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# y rj BY CAVI3 & TRIMMIER. grvotrrt fa1 Southern Rights, Rolitics, jAgricultmc, and RttsccUmut. .$2 PER ANNUM YOL. XVII. SPARTANBURG, 8. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1800. NO/&3. | cine Carolina Spartan. ? [ By" AvTs & TU1HMIER. 6 Prioe, Two Doi.i.aus per uiiiimu, in advance, 01- '' $2.50 at the end of the voar. If not paid uu- " til after the year expires $:}.on. C ^ Ho subscription taken for loss than six months, si Money may be remitted through postmasters #, at our risk. . Advertisements inserted at the usual rates, I and contracts made >01 reasonable twins. " Tin St'AUTAN circulates largely over this and < Adjoining districts, and oilers an admirable lue- u Jimn to our friends to roach customers. (. Job work of all kinds promptly executed. Blanks, Law and ivpiity, continually on hand, " ^ r urintrd to order. ' MM Mil Correspondence ol' I lie Npurlan. Rusk Co., Tkxas, July 10, lS??o. { A f>ear Si?arta$: Having beet unetn-j ^ ployed for the last three weeks, owing to a i ;l protracted drought that has prevailed in ti this and adjacent caunties, 1 am thrown in 1 a row with the mast of the farmers, hut lit- ' tie to do; or at least but little that can be ,, done to profit; and thinking oil of the laud ti r of my nativity and my former associates and b friends, 1 had a disposition to spend a lew v i a, .1.1 ..... . . i ti ?j my uiiproiuanie moments giving mem a (| short communication through your columns, ( c though 1 have never at any time before at- p teiupted to write anything for publication. l' But knowing tint many of your citizen* an- J ticipate migration to the "hone Star State," (( *" 1 wish them to he informed of the aim in ing condition of most all I'astem Texas in 1 n regard to breadstuff*. It is true enough food j w can yet be had to keep all the animal Ui11r_- 1 J doni on foot ; but T don't think I would be ' | justifiable in saying, that all get enough t > j ,> keep their digestive organs constantly ai ' work. They become so active altera person 1 remains in this State a while, that they ; | can perform the functions nssigne 1 them ^ with despatch, and generally grind out and n cravu something more to operate upon before the accustomed time arrives to give j ' them fresh supplies. Hut the great and ' absorbing question is, how are these sup- , ,, plies to I " kept up till ai.other crop can 1 e | > made if Wheat was nearly a failure; oat , ' I, a failure; emu. a failure; and cotton will i ,| be a failure if we do ma get rain in . -ho; : j , 11 time; and there is iio prospect of that, it 1 :t is now throwing off the shams, and tin- i I lirst bolls open .ig i lie era - is ji.reliii.j 11 up rapidly, and without i i.n Will - i u . . J to give a support to the mil o cow- t.f th - ; i . i. . ...: i . i irwiimiy , aim 111.11 mil Cllll.t.i 11 llleaus ! I sustenance. lur tin- tniih ...id I? ?11? r e..n ? sinned here is hi iii11><>rt.1111 item m .irK I hail I Iie supjioi <it many families. j | i his i - indeed i mi inn- time, and will I | ,, .i:l eV- ell ting ' 11 In- p'liu lit lit lid 1 >\ all w In -i k ui Willi n ii- i.mtnds l*ui it i- tlit- lii-t jtar this roili.tj h is failed t make em. i. Ii ' *?o siippoi t ii-i ii .- iif?- it has In i ii s- ili l : i'lu: of e st nil! r- in th r un: , |i ,\ ' hvnl In-11 almiii lu i.Iv i\vt .-. -.a. t! i testimony is, tli.it il.tr .mil I . ;. been a failure before stnee tiny se tad in thu cuut>ty . thnii.h it w.i- iV . ii'iitK < 111 !! ' nff'Ve or le.-s; i'lit tmt as su! j. et t - : iinjury fl'otil the annual dm:. J, - e.?t toll crop. i iiis count i \. a. e n ;inar In t it testimony nf t hnso \vl\ 11\ . lie: lie.il . , m , variahly lias a dryu :lit in t! . litter;-.", n: ' the summer sea.-oii -111!\ and \u u i |, Corn is jreticraily matured l>\ tint I.me - n enough to mak. ! cin] , I . t r.itmi crops arc cut oil". Notwithstanding the h.-: \ : tii.-e.un- ;i try j^ocs to prove that it is i>> i? -n'y- ' ' JroU^ht 111II11 Millie i>i the > i 11 -, . yet it possesses iudiireiin n'.s t eiti/.t 11-h11 that many ol tie ... d not. I lie >t.ite ,d .1 lows its citizen.-a Iimm -t?ml ?>1 two liun- 1 died acres ot laml, live cows am! calves, t one horse, cm>u_h j. ?vi-i? 1 >?r mi _\..n Support, and f.l' tlicit he: -1 l.?.<|J I'll i.'it 11 re. ,, Here each citizen is esteemed m-cording a to wort hand merit, and not according to w family distinctions, and tin- atuoii' * of pro ' pcrty he is in possession ('. lien then of people in I unit themselves on all poinu ? .at issue, and act according to tin own o .convictions of right and wrong, and not ac- j; /lording as .Mr. A. or l>. would say. il money is needed to cany on an im- " port ant internal improvement tjj.it will he bejuelicial to its citizens, tiny r< 1 ie njj t (tho Work wit).' -unity ol Irenglh, t a< h 1 . :j ' willing to hear his part. Tlievai u.t ltk " your citizens were about the Km, hm 11 of I' Alio Spartanburg and liiioti Hailroad, ra:-e w ;a hue and cry, and say, We are called up- a on to subscribe to an unimportant ausk?- M that road Can never he I ctu lirial to us. v That was a veiy erroneous notion, I tliinl '' No road has ever been built that . as n< t beneficial to the section ol'country through " hieli it passed. }t is uunecessary for mc here to .