The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1850, Page 2

SSS ee ‘ast the ect, emulat gard with self-reproach his own glory acquired | sisting of firstate cavalry, while the Spaniah arm Se ee ees dftermindrent toute aconite dea drmbres an- SKETCH OF THE LIFE chery honor, pestalled oves hia Semeretion we | [nike Srenigh eartioneana t Soules ot sliver of | was monly infantry," Lopes wae, at oda New Yonx, lnvavro-Prace, May M7, 1660, | née." “¢She saw a het says he, that was ate the career; and, at nineteen, he himself com- | his own uniform as a mere live: more ra~ | has been above-mentioned, at the head of apicked | y, y26 Gonpon Bennett, Esq— icks, was in his mouth: the prineess immediately snatches the little chick from the dog; when a vole ia heard, say ing: ‘give him back his little ehick ; if you de- a him of his meal, he will be a bad watch! ‘No,’ cried the princess, ‘I shall never give it back! ” Then he explainsy and adds, that eto’ chick was the soul of Anne de Gonzague, princess palatine ; that the hen was the church; that the dog was the devil; and Anne de Goi » Who had refused to give back to the dog the little chick, was the re cficace!!! Bear in mind, that this beautiful and magnificent piece of oratory, the eqnal* of which exists in no known language, was de- livered by the superbe aigle de Meaux, before th: reatest men of the greatest court of the greatest fingtiom of the greatest king, (inspite of his dra- omnades, or missions bottées in provinces South,) that were are or ever shall be—and ad- mired, applaudre, and ap remage ¢ believed by nuns, meres abbesses, high and low, clergey and all, it is absurd, ne vous déplaise, to believe only that which you see, hear, touch, smell or taste. Do you deny that there w: acity called Baby! lon. and a king over it, Nebuchadnezzer by name tT Or that Charles the Ninth, after the épouvantables massacres of St. Bartholomew, (for which a Te Deum laudamus was sung at Rome, the cannon of Saint Angelo was fired, end a painting on canvass. ordered, representing the hereties cut to pieces, whicli is stilll sonting. ia the library of the Vati- can,) was, day by day, and night by night, inces- santly troubled with the bloody sight of his hun- dred thousand victims t—that mother. Angeli Abbess of Port-royal, a after her death, did com and teke her old seat in the church of that maison, having her crosicr in her right hand, in order to converse with sister Dorothee that there is an old ordonnance de part le ror, commanding the de- parted spirit of the diacre Paris, quietly hereafter te 'y mander of a squadron of horse, a select force de- | ble in his eyes than that which bedizened a rich | squadron, reserved for decisive moments, with ae hundred, aye, even in & thew NARC I s Oo LOP EZ, signed for critical oceasions, to decide pendiag con- | man’s negre calesero in his owa country. which it was a point of honor never to turn their ge x gi - pyre ote tests, a corps into which none but picked men were | Such thought in the breast of a min, so honest | back. He had lost half o! A ina pores engage: sand, and ten thousand respects, mire . THE admitted, and with which it was a point of honor | in convietion, so Tesolute in will, ind da — = dcr ee ane ee fom ntmy 97) the admirable columns of your sxeintte eee . " mar eg es ev he back; and, at the age of twenty: | in execution, was no barren senti 3 > cl i There is no doubt that the establishment of . Cuba Invaders, | Tice ishly stecmed ed ca 5 devote the reat of | the army, when he received an order from the | T! Commanaling General of th po ie esteemed colonel of a regimeut of alt bacaealy oe aera of his country, and feicral gallop forward and harrass. the rear of | Liverpool, London and Havre packets, and the Besides other distinctions, he received during this | the recovery of his own dignity—-measuring | Paez’s retreating ay: Morillo had not recog- | French revolution of 1830, which sent to our shores f Ce e Ds! s is ra ta. istinction, 7 je ‘ an “ and people of the United States, as the projector | wendes, ¥ pete coe wetenk erage favor. Resigning his seat as a Senator, he insisted | wise have sent on such a service, especially after | manners, science, politics and literature of that and and chief of a revolutionary movement contem- | whieh ‘is to be obtained only by a public demand | with Espartero on being allowed to ret to Hava- | the morning's work. Rash as the order was, it | other countries—inthat commencement ofthe Tohu- plated in that island, which was to have broken | out in the summer of 1848, but which was fru by discovery on the part of the governmen arrests were suddenly made, and he hims From the New Orleans Delta, May 10.) ‘ Within the past year and a half, the name of ( neral Lopez, of Cuba, has been familiar to the pr by the person claiming it, and on the institution | na—a permission which he did not obtain without | was of course obeyed. On the perfectly level | gchu of the old monarchies—have had a great influ- ote formal process for and against his right, every- | extreme difficulty, nor until after long resistance on weacte, weneh was the on of the Speration, wane ence in gi¥ing to our population the exterior, and bedy bein, os to interpose an objection, or to de- | the part of the Regent, it being contrary to the jea- cry ra in view cs both oe ne % i'l inpdlbt-the-fossts-of the Tétined people of Europe. preciate the merit of the act for which it is de- | lous poliey ef Spain, in the government of herrich | voked at the ineolence of the little squadron, halt u > . being informed that his principal friends had been | Tranded. In the whole army there was but one | colony, the Queen’ of the Antilles, to allow an | end put himself, in person, at the head of a splen- | Still, | om persuaded that the disappearance of those arrested, (to the number of two hundred, as the ae- | orher individual who possessed this cross. Lopez, | American bom officer of rank, of importance, to go did corps of about 800 men, his guard, the well- very many wrong ‘notions ot men and things, and gount was first brought to him, though it proved much importance to the act for which | there. An intimate friendship with Espartero, the | known flower of his army, in scarlet uniforms, af thet oltlaniiah sien ef thieinie taoekien cad afterwar > bee: atly exaggerated) had urged to epply, and caring little, moreover, | noble head of the liberal or progreatiat patsy th and every man superbly mounted ; and this corps . : > av 1 bound for Bristol, » he L r himself, was only induced to demand | Spain, alone made practicable the inportunity with | was seen to detach itself from the main body and | acting, which, twenty or twenty-five years ago, K. 1, (Rhode Island, not Round Island); feeling | commender-in-chief, General Morilto, | which Gen. Lopez insisted on his demand, which | rapidly approach the little band, whose destruction | struck so strangely the European traveller amongst himself reluctantly compelled to take that step to | hin with being afraid of a rejection | he even enforced by making it the alterna- | seemed inevitable, before the swoop of that force. | is, is mostly due to that great mover of human in- save his friends from being shot—a fate which | ¢f the demand, and who demanded his secretary to | tive to a resignation of his commission; and it can- | Lopez asked his men if thay would stand or turn. | teflect, the press—especially that of our Atlantic ortain!y sited them within th draw up the application, almost forcing the reluc- | not be denied thet his own determined purpose in | ‘The reply was that they would doas he should. His | cities,’ and more especially to that great engine, f he had, at that moment, with premature | tant young officer to sign it. going, and the consequences which have resulted | answer was to fling himself from his horse, and com- | yer the furnace and safety valve of which you so d the standard of the revolution. In the negotiations for the withdrawal of the | fromit, prove clearly enough the policy of that rule, | mandthem todo the same thus burning hisshipe; and | distinguishingly presid®. ; viso Lopez is now a little ever filty | spanish army, he contributed much to cause the | en the part of the Spanish government, to which | then to form his men in Atop ap stand their ground However, even you are not without your faults ; having been born in Venezuc! | Spanish genéral—who could have protracted the | he thus succeeded in causing himself to be made | as long as they could, with the lances and carbines, | end now and then the Herald exhibits for or against ihe year 1798 or 1799. His father w ontest much longer, though with no hope of | the fatal exception.* : captain Gen. | Vtich, Mere their arms. He thus repulsed the | dcubtful or acknowledged facts—doubtfal or ac- landed proprietor, owning lai suecess—to relieve the country from the General Walden was at this time the Captain Gen- | charge of Paez and his Feard, refusing to arg knowledged truths—prejudices condamnables, and “anos or plains, swarming with catth | further pressure of the evils of war, by his intiuence | eral of Cuba, to which post he had been shortly | maintaining himself till Morillo could hasten up all | an obstinacy de col votde, in maintaining to the last His mother, who is still livin exerted in every manner consistent with military | before appointed, to a great extent through the in- | his cavalry to their support, and till the able Paez, | jzs often wrongly based opinions, which really de- men of rare elevation of mo: honor; and it isno small proof of what must have | fluence of Lopez, who had urged it strongly asa | with whorn his retreat was of much more impor- | serve, if not our blame, tacrepationem nostram, at with mental strength, whove been the appre on of ail his character, conduct, | means of aflording to himself an, opportunity of re- | tance than the annihilation of this handful of gal- least, some occasional remarks. Please, then, with with that nobl ‘ and motives, entertained even by those against | turning to Cuba, with Valdez, The latter, as his | lant fellows, whom none admired more than him- } your'usual bonkommic,to allow me to offer a few of from the o whom he had thus served, having been thrown by | most intimate and devoted friend, solicited permis- | self, withdrew his guard, and left Lopez, with what | jhe latter, res pecting your incredulity with regard pez was their on y i id sion that Lopez should accompany him, but with- | remained of his dismounted squadron, to receive | to that very ereditable subject, in my opinion, the ahovgh of danghiers his p out success; and it was not till several months af- | the cordial embraces of his general, and the plau- “ Roghester knocking.” wealthy » combined imbued tamped . neral Lo- d beyond childhood, s had some fourteen the circumstunees above explained, on the Sp side of the civil contest thus terminated, that or fifteen; and accordir habitual life of the | the conclusion of ies, he was invited by terwards that he finally eflected his@bject, as _be- | dits of the whole army, who had witnessed the | Now, sir, you will not deny, 1 venture to say, | Temain at rest, and perform miracles no more? rank held by him in the Spanish army, He de- | ing hiscommission, and parily from the Regent's | On another oceasion, in the Carlist war, in Na- | to permit’ or order that spirits released from their qian J iy nC Rrlogty seeth pale be omame. clined the offer, not considering that that honor | pereenal attachment. yarte, he saved the commander-in-chief, General | mortal coil, (which he created and continually | made by RI Ab vende Ml nies, My Mig ys | which had kept’ him in the service, permitted him Itwas, we believe, in 199, that he retumed to | Valdez, to whom he was at the time aide-de-camp, | preserves) should leave the unknown abodes where oe Ww sa get wrosfonl fuceige 2 od ao tly 5 ‘ | to Lit; and he retired with the evacuation | Cuba. During the period of the Captain-General- | and @ division of his army under the following cit- | they rest, or sufler, (for though Ido not believe | be dead or no ». bis tie ppn ga qe Mae ted by his subse- | army to Cuba, in the year 1823, ship of Valdez, honor, friendship and gratitude com- | cumstances :—Valdez had allowed himself to be | that there is a Purgatory, still there may be one,) | Whose pulses ne snc Ben sad HN toe tate | i been a Cuban, hav nar- | bined to require him to postpone any steps towards | eurprised with only a small part of his army, ina | and revisit the scenes through which, for the good | # instant au chevet des malades, thoug) ly, he 2 soldier, and tho the displ ourage, (the prince,) be five or six hundred miles distant— or viceversa, ce gua est /a méme chose? And, in fine, that on the summit of the Cordelieres, at this very moment, there are living voleanoes incessantly vomiting through their ever open mouths, aad spreading over the neighboring valleys, (accompa- nied with clouds of dust, and streams of mad and water,) fishes of the identical classwhich the dar- kies of St. Domingo harpoon on the shores of the sea of the defunct Caribees ?