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VOL. XXXVI-
POETICAL.
I SEE THEE STILL.
ST C. SPRAGUE.
I see the still:
Remembrance, faithful to her trust.
Culls thee in beauty from the dust;
Thou contest in the morning light,
Tliou’rt with me through the gloomy night;
I n dreams I meet thee as of old;
Then thy soft arms my neck enfold,
I see thee still:
In every hallow'd token round:
This little ring thy finger bound,
This lock of hair thy forehead shaded,
This silken chain thee was braided,
These flowers, all wither'd now, like thee,
Sweet sister, thon didst cull for me t
This book was thine, here thou didst read;
This picture, ah ! yes, here, indeed.
I see thee still.
I see thee still:
Here was thy summer noon's retreat,
Here was thy favorite fireside seat;
This was thy chamber—here, each day,
Isat and watched thy sad decay;
Here, on this bed, thou last didst lie;
Here, on this pillow, thou didst die:
Dark hour! once more its woes unfold;
At then I saw thee,pole and coldfi
1 see thee still.
1 see thee still:
Thou art not in the grave confined—
Death cannot chain the immortal mind,
Let earth close o’er its sacred trust,
But goodness dies not in the dust;
Thee,0! sister. Mis not thee
Beneath the coffin's lid 1 see;
Thou to a fairer land art gone;
t me hope
To see thee i
[from Arthur’s ladies’ magazine.]
TO JHY ABSENT SISTER.
BT DUDLEY B. TINKER.
“ Oh, for a kiss, a long, long kiss—
A kiss of youth and love!”—Byron.
The dew-drops kiss the rosy lawn,
The flowrels kiss the dew;
All nature kisseB morning's dawn,
Aud sunset's golden hue.
Bright sunbeams kiss the sea;
Aud all things kiss wliute’r they love—
Then why not 1 kiss thee?
Could but the medium of a thought,
Sent from an anxious brow,
Convey a boon so richly fraught,
Thou ’dst feel one burning now.
And bounding back on joyous wing,
That thought would bring tome
A kiss as sweet as balmy spring,
For it would come from thee.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE AID-DE-CAMP OF SANTA ANNA.
|TRANSLATED FOR TUB ALBANY ATLAS, FROM THE
GAZETTE DOS TR1BAUNAUX.]
Mexico is a favored land for travellers in search
bftlie romantic. Highway adventures, which for
inerly lent so much renown to the narrow passes
bf the Sierra Morena and of the Appenines, ore
bo longer met with except in the outskirts of Mex
|Co and in the forests of Vera Cruz. Robbery and
bssussi nation have preserved, in these countries
|heir fascination and their poetry. The Mexican
drones have not exchanged their vast sombreros
or the ignoble cap of our bandits, their flowing
crape for a blue blouse, their machete for a knifo
[There tile Robin Hoods, the Mandrills, and organ
■zed banks, still exist. Often, men enjoying gen
krai esteem, public functionaries even, have been
Inembers of these dangerous associations, and tliut
shadow of a government which rules in Mexico
jlias been unable to put an cad to such inci edible
anomalies, or to oppose to these robberies any ef
fectual measures of suppression.
In the early part of April, 1839, Mr. L ,
wealthy merchant of Mexico, compelled by ini-
loriam business to go to Europe with all his family,
fore leuving for Vera Cruz, went to the residence
f General Sunla Anna. He was introduced im
mediately, for Santa Anna is easily accessible to
visitors. Ho is a thin wiry man, with a piercing
eye, sharp.noso, and olive complexion. His fea
tures reflect his character exactly. One can read
in them the crafty cunning of the Indian, and the
daring of the Spaniard. Santa Anna was alone
with lira aid.de-camp, Colonol Yanez, a young man
of remarkable beauty. The latter was turning
over the contents of a package of despatches with
luch profound attention, that the Mexican merchant
tittered, made his salutation and soated himself,
without Yanez appearing to be aware of his pres-
once. Mr. L then explained lo the Gener
al that, alarmed by the attacks and assassinations
which were committed evory day, he had come to
bog that lie would grant him an escort, «o that he
wight muko the journey from Mexico lo Veru Cruz
[•'(safety. 'Frankly,’said Santa Anna, after a mo-
mein’s reflection ; ’if you carry with you gouds of
considerable value, I advise you not to lake on es
oort, fo t you know that our dragoons too often up
propriato to themselves the property they are
clurgod to prutocl. It would bo best to direct
Vermont a French saddler in the street Las Cade
na Momnkoa trunk with a fulse bottom, m which
jour wife’s diamonds and your most valuable arti
cles might bo concealed. If you arc attueked,
[Open your trunk without hesitation, and abandon to
them iu contents, which you should take care lo
w»ko as trifling as possible.’ This advice hazurd-
ousos it npiiourod to be, seemed to Mr, L-
I osoiuy one that it would bo expedient lo follow.
I '“look leave of the General, and whilst ho was
IS’Jing tuwurdw tho door, Col. Yuncz who during the
lconveraatiou appeared to be absorbed in reoding,
I waved his head imperceptibly, and cast on the mer.
L l" 11 keen, rapid glance. Tim trunk with the
I * *e bottom was ordered from Vermont’s,and Mr.
I .TT~~“quitted the city of Mexico daring lh. night
r;, "8 “ n horseback liy tlto aide of lb. )iu.r In
I “•“« lii» wife and children wore, a number of ar-
Horoa, guarding the mules Men with the laggage.
j He little caravan reached I’uobla without acci
^enl, resting there for two days, aud again aetlimg
toiAh at (unset on the evening of the third. They
aaw shining in the distance the gigantic paak Ori-
v.uba, crossed the plain of Acijilu,and arrived safe,
ly at tha mountain gorge which terminated it. This
ta a narrow dafk ravine, at the extremity of whicli
diflerent paths meet. Fur a longtime this ravine
has had a bad reputation, and five or Six while stones
surmounted by crosses, which rise here and there,
attest, tliut it has not boon undeserved. Accord
ing to tho custom of the Spanish muleteers, the nr
riuros, half sleep on their mules, sang the well
known air Del Cabal/o :
Mi BINper eni caballo
Se marieroii oh (tempo.'
My hone anil my wife
Died the some day
VVhst was their nurprtso when many sonorous
voices, mingling with theirs, continued the couplet
by these two lines—
Que mngerjf que demonie
El Caballo e» to que tlenlo,
II ia not the wife,liui by the devil
It ia ilia horse that I regret.
They had not timo however, to reflect very long
on tiiis strange incident, for the caravan was al
most immediately surrounded by a score of bri
gands, issuing, as if by enchantment, from the ra
vine. Notwithstanding the cries of terror which
escaped from his wife, Mr. L— was not discom
posed, he saw without apparent emotion the rub
bers upset his baggage und seize his trunk. He
presented them the key of it, when one of them,
with an expressive gesture showing his long sharp
weapons, skilfully put it between the body of the
trunk and false bottom, which he at once lore off.
The merchant, at firat motionless with astonish,
ment, went into a violenco of rage ; but the bandit
pointing to the shining blade of his knife, said to
him in a very soft lone, ‘No useless resistance Se-
nor, if you love your life.’ Then turning towards
Mine. L -, who pale with fear, was shielding
her two children with her body ; 'have no fears,
Seuora’ he added, ’we are cavaliers and know the
respect due to ladios.’ Disdaining to appropriate lo
themselves articles of trifling value, they limited
themselves to seizing tho diamonds of Mme L
and some black Californian pearls of considerable
value.
Returning to Mexico; Mr. L—— hastened to
make his deposition, and to relate to the judge all
the circumstances of this singular robbery. It
was very evident that the attack had been premedi
tated. Now two men only had been informed of
tho false bottom contrived in Mr L - ’s trunk;
General Santa Anna and the French saddler, Ver
mont. The latter was arrested in consequence,
but to the accusation against him he opposed the
clearest and most minute explanations. Every
thing combined to show his innocence, his high re
putntion for honesty, his solitary hfe, the testimony
of his neighbors which proved that he Imd not left
Mexico on the day of the robbery nor on '.hose pre
ceding it. In consideration of these facts unde
niably established. Vermout was set at liberty,
and the real instigator of the robbery was yet un
discovered.
This event was not yet forgotten when the rumor
was circulated that a murder had just been commit
ted in broad daylight in the house of the Swiss
Consul, M. Maigret, not far from the palace of the
former viceroy, Count de Galvez. At first no one
gave credit lo this news, because the street San
Casino, on which M. Maigret’s residence was situ
ated, is one of the most frequented in the city.
What added still more to the improbability of the
story was that at noon, the hour when they said the
murder hnd been committed, M. Duflaudis minis
ter from France, Mr. Packenhem, the English en
voy, with several of their colleagues had met at a
morning party given at a mansion directly opposite
that of the Swiss Consul. The report was, how
ever but too true. The assassins had entered the
house by the street door, they had seized the Indian
servant, his only domestic, gagged and bound him
firmly ; then they had rushed on the Consul, whom
the noise of the struggle hud attracted to the spot:
M. Maigret, although taken by surprise, had oppos.
ed to his murderers a terrible resistance. There
wero deep and frightful wounds in his temple, and
on his breast. And they drew from the clenched
bund of the corpse a metal button, hanging to a
pieco of blue cloth. This was but s feeble glim
mer of light to guide the investigations of justice
and they were almost wearied with their efforts,
when Messrs, Duflaudis and Packenhnm, acting as
the organs of all the diplomatic and consolate bo
dies energetically insisted upon persevering in the
search. Their determined movements were not
fruitless. Suspicion wns directed towards a dra
goon of the 4th regiment, who from being a poor
man with nothing but his soldiers pay, had suddenly
become rich and prodigal, without being able to ex
plain in a satisfactory manner the origin of his in
exhaustible resources, A search secretly conduct
ed, changed suspicion into certainty by the discov
ery of a blue cloth coat on which a button was
wanting. The one found in the dead man’s hand
was compared with the others, and the metal, cast
ing and style were found to be the some. As al
most, always happens, the murderer had neglected
to destroy the only evidence which could convict
him. He was arrested. Strengthened by now
proofs, the charges which weighed on the accused
had acquired so great a load of evidence that it
was impossible lo deny his participation in tho
crime. Nevertheless, all the cflbrts of the Judge
could not move him to confess the details of it, und
in the hope, doubtless, that a hidden and powerful
protector would shelter him from punishment, he
obstinately refused to namo his accomplices.
