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f vl" " ' " " BBS ^ mmmm ft | - IT?JWLI.J_I _ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ' ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Ml $2 P LU ANNUM Tnra to tbe Prc?.-it? Heuiiuff Sbccu *nrv?j, 1\T A T\\J A "MOT? lliff with Hie noiultm of vacli paMinx day. li\ i\lJ V AiMy'ij - - ^ * ^lititnl firaii|i?pH?Dmtth in tlit 3rls, jmtiurj, litnitorr, Itorntion, 3gtitnllntt, Snlrnml Suipraaciumts, jfeigit nuii Bmurstit JBnra, nuii tlit JWnrlifts. VOLUME V. LANCASTER. C. H.. SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNlXii NnvruitiM! w. .......... & ittrrfrik itan(. ? Froru the Star Spangled Banner. o ADVENTUKES! ?IN? ' J THE MEXICAN WAK! I. A NAUTICAL STORY. 1 S BY AN' OFFICER OF THE L'. S NAVY. | t l CllAFTKIl III. 1 THE DOMDAKDMKNT. *' "The trench is dug, the cannon's hrcth, Wings the far hissing glohes of death; Fast whirl the fragments of the wall Which crumble* with the ponderous hall; ] ' And liom that wall the foe replies, * O'er dust)* plain and suiok) skies." Si It OK ok Coll!NTII. * About 4 o'clock 1'. M , on tin- 2'2ml, and at n tune when the ships' companies s of the different men of ?v?r were at sup- 4 per, llit; Midden and a'lttosl deafening roar * of artillery on shore told thai ntr. haitlk ' ' II vn COMMENCED ! ' Tin* itia things, the tender in .v he tvoll assiireti, were leli to t ike cars of thetn ' ' selves, and everybody rushed in th nse j ' masses to the upper tleck in older to <d> ' ' tain a view of the fray. Of course I f.,1 I 1 lowed with the human tide, and having ' 1 ascende<l to the fore lop sail vard wi'lt a good glass, I looked ah nit me. What a ' ; subli ne ami terrible sight! 1 J*.two or three t nit Irt>< 1 sail of ves- ! 1 win weie tmii't iliittclv arouti I ii?, ' nnd lie r !?? k?, t- |?w. rigging xupU. **.?| ? 1 and oro-i? trees. and ev? r\ | > <oe w liege a , f f >oiholil could l>e o nin -d, were thronged ! ' w.iii iiuiii.hii 4?* nigs, clustered liLe swarm- j 1 i >4 li?e? in midsummer "ii the trees, a I ;n- , ' t -Hi 1 \ w niching tiie pr? gress ??f the batth . ' I Mirneil iii\ i'j w on shore. J nothaii J I li d at /<'.*/ awakened from the apu^-nt ! I lor|ioi in which lie 11ii?I heel! steeped U>t \ I the last tell iiai s, and liad vet to work ii. j ' t irnetf ! Homb sliehs wi re th in/ like i nail stones fiom every direction into Writ ! I Cr <?clouds of smoke, sulphurous v\ ?sh-1 1 i'i, aii-4 llie sullen roar <>t llie pond rot ii I cannon, arose from the walls of the city j in lO'.urn?while ever and anon, a sudden ' l meteor hko gleam would dart up from the old giim castle, followed l?v a report that i fairly made the earth tremble! <)t course i the fleet could not participate in the con ' diet, for all the large vessels drew too much wat -r to admit tliein xvilhio reach 1 of the town without exposing tliem loihe 1 tire of the c?*lle, hut the gun boats, amnl1 ! I si earners, and every thing that coulJ ho ' got near enough, were sent in, under the ' command ot CnpU Taluall, a most hrave ami i.e.'Oiuplished officer, and commenced biasing away?a stea<iy stream of tire,1! like the rod glare of a volcano. This state of things continued uiml sun- j ? down, when the gun boats were with- : ' drawn by signal, but the heavy mortar* ' within Cieneral Scott's lines kept throwing ! | bomb shells into the town the w lioie night. ' < Most of the ^officer* of tlio ship were up ' I until pusl midnight, watching the dis ' play, and a most grand and terrible one ii i was. The cloud of smoke ihut hung lily.*? a , ' pall over the beleagiieied cky, prevented < our seeing the walls, and the " rod skins" i j had caased tiring shortly after in order to , < prevent Scott Irom directing his guns by ill.* H M-lu.u fr..in lti?i*i l.?i - I - 1 J - . *?viw tuv'ii*, uub inir f*iiivin:irci- t iera bad obtained (be 'range" long baforc > ciark, anil kepi tbuudt-ring away?*lmu*l i every iibell falling directly into tin- dotin- ; cd town ? I w?h mmt intently watching * every thing that transpired. Suddenly a I vivid, lightning like Hash t*o? l?| gleam , I U|> through the Mack cloud of *mok<- hat j < bung over the American line*, and then, ! a* the loud, dull booming of ihe inrddr i a engine came borne to our ear*, the Umib ; * would be ?een to dart upward like a coin ' | et, :?n<! after describing a eeiui cycle in the 1 i air, 'ban-end into the town. Thou a red, ? fearful glare ami the crashing of iron frag- I 0j?;;t* among the dwelling*, told thai (he ? rdlUU ba? Mplodtrdf *nd had done it* aw t A|l Tl??> w'?ole of the live long * aiigUl tlmae u4**ilee ?*era liUilv%"f ?*>to Vera I Crux, ajjd I cow>>1*4 *? > Irs* than * of them fit tla> at/ <ti w.u? time. Yet t*?e I ' Mexican* did uo? rr^Vj ?mi the Yankee* j * had it all tljeir owjj way wutil daylight. I< wtieu t! ? euamy'* baiterta* ageia opeu*.i. I > aud coiymyiiced thraeiug tlieis slnd 4' a I1 f.-hfful r?U ty?v.ir?i the Aiuwhuii Ijik-ii. a J he uoU <Uy I had nii opportunity U * going ou shoro to a??i>4. iu waking the h relehriited Naval {Uttary, enovisli?g ofj heavy guild JiRiUxl from the vowel* of the <1 ouMiiroo, uikI ?liu'b no doubt mm more , ' i tiicMiou* iu it* operation* tlun any other ( *1 one upon the field- We landed upon h | u long level send bench, ?n<l our party. a headed bjr hivut. llioodl of (tin Alhany,** r< iu once nuuie the l?e*t of our amy over *i the desert hijU to the point of our desti ? nation. ?< On etery ?ide the big guns of tint anny tl were thundering array, mid rending their | * inidsiies in'o the doomed city, while ilia j Ni enemy, scorning to t?? id'e, w*r? hurling i * leek "the far hiding gh.hea of death') A With interest ft w|? rathyr of * pr*car;' 1 o lis Intom** lor us to wind along the iimi i?w pathway, oxer which the shot xver >hiz/.ing ate I ringing, hut we kept ni lixmim io reach the haltery ami reliex ur shipmates, who we well knew must li Intost la-at nut with fatigue. Every now anil then a huge thirtev tell shell, thrnwn from the ensile of St nan l)'Udoa, xvoulil he seen winging ii ar'ul cifrae through ike air, ami sunn mil* striking within a few rials of iis.wnul lig a hole largecim gh lor a good sized ce tr, ami then exploding would envelot; nir patix in a cloud of blinding sniid.>t II we kept onward knowing tin hern xv'iuhl he as much danger in a empting i?? retrace our footatvpa so in pri Oeditig. and though the isoti hail I'roi In* eitx wall* was crossing our road i 'Vfi v diieei'OM, we soon arrived xviihi igl t of.mi i atlerv Several times, car. t jin oidi. I? went "railing past its, hea ng upon tu<le ii'.t rslhe iiiat'glcil Corp?t f tli or stain comrade*. ?>r 'lie xxoucdt xlio were stilleiiug the ino*t terrible at ;iii*ii, ami ? Iiom* shriek* and em scan x th agotiiT'lig distmx ti e** to the ear. St 1 XX e kept oil oxer the I.I.mkI Maim .siand in t *hoit Utile, lie lljh it sect ' I lex Us aliun: t <v> aye. xx e est me xx;?I igltl ?tl the N-ixal llat'eiv, nud hurjvit oixxaoi. xvete quick ix xxiihin (lie vlieil I is* pruiet ting arms. 'I hero we font vent. O.ivei Hazard l'errv, ami liaxiu e.iexcd I,,* pariv xxe were informed ofil l lie stale ol attnii*. I he .VJh'Xix'an* hi lept up an ineessant tiring upon the hsi ?-rv ex. r Mitoe it had I lir*l tl'tioivcn he on'ruing before, and no lea* lltalt fx) lisliucl fori* had heen Mazing axvay Hi t I the prex'ions <1 tx" xvnli the vain ho|?e Ir?vi^g it* ilcicUxWt'X ?w;ix. I", was itosi lorondafkC Hbi.ti'.sixa f uii" en.oni iliO* t.f defence, as all ike gnus xxcixt 1... t ... :t 1 1 o-.i I ilil'ltc. Mini WIICll '. 111'II s!I 111 I shell **i?'-'k among (!.? iuii!> of i Iwclliligs or the ilnilV* <.j '.he (InTch die I>ru-k* and the m. rt k utcre tly. Ju*t lit the lime of <?iir .?rr \ it 1 the \ liiu! hccii obliged toihsist fio.ii firing, their shot ami sheds ii:i< 1 gixeii " (it ai llu-v ?waiting a new MipJ Iv fro ilie inm of w.iwhich they well km was mi iis way. tint nuj willislaMslii Lli.it we f.ir the lime idle, tin* Me Fans iliii not choose t ? remain so. Tin long eighteen |m>iiiii|..rs, tired Willi liie 1 ino*t unerring precision nf rdlcs, we thundering nivut, :iml t hoi r copper sli w an throw a in p?erv direction around 1 now striking into tin* arid lulls and thro ilig clouds ofdtMoier tlie w hole of 1 almost hlind ng lis, tlielt leaping into t! ?und haos, whirling them out of theii pi L'es and skiing lliwiu lU sJio.*es* throat the air, hut without injuring any of o party, as we were all crouching low np< the ground, and the direful tujssde* r went \ er our heads. A cliuri time afier our arrival, 2L:et I'tjiry mul liis men took their depi lure fur tin: ship, .Jryixst exliouiti uilli the exyrtiyji,* atjd-iWrgcrs of tlie pi reding day, mnl we were loll to pert'or Mir part in the terrible drama. II wh* not many moment* after the <1 |i. rune of the ga'lant lVrrv, ere 1 lion him of the heavy mortar* on the Cam In-low, then n whining through the a tin I the next instant with an almost hlin rig pi are. a huge thirteen inch shell call with a liorriil erasli, disectlv within o frail fun.ainj struck etnotig