The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-03-10

ueneAtn WHICH ine OOunulfig nehTt anu HlOW>
ing limb viii but family indicate the PEN
ance and vigis which once reigned in these
gloomy chambers. from which they stream TO
the light. Such arc the strange mutations
to which the enterprise of the age brings us.
A convent is converted into factory, its
skulls into steam.bolers, and its beads into
bobbins 1t is enough TO wake ST. Anthony
out of his sunless sleep
A relic can no further dwindle,
Than when It's rceled from spool or spindle.
have encountered no class of persons in
Peru that have awakened the same degree
oil sympathy and interes, as the native In
dians. On them haye been piled misfor-
tunes that would have crushed a less endu
ring race. Their lands, their forests, and
their streams have been wrenched from
them through treachery and force. The
mounds in which the bones Of their forefa-
,hers were cntomed, have been violalcdi and
these sacred relics exposed 10 the gaze Of
profine curiosity. These are wrongs against
which his untutored nature rebels, and which
he partially avenged in the lrightfu scenes
of the Revolution. The power of Spain in
Peru went down like wreck, over which
the whelming wave rushes in rcmorseless
triumph.
The Indians on the coast, born among Eu-
ropcans, have slill something of that sedate-
ness which is characteristics OF their race
vixen reared under the influences of civil
lization. But those from The interior, whose
cradles were swung among the stupendous
sleeps of the Andes, have a stern, wild force
which shows where their home has been
They look with scorn on the tricks ol the
toilet. They may indeed wear plumcs in
their dark hair. but they are from The pir-
the mountain storm or whose rush has been
over the cataract's plunging verge. Still they
are in great measure free from ferocity
and disguised revenge. They are magnan'
imous as eorquerors, and patient as caplives
They never lose their equanimty in good
or III fortune.
The religion of the Limanians is entitled
10 charitable Judgment The mass Of the
people are not responsible for the pagean-
tries with which it is invested. Their unin.
formed faith may be perplexed among shad-
ows, but it often penetrates to the substance.
Among the frivolous there are not few
with whom religion is an earnest reality.
Among the skcprical, many may be found
who have cast the anchor Of their hopes
within the veil.
We may denouncc the proscriptivc poliiy
of their church, bul we should not denounce
them. They worship in temple whirh the
zeal of ages has reared 10 their hands. They
found its donr; barred TO other religious per-
suasions, and it is srequiring TOO much to ex-
pect that they will AT once throw back its
bolts. This can be realized only through
the influence of thai higher light which the
Bible is now pouring into the recesses of
every sectarian shrine. Even our own Prot
esiant affairs are now visited by rays which
have long been shut out, or permitted to fall
in on ly faint fra aments. The spirit of in,
tolerance, which has pervaded our churches,
has been a source of vast moral mischief
The road TO heaven is covered with foot.
prints Of thousands, who have been won to
II by the accents of Christian love.
When "A political intrigue explodes in Lii
ma, The first inquiry is for the woman that
sprung the mine. She is generally found TO
be some couresan, whose success lies more
in the power of her personal charms than
her force OF intellect. Her carriage in Lima
and her rancho at Chorllos, sufficiently at
test her means, and the honor those ia.
vors through which she beguiles the unwary
statesman into her plans and purposes
If the plot fails, her coadjutors may atone
for their political prohigacy with their lives,
but she lives on and may yet ensnare the
judges that doomed them. She has tact that
eludes sagacty, and a perseverance that
seems 10 challenge obstacles, She makes
her way where the maturest nsels are
Disconnected, she triumphs where the most
daring courage is foiIed. She detecls ar n
g'ance The unsuarded p, in, in the hos; crafty
and lulns his weapons against himself, Her
intrigues sometimes result in benefit TO the
state. The same mysterious hand, that tra-
ces in omiuous characters The doom of the
obnoxious or incapable minister, offer exc.
cutes iis own sentence.
All this indicates a truth, which a thou.
sand other facts corroborate, that the wo
men Of Lima are far in advance of the men
in sagaciIy and force of purpose. In the
lrlghtfu conflicts of the Revolution. when
mems hearts failed them, they were in dis
guise on horseback among the troops, ner-
wing the iimld, and raiIy;ng the brave. Nc
political party can long maintain its ascen.
dency in Peru that has not their confidence
and support. They will make it ridiculous
with their raillery, or odious with The denun
citation.
Out of Lima, the masses in Peru subsisi
mostly on a vegetable diet. The flour Of
: maize, wheat, pease, beans, barley, rice, and
arow>rool, are made into soft pap, OF
mush, which is sweeiencd exceedingly with
sugar or molasses. This is the great Peru
Wan dish called masamora," and which i,
the edible staple in every family. It pro,
dures sickness without fire. They who
subsIst upon il retain their flesh till they
: raes cortr tbar lo.:. a.