181.,011. It Editor. VOLUME 20. Ifltrt Vilttrg. IFrom the llorne,3oltrnall TSn nr.LTDIDIPI3 ADirMITIREIMENTS. At tlalrrlallo A Watt to lett A warm, t cslr,ehOry, virgin heart. Untenanted by nun a? yet, New and unsoll'd In nny part; Who bids the pHs° to get? 'To Mtn who'll pay the easy rent, Daily and hourly ;the a wife, Ofhonestlove, lain content To give a lease for lire. It has large chambers. warm and bright, Well furnish's with &fee. tlon's tire, Asa drard with hopes that glow with light, froweer the sun may shirr. The owner's title's good; no chilli, flag yet been raised, and every part Is hers in her own right and name— Who'll taco this precious heart? ♦T TWENTY-EMIT. No tenant yet! , 10 let! A valuable heart: Who reeks such property to get, Will nowhere foil, in any mart, A better to be let. The terms are easy, payments fen— Ah, yes: the heart tlenvibe I nbbve, Olen Inducements to the true Economist in lovel The property's in goof repair, The Ihrn tore has ne'er been used. 'Tbe drapery's slightly worse for wear, Out nought has been atm ' .Tio cumbered with some UM' ng titUtil Of unrequited love, but these fAhall aft tee-ancall'd. If it gets A tenant at than please. ♦T TRIRTT-I[lOllT. Take Jowl' the Right Alas the truth wilt new be told; Decay Ina prey'd on every part! No pauper now would take Unsold, Dilapidated heart. I'll tar the doors. hang all in gloom, Lay the aTeetions on the shelf, •nd then, Into its narrow roam; At once VII move myself. There shall I pass cacti heavy day. And living for tnyaelf--no more— I'll scorn the charities that may Come kuoeltiog at my door. This old estate—this heart—any do To hide these ruin'd tropes of mine— For others it has comforts few;' • • So Men. Lake down thenign: c; jiai BiiireEinnq. THE VOLCANO OF KELOUEA. As doe vent acceptable Miscellanii.m could aclect, we present our readers this week with the following description of a visit to the celebrated Volcano of Klloom in the bland of Hawaii, one of the Marquesas grcup, In the Pacific Ocean. It is taken from Wandering Sketches of people and things In South America. Poly nesia, California, etc., etc., by Ds. Wm. 31 ,XWELL WOOD, U. S. N. Foote miles front the anchorage et 13relit's Bay, is the stupendous volcano of Kilouca, situated on the flank of Manna Loa, three thousand feet above the level of the eta—the largest volcano in the world !--a crater between twenty and thirty miles iu circumference!—having. mom than a thousand feet down its gloomy depths, an ever burning lake of lava several Miles in eireeMitorenee..— Theso wero general facie sufficient to. arouse curiosity and to excite it to almost any difficulty for the purpose of beholding so wonderful a phonomenonnoted, too, in native superstition, as tho head-quarters of its demono logy. the fire place of the dread goddess. Pele. - Leaving to more comp etmt persons the task of a phi losophic and scientific disquisition upon volcanoes in gen eral. and Kilouea in particular, the object of the present narrative is to toll how ono who travoled only for amuse ment got 'to the volcano, and what Ito saw strange and amusing, both on the way and there. Although horses were to be oinitted, yet the informa tion end advice we received nt Ililo,rather inclined us to a pedestrain tour, as the least arduous—two days being allowed to•walk the distance. It was somewhat:of a rash enterprise for persons accustoinoil to the inaction and con finement of a ship, to undertake a walk of twenty mike a day, under a tropical sun, and over a rugged road of har dened lava; but curiosity as to the extent of our abilities was undoubtedly one inducement to the attempt, and, accordingly, oar party was made up for this modo of travel. As our absence from the ship would occupy five days, it became necessary to carry a good store of provisions and clothing, with tenth,' essential cooking utensils.— The only mode of transporting this luggage was upon the shoulders of the natives. Our party coneisted of eleven persons, and we made arrangements with a friend on shore, to have collected at his house, on the morning of our departure, a autTicien(niimder of kanakas; and ac cordingly we found his yard filled with athletic, dusky natives, eager and clamorous for employment. There being so many candidates we became a little choice, and (elected the number we required according as their phys' iognomical expression or muscular developments suited our fancy or judgment. Each of our party employed ono for his special use, and several supernumeraries wore engaged for general service; so that, white and red, clothed and naked, wo formed a force of between twenty, and thirty persons. Vhe eampenastion to be made them was moderate enough—fifty cents a day, they finding their own food. This latter, indepenndont of tho consid., eration of expense. is an important stipulation as regard's space, for, thrown upon his own resources,' a small cala bash of poi (a yellow paste, made from the taro root) is an enduring provision; but, if ho is to draw his supplies from his employer; there is no end to a kanaka's vorani. ty. The next step was the stowage of our luggage in novel traveling trunks, admirably adapted to the purpose. }very kanaka had a strong pole, about six foot in length, which rested upon his shoulder, and from each end of this pole, suspended In a twine net, was an enormous calabash, of the capacity of a bushel; the opening in the top of the ealabaeh being covered by the section of roloth er, which fitted completely over it. It was 4urprising to see what a number of articles could be stowed in one of these vessels, Mine were not filled (the two) by three shirts, two pairs of stockings, two blankets, ono great coat, °Os pair of cloth pantaloons, two pair Of shoes, toil et articles, towels, patent liquor flasks. severe! book's, Ac. These gourd trunks are exceedingly 'light, and of course edmpletely Impervious to water. 