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MISCELLANEOUS.
The Carnival: or the Mock Marriage—A Tale.
1.
it was the gay season of the Carnival.—
The streets of Vienna were thronged with
inotlev processions; and music, and the
merry laugh, and the voice of pleasure, were
substituted for the hum of commerce, the
serious tones of business, and the voice of
care. The city had put on its holiday suit
ami mirth and revelry reigned from hall
to hovel Night came,and the streets were
tilled with maskers, on their way to vari
ous places of amusement. The gorgeous
hall of the hotel de l’Empereur, was lighted
tip with the splendor of noon, and its ave
nues were thronged with the carriages and
the caleches of the elite; and giaceful and
stately women in masks, and noble appear
ing men in rich costumes, alighted from
them, and ascended the broad stair to the
hall, to which they were directed by the
sound of music and revelry that gaily reach
ed their ears. Beside the door stood mar
shals to receive the swords of the gentle
men, and at the same time, according to
the usual regulations, commanding each,
as lie passed into the hall, to lift his or her
mask ; the object of the first being to pre
vent biood shedding in any chance quarrel;
that of the latter to see that no improper
persons entered.
< Nay, Sieur Marshal, thou shalt not have
iny sword, nor, by mine honor, will I lift
mask at any man's bidding !’
These were the words spoken by a tall
but evidently youthful masker, represent
ing a Venitian cavalier. The elegant and
gi aceful costume displayed his fine person
to advantage, while his lofty and haughty
carriage gave an air of truth to the assum
ed character, for never a cavalier of "V eirice
carried himself with nobler bearing. He
wore a splendid rapier at his thigh, and his
face was closely concealed in a black silk
visor. A snowy plume depending from
his cap swept his left shoulder, from which
his scarlet mantle, silvered with embroider
ed flowers, fell gracefully as low as hia
breast. On his arm hung a graceful female
ti"ure, slisrht of form, but with a proud
carriage. Shevvoieth* costume oi a no
ble Venitian lady, aiul was masked with a
half visor of siik, which left exposeda chin
and throat of the most exquisite beauty.
The voice of the chevalier, as he an
swered the marshal, was arrogant and de
lving. The corridor without was thronged
with maskers, waiting to enter, and, regard
ing with surprise and curiosity the extra
ordinary scene.
‘ Nay, then, Monsieur,’ replied the mar
shal, placing his sword across the entrance,
' thou shalt not pass !’
‘ I will not be stayed by a servitor of the
hall! Stand aside, marshal,’ answered the
cavalier, fiercely ; and lie drew his sword
and struck down the weapon that opposed
his passage.
‘ Ho ! Lcs gens d’a. mes ! Ho ! the
guard !’ shouted the marshal, and the crowd
without.
“ Arretc vous, Monsieur/ challenged a
second marshal within the door placing the
point of his sword at his breast. But the
bold cavalier struck it aside, and passing
into the hall, mingled with the throng of
maskers before he could he arrested, and
when the gens d’armes arrived, he was
nut to be discovered with the strictest search.
Half an hour had elapsed, and a monk
of the Capuchin order came to the door of
the hall and applied for admittance. Hia
cowl was down, and his features invisible.
“ Lift your mask, good father,’ said the
marshal.
‘ Nay , the rule applies not to me; masks
only are to be lifted,’ answered the capu-
chine.
‘ But dost thou not call a cowl a mask ?
it surely is, or thou art a true monk, aud
can have no business here.’
‘ 1 have business here, and cannot be de
layed : stand aside, son !’
The marshal, awed by his voice and man
ner, instinctively drew aside, and the monk
entered, and was lost to the eye of the be
wildered marshal in the crowd of maskers.
II.
The scene is in the imperial palace ; the
Emperor is alone in his audience chamber,
about the hour of the masquerade. His
brow is troubled, and he paces up and
down the apartment with his hands behind
kirn. He sudddenlv stops and summons a
page.
‘ Send M hither/
The order had hardly been issued, and
the page had not quitted the presence,
when his minister sent in requesting an au
dience.
‘ Admit him. Well, M , what now?
he said, when the page departed, and clos
ed the door leading into the ante room.—
oui manner indicates haste; any mote
<J f this mad youth’s pranks ?
‘ I am sorry to say that he is again the
subject of my visit to your imperial high
ness.”
‘ Out with it. l^have lost all patience
with him. If he escapes again he shall be
shot. I will give the soldiers instructions
to fire upon him !
* This would be impolitic, your highness,
and bring the censure of all Europe upon
you.’
4 I would not care, so he were out. of it.
But what have you now V
‘He has again eluded the vigilance of
his keepers and has fled from the gardens,
but has not left the city. I have made eve
ry inquiry, and parties are secretly on the
search/
* I will have Col. shot for his neglect.
How happened this ?’ demanded the Em
peror in a fierce tone of displeasure.
‘ He was suffered to walk in the grounds
as usual, at four this afternoon, with the
usual precaution of a soldier following him,
and a porter sentinel. By some means he
suddenly vanished from the soldier and
sentinel, as if he had dissolved into air.—
The men hastened to the spot, pursued eve
ry avenue, and hunted the whole inclosure
in vain. One of them then, satisfied of his
prisoner’s escape, turned his musket upon
himself and blew out his own brains.’
