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illtbnesbaa morning, itircital 23,1848.
The Ilbcovery of America.
HT OIL ROBERTSON,.
Next morning, being Friday the third day of Au
gust,' in the ,year 149, Columbus set sail, a; -little
before sunrise, in presence of a vast crowd °apex
tutors, who sent up their supplications to heaven
for the prosperotue of the voyage, which they
- vrislied rather t expected. Columbus steered
thredtly for the Canary Islands, and arrived with
out any occurrence that would have tleserred no
tice on any other occasion. But in a voyage of
such 'expectation and importance, every circum
stance was the object of attention.
• * •
Upon die tat of October they were, according to
tlfe admiral's reckoning, seven hundred and sev
enty leagues to the West of the Canaries : but, lest
liis men should be intimidated by the prodigious
length of the navigation, he gave out that they had'
proceeded only five hundred and eighty-four leagues
and, fortunately for Columbus, neither his own pi
lot nor those of the other ships had skill sufficient
to correct this error and discover the deceit. They
hied now been upwards of three weeks at sea; they
had proceeded hit beyond what former navigators
had attempted or deemed possible; all their prog--
nostics of discovery, dream from the flight of birds
and other Circumstances had proved fallacious; the
appearance of land, with which their own creduli•
ty or the artificit of their commander had from
time to time flattered them, had-been altogether il
lusive. , and the fireispect of success seemed now to
be as distant as eier. These reflections occurred ,
often to men wi th had no other object. or upa :
tion than to reason and, discourse con e the
intention and .etteumstances of their n, ition.
They made impression at, first upon the ignorant
and timid, and extending by drees to such as
-were better informed or more resoltne, theconta
gion spread. at length from ship to ship: From se
cret whispers or murmuring they went on to open
cabals and public complaints. They taxed their
sovereign with inconsiderate credulity, in paying
such regard to the vain promises and conjecture of
the indigent foreigner,,as to hazard their lives of so
many of her own subjects in prosecuting achimeri
cal scheme. , They affirmed that they had folly
performed their duty by . venturing so far in an un
known and hopeless coarse, and could incernti
blame for refusing to folio* any tenter a desperate
adventure to certain destruction. They contended
that it was necessary to think of ramming to Spain
while their crazy's-easels were still in a condition
, to teep the sea, but expressed their fears that the
attempt would prove vain, as the Wind, which had
hitherto been so favorable to their comae, must ten
der it impos s ible to salT in the op its direction.
All agreed that Columbus ahould be compelled by
fuzee to adopt a Measure on which their conuntin
safety- depended. Some of the mote andaciotts
proposed. as the fncst expeditious and certain meth
od for getting rid at once of his remonstrances. to
throw, him in t o the sea; being persuaded that upon
. their. return to, Spain. the death of an unincirewfitl .
projectcir would excite little concern, and, be inquff
id into, with no T..firiosity.
Columbus was fully sensibte ohris perilous sit- ,
nation. .. lie had-Oheerred. Stith great imem.there,
the fatal chieratiatt of ignorance and Of fear in pro
ducirrr disaffection among his cm*, slid saw that
it was now ready to beret into open mutiny. lie
retaineir,•hovrever, pe t presence of mind. lie
affected to seem igno of their machinations.
Notwithstanding the
_. ' and siaticitude bf his
l a
own mind., he appeared with a cheerful courts ,
mance like a gian satisfied with the portliest' he hod
made, and cohfident ofs- success. Sometimes he
employed all the,arts of - insinuation to soothe his
men. Sometimes he 'endeavored to work ripen
their ambition or avarice by, magnificent dm-ti
nous of the fame and wealth which they were about
to acquire. On other occasions he assumed a au
thority, and threatened them with vengeance from
their sovereign if, i'y their dastard}. behavior, pley
should defeat thisnoble.effort todpromote the glory
' , --Of God, and. exalt the Spanish. name above that of
'every other nation."- Even with seditious sailors,
lie words of a man Whom they had been atttis
tamed to- reverence, were weighty and perstratrive,
and not only, restrained them from those violent
ercesses-which_they meditated, but he prevailed
with thee . * to accompany their admiral - for gene
_Sore king& .
