Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              / THE PITTSTON GAZETTE, m mimn jmmm. - If v# 11 ii.ywwipiniii .n——— L-J—— — ■■■.■-»■«—— V 1 — - ■- "" 11 11 ■ 3 Wrtklij JJruispnprr- (Dtuntrii fo Jims. litrrntorr, tjit 31!rrraniilr, Klining, fllttjwflW, an8 Igtitnliirnl 3nfwrato nf tjjt Cutuitnf, giistnirfimt, SlnttOTtnf, Jnllnra VOLUME 2.--NUMBEE 39. PITTSTON, PENNA., FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1852. WHOLE NUMBER 91. •'While the whole party, #ilh theiicav. alcade of mules and baggag#', were gazing upon the scene, two liorsenflen, in bright Uiue and vellow tunic*, ontf wearing tur Dans dccortitcd with three plumes of tin ■ - 'iiMMifterri'' dogs, it appears, were the advanced van of a pack, or perhaps merely a few unleashed as scouts to others held in reserve; for no more were seen or heard of for sometime. Meanwhile Mr. Iiuerlisseems ! an of-two of the orphmi Kumiss, for *vlio*e ] F C®i* throBgh !iTo lie wan bound by 'he most solemn religious obligations. It was therefore rlftormiiimi lliai he should luke lirni with Itim Every thing having bcci ' -udy I heir «»«»-- " 1 From (lie Work* of John Adabm. How Washington was mad* Commander-in- Chief, j livery brought mo letter# If.,' friends, Dr. Winthrop, Dr. ' rul Jumps Warre nid tpa'airs,?(M,1iasi8sirif3 Maximo, that he might be happy forever. And another lady brought a miniature gold ring and placcd it on the finger 6f the girl Bartola. They speak perhaps a dozen words with more or less distinctness, but evidently make slow progress in acquiring language. They seem to understand readily many things said to them, in which they have probably been a long time trained.— When the hour of exhibition was up' they were told to make their bow to the company, and bid them good-bye. Whereupon they walked side by side to the front of the stage, and Maximo, as if conscious tha Bartola was the weaker vessel, and appre hensive that she might not perfectly com prehend the order that had been given, pla ced his hand upon her head and pressed i down :o a very low bow, to the grea amusement of the audience. But it was not my object at this time tC give a description of these curious dwarfs The papers are doing that every day. I an surprised however, that they have wholl] omitted to give us the wonderful and ex ceedingly interesting account, tepleie will loils, perils, hair-breadih escapes, and hor rible deaths, of their discovery and trans ; portaiion to this country. This account ii contained in a pamphlet of thirty.five pag os, printed in New York, and bearing datC IHGU. The pamphlet is anonymous, bu nevertheless contains abundant internal ev idtnee of being authentic. It purports tC be mainly derived Iron) a Spanish journal by Pedro Velasquez, of San Salvador, whC was one of the principal actors in tin scenes described. The translator, whC modestly conceals his own name, some iin:es gives abridgments of the history ii bis own language, and sometimes copies eventful scenes iu full from the thrilling journal of Velasquez, carefully and elo gantly translated. As it is with the high est satisfaction we learn from the translatoi lhat the entire journal of Velasquez wil be published to the world as soon as the ail thor's consent can be obtained, we liasiei to give the lovers of the marvellous a fore tnsie of that most grand and dcliciou feast they are hereafter '.o enjoy. It appears front the pamphlet, that Mr Stephens, in his travels in Central Aineri ca, speaks of an old padre or Catholi' priest, of Santa Cruz del Quiche, who toil iiim some wonderful stories of ruins of ai: cicnt ciiies in the interior of ilio country and pat;lkularjy of one living citv fur Li length rcnchetl Uuegtiteenngo, where they were thrown a little nlmck by the euro throwing cold water on their projeot. He regarded the story of the padre freulf of the irnnginatior., antf tljion i from . Gene, sometimes from t ■ en. Wurd and his aids, and Gen. Heath and ninny others urging in pathetic terms I hi' -Df ke' ! 1 r men toxmgrew.' it we difli- PRINTED AMD PUBLISHED WCJtKJ.Y BY bi H. Rlchnrt * U. 8. Phillip*, - - - T-- 'Up— T rw rVVDw * sundry sarcastic comnfietrfls. But "nothing is impossible to him who wills;" and our courageous nnrt enterprising tiavellers hat quexal, dashed by ttMJtfifreni ilio forest, at ilie distance of about t»vo Jyindred yards m steeds of tiie liigtiell ppaniifl would 61 othlet.Tr * to have struck out a brilliant tDclieine.