Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1856-11-22

fu to be known. All his ldeas and thoughts
are imprisoned 10 manuscript and sacrealy kept
secret from all foreign eyes save those Of the
compositors, who are necessarily employed to
put them in type. But after thcstcam or pow
er press has stamped them in living print,
they are unclaimed anl leap upon the aston
i>hed world in "all tba pride, pomp and cir.
cusntance of glorious news" The sanetnm
has also its unique andshi geaeris appearance.
Files Of newspapers hang around It's walls or
lie on tables constructed for the purpose, Ii
brary containing books useful for statistical CT
other kin Is Of reference. and old and newly is.
sued pamphlets, periodicals, trcatises and news
papers pitched about in endless confusion and
untold numbers, The Editors table groans
un Ter tho weight Of scissors, waters, pens, ink,
yOper, and sand powder, and around and under
it lay newspapers in which the scissors have
made "most enyious rentSo In the sGnctum of
tho Editor of the Sdnta Fe Colder Era our
cavalier was solitary and alone. After having
surveyed the room his eyes accidentally rested
upon the mornings issue Of The Santa Fe Col
den Era, whichhg took and commenced porus.
ing. Tho FIRST article was headed. Doctor
Swit- Extraordinary success Of the Jlood
draining.mGchiae. Ii read as loIlOws; son
"last night IN the reading room of that prince
"of hotels "1He MogaiQin Fower' stran-
"gor while in the act Of reading Yesterdays is.
"sue of the Santa Fe GOdcn Era was sud-
"denly selzcd with q violent paroxlsm which
"depriycd him Of feeling and left him in n
estate Of perfect iDsensbllty. Who, or what
"the name Of the stranger was, we could not
"learn, but from his appearance he is believed
$50 be Spanish gentleman. One who in his
, 'dress seems to have q relish for such fashions
: "as we may suppose were in yogue.a century
Cor so ago among the early Spaniards who
"dispossessed the Indians of this now thriving
:, Sand fouriShng city. At the moment OF the
G "parOxism, Doctor Swift who was in the room
. fortunately perceived it, and sent forthwith
!'for his bood-draining machine. 1t was
"Drousht and applied by Do1tor Swift with the
''most eminent snccesS. The excess Of blood
''was drawn from the overchargel brain So
gradually and distributed throughout the en-.
''tre system that the strange gentleman fell in
$50 a refreshing and sweet sleep which cont.
T. nued during the night. Doctor Swift visited
/. "tae strange gentleman in his room, this morn
T. "iug and found him in entire health. This es.
j "tab shes the success rf the blood draining ma
"a "chine beyond all controversy" The conviction
m "lashed upon the MUD Of our cavalier, as h,
IL finished the perusal of tho above article that h,
- was the stranger alluded to, and that his com
90 panon who had conducted him into the sane
ii tum was none other than the ycritable Doc,o
Swift While dwelling upon these thought
|. with the paper before him, his eyes casual
glanced upon another editorial article, headed
The departure Of ht youngest son Cf the En-
psror Of CHINO Topgh.S CriSiag MereupOn
The article ran As follows: "lIai any one hln
tty "tcd in the days Of the early Spanish cavalier
Nm "Sho acquired this country, or in tRe times o
Of "its second acquisition, after their eIpalsio
70 "ty the Indians, or even so late as he year Is
n, "jj, that tie younge.t son of the Emperor q
ID. "Chna would ever lie in Santa Fe, the de
"would have been ho,tcd at as being simpl
'ridicuous. 1t is MT that We attach any in
- "portance to HIS being the son Of an EmpC
''ror, but the mere fact that this once mouutAi
ID. "Ocked and savage snyironed city, so renot
ez, "frOms other civilized countries should |
" "made by means Of the Atlantic and Pacil
id "rallroad now amongst the most accessib
Sc, "ponls on this contisent, bespeak the incact
'ld '1abe benefits which not only New Mexico hi
az "rpccived from its construction but the whol
be "worll. Let US cast our eyes back ten or I'll
nd "teen years ago and contemplate the coulitit
rec "of this mountain land without navigab
" streams, or railroads, distant thousand mil
from the worlds busy commerce with no me
20. ms Of transportation but mule or OK tram
which occupied from two to three months
traycrsing those wide plains, subject to Il
: risk Of being cut of by the morciless India
or perishing for the want Of grass anl watc
and then we can realileits present happy lt
Behold Santa Fe now, the queen city Of the m
irst untains situated midway, between the two
ceans, whose waters are now lashed to ea
. other by bars Of iron fprming race course alo
which the iron horsespeeds his way draggi
at his heels the commerce Of busy worl