The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-07

while the face has still its distinct features, and
n one instance especially, the expression Of In
tense suffering. They do not seem 80 lar re-
moved from our own present state rs the en-
balmed mummy Of Egypt; BY thai expression
of human suffering, and by their ere Ssitioa
there still seems some link between usUnd Them
Hence perhaps our painful sympathy while, az
we gaze on the shrunken form tnas ha'n ,Mn
thousands Of wears within the Pyramids, and Is
"a last unswathed before our scrutinzing eyes,
we feel, sbetween us and thee there u no con-
Meeting link ne live, and thy realm Is death,
And il is Just because these mummles OF feru
do not remind us Of death, that they produce on
us the impression which they do. Trere they
sit before us, inannate and immevable, yet as
ISOLATED by this attitude and aspect with all the
phenomena OF life.
The two mummies at present In the muse
Jun at Ratisbon---of which one Is be body OF
a man, the other OF female-may thus be
described The knees are drawn up close to
the body tile arms are pressed against the
ribs, and in each instance the right arm falls
between the bent knees the ground The
BODY Of the man is Of a reddish copper color,
approaching to brown; that of the women of
i dirty brownish yellow. The nails Of the
6ngt re- and toes are perfectly preserved, even
the hair of both still remains, and that OF the
female is prettily braided, and at the end fas-
tened with knot. The eyelids, too, are in
good state of preservation The heads Of both
are bent backwards, as il death had overtaken
them in their present posture and as if too,
they had had to combat with exhaustion The
mouth Of the woman /. open, giving TO the
whole face an expression which IN. kes 1t painful!
to DIV, II upon; one turns away from i as soon
as possible, and is glad TO do so-Sutfering,
terrible suffering, is depicted on that counte-
| \ AZ. Ia "a. ~ ufv,ra
are distinctly visible.
! DR.. Ried, the traveller, from whose letters the
extracts above quoted have been taken, Is by
birth Scotchman. While still young, he was
sent to the Scotch monastery at Ratisbon to
receive his education, and since, twenty years,
has traversed the world in all directions, meet
! ing with the strangest adventures, and adding
greatly to our knowledge Of the country, and
| the people Of the interior Of South America.
His present journey was undertaken in the
character OF inspector general of the military
hospitals in the free States Of Bolivia; and it
was while proceeding thther that these letters,
dated from Lasana were written.
The ARMY In New Mexico. Col. Sumner,
of the lst United States infantry, is now maxi
/ ing short sojourn in our city, on his route to
| Fort Leavenworth, and thence to Santa Fe, to
take command of the United States military
| force in that department Without any author
itative information of the order of the War De-
partment, or of Col. SIS plans, we have reason
to hope that important and beneficial changes
will be made by him, in the location and eff
cheney of the army, and its influence on the pros
perity, settlement, and security of that country.
Col. Sumner, it is understood, will take out
with him six or seven hundred fresh recruits, to
1 fill up the companies now in New Mexico He
L mill loo ata mt uprlv IF frooh fnr
the dragoon and artillery service and we learn
that orders have been given to take out i'm
proved stock, bulls, cows, hogs, &c. and large
amount of seeds, grains. &c, &c.,--with farm
ing implements, and appliances forirrigating and
otherwise developing the capacity of the soil of
| New Mexico
! We think it probable, from what we can hear,
! that the head quarters Of the army, and the po-
sition of the troops will be materially changed
upon his arrival. There are now in New Mex
leo twenty one companies Of the different arms
of the service. The head quarters will be re-
moved from Santa Fe to Los Vegos, or to some
point where the fertility of the soil will justify
the opening of large farm. Sufficient troops
will be retained In Santa Fe to protect that
place; other portions of. the troops will be str
toned on such parts of the frontier, and in such
proximity to the Indians, will afford the great
est facility to observe their movements and
chastise their d-predations.-N Louis Repub
HOLD HIM IN.-An editor out West acknowI-
edges the receipt of an heir-a fourteen FOUNDER,
and a boy ut that Somebody hold him-the
editor, not the baby. Hear how he splurges;
81 am this day multiplied by two-I am a du-
plicate-l am number one Of an indefinite series,
and there is my continuation And, you OBJ
serve, it il not block, nor blockhead, nor n
painting, nor bust nor fragment of anything,
however, beautiful; ut a combination of all
the arts and sciences in one-paiLting, scup-
ture, music-hear, hear him cry !-minealogy,
mechanics-see him kick geography and the
use Of the globes see him nurse and wiihal,
he is a perpetual notion time-piece that will
never run down! aud who wound him upT
A FRENCH Work recently published, contains
an interesting account of the rage for gaming at
the Court Of Louis XIV Madame de Mon
tespan was in the habit Of losing $40 or
$4,000. She once bet 100000 on three
cards and won. On one Christmas eve she lost
about 100000. a courtier, named Dargenu,
had such knowledge of algebra, thst he calcu-
lated the chances during the shutting Of the
cards, and often won enormous sums by il.
A Lawyers ToAsr.--Belonging, as he said,