—I trust you do not! And for what reason do you doubt the Rochester knockings? They are true, sir, most true sir, most undoubtedly true, sir; and, en terminent, I shall most respectfully propose a committee, fwhicl: you might appoint, to be sent to Rome, for the pur- ee of obtaining a gallon or two of the holy water [ately manufactu! his Holiness, and for re- p mien 3 that the said Holiness will please recite a few masses, in order to os the manes of the: departedof our western shores; and that a sub- scription be opened at your office to defray expenses of said committee, pay for the eaw bénte, and the said masses for the dead, with the extra dona eis ume, dona eis sempitenam in of the muiserere nobis, dona yacem of usual ri- tual. A reverend gentleman Epes church, with whom I endeavor to be inscribed a salou ut amongst you, assures me of the infallibilityof this means A pry forgot, in speaking of the opinions and be ef of the heathen, to say that, granting those sentiments might have been the tions of the populace, the fancies of the poets, or the | tied and established himself in the iskind. ‘The re- | the eecomplishment of that great purpose which | villege named Durango, where he had established | or the misfortune of their fellow-creatures, the: es sitisbenoas cr since in Panty the ‘idof never slept within his breast. ‘The downfall of Es- | his heed-quarters ; the rest of the army being scat- | jravelled upon earth—or, that some of the evil ‘ ench intervention, overthrowing, forthe sec- | partero, and the restoration cf Maria Christina to tered in various eection, ax. different services. | powers of the air, (who, speaking merely philoso- never been fond of the th titution of S12, wholly prevented | power, supported by Narvaez and the army, by | Suddenly, through one of those rapid movements | phically, may exist ; and, in company with your Hie did not enter it | jis yeeunption ofservice, though fetaining hicnomi: | causing the. reall of the virtuous Valdez, (who | of concentration which marked the system of war- | ange gardiew, may, at this very moment, be. look- resource of despera- | naj rank. The system then adopted was, to require | Was steceeded by O'Donnell, the predecessor of | fere of Comnlaterian, the celebrated Carlist | ing’ over your shoulders and laughing, while you rood upon him, at the | 2's purifsation” from all the ollicers of the army, | the present, Koncali,) released_hum from the per- | commander-in-chief, he found himself surrounded | are hastily Gectphe ring these lines,) should be un- i y the civil war then desolating all especially those suspected of too much liberalism, | sonal obligations by which at first he had felt him- | in every direction with eraily superior forces. | chained and let loose amongst us, that he can do so. the Spanish South American provinces. His father consisting in the adjuration of such senti: | self lettered; and his friends in Havana were sur- | Durango wag situated in a valley, encompassed | Certainly qe would net make him less powerful had been stripped of nearly all his property, or had » and in an oath of devotion and support of | prised at the evident content end cheerfulness with | with hills of moderate elevation, of which the | than the Thundering Jove of the pagan table (an seen it rendered wholly unproductive, through the | ine new order of thi Always not only liberal, | Which. he received a change of parties, necessarily | encmy suddenly took possession. Escape seemed | old bronze statue)—which, by the by transmogrifie operation of that ¢ yfuiih quck aneans a8 | but demecratie, in heart as well as ia principles, he | depriving him of the posts which he held in the | impossible ; a bird alone, as it seemed, could carry | to represent Peter, is still, with ite kiscenton toc, he was able to realiz | would never consent to compromise his con- | military government of the Island. Under | the intelligence to the nearest Cristino division, | the sacred object of worship to the faithfal in the 5 seience in that respeet; and he accordingly re- | Valdez, he was Governor of Trinidad and Com. | situated at Ermoa, ten or twelve miles dis- | new Cathedral at Rome, to the disgust and horror mained in retirement until, on the death of the old | mander-in-Chief of the Central Department, as | tant, 60 us to summon it to the rescue. Colonel | of obstinate, confounded and ever to be confound. hing, Ferdinand Vil, the long-smothered liberal | Well as, Presidezt of the Military Commis- | Lopez, however, volunteered to do it, claim- | ed heretics like poor me—med culpd, med culpa, med party broke out from ‘under the despotic incubus | sion. He gladly laid down these posts on the | ing “it as his ag A and tight as first aide- | mazimd culpa—I sincerely say, tdeo, precor bealam | which had pressed it down, and assumed the ascen- | arrival of the period of opportunity, and free. | de-camp, and __ ple ging himself to bring up | Mariam semper virginem, beatum Michaclem . dant in the government of the country. Maria | dom for which he had impatiently waited; and | the division at Ermoa. ‘The commander-in-chief, archangelum crare prome!!! “ef : a Duerta, in 1814, in which Boli- | Chrietina, the brilliant, bold, but unprineipled widow | creating a pretext for returning to the central de- though regarding the attempt as desperate, yet | ‘There is nothing in the above supposition which Tgeni troops, was de- of the old King, after having caused the latter by | paitment, in retirement, (retaining, of course, his | yiel ang. his demand, told him he might then | implies contradiction, any more than in our belict under Gen. Boves. | his will to devise the crowirto her iofant daughter | porition and rank as General, though not onduty,) | take what force he required for the purpose, that matter (contingent by its nature,) was created to the garrison | isabel, in disregard of the Salic law, which’ had by undertaking the working of an abandoned cop- | could not do it with the half of the division,” was | by Him, and made by Him from naught--and no- ia, to maintain the place, which wasdone | heretofore regulated the succession of the throne | per mine, he devoted himeelt mainly to his object | the answer; * but let me have yore evel horse, | thing more wonderful than in the Teappearance, at with heroism to the last moment, so long as resist- | of Spain, and therefore to the exclusion of the | of organizing preparations for his intended rising of | Which you bought on my advice.” | It was brought | this season of buds and flowers upon trees, which, ance was possible—the inhabitants, who knew | yiehts of Lon Carlos, the King’s brother and next | the people against their oppressors—an object | and Lopez mounted it, taking with=him only his | a few months ago, were shrinking under a sky cre and plunder would immediately ensue | ale heir, threw herself on the liberal party for | which, itis scarcely needed to say, required ex- | orderly, (a fellow on whom he could trust to follow | heavy with the snows of winter, like the bones of nce of the victorious army, unitingin | support, and even resuscitated from ite grave the | treme caution and tact, as well as boldness, though him over and through anything,) the latter being | dead’men, under the marble slabs that cover their t the the period of the sanguinar: visive, battle of I car, at the head d by the Spanish army r, though routed, sent ore The t fan baa h the few soldiers of the garrison. | constitution of 1812. The absolutist or royalist | he Well knew that the general sentiment o} mounted on Lopez's own favorite charger. Direct- he town n open one, this consisted simply party soon prepared to rise for the maintenance of | people was already strongly predii d to a move- | ing him to keep close to him and to regulate his in defending hes to the plaza or square, | on ¥, ht o Den Carlos, whose character and oy Red ment for independence. With this view he ex- nd by his own, and, since it was not likely that in which we collected all the property and | made him moreover their natural head. Christina, | erted himself in many ways to establish a personal th would escape, instructing him as to the order effects, which it was considered most important to | jp anticipation of the severe ci struggle which | popularity and personal rela‘ions, as extensively as | to be carried to Ermoa, he set out at full speed ves. aT does not follow ef necessity—and I am willing to admit it—from these undeniable premises, that all that which we conceive and clearly under- stand thet the Almighty can, he has done, or here- protect. The house of Lopez's father happen- | sii knew to be about t vy A sible, with the country people of all the sur- | from Durango, along a road which passed between | after will do. It may be, (as is reported in St. Au. | Jeux desprit of journalists, I desire to quote some meaty Be a ecm oF the — | pacer ny of disntodiig bie hoe tee ehaie ee rote ing region, the ae — one of whom | two eminences, both occupied by the enemy. stine’s City of God, lib. xxii., chap. viii.,) that | Tespectal le suihortty, before saying, finis coromat an ne boy to an active part in the de 7 rty throughout the kingdom, so far as it was | is more accustomed to the saddle than to any other | Slackening then his speed, as he got well clear of Fractioable’ a service to oor the Bt were | eeat, 0 that they may be called a wainition of | the former place, and 4 chied the enemy, but | summoned, and came forward eagerly enough to | ¢@ whom a very little training under the in- | riding with entire confidence, he and his compa- perform, with the aid of the troops that could be | £P of such a leader would make a mounted | nion presented the rance of deserters; and two counted upon by the government. This move- | fo! ferior to none in the world. He employed | ®qvadrons which at first detached themselves ment, beginning at| Madrid, was et each im- | ¢very mode in his power to make himself personally | from the enemy on both sides te intercept them, portant pomt the work of a day, and by its sudden- | familiar with them, to win their confidence, and to | slackened the pace at which they moved down the f | denness so successful, that throughout the king- | #ttach them by services and favors—an operation | Yoad for that purpose. He then, with a nice cal- Was prolonged three weeks, lut no relief came | 4 m, six hundred thousand stands of arms were | in Which, always lavish and careless of money, he | Cvlation of the distance at which he might venture from Bolivar, who, meanwhile, abandoned indeed | wrested from the hands in which they would other- | spent With an unreserved hand. it, Le: gd cla spurs to his horse, and rushed all that part of the country which he had thus com- | wise have soon been employed for the re-establish- Mingling thus familiarly among the guajiros in h the shower of balls which immediately promised, and made his way along the coast to- | Tent of Don Carlos, the priests, and absolutism. | their own costume, and as one of themselves, he | poured down from both sides, and, in the a wards Parcelona. The inhabitants of Valencia | Tt'was in the midet of the tumult’ of this memora. | thus prepered them to be in readiness for the ap- | Cleared the gauntlet before they could cut him off, felt bitterly resentful at this treatment by the ble day at Madrid, that Colonel Lopez, (who hap- | proaching day. Aided by the respect due to his | and the thing wasdone. In the words Valdez’s triot leader, who had sacrificed them for the escape | pened to be at the capital with his wife, to reclaim | Tok, the brilliancy of his military reputation as | Certification, * to the astonishment of the enemy, of the routed fragments of his own force, by direct- | 4 jarge sum of money arbitrarily seized from the | the Well known bravest and boldest officer of Cul and of the army, both of whom were watching t ing them to make u resistance only justifiable on family of the latter by the government in Cuba,) | his generosity and character for humanity and operation, he ‘traversed the line,” and the army the idea of his coming to their relief ; while it could reappeared on the scene, si; lly distinguishing | nature, he thus established an influence such that | Was saved. ss ‘3 oke even a redoubled degree of the | },inself by the uctivity and boldaess which he ex | he has always been confident that the whole region In all the acts of heroic daring, on the part of Lo- with which, in that terrible civil | hibited in heading bodies of the people, in t would rise at his voice, whenever he should sum- | pez Which are familiarly current am the - . the conquering party was in the habit of | Greration of disarming the royalists. Always a | mon the people to rally round the flag of liberty and | ish soldiers, and which, oa human- ed th Lucianus, tin asmall borough near Jerusa- lem, dreamed a heaven-sent dream, in which he saw Dr. Gamaliel, who told him where the body of St. Stephen had been buried, and ordered him to search for it, untomb it, and carry it to John, Bishop of Jerusalem; and that, at the opening of the coffin, the earth actually shook, and the said holy bones having been carried to the hoe of David and niches in the church of Sion, immediately a heavy rain fell down from heaven, after a lo1 riod of extreme drought. It may be that the Madona of Loretta, quietly seated in her snug cabanon, (Santa casa) came over the sea from Palestine, on the ores of the beautiful Adriatic, to the wonder of the shepherds and boukoloi of the march of Ancona— mirabile visu!!! All this it is certainly possible that the almighty wer of God could have done. But, that he has ‘donned, soto order and do, c'est une autre affaire. Credat episcopum africum, madonae que aertuu iter R. R.Don ba AD It is possible that I a and a at marbles with the young urcl round t eae, in the park of our mage nificent Hotel de Ville, or trundle a hoop down bat peal ee Coasts ercoaie— ah! 7's doute; unless, deed, (wl again possible, however improbable,) TV ahouta chance to discover the long lost Fontaine de Jouvence. 