The Arkansas advocate., 1831-12-14

. falsehood give way to truth, and right eous government prevail over oppres- sion; for the intinenee of our Redeem CT begins to be felt, and s.the Light of Israel shall be for d fire, and his Holy One fora q fame, and 1t shall burn and devoar the the thorns and briefs in one day.o
 Spanjsb Honesty. 1t IS generally SUD- posed, and by Americans in particular, inat q journey through Spain is butft- iie better than running the gauntlet throughsuccessive regiments of thieves, robbers and assassns2 and the impress sioa has not been modified, certainly not removed, by tue graphic, eutertain- ing and sensible work of the author of r. \ year ia Spain, by a young Ameri- Icaf,9 Lieutenant Slidell gives rather q diseouraging account Of the elliptic propensities of the present inhabitants oftbis romantic country, and bis local observations were slirewdly accurate.
 All general iDferences, therefore, are, however, illogical. Atany rate, an ad- venture which lately befell one ofour townsmen, which has been related to us, furnishes splendid exception, and proves that the Spaniards are not all addicted to '.irregular appropriation,
 any more than the people ofthe United States are all conyicts, negroes or ln- dians, as was believed, and is even yet believed occasionally by some of the polite natives of Europe. The nara tive of the "Young Ameriean7 excited the curiosity ofthe gentleman We refer 10, and being in the south of France, in the neighborhood of the Pyrenees, he determined to cross the mountains, and sec for himself. To guard against the hazard, amounting, as he imagined, al. most to certainty, of being attacked bS banditti, he procured a leather girdle, n which he snugly deposited as much 1.-the sinews of travel as he deemed ne- cessary for the journey. and buckied it close around his person. For several days no robbers appeared. He began to doubt whether the "Young Ameri- can's'' glowing description was not mere Arabian Nights Entertainment.
 Atlength, having advanced safely, as he supposed, to within sight of Madrid, his attention was called to the state of his girdle; when, To, the gold 1t once contained, like the riches of scripture, had taken to itself wings. Some Span ish robber, he thought, of course, must have done this. The girdle had been cut from him in the night. He had ta- ken advantage ofhis slumbers. Still it was possible it might, from its weight, have become detached, and fallen by the way. While there is uncertainty there is hope. So he requested the mayoral, the Spanish name for the con- ductor of royal diligence, to make in- qniries, on his return to Valencia, at all the inns on the road. After the lapse ofabout fortnight, when the pocket of our traveller was reduced to its last real, and hope deferred began to make Ii lis heart srt sick, sick ~hc shend aceest the streets of Madrid, with smiling, joyous couatenance, but the worthy mayoral. Your lost purse, senor, has been found. Atone of the inns, on the road, where the passengers had stopped a few hours to sleep, an humble cham bermaid overheard the mayoral making his inquiries. She listened attentively until he was through, when with an artless enthusiasm, she exclaimed, q have il" and immediately delivered up, untouched, the lost girdle, with sum s,,,o,,rA Asn ., r., :, kovt two fhoucand fr.occ