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DAY’S GONE BY*
BT WALTER COKLT.
There are tears of pain and Borrow,
And tears of hope and Joy;
And mem’ry oft will borrow
From the past a dark alloy.;
To mingle with the dew drops
That start into the eye.
From the pleasant recollections
Of the happy hours gone by.
I off times sit and whisper
With a gentle Voice wlltim.
Which tells me of an hour
When I was free from tin;
Bio my soul with guilt was tainted,
- lire my bosom knew a sigh, '
In my childhood's parly morning—
In the holy days gone by.
It telle roe of a brother,-*
A fair haired rosy boy.— .
1 can sec his red cheek dimple,"
And his dark eye gleam with Joy;
Yet tho mem'ty of his features
firings a tear into my eye,
For they laid him to a dreamless steep
In my childhood's days gone by.
Thus every eertbly>leesup
Is shadowed by a cloud;
I see in each ftir creature
The coffin and the shroud;
Bor each, though strong, and witheri
Bach eye, though bright, must fade,
And the lovely, fair, and beautiful,
In lonely earth be laid.
Rouse up then and he doing, ,
While hekrts with hope boast high,
For our days are few and fleelJng,
The moments swiftly fly!
Beck then a hotter portion,
In fadeless realms on high,
Secure the soul's salvation.
Ere the days of grace gone by.
: aTHWcellawoiw.
’ : From the John Donkey. t
THE SLOW GOER*
Oft ItoW A PIECE OX FUMft TURNED OUT DIFFERENT
FROM WHAT HB WAS-TOOK TOR.
lam a quid, orderly citlxen, a little over forty,
ntid rather, inclined Id bo weigh
about two hundred pounds; but that is licit on account
offal. It is muscle—all muscle.
Jam a quiet man, as l said, and rather a little
horvous. I don’t like to bo hiirned—not by any
inoonsi I 'have a horror of hurrying and haste and
all’that kind oflhing. Slowness is compatible with
dignity, and for a man not over four feet six, my gait
and mien arc majestic and imposing.
Well, sir* I had occasion to go oat into WcslChos*
ter county arid fine day, and from some freak of the
devil which got into me, must needs hire a vehicle,
and ro it with a rnsh. So I went to Disbrow’s, in
tho Bowery—Disbrow had taught my daughter
horsemanship, and a deuced -good rider she is, to bo
sure—and I asked him to get roe out a vehicle and
horse.- So he called to one of his myrmidons, who
brought oul*a horse—a regular devil of a fellow, with
an eye like a lighted cigar, and a snort like an earth*
quake. I told Disbrow at once that such an animal
would not do for mo. I'd rfflher be hitched to the tall
of tho east wind, or a runaway locomotive, or be be*
hind the bottomless pit in harness—l would. And
ao I told him.
Horse'after horse was trotted out, until 1 lost''all
patience. At length. I said—“l want something
quiet—very quiet, for 1 am n quiet man, myself.—
None of your harum-scarum devils—and if these are
all your horses, then 1 flummox." *
“ Well, sir." said Disbrow, “ I am anxlow to
oblige you, but I have but one other .horse. I do not
like to Id him out of the stable, for though he Is quid
enough, he is very old and in a very bad condition.
However, you can see him, ifyou like."
And see him 1 did. He wasn't a boauly, being
rather lean—but as ho was quiet, he suited mo. So
1 look him.
Tho next difficulty was about a vehicle. I atdn t
like anything flashy—l wanlasuber turnout—and
at length found something InMho back yard—a fine,
serviceable gig. Disbrow didn't wish mo to' have it,
as ho said it had been loiigoulof use; but I insisted
on it, and so the horse was pat to. I got In very
much pleased; though I was a Utile astonished when
Disbrow naked of me, as a particular favor that 1
wouldn't mention where 1 obtained the horse and
Vehicle. This 1 promised, of course, sllhough 1
couldn't tell why fbr tho life of me; for a more sober
and quiet turnout, I am sure 1 had never seen.
Wo started beautifully, sir, beautifully. It would
have done your heart good to have seen thet rospec.
table bay, as ho moved most majestically along, eon*
scioua that no ordinary man was at his heels. As a
token of penetration and of respect for my superior
worth, ho kept his oars and tall properly depressed.
As for me, l felt my position ss a man, sir, who
stands tho superior of horses—especially hired horses
*-tnd all other portion* of the brute creation.
Matters went along very well until wo left the
stone pavements. Dut, no sooner had thq.oonfoundsd
horse struck the soil ground, than he pricked up his
ears, erected his stump* tail, took the bit In his teeth,
and began In lole himself forward at an alarming rale
f»T speed. 1 caught hold of the reins firmly, and tried
to stop him, in order to recover my hot, which I felt
to be sliding off, but 1 might as well have let it
alone. Sir, it Is an alarming fact that ho would not
slop.
Hero was a condition of affairs. I could not slop
tiie horse, end 1 had no hat; while the sun popt his
round face from a cloud, and poured down his hottest,
a's if my head was a leaden bullet that ho was about
to melt, or. an oyster pie, that he was about to bake.
Still, I did nut feel very much alarmed—until to my
utter dismay, I heard some wheel* behind mo, and
up came two bloods In a dashing buggy, with a fierv
pair of horses, and they—the bloods, that is—ohau
longed me to raoei
Mel the father oft family I a oulet, respectable
citizen, a racing on the Bloomlngdala Road I A
pretty joke! and sol was about to (ell 'em,when the
abominable b’oastthai woe dragging me, accepted tho
fnvititionj on his own book, and pul out as If soma*
body had bfcerf JrtodJiog a fire of shavings .under hie
hind •.
Gracious) triy blood curdles when I think- of ill
Before 1 could soy “slop him!" 1 was out of ell
hearing. Ahcwl Blisters! how ho went! Tho trees
and tho houses and* the dogs and tho mile stones wont
facing the other wuy, as if Satan was
Wo passed everything. I fell as If 1 was lulohed
into the Magnetic Telegraph. Tho
rolled down my cheeks like tiro daUrnil of Nlkgi'a*
the wind had boon blowing In cur dlrodtioh’ pretty
Strong, but wo went so fast, that mjf head got cool,
because tho sunbeams didn't got lime to make it hot.
