The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1872.TRIPLE SHEET, THE HERALD ON THE “NILE. No. 2.—From Cairo to the First Cataract. Scenes, Incidents and Vicissitudes of the Nile Season. The Slave Trade on the Nile---A Boat Full of Captives at Sioot. IN THEIR GLORY, A Bursted Gun and an Ex- ploded Imposition. THE GHAWAZEE Doing the Good Samaritan Among the Egyptians. Minieh, Roda, Sioot, Kennah, Luxcr, Thebes and . Assouan. Reception by the Lieutenant Governor in the Temple of kisna. Two Giraffs on Their Way to the Central Park. The Minarets, Mud Huts and Mosques of Egypt. Orr ASSOUAN (FIRST CATARACT), Jan, 9, 1872, On Saturday, December 30, the Herald’s tow, the ‘Viceroy’s steamer Tayr Said (Happy Bird), put into the port of Minieh for coal Three days of the Nile above Cairo, winding through sugar planta- tions, passing the lazy, drone-like dahabeahs, with Occasional shots at distant and unwilling game, had made us sigh for shore. But these three days had been deliciously balmy and soft, and the very air had been full of a retreshing, braciug vital- ity, laden with the perfumes and vapors from jessa- amine trees and orange groves. ‘The first 150 miles of the river to southward of Boulac are, however, comparatively barren of in- terest. ‘Two hours after starting, the Pyramids fade trom view and THE RUINS OF ANCIENT MEMPHIS @re lost beyoud the horizon of the desert, The quarries of Masaran, the false pyramid, and the towns of Beareshayn Tibbio, Kotrel Alat, Rigga, Atfeet, Gomon and Henisooe! are points generaily ‘visited by travellers who are making an accurate survey of tue couniry, ‘The scenery between Cairo and Minich partakes of the richly verdant aad the terribly bald. No con- trast can be more effective than to see the shores of the grandest of rivers med on either side with a belt Of the mosi productive soil in the world of an ave- rage width of two miles, each square foot giving its certain uuvarying yield, each year renewing its own fruitiuiness, each century redeeming its claim to perpetual youth, anc then toraise the eye and let 1t wander over @ dreary, sandy waste, seemingly without @ purpose, hisvory or tradiuon, All the wvailatle territory under cultivation is a plain, and no ground in Egypt can be utilized uniess 1 be fat. There may be one exception to this rule in the flooding of desert basins; yet even im such a case the seeding of the soll would have to await the tedious uncertainty of evaporation, Thus the, wealth of river sceuery aud travel 1s finely graded—the nae- gurs, dahaveahs, steamers, barges, and the life and guimation of tacking, libing, Ushing, shooting, racing anil saluting are matters of generai view along the broad belt of the lordly Nile. Touching the shore we find the mud huts of an Arab village, the squalid streets of more preten- tious habitations; the nude native hoisting water by his aucien: shacioof; some frigid sheik exclaim. ing “backsheesh’’ as a tribute to lis years; @ score of savie urchins imploring bread; a Coptuc priest crying tor a small donation; a distant minaret bur- nished by the settiag sun; the quickening vegeta- ton on the long and narrow plains; the palm and date trees; aud then the mountains of crambling red granite; a sma!\ excavation along the slope; the entrance to the buried temples, and, as the eye speeds on, tose skies which are falsely ascribed only to Itaty, Such, in brief, is Egypt—pot the Egypt of the tourist, but the whole of Egypt. There Js no country i the world that can be so completely covered by the traveller as this one. Nota square ON Boarp THE NILE DagabEan HERALD, i { which they conduct the nodaing of their heads; the Deautiful simplicity with wi Qgares which thoy bined moss-grown teeth; the devout make in lifting their faces hea’ com! witn their sudden and wild climaxes ana low- muttered, trembling transitions, render these water mariners and artists one of the institutions of the land. For us and such as we there 1s no rest for the weary, snd Fo sabats to fhe Arabic choir as @ lated necessity, But the crew is not always if tt always sings. Weneey IOKNESS 8 frostrates its members, They have maladies, and ike medicine. Noman more than the Arab loves nvuseous curatives, and none have greater faith in all Kind of pateat poisons. Comme on se Sait son Ul, on se conshe, and 80 tt became necessary to Tospect this pecultarity, Colonel Butler was there- Jore unanimously Damed surgeon, 1 quote nis en- tries from “ Herald's Oase Book” with this tn- scripuion, ‘*SUBILEB YEAR OF COCKLES PILLS,” as follows:. Ibraham—General — debility cated with the want of em anti-vilious pills, double hammed- Sore fe and sleepiness compil- plorment. Two Cockles pills, two seldiitz, thirty ropes of chiorodine. Mo! feet. Linseed olf poultice, four vockles, Many other cases of debility oppress the pages of the young Doctor's exvensive practice. At last the Sick list became so extensive that tne crew PURLOINED A QUANTITY OF CASTOR OIL, when a@ hint was cautiously spread among the sail- Ors (’) that poison had been carelessly put im most Of the potues, whereupon the mulmed were restored to health, the bind saw and the digestion resumed Us delicate machinery, Sickness became as rare as it was bolore amazing, The science by which the oll Was removed Irom the dispensary was then ap- lied to cigars and tobacco, whereupon @ furtner int was allowed to leak oul that powder had been by some accident introduced into the cigars and mixed with the tobacco. Suck precautions relieve the burdens of @ Nile trip, 1nd at fast personal prop- erty 1s respected by those who dwell forward. AT MINIEH, In the gray of the morning I landed at Minieh, for the pucpose of gathering in a ‘ew ducks, which the Inhabitants avowed were to be found in the in- terior, Alter a walk of avout tive miles I came upon an open fleid, surrounded by corn of long growth, and shot a dozen smail birds, The last coup of my gua discharged wita rather too much recoil, and the shot scattered at a distance of thirty yards. 