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* We 29, 1801. —1y:
DEDICATED TI THE SIXTH MASSACE [USETTS REGIMENT
Our country’s call awoke the 1a nd
From mountain height to eco? n' strand.
In all her direst dangers traf ,,
Resolved to answer to heraxy
For her to bleed, for her to ¢ Jie;
And so they marched their § ag before,
For Washington, through ¥ jaltimore,
‘First in the field they soug ht the way,
Hearts beating high and § pirits gay ;
Heard the wild yells of fir ondish spite,
Of armed mobs on left and right;
But on they marched, the ir flag before,
For Washington, through Baltimore.
Next came the Massachus, ‘otts men,
Gathered from city, glade a nd glen;
No hate for South, but love forall,
They answered to their ‘com 1try’s call.
The path of them seemed }1 ‘oad and bright,
They sought no foemaun and. no fight,
As on they marched, their fia) g before,
New Englend’s braves, thre ugh Baltimore.
But when they showed their ) martial pride,
And closed their glittering c¢ ‘lumns wide,
They found their welcome in
Of maddened foes and demo) 18 dire,
Who, like the fiends from hel | sent forth,
Attacked these heroes of the 2 Vorth;
These heroes bold, wish travel sore,
While on their way through Bi wltimore.
ogesupied by Judge
y mé in the trial of all causas entrusted to
ye-Stuffs, Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Hair and
, Fanoy and Toilet ArticMes, Trussels
om the country
entrusted to his care will receive Prop,
THE MEN WHO FELL IN, BALTIMQRE.
BY J. W. FORN} Y,
The old Keystone, the Bay 8' (ate too,
Our men from Berks and { ichuylkill came—
Lehigh and Mifflin in thel r train;
the fire
From every stifling den and sd “eet,
They rushed the gallant band > meet-—
Forgot the cause they came to 8 ave—
Forgot that those they struck Vvore brave—
Forgot the dearest ties of blood
That bound them in one brotherh pod—
Forgot the flag that floated o'er
Their countrymen jn Baltimore,
And the great song their son had penned.
To rally freemen to defend
The banner of the stripes and stars,
That makes victorious all our wars,
Was laughed to scorn, as madly then
They greeted all the gallant men
Who came from Massachusetts shore
To Washington, through Baltimore,
And when, with wildest grief, at last
They saw their comrades falling fast,
Full on the assassins in their track,
They wheeled, and drove the cowards baok.
Then, with their hearts o’erwhelmed witla woe,
Measured their progress, stern and slow ;
Their wounded on their ghoulders bore
To Washington, through Baltimore,
Yet, whilo New England mourns her dead,
The blood by Treason fully shed.
Like that which flowed at Lexington,
When Freedom's earliest fight begun.
Will make the day, the month, the year,
They wanted no countryman to blunder in
their work, They had their eye upon the
very man. Mr. Samuel Sharp was a po-
liceman of the city, and such marvellous
stories had he told of his exploits in cap-
turing rogues that his fame had reached
the ears of the commission, and he was fix-
ed upon as the agent who should bring the
hidden places of the counterfeiters to light.
Mr. Sharp was a gentleman, and, peshaps,
a scholar ; and it was fancied that he eould
travel over the road without its being! sus-
pected that he was an officer. At all events,
Mr, Sharp was engaged to do the work ; and
he was accordingly furnished with money
for the trip, and also with the names of the
suspected persons. This last item was a
very Important one, and the policeman de-
termined to make the most of it. With such
information to start upon he felt sure of
success—so sure, that he told his employers
he might depend upon him. Written down
in a little hook be had the names of a doz-
en men who were known to be great rogues:
who had been seen in Canada within a
month ; and who were furthermore known
to have had some hand in issueing bogus
notes. The thing was now to find their
lurking place ; get possession of their tools
and implements and stock in trade, and
bring the villians to justice.
Mr. Samuel Sharp said he could “do it.
