THE AlHUIST MAOAZINKS.
IM'TNAM'N."
From a rnrtor on tho "Aficrnt
Oil thO AWTHl "I IVtUBMi
RoHa," y J,
M. Hart, we make those ex-
4rct: ,
Alpine travels P.n.1 rondo of Alpino
tmvols are familiar with Cbamoumx and its
mountain glorioH, Mont Mime, tbo Mor do
Cilace, tbeJardin Vert, tho Hrevent. Equally
well known to thorn iH tho Oborland, with it
queenly Jnn'frim, its enchanting valley of
Intorlakon, itH beautiful panorama from tho
ltigi Kulm. Hiit thoro is an Alpine valloy
grander than that of Chamonnix, more strik
ing in its diversified beauty than any in the
Oberland. I alludo to tho Zermatt Thai. Of
Lite years, the tido of public favor has
been setting in Htrongly towards this
secluded nest in tho High Alps; tho Alpino
Club have explored and re-oxplorod every
peak and pass in and around it, and books
of travel are full of its praiso. For all that
Zermatt will, I trust, ever remain what it has
been hitherto a quiet haunt for genuine
lovers of Alpino m-enery, unfrequented by
the herd of hill and glacier grazer that de
Tour Switzerland in a fortnight. The position
of Zrrnialt favors this comparative isolation.
It RtandH at the head of a long narrow valley,
a cul de Htte, which has no outlets at tho south
except over tho St. Theodulo pass into Italy.
This puss is not dangerous, but it in quite
high, always covered with tmow, and
moro or less fatiguing to even good
walkers. Nor is there any lateral outlet into tho
adjacent valleys of Saas on the east and Kvo
lena on the west; unless, indeed, tho traveller
iH minded to attempt such passages as the
Weiss Thor, the Adli r, tho Alphubol, or tho
Col d'llerins all yrande course of great
height and danger, and also of wild beauty.
The ordinary eoittycur, therefore, who travels
more for pleasure than adventure, is obliged
to conclude his Zermatt trip by retracing his
steps down the. valley to tho llhono at Visp.
Thus isolated, Zermatt stands peerless in
beauty among tho great Alpino valleys. It
offers no one peak that is quite so high as tho
dome of Mont lSlane, with its l."i,S(H) feet of
elevation; but it has the Monte liosa, 1.",L'00,
the Miscbabelhonier, 1..((H, the Lyskamm,
tho Twins, and the Ureithorn nearly as high,
tho Mntterhorn, ll.NX), the Weisshorn within
a fraction of l.",(i(H. And what mountains
they are, too! Tho Ilochste Spitzo of tho
Monte llosa affords tho daring climber a
panoramic view surpassing any to bo had from
tho do d'ane of tho Mont Mane; tho Uroit
horn displays a dazzling wall of snow that
outshines the Jungfrau; tho Mattorhorn,
boldly thrusting its precipitous pile of rock
for thousands of feet into the sky, is tho Titan
of tho Alps; while tho Weisshorn, pronminced
by liuskin to bo the perfection of mountain
configuration, may bo named tho Apollo.
For the venturesome traveller Zermatt is
rich in attractions, chief among which is the
ascent of the Monte llosa. I havo already
stated that tho view from the summit sur
passes that from Mont Ulane; I may add that
the ascent is move dangerous. For a long
whilo ,Mont Blanc was looked upon
with reverential dread by admirers of Albert
Smith, who failed himself to reach the sum
mit, and the Chamounix guides found pecu
niary profit in exaggerating the danger, and
thus forcing visitors to take four guides
where one would suffice. Thanks to tho en
terprise and pluck of tho Alpino Club, this
delusion has been cured, and the ascent of
Mont Blanc is now regarded as anything but
an extraordinary feat.
The following is a description of a sunrise
as seen from Monto llosa:
Towards r o'clock we were fairly out at sea
on tho great Gorner Glacier. Tho ico was
delightfully hard and crisp, and tho sharp
headed nails in our shoes "bit" into it as
though they were patent creepers. The night
had imperceptibly given way to the loveliest
dawn, and tho stars died out one by one, but
the tall snow mountains still remained of a
ghostly ashen color. It. was almost oppres
sive the sky overhead full of warm light,
and in front theso huge spectral snow-wreaths
of the Lyskamm and the Breithorn. Not a
breath of air was stirring, not a sotind was to
be heard except the crunching of the ico
Tinder foot. Suddenly Peter Taugwald uttered
a low exclamation, and pointed with his alpen
stock to the Ilochste Spitze that towered on
our left. Sure enough, the dull brown rocks
on the summit were just tinged with the first
xays of the rising sun.