'During our halts, the tops served very well for dish-tubs and wash basins. Our provision being, stowed in several of these - cola bashes. and our cooking 'utensils suspended from axle of the poles, by nine o'clock on is bright sunny morning. arrayed in motley costume. we wore ready for our march. The precision of uniforms had given place to a mixed garb of such garments as our judgments decided to be appropriate to such an expedition, and as convenience selected ftorn the odds and ends of each person's ward robe, Our red-ski tined attendants were in the most fin ished dress, if they oulti rejoice in a cotton shirt, as their whole Texture. Ono tali, mild, grim and dignified looking fellow, whu had fallen to my lot. was fortunate • Clreun3ferenee of crater, twenty-four rifles; depth lAN ft'el eueult Of the hurn in; lake, a Iltde over tuio . . . . . , . . ..!... : , . • - -r. ' . , . •'; F • ' .'in f - , : . „ . - tr.:: . . ..... . -,.. r . ;•:, ~ I . j , , . - . -,i, .1. i i., . -.., ---. • 1 (.. ..z 6 l'. —•• - , . • ' • " -'' . '. .- : - - :. 1 ": ,i -' , . • . . , . .. , .i. 1 •i% '. ... 74 '1 • ..,;. , P . . 'sl 1 Atil ' ' 4 . •--- t '.--,' _ -' - , . ' '-''—',- , I: [ l'., - . -...‘ 1 '''. . ' '• • , -"-- '..' ; , . ';.l .'.... -. . . It' The first five miles of our journey was in vow of the ocean, over the green. rolling. and gently ascending slope forming this aide of the island. After a long and weari some confinement on ship-hoard, the feeling of treading the springing earth, 'instead of the unyielding deck, on a bright morning. surrounded by shrubs and flowers; the feeling that our movemente, step. and time were at our own disposal. produc,ed a lightness of spirit. end sense of enjoyment, unknown when confined to the monotony of the deck, surrounded by the rigging. guns, and.tackla Of the ship, and hedged in by alt the formalities and restric tions of that most artificial and unnatural organization, a man-of-war. At overt distance we paused, to look upon the varieties of the scene presented by our 'advance to survey the pretty bay and village; the °gem) spread ing from these to the distant horizon on Ono hand, and th e green piano Hoping to the Clouds on the other; whilst, in the length of the island, before and behind us. this varying landscape was lost iu the mistiness'of dis tance. What a beautiful! whet a magnificent scones were the frequent exclamations of enthusiasm. As wo proceeded iu this manner, we were not a lad._ interested in observing and becoming acquainted with the individualities or our Indian companions. Ono was remarked for his wit and humor, though only intelligible to us by the language of expression; qt. 'second for his gravity; a third for his grotesque bufreonery; another for his activity;* several for the:r indolence—while all were good-natured, obliging. and obedient.' It was a source of constant wonder. to coo with what light and easy ac tivity they stepped and ran along under tho heavy bur dens resting upon their shoulders. A short chunky, round faced, smiling man, called Koi-i-nu-hi, was, on account of his superior intelligence, and air of integrity, made chief of his companions. My man, the grave and dignified stood only second to him in our goad graces. enough to havo a long, drab-cloth endow, - reaching to hie heels. the garment of some winter clime, which chance had thrown in big way. and which was too inag nificent in Ilia eye, to ho won from him by a broiling sun, were not very successful in catching the distinct ions of their similar sounding names. With ono active merry fellow, having particularly, long and slender logs, we compromised by calling him rslicani, which his name somewhat resembled; and as ho carried our vessel of wa ter, he heard his 1131110 so frequently called in conjunc tion with water, that lie has adopted Policani-water as his future Milo. Our names were equally bungled by them; Ned, became "Neg.:" ono of our party was familiarly called "Hatchet," and the best they could make of Doc tor was "Sowdow." Having proceeded Ave miles over the pretty country I have attempted to dem-nib°, gradually leaving the ems side we entered a dense forest, through the whole of which wo were compelled to walk single file, in a narrow footpath,' bounded on either side by an Impenetrable thicket; itiV borders matted with ferns and the ginger plent'.'' The spongy roots of the ferns so crossed the path as to make it a Miniature corduroy road, - with just intermace enough between the roots for the foot, and rendering the walking laborious; whilst a succession of deep narrow ravines, their. bottoms soft with mud and water, kept us continually descending, Ivaiding, and as cending. Whilst passing through this wood, being shut off from every breath of air, it was like being in an oven, fled we emerged from the five toilsome miles of its breadth, panting with heat, and our clothes soaked in perspiration. We emerged near an Indian hamlet. up on a green, hillock covered with a cluster of cocoa-nut and pawpaw trees. From this hillock there expanded be fore our view an open, 'grass-carpeted; rolling country, still gently ascending, and into which the wood throw fit ting points. Our road was a long the edge of this wood. Having now made half of our first day's journey, and be ginning to feel tho ants of our exertions, wo called a council upon the propriety of rest and refreshment. Al though the general inclination was in favor of these re storative measures, after sundry theoretical and practical opinions, wo 'concluded to deny ourselves any sudh in dulgence until the close of our day's journey. Notwithstanding, the verdant appearance of the coun try, we observed that it presented a very thin stratum of soil, epread.over hard, black lava, which roan in many place nboVe the surface, in ridges or rolls, where ono wave had cooled upon the top of another. All covering being worn from the pathway, it presented to the feet an unyielding surface, like rdugh iron castings, bringing a great strain upon the aiikie and knee joint. As