a lot of c?pp ran* containing priming powder for o funs. Every one of us at once jumped air feet, ami rushed out of, the fort in c ler to las out of tin* may of the expeeti }Xplosion, entirely forgoiiing th;n the Me can* were watching every movement, i lie wall' of the city were Imt six hiiudn iar?ls distant, and were aminos for tl rerv opportunity whieli we were thus ? hrding them. Ifoll we vyere not ke onu in a slate of fcrget fulness of our re lauger. The shell which had struck within 01 tattdhag fori quickly exploded with a r ound'Dg crash,, blowing up the cans triining |a?wder, and darkening for a mi iient ilie whole air around with a clou if dust and as we then knew the dang r.mi it was over, and turned to go hai s it hiu the frail enelosiise, whew! mm Iim'i fit I v pici M< of cannon were dis.harj >d at us from the walla of the city, an Inor iron hail came winning ahoul us i iverv direction, making the holdest ho lis hreath with apprehension, and cmtir iwav the sand kills and the low lunglt ,Ushea or thnparol, in Hue style, hill I?v iiiriu>lm of i/ihmI fortune nnlr Initio.? . ? ; #r*on, n aoUirr l??!oit(fin(f to one of tli riilWv rraiiiiciiis, who h oi hit head c? a ?d.*n from hi* body as it could lint #?iii taken with an axe I Jiut thing* were not nlwuva tocontinu liua. Al-mt noon a iarg? lot of |x>wd< liot, ho<I I'nilhaa ?)i**|t? arrived from tli Hud a look of idiotrfiiUleM win net; P<mi a??rv fnca wl?i?.u la >4*1 ha fore look* io?miy ?nough, Tha man At one ?*a to tlwir fact from thair itroairNta pr ti'Hi, And raiptrdlaaa of tha Mexican *h< diiclt *? pa-ain^ owrar thair haada in r?iitinual abovrar, hogan to atow aw* irir new ?oj>p'y of ainimiiion in a<ich ay that it co-.nl ho got at with Co*1 trail nco--tbe f .Hfoia mUo r-??o to th< r fot nd h'"?Hn to |>rcpnr< for tha frnf, whil doXNiHlanr MiJell McKentic, wbo w? lit rdin?M? oflBcar, look bU apyyi/ua, ao proceeding to h ruined cinhrazure, where ( e I \%m? informed lie had stood all the pre- j i j reditu* day; lie adjusted I.is glass, and , r | with the eye of a connoisonr, watched for | w ! our first discharge and what effect it | might ha?'o upon the already shattered ( n I and crumbling walls. ( n ' " laiad your guns with round shot!'' I | ^ | The or h r came from the commanding | i'. ; ?m cor of the U.ittcry, and ipiick as | ( ,1 j thought all was life and hustle. Ofltceis j |. and men were fiving about in every Ii- i w,jrection, and tn a brief space of time the _ | pondrous guns were all loaded, and ready I Hi commence their work. t. j "Fire at irill, and knp it up tnv boys! j. shouted the Captain I freeze, his fine eyes 1( , flashing w ith enthusiasm, and lending n 1 their exidb-ineiil to all present,"firoat will ii : atul gi\e it to 'cm hoys; it in our turn j. now !"' r ! In an instant the sail 1 hag walls which 1 L.s j had so long remained silent while the ,| ; enemy had hurled flieir shot in torrents i,. against theiu w ere one eon tinned blaze ot | file?the linn earth fairlv seemerl to 1 tremble beneath the mar of the huga?en,,| i guns of destrneliott. and the walls and |t. J donii-s of V. ra C'rnz sunk before (lie tcr,, i rilde onslaught. There was tin idlers |tr I now. A* Cast as the guns could be ,,r I loaded, vy?ae they tired. and that j tij | too wi*|? audi aliening certainty of , aim. that every shot was pitched eXaetly | j win re the officer in charge \.Sthe piece in 4,j I tended il | It nas no' leng ere the Mexicans were .,j | driven from three of their batteries, but llr | the fourth, and most formidable ot the n j whole, still continued the eonfiict, throwof 1 '"i its hlu it against our sand-bags, ? I or directly through tbe embrasures hi every tire. Alieady h oi a man by tbe ?j* name of Marcus had lUu U-p of his head ,,i blown off hv a shell, and M d-hipunn I ,. Shu'nt- k rind a nu'utier of others heeti killed, ere we succeeded hv tbe most in j ... 1 cesklllit tit ill t ill ilri?iiA.? I !" ?Lo..-"l I from I la ?-ir last stlolli.' 11 il *1. Hut fit lellfftll j the.r g ins I a a nil c.lpdJ/.cd aril dis1 aii>>atia!? .I 11.a-v left, Hot. however without I I ousting lllllllV fl "lolljf'l^j 'llUgCtlt.g look 110j hind." I The reader will have tle< lutidne-x taoi 'o * it p pose that liecunse the \ 0 had " Ionised to roHt'UlU* t?> ilo battle, tllHt an* ! w ere also i. 11 . No inch thing. Our guns ! I were fired with uaaintflrupled ardor, and it ?as a jov to see the walls of t'?e oitv rv * ,,t prostrated la-fore our ?eiii|ie** of iiou hail. (s Aral why I IIcchuih we raw on every rale of lis the mangled ea?r|?s?