Ie said he would do it. Ie had a clue to
the whereabouts of the rascals, and they
could not escape him. IIe took tha rail as
far as that would carry him on his way, and’
then took the stage. At Derby, close by the
Canada line, he stopped to make his final
arrangements. He was sure that his game
was nol far away—not many miles over the
line—and he determined to appraach it very
carefully. On the following morning he
took the stage which was to carry him into
Canada; and, as the day was fine, he rode
upon the box with the driver, The driver
was a jolly loquacious individual, and soon
learned from his passenger that he, the said
passenger, was simply travelling for his
health and amusemsnt. At noun they stop-
ped for dinner at a small settloment, and in
the afternoon Mr. Sharp had como to like
the jolly driver exceedingly well—so much
80 that he laugh: d and joked about the pe-
culiar institutions of the country.
“I have heard,” said he, “ that you have
a good many sharp rogues in Canada; and
if it is all true that has Yoeen told to me, you
must be more than a matoh for the Yan-
kees.”
The driver laughed, and in a joking way
claimed that his people were really over-
burderaed with honesty.
“I at,” suggested Mr. Sharp, « they do
a lititle keen horse trading once in a
whiter”
‘‘ When they can do it honorably,” replied
Jehu, with a wink,
‘ And,” pursued the detective, in a care-
To every patriot’s memory dear.
Sons of great fathers gone before,
They fell for Right at Baltimore.
As over every honored grave,
Where sleeps the “uanreturning brave,”
A mother sobs, a young wife moans,
A father for his lost oe groans,
Oh! let the ‘people ne'er forget
Our deep, & uduring, lasting debt
To those sho left their native shore
And died, for usin Baltimore.
Wasuixaron, May 1861.
Miseellangous,
A DETECTIVE TAKEN IN,
BYBSYLVANUS COBB, JR.
Our readers may remember the circum-
stance of the arrest, somo eight or ten years
and of the capture of a marvellous quanti-
ty of tools and implements of the nefarious
craft. It may have been over ten yearsago
though I am inclined to think it was at ala-
ter date, However, the newspapers were
full of the startling intelligence at the time,
and as my story does not depend for its
interest or truthfulness upon the exact date,
we will not be particular, And, further-
more, if Mr. Sharp should see this bit of
gossipping hietory, I beg that he will not
blame me for having written it. He will
observe that I have kept his real name out
of sight; and so, if he keeps his own coun-
sel, the uninitiated will be pone the wiser
touching his share in the transaction.
In that other time of which I have spo-
ken, the business community of New Eng-
land was startled by the appearance of new
and dangerous counterfeit bank notes. They
came, noone could tell whence; but they
came In great quantities; and ere lon
neafly every trader in the country had wt
fered in the possession of one or more of
these bogus promises-to-pay. The flood of
counterfeits increased as the weeks passed
on, and so nicely executed were they -that
people began to loose their confidence in all
inds of bank paper.
At this stage of the gamo it became nec-
essary for the banks to step in and do some-
thing; and they did it—they did it for
their own salvation. They came together
by their representatives, and formed an .a3-
sociation fur the purpase of breaking up
counterfeiting then and in all coming time ;
and in the hands of an elected commission
wus loft ‘the business of employing such
as might be necessary to the end in
view. Intelligence had been raceived
which rendered it certain that the eounter-
feits were manufactured somewhere in Can-
ada; and after a deal of inquiry and pa-
tient investigation, the bank commission not
only became assured that Canada was the
point of issue, but they also obtained the
name of some dozen suspected men against
whom the evidence was at least strong
enough to warrant their apprehension.
But ow, how should these men be found ?
Of course the work must needs be carried
on carefylly and shrewdly, for counterfeitsrs
are much like crows—they must be ap-
the trap ghall Pras o the glarm.
