Mobile register and journal., 1846-12-31

SI q rehearsed in their streets the mock heroics of ma sy. Our fre4rnce has been 10 them jubiee Ter than devastation, and we should be hailed
 deveiers rather than be regarded as enemies.- The cahedrsl of Moncova IS a building of lm- posing magnitude, being nearly 100 feet Tn front and about 75 feet in depth. The roof Is lermed by six nrehes. and supported by massive pillars eabo- rAtelg ea'yed lntO an architectural resemblance oi the composite order; stone wall ~nclnses the ror with several inches, in which crucixes are placed The front plan, ihe door large and elaburately etrved.
 Atmlss this morning lhe building was crowded with visitors from the camp, officer and soldier, Protestant and Catholic. realizing for the equal fly of man, in the temple erected 10 lhe worship of hs Cfeator Here. too, the master and peon kne side by side, murmurlRg the same prayers, bending their knees upon the same ground, sprnkling them selves with the same holy water, and lingering the same crosses upon tler persons. The attitudes ol the females when kneehng, with eyes bent on the
 image of the Saviour, sirikngly beautiful Some of their dresses were rich; none were bonnets, but instead silk shawis rtboZas, or apUlos of various but not gandy colsrng. These were thrown over hs head and drawn down closely upon the brow by the hand. What was most remarkable among them, the bellies wore bustles of no insignificant size, the 6rsl had since left New Orleans. The cos tune of the males s simple and pricturesque, parla- kHg the Oriental character. IL consists Of white shirt and panlalonos the latter large and flow ing, which lealhern are drawn, with the exterior seam opp from the knee down. Sandals the most comm protection 10 lhe feet, though shoes are als5 worn.
 The weather is extremely disagreeabie the nor nings raw, black and chilly, lhe noon time hot and st orching, the evenings cold and cheeress Winter creeps not upon Us with the slow and solemn pace which precedes its advent in more Northern climes. These nothing of the meIlowness of Autumn, the dieury hours which the dim and bazy atmosphere of an Indian summer always creates; lolIage rich
 s green and golden hues plcuripg the struggles be- tween lhe reign of youth and the decrepude of age. Nature, ndee presents the look Of life, but il Is life and haggard
 The country through which we have passed, is barren w,d, mln mountains every side with valleys only rich in thousand varieties of caclus,- These pl tns frequently seen bursting from the same point rearing their horrd forms like the heads of the hydra from single slem. Custom cannot "slale heir infinite variety" You here find every gradation--a ~ilh babs and needles for the torture and terror Of man and beast, and coping things Yet. in lhe language of fiction, of poetry and igno- rance, ''this is ihe land where nature has done much and man 80 Iille Ihe land ol golden suns and purple skies; he land of the olive and the yne tho land where the sublime aud the beautiful are conten- ding for the mastery, where the plains garnished with perpetual yerdure and enammeled wh flowers of perennial! IoveIiness, and the untains crown ed win an eternal dadem of snow" Alas! "the enchanl rent is due distance, and language seems but unmeaning mockery, when thus perverted tO sponl 4 moral or adorn tale :" Y Y.
 There is in the British Museum an almanac. writ ten on papyrus, nearly 5000 years old, which a'ing been used by Egyptian of the olden time, was buried with him,