Camden commercial courier. (Camden, S.C.) 1837-1838, February 17, 1838, Image 2
,V \ _ % 1 r * .
K jShpnttf llfntiiru witlT (he Ideal beings of
Il la-pleasant, likewise to gaze
^piil Wbfn some high crag, end watch a
uf chiWren, gathering pebbles and
and playing with the surf,
mimn ?IQ ocean's hoary bear*. Nor
' ^1*'l Infringe upon my seclusion, to see'
TOgfcr atr.anchor off the shore,
; <jMuilf?||ifnilngly lo and fro, and rising
aiflFainking with the alternate swell;
^ utfclfe iht^>rew?four gentlemen i? round
abtMdjftckoU<-iire busy with their fishingllfiK
But, with an inward antipathy and
a niad long flight, do I eschew'the pie*
sence of any meditative stroller like my*
self, known by his pilgrim staff, his sauntering
stop, his shy demeanor, his observant
yet abstracted eye. From such a
man; as if another self had scared me, I
scramble hastily over the rocks and take
refuge in a nook which many a secret
hour has given mc a right to call my own.
1 would do baltlo for it even with the|
cHgrl that should produce the title-deeds.
Have not my musings melted into its rocky
walls and sandy floor, and made them a
portion of myself?
It is a recess in the line of cliffs, wall
eu round by a rough, high precipice, which j
?)most encircles at|d shuts in a little spa.c
of sand. In the'rear, the precipice is
broken and inclinging and twining shrubs,
but to trees, that gripe the rocks with
their naked roots, and scern to struggle
hard for footing and for soil enough to
live upon. These arc fir Irees; but oaks
hang their heavy branches from above,
and throw down acorns upon the beach,
nnd shed their withering foilage upon the
waves. ' At this autumnal season the precipice
is decorated with variegated splendor;
trailing wreaths of scarlet flaunt from
the summit downward; tufts of yclloivflowering
shrubs, anil rose bushes, with
their reddened leaves and glossy seed-berries,
sprout from each crevice, at every
glance I detect some new light or shade
of bcautv, all contrasting with the stern
gray rock. A rill of water trickles down
the cliff and fills a little cistern near the
base. I drain it at a draught and find it
fresh and pure. This recess shall be mv
dining-hall. And what the feast? A lew
biscuits, made savory by soaking them in
sea-water, a tuft of samphire, gathered
from the beach, and an apple for the des?sert.
By this the little rill has filled its
.reservoir again; and, as I quaff it, I thank
God more heartily than for a civic ban-j
quel that 11c gives me the healthful appetite
to make a feast of bread and water.
Dinner being over, I throw myself at
length upon the sand and, basking in the
sunshine, let mind disport iUolf at will.
The walls of this my hermitage have no
tongue to tell my fullies, though I sometimes
fancy that they have cars to hear
them and a soul to sympathize. There is
magic in this spot. Dreams haunts its
precints, and flit around me in broad sunlight,
nor require that sleep shall blindfold
me to real objects, ere these be visible.
Here 1 can frame a story of two
lovers, and make their shadows live before
me, and be mirrored in the tranquil
water, as they tread along the sand, lea.
ving 110 foot-prints. Here, should I will
it, I can summon up a single shade, and
be ipyself her lover. Yes, dreamer?
but your lonely heart will be the colder
for such fancies. Sometimes, too, the
past comes back, and finds me here, and
in her train como faces which were gladsome
when I knew them, yet seem not
gladsome now. "Would that my hiding
place were lonelier, so that the past might
not find me! Get ye all gone, old friends,
and let me listen to the murmur of the
sea?a melancholy voice?hut less sad
than yours. Of what mysteries is it telling!
Of sunken ships, and whereabouts
they lie? Of islands afar and undiscovered,
mivoo ia u ti.J VU11U4UII aiU UIILtM!M'UMI> <11
other islands and of continents, and deem
the stars of heaven their nearest neighbors?
Nothing of all this. What then?
Has ft talked for so many ages, and meant
siothing all the while? No; for those ages
iind utterance in the sea's unchanging
voice, and warn the listener to withdraw
his interest from mortal vicissitudes, and
let the infinite idea of eternity pervade his
soul. This is wisdom; and therefore,
will I spend the next half hour in shaping
little boats of draft-wood, and launching
them on voyages across the cove, with
the feather of a sea-gull for a sail. If
V the voice of ages tell me true, this is as
wise an occupation as to build ships of
five hundred tons, and lnnn/?h flinm fnrih
upon the main, bound to " far Cathay."
