The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, August 25, 1865, Image 4
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BT COBIOLIA M. DOWLING.
Laughing and height in her drapery whit?
Sang a ?weet little girl with her "curls c
-?ght, . ??;
Floating and dancing With zephyr an
breeze, . .. .
And fairy form flitting beneath the dar
tree?;
Glad were her gashing notes merrily ring
mg
"Life is a sunny thing, joy ever bringing."
Fragile and fair, with her long waring hair
A maiden lay dreaming in suit summer air.
And smgiug'aivhijo with her radiant eyes.
Gazing up earnestly into the skies
Tenderly, softly, her lay ?he was breathing,
"Life, is- a dreamy thing; sunny hopea
? wreathing."
Slender and slight in the deepening night,
A pale woman wept in themooiiligkt bright,
. With a q?ivoriiig lip and a bursting heart,
Musing o'er joy? she had neon depare
Softly she murmured, with sad bosom heav?
ing,
"Life is a wea?-y thing, ever deceiving."
Pasaing away-lift's nickering ray,
From an aged form, with her locks of grey,
And a wrinkled brow; but her eye was
bright,
For her heart was lilied with the angel a
light
Whispering softly, her gaze upward bended,
"Life is a fleeting thing, soon to be ended."
Dazzling and bright, in the realms of light,
An angel smiled in her robe? of white
Smiled to think that her tear.-, were o'er,
That sorrow and grief would bo hers no
more,
Singing with harp-notes their sweet music
blending,
"Life ia a holy thing-pure -never ending^'
Francisco Dc I*a Vega-the BIaii-fl*il.
[ CONCLUDED. ]
But it so chanced that a young
workman in Cadiz, hearing every one
talking about this strange being, and
the unintelligible expression he had
made use of, informed his companions
that he himself came from a place
nameil Liergan?sj und that it was a
small town in the North of Spain, not
far from Santilluna. This news pro?
duced a great effect; and the wise
in en now begun tr conjecture, that as
their guest hud used bu ly one word,
and this word the linnie of ?1 village,
the probability was that he was boru
there. They thereupon wrote to thc
Secretary of the inquisition, himself
a native of Lierjanes, giving him sdi
the purlicul'trs of toe affair. This
gentleman immediately interested
himself in-tho business; and as he
happened to know something of the
fam?y of Marin de la Vega, and had
heard bf the mysterious disaapearauce
of har son Francisco, he wrote to the
widow and hov children, to :u?k them
Whether, duri hg the last five years,
they had received any tidings of .their
missing son. They replied in the
negative, ard that every one. both in
I4erganes and Bilbao, considered that
he WU3 drowned; for that', on the
occasion of his last bathing in the
river, after 'haying been seen swim?
ming down the stream, all trace of
him had vanished, and his" clothes
alone rem tined on the shore.
The Secretary ^ Don Domingo, re?
ported this intelligence to the monks
of the convent of Cadiz, with whom
he found the man-fish had now been
staying for some considerable period.
After the lapse of several months, a
friar, also belonging to the Franciscan
order, arrived one day at the convent.
This friar, Juan Kosende by nam",
had just returned from a pilgrimage
to Jerusalem, and* soon made ac?
quaintance with the apparent idiot,
whom ho took under his especial
charge. He learned his history, and
also what had occurred years ago at
Bilbao; and as the good friar was
about to undertake a journey on foot
through the provinces of Spain, for j
the purpose of collecting alms for thc
Holy Places in Palestine, he took his
dumb protege with him, thinking it
possible that he might turn-out to be
the lost youth ol' Liergaues.
lu this manner, the two companions
traveled tiirough tho whole of Spain
on foot; and it was only in the co?rs6
of the following year (1080) that they
arrived at Santander. The friar now
. went slightly out of his way, in order
to visit Liergaues. The road thither
leads across a tolerably high mountain,
ou the other sith; of which, at a dis?
