North Carolina Newspapers

1 iw. IlALEIGn, N. O. TIITJTtSDAY, JtJNE 19, 1034 VOXvS2IV, ; i mnimi ' ATO :. XU-U Uik. ' (. Jutf yV9rta,irio LAWRENCE Sl UiMAT. ' , ' f . TEUMS. . Hnll.r ner Minti .,.... Subionbert M Hhr State "1 ' iZZ.l 7TI.ji.il mr ind Drotit rcide wtlhooi uiw h allowM to reman Stat, who m.y ier to bwo. wbteriberi, m,: llaVt.ja.Sea - t nttmtime ' - From th Knickerbocker. . A PEEP AT WASHINGTON. A ICAf fgH THt 0 AMERICAS TOURIST, .it fw. h na to the Moitol Jukut Cmiar. Undoubtedly, the point to which all, eyes are turned, during a certain por- ( might as well throw the muse of histo tion of the year, is the city of Wash- rr jnt0 a caravan, or put. 'him on" a ington. The big guns' of the nation ; .broad horn' on the Mississippi, with a are there; and there we. have batteries huge pine for a rudder, and a ciine cloqueuicet. and oratorical thunder brake for a bundle of quills. Crocket, and, in 'tHete 'toglv Vime holds- lightning. I came, this season, to take; steadier trident. And. when a man a survey of the war-grouml ; to look at j hj; generals and the colonels, the ser geants and the corporals, me uruui majors and, the lifers. J was dropped at Gadsby's. It was yet morning; and4he flags with their -stxtJKaing .eroajeatie .capitoly indicating that Congress waaTnow under" lull.'way. I . acemledtjie liill, wlieuce prodj'Hff, .M....U iiiiiA.. 'iint AhVikk. and confusion. AM.;..,.,,,,, tj5iiiiji.tiJ. - AU,Xi and laW. MI lieoil ucai liit'r itrosoec t of beholding the assembled I wisdom oi me nauon, anu i u uk Toug "ju'se"TCtook-t-the-fnagnifient. grounds around the Capitol; the strong built terrace; nor the naval monument, -fluating, asitwvre, in an . artificial re servoir, supplied by an ever-running -fbunUtn. I hurriedrutHirea the steeps of stairs, threaded the cor ridofiTaiJd rockymaiesr rtil-1 -found yielf'nd'r-tntan6pjrf!h'Wge; 'Bome tuat archerthe rotunda-" Every W.fnll chod and re-echoed, and .leatkyaflir sand quarters. The groups peeping at this ttinf' and that; tne acuipture in me niches ot the walls; and the paintings that half encircled the area, detained 11 niy eye hut a moment; for my cicerone V' K,.ri, hi nmmM ffiiM and fatlt-' hurried me onramid maies and rie yet more confined, ssnttl I tound , travels for rht West, in the streets .of myself overlooking the Representatives the Queen of the West a fairy city, of the nation. I was in the . Ladies' j which but as yesterday was a wilder Gallery, amid a sea of tossing heads;; niss.' They , smiled at my inquiry, among beHes froih' the iuhhy southland saidit was among the hoosiers' of with their sallow faces, and the bloom-, Indiana or 'the suckers of Illinois, ing girts of the northern arid middle Then I" journeyed long. I crossed Statci: some bltached by the fogs of great rivers and broad prairies, and a New England, such as prevail at New- gain 1 askrd foe the W est. They fcaid port, Rhode Inland, and along the coast it was in Missouri. I arrived at its of Maine j and others, grown pale amid ; capital. They complained that they the swamps of Georgia and the Caro- j w re "too far down east"- "But go,", linas, hut making'np in spirit, lift and : they said, if you would see the W est, conversational! that was lacking in the days and days, and hundreds and hun- rosy cheeK ana up , a ' i . at long hall was be fon ore me. A portrait of La Fayette and the flag of the Union were at my hrftrta frnV iarge-circolar gallery for tke people," supported by huge columns, of surpassing grandeur. -'And ii Ais.V said I, "the House fltenf esentatiyestfThose men, there, with hata on," tuning and chatting, whispering and laughing, reading news papers, hemming and coughing are they the law makers of our twenty four State?'' A member is speaking, but fiobody hears him; and the louder he Uilka!Sf.Meje says he; "Sir," again, in a yet louder tmerrR-i:-r1jind now m a voice like 'the wry-necked fife. The Speak- erprkks up a nd yield his earsi -"Sir, I call the attention ot the House tome important fact,- n" By this, time, unless the orator is a favorite, the Speaker's' head is again dropped, and the yawning members, it may be haye fallen into a quiet steep. I borrowed a glass for one can see but little with unaided eyes athwart the wide extend ed hall to take my peep at a few of he4allwoT4liewntten-DQUm Lions.' "There," said my cicerone, is Mr. Adams, the ex-President, in his faded frock coat and white woollen ; stockings, plodding and plodding, ever "plodding. He is always in hi seat, trpetually at work; keeping a jour-' "al, it may be, or writing poetry in a young lady's album; perhaps studying to ascertain whether Ilesiod is an older poet than Homer; knowing every things interested in every thing; a busy pint clogged in cold clay; a small Vesuvius 'itb apeak of snow; with a heart of " fire and a hand of ice. "."And who." I wqtrfred.nathis other unqoiet.slow,' tipped by -the pencil of Beauty, were wPPtng,head-lrppingbedy,who seems Jfloating afar, like rainbows in motion, as to live by himself, and commune with if broken from their confinement now himself and feed-on his own thoughts?" : mingling and Interlacing their dyes and " nai is ueorge M'Uutne," answered ..r . my cicerone. "You have hit him off to the life. , When be opens hit mouth TTthif tioUy nouge taas silent, as a se . pulchre. Political friends and foes are alike still ; every whisper it ; hushed ; 9' Yon have no idea of the sensation that t little fellow can create. He rolls out his words, and bites them off. and thrashes and slashes at did old Hora Jtius Coclet- when with hit battle-axe, stood upon the bridge, and with his glt aria defended Rome. That wtvbiUttnaty a UrJtt? tha right of .M'Duffie, with a snowy held and i iRomin nose, it Burgess, the 'bald ea- gle of the House,' as be ha been can ed; a man adroit at all aorta of wea pon. He resembles one,, of the old soldiers; be fights on foot or on horse, with heavy or light arms, a battle-axe or a spear. . in modern wartare, ne is i uuuic 111 un wi jire iuiu- try, or the i engineers!, a i uroau-sworu or a pisioi, a ungs-arm or broad - word or a a spaue.are equaiiy lamiuarionis nanu. the Indian-killer. He has a fine head; and, a good countenance. He is writ- ing kind things to his constituents. He has half S doien messenger boys at his side, trotting at a wink, sanding his let-; ters, foldin stamp them ing them, or hurrying away to fin with the 'U.S.'seal. There lo ig Edward Everett, the accomplished scholar, the fine writer! Indeed., rou can ;. an, fijrht, flog a steamboat. and whip his weight in wild cats, what i the use of reading and writing? There is Wayne, an accomplished man, rt t e , , l . i a j anu line, a nne srnoiar. a poet, ana n . k- i iliere. a crave lookinz man. a mighty logir -chopper.. But I must pause for what a mas 1 oTbreaenratrre sinjuiar samples oi our vast country: ' - .S n I -'prrrreti'B Missourian, educated among buffaloes and nurtured in the forest, as intimate -with the-pssses of the.. Rock y .Mou.11- tains, as the cit witn Broadway ; who lives where hunters and tranoers have vexed everv hill, and who cares no , as civil -a weoman -too. - iwnney isiuiay,. ami. roster, ana ainounr more for a Pawnee than a professed , And there he sits, with no opportuni- ate. All the kinds of eloquence that bOorla brTglif-jplumedTieHe: Heretty for display thumping withhis ml Cicero descr is a man from the praTfleTTand there lletrwhen the MHeries areutof ordej!,ndillu8traed iu that body, and no another froin the swamps and morasse, having occasiou- only itt remark, whose blood f he musketoes nave utter! and then, that the question is so and ; It stnlen-away.Ther ia from the nee grounds.-and oy nisSKieamanirom uie pine grounus the land of tar and turpentine. What a people we are! What acoun- trv is this ol ours! llow wide m ex tent how rich in production howva-Jof jEneas. He heeds them not. He vigor, and he none of his humor. He ri,i in Iwontvl I akpd in jmvl lana hark his head nilea one udis hapnv at a retort, skilful' at a thrust, galle-irious in beauty! 