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*** 'v. ?p -* 4 >T"v j . * * v**f? J . ?^?? ??? - - ~ IT THE CAROLINA SPARTAN. I BY CAYIS & TRIMMIEE. Derated faf Southern Rights, Politics, Agriculture, and RtisccUaiui. .22 PEB. AHKUK j " ^ - =r=?*---? -,- . -- . ? - ? ..::: ^ . ae==sqp==..^ I ^ ? -v. _ a - ^.-- -t?- - - -- - - . c~. u ...... - . _ . i_-... ^ .A ... . , . ,_. T?. fOL. XVII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1800. NO.^3. JLULJ - l.J? 1AX-. L . ? 1 .Ul-l 1 : i*'-l'L-LA. j, , i ? -- .af.. .I . ? i.l v .. . ' *' ' * ' 4&U eawuimt .^pavtaw. BY^CA vTs fe TltlM M l Ell. Prioo, Two Qollaus per annum, in advance, or $2.no at the eiul of the .Tear. If not paid Until, after the year expiree $$.00. _ Ho subscription taken for less than aix months. ^ Money may bo remitted through postmaster* our risk. Advertisements inserted at usual rat tut, aiid oontraeis made on reasonable terms. Tiib-Syaetan circulates largely over this and adjoining districts, and oilers an admirable lucrum to our friends to reach cost oners. Job work of all kinds promptly executed. Blanks, Law and Ivpiity, continually on hand, Wf nrinted to order. jiLHi .Correspondence or tIt e Nparlitu. Rusk Co., Texas, .July 10, 1800. Dear 6pakta$ : Having been unemployed f;rthe last three weeks, otving to a protracted drought that has prevailed in this and adjucunt cauntics, I am thrown in a row with the most of the farmers, but little to do; or at least but little that can be done to.profit; and thinking olt of the land of my nativity and my former associates and friends, I had a disposition to sj>cnd a tew d my unprofitable moments giving theni a short communication through your columns, though I have never at any time before attempted to write anythiug for publication. But knowing th'ut many of your citizcus anticipate migration to flu^'Lonc Star State," ^ I wish thorn to be informed of the alai ming condition of most all Eastern Texas in regard to brcadstuffs. It. is true enough food can yet he had to keep all the animal kingdom on foot; but I don't think 1 wo> Id be justifiable in saying, that all get enough to keep their digestive organs constantly at work. They become so active after a person remains in this State a while, that they can perform the functions assigned them with despatch, and generally grind out and crave something more to operate uj on before the accustomed time arrives to give .them fresh supplies. But the great and absorbing question is, how are these supplies tp be kept up till ai.other crop can I c made? Wheat was nearly a failure; oat , .a failure; turn, h failure; and cotton will he a failure if we do not get rain in a short time; and there is lio prospect of that, it is now throwing off the shapes, and tinfirst bolls opening. '1 he grass is p.rolling up rapidly, and without tain wiil so n i. 1 to give-a support to the milch cows of th s eountry; and that will curtail our means of wiittlioilkiioe K<ir ?lw> mllL .,..1 hmi... ...... sumcil here is an important iteui ? neavK hail the support of ntiHiy families. This is indeed a serious time, and will he an epoch .oirfe to he remembered by all who art within its bounds. Hut it is the Ui>t ydnt this county h ut failed to luuke enough to support ilscJi since it has been skilled. The oldest .-iHtlers in this county have lived here alrnut twenty-twoyears, and their testimony in, that the corn Clop |?.l- not ? been a failure before since they scan d jii the county, though it was freijuently cut oil nfbro or less; but not as subject to serious injury from the annual drought.- as the cotton crop. '1 iiis country, according to tin Testimony ol those who live here, nearly invariably bus a dryu:,'lit in the latter part ol the summer season?July and August. Corn is generally matured by that tune enough to make good croj^j but cotton crops arc cut ofl". Notwithstanding the history of this country goes to prove that it, is more subject to (drought than some ol the Kastern St iles, yet it possesses inducements to citizenship that many ol then* do not. The State allows its citizens a Homestead of two hundred acres of land, live cows and calves, one horse, enough provision> lor one year's support, and .at! their household furniture. llcre each citizen is esteemed according .to worth and merit, and not according to family distinctions, and the amount of property he is in possession of. Here the nr of people inform themselves 011 all point* .at issue, and act according to their own .convictions of right and wrong, and nut according as Mr. A. or 11. would say. if money is needed to carry on an iiujportant internal improvement that will l?e ihejuclicial to its citizens, tlicy couic up t ftho work with -unity of strength, each man (WiJiinjj; to Dear liis part. They are ?wt like jour ettizcns wire about tlio KxtciiMon of Abo Spartanburg ami Union fliii I road, raise ji hue and;* cry, and suy, we arc: oallcd upX)u to subscribe to an unimportant work;? that road can never be beneficial to u<. That was a very erroneous notion, I thinkNo road has ever been built tbut was not .beneficial to the section of country through which it paused. It is unnecessary for me here to set forth .wherein the citizens of Spartanburg \vou. I .have been benefitted by the completion of