4 He did wisely, and only anticipated
with his own hand the work another would
soon have done. What of nis fellow V
4 He came trembling to Colonel , and
told the truth, that no farther time might be
lost, in the search after him. He was plac
ed under arrest, and Colonel reports
that at once every means were set on foot
to discover the fugitive.’
4 And without success ?
4 Not wholly, your majesty. After night
closed in, and Colonel , could yet learn
nothing of him, he waited on me with his
report.’
4 And you placed him under arrest? said
the Emperor, sternly.
4 No, your highness; his liberty was ne
cessary for the present, to aid in prosecut
ing the search.’
4 As soon as you leave me, issue an or
der for his arrest.’
4 Your majesty shall be obeyed ; but may
it please your highness to bear me farther.
While he was with me a person was an
nounced, who came in guarded by two
soldiers, who had reported in the street
that he saw a man descend the garden wall
by means of a grape vine, where a Capu
chin friar met him. and hurried him away.
4 A Capuchin ! I will raze their monaste
ry for this treason. What said the fellow
farther V
4 Nothing that we could act from with
any certainty. I then made no delay, but
hastened to acquaint your majesty with
what occurred/
4 And you have done it as quietly as if
you had come to tell me the young prince’s
squirrel had broke his cage and taken flight.
This is no light matter.’
4 1 am aware of the importance attach
ed to the safe custody of this young man.’
4 The peace of Europe ; nothing less.—
Ho
w now, sir, page
4 General, the Count .desires an au
dience with your majesty on a matter of
moment.”
4 This may touch upon this affair, M
Admit him. But how can he have heard
of this escape ? If it is known that he
has escaped, and is still in the city, the hid
ing closets in Vienna will be open for him.
Let it he kept only among the soldiery on
duty. Good even, Count ! What tidings
bring you that you come at this hour, and
in this hurried guise into our presence ?’
4 1 beg your majesty’s pardon ; a father’s
anxiety, which can give little leisure to pay
deference to time and costume. I have
come hither to solicit your majesty’s aid in
finding ray daughter, for she'eannot yet
have left the city. During my absence
from home two hours ago, she tied, leaving
this note, that before I beheld her again
she should he the bride of the man who
had long held her heart.’
4 Then ’twill be a happy bridal ? But I
will jest not with this grief, for we have
ours abo. Saw no one the flight ? Sus
pect you no one V
‘ I do not, your highness. She never
had an attachment—for she is very young
save for one person, and it cannot be he.’
4 And who was he ?’ demanded the Em
peror, quickly.
4 The youthful French prince, your ma
jesty’s protege ! They often met in child
hood, and occasionally since.’
4 And he, and no one else, has run away
with your daughter!’ cried the Emperor.
4 We have just had intelligence of bis es
cape. It is plain enough, now, that Colo
nel has been out-generaled Love and
a woman. If thy daughter be taken, she
stands a chance of being arrested as a trai
tor, Count.’
III.
We will now go back to a period still
prior to the night of the carnival. The
cruel imprisonment ofyoung Napoleon by
the Austrian Government, is well known
to the world, and lias, perhaps, more deep
ly moved the sympathies of the young of all
nations, than the fate of any other living
personage. During this imprisonment,
when at the age of seventeen, he was de
tained for weeks at a monastery, the garden
of which joined that of the castle of Gener
al Count , who had an only daugh
ter, at the age of fourteen, who often came
to the barriers, and by the indulgence of
his keepers, talked with the prince; for
she knew his story, and felt for his sad fate.
They thus became* acquainted; and the
prince from being grateful, became deep
ly enamored with the beautiful, generous
hearted girl, who, in many ways, secretly
tried to soften the rigor of his imprison
ment. After the prince wa3 removed, on
this veiy account, to closer quarters in the
city, this young maiden deeply interested
her confessor in his fate. Three years pas
sed on, during which interval, by accident,
she had twice met the young Napoleon, and
they had interchanged glances. It was
enough. Each felt they were beloved.—
At length, the maiden resolved to make a
bold effort to effect his escape. Father
she knew to be her firm friend, and a friend
also of the unfortunate prince, for he had
been in Bonaparte’s army. To him she
committed her plans. T rue to her confi
dence in him, he promised to second her
wishes He succeeded in corrupting the
prince’s confessor so far, as to make him
a medium of correspondence between the
two lovers. This correspondence contin
ued for some time, when the prince de
clared his passion, and his desire to be unit
ed with her. He was now twenty-one,
she seventeen, and both were beautiful;
he, tall and manly, she, lovely as woman
hood in its full spring time.
But bow should he escape ? how should
they meet? how should they be united ?
how should they afterwards fly ?
