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BY WM. WILSON. VOLUME IV.—NUMBER 41 THE WILKES REPUBLICAN AT TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, IN AD VANCE. BY WJI. WILSON. ; —• •• _ Tcriu%of Advertising. dvcrtisemcnts will be conspirKously inserted in the Republican at One Dollar per Square of Ten lines, or less, for tue first insertion, and 50 ‘cents for each sub sequent insertion. LEGAL DVERTISEAIEX'LS inserted at the cus tomary rates of the country. not iimifed will he continued until ordered 4 . uccorditiglv. be made with merchants wish to advertise/^ Ordinances c* the Town of Wash ington. PASSED, /USE 5, 1357. SECRETARY. SECTION VII. The Secretary, if not a commissioner, shall to the due execution of his office. It ’ - HU duty to keep a fair book of minutes shall uc , Uml | f u fly and distinctly enter, in winch he s-.. J . . -'ctiou of the bdard, ail appomt- Ulldcr tRo • ,i ‘ ‘ ,: ons and dtli mcuts of officers, and all resign*.. er vacancies of office otherwise than by tue expiration of the term; and also all ordinances, digests of taxes, licenses g anted, fines impos ed, contracts and appropriations, and any such resolutions and other proceedings of the beard ns may impose any obligation of faith law, or may permanently affeyl vig.as ui any individual. But occasional directions to the marshall or Other officers, notices and any oth er temporary pro codings of no lasting effect need not bo entered. He shall make out ahd issue all subpueuas, written summonses, all ex ecutions, warrants, an 1 other, papers of like nature emanating from the board. JIo shall provide stationary at the expense of the board, aud do all the writing necessary in tlie bu.,i ness thereof, and be accountable for all the papers and books thereof, lie shall read ov to the board at the com menceinent of each sitting the pro.codings of the last. Marshall. “ SUCTION VIII. The. Marshall siiAll execute on the minutes a bond with godd security, in such pebalty as \ the board mart’direef, conditioned to be void it he shall faithfully discharge all the duties of Marshall of tIA town of Washington, and did)’ Wccount. Mi,as#j.,i7 n,i.r all monies that Ufc. . and shall an It shall he the duty of tlift in irshall to pro vidts a room, fire an 1 Other accommodations whenever necessary, for the sittings of the board-end at its expense; to attend the siit iiyp of the board, to deliver all messages, s rve all notices and summonses, make all ar rests, Icvi"3 and sales, and execute all orders of that body or of the President tl, , of, that may he ecessary in the course of ! he-ir official business ; aud shall make due return to the next m ntlily meeiing thereafter of all such thereof a; in their u uuru require to be return ed ; and t<th it eu l shall have now. r t > enter all houses and enclosures as_a Constable may do. And also at all time, night and day. lie shall have tin: auto ,rity of a cap!aia of patrol Who a on duty. . KKCTION X. If:.!shall liavc; a i'nrity to levy ai execu tion fur a line for ,4 i.ning, or fur ii tux on a gaming table, be may break open suspacted rooms 01* bouses ‘.vmvc it is commonly known that gambling is car ied on. *l, rioN . xi. To enable him in nil cases to discharge Ids duty, be may suit) 11 1 to bis aid any bystun ders.-or other pers -i • and 011 tlioir failure to assist him,.he shall r port them to the board ami summon them toMppear at the next meet ing thereof. Any person thus f.ii.iug to aid the marshal may be fined ten dollars. , section xti. , Where the person against whom the mar shal shall have aca sa, or warrant of arrest, is an itinerant person moving about from one district to another, the marshal may pursue anti arrest himriii.any pait es the country. SECTION Xtlt. He shall collect, receive, and receipt for nil taxes, fines and all other monies accruing to the board and account with the Treasurer therefor. section xiv. It shall be his duty vigilantly to inspect ev ery part of the town, and a far as he conve niently can the corp irate limits, and to notice and detect all violations of the ordinances, and offences against tac police. section xv. He may inflict on any person of color for ano one offence, ten stripes or less at his dis cretion, or may convey them to the guard house or jail, and report them to the hoard.