Criminal justice is expeditious. The third Jay
after the condemnation, a mournful truin entered
tlie street of San Cosmo, and stopped before the
mansion in which the deed had been committed.—
with his head shuven, his neck and feet bare, the
murdorer, holding a lighted taper in his right hand,
nnd attended by n Spanish Franciscan friar, was
obliged to kneel upon the threshold and nsk pardon.
This first expiation accomplished, the train again
took up tho march through crowds of people, who
thronged from the gates of St. Augustine to the
shady walk of tho Alineda. 'J hey noticed that the
condemned sought to catch from some one in the
multitude, some signal; but disappointed in his ex.
peciatinn his brow contracted and he hit his lip
with rago. This mark of irritation, however, wns
tho only one that escaped him—for men of such
temperament liavo a profound disduin for life. They
kill without pity—they dio wiiliout fear.
Although belonging to the army, the dragoon An
tonio. having committed an infamous murder, was
not doomed worthy n soldier’s death ; he was con
demned to the garrolte. The garrotte is not unliko
the guillotine, and not more cruel in ils operation
It consists ol a platform elovaled about six feet; in
MlLLEimEVlLLE-, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1846.
KO. 19-
officer and with a loud, distinct voice, aaid—’Senor,
my principal accomplice, the ohief of our ie
Gol. Yanez, the aid.de-camp of Gen. 8anla Anna.’
This unexpected disclosure excited ae much aur-
prise as distrust. How could they beiiove that the
most distinguished officer in Mexico, the intimate
friend of Santa Anna, the lover of his sister Duio-
rez, was a highway robber, an assassin I Howev
er impossible,iho fact might appear, the authorities
were determined to clear up the tnysterios.—-The
execution of Antonio was consequently doluyed.
The General Count Josa de la Cortina, then Gov
ernor of the ciiy, ordered tho officer, Cnpl. Ologa-
zu, to the residence of Yanez. A search there
led lo very important discoverios—the seizure of a
u mysterious correspondence in cypher, a quantity
of jewelry, of valuable articles of every kind, the
greater part of which were afterwards recognised
as belonging to Mr. L——, plundered a month
before, on the road to Vera Cruz. The same
the middle is a seat placed against a post, to which
open, is suspended. The exe-
an Iron collar, half open,
cutioner, standing behind the chair, passes the col
lur round the neck of tho condemned closes it in a
twinkling, then turns a screw, inflicting instant
death. A long curtain descending at the name mo.
ment from the top of the post, envelopes the dying
man completely- Arrived before the scaffold, the
prisoner again cast a lingering gazo on the crowd ;
then shaking his head at though he had loat his last
temple with bia last hope, he turned toward* an
day, Yanez wns arrested, when going out of the
Government Palace, and confined in the public
prison. Things were in this condition, when a la
dy enveloped in a black silk mantle, her face cov.
ored with a thick veil presented hersolf at the
house of the magistrate, Cnpt. Ologaza* The un
known visitor employed all the resources of her
mind, words of winninir. persuasiveness and elo
quent tears, 10 the Interest the Juuge in me tato of
Yanez, and to prevail upon him to destroy the evi
dence against him. She even went so far as to
offer him 30,000 piastres ; but the soldier repulsed
this offer with indignation, although he might have
easily recognised by her melodious voice and bril .
liant beauty, the sister of the President, la Senort x
Donu Dolorez.
A week had not elapsed, when Capt. Ologaza ,
seized with violent pains after breakfasting, died i n
frightful convulsions, which left no doubt in th s
minds of the physicians called in, that he had bee n
poisoned.
Crimes proceeded no further, but tho secret in •
fluences continued. Seduced by the offer of fivi 3
hundred ounces of gold the clerk of the unfortua -
ate judge consented to withdraw tlie papers whicl i
compromised Yanez. But he had no sooner effect- •
ed his purpose, than a vague remorse seized him ,
and lie went to relate all to his confessor. The >
Priest refused him absolution, threatening him with >
eternal perdition if he did not replace tho stolen pn.
