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_THE CAROLINA SPARTAN by cavis & trimmier. DtmUto to 0on%rrc ftigljts, politics, ftqricultitrr. mil) iitisccUamj. $2 per anhum. vol xiii. spartanburg, s. c., thursday, january 8, 1857. . ."v ; :. no 4 & . tr ftv* , . . . c ' "'l.rilbs*! THE CAROLINA SPARTAW I conscious that lio ft*pl? li?il? ?..i ?>? ? BY CAVIS <fc TRIMMIER. ? U T- 0. P. VERNON, Associate Editor. f\ Prieo T?'o Dollar* per nnnum in advance, or j $3.50 at ths end of tlie yenr. If not paid until ^ afver the year expires $:i.l>0. w Payment will be considered in advance if made it within three months. Jl No subscription taken for less than six months. Money may bo remitted through postmasters at oar risk. ftl Advertisements inserted at tlie usual rates, and ft contracts made on reasonable terms. lv The Spartan circulates largely over this and adjoining districts, nnd offers an admirable medium jf to our friends to reach customers. Job work of all kinds promptly executed. '' Bl inks, Law nnd Equity, continually on hand } r printed to order. t! GAROLI NA SPA RTAN Front the Washington Union. j jj TTJP TUNftRlK OP TUP rRTSTC ' . j j ! . -i vx x mi vinuiu. ; i) Partaking, as I do most sincerely and heartily, in the recent tiiumph of the na- n iional democratic party, I cannot anticipate, c* I can scarcely hope, the victory is decisive, a ror that its consequences will bo permanent. ! 11 It is worse than unless to disguise the fact, ' since it will only lead to a falso confidence I of strength, which generally results, if not n in dissensions among the voters, at least in tc total disregard to that unanimity l>y which alone we can reap the fruits of victory and ni guard against future defeat. It is worse than useless to disguise the fact that in the election which has just tormiuated. a ma- 'I ? jority of the people of the United States, at ^ least of those who cast their votes, was op #1' posed to the successful candidate, and that, H had llioy all united on one candidate, lie I' would 'inevitably have succeeded. Is it not ? quite probable they will do so at the next u presidential election? It is true they nowaj>- n pear to bo animated by a bitter feeling of} *' hostility. Hut when wo revert to the recent electioneering campaign, and find tlicm act- i ^ ingin concert in Now England, in l'ennsyl- !l vania, and, in fact, wherever such a union c afforded then) the aisurauce or the hope of ? success, is it not probable, more than probe.ble, that this union will bo consummated in 1800, and the democracy called on to '' moot in combination those elements of opposition which by great exertions they have l| separately defeated? These combined factions?I cannot dig ' ? nify lliein with the name of the parties, 11 since they have nocoiniuo i or fixed piinci- 0 pies?have at Jeasl one bond of union ? '' namely, hostility to the great democratic party, A common hatred is often a strong- | 'l or bond of union than that of kindred, at" | lt fecliou or affinity of blood, and, in my 81 view, it is quite as likely that the enemies ; 11 ii,A i ,L . ir ? ? V?i HID WIIMUIUUII Ituu Uld union will Uill- I ' mately amalgamate, as iljat their friends 0 will become disunited. Uut, setting tlii-? . " aside, though it is boasted, anil that justly, " that the enemy has been routed, "horse, foot, and dragoons," it appears very evident 1 that they have already rallied, or are about ' to rally again. Far from being di scour I !' aged by defeat, they seem only inspired with J' new confidence; and the detnociacy, while c'. triumphing in their victory, should prepare " betimes for new encounters. They won 1 the victory l?y union, and by union alone l! can they hope to achieve others. , This is most especially true of the demo- '' cracy of the South; and it is with serious ; misgivings 1 have recently observed indiea- " tions of a want of unanimity in that quarter, n which may eventually give rise to a ooniro- ; '' vorsy that will widen the breach, and end u in destroying all future concert of action, 1 The South ought to know that its safety, at a least while in Union, consists in its own in- 11 dissoluble union. W hile marshalled in 1* one great phalanx, and presenting one tin- ' divided front, it may bid defiance to ail j s. the arts of liritish statesmen, all the influ- " euce of the Bitli?h and Anglo American " press, all the efforts of foreign and domestic 11 inccudiarv ohilanihr<n.i?i? .?li - ' 11 ^ i vwii.ui- i nations uf sectional politicians, who, b?