We all felt what was coming, and involun
tarily paused. Tho entire western side of the
Monte llosa tho one turned towards us
rested in deep shadow. As the sun crept
slowly up, its rays glanced from summit to
summit, falling full upon the Matterhorn far
away to the right. The shadow of tho Monto
llosa rested upon tho Lyskamm, while tho
latter projected a long cone of darkish green
upon tho twins. Tho Breithorn still retained
its ashy hue. All at onco, in tho twinkling of
an eye, the sun turned tho corner of the
Twins and shot a single broad ray of light
across tho entire face of the Breithorn, flush
ing it to a light orange. From moment to
moment the color on the snow-wreaths grew
warmer and warmer, whilo the most exquisite
hues of apple-green and violet played about
the summits. For upwards of thirty minutes
this indescribable play of colors lasted, until
the moro delicate tints faded slowly away in
the garish glow of tho summer day. Never
have I witnessed a spectacle more impres
sively beautiful than this sunrise.
The tints themselves, the shifting of tho
shadows, tho sudden bursts of light, every
thing combined to create a scene of over
powering beauty. Let the reader imagine
himself standing on one of the grandest
glaciers in the Alps, at the very base of a fes
tooned wall of snow thousands of feet high
and stretching away for miles on either side;
and then let him imagine these gigantic snow
wreaths throwing tho most f ant ast ic shadows
upon each other and colored with tho most
exquisite, tints. Such is a sunriso on tho
Gorner Glacier.
It is a mistake to consider sunriso as merely
an inverted sunset. In the Alps, at least, the
whole coloring is diileront. In place of the
purple, crimson, and yellow hues of tho after-
noon, we una comer iiuis, vioigi, paio green,
and grey. Without presuming to offer a sci
entific explanation of tho difference, I think
it mav he owing to tho variance in tempera
ture. When the sun sets, his rays fall upon
an atmosphere charged with heat. During
the nmht tho surface-water upon tho glacier
and the half-melted snows of tho neve con
geal, so that the sun rises upon an atmo
sphere that is near the freezing point. I am
confirmed in this belief by tho circumstance
that our sunsets in midwinter very often
present theso same tints though less promi
nently. From "Old Times in Virginia, and a Few
rarallels," by W. C. Elam, we take tho fol
lowing about witchcraft in the "Old Do
juinion:" . Old Virginia has self-complacently hold
herself guiltless of those crimes and follies
yhick hv hwi tttUilfuWa to JSew England,
tWhen a Virginian is in his most unwhole
some frame of mind against the "Yankcei,"
he is apt to refer, in terms either derisive or
denunciatory, to the New England trials and
executions for witchcraft. In vain havo tho
descendants of tho Puritans ondoavored to
palliate the errors of their ancestors, by
proving tho witchcraft delusion to havo hern
rather the malady of the age than the crime
of tho individuals who labored under it. Tho
Virginian was not to bo propitiatod nor
silenced by any such procesH of confes
sion and avoidance. lit forefathers ha 1
escaped the contagion, and he triumphed in
the bonst, too easily credited, that the "sacrod
soil of Old Virginia" had never been dese
crated by a trial for witchcraft.
Yet this boast is not warranted by facts; for
the records are extant which provo beyond a
cavil that Virginia has, in at least one in
stance, tried a woman for witchcraft tho
victim being a regress, though only inci
dentally indicated as such in tho account
from which I derive my information. With
out further preface, I shall relate her story,
confining myself strictly to matter of 'record.
Grace Sherwood was tho romantic name of
tho witch in this case, and Princess Anno
county was tho locality. Tho complaint was
originally brought against Grace by Luke
Hill and his wife, on a niero suspicion, and
all the proceedings were in tho County Court
in tho years 170.r and 170f. Tho first entry
made in the matter was as follows:
"'rtnrmH Amir, .
At h Court, held ye: 3d or Janry: 170-'; premnt :
Mr. lSrim: liurro, (.'olio: MohcIcv, Mr. John (.'ornick,
(.'apt: Hancock, apt: Chapman, Jisticks.
Whereas I.nke Hill A uxor hoiiiiI (irin'e Sherwood
to tills Court in mixpetion of witchcraft A she fuylliiK
to appear it is thorctnro ordr. yt: Httiichtnt. ti ye:
Mierr do Issue to attach lier body tu unsr. ye: uil :
(ioin next Court,''
Accordingly, in "fl'ebry" following, tho
Court debated the matter very fully beforo
proceeding to examine Graco, and finally or
dered that Luke 11 ill should pay all costs and
charges of tho complaint, and that said Grauo
should bo at tho next Court to bo searched by
a jury ot women; tor it appears that tho
"suspetion was chiclly grounded upon certain
alleged differences between tho accused and
other women. In March, therefore, Graco ap
peared and consented to be privily examined
by twelve women, who were empanelled as a
jury and sworn. Having completed their in
spection, they reported a verdict in tho fol
lowing words, to wit:
"Wc of ye. Jury have scrcath : Grace Khorwood.arid
have foil nl two tilings like titt with several oilier
npotts F.liza Humes, forewoman Sarah Norris,
Murpt. Watkins, Hannah DeiinlH, Sarah (ioodyanl,
Mary Harness, Sarah Sergeant, w inlford Davis, I'r
Biila Hclily, Ann liridgts. xulilo WupUcs Mary
Cotle."
Upon this tho matter was presented to tho
Attorney-General of Virginia, who solemnly
laid it before the then Governor in Council.
Beforo this high tribunal tho chargo appeared
too general and indefinite, and the County
Court of Princess Anno was instructed, if it
saw fit, to have Graco Sherwood examined
iioro. The court did sco fit, and she was
arrested by the sheriff and required
to give
ance at
good bail for her appear
next term. Meanwhile, tho
assisted by the constable of
sheriff,
the precinct, was ordered to search Grace's
house and nil suspicions places adjacent
thereto, "for nil images and such like things."
But it seems that this inquisition was wholly
bootless.
A new difficulty in tho case now
arose. Tho women of tho vicinage,
either through modesty, or fear of tho
supposed witch, or for other good and
sufficient reasons, utterly refused to serve on
the jury required. In vain tho sheriff
summoned, and, by turns, implored and en
treated. They were inexorable. There
seemed to bo a perfect conspiracy of tho fair
sex in that region not to go to Court for any
purpose. When tho Court, in Juno, had a
number of tho absentees summoned for con
tempt, they still kept away, although threat
ened with the utmost severity of tho law. In
fine, it was as clear a defeat on tho sido of tho
Court as can be found anywhere in tho
annals of the wars of tho sexes; for iu
July, 17(111, the Court was obliged to content
itself with an examination by only "Hive
autient weamen."
Previous to this second examination, how
ever, Grace Sherwood, on July tho M-h, con
sented to be tried in tho water "by ducking,"
but tho day being rainy, tho Court graciously
postponed the trial on account of "herhoalth,"
as that body alleged, though obviously for
its own comfort and convenience. At
length, on the 10th of July, that being a
beautiful day for the purpose, the court and
its officers, the "Hive antient weamen," and
any number of other spectators, accompanied
the accused, through what was then "John
Harper's plantation," to n sparkling little in
let making up from Lynhaveu bay. There
the sheriff performed tho order, which was to
"but" her into the "debth." And there, though
bound, she swam, as we are told, "contrary
to custom, and ye: Judgts. of all tho specta
tors, which was certainly a very foolish and
terrible thing on her part, when by quiotly
sinking to tho bottom of tho "debth" sho
would have confuted her accusers and con
firmed her innocence.
But those "lUve antient weamon"
(query: were they members of tho court?)
were not done with Graco yet. They had
searched her beforo tho "ducking," and now
they had to examine her again. Tho result
of both investigations is recorded as fol
lows: "Fllvc antient weutnen have declared on oatliyt.
Klie Is not like yur: imr noo other woman yt. rii'-y
know of having two tilings like titts oil her of a liliu-.k
collcr being blacker yu: ye: rest of her body."
Which last statement raises a suspicion that
poor Graco Sherwood was at least a mulatto
of tho despised "free nigger" order, if not a
uegress. I he court then, weighing all V.a
circumstances, ordered tho sheriff to "t.il;o
c: sd: Grace (another proof of her race) iulo
is custody and to count her body to ve: com
mon Joal of this County their to secure Iit
by irons or otherwise to bo brought to a li i
ture tryall there."
What was Grace's ultimate fato is involved
in mystery, for there is extant no further
record of her. What I have told is autlvi
tic, being derived from a certified copy of
tho original records of Princess Anno conut
where they are, no doubt, yet preserved. T i:a
place where Graco Sherwood was ducked, i-i
Lynhaveu bay, is still known as "Witch's
Duck."
As a fitting pendant to what I have nar
rated in illustration of the ancient superstition
in Virginia, I may add tho following proof of
its moro modern existence in tho Common
wealth. A poor white, named Marsh, livin
in lH.'lH near Abingdon, was alllictod wi;U
scrofula, which ho imagined to bo the result
of the black arts of a reputed wizard in the
neighborhood named Yates. IIo insisted that
Yates could and should euro him, and Yatos
accordingly exhausted all his skill upon tho
disease, but in vain. The sufferer, growing
impatient and desperate, then resolved to lied
himself by killing his physician no bud
plan, in some cases, it must bo admitted.
