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^ gHHBgaggffr,F*^M**M^,ff*MaggBBgB!gBg8ggeggggMgg,BBegggBBaBBBiggBg=g ?Me*"g Ba?gBggBBe?3BBMBBBBHaMBggBB^gaMMBaBg^MB^^ THE CAROLINA SPARTAN. ? - ?m -y . . y ? ~ ' 1- - " ' *'- -" ' " " . .^ m i .. i . 11 ~T by cavis & tr1mmieb. Dorolrfr to* Southern ftigljts, Politics, Agriculture, arti iitisccllauxj. $2 per akotm. 5 _ V "j 1 i. ' 1 * * ' ' * " " ' ' 1 - ? - . ? ... - -- ~ - "~" - - ' * '...?? 1 . . .1. " j VOL. XIV. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 1857. NO 6. THE CAROLINA SPARTAN, ]J BY CAVIS <fe TRIMMLER. ' . T- 0. P. VERNON, Associate Editor. 1 | Prie* Two Dulum per nunum in advance, or r $2 .50 nt the end of the year. If not puid until after the year expire* $3.00. * { Payment will be considered in advance if made ' within three month*. f No subscription taken for lea* than aix month*. 8 ,\i>noy may be remitted through postinatlcr* at f our riak. Advertisement* inserted nt the usual rates, and j contract* made on reasonable terms. I The SrtaTAN circulate* largely over this and a ljo nlni district*, and offer* an ndmiriiblemedinm | to our friend* to reach cu*ll|niere. ( Job work of all kind* promptly cxccnted. | Blank*. Law and Equity, continually ou hand c I or prin *d to order. 8 > CAROL Iff A SPARTAN, THE THREE NUMBERS. [! [cosicluukdJ a An aged lady one day presented herself n At the Cafe Loupian, Hiid asked for the pro- n prietor, to wlioin she confided thai her r family was deeply indebted for eminent p services to a poor in in ruined by the events r? of 1814, but so disinterested that lie would P receive no recompense, and only wished to <1 /" enter nsgarcon into an establishment where ?' he would be kindly treated. I lis name, i> she said, was lVo^pero. lie was no longer young, and seemed some fifty years old; tc and if M. Loupian woo d lake liiin, situ ei would give to his master one hundred hi francs a month without the knowledge of h! the gurcon. {1 Loupian accepted the offer. Shortly nf- N lerwards a sufficiently ugly and ill dressed tuan presented himself. Madame Loupian hi ^ looked hard at him, and it seemed to her I' for an instant that she had seen this man st somewhere before; but upon looking again I" sht could recall no remembrance, and, bo- ?',i sied with her affairs, soon foigol the niu- ci tuentaiy impression. h The two natives of Xismes regularly fro " queuled this cafe. Oue day one of them f'1 did not make his apiainruuce, and jokes h passeJ at !,is absence. Tlie next day caine ' k and passed, still ho came not. Where 1'I could he l?ef What could he l?e doing? cl " Gut'.'hec*Solari undertook to find out ti e ?l cause of his absence. Uiiilhent returned to * the cafe about nine- o'clock in the evening. h ^ pale as death, and could scarcely find words h to relate that, on the Pont Ues Arts, at five ' f o'clock oif V?tb previous nioroing, the body M of the unfortunate Gervais Cbnubard bad ? Loeti found, pierced l?y a poniard. The C! weapon lemaiuod in the wound, and on the H handle were engraved the words?Ncmiiek lr One. ii Conjectures were abundant enough; but 81 till all was conjectuie. The police moved u heaven and earth, but the guilty jKjrsoii h contrived to evade all tlmir investigations. ) Some time after the shocking event, a pointer, a superb dog. belonging to the propric ri tor ol the cafe, was poixmed, and a young w waiter declared tiiat lie had seen a cit-io *1 iner throw biscuits to the poor beast. This " young man ??v? a description of the su* " pectol cU'toinei, ivho piovod to he Lotipi Hit's enemy, and who, to annoy him. was a in the habit of coining to (he cafe, wliuia Loupian was, in a degree, under the cuslo- ' iner'a coininaud. An action was l> ought against the malicious customer, but he sal ^ isfaclorily proved his innocence by an alibi. !t lie was a supernumerary courier, employed 11 by the post olHee, and oil the d??y in "pies l' lion was proved to he at Strasburg. A 11 ^ fortnight afturwatds Madame Loupii.n's favorite parrakeet wont tho way of the poor " dog: lite bird had been poisoned by bitter xv almonds and parsley. Naturally enough. ei searching inquiry was recommenced; but without result. 11 Loupian, by his former mar tinge, had a ^ daughter, in whose eyes shone Iter sixteenth summer, and who was beautiful as an angel. ^ A dashing personage saw and loved, and expended oxtravagaul sums to gain to his interest the waiter of the cafe and the charming girl's bonne, lly these means he 1 obtained several interviews with the lieuuty, i and tho generous gallant ho well plied his suit that the young lady, before she was ! ?' aware, lounu herself in the way of becoming a mother beforo she wan a wife. Sink 11 ^ ing witli shame, she vel had the good seme to avow to her pat en la the situation in ' s'' which she found herself by listening to the winning tongue of one whom she represented as a marquis and a millionaire. Iter pa " rents were in despair at first, but they look " heart, sought, and obtained an interview with monsieur, lie did not attempt to deny l>! the paternity; but, on tire contrary, ox,..ess- 1 ed his determination to marry their dntighter, not without acknowledging his wealth, lv showing his family tree, and the titles to ^c his estates. The joy and gratitude o( the ^ Loupi?n? may be imagined. The marriage 'l< took placo, ami the bridegroom, who nppeared anxious to reirair the mischief he H1 had done hy the splendor and puhlicily ot e> tlio Ceremony, ortlered fur the evening a ul magnificent repast of-one hundred and fifty covers at the Cudran-Bleu. i Pi At the hour appointed the guests wero ; It* assembled; but where was the marquis? ed Eavii regarded his neighbor with mule sur- , be prise?when a letter arrived. It announced tn that, in obedience to the commands of the 1 King, the rnaiquis liu<l repaired to tlio cha- l'| teau. lie apologized for hi* nh?enro, begged that tlie company would dine with- ' o;*? waiting for him, and informed tliein th that he would take hi* place beside his wife do at len o'clock. Accordingly they went to hit dinner, but without the amiable bridegroom, i w,i The biide did not look pleaded, though the to guest* felicitated her on the enviable pom. if 1 tion of her husband. The dinner was eat. tin en; and at the dessert a waiter plnced un- 1 ha der the plate of each guest a letter. All Or xpeoted an agreeable surprise. A surprise th< they had. The letters informed them that W the husband was a convict escaped from tho galleys, and that he had fled. co Fancy the fiightfu! consternation of this lh< wretched family, ft appeared like a hide- thi ou? dream, nor could they realise the silua. tin Jon. Four days aflcr this heavy blow, they went to spend their Sunday in the country, with the view of mitigating their irief by change of scene and amusement. During their absence, an apartment immeJiately below the cafe was set on tire in tine several places. Under the pretence ol jiving assistance, a mob of wretches abso utely gutted the place. The flames raged, md ceased not till the whole house was conxinierl. Loupian was completely ruined ? ill his money, credits, and furniture were lestroyed or stolen, and nothing remained rut a small property belonging to his wife. Trite, but most true, is the saying, llinl nosperity makes friends and adversity irios hem. The Lonpians were not long in disorering the quality of those who had worn to them eternal friendship. All their riends abandoned them: one alone wss rund faithful among the faithless?the old miter, Prospere. lie would not quit them: e declared that, as lie had abated in their rospeiity, ho would participate in their dversity. lie was admired and lauded as rare example of fidelity and goodness. A ew but very mode>t cafe was established, lie St. Antoine. Thither Solari still reaired. One evening he was seized, on his turn home, with excruciating pains. A hysician was sent for. lie declared that ie patient was poisoned; and, not withstand tg every effort, the unfotinnate man died t terrible convulsions. Twelve hours afterwards, when, according > custom, tho bier was exposed under the it ranee of the house where Solari had idged. a paper was found attached to the lack rnort cloth that covered the coflin. 'a this paper were inscribed the words? UMUER Two. Besides the daughter, whose destiny had i>en so unfortunate, Loupian had a son. his youth, beset by men of bad character, ruggled at first against their temptations; at the allurements of abandoned women id what the unaided example of the vious of the other sex had failed to do, and c gave himself up to debauchery. One ighl his companions proposed a frolic: the in was to consist in breaking into a ijuor store, carrying otf a dozen bottles, rinking the contents, and paying next day. ugeut Loupian, already hall iutoxicnted, apped his hands at this proposal. The door f the store was priori open, tho bottles ere chosen, and each of the iropetul band ad pocketed two, when tho police, who ad received information from a traitor in ie camp, pounced upon the six culprits, ho were tried, and the ruinous sentence warded by the laws for vol Je nuit avec fraction was pronounced upon them. v ?\ iii jmy snveti tuo in t-guided young man out the infamy of the galleys, in spite of llie credible efforts ami interest made l>y jiue unseen enemy to tarn aside tlie elem* acy of 1110 sovereign; but Loupian's sou ad to undergo an imprisonment of twenty eats. This catastrophe nil bat completed the tin and disaster of the Loupian*. The ite, site who had been the cynosure of tlie nailer jts la I, lie et riche Maiyuer.lc, died I grief and without children. The lenmins I the fortune which she had brought pass1 front her husband's family, and Loupian ml his daughter remained without any re nticcs. Then the honest waiter, who had is savings, came forward and offered litem ? the young woman ? but at what price? office it t?> say, that the wretched daugh?r, sunk in the extremity of misery, and i tlie hope of saving her father, accepted te shameful conditions, and became the tisiress of l'rospero. Loupian could hardly bo said to exist, [is misfortunes had shaken his reason, lie andered about sad and solitary. One retting, while he was walking a sombre Hey in the garden of the Tuileries, a man i a mask suddenly presented himself boire the distracted wanderer. 'Loupian," said he, "dost thou retuemer 1807?' "Why!" "Km?west thou the crimo which thou al*t then commit?" "A crime!" "An infamous crime! Out of envy, tliou ?lst comi^n thy friend 1'icHiid to a duutun. Ditsi thou remember?