The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-05-23

Legislators, as body, are well disposed,
but they cannot carry their liberal meas
ures without putting the stability of their
civil institutions in peril. An act of re-
ligious federation would be followed by
ecclesiastical denunciations and appeals
to the passions of the mass, which would
result in revolution and blood. Come
here, my bishop of New York, with your
smooth doctrines about the rights of con-
science, and talk little to your brother
bishops in this quarter. If these doc
trines are good when proclaimed to Amer
lean Protestants, let us see how they will
sound in the ears of Chilian Catholics.
Do few leagues of salt water destroy
their force and propriety3 Do they
cease to be orthodox the moment they
leave Protestant shore and enter a Pa
pal domain?
Come my dear bishop, set down in
Chill with me, and let us talk together
a little. You tell us the rights of the
human conscience are sacred. What
rights of conscience have Protestants in
Chili--or even in Rome? You 90 there
once in three years to report in person to
the holy Father, you see Protestants filing
off ON the Sabbath through u narrow,
dirty street, to little obscure chapel,
without steeple or bell, where they may
worship, if they won't speak above a
whisper. And then you return to New
York and talk to its corporation about
the sacred rights of conscience Your
federation, my dear bishop, is much like
the Yankee hunters division of game
with his Indian Companion-all turkey
on one side and all buzzard on the other
MONDAY, MARCH 9. encountered,
in my rambes to-day. a specimen of
Chiliau horsemanship. The costume of
the rider was in wild harmony with his
occupation. His hat rose in high cone,
like that of whrling dervish in Turkey.
His poncho, resembling large shawl,
fell in careless folds around his person.
His CATERS rose to the knee his heels
were armed with huge pair Of silver.
mounted spurs, while brace Of pistols
peered from the holster of his saddle.bow.
He was mounted on powerful animal,
impatient of the bit, and sure of foot as
the mountain roe. The strong muscles
betrayed their swelling lines in his limbs ;
the dilating nostril was full of painting
force, while his arching neck seemed
clothed with thunder. He was such a
steed as you would choose for that last
decisive charge, in which Waterloo is
to be won or lost.
His rider knew him well and gave him
the rein; on he dashed, over hill and
vale, with the speed of the wind. Now
shaking the topling crags with his iron
hoof, now plunging down the steep ravine,
now leaping, with frightful force, the
sudden chasm never missing his foot
hold, never throwing his rider. Both
were safe where the neck of neither
seemed worth farthing. / have seen
the Tartar ride at Constantinople, and
witnessed, with silent admiration, the
Grand Sultan's horsemanship, but he is
outdone by the Chilano.
A company of circus riders, from Eu-
rope, came here few years since to as
tonish the Chilans. But they soon found
they had brought their ware to wrong
market. The Chilanos took the business
out of their hands and so far outdid
them that they suddenly disappeared, and
have not been heard of in these parts
since. 1t was like a Buffalo entering a
herd of deer to astonish them with his
fleetness, or like bull attempting race
r with one of Baldwins locomotives.
/ The Chilian women betray their Span.
ish blood. 1t is seen in their stately
r forms, their firm elastic step, their nut
l brown complexion, their large black eyes
: and their earnestness of manner, which
9 is full of SILENT significant force. They
, wear their hair in two plaits, which are
sometimes coiled into turban and inter.
!, laced with flowers. and at others flows
/, from slight fllet quite down to the
E heel. They use no stays; the tide o.
D nature ebbs and flows without constraint
!. The rich shawl which covers the neck
, and shoulders. neglects at times its occu
s patton, and the silk stocking forgets now
b and then that it has taken the veil.
t They are fond of attentions, and vii
much sooner excuse liberty, which flows
!, from admiration, than a neglect, which
< results from Indifference still they are
n not considered as very exacting. What
s they want is the homage of the heart
b Civiity that has no soul in it, they con
e slider mockery. Love is consequently
It with them passion. As daughters, they
}, are wild and thoughtless as mothers
n fond Of their children and attached t.
h their homes. The most sober flower will
}. often blossom from the bud that ha
d danced the most lightly in the sunbeam
= TUESDAY, MARCH TO- encountere,
to-day in the cnvirons Of Valparaiso,
e long string of donkeys, laden with vegeta
Dles and fruit from Qulota, some forty
n miles distant. The little hardy fellow
Is were plodding along in single file, GOV
= cred up under their huge panniers, an'
n turning this way or that to the cry O
n their driver, who brought up the rear
1t | never could encounter one Of these crea
a lures without sentiment Of pity an
ss even respect He seems as one doome,
II to drugery, merely because nature ha
n wronged him in making him up. An
al then his patience-it is a model. II
lg has long ears it is true, but then he never
IT like those who consider themselves hi
by betters, tries to conceal them. He is a
~ honest ass
!! The markets of Valparaiso are SUI
~ piled from valleys in the interior. Th
in grounds in the immediate neighborhoo
are, for months in the year, parched u
n, with drouth. Large tracts Of lands, we
H. suited to the harrow, are herbess froI
Is, want Of means to irrigate them. Spring
ou have been hunted, and rocks bored almos
u halfway to the earth's centre, but
III vain. Even the monks have tried thei
H. miraculous charms, but nature grea
as Nile obeys no such incantations, The
OF fleece, unlike that of Gideon. RENAME