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SWEET MOTHER, DO NOT WEEP.
BT O. P. BUBNUA*.
The last brown loaf of Autunui sear.
Hung trembling on the bough,
And sadly wailed the midnight air
In 'j-jccnts plain anil low.
With quivering lips and falling tenr
A mother1 watched her' child;
For well fehe knew that death was there
Though still the brave boy smiled.
"Sweet mother, do not weep!" ho said?
"Kneel here?I'll kiss thoso tears away?
Thus, thus support my weary head;
But, Mother, do not weep!"
Against his flushed and fevered check
The mother pressed her own
HU breath was faint, hla pulse was weak,
The work was nearly done!
tT?f fnnrj miKS/l/liin afill \unul/l dnvr
While gazing on her child?
Slio softlv kissed his p&Jlid brow?
Again ho faintly emiludl
"Sweet mother do uotweep!" ho cried,
"Bright angola whlaper me away?
No sorrow enters there," he sighed,
"Then mother do not weep!"
Tho night Lad passod, and morning's breath
Swept coldly o'er the hill?
Tho loTod one's eyes were sealed in death,
Tho mothor watched him still!
The withered leaf which hung along
Had fallen from the trocl
The faithful watcher's task was done!
no more that ?mUo nhe'l) see,
Yet, gontle mother, do not weepl
Hta spirit bright Is with the blessed!
Nought but hta form Is wrapped in sleep?
"Mien, mother, weep no morel
i .>it. -
From Santa Pc.
By telegraph we learn that Santa
Fe elates to the 19th of February
were received on tho3d inst., at St.
l^ouis, by the arrival at that place of
Maj. Cunningham, amy paymaster.
Indian ontragos are continually oc
cmj Ting, an? mucn danger is apprehe<ided
io the spring. The Apache
and Utah tribes are said to have
leagued for the purpose of intercepting
Santa Fe traders. A party of
\niericans going from Brown's train,
to somo fort, the name of which, is
not given, probably Bent's, were at:
tacked by some Pawnee Indians; but
the Americans were reinforced, and
repulsed the Indians with considerable
loss.
The census returns of New Mexico
show a population of 61,504.?
Washington Republic.
A White Man sold at AuctionThe
following incident occurs in a
letter written on the 8th ult. by a laj..
r 1 f it: 2a.. r n
uy-?"ivruiurry ui wiiscny?iroin ivusn
vllle, Sehuvfer county, 111.
There has lived here for many
years a nutt*1 named Barnaby, hv
trade a having- a wile
aMa large family of children. He
has always besn somewhat internpemteibut
latterly the hYtbit has so
completely taken possession of him
that ho has h?en found at times rolling
about the streets, utterly helpless.
Complaints were longed agft'inst
hitA by sortie of the citizens,
and he was arrested as a vagrant.
:r At the trifal hejprfivgd (hat his fem
Sly hart neMr suffered by his intemperance,
and there Was then in his
ndiito 'sufficieftt money, nicat* flour
and wood. ThejuJy, notwithstanding,
brought hitn in.. guilty, and the
hnrtiilmfinfrr1 hi t" wj&M.
pUjftlfc&UCtion, 10 theTlghCist bicftler,
for iho tfcrm of four monthsThe
s#le actually took place yesterday
at the court hOiisft door, in thv
presence of a large assetofcfefeiimf
izens- 1 Hunk the South may w 11
laugh at th?tec anti-slavery fanatics
of tTwj S'ortb, who lift# thus forevel*
cast! a stigmaof disgrace on a rKspec
nt
ly settiiin - and fathC:
a hv!.. temjun
>2|Bfcsto ni Ml I i 1 ig hmv
DEACON SMITH'S llffU.
OR MIKE FINK IN A TIGHT l'LACE.
Mike Fink, a notorious buckeye
hunter, was contemporary wi?h the
celebrated Davy Crocket;, and his
equal in all things appertaining to human
prowess. It was even said that
the animals in his nniflrhhni>htt<wl Lr?,r?,?r
j the crack of his rifle, and would take
to their secret iding places on the
first intimatiou that Mike was about.
Yet strange, though true, he was
but little known heyond his immediate
'settlement.'