1—living sigan hun- dred years ego in the Provincia Romana of ancient Gaul—if God had pleased, he might have made St. Joseph, then alive, (though I cannot conceive how this could have been et under the ordinary laws of acoustics, without changing the timbre of my voice, or Joe’s tym- panum, or the nature of the couche d’air between opus, and jai Vhomeur d’étre, §c. &c. T must, there- fere, mention at ay one Mpc brats pny a to exce inst—the great tians, the learned lawyer of Rome, Pliny the younger. ‘3 Listen, I pray you, tothe following :—“That: which might make me believe,” says he, “tha: there are real ghosts, is a circumstance which | was told happened to Curtius Rufus. At the time,” adds the philosopher, “he was without name or fortune; he had followed into Africa him to whom the government of the same had allotted. At the decline of the day, as he was walking a partied, a woman of a stature and beauty more than- uman, appears before him. He is struck with 7 Africa,’ said she; ‘i come to e to thee that which shall hopes unto thee: thou shalt go to Rome; thou shalt fill the highest offi- ces, and thou sl} alt return afterwards to govern. this province, where thou shalt die.’ i yo hergened as she predicted. It is even that, % landing at Carthage, Co ve 9 ship, same personage re-appeared im, and greet- ed him on the shore.” Again, (similarly as at Rochester,) “there was at Athens a very large and comf se, but shunned and deserted. In the deep silence of the night, # noise would be heard, as of iron striking against iron; and en closer attention, of chains, at first distant, but gradually drawing nearer: then a ghost would be seen, having the form of an old man, very thin and dejected, with beard and bristling hair, and chains to his feet and hand: which he shook horribly. Hence: frightful 4 wakeful were the nights to all those who inhabited fence at that point, and before long found himself recognised by those collected at that point, sol- diers and citizens, without suspecting it himself, as theirleader de facto. His father, however, who was in Valencia at the time, but a man of different mould from the boy who then made his maiden trial in arms, took no part in it. The resistance Span. any town falling into their possession. | thorough republican in’ heart and conviction, he | independ ity, kindnees and freedom the it pride e pendence. Ys J of the men was the general rule—a rule | wag One of the most enthusiastic tor welcome’ the _ Having determined early in 1848 that the proper | habitual to the Seated ofows, have co gh mnade to include 8 proportion A “ike tevival of the old constitution, and the constitu- | time had arrived, he was only by some malar with therm, 1s te to, be fomarked that th men and children her he sy iy cr of the tionalist party, and his joy took the natural form | friends to postpone his intended rising fora short oo pee ~ Eiced Gace thee nite his fath jather, being of zewlous dering, in the performance of this prac- | time, in order to await the result of some commu- ad be 0 wont A. a oien ol dee bilit hild, while ‘hls father was herded | tical service to the cause of his principles—aser- | nications which had from s highly dis- | quick 0 Spr gelonias ie oe possibility, in spite of the capitulation, | yice which was not at all one-sided, a considerable | tinguished American in Mexico, whe knew wae ist wb woh mititary genius, | ie : " pcre that night. Rl pr of the national guard and some of the t the state peepee je bg the island. This delay pre cant ° omit " ie = in the "7 himeelf, indeed, escaped that very narrowly. With | being royalirt, and several attempts being made by peg toy i by the rater ama ante, te the discovery | tary life = an teed in the “ad og peetigg of her companions, he had joined a couple of | the fatter rty to rally, and make a stand against | Of his plan by the government, and the sudden ar- agh ped we = recognise the ig oman fash- negroes, slaves of his fumily, among a great num- | the tide af pas enthusiasm thet rose and raged | Test of his friends, and the necessity, as explained | ion. ogether with a large number of others, he ber more who had huddled together in one spot for round them, and finally overbore all resistance. | ®t the beginning of this sketch, of his own precipi- | Was at one timea prisoner in the hands of the Car- safety, that class not being usually included in the | Nore than once in the course of the day, Lopez tate cmberkation for this country, from whose | lists, at a place named Contavieja, a fortified place es of such occasions ; but during the night | seen driving before him, singly, with his sword. | friendly shores he hoped soon to be able to return, | in the depths of the mountains of Ai » Which c r t and now, he dead, and I still alive—Da, Jo- fortunately issued forth with his two servants, in | considerable bodies of the royalists, armed with | His plan for Cuba, has always been independence | was supposed a safe place of custody. re were meritis, sidera scandere! ora pro nobis /— | that house.” Pliny goes onto add: “At the hope of being able to do something for his father, | their guns, to the prineipal guard-house, to deliver | Nd annexation to the American Union. ‘After his | ubout seven hundred prisoners collected there.— with his own ears, these my prayers, sup- | 4, the philosopher, comes to Athens; the rent of or to hear romething of him. up their arms, treating them with little ceremony, | €¢ape, he was condemned to death.+ Against the | Lopez wus the Nghe in rank among the prison- | plications, and requests. ‘But, would he have done | the said house being for the aforesaid reason In this ho; jeed, he was ° and meking them acquainted with the flat of his | persons who had been arrested, (some of them, | €1, and Was confined in a small room apart from | bot and doce ihe please todo s0? 1 leave it to you | !ow, he hires it. But, as soon as the night to decide. ieee your displeasure~I hear your complaint, my dear sir—* oi en voulez-vous ventr?” youexclaimn —* What has all this fudge to do with the Ro- came on, whilst he was reading and at the table in his chamber, and & potennd ails silence reigned: over all within and without, suddenly he hears the sound of iron striking against iron—as of chains clanking together: the noise increases; it draws nearer ; it is in the room itself. Athenodorus looks ; h es the ghost, asit had been pourtrayed to was ing, and with one finger making repeated signs to him to rise and follow. He gets up; he takes his light, and accompanies which slowly precedes him, as if overwhelmed is. At lengt! arrived at the yard or garden of the house, it sud- bad disappears, Joavia oo philosopher Fo pa who ers leaves an ‘ 4 the pot where the ghost wai al whe tee he might be able to recognise it again by day. Onthe _ ving them into obedience to | hethaps, with reason and some without,) no evi- | the rest, with four other superior officers. The Ge- |, as though he had been their own | dence existed, and the greater part were released— | vernor of the place was a brutal and bloody wretch, 7 some being sent out of the country. who lost no opportunity of out his prisoners. ‘The consequence of this day was, that he was | , ‘The rest of Gen. Lopez's life has to be written | He was greatly enreged when a Christino army. despatched