1 noticed nowing at the time; but, upon re- turning to the dahabeah, put tne shot gun in the armory. My chasseur presenuy brought the weapon, and I found that a large hole nad been blown out of the left-hand barrel underneath and tbat tie gun had become worthless. At Sioot it was cut off, and upon arriving at Kennah botn barrels were loaded nearly to the muazie with sand and dirt, ‘The chasseur msisced on discharging the jun from the shoulder, He persisted so mucn that permitted him to do it, wnen the same barrel AGAIN BURSTED, and the wretched metal was pertoratea by a hole of over two square incoes in area! 1 mention this vo warn travelers that their arms must be purchased acre escapes your observation if you ascend the Nile to Khartoum and sail along its delta oranches to Alexandria, You Sind its domestic life, its manu- factures and agriculture; and as this land knows neither rain nor show these are strikingly manifested in ‘TH® STREETS AND FIELDS, You have at once the modern and the ancient, the fruitful and the barren, and the opporcunity of examining the ouly harmiess peovie who still re- tain the customs and marners of 3,000 years ago. The book 1s before you. You have ouly to read the Drst page at Alexaudria, and tara over leaf on leaf as you linger by the cities of Vatro, Minien, Roda, ‘Thebes, Esna and Aszouan, finding its primted chap- ters in mugniiceat ruins and thriving industries, This is what makes the Nile travel so desirable. Amid luxury and fue companions yoa can leisurely examine all that the land contains within a few hundred yards of your “dahabe.h,” ana there is no uncertainty about the temples, Their history 18 written in decipherable hieroglyphics upon their columns and panela, A lew mornings ago we visited the famons temaple of Esna, now completely underground, with a city built over is roof, showing, as lis surroundings do, the débris of thirty centuries. What wil all that remains of the impecunious Manhattanite think when, ages hence, in seeking a foundation for his bot, his pick shati strike the spire of triaity church; or when some industrious farmer may sink his well imvo the parquet of Booth’s Theatre? This ts put- ting the ancient Egyptian in modern ciothes, All that is delightful In travel is found ON BOARD THE NILE “DATIABEAM.” ite domesticity 13 neat and inviting, its interior police of sufficient cnaracter to induce method with- Out fatigue and perfect order without extravagant disorder. Your guns are in the armory, your medl- cines in the dispensary and each servant responds to nis particular call of the whisle. The crew is distinct in its Kind from all others I nave ever seen. It consists of twelve men—biack Nubians—avie- bodied and, of course, indolent. Up to this hour they have manifested great industry at meals and Singular solicitude for their stores. But, with o steamer to tow us, they have bad little duty put upon them, and this accounts for that soirée whicn commences near sunrise on the forecastle and con- tinues ll 1% becomes no longer a misnomer. The Reis is the Captain—his arabian name. He 1s blacker than Fred Douglass, and as a sad inde- pendence of bearing that woula fit him for a mar. tyr—s disposition oi his person we are often mclined to make. He came to Colonel Butler several days ago and laid before him the rights of his muco In- jured crew; that they were enulied toa tambourine, &@ tom-tom and twelve sticks to beat the natives— price all told $3—ali of which were duly provided, THE MUSICAL CIRCLE 1s thus formea:—The twelve arrange themselves in & ring and sit forward, Just abart the galiey, each squatting on his legs in true Turkish torpidity. The Jeast begins with the lapping of the Lom-tom, by an elderly man, of simple, bearded countenance, Who umes all his followers aud gives the note to the tambourine, which, catching the jever, enlists the rest 1D ap imitation of a Metuudist hymo, something luke the measure of ¥rom Greeniand’s tey m roe Apé India’s coral pA taped i languishing closing of their eyes; the swayin @ their bodies in union: the remened taauuer in in Europe if they hope to have an agreeable, lar- Southern Nile campaign. This gun was bought in Calro and had eight distlutt “proofs” upoa the barrels; was a breech-loader aad tired fixed ammu- nition. The name of its maker 1s uncertain, as he does not deign to sell 1t witn his death machiue. Sir Samuel Kaker relates an experience of his where he had a suspicion of a Tatham rife, He lashed 16 to a tree, fired it with a fishing line, and broke It into small pieces, Florlan, the Atbora hunter, was killed by @ bursting gun, and other numerous acci- dents are recorded of those who are imposed upon by spurious manufacturers, In goimg through THE STREETS OF MINIEH, 1 found It was a characteristic Kgyptian town, As early as seven in the Moraing its muabitants were at work, There are pernaps fifteen thousand peo- le, closely herded over twenty-tive acres of ground, iving in all respects in the native Arab styie. What It is that maduces the close attriuon of Arab commuatties L cannot Bay, Unless tt ly a Luve OL ver- Min, nastiness and ¢ Minieh, however, 13 straggung out of Its fecuicnt boundaries, aad here Lnote the real purpose of the Viceroy to elevate his jarge communities and tw give Lhem healthier nuclei aud wider, cleaner streeis. Near tae river over five hundred youug giris, varying in age from SIX to Ufceen, were carrying dirt’ on their heads, whereas the same labor in o.her countries would ve performed vy aoie-budied men. ‘nis is the re- suil of THE ASTONISHING ECONOMY that rules everything productive in Egypt—land, labor or existence, ‘The populauion was miseraoly clad, 4u4 I dare say miserably fea. Yet