The North Carolinian

A Fortnight with Brigands.--The Spanish journals record the capture of a gentleman of property by brigands. Count de Vallariezo was carried off three weeks ago from the district of Toledo. 10,000 piastres were demanded from his family for his ransom. The family paid the money; but the local authorities succeeded in seizing it before it reached its destination. The brigands, however, again notified the family that they expected this ransom, and the latter deemed it right, in spite of the prohibition of the authorities, to forward it to them.

On receipt of it, the brigands immediately released the Count, and he arrived home eight days back.

He relates that the brigands on capturing him told him that he need entertain no fear, as they had taken him not to murder him, but to do a good stroke of business by getting paid for his release, and they expressed their regret at being obliged to carry him into Portugal.

He says also that when the brigands, who were always on the move during the day, encamped for the night, they gave him blankets to wrap himself up in, and that when provisions happened to be scarce, they even stinted themselves in order that he might have enough. He says, moreover, that they appeared to possess a certain degree of education, and asked him if, on his visit to Madrid, he had not visited the opera and heard Rancan--expressing surprise on being answered in the negative.