- _.Ali they proceeded, the Indications of approach -
- fir/tand seemed to be torte emtain, and (recited
hope in a portion. The birds began tot appear in
docks, makiriftovranis the southwest. Columbus,
at imitation of the Portuguese nay'mrames, who had
been guided in several of their discoveries by their
motion, altered his course 'from due west towards
, quarter'whither they pointed their fhght. But,
after hokrleig on for several days in this new dime
'ion without airy better sueeess than formerly, hay
seen no ebieet during thirty days bat the sea
the sky. the hopes of his cripanions subsided
et than they had risen ~' their fears revived with
airmail force; On'yetience, rage and despair apt
ired in evety catuatenatice All sense ef subor
lanai was lost. The Officer who had hitheme
coned with Cottontail in' opiniou, and support
hut arationty-, now took poky with the private•
en; they arsembied tunankixlosty os the deck,
lipostuliced with their commander, ninsgled threats
*dr their evpoernlarions, and required him iesttutt`
. t" tack about aad return to, , Europe- Columbus
'''rerveri that a 'would be of no avail to have re
'Pr'gss :o arty of his forrnefartv,m, - Meli having been
'Nt'.' - rri often, had Irt their effect : and that it was
`'.to , sittle to 'rekindle any zeal for the success of
- stpedloott amorq men
.in attest breasts fear
''L 4r rirarrthibed every melees sentiment Ili
a
. Lhat kt was pa less rain totthie-k of employing
'slant isle or severe measures to quell a mutiny
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BRADFO - I , D . REPORTE R
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so general and so violent. It was necessary on all
these occasions ) to soothe passions which he l coeld
no longer command, and to give way to a torrent
too impetuous to -be checked. Re promised aol.
emuly to his men that he
request, provided they wouli
obey his command for thi
during that time, land was
then abandon the enterprise,
toward . Spain.
Enraged as 'the sailors
turn their faces again towardi
this proposition did not appear
ble ; nor did Columbus basstni
himself to so short a time,
The presages of discovering land were now so
aumerous and promising that he deemed them in
fallible. For some days the sounding line reached
the bottom, and the soil which it brought up indi
cated land to be at no great distance. The flocks
of birds increased, and were composed not only of
sea-fowl but of such land birds as could not be sup
posed to fly bar from the shore. The crew of the
Pinta observed a cane floating, which seemed to
have been newly cut, and likewise a piece of tim
ber artificially carved. The tailors aboard the Nig
na took up the branch of a tree with red berries
perfectly fresh. The clouds around the setting sun
assumed a new appearance; the air was more
mild and warm, and during the night the wino be
came uneven and variable. From all these symp
toms, Columbus was so confident of being near
land, that on the evening of the eleventh of Oeto
ber, alter public prayers for success, he ordered the
sails to be furled, and the ships to lie to, keeping
strict watch lest they should be drivo ashore in
the night. During this interval of suepense and ex
pectation, no man shut his eyes, all kept upon deck,
gazing intently towards that quarter where they ex
pected to. discover the land, which had been so long
the object of their wishes.
S. d *
standing on the forecastle, observed alight at a dis
tance, and privately pointed it out to Pedro Guitier
ex) a page of, the Queen's wardrobe. .Guittierez,
perceiving it, and calling 'Baked°, comptroller of
the fleet, all three saw it in motion, as if it were
carried to and fro. A little after midnight, the joy
ful sound of Lestri! LAND ! ! was heard from the
Pinta, which kept aft ay's ahead of the other Ships.
But having been so often deceived by fallacions
appearances, every man was slow of belief, and
waited in all the anxiety of uncertainty and impa
tience for the retitm,nf the day. As soon as morn
ing davrned i all doubts and fears: were dispelled.
From every - ship an island was seen abotittwo
leagues to the north, whose flat and verdant fields,
well stored with wood„ and watered with many
rivulets, presented the aspect of a delightful corm
try. The crew of the Pinta instantly began the Te
rkum, , as a hymn of thanksgiving to God, and were
joined by those of the other ships with tears of joy,
and transports of congratulation. The office of gratis
tude to heeten was followed by an act of justice to
to their ecentnander. They threw themselves at
the feet of Columbus, with feelirgs of self-condemn
ation, mingled with reverence,--implored him to
pardon their ignorance. incredulity, and insolence,
which had created him - so mtteh unnecessary
quiet, and had so often obstructed. the prosecution
of his well-concerted plan ; and passing, in the
warmth of their admiration, * one extreme to
another, they_now pronounced tintianan whore they
so lately refled and threatened, to be a person in
spired by Heaven with sagacity and fortitude more
than human, in order to accomplish a design so
far beyond the ideas and conception of all former
agrs.
As soon as the sun arose, all their Naas were
manned and" armed. They rowed toward the
island with their colors displayed .with warlike mu
sic, and other'martial pomp. "As they approached
the coast, they saw it covered, with a multitude of
people, whom Ithe novelty of the spectacle had
drawn together, whose miracles and gestunsaex.
pressed .sronder and - istomshment at the strange
objects which presented themselves to their view.
C3lumbrus was the first European who set foot on
the New World that he had discovered. He land
ed" in a rich dem; and with a naked sword in his
hand. His ?men followed, and ; kneeling down,
they all kissed the ground which the'y had so loag
desired to see. They next erected a crucifix. and
;weaving thritlaselves before, returned thanks tor
God for conducting their voyage to such a ham
issue. They then took solemn possession of the
country for the Crown of Castile of Leon, with all
the formalities which the Portuguese were acme
tamed to °bone in aels of this kind m their new
dbroveries
The Spanisedit, while thus employed were Ger
robnded by aniny of the natives, whip gazed in di.
lest admiratitti upon actions which they could not
comprehend and of which they did not forage the
ponsequences. The chess of the Spaniards, the
whiteness of theiyilcins, their beards, their anus,
appeared arm* 'and aMpriving. The vast ma
chines in whicb-Oy had traversed the ocean, that
seemed to move upon the waters *ith wings, and
Dueled a dreadful sound resembling thunder, ac
companied with bghtning rod smoke, wrack these
with such tenor, that they begen to respect their
new guests as a superior order of beings, and coo
eluded that they were children of the sun, who lid
descended to Visit the earth.
The Europeans were hardly hiss amen! at the
mew now before them. Every herb, and shrub,
end tree was dialect been those artrich flourished
in Europe. The mil seemed to be rich, bat bore
few marks of cultivation. The dimes, even to the
Spaniards, felt warm, dartqh_ extremely delightful.
The inhabitants appeared m.the simple inneituace
of nature, totally naked. Their Neck hair, tong
and uncurled, floated upon their shoulders, or was
bound in tresses on their heads. They bad no
beards, and evert part oldest bodies was peifeet
ly smooth. Their completion was of ardesty top
per enlor, their %tunes singular lather than thew
reesNe, their aspect mule end timid_ Though
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About two hours before midni"ht Columbus
not tall, they were well-shaped and active. Their
bees, and several parts of their bodies, were fen
tasticaly painted with glazing colors. They were
shy at first through fear, but soon became familiar
with the Spaniards, and with transports of joy re
ceived from'them hawk-bells, glass beads,or other
baubles ; in return for which they gave sack provi
sions as they had, and some cotton yarn, the only
commodity of mirth which they could produce,
Towards evening Columbus returned to his ship,
accompanied by many of the islanders in their ca
noes, and though tudety formed out of the trunk of
a single tree, they rowed them with surprising dex
terity. Thus, in the first interview between the in
habitants of the old and new worlds, every thing
was conducted amicably and to their mutual satis
faction. The former enlightened, and ambitions,
formed already vast ideas with respect to the ad
vantages which they might derive from the micas
that began to Tey to their view. The latter, sim
ple and undisceiping, had no foresight of the calami
ties and desolation which were approaching their
country !
GIAMT al THE Gasva."-s4 sad and most
tressing incident occurred in this city a few days
since, that ought to be extensively published and
long remembered. We hate recently had among
us several distinguished officers connected with
our army in Mexico, to whom every possible hon•
or has been paid ; this was as it should have been,
ilktel we were pleased to amend participate in these
demonstrations of respect to anon who had periled
their lives indefence of their country's honor. The
1 brilliant scene at Castle Garden, the lovely women,
the music, the glittering epauletts. gorgeous uniforms,
the sparkling wine cup, the joyous buigh, thetoasts,
the songs, the sumptuous banquets, there and else
where, at several of our best hotels and even in the
edifice devoted, or erected by the people to the
service of the city ; all this was fresh upon the tab
let of memory and pleasingly vivid in the mind's
eye, when we were called by a friend some five
days since, to a scene of a widely different charac
ter. "Vsa with me to the City Hospital," said be
—and in a few minutes we were within its walls.
On one of the bumble pullets provided for the pa.
tients of that valuable institution, Jay one, twelve
months before, we saw in perfect health and high
spirits in the ranks of the Ist regiment of New York
Volunteers, on the eve of embarking for Vera Cruz.
His name was Josiah Dudley. By the side of that
pallet sat one; who, true to the holy teeing, which
God has implrmted on the human heart, loving
once, loves inn sand loves forever ! His devoted and
almost heart-broken wife was bathing his fevered
twowi whilseecalding tears coursed rapidly down
her care-worn cheeks. For ten consecutive nights
and days had that true woman devoted every men
tal and physical energy she possessed :o soothe the
last hours of the brave soldier, the patient sufferer,
the fa:her of her helpless infants, the partner of her
bosom, the poseessor . of her first, her only affections.
" Love once, kire on, and lovik,forever”—she felt
and practised in its intensest purity. Ina few hoofs
diet this scene, (presenting so striking a contrast
to the recent ones at the Astor House, the City
Hall, Rathbun's Hotel, Castle Garden, and other
plas,l poor Dudley's spirit bad winged its way
to a better and brighter world. His story is a sim
ple one. He was only apr rate soldier. He had
been wounded in one of the desperate engagements
that conferred so much glory upon our arms in
Me.tico I be was invalided—.ordered home—
caught the dreadful fever and wasting disease con
sequent thereon that decimated so many of our re.
giments in Mexico ; lay several mouths hopelessly
sick in Vera Cm: and New Orleans, and at last
reached his adopted borne—only to die—and that
in a city hospital ! Poor Dudley was an Irishman
born—a echo/az—a genlientan—•with as brave and
as geode a heart as ever best within • human
breast ! At the time of his death, his wife had not
one cent in the wcele We are told that certain
officers were informed-of the distressed state of the
family, to which a deaf ear was turned, but foe the
sake of erring human nature, we cannot credit this ;
still. most tree it is, that to the yob:rotary kindness
and god-like sympathy of two noble-hearted stran
gers, his broken *rt.W widow was indebted for
the means necessary to pay the last sad rites of hu
maniiy to her departed husbasid. The Society of
Friends, connected with the burying ground in
Houston at., gave hilts his grave—Twelve men, all
told, compatatively strangers--folliered him to his
last home on earth. His wife, so completely deso
late in heart and seta, that tears (woman's guest
solace, as welt as sorrow's saddest evidence,) re
fused to flow, staid• by his corpse to the last ! And
thus died, and thus was batted, as brave a being
as ever breathed the breath of life—" by grangers
honored and by strangers mourned !" Not an offi
cer of his riutient was present. Al,ssi poor Dud
ley ! thou Wert but a private soldier P. Globe.
Row To Caen }Wong* ilorrurn.—qbe follow•
ng arm told at in eganattaral meet
ng out Were Thom of or farmer readers who
beliiTi in the expediency of the plan an try it
itt . Einner haying a vicious Stain so numb addict.
to the pumice of butting as to modes unarm*
dangerous for any permit° emus mar hint awes
the field in which ha wale itaafitts#, a&gued the
Mowing plan to curs Win of it; Be suspended si
lugs maple mallet by a rope hum the bough ref an
apple tees, in sate a master as to permit it:Gad:
late free hies peodidute. The Ram, being tweed
into the lot no monks ear thou:whet than he advan
ced to the clams, and hitting it a rigorous bow,
sent it high into the air. When the mast Amine
down, he blued himself and pee atether Mow.
The Rut began about the middle of the simation
and the bnner watched him until sapper thne.—
Aber supper be again reputed to the amine of ac
the. But the combs had in on ways gar nand.—
Tired - with watching he went to bed. In the night
he awoke and the mallet was sal going, In -the
main. all anxious, be again d out : and
i& he the menu " the obstinate old bnse
tiadnomplesely trmenlaed himself with. the ex
ception of his tail and '!fit wits rini I yet
or tmcurcumai runt LXV comrrsir4
A mighty realm is the Land of Dreams, •
With steeps that Wing in the twilight •ky.
And weltering oceans and trailing streams
Thit steam where the dusky Tallies lie.
But over its shadowy border flow
Sweet rays from the world of endless morn,
And.the nearer mountains catch the glow.
