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VOL. I. TUIi CABLv&Y Is published every Saturday , by P. L. ROBINSON, Warrenton , Geo. at j three dollars per annum , which may be \ discharged by two dollars and JiJty cents if paid within sijcty days of the time of subscribing. Select Tales. MJi VERNAL HE VENGE. Giannina was one of the most comely damsels in Ualabria, and had many a wealthy suitor. To none however, did she seein im lined to lend a willing ear. Some of a more timid nature, admired the maiden, and would fain have wooed her, but were kept, aloof by the haughty glance of her light blue eye; a glance that was rendered more remarkable from the tender color of the eye, whose sable fring s formed another strik ing, but agreea K le contrast with its a zlire line, and agreed with the glossy raven locks that shaded her snowy brow. Giannina’s father was by no means a thrifty man. His cottage had a better appearance than most of those in the village, of which it was the farthest habitation. The village itself was on the confines of a wood, which reached half way up the side of a wild, and in some parts inacces sible mountain, and dreadful were the tales told of the bamii -ti, by w hicli it was infested. The villagers how ever, having nothing to lose, had also little to fear from their depredations; and indeed of late only one instance had been given of any attempt to dis turb their tranquility. This attempt was made on the abode of Gkiannina's father; and it was supposed to have been thus directed from his being re puted one of the wealthiest inhabit ants. By the courage of Giannina it had been defeated. She was rous ed in the night by an attempt to force her window when seizing a hatchet, she struck at a man who was in the act of entering. The robber fell to the ground as Giannina’s father, whom her cries had brought to her assistance, arrived, hut only in time to witness the intruder’s escape, which he effected, although the blood with whii li the window was still imbued, testified that he had not escaped un hurt. Not long after this event, a strang er made his appearance in the village, and succeeded in obtaining the affec tion which Giannina had so constant ly withheld from her rustic admirers. The suitor to whom she seemed thus favorably inclined was about thirty years of age; of handsome, though wild and haughty aspect. His stat ure was considerably above the mid dle size, and he would have appeared robust, had not his extreme paleness, occasioned by a wound, that he said lie had lately received in the chase, and which still obliged hi in to wear his arm in a sling, given a sickly delicacy to his features. Giannina’s father, whose will was entirely subservient to her own, con sented to the marriage; but from the day on which it took place, the bride and bridegroom disappeared, leav ing the afflicted parent as completely ignorant of their fate as the rest of the villagers. ‘Giannina’ said Antonio to his bride, as after the marriage ceremo ny, they were returning towards their father’s roof, *let U 9 escape a while from the noisy festivity that awaits us, within the shade of the adjacint wood.* “Tis but a dangerous resort,’ re, joined Giannina. Dost thou fear?’ said Antonio; and the inflection of his Rural Cabinet. v las second to import more Until, ‘doit thou fear?’ Giannina attended hut unto the words. The damsel wai proud of her merited renown for mirage; and replying with a degree ofiique, that she would prove her dating, took with him the road that led to the ill fumed forest. They hal wandered some minutes in its gl.des; when Giannina asked Auto nh if he could still reproach her with lea*s? ‘What should a sovreign dread “thin her realm ’ he answered in a sarastie tone.—-‘My realm!’ ‘Aye, time, rny bandit queen!’ and on a lonl whistle, a number of well armed ("fir-ms appeared to rise from the eirth, descend tin* trees, and in a no. unit to encompass them. ‘Homage tiyour QoeeitJ’ said the robber Cap tiin, for such he was, and taking his “Minded arm from a sling—‘Mv gen tfc bride!’ said he, dost, know this orv) less hand!’ It was not su< !> the h£ht it opened thy casement! But for lip hand of mine, l*ve now a hand of time; and the few drops of blood I do bigive thee! Homage to my Queer,!’ Aid at this m-mient Gi -inn in a looked aQucen. Site turned to Antoni. as lib ugh he, also, were her subject. 