< r^^fth 1 > a watchhibt 16 j ., np r pear two dolbars-payable in r^'r " but if not paid in advance two dollars nls will be charged hmertrdatftl for the first and 2 cts i ■ • | , r ( .. k .|, s ubsequentinsertion courtorders 05 per cent higher than these rates alib , 0 those who advertise by tbe year o the editor must be post paid from godey's lady's book xhe broken merchant bv mbs 6 ml wi j hale concluded p mrs carlton lo her husband — germantown july 1833 t * * * * " * __ •• low do i rnss my time this summer question well as you seem to rely ntlyonmyconfession.il shall be frank 1 though some-what abridged for pa '" n'cr a long letter is not i am told the man i i un mv list of doings i rank mv ma i duties — pleasures 1 call th-m ; and if 1 le henry — he is nolliltle now 1 ear bim talk — his voire as sweet as a ji v ou would think i was a good mother !' a . not t ri t l something in my favor charles itfaen i ''-- ; - ! mv ■*•"•'* '*""' '" ' irr llol -'" p ■)<•*, ami in iter charities 100 : for though ', b"is no -«' l " n ' of worldly goods she is .. n good works do vou wish to know .' v [ ,~ n ' n h>i<e > my sympathies my alien on , kind words and encouraging smiles ; f | pt ; charles i never received so ex '..,., v aud as i think so sincere gratitude . , i1v |, mnteous gifts you know we did i as i now have . veretl ii n me for my good will merely i t j r y of spirit towards lhe poor is more popu .. with them and more beneficial loo than . ,- i;j ( '« in money tmusements ! ah i have them in plen i walk ride read and botanize if you i s ee henry and me oui gathering flowers , bear his glad laugh when he finds one and w oh as loud as he vou would think it was , | 5 inn to botanize then my music is a de , ful pleasure because then charles i feel , spiril was communing with yours — you a thousand limes for your last col i tion the pieces are all charming and i can inn ihat divine air as you style it charm v|i at leas so gays monsieur i : and iu used to think him th standard of taste in usie seriously i do think i have made a real proficiency in music this last year : send e the songs vou prefer and when yon return uu will hear me sing like a prima donna ****** from mrs carlton to her husband : — germantown july mi 1834 ****** you hardly imagine my dear charles how ■ l ipy your last letter made me ! and yon think uf it one year more you will he able to re j ii wilh sufficient to pay your creditors and j i ' we will celebrate our indepence charles h'li:i a happy day it will in : and how differ \ ■ ', ion lhe sources of your happiness from i r i once foolishly thought were the basis ■ enpivmi'iil 1 i 1 will tell vou why i write wilh such warmth bi will i know be glad thut one debt is paid out three months ago a poor woman came bm philadelphia to our neighborhood in search ■ employment she called at our house ; and i being out i went down to see lhe woman l wretched and when she saw i h — j her she went on to tell me a long story ■ rmihles how she had lived in ihe city kept & loner's shop been unfortunate iu her h r till filially she had to give up her and her husband for her debts had nt to jail asked her why she was unfortunate in her j ■> , ' , iii'rs ' ' oh she said ' they did not pay 1 h ami she went on to name a number of biles who were foremost among lie fashion k when i was in town as delinquent and hf n charles she ' named my name among tu rest there was the pretty mrs carl j hi — i i r i ber own words — ' she owed me dollars when her husband failed mv fe was crimson i believe lhe wo stalled i,i see niv agitation and then she oliected me 1 do think belore she had any haulm i was don'l think charles that 1 . uh wi.'.j iy aliered she had never seen me so plainly and shall i tell you the if ' she said lie had never seen me ' so handsome so very handsome ; lor h ' • \ • 1 never saw you have such healthy •>, - before f."'iihered purchasing confectionary o hr ..- last winter we were in town ; but i h thought of it since one hundred do ul and the articles weie nearly all furnish h said for our last grand party of the live hundred friends i ihen invited only h have ever shown a wish to continue the h ship since our failure b'hie hundred dollars the poor woman i i would release her husband from jail i i my pearls charles and paid her and h tide and pleasure 1 fell ihat first evening h re ihem when yon whispered they be jh 1 - m was nothing to mv exultation when h : sent the poor creature lo release her hus * * * * * * hth:-i mrs carlton to her husband : — germantown jan 1^35 ■ my dear charles : i have sad news poor h folsom is dead shot himself last friday h he left a note staling lhat his proper | fr g-ii : and lhat he trusted cod would h more mercy for his sin than the world b i ' 1 his property mistaken man to fear i's contumely more than lhe law of ■ "■. m>w 1 do pilty his mother and sister i l m h ! i once loved her like a sister ; she ■ entirely neglected me since mv retirement ■ 1 thought but little of her but now i hf n all revive poor girl how i i^b 1 mild comfort her if they had only lost j operty it would have been nothing i 1 have told them lhat there are a thousand ' happiness independent of wealth l tiii measures which may be enjoyed h 1 ' money ; but what can 1 say now ? — - mi ,,. 