-el fort 11 ( , wherein the citizens ol 'Spartanburg Won. ! ,have been benefitted by the cnmpleii n < i' (| -the (ireeuville and hroiKh llroad Hailroad. That has already been shown the.11, hut ()| they were not open to conviction, or acted 1 . bluntly to their ow'ii inl i. :. Now, in my humble opinioi', !!\t n j? sio* of the Spartanburg and I i:i >11 IS til- ji( road was an ail-iinportaiit iu.itt? r to tlieciti- jn Zeus of Spartanburg and to tin St .te at 1;1 largo?one in which all should have heon .deeply iutcrosted, because the completion vj ,of tliat work would have redounded to their |,| urn ual benefit and commercial prosperity, p But there were so many moon en v? s, cur p., jnudgcops, and old fogies, thoy would not have it. They say, if v.o build the road , we arc giving up the reius of democracy, .1 ubiiiitting to a tHXation imposed upon uy our legislators to carry on ^to our 1 tissliet) an unprofitable work. The plan upon which that road was ofared your citizeus was the most judicious tie that could have been otic rod thetti. The unplctiou of that work, all ought to haw ecu, would have bevti of incalculable innest; and, inasmuch as all would have ecu cijil illy bcuelitted, should not all have een willing to pay something to build it 'trietly speaking. I do not think the plan llcivd to build the road ought to have been otisidered a taxation. The t ix-payCrs were nly asked to subscribe in propel , ion to what hey were worth the sunt of i>7 per cent, n their general tax?merely showing the mount for each to pay to build the road, ."o one could have scarcely fell the amount, 'he citizens of Spartanburg remind me ol nine of our baptist brethren, belonging to beautifully-situated church in your bisrict. If it were left to a vote with them, hey would vote away the preacher before licy would pay him anything for pleading. I think it is a wise thing that so niny elections are kept out of the hands of lie people, since they have voted out of ox teiiee an important railroad. Xo telling hat they would not vote away. They void away the Homestead Law, or were so inch opposed to it, tie Legislature re peald it to satisfy tlieui. I should not he surrised at all to .hear they had voted away lie road already completed to Spartanburg '.II. The stockholders of 'hat road had otter be very vigilant, and not let the inLM'iist of that road come to a test vot '. I wish my Irion i- well, an 1 my enemies ) harm; but, in good faith, 1 think it iouI i be nothing hut light for the Legisure of South Carolina to appropriate funds r the completion of the blue Ridge Road. I'tin y are not willing to have the prolits i railroad extension themselves, is it not ivjit that they should help to i xtend when hey are willing to have extension i?y lie t iuie llie ei i/. u- <<l' Spurtuiihur" pay heir pari of a million or two <lol!ai> to 111 nildin- ui lint road they will cotne to their a.Ik. W ii have a railroad now located IVoin {lie alone I'a-- lo i I em lei-oil, the eem'v site l llu.-ik eoiinly ? a di.-i hut of two ! I lilies, d lie eiti/. 'n.i of Un.-k comity .. >: ulv asked to mii i-ei iln: o" hundred thouand dollars, and in one mil after tli o..ks \\iie opened they had ,-uh-ciibi d two ii.i Ire thousand dollars. 1 In; .-toekhole r- o! ihe \vh >ie route then eali< la tin etui: and made an estimate of the prohaole mount of co.-t ? made it twelve thou-.iml oil irs per in lie, and found tln-y already a i Mihset ;'o< ! tweive thousand and live n nlied per utile So pill -i e the citizent 1111 ? ou.it? eoine u t<i the Work Wit hold front ill tin; whole mule o* out >i 1 * Ii ei <i are in water courses to cm.-.ml i?ut. Iilile In-.ivy ^r:s I\11_r. In fam lie- like the pieseut this Sta > hiiilvS ot' hir citizens. I he Legislature ?. e\;i- II I d ill t Will -"Spell 1 the C lie 'lie; I del>li> hy .iW. ill Ik" :..,,i is e.lli r..! nine coin tin itties l<i in . an 1 In on e. I ell i1 . u > I e n - n i I It il t<l;i 11* i. i i. o d 11; h 11 11 . I bia ails HI. 'i ii . inn ! .* :ate v>l" r _ . u ' illl li:i vi- to "pi lo _ l < . ?.i l mil! I uilll!.'" lVlil.Ji lli ' ' 1" I illlllc'i < \ il J i .>.v >! i\ \ MuMvi.'i. I !ii' \ 11 ii - ii i-:i i) .Jour i. i'l Seicllec illlii i , , ... in;*: 1 . 'l.i' I a -SO. -i Si III i.l l u .ill i ' i ' . 11 I. I li? I nil i.-!i 'il ill Ni'W 11 .iveii, tni:. I, .- sii allele i \ I 'iul'i -s ir Tlii'iij ! i.iii i'ai-mis. *iu ilH !? Ill' III .. II'. til - tl. 11 I III III.' |. ill i >1 II. I II i'I I hi II 11'm.i nil .11.;'.. i! i! - n .I - .ni l I I In* W II \ ill I 11- :. I v. IV i !;t' ;. n j|i|.i llii, i u| jiuMti mi In .ill relipinii- In ii >. i! l nii- (I..ir .him i- superior in it< _11 '. i iiii> i?, ami i- in. ii >i".il. \vl?.fli it .Hi I lli- i> ini! Mini, In.i'Ai v r. tli.ii aiiii ll- In n ai'ti'i i\;!l i* Milin n* will; > ;' -;iili* ;i sun's ii- lli.it In- M.ni. 1 in>t I i- I:nrsiil 11, t hi- ili-i'iivi'i \. it - ii'iii'i' -In>u: 1 11 -re lli'l' lll'IIIOII-tr.lle till! !iI LT'ill.ll or ill! Ii mi]' ii./. e li ill pi\i ii Inrtli i i nil-].i in.- - > ip.illl/.til till! It ri nil' I III' ili.-jiliiil V Il In- hieatli ol -jiintu.il .mil i:11111. :.'i in' I'l 1 ' illll' t 111' Silt 'jilt. Ill' illl t ll 1111 11 ill 11 I hum.iti ii.itnil'. t'iit' 1 ai in . 1 ] .nli - i i!.-? nl ii|.mi hi th.it ii Ti. imi wiiiiM in iii Isc In' 111-Ji:.l';iil, cVcIl ll .vaclice .-lloul'l i ical'tcr snlvc a "ii-it problem in cthiinlov. air! account li,r the ilillcieu* "iocs ol ii. b) shown.'