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OHRONI'LB AND SENTINEL, j
AUGU s T A .
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9b |
( rj>No Mail North of Charleston last night.
Resumption.
In this mornings paper will be found the Proc- 1
lamation of his Excellency the Governor, in obe
dience to the law of the last Legislature, requring
the Banks in this State, to resume Specie Pay
ments on the first day of February next.
The Ladies’ Companion.
The January number of this chaste and beau
tiful periodical has been on our table for two or i
three days, freighted with its usual quantity of
interesting matter, all of which is orginal, from
the pens of some of the most pleasant and agree
ble correspondents of the Lit rary press. This i
bespeakes no ordinary industry and zeal on the j
part of its enterprising proprietor to adopt his j
periodical to the varied tastes of his readers.
The embelishment of this number is a beautiful j
steel engraving of a scene on the Hudson, “ The |
Light House noar Caldwells landing.’
From the Savannah Republican.
Late from Florida.
The steamer Wm. Gaston , Capt. Harden, ar- :
rived last evening from St. Augustine, bringing 1
us the following letter from our attentive corres- |
pondent, dated 3d inst. We have also received |
through the same medium the St. Augustine j
News of the Ist inst.
Omci; or the News,
St. Augustine January 3,1841.5
An order has been issued, by which a 'arge
escort will leave this place and Picolata simulta
neously iwice a week, Mondays and I ridays. ,
Travellers will have an opportunity of enjoying i
its protection on the Picolata road.
The steamer W . Gaston, Capt. Harden, has i
just arrived from the South. Hy her we learn
the death of Capt. W. B. Davidson, 3d Artil
lery, in consequence of disease contracted in j
the everglades.
Lieut. Col. Harney, has started again, in con
nection with a detachment of officers and sailors
from Lieut. McLaughlin’s command, and a party
of Marines, under Lieut’s. Sloan and Wilson, j
for Sam Jone’s camp. They are accompanied ,
by the negro John, who was wounded in the ,
former excursion, and an Indian prisoner. No
achievement dur-ng the war, has exhibited such
patient endurance, planned with so much judg- j
ment, and followed by such deserved success, as
this gallant officer, and those associated with
him have accomplished. A passage across the ;
peninsula —the destruction of Chtkila, the lead- !
er of the massacre at Caloosahatchie, and Indian
Key—and the fact, that the Indian will now i
learn that temporizing is no longer to be resorted ,
to, will go a long way in breaking his confidence, j
Corrrcspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.
Washington, 29th December 1840.
More than three weeks of the session have '
elapsed, and nothing has occurred that distinctly j
points to any fixed and settled policy on the part j
of the administration and its friends. So far, j
however, as a judgement can be formed, from the ,
Indications that are given, the conclusion is irre- ;
sistable, that the 4th of March will present an ex
hausted Treasury, with claims upon the Govern
ment for millions of dollars,and no provision made
to meet the exigency. The administration and its
supporters in Congress, are like all other Bank
rupts —they shirk from the investigation of their
affairs, and live from day to day by unworthy
and disreputable expedients,anxiously looking for
the hour when their assets shall be surrendered
to their Assignees.
The second act of the same farce that was play
ed last session is now to be played. Then, as
now we were told officially, that there was mo
ney enough in the Treasury, and that no further
issue of notes would be wanting. Mark the lan
guage of Mr. Wright on the 10th of January,
the Sub-Treasury Bill being under consideration.
“The bill” said Mr. Wright, “as it was now,
would come into operation on the first of July
next; on the 13th of June next the last ’Treasury
note, issued on the authority of Congress, for the
last two sessions would become redeemable, so
that Mr. Wright was not aware that when the
bill would come into operation, one dollar
of Government paper would be a floating,” and
yet sine’ that period, the amount of Treasury
notes in circulation has been increased, and is
now much more than it was at that time.
At the commencement of the present, as at the
last session, Congress were loid in the opening
message, they must not make any appropriations
but such as are in the estimates. Only a few
days after the Message was delivered an applica
tion was made for one hundred and fifty thous
and dollars not in the estimate, to pay pension
ers, the fund of more than a million of dollars
being exhausted by an improper construction of
the law, and ruinous speculations in worthless
stocks.
With a deficit of fifteen or twenty millions of
dollars, (that is our present situation) what is to
be done? How are the demands upon the Trea
sury to be met? Mr. Calhoun, in his popularity
hunting wisdom, proposes to meet them by giv
ing away all the public land. But how are they
to oe met practically?—There are luxuries, such
as silks and wines that are duty free. From
these articles several millions of revenue might
be annually raised. They are luxuries, and the
rich or extravagant would principally pay the
duly. But Mr. Calhoun, while he is in favor of
giving away the public lands, he is opposed to
levying a duty on silks, or rather he was during
the last session. The question came up inciden
tally.
Mr. Clay said, in regard to sdk itself, look at
the facts. For seven years past, the annual
amount of it brought into this country has been
12,000,000 dollars, and one year it rose to 20,000,-
000; and this 12.500,000 is for an article which
if any thing is for the adornment and luxury of
man, silk is that article. * * * And if I was
not absolutely powerless; if my friends and my
sell had any power in the direction of this Gov
ernment, I would to-morrow impose a duty equal
to the maximum, which the compromise act ad
mits; that is, twenty per cent on this import! of
12.500,000 dollars in silk
Mr. Calhoun sa ; d, I differ in toto from the
Senator from Kentucky. * * * Sir, the old
condemned system is ruinous in every branch,
and especially to the manufacturing, agricultural
and commercial interests. The distress which
he ascribes to the importation of silk, comes from
other causes, &c. &,c.