pers. The clerk, in dismay, obeyed the command
but was unable to return tlie 8000 piastres to the -
mysterious giver, whose name he knew not and
whose face he had not seen. The second Judge,
Col. Don Jose Calvo, who was charged lo proceed
with the case commenced by Ologaza was a cour-
agous and honest man. He was a Spaniard, born
at Havana, and had fought with honor in the wars
of the Peninsula. Made prisoner by the French,
and kindly treated by them during his captivity, he
had retained a grateful recollection of France.—
He was anxious to prove to tho diplomatic corps,
anJ particularly to M. Deffaudis, who, as Minister
from France, was by treaty specially bound to pro
tect Swiss residents, that Mexico was also a land of
justice and civilization. Not that ho was blind to
the danger of his position. Although Santa Anna,
witli accustomed dissimulaiion. had affected abso
lute indifference in tlie circumstances, yet Col. Cal
vo was not ignorant that Yanez had been his aid-
de-camp and his friend. He remembered that
General Valencia, commander of the department,
when informed, a few minutes after the assassina
tion, that t.vo of the suspected murderers, had ta
ken refuge in a tavern in the suburbs, had replied—
•Que lot dejen, lot probecitos,’ ‘Let them go, the
poor wretches !’ In fine, the fate of his predeces.
sor, poisened by a drug mixed in a cup of chocolate,
was assuredly of a nature lo make him reflect.—
There was peril, hut there was devotion too.
As to Yanez, the good fortune of his life of lib-
ly followed him to prisou. He had received these
numerous marks of interest, and the day after his
arrest, this jailer had delivered lo him a small note,
on which were traced in a feminine hand the three
words, ‘Courage, Love, Hopo.’ He learned be
sides, through the same hidden agency, that the pa.
pers which proved his guilt had been withdrawn
from the package and without doubt destroyed.—
In the absence of these proofs, the confessions of
Antonio alone could, by enlightening justice, arm
against him its severities. But Yanez never doubt
ed that at the sight of his Chief, Antonio would re
tract. In fact what could he gain by making two
victims ?
This conviction strengthened Yanez against all
fear, and never perhaps had iie appeared more
completely master of himself, thun on the day
when he appeared before his judges.
Scarcely had he taken his place on the prisoner’s
bench, when Antonio came to seat himself there
with six other accomplices, whose arrest had ta
ken place. By a movement either involuntary or
intentional, Yanez recoiled with disgust, and with
out saying a word, fixed upon this false brother, who
had betrayed his chief to tho executioner, without
having for his information even the excuse of his
own interest—a look full of withering contempt end
indignation, that Antonio, stupifled.starnmered forth
some unintelligible replies to the pressing interrog.
atories of the judge, turned pale, then red, and strik
ing the bur with bis clenched hand, angrily replied,
•I will say nothing, 1 know nothing—my life is
your’s, take it.’ Yuncz believed himself saved.
He did not know that the letters found in bis house
had been replaced in the package by the clerk. So
lie confined himself to scornful denials, and when
Colonel Calvo displayed the enormity of the crimes
imputed to him, holdiog him forth as a robber chief,
an assassin, planning murder, and from afar put
ting in motion tiiu hands whicli executed it,—Yanez
replied by a cold smile lo these terrible words.
Then Don Jose Calvo exhibited tlie futal papers.
This was like a thunderbolt. The doubt which
had seizad tlie mind of the judges, gave place lo
deep conviction. Tlie sentence of the Court Mar
tial, given amidst profound silence, doomod Yanez
and seven accomplices lo death. A shriek, the
thrilling anguish of which no words can describe,
followed tho reading of the sentence. As lo Ya
nez. lie preserved all his firmness. ’Man condemns,
and God absolves !’ said he ; and rising, he saluted
his judges,
Three days after a countless m iltitude composed
of Leperos and Indians thronged the plain on
which the instruments of punishment had been
erected. An altar wns placed at the right of the
scaffold. The balconies on those streets which led
to tho place were filled with high born damea
among whom it was easy lo distinguish Dona Do-
lurez by her beauty and her paleness;
Very soon appeared a parly of alguazils in black
robes, with heavy carbines, piercing‘the Brother
hood of the Dying.’ A capuchin, bare-footed,
girl about hy a rope, reciting with a low voice the
penitentiul psalms, walked near Antonio and the
other prisoners, each of whom held a crucifix in his
hands. Yanez who had fainted when leaving the
prison, was borne on a mule, led by one of the in
ferior officers.
As this frightful train approached Dona Dolorez
convulsively pressed between her fingers the beads
other rosary, and when it passed beneath her bal
cony, tire leaned her hoad over the balustrade, gaz
ed anxiously on her lover, and remarking hia fixed
eyae aad marble like countenance, exclaimed sritb
a buret of wild joy—
•No, Yanez, the executioner ahnll notrar touch
i he living.’ Then drawing from the fold* of her
Irene, a poignard, the raised her arm to strike her-
•elf with it, when her husband a grave, stern man,
who standing behind her, had observed with alien-
l ion every movoment, grasped her arm, saying
i toldly, ‘You have the right to live—now that ho is
d ead.’
Yanez had been poisoned that very morning with
a no of those quick poisons so well known lo the
f lexicon Indians and which kill almost iustantane-
0 usly. This was the Inst proof of love, which he
li -ai received from Dolorez, His corpse was nev-
e rtholesscarried upon the scnffuld before Antonio,
* »ho submitted to his fate with marvellous intrepid!-
t y. They nny that Santa Anna, who did not leave
Inin palace during the whole day, imitating Louis
-SHI.—said to General Vulcncia, pointing to the
8 ky, dark with fullering clouds—
‘Our dear Yanez will have unpleasant weather
to- die in.’
