The Arkansas advocate., 1831-05-18

on foot, and seeing no fairer prospect of finding the end, than when We com menced, NC concluded to return. We accordingly took up our line of march, returning the same way We came.
 After being forty-two hours absent from the light of day, we again found ourselves at the mouth of the cavern, and gave ourselves up to refreshing sleep.
 There are a number of pits of great depth, in different parts of the cave, which made Unnecessary to be very care iul In exploring il. There is danger. also, of taking some unexpiored rooms, and becoming So lost as not 10 be a. bie te find the way out. This is, how ever, ,obvlatedby the pFecaution that has been taken as far as has been explored. to place the figure of an arrow at the eil- trance of every room, pointing te the mouth of the cave. Care silonid also be taken to preserve the lights, as 1t would be impossible for any one to find the way back in darkness, far ther than the first Hopper. We found the names of ladies inscribed at the f;tr- thest point we reached, and our guide remarked, that they were tic most cour- ageous visitors he had. For three miles from the mouth, the sides and top of the cavern are covered with q remarkable quantity of bats, hanging down from the top in form of bee hires, from two to three feet thick. They are in tor pid state, and are seldom known to fly. There are about twenty different rooms that have been discovered, ,and but three of them that have been explored to the end. This vast cavern is apparently hollow beneath, from the sound that is made by walking through many of the rooms. ltwould probably take months to explore to the end of all rooms that have been, and which le.,a,,i.. 1, eii iie be discovered. The removing of some few obstructions, at trifing expense, and 1 lighting the cavern, would enable a stage coach to go with safety to the se- cond waterfall, distance of fifteen miles.-.ltzo Englnnd Repic1p.
 There seems to be some uneasiness at the award of the King of the Neither lands, on the controversy submitted to his arbitrament bY the Government of the United States, and that of Great Britain. 1t is easy enough to complain. but more difficult task in many cases is to remedy the evil complained Of. If this matter were before a court of law, the award might be objected to on the ground that the award did not follow the submission, and perhaps on others not necessary to be specified. But this dispute has been before different trl- bunal; and fl was hardly reasonable to expect that in coming to a conclusion, his Majesty would be governed by the strict rules and principles adopted in courts of common law jurisdiction. The difficulty seems to be to get rid of the decision. We can conceive of but two nodes negotiation and war. IfGrcat Britain is dissatisfied as well as this country, they may perhaps agree to open 1t once more for ncgoeiation. But if, on the whole, that government means to acquesce, nothing remains, as far as we can see, but acquiescehce, or the sword. A war for the residue of tho territory which our government claimed, would make it q dear purchase. We should think it q far better plan 10 cedc an equal quantity of land belonging 10 the United States, not within any State, and not intended for any Indian tribe that may be coaxed to emigrate.
 Liberty of Sentiment.--It gives us pleasure to insert the following as af fording all additional proof ofthe i,ercas~ ing enlightenment of the age. Preju- dices sanctioned by the 'svenerable anti quity" of q thousand years, are fast dis appearing; and 1t must be gratifying 10 all to observe, that those who have had the valor to achieve their own freedom, in manner which eelpses the bright estdays of Rome and Greece, have, at the same time, the intelligence 10 per ceive, and the justice 10 regard the rights, so long withheld, of others:-U. s. Tel.
 Ihc Jezcs.-The law project for plac- ing the Ministers Of the Jewish persua- sion in France, on the same footing, as to salary, as those of other religions, Ih1a had passed the Chamber of Peers. Or re- ferring to the report of the deIate. it appears that this measure was. potwith-