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HE NEW WORLD.
[MAY 28, 1842.
with heavy machinery from Vera Cruz for l'actori-s
near Mexico.
I must not forget to mention one redeeming spot in
thisgloomy evening. Happening to look back as wu
were near the summitof the mountain, I caught a
glimpse of the plains and hills over which we had
been all day toiling. The view was uninterruptcd :
below its lay valley upon valley, in one long,gructvl'ul,
descending sweep of woodland and meadow, until
they dwindled away in the sands is east, rind the
whole was blent, near the hori‘vvitli the blue
waves ofthe Gulf of.VIexico. Just then tht‘ sun broke
out from the region of clouds which we were rapidly
approaching in our ascent, and, gliding for n l'nDm(‘nI
the whole lowland prospect, I could almost fancy I
saw the sparkle of the wave-crests, as they broke on
the distant and barren shore.
there for two weeks, during which he had scoured
the mountains in every direction, and believed his
district to be free from robbers. Cigars would not
avail us this time; his men were tired, and he,coulll
give us no escort.
Night soon fell dark and coldly around us. In llteso
elevated regions the air is nipping; but WC dared not
put down our coach-curtains for [car of an attack.
We therefore put on our overcoats and cloaks,and laid
our guns and pistols on the windows John, the old
gray hero, was on the lookout, with his blunderbuss
on the box; and the driver promised to have an eye
to windward.
Thus we jolted on again, almost stalled in places,
and anon in sudden smooth rlescenls swinging along
Elntibents of Gfranrl.
TRAVELLING SKETCHES.
BY ALaxAjns DUMAS.
Translated tor the Newmrld, by 2:. 5. Goals, Esq.
THE BEARS OF BERNE.
A t.‘oNl-'t‘<lnx' tifsoitnlls, prtlliiteetl by many hundred
voit'.t=s, a“'iil(l’lIt‘(l us at day-brruik : on going Iu the
rtuln tht- onuse, no discovered that a
IIDH “'9
window to a
fair was held in front oi‘ our llOll"l. The t ,
experienced at being thus earlydtsturbed in our slum-
hers was dissipated by a glance at tlte pielurostltlc ap-
pearance of the public square, filled as it was with
peasants in their national costurne.
I had hilltetln been much disappointed to find lhal
our Paris llishiuns invaded all Switzerlandrnot only
iii the higher classes of society, who are always fore-
most in abandoning the usages of their ancestorss
but even among the peoplv, the more scrupulous pre-
servers of ancestral lradilian. However, I was nou-
lndenrnitietl for my lllSl1p[IDinllIIt’nlSZ here were col-
lccled together, in all their cuquctry, the prettiest
country-girls of the cantons adjacent to Berne. Ilcre
were the Vaudoisc, with short hair, her rosy checks
shaded by a sugar-loaf hat; the Friliuttrgtan, with no
other bonnet titan her long Iresses of lurir twimd
three times around her head; the Vt-iltiisian, wlto
carries by the way of Mont GL'II1lTIl, with a curve of
the neck worthy a marchionoss, and her little hut
edged with black velvet, whence depends to her shoul-
der a broad ribbon embroidered with gold; and, final-
ly, in the midst of th , and more graceful than all,
the Bernese lmrscll‘, her little coil" of yellow straw
with a rapidity, in the dark and moonless night, that
seemed to threaten our destruction over the rocks
Six--seven:-eight-half-past eight o'clock passed
and no robbers yet, tltouglt there had been several
false rilrirnis. The road became worse and worse-
the coach heaving over the stones like a shi i a
head sea, and the driver being actually obliged to de-
scend from his seat and feel for the track. We saw
were.
mine imaginable. “A mighty bad road, sir," said
" something black,” and away trotted three-cows!
after John spoke of the “ mrneth
enough to make one a little nervous, boxed up with
nine in a coach. on a dark night, on a bad road, to
he shot at by “something black ;" but when the dnn- and clapped our hands as we might have done at the
ger is passed, and the robber turns out to be a mert-,i- theatre when the rising curtain discovered an admir-
t'uI cow, one feels just about as ridiculous as he had ably executed scene; then,lighting ourscgnrsin token
I therefore uncncl-ted my gun, put tin: of brotherhood, we srillied forth and accosted two of
these young men byinquiring the way to the catliorlral.