-;ng '4 unable to roach the summit of the temple, " seem determined on levelling it with the j *' dust. The S0141I1, it is true, is in a ininori- , n ty, but so long as it remains a consolidated P minority it may defy the world. Well did ' that great stalesinau, the prido of South ' c< Carolina, (who ought to bo, and one day ft will be, the pride of this great confederation, let it spread as wide as it may)?well did he say, that while the South was unanimous on the presidential question, it had ? nothing to foar. 1 hold it a moral impos- >/< sibility to combine the other portions of the Union in a sectional confederacy. It has , often boon tried, and always failed. Even had the black republicans succeeded in the ,l recent election, that success would only have 11 been a prelude to dissension and anarchy v in their parti colored squadrons. Tho coin- j, , raon hatred of the democracy would have r yielded to personal rivalry, and tho con tost for the spoils ended like that of 'hrec goddesses for iho golden apple?in feuds " and jealousies that shook the throne of, c; Olympian Jove. One of tho invariable consoquencos of a j strict union of tho South is, that it draws s< with it tho support of very many citizens of Ci the North, who, though they inay not, por- oj haps, make quite so much noiso in tho world as somo howling demagogues, exer- a cise a secret influence in tho recesses of H every community that happily counteracts s< their efforts. Ihese men are actuated sololy by a lore of their country, and a desire to preserve the Union by adhering to those C) compromises which nlono give it being. |t They maintain tho rights of tho South bo- w cause tboy are guarantied by the constitu- 1 c, tion, and thoy know very well that the |4 rights of all the States aro embarked in one bottom. When they see the South rallying i as one roan in defence of their rights and ^ property, they not only sympathize with them, but readily and earnestly givo their aid to those who, whilo calling on Hercules, p either remain passive or becomo traitors to F themselves and accomplices in the ruin nnd h desolation of their households. Any man c who consults his own heart must become j p id thoso who will not help themselves nil, furthermore, that he gives little credi > complaints thnt are not accompanied 01 illowed l>y efforts to got rid of their causes or these reasons, the South should alwayi e a unit ns it was in the recent election itli the exception of Maryland, which is self not only n unit but a phenomenon , would puzzle the most sagacious inqui sr. who could see through a millstone, tr rrive at nny tolerable theory that would nc Hint for a State containing a greater mini er ot Catholics than auy other in tin Fnion except Louisiana, and abounding i slaves, giving its sutfrages to a presiden al candidate representing a party compo ?d principally of thoso who would freo a! 10 negroes and disfranchise nil tho Cntho cs. 'l'ho good people of Maryland mus c very near sighted or very disinterested Feeling, then, tho necessity of a stric nion of the southern States in defence o teir rights, and viewing them as the grea ulwaiks of the constitution and the Union wns with not only alarm, hut dismay, ] oticed, sinco tho result of tho late election irtain indications that seem to foreshadow schism, or at least a diversity of opinior i that section, which may lead to a schism allude to tho messago of Gov. Adams t( ?o Legislature of South Carolina, recom tending a revival of the slave trade, am > tho language of certain very ably-con uctcd journals of the South, with which, in sure, a great majority of tho people o i!\t quarter will not sympathize. It is not my design to enter on tho in uiry v bother this trauo is in its result) eneflciul or injurious to tho happiness o le unmitigated barbarians of Africa. 1 sumcienl to say thsit it lias beco 10 re ugnnnt to the fueling* of the whole peoph f this countiy; that it cannot bo rovivet lider the sanction of any law that can b< jasonably anticipated; and that most ns Liredly any serious attempt to attain thn bjoct wouhl at onco nlionato from tin oulh every friend in the North, and eevc II the tics which subsist between the demo racy of the two sections. Tbo democracy f the North has always sustained tin oulh, not from any predilection for slave v, but because in so doing thoy were up olding the constitution, which had sane oned the institution, ami a violation o tie guarantied rights of tho holders o laves would ho a violation of that compact hit the 'ight of trading in slaves by foreigi nportation was not guarantied by tb onstitution bevoud a stated period, whiol as long sincj pased. It is now prohibit** y law, and wo venture to predict tha iw w ill never bo repealed. Any attetnp ) do so on tlie part of ihu South, or an; unborn State, will he successfully rosi>te<i ud will answer 110 other purpose than t? licnate norlhuin friends, and furnish north in enemies with a new and inoro well rounded theme for new abuse and new ea imn'iM Although I acquit fiovernor Adams o ny such design, 1 do not hesitate to cxpres ie opinion that this design ^if such desigt tore h?) to revive a trade which (wheth1 istiy or not) has become detestable in tin \es of a great portion of the civilized world ill, if persevered in, do mote to wealtei re cause of 'he South than all the fu uro efforts of abolition. It is, moreover ttle else than a brand thrown into tin it nance, whose fires thcie is too much rea ?n to fear will never he extinguished; am is one of the heaviest blows ever airr.ei t the I 'nion, because, it persisted in, it wil eprivo the South of all northern support lid, by leaving it to the mercy of fanali ism, f irci" it in self defence to retire Iron confederacy where no respect is paid t< s feelings, its tight*, its property, or il eaco. The writer of this article lias on all occa ions been an advocate and defender of tie glitsof the South. Though an inhabilan I' the North, living in the hot bed of nbdi on, and environed bv fanatics of nil classe ml varieties, he has never failed to cxei II hi* powers and ail his influence in stein ling die torrent which threatens to sweej way every constitutional right, every bar er of reason, and every legal security o erson and property. In this character In as now spoken to lliern frankly and sin jrely, not as a dictator, hut an old friem ml monitor. A KETlttED STATESMAN*. ir.,.