*; that the 1> o.vii oiiranpiltaiij; that J'.vcis uiiiunp the hrotvii .Malaya 'as their jiioL'i uil 'i" ; the Uac . "orilla tl iilier nl the hiack races, ainonp whom lie i stij! liuiinlj i>ther aim in the parents ol llief ha - an liiiuiiies; ami some oijc lairr t! an the rest the aice-tor ol the t'ir? t i;-, whose -op- riority over their prop ni>1' was so L'f'at, that tllev Itil'l l'O'.teiJ hi III at lr<uii the earth. All thi-lhe IVolev-nr rofrssrs in lii-liive i- in entire harmony iili tin- lunik it! (ii-iii>is iimi with iva.'nn mi common -I-HM-. '! hii 11i>cijj)f id' I >arin is >ul) -r 1 to In- at ) ri in Nrw Maim, ami, as lit' is considered perfectly armless. there is no prospect that a writ ' itiitri/n:o ia 1/uin il'/<> will he issued. [ /'iril Iilnin f / h sjmtfh. I it. 1.1. It I N't; J Ni I MMIK Kl/I \ t i ll.?-The iin-iliii:it i ('uiiiiiu Trial,1 I* >[<uI) -1 oak..U of the I Sell and Kvurett procession in .at city, says: "They eanie an army with 1 ells, all sorts hell.-, all kinds of hells, every variety of 'lis, hip; hells ami little hells, house hells id hall hells, dinner hells anil en*.v hulls, II- !e i-cellam-oii.-] , sheep hells mil >upi-r h> lis, aiietio' ecrs' Ih'.IIs am) ho'Is lor >sj .-hi then, (to riiiir in the truants, Iplan tim lu lls ami elnireli h !!>, sleigh hells id hreakfast hells, together with all sorts, /. s and kinds of belli*. Nieli an iiitoier.i 11 iit lo ver spilt the ears of hmiianity here. It was worse than forty-six iron amines all jx??injx at onee." A man "behind the times" should : i ! en ft h up . OlTIt STORY, 1> From the New York Mercury. Tin: CATACOMBS OF ltOME. ? .1 Talr <>J the S" viuf Christian (.'<ithtri/. | The traveler who visits the Rome of to- 1 day, it" a classic scholar mid antiquarian, oe- I copies himself with the ruins ot ancient M 1 Koine?that ".Mother of Dead Umpires."' I The ruined temples, triumphal arches, ii.- 1 ! script ions, medals, coins, are lull of interest i, to 11iiii. Seated on llie summit of the Capi i toline Hill, or oil the ramparts of the t'oli- i seum, he rebuilds the ancient city, making it rise around him in maSsive grandeur as I it stood in the days of the Caesars. j i The artist who visits Houie spends his ' > time in the galleries of pictures and statu..- 1 ! rv; or. if he visits the chuiches, it is to visit t i "The Last Judcanenl" of Michael An^elo; s 'The Traii.sli^uration" of Haldol; the won t dert ul frescoes of tile Sistine ( itaped, or the I works of art that crowd St. Peter's. He t j Cares Little lor the Koine id' two thousand ;i 1 j years ipjjo, or the Koine ot to-day, except in i 'i so far us tin v contribute in the enjoyment \ ' ol his favorite i ursuit. t \\ liile ih .to ir a Koine for Hie artist and i another for the anthjiiary, there is a third j Koine for the Christian visitor-!?a Koine of i i three hundred churches, with St. Peter's, a ' i world in itself, and the treasures aeeumula- ' < | ted through fifteen Celitiuies m the Vati- t can. In this lie limls a world which o eti ! I i pies all his attention And when he has I | seen all that presents itself upon the earth's si ! surface, we tiud that there is another Koine l t beneath the ancient city?the Rome of the ; > j Catacombs. i I Why these excavations were made ori^i- < > ually no history informs us. lint in the ] | second century ol our era, tiny were used ' i j by the Christians in Koine as places of re- | i j fu re from persecution, ol secret worship, | t and for the burial of the dead I lore were i i deposited the bones of the martyrs, the i i ' bones of those who were devoured by the i j wild beasts in the amphitheatre, and the < I ashes ot those who were burned at the intake. , i I Those catacombs are o? j;reat ex:- i,t. : i There are loin- irallorics, with recesses on : 1 1. . : l r1 1 ? .i? ii -mi; nn ouriai, looKIII'J Hive the llcl's j > I' lie 11 lis in our steamboats. When tin- j l ho ly or n lics was deposited, the Cooos-iWawailed p and plastered over with cement, j 1 and (lie inscription, eivinir the name and j aae ot the ileeensed, and eoiiimeiuiina hi- J I ( soul to the prayers < f'lie faithful, was carv- ' > el in stone or made in the suit mot tar. I lamps are found which were kej t lighted i i el ore the uraves of the limrtyrs, tithcr as a mark of veneration, or to liaht those who ' j came theie to pray; and in many of those ; tonihs ale lound phials id martyrs hlooil | t j ami (lie instruments ol their torture. 1 lie curious reader, who cannot ?io to j 11 uiie, w.il tind in (hi- A-Uif Library. and j *-a11 see. i) lie liud- the librarian in .rood I j liuiuor. two or three l.ilo.;o volumes. in wl? -'i rti ^.rie.ri'--. eh . tub- and I i . !a> ol i !i ei ie ai in; ren ? en e 1 \vi h , i 1 a in .-t r v . I I he i hapi-!- of the -e ( I ell, . ! i e -IJ :i ill - >l|h- j .ill I I-, he will ti id O! II . I e nil - W h , h -In \V the I I v } i\ i ii io ( la st a|j alt, ami the i . i a. ai i' ii hy t!.i h in ca , ' i..'l . tli.il p.- . .. s. ol pi iC- S ui t hl 'S w !.p j. i . as ill lie > ml Ce||tllr\ I I i.iiv n- i . i- viit'Uiiijs tIn- philo.-oplo r. i w .- . a. . i i. A ii i- and ueral perse- i e i!i.ai :i n\ e l h - < h11 t la is to the e .taeoin1i.I lie nee. ? iin-- oi linina livehh - ' coin 1 [ .1 I led ih in in a.i- n I lo their hn-nn >.? and i ... 