1 i | i:lvl . dune ? how been if you h ;:: i1 "' ed husband — how thankful i feel is sustained us in our reverses ***** i :; mr carlton lo his wife : — . k paris april ls4o i shall i say love respecting the bad 1 am greatly distressed b r hi coin ' | ie was much to be pitied you i • c nnot know his temptations to the rash ■ k.'il acl ; bul my acquaintance with his i ind with ihe mania of his mother ' ' he among the fashionables has j "• l j the mosi painful reflections on his un [ the carolina watchman j j muner ) v " keep a check upon all your editor jf proprietor ) rulers ( new series dotiiis.a.vd liberty is safe < gen'l harrison ( volume mil number 13 salisbury n c thursday july 31 1851 happy fate he was ambitious bnt naturally renerous and enthusiastic ; and had his pride j been rightly directed towards useful and noble ; objocts he would have made a noble-minded and useful man but his mother and sister thought only of show and eclat ; and they bound down his spir ' it to the circle ol the world of fashion in their esteem he was the greatest man who could keep the most expensive establishment : and afford lhe ladies of his family the most cost ly array it was their reproaches and com plaints which poor john dared not meet he could have braved the world ; but there was lor , him no rest at home do not think i am placing all the sins of my sex to the account of yours we have a long and lurk catalogue of our own ; but i do think that in our couniry il is in woman's power if she would rightly exert her moral influence to call forth our virtues and even to make our im [ petuous passion subservient to great and glori ] ous purposes but if the american women j worship wealth the men will sacrifice their 1 souls lo gain it a thousand thousand blessings on you my love ! vou have sustaiued my spirit by your , cheerful affection and voir example and conn sel are every day strengthening in me the de j termination lo be worthy of such a wife bray for me that my heart may be purified from all sinful and worldly affections and kept from those fierce temptations which only heavenly grace can enable us lo overcome your hus band charles cablton chapter vi news ill-favored is the bearer of ill-news there is a gentleman below who has a let ter for mrs carlton said the domestic why did he not send it up ?, he said it was not to you madame ; but he had brought il for you lo read and he wished to make some explanations did he give his name v yes madam mr cole cole — cole — i do not recollect any person of that name is is not a very elegant name cole and mrs carlton as she hurried to finish her toilet endeavored by dwelling on the name to keep from her heart lhe agitating dread of some impending evil what evil could she fear except as connected with the fate of her husband 1 she had not heard from him for sev eral months mrs carlton sir mr cole started at the announcement he had nol anticipated seeing a solitary wife look ing so like an angel she was arrayed in a pure white robe no ornaments angels never wear ihem 1 have received a letter from mv french cor respondent making kind inquiries respecting mr carlton supposing him in philadelphia madam well sir mr halford wished me to ascertain if you had heard irom your husband of late it is somtime since ; about — about — and a burnihg blush rushed over her cheek and then as suddenly ebbing left her face while as the new fallen snow how long did you say madam nearly six months ;' and her voice sank with lhe suffocating sensation at her heart as she thought how long !' mr carlton it seems left paris about four months since jusl the time he named in hisla^t letterthat he should embaik for home oh what has hap pened ! where is he can you tell me — the letter !' he calm madam pray be calm said mr cole in a most soothing tone nothing hap pened lhal we can ascertain mr carlton was highly respected al paris and this letter — you may see — only speaks in general lerms of liis departure be cairn mrs carlton pray do not afflicl yourself what ! ho ! help the lady has fainted !' si range she should faint i never thought a wife cared so much for her husband i won der who would grieve if i should be lost ? i'll marry lhats settled ; i'll marry so thought mr cole as he rode homewards chapter vii the denouement hope is brightest when it dawns from fears doctor how do you find mv poor little niece mrs carlton this morning said mrs eaton no better no better ; heart sick mrs eaton medicines do little good in such ca*cs you still recommend travelling !' yes madam a sea vovage ?' i should say it promised to be beneficial to france v yes take her to paris ; let her see the friends of her late husband and hear their praises of bis character such awaken the current of life j and its thoughts if you can arouse these the '■ mother will triumph in