*' "Ah, God has severely punished me for "Not so?hut Picnud himself! lie, to ite his revenge, stabbed Chaoburd 011 the out ?les Arts. He poisoned Solati. lie ive tliy daughter a convict for n husband, c laid the snare into which thy son lei I. is hand e?en condescended to destroy the >g of which tliou wwt so fond, and the irrakeot on which thv wife doaled. IIi? 1 lid set fire to thy house. lie summoned ie robbers to the spoil. He caused thy ife to die of g?'"f, and thy daughter is his incuhine. Yo>! in thy servant I'rospere now 1'icHud; but only at llie rnomonl when ? plants hi* Nt'moeii Tiiiike!" Willi tlie last word* came a stah, so well med at the heart of the victim, and duv1 so home, that Loupian had only time to tcr a feeble cry before he fell dead. [|i IJ ltl.il 11.* fS ? - I- ' - I ...... ..*?? <tv? WI vuiiKrnuvo iii'CUIIIJHIMICd| ieaud turned to lave tlie garden, when a md of iron, seizing him l?y the nock, hurlliiin to the earth beside llio corpse, and fore lie could recover from hi* surprise, a an bound him hand and foot, gagged in completely, and then, wrapping him i in his own cloak, carried liiin hurriedly lav. The tnge, the astonishment of Picaud, us gagged and borne along on the shoub J rs of a giai.t, as his carrier seemed to in, may be imagined. Onwards, still on- j irds. Suielv lie could not have fallen in- j the power of the police. A gendarme, lie had been alone, would not have taken so extraordinary precautions, even if he d suspected that accomplices were near, i 10 summons would have sufficed to hring ft sentinels in the neighborhood to his aid. as it, then, a robber who thus bore him 'ayI But what a singular robber!?it uld hardly be a piece of pleasantry. These oughts passed rapidly and doubtfully rough the perturbed mind of Picaud; but s only conclusion tbst the assassin could poorer I make myself to ho, tho sooner c> shall I get out of this hole. No one knows what 1 possess. I will feign to l>o on iho h verge of mendicity?ho will let mo go for1 ai a few crowns?and, once out of his hands, it will not bo long heforo he falls into mine!" if AHut, who had watched him with the 11 eyo of n basilisk?an eye that, ns it glitter- w cd malignantly, seemed to divino what was tc passing in tho miser's mind, now slowly ad- h vanced towards him, removed the gag, and a| again roslored his inouth to liberty. j ri "Where am II" said ho. w j *' What is that to thee? Thou art in a : P plare where tbou niayat look io va?n for' u ED THE MAN WHO CHEATED ME. I tied witll II Illy wife. She died in exile, and I?I \vu? g arrested, judged?110 mailer fur ?lmt?nu>l l condemned to the galley*. 1 underwent o exposure, the scourge, and the brand. 1 j ii know the weight ut the chain and the hul Ii let. At la*t having escaped in my turn, it ti was my will to find and punish this Abbe <j Ihildini, who so well linds and punishes c Others. I hastened to Naples. He was 1 not known there. 1 sought for the tomb c< of I'tcHud, and I learned that Picatid lived. llow did 1 know this? Neither thou nor it the l'opo shall force that secret from me. v< Immediately I set forth in pursuit of this ei pretended corpse; hut when I had found | h him, two assassinations had already signal i ii i/ed his vengeance. The children of Lou- ! si i piati were ruined; his hotl.se hurtled; his o fortune destroyed. This very eieuing I was t< going to that unfortunate to tell him all; j tl but again thou hast been beforehand with me. The demon gave thee the precedence, | p and Loupinn had fallen under thy blow he- M fore (iod, who conducted me, permitted :ne | ? to snatcli thy la?t victim from death. What j < does it signify after all? I have tiiee! In c, my turn 1 can render unto thee the evil I n lliou hast done unto me. 1 have been able Cl to prove to thee that the men of our court- i j, try have as good a ins as they have tuemo- ^ ries. I am Astoine AllutI i ? r?: i -- ? a imuu miswereu not. Jio toolc a deep 0] breath, ma if for tlio purpose of racing an ol outcry; bill if lie had any such intention it fr was immediately frustrated by Allut, who |, again gagged him. As ho lay, strange p, thoughts pus>cd through his soul. Sustiaii 'w ed up to this inomont by the intoxication |u of vengeance, he had in a great degree for gotten his immense fortune, and all the (l pleasures it would command. Hut his ro venge was now fed full; now it was lime |? to think of living the life of the rich; and now he had fallen into the hands of a j' man as implacable as himself. These re ? (lections shot through his brain with the j, rapidity of a galvanic spark; and in an |, agony of rage, lie convulsively bit the gag p, which Aiiluiue bad replaced. c.| ' Nevertheless," thought he, "rich its i am, cannot I with fair words, ami in any |, case by making a leal sacrifice, get rid *?f 0J my enemy. 