To return to the question—How are the de
mands upon the Government to be met? Will
the party in power during their reign, make
the necessary arrangements to raise the wavs and
means to meet those demands? Without cir
cumlocution, I reply they will not. What then
is to be done? Frorn the present aspect of affairs,
the plighted faith of the Government must be
disregarded and sacrificed,or, there must be as
Extra Session of Congress. In the language
of Mr. Webster, we must have what merchants
term a rest. We must open new books.
An extra. Session must be held, to repeal the
Sab-Treasury law. To provide a safe depository
for the public money. To ascertain the amount
of legal claims that this administration leaves
unsatisfied. To create a stock for the payment
of them. To find the Treasury Notes that may
remain in circulation. To raise a revenue equal
to the expenditures of the Government, by tax
ing luxuries, such as silks, wines, &c. In short
to lav before the people, as far a? practicable, a !
true and honest statement ol their concerns, and ,
then to make the necessary provision against ad
ding to the debt in which an improvident and
incompetent administration have involved tho
country, This is what the people require, at the
I !',ands of the party coming into power, and the
: presumption is, they will disappointed.
The Spy in Washington.
The Providence Journal says The Hank of
North America has passed into new hands. It
is the design of those who have purchased the
charter, to°conduct it as a Bank of Exchange.
The stocks is to be taken by the country banks,
and this institution is to redeem their bills here
and in Boston, without requiring any deposite,
as a compensation for transacting the business. ;
We understand that such progress has been made
in the arrangements as to leave no reasonable
doubt that the project will be carried into execu
tion.
From the Boston Atlas.
| The last accounts from Europe show that a
i crisis has arisen in the affairs of the V iceroy of
I Egypt. The Allied Powers were making pre
! paralions to attack Alexandria, and nothing but
| abject submission to their will and authority can
; save the throne of Mohammed Ali.
This remarkable man, who, instead of being
; the regenerator of Egypt has become its scourge,
!is now seventy-two years of age. He was placed
i originally at the head of a small detachment by
j the J Ottoman Porte to march against Napoleon,
| was present at the battle of Aboukir, and for his
| bravery on that bloody day was promoted. Avail
! ing himself of a concurrence of fortunate circum- |
i stances, he gradually made his way into the of
j ficc of Governor of Egypt, which post the Porte
' conferred upon him in 1805. The Mameluke eold
!eera—a body of men instituted by the Sultan to
watch the movements of the Pacha, and prevent
, him from throwing off the dominion of the Porte
i W cre the objects of his unceasing hostility, and
I he watched eagerly for the first opportunity to rid
i himself of them.
In ISII he was sufficiently strong to pul his
; grand project of exterminating the Mamelukes
I into execution. The ceremony of the investiture
; of his son with the caftan, on his taking com
mand of the expedition proceeding to Arabia
I aaainst the Wahabees, offered a favorable occa
-1 si«n. A royal banquet was prepared in the cita
jdei, the guests were invited, and they were all,
| with the exception of one man, slaughtered in
| cold blood, m the sight and at the bidding of
1 Mahommed Ali, whose memorable words on that
'occasion, “Vras, vras!” (“Kill, kill!’) are not
likely to be forgotten. This, in Egypt, was a re
| form —a getting rid of old eneimies ; and in the
language of the sycophants who at this moment
| crawl about the court of the Pacha, “The V iceroy
! used the right of legitimate defence.”
He now became ambitious of miilitary renown.
In 1824 he sent a large armament, consisting
I of 160.000 infantry and 700 cavalry, against the
■ Greeks. The battle of Navarino lost him his
| fleet, and about one half of his troops perished in
| this expedition.
In 1831 he invaded Syria with 24,000 infantry
I four regiments of cavalry, and 60 to SO pieces of
j cannon, avowedly to recover 6,000 fellahs, or
subjects of his, who had fled from the terror of
j his government in Egypt, to Abdallah Pacha, the
I governor of St. Jean d’Acre, to whom he wrote,
I saying that “he would come to Acre to demand
his 6,000 fellahs, and to take them avvav, and
one man more!" and he kept his word, for he
carried away his fellahs and “the one man more,”
after a seige of six months.
No sooner had Acre fallen into the hands of
1 Mohammed Ali, than he was declared a rebel by
| the Porte. In July. 1832, the battle of Koniah
j ensued between the Turks and Egyptians. Vie
i tory was again on the side of (he Pacha, and it
| opened the way for Ibrahim Pacha to Constant!-
nopie. Ibrahim, when his outposts vveie at Kn
-1 tayeh, was within five days’ march of Constan
: tinoplc, but the remonstrances of the French
Consul with Mohammed Ali, ihcre is good rea
son to believe,prevented the accomplishment then
of the Pacha’s grand scheme; and Ibrahim’s
march on the Turkish capital was consequently
deferred, but the intention, those about. Moham
med Ali acknowledge, never was given up.
| On the 14th of May a partial arrangement was
’ concluded, recognising the Pacha in the govern
-1 j ment of Syria and Adana.
In the meantime the Sultan recovered suffici
} cntly from the blow inflicted on his power at
i Koniah to be able to send another army into Syria,
under the Seraskier Hafiz Pacha, m 1839; and
the battle of Nezib ensued, which seemed to have
j given the death-blow to the military character of
j the Turks, and left Mohammed Ali in the posses
' ; sion of the whole of Syiia.