felt nervous.
muzzle out of the window, and, keeping my hand on
the trigger, resigned myself to a nap that had been
threatening me fortlie last hour. I never went aslct-p
so quickly, not slept so soundly. Jolts, pitches, losses,
nothing woke me until a rough voice bellowed
in my ear-“ There they are l” I was nwnkr in an guide us to the place-
inatant! I moved my thumb to cock my gun, when
lo! I found myself disarrned. The coach was at a
stand-still, lights were around it, and strange voices.
“ Where are the devils?” said I in my confusion.
It was a minute before I could shake off the op-
ltreuion of my deep slumber, and then found thitt
I-vs, the seamp, had quietly pilfered mygun during
my sleep, and that we were waiting while the guard
at the Garrita of Xalapa examined our--way-bill I
In a few moments we were again en route, and at
LANNO POMPEI.
on nuaist; A1‘ ‘run sins TIMI: -me NEW! or AN ot.n Marts’
wsnntrvp-inn -rm: nsrmi or A votrrit.
BY WM. YOUNG.
Tim King of tenors and the Prince of Hearts,
When constant use had bluntedall their darts,
c
It? for have the Youth is strucitngy debt
:is a busy Parisian would have done, one of them re-
plied in French, brmidly accentuated with Teutonic,
it this way, genIlt:lnan,” and set. all‘ in front of us to
before one of those complicated clocks, to the deco-
ration of which a mechanic of the hfter-nth century
would sometimes consecrate his whole life. Our guide
smiled and sail ,
clock strike.”
steeple [lapped hiswings and crowed three times. Im-
mediately, figures of the four Evnngelis-ts issued, one
halfpngr nine, we mun] in", the mun yard of 3 by one, from a niche, and each struck a bell with the
most excellent Inn at Xalapa, where a capital meal, hummer he held in his haud- Finally. While the hour
that served both for dinner and mwer, seasoned the was striking, and simultaneously with the sound ofthe
joke of my dextereus robbery, and 1 was soon in as tirst stroke, a small door beneath the dial opened, and
sweets sleep as had blessed me with unconsciousness a strange l‘l’0’395“l"“ hesan 10 5Pl‘9M‘= moving in h
during the last hour of our perilous ride. semi-circle around the base of the monument, retiring
- e by an opposite door that closed on them just as the
IMITATION OF THE ITALIAN of: (;[v(). striking of the hour terminated.
tinn which the Bernese seemed to r-vincc for blurs.
While entering the city on the previous evening, by
the gate of Fribourg, we observed that the portal watt
guarded by the collossal statues of two of these ani-
mals.
morning, we passed on our left a fountain surmount-
ed by a bear arrayed in the armor of a knight, holding
I-1 banner in its Paw, and at it.
a page, standing on its lunrl-t'ea-t rind eating it bunch
of grapes.
merit ofa monument in the Place des Grenicrs two
filled with tiowrrsllkc a basket eoquettishly placed
on one side of her head, her light hair escaping in
two long tresscs behind,a knot of black velvet on her
neck, her sleeves wide plaited, and her waist eni-
broidered with silver.
Bernc the stately, Berne tlte sad, llerne the aged,
seemed to-day to have arrayed herselfin festal robes
and jewels: she had strewn her women in her streets
lights dancing over the heath in many places. and it as a belle scatters roses over her ball-dress. Hersom-
was surmised they might be signal-lights of robbers, bre and vaulted arcades jutting over the ground-floor
and alter due consultationit was determined that they or her houses, were animated by the crowd that pass-
As we approached them they proved to be edgaily along, relieving with its gay colors the demi-
“fire-flies." We felt for our percussion caps, and tint ofgray stuns; and, here and there, rendering still
found them rill right; and, at that moment, the coach more apparant the liveliness of the inotelyshades that
was brought to a dead halt in the blackest looking intersected each other in every direction,were groups
of young men with small leathern caps, [lowing hair,
John, from the box, cocking his blunderbuss-“ and collars turned back, and blue surtouts plaited on the
something black on horseback, just mhendttt A hips: German students were these, who, at a short
whistle among the bushes: crack, went the whip un- distance 05. you might imagine belonged to the Uni-
tnercifully over the mules, and, at ten paces, up rose varsity of L9iI’5iC or Jens They 510011 r-bout, tallrintl
with immovenble countenanccs, or walked sobcrly
Iconfess to a little anxiety, as I cocked my grin, ulous two by two with virus in their mouths. and
in; bloc .” It is wearing tobacco-pnuclies, ornament-id with a federal
cross.