her heart and sue will strive to become reconciled to lhe dispensation 1 of providence and to live for her child's sake a christian should always be reconciled re marked mrs eaton true ; but christians need motives to obedi ence ; and in cases of severe affliction these motives should be placed in the most touching ; light pardon me madam i know i am only repeating your sentiments ; those indeed which i have learned from your own lips and life oh doctor you ha e probed me to the quick i am the selfish one the unreconciled i did not repine that the affections of my niece were given to mr carlton 1 felt that she ought to love her husband better than any other earthly friend but i cannot bear that the whole heart of my precious child sould be buried in the grave of her husband i want her to turn to me and so she will madam as soon as this tor por of grief is in some measure removed dear emily said mrs eaton greatly mov ed she shall go to paris i will conquer mvself 1 will talk to her of her husband ; he j was an excellent man and worthy of her love there ! there ! is not that he < merciful heav en mv prayers are heaid ! it is charles !. • * * * * * * * i sent you a long letter the day before i left i paris detailing all lhe reasons which induced me to go '° constantinople ; and staling also ; the probability that you might not receive an ! other letter or hear rom me till i had the ble«s ed privillege of thus assuring you of my health j and happiness ; and charles carlton'alternale j iv kissed the pale lip of his wile and the rosy ; cheeks of his boy as they were both encircled j in his anus the leller never reached me ; and charles you cannot know how this silence distressed ' me i see it i feel it loo well my own love — j if i had anticipated your affliction not all the ; bright prospects held out by mr dupin would j have weighed a feather i would have come , lo you ob never think of it charles it is over you are here and i shall soon he well ; and then how happy we will be you must not leave me again never ! never ! i have money enough be j sides paying all my creditors except mr hal j cord who has voluntarily relinquished his claim \ to begin business again for myself we shall j know how to estimate our blessings how lo j enjoy them we will live for domestic happi j bess for social improvement for religious du ties but never again my husband for fashiona ble display never emily ****** san francisco may 27 1851 dear watchman — after a long tedi ous and tiresome voyage to all on board not accustomed to " go down to the sea in ships — we have all arrived at our destin ed port in health and safety ; and as i pro mised to let you hear from me before a great while i now propose to give you a brief summary ofthe prominent events of our four months " life on the ocean wave the day we left new york jan 31st was fair but cold and windy having in the morning dropped down to staten island about 4 o'clock in the afternoon we weighed anchor set sail and in a few minutes our noble ship the stag hound of 1600 tons burthen and 226 feet in length was gliding along over the blue waves with dignity and grace it was truly a magnificent sight as we headed off that evening so beautifully from the shore and made our way out farther and farther upon the bosom of the " migh ty deep and the passengers spent the greater part of it pacing up and down the quarterdeck contemplating the enchant ing scene but our enjoyment did not continue to flow on altogether uinterrupt ed and undisturbed the remembrance of beloved relatives and friends from whom we had separated forced itself upon us as each look in oth ers face there could he seen a depth of in tense feeling over which our enjoyment of the moment played as the little ripples played upon the surface ofthe deep blue | sea around us the next morning i began to feel symp i toms of sea-sickness of this disease i 1 was under the impression i had some ex i perience in going from philadelphia to new york via cape may but i soon found that i knew nothing of its horrors i for three weeks and more i could scarce ' ly eat a mouthful of anything at all it ! really seemed to me at times that eating 1 was the most disgusting thing i had ever | seen men engaged in dishes which on shore had ever been most inviting sud ; denly lost all their attractions the very sight of them was loathsome ; and i not ! only hated them but almost every thing else even myself in fact if there is anything in the world ! that is calculated to raise the " old mar ry in a man quicker than another i be | lieve it is to put him on board a ship for 1 the first time let him get fairly sea-sick ■ and then have a storm to come on and set the vessel to rolling tumbling and , pitching about like a crazy beast such was precisely my case when five days out ; during which time i had eaten nothing i but had been vomiting almost incessantly now i would like to give a little short j sketch of the storm i have alluded to ; but i it has been so long since and so many i other interesting matters have