To this end he sketched a figure upon a tree
to represent Yates, and at this ho fired re
pt'ftteuiy witl jjuym lullU, JVowJJuly
enough, Yates obstinately refnsod to die
of the mortal wounds iuflictod upon his
proxy, and so Marsh, loading his muskot with
two silver bullets ("to niako assurance double
sure"), fired both into tho back of Yates' neck
on the first opportunity. Yates, still obsti
nate recovered, and Martih wont to tho peni
tentiary. It is to bo regretted that the results
of the experiment npon tho scrofula itself are
unrecorded, and thus lost to science.
iiAnricit'H."
From Turner, Brothers A Co. wo have
received the August number of "Harper's
Magazine," from which wc quote tho follow
ing paper on "Slavery in Palaces:"
The old Latin adage, "tmnpora mutantur,
ct no mntamur in Min" (times change, and
we chango with them), applies to all tho
world excepting tho royal palaces of Spain;
for the simie slavish ceremonial to which so
many bright young princesses were sacrilicod
during tho three centuries preceding our own
has held in thraldom the unfortunate dwellers
of tho F.scorial up to the day when the fatuous
folly of tho weak, if not positively vilo, Isa
bella Segunda opened the gates of tho royal
palaoo iu Madrid to a delugo which swept
away crown, courtiers, and ceremony into, it
is to be hoped, an irrecoverable past.
There are few stories moro sadly interest
ing than that of tho wife of Charles II of
Spain, Mario Louise, daughter of tho Due
d'Drlenns, niece of Louis XIV, and grand
daughter of Charles I of England, a fair and
amiable girl, forced to marry a man she had
never seen, but whom sho knew only too well
as most repulsive in appearance, with mental
faculties lit t lo above idiocy. Mario Loiiiso
had been educated at the court of her uncle,
Louis XIV, when it was the gayest and most
brilliant in Europe, years before Mad.tmo do
Mninteiion nnd the priests had cast a super
stitious gloom over its splendor and its vice.
Her aspect is described as mild, her mien grace
ful; sho was a good musician and composed
operas: her eyes were black, her eyebrows
gracefully arched, her lips remarkably rosy,
her hair profuse, and of a dark chesnut.
But, like all tho unhappy princesses of
France doomed to marry Spanish kings, sho
regarded her destiny with dread and aversion.
Transferred from tho gay Court and brilliant
intellectual life of France, theso young
creatures wero killed off fast by tho sombre
dullness, monotony, nnd iron etiquette of tho
palaces of Spain. None of tho queens of
Spain wero long-lived. Philip II used up
four iu his lifetime.
Mario Louise made moro than one pathetic
appeal to her royal uncle to be saved from
such a fato, but nil in vain. She was married
by proxy at Fontainebleau, and esaortod to the
Spanish frontier, where tho sad-hearted bride
was delivered over to the tender mercies of
tho Duchess de Terra N novo, her Camaivr.i
Mayor, and the Marquis do Astorgas, her
Miiyordomo.
A female familiar of the Inquisition could
not wear a more repulsive face than that of
tho Duchess. Sho was a bronzo incarnation
of Spanish rigidity and gravity. Not a step in
her gait, not a movement in head or hand,
which was not performed with the regularity
nnd stiffness of a machine. She was loan,
colorless, long-faced, and wrinkled; her eyes
small, black, and sharp. Her "f'it'ctv" and
"o lo fjuicro' made people tremble; and sho
was generally insupportable to her equals,
haughty and dignified to her sovereign,
but, nevertheless, tolerably gentle to her
inferiors. She was penetrating in obsor
vation, ready of wit, and inflexible in do
cision. She would spare no extremities
of violenco to serve her interest or re
venge, and had a cousin of her own assassi
nated because he contested her right to an
estate.
Mario Louise took leave at the Bidassoa of
most of hor French female attendants, who
adored her, nnd knelt and kissed her hand
with tears, which were answered with tears
i m tho eyes of their mistress. Imme
diately on crossing the frontier, visages
grew longer and life fearful. On setting
foot in Spain she travelled partly on horse
back nnd partly by coach; when she rode it
was by the sido of tho Terra Nueva, who
looked, in her stiff Spanish dress, and with
her gaunt form sealed on a mule, a strano-o
figure too terrible to be ridiculous. Tho Mar
quis do Astorgas or the Duke do Ossuna, hor
Master of the Horse, both in large spectacles,
which all grandees of Spain wore at that timo
to give them greater gravity of appearance,
rode next on the other sido, when they could
settle their disputes about precedency, as to
which they quarrelled the whole way. Tho
young Queen supped and slept the first night
at an inn, and was so surprised at the badness
of the food that she could eat nothing. No
particular incident appears to have occurred
on tho route, nothing so humorous as tho
incident which happened to Maria Anna, tho
mother of Charles II, who, on her way
across Spain as tho brido of Philip IV,
stopped at a town famous for the manu
facture of stockings, some of which tho
' alcalde of the place was offering to her
Majesty, when ho was thrust out by tho
i Mayordomo with, "Hubens do saber que las
, reynas de Espuna no tieuen piornas'' (You
1 must know the queens of Spaius havo no
legs). Upon hearing which declaration tho
! young Queen began to cry, saying, "I ,uust
J go back to Vienna. If I had known beforo I
' set out that they would have cut my legs off,
I would havo died rather than como hero."