’ | In August 1840, a Turkish vessel of war ar
i rived at Alexandria, with a Turkish envoy and
• an English and Austrian agent, charged with the
proposals of the Four Powers to Mohammed Ali.
These propositions it is unnescessary to detail;
1 suffice it to say, Mohammed Ali was called on to
evacuate Syria, and to restore the Turkish fleet.
1 The possession of St. Jean d’Acre for life, and
the hereditary government of Egypt, were offered
to Mohammed Ali in return. The Pacha had no
1 sooner been informed of the expected arrival of
the envoys, than he immediately set out for Man
sourah on the Nile, to De out of reach of these
persons on their arrival.
By this manoeuvre he expected to gain time ;
and the pol cv avowed by the friends of the Pa
cha to lie pursued by him in ail future procee
dings, was to procrastinate all negotiations with
the allied powers, and by gaining time, to take
advantage of all the circumstances that might
transpire and tend to embroil their governments,
and thus eventually, by their mutual jealousies,
to break up the coalition that was hostile to his
interests. W idle the envoys of the allies were
wailing the result of the Pasha’s determination,
: the Count Waiewski,a natural son of Napoleon,
1 and late editor of the Messager, Paris journal,
i who had been sent out as an envoy to Mohammed
Ali from the French Government, was not idle
!, in, spiriting up the poor md Pacha to reject the
proposals; and they were accordingly virtually
1 rejected, though, in the usual style of Mohanl
• med Ah’s Turkish wisdom in English duplicity
■ —he nominally declared that he accepted the
L terms proposed to him ; he simply retained Syria
• till ho had time to obtain the Sultan’s consent to
1 his humble solicitation to he permitted to retain
the government of that country; and with res
pect to the licet, it was merely held ur safety for
• his master for the time being.
’ Eut this language did not pass current, either
I with the envoys or the consuls, and the Pacha
i uas compelled to explain lumsell in somewhat
t plainer terms, and after devotional declaration
that “he was in the hands of God, and his trust
• was in him,” he signified to one of the consuls
I that “he had won Syria with the sword, and he
' would keep it with the sword.”
In his attempt to retain Syria he has probably
• lost every thing
i ,
, Ax Awfi i. Foreboding. —Two old associate
s and boon companions met on the street yesterday
and after exchanging the usual chillies— wishing
! each other a “happy New Year,” &c. one of them
t noticed a settled gloom upon the other’s counten
ance.
5 o >i look sad, my dear fellow, what’s the mat
ter! said the anxious friend.
1 “Oh ! I’m not right,” said the other.
9 “Not right ! I should think so by your looks,
t But what gloomy idea has got in vour head
’ now?”
1 W iiy, tue fact is, this is the commencement of
a new year, and I m bothered to know how it’s
t going tu result .'"—Picayune.
maMmasei*-****
1 From the Literary Miscellany, for January.
The Dis? ai*ed Heretic.
V SKETCH or THE INQUISITION.
“N'owye as woeman,
ami ilie lyke, I closelyv cherdge ye, (the quhilk i
doute :;ot indedc ye hoidd to be yr dutyes) to make
aile convenient diligence for ye better exfodiating
and bringing to lyghte soche leude and lilthy deuil
i ries of darkness. ” — Mayster Judiciary Baldocke,
Tractate on Wytches, 1609.
Tuat great and erudite Dominican, .Nicholas j
Ev meric, Chief Inquisitor to the crown of Ana- :
«/, M . piously remarked, “ Let no person complain
it he be unjustly condemned; let him console
himself with the reflection, that he has suffered
for righteousness sakeand from divers parts of
the Directory of Inquisitors, a work written by
this eminent divine, we are led to believe that the
j Holy Office, in accordance with the design of I
this Christian advice, sought out and brought to j
justice all who required the test. Our simple I
i sketch is in illustration of the spirit which moved [
! these devout ecclesiastics.
During the reign of Philip the Second, when j
1 lire Spanish Inquisition “ became a firebrand that J
i wrapped the dominions of this fanatic in flames i
I of religious persecution,” there lived in Cuenza ;
an honest widow, named Futella, who, being aged j
j and decrepid, took upon her to tell the fortunes |
j and misfortunes of her neighbors. In due time
j the celebrity of her predictions reached the ears |
I of his Ecclesiastic Holiness, the Bishop of Zam
■ ora; hut little would have come of this, if it had
I not also been reported that the w idowed fortune
teller had hoarded up an immense amount of gold
—the truits of her skill in necromancy. Aow
i all such evil sciences were in those times, as they j
ought ever to be, the abhorrence of the pious,
and the favorite subjects of Christian persecution;
I moreover, it w as for time immemorial the custom i
of the Church to rid all heterodox money-holders ;
: of their superfluous gains; “by which excellent
regulation,” says the sage De Paramo, in his
i amiable work on the Utility and Dignity of the
i Holy Office, “ the evil-minded were cured of j
| avarice, and brought to a proper lone of think- '
ing.” In accordance with views like these, the
Bishop, on learning the nature of Futella’s vo- ,
cation, and the profits likely- to arise therefrom, !
j despatched a couple of Hermandad, or Inquisato- !
i rial Spies, to ascertain exactly the amount of the j
widow’s riches, in order to render justice accord- :
| ingly.