■Thunder! it was like lightning 1
On we wont! Tho Black Rider and John Gilpin*
*nd Maioppa, and forty locomotives, weren’t a olr
ouiuhlanco. People tried to keop up with theiV Uiroo
crabs, but it wasn't no manner of use; I felt
"wt my hout was comb. I knew that I should never
behold Sukey, my dear wife, nor Claiidin Melissa
Jane, mv daughter Bob. And (0 leave (he world at
such a ume,whon there ,was every prospect of a rlfce
in stocks. It was awful! It was terrific! I tried
to remember the Lord’s Prayer, but I couldn’t. I
remembered that f had forgot my card-ease, and no
one would know where to take my mangled remains.
So Utile was I prepared to die.
: But, no slop! As I'passed a tavern the fcllops
cried out—“Go it old boss'!" Useless adjuration •He
did go It* On we went, over the bridge, and up the
-hill past Macob’s. Old Mrs. Macob, and her pretty
daughter, were standing at the door, and (hey started
back In 'perfect fright. No doubt they thought (hat
Father Miller hod sliccecdcdjn his design to bring
the world to an end; and lhal I was in the Incarna
tioa of I lie day of Judgement, in a go-cart
But, just as I was expecting to .have cny brains
knocked out,and was tyohdcrlng how 1 should let my
wife know that my will was fn the tbltd pigeon; from
the IcH, in the upper row, in mv desk, (ho horse
enmo to a stony place In (he road. No sooner did
bis feet strike this, than down wont his tail and ears,
and he resumed the same delightful position which
he had assumed at first. , ■
But 1 didn't Intend to tempt Providence. No tir!
I got out, and led tho animal by the head, having
luckily but a short distance to go. When I arrived
at my place of destination, I sent tho horse and ve.
hlcte homo In the cate of- the ostler, while I waited
and came down In the stage like a mao and a Chris*
tian,
Now, what excuse do you think that confounded
Difebfow made f He said (hat the horse was what
hadheen n celebrated old racer,who took such frbekb
semi-occaslonally; but his demeanor had of late beet!
so quiet that he had not suspected him of any devia
tlon,from a correct gait. But I'll fix him yet, some
doy.t; * *
Napoleon’s Design of Coming to America*
We believe it has never -been known how near Na*
poleon was to coining to America, afier the terrible
battle of Waterloo, where in tho sequel of the fight,
when defeat became certain,.he in vain presented his
bosom' to the fire of -his enemies, in the hope that ho
might bo spared the fatal end which seemed to hang
around him. Leaving tho wreck ofhis once power*
ful army to Soldi, and flying as upon the wings of
(he wind, he was tho first to announce at. Paris the
lain! defeat which had-befallcn him* From Parts he
went to Malmuisorip where hb hod in vain labored to
reconcile and treat with the enemy. Finding re
conciliation in vain and the overthrow of his power
certain, the design presented itselfto him of escaping
to America, and accordingly ho wont, with a few of
his chosen followers, to Rochefort, with a view of es*
caping on board some vessel which might be in port.
But Rochefort was blockaded by an 'English fleet,
and the coast Was lined with English cruisers. All
tliis is known, but what wo have not seen,' is the fol*
lowing anecdote, related to us by one of tho Massa*
chusclts members of Congress, on the authority of a
New England Captain (Capl. Brewster, of Preston,
Conn.,)whose services were solicilcdto bring Ndpo-
Icon to tho United Slates. When just upon tho ove
of his departure this man' was accosted in the streets
of Havnr, by one who Informed hint that he had an
important piece of intelligence to communicate. A
private interview was hud, under a solemn pledge of
secrecy, and after a solemn assurance that no dishon
orable proposition was to be made.
Whcn dojou sail for America I! 1 was thc r first,
question.' . ’
•‘ To-morrow morning,’’ was the reply’.
“Will you for a sum uf money (hat make you
independent for life, and buypnd tho value ofydur
ship and cargo and all possible profit, consent to talk
Napoleon Bonaparte to America. The munoy shall
be paid to you in any manner, deposited anywhere in.
Paris, ond papers executed to that effect. lam here
continued the officer, us an agent of my sovereign,
and directed to make any proposition and to allow
any sum uf money, but I must receive your answer
upon the instant."
“ The Captain responded that the ship was hot Ills
own,—that the coast was lined with English ships,
that escape ho feared would be impossible. Ho could
not answer upon the instant, but would do so at tho
appointed time and place in two hours. Visiting his
ship which was loaded and ready for departure, he
concluded that ho might conceal the Emperor hi a
manner which would prevent detection.- Atthe time
appointed to bo made known his purpose, arranged
as to tho compensation ho should receive, had popers
of a satisfactory characUt executed to that effect,
and made his arrangements accordingly. His illus
trious visiter was to be on board at 12 o’clock at night
and everything was arranged to receive him. At 12
o’clock, at tho very hour and moment when every
preparation was made to receive tho illustrious sold*
lor, a messenger arrived with a notcTrum the officer,
that Napoleon finding his enemies so many and'os.
cape so difficult, had concluded, ond sn ill-starred
conclusion it was for him, to repose a noble confi
dence in his groat enemy, and surrender himself to
(ho British.
As Is known ho presented himself with his suit
on board uf tho Dellornplion, and wrote to tho Prince
Rcgunt of England, surrendering himself a prisoner,
asking only a resting place upon the soil of his ene
my, for (ho remainder of his life. Tho sequel is
known,—banishment to Bt. Helena,end living there
till his death, 15th of May, 1815.
