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by cavis & TXEfcMiEB, Droolffr to- dmtifytnt Eights, politic* ftgriciillur*, mtir ffligccUaxin. 82 pek ASitom. ^ ^ ^'.yOL. jfBfr. SPARTANBURG, S. ., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1857. ?" - ?=- ^ r* Ml GABOLINA SPARTAN. iifoivisj&jreiMMiEk L T-O.JP. VBMOH Auouate Bditor. Bf WetWo' Dautu pea ennein id ejvencc, o* B ?l l)>? end of tlit-year. If not paid autii I % l&J*"* the yoor expire $3.00. PL flppyweul wifT bo considered in ndtrauce if made jP I withfo three month*. " No^sbeeriptiou taken for tee* than nix months. flUosy may be.remitted through post mantel-* at 1 v .oar risk. ??* | Adrorttecniant* inserted at "the nsnal rates, and tboatracto winds on reasonable terms. L w Tits Spartan circulates largely orer this and [. ^ ^adjoining dimrtoUp.ottd offers an sdmiratlo median) to osr friend* to reach custom***, f ; *t -Job Work of nil kinds promptly oxecntcd. '?- | JBUnka, Lav* and Equity, continually on hand or l. printed to order. CAROLINA SPARTAN. : L ^ N 1. Italian Sketches. - " ; A lady writer of celebrity, who recently visited Florence, and thence journeyed, by Mfttf al arvni tn Duma rvtv/te no onmA inim<Ae t *v *?V|UWJ g" V?a U9 OV11IQ IIUV1 <731* jog. ahecdotea reUlivo lo those cxtfaordinary characters, the Italian brigands.. On one day, a place called Monta Varchi, where she and her companions had stopped to refresh themselves, they found kf the road leading through a dense and tan^ gled forest. But we will let our traveller toll her own story: We at length came to a clearing in the * middle of the oak forest, just liko a landV'scape by Qalvalor Rosa, far from comfortable in appearance. It was a kind of ainphitheatre, formed in the middle of what seemed to have been an old gravel-pit, half a mile perhaps in circumference. Tiro sides were high and rugged, wild goblin trees standing on the extreme points in an alarming manner, while below, tho low clifla were indented with various holes and nar^ T row apertures, admirably calculated for conccaimout, peeping out from the underwood "in a mysterious cliiar'oscuro, anything but reassuring. A long stone bridge occupied ? the bottom of this pass, ascending the op posite side of the amphitheatre. This illlooking locality was called Palazzaccio, and wan not wanting in its tales of brigands, being the favorite haunt of the well known Spadoiino. This man wjvs n sort of hero in his way, affisctivg to rob the rich in order lo assist ^ jig? poor?gaining by this reputation no cud of partisans among the peasants, whir ' invariably wink at all that sort of work. There was, il is said, a certain miller, who had long kneaded his loaves in peace, with t a large family rising around hint, until < hard times came: the stream was no longer ?jv Deeded to turn the ouoo merry wheel, starvation ohiuo upon him, he could not pay tiis rent, and was to be turned out of the place ho had looked upon as his home. " The miller, ill despair, sought the deep rc ewe* ni mis very wood, wandering up and i down its park-like glades, ami at last, rurIing himself on a rock, Ire burst out into ?igbs and groans witii true Italian furore. . XJlianco had led hiin Into tbo miinediute haunt of Spadolino, who, hearing a noise, suddenly appeared, no one know whence, M a truo brigand always should. Hut the uiiller, who hud uothing to lose, was bold with the confidence of utter poverty, and cored neither for his stiletto nor his gun, but ? wept on, and wrung his hands uuuiovcd. "What is the matter!" quolli Spadolino; "and, diavolo, why are you making such a noise in ray wood!" "Ah!" cried the miller, "I care neither for you nor the devil, who you may bo for aught 1 know. 1 am ruined and undone, unless by this time to-morrow I can prot : - . 1 uui^o Kinuvj ii uiciMcum 10 pay ray rent. Santa Maria! 1 have not a pualtriao, and we shall bo turned out of the country, mo and my poor children, to starve." And v with that ho buried his faco in his hands and wept louder than before. "Jjo you know me!" said Spadolino. "No," replied the miller; "hut 1 guess you are a brigand by your dress. 1Jut what is that to roe!" "Because," answered Spadolino, "if you know me you might expect help from me, for 1 have the powor to do that, and much more, if 1 please. When lias it ever been said that SpadoliRO lias refused to assist a , poor inan in distress! Amico mio, you I shall have llio money?my hand upon it." "Santa Maria!" cried the miller, starting . up and seiziug the brigand's iron fist, "is it t possible? Can this he true? Oh, angel of my life! Bavior of my family! Thanks? thanks." And down he tumbled on his knees and kissed Spadolino's feet. "Bo here," returned the latter, "by sun* j rise to morrow, and I jvill givo you the : money. Go homo and drink the health of | Spadolluo the Uriganti, the friend of tho poor and the terror of tho rich, and beware, in future, for ho may not again bo at hand ' f to assist you. Tho hell-hounds hunt me 1 sore, and 1 have often dream pt of late of the domos of Florence?a bad sign for mo, ' as I shall only see thom when my tiiue is ' come." That ovening a carriage was slopped 1 crossing the very bridge at tho bottom of 1 the pnw and a rich booty secured. Spadolino, as cruel to the rich as he was merciful ' to tho poor, deliberately cut tho throats of 1 the men it contained, and left the women ' in tho road mourning over their corpses. Women, lie told his hand, wero no subjects 1 for him, and he would neither injure nor insult them, nor carry them into the wood. 1 as tho younger among tho amiable brothren 1 suggested, As soon as the earlier' streaks of morning tinged the neighboring Apen- ( nines, the miller returned to the spot whero ( they liad mot the previous night, and found Spadolino some what pale and anxious, hut < holding in his hand tho promised money I tied up in a bag. 1 > MIIore," said he, "is the gold. Lot one ? man, nt least, bless my name, though my hands be bloody." 