These were obstacles indeed; but love
is powerful and will prevail. At length,
ciicumstances favored them. Amasqner-
ade was to take place the third nignt of
the carnival; and tins suggested an idea to
her mind. She sought her confessor, and
through him her plan was made known to
the prince, who had, the day before, in a
note, written, 4 Whenever you can find shel
ter forme without, I feel confident of being
able to elude my sentinels. It is not so
difficult to escape from the garden, as to
elude observation in the etreet; for my per
son is known to every soldier in the city ;
for once a month, my good relative, the
Emperor, passes them in review, or rather
me in review before them, at the balcony.
I have discovered a tree which I can easily
ascend, (having been practising it, seem
ingly for exercise,) from which extends a
lateral limb, which touches another grow
ing from another tree. Along this, I can
reach the branch of a third tree ; and so, a
fourth and fifth, till the last limb brings me
within reach of the wall, which is a hun-1
I di ed feet distaqt from the first tree. I can j
j pass along these limbs, if I can leap unob- i
j served into the tree, entirely concealed by j
I the foliage. This way, if any, affords me
the means of escape.
It has been seen that he availed himself
of it with singular success. This is the
note in reply to his, which led him to make
the aitempt.
44 My noble friend will avail himself of
the means he has explained, when he next
walks in the garden at four p. m. A Capu
chin will receive him and conduct him to
the monastery which is close at hand.—
There he will ascertain what further touch
es his safety.”
The prince, on letting himselfdown from
the wall, was hurried by the monk into the
court of the monastery, and conducted to
j his cell. There, to his surprise, the prince
beheld the disguise of a Venetian cavalier,
which a note from the daughter of Count
.desired him to assume. He obeyed,
and then looked to the monk for further in
structions.
4 ‘ Is it your highness’ desire to he wedded
to the maiden who has facilitated your es-
j cape ?” asked the monk.
44 That would only complete the happi-
i ness of this hour of freedom,” he answer-
led waimly. ‘‘Our hearts are one, father ;
why may not our hands be ?”
44 Then hear the plan arranged for this
consummation. To-night is the grand
masquerade at the hotel de l’Empereur.—
It is planned that you accompany the young
j Countess thither, she is in the cos-
I tume of a noble Venetian lady. There, 1
I shall be present; and during the various
scenes that take place there, for the amuse-
I merit of the guests, you shall come up to
j tne, and gaily propose to be united to the
| lady, for the entertainment of the compa-
| ny, I will then proceed and go through the
; marriage ceremony, which shall solemnly
unite you.”
44 This is well conceived, and may suc
ceed,” said the prince ; but how shall 1
meet with the fair Countess Nitenne.”
“ Come with me,” answered the Capu
chin, leading the way along the shadow of
the corridor to a postern, which he opened
and passed through.
A few minutes’ walk through the streets,
which were filled with maskers, among j
j whom they attracted no particular atten- j
tion, brought them into a lane in the rear of
thafca rdens of the General Count . i
4 Wait here, a few moments, your high- j
ness,” said the Capuchin, unlocking a pri- j
vate gate, and disppearing in the garden. j
Before the prince had time to grow im- j
patient the monk re-appeared, leading the ,
Countess Nitenne, whom young Napolean j
ardently clasped to his heart. In a minute
afterwards, a carriage, which the monk pro
vided, came up, and getting into it, they
drove to the Hotel de l’Empereur, leav
ing the monk, who said he would soon fol
low.
4 Your highness will not remove your
mask during the evening,’ he added to the
prince, as he took his leave.
4 No,’ answered the prince, firmly. j
IV ' ,
4 There is to be a mock marriage in the j
other part of the saloon/ said several of the j
maskers ; and a general movement of the I
crowd was made toward that quarter, to j
witness it In the midst stood the Venetian i
cavalier and the lady, both masked, but i
both striking, from the grace and dignity
of their persons and carriage. Near them j
stood the Capuchin. A marble pedestal /
was converted into an altar, by placing upon
lit a crucifix and candles snatched from the
! candelabra.
4 Kneel children/ said the Capuchin, sol
emnly. They knelt, and the monk proceed
ed to go through the service, while all the
crowd stood around, observing it as they
would a scene in a play.
V.
The Emperor and his minister, Metter-
nich, and General the Count ——, were
still together, when a messenger entered,
and announced an officer of the guard.—
He was admitted.
44 Pardon your majesty—but if the prince !
Napolean has not escaped, there is in Vi- j
enna, a person whose voice and carriage l
are his own.”
4 What mean you V 4 Of whom do you !
speak ?’
4 A mask, attired as a Venetian cavalier, j
who entered the hall a few moments since, j
as 1 was loitering near. He refused to lift j
his visor, and forced his way in, with a la- |
dy on his arm, also masked and habited as ;
a Venetian. His resemblance in voice and j
air to the prince, induced me to hasten
hither and inform your majesty.’
4 You have done well, Col Necker. I
give you my commands to take with you
sufficient means, and arrest and bring be
fore me this cavalier. Haste, and return
soon, with him and the lady in custody.—
Metternich, you will also accompany him.
It must be our own flown biid.
