Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-11-24


A PLAIN ON FIRE.-The country about
Bona, in Africa, was lately set on fire by the
Kabyles, partly to feriilize the soil, and part
ly to provide themselves with stock of coal
and dry wood A letter from Bona of the
LIST of September, describes The conhagra-
ton. The French Army was obliged 10
remove its. stores and ammunition. Then
followed scene which is thus described.
Fortunately at about six o'clock, the ST.
rocco ceased. and strong northwest wind
sprung up, by which the confagraton was
driven back TO the hills. Without this pro-
sidential interposiIion, all efforts to arrest the
| fiery torrent would have been in vain, and
the calamity alone. by destroying a great
part OF the material for the expedition a.
gainst Constantine, would probably have
rendered that expedition impossible for the
present year The conflagration now roll
ing towards the mountains. threatened the
huts Of the Kabyes. Withour telescopes
we could see these barbarians, in their rag
gcd robes and leathern aprons, fleeing over
the heights The men were laden with
their worldly wealth, the women with their
children 1t was towards midnight, that the
spectacle of the fiery mountains became
most magnificent. Immense columns of
FIRE, driven along by the north wind. rose
higher and higher towards the summit Of
the hills. The gloomy Atlas appeared to
be stormed by a whole army Of fiery giants
The wild beasts fled from crag to crag, and
the bowling Of the panic-struck jackalls and
hyenas could be distinctly heard in the town.
Several hundred Of whe-headed vutures,
driven from their eyries. few screaming
over the flames, while the appearance of the
scattered kabyles, sometimes toward the
summit of hill, and sometimes nearer to
the plain. where the fury of the conaagra-
ton had wasted ITSELF added to the pie,ur-
esqe effect of the scene. The women with
their long dshevelled hair, their blue stain
ed faces, and their long auitering garments.
standing out in bold relief from the murkv
glare of the mountain, appeared more bag
gard and more spectral 10 my eye than they
had ever done before.
Towards one o'clock the fire reached the
cork trees on the top of the hills, and instant
ly the whole western ridge of the Atlas
seemed converted into chain of volcanoes.
now hurting up the sky thick masses Of yell
low grey smoke, and in the next vomiting
, huge columns Of fire. In few hours the
! mountain became dark again for the FIRE.
) obeying the impulse of the wind was de-
scending into the plains beyond the reach Of
our view. AT present towards the west, we
! behold nothing but masses of black Goals,
where few days ago the landscape was
: covered with a parched vegetation. Never
did the Atlas appear TO me TO wear SO
gloomy an aspect"
FANNY WRIGnT-the notorious Infidel
(, female Lecturer leads the Loco Foco or
:. Democratic party in New York She is
! occurring all the while in that city at Tam
: many Hall, urgingthe party TO DESTROY ALI
BANKS break up corporations put down re-
: lgious and moral institutions and deface all
that the people OF New England held sacred
and nviolablel The loco foco ticket which
: is in nomination in that city, in opposition 10
the Wings is made up almost exclusively Of
open followers of atom Paine" avowed
INFIDEIiS; and their cry is, Doom rith
e The aBaaks'-" No Church and State'--s
sDo,on Nth The Arisiocracy'!i So foul
e and so abominablc has this party become,
S that the intelligent and respectable portion OF
!. the friends of the administration there, have
|. Withdrawn their names from the Ticket
!, They have determined in body that they
cannot sustain men and measures who seek
1 to destroy, not only thepolilical, but the NOR
! al, political and religious institutions, ofthe
u country These are the Loco Focos of
e New York ~ Do the principles this party
urge, and the measures they propose for the
- good people Of Mossac huselis TO adopt do
l. they differ from those of New York Let
d the people look about theHi, at the leaders of
e the parry, and then they aoiU see il there is
, no analogy !-Northamptoa Courier. 81