1 have given inote lliau one bundled tliousand francs to learn the |, names of my victims; cannot I give as { p much, or twice as much, to oscape from the | r, peril in which I urn?" f, Hut IIe to whom vengeance helongelli j permitted (he thick inist of avarice to oh- tr | scuro the brightness of this thought. The |? jHissesscr of sixteen millions at least, shrank j from giving up the sum wh eh might bo ir demniided. Tiie love of gold, omnipotent c| in bis miserly soul, stifletl even the lovo of ,, life and the voice of the flesh, which cried |, for ransom at any price. Hold became hi* j, flesh, bis blood, his wholo existence. ni "fill" lllOlliftil lin lit Itifi fi/t/>rril tAtil rl Hi last satisfactorily realize was, that lie hail li i been WAtched, and had fallen into an am- I, bush. v When the man upon whose shoulders lie was thus borne stopped, Picaud calculated ? that his bearer had walked rapidly nearly v half hp. hour. Enveloped in the cloak, lie li himself had seen none of the places on his e route. When he was Treed Irom his wrap I per and the gag, he found himself laid on a t truckle bed. The air was thick, and heavy. ? and stagnant, as if from long confinement; c and as he cast his hah-ful eyes feaifuliv t round lie perceived that he was in a cav- s em, belonging apparently loan abandoned v quarry or mine. It was furnished in some ? sort; there was a stove, he snioke of which e found its way upwards through some cran- v nies; an iron lamp threw n fitful and mel t ancholy gleam around, and its lurid light fell full upon a figure standingerect and with 1 folded arms in front of Piraud. It was the f> man who had brought him tlieie. The murky state of the place, the agita tion which shook the body and soul of Pi cand, the change which ten years of misery and despair biing upon tlie human face, forbad the assassin of Lonpian to recognise the individual who appeared to him like a si phantom. He examined with fascinated state and in fearful silence the withering features and flushing eyes that glared upon l' h>m, waiting in agonizing expectation for a a word?one word? that might tell him Ins h fate. Ten minutes (which seemed to Pi- p caud hours) passed heforo either of these men exenangeU 11 *yllal>le. ' ' Well, PicnuJ,'1 said the oilier, "what s< name wouhl you prefer now? Shall it be that which you received from your father, a or that which you took when you were let out of Fcnetlrclle?will you bo tho Abbe I Baldini, or the waiter l'rorpercf Or, will ' ti your ingenuity furnish a fifth? To thee, I vengeance doubtless is niero sport, lbit It no; thou shrinkest. Ay, dost thou begin to . perceive that thou hast given thyself up to ! E a furious mania, at which thou?thou thy- *i self?wouldst have shuddered, if thou hadst 1 not sold thyself to the demon? Ay, thou It a't right?thou hast sacrificed tho last ten years of thy life in pursuing three wretched d men whom thou mighlest havo spared, a Thou canst shudder now. Thou hast com- t' milled horrible?most horrible?crimes. Tliau art lost forever?and thou bast drag- n ged me into the abyss!" "Thee? thee! Who art thou!" tl "1 am they accomplice?a wie'ch \tlin, fi for gold, sold to thee the life of my friends, ft Thy gold bath been fatal to me. The cu a pidity lighted up by thee in my soul lias U never been extinguished. The thirst of riches inado me furious and guilty. I kill- tl lelp or mercy. Thou art mine?mine ony, undemtHii Jest thou? and the slave of my ! fill and my capiice.n i Picaud smiled disdainfully, bul iii* friend aid no more, lie leflliiinon the mattress vliere lie had laid him. without untying I iim. Picaud remained silent, but he writh- i d so as nearly to break the cords which I >ouud him. Allot, without a word, walked ( 11> to him, passed round his loins a wide l ad thick iron bell, and fixed it by three i bains to three massive rings diiven into > lie wall. This done, he sal down to his upper of chicken in savory jelly, cold l en I, and a lJayonne ham,an Krles sausage, I , loaf of the whitest bread, a piece ofGtuy- i reclieese, and a largo tlask of Chambcrtiu, I diicli. when the cork was drawn, peifumed iie cavern. i Allut went on leisure.y eating; and as | 'icaud found that he offered him nothing | oil) the well spread table? i "1 am hungry," said Ptcatid. I "What wilt lliou pay for the bread and l rater that I shall give thee!" i "I hitvo no inoiie)." i "Thou hast sixteen millions." 'Thou di earnest," ciied Picaud, with a i Itudder. "And thou?dream that thou eatcst." } Allut quietly finished his supper, lie | en ro?e and departed, nor did ho return , II 111, r 11 f A IhmiI 7 oVI.m-L* iti ?I... ~ O i I u again entered, and prepared a most up ' | cluing breakfast. j ( 'J ho sight ami smell of the food redoubled i l'icaud the tortures of hunger. "(Jive me , nnething to vat," cried lie. I "What wilt thou pay me for the bread j nd water that I shall give thee?" i "Nothing." I "Very well! We shall see who will be | red first.'' A11 nt sat down and deliberately finished I | is breakfast, lie then rose and went out. I | At three in the afternoon he returned. : , light and twenty hours had now passed 1 , uce l'icaud had taken any nourishment, j le implored his goaler for mercy, and of- | sred hi in twenty sons for a pound of bread, i . "Listen,"' said Allut, "these are my con- ' j ition*. 1 will g ve thee two meals a day, . nd thou shall pay mo for each five-audiventy thousand fiancs." I l'icaud howled and wiithed upon his lutlress; the other remained impassible. , "That is my last word. Choose?take | ly time. Thou luulst no tucrcy for thy , rietul*; and it is my will to have tio pity ; lr thee." And again lie sit at meat; and , gain, when lie had finished, he rose and | It the cavern. < The wretched prisoner passed the rest of ie day and the folbiwing night in the ago ies of hiinget and despair. His moral unuisli was complete; in his heart was hell. lii a lie Ilia I ?I till |'tl\%il.?