4 And he is silly as a bird, to appear thus
publicly. I will soon ascertain who this
cavalliei is, your highness/
VL
The ceremony of marriage was ended,
and the priest was pronouncing his benedic
tion, when a commotion was apparent in
the other part of the hall, near the door,
and the throng gave way in terror before
the stride of Metternich and the officers of
the imperial police.
4 What means all this ?’ demanded
Metternich of a general officer, as he came
near.
* A mock marriage, prince ; but, by the
mass ! the priest has done it with a grace
and unction as if he were in right earnest.
There stand the happy couple, who, were
the Capuchin not a priest in masquerade,
are as safely tied as ever were made raau
and wife!’
* There are the two/ said Col. Necker.
* It is he ! arrest them ! also the Capu
chin/
The prince resisted and drew his sword.
In the melee, his mask fell off, and betray
ed to all eyes the well known features of
the captive prince. There was a general
utterance of surprise, and a feeling of deep
interest ! Simultaneously, several of the
maskers made a movement so as to obstruct
the police, and favor his escape. He was
soon separated from Prince Metternich
and Col. Necker and before the mass could
Storming of the War Temple of Mexieo. J
From Prestcott’s “Conquests of Mexico.’
No passage in the Spanish conquest of
Mexico is so well known, or has been told j
so well, as the conflict within the city, the j
death of Montezuma, the storming of the
temple ; the retreat of the Spaniards over j
I the broken causeways and the chasms
where the bridges had been destroyed ; all
Execution Anecdote. | French Courtship.—A husband and
The following anecdote—which we find I wife have a son, ore-and-twenty or two-aad
in an exchange paper—is told of an in-; twenty years of age, whom they wish to
corrigible wag who had stationed himself j see suitably married. Another husband
for a special purpose, amidst a group of j an j w jf e have a daughter, somewhat
the awful adventures of Noche Triste, the
melancholy night. We pass reluctantly
over the death of Montezuma. Faithful to {
be penetrated, the bridegroom and bride lhe Spaniards it would seem to the last, he ‘
had been assisted by two French officers ! desire j to be . taken to the battlements, and .
out of the hail into a carriage. Several of j endeavored to repross the furious onset of j
the gentleman sprung upon the box and j h ; s peopIe> At firat> the
simi of the em-
footboard, and it drove with rapidity to a i r commande d awe, but the silence
distant part of the city, where the prince goon p | ace to lhe language of con- i
and bis bride were soon in safety in a retir- t t and i ndianity . They taunted him as j
ed mansion near the walls, occupied by a a woman . they heaped contumely up-
French officer. Here they remained many I on his be ad. At len ^ h , probably sup-1
females, who attended to witness the exe- j
cution ot Horn, at Baltimore :
Drawing near to an old man with whom
he had a slight acquaintance, he fixed his
eyes upon the gallows, and with a semi-ab
stracted manner, and due solemnity of fea
ture remarked :—
a month secreted, while every means were
set on foot by the emperor for their discov
ery, and at the same time plans were con
stantly forming by their friends for getting
them out of the city •
At length their retreatvvas discovered.—
The prince was arrested, but his wife esca
ped in disguise, and reached Paris. His con
finement was now more rigorous than before;
the severity of which, added to his grief at the
separation from his lovely and devoted
wife, soon wore upon his spirit and health ;
and in a few months afterwards he died a
captive. The Princess Nitenne, who had
implored to share his captivity, and had
been forcibly borne from danger by the
faithful officers, on hearing of his death,
gave birth to a son, and surrendered up her
life. This child the grandson of Napoleon,
still lives not far fiom Paris, a treasure dear-
posing that he had withdrawn, they dis- ;
charged a volley of arrows and of stones
against the spot where he had stood. A 1
stone struck him on the head, aud he
fell senseless : he recovered, but bis heart
was broken ; he obstinately refused all rem
edies, pined away and died. We give the
storming of the temple.
44 Cortes, having cleared a way for the
assault, sprang up the other stairway, fol
lowed by Alvado, Sandoval, Ordez, and
the rather gallant cavaliers of his band,
leaving a file of arque busiers and a strong:
corps of Indian allies to hold the enemy in
check at the foot of the monument. On
the first landing, as well as on the several
galleries above, and on the summit, the
Aztec warriors were drawn up to dispute
his passage. From their elevated position j
younger, whom they also wish to see
44 settled in life.” The former mention
to some friend that they wish to see their
son married, naming the sum they mean to
give him as a portion, and intimating that
i they will be happy if their friend should be
j able, in a few weeks, to tell them of any of
‘Well, it seems to me a hard case that a j his who has a daughter whom he wishes to
man should be brought up and hung, for j see married, and%ho can give the same
killing only two women.’ j sum with her. The parents make the same
Of course, every woman s eye within j communication to some friends in reference
earshot of this remark, was directed to- to her. The friend of the fami’y, in either
wards B , who without moving a j case, then runs over in his own mind the
muscle or withdrawing his gaze from the j names of all the families, in the same station
object before him, after a short pause, re- j ,,f Hf e , witf whom she is intimate. Even-
sumed his soliloquy— tually the foimer meets with some father
4 Now, if Horn had killed two or three j who is willing to give his daughter the same
hundred wives, I should think he ought, I amount as his friends are willing to give
may be, to go the penitentiary—but’ | with their son. He commences the nego-
Here two or three women sidled away ; tiation bv remarking, 44 I have a friend who
some turned partly round toward tlffi speak-1 has a son, aged so-and-so who wishes to
er ; while one, whose blood was rapidly : see him married, ami is willing to give him
mounting, braced herself about six feet dis
tant, square upon him.