since pre ' j sented themselves during the voyage that i the immense excitement it created at the \ time cannot be so accurately described however as the principal features of it are so indelibly stamped upon my mem ory that they can never be erased i have concluded not to pass it by altogether un noticed as i said before we were then just l\ve days out from new york and about three degrees of the bermudas — it was now wednesday evening and we had had a pretty heavy gale accompanied with irregular squalls all the time from the monday morning previous early in the afternoon the wind began to increase and directly after there was seen a black ominous looking cloud making its way up from the horizon towards us in the direc tion from which the wind blew soon its threatenings were realized ; for in an hour or two the rain commenced falling in torrents ; the wind howled and whis tled as 1 had never heard it do belore ; the sea already raised to a high pitch by the continued gale began to assume a much more fearful aspect than ever our ship quite despaired of some time before the severest part of the tempest came on by her timid passengers was now beaten with double violence by the enlarged and maddened billows and although most of : i i the sails usually furled in cases of this > i kind had bepn taken in still mazeppalike ! she seemed to dash over the hilly surface i with increased vigoratevery bound eve : ry thing that was not fastened down about j the vessel was rolling here and there and ■ i every where in the most confuspd disor der ; the heavy seas she had shipped and ! the still heavier ones she was then ship ping added new and redoubled conster nation to the bitter scene in fact things began to wear such a dubious aspect that a speedy change of some sort was looked forward to with the greatest certainty not only by the passengers but by the captain and crew also when to com plete the horrors of the hour the fore top - gallant fore royal main topmast main topgallant main royal mizzen topgallant and mizzen royal masts gave way and with their appendages came falling crash crash all over and about the ship in the most appalling manner by this time it was dark and we " turned in that night doubting whether we should ever be per mitted to see the light of another day — and as for me i suppose i was quite as indifferent about it as anyone else there ; for when a person gets to be as much un der the influence of nausea as 1 was then i am somewhat inclined to believe that ; h would regard a grave in the sea as more to be courted than dreaded but as j the night passed oil we found that the j storm was abating ; and in forty-eight j hours after we had fine weather which j continued till we passed to the other side j of the equator crippled as we were by the storm our j hopes of a quick passage were greatly | damped ; but fortunately for us we had i masts and fixtures on board ; and through j the indefatigable exertions and persever 1 ance of our vigilant captain we succeed i ed in getting all the wreck cleared away i and new masts put up in the course of i eighteen or twenty days but the shat 1 tered timbers and torn sails of this event opened an unusually large field of labor j for our carpenter and sail-maker who i like the other part of the crew always 1 have as much and more than they can do ) when there is nothing of the kind takes j place from here we kept on our course which had been pretty much southeast ; until we passed the cape verde islands ' about four degrees to the west when we turned south and crossed the equator in longitude between 29 deg and 30 min the next interesting incident that occurred ! with us was when off the coast of brazil in lat 2'p 25 ion 3s 29 sunday march 2nd it ' was about 6 o'clock a m and 1 had just left my stale room and gone on deck to take a bath when a man by my side poiniing over the star board bow cried out " a boat ! a boat ! with ' men in it in an instant the news was con 1 veyed to every ear on board and in about the same length ol time the starboard rail was lit ed fore and aft wilh anxious sailors and half dressed passengers all wondering and conjec turing what accident had befallen ihese discom ; j filed unhappy looking people as we drew j nearer abreast of them they making towards us all the while as hard they could they com i menced waving their hands and handkerchiefs . beckoning to us and calling out in an unintelli | gible language as if imploring us to receive j them on board at the time the sea was run ; ning moderately high and we were going along ! i at the rate of some live or six knots per hour ; i so that in a few minutes we had them consid i erably on the stern hut we were not sodes ' ! titute of humanity as to pass on and leave them there surrounded by death on every hand our j sympathies were quickly and enthusiasiically i aroused for them ; and as soon as the captain i could he hove the ship to and waited for them i to tow up pretty soon they came close up by j our side and their nautical garb at once gave i sufficient