— ,And he is authorized to summon at his discre tion before the next sitting of the board, any white person offending, and also all or any witnesses that he may deem necessary. ’” SECTION XVI. lie may appoint one or more deputies for a (Specified time and purpose, except for receiv ing monies ; and shall be responsible for their acts. Which appointments shall be entered on the minutes of the next sitting of the Board. SECTION XVII. , He shall remove nuisances from the streets, pr caum the authors to remove them; report the authors if he knows them, and the expense incurred by him in the removal, and lie shall report the existence of such as any two mem bers think requires the interference of the board. r SECTION XVIII. He shall be entitled to receive the following fees—to bo paid by the party offending, to wit:—For serving a summons and making a return thereof if necessary, sixty-two and a half cents; for serving a subpoena or any oth er written notice, thirty-one and a quarter cents; for levying a ca sa, or for levying a iifa, and advertising in writing, thirty-one and a quarter cents, and five per ceut on the amount of sales; for arresting a prisoner on a warrant from the board, one dollar and twenty-five cents, for keeping airoxorany animal of the horn kind per day,’ fifteen and a half cents; for each head of other neat cattle per day, three aud threc-fonrtlis cents; and for each • h ?l 0f , sbcc P’ & c .at? or hogs per day, two and • a half ccnta, besides all reasonable expenses printed advertisements, and of removin'* property to tho-placc of salts. S And in addition to the foregoing, he shall re ceive the following fees from the board, tl ’ -^iir for ar.ysUng any white p<% o ns oithfll oil -.1-1 or corp’oratojim-| . its, one dollar; if pursued and arrested ip any other part of the county, two dollafs; an 1 twenty-five per cent on all fines collected. And the rr.arshall shall have in a'l other respects m the performance of his duty, the power aud tees ot a constable. section- six, rho in u'shi#! shah be entitled to 50 cents tor every commitment to the Guard bouse, together with other expenses iucurrcil iii the punishment of offenders shall be paid by the o.lender. But if the offender is a slave, his owner, or employer shall pay said foe and oth er expenses. SECTION XX. It shall be the duty of the marshall to pro- I vent and disperse all assembling of negroes on f the side walks, and all such assemblies of no- c Kis Stato. t 0 n ' aS ar ° <?oUtrar * v tothe ws J • TREASURER. SECTION XXI. The Treasurer shall- receive from the mar shal, all monies, (costs and his fees excepted) which shall be collected by him. All dis bursements of the board shall be made by tho Treasurer an I by him only, an,l : - form - V , oth 5 ; .n inner, t nan in c%f ormUy to appro priations by the board ; each specifying its ob ject a 1 amount, and on the minutes. SECTION XX. flu; ere!ary shall keep in a distinct book an aceouul between the marshal and the treas urcr, and another account between the treasu rer and the board. Th ■ marshal shall settle with the tre surer in the presence of the board, and the treasurer shall settle with the board at every monthly meeting ; and the balance ei ther way in ooth accounts shall at each settle ment be strip k. And it shall be the duty of the treasurer to publish once in tho county newspaper at the end of each year, a statement of the corporate funds, exhibiting the amount received in that year*and tho several objects and amounts of expenditure, including the balance cither v. ay from tho year proceeding. OFFICERS. SECTION XXtit. . , , . , CO lliVOl- Any person whom 6H! ,, ty [ "‘"■V a behavior is required, r oi the peii*"* t x \ i KH)cr-ou in cdulk-n'pt may bn arrested on riant issued bv A'c I’resilient and brought T tliTb-Ard ani/ihen be tried'or bound S aupcar t A’futcro mooting. In all other t hi lu-i-sohk®uurg"d with, any violation of the ordinances sha'l-tjg’ entitled to at least one day’s notice of the trial by a ‘verbal stink minis by the marshal or any mcinb'eb, yir by a wr.ttensO-aninms by the marshal if t'io accus ed party requires it, and no person, unless pro suit an 1 consenting therein, shall be tried without such i> dice.—Avcrbal return by tin; marshal .hall.be sufficient'evidetiue of service t all summonses, subuhuenas and notices; atul of the execution of all Ihe other duties of the like kind lvrfhiivd of him. But oil execu tions and ou any’’papers or process, directed to him, ;i il in the face thereof requiring his . icliiri:, his actings and doings thereon shall iqipcar in writing. Every person accused shad be entitled t,xsnbphoeiias fbc his witness. cs,;Whi*;ligii iy he stp ve.l by liinjsclf or :uy person ;.uari virfteses fi.'iiing to attend in con t'orinfcty ty their snbpienas make their exeu'C to the next monthly meeting without further sat.i utons or notice, and iu default thereof may be fined five dollars- SECTIoN SxlV, All o.Tttiiees.by white persons except con tempt; shaikhs’punished by fine only; for • which the secretary” shall hum ,'diutcly make out ami deliver to tho marshal, executions, expressing the amount and date of such #nes directed to the marshal and requiring Ann to seize at his option, either any property ot the defendant make by .sale thereof the amount of the fine therein