1 i - hut 111 11 eluu eln;> above ^rnuinl I We: e U" el ted. a la 1 I 111 In \ t re -id I 11 _ l Ml iii rated i \ t lm -1 ty. - of lie- m u t \ is hi I ill la ae; ol I he ejil't il A1 :i i< V V et'e l.hl'oV.'ll I iii . j i- o -iiia iy were to. nr. d :;.id slain, t Ai till- | ' loii, and al lieijin nt 11.t rvals oo' li e 1. .-e lo-i eeoinri tin pa_:.ui < ii-i w i- / al- u- in h>s own woislup the | ll.iihe.o i - ii..ill ttlmw r ln-d In '. ..f if\ aspi!:; .ij, i;n-i his j -i- Id . -i. nr th- | .'.iii a i e|- w ho (mo i. d his w-'inily p - t-si had only 1 to i in tim.e Iiiiii t i ;he | i. .lie ;tnt 1 iorities. . it In- was a I'hri-tian, to s t.-!\ his zeal, ie- in.ilit'i . oi hi- eiipiditv v t 11 ' a iaii. ;in "i!;c r ! 111 i 11 p ior - h ah-'i'l. | i*. >ii< 1 of III- I a 11 k I.,- iv .III* ' 1 i<?11. a- ;i I iv..lit.' ni tin* p,,nl .*ii< 1 phi- i I-| I.; .11 r.i.", do liujitishcl Into- ll 1?v lii-lull lit :11111 z il j .iimI in im way in ore s tli.mi by the activity with which In- put-mil th mi inic- ill tic "l?l I'rii inn. cn-hi iu.' l in r the Iw-toiy literati! c, an i uts ul l-onic. t In utic ul li i? i v | - iitim.. apain-t the | ('hi 1sti.iu-, lie entered tin- house of \_rip |>a, a eiti/.eu of hiph ]>??11iun, who had been licensed as a c invert In the new and drs- t pined fa.ill. lie did not tiiul liltu. There e were < 'hristi in- everyw here, even in the " imperial | alnee, ami one of tliein had warn- t ed A um ippa of hi" d impel lint III place at a ( lit 1stniti, Wli<Hji ho j Would have jnvl ull' diap- jed to prison. to w I,. eoi.-ejued in turn to the torture and the j wild b< i-i.-, ()eiavail Intiiid a yoiinj^ l.idv, j, whose beauty was accompanied with a j sWeetlir-s" which alarmed tin* youuj,' inn* c SUsCC'ptihlc ollieer |, As he knock'1,! |,?r admittance, she met ( him at the pale 11 is soldiers were seatteied an mud the mansion to prevent cs- ; _ cape. Calm and sweet, wiili an ail nt purity itnl of resignation, the maid' e .xiei , o li1. in : " \ till seek my lather,' she said. "lie ^ is not here.' j "Do \nil know where he is?" asked the . Ollieer m.z I I "I ' - ' " , 0 ... ... I 1II1II III .11.111111 II011 lie | Oiirt-ii lull lo culici i! "IT I knew. \v >111 1 you a>k a daughter to i betray her Dither ?" ' 'J IiiiI father is licensed o| lioino a incin* * her of mi inl'.imoils ami Hi|?ci'.st itiotis ?ret, which is rink a\oi iuo to undermine ami deHtmj our am ii'iil religion " "My (alio r, s.iul ('l.ui'liii,' lii'l'Uijjs to no " aii'l not In:: ml..mm- t a;. attach itself M to ilio name of A?ri|ij>a. " "Is not yoin I'atlior a Christian? Does Iti* not wor.-hiji n man who was exeat- '' ted an a tnuliTuetor 1"' "Again you ask a dnugluor to holray her ki i fjther Whoc you have found hiru, b< ki halt answer for himself. He is a man t ruth, ami will not deceive you." Surprised ut the mingled dignity an wee In ess of the beautiful maiden, Octavia vas forced to withdraw, ballled in Iris searcl lint he could not forget her. Sin; cam ke u vision, lie could see the Hash of Ik ace, as she had defended her father; an ic asked hiuiscif the question, which li tad not heen able to ask her, so awed ha te le ii by her presence: "Can she also L ?ne of those Christians whom We have in lertaketi to exterminate cdl tliu face ut th -u.i t h '{" ller image sank deeper and deeper iut lis heart. Her presence?her sphere, i undern philosophers have termed it?lu piritual being had impressed itself upo lis memory and heart in iuetraeable charm era. A senuous woman makes her iuiprc lion upon the sensual nature. An intelle ual one impresses the intellect; but a pur ligh, spiritual, loving woman goes home I he most sacred recess of the human hear itnl when it is said that flic (Jreeks and lb nans know little of the love of seiitiuien ve iuu>t remember that the reason is, tin here were but lew women fitted to iuspii t. The persecution raged on. < )ctavian w; lot so zealous us formerly; but tlie tauu if h s companions spurred him forwar hie day one of his spies brought lliin wot hat lie had found the entrance to one < lies cret hiding-places of the Christian Losing no time, he to.ik a tile of soldier ind billowing his guide, came to the e ranee of one of the cutuc-uiuhs. They d >eeU(led'to the dark passages, their ste] ighted by torches. 1 letavian read tlio ii >ci tpitons on tlie graves of the martyrs 1 ..i-( (Mas ol persecution. lie heard inns tin- l.u distance, sounding as it it can Yum tlie bowels ot' tlie earth. Then can in-suiulvi'(it iiietMise. Following the jnuii vvith stealthy .-"eps, they eaiiie to a subte nnvaii chapel crowded with wurshippet 1 hey wore all upon their l^neos in a postu ?f adoration, while a w hitc haired old pries ?ioil ill tloWliiii vestments, stood betorc i i! ar, made of a martyr s tomb. I he armed men leathered ill the dai pace in the hack ot the chapel, lor the i ar Was lighted with tapi rs, -md lamps we .nspcmh d lioin the c "tlinjj. All was liusln n a proh.uml silence tor a few moment lluii tin worshippers rose, and a wonia nr ino her head, saw the soldiers, and w -urpriscd into a shin k. The vimcrabie priest turned fiotn the ; iar, and approached Oetaviaii. "Is it I for wlioin you search?" tic aske 41 am ready. I.cad oil." liut le f .re (h't.iviau could "ive an ord o his so liers, another form stood be to iiin. Claudia, in her white purity?Cla I.a. in her more than mortal beauty, as eci.'eii to (tetaviaii. threw herself betWC( IIIII Ulld I lie a'^ei I pi Mist, uiid said : "I am the ?ne he seeks. Look upon III am a Christian. Carrv me to vuur jitd^c iriuj: me to the emperor. ^ oil will ue? in proof ?1 avow it I am a t hri-tia a a\? : hi old iii...i ?leave these poof j.c le. \ oil want a victim ? I will h.diu ' 'U." \uripp.i. her tat!; r took her net illy 1 he a iii. Mid sai .: Not toy i ll 1. What can he tla' i_n.ti-t i hy \oiiili ami iiii.ee nee' It is o, w h uii he sc k- 1 lite i- he who s 111e 1 ii i a( home i h"i' I am, sir; von slid lot tie a second tint" di-ap; icnt' ij Alas! lor Oeiiiiati TJ;o -yV who h : 111111 I. :n wa- a 1 -ii a spv it] on him, ai voiild ii t ! il to oi\e ii itiee o| .t \ lack id iity to tic i iii| i'1'.r ami the law-. 