cause of his death.

From this time General Allen was never in the field. He had

of Louisianians, stationed on Ship crutch, one leg, (that which had Island, but was on his way to re- received the slightest fracture) he port to General Beauregard.- considered entirely well. Alas ! Soon after this General B. was he never recovered the use of the sent West and Colonel Allen's other entirely-nay, it was the regiment was incorporated in the army of the West. In the active operations of the Western army he played a conspicuous part, been for some years an honorable sharing all the toils of that ardu- and influential citizen of Louisious campaign. When General ana; Had sympathized deeply Breckenridge attacked the enemy with the oppressed people of his at Baton Rouge, he was in the adopted State. They looked to thickest of the fight. Riding at him now as the man for the times, the head of his regiment, for he and placed him by acclamation in never could walk well, (we used to the gubernatorial chair. Well joke him about his gait in College) he justified their high opinion.he was shot through both his legs, No Governor in the whole Conand his horse killed under him. federacy was more energetic. He was borne to the rear, and Every one read and remembers laid on a table to have his limbs the clarion notes of his inaugural amputated. Against this he pro- address. If Butler's hide were tested. "Gentlemen" said he to not as thick as a rhinoceros', he the Surgeons, "My Maker gave would have felt the barbed arrows me these pins when he brought of this young champion of the me into this world, and some how women of New Orleans. or other, I intend to take them message was in a different tone. with me when I go out of it. I It was calm, able, dignified, statesacquit you of all blame. I as- man-like. The one was the loud

His

clarion peal summoning the clan to rally-the other the cool, deliberate orders of the commander to the men assembled on the field. He lost his earthly all in the war.

sume the responsibility. If I die I take all blame myself, splinter me up, and try to save my limbs." They took him at his word, and splintered him up. He slowly began to amend. For months he From being a man of princely was disabled from field duty. At wealth, when I heard from him length he had convalesced so far last at Shreveport, whither the as to visit the Capital of the "so- seat of Government of Louisicalled" Confederate States, where ana was removed, he had but a he received the commission of a single horse, and one servant, the Brigadier General. He also, wreck of a magnificent estate. while in Virginia, on this trip, It remains but to state that visited his old home in Prince Ed- when news reached him of the ward, and mingled with his rela- surrender of Lee and Johnston, tives and friends, many of whom in company with others whose had known him as a boy. He hopes were buried with the Conwas able to walk with the aid of a federacy, he went to Mexico.Here he edited the Mexican Times. but at Cordova he was stricken I have seen several numbers of down and yielded his spirit up to his paper. It was conducted with God-another martyr to the "lost great ability. He seemed to cause" of his country.

cherish great regard for the EmHis remains have been brought peror and Empress, who extended to Louisiana that they may rest a welcome to the exile, a welcome among the people he loved so well. that it seems they themselves No booming cannon was allowed to shall soon need from some friend- announce their arrival at New ly power. For more than a year, Orleans. But a nobler demonfrom his retreat in Mexico, Gov. stration was made than cannon Allen was able to watch the events as they shaped themselves in his native land. He loved his home, in the land of his exile.At length the summons came to join "the innumerable host" of patriots that have gone "to the pale realm of shades." His wound never entirely healed. He left the city of Mexico, it is said, to seek surgical aid in France

roar or muffled drum. Amid the
tears of thousands whom he loved
and for whom he died, his noble
form was laid to rest till the arch-
angel's trumpet shall awake it at
that dread tribunal, where all the
wrongs of earth shall be redressed.

"Green be the turf above thee
Friend of my early days,
None knew thee but to love thee,
None named thee but to praise."