1 "have-asked in my dreds of miles up the Missouri farther than trom us to Mew bngland, and be vond the Rock v Mountains, and anions the Snate IndUnaf-4h6regoVan you may and it." It was the work ot a dozen years to find the West, and I turned about in despair. Indeed, I have '" found no bounds to my country. I have searched for them for months, in almost every dime, under the tor rid zone of Louisiana, the land of the orange and the olive, and beneath the cold sky of Maine. I have seen the rice planter gathering rich treasures from a bountiful soil, and the fisher mancnr rocky island, dropping his hookas care-1 fully as if the ocean were full of pearls. i .. ..i '" r il -r - and not ofmackerelLhae.een .i -it ... l,i n , Mie mm-roan,- aawing woou in an riety of forms, on the farthest soil of New England; and I have beheld the same wood fluating do w n the Sayan nah, or the beau ti ful Alabama,in the strang est metamorphoses: it may be, in a clock, regularly ticking off the time, in a pail, perchance in a button; and, for aught 1 know, in a tasteless ham or anunfragranti; nutmjegj JJUyjeeyr. been off the' soil of my own country; and ret I have seen the sun go down, a baft of fire, without a moment's twi light, flinging over rich,alluvial lands, blooming with magnolias and orange trees, a robe of gold; and again I have stood, upon the. bare rocks of colder climes, and when the trees were pinch ed by the early frost,' I have marked the same vanishing rays reflected from the leave,, as ifkafrihousand birds of paradise were resting in the branches; and when the clouds, streaming with red, : and purple and blue, tinged .and 'guttering arcnes. anu anon spriDKiei ti 1 II : At U.l-I over and mellowing the whole heaven then I have fancied that I was indeed in a fairy land, where the Very forestsl dancea w goiueR,roBB, responding 10 the setting sun, as the statue; f tlie fabled Memnon gave forth its welcom- Jjng notes, as the ray t f the morning piayea upon in Bummiu 1 nave ueen where" the dog-slar rages, "scattering pestilence ro its train; wberc the long most hangs from the trees; where the pale face and tad countenances give admonition that this is the region of dtath. , Ila,T too4 by thf iurprV rie, and beheld the green billows rise, and fall, and the undulations, chequer ed with sun-light and shadow, chasing one after the other afar over the wide expanse. And I hare gone amid the storms of winter, over the high hill, upon the loud-cracking crust, amid the music of merry sleigh-bells. And here are the Representatives from all these irein8jheren one grand council; ill speaking one language; ail ..impelled Latuntr y I 1 t -our destm y linked as one; if the same its glorious stars and stripes, is always 'the flag of our Urion, never unfurled j or defended but by Fbkemk, then Poetry and Prophecy, stretching to . ' their utmost, cannot pre -announce that 'destiny! But to return from our digression. We have re-threaded the cork-screw galleries, & are in the Senate Chamber j Ilere is a diflerentbody from the one we have just left. The Senators seem older than the representatives; but so bald seniors exchange many of these gray, .htfads viur iuack dilficult to determine. They sit with ' their hats off that lo-.ks hetter. They; bustle about less that is more agree- storm in tne aenate, tney naiig mm out picture. A rremdeni's Levee is aie abie, if you would hear a speaker, as a rainbow; and although the r ugh licious aff.iir. What odd amulgama "Show me the lions" said I tomveice- clouds often darken hia gUtterifig hues, tiou of character! What strange rone: -- here is van liuren 'where is. r a n ii .My firstquerywas answered bv point- i in? to the vice' ('resident b chair, i should have much to say of Mr. V Van like SheridaH-warJu-ia-iis oia. a nign oiuce. wincn, use an omcrs, nas - i I.. I .1 I I" U saiUBUlocrs. "IU cannot figuitT'SaTd triyp debates his mouth is shut, unless open- flj,9.8aT,Tlieayeshave it,' or 'Tht T memorial fsre like." His manner is calm and bland, and he presides with ease and dignity. ive utter!nd then, that .