to join the army, as first aid- | by @ future biogtapher. To the slight outline we | under Gen. San Miguel, now one of the most re- ainp (© the commander-in-chief, Gen. Valdez; | have here given, we will only add a few anecdotes ctuble officers in Spain, began to approzch the : - and after toking a most cetive part in the war, be- | llustrative of that enterprising fearlessness to | place to besiege it, overcoming, by extreme exer- cueed to a ec peration, he deter- | ing usually selected for the most daring military | Which, united with a quick and keen perception, | tions, the difficulties which had been supposed to mined to see y y situation in which | work, he found himself, at its close, a general, and | fertility of resources, Knowledge of men and gift of | make itinaccessible. The Governor thereupon de- it was to be found, by enlistment as a soldier inthe | covered with military decorations, among which | Command, are to be ascribed t e rapid and brilliant | clared that the first gun fired ee the place army ; and selected an opportunity of offering him- | were the highly -distinguished ones of the grand | honors of his military career, respecting which the | should be the signal for death of al be prinenere in relf to a rergeant of more encouraging countenance | crosses of St. Hermengildo and Isabel la Catelioa® | Most extraordinary ciicumstance is, that while it it, from Gen, Lopez down, (an Ley tly in ac~ than the others, by whom, not with Hetween himself and Valdez (who was afterwards | Was commenced perforce, and as the only chance | cordance.with the system’ of war of Cabrera, who treaty, he wai a tee BE Captain General of Cuba,) a devoted friendship | for his life, his heart has never been in it, and he | commended for Don Carlos in that quarter;) and of little suepecting tha the boy of fifteen, and sinall in.) prose, which has never sitstained any diminution, | has never desired better than an opportunity of | fered Lopez permission to write to San Migue! to stature at that, whom a ae ae off'and ‘Tie only pure and upright Captain General sent to | Withdrawing altogether from the military profession | that eflect—in the belief, of course, that he would ‘was here after to be nost dis. | ( Within the memory of man, and therefore | itself. Peet dissuade him from the enterprise. Lopez accord- cers in the by the govern- On one occasion, in South America, landing with ingly, wrote, indeed, simply ey en fact wh chester knockings!’ Un peude patience, s. v. p.— which, being interpreted, means, * If you ple What it has to do here is simply this—that since God has the power of allowing or commanding spirits to revisit this earth, for motives incompre- hensible to us, the only question to decide is, if he migt tor might not have lately pleased to do so? nd why should he not have done so at Ro- chester, or in any other part of the country, for the advancement of some good —such as, for instance, to show to us heretics the great value of holy water, or the mighty power of the service of = church in exorcising, as contained in the Roman missal, when it was permitted in the old ne ily too good to be long lefi er did i ser. 7 Theta 10 cdot tae ose Lr aaapiatrates, and bege ; ment in that post, Valdez has always been regarded | @” expedition, somewhat @ fa Cortez, in a wild and ich he had been requested by the Governor to | world, for just as important reasons, as the history | them to order the spot in question to be examined. | 2'8 | by Lopez as the most virtuous man breathing unexplored region, oceupied by a highly warlike | communicate; but adding, that Gen. San Miguel | of the Pagans, and our Catholic forefathers, clearly | It is ‘accordingly done. { {here found bones t others, the order for in bis potitical sentiments, General Lopes never | tribe of wild Indians [fidios braves), who never | Would, of course, carry out his own plans, without | show % from which time had devoured the flesh, encircled s Vast wavered from his fidelity to’ the democrane had, nor ever have, been tamed, and with whom | Tegard to this circumstance, which was, moreover, | Did not the former teach, (and of course the sub- | With chains, After being carefully gathered, they whieh th Lo- | known in Spain as the liberal eraltado ) they had @ severe rangement on landing, the | @ proof that the Governor was afraid that he would | ject of ghosts must have beeninquired into,) laves | Were publicly buried ; and, from the time that last he military known end reliable member of that party Whole party came well nigh perishing for want of | not be able to maintain the place against the appre- sunt mortuorum anima, manes sunt mortuorum anima—and that both attach themselves equally to the living and the dead? Did not Macrobius, (in the recital of the dream of Scipio,) affirm that those Moon, man (Chald.) animae, those psuché of Plato, (1 presume he had seen them) descend upon earth from the Crabfish, and return to heaven from the Capricorn? Did not Numa with Egeria, and Socrates with his darmén, freely converse, and daily consult?’ Why, the whole history of anti- — is full of proofs of such a tions, mysterious ings, noisy tintamarres, and tricks of revenante! How, I ask yeu, could Alexander have been the son of the Jove of the deserts, Serer | of The- bes, if the soul of that pioneer of the wilde: (rightly deified after death,) had not returned and knocked at the dormitortwm of the tendre ct fidéle espouse of King Phillip? Or, how could Telemachus have seen = his dear Ithaca and Penelope, if the dai of Athen (who was nothing more than the depart psuché of some sensible girl of old Cecropia, or tome Jeanne d’ Arc—tirst in war, firet in peace, oli ih gt A A ee tl t nine boroughs) not withdrawn him, by the knocki er’ old Mentor, , la om la just as you fiesse—Kuchoris Vou. Onygie? 2 duty was rendered to the dead, the living ceased to e above, Pli only on the faith of others: but the next case he vouches for on his owa, as it actually occurred in his house and family:—* 1 te says te freed a — Mareus, who not without instruction. As ia bed with is T brother, he thought ay 4 some one seated on his couch, who a hed his head with a scissors, and even cut off his hair from the top. We saw him with his head shaved, and his hair was found spread about him on the bed.”4 Pliny so profoundly believes in that mysterious and ghostly barber to his domestics (for he also thaved others of his household) that feels per- feetly secure against the cruelty of Domitian, We, in New York, shave those condemned to the gal- , at that time, you k them unshaved; and therefore he’ adds, that he into it on the Spant-h Wretched peried the only chance of eppeinted commandet-in-chief of the Nation of the kingdom & post created for him at period. Ife, at commander-in-ch Water. Striking into the interior in quest of water, | hended siege. San Miguel, at length, made his cimntd | after warehing