1 Tho miller shuddered as ho saw that so ( indeed they were; but, without asking in convenient questions, clutched tho bag, earn < oatl v (banking the brigand as the savior of i ( his fortunes. . 1 'Ay, you may thank me," said Spadoli- k no, gloomily, "for this night's work shall be w my lash If I can escape into Roraagna 1 1c will never draw knife more in Tuscany, tc They ere too close upon me. Go, amico mio,.carry this money home, and when a the fat to re comes to turn you out of your ** mijl, throw it iulo his face, and let him feel ai 'tis genuine." . , u Tne miller faithfully followed his ndvice, ? and by mid day felt doubly gratified by haying paid his rent nud insulted the fat- "1 tote, who came with similar Christian in- ai tendons. But poor Spadolino lind run his tc race. This last robbery ami murder had been hurried and ill-combined; when tho e? gendarmes arrived on the spot tlicy traced y< the brigands into the recesses of the forest, n Spadolino was taken, and soon after hung J nt the Porta Santa Croco, at Florence, to ai theinfinitesorrow of the grateful miller, who, u however, held his tongue most determinedly on his part in the catastrophe. I ? . a The Treacherous Priest.?ITere is ano- b ther curious robber story. Tho fate of Gasparono proves that the strongest of animals n is oftentimes overcomo by the craft of the s< weak; ?l We were still tvnndering in tho same ro- e mantic oak forest, which extends for many tl miles. Not a roof was visible. The shades a of evening wore gathering around. No tl wotidor, frotn thinking cf brigands, that we t' all fell to tnlking about them as the car- n riago lazily pursued its way. One of the tl party remembered fitting Gasparone 6omc d years ago at Cirita Yccehia nfler his sur- tl render. lie was allowed to walk up and o down some particular wall or bastion, from h whence ho was visible, Hiid people went in flocks to gaze on him, bccauso ho hated ti tho pilosis, like a true Italian. Good cause, " indeed, had ho to cxecrato them for the tl scurvy trick played on him to iuduco bis c voluntary surrender!?a truo specimen of *1 the nuuic faith in vogue among these black- h cloaked gentry, and in porfeci accordance v with the priestly motto, that tho end justi- k lies the means. h Gasparone, who perhaps was tlie most o finished specimen of a brigand Italy had s ever nroduced. had loner Avarriaoil l,i? iru-in I n unmolested, and quietly robbed, plundered, o and murdered quito a fantaisie in the Caui- 1 pagna, where his tiaino was touch more n feared than the l'opo's. lie had somowhere or other a cavern, which extended fire tuiles underground, like a catacomb, a and when the unhappy soldiers wore scut c out against him, thuy were shot down by c dozens out of the trees, as it seemed, for no living mortal could lie seen. All hope of ii capturing the gentleman by fair means h was abandoned as desperate, when '.ho c priests bethought themselves of a strata- p gem, which one of their number undertook a to put into execution. L This priest?who by the way must have ?' had immense moral courngc?was a sickly, e thin ascetic, w ith poverty stumped on every v feature of his starved lineaments, lie set b out holdly from Home, discovered one of r the entrances into the famous, or rather in- s famous, cavern, and without more ado do- I, sceruled. When ho made his appearance, c the bandits were so utterly taken aback at ( Ins temerity that tliey forgot to shoot him, v and then became Curious to know what g madman could thus have ventured ixto n their lair voluntarily. The entire hand? tl two hundred in number?gathered round L him; their murderous forms lit up by tho glare of tho torches, which burnt continually in this subterranean garrison. There n w as a savage leer on their dark faces, when, p with a sort of unutterable yell, tliey de- & tvll'lf ItA U'rtnU-1 " I 1. ~ *! 1 ......v ..u n.UHVU, Ilk kllU 3HII1U llllie II jingling their knives in an ominous chorus. " i>ut the priest blood Gnu. n "I want," baid ho, "to know if n man li called Gas pa rone is to bo found here!" fc There was a devilish chuckle in reply, 1 which expressed Yea! And the fearful n crowd pressed sti41 closer round the priest, who stood in tho contre. c "What do you want with Gasparonol" v at last said 0110 of tho band. c "1 come," replied tho priest, "with a mcs- ^ aago to biin from tbo IJoly Father." And \ 0 at his name he uncovered and crossed him- ' 1 self as eoollv as if ho had seen him in a u holiday proeessiou at St. Peter's. "But | this message," resumed lie, "can only be r delivered to him nlone; and I am come to [ " soo your chief, whom paoplo call Ctaspa- ? rone." 1 1 The bandits wero astonished, and actual- I1 ly almost respected the