it took to hard work cneerlully, and tere Was nune oi that sombre melancholy which liveraieurs nave a3s0- Clated wiih che stolid spuinxes, Who are popularly allted to the character of the people. Kaus were being put down and telegraph wires up, houses of European coustruction were rising on every laud, the pottery factories were turniag out thew uselul wares, the sugar mills grinding out tne come jor the Viceroy, and tue bazaar was througed With tradesmen and women. Over the whole scene there nung the cheeriut almospuere of progress, andi do hot exaggerate whea I write tat one could see Minten grow as he surveyed it, Durlug the moruiog of the goth ult. we recetved calls Irom other danabeahs which had arrived from Cairo. ‘lhe Sari of Uharieville, the Hou. Charies Fitzharainge, Captain N. Langiord, R, N., aud the Hon, Colouel Buty, of the Rachel and Water Laty, sent thelr cards on board, ‘with best wishes for the Heraid’s success,” aud ‘shoruy afterward catied, ‘These yepticmen, after casing a covetous glauce at the sidevoard, were tuformed that tea was tne stape drink, Whereupon in @ spirit of sympathy they tencered us gin and brandy. slaving decimed these, We accepted their congratulations a3 the four Wise men Of Guta Who did ROL go Lo Sea Win & bowl TIE BRITONS AND AMERICANS Monopolize we Nile. Lhe Germans are too poor or ccouomieal (o make the journey, and a Frencn- man would die of its reai lascinations, which he would term degoulant, ASaruic the fogushman goes more proioundy into the unuquitics Wan the American, and often carries us curiosity a3 tar as learuing to read Mieroglypiics, fhe Americans come Ww Egypt more as supericial travellers, and for the purpose of enjoying tne splendid climate, and so jwuch of nuvelly aud antiquity as does not become sviviasiic, There are, however, exceptions Jn both Cases—Engiisumen who go to the cataracts, Jodiferent to Lue ruins, and Americans who Know thelr every stone, Botti nations are well received by the natives, out tne Americaus have, by tar, the greatest attention, Jo steaimiug by the ruins of Bent-Hassan, among the iiuest temples o1 the Nile, clouds of game were on every hand—tie Nile geese, pigeons, snipe, crane, plover, ibis, eagies and @ maititude of hawks and crows, Beni-Hassan was formerly like the Sixth ward, fuil of thieves, but Mahomet Ali razed the Village io the grouad. rhe Herald moored near the town on the nignt of the och uit., and we sent ashore to dud out what there Was to soot, A SIMPLE-MINDED ARAB was brought to the quarter deck, “What game hg fo have here?” “Big aniinais! They eat you,” said the fellah, “tg animals! What kind? “Big animals—lions, woives—come in from the desert! Great danger! Must not leave the boat!’ Alter @ brief cross-examination it was found that acuo of one of these marveilous beasts had been captured by the hunter, aud he was forthwith di- rected to go asuiore and bring mm of. 1h twenty muiniiies the Intrepid Arab appeared again, holuing the terriole beast crouching 11 Ms arms, It was & rabbit. We domesticated him jor the sum of ten Diasives. Such is the hative intelligeace of that poor Lgyptian who has been painted by so many admiring rowaucers, AT S100T the telegraph had anticipated us, and the United States Consular Agent Was at tue landing with doa. keys to conduct us in stale to the city. As we af- terwards found out, every Egypuan official, even, had been notified to tender to Consul General but. Jer, Genetal Starring, Mr, Morris and the HERALD Correspvndent the most distinguished bospita of the Province, A Turkish dinner was spr the largest and, I may add, in many respects tae finest consular apartinents I have ever seen. In jag the dahaveah was the recipient of [3 froin locai celebrities, among them an nusician, Who, Upon belng shown Morris’ zed it with entuusiastic familiarity aud an to scratch & solo with @ toothpick. Having endured twenty minutes of this eutertainment the musician look is seat at the piano and rolled off a Succession of horrivie noises, mach to the delignt of bis Arab auditors, and which upon betng ap- Plauded were frequently repeated in the most exag- gerated forms, Lae genuleman did not leave the cabin tl long after midnight The friendly and appreciative nature of the Egyptian makes his Shortest cai last during our hours. They are in- suderable bores, measured by the barbarous cus- toms of enligutened nations, THE SLAVE TRADE ON THR NILE. Just belore arriving at Sioot we saw & light- draught, mysterious-luoking boat, half dababeah, half hegur, which was standing along close to the bar bay eg d ro cacsoe observation, “whi at ig that?” demanded Gener: of @ well-informed Arab, maar aca “That's a siaver |” And it was. General Starring made efforts to ascertain under what fay she was carrying on her infamous trafic, though without avail; but steps will be taken to ascertain the truth, Such instances of the trade at so low @ polut of the Nue are rare, and when they become known to the Viceroy’s gvvernment aro Suppressed aud the culprits punished. But tue rigit of ex-territorial jurisdiction held by the wise and enlightened foreign Powers 1s used by these hounds for the very purpose of continuing and Spreading the slave trade, though by express treaty suipuiauions It 1s outiawed vy every civilized nation of tne giobe, The Viceroy discussed the slave trade freely wyh General Starring, when tue General made known his intention to visit the Soudan. His Highness stated explicitly that he visiied upon every one engaged in selling human fesh the severest penaities of his almost absolute code, This business bas been for many years tue curse apd profit o! the Soudan. Sir samuel Baker, Speke, Grant, Bur'on and many otner intrepid travellers have spoken of its extent and growth. Sir Samuel Baker is now in that country with 1 Egypuian sojaiers, the remnant of bis comma