4 But,’ he continued, 4 this hanging a man
a certain sum of his portion. You have a
daughter a few years younger, (or of the
same age as the ease may be;) I think if
. . they showered down volleys of lighter mis
Iv guaided and cherished by those who, sdes> together with heavy stones, beams,
disappointed in their hopes of hia father, and burning ra f ter3 , whichthunderingalong
look forward tothe day, not fai distant, when j the sta irway, overturned the ascending
France shall once more rule the nation un-1
der the destiny of Napolean.— Court Jour
nal.
Spaniards, and carried desolation through
their ranks. The more fortunate, eluding
or springing over these obstacles, succeed-
■ ed in gaining the first terrace, where, throw-
. Contrasts ini Life.—A physician met ing themselves on their enemies, they com-
me : “ VY T on Id you like to see a curious pic- j pelled them, after a short resistance, to fall
ture of life ?” said he. “Of course, how back. The assailants pressed on, effectu-1
far off ?” 44 YY ithin sound of that trumpet.” j ally supported by a brisk fire of the mus- f
YY r e turned out of Broadway, and in a keteers from below, which so much galled |
few moments were at the foot of a rude and j the Mexicans in their exposed situation
dirty staircase leading up on the side of a j that they were glad to take shelter on the
wretched building to a kind of temporary i broad summit of the teocobli.
loft. The Doctor opened a door and we i “Cortes and his comrades were close
entered a dingy room, just long enough for! upon their rear, and the two parties soon
a man to lay his length in it the longest found themselves face to .face on this aeri-
for killing only two women, ought to be j you are disposed to give a similar fortune
looked into by the legislature—don’t you I With your daughter, that a very suitable and
think so, stranger?’ addressing tbe old j advantageous match might be made bet ween
dan. the parties.” If the other agree, which is
But before the old man could reply, the almost invariably the case, it is immediate-
female last referred to, and whose face had ] y arranged thatthe paientsof the two young
paled and flushed and paled again, with persons, and the two young persons them-
the effort to suppress her wrath, enforced se lves, shall meet some early eveuing at the
B ’s attention, with the exclama- house of some friend, in order that the
tion— ' young gentleman and lady may see how
‘ Look here, Mister/ lifting her hand | they like each other, before any further steps
and shaking a finger at him with threatning j ar e"taken in the matter. They are both in-
enemy, 4 you had better get out of this, formed of the object for which they are
crowd ?’ i to meet, and are asked to endeavor to make
Stuffing his hands down his pocket, and themselves as agreeable as possible. They
looking the woman full in the face, with accordingly meet, and are introduced to
impeturable mock gravity, he couly remark
ed—
4 Well, I think I had/ and turned away,
ready to burst.
way. A cobbler’s bench without tools, a
few scraps of old leather, and a man lying
al battle field, engaged in mortal combat in
presence of the whole city, as well as of the
on some dirty straw in a corner with a rag- j troops in the court yard, who paused as if
ged quilt over him, were all the contents of; by mutual consent, from their own hostili-
the room. Yes, one thing more—a cent! ties, gazing in-silent expectation on the is-
faid carefully on the window-sill.
44 Have you taken the medicine ?” asked
the Doctor. “ No sir !” 44 YVhy not ?”■—
It’s of no use, sir.” “ How of no use ?”
44 YVhy T don’t want it.” I'm sick of life,
Doctor. I did’ntsend for you.’’
Here the sick man turned his hack to us
with a groan of pain at the effort, and
drew the dirty coverlet over his head.—
The Doctor leaned over him and got hold
of his pulse.
“ Don’t trouble me, Doctor,”
I shall pop off before night,
room for me in the world.”
sue of those above. The arena, thoughsome-
what smaller than the base of the teocalli,
was large enough to afford a fair field ofj
fight for a thousand combatants. It was
paved with broad, flat stones. No imjiedi-1
ment occurred over its surface, except the I
huge sacrifical block, and the temples of!