And dowers in the nearer fields are born.
The souls of the happy dead repair.
Fran ill bowers of light to that bordering lint
And walk in the fainter glory there.
With the souls of the living. hand in hand.
One calm sweet smile ii.that shadowy ephere,
From eyes that open on earth no more—
One Wareing word from a voice once dear—
How they rise in the memory o'er and o'er !
Far off from those bills that shine with day.
And fields that bloom in the heavenly gales,
The Land of Dreams goes stretching away
To dimmer muffle= and diuter vales.
There lie the dumber' of gaily delteht.
There walk the spectres of ruby fear.
And soft low voices that float through the night
Are whispering in the helpless ear.
Dear maid, thy girlhood's opening flower.
Scarce weaned from lore of childishplay !
The tears on whose cheek are bat the shower
That freshens the bloom of May !
Thine eyes are closed, and over thy brow
Pass thoughtful and joyous &ems,
And I know, by the moving lips. that DOW
Thy spirits strays in the Land of Dreams.
Light-hearted maids., oh. heed thy feet!
0 keep where that beam of Parubse filth j
Aad only wander where they mayst meet
The blessed goes from its shining walls.
So shalt thou come froin the Land of Dreamsi
• With love and peace to this world of strife ;
And the light that over that border streams
'Shall be on the path of My daily life.
A Wren* m Mxxico.—The winter of Mexico,
although it was ho comparison to the cold in ma
ny parts of our country, yet we felt it sensibly, and
it affected - me more while it lasted than the seve
rest winters . of New York, lowa cr WisConsin ; and
you will,-perhaps, be surprised when I tell you that
the coldest morning did not make ice more than
the aixteenSpot en Inch thick ; yet still, it is a fact.
Within the past few days, however, mauve has
changed countenance; the weather ganger has
moved his pegs, and we now Sieve smiling, balmy
Spring, with its invigorating freshness in the more
irg, and its getriad, warming sun daring the day—.
not too cool or too warm to be dingreeable. So
beautifully and so pleasantly does the ten rise and
traverse the unclouded sky, and then so gracefully
and majestically recline behind the high, dark
mountains• encompassing the Valley of Mexico, re•
fleeting the brightness of its rays upon the eternal
snow-calmed peaks of Popocatepeil Ind Istacci
huail, that even the veriest grumbler among us can
not find fault, but like the great mass, must smile
too, and say, " A pleasant day—fine weather."—
Everything, animate and inanimate, appears to be
affected by the inspiring and stimulating influence
of happy and merry-making Spring. The flees aze
filling their beds, tbe flowers are burn i : their
pods ; and the fields are assenting their Spring robe
of green verdure; lads in their best and lasses in
their finest, daily fluongthestreets, ccemesying and
bowing to each other, and exchanging salutations
in the most eaptiretin . g manner ; speeulators, tra
ders and sharers are moving about with all the
powers of locomotion, they poshest, endeavoring
to "snake bay while the sun shines," the lazy, fil
thy kprre, wrapped in his sanpe--which contains
more life than his own degenerate body—strolls
carelessly and slothfully alorq,looking out for some
body who has the corner of a handkerchief sticking
out of his potket
Bat hark! while we are thus writing we hear
the stentorian yoke of the soldier in the Grand Pla
za, commanding, at guard mounting, " Inspection
of arms !" and immediately the bugles of the Rifle
Regiment send forth the notes of martial music,
which are echoed and re-echoed tbro' the " Halls
of the Montexumas," and is Pow lo the florin of
bayonets ceases, some forty drummers and as ma- -
ny fifers unite up Washington's Marsh, as the
guards per. in review, and we are again reminded
that "grin visaged War," with all its horrors and
corruptions still prevails, and caithitres to desolate
the land of flowers and sonshine4-ofeloodless skies
and productive fields. And We bade bat to let oar
selves wander off two blocks and there we find our
own gavot emintrtmen, who halt left their bap*
homes, the* parents, their wive and their own
dear little ones, to hear shift on the points of their
swords and bayonet*, oar viermioas eagles, amidst
the arm of hank: nod the shower of bullets,—now
borne down by disease, ilithoet the soothing band
of an affbitionate *He es sister, or a devoted mo
ther, to tad their patched and Strafed foreheads;
without the kindness and ecatielatimi of his rela
tives and binds, while his noble spirit is deperalig
to worlds Wm+ How greeds:Hy would we - ill
MB a maelltien of hears* with Maim Hew
will we ell rsjoiesi when peace, hapkry pesos, diall
spend be Ilidemis whepi over oar pneod and me-
Taking may, aegis as to newel to the bed
from wheats de NH of hams and of dory,
and amidst thee , and greeting, of friends
acquat
and - mere the edembale of hav
lbg dope oar dray to oargelves and oar money, and
by the pleasant faseids pommy the heasetbs of the
ametry we have elm, ramont the damps and fa
Ogees we twee eatemitamed, sod WI of the chaise
se have wee, and ef the bomb wo have who
arm* ate isiti bead Non dee strip..
