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y THE WAR-TRAIL!

CHAPTER IL. SOUVENIRS. Land of the uopal and maguey—home of Moctezuma and Malinche !—I cannot wring thy memories from my heart! Years may roll on, hand wax weak, and heart grow old, but never till both are cold cau I forget thee! 1 would not; for thee would I remember. Not for all the world would I bathe my soul in the ‘waters of Lethe. Blessed be memory for thy sake !

Bright land of Anahuac! my spirit mounts Z un the aerial wings of Faney, and on ore I stand upon thy shores ! Over thy broad savannahs I spur my noble steed, whose joyous neigh tells that he too is inspired by the scene. I rest under the shade of ihe corozo palm, and the acrocoma. I climb thy mountains amygdaloid and porphyry—thy crags of quartz that yield the white silver and the yellow-gold. I cross the fields of lava, rugged in “outline, and yet more rugged with their cover- ture o* ‘strange ‘voyetable forms—the cycas and cactus, yaccas and zamias. I traverse thy table-plains through brist- ling rows of giaat aloes, whose sparkling ‘juice cheers me cu my path. I stand

while \down in the deep barranca, far down ‘below, I behold the feathery frouds of the

g leaves of the pathos,

benanas! O that I look with living eye on these i bright pictures | But even palely out- ‘lined upon the retina ef memory, they a & sooothiug pleasure to my soul,

Land of ag ssbiahitin? I have other

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and now, after years gone by, many a wild scene of soldier-life springs up before me with all the vividness of real- ity.

The Bivouac!—I1 sit by the night camp-hre; around sud) bearded faces. he blazing log re- fiscts the sheen of arms and accoutre- ments—saddles, rifles, pistols, canteens, strewing the ground, or hanging from the branches of adjacent trees. Picketed steeds loom large in the darkness, their forms dimly oujlined against the sombre |background of the forest. A solitary

ports stands near, its curving frouds lookiog hoary under the fire-light, The same light gleams upon the fluted

\columuns of the great organ-cactus, upon agraves and bromelias, upon the silvery

The wild tale is told—the song is sung—the jest goes round—the hoarse pet al echoes through the aisles of the

Little reck they who sing, and jest, and laugh—- little reck they of the morrow.

The Skirmish ! — Morning _ beraks. The fragrant forest is silent, and the white blue-light is just tioging the tree-tops. A shot rings upon the air; it is the warning-gun of the picket-sentiaei, who comes gal-

F loping in upon the guard. The enemy ik wlll ‘To horse!’ the bugle thrills in clear lond notes. The slum-

berers spring to their feet—they seize their rifles, pistols and sabres, and dash

9! cloud the air. The steeds snort and neigh ; in a trice they are saddied,bridled, aud mounted ; aud awny sweeps the troop along the forest road.

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In gilded, hall or garden bower, behold him on bended kuee, whispering his soft tale in the ear of some dark-eyed doncello, An- dalusian, or Aztec!

| formed into a suing lover.

coi fend I have sweet memories of thee; for who would traverse thy fields without beholdiug some fair flower, ever after to be borne on his bosom. And yet, not all my souvenirs are glad. Pleasant and painful, sweet and sad, they thrill my heart with alternate throes. But the sad emotions have been temp- ered by time, and the glad ones, at each returping tide, seemed tinged with brighter glow. In thy bowers, as else- where, roses must be plucked from thorns ; but in memory’s mellowed light I see not the thorns—I behold only the bright aud beautiful roses.

CHAPTER II.

A MEXICAN FRONTIER VILLAGE.

A Mexican pueblita on the banks of the Rio Bravo del Norte—a mere ranch- eria or hamlet. The quaint old church!; of Morisco-Italian style, with its cupola of motley japan, the residence of the cura, and the house of the alcalde, are the only stone structures in the place These constitute three sides of the plaza, a somewhat spacious square. The re- maining side is taken up with shops or dwellings of the common people. They are built of large unburut bricks (adobes), some of them ‘washed with lime, others gradually -eotored-like the proscenium of a theatre, but most of them uniform in their muddy and forbidding brown. All have heavy, jail-like doors, and windows without glass or sash. The reja of iron bars set vertically, opposes the burglar, not the weather.

