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VOL. XXV.] BV KBIEVK & OBSIE, EDITORS ANP PROPRIETORS. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1 844. [NO. 16. terms rry Tlte Recorder is published weekly, in the Ma- T-mil at Three Dollars, per annum, payable in Twice ur Fol'R Dollars, if not paid before the end r'the year. No paper, in any case, sent outcf the State. ' h nit heitiE first paid for IS ADVANCE; or any new subscriber taken for a les3 period than ONE TEAK, unless paid for at the rate of Four Dollars per annum 111 advance. Advertisements conspicuously inserted at the usua 1 These sent without a specification of the number of insertions, will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. Ualesof Land and Negroes, bv Administrators. Exe- eutors or Guardians, are required by law to be held on , h “ first Tuesday in the month, between the hour, of ten “ the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court H 0U .e in the county in which the property is situate. 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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.