The New York Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1870, Page 10

10 UP THE TIGRIS, Babylonia and Nesopotamia Sketehed at the Confluence of the Tigris and Kuphrates, Steam Travel and Proposed French Communication Between Bus- sorah and Algeria. River and Rural Scenes and Incidents. The Garden of Eden as a Telegraph Sta- tion and as Vor spectal correspondent in the Tar ast, dating at Bagdad the 20d of Febuary, suppiies the following Drilant and highly interesting report of his travel Up the Tigris river, with notes of the tueidents which befell him and sketches of the people whom he met en route, As a topographical aud Wistorical Mug. tration the letter is of very great value:— AGDAD, Feb. 23, 1870, THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES IN 1870, We have at iength reached the month of the oldest of historical rivers, and the steamship which has bronght us from Bushire pauses for a few minutes to give the Arab pilot (a pictnresquely arrayed incapabie) an opportunity to catch his breath and collect his senses before he takes us up the Shat-el-Arab. Such is the name by which the river formed by the united streams of the Tigris and Euphrates is now known, though 1t is probable that im ancient times the Tigris was looked upon ag ceasing at the point where it joined the Euphrates, while the latter was considered to fow on until it reached the sea. However this may be, the muddy Waters on which we are now floating are su(ficiently connected with the familiar names to suggest many Memories of ancient fabies and story—of Nimrod and Belshazzar, of Khalif Haroun a) Raschid and the Lady Zobelde, of the Garden of Eden and the tower of Babel. And but for such recollections there would be Uittle. indeed, to interest one in a first view of the Shat-el-Arap, for the coast line which it @ivides is drearily flat and monotonens. On the east the Persian territory presents a dead level of Daler brown sand, scarcely rising above the waves, and unrelieved by tree or shrub, or even a tuft of grass; and on the west whe Turkish shore ts equally Tow, and, though it is frmged with a few small date trees, the Jand soon fades away towards the interior into a marsh of reeds and willows, Even the waves for miles away from this unpromusing coast are of that sickly green which betokens shallow depth, while the waters of the river tinge the sea with dirty brown Mesopotamian earih, which has here and there formed an ugly looking sand bank, But the whistle of the engine gives a shrili scream and we run slowly up the channe! of the river. after an hour's tedious voyage, during which the pilot and the officer of the watch are constantly shouting out orders to the man at the wheel and the engi- neer; while another officer, with @ gang of sailors, stands ready on the forecastie to drop the anchor at a moment’s notice, we arrive in due course at Fao. Fao, as a town, 18 of no importance whatever, but it is the point where the submarine cable from India joins tne land Jine through Turkish Arabia, and isalso the first of the various custom houses which are spread along the Tigris, and whicn levy tol) upon ai) buggalows and vessels ascending the river. ‘The only houses visible are a little shanty of white- washed chunam, planted tn front of which 1s a huge flagstaff, with an enormons Turkish ensign and a Jarge building of two stories, also painted white, and with double verandas running right round it, The former is the Custom House the latter tne tele- graph office. Close scrutiny will also bring to view @score of small huts, inhabited by the servants of the officiais, and there are said to be three or four other houses hidden away somewhere behind a date plantation, where the married telegraph clerks reside. Three among the latter gentlemen are Bug- lishmen; there are also a Greek and two or three Turks who can speak French. Lying in the stream is an old brig, whe bulwarks have becn pierce "4h half a dozen holes on each side, 80 as to makgseer Jook something jike a war vessel. Only four Byles on one side and three on the other, howeverare manned with cannon, This craft, as is shown by ‘the fag fying at her masthead, is a Turkish man-of- war and, and is specially cominissioned to guard the mouth of the river. As her duties, m fact, consist only in bullying the wretched captains of native buggalows into paying three or four times the Proper dues (the surplusage going into the pockets of the officials, pro reia, according to thelr rank), she is perhaps thoroughly efficient; still the govern- ment is sensible that it does not 100K very weil to be represented by such a sorry-looking scarecrow of a ‘vessel, and have bought one of the steamships of the now defunct Panama and Australian line to do duty at the head of she Persian Gulf. The name of the ship has been changed from the Mataura to the Babel, and she 13 to be heavily armed. Sbe w come ont via the Suez Canal. QUARANTINE. After a jong delay, during which the captain cursed the Turks and their government and their religion and everything tiat is theirs, with every in- ‘vective in the Anglo-Indian vocabulary, the quaran- tine omicer at length came off in a leaky boat, rowed by some half naked Arabs, by ureans of two oars on one side and three paddies on the other. The onicer himself was in a highly ragged condition, but be could at any rate boast a respectable Osmanii red cap with a black tassel, while his feet were encased in patent leather boots, Even here, at the ry threshold of tne dominions of the Porte, the leading vices of the peopie—siovenliness, uathrift and tndo- Jence—display themselves in the most obtrusive man- ner. No contrast could be more striking than that between the mailboat of the Hn wish steamer, trim and clean, with polished brass rowiocks and fresh painted sides, and the miserable oid tay which werves as the gig of the heaith oMcer of the port. No contrast, that is to say except the still more strik- ing one between our energetic, smartly dressed and elear-headed Anglo-Saxon capiain and the disrepu- table looking individual who ascertained, on hehalt of the Sublime Porte, that we were and innocent of choiera. FROM FAO TO a distance of about forty n , stopping place, and that ison the Per i a viace called Mohammeran. Mohammerah ts the headquarters of a very enlightenea sherk, who has had sense enough to fall in with the ideas of pro- 88 that are Siowly Making their way even in the fast, and who has consequently become very rich. A little creek, deep enougn for smait bugealows and stzamers drawing only six or seven‘ feet of water, rans through the district wittun his juriadiction into the Shat-el-Arab. The land on each side of it is very fertile, and, under the fostering care of the good sheik, the people have seriously set to work at ting money. No district in Persia of the same Simentions is Peel prosperous or wealthy. The part of the soil is carefully cultivated with dates or wheat or parley; horses and cattle are exported, and a number of buggaiows are now annually constructed. Only a fortnight ago the gheik recetved from Bombay a river steamer which he has had built to run up the Euphrates. ‘The boat 1s of very fair capacity and ta specially adapted for the business in which she is to be employed. She m t-bottomed, draws only one foot of wi > and has two stories of cabins. If sne only had a walk- it & little less dirty she would mot be greatiy unlike some of the smaller steamers on the Western rivers. She cost about $30,000, but ber machinery is not new. She has taken three months to come up from Kurrachee, owing to a series of misadventures, which iilustrate rather forcibly the difficulties which an Oriental has to en- counter in eg age with Europeans in such enter- prises. Such ts the prejudice among European engineers against working in the employ of an Arab, or @ Persian, or a Hindoo, that none but men who are unable to obtain any other situation wil! accept an offer, even at higher wages than eisewhere given, from men whom they term “niggers.” The Sheikh of Mohammerah, therefore, had to entrust hia pur- ehase to the care of a couple of daranken loafers, ‘who got through three bottles of brandy the first night they were at sea. Of course they became incapable of working the machinery, and before they were sober the boller Durst, owing to the water in it having got toolow. Luckily, no one was hurt, and the Nadir kept above water until a passing steamer towed ner back to Kurrachee. Repairs cost and she made a second attempt to get up but ran out of coal before sie reached Bushire and drifted about for a couple of wecks when she hailed one of the British Indian steamers and arran; to be taken into port. And in despair of ever getting to Mohammerah unaided the agent of the Sheikh on board made a further bargain to be towed night up and into THE SHAT-RL-ARAB. Now she isin the river the Sheikh hopes to be able to manage her a little better, as, in case the ers continue to grossly negiect their work, he perhaps induce one of the Turkish engineers to we the government service and take charge of her. There can be no doubt that if she y TUR Dig NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 24 1870.