From the four corners of the plaza, narrow, unpaved, dusty lanes lead off to the country, for some distance bor- dered on both sides by the adobe houses. Still further out, on the skirts of the village, and sparse- ly placed, are dwellings of frailer build but more picturesque appearance; they are ridge-roofed structures, of the split trunks of that gigantic lily, the arbores- cent yucca. Its branches form the rafters, its tough fibrous leaves the hatch: In these ranchitus dwell'the peor peons, the descendants of the conquered race.

The stone dwellings, and those of mud likewise, are flat-roofed; tiled or ce- mented, sometimes tastefully japanned, with a parapet breast-high running round the edge. The flat roof is the azotea, characteristic of Mexican architecture.

When the sun is low and the evening cool, the azutea is a pleasant lounging- place, especially when the proprietor of the house has a taste for flowers; then it is converted into an aerial garden, and displays the rich flora, for which the picture-land of Mexico is justly cele- brated. It is just the place to enjoy a cigar, a glass of ptnole, or, if you prefer it, catalan. The smoke is wafted away, andthe open air gives arelish to the beverage. Besides, your eye is feasted ; you enjoy the privacy of a drawing- room, while you command what is pass- ing in the street. The slight parapet gives security, while hiadering a too free view from below; you see, without being seen. The world moves on, busied with earthly affairs, and does not thivk of looking up.

I stand upon such an azotea: it is that over the house of the alealde; and his being the the tallest roof in the village, I command a view of all theothers. 1 can see beyond them all, and note the pro-

through the smouldering fires till ashes’ minent features of the ‘surrounding coun-

try. My eye wanders with delight over the deep rich verdure of its tropic vege- tation; I caa evea distinguish its more characteristic forms—the cactus, the yucca.and the agave. I observe that

The enemy is in sight—a band of guerillas, tn all their pictateeq enpes manga and serape—of scarlet, purple,, and gold. Lances, with shiuing peiuts| and streaming peunons, overtop the trees.

The bugle sounds the charge ; its notes are drowned by the charging cheer. We meet our swarthy ifoeman face to face ; spear-thrusts are answered by pistol- shots: our sabres cross aod clink, but eur suorting steeds rear back, aad will not let us kill cach other. We whieel) and meet again, with deadlier aim, and more determined arm ; we strike without

The taille, ‘field !—The serried col- umns and the bristling guns—the roar of cannon and the hoarse roll of drums ~ the bugles wildest notes, the cheer. the

charge—the struggle hand to hand—the, falling foeman ave his dying groan—the|

tory! I well remember, but I cannot’ paint them.

dané of Auahnac! thou recallest other| enes, far different trom these—scenes: of tender love or stormy passion. The.

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the village is girdled by a belt of open ground — cultivated fields—where the maize waves its silken tassels in the contrasting with the darker leaves of the capsicums and bean-plauts (frijoles). This open ground is of lim ited extent. The chapparal, with its thorny thicket of acacias, mimose, in- gas, and robinias—a perfect maze of leguminous trees—hems it in; and so near is the verge of this jungle, that I can distinguish its undergrowth of stem-

less sabal paims and bromelias—the sun-

scorched and scarlet leaves of the pita plant shining in the distance like lists of fire.

This propinquity of forest to the little puebita bespeaks the indolence of the in- habitants; perhaps not. It must be re- membered that these people are not agriculturists, but vagueros (herdsmen) ; aud that the glades and openings of that

route, retreat, the hoarse huzza for vic-| that thick chapparal are speckled with

herds of fierce Spanish cattle, and droves of small sharp-eared Andalusian horses}? of the race ef the Barb. The fact of so little cultivation does not abuegate the ex- istence of industry on the part of the villagers. Grazing is their occupation, not farming ; ; ouly a little of the latter to give them maize for their tortiilas, chile to season it with, and black beans to ‘complete the repast, These three, with the half wild beef of their wide pastures, constitute the staple of food throughout

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all Mexico. For drink, the denizens of ithe high table-lands finds his favorite beverage—the rival of champagne—in the core of the gigantic aloe; while he of the tropic coast-land refreshes himself from the stem of auother native endogen, the acrocomia palm.