thin, helpless priest ? for his courage. The crowd fell otf, tho 11 btilcttoes no longer rattled; they formed in- 1 to small groups, seeming to discuss among themselves whether or not they should in- 11 Iroduee him to G.iaparone. At last ono of '* llio number dis?nnejirn<t , f , When Gasparonc, sitting in his own pe- ! c culiar lair, keeping his savage state, heard ! thai a priest wanted to nee him, he roared ! with savage laughter, making the long g.?l- " lories echo again; then ho swore a hoiiid ? oath, quite suitable to his character. "What, 11 diavolo," cried ho, "does the madman moan, '.l that ho comes hero to run his head into the uoosei Is he weary of his convent life, and ,l wants me to shorten ill Faith, I will soon do ? his business if that he all. Hut in with iho carrion; let nte hear what ho brings from our brother the l'opo." j The priest appeared, and in a tone of per- s< iuvv wuijjosuro repeated uis errand. I "J come," said he, "with a message of mercy from the Holy Father." "I fear you [, not. Why should you harin mo, when I j * ranturo here to tell you that which, did 1 not 1 n :ome, you could nover know in theso deep | tj :avorns, though it is on all men's tongues." J tj "Hut," cried Gasparoue, "wo coino up to p Jay sometimes though, as the l'opo well h mows, for hravoly have we plucked many , tl i fat monsiguorc. What is then this tnos- 9: iage wo do not know!" "It is an offer of pardon?entire pardon o every bandit who surrenders within three 1J lays from this lime. No conditions aro af- w ixed; the Holy Father seeks only the souls >f the sinner. This decree is hung up >11 every cross, and in tho four ways along "1 ho great roads. Hut how were you to H now thi* down below! The three daj ould have expired?rojrcv would b&ven mger been offered?there/ore ain 1 com i bring you pnrdon and peace/* Gaepa^one frowned, and was silent. Ft while he seemed to weigh what the priei lid, and eyed him askance, as if to doter ny treachery. But the man of blnck stoo umored, hie hands folded on his breas ot a mnscle quivering. What assurance," at lost said Onsparon liave I for the sincerity of his offer! Uo in I to know it is not ail :tu infernal trie > cago me in the net?" MIt is a royal ordinance, Rigned and sea 1 in duo form, as all may see, and as yo oursclf may assure yourself; for during tli cxt thrco'duys there is a truce, and eve on, Gasparonc, and your hand, may wal t large. You will judge )*ourself if I ai ot sneaking the truth." "We will see," moodily replied the chic To waved his hand, tho priest withdrew nd passed out through tho long passngi y which ho had entered. Oasparone, relying on the word of tl icsicnger, during the stated truce, did pe anally satisfy himself as to tho truth of tl: tatement. Tho ordinance, drawn up wit very formality, and bearing the impress lie Papal arms WH9 hung on every colum nd cross of tho groat thorough faros. O lie third day, (iasparono and his band ivo hundred surrendered formally to tl ingistralea. It was a great sight to s< iicsc ferocious men, redolent of murder ripping as it were with blood, come wit iicir arms iti their hands, and retiro shot f all their strength, like Samson of h >cks, and helpless as he. But oh! incredible extent of priest! reaehcry! No sooner wero tlie wrctchc ion disarmed than they were seized I lie Papal troops, and iinptisonod. No c use was piven. no insnitrv ullnmnin/1 f. " o J ] / Ins vilo breach of faith. Gasparono wi xiked up in tho Castle San Angolo, afte rards to bo transferred to tho prison i livita Vocelli*. Tho brigand yet lives. hi as boon sent to Corsica, that alma mal f all Italian vnnyinu. The priest?tho ii trumont in this vilo transaction?was i ncc shipped ofr to Florence, out of tho wi f tho revengeful stilettoes of the Koman lad ho remained on their side the Ape ines ho was a dead man. The It eg oak's Anecdote.?Tho writ ficrwards gained moro information coi erning Gnsparone's doings, as will bo pe oived below; 1 remember onco at Forrarn, while slan< ng boforo that glorious old Gothic pi 1 laving my attention drawn to a low sort hunt in the centre of a ragged crowd, iretard forward into tho circle, where stof n old blind beggar, singing in a bonis iroken recitative, tho adventures of Gasp one, represented in a tremendous pictur levat<?d on pole*, to which his allendai rifa pointed with a long slick, while ho r sled tho iucidonl*. ills audience stood I apt attention while the old fellow sang otno horrid murder; which, when e^pcci:; y spicy, was received with low hraavs at beers. Among other feats, he told ho asparone, wanting to cross into Tuscan fas mot on the borders of a river by ll eiularine, who asked for his passport, b 0 passport had lie, so lie shot him throu;: ho head, saving?"This, bravo tnio sold o, w ill ho a passport for me and you bo! ?you above, and mo below." "Heboid, excellent and noble couipan ay wife will point out tho fact in the grc lioture, which I, alas, being blind, canti eo. And now," said he, falling down t is knees, w ithout any kind of prefucoNow, good and Christian people, look ae, a poor blind man, shut out from tl ight of the sun, and for tho love of ll iantissima Vergino give trie some bajoccl \>r I'ninoro del Cielo, assist me, oh gre ,nd good people of Ferrara!" Upon tliis adjuration his wife made tl ircuit of tho crowd with a tin box, in fhieh