exhausted as it has been by death and sickness, and is purging the proviuce of these “black ivory” wholesale merchants. From Soot, after sailing away from our tow, which broke down, We stood va for Kennah, bu; were shortly afterward iiiched on again. On this morning (le 4th Of January) We passed the cele- braved SHEIK SELIM, an old man, to whom 1s ascrived all the powers of the magician. The credulous Hassan asserted that he couid, by the operation of his extraordinary mind, coniuse machinery, stop steamers, and arrest locomotives, even though going at high speed; and that so much was his power feared that no one ever dared to Lawart Lis Wishes. Oid Selim’s mind, how- ever, was very tranquil on the morning of the 4th, for we moved toward Kennan with the same inseut with which we starved, Selim is thus wise and ity because he never wears clothes, aad vecause he extorts “backsheesh” (your-joirey aud dis- tributes it to his bellevers, AT DENDERA, opposite Kennah, we explored the mammoth tempie of Venus, Whose antiquity is unknown, but 1s trace- able to over two thousand years ago. For fine sculpture, substantial architecture and imposing columns, it ranks among the first of eypt. Traces of recent vandalism from the hand ot the prurient tourist are ound upon {ls richly embellisned walls. Parts of the human body conceaied by the modesty ol our time beneath the foids of @ tig leaf nave been rudely mutilated by some person deficient in physique, By narrowing down ali works of art to the cold etiquette of the an the flaest masterpieces of Greece and Rome would perisa from tne earth. Three miles over swamp apd mud brought us to the house of the British Consul, wuo nad tenderea to the party the usaal courtesy offered to Nile travellers, THE DANCING GIRLS. When We arrived at his house we found It bril- lianuly iiuminated with candies, and the obsequi- Ous official conducted us to nis grand reception rool on the second floor. The apartment where we find ourselves is torty teet loug by tweuty wide, and broad divans extend around three of ils sides, We seat ourselves on the divan. A dusky ser- vant, sustaining the weight of a huge turban on his head, approaches with chibouques, already lighted by tus ‘own suction, and we are soon flooding the room with the fames of Koranic and Turkish tobac- co. Coffee follows, and these two elementary points Ol the Arab eiiquette having been finished we are ready to become sociable and observant, At our Jett, and squatting on the floor, like the segment of an Indian council of war, are tour giris in the iront rank, most elaborately bung with golden spangles, necklaves, and otierwise profusely adorned with quaint cotus and Oriental jewelry. Be- hind taem are cheir counterieit mothers, wasted into that dried-up wreicuedness whicd arrives in tropical countries before the female reaches the age of forty, ‘I'he duty of these hags 18 to matronize tue fairies, Stili 1urther to tne rear is tue orchestra, consisting of tive pieces—two performers on tie “ood,” OF @ species of guitar, two performers on the tambourine and one onthe tom-tom. Candles are disposed about the room, and several Arabs of local distinction are seated opposite, as deeply in- terested as we. Zoé, Fatima, Zenoba and ayesha are the names by wich we will distiaguish the four danseuses, Zo6 is slender and graceiul, with a dark, colorless skin, black eyes, and a graceful, charming manner, Hung up on the wall, ler por- trait would be that of a madonna; but, pictured in action, she moves irom the plaintive lay to ber gay love song wiih loo much faculty to permit the hypothesis at she hus been @ persistent guardian of her virtue, She is dressed in a purple robe, reaching to her neck. Her waist 18 encircled by a belt Of strung coins, eacn Of the vaiue of $5, and her whole person is weighea down by over a thousand dollars’ worth of gold, scattered throug her hatr and distributed all over ner persoa. She rises and bursts into @ passionate verse: — My love passed not, but gave me sherbet of sugar to drink; For haif the niguts we will intoxicate ourselves with wine; I vow that if my beloved come I will do deeds thut Antur did not, Such 18 the gentus of the Hgyptian song, and to- day 1 differs lictle from the verse of ages back. it is no! coarsely lewd, and even if it were the Eu- ropean iisiener would be noue the wiser. In half an hour alter we are seated, the quartet having primed itself with raki—a beverage scarcely less Dolent than abdsinthe—Zoé and Fatima begin the dance. They tase positions opposite to each other and ten feet avart. Fauma has the features of a squaw, but the agility of a aeer. The fingers of eaca hold the steel custapets, aad they pose and begin a rapid, regular movement of their bodies, swaying, setuing graduaiiy by projecting thelr knee Joluts 1orward, rising suddeniy to @ perfect upright, then advaucing and reireating, and wairitng as in the untimed waitz, In \hese imvvements, which to me are tuil of wild, origiual fascination, there is litte that ts lecherous, though muca that is poet- ical Jt depeads aitogetier upon tae nature of the observer whether or not this dance 1s to be con- sidered grossly Iminoral, ‘Phere is no display of tae limp or body, unless you happen to drilt among tne lowest classes of the dancing girts, Leech, who wrote a book upon Egypt, called “Lhe Sentimental Idler,” tous truthiuHy aliades to the dancing giris:— “U'it ve mot the most Immoral exibition In the world | will only add, it 1s one of the signts of Up per Egypt; wat its mterest 1s warranted by its great antiyuily, aud furthermore tdat there ts scarcely a layman or clerzyman who makes the Nue voyage Wao does not witness the extibl- ons.” When full of raki, and worked up toa high de- gree of excitement, the giris sometimes become en- thusiastic, and perform as ladies would not in the drawing