stone which rose to the height of forty feet,;
at the farther exttemiry of the arena. One j
of these had been consecrated to the cross, j
the other was still occupied by the Mexi-|
“ I hope j can war-god. The Christian and the Aztec I
There’s no j contended for their religions under the very |
shadow of their respective shrines ; while
each other as persons whom their parents
are desirous, if agreeable to themselves, of
seeing united, because they conceive that
the match would prove conducive to their
mutual happiness. A few words pass be-
jBridget’s Account of her interview with j tween them of a very vague and general
Dentist.—YVell, Bridget, says Mary, 44 how j character, and not having the slightest ref-
did you get along with the docthur—what ■ eience to which they have been brought to-
did ye say ta him—and what did he say ta ; wether. The company break up, and the
ye ?” ; young persons, on their return home, are
Bridget—“ Its nothing he did til me, nor * respectively asked by their j.areuts how
I to him, that’s all—only says I, 4 och doc- they like the proposed “parti?” An au
thor docthur dear, it’s my tooth that aches, swer intimating their willingness to enter
aches entirely, and I’ve a mind to draw it intothe matrimonial state, is usually return-
out, and it pTaze ve.’ “ Do it pane ye/ says e d by each. The answer of the one is cora-
he til ne, *Och murder, can ye ax me that i municated to the other. The young gen-
now, and me all the way down here to see tleman then visits the young lady at her pa
ve abut it/ says I. ‘Sure have I slept day rents’ house two or three times, but always
or night, these three days ? Haven’t 1 tried j } n the presence of her mother or some el-
all manes to quiet the jumping divil ?—j de r]y female relation. A day is appointed
Didn't they tell me to put raw brandy in ! for the marriage, which usually takes place
my mouth though its far from the likes' ; n a few weeks. The bridegroom, for such
o’me to be drinking the brandy without b e may now virtually be considered, must
provocation or bv accident.’ So thin the > s tj|] observe the greatest formality towards
docthur tub his iron instruments in a hurry, j his intended wife, not even taking the liber-
with as little eonsarnment of mind as Bar- t y of giving her a kiss as they part, unless
ney would swape the knives anil forks j he has previously obtained the consent or
from the table. ‘Be aisy docthur,’ says 1,1 her mamma, or the matronal relative who
there’s time enough—you’ll no be in srch j has the care of her.—Paris and its people.
huriy when your turn comes, I’m think- )
'1 he Doctor said something kind lo him,j the Indian priests, running to and fro, with
and lie went on, speaking brokenly and j iheir hair widely streaming over their sable
with great difficulty : i mantles, seemed hovering in mid-air, like
“ 1 couldn’t go the almshouse, for 1 hear j so many demons of darkness urging on the
it’s full; I can gel no work, if I was ever so J work of slaughter.
well—people don’t have their shoes mend- j .. The parries closed with the desperate
ed now, I believe ; 1 have no pleasme in f ljr y () fmeii who had nt» hope but in victo-
I ha
life at the best. There’s no comfort for
me. I’d rather die and be quiet. I was
glad when I got sick.”
He persisted in lelusing the medicine
and the kind physician, who had been cal
led in by one of the neighbors, gave some
directions to a poor char-woman who lodg
ed in the cellar below, and we left him.—
In three minutes more vve were attain in
iy. Quarter was neither asked nor given j
and to ily was impossible. The edge of the
arena was unprotected by parapet or battle- j
ment. The least slip woo'd be fatal ; and 1
the combatants, as they struggled in mor- !
tal agony, were sometimes seen to roll over i
the sheer sides of the precipice together.!
Cortes himself is said to have had a verv I
, .... roiv escape from this dreadful fate.— 1
pay Broadway, and the waltz was still play- j Two warriors, of strong muscular frames,
ing most merrily in the balcony of i ie Hu-; se ; zed on him, and were dragging him vio-
seum, and the fountain was still leaping! lently towards the brink of the pyramid.— ■
joyously in the I ark. Tiuly there is heie, Au -are of their intention, hestrugeded with !
and there a contrast in the world vve live m. ■ a]1 , jis f orce . and( before they could accom- j
! plish their purpose, succeeded in tearing
First Pig, then Puppy.— YVhen I first! himself from their grasp, and hurling one
commenced preaching, an old minister told ! of them over the walls with his own arm. 1
me the following story, which has been of; The story is not improbable in itself, for j
use to me. It may be of use to others.— | Cortes was a man of uncommon agility and 1
In years past and gone, lived an old Bap- strength. It has been often repeated ; hut )
tist minister by the name of Place. He not by contemporary history,
had more than a common “ gift of gab,” j 44 The battle lasted with unremitting fu- i
and was very desirous of pleasing his hear-! ry for three hours. The number of the !
ers. An old brother by the name of YVin- i enemy was double that of the Chris- !
sor, was fond of company of Elder Place, ^ tians ; and it seemed as if it were a I
and used to fetch and carry him on his , contest which must be determined by num-
preaching tours. On one occasion, as El- j bers and by brute force rather than by sli
der Place came near the place of his ap-j petior science. But it was so. The invul-
pointment, he asked brother Winsor what j nerahle armor of the Spaniard, his sword
the people generally believed where be of the matchless temper, and his skill >n the
was going to preach. The brother told him j use of it, gave him advantages which far
that it was none of his business, but it was outweighed the odds of physical strength |
his duty to preach what he believed him-i and numbers. After doing all that tbecour- j
self. But Elder Place made inquiries, age of despair could etiable men to do, re-
and found the people were mostly Univer- sistance grew fainter and fainter on the
salists; so he preached that which would ; side of Aztec. One after another ihey had
not hurt any Universalist. t n their way | fallen. Twoorthreepiiestsonlysurvivedto
home, brother Winsor said to Elder Place 1 be led away in triumph by the victors.—
he would tell him a short story as follows : j Every other combatant was stretched a
On a certain holiday a man of good ! corpse on the bloody arena, or had been!
property wished to give the minister a pig. | hurled from the giddy heights. \ et the!
