The Manatitlans

he pr?tor and Correliana paid us a visit. After salutations of r

of our families shall have ceased to tax your anxious care, we will then endeavor to make you sensible of our gratitude through the warmth of affectionate reciprocation. For the present we will ask you to assume the responsibility of your own entertainment, for we are utterly powerless for the fulfillment of that

irection, for we have already learned to prize its transmitted agency beyond measure, as it exceeds the power of material recompense." Then taking the pr?tor's hands, he continued with glowing warmth and tearful emotions: "Indeed we feel assured, beyond the possibility of selfish reflection, that in preserving your people, we have acted as agents for the openi

dents uniting in the choral anthem of thanksgiving to the Creator for blessings vouchsafed with deliverance. At its close, we were apprised that it was their morning and evening cu

ntaining a plentiful supply of grain, so much needed by the famishing Heracleans. "Unable to withhold the elation of joyful surprise I embraced them, and could not resist the pleasure of bringing them to receive your personal acknowledgments for their timely supply of food." The pr?tor and tribunes, having been informed of the Betonges chiefs' introduction into the city by the mayorong, with the supply of food they had brought as a voluntary peace offering, hastened first to the hospitium, and then to the quarters of the corps to give them a fitting recept

"You have been puzzled," she continued, "with many mysterious passages since our first introduction, which have appeared more unaccountable to reasonable suggestion than this, still in due time they will be as readily solved." After a lengthened conversation

your own kind, he urged that any further attempt against the city would result as in the battle they had just fought. His collar investment was, in their panic, a sufficient verification of authority, and although a victim to your sorceries they proclaimed him an embogator, or prophet itinerator of the tribes. His description of the effects you produced upon him, conjoined with the padre's fears, has established your reputation as a magician capable of filling their bodies with tormenting scrouls, or

at from thenceforward the gates were to be left unclosed, they fired a salvo of a single discharge, then limbering up the howitzer stowed it, with munitions, in the keep of the gate tower; but asked permission

wounded Indians, or bold in assuming the responsibility of introducing the Indian chiefs into the city? "For with truth, he says,"-she urged, "he would

n the first. I will own frankly in self-reprobation, with the belief that the self-reproof includes all except your own kindred, that my thoughts were altogether diverte

u have spoken according to my desire, but you must not forget that the members of the corps were fewer in numbers than ourselves, and were expec

passed them with as much indifference as we left the severed serpent. Now that we have seen the effects 105of your unselfish sympathy, we cannot w

ver Indians?" With Correliana's asservation, that the Heracleans were so universally indebted to the united members of the corps, and its adjuncts, the personal distinction

of self dependence. The households enlivened by their reappearance, assumed the renovated impression of a happy vitality breathing outward for the kindred invocation of reciprocal goodwill. Correliana, with renewed vivacity and mysterious facility, had conjured the abi

mpendic ejaculation of the padre, in sanction of the 106corps' expressions of happy satisfaction, will prove ample for the exposition of the prevailing impressions of renewed goodwill. "By my soul's salvation," he exclaimed, "I have by the same tokens come to a belike conclusion! For surely I would have as soon thought to see the lion and lamb lay down pea

smoke a weed? The padre happily averred, with a blush, that he had neither tasted of spirit or tobacco si

on, "had you no fear

et, notwithstanding the good example of the Heracleans! Why not let bygones be bygones? My

necessity of its future use," suggested Mr. Welson. The padre closed the sally port of b