The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-04-11
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comical peak, all with the most inimita-

comical peak, all with the most inimita-
bic GOODNESS.
Tile hint took. The witness, giga.g-
ling, did remember that itwas Allioois
day--the prosecution began to feel
foolish--the magistrates looked like
they were on thorns and taking medi.
cine-a spontaneous burst of applause,
and laughter arose from the audience.
and the sheriff, one hand to mis- side and
the other cramming his handkerchief.
into his mouth, found it, impossible to
stop the noise and confusion that en-
sued. The truth Gas they thought
had suddenly flashed upon them, that
that whole affair, pistols and SO forth,
was a TRICK, planned by Shocko, and
the court, highly indignant that their
worships should be thus humbugged, J.
Immediately left in disgust!
Thus may some good occasionally be
produced by the reputation of being o
sad fellow!' Shocko had often manu-
tured ajoke out of nothing, but never
before converted serious fight into q
mere April fool trick. And as fee for
his skill, he demanded of his delighted
client pinch and coblers for the COM
pany.
Yours truly, HA.HA-nA!
DESCRIPTION OF THE VALE OF DEL
PHI.-A more glorious sight can hard
ly be conceived, or one better adapted
to warm the imagination, and inspire
feelings of religious enthusiasm, than
the magnificent group of objects which
this theatre of rocks formerly enclosed,
when lighted up by the beams Of the
morning sun; terraces, porticoes, colon
nades, and statues rising in gorgeous
masses one above the other, and backed
by q stupendicus wall of precipices ~
The lively manner in which Euripides,
in the opening scene of the Ion,
through the solilloquy of the young
Neocorus expanding the gates and set
ting in o,dcr the courts of the temple,
realizes to the fancy this grand combl-
nation of the wonders ofnature and art,
is one of the happiest efforts either of
his dramatic or descriptive muse.
The twin cliffs, so celebrated among
the ancients as tho most remarkable
feature of the scerery of the Delphic
vale, are, amid the confusion of names
SO common with poets in their descrip-
tons of scinces distinguished for sancti
ty or celebrity, frequently alluded to as
the SUBMITS of Parnassus; although in
fact comparatively small peaks at the
base of that stupendious mountain.
The proper title of that at the east was
Nauplia, ofthe other Hyamplia. It is
probable that to these two rocks the
place is originally indebted for its name,
if not for the establishment of the sane
tuary within its bouds. Delphi is the
root of the familiar Greek word aael-
phos, "brother;;" and hence was q very
appropriate title for the twin peaks,
consccrated probably in the remote age
at..which the dedication first took place,
conformity, like the twin islands of the
Hgean, Delos and Rhena, to the twin
deities, Apollo and Diano. The plu-
raj formation of the name seems also to
favor this view. Similar, probably, is
the origin of the name Didymi, literal
ly "the Twins" which belonged to the
most celebrated oracular shrine of the
deity at Asiatic Greece, and to anoth-
or in Argolis.
At the lower extremely of the dry
torrent bed, just where it emerges from
between the cliffs, issues the waters of
tho Castalian spring, oozing at first in
scarce perceptible streamlcts from
among tho loose stones, but swelling in
to considerable brook within not ma.
ny yards of their first appearance above
ground. 1 slipped mouthful Of wa:
ter at the fountain.head. It is certain
ly most delicious to tho taste; but was
not more sensible OF its beneficial infu-
ence on my imaginative faculties than
80 many other travellers who have COM
planned ofits ineficacy.- Journal of o
Tour in Greece.
MARRYING A CoAcHMAN EVIDENCE
OF INsANITY.--The New York Sun
says:
'sMiss Crusc, who was sent to the
insane asylum for marrying her fathers
gardener, is still there. The keepers,
with the exception of DR.. Earle, con-
slider her perfectly sane, yet no examin-
alton is made, and the poor girl is kept
within the bars and bolts of a mad house.
She still declares that she will marry