orture, the soldier who passively obeyed, the mother who bore
him, and the sisters who once loved him, all joined in denouncing him as an
unparalleled monster; and of the whole Paraguayan nation there is perhaps
not one of the survivors who does not curse his name, and ascribe to his
folly, selfishness, ambition and cruelty all the evils that his unhappy
country has suffered. Not a family remains which does not charge him with
having destroyed the larger part of its members and reduced the survivors
to misery and want. Of all those who were within reach of his death-dealing
hand during the last years of his power, there are but two persons living
to say a word in mitigation of the judgment pronounced against him by his
countrymen and country-women."


General Joseph Warren Revere.

The late General Revere, one of Morristown's old and well-known residents,
wrote, at the close of his military and naval career, a graphic and
interesting book of travels entitled "Keel and Saddle; a Retrospect of
Forty Years of Military and Naval Service"; published in 1872 by James R.
Osgood of Boston. Another book appeared later, called "A Tour of Duty in
California."

General Revere tells us in "Keel and Saddle" that he entered the United
States Navy at the age of fourteen years as a midshipman and, after a short
term spent at the Naval School at the New York Navy Yard, he sailed on his
first cruise to the Pacific Ocean on board the frigate "Guerriere",
"bearing the pennant of Com. Charles C. B. Thompson, in the summer of the
year 1828." For three years he served in the Pacific Squadron. After
cruising in many waters and experiencing the various vicissitudes of naval
life, in 1832 he passed his examination for lieutenant and sailed in the
frigate "Constitution" for France.

During this Mediterranean cruise, when he made his first visit to Rome, he
saw Madame Letitia, mother of the first Napoleon, by whom he was received
with a small party of American officers. We shall give this scene as he
describes it.

In this book, "Keel and Sa