the Greenville and French Itroud Railroad. | That has already been shown thc.u, but they were not open to convict ion, or acted .blindly to their own interest. Now, in my humble opinion, the R*taii-siolt of the Spartanburg und Union Kailroad was an nil-important matter to the citizens of Spartanburg und to the Htuto at' large?one in which all,should have been .deeply interested, because the completion ,of that work would have redounded to their mo unt benefit and commercial prosperity.) But there were so many uiooti ca ves, cur mudgcoQs, and old fogies, thoy would not fcave it. They say, if we build the roud j we aro giving up the rwius of democracy, | suDiiiittiug to u taxation imposed upon by ,our lo&ifchitors to carry on (to out JJis' triot) uu unprofitable Work. The-plan upon which that roud was oflerod your citizens was the most judicious ono thateould-hnve been offered them. '.The Completion of that work., all ought to have soen, would have bevn of incalculable interest; and, inasmuch as'all would have been otpi-illy beueiitted, should not all huvo been willing to pay something tu build it? Strictly speaking, 1 do not think the plan ! offered to build the road ought to have been ' considered a taxation. The tax-payer's were only asked to subscribe in proportion to what they were worth the sum of U7 per cent, on their-general tax?merely showing the aiuouut lbr each to pay .to build the road. No one could have scarcely felt the amount. The citizens of Spartanburg remind nic of souie of our Baptist brethren, belonging to a beautifully-situated church in your District. If it were left to u vote with them, they would vote away the preacher before they would pay him anything lor preaching. 1 think it is a wise thing that so many elections are kept out of the hands of J the people, since they have voted out of ex 1 isteucu an important railroad. X? telling! what they would not vote away. They voted away the Homestead Law, or were so ! much opposed to it, the Legislature repeal- i ed it to satisfy iheui. I should not he sur-' prised at all to Jiear they had voted away \ the road already completed to Spartanburg I 0. H. The stockholders of 'hut rand had , better be very vigilant, and not let the in- ] tcruHl of that road conic to a test vot >. I'Avi.-h my friou.ls well, and my enemies 1 uo harm; but, in good faith, 1 think it would be nothing but right for the Legis- j ture of South Carolina to appropriate funds for the completion of the Blue Ridge lload. If they are uot willing to have, the profits of railroad extension themselves, is it not | rigjit that they should help to extend where they arc willing to have extension ? By the tune the ei izons of .<nu>-t-?iilniri* j is sliJ! found; other urni" (he parents of Oilier hu? an fmuihesand some one. fairer tla~n tlte. rest the ancestor of the I'irea ian.H, w hose superiority over their pioj. nitor was so gr'f-at, that they had rooted hiiu out from thfe earth. All this the Prole voir professes to helieve is iu entire harmony with the hook of (ienesis and wit 11 reason and cointiioii sense. This diseiplu of Darwin is suffered to he at Jarftif in New llai von, and, as he is considered perfectly harmless, there is uo prospect that a writ j </? ImuUico unjiiirenifo will be issued. f Itir/lmuinf Ih fjifitr/i. ? - ?- - ? Ulil.L RlN?;i.N?? I 'm'uk KiiKM i:u.?The CincinnatiCommercial, { Knpulirun,) speaking oj' the Hell and Kverett procession in ; (hat city, says: ' Tliey* came an army with U;lto, all sorts of bells, all kinds of bells, every variety of bells, bi? bells and little bells, house bells and hall bells, dinner bells and COW bells,; bells miscellaneous) , sheep bells and .niptier bells, auctioneers' kills and be'k Tor lost ebi'drcn, ffo ring in the tru.iot*,)plan tufkn bolls and church b-dls, plcigb bells nod breakfast bells, together with all sorts, si&es ami kinds of bells. Sucli an intolerable din never spill the ears of Immunity Jiefur?. It was worse than lorty-six iron fuutidries all going at glide." A mao Mbehind tho titucs" should f> i J on oatch up 1, m . J -?? ? -?? - - - - i? --n i"v | their part of a million or two dollars to I lie ' building oi that road they will cotuo to their J in.Ik. I We have a raTTnoad now located from the j Suhinc 1'ass, to Henderson, the. ecmtv site ! of Kiwk county?a distance of two I I in ilea. The citizens of Husk county ?: only asked to tunseribo o?1 hundred thou sand dollars, anil in one i.enili after t h bowks were opened they had suh.-eiii.n d two bundle thousand dollars. The stoekholdors ol the whole route then ealicl a meeting and made an eutimcte of the prohublu j aniount ol cost?unyle it twelve thousand ! d6ll.tr* per .mile, and h>uinl tliey already had subset ibed twelve thousand and live) hundred per uitlo. So you .-ee tin: citizens f llus' epuitty cone ii|> to.the w uk wit a hold front in the whole route <>' uui j road thuro arc it.> water courses to ero.-> i and hut little heavy grading. In families' like the joesi nt J.his Stole ! thinks of her citizens. '1 lie Legislature r j Texas no doiiht will snspmi 1 the cohesion | of debts by law. ill th** tana rs can ral.?* | j -nine eoiitnio lilies lot m a>!.