When we knew him, he was an
old man?the blasts of seventy winters
had silvered o'er his head, and
taken the elasticity from his limbs;
yet in the whole of his life was Mike
never worsted, except upon one occasion.
To use his own language,
lie never 'gin in, used up, to any
tiling that travelled on two legs or
four, but once.'
'That once, we want,' said Slash'
or, as some dozen of us sat in the
bar-room of the only tavern in the
settlement.
'Gin it to us now, Mike?you've
promised long enough, and you're
old now, and needn't care,' continued
Bill.
'Right, right! Bill,'said Mike,'bill
we'll open with a licker all round
fust, it'll kind o' s^ve my fcelin's, 1
reckon?'
'Thar, that's good. Better than
vomer oarrei, any tnmgr
'Well, boys,' commenced Mike,
'you may talk o' your scrimmages,
tight places and sich like, and subtract
'em altogether iu one all-almighty
big 'un, and they hain't 110 more
to be compared to the one 1 war in,
than a dead kitten to an she bar! I've
font all kinds o1 varmints, from an
Ingin down to a rattlesnake! and
never was will'n to quit fust, but this
oncf?and 'twas with a Bull!
'You sec, boys, it was an awful hot
day in^August, and I war nigh run-1
nin on into pure ife, when I war
thinkin1 that a dip in the creek niout
save me. Well, tliar was a mighty
nice place in old deacon Smith 8
medder for that partio lar bizziness.
So I went down amongsi the hushes
to unharness, 1 jist hauled the old
red shirt over my head, and war
thinkin' how scrumptious a feller of
my size would feel a wallerin' round
in that water, ami was jest "bout goin'
in, when I seed the l)eacon's bull
a makin' a bee-lino to vvhar I stood.
'1 know'd the old cuss, for he'd
skar'd more people timn all the parsons
o' the settlement, and cunt mi/a-iity
near kilTn a few. Thinks I, Mike
you're in rather a tight place?get
yonr fixins on, for he'll he a drivin'
them biff horns o' his ir? yer bowels
4 l?n 4 I II Ml I
uiuic iiiui iiiiiu i ?? lill? yuu It I1BV lO
try the old varmi it naked, I reck'n.
'The Bull war on one side o' the
creek and I on t'other, and the way
he made the sile fly for a while, as if
he war a digffin' my grave, war distressin'!
'Gome on ye bellerin old heathin,
Said L and don't, hfi n Rtnndin ihoi
lor, as the old Deacon says o1 the
devil, 'yer not comely to look on.1
'This kind o1 reached his understanding,
and made him more wishious;
for he hoofed a little like, and
made a drive. And as 1 don't like
to stand in any body's way, I ^in
him plenty of soa-room! So lie kind
o1 passed by me and come out'on
tothersidei and. as the Cantin o' th?
Mud-Swamp Rangers would say,
''bout face for 'not her charge.'
'Though I war ready for him this
time* he come mighty nigh runmn'
foul of me! So I made up my mind
the nuxt time ho went out ho would
not be alone. So when he passed, I
grappled his tail* and he pulled me
out on tho 'fiile,' and as soon as we
war both a' top ol the bank old brindle
stopp'd, and< war about comin'
round agin when I begin to pu!Pn
tother way.
'Well. I rftr.lc 'll thin lfinrl n1 I
him, for he first stood stock ntill find
iookedf at me for a spell, arid then
commenced pawin and bellerin, and
the wmv hn made his hind treating
play *T1 the air, Wftr beautiful I"
'But itwarn't no use, he couldn't
ttch me, s6 he kind o* stopped to get
wind for suthin devilish, as I jedged
by thd way he staredl By this time,
1 hn<J tsictdeup my mind lo stick to
his tail a? long as it stuck to his backbonel
II didn't like to holler for help
wither knse it war'agml'my principle,
and then the deacon had preaefiin'
at his house, and it warn,t far
nuther.flfcfc? p '? w- - i h!(p
*1' know*d if ho hoarn the notary,
the hull congregation wouW come
down; and as I warn*t a married
irian, and had a kind o1 harikerin arte*
ft gall that War thar, 1 didn't, fee!
as if l would like to be ?ecd in that *r
predicament. * nr n J -? ?j { ??*
- - -
'So, says I, you old sarpent, do I
yer cussedest! And so lie did; for
lie drug me over every briar and
stump in the field, until 1 war sweatin
and bleedin like a fat bear witli a
pack o' hounds at his heels. And
my name ain't Mike Fink, if the old
cru ,?r s lan ana l didn't blowout
sometimes at a dead level with the
varmint's back!
lSo you kalkclate we made ^ood
time. Bimeby he slackened a little,
and then 1 hail *im for a spell, for I
jist drapt behind a stump, and thaisnubbed
the critter! Now, says I,
you'll pull Up this 'ere white oak?
break yer tail! or jest hold on a bit
till 1 blow!
