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16 and the garters of the bashaw, whose person he was anicious to secure. Suddenly raising his bugle, the shrill blast was answered by the wild shouts of his men, who instantly commenced the work of destruction, and the thousands encamped
the old walls of the Invalided, and then the fled drums came slowly and solemnly up the aisle. Ai last the coffin came in sight, borne by several of the marines of the Belle Poule, and some of the old invalids, and the four corners by his old friends Bertram!, Marchand, Lascases and . The coffin was covered with purple volvet and a large while cross, and the Imperial Crown was laid on it covered with black crape. The moment the coffin passed, there was a strong demonstration of enthusiasm and acute feelingi every one rose up and bent foreword, but not a word was uttered; a religious silence prevailed. In fryniof the magnificent white and gold organ was erected a large platform for the musicians, and as soon as the.Body was brought up to ihe choir and the mass began, Mozart's celebrated Requiem was performed by nil the principal singers of the Italian and French Operas. An interesting sight also was the arrival of the venearble old Marshal Moncey, who had long since expressed his ardent wish that he might live to see this day.— He is in a very infirm stale, and they say has been nursing himself with great care, to be able to encounter the fatigue of being present to receive the remain* of his beloved master. He arrived in a chair on wheels, and was with great difficulty lifte i up the steps into the chair. It was a curious incident in the beginning of the day to see the little bustling M. Thiers, strutting about in his cloak, and collecting a crowd around himiis the middle of the church to hear him inlk to M. JVIole, as if he had been in a saloon. The crowd augmented every moment and on every side people whispered voyez the cour autonr de M, Thie'rs. I must not forget to mention the effect of the altar, which was glotious : numbers of silver hanging iamps, of the most elegant form, were suspended in front of it, and the altar-piece was'of silver,'a sort pf chiseled silver on purple velvet ground. On each side of the altar and on each side of the catafalque were tribunes and benches: in one of the tribunes hung with purple cloth, were the king and the ministers, and in the other the Infanta of Spain ; and every part of the immense building was full from 9 in the morning till half past 5, in spite of the cold which was intense. The colJ was indeed bitter for those to whom tickets had been allotted for the tribunes that occupied each side of the aveuue leading up the esplanade of the Invalides from the quay to the great gate; hut the crowd bore the biting frost wiili patience, for it was decidedly one of the best positions for seeing tne funeral procession pass., The stands, were already filled by 11'clock, and It was uot until 2 o'clock that the procession procession reached ihe quay. Never was sight during this interval of lllree mortal hours, less appropriate tothe occasion than the spectacle now before us. The intense cold rendered movement necessary for fear vf being frozen to the spol, and to keep themselves warm, the spectators in the stands began to dance. The mania gained the crowd below, and for along time the troops of the line apd the National Guard, were joining in one general contrcdance, or an enormous ronde de la miin. This preliminary orgie while wailing for the body of tiie great hero of their nation, and in &e face of the long line of statutes of their greatest warriors, struck us peculiarly French— perhaps we "mean inconsistent, apropos of the Ion? line of warrior statutes that lined the avenuT, the idea struck as good. Those heroes he- -t'oes seemed placed thereto recieve the last, perhaps greatest warrior of the nation, as he was restored in death to his country. Tbey may have b°en coarsely executed for the greater part, but thi? succession of warriors, from Charlemagne and Clovis down'to the last Generals of the Empire, llaced upon the passage of the Empwpr to salute hima s he passed to his last horre, was well con- Cfivcd. But why place the Emperor near the end! of the line, in- his imperial robe.«, to greet himself! A gamin near us shouted, as the processiop passed, TUns ixMa comme I'EmpeleTrfaitlaqueue'alui meme?' Till the procession really reached this the hours of impatient waiting were really Ion?; the dancing however, which we have already described, whijed away the time oPsome, and the cannon fired from the first court of the Invalides, every quarter of on honr, seemed to warm the hearts, if not the limbs, of the others. . . , For our parts, the cannon had one great ad vantape: the rich clouds of rolling smoke that they had sent forth bid from our eyes for a time the bare poles and skeleton scaffolding of the hairdraped spars thatVere announced in the program. me as a triumphal funeral entrance to the lavali- Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Serials Collection THE GEM AND LADIES' AMULET. 17 des. Nothing could be more paltry, more ugly, more disgraceful than this ragged-looking curtain to the great drama that was to be acted. Ten workmen might have completed in time what it was impossible for three to finish, as they went through their lazy movements seemingly as if they had received orders not to have it done in time.— The very fire-pots that occupied tripods at the top of the two entrnnce gateposts of plated half-gilt wood seemed as if they too, had received orders not to burn and only to smoke. The same ordre dujour was zealously observed by the other candelabra that alternated with the statutes along the avenue leadine to the Invalides, and that smoked instead of blazing, and went out before the procession reached us, had cleared up beautifully. A small quantity of snow had fallen, but the Heavens did more for the solemnity of the ceremony than man had done. The day, as far as the season of the year would-admit of, was a day such a $ proverbially graced Napoleon's fetes in his imperial splendor, and greeted him again as he received his last honors. We lu at 1 it called a Napoleonic day. From the point of view of the esplanade of the Invalides the coup d ceil of the procession was magnificent. It was perhaps the best sittuation for" seeing it pass. The sight was really grand as the procession headed the funeral car along the vista leading to that splendid building at its termination. The funeral car we have said —but this epithet might have been left aside, for, splendid as was the machine that bore the Emperor's coffin, it was a triumphal car, but had but lew attributes of a funeral nature. 