Year: 1867

From review of the Spanish Papers, in
the New York Tribune we take the following:


When boy of twelve, on an expedition to
Ogdensburg with some friends, he took captive
the neart OF an Indian squaw, who found it i'm.
possible TO conceal her admiration for the hand
some white-face, aud made her drunken husband
SO inriously jealous that, after knocking Irving
oown oy an unexpected blow, he was with diff
Guilty prevented from stabbing him. At another
,lme :, ne sees an Italian lady, with whose beauty
ne Is SO bewitched that he follows her and
PICKS up her handkerchief which he pockets,
with most inexcusable dishonesty, and keeps it
until 1t IS replaced by lock of her hair which
she sends to him with request that he will call
on her when he returns to Genoa He never
saw her again, but had the hair enclosed in a
iocket which he wore for long time round his
neck.


In letter to one of his sisters dated Barcelona,
1874, there is charming passage-but his let
ters abound in charming passages. and how de-
hghtful 1t must have been to receive them fresh
from his hand and heart, if it is SO pleasant to
read them in print-a passage descriptive of a
Spanish beauty which we should greatly enjoy
transcribing in full, if it were not longer than
our space will allow. We give few sentences.
The paragraph begins q While am writing at
table in the cabin, am sensible of the power
OF pair of SPLENDID Spanish eyes which are
occasionally fasing upon me, and which almost
seem to throw light upon the paper. Since
cannot break the spell, will describe the owner
OF them. I was interrupted in my
letter-writing by an observation of the lady
whom was describing. She had caught my
eye occasionally, as it glanced from my letter
toward her. Really, Senior, said she, at length,
with a smile, one would think you were
painter, taking my likeness. | could not resist
the impulse. Indeed, said |, am taking it ;
! am writing to friend the other side of the
world, describing things that passing before
m, and could not help noting down one Of the
best specimens of the country that | had met
with A little bantering took place between the
young lady, her husband and myself, which end
ed in my reading off, as we'll as | could in Span
ish the description | had just written down.
II occasioned a world of merriment and was
taken in excellent part. The ladys cheek for
once, mantled with the rose,


She laughed, shook her head, and said | was
very fancful portrait painter and her husb band
declared that if would stop at St. Filian all the
ladies in the place would crowd to me to have
their portraits taken-my pictures were SO fat
tering. have just parted with them. The
steamship stopped in the open sea- just in front
of the little bay of st. Filian boats came off
from shore for the party. l helped the beauti-
full original of the portrait into the boat, and
promised her and her husband, if ever | should
come to St. Filian, would pay them a visit
The last noticed of her Spanish farewell
wave of her beautiful white hand, and the CLEAN
of her dazzling teeth as she smiled adieu. So
there's very tolerabe touch of romance for
gentleman of my years" Irving was at this
time in his 6lst year.) During his residence in
the Alhambra, in 1929, he repeatedly mentions
the servant Tia and the little dark-eyed Dolores
as taking the same interest in him that they
would in father, and treating him with the
most devoted care and kindness. And again, at
fhpr ff,11a and MIA crh f,,A
the passage, he relates with a mixture of humor
and feeling the CONSERVATION that he threw his
servants into, by telling them that he must
change his quarters, and the joy with which
they welcomed his return, embracing and caress-
ing him as if he had been a brother or q father.


THE SrlRIrr-The South was scared and
humbled when, Lee surrendered it very
tmd and very penitent when Surratt and Payne
were hung; it suddenly forgot its abjectness
when johnson permitted some if its old bell
wethers TO swell in Office once more and it got
back to its vile habit of staggering and bully
raging Northern men, niggers and Yankee
school-marms when johnson set himself up for
its champion and since Congress adjourned, in
July last it-has had such a long breathing spell
and talked itself into such burning heat of self
sufficiency and determined temper to hold
the Yankee in contempt, that it seems to have
forgotten how badly it was whipped year ago
last April. But something or other is gradually
but very surely taking that vain boastng empty
conciet out of the Southerners. people can
not live upon air, and this chivalry business,
now that slavery is dead, is utterly wanting
in substance as the vapors that fan the top of
Mount Shasta Carscn appeal.


SEWARD VS.. GREELEY.-Seward and Greeley
do not waste any compliments on each other A
journalist who was in Washington during the
says that he one day asked Secretary Sew
and his opinion Of Horace Greeley 80 Horace
Greeley" said Seward, g is great mana man
SO full genius and of such force that if he had
narticle of common sense We shnuld ha I'VE 10 hanr