Caspar and Pyrithus, the appointed emissaries, i
: having set out from Zamora, arrived after a toil
| some journey, near the confines of Cuenza. As
| they rode briskly along, “ Friend Pyrithus,” said
' Caspar, “ a thought strikes me.”
j “ Pray what may il be ? ’ a,-kcd Pyrithus.
“ Simply this : it appears to me we are liding
on a fool's errand.”
“ How so ? This heterodox fortune-teller is |
certainly to be had.”
“ 1 allow tor that; hut what will be our reward,
: supposing we do wring the gold from her 1”
“ An orisin for the good of our souls.”
; “ Exactly. Now for my part, lam content to ;
; do without the orisin, if we can manage the a flair j
isoas to pocket the gold ourse'ves. Whatsayest
! thou, friend Pyrithus ?”
“ That I heartily agree w.th thee. Moreover. !
' I though the allair may bring us to the rack, I do
j verily think thy sentiments are excellent. Hast 1
’ ; thou meditated upon any plan, neighbor Cas
par I”
“ Yes, truly. Wo must, in the first place,
i make ourselves masters of the gold. This done, ;
; it is necessary that the widow should suddenly j
I disappear. Know, then, that in the vicinity of
| Cuenza, there is a certain well, sanctified by the
i Pope; and by this, through the instrumentality of
■ Providence, I mean to effect my design ?”
“ Miraculous Caspar! how exquisite is thy in
v- ntion! My haigWiit, I shall stand by thee !”
And united by covenant, the officers i
of the Holy Order er.telW tiie city of Cuenza.
The system of persecution carried on by the I
followers of Saint Dominie, was worthy the glo
rious cause of the Inquisition. Two classes ot
i individuals devoted to this office, and denomina
ted the Hermandad and Cruciata, were univer
i sally known and dreaded throughout the Spanish
i dominions. Like bloodhounds, they followed
; and sought for victims under every disguise.
It they could use force, says a modern vvri-
I trr, “ they drew the devoted person into some
; | imprudent step, and then they pounced upon j
; him, and delivered him to the Inquisition, where i
he was lost forever. No wonder the Spanish I
nation was changed in character!” To know
them as a class is to know them individually.
, Actuated by the same motives, their schemes and
persecutions were alike cruel. We leave the j
faithful Familiars, Caspar and Pyrithus,—fair j
specimens of the Hermandad—to correct mea
. sores and affect their sinister design on the
widow, and return to the Bishop of Zamora.
Robed in his ecclesiastical garments, sat this
1 pious man, two months after he had despatched
. the spies to the city of Cuenza, anxiously await
, ing some news respecting the treasure of Futella.
; It was in the judicial chamber of the Banta Casa,
, or holy house, in which he chose to sit, attended
. i by two subordinate judges, a notary, and certain j
1 Familiars, whose duly it was to extract piety !
| : from the blasphemous, truth from the false, and 1
, | .confirmation from the orthodox. Just as ha i
f t least expected it, Caspar and Pyrithus entered,
with joy depicted on their countenances.
“ Well.” said the Bishop. •• what news, what
of the fortune-teller! and the money,the money]
he quick!”
“My lord, replied Caspar, bowing very grave-
I ly. “the money is lost to all intents—and in this
basket is I lutella, whom we have discovered to ■
be nothing less than a witch !”
“ Sain - Peter, preserve us! you don't mean to
say so ! Let us see this miracle !”
Caspar opened the basket, and the Bishop
; peered suspiciously at the contents.
“ Bless me !” cried the holy man, “ I see noth
, ; ing but a frog!—a prodigious hull frog !”
, “ -Such it may appear to your Worship,” quoth
Caspar, hut I solemnly protest it is no more
1 frog than your \\ orsltip sselt—as I can prove by
« Pyrithus, who witnessed the miraculous transfor
■ mation as well as myself.”
•• Ot a verity, cried Pyrithus, “my comrade
. | speaks the truth.”
“ Well, this is certainly very strange. No
■ doubt you have abundance of evidence to con
■ v * c ? her ot witchcraft, heresy, and defiance of
i the tenets of the Catholic Faith !”
i “ Worse than those, your Highness—she has
. defiled the Holy Well !”
How ! \V fiat!—this calls for a solemn in
| 'cstigation. 1 ake your places, witnesses,-—put
; the prisoner before us, and let this matter be tho
. j roughly silled.”
Caspar and Pyrithus stood aside, and the dis
i guised heretic, hound with whip-cord, was placed
; upon a bench before the notary and the judges.
; An awtul silence reigned in the presence of this
■ great and solemn Hbunal. Clothed in theii black
and flowing robes—their beards falling in white
flakes fiom their chins—their cast of countenance
stern and relentless, and a mystic dignity in their
mien and speech—all seemed calculated to ira
! press the prisoner with a sense of his desperate
situation. Rising with a grave majesty, the
; Bishop read the form of trial,
i “We, the Inquisitors of heretical depravity,
■ do, with the concurrence, and the name of our
l<ord Jesus Christ, and ol his glorious mother,
• the Virgin Mary, sit on our tribunal, and judge
with the holy gospels lying before us, so that our
judgment may be in the sight of Cod, and our
eves may behold what is just in all matters;
i therefore, moved and impelled Ly the grace of
. , nC merc y> we ‘l° so far invade the laws of tins
solemn tribunal, as to grant thee, the prisoner
now m hearing and before us, the right
and advantage of trial in our presence; so pro
1 ceed witnesses, and let your evidence be given
i with the truth and impartiality which character
ise the investigations of the Holy Inquisition.”