~~- i il ' o - a kii |iui uiii it uuigrmii 01 mo expreasioi f I ho hand?feminine and masculine?bt jrc and after tnarriago. No. 1 represent plump lady hand, all grace and softness xtending the third finger, half coyly nn< alf eagerly, for a ring held by No. 2 l?e ivecn thumb and finger, affectionately in iting the finger to try the fit. No. 3 show and No. 1 raised in deprecation and at Jst of a blow from the threatening double* st of No. 2. It is either a great libel oi larriage, or the world thinks so?we don' [?ro which. Persoxai. AnoiiNMniT.- -Many affect t jo religion or its opposite in personal dc oration. Wo never could. The answo f the sweet innocent lady in the subjoiue* necdote, is to our mind, conclusive agains II the homilies cvor written against per mat adornment; , "Elijta, my child," said a very prudisl Id maiil to bur pretty nioco, who woul* irl her boautifnl ringlets, "if the Lor* a*l intended your hair to be curie*!, hi ould have done it himself)" [Very logi <1, no doubt, sbo thought the remark; bu enr the answci:] "So he did, Aunty, when I was a baby ut he thinks I am big ouougli now to cur i myself!" A St. Louis paper says that thograssbop ors have oat up tho entiro tobacco crop o 'ranklin county, and tho last that wa eard from them ihev were seated on tin orners of the fence b+/</<rvf every man (ha anted far a eheir. / Prussia ana xsciiiciiatci. ' A new complication is to be added to the r existing embarrassments of the leading European powers, Prussia desires to establish ' a "protectorate" over Neufobalel. The facts of the enso are thus clearly stated by a wellinformed correspondent of tlie New York . Commercial Advertiser: > "The parties immediately interested in ibis controversy are the Swiss Confedcra lion and the King of Prussia. But what 3 has Prussia to do with Neufchatel? In a \ geographical point of view, not a whit inore than tho Stnto of New York has to do with the Stat?> of Kentucky. Tho kingdom I of Prussia is not contiguous to Neufchatel, or to any part of the Swiss territories, in a t single point. And yet Etedorick William . the Fourth claims to bo the rightful sover t eign of Neufobalel; and on the third day ol f September last art insurrection was raised t against the federal authorities in further, anco of bis pretensions. Tho insurrection I was promptly suppressed. Several of the , conspirators were arrested, and are now ; awaiting their trial. The king, through r his ambassador at Berne, has demanded the . unconditional liberty of the prisoners, with > out a trial, and in this demand ho is supported by the governments of Austria uuvl 1 Baden. The last steamer from Europe - brought the news of tho unanimous refusa 1 of tho Federal Council (which answers t< f our President) to accede to the demand, li is getieially understood that tho council will not release the prisonets, except upon th< s conditio?) that the king renounce, once ant f forever, his pretensions to the sovereignly t of Neufchatel. Tims it seem that the huh cloud which, a short time ago, seemed ni 3 bigger than a man's hand, lias grown sc I large as to overshadow temporarily otlici 3 subjects of controversy, and seriously threat en the peace of Europe." 1 Tho same writer thus disposes of tho r'.ain ^ of Prussia to Neufchatel: "For more than two hundred years pre .. vious to this period, (I7u7.) Neufchatel ha< 3 been united in close alliance with the Swis cantons, though it was not an actual mem . her of tho confederacy. So far hack a 1-170, it had joined tire Swiss in their war j- against Charles the Bold. But these con t sideratioiis had lilllo weight with the part? I /.f ii.A ...i. --- i ? j v? iiic uiuiiMivunn, v? uu w 11 ru tlOIIl III '1II J. u , , the assembly of the three estates, and tI?oj L, j tixed upon 'rederic I of Piussin. , ' "For nearly a century Neufcliatel conttn I tied to be gocertuvl by viceroy;sen*, tlriihei , j by the Prussian kings. Hut in 180(1 Frode ^ | ric William III, by a treaty boating <!nb I February loth, passed it with other posses i sions to Napoleon Honaparte in return fo , , the kingdom of Hanover. Napoleon con . : ferrcd it upon Marshal Herthier. < )n tin . | fall of Napoleon, the people of Neufchate . were not allowed to choose their own gov j eminent, but were handed over to the Con f i grcss of Vienna. They had fared much bet s| tcr under the French than under tin- I'ru> , ' si an regime, and they therefore preferred t< , remain with Franco, rather than subjee ,, j themselves again to the sway of the hang .ti aristocracy that had been upheld bv Puis , sia. Hut it was not the business of tin i Congress of Vienna toconliihute to the ag grandizement of France. Neufcliatel waI . , . L. restored to the King o! Prussia, jh,,| then . in order to conciliate its inhabitants, it w. | annexed a> a new canton to the Swi-s con j federation. " I ho anomalous and complicated rein lions t!?tis established between Neufcliatel Switierland, and Prussia continued unti 1818, when the people of the canton over , threw the govei unienl of the king. ton s down the Prussian Hag, and hoisted tin Swiss Hag in its place. Pel ween 1707 am . 