— lie collected his whole party into that obscure branch ol the cavern near its eu- nirn .e rcudy lor their escapp, Velasquez, -villi fi Aeon or twenty of his followers, desee 11 (Jed from the walls of the city i:D tlio Ofin Wett Hd* of Mui,. Strct, if con d Story of Ikt " Long Store " tff U'ttntr if- H ood. te Impossibility o. .eeping their ;ether, without lite assistance of . ,.a was duily urging all these things, but .vere embarrassed with more than one ( juliy, not only with the party ia Ctvor ho petition 10 the king, and the part} who were jealous of independence, but t ihird parly which was a Southern party against a Northern, and a jealousy against a New England army under the command of a New England Genera). Whether this jralousy was sincere, or whether it was pride and haughty ambition of fumisD liing a Southern General to command f Northern army, I cannot say, bat»' * in f he "GtiETT*" i* puMUhed every Friday, at Two , Dollar* per annum. Two Doi.iaR« and Firry f Ctrtra wfll bfi charged if not paid within the ...agfuua --- a letermined lo find the city, and they would lot be put back by trifles. The cura fi. lolly furnished them with guidM, and on he fifth of May they departed ™o ascend lie mountain. The journal coniains noth. ng further till the 9th ol May, when the following record occurs: "Our attitude this morning, by barome. ter, is over si* thousand feet above '.lie valley which we crossed three days ag«; the view of it and its surrounding mountains, sublime with cjiarms, yet grotesque in outline, and all lifcavily gilded with the setting sun, is one of lhe most oppressively gor- allowed by a long retinue of 8th.. — Inditra, eqaaliy well mounted, tjothed hi briliant red tunics, with coronnhi o) gay foaher» closely arranged witltHi a band of ilue cloth. Each horsemaii carricd a lonp pear, pointed with a polisl.od metal, and Dach held in feasli a brnkfe of powerful bloofi-hounds, w hich were aho of the purest Spanish breed. The leaders of this troop, who were of command, in jf air and stature, suddenly whet led theii horses, and glared upon the jurge party o intruders wTtli fixed amazAftent- 'f heii followers evinced equal gu but  " «*Htr tiance which has been described as a depository of animal bones, and, ordering lliein to sling their rifles at their backs, bade them stund ready with their knives." " Almost instantly they observed a par. ty of ten dismounted natives, in scarlet tunics, and armed with spears, entwr the ca. vern in single file ; and, it would seem from seeing the dogs sluin and no eneroj in sight,.they rushed out again withou venturing on further search. In a few minutes however, they returned with fort} or fifty more, in the sums uniform, heade( *Dy the. younger of tho two personage ! '!,*v hud seen in *•»— 4 ll night by means of ropes, swam across the moat, ond repaired to a retreat two or three miles distant, where Yaalpeor had taken care to have mules in readiness, and where the two Kaann children had been previously carried out to spend a short time for their lieulth. 'J he whole party immediately mounted and hastened out of the valley. Their departure was soon discov. ered, and they were hotly pursued by r party of horsemen, and sonic fighting lol low ed, in which the boy Maximo receivet a slight wound, of which lie still carrier the scar. No other damage was receive* by the travellers, "and by brenk of dp * year. flu paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paito. . Adv#rti.«menU are inserted conspicuously at One OULi.tR p«r nquare of fourteen Ham for t ihn* ,n.ert».n., «nJ TwMTY-r.vii C«nt« a - E' ditional fur every «ub*equent »n«erUon. A liberal deduction to tho*e who ndverune for an " months or the whole year. , Job Work.—We hare connected with our *st*p- Iwhment a welladected a*ortmenl of Job Typb, * which will enable u« to execute, in the neate*t * Nfioittbla term* a. any other office in the county A|l letter* anil communication* addre**ed to the daxelU must be post paid, and endorsed by a * reiponcible name, lo receive attention. emion was very visible to me that Colone DVashington was their object, and so man) if their staunchcst men were in the plan, hat we could carry nothing without conceding to it. Another embarrassment, which waa very publicly known, and which wan carefully concealed by those who knew it, lliat Massachusetts and other New England ablegates were divided, Mr. Hanoock and Mr. Gushing hung back, Mr. Paine did not come forward, and even Mr, Samuel Adams was irresolute. Mr. Haaoock himsell hud un ambition to be geous I ever beheld. The guides inform us we haves but three thousand feet more to ascend, and |Doint to tho gigantic pinnacle before us, at the apparent distance of seven or right leagues ; but that before we can reach it we iiave to descend and ascend un inimens* borrunea (ravine) nearly a thousand feet deep from our present level, and of so difficult a passage that it will ccfflt u* several davs. The side ot the mountain toward the northwest is perfectly flat and perpendicular for more than half its entire height, as if tho prodigious section had been riven down by the sword ot .San Mig lot to draw up in good ry array vliile the blood-hounualeaped and raged 11 heir thongs." , One of 1110 Indian interpreters here ad ised the party to make nn jiistant retreat is theonlv means of savingtheir lives, oth. irwise lliey would certainly be overcome, hi J their heads cutoff" and placed on polea tI'oulid the city ; foriliis was said to be the fute of all sUangors who were found within twelve leagues of Iximaya. Velasquez and Hammond were di»pos«J to follow this idvice, but Huertis, was the leader of he Party, and whom they Jf'crc all bound '« O 8TC Til :oui tliey hud seen in comman. .e pre'ious evening. As soon as they were well idvanced into the crvern, and were heard listurhing' the tired mules, Mr. Iluertis ind his party marched quietly out and seizid their iiori.es, which were picketed eloce by in charge ot two or three men, « honi tliey disarmed. At a short distance, however, drawn up in good older, was another squadron o( horses, which Mr. Iluertis determined instantly to charge. Ordering his whole parly to mount the noble stallions they had captured, nud reserve iheir fire until he gave the word, he (Valisquiz) and Hammond drew the short sa.