TWELVE MONTHS IN SPAIN.*

IT comes well here, in the order worse things and many better of incidents connected with the things than that favorite sport. Fair, to notice the bull-fight But, chiefly, by way of apology, which ended the festivities of the let me say that it is always best to occasion. I have concluded, how get the highest style in every art, ever, to pass that spectacle over even in the art of killing bulls.for the present; and it may be And it was at Seville I heard, that that some apology is due for this the famous Montes, the best sword course. I have never, indeed, in in Spain, celebrated in all books the first place, estimated Spanish of travels for twenty years before character by that splendid nation- my visit, had returned to the al game as much as we foreigners arena and was then engaged at are usually inclined to do-for Madrid. Let us wait, therefore, none of us seem to think of Spain till we have finished our bird'sor Spaniards without thinking eye view of the Peninsular, and also of the bull-fights. I believe, get back to the Capital, where, contrariwise, that Spain has many during the course of the summer, we shall often see this unmatched swordsman in the ring. For and the conversation resulted, as it is not more certain that Napo- we hoped, in an invitation to go leon was the first slayer of men in. We found inside two other

than that Montes is the first slayer of cattle.

TRIANA:

women and two men. One of the women was young and pretty. Her regular, delicately chiseled, sun-burnt features, her glossy raven hair, her fine piercing black

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I used sometimes to cross the Guadelquiver by its venerable bridge of boats, and spend an hour eyes would have made her or two in Triana-a Gipsy Town beauty of any land, or of any immediately opposite Seville.- race. The men, rather youthful You see many of this strange in appearance, sat silent and untribe of people wandering over social to themselves in a corner. Spain. I was curious to see The first thing which excited resomething of their life and man- mark and (shall I add?) admiraners in a settlement almost ex- tion was a complexion and a color clusively their own. Triana looks of hair very unusual in Spain: wretched enough-wretched streets And they proceeded forthwith to -wretched huts-wretched in- fix my local habitation, which habitants. And worse than they placed in many countrieswretched. All is filth too.- yet missed America, after all.Naked children, old men surly Indeed the extent and accuracy and gruff, old hags withered and of their geographical knowledge, witch-like, eye you through the surprised me much. They knew chinks or broken windows, silent- the names and relative positions ly and sinisterly, as you pass. - of most of the States in Europe, You never see anybody at work. and around the Mediterranean. You never hear the least stir of I asked how they came by their business. You wonder how they information? They answered that live. The secret is, that a cer- some of them had traveled-but tain portion of the tribe, especial- they had learned most of what ly the younger part, is always off they knew from their own people, on distant expeditions, trafficking whom they had seen from those chiefly in horses, practising the various parts of the world. "The arts of palmistry, or pilfering Gipsies," they said, "are everygenerally, while the old and in- where, and brethren wherever fant class remain at home and they are." But of our Model subsist on the gains of these ex- Republic, they were wholly ignopeditions. rant: and, in turn, became very

On the occasion of one of my inquisitive of me concerning every visits, with a Spanish friend, anx- item of interest touching my ious to see more of Gipsy life country. Some of their questions than it was possible to see by were amusing: Were our people merely sauntering along the all fair complexioned and redstreets, we addressed the old and haired? How far distant was my ugly women sitting at the door of country, and how could one get a hut. They were communicative, there? Who was King? Had we large cities and large rivers? not unlike what I fancy an Indian What language did we speak? dance to be.

Had we fine horses; and finalI had purchased a few days bely, were there any Gipsies among fore a small pocket-dictionary of us? As well as I could, I grati- the Gipsey language. I took ocfied their attentive curiosity.- casion to use a word or two, curiThey seemed believing until I ous to see whether the book might told them we had no Gipsies: be relied on. They understood whereat they betrayed symptoms the words; and immediately asked of incredulity, for which I in- how much I knew of their lan

quired the cause, when they said, guage, and how I had acquired that a country with fine horses it! I assured them I knew nothand without Gipsies could not be. ing of it, and then displayed my I was not able to understand the dictionary as the source whence I necessary connection between these had derived the word or two I had two things-but they persisted used. They protested warmly that they always went together, and all together, that I could not and I had to yield the point by way of complaisance.

have depended for learning their language upon books, and said repeatedly es mentira "it is all a lie"-meaning anything put down

Meanwhile we had distributed some cigars, and had ordered some wine. The two men now came in the books concerning the Gipsey out of their silence and their cor- speech. They said I could only

ner.

