Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 30, 1876, Page 10

The Mongolian Invasion of Our Pacific Coast. i One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Chi- nese Now in That Section, How the Coolles Look When They Lund upon Our Shores, Aud tho Manner in Which Thoy Are Taken uoder the Care of the Bix Oompanies. nL Special Correspandance of The Tridune. 8aN Francisco, Sept. 21.—Durlng the years 1873, 4, 5, and up to Aprll of *6, our Celestinl blessings fell thick and fast; and the arrival of a blue-buttoned Mandarin to declara California a Ninetcenth Province (for * Thirteen Provinces," montioned in my first letter, read * Eizhteen ™) ‘was looked upon as a matterof much likellhood. ‘Then the malcontents who are to be found in the best-regulated communities—including, T suspect, even that of Chicago—began to ralse elderly Henry; called the influx of the mild- mannercd Chinaman A ''MONGOLIAN INVASION:" drew dismal pletures of the misery and hard times to be expected when we wers " rulned y Chinese cheap labor;" the Chronicle—a paper remarkable for sleuthhound persistence—fling- dog such alliterativo epithets at John and his fellows as * Tartar tribes” aud * Heathen hordes.” Then, Press leading Publlc, the ¢ity became really exeited over the mat- ter; the 8ix Companfes kicked over thelr equanimity bench, and set the tele- raph vigorously and warningly to work; whilat 8o gencral and intense was the antagonlstio— not to say incendiary—sentiment, that, had Xerosens and derringer (modern for torch and Dblade) started Into active and most mischievous use, 0o one would have been much surprised. Very fortunately, such a deplorable actlon dld not take place; the Pacific-Slopers remeombered their pew digaity—and thelr old shame; whilst such heedful attentlon was pald to the Compa- nfes’ messages by intending immigrants that cach stecrage-pnssenger llst ever siuce would ot _cover s TRIBUNE wrapper. Whilst 800 to 1,100 men and boys erstwhils came per steamer, aow less than 100 pigtail ~ pendulums swing over the pangway-plank on to tho dock of the Pacltic Mnfi camship Company on the arrival of ench Chinese mail, ‘Tho best idea of tho rate at which Canton and the regions round- ahout have been decimated of their youth and beauty will perhaps he gathered from the fol- lowing table, showing the arrivals at and de- partures from San Francisco DURING THB FABT TEN YEARS: Arrivals. Departures, R X0 3,111 R . 11,081 4 3,260 4,800 0,805 7,710 4,305 49,801 100,084 QU BN vvervaas srvevanssessonne vrasessa00,078 Durkog the Jears 71 and *72 there was an- other chronic “Chinesc scare,” and a corre- wuml!n;{' decrease of iinmigration} but, as may hu seen from the returns of tho three following t‘uunhthu subsidence was_only temporary. Bo, 00, the present fulling-off is due to the nmsnnl citewent in the matter, and Messrs. the Six toinponies are qulctl{ awulting the deatl, or rather suspended anlmatlon, of o fusa. For lh?{v shrewdly know that, though Senntorlal wnd Congresslonsl Committees may meet and favestigate, and though leugthy newaspaper- orrespotlence on the subject may be entered into, nothing can be donc until the natlon's flelepates glt aguin, By that time our lnocu- (ated bretiren may bavo rlsen ts un extrn 10,0003 for we have our spring imporis and fall aports, HBeven-teaths of the Chinese come in the first scason of the year; for, In the apring, young Ah Jim's fancy Lrightly burns with thoughits of trade-dollars, The{ return {n great numbers during the fall, 10 be back ip time to enfoy the New-Year's fus- tivities. As the usunl perfod of thelr exile s from five Lo reven years, it will perhaps strike jome of your readers that the taxpaying Huit of twelye, fixed by the Companles (and men- loned in the preceding letter), offers another gnm[flnnrhenmcn cuteness not to besncezedat. Betting the round number of Chinesc on the Joaat at ONE MUNDRED AND FIPTY THOUSAND, fith perhaps s extra thoueand scattered hroughout the other Btates, 83,000 of these ive in Ban Franclsco, The women number wer 2,500, of whom not more than WO can be set down as virtuous. Latterly balf-tickets have been freely ssucdy thelr bolders, added to s uumerous Jan Fraudeco breed, would number 2,000 chil- Iren, neurl{ all of whom arc to be fonnd on the dreete of this clty. All Callfornin housckeep- ze make use of the class-name *China boy; " wnd, ulthough Sir Quibbler might rcasonably ‘alie exception to the noun mmde adjective, Mrs, Housekeeper Is only bulf wrong,—a fact sn which she can rest with glory, With the w, though powerful, exceptious 'of tho mer- sunts, Lrokers, physicians, priests, nnd Com- 2uny potentiaries, all tha uew Chineso mnale Im- migrants are boys, rwlnu from 12 to 20 years 3t age. Of the 1524 men, women, and chil- dreu, calculated tobe on the Paclic Const,— which extends from the bordera of Britlsh Co- fumbla to those of Mexico,—fully 105,000 are to be found In this State, The Coolle, o his arrival i port, is ANYTHING NUT AN ENCIANTING OBIECT} yet the best fdea moy bo obtalned of the sort of unimal ke {s then, by followlng and notlug him from the steerage to the cellar. As soon us the steamer touches dock, the Inspectors of the varlous Compnuies clamber on bourd, generally uwccompunled by un elderly female pnrt{ or twa, with an umbrells in one hand, a sitk pocket- banderchief in tho other, and o wicked old amfle ona witked old face, The Coolles are fulhcn:ll together en bloc, very dazed ond sheep- lke. The Inspector calle out the name of his Company, and cortmin bumans stand out and aside, until the wholo consigninent §s fiuuped w:onlln¥ to the number aud pame of & cous{guees, kHere, you would {magine, lvs an excellent u’zportum'? for fixing u little decp- er Interest fn Jobn on the Cotnpanles than they are wout to profess, Put the fdes into a clmrfio, and you are immnediately met by the plausible cxplanution thut the Coinpaules aro all named After certain distrlets around and near Canton} aud thut theso divisions of the flock arc only ovidences of o very prulseworthy conslderation on the Companles part for the lkings and pro- Judices of clanship, ~ Nothing could be clmpler! I have already safd that JOUN'S LARES AND PENATES 8o not fill a Suratogun space. Indeed, to be Hlteral, bls household-gods walnly cunslet of & little * pot-bellied jous in one corner of ® suall black box " swung on this end of [y bamboo pole, and sume puts nnd bedding nmn‘z ‘an that. Innlnufil coutinuous string they file out, and, with a fal l»urini. incessaut and tmodulated to the kes ofa BAW-S| I;{pea:r’s nusic, are plled':J l&odylnu ,hlg'- Eugt, Into the express-wagons walting for theni, on which they all take u ride, Togemh 1o there {8 a gulde, who mounts beside Jehu; sud, though that expressman makes a period- fcally g thing out of these arrivals, ho rat- tles thelr hones over the stones,'” and asphalt, and plank, and carbollzed bricks, and cobbles whd ite blocks, and patent