'Well, while I war setting thar, an
idea struck ine that I had better be a
gettin out o1 this in some way.
15ut how, ad'/.ackly, was the pint! If
I let go and run he'd be foul o' me
sure!
'So looking at the. matter in all its
bearuis, 1 cum to the conclusion that
ill better let somebody know whar
1 was! So I gin a yell louder than a
locomotive whistle, and it wan't long
afore I seed the Deacons two dogs
comin down like as if they war seein
which could get thar fust.
'I know'd who they war arter?
A I _ _ _ . * 1 - I T * I 1 '
mey (ijiMouic Dun agin me, 1 war
sartaiu, for they were orful wenomous
and had a spite agin me.
4So, says I, old brindlc, as ridin is
as cheap as walkin, on this route, if
you've no objections, I'll jist take a
seat 011 that ar back o' yourn! So 1
wasn't long gettin astrit' * of him, and (
then if you'd bin thar, you'd have [
sworn thai* warn't nothin human in!
that ar mix! the silo flew so orfnllv I
? ? J
as lie and I rolled round the field?
one dog on one side undone on t'other,
tryin to clinch my feet!
'I prayVl imd cnssM, and cuss'd
and pray'd,until 1 couldn't tell which
I did hut?and neither wan't of no
thft war BO o'rfully mixed up.
'Well, 1 rid about on hour iliisi
way, when old bundle thought it j
war timn to take in .1 snnnlv nf wirwl I
- - ^ r[-v v*
and cool off a I ttlo! So when >ve
{jot round to a tree that ?tood thar>
ic nat'rally stopped.
'Now, says 1, old boy, you'll lose
one passenger sartain. So I jist
clum upon a branch kalkelatin to
roost thar till 1 starved, afore I'd be
rid round in that ar way any longer.
4I war a makin tracks for the top
o' the tree, when I heard suthin a
makin an orful buzfcin over head. I
kinder look'd up and if thar vvarn't?
well there's no use a swearin now,
but it war the biggest hornets nest evni'
1 M ?-111
'You'll gin in now, I reckon, Mike,
cnse thar's no help for you! Hut an
ideastruck me, then, that I'd stand a
heap better chance a ndin the Hull
than whar I war. Savs I, old feller,
von'll hold on, Til rule to the next
. / i i_* ii?* i._ ...?
oifnn/ii. uiiy HUW, ici iuai IMJ wiiui'ii
will!
'So I jist drapped aboard hip agin,
and looked aloft to see what I'd
gain'd in changin quarters; and, gentlemen,
I'm a liar it thar warn"t nigh
a half hushel of the stingin varmints
ready to pitch into mo when the
word 'go' was gin.
'Well, I reckon they got it, for nil
hands started for our company I Some
on 'em hit the dogs?about a quart
stuck me and the rest charged on old
br indie'.
it i - i_i ~ r* t* ?
x his nine, ine (log's len oiiiust,
dead bent for the old deacon's, and
as soon as old brindle and I could gel
underway, we foUowedl And as I
war only a deck passenger, and had
nothin to do with steerin the crafty
1 swore if I had we should'nt have
run f^t,channel, any howl
'But, asl said afore, the dogs took
the Jcaclt?brindle and I next, and the
hornets dre'kly nrter. The dogs
yelhn?-brindle bellerin, and the hor*
nntft biiv.vin anrl atirirrinl 1 rlirln^i
iaytna{ giunneo- it wn.O>t long
aforosorae oPen^as war not go
SCfVSfKS'
say nothip, for it warn"t no use.
