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bx ifucrs. - ———— g —■— The following, ifo an extract, from a work lately published, entitled a narrative o/ I) n J nan Van li -.leu’s imprison mitt in the dungeons of the Inquisition at Madiid’ Acr. giving a description „of the means used by the Holy Inquisition to force the </iq>rit to confess his own as well as h<* crimes of others. M about eight o'clock at night of the same day (Nov. 20lh); Don Juanito entered my dungeon with a lantern in his hand, followed hv four other men, whose faces were con cealed by a piece of black cloth, sliaped al)t>ve the head like a cone, and falling over the shoulders and chests, in the middle of which were two holes foi the eyes. I was half asleep when the noise of the doors opening awoke me, and by the dim light of thr lantern I per ceived those frightful appa riimiiM. Imagining I was la b mring under die effects of a dream, 1 earnestly gazed awhile on the group, till one of them approached, and pulling me bv the leather #trap with which mv ar ns were hound, gave me p ‘ vr , to it id rstund by signs that i wis t rise. Having obeyed tins summons, my face was c *vvred with a loath r mask, and in this manner ! was led om of the prison After walk ing through various passages 01 i level with that of my dun geo- 1, w**entered a room, where 1 Heard Z >rrilla order my at ten bnts to untie the strap •Listen with attention,’ he then excl ii ned, addressing me, L sinee you have hitherto* been deaf to the advice which j this holy tribunal has repeated ly given you in their spirit of j peace, humanity, and religiousi charity. Propagator of secret and impious societies, estab lished by the heresies of their members to and stroy our holy re ligion an 1 the august tin one of j our cath die sovereign, you h ave maintained for the space of a year an uninterrupted cor es unid nee with more than two hundred sectarians. Youj Invented a project to form a second ramification to involve in Void plans the most unin formed and incautious classes of the kingdom, you have at te opted to deceive his Majesty,! .to whom you spontaneously j promised from Murcia to dis close with religious loyalty, all you knew; and instead of show ing yourself sensible of the un exampled magnanimity with which he condescended to hear you, did every thing in your power to mislead In , hoping to elude the just and deserved rigour of the laws by an accu mulation of offences towards the supreme dignity of the al tar and the throne; an abomin able insult, that constitutes a ucw crime in aggravation to those* which have already been ! proved.’ After a moment's silence, which I thought was intended for their hearing my reply, he proceed and with increased en ergy. ‘ Phis holy tribunal has at last recourse to rigour. It will extort from you the truths which neither the duty of a re -1 giousoath, demanded without violence, nor the mild admoni tions which h ive been so oftep resoited to in order to induce you to make the desired decla rations, have been able to ob tain. ‘Phis evident pertinacity obliges us to use a salutary se verity. We judge the cause of our Divine Redeemer and of our catholic King, and we shall know how to fulfil the high ministry with which Ihe supreme spiiitual and tempo ral authority has invested us. Ihe most rigorous torments will he employed to obtain from you these truths, or you shall expire in the midst of them. All the charges I have just mentioned in a summary manner mu-t he amply explained! yes!—a nply ex plained! justice, God, and the King require that it should he so Tins hdy tribunal will fulfil their duties—yes!’ ‘I he agitati -hi of the mo meut permitted me to utter only a few words, which, how ever, were not listened to, and I was hurried away to the far ther end of the room, the jail er and his assistants exerting all their strength to secure me. Having succeeded in raising me from the g ound, they plac -d under my arm pits two high crutches, from which my right arm was tied to the corres ponding crutch, whilst the left being kept in a horizontal position, they encased my hand oprn in a wooden glove ex tending to the wrist which shut very tightly, and from which two large iron liars ran as far as the shoulder, keeping the whole in tin same position in which it was placed. Mv waist and legs were similarly bound to the crutches bv which I was supported; so that I shortly remained without any other action than that of breath jing, though with difficulty. After forty-eicht h airs during which i y arms had been con stantly pinioned l did not, till this moment, verv acutely j • feel the pain caused by the I tightness of the new binding. Having remained a short tin e in this painful position, that un merciful tribunal returned to their former cliatg* s. Zoril la with a tremulous voice, that seemed to evince his thirst for blood and vengeance, re peated the iirst of those lie had just read, namely, wheth er I did not belong to a society whose object was to overthrow our holv religion, and the au guM throne of mir catholic sov ereign? I replied, that it was im possible 1 should plead guilty so an accusation ol that nature; ‘Without any subterfuge, say whether it is so.’ he added in an arucrv tone. dt is not, Sir.’ I replied. Tile gl ive which guided my arm. and which seemed to be resting on the edge of a wheel, began now to turn and with its movement I felt bv degrees an acute pain, especially from the elbow to the shoulder, a gener al convulsion throughout my frame, and a cold sweat over spreading my face The in terrogatory eon tinned; but Zo rilla's question of‘ls i? so? Is it so?’* were theonlv.words that m struck mv ear amidst the ex w cruciating pain I endured, which became so inti me dial I faint ed away and heard no more the voices of those cannibals. The following, which is from Miss Mit ford’s Village Sketches,is probably one of the iet productions that ever flowed from her gifted pen. I pique myself on knowing by sight and by name, rlmust every man ami boy in our parish, from eight years old to eighty—l cannot say quite so much fur the women. They—the cl drr of them at least—are more within doors, more hidden. One does not (fleet them in the fields and highways; their duties are (lose imusekeep l s, and live under cover. The girls lu be sure, are open enough in sight, < true creatures of the element,* busk ingin the huh, racing in the wind, rolling in the dust,dabbling in the wa ter—harder, dirtier, maser, more sturdy defiers of heat and cold and wet, than boys themselves. One sees thetn quite often enough to know i them; but then the little elves alter so (luii h at every step of iloir approac h to womanhood, that recognition be comes diffi< ult, impossible. It is not merely growing, boys grow—ii is positive, perplexing and perpetual hange: a butterfly has not underg me more transmorgrifi* ations in its pi* - gress through this life, than a village belle in,her arrival at the age of se venteen. The first appearance of the little lass is something after th* man-! ner of a caterpilier, crawling and creeping upon the grass, set down to roll by some tired little nurse of ao .elder sister, or mother with her hands full.—There it lies—a fat, boneless, j noiseless, rosy piere of health, aspir ing to the accomplishments of walking and talking ; stretching its chubby limbs, scrambling and sprawling, laughing and roaring; there it sirs, in nil ttip dignity of the baby, adorned; in a pink-checked frock, a blue spot ted pinafore and a little white cap, to lerably clean, and quite whol*. One is forced to ask if it be a boy or girl; for these hardy country rogues are al! i alike, open eyed, and weatherstained, | and nothing fearing. There is no more mark of sex in the countenance than in the dress. In the next stage, dirt-encrusted •nough to pass for the chrysalis, if it were not so very unquiet, the gender remains equally uncertain. It is a fine, stout, rurley patod cr‘a s ure of three or four, playing and rolling a hout, amongst grass or mud all day long; shouting, jumping, screeching —ihe happiest compound of noise and idleness, rags and rebellion, that ever trod the earth. Then conies a snrrdiumt gipsy >f j six, b* ginning to grow tall aud thin, land to find ttie enres of the world ga thering about her; with a pitcher ir* out* hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair; a tattered stuff petiroat* once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock once ptirpl ; her longing eyes fixed on a g tme of baseball at the corner of ■ the gr*en. till site reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher? and darts off to her cot).pardons, quite regardless f the storm of stohiing with whieh tire mother follows her runaway steps. So the world wags till ten; then the litth damsel gets admission to the cha rity school and trips tnincingly thith er evtiy morning, dressed in the old fashioned blue gown, and w hite rap, •nd tippet, and bib and apron of that primitive ins; itution, looking as de mure. as a Nun, and as tidy; her thoughts fixed on-button-boles, and spelling books—those ensigns of pro motion ; despising dirt and baseball and all their j *ys. Then at nv Ive, the little lass comes home again, uncapped, untippetted, unschooled; brown as a berry, wild * colt, bus) t>s a bee—working in the fields, digging in the garden, frying rashers, ‘toiling potatoes, shelling beans, darning stockings, nursing children, feeding pigs; ail these em ployments varid by occasional fits of romping and flirting, and idle play, .according us the n sent coquetry,or the lurking love of sport, happens to preponderate; merry, ant* pretty, and good with all her little faults. It would be well if a < ouutry gic| could stand at thirteen. Then she is charm ing. But the clock will move f>r ward, and at fourteen she gets a ser vice in a neighboring town; and r next appearance is i* the perfection of the butterfly state, fluUero &. glit tering, inconstant, Tain—tee gi) ar I gaudiest i sect .that ever skim med over a vilhge green. And tints is the true progres** of i rustic beau ty, the average lot f our country girl*.; so they Spri.ig up, flourish, i barge and disnpp ir. Some indeed marry and fix among n>, and then en sues another set if rhanges rather more gradual p rhaps, but quite as sure, till g vy hairs, wrinkles, and It St*v W h>v. wind ’H the Os; trjep, stolen, FROM the subscriber, some time in September I st, the f blowing pa pers, to wit: One note >n Littleton Johnson, for two hundred nd sis y and Mars, due tic* 25 !i of December 1826 One note n’ Stephen Grizzle* f**r sixteen doli-.es,. p v able the 251a of I) ember 1827. ()-e note on O. J. Shivus, fr Sr 37 1 2 cents, p<y- ,able lie* 1-if if Vl r h 1828. A re jeeipt on A. S. Limiter f >?• fi e and liars, to be plac'd to credit >f a note given by me *-• the firm of Bacfielder ni Cos. re- eipt on R* binned Burn* ley for 3 and d)trs 37 1 2 cents wbi h | amount wist) e, placed to the cre dit of the <ve note. A receipt VV and VV. Shivers. One note on J. C. Johnson m de piy ibl<* to W. Ford, and due the firm >f I* rsons aud Cos. One note on Abrun Ucetb and IF r jdy Face security Cr Twenty th*'e@ I dollars 25 Cents mad * payable to J. ’ Foytheress. due tin* Ist of November i 1826. I forwarn ali persons from trading for th * above notes. RK’IIAUD HKETfiF. Oetnb°r llt’n 1828 20. mt nurn * AGREEABLE to a order fr.-m the Honorable the Inferior court of Columbia < minty sitti? g fir Ordi nary purposes, will bes Id to tb& highest bidder on the first Tuesday H December n<*xt, at the Court 11.*.. in Warren County—one tern tof L i in said county containing Two hun dred acres granted to Peter Over’ y dec. ad j .ining Full r a.d others f.p the Benefit of the Heirs, and Creditors of said Oveihy. Terms will be made* known on tbtday by ROBERT WALTON Es*r. October Hth 1828.