The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1870, Page 8

THE NAVY. OUR REGISTER FOR 1870. The Organization of the Navy. OFFICERS, ACTIVE AND RETIRED. THE MARINE CORPS. List of Vessels---Their Station and Condition. Changes in Nomenclature—Vessels Lost and Sold. "The annual ‘Navy Register,” usually issued about the middie of January, has not yet been published, ‘and will not be ready for several weeks. In view of the general interest taken in navai matters we pre- sent our readers with a register for 1870, carefully corrected up to the 2d instant, commencing with the ORGANIZATION OF THE NAVY. We find that there are 1,800 commissioned oMcers actually in the service at the present date, 1,346 of whom ae on the active list, 207 on the retired and reserved list and 248 pursuing their studies at the Naval Academy,.as shown by the following state- Tent, from which the few volunteer officers still on the books nave been purposely omitted:— i 5 Rank. PUD pose zz | “YI Py 2 exeBses| Beezesys-~ Bl eustisebausataned Barwell! cconansthe! Midabipmen.. “ Surgeons, ranking with commanders, Surgeons, ranking with heutenanta, Paased Assist. Surgeons, ranking after lieutenanis Aasistant Surgeons, ranking next after masters. Paymastera, ranking with commanders. Paymasters, ranking with lieutenants. Passed Assistant Paymasters (no rai ymaaters ranking after masters. 19) Chief Engineers ranking with commanders... 8) Chief Engineers ranking wiuh lieutenants, 40} Firat Assistant Engineers ranking after Hieut | 84 Second Aas’t Engineers ranking after maatert 14 ‘Third Asé't Engineers ranking with midshipme ~ Cadet Engineers = 1 Naval Constructors 6 A Naval Constructors 4 22) i ‘Total on active list ‘Totai on retired and re ‘Midshipmen at the Nai Aggregate number of officers in the reserve. The above list will be somewhat modified by tne Promotion of a number of ensigns and midshipmen, some of whom have heen examined, while others are under orders to present themselves for examina- Yon. The promotions will not be announcea until confirmed by the Senate, REGISTER OF OFFICER: Officers of the Department. Secretary of the Navy—George M. Rooeson. Chief Clerk—Holmes E. Offiey. Solicitor, &c.—Jonn A. Bolles. Chiefs of Bureaus. Ordnance—Commodore Augustus L. Case, Equipment and Kecruitiag—Commodore Melanc- ton Smith, Navigation—Commodore James Alden. Yards and Docks—Captain Daniel Ammen. Construction and Repair—Naval Constructor, Jobo Lentnail. 1. Steam Engineering—Chief Engineer, James W. ing. Provisions and Clothing—Paymaster, E. T. Dunn, Medicine and Surgery—Surgeon, William Max- well Wood, OFFICERS OF THE NAVY—ACTIVE LIST—WITH PRE- SENT DUTY, STATION OR RESIDENCE. Admiral. David G. Farragut, New York city. Vice Admiral. Davia D, Porter, Assistant to Sec Rear Adina: L. M. Goldsborough, special duty. Charles H. Davis, waiung orders. Join H. Dahlgren, Commandant Washington. Sylvanus W. Godon, Commandayt Navy Yard, New tork. Wiliam Radford, commanding European fleet. Stephen C. Kowan, commanding Asiatic feet (or- dered home). Joseph Lauman, commanding South Atlantic feet. Thomas Turner. commanaing Macifle fleet, Charies H. Poor, commanding North Atlantic fleet, dohn Rodgers, ordered to command Asiatic Meet, Commodores. John A, Winslow, Commandant Navy Yard, Ports- moutn. Samuel Phillips Lee, spectal duty. Oliver 8. Giissen, commanding League Island, Pa. Melancton Smith, Chief Bureau of Kaulpment and Recruiting. Charles 3. Boggs, Lighthouse Inspector, Tompkins- ville, N. Y. fHleary Walke, commanding naval station, Mound City. nornton A. Jenkins, Secretary Lighthouse Board, Jonu B. Marchand, Commandant Navy Yard, Pou- adelphia. Wultam Rogers Taylor, Commanding North Pacific Squadron. Benjamin F, Sands, Superintendent Naval Obser- vatory. Charles Steedman, Commandant Navy Yarc, Bos- ton. James Alden, Chief Bureau of Navigation. Alired Taylor, Lighthouse Inspector, Simon B, Bissell, member Board of Examiners, Joun R. Goldsborough, Commandant Navy Yard Mare island. 5 ; Theodore P, Greene, Commandant Navy Yard, Pensacola. i Joseph F, Greene, commanding Hast Atlantic Squadron. . Augustus L, Case, Chief Bureau of Ordnance. Alexander M. Pinnock, member Examining Board, Washington. Jobn L. Worden, Superintendent Naval Academy. George F. Emmons, 1p cBarge Lydrograpiic Vilice, Washington. Edward Middleton, San Francisco. Gustavus H. Scott, Liguthouse inspector, Buffalo. David McDougal, commanding South Pacilic Squadron. john J. Almy, ordnance duty, New York. We subjoin the names aud the occupation of the ten senior captains, commanders and lieutenant commanders:— tary of Navy. Navy Yard, Captains, James H. Strong, Navy Yard, New York. James M. Fralley, Philadelphia. _ Enoch G. Parrott, Portsmouth, N, H. William Reynolds, member Ordnance Board. Fabius Stanly, waiting orders. Wilham H. Macomb, commanding Plymouta. Wiliam E. Le Roy, Newburg, N. Y. Roger tembel, Naval Rendezvous, Boston. 4. K. Madison Mullany, commanding Richmond. Cc. R. P. Kodgers, commanding rankiin. Commanders. Alexander C. Rhind, New York Navy Yard. George M. Ransom, commanding Tero! William F. Spicer, Equipment Oficer, Boston. Somerville Nicholson, commanding Benicia. William E. Hopkins, Winchester, Va. Pau! Shirley, commanding receiving ship Inde- pendence. $ |. N. T. Arnold, commanding Saugus. Thomas Pattison, Navy Yard, Norfolk. Wiliam N. Jeffers, member Examining Board. Edward Simpson, on duty Ordnance Bureal William G. tem member Ordnance Board. Taeutenant Commaniers. Joseph N. Miller, Powhatan. Aifred Hopkins, commanding Cyane. Montgomery Sicard, commanding Saginaw. Edmund 0. Matinews, in charge Torpedo Corps. Eeward P. Lull, commanding guard. Aleaanoer F. Crosman, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Cbaries 8, Norton, on duty New Orleans. Kobert B. Bradiord, on daty Bureau Yards and Docks, Robert L. Phythian, Naval Academy. Augustus P, Cooke, Naval Academy. ‘The ten senior oficers in cach staff corps a __ Surgeons, ranking with Commander: Wm. Maxwell Wood, Chief Bureau Medicine and Surgery. Jonathan M. Foltz, returning to United States. James ©. Palmer, waiting orders, Ninian Pinkney, special duty. David Harlaa, Churcaviile, Ma. J. Dickenson Miller, receiving ship, Philadelphia. Joseph Beale, special duty, Philadelphia. George Maulsby, member Board of Examiners. William Grier, Navai Kendezvous, Baitimore. J. Wintbrop Taylor, Naval Hospital, Oheisea. Paymasters, ranking wiih Commanders. Edward J, Daun, Chief Bureau Provisions and Clothing. John