Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1862-11-07
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MEplTTRRssfAS SFI.
OFF Spain. Aug. So

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Neither speech or busy pea Is = sure
ties, Of the quality of ones memory Of a
friend Napoleon iuditcd upon the Gell
of battle and carnage eristles OF love to
his Josephine intense and burning ia
language as were his war bulletins. yet.
when in the zenith Of hi. glory and pow
er. he discarded. without hesitation, that
lovely and beautiful woman. No poet
ever brcathcd more exquisite love song,
than Byron, but who values love Of such
quality As his - \ friend who visited
Spain during the present year, became
much interested IN enc o. the Spanish
gentry, of considerable SYau,sh town ou
the coast, and as 4 matter u courtesy a..
ceptcd invitations - fle al - drive
But soft words, aud polite invitations werr
no sure index Of the interest ami irlenl-
ship manifested, not Al al. What then
Why, 4 polite request - iaau the nice
little sum of SIS 90 explained thr Who
matter. Ny frieni va bufiausl with
no more invitations to drive or to ride,
because he kept h. money IN his p.cArt.
Scroogc, aud M4fieF. aai Shyloe,.
make up great deal ot ham4a e4-r. :
CT to-day as cycr.
But can there re anything but genuine
friendship and affection f9f either ,tsh-
scriber or proprietor, or both, to Undue
man to write an Editor? Then ,,or the
answer must DC mo, L on d5ut wr,tra
friendly editor so often as once in >iX
mouths, enmity al beast eaunet be just y
laid TO his eharse, aul # Al rpi,tIe be
inditcd, is it not voluntary testimony at
affectionate regard deeper IN proportion
to the difficulty Of the undertaking.
To appreciate that, then, it uu>t be-
told how these line, happened 10 be PEN
ned while rolling Jaun,iIy after robei
merchantmen on the bosom Of this bcautI-
full inland sea.
On the fourth day Of February TIL.
clipper built war vessel left one VI our
loyal Navy yards in search OF the pirate
Sumter. She was armed with tHo eleven
inch DahIgreu's, four thr,y-tTo's, and
one thirty-two rifle Dahlsren for heavy
armament. The >ma! arm, consisted o'
80 Sharps Rifles, "a NaSk,t-, 10 Navy
Pistols, / Colts RoyolVer., % New Pat
tern Swords, and II Boarding PiAcs.-
The crew consisted of lao men and ~
officers. The Sumter having sailed for
Europe it was cur destiny TO cross the
Atlantic, and endure one Of the roughest
and mos, uncomfortable Winter ra.sagos,
How iubilant was every soa on board a.
the crystal cascades, the green nils, aud
the white villas of the beautiful island Of
MADEIRA burst upon our ssht under an
almost tropical sky What transition
from the terrific snow storms aud bieaA
dreary. coast of New England IN Feb
ruary 1862 But here We first tasted
the bitterness OF British gall since the
outbreak OF the rebellion III the United
States and here. too. We met IN the
American Consul, George True, man
whose character is worthy his name
More may be said Of the value and tempta-
tioDs Of representatives abroad hereafter,
but Nader ia is first to be explored a. We
are to leave it in five days. This African
Island is hardly less familiar to the chill
.dren of our common schools than TO our
sea.faring men from the DIrigo State, but
it NAV not be amiss 10 state that 1t Is
possession of Portugal lying 44O miles
off the w. coast of Morocco between
32 36 and 32 , 53 \. lat. and IL
40 audl7o 20 w lon. 1t consists OF
mass of volcanic rock, called basaItic,
thirty.fvc miles long by twelve or four,
teen vide. containing about two hundred
and ninety square miles. One OF It's
peaks reaches the immense altitude oil
tO56 feet, and several others an altitude
OF more than 1000 feet, above the level
o. the sea, end through the western part
runs steep ridge 5000 feet in height
The tops Of these hills are often covered
with snow which melting, together with
the frequent rains in the mountains, from
numerous riyulcts, and these in time form
the crystal cascades alluded to, as they
leap sparkling from rock to rock, over
cliffs, and through valleys and rayInes
making the soil rich with vegetation
One Of the most striking characteristics
of the scenery in Madeira is which almost
c,eayes the mountains to their base, the
deop porges, and rayines, and through
which flow the limpid streams which
turns the rude water wheel aud irrigatcs
the vineyard and the eane-Geld. As the
the traveller carefully ascends the narrow
path leading up the most striking OF these
ravines, known as the canal, just before
.la.,. al. axact locality he mounts a