frauds,—all o wh e to be found {u the length of one Sun Franctsco block,—until La 'fuuu sod bodles are set down kerchunk, with ull the cackle knocked out of the one, and the tacklo loosvned off the other. A QUEER-LOOKING 8T they are. Thelr boots, of course, thick-soled wnd toe-poluted; sometimes wrinkled socks, sometimes nune; thetr trouscrs, very loose lml y of some thin callco stulf, and renching but Just below the knce,—thls eurtness belng explained by the extravagant length of thu ‘wing-liks slceves of thelr sacques, the hands euining just where an elbow is expected to be— at wid-length; these Lands, when they do creep out grimy and like claws; their heads covered with a broad-flapped hat, shaped like a ponnd- vake; sud thelr faces guiltless of any expres- slons save those of stupidustonlsbment or atolid gnurance, No one—uot even a misslonary— twuld clalm for theso lowest specimens of a raca szh!nu but an extruvagaat extension of that [t :Fhunl prineiple, that all wen are brothers. ¢t these people, bly o trick of spt imits- slon (in which thiey are [ike monkeys), and the |abl|: h“ low-Uying (ln which they uro Tike rate), er the MOST FORMIDADLE OSTACLE TO INTELLIGENT WUITE LABOB that ever any young country fostered. Mean- while, 'figu»-luul ter wagoo-load [T emptled duwn the cellar set apart for thelr lodg- ng nd there, where ‘‘higgledy-piggledy packed they lfe," I leave them. Meanwhile, ton, our elderly female friends have not been idle, They have gathered nuder thelr protecting umbrellas the few or many young girts just arrived: and, aometimes In Tiacks, or, If Ih expross wagons, theu \with some care 88 to the scating arrangements, they are trundled-off to the barracoon, where thcy are taken charge of until let out, This part of the subjeet I always approach with unwilllngness and leave with pleasure,—putting off the con- sideration of a most borrible trafllc in women uatil & *more couvenicut a¢ason.’” . P. Queue. —— PITTSBURG. Conditlon of tha [ron and Glass Industries. #Hpectal Corréspondence of The Tribune. Pirrssune, Sept, 2.~The (ndustries of the Smoky City are not In so flourishing s condition as they might be. The two leading intercsts—iron and glass—are faring very differently under the same outward cireum- stances. The iron-nflls generally are running, and this fall finds the trade more active than at any thne In the past two yenrs. Competition is lively since the dolng-away by the Western Association of the restrictions governing prices, and, among manufacturers here, it fs **Every man tor himself,” A verylarge amount of fron 1s being shipped in the aggregate, but the profits are small. Prices are fully $8 per ton less this year than last; but the volumo of trade, belog Etulnr. in o measure compensates for this,” Cuielly where paying profits are realized sin the manufacture ‘of specialtics,—oll-well supplics, drilliug tools, ete. “The late riee In oll gave to this branch of tho trade an impetus which lins not only outlasted the brief term of excitement attendant upon the occasion, but is kept up, aa it were, by the orosoect of fresh discoveries of petroleurn in other flelds, which makes the demaund for well-supplies at this sea- son more netive than it hos been for years. In the gencral trade, bfi’ the low prices, thieercction of fron buildings s encouraged, and much of the {ron sold here Is for that purpose. ‘The window-glass trade Is in a discouraging state. There {s astrike among the * tending boys,” which keeps twenty of the twenty-one factorlcs of the city ldle,” with no lmmediste prospect of rcsumfn& The trouble grows out of the nction of tho Western Window-Glass As- sociation, at its meeting held In Angust last in Chieago. The Assoclatlon then resolved to pay the “tending boys " thereafter 55 per cent u¥ the wages of the blower. The avernge pay of the latter Is $125 n month, The bovs formerly have been pald by the month,—8067.50, The work they are expected to du requirea not only skill, but eare and patienee,—care in gathering the molten glass for the blower in & manner that will not cause it to blister; asud paticnce to remain at their posts, i(cep an oye on the melting process, when not oceupledin attendance upon the blower. A carcless “tend- fng boy," conscquentiy, has u"ln his power to muke the most skillful blowet turn out bad worlk; and, In such event, the lossis to the blower, and not to himself, To devise some measure which shall make it the Imry'u intercst to bo careful in his work, and his dfsadvantage tobe the contrary, the manufacturers have been discussing in their muetings from timo to time for severnl years, The plan adopted at the Chicngo mecting {8 considered o most effective” one, but the oglporl.unny has not heen had to tryit. Sept. 15 was the day set for resuming operatious In the fuctories (after the annual stoppage of two mouths for repair and recuperation); but the bovs at once ovganized in opposition, and at present show no signs of viclding. The operators are rcsolute in thelr course, announcing that the factories shall stand idle all winter, and lon%r Il necessary, but they will effect thefr end, One_bouso only {8 run- ning, and that under adifferent arrangement from what {8 fixed by the Association. ‘The window-glnse trade this year is far short of that of 1876, An idea of the diffcrence inay behad when it is stated that ot this timo last yeur there was mo stock in reserve. At the present time the stock on hand fn Plttsburg amounts, in round numbers, to 110,805 boxes, On Aug. 1 tho number of hoxes in the Assocla- tion, which Inclndes several manufactories out- elde’ Pittsburg, was 227,003, On Sept. 1 this number bad beon reduced £0200,713,~moking the number of boxes sold fn August 37,280, Count- ing twenty-one firms in the Association makea the average sales of cach house in that month a trifle over 1,200 boxes, With the ()rcwnr. dull demand, the stock on hand {s consfdered ample to supply the fall and winter trade, aud oper- ators arc Indlferent whether they resume this winter or not, The fimmediate outlook is very unpromising. F. C. L. e — VULCAN, To the Editor af The Tribume. 8T, Louts, Sept. 27.—The nstronomers of yonr vicinity are unnecessarily exercising themseives about the planet ** Vulcan." The recent calt of M. Leverrler upon European and Amerlcan observ- ers to keep a sharp look-ont for o transit of that planet ahout tho 2d or 3d of Uctober next showsa lamentable lack of {nformation on tho part of the savant, when In this part of the connery the where- abauty of Vulcan have been accurately known for somu time. Prof. Pice, of this city, has caleulated the orbit, distance, and magnitnde of this mythical body, and bases ali his metcorological farecast up- upon the_equinoctial pussages and nodes of the planet. . Tehas vuy freqiently seen Vaioin at bis observatory, near Cheltenham, {n this county, e bas often offered pome of our most leading citi- zens to tuke 8 peep st tho stranger aud his invitationw bave been gladly accepted; and many 20 eve which had beheld wondorfal things in ‘this wor{d was permitted to gaze upon this last and reatest. The Professur makes tho tine of revo- ution aronnd the ain about twenty-three dave. This differs somewhat {rom thut deduced by hypothesls, which makes itfearly thirty-ulne days, But the discropancy, If true, §s not of suficient importance to deter tho Professor from making hin regular Vulcanlan cquinoctinl forecasts. The Pro- feasor makes Vulcan about 45,000 miles in dlame- ter, Thiu magnitude, If the plunet In equal In denalty to the otber members of the solar wyetem, would'make the distance between it and the wsun greater than nu)pnml, and therefore glving a greater angleand n better opuortunity for obaurva- tlon. No doubt correapundonce wilh thoProfessor by ouir pstronomers would soon put Lo rest this vexed nuestion. o, Answeg.~If #Tyro,” or Prof. Tice, will for- ward to us information which will enablo the astronomers of our vicinity to ses Vulean from Chivago, we can promise him that the planet will bo sought for, In the positions Indicated (weather permitting), and that Tnuz TmisunNe will do full justico to Prof. Tice as the dis- coveror of the Intramercurfal planet. Prof. Tieo has not hitherto received that credit, be- cause, 80 far us we are nware, the aatronomical world hus not received from bim the informs~ ton nucessary tp enable othera tian himeelf to see the planet.. This Informatlon ought to have been furnishod long ago; but “better late than never.” ——— APOSTROPHE : 1876, Columbla, All Tail! From the depths of ¢ "Tho ek clouts of Tyremny TAang orer iae world; T hiow comest, the promise of poets and ) An Back: 5o chaos tholr thandars ara b rled ’rhouNcn‘\rt;t, the First-Born of Tine, a Free atlon— Thy Infancy chaatened by deep tribulation; Thy Childhood mads uce by the hearvs dedlcs- tlons Vouth girt Thy“\n}a‘l‘lm ‘{11 with strength, and thy banners Columbla, ANl Taill As we view from this moun- tuin, ‘This Century's helght, thy long valley of t This ;u-u:l hat nufi' nullnd‘lx:m:yl!: ear] ountaln, ~ n;’mm'mm atorms, oud thy hopes amid obre,— Now nurotchilug thy borders from river to occan, Ta "I'L?m the far kingdoms shall seek with devo. on, — Our sol ll:'mrn to thee with sublimeat cmotion, Thou, boundless ju greainess, tu gooducss, In years, Cnllm:}:lfl. Al Hall) And Thou God of All Na- TN Ye any scls, ye souls that have mounted the akles, Yo patriots, martyrs, oh says fromn tewptations, What conscle: ds and what houor denles; Oh,,uid us in love, uud by counsols paternal; Insplre us with virtus aud knowledge supernal, That Liberty's Tfln’:ll ahall Liore ba eternal, That fames fromn her altars forever shall rlue, c“‘““'{{,‘,jafl' Uall! Ob, how grand and how Thy name, und thy lands, and thy peoples shall Whunw\i'h:nm and Justice shall bear thee vic- U, A lilm::l among Nations, bright, happy, snd re Equality then shall h bl meaanre: Tflvn Labor re‘Jnlcl n’fi:: cnul.;."l‘::'d Pleayur Religlon unfold ber ull ‘Heaven-ysruiahod treas- And uu'd. Man, aud Angels be honored In thee, Columx;. All Hafl! For, though late came the And loug king the Day-Star all trembling sad pole, The dfi'kneu now files, and the splendors of morn- % 8lioot over the hill-tops, dow: Tl F Ir):edum"n falr h«ghur‘}“{'l‘fi;‘é:fiu’:‘-fi:- nuer; Let Muulc sud Poesy volco thelr hosannay Lot hearts beat in worshlp, let tongues speak In honor: ‘Ihou beal-born uf Heaven, Columbla, All Halll . EoMuEn 8, Horsaoox. scarcely be safd knowledged, invarlably precedes the introduce crs to thn Sovereign, a religious and wilitary ceremony, and only the prieatly and warrfor castes of the vonquering riteo rre allowed fo witness it aceount n which subjects aro held that the presence of any of thein at the conaccration of their Boverelzn wonld be rescnted a8 & contamiuation and sac- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THE NEW SULT. His Investiture with the Sabre of Osman. The Procession to the Mosque of Eyoob, . and the Ceremonios There. Correspondance London Times. ‘THERATLA, Scpt. 8.—1 went yesterday to sce 28 much as I could see of the famous ceremony of the Babre. That ceremony, s you have otten heen told, corresponds to the coronation orcon. secrntion of Western Monarehs, and (s Intended to confer on the Sultan the commend of the land and sca forces of the Emplre. Abdul Hamid I1. 1s numbered as the thirty-fourth reigning Sovercign of the dynasty of Osman, the warrior chlet from whom the Turks take that name of Osmanlls by which they prefer to designate themaelves. Osman's aword, or scim- fter,—ny gacred a relic as the ofl vial at Rhcims or the Iron crown at Monza,~has followed the destinfes of the Sultans from Konieh, tho an- clent Iconium, the first stage in their carcer of preatness, to thelr subsequent acats of Govermment at Broussa, Adrianople, and Constantiuople, There lives at Konleh an old Sherlff or Imam, the descendant of an anclent sovereign race who walve their rights to the throne in favor of the house of Osman, just as the Dukes of Medina Coell renounce thelr clalms In favor of the successors of Charles V. THE MOSQUE OF EYQOH, whers this consccration s held, riscs in the centre of the village of the same name, o strag- gling suburb of Constantinople, near the upper end of the Golden Horn, outside the Adrianople Gate. times, and here the garrison of the Capital of the EasternEmplrotind their placed’armes, or parade ground, outside the walls, called Campo, where every new Sovereign upon his elevation was proclaimed Emperor by the soldiers. early {ncursions of the Arabs of Mahomet thess conquerors repcatedly pushed as far as Con- stuntinople and laid siege to the city, and {t wus in one of these encounters that Eyoob or Fob, o companion-in-arms of tho Prophet, and his standard-bearer lost their lives, in the year of our era 008, Seven hundred and elghty-five years later, when Mahomet IL took Constanti- nople and chose it as the seat of his Empire, he looked for the grave of the old Arab hero and salnt, and, on a spot revealed to him in adream, bullt a musque of whits marble, where all his successors, cxcopt those who, i met with a premature death or deposition, re- cefved thy The spot was uninbablted in anclent In the ke Murad V., INVESTITURE OP THE SACRED SABRE. ‘This solemnity, without which the Sultan can to be legally installed or sc- tion of the represcatatives of the foreign Pow- The investiture is purely Eyooch Mosque is forbidden ground to the non-Mussulmats at all times, and especially on this solemn ocearion, but some European Clirlstians are sald to have smuggled themselves in more than once, thelr curlosity making them recklcss of the danger ‘o their ives, It {s n striking evidencdof the little uite one-half of tha Ottoman rilege. . Public curlosity, raised by the oft-repeated announcement of the investiturc of Murad V., and ballied fo the end by the lingering {liness and the eventual deposition