-"the question is so and,; FeUx .,!vGrundy,; js AhH Uw,fac,koT?!,.et.Th. newpaperiJalk oL JkUTJ!reis not more joy lal, here the i shrinking, cowering blushing. This is face in Christendom, than all th -veriest romance in the world. He liVeTiff;Tfi died abstraction. He takes Clav's jibes and Webster's thrust, as the ahost of Creusae received the embraces leans back his hend-piles one leg up- on the other and sits as if he were a and good humored, even in the angriest ttary, and of that in II jence which ex nlrasant sm'nfuredimarp. destined for debate. He has a mind happily trm-l crtsa vast nower over ihe, destinies of that niche nil his life. . That massive fsrehead-those pro-' Leigh is a new-comer from Virginaj woman of the ery first order of mtel- j n8 restorative. I U' sergeants with digious eyes those heavy shoulders -a round, thick-built man", with alilth' 1 xt, assembled from ajmost all nationSt, drew. One of Hhe women 'held the that iron-built frame, point out Web- "harp ey. that snaps at time like a and "from the , various divisions of our lamp; theVothef 3 gently; elevated her ster. How like Satan hnnelf he can ok, and what a malicious smile: lie talks as if he were telling a plain sto- haps my metaphors might seem objec- and customs. Talent nowhere ."finds: Jt'tle of the liquor into a glass; applied -ry; not enthusiastic but concise and tionable, were it not that we Repub. more who can appreciate its worth, it to her lips then took it away, clear. His arni comes up, as if lifted li cans' have a right to talk of our " Ser no matter whether if be the mind that until I had concealed my uniform ie- -byaspring. He speaks like one from rants' as we please, Wright has a fine thunders in th forum, or the foot that j ntith the twrt maittiUt,-i ' -h the grave so solemn and so se ere. Anon the lion is aroused, vvnat a What voice I he sentences leap into lire, . -r . - - with well-timed metanhor. skilfullv in - torwoven all Dirfectly wrought out. eination. . He has a well-discii)lined taste; and give him a clue to a figure, and he will trace it out with force and beauty. .That slender-built man, apparently ; aoout ntty years ot age, in a oiuc coat, with bright buttons, a frizzly ; head, and an eye like a hawk, erect ' and earnest, with mouth partly open ; that is Calhoun. He is not an ora- tor yet lewjr.imimana'jinarnYtten tfon none more. " 'His voice is bad. Mis gesticulation is without, grace.- K- - He iszealou and enthusiastic, but wi thout jbing frantic. ..His apparent I..- .i . I : ... va-;canuort earut'siiicks, anu auicei nj command attention.' His voice strug gles in his throat, and you almost un dcrstand the thoughts swelling there, j arid they soon rush out as last as words can convey them,. He speaks, in debate, as a farmer, in earnest, would talk to his boys, or a merchant to his clerks. He steps about, stands here and there, looks at this man and ffialSfifaTmlB him, he asks, I am right, am I not?" ' But at I was saying, this conser vative principle" It hurts me to talk to-day; I've got a cold "etc. This is much the manner pf Mr. Cal houn. If an idea comes into his head, nit it rninfi. without regard In rhetn. :..i i. n.ii ' 1 ivitt U..I10U. iTAi. vftiuvun m puwri in collrtquy-animated conversation. .Jklen ar$, wili talks well, whose declamation might be insufferable . Calhoun links words together- bites off the last syllables, and ... oftentimes eals2upZjtt:jrtwere, whole sentences, in the rapidity of his enunciation i - -----,.:Jr. l That tall, well-formed man, with a wide mouth, and a countenance indica ting every change of thought within, it Clay. He has been so often describ- ed. that I shall dwell upon bim briefly, here, Nature made him an orator to figune, in. a free-1 government ; In desnotism.hSs hesd wolitd haveTeach ed the? block,: for Ms impudence, bei if you do, and the many ErrglislrtfaT fore he was .thirty. He is good at eve-ellers, whoUav beeaVhanginon this ry thing. i have never heard such a session, takinjptotes, don't print you voice. It is equally distinct and clearall, I will!': I should like to turn Or whether at its highest key or lowest thoepist, too, and teach the Yankees whisper rich, musical, captivating.