* ;i<,.o 1 bin;.. some eireu. ifin eu e. e m I to lujuidntc it etc ' a k j j? ltd the lio'tLi* till br? ads mi ... The larniei - ' efe tit , : ' iy ??f tvfur' ie . ' he Slate vif uotluy. ior'tt i will have to *'go to gr-s- o i.n< i good Country. l'eiii..j> inoie in lue .mure _ cakb;JSSS. | M an a Mo.nkkv.? 1 lie American .I?>urj nal ol Seterure and Arts, eoiniueted l>\ tl.e ]'rol<a^5rs Silliiuun an i . i> l>.mi o>.l pub i.-ltotl at New 11 a veit, tiMin.. Iia ait ,?j'ticie by I'lolosur riicophiius i'arsnus.^in , which lie maintain? tli.it tlx- la.tn.n i.l in in bci e; Lorn from an animal ilm> not > ami in .In* way of positive revelation, am! i- not in opposition to all religion* bclii is. lie admits that mm is superior in decree to; animals, and is immortal, which 'h arc not. Ho is not >uro, howov r, tli.it animals hcreaftor will o Milium* wi'yoiit souls Measures u- that he would not he disturbed by the discovery, if science should here after doiuoiistrato that .he gorilla or tin ch.unp in/., o bad eiveii hirtli to olF>prin^ > organized that it could he inspired V '(! the bieath of spiritual and immortal life had become the subject of ill tin attributes [ of huinati nature. flic learned profess .r.i? also of opinion that reT.^inn would in nowise be disparaged, even if RCicuec should hereafter solve a ?reat proLleiu in cthnolo*' I gy, ami account i?.r the ditluen' toe? of men, by showing that tlie b o.vn oiiran^outum; that jives .utmii" the browo .Malays was their progenitor; the l^ae k gorilla i|.t. father of the biack races, amour ivli.nu I... OUH STOHY, From the New York MeryurJ. THK CATACOMBS OF HOME. < 1 Tule the SxluiuI UltrixfiaH Catlnry Tjio traveler who visits the Iluine of toilay, if a classic scholar and anti<|uuriuti. oo cujiiOs himself with the ruins ul ancient Kouiu?that "Mother of Dead Umpires. The ruined temples. triumphal archies, it. script ions, medals, coins, nru lull of interest to him. Seated 011 the summit of the (Japi toline 11 ill, or on the nmrpurts of the Coli scum, he rebuild* the ancient oity, making it rise around him in iniH-ive crandeur ait stood in the days of the Closure. The artist who visits Homo spends hit time in tho galleries of pictures and statu.. ( rv; or, if he visits the chuiches, it is to visit I "Tho laist Judgment" of Michael An^elo | "The TransB^nmtioii" of Ksffel; the won dei till frescoes of the Sistiiic Chapel, or tfit 1 woihs of art that crowd St. Peter's." lie eares little lor the Koine of two thousand years ago. or the Komcuf to day. except in I so far as they contribute in tho enjoyment ^1 his favorite t urenit. While th J re is a Koine lor ilio artist and another tor the untiipiary, there is a third Koine for the Christian visitor.?a Koine ol three hundred churches, with St. Peter's, u world in itself, and the treasures accumula ted through fifteen cent niies in the N'ati can. lit this be finds a world which o en pica all his attention And when lie ha.seen all that presents itself upon the earth* surface, we liml that there is another lloriu beneath the ancient city?the Kuiue of tin Catacombs. Why these cxcavatiotiB were made originally no history informs us. Hot in tin second century oi our era, tb? \ were used by tile <'hristians in Koiiie as place.- of re l'u^e from persecution, id secret worship and for the burial of tho dead. Here wen deposited the bones of the martyrs, tin bones of those who were devoured by tin I ...It,I I.-,!..... .1-' ? . . . 111 nit- ;i III III 11II :?! |-f. niiil tin i ashes ?>t' Iliyse who wore hunted ut the .stake I These catacombs arc o( ^reat extent i There arc Inti^ ;rullerieK, with reecsscs on i each side Tor inirial, lookim.* like the tier.of berths in our steamboats. When tin ! body or relic* wan deposited, the tvccs->wa> walled p ami plastered over witli cement ami the inscription, giving the name aim ' U;j,0 ut the deceased, ahd eomiucmliuo hisoul to the prayers* ftlie faithful, was eurv e l in stone or made in the suit mortar. I lamps ate found which were kept lighted helot'e tin* "raves of the tonrtyrs, cither a? a mark <>l veneration, or '0 liphr those wh> I came there to pray; ami in many of tliOe* I tombs are iotiml phials ol martyrs blood | and the instruments ol their torture. ?n vuinxn r?*;iuer, w n?t can mil ?jr? ti K urn*, xv.il liinl hi tin- A-tnr Library. .tin i.Mii see. it' lie finds tin* li'irari.i!) in _omhi humor, iw.i nr three lat'ae lo.iu volume-. mi vrh'cu rt> triHeri.-s. eh . iuIm .imj r. lies nt th? e i!ne in * ?rc re mi?'ii e 1 wi li | a rn ,-t r y . i . i lie < ha pel- nt the -e e -li I en . ' m 'mere-'. e ?mi :ii i h .< -eh i Mi ! c j e-, h>- will ti nl oi tii i? e ures. V It.I li show thcenr \ iviii u? ' Im -t nil ait. ami *in 1 i -i n .j.i. jiI.M :^;i hy |!n? !, en a..it i . ? iitut pteiit; .-. ul pine is ui i l.r'S xx ' lit}. i.ii .- * \ '. n- in he - ml i* iitln s L?ivii- it.n u- \nt?ni.ijs 1 In- phtlm-opher ix etiij.i rm \ ti ii ami imral jn-i mil i.m . t iu\ e I h't 'ill I la us 1111 lie en t net nubI lie iiiv.'-siticx Ml lining ,i l.x.-t.h ! c..in pel led (It uj in nil. ml In their Ini-ine-.- nml 1.11 m1i.? hut I heir eliurches aliuve ??r mml Urre de-el ted, ami tie m\ It ries nf leli^mti in i hinted 1 ' tlie graves ul' tin- lii'irt\rs III t he him iiImiI t lie earl Ii. .Manx v ere thrown ilit.i pii-.m -tn.i .y were trn mr. tl ami .