of that unfurtunate Prince, might be expocted to rovive on the ac- cesslon of his suceessor, Early in the marning I went down the Bosphorus fu's calque with an English gentleman, and we wera TIE ONLY TWO RUROPEANS rivileged to awglt the Sultan’s arrival at the anding-placo of Eyoub, On the landing-place . were drawn up the Sultan’s hatberdlers, in flam- ing scarlet coats, and wearlng tasqies sur- mfi;:ntm.l by cnormous plumes, some of them Wi fan-like, nppendages at e back, that they could only with the preatest difeulty be bal- anced on the woarer's heads, The Bultan's churger, 0 superb Arab, more than 15 honds high, milk white, and exceedingly well broken, was being walkied to and fro. Doth sides of th street wers lined with troops, the post of lionor being ullgucll to the ve? fine men of Count Srechonyt's Fire Brigade, Further on were cavalry and mounted zaptichs, In the middle of the strects groups of Lushas of various ranks ‘were swarming, passing and rep‘ualnu before 2 dingy litle almlp where tha Minlsters were graduslly assem :l'lm: und sitting on the hard villatious square stools with W'lh'll frequentera of Turkish cafca and coasting steamera beconie only too scon acquainted to thelr cost, for the art'of sitting ia still Iu Its fofancy fn this -coun- try, and your true Osmanll BTILL PICEFERS SQUATTING. Among the Minlsters I notied Ahmed Kausserll, of the, Marine, Redif Pasha, of the War Otlice; and, presently, Mid- hat. The Graml Vizier was abscnt lbmugh- ont the day, owing to indisposition, Rouna the Minlster's circle In that dark hole of a shiop, burcly nine feet by six feet, stood cer- tuln strapplng ragamuflins, most of them in their shirtsleoyes, Ilstening to, 1 not actuall; Joiniug in, the ercat men's conversation. A telegraphic messauze was handed to the Seras- kivr, who, after opening it andreadiug it, passed it over to Midhat, the two exchanging glauces and smiles which struck us as mutual congratu- latious on good news recelved, Thewalting was ‘""5’ aud the Pashas, tired of the delay, pro- ceeded to indulge in smull Jokes and evén mild chafl," neither wore nor less thau If they had beun European schoolboys. At lust, about ha!f-pnst 1% the troops fell in thelr rankas the halberdiers cave o lust tap to thelr rnhull]nua cnsguea; the band struck up o lvely march, und the Suitan's calyues, unan- nounced by the cannon, Frubably owlug to con- trary winde, hove {n sight, Six calques, rowed by thelr white-clad crews of stalwart Afimn(mm, two of them surmounted by a gorgeous golden cauopy, from the last of which TUE SULTAN ALIGITED, and was soon [n the saddle, pacing lelsurely before us on his way to the Mosque. Ho hnit on a brown mantle, between tho folds of which shone the rich golt of his uniform, sparkiing with dtainonds,” On his bead bie wore the plain- cat fez, without algrette or any other ornament. Hu was barely at two yards' distance from g, and could " note every featurc of his faco—a longz, nurrow head, astern, resolute expression, indieative of cuer- fii'. intelligence, an carnest nnd not very placa- ¢ disposition, It secmed to mo the counte- nauce of a ruler capablo of much zood or much evll, but knowlng his own mind and determfued to huave hie own “will. Then thers was an ale befitting o high-bred man, consclous of himself and bent on exacting his due, Ile came on ‘:nxln;: to right and left, ltting hia right band to his beardless chin and atroking it for composure, und avaldiug all acknowledgmient of the cheers with which the soldicrs and the Prslias greeted bim. e rods on ull alone in the multitude which pressed on his horse's heels and followed Lt to the Mosque, Under the leadership of a cayuas whom the Grand Vizier had Jent us, we presently forced our way tiough the serrlied rouks of the soldlery, grosscd the never- ending village, and weutup to some tenta which had been reared on the bll, one tent belng re- acrved for the Diplomatle Budy, who attended in plain clothes, and avother for other wotablli- ties, uatlve and forelrn, Under these tents and on several hundred stands lining both sldes of the rund were a multitude anxious to sce the processlon as, [ssulng from the Mosgue, it wend- ed s way to Constantinople. THK CERUMONY and the accompanyiug prayer within the Mosque were of o loug duration,” We tud bardly taken our places uuder our tent when some’ school children, boys and girls, begun to sing, the Nutes of thoruthless niusic, startiing the zap- tiehs' Lorses und golng through our ears Mke a knife, The Toremnost v of e cavalende then approached—first & squad of mounted zaptiehs, thun a company of blue Ule- e} later snother of gray Ulemasy then again a third company of green Ulvmas, First those of the third, next thoss of the sccond, and last those of thy tirst rank. Church digniu.ies were mixed with the Ulemns at varlos intervala, Without unfl Intelllgible plan or order cume the Vashas, biizh and low, some unnoticed, others poluleJ out. la the Knowiug men among the crowd, und halled by the nunes of Izs Pashia, Kballl Pasha, Kasutheodori, Redsf, Midhat, Duevdet, Balvet, ete., Mintsters, Marshals, Un- der-Becreturies, ete., all riding two by two, all or most of them well-mounted, all conspleuous for much gold lace on thele conts, for the orders on thelr breasts, —aw above all, for the lfurg:uumuu A variety of fhe tmfaglngb and vaparisons of thely steeds, Wouderful 10 sy, the Ulemss hud by fur the best horses aud were the bust riders. ‘Thelrs were also the loftiest stutures, the ne- bleot bearivg, and the grundest costumes, Thiy wua cspectally the cuse with the green Ulemus, who wore long, fowing robes with cuurumus’l‘{ lurge sleeves uud lhuge bands of cloth of over their thick green turbans. Of the Pashas, ou the coutrary, mauy were smull und wean- Looking mues, wiid thelr seat b horssback seewi- feathery #0 heavy “offor ed unsteady, one would say ALL THR GIANTS ENLIST FOR TOR Chuncn, Jeaviug the mers pigmica 1o Ve drafted futo In Turkey, as in France or italy, the ariny, Hoth of the churchimen and of the mifitary many were old, and needed footmen at both stirrups to guani them againat any untoward consequence of their liorsvs’ freaks. ‘The man, perhaps, who clicited the groatest outburat of the laales’ admiration, both by hia rmml costiune, atl white, and by his skiliful horsemanship, was tha Sheik-ul-Tslam, Iassan Kalroullah Effendl. A squadron of mounted halberdicers, a kind of body-guard, preceded the Suitan, who had dofTed his cloak and rode alone, his %{uld and jewelry elittering in the sun, his hawk-like face atill grave and scvero, but more composed than wheu he first faced tho crowd—a face uninoved, a bust unbent by nckuo\\'lmltg- ment of auy nian’s salutation, apparently with no speculation n lis eyes, with uo 'n»cmptlnu of the highest of his subjects, or of the might. fest antoniz the representatives of the European Powers, and o appreclation of the bare fnces, tho clegant tolletle, or the beamlng