B. Rittenhouse, Phiadelphi ttorace Goorge Boston. Inspector Provisions, &¢., pa Heiskell, settling accounts. * . Cutter, Jnspecwr Provimons, Navy Yard, ee. H. Watmough, Inspector Provisions, Navy ‘ard, Ni be 0. Brsatord, Paymaster, New York. Kaw: ran, Joseph C. Eldridy Jobn 8, Gulick, Fleet. Paymaster ron. Chief Engineers, rank William W. W. Wood, New York. setting accounts, yin European Squad. ing with Commanders. pector Machinery Afoat, Benjamin F, Isherwood, Navy Yard, Mare Island, George Sewell, Navy Yard, New York. Witham H. Shock, Inspector Machinery Afoat, Washington. ‘ mes W. King, Chief Bureau Steam Engineering. ‘Theodore Zelter, on duty, New York, Elbridge Lawton, Navy Yard, Boston.. Robert Danby, Inspector Machinery Afloat, New Orleans. Ranking with Lieutenants, Benj. F. Garvin, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Henry I. Stewart, Navy Yard, Norfolk. The Naval Constructors are:— John Lenvhall, Chief Bureau Construction and air. Hen). F, Delano, Navy Yard. New York. Isaiah Hanscom, Navy Yard, Boston. Edward fH ‘ard, Mare Island. ‘Thomas Davidson, Jr., 8] uty. Thomas E, Webb, Navy Yard, Norfol The Civil Engineers, one for each Navy Yard, are B. F, Chandler, Portsmonth. Charles Hast Boston. F. A. Stratton, Washington. W. M. Spear, G. W. Van Cleft, New York. W. M. Spear, Norfolk. C, Prindle, Philadelphia, Clapp, Pensacola. + RETIRED AND RESERVED LIST. Rear Admirals, William B. Shubrick, Chairman Lighthouse Board. Joseph Smith, special duty, Washington. ¥ Silas H, Stringham, Port Admiral, New York, Samuel L, Breeze, Port Admiral, Philadelphia, Hiram Paulding, Port Admiral, Boston, Thomas Crabbe, Princeton, N. J. ‘4 hla = Montgomery, commanding Sackett’s Har- Cornelius K. Stribling, member Lighthouse Board. Joshua R. Sands, Port Admira!, Norfolk, Va, Charles H. Bell, New Brunswick, N. J. Levin M, Powell, special duty, Washington. Charles Wilkes, Charlotte, North Caralina. Andrew A. Harwood, special hed Washington. Theodorus Bailey, spectai duty, Washi) ne ‘i 8 L. Lardner, Governor Naval Asylum, Poila- ie! . lenry K. Thatcher, Port Admiral, Portsmouth, Thomas T, Craven, Port Admiral, San Francisco, Henry K. Hoff, member Board of Exammers, ymodores. Only thirteen of the fifty-four retired gommodores, of whom John H. Aulick 1s the senior, are on duty, VIZ. 3— Wilnam ©. Nicholson. special duty. Joseph B Hull, Lighthouse Inspector, Portlana. es aan H. Gardner, Lighthouse Inspector, Phila- elphia. T. Aloysius Dornin, Lighthouse Inspector, Norfolk. ‘Thomas 0. Seliridge, Lighthouse Inspector, Bos- ton. Robert B. Hitchcock, special duty. ‘Timothy A. Hunt, special duty, New London. : om P, McKinstry, Lighthouse Inspector, De- Tou gga H. Kilty, commandant Navy Yard, Nor- scar Bullus, nitre depot, Malden, Mass, Francis B, Ellison, naval station, Sackett’s Harbor. Jobn ©, Carter, commanding Naval Rendezvous, Sonn De De O jh ohn D. De Cam, mmanding receiving ship, Philadelphia, thie id sas Captains. Bernard J. Moeller is the senior of the twenty- seven retired captains. Tnose on duty ai Dominick Lynch, Naval Asylum, Philadelphia. Wm. B, Whiting, Naval Observatory. Francis 8. Haggerty, Lighthouse Taspector, Key est. Wm, A. Parker, Lighthouse, New Orleans, commanders, The senior commander on the retired list, which consists of alxteen, is Jobn F. Apbott., The following are on duty: aoe N. Westcott, Lighthouse Inspector, Charles- George A. Stevens, equipment duty, Philadelphia. Wm. Gibson, Navy Yard, Pensacola. Wm. C. West, Naval Observatory. Edmund W. Henry, League Island, Pa. Lieutenant Commaniers, Of the five retired lieutenant cominanders Joun N. Quackenbush and Charles E. Hawley are on duty-- the former at League Island and the later on the receiving ship, Philadelphia, Surgeons, ; Senior retired surgeon, Charles Chase. On duty en, Viz.— ‘ David 8. Edwards, special duty, Washington. Benjamin F. Bache, Navai Laboratory, New York. Wm. Johnson, Navy Yard, Wasnington, ‘Thomas L. Smith, Navy Ward, New York, bewis B. Hunter, member Board of Examiners. George Clymer, special duty, Washington. ae Brinkerhoff, special duty, Navy Yard, New ork. . Daniel Egbert, League Island, Pa. Charles D, Maxwell, special duty, Washington. Edward M. Stein, Marine Rendezvous, Wasiing- ton. Paymasters. Senior retired paymaster, Joseph Wilson; on duty, ar. McKean Buchanan, special duty, Boston, Robert Pettit, Purchasing Paymaster, Philadelphia. A, Eugene Watson, Navy Yard, Portsmouth. Charies Murray, special duty, New York, Chaplains, Professors of Mathematics and Naval Constructors. Chaplain Moses B. Chase is on duty at the Navy Yard, Boston; Chaplain John Lee Watson, on the receiving ship Ohio; Professor Mark H. Beecher, at the Naval Observatory; Professor Edward A. Roget, at the Naval Academy; Naval Constractor samuel M. Pook, Portsmouth Navy Yard, and Naval Consiruc- tor Melvin Simmons, at the Phtiadelphia Navy Yard. THE MARINE CORPS. The number of officers in the marine corps is 100, viz.:—On the active list, one brigadier general, one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, seven majors, twenty-two captains, thirty first lieutenants and turty second Heutenants. On the retired list, one colonel, one ileutenant colonel, three majors, one captain and one second Neutenant. The principal officers are:— Brigadier General and Commandant—Jacod Zer- lin, Quartermaster—Major William B. Slack. Adjuiant—Major Augustus S. Nicholson. Paymaster—Major John C. Cash. Cotonei—Matthew R. Kintzing. Lieutenant Coloneis—James H. Jones, Charles G. McCawiey. Majors—Thomas Y. Field, George R. Graham, John L, Broome (brevet lieutenant colonel), James Lewis. Senior Captain—clement D. Hebb. VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATS NAVY. VEBRUARY 1, 1870. Rates (old tonnage) established July 1, 1867:— virat Rates--Veasela of 2,400 tons and upwards, ‘Scomd Katr+—Vesxe!s of 1,200 to 2.40 tons, ‘ind Rates—Verscia of @Oll to 1,90 tons, Fourth Rater—Vessels wader 609 tons, LIST OF Name. ‘Station or Condition, Ships of the line )| Hampshire. i Receiving Ship, Portsmouth. Sackett’s Harbor. ‘ing ship, Boston. Receiving ship, New York Boston. Conatitution. Tnaependeuce. . Potomac. +1 6 Naval Academy. Receiving ship, Mare Island, Receiving ship, Philadelphia. Special cruise. Gunnery ship, Naval Acade Used for murines at Norfolk, Ready for Asiatic fleet. ,248| North Atlantic leet, repairing at New York On stocks, Philadelphia, Ready for Asiatic fleet, Ordnance tug, Boston. Fitting at Philadelphia, id up, Pensacola. Fitting at Portsmouth, Fitting at Philadelphia, (to ve Commodore Green's flagship.) 