the day advanced, the journey - became painfully toilsome; miles seemed drawn out to three and four times their length'; and each Indian hut that . app4red in the distance Ws hoped might prove the anxiously looked-for "school house," at which, being half way, wo ware promised an end to our day's labor, and rest for the night. During the tailor part of thkeday wo passed groups of natives awaiting usi by tho road sido, and offering for sale goats milk. chickons, sweet and Irish potatoes. and ban. anas,of which wo bought as much as tho enduring aktia could carry. in addition to the amplo supply of pro'- vision with which they were already loaded. At length, with almost the joy of a tempest-test sailor, who seas a snug harbor within reach, wo learned that the "school-house" was indubitably in sight. The light; hearted merriment of the morning had disappeared un der physical exhaustion, and slowly, silently, and singly each ono dragged himself along; and, as ho reached the hut, sank wearied and exhausted upon the ground. Tho necessities of our case, and the law of usage, jus tified us in taking entire possession of the school-house. It was a long hut, constructed of thatch, having an earth en floor, carpeted with fern leaves and grass. On one sido was a pulpit, or reading-desk. The presiding gen ius of the place was a sturn,sy little kauakz, called Hi ram, the teacher, who dwelt in a but near by. with a good-natured fat little wife, who paid heryespects to us. wrapped in a loose blue calico gown. Hiram gloried in a pair of filming scarlet plaid brooches; - and bath seam ed rejoiced to •eo us. ' .113 locating' t is echool•houie just half ,way, between Hilo and tho vo cane, regard has been had ts'tho con• srenieuce of tra elers, and to the interest of the teacher; for, although n• regular chargo is made, something is generally presented for tho accommodation; and seliials and uns)mpat4zing must the heart be which does not cheerfully offer, some tribute to the kind and good7tsm cit., pored little con le, who, but the other day, iniavogo ig norance theme Ives, are now the; interesting pioneer s of civilization am g a wild prop]. iu a wild country; and although we may smile at the simple' pride with which they caricature our castutne, it is gratifying to zoo their example , extending this syrnbole of civilization and re linomont, The Indians know nothing of our, mode of cooking and eating; and, therefore, tired as we ware, there was still beforo us the labor of preparing the Meal which our appetites And condition earnestl) demanded. - Fortunnte ly, the young gentleman who had charge of the provis ion, department woe of active and enduring toMperaniont, one who, in the spirit of enterprise, and the enthusiastic study of natural history, had already crossed:the Rocky Mountains, He converted the pulpit into a pantry, and, taking hie seat there, surrounded by tho provision• calabashes, 'myriad their contents around, end directed th e p re pare. tion dour supper. Notwithstending the weight they had marled, the kart• ekes came in scarcely showing fatigue; and seeing our forlorn condition, each one 'coated himself by his master, end commenced tera::•tomi-ing, that is, hit the Turkish, SATURDA Y MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1849. and not the barber sense of the word, ehampooning him.• They gently rubbed, beat, and pressed our limbs; kneading us like so Many masSesof dough. Tho songs- . lions caused by this process wore most agreeable; fatigue. pain, and stiffness passed away, and in a little time we wore moving about with restored flexibility, and eseh one making himself useful; attending , the fire, which had been built under a shed projecting from the front of the house; preparing chickens and bananas for frying, peel ing and slicing onions, washing potatoes, and making coffee. The'sumptuous meal, for which our labors had earned the sauce, and .which our bands had prepared. was spread upon one of the school benches, bro.td, green taro leaves being substituted for plates. Wo supped with en enjoyment unknown at the elaborately prepared feasts of Epicureans. About dark some neighboring' natives brought us middle-sized hog for . sale, which we bought, for three dollars, determining to prepare a lu-au, the native dish. Having butchered our hog. and, as the readiest mode of separating the bristles, skinned him, the hams and shoul ders were delivered to the natives to be baited. Having surrounded the meat with taro roots, potatoes, and a moss of taro leaves, the while was enveloped in taro leaves', and deposited for the night in an oven of heated stones. this arrangement completed our domestic culinary op erations for the day; and, gathering fresh fern leaves for our pillows, wrapping ourselves in our blankets, we grouped together in the' bock part of the but for our night's repose, leaving the front part to the Indians; and the hard earthy bed proved no impediment to the well earned sleep of our-first day's journey. During the night a heavy rain came on, rind making its way through the thatch, caused some little commotion among us; but our sleep was too deep to allow this to be any serious incon venience. Early in the morning we were again astir, and having prepared - for our breakfast a similar meal to that of the preceding night, by eight o'clock we wore all packed and under way. Tho lu-au was cooked in the most de licious and cleanly manner, but we conducted not to remove its leafy envelops until ow arrival at the volcano The road to-day for the first ten miles, was very much the same as the last ten of the preceding day, but rather more ascending. We passed great quantities of a;largo sized, yellowish-red, whortle-berry, refreshing and pleas ant to the taste, though rather insipid. These berries were sacred to Po-10, the goddess of the volcano; and du. ring the domination of superstihon: it was the custom to make an offering of them to her, 'by all who ventured to approach the