1848 the municipal and republican olciuen , U:ul outgrowii the feudal aristocracy, an* L reduced it t<> an insignilicanl minority. Tin , people of the run ton declared llieinselve* s Swiss republicans, ami adopted tlie nev ( constitution formed by tlie Swiss o>nfedera cy in 1848. From that year until n iw tin , King of l'riissia lias taken no means to :n . sert liis claims by force of arms, lie iiov ( calls upon the parties to tlie treaty of Yarn j na to support hi in in his demand for the lib oration of the persons implicated in the eon j spiracv of last September. Hut the treat* of Vienna is utterly dead. It has been bro ken down and luunpled upon over an< over again, by the parties who ha a pledged themselves to support it. The do thronement of the Bourbons of France an< the dismemberment (>f the kingdom <>f tin Netherlands in 1830, the annihilation of tin '? kingdom of Poland in 1832, and of tho io J public of Cracow in 1840, and the restora . lion of the Bonapartists to the throne o France, were all violations of the treaty o Vienna, and acquiesced in hy the grea 8 powers. '1 ho people of Neufcliatel had a " good a riglitlo ignore it as any other. Be 1 ( hind this treaty the King of Prussia ha ) nothing whatever to fall back upon in sup ( port of his dynastic pretensions. Ho ha lost his hereditary claims by the act of In father, who ceded Neufcliatel to Napoleon. 3 A foreign correspondent of the Nationa i Intelligencer show# the feeling of the tier r I manic Confederation on tho subject, and tin 1 military power of Switzerland to ru>i*t tin I claim of 1'russia. Wo havoconversed witl an intelligent gentleman, familiar w ith tin topography and military strength of tin 1 | Swiss, and his opinion is decided thn J Frederick William will never send an nrtnj 3 into Switzerland. . I "The NentVhatel affair appears to ge t more and inoro complicated. ThoGermai 1 >i?t at Fraiskloit proposes to intervene am support Prussia in iior claim upon Neufcha j tel. liy the adoption of this recoinmenda tion a very serious question arises for Kn rope as to the objects and purposes for whicl the Germanic Confederation exists. It ha f been hitherto understood to ho little inon s than a union of the I'rinces of Germany t< o protect tbe independence and inviolability / of Germany against foreign aggression [ This is a vory legitimate object, and ac know lodged as such by Europe and tin world at largo; but it Is quite another thing to oxleiul the area of operation of this Con federation from its proper boundary of do mestic protection into the field of externa \ intervention. The Diet further insists upoi the modification of the constitutions of sevo ral of the German States to an extent whicl wlioiiy neutralizes freedom of government The Swiss Government is said to be prepar ing for tlio worst. The etfeotive strengtl of the Swiss army is returned as 102,042 men and 700 guns. The Government oat i also call out the Cantonal troops in case o t war; these consist of upwards of 40,00< i men. The 12,000 Swiss who now frou the nucleus of the Neapolitan army wouh , also !>o recalled. In fact, Switzerland cat h put on foot an army of nearly a quarter o million men; but this would be far forn sufficient to cope with the great militar r power of Prussia. The affaiis of Germany and Denmark respecting Ilolsteiu are alsi assuming a threatening aspect, and tlic na lions of Continental Europe are taking side ? in the quarrel." Manners in New Granada. ? Helton's work on New Granada is th source ?<f the following pictures of social lif ' in that country: J The Davcutkii or his IIost.? At on ( of the haciotidas where ho stopped, he wa t introduced to the sister of a friend he ha ' tnct elsewhere. The sister (Isabel) wa ' eighteen" years of age, and wore the pensan _ ' dress. Sometimes slio dressed as a ladt . and read novels translated froin the Krencl | J . ) Sho was nn intermediate link between th > aristocracy and peasantry of the countrt ' ILcr ideas < f "matters and tilings" are lltti demonstrated: t I spent tlio day very pleasantly rear iuir and ta'kuur. with <>"? <-?r t,*.. .?r..l along ilie margin of the stream. In one < our dials Isabel looked up from Iter worl 1 , ami asked mo it I had any children. s "I never was married," 1 toplied. j ''Uelisnrio told me that you was a bachi | lor, but I thoiightV|U te probably you tnigl s ; have children nevertheless." ! "Were 1 so unscrupulous as to be a fatlu f before marriage, I should be enough so t ' deny it also. Were I suspected of such r thing. 