Yet, how would the merchant sneer nt me!
Ant), after all, can such philosophy he
true? Methinks it could find a thousand
arguments against it. Well, then, let
yonder shaggy rock, mid-deep in the
surf?see! he is somewhat wrathful?he
rages and roars and foams?let that tall
r0ck be my antagonist, and let me exercise
my oratory like him of Athens, who
bandied words with an angry sea and got
the victory. My maiden speech is a
triumphanConc; for the gentleman in seaweed
has nothing to offer in reply save an
unmitigable roaring. His voice, indeed,
will be heard a long while after mine is
hushed. Once more I shout, and the cliffs
. reverberate the sound. Oh, what joy for
a shy man to feel himself so solitary, that
he may lift his voice to the highest pitch
without hazard of a listener. But. hush!
slJ?nt, my good friend!?whence comes |
V
f
*
thai ilifori taughftarf It^rta
bow hpi^id ,there tr tucb hhmjc in rojf
Boliludel Luuliing upwards, 1 retch
glii ?pse of three faces, peeping from the
suraTitft of the clUF, like angels between
me and their native sky. Ah, fair girls,
you may make yourselves merry at my
eloquence, but it was my turn to smile
when I saw your white feet in the pool!
Let us keep each otner's secrets. *
The sunshine has now passed from my
hermitage, except a gleam upon the sand
just where it meets the sea. A crowd^Aj
gloomy fantasies will come and hannt ifl
If I tarry longer here, in the darkening^
twilight of these gray rocks. This is a|
dismal place in some moods of the mind.l
Climb wc, therefore, the precipice, andj
pause a moment on the brink, gazing i
down into that hollow chamber by the
deep, where we have been, what few can
be, sufficic t to our own happiness How
lonesome looks the recess now, and dreary
too like all other spots where happiness
has been! There lies my shadow in the
departing sun-shine with its head upon the
aea. 1 will pelt it with pebbles. A hit!
a hit! I clap my hands in triumph, and
see my shadow clapping its unreal Jiands,
and claiming the triumph for itself. What
a simpleton must I have been all the day,
since my own shadow makes a mock of
my fooleries!
Homewaid! homeward? It is lime to
hasten home. It is time; it is time; for
as the sun sinks over the western wave,
the sea grows melancholy, and the surf
has a saddened tone. The distant sails
appear astray, and not of eaith; in their
remoteness amid the desolate waste. My
spirit wanders forth afar, but finds no res
ting place, and comes shivering back. It
is lime that I was hetic . But grudge me
not the day that has been spent in seclusion,
which yet was n>?t solitude, since
tne great sea has been my companion and
the little sea-birds my friends, and Unwind
has told me his secrets, and airy
shapes have flitted around me in my liermhagc.
Such conipenionship works an
effect upon a man's character, as if he
had bc? 11 admitted to the society of creatures
that arc not mortal. And when, at
noontide, I tread the crowded streets, the
influence of this day will still be felt, so (
that I shall walk among men kindly as a
brother, with affection and sympathy, hut
yet shall n??t melt into the undistinguishnble
mass of human kind 1 shall think
my own thoughts, and feel my own emotions,
and possess my individuality tinviolated.
But it is good at the eve of
such a day, to feel and know that there
are men and women in the world. That
feeling and that knowledge are mine at
this moment; f >r, on the shore, far below
rue, the fishing party have landed from
their skiff, ami are cooking their scaly
pr? y bv the fue of drift-wood, kindled in
the angle of two rude rocks. The three
visionaly girls are alto there. in the
t\v?l?j-r?t. woilu til. auof to .In .1. |
ing near their hearth, the ruddy gleam of
the fire throws a strange air of comfort I
over the wild eovc. bestrewn as it is with,
pebbles and sea wed, und exposed to the i
41 meiancholy main" Moreover, as the I
smoke climbs up the precipice, it brings
with a savory smell from tlie pan < f fried
fish, and a black kettle of chowder, and
reminds mo that my dinner was nothing
but bread amf water and a tuft of samphire,'
and an apple. Methinks the party might1
find room for another guest, at that Hat
rock which serves them tor a table; and if
spoons be scrace, I could pick up a clamshell
on the beach. Tliey see me now;
and?the blessing of a hungry man upon
him!?halloo. Sir Solitary! come down
and sup with us! The ladies wave their
handkerchiefs. Cm 1 decline? No; and
be it owned, after all my solitary joys,
.L . .L!- !- -I
niiiv uiis i8 me sweetest moment ol a Day
by the Sea-Shore.