smites which thie European Indles had got up to grace his progress. There Is A PRCULIARITY IN TUE SULTAN'S PACR that it seeins 8o to reflect the humor of the Inner man a8 to make him look older or young- er, according to the moord that sways him at ditferent moments. A friend of who was near him on Thursday before last nsacried that ho could bardly hinve reached the Bith year ‘which he compléted on ucsdnf. ialberdlers, then After the Bultan came moro other troops of all arme, and Turkish ludies carriages, pressed all round by the mob, which tuvaded «ll space life an overwhelming tide. All those people were Tollowing the Padishah to Constaptinople, where he had stiil to visit the Mosqué of Baliomot I, and the sepulchral monument of Abdul Medjid, his father, bofore ho was allowed to go lhiome to Dolniabatsche. But by this time It waus past 3 o'clock, and we were too dusty and hungzry to trudge along in the rear of tho pageautry. Perhaps it was owing to tho atiffness of = the Soverelgn’s demcanor, that all enthusinsm in the heart of his subjccts was chilled; perhaps, utter apathy and listlessncss are charncteristics of all debased races; but it Is a fact that wher- ever I was I heard XO ORNERAL AND POPULAR APPLAUSE greeting the Sultan on his appearance, nelther wus there anywhere so dense a crowd as I ex- pected to sec brought together out of the ‘POE ulation of a vast C‘gplt . This mlfi;ht partly bo owing to tho circumstance that the procesaion had several miles of the town to traverse, und was probubly awalted by the multitude dls- tributed at all poluts along the line of march; but nefther on the banks of the Bosphortis nor in the thoroughfures adjolning tne bridges of the Golden Horn did T percelve any very extraordinary concourse of persons, nor were theré very many caiques on the waters, What tho peopfe lacked in genuine feeling, however, {t made up for fu uncouth nolse and unseemly behavior. Sum upall that the worst purlleus of Naples or Madrid, London or Dubiln, can muster, and you will never make up auch & rabblo for rags and_dirt, for pushin; and hustling and rude horseplay as tho City of the Bultan exhibits, The contrast between the frold lace of the Buvereign, and of his pricstsand soldlers, and the aqualor and wretchedness of 80 large n.mass of the peoplo {s something ap- rnlllng. and one wonderswhether it at all struck he Sultan as themost glaving fact facing him in his t.rlumrlml march, nud whether he even dreamt that it in auy maoner concerned him to Inquire fnto the cause of the ovil and to devise the means of effecting its cure, ———— THE PACIFICATION OF GHENT. ‘The Bpectacle on the Laat Day of tho Fates. - Correspondence London Timen, . GnENT, Sept. 10.—The last day of the fetes of the Pacification was the grandest as a spectacle. ‘The crowd was enormous, and the pageant had. the framowork which a great show wanta in thousands of euthustastic spectators. Tha SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, wealth acquired by modern industry, the ple- turesane architecture bequeathed from the Mid- dlo Apes, the asspciations connected with the long history of the capital of East Flanders, the serlousness engendured by the presont state of politics, combined to produce an effect which will not soon be forgotton. Deeply-laden boats shot scross tho canals, Gothie windows wero crowded with womea and children, mon stood upon the house-tops, and fn the Place d’Armes mrfl:fiu& were drawrn up threo rows deep. 1 was o ploce upun thy Oudeburg, an anclent archway end turrct of the twolfth c\:ntur¥. which onca Tormed part of the castle founded by Baldwin Bros de Fer in 888, John o’Gaunt, tho time-honored Duke of Lancaster, waa born in ono of tho chambers of the cestle. i preferred a seat In the window opposite, whenca the in- teresting sceneé which oceurred at the Oudeburg could bo seen, ‘The costle stands close to the fish-market and to the Placo 8t. Pharaflde, where the hierctics were burnt, Of tho proves- slon in gencral (which I have already described) 1 can say, as an old writor of Ghentsald of au- othuryivreaz gathering iere, It was wonderful to behold thenubllityand richnessof the Princesand Stguors, dln{fluyc s well in thelr beautitul furs, murtens and sables, as fn the great chulns of fine zold which they wore twisted round thelr necks, and the pearls and preclous stones In their bonnets and otherwise, which they dla- Inyed {u great abundance. It was a very riimpbant thing to sce them thus richly dressed and accontred.”? ‘When tho flag of Orange came on {n the pro- cessfon one of thu mounted noblea halted In the market-placs and mado a speech n_ Flemish to the people. The Fekevin Pleard rode up and re- plied. 'Iheburden of both addressca wns the neeessity of unfon and of healing religlons dis- cord. Thid {s weil enough, but the people left the theatre the other uvunlng‘ after Van Goe- them's patriotle play hud been perforiued, siuging ‘the song of tho Gueux, “From those yvermin the Itallan priests (papen) deliver us, O Lord,” The Ultramontands are not behindhand. At the reception of Monsignor Nardl by the Catholic Club, one of the two members who spoke alluded to the song of the Queux, and sald that there was an Intimate con- nection between vermin aud beggara, cent clectoral successes of the Catholics have, Indeed, *set them of Guunt on fire.” The newspapera of the rival parties are full of mu- tuel denuncintions. The Liberals will not en- cournge the Ultramontaue paper by buying it, and t'1s for that reason more read and harder to rm thau any other paper, Sometimes it s 'Tho re- enfoyed two déep. The Liberal newsvendors will not keep it. A street newsmna with whom 1 valuly endeavored to do busihess eliowed me one copy hidden In hils bundle, but sald that was for his privato reading; he would not make mom:¥ by sclling i, Men cut thelr old collego Iriends {f they have jolned opposite partics. Those tradesmen who hang out flags from thelr windowa eay that they have riven tip the hope of baviug cistomers among the Cathalic parly. Tho halt {n the market-place was also mado the oceaston for the chanting by a cholr of male volcea of the Wilhelmunlled: Wilhelmus van Nossoawen, ¥ Bun {ck van Duytschen bloet. A tablet to the memory of those who lan- ;i'ululu:d in the Count's Tawer was pulled up and dieplayed upon the anclent citadel; ond then o littlo girl, dressed all {n white, came forward from uader the black old avchway of the Tower, nnd offered a garland of white and orunge flowers to the mwmnmer who wore the mask of William thy Sitent. 1le ace uelptud it with dlgnity, and the handsome bo; who was ls fout-page carrled the garlon before lils inaster with obvious pride. No estl- mate of the total cost of the procession is trust- worthy, beeanse a pood mauny expenses are borng 'by privite persons, in uddition to the money expended by the rltfi. d, Many of the 1,200 rcr(urmv.