At seeing all thiswe cried bravo! fromthewindow,
Instead of pointing out the direction witlt n finger,
After proceeding about a hundred steps, he stopped
-= it you will wait a moment you will hear the
As he spoke a cock that surmounted the little
We had already been much struck by the venera-
tlreni waspourlng fi-oin n cor-nttcnpiu, the treasures of
commerce amid a group of maidens; while the other
was graciously extending a paw, in token ot’ alliance,
to a warrior dressed like a Roman of the little of
Louis XV. And now we had just seen a procession
ol" bears, some playing on all kinds 01 musical instru-
ments, and others gravely marching to the music with
caruhines at a shoulder, emerge front and re-enterthe
bowels ot‘ a clock! Dccniing the cause btttllcient,
we here gave vi-nt to an irresistible burst of laughter.
our gnitlt-., :t(‘t'ttsIttmPtl to lhv srglit, laugliml to sue
us laugh, antl, far from living nlllandetl, so-t-tiled dc-
lielitell with our good spirits. ‘Vt inquired wlvy
lllest‘ animals-not llitht-rto rcgartlt-d as models oi"
grace or politeness-were so variously multiplied in
Bcrnc; and whether the citizens had any motive for
admiring them beyond the tluality of their skin and
their meat.
Tlu-y answcrt-ul lllat hears were the patrons of
Berna.
I then rccollrctcd that there was a Saint Ultra in
the Swiss calendar, but I had alwayssupposed him to
belong lo IllL‘ biped species, although his name miglu
warrant adillerent conclusion; and I s sled to our
guide, in a civil way, that St. Ours was the patron of
Solt-urt-. and not of Berne.
Idle replied that, owing to his little acquaintatlce
with the French laligungz, he had called bears the
patrons instead ofthe sponsors of the city : and to the
latter title they had an incontrstible right as tht-ybad
given the city its name. He then proceeded to state
how this event took place.
The city of Borne was founded in the year 1191.
by Berthold V., Duke of Zozringcn. ‘Vhen it was
built, surrounded by walls and enclosed by gates, he
busicd himself to find artamc for it with the same so-
licitudc as a mother seeks 8. name for her first-born.
As, however, he was unable to decide this important
matter without assistance, he invited all the nobility
of the environs to a grand dinner, at which the ques-
tion was gravely discussed. The feast lasted thrce
days; but at the expiration of the lime nothing had
been concluded on. One ofthe guests then proposed
that on the marrow they should have a grand hunt in
the neighboring mountains, and the name of the first
animal slain should be bestowed on the city. The
proposal was approved, and at break of day the wltole
company set forward on the expedition. After an
hour's chase, a shout of victory was lit-ard; the
lntntsmen rushed to the spot and learned that one of
the rluke’s archers had brought down a stag. Ber-
tliold was much disappointed that the skill of his scr-
vitorshpuld have been wasted on so ignoble a beast;
and vowed he would nevergivc to his good and wt-ll
fortified town the name of an animal noted for its
cowardice. The chase was therefore renewed, and
toward night the hunters encountered at bear. He,
thank heaven, was a creature tltnt could not compro-
mise the honor of man or city. He was therefore
destroyed without mercy, and the new capital was
baptized in in blood. To this day, a stone erected
about a (platter nfa leagiie from Bernc, conhrtns the
authenticity of this tradition by the following inscrip-
tion in old German:
r.rzar Ilrl-Ill. max rnu.
i. e. Here the lirut bear was Ialtrn.