-lain At t lit- p. : eel, and at lieiiteut int. rval.ilill'ili^ the three lil'st eeulute-; the pa^aii . lei via- Zeal'>U> in In- nwn w.n.-lii|i?the malic.on- ii.mi whuu.eiieil In u<'.ittl'y a spin axji.u-i hi- r.eijzhhor. <.r the piiindt rer xx lie Cuvereil his Worldly p''.-.-e--toi: li.el only tn lieimtllice III ill tu the |iu'..lie nut lenities it' In was a Christian, tu s ti !y In- zeal, In- in.il.ee. or In- eupiility. ( t.ta'.iaii, all ullie r .l t le-i inp. riu -hii-e hnl.l, prmel ol In- lank, his xx. ilili ami his pii-itinii, as a lavnrite nl the unod aiei phiI.nilij Lie.il eUlpe.r.C, do tiiu ni-hc.I litiii- !| hy his talent ami zeal; and in mi xxny iimr. than l>y the activity xxiih which le pur-u.d the enemies ul tie old reii nui. enshrined in the history liunatu c. an ) nts ol J'.utne In one ol Ins expeditious a^ain-t the Christian-, ho entered lie- house ul' \ _rrij> pa, a citizen ol' htjzh position, who had heeii uccuseil as a c invert to the new and des pitied faith. lie did not find hitu. Then; were Christians everywhere, even in the imperial palace, and one of them hud waru ed Agrippu ot his danger. lint in plane ut a Christian, wlnmt he would have joyfully dragged to prison, to hi- consigned itj turn to tin- tortill'e and the wild beasts, < tut&van found a young ladv, whose beauty was aceoinpained with 11 sweetness* wliie.h alarmed the young and susceptible ollieer As lie knocked for admittance, she tin t him at the gate. His soldiers were .scattered around the mansion to revcut escape. Calm and sweet, with an air of purity and of resignation, the inui<J*u UK't him: "Ymt seek my father,' she Mtid. "He is not here." "Jloyou know where he is?" asked the officer, gazing at her with an udmirataon InCured not to conceal. "If I knew, would you a>k a daughter to betray Irr father ?" '' J hat father is licensed of being a member of an infamous and superstitious seel, which is endeavoring to undermine and destroy our ancient religion." ".M j father, ' isjtmI Claudia,''belongs to po sect, and uothiug infamous r an attach itself to the uamcruf AgripptL " "la not your father a Christian ? Hoes he not wor.-hip a man who was executed a* a malefactor "Again you ask a daughter to betray her fat-bor VS'lieo you have found hint, lie ] shall answer far himself. He is a man of truth, and will not deceive you." Surprised at the mingled dignity and sweetness of the beautiful maiden, Octavian was forced to withdraw, bullied in his search. Ilut lie could not forget her. Bhc came l.ke a vision, lie could sec the flush of her face, us she had defended her father ; and I *he asked himself the question, which he luid not been able to ask her, so awed had he le n by her presence: "Can she also be t one of th >se Christians whom \Ve have undertaken to exterminate off the luce of the . earth?" ; ller image sank deeper and deeper into I his lie-art. ller presence?her sphere, us modern philosophers have termed it?her i spiritual being had iimpressed itself upon his memory and heart in iueffueuble charaoi, ters. A snnuoux woman makes Iter iinprcs; sion upon the sensual nature. An intellectual one impresses the intellect; hut a pure, > high, spiritual, loving woman goes home to I the most sacred recess of the human heart; I I and when it is said that the Greeks and Uunraus know little of the love of sentiment, we must remember that the ren.-oii is, that there were but lew women fitted to inspire I it. I The persecution raged on. Octavian was f not so zealous us formerly; but the taunts i of h s companions spurred liiui forward One day one of his spies brought him word that lie had found the entrance to otic of ; tho s cret hiding-plates of the Christians. . ! losing no time, ho took a file of soldiers, . and following his guide, came to the eti: trance of one of the < utacuinhs. 'J hey de scended'tu the dark passages, their steps lighted by torches. Octavian read the inscriptions on tho graves of the martyrs of past eras ol persecution. He heard music I ] i the far distance, suu'iding as if it came j from the bowels of the earth. Then came , ! tile Stlioke of illccrisc- I'ulliiW n" th.. . -- ** < > with stealthy steps, they came to a subter mm.hi chapel crowded with worshippers. : They were ail upon their l^necs inn posture ot'adoratii u, while a white haired old priest, . robed in flowing vestments, stood before an al ar, made of a martyr's tomb, i The aVnied iucu withered in the dark > space in tin* back of the chapel, lor the al tar was lighted with tapers, and lamps were i suspended from the eei'ing. All was hushed . i in a prol. m.d silence for a few moments. I; ( In ii tin worship) i ts rn.?c, and a woman. . I tur ing her head, saw the soldiers, and wu> I surprised into a sliii* k. The venerable priest turned fiotn the al1 i tar, and approached Oetaviati. i "Is it I for whom \on search?" he asked. "1 am rc.uly. I.ead on." Hut before Oetavimi could give an order to his so: liers, another form stood before him. Claudia, in her white purity?Claui d.a. in her mora than mortal beauty, as it 1 ->eoi;uul to Oetjviaii, threw herself between 1 | linn and the aged priest, and said : i > "1 aill the Hie lie seeks. Look upon me. [ 1 1 am a Chiisri.ni. Cnirv me to your judges; i bring me to the em pi r<<r. You will need ( no proof?1 avow it I am a 1 hri*>tiau. .eaii- 'hi old in...i ? leuvc these poor pen* I le You want a victim ? 