Favored land! Ceres loves thee, and Bacchus too. To thy fields both the god and the goddess have been frecly boun- teous. Food and drink may be had from them on easy terms. Alas! as in all other lands— only one excepted — Nature’s divine views have been thwart- ed, her aim set aside, by the malignity of man. As over the broad world, the blight of the despot is upon thy beauty.

Why are these people crowded tox gether—hived, as it were, in towas and villages? Herdsmen, one would expect to find scattered by reason of their occu- pation. Besides, a sky continually bright, a geuial clime, a picturesqueness of scene —all seem to invite to rural life; and yet I have ridden for hours, a succession of lovely landscapes rising be- fore my eyes, all of them wild, wanting in that one picture which makes the rural picture ‘ perfect—the house, the dwelling of man! ‘Towns there are, and at long intervals the huge hacienda of the lauded Jord, walled in like a fortress ; but where are the ranchos, the homes of the common people? ‘True, I have noticed the ruins of many, and that ex- plains the puzzle. I remember, vow that I am on the frontier, that for years past the banks of the Rio Bravo, from its source to the sea, have been hostile ground—a war-border 1500 miles in length! Many a red conflict bas occur- red—is still occurring—between those Arabs of the American desert —the Horse Icdians—and the pale-faced des- cendants of the Spaniard. That is why the ranchos exist ouly in ruins—-that is why the haciendas are loopholed, and the populace pent up within walls. The condition of feudal Europe exists in free America, on the banks of the Rio Bravo del Norte!

Nearly a mile off, looking westward I perceive the sheen of water : it is a reach of the great river that glances under the seiting sun. The river curves at that point ; aud the summit of a gevile hill, have girdled by the stream, is crowned by the low white walls of a hacienda. Though only one story high, this hacien- da appears, from its extent, and the style of architecture, to be a neble mansion. Like all of its class, it is flat-roofed ; but the parapet is crenated, and smal! orna- raental turrets over the angles and the great gategay relieve the monotony ofits outlines. <A larger tower, the belfry, appears in the background, for the Mexican hacienda is usually jrovided with its little capilla for the convenient worship of the peou retainers. ‘The em- b-ems of religion, such as it is, are thick over the land. The glimmer of glass behind the iron rejas relieves to some extent the prison-like aspect, so churac- teristic of Mexican country-houses. This is further raodified by the appear- once overthe parapet of green foliage. Forms of tropic vegetation show above the wall ; among others, the graceful cur- ving fronds of a palm. This must be an exotic, for although the lower half of the Rio Bravo is within the zouve of the palms, the species that grow so far north are fan-palms (chamerops and sabal). This one is of far different form, with plume-shaped pinnate fronds of the character of cocos, phanixor enterpe. 1 note the fact, not any botanical curiosity with which it inspires me, but rather because the presence of this exotic palm has a significance. It illustrates a poiot iu the character of him—it may be her— who is the presiding spirit of this place. No doubt there is a fair garden upon the azootea—perhaps a fair being amo g its flowers. Pleasant thoughts spring up — anticipations. I long to climb that slop- ing hill, to enter that splendid musion, aud longing wae I ~-.

The ring of a code reminds me ef iny duties. “Tis but a ‘stable-call ; but it has driven those sweet reflections out «| my mind, and my eyes are turved aw) from the bright mansion, aud rest up o the plaza of the pueblita. There, «¢ far different scene greets their glance.

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Supplanting the Queen |

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child bought the unfinished pictj* at Landsecer’s sale, and its present own ie , his son, Sir Nathaniel, has commission: } "Mr. Millais to supply a female equestrian}. ure in place of Her Majesty, whose ridin: if ‘ays must be supposed to be over, As th 2) vork isto hang at Trivg Park, Sir Nath»}vel’s country house, which was once givif by Charles IL. to Nell Gwynne, Mr. “}\lais suggested that the “ pretty witty” ‘s PeBS should be painted into the aacant plaxj Ik is not the first time that she has sup; | ab ited @ Queen, :

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