tance of about 1 ?? mile, lies the little,
town. As soon as they arrived on the
summit ot this mountain, whence tho
eye commands the range of tile entire
district below, the monk turned round
to his attendant, and said: "Hitherto ;
I have conducted you, my son ; it is j
now yotlr turn to conduct me." .j
The young man, without any hesi- j
talion, or stopping to look much
around him, thereupon led his friend
into tlie vihage, and went straight on J
to the house of the widow Maria de. la
Vega? his supposed mother. As soon
as the poor woman saw him enter the
- cottage, she ran towards him, clasped ?
him in her arms, and cried, with tears I
in her eyes: "Ah, yes, yes! thou art
- indeed my son Francisco -thou, art ;
he who wast lost to me at Bilbao!" j
. His two brothers, 011% of whom was j
the ecclesiastic, happening to be at
- home, recognised lum also at once
?with joyful emotion. They embraced
him, questioned him, and endeavored
. by every possible means to get him to
>f talk, or at leust to give some tokens of
sympathy; but this strange being re
l* mained not only dnmb, but as cold
k anil insensensible asa block of mar?
ble. Tho wandering-priest now left
- his charge to the care of his family,
and soon quitted Lierganes-the gen?
eral impression' being that the youth
? had, through his long residence in the
' .sea., lost ^rs intellect, and with it all
recollection of his early years.
It is very natural ?o suppose that
the news of Francisco's return should
produce a great sensation in the neigh?
borhood. People1 of all ranks Hocked
to see tins extraordinary personage;
indeed, several grandees invited bini
to spend a few days at their castles, in
order to observe him more minutely.
Here he was closely examined, and
many men of the highvst charactei
asserted that his back and some othei
parts of his body were covered will;
scales somewhat similar to those of ;
fish ; whilst other individuals,.who suv
him a few years subsequently, treatet
this part of the story as a fable. As
. regards the rest of his person-'ne was
six feet in height, D either partie ul url j
thin ni>r stout; Iiis figure was ;:wk
ward; the hair of his head was of ;
reddish iiiige,' and quite short. H<
had no color in thu face; and his nails
were entirely destroyed, as if the sid
water had corroded them, ile ooah
not endure shorts, and always wen
barefooted. If clothes were given him
ho*would wear tin rn;- if not, tie won!?
go with perfect indifference withou
them. And the same as regarded liv
food: windover was placed beb ev hhs
he atc without evincing the sllghtes
1 preference for one dish over another
and if his mother neglected,to providi
him with meat, ho never asked for.any
Occasionally lie would utter # lev
words, but without any coherency
evidently meaning.nothing by thesi
sounds. He could lind his way per
fectly to places with* which he hat
been previously acquainted; and hi
principal employment consisted ii
carrying letters about the neighbor
hood, l?e?ee we may conclude, thu
although he never replied to any qnes
tions that wert1 pu* to him, he full;
understood the orders he received, ll
was even conscientious in the diseharg
of these commissions, and tho .-...:<?;?
could always rely upon his punctuality.
Once he was dispatched with a iettp
from Lierganes to Santander. A broa<
sheet of water, traversed by a ferr
boat, interrupts the way betweeu-thes
two towns; and on the present occa
sion the ferry boat was; missing, when
upon he immediately, without relief,
tion, walked into the water, and swai
across to the opposite shore, arrivin
at Santander ?*.a very wet conditi?r
but on hoing questioned as to who
had occurred, he gave no answer, sun
without saying a word, delivered th
letter correctly and then returned t
Lierganes.
His relations never thought of Hui
ing any steady employment for hh
again, as he appeared totally^mfit' fi
even the most ordinary pursuit. I
this way, without speaking, and tipps
rently without, thinking, ho continue
for nine long years to live under b
mother's roof. Both she stud ht
friends hail grown quite accustom?
to his odd ways, and he gradually san
into obscurity. Suddenly, howeve
he again disappeared from the vi]iag*i
and nothing was ever afterwards hea?
of him. Some fishermen pretended I
have seen a figure bearing a stroll
resemblance to him in the harbor i
Austurias; but this news wa?? nev?
confirmed, and no trace of the inissir
Francisco was ever found. The, pr
bability is, that he aguin betook hir
self to the sea, notwithstanding th
his youthful ardor for the water ht
long vanished, and that he had, ev
since, his capture at Cadiz, evinced tl
most perfect indifference to everythii
ar/mnd him. Tieck, who has car
fully examined this strange histor
thus concludes his account of it :
"That the captured man was the lc
bey of Lierganes, there is every re
son to believe, for he himself kn<
his birth-place again-he found I
way there-his motlier and brothc
"recognized him at first sight sis tin
own lost Francisco. The idiot eon
scarcely have acted the role of an i:
positor for ten years, since no adv!