1 will tbjiow ! y >u." \urippa, her lath >r. took her gently by the a m. ;.nd sat i: \<u so my ehi: 1. What can he have j .i _ . 11-t >hy y I'll ill ami iiiime nee' It is 1 toi w horn he set k- 1 his i^ he who sought 1. ; me at home liete I am, sir; v*>u shall not he a second fini" disappointed." A I.is ! Im* Oct.ivian Tl.e who had brought Iran was also a spv upon liiiu, ami i would ii t ! d to ii'\e notice o| i y lack ol I 1 Ii i h i it \ to the in j eror ami the laws. 'I he i soldiers, too, sietiuo under his orders, uiiaht i report ngaim-t liiin. in* ti.nl no ? t,ui.c bet i to ai rest some one, and how cuilt! lie ret use thus-' w ho ollered tlieinselx e> ' \\ it It u pang which want to his heart, i tletaviau ordi red the soldiers to arrest the priest and Apt' . ' \\ ill \ i ii not arrest rue also' asLed Clja? i in i. lu ri' are my l-fieis?" said flu-, holdiu. ui? ln-r little hands with a smile. nu n an-wci fur tlieir dee Is," said ' )eta v lan. \\ e need 11 < >t burthen ourselves Willi WulUI'll." I f:? Willi ;ny lather and my priest!" -iid llie hcion: gill. Who will hinder me She kn.-w lint it was to the prison. It she i?!used to -acnli.- o li.e gods, it was o tort lire, or those more infamous anil terrilde outrages -o lunch worse than any toi lures to the Christian 111. i i ! ,1,uml which | i.an Koine del not hesitate to intliet \nd tli re wa- death?.-lie knew it Well. All knew it, and yet there ensued this extraordinary spectacle. Men, women, and even children, pressed forward, nnd said: ' lake mo also!" and held out their hands to the l>ai hai ians. Ovtaviau drove them baek, nod ordered the soMii.rs to take the prisoners he had selected. H<- could not hil)der Claudia fioin going l.y the s-de ot her/at her. If he 01 <itlii hut have r;ik -tr her and flown?there was no sucW possibility, lie was compelled to lead on to the prison, and he had no power to resist, when the peerics* Claudia, holding the hand of her lather, said to the jailor: "I also am a Christian I ? lock me up with my father." Octavian, filled witi. love, remorse and I despair, went to the palace of the euipercr ami made his report. lie could not stay the coruse of what Koine considered justice, lie knew the course of the trial, for lie! had het ii a w itness to nemv uiwh I' ?J . "v I knew fltotoituicstli.it would be applied to that delicate woman, scarcely more than a 1 child, and he knew, also, and shrank in agony from the far more horrible outrages to which she might bo exposed The trial was over Ti)0 aged priest, the father ot his hcloved, ijid eho whose image never lelt him night or ay, were sentenced ' to the lions " What a joy to Koine ?('h rift in tut* <"t hout* ! The old cry rangont once in we ti in the ferocious Horu an moh. Tb# Christians to the lions! Oetavinn resolved to in ike one effort to save them. He thro'" In no-elf upon ?iia knee* before ?h? good emperor the hyo emperor, and begged him to pardon tl; I three Christians. 'Three Christians 1" said the philosop i Murcus Aurelius. "Why should we give three Christians? llave they b tried!" 1 44 Yt?.H ijir ** * I- "Condemned ?" ' "Yes, sir." "Then they must be punished. V ever hoars of a Christian being pardon The religious tranquillity ot the etn| requires tliut the impious sect should ! exterminated." No more hope. The day eaiue; the pcror went to the auiph'tbcatre, and tavian attended him. '1 be old prioat, sts iug in the midst ot' the arena, Ins ha spread out in prayer, was devoured L great Xuimdian lion. Agrippa, tathei Cluudia, sunk under the spring ot a f cious tiger; and as his bones were hoar< crackle in his jaws, seventy thousand lloia sent up shouts of triumph and applause. liu even this blood-thirsty mob hushed to silence, which gave place t murmur of admiration when CI udia, | as a lily, but with a higher beauty t over, walked with a graceful dignity i the arena. Shu gazed around a uiom her eye pausing with a look ot tctidjr | ; on the group ot officers behind thecmpe ; ?Then she looked up to Heaven in wh alone she trusted, and which uow scei 1 open to receive her. Two lions bounded forward from the ; sides ot the arena. liut they had not It way reached her, when an officer of imperial suite sprang into the arena, quick as lightning was ut her side. euijierior, who was not a cYuel man, m a sign to rescue tlieiu. It was too 1 Itelore the guards Could gain the an two more martyrs had moistened its s? ; with their mingled blo<ai?two more si bad ascended to heaven. IiiMurnuce. As there has been no tune within out ' collection when it was of more iuijiortu I for parties to scrutinize the character i solidity of the guarantees they hold of I description named as the h adiug of aitiele, we take pleasure iu calling the tention ol our numerous patrons and r? I crs to one of the leading institutions of j country, \ iz: The Home Insurance C i pauy, of New York, us peculiarly untf | to their consideration and regard as be ' what it purports to he, uu "Insurance C ! pauy;' for with its large paid up cap and accumulated surplus, together aiuoi ing to nearly otic and a half million ot lars all securely invested; its active and tclligoiit Hoard of Directors, selected 1" j among the beat business men of the cc Lry; its widely extended and largely I creasing business through its agents, ci j fully appointed in all the principal e. and towns in the United States; its fairi * iu adjusting and promptness in paying holiest losses, it stands second to uuue. pi est uts inducements to all w ho seek t?. piotccled against loss by that utost desti ' tive eleun nt?hire, and who. u-h.