« L- I .1 • 4 • • C - . -3 "•-« j hey were on a mountainous nJgo many eagues from [ximaya." Jn fourteen days iliey reached Ocosiupo, iftcr great suffering. Ht\re Velasquez lisinissed his faithful Indian guides, and icre poor Vaalpeor died. from the fatigues Df the journey. Velasquez, with the two \ztec children, renched San Salvador ihout the middle of February, where the :lijjdrcn were objects of great interest, and ic wa»advised to send thein to Europe (or xhibition. But tlDe lucky stars of the jtiitcd States somehow or other turned hem in this direction, and they nriivcd in iposmtr From Ibo Bun. BONO FOR 8PRINO When the(f«ntle breath of aprinf Htlra to life tha early floweM, When the blrda begin to alug UD the *ild *ood'C budding bowera ; Whwi the aun-beom«, nhkch n-elant, fell 10 long, with Ufcl ;«• beam, Call the aqulrrel from lit* haunt -in 1 unbind tha fro2«y aire am. Wondering In «•D« #«U» ami wouda "i one Ihoae to tha n-llem eoul, Ir .ha ullent auUludea, uel, and liurled with his foot umong the struggling multitude of summits below.— So Car the old padre is accuiatc in every pariiculitr." to obey, utterly rejec* fie hod come so fat\C- , it he would, dead Or alive.' ' 38K8 » While they were debating what was to bo done,the lxinoa\ ur» leader galloped away toward the city, and the sccond in command, with his troop oi fifty men, dashed bv them into the forest, and took possessiot of thC" pass by which our travellers hud en tercd the pluin, and which they soon he came satisfied was the only route by wbicl liey could escape, for '"the mountains su ' '" -CD ' *y proposition.— ic city,' and see „ 7 „T„  ires (hey had worn on the march, and lei lie attack." At lirst the uativcs, doubtless under i|u mpression that their comrades who had .n'ered the cavern were all slain, fled in ittcr amazement and great disorder. But, won meeting a large reinforcement, ihey returned in tolerable order, and charged upon the intruders. 'J'he result was a perlcct and brilliant victory of our courageous travellers. Unfortuinatelv, Mr. Hammond received a dangerous wound in New York, " via Jamaica*" " Whatever the doctors mny say about these dwarfs, it is now perfectly demonstrated that they came from Iximaya, and are I he descendants of some of the ancient priests of Assyria. And enough is ol.Do disclosed about the unpurdonable and wicked despotism of this same Iximaya, in shutting all their own people in, ond all the rest of ihc world out of their beautiful city, to justify the intervention ol our gov eminent (or the establishment of more lib- */ appointed Commander in-chief. Whether he ihougnt an election a compliment due to him, and intended to have the honor of declining it, or whether he would have accepted, 1 know not. To the compliment he ha4 some pretensions, for, at that time hid cx-•• eitions, sacrifices, and general merits in the cause of his country, hod hyn imoomparably greater than those of Vol. Wash* ington. But the delicacy of his health, and his entire want of experiMce in actuul service, though an excellent militia oili. On the nrxt dny, the 10th, the journal soys : "On the brink of the abyss the heaviest crags wo con hurl down return no sound from the bottom." May lSlli. " Recovered the body of •Sebasliano and the load of his mule ; his brother is building a cross over his grave, J (.wight* wUk.1i »w« nol, ti'O control; .1nd we U'Tn to hope, tho' norruvr, Lik« Iks winter louK '"t; »t"D'. ILat a brigbtar tun UrH»orfiDw, . 111 Its Croat* »b*ll uialt «.way. WW wlH #aD IhU world ia nol w*l fair * \Vtwoouvlncc uM thew la uuntfht, la lUin lifu bu' floora axul care 7 Noue! while Ulri' and true* and Oowcft, the llopc and l,ov««, t) willing lu tliU wnrth of our*, I'ohit ibfio ouf Ifomu above I llano err, Indian*. r _ _ _  nd will not leave it until furnished with rounding the plain were absolutely parpen- i ----- "' 'UT i .*."!»