been tho advocate of the ex+ he has now treme Wi ures ofthe repubtiean party, We can- » which he has opposed. The Ku Kiax ment act, the Election law and mires of doubtint constitation: 5 ve fond im hii an ardent advocates On the other hand, ; SENATOR FERHY MAS PROVED TO BB VERY LITTLE O¥ A PARTISAN, 1 ality ha Tie has oppos i unnaureg which exttem dh hus done mu late war, Only last w he ¢ ce an able speech in dofence of the rights of the States, ani in oppositton to Sumnei’s Cwiy Rights bil, which proposes: ‘egtlate schools, ¢ nes, Juries ani even graveyard associations, When the vote y stool with Trambu opposes to him wer audier, ond that classé what position aching Preslé was roached, cit the uppr dential canvass, WH DO KNOW THAT TP 1" ENDORSES THB CINCINNATE TFORM. cb gt Music Hall, iast March, he insisted platiorm was souce, and the on! me iference between that aud the Clacinnatt pintiorn is in regard to the tari Because he ta liberal aud honest, able and eficient. a manly oppo- nent and a “gentien in ‘potitics” he has beem f hall lave the cifect to remove some 4 of the past, to make men of differs ent tow )rda each other; if tt shat Atosts leas personal and our leaders more generous, We shal be sativiicd, —, This, I have reason to know, clearly defines tha reasons for this flank movement of Governor Evglist. He and the denn low hid lead—and they inciide allin the bitterly felt the course of Mr, Muwley in failing to the slory about the repeaters, and they have now tieir revenge. Itis worthy of remork that in the contest just closed Mv. Ferry tuox no part personally, but, on the rirary, left the entire management of his eante en in the hands of Nis friends, white he attended In vontest wil the pe fo his duties in the Senate, mivautages W N PAVOR OF IR, HAWLEY, who for months has been Jaying his wires for lis election aud personally tekifyg an active part to da- feat his opponent. lu addition h ian immense lobby, reciting some New York , in attendance, Working upom the of the liberal republicans, and dally distribnted about the Capitol When such ection it ap- a menng were adopted to seeure his years astonishing that Mis forts were not suecera> vw, Lean only account for it by the personal popus larity of Senetor y, the ananimity that pe yaded the repubtic ranks and tie deep-sea! conviction in the minds of the Jiberal re that th » hat come for them to take a Independent pos'tion ‘ould be hatied oa of the Union, AL one time, late in the contest, iby some of the dotnecrats coalition would fil to be a smecess, and an to despaty of tt; but TALD of the proposed conit- democrats that they would be fureuh, aud thelr emorts were he coup & sticeess, NEW JERSEY STATE HiSvORICAL SOUIETY, Partly History of Monmouth Does Anybody Own A This ng at tho Bock tho af tendanes being consideraliy larger than on pres vious occasions, ‘tt being known that Governer Parker would read a paper on the carly history of Monmeuth county, the § of ony of the battio grounds of the Revolution. Rev. Dr. Rava Rox Tando Rodgers: the yenernted President) waa In nid A “bi ne “hiatiorm ‘Were “wiso exe fears wesd entertal that somo of its advocates tugexposure in 1h fion er need t) County= y Property? ace. Governor Baines, Sovernor — Purkor ond Vice President Rev. 8. K. Hamill. Speaker of Ass es Was also present, Atler some routing ordauce with & SP irenee ym ifinied Nites, Governor Parker, ex-Goveruor Haines, a Mh etd and Hon. Mr. Niles were ee pointed a committee to procure copies Of all thé oilcini documenta of the, Stato from 1701 to 1770, which are vow in the Calonfal OMlce ia London, genly Nii bughiess, in ac The Legislature appropriated. $3, tor th pu a alter which the society lstene: with deep attention to Governor Parker's dvepty interesting histotical sketch of his nativg couaty prior to the Revolution. Hendrik Huutso: prt see In the Lines a, bay Lapses ap to New Yor! @ nth © ag cradic of pury we Laultoetied aeeieerich, Reon ere bein, heir own rulers long before the birth of the Amer! ¢ Yio, The first Legislature ever het li ww Jersey Wad heid in Monmouth. Ko expresse fears that trouble wonld yet enane to property ow ers from the fac Meg great diticully Was exper! enced In being. able to trace original owners, 46 thet titles were hot seenre. Middletown was the only i perk) i) . George C. Hmith, Was asteep when hus wife took the erate loap, and Kuew nothing of hor faye midnight was grand ip the extreme, | watt iiformed by the police, Pass that had kept its records consecutively frou) 888 to the present time, Governor Parker bad QO} concluded when tie meetin DrOke Ube