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FiiEK A.S THE WIND. ANi -1 MEXICAN TO THE COIIK.
BY H. BUCHER SWOOPE.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12, 185?:
VOL. 2.-1X0. 7 TOTAL, -59.
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4kT MUr MUI AA
TO LAURA.
llie MVSTEHT OV UEM1NISCEXCE.
This most exquisite iovc poena is founded or. the
PUtonio nation that souls wero united in :t pre
existent atate. that love is the yearning of ihs fpin't
to reunite with the tqirit with which it formerly
mado one and which it discovers on the earth
Tho idoa has often been made subservient to poet
Try, but novor with so earnest and elaborate a beau
ty. livening Gazette.
Who and what gave to mo the wish to woo thee'
Still, lip to lip' to cling for aye unto thee?
M ho made thv glances to my soul the link
WUo Lade me burn thy very breath to drink?
My life is thine to sink ?
A from the conqueror's unresisted glaive.
It'lies, without strife subdued, tho ready sinve
So, when to life's unguarded fort I see
Thy gaie draw near and near triumphantly
Yields not my eon I to thee .'
Why from iU lord doth thus my soul depart ?
Is it bocause its native homo thou art ?
'5o wore thy brothers in the days of yore?
Twin-bound both souls, nnd in the links they bore
Sigh to be bound once more ?
Wore once our beings Lieut and intertwining.
And therefore still my heart for thee is pining ?
Knew we tho light of some extinguished sun
The joy remote of some bright realm undone,
Where ousc our souls wcroOxs I
Yes it ' o ! And thou wcrt bound to mo
In tfc long-van ianed hours eternally !
In the dark troubled tablet which enroll
Tho Past my Miwo beheld thU blessed scroll
'One with thy love my sonl !,'
vdi yejr. I learned in awe, when gating there,
Jlov once one insepcrale life we were.
J low once, one glorious erfsenee as a god
L'nineaeured ip:'icc ur ehainlass fo t.tes trod
All iiature our abode?
J'.ouud us, in waters of dcltght, forever
Voluptuously flowed the heavenly nectar river;
We were themaster of the seal of thiigs, spring
And where the suu.shine bathed truth's mountain
Quivered our glancing wir.gs.
Weep for thegod-Jifo we lost afar!
Verp ! thou aud 1 it3 scattered fragments arc;
And still the uncouquered yeaif::!rig v v retain
tigh to restore the rapture and the reign,
And grow divii'.o ft.iin.
And therefxre came to me the wih to woo thee
h'till lip to lip, to cling for aye unto thee;
Tfti made thy glances tu my soul a link
This made me burn thy very breath to drink
y.v lifo id thine to sink.
And tliercfre.'as before the conqueror's glaive,
Flic, without sUifo subdued, the ready slave,
S, whvii to life's unguarded fort, I sue
'J'hy gaze draw n;ar and near triumphantly
YielJcth my foul to the '.
Therefore my i"oul doth from its lord depart,
li,-ciusf. bclov'd- its native home thou art ;
iVc:iuc tho twins recall the links they bore,
A:id soul with t"oul, iu tho sweet kis. of yore,
.Meets and unites once wore.
Thou, too Ah! there thy gaze upon me dwelld?
And thy youug blush tho tender answer tells :
Yea! with ths dear relation still wo thrill.
Utk livof tho" exiles from the homeward hill
One life all glowing still!
A SOUVENIR OP 'THE FRANCE.'
II r LEV Kit.
It was in tl. month of May I won't confess
to the year that I found myself, after trying
Virion hotels in the I'lacc It ovale, at lastde
liosited at the door of the Hotel de France. It
seemed to me in my then ignorniice like a pis
oiler, when the postillion naid, let us try the
Trance, and littL- prepared me for the handsome-
biit somewhat small hotel before me. It
was nearly live o'clock when I arrived, and I
Lad only time to make some slight change in
my dress when tho bell sounded for table
d'hole.
