Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1856-11-15
Written for The Santa Fe Gasette)
TIE AoUNTAIN-LAKE LEGrNp.

huge eastern mountains, had not vet risen
boye them to pour his food of yiyiiying heat
and light upontlc city ofSanta Fe. His first
beams were just BEGINNING TO tinge with gol-
den hues the distant tops of the western noun
tains, as our Cavalier awoke. lie found him
self on bed Of down in a sleeping apartment
most elegantly furnished Before he could
realize where he was, q cup of delicious clio
colato was borne to his bedside by servant,
who having placed it on small table within
his reach Immediately retired. His hunting ad.
venture, the mountain lake scene with its en-
chantress, and all the magic machinery Of tho
previous day rushed upon his mind. In great
perpexity he ponlered over the intricate web
ofmystercs which entangled his thought but
could find no clue by which to unrayel it.
While his mind was engaged, the same scrvan;
who had brought the chocolate, announced a
visitor who desired admittOncc. This visitor
was none other than the physician of the school
ofrapid progress, who had thus early called to
witness the effects Of his bIood draining ma.
chine. "PardOn my abrupt Intrusion upon
your privacy, said the polite physician rs he
entered, have nothing to offer in excuse for
this early visit but a laudaJc zeal in my pro.
fcssion. Shall have the permission sir to cx-
anime your tongue and pulse,
Our cavalier yielded to the civil request
All! exclaimed the oyerjoyed physician rub
a bing his hands in ccstacy, never behell y
cleaner tongue'or healthier pulse. The success
e of the blood draining machine is now placed
beyond all dOubt-goOd morning sir, you arc
. OFT of all danger Good morning-I must has
| ten to the railroad depot to take leave Of the
!. youngest sou Of the Emperor of China, who has
been under my medical treatment for the last
o month and who willRave in this mornings train
) for California. Having thus said, the physician
!, of tho school Of rapid prograve hastily depart
: ell without giving any opportunity to our ca
waller to speaka word.
Left to himself our cavalier remained in
state Of lnexpicable bewildermeut. Am |, sui,
he. ina prolonged dream, when the fancies o
:" tie brain assumed form and reality palpa
bic 10 the senses, or have been imprisoned il
l. a bed Of ice for century or more, with all M
T. phyPica and mental powers suspended in
y complete state Of preservation till sOme fortn
Of nate ray Of heat has unl9ckol my ice bo
h. und prison and set me free? cannot b
m "mS mistaken in my own identity, neither could
ne forget that tbree days ago loft Santa Fe on
az hunting excursion in the mountains That lei
ei it q small adobe pueblo which had just bee
II retakqn from the Indians, and in it my bray
and warwone comrades of the Spanish race nt
one of whom spoke tho English language b,
AZ myself. But even now IL polite aud fippar
Englishman, whom Judge TO be physical
from his conduct, has lei! mo, saying ''that /
must hasten TO the depot Of some peculiar kin
g Ola roal, .he name of which never heard b,
IIa fore, to take leave Of the Youngest son Of tn
ion Emperor Of China, who leaves this morning (,
Of California. la! la halt an English do
". W. tor and the youngest SON Of the empcror
IN China in Santa Re, laughed sut Ourcayalier
ed. The perpoxity Of his b6wildemcnt. will
rise, dress, and test farther the magic wonde
that meet me at every step.
. BY the time he had risen and dressed, an u
earthly laundering, grumblitg ear-confomdil
ad. sense astounding noise came rlmbing and trur
'ez bling full upon his ears ae ifall the dscorda
VA sounds in nature had broken loose aud pitch
aid into grand crash of croctery ware, falli
,5G chairs, cup.boards, side bolrds, and table
'a,u While our cavalier stood in mute asonishmei
af a iancying that this unearthy sound was t
be breaking up Of, the spell by which his schs
and were bound, an offspring ofEthiopia witlitet
In In as white as alabaster and skin of obon ht
d poppcd his Sooly head intothe room, and {
claimed. Sar, preakfpss WILSON be rca'
10' iats dc fuss gong, Soon breakfast was am
~ upcpd by the ringing ofa snail bell, whonoi
y whole house resounded witt the noise Of fO
= steps all tending in one diretion. Our cayal
stepped out Of bis room anl found himself
- on the second floor Of tho hotel, near the hC
OF winding staircase which concluded belt
" On reaching this point he behed the pers
whose footsteps he had dhead, descending fr
the upper stories and coming from al parts
Fitz. the vast hotel in tho direction Of the din
pay room. he Joined the moving crowd, andi
uiO lowed it down the wnliusItarcase Of thGii
I. or Aoor, and thence into the rom wherO the btc
fast was served. The rom was lafgeN
90 H. H.