—QUADRUPLE SHEET, Pperly she will yet amply re the Sheikh; for she Can get very Ete guer up either the Tigris or the Euplirates than ang other ‘boats at present here, ae ‘Turks eave a nly gob oes 9 ett = lespatch wail boats to run Up a yar ‘Aleppo; but even they draw more than the ar, THE SHEIKH AS A CAPITALIST. ‘This personage 18, of course, the capitalist of the disirtct; but the justice of his administration and the liberally with which he receives all new comers are attracting, many small traders and cultivators to settle 10 bis terriiories, It 18 not improbable, in- deed, that a few years will see Mohammerah quite an important town, even if tt does not seriously rival Bussorab. [tis singularly well adapted, at any rate, to absorb the trade of @ very large portion of Persia; and there 13 a chance that it may even become what Bussorah ts now —the entrepot for the trade of all the peopie who live on the Tigris and the Euphrates. itis more conveniently situaced than Bussorah; it has equally good anchorage for ships. In fact, the only thing Senne it 19 that it is @ Per- sian port and that Turkish subjects using it would probably have to pay double customs dutles, But if the Sheikh can pemuade hig government to make it a free port wis obstacle would be, of course, re- moved, It is doubtful, however, if the Persian gov- ernment could even grasp #0 sublime & conception. BUSSORAH, at which port the Indian steamers stop, in common with all Kuropean vessels trading to Turkisn Arabia, is @ prosperous little city of some 30,000 or 40,000 inbabitants. In former times it had an immense commerce and possessed several universities, but just before its revival, twenty or thirty years ago, it nad dwindled down to the iast stage of decay. Of lave years, however, the bazaars have been rebuilt, steam ines now connect it with India and with Bag- dad and every year it grows larger and more pros- perous, But there 18 one great drawback to its progress—it is not built facing on to the river, but is situated on the banks of a little creek, which is always dry at low water, and sometimes dry even at food tide for weeks together when there son and the river sinks below its usual level. 'd, a8 goods have to rried three or four milea by land before they cu their destination. In & European or American town, blessed with roads which are passable for vehicles, this distance would be nothing; but here in the East, where wheeled conveyances are never Seen, becatise the streets are too narrow and too uneven to allow of them, 1b 13 @ serious matter to have to pack goods on @ mule’s back. In fact, the Becking is more trouble thaf the distance which he goods have to be carried, As @ city bussorah 3 of the usual Arab model. Long, crooked lanes instead of streets, square miud-brick houses, wita flat roofs, aud, in the business quarter, long lines of bazaars, mapped off into fittle stores of some six feet square by brick partitions.’ The principal export trade of Bussorah consists of wheat, aates and horses for Bombay. It imports chiefly dry goods and ail sorts of little knick-knacks, such as lamps, beads, faise stones, C'garetve papers, pipe bowls and so forth, UP THR RIVER, From Bussorah up the river to Bagdad there are two competing steamsnip lines, one of thom owned by aa Wnglish corporation and the latter maintained by the Turkish government. Tne former was started in 1861 by Messrs. Lynch & Co., the pioneer European firm in Bagdad, and has been extremely successiul, ‘The Indian government allows them a mail subsidy, which goes far to pay the working expenses, and there ts a large and steady passenger trafic in Per- sian pilgrims, who are making the ‘haj’’ to Kerbela, the site of the tomb of the sainted Hussein, Full freights at more or less remunerative rates can always be obtained. The pecuniary success of the line became 80 notorious, indeed, that the Pacha Baguad resolved to start an opposition. ‘The first of the Turkish steamers was brought out a couple of years ago, and now the fleet has been increased to three. Owing to bad management, however, it is said, the line has barely paid expenses, and its rival so far kept its position as first favorite with shippers and passengers. Lynch & Co. have only a couple of boats, the City of London and the Diglieh, put they manage to keep up a service of three iripsa month each way. Of course a European golng up the river would find the English boats preferavie. The fare is seventy kerauns, or about twenty dollars, and there 1s a further charge of $2 50 a day for messing with the captain. The dis- tmce from Bussorah to Bagdad by the river 1s about 500 miles. The time of the journey, owing to the difficulties of navigation, varies greatly. When the river is high, three days up and aday anda half down are the usuai passages; but when It 1s low the boats sometimes take six or seven ays to get up andacouple of days down. The boats are of very shallow draught, with a horizontal beam. When deeply laden they only draw four feet, In external appearance they are miniature copies of American river boats, less the walking beam. All the cabins are on deck, and their roof serves as a sort of platform, which is occupied ‘sf the deck pas- sengers. The first class cabins are large and com- fortaole, but are not provided with bedding. Taken as @ whole, the boats are far better than the Eng- lish steamboats on the Australian rivers, such as the Darling and the Murray. It strikes one strangely though to see a river steamer on the Euphrates. How the ghost of ‘Nebuchadnezzar, the king,” must siare as he watciies these crowded noisy wooden houses passing swiftly up the river against the four-mile-an-hour current 1 Your correspondent took passage in the Dijileh, which is commanded by one of the oldest European residents in Bagdad, Captain Holland, 4 Jonn Bul of the best type—stout, red faced, good tempered, sound hearied, with @ cheery voice and @ genial smile, 10 is now thirty years Since the Captain has deen in England, during which time he has served in the Persian war and most of the other naval scrimmages yn which the Indian government nas been invoived. He first came up the Euphrates with Colonel Chesney’s exploring expedition, and seeing the opportunities of trade afforded py steam navigation ou te river conceived tte idea of the present company, of which he is one of the prin- cipal siareholders. He says that he has no desire whatever to return to England; all is friends are dead, and he has lately been married for the second tune to a Bagdadee girl, Captain Holland has an endless stock of adven- tures ana stories with which to beguile the tedium of the voyage. One favorite story is that of an American captain named Dunlop, Who, about ten years ago, is Said to have rua away with a vessel, the name of whichis now forgotten, He brought to Bussorah, and managed to sell her to a native mer- chant for about hall her value. He then departed for Beyrout overiand, having borrowed Capiain Hol- land’s servant, saddle and travelling blankets. The chief mate, Who was supposed to be an accomplice in the swindle, left with tim, but footisnly allowed ube captam to hola the money. Arrived at Beyrout, the latter decamped suddenly, leaving his partner in the lurch—that 18 to say, destitute of a singic veshtick, Captain Hotland thinks Dunlop the most accomplished villam he ever saw, “only,” as the captain says, “he never knew where to stop, for, not content with all the money he had got by the sale Or the ship, he tried to steai my saddle and blankets. Luckily, my servant saw him taking them up to the ship and claimed them.’’ After the captain had larly got away the ship was recovered oy the Ameri- can Consul a¢ Bombay, and it transpired that on the voyage up the gulf the captain had quietly thrown two of the native crew into the sea. The ‘men had suddenly disappeared and were supposed to have fallen overboard, but when the captain turned out to be such au arrant rogue he was credited with hav- ing murdered them. Te poor native who pur- cnased the vesael was ruined. {saw lim in Busso- rab, apd when the captain told him I came trom New York he looked at me very suspiciously. Un- fortunately Cxptain Dunlop 18 almost the only Ame- rican who has evercome to Bussorah, and among a people so ignorant and suspicious as the Arabs it ‘will be nard for any American trader who may come up here in the future +o make ibem believe that all Aiuericans are not Dunlops, ‘Yhere ls another story of the captain’s of a much More curious character, Ali properly educated per- sons have read the “Arablan Nights,” and can re- member without diMicaity that once on a time in Kagdad three king’s sons, all biind of one eye, met at the house of certain three merry ladies, Well, there recentty lived a lady in Bagdad—a European—wno Was 80 lmapressed by this story that she only engaged one-eyed servants, And sbe Dad just three servants, A few months ago she went down to Bombay with these domestics in her train. One can imagine a man watching her and her household, and, on “hear- ing that she hed come from Bagdad, suddenly dreaming that he had dropped back into 600 years ago, and that the lady was etther Annte or Zobeide, waile the creatures following her were a trinity of king’s sons, all biind of an eye. Just after leaving Bussorah the boat stops at Mar- gil, avout four mules higher up the river. Here is ‘he British Residency, an immeuse building, with enormous grounds. The Residency, however, is only rented by the government; the land belongs to Lyneh & Co., woo hope in time to make a good thing oi it, About six months ago an agent of tne French government came up the gulf and the Euphrates to report on the prospects of opening up a French trade here. as soon as the Suez Canal was opened. ‘This agent has made a very florid report to his government of the prospects of commerce in these parts—too florid, as some of the English residents think, bat perhaps based on well grounded anticipations of what the future is to bring forth. Algerian Arabs starve annually, because grain riscs tofamtne rates, while the Arabs of the Gulf ana Bussorah are unable to buy as many European goods as they would hke, because they have no market for their surplus wheat and dates. And though at pre- sent English dry goods almost exclusively supply this market, yet French designs are far more likely to sell, even at higher rates. ‘There is after all noth- ing therefore yery wild in the Freuchman’s ex- pectation that a steam line from Algeria to Busso- rah, with a connecting branch at Alexandria to Mar- seilles, would pay handsomely, If the line is started, the only available station for the boats is the plot of ground now owned by the Messrs. Lynch. So the latter, even if the Frenchmen come and hurt their trade somewnrt, will gain in another way by the enhanced value of their reat estate. SCENES ON THE ROUTE. A voyage up the Euphrates and the Tigris is by no means interesting im the scénery which it displays to the view of the traveiler. From Bussoran to Bagdad the oullook ts nearly uniform. On the east bank there are scarcely any trees and little cultivation, Now and then oue sees an Arab vil- lage of tents and thetch huts, in front of which the adult population {8 peacefnily seated, smoking jong Pipes, while the children run along the bank, vainly endeavoring to keep abreast of the steamer, which they bail with shrieks and yells, the horses of the en- campment joming in the harmony with oud neighs and the pariah dogs with shrill yelps. A good-natured passenger ainuses himself by throwing oranges or apples to the youthful crowd—a measure which al- Ways produces a flerce and protracted scramble, It 1s odd, too, to notice that these youngsters, although quite of an age to make adequate clothing advisable, and although they are arrayed in a large loose robe of camiet, Wear this latter garment as an ornament, and not for any purpose of decency. Boys and girs TS Arrpyed alike MM Ms Bipgie CIpAK WAbLONs apy underclothing, and a8 t! mn along it naturally opens in front, and Cooney all inher to fulfil and there, and sometimes for miles at a 8! With date plantations, This shore is also dott with Arab villages, but the steamers more rarely approach it than the other. Up near Bagdad, for the last hundred miles of the voyage, both sides of the river alike untilied ‘and covered with scanty patches of high grass, parched by the hot sun to a hayitke hue, Not unfrequently a flock of shaggy cattle or sheep may beseen, guarded by three or four Bedaween, armed with long spears and huge flint lock rer Everywhere there 18 abundance of game; river is crowded with wila duck and waterfowl, and its banks are the home of grim wila boars (‘‘sangliers,” a3 a French passenger termed them), of ever hui Jackals and of hyenas and lynxes, while the atr is inhabited by partr:d; and woodcock. Sometimes the people of the steamer have seen even a lion, that has come down to the river todrink, and bis majesty has stared at the boat in stupid wonder, until a ball from @ rifle has driven him groaning away into the cover to die. When the river is low, however, as at present, many jong reaches Dave to be traversed between banks too high to adroit of @ view of the country through which one is being carried; and it is only here and there that the desert can be seen. HOW YOU GO UP. The navigation of the Tigris and the Euphrates of late years has been very dimcult. Under the most favorable circumstances the river would not be an easy one to steam over, But year after year, owing to the carelessness of the authorities, the water, which should be confined within the banks, is allowed to break through more and more over the low levels into which the banks subside, where it forms huge marshes, In ancient times the river was carefully preserved within its uatural boundaries, partly by means of levees and parily by means of ca- which were usetol, also, as @ means of uriga- ‘That was in the days when Mesopotamia and ory, aud un- th the line of the power of the caliphs the same system Was more or less perfectly maintained. But late years, in the last two evil centuries of weakne+8 and misrale and poverty, everything has been rapidly gotag to rack and rain. In the winter tne heavy rains swell the rivers until they rise sometimes forty feet in @ month, and this supply of water, if economized, would be amply sufficient to last over the dry season, Bat at present the water floods through the breaches which time and wear has made in the banks, desolaves the soil it inundates, and makes the navigation of the river almost im- possible in the Jow season even for vessels of very shallow draught. And, apartfrom the shallowness of the nei, there is auotier source of troukie, The banks are very insecure, being simply mounds of soft earth, unbound by trees or vegetation of any kind wort speaking of, The rapid current, never ranning jess than four and someumes eight miles an hour, 18 constantly tearing away these shores, form- ing new mud bauks and carving out for itscif afresh channel. In afew days deep water is fre- quently converted into a shallow bar, wiile a new channel has perhaps been worn out on the opposite side of the stream. To find this latter in some wide reach of the river is perhaps very difficult, and as ‘the shortest way of ending the delay the goods are shipped over the bar in small boats unul the steam- doa, Baby ania, were in the zenith of their e ship manages to get across it, Then the cargo 18 again recetvyed on board. This sometimes takes place three or four times in the course of the trip, aud the voyage 1s proportionately lengthened. ‘Ine width of the river, by the way, varies very greatly. Sometimes 1t is barely a quarter of a mile across, or even jess, and again five miles further up it widens out into three-quarters of a mule. HISTORY—ITS RUINS AND MONUMENTS. Between Bussorah and Bagdad there are three special Objects of interest—ihe,Garden of Eden, Ezra’s Tomb and the Arch of Cresiphon, The site of Paradise 13, of course, a controverted question, but it must have been at some point where the Tigris and the Euphrates and some otuer two rivers meet, And at present there is only one such spot and this, in ail essentiai points, agrees with the Scriptural narrative. The two main rivers flow together at a slight angie at a little place calied Korneh, and join once for ail to form the Shav el Arab; while about half a mile below a good sized stream runs down from the Per- sian mountains into the mam fiver, By tradition the land enclosed by the angie formed by the Tigris and tne Euphrates is regarded as the veritable Gar- den of Eden, where the first man awoke to mental consciousness, where Eve was created out of a spare rib, and where the serpent succeeded in compassing the rnin of the human race, At present—indeed, tor many years—this spot has been the site of an Arab town, Which now 1s declining in prosperity. To look at Kornen it is by no means a Paradisaicai avode, though it 18 certainly & much more inviting location than many other towns on theriver. Scaitered aiong the bank are some coupie of huudred houses, made of reeds and thatch, wile near!y on the extreme point, where the rivers meet, a shanty has been butlt for a telegrapb station. It is curious, indeed, tothink of the site of the rustic arbor in which our rst parents billed and cooed being appropriated 4s a resting place for commerciai bulictins and newspaper des- patches. Just at present the Arabs have cut the wires, and all the European despatcnes have to be brought down from a point a jittle below Hilian by steamer to Korneh, to be thence transmitted to Bom- bay or Calcutta, Korneh—the Garden of Eden—is, the! re, ior the time being, @ principal point of the ne. Tae town people jive chiefly by the cul- ture of dates, of which there are severa! piantations, enclosed by mnd walls, and @ couple of naive buggalows are now lying m the river load- mg cargoes for Bussoran. There is only one other tree, besides date trees at Korneh, and that, although not a fig, 1s plundered by every traveller ior souvenirs in the shape of a few leaves, Two or threg years ago there were some real fig trees; but these have now been transplanted to the British Residency at Margiil. They are, of course, said by the Vice Consul to be lineal descendants of those from whose branches Adam and Eve made them- selves aprons. Ezra’s Tomb is one of the regalar stopping places for steamers. Some doubt seems to exist as to whether it covers the remains of the prophet; but alt the Jews in Turkey pelieve that 1% does, aud the place ts supported by contributions from Hebrews in all parts of the world, even the Rothschilds being Bald to number among the subscribers. Three or four thousand Jewish pilgrims visit 1% annually, some of whom are said to come from Europe. As a work of architectural art the tomd is by ho means remarkable. It consists of @ simple dome, sur- rounded by @ nuinber of buildings and used by the Pligrims as @ caravansery. ‘Three or four sickly looking date trees are planted near It—not one as the illustrations In the Bibie commentaries exbibtt. ‘The material employed in the construction of the tomb 18 brick, faced with rough chunam plaster. Several rabbis live permanently at the tomb, sub- sisting by the pious offerings of visitors, ‘The last “sight”? on the ‘Tigris, the Arch of the Ctesiphon, is only thirty miles below Bagdad, and owing to the river maxing a very sudden turn at this point 1¢ 18 possible to be landed from the steamer, walk over to the arch and catch the boat again on the other side of the bend. When I came up, the boat, unfortunately, passed at mght;so I must confess that [ have had to ride out to the place to see it—a journey of a couple of days, including a night’s lodging at a horribly dirty khan. But 1 think it best to mention Ctesiphon as one of the signts of ihe voyage, as no doubt all American travellers who may pass this way in future will have the good Inck to see it on their passage up the river: for their sake, at any rate, It 1s to pe ardently hoped so. Whatever trouble, however, 18 gene through to see it, the arch will amply repay in interest, for 1b 18, im fact, as the books say, the largest arch in the world, Itis an immense seint-c! of bricks, held vogether by cement, perfect in shape, more than 100 feet m height, about 120 feet wide and 189 feet deep. At one end the arch is walied up, with the excepiion ol a square, rumed doorway, and on elther side of It are Vast remains, the vestiges of what was once the palace of & Parthian King. Huge as the arch is it has no keystone, and the story goes that during the progress ol its construction it was supported only by sacks of straw. Owing to the dryness of the climate the cement has hardened Into the firmness of stone, aud te work is there- fore ma wonderful state of preservation, although At 18 nearly 2,000 years old. Recently the Arabs tried to bring away the bricks to build houses in Bagdad, but they found the trouble of digging them ous from the cement greater than they were worth. The bricks are adinirabiy well made. They are ag hard 4g stone, and a knife makes scarcely auy wapression upon them. In size theyare about a foot long by nine inches wide, with a depth of tour or five inches. The outside of the arch tas, of course, suffered somewhat Irom the weather, but only a few breaches have as yet been made in the roof. Left to itself, this wonderful erection wili doubtiess stand for cen- turies to come. Close by the arch is the tomb of that celevrated barber to one of the Caliphs, wno, being entrusted by his master witi the cliarge of his harem during his absence from Bagdad, voluntarily deprived him- self of the power W violate iis sanctity. The Caliph ‘was 80 pleased with this proof of his fidelity that at his death ne built @ handsome mausoleum in bis honor. This tomd, known by the name of the Salmon Taj, is annually visited by thousands of pious Moslem pilgrims. THE PEOPLE AND THEIR PROSPECTS. This is already a long letter, but a few words must be sald as to the present condition of the people who live on the banks of tbe Tigris and Euphrates. No government in the world has probably been so tho- Toughly and persistently abused as the Sublime Porte, and to # great extent with very good reason. But 1 1s Impossible to shut one’s eyes to the rapid strides of progress now being made. Steamboats traverse the rivers, a telegraph line rans through the country and connects it both with Europe and India, and a railroad of nearly 100 miles m length, from Bagdad to Kerbela, 1s already surveyed, and 19 to be at once begun. The throngh ratiroad, from Aleppo to Bussorah, is also being vigorously talked about, and an English capitalist will arrive by the next boat from Bombay to arrange for its construction. Meanwhile, until