1 have not a friend that would n< i lore his doors against me. Such persoi ' are not admitted into the society that 1 fr? r rjucnt." I did not tell her of the tipper ten dot s of New \ ork, where otilv pom an 1 vti'g debauched are rejected, perhaps for l! r reason that follows; "Were wo to l>e so particular here," say } Donna Paz, "we should have to live withut I society." A Critioi s Pasumk.? Mr. Ilolton ai dinner with a large patty?predominai . among it were ladies?an l the priest pn ? inoted digestion by getting up some sport ' a It rustic revels of "Meriie England < >ne of them (in which a pock wj?s hurtle . in the earth, with nothing but bis hoa ai .1 neck above ground,) was ?,s follows; According to the rule, a la-lv was to 1 blindfolded, to lake a machete, and, if poss ' | bio, cut oil the poor cook's head in lhr? | blows. The curate, who seemed to tak this diversion under his special patror.agi : selected for executioner the most respect? hie and piotis young la ly of tho coiiipant our ?jueenl\ Khali a. Willi miicii rcluctanc she consented to be blind foiled, took th ? machete, went on< -top toward the c< el '* stopped, an i removed the liamlkctcliie : 1 lie curate's partner in the la-t wall/ \vi ! next app d to w .lli much urgency, hilt it ' sisled. finally, it was voted to bA^mrhl R man. N ? soonet hail lie begun tVstep tint 1 .all called out, '"You are ^gpiiig \vron< ' XI i : to I! ? r;g!i'.'. M >te tl;? left! >'r I, where you sire! (i.? two step* furllier! Atul >i!l t!i'- :il oneo, and twenty limes r< pealed. <'unfounded lathis "advice gra '' 1)i* u' ive tlireo sweeping strokes wide < tin* tinok. ''There go.*ti,T?Mi head!" cry ha a dozen, and tlio fxei-uioner removes Is 1>andage amid shouts <jf derision, and soi ' tlie cock's lic.nl projecting unliarmed b< tween hi* feet. A iuCond followed; but 111 ' curiosity was era 'Jti ed, or rather my er ' diirnnco exhaust* d, and I left the groun in search of plants. As I mounted in ' horse to return, the remains of the secon cock were passed over tlio fence to tli s kitchen. A SuocKixa Bi'riai..?'1 ho writer viC itcd the ceuietry pf Bogota. Kt-ail this: ! j 1 iiad left the gopudi when I met a bier o t the shoulder*of futij men, w ho were w alkiis at a luisk pace, and shaking from side t sale a body of w Iflch 1 could see the cla*pe n hands and naked faice. The body was tin of an aged fem.de..dressed in white tlanne , At rived at the grafe, it was full of wate s Here was a pause: some were for thrustin 11 the body down into water, others f | dipping it out; hut #ftne men who wer digging an ndjoiniug grnvo gavo it up t the necessities oji^he case, and nwkwardlt o anil with ol!?nsivo exposure of the persoi p the body was laid in it. Then a bo ( caught up a huge lump of mud and pitche it?down. It struck the body with a sullc sound, made the whole corpse quiver, tm 9 aside pail of the clothes, and disclosed th t face 3in11 Him litt!o I.Miial nf -I I. ili.i i I.. f months old i.lint ha<l Ik>oii concealed tlu?n 1 was horrified, but stood in) ground. < 'lo | nftor clod fell on their naked faces, unti ' little bv little, the shocking scene passe J from view. While those bodies were being buiii liko those of brute*, a dozen priest# wot within the consecrated grounds, but cam not noar the scene. I turned awav sic 1 at heart, hut with a stronger desire to In s j to reach my native land than ever I ft ' before. a Nf.w vo?k Coi.oued Lady. Loin . 'IgU ogotn, our writer wont towards Sonch; and on hit way encountered a qu'nin* fa< i ( tory, which was superintended hy M. Loui t Oodin, an intelligent I'rtnc'i chemist. Ileal ing that Moris. Oodin'* wife was a countrj I woman of his,our author visited her: i ' I found her of pure African ldood, and . very favorable specimen of her race. Sli ! bore in youth the name of Joanna Jacksoi and thirteen years ngo had a mother livin in llaverstraw, to whom she said she woul i gladly send a hundrcd%or two of dollars j she knew she was living. She said tin , when she left, the people v.crc talking r f voting lor (ieneral Jackson and Mr. Va ) Huron, hut she conjectured the generi , must he dead by this time. In the intern | she has heen over Ireland, Knglnnd, tie i 1 litany, and Russia, as a servant, and is iio f n ladv in New Ciranad i, and has a whi , . servant. Of the two persons who can mal f ! quinine on a large scale in New Uran id y she i? one. ' j Loose Haiuth.?It will Ik? seen from tl ; following what a New Crnnndinn's ide: are of delicacy: I went once to Chaqueial on purpose f 1 a swim with tho ladies. There is a drt spot?charco?in a stream that is so lot o i that it is called el Credo?the Creed. 11 ,, | Creed, 1 helieve, is the longest olliee in ll rosary, and the extraordinary length <>f tli deep, still water gave it the name, ll 0 in fact, a dole11 rods long, with an averaj 9 depth of three feet, and an almost unifor d width of live or six. It is embowered H deep woods, and bathed with the coole t air of perpetual summer. Were man bo nly to swim, his Eden would have be< he e. i. To our party for the Credo, besides Sen e ra Cabal, l abel, and Virginia, was nddr I ton J usto, and a lady who was fir.^l mi i lied about three years since, and h j uiiu^iiim, <? f nij'n*, uui very cnpltvaili j girl oi about six icon. 1- ; An wo were riding there, Isabel ask* 1h my iiorso cannot pace. I think ?