3,283) Fitting at Portsmoush, To nse at New York, In use at New York, In use at Boston. Fitting at New York; (to be Gag- ship Asiatic feet.) On stocks, Boston. Fitting at'New York, Pacitic tleet. Flagabip Asiatic fleet (to be re lieved by the Colorado.) —|, 60/In use, Portsmouth. :}18/8,981| Repairing at New York. 1| 860) Receiving ship, Baltimore. 29/5,64) Flagship European flea. 788) Repairing at Norfolk. aft eat up nt Phlladelphi, Resting at New York for Pacitic jet. 211,000] Repairing at New York, jal yt On stocks at Portsmouth. (3) 3,218) Lat Boston. Connecticut. Canandaigua, 19 New York. orfolk, European fleet, Repairing at Washington, fleet. 2255 Be Lackawania. Lane Leyden...... Maumee... Maytower te BRE: iring at Norfolk. Fitting at New York. Pacitic feet. Fitting at Portsmouth, In use at Mare Island. eee 25 Pe Ps Za 2338 ese Et = BBG! aacce Hebl ea se SS: Repairin, yaton. Torpedo boat ready for sorvice at fashington. Darien expedition. Pacific feet. Fitting at New York, ‘Aslatic feet. Paciie feet. Repairing, Boston. Recelving ship, Norfolk, On stocks, 2. Pacihe fleet. '¥87| Repairing, Washington. Naval Academy. Euro) et (Peabody funeral feet.) In use, Washington. In use, Portemouth. uth Atlantic fleet, ‘acific fleet. bington, eet, ‘Station or Condttion. wel woe In ordinary, New York, ee uso, Pensacols. easel Fineship, Nort attantie feet. Repairing, New York. Nearly ready for service ai Bos- Fitting at Norfolk, in ose at Philade|phia. Kepatring at Portamouth Bader saitsg*arayn or Novia or sailing orders for leet. Hepairng'at Bost Ropairi Wash'ngton. S283 BE¢ee Sesees%] North Atiantic feet. ‘Asiatic fieet (to be sold). Repairing ‘at Boston. Fitting New York, [sal ing at \orped th, pale ‘at Portamou! Under salling orders for North Atlantic fest, rt aise Bechaie £ suse tot = Naval Academy. en ‘out of commission, New oF) Laid t Washington, Pacing deen et at Mare Island (to be itagship Pasi feet ic fleet.) in ordinary, New York- Special service. Laid up, Mare Island, Bouth Allantic feet. Laid up, New Orleans. Naval Academy. Lald up, League Inland. /Rendy for service, San Francisco Laid up, League la'and. On stocks, New York. Laid up, League Island. Laid up, New Orleans. Fitting at Philadelphia. North Atlantic tleet, Ready for service, New Orleans. Laid up, Washington. Ready for service, New Orleans. Laid up, League faland. rey = = se 6 Susquehanna... enon neo E} = 2 3 3E83E 353 EE Laid up, League Isl Iiaid up; New Orleans. | Ready for service, ee Orleans. Laid up, League Tefand. League laland. no nono Ne RNS ES me Sugeaessae a 5 faut Maes te fbr nervice, San Francisco ce cd 3282 6 age rogOD =. += Otsego 3 Piscntag Fa ac Passaic Rad Puritat Roanok {d up, League Island. North Allantic fleet, Latd up at Boston, Laid up, Mound City. North ‘Atlantic fleet, (Peabody | funeral fleet temporarily). Ready for service, New Orleang. 778\ Laid up, at Boston. 970|Caid up, New Orleans, 11,084)Laid up, New Orleans, 778|Latd vp, Leagne Is\and. Ready for service, Ne AOLceDmene RUDE LORD LOMO ROR AN e Reto Orleans. Fitting at Norfolk, Pactic fi Practice ship, Naval academy. 16] | 985) Pacttic fleet. 1,041! Practice ship, Naval academy. | 566] Naval Academ: 1,022:South Atantic ‘68?! Fitting at Now York. 26) Practice shin, Naval academy. 1,425 8] 972 et. Darien expedition. Aalatle fleot, datoaged by cy: clone; probably will be sold. Pacific Hee In ordin: European tle Naval Academy. Now York. rt. Naval Academy. Laid up, New York. Torpedo Boat, | Spuyten Duyvil... | 316) ove list it will be perceived that when work at f and, it ta hope the navy yards was unexpecte d, tempo- rarily suspended, thirty-five veesela were in the bands of U mechantos, fitting dut or undergoing repairs, besides twel on the stocks. ; CHANGES IN NAMBS OF VESSELS are apt to lead to confusion, as is proved by Secre- tary Kobeson’s annual report, in which the Pisca- taqua is mentioned as the fiagsbip of the Astatic fleet, whereas at the date of the report, December 1, 1869, the Piscataqua, originally Chimo, afterwards Orion, a small tron-clad? was laid yp at the Washing- ton Navy Yard. The Secretary meant the Delaware, originally Piscataqua. For convenience of reference we givea tabular statement showing the mutations in the nomenciature of all the vessels that were re- named last yea! Present Name. Recent Name. Manayunk. ‘Contocook, |Squando. [se Algonii Erebus. Amphitrite, Benicia. Fas Algoma. Minnetonka. * Pushmataia. Coboes, Canandaigua. Catakil. Chickasaw. = * Canonieu Colosnus: K 00. Connection. Pampanoosue. Delaware. Piscataqaa, Btlah Euab. ql Wampanoag. Casco. Ammonooaue. Shitoh, Sangamon. Koko. Cyclops. Kickapoo. Harpy. Klamath. Cartor., Achliles. Minnetonka, Gorgon, Manhattan, Neptune. Marietta Circe. Massachusetts. | Thunderer. Nuusett. Hina. Nebraska. Nantucket. Nantucket. Napa, Napa. New York. _ Ontario, Niobe, — W Nahant. Atins, Nevada, Arizona, Otsego. Hydra. Omaha. Amoria. Osceola. |Vixen, Oregdn, Pennsylvania, Ph i Shawnee. Folus. Minerva, Sandusky. Sandusky. Snucook. Spittice. Suneook. ‘Tennesase. Madawaska. Terror. Agamenticus. Umpqua. (impgua, Winnebago. Winrfebago. Wyandotte. \Ttppecanoe. Waaruc. SELS SOLD AND LOST. la were sold and oue lost since Jan- wa Huron, Memphis, Pequot, Penobscot, stook.® Paddle wheelers—Algonquin, Glasgow, Hornet, Muscoota, Shamokin, Winnepec; stip Alle- ghany, storeship Purveyor, tronclad Atlanta. Lost—The s ta tug Maria. THE HACKENSACK MYSTERY. To Tne Eprror oF THE HERALD: After reviewing the argument produced by ‘J. W. R.,’? to substantiate the belief that Mr. P. Lane has really been drowned, and that his body lies buried in the “adhesive mire at the bottom of the Hackensack river,"’ 1 have come to the conclusion that he-has built his supposition on rather a weak foungation, or, in other words, ‘as some folks might say, using a vulgar phrase, ‘That's too thin.” as to the body of the boy Robins, which “J. W. R.’? refers to a8 not being found since his drowning, I wonld state that “J. W. R.’