*s of our tai h*ii companions, and knew that it was no 1,^ good w ill on the part of the Mexicans that we were not served up in the name mail >|i "c^ Revenge seemed to animate everv hosit r . . ^ a*in, nn<l the ]K?udrous l'liixhau* told in (i Umics of thiyjVr to the now shrinking em? I my, that the hour for retribution, hail ar- J , rived, nor ?lnl we ce.??e oiu tinnif, though I almost ready to drop to tli^ earth with e*I liaiintioti until darkness had settled down w like n pall over the scene, and all ourainunit ion was expended. Then, officers and I men alike sunk down in the furrowed sHinl, and in tlie aire unless sluinher of the (I* 1 o'er wearied, passed I he watches of the I night away. And thus passed my first snd only da} at the Naval (lattery of Ve* .' r? ('rii/ |u> j I he next morning, bright and early, a t) ' party from the Albany ami other ships,, arrived to relieve us, ami we left ami repaired on boar", where we were glad to urri\e, and thankful to Providence that our liven had heen spared anv'd. the torsi. , Me carnage and destruction to which we had been witnesses. Day after day ?lid the Naval Hatterv, relieved hy frvsli (iflii'rnt ami men from " tho ships each morning, ami the mortar ? Imtteries of General Scott continue the Mmibardineul of tho city, until at length ' I the spirit of the enemy was comp'etoty broken, and they sent for a cessation of ( hostilities, offering 10 surrender on Condi ' tion of being allowed to march out with dying colors, and oth*? terms similar to 'hose granted by Gen,Taylor at Monterey |(l Hut Gen Scott gavo them to umlerstand that he held Vera Cruz completely under his thumb, and. thai he Wtuujd. accept of r( no teNiis save those of an unconditional * Mwrtnder of the citv and castle. The?c were "hitler words" for the proud. Dons, lint there w as no help for it, so afI | ter some considerable negotiation with the intention of gaming lime, they at length came to the sapient conclusion, that an there was no prospect of fighting any longer with their powerful assailants, thev iiiight as well sulnnit, and accordingly the ' capitulation was agreed ti|?nn, and the I Articles signed by the brave Worth and 0 :.i.^l full j "WITT ui?i?.n^, ??*> v? ???n? up* p proved l>v llio General in Chief, find the ,r City of Vera Cru*. nnd tlio Cusllc of San Juan l>'Uiloa were our*. ie " CHAPTER IV. Til* CAPITULATION. A gallant army formed their hut array }~ Upon that field, in silence and deep gloom, ' ?t And at their eonqnerer'a feet a Laid their w?r-weepona down. Sullen and atern, disarmed, but not dishonoredi Brave men, but brave in vain, tbey yielded there: l( The soldier'* trial task g I* not alone "to die." [Hallrok. 0 On llie 29ih day of Ma-rh. 1847, tlio A ceremony of thf capitulation of th* city >f Vera Cruz and the Castle of San Juau ! ^ ortl D'UHoa took place, and by special pood ' platile lurtm e I obtained an opportunity of be* J Gcuer holding the glorious papeant. ' '? r,!C( It whi a bright, beautiful morning, and Wli' l!io wlrte domes, towers and fortresses of btieon ilie eity were ba*king in the yellow sun- i w'th beams, when the boat containing our par j R,,|1be! ly put oil'from the sliip. Wo lind a de- j spectr rightful passage to tlio shore, where, after sunny running through the breakeis. we landed, ?d,<?r and found ourselves among as motlev *"'? Wi a throng as was ever collected. Officer*, | soldiers, sutlers, reporters for the press, | trtimp camp followers, hangers on, loafers, " gen j "PPro ilemen ol leisure," dogs, pigs and cats, al' | v\crc 1 mingled promiscuously together on the c,ly a long level s.ti'i beach, all striving to he ?"" ? heard at thesniie time?gabbling like so ! ttrms. iiianv geese, or the tn'd;junlc at the Tow- 1 excell er nf'Hahcl. | a?"J ' NVe had not been many minutes on j shore, before I had an opportunity of s.-c- | '',f ing the gallant Genera! Worth. He ,'IC came galloping down on his Hue steed, Vrts' 1 accompanied by his stair of officers, and hvade when he bad arrived opposite tiie spot '1>|R where our party were standing, lie balled 'hero, to give s une orders and I bad a line op- "Iters port unity of scrutinizing bis appearance same Ho was dressed in lull uniform, and I <>w,i ' thought liiiu one of the finest looking ,ls s,! men I had ever beheld* There was a no- ^ hie ha>k "I lii tU'iess, decision ami hravt ry. about hir?i. that at once stamped him as i Tts no common man. Seeing us all itUciitively and somewhat curiously tegarding li.m, . ru lie v* ry politely and with a pleasant smile upon his fire features lifted his chap/teaa, ami with a kind totted '* good inorirng | irenticin.