One of the two occasions on which her hus
band laughed in tho course of his lif o was
when this story was repeated to him. How.
ever, tho young brido of Charles II had im
mediately hard experience of tho unyicldiii '
tyranny of Spanish etiquette, for she' was luft
allowed to have her way in any thing on tho
whole road, and found that sho was expected
to be a mere machine without volitio.i in m j
hands of her household, imdto coudiict, hor
self at once as if she had been in Sp un her
whole life.
Charles II had advanced in impatience as
far ch Burgos; but when he had news of tho
npproath of the cortege from Vittoria, his do
sire to see tho Queen niado him, in spile of
all remonstrances, rush forward to m et hor
at Quintnnnpulln, a wretched village of a few
peasants' houses three leagues beyond Burgos,
nnd he resolved to havo tho marriagj cele
brated there. Mario Louise saw him arrive
from the balcony of a peasant's hovel in
which she had rested. Prepared as she was,
f-ho wns shocked at tho sight. Charles II
came into the world in lUCl, four years before
the death of his father Philip IV; ho was born
in the hour of that father's deepest humilia
tion, nnd when tho cadaverous, proud, but
gentle-hearted monarch was in an almost
dying condition. The son was the living em
bodiment of tho sorrow, humiliation, ami dis
eased constitution of his father. Tho infant
seemed at first hardly to have life at all, and
was so perishable and dolicato ns to require
to bo placed in a cotton box. Ho was suckled
at tho breast of his wet-nurse till ho was four
years old. Tho young prince could not walk
till tho ago of ten, and then only by loaning
on the shoulders of his pages of honor. Ho
was brought up on the lap of women, and
U tUii cwi-piui;'. .Hi, iuvuivr, who won
Eegent, was afraid to make him study,
and he never showed any disposition to
eceive the elements of education and know
ledge. His nppearanoe woa thus described by
ine J.ngliHb ambassador, ana is truly ghastly:
"The King's anklos and knoes awe'
ll.his
eyes
bag, the lids as red as scarlot, and the tost of
his face a greenish yollow; the whole crown
bald. He hath a ravenous stomach, and swal
lows all he eats wholo; for his nether jaw, like
that of Charles V at a more advanced ago,
stands no much out that his two rows of teeth
cannot meet; to compensate which he has a
prodigious wide throat, so that a liver or giz
zard of a hen goes down wholo."
Charles had been so tyrannized over by his
mother during her regency that ho hated the
sight of a woman; ho would turn away if ho
met a lady; his former governess, tho Mar-
qucsa do los Velez, had to wait six months to
get n word from him; and when ho was obliged
to receive a petition from a woman, ho looked
anottier way.
Such was tho man who now, under one of
tho strango caprices of a weak intellect.
rushed up tho steps leading to tho miserable
room in which sat tho trembling Louiso, who
attempted several times to fall at his feet, but,
ho prevented hrr. Embracing tho princess as
much as etiquette permitted kings of Spain to
embrace, by clasping her arms with his hands,
nnd looking fondly at her face, ho ejaculated,
"Mi reyna ! mi reyna !
After her solemn out ry into Madrid tho young
Queen begun the life sho was destined to lead
to the end of her brief existence: a life com
bining tho jealous seclusion of tho harem, the
lugubrious monotony of the cloister, and tho
iron tyranny of Spanish etiquette personilied
in tho terra A nova, relieved only iy occa
sional drives m a carnage with closod win
dows, according to the fashion of Spain,
stupid plays, hunting parties, and visits to
Aranjucz and tho Escorial at fixed times.
l or everything m the Court ot Spain was
regulated like a clock; tho only disarrange
ment was when money was needed to carry
out tho programme. Iho young Queen, in
desperation, seems to havo taken to eating
as n way of killing timo. Liko a lady of a
Moonsh harem, sho got fat on hor seelu
sion and no wonder, if, as Madame do
Villars says, "sho sleeps ton or twelve
hours a day, and eats meat three or
four times a day." Pretty good for
Spain, where nobody eats as a rule, and at
a time when one of tho grandest of tho
grandees, tho Duke ot Albuquerque, tho in
ventory of whoso plate took six weeks to
write out, dined ordinarily on an egg and a
pigeon. Indeed, what was a poor young crea
ture, shut up with her attendants, to do after
tho gay open life of tho Frouch Court, where
she could move as tree as air, where tho stair
cases and tho ante-chambers wero throngo 1
with brilliant ladies and gentlemen, nnd where
wit nnd gayety wero ever effervescent in some
form or other? In tho gloomy, desolate pal
ace of Madrid she was allowed hardly to seo
a man's face. No balls, no public lecee. and
roiir.trs, and toilets; no soirees, no plays, no
hunting parties but those of the gloomiest
character; no diversion but promenades in
carriages with closed windows, and theso in
summer on the dusty bed of the Manzauares,
lhe Terra ISneva oven informed hor that a
queen of Spain must not look out of a win
dow; there was nothing to see from tho win
dow but tho iiiuo sicy ana desert court ot a
monastery; hut even that diversion was too
exciting iu the eyes of this she-dragon of eti
nuette. To laugh was ever ioruiddeu to a
queen of Spain.