- , thouj ,f now on an easy trot. Sua advises mo i, draw in tlio reins and whip him up. pace results, but -die decides that it is n j spontaneous, but learned. Afterwards si a-ks mo if 1 did liol speak last night of lis it ing coino on a horse. Doubtless 1 di siuce I rode neither mule, donkey, nor bu r She informs me that it is h mare, and th 0 she is with foal. I mentally conclude th a i I never would try to cheat her in a lion >t trade. is Our horses are at length tied to tre near the Credo, .lusto has brought wi him no bathing-dress but a handkerchi n A-> be sees mo differently provided, ho <1 ii cides not to go in at all. The mothers lib i(_. wj.io do not go in. The senoritas appe in lung robes, open a little on the back, t ... quite us appropiiate as anything ii it "Bloomer" can be. The stranger girl on not swim. Ju-to and tlio mothers, neati v on the rock, chat and watch us. We sp; ter them a little. I was dressed before lue other* left t 1 water. I was talking with Virginia as s -, j was combing her hair pieparatory to tire " inlT. At length Justo calls me to hii vst.ile 1 am sitting there with my back Iter, lie kindly tells me that it is t pleasant to a lady to have a gentleman I near her when dressing. So we slai M. there, talking with our faces toward h< j and not four rods off. till she and (lie ol!t( are ready to rid \ i r illy etiquelio is my e tery. ClIKAf I> VTlltNO.?Our author eventii Iv reaches the tuwn of Honda. He say*: o I: was rather n busy day, for it jtettn c as if alt ilia population were bent on a pu c, lie ? ? imv^Tlie little river lias its congreij f/f ft on wflon it lots nay water. The Maori ik Una is ntiicli frequented just where the r ?. joils begin, and again at the mouth of tl a < /intlr. I'he (iuali its If, between the bridj n art 1 the Mngdalena, was the resoit of a ft r' quiet ones, but the liveliest scenes were . tire rapid current just above the bridj I heio were full grown men and large l?o ?. staik naked, young girls in the saine slal t- 1 and women of all age> with their budi ?f mora or 166* covered with a blue skirt. If '1 he better bred of those would cor is down tinder an umbrella to shade the s from the sun, a servant following with f skirt, a sheet and a toluma. The bath v would throw the sheet over her, and enter i- front it in the skirt. Next the body is ev (| erod into lather. Then follows a poum v of w ater from the totmna for a h>ng tii ,1 without intermission. If any children :i to Uo w ashed, now is the lime to take the II hand. After this, thev plunge into ! , stleant, if they choose, and thus pass tl time tliey have to spend in the watt \griin they envelope themselves in ! " sheet, which now servos for a towel as vi t? its a dressing-room, and at length tie " ? rneige from it nenrlv dressed, lite sOiva ' rinses the skill in the river, wrings it, ai tHit- it ami the other wet clothes into a tr;i ' which she carries home on her head. I h r- the lady has secured a good swim in t J open tiver without any violation of dec ,r rum. Hut it would not be fair to the rea 0 or to leave hint to imagine that all the f on. lion. It would be dillieult to tinU the fin ' in jili 111o week mi which viiiA of lh? y seems are not ffoitiff on. \N Il.U I liAiUJ* ASD CoSITIRM A l ios < lion W Kir.?The JSdrnhor 1 Witness -41 ^ that ur the second edition of Mr. viuilli I JorrlAtvbiilfc "Vtif ig. ami t.iiipwrrrk of ! "j faUrtVere occurs a new and intorsstii f obeervntion, confirming and illustrating t j narrative of St. Lalo* ("Act* of tho Apr tie*," chapter XX \ II.) It consist* of t I discovery of the ruins of the to m of Lh?< mentioned in tho Acts as nigh unto ( Kair Havens, on the south coast of Ore , the modern < 'andia. The place is not me tinned by other ancient author*, and its si t ! lias hitherto been purely conjectural. Tl discovery was made during a yacht crui< in the month ol January last, by 11 iij " Tennent, Ksn., of ellpark, Hlftsgow, ai tV tin ller (tourgo Brown, of tho Five Chun I of Scotland. ^1 i? Chinese Sugar Cafe. toih< r* We have heretofore noticej^ie remarka- I r* bio which attended the cuH^^tion of the tj,ey' Chinese Sugar Cane the past hitutiler by until a tlie farmers of this State and Georgia, tlio h 0 Now we would call attention to the growth ' lo lf I p and culture of the plant, ex- tracted from ^ j (| a Circular issued by the Commission .?r of j^ if Patents at Washington. oh-er ^ Sugar and molasses are very high, and *'c'n n Providence seems to have brought this plant id into notice at the time of our greatest need." SPWJS n Let every farmer, and every man w ho can " devote an acre to the cultivation, get one * quart of seed, plant, and tend it well, and he will have enough sugar and molasses s?pn a. to IhH for a year, at a iCtnarkably small hits. cost. It is no humbug. It is a rich bless- P?e*i ie inc. nnd one that should be welcomed w ith M r. I devout lhankfulnc-s. We have before us I a letter from Col. W. S. Lyles, cf Fairfield, hi? fi or in which he says he designs planting five tend* T acres at least, from which lie expects oue BO,u#t ~ thousand gallons of syrup. lSut syrup nnd lC : sugar are not alone lealized from the plant. r?.p?i ns j The fodder is greater in amount than denv ,s? 1 can be gathered from an acre of corn, while ?K the increased culture each year will create a steady demand for the seed at from *3 to ;n ^ .,t *5 per bushel. p|e. r0 We earnestly press a trial of this plant ,l xvr upon our farmers. Get good toed, and ,,alu 1 . , .1 til0 1 c cultivate | roperly?as though you were iti ..J earnest?and the crop will astonish you plait ir and dissipate al! inciedulity. hie ? er We append the description and mode of cultivation, as they come from the Commis- j ^ jf sioner of Patents: phty ?h Pc.