'I I oldier.-. ion, act iii" it11.1 *i* his orders, mini 'i | il't a?aill-t Iii lit, he 11 a? 1 no < hut. e 1/1 oaric-t .-<one one. and how c mitt he retu. ho-' who ojh'tcd theluselvi's W ill, a puiu, which wiiit to his heal ) lavi.ill i>i"ii? red the soldiers to arrest tl il'iest and A ; < 11'||-, . \\ id \ u iel at rest me also.' asL?.d t la ha. "\\ hi re are if v 1 -ttetn ?" Mini nil loldiim un her little hands with a smile. "Let iin ti alewei for their deeds," -a letavian. "\\ e need not burthen ourselvt Mlh WolUCll." | o,i with nnv father and my prie-t aid the heioie will. \\ ho Will hilidi lie : >he kn w that il was to the prison. ho relumed lo i? liit- rods, li \\; 0 tortuii-, ??r those more infamous and tihle outrages so iniudi \v<use than an 01 lures t<> the Chi i>tian maid .i,uud whit m:;iii lit?nn? 11: 1 not hesitate to i11Hie Vutl (li rr \va? death?s*l?ts l> nevv it wel ili knew it; and yet there ensued this e: r.iordinary spectacle Men, women, an v 11 children, pressed forward, find sail lake ine al>o!" and held out their hum o the Ii hat i ins. Oetavian drove tliein hack, and ordere he sij.iit.rs to take the prisoners he ha elected ii?- < ti'iid net hinder Claud loin eoino I,the s -le lit her father, le could hut have taken her and llowiihere \\ as no suck possibility. lie w? oinpt lied to lead on <o the prison, and Ij ad no power to resist, when the pcerici limlia, 111111lii <_r the hand ol her lathe aid to the jailor: "1 also am a Christia - lock me up with my lather." < Ictavian, tilled wits.- love, remorse an espair, went to tin- palat e of the er_pei\ nil iirtth* his report. Mr <-i >11 It I not st.i !ir coi'iisr of what Home considered justice I knew the course ??!'the trial, for It i I Imii a witness to many such. II new tlir tortures that would he applied t i,it delic ate woman, scarcely more than liild. ami lie knew, also, and shrank i ^otiy IVoin the far more horrihlc outrage ) \v ieh she might ho exposed. The trial was over. Tho aged pries te lather ot his hclovml, ajni she wtios uage never lelt him nieht or ay, wer ntcneed "to the lions What a joy t nine - ('h rist m /m* da It tit it s / The of ry rang out nnee more fr.ni the foroeiou Ionian nioh. The- (\Liistiaus to the lions Oetavian resolved to in ike one effort t ive them. He threv himself upon hi tiers before ?hc good emperor the vjc if emperor, anil begged hi in to pardon tlies I three Christians. J I "Three Christians !" said the philosophi ? Marcus Aurelius. "Wlij should we foi , give three Christians? Have they bet 1C tried!" ;r "Yes, sir.** j ' "Condemned ?" 1C " Yes, sir." "Then they must be punished. \Vh ,e ever hears of a Christian being pardoned The religious trunijuillity of the empir l0 le juires that the impious sect should b exterminated." 0 No more hope. The day came; the en ls peror went to the umph'tbo'tMe, and U< .,. tavian attended him. '1 he old priuut, stain ,, itig in the uiidst of the arena, his hamJ i?. spread out in prayer, vias devoured Ly ^ great Numidian lion. Agrippa, lather i Claudia, sank under the spring of a fcr< L, cious tiger; and as his bones were heard t u crackle in his jaws, seventy thousand Roman l; sent up shout,} of triumph and applause, t,. lfu even this blood-thirsty mob wa hushed to silence, which gave place to murmur of admiration when CI. udia, pal IC as a lily, but with a higher beauty thu over, walked with a gracelul dignity int the arena. She gazed around a momen ts her eye pausing with a look ot teudar pit Lp j on the group ot officers behind the etupero J ?Then she looked up to lleavcu ill whicl uj' alone ?<hc trusted, and which uow scduc s ' open to receive her. s> | Two lions bounded forward from the tw ' sides ot the arena. Jiut they had not hul e. way reached her, when an oflicer of tli ,s : imperial suite sprang into the arena, an quick as lightning was at her side. Th [,( ' eniperior, who was not a cruel mail, mail jc 1 a sign to rescue them. It was too hit lt; llelore the guards conM gain the aren lc two more martyrs had moistened its sain lc, ' with their mingled blood?two more sou r. ! hud ascended to heaven. re i liivui niice. ,t | As there has been no time within our r in , collection when it was of more importaiu I for parties to scrutinize the character an rp | solidity ul tile guarantees they hold of tli ,|. description named as the h adiug of th ) ,. article, We take pleasure in culling the a .,| teutioii ol our numerous patrons and reat ... ers to one ot the leading institutions of tli i,t country, ?iz: 1 lie Home Insurance Colt us | puny, of New ^ oik, as peculiarly entitle I io their consideration and regard as bciu t|. : what it purports to he, an "Insurance Con ! pany;' for with its large paid up eapit. and accumulated surplus, together aiuouti iug to in al ly otic and a half million of do er lars all Si curelv invested- it* iwtivn ,.