Away up in Maine lived an old deputy-
sheriff named Ralph Barnum, who had some
experience in such mattors, and it was sug-
gosted to the commission thet they employ
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ago, of a band of counterfeiters in Canada, |°
proached so stealthily that the springing of
“ess manner, “I have heard that a goodly
enare of the bogus bank notes come from
Canada.”
“I’ve heard such stuff myself ; but I dont
believe it. I never took but one bogus note
and that I got in Vermont, I guess the
Yankees made the moet o’ that.”
And go they rattled on till night, when
the stage stopped at a small in, where Mr.
Sharp engaged lodgings. Iie did not speak
for a seat in the coach for the next morning,
for he imagined that he must already be in
the neighborhood of his game It might be
some miles away, but in all probability, not
on the line of the stage route. So he told
the landlord that he might stop with him
for several days, at the same time intima-
t'ng that he might also want a horse and
carriage to ride around and visw tho coun-
try.
In a little while after this the landlord
and the jolly stage driver were closeted to-
gether in a back room,
: Who is that chap?’ asked the land-
ord,
* He's a poke |” emphatically replied the
Jolly stage driver, * [Ie’s come up here to
lo ik after our folks. Ho ain't no pleasure
hunter; but he’s a bogus huntin ; he talked
ed about bogus money.”
“Abal” said the landlord. “I thought
0,
“But,” pursued the jolly stage driver,
that aint all. That aint half. He asked
me if I'd ever heard tell of such ‘a man as
Bill Sawtell; and not long afterwards he
wanted to know if ever I heard of a horse
trader named John Downer. In course I
never heard of any such chaps. But what
does he} -want of Bill Sawtell and Jack
Downer? How did he know there was any
such men ?”
“ Aha!” said the landlord.
“He must be watched,” said the jolly
stage-driver.
«Aha! Leave him to me!” added the
landlord, * Leave him to me!”
In ton minutes from that time a sharp
witted, quiet-mannered boy was put upon
Mr. Samuel Snarp’s track, with directions
to watch bis every movement, snd re-
ort. -
? After tea Mr. Sharp sat down upon the
piazza, and having convinced himself that
he was aloe, took the little book from his
pocket, and looked over the names he had
there writtendown. }
Now it so happened that Mr. Samuel
Sharp was leaning against the sill of s
window, the blinds of which were closed,
and it further happened that within the
parlor stood the little boy, peering down
between the slats of eaid blinds, directly
ye the afore mentioned book. By and by
r. Sharp put up his book and walked
away, and the boy went to repors. He, the
boy, found the landlerd snd the jolly stage
driver in the back room, and he told them
what he had seen. He had seen the book
in the stranger's hands, and he had read a
lot of names that were written down there.
He had read the name of Bill Sawtell, and
the name of John Downer, and the name of
Dennis McKnight, and some sight or ten
more, which he called over, and which the
landlord recognized as belonging to their
very particular friends.
““ Aha!" said mine host. “I begia to
el 1” echoed the joll dri
“Qho {” echoed the jolly e driver;
¢ that’s his game.” ~ :
In the gyening the landiord went into the
bar-room, and found the overcoat of his
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him ; but they fancied they knew better..
guest hanging upon a peg. It was a light
loose seck, which Mr. Samuel Sharp wore
as & “duster.” Mine host took the pgar-
ment down, and carried it away, aud having
ripped open the color, and examined iis
make and quality, he packed in a littls ex-
tra stiffening, and thon sewed it up as it
should be, after which he earried the coat
back, and hung it up where ho found
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t.
On the following morning, after Mr.
Samuel Sharp had eaten his breakfast, and
smoked a cigar, he proposed that he would
take a ride. He said that he might ride.
He said he might ride on tothe next town,
and if hedid he would not be back before
night. “The landlord dida’t miad that. He
furnished the team as desired, and expres-
sad his willingness thaf the guest should
rids whither he pleased.