The guests were already .seated whea I en
tered, l ut a place hid been reserved for me,
which completed the table. I was a young
perhaps after reading a little further, you'll
kayavery young traveller at the. time, b;:t
was soon struck bv the quiet an I decorous
btyle in which the dinner was conducted : the
servants were prompt, silent and observant;
the guests easy aud affable ; the equipage of
the table was even elegant, and the cookery
Biennais.. I was the only Englishman pre
sent, the J arty seemingly made up of Ger
mans and French ; but all spoke together like
acquaintances, and before tho dinner had pro
ceeded far, were polite enough to include me
in the conversation.
At the head sat a large and strikingly hand
some man of about eight and thirty or forty
vearsofagc; bis drcs, a dark frock richly
braided and ornamented by the decorations of
several foreign orders ; his forehead was
high and narrow, the temples strongly indent
ed ; his nos arched and thin, nnd his upper
lip covered by a short black nvustach raised at
either extremity and slightly curled as wo see
occasionally in a Vandyck picture; indeed,
his dark brown features, somewhat sad in their
expression, his rich hazel eyes and long wa
ving hair gave him all tho character that great
artist loved to perpetuate on his canvass ; he
epoko seldom, but when he did, there was
something indescribably pleasing in" the low,
mellow tones of his voice ; a slight smile, too
3it up his features at these times, and his
manner had in it I know not what some
strange power, it seemed, that made w hoever
lie addressed feel pleased and flattered by his
Notice of them, just as wc sec a few words
tpoken by a sovereign caught up and dwelt
upon by those around.
- By his side sat a lady, of whom when I first
came into the room I took little notice. Her
features seemed pleasing but no more ; but
gradually as I watched her I was struck by the
singular delicacy of traits that rarely make
their impression at first sight. She was about
twenty-flve, perhaps twenty-six, but of a char
acter of looks that preserves something almost
childish in their beauty. She was pale, and
with brown hair that light sunny brown that
varies in its hue with every degree of light up
on it ; her face oval and inclined to plumpness
her eyes large, full and lustrous, w ithau ex
pression of softness that won on you wonder
fully the longer you looked at them ; her nose
was short, perhaps faultily so, but beaut iful-
ly chiselled, and fine as a Grecian statue; her
mouth, rather large, displayed, however two
rows of teeth beautif ully regular aud of snowy
Muteness ; while her chin, rounded and dim
pled, glided by an easy transition into a throat
large and most gracefully formed. Her fig
ure as well as I could judge, was below the
middlj izc, and inclined to embonpoint ; aud
her dress, denoting some national pccularity
of which I was ignorant, was a velvet bodice
laced in front and ornamented with small sil-
vel buttons, winch terminated in a white mus
lin skirt ; a small cap, something like what
Mary Queen of Scots is usually represented in,
sat on the back of her head nnd fell in deep
lace folds on her shoulders. Lastly her hands
were SV.mll, white and dimpled, aud displayed j ly indignant, will confound Coutts and Drum
on her taper and rounded lingers several rings j nmnd ; a stray Irishman will no'.v and then
of apparently great value.
I have been somewhat lentrthv in mv dus-
criptiou of these two persons, and can scarce- j much their condition bespeaks the or.t-o-the
ly ask my readers to acconijvuiy me round the j elbows habit, whiuh a -ways and means' slyij
circle ; however, it is principally with them I of lifn contracts, v. ';".l ever confess to the. fact
have to do. The others at table were fctill rc- ; that thtdr cxpcct.itiu'.iS are as blank as their
markablc enough j there was a leading me.tn- j banker's book, and that the only l i!; l th:-y
ber of the chamber of deputies an ex-minis- i are ever to pretend to, is a post obit right i:s
tor, a till, dark-browed, ill-favored man, with i s ;.ie six feet by two in a church-yard. And
a retiring forehead and coal-black eyes; he yet the world U lull of such people well i:i
was a man of great cleverness, spoke eloquent- j formed, pb-asinf, gjod lood looking fb-llc, who
ly and well, and .singularly open and frank in j inhabit first rate hotels drink, dine an 1 dress
giving his opinion on the politics of the time, j well frciuent theatres and promenades
There was a German or two ftoai the grand j spend their w inters at Paris, Florence or
dutchy of something, somewhat reserved per- j Home their summers at Baden, Ems or In
sonages, as all the Germans of ieity states j terhchen ; Lave a strange hall" intimacy with
are; they talked little, and were evidently j men in the higher circles ; occasionally dine
impressed with the power the- possessed of f with them ; are never heard of iu any dubious
t-'ut-AUYins Ud by j;yt Uivubji!:g the. intentions
of "Gross llerzog of lloch Donnerstadt" rc- i
gardinz Hie present prospects of Europe. j
There were three Frenchmen and two
French ladies, all pleasant, easy, aud conver
sable people ; there was a doctor from Lou
vain, a shrewd intelligent man , a Prussian
major and his wife, well bred ouiet people,
and like all Prussians, polite without inviting
acquaintance; an Austrian secretary of lega- j of aristocratic reputation in England: they
tion ; a wiuc merchant from Bordeaux; and a j are th'.:s Villiers, or Paget, or Seymour, or
celebrated pianist completed the party. -j Percy, which on the continent are already a
I have now put my readers in possession j kind of half nobility at once ;find te cpties
of information which I only obtained after i tion whirl, saemingly needs no reply .'Ihvout
some days myself; lor though oue or other of I e.'ex pare::! d: mc lord '. is a receipt iu full for
these personages was occasionally absent from j rank any where.
table d'hote, 1 soon perceived that they were These men and who that knows any thing
all frequenters of tho house and well known of tho continent has not met such everywhere?
there. are the givv.t riddles of our country; and I'd
If the guests were seated at table wherever j rather give a reward for their secret than all
chance or accident might place them, I could the discoveries about perpetual motion, or
perceive that a tone of defVerence was always j longitude, or St. John Longism that ever was
used to the tall man, who invariably maintain- : heard of; and slraiire it is too, no one has ev
ed his place at tho head, and an air of even j vy hla! bed. Some have emerged from this
greater courtesy assumed towards tho lady be- j misty state to inherit large fortunes and live
side him, who was his wife. He was always j in the be.-.t style ; yet I have never heard of a
addressed as Monsieur le Compie, and In r ti- ! single man having tin ned king's evidence, on
tie of countess never forgotten in speaking to ; i,js fellow s. And yet w hat a talent theirs must
her. During dinner, whatever little cbit-eb. it ; ie. Jjt.f any man confess who has waited
or gossip was the talk of the day was specially j threc posts for a remittance without any ti
ofi'ered up to her. j dings of i!s arrival, think of the hundred and
The younger guests occasionally ventured ; t,.!C petty ar.ncyitnees and ironies to which bj
to present a bouquet, and even the rugged ; .;s suhjecl ; he fancies that the very waiters
minister himself accomplished a more polite j jujcw that be bs sec;'' thu the landlord
bow ia accosting her than he could have sum- i i0;;s SOur and the landlady austere ; the clerk
moned up for his presentation to royalty. To ! j,, t10 post-office appears to say "no letter for
all these attentions she returned a smile, or you. sir,:: with a jibing anil impertinent tone,
a look, or a word, or a gesture with her white ; From that moment too a dozen expensive
hand, never exciting j j.ilousy by any undue i tastes that he never dreamed of before enter
degree of favor, and distributing her honors ; ,js iJ0.cl : he wants to purchase a hack, or
with the practiced equanimity of one aecasto- ?;vt, a dinner party, or bet at a race course,
med to it. principally because h;ias not get a sous in his
Dinner over and coffee, a handsome 1 ritzka ; pocket, and he is afraid it may be guessed
drawn by two splendid dark buy horses would , pv others; sr.eli is the fatal tendency to strive
drive up, and Madame le Comptesse, conduct- 1 or pretend to something that has no other val
ed to the carriage by her husband, would re- : uo jn our eyes than the effect it may have on
ceive the homage ( f the whole party as they j ollr acouaintanees, regardless of what sacrifi
stood to let her pass. The count would then j CcS it may demand the exercise,
linger sonic twenty minutes or so, and take Forgive, I pray this long digression, which,
his leave to wander for an hour about the i although, I hope, not without its advantages,
park and afterwards to the theatre, where I u- should scarcely have ventured into were it not
sed to see him in a private box with his wife, j apropos to myself; and to go back I began to
Such was the little party at "the France'-' j (eel excessively uncomfortable at the delay of
when I took up my residence there in the j ,y money. '!y first care every morning was
month of .May, and gradually one dropped oilV j0 repair to tin. post office; sometimes I arriv
after another as the summer wore on. The c, before it was open, and had to promenade
Germans went back to sour kraut and kreut- j ltj, an, dowu the gloomy "Rue do FEvecque"
zerwhist; the secretaray of legation was on till the clock struck, sometimes the mail wo'd
leave; the wine merchant was off to St. Pe- i iJCi p,te a foreign mail is generally late when
tersburgh ; the pianist was performing in Eon- ; tiic weather is peculiarly fine and the roads
don; the ex-minister was made a clerk in the good but always the same answer came
bureau he once directed; and soon, leaving aRicn pour reus, Monsievr O'Leury ;" and at
our party reduced to the count and madame, j j,lst j jmamgined from the way the fellow
a stray traveller, a deaf abba and myself. I spoke that he had set the response to a tune,
The dog days ia a continental city are, as J and sung it
every one knows, stupid and tiresome enough, i Beranger has celebrated in one of his very
Every one has taken his departure either to j prettiest lyrics "how happy one is at twenty iu
his chateau, if he has one, or to the watering j a garret." I have no doubt, for my part, that
places; the theatre has no attraction, even if j the vicinity of the ilates and the poverty of
tho heat permitted oue to visit it ; the streets j the apartment would have contributed to my
are empty, parched, and grass-grown; and, ! peace of mind at the time I speak of. The
except the arrival and departure of that inces- fact of a magnificently furnished salon, a splen
sant locomotive, John Bull, there is no bustle did dinner every day, champagne and Seltzer
or stir any where. promiscuously, cab fares and theatre tickets
Hapless, indeed, is tho condition then of j innumerable being all scored against me, were
the man who is condemned from any accident , .sad dampers to my happiness, and from being
to toil through this dreary season ; to wander j one of the cheeriest and most light-hearted of
about in solitude the places ho has seen filled ; fellows, I sank into a state of fidgety and rest
by pleassnt company ; to behold the park and j less impatience, the uearest thing I ever re
promenades given up to Flemish bonnes, or j inembered iu my life to low spirits.
Xorraan nurses, where he was wont to gladen ! Such was I one day. when the post, which I
his eye with the sight oi bright eyes and trim j had been watching anxiously from mid-day,
shapes flitting past in all the tasty elegance j had not arrived at five o'clock. Leaving word
of Parisian toilette; to see a lazy frottcur j with the commissionaire to wait and report to
sleeping away his hours in the port cochcrc, ' mc at the hotel,! turned back to the table d'hote.
( which a mouth before thundered with the Jeep
roll of equipage coining and going all this is
very sad, and disposes one to become Jutland
discontented too.
For what reason I was detained at Brussols
it is unnecessary to inquire : some delay in
remittances, if remember aright, had their
share in the cause. Whoever travelled without
having cursed his banker, or hi.s agent or his
uncle, or his guardian, or somebody in short,
who had a do.nl of money belonging to him in
his hands, and would not send it forward ? In
all my long experience ol" ti-KVelling and tra
vellers, I don't remember meeting with one
, person, who, if it were not for such mischan-
j ces, would not have been amply supplied with
cash. Some, with a knowing wink, throw the
j blame on the "governor others, uioreopey-
d.mni the "tenantry that havn't paid up tin
last Xovember ;" but none, no matter how
or unsafe a'.l'air;
ire. lvjmted sale fellows to
talk to; know
cverv oils from tlic htrsc-
dealer who will eive credit, to the J
wm auvanco casti ; ana notwni.sta.i iin imit
they never gamble, nor bet, nor speculate,
yet contrive to live ay, and well too with
out any known resources whatever. If Eng
lish and they are for the most part so they
are usual! v called bv some r ell-kuown name
By accident, the only g::f sts were the count
and iVia.Liiiic; there they were, as accurately
dressed as ever; so handsome and happy lock
ing ; soatUclmd, too, iu their manner toward
each other that nice balance between affection
and courtesy which before the worid is so cap
tivating. Disturbed as Mere my thoughts, I
could not help feeiing struck by their bright
and pleasant looks-
"Ah, .a family party ."' said the -count gay
ly, as I entered, whilj madame bestowed on
me orre of her very sweetest smilcs
The restraint of strangers removed, they
spoke s if I had been an old friend chatting
a v.-ay about everything 'and everybody in a
tone of frank and easv confidence perfect lv
delightful ; occasionally deigning to ask if I
didj:ot agree with them in tlv-'ir opinions, and
seeming to enjoy the little 1 ventured to say
with a pleasure I felt to be most flattering.
The count's rfiulet aii'l refined mariner the
easy flow of his conversation, replete as it was
with, information anl amusement, formed a
most happy contrast with the brilliant sparkle
of mad line's lively sallies; for hh seemed
r.'.tMer disposed to indulge a vein of slight sat
ire, but so tempered with a good feeling and
kindliness withal, th:.t you would not for tiie
w orld forego the pleasure it afforded. Long
longvnbefore the-dessert appeard, I ceased to
think of my letter or my money, and did not
renieinb:. r that such things as bankers, agents.
or stock brokers were in tho usilver.se. Appa
rently they had been great travelers ; had seen
ever." city in Europe, and vi.-ited every court;
knew all life most distinguished people, and
many of the sovereigns intimately; and little
stories ( Mettemieh, 6o ir.ols of Talleyrand,
anecdotes of Goctheand Ch.iieaub; ia:: 1, sea
soned the conversation w ith an i iteiv .t, which,
to a your ; man like lovs-df, was all-engrossing.
SudJeuly the door opened, and the coni
, mission aire called out "Xo letter for Mons.
O'Lear,.." I suddenly became pale and faint;
an 1 though the count was too well bred to
take any direct notice of what lie saw was
cumed by my disappointment, he contrived a
droitly to direct .some observation to madame,
which relieved me from any burden of the
conversation.
"What hour did you order the carriage. Du
ischka:? said be.
"At half-past six. Thf forest is cool, that
I like to go slowly through it."
" l'hat will give us ample time for a walk,
too," said he : "and if Monsieur O'Leary will
join us, the pleasure will be all the greater."
I hesitated, aud stammerd out a;i apology
about a head-ache, or something of tho sort.
"The drive will be the best thing in the
worl .1 for you," slid madam.- ; "and the straw
berries
the enn
md cream of IJoitsfort will cormdeU
" Ves, yes." said the count, as I shoo;: my
head l.alf-sadly "Lacomtessee is infallible as
a doctor."
"And, like all the faculty, very angry when
hor skill is called in question," added she.
' "Go, then, paid find your shawl, madame,"
sii I he; and, meanwhile, monsieur audi will
discuss our liqueur, and be ready for you."
Madame smiled, as if aving carried her
point, and b ft the room.
The door was scarcely closed, when the
count drew his chair closer to mine, and, w ith
a look of kindliness and good nature I cannot
convey, said "1 am going, Monsieur O'Leary,
to take a liberty a very greart liberty indeed
with you, and perhaps you may not forgive
it." lie paused for a minute or two, as if a
waiting some intimation oa my part. I mere
ly muttered something intended to express
my willingness to accept of what e hinted,
and he resumed. '-You are a very young man;
I not very old, but a very experienced oue.
There are occasions in life, in which such
knowledge as I possess of in the world and its
ways may be of great service. Xow, without
for an instant obtruding myself on your confi
dence, or inquiring into affairs which are strict
ly your ow n, I wish to saj, that my advice and
counsel, if you need either, are cnmpletely at
your service. Xow a few minutes ago I per
ceived that yon were distressed at hearing
there was no letter for you "
"I know not how to thank you," said I, "for
such kindness as this; and the best proof of
my sincerity is to tellyou the position in which
I am placed."
"One word first," added he, laying his hand
gently on my arm "ona word. Do you prom
ise to accept of my advice and assistanca when
you have revealed tne circumstances you al
lude to 1 If not I beg I may nm hear it."
"Your advice I am most auxloos for," said
I hastily.
"The other was an aw kward word, and I see
that your delicay has taken ice alarm. 1
must have my way : so go on."
I seized his baud with enthusiasm, and
shook it heartily. "Yei," said I, "you shall
have your way. I havo neither ehame nor
concealment before you." And then, in as few
words as I could explain such tangled and
knotted webs as envelope all matters where
legacies, and lawyers, and settlements, and se
curities, and mortgages enter, I put him in
possession of the fact, that I had come abroad
with the assurance from my man of business of
a handsome yearly income, to be increased,
after a time, to something very considerable;
that I was now two months in expectation of
remittances which certain forms in Chancerv
delayed and deferred ; and that I watched the
post each day with an anxious heart for means
t relieve me from certain trifling debts I had
incurred, and enable me to proceed on my
journey.
The court listened with the most patient at
tention to my story, only interfering once or
twice, when some diiliculty demanded explana
tion, and then suffering mc to proceed to the
end: when, liesurely drawing a pocket-book
from the breast of his frock, he opened it slow
ly. "My dear young friend," said he, in a
measured and almost solemn tone, "every hour
that a man is in debt, is a year spent in slave
ry. Your creditor is your master: it matters
not whether a kind or a severe one, the sense
of obligation you incur saps the feeling of
manly independence which is the first charm
of youth ; and, believe me, it is always thro'
"the rents in moral feeling that our happiness
oozes out quickest. Here are five thousand
francs; take as much more as vou want. ".Yitu
a friend aud 1 insist upon your believing me
to be suck these tilings have no character of
obligation: you accommodate me to-day; I do
the r.ame for you to-morrow. And now, put
these nutes in your pocket. I sec madam c is
waiting for us."
For a second or two I felt so overpowered I
could not speak: the generous confidence and
friendly interest of one so thor.i'ly a stranger,
w ere far too much for my astonished and grat
ified mind. At last I recovered myself enough
to icply, and assuring my worthy friend that
when I spoke of my debts they were in reality
mere'
fi.;i;n, i...f r i.., i ..fin ,.,,.!
fun. Is
iu my banker's hands for :.I1 ncces-
s iry outlay; and that by the next post perhaps
my long wished-for letter might arrive.
"And if itsho'd not?' interposed he, smiling.
-Why then the next day "'
"And if not then?"' continued he, with a
half-quizzing look at my embarrassment.
"Then your five thousand francs shall trem
ble for it."
"That's a hearty fellow !" cried he, grasp
ing my hand in both of his. "And now I feel
I was not deceived in you. My first meeting
with Metternich was very like this. I was at
Petersburg, in the year IS 34, just before tho
campaign of Austerlitz opened "
"You. are indeed most gallant, messieurs,"
s ii I the comtesse, opening the door, and peep
ing in. "Am I to suppose that cigars antl ma
rashchino are better company than mine
ro he cox nxv
Fruia Harper's M-igaziiie.J
G3rT. SCOTT III MEXICO.
The end was now cl se at hand. Eecontiois
sances were carefully made, ami the enemie's
strength being gathered on the southron front
of the city, Gen. Scott determined to assault
Chapultepec on the west. By the morning of
the Pith the battcrries were completed, and
opened a brisk fire on the castle; without, how
ever, doing any more sericus damage than an
noying the gairison and killing a few men.
The fire was kept up all day; and at night pre
parations were made for the assault, which
was ordered to be made next morning.
At daybreak on the Pjth the cannonade re
commenced, as well from the batteries plant
ed against Chapultepec, as from Stepoe's guns,
which were saved against the southern defen
ses of the city in order to divert the attention
of the enemy. At 8 a.m. the firing from the
former ceased, r.u I the attack commenced.
Quitman advanced along the Taeubaya road.
Pillow from the Molina del l'ey, which ho had
occupied on the cvel ing before. Between the
Molino and the castle lay first an open space,
then a grove thickly planted with trees; in the
latter Mexican sharpshooters had been posted,
protected by an entrenchment on the border of
the grove. Pillow sent Lieut. Col. Johnstone
with a party of voltigeurs to turn this work by
a flank movement ; it was handsomely accom
plished, and just as the voltigeurs broke thro'
the redan, Pillow, with the main body, charg
ed it in front and drove back the Mexicans.
The grove gained, Pillow pressed forward to
the foot of the rock; for the Mexican shot from
the castle batteries, crashing thro' the trees,
seemed even more terrible than it really was,
and the troops were becoming restless. The
Mexicans had retreated to a redoubt halfway
up the hill; the voltigeurs sprang up from rock
to rock, firing as they advanced, and followed
by Hooker, Chase, and others, with parties of
infantry. In a very few minutes the redoubt
was gained, the garrison driven up the hill,
and the voltigeurs, 9th, and 15th, in hot pur
suit after them. Here the firing from the cas
tle was very severe. Col. Ransom, of the 9th,
was killed, and Pillow himself was wounded.
Still the troops pressed on till the crest of the
hill was gained. There some moments were
lost, owing to the delay in the arrival of scal
ing ladders, during which two of Quitman's
regiments and Clarke's brigade re-inforced
the storming party. When the ladders came,
numbers of men rushed forward with them,
leaped into the ditch, and planted them for
tho assault. Lieut. Selden was the first man
to mount. But the Mexicans collected all their
energies for this last moment. A tremendous
fire dashed the foremost of the stormers in the
ditch, killing Lieuts. Kogers and Smith, and
clearing the ladders. Fresh men instantly
manned them, and, after a brief struggle, Cap
tain Howard, of the' voltiguers, gained a foot
bold on the parapet. M'Kenrie, of the forlorn
hope followed ; and a crowd of voltigeurs and
infantry, shouting and cheering, pressed after
him, and swept down upon the garrison with
the bayonet. Almost at the same moment,
Johnstone, of the voltigeurs, who had broke it
open, and effected an entranco in spite of a
fierce fire from the southern walls. The two
parties uniting, a deadly conflict ensued with
in the building. Maddened by the recollection
of the murder of their wounded comrades at
Moliuo del Key, the stormers at first showed
no quarter- On every side the Mexicans wcro
stabbed or shot down without niercy. Many
flung themselves over the parapet and down
the hillside, and w ere dashed in pieces against
the rocks. More fought like fiends, expend,
ing thtdr last brcatlLin a malediction, and ex
piring in the act of aiming a treacherous blow
as they lay on the ground. Streams of blood
flowed thro' the doors of the college, and eve
ry room and passage was the theatre of some
deadly struggle. At length the officers suc-
ceeded in putting an end to the carn i
, -
.in.
the remaining Mexicans having surrendered,
the Stars and Stripes were hoisted over the
castle of Chapultepec by Major Seymour.
Meanwhile Quitman had stormed the batter
ies on the causeway to the east of the castle,
after a desperate struggle, in which Maj. Twiggs,
who commanded the stormers, was shot dead
at tho head of his meu. The Mexicans fell
back toward the city. General Scott coming
up at this moment, ordered a simultaneous ad
vance to be made on the city, along the two
roads leading from Chapultepec to the gates of
San Cosmo and Beben respectively. Worth
was to command that on San Cosine, Quitman
that on Helen. Both were prepared for de
fense by barricades, behind which the enemy
were posted in great numbers. Fortunately
for the assailants an aqueduct, supported ou .
arches of solid masonry, ran along the centre
of each causeway. By keeping under cover of
these arches, and springing rapidly from one
to another, Smith's rifles and the South Caro
lina regiment were enabled to advance close to
the first barricade on the Helen road, and pour
in a destructive fire on the gunners. A fiank
discharge from Duncan's guns completed tho
work; the barricade was carried; and, without
a moment's rest, Quitman advanced in the
same manner on the garita San Helen, which
was held by Gen. Torres "with a strong garri
son. It too was stormed, tho' under a fearful
hail of grape and canister; and the rifles mov-
ed forward toward the citadel. But at this
moment Sa .ta Anna rode furiously down to tho
point of attaok. Boiling with rage at the sue-'
cess f the invaders, he smote Gen. Torres in
the face, threw a host of infantry intothe hous
es commanding the garita and the road, order
ed the butteries in the citadel to the open fire,
planted fresh guns on the Pasco, aud infused
such spirit into the Mexicans, that Quitman's
advance was stopped at once. A terrific storm
of shot, shells, and grape assailed the garita,
where Capt. Dunn had planted an 8-poundcr.
Twice the gunners were shot down, and fresh
men sent to take their places. Then Dunu
himself fell, an 1 immediately afterward Lieut.
Benjamin an 1 his first sergeant met the same
fate. The riflemen in the arches repelled sal
lies, but Qutman's position was precarious, till
night terminated the conflict.
Worth, meanwhile, had advanced in liko
manner along the San Cosmc causeway, dri
ving the Mexicans from barricade to barricade
till within two hundred and fifty yards of the
garita of San Cosine. There he encountered
as severe a fire as that which stopped Quitman.
But Scott had ordered him to take tho garita,
and take it he would. Throwing Garland's
brigade out to tho right, and Clarke's to the
left, he ordered them to break into the houses,
burst thro' the walls, and bore their way to the
flanks of tho garita. The plan had succeeded
perfectly r.t Monterey, nor did it fail here.
Slowly but surely tho sappeis passed from
house to house, until at sunset they reached
the point desired. Then Worth ordered the
attack. Lieut. Hunt bro't uy a light gun at &
gallop, and fired it thro' the embrasure of tho
enemy's battery, almost muzzle to muzzle,the
infatry at the same moment opened a most
deadly and unexpected fire from the roofs of
the houses ; and M'Kenzie, at the head of the
stormers, dashed at the battery, and carried it
almost without loss. The Mexicans fled pre
cipitately into the city.
At one that night two parties left the cita
del, and issued forth from the city. One was
the remnant ot the Mexican army, which slunk
silently and noiselessly thro' the northern
gate, and fled toGuadaloupe Hidalgo; the oth
er was a body of officers who came under a
white flag, to propose terms of capitulation. -The
sun shono brightly on the morning of
the 14th of September. Scores of neutral
flags float from the windows on the Celle de
Plateros, and in their shade lcuutiful women
gaze curiously on the scenes beneath. Gayly
drcssed groups throng the balconies, and at
the street-corners dark-faced men scowl, mat
ter deep curses, and clutch their knrves. . Tho
street resounds with the heavy tramp of infan
try, the rattle of gun-carriages, and the clatter
of horses' hoofs. "Los Yanqueisf" is the cry,
and every neck is stretched to obtain a glimpse
of the six thousand bemired and begrimed sol
diers who are marching proudly to the Grand
Plaza. On him especially is every eye intent-
!y fixed, whose martial form is half conccalec
by a splendid staff and a sqnadron of dragoons