evidence that they were not strangers lo nor unacquainted wilh lhe lile of seafaring ] men a rope was then thrown over to them and 1 they were all able to pull themselves on board by it except one who we afterwards learned i was their captain he poor fellow was so exhausted lhat he could not help himself and ' we had to draw him up their tale was now the next thing to be learnt for as yet not a word had been understood from them this difficulty was removed however as soon as we got them and all of our men collected together ; for among our polyglot crew ot forty men which represented nearly as many different nations we quickly found our interpreter in the person of an old swede whose story concern in ihem as communicated by him to us irom them was in substance about as follows : they were swedes and belonged to the russian brig sylphide which had been to rio and taken in a cargo of one thousand eight hundred and twenty five bags of coffee wilh which she had sel sail for helsingfors finland when five days out from rio a severe storm or rather squall came upon them and so com pletely and suddenly wrecked their vessel lhat they had barely time lo secure one of the little boats and escape in it with their lives — not even having an opportunity to procure so much as a bottle of water nor a mouthful ot lood ; and their carpenter who was in bis berth sick at the time they had to abandon to a watery grave they had then been out three days in this condition with nothing to eat or drink save the legs ol their captain's boot which they said they had been chewing to sus tain life exposed as they were lo the burning ravs of a tropical sun without anything to eat or drink it is not reasonable to suppose lhat they could have lived more than two days long er at the farthest if we had not picked them up or they had not been otherwise providentially relieved we received the captain in our own cabin and at our table and entertained him as hospitably cw made him as comfortable in every wav as we well could his men went before the masi and proved a rery acceptable addition | lo our crew especially in doubling cape horn lor they could endure the cold much better than our seamen that day in commendation ofthe acl we had performed in the morning we read during divine service the parable ofthe good samai itan about three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day a little circumstance came under mv observation which though it may seem quite a trivial affair in the eyes of nianv mav never theless serve lo illustrate in some degree bow inconsiderate and disrespectful we too olten are ot the lives of inferior animals the subject of it was a little land bird very much resem bling our hedge sparrow which was discover ed resting upon one of the larboard main bra ces it had wandered out on the water and looked as if it was nearly perished and so weak it could scarcely fly on seeing it i ran be low and got a few crumbs f bread and strew d them along over the life boat nearest to it bul just at this moment ihe swedish captain who had now begun to revive came up on deck and spyingthedistressed little wanderer.he walk ed as deliberately to the rope noon which it was setting as it it had been some noxious intruder and shook it violently at ihis the bird flew off some distance from the ship and h o n came back again and lit in the very same place ; again the captain shook the rope with as much or more force than he had done at first and again the bird did just as it had done before — this same thing was repeated for lhe third time ; when the wearied little creature appa rently despairing of lile and welcoming death as a rebel to ils sufferings darted down upon the water and was seen no more one would have thought that lhat man of all others on board himself so recently and so similarly sit uated would have been the last to display such want of feeling keeping along down the south ameri can coast we passed on between patago nia and the falkland islands ; and on the morning of the 21st of march we found our selves within about 20 miles of staten land this was the first land we had seen since we left home and we did nothing but feast our eyes upon it all that forenoon ; until we got so far off irom it it had the resemblance of a mere cloud when we were nearest lo it i took up the telescope and looked at it for some lime but could distinguish nothing but its rugged and sterile looking mountain the highest peaks of which were covered wilh snow and presented quite a picturesque and lofty appearance no vegitaiion nor living thing of any sort could be discerned but a young bosionian whom we afterwards saw in valparaiso told us he pass ed so near the shores of some of the land there he did not know the name of it lying at the southern extremity of patagonia lhat he could see the natives who he said were a great tall gigantic people about eight feet high (?) and who ran along on the shore abreast of them and whooped and yelled at hem like wild ferocious indians on sunday following we saw cape horn up