-ti," galloped off at the bead of | his Division toward the citv. A large party of us, cou-isting of a iittm, lu-r ot clerks in tile paymaster's and ijuar- to (j | let uiast? rvs departments, several naval of- | fleers ami citizens started oil" over the ' Sniit sail i liili*, for the spot w here the capita- | uiKiii was 10 iaue pinve. litis was a duo HOeul 'evel plain of green sward extending from (i)l ^ 111e Southern gate of Ili?r city neatly two mile* mound was smooth atnl even was as a howling allfv. As wo advanced {roy| along toward ihe city, we found tire shii- ff,liSj .I\ ground literally covered with round J j;,,n I shot of al'iios' everv size and do* r pion, 1 you I wloth had la'un I i own from the enemy's ! j Imtlor cs at onr army; and ever and anon, j ;ill I we came to the great holes, eight or ten j ,neH) feet in depth, where the tenib'e shells ! yjrs j fiom the Castle Uad struck,and after explo- to ding scattered thai* moa (ragnwnts on vvjiy the plai'j. Now an I then, horses and inuhs that hud heeu destroyed hy the | jn shot could he descried lying upon the j p()S0 ground, with intrtuUof ravenous birds i |axVv hovering and shrieking around them, nnd I tearing tire putrid flesh from their white lo I hone*. I j Having arrived upon the plain, we j \ took a position where we imagined we ' ?.,tc i should have a tine view of the whole I lo|.?? scene, hut we had not been there tnore j pjt, than twenty minutes, when one of General Scott's ai l came galloping over the hills, . ( his coal-black and panting steed, Covered with with f>ain and his sabre jingling in its arol, iron scabbard, with : enou " Gentlemen, the General in Chief di- s|,jJ's reels that this spot shall he kept c/rr.r, :i* the Mexicans are to march out here, t I am sorry to disturb you, hut such nre my | tnort I orders." | ?HV * Atid away ho <*?ll?ipo. 1 hack to hi* j ff||| |H>*t again, and our party separated, and ! innri each ono lonkad* out, tor liiu suit, \ cap- j j$, tain in- the nriillaey, who from a revere j j jOI w(>und was *till invalid, and not on, duty, J |00i;j and myself, proceeded to a lull, wav the aide* of which were covered with a aw"n, thick growth of chayaral, anil which over- gmit looked the whole Held, ami where the in- lcq , ten?e heat wan modified by a cool, fre*h Htra;, breeze that ootnc sweeping over the great, lieuC( green bosom of the (itilf of Mexico, and j,, j passed with a rustling and musical aound. %V^>UJ through tli? tangled and almost imperv- p, ions troughs of the den*o thicket, benenlh w|fp whose shade we reclined and gazed witli j ^ delighted eye* upon !?>? magnificent and ! a| ?a immense panorama beneatli us. There > l,cen lay spread out before us the far stretch- ' ^,,en ing plain on which the conquered M*xicans were to lay down their arms?the x?iinis city ot Vera Cm*, with its old, gray, timu worn w alls, rampart*, domes, steeples and H|| tl; fortresses, battered down' broken into ihjng fragments and defaced by shot and shall* pHrjs ?the old grim Castle of San Juan 1>'UI Cretis loa, with the half-masted flag of Mexico w;fy trailing, above it as if in distress?and ho- #fooU yomi, the great, vdetun, steeping sea on v<>-ir? i -?? " " - iiuwnii me immense noetot t|ijul, ship* uf war and transports wore lazily own rolling to and fro, their toasts, yards, a'ul ft)| wilderness of rigging clearly defined (jq ji against the yellow sunlit sky. My com* ' pan ion Jbad with hint an excellent tele- A scope, and it afforded us a view of nil the son, t surrounding scenery, and of everything club! thai transpired. " S About teu o'clock A. M. the American " I army was ntarehed up in two distinct the e< columns, the regular troops on the right, M C and the volunteers on the left, and took him i up a position in such a manner as to bring bis p a large portion of the level plain before Th mentioned within a sort of hollow square, tainci with a slight opening at the end nearest " h the city for the Mexican troops to enter, j pose At the further end of this hallow square, a j " V white flag was flying, which was nothing fnl ui nor* dot less than oos of General i tubec t's sheets nttevhed to a long p <1 in the ground, here the Americ als took their station on horsebn sive the swords of the conquered.. a grand and imposing sight. Sot thousand soldiers drawn up tlx their bright arms Hashing in t itms, and the gay colors of the i re regiments tloating ont upon t breeze, while every hill top a spot where a view could l?e obla is crowded with anxious appelate ont eleven o'clock, a loud wail lets told that the Mexican army w aching, and in a few minutes lb seen to defile froin the south of t nd enter the plain, at the furtl f which they were to lay down th The soldiers ami officers made ?nt appearance, being well dr.