-n j pay their premium, wish to know that t | have puid it for j<ul protection, ami t j be free from all e.ire ami anxiety as wln-thor, il they should be so unfortut as to loan their proporty by the ravages tire, they may rely upon indemnity with quibbling or unnecessary delay. We ie i that in the competition now so rife in t t as well as in most other kinds of husiu and forming one of the marked charac isties of the age, uiuny of the weaker c ot companies, ami those reccntlv or-Anii i arc offering tlieir policies at rates whioit only the older and more \ 'adent under' t< i-. t i.? lag.utoy.s business men genera regard as inadequate ami unsafe. '1 must, we tliink, lead to the winding Up numbers of this class; indeed this pm may be s.nd to have commenced already the explosion recently of sonic two or 1)1 whilst; soundness had been more tl doubted, and whose reckless uiaiiiier doing business iiad excited much com in among the insurance fraternity. We ganl i lii.s matter of Insurance very ui :?i> we do the employment of a physici and in hot li eases would have only the h Who would lor a moiucut think of euip iug a doctor simply because lie offered tU nd his patients and administer his dieinesnt one half or two thirds the pi ;harged by the obi and wclj-tried p?cian, w hose xperieiico is his reliable ci t il.' Surely no one in his senses wo thus risk his life or health, or that ol laiiuly, for the sake of the small saving which he might be tempted to enij such an empiric And so in regard to I matter of insurance. Wha* we wmi Cert tin security, not that which is doubt or which may ca so us a single thou, or care in regard to its security in time need?such is not worthy the name of sniince, and is but little better than a tu gambling operation, both on the part of 'nominal insurer and the party who new tl>c policy; for if the former offers his p<* at a rate below what experience has tau, , can l?e remunerative, how can he exp ! ultimately to moot his engagements; In i therefore playing a more game of gt while the party who pro -urea such on count of the low price depends upon the certain hope that if h< sustains loss it i be while the iii^t. tvtiou is yet able to pal a fallacious hone in in nitf >i'in.. ... . J . m fore we would say, if any attempt at ins i ni\cc is to be made Ly paying premium t accepting & policy, let it be done in earm and let there be no doubt about it, lining business only with companies which known to be sound and well managed, ?m if thoy will not tempt us with the low ra offered hy novices and mere adventurer? this business \y?? find we have lu.idu longi paragraph than we had intend hut ,the importance of this subject of ins anoc, especially to the particular class the community among whom our pa] circulate?., and more especially as we c> sub r that the view we have hero present has not had due consideration general must be. our excuse -.Y J', pnthfindr -m_ -.u-.-i lcsc Tbc ZouavfN In K?v York. The Zouaves from. Chicago are i?akin{ hie a sensation iu New York. They k*v? i tor- public exhibition at the Academy of Musi ecu on Thursday evening, which was attend e< by a very largo audience, composed prin cipally of ladies. The Tribune thus dc scribes their exhibition ; The soldiers of the Twelfth, seated iu i >'ho section of the stockholder? reaefved fo cd ? them, were as much wrought upon by th< pire mechanical effects of the spieudidly Zouav* be ranks as the less inlcQigout observers They frequently gave the cue for applause eui- ;.ud were at leugth so surcharged will Oc- generous admiration thai they could -g? md- no relief but by three cheers and a tige mis for the corps. Distinguished military char y a actors, in the private boxes and iu th< * ol wings ot the stage, were equally moved ero- Spontaneous com! ustioii was the fate of am i to individual. There was no resisting tin ana regular fall of feet upon the boards, th. . unfaltering front bearing here and then was tiie sympathy ot slit he arms of all .fin o a fniger-enus thot controlled and operate* pule tliem, the certuinty of response to thi iun most delicate call, thu dash ami ardor o into the young men, the picturea jucncsavf thei eut, every attitude, th ? liappy lightness, of thci pity carriage, the novelty ot many ot their Lac ror. ; tics, the confidence of their b?