The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-10-04

the Caesars. reposes moulderiDgly upon the |
classic banks of the Tiber. The Acropo-
lis with its shafts of polished marble,
soaring into the clouds. cousecrated to the !
heroism, genius and elOquence of Athens,
where Clio delights to chronicle the lof-
test achievements Ofphilosophy. sculpture,
painting and poetry, is rapidly corroding.
and mOurnfully passing into utter ruin
and decay.
But the inimitable architecture of this
wonderful and endless cavern, it's star
chambers, its dowery bowers, and its
icicled columns, more ancient than the
pyramids of Egypt or the traditionary
ciladels of Uxmel or CholuIa, unlike the
towering monuments of antiquity, it is in-
vulnerable to the corrosive tooth of time,
and will endure so long as the earth shall
complete its circuit around the burning
and brilliant luminary of heaven"
At the Cave, found perfect swarm Of
dashiDg and beautiful young ladies from
Mt. Stirling and Lexington, KY. They
were out basking in the soft sunshine and
upon the promenade, and Of course, the
long underground ambulatory journey
ahead. was the exhaustless and absorbing
theme of conversation. Whilst admiring
their exhuberant and streaming, gauzy,
rustling trains, there was much difficulty
in resisting the idea that the fair creatures
we're of winged migration, having scared
the previous night into the empyrean-the
''dread immensely of space"-and append
ed to themselves the world of meteoric
| phenomena.
The announcement of Cave hours sent
them flying to their rooms, to dof the ex-
Pansine crinoline, land don toilet that would
avoid all danger of cOllapsinG collision in
navigating such labyrinthian passages IS
the Fat Mans Misery, Deserted Chamber,
| &c.
Soon the
| ''Blushiug modesty of blooming BELLS"
reappeared. and behold, what metamorpho-
sis, uumasking. dissipation of delusion !!
The mystical sublimities, - instead of be-
| ing still ethereal, divine. it was painfully
evident they were mortal, and belonged Eat
that to the nationality OF the Lilliputans
the race gobbled up by the cranes. Oh
Bloomer, cruel thing, to disclose feet and
limbs of beings otherwise unknown and
'not of earth.''
There is one merit, Mr.. Editor, 1 must
accord the ladies of Kentucky alluded to
that of thoroughly understanding and
| practically ILLUSTRATING woman's whole philO-
sOphy-her leading PredomiDating idea that
| ''Fine feathers make fine birds"
Anon, old Nat. Bransford, the indefAti-
gable guide, toots his bugle and our i'm
sulsive exploring party, at once, instructive
ly adopt the Indian march, and hurrying
footsteps rapidly descend the western
side Of the mountain, to the entrance
of the cave, a distance, after pas
sing down the garden stiles, Of $50
feet-either side of the winding descent
being oyerarched with wide-spreading oak
and hicory, and the very cooling shadows
of which seeming to invite the timid adj
venturer onward to
"a feast of reason and a flow of soul"
Oil-iamps being quickly replenished
and lighted and distributed to each one Of
our gay and versatile party, the guide pre-
remptorially ordered all into single line,
and to double quick" through the Miners
Narrows, with lamps directly in front, tc
prevent the chilling blast, cold as old
Boreas, from extinguishing them. These
blasts of bracing air continue six months
of the year, and whilst breasting the fierce
subteraneau Norther, one could readily re-
call the wonderful respiratory powers o
Homer's HyPomOlgian hero,
ga throat of brass and adamantine lungs"
The Narrows, either side walled with
rock, lead into the Main Cave. the length
of which is six miles, varying from forty
TO one hundred feet in heighth, and from
sixty to three hundred feet in width.
The extended apartment, designated the
.'Rotunda," is entered on leaving the Mar
rows, the ceiling, varigated and irregular
at the heighth of one hundred feet, and i.G
greatest diameter one hundred and seventy
Eve feet The guide periodically points
to the debris of watts, water-pipes and other
materials, used by the miners in 1919, fol
} the composition of saltpetre, to supply the
, invincible pioneer armies Of the Northwest
under the leadership of Johnson, Shelby.
Brown and Harrison, 10 their victorious
operations against the remorseless Proctor
and the bloody Tecumseh. How sacred
these "reminiscences Of the brave sons of Vul
can, whose tireless muscles here forged
the mighty thunderbolts hurled to AGAR
PROSTATE the british Lion and add an
other chapter to the history of American
J Independence aud renown.