Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-10-06

was SuCn as 10 OeIy oll attempts al uenneaton, ny
either pen or pencil. huge negro. taller, black
er, and ugIier than any other in the immense
course had been chosen general dictator for the
day. He was called indifferenily "king of Con.
| CO." or liking of the Wake," and bore on his
head, as crown. great pyramid Of painted pa.
per boxes fastened together, which had the effect
of nearly doubling his natural height. This
monarch and his subjects trickled out in
| manner inconceivably grotesque that it was
impossible 10 behold them without laughter. Hero
was furnished with hoofs. There went n
other brandishing enormous horns. "A third clap
| ping his wings Growing like chanticler. A fourth
strutting majestically. spreading behind him the
plumes Of the peacock while fifth displayed
the tail of monkey. Their sable features were
decked with all the coors of the rainbow; and
their necss, waists, arms and ances, literally
brised with innumernble little bells that iingled
and chimed as they moved, like millions of fairy
tongues.
The dancers initiated the different cries of every
| animal described in natural history. They howl.
| ed, barked beloved neighed, beated, squalled,
hooted and howled while still ever, without ceas-
ing, the little bells jingled and chimed. And, as
| if this deafenlDg din not sufficient TO keep
peace with the whirIwnd of their passionate ex-
citement, they called in the aid of all sorts Of
musical and unmusical instruments. The fiddle
uttered it's silvery laugh the drum Numbered !;
the trumpet roar red; the fife squealed while the
| boatman's bugle, like angel of gIadness, flung its
winding notes into the sky; and still the little bells
| iingled and chimed. They increased the clamor
! by humping pans, kettles, tubs and empty bar
rels. They shulied, waltzed, flew the polka !; but
yet, all the new evoutons, the genuine origi-
nal Congo dance maintained its undsputed pre-
emnence.
| 1t was the saturnazia of animal passion, the
jubilee of joyous instinct. Every eye cleaned
with ra pture; every countenance was radiant with
1oI i,l,t
was worked up height Of feeling intense as
the emotions Of madness. Even many of the
spectators caught the contagious fury and joined
| in The savage glee; but there was one behoder
that gaZed on the scene with grim look of horror
| as If the happiness of others were a species OF
implied insult to him.
81 must have been distracted to think of find
! ing her in such place this. distracted
| to harbor hope of finding her at all ~ mtrmured
Peter Ellis TO himself, as he threaded his way pain.
fully through the press, whispering malisons
! against Congo Green.
AT length the misanthrope gained the iron gate
towards the morrill, and was in the act of going
out, when a vision of the most extraordinary unC
dazzling beauty arrested his attention, aud chained
his feet TO the very sod. This was n Young CIR
hubited in white, with crimson zone around hel
bosom, secured by massive clasp of gold tha
lay opposite her heart like star. Her head wa
bare, or only covered with its veil of rnglets
softer than silk and black midngt. Her com
plexon was dark. ii is true, but it the beauti
FIJI golden tint left there by the wind and the sun
boam-,his kissing her with fire, and that cooling
the fire-kss with sighs
Peter Ellis was so unatcoun,aby fascinated by
the first sight, that he did not remark for more
than minute the companion in attendance on hi
angel, elf, or fairy, his intoxicated fancy hat
spontaneously named her the instant her imag g
flashed like lightning into his SOUL Al last, how
,I,t H. tol
companion as filled him, not with jealousy. bu
with fear ...
:. This was an old man, hideously hunchbacked
with snow.white hair, piercing grey eyes, and
2 dirty. shrvelIed face, that wore the double ex
preston of theft and murder. He mutterin,
angry words in a low voice, while the girls darl
eyes were swimming in tears.
i "Oh spare me that shame! ~ Ellis heard he
entreal "for heavens sake spare me | canno
go there"
"Do as bid you this moment" replied the oil
hunchback, in whisper, at once sharp and hol
low, as il emitted from the burning throat Of
devil. $50, or 10 night'-the sentence was com
pleted by gesture that made the very marrow
creep in the spectators bones. ~.
~ will CO." answered the girl, shuddering, ant
turning deadly pale F.; and she opened the gate ant
, hurried on towards the centre of the sable crow,
the old Monster following and eyeing her at
distance with his fiendsh smile, while Peter Ellis
in spite of his pride, vanity and the warning voic
of reason, felt himself borne by an irresistibl
impulse in the same direction. -
), Presently the fascinated man heard, above al
the tempest of tumult, the voice>of singer bu
whether it was human or angelic he could not de
eide even in thought. 1t was loud, sweet ringing
and yet mild and wondrously varied, sweepin,
more octaves than the nightingale, soundn!
clearer and soaring higher than the sky-ark's
while its music rich and beautiful as q dream
, The effect on the mad dancers like magic
. Horn drum, bngle, violin, were instantly silent
The vast thfong swayed to and fro, as sea tosse
by the storm. and then gathered in great crcl
around The voice, while one shout shook the Gree
like thunder-''La Cantatrice! The singer =
The beautiful y
alt seems she is well known among the Afr
cans of New OrIeans,' said Peter Ellis with
shudder, but still he could not forbear pressin;
forwards till he gained point in the circle O
black faces whence ho could again sec the daz
zllng apparition. .r
She sung, with the accompaniment Of most ap
propriate gestures, a'merry bacchanal song, ant
the listeners cheered with shouts Of laughter.-
At signal from the old hunchback she took u
q martial ~ ric, and every bosom heaved like
volcano, every eye cleaned with red light of bat