The American vessel, which wns to have taken
Napoleon to America, waa boarded three times, by ss
many armed vessels and. twice by-one. Suspicion
appeared to have been excited against her sometime
before her departure, and even before the Captain had
received any communication frdno Napoleon's agent,
His vessel was pretty thoroughly searched upon all
lh( so occasions, and once a gun was fired lor him to
heor a second time. He obeyed of. course, hot our
informant assures us that In all these searches, the
place where he had designed to place Napoleon was
never onco searched or inspected and that he should
therefore have safely brought him to the U. Stales.—
Hero be might huvo died In pence of mind, or been
living among us now. At St. Helena, to use his own
words, tho cruelty uf hie keeper, Sir Hudson Lowe,
caused his death. Napoleon said of Lowo, (hat “he
waa an executioner sent to assassinate him, a man
wholly without a heart and merely oopabte of dis
charging the office and duties of a jailor."
RUSSIAN MARRIAGES*
B T OX. BAIRD.
Marriages in Russia are curious. The priest meets
the parties at tho door of (ho church. The, relatives
uiso unler, having received tho bcncdiclion of tho
priest; They go with him to (ho altar, where ho puts
wax candles in their hands—a crown Is placed on
the bridegroom’s head* tho priest puts a ring on
une of their fingers, and it is passed round t|ll it is
placed on the finger of tho bride. Ho goes around
Ibe slur, followed by the friends and the couple—he
gives his benediction* U lakes place in lbs richest
churches in Russia. The same co/emonles are per
formed on a marriage in the family of the Emperor,
except that tho crown is held above, not placed on
their heads. Being present once at a marriage of
tho royal family, the crown was held up by boys,
and It wns amusing to soo thorn stretching themselves
to hojd it up. Thb music was delightful. I novo
frequently heard the choir of the Pope, but If *■ no
thing compared with what 1 hoard pi this marriage.
I never hoardmusio.eo’touoliing. Their dresses were
beautiful. The bride had a train twelve foot long,
made of rich velvet, and lined throughout with er
mine snd it took fife mbn'to bosr her Iralix, as she
mofed Bfodha fho attar.' if Was attached to her
droas, below the shoulder. There wore many things
about it very Imposing*' tho td .* unff
most beautifully. Tho/e are nttutf singular thing*
connected with their private life.', when making a
dinner, the host snd hostess do nulst), but like Abra
ham, eervd thobr guests’, tho gentlemen, go up to
tho ladles add kiss thelf hands, and if they, are nti
male, tho lady kisses his cheek. These uro Asjollo
customs, but ihtfro is no doubt in a fow years they
will paw a way, and European bo iblrodaosd into their
plftdo.'
“OUft bdbhTRY—MAT IT ALWAYS BK RIGHT—BUT RIUUT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.”
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1848.
SONGi
BY RICHARD UOWITT.
Thou art lovelier than the coming
. Of (lie fairest flowers ofsprlng,
When the wild bee wanders humming;
Like a blessed fairy thing:
Thou art lovelier than the breaking *
Of,the orient crimson'd mom
When the gentle wlmls.are slinking
The dowdrops' from the thorn.'
I have seen (he wild flowcra springing
In wood, and field, and glen,
Whore a thousand birds were singing,
Ami my thoughts were of (hea then,
For thure's.rlothiug gladsome round me,
Nothing beautiful to see,
Since thy beauty’s spell has bound mb,
hut Is eloquent ortbee.
ANEXKCUTION.
In Blackwdod’s Magazine, is an ortlble, entitled Lc
Beve/tanf; puiporting to-be written, by a man.who,
hasAeen hanged and is now alive. The writer con
fesses that he was guilty of the act for which he suf
fered—forgery, and states the particulars of his arrest*
corhmlttel lb Nefrgate fot Ulal, and till cbhViction of
the crime at the Old Baity Sessions for 1828. He
then proceeds to. describe what were his sensations
after receiving the awful sentence of death. After
paiintimr, in. touching colors, the interview he had
with Elizabeth Clare* to whom he wm strongly, at
tached;' he thils proceeds with bis narrative:
"It was four o’clock in the afternoon when Eliza
beth left me; and when she deported, it seemed as if
my business in this world was at ac end. I could
have wished, then, and there, to have died on (ho
spot; I had done my last act* and drank my last
draught in life. But, es the twilight drew in* my
cell was cold and damp, and the evening was dark
and gloomy; and I had no fire, nor any candle, al
though H was in-the month of January, not much
covering to warm me, and by degrees 1 :
weakened, and my heart sunk at the desolate wretch
edness of everything around me; and gradually—for
what I write now shall be the truth—tho though'tsof
Elizabeth, and what would be her fate, began to give
way before a sense of my own situation* This was
the first time—l cannot tell ''the reason wh^—that
my mind had ever fixed itself upon the trial that 1
- had, within a few Hours, to go through; and, as I re
, fleeted on it, a terror spread over me almost In an In
, slant, as though it were that my sentence was just
, pronounced, and that I hod not known, really am)
, seriously, that I was to die before; X had eaten noth
. ing for, twenty-four hours. There was food, which
- a religious gentleman who visited mo had sent from
• his.own tabic, but I could not taste it; and when 1
, looked at it, strange fancies came orfer me* It was
, dainty food, not such as was served to theprUoners
, in the jail* It was sent to me because I was to dio
, to-morrow ( and I thought of the beasts of the field, |
’ and the fowls of the air, that wore pampered lor i
slaughter. I felt that my own sensations ware not
.as they ought to.be at this time;.and 1 believed that,
, for awhile, I was insauo* A sort of dull, humming
noise, that! could not get’ rid of, like the buzzing of
> bees, sounded in my ears; And though it was dark,
i sparks of light seemed to dance before my eyes; and
1 I could recoiled nothing. I tried to say tny prayers,
but could only- recollect a word here and there,
and then U "seemed tome as if these were blasphe
• mica that I was uttering; I don't know what they
were—l cannot tell what 1 said;' and then on a add
dsn, I felt as-ihouyUlaU this terror watf 1 uachMv'-aml
that I would hot stay there to die; and I jumped, up,
and wrenched at tho bars of my cell window with u
| force.that bent them, for 1 felt as if X had the strength
of a lion. And I left all over the jock of mydo>r,
and tried the door with my shoulder—though I knew
it was plated with irori, and heavier than (bat of a
1 church; and 1 groped about the very wails, and into
the corncrsof. my dungeon—though 1 knew very well,
if 1 had my senses, Unit it was all of solid stone three
feet thick; and that! if Icould hove passed through a
crevice smaller than the eye of a needle, 1 hud no 1
, chance of escaping* And, in the midst of all this 1
, exertion, a faintness came over me as though X had 1
I swallowed poison; anil. I had just power to reel to the
j bed-place, whore I sank down, as I think, in a swoon;
i bat this did not last—fof my bead swam round, and
i the cell seemed to turn with roe, and I dreamed—be
; twain sleeping and waking—that it was midnight,
i and that Elizabeth had come back as she promised,
and that they refused to admit her. And X though!
it snowed heavily, and that the streets were uncover
ed with it,as if with awhile sheet, and that! saw hi. r
dead—lying in the fallen snow—and In the darkness
—at the prison gate! When 1 came to myself, X was
struggling and breathless. In . a minute or two, I
hoard St. Sepulchre's clock go too; anjJ knew it was
a dream that I had had. The chapiaih of the prison
came without my sending^. He exhorted jne solemn
ly** to think no more of cares dr troubles in this
world, but to bend my thoughts upon that to came,
and to try to reconcile my soul to Heaven; trusting
that my sins, though they wore heavy, under repent
ance, might have hope of mercy." When be was
gone. I did find myself, for o little while,-more col
lected ; and I'sat down again on tho bed, and tried
seriously to commune with myself, and prepare my
self for my fate.* I recalled to my mind that I had
hutafpw hours more, at all events, to live—that
(here was no more hope on earth of escaping—and
(hat it was at least better that I should die decently
. like a man. Then I tried to recollect all the tale*
that 1 had ever heard about death by hanging—(hat
, it waa said to be the sensation of a moment—to give
I no pain—to cause the extinction of life instantane
, ously—and so on, to twenty Other strange ideas; liy
| degrees, my head began to wander and grow iin
i manageable. I put my hands tightly to my throat,!
as though to try, the sensation of strangling—then 1
i felt my arms at the place whete the cord would be
i tied. I went through the fastenings of the rope—the
I lying of the hands together; (he thing tbqtyl fall
■ most averse to, was the white cap muffled over my
eyes and face. If I could avoid that, the real was not.
so very horrible! in. the midst of .these fancies, a
numbness seemed to creep over my senses. The gid
diness that I had felt gave way to a dull stupor, which
lessened the pain that my thoughts gave me, though
X still went on thinking. Tho chuich clock rang
midnight, I was sonsiblo uf the sound, tut it reached
mo indistinctly—as though coming. through many
closed doors, or from a fui distance. Uy and by, I
saw tho objects Iwfore my mind less and less clearly
—then only partially—then they were gone together.
I fell asleep.
U 1 slept until the hour of execution. It was seven
o’clock on the next morning when a knocking at the
door of my coll awoke mo. 1 heard the-sound as
though in toy dreams, fur some moments .before 1
was fully awake; and my first sensation was only the i
dislike which a weary man feels at being roused; I
was tired, and X wished to duse on. In a’minute af- i
ter, the bolts on the outside of my duqgeon was •
drawn; a turnkey, carrying ■ small lamp, and follow
ed by the master of the jail and the chaplain, entered; <
I looked up; a shudder like the shock of electricity
like a plunge into a bath of Ico—ran through me; one ’
glance was sulHclont. Bleep was goiie as though 1 1
I had never slept—-oven as 1 never was to sleep again
I— I wa* conscious of my situation! *ll——said ’
tho master to me, in a subdued,'b(ft steady .tone,’it i
is lima for you to'rise/ Toe chaplain asked mo how i
X had passed the night, and proposed that we should i
join in prayer. X gathered myself up, and remained <
seated on the side of my bed-place* My.teislh chat* i
tored/and tny knees knocked together, fn dcs'pUo of 1
myself. It was bi-rely day-light yet; the ceil
duor stood open, Icould see. into thq 4‘mbll paved .
court beyond; the mor'nlp'g wtu, thick and gloomy, 1
and a slow, but settled tain was coming down'. * H
lls half-bast 7 o’clock, R ,’ said tho master. I JVist
muttered’ ah entreaty ;o be left alone till tho last mo- 1
moot, fhod thirty mindles to file. ,
"I tried to make another observation when the 1
master was leaving the cell; hut (his time Icouhl not
gel the words out; my tongue stirek to the roof of.tny |
mouth, and my speech seemed gone; I ptade two do*- j
perato efforts, but'lt would'not colild'not ,Utter.] i
When*.they left me, I never stirred from my place on j
Ihe bod.,. I was benumbed with the cold, probably
from, the steep, ami at the uiiaccllßtomed exposure, '
and I sat crouched together, as it were, to keep my-!
se.f warmer, with my arm* folded across my breast,
and my head hanging down, shivering; and my body
felt as ifft.were such a weight to me,-that I was un
able to move it, or stir. The day now was breaking,
yellow and heavily; and the light stole by degrees in-.
to my dungeon, showing me the domp stone walls,
and dark paved floor; and, strange as it was,
with all that I could do, I could not keep myself from
noticing, these trifling, things, tho Ugh perdition was
coining upon me the very next moment. 1 noticed'
thb lamp which the turnkey had !eft on the Boor, and
was bufhihg dimly; with £ long wick, being
clogged with the chill and bad air,.and Mhought lb
myself—even at that, moment—that it had riot been
trimmed since the night before. And I looked at the
bare, naked, iron bed-frame that I sat on 1 and the
heavy studs on the dooi of thfediingmm; and at the
scldWlfi dHd wilting upon the wall, that bad been
drawn by former prilonets; and 1 pUt h&hti to my
own pulse; end it was so low that I could hardly
count it. I could not feel—though 1 triad to make
myself I was going to die. In the midst
of this, I heard the chimes of the chapel clock begin
1 to strike { .khd I thought— Lord take ptty on me, a
wretch Mil could not be three-quarters after seven
yetf Thi clock went over: the three-quarters; it
t chimed the fourth quarter, and They
were in mgcoll before I perceived them. Theyfound
> me in the'place, end Ih the posture, as they had left
. hie, "i-*
‘‘Whalil have further to tell will lip in a wry small i
compass; jay recollections are very minute up to this I
point, but not at all eo close ns to what occurred of I
terwarda. I scarcely redollect-very clearly how I got 1
from my cell to the press-room. I think two li.ule i
Withered Itjcn, dressed in blatk, supported me. I i
knoty I irijgd to raiso wheh t saw the master and bis >
people cptjfie into my dungeon; but I could noti. :
<*ln were two miserable wrelcbcs 1
that were'io suffer wUh'me} they tyeto bbiind with
their arms'-bbtiind tHem, and their hands together;
and Were,lying upon a bench, bard by, until I was
ready. Ampagre-looking old man, with thin white
reading to one of them, came up, and
said something—‘That we would embrace*—l did not
distinctly&ear what it was.
“The’fchat.difficult that 1 had was to keep from
foiling. fXthad thought that these moments would
have. been.all of fury and horror, but I felt nothing
of this. hut only « weakness, as though my heart
arid the fery'floor' on which I stood—was sinking
under 1 could just make a motion, that the old
white haired man should leave me; and some one
intcrferei&Krtd sent him away. Tl\o pinjoning.of my
hands and. arms was then finished; and I heard an
officer Whisper to (he chaplain that *all was ready.*
( As we p&SMd out. one of the men in black held a
. glass of .vfaterto my tips ; but I could not swallow.
** last moment—but one of full per
ccptlonr'(|i(ul I had in life. I remember our begining
| to move /ofward, through the long arched passages
which Icd'from the pressroom to the soaffold. X eaw
1 the wore still burning, for daylight nev
-1 er cnterei) there; 1 heard (he.quick tolling oftluTbclJ,
»nd the "deep voice of the chaplain, reading as he
walked before us:
~u Z';«»mspi«fl v rc3urrcc(lan and the life ssith the Lord;
he tfi’at Mtleceth in me, though ho were dead, shall
live. Ami though after my‘skiu worm* destroy this
body, yet in my flesh shall I soo God I”
It wns the funernlservicc—the order for the grave
—(ho’office for (hose (hut were senseless end dead
over us llio quick' and llio living.
I felt onco more, and sow I I felt the transition
from these dim, close, hot, lamp-lighted subtorrene
ous to the open platform, and steps althc
foot of the scaffold, and to day, I saw (he immense
crowd blackening the whole area of the street below
me; The Windows of (he shops and housesopposito
: to the forth story, rhoaked jvith gazers. I saw St.
i Sepulchre’s church through the yellow fog in the dis*
i tance, and heard the pealing of Its bell. 1 recollect
the cloudy misty morning; the wet that lay upon
the; scaffold, the Hugo.dark mass of buildings, the:
prison itself (hat rose betide, and. seemed Ip east a
shadow over us, the bold, fresh breeze that, as I em
erged from it, broke upon my f«cc. I see it all now
—the whole horrible landscape is before me. The
scaffold—the rain—the faces of the multitude—the
people clinging to (he house (ops—the smoko that
beat heavily downwards from the chimneys —the
waggons filled with women, staring at (ho inn-yard
opposite—tho hnorso low ronr (hut run through (be
gathering crowd as we appeared. I never saw so
many objects at one glance; but it lasted only for an
instant.,..
From that look, and from that inslml, all that fob
lowe<Hs a blank. Of the prayers of iho chaplain—
of (he fusioning of (ho fata) noose—of the pullingon
of the cap which I hud so much disliked—of my ac.
tual execution and death, I have nottiiosligMcslatoin
of.recollection. But that I know such occurrences
/mist have taken place, I should not have Iho email
cat consciousness that they ever dM to. I road In
tliu an account of my behavior at
the Bouirold—llmt I conducted myself decently, but
with firmness; of my death—that 1 teomed to die
almost.without a ({niggle. Of any of these events
1 have not been able, by any exertion, to recall the
moot distant remembrance* With the first view ofthe
scaffold, all my recollection ceases* The next cir*
curnstanoo which, to rny perception, seems (o follow,
is that having vrokr, as if from sleep and found my.
self in a bed, in a handsome chamber, with a gentle.
, men (as'l first opened my eyes) looking attentively
at mo. 1 had my senses perfectly, though I did not
speak at once* I thought directly, that I bad been
reprieved at the scaffold, and had fainted* After 1
knew (he truth, I thought that I had an imperfect
recollection, of having'-found, or fancied myself, as I
in & dream, in some atrungo place, lying naked, and
with a maaa of figure* floating about mo; but Ihia
idea certainly never presented Itself to me until I
was informed of the fil’d that U hnd obcurfed.
The accident to which 1 owe my existence will
have been divined! My condition is a strange one !
lam a living man; and I (fosseas certificate* both of
my death and burial. I know that a coffin filled with
•tones, and with my own name upon the plate, lies
buried in the church yard of 6i. Andrew’s Holborn;
I saw, fc'in a window, the undressed hearse that car
ried it; I was witness to my own funeral. Those
arc strange things Io sco. My dangers, however,
and I trust my crime, ore over forever. Thanks to
the bounty of the excellent individual, whose benev
olence has recognised the service which he did me
for a claim upon him. 1 am' married to the women,
whose happiness and safety proved my last thought*
•o lung a« reason remained with me.ln dying. And
I am übout-lo sail on a fair voyage* which is only a
am rowful one-—(hat it parte me forever from my ben
efactor.”