- fa lea?e off ora-if the breadth fn Hit action -"-it the spontaneous ff-4heirproonocitionofties1ort words, png 01 t pasnnj LtCiougft u tk. ..,i.t; nf his head, hung, on a lone neck, his arms, hands, finders, feet, and even his spectacles and pocket-handkerchief, aiu mm inaeoate. tie steps forward and backward, and from the right to the left, with effectT" Every Mature speaks. The, whole body has its story to tell. ,r -Taat, is Forsythv.wUh ...hit ... ai ma a kiihbo, head thrown back, spectacles to4 : a handsome one. He is all : ease and composure; never thrown on his guard. He ever reauy, ami the less prepared, the better, for the fiht He eludes with the utmost skill all manner of weapons. No member of J Congress is better at the reconiioiter ing and skirmishing of debate, TUat tall, red-headed man, with a ! large, manly figure, and full face, is 1 rreston, the new member from South Carolina, lie looks asit he had long lived under the rays ofa Southern sun. j gesticulates all oner, bealwavsay, wh-i8-spcakinr- over the war. fine, with! I cannot describe his figure, but it is but if I had a wontau's eye, eti' aTPTa ous sentences. When there is a Deiure ine storm is nusiieu, yet iem- per are cooieu, aaa-,epiriis T-.t . i are sol' and the tened, by the dazzling arch, ricn inieiTacingsT5rtrfor. - - rrsis - unpremeditated eloquence. He doe nuns, uu piace iu muu iuic - uuu rin.lt M- )) IT,. !n,;.Unia uucanci! ne iui n is gestures are admirable, no A- merican orator is more graceful few stand so well the "art above - art." Suchaman was necessary in i the Sen- Felix ,,vGrundy ,js A..bagpjririaaiil.an I, benevolt-nt an he wears. He was an actor uoon the stage of pub- His head is now all fray, and his step begins to falter, and bear th marks of a'gf, but his mind has lost nothing of its is happy at a retort, skilful at a thrust, ipered for political warfare.- - . spark of fire. He is something of a li- on in the xvatittnat vienagene; rer person and countenance. ro one ex- niaits .more calmness ami uignity, or : 1 t .1 .1 more narrowly watcnes me progress oi debate. '' ' I would tarry here, had I time ind Benton, and cive vou a touch or Ins manner of speaking, so odd to Nor- thern eyend ear, but doubtless the mode in his Missouri, . where his heart unquestionably is. I would have soineuuntr ro say oi oenaior smttn, who in Ins dress connects this age with the days of our fathers and eiand- tamers ot rorter, with his Irish lace and Irish eloquence, a worthy son of the green Isle of Erin, and of Wil- 1ant7iTwo1eMi pause. -And nr-- let me-.remarkx..m8t..I.at.lhe:.court .cityj alighting liereHMfvd should like the Senate better, if it sipping there; spurning the biiter. and were notsucn a prtidigipus snun box,, ana me snun-iakcrs were less rous. "Give ine your snuff-box,"! says Clay to Prentiss; and "yours" t and ''yours.'.' Hind mus a anuff-box runs a journey for a day, from Sena- tor to Senator, without ten minutes; rest. And by the way, in a long day's session, let me aad, the hungry t. !'! ! 1 -.1 Representatives bring in crackers and House, and spread them out, as . for a dinner, ' upon their mahogany desks! If I had the pea of a Trollope, how I would lash them!: And, indeed, why may I not undertake the reform, bet fore some Hamilton comesin among us, and murders us all, fur the tins of the. few, who, having been but, recently caught, we have not had time to civi lize, so well as. we shall , by the time another'- 'aessiori comer" round? ' "Off with your legs, then, gentlemen, not from your bodies, but from your desks! Off with your gingerbread, your crack ers and cheese! Cease 'you r tnoririg and steeping in your seats! Up from your sofas, and no lunger repose there, sprawled out like leviathans! Men-will talk, whisper, tramp, rustle their pa pers, ana yawn; this you are permit' ted to dot bat I insist upon it, you shall not sleep, you shall hot snore, ' you shall not feed. and -make ta ,table.,f.yor magnificent 5 hall for and to give tjve long. or.8 tnore lengi tude and 'ess ' latitude. The nassal twang of tome of them is abominable. And I would teach the Southron, like wise, some of .them, that iair. were hot or, and clear weather not clar weather.' ; And I would say too, that although miglity smart, and a mighty imart chance, mighty bikini mighty H tle, was excellent Mnisrirer" dialect. yet i t wa -not jo refinedaaaik,4vat9T,t might oe.