-m have to be paf The Maid of lhent recelves 75 frauca each thmo she rides through the city. A A collection was made, 08 on the other. days, for the Soviety cailed the Avenir, which estib- Huhes schools, taught by lay musters and mls- tresses, in communcs ofberwise ouly provided with clerieal onca. A commune ls'not bound by law to found a schoul for boys If there is al- ready u school (u clerical school or & vonvent school, for fustunce). Many communes have only such boys' schools as ure conducted by " priests, and an overwhelming wuojorit; have no lay schools for girls. The Aveuir combata the'elerlcu) J,xro|rn¥nudu by establiahing rival schools directed by lay persons, 1is cole lectors hiave been most active and ingenious to- day in their quest. Umbrellas, hats,and a machine which, with a sudden expansion, ralsed & money-pot up to the frst-tleor window were used to attract the ruin of halfpence. A fuunel- shaped car followed the procession, and was musical with the chink of “coppers. When the procession went out hefore, pleces of two centimes wero among the colus collected, aud the total amouut was equivalent to 10,0001, ‘The result of to-day's collection {s not known, OCTOBER. The month of Carnival of all the year, ‘When Nature lets the wild Earth ¢o its way, pAnd spond wholu sossons ou u vlugls dsy. T mo holds Ler white snd nu’rple dear} 0 fauuts them far and near, The harily her reds dutl lay r Liko jowely on her costilest array; October, scornful, buras them on & bler, ‘The Winter hoards Lle pearls of frost, In sign Of kingdom, Whites pearly than Winter know, Or Bupreas wore in u;fl;‘v- suctent line, October, fesating ‘nouth Licr dowe of blug, Drioks at a draught, slow filtercd through Suushiny alr, asin & tingling wins! =L H. ta Uclober dllanile 'RANGELY BETROTHE “Golng outy Fllen, are you?' said my father, a8 he tightened the reln of his sturdy hill-pony. “ Well, my dear, I have to face the heat, ton, and shall envy you the abnde of your favorite trees besldo the big tank. That Malabar head- man I spuke of, who has bronght over a gang of coolics from the maiutand, has pronmiscd to meot me In front of the joss-lionse in the Nat ‘Tantee village, to see If we can come to torms, 1 shull be back before tiflin-thne, I hope.” And, with a kindly nod and a smile, be rode off at n brisk trot,—his horsckeeper, n bare~ footed Ulngaleso lad, caslly keeplng paee with the pony, and running swift and silent, like o brown shadow, beside s master's stirrup. Tines had changed. and for the worse, since Mer. Travera had been reckoned among the most thriving coffee-planters in Ceylon, Our onco famous plantation, called Travers after the famity that had possessed it fortwogenerations, was not now the source of profit that, ln my grandfather’s time, It had been. The rich sofl, worn out by over-cropping and neglect, no longer ylelded its heavy hurveat of red-brown Lerries; while to reclaim fresh lund from the Jungle was both tollsome and costly, The estats gavo us the meaus of a maintenance, and a littlo more. 1 was an only child, and my father was a wid- ower; 80 that our actual necessitles, In that cheap and frugal country, were easily provided for, Nor shoutd I have had a cars in the world, save for the old, old story of Jove, the course of which bard circumstauces would not suffer to run smooth, Our nearest nelghbor—and Chrls- tlan neighbors, with white faces and English- speakdng tongues, were scarce in Northern Ceylon—was Mr. Forster, u planter, by far weatthler than we weve. Now, Oswald Forater ond I wero plighted lovers; but the very idea of an engogement between his only son and the daughter of his embarrassed neighbor was gall and wormwood to Oswald’s fatber, & proud, strong-willed man, who mnnaged his thirlying property 50 13 to extract frum every becgah ol arable Iand {ts utinost yleld in pilver Tupees, Deslrous to efface fromn Oswald's mind the {dca of marrying poor little Ellen Travers, Mr, Forster, with his wile's concurrence, proposed 10 send his son to Europe, confldent, that forelgn travel and change of scene would soon obliter- ate from his memory tho image of the lonely 1ttle girl beslde the great Tank of Minary, Aud now a word concerning the tank ftself, the name of which, 1 fear, conveys to European readers but a ver! ‘nmm}nuu conception of the stupondous reallty. 'The Tank of AMinary, Justly reckoned mnonfithe marvels whichi the Is- und of Ceylon hus still to show, I8 perhaps the grandest of artificlal lukes ever planned by mor- tal opgineer. More than two thousund years huve passed sluce, before the Christian era, o Buddglnt King buade his subjectstoll to erect ‘hm massive walls of hewn stone aud fough chu- nam that cnviron that vast sheet of water, twenty-five miles In cireumference. With the Mini Luke, or Tank, which la; cloo to my ‘own home, { lind becn from child- hood famillar; and I dearly loved the mirror- 1lke expanso of ite calm waters, studded with floating islands of the crlmson-blossomed lotus of -India, the red flowers and green leaves of which covered mauy thousand acres of the sur- face. Strapge fish of brilliant colors glided in elittering shoals through the deep, clear water, varely disturbed by prow or paddle, Bright hlrds of every slze, Trom the searlet famiugo to the tluy orfole or the towering udjutant, haunted ity and nil around grew in dense pro- fusion the mighty trees and flowering crecpers of the virgin forest, whence came, at times, the combluining cry of tho mountain-cat, the belling of the deor, the punthicr’s snarl, or thy crashing of canc and sapling as wild elepiants h.;u.fid ’l m(r’ way through tho trackless recesses of the jungle, . Iam hufiud to admit that there wers other tenants of the lake and forest less attractive b . 1876—TWELVE PAGES, tame In colonial houseliolds, and was aware of thelr habits, and of their love for certain Einds of food, aud, atoye all, for milk. Could i but bring to tha npnl,unpplf' of milk, and place it, hefore Oswald should awake, temptingly near to the tic-palungs, all might yet be well, And_yet to desert him—poor fellow—In such terrible company, seemed cruel; yet it was for his eake, and I folt that I must ga. Very slows 1y, then, lest my footsteps should disturb the aleoper, or liritate _the huge reptile that kept watch beslde him, I stolo awny, and, when at o sale distance, flew, rather than ran, along the forcat-path, The nearest European dwelling wos Oswald's own home, There were Cligalese huts nearer, 1o doubt, where dwelt. some of Mr., Forster's: hired men; but I should not be able to procure what 1 sought save from the planter's house. At another time I should not have willing] trespussed on the domains of Oswald’s father; but this was nooceasion for seruplo or punctilio. Lite Inml deatl, as I kogw, depended on my speed. ‘Thete, at length, rose up Lefore me the milk- thorn-hedge, the finpenetiable thorns of which are often usclul fu keeping out leopard and Jackal, which surrounded thio, planter's hotne- stend s and, passing through an open gate, len- tered tho coinpound, The firat acrvant that I met, and who Illfted his liand to his snow-white turban with apolite “8alnam I and asmile that showed the whito teeth uctween his bearded lips, waa a man whom I know,—a Malratta groom, who had tonnerl* been In my. father's serylee, and whose child T had nursed through an nttack of the Ceylon fever, 4 Lall Binght" 1 ped out, panting for breath, * do o a kiudnese, for the sake of old Uread and salt. Get me some fresh milk quick- }:’I'ufi'r' the love of God, but ask no questions— 2 Bomething In my tons impressed the Mahrat- ta, for without a word he hurried off, and soun returned, hendu,i a l!