'Well, we'd got about two hundred
yards from the house, and the
deacon hearn us and cum out. 1
seed him hold up his hand and turn
white! i reckoned lie was prayin,
then, .ur he didn't ejcpect to he called
for so soon, aod it wan't long, nither,
afore (he hull congrefltation; men, wo
men $nd children, cum out, and ?heri
all hand# went to yellin!
'None of'em had the first notion
that brindle and I belonged to this
world, Ijist turned my head, and
passed the hull congregationi I see
the run would be up soon*, for brindle
cqqkWt turn ao inch from a fence
that stood dead,ahead!
'Well, we reached that fence and
i wen* ashore, over the old critter1?
head-, lauding on fother side, and
the Hull and I belonged together!
But when brindle walked off by himself,
they seed how it war, and one
of'cm said, 'Mike has got the wust
of the scrimmage once in liin life/'
'Gentlemen, from that day I dropped
the court in business, and never
spoke to a gal since! And when my
hunt is upon this yearth, thar wont
oe any more I'lnKsi ana it is all owiti
to Deacon Smith's brimlle Bull!
Miltonian, Pa.
AiBccdotc of Napoleon.
"On his first nomination to the army
ofltaly, the Directory is said to
have been unable or unwilling to supply
him with the money necessary
for the journey of himself and his
aids-de-camps to the spot, and their
suitable appearance at the head
Quarters of a considerable force. In
this emergency, after collecting all
that his resources, the contributions
of his friends and his credit could
muster, he is reported to have applied
to Junot, a young officer whom
lie knew to be in the habit of freauent
ing the gaming tables, and confiding
to him all the monev he had been
?l.l.. ?_ ? if" ?
a lilt; uj raise, in nsuu nu j^roiii sum,
to have directed him cither to lose
the whole or increase it to a considerable
amount before the morning, as
on his success that night at play, deponded
the possibility of his taking
the command of the army and appointing
J unot his aid-de-camp. Junot,
after succeeding beyond his expectations
in winning to an amount,
in his judgment equal to the exigencies
o' his employer, hastened to inform
General BonaparK; but he was
not satisfied, and resolving to try his
fortune to the utm -st, bade his friend
i 11 ii?i 111 i
ruium, nsK an iiuii lie nau gained,
and not quit the table till he had lost
the last p^nny, or doubled the sum lie
had brought back with him. In this,,
also, after sortie fluctuation, the chances
favored him, and Napoleon sat
out to hifj headquarter?, iurpiBhed
with sufficient means to take upon
him the command with no little personal
splendor and eclat."
Singular fracas.
A dispute from a singular cause oc
curred yesterday at the office of a
banker in the Chaussee d'Antin.?
M. ii. F?, the cashier, who has filled
the office for the last twenty-five
years, was at his post, when a col
lectin# clerk, named Pierre Doulley,
presented himself with a draft for
10,000 francs drawn by a London
bankrr. The notes were counted
out, and the man left the place. In
a few hours after, Doulley returned,
and addressing himself to the cashier
said: 'There is a little mistake between
us; there is a difference of
1000 francs in our account.' 41 never
make mistakes,1 replied the cash
icr, indignantly; 'for twenty-five years
my balance lias always been correct
to a sou.' 'But the error,1 said Doulley,
'is against yourself, as yon have
given me 1000 francs too much. I
am as honest a man as you arc; I
have been employed as collecting
clerk for thirty-live years in the same
housel. There is your note, I will
not take it.1 'Insolent fellow,' cried
the cashier, 'do yon dare to insult
1 T III i 4~1._ 7
iiici jl win nui itiKu yuur noie; i regnrd
nny mnn as an enemy who
wishes to prove to my employer that
I am capable of making a mistakeTake
the note, or I will turn you
out of the place.' Pierre Doulley
was not to be thus repelled, and
from words the parties came to
blows, but the clerks of the house
hastened to separate them. The
cashier, not wishing to avow an error,
which he would have regarded
as a stain on his long established reputation
for correctness, was fain to
nut up with the loss of the note; and ,
Pierre Doulley carried the 1000
francs to the mayor of his arrisse- ;
ment, to be distributed among the
poor.?Galignani.
In the mountains of the Tyrol, ]
hundreds of the women And children
come out when it is bed time and j
sing their national song their hus- j
bands answer them from the bills on |
their return home. On the shores of
the Adriatic, the wives of the fishermen
come down about sunset and <
sing a melody. They sing the first
versp, aud then listen for some time, <
they ihco sing, the second verse, and i
listen until they her the answer come ,
from tho fishermen, who afe thus j
guided by the sounds of their own <
village. I
It i0 a singular fact that the largest j
Ocean steamers bear precisely the ;
same proportion in leiurth and aenth
thai oxtetcd in Noali^s ark.?firskine
Miscellany. I
A Scene in Court.
Col. Garner was a character horn
in Old Virginian; high bred, according
to the notions of his day and
place, and a man, as he said of himself,
of 'high points.' He was in1
1 A i- I I l ?1 .
u?eu oiicnii'.irs nign, ana in mat
state every thing seeming high to
him, he played a high character. He
was an oil-hand politician, and an
impromptu lawyer; and his various
high qualities secured him tho high
honor of a seat in the State Legislature,
of which he was very proud.
One day, while circuit court was in
session, he was seated on a heap of
logs near the court-house, holding a
high discourse with a .iend who was
not quite so high, in one sense, as
i.: ~ir ...i _ i i i i
iiiiiiscii, wiien a unseraoie-iooK.mg
fellow approached, bare-footed, clad
in rags, with only a vestige of a hat
on, being a mere band of straw binding
his forehead, and his course matten
hair sticking out a >ove Mike quills
upon the fretful porcupine.1
'Colonel,1 saia Billy Stewart (for
that was the poor fellow's name,) lI
want to see you.1
4Whatdoyou want with me, you
ragged son-of-a-gun!1
'Now, Colonel, don't be cross at
me ; I always voted for you, and
now 1 want you to help me out of
trouble.1
'Why, Billy, whai's the matter j
now?-?do you want a pair of old
breeches V
'They've got me tuck up here for
stealin', and I want you to get me
out o' the scrape.'
'WhatI stealing, Billy??why,)oil
have not been stewing* Billy! You're
loo lazy to steal; but what do they
say you stole V
Billy explained the case substantially
thus: Finding a barrel which
had floated down the river and lodged
in a mass of drift-wood, lie drew
it a shore, and finding the contents
wnisiiey, he filled his little pocketflask.
For this, Mie ungrateful owner
had hirn indicted for theft.
'Help me down,1 cried the Colonel,
as Billy finished his statement; 'this
wont do at all? help me down I1
He was lifted down from the logs,
when he went as straight as he could
into the court house, where a suit
was in full progress of trial.
'Judge!' exclaimed the Colonel, in
a loud and commanding tone, that
startled both bench and bar, 'Judge !
.1 -I i 1
wimi no vou iihuk i inev've got my
friend Hilly Stewart up here fo* steal
in^ of a high drink ; and don't /ou
think, Judge, if there's anything in
the world a man would be justifiable
in stealing, it would be a high drink
when he's dry?'
The scene was really rich. The
surprise of court, bar, and spectators;
the onrnfistriPHS. pmnlmsis. K?.
nevolence of the Colonel, together
with the intrinsic ludicrousness of
the whole afTnr, put the Judge in
rather a mei ry humor, and he responded
in a vein of pleasantry to
the interrogatory with which the advocate
concluded his address:
'Well, Colonel, the court is rather
inclined to that view of the case.'
You would have admired the Colonel,
had you seen him, on this intimation
from the bench, turning with
a princely patronizing air to Billy,
and pronouncing with the utmost
gravity?
'Billy Stewart, you stand acquitted;
you are discharged, and may go
home.1
Billy leaped out of the door at two
or three bounds, swinging the remains
of his mutilated hat on high,
and exclaiminir?
'Col. Garner I he's the best lawyer
out of h?111 I'll vote for him
king!'
Farther proceedings in the case
were actually dismissed, as it was
deemed to have been disposed of, if
not according to the forms, agreeably
at least to the substance of justice.
nr..?. r__i - w ? ? *
livery misery that you mis? h 4
mercy, says Isaac,Wajtou.
Muvcry inert a iving. "?-Afl CXCCI- I
lent story is told of the King of the
Musquito Kingdom, where the British
are liohizing so much fct San luan
in Central America. During one of
Ivis recent excursions in company
with the British consul, a small craft
was seon sailing down the harbor,
with theAmerican ensign at the peak.