-ClUITIoN ANI? If AOIT OF GllOWTIT. C011" The Chinese sugar-cane, when miliivsiwl from A ; on ordinary land, in the United States, l'*e ol somewhat after the manner of broom-corn, Pr?d grows to the hcig ,t of from eight to six teen ^r'c,! lV* feet, while in Europe it does not attain you? k'< much more than half of this altitude. Its mo#' " ! steins are straight and smooth, often cover- PeQF at | ed with hlooiu, or down, hnving leaves ' :kl somewhat falling over and greatly ) >c iC* resembling in-ifypearance those of Indian 'n '' coin, but more elegant in form. When ,n7 1 cs : cultivated in hills, containing eight or ten leHVl l'| stacks in each, it puts forth at its top a j *ny ' conical panicle of dense flowers, green at ; ses 1 l?* first, but changing into violet shades, and | PrCft :e" finally into dark purple at maturity. In ' on'y ar Franco and the central and northern sec sal,s lUl lions of the United States it has thus far 8anv |Ut proved an annual; but from observations 90 f* "* made by M. Vilinoriu, as well as someexperi- hav< inents in our Southern Statos,i t is conjee- f? ^ lured that, from the vigor and fullness of 'n the lower part of the stalks in autumn, by ''iin be protecting them during tho winter, they dene bo I would produce new plants the following ** spring. It standi drought far better than f'ton ) Indian corn, and will resist the effects of ''is 1 t? i considerable frost without injury, after the ''hs ol panicles appear, but not in its younger and but s" more tender state. If suthgupi . to remain mft" in the field after the scedg&fefivo iipuncd Jnuc 'r- an : have been rcmovetkJfl^Vthe treason jUt'S 'r* is sufficiently wnrm and lOMWlev panicle? jcets s- | will .shoot out at tho topir.O^Tjoints, one or j q more to each stalk, and inatufe a second i cv f , crop of seeds. The average viehl of seed ! . i'* ' i i . i . -1*1 ' lure to each panicle is at least n gilt. Cri.TiVAnojf.?Since its introduction in- j yor ' to this country the Chinese sugar-cane has : |j proved ttauit well arlaptod to our geogrnphi- j acw :i c;tl range of Indian corn. It is of easy ; V0U| '^iyultivation, being similar to tnnt of inaize, ' jJIirt !l i or b*?n/tn-oorn, but will prosper in a much m.a ie poorer soil. It does not succeed so well. J p.w^ ^ however, when sown broadcast with the lo view of producing fodder, as it will not : NTj,j( grow to much more than one half its u?ua< iorr, >?* height. If llK* seeds are planted in May. tfXen v* in the Middle'Stales, or alii! earlier at the ! ,j, South, two cfMp-, of fodder can be grown in | w;l^ 08 a season from llie wiune roots?the first one } ate in June 01 July, to^>?- cut before tlie panb j ^ 1,6 cles appear, which i^uld he green and sue- I 1,1 culent, like young Indian corn; and the j n;c|j H other a month or two Liter, at the time or j,e tj *'r before the seed is fully matured. In the fV?e4 rt? extreme Northern Stales, where the season ,v" is too short and cool fbrot to ripen in the nmj pen air, the cultivator qiil necesarily ,?;l , ne , have to obtain his seed fronuegions further j;,.U) ire south. If it were imp -rtart fir liiirt'o raise Hu(j 111 bis own seed, he could start the plants un- jinu | der glass in the spring, and Remove them : 10 j to llio field or gaiden at aboil L tlie time of ltJ,j ?r* planting Indian corn, after which thev |<>ok 1:f> would fully mature. One iqnart of seed* ti,^ | are found to bo stillh ion? tor an acre. If ?flet> ''.v the soil be indifferent gr p > <r, tlief may bo n,;|,| 1,1 sown in rows jiarrtfil!- about three feet 0f(>r apart, with fie plants from ten to twelve J .p.,,, '?' iiirh|r^|jr?"V r but if the soil L?e rich they "H ill if la- panted in bills, five Or more seed* j l?eacb, four or five feel apart in one diroc- Ixim 0 j ty? ami three or four the other. The rv o' " in.iy in* worked or hood twice in tin- Mr. in h similar manner to Indian corn, i of i HR.ov .o-rs or super tin.mis slnk'lv n !ik li I t..,vc HPv-priritf up ii. iv !" iciniiveil. The seed ' ernii should nril l>?- harvested be!*<?r? it Acquire* n in t il uk or mack bye. Should the plants Mali lodge or fall lo ill? gr.-und, by the extreme they nij j weight of th?\Jieads. during storma of wind the i y* or mm, before khe need in attire*, they may *l?!e <>f remain for weeks without injury, in col- that St. letting (he seed, a Convenient method ia to injr i<r cut off tlie stalks about a foot below the vant he , panicle", tie tliein up in ^imcheit of twenty- New >*- | Hve, and suspend thein in any secme airy j Htni he place, sheltered from rain. If intended plao solely for fodder, the first crop should be thin, lie cut just before the paniclee would appear, j has t?