•m .wEZZTrmiZr: Cer, were decisive objections ai/ainat Kin hirst nud hunger. All ,00 exhausted to dicular %r ihree-fourth. oFtheir altitude the r,,|,t hreas and one of their" Indian crul principle*. -NaUonal Inlclhgtncer. J0'8'™ hink of leaving this, our first encampment which was nowhere less than a thousand guides was killed. J lie poor uutives had Phil. Wampum's Method. . out of doors, 1 louud too thai even amonc ince we descended. Present elevation but feet." In these straitened circumstances, no knowledge whatever of firearms, and Phil. Wampum w;u a noted hunter. lie i|,0 delegates of Yireiuia there were difl* ittle above that of Uie opposite ridge which what followed is thus described by the uo- could not stand a moment against six was one of the earliest settlers of the town cu),jes. 'j-j,0 apostolical reasouines amonii ve left on .he 11th ; still at leas" 3D,000 curate and fervid pen of Velasquez . shooting nfles." I here was no longer 0f Granville, Massachusetts, and there was EJ SSZKS '«"»»D;»"■««" S5S?." SX'™T0 ."TVr°'.S"ST-"" " May 19th, 4 o'clock, P. M., Velasquez mules nt n copious stream which rushed city oflAjumya. And alter various con- truer shot than I hil. I hero was not an undent dominion fhan tffev were amontr nakes this record in his jouri'ol : forth from its recesses, and recruit our ex- fcrences, explanations, and promises of nniinal in the vast forest but wliut Phil had us of New Fiurland In several convert "Myself, Sr. Hammond, and Antonia, hnusied strength with food and rest, was ,l'® 1 a JilWMram ''Unted' lic" k,,ew t|»e'r. natures, and the ,bus. 1 found more than one very cool',.' n the highest summit ; an inclined plane our first necessary In tracing 1 ney louuU the uty to tDC, a paiallelogra course to pursue 111 hunting thern. At the bout tlie aonointment of Washim/'on and if baW roc1?,"-6r Ibout 1TD acres! Tfm pa- the rocky curse of tfie ctfnSSt for a con- .our ..hW luug and three wide, and eiido- ii„»e wUu Phil. in liie prime of life, | |-articular{ v Mr Pendleton was verv'clcat Ire again right. Sr. JIuertis and others venient watering place, Antonio discovered sed by n massive wall sixty feet high, t|le country was infested by bears, and in, I full Gainst it  ust discernible, but bravely coming on— that it issued from a cavern, which, though which is minutely described. Outside of tllese were ,he ,nimill8 he chiefl h(lnteJ 1 »«« ilcvation 0,500 feet. Completely in the a mere fissure exteriorly, was, within of the walls of the city there was a foss or Many was the number of these dangerous appreheS^ slouds, and all the country below invisible, cathedral dimensions and solemnity. We moat a hundred feet wide, nearly fillet animals that had fuller* before the fire oi should hear verv hard news frorif Boston Jenor Hammond already bleeding at the all entered it, and drank eagerly from a with water, end abounding with water- his deadly rifle. I walked with Mr Samue? ihl lose, and no segar to stop it." At ten foaming basin, which it immediately pre- 'owl. Crossing the foss on u diawbridge, One evening, a number of persons were State House vard for a little fresh air h*. ('clock ut night, lie writes : All comfort- sented to our fevered lips. Our first sen- they reached the eastern gate of the city, seated in a semicircle around the roaring fore the hour of Concress and there raniblv asleep but myself and Sr. Hammond, sations were those of freedom and indepen. which was at ill closed, but the keeper, on fire j„ t|le village bar-room, and among resented to him the various dancers that vho is going te take the latitude." deuce, and that perfect security which is receiving a whisper through an aperture in ,|ieill was Phil Wampum. In the cour* surrounded us He Treed to them aU The next record give, the latitude as .he basis of both. It was long since we the wall from the commander of the troops, of the evening the conversation turned up- but said 'Whit - all we da 1" I ' 15 degrees and 48 minutes north." had slept under a roof of any kind; While opened the gale, and the whole party en- on bears. TJ.e person w ho will read these red 1dm that he knew that 1 had ?,kl« May 20th. A bright and most auspici- ) here, a few men could defend our repose l«rtd, when "a \is!a of lines is no doubf aware that the bear is a r,reat pains to set our colleagues to nonw Dus morning, and a'l but poor Antonio in j "gainst on assault from thousauds ; but it cenee was pic.sentfd to the view. very slow animal, and if a person finds he U|K)n some plan that we miffht bo' unani. ine health and feeling. The wind by com- was horribly evident to my mind that a few It was a\iita at once of colossal stat- js pursued by one, and lias a mind to turn | mous but he knew thev would nledira Dass N. E., and rolling away a billowy I watchful assailants would suffice to reduce ues and trees, interminable in perspective, to his heels, he can easily effect an escape; ! themselves to nothihe i but I was deter, •cean of mist toward, 1 suppose, the Hay us to starvation, or destroy us in detail.