UimiUATmo.—.The following paragraph ia
fated from JBI MonUor t a paper printed in Iftk city or
Mexico. U certainly place* the whig party in a
very humiliating position before the country i
Messrs. Qvxf, CAutouw, Dorrs* Wkmtm, Galla*
tin, Va.H Djok (7) &o.—Thoie illustrious defenders
of the cause of Mexico have just acquired for them
selves the gratitude of good Mexicans. At a.genewi
meeting of the Philanthropic Society of Mexico, held
on theSfitli ult., ft files resolved to tend ihem* com*
municttffort’ manifesting the gratitude of Iho r £ c *} >n £
and named thorn honorary members of (he Bocioiy,
whatever may bo the polhFoal circumstances in
which tho United Stales and Mexico may find them,
selves', t&r buWelvcs, wo render tho homage ol
tVarihfiilncs# to these, magnanimous and generous
men who speak in behalf of,our country In.lho.very
land where troop’s are collected to mane war upon It.
fitcrnul proiso to the dbforiders of tho oouto of justice
and civilization, r .
(ET* Wo orton hoar nion complain that they arc too
poor to pay for n newspaper, and yet soino of tjtosd
gentlemen, chew ,910 worth of drink,re
ftbfhtoiwl* to the ombuht of $9O annually.
EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI.
All our reader* aro more ur leu familiar with the
tiloody «cehbs of the French Revolution, and doubt*
lesa wili tie ihloreatedln the following sketch from
that awful drama':
"On the 15th of January the Convention proceed,
ed to vole what the punishment should be, aootli ofr
banishment. Every member adVahccd singly to the
tribune, and openly gave hie vote. For forty bourn
the voting continued, during which lime the galle.
riea wero Cftawdcd, the bar of the assembly bufileged
with deputations, and the Jaßdtilfi cliiU maintaining
I the excitement by continued inflammatory hara,nfcUe»,
|As each of the tnbro celebrated deputies proceeded
lb give hit vote, the Interest wps absorbing; but
when Orleans tottered to Hie appointed place, with a
face pate as death, a silence perfectly awful pervaded
the hall, ** Exclusively governed by duly," said (he
unhappy man, “and convinced that ail. those who
hare resisted the sovreignty of the people deserve
death, my vote is death." Another breathless fllencej
succeeded the conclusion Of the toting. “Clllieni, i
at length said Verginaud, Uio President, "I announfcb 1
the result of the vote*~there are 721 votes; a niajoN
ity of 96 have voted for death. In the name of the
[Convention,! declare that the puniabment jef Louis
I Capet is death." Paralyzed at the very unexpected
I division, which hod been occasioned by the succor
| sion of their own party , the Girondists made but tine
1 more struggle, and that \vaa for s delay in the exb
leution of the sentence; The Vote had mode their
[opponents too strong for them, and their last propß.
sitiou was negatived by two-thirds of the deputies.
I Fully prepared for his late, the King received the re*
I suit of the vote with unshaken firmness. “For two
I hours," said he,.Malesherbct, 1 have been revolving
, in my memory whether, during my whole reign, I
have voluntarily given any cause of complaint to my
subjects; with perfect sincerity I can declare, When
about to appear before the throne of God, that I de
serve no reproach at their hands, and that I have
never formed a.wish but fot their happiness." On
the 20th of Santarre, with a dopudation of
the municipals, lead the sentence to Louis. Ho re.
ceived it with the same firmness as before, and asked
a respite of three days to prepare for death, Iho to*
lace of an interview with hu family, the.consolalions
of a priest. The convention would not accede to the
request for a respite; (he hour of ten on the follow*
ing morning was irrevocably fixed for the execution; 1
the other deitlontiS tile) granted. From that time
(he King seemed resigned and tranquil. “Phi they
suppose 1 could be baas enongh to kill myselll" said
Louis when they removed the knives at dinner, “ 1
am Innocent, and can die without apprehenulon." At
half past eight in the evening, the Queen and her
children entered the King's apartment. The scene
that ensued during those two hours, the two last
hours of their united lives, cannot be described. At
ten the King rose, the parents blessed (heir poor son,
and sought to aeperate for' the night. ** 1 will see
you to-morrow in the morning ateighto’clook,"anid
the King, at his children clung around him, With
tears and shrieks. Why not seven t" exclaimed
they all. " Well then aoven—at seven—adieu." So
mournful was the accent with which Louis uttered
the words, that the children redoubled their lamenta
tions, and the Princess Royal fell fainting at her fath
er's feet. With one tender embrace to each beloved
one, thb King tore himself from, his agonized family.
The rest of the evening was devoted to Ids confessor,
ihe Abbe Edgeworth; that heroin priest who dared
to*afford the last office of religion to Ids King. ~At
midnight ihe King retired to bed, and slept peaceful
ly until five. At that hour he ruse, gave his lust in*
atructions to his faithful valet, Clary, entrusted him
with his last words to.his wife and his children, and I
the few relics, ho bad to distribute among (hem. Ho'
wished to cut off hid hair with his own hands, and [
thus escape the degradation of that operation on the
scaffold; but the guards refused bis request. They
feared he would use the aeiisora for his own dratrun*
lion, for they conld not beliove that tho mild and
, meek minded King could dare to die on the scat
fold.
Louie then received the sacrament at a email alter
prepared in hie chamber, and heard the last service
for }he dead, while (he noise of the people thronging
the streets, and the rolling of the drums, announced
the preparations for the execution. At nine. Banter*
re came to the temple. “You come to seek me,*' said
the King. “One minnto and Xam ready.” As he
said this he entered hit little chamber, and brought
out Ms hat will, which he asked Santerre to take;
the orpature refused, and the King deposited it in the
hands of one of the municipals who had accompan*
ied him. For two hours the long precision was
dragging its way through the streets of Paris every,
where hemmed and hedged in with an imposing mil*
ilary force, that rendered every attempt at a rescue
fruitless. At Inst the carriage.stopped.pta spotneor
the centre of the Place Louis XV, between the gar
dens of the Tuillarics and tho Champs Elyseov, The
place was lined with oonnon, and the crowd reached
as far us tho eye conld aeo on every side. “This is
the place, Is it not V * whispered Louis to his confes
sor, and then, with an air of the,most perfect self*
possession, decendcd from the carriage and undress,
ed himself without the aid of his executioner*.—
The men opproaohed to pinion his arms. A mumen*
l:iry anger seized him as he exclaimed, —“ No, I
will not submit to that.” The executioners called
for aid, and were about to use force. “Submit to
this outrage,” said Edgeworth, “as the last resem
blance to that Snvionr who is about to reward your
sufferings.” Louis yielded and walked composedly
to the foot of tho scaffold. Aa the King mounted
the slept he received the benedictions of his confessor*
“Son of St. Lonis, ascend to Heaven.” Advancing
to the edge of the scaffold, the King silenced the
drommers tbit were placed to prevent hi* words be*
ing heard, and spoke these lasteentenoes to tho peq*
pie—** | die innocent of all that 11 |nld to Hiy chargi;
I pardon the, author* of my death, and prdy God
that my. blood may never rest on Prance.” fie would \
have said more, but as Mi next words, “arid you un- i
happy people,” were uttered, Satfferio forced the |
drums to beat and drown h/e voice. In a moment !
