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hand at gambling,-She loses.-Ash Wednesday in Lima.-Priests,

Señoras, and Señoritas crossed with lamp-black.—Saya and Manto, a

dress peculiar to Lima, and worn in the world nowhere else.-A

beautiful woman receiving the dark cross upon her brow.-The priests

receive it on their tonsure.-The Palace of the Viceroys.-PIZARRO.-

His assassination and Mausoleum.-Cathedral at Lima.-One thou-

sand and more images.-Vault and bones of Pizarro.-Indulgences for

the benefit of "blessed souls in Purgatory."-The great altar and cedar

choir of the Cathedral.—The dead house.-Convent of San Francisco.

-View of the city of Lima from it.-Distant worshippers at matins.—

The young Franciscan wearing shoes too luxurious for his order.-San

Domingo.-Lima, as seen from San Domingo's spire.-One third of

Lima once in the hands of the religious orders.-Corridors, columns,

dormitories, and friars.—San Pedro.-A bed of relics (were there two

or one?) encased in glass.-An image of the Saviour, sorrowful and

sad. The worshipers venerate it-put their finger on his, and lay it,

if tall enough, in the palm of his hand.-Some creditable paintings in

San Pedro.-The Courts of the cloister, corridors, and gardens within.-

Poetry and romance in these ; and silence now where once was greater

life.-The Inquisition.--Disquisition on the tendencies of the Romish

Church.-Destruction of the Inquisition at Madrid.--The Archbishop's

Palace. Sic transit gloria mundi.-A night-walk to the Rimac-

Scene of Rolla's rescue of Cora's child.-Procession of the Host to the

Lady Infirmo.-Hats off and knees a-kimbo, when the Host and the

Priest in procession go.-Last night in Lima.--The Watchman's cry,

"Ave Maria Sanctissima."-Return to the Frigate Cumberland, the

Flag-Ship of the Home-Squadron, off Sacrificios, near Vera Cruz, 78

The Fleet off Vera Cruz.--Anchorage under the lee of Sacrificios -
The Northers,--A small specimen of one experienced.—Sacrificios.—
A stroll on the island.-Origin of its name.-Temple for human sacri-
fice.-Now a burial place for the interment of the dead from the fleets
of different nations.--French monument.--Mollusca.--Portuguese Man-
of-war.-Sea pitch.-The Sabbath, March 22d.-The Lieutenant, with
his prayer-book.-Lines-Tell me ye winged winds, know ye one hap-
py spot ?-Woman's influence.-A seaman's burial in a squadron lying
at anchor.-Flags half-masted, according to naval etiquet, by the

Engish-Catholic Spain and France omitting it.-Spirit of Popery-

It hath no charity-has refused burial to the Protestants.-Some in

the Episcopal Church, in America, in their love of assimilations to

Popish ceremonies and mysticims in doctrine, understand not the ten-

dencies of Roman Catholic institutions.-Liberty of thought and action

not an element of the Roman Catholic system.-Science, and the ad-

vance in the correcter developments of the philosophy of the mind shall

finally overthrow the present system of Romanism.-A scene at mid-

night the American Squadron at anchor off the Island of Sacrificios

-stillness the night-watch-all's well-the stars that look tearfully

on the sad, and joyously on the happy.-Musings.-Lines.-Letters

from blessed home.-A movement of the ships.-The Flag-ship of a

sqadron the centre of interest, information, and movement in the fleet.

-The Falmouth getting under way. The Potomac and the Cumber-

land. A Frigate espied in the distance at sea.—' The ships come up—

salute and the Frigate Raritan joins the fleet. Takoluta.-Water-

ing.-Landing in the surf.-Visit to the bamboo Village.--The Al-

calde Church.-No School, nor Bible, nor any who can read it in the

place. The cross, a substitute for all other theology, and worn as orna-

ment and protection from all evil.-A stroll on the sea-shore.-Dan-

gerous passage through the breakers on the cutter's return to the ship.

-The ships' return from Takoluta to their olden anchorage, under the

lee of Sacrificios.-Salute to the King of France on his birth-day.-

Vive Louis Philippe.-Ships again in motion-pass the Castle of San

Juan de Ullua-put to sea-and anchor, at length, off the Rio Bravo

del Norte.--Things in doubt as to the intentions of Mexico.-Her

public men talk patriotically, and they may fight, though American

Congressmen, with their Texas-loving spirit and great complacency in

the powers of the United States of North America may think the sup-

position of a war with such a feeble people as the Mexicans preposter-

ous.--Let the American Government take warning to act justly, by the

looming destiny of Mexico, which, under the distributive justice of a

ruling Providence, seems to be, final dismemberment and cessation

to be,

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Battles of the Rio Bravo del Norte.-The Squadron's opportune arrival
off the Brazos de Santiago.-General Taylor leaves Point Isabel the

Passage of the Cumberland from Pensacola to Vera Cruz.-Ships over-
hauled and vessels brought to.-The peaks of Orizava, snow capped,
in view. The Cumberland nearing her moorings under Green Island,
is met by the steamer Princeton.--The Princeton a phantom ship--
mysterious in her movements, beautiful and efficient.-The Cumber-
land reducing sail and coming to anchor.--Ships of the squadron un-
der Green Island.--Raritan-Mississippi-Princeton-John Adams
-Somers-Potomac.-Fourth of July.-Salutes complimentary, from
the British, French, and Spanish ships.-Her British Majesty's Coro-
nation Day.-Commodore Conner's Fourth of July dinner.-Cap-
tains Fitzhugh, McCluney, Ingle, Forrest, Dulany, Aulic, and their com-
mands.-Music of the Band.-Watering of the Princeton.—The grand
battle of the Squibs.-Religious services on board the steamer Missis-

SANTA ANNA. His career and fortunes.-Pronunciamentos in his favor.

-Still at Havana.-The town and castle of Vera Cruz pronounce in

his favor. His expected return in the British Steamer.-Commodore

Conner, it is presumed, will intercept his return and bring to the

Mailer. The Steamer arrives.-Santa Anna not aboard of her. An

other Steamer will arrive the succeeding day with Santa Anna.-Will

Commodore Conner secure the Mexican General ?-A Steamer's

smoke descried in the offing.—Is spoken by the Saint Mary's.-Stands

in towards the city of Vera Cruz, and anchors under the battlements

of San Juan de Ullua.-The fort opens in salute.-The town returns

it, declaring the arrival of Santa Anna again on the shores of Mexico,

either for her weal or woe.-Did the American Government give the

Mexican General a passport ?-Echo answers, yes.-War still carried

on between the Squadron and the Coral Reefs.-The Brig Truxton

"annihilated."—A probable tramp through an enemy's country.-Lieu-

tenant Berriman and Lieutenant Hunter reach the Flag-ship in boats

from the Truxton.-The Captain and crew of the Truxton under flag

of truce, give themselves up to Mexican authorities.-The Steamer

Princeton goes to the relief of the Truxton-fires and destroys her.-

A relic from the Truxton to the Author.-COURTS MARTIAL-One of

many-Its beginning and ending.-Charges and specifications against

S. Jackson, seaman.-Sentence of the Court.-Approval by the Com-

modore.-Commodore Conner's general order directing the sentence of

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