The royal procession came to a halt,
when his maiestv. nointinnr hin
finger in the direction of (he stars
and stripes, exelaimed, in an authoritative
tone, *Wat dat flagdar? MrOonauir
'The American flag,' was
the reply. *Merican fin#?wat coun
try dat you call Merican?' queried
!i is Royal Mi\je$ty, 'Is it big like
(Vfoskeeter kingdom?'
1 ? [ 1 - '
Strong fflteir.. tV
' The weakest man can lift with his
hands about one hundred and iweuN
ty-five pounds; a strong man* four
hundred. Topham, a carpenter*
could lift eight hundred pounds--?
He rolled up a strong pewter disb
with his fingers; he lilted, with hia
leein ana Knees, a table six teet long#
with half a hundred weight at th?
end; he bent a poker three inches in
circumference, to a right angle, by
strikin {it upon his left forearm; a nota
er he bent and unbent about hia
neck, and snapped a hempen rope*
two inches in circumference.
A few years .~^o, there was a person
at Oxford, England, who could
bold bis arm extended, for half a
minute, with half a hundred weight
banging on his little finger.
The average weight carried by a
stout nnrtpr 111 T-nnrlnn- is twn linn
Hred pounds; but there are porters in
Turkey, who, by accustoming themselves
to this kind of burden from an
early period, are able to carry from
seven to nine hundred pounds; though
they walk at a slower rate, and on*
lv carry the burden a short distance.
We are also told of a man, who, by
bending his body into an arch, anct
having a harness fitted to his hips,
was capable of sustaining a cannon
weighing two or imee thousand
i pounds, and not many winters ago,
the celebrated Belzoeu then first en
taring on public life,exhibited himself
to the theatres of London, and by a'
similar kind of harnessing, was capable
of supporting, even in an upright
position, a pyramid of ten twelve
men, and surmounted by two or
three children, whose aggregate
weight could not be much less than
two thousand pounds; with which
weight he walked repeatedly to*wards
the iront of the stage.
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er name has to be added to the obituary
of distinguished persona of the
present year. Napoleon Junot*
l)uke of Abrantes, the elder of the
two sons who survived the marshal,
i has just died in the 44th year of his
age in a lunatic asylum near Paris.
'Hie wild youth and eccentric career
of the deceased are thus accounted
for: "Notwithstanding the great irrpirnlnriiins
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only be explained by partial insanity/
the son of Junot possesses talents of
no mean order. As may be supposed,
the imaginative faculty was
predominant. He composed and
published several pieces of poetry
which had considerable merit notwithstanding,
or perhaps because of
their eccentricity. He was also the
author of several dramatic pieces,
and published a considerable number
of romances separately, or in literary
periodicals. He was also ah
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j wrote with much correctness the En
I glish, Spanish and Italian languages,
and was an excellent classical scholar.
For the last few years of his
life, and during the intervals of his
malady, he devoted himself to the
production of what he considered his
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ofShakspeare, in verse and prose*
into French. The work is, it ftppcars,
considerably advanced, and it
is curious (hat it wao while he wa&
employed on the tragedy of Lear
that the most decided symptoms of
his malady appeared. The only sur
viving brother of the deceased, and
the mheritor of his title, is now a
Captain in the staff of Gen. M'Ma
lion in Alrica."
In the middle of last January, the*
Schaffler dance won performed ib
Munich. The Schaffler Tnnz tikes
place every seven years. Th? origin
of the dance is this: In the year
1517 a dreadful plague ravaged Munich.
All the doors and windows
were closed and men avoided thenneighbors.
In the midst of this terror
and silence, a troop of men, coon
ers by trade, (Schnffle'r.in the dialect
of this part of Germany,) came in
from the country with music* and;
green branches, and went from house
to house calling to the people to o?
pen their windows and doors- The
people, at this unexpected summons,
came forth, and, as if in frantic joyT
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strangely enough the pk.j-ue spell
was broken. In commemoration of1
this event the Sclmffler Tana is per*
formed every seventh year* Thi*
men wear gay scarlet coats^ black
velvet small clothes yellow aprons,
and gavly ornamented hats; they always
dance before the royal pa face.
The bright dresses, music, end the at*
tendance of hariequino made a IrMy
scene. Thft
orally the commencement of the
nival., ?