room of a Fitth avenue mansion, At Kennah tney would trequently indulge in affec- tiovate attitudes, and assume positions sus cepuble of a variety of interpretations, But if they receive no encouragement to become tree in thetr movements they rarely do anycaing improper, ‘Their immorality is @ tuvvsand degrees less than that of the ballet dancer on the New York stage. They are not virtuous, and do not pretend to be. ‘The girls ace Known in the native parlance as the Ghawazee, and they claim to Deiong ty a noble and ancient race, and despise those Arab3 about them who Cannot show @ betier ancestry than an un- broken line oi a thousand years. Lane, tho best authority on Bgypt, states that, while they are the most abandoned courtesans, “they are the finest women in Egypt!” bven while we were witness- ing the display at the house of the Britisn Consul his wives were glaucing at the speciacie from be- hind a taitice-work set in Windows opeaing to the adjoining room. Arabs are very parcicular about their domesuc concerns, and do not allow even the ladies of their harem to witness licentous displays, From Kennan to THEBES was a run of six hours aud forty-eight miles. Upon «approaching the finest existing ruins tn the worid we saw the harbor filled with danaveans, steamers and all representatives of the Nile sitpping, AS the Herald passed the lofty mansion of Ali Morad (United States Consular Agent), standing 3 it does at the edge of a high viud overlooking the river, bwenty guns were fred in our honor, the colors were dipped and we were greeted cordially by all the boats in the vicinity. Hundreds of people were gaihered on the banks; the steamer of Mr, J. P. Morgan, the well Known banker of New York, was lying ahead; the steamer of the Prussian Con- sul General was jasc geting under way, and after- wards he Kindly took our mails to Cairo, ‘The was soit and saluvrious, and every visible ovject that makes Luxor famous and The es interesting was unusually conspicuous against the deep bice sky. in less than an hour after the reception of the dignitaries we were on our way to Karnak, con- ducted by Ali Morad and his suite. But the ruins of ‘Ynebes are found in every existing guide book to the Nile, and I will not describe them, A . Smith, an American, has been living in Thebes many years, studying the hieroglypnics im the tempies and tomos, excavating scorabar! ay dealing in antiques, and acting as acicerone. He 1s Irom New Yors, and protesses to nave solved many of the ambiguities left obscure by more learned men. * Upon tue registry of the United States Consulate at Ihebes there stands this imperial entry:—‘N. M, Beckwith, United states Comumissiouer to the Lon- don Exhibitions.” What a fruitiul text for those who are acquainted With the Exhibition of 1867 at Paris, the Beckwith Exhibition at the same place and date, and now tus fheban Exhibition of 18721 RECEPIION BY THE COURT AT ESNA. After many triais and tibulations, chiefly occa- sioned by sand bars und @ stupid captain, we ar rived at Esna Jate on Sunday evening, the 7tn inst, ‘The Herald was immediately boarded by a brood of officials, Who bore telegrams from the Viceroy, di- recting that all essary means should be taxen in advance to provide camels and trains tor crossing the Nublan Desert from Koroska to Berber. The hour of ten was appointed for our reception the next day by the court of tue province. By nine donkeys Were in wailing on shore; but we conciuued to Walk, and so, alter tWo mules on foot, we deilled Into ‘the narrow sireeis of Esna. About the first spectacle I saw were some gayly-decked, coal-black Nuvian girls. Leaving the avenue where these creatures swarmed we finally arrived in the centre of the city to find that it was market day, This 1s @ weekly event in all the settiements of Egypt. Produce of every kind 13 exposed for sale, and all the littte articles found in the scanty econo ny of an Arabian household may be bought for a few jastres. At length the solemn moment came and we were conducted to the splendid ‘empie of Esna, and given seats beneath the roof which formerly cov- ered the priests of the Roman conquerors. In @ few moments the Court in procession descended the grand staircase, and, preceded py Hassan, was announced to the Consul General, The dignitaries seated themselves In a semi-circle, and consisted of the Lieutenant Governor, the son of the Governor, the gubernatorial physician and other attacnes of the sulte, including the Prefect of Police and the Cadi of the Court. Consul General BUTLER—Is your Excellency well? LIguTeNaNT GOVBRNOR—Thanks to your Excel- lency. Lhope God Fal you good health, Consul General BUTLER—You bave a very fine temple here; Oue of the finest have seen on the Mile. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR—Yes; Allah is great and has been very good to Esna, out the temple is not very old, only existing for 3,000 years, Consul General BUTLER —Is the Governor very 111? J hope it ts not dangerons. LI8UTRNANT GOVERNOR—Please God, no! I hope you will return from Khartoum in good beaith and balely by the help of God. CONSUL GENERAL—I trust that God will so take care of us, but] put considerable reliance in Efend (the Viceroy). CONSUL GENERAL—We have @ favor to ask. Li ANT GOVERNOR— ¢ friends of Effen- ai; whatever you ask 13 aj command and shail be obeyed. Consul GBNERAL—SIX men from the village of our Reis have been Imprisoned for what I believe to be an unimportant adair. Whl Your £xceliency re- lease them? LIBUTENANT GOVERNOR—It 1s a small thing; con- elder it done (powing low), General StARRING—We would prefer dromedaries Jn crossing tue desert, Your kxcelleacy, aud tins for water instead of skins, LIEUTKNANY GovéRNOR—If It 18 your desire they shall be ready, All your wants shall be made known by telegraph. Eifendi has said, “Whatever they want give them.’ Po STaRRING—How far does your jurisdiction r LIRUTENANT GOVERNOR—Under God to Koroska, General STARRING—And i“ tyes atthe cataract ’ To LM be meteoad IRUTENANT GOVERNOR—Yi nove. i Ou shail ve the nrst to Vhile this conversation was proceeding coffee ni been produced, according 10" Oriental rome soon subjected the Doctor to an iuformal interview on the conaitton of the Laoag He told me that the late estate of Hallim Pacha, twelve miles below. and now the propercy of the Viceroy, contained 72,000 acres of sugar lands alone, To me this prop. erty is the finest on the Nile, and while z the advantages ot a good situation 1s under 8 flour- ishing state of cultivation. Tne medical profession, he affirmed, was up to the Kuropean standard, while he deplored the extreme insignificance of his fees. Houses could be rented at twenty-tive francs & month, and the peopie were extremely contented with their lot. Notwithstanding this fact an Arab complained at Kennan that 30,000 men had just been conscripted to harvest the crops, without being paid for their services. Alter bows, salaams, compliments and partings, and then re- peattng the process three times, we departed from the temple and went on board the Herald, ouly to be persecuted by native callers, who know when to come, but never when to leave. Getting off in the afteraoon we made about twenty-five miles, when the steamer grounded, THE HERALD COLLIDED THE GREAT BOLT. and Its Endorsers. the Republican Ranks. What They Say About the Missouri May Con- with her forward, and there was a great commotion ention and m on deck. Colonel Butler commanded Hassan to v the New Party. appear at the critical moment, The captain was in ns és as terribie a state of perspiration as the leathery nature of his skin would allow. “Let the captain go, but save the cook !” was the command, Happily we got off with one boat stove in, snd @ sheep overboard, Standing on we moored at Edfou for the night, Passing Lag nd Silsuieh, the quarries where the stone for the Egyptian temples was excavated, and the imposing Temple Kom- Ombus, this morning, we made Assouan, and came to our moorings amid salutes irom the surrounding danabeabs and steamers, And here we are, after thirteen days 0: the Nile, having accomplished $00 miles on our journey to Khartoum, and having expended all that 1s luxu- rious or agreeable in the undertaking. ‘The Prefect ot Assouan has sent out to conscript 250 men vo haul our dahabeah over the cataract, and to-morrow this dangerous proceeding will begin. OF three giraffes sent from the Soudan to Colonel Batier, and which he designed presenting to the Ventral Park of New york, one has died at Esna, alter a walk of 800 miles, The other wwo are on their way across the desert, and will probably ar- Tive at Alexandria to sound health, whence they Crxernvatt, Feb, 17, 1872. tient republicans, made up of radical Germans, men and party mercernaries, It may, however, with truth be said that it has not yet penetrated the popalar crust. The fact is that the men who responded so pitnily have, as yet, uttered no public expression. Their action is embryonic, It was, undertaken by your reporter at this place, nor was of the Ciacinnatt endorsement 1s a prominent law- WIL be Suipped to New xork. AXT MATIERS, yer, ana just now busily engaged in the courts, which at this end of the term are crowded with business and diMcult of approach on any matter not direcuy in hand, HON. JACOB D. Exhivition of Vaintings at the Leavitt Art Rooms, Leavitt's Ar. Rooms are once more occupied by a maguificeat coilection of works of art, representing nearly all the foreign schools, Iv would be impos- sible in a newspaper criticism to do full justice to the collections of paintings that from time to time are placed before the public eye in this Broadway Rallery. The hold which this system of exhibition js taking on the public cannot fall to have the best influence on THE GROWTH OF LOVE for what 1s good and true in art. It 18 well for the public, well for the artist, to de placed thus con- stantly mm presence of good paintings, where we may trace the influence and result of patient and labo- rious work, guided by love and Knowledge. Stand- lng before the pictures of men whose names are household words in Europe, we canuot help feeling that the influence and power that they exert over us are dlue im no small degree to the EARNBSTNESS OF PURPOSE which sustained the artists at their work. Every- where we find traces of strength of will and clear- ness of purpose, sometimes expressed by a line, sometimes by color, according to the fercerul mediums througa which the arust sought to express nimself, And these qualities impart ‘@ value to Work Which continues to alltime, Ideas of prettiness Chuuge, and what charms tue weak, Jashionabie lasve Que day Wil be spurned anotuer, Wuen the increase oi knowledge exposes the empti- ness of weak work which does not address itself to eur reason, Worss tat impose themselves on us are those Whica shalt grow MORE VALUABLE WITH TIME, because the same force wil always dwell with them. Here 1s an example at hand. ‘Two peasants are skaung on the ice—the subject is common enough, bat Adolphe Diiteus haa put so much force and reality in them, drawn them so poidly and WitQ such sense of motion that wey will continue tu skate on 1a puovilc favor when the artist snail be bu: & faiut and fleeting memory, ‘The color is deep, dYillant and warm in the figures, Making a Caplial contrast to the cold grays of the glassy ice, bul crue 10 nature. ‘Lhe skaters are Jull ol rude life, and tae cold norchern viood, warmed up oF the exercise, courses rapidly through their cheeks. “Going tO Scnool in the Snow,” by Ed. Frere, 18 a less pretealious Work, but nut less in- teresting or cllarming. A lutte boy runs along blowing tus fingers and looking decidedly misera- bie in tue coid