specified* and ad costs ; or the person of the defendant, and convey him forthwith to the gprd house or to the jail of Wilkes CoipnyTunless he pays tho said a mouiit and vests. SECTION XXV. The marshal shall proceed on such execu tion in one or the other of the inodes above described as soon as practicable. If the de fendant’s person shall be take i, he shall he dealt with as other defendants are dealt with under executions of ca sa. If the marshal pro ceeds against the property, the defendant may point out any pan thereof being in his own possession and that* if sufficient, shall be first taken. l)ut if the marshal should deem it insufficient, or it should be claimed, he may levy on any Other property, within the corpo rate limits which he believOs belong to the de fendants. In ease the property levied on should be a slave or real estate he shall deliver over the execution and slaves to the sheriff of the County, with a return of the property levied on, to be by him sold as in levies of justices’ executions. * • section xxvk * . If any property levied on by the marshal shall bo claimed by any other person than the defendant ; and such claimant or his agent (descr ,g himself as such) take and subscribe an afii-.h. it in writing before any one or more of the commissioners previously to tho sale of such pro;,’ t) :ty the marshal or of the deliv ey of the execution by him to the sheriff, that sudh property belongs to the claimant, such levy shall stand dismissed and the marshal shall proceed thereon as if no such levy had been made. SECTION XXII. The marshal may proceed against the per son cr property successively or alternately, but not against both at the same time. And ho shall make return to the next monthly meeting of the board of all his actings and doings on every execution in his hands, section xvm. All property levied on by the marshal shall be advertised by him either in the couu.y pa per, or between ten and four o’clock iu the day in two public places iiitlie town, at least fifteen days before the clay of sale. And marshal’s sales shall be at public outcry at the usual place of public sales in said town between the hours of ten ancl four o’clock on the Tuesday next previous to that of the monthly meetings of the board TO BE CONTINUED. , , WASHINGTON, GE(j|)(j!A, FKIDAV JUNE 19, 1857. Correspoudence York Daily Letters From the East. thehes, karnac and ancient ruins. , luebes, Upper Egypt, March, Up's. Unour wav up tipEivp,. xr ; j. r.c stoppoc rout reserving our'explorad ptions AVe have now been uoi-o O week, rambling among the most into** esttng remains of a former age which are tot be found on the face of the earth. Os the’ City of the Hundred Gates aud that is left is -lie rums cf temp'es, but those ruins ae nuniej rous and scattered over a wide hundred gates, by the wny. were a myrth, on rather a poetic license of old llomer. Atl least if they ever had existence, no traces of teem or of the wall they must have belonged to, can now be discovered. Many a literal prosing antiquary basset himself to work to search for the remains in solid masotn y of a mere poetic metaphor or fiction. Old Thebes, tho ‘XTo,* n f , .■ and P lcl / ,lcbes ’. fllc “No” of scriptural times, dates back for its foundation to a dim antiqui ty indeed. Mcnes, the first King of the E ffyptiau hue, who ruled at least twenty-three ceutuncs before the Cliristiau era, found a city noro already several-hundred.years old, even in his time - Thebes has, therefore, in all probability, bocu inhabited for four thousand live hundred years. Many antiquaries are not satisfied even with this. I lie city lay on both sides the Nile, covcr iiigthe large area in which arc now scattered halt a dozen or more villages. If the great temples now remaining w-;. oßCt i connected I iJy cioscly built streets, the oldest city ip t | le world must also have been the largest. There is, however, I believe, only proof that it was a very large, populous and wealthy city, a* should be expected of the capital of the pros perous Thcbiud. ihe largest ruins on the west side the river are at Medinct HaboO. Here are too tom - pies adjoining. a palace o. Rcmcses 11. The great temple is a noble ruin. Broken, de faced and almost hurried beneath the accumu lated mounds of barbarian huts —its sanctuary totally destroyed, and only the approaches to the real s.iriuc remaining—it still stands grand ,'t its decay ; its solid architecture, were ut broken by the band of man, having scarcely sufiered from the elements of more than 3,000 years. There are two very fine open courts, of which one has a surrounding colonnade. Both have the peculiarity of being construc ted with columns on one side and square piers on the opposite. ’To the piers wore attached standing y.atq Qa^pWl^?l7l „ u '{’> ll(! pecu|i to Egypt. All the walls, piers, Columns a* cornices are covered thickly with sculpt®, figures and hirroglypVilcs. Till! lauer very deeply incised. The sculptures sent the victoriee and the deification of iionP escs tie Great (15. C. 1355). Much </f the o riginal paint, which once covered tho whole, rent liiTs. ‘i’lio ceiliugk are of rich ultruma arine blue- slddded with stars. From Mcdinot Ilaboo we rode to the two great sitting Cjlopi which stand above upon the plain, at the commencement of what was onec an avenue of approach to a temple now comph tdy I’eitroycd. These colossal statues have long been wonders, l.ot only for their magnitude, hut from the reputed musical sowers of one of them—the vocal Mcmnon.—r The statues are ill the usual stiff sitting pos ture, with the hands spread flat upon the knees. They measure about fifty feet high above the pedestal. From ihe sole to the knee is fifteen foot. Standing they would be giants of seventy feet high. These missive statues are constructed each of a s.nglo block of sandstone, Sr rather were, since one ’ them, lie who sang 30 sweetly to tnc vising sun had its tipper half ruin.oJ at some early peri od and has been repaired with heavy blocks of masonry. The vocal powers of ‘Meinnon’s Orient harp’ as a very shallow trick, but it deceived many a great man, if not a wise one, of oidcu day* The feet of the statue are cov ered with Greek inscriptions recording the pi oM-rlsits of those it has humbugged. Old Hadrian was greatly delighted to hear it, and felt his royalty not a little complimented when the note, uttered but once for ordinary mor tais, was sounded three times for him. I hired an Arab for a piaster to climb up and sound it a dozen times for xne. The sound is that of metal, much like a brazen gong. On a subsequent visit a rope, by means of which I climbed into the lap of the statue.— There is a hollow, where the performer sits concealed, and strikes a sonorous stone about three feet long, resting on its ends across tho cavity. The block is a very yard, coarse grained grit, of a light brown color. The so norous quality, though striking, it shares with all flinty, close grained stones. I have found plenty in this country much more musical. The hands of these statues are very coarely executed, lying awkwardly spread upon “the knees. They measure fife feet in breadth.— The middle finger is four and a half feet, and’ the thumb nail eleven inches. 15y a rough calculation, the weight of the single block composing each statue, exclusive of the pedes tal, is about e ght hundred tuns. Near by is the Memnonium, a temple pal ace badly ruined but still very beautiful. It has a large hall, with graceful swelling capi tals, like those at Ivarnac, hut smaller. In this temple is tlic remains of a statue which is one of the wonders of the world. It is a sit ting sta'ue of the great Berneses, an enormous rock of granite about the size of the Meinnon, brought from Syene, 124 miles distant. It is estimated to weigh nearly 3000 tuns. The figure measures 22 feet across the shoulders. That old Prinqp of Iconoclasts, the Persian invader, the John Knox of his age, wreaked his vengeance upon it some 23 centuries ago. It was thrown down and broken, and severed into fragments with infinite labor. Parts still remain entire ; the mutilated head, a limb, a foot, and the mas sivc shoulders and breast.— The enorL jus fragments piled around look like the ruins of some fallen cliff. There are also smaller statues of black granite,- likewise shivered. A head with a remarkable placid countenance lies among the rubbish of the Court. One of the temple walls has a large buttle scene, with chariots and horsemen and flying troops, and rampart heroes of gigantic size striding victorious over heaps of slan. We rode out one day to see the tombs of the Kings in a valley of the mountains on the west side of the river. After riding a couple miles across a well cultivated plain wc entered’ among the limestone hills, and pursued our way up a narrow glen hemmed in by precipi tous cliffs. The scene is wild and lonely— a fitting approach to a Necropolis. No vege tation grows upon the arid locks ; there is no life of any kind in the landscape. The ra vine divides into several branches terminating in cult de sac among perpcudicular cliffs. At termini of these valleys tlie Royalty <f / jr-6bes selected for itself a resting place. Os : •£‘ - , Ai'ge number of tombs, now open to plc .examination. They ard all after one general iCSSieI, long tunqtds excavated in the rook at of the cliffs.” penetrating the rnoitn "tftu with a downward sloping direction. They inter from 21)1) to 500 feet, descending with frying angels of inclination and occasionally ■Bstci’P flights of steps. The uniformity of square passages is broken by projoc- Hfishciiyand there