Caspar stood up, and thus dehveied his accu
sation : “ Most high and godly tribunal, two
mouths have scarely elapsed since myself and my
excellent comrade Pyrithus, set out to bring to
justice a certain infamous fortune-teller of the
city of Cuenza. whom leport spake of as more
! skilful in Evil Sciences than all the devils in holl,
j and more avaricous than the Golden Miser him
: self. On entering the city we espied her sitting
I on her door-sill, conning over a paper ot blasphe
mous hieroglyphics—doubtless intended to ruin
the true and immaculate Faith (though as your
Worships know, that’s neither here nor there :)
she looked at us out of her left, eye, as much as
to say, ‘ catch me if you can/ and with that she
I started up and ran like the very wind. We tol
i lowed her in all haste, but in spite of our cxer
| lions, she not only outstripped us, but led us a
[ real wild goose chase, the upshot of which was,
! that towards night fall we found ourselves by the
| Holy Well, and this witch transformed by her
| infernal arts into a frog! But this most mighty
i judges, was nothing to what afterwards came to
j pass ; for on approaching closer, we found that
j she had actually stripped, and was in a perfect
j state of nudity ! We shouted to her to dress her
i self immediately, but instead of doing that, she ;
■ quietly jumped into the well—the Holy Well,
your Worships, and began to swim ! Pyrithus
and I both swore eternal vengeance at this horrid ;
and impious profanation ; and determined to have
j plenty of proof, we began to question the meta
morphosed witch, from the edge of the well.—
i Though she endeavored to conceal her heresy in
I a barbarous jargon of her own, we gleaned quite
j sufficient to convict her; and we watched from
j day today, and from week to week, till an oppor
tunity occurred, by which we made ourselves
masters of her person. Before vour Excellen
cies sits the wretched woman—in heartfelt since
rity we recommend her to your mercy.”
“ Stand back, witnesses,” said the Bishop;
! “ and we shall proceed by questioning the priso- j
ner. Woman, whereas it appeareth that you, a
j necromancer of Cuenza, have, in defiance of the
Christians Church, and under the penalty of ex- !
! communication and inquisitorial punishment,
practised for your own emolument, certain infer
; na! arts, held heretical by pious and holy tribu
nals, and moreover, defiled the Holv Well in
I the presence of the Hermandad or official spies, j
by bathing or swimming in the same, contrary to |
the edict of our most high and gracious Pope, it
doth therefore become our duty to inquire into
and adjudge these offences and render appropri
ate decision (heron. In the name of God, then, j
thou art commanded to answer without prevari- |
cation, these, and all of these, the following
j questions, to wit:
“ Hast thou, on alh, ever held secret meetings
with Satan I’’ The frog looked gravely at the
Bishop, but said nothing—
Bishop. “ Hast thou, 1 repeat, ever held se-
S cret meetings with
Not a word spake the frog, and the Bishop be
gan to wax wrathy.
j Bishop. “ Thou art commanded to answer,
on pain of excommunication, hast thou ever held
| secret meetings with the devil]”
i Still the prisoner answered not.
Bishop. “ This obstinate silence will Lp se
verely punished. Ido therefore, for the last time,
demand, in the name of God and St. Dominic,
l hast thou ever dealt with the devil!”
; Something like a croak issued from the frog.
Bishop. “Speak up, and deliver thy replies
in the national language of Spain. Hast thou
i ever concocted schemes for the destruction of the
j Holy 7 Catholic faith in torbidden ir.tercourse
with Beelzebub]”
Another croak, longer and louder, was the
■ answer.
Bishop. “Thou art, once lor all. commanded
| to drop this hellish jargon, and answer in pure
Spanish, hast then held meetings with the devil.
; detrimental to the prosperity of Christianity ]”
Without replying, the froggish heretic calm
| ly stared at the Bishop, who, enraged at the
I insolence, waxed exceeding wroth.
Bishop. “ Whereas, in contempt of this holy
j tribunal, thou hast either refused to answer the
questions put to thee, or spoken in such corrupt
j ed idiom that Beelzebub himself could scarce
j comprehend thee, we, the chief Judge of this In
! quisition, exhort and command thee, for the last
j time, to answer in a Christian tongue such other
I interrogatories as we shall deom meet to demand
of thee ; and the better to impress the necessity
ot compliance, we do name such penalties in case
of obstinacy, as hanging, stifling, roasting, stab
j bins, frying, ravishing, ripping open, breaking
i the bones, rasping oil the flesh, tearing with
horses, drowning, strangling, burning, broil
ing, crucifying, immuring, poisoning, cutting off I
the tongue, nose and ears, sawing off' the limbs,
hacking to pieces, piercing with hot irons, bod- •
kins and knives, and drawing bv the heels
through the streets*—by means of which we
opine thou shait be made to do as we command
thee. Furthermore, we do exhort thee, as thou
j wouldst deserve our mercy, to drop that diaboli
j cal guise thou hast assumed, and become, as
l heretolore. ot human form and mien.”
i During this harangue, the supposed heretic
maintained a dogged silence—one moment look
ing gravely at the Bishop, and another fixing its
goggle eyes on the judges.