weather, He is FULL OF NATURAL EXPRESSION, and there is that case and sense of motion in the moving figure which at once announce the accom- pushed draughtsman. Here tue colors are toned down, but there 18 something charming in the sub- dued grays, which are still iuil of strength and de- cision. Verboeckhoveu, whose works are deservedly 80 much esteemed vy Connoiseurs, 1s represented by oue of his earlier Works, When his power Was at its higuest. Time has mnveriered with the steadiness and certainty of bis drawiag, and we see nothing of the boid assurance tn the works under consider- ation, His “Landscape and Animals’? (30) 1s espe- cially worthy of nouice lor the strength and treeaom of the treaument, Here the drawiug is remarkably lowing, but the Ouvlines are marked by a correct- ness Which we cannot always ailow to his later works. Inthe modelilng of form the same knuw- Jedge and MASTERY OF DETAIL is shown. We have softness wjthout flabbiness and an entire absence of the hardness in the flesh Ireatinent that we fiud ta the later works, This pic- ture was painted in 1845, but has preserved ail the depth and intensity of its color. It 18 certainly one of the finest exampies we Lave ever seen alter tho great animal painter. There is in it evidence of close study aud hard work at a time when nis talent and execution were mature aud he was striving to estabiisa Teputauon. There 18 also a study of goats, made while he was at Rome, in which the same SOFTNESS OF TEXTURE | and careful painting of form is visivie. “The En- trance tothe Grand Canal of Venice’? (36) displays Felix Zeim’s happiest style, ‘There is more soft sunshine than we geuerally find in his pictures, and he has depended more on the poetic sentiment Which he has kuown how to turow into his treat. ment of the Grand Canal, whose waters are bathed ina flood of warm, meliow lignt, while the pulld- ings in the foreground and in the distance are pre- sented merely as accessories, ‘Tne artist develops his great power ot perspective drawing, and ma few fect of canvas gives us @ charming view miles iu extent, and so cunningly has he wrougat that THE ILLUSION IS PERFECT. it seemsto us that we are looking down a rea canal without veing over conscious that itis only @ picture. We almost regret that this artist aoes not paint some other gene of sunject, but artists, alter all, are like other people and paint what will sell. So anxtous are people to obtain ois views in Venice that he finds dificuityin meeting the de- mand, Inthe former exhibitions there was, per- haps, & want of sufficient diversity of subject, which 18 happily obviated in the present instance. Not aloue have We @ pretty wide representation of the diie;ent European schools, put we find the sub- Jects exceedingly varied, STILL LIFE finds Interpreters in Preger and De Noter. Preger’s “Fruit and Champagne’ (42) Is one of the most delicious bits of stil life we have ever seen. ‘Tne rich, luscious grapes and peaches have been painted With great delicacy and force. They are so ripe that we feel tempted to taste them, but the tone of the picture 18 80 subdued and quiet that people who are not Very observant are in danger of passing it by without notice, But it 1s just sich a plece as the connoisseurs love to sit Gown and discuss and enjoy at their ease, “Flowers” (61), by De Noter, are artistically arranged and painted with BRILLIANCY AND FORCE. Those who love nature best in ver marine aspect Will fod a delightful littie seascape by Hoguet, with picturesque-looking fishing boats tossed avout by the waves, It is full of the most reireshing, breezy sentiment. Tne waves have that sense of motion and of power which mdkes them so difficult to paint for those who are not in close sympatiy with this element, The cloud treatment 18 also very excel- Jent—arifting with light, impaipavie feeling across the sky. The composition 1s easy and natural, with- Out any straining aiter effect, but pleases us all the better for this. ‘Those who would not miss a treat had better search for this litte gem, for 1t is so small as to be jiable to be passed over, We should like to go on at length recoruing our feelings or impressions of the various works as Wwe pass them im review in our mind’s eye, but space 18 always a@ difficulty in the HERALD, and we are reluctantly compelled to be brief, but will return to the subject in a few days, Among the men whom we have passed over without mention are GREAT PAINTERS like Jerome, Diaz, Plassan, Becker, Betleouin, Bel- langé, Couture and @ host of others; 90 that the pub- Nic can judge what a treat is in store for them ina visit to this new exhibition at the Leavitt Art cox cotton and other property destroyed during the Bramlette, of Kentacky, lawyers of less national repute, and several resident Portorial visit, he found time and patience enough the situation, “1 nave very little time, as you can see, to talk ot anything just now,” said Mr. Cox, ‘except the busi- say, or, indeed, all that I can say about this matter. most heartily approve the principles announced by that Missouri Vonvention. In fact, any one who knows me might know that, Ibis my desire, how- ever, that these reforms shall take place within the republican party, and I sincerely nope that they will come in 1t.'” REPORTER—How if they should not? Mr. Cox (witha smile and a bright gleam of his fine, clear eyes)—Oh, then, we must lopk and will look to new organizations for the purpose of securing them. KEPORTER—Well, how do you propose this? Mr. Cox—Why, I presume the best way 13 for all those who believe in those principles as announced in the Missouri Convention, as 1 do, to nave a mutual understanding and some formal co-operation for the purpose. There will be no difficulty about that. 1 wish to say, further, that it is desirable that the old war cries in politics should be dropped