as if for gateways and by of tho hall Into chambers with op.ers to support thfc roofs. Literal a -sro ftmeilts n*R frpftnorif f t\ in,/i VUnnents are frequent, to right and left. A he whole of the interior walls and roofs of lAese tombs is covered with decoration, con tsthig of figures in relief or in tanglio upon *pea, nchly paiuted. In many of them the 0i ’ * rc ®h as when first applied ages a- JH- . A. hero are long tablets of hieroglyphic •tting containing frequent repetitions of the ] tneot the King for whose repose the scpul c- r was excavated. Gods and monsters, sac t tees and priestly processions, with, iu some fi rODrerieutiltions nf flmnncti/i c>,.nna ...1 * j mt *- “‘ni| iu ovjutu °f domestic scones and cover the rest of the walls. The blcies of toe artists have run riot to a mos> “LSF 1 ’ extent in coupling together the parts i] ditifereiitanimals 1-7 proullte the most strange a i bizarrq" combinations. Birds, quadrupeds a i reptiles, with parts of the- human form, a mingled up into horrible monstronsities.— 1 -wLiitiUs serpents tiviue their voluminous f fils along the w; 11s, encircling figures of gods A ,tfku in their ample cjipvolutions. . Some ‘ t iged, or branched into numerous liyd- IS, . Pairs of human feet the added to i tL’e monstrosity. *,lCii “IT represent nit heads, and heads without men. — mcr are sometimes drawn inverted in /cessions. It is impossible to describe itituige anomalous figures delineated refill drawing and elaborate coloring hese gloomy chambers of imagery.—- /nitrous was that superstition which i/mM(surrou!id the lead with such horrible *q|Jseutations. Killy of the tombs, although they appear to hat i 0 ecu occupied, are quite unlinished.— TbcaTf.rc .urge apartments where the Uruw iuaUid just been completed upon the plain slqeto Veady for the sculptor and painter, wlWupfhe decease of the kingput an end to thr ,\i‘!t. It vjirfuVt .'qqviai: to, b/uve been ono of jJiy mum mscupatioiis of royalty- in for mcr ’ pijfvide for itself a sepulcher. They ’ T were for death, and their great ain- having completed the, .slaughter, ’ t-o lie in state in a sump "/C-.-iI of ‘these ™ WJ” -mas reposdh- j„ :4a five gswiiku sarc 'aKwt’* I hese were hwßvy blocks in two pieiNtS(! 11 CllCot, tllviu ‘C ‘! e- IS- J- - —J,.*llltjlg figure. They were all biokeu amt plundered centuries ago. One of tlie tombs called the ■•Harper’s,’ from the representation of musical instrument among its decorations, is very interesting.— It has a sot of small caamb is, whose beauti ful sculpt urcs and paint ngs throw great light upon the manners and c stems of the early Egyptians. The agricultural operations of plowivdf, sowing and reaping arc shown iu one ; th r. butchers’ and bakers’ occupation iu an- Otlnfr,’ There are dra ings of baskets, boxes, amphorae, bundles of clothing, b„als sailing upon the Nile, bows, spears, shirts of mail, and weapons of war of various devices- Lux- Urioas cnsbuuiod chairs, of elegant patterns, •sfiffjrtfiat the refinements of life were not disregarded in the distant days of the I’ha raobs. The date of construction of these in teresting excavations in the Valleys of the Ivinas is from twelve to fourteen centuries be fore Christ. In another part cf the same mountain, the high cliffs which faced toward the ancient city, and the wide slope at their foot, are in numerable tombs of buried generations. For ages and ages during the prosperity of Thebes they brought their dead to be sepulehcred hero. The rock is all honey combed with excavations. Their black mouths open in all directions, somp descending perpendicularly from the level ground, others entering horizontally into the rock with numerous branching passages and yawning pits. We spent some time a mong these sepulchers. 1 do not know what strange fancy induced the old Thebans to paint out in their tombs the ordinary labors of their agriculturists and tradesman. But it is most fortunate for tho modern inquirer that he finds here authentic representations of these things, supplying the lack of other information, and presenting a most perfect record of the every day occupa tions, as well as of the religious customs of a people that lived and moved and filled their Jbllisjif.n of being, from two to four thousand ycsßfago. Upon the stucco of these tombs aregiven not only the usual rows of monster deities and priest offering incense to bulls and jaekalls, but men who were plowcrs and reap ers, carpenters and bricklayers, butchers and bakers aud treaders in the wine press, who labored in those distant days when time was young, just as the same tradesman aud labor ers—their descendants, do at the present hour Many of the implements of labor are unchang ed in their form since the clays of Joseph.