? ig in error; for the body of the boy was found about five days afcer hts drowning near the spot where it is supposed he fell in. As for the splash in the water, and the subsequent cries of Mr. Lane, is where the whole mystery lies, and a substantial proof of Lane's not being drowned, for it would be tmpossibie for a drowning man to make his voice audible to the passengers on board the train while in @ state of strangulation. Take the matter ail in all, 1 hi come to the con- ciusion, as before, that it wes @ well concocted scheme and worked like @charm. It 18 no question- able fact that Mr. Lune was not acquained with the situation of the I Sh hemes bridge, being a resident of its neighborho®d for the last ten or fifteen years. Therefore, he had no reasonable excuse to fall off had he not wanted to, se selected a dark, rainy night, when all objects were invisible, refused to get off the train when told to do #o by the conductor at West End, knowing that he made himself liable to be put off a8 soon as discovered by the conductor, and, therefore, expected to be put off the train wh at or near the bridge. Taking these things lato coi sideration, it ismy firm belief that it was Lane’ object to be put off the cara while on the bridge, jump into the water, with the belief that ne had fallen oif the bridge, then swim ashore unobserved, thereby inducing the public to believe that he had been drowned through the cruelty of an inhuman conductor. The Arkansas journals claim that a mulborry tree, Which isa native of and grows luxuriaotly in that State, is remarkably well adapted to the nourish ment of siikworms, and a8 a pruof of what can be done in & practical Way, one of the young ladtes of Arkansas, with the aid of tie simplest machinery, manuiactured seven pounds of silk, which was ex- hibited at the State Falr and attracted much allebuon NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. . UP THE NILE. Tho Dawn of Morn and Sunset as Sten on the Father of Waters, ees Legends, Romance, Tombs, Temples and Prayer. River Fringe Populations—Morals and Mode of Life. ABYDOS, JOSEPH’S RIVER AND THEBES, “Bull Run” Russell in the Presence of Four * Whonsand Years and the Egyp- tian Holy One. Our special correspondence from Catro, dated on the 26th of December last year, reporting the pro- gress of the writer up the river Nile, 1@ continued in the HERALD to-day. The first portion of it was pub- lished in our isgue of the 26th of January. The in- stalment which we give to-day 1a of very great in- terest, lively, agreeable and instructive. Cato, Dec. 26, 1869. Lake all days in Egypt, our first one on the. Nile— the opening description of which I have forwarded already—also dawned, at which time wo moved from our berth with just enough of daylight to paint the location of Beni Soref as it appears from the river, Joyously the Nile opened before us, as if it smiled @ sweet welcome to the strangers. The freshness of the morning breathed still upon the river and its shores. Each sand bank we passed was alive with pelicans, Namingoes and what ls now called the white toia. High above the river continued the lofty Arabian highlands, flat summitted, gray and utierly sterile. Westward a.sea of verdure stretched, and the scene was as that of yesteraay, with adobe huts, flat roofed, squatting low under palm and shimmer. ing sycamores, with flelds of vast extent exuberant with corn and lentils, sugar cane and bean stalks, and an endless variety of vegetable products. The Nile varies 1ts width at every short distance; at one tme itis but a mile, at another it is a mile andahalf. It is deep in some places, yet it has not the vast volume of the Missour! or the swift flow of the Mississippi. It is of the same deep brown color ag of the latter river when swollen by the floods in the spring. Were 1t not for the palms, the mud huts and sky of Egypt the scenery along the banks-might be taken for that along the Mississippi between St. Louis and Cairo; but the feathery fohage of the palms, at all times delightful to look at, at all times poetizing the land, and the glorious azure of the sky, and the sun which tints everything with magic. glow and richness, are unmistakabiy of Egypt, and it is feeble to compare them to anything American. And it you enter into details comparison becomes yet more difficult, for such shores as those of the Nile, bounded on one side bya range of mountains, honeycombed with gorgeous tombs, replete on the other side with ruins of glorious temples, while their viclnage swims in unsurpassed vegetation, acacia trees exuding their sweet aromatic gum; orange trees golden with fruit, palms heavy with dates, donis With nuts, while ever and anon @ slender, silvery-appearing minaret shoots above the dark green foliage, or a shadouf yg’ Sakla, worked by dark naked figures or oxen, is heard groaning and sighing the whole day, while again the same serene sun shines ever benignly on the land and hts children. For has not the sun been worshipped for centuries by the people of this land? For does not the land number many tempies dedi- cated to vbe sun? Who was Ra but the sunf Whom did great Sesostris and Memnon worship but the sunt Is not matchless Ramises sculptured upon each portico and wall of Adytum, as presenting offerings to the sun? The sun, therefore, suowers his tavors on his dark chil- dren, makes their land the richest of all lands, makes all plants and seed produce a hundred foid. And the legends that hang to every mite of that eastern range! What say those grand tabular bluffs ahead? The ghost of Sheik KEmbarak forever haunts thei, and from him the bluffs havederived the name Gebel Sheik Embarak. Hagar E’Selim, which isa perfect Scylla of a rock, detached from the huge mass above, and now shooting above the surface of the Nile, is regarded by Nile boatmen as a@uguring well for the happy termination of the voyage when once they have passed it. What says Sheik Fodl, above Aboo Girgeh? Sheik Fodl was an Arab hermit of great sanctity, who hved upon its summit for many years. ‘Oh, such along, long ume ago.’