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1!)! c. cnsuncey nrnn.
o, sing, my me, my native land,
The land nf law and order,
Before the blacl(i'uun's traitor band
llad crossed its happy border-
Wheu every frseman’s shout might be,
Give me Death or Liberty!
Then we were great in rank of worth,
And riches sprung mm labor;
Nor yet the Lincoln law had birth,
That we must rob our neighbor-
And every white man's song might be,
Give me Death or Liberty!
0, sing the songs of freedom now,
The song so brave and nlde
liefore our souls had learned to how
To bloody shrines and golden-
Where every mun cried loud and free,
Give me Death or Liberty!
Our fathers’ God, behold the change-3
The Temple Ll!.0l'S are broken,
The altars all are new and strange,
The only watch-word spoken
ls, “ Let Me coward zpliite man div,
(live the negro lilm-ty.”
Up, white men! and throw back the chains,
Torn from hands of slavery,
And made to iest with heavy pains
On you, by cunning l:nuvcry-
Shout the eternal battle-cry,
Give us Death or Liberty!
(Old Gwrul.
TEE BRONZE HORSE.
ASTOBY-0; ITALY.
It is now some eighty years since there
lived, inavast old palace in one of the
narrow streets that run behind the Strada
Toledo in Naples, tho Principe (Prince) di
Eds Silvestro. A very distant relation of
the family to whose honors he had sue-
caeded, ho had passed all his younger days
ll:I obscurity in one of the provinces with
his father, who, proud of his high birth,
but withoiil: tho nioans of supporting it in
the style of his equals, preferred vegetat-
ing in solitude with his only son, rather
than permit. him to endeavor to raise the
fortunes of his liou-a again, by 'cntci'ing
i‘“Y protessiun that might tarnish the
dlgiiity of his ancient name.
shortly after the (loath of his father, the
l’riiico came into his iiilieritanco, which in
reality added but little to his wealth, as lt
consisted merely of the old gloomy Paluzzo
tlavallo, which was much dilapidated, and
l0ia'lly unfurnished, excepting ii law rooms
Wlllcll had been inhabited by the late
Prince<an eccentric character, who lived
E0 retired and with so little show, that it
:as the surprise of every one how he could
We sqvindercd ii. very considerable fortune,
when, at his death, all his (states were
Oltllgcd to he eolrl for the payment of his
.d“l’t“- The new prince removed to Naples
“llmedialcly upon the demise of his rela-
tlgfr thawing lost both his father and his
;‘':-E In the course of tho pieceiling yeah
“i ad now no tie to the country, and was
"‘“WUi5 of giving his son the advantage of
" Wlwrior education to what a retiril
l’“‘VlUCe could allerd him.
theihfy WW0 ‘soon quietly established in
,u co" new ‘bode; Constantino was sen“t‘t-ii
lmloeft and the prince, who was very
“mom huwu in Ixaplcs, continued to live
cam"-as uiiich secluded as he had done in
Pa,n"(')a'O‘ U901! taking possession of the
Km,“ 0‘r"‘:ll‘f. be round that the only
Emu“ I s ancient magnificence con-
,, “ ‘ Va” 338 colossal statue of a
roniie horse, which was placed a h‘
pone Igli
d
W estiu In the ileum of the court; and it
7'Ata.o new we
ti viuuioai'.o;u.F
frequently occurred to him how gladly he
would dispose of it if a purchaser would
present himself, without his pride bring
hurt by offering it for sale.
One winter evening, several years after
his taking up his residence in Naples, when
it was nearly dark, a little old man, bend-
ing double apparently from age, and with
his hat: so much pulled OVU‘ his face as
scarcely to allow shy of his features to be
visible, entered thsi'court of the palace,
and, meeting one of the prince's servants’
he inquired if he might speak with his
master.
The prince, who was disengaged, desired
he might be admitted, and to his surprise
the strargcr (who, by his accent, seemed a
foreigner), apologising for his intrusion.
told him that the reason of his visit was
to inquire if he had any objection to scl
the bronze horse he had seen in the court
below,as he wished to becomeits purcliziscr.
The prince replied that ho was willing to
dispose of the statue, provided a good
price could be had, but that the very lowest
sum he would take Vltls 4,000 l'lUC:ttB. This
the other declared was far above its value;
however, after continuing to discuss ihe
point for some time, he at last offered 3,500
‘ ducats, which the prince ngrerd to accept;
and the old man said he would return on
the following morning to remove the horse,
and bring an order upon a well-known
banker for the stipulated sum. IIe then
departed, leaving the prince very much at
a loss to guess what could have induced
this singular-looliing bring to make such a
purchase; and suspecting that it must he
a hoax of some one who was acquainted
with his necessities, he scarcely expected
to hear anything inure of tho inzitter. How
evsr,naxt evening the old man called at
the gats,und sent up by the porter bills
for the 3,500 ducats, correctly made out
upon the boforeaneiitioiiod b:uikcr, along
with a note from the unknown, i'cqIIc< up
a receipt for them, aililiiig, that he 1::-.<l
been prevented bringing woilunt-ii to carry
away the statue that morning, but that fl?
slioiild certainly return for it on tho‘
iuorrow.
The prince, woll pleased to liud ho was
not to meet with u tllshppolullufni, hasten-
ed to give the desired receipt; but when
the porter dcsrontlcd with it to the court,
the man was nowhere to ho oven, and,
after waiting some time in expectation ol
his reappcariug, he went up stairs ap,-ain to
inform his master of the llxct. llliue than
ever amazed, the prince could in no way
account for such conduct, but ilia next
morning the Hrst thing he did was to go to
the banker's to find out if the money had
been actually placed there. (.l<‘l>lI'lH'y to
his almost extinguished ll0]‘C:', the lJ‘-mlI6l’5
replied that the day befuiu a little man
(answering the description the prince gave)
had called and paid them 3,500 duoats on
the prince's account, and had received from
them a receipt for the same; the signature
he gave seemed some Jewish name, which
none of them had ever heard before.
As soon as the prince had received his
money, he hurried home, with no small
curiosity, to see the mysterious perrioricige
again; but no tidings had been heard 01
him during his absence. The bronze horse
remained in solitary grandeur in his place;
and from that day forward, the Jew. or
NVW Yt LRK, SA'l'UllLDAY,‘ JUNE lt?1864:
Wnucvcr he might he, never’ more made his
appearance at the Palazzo Csvallo. ‘
strange was the event, that the princeicould
-not help mentioning it to all his acquaint-
ances, and much inquiry was made inevery
direction to endeavor to throw some light
upon the affiir, but all in vain ; and after
B time,except by the prince himself’, the
matter was entirely forgotten.
R It might be about five years after the
sale of the horse, that the prince was one
morning awakened in great haste, at the
early hour of six o'clock, by the sudden
entrance of the Abbate Selvaggi (an old
antiquarian friend of his), while he was
yet in bed.
“Get up, get up, myririend,” said be,
“we must go instantly and tX.ElIlll!6 your
bronze horse. I have made 1 great discov-
ery; butl will explain nothing untilwe
have convinced ourt elves with our own
eyes of the extraordinary truth."
The prince ran with the abbate to the
statue, when the priest, after a glance, ex.
cliiimcd,
m
0
eyes 1"
The abbate then stated tathe surprise
of the prince, that he had been just call-
ed to the deathbed of the Tutor of the’
prince‘: late father, and had received from
the dying men A most extraordinary con-
fesaiou in writing. After expressing re-
gret for a deed of guilt committed, the
dying man narrated that he had been
the Tutor of the late Principe di San
S.lvestro, who, many years ago, had cont
titled to him that he had formed the resolu-
tion, on account of a vow he had made, to
lJl.it‘.B two brilliants of ,inimcnse size and
value as eyes in the head of his bronze
ll'll'E0- The Tutor had aided in the act.
and added that ha strongly suspected
that the reason of the prince's doing
so extraordinary a deed proceeded from
a remnant oi‘ the superstitious venera-
tion for horses, which had secretly been
cherished in Naples long after the inhabi-
tants were converted to Gliristianlty. But
if such was the case, the prince never can-
fesaed it. Years rolled on, and the trans-
actio1 remained a profound secret; the
prince was I strange, eccentric person,
considorcd hall crazy by every one, who
passed his days and nights in poring over
ancient lore, and receiving no visitors, uu.
less it was some one who brought him
manuscripts or legends of an‘iquity, for
which he was always ready to give a good
rice. A short. time before his death, the
Tutor used frequently to meet at his
house a little old man of lorelgn appear-
nncu (who, the reader may guess, was the
mysterious purchaser of the bronze horse)
Llu had travelled much, and evidently bo-
camc soon in high favor with the prince,
whom he supplietl with much of his favor-
ite literature, and they used to be shut up
for weeks together over thrir books. On
the death of the prince, the Tutor was
10,000 ducats to lot the other take away
the hrilliunts and keep the secret. The
was the confession.
vmutlon at the Principe aw l'illVcstf0y on
Price, Six Feiiis.
--1-
t-eceiving the foregoing coinniunicnticn
from his friend the sbbate. To hear that
he hndhsen deprived of wealth, protably
more than sullicicnt to put hi-
equality with the ricliestof the Neapolitan
nobles, won d have been a severe trial '0
any one; but the prince had been so lifg
hooustoaied to privations, that he no longer
felt disappointments so keenly as he did in
his yoiungcr days: for his son's salzc alone
he would have desired riches. “God has
so ordered it," said he to himself, with a
high; “I am not born to he fortunate;
however, five thousand ducats alt: better
than nothing, and will assist me in titling
out my boy when he leaves college."
In the meantime the princes sou,t‘io
young Constantine Fiorillo, grew up the
pride and joy of his fun-‘l father, who, by
strict economy, had been enabled to give
him an excellent education ;and gay, haml-
-‘somo, and accomplisbed,he was bt'l0YnLl ‘
all his companions at college, who, ll
:sons of the first nohlossc in Nizplvs, net.
much superior‘ to him in forzuno. 131).’.
,Constantino as yet felt not rho dilllit-use
inf their positions. At college all ui-re
‘equal; and when, at the age of eighteen,
liiiey returned to ‘their rniiiiits, several
young men with whom he had (:l)Ill.l‘t.ii‘.ttd a
“It is true! They have taken outhis 1
tempted by the stranger with an offer of
Tutor yielded; the strange old man kept
his promise, and at once disappeared, leav-
ing his accomplice to deep remorse. This
,warm' fiiendsliip coittinually invited him
to yisit. them; and at length the Duos. di
lLaurino,the father of his most fnvoriiu
‘young friend (who wasiearried otf snddi.-nly
by an illness of'n few days), procured for
‘him the commission his son had held iii tho
‘Gnardio Ccrpo, or King's Body Guard,
‘which was then considered the Lii-nti-egi-
iment ‘in Naples, ‘and only the sons of the
inability were ndntltted into it.
‘ ' One evening, during a very gay carnival,
i lthe young Canto di Lenino called to carry
his friend the Principiuo with him Loa ball
at the Duo do St. Msrguerite's, who axis
then French Aillbassudor at the Court of
Naples; and on their way Ihitliur, iliu
Count exclaimed gaily, “ Prcpirc to sur-
render your hitherto iusciisiole heart IU‘
night. Constantino. i am going to show
you the prettiest girl that has nppnarurl
this winter, the beautiful Cecile do Monte-
mar-only do not try to supplant me, as I
fully intend doing her the honor of iniikiug
her Otmtsssa dir Lesino. My father has
iven his consent to the uuitch; she is the
only child and heiress of Muusieiir do
Munteinar. a stranger Fruuchuian, vrliuas
wealth, report says, is imnicrisr."
The hall had commenced, for it was lute
when the friends arrived; and the Count
hurried forward in search of the sublet-tot
their conversation, leavin Cuiisluiitiiio
standing near the door, quietly waiting for
the conclusion of the dance. A frien lil-
trcduced him to ayoiiug lady of surpass-
ing beauty. It chanced to be Mvidenmiscllo
de Muntemar, and the young prince daiieod
with her, to the auuiiratioii of all, boiti
being alike perfect in the exei-cine. lint,
to Constantino‘: surprise, M. de Montcuiur
at last hurried up and with soinstliing liku
auger and rudeness, placed his duughteriu
charge of the Conte di Lcsinn. The ball
had no further charms for Ctlnslantlrie, nor
did Cecile do Montemar herself appeal‘ lb
relish, her change of position. During the
continuation of the carnival, ‘CugieIanl!l-0
had opportunities of seeing Leo-I19, “eds
strong mutual passion sprung “P LN!“ 39‘!
them; but the young lldl’, "‘l‘"“”d mm 9‘
a peculiar personal aversion expressed for
him by her father. ‘mm this time their
intercourse was half a ‘secret out-, and car-
ried on thrnu h ilis kind Duchess dc St.
Marguerite. t ha the effect of firmly‘
"vetting the chains of love, in the
both, though that love was still unn unwi-
gdgQd, Meantime, the Conic iii I.-einn
It may well be imagined what was the
Goyiiisuod, the fatticrls‘ avowed in-.w.iil.>.
i (1-0 as com-ixivrii.i