— The wooden plows employed by the moderns in their clumsy tillage are almost identical with those figured in the tombs A large tomb called “AssasseeP is an im mejjse excavation of unusual extent, arid nu merous labyrinthian passages. We wandered on through its long, raylcss halls, turning nu merous perplexing angles, aud crossing large apartments with rows of pillars and diverging chambers, of dccending long flights of steps cut in the rock. Sometimes the black mouths of line pits yawned suddenly in the pathway. By throwing down lighted tapers we could seethe bottom of those shafts, fifty feet or mofv below, with doors opening iu their sides, or % the bottom leading off into other myste rj sJLregions apparently without termination. T.m have full possession of these gloomy abodes ;>y the undisputed character of centu ries of occupation. Thousands of these foul birds of darkness, roused by our light, flitted about the chainbelte, plunged into the pits, or. whistled iu long streams past our heads, threat enrffg to extinguish the candles. The odor of these creatures, combined with the hot, uu ventilated atmosphere, is almost unendurable. The whole interior of this tomb also is miaul,, ly sculptured. Besides the Meinooniau remains that have been canied away, or lie scattered about tho rocks —plundered by the natives iu search of treasures or curiosities—there exist still un disturbed in this mountain cemetery the dried, ’ [ Lathery bodies of the ancient inhabitants of’ j Thebes by tens of thousands, and it is even s tid* by millions. We entered ouc of the cares where the mummies Ife stored up in huge cnbugh to admit us, we fouiid a series of communciating chambers which seemed to ex. tend indefinitely into tho mountain. They were filled nearly to the roofs of the appavt monts with the bandaged bodies of the dead, piled rank ver rank, ike so many bags of giain. I hero was just space enough left to’ permit us to crawl over this accumulated mars of humanity. They were probably the bodies ot the poorer class . n iL™ of the poorer class's, as tSercwasTo Tone or wooden coffins and the toomb was orna mented. Each body was carefully wrapped 1 up, however, in its multifarious bandages, u*-'’’ ’ brittle with lapse of time, and covip** Vvcr with a fine impalpable suffocating 1: ia singular how light in wei<*ht form becomes by the dessicatiM^ r col ltnries- The mummie of a large m*ywitli all its volumin minoua wrapping weighs but a very few VV.O 1 iom p>unds. The lutf”" 1 strata of bodies bad been more or iep plundered by the unsparing Arabs.— Bandages wore torn open, and the crisp, Sin un aon forms exposed, Black, witliered fa ces peered at us in every direction from out of the miscellaneous masses of dust and rotten clothes, and perhaps lights deceived us; but they seemed to follow us with their suze, as if wondering why we thus disturbed their long repose. In these dry mountain receptacles, where no particle of moisture ever enters, aud wlitre no ventilation changes the atmosphere, these collapsed, blackened relies of humanity last on, unchanged Tem age to age, and if un disturbed by cupidity or curiosity, will so /-C ----~:;ii ”•;!■;! the resurrection morning. AVho can rcr.,"”!* 20 ‘ n B'is dusty congregation the | breathing, animated forms of those who carv ed the rocks and raised the temples ; of those wI.J were CO temporaries of Abraham, or who tvere perhaps the taskmasters of the children of Israel; of those -vlio toiled in servitude or reposed iu luxury, and undor forgotten laws and fashions and observances— ‘Talked about—how strange a story ! In Thebes’streets tb e thousand years ago. I could not cut short my br ! ef visit to tho interesting monuments of Thebes without vis iting the great temple of Karnac. It is a world of ruins. The entire plan is difficult’to c/mprebciiu, and the vast amount of detail in “liroWns'K, statutes, courts, pvopvla, colonades and santuaries, perplex and overwhelm the mind. Massive gateways look towards the four points of tho coinpass. Long lines of j sphinxes reach out from these into the plaini ^ ll ar \ ive statutes of yranito. precincts of the temple visitor tliruu tt A cnni-t. aft nr -put, tttldor lofty door-t , ,'j niawoen mighty towers, and sc/W around Id;u colonades and towers and sta - ues and gi n ooa <imvu long prospective pas rages where art lias exhausted u,lf in pro- 1 ducing imposing variety, untill lie fells himself overwhelmed with the dignity a;d grandeur and glory of the structures, whose parallel ex ids not in all the world. Aiul all these splendid architectural displays were but the mere accessories, mere oul side ornaments, mere approaches to the inner shrine, where the gods reposed shrouded in mystery and darkness, But y/’imt were the cods g, whose honor these Sligoiy mon uments were reared ? The mlthology of the early Egyptians, so far as we can under stand