>yisb captain ieh, Several new wonders of discipline wcr ucd revealed?u sharp support ot arms; a aid step for symmetrical position; a silent dril two of loading aud firing at will, the looks click "tit* '1* one click, and the butts rapping on the rap ; u lock step in which, linked by eael aud other's arms, the corps moved like som fhe novel sur.ke, coiling ami dragging in it iade length. There were rare advances to th ate. very footlights, aud orderly dispersion inn, when e!u-hn^ seemed certain, attitudes tn i>?D ' kon so suddenly that the breath was held ouls unJ bril.iaut exploits beyond the react even ot ibe simplest description. The ex fcrcites w< re divided into five parts, the in tervals of which were fillc.1 r rc- none of it, of course, was martially distiiic nee live. I" imsedto such confinement, the actor and suffered greatly from the heat, and imbi the beJ copiously of the iced water provide! this behind the scenes. Sevcr.il were forced I at- withdraw from service by inability to koe| _*ad- their feet upon the polislfrd floor, the The prune movements were those tint out- must excited all the people. Sevyral ^a< lied not been solu belore. The livFly turn-dowi ing of the men, vulgarly designated the "be out- ly- novement," (although, truly, the wori iit.il was more used than either stomach or ab Lint- dotuen in the periodof Jonah and the origi dol ! nal 1'rincc of Wales, and was deemed ijuit iu- projier,) provoked hilarity. But the rc ruin spouse to the orders to load ami lire in hori iun- rental position was, perhaps, the climax o in- the evening's wonder, Instantaneously th< are- I odies revolved and were face upward, am t.c> thus disposed, with precisely as much una less niiuity as in the comuiou uianuul of arms all the Zouaves loaded their pieces. Whih and the spectator speculated whether thei ? be would be discharged at the low level, anu rue- thcr order brought the whole corps to thei hey feet, with all the advantage over the cnemie hey of? ur country with whojn the iiilugiiiuiioi bus c 'iild easily people the rear of tho stage to these having shot eiear over tlic outstretch late cd persons ot the gay muskctecni. Burin; of an entire intermission the men kept tin _ ^ ! a _ -1- - - .n?. oui < ii ?nr, me posiuru* or all being unconstruiu am | cdly graceful. 1 >i>l anybody contrast thesi this' incomparable soldiers with the mclanchob ex*, j creatures in uniform which the sLageui tor- ; lew a a lair representatives of the trade u lass war, ami revert to the sail marches anil tcr r.od, rible collisions of the immemorial our win not constitute the urmy of Richard.' ivri- Nor must we neglect to uiention u vcr illV, quaint tactics that preceded these tactic his ' on the ground. It \ as in tL?. lock j. of i ho men were involving without con :v~-w> lusion their respective feet, ami a by stated previously, the line resembled i mo brilliant serpent. There came an orde lian to halt. The head and tail of the auinia of came together. At another order it dou cut bled up. This phenomenon was caused b; iv- the tucn suddenly sitting down upon cacl neh ot.iers kuejs, presenting a very prettj iuiif problem in the science of equilibrium, an< est. a convenient theory tor summer pedestriau lov- to put into practice. m<ij itih Km i'atiox.w. Institutions,?/ ( sensible eoni-pondent of the New Yorl ? j Herald, writing from New lla,veu concern i ?"g Yale College audits improvement* uld i his ' chanS?* 1,1:11,1 or,^er *>xor j cisesat Yale at the last commencement bav I )V given a ucw character to college life Looking back from the present, even ni ^ larther than one year, the trunsitioi ,j- . rectus as sudden as if civili-ation, by i colossal stride, bad brought its down tron f j. the feudal times. The very thought o in being shocked out of one's dreams at and _ unseasonable hours as \\a? formerly tlu ilu. "W;,Y Wt> ),n(^ "Id Yal c.^^e s one fane , . Ui->k: time.saf tiornbig n>*J^jfiA?fti^fc?0iyen (' . to be traditionary, "chapel rflttM&sKiteHti "hi c'e"* and that the disjPPIMul oon ^i(il duct connected with the old chapel Service, were the sacrilegious rites of same lur-of barbarous age. Students now have break uc!1 fast at t>.30 a. in,, prayers at 7.30 a. tu., re citation at S u. m. where tortuerly proven * ill WPru attended at 5.30 a. u?., rcoitatioii\|ft . j mediately alter, and breakfast at 7 a. ni. ,n> and such appetites! Chapel exercises onl) ur i otic eacli day arc now what they should be . I - ? Zo?UAVt.?The word "Zouave" is gen i ? orally iuid incorrectly pronounced us a worti of (wosyllabi**. Jt si" yld be spoken an il "l written Ztrwr, tbo il the Ualiat: ' " sound as lu "fail," The name i- derived f! 5 from the Arabia Zouaonoa, a confederacy 1 m of the Kabyle ; ilv, who live on the moan n tains back of A <g ?r* The original >, Z'SJavei in the French servito were comur" posed of Arabs from the country neat v? an-' A thgvitod dollar em iiage. made thirty ted y<ars at Middlet. vn, f'.MjIencrnl Jacklly, son to ride in, has rec? ntly been sold for r (tizfecn dollar? and a half shw-H Issue In the Presldeaflal CM?* j- / p?i|d? * ii The coantry is now on tU? very* of (1m L. most dangerous orisis in its history. i Young, vigorous and prosperous beyond parallel in the world's h story, daily exptuh ding its population and multiplying its cesoiirce.-, the republic, to the external ohserr* A er, presents a must* magnificent example to r the benefith-of her i rift itui ions,. cherished L> and supported by a happy, industrious, ? o patriotic uud united people. Hut beneath u this ieir outside there lurks a hidden. danger which threatens, before many yearn , have passed away, to overthrow the fabric, t and bUry in its ruins the liberties so dearly r earned with the blood Of oqr ancestors. It wculd be idle to deny tliatin the preiL> cnt position of our political uduirs the dis[. solution of the confeder&cy is more than v probable. The coui.try is on the pre of i> that great struggiw-? that sectional conflict?