The poor imbecile king did his best to
amuse his wife, not with much effect. IIo
would play with her aijonccts which appears
to havo been an amusement of tho nature of
that known among us as xnillx for three or
four hours a day. The King had a frightful
lealousy of everything .trench. lie had boon
told by the Terra Nueva that his wife
was of a light nature, and that coming,
as she did, troni a light court, every
precaution was necessary. The poor idiot
was so jealous at the sight of anything French
that he could not even endure tho Queen s
French spaniels, and cried when ho entered
her apartments, J item, jutra, verrc Iran
ccxftfH ! (Begone, begone, ye French dogs ! )
The Queen had two parrots who talked
French, and theso with her spaniels wero her
chief companions. Disappointed as it ap
peared she was likely to be in the hope of
children, which, however, the King persisted
in looking for, she concentrated all hor aftec
tion on these pet creatures. But tho Terra
Nueva, herself hating all things French, and
trusting to a like hatred on the part of tho King,
one day, when tho Queen was out for a drive,
twisted the parrots necks. On tho return of
their mistress sho called for her birds and her
dogs as usual. At the mention of her birds
tho maids of honor looked at each other with
out speaking. The truth, however, was told;
and when the Camarera Mayor appeared to
kiss the Queen's hand as usual, tho meek
spirit of Marie Louise could endure no longer;
she gave the Terra Nuova two or three slaps
with her hand on either cheek.
The rage of the she-griffin, the descendant
of Fernando Cortez, tho feudal proprietress of
Sicily and Spain, with her principality in Ame
rica, was immense; she collected all her Jour
hundred ladies, and went at the head of them
to the King to ask redress. The King betook
himself to the Queen, and asked for an expla
nation; tho Queen replied, "Senor, esta es un
nntojo" (Sir, this is a longing of mine). This
(Uttojo was devised with delicious malice by
the young Queen. For not only in tho case
of a roval lady, but in that of the humblest
woman of Spain, the anto had a prescriptive,
I invariable privilege to bo satisfied. Charles
' was delighted with tho dnt"jo and its signi
ficance, and declared to his Quoea that if sho
was not satisfied with two slaps of tho face
she might give tho Terra Nuova two dozen
more.
Alter this the Queen determined to get rid
of her Camernra Mayor, for her dospotisin was
quite intolerable. On one occasion the Terra
Nueva saw, to her dissatisfaction, that the
front hair of tho Queen was not stiffened nnd
flattened down with proper Spanish rigidity
and precision; so tho ugly harridan spat on
her shrivelled hand and applied it to tho re
bellious piirt ! Moreover, tho jailoress ruth
lessly insisted that tho Queen should, as pre
cedent required, bo in bed regularly every
night by eight o'clock; and during
the first part of hor domination, when the
Queen was loss submissive, and lingered over
her solitary nipper, the maids of honor en
tered and undresBod .her whilo sho was still
sitting and eating at the table. One uufast
i enod her dross, another hor hair, and another
! L'ot under tho table to take off' her shoos.
fc . . .....it.,.. ;,,1i,q i,u ir:..
It was no easy umww iv mo jhhK
consent to chango the Camarera Mayor.
When Marie Louise broached tho subject
Charles was startled, and well he might bo.
Did not Philip III die a martyr to Spanish
etiquette roasted to death because tho proper
officer was not at hand to remove tho brasier?
and now to commit this frightful breach of
Spanish etiquette to please a quoen ?
"Never," he said, "sinco Spain was Spain,
had a queen changed her Camarera Mayor. "
l?nt he violded, aud the Duchess Terra Nuova
tho wife of the noble who, out of his im
mense revenues, could got no better dinner
than an egg and a pigeon.
The Duchess do Albuquerque proved a
much more amiable guardian for the Quoon,
and at her suggestion tho King granted his
wife a little more liberty. She was permitted,
contrary to all Spanish Court usage, to go to
iiou at unii-past jo, ana to ride occasionally
on norsenacK. lint still these innovations
were not sufficient to lighten tho air of ennui
ot the palace; indeed, the life of the Quoon
partook, as before said, of the monotony both
oi hid nureiu ana me convent. Hiding In a
closed carriage, and now and then on horse
back; an occasional b
play, in which the angels dosooudod
ast rule on beams of wood, and tho dovils
camo on tho stago by ladders; an occasional
visit from tho queen-mother and tho French
ambassadress, and ono or two other privileged
ladies, wero tho solo diversions of tho secluded
Queen at Madrid.