— to its we'l'tein ante In v'.l"le.on tlle other hand, if he attempts to mined to take a step that would compel" Df Honduras. Antonio says the Pacific Our securny was that of a prison, and our . werefwi k,II.,imlD he f""8,1 b0,a vf.V expert hunter, them and all the other members of Con. vill be visible within an hour ; more and i freedom was limited to its walls- Happily ciedib.c as it may seem, until we reflect as it is a very hard animal to kill. One uress to dec'aro themselves for or aoain.i noreof the lower mountains becoming vis- however, for the present, this reflection upon 1 he ancient statuary of the Eastern young fellow »aid— V sornctLir '' ! am dltermined ihis^rn ble every moment, raney wc-a'lreftdy see I seemed to trouble no one. Objects of won- oili, ulesqurz reports cach and all " If I hud a good rifle that I was used to inn to make a direct motion that Conures" he Pacific, a faint yellow plain, almost ns | dcr and veneration grew numerous to our "J* I'd risk any bear's killing me." Jou]d aClupl the arlny Lfore •levated as ourselvfs. Can see prr of the : gaze. Gigantic statues of ancient warn- height of the city all that is, sixty fi et Another said, " If 1 had a good heavy appoint Col. Washington commander of it State of Chiapas pietty distinctly." Af 1'J ors, with round shields, arched helmets, and all possessing t.ie proportions of the club, that would strike a heavy blow, the Mr. Adams aeemed to think very seriouali ('clock, meridian, the ireord crintiimes j and square breast -plates, curiously latticed human figure. What is equally marvel, bear that would hurt me would have to get of it but said nothintr. 'Sr. Hammond is taking the longitude, and adorned, stood sculptured in high re- loua, no two of them were precisely alike Up early in the morning." Accordingly when Concress had assem Hit finds a difference of several minules lief, with grave faces and massive limbs, "D countenance, and very few their After they had all told what great things Ued mynlaoeand ,Z between his excellent watch and chronom- and in the regular order of columns, sculptural costume. Ihere was some they w-onhJ do if they met with a bear, ex- . tl e TbiS admit  !ter, and fears .he latter has been shaken, around the walls of this grand mausoleum, distinctive emblem each and he was cept Phil_,ie 8m()ki hjs , listen. * SP^CJ' Te stae Colonies he un 3r. Huertis, with .he glass, sees whole Many 0, them stood arrayed in the crimson « Ujy — ol .M =nt ing ,0 the res, but no: giving his experience in',2 ines snd groups of Pyramids in Chiapas." light of the setting sun, whh inflamed hro kings of Assy 11a from before the founda- m regard to the dangerous onimal, till fi. expectation and anxiety, the distrea- At one o'clock he records: Senor Ham. the tall fissure into the cavern ; and the tion of Duby Ion, and of theii descendants nallyoneofthcaewould.be bear slayers ses of the army, the dangers of its dissolu. mond rejiorts the longitude- 9'2 degrees 15 deep gloom into which long rows ol others of the Aztec Lmpires of this continent. said— » Hon, the difficulty of collecting another iiinults west. Brave Huertis is in ecstacy utterly retired from our view, presented a I he city had four gates, one at the cen- " Well, L'ncle Phil., what would you do and the probability that the Britiah army with some discovery but Will not part with view at once of mingled mystery and re of each ol the lour wull.% ; and asum. in case you saw a bear making tracks after would lake advantage of our delays, march ihe glass for a moment. No doubt It is the splendor. It was evidently a place of great lar avenue crossed from the noilh to the you, and what weapon would you want to out of Boston, and spread deaolation as/a r padre's city for it is in precisely the dircc and recent resort, both for men and horses; south gate, lined in the same manner with defend yourself wilh ? YouDye Wn J coulJ'  lion he indicated. Antonio savs he can see for plentiful supplies of fresh fodder for colossal statues and trees, and sculptures amongst the animals long enough to know tion. in form, that Congress would adopt it *ith his naked eye, though less distinct- the latter were heaped in stone recesses; of mythological figures. Ihe sculptur. something about them." lhe „nnv IftCS'mbridge, and appoint a ly than heretofore. I can only sec u while lhe. ashes of numerous fires, mingled ed annahs of the city gave them an antiqui- Phil rapped the ashes from his pipe, and tjeneral'that though this was not the nroitraight white line, like a ledge of lime. | with discarded moccasins, and broken pipes, ly of Jour thousand gears. having placed it carefully in his pocket, he „er time to nominate a general, vet, as I stone rock over an elevated plain, at least j and pottery, attested a domiciliary occupa- ,ler 'ought into the presence snj(]_.C I'll tell you what I'd do. If I had h,id reason to believo this was a point of twenty leagues distant, in the midst of a tion by the former. Farthei into the mte- of ihe monarch ana lus counsellors, with a Wu|„ut club, about three feet long, t|,e greatest difficulty 1 had no hesitation vast amphitheatre ol hills to northeast ot rior were found seats and sleeping couches great pomp and state, and alter sui.abie not very round, just large enough so l0 decluro that I had but one gentleman in our position, in the State of Yucatan. Still of