the line Is built, a determined eftort is to be made to run boats for mails and passengers up the Euphrates to Balis, near Aleppo, thus practically opening a speedy and sufe highway from Bagdad to the Mediterranean. Large sums are aiso now being expended in preventing any further mischief taking piace in the river, though the Treasury is too de- pleted to raise the capitat required to levee the banks in @ proper manner. HOPE, In the face of these significant facts it is clear that there is hope even for Mesopotamia, Already tne Garden of Eden is a telegraph station and tue City of the Caliphs a starting place for steamships. Who can say that there is not a fair prospect of Babylonia, and Assyria again reviving into their former splen- dor. The locomotive, the telegraph wire and the steamboat may once more convert these almost de seried wastes into the home of vast populations, better elotued, better fed and more enlightened than even the race that first invented bricks and devised the earliest symbols Jor the preseryauion of Auman ayeegh aud thougus, ART NOTES. National Academy of Design. In one respect, at least, the present exhibition is remarkable, as including a most extraordinarily wide range of productions, from many very good to ‘a number of others execrably bad, It is a matter of melancholy wonderment whether more to deplore the conceit or to be astonished at the audacity of many who put their names to certain works, We see pictures the mere looking at which almost bring® a blush of shame to the brow, to which are attached the names of authors, most conspicuously, and we may say barefacedly. This, as a general rule, from the least known and least important artists is proba- bly excusable trom their extreme impatience and the remoteness of the prospects of their ever becom. ing elther the one or the other. Two features are prominent throughout the exhibition, In the first Place, as is not unusual, actual merit appears to be in @ Jargely inversed ratio to its supposed existence. Several of the most pretentious works are embia- zoned with the names of men whose concelt would be insufferable were 1t not pittabie and ridicnious. A second feature 18 a carelessness and growing disregard of truth, which 1s evident in a weak sen- tumentalism and false imaginativeness destructive of all vigor and true character in art. Only com- paratively small proportion of the pictures seem to have been studied at all. The others we are obliged to conclude must be either from hopeiess aspirants or from those negligent in study. The latter 1s the more charitable conclusion, if not the more true, We select this as being by far the most important element. To represent, one must first know and understand, and to know, one must learn, Hence, to study carefully and faithfully is the fun- damental principe which underlies all art. There is nothing, even inspiration, which can take the Place of this most important work. Cheap and shallow effects are most aimed at. Youngjpainters are very apt vo forget the primal importance of form and drawing, and, carried away by tneir enthu- siasm, run riot in a wild debauchery of exaggerated color, a8 false and injurious as it is showy and imere- tricious. Few have more splendid advantages than the American landscape painter, with @ fresh and eatly dtversified nature from which to stuay; and it 1s When We think of this, no jess than when we see the successes of some of our better artists, that ‘We especially deplore this carelessness in study and erforts at false effects. ‘There are, however, in Many even of these more Careless men excellent points and materials, which may yet make good artists. A painter must sow his wild oats in art. It is after the aimiess wander. igs in a crude imagination and reactings atter the unattamable that the true artist comes humbly back to the feet of the True and the Beautiful. THE CORRIDOR. This ball, with the exception of some very few finished works, seems to be mainly @ sort of Jumber room for sketches and what are rather ambitiously called “studies,” as their chief characveristic seems to be a total disregard for nature and an utier ab- sence of anything akin to study. One stands con pletely mysuiled as to the ovject of sending or accent- ing such rabbish, unless it may be to establish a sort of relative standard of judgment. (35.) SEPTEMBER NOON, represents a quantity of sheep firmly planted in the dark green shade of @ heavy wee unknown to botany, and mourntully regarding some daubs of green paint with which it would be impossible to nourish anything but a very diseased imaginaiion. Having eaten itin desperation might account for ue unhealthy appearance of the animais, The whole effect is one of moral indigestion, from the lieavy, woolly foliage and mysteriously purple dis- tance to the irrespousivie matcon In tue foreground, (67.) TWILIGHT IN THE WOODS. The painter of this, ic would seem, must have derived nis impressions of that hour from some- thing too dreadfai even to speak of; for surely nothing but sulphur or brimstone, with a hue nitrate of strontia, could by any possibility produee the light which shines through the group of un- happy trees the artist has 60 painfully distorted. With the strong tendency to sensationalism at pre- sent, however, it is not ampossible we may yet come even to this. JOHN L, FUPCH—(88-144.) STUDY AND SKETCH FROM NATURE. Several pictures by tis artist are in the exhibt- tion, in ali of which is displayed: the game careful and conscientious study. it 1s refreshing vo see one who thus goes himself to the feet of the great pre- ceptress—Nature—and lovingly, thoughtfully studies her. There 18a thought and meaning in this foliage which tells more than simple effect. It teaches the great lesson of overruling watchfulness and care; it teaches of the love that clothes the flowers of the fleld; it teaches Inthe truth of detali the keen per- ception of the beautiful, through which alone the arust can rise to the understanding of the whole. He gives its life and meaning to every leaf au fower, not in the close copying of needless triviall- ties, but in the full character and feeling of each, There ls a most excellent head of an old man, to which the artist, with a modesty as iaudable as un- usual, has neglected to attach either name or num- ©. There is in it a character and power which presents @ strong contrast to other distorted and unbealthy portraits of the present day. THE ANNUNCIATION—¥. AUGERO. ‘This we already noticed while on the easel. It is placed too bign, butin @ good light, and appears to some advantage. NORTH ROOM.—(163.) JOB THIRTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER, NINTH, TENTH AND ELEVENTH VERSES—EDWARD MORAN. This is one of the most powerful pictures in the exhibition. The idea 1s a very bold one, The arust has chosen not only @ grand suojeci, but a great trath to present through 1% The wind and waves are the power of the elements; the rocky barriers are the power which restrainsthem. The £ea is difficult to represent in any Of its phases, as is duly attested by the bottle green waves crested with daubs of white, which seem-to be the highest conception of not a few of ouP marine painiers. Among the most difficult is the Ome the arust has chosen. God bas declared His power to Job in various ways. He now describes, in the simple, sublime language of holy writ, the subjugation of tne mighty element, and the setting up for it bars and doors of earth’s solid masonry. Mr. Moran bas thrown much of the action of power into his waves which the subject requires. Their lines, a8 well ag those of the clouds above and the rocks, are simple and majes- tic—powerful in their very simplicity. The waves, too, are not the weak, transparent water merely crested one so often sees In representations of storm waves, but they have evidently been lashed into a white fury of foam down to their very deptns in their ceasoless dashings against the impassible par- riers, till they crouch in their