%l Ml tie I III word ?? verwhelming that lie was seized by tetanus \ i its most spasmodic lorui. Sixui afterwards j is reason was aflecled; and the rav of in- > -lie t that animated his brain wa-. all but i , ili-nched under the title ol extreme and itiiiendiiit; passions ami bodily suflerinj. : Imnaii organization can only suppoit a i-itain amount of torture; ami the pitiless Jim, when lie returned <>n the following , lolllllur soon ilwi'iifuru.! 1I..0 I. ^ I... I ..... I. o- - * "" I'"-""' i I ! his torments beyond the power of man's 1 inluiance. The f'oriti thai lay before him j ail become an inert machine,still sensible, ; nleeil, of bodily pain, hut incapable of re- | sting or even of averting it. lie saw at nee that l'icaud was too far gone for him > hope to extract a reasonable word from j ie exhausted sufferer. I Despair now seized A lint in his turn, 'icaud would die without affording any I eai.s by w bich iiis goaler could appropri to the immense fortune of his victim, j i lung to the veiy soul, Allot lost ail self , | rimiiand. llis b'east ami head resounded j illi thu repeated blows of his own clench , < J hand, and in his ii?. ny lie was on the I i int of dashing his skull against lite rug . ed sides of tlio cavern, when he perceived, r thought lie perceived, a diabolical smile 11 the in id face of l'icaud, and a glance at i iico malignant and triumphant darling < oin his glazing eye. Turning his rage on is prisoner, lie indied on him like a wild east, n??r quilled his prey till he left? hat had been a man, but was noiv a life- j iss mangled mass. The murderer then went forth into the inikv night. i Not long afterwards ho passed into Kngn.d. Tlieie lie lived in ob-eurity and po??r ', and there a nioital tickness seized him in 82S. lie felt that the hand of death was pun him, and sent for a Roman Catholic riest. Awakened by the exhortations of is spiritual advisor to a sense of lii? Condi* ( on, ho confessed to tlio horror-stricken ec- | I'sinsiic his dreadful ciiiiiu*. the details of I Inch lie dictated; qnd when the fiighiful ?,|> niuifii, Mglieil II III 1 lie llllll ??I , icli page, mid died reconciled with G?>d, ; :cording to the rite* of hi* religion. After in dentil, the Alil'C 1' foi warded to nris tlio ilocn.in-lit wherein I lie facts narited were recorded, accompanied by I lie i .Mowing letter: j "Monsiki/h lb Prefet: 1 have the honor i send you the narrhtive of a great hut re- ; piitant criminal, ilo thought, and 1 greed with him in that thought, that it I light he useful to you to know the series f abominable acts of which this wretched i.in was cognisant, ami in many ot which 0 was both agent and patient. By fol oving the indications furnished by the an- ' exed plan, the anhterrace >ti cavern where , ie remains of the miserable and guilty IV J Old lie mouldering may be found. "Go.1 pardons. Men in their piide and strcd pardon not: they seek vengeance, nd vengeance crusho* them. "Antoine Allul declared that he a- tight 1 vain for unv instrument, voucher, or leinorandum whic'i might bo produced here tho funds of his last victim wore said > be placed. Bufoio lie left I'aiis, lie said e penetrated by night into (ho secret i part men ts of Picaud; hut found neither j agister, title, nor document. Below you ' ill find tho description and locality of the j aris two lodgings which Picaud occupied at nder foignH names, a* stated by Alhit. |' 1^??????? "Even on the bed of dentil, and with the full knowledge dial he never should quit il alive, Autoine Ailut, notwithstanding my urgent entreaties, would not tell me by what means he obtained information of t those facts in liis narrative of which he was ^ not personally cognizant, or who had told liim of the crimes mid fortune of Picaud. j Only one hour before his death he said to me? Jlon J'ere. no man's faith can be ? inoie lively than mine, for I have seen and poken wiih a soul separated fiotn its body.* "When he said this, there was nothing . to indicate that he was sutfering under do lirium. lie appeared to be simply making qc a confession of his faith, and to ho in the full possession of his mental faculties." The letter terminated with a few words improving the occasion, and the usual com[diluents; but it was said that the sagaciou|irefet, nlbeit a suHicierilly giaxl Catholic, hopped a few words significative of his thought that Allut might have picked up ?f die stirring events that marked Picaud s of misfortunes and crimes without the aid of kn it disembodied spirit. ?.i.? im Correspondence New York Daily News. ni< Washington, March U*.? A new and lingular enterprise is now nbout to be ilii- J< lialed. It is the publication in I.ondou of Pn t Southern Stale lhghts Journal, devoted ll' lo the cotton and pro slavery interests. Il lias already received the countenance of u cat many subscribers in the South, and will in a very few mouths issue its first number. It is proposed to publish it week rei ly, Hiid to furnish il to subscribers at *10 per annum, which amount is to cov?r all GIj die expenses of foreign and domestic pus- ' lage. A Mr. Slocum, of Mississippi, is the founder of this enterprise, and it said that . ^ Prof. Diinitrv, of Louisiana, now the trans- * ' lalor at the Siato Department, a man of m< line intellect, wlio wields a forcible quill and peaks six ditfeient languages, is to be its cGI ?ui id i tor. This paper is to place the South upon a ur pioper footing abroad, promote direct trade, and not the least of its purposes is to wield a j ^ powerful influence in this country. Il is .