fine cane work j and in a spacious re- examinations ant exp anations, i was te j|iav | could easily hold it in my hand ; on niy niind for that important command, and it is no doubt the place the padre saw, and cess near the entrance a large collection cidcd that the lives ol the strangers should the end that I held iu my hand I should that was a gentleman from Virginia, who it may be a great city." At two o'clock. ! of the bones, both of the ox and deer, that they might enjoy heir per- want a knob, so that my hand would'nt was among us, and very Well known to aH P. M., he says : "All doubt is at an end ! j with hides also of both, but newly slum, so»«l liberty within he limits of the city, s]jp when 1 went to strike—and 011 the oth- 0f lls a gentleman whose skill and aiperi- We have al'l seen it through the glass as ! and suspended on pegs bv the horns.— and perhaps eventually attam to the right, er end 1 should w ant a knob a little larger; j e)ice as an officer, whose independent fordistinctly as though it were but a few I These last evidences of good living had ot citizenship, but must never again tie aI- and then if I saw a bear coming, I don't ! ,unet „rent talents and excellent universal leagues off, and it is now clear and blight ; more eRcct on our hungry Indians than all °^e 10 ou,.sl e." 1 lt! cl.-v cure 'l0VV Id Ourow down lhe dub and \ character, would command the anproba. to the unaided eye. It is unquestionably 'C the resi; and within an hour alter dark, Ihe place ol residence assigned to our run thtwdrr ! " tioll nfall America, and unite the cordial a rich monuniented city, of vast dimeii-j when wo were seeking our first sleep, four travellersi was l ie vacant wing ol a sump- exertions of all the colonies better than a. sions, w iihin lofty parapMted walls, three fine dee, w ere brought in by about « dozen and the wrs- A oTtho American re- I ny TMher in the union. or four miles square, inclined inward 111 , of our party, whom we tuppoaed to have . y im„lnoria| to the volution, 11 Virginia gentleman, hart unfor- | Mr. Washington, who happened to sit the Egyptian style, and its interior domes been fuith.ully guarding our citadel. It is PP P ® ancient ami sin innately been tinctured with infidel prin- j near the door. as he heard me aland turrets have on emphatically oriental unnecessary lo say we gladly arose to g • ciples. * The efferts of Mr. T. Paine to . lude to him from his usual modesty, dart, aspect. the rich repast that ensued, or we had eat- in their promote American liber.y-the effusion of ed into the library room. Mr. Hancock, Having assured themselves of the exist- en nothing but our scant allowance of tor- c , asd« J accompanied of his pen and the zeal of his life, tended j who was our President, which gave me aa eriee of the padre s city, and made all ne- tillas for many duys, and were in .he lassi- f D 8 people from the to make his infidel sentiments popular | opportunity to observe his countenance ccssary observations, and discovered its tude of famine. " . ■ Pr® I I with rnanv of our count: tmen, at the era while I was speaking on the state of the bearings from various points, the party After this welcome feast, we bave the Assyrian plains. !• or 1 en ly in ola- reVolullnri. This officer had ofieu Colonies, the army at Cambridge, and (be turned fromlti.' mouniain, recruiieil b irus- |»rly lo tlieir ni({ht'» repose in lliu reniir. blywicrtd iuws fran in ortiiarrj'ing "t jnirwjuce(t it.it. «ubje«t, alraDKe n» it ttinv fncniv—hmrd mo with vuibt. jtleuure, „ gu«rf of thirty-five r.iendly l„di,„,, Lbb„»nD »*D' «■"««' IToif bl. d.t,C,t *4 ber to j but *hen I came to describo Washington whom they armed'with rifles, and having on the succeeding day seems to be con- they had here dwindled down, in t ie . ' . t(.ne,8- ]f'hifideliiv succeeds lor the commander, 1 never irarked a obtained fresh mules and everything neces- densed from I lie manuscript of A elasqucz couisc.ofmanyu en-,1[ to " man, it cannot often master the hearl : more sudden change of countenance.— ssry for the journev, they started for the by the translator :— nincant individuals, diminutive in sic , f for above all others, the law of Moitilicatiou and resentment were expre*. wonderful city of Iximaya, for that was ".In the morning about H.e break of andI imbecile in mte lect." £r is tru« of^heaven. The young I sed as forcibly as his face could exhibit its name, as they learned from natives day, the infernal yells of a pack of olood- I his remnant of the ancien. p lady resisted the entreaties of her father. ' them. Mr. Samuel Adams seconded the whom they met on the journey, and they hounds suddenly rang through the cavern, has si,|| an object of She clung to lhe princi|.lcsofhJr Saviour 's motion, and that did not soften the Preai. learned from their Interpreted that the and ti.e party could scarcely seize their re iJon. ® Disease afte! wards wasted her ; dent's physiognomy at all. The subject word Iximaya signified "the great centre." nfles before many of the dogs, who had theprese t priests^^ fair form, and she drew near the closing 1 came under debate, and several gentlemen Afier this the daily journal was dropped, driven in the aflrigbted Indians on guard, Ve owrl P prie,,d, loved her for hrr lovcli- J declared themselves ogainst the appoint, and the history wriuen from memory by were springing at their throats. Mr. Hu- contrived bv our tia\ . ness, and the father wept, that earlv beau-, ment of Mr. Washington, not on acoount Volasqucs, after he returned to San Sal- erlis, however, the American-leader of the escape. , Suffice it y, ty should thus languish into the tomb.