New-York tribune., 1867-07-30

necessity drives me TO ill tho aching vod WIN WIZ
But she would not aysunt She kissed her hand
repeatedly and curtsied over and over again lrea-
s0ned within myself This unhappy woman loyes me-
| cannot reeiprocate; | cannot love foreigner; l
| cannot love "a foreigner as hOmely as she lsIu
| could would dig her out of that capote and take
fhis wildly beautiful affection she has conceived for
| me must not 90 unrewarded-it shall not 90 unIe-
warded And so said i VIII read 70 hoI my pCetS;
! Rrt an the crowd said, "NO-shame shame, shame!
the poor old woman hasn't done anything|
| And they gave The old hag some Portuguese PEN
MES like shuttle board blocks and hustled her away
averring that she was begging, and not making love-
and thus, by the wellmeaning stupidity OF my COM
rades was prevented from implantlng sweet mem
Ory in the soul of one who may now go down 70 the
grave with sacred thing upon the altar OF her
heart but the ashes Of hopeless pass,9nmanq ye'a
Speaking of those prOdigiOus Portuguese pennies
reminds me that it takes 200 res pronounced rays
ade sS9 S9 in 2e % We aid not know this until after
we had found it out, and we found 1t out through
Blucher Blucher said he was so happy and SO grate
give feast-said he had heard il was cheap lanh
| and he was bound to have grand banquet. lie IN
vted nine of u.s., and we ate an excellent ninner az
the principal hotel In the midst of the ol,ty pro-
duced by good cigars, good wine, and paSsaOe ahec
| d0tes, the landlord presented his bill, Blucher
glanced at it and his counenance te e 'SoS Sod nt a
deceived him, and then read the items alouu, IN a
faterng voice. while the roses in his cheek treo W
" Ten dinners, at COO reis eOeO reisp Ruin and
twenty-five cigars at 100 rcs, $500 reis" Oh
Eleven bottles of wine at 200 reis. 1890 reis"
Be with us all "'Total, 81 200 reisp Great Caesars
ghost there amt money enough III the ship to pay
| that bill! Go.leave me TO my misery, boys, I'm
| ruined community" think cit was the blankest
looking party ever saw Nobody could say wGra
dumb Wine glasses descended slowly to the table;
their contents .untasted. Cigars dropped unnoted
from nerveess fingers. Each man sought his neigh
boris eye, but found in II no ray OF hope no encolir
agement. At last the fearful silence was broken
The shadow of desperate resolve settled down upon
Bluchers oountenance like cloud, and he rose up
and said: Landlord this is wretched mean
swindle and Ill never, never stand 1t: Heres
$50, Sir, and it's all you'll get-PH swim In blood
Sir before I'll pay q cent mOrel
Our spirits rose and the landlords fellat least we
thought so he was confused at any rate. notwlth,
beep sad. He glanced from the little pile of gold
pieces to Blucher several times. and then went out
He must have visited an American for when ne re-
turned he brought back his bill translated into
language that Christian could undefstand-thus:
10 dinners, 5000 reis, or................... 90
% cigars 26O0 reis, or .,.....---.--.-....--.
IL bottles wine, 1920 rels' 'or.---'----...''-yS
Total, H, 700 refs, s,or......-.............s2i or. 10
Happiness reigned once more in Bluchers dinner
party. More refreshments were ordered,
think the Azores must be very little known IN
America. Out of our whole ships company there
not solitary indiyidua who knew anyythng any 1da
concerning most other lands, had no other'in1orma
ton about the Azores than that they were group oil
nine or ten small islands far out in the Atlantic,
something moro than halfway between New York
and Gibraltar. That was ALL These considerations
move me to put in paragraph OF dry facts Just
here which might not venture to II were writing
about worn out and written-out Europe. ,
The community is emnently Portuguese-that IS
to say it is SLOW poor shftless sleepy anu % K Wy,
of Portugal and a'military governor, who can as
sumo supreme control and suspend the clyh govern
ment at his pleasure. Tho islands contain popu-
latOn of about 100000 almost entirely Portuguese,
Everything is staid and settled, for the country was
100 years old when Columbus discovered America;
The principal crop corn, and they raise and gInd
it Just as their greatgreat great -gandfatheTs dln
They blow with board slightly shod with iron
their trns little haIrows are drawn oy men anu
day, and there is one assistant "a
feed the mill and general suPerntondent 70 stand
WIND Siu Changes Chan % they hitch on some donkeys
and actually turn around the whole upper
half of the smll till the sails are in proper
the sails could be moved instead OF the mill. Oxen
tread the wheat from the ear after the fashion preya-
lent in the time Of Methuselah There s not whee heel.
| heads, or on donkeys. or IN Wicker,oo cart,
whose wheels are solid blocks Of wood and whose
| plOw in the Islands, or thrcshing machine. All
attempts TO introduce them have failed. The good
| Catholic Portnghee crossed himself and prayed God
to shield him from ell blasphemous desire to know
more than his father did before him. The climate IS
| mild; they never have snow or ice, and i saw no
] Chimneys In the town. The dOnkcyS and the men,
women and children of family all eat and sleep III
the room, and unClean. are raYaged by YER
min, and are truly happy. The people le, and cheat
the stranger and desperately ignorant. and have
hardly reverence for their dead. That latter trait
| shows how little better they than the donkeys
\ they eat and sleep. The only we'll dressed Portu-
guese in tho camp are 1.-THE three or four welltodo
families the Jesuit priests and the soldiers Of the
little garrison. The wages OF labOrer 20 to "a
| cents day. and those OF a good mechanic about
| twice as mach They count 1t in reis at thousand
| to tho dOllar, and this makes them rich and coz
tented Fine grapes used 10 grow in the islands and
an excellent wine was made and exported But
disease killed all the vines Is years ago. and since
that time no wine has been made The islands being
wholly of volcanic origin tho soil is necessarily very
rich. Nearlyeve foot of ground is under cultiva
t0n, and two or three crops year of each article
produced. but nothing exported a t5w oranges
| chiefly To England
| The mountains on of tho islands are very
high. We sailed along tho shore Of the Island OF
| Pico under stately green pyramid that rose mp
| with one unbrOkcn sweep from our very feet IA an
altitude of lGls feet aud thrust it's summit above the
| white clouds like island adrift in a fog
We got plenty of fresh oranges. lemons, figs april
cots, &c, i'll these Azores, of course. But / will
desis am not here to write Patont- Office reports
| We way to Gibraltar, and will reach
| there 6ye six days out from the Azorcs
| MARK TWAIN
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| THE NEW ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN