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|1 oct's Cornet
WHKKE ARELTHEY.
Where are the men who marched at night
About four months ago 7
Each with a banner or a light
• A grand, inspiring show,
Who "hoped to march to Dixie's land,
Each with a musket in his hand,
To slaughter all the rebel land"
About: four months ago.
Where are the men who drove fast teuun
About four months ago 7
Who showed their zeal by shouts and screams,
And maked the whiskey flow ;
Who made their patriotic boasts
That they would "crush the rebel horts,
Or die, like heroes at their posts,"
About four months ago.
Where nre the men who swayed the crowd
About four months ago*?
Where speeches were so long and loud
And bright with itaaftfal glow.
Who wire small medals on their coats,
And had their pocket full of notes
To buy up Democratic votes,
About four months a*o.
The draft is coming—where are those
Who bragged four mouths ago 7
Why don't they march to meet their foes
And "crush (hem at a blow 7"
Abe calls, but, ah! they answer not !
They do not fancy being Shot, 4
Their blood has cooled, which was so hot
About four months age.
[[From all The Year Round]
Bill FI6IT ASBJTS COISEttIEICES,
I looked up at the endless tiers of specta
tors, the ladies, with their flashing eyes and
Waving fans, some in the old Spanish dress,
but most in Parisian finery, at the dandies of
Malaga j the crowds of shopkeepers and ar
tisans; whole families together, from the de
lighted old grandfather to the children in
arms, that was being taught to clap its little
hands and crow at the sight of bloodshed ;
at the multitudes of peasants in holiday at
tire such as their ancestors wore in the days
of Ferdinand and Isabella. I gave a glance to
the place where the captain-general in his
rich uniform blazing with decorations, sat
amid a brilliant gn-up of officers and ladies,
whose diamonds and courtly splendor seemed
oddly placed in such a scene. And then I
looked down at the ring.
And yet the sport had been merely ef an
introductory character. Three or four young
bulls had been worried by tridents and flags
•'A craven," as those pacific animals are call
ed whose temper is known to be meek, had
been tormented with squibs, barbed darts,
and the incessant brandishing of red 6carfs
before his eyes, and had finally been dis
patched by Choco, who did what may be
called the comic business of the theatre.—
And now a fine bull, with wide spreading
horns, was in possession of the ring. Thi
animal, however, disappointed the knufteurs
of the arena by showing more desire to es
cape thaferocity. He ran round and round
seeking a#out let and bellowing piteously, as
the active toreadors on foot, with banners
and scarfs, ran nimbly around, taunting and
teasing him until his bide was like a pincush
ion stuck full of tiny barbed darts, adorned
with colored paper. Of this, too, the people
grew weary, and a general shout arose.
"Toros! toros ! the Murican bull at once
No, the Portugese ! Let the English matador
show us what he is made of. Toros !"
The manager looked up appealingly to the
Captain-General, and, receiving an august
nod of permission, bustled out. Very soon
there was a flourish of trumpets, and then,
amid clapping of hands and huzzaing of
countless voices, the brindled Murican bull
came at a heavy canter into the ring, stooped
short, lifted his head, and gave a loud roar of
impatient anger. A noble beast he was. and
the populace enthusiastically shouted forth
their comments on his tossing mam, his deep
chest, his dauntless lotk, the strength of his
limbs, and the sharpness of his horns. Then
to the sound of martial music, in poured the
mounted picadors, two and two, fluttering
with bright ribbons, and dressed in the old
Castilian garb They lowered their lances
before the CaptaiD Geneial and rode three
limes around the area to exhibit their bright
scarfs and rich jackets, while the cymbals
clashed and the drums rolled out their loud
est notes. The bull pawed the ground, dis
tended his nostrils, and, with a short bellow
ing cry, stooped his head and began the at
tack. The words "Bravo, t<ro !" rent the
very sky.
It was a butcherly business atbe6t, though
I admit that the rich dresses, the long lances,
and waving of scarf and ribbon, plume, gave J
a false glitter and gallantry to what was real
ly a very dastardly and disgusting scene.—
The picadors, padded as they were, and fur
nished with immense boots through which
the bull's horns could not pierce, while scores
of watchful attendants stood ready to dis
tract the animal's attention in case of need
or to carry off a prostrate combatant, were
safe enough. But tbe bull itself, bleeding
from tbe repeated lance thrusts, did execu
tion among the horses, plunging his sharp
horns into their quivering flanks again and
again, and iufiicting ghastly wounds, wbila
still the wretched steeds went reeling round
the ring until loss of blood made them drop
down on the ensanguined sand. And still
the music played its uo c t stirring strains,
and still the people shouted, while the ladies
waved fans and handkerchiefs in toKan of ap
plause, and all the gory savagery of the Span -
ish national sport went on with sickening rep
etition. At last, nine horses being dead or
frightfully injured, two picadors having been
bruised by falling against the oaketr barriers,
and the bull beingmuch spent, the remaining
horsemen left the ridge. Ropes and hooks
w ete fastened to the carcasses of the 6lain
horses, and tbey were dragged awgy. and
fresh sand aud sawdust were thrown down.
It was time f or the matador to appear.
"Now, Englishman, they are waiting for
you. Remember the thrust and be cool,"
whispered the manager. He led me into the
ring,and I made my bow to the Captain Gen
eral and another to the audience, while tbe
manager, with much grandiloquence, present
ed me to the public as "Don Eurique*, of
London, the distinguished volunteer, who
had so kindly undertaken to fill the office of
the eminent Manuel Zagal." Scarcely had
he finished this speech before the bull began
to advance and my introduce? hastily retired.
I stood aloue in the ring, my heart beating
quickly, and a red film seeming to obscure
my dazzled byes, while the clamor of the
crowd and the consciousness that I was the
tnark on which thousands were gazing in
pitiless expectation almost unnerved me. I
had faced danger before, but not in such a
shape, and I am not ashamed to own tbttft for
a moment my knees felt strangely weak, and
my pulse fluttered like a bird over which the
hawk hovers. Then came bock the thought
of Alice, and I was myself once more. Dis
regarding the'spectators, I bent my whole
attention on the bull, which was slowly ap
proaching me with its head bent dowa and
bloody foam dropping from its lips. I steadi
ed myoelf on my feet, carrying the cloak
gathered on my left arm, and with my
right I kept the sword pointed to the earth,
ready to spring aside when my antagonist
should charge. But the bull was more butt
than I had expected. His movements were
alow and painful, and the blood trickle* fast
from his bridled flanks. His rolling ej T e fixed
upon roc, then he gaTve a roar, and dashed at
me, while, following the manager's instruc
tions, I avoided him by springing' aside, I
thought the animal would have wheeled to
renew the attack, but the last rush had man
ifestly exhausted his remaining strength.
lie fell on his knees, and did not rise till the
men on foot beset him with squibs and darts
when pain and fury revived his forces, and
he again made a floundering charge. This
time I stepped aside, and without throwing
the cloak over £hb bull's horns, plunged the
sword into his neck. He fell, and the audi
ence set up a shout of"well done Inglese."
"That was an easy victorj r ," whispered my
friend the manager, as he led me off, after
making my bow to the people ; "but don't
lit it make you rash. The poor brute was
bleeding to death ; thyboCy c'ould : see that.
It will be different with the black Portu
guese."
And so it proved, for the audience loudly
demanded that thoj&nces of the picadors
should be lipped with wood, all save a point
about two inches long, so that the next bull
should show better spjrt. And not to dwell
on details, after five or six' horses had been
disabled, the picadors retired, and amid a
flourish of trumpets 1 was placed face to face
with the black Portuguese bull.
"Bravo, toro! look what a wicked eye he
has ! I bet an ounce of gold on the bull -
shouted one amateur springing to his feet, and
there was a burst of laughter at the offer of
this wager, but a breathless silence succeeded
as I advanced, step by step, towards where
the bull stood, pawing up the loose sand
with his fore fept, and roaring low as he
watched me. He was a superb beast, very
large, but a model of symmetry, and his sa
ble coat, now spotted with froth and gore,was
as glossy as satin. He was very little hurt ;
his bloodshot eyes rolled fiercely ; he was
evidently gathering breath to renew tho bat
tle. On my part I was well aware that my
my life hung by a thread, but that if I could
conquer this one bull, the last survivor, rov
work would be done, and the money—the
price of a man's safety—would be earned. A
hasty word of prayer rose from my heart to
my lips, and I advanci®cautiously but firm
ly. The bull appeared to be in no hurry.—
He waited, with htaving flanks, close to one
of the barriers while I drew Dear.
