Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-04

from the rover OF COmareS at the Al
hambra haunts my mind prey upon
lesser kindred which are lifted to COM
parison. Our new made acquaintance,
| Reed, has passed two years in Spain and
speaks the language perfectly He has
told us a few surprising facts concerning
the ignorance of not few Of the charm
ing Senoritas we have seen. He says
that very many of them can neither read
nor write, and oftentimes their CONVEX
sation is most stupid and of what we
should regard revolving vulgarity. |
looked a second time upon his blessed
eyes, when he told us they had beheld
the veritable stuffed cock which crew
thrice when Peter denied Christ. The
priest in attendance at the Cathedral OF
Seville, had confidently assured him
twas the same ''old fellow" who had
been miraculously preserved from decay,
and had withstood the ravages of time,
these eighteen long centuries.
At tea last evening we met another
pair of Londoners travelling on business,
and one of them impressed us of his
wonderful vocabulary. [ am ready to
believe him life long student of Noah
Webster, Joseph E. Worcester, or some
other photographer. At the supper la
BILE, he was seized with paroxysms of
imagination followed by a relieving and
violent dysentary of great words. This
all might have been tOlerable, indeed,
temporarily engaging had he not by in
uendO and peryersion constantly stirred
up the mud in our streams of thought
In short he proved to be the most polite
ly obscene man | ever met. He was
| genius at construction of sentences, fault
less in their abstraction, but foul in their
entirety. His companion was of more
constipated vocabulary but more the less
! DESTROYS to excel in that realm to which
we may apply Millions words. Here
may we reign secure, and in my choice
is worth ambition" Ito excel in some one
thing) though in He'll" We are at
,tracted from our coffee to the street,
where procession three miles long en-
braces nearly five thousand men, women
| and children, who are celebrating Good
Friday night. The great Concourse is
led by trio of mounted Spanish caval-
rymsn, replete with rich trappings of
! the caparisOned horses and gaudy full
dress of their station. Following comes
band of candle bearers. Not common
candles, but lard tapers three inches in
diameter and fully four feet long, the
sickly light from these candles make
CHASTITY exhibition of the dusky faced
bearers. Now come priests chanting
what seems like a requiem for the dead
and following them are pedestrian bug
lers. Little girls dressed to represent
angels and winged as such. Masked
faces and long gowns of the bearers of q
great wooden platform covered with
grass and closely resembling garden, in
which is a life sized waXen group of
Christ in the garden admonishing the
sleeping disciples. Gould We not watch
WIrn mo one hour? For the want of
better light and WIFI " 1safi upon imagi.
nation We thought this scene qu%e nrt
like, and hoped for another such. Now
comes another beyy of candle bearers
with brass band playing the deaC
march, and here is Christ in the garden
again, receiving the cup from a minis
tering angel with great drops of blood
2Seat trickling down his face. Much as
dislike the nature of such display as
this, am deeply impressed and yearEing
with sad sympathy of heart to relieve
the suffering "Sinl9ss One" that night
of trial prior to his crucifXion. Who
has not felt a shudder Of horror wher
reading the description of the scene by
st Luke: Again come candle bearers
and chanting priests who are followed
by bands of Roman soldiery. And here
is Christ arrayed in purple robe and
crowned with flesh tearing thOrns. Ser
the heart rending agony Of that pleading
face looking upward into the face of his
plying father God. Small boys in Ions
black gowns carrying candles and little
girls as angels and priests interspcrsed
precede a representation of the Scourg
ing of Christ which was unnatural in the
posture of the bodies, but here proceeded
by Roman soldiery with huge battl,
axes, helmets and.spears, is a life like
representation of Christ falling under
the weight Of his cross, saddening to con
template, as this passed me | saw a mum
Der Of spectators near me weeping and Il
tell the truth, am not quite sure tina
my eyes were dry, nor am | certain tina
a tear did not steal down my cheek
when next came Jesus nailed to tn,
cross, and Mary fainting supported b,
chat disciple whom Jesus loved Mex
surrounded by a strong guard of soldier,
with arms reversed and muffled drums
Fthe tomb of Joseph Of Arimathea, ant
a burial case which is supposed to con
tain the body of. that lamb slain for tn
sins of the world The burial case is
peice of costly mammoth jewelr,
composed of precious stones inlaid witt
FURNISHED gold. Now a lone empt,
cross with ladders ascending to eithe
arm and skull and cross bones at its base
The conclusion is Virgin Mary arraye
in cloth of gold looking heavenward il
great tribulation, followed by a corps 0
muffled drunmers, Spanish soldiers an
cavalry and chanting priests. Den,
the pernicious tendency of form wor
ship much as we may, this procession
has not been without its good results
Dexterously arranged as is the play upol
ones imagination and feeling, / do no
feel disposed to censure it, but mus
commend its impressiveness. Thi
morning we were mnch taxed of patienc
by fearful noise. At 10 a. M, tn