Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-07-06

Jewels, which he had sold to some Kafr:
of merchants at Kars. The unbelieving
dogs, rank Sheahs and heretics, as we'll a.
swindlers (Sultaun Moorad was Sounie,
had taken away the money they had pait
HIM for the diamonds by force, after he hat
given his receipt and when he complained
at the footstool of justice, the Cadi of Kar'
that son of burnt father and grandsirt
of asses-had taken bribe from the
thieves to apply the bamboo to Dindar, anc
to drive him with blows from the court
him an old man and a Mussulman !
Whereupon there had remained no othel
resource to the ill-treated and disconsolate
Dindar than to PROSTATE himself IN the dus
of the Turcoman encampment, to grasp the
spear of the chief, to kiss the hem Of his
robe, and to abjure the brave and vlctori.
Gus Sultan Moorad, before whom the uni.
verse trembled, to put himself at the head
of his lion-eatlng warriors, and surprise the
robbers on their road to Teheran. Dindal
added, that besides the diamonds the ras.
Gals had above ninety thousand piasters in
silver in their possession, and that he should
be content with the restitution OF the gems,
leaving the money to his valiant ally, whom
he finally implored, by the beard of his fa-
ther and the salt of his hospitality, to pro-
tect and avenge him. The Turcoman chief
sympathised with the wronged and injured
Dindar, and his eyes sparkled at the men
tion of the piastres He agreed to punish
Dindar's enemies, ,and to restore to him the
gems, land forthwith plucked his spear from
the ground where it was planted before his
tent, mounted his steed, which had borne
him on many day of battle and chappow,
and called around him his young m en-, who
mustered gladly at the first announcement
of foray. To the astonishment and dis
may ofthe Stamboul thieves,a as they emerg-
ed from the intricate passes of the noun
tains into the open plains,they were charg-
ed by an overwhelming force of Turcoman
cavalry. Half of their number fell beneath
the sclmitars and lances of Sultaun Moorad
and his followers, and the survivors, hav-
ing been stripped and plundered, were de-
tained in state of slavery among the wild
horde. As for Dindar, the chief kept his
word most faithfully. The diamonds were
given up to the willy Cretan, who returned
forthwith to Constantinople, restored the
Jewels to the Baroness Won --,and du-
ly claimed and received the reward. The
Turcoman chief was coutent with the coun-
terfeit coin.
THE LARGEST TREE IN THE World
There is cedar tree growing in the noun
talns of Calaveras county, California, which
a correspondent of the Sonora Herald, who
recently made an excursion to see it, thus
describes:
eat the ground its circumference was
80 feet; four feet above that it was SS; and
ten feet above that it was 61 feet In cir
cumference; and after that the tapering of
the shaft was very gradual. Its height, as
measured by Capt. H., is 800 feet, but we
made it but 2S5. This tree is by no means
deformity, as most trees with large trunks
are. 1t is throughout one of perfect SYM
metry, while its enormous proportions i'm
press the beholder with emotions of its
grandeur.
II have said that this is the largest tree
vet discovered in the world 1t is so.-
The celebrated tree OF Fremont would have
to grow many centuries before 1t could pre-
tend to be called anything but younger
brother. There is a tree in Mexico called
the Taxodium, which is said to be III feet
in circumference, but some have said it is
formed by the union of several trees.
This giant of the woods is 20 be flayed.
The process has already commenced. We
understand that the bark, which at the base
is about fourteen inches thick, is to be ta-
ken off in sections to the height of twenty
feet and sent to the Worlds FAIR in the ci-
ty Of New York;