He caught a pig, tied his legs, put him in ! loss of the Spaniards was not inconsidera- I
a basket, covered him up, and directed his ] ble ; it amounted to foity-five of theii best I
negro boy to carry' him to the minister, and ; men, and neat ly all the remainder were i
tell the minister that he might kill it and more or less injured in the desperate con- j
eat it, or he might raise it. The black boy flict.
on bis way stopped to see the military pa “The victorious cavalieis now rushed
rade, and some voung men, wishing to have ■ toward the sanctuaries. 1 lie lower story j
a joke, slipped outtlie pig and put in a pup- was of stone, and two upper were of wood. |
py. The boy went to the minister’s house Penetrating into their recesses, they had |
with the puppy, and did his errand to the , the mortification to find the image of the
minister, saying that his master had sent i Y r irgin and Cross removed. But in the
him a present, that lie might kill it and eat j other edifice they still beheld the grim fig-
or he might raise it. j ure of the Hurtzilopotchli, with his censer
On the minister opening the basket and 1 of smoking hearts, and the walls of this or-
seeing the puppy, he says to the boy, | atory wr ft -big with gore—-not improbably
“ Does your master mean to insult me ?— of their own countrymen.
I do not wish lo raise a dog neither do I
wish to eat a puppy.” The black boy look
ed at the puppy, stared, and told tbe minis
ter, “ He be a pig when I started with him.”
On his way home lie set down his basket,
and the young men drew off the attention
of the boy, while they slipped out the pup
py and put in the pig again. When the
boy got home, his master asked him how
the minister liked his present. The boy-
says, “He no like it; when I get there he
turn into a puppy.” The man opened the
basket, and lo! the pig was there. The
boy looked at tbe pig, stared, and said,
“ Well, if you be pig when you mind to,
and puppy .when you mind to, I fitch and
carry you no more /”
This story is a good rebuke to many min
isters. There is much preaching that is
some times pig and some times puppy—
just to suit the times.
in.' ‘O, well/ said tbe docthur, 4 ami ye; j
no ready now- ye may come the morrow.’ j
‘Indade. docthur, I’ll no stir from this safe j
W id this ould tooth alive in me jaw/ says I;
4 so vou may just prepare, hut y e trade not j
come slashin as a poor Christian body, ofj
ye would wring her neck off first and draw j
her tooth at yet - convenience afterwards.—
Now clap on yer pinchers, but mind ye
get hoult of the right one—ye may aisilv
see it by its aching and jumping.’ ‘Oh/
says he, ‘I’ll get the light one/ and with
that he jabs a small razor-looking weapon j
intil me mouth, and cuts up me gums, as if ;
it w-ere naught but could mate for bash for |
breakfast.
Savs I, ‘Docthur, thunder and blood,— j
for my mouth was full of blood—‘what in
th
A great country.—As two newly arrived
sons of tbe 44 Emerald Isle” were revolving
in their minds’ the other morning, the ex
pediency of arising from their couch their
attention was attracted by the measured
sounds of the matin bell ; when the follow
ing dialogue took place betwen them :
Mickey.— How many of the clock was
that it sthruek, Jimmy?
Jemmy.—Divil of me knows ; but I think
that it struck out clear fifteen : whist, there
it goes again ! sixteen—seventeen—eigh
teen—Oh blood and mnnher, Mickey, rise
for vve will have soon slept the whole twen
ty-four hours ?
Mickey—Ocli, Jimmy, be aisy, lad ;
sore the days and nights must be longer
he divil aie ye aftei ? D’ye want to make ! heie they are in lhe ould counthry :
an anatomy of a living crealur, grave-rob-j s a great country, this and, sure, every
her, ye?' 4 Sit still/ says be, jumming j th >'ig mast be great aecoi din/
something like corkscrew in-til my jaw, and " ~
twisting the very soul out of me. 1 sat still j Wrr Useful to a Commander.— La-
becanse the roartheiing thafe held me down j Fayette had a quarrel with a battalion of
with hiskr.ee, and the gripe of his iron in j t ] !e National guard on the subject of drill
mv lug. He then gave me one awful wring. | they considered the manual exercise ar; in-
Did’ut I think the day o’ judgment was j f, iugemtnt of the Rights of Mar,
come, till me ? Didn t 1 »ee the red fire > 'Hie General being of contrary opinion,
0 the pit ' I felt my head fly off me showl- a depU f- f 0 f Corporals, for any thing higher
der, and looking up, savv something mon- j WO uld look too aristocratic, waited on him
straus bloody in the doctlmr’s wrenching j at the quarrer3 G f his Staff', in the Place
ir°u. 4 Is tliat me head you ve ^got there, j Vendome, to demand his immediate rerig-
says i No, its only yet tooth, lie made j On further inquiry, be ascertain-
answer. Maybe it is, said I, as my eyes j ed t hat all the battalions, amounting to
began to open, and by putting mv band up, : thirty thousand men, were precisely of the
1 foojxl the outside of mv face on, though j same sentiments. Next morning hapoen-
I fell as if all the insiae had been hauk j ed to have been appointed for a general re-
out. 1 had taken a dollar and a half to pay j view of tbe National Guard. LaFayette
for the operation thinking it would bp appeared on the groand of Commandant
enough for a poor woman to pay; but 1 J at head of his Staff! and galloping along
thought I d just ax him-the ptice. So says : lbe ]| nei suddenly alighted from his horse,
I, docthur, how much may ve ax beside the j and lak -„g a m.isket on his shoulder, to
trouble ? Fitly cents ! says he. Lifiy | ut ( er astonishment of every body, he
vs I, sure, I ve not been submit- j wa | ked directly into the centre of the line,
lhree days to that tyrant of a tooth for j aild j ook post in the ranks. Of course all
Troth unmp fpenh nilltmiT ‘ t n , 1 /r- r, , .1
cents
till
fifty cents. Troth, this same teeth pulling
is not very expensive, and I’m much oblig
ed til ve, docthur/
Cheap Boarding.—A thousand and one
stories have been told of the extreme cheap
ness of living in the “ Far West”, but as to
the wav it is occasionally done, vve vveie
never fully aware, until the matter was ex
plained by Dan Marble.