1 i nit her love nor fear thee* Os love tbu art unworth} ! and fear—what hve i It If to fear?—Deem not I shall Htempt to forego mv file, for whitln r siould 1 flee hut infamy would follow? 110 devote myself thy victim, nay, een thy faithful wife, and my own in jtics forgive. Beware alone, no (ted ot thine do injure aught of mine! o that aim e beware, for even a victim u|y revenge—ltespect my lather and a) that is mine!’ She ivas his faithful wife. Three y|ars had p issed, and Antonio's buid hd been hunted down, until some hd died of hunger and fatigue—some o the scaffold. Antonio and Gian** niii wandered now alone except that Gannina carried in her arms an in- fflt, that slumbered sweetly amongst lingers. Site thought if ever shea gin could reach her native village, t leave the babe at her old father’s dor, with these words, ‘if is Gianni* n’s chilu !’ But they were distant tom her home, in the recesses of (tdabria, which, alone, the pencil of idvator* hath pourtrayed in all their vldncss: he wandered there with knditts such ns they, and he hath Ift us the wild mountain scene, the ide banditti, and his captive self, toried on his canvass. More than once had Antonio, for hose head a large reward was offer J, been rescued by the quickness ml courage of Giannina.—But the ’yrolese troops to whom the Austri n commander at Naples had assign (! the task of exterminating the ban itti, left them no repose. One day arrassed beyond measure, and close r pursued, they reached a bridge, so eposed to view, that they dared not azard passing it. It was in summer, nd the river over which the bridge /as built, now flowed in a narrow ed, but yet too deep to ford. They determined to take refuge under one if the arches which the current had idandoned. Hark! their pursuers ipproach! Their steps are heard on he bridge! the outlaws scarcely dar <l to breathe—Giannina pressed her jfant to her breast— it gave a feeble ry—Antonio smothered it upon its lother’s bosom! *Sa!vator Ttosa is said to have been rade prisoner bv Calabrian banditti, and t have been detained *omt; months by tern in the mountains. One of bis land sapes in which are introduced some fig l!# !*r jobbers, and of a young man who spears in captivity, is supposed to relate hiown story. Warrenton, July 19, 1828. The dlinger past;— Giuuniu.i dug a grave in the sand, and placed within it the body of the poor lifeless child. # * # * ‘Antonin, the robber’s bead!’ cried the populaice of a small town in Ca labria, as a female with disheveled hair and haggard mein brought a bleeding head, fresh severed from the trunk, to the magistrate of the dis trict. ‘A thousand crowns are thine, thou second Judith! •I seek not reward—Antonio was my husband—lie killed my child, but yesterday—this night I slew him as lie slep*!* i HORRIBLE ADVENTURE. At ibe period when Murat was a hout to invade Sicily, the Chevalier It , Paymaster general of the Neapolitan forces, was travelling tjirough Calabria for the purpose of joining the army, having been to Na ples to make arrangements for the transmission of specie.—lie had sent on his servant before him, to prepare iiis quarters at the town of , ex pecting to arrive there himself by night-fall; but, the day being very sultry, lie hail loitered on the road, and at nine oMo< k in the evening, found that he was still at a consider able, distance from the proposed end of his journey.—He was so much harassed and fatigued that lie deter mined to put up for the night at the first convenient house. lie at length entered an old romantic building on the road-side, inhabited by a man arid Ins wife, the former a stout muscular figure, with a swarthy countenance almost \\holy shrouded in a mass of bushy whisker,sand mnstachios. The traveller was received with civility; and, after partaking of a hearty sup per, was conducted, up a crazy old staircase, to liis apartment fur the , night. Not much fancying the ap ! pearanee of the place, and finding no lock on his door, he lixed a chair a gainst it; and after priming his pistols, put them carefully under his pillow. He had not been long in bed when he heard a noise below, as of persons en tering the house; and, some time after wards, was alarmed by the sound of a man’s footsteps on the staircase. He then perceived a light through the crevice of the door, against which the man gently pressed for admit tance, but finding some resistance, he thrust it open sufficiently