>.1 t. iv | tclligcnt Hoard of Directors, selected l'roi u- | among tlie best business men of the com it Lry; its widely extended and largely it ii j creasing business through its agents, can j fully appointed in all the urincipal c ta e. and towns in the I nited States; its fuiruc: 1 in adjusting and promptness in paying a d holiest losses, it stands second to none, an u. ; p.esi nts inducements to all who seek to lj ti. ( protected against loss by that most destrui ,v\ 1 live element?Fire, ami who, when the i pay their premium, wish to know that the ,i, ' have paid it lor i>al protection, and tht i be tree hum all cure and anxiety as t ,v wln tiiei, il they should be so unlbrtuiuit | as to one their property by the ravages < In tire, they may rely upon indemnity withoi ,|| quibbling or unnecessary delay. W'elear i that in the competition now so rile in th ,d i as well as in most other kinds of husiucs ,d and forming one ut the marked eharacte i-tiesoj tin- age, many ol the weaker ela; i,. ot companies, and those recently or^inizclit are ottering their policies at rateswnicit n? i;t ! only the older and more prudent underwr M. ti is. hu* raga, ions business men g.-neralb ; regard as inadequate ?i <1 unsafe. '1 h t, must, we think, lead to the winding up i j,. iiuuibers id this class; indeed this pri.ee. may be said to have coiniueneed alread v b I.. the explosion recently of some two'ir ihrt t whose soundness bad been more tlia doubted, and whose reckless manner i id doing bus;u >. iiad excited much Cotuiueli , > among t .' iiisuianee frutorntty. We 1 gard litis mutter of Insurance very uine 1" as we do the employluent of a physiciai rc and in both eases would have only the lies Who would for a moment think ol'etiiplo' It ing a doctor simply because he ottered i (> tU nd bis patients ami administer his tin i*. dninesat one half or two thirds the pri( v .diarge I by the old ami well -trie.J pl.ys h eian, whose xpcriuncc is h<s reliable cap t tab" Surely no one in bis senses Woul || thus risk his life or health, or that ot b , l.iimK' tin* ilo> t i n ?1 J , . . . i Wi HIV olllil 11 Ml\ I 11 1? 11 ?| which he ini*^lit he tempted to euiplo I: such aii cmpiric Ami so in regard to th |.. matter of insuianc.e. Wha* we wait i j cert tin security not that which is doubtU j or which may ea se us a single thougl (j or care in regard to it^. security in time ? M need?uieh is not worthy the name of it I j- Mir.dice, and is hut little hetter than a nn i gambling operation, both on the part of *li uoiuit.al insurer and the party who aecepi (1 tbe policy; lor it the fuiiueroUers his jodic at a rate below what experience, has t.iugl 1 can he remunerative, how can he expei ' : ultimately to meet his engagements; he j therefore playing a more game of gral j while the party who pro -ures such on n< ' count of the low price depends upon the ui 1 certain hope that it 'In sustains loss it wi be wliih the inotwtvtiou is yet able to pay' a fallacious hope in many instances. Then ' fore we would say, if any attempt at insui ' i au.ee is to be made by paying premium an " accepting a policy, let it be done in canvas and let there be no doubt about it, by di " ing business only with companies which ar known to bo soundand well managed, eve if they will not tempt us with the low rate ' offered by novices and mere adventurers i this business We find we have made '' longer paragraph than we bad WtcndeC ? but he importance of this subject of misui ' ance, especially to the particular class o * uiiinuinty among whom our pnpe circulates, and uiore especially as we con o mJ. r that the view we have here presentei > bus not had due consideration generally o must be our excuse * ,V J f'nthfinder A c Yl?? Zouave* In \eu l'ork. The Zouuvcs from Chicago are making c a sensation in New York. They gave a r- public exhibition at the Academy of Music n on Thursday evening, which was attended by u very huge audience, composed prin cipally of ladies. The Tribune thus describes their exhibition : The soldiers of the Twelfth, seated in a o section of the stockholders reserved for them, were as much wrought upon by the e mechanical effects of the splendidly Zouave c ranks as the less intelligent observers. They lrotjuently gave the cue for applause, i- Mid were at Icugtli so surcharged with > generous admiration that they Could -get 1- no relief but by three cheers and a tiger Is for the corps. Distinguished military cliara acters, in the private boxes and in the )t wings of the stage, were equally moved. )- Spontaneous coint ustion was the fate of any o individual. There was no resisting the is regular fall of feet upon the boards, the . unfaltering front bearing here and there is the sympathy of all the arms of all the a finger-ends th-:t controlled and operated le ! ihcni, the certainty of response to the n most delicate call, the dash and ardor of ,u the young men, the pictures jucncssi.f their t, every attitude, tli liappy lightness of their y carriage, the novelty of many ot their tacr. tics, the confidence of their boyish captain. i, ! Several new wonders of discipline were d ' revealed?a sharp support ot arms; a