??????
Not long si:;ce, two sniinrs, j>rt88i i? g l> v
a Tailor's shop, and observing a tailor at'
work, with the hark <?f his waistcoat
made of different colors of cloth, one of
then) rrilul out to the other, ' Lock there.
Jack; did ye ever see so mativ sorts of|
cabbage grow on otie stalk befc re?
Courtship of tiif, late Dr. R.~
"Dear Sir: 1 am. sorry I canno accept
your kind offer, as I am already engaged:
but 1 am sure my sirster Ann would jump
at it!
"Your obliged, Ei.izt L "
"Dear Mi'-s Eliza: I bf g your pinion,
but wrote your name in mistake; it woMiss
Ann I meant to ask, and avc writ
10 ner 05 me nearer.? Hoping soon to he I
your affectionate brother. J R."
The Doctor and Miss Ann were married,
and, ns they say in the fairy tales,
' lived very happy all the rest of their
lives."
Pleasuhf. of Publishing Papers.?
In an article on the stern necessity, and
that unkind inattention of subsc-ihers and
advertisers, which compel the publishers
of papers to dun their patrons, the Kditm
of the Wheeling Times, very justly and
feelingly makes fliese remarks.
"There is a mania for ptibliseing newspapers
in this world ?f ours, that is more
iatul than the small pox, the cholera or
the yellow fever' Ninety in a hundred
meet their destruction in it; yet, as fast aone
dies another takes his [dace, gels innoculntcd
with the writing fever, think
of gold nod glory, turns newspaper publisher,
drags on a worthless life, half fed,
half clothed, toils day and night, heart-i?k
and weary; the public slave, yo.
wielding an engine, which properly re
strfcled WjUil move the worhl, or snake
its inhabifefta tfe?nbi?s
The be free or useful
wltlle it if ijmjtlbtelled with poverty and
dogged with <|||mu Ho situated, it will, it
must he, mi-tit^back of every whippersnapper
who haa money enough to keep
the printet's aould and body together.?
This' state of things will not do. We
move that the Printers of the United
States divide off in halves and *'jeff" to
I see which ahull g<? lo digging ditches and
Luicking stone-coal for a living.- It would
n prove (habituation ol both- halves
mightily. We^ok upon every new paper
that is started, very much as we do
upon every new murder that is committed.
We think, there is another man lost to
every thing useful, lost to hims< If, lost to
the world, and doomed to a purgatory
from which salt cannot save him. We
thin -, that the last days of that man will be
worse than the first!?but all must live
and learn. We have become a little
hardened to the business, *?ut if we had
life to go over again, we rather adopt the
trade of fishing lor minnows with a pin
hook, than that of publishing a paper in
the United Elates."
.
j SSlgnees of the Declaration of Independence.
Ol the fifty-six signers of
the Declaration o'f Independence, it is
slated that nine were bor . in Massuchnsettes;
eight in Virginia; five in Maryland;
four in Connecticut; four in New Jersey;
four in Pennsylvania; four in South Carolina;
three in New York; three in Delaware;
tw > in Rhode-Island; one in Maine;
three in Ireland; two in England; two in
Scotland; and one in Wales.
Twenty-one were attorneys, ten merchants,
four physicians, tcree farmers, one
clergyman, one printer, and sixteen were
men of fortune.
? .? . ? .
nnu gi amours 01 uravard College;
four of Yule; three of Now Jersey;
two oi Philadelphia; iwo of William &
Mary; three of Cambridge England; two
of Edinburg; and one of St. Ornors.
At the time of their deaths five were
over ninety years of age; sevi n between
eighty and ninety; eleven between seventy
and eighty; twelve between sixty and
seventy; eleven between fifty and sixty;
seven between forty and fifty; one died at
the age of twenty seven; and the age of
two is uncertain.
At the lime of signing the Declaration;
the average age of the members was forty-four
years. They lived t> the average
Hgc of more than sixty-five years and ten
months. The youngest member was Edward
Ruth dg of South Carolina, who
was in his twenty-seventh year. He lived
to the age of fifty-one. The next youngest
member was Thomas Lynch, of the
-nine state, who was also in his twentyseventh
year. He was ca ?t amay at sea
in the fall of seventeen hundred and
seventy-six.
Benjamin Franklin was the oldest meml/i
a Hi' v? iiu a 1 - - ? -j ? %? .? * %
when he signed (he Declaration. lie
lived to 1700, and survived sixu en of his
younger brethren. Stephen Hopkins, of
Rhrdc Island, the next oldest member.
was born in 1707, and died in I7b5.
Charles Carroll attained tie greatest
ag", dying in his ninety,sixth year. Win.
Eilery, of Rhode Island, died in his nine
ty-third year, and John Adams in his
ninety-first.
A Hairless Ilonst: ? A horse which is I
now exhibiting at Tulter?*nlls is certainly,
a ureal cniosiiy. There is imi a hair *??
a y pari ??f his body, from his ears t<? his
tail nor on any of his limbs He i> a
perfectly fi rmed and docile animal, and
his skin is as smooth and as soft as a lady'-,
or as the ureal anaconda's. Starth n .t
lair dames, at the combination, for we
mean no disrespect to you whatever. It
is sai l that the dam was frightened almost
to death at thi' si^lil of an clcphamt, and
Iter fwa! resembled lite objeet of Iter dread,
in color, and sonoftlt ti in his mode ol
standing. lie is said to he it quirk walk*
er and a I :st trotter. His oiivio.il proprietor,
it is reported, was a.- much fr'gh
tenet) at his hairless <<pp? .trance as his
tlam was ,it the elephant, and was so anx
ions to get rid of ain:, that In gave him
away to a neighbor, who kept hio. until
he was three ye irs old, md s hi hint to hi>
present owner lot $2,H0(). - [N. Y# Mm-.
Adv.
llOki; Bid- A: FA SR.
A slip from the hire of the l.pnisvilli
Ydvei '!? r ciatiti; * ih<- del. its f tin attempt
to r- b t: r Mechanics" Sating I; stit
itioti of thai | lace, which ended in minder
?nd suicide.
The Tri usurer. II. S. Julian, had gone
to dinner, leaving the drst rlerk, O. M.
Parker, in the hank. After the Treasurer
left, it seem* Calrendcn E. Dirks was an
milled into the institution by Mr Purkcr,
who had been acquainted with Dirks frou
boyhood. Under what pretext Dirks enli
red, 01 how he acted immediately after
obtaining admission, must be niuttrr of
conjecture. It appears, however, that
Mr. Parker was killed at his desk by u
blow with lli?4iatnmer used in cancelling
notes paid.
Me was struck?on the top of the head,
and the hammer buried to the handle in
hia brain. At this instant it is supposed
Dirks commenced his search for money,
in a drawer, in which hank notes are
anally kept was found partly drawn out,
when Mr. Julian, the treasurer, arrived
i"il knocked at the door of the building.
iliekB opened- the door admitted Julian,
hut the door again, and commenced an
uack upon him with tho hammer with
Ahirh Parker hud been killed. Julian,
unapprised of whut had occurred, parried
th* blow* atoed gilrifti, end begged Dicks;
Cr pause, assuring him that he was mis- j
taken. Dicks continued his assault, mak-|
lug blow after blow, until Mr. Julian had
an opportunity to selsa the hammer, when i
in struggling with bis adversary Julian,
? fell, but not without wroeting the ham
mer from Dicks. Deprived of the hami
mer, Dicks began to feel for his pistol.?
P The aim of Dicks was seen, and as Julian
i rose from'the floor, he discovered barker
I lying dead in the room. Suddenly Julian
I raised a chair, threw it at Dicks, and thus
> gained time to^rush out of . the door, and
gave the alarm to some two or three peri
sons in the immediate neighborhood*
At tliis moment, Dicks, finding detec
tion was inevitable, raised his pistol to
> the side of his head, and shot himself.
Mr. Jujian, though badly wounded on
u?.1 1 r. J- ! i' ? ?
III? Iicuu OII'I iarr, m uui consivicreo uun- |
gcrous. Parker was cut off* ill the prime j
of life, leaving an interesting wife ami <
three children, the former in n state of I
mind that beggars description. The cause
ol a'l this is gambling! Dicks, having lost j
everv thing at the gaming table, w.is dri-;
ven by desperation to commit the dread->
ful crime of murder. For years he had
been an hoiust and rcspeclubk clerk at ;
. Louisville, but, overcome by the in la ton* [
ting vice that proved his ruin, he acted
dishonestly, .and found it impossible to j
obtain employment, llis sad end is al- :
ready told.
' Control of Mind uver Matter.?We:
I give an extract frbm Gov. Everett's Ad-1
dress before the Mechanic Association, j
It is from the opening pages:
" Man is a rational being, is endowed
by his Creator with gr< at prerogatives.