0cLectcb fttiscellant). From ihe Hartford Review. SAM PATCH'S LAST LEAP. The memory of Sam Patch will live forever!— Associated, as is his name, with the Falls of the Genesee, whose terrific waters go in their majestic thunderings down the dizzy depths of one hundred and twenty feet, into the awful chasm that engulphed his body from all human- view, it becomes a part of their history, and form an era and an event which cannot be overlooked. The following description of his "last leap," which occurred at these Falls ten years since, was written by a gentleman who witnessed his airy flight, and may be depended upon as correct. " Some things can be done as well as other?/' said Sam, and as the last words died upon his lips, he leaped into eternity! If our memory does not fail us, it was in the fall of 1830 when Sam Patch made his appearance in Rochester, N. Y. to take (as he said) his " last letfp ?? over the •Gene-see Falls. He was just in the prime of life, well formed, a,nd. possessed that bold and reckless daring so necessary to accomplish a feat fraught with so much danger as the one he was about to perfoim. Perhaps it may be well here to observe that in the spring previous, he had jumped these falls and came out below with safety, and without any apparent injury; otherwise it might be supposed t hot he was insane, or intended suicide. At the appointed time the people began to assemble in large numbers from all directions, the old and the.young; and among them might be seen many who had come from the adjoining towns and villages, all pressing on with eager haste, each anxious to precede his neighbor, in order to secure the most eligible position -.their faces beeming with, joy and pleasure, in anticipation of viewing so novel .und interesting a scene. The banks on each side of the river below the falls, which are-from 100 to 125 feet in heiiht, were completely covered with spectators. Some of the most darinsr in their anxiety to obtain a place from which they could have an unobstructed view, forgot for a moment the danger to which they were subjecting themselves, and stood upon the very verge of the precipice, while the timid and cautious occupied the more elevated and less dangerous positions. The. roofs of the houses, the window?, and every accessible nointfrom which a view could be obtained, were literally crowded; probably presenting one of the most animated nna lively scenes ever witnessed on the banks oi me ThTprint from whicli our adventurer was to make his descent, was a small » ^ * u * * about midway of the river, on which brink of the.precipice was erected . feet high, making an elevation of 120 the water below, the falls being at this place 98 feet in height. All were impatiently awaiting his arrival, when his coming was announced by the loud cheering of those who had assembled on the island, which continued but for a moment, then all was silent. A few moments elapsed—he then emerged from tho ,multitude-T-ascended the ladder tp the top of the staging, approached the edge of the platform, and surveying with scrutinizing glance the gulph below, apparently lost in thought and contemplation of the frightful part he was about to act, and the fearful consequences that might folkw. Bu», as if recollecting himself again, he stepped back* turned and addi essed a few words to those who were in his immediate vicinity, bid his friends a last farewell, and with one bound cleared himself frqm the platform and descended into the waterj^ element below! A splash, a few ripples on the water, and all was over! Every eye was riveted on the spot, gazing with the utmost anxiety, expecting every moment to see him rise to the surface; but alas! they were doomed to disappointment ; nothing was to be seen but the agitaled waters, and not a sound was heard but the continuous roar of the rnishty cataract. Soon the awful truth flashed upon our minds that he had fallen a victim to his temerity, and sunk to rise no r/iore,, and this was truly and emphatically his " la-at leap!" Search was immediately made for his body, but it was not found until the next spring, when it was picked up and interred on the shore of Lake Ontario, near the mouth of the Genesee river. In the New York Mercury, a popular writer called " DQW, Jr." weekly exhorts its readers.— They are quaint productions, and have the air of novelty, as well as originality. The moral is good, and the similitude is an easy and natural one:— " My friends allow me to show you how the human body is likened to a house. My text explains this. It says that the big bones are the main timbers, very true. It also says that the ribs are laths, well plastered, but I should say that they aie rafters that run into the ridge pole or back bone. The mouth is the door, and the nose is the chimney—especially for smokers. The throat is the entry that lends to the kitchen of the stomach, where all sorts of food is cooked up; the lungs are the bellows that blow the flame of life, and keep the pot of existence always boilinc'; Ihe' heart is the great chamber, where the greatest variety of goods imaginable are stored, some good, many bad, and a few rather middling. " In this way, my readers, you see the house of the human body is formed; and since it is a house of no small value, you ought to be careful of it, keep it well swept, and never let cobwebs of sin gather in the corners of its apartments. I bescec!^ yo\i especially, to look after the great chamber oV the heart, and see that every thing there is arranged according to the very letter of morality.-— If there be any useless rubbish there, clear it out to make.room for goods that are saleable in the markets of t!>e virtuous. The chambers of some hearts presents an nwfully dirly appearance! I should like to walk into them with a bran new broom: the wny I'd brush out sin, and sand thf floor with virtue, would be a caution to depravity!*' MANIA A POTU.—The New Orleans Picayune after Some thrilling lemarks on the awful misery to which men subject themselves by. seeking oblivion from care, in the artifical exhilaration of spirituous liquors, adds the following dreadful description of a person whom the editoi had seen rendered demoniac by excessive intoxication: By an accident we yesterday stood with chilPd veins and staring eyes, witnessing a spectacleof this kind. We were in company wilh a phiyMciati at a moment when he was called upon to administer relief to the victim. In the corner of the room we found the tortured wretch, crouching and peeping fearfully through thernhgaofachair, at a swarm of flying snakes, which he said 'wert darting through the room in all directions. Bloated terror was in his countenance. 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