to this time we had been priding our selves upon he auspicious time we had happen ed lo come upon cape horn lhe most notori ous of all places upon the '* high seas for rough weather and conttary winds and the quick run we were going to have around it ; for we had then had delightful weather and tavora bio winds ever since we had been south ofthe la plata river ; and we were in hopes we had just hit upon the right time and lhat we should sail round and be out of danger of the " lion's jaws in one or two days instead ol being kept ihere five six and seven weeks as has some times been lhe case with other teessels but towards night mr cape horn the terror of all navigators discovered us and for e\pn days kept us almost completely at bay during the whole of his time the wind blew right in our teeth at a terrible rate and brought either rain hail or snow wiih il every day owing to this hard and continued blowing the size and power ofthe waves became perfectly appalling in fact thev ran so large and so high that every one looked like a little ocean of itself ; and not unfrequcritly would ihey sirike the ship wi'h such tremendous force that i thought she would be broken into atoms finally however by tacking turning and twisting about we suc ceeded in getting fairly around much to the gratification ol all and especially to the relief of our worn out seamen who had been up work ing wiih all their might day and night for a whole week while in thf neighborhood of the cape we saw thousands of albatrosses gulls petrels and ichthyophagous birds and by means of a fish hook tied to the end of a long line and baited with a piece of fat bacon which we le out some distance from the stern of the vessel we caught several of a species the sailor calied the cape hen : one of which i measured irom the tip of its right wing lo its left : it was seven feet across the albatross is about twice as large as this here too while in this latitude we have our fairest views of the great southern cross the magellon clouds dec constella tions of as much notoriety in th southern hem isphere as the pieiodes or beit of orion is in lhe northern finding our water was now beginning to give out and lhat we should have to procure a fresh supply before we could reach caltornia we began lo bend our course towards \ alparaiso on the second dav before we reached this place which wa on tuesday afternoon lhe blh of april we found ourselves close in upon the coast of chili s i city and harbor to which we were then bound : and as we pass ed along up ihe shore we had a magnificent view not onlv of it own high barren hill bul also ofthe lofty and towering heights ol the andes at the distance of one hundred and forty five miles in the interior to add to the grandeur of this spectacle on land another now present ed itself on ih a ocean aro'i-id as in ibe i r:n of great whales — he fir we had seen — we saw a great many of these hug cieatures lhal and the next div ad one of ihem cam 0 within two or three rod ol the s'ern of the hi and spouted the water with a noi*e something like ihat of a mississippi steamboat we had scarcely drawn in port and east an chor before we were surrounded with lilt ie boats filled with americans natives and for | t eigners who had come out as they said lo hear j from us and to see our ship from these men j we learned lhat four days previous to that time ! tbey bad bad a severe earthquake and that al j most every house in the city bad been more or less injured by it — a part completely destroyed and some persons killed it was also reported by some of them that it had laid a great por tion ol santiago the capitol in ruins : but as yet nodifiniie news had been received from any of the inland cities or towns and it wa not positively ascertained what its destroying ef fects had been in any other place save on.y in that late that evening about half an hour belore sun down wa nude our debut in lha city ; but it was then too late to see or learn anything thai day so we returned directly to our own quarters and waited in suspense for the coming morn immediately after an early breakfast wed nesday morning we put off in a small boat for ihe shore and were not a little amazed on ar riving there to find everything so new and dif ierenl irom whal we had supposed it was a great crowd of lhe natives dressed in their pe culiar fashion were collected upon the wharfs and were making a great hubbub with iheir ciamorous tongues ihe spanish and noisy ac tions they appeared to be a simple hearted kind but ignorant and abominably filthy sort ol people scarcely had we been in the cif half an hour that morning when i stepped inl a bather's shop to ha\e mv beai i un i hair ren off and while sitting down in a chair ju>i in the act of being shaved the barber verv suddenly sprang aghast from me towards the door and the first thing 1 knew the whole earth houses and eve rything around me were quivering shaking and quaking in the most terrific manner tho fortunately ior timid mortals il did not last more lhan seven or eight seconds