In about an hour after Mr. Sharp bad
gone, the landlord and the jolly stage dri-
ver bestirred themselves. They hunted up
a justice and an officer, and lodged a eoms-
plaint against one Samuel Sharp, said com-
laint setting forth that said Sharp was an
ssuer of counterfeit money, The justice
issued a writ, and the officer started off to
serve it, the landlord and the jolly stage
driver bearing him compauy. They over-
took Mr, Sharp justashe drove up to the
door of theinn at the next town, and the
offieer arrested him at once, and took him
into the parlor, where a large number of cu-
rious people scon gathered.
“Good heavens, gentlomen, what do you
mean ?”’ cried Mr. Sharp. “Me a coun-
terfeiter.”
“ Qho,” cried the jolly stage driver, don’t
try nons o’ that on us. I took the measure
on you when you was on my stage. I'mark-
ed what you said. Qho, you was a leetle
too leaky. Twas a bogus bill as you pas-
sed on me.
Mr. Sharp was astounded. He knew
that he had said something tothe jolly stage
driver ahout counterfeiting, but he had no
idea that it could bave been turned against
him. y
“I must-search your person,” said the
officer,
“ Certainly,” replied the detective.
During this operation the landlord sug-
gested that counterfeiters hid bogus money
away in strange places.
“Oho, that’s so,” said the jolly stage dri-
ver: and thereupon a more thorough search
was commenced.
“ Aha! What's this?”
It was something peculiar in the feeling
of the color of the over:sack, The officer
out with his knife, and ripped it epen, when
lo and behold, the evidence was in sight!
Within that color, very nicely packed away
between the cloth and tha lining, they found
eight thousand dollars of counterfels mon-
ey!
Tt. Samuel Sharp stood aghast, and
knew not what to say; when he did speak,
his words were only taken as eo much evi-
dence of his guiit. In short, Sharp was
fully committed, and marched away to jail,
while the lookers on went about their busi-
ness ; the accommodating landlord and the
jolly stage driver returning to look out for
the next detective that might happen to come
along.
Mr. Samuel Sharp remained in jail eight-
and forty hours, and then managed to gain
an interview with the high sheriff. He
told his story so plainly and directly, and
had such a documentary evidenca to show
that he soon convinced the sheriff that he
really was an officer in the pursuit of duty,
and that a rascally trick had been played
ypon him. The sheriff saw through the
matter at length, and concluded that the
prisoner might be set at liberty.
“Of course, I eannot give you liberty at
present by any legal process; but, under
the circumstances, I am willing to take a
great responsibility. If you you will give
me your word that you will return at onee
to your home, and not remain heve, I will
persuade the jailor to let you make your
escape this night.
Mr. Sharp accepted the offer with. many
thanks: That night he found the door of
the jail open; and, before the light of an-
other morning, be was beyond the line, in
Vermont. He reached his home, and made
his report ; and it was the conclusion of the
bank commission that Mr. Samuel Shar
was not sharp enough for that sort of busi-
ness.
The next step was to send to Maine for
Ralph Barnum; and in dye time Mr. Ralph
Barnum made his appearance. He said he
would go in quest of the rogues, and his
terms were as follows: In addition to the
pay he demanded for his time, he demanded
the right to expend as much money on ac-
count of his employers as he wished. He
promised that he would keep a fair account
of every dollar thus expended. If he wish-
ad to buy s horse, a horse he must buy; if
he wanted to buy sn ox, an ox he must buy.
And, if he wantel'a hundred horses, or a
hundred oxen, he must have the means to
purchase. Only, he promised that he would
be as careful as possible, and purchgse
that which would readily sell again.
The ecowcmission Bually consented to this,
asd Mr. Barnum went his way. dJustim-
agine s middle-aged, red-faced man, with
an honest jolly look ; standing six feet and
four inches in his stockings, and weighing
nearly three hundred pounds, and you have
an ides of Ralph Barnum. In the garb of
an old cattle drover he made his way into
Canada, and commenced at once to examine
all the best stock, occasionally buying, as
his fancy seemed to be suited. In this way,
he spent a month, in the very neighbor-
hood where Mr. Sameul Sharp. had been
operated on, and at the end of that time he
was master of every secret he desired #o
know; yet #0 carefully had he kept his own
eounsel, and so persistantly had be follow-
ed his professsed calling, that his real in-
tent was not suspected. In the end
the train was laid, she force made veady,
and the trap sprung.
As I said at first, those who read the
most important haul of counterfeiters snd
counterfeiting implenjonts ever made in
this country. And in closing, I may add,
thet conspicuous among the prisoners were
the sccommddating landlord and the jolly
stage driver,
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A MILITARY PIG.
During the last war with Great Britain,
a very remarkable circumstance occurred in
connection with the invasion of Canada. A
company of Kentucky volunteers destined
far Shelby’s army had their rendezvous at
Harrodsburg, in Kentucky, and formed s
sort of nucleus or rallying point for the mil-
itary recruits of that part of the country,—
When they marched from Harrodsburg to-
wards the Ohio river, having got » mile or
two on their way, they noticed two pigs
fighting, and delayed their march to ses it
out. After they had resumed their march,
the pig which had been the victor in ile
contest, was observed to follow thea.
At night, when they encamped, the pig
found a shelter near, and balted also. The
next day the pig accompanied the troops as
before ; and thus it marched every day and
halted every night with the soldiers, or near
them. When they came opposite Cincin-
nati, at which place the troops ware to cross
the Ohio in a ferryboat, the pig, on getting
to the water's edge, promptly plunged in
end swam across, and then waited ou the
other side until the whole cortege crossed
over, and then renewed. its post upon one
side of the moving columm, Thus the ani-
mal kept up with the troops until they
crossed the State of Ohjo and reached Lake
Erie. On the journey, as the men grew fa-
miliar with their comrade, it became a8 pet,
receiving 2 share of the rations issued to the
soldiers, and destitute of provisions as the
troops found themselves at times, no ome
thought of putting the knife to the throat of
their fellow soldier. What they had was
shared, and if they fared scantily as the rest
at times, it still granted on, and menifested
a8 much patriotism in his own line as the
bipeds it accompanied did in theirs. At the
margin of the Lake she embarked with the
troops and went as far Bass Island. But
when offered a passage over into Canada,
she obstinately refused to embark a second
time. Some of the men attributed her con-
duct to constitutional scruples, and observed
that she knew it was contrary to the Con-
stitution to force a militia pig over the line.
She therefore had leave to remain. .
After the campaign had clesed, the troops
recrossed the Lake, having left some of their
horses on the American side. As goon as
the line was formed, to the great surprise of
the troops, there wag the pig on the right of
the ling, ready to resume her march with
the rest. By this time the winter frosts had
get in, and oe animal suffered greatly on
the homeward march. She made out, how-
ever, to reach Maysville, where the troops
recrossed the Ohio river. There sho gave
out, and was placed in trusty hands by Gov.
Shelby, and finally taken to the Govornor’s
home, where she passed the rest of her days
in ease and indolence.
There are many in Kentucky who oan
now attest the truth of this remarkable sto-
ry.
MODERN YOUNG GIRLS.
There are a great many young ladies who
work—who have to work—who spend no
time in simpering and eequetting—-who wash
their gloves, and iron their collars, snd knit
their stockings with their own hands. There
are scores who despise dependence upon
their hardworking fathers and mothers, and
so learn trades, and work ten or twelve
hours a day. They would cheerfully do
housework, if the young men would invite
them to become wives. But the young men
seem to prefer the butterflies—the brainless
do nothings ; and the result is, that the
class of girls we refer to, young ladies of
energy and industry, who would really help
their husbands to accumulate wealth--live
snd die in single blessedness.