it, seems to have been of a most clumsy and monstrous character. What can we think of the faith that deified crocodiles and cats, and all abominable ooasts, or that bowed down to such representations of deity as those that arc carved oa all the walls of the temples. — Gods with the heads of beasts and birds graft ed on human forms, or with human head at tached to quadrupeds and reptiles. Were the; deities that cover these dark chambers of idol atry, and were worshiped in the cavernous gloom of the mysterious adyta, representations of abstract virtues and of pure and lefty prin ciples, ot were they not rather “Gods such as guilt makes welcome!” Whatever was the creed, it has passed away utterly from the face of the earth, and its mighty shrines, ad orned with all the pomp and pride of unlim it and wealth and unsurpassed architectural skill, are now the abode of bats and the hiding pla ces of foxes and owls. It is easy to climb up the piles of ruins to the top of the great hall and walk from column to column along the connecting architraves. A scene of perfect desolation meets the eye from the commanding bight. Towers rent as suuder, walls a confused heap of stones, and acres after acres of the rubbish of departed buidings, from which projects here and there the base of a column or the head of a broken statue, to tell of the vanished glory of “I‘opn lus No,” and the wealth and beauty of its po ble temples. It was written not only “Egypt shall be a desolation,” but “No shall be rent assunder.” Time and natural decay have had no hand in its ruin. The violence of trian has effected it all. The skill with which the orig inal edifices were constructed is scarcely more a matter of wonder than the tremendous des troying power which has prostrated tower aud obelisk, and tilled up their courts with such tumultuous piles of ruin. “Populous .No tli it was situate among the rivers— Ethiopia nml Egypt were strength, mid it was infinite—yet was she carried'away.” There is a sculpture on one of the exterior walls of Karnac, which is interesting as con firming a historical statement in the Book of Kings. A conqueror is shown with uplifted mace triumhing over his enemies and leading iu procession long rows of captive kings. The latter are represuted by the royal “cartouche” surmounted by the upper part of a human fig ure with arms tied behind. There are 150 of tlic.e kings, in ten rows behind the conqueror. The hieroglyphics within the embattled car louche read, “Captive king of a walled city iu the country of Judah.” Over the head of the boastful warrior ?s a hieroglyphic name ‘which reads “Sheshouk ’ cloved of Ammon.” In the fourteenth chapter of the Frst Book of Kings we have the following statement: — “And it came Ij pass in the (if. h year of lle hoboain that Shishak, King of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem : And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all : And lie took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.” This occur reucc was about 9GO B. 0. or twenty-eight centuries ago. The confirmation is the more interesting from the fact that the hieroylgph ie language in which it is recorded remained for ages [a sealed .volume, and was only in terpreted by means of the accidental discove rs of “ key within the last half centurv T. M, DANIEL, Editor. TERMS--:s2 PER ANNUM rjods of erection from 1700 B. C. down to th j Ptolemy who made the last unfinished add: tions. We could have spent months nnsated amcr,- the wonders of T.hebes. But the limited stay that we were obliged to mark out for ourselve espired. Pushing off unwillingly from shore and floating down the current, the ar* ’ cient city faded from our sight to ldju* 1 -’ * ■ erorm our memories. r. ■ “n. ► ■ . Afnß4i.Tr/, - j tJmOc Hex. —AVe think it an policy. the Missou ri tljc 22d ult to institute com | between the morality of .citizens or Wediffcrent States, but as scull *hingvtrc daily occurrence in the Rcpublicna paper.;, wo copy the following from the Philadelphia North American, a Fremont paper: And if the truth must he spoken out, slave - ry seems to exercise a conservative and honor able influence. The fact is notorious to every observant AVashi&gtoman, that nearly all the wholesale schemes of plunder which have been carried through Congress for past years; a’l the corrupt jobbing; all the projects of spoli ation. and all the vile and venal combinations hive been ppinned and carried on under the control and with the means of Northern man agers. AVliilo they shouted the loudest for freedmn, and against slavery as a stigma on c’- vilizatiou, they took care to pillage the treasu ry, by way of refreshing the sentimental de * votion. The self-appointed leadci3 ho were most exercised a few months ago over the dc moralization that would atteud the poasi’ extension of slavery; tv ho mourned over its al • leged horrors; who beat their breasts iu • ny at its mention; and who led what pioi .