[is nothing could be urged against the credibility
of such testimony, I gave my word tltutl implicitly
believed the student's story-wliinli, by the way, is
but a preface to one still more orignal, that shall be
related in its place.
Meantime, we had ivenrlcd our way toward the
cathedral, and now stood in front of it. It is a
Gothic building, and its style is worthy of notice,
though not conformable to the architectural rules of
its date-since it presents, despite its quality as me-
tropolitnn church,but one steeple and no lower : and
even the steeple is truncated at the height of about
two hundred feet, which gives it the appearance ofa
vast sugar-loaf, clipped at the top. The aniline was
commenced in the year I421, after the plans of Mat-
thias trains; he having been chosen as the architect,
in prelcrence to a competitor whose name is forgot.
ten. The latter rlissembled the resentment he felt at
being disappointed; and when the building had at.
tained a certain height, he asked permission of Mat.
Ihias to accompany him to the platform. Matthias,
suspecting no harm, acceded to the request with an
alacrity that spoke more for ltis vanity than his pru.
dence; and he proceeded to point out in detail the
work that his rival hoped himself to have directed.
During the short walk we had taken this
feel a cab hnbitcd like
We httd also seen on the scttlplurcd pcdi
T uuri h , . , ,
L wliunt V a 5.“, [MIME h in ‘h M h '1 being aupporllng thn illlleld of the town, like two unt-
hmreatb. 2 iwho an an M corns upholding a.’ leudal blazon: moreover, one of
As his visitor was profuse in cotnmendations, Mat.
tltinsinsisted on showing the more remote parts of [be
building; amt, to avoid a circuitous route, he .,.,,,,,1
himself on a single plank, that spanned an ahym nr
Pilate lirtlan sixty feet deep, bidding his companion
n ow mi. At. the same instant, at loud scfealn
rchotetl through the walls; the unfortunate Matthias
ltadllalltkllll from the plank l A week after this, the
rigs arc itect succeeded to the dead man's vacated
o ice.
We ncwproceededlu what is called the Terrace‘
aprotilenade that burmounts a wall of solid Illaeulllyi
more than a hundred feet in height. This wall IS the
dividing line between the upper and lower mun. it.
base l.)L'illg the level of the latter, as its Sllfllnlll is at
lllP former. The lower town having l'tL't:n ltttilt ill
the foot of a hill, this wall became necessary to 1'11‘
vetit the ground above from sliding. The View rrnu.
this terrace is very fine. The ruofsor Illc lionses, lat
below, are spread around like u vlicqtlotetl (‘nT]lv‘I-
and at intcrvi-lls between them IS on tho Am-, a
rapid and cnpacious streani that lakes its‘ IISU in the
glaciers of lrinau-r.Anrlun-n, and gird. lit-mo on evvry
side. Above, the (iiirthen arises somr lour tlltmsuml
feet, and serves as n guiilu to the cyt' rnuurtt are up.
niense chain of glaciers which shut in the hot as
St iyh ti wall of diamonds-a dazzling rampart, buyout
which the imagination maypicturv in irsrll’ tilt‘ world
of Ill!‘ Arabian Nights: at girdle or ii lllollsztlltl litres.
that in the morning sun surpns;-t-s nll tho splcltrlnrs of
the rainbow: a fantastic palace that, alter tmvii and
plain are buried in the shades of evening, istor a limi-
radiant with the ys of expiring day.
A stone stand in tllc middle of the Tl‘l'l’ltCt‘,llt’.ltitlf.!
aGormaninscription nfztnevt-.nlullrittstniil-lirlllous. A
fierylt0rSe,thalilSritl('l' could tltttt'estI'i.titI,pt'L pil.llt'tl
itself from the platform, and of course took a pt'rpt-'I1-
dicular leap ol'mort- than a huntll'edl'ect : yet, though
the horse was killed, the rider tnpvtl with uni...