By moans of, a consider i ble sum, Dona Dolorez
0 1 otained from (ho nrchbishop permission lo hove the
hi jdy of Yanez buried in the garden of San Fer-
in indo.
The Cathedral at Seville.—The correspon
dent of the New Haven Heruld gives the follow,
ii ig description :
Tun wiioiu uHiuuurui iius eigmy-iwu uiiuis. xrp-
wrards of eighty priests, besides attendants, minis,
t ers in the vurious ceremonies. It is said that five
hundred masses are said here every day ; the an
nual consumption of wine is fifteen hundred arro*
has (the arrohas is twenty-five pounds) oil eight
hundred, and wax one thousand. The floor is of
marble mosaic work: There ore eighty windows
of fine stained glass, the work of a Flemish artist,
each of which cost one thousnnd ducats. A strong
tall box wns opened containing a circular temple
inado entirely of silver, the lower story of one or-
der of architecture, tlie second another, and the
third and last still another. It looked like tlirce
temples, one above the other; its weight was thir
teen hundred pounds. It is used but once a year,
then in the procession of “Corpus Christi j” twen-
; ty-four men, with a relay of the same number,
bear it on their shoulders. At the opposite end of
the roam was a long box, resting on a marble basei
about three feet high. On opening the doors we
beheld through glass a profusion of gold and pro
clous gems; I wns struck with the brilliancy ol
two things mndo of solid gold, each about one foot
i high, with a broad bottom to stand on; Their tops
j terminated in a cross with a circle of rays ; in the
■j centre of the cross were oval glasses—each had
itwo; between these glasses it placed tlie host, and
i then it ira placed in the temple just described, and
I carried in t.he procession of “Corpus Christthey
were also ornamented with diamonds and other pre
cious si<iii-es. 1 judged them worth at least fifty
Ihousund dollars. The next lump of gold was a
plain cro is, about fourteen inches high ; in four
places we ro inserted pieces of the real cross oil
which ou.'Saviour suffered—(so said our guide.)
This to o was ornamented with the rarest gems.
The ne xt was a sort of cross with a platform near
the botlo rn and underneath tlie cross-piece a cano
py ; on t his platform stood four figures, hand in
hand, :fo rming a circle. This was about a fool
high, and. made from tho first gold brought from
South A merica hy Columbus.
I noticed throe other things which I will de
■cribo :
Oik i is an exquisitely formeed cup of gold, ele
gantly c based, in the shape of the nautilus shell—
would h old about a pint. This is used once a year
tin adirii aislering the sacrament to the Governor,
AlcahJa , and other public functionaries of Seville
( Theoi I lor we ro two keys formed of gold and orna
memo d with jewels. The last thing shown us here
was a t horn from the crown which our Saviour
wore at his mock trial. We passed on to the ex
aniinn ti on of the contents of two huge cases, con
. tablin' • the crown of Spain on a lurge scale—sev
i oral sa i ms, largo as life—one dozen candlesticks
■ about ft iur feet high. I lifted one of them—should
think it would weigh about 50 pounds. Another
dozen i if candlesticks about six feet a high, all of
silver.
Rel.ig (ion in the Navt.—A work of reformation
is very obviously and extensively tuking place
amungt t all classes of seamen, and rapidly eleva
ting the i n to a high rank of respectability among
men, i In addition to the cheering tidings of this
'Charactt ir, which have lately reached us fruin abroad
—from t he U- S. ship Cumberland, the flag ship on
tlie Mei iiterranean station, and others,—a friend
has just given us information of an interesting
scene wli dch bus transpired last Sabbath at the Na
va! Hosp ilal in East Brooklyn. A chapel for the
regL'Iar v rorship of God has been recently fitted up
in that sp acinus establishment, by order of the Sec
retary of the Navy, ou tlie application of Dr. Rus-
chetio ege r, the present distinguished Surgeon of
the H ospi tal ; and last Subbath it was very solemn
ly ded icat ed to the Most High, by appropriating
services ii ► connection with a sermon hy the Rev.
C. S. Ste wart, chapluin in the Navy, from the
text, ‘‘ In a II places where I record my namo, I will
come u nto thee, and I will bless thee.” The ordi
nance o I 1 taplism was then administered, on con
fession of fuilh, to three seamen in the service ;
who wit.h t iiree others, also in tho navy, made a
public prefe ssion of religion, and joined with a few
Christian fi tends present, in Sacramental Commu-
nion, admin. : slercd by Mr. Stewart, assisted by the
Rev. Ben not t of tho Brooklyn Bethel, who has for
many yea,rs ( ;iveu voluntary attendance in religious
services ait th e Hospitul.
An eloquen .1 address was also mado on the occa
sion by Cu pt. Elliott, of the “Sailors’ Home” in
this city, Ce pt ains Hudson and Gedney, and other
officers wer e p resent, besides a crowded attendance
of man-of-a ui ’s men, connected with the Hospital
and from the > N'orth Carolina and the Navy Yard,
and the exer cis es throughout are said lo have been
solemnly attt >cli ng and interesting.
In connect ion with these facts we mnr state that
in addition to the Mariner’s Church in Roosvelt st.
which has be en established for many years, four
houses of worsh ip for seamen have been opened
the last year; alt of which are well attendod, and
not unfrequent ly, as we understand was the case
last Sabbath, c rot vdbd to overflowing.”
Usakitta Starr.
The following ie a laughable account of tha mb'
fortunes that hotel an American gentleman upon a
visit to a lady in Paris, lo whom he bore letters of
introduction. After relating a number of ludicrous
and amusing mistakes upon his entrance into the
presence of the lady, he thus proceeds:
The ordinary routine of a French dinner com
menced. A regular seiios of servants appeared
each instant at our elbows, inviting us to partake
of a ihousund diflerent kinds of wine, under strings
of names which i no more understood thun I un
derstood their composition, or they did my gauche-
ries- Resolute to avoid all further opportunities
for displaying inv predominant trait, 1 sat in the
most obstinate silence, saying out lo everything
that was offered to me, aud eating with the most
devoted application, till my fuir neighbor, tired with
my taciturnity aud her own, at length herself began
conversation by inquiring how I was pleased with
(he opera. I was just raising a large morsel of po
tato to my mouth, und in order to reply as quickly
s possible, I hastily thrust it in, intending lo swat,
low it hastily. Heavens ! It was as hot as burn,
ing lava. What could I do ? Tho lady’s eyes were
fixed upon me, waiting a reply to her question,—
But my mouth was in flame, i rolled tho burning
morsel hither nnd thither, rocking my lieud from
had flxed on her, were strained from their sockets.
She regarded my grimaces, of the case of which
she was ignorant, with an oxpressionof ainusemont
and surprise, at which I can laugh now when 1 think
of it.
Monsieur is ill!” at length she gently nnd in
anxious tone inquired ; I could bear no more. My
mouth was flaying with intoloruhle pain ; so quiet,
ly abandoning the point, I opened it lo the utmost
and out dropped the infernal brand upon my plule.
Not the slighost tondency lo risibility ruffled tlie
mperlurable politeness of (he lady. She soothing
ly condoled with mo on my misfortune, then grad-
ally led the conversation too variety of topics,
still exerting tho magic influence tliAl true polite
ness always exercises, and 1 began to forget even
my own blunders. Gradually my choeks burned
less painfully, and I could join in the conversation
without the fear that every word I uttored shared
the fate of tlie action 1 attempted; I even ventur
ed to hope ; nay to congratulate myself, that the
catalogue of calamities was completed for the
day.
“Let no man call himself happy before death,"
said Solon, and he said wisely. The Ides of March
were not yet over. Before us stood a dish of cau
liflower, nicely done in butter. This 1 naturally
enough took for a custard pudding, which it suffic
iently rosembled. Unfortunately my vocabulary
was not extensive enough to embrace all the techni
calities of the table, and when my fair neighbor in
quired if 1 was fond of corjleur, I verily took it lo he
the French for custard pudding, and so high was
my panegyric ofit that my plate was bountifully
laden with it. Alas, one single mouthful was enough
to dispel my illusion.
Would to Heaven that the chorjteur had vanish
ed with it. But that remained bodily, and as I
gazed dospondingly on the large mass that loomed
almost as large as burning Vesuvius, my heart
died within me. Ashamed to confess my mistake
although I could as readily have swallowed an
equal quantity of soft soap. I struggled on man
fully against tlie mountainous heap at its base—and
shutting my eyes and opening my mouth lo inhale
as large masses as I could without slopping to taste
it. But my stomach soon began intelligibly enough
to intimate its intention to admit no more of this
nauseous strauge beneath ils roof,if not even expell
ing that which had gained an unwolcome admis
sion.
The seriousness of the task I had undertaken,
and the resolution necessary to execute it, had giv
en an earnestness and rapidity to my exertions
which appetite could not have inspired, when my
plate, having got somewhat over the edge of the ta
ble, upon my leaning forward tilted up, and down
slid the disgusting mass into my lap. My hanker-
chief, unable to bear so weighty a load, bent under
in its turn, and a great portion of it landed safely in
my hat. The plate righted itself—as 1 raised my
person aud saw as I glanced my eye around the ta
ble (hat no one had noticed my disaster, I inward'y
congratulated myselftlmt the nauseous deception
was so happily disposed of. Resolved not to be
detected, I instantly rolled my Imnkerchief together,
with ils remaining contents, and whipped it into my
pocket.
The dinner table was at length deserted for the
drawing room, where coffee and liquors wero serv
ed round. Meantime Iliad sought out what I coi a d.
ered a tafe hiding place for my hat, beneath a chair
in the dining room, for 1 daro not carry it any lon
ger in my baud, having first thrown a moisel of pa
per to hide the cauliflower, should any ono chance,
in seeking for his own hat,tc look into mine.