tho money was dropped. As t! oin chinked, tho blind man, still on h tnees, with his hands clasped as if in pra r, nodded approvingly. When tho colle ion was ovfcr, ho rose, smoothed his boar ud begun again. "Now," alter thanking tho peoplo of Fe ara for their noblo charity to a poor cict 1 will continuo to relate how (lasparoi nco arrived in Tuscany, stopped n volt ino near Kadicofaui, and murdered eig arsons, with other wonderful adventurt .'hich you sco, excellent signors, set for it tho picture. Wife, point out faithful he particulars." The crowd, whose curiosity was rapid jcrcaMiig, pressed closer around him, as shrill voice liu resumed his chant. I could have stayed willingly until tl onclusion of so rich and thoroughly Italic scene, but 1 was travelling in haste, at ad no spare time. I could not hut rede dial an admirable lesson in brigaudage tl Id inan gave, holding up Gasparouo nivcrsul admiration for his bloody deed nd eucotiraorincr till tho idle racrftiiitilliiis C7 O ^ O " errara to go and do likewise. This is n system calculated to put down tho cv specially in so bad a neighborhood arrnrn. Soft Soap.?According to the Abl Inc, Eastern 'monarch* nro guilliblo. 1 \ys: "Onco it happened that a FVcnclmi? srno to tho Khan of Tarlary, and tho En eror risked him what offering ho lis rought him. Tho Frenchman replic ?ire, I havo brought you nothing, fur I d ot know of your groat power.' 'How,'sai ro Emperor, 'did nut tho very birds, i roy Hew over your country, tell you of oi ower!' Tho Frenchman replied, 'Xire, pe ops they did, but, as I do not understati leir hingango, I do not know what tin lid.' And tiiustho Emperor was appoasod Fhidr'h Meals.?Pride breakfasted vrii lonty, dined with Poverty, and suppt ith Infamy. l'amporniclo says a woman's heart in tl most sweolest" thing in tho world; in far perfect lu?w>/com?>?full of sclh. licc\tnr ? Mr. Dallas in England. a ^ On Ihe 21st July there was great rejoic- ^ log at tho town of Boston, Lincolnshire, con- 0, >p sequent on the rc-opening of tbo Southwest M Chanel of tho Church in thnt town, which (j, ,t has been restored by the citizncs of Boston, q j Massachusetts, as a memorial of John Cott ton. Mr. Dallas, tho American Minister, the Bishop of Kentucky, and ex-Mayor p Bigolow, of Boston, Massachusetts, wero w' among those who took part in the proceedjj ings. An uddress was presented to Mr. ^ Dallas on the occasion, and two speechos ]. were made by that gentleman in the course i u of tho proceedings. 10 The circumstances which led to this resn toration nro as follows: John Cotton was p j. vicar of Boston, in Lincolnshire, from 1C12 fr v to 1C33. In tlio latter year he resigned his living and removed to tho colony of New Kngland, where he was instrumental in e?- j v tabli.sliing the town?now tho city?of Boston, and where he died, universally rcapoct- j, ed, in December, 1052. Boston, in Massaie dimwits, was so called in compliment to ^ r. Mr. Cotton, and many of the earliest set- (j )e tiers in New Kngland emigrated from Lin- n j, colnshire, and pailicularly from tho ueigh- ^ borhood of Boston. n Mr. Dallas said: While I may bo porln milted to acknowledge the tonal, L must at T< 0f tho same timo remark thnt 1 do not think ftJ 1C you could have drunk a bettor toast. I 50 think tho country which you havo toasleJ *s is worthy of being toastod by you and by j I,' any assemblage of distinguished and intel- j>0 .n Icclunl freemen. She is, perhaps, especial- ^ ly deserving of being toasted by Englishmen. And why? Becauso thcro aro va- jj |v rious points of character in wliich tho Uni- ^ ted States of America and Crent Britain ^ ,v very much resemble each other. You do e| yourselves lionor when you toast a country jr so liko your own as the United States. jj Tbero aro many points of resemblance be- ^ I tVAAl) f 11/1>M1 itl rioj I A %? l> i/?l? I ! ??/% f. _ ?v?u HIV WUIIVI IVO l\/ nillVil A IIIITU IVIU1" red. On llio oilier bido of iho Atlantic wo (l nre bravo; so arc you. On llio otbor sido of cr the Atlantic wo aro touchy in resenting in* e, n. suit; so aro you. On the other side of tho Atlantic wo are IV fond of commercial pursuits, nnd do not * much relish commercial competition; this is n, also liko you. Now it very ollen happens, particularly in tho pursuit of national ohjects, and in respect to cvent9 which affect or the welfare or condition of masses of the ^ Q. people, tliat resemblances give rise to cou* r. trovereies, disputes, nnd collisions. The ^ merchant who is anxious to make tho most profit out of a series of speculations is very 0 apt to quarrel with a man who is going in0f to the same scene of speculation. An ex- / j cedent orator is very apt to quarrel with ,j him who attempts to rival iiitn. And per0 haps nothing is more certain?I do not, _* however, a .-ert it positively, 1 hav* nwly ? heard of it?that a very beautiful woman llt is apt to sec defects in another beautiful e. woman. Now, these resemblances often catij-c heart burnings, disquietudes, nnd col- , j uf lisions. Therefore, the United States of ; |. America and < irent I hit,-tin should not, as J' ,,j prudent nntions, rely too much on the ex- ! ^ w istonco of resemblances out of which evil ? V) may arise. Let us admit, iu reference to ^ "J0 each other, thai we aro both high-minded, ^ tll independent and gallaut nations; that wo pj, possess great resources of every description, "a. commercial, agricultural, mechanical, and j' i], financial; that iu one point we are liko lustrous stars above in tho great firmament of human being. ^ ;lt Wo nro at tho head of every nation of 01 tho earth. All that we have to do, there- ' >n fore, f?