"Have a care, Englishman, have a care, he
means mischief!" cried Borne well meaning
spectator in the front row. Scarcely were
the words uttered, before with deep and sud
den roar, the black bull came thundering
down upon me in headlong charge. It was
all that I could do to spring aside, and the
bull, unable to check himself, dashed his head
rgain6t the wooden barriers with a violence
that made many women in the lower tier
scream with affright. But with great quick-*
nejs the hugo beast recovered himself, and
came rushing towards me with head low.—
Again I sprang aside, but so narrow was my
escape that one of the sharp boras caught
the sleeves of my gaudy jacket, and rippled
it open from wrist to elbow, while the ap
plause of the audience followed the •tevke.—
Before I could use my sword,*the bull nim.
blv wheeled and I was forced to trust for my
life to my superior'speed of foot, running
round the ring, hotly chased by the bull,
whose feet sank in the loose sand. I then
turned, and made an ineffectual effort to
throw the red cloak over the eyes of my ter
rible antagonist, but the crafty beast eluded
me, and this time, as I sprang out of his way
I felt a sharp pane in my left arm and side,
and staggered back,almost dropping thesword
The people set up a cry :
"Toro ! Viva el Ne_:ro ! the black bull for
ever ! Well done, bull ? 1 see the English
man's blood."
A crimson mist floated before my eyes. I
grew dizzy, and the roar of the audience con
fused me. Was all, indeed, lost ? Half me
chanically while the blood ebbed from my
wounded arm, I looked around me. The bull
wax close by, I saw his glaring eyes, and
tossing horns, he lowered his head and made
a fresh charge. Hardly knowing what I did
I thrust forward the long strong bladed sword
of the metador, and planted my feet firmly
and then there was a crash and bellowing
roar, and I was beaten to the ground and
rose again, feebly, and then I was leaning on
my sword, reeling like a drunken man—as
the manager supported me, aud bade me bow
to the audience while the tfhodY of "0, well
done the Englishman ! Viva ! Viva ! Well
done !" rose from thousands of throats. Close
beside me lay tbe carcass of the black Portu
guese bull. My sword had reached his heart.
Ihe next thing I remember, was, that I lay
half swooning, on a mattress, in one of the
inner crypts of the ampytheatre, while a doc
tor was binding up my hurts. "Considerable
hemorrhage but no artery damaged, after all!
said the French snrgeon, let us see the other
wound. Bah ! a mere graze. You have
escaped belet bein "my young friend after
all !"
So it proved. I suffered no inconvenience
beyond loss of blood from the injury I had
received, and the money I had earned being
forwarded bj a safe hand to the place of ren
dezvous on the following day, Mr. Croft was
set at liberty. Moreno proved a man of his
word, beiDg equally.willing to release a
tive whose ransome was paid, as to poinard
an insolvent prisoner. I will not describe
Alice's joy at being united to the father whom
she had mourned as dead, nor \e mingled
terror and gratitude with which tue dating
girl learned the desperate means j ave taken
to save him. lam captain of the xudor now.
and she is my wife, and in our English home,
in which we have lived happily together for
so long, she has often recalled with tears
and smiles that episode in our lives which
was so nearly proving tragical at Malega.
+Vomen iu Pars^uy,
The author of "Sketches iu Paraguay"
gives us this fragrant morsel:
"Everybody smokes in Paraguy, and every
female above thirteen years of age chews
I am wrong. They do not chew, but put to
bacco in their mouths, keep it there constant
ly, except when eating, and, instead of chew
ing, roll it about with their tongue, and suck
't—Only imagine yourself about to salute
the rich red hps of a magnificent little Hebe
arrayed in satin and flashing with diamonds j
she puts you back with one delicate hand!
wflile with the fair, taper fingers of the other
she dfavt-s from bt-r mouth a brownish, blue
black roll of tobacco, quite two inches long,
looking like a monstrous grub, and deposit
ing the savory morsel on the rim of your
sombrero, puts up her face and is ready for a
salute. I lave sometimes seen an overdeli
cale foreigner turn with a shudder of loath
ing under such circumstances, and get the
epithet of el savaco, the savage, applied to
him by the offended beauty, for this sensi
live squeamishness. However, one gets used
to this in Paraguay, where you are, pei force
of custom, obliged to kiss every lady you
are introduced to ; and one half you meet
are really so tempting you would 6ip the dew
of the lips in the face of a tobacco battery,
even the double-distilled "honey dew" of old
Virginia.
C3C" Dryden, on tbe night that one o f
his plays was damned, wa9 taking bis melan
choly walk from the theatre, when he was
met by a coxcomb acquaintace, who said:
"What, Dryden, my boy, upon my sou' I feel
for you. Can tber® be anything more shock
ing to a person's feelings than a damned
play ?" "Yes, sir," replied the poet, "a dam
ned fool."
JC3T Widow Grizzle's husband lately
died of cholera. In the midst of the most
acute bodily pain, after the hand of death
had touched him, atod while writhing in ago
ny, his gentle wife said to him :
' Well, Mr. Grizzle, you needn't kick about
RO, and wear the sheets out if you are dy -
ing."
C3T Speak and write by the card, but
do not play by it.