-is< tccoutied. they rain* to the wailing sou i most mournful music I ever hea encral Officers at the head, am nult'tude of citizens following aft d down vsith their goods and eh -their little all! And then, r , did the Mexican officers and i lay down their arms while at instant the starry banner of i loved land rose triumphantly It rtf above the. city of Vera Cruz a as tie of San Juan D'Ullo i, and jands of our army stiuck up: the star spangle banner, ;?mt tlwro I te Hag of the free?'tis the flag of ve.1' BUioffUiiupiuis. I NEVER GOSSIP h, no, I never gossip! 1 have etm > to take car-* of my business will ng about the rvlbtirs of others, h. Why there's Mrs. Crocker, ? in scandal bv the wholesale; it? i to me as tlwough that worn tie must be alisioKt wuia out; lx.it f*s tio danger of that. If event like me tlier ? wouldn't be in >le in the world. Ob, no, 1 n? p. Hut did you know t!i:it Miss liiol got it new silk ?lres*, Mrs. Sin didn't ! well, sbo 1ms ; its a real ; 1 s:uv it in \ self. I do sa v K't'ul tor her to be so extiavagan u to give her a piece of my in Smith. You believe her uncle c her ? Well, I don't care, if lie ^ , it's only two mouths since her fa 1, and now to see her dash is style, i t's a burning shame. I i she thinks she's going to catch yo r Stanhope, but I guess she'll If mistaken; he's got more sense t ? caught by her, if she lias got a silk dies*. nd there's the upstart dresstna i Maeley, setting her cap for the < son ; the impertinence of mono | is perfectly astonishing. I d ; slm's any better than she ough for my own part, 1 never did like her mild, soft look, when any o nd ; my word ftr it,she can look c gli when there ain't; then she > only seventeen! (ioodncss kn as old as my Arabella Lucrctia, ? well, I won't say how, but s >'n seventeen, and I ain't ashanie ?o, either; bull guess I >r. May's have more discretion than to thin yinc her. foils Lor li-in.laot.Ki ? \\ i'i. She aiut. She ainlhulf so g ng a> my daughter Jane. Then she does tip her hair in such , curls ; and if yon believe it, 1 h, she actually had the imp'id'mc nc that she couldn't make her 4111 as my Maria Jane's. Impi r ! if she'd let curling papers and t rons alone, I'd risk but what her d he as straight as anybody's, it what do you think of the minis Mrs. Smith ! Von like her. \ can say is, you've got a very pe< ;te. Why she's as proud as Luci married a whole week, and ha to see me yet. You presume 'l had lime ? I don't see what il?*r wanted to go out of town to a wife for any way ; and then, at lings, to get that little girli>h looli Whv didn't he take one of Itioners ? There's my Aj-abella i would have made him a be than lie** got now. Then she's t the right age for him. She's older than the minister! I she , it was a pity if I didn't know daughters age, Mrs. Smith I It sc would mind their own business a 11 .1 1. -1 trr <i i ii h u it in em.? vrmtny Yi(i<)<iz I'meoociora Youth.?44 Tommy, what are you going to do with t fff end it to the editor of course.,' lilt what are you going to tend i ditor for ?" 'huso he any*, if anybody will ?< i club, ho will send thorn a cop< apor." e mother came noar fainting, but I oonaciottsness enough to ??k : tut Tommy, dear, what do you a he wants of a club t" > oil, I don't know," replied the ho chin, 44 unless it'n to knock do nber* M don't p*y tor their p?| J(JU 011 CAMP MEETING TALKA chap down South went to a camp meeting, and gives the following amusing account of the disjointed conversation he e heard there: j Treadling had not begun, and proino| Hading was in progress. We took a conI venient stand, and tried to catch the re, marks of the various couples, as they nu . , , , 1 ' J went slowly by us. " Yes, indeed," (two girls talking of course) " and my Brother Tom says that Henry Soker brags about the many times he has kissed her right in tho mouth, and bho never slaps him at all when nobody is by, and I'm sure I should die if people was to talk of mo as they do about CT > ) Iter? , " Corn is up again, you know, and T i shall make at least six hundred barrels if I t , | I make a peck, and consequently''? r, | What a spectacle this is, to lie swah. / ' I Chaw. Ah woudah if these people?J dem'd pooty gul, aint she?build theyali ,' own tents awa biwnli men to do it fjwah cm. Must bo a grcnt boah to"? <oj ''Be warned in six weeks Irom last .j Tuesday. I heard ma talking about it, j but you mustn't mention it for the world. I our , J ? It is a great secret. Oil) ,t ,i |? lit I ?