One is the control over matter >ini interior
animals, which is physical po.vcr;
the other the control over kindred mind, j
! which is moral power; and which, in its
lower forms, is often produced by the coni
trol over matter; so that power over the
material world is, practically speaking, a
most important element of power in the
social, intellectual, and nigral wot Id.?
Mind, all the time, is the great mover:
but surrounded?encased,?as it is with
matter, acting by material organs, treading
a nicleriui earth, incorporated and
mingled up with matter,? I do not know
that there is any thing but pure, inward
thought, which is not dependent upon it;
and even the capacity of the mind for the
pure t ought is essentially affected by the
combination of the materia) body, and by
external circumstances acting upon it.
| This control of mind over matter is
! principally efl* cted through the medium
j of the mechanic ai ts taking that term in
its widest acceptation. The natural faculties
of the lunnun frame, unaided by
arliiic:al means, are certaii ly great and
: wonderful; but they sink to nothing com.
pared with the power which accrues from
; the skilful use of to ds, machines, engines,
and other material 11 *
Wiki hi* .nit ugiri, Can 1111 but one
'or two hundted weight, and thai but for
a moment; with his pulleys and windlasses,
he sets an ohelisk upon its hnsc,?
<i shaft of solid gra. itc a hundred feet
high. The dome of Hi. Peter's is one
hundred and twenty feet in diameter; its
sides are twenty-two feci in thickness,
1 and it is suspended in the air at an eleva- i
lion of three hundred and twenty fe? t i
| trout lh" ground,?and it was raised by <
hands as feeble as these. The unaided '
1 for<c ol the muscles of the human hand is I
insulin if nt to break a fragment of mar- ;
hie, of any s ze, in pieces; Lut on a recent
visit to the beautiful quarries in Sh< f- *
field, from which the columns of the (Ji- I;
ram v>ouegc ai I'niiailelplua are taken, 1
saw masses ol hundreds of ions, which
hud hcen cleft -from the quarry b) a very t
simple artificial process. Three miles an t
hour, for any considerable space of time, t
ami with ample interval* for recreation, ,
lo rd, and s1e< |>, arc the extreme limit ol <
ill; locomotive capacity of the strongest ,
frame, and this confined to the land. f
The arts siep in by the application of g
one pOi'Mon of them lit flu purposes nf ua- j
ligation; ir.yn is wafted night and day, x
alihe awake and sleeping at lhc rate of s
eight or ten miles an hours, over the un- r
| fallmmed ocean; and, by the combination v
o. another portion of the arts, he flies at t
(In rate of fill- en or twenty miles an hour ,
and if necii he, with twice that rapidity, s
without moving a muscle, from city to f
? it\. The capacity ol imparting thought (j
by i- tellihle signs, to the minds of other ,
men- the capacity which lies at the foun- (
dali< it ol all our social improvements? d
while unaided by art, was confined within r
. i. _ i:...:. . r -
I unburns <>i orai communication and me- j
m?ry. The voice of wisdom perished, I [
not merely, with the sage by whom iljj,
was uttered, but with the very breath of; r
air of which it was borne. Art came to , s
the a'ui of the natural capacity; and. af- j(
ter a long series of successive improve- ,,
mem, passing through the stages of pic- l(
toriul and symbolical representation of
things,?the different steps of hieroglypliiral
writing (each occupying, no doubt,
long periods of time for iis di^rov^rv n??d
'j v
application)?it <levis?*?l a method of irn- t|
priutins on a material substance an intel |
ligihle sign, not of things, but of sounds, 8
forming the names of things, in other i\
wonts, it invented the A. B 13. '|
With this simple invention, and the tl
mechanical contrivances with which it is "
carried into eflVct, the mind of man, was, tl
I had almost said re-created. The. duy d
before it was invented, the voice of man,
in its utmost stietch, could he heard hut I
by a few thousands, intently listening for h
an hoqr or twTCduring, which alone his C
slrcnght would enable him to utter a sue- y
cession of sounds. The day after the art tl
of writing ioveuud, ho stamps hi?
thought* on a roll of parchment, and thoy
reach of ery city and hamlet of tbe.largest
empire. I he day before this investigation!
and the mind of one couqtrv was
estranged from the ftiind of all other coun.tries.
For almost all the purposes of intercourse,
the families of man might a&
well not have belonged lo one race. The
day after it, and Wisdom was endued with
the gi t of tongues, and spike by her ^Interpreters
lo all the tribes of kindred man.
The. day before this invention, and nothing
but a fading tradition, constantly
becoming fainter, could ho nrpscrvnd l,v
the memory of ali thai was spoken or acted
by the greatest and wisest of men.?
The day after it, Thought was imperishable,
it sprung to an earthly immortality;
it seized the new found instruments of
record and commemoration, and, deserting
the Undy'as it sunk with its vocal organs
into tho dust, it carved on the vejfy
grave stone, "The mind of man shall
live for ever."
Morses's Klcctric Telegraph.?It is
witii some degree of pride, that it falls
to our iot first to announce the complete
succc-s of this wonderful piece of mechaistn,
and no place could have been
found more suitable to pursue the course
of experiments necessary to perfecting
the detail of nuchiuery, than the Speed- ?
well Works Replete as they are with
e\< ry convenience, Professor Morse quietly
pursue it the great object, and has fstially
succ edi d. Others may have suggested
the possibility of conveying jhlellige
ce b\ electricity, but this is the first
instance of its actual transmission and
p? r uaneiu accord.
I si Telegraph consists of four parts:
1st. The liatt cry?A Cruickshank's
galvanic trough of (K) pair of plates, seven
by eight and a half inch each. 2.
The l'ortrule?An instrument which regulates
the motion of the rule. The
rule answers to the stick of the printers,
and in it the tyy representing the nnmbtis
t<? be transmitted are passed beneath
the lever which closes and break.es the
circuit. 3d. The Register?An instrument-which
receives and records the numbers
sent by the Porlrule irom tiny distant
station. 4lb. A Dictionary, contuning
a complete vocabulary ol" all the
words in tbc English language, regularly
numbered.
The communication which \vc saw
mat e through a distance of two miles,
was the folio wing sentence:? " Rail Road
cars just arrived?315 passengers."?
I hese words were put into numbers from
the dictionary, the numbers were set up
in the telegraph type in about the same
time ordinarily occupied in setting up ti n
sail e in a printing office. They were
tin n passi d complete by the Pcrtrulc in
about half a impute, each
Portrule at one c
.,cr.?.v,. hi ine other, a distance of two
miles, instantaneously. Wc watched the
spark at one end and the mark of the pencil
at the other, and they were as simultaneous
as if the lever itself had struck
ihp mark. The marks or nnmhore mnm
rusiiy legible, nncl by means of the dictionary
were rCsrilvtd again into words.
The superiority of this telegraph over
;t 11 hitherto invented is, that day or night,
in cl? ar or in foggy weather, intelligence
t*un be sent instantaneously. The advantages
to the Government and the country
of such n means of communication
trc incalculable.?Morris town Jerscyman.
[The cost per mile for constructing an
dectric telegraph is estimated at about
jtfjOO.]?N. Y. Coin. Adv.
Stories of Spanish life.?A work by
his title has lately been translated from
he German of Ilubcr, which combine
he intertaining and instructive qualities
if c/trnn nf i!?a a ?L
wu.llv ?/i ?i?v ucgl uuriuiu aucuuiuo ui
Spain and the Spaniards, with those of
he most attractive romances of that all
'oniantic land. The stories, though mere
krtchcs, frrm a marvellously striking
>icture ol the scenes and the time to
vhich they refer. His characters arc all
trirtly and strikingly Spanish. One
night swear to them in the dark?whether
vc meet them at the tenia or the fair, in
he cathedral or the mountain pass, warnaking
or love-making. Some of the
cenes are powerfully worked up, and
very point of the story has its picturcs|ue
effect?communicating some striking
lational characteristic or accepted scrap
d information, while it incites and kinlies
us to the fid* pitch of romantic intccst.
Hero is now a description embodying
he daring and devotion of a Spanish tur'tilent,
who is no better, indeed, than a
obbcr and murderer, and of the exquiitcly
simple, childish, and confiding
ave, which a Spanish damsel bears hi in
von to the end?a love that almost tends
i> make our faith in the reality' of the
lie,
Suddenly, a deep voice from the crowd
diich surrounded him cried, 44 Down with
he constitution! to the seventh licll with
tiego'" And at the same time, a n?an
topped forward, wrapped up in his man*,
le, and his Large hat pulled over his fuce.
'he "flicor, uncertain what he was to
link of this unexpected opponent, cried.
Who are you? What do you want? lit
ho name of the king and constitution
elivcr yourself prisoner."
At the first word of the disguished man
lolorrs wan on the point of springing to
im, with the words, ** Jesus Maria! It is
)hristovul!" But her brother, and the
oung gipsy girl who had joined heT in
he meantime, held her back. Christoval