As for her rides on horseback, those wero
surrounded with such rules of etiquette that
it was a matter of great difficulty for her to
get even on horseback. If tho King was not
by her sho had to mount quite unassisted !
It was death for tho greatest grandee to touch
a queen of Spain. On ono occasion the Queen
might have had a tatal accident had it not
been for the audacity of two cavaliers. Mio
was obliged to mount from her carriage
door to the back of tho horse which was
placed before it. Ono day, whilo the
King was looking from a window ot
tho palace of Aranjucz, her horse, a spirited
Andnlusian, reared before she was well in tho
saddle, threw her to tho ground, and dragged
her along with ono foot iu tho stirrup. Two
gentlemen, Don Luis do la Torres and Don
Jaima do Soto Mayor, who wero standing
near, after somo hesitation, rushed to her
rescue, but immediately after they had effected
her deliverance they ran to saddle their horses
and escape troni Court. However, friends in
terceded with Charles II, and their llight was
made unnecessary.
As for tho company of an imbecile king, it
may bo imagined that tho unfortunate Quoon
found not much amusement in this; nor wero
his letters, written during his hunting excur
sions, of a lively nature,if we may judge by tho
specimen immortalized in Jiiii JAttx: "iho
wind is very strong; I have killed four wolves."
His affectum for tho Queen was absorbing;
and if the devotion of an idiot was worth any
thing, no woman ever had moro ot such.
Year by year, day by day, tho Spanish
Court went on in tho same mechanical way,
only as years passed without an heir to tho
throne, tho Queen's existence was rendered
more wretched by tho intrigues regarding tho
succession.
But her end was at hand an end of n
tragic character, recalling both in its manner
and her sweetness in meeting it tho death-bed
of her mother, Henrietta of England. The
suddenness of her death may have been
caused by cholera; the French ambas
sador merely states in his report that
she died in frightful torments and with great
suddenness. Louis XIV publicly de
clared at supper that sho was poisoned,
and Saint Simon, some years later, found tho
belief still current in Madrid. But the suspi
cion of this reptilo crime was common
throughout that century, tho hiss of tho ser
pent was heard, or thought to bo heard, on
every occasion of sudden death.
Marie Louise herself, knowing tho niinous
consequences which might attend tho con
trary belief, assured M. do llebenac that she
died a natural death. With a charming sweet
ness of temper, sho asked forgiveness of all
she might have offended, of tho queen
mother, and of tho Duchess of Terra Nueva;
and when she was told that there wero crowds
at tho palace gates, and that tho
churches were full of people praying
for her recovery, she said that "she
was well entitled to their affection, since
she would at any time have laid down her
lifo to relieve them of tho burdens then en
dured." And so died a not unworthy daugh
ter of tho Stuarts aud the Bourbons.
Her married life with Charles II had lasted
ten years, and after her decease tho king sank
deeper and deeper into torpid and melan
choly lethargy. The only thing he seemed to
care for was to go, on pretonso of hunting,
with one or two attendants, and waudor liko
a ghost amidst the gloomy woods of pino and
ilex, and the granite rocks of the vast soli
tudes around the Escorial, where he would
pass day after day, and sometimes lose him
self for hours in theso sombre wildernesses.
Not long before his death one of thoso
strange funereal yearnings camo upon
him, so distinctive of tho last days of
nearly every member of tho Aus
trian House of Spain. A visionary se
pulchral fancy animated the decaying brain of
Charles II. He, tho last decrepit relic of a
great race, would descend into their mauso
leum and open their coffins, and look face to
face on the chiefs of his race who had worn his
crown beforo him. He went down by tho light
of torches into the dark vault of the Pantheon,
the huge candelabrum was lit, and all the cof
fins, beginning with that of Charles V, yero
opened for him in order. After the kings, ho
passed to the queens. He paid little regard to
the features of his mother, but when tho coffin
of Queen Marie Louise was opened, and ho saw
the form and still charming features of her who
had glorified his dark life aud brain for awhile,
his throat was convulsed, tears streamed
from his eyes, and ho fell with outstretched
arms on tho bier, crying, "Mi reyna, mi reyna!
before a year is past I will como and join
you!"
Surely this visit of the last descendant of
the House of Austria to tho Pantheon of
tho Escorial, this corpse-liko king, steal
ing among the collected corpses of his race,
is one of the strangest scenes in history. It
was a last review of tho wholo departed
grandeur of their race by their idiot
descendant ( tranmt. Tho fiory courage
of Charles the Bold, the imperious spirit
of Charles V, and tho scheming bruin of
Philip II ended hero.