(he executioners soiled on their victim, he was forced
under (he axe, (hen came (ho clank of (be falling
Iron, and tho deed was finished.
SBLE.ING ADOG.
Dick tiaXyhones Was ihe owner of a large dog,
which it cost as much to keep as it would (wo pigs \
and the dog besides was ulterlyttseless. Nay he was
worse than useless, for in addition to the expense of
keeping, he took up the house room, and greatly an*
noyud Dick’s wife. .
“ Plaguo laku the dorfl” said she, “Mn Lasybones,
1 wish you would sell him or kill him, or do some*
thing or other with him. Ho is mom plague than
his rotten neck Is worth—always lying In the chim
ney corner, and eating more then It would
maintain ihrso children. I wonder you keep sueb.a
useless animal/*
i «We It, wefl. my de*r,‘» said Dick. «wy no m«jo
i about It. I will gel rid of oh# of these day*.
This wo# Intended a# a piera get-off, on the parlor
Pick i but as his wife kept daily dianing in hi* ears
about the dog,' be was at length oomjsHled to k«
some order on the subject, • • . *
••Well wife," said be one day as bo came io/Tvfi
you Indeed f ( * says she, brightening op tl
the good rieWs—“ l*m dreadful glad of jf. HoW
much did you sell him for 7**
<* Fifty delta rs,** ,
. .*• Flfiy dollar* I what fifty dollars for qm dpg t
How glad I am! That’ll almost buy, Q* a good horse,
But where’s.tho money, my love 7‘,* ~ • •
‘♦Money.*’ fat'd D?ok,«h?Afng a long nine Jtsily to
the other coice/ of his mouth, "I didn’t got any won.
oy—F look two puppltti si twcnty.five dollars a
niece.”
Miners! Bank of Maryland, located at
has suspended payment, in consequence
of tho failure of IholrogonCs at New Yorl^.
Specimen or Ciixistianitv !—Hindoo goods aro said
lb be exUntlvoly m'anufactuted'Vn Englund'.
CABIIV7S M. CLAT.
Since the retard of this gallant Midler from Mex
ico, many have no doobt looked for aomo exjirtssioii
of hi* views on the Presidency, the War, the Wilmot
Proviso, dec, Ho has spoken twice to the people—
onco in his oWn State of Kentucky, ooee. In
Washington, ito is decidedly for Pre- :
sident, and apparently quite as decidedly for
In regard to Mexico and Us destiny, the following
extract from his remarks in itcntuckyi is. interesting;
aft allowing that the country which the advocates of
the VVil/nui ProVisd desire to save from slavery; is)
according to a leading anttaiavory man; already
JiiUd toxlh tlantt! —Penn’d.
ll Ip'; no or me to give tome ideal
of Mexico and tho btascnt wur. Mexico extend* ■
from about latitude 16, noiil! 1 , to 49 deg. from lII*
Guff of Mexico to Uie Pacific; and was i|i extent, tef
fore the lots of Texas, about as lar|c ,pt thb t&Ucq <
Slates, li embraces all the clloiateajiif thb world;.
Nbd Uses in Itimpcraluro-from liie
Vera Crux and Acapulco to the regions of
snow. The Rocky Mountains, which separate os
from Oregon, extend through all Mexico, and ter ■
whole surface la composed of table lands apd QKflHt
tains, which i£se id steps frdm the Oulfsbd lb* Rip
Grande} to the highest level) and then descend In
regular graduations onco more to lb* Pacific. ’ Sbo
ihoonUlosandartl
plains compose,liKoutd tmaglbo)
whole territory. It is now three hundred years sun* ,
tho Spanish conquest, and her population has lon£
since reached tho barrier where nature imposes eter
nal obstacles to future progress, where the whole pro*
ducts of thb earth are economically costumed by tte
people. No doubt, a belter mode of agriculture would
increase her population; but at present* louse,llm
ongungo of Malthup, she baa reached the point qf
subsistence. It is true, that tho remote provinces of
Culilbrnla and New Mexico, and those bordering
upon the Rio Grande, and subject to Indian Inva.
sions. contain some uncultivated lands; but Ibs.pryl l
position, as above stated, apphea to the mats of Mex;
ico. ~For in the stealer portion of the whole Tie*
public, women and bhildteh may be seen picking up
grains of corn in tho highway, end the rinds of fruit,
thrown in the alreels are Immediately seised anq
consumed. Sosoon asyoucross theßio Grandeyoti ,
feel yourself in a foreign land. Mexico has no for*
este. It is true, that sloog the streams sod on*
mountain-tops there, are trees, but you are struck
with this great characteristic, that the land Is bare
of trees. The numerous Varieties of Iho Caetua of
all sixes, intermixed with Palmetto, atouled or long
grass, cover the whole Und N , Yoji aye stjitftif a pom
plb of a oovbl color) and a strange language. Thp
very birds and beasts, and dogs, seem different. Thy/.
partridge, tho lark, the crow, the black-bird, differ In
sixo and plumage, and sing differently from ours.—:
Tho buildings are of Moorish and Spanish stylo. Tho
goat end tho sheep feed together. The bricks are of.
clay and straw, sun-dried. Tho women go with
vessels to the well, just as Rachel was sent of old
in tho timo of the Patriarchs of ?i}*ica. The roofs Or
tho houses are flat; and pieces of recreation; and.
the people woarbandals aa in tho Baal,ln olden time)
Wheat, Indiamcorn, apd herds,*f. cattle, sheep and
goats, iho ponana and rcd;pcppcr,, and g&rllo.and.
onions, are tho principal source of subsistonbb* Thb .
products of tho mines, a;o thq, principal articles dfr
cochineal. ' .
Tho extreme dryness of Mexico makes Irrigation
necessary in most of tho country, and the scarcity ut
water, and. thq Jialpls of tho people,collect tho In;
habitants Itilo cities or villages. The Und Itself U
owned by a faw| largo proprietors, not the least of
whom are the priests. The great moss of tho people
are «fcf/Sj tbjlh 6|if few more right'a than Abterlcbit'
sfaoes. if is trtie that the children oj ser/s are not of
I necessity also ser/s, bul debf brings slaoeiy, and (As
■ wages allotted 6y ,lato almost always perpetuate tf.-
Here then is the secret of tlm success of pur amts. |
r conversed freely wijl* the. ,and lolajeis 1(1
} all' Mexlbo, and Where Incy arfa hot filled with rail*
f ginus enthusiasm against us, they care not whorolbf
1 them, American or Mexican masters.. If all iho
. Mexican soldiers were freeholders and freemen, not
| one ofall (ho American army could escape frnn|
borders. The soldiers arb caught up In
das and the streets of l k he (own*,'by force confined
in somo prison or cohvunt, there drilled),
armed and then.sent to tho regular yrtyy. Sucn
men avow their resolution-to desert or run,on tho
first ocouslon. Of neurone thousand soldiers sent
from Tolura,to the aid of Santa Anna at Mexico,’
not nno hundred stood the bottle.' , if ■,
Tho wholo people dn not exceed eight millions;
of these, about, two millions are white, and mixed
bloods; the remainder are nalivu Indians. I never,
in alt Mexico, with the exception of forcigneis in the
capital, saw a single while msnalwoik. Wherovct
thoio is slavery, there is labor dishonorable/ it Ijj
more crcditublu to rob than to work. ' xct lucXiqp
surpasses the sluvo Slates of America in monufse*
tures. As Rome was overrun by thp barbarians, sq
is Moxibonow by Iho Americans; the slaves,wpl noi
fight—tho masters are 100 low to defend t|>e Qpiintry.
Uigotry in religion. hm abased tho mind—tne cbfr
ruptlons of the Church have destroyed the motels of
the people; the oppressions of the mastcl haveex
hansted the lands. Mexico is decreasing in popula
tion and resources. Since her
revenues are falling off, her villages arc decaying/
her public works falling to ruin. Bhs has lived hj
the sword; sho must perish by (he sword. The time
for. her to die has come! Yet, like South Carolina*)
Ibe talks Urge. She whipped Spain—Spain whipped
France,Franbo the world—and consequently;
is the mltirbss of (he world, yet filty’ilinusrimf
Americans conquer eight milljons qfspulsl Tnb
clergy plundered the people,'thq a/ipis now begin W
(funder tho independent)ro|>|>rrs begin
to plnodct.Utfepgpvcrnmenij Iho clergy and the peo
ple. £uch is thb restful relribhlltm of nature's vio
lated laws.
MORE OVTTllffl DOWS ?*■ ftta \pAttEß OS'
TUB MEdiABIC. , , ,
■fiis PkniDiiiTUb Election Coning’— I Some thirty
or fori/iliocmiiker* were parading' dor alreela yea
. Icrday, oft a filrika against iho encroachments ofthcjr
i ompfoycrr. * Wo stopped (he crowd, and learned rronl
i lliom Iho following particulate: . , i ...
r Somolimo ago they wcro to 111 by (ho pyopriclora ot
■ a ahucntahing citu ti/lihmcrit in. thit..city, Inal (I
would bo naeaaEaty fdeut down their ,wagea. They.
were utfwi lllng lo aaaenl to Mo unncceaaary and on.
! ioal exaction. end finally ooropronilacd with Iholr
employere hy agreeing lo lake ont-hotf tub and tat-
M/ ordtri 1
they worked along In Ibla way for a *eek or taro,
whan they receirad the general order lhai $0 eknta E
doaen mull ho ukan off their .wagaa. And InaleaO
of getting $S a doEen, they would now receive Mil
•4 SO. The wi}(kmon regarded Ihia aa ah ohtrageg
fnaamnoh aa they bad gpinpjomlrad by agrjelpg to
lake one-half of lhatt ayagea in oideral But npw.
having forced the order ayatom upon Iheint the pro.
SrTolira next reaorted to their original intention of
cutting down their yragea 50 cenla a doxen ! 1
T(io workman aay they naked Ihelr employera how
long the ayatem wpnld fio eonllnoed. and they worn
(aid “ until Hmy Clay uwa iffttii Praaidant a/ i*a
Vrnlad Statu I" The.tnoh.'bolltvlng that event net
llMtiy to Atfyptrt ( fot aojno conaidvrahio time to come,
reaoi ved fp atrllie agalnti thla petty ayatom, to opprcaa
t’heoi merely for politinai edict. , ... . .
Tljo community ougitl lo frown down every at
tempt of thla kind to make political capital out of
the laborer a and modiapica. |i ia a bmntia|l tnfnr*-
ly beneath ilio.ohalaelorof any (tVpeeiabip eaia.Wiaha
men I.’ If it la neooeiafy ip cyt down tV*";/*.,'
not a entione .fdcl that tliaae dedtlcjloHa ,I'•••jjjgj.
.take..place abwl (hp time the Praaidaollat ilcallon
I become) k metier of Nrwll .
ATiiMPEkANNtB.
KoUi