Bishop. “Prisoner on the bench, thau art
commanded to answer why and wherefore didst
thou strip naked, and defile the Holy Well, by
bathing or swimming in it, under the guise of a
frog ]”
No answer except along croak being given,
the Bishop consulted in a low voice with the i
judges, who deemed to be of opinion that without \
an interpreter the truth could not be extracted. —1
Zophar, a famous Zamorian linguist, was sent i
for. and again the trial proceeded.
Bishop. “ Thou art commanded, false and I
evil woman, to answer without prevarication, if
thou hast concealed in thy hut or domicil at Cu- j
enza, an immense amount of gold, contrary to I
the established principle of the Church 7
“ Doo-noo ! doo-noo!” croaked the frog.
Bishop , lu the Interpreter. “ Whereof thou
must give us the meaning.”
interpreter. “ She says, your worship, that
she don’t know.”
Bishop. “ Notary, put that down, as convinc
ing evidence of her utter disregard for truth. In
trie name ol Christ, then, we proceed. Prisoner,
hast thou always and ever been faithful to the
Roman Catholic Church ?”
“ Noo-nuo ! noo-noo! noo-noo!” went the frog.
Interpreter. “ She repeats the negative, vour
Holiness.”
Bishop. “ Let her damnable heresy be writ
ten in letters of blood on the Book of Records !
Horrid and depraved woman, without further
examination thou art commanded to confess thy
heresies, speak the truth, and heaven in her
mercy may prompt us to show thee grace.”
A dead silence was maintained by the’ priso
ner. 1
Bishop enraged. “Officers and Familiars,
bring forth the thumb-screws, and, with the as
sistance of the Virgin Saint, the truth of this
heresy and witchcraft shall out !”
■l’iK- thumb-screws were introduced, and, with
some trouble, adjusted to the wrist, of the meta
morphosed fortune-teller.
Bishop. Now, unfortunate woman, we do
hope,by Divine* leave, and our thumb-screws, to
wrench the truth from thy corrupted soul. Pro
-Tilt’v I”™ 1 lar8 ’ aUd Iet J usticebe awarded the
I he screws were tightened -presently the frog
cried* 1 ° Lmali ’ ancl ,he J u % es unanimously
Bthuld the power ot heavenly intervention!
Verily she doth confess in excelle.it styh ! A ou,
Zophar, interpret as hitherto, and let the notaiy
commit to paper every word she says !
After a tedious and formal repetition of the
supposed cenfessions ot the heretic, the Bishop
arose and delivered in a pompous voice, the deci
sion of the tribunal :
»• Having, by the instrumentality of Christ,
made prisoner of. adjudged, and found guilty,
you, Futella of Cuenza, a reputed fortune-teller
and necromancer, we. Holy Inquisitors of Zamo
ra, by this our sentence define, pronounce and
declare thee, the said Futella, guilty of, and
amenable for, divers acts of witchcraft, (the chief
of wnicli doth appear even unto our eyes, to wit:
tnou hast in order to elude justice, transformed,
by thy infernal arts, thy own person into the
loathsome form of a frog)—and also of heresy
against the most high, honorable, and Godlike
edicts of the Pope ; wherefor, we do condemn
thee to be burned at the stake in expiation of thy
crimes—thy properly to be confiscated, and thy
gold to he appropriated to the good of the H oly
Church.”
While this graud and solemn investigation
was going on, the cunning Hermandad, Caspar
and Pyrithus. were standing on thorns, lest the
! most devout Bishop of Zamora should discover
, their ruse ; for ruse it w-as. In effect, they had
cruelly murdered and robbed the fortune-teller,
; and had loaded their pockets with gold ; but it
i appears from a sermon preached by the Bishop
; at an auto-da-fe, given for the satisfaction of
Philip 11. at Valladolid, that he firmly believed in
the transformation of the widow. “To have kil
led these horrid wild beasts and enemies of God,”
said the man of grace, “whom we now behold on
j this theatre; some by taking life from their errors,
j reconciling them the Holy Faith, and inspiring
| tnem with contrition for their faults; others by
: condemning them through their obduracy to the
| flames, where, losing their corporeal lives, their
| obstinate souls will immediately burn in hell: by
| this means God will be avenged of his greatest
j enemies; dread will follow these examples, and
I the holy tribunal will remain triumphant.”*
.1. ROSS BROWNK.
! * Book of Martyrs.
• *“Mason’s His. Inquisition.
The following description of himself, given by
| Lorenza Dow, jr., a popular preacher through
, the columns of the New York Sunday Mercury,
I is at once eloquent, graphic, and applicable to
; man in general, as well as to him. It is as true
: to nature as the lineaments of the face in the
most natural miniature ever depicted by the hand
of the most skilful limner:
j “ What a precious piece of goods lam ! hard
|!y fit for a mock auction shop—a damaged rera
i nant of youthful ambition—moth-eaten by time,
| grown flimsy by age, and scratched to pieces by
1 the cares, disappointments and trials of a vexa
; lious world. I feel myself to be nothing more
j than a soap bubble, blown into existence by the
breath of Omnipotence, and I expect to be b’own
out of it by a puff from the same source. * *
* W’hen my old coat gives evidence of de
cay, I can get it scoured and mended—a super
anuated pair of boots can find renovation in the
| lap of the cobler—but w hen the body grows the
| worse for w’ear. no mortal hand can stay its de
! struction. Time has used me pretty well, how
ever, considering the liberties I have sometimes
taken with it. It has gently bro ught me to the
| calm evening of my days, when life’s second
| twilight gathers round, and as it deepens, dis-
I closes the hand-writing upon the golden wall of
; the west—‘ a fair to-morrow lijr the weary/pil
; grim.” I have not descended, my friends, into
a gloomy vale. Not a bit of it ! I have reach
ed the summit of a glorious hill, where the eter
nal sun ot Hope shines down and warms mv
back, as an offset to the chill winds that whistle
in my bosom. Here I can mount a stump, and
! look over the whole landscape of past existence.