The sociability was general learn their language by living and cordial. The chance seemed among them, which I thought opportune for seeing what I had would be paying too much for the long desired to see a genuine whistle. I was satisfied, however, Gipsey dance. I had seen imita- notwithstanding their protestations of it on the Spanish stage, tions, with the accuracy of my but much tempered down to re- dictionary, though at much loss fined tastes, as I found when I to comprehend why they wished came to witness the original.- to deceive or mislead me about My Spanish friend made the pro- it until my Spanish friend afterposal, which was at once accepted, wards explained this trait, with with the proviso that we would other things, in this singular peopay something for the sight. A ple. guitar was sent for; and soon a set of four took the floor and danced till we had enough of it. Well: what shall I say of a Gipsey dance? It consists of wierdlike gyrations, exceedingly wild and certainly she embodied all and fantastic, but overmuch wan- that is horrible in our conceptions ton and immodest mingled with of a witch. After paying her a songs which, though not unmusi- peseta by way of fee, she proceedcal, gives a strange savagery to ed to read the lines in my hand, the whole performance. It was which she did with many signs

VOL. III. NO. I.

I expressed a wish to have my fortune told. One of the women offered to bring her mother, who, she said, was the best fortuneteller in Spain. She was brought;

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and mystic mumblings. I need said, they would have held on to not record her prophecy, which it either by force or fraud.was but the usual twaddle of Nevertheless, in spite of their charlatanry, not remembered now aversions to books, they were even by myself. But I can well uncommonly quick-witted and recall, nor without a shudder, the well-informed. I had formed a ghastly smile, the shriveled fea- low opinion of their morals. I tures, the sinister expression, the was assured, on the contrary, that, malignant leer of the dark sooth- whatever they might be among sayer of Triana. themselves, they were singularly Walking back to Seville, my free from lustful practices with Spanish friend told me something other nations. They value pure concerning the Gipsies, which Gipsy blood above all price: and interested me greatly, and may the woman, who falls into strange not be unentertaining to you.- loves, is cut off from her tribe by They form no inconsiderable part a secret and terrible concision.of the population of Spain, and Such indulgences, however, on constitute a distinct community- the part of the sex, rarely or never a sort of imperium in imperio- occur. The art of palmistry, with their own laws, customs and whereby they impose so largely manners. Their maxims of gov- upon the Gentiles, is really not ernment are enforced with inex- deemed a system of imposture orable severity, not by the aid of among themselves-but a kind of Courts of their own, which are sacred knowledge rather. Such denied them by the Spaniards, nor horrid crones, as the one they of any regular organism, which requires formal and public administration; but simply by a peculiar system of free masonry built upon the pride of race, seemed to connect itself somehow which accomplishes among them with this art. It is their religion. what positive institutions do for They observe no rites. They other nations, and render them have no worship. They never acthe most intensely exclusive and cord even an external conformity unamalgamative tribe on earth. to the Catholic Church. I enThey have something of an oral deavored to draw them out on literature-nothing written. In this subject, but received only fact books are their abomination. silence for answers. They are They esteem their language itself not addicted to daring violations as a part of their arcana, and fear of the law-but their incorrigible lest the art of writing, if prac- habits of thievery gives the Spanticed by them, might lead the pro- ish authorities much annoyance. fane world into the mysteries of Finally, my friend said, they their Eleusinia. Hence they tried never improve-they never to persuade me that my dictionary vance. What they were when was untrustworthy: and had they they came into the Peninsular got their fingers on it, my friend ages ago, they are now.

brought to decypher my own destiny, are reckoned to be endowed with a portion of divinity. Indeed the only religion they have,

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