impotent rage atjectly at the threshold of the rocky gateway. The garments of cloud and swaddling band of darkness tiave been rendered somewhat too literally and materially, The thick, dark, heavy edge of cloud to the right is rather painiully convincing of paint. The edges of rain clouds discharging and so near the surface of the water are fringed and always lighter in texture from the falling rain than toward the centre. With this exception this picture is a most noble and vigorous treatment of a powerful subject. (188.) THE PORT OF OUR WooDs. Mr. Bryant, in a desperate fitof the blues, for Which the artist is entirely responsible, is repre- sented sitting very close to a tree, with apparently somewhat the same determination as the devoted Mrs. Micawber came to im regard to her husband, “never toleaye him’? In which case Mr. Bryant would be rather more literally “the poet of our woods” than Mr, Hennessy may have meant. (196.) NOVTING TIME. The artist seems to have taken ratner a shabby ad- vantage of a small figure with a basket going across the field to make him responsible for a toler- ably good sized picture. (214.) ROADSIDE NEAR MUNICH—CHARLES 1. MILLER, Few American artists have arrived at such an ex- cellent understanding and management of color as 1s manifest In this very excellent work. It 1s well drawn and studied, and there are a freshness and depth of color, with a well varied harmony, which render this pleture one of the most pleasing of this kind of landscape in the academy. SAN GIORGIO, VENICE, AND TIVOLI—S, R. GIFFORD, The former of these we noticed before it had left the studio, and can but repeat what was then said of what we consider a very remarkabie picture. No one not thoroughly familiar with the scene can fairly judge of the merits of the work 98a faithful aud beautiful representation of nature, Of the other it seems to us less can be sald. As a whole, the picture of Tivoli is somewhat monotonons, and it seems impossible that under any circumstances the dark green olive groves which shade the hill- sides around that place could go completely lose the color and character the great artist has imprinted on them. (219) OVER THE SEA—W. J. HBNNBSSY, N. As Is it too much to say that the color with which this arlist has geen fit to wash his excellent drawing is scarcely dn improvement? What there is of sen- timentiu his picture—and there is certainly con- siderabie—is expressed mainly through the delicate and beautiful daughtsmansnip, if we except the group of snakes in the corner, which might be mis- taken for roots of trees, William M. Brown’s Coliection of Fruits and Flowers of American. This coilectiou, comprising mainly fruit subjects, with a few contributions from American artists, Was sold on Friday and Saturday evenings. Nine of the paintings have been suficientiy popu- lar to be reproduced in very gooa chromos, and are already well known as graceful and pleasing pic- tures, Several of Mr. Brown's representations of peaches and grapes are especially well rendered and awaken a tantalizing conjecture as to the models when these are no longer but memories, or stand a8 rebukes to what they should be to all inferior produc- tions. 449 has made a specialty of vhis class of sub. jects and Gas won for himself no mean reputation. Barring the fact of his almost universally succeeding in finding the largest and tines of models, lis works possess nO ordinary measure of merit. A number of other paintings by other American artists were in the collection, and deserve more mention than we have space to give them. ‘Morning’? and “Evening,” by Rondel, ana two pleces by Water- Tan are excellent littk cabiner pictures. THE WATERING PLACES, Preparations at Newport for the Coming Season. New Cottages Constructed—Half a Million Dol- lars Expended This Year by New York- ers—Hote! Openings—The Beach. NEWPORT, Apri) 20, 1870. Had it been written that good people when they dle go to Newport instead of to Paris I coud con- template that event with some degree of com- placency, and should feel a desire to be good, which Parisian life never inspired in me, It is charming fat the seaside anywhere in the summer; but, as all tourists concede, shis famous resort combines the most attractions, and stands at the heud of the wateriug places. The beach, the drives, ocean views, the climate, facilities for yachting and fisn- ing, each alone would make any place noted; here you have them all combined. And more; here dur- ing tho seagon are gathered the most refined people in the country, whose fathers and grandfathers were here before them—the very cream of society. Artists, poets, litlérateurs of every class have made thia their home always, and its breezes and beauties have been sung for agea, The old town is well Worth visiting, apart from its attrac. tions as a watering place, Its old buildings, erected before the Revolution, tts crown-capped steeples, ancient burlal grounds, the old library, quaint dwellings and narrow streets are all objects of interest. The “old stone mill,’ with its ever preseut, hungry-looking, antiquarian visitors, is also a study. One of the fears of my Ilfe is, however, that one of these Same antiquarians shall some day die cover the origin of the venerable pile and rob tt of all itsromance. It stands now without father, mother or kindred, and each beholder may weave ag much mystery about it as he or she pleases. At the present writing Newport bears a very dif- ferent aspect from what it will three months hence, yet very active preparations are being made for that time ana everything is receiving a general brushing up- The most enlivening sight we ex- perience {s the long procession of workmen which file into town after work hours from the summer residences on the avenue. The beach ‘keeps open’? the year round, and is much more sublime, as the waves come tumbiing in in greater fury than in the summer season, Breezes we are having with a vengeance. A terrific roar im my chimney at this moment reminds me viat breeze is altogether too mild a word—gales and hurricanes they are more appropriately styled. Before we realize it, however, Newport will be in ali its glory. THE HOTELS. The Aguldneck House, one of the smaller but first class hotels, is to be opened this week. This house was very greatly improved last year by extensive additions, and is centrally and pleasantly located. The Atlantic House ts to be put in thorough order and will be opened the middle of May for the accom- modation of the Legislature during its spring ses- sion, and also for the Friena’, wo hold their yearly meeting here in June, and fill this and every avail- able place to overflowing. The Ocean House opens the ist of July, when the season will be fairly under way. From that time ull Qctoper Dame Fashion’s beautiful daughters will crowa its broad) =plazzas_soby «day in the most bewildering of toilets, and by pight promenade its broad, airy halls or pay tribute to Terpsichore in its spacious parlors to the most bewitching music. Hotel iufe is losing favor every year, however, ex- cept with transient gues or those who come merely for gayety ang dissipation. They are well patronized by this claim, and “‘Shoddy’? and “Petro- Jeum’? come on 01 nally, but leave after a day tinding that the cost of their ied and their newly-gotten uc of conversation in all congental atmosphere, appointments if not to houses are next vest diamonds 13 not ¢ wealth made the circles. They where justice themselve. F to a house of Everyoody who can afford it aspires to TAGE. COTTAGES. Love in a cottage, I think, might be endured tn a Newport domicile of that class. Whatever the style of architecture, be the structure big or little, of wood or of stone, if occupied as a summer residence it is calied a cottage. These vary in value all the way from $15,000 to $260,000—nut one reaching this latter figure, though there are any number that cost over $100,000, Tuis, of course, Incluaes the land, which in every case is most beautifully latd ous in