The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1860-03-31

He drew away the cloth that had served to
keep the moisture of the clay model from being
exhaled. The sitting figure of woman was
seen. She was draped from head to foot in -
costume minutely and scrapuionsly studied from
that Of ancient Egypt, as negealed by tse
strange sculpture Of that eaantry, its coins.
araH Hinex inteat lnnmpa2 -eases, and xhatever
ian head-dress was adhered to, but had been
softened into rich feminine adornment, with
out losing particle of its truth. Difficulties
that might we'll have seemed insurmountable had
been courageously encountered and made fex-
ible to the purposes of grace and dignity; SO
that Cleopatra sat attped in garb proper to
her historic and queenIy state, daughter of
the Ptolomies. and yet such the beautiful wo-
man would have put on as best adapted to
heighten the magni6cence of her charms and
kinde a tropic fire in the cold eyes Of Octavius
marvellous repose-that rare merit in ST. tatu-
airy, except it be the lumpish repose native to
the block of stone-was diffused throughout the
figure The spectator felt that Cleopatra had
sunk down out Of the fever and turmoil of her
life, and for one ;nstant-as it were, between
two pulse-thorbs-had relinquished all activity
and was resting throughout every vein aud
muscle. 1t was the repose of despair, indeed :;
FOR Octavius had seen her, and remained in
sensible to her entertainments. But still there
great smouldering furnancedeep down in
the woman's heart. The repose. doubt, was
as complete as if she were never to stir hand or
foot again; and yet, such was the creatures
latent energy and ierceness, she might spring
upon you like tigress and stop the very
breath that you were now drawing midway in
your heart.
The face miraculous success. The
sculptor had not stunned to give the FULL Nub-
ian lips, aud other characteristics of the Egypt
ian physiognomy. His courage and integrity
had been abudantly rewarded; for CIeopatras
beauty shone out richer, warmer, more triump-
hantly beyond comparison than if, shrinking
timidiy from the TRUTH he had chosen the tame
Grecian type. The expression was of profound,
! gloomy, heavily-revolving thought; glance
into her past life and present emergencies, while
her spirit gathered itself up for some new strug-
gle. or was getting sternly reconciled to i'm
pending doom. Iu view there was certain
softness and tenderness-how breathed into the
statue, among So many strong and passionate
elements. it is impossible to say. Catching an
other glimpse, you beheld her implacable as
a stone aud cruel as IRE. re.z-=ss.-z1s=.-s.4 4 4
| 1u word aiE Eieopatra-ferce voluptuous,
passionate, tender wicked, terrible, and full of
poisonous and rapturous enchantment-was
kneaded into what, only week two before,
had been lump Of wet clay from the Tiber.
Soon, apotheosized in an indestructible material,
she would be one of the images that men keep
| forever, finding a heat in them which does not
cool down throughout the centuries.
''What woman in this!" exclaimed Miriam
after long pause. 'Tell me- did she ever try,
even while you were creating her, to overcome
you with her fury or her love? Were you not
afraid to touch her. she grew more and more
towards hot life beneath your hand2 My dear
friend, it is a great work! How have you
learned to do it?
"It is the concreton of a good deal oil
/ thought, emotion and toll of brain and hand u
said Kenyon, not without perception that his
! yopru Nd thotT h<,rry -
about at last kindled a great fire within my
mind, and threw in the materiai--as Aaro,
threw in the gold of the Isarelities into the
furnace-and in the mdmost heat up rose
Cleopatra, you see her."
AN EXPENSIVE BUTCHERS BILL.
| A letter to the New York Courier from San
Francisco, says: 'Gen. Kibbe, Oh behalf of him
self and his volunteers, has come before the Legs
laturc with hill of SO 600 for his heroic exploits
in killing Indians. The Legislature proposes to
pay it by issuing bonds for the amount, which
bonds are to be presented as claims against the H.
S. Treasury.
| Though not white has been killed in
the whole of the pretended battles with the Indians
it is boasted by parties that 9 900 Indians, have
been killed within ten months. 1t but DIS to the
horror of the narrative refer to the fact that the
defenceless hunted like wolves in their
native woods and butchered like sheep in a
fold when they seek the mercy Of their captors.
LAS soon these accounts audited here, they
will be sent to Congress for payment. Before vot
ing upon these clams'' says TIE Curriers' cores
pondent, 81 hope members will read the reports o
Gen. Clarke, Lieut.. Dillon Capt Flint, and Major
Johnson. IF wholesale murder is TO be paid for, i
ia bounty is to be set upon ferocty treachery, ant
brutality, which degrade white men below the leve
of the iercest sayages let the money be voted bu
otherwise, not dollar should be bestowed"
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/ SUPPOSED KILLED.-As the mail train wa
coming up from Weldon yesterday evening, mar
is supposed to have been killed in the follawin,
manner The train was approaching Tar Rive
bridge, when the engineer man the oppo
site end but of course, thought he would get Of
before the train reached him. Instead of getting of
however the man stepped to side and backe
himself up against the railing wall of the bridge
supposng that the train would miss him but un
fortunately for him, his head was struck by tn
mail coach and it is supposed that he Instant
! killed. The train being behind time it did not sto
for the matter to be investigated-Rol. Press
What Dear little Sister
! sad andt hon,