Mobile register and journal., 1845-04-22

THE GLENs OF THE THAI, ,SwITZERLAND- Beauty waited with deepening colnrs till night fall Our road, bordeI ed only by flun trees, first wound through open meadows edging the Birs: the pure sparkling stream whose magnificent domain we were about to ascend, almost from It's confluence with the khine lucid recipient of hundred lovely streams, 10 it's source. We approached ihe low
 wooded hills the Ouskirs of the Iura haihed in full sunshine. which opened receive road, fnrm Ing around II succession Ot Nerdant amphliheaires, connected by narrow alleys, s bright with the liVel
 est green, along the level huor of which the clear river glided. As the evening light lhckened. the road grew lovlier the gens hecame ravines. built mp with dark rocks; and regretted to learn dri- Ver's determination to proceed n ihe dark, alieT a rest of half an hour pretty village, as we were approaching the widest and noblesl deplLs of the Pass. do not think, however, that we have reason depOre the dugged determination which he evinced to proceed far as Muutiers; for the gens of the TlIal, which had seen in day, were awful, and hardly less lovely in the darkness.
 Although we could not see the transition from the beach, the corpice wood, and b,rch to the frs and pines, we feI il; deep defle after deep defle opened and closed around Us, sometimes shutting ns in s' close that the road and river occupied the whole floor of the Pass; and the sldes up toward the dark hue sky, looking perpendicular while the highest top pine poplar often spreads out it's fracery, RE fl among the stars They <park led above the narrow orifce; but earth had lighis whch matched those in lustre, glowwormS ni exquisite beauty, Illustrating the sernest passages Ot the way. Sometime close of those globes of green light. meek y resting in the thick grass whsch rngpd he road and the stream; sometimes small cluster of them form- ing a constellation glistened far up Il crag, at the base of rocky pillar, breaking ont from the side of the precipce; sometimes the river, amidst the scarce .discerned roots of shaggy pines, sing lamp shone in heavenly serenity, star of earth. F- gave pretty solution of these fair problems of nature, which should despoi in repeating, of it's gloss much should one of the insect spark ers by snatching Il from its bed or throne and bringing it into the blaze of A common lamp, an insignificant brown woim
 Its substance was, that the male gIowworm is en- dowed with wings, which ihe female wants; and he often negIeetiu of his mate. prolnn9s the enjoy ment of his airy privilege, while she languishes for his re,urn; and that the lonely and loving female, supplied with it's ustral power, hangs out her lamp of love to rekinde his gnssamer sympaihy and win and guide him home The stiffness of ihe night was sometimes violently broken by ihe heavy sound ol work in iron, ponderons n,ises, and its darkness displayed by the sudden apparion of forge, with a huge fire, and grim figures of salwarl workmen, with massive arms. stirring the Jumps oi hnme beating the bars of red hot r0n strange forms to glare in on the oseness of such night, reminding us of the charcoal burners Of the HatZ Mountains and things even more fearful, for the depths of the Jura rich n minerals. are alive with industry. and maintain an energetic and honest population among their folds In ther bosom, but in wide and fertile circle. whia
 they recede all sides to forsn, stands Monitors, busy, and for busy, dirty town, where we stopped at large oldiashioned inn fou Id good tea. cold meat. hgpt zine, and cleaa beds, in spacious chan. bers and dreamed of ihe loves of the gowworms = | Sergeant Talfourd's Vacation Rambes. t..