side step fur symmetrical position; a silent drill o j of loading and firing at will, the looks click f I ing one click, and the butts rapping one ie j rap ; a lock step in which, linked by each d , other's arms, the corps moved like some < c novel siir.ke, coiling and dragging in its ! le length. There were rare advances to the e. very footlights, and orderly dispersions i, when clashing seemed certain, attitudes ta Is ken so suddenly that tin; br??iili ?m?c K..1.1 Is an J brilliant exploits beyond the reach even of the simplest description. The exercises wire divided into live parts, the intervals of which were filled with music; c- none of it, of course, was martially distino c tive. rnusedtosuch confinement, thoactors d sullercd greatly from the heat, and imbiic bed copiously of the iced water provided is behind the scenes. Several were forced to t- withdraw irom service by inability to keep 1- their feet upon the polish* d Hour, e The prone movements Were those that i- most excited all the people. Several Jiad d not been seen belore. The livjly turn-down g of the men, vulgarly designated the "be i ly- novcment," (although, truly, the word il was more used than cither stomach or abt dotucii in the period of .Jonah and theorigi1 nal J'rincc of Wales, and wus deemed rjuito i- proper,) provoked hilarity. But "the ren spouse to the orders to load and fire in horii antal position was. perhaps, the climax of i- the evening's wonder. Instantaneously the i- lodies revolved and were face upward, und ;> thus disposed, with precisely as much una-s uiiuity as in the common manual of arms, !l the Zouaves loaded their pieces. While d the spectator speculated whether they ic would be discharged at the low level, aim* j- tlu r order brought the whole corps to their y feet, with all the advantage over the enemies v of? ur country with whom the imagination n, e >uld easily people the rear of the stage, o these having shot clear over the outstretch .e ed persons of the gay niu.-keteers. l>uring if an entire intermission the men kept Unit tl >nr, the postures of all being unconstruiuii j edly graceful. Did anybody contrast these is I incomparable soldiers with the melancholy s, j crealuus in uniform which the stage of- i r- ! lcrs as lair representatives of tLt; trade ul ' s war, 11 u<I revert to the sad marches and ter- ] i, rible collisions of the immemorial c r who .1 Constitute the army of Richard.' i- | Nor must we neglect to mention a very . (juaint t ictics that preceded these tactics i. on the ground It \ as in U-v. lock sjt -p. 1 it lire men were involving without confusion their respective l'eet, and as \ stated previously, the line resembled a e | brilliant serpent. 'J here came an order m to halt. 1 he head and tail of the xnitual it came together. At another order u douit 1 bled up. 'fliis phenomenon was caused by - the iue,n suddenly sitting down upon each 1, otners kue ?. pro aling a very pretty i, problem in tin- seance of equilibrium, and t. a convenient theory tor summer pedestrians r- to put into practice. I Ml k Kl>l I'ATIO.NAl. 1 X ST IT I HONS.?A I Sensible correspondent of the New York Herald, writing ijom New Haven eoneern- I | i ing Yale College and its improvements, j ?1 SA.V8: flic changes ma le in the order of oxer- I 1M I cises at V Mile at (lie last commencement liave ' given a new ciiaracter to college life. j\ Looking back from the present, even no ^ farther than one year, the transition I rectus as .sudden as if civilization, by a colossal stride, bad brought us down from (j. the feudal times. Tito very thought of ( being shocked out ol' one's dreams at such unseasonable hours as was formerly the "way we had at old Vale," makes one fancy ^ those tinier of utorinng and evening prayers so be trudiiionary, "chapel rushes" somean^ oieiit uiyth. an I that the disgrucciul Conduct connected with the old ctnpcl services ^ were the sacrilegious rites of some lar-olf barbarous age. Students now have break / fast at 0.30 a. in., prayers at 7.30 n. in., re( citation at S a. in. where formerly prayers |i were attended at f?.30 a. n?., recitation im* mediately alter, and breakfast at 7 a. in.. and such appetites! Chapel exercises only ' i one each day are now what they should be. d Zor.w'K.?-The word "Zouave" is genf' orally a.ud incorrectly pronounced as a word > }' ol two syllable*. J t should tie spoken as if ; 1 written Ztravc. the a the Italian , " sound as in "fan." The name is derived j s from the Arabic- Zouaonoa, a confederacy ! n of the Kabyle tribe, who live on the lueen-; a tains back of A'g ers The original I '? Zouave; in the French service were cotn'. pos'.d of Arabs from the country near \ AJglei*. i- A thov~cg:cI dollar enniagc. made thirty ' il ytars ago, at Middlet< wn, h rtjioneral Jaokson o ride in, lias rec< ntlv been sold for 1 sixteen dollar?