te © tropical climate fora whole day | appearance Before Cantavie, and began to throw erent periods, filled the pos without finding stream or spring, they were at last | =p his siege works. The Governor t went to fof various provinces. Though | approached, at about sunset, by an Indian warrior, | the room in which Lopez was confined, and told by the queen mother Chris. | mounted on @ magnificent horse, cream-colored, him that he deeply deplored the necessity under tina, be ned to deepise and distrust her, | With black mane and feet. Lopez was in advance, | Which he was now placed, of a. the execu- and her sh, and intriguing polities. with a small column, when the commander sum: | tion of the prisoners, but offered them another On the ceeasion of the popular insurrection at | woned him to consultation. The vessels from | chance, saying that Gen. Lopez might go out Wieig ek {Re | Madrid, which resulted in the expulsion of Chris: | Which they had landed the afternoon before had | to Sen Miguel's camp, to explain, in person, the only tina from the Re 0 a Was de ; i : : solic eto assume the command of | slready died of exhaustion and thirst. They con- | draw—giving his word of honor that he would re- the capital, as Governor of Madrid, which, ~ d4 trived to make the Indian understand er went, turn immediately, Lopez accepted the offer; and, he found it incumbent on him as a daty of human- | and he, in feturm, conveyed to them that he | presenting himeelfto San Miguel and his officers, ity, ate It and eritical moment, he consented | could eondyet them to water, which they could | Who welecmed him as a favorite friend, sat down 10 da. “The city belong. threatened ty ee eae ae | seaah day-break. Dut here arose ihe per- | toa cheerful breakfast, at which he explained the Inade the imost energetic preparations for its de- | plexity—how far he was to be trusted. Tis pur- | errand on which he had been sent. He executed fence; bat happily the withdrawal of the obnoxious | pose might be to decoy them away from the | it, however, in his own way, by advising San Mi- Queen Mother to Poris averted the necessity of the | Telief which they might otherwise, perhaps, find in | guel of the best mode of attacking the town by struggic, for which he had braced the nerv ¢ | the direction they were pursuing, and to lead them | #torm, giving him the benefit of the observations the people, by the firmmess of hie resolution and | Off astray to @ certain and horrible fate. In the | he had le tomake of its defences inside; the vigor of his measures. Leperters, on whom | midet of thie anxious uncertainty, Lopez solved the | and it w ed that the attack should be made the Government then devolved, and who was soon | diflieulty in a mode little likely to occur to another, | the nextd F $ after appointed ent by the Cortes, was anxious | by proposing to mount himeeli behind the Indian, | ‘The ers had contrived to obtain the pro- to induce Lopes to retain the post of Governor of | eh the powerful and fresh horse of the latter, and | mise of tome forty muskets from some of the Madrid: bot the latter would not remain, beyond | t go at the utmost speed in guest of the water, to | Navarrese soldiers in the place, with which they the period of emergency for which he had been eall- | Yenfy what was understood from the signs of the | Would make at least some resistance tothe amiable ed open by the people themselves, in a situation | Indian; telling the commander that if he returned | purpose of the Governor—a resistance which might in whieh it might become his duty ‘to act against | all would of course be well, while if he did not re- | thus afford a° useful diversion during the attack. no inhabitant of Val tated to shoot Bolivar, the as the bitterest of ene- Spain was Nstitution patriot side Gen. Lopez was earnestly | “tiled, so that they had no rewrn. A number had | state of things, so as to induce the latter to with- then to have co that region, the ed and protr final evacuati: in 1823. At the end of the war, I tered in the ranks, found attained that renk at th ough thi The first oce Was shortly aft Upon & cerain p works, there bein the masses!’ The committee, the commitice! ny dear sir; and accept the humble and profound re- spects of one of the Herald's constant readers. O. Mixrox, D. D. DD. D. D. signal being “ Sommanlet the people for the repression of tumults, and turn, it would, prove that he was killed—that the | This being all discussed, together with the break And to come at last to proofs as clear, as strong, | TN® Wesleyan University and the Wilmot = . eee an aan ts lea, lo . tines ¥~ ed upon The Regent. hia Teelgnation; Indian was playing false; and that, therefore, they | fast, Lopez rose to de i, which he was not suffer- s undeniable, as those on which is’ based the Wretry ur atanare, May 15, 1950. service requiring alear th 'S h was only accepted, when tively re- | Should in that ease infer that, by pushing on in the | ed to do till he the chorus of | authority of sa sainteté, as the roosters, (gallt,) | To rue Eprron or suv lene ¥ the enemy stat d the eurtai wed to take @ negative answer, and he relieved | ditection they were going, they would probably orreeusen he ee the declaration of | who keep watch around him, style the old grena- ‘e noticed an article in the Tribune, of the 2d the Lopez was the only one ' Espertero from the difficulty of filling his place, by | find relief. T was accepted, and his com- | his inflexible resolution. Governor confessed | dier a parapluie, Pio Nono, en tant gue successor inst., pu to give a correct statement of the ed, and he ect out with the three hinieelf recommending a competent successor. penions remeined on the sotto await the result, himself very much astonished to see him back. | of St. Peter, (who, by the by, never went to vote Joy ep Md of the Wesleyan University ons . ror 7 Senator of wrdom, Ye y of | Tel b d, the India re » . Seite sour bait the "dust Naglh dba Seville. ‘Authorised wy the ‘constiaticn 10 Se toh > Cn = ed sae fo lange into impenting fate (which, he, Ppl benis be the faith of whom you have the Mapp of bee self" Tioneety,” relly knee the eek, : . fel dead. The w ate three persons for the Senate, fi the rest and of the night, mounted | Of priest, w s one principal li onging corps et Ame), every Sunday devoutly sing- ie,” - poh ee wed yg I crown bed 0 ovlext one, Reville took’ feo behind a guide who might lead hin caly into the | Officers in the garrison, was the most eager to in- ings in the phunoh ‘Sten Vv ¥ Sevoutly sing: | as far asa lie,” we wonder he did not attempt to give & true statement of the affair, Instead of stating that only about one-half of the stadents Were present, (which, by the way, is untrae,) “Honesty” should have said. that, ut a college means to make good Lopez, by nianningt a tien, two candidate the court to adoy the cord, an allundet a seve ed by both parties