crater. Many lino strawberry vines, in blossom, skirted the road-side, with hero end there afew half ripe berries. In the early fart of the day it was extremely warm; and as the day advanced, a fino drizzling rain coming on, we took oft al! our clothes, to our shirts and drawers, and stowed them in tho calabashes. Thus unincumbered, we walked more lightly, - and the rain driving through , our thin garments, caused a refreshing coolness. A very serious inconvenience began to annoy several of the gen demon, who, not having been sufficiently careful in the fit of their shoes, had theit feet painfully abraded; so I much so, as to bo compelled to remove their shoes. and to walk bare-footed, ten miles of the route being over rough gravel and sharp volcanic sand. This sand was exceedingly annoying to those who could wear their; shoes, by getting Into, them , ficim the many puddles of mud through which we were compelled to wade. !twee a painful day's work, and as the evening drew on, it be 4 came quite chilly. Exhausted by fatiguep and with drenched clothes, the drivingdrizzling rain lot its agree able sensationPund caused us to shiver and our teeth to chatter with - cull The country about us became murky, wild, and gloomy, and as we enlarged (rein a bush-grown mud-puddle through which' we had been marling, indi cations of the neighborhood of the volcano began to be visible; clouds of steam wore issuing- from numerous crevices, and weeping 'in fleecy vapor before - the wind across the direction of our path. A short distance through this steaming region brought us to a group of huts, and we stood then upon the edge of the great crater of Xi- JOUp3. Cold, wet, hungry, and tired, our physical condition prevented a proper appreciation of the sublime and pic turesque, and, therefore, wo determined not to look upon the grand scene until we wero in a better condition to feel its full impression; and we hurried into a newly built thatched lint, appropriated to the accommodation of visitors. Et was so small as barely to accommodate our party, excluding the kanakas. On ono side, a raised plat form, °Yowling the whole length of the hut, and covered with mats. formed a good sleeping place. Rudo as was tho establishrrient, to us it was the luxury of a palace. A fire soon blazed before the dobr under a projecting stied-roof; our wet garments'being changed for dry ones, brought from the secure Interior of tho calabashes; and a sip of grog taken medicinally by all of us white man; wrapped in our blankets, wo were soon in a comfortable state to pay some attention to the great wonder yawning before the door, and upon whose brink we stood. Tho first; and. indeed, continued iinpression, is of solemn, awful, and gleam griudeur, which, In our case' derived force from the sombre weather and mists in which the regicin was enveloped. An awful atty., which seem ed to have engulfed the whole region, with lofty, ritgded. sulphurous wells lining their barren edges against the sky, and shutting out all beyond, in itself presented a shuddering idea of desolation, swallowing up, and final destruction. But the dread grandeur of the scene was increased by the clouds of steam, smoke, mill fumes of sulphur, issuing from the immense sulphur bank around this grand, earthquake-shattered enclosure, and rising from openings and crevices in its deeply sunken bottom. From its lowest depth, at the remote extremity oppo site to where wo stood, a pillar of stnoko nroso and capon into a dark cloud over a lake of lava— "A nrcy deluge, fed Withe vol.-64MT% sulphur, unconisiouctl." ; The tremendous earth-rending forces at work, their se , tion going on before our eyes, and yet their sources bu ried "ten thousand fathoms deep" in appalling mystery, unreached, and, perhaps, unreachable by science, phi losophy, or conjecture, overwhelm with awe the specta tor of this "Dismnt situation, vast and Wild; A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace." Standing on the brink of the crater, the eye surveys its general depth; but on the. side near us, the watts are not in their whole depth directly precipitous, but aro broken Into shelves, which appear to hnvo sunken et widely dif ferent intervals; and are so distant, the onoithove the other, that the one immediately belciw the spectator eon coals from view those beneath it. These shelves are broken by chasing and crevices of invisibk depth. The side of the crater opposite to us being titt toward which the wind uniformly, bore all tho,. mineral, Nines_ of this groat furnace, was wild, barren. and destitute of all yoga `tation; but that on which we stood, being free from ouch ilehiterionsinfluenees, presonied avery difecrOnt tipper epee- Tho sunken shelves beneath us were mite thick ly coated with. a fertile sail, front which grow. in wildpro fusioa; trees', stint be.= lance t and ilcWers; °Meting iwagree" able contrast to th,o itee4obuli region OppOsito., This goderal survey ass all.thst wo cosh/ meko before stigbt closed around the scone; nod then , now features of " The little fatigtM of the natives r,onipared with that suffered by us was. of couree, cb telly owing to the dttlhreneehroar hablte ; but setti tg aside any comparison with us. Orly powers of endu rance were very great% and it may be worth noticing tnatnone of time men used etimulating,,drinas of *ay. Mud. alttlottatt.to e pail limited extent. arc did use (bent upon this ctssion. - , MEM 'rrortwAxiW r za ihtirelit attracted our attention, as we eat around the fire in trout of our hut. Instead of the i smoke 'Which was ser;il he'vering over the burning lake duiing the day, its sarreTolthis brilliantl y illuminated. casting .a bright re , flec.,llmt upon the clouds above. The fires which arose &Om tho_lava waves appeared like myriads, of torches bowie bya moving multitude, gliding by and mingling witliiniSh other; at one Vino dark lanes, circles, or spots. ist i nifftbo seen among the lights. andlhe next initiate the Missing fires would overspread these dark places.