We have found very few young men in
our life time, who did not perceive the truth
of what we are saying. They acknowledged
that working, industrious girls—the girls
who work in shops, or insist upon relieving
their mothers of some of the cares and labors
of housekeeping, are the girls to be married.
But they are not the girls we meet with at
balls and parties ; and so, while the young
man hag determined to marry one of them
at last, he has sought the butterflies for
present amusement. The amusement has
had this effect.
interviews at the social gatherings, a few
evening walks, and the working girl has
been forgotten ; the real prize lost. But-
terfly is carried home, and 8 servant girl is
hired to vrait upon her, the bills run up and
are not paid, ruin enues, in one shape or
another, and then all the young men are in-
vited to take warning. Their friend's mis
take is not geen , but the fact that he got
married is taken ag accounting for all his
miseries.
If he had married a woman, instead of a
bundle of whalebone, millinery and erino-
line, he would have got along well enough,
Qur belief is, that any man who takes care
of himself can afford to have some ens to
help him. Yet plain enough it is, that no
one but a millionaire can afford to marry one
of the fnony things we call ladies, which
may be seen walking the street any pleasant
stternoon. The truth, which needs to be
preached just now, is that those ‘ladies’ are
educated and dressed for the market. If
young men dg not overvalue them, we should
not see them. They don’t know much, it
ig true ; but th8y do know what kind of a
hook marriageable fishes like to swallow.
Horer ReguraTioNs.—The landlord of a
hotel at the capital of South Carolina posted
in his barroom, as a mark of respeet to the
Legislature, the follwing notice: Look
here—the following rules of order will be
hereafter obeyed in this hotel : Members of
the Assembly will go to the table first, and
the gentlemen afterwards.” After reading
it oyer he did not exactly like it, It didn’t
say snything about rowdies and bleck-
gusrds; so, to caution them particularly,
he added: ‘Nota Bena. Rowdies and
blackguards will please not mix with the
members, as if js bard to tell one from the
er.
newspapers of the time, cannot have for- oth
gotten tbe result. It was the largest and }™
ee pre :
Sous malicious geoundrel has ponped the
following :
Eve did not know ag much as her daughe
ters ofthe present day. Had they Leon jn
her place instead of being deceived they
would tye deceived the G= 1
A few meetings at the bail reom, a few |,
GEORGE WILSON,
A few years since as Mr. Gallaudet wag
walking in the streets of Hartford, thera
came running to him a poor boy, of very
ordinary appearsuce, but whase fine intelli-
gont eye fixed the attention of the gentleman
as the boy inquired :
¢ Sir, can you tell we of a man who would
like & bay to work for kim, and learn him tg
read 2”
5 .8 Ja boy are you, and wherp do yoy
ive 1’
“1 have no parénts,’’ waa the reply, “and
have just run away from the work hous,
because they would not learn me to read.”
The gentleman made arrangements with
the anthorities of the town, and took the
boy into his own family. {hep he learned
to read. Nor was thisall. Ile soor acquire
8d the confidence of his new associates by
faithfulness and honesty. He was allowed
to use his friend’s library, and made rapid
rogress in the acquisition of knowledge. —
t became necessary, after a while, that
George should leave Mr. Gallaudet, and ha
became apprenticed to a cabinet maker in
the neighborhood. Thera the same integrity
won for hig the favor of his new associates.
To gratify hia inclination for study, his mass
ter had a little room furnished for him in
the upper part of the shop, where he devoted
his leisgre hours to his favorito pursuits.—
Here he made large attainments in mathe-
matics, in the French language and other
branches, and being in the situation a few
years, one eyoening, whilg sitting at tea with
the family, he remarked that he wanted tg
go to France,
“Go to France!’ said his master, sur.