handsome grounds, contatuing plants and stirubbery of every variety. Most of these summer residences command extended views of the sea, those on the avenue mostly facing that way, tne gate house and entrance vemg on the street. Mul- uons of dollars are invested here in these places, mostly by New Yorkers, who spend but from three to five months im them yearly. A naif million dol- Jara at least has been expended here by new comers since last seasom 800 some magnificent places are being fitted up. ‘ty New Yorkers have bought or are building ho! this year to be occupied the coming season. finest place, aud which is nearly completed, hat of Mr. Frederick Kerno- cnan, Who paid $80,000 for iis lot, which ts beauti- fully situated on the chiffs, and Isexpending as much more on a superb house, Mr. A. H. Sanford 1s erect- ing a large residence on the ‘Point,’? facing the har- bor or channel, and commanding the finest view to be nad in this vicinity. Toe lawn 18 smi but slopes gracefully down to the water, where a sea wall is being built, and where a fine bath house and Dier are to beerected. The house is finished with hard woods, Iughly polished and frescoed in oll in the best manner. The hall is a novelty. It is square and open from the first floor to ceiling of roof, the height being thirty-five ieet. It 1s lighted * gas jets, which start from tne heads of bronze lions, placed on projecting baiconies, The effect 1s very fine, and the house will be an elegant residence, av @ Cost of $50,000. Mr. Lewis Rutherford is building a house on land he has cwned for some time, back of the fort ana overlooking the bay. Jt 1s built after a mix- ture of Swiss and French styles of architecture, and the house alone wiil cost the same as Mr. Sanford’s place. Some antique carved Oak cornices aad trimmings, which are in ap old house belonging tothe famuy im New Jersey, are to be brought here and putin this. Mr. W. W. Fox has purchased Mr. Lord’s ‘Bay ‘Terrace” and refitted tt at an expense. of $80,000. Mr. A. 5. Hatch bas bought a fine stone house for $60,000. Mrs, Colford Jones has purchased @ $50,000 place, and Mrs, E, A. Coles one which, with additions, wiil costa like sum, Among other purchasers and builders are Mra. H. Leroy Edgar, Mr. James G. Garner, Mr. A. A. Low, Mr. Daniel ‘forrance, Mr. RK. M. Hunt, Mrs, A. Eagar, Mr. Charles Morgan and G, Griswold Gray. Large addt- tions are also being made to old places, such as, for instance, a $10,000 brick dming room to Mr. L, P. Morton’s place, @ $6,000 reception room to that of August Belinont and a $9,000 billiard hall and kttchen to ex-Governor Morgan’s siperb villa, Among the Bostonians who are building are R. T. Baker, Jr, R. M. Cushing and William W, Tucker, whose places are to cost respectively. $40,000, $40,000 and $65,000, FASHIONABLE STYLES OF ARCHITECTURE, To be in the style one nas only to be odd, so far ag the construction of your house is concerned. ‘The prevailing fashion 18 bewildering at first, to say the least; take @ part of every imaginable style of archi- tecture, tack on a8 many superfiuities as possible, and you bave it. The favorite style isa combina- tion of the French and Swiss, with elaborate orna- mentation and the exterior painted in the latter colors, red, green, brown and yellow being fr quently seen on the same buiiding. ‘The effect not bad, yet it is quite a relief to come across a litile chalet, nestled among the huge rocks, with over- reaching roof and wide piazzas, buiit in the pure Swiss style, or a villa with genuine Mansard or French roof, THE BEACH. The great gale last fail swept away the bathing houses, 133 in aj), which are being replaced by a larger number, of better quality. Here the rich aad poor, grave and gay, pailosopher or fool, the belie and the beau, are ail on one vommon level during bathing hours, and Old Ocean makes no distinction, but treats them all alike. What sport itis! I’m not sure bud there’s ag much pleasure in looking on as in battling with tue waves. How quickly you can tell the old bather, who with one plunge 1a up to his neck In the water, Jrom the novice who wets himself by inches, first dipping in one toe, then another, and if of the gentier sex, accom ing each ven- ture with @ little scream. But that terrible gauntlet of masculines to be ran between the bathing house and the surf! All Ghose exquisites in dainty white suits, and the scores of footmen and drivers, who, having less politeaess than the first, will laugh at the ridiculous figure you cut. I never saw but one woman that louked decent in thowe abommabie pathing suits, and I’m not certain that she Was even that except by comparison with the rest. ‘fo most feminine hearts thisis a fearfut ordeal. Don’t Matter yourself that you can gain the surf Without being recognized; you are sure to be awakened from that delusion by a bow of recogni- uuon and a gracelul touch of the hat from some by- stander, who takes you in at a glance, from your Head minus its chignon down to your little toe, and you heartily wish that you could be rolled down to the sea in your own cheretic, as at Ostend. NEW VILLA SITES. The new road on the shore, said to be the finest drive in America, Was built last year atan expense of $100,009, and isin excellent order, But few villa lots have been secured on it, though it was for that pur- pose it was opened, by capitalists owning lands in the vicinity, The distance 13 too great from the hotels, or the location too bleak, to be entirely plea- gant; though i time it will probably be lined with country seats, Aj] the Jand on the cliffs is taken, and the most desirable lots on the avenue, The tendency Dow of real estate buyers is towards the Otuer end of the town, at the northern end of the isiand. A large tract of 1arm land has been brought iato the market here, and 18 rapidly being laid out in streets and villa sites. The whole darce! nas beef coy ee S26 aice mature been dis-' ee See Ben railway it of time, what 18 greatly needed, which will be near the water, nities for ing, boating and fishing are excellént, the view the bay ie reer and @ summer visitor here enjoy all the quiet and comforts of country life, and yet be within a half hour's drive of the gayeties. of a wreeeetng vice. Mr. R. Le jtiand, of New York, has recen: his place in this victnity for $60,000, it oak: the purchaser is to cut the grounds up into small villa sites, Mr. Edward Mey igo of your city, has lately completed his elegant stone mansion n 'o which has remained unfinished for many years, Philip Caswell and Mr. Benjamin Bryer are fitting up junds here, on which they intend building fine ouses hefore a great while, FAITS DIVERS, President Grant and family are to be the gpetes of L. P, Morton a part of the season. Mr. and Col. fax and several members of the forelgn legations are also expected. About cishy, cottages nave been rented at this carly date. Prices range from $400 to $6,000 for @ house for the season. A steamer ia to connect Newport with the Shore Line Rallroad to New York this summer, | es communication with your ci juent and ‘There will be three trips ‘ally eg ‘way, aside al 0 ut On the route ay ‘25th of April, making: Newport the ter! = minus, A summer resident has just had sixty tons of ice shipped to this city and pi own icenouse for his consumption during the season, Anelfort 18 being made to establish @ casino or kursal here after the stvie of those so commagy throughout coatinental Europe. HAYTI. A Little Rebellion Against the Government All About Salnave’s Paper Money—End of the Picquet War—The Rebel Chief Captured and to be Shot—Agitation of the St. Doming ao Annexation Project Por? av PRINCB, April 12, 1870. A revolt against the government had taken place at Gonatves and some seventy or more mew took up armsin the affair, 16 appears thas they hold large amounts—bags full—of the paper money of the Salnave ee eu ee and finding that the Saget government will redeem it they have incited a little rebellion, Fifteen of them have been captured with