AlwarneTwe days sep, senseten tddhsl
of the ha Tennessee Volunteers w est Gee rSee
Angel (then remit camp,) some krw aides, in
search of oft" Of their men, vita bad been miming
several days, They went without arms, except a-
usaltievaNtr, and while is the esaieh they were
smocked byelaw a Imrsbad Mexicans itth stamp;
ehtbs and knives. They sneeeeded is lasepinthe
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Mexicans at 1* until all &a stints were fired from
the revolver, when they Were eornpelled t? make
an effint to reach the camp. While the row was
going on id the fields, Col. Bninham, of the N. Y.
Regiment, happening to 'pass a rohcl in the vicinity,
and observing that there was something:serious
afloat, immediately went to see What it was, when
he found one of the men belongibg to company H.
of the • Ist Pennsylvania Volunteers, dying from
wounds inflicted with a knife, and one or bin oth
ers slightly hint. He then Pent to camp for *Ws
tance. tpon the arrivalnf the trimisenger, Seine of
the Texan 'Rangers, who were already mounted_
immediately set out at full run for the scene of the
disturbance, and arrived before the main body of
the assassins had time to escape: The revcilvers of
the Rangers soon settled the difficulty. It is use
less to say that no formal ceremonies were gone
through with Chastising, the Mexicans for their fin
provoked assuh. Gen. Cushing reports 4 Nfesicans
me
killed. One of the Rangers told e saw be
tween 30 and 40 " dead creeters."
Yesterday a small party .of Col. C. . pmith's
Police Guard was fired on by a dof rob
bers or guerr il las, occupying a house in e Suburbs
of the city. Not deeming their force lent to
assault, they took a position that w prevent
their escape, and sent for a reinforc e ent. The
doom were then forced, and all the ill , ' captur
ed except one who jumped out of a window, moun
ted a horse and dashed off at full speed. As he
Warted off, he,drew a' pistol and feed it bUck into
the crowd—without, however. injuring any one.--
There was orie of Jack Hays' Rangers standing
close by, apparently a silent Epectator of the whole
affair, but as. soon as the Mexican fired his pistol.
he leisurely drew his revolver,. remarking, " Ah,
ha. fey larkey,that's a Tame that two can play at r ,
and at the crack of the pistol, down came the Mex
ican. The Texan then mounted his own horse,
and after running kilur or five hundred yards, lax=
aped the horse and returned with him, saying to the
officer present, " Well, Captain, as I knocked the
centre out of that fellow, I s'pose I'm entitled to his
pony." The officer veplied in the affirmative, and.
the Texan rode off as cool as though it was an eve
ry-day business with him. The Mexicans Who
were taken in the houses were sent off to the
guard-house, and will be tried by a military com
mission.
DErAirrusen or • Batuusx.—Gen. Cadwaladefs
Brigade formed in the Grand Piaza. this morning,
at an early hour. when there was an old-fashioned
bidding "Good bye." I always loved to see sol
diers bid one another " Good bye"—it is'so warm,
So enthusiastic, and so full of the sincerity of true
friendship, and invariably accompanied with the
emphatic. and expressive sentiment " Giod him
you '." How strongly does it contrast with the cold,
unfeeling,,hackneyed phrase of civilians at,hmte,
" Adieu, my dear friend ." As the column immerg
ed from the Plaza, and matched by the quarters of
Geri. Scot, who, hat in band, exchanged sahna- -
tilsols, is they peq•ect, the air was filled with the
spirit-stirring notes of " Yankee Doodle." The rank
and file entertain the mart remarkable drre se of
entintsizstie feeling for the Chief who had directed
then through so many trying and perilous .