- Butafter all, albeit you j ran up in Pnnrpaaa ron1ii t-Wi... rrt speech-and -pronunciation eoougKtojWffe indicate what portion of the country a member comes from, yet no caun try on earth can assemble people from surif a wide domain, where one tan guase is spoken more correctly.- The English, talking Irixh, Scotch, Berk shin, Lancashire, and ail manner of Dialects,! ousht, of all nations, to be the last to laugh at us for ur-very few peculi.iriticn. , ' G with inc. for a singte moment, into Washinjiton society. I can dis- course littleaboutsp!endor,magti(nceiu suites of roomj, and gorgeous furni into his mouth. every thing, I could make out quite a groups oi men anu women: A wner okf e - there; a Choc klaw here; Christian Maii-sty's clutrTt 'to his tne f2''itta er and thither: some in stars, some ...with - ribj in prinf.rly court- uteres, -v uruo-uirsfu, uruuu-uruu- m,i ., t. k.... - ......1 ..... K,.ll inru-iil V'in, liar, , iui iu u no irishman, a chattering frenchman, a pr.iud Castilian. jiihbering all sorts of to the double refined and patent Eng- lish; the easy dashr-tlie wouth ' wide open such a collectionTanwot be found upon Washington as any where else, fcti- qut?tte, it m:iy be, is severer here; the art of tard-ine is carried to sublimcr is. the fine minds, the distinsuwhed mn, among whom you are thrown, The charm of Washington society is in the array of intrdlei t, of character, of reputation, civil, noliliral. and mil- of reputation, civil, political, and mil our .tf Dion,,, Ve meet with men and, i country; thus concentrating an lm- mense variety ot information, manners trips its gracefully, in the uvely dance. !. inisis our Court; . an od'l court, in. . . . .' m.,. : need, ins: out the onivdinerence WiTxwewTnjnxriiTsjn?nwcnxnu- tween us and our brethren over the: water. Is. that thev have court-dress- sorts of dresses, and do as we cleasc. There is no ParUian milliner in our dominions who can spread her wand 'over, our whola.. Union; nor FnMicb4J Peruouier who is munarchk-ovrt-ihe externals ot , me hena. makinz every i lock tremble - at his bidding.' As we are -singular . in -covernuient. so .we are singular in iaslnons. , In such an assemblage, therefore, from so many quarter."estumes uecessarily partake But, enough: I - have takh my peep extracting the.twett IC ' . vi: ' 'v::-. The Horrors of 11 ar.The harrow. linir. incident related in the following extract, was but one ofthe'itiuUHude,b!tity; 8he t:lone; which occurred at ; the storming of jCuidad ,:. Rodrigo. 'It is taken , from j4 Recollections of the war in Spain," 1 :.. tr j by Lieut. Kenned rassini mrougu a narrow ao-eetii with' two Scotish Sergeants, I heard the shriek' of a female. Looking up - we saw at an open lattice j by the light of a lamp she bore, a girl of about six teen, her hair and dress disordered. the. expression of her olive counten-igave ance marked by anguish and extreme terror." A savage in scarlet uniform dragged her backwards, accompanying me act with tne .vilest execrations- in English Wecnte where the hand of rapine had spared us the necessity of forcing a passage. My companions were bumane, con scientious men,-witbthe-resoluteness thftin military life almost invariably accompanies these .qualities. : Armed for whatever might ensue, they kept steaditv b? me until we arrived at a sort of corridor, from the extremity of which wsued the tones of the same te mlaine'voice -imploring mercy in the Spanish tongue. Springing forward my foot ' slipped in a pool of blood. Before ttoufd recoveiyi he door of the apartment Whither we were hurrying, opened, and ' two soldiert of my own company discharged their muskets at us, slightly wounding one or the gal' lant Scots. Intemoe'rance had blind ed the rufHaasand frustrattd their ;nard.ertus -iatenu-jati vAVetiJl!fd them to the ground, and penetrated in . to the chamber. T '.r . The .room wherein we stood, had been devoted to the festivities of a re tired family, of moderate fortune. It contained the remains of those de-t scent elegancies that properly apper tained to tlie Strangers's