to admit his hand, end with extreme caution re moved the chair, and entered the a partment. The Chevalier then saw liis host, with a lamp in one hand and a huge knife in the other, approach ing the bed tiptoe. The Chevalier cocked bis pistols beneath the bed clothes, that the noise of the spring might not be heard. When the man reached the side ot the bed, he held the light to the Chevalier’s face, who pretended to be in a profound sleep, contrived nevertheless to steal an oc casional glance at his fearful host. The man soon turned from him, and after hanging the lam|i on the bed post, went to the other end of the room, and brought to the b< and side a chair, on wlii< h he immediately mounted, with the tremenduous knife still in his hand. At the very mo ment that the Chevalier was about to start up from the bed and shoot him, the man, in a hurried manner, cut several enormous slices from a piece ofharon that was hanging over his bedstead, though it had been wholly unnoticed before by the agitated trav eller. The host then passed the light before his eyes again, and left the room in the same cautious way in; w hich he had entered it and uucon- ; s mus and tin’ (1 ng- r lie. ii .and escap •(), returned to a crowd of new npd hun gry guests below stairs, who were, of course, not very sorry to that ho had saved his bacon. From the Norfolk Herald 30th lilt. A TALE OF DEPRAVITY AND OUTRAGE. About three weeks ago a young wo man of 17, made her appearance be fore a Magistrate of Gates County, N. C. to swear her illegitimate child to a young man of her in igh mem,ml, in order to tax him wilh its mainte nance. The extreme ignorance of the girl induced the Magistrate to take unusual pains to impress tijmn her mind the nature of an oath, and the. deep solemnity of its obligations. He nut only explained to her the pm -1 allies inflicted by human laws, f r t..k* ing a false oath, but the dreadful pint • isliinent width awaited those who were guilty of the crime, in a future state: giving her to understand, :Ii *t although she might escep*’ the denun ciations of the first, there w as ao all seeing eye that pi- reed the inmost recesses f the heart, from v\!i h nothing could he concealed, and wli li would hear terrible witness ag. iost her at the awful day of trial, when all the deeds done in the body must ho I revealed to the Great. Judge of tho Universe. Awed by the solemmt} f his manner, and disturbed by an a „ wakened coiiSi ience the wretched girl ! with fear and trembling confessed that the man against whom she was about to take oath, was nut the father of her child. Magistrate. Who, then, is its fa ther? (hrl. My father!!! A thrill of horror ran through all who were present at this damning confession. The abandoned < fea ture, at oucc the partner and the \ir tirn of a most ahhured crime, was dismissed until further cognizance Could be had of the case; while the spectators, overpowered by their feel ings declared that such a monster us the father, was unworthy to breathe io a civilized community. The ex citement smm spread, and popular vengeance was about to wrest from the law its high prerogative, when the guilty wretch fled for concealment to the woods. His name is Nader Briggs liis character that of a mere out-cast of society; mean, ignorant and worthless, lie had no family but this daughter. Well had it been both for himself and the good of the neighborhood, if he. had forever lied the scene of his guilt, and spared the recital of what followed. After a week’s absence he ventur ed to return to his cabin, thinking the popular ferment had by that time subsided. He was mistaken howev er, for his domicil had been watched all the time, and the daily visits of his (laughter to the woods where ho was supposed to be concealed, had not escaped notice; as soon therefore as he ventured out lie whs seized by four stout men, who threw a meal bag over his head and conducted him far into the woods, where, first tying his hands and feet securely, they pro ceeded to lay him on his back upon the trunk of a fallen tree, to which they lashed him with strong cords, until he was deprived of all power of motion. They then left hint, and he remained nearly an hour in that pain ful situation, when he heard the foot steps of someone approa hieg. In the hope that i! might beoM humane individual \vn com! oi tt i! I! swt!, ’ m ■! ’ \ ; I j | 1 ‘ i 1 : :j - ! u fIM| No. 8.