I can point to the dim blue horizon, and say—
j ‘ I’fiere, behind that misty veil, lies the region of
infancy, where I first pecked the shell, and came
squalling into the world with an eloquence that
foretold my future calling; a little this side, I
behold the blooming garden of childhood, in all
its pristine loveliness, where I plucked the roses
ol joy, sucked all the sweet cider of life, mocked
at care, and drove sorrow with a single boo-hoo ;
this side of that, are the green pastures of youth,
over which I bounded with the blood of young
boiling ambition in my veins, striving to imitate
and emulate; nearer still, extended the broad
plains, fertile valleys, ruggvd hills, and wooded
j lawns of manhood, with an extensive variety
jot prospect; here a gleam of sunshine, and there
a gloomy shadow.”
• Childhood.—Ah ! Childhood—beautiful
mystery ! —how does nature lie all around thee,
as a treasure house of wonders. Sweet and gen
tle season of beinf;! whose flowers bring cn the
period ot i ipening. or bloom but to wither and fade
in their loveliness—time of “thickcoming” joys
and tears ! ot tears that pass quickly away, as if
they did not belong to thee, of joys that linger
and abide long and yet make the long day short
—time ot weakness ! yet of power to charm the
eve of sages fr®rn their lore. Childhood ! what
a mystery art thou, and what mysteries dost thou
deal with. U hat mystery is there in thy unfol
ding faculties), that call forth wonder from those
that gaze upon thee, and seem to thyself at times
almost as it they 7 were strange reminiscences of
an earlier being ! What mystery is there in thy
thoughts, when thou art first struggling to grasp
the infinite and eternal! when thou art told of im
mortal regions where thou shall wander onward
i forever, and sayest even to the leaching voice of
authority, “It cannot, father! it cannot be!"
j Rev. O. Dewey.
From the Harrisburg Reporter.
' Horse 1 hading.—lt is sometimes amusing to
| bear a cou fde of jockies trading in Horse flesh.
| They are generally the “hit or miss” portion of
: community, and rely more upon “chances” than
any other class of bu-iness men. An instance of ■
this kind, in which one of our neighbors was con
cerned, “came off" the other dav, and exemplifies
the gravity' with which the sucker swallows a
costly joke.
How will you trade 7 was the interrogatory
of th<» stranger.
‘Lnsignt. unseen, ’ replied neighbor B.
“Agreed, said the stranger, “provided vou
answer my questions and pay five dollars for eve
ry falsehood you tell me.”
“Done,” says Mr. B.
“Is he sound in his limbs?”
“Yes.”
“Is he sound in wind?”
“Yes.”
“Has he good eves?”
“Vos.”
“Then how will you trade*”
“Give me seventy five dollar*.”
“I’ll give you fifty.”
“Done.”
I he money was counted down, and neighbor
, ‘ P uttln S >45 m his pocket, handed back ?5 to
tae stranger.
“M hat is this for?”
“ Why I told you one falsehood.”
“ W nat was it?
“My horse is wind broken.”
by * r
Th? U IT TL, , N " IT UuXVN sxtbbmslt Fine.-
WGr°ni an1 , very comnio » expression of “dont
. oiltr ill y OU re out of the woods » is in the re .
/ • an guage ot the day, rendered, “it is un
“ , ab!e reansonable bipeds to exert their vo
cal powers in a boundless contiguity of shade.”
, \ Bf.*tox A\» Caihocx.— The Washington
correspondent of the New Orleans Advertiser
gives the following: Col. Kenton has arrived
? as far as Baltimore, on his way here. A gentle*
> man who travelled with him fold me that the
• only topic of conversation that afforded the Col,
any gratification was a constant abuse of Cal*
, I houn. He said that to him (Calhoun) was al
, tributed the ruin of the party. That he never at
' tached himself to any cause hut that he destroy
ed it; that he was an incubus —a barnacle—a
1 man ol no invention : that he never had trigi
t nated anylhiiag—not even a humbug !
‘What, is the difference between me and a new
, novel?” inquired a highly rouged damsel of her
beau. “It is this,” said he. “A new novel is
read because it is interesting, and you are interes
ting baoause you are red.”
Accomodated i.v full. —Two sailors were
sitting on the gunwale oftneir ship, drinking
grog. “This is meat and drink,” said Jack and
tell overboard as he was speaking. “And now
you’ve got washing and lodging,” coolly replied
i Torn.
Politeness.
in our intercourse with the world, this, species
of civility is imperative. We possess no right to
give offence, by language or actions to others; and
' we are bound to conduct ourselves agreeably to
the reasonable and set rules of society. Some
| severe writers on morals have confounded polite
ness and insincerity. They seem to imagine that
the act of speaking gracefully to another is
, necessarily mere grimace, or an empty flourish
signifying nothing. In many instances with in
sincere people this may be the case, but it is not
’ so with those of well regulated minds. It is al
[ ways better to speak politely, that is with proprie
, ty and delicacy, than bluntly, coarsely or imper
. tinently. Civilized society has, in the course of
' time, instituted certain rules in the code ofpolite
t ness, which though of little actual value, it is
I every one’s duty to learn, because by knowing
and acting upon them, we can make life glide on
much more smoothly and pleasantly than if we
remained in ignorance of them.
It is incumbent upon every one to be courteous
and respectful in his intercourse with neighbors,
acquaintance, or with the public generally. To in
feriors, speak kindly and considerately, so as to re
lieve them from any feeling of being beneath you in
circumstances; to equals.be plain and unaffected in
manner; and to superiors show becoming respect
without, however, descending to subserviency and
meanness. In short acta manly, courteous and
inoffensive part in all the situations of life in
which you may be placed. Society has ordained
certain modes of address, and certain exterior
signs of respectfulness, which it behoves us to sup
’ port and personally attend to. By attention to
the ruies such as we have alluded to. the poorest
man will be entitled to the cnaracter of a gentle
man. and by inattention to them the most weal
thy individual will be essentially vulgar. Vulgar
ity signifies courseness or indelicacy of manner,
and is not necessarily associated with povertv or
lowliness ot condition. Thus an operative artis
an may be a gentleman, and worthy of our partic
ular esteem ; while an opulent merchant may be
only a vulgar clown, with whom it is impossible
itobe on terms of friendly intercourse. We say,
cultivate politeness of manner, bv all means, for
it is refined civility, and will spare both ourselves
and others much unnecessary pain.
Customs of Brazil.—Throughout the in
terior of Brazil I found few houses where the
daughters of the fazendeiros, or indeed any of the
female part ot the family, made their appearance.
I spent a day w ith one ot the most hospitable men
in the neighborhood, and father, ot a large family,
but none ot the voung ladies were visible. Every
now and then I saw two laughing faces peeping
through a hole in the door, but the moment 1
glanced at the aperture the faces vanished. This
, custom is general, and leads to a marriage system
a la Chijiois. —Marriages are arranged in the
following manner : —The person bent upon mar
riage hears that a certain father has daughters to
to dispose of; whereupon he calls upon the papa
tells him ot his inclination to become his son-in
-1 law, and that he possesses so many slaves and
coffee trees. It the papa thinks thev have enough
1 “coffee and black” to live comfortably, he accepts
the proposal, and introduces the aspirant to bis
luturewife, who, perhaps, sees her future husband
for the first lime. I am speaking now of the society
of the interior, principally amongst the smaller
fazendiros or farmers; for in Rio you will find
little difference from any other civilized country.
People in the interior are nearly uneducated—
reading and writing, especially the latter, are look
ed upon as Herculean acquirements; and among
the women the greatest ignorance invariably pre
vails.— V is/t to the <hegron IHou/itains.
Consumption.—The editor of the N. Hamp
shire Telegraph, in an article relating to the fre
quency ot this dias-iao among us, and its charac
ter, says :
“If there be a disease in lids world of ills which
seems in a peculiar manner to fit its victim for
the fate which human skill cannot avert, that dis
ease is consumption. To one who is full of life,
an.i hope and joy, the first conviction that it has
fastened its death grasp upon him. "lie tearful cer
tainiy ot its end. will flash through him with u
thrill of horror—more doubtless ihan that of
most other diseases. Startling it mus; He, indeed,
to tell for the first time, that there is a worm gnaw
ing at one’s vitals, whose greedy teeth i.o human
skill can stay—startling to feel’ the cen .inty of
diseases within, whose end is surelv death. But
how soon does the spririt grow calm ; and he
lee s the disease tugging at his hcart-stiings,
and ms strength wasting away before it. how
calmly then does the soul plume itself for its up
ward fight—how trustingly does it lean itself
upon the bosom ot its God. and when the flesh
and heart grow taint and fail, how sweetlv sinks
i to lts na * res l the victim of consumption.”
“So lades a summer cloud away.
So sinks the gale when storms are o’er.
So gently shuts the eye of day.
So dies a wave along'the shore.”
. Printers’ Gratuities.—No class of me
cuanics, perhaps, suffer more from the predatory
and begging habits of individuals than printer.
1 hey work so hard, invest so much, and furnish
their papers so low, that people really seem to
think they actually are worth nothing but to be
given away, or taken without leave. According
ly, nothing is more common than for people, who
have the curiosity to read something that hap
pens to be particularly interesting, or who wish
to send a paper to a friend as a token of remem
brance, to run into a printing-office, and ask for,
or lake, a paper just out from the press ; and if
the printer should think of taxing him any
for it the customer would think himself quite in
suited by the niggardliness of the stingy printer»
Wuh what other mechanics or business Z a
would people think of taking the same liberties »
Go into a grocery and ask the retailer to give you
a iour-pence-ha’-penny’s worth of tea, coffee or
sugar,—and unless you were really an object of
chanty—he would probably think himself the one
7: 0r * bo ° kstore and make
on with halt dozen sheets of „
m 0.,, likelv the proprietor vv H . g P J Per ' anJ
rner with ■> evit * . . P ursue his custo-
J-hm-s shop and asL
pie will nt 1 , h ap b , uslne!is - And yet peo
worlh of printc? IU M lnS otli ' Ce ’ and take 811 cenls
of that i ,I 10r and rea,, v think it one
awav I 1 tblngS which should be given
slracr whh* 7 J , thu k 100 valuable lo ab
stracr w about pay. au d yet it costs probably iwen-