Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-12-03

not effect, has been accomplished by young
woman and Queen. The task of extinguishing
so remarkable a feeling as that of the loyalty Of
the Spanish name, wasno easy one. Misgovern-
ment would not have done it. Your Spaniards
is as accustomed to disagreement as to his
cagdrlto. We question, indeed, if good govern
ment-that is, government upon the London or
Washington model-would not have irrtated
him into rebellion more quickly than any given
number of acts of rigor. Corrupt the consti-
tuences-dissolve the Costes-censure the press
-gag the Tribune Spaniard can do very well
without these institutions, and would as soon
nave thought of rising against the throne OF
Isabella the Catholic on account of their absence,
as he would have done had his royal mistress
denied him the enjoyment of souchong and hung
beef. Acts of cruelty and dragonades would
not have done it. Queen Isabella might have
| laid provinces waste, and massacred the in
habitants, and the bulk of her subjects would
| have esteemed it right royalty done. A Queen
who was ready to dismiss her loving subjects to
| the repose of the garote chair, or the amenities
| of a shooting party, would have had all their
| sympathies. Queen Isabella might have laughed
at law and order, justice and humanity, and her
| subjects would not have Kissed her in her opera
box, as they did the other day. 1t was on the
18th of the present month that Spanish Queen
endured this last indignity at the hands of her
| people There had not of late been more than
the usual amount of corruption in the various
departments of Government. What has hap
pened in the course of the last few weeks had
| happened twenty times before, but at the bull
| fight and the Opera. on the Alameda and at the
gates of her palace, the Queen had enjoyed i'm
| munities from censure-for censure was in
| suit. So great had been her ofence,-so
deeply had she wounded the punto donor OF
| the Spanish race,-that they had no alter
| native but to remain silent, or to blow away
the loyal traditions of eight centuries with a
breath. The Queen entered the royal box
| with her consort-with the consort of Louis
Phiippe's finding. She stood prepared for
| the usual loyal demonstrations. The splen-
dor OF the scene was mechanically sus-
pended, that the royal march, according to
custom, mi ght give time and harmony to
the glad acclamations of her subjects Bnt
from all sides ofthe hall-of hall crowded
with the most ilIustrious p"rsonages of Spain
"a cry OF aversion resounded. There
should be no march played. There should
be no glad cry OF welcome Where the
Queen of Spain looked for cheers, her ear
was greeted with Kisses and expressions of
disgust: -" BaSta, basta da ESQ t"-"We
have had enough of this -; Que continue
la opera ~" Let the opera proceedw Was
it insensibiity-was it scorn! The Queen
did not change countenance. Not so the
husband of the Queen by registry and in
name. Not so another person in that house,
who at the present moment occupies post
at Madrid for which no name is given in
the hierarchy of Spanish dignities, although
a Spanish muleteer would be at little loss to
supply the requisite denomination. There
stood the successor of Charles v. glancing
down upon the people, who were cursing
her in their hearts, and Kissing at her with
their lips, with no one to rely upon save the
person who for the moment had succeeded
to her favor. All this passed at Madrid on
the evening of Tuesday, the 18th of the
present month. go
No single act Of imprulence could have
produced such result. The loyalty of the
Spaniard was SO deeply seated that it could
not be obli,erated by passing folly or a
passing crime. 1t was necessary to drag
the Spanish crown very long through miry
spots indeed, before TIE nation would have
risen against its wearer, as though treason
had been committed against the repose Of a
private family. This Is not the fist time
that the nation had witnessed the spectacle
Of notorious prodigacy in the highest station.
But, bad as have been the previous instances
ish Queen has as yet loved to exhibit the
living proofs of her successive acts of shame
before the eyes of nation Now there is
no poetry possible for the Heloise of many
Abelards. What wonder then, that the
loyalty of the Spaniard, being such a pas
SIGN as we have described it to be, should
have been converted into its opposite by so
shameful an exhibition. As the feeling was
a personal one, so it is much to be feared
the retribu,ion may one day be. We who
regard Sovereigns with more tempered
feeling of respect, and who most fortunately
have never occasion to think of our sove-
reign but of lady as spotless in her life as
she is eminent in station, can scarcely COM
prehend what Revision of feeling may
lead to in such a case rs this. The conduct
of the Sovereign is felt as personal dis.
grace by every Spaniard in the solitude of
his own dwelling. Such is not quite the
end of the "Spansh marriages of that
polite scheme for the sake of whicha great
Minister sacrificed his character for probity.
and an able Monarch one of the first crowns
i'll Christendom.-Lo Times. Oet. %.
"THE SauIRE's SToRY."-" Oh !" SAYS the
Squire, {: | wi>h't | was married and we'll of
it, dread 1t powerful. I'd like to marry
widow; alters lik ed widows since knowed
one down in Georgia that suited my ideas,
adzactly. a, .4a
about a week after her husband died.
she started down to the graveyard where
they'd planted of him, as she said, 10 read
the prescription onto his monument When
she got there, she stood a minute looking
at the stones which was put at each end Of
the grave, with an epithet on 'em that the
minister had writ for her. "Oh! boo-hoo,'
says she "Jones-he was one of the best of
men remember how the last time he
come home, about week ago, he brought
down from town some sugar, and little
tea. and some store goods, for me, and lots Of
little necessaries, and little painted boss
for Jeems, which that blessed child got his
mouth all yallow with sucking of #, and
then he kissed the children all round, and
took down that good old fiddle of his'n and
played up that good old tune.
"Rake her down, Sal, oh rang dang diddle,
Oh rang, dang diddle dang, dang dang da.''
"Here," says the Squire .She begin to
dance, and just thought she was the
greatest woman ever see"
"The Squire" always gives short laugh
after telling this anecdote, and then filling
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