^. argued by its tiiends that its position in ' Loudon will cause for it n general circulalion in all parts of the United Stales, so that , when it speaks it will speak lo the whole ^ country. Thus Soutlietn views will become ^ dioroiiglv disseminated, which is not the rase now. The general circulation of all "J.' Southern journals being purely local, the idled of their most able articles is limited lo the immediate bailiwick of '.he publica- ,n 4 he lion. u is quite evident that the ?*outli ts making quiet but slea !y strides to appreciate ^ [lie value of its interests, and make cotton ^ to be fell even more thoroughly king (as .Mr. Wise v.??llo ii) ihnti il now is. At the i.ist session an appropriation was made to pay for an agent of the Department of the i * Interior to go abroad with reference to the I v%! cotton interests. It is understood that the | lion. J. ! '. II Clailrorne, a distinguished KvM C. from Mississippi, is to receive the * :?pp<>intinent. The etiect of this mission will be the communication of some facts to aur Government winch will lead to tlio pro motion of the cotton interests by ameiid s , I I ineuts to treaties with Ku'opean States, which, while they pretend to class us ul' tiiioag the most favored nations, do not at _ least with reference to the interest of our j Southern brethren do so. Another fealuio in this "Cotton King" i " idea, u the appointment of Mr. C. G. Hay- I L lor as our Consul at the great in itiufaclu- j ring town of Manchester, in Kugl.md. lie e.' lias been eng*gs*d for years in writing and j ^ s caking to the South as ?o her true course u( policy with refcrcnco to her vast and ' power! til resources. lie was strongly I pressed for the appointment which he in- ! L'eived hy the entire South, and it is t>ur mised that his energy and talent w ill obtain n sullicieiit leverHgu (r?mi those Stale* f->r i which lie has hc-tat Wattling So long, to c-lia | Al b!e liiin to consummate some of his favor- Ni lie plans for promoting the general welfare ! in* of thai section of ilie country. I am thorough!y coiiviiice<l that as soon pa us tlio disposition of patronage is concluded, | 11 the Administration will turn its attention ' to a plan for the Jieacoful acquisition of Cu. m ha. Ilie tiisl step will he to appoint a new G< and skilful Ministei al I'arisami one at Ma ! Ci iliid. The Admit islralion apprehend hut I hlile douhl hut what it will he aide to con- ' N siiiuinato that object la-fore its close. Li Tue Biule.?Hebrew?or old Samaritan ' h* ?is the language in which the Old Testa- I vo ? ? incut was mostly written. This was trans- al crihed hv lC/aa, after the Babylonian cap livity, into Chaldaic or modern Hebrew. i lie S.mi nitaii (Aramnoon) Pentateuch was ro a version made before the schism between Jews and Samaritans, and is of vast value. ln The LXX (Sepiuaginl) version was made P' hy the Jews in Alexandria Greek and i? the tn language m which the New Testament was written, for it was the language he*t under- 80 stood, being used throughout tho Roman |)fl empire. It is in the Macedonian dialect, 1,1 and abounding with IJebiewism, which shows it to have been written by men of ce Hebrew oiigin. Ilie charge of the Holy cv Set ipi tires was intrusted to the "Great Svna- r" gogue," w hich consisted of one hundred and i ,a I 1 twenty elders, who continued in tegular succession from tho time of Kzra until Si nion (lie Jual, 15. C. 201. Sanhedrim Was J it council ?>f seventy, hihI it president who \ conducted the aOair* of the nation. Sy11:t to goguo* were places of worship, wlieio n pre?cibod liturgy und regular lessons wore used. It is said Ezra distributed three hun- J died copies of tho law for their use. Our ,C| Saviour constantly attended thorn, and, at (he commencement of his ministry, read ! from the appointed Season. j ,tf ?_ j ro An exchange, in puffing a soap, says it is the "best ever u?ed for cleaning a dirty man's face. Wo have tried it, therofore we know." This is hardly as pointed as tho ^ hit of Dean Swift's "Stolla," who, whsn a gentleman lamented his inability to keep clean hit finger-nails, luiioely siioge-*ted, "Ho is in the habit of scratching himself ") ^ Revolutionary Incident. The following letter from an Ex-Govern< Virginia, to a Mend in lhi? place, giv minute and authentic account of ll nail of the Volunteers for King's Mou n through the high range of mounlnii ill Watauga to Catawba. Tiftlilion h retofore been somewhat ob-cure in r rd to the exact particulars of this mate the region continues to this day alino lirely uninhabited, as indeed it is near, inhabilnble. We understand that a pa of gentlemen propose to make an excu 11 to the North Carolina mountains i lober, and pic nic ou the whole line ircli, making a survey of the line, an ling its topography, its vegetable an ological character.?South Carolinian. Montcalm, nkar Abingdon, Viroini Maich 10, 186 My Dear Sir: The day you spent pa with u*, in conversation about the ball King's Mountain, you nsked me if ew the route taken by the volunteers ui r Col. William Campbell, from theSyc ire shoals or flats on Watauga, aerosol! lUiitaitis into South Carolina, in pursu Ferguson. I told you 1 had a stalemei awing the route, somewhere among ir pers. Since you were here I have fout It was copied by myself from a man ipt journal kept by Ensigu Kobe iiupbclt, and is as follows: In the expedition to King's Mounta I. Campbell, Col. Shelby and Col. Sevi idezvouscd at the Sycamore flats, on VV l;h, at the foot of the Yellow Mounta! the 25lh of September, 178U. Ne y they ascended the mountain, most horseback, encamped at night ii gap of the mountain on the opposi |e. The ascent over this part of tl MinUlin was not very difficult. The is a road, but not one on which wago liId pass. No provisions were taken h -h as each man could carry in Irs wall saddle bags. The sides and top of tl Minlain wore covered with snow tho juth deep. On the top of the mounta are was about one hundred acres of bea ill table land, in which a spring issue i through it, and over into the Watug ?re the volunteers paraded. On reachii a plain beyond the mountain, they font emselves in a country covered with v< re and breathed an atmosphere of sin ?r mildness. The recond night (the nig the 27th) they rested ou Cuthay's pU .ion. The thud d?v fth? 2fitM iln??? r. -j \? / with Gen. McDowell, and ihnt nig Id n consultation of the officers. T in. was without troops?yet his rank at liter services could not easily be ovi >ked. It was staled in the council th ey needed an experienced officer to coi and them. Morgan was the man th tilled, and to obviate all difficulties, Gc l-DowoII offered to be the bearer of tin dies to Gen. Gates. The fourth nig le 29lh) they rested at a rich tory's, whe ey obtained abundance of every neceasa 'reshtneiil. Oil the fifth day (the 30l ev reached the Catawba, and were the ned bv Col. Cleveland. Here they di tclied Gen. McDowell to Gen. Gates. This is as far as I copied from Col. Ru I Campbell's manuscript. I have, howe , this fuither ineinoranduin: The battle was fought on Saturday, tl ti of Oct'.her. On the next Saturday II rt maitial was held for the trial of c< in piisoners charged with various offe I. I have no account of the movement* ch day ot the forces after the 30lh ptember up to the T th of October, furlli an what is stated in the otlicial accoui Mo:?l trulv, your friend, DAVID CAMPBELL. st of Ojfictrs in command of Col. Cam bell's Regiment: Mijcr?William Edinondson. Captain??James Dysart, Robert Crai lid lew Col v ill, David Ilea tie, Willia eil, Andrew lldmoiidsou, William E ondson. Lieutenants commanding parts of Co\ ii......... \v:n:? 'n ' ??? MUUCII, I I i I it Ml UU^i(: IOIIIHA McCullocll. Lieutenant* ? Samuel Newell, Robert E nnd.son, William Wdloftghhy, Anilri >|V, Kobcit Elmondson, 2d., Willia ahtree. Entign*?Robt. Campbell, James Con nthaniei Dryden, 11 umbersou Lyon, Jan tird, Nathaniel Gnirt. 1 have found difHcuIly in foiminer l t of iho^ti in command, an many uffie* luntecreJ as privates. I believe t iove is correct. Tub Scaulet Fever.?The follow! ntedy for lite scarlet fever is recommer by Dr. LiiuUley, of Washington, as t alinent which has been resented to wi eat success by l)r. Schuceman, a phj in to the King of Hanover: 'From the first day of the illness, and on as we are certain of its nature, t ilient must be rubbed morning and ev< g, ovor tho whole body, with a piece icon, in such a manner that, with the < plion of the head, a covering of fat orywliere applied. In order to make t hbing in soinewhnl ea-ier, it is best ko a piece of hacon the size of the bat at we may have a firm grasp. On t ft side of this piece slits are to he nu order to allow the oozing out of the I ...i.u:--. . > - -i io ikuuiiik mini yr iiiorougn, ami t o quickly, in order lltat llto akin m iv gtilatly saturated with the fat. The h> icial result* of the application nre m ivinu* ; with a rapidity bordering on nt , all, even the in?>*t painful symptom* e disease, are allayed, quiet sleep, g? iimor, and the appetite return, and lh mains only the impatience toquii the* otn." An Englifth paper ?Ute* III at aUteinn id facetious are the only two words in nglidt language wlicein the live vow How each other in their proper oider. Wo oinveree with lh me we I ?ve thron >werr, with iboee w? worship through are. Historical Evidences of thk Acthekor ticitv or the btblk Record.?The Paris es correspondent of lite Journal of Cuinmerco thus alludes lo lite discoveries made by Sir n_ Henry R**liu*on in Assyria, confirmatory ||# of llie truth of the Bible record ; ||8 "Among the recent public lectures in ^ Loudon you may be struck with that of Sir ^ Henry Rawliuson, on the late Oriental disM' coveries in relation to the Bible. It occu* I* pied nearly an hour and a half. Sir Hen~ ry expatiated on some uf the most iinpor* tant results of his discoveries in Assyiia, li( constituting a verification of scripture histo* t)( ry; he illustrated his topic by numerous j drawings and models tnken from the sculpj tures now iu the British Museum. lis could educe, by ubundatil coincidence, tire authenticity of the Holy Writ. The earli est period lo which tire inscriptions he found rcferied, was about 2000 year before Christ, it The whole country of Assyria had been ' * excavated in the course of his researches; a I multitude of inscriptions had been decipher* ?