? Sheik Hassan, also a high, bold lime- stone mountain, split in two by a deep ravine—what legend is that which gives this name toit? The numerous tombs chisseled in the rock, the hiero- giyphics which mark the mountain's smooth, bold front; the mounds of brick and debris, the vein-like tombs of Sheiks, the ruins of convents, with perhaps @ solitary palm grove near by—each and all have then history, upon each and all hang atale. But who are they who will relate taeir history? The arab tradi- tions give but faintest echoes of the lives which ofce joyed or sorrowed upon these mountains. For the Friedrichs of Mizraim, there were no Carlyles; for Egyptian Johnsons there Ived no Bos- wells; for the Brontés there were ‘no Gats- kells. How delightful would it nave been to read their biographies on the Nile voyage, to have their lives before us, such as a Carlyle ora Gatskel: could write them, The Bird Mountain we approached towards sunset. Jt ig a high, upright mass of rock, rising perpendicu- larly from the water's edge vo the height, pernaps, of 300 feet. As the steamers drew abreast of this mountain some twenty human vuiiures, who had descried us from afar, leaped into the river and came running towards us, crying ‘“Bakshish, how- aggli; ya Christian, howaggii” (aims, gentlemen; [ am a Christian, gentlemen). A barbarian, after laying Hold of the towing ropes, dragged himself on board, and soon after another and another, until we had a dozen naked men on board, holding out their bends, and, in pitiful tones, crying out their mend- cant chant, ‘“‘Bakshish, howaggi; ya Christian, how- amgi.” “The tones adopted by these people to beg are such as would command your attention, even were you engaged upon the most absorbing business. It ig half imperious, halt whining, like that of a famine-stricken wretch; and, when you look, you are startied to find it proceed from @ naked athleve, whose sinew and gristie are us firm as steel, and whose muscles stand out like tumors on nis body. Well, bakshish was given vo the nnfortunate mendicants, who, immedi- ately after clapping their hands above their heads and uttering glad cries, jumped overboard. We {ol- lowed them with our eves; we saw them bobbing to- wards the dahabielis in tow of our steamer; we saw ides and utter thesame whining. Bakshish, howaggil; ya Cristian, Perions ony owaggil. TH about half an hour afterwards the eastern banks underwent a change. Instead of one single mass of high rocks the range opened at iniervals, with wide ravines between, at tae entrance of which popu tiol f fellahs had aquatied and had made the greateat use of every inch of soil, a8, left by the Nile, tney had built their huts like swaiiows’ nests, and their narrow strips of green coro denoted their wealth in a future harvest. ‘The gun at evening scems to remember the days of old. when atmorn and evening the thousands of Egypt bent the knee to him; for he goes down in iory indegcribabie, never seen In northern climes. on this evening all was calm; no fringed leaf of a, alm waved, the face of the Nile was ilke unto @ Burnished steel mirror, smooth, shining, motionless. The clouds, great and smail, ail stray, fleecy, shining clouds; the great avalanches of clouds gathered themselves together on the western horizon until they towered one upon another, Alps upon Alps, ana through them the sun was seen siowly descending. In & Moment, a9 it were, the sun had tinted than a thousand colors. As seen through the foliage Of the palms the scene was iuconcetvably grand. Thero was a broad azure lake, bordered and overhung by dritting gauzy vapor; close to it was a mountain oF gold, through which ran 4 stream of blue; above and around were eyots of goid, surrounded by purple, by azure, by saffron and brownish streams, all of which changed their hues as rapidly as the dolphin when dying. The golden eyots became polished silver, the purple became bine, and we couid trace the biue running by count- lone avenues through the whole. In an instant again the became united, formed themselves mto one vast mountain of purple and | old, out of which poured streams of col wi one grand ee and thus with a lightning rapidity “7 developed bh the hastened was devi each moment as the sun below the horizon, And as each color predominated we saw It reflected on the hi the Palm leaves shimmered with @ golden lustre, the clump of acacias seemed follaged with golden leaves, the scyamore leaves were tinted with the cloud hnes, and even the mud huts seemed lifted for a mado of precious metal, ar from Naples vied with each other iu exclauning, “Stu- ndo, bellissimo!? Painters from Madrid and ‘alencia uttered thetr “ine magnificos!” German scene painters and limpers c! out, ‘Wanderbar! Wanderbar!” and we ordinary itineranta, at this Matchless setting of tne sun, could but swell the chorus of enthusiastic exclamatiops in our own inane way, until the magnificent twilight, which seemed like a glimpse of heaven, had become utter darkness, An hour laver our steamers were secured to the banks at Minien, 130 miles trom Cairo, Minteh does not meri description, It isan Arab town of considerable size and has a bazaar. A rallway con- nects it with Cairo. * ’ FROM MINIEH TO MANFALOOT, Ever the same mornings, ever the same ungur- passed-days on the Nile, ever the same eternal ver- aure which 1s called Egypt, ever the same zig-zag coutour of Bastern biuifs, ever the same brown river, shadowed 4 leet or dahabishs carrying Frankish Howaggii, wito ry bend and reach of the river bordered by palms, But after passing Minieh the dark, cavernous openings in the face of the cli are seen oftener, and the mounds which tell of ruined cities are more frequent. ‘Ine eastern side engrosses the attention, oecause the Arabian biufts come within a few {eet of the water almost all the way to Manfaioot. There 1s @ mound at the town of Sovadec, on the eastern side. There are many tombe in the blutts above Nesiite Zoroyen, After passing b: Mytien, Kom Alunar, Met ana half way up the jace of a seipendous cliff, are seen tho Benivassan tombs, which, next to the Pyramids of Lakhara aud Gheezen,+ are said to be the oldest sepuichres in Egypt. They are numerous and spacious, and in the form of @ series of chambers cut into the hard Lmestone rock, entered into b, Pillared portals of different dimensions. On eac! wall of the twenty-five tombe are representations of the lives of the principal personages once buried therein, with the cartouche of the king m whose Teign each person lived. A cartouche, you wust ports 18 oy oval zing, which is sculptured the outlines of a » B conse, a pelican, oF any avimal, bird or thing which, after the principle of our “child » alphabet,” represents each letter of the name of a king, prince or priest whom the cartouche tmtended to tuate, Those hieroglyphical characters, sculptores and paintings, almost as fresh to-day as when they were first made, discover to us the manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians. The arta of trade, com- merce, manufactures and games of this ancient people are found sketched im the hard stone or Stucco within their tombs. Souvenir gatherers have, however, made sad work of many of them, and Arabs, following their example. do not hesitate to detach the finest portions of these paintings to sell to travellers. It 18 to be deeply regretted that the Egyptian government has not adopted