* ed to be a great moral crusade are the very infa who swarmed the lobbies since Congrc ■ opened, scheming for the success of new plun der, and contriving the most audacious combi nations with the very slaveholders whom they affect so much to abhor. Developments like those, which are every day forced before onr eyes, serve to disgust intelligent and hone : minds at the cant of those sordid hypocrite • who are trading upon principles, the integrity of which upright men proudly maintain. It is due to Southern representatives us a bo - dy, to say, that however much they may su fer from the, stigma of slavery, they are n tainted with ihc dishonesty and glaring men dacity of others from the free States. With rare exceptions—and they are noted to be despised—the South has never been implica harirto^te v Vo2 usacti ?“*; T 1 :t mistaken generosity or uacfllßctWaf- oi-li! 111 : curred the responsibility. They have no* the price of rSluls for retainers', or bargained with scurv \ contractor for a division of disreputable gain. . In these high characteristics, at toast, slaver does not appear to have produced any bant* sed philanthropy exhibited itself as fav'dt'atiiy'’ here, or extorted something of the respect which is now conceded to the representatives, of an institution which it so unqualifiedly col* deinns. A Beautiful Classical Allusion. — -Mr. Win throp, of Massachusetts, in his late address at the Musical Festival in Boston, alludes to the contemplated submarine telegraph in these words: “On Christmas Eve, in the year 1814, (ho Treaty of I’eace between England the United States was signed at Ghent—a worthy com memoration of that blessed event when th. Herald Angels were heard singing to the sliep herds on the plains of Bethlehem, ‘Peace ot earth, good will towards men.’ But that tie ty was not known on this side of the eea for sis or seven weeks after date. The grea battle of New Orleans, as you well knows wa. fought at least two weeks after the treaty o peace was signed. Our modern system o: railroads and steamers and telegraphs might have saved that effusion of fraternal blood, might have deprived individual heroes, might have deprived our country and its history, oi all the glory which belonged"to that really great victory. If that gigantic Ocean Harp, which is at this moment in process of being strung, whose deep diapason is destined to produce a more magic:. 1 music on the sea than mytholo gy or modem fable ever ascribed to siren, mer maid, or Avion ; if the mysterious gamut of that profound submarine chord lad been in successful operation then, as we hope it soon will be, between St. Johns and Valeutia Bay, those cotton bag ramparts at New Orleans might never been celebrated in history; while of those who so gallantly defended them many would not have been laid so low, and some perhaps would hardly have risen so high.’ O * • ■ Trial of a Steam Plow. —A steam plow was tested at Franclsville, on the New Albany and Salem lload, one day last week. The soil was quite wet, and altogether unfavorable for the trial, but the Lafayette Courier under stands from a gentleman who was present on the occasion, that the practicability of the in vention was satisfactorily demonstrated. A number of plows were attached, and the soil laid open to the depth of eight or ten inches. From the experiment made it was thought that two men could plow twenty acres a day with the steam plow.— Louisville Journal', Efforts for some years past have bee:: mad? to drive the plow by means of steam, but hith erto without success, unless the above bid: cates it. Should this prove so it will he au irr portant era in agriculture, more particularly : the South and West, where there are lar_ fields to be plowed, nearly level, and generally destitute of any obstacles that would iirfpedo the free and easy progress of the share. Wc hope to hear more about it. Whether the do sideratum iu question has already been obtain cd or not, we have not the least doubt that it, will be, and at no distant day. It is too im portant to remain longer among impossi bilities. American’ ingenuity will meet the requirement.— N. O. Bulletin. ■ . SIP"!! I did’nt sell rum somebody else would is the argument of the dealer. If one highwayman did’nt rob the traveler, another one would. Therefore, the first rascal is jus tified in robbing! EjF*-A western editor once apologized to his readers somewhat after this fashion—“We in tended to have a marriage notice this week bu t a violent storm prevented the wedding ; and the doctor being taken sick himself', thrt patient rccovereii. aud we are accordingly cheated out of both.” The weather this week has beer, and y and sultry.