>r tho purpose of preserving, and, il ^ possible, perpetuating tho international ;il friendship and regard so eloquently dwelt ' IC upon by tlic gentleman who preceded me j i0 ?a gentleman whom I recollect a great ' many years ago?I should shock him, per- ^ ' haps, if I said in so largo a company of ladies how many years ago?in Washington ie ?loft us, 1 say, maintain, and if possible, to porpetuato that international goodwill, by 10 '^cognising cacli other as perfectly equal in ,js tho possession of tho attributes and quali* | ... lies of human nature. On that principle, ,'e. como into collision a lien we may and how we may, we shall never find a difficulty on j account of our ditl'orcuces of opinions and ^ ,r. of nntions in putting an end to our colli, j 0i sioiis. I have gone much further than 1 . l(! intended. Tlie toast is, as I liavo said, a ' v u. 1 most excellent one, 4lTho 1'resident of the ^ |lt' United States," and there is but one thing ,s that secures its excellence, and that is tho 1 q, i kind and generous manner in which you |y have receive 1 it. 1 renew my thanks, both ( on behalf of Mr. Uuchauan, tho l'rusident : J! u. of tho United States, and <>t inv own rona j/, try, for the manner in which you have re- [ j ccivcd my health. lt, ! Snl.se.jn.-titlv, i:i returning thank* en his j? own behalf, for the toast of "The Minister ! 1(| of tiie United States," Mr. Dallas said: J' cl Thcro are topics, 1 confess, I should like to r< touch on, hut the advanced hour of the | ' evening forbids nio. Thoro is one, howcv- ^ S) er, 1 must beg < *' you to excuse me for in- j (,f Inducing. I heard toe distinguished genI tleuian on the opp >-ito side make mention j j|t' of what is called tlo; Anglo-Saxon race. i(j RH I Well, that no (h uht is a voiy distinguished ^ i race. It is entitled to high praise, for it (| i has accomplished wonders. 1 >ut I do not | ?e think that the United Slates of America, as ^ lo J they now exist, can ho considered as con- (j in lined to the Anglo-Saxon race. It i? a matu tor of fair truth lo say to you that there is ' ^ id a very large proportion of the citizens of J, ' tho United Stales who aro Celts, not An- I id glo Saxons. id If there ho any Irish hero llicy must unas derstand that their fellow countrymen con- j ir stilutc a very huge proportion of what may , r ho termed the character of the United States id of America. Nay, to go a little further, one ? iy ; of our States is almost exclusively Spanish; | another of our States is almost exclusively i French; and the very Stato to which T am ! ,h proud to belong, a Stato that is called tho (p id ' Keystone State, has so many of its popula M I lion of the Uemian race, that wo aro notu- i ol ally obliged to publish our laws in that Ian- (>< ,o ! guago to Hceouiinodulu them. Mow all | it I these races hlcudcd togollier constitute tho e. national character of the United State;, if } raerica. That country, therefore, in not :clusively Anglo-Saxon. Undoubtedly me of Its most distinguished sources of , igin are Anglo-Saxon-, hut as now organid?as it is now fixed?under its present 1 (institution and present population, it is a overnmont and a country composed of all wples and races, and not confined exelu- 1 rely to the Anglo Saxon. , Hugh Mfller on the Coal Measures, The following is a magnificent desertpcu, by Ilugh Miller, of the CoriUKliyn of a I measures. Header and writer are supjscd to l>e on the waves and among the rests of tho actually submerging world: "Wo have entered tho coal measures, or seven formations together, our course, om tho lower Silurian to the upper old sodstone, has lain over like oceans withit a visiblo shore, though, liko Columbus i his voyage of discovery, we havo now id then found a little floating weed, to incute the approaching coast. The water is st shallowing. Yonder passes a broken ranch with the leaves still unwithered;and icre floats a tuft of fern. Land, frutn the ast head! Land! landl land! A low shore lickly covered with vegetation. "Hugo trees of wonderful form stand out r in the water. Tiiero seems no interring bench. A thick hedge of reeds, tall i tho luasts of pinnaces, run along the icpcr bays, liko water flags at tho edge of lake. A river of vast volume comes rollig from tho interior, darkening tho water r leagues with its blimo and uiud, and caring with it, to the opeu sea, rcods and rn, and cones of tho pine, and immense oats of leaves, and hero and there some ulky tree, undermined and uprooted by le current. We near tho coast, and now iter the openings of the stream. A scarce enetrable phalanx of reeds, that attain to io height and well nigh to (ho hulk of rest trees, is ranged on either hand. Tho rijjni ana glossy stems seem rodded like lotliic columns; tlio pointed leave* stand ut, green at every joint, tier abovo tier, tch tier resembling a coronal wreath, or a ancient crown, with the rays turned outarils; and we see a-top what may bo either irgo spikoa or catkins. "What 6trango forms of vegetable life apear in the forest behind! Can that be a ub moss