the pre- caution of the Greek government with the Parthe- non and their temples; but I suppose a day will come when the tombs, having been rifled of their best rtions, will have more care taken of them. But, janks to Sir Gardner Wilkinson, Mr. Lane and Pro- fessor Lepsins, we have most accurate drawings of the whole in books, so that whatever may happen to the tombs.in the future, those who feel interest in the ancient historv of Egypt may find all they wish in their books. Entering one very large, roomy. cave- like tomb, the architraves of which were supported st curiously ilustrated history of Egyptian life un manners. Men may be seen wresi , from the ad- vancing to the attack to the downfall of one or both of the partes. ‘I'wo men play at slagie stick with their left arms defended by shields of wood or jeather; two dwarfs; soldiers carrying aiong shielas in compact bodies of foot and horse; silver and gold- smiths at their trade, blowing tne fire of the cruci- ble, weighing the metai and adjusting the scales; Vaskmasters with sticks superintending Israglites making brick; strangers with Israelitish noses com- ing to Pharaoh (Phra, as written) with oiferings of peace; spiiners at their spindies, &c. The whole are very interesting and will well repay inspection anew to the most verdantin antiquity. Human bones, beads, less and arms, swathed and impreg- nated with pitch, are strewn avout the eatrances to the tombs and gn the side of the cif, Sir Gardner reports the villagers of Benihassan great thieves, but we did not stay long enough to vest their honesty, though their pertinacious en- treaties for baksinsb entitle them tothe first rank of beggars. A iittle east of Benihassan 1s what the Greeks catled the Speos Artemidos, or the ‘'emple of Hasiet, who was the Diana of Egypt. ‘The temple is excavated out of the rock. Near Rhoda the Nile expands into the sea like a stream, a8 mentioned in scripture, where it 18 pro- bably a mile and a half wide. Steamers keep close to tae eastern bank, where the strong, deep current make fearful work with it, sweeping away many. rods of rich soul. The tal! cutmneys of thé sugar’ factories of Knoda appear like obeliskes rismz amid palm groves, On the western side, behind the green expause, you can faintly discern the Libyan desert, At dark we hauled up at Manfaloot. Struggling through the dark in long array of Franks, after the curious and picturesque, We heard a great shouting near the bazaar, and a medley of voices so innar- mionious aud deafening that all of us istiuctivel, stopped our ears lest we should run mad, This noise proceeded from a procession of men of uli trades, and womeu and children, who were ushering in the Ramadan. ¥irst there came @ chanting erowd of men and boys eneng, ® melancholy toned song, then there foilowed a lot of agricuiturists holding above their heads palm brauches, acacia boughs m bioom, a Sheal Of sugar cane or of corn stalks and a branch of ucanthus leaves. Then followed smiths, who plied their trade on portable forges, beating red bot iron on anvils, borne by diminutive donkeys, while joining loudly and lustily in the chorus. Following these came butchers, who had littie boys to repre- sent the aniinals they were supposed to kill. ‘To iilustrate faitufully tue operation of killing, te little boys were made to lie down, while tne butchers rapidly made motions with their kuives over their bodies, while the boys imitated as well as possible te cries of the animals supposed to be killed. After these came the brickmakers, who whue some car- ried hoppers full of mud, others moulded the bricks, and others carried them ww be dried. Masons also chisseied away at stones borne by men, who pre-, ceded them; carpenters with their adzes and saws cut boards and plied their trade industriousiy; shoemakers cobbied shoes, and repaired sandals; taliors made Kaftans and burnouses, and go on in a continuous procession. Boys carried torches, women and girls followed, singing suriily their wel- come to tte Kamadan, +Marifaloot 1s a iarge town, containing 10,000 1n habitants. Itis situated on fue site of an ancieat chy, remains of whica, however, cannot be found except in batiis and in the walls of large resi- dences. Ossyoot, or Siout, was reached the next day at cen A. M. Being an ituportant placeand the capital of modern Kyypt, and being close w tle tombs of ancient Lyvopolis—the ‘City of the Wolves’—it is one of tht amporians stopping places of European travellers up the Nile. Upon the banks waited the donkey boys for fares, “tere is your donkey, sir,’ exclaimed a little urchin of eight years, pushiug his proud Little animal between my legs. “Berry good, sir; Yankee Doodies is oia naine, sir.’ “No, sir,” Said anotier, pusiing bis doakey from rear- ward; “tiis is Billy Kobinson, sit; best donkey in Slout.” Patriotisi, however, urged me to take “Yankee Doodie,” and @ prouder little beast was never bestrode by mau. We ‘“donkeyed’ our way through El Hanna, the port of Siout, aud over a causeway, part of which is very aucient, and, skirung the town, rode direct to the'base of Stabe Antar, The tombs are numerous, far more 80 than at Benihassan, but, excepting one or two, they are not so well preserved as those of the latter place. The largest of them 1s called Stabe Antar by the Arabs, If1s like @ vast temple cut in the rock, It penetrates eighty feet into the hard limestone and is sixty feet in width, portioned into — separated from each other by pillars. ‘ne sides are sculptured and some parts covered with stucco, which yet retains the brilliant paint. The other tombs rise above each other over the entire face of the mountain, and their floors are Tull of square pits haif fall of debris, mummy linen and bones. Some of these pits, hewever, are tlurty feet deep, of the shape and size of ordinary graves. In the largest tombs are several chambers surround- ing one large centrai chamber, wherein the muim- Ties Of the wolves which were sacred In Lycopolis were placed, while we owner occupied tie central chamber. In one ef the three largest tomos on the Upper stratum was found a pit, contaming absolutely nothing else save bandages, skulls of mumimies, arms and feet of mummies. Kaking over a corner with my cane, I found three infant skulls, the bones of wich were just as hard and fresit as if they had been buried but a few years ago, Another gentieman picked up @ thin short forearm and hand, probaly belonging to a boy or girl of tender age, in contem- piating wich the