< " lieallv now, and she a as ugly a, ? Hid } . " 1 lie tin est sow you ever saw, sir.? , l'uro Berkshire, and lias nine splcmled . j pigs. It was the host trade 1 ever made, 1 11 i and I would'iit take thirty rlollars for**? iliel Seollopped petticoats! only look, | Amy * Nine flounces and hoops in tho J Largain 1 Oh, how I should lovo to"? " Go to the picnic on Thursday I Oh, thank you- You don't know how I would love lobe present, sir, 1 am so fond of the cxhilerating dance, but father ugh says"? ioui " I am truly gratified, my dear young drs. friend, to learn that you are so deeply im she pressed with the necessity of immediate Joes repentance, au<l I shall this very day an's make"? no, " Ten yards of gimp for the bosom, and iody tanroou ve'v?t biudiug for the neck and inch sleeves, and oh, Emily"? ever "The finest baby vou ever saw?black i El eyes and large limbs, six weeks obi, and liili? weighs"? l.rA- 1 ** mvft'.AliA un.l o /inaflnv # 1?/* V?- I "IIV ?? ?jua? itl WW HIW U\?TI1 it's i el. None better in the country. Free I I | from iridic ami cock re I, and large gra'.nind, I ed. 1 hold it at"? pave " Stillopolis, next Saturday. Bob lid; Bothsides, the former Congressman, will thor speak, as he snvs"? out " Ah, Mr. Pepper, you, flatter me nip so! J not see how horribly Kate Wilinot nng I is dressed. She will wear yellow, though luid I it nwvkes her look like"?ban j " Fever and ngy, I believe. They've bio-: been laid up with it, now the poor | man's got"? ker, j "The sweetest bonnet I ever saw.? Joe- Whero did you get it! 1 must recoinpeo i mend my sister to your"? on't | " Watermelon patch. Stole every t to j darned one. Some of 'em 'bout half ripe, her : I swrow I will shoot theiu if they don't"? nc's | " Go to the White Sulphur. It is the ross i best in ilio whole world, mihm. I've seen lays j some of the most wonderful efTeets of ows the waters. Tom Holocaust was cured and J of'? he's : " Tweenty-five pounds of butter a week, d to ' And always get * quarter a pound, and son ! sometimes"? k of " Four t'ffs. two handful of flour n dal? of yeast, lialf tin cup full of molasses, 'ell, : and it makes"? cod j " The best manure I over used sir.? the Vastly superior to guano, or snperphospfly j hale. Two hundred and fifty pounds to Mrs. i the acre raised mo"? o to j "The handsomest woman on the bait ; ground. I can see none e<jaal to hor, exerti j copt Miss Mary , and she's got"? url- " Both hin.j legs spavined. And there hair is a speck in hor right eye that's bound to"? iters J " That beatiful girl in black over there. ^?j4' I never saw her but once beforo, and that ?u''*: was at"? ; " Mr. Muggin's failure, sir. And be *n 1 ; has taken to drink awfullv, and only last week had"? ^,0 | ' lbs head under my arm, and was plugging him.io the mouth, when he got '?vo | my finger" ? ling t "Between the 10th and lMhofSeptember, I will get my wheat to market, j and it will bring"1? ll,or " His crev hairs in sorrow to the crave. juM Oh, it in awful to think how"? two "Close the liangn to hit arm. She >uld ought to Ixs ashamed of herself, and nevmy er saw him until**? >me u Willinin was born twenty fire years ? ' ago last April. I am an old woman now, ,ne I and the gray hair makes"? Toot! toot! M Preaching will now !" * ! commence," said the Presiding Elder, and 1,1 we heard no more. t to Wht the Poor ark Poor.?Recently I had an interview with the minister of ?ud a parish in Scotland?(and I may observe f of | that he was not an abstainor)?when he said, "I am trustee for some money re winch is for the virtuous pooi. Two things, in my opinion, are essential to up* virtue?First, industry; second sobriety, The resnlt is," said the minister, 44I can>P* i not get quit of the tnonoy, for all the ??vn ; needy poor about here are either drunken per. I or idle. i\ U J>1 15 L Li 41. WHAT IS THE HARDEST DEATH? To be shot dead is one of the easiest modes ol terminating life; yet, rapid ft3 it is, the laxly has leisure to feel and reflect. On the firot attempt by one of the frantic adherents of Spain to assassinate William I'rinco of Orange, who took the lead in the revolt of the Netherlands, tho ball passed through the bones of his face and brought him to the groin.d. Iu