Ugo accrued from it, nor was he in
position to derive the slightest bern,
from the he. His family coi dd not
anxious to deceive any one in tl
' quiet little town, more especially
the maintenance) of-the unfortun
was nothihg but a burden to thc
Moreover, besides his immediate
lations, several men of eminence a
of the most undoubted respectabili
bore witness to the genuineness
i this Francisco; so thsit we mu. ' cl
1 this inciden* with some of tho in>
remarkable phenomena of nature, to
explain which often Waffles tho inge?
nuity of the philosopher. It is greatly
to be deplored that, when fished out
of the sea, this singular being should
have been little better," mentally, than
a block of stone. Had he retained his
memory, and regained the power of
.speech, it would have been highly iu
iustructive and interesting to have
learned how he lind supported him?
self in the water. Divers eau certainly
hold their breath for some time; but
whether any human bodies possess the
capacity, and muy be able to cultivate
this capacity so fax ns to enable them
to dispense with air io.: auy considera?
ble period, is not an easy matter to
admit. How did he live in the sea?
What did he eat? How did lie ma?
nage to escape so long from thu mur?
derous monsters bi the deep, so tint
he did not seem to have suffered in the
?lightest degree from any ?of them*?
Could he dispenso with sleep, and ii
not, where did he sleep?" In the
ocean, or on shore? His intellect was
not so much disordered as completely
inactive and without power, lt, in- j
deed, this phlurnmtie monster was in I
reality not the .ong lost Francisco, (as
we arc almost competed to admit.; j
then this mau,whoever he might bc, ;
is still more runarkal.de than th.' so-j
called fish sttvba. of which "even re- j
spec table writ?rs relate xueh ine.v-..L- j
ble stories.'" j
Some uni ia] py females Lahe '.!?.? tho !
very (rom m on oppression, .rre-.d ]
und settled.." ?.nd i::?e it up itsfvllotv: ; '
"Mumed Sid settled!" What ' :\ j
expression! '.Settled!'" crom !he*|
moment a wo.iuti is married, she ..: "n !
u state exucth tile reverse of c itied. ;
* * ... * * "Win. am fcdl wh.it !
eiv.itic cove ci married woman nniybc |
"bilged, to p.;T:?- during the re.'xc ?
twenty-four I. ?es? Firstly, thor? isl
tile tpiesl iou, -.. ill the oilier Juill o; ;
soul ret;.rsi a tivexu." t.'velw :il ni;jilt: .
AVI' she din? comfortably with him, ,
or watch fro-i upper window mitii !
the "'wac sun li hours" for his advent?
*?,*.*' "Married and settled'."
with a com pinion whose movement*
are about ;^ ;c. rtiiiu as those of .1 (lea:
with babic?, who have fl;.ii.- ul
midnight, im! ['hiidroi!. who. v.-h?m
they have', thc measles, fall down
stairs or int > th;' w.-ixh-tub by way of
variation.. ' * * T..Ik of the
urea!! bein;' settled iii a storm, but
never, nev? i-speak again Ol nay poor
voung weimbi being "-ikaivm;! and
settled,"
Settled or unsettled, our 01 is
that most of tho young Indi -s v. iii ivy
it for themselves.
Tire souiest eider in the world i:.
made from the app.es t>f dist nrd.
TILE follow.ng gjiiilfisa ;. are resp.;? tfuliy
suggested HS candi.ares i Couveutlra
to oe held in September m .: . :
WADE HAMP I'ON,
A. K. 'i'AV LOH.
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j tires-inc b.i'-id of reprfseiitatjjn boin..'