^ j which wm initiated by the oldTashioned e abolitionists twenty-five years ago, and the u first fruits of which were predicted by Mr. j Calhoun iuitned lately before he died. That _. accomplished aud far seeing statesman dts f dared that the anti-slavery agitation, r which had already divided the Baptist, the r .M cthodist and l'resbytcrian churches, would in due course of time break up all the political parties of the day. And we find e that this (jucHtion did divide and ruin the e old whig party, that it killed the Klpew || Nothing or American organization, and that uov. tt has given the death blow to the u once powerf ul anil well drilled democratic Ii party. The democratic party has ceased e" Coexist. There are now two great sectionH al partisan organizations in the United L. States?the one a Southern party, supportB ing Mr. Breckinridge, and the other the k. Northern abolition faction, represented by Mr. Lincoln. These arc the only vital I, parties and real nominations for the con siderstion of the ihhrscs. The other nomiotirfons for the Presidency are merely > . personal,' and Lave do weight. Breckinridge and Lincolfi will have the electoral . s votes; the other candidates will enjoy the empty honor of running for the Presidency j and being beaten. Theline has been drawn u between the two sections of the conn try, j, aud tbo struggle for political supremacy on the part of the North, aud political equalit ty on the part of the South, has Already j* commenced. * * ^ ,i That is the real statu of tho ease m it . stands.?And now it rcinuins for the conj servativc men of the Middle and Western States to say what course shall he taken td avert the danger that threaten* the Country. c The question is a moat i in porta ut one. 1$ _ is far above auy party considerations. . The matter has gone so far that the politiI ciaus hare no longer any control over it. e At such a time every uian should cousin! 1 interests which are above personal prefer. ences and party ties. Wo need uot paint , the horrors which would result from the 8 dissolution of the Union. We need not r point to the inevitable money panio, the ? breaking down of the commercial, mining r and manufacturing interest* of the Union. s All this suggest* itself to the mind of^every j man who his anything at stake in tho country. We may. however, sugejtot that the only way by which the peace of the , country can be preserve-! is by uniting all > the opposition against Lincoln upon one . candidate?the one who alone is sure of tbs u Southern States. Ifnhe conservative men v of the North can b? aroused to a sense of ? their danger, so as to combine for Mf. j Breckinridge, then Lincoln may be defeat_ ed: but. on the other hand, if the black j republican candidate should be elected, W? can expect nothing but renewed and more f bitter agitation, ending finally in the dias ruptiorrof the confederacy and consequent duvwtl'ull of the rcnubhr .\!?-n ?.nJ . thren, ponder upou these things??j\\ Yt s IlrralJ. " Tiik Man in the Sex,?uTho ma* ' iu the moon" is no stranger, but the mit in the sun is a personage with which we l* ure less familiar. The Gentlemen's Magazine, London, for ' June, 1*15, announeea, uijder the head of ' "foreign occurrences,' that "the newspapers, both in America and England, Lara s noticed the remarkable circumstance of au extraordinary phenomenon in the sun i I he tollowing is an authentic and eori rect aee< unt, lor the tjruth of which CapL . j Hayes, of his majesty' *and U?? , I whole of his officers and ship's Company may be appealed to : On the morning of . the 27th August, 1813, the 3/tiititie, b*e ing then oil' Boston, the men on Doard ob, served, at the rising of the sun, the ootuo plete figure of a titan in the centre ol that ? luminary, with & ti.ig divided by throe lines nhishayd. lie was first on his back, , but as day advanced, he gradually assumed j an erect position, and at midday he stood t upright}, towards evening be as gradually , declined, descending with his Hag heal j IUI VUiVOi. , "On the 28th it retained the same outline, bnt had become a skeleton. On tha 29lh the figure was disjointed, and its parts n gradually assumed the appearance of si* C separate flags, united in a circle by an apparent cord or line. After this nothing inure was observed in the sun's disc but , -a few small spots. The * American paper* k notice only the extraordinary appearance of the sun on the above mentioned days. # r' i'erhaps the observers on the continent were not in a position to catch the precise appearance which the particles *a asattor . presented to the ship's?company of the I Mrtjtstir. Thcrt could be no optical delusion f on the occasion, us the phenomenon was i observed by so niauy dint^uut ey.e*, and I tor so long a tiuw 'f be first figure was r seen during tlie whole of the 27 th, thcskcle ton on the whole of the 28th, and the I flings during a gre*l part of the 29th.v It is said, on the authority cd official st*: tLstics, that there arc at present in Europo i 18,140 actors, 21,609 actresses. 1738 nianI agers ot theatres; and the number of per. ! sons attached, in one way or another, to ' 1 static establishroeutr, amounts so 82,I 246 ,