the instant that preceded stupefaction, ho wasable to frame the notion that the ceiling of the room had fallen in and crushed him. Tho cannon shot which plugged' into the brain of Charles X!!, did not pre* vent him troin seizing his sword by live* hilt. The idea of an attack, and the necessity for defence, was pressed on biiu by a blow which we should have supposed too tremendous to leave an interval for thought. Hut it by no means follows that the inflicting of fatal wounds is accompanied by a pang. From what is known of the first effect of guu shot wounds, it is probable that the impression' is rather stunning than acute. Unless death be immediate, the pain is as varied ns the nature of the injuries, aiul these areI past counting up. 1 But there is nothing singnlar in thedvj ing sensation, though Lord Byron reI marked the pbysiologicical peculiarity I of the expression is invariably that of I languor, while in death from a stab, the countenance reflects to traits of natural character, of gontienoss or ferocity, to the i last breath. Some of these are cases of interest, to show with what slight disturbance life may go under a mortal wound, till it fi, nallv comes to a sudden slim. I A foot soldier at Waterloo, pierced by ! a inusket ball in the hip, begged water of a trooper who chanced to possess a canteen of beer. The wounded man drank, returned his heartiest thanks, mentioned that his regiment was nearly exterminated, and having proceeded a dozen yards on his way to the rear, fell to the earth, and with one convulsive movement of his limbs, concluded his career. " Yet his voice," says the trooper, who himself tolls the story, "gave scarcely the smallest sigii> of weakness." Captain Basil Ilall, who in his early youth, was present at the battle of Corunns, has singled out from the conclusion which consigns to oblivion the woes and gallantry of war, another instance, extremely similar, which occurred on that occasion. An old officer who was shot in the head arrived pale and faint hi tho temporary I hospital, and begged the surgeon to look j at his wound, which was pronounced morj ta? " Indeed 1 fear so," he responded, with impeded utterance, "and yet I should like very much to live longer if it were possible." He laid his sword on a stone by his side, as gently, says llall, us if steel hadi been turned to glaaa^iuul aJ:uost immediately sunk dead upon the turf. A GHOST STOEY. j Mr. Editor:?1 believe that the followj ing may l<e of interest to your numerous readers, and I know that the circumstances have never been published. L wrote them down and if you think it proper you tnay publish it. In the year 1820, at Hiehopville, South> Carolina, Capt. William Sumter (a grandson of Gen. Thomas Sumter) committed) suicide, ami was buried at tbe Baptist Church yard, about 1 12 miles froim Bishopvillc. His grave, is about ten step* from the public road, leading from Bishopville to Sumterville. In a few week* after tbis, William Bnteman, a man of groat courage, ami not superstitious, wa? riding on home (about three miles oft") and as bo passed by CapL. Sumter'* grave at about l'2orl o'clock in thenight, tbe ir.oon shining brightly, ho informed me (the next morning) that Capt. Sumter arose from liiR grAve and camo to hiin and placed h? hand or his stirrup, and walked in this way with him for about 150 yards, and just before be disappeared be informed liatcman it was bis time next., hi a few days after this, a man by the name of J"ames 1). Reave* shot Bateman giving him a mortal wound, which did rot terminate fatally for two or three weeks. Bateman managed to ride from Reaves' house to the Iioum of Moses Knimtreo, and when he irrivad there, sent for Doctor Bishop and h? brother John Bateman, the latter at that 'time overseer for Doctor Biahon: nntl although W. llatemsn's bouse was much' nearer than Hishopville, he requeued to ho taken to the latter place, which was^ done, and l>? Jied at hia brother's house at ltiahonville. I ??< acting is a magiv tratc at that time, and as there wa? no. witness present when lteavea shot ttete* man, I thought it propes to take hia dying contession, as it would be good evidence, and a few hours before hia- death 1 took down his statement; and as the circumstances of his seeing Sumter occurred to me, I asked him to give roe a statement again, and he said it wna as he stated before, and that ho was not miatakan ; he observed to me that it was not imagination, and said don't you aee that it haa * happened as he told me.?Svivrdag Morning Pan