|" of milk and a drinking vessel, or lota, which would contain something less than & pint, and which, at a sign from me, ho filled with milk. This vur{ act, slight as {t may scem, was no small compliment, for it was, dotibticss, his own drinking-cup that Lall 8ingh ‘waa giving me, and, should any 1lp not belong- ing to one of puro Hindoo descent touch fts burnighed rim, it would hereafter be unilt for use, However, 1 searcely walted toutter a word of thanks, but suatched up the brass lota and darted out, It may be thought sinzular that T had not iven the alarm to the household at Mr, Fors- er's plantation; but I had resolved that I would not, if 1 could do my errand ungues- tioned, create & turmoll which might bring about the very evil against which I was striv- ing. Oswald’s mother and slster loved him Lut thelr nerves were not of tho strongeat, and thelr vuterios, had they heard the news, would liave had the eilect of summoning & score of servants und coolies, and to ekl Uswald's fate b{ sending a nolsy posse of voluuteers to the place where ho Iny at the snake’s merey. As If on winged fect, yet earrying “the pre- clous draught of milk w{th jealous care, I hur- ried baek to the spot wherey at the foot of the huge tallpot-tree, ln}- Oswald, yet aslecp, Tho snake, howevor, as {f uneasy, was begiuning to stir. Its monstrons head wagged slowly from side to side among tho wild-lowers, and ts slender tongue protruded from between its grim faws, But I was in time, and, as I poured the inllk, or rather a portion ot It, on the ground, 8o that n trail should lead to the spot where I sat down the Lrass drinking-cup, with what of its contenta remained, I was caroful to avold, by any nbrupt gesture, incensing the tle- palunga. ‘Thien came » minute or twvo of ngonized ex- pectaney, and then, tomy great joy, I saw the reptilo slowly uncolt himel I, evidently making for the mllk, TFlret one wresth and another of tho suakoe's lmber )anm was untwined, and the great serpent, brushing through the forest- grass and Hlowercets, astooped its hroad head to drink. As I snw Oswald thus freed, aud the nn- suspected fou draw further and further awny from the Ylum where he reposed, I felt tho strength which had hitherto supported e sud- denly become weakness, My nerves being no longer braced by the scnse of Oswald's nurtal erfl, the nstinctive torror and disgust which I ad from cnildhood felt fur the eerpent-tribe than the bright-plumnged birds and the pretty little lizards basking in the patchies of yollow sunshine, Alligators wWere very columon, ennkes plentiful, and the scorplon, the centl- pede, and the tree-leech were often to bo met with In the more swanpy wnd tangled tracks of the woodlands, But we, who were colonfal-born, loarn a disre- gard of the creeplug things that surround us which nstonlshes & new arrlval from Europe, and I had never in my life known whut it was wo fecl real foar of beast or reptile, I watclied my father's retiring flgure untf} it disappeared among the feathery bomboos that lmeg the path, and then, turning my back on the white houre, with its green ~ verandas, walked on under lhu sbadow of the great forest trees, till I reached the embankment of the Minary Tanl, Half-an-hour’s walking brought me within sight of a rulnous summcr-house, built on the edgo of the luke by some forner Duteh proprie- tor, and yet surmounted by a large ball of w)xicd pith, perched on a pole,” Near {iils sum- iner-house It was my custom_to mcet QOswald. And it would be but very scldom that we were ta meet hencoforth, since, poor fellow, he was to sail by the Lord bulhonulc, expected ot Point do Galle on the 815t of the month. On iny way I paused now and then, famillar a8 was the prospuct, to paze upon the wide ex- panse of the luke, the silvery waters of which rolled away so grandly that™it was hard to con- celvo that what scemed almost entitled to take rank as an inland sea, could be sctually the work of human bands. Flocks of wildfowl, with white wings and shrill scream, hovered above the swarms of rorgeously-tinted fish that swamn_ around the huge weed-beds: while here and there, among the red lotus-blossoms, appearcd what might have beon easlly mistalien for o floating log, but which T knew to be an alligator drowslly basking in the ¢lnd sunshine, The “heavy lieat seemed to render excrtion even for the natives diftfleult, for 1 saw no tisher as usual puddling his lignt canoe, or Prennring bis tough nets of cocvanut-fibre. . And tho very Clm{nluuu woodeutters had deserted thelr work, leaving behind them o great heap of lewn tim- ber, [u front of which, imbedded in the spougy wood of & cyprese, four or five short, brizht uxes romain sticking. Some few paces from this heup was the ruinous summer-house, nnd be- youd it there towered aloft the giaut talipot- ree, with its vast serrated leaves, that scrve the Cingaleso for sail, and thateh, and screen, be- neath which Oswald and I wero accustomed to meet. i ‘Co miy surprise, and perhaps chagrin, T i ) r’louml,(findhv not at tlrat see him for whom gan to fear that hie had forgotten to keep his wonted tryst; but, on drawing nearer, 1 beheld a sight that for the moment froze my very veina with horror, and eaused the cry of anguish that rase upun my lps to die away, Oswald—lying on the turf ‘among the roofsof the glgumf;’: palin-trea—scomed Lo be astesp, overcome, prob- sbly, by the unusual heat, while around bim was ‘nouuly colled gomething that resembted a stout rope, curfously streaked with black, and arange, and white,—something that caused tho ‘?lum:lw leaves and crisp grass to rustlo s it Btirred, Ihud never seen a living tic-palunga, but I knew_ ut thie first glance that the suske beforo my eyes wus o othier than a large specimen of thut dreaded reptile which in Ceylon takes the Puuluun that in Continental India bclnngl to he cobra, and for the bite of which there [s no known remedy, Twice within the Inst threo g‘uun laborers on my father's plantation had been brought in dyiuifrum the venom of the tie-palutize, but in cach lngtance the skill of the native snuke-charmer had led to the capture of the reptilo, and 1t was uot belleved that auy of this species hod been luft alive In our e Qiate velghborhood. ‘This, however, was une questionsbly o tie-palungn many. feot Joug, and it hod wrapped its colls, as though In hidcous sport, uroutid Oswald's limbs us he lay there unconscious, ‘The great, fat head of the enormous snake rested on the &round among the fowers and ferns, 1 could seeits eyes, bright zs fewcls, fixed upons me. It showed for the. moment, however, no particular signs of anger or of distrust, but contented ftself by quietly con- templating the Inteuder on Its “hauuts.” As [ stood yuztigg on my sleeplug lover, and the nionstrous creatitre that lay wakeful but quies. cent ko near to him, all the' stories of suukes that I had ever heard or read came crowding In upon my quickened memory.