thanks a lot for help! I don't know what exactly was wrong (because I deleted everything including java and started from the very beginning) but now everything seems to work perfectly and I'm doing first stepes with Cassandra.
By the way... Maybe do you have some useful advices (or you know some articles) about making working the "ring". I want to make databases under control of Cassandra which will consist of a few computers working together. (?) thanks for help best regards