It is a bad habit to carry your pins or
your religion in your mouth.
It usually falls out that those who- see
other's destruction find their own.
TERMS: Sfi.6o *ER, ANNUM
Treatise on the New Constitution.
The arbritrary violence of the tiroes has
seldom been better hit off than m the an
nexed dark illustration :
A MILITARY NECESSITY.
''Why, Pompey, is dat you dressed up in
sojer clothes so smart ?"
"Yes, Pete, I'se enlisted."
"Well, den, Pomp, I wants to ax you jest
one ting befo yu go. Wat's dis 1 hear about
military necessity ? Wat's it mean ?"
"I'll sp'ain it to you right off. Gi' me
your knife fust."
"Dar it am."
"Berry well. Now, am you a loyal man,
Pete ?"
"I spec I is."
"Lucky for you, Now, law am one ting
and military necessity am anoder. I'g a so*
jer. War times now wid me. I got your
knife because it atn a [military necessity. I
want it. The law can't touch me for takio*
it. Y'ou touch me and you am a'pbosed'to
military necessity u and you go the Fort
La Faughyot/"
"Why, dat's my knile !"
"No. It am confiscated by military neces
sity. In lime of war de Army and de Gov
ernment takes all dey want—property, slaves
and all tings—bekase dey waut it to help
kerry on de war. In peace der am no such
military necessity, and # they couldn't do it,
but now, if dey atn opposed, dose who op
poses am Rebels, bekase dey oppose de in
terest of de whole kentry. lam in dat in
terest, being a sojer. I keep your knife fur
military necessity; you objedk' and you're a
Secessionist at once. So be keerful. Wut
say I"
"I" say, take de kn.K—and be dam ! I
don't want to go to Laughyet!"
"Den you sufficiently understand bout
military necessity ?"
"I does now, dat's a faok."
"Well dar ! I oilers,tought you was lojM ;
so good be, Pete ; de Giueral wants to 6eo
me."
"Good bye, Pomp; but when de war is
ober bring back my knife."
ANOTHER CLERICAL ROGLE. —TIje Nash
ville Despulch relates the arrest of Rev. Al
bert Griffith, of the 17th N. Y. regiment,
chaplain and postmaster of the Sherman Hos
p Lai. of that city, on a charge of robbery.—
lie is believed to be guilty of extensive thefts
of sanitary stores, audjs said to have opened
robbed and destroyed over a thousand let
ters addressed to soldiers in the hospital.—.
After his arrest he was paroled and immedi
ately fled from the city. 110 was, however,
pursued, and captured a few miles out, on
the Gallatin pike.— Chicago Post.
A QUAKER WOMAN'* SERMON.— There are
three very much wonder at. The
first is, that children should be so foolish ai
to threw up stones, clubs, and brickbats inio
fruit trees, to knock down fruit ; if they
would let it alone, it would fall itself. The
second is th<tt men should be so foolish, and
even so wicked as to go to war, and kill eaolr
other; if let alone they would die themselves.
And the third and last thing which 1 wonder
at is, that young men should be 60 unwise
as to go after the young women ; if they
would stay at home, the young women wo'd
come after them.
POSITIVISM. — Milk-and-water people, who
content themselves with simply doidfe-no
harm, at 1 the same time never doing any
good, are mtre negatives. Your man of force
who does not wait for a stone to get out o
his Heaven appoiuted way, but manfully rolls
it over, may unintentionally hurt somebody's
toes in the act; but thousands who will
walk that future path will for
clearing it. The man who has no enemy Is
generally a sleek, creeping, cautious, white
washed creature, walking the world with
velvet shoes, who smirks and glides bis Un
challenged way to the obscurity he merits.
Various instances have been cited to prove
hoft lazy a man mov be and live : but it. re
mains for a Michigander to cap the climax
One hot day during the heated terms of last
summer one Mr. F ,of Jackson County,
was observed to throw himself down on the
grass under the spreading branches of a shade
tree, and to explain emphatically to himself,
"There ! breathe if yon want to—l shan't P
The report that Andy Johnson passed
throagh Bourbon county, Kentucky, on his
way to Washington, is denied ; but it is ad
mitted that a great deal of Bourbon county
passed through him.— World.
NICE LEGAL POlNT. —Suppose a fellow who
has nothin' marries a gal who has norbin', is
her things his'n or is his'n her'n, or is his'n
and her'n, her'n? A niee question to decide
that.
Some husbands are driven to take A smile
at a tavern because they get no smiles at
home.
The labor in Maine State Prison, last tea#
paid all the expenses of the institution, ah
left a surplus of $4,000.
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