that raises its slender height for lore than fifty feet from tho soil? or can leso tail palm-like trees be actually ferns, nd these spreading brandies mero fronds? nil then tho gigantic reeds! are they not lore varieties of the common horse tail of ur bogs and morasses magnified somo six7 or a hundred times! llavo vrc arrived t some such country as tho continent visit1 by Gulliver, in which ho found thickIs of weeds tall as woods of twenty years' ioW.il, and lost himself amid a forest of >rn fifty feet in htight. Tho lesser vegoition of our o? n country, its reeds, morassi and ferns, seem hero as if viewed through microscope; the dwarfs have grown up in> giants, and yet there appears to be no roportional increase iu size among what re unequivocally its trees. Yonder is a roup of what seem to bo pines, tall aud ulky, it is true, but neither taller nor ulkier than tho piues of Norway and Linerica; and tho club moss behiud shoots p its green hairy arms, loaded with what Jem catkins, above their topmost cones. >ut what monster of tho vegetable world onies floating down the stream, now cirling round in the eddies, now dancing on 10 ripple, now shooting on tho rapid? It Bsetnblo* a gigantic star-fish, or an im reuse coach-wheel divested of tho rim. hero is a green, doino-liko mass in tho ceno, that corresponds to tho navo of tho heel or tho body of tho star-fish, and tho mirhs shoot out horizontally on overv W < / lo, like epokes from the nave, or rays orn tho central body. The diameter cooidcrably exceeds forty feet, and tho branchS originally of a deep green, nro assuming io golden lingo of decay; tho cylindrical nd hollow loaves stand out thick on every do liko the prickles of tho wild rose on >c red, fleshy, lance-like shoots of a year's rowth, that will bo covered two seasons once with tl >wers and fruit. That stranget formed organism presents no existing rpo among all the numerous families of io vegetable kingdom. There is an aniazig luxuriance of growth all around us. carce can the currents make w ay through <> thickets of aquatic plants that ri>o thick o:v. tho muddy bottom; and though the j lushino falls bright upon tho upper boughs , f tho tangled forest beyond, not a ray enetnites the more than twilight gloom mt broods over tho inarshy platform be>w. Tho rank steain of decaying vegeta<?n forms a thick bluo blaze, that paitialiy bscures the underwood; deadly lakes of irbonic acid gas have accumulated in flic 1 ollows; there is idlenoo all around, unipter- | upted save by a sudden splash of some I ptile tisl: that has risen to the surface in ; ur-.uit of its prey, or when a sudden breeze ' ::n tho hot air and shakes tho fronds of , io giant ferns or tho calkins of the reeds. ! lie wi Jo continent before in is a continent, : ovoid of animal life, savo that its pools and i vers abound in fish and inollusca, and thai , nilions and tens of millions of the infusory I ibes swarm in tlie bugs and marshes, j [ore and there, too, an insect of a strange ; >rtn llutters among the leaves. It is more inn probable that no creature, furnished | illi lungs of the more perfect construction, ' on Id have breathed the Atmosphere of this i irly period and have lived." ? A little jm!, on hearing her mother nay tat she intended to go to a ball, and bavo | er dress trimmed with bugles, innocently I npiiied if the bugles would all blow when lie danced. "I Mi, no," snid the mother, ! your father will do all that when ho di?>rers I have bought them." If you want to gain a woman's affections, | on'i appeal to her head but to her feel- i igs. Ono MjuccfO of tho liand, or proas f tlio lips, is worth a doien speeches. (Jalit is #411 institution of touch, not of logic. A gran I jury m Ohio have proiented a i lowing Society'' as a nuisance. ' The Calaveras Cave. ty A correspondent of tlie San Francisco j? Bulletin furnishes the following description ' of ft renowned cave in Calaveras county, , California: . 1 We arrived at 11 o'clock at Cave City, a o j small and almost deserted mining town ^ where the cave is situated. The cuiiosity ^ was first discovered by Capt. Taylor in 1850, while shooting at a mark near by his cabin. Aftor resting a few minutes and taking dinner, we proceeded with our guide ^ to visit the dark recesses of Nature. The ' first and main entrance is on the side of n hill around the angle of n jutting rock, j.J about three hundred yards from the town. ^ This artificial passage has been cut through the solid rock about eighty feet. It was j* with mingled feelings of awe an 1 wonder that I entered those still chambers, which J for thousands of years hud remained undis- j-u turbed by the rude voice of man. I felt like ^ iiu intruder upon the secret realms of darkuoss. As wo arrived at the eulrance each ^ of us lit our lorchos, and commenced in (>c procession to grope our way with bended kneo through the low and narrow uisles to R tho first chamber, which is called the Know- tj Nothing Lodge." Tho ceilings are high, l0 dark, and irregular, and are unadorned by stalactite#. ^ Leaving this chamber, we next enter jj "Register Hall," whero overy visitor is ex- OJ pectcd to immortalise his name by writing ^ it with charcoal upon the smooth columns ;L which line tho high ceiling. This passage j_ loads to "Coluiuu Room," where there is a a largo swinging rock, so nearly balanced