as soon as possi- ble, and the political action of the country made to turn upon questions of administration reforms and finance, while at the same time we keep it unaer- stood that all the proper results of the war shall ve finally sustained and adhered to. ‘That 1s all,” he concluded meditatively, “I believe that I have to Say, except to ask that you set it down just as I have expressed it,’” HON. GEORGE HOADLEY. Mr. Hoadley was found in his law ofice, in the Masonic Temple, corner of Third and Wainut streets, engrossed with cases in progress in the State Courts, from which he had just escaped. Itold him my business in a few words, but he cut me off with the remark that he had nothing to say. “I signed the call,” said he, “and that is all there is about in I am no poiltician, and what difference does it make what I think or say on the suvject?” I replied that, for these very reasons—namely, that he was nota politician and questioned the importance of his utterances—would his sayon the May Convention be valuable. ‘Well, now, look here,” sald he in return, ‘I don’t want to be interviewed, really. I @m too busy, and I honestly believe my opinion of no practical value at this time, Why, lam only a fly on the wheel.” ‘Well,’ 1 urged, “pray buzz a uttle for me.” And he buzzed. Mr. Hoadley, you may happen to know, occupied the Bench from 1859 to 1866, which withdrew him from politics, and he is aman of such candor and honesty that his own word must be believed when he says that he has no desire to mix in politics, that he 1s not and has not been a candidate im any shape orform, When I found him he was in @ mood not to be questioned, and I shall therefore give what he saidinalump. ‘I was,” he said, “a democrat un- til 1856, wnen I forsook the party because it declined to apply to slavery the same principles of hostility to special privilege and monopoly which governea its actions in questions of currency and trade, bank- ing and tariffs, I understood the republican party to be organized on the principle of inviting men who united In hostility to the extension of slavery, but Who differed in other respects, to combine to pre- vent the further spread of that evil. The dem»- cratic party in this State, m the resolution of the Ohio State Convention of 1848, which pledged the party to uso all constitutional means to resist ang finally eradicate slavery, and by its subsequent election and support of Salmon P. Chase, my pre- ceptor, law partner and intimate personal friena, ‘was an organization to,which I aduered with entire satisfaction until the repeal of the Missouri Com- promise. The republican party seems to me to have drifted or been pulled by the whig leaders, who control it, into the old whig rut, and to be fast becoming, if it 18 not already, the party of the Capitalist against the laborer. [ do not believe the national banking system to be either just or constitutional ‘The sooner we return to hard money the better forall hands. A protective tariff 1s another Dame for a law to rob one man for the purpose of enricning another. The civil service of the government should be conducted on strictly business principles no longer be abused by being made the reward of political ser- vice. It 1 time, therefore, for democrats and men of democratic ideas in the Sg geen party to coun- termarch aniess the party is prepared to do the The key to the future political success lies in the organization of a new or the reorganization of ‘tne Olu party on the simple principle of hostility to monopoly, special privilege, class legisiation or favoritism of any kind wilatever, and it was in tne hope that some efiicient step may be taken in this Girection that I signed the call for the mass conven: cll first day of May next.” NLEY MATTHEWS. xt, and found him in treet, over the Western Union Telegraph office, with leisure enough ior oaly @ few minutes’ conversation. He, 18, if anything, even less imvolved in politica than the other gentie- men named, and really desires to remain so, Like Judge Hoadley he attached little importance to bis opinion on the situation, but at my request he ex- it freely. “As one of the ers of the = panne Site oabeas cre” aftnaens ane “"esamn of ne e sentiment FATAL DUMMY OASUALTY, i ral Fe aplican ierranization 2 ate ; tate of ju oping — thay Merchants Consared, demonstration @ developinent of the popular Coroner Herrman yesterday held an inquest at ‘the City Halil, on the body of Samuel Haliday, late porter in the employ of Messrs. Loder & Lock- wood, 93 Franklin street, who was Killed last Wednesday, by the breaking of one of the dummy ropes, a8 he was descending on the Jummy from the lower fvor to thesub-cellar, Mr. Loder, one of the proprietors of the store, testified that one of the aummy ropes being imperfect, he had noufled Mr. Watson, owner of the premises, that @ new one was needed, and at the same time caused those em- ployed tnere to be careful about the dummy, as one of the ropes was much worn and was unsate, strength of those opinions would infuence the action of the aces convention, so they would be induced to take suca action in the plattorm and the nomination of candidates be ag | repre- eenting it as would restore the harmony of the repuolican party ie strength, ling in that, - to see that the democratic organization, 1n the tace of SUCK AD Opposition, Would see the necessity of ite going out of existence as 4 party organization, its membership unitiog with such republicans cuim- mitted to Unis movement as should find themselves ostracized by the aaverse course of the Lira Conveation, and that in that "a ‘a formidable an ne ‘Yhe use of the dummy was not probibited by the | perhaps, a successful tion 4 ‘was the result, The | unite turough a convention of delegaves called sgubuaittod tot i i the nominauon of Presidential canaidates upon a submitted to the jