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S B g,ben8burg. May 1, 1851.-W.
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April 10. 18l.ly
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April 2kh 18"1. ly
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April 10, 1851. ly '
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April 24, 1851. ly
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April 10, 1851. ly
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and Fifth Streets.
PHILADELPHIAk PA.
-ly
pril !, 1851.-
FfiOM THE HOME JOUKITAL.
SERVICE WMDEIUMS.
MY AX OFFICER OF ARTILLERY.
A kind offer. Close quarters. Xative curiosity.
A quid pro quo. Poisoned per Dios. The
urounaUd general and Jus parole. Diplomacy
and tcar.-rThe house in the plazuella. Reli
gion and heretics. The deserters. Touching
incident. The prior and the jetition. A'o se
puede. The execution.
Wheiie was I? Oh! I remember; thun
dering away at the barred and bolted portal
of Dju Manuel.
"Don Manuelito!" No answer. "Fortero!"
"Confound the preaser, how he sleeps!"
"Oh never mind," said B , "come and
sleep with me; I'll give you a bed."
Now, my bed was a particularly good one,
and I revolved the matter in my mind before
accepting his offer. However, thought I, he is
on the staff, and the staff live like princes; so
I'll go.
Leaving Don Manuel's h onse to its usual
quiet, I went with the aid to a staff bed. Alas! !
in the bitter langiiage of Iiothsay, the staff
that I leaned upon pro'ved a spear. We en-icre-1.
his room.
"Tired?" said he: "if vnn turn ;n "
. ' -" -" , c.v
he pointed to a single buffalo robe on the stone
floor, with one blanket for cover. My heart
aunk. Soldiering when you must comfort
when you can.
"Hut," said 1, "where is your bed?"
"That's it," said he.
"Well, then, where is wji'ie?"
"Oh there's plenty of room for both."
Th ere was no alternative; sol turned in, and
the smaller of the two turned out, and slept
upon the stones the rest of the night, alongside
of the buffalo. Reader, he was six feet two, and
I am not a monster. The earliest glimmer of day
found me on my way to my own bed, repeating,
in recollection of the soiree, the Spanish pro
verb, "A cada gusto su susto" "Every rose
has its thorn."
l'dtding these occurrences, the armistice had
established a sort of underhanded communication
with the capital, and, through the medium of
Don Carlos lieuerer, a young Swiss in some way
associated with my host, I sent into Mexico for
wine, brandy, and other good things, of which
we had been long deprived. These, my place of
residence, and my smattering of the language,
soon made for me a number of acquaintances
some of whom I should be loth to acknowl
edge under other circumstances gentlemen f L
me long rooe, anas siro, who carry a sharp
pointed knife in its folds, and who receive abso-
luiiun a uivuiu, ur c;ry crime wnicn tne
decalogue denounces, especially those condemned
by the sixth and eighth commandments. How
ever, thev crowded nrrmml mv Ann n c
J v- v-. IU CW Cfr
Jocen ojicial que sale hablar Castellano," "The
C 1 1 ....
young tracer wno spoKe fcpanisn. For their
credit, let me say they never intrude at meal
time; and if present when one is being served,
it only needs to say, "Quiere vgted comer?"
" Will you take some," to ensure a speedy re
treat. J
To the mass of them, the Americans were,
what the Children of the Sun were to the sub
jects of Montezuma a distinct race of beings.
In one of these sittings, platicaude chatting
about the peace and the Estados Unidos, "A
como pcude urn tnascar tobacot" "How can you
chew tobacco?" said a young gentleman who
lived opposite, and who was a constant visiter.
I was taking a quid from my box for this vile
practice is military as well as American and in
the forlorn hope to palliate, not ezcuse it, let me
say, that it is a marvellous companion on guard,
or a march, (I gave it up when I came back in
to this enlightened region.) " Es cosa muy
pucrca," he added, "It is very filthy."
" muy dulec," said I. ".1 ver," said he,
stretching out his hand. I handed him the
box, and he took a little and put it into his
inoiuu. i c couunuca our conversation, when
suddenly he exclaimed, "Me muero, me muero!"
"I'm dying." He was too yellow to turn pale;
but he looked dreadfully.
He begged me to take him home, and two
of s supported him across the street, and,
dragging him up the circuitous staircase, we
presented this singular tableau to his mother
and sisters, who were sitting in the parlour.
"Jesus Maria!" screamed the madre, " Esta
mnerto mi hijo, "My son is dead." "Yano
teugo her mono.1'
"We have no brother left," screamed the
sisters in chorus. "Dios mio, Dios mio."
"No, Senorita," I exclaimed; "Escucha nos
por cielo." "Listen to us, for heaven's sake."
"Si, escucha, madre," gasped the unfortunate
youngster.
ine matter was explained, and the tumult
subsided; but, to this day, those people believe
that we attempted to noisnn th' k v
days after, our friends, the idle folk, had a new
. i iui mur curiosity, it was to sec the
! " tabaco de mascar:'''' and
I tlinrrt Tr lion . I 4 . . . a
w.,... 11 mio our moutns, as the
opium eaters of the East are to American trav-
'u nuuiu icrriiory i never saw
Mexican use toDacco in another way than ci"ar
or cigaruo.
And hero permit me to digress for' a mbment,
to inuia a suggestion, which, through a wide
rvuiaunB meaium, may arrest an eye. nerhans
m every section of the Union. It is that the
Ul puuisn suouia oe more universal as
an item of good education. Considered in it
self, it is a noble idiom brother to the Portu
cueBC cousin-cerman tn tha .
. ..." una znucu
nurer than either: frmn i . . .
1 . . ' m auu me .ABiurias
to Andalusia, the old CastManhirting some
accents and aspirates-is spoken and under
stood. The raveller in Italy well remembers
K i-v w K a I Y lnwM.L
.... '"b6B as weu as space behind
as he journeyed from province to province: th
xuscan, u-neuan . Neapolitan, and a host of
ouiers, io wmcn iante was a stranger, and
tiuicu ioccaccio ignored, render the Italian an
u,tl,wu jurist. But the Spanish
once mastered, carries one from North to South
and from Salamanca to the mouths of the Ebro
inus mucn, ai one stroke of the pen, for the
pure Tuo niiu currency or the language; but
4 Hi U 14 fell v n f 1 nron l A a . .
"v'v" u 1LS uay when com
rated with ita peculiar chiima ...
. - - ujivu uo HAlUCr"
leans; and these the Mexican vnr
great cogency. Not one officer out of fifty knew
.v.us v. i""1") me Bwnwara position
in which raanv of them
ignorance, will plead with me, I am sure, in
favour of abetter state of things for the com
ing generation. Our relations with Mexico,
ucatan, the Spanish main, Caribbean Archi
pelago, are every day becoming more important
and numeroas. Our acquisitions in California
have givenius a boat of cititens with this as
their ?erj.i,it . .
Now to the -point with my suggestion. I
think it saould be introduced into the Military
Academy, as one of the requisites of an officer's
education. While we would hold fast to the
French, as one medium of military instruction,
and as the language of much that is valuable
in science, in arts, aud in social life, we should
learn the Spanish for more practical purposes,
even, and to subserve a fast increasing public
and private utility.
Among the many interesting incidents which
transpired during our truce-holiday, I must not
forget to mention a visit of official ceremony,
which I made as volunteer-interpreter, to ad
minister the parole to General Garcia, who was
a prisoner, since Contreras, and who was lying,
minus a leg, in one of the houses of San Angel.
It does a man good, once in a while, to measure
his powers of politeness and courteous address
with an emergency, and here was a glorious
chance to penetrate into the sick room of a
maimed and exasperated prisoner a disap
pointed patriot, and interpret to him a paper,
the least effect of which was, Infandum reno
vare dolerem." and which would trive a nanc tr
his heart and a twinge to his leg; to do this, I I
say, winning at the same time, instead of alien- J
ating, the sensibilities of the wife, mother, !
aunts, sisters and daughters, who were crowd- j
ing around his bed. Ah, this was the veriest
problem of diplomacy and address. Had I
possessed all the rich and varied idioms which
contey the courtesv- of " Costilla la Mega'' a
strait lien autre chose; but, in commonplace 1
Spanish, sacado de la grammatica ! J
We asked first for for la senora, whose very ;
natural thought would be that we had come to j
do some further injury to her husband. i
"The fortune of war," we said, (I spare the j
reader our blunderings) "had demonstrated the .
bravery of her gallant husband, and his service j
and sufferings would be held in everlasting re- '
membrance by his countrymen. Meanwhile, j
our purpose in paying our respects to him was j
only to obtain his signature to a mere form an i
official paper which his condition indeed re- j
quireu oi una more imperatively uuan our
selves." Thus, in worse Spanish than I have
ever spoken since, did we premise the parole,
which required of hm, ander oath, "never to
"take x p arms gains-t the United States until
regularly exchanged.
The wounded chief looked most stoically in
different to our word, and our gestures, (every
one who speaks Spanish must gesticulate,) and
the women seemed to be lost in the attempt to
fathom our meaning and intentions. 1 then in-
terpretcd the parole to him, and, amid sundry
frowns and curses of pain, he was propped up
to sign it. ith many reiterated apologies, 1
ventured to indulge the hope that, in spite of
his leg, h might "live a thousand years."
" Iieso de vm las manos," " 1 kiss your nana,
said he, with a look of intense hatred.
"Senora," said I, "estoy stempre a los pus de
mm ..n 1 i )J
vm. "liehoiu me ai your ieei.
" Yayast vm con Dios," was her answer, with
a stately nod.
"Senontas, adtos, to the young ones, me
problem was not solved.
" vamonos, said 1 to my companion, "to tne
house in the plazuella. There the greeting will
be warmer, I'll warrant;" and wo soon found
ourselves in as pleasant a little circle as ever
thawed into salutation to a barbarian of the
North. We set the girls to tocaring and cantar-
ing, as poor S used to say; we danced,
and then, to diversify the entertainment, the
mater-famitias, who was a clever and shrewd j
woman handsome, too, albeit she had given
birth to twenty "pledges," drew out the young
Gringo on religious topics.
"Que lastima," said she. "What a pity
that you should be a heretic, Bold to Satanas
el enemigo."
"Tell me," said she, "do yon believe there
is any Virgin Mary?"
"Why, certainly," said I; "but not that she
is Queen of Heav'en, possessed of motherly in
fluence in the political economy of the universe."
"Que lastima," she repeated. "Don't you
know, that if you believe in her, and wear
around your neck a medal, stamped with her
effigy and blest by the Church, it will save you
in danger?" and she rattled away coucerning
many miraculous intervention of the Mother
of God.
"Es posible?" I asked, taking out of my
pocket a brass image of Nuestra Senora, co
vered with verdigris, and the iron chain stiff
with blood; "I took this, ten days since, from
tho neck of a dead soldado," and I reached it
out towards her.
"Schta Maria, Jesus!" and she recoiled from
it with horror.
"Why didn't it Eavc him? No, senorita," I
added, with a pardonable zeal, "I don't believe
such stuff."
" Trobecito !" chorused the girls ; but whether
for' the dead man or for me, 1 couldn't tell. I
rather think though it was for the soldado, and
not the heretic.
"Ah, but," said I, "if these negotiations re
sult in peace,-and without entering the capital,
I must be a Romano Caiolico, for once, aud a
priest in the bargain. I'll go over to this con
vent, and borrow tho dress of nfrayle, and visit
Mexico incog. I never would forgive myself for
not seeing it, after having come bo neai"
"Pcrola barba!" said Fanchita. "Oh, the
beard ! I'll flour' it, to look venerable."
This was my last visit to the house in the
plazuella ; the armistice was soon ruptured, and
the girls of that house had taken their last frolic
with the Yankees, and this their bars and bolts
paid to this, in action louder than words.
Fending the armistice, courts-martial had
been convened for the trial of deserters, and at
length their sessions had come to a close, and
their proceedings were published. Major Riley,
the arch desertei1, escaped hanging, because he
had deserted from Corpus Christi, before the
war had actually opened. One man, who was
found truiltv and sentenced to death, was par
doned by the General-in-Chief, because he had
. Tocar, to play upon an instrument; cantar,
to sing.-
a son in the Fourth Artillery who was loyal and
iiuc i9 ms colours: A novel and touching ver
sion of that old story of her who bore to her
captive lather the stream of life which had ema
nated from his own veins. Seventeen others,
who had appeared before one court at San An
gel, were doomed, and an early day fixed for
their execution. I went to eee them after they
weio sentenced," and a more revolting aibt
never met my eyes. They were all confined"in
one room of the convent; filthy, squalid, un
shaved, half-dressed, the hair tangled and tum
bling over their eyes, they glared upon each
other and their visiters, like wild beasts rather
than men. The inscription which Dante placed
upon the gate of hell was wonderfully appropri
ate to their cell: "Who enters here leaves
Hope behind."
One of their number, divesting himself unac
countably of his feet irons, succeeded, by great
agility, in escaping from the room, and, before
the sentinel saw him, had reached the top of the
wall which surrounds the convent. One moment,
and he would have been over; but the sentry
was a good marksman an unerring bullet
pierced his heart and saved his neck!
Various and earnest attempts were made by
the citizens to have them pardoned ; but such a
notion never entered into General Scott's head;
humanity, honour, soldiership, brothers' blood,
were crying aloud for their lives. The time
drew near; the last night had come, and a num
ber of officers were sitting in the piazza of Gene
ral Twigg's quarter's, talkiug of the morning
execution. Upon the floor lay some knotted
ropes, where the men had been practising the
hanging noose, and the solemnity of the time
was exerting its influence upon many a heart
not case-hardened by war.
A light came eliniinerintr in an unsteadv hand
across the square, and as it approached we j
recognised the aged prior of the convent, who '
had come to make a final effort. He earned in !
his hand a paper, bigned by all the citizens of ;
San Angel, and addressed to the General-iu- ;
Chief, praying for a commutation of their sen- ;
tences, and, at the least, that they might be '
shot instead of hung. This paper he wished j
General Twiggs to forward.
He was respectfully received, and, after he '
had made his speech, the General asked its
meaning? ;
The interpreter explained. i
" Ahem ! Tell him," said the General, " that
I am a Christiano like himself; that 1 have a :
great admiration and respect for the Church .
and her servauts, and that I would do anything j
for him personally; but I will not send that pa-
per, nor allow it to be sent."
He ended with .a growl .and. an expletive,
which would have shaken stronger nerves than
those of the good old padre. The old man took
up his lantern, folded his paper, and, as he
moved away, ejaculated as follows :
" Ya no nos qucda otro rccurso sino rezar para
las almas de los sentenciados, y rogar a Itios que a
los Generacls Americanos Its entertuzca cl corazon!
Qucdtnse cms con Dios, Senores."
"Nothiug remains but to pray for the souls
of the condemned, and to beseech the Lord to !
soften the hearts of the American Generals!
Gentlemen, God be with you."
It was a scene which Rubens would have
loved to paiut; yes, Rubens, who delighted to
represent superincumbent and supporting mas
ses of shade, with one dim light presenting the
outline of a single figure, and faces and forms
dim as ghosts in the gloom. The rays from the
lantern, lighting up the pallid and attenuated
features of the monk, in his picturesque costume,
the huge beard and uncompromising face of the
General, and the fixed countenances of the sur
rouuding officers: imagine it, reader.
The morning came. A long scaffold of four
compartments had been erected, and, if "misery
loves company," she was gratified here. In
each division were four noosos. With mournful
and wavering step3 they came forth, with blood
less faces, to the finale of life's tragedy. I for
bear details save that when most of them t
clung to life with tenacious feet, one lithe figure, j
as the wagon moved, leaped high in air, to make
a summary enu. ii savourcu a nuue oi ucro
ism. A fortiori, as logicians saV. I decline to de
scribe the whippings.
" For God s sake, let an American whip me,
said Riley ; but no, a Mexican had been hired
for the work, and he did it well.
"Have mercy," said another; "I didn't mean
to desert. I got lost, and then I was hungry,
and they forced me."
" Of course they did," was the ironical reply ;
you never meant to desert; you are too good
a fellow. Tie him up !"
Ah! War! War! thou exhaustest the vocabu
lary of sorrow, pain, anguish and death. Un
hallowed desires mark thy origin ; fiendish pas
sion thy career ; 6atiety aud shame thy close.
It was no false fancy of an ancient drnroitist,
that "War was a giant, bruising the nations of
the earth in a mortar, his pestle being the great
warriors and heroes of the oge. h. c.
fiossutli.
According to the correspondence of the Se
maphore de Marseilles, the question relative to
the Hungarian Refugees then staying at Kiuta
hia, was at length settled. The Sultan had re
solved to put an end to an unjust confinement,
calculated onlj' to compromise the character of
his government. The American steam frigate
Mississippi, placed by the President of tho
United States at the disposal of Kossuth, was to
repair from Smyrna to the Dardanelles on the
1st of September, to await their arrival. On
the same day the refugees would quit Kuitahia,
and embark at Jcumelk in a Turkish steamer
for the Dardanelles. Kossiith was to be accom
panied by M. Lemmi, a Tuscan, his private
secretary ; by Generals Pcrozel and AVisosky,
and Count Bathiany, with their families, and
twenty other superior officers. Tho frigate will
convey these personages to America, btopplng a
few days in England.
To a Grumbling: Subscriber.
A free soil patron of the, Sentinel
Politely bids us " scud the thing to hell !"
A timely hint. 'Ti proper, we confess,
With change of residence to change th" address!
It shall be sent, if Charon's mail will let it, .
Where the subscriber will be sure to get it!
. Burlington Sentinel.
t&" To nscerUin the weight of a terse put
jour too under bib foot.
From the West Chester Republican.
Let the Truth be Known.
SUGGESTIONS TO TRUTH-SEEKING WHIGS.
. Frequent meetings are being held throughout
the country by our whig opponents. Johnston
clubs are being formed and at all their gather
ings, speeches are made by whig orators for tho
purpose of aromdag the lukewarm, increasing
the activity of the zealous, and, we fear, not
nnfrequently, misleading the uninformed. W
stopped into one of their meetings here the
other evening, and listened patuntly to a speech
from a young whig friend who alwavs speaks
eloquently whether at the bar ,r rill ttlA ft tn
He tcu-hed upon most of the points agitated in
the present contest, and which are the subjects
of remark by both Digk-r and Johnston in their
addresses to the people; but we regretted to
observe an evident holding back of much which
ought to have been made known, in order that
the audience should have the whole truth. It
occurred to us, on this occasion, that it might
be well to make a few suggestions, for the bene
fit of whigs who desire the -whole truth, when
present at similar meet.'ngs here as in other
parts of the county, listening to similar remarks
from this or other speakers; and we shall, there
fore, proceed to make them;
When you hear a speaker use languagc. con
veying the idea that the interest on the State
debt had not been regularly and promptly met
and paid for several years, until Gov. Johnston's
time, ubk him for a direct yes or no to the ques
tion Was it not regularly and promptly pa"d
by State Treasurers Snowdon, Banks, and lta-
mer, during Gov. Shunk's term ? There is Lot
an intelligent whig stumper, who has a proper
reg.-.rd for truth, who will not answer, YES.
should he attempt to prevaricate and relieve
himself by saying that although the interest was
thus paid, a portiou of it was paid in th r.plai'crs.
then ask him, if Gov. Johnston, as a member, of
the Legislature, did not assist in fastening those
shinplasters upon the State and the people?
He will again be compelled to answer, yet.
If the speaker should use language eonveviog
the idea that no portiou of the public debt of
the State had been paid off previous tq Gov.
Johnston's term, csk him for a direct yesr no
to the question Were not several hundred
thousand do'.lars of the public debt of ihe Stato
paid during Gov. Shunk's term. If he knows .
the whole truth on the subject and is willing to
tell it, he will answer, YES.
If the speaker should use language convcyii g
the idea that the State debt was not increased
by Ritner's aduutistration, ask him for a direct
ye or no to the question Did not the Rimer
adminisiration leave a la' ge amount of State
liabilities, incurred, by it, unpaid and unprovJdei
for at the close of its term ! If he knows th
whole truth, and is willing all should know it,
he will answer, ES. ,
On this point, no little deception i3 attempted
lo be practiced by most of the whig speakers.
Gov. Johnston among them. They talk of "pub
lic debt," "funded debt," "recorded debt,"
knowing, that these terms do not critically cm
brace a vast amount of other State indebtedness
er liability for payment. Let us illustrate wh: t
vre mean, and, at the same time, expose their
deceptive play upon words, by a case which a!l
will understand. A. B. owns a fine farm with
perhaps ten thousand dollars. There are judg
ments and mortgages entered and recorded
against him to the amount of five thousand dol
lars. Besides these, he has notes in Bank,' he
owes the limebuincr, he owes the mason and
carpenter for a new building, he owes other
bills of divers amounts; all these may amount
t) 2000. According to Gov. Johnstjn and
many whig stumpers, the debt, the public debt,
the funded debt, the recorded debt of A. I. is
on'.y $5000! Because the other $2000 are n t
funded cr recorded, they don't speak. of it as
debt. It is just so in regard to the Ritner ad
ministration. They would keep out of view the
hundreds of thousands and millions of State
liability and indebtedness incurred by tbat ad
ministration, because it is not funded or re
corded!!
If the speaker should use language conveying
the idea that a sinking fund for the gradual pay
ment of the State debt, originated with Gov.
Johhstcn, ask him a direct yes or no t the ques
tion Did not Col. liigli r, while in the Senate,
several years before Johnston said a word on
the subject, introduce and advocate a bill pro
viding a sinking fund for this very bame pur
pose ? If he knows the whole truth, and is wil
ling that others should know it, he will answer,
YES.
If the speaker should use language conveying
the idea that Col. Jiigler is not a safe man for
the credit, economy, and true interests of th
State, ask him for a direct yes or no to the ques
tion Was not Col. liigler one of the leading and
most influential advocates, in the Legislature,
of the resumption of the prompt and. regular
payment ot the interest on the State debt in
1846 1 Did he not then, and at other tin s, go
with those who went strongest aud furthest in
support of the eredit of the State? Has he not
always, both in public and private life, favored
every measure which was calculated to main
tain the faith of the State and relieve her from
her debt ? If the speaker know the whole truth,
and is willing others shou'd know it, he will, t
all these questions, answer, YES.
The records of the Legislature and of the
Departments at Harrisburg, fully sustain us in
all this.
To Preserve Peach Trees.
A correspondent of the Natioual Intclligoaccr
furnishes the following rec'pe :
11 CMeflr th furt1 Itw.v immmftafplr n a f A
the trunk of the tree, down to near the root,
and then place two or three lump of unslacke l
lime, each about the size of a goose egg, next
tit i Vi A . 1 A r V A n . a aw v . . n II. .1. i 1
It will eradicate the worms, and in a short time
give much vigor to the tree. The lime should
be applied when the trees are young, but will
answer as well for old. trees, by inceasin" tha
4""" idiru. r rom my ex
nerieuce. ouce in thre nr fnv .- . n .i.
- . j v. i 3, la mil IUI
is necessary to insure a rigorous, healthy tree
at
. W. T.
fiSsT A man with a large family wa com
plaining of the difficulty of .supporting all of
them. "But," saad a friend, "you have sons
big enough to earn something and help you
now." "The difficulty i they are too biz to
Tvork, was the aaswer.