as to almost move by the touch of the hand. There nic several columns standing which boar evidence of being worn out by the ni leaping cascades of water from above. Wo * now turned to tho left, and crawled our way f' through the "Table Passage" to the "Chap- Ct el Room." This rlumtur * - ...nuj objects of curiosity and attraction. In the centre arose a natural altar of stalagmites, while on 0110 aide is a niche (worn in the rock) which very much resembles a pulpit. . I'llo beauty of tliia room, as well as many (. other parts of the cave, has been much a' marred by visitoH breaking of? and carrying away tho most beautiful stalactites. I jjj' was pleased to learn that tho proprietor ha3 determined to protect it from any further ^ destruction. From the "Chapel" was descended a slop- ja ing passage to tho "Lake." This is an ir- j regular chamber, at the bottom of which there is a lake of clear cold water, which ft we wero informed had been sounded one hundred feet and no bottom had been dis- j covered. We amused ouiselves by throw- j iug stones in the water to seo the bubbles ^ rise long after they had disappeared in the depth of tho clear water below. Hero we g) rested a short time to refresh ourselves with a drink from the pure crystal water of this ^ fountain, unreflected by the light of day ^ and unrufiled by the passing breeze. n Next wo returned and hastened to tho . "Bishop's Palace." This chamber is irregular in form, and is from sixty to ninety ^ feci in extent. Tho arched ceilings are ^ about tiiirty feet high, suspended from which ^ aro bugo stalactites of various form and ^ color, from ono to ton foot loug. Several jf largo onos hanging from the centre of the -j "Palace," with numerous small branches, j present the appearauce of so many huge chandaliors, retlecting the light of our torch- ^ os, and brilliantly illuminating the gloomy ^ recess of this world below. While admi- ^ ring these habitations of solitude, accord- Q iug to the secret arrangement, overy light n was extinguished. Tho change of visions so beautiful to darkness so profound almost ^ startled my senses with fear and dread. I .j had often groped my way through woods ^ and fields in tho blackest nights, when eve-1 TV liffht of haaven knnmAil I u?? | not till now did I ever fully realize tlie ; ^ painful sublimity of perfect stillness and darkness. At tiist tlioro was not a motion ? made or a word spoken; all seemed atton ] tivdy listening to the silence of Nature. The ^ death-like slumber that for a time bad bound us was soon broken by a song of praise, in which all joined with a real spirit _ and dorolion. As the sweet strains of mu- |, sic were harmoniously rctlected from the dark archer and columns of this great ca- R thedral of Nature, it seemed as if I never before felt so impressively the majesty of g the Creator of all this grandeur. After the ,, music bad censed one of our party tired a t| pistol soveral times, the report of which was 0 deafening. As iho sounds reverberated and 0 echoed from room to room,*ill they died tl away in the distance, they seemed like the moanings of departed spiiits. ) ^ We now relit our torches, and proceeded I ? to ascend our diflicutt and at time* danger I oils way through the "Secret Passage." j This pith has evidently hcen worn out hv j t!io water, wliicli, in tho rainy season, rert- <; ?lets? it almost impossible to vi*it tho cave.' j, fiissoltMv.ii) places, it is almost nectary to j v stoop and almost crawl to avoid a collision y witji (be projecting locks above. Hut tho jj. vi.-itor is r'ciilv paid fur art bis toil in as- ' ? cendirfg, iis bo is u*hcred into tho" presence i p of tho rp?p1audeot beauties of the'^Bridal i a Chamber." Tho ntost imaginative poet j t never conceived or printed a place of such [ e exquisite beauty and workmanship. This . room?the crowning object <rf interest ? jv having been lately explored, lias escaped i , the vandalism of man. and now reflects all t tho unblcmisncd beauties of natuie. It is j p nearly circular in form, and is about eighty j feet in diameter. Some of the incrustations I p aro massive, while others arc as delicate as ! |{ the lily and frail as wax-woik. In coler | ^ they reflect every hue and expression; some . v arc as while as alabaster, while others are j ( clear and sparkling as the diamond. All a seemed fresh and new. Indeed, the invisi [ p bio Architect lias not yet finished this mas- ^ tcr-piece of workmanship; the structure is still visibly going on before one's eves. One can see tho water striking down its liny * course, depositing cnrUvnate of lime to per- * feet the delicalo point of some immense n stalactites. The sides and arches are clothed in a drapery of dazzling beauty, rendering it indeed a lilting typo of a fairy bride. ? Queen Cleopatra, in nil her pride and beau- ? ---Jggge '* t-.. ^ , never reclined in an apartment ^<1 agniticeot tban the ''bridal Chamber" el is cave. * * -ji Immediately above, And to tfi4 tmcK ? **5 is grand apartment, and connected wtfl/ by a short passage, is another rOOtft, ealtI tho "Orgnii Chamber.*4 It appropriAlaN takes its name from Ihd arrangerrteni of e stalactite as a musical ft*)#, Upon which ay be produced notes reeerrtWfaf tfa ia#: of an organ; the large paadadta eqfah\-. Hiding to the low base wires, wbife tb# ' * laller ones will produce all the different >tes of the higher keys. The .varipae larliuenU are so arranged that ibis irf (fee yt st room to be visited which ?A worth ring. The closing scene is exceedingly propriate. 