Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1857-03-28

ltltu ulUuHu HIS NUuCH anu OuN W NhN WY ~
magic webs Of fances wrought in the realms "
Of dreams, was unfoIdcd TO his spirits eye C
Visions of his native home, rose in vivid dis J.
tinctness before him. He was o child in his S
paternal mansion, in Madrid, Old Spain, His t
mother was reading the conquest Of Mexico |
by Cortez, a thrilling account of his almost {
miraculous victories, and the untold adventn-
res of this great man. His bosom burned
with an ardent desire to become man that
he might mingle in like scenes y
The mental current ran On in our sleeping
Cavaliers brain, but so placidly that the SEN
scs took no note of them. Again it reaches
point where it becomes violent and tie tor.
| pid senses are aroused. ole is now Il man
the white winged yessed is at sea vending
it, way over the briny deep to the shores Of
the New World She anchors in the harbor Of
Vcr0cru2" he lands he flies 10 the city of
Mexico and tread the halls of the Montczu
mas X y 4 y
Again a calmer current Of thought flows on
and now it increases in volume He is in the
city of Santa Fe, in mpanonship with Var.
gas and his warworn comrades They are en-.
gagged in terrible and bloody conflict with
their Indian foe The streets are filled with
the slain of their foe, and still there thinned
ranks ore filed up, led on bya bold chief
who raves and madness in the fight lie
meets with this iufuriated chief in mortal
striie who hurlS from his strong bow q
swift arrow that pierces his breast, und ere
he could ayenge the cruel stroke the fierce
{ chieftain expires in tempest Of rage and
n fury. The torpid senses are aroused The
< gong resoundS through the vast hotel, and our
4 Cavalier awakes and finds to his astonshment
r that the sun is high in the heavens. While
he is dressing and preparing for breakfast, We
will take our readers to another part Of the
city At the residence of Sr. Domingo Fer
= nandez the ever industrious DR.. Swift impcll
ed by curiosity has called to see this aged ant
venerable man The object Of his visit is t(
inquire if he knew aught of the strange gen
tleman whose remarkable cure he had effect
" ed through the agency of the blood.draininl
II machine. The Doctor with great minutenCs
Il detailed the manner in which he had beer
r brought in contact with him, his interviews
l. and conversations with him; and also the
70 singular deluson which the stranger cntcrtai
lr ned that he had lived in the year 1899.
e. lie must be the same person responded 81
IN Fernandez, with whom | met last night at til
ht Juttng Fountain on the public grounds,
tv You have then met with him, rejoincd tn
ur Doctor.
cr have, and under peculiar circumstance
NJ that have deeply impressed upon my min
eS the singular interview: was indulgmg in
'SS soliloquy which | was unconscious was aud
nd ble, touching the great changes which ha
III been wrought in this my native land and ask
les ed as thought mentally, the question, who
III would Vargas Think could he rise from hi
10 dusty bed and behold this country now ? =
Di' and asI uttered. What would Juan Paez IIu
III tado think? suddenly my hands were seize
D." by an athletic young man who cXcOmcC
~ What would he Think he would think as d
" nowl for aS certain as stand before you,
" am the Juan Paez Eurtado of whom 70
ey spoke. | was startled and scarcely kno
ol what replied; he asseveratcd that he va
III the Identical Juan Paez Hurtado, whose nan
u is engraved on the Inscription Rock, II
"O spoke of his hunting expedition, his falliu
us asleep on the margin of the Mountain LAX
de and awakng and the flower of its cnchantreS
re who had cast him over the lapse of near tw
er- centuries from 1892 into the year 1870.
III lie is the same person Sr. Fernandez, I
st, whom | came to you to learn if you kno
&C. aught Of his history?
yn never saw Or heard of him before | mt
Il him in last nights interviews
Oh Strange that no person knows any thing
ny the antecedcnts Of this mysterious man!
"V Gentlemen, spoke up a man who was in Il
en- room and had overheard the whole conyers
OF +ion hotwnon thn Dorinr and Sr Eornonda