— of anv personal objection against him, but vador/ expedition, with that presence of mind el'r accom .liX. — The work of diseafe was almost cons,im- , because the army were all from New En. Wo must pass over other incidents till which seems always to have distinguished his mated; the light was passing from her gland, had a general of their own, sppea. the party arrived within tho circuit of the hnn, told the men that rifles were useless Poor II 8 . fnir eye) aMd the pulse from her heart—it was red to be saiisfied with him, and had pro. Alpine district in which Iximaya is situat-j m such a contest, and that the hounds *®"nds- nnt] t|.illkinLr 1o bring her away a fearful moment—the dividing moment . ved themselves able to imprison Ae British ed, and found it reposing in massive grand- niust be dispatched with their long knives Ixin" V D h Plans' but between time and eternity. She called the , army in Boston, which was all they exp«c-eur, in the centre of a perfectly level as fast as they came in, while the fire-arms with him, confided to her . s p aD. but £ lo u2de-and as .he : ted or desired st that time. plain, about five league, in diameter, at a were lo be reserved for their masters - vTaCeZ was m0re success'- gently pressed his hand, and looked ten- Mr. Pendleton, of Virginia, and Mr. distance ot scarcely two from the spot they ; in.s canine butcho.y was accomplished ble death. ojy « yi CQUnteniincei »he jshermau, of Connecticut, were »er, ex. had reached. Hero a rich landscape with but lutle-difficulty ; none of the par- Ail. ' VimliiPnr wIima ima said: 44Fat.her would you have me an infi plicil in declarmc this opinion. Mr. Cus snread out before them, ot forests and cul- ty received any serious injury from their wUli a priipet name |i , " del now V} There was a pause—there 1 hing, and several others more faintly ex tivated fields, and small villages of low tangs, end the Indians were exhilarated g.nat.on he at last fillri ah so strong a M nou T IJe™ " P"» c *cir opposiiiod, and their fears o L « s:? "SSSf %srtx8 «•• t ■- 1 '*» *«■ The Axlec Children from Central America. For sonic two mouths past neorlv nW »♦»* |DuiDfic paper* in this city liave contained trequeut paragraphs, and sometimes lubor»'d uud extended articles, ol exciting ill- w .. -r _ -f-jc - — -- *'4'I3L **** sp' tond'the mountains. The paifre arclniTtt that in his younger days he had climbid to the top of the Sierra Madre, a height of ted or twelve thousand feet, and looking icrest, concerning a oouple of wonderful ••Aztec children," who liavo now been ex. Di i bite J for a few wetks lo the " w ise men of Gotham," nt the Society'* Library building, on Broadway. T!uy wero represented to be specimen* of an unipue and new ruce of human beings, or rullier the lyjl j.-kies of an old nice, now nearly exlinct, an order ol Priesthood among the ancieut Aztec* of Central America. They wore bright as birds, playful es squirrels, •tud in size and statu re the vet test Tom Thumbs liiat e\er wire set n. Doctors exumiued them and guvo o.rilicates that they were all right ; phrenologists .neasured their cranium*,or crania, and declared thev had more brain ir. proportion to their bodies than the rest of mankind ; and the newspapers all agreed that they were decidedly the elephant. 1 could stand this lemptation no longer. ~ 1 went to see I hem ; nnd truth to say, was well pleased and from the summit, over on immense plain, extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, ho had seen with his own eyes, in tho remote distanco, '•« a largo city, over a groat space, with turrets white and glittering in the sun." Air. Stephens, though Very desirous to explore thnt region of country, and test the trulh of the padre's statements, had no time to do so ; it would be a long and jierilous undertaking. l»ut ho adds, " two young men of good constitution, who could cillurd to upend fivo years, might succecd." That hint, it seems, gave birth to tlio''Aziec children;" "for," says tho unknown author of the pamphlet, "it is now known that two Intrepid young men, incited probably by this identical passage in Mr. Stephens' popular work, agreed to undertake the perilous und romantic enterprise-" I'liey lvere a Mr. 1 Itsertis, of Hultimoje, un American, of Spanish parents froin Cuba, and a Mr. well paid for my trouble. They are curi- Hammond, a civil engineer from Canada, ositics well worth seeing—decidedly more Providing themselves w ith mathematical *o than little Gen. Tom Thumb, who made instruments, daguerieotypc apparatus, and h fortune for Barnum. And w hy should fifty repealing rifles, they sailed from New not the "Av.trc childrhn" make a fortune Orleans, and ariivcd at Balizc in the fall tor their exhibitor*? Judging from the of 1848. Here, procuring mules and innumber of visitors present, and the interest dian guides, they started through a wild manifested. 1 predict they will. And 1 unbroken country for 150 miles on the judge from something else, loo, which Gulf of Ainatique, and then struck o(T to brings me to the same conclusion. Bar- the south-west for Coban, where they arrinum is called the prince of managers for ved on the morning of christmas day. At getting up a show, but if he has not been Coban they fell in with Pedro Velasquez, out-Barnum'd here, I am not the Yankee who was there on a trading expedition from for a gvfts that 1 have generally had the San Salvador, and finding him in a congenweakness to suppose myself. ial spirit, and bound to San Juan del These children, or dwarft, have some- Quichc as well as themselves, they pursuthing of the complexion of the American cd the wild journey together, having prosborigiues. The boy is about thirty-three cured new guides and mules. and the girl twenty-nine inches in height; During this journey lluertis and Ilambut they are small and slender in propor- mond gradually broke to Velasqliez the tion to their height, and delicately formed; programme of their grand enterprise; they forehead small and quite retreating ; hair told him the story of the old padre of del black and glossy, eyes blue and bright; Quiche, and showed him the engravings in features finely chiselled, and by no meins ' Stephens' book. Velasquez readily belie, repulsive, for some of the ladies asked and ved the w hole, for he had himself seen the received kisses from the little girl; the line padre, and he had seen some of the ruins, from the top of the forehead to the end of which ho at once recognised in the engraihc nose nearly straight. The anonymous vings. His imagination was fired, and his account of thcin, bearing dale two years spirit of enterprise burst into a flame ; and ago, represents their supposed age to be although he was a man of family and eight and ten years ; but one of the exhi- wealth, and an indigo trader, he at oncc rebitors expressed his belief that tlus girl solved to leave all, and follow them. But might be nine or ten, and thg boy nearly very little account is given of the journey twenty. The boy i* said to weigh about from Coban to del Quiche, though, from twentv pounds, and the girl seventeen.— two 0r three slight records in the journal They do not appear to nie to be idiotic, but 0f Velasquez, it was not unattended by their manifestations of intellect ond ac. stirring incidents; for instance, February quirements are very feeble, corresponding 2d, 1849, he records as follows : with ordinary children at a year and a half '«on the bank of a branch of the Salaond two years of age. They seemed af- mo, attacked in the night by about thirty J'cctionate and aeositive. They caressed Indian robbets, several of whom had fireeach other when told to do so j and the lit- arms- Sr. Hammond, silting within the tie girl, when .required to give up a lavor- light of the fire, was severely wounded ite toy, burst into a hearty, child-like cry, through the left shoulder; they had folwhion, however, was quieted in a minute lowed us from the hacienda, six leagues, or two, and she was ut plov ogoin. They passed us on the north, and lay in ambush; exhibited a strong and childish fondness for killed four, wounded three; of the rest toys. A liule dancing image in a small saw no more: poor Juan, shot through the box filled them with delight, causing them body, died this morning ; lost two mules." lo skip about the stage in imitation, nnd j 'J'lie party arrived at del Quiche on the clasp their tiny hands in great glee. The j 3d of April, and found the old padre still boy Mowed a little trumpet, sawed a little j alive, but quite feeble and dropsical. He, fiddle, and rode a little rocking horse. But i however, re affirmed the story of having a little music-box, about three inches by seen the living city with his own eyes, two, was their chief joy, ami seemed to fill gome forty years ago, frcm the summit of them with intense delight- They examin- j the Sierra Madre. And he gave them a ed it with most inijuiiing look, peered ear* letter to his friend the Cura of Gueguetenestly into it, to see where the sounds nago, who would furnish them with guides came from, and pressed it long and repeat- to the top of the mountain, w here they edly to their ears, as if in perfect ecstacy. j could see the city for themselves- With The lady w-|io had brought the music box | this letter, and fresh guides and mules, to the room made a present of it to the boy ()iey proceeded on their journey, and #t q' 0 t