“ You keep boarders here, madam,” sard
an individual, addressing the landlady of a ; f (>r the day, proceeded to march and ma-
bouse, upon the door of which, be saw j p.oenv-ie according to the drill framed bv de-
“ cheap boarding painted. j spots and kings.—Memoirs of a Statesman,
“ We do,” was the response. j in Blackwood.
“ What do you charge a week ?”
“For board, without lodging Jo you j
mean ?” inquired the landlady.
the field officers flew to know the reason.—
44 Gentlemen” said he, “ I am tired of re
ceiving orders as Commander in-Chief, and
that I tnaxgive them. I have become a Pri
vate as you see.”
The announcement was received with a
shout of meiriment, and as in France, a
pleasantry would privilege a man to set
fire to a church, the general was cheered
on all sides, was remounted, arid the citi
zen array, suspending the 4 Kightaof Man’
With shouts of!
triumph the Christians tore the uncouth
monster fiom his niche, and tumbled him
in the presence ofthe borrow struck Aztecs,
down the steps of the teocalli. They then
set fire to theaccursed building. The flame j
speedily rafr up tbe slender towers, send- j
ing forth an ominous light over city, lake
and valley, to the remotest hut among the
mountains. It was the funeral pyre of pa
ganism, and proclaimed the fall of that san
guinary religion which had so long hung
like a dark cloud over the fait: regions of
Anahuse.
“ Yes, madam.”
44 *l’hi ee meals a day, sir ?”
“Yes, madam.”
“Fifty cents is our regular price, sir.”
“ YY r ell,” rejoined the inquirer, 44 that’s
cheap enough at all events. Do you give
your boarders much of a variety ?”
44 Yes, sir, something of a variety—vve
give them dried apples for breakfast, warm
water for dinner, and let 'em swell for sup
per.
It is the temper which creates the bliss
of home, or disturbs its comforts. It is not
in the collision of intellect that domestic
peace loves to nestle. Her home is in the
forbearing nature, in the yielding spirit, in
the calm pleasures of a mild disposition,
anxious to give and receive happiness.
Bemadotte's Early Fife.—Monsieur Mer-
milliod, deputy from Havre, lately visited
Corsica, and has printed a series of interest
ing letlers on the Island. He relates that
at the springs near Bastia, the water was
brought to his lodgings by an old peasant
j woman, 44 horribly decrepid,” named Fraa-
; cesca, the same with whom Bernadotte fell
j m love, and whom he would have married
j in 1777, when she was young and handsome,
i Charles Jean, was then a common soldier
; in the regiment of the Royal marine, and
j employed with the other privates in work-
ing on the road leading from Bastia to St.
‘Learning/ says Feltham, falls far short j Fl,> ren t. Francesca jilted the penniless
of wisdom, nay, so far that you scarcely ; soldier. Soon after he reached the rank of
find a greater fool than is sometimes a Corporal, and then became enamored, at
mere scholar.’ j Bastia, of the daughter of a register of the
— I Council of State, who paid him a small sti-
A gentleir.n was one day composing I pend for copying archives in bis intervals
music for a lady to whom he was paying , of leisure. Both at Bastia and Ajaccio, a
bis addresses. 44 Pray, Miss D.” he said, ; number of his transcripts, in a neat hand,
“what time do you prefer ?” “ Oh,” she : are ca-refully preserved. Th * register per-
replied, carelessly, “ any time will do ; but j emptorily refused his dat*t;-u*r to the amo-
tbe quicker the better.” The company j rous corporal—destined i«> >e one of the
smiled at the rejoinder, and the gentleman | ablest military commanders and wisest
took her at her word. monarebs of Europe.—Paris Car. Nat. Lit.