\ and the second as soon as the seed arrives ty, v n at (lie tmlky stage. It ntav bo tied up in out i to bundle*, shocked and cuied, hko the (ops n?s ? lie or stalks of Indian corn. If not intended . ami w, lo be employed for any other economical New rh use, afier the seed ha* been removed, and ml the weather be cool, and the average lem- |J^ oh pcra'.urc of the day doe* nof exceed 4a deg. j vt,ar>l I or 50 deg F., the stalk* mpr bo cut up close | i ground, tied in bundle*, collected in ;h, or stowed in a mass in a succulent for fodder, in sheds or barns, where will keep without injury, if desired, spring. In this condition, howerer, jwer parts of the stalks wili be found quite hard and woody, and will re to lis chopped into small, pieces for necautioK?Particular care should be od not to cultivate this plant in the ity of Donrah corn, Guinea corn, nor n corn, ns it hybridizes or mixes freely those plants, which would5 render the. or the product unfit for sowing. m T >M MAHBUAt.L OS J. C. liSKCKISniDOS, Garukt Davis.?The celebrated "Tom hall" has been edifying the Kentucky eme Court with one of his happiest it whs in a case in which the Vice dent elect. Mr. Breckinridge, and Gar>avis, of Ky., were opposing counsel. Marshall's client'^ son hnd beeo flog- si L>y a gentleman for trespassing upon ?h pond. Major Breckinridge confd that the correction was a wltolei atid proper one, such as ho had been ?cted to in his juvenile days, when lit in any mischief. Tom Marshall, iq r, said that both gentlemen had enured to magnify him into a great man entucky's greatest lawyer and orator; both, in their |>oliticni speeches, were le habit of expressing greet confidence ie sagacity and intelligence of the peoNow, he wished to be informed Low is that, with such great superiority of l :... ? ' ? . mt grmvs auu acquirements, ancl wilti tdditional advantage of years over at f no of iiis adversaries, Ite remained i Tom Marshall, hammering a miser*sxiitenco out of a few law suits at the "while you," pointing to his opponent, 1 C. lireckiurijge, "who were but a towled shaver, robbing bird's nests and ing iparhles, when the whole broad tnonwealih of Kentucky was ringing i or.o end to the other with praises of great eloqueuce, vast learning, and igious ability of Tom Marshall, are now i President of the United States? and Garret Davis, wanted to be, and alL persuaded some very weak-minded tie to make you, President of the UniState^r' "Now," proceeded Tom, "out i President says he used to be flogged is boyish days for just such tricks as client's son was flogged for, and he ea us to infer that, so far from suffering damage thereby, it was one of tbecau>f his progress and advancement to his ent high position. If my 'client had known this before, and if he could be fled that his son was spanked on the e spot that my distinguished friend was, ir from bringing this suit, he would j acknowledged iiis profound gratitude le defendant for thus placing his scion ie line of safe precedents, and giving so strong a claim on the Vice Presiy. Doubtless the political misfortunes disasters of my other distinguished J are attributable to the fact that, as panting was neglected iu boyhood, he to make up for it by receiving nothing political spanks evor since he reached hood." These palpable hits excited li laughlor among the lawyers and ;?*, in which the two distinguished ob> of Tom's raillery participated. .? tl. Denton on DlSsirATION.?a f-w tings ago Col. Ilenton delivered a lecin Doaton, before the Apprentices' Lir Association. A letter to the New k Tribune says: o opened it by giving, in a kindly charristic style, some vtiy good advice to tvg men in general, and apprentices in iculnr. They saw before tbenv, he re ked, a pemon who had attained an agq the limit which the Psalmist assign* ie line of life, an 1 now upon these years, :h the same Psalmist associates with jws and weakness, thus far ho was >pt from those infirmities. How came at at this advanced age he wai blessed the absence of those infirmities which supposed to belong to itt He owed it he course of his early life. Franklin nn he warmly eulogized) was oncn named the American Aquatic, because rank nothing but water. In that reshe had imitated Franklin, lie totally ained for the first half of his life, was temperate the other half, lie bad only totally abstained from spirituous ors, vinous liquors, furmontcd liquors, everything ot loakiud, but he had kept sell free from <twy kind of dissipation. piH>t?e.] lie knew no game whatever 10 this moment could not tell, when ing ?t a parly play'?g cards, which was losor and which the winner, lie had i set up aII night watching the sick,on ,ary duty, and a book-?n book?had i kept him awake; but he had never t one night of dissipation. A ac n .colog ical Drscov er v. th^ I.>n At'ucn.Tuin announces lha diseova* fa buried Oreek city in the Levant, by Newton, British Vice Consul at Co*, lie circumstances of thi* interesting diary it >,?y? tliat ?>rnetiine ago the Govneut wanted a Vice Consul t}l Co*; and, l#c* of seeking among th? .Vff raff of ;n or Alexandria for a representative, y*rv wisely sent out Mr. Newton, of British museum, a ripe scholar and an man of business. The consequence ia, instead of cheating the natives and Ij; to the Foreign Oflice, a* so many Le?ine officials are accused of doing, Mr. ton has mined his eyes toward the past, in the beautiful island in which he waa ed, he has made a noble discovery?nog h*-. than a buried Greek city. He sent home the news, and the AdiniraJvith honorable prompt it ude, have *en? in the Cordon steam fiigate the apara^ cquired for ejtoayaiiqns, together wirti lira* and photographic chemicals. Mr. ton will superintend the work. vrrrst na frovi truce, that the Injuries U? n ;rr? "C ?h- err"??w> -o?T" ?,*?M y n'tw. Ynme, trpty, 1 JOHK 1-. tOUNO, FrewJeiU