prised that the apparently happy and con-
tented bay should thas suddenly becoma
dissatisfied with his situation ** for what #’*
His kind friend was accordingly invited,
At tea time the apprentice presented himself
with his manuscripts, in English and French,
and explained his singular intention to go tg
France. >
« In the time of Napoleon,” said he, ‘a
prize was offered hy the French government
for the simplest plan of measuring plain
surfaces, of whatever gquiline. The prize
has never been awarded,”
He then demonstrated his problem to thg
surprise and gratification of his friends, who
immediately furnished him with the meacs
of defraying his expenses, and with letters
of introduction to Hon, Lewis Oass, then
our minister to the court of France. He
was introduced to Louis Phiippe, and ip the
presence of the king, nobles, and plenipo-
tentiaries, this American youth demonstrat.
od his problem, and received the plaudits of
the court. He recejved the prize which hg
bad clearly won, besides several presonts
fromthe king.
He thee icok letters of recommendation
to the court of St. James, and took « similar
prize, offered by the Royal Society, and soon
after returned to the United States.
He was preparing to secure the benefita of
hig discovery by patent, when he received a
letter from 2: Emperor Nicholas himself,
one of whose ministers had witnessed his
demonstration at London, inviting him tg
make his regidence at the Russian court,
and furnishing him with ample means for
his outfit, He complied with tbe invitation,
repaired to St. Petersburg, and is now Prq-
fessor of Mathematies in thp Royal College,
under the special pratection of the aytgerag-
of all the Russians!
HorrrsLe EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH AMRRIOA.
—A correspondences from Valparsizo, dated
April 8, says:
«With feelings of deep regret I have tg
anncunce to you the utter destruction of the
sity of Mendoza, m the Argentine Republio,
by an earthquake, on the evening of the 20th
of March last. At that date, at half past
eight, p. m. a slight but prolonged vibration
of the earth was felt iu this city, and jn San-
tisgo simultaneously. Most of the churches
were densly filled, it being near the ciose of
Lent, and some alarm and confusion wag
created, but no accidents occured, and trap.
quility was soon restored.
On Sunday, the 24th, however, 8 genera}
gloom was cast over the city by the an:
noucement by telegraph from the capital,
that Benigno Bruno, the mail-rider had
arrived from Mendoza that morning without
a mail, bringing the distressing news that
there remained but a heap of ruins a point
the spot where a few days before had stood
a thriving and populous city of 18,000 souls.
Bruno stated that he arrived at Mendozs
on the morning of the 40th; that at half
past eight, p. m., 8 brief but oxcessively
violent shock of an earthquake, lasting but
six or eight seconds, destroying every build-
ing, public and private, in the city’ and
that the number who were engbled fo escape
was very limited. The streets being narrow,
the buildings high, and the inhabitants total-
ly unused to such phenomena, were par:
alyzed with terror, and neglected to seek
refuge in the open sourts of their dwellings
until to late. The Postmaster was buried
beneath the ruins of the postoffice—the Goy-
ernor was missing—and when he was asked
why he brought no ccrtifieato that the mails
were lost, the messenger replied, ‘There
was no one left to write it, nor materials tq
write with, 2
The aspect presented by the city after the
first shock was terrific. Hoarge subteran-
ean thunders deafened the air—animals of
all kinds rushed frantically” through the
open spaces howling —the earth opened and
vomited forth floods of water, waile, to
crown the scene of horeer, flames burst from
the ruins and consumed nearly the entire
business portion of the city with ita dead,
its dying and its wounded.
On the 28th a number of letters wero re-
ceived here, and st Santiago by relatives
and friends of Chilians residing in Mendoza
but the hope till then gntertained, that the
earligr accounts were exaggerated, 800N gave
way to the dreadful certainty that the cal-
amity had not yet beep painted in colory
sufficient]y vivid. The earth still continue
to tremble, and a few wails that had resisted
the shock one hy one fell, Gugll now no
yegtage of a building remains,
“t Nopopy ever lost anything by loye,”
s8id a cortain person. ** That's not true,’
said a lady who heard the remarl, ‘jor §
ope Jost three night's sleep.”