On my return to the drawing room, I chanced to
be again seated by the lady by whom I hnd sat at
the table. Our conversation was resumed, and we
were in the midst ofan animated discussion, when
a huge spider wus seen running up her arm.
“Take it off—take it off," she ejaculated in a
terrified voice.
I was always afraid of spiders; so, to avoid touch
ing hint with my hand,I caught my pocket handker
chief from my pocket, and clapped it at once upon
the miscreant, who was already mounting her tem
ple with rapid strides.—Gracious heavens ! I had
forgotten the cauliflower, which was now plastered
aver her face like an emollient pouLlico, fairly kill
ing the spider, and blinding an eye of the lady—
while little streamlets of soft butter glided gently
down hor neck and bosom.
“Mon dieu ! Mon dieu!” exclaimod (he aston
ished fair.
broke «Sb
there be rood, the *oA
hi* eheeka, UtodUgbia
mvttaebae, ear* aoa>«h
gat that apeetteie. Vmg
the Coloaeua, aad*a»op r
forcibly cloaed. Mm raw'
dy and dripping cauliflower ant
pore
I raid no longer, bet attainta hia bat.Lnriigl
from the hooae, jumped Into a Hwerar and arrfe-
ed aafely home; heartily reaolrod that, lo mjr lat-
eat hour, I would never again deliver a Utter of in
troduction.
Curious Diskov bry.—A highly curious and in
teresting discovery , not ouly to geologists, but oth
ers likewise, ban j ust been made nt the Pentwyn
iron works, neat Ptintypool. While tlie workmen
engaged in those wi irks, and occupied in one of (lie
mine levels, were proceding with their operations,
they met with a fossil treeofvery considerable size.
It was found in an e reel position and perpendicular
to the plane of it.rati'.fication. The circumference
at the base, immec'iu tely above the point of junction
with the root is slx led and from thenco it dimin-
ishes to four feet, .in a height of about five feet.
So it is.—Wiia'o a person doesn’t stand in need
of friends they trt> as pleuty as musquitoes in the
latter part of August; but when he really waot*
thorn, they are aa scarce a* grasshoppers in Janua
ry. Wound a porposc and hia comrades are aura
to attack hun; So it ia with a man in misfortune ;
they needn’t expect any mercy from a fellow man.
‘Hit him again, b* hac no business to be a bora*.’
‘•Mon dieu f” was re-echoed from every person’s
mouth.
“Have you cut your hand I” inquired one.
“No 7 no !—the spider—monsieur is killing the
spider.”
“Whata quantity of entrails !” ejaculated an as
tonished Frenchman, unconsciously to himself.
Well might he be astonished ; the spray of the
execrable vegetable had spattered her dress from
head to foot; For mysolf, tho moment the accident
occured, I had mechanically returned my handker
chief to my pocket, but its contents remained.
“What a monster most it have been,” observed
a young lady, as she helped to reliove my victim
from her cruel situation, “I declare I should think
it had been living on cauliflower.”
At that moment I felt some one touch me ; and
on turning, 1 sow my companion who had come
with me.
“Look at your pantaloons,” he whispered.
Already half dead with the confusion and disas
ter I had caused, I cast my eyes upon my once
whito dress, nnd saw at a glance the horrible extent
of my dilemma. I hnd been tilling on the futal
pocket, and had crushed out the liquid butter, and
the soft, paste like vegetable which had bedaubed
and dripped down them, till it seemed a* if it were
actually dissolving my pantaloons.
Darling from tha spot, I sprang to the place
where 1 had left my hat; but before I could reach
it a sodden storm of wrath was beard at tb* door.
“Sacra ! beta! sacra I therein lha firat syllable
baiu mad* to roll like a watchman’s mill*, min-
gled with another epithet and name that ae engrjr
M r. Editor,—Being one of your many reader*, I
take the liberty to respond to your questions ou
“Night feeding,” in the Ploughman of Nbv. bOtfi.
Hope others may do Iba same if thoy rheas.
Question First—“Is it proper to dUurb outlie
that have not labored through tho dep, by giviag
tliem food late at night 7” 1 think Jt is not. fi dooa
not appear to be sound praotie* to rouao cattle from
slumber latest night in order toibedtbnnsifbba
possible to nttend to their oomfort nnd wants atan
earlier hour. A cow differs from the hone, h»
that site can mnsticale and swallow her topper
quicker, leaving a part lo lha alter performaace
of rumination. Comparatively speaking she can
eat Iter meal nearly as quick aa a imd $ so that she
may swallow her supper early—which ahe will
never fail to do if left to go u> bod early Lettko
“notion” run*.
Question Second.—“If it is proper lo wake ap
cattle late at night and giva them food, is it not
equally proper to wake up pigs that ara faltiag aad
to feed them in the night 7" Yea. oo doubt, and
the whole posse of domaMia animals that may
chauce to inhabit the farm yard. If it is proper in
the one case, it must also bo in the other- But
such a practice does not prevail, h ie the custom
with our best formers, so far M my boowledge ex
tends. to feed cattle aarly at night nnd aarly in the
morning ; and lo be regular aa possible in quantity
and quality of tha food given—not n feast to-day
nnd a fetut to morrow. And then ehottid alto be
fed statedly—punotually aa posstbln.
