Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-03-29

poles TO thrust them into the water. III
they took shelter in the dark, they fell into
the snares of an assassin lurking for human
prey; if they sought the light, the light was
deadly as the darkness death was every
where, in their beds, on their house-tops,
within, without, In the public places, and
in the very waters of the river.
Such were the last scenes of the ever
memorable drama of ST. Bartholomew. A
month after St. Germans bell had given
the signal all the dead had not been buried.
Some were yet floating on the Seine, to
which fishermen resorted for the purpose of
picking them up and selling them to any
who chose to buy them. For long time
there was an auction OF corpses on both
banks of the river, which was publicly
cried, and at which the lots were adjudged
to the highest bidder. Some buyers bu
ried their purchases by night in sequestered
spots others burned those whom they low
ed while iiving, and collected their ashes in
urns, which afterwards constituted orna-
ments of their babitations. For above a
year, the people burst not pass at night a
long the banks of the river some said they
had seen the earth quake there, others had
beheld spectres gliding along the water
fishermen bad asserted that invisible hands
loosed after dark the boats moored 10 the
shore, and propelled them towards the is.
lets in the Seine, which sent forth means
like those of human voices. In some old
historians, we read that young females, mur-
dered on st. Barthoomew's day, wandered
about after dusk in Paris, covered with long
wells, which they lifted when they perceiv-
ed the murderer, showing him the wound
still fresh, and calling him by his name.
There is no reason to doubt that the Pope
was privy to the intended massacre. Car
dlnal Alexandrian, nephew of the late Pope
had made no secret of expecting intelligence
of great victory gained over the herehcs,
and exclaimed when it arrived, "The King
of France has kept his word !"-"Good
uews good newsr' cried Gregory XIII.
who had been crowned about two months
before the catastrophe "all the Lutherans
are massacred except the Vendomets, whom
the King had pardoned for his sisters sake. -
That term he applied contemptuouSly to the
three princes OF the house of Bourbon Ven
dome, the king of Navarro. and the princes
of Conde and Cont. At night, the guns OF
the castle of St. Angelo were fired, and
bouGres bazed in every street in Rome
The Pope ordered jubilee and solemn
procession, which he accompanied himself
to thank God for his glorious success. He
sent nuncio extraordinary to France, tc
congratulate the king on having so easily
caught all the heretics IN the same net
Medals, which have seen, were struck al
Rome, in appreciation of the massacre and
to perpetuate the memory of the happy e.
vent; on one side was the portrait of the
Pope; on the reverse the destroying ange!
holding a cross IN one hand, and in the 9th.
er sword, with which he is slaughtering
the Frenchmen called Protestants; and hav'
ing this legend, HUGoNoTRUM STRAGEs-
the slaughter Of the Huguenots.
SPECULATIVE PPILoSoPHY.-If all man.
kind could wink at the same moment, the
muscular effort exerted would be sufficient
to iostle the earth out of It's ortlt.
If all the oaths uttered in the United
States were required to be printed, it would
require all the presses in the country, day
and night to perform the labor; and if a tax
was levied on them of one cent each, one
years revenue would be sufficient TO trans
port all the mails, lay double track rail-
road to the Pacific, and pay the public debt
of every State in the Union.
The cigars consumed throughout the
country, in one year, would make worm
fence six feet high round the District of Co.
lumbia aud the air expelled in smoking
them would drive the Japan squadron round
the world with enough over TO do the wind
work of all the patent medicines.
If all the elected tobacco guilds were from
this time to be dropped on the dome of the
capitol at Washington, the hail of Egypt
would be no comparison to the peltng storm,
and the edifce would be buried deeper than
Ninevah, before the next meeting of Con-
gress.
If all the lies told during the last Presi-
Dental campaign, could be boiled togeth-
er, they would make soap enough to wash
the face Of nature.
QUESTION BEFORE A DEBATING Cub
The question before the meeting is this -
If feller-wbat is feller-and his GAL
are about to be parted for time-and thev
propose to exchange daguerreotypes-and
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