New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-06


cross and Phillips, of Three Rivers.
N The Montreal had on board two hundred and fifty
eight immigrants, recently arrived here from Glasgow
together with several German families and raftsmen
and several American passengers.
The Montreal was owned We believe, by Mr. John
Wilson, Of Quebec, and was valued at about $4,000
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From the San Frspttsco: Golden Era.l
A Dream.
felt myself an incarnation Of notion but subject
% my own, and only to my own, svolition. felt I
could no where desired and as rapidly as pleased
hetated to move, for happened 10 me that having
determined my course could not thereafter change
North occurred to me, and instantly Istepped towards
the polar star. Ny strides were leagues in length.
aud more rapid than tttwOfortyn blood. walked
hiSh ID tie air Mountains covered with snow Vol
canoes into whose craters could look an endless
depth torrents, lakes, vast seas, were under my
rapid-mosing feet, 4 saw, IN the unimaginable pro-
foundity Of the crater an surging fire. Every
the sea, but it was foam OF liquid fire. was white
lightning flashing inceSsant from the bottOmless sea
of hell At will stood still, and gazed into this
special gehenna, surprising that imagined by any
sea of fire. As quick as thought, they elongated into
human forms, and long columns Of moving figures
swept like marshaed battalions towards some unseen
point. "A still gazed and the ocean Of fire became
field Of FURNISHED gold, and the foamy crests were
hanks of pearls and rocks Of diamond; the figures
we're Of human shape moving the golden fields.
saw palace in the plain of gold; it up to my
teet, and they rested On the parapet Of one Of its
towers. was in the very key Of the celestial arch,
and the foundations Of the palace were in the center
Of the earth. must go down its stairway.
NJ commenced the infinite descent. For long years
descended, eyer winding, ever going down. At
length met person I had known ages ago. She
was clad lii robe Of ice, bespangled with stars of
crystal gold She stretched ont her hand to me
through tortuous hall, dimly lighted with carrya-
tides, holding in their hands thigh bones covered with
,tr.ifu 11nr
and my ownb burned as if touched by the flaming Gin.
ders of furnace but II was the burning of intense
frost My hands became marble In hers, and they
seemed like weights attached tony arms. Iattempt
ed to pull them away, but my right hand parted from
my wrist, and remained in hers, and the stump of the
arm dangled by my side like the neck of dead swan
over the shoulder Of the returning hunter
Il 6 Where do yon lead me- Hilda u there no end
TO these ever turning halls ~
Yes,n she answered, with d frozen smile, which
cracked her frostcovered features of aabaster like
pine boughs loaded with snow In mid-winter. n am
leading thee to my chamber there we will rest"
But do you live in this silent, deserted tower,
whose head lii inseaven and whose feet are in hell r?
1sSiIent, did you say? Listen ~
heard the scream OF the wind sounding as when
il comes from the North, n starry night over the
rents the howl Of beasts the clang Of arms and the
din Of marshal music commingled with the singing Of
young girls, whose voices were as soft the zephyr
in summer.
!
20 God let me DO deaf now e and instantly all was
still as the nnoccuped space beyond the domain of
matter &
.s Hlda,' said /, !" end this horrid journey. My
very bones are rumbling to dustin this eternal FROST
= Enter said she, as she pushed open door Of
crystal. We were in q saloon q hundred feet high
and thousand feet in length and breadth. From the
dome above US, hung chandelier Of amethyst, with
1--WE hundred burners. Every burner was naked
child, lighted at the head, burning with lambert
name which fell down to the knees, and then blazed
UP In white and frozen but brilliant fame to the very
dome Of the lofty hail. could through the double
garments OF fame and through the very bodies Of the
burning. There was the blood pouring in and out of
the palptatng heart the lungs were rising and fall
ing in unudulating motion. The children even gaped
with fatigue and wiped their burning eyes with their
chubby fists Of fire.
Hlda, are these the candles by which you sleep
see yonder couch and wardrobe"
Yes friend, this is my bondoir. Repose your
wearied form on those piles Of cushions
reclined with scream that echoed and re-echoed
the lifetime of human being, though but a moment
Of the time Of that eternal chronology. The cush
ions were thousand times colder than ice but Weld
ing as the down of q dove. / sank in them out of
sight. My heart never throbbed again; my lungs
which went down in that scream Of agony, heayed
40 more; my eyes were frozen motonless in their
places my mouth never closed my left hand and
my right stump were stretched frozen and still to.
wards the vault above me. All was frozen but my
thoughts lay thus motioness, consciously notion
less, thousand years. The air whstled through my
ears as through my eyes as if they were glass +
felt my identity, in the centre of what was once my
brain, but now ice, as infinitely small point cold
aud motonless tried to speak, but no voice issued
from my lips, which were rocks OF ruby during all
that thousand years.
Hilda sat by my side months and years, and then
she would rise up and vanish throughthe dome above
ana pe gone century leaving in the glare Of that
awful sontuae. The chandelier would go out, and
dim light, like faint anrora would twinkle for ces
and then again the children would blaze with hun.