* I knew that the tle-palunga, in common with most of the yenomous varleties of its race, seldom employ- ed {ts polson-fangs unjess when attacked or an- noyed. But I aiso kuew that the hardiest eleplant-hunter of the . forests would sooner contront tho churgs of & herd of lucensed tuake ers thun face the lauce-like dart and rancorous Lito of this dread duenlzen of the jungle, : The tiopaiunge, unllke tho bod and the py- thon, rarely,{( dver, preys upon the larger ani- mals, such as decr or cuttle, contining ta dlet tor the most part to birds, aud frogs, and lig- ards, Some caprice most likely hud caused it to twine a part of its suppleconvolutions around Oswald as he lnrv, and, ¥o long as be remalued asiecp and motfonluss, there was little probu- bility that the serpent would barm hini, My great fear was leat he should uwake, and, awnking, by somo hasty movement urouss the iro of the reslstless fue,” Oswald was brave and stroug, but it was a wockery to syeak of cour- l:t(u when 60 terzible au antujzonist was In ques. jon Suddenly, aa if it bad been a whisper from heaven, thiera canie to iny mind thought that promised hope, eveo | t dire extremlty of need I lwmmm #uen barmlcss snakes Lp; overpowered me, and I erow dizzy and weak, aud could searcely stand and searcely see. ‘What was this before my dim eyest Thowell- known porch of the Dutch colonist's summer- house, nvur%m\\'n Ly tralltng creepers, and all but choked by tall weeds. - cclmnluahy I en- tered, and, sinking down on & moldering wooden seut, once decked with silken cusllons and gold-leaf, I ‘:rndun.lly regained the physiesl strenzth which had desorted me, and with It the capacity for thought. It I8 curlous how, in such cases of oxtreme exbaustion, thebouwmbed mind slowly resumes some nhnm'lone(l train of thought, aud thus It was with e, By degrees I romembered Oswatd's dauger, iny own cfiorts to aave hiu, and- What was that rustling among the stems,and leaves, and_buds of the luxurious plants that featouned the shuttered windows of the sum- mer-house, in all the rauk profusion of thelr tropleal prowth! Burely, surely not the rip- pling, undulating motion with which & huge anake drags bimaclf through the bLrakes aud }uu;:lu—grnaa! Yes, my feard wero but too true; or there, In the open window-space—the broken trellis-work of which had been ropiaced, by wild vines and dangling orchids—appeared,” at helght of slx or seven fuet above the ground, the hideous heud of the serpent that had lutely menaced Oswauld, and now confronted me, And then it iashed upon methat thisdeserted kiosk was probably the reptile’s actua!l home, and that, as though in very lrou{ of terror, 1 had ventured to intrudo into tho lalr of the ter- rible creature, from the sight of wlich I bad —once that Oswald's safety scetned assured— reeled dizzily away. I hadoften heard of the strange taste which sunkes ovince for un abandoned human dwelling, and how frequently they haunt the outbuildings of Eurapeans' abodes und tho huts of the “natives; and vet here had I rasnly strayed Into the lurfdn z-plave of the deadlicst guardian of the Ceylon fungle, That the sunke was perturbed, ‘there conld beno donbt. It curved {ts ginceful neck ke that of a swan, and hissed skightly, while its broad dnws wera partly opened. I funeled that L could sce the eurved polson-fangs,—more to bodreaded than ever was Maluy creese or Moorlsh dagger,—while the ewel-bright eyes littered ominously, One wild, plercing shrick could not repress; and then the futility of re- slatance or of fight forced itself upon me, and I atood, motionleas as u narble atatue of em- bodlmk fear, gnzing wt the ememlidine eyes, flxed with so pltiless a staro on mive, The sub- tle, suffocating odor which large serpents ux- hale, when angry, renchied me;” but already I gave mysclt up for lust, and walted pussive till tho tic-palunga should malke s fatal dart, The slbilant noise from the snake’s balf-shut Jaws had grown louder, and tho bright, baleful eyes more mengcing, while the erim hend tow- ered high nlollf ready to strike—iwhen, sudden- 1y, soniething beight flashed through the fow- cring vines of the creepings plant, and'the snake's hideous head and lithe budy disappeared as it by magle. Then followed the sounds of a ferco strugple, repeated blows, trampling feet, suapping boughs, and the nccents of humun valees; and then Oswald camo leaping throughe the doorwny, clasped me in Lis arme, and bure meout Into the broad light pi the duy whers Iny—writhing yet—the carcass of the dead suake, hewn throngh by the almrp-cumuf ax which Oswald stitl grasped In his right hand, 8l bl exclulmed Lull Bingh, whose swarthy fuce gleamed with delight us he spurn- ed the body of the vauquished reptile, 1t wus well that the tirat blow went Lome, or It would,| have fared but badly with the young suhib when this sccursed ‘slayer of men turned on him. Wah! I'd sooner have faced a tiger,” ‘To Lall Bingh I was, judeed, in no nfi‘lght de- greo indebted for ny sufety, Convineed, from the agitation of my wamier, that something wus wrong, lo bad followed me, aud was In the act of arousinz Oswald from his slumber, when the plercing shiriclc which fear Lad wrung from me re-echoed through the woods, and catfed at- tentlon to the immineuce of the perll. Then Oswald had snatched up one of the keen short axes which the native woudeutters hod Jeft sticking in & tree-trunk, aud had been fortu- gnlue euough to disable the suako ot the first oW, My story 18 now tald, and I have only to ndd that'T was overwhelmed with prafses” and ca~ resees by the Forster famitly,—hitherto so cold, ~—and that, on the following day, Mr. Forster himself rode over to uy futher's fimue, to ens treat My, Travers, from whom he had " of late boen estranged, to accept his renswed frieud- ship, and to ask for iy hand on behalf of his son,_Oswald lost his passave on the homeward- bound steamer that wus to touch at Polut de Galle; and, when he did visit Europe, he took with him Ellen Travers as bis wite, We have long been happlly settled,—far from the trople jungles aud thelr dangerous habi- tants,—but never have elther my husband or ysclf forgosten thase _fow fustents of bitter. angulsh aod alarm besido the Tank of Minary,— Enylish magazine. LAOCOON. 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