! population und ta.'?.iUei:. xn. ; v.'?? .;? .'.
ono heiidied t,i? tv.'cirtj-io'av.iiicui?ers
1 Convention-a tr.imht?* iiU.deieuuj urge
to "eiu'ceeut evcrv portion ot' ;.-'t: Statis ajo?>
fully."
Every loyal "citizen -.'-ho ?iros t;.ij:i th?
j Amnesty oxtii and i.oL "vithia t lie excepten
classes in the l'residcnt'u Proclaxaaiion,
will be entitled to voie, provided no waa &
legal veter unior tue c?nstitudon as ii.
stood prior to tue secession o? Sou m Caro
; lilia. And ali >v?io a.o within th? cxetpied
.?lashes must tai'.<r tue 'oath ene. ly fer fi,
pardon, in order to e.utuio tnein to v otc or
otcorne members oi tuc convention.
Ibu rat-1 noel's of tlir. Couvwiithn ihun
ulected on tuc ur?t lioaday ia ?jopteiaoer
neil, aie iiOiOby ictpiixcd to convene ia the
city of Columbia, oa WEDNESDAY, tho lath
dry of Scptt inber, IKci?, tor tue pm'pose o.
aii^ring and umcnd:;ip the presea? Consti?
tution ot Houth karoline. or reuiodv-lhiig
aiid niaidug a uewunt, ?viiic:: will co tirria
to tia? jm*t ahang.'S wnich lave, ia ?o e.
p tc? ii; til.: State, ?nd bc more in acevrd
A.ice wini ?tepablic.?u prmeiple? and eipiuli
ty et' rep/c~t-a?-:Moii. r
And i do further prr^laii? and make
knov.-n, that the Constitution and all IIM? o?
loree ia jloutn Carotina prior to the secAi-e
sion ul tiie State, aro her?:by Uiade of torco
und?r the Provisional Government, ext Gpi
wherein they iu*y ? onjlict V-a:i the i-rovi
sionsoi this profelan. anon. And thc .liages
ana Chancellors o; the State ale iieieby
required to exercise all the powers ^'.a j tr?
iona ail thc duties which appertain to their
respective ol?ice!?, and er .etiijiy in criumal
j rino;, lt will be expected of th? fi ti.-ial .
military author it ii-?j now ia t:..nth Curoiina;
j to lead their authority to ta.- civil otlic+ra
1 ot' the Provisional Government, for the pur
j p'jsc <. ' ci.foft ing the laws and preserving
the peace and U?JOU oydi r the ?ilate.
And 1 do further command and enjoin zll
good and lawful citizens of the Slate a
unite in enforcing tue taws and bringing tc
justice ell disorderly perseus, all.pluuder
er?, robber:; and maraudeiv-, all vagrant?
and idle persons who are wandering a.bout
without employment or am visible means
of supporting themselves.
It is also expected that all tanner owner?
of freed persons will be kind to them, and
not tura oft" tlie children or aged to perish;
raid the freedmen and-wonivn are earnestly
enjoined to make contracts, just and fair,
for remaining with their former owner,
In ordt-r to facilitate as nVuch as posaibl*
the application for pardons under the ex?
cepted sections of the President's Amnesty
Proclamation, it is stated for information
that all' Replications must be by petition,
statini; the exception, and accompanied
with the oath prescribed. This petition
mutt be first approved by tho Provisional
Governor, and thea f rwarded to thc Pr?i
dent. The headquarters of the Provisional
Governor will be. at Gro-nville, where all
communications to him must be addrcfse?.
Thc newspapers of this State will pa':.Ugh
this proclamation till tho election for in^m
bcr? of tho Convention.
Li testimony whereof, I have hereunto sci .
my haod mid seal, ilene at the
ti- s. J town of ?>re< nvil?e, this 20th day o.*
July, in tie.; year (>i our Lord,
and cd' the independence o.' the
United Statrj '.he ninetieth.
B. F. PERP.V.
By the Prov-juinT-al Governor:
??VII.I.IJS: II. PERKY, IVivsto Scrrotan-.
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