just at the mo ment it commenced 1 could not lor my ufa think what it was but the man wiih the razor seem ed to realize in an instant what she matter was for he had experienced a much more awful earthquake only five days betore and knew *' the ropes well enough on coming out of the shop just as i entered the street we had the same thing over again and instantaneously lhe whole streets were filled with men women and children apparently in the greatest confu sion and frightened halt out of their wits i noticed several ol the women particularly who upon running out placed themselves at once in an altitude ol prayer and looked as though they feared it was lhe " last of earth wilh ihem — they are all catholics both of these quakes were much lighter than the first one they had and i do not believe either of them did any dam age of consequence in that piace bul ihe first came very near laying the whole cry iu ruins the custom house churches stores and near ly all the principal buildings were cracked so badlv that manv of them were considered dan gerous ; some ol which they were pulling down entirely and repairing others a best iheycould we were there from that lime till the afternoon ofthe saturday following ; but did not feel any other shock of an earthquake ; and as for me i hope i never shall feel another as to the city itself we saw nothing lhat was really beautiful about it most of the re sidences were built ol mud and straw and cov ered with tiles ; and upon the whole if any thing were inferior to the negro huts on a planter's farm the immense sterile hills all about around and through the city presented quite a dreary and desole.te appearance and prevented us from seeing more lhan hail the number of its buildings at once the popula ilon ol it al present is 65,000 they have no limber nor any green thing close by and all their supplies firewood c are brought some nine or ten miles from lhe interior on the backs of mules there the ground is said to be more level the soil verv productive and to use ihe language of lhe country's historian " all tha fruits of the earth grow there in the greatest abundance towards noon that day we chartered some donkies and rode out about two miles to a garden called the vale of paradise in the upper part of the city this was as charming a spot as i ever beheld and with the exception of three or four other liitie places like it the only level and fertile spot of earth we saw during the whole time we were there — here ihe j.h of april we got apples pears peaches quinces prickly pears oranges lem ons figs banana pomegranates water and musk-mellons eke arc to our hearts content on thursday hiving by some means orotb er got separated from mv comrades i began rambling about through the city alone deter mined to ee and learn as much of it while therm as i could conveniently at last i found i had wondered very nearly to its north"rn outskirts when coming across a neat little winding path i followed it up till il led me i i the • i gala of a beautiful palisoded enclosure ; here upon looking in i saw before me a long clear and level walk in lh midsl of one of the most de lectable gardens i bad ever seen all the way overhead from one end of il to the other there were large lucious clusters of grapes banging down neatly the size of a common pitcher while on either side there - ned ' i be an ac tual rivalry in growth and luxuriance between the different vegetables an 1 fruits alio ball way up the walk in a well shaded place two middle aged m-^n dressed in long robes and with books in their bands were sitting on a bench reading still 1 stood at the gate a minute or two longer wondering what all this could mean no body seeing me ani seeit.g no dody but lhe two men before me who appeared to be absorbed with their books to go in i feared would not only be interrupting the ex treme quietude which seemed to pre vail ai und but also re tss ng upon the private grounds ol those whom i had no business lo disturb how ever hoping to frame some sort ol an excuse by offering o purchase some fruits stepped in and slowly approaching the literary gentlemen i enquired '* can you speak english i at this the farthest one from me arose and having replied in the affirmative harrangued me at some length in latin not a word of wh i understood except ih ■ wm •• st pa rick v m •'• g s as we as icon 1 m ig ioi mce ol bis - ■- as lical salutation inquiry or whatever il wa*,he immediately changed bis tune apolog zing in him bomewbat lor my raw intru sion we entered into a long conversation : pr minading in the mean time op and down the loveiv walk from bim i learned " joining buildings were occupied as a r catholic college and that be was i professors ani priest ani that ibis g wa exclusively for the us priests he said it was one ofthe la « le-re in chi i and that ibej bad p - nearly all tbe republics and provin continent he was b.ra-rlfa native of i g ■ um but had come out lo chi i ** * missionary some fifteen vears ago 1 answered h great manv questions of his concerning the lnited