reaching his desti ) by the rapidi Quatre temps, vigiles jeineras Ft le careme entii rment Vendredi, chair ne MM le samedi méemerent desire to t d by | midet of enemies. He reached the water, returned, | fi 'y of the operation, and the terror colleagues Hi agen de and by conducting them to it, saved the lives of the | With which the garrison was 5 whom it was impossible for | Whole expedition. It proved that the Indian was : had no time, and they were afraid of re- me \eing the ene Don | of a tribe hostile to those against whose territory | prisals, that was all,” was General Lopez's modest t p . ‘i meeting, called immediately after evening prayer, gun was broken by one Franciceo de Paulo, the uncle of the young Queen, | the expedition was proceeding. Some of his wives } Commentary, on a recent occasion, when the in- —however thin you might grow in consequence)—to | and at which nearly ail th id jt ther, er ie cap sp and brother of Don Carlos, * had been carried off on a foray, and he w: | quiries of some friends (who happened to observe proofs iy e students were nt, Sahat on oo . dictinguiched € arlist bishop, ee ouit of them when he came upon the “i vers | on hie table aletter directed to General San Miguel, | place pha a they wounn ne were read, and notige ak | Tlie office of Senator afforded Gen. Lopez whom he sy d, of course, the enemies of his | at Madrid,) elicited the particulars of this story, in opportwnity of studying the politics of Spin, the | eneniies, ond therefore his friends, ‘The Indien Ore | which we see a ray of the clasete glory of Reelun itor th spit sed setion of its government, especially im | phevs was rewarded not only by the recovery of hie | though he himself was the only one who saw red for this | reference to its American colonies, (Cuba, his | (Wo er three lost Eurydices, but by liberal presents, | nothing in it remarkable. ho wa 22 | country by edestion and marriage, being the prin- cng be —_ ere etreaned ide. —_—— - sited on toe, | 8 ) Which, amidst the clash and 6 0ece: on which he received t of . * “ SUF magattted ‘0 Ve | Game, he’had never before poseemsedt and he wil, | San Fernando, above alluded tor was ae feline ce | phmontaer Diecoveny rw Taney. —The Paris they would be discussed that jing. He says at sundry times, and in divers manners, do you dare | the resoluti provi c to doubt, (omitting, of opree, great number perc by 8 bare eajorine etree, sir, frome emongst them,) that Saint in the be- | is, the resolution passed by @ ma: jority of | leen— pre AS a el $e year ago the university was head and shoulders The next day the order, for the vc decisive service, w officer's comm he declined, consi information of animportant discovery made in the I n ty io A hborhood of Erzeroum of an extensive bed of st tion were the first fruits ; pleins of Venezuela, trying in vain to bring the be ime! i been distributed to be the hiberalor of Cubs, the next.) ‘The | laticr to am engogement. ‘This the latter bad, ot | Cours sPecimens.ef which have The province of repulse of the Cuban deputies from their seats in | course, no difficulty to avoid, his whole foree con- esse hap Where bee oe the Cortes—a Cortes existing by virtue of a consti- 7 n mot proviso, The resolution that passed by 4 s of many men, beth | &™ | Debats publishes the following letter from Constan- | peated to St. is c— St. Benedict really | «bare majority” was the one which instructed the better qua jc act lingly, for a while, forgot the latter, glorio Morillo, at the head of a force of seven or eight oo France has rece py soot mode S orces Tepresentatives Gerccded. more f om } ped ra dl re Eiesenee they had been to him, to himselt of the ade thonsand men, was pursuing the patriot army’ ot Etstapation of eatrnportant “ances the pgs "coivey rrr r mm te vin to heaven by is position for the former. | Paez, numbering about 3,000, over the anos or of conveyance sO, to our Senators and sir and in ae eet iate tends eases ae to whe- | Congress pel ad oige ion A , So much for the first night's proceedings. petites boites sont les bons on; wee ” “ and that two monks of the most holy order of that tall coileg cy SS by ee re hoping for escape he was still strongly averse; a he accepted was that of exemption from the ¢ than yourself, my dear sj lieved some be in. the two vislens of the Secas Pelion of — " tn a a aid whieh be epenhe in his oraioam nr of that lady, | enter ‘freshman. a oo you dare to tt shail ‘mind you of the Jast only, though both, oo he cane rts, rent of af x eee se i Meeting, the was ries of a seldier’s work, and of b nunted p materials, and the only fuel of the is the dried | S¢me holy Benedict, (even as you contem- i resolutions onelgned the fnstead of marching on fost, to Which hehe wet SHER Tor eee pees peeeteee eee eumme TMD | sande tian tn Sipont oF os Wrat 10' meek meabeea te OF the cattle. rhe country, though very pro- J Rin Set ea ave glear shy at noon, "or the mars coped nd the fool Te. foro! been accustomed. Still, once in the service, the | With tho: whose votes repulsed them=-had already | Mtcrence to Cute, that teverel nears before, by a pro. | duetive, is excessively cold, and ‘the t at midnight,) ly did eee his blessed anima, | to tell we that at this “full * whea ay akcned.a deep feeling of resentment in bis breast, | treding emanetig trem Havana. and from Thea then | cescends as low as below zero. =. carpet, ora Gobelin, streteh: | these resolutions laid upon the not os in thet of all his Cuban compatriots, Though & Captain General, he bad been subjected to a formal | importance of this di be, tl , | Cd from heaven to Mount Cassin. over forty heads could be counted. : he Epanigh Genegel Morcien ahve soldier frem childhood, he had never had other | trial cna charge of conspiring fort of | readily uated, and in pray, but He was only one Monsieur Crapoud— the re- | We hadsnot intended to write a word on Femara rethiereteeat only Ly eeerideing » co. | than en American headt, and he soon learned 10 lude toother and more cate, Soeetierenert, seen the true faith | the subject, nor we have done oa fervlee which was certain deat hich pe coe a2, Catlint istortane speak with Sempre Turk} have ie Camo pute Guion-love, and the Haguenot | and poem” olaler, = Honeaty We v0 ted me 4 moe , bo quarter an pean Bt HS ate oem, Lopes: relating, ee Claude. But he wes nevertheless any more | him that, after having recsived the the second battle was fooght near th: : jeralee * | aimy and the honor of Generel Carondelet whe Sevens, and they found bodies OF the ceteme te ave, | meek beaten, by © revecion citned Lopes though onty tiem—that is to say, thelr bleached | a colonel, to rally the flying t ‘assume the entire oo aorep tn nee laid ont on the ground In regu. Command wally rapersede the General, nd ton by the patriots, im ra 7 great extemt retrieve the disaster of the dey. DY © moshery of diseipling in Gent. =” ** MomEh | 4 ‘