and who has condocted them to the topmokit peak
of that altar of bane. When they stand before him
or TAO by him, they appear to look bete; xbd as
sume' the more correct character of the sold.* than
it wry other time'. This, hoWever, is cue of great
sects of the stiffest' which hlas attended olSr arms
in the war with Stevie°. If the rank and file had
eifr lionised, or ever entertathed the least Brant of
confidence in the officers'who led them, there is
Ot t itidging what would have been the result_
As the command took the direct road leading to
Teter*, every bind in the brigade, as if prompted
try the same Welv, and entertaininvhe same sen
timent, struck op the time of "The Girls we left
behind us.' aid, although they went oil happily
and cheerily. it came upon them like and electric
shock—lle a Voice from their far distant homesi—
How many recollections of the past (Ices this lidle
incident bring to our mind ! It recalls vividly to
our view the bright and happy days of our child
hood—our sports upon the &eon lawn in the spring
time of life-kair frolics when we attended the pri
mary school—our impels and growth to the aze
matmity—the dear sister we have left behind—the
weeping Mother, offering *ardent petitions to kind
Providence kw oars-the bright-eyed girls we
promised never to finet-roar youthful sinaciations
and the realities of anwhord—she"friends who star
ted with as an the journey of lib,-sad who have
fallen by the wayside, and althorn whts, with caw.
ly fortitude, are stM erudin up the seep smf
!mad cliffs al time, strivks to teach topmast ant
es of as we font sarvey the field of oak
lea opeastions and then endeavor diem fa nd%
we enenAst help thinking lam many there are of as
hoe who will nOlVer spin return to tie a Gills we
left behind is."
NOT 100 Goo 110 1Z LOOllll3 Isw days
aims, Sas of the dissaissitsembeas of the assfficsi
oaf was it
Ram, atm be wee imeaupsed t 7 the approach of
one &the meaty .erred tehmete, lobo stopped
shot aid looked $m stoniest it the fece,opperass.
lyiss *melt (sad this mat probe* the me) he
thought hsteos@sissd him As the me mermaid
his flied sae, yahoos speakfaQ tbs *mot tall*
to him and asked=
" Do you wain anything r
The awn Wind asseddy I* • nennet and as.
meted c No."
ns draw amikaid tiri tieennisist 'ea tie
friend, Day is a I. tithe added tint the nee had
mod mood bin and nas "Wag another looir
plobabit gall tonelided as to wham be know
him or int.
"Do yes want say thing r intend he spas
with esphons.
a Picsr sea the response of the made
volunteer.
I' VVe . l, do rzo know•toet"
-dith a friend in do Gland
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/=M;Miffill
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ii - No."
" Well, why the devil don't yo paw on*"
The volunteer, without 'Th 'nqii.4llllrg his stare,
answered, after a moment—
" Why, you aint If% good to lie fboked at aro
ye'" and saublered ofr without nit, a muscle
of his fare. I
Lingo A MEXICAN.—Oot cotruti:lfil did not
move 1,11 late oti the day of sun-Min; consequently
are did not prtkeed .farther draft
„ Gtitschdope—the
famous shone where Out Lady. ap e treilto the In
dian. /Next day we Moved earty,land after wind
tag between the two lakes (it tz shovel' road, but
a dente fog bid the si;ht limo us. j? tend near orlon,
we- pastied.betwelit the village el Santa de Maria
and fit. Thomas. farther on' we Came to the town
of Tisaittea, where the aletdde snit other pp - incited
men earl* obt to meet us with trl white thig, and
formally teiglered the surrender &Idea.. placii,otirr
ing to femish everything in their) power for our
comfort. The churches and priheipal buiklings
were covered with white flete:;;. • ~ .
frt this and all other towns wefohnd but fear pro
pie,; all had fled to the hills and stood gazing after
us timid we were Fist to the sight. I They hid hear,t
terrible accounts of the Yankees, land expected to
be harshly treated. That niOt we stopped at the
harbenda of Don Pedro de Terreroa,- Conde del li
ed.' the queerest character I haver met in Mexico.