-d, and in many instances they c< ninned, in the minutest details, the pages of scrip ? ture, and explained passages which had "t hitherto been obscure. The instances which m he cited leein with instruction and force; >)' the interpretation or derivation of names in 'd particular. The earliest connection of lire u Chaldees and Indians and the Babylonian rl mythology, the ethnology and geography of the Assyrians, the historical records, all ln are illustrated ; in every case there is an entire agreement with the Bible. The leCi * tun r inferred from his studies that the book "? of Job belonged to a time about <00 before Chrift. In the inscriptions there is a peri* J>' od of nearly a tho sand years without mention uf Judea, but during tbal period there was no nulucement for intercourse ire between the Assyrian* and the Jew. The r? vivit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon was |lS verified. So the wars between Sennacl" hot id and llezekiah. There were fonr disci tinct captivites of the Jews. Some inscrip* lit lions rrft'rrwl In rim iiin? ?/ VuKn?l.l.?.l?*? *-' z ir; others threw light on the existence and n actions of Delslutzznr, who was joint king 11 with his father Minus, and who shut him('? self up in Ninevnh. it, ig Tub End or tub Would.?While poll* id tics and many other lies agitato the Euro* ?r- pcan wot Id at large, a new thetne has been n- revived, very injurious to the nerves of hi timid folks, old ladies and young chddren I) generally. It has re started ill Faris, and ell sounds very much like a scientific dosire to ht see our world knocked into "pi." he Thus we tiud at present in l'atis the rid question is of quite other things than revo* sr lutioii on the abuses of the ancient regime. iat Many people are firruly couvrnced that the n prophecy of l)r. Gumming is about to ey be realized. Oae knows that Dr. Cam* rn. riling Las irrevcoubly fixed the year 1857 Mr for the end of lite world. For two years lit this dark prophecy of the Scotch Dr. has ire been nearly forgotten, but the astronomers ry are making every etlort to revive the clos* h) nig terrors. They announce the journey ire of a giddy comet with great velocity, which ;s- is coining to dash its head or tail against our globe with lire intention ot reducing it b- to powder. It is on the 13lh of Juno the v- shock is to lake place, and this date, the 13th, does not cotmibiite little in lerrifjing he the imagination of the weak. A' learned a member of the Institution, M. Babiuet, who jr- is familiar Willi ail the heavenly bodies, does n- not deny the vagabondy courso of the comj el in question; he declares or. the contrary of that it is on its way, but the voyage will bo of made without accident. In ca>e, he says, ier that the comet strikes the globe, the shock lit. produced on the world we inhabit will be like a fillip oil the back of an elephant. A I learned German, who ron^id^r* liimaoif p. mucli wiser than M. liabitict, pretends iliac he will see himself greatly deceived; that the comet is eiiurmou*, anil of such foice I thai 11 will precipitate the world into im? jj' meusiiy, like a l>nlh>on falling from the j inoon. Which me we to believe, llio learn? ed Geiman or the learned Frenchman) >n,|] Literal IsTEiiruErAUos,? Many di? ' vine* of the present day, we will say the jj. most ot them, have been driven by the dc)W velepmcnu which science i* making, to ac? lin knowledge that large portions of the Bible are not to be understood in a literal sense, rv particularly the live books written by Moses. The opinion lias hitherto been entertained I that our earth was literally created about six ),e thousand years ago, abou' which time also ,rs the heavens were created, including the jje stars and planetary systems, lire developments made by geology prove that the earth must have oxi>ted in some form hundreds ag of thousand* of year*. And how about the id. "heavens," including the fixed star*? Sirius, he or tho dog star, is 2.200,000,000,000 miles ith from the earth. A ray of light from Sirius, *i travelling nt the speed ol a cannon ball, would ieach the earth in 623,211 year*, as Vet it !i tno nr>;ir?-?t riv... ii?? Tl'? , y - M-vm "W.I A 41 in II A VI* ho s?iat must, theicfore, have l?een in exigence in- at least half a million* oi years. So also of must l!io sun, froin which it deiivn* its light, >x hare been in existence en equal length of is lime. Sinus could have had no rays oflight his to travel to the earth. The conclusion is to inevitable. The account of the creation in id, the liook of Genesis cannot therefore be inho tcrpieled literally. ? Boston Investigator. ide " r*1- Thk Law ov the Finorh Rtvo.?If a iot gentleman waul* a wife, he wears a ring ] ou hi* tirst finger of the left hand; if he i? en- , engaged, he 'rears it on the :.w:>:: ! finger; >on , if married, on the third ; and on the fourth, :IK if ho uover intend* to get mariied. When 1 a lady i* not engaged, alio wears a diamond ting 011 hor first finger ; if engaged, on tho *ru second; if married on the third ; and en the icfc : f turili if she intends to le a mail. When a gentleman presents a' fan, a flower or IH1S j trinket* t? a lady with tlie left hand, thi*, (| |4 >>ii hi* part, is an overture of regard ; should i ; she roccivo it with the left hind, it is coo; sidered h? an cceptance of b* eweem ; hut j if with her right hand, it is * refusal of tht gh j offer. Thus by a few siimle t"k?'U?, extho ! plaine?l by rule, tho passim of love is (p t prawed.