apartment in ' . a dwelling of the middle class.' Muti- lated piciuresfeabd. fragtare5 ts of f tx pensive - mirrors, strewed the noor, whifS VII nnrsmpt-d and fnrmpA nf selated.,, An ebony cabinet, doubt less a venerable hen loom, had suffered as if from the stroke of a sledge. An antique sideboard lay overturned; a torn manl'dla drooped oh a sofa ripped -and stained with; wine. The white drapery, on which fingers steeped in gore hail lelt their traces, hung rag gedly from the wall. s V :X On investigation, the Serjeants found theTdead itody of a dumesticrwhose fu sil and dasrger, showed that he had f tught for the roof which covered him. . His beard had been burned in derision wiin gun-powdcr. une oi ma ears In -a garret recess for the "atorage or I den, who could scarcely be persuaded that they had nothing to fear. ;7 IIav inz flown thither at ; the approach of the ferocious intruders, thejf had suf- lereu neitner .; injury nor ;. msuir.-9 They came to the room -wherffI lin of my conimisseration, St in accents half Clara. I pointed to the alcove where the heart broken lady had flung her headed father, She, too, might nave 1iad aTitieTferiripTalceTould lier filial 'pteiyvhaVVpttte-ner:ifremalB-'?''5 there when her high-spirited sire fee; bly strsve to repel the violation, of his heart;- ' : ,; : r, ? ; : " "Master of I few SpanTsnpTirases, I i . ued them in atdrcKing some words of cfbrtto the ilt-starred elrlrS They - -wer' her ai the song of the su mmcr ' ' retHrn was a faintly recurnna: plaint wv , ifi vvS I mentioned to her attendants to separate her from the beloved source of ... her utilitterable sorrow. They could not comply with the application of force bordering upon violrnce.? Bid-" ding them desist, I signified a desire 'hat th'y should procure some anima mistresi head. Ktieelins by : the coucn in the alcove, -1 v poured a Annexion. (inou, nasi long Deen,my syune ie.nuwj Thou hast smitten to the . a? I -I . - .-'il . C . i. I heavy hand; but I bless an all-wise and w all-merciful God, who tries 'that he scond time - been-doomed to witness aught so crushing to the soul, so over" whelming in woe, as the situation of jounS creature Over whom I watch-' id," le baleful,niiduight of pur vie-' lul J -- .-: :.f,. She had battled with a might x' ceedihg her sex's strength, against unameiess lnuigniues, anu sne oore me ! marks of the conflict. ' Her maiden at-" 'i.tire.;wa:.reo.t;llt9.sliapeesnetsf'..her. Ibundant hair, almost preternatural ly- revealing in its iotmtices fresh- wa?- -ing streak s of -trimsonr which confirm eJ the : tale of the olfra-barbarian out-" rage; her cheek had borrowed the same fatal hue from the neck of her slaugh- jtered parent, to whom, in her insensi- ointy; 8het:lonwith rove strong as death." Daughter of Spain! well was it for thy sire that he has gone from a polluted world! ' Well was it for "him to whom thou woqldtit have flown" inM thy.desnlat.rnfsa, that his pi a re-was! filled by a stranger to hit wounded dove; one ho, though devoted at as brother, could better bear up under the' bi tter minir (rations of that hour! - ' ' Through the means adopted, the token of revival. Her band had retained. a. small gold cross, and "she" raised it to her lips."' The clouded lids were slowly expanded from her large dark eyes. A loW agonizing moan folldwcrf.1 bastehed to present the" " wine. In the act, the mantilla tell . from the arm which- conveyed tlie glass. Appallingly she shrieked, became con vulsed passed from fit to fit---expir ed. "' ' -" 4 -'-.rviM, J rjr-- Valuublc- discovery in the Fin ArU. Mr. Mudie, well known at an able literary compiler, hat brought out popular work on . M the feathered tribes Of the British Island," in which" ' amongBt other attractive features, tlie Vignettt on - the litle Pages are novel-' ties, being the first successful specimen (tays Mr. Mudie;oi hat may be call-; ed rolycromatic Printing, or printing in" many colors" from utmnlen blocks.' By tliisnethod," h adds ' ' ev. ry shade of colour, tyery bre&JtH cf ti.-4:,' every d-licay of hatching, md every lgvee of evecewce. in tbe- qull' - f w i L .J...-. --(V-;--,r-W