- and a half I Isnuc la (lie I'rewldenflal Cam* palgn, The country is now on the verge* of the most dangerous crisis in its history. Young, vigorous and prosperous beyond parallel in the world's h story, daily expanding its popul.it'on and multiplying its resources, the republic, to the external observ. cr, presents 11 most magnificent example to tht beneiitti of her institutions, cherished and support* d hy a happy, industrious, patriotic and united people. But beneath this lair outside there lurks a hidden danger which threatens, before many years have passed away, to overthrow the fabric, and bury in its ruins the liberties so dearly earned with the blood of our ancestors. It w- uld be idle to deny that in the present position of our political affairs the dissolution of the confederacy is more than probable. The cout.try is on tlm five of that great struggle?that sectional conflict?? which was initiated by the old-fashioned ' abolitionists twenty-five years ago, and the first Iruits of which were predicted by Mr. Calhoun immediately before bodied. That accomplished and far seeing statesman declared that the anti-slavery agitation, which had already divided the Baptist, the .Methodist and Presbyterian churches, would in due course of time break up ull the political narties nf tin* A-..I an L-rcii position, aim iit midday lio stood upright; tov,?nis evening be as gradually declined, descending with his tjag head foremost. "On the 28th it retained the same outline, b'U had become a skeleton. On the 2Dth the figure was disjointed, and its parts gradually assumed the appearance of six separate flags, united in a circle by an apparent cord or line. After this nothing more was observed in the sun's disc but a few small spots. The" American papers notice only the extraordinary appearance of the sun on the above mentioned days. # I'erhaps the ohicrvers on the continent were not in a position to catch the proo'so appearance which the particle* u m uter presented to the ship's*company of the Ma jf stir. Theru could bo lio optical delusion on the occasion, as the phenomenon was observed by so many dine*out o\.v>, and tor so long a tiuw The first figure was seen dining the whole of the 27th, thcskeloton on the whole of the 28th, and the fh^gs during a greiU. part of the 20th.v It is said, cn the authority ol official statistics, that there are at present in Europe 18,14b actor*. 21,(500 actresses. 1738 nianagors of theatres; and the number of persons attached, in one way or another, to 1 'untie establishments, amounts to 82,246 r ...v. **i?v* n m uuu that this question did divide and ruin the old whig party, that it killed the Kt>ow Nothing or American organization, and that now it has given the death blow to the , once powerful and well drilled democratic party. The democratic party has ceased fo cxi3t. There are now two great sectional partisan organizations in the United .States?the one a Southern party, supporting Mr. Breckinridge, and the other the Northern abolition faction, represented by Mr. Lincoln. These are the only vital parties and real nominations lor the couI federation of the masses. The other nominations for the Presidency are meroiy personal, and Lave no weight. Breckinridge and LincolTi will have the electoral , t votes; the other candidates will enjoy the empty honor of running for the Presidency and being beaten. The line has been drawn between the two sections of the country, and tho struggle for political supremacy on the part of the North, and political equality on the part of the South, has ?1 ready commenced. **.** That is the real state of the case as It stands.?And now it remains for the conservative men of the Middle and Western States to say what course shall be taken Ui avert the danger that threatens the country. The miiNtinii - ?? ? 1 - , ujjuuaut mm. H is 1'ar above any party Consideration*. The matter lias gone so far that the politicians have no longer uny control over it. At such a time every man should consult interests which are above personal preferences and party ties. We need not paint the horrors which would result Iroui the dissolution of the Uuion. We need not point to the inevitable money panic, the breaking down of the commercial, mining and manufacturing interests of the L'uiou. All this suggests itself to the mind of^every man who his anything at stake in the country. We uiay, liowet$r, suggest that the only Way by which the peace of the country can be preserved is by uniting all the opposition against Lincoln upon one candidate?the one who alone is sure of the Southern States, lfshe conservative men of the North can ho aroused to a sense of their danger, so as to combine fur Mr. Breckinridge, then Lincoln may be defeated; hut, on the other hand, if the black republican candidate should be elected, we can expect no.mug but renewed and more bitter agitation, ending finally in the disruption of trie confederacy and consequent downfall of the republic. Men and brethren, ponder upon these things??.V. Yt 11, rahl. Thk Man in tub Sin--'The inai> iu the moon" is no stranger, but the man in the sun is a personage with which we are less familiar. The (J cut lemon's Magazine, London, for June, lvl.">. announces, under the head of 'foreign occurrences," that "the newspapers. both in America and England, have noticed the remarkable circumstance of an extraordinary phenomenon in the sun I he following is an authentic and correct m?ct unt, tor the truth of which ('apt. Hayes, of his majesty's *Majntiaud too whole of his officers unu ship's company may l>e appealed to : On the morning of the 27th August, Is 1 3, the Majtxtic, i.?ing then oil Boston, the men on hoard observed, itt the vising of the sun, the complete figure of a man in the centre of that luminary, with a n.ig divided by three lines n his hand He was first on his back, 1 at as dav advanced, he gradually assumed