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In accordance with a Itrooiuiion adopted hi
Common Council of the City of IMiltailelplilu
Thurwlny, the twctity-fourttl day of June, lw
annexed hill, entitled
"An Ordinance to Anthorir.e a Loan for tho
nirntof Oround Kctits and Mortgages," is he
publHhed tor public WonnatUjn.
Clerk of Comuiou Couu
AN ORPIN AN CI '
To Authorize a Loan for the raymci
U round Kent and MortpiiKes. ., 1
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils o'
City of I'htladelphlft do ordain, That tho May?
l'hiladclphla be and he la hereby authorized to
row, at not Icnb than par, on the credit of the
from time to ttaie, seven hundred thoimnnd K
for the Miviiiciit of around rents and niortgagi-H
RRaliiHt tho cltv, for which Interest not to exece
rate of six per cent, per annum shall bo paid,
yearly, on the first days of January and July,
office of the City Treasurer. The principal of
loan shall be payable and paid at the explrat W
thirty yearH from the date of tho same, and not
fore, without the coment of the holders thereof
the certllli ateH therefor, In tho usual form of the
ttlicntcB of city loan, si mil bo Issued In such nmo
as the lenders nuiy require, but not for any fracii
purt of one hundred dollars, or, If require
itinounrs of five hundred or ono thousand dor
and It shall be expressed in said certlllciites tlia.
Ion ii therein mentioned and the Interest thereo.'
payable free from all taxes.
Section 2. Whenever any loan shall bo mad
virtue thereof ; there shall be, by force of tliis-
nance, annually appropriated out. of tho Ineoid
the corporate estates, and from the Bum raNfj
taxation, asuin suiUclciit to pay tho interest on
certilicates, and the further sum of tiin.e-tenb
eric per centum on the par value of such cert Hit
so Issued shall be appropriated quarterly out of
lh( tune and taxes to a sinking I'.iikI," which 4
and Its accumulations are hereby especially phu
for tho redemption aud pajuicut of said c
cules. -i
RRSOI.tTION TO rWMStl A LOAN BlU,.
Resolved, That th Clerk of Common Counii
authorized to publish In two dally nowspapeij
this city, daily for four weeks, tho ordinance j
seiitcd totlie Comuiou Council on Thursday, j
, entitled "An Ordinance to Authorize' a I
for the Payment of Ground Ketits and Mortgat'
And the said Clerk, at tho Btated mooting of Ct
ells after the expiration of four weeks from
llrst day of paid publication, shall present
this council one ot each of said newsnanu
papers
nivo I
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every uay iu which tno saiuo snail havo
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GOVERNMENT SALES.
4 VCTION SALE OF HOSPITAL Fl'KNIT
1
J. V JlTC. i. X C.
Assistant Mepicai. Pckveyob's Okpick
Washington. 1). C. July 20. lsticij
Will be otrored at public, auction, In this cir.il
Judiciary Spiare Depot, F. Street, between Fo(
and Fifth streets, on WKI)NESl)AY, tho 18th da
AiiRUMf, ac iu a. a large assortment of Hosj
Mirnllure and Appliances, among which will
louim tne ioiiownitf, viz.:
8,0(0 Tin Haslns.
800 Pelf Tea Pots.
8,(in0 Iron Hedsteads,
8,000 Delf Howls,
o0 Leather Huckets,
find Wooden lluckets,
19,000 Tin Cups,
000 Halt-collars.
1,200 Hazors and Stri
1.B00 Hpittoons,
10,imo Tablespoons,
ti.ooo Teaspoons, .
fiO Mess Chests.
2,.V)0 Delf ljishes, as
sorted,
lfi.OOO Knives and Forks,
each,
2,r,00 Litters,
300 Delf Pitchers,
4.000 Delf Plates.
800 Kubbcr Cushion
5,000 yards Gutta-pet
Cloth, t
2,000 Gutta-percha I
covers, J
Aud a larpe variety of other articles, embrae
Funnels, Corkscrews, Dippers, Gridirons, Liintoi
pcuies unu neiRiiiB (siiopi, nates ana I'enciis,
side-tables, Sick-chairs, Cots, Uorse-litters, Coi
iiioi.i, iiu i iimuicrM, eic. eic.
With a small exception, the above articles are
Catalogues with full particulars furnished upon
plication.
Terms Cash, in Government ftimls only j 25:
ct in. deposit required at nmeoi sule, and all
chases to be removed within five duvs.
CHARLES bUTQERLANI
Assistant Medical Purveyor, Urevet Cold
c. s. A. 7 20
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This Rooting la adapted to all building.
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at one-half the expense of tin. It is readily not on
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