Much more might be said on this subject, if ne
cessary. It is presumed no labored arguotent is
required to settle this point. II it ia healthy far man
to take Ills supper early and to gooarly to bod and rite
with the sun or before, it mutt also be equally so
for cattle. If any ona baa uighl to say to tbs con
trary let us hear him.
The reflecting, prudent fbrmer look* d-fly to th*
health and comfort of all hie domestic aaimala—
secs that each has hia due portion of keep in due
season. A beast that ia worth beeping at ell, is
worth keeping well.
What a noble sight to look upon, Ie ■ good,
smooth lieired stock of cattle—happy in themselves,
being well and duly supplied with ill the necessary
moans of health and comfort i
Respectfully, B. F. W.
Butters Vale, Doc. 37,1844.—Ploughman.
Presksvation or Pumpkins.— 1 This fell lot eve
ry farmer gather aa many of hi*, beat matured
pumpkins as will suffice to supply bia stock with a
mess daily through the winter, aad deposits them
carefully in a close and secure repertory, accord
ing to the following succinct and definite rules: 1st,
lay a siratuoi of butts of straw from the thrashing
floor, o-a foot thick; un this stratum deposita an
other of pumpkins, and cover them carefully with
another layer of straw, and so to the end of your
heap,
Jn (his way, pumpkiua may be preserved most of
the year, aa street and freah aa when taken from
the field* Try it, friends, and nnt leave every thing
to be discovered by accident, ns ia the case with
experiments in agrieulture generally.
Value or txb Sugar Bbbt.—Mr. A. C. Holt,
in the Detroit Farmer, give* the following method
of obtaining vinegar from the sugar beet.—
“The last season 1 grated about a bushel of the
sugar beet to a fine pulp, and pressed the juice there,
from, of which l obtained six gallons, 1 put the
same in a vinegar barrel, which wee entirely empty,.
and in less than two weeks I had e* good end as-
pleasent vinegar, aa I ever obtained from cider, and
was equally as strong and clear,’'
Hints to Fahmers—We do not know whether
or not the following plan has been adopted by many
farmers, hut there can be no barm in calling their
attention to the circumatane*. A farmer in o
neighborhood has for some time past, put garlic in
the bottom of the grain stacks, and since he hat
adopted this plan, has never been troubled with ver
min. Before adopting this plan, on taking down a
stack of grain, he ana his assistant! never killed
less titan from 15 to 20 rati, nnd above 100 mice.
This is a very simple, cheap and effective method of
preserving grain in atackf.
A practical Farmer inform* the Hartford Time 1
that in taking up a fence that had been aet 14
years, he noticed that soma of the post* remained
nearly sound, while others were rotted off at the
bottom. On looking for the cause, ho found that
those posts that ware aet limb part down, or
inverted from the way they grew, were sound.
Those that were set as they grew were rotted *ff-
This fact is worthy the attention of all farmers.
Heavy Yield of Wheat.—Mr. Jaa: M. Under-
wood of the town of Middlesex, in this county, cut
62 bushels and 60 pounds of wheat upon one acre
of ground, selected from about thirty, which he
thinks will yield nearly the ram* amount.—Pan-
syleania Yankee Democrat.
Cooking Food for Swinb Dr-Lee, in an ar
ticle on pork making in the last N. E. Farmer.
»nys :—‘‘From some experiments of my own, nud
considerable research into the published result*of
tho experience of others, I am satisfied that ten
bushels of boiled potatoes, thoroughly mixed with
the pudding that can be made from threo bushel* of
potatoes, and six bushels of corn or peas (ed raw.”
Large Hog.—Mr. Jedediah Ealaa of North Ber
wick slaughtered a hog, a few days since, twelve
months old, which weighed 604 pounds.—Saco
Democrat.
A Wisu.—“I wish you bad been Eve,” aaid an
urchin to an old maid who was proverbial for her
meanness. “ Why so f’ “Because,” said he,“you
would have eaten all the apple, instead of dividina
with Adam.” *
A Shocking Bros*—The Milton, (No. Ca.)
Chronicle of the 16th inst. rays (—“Turner John
son, of Orange, was shockingly murdered by bf*
daughter, (about 12 year* of aaej oo the night of
the flth inst. Report rays that Johnson wool heme
intoxicated—found no ono about but Ihia little girl,
threatened to kill her if she didn’t kill him—laid
himself down before the fire, whereupon hia daugh
ter approached him, ex* ie hand, aad, with on*
blow, split hie skull open! The daughter baa been
committdd to jail. This horrid deed may excite
the surprise of some of our reader*, hut oothlac
surprise* ua now-o-days.”
. Tom Thumb, in ana war to > qoeotlaa by tha mod.
ical geutlamen of York, bow ho slap! ol eight, re-
p^-Ietoaptoff quen pot, •ofwadvUi akte-