byscanders naturally fell to moral- iziug upon the littieaess of humanity, upon the cir- cumstantes which led people to adopt such great care to preserve their dead, the skill and might of the Egyptiaus. But the arm was sbrown down care- leasly, gud for the time we bade a truce to morailzing, and ascended to the summit of the mouniatu to get @ view of the Nile valley. All who sce that view from the height of Stabe Antar will remember it as jong as they tive. We stood enraptured vy it and thought it worth more than, ail the mummies, The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans who lived in Lycopolis must have also thought tt worth seeing, for the place of ascent is Worn as smooth by footsteps as the Puyx at Athens, Where aubitious travellers have stepped that they might swear that they stood where De- mostuenes and Pericles addressed Grecian audi- ences, Though 4,000 years have passed since first Lyco- polls was avity, no Change has taken place in tae view from Stabe Antar; though dynasties after dy- nasties, Osirel Setiier, Kanesii, Hyksos; though Pha- raous, Ptolemies and Cleopatras, Melehs, Persians, Greeks and Romans have ail been laid witn their fathers—that portion of tue Nile vaileyis ever green, ever beautiiul, unchangeable and unchanging. F teen miies to the eastward are the Arabian shores; between you and those shores flows the eternal Nile, distributing ite sweet waters through ® score of veiniike streams—the ‘Jove born Kgyptus.” So sang Homer of the Nile, ines that it flowed direct from Jupiter. All love the Nile, though its ‘waters are muddy and brown with soll; yet 1t is a good Joving gealus. From a distance its waters are even beautiful, and it runs amid the sweetest uerb- ago, amid shrubbery and green fields. Vrom Stabe patient camels drawing the plongha over a dark plot of ground, ‘and ihe men aud women at thelr net manutactures, and hark to the song of the netweavers and to the chirup of the birds, and you Will confess yourself @ believer in its be: I mentioned above Banr Yousef or Joseph; Iv is @ wide canal running from near Thebes to which Mussuiman tradition has denomimated Joseph's river, Provabiy the appellation 18 correct, “See,’? said Sesostris or Pharaoh unto Joseph, tak- ing his signet ring from his band, ‘I have set thee ruler over the land of Egypt; only in the throne will I be greater thau thou,’ Joseph, wise premier that: he was, introduced the system of canal irrigation into Egypt, and the reign of Sesostris 1s famous for its canafs, aswell as for the building of naries to store the superabundance of dle land produced. 1i 1s not, therefore, Improbab that Mussulman tradition in this instance 1s correct. There are American, Spanish, French and Prue sian consular agencies at Siout, A Copt named Wisen or Wisah is the American consular agent. There ia also'an American mission here, cond by the Rev, Mr. Hogg and Miss McUoan, where they have In charge over twenty young Copts, who are being educated for the.mipistry, besides nearly fifty boys and giris receiving elementary instruct ‘The Stout mission is, next to the one at Alexandria, the most important one in Egypt, and 1s about to have a chureb, which the friends of the cause are going to erect for tuem, ABYDOS, Girgeh, the post of Abydos, was reached about hoon tue next day. Abydos introduces the travellers to Lhe first Semple ruins in Reo travellers stop here, because the ride 1s long Girgen, Soongyiti four hours; besides ey ‘the ruins were 60 cl oKed up with sand tha: very little of them were to be seen. Buton the occasion of the Empress of the French's visit these ruins were cleared out to the - floor by M. Marictie, keeper of the Cairo Museum, by order of the Khedive. Since Abydos required a whole day to visit its rains we did not start until morning of the next day, when, after taking coffee, au lait, Bt five o'clock, we started on camels, horses and donkeys, provided by the Governor ut the Khe dive’s expense. Our road lay along the banks of Banr Yousef, past groves of date paiims, acacia, with here and there @ tamarisk, @ sycunore, a muriosa tree anong them, through gardens of lentils, carrots, parsnips, onions and turnipa; through flelas of yo wheat ana corn, until we came to the village of Bardees, which we reached at six A. M.; then crossing an oid, inter- secting bridge, we headed direct for the desert at.the edge of which the ruins of Abydos stood. In Stravo’s time a grove of acanthus grew close to Abydos, but very few acanthus trees grow there now, A magnificent grove of palms has usurped the place of the acaniius. The first indications of the ruins are heaps of dried Nile sediment and pottery, and of crude sun dried brick. Arab villages for- merly occupied the summit. A crude brick enclo- sure, built in Waving lines of great strengub, indi- cates the site of aun Egyptian fortress. Beyond tis path leads over a mound, through a Misember village, past @ sinull iake bordered with palm shoots, past two or three otuer mounds, which, having sur- mounted, you Jook down Into the ruins of Osiris’ temple. A mournful sympathy with the ancient Egyptlans took possession of us as, gazing below at the interesting ruins, we were introduced to the first vempie which mects the European traveller as he ascends the Nile. And with this was a cervain feel- ing of hatred towards the despollers, who, upim- pressed with the awe which an Egyptian temple commands, couid level 118 ponderous pillars and de- stroy those exquisite designs briliiant with azure and gold, sublime in conception, such as no Ration uad dared to imitate. As the tempie stands to-day it is as if the founde- vion had just been laid and the building was about to rise in ali its majesty above the plain. The stopes looking so fresb and clean, the blocks lying outat of the temple in profusion, add to the idea. But d ascending to the drowmos now vacant of its couchant Sphinxes and superb pylon and propyl, its utter ruln aud desolation is iiapressive. We paused not before the rained towers and ‘the red granite col- utons of the pyloa, nor before the numberiess legs of the colossal figures of deities and kings which were sculptured upon the wails of the propylex. was short, and to tie uninitiated in antiquity who cannot read hieroglyphical characters one general look will suffice. Before 1eaving quite the fronu court, the 1ows of mutilated statues of the mummied god Osiris which su‘round It reveal to us something of that awful grandeur which must have touched Egyptian hearts into reverence for their worship, and impel us toa inental endeavor of Pyceemitre | the temple when complete, audtne people crowd in al spring timeand harvest to observe the fetes ag well as at every anniversary of Isis’ return from the search after her husband, Osiris, and her victory over the wicked deity, Typhon. But imagimation is vain for such a task, for the avenue of Sphinxes which sate in conscious power before the. splendia pylon and the towering propylw, enriched with the Horbat, with its wings of azure, and the ke Pas standards of the Pharaohs, the magnificent pill portico, supported by Osiride statues, swathed wranite bandages, cach ooking straight and imp: sive belore it, and the spacious tenemos, planted with trees—these being ne., Imagination was dumb, and the inanity of tne mental picture was but wo apparent. Once within tne temples eyes were kept busy enough peering at the bull, Apis, which represents Osirig; at a hawk-headed god, which is Mando; at the serene, majestical uppearance of Isis, whe queen goddess; at youtitul Horus, the child of Usiris and 1818; at a thousani! cartouctes, at innumerable sculp- tures and paintings on the alabaster Inner.casing of tne walls, These figures are ail brilliant with paint, yet are not gaudy, but tasteful; they are much beter than amateurs give them credit for being. The bold, masterly hand of the sculptor seems never to have been at fault, for the protiies are aways lifelike. If one but stays to admire the figure of a king, who has the alr of mag- niicent superiority, he will see that the robe colored a8 might ave been whe line of the kingly robe, and each jink of a gold chain, or bracelet, tao heimet, girdle, sceptre and spear has its appropriate coloring. There are over twenty rooms, great ana anal, 1 this temple which are well worth examin- ation. About 200 paces south of the Temple of Osiris ts the Palace of Mcinnon, completed by Rameses the Great. This Is uknost entre, excepting the dromos and tepemos. it is superb, grand, majestic, A mysterious gioom pervades its nalis; it seems as if the shaae of Great Rameses still hovered over it. Eyery foot of tts wails and columns is covered with fine sculpture; but the very faintest trace only ts left of the brilant coloring which redeemed the halis Jrom gioom. The cellug. for instance, so bright in azure color once, with its thousands of stars all agiow in an kgyptan sky, are now blackened with smoke, and the piliars and walls of the palace, for- werly transplendent with paintings, are now of a uniform color, aS Mf the silent desoiaiion of the halls, 80 long buried to oblivion and sand, had lert 108 sombre impress upon Wem, Apt name 18'that which tue Arabs bestowed upon it—viz,, “Aravut ei Mattoon,” waich means the “puried,’’ fer guch bas been ita fate for 1,00) years; but Pococke and the indefatiganle Belzoni came, an after these Baukes, srusch, Leposires and siarieite, unul the temple palace of Memuon stood reveated in the light of day. ‘Nhere are four kinds of colamns here. In the por- tico are twenty-four columns, in two rows of twelve each, the Capitais of Wuich are of tne papyras bud. ‘These columas are irom fitty to sixty fees mgh and filveen feet in circumference. In the Hail of Assem- bly are thirty-six columns of the saine massive size and height, and from tus hall @ great portal leads into the sagctuary, or an adytum, at the back of which are severai arched chambers. In the sides are lateral cham) with polygonal and octagonal columns of the fui iovus fower. Four perfect fighia of stairs lead to ue rool, which 1s flat and composed of lmmense blocks resting on their sides. We—in- vited guests—sat down a (a Turque on the floor of the Assembly Hall to a most royal lunch, and in flowing giasses vi Montrachet, Chablis, Haut Sau- terne and Chainpagne we drank to the requiescat in pace of the grea’ wameses. Our friend *isull Run’? Rassell was of our party, and I find that tue task of cicerone just suit’s him. fis dress’ was wost remarkable, consisting of ap Anglo-Indian’s linen sult, a huge solar topee, and horsemen’s boots reaching to the thighs. With. his - charming daughter jeaning on his arm he traversea the corridors adyta and sckos of Rameses’ palace,fol- Jowed by aparty of ive or atx of his iriends, to whom be explamed tue hieruglyphics in a most original manner. “Do you see taat figure?’ asked Mr. Russell, of his daugnter, “that figure with the horns of a bull upon bis head, which holds a sceptre and a whip??? pointing to Osiris, tue Judge of tne Dead. i “O, yes,’? said lis daugiver and admiring friends, “Weil,” replied ‘dr. Russell, “taat is the devil, you know. You see, te Egyptians of 4,000 years ago iwi the same superstitious notion of how the devi! appeared as ignorant moderns have.’ “How very interesting,” chorussed the admiring friends anddauguter. ‘iow very well sculptured, too, J declare.” “You ave,” continued Mr. Russell, waxing elo- quent over his theme, ‘‘ne stanas at the portals of hell to receive tuose doomed to punisiment, and Our time , the whip he holds in tie band is to drive the un- willing on faster.’* “How very interesting,” murmured bis friend “Yes, quite, quite go,” said Mr. Russell, in @ fled tone, “and those dwarfish figures you see the devil are tne lesser devila waiting for orders. Indeed, 1 imagine we Egyptians were iurther ad- vanced in civilization tham we suppose, and | fear that the learned Egyptologists have not deciphered the hieroglyphics quite correct yet.’? Oh, Mr. Kussell, so famous im war chronjles anc in veractous Bull Run sketches, were you nt afraid that Great Osiris, the Holy One of Egypt, might have eirangied you as you so glibly named tim devilt Was Rameses the Great nothing to you that you must call him “ittle devi’? in his own palace? What shall S:r Gardner Wilkinson say when he heare that the correspondent of the London Times doubdta his veracity? What would Champoilion say? What defence can learned Egyptologists oifer to th obronicler? Herodotus was afraid to name Os! write of him with levity, And are you, Mr. Ri 3 greater than Herodotus of Haltcarnassus Oh! Mr, Kassel, of Crimean and Bull Run notoriety | We returned to (icezeh, where we arrived at sun- set, well pleased with our Fide across the valley oj the Nile and the wonderful ruins of Abydos, Over an excellent dinner and to the sound of Champagne corka popping we recited to each other, amid merry Jests and iaugoter, our experiences, not forgetung Mr. Kusweil’s Wisdum—ol We visit to Abydos,