Let megive you a description. Den Pedro is about
five feet four, so fat that it is inipdr:bls for hun to
ode, I should think; but with all latsgrlsrie-s he is
said to be a commander of gam-Allen* which I
doubt. However he sent out a min to meet us. in.
cited us to his hacienda. Mid offe ' us everytlitaLr:
he had: On arriving at his sple ' mansion. the
doors were thrown epen to us, all we dewed.
quarters, provisions; forage, woodietc.. were freely
given out and Without charge , tlio;igh the Colonel
offered to pay him. He ill e lared r lou Col. Wither:
Was the most gentlemanly man he ever met,. and
that Lieut. Col. Clements was the next cleverest,—
la Let, he covered es all with compliments, and
-gave us a fine supper. .
Aber we reached Pachuca. we heard thai our
he .able friend had gathered about forty men, and
declared he wotdd whip as; however this was, he
did just the reverse, as you set. Re got over this
in Pachuca by telling**, people that, instead °t
being the barbarians *e were called , "we were
the greatest gentlemetr he had ever met:. " Prano
the bridge *hat carries you safe of He was the
most hospitable man 'that I have met in nester),
and we can well forget his braggadocia, if he was
actually guilty of it.
Oa the third day we started. after Don Pedro ha.l
given us a magnificent breakfast, he gin an boor
ahead to pacify the peopki. and tell them that the
stories that they had heard about us were false—
end he censinly had allayed their feasts very much.
We reached this place early in the day. It is -a
small village, with one pkincipal street, and looked
vet* lonely at first, as. nearly all the people had
lett. It seems they went away panty n 5 eiroll of
paying had, but Col. IVhithers issued an order
stating that he would tax the property whether the
people were there or not, and this Nought them
thlaik again; so that no* aiajority here returned.
There are st number of English families. here; but
more at M?neral del Monte, about-Eons miles dis
tant Col. Withers occupies the treasury, and the
ode's' office& the hbine of Dron-Pedro: We are all
in gotal heakh.•
I delta tell yoi an anecdote that °caused the first
day We arrived. The people had been told that the
Americans eat children, and all theist pledges of
lose bed been removed- Lien ikt, of the dra
goons, laving heard this shirr, iseeasted a man, and
asked him if he. knew vans* he ceni&get nire
fat bbl for suppei"—cdan dint he was " eery bun
gr."
The astonisked MeLk4" co answered, With i dole
ful Shake of the bead, "lay no."
" Well," said M., " as I am hung"-, I ain't Par
ticular--let um have it little girl thin."
The poor min. still more horrified. declared that
there were none of these 3t the village:
M. then turned to him and in ;aired ; " Well
show, me a marker I can get a nice piece of
a fall grown man."
There was too the tartan. and he took
to his &els in the marking of jiik-knife.
c.►.~4r or "Easzru.v emu:sod - 3.—Th° renown
ed Alifeenti, prince of the true belieiers, put on
record the follonizg evidence of the - vanity of im
mense' wealth end innenicnts rank
Fitly years hare elapied ghee I became Caliph.
doing *bleb time I have premed and have-been
satiated with bettors, riebes old *imam. Rival
mortatchs fear and eery me. Amami has shower
ed upon me ail dim nun can wish for. I,stare
prism: id the number of days in which I enjoyed
real happiness; they mount ode to fourteen !
Mortals, barn Mites duly to apiaretiant ;tandem,
die merit, and beam life_'
St ratiormit's IYIT—CIo the Foorteenth of thip
asset, eustom parade among Leah, servants
of nicleetiag to elatevrin' dotes, snub toots, mate
beds, wash plants ad dam; coasting jainas
ON NO °Teri tha work in genseid tenain
4ndono, in ender to Vela at area dilets;'hidt* oat
brew portant sad a Tahindoe. On diiiday the
ihanbors of the *lee insie are temsnalls in the
aint Id wears ease boats which, in an ttOstolari
Mu, well in - thern in charge by eacktund hem-
DOING GOCISL.••aeIr aim do me sigh ki;oppevtn
idsksatdailog good, whilst vs escladettscgssing
Pssonisoss is Is ditsprebiels wow frolosatly
hod is this secemsprishisssedil MOIR illipOnsat We-
Moss Dr. Salmis Suit teatt... 42 Bs whe uses
to do stasis 4.1 of foods ones, will weer do
sny-" Good is dons by &idles. shstivem snail
in proportion thr Wes& vrtekt foams indiaiimat
sissor to de gobtl, s ppt deal may thus be se
es by psiseessseit, even in the midst' of
anevranetneuts end thsaprinunems:
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