arms i] their hands, aud the troops are in pursuit of thy others. It is thought that many of them will heshots ‘There 18 a great deal of discontent among those wha put their trust in Salnave’s promises to y that by the present ruling they will no current, and it will be some time before those wealth consiats of this material make up thelr minds to forget what has been and settie down to work other fortunes. Until they do this such revolts wi) be not uncommon, At last the Picquets at Des Apricots have all lala” down their arms, having haa ne of fighting for! @ district of tl maa: Anse'is\ the present, and 1 reconciled to the new state of affairs. . Jacquet, the rebel chief. who was declared guitars by the government, and who, in hopes of saving fi own neck, seized United States Consul Weiner a8 a hostage, fed with some of his leading men to thy mountains before the surrender; bat he was pa pursued by General Brice, and with the greater of his foliowers was captured, and will be shot,, together with a number of the rebel chiets, and in & few days the entire South will be at peace. ‘The people of Haytt are again excitedly diseussin} the St. Domingo aunexation question, on account of information recetved here that a United States war steamer has taken possession of the Bay of Mansanillo, on the northern frontier of Haytl. The annexation scheme has always been looked upon with disfavor by the Haytiens, and now that tt seems to encroach upon their territory the feeling against; itis more bitter than ever. It is understood that this movement of the United States authorities is fof" the purpose of preventing Luperon from entering the Cibao district of St. Domingo with nostile intent. It will be remembered that Baez proposed this moves ment to the United States during last year. The Severn called at Cape Haytien in search of Luperon, who was there and had been proclaimed by the instigators of the insurrection at Port au Platte as their leader; but he, having learned the intention of the captain of the Severn, made his escape in an English schooner. A lot of counterieig currency, mad@ in Boston, has appeared at sf Mare, The government has ordered that the cui toms dues hereafter shall be paid In gold. A Healthy Sabject for a Coroner’s Quost—A Dutchman Looking for His “Aunty?—He Goes Home 2nd Waits for the Coroner. Quite a novel application was yesterday made td Coroner Schirmer, during an examination which Was then in progress at the City Hail, It is a very unusual occurrence that an ante-mortem examina- ton is desired upon an individual who is abie ta walk the streets and attend to his business, bul there 1s at least one case on record, In the crowded court room was visible @ demure looking German, whose right optic was cut and discolored, and who wore a bandage around his head. Thia man, Who gave his name as Louis Muller, watching his opportunity, cautiously advanced to where the Coroner was sitting, and in @ low tone of voice asked that his ante-mortem examinaiton be taken. The novelty of the request caused the good+ natured Coroner to smile, and in answer ta juestions propounded the applicant detailed the circumstances under which he was beaten and by whom, and concluded by saying that the attends ing surgeon had advised him to call on the Coroner for an ante-mortem. Muller was asked if he considered himself to be in, adying condition from the injuries received, to’ which he gave & negative reply, and coughed& heartily, doubtless at the absurdity of his request. Maller, accepting a little good advice, left for home, and if at a future day it should become nece: ne will send for the Coroner, instead of coming to htm, Those present who saw and heard Muller were co: vulsed with laughter to think he should have beei 80 egregiousiy sold. Coroner Schirmer eviden thought this was the most healthy ante-mortem euby ject over which Le was ever called to officiate. Should the surgeon do tis duty to Muller he promises to survive for some years to come. PURSUIT OF A HUSBAND UNDER DIFFICULTIES. A Worthy Lady of New Orleans Marries a Carpet-Bagger, who Robs Her of All He, Property and Leaves—She Goes to Milwaue kee in Search of Him and Her Menecy. {From the Milwaukee Wisconain, April 18.) On Saturday last Mrs. Henry A. smith came to this city from New Orleans, where she lives, in search of a truant husband, who deserted her some wecks ago, Mrs. Smith brought letters from the Chiet of Police and well known gentlemen of New Orleans, all Of which show that se is an estimable lady, who has been the victim of a base and designs ing man, and her case cannot fail to draw the syms pathies of all to her. Her story, as she told it here, 1s to the following effect:—She 1s forty years of age and possessed a handsome competency, he! property consisting of real estate and buildings the city. Smith came to New Orleans from the 1n terior of Wisconsin some five years ago, and en- gaged in various speculations, “The two met and. after a short courtship they were married. Smith, ulthough several years younger than his wife, pros feased the greatest love for her, and in @ short time Mrs. Smith says she believed in nis devotion and thonghtit real. Some months agothe house im whieh the two lived, and which Mrs, Smith owned, was burned, and then Smith urged that a block ol business houses be built upon property adjoine ing, which could be purchased at a low rate. ‘The matter was talked over between the two and fivally decided upon, The insurance money was paid over to Smith, the burns district, with several other lots, sold, and all tha money received passed into Smith’s hands. He pro- ceeded as if about to build—made a bargain for ti -real estate, contracted with builders, &c.—and ev thing appeared to be working well, until one morn~ ing Mrs, Smith found that her husband had deserted her, and, what was far worse, had taken every cent of money she had m the world, leaving her evem worse than penniless. Mrs, Smith told the Cred girl, here that she very soon found that her husband lef; the city, and had taken with bim a young the daughter of a neighbor, whose acquaintance he had made. Nearly heartoroken, and hoping wo re- cover a portion at least of her money, Mrs. ban set gut in pursuit of the deserter, and followed to this city. From here she still traced him to Pilg of the State, and at once left to follow the ase. “DEATH FROM TRICHINA, Four Persons Die from Eating Trichinaic Porls in Ballard County, Kentucky. ‘From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 18.’ Four persons were killed by eating meat in whick there was trichina, in Ballard county, last week. ‘The stomach of one of tnem bas been sent to this ity for examination. The facts of the case are avout as followa:—The victims were a Germam family by the name of Heydaker. It seems a ham was purchased, of which Mr. and Mrs. Heydaker and two of the childrea ate considerable quantities: in @ raw state. Soon after Mr. Heydaker waa taken sick Dr. J. S. Sea was cailea in, The doctor did not at first discover any~ thing alarming about the symptons, but the jee: grew worse until Wednesday evening, wher e died. In the meantime Mrs. Heydaker became il with similar symptoms. Drs, Jewett and Smith were called ta for consultation, but none of them were familiar with the symptoms nor could affora relief. On Friday Mrs, Heydaker died, and om Saturday the two littie children who had eaten of the pork died a similar death to that which had taken away the father and mother, Thus four persons tn all were polgoned by the one fatalmeal. ‘Che two children, @ girl and a boy, were aged respectively about seven and two years old. One little girl of an intermediate age, probabiy abous five yeara old, who did not eat the meat, had now been taken sick at last accounts, From all the circumstances attending the ¢ the physicians are of the opinion that the; were casioned by trichina, ‘The pork which 1t is supposed. contained the trichina was raised ip Ballara county aud cured in the usual manner, hs