The following is a translation ot
slight contusions.
the inscription:
“ This stone was et'et'teti in honor of the alrulgl ty
power oftiori, and to transmit a t-ccnrrl of it to pos-
terity. On the izfuli of Illay, llirll, Tlieolinltl l‘Lirn-
zmpt-li leaped from this spot to the ground bt-lou : nt-
ter this he served the clturch as .1 pn.-tor for thirty
years, and he died at a great age, and in the odor pl
ranetity, on the ‘?’)ll't of November, lfitl I.”
A poor woman who had lN'(‘n (‘()H(ll'IIIl1l'Il to tho
galleys, induced by such: proccdcnl, ttnllerlook ii..-
same feat to escape from her guards; but, less rm...
nate than V'einztcplli, she was tl‘rt$lI(‘(l to ]llCl"L'5 on the
pavement.
We next sauntered toward the lower gate, and on
our route passed a small Gothic inn, having a boot tor
a sign. As this did not seem a very appropriate big):
for n wine-st-ller, we irltplil'cd the reason ol in. liciliig
there, and heard the following tradition:
Henry IV, in ll‘.tl2, sent Bataompiori-c to I3Cl’l‘ih‘, as
ambauador to the Thirteen Calilons, to I'('l!l‘“‘ the al-
liance that had been sworn to in 1.352, l.)I‘IW<‘('n Ilenry
Ill. and the Conft-deratioli. Bassontpil-rrc, by the
ttpenness or his cliaracter and rlir loyalty in his nego-
liations, succeeded in retrieving the llbslliclcs to this
undertaking, and rt-tilining the Swiss as the allies
and iittlltful friends 01' Frilncv. At the moment of
his departure, as he had mounted his horse at the
door ol this inn, the thirteen deputies of tho Catllnns
approat.-bud him, racli holding in his hand an oner-
Tliuy
tcviderrutrlr, to drink with him the SliI‘IlI[l-ttllp.
ntll-rcrl a toast to France, and, simultaneously
Iltcil‘ thirteen cups, emptied them at udruitglrt.
sottipierre, astnltnded at this unexpected r-iv tv,
could dcv' -e but one metliorl ofrcturnintv it. Ilo ur-
dercd his boot to be drawn off by his srpiirc, anti
cnusr-d thirtt-en bottles of winc to be ponretl into it:
then, raising this impmvisktl goblet to his lips, and ex-
t-laiming, “To the Thirtot-n Cantons 1” he r:VVaIl()“'tr1l
l.ht' (‘mire pntntion.
The Swiss thought that France was worthily rep-
resented by Basrlolnpierre.
Going onward, now, from tht‘ inn with (hr Iloot,
we took the direction 01' the promenade ll!) Pllngi.
Here we found a large assemblage of people before
the Aarbcrg gate; and when we inquired the reason
of such an assctnhling, we received for tlllswvt tlicsc
‘W0 W0Yd5i “ The Bears,”
We went on till we reached a paropr-t around
which some hundreds of people were loaning, and
whence they were watching the nirs and graces of
four monstrous bears. These animals, divided in
couples, were lodged in two large apartments dug in
the earth. walled at the sirlesanrl paved at the bottom.
. .l‘he spectators were amusing themselves by throw-
ms tarts, apples and Cakcs to the bears. The first
thins that I saw thrown down was seized and devour-
ed by one of the monsters without opposition: bill it
was not so with the second. As the brute H sell
ltimsell‘ leisurely to take possession ofthe fruit, anoth-
er individual, whose rurml could not recognize by
mum of the azililv of his motions, issued train a
small hole in Il1E wall, pounced on the apple tlndci‘
the very nose of Bruin, and re-entered his hiding-
place amid the shouts and applause ofthc multitudt‘.
The W" moment. the head ofa fox, win. in sharp
eyes and black, pointed snout, showed its.-It‘ at the
orifice watching the opportunity tomake another sally
at ‘hf’ expense of the master or the cnstlu.
“us apparition gave me a strong desire to Set! the
eutperiment renewed, and] bought some cakes that I
"usht Ilractiee it in my own way. lleynard, Win) in.
doubt Euesscd my intention when he itaw me ht-ckolt
to the huckster-wontan, fixed his ey ea intently on inc