— flpsidai th ess humorous torch -li ice masses oplarise and large volume. appiiroutly twenty feet in cir aumferenee. wore spouting up from the surfacer of the lake and around its circumference. - - Motive superstition scarcely needed an illusion, of tho lintleinatlon to make this the ap p ropriate dWelliteg-pleco for tl4 "King of steam and vapor"—the '•Explosioti in tfilialace of lifo"—the "Roign of night."-tho "Tliten dor rig god"—tho "Firo.hurling child of war"—tho "Fi ery-eyed canoe-hreaker"—and the "I - frisson-dwelling eroud•holder"—gods to whom it had assigned this h.ht stlon. '; . l . latrlng slept our fi rst Light upon the edge of tho era tor' we arose early on the following morning, refreshed Snilready for the explorations'of ' the day. The ground all about us, with steam issuing from all parts of its Bur. face, had a very unstable and uneatisfacory look. See ing smell hollow in the ground before our door, filled with dried loaves, I thought it would be a good place for our fire, but upon removing the leaves vapor camp steam. idg up, as though I had uncovered a boiling pot: !In such, auspiCious place, our feelings of confidence and secu ritYWere derived from the knowledge that things had held •on in this boiling, burning, and consuming coudi (fouler an unknown period; but, nevertheless, it is man ifest; uncomfortubly so to thoso en the riot. that at some period—and it may be at any moment—this portion Of earth Will anticipate the general conflagration, unless this event fulfils Father Miller's prophecy by a speedy occur .renCe. Before breakfast we made a Visit to a; sulphur bank, a little to the right of our dwelling-place. Descend: , log ahout thirty feat to the first sunken ledge, and follow - ing this along through a thicketof whortle 7 herry bushel. we iirr , ived at the' back . It' was a hot, smoking mass of Mined yellow, white, and red, the yellow portion bein g 'shining.' beautifully crystallized sulphur; the white, a mineral pulverulont deposit; the red color was derived from a volt, muddy mass, which seemed to be formed by the action of acids upon earth. - Steam was rushing with considerable force from crevices in the bank; while a heavy. rearing sound could bo hoard deep beneath.— Seine pretty specimens of crystallized sulphur wore garb arid; ahoy wore hot and soft, but hardened upon cooling. IMMitliately after breakfast we packed up some previa frnt In a calabash, and, leaving our hut anti goods in c harge of the trusty wo proceeded to de seend-and spend the day in the depths of the crater. Ex pecting to tollect specimens of lava, we took the Indians arid their empty calabashes with us, being Ciloguide. Those men, being barefoot, prepared Gan dialS by matting together leaves of the ti plant, which had been dried, and then softening by soaking. Doing re tained to the foot by loops passing over the tors. they et fectually protected the feet from the heat and sharp points of lava; but tothose unaccustomed to their use ; they would ittrldently have boon a galling and painful substitute fo Lsttios.' Descending to the first lodge, we pursued this for:iernodistance to the left—•a very pretty Walk amid and flowers; overhanging 'wild chime:eau] steep F prielpices. . From this ledge we descended along its per pendicular face by a precipitous path, about OHO hundred feet to the next. The path was formed by steps, worn in a heavy earthen soil. and was so abrupt tlint the indi vidual behind appeared over the head of him who was m mediately before.' There was nothing dangerous in the descent, and tho kruiskas passed down rapidly and with great facility laden with their poles ancicalabashos: From tho level wo had now reached, the siew 'above us' was very imposing. The lofty walls of the crater. where. they were rocky. - presented • perpendicular mid almost smooth surfaces, jutting out at regular intervals, like gi gentfe abutments.. The bottom of the crater was yet far below us; and, by a descent less precipitous than' the last, we reached another soil-covered, and shrub-grown shelf. Walking for some distance along this, we canto to a narrow. rapidly-descending spur, along the sharp edge of which wo reached, after a long descent, the black ledge—the bOttont of the crater. This ledge spread out before us like a frozen black ocean, split into largo flukes. in some places these flakes, having been pressed against each other, rose in ridges; in other places they were, by a similar force, over-lapped„and piled one above another. - .in irregular heaps. Our way to the burning lake was, for a mile and a half,, over this sea of hardened lavet,Mnd by crevices end openings, from which wore gushing smoke end steam. At first, the aortae." upon which wo trod hail more than the brilliant iridescence of anthracite coal, and was or a fryitble, crystalline character. crisping under the feet like dryanow. Farther du, it' hail the hardness and appear once of cast iron, which had cooled in irregular plates.— ill some places the black mass was rolled in 'immense waves, one over the other. The whole gave to tho foot- ' steps a startlingly hollow sound, but there seemed to be ' n more solid, rocky mass beneath, with five or six inch es of space between them. Some places wore cocoon- timed, over which wo were obliged to hurry, the boat-he- Mg painful to the feet, and the atmosphere stifling with,. heated emanations from the gaping crevices. At,length we reached the brink of a broad and deep rent, wiedieg like the •channotof o river. The walls of this chrism wore of rod steno, and the forces which had torn them asunder, hid severed the material into sharp fragments, of varying size, piled in threatening instability, resting upon sharp edges and angles, one above another, and looking as 'though the slightest displacement of an infe rior fragment would bring the whole mass thundering down. - Hardened, black lava occupied tho bottom of this ravine, looking from the top like a river of pitch. D,e seentling; and ascending, the fragmentary sides of this chasm were. apparently, tho ;mist dangerous portions of our route; having, however, crossed it safely. and ascen ded the opposite bank, wo stilt had some distance to go. over scoria and lava, before Ave *toed upon the edge of the burning lake. The wind blowing from its, 'ma were enabled to stand upon the very brink of this boiling cauldron. whose ca. pacify is, measured by miles. The fluid of the' 'lake was ton or ilfteeit feet belewMhere we stood, and was iu con stant motion—thick, 'lnglis!' waves, of the dull, gray, filmy appearance of melted lead, were slowly rolling over eaeh - other, with a steady motion toward die side on which we' stood. Tho flickering of heat appeared over the whole surface, and here and there, columns of red-hot' lava, looking like masses ofblond. were spouted up with a convulsive jerk, mad near the edge,, threw their heated liggid upon the edge of the bank. Having consumed all the thno at our disposai, in the neareontainplatiOn of this phoneme:ma. we commenced ear return; 'and when - sofficiently•romate from' the !eke - co fiiilternfortable,'-we seated ourselves upon - the heated• iiiiiifiee,Ofthe bleak ledge. took, our naid-day'meal iii the crater. ' • , Latin tho afternoon,._ after airary,,,fatiguing day's rec. eupation, during which wo bad boon, compelled_ to rest toomy,tiates t ivo,were oitittonjoyttig the comforts of our but; appreciated the more, front the thy being closed in clonds 'end 'rain., - After night, whilst: reclining on our mat had, talking over the ovents.of bur expedition, the witctiVere'.eiao - thietl'etitNr - Shed antaida the door. suddenly called our attention to spin . outside; and it Was with an impression of ho saw a brilliant light which 'had burst forth oldie hill upon which we then were. Th character of such an appearance. on that arose from tho entire ignorance of what. it mi and our inability to take any measures of matter what might occur. Wo know that wo ing,over fiery caverns, and roaring furnace their extent, change.. end' relations, could ti fined.. The present appearance was nearer t. oral miles. titan anything similar we had see day. It might ,be no more than a frequent outbreak, through an oxisting opening; it slight, new outbreak of no importance; and be a change which would sink the whole o upon which ire then wore, and perhaps form %So could ,do nothing but passively trti t t Things remained quiese4tt; the unpleasant subsided; we became indifferent to the whol the most comfortable night's rest we enjoyed ing the ship. was the last, spent upon tho och oa—amid its clouds, smoke, and fires. After hreakftst on the following morning our return, having filled all the empty cola! specimens of lava. scoria,. and crystallized s most curious of the volcanic products is th e Goddess Pe•le--a filamentous or capillary la ly to the leeward of the crater. It is spun into file, transparent. flexible. flaxen spun glass, having a clole resomblaitee ravished freely these tresses of tho goddess. I SCHOOL-BOY LOVE In the Jest number of Dickens's new tor Muster Copperfield, thus *relates one of his at school, which is marvellously like the set periences of young gentlemen on this side o we suspect-- - aqiut. who is this that brooks upon me? Shepherd. whom I love. • Miss Shepherd is a boarder at the Misses establishment. I adore Miss Shepherd. S girl, in aspencer, what round face and curl The Misses Nettingall'i young ladies come drat. too. I cannot l'ook 'Upon tny book. for upon Miss Shepherd. When Ma choirist hear Mies Shepherd. In the sorrico I tnei Miss Shepherd's name—l put her in amon Family. At home, in My own room. I al moved to cry out, "Oh, Miss Shophord:" i or toys. For some time, I em doubtful of Miss She ings, but, et leilgth. Fete being propitious. the dancing school. 1 have Miss Shepherd nes. I tonchMiss Shepherd's glove; and f: up the. right arm of my jacket. and come on I say nothing•tender to Miss Shepherd. but w each'other. Miss Shepherd and myself li united. Why do I aearatTy give Miss - Shepherd t. nuts for a present, I wonder? They are -n of affection, they aro hard to crack, even i and they are oily when cracked; yet I feel appropriate to Miss Shepherd. Soft, seedy I bestow upon Miss Shepherd; and orange ble. - Once. I kiss Miss Shepherd, in. the Ecatacy! What are my agony and indignat whoa I hear a flying rumor that the Mi. have stood Miss Shepherd in the stocks fo hor toes! Miss Spepherd being the one pervading vision of my life, how do 1 ever come to bre. 1 can't conceive. And yet a coolness gro Miss Shepherd end myself. Whispers retie Shepherd having said she wished I would' and having avowed a preference for Meeter Jones! a boy of no merit whatever! Tho me and Miss Shepherd widens. At Wt. on. the Misses Nottingall's estahlislitnontout wal, Spephord makes a face as she goes hr, and companion. All is over. Tho devotion seems a life, it is all the seine—is at nn end; heard comes nut of the morning service, an Family know her no more." %Vika ■chool•boy but has had his Miss Sh LOVE.—So strago, and passing strange, is relation of the sexes, the passion of love, in a. not be taken into deeper consideration by o i and our legislators. People ' educate ail as if there was no such thing in 'the wol the physicals; let them reveal the amount physical results from this one cause.. • • bo cool': treated with profaneness as a mere with coarseness as it mere impulse? or with f disease? or with shame as a mere weakii. levity as a tune accident; whereas it is a g and a great necessity, lying at the afoundati. existence mart tlity and happluess—inysterio invetiblo as death. Why, then, should lov. leis seriously than death? It is a sotious thi Death must conic; but the state in which lb, whether blinded. astonished, and frijittened, rant, or, like reasonable creatures, guarded, p fit to. manage our own feclings 7 this depends and for want of such self-management and lodge, look at the evds that ensue? hasty, ' ,unsuitable insrriages; repining, diseases, or v .ecy; irretrievable infamy. cureless insaity; thll i comes early,- and the lave that comps latd, ru t primal laws of our nature.—Theekeroy. ONE OF Mg 110031Fft its —A travellin dent relates, with all the sir of truth, nn incide under• his owe oltservation, and of course doubted :—••A couple of Hoosier girls carne steamer, at the little town of Mount Vernon, I evidently were malting their first trip on a s The oldest ono W 419 exceedingly talkative. a free and unconcerned with regard to the man, wore scanning her movements. The other opposite turn of mind; inclining to bashfulne tier our ladies were honored with a seat rt t he table. and the oldest, with her usual in cut heir broad in small pieces. and with her over and enrolled each mouthful in the nice 4 plate of ,beef-steak before her. The pass; served their gravity during this operation by effort. Perceiving Mat her sister was not ve helping herself, she turned round to her nn loud enough to be heard by half the table. • the gravy-3nd pays as much as any on was- followed by a goners) roar, in which the off. The girlsarrivedfuttheir Oleo of destini supper. and when they left the boat. nil hand cheers for the girls of the floes,ier Slate." SAN FOANcISCO SLICE 4,"—Sonia one eye 10 the Iturcrous unites to the Boston Peat pressions of San Francisch; this : "Landed at n Muddy, rocky. and dusty sor, and ascended a sort of a small bill, and they San Francisco city before rue. What n seen never forget it; such a crowd of humanity, dt lazy. drunken, lounging, raggod, soli-dresse —merchants, speculator; blacklegs, sailors. dians—psoplo from all parts of the, world, all home, in each others company—ail clistittch. by gold--Jack and tho cook ns good as their democratic ob'out it, too, without being actual !think Icon correct one or two erroneous i 1 perhaps. ion an'tvell as all others entertain. , regard to the almost magical creation of a cl you, perhaps, the idea of a now place, town, as is built in the U. Stites in no time. This Instead of neat white wooden houses, clean here you son the greatest collection., of pi , shanties evor behold. A little shanty, about your annt'a old hen house Would be esteotne erty—would, be dignified'Whtt a' sign over it 'genet* merchants,' " 51 50 A TXIAIt, in Adv r ann occurrence ror, thirro om the fee t appa ling dark eiht. 'at intliiinte, Lord Byron celled them the “loveliest spots on eartit.” in which opinion few that.have seen them fail to coin cide. The people of each faith in Constantinople, have distinct quarters eltotted to thorn in death as wells., in life. The dark groves of cypresses, with their turbaned statute of white marble. belong exclusively to the Moslems, and many are the generations, interred there. • A cypress is invariably planted at each Bfusatilman'n grave. The Turks reserve that funeral-tree for them selves and it is prohibited to be planted in other eometo tics. As no grave is ever Opened a second time. these burial-grounds have became vast forests. extending for miles around flip city and its suburbs. The, cypresses here, from the nature of sea, or the • uses to which they are applied. have grown to a size seen no where else, and they form a shade which even an Oriental not penetrate, ecurity. no -ere stand, 1.; but what 4 be imag us, by aev ~• during the • occurring might be a et irmiglit the region lon around. e resulL— ariling soon , affair; and The tombstones of the Turks are of whits supplied from the quarries of Ilarmore, or th unfrequently shaped (refill - ancient columns ant The turban surmounting the Woe dietinge graves of males; those of females aro simply , _ _ z t et! with a rose branch. The form of the 'turb n denotes the rank and condition of the deceased. Thn the greas er the pashet,lho soldier, the dervish, the lawyer, the— since hey -0 of Silos' o started on ashes with Iphur. The hair of the found on the wind ,s, a kind or hair. We merchant aro easily recognized. limiting is mom touching or:impressive .than to see, beneath the shade of some dark cypress, solitary men absorbed in prayer, or groups of women sitting over the graves of departed friends, with whom, in deep affliction, they seem to hold communion, or supplying With water the flowers plaided in cavities left expressly in each for them. Multitudes of turtle doves frequeiirthese gloomy cemeteries. They are at all times seen fluttering among the overhanging trot% and with bats and owls hold di vided sway. the hero,. OVO Scrapes 001-buy cx. the water, Burling within the city is strictly prohibited—a teise regulation among the people whose graves aro exceed. utgly shallow. The arentatic odor of the cypresi is amp. posed to neutralize pestilential exhalations. and render the air salubrious. his is Minn Nettingall's to is a little • flaxen hair. 'a the Cache. I mu‘t look rs chant. tally in ,ert • the naval The cemeteries of itayalis are shaded by the plateaus. mulberry, autt,the terebitith or turpentine tree. Of those burial-grounds, that of the Armenians is pro-eminently beautiful. The tree they prefer is the terebinth. which grows to a prodigious size. - Numbers of thorn overhang ing the Eto.Phorus contribute considerably to the pietist. empic appearance of that lovely strait. The Armenian tombs are inscribed with the name of the deceased, and devices rudely carved in relief represent the profession and manner Of his death; thus, if he has been deeapite. red, he is represented with his head in his hand; If hang. ed, the body appears suspended on a gallows; if strang led, the application of the bow-string is depicted. Igno minious as these deaths are, they are considered as no disgrace among the Armenians. None of their commu nity, they assert, is ever executed for a reel crime; 'the true motive is the confiscation of their propertieis, and some plausible excuse is invented to conceal it.—Lcring's Trards. I=l n transport herd'i feel- Iwo meet nt for my port el n thrill go I ' . , at my katr. understand o but to bo etve Brazil t exprOnsive room door. hut they are lacuite, ohm innurnera loak 'room. on next day, i~cttingnil turning in Geovrir or Coirrx AND rtrPEll.—ln extent Java is about seven hundred mites in length, and it varies from. eighty to ono hundred and forty miles in width. Its area is lets than twenty thousand square miles. The faco of the country is more or less broken by mountains, but the soil generally is rich and productive. - The pro ducts are rice, sugar. coffee, pepper, spices. and a profu sion of the finest tropical fruit. We were much inheres. ted in why:: some of these tropical productions growing. Coffee is cultivated here to-as great perfection as in al most any other part of the world. it rows upon largo bushes that very much resemble ourlargo chiukapin bu.lies, and the grains of cairn() are formed two in a ber ry, about the biz: and shape of our common plum. The skin of the berry is about as thick as that of the plum, and the color. when ripe, a pale scarlet. theme and , k with hell' vs between mn of Miss 't store so, June s—for If betwolfn Jac, I mot t Bliss ouglts to 'tor I .l' a life—it Mitts Shop - tho nova, The built is very productive. Every branch is loaded. with the berries, which grow two in a place, on opposite sides ambit other, and about an inch and a half span. When ripe, the akin bursts, and the grains of coffee fall out upon the ground; but a more general way is to spread something under tho bush, and shake the coffee down. Arter the enter &kin is taken off there remains a kind of husk ovor each kernel. which is broken off, after being well tilled in the sun: by heavy rollers. The coffee, af ter this, needs winnowing. to be freed from the broken particles of the husk. It has boon said by some writers that one bush will not, with another, average more then a pound of coffee. though it Boomed to me. judging from appearances, that was too small an allowance for each bush. pherd? it tint the ort—should r teachere d legislate ld; but ask f moral arid . Must low° I rts ion I or Black pepper is also raised to some extont'on the island of Java; but Sumatra, which lies just across tho straits. is by for the most celebrated for this commodity, fler pepper is, perhaps, the finest and most abundant of any one country in the world, Black popper grows on a vino and tho popper vineyards remind me very much of our American vineyards of grapes. The pepper grows, and looks, when green, very much like our currants. There is this difference. however; the currant has each Its own distitict stem, but the pepper has not. Every grain grows hard on to oinf,common stem, just as each grain of Indian corn does on the cob or husk, as Virginians incorrectly would E3y. The color of pepper, whets first ripe. is al most a bright red ; and changes to the dead black, common to us, by being exposed to the heat of the sup. The famous white pepper is nothing more then the common black, with the outer skin taken of It is first soaked until t'lis skin bursts open, when rubbed oft', and the grain dried. The White is not considered so pungent as the black, though it is nicer and more expensive. as moro labor is necessary in artier to prepare it.—Notes of an American Traveller in the Fast. lat. as a mere 130 or with 'oat ropitory n of human 1 3, univeraal be incited lg' • ' • • • !y find us— and 'goo (pared, and on ourselves self-know- Inprovidont cious echb death that •orsing tho corresrion tt that came is not to bo n board the ad. They ,oattetoat.-- perfLctly MAD LE - rrEns.—Under this horrible title aro classed all letters returned as uncalled for, by all rho post-offices of our extensive country, end gathered into ono mass at tho General Post Office in Washington. Six hundred thousand is tho at tho nurnhor thus collected ••doad tee department" every threo months. Tho average amount :of money taken from these letters is $2.000; and out of VD. owners aro found for $5-I. The balance remains in Lpossession °film department. A trusty porson is employ ed to elicit every letter. The empty ere cast awn,- and consigned to the it one,; lama which centrals money aro noted, mid every effort is undo to find the ()enterer tither by reference to the. rose master whence the letters wore origin-lily nmilei. Reference in ho made In all time hereafter to the records of this department, by parties Imelm.r, lost money by mail; and if the same has boon re ceived it Will bunt once paid over to the lawful elainitant. • eyea that as of tho s: At din to head of opontlaoco. •rk reached tossing on nen; pro- int of groat !y, forwatd at exclaimed. Sul dip into r em.' This captain led tion before gavo three at has an ie firpt ita • Many very strange articles are found in the deed, tem. We ohsereed on n recant visit_ to the office. a. l the et - tides taken from the letters, pair of drawers. s i Shiite, elms of sugar sent us specimens. tleguarrotype nessrs. and a variety of such things net'esactly snit for the mail.-•-fluitintore SYar. 1 oflandina, t was %Viet 1 , 0 1 shitll ,ty, syttald, ;, 41102'001er ' lagers. In 'perfectly at ,ns levelled !master—so y insulting. .as which, I ne is with ty.' giving -r city, such ii an error. inns,. &c. .ty looking the eizo of good prop - k so and so; Lep AtTRAX.—A good story was recently told ' tomperanco,tneetini iij ?low Ilampahiro. A eua came up to a •Wasliihgtonian, with the inquiry: " "Can you tell mo whore I can get anything to dew • "Oh. .yea," said tho other "follow me.' 4 . , • , The man followed him through two or thrall air tilt be began to be d'scoarsged. "How ranch further must Igo?" said he. "Only a few steps further." said the Wasbin . eon tio pump!' Tho man hinted about sad "moved bit boots" I NUMBER TURKISH CEMETEnIk:S RE 33. 1 sun can• .marble. .y are not marbles. Mee the .rnament- let ong, ome iike lbto
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