'After feasting the ejrd ujxwf e splendor of walls, arches, columns, And 1 >ndanls( ornnmentcd by an Snihiite Artist . \ < id having filled the mihd With thtr ptrfnj I sublimity of aileftce and darJcntfSt, no- ^ ing could ffrodtfee upon the senses H cater thHI! av pleaafl'fe tban |o Wpa W. '^ o sweet music of nature eehdlng and feb *;' hoing through tlieee bails of solitude* Reluctantly leaving tbi* great organ,atifl * unditig the praise of Him "who doeth all ings well," wo retraced our faltering, step* the "Bridal Chamber,"" to tafee a last honing look of its grandeur, dressed in ft *. , lousand lovely forms. From b*Ve we reply wound our tortuous way up to the icning on the top of the hill, near which ie cnve was discovered. Tli? cave, io all ? aisles and apartments, is nearly a mile' i length. ' r- ' . Curiosities of Sleep. , In Turkey, if a person falls asleep In the' aigbborhood of a poppy field, and tb6 ind blows over towards him, be becomes radually narcotized, aud would die if the luntrv people, who are well acquainted ill) tlio circumstance, did not bring him > tho next well or Ltream, and empty * itcber after pitcher of water on his face id body. Dr. Appenheitn, daring bia sidenco in Turkey, owed hit-life to this mplo and efficacious treatment. Dr. raves, from whom this anecdote is quoted, I so reports the case of a gentleman thirty ears of age, who, from long continued eepiness, was reduced to s complete living vcleton, unable to stand on his legs, ft as partly owing to disease, but chiefly to io abuse of mercury and opium; until at ist, unable to purauo his business, he sank i to abject poverty and woe. Dr. Reid sentions a friend of his, who, whenever nytbing occurred to distress him, soon bemis drowsy and fell asleep. A fellow stnent also at Edinbnrg, upon hearing sodenly the unexpected death of a near rela-' ve, threw himself in his bed and almost wtantaneously,- amid the glare of noon-day/ ink into a profound alnmber. Another erson reading to one of his dearest friends retched on his death bed, fell fast asleep, and itb the book still in ht? hand he went on sading, utterly nnconscions of what be wair oing. A woman at Hamadtslept seventeen1 r cighteun hours a day for fifteen years. ^ mother is recorded to bare slept once >urdays. Dr. Macnish mentions a woman -'} rho spent three-fourths of her life in steep, * nd Dr. Elliotlson quotes a caso of a young idy who slept for six weeks and recovered/ he venerable St. Augustine of Qippo proently divided his hours into three parts, ighl to bo devoted to sleep, eight to reciitions and eight to converse with the 'orid. Maniacs are reported, particularly i the eastern hemisphere, to become furtu>.ly vigilant during the full of the moon, lore especially whon the deteriorating rays f its polarized light are permitted to fail into heir apartment, hence the name lunatics, 'hero certainly is greater proneueas to diaase during sleep than in the waking stale, >r those who pass the night in the Camagne du Horns inevitably became infected 'it'u its noxious air; while travellers, whet 0 through without stopping, escape the riastna. Intense cold produces sleep, aud iioso who perish in the enow, sleep on till liey sleep the sleep of death. Locib Napoleon os the United St atr9. -In a work once written by Louis Naposon, before his accession to power, he said,1 a chapter uOn Governments in Generl:n ' I speak it with regret, lean see but two overnments at this day which futtil the station that l'rovidencc has contided to litm; they are the two colossi at the end f the world; one at the extremity of the Id world, the other at the extremity of the ew. Whilst our old European centre is ? a volcano, consuming itsolf ifi its crater, lie two nations of the East and the West uarrti, without limitation, towards perfec ion, the one under the will of a single inividual, the other under liberty. "Providence has confided to the United ilalos of North America the ta*k of peopling and civilizing that immense territory illicit stretches from the Atlantic to the 011th S ?a, un-l fruin the North Pole to the Vju.il or. The Oovornment whicit is only simple administration, has only hitherto een calieil upon to put in practice tiro otd dage, Jsai$*ez J-nrr, iaissez patner, in order i) for in that irresistible instinct which pu/n s the people of Ame.rica to the West." The only other government in the world rbich to the writer's opinion fulfilled it* nis.ion. w.is Russia, to the imperial dynasv of which, lie *aid, was owing alt the vact r ogress which, in a century and a half, im* re-cued that empiro from barbarism, luch wero the opinions which Loot* N*j>?> oou held of the United Mates and Russia n'fortf he attained his present posilion. It rollIJ bo an instructive hmson to have auoher chapter "on (iovvjnnwuits in General," nd the United .States and Russia in pariaolar, bum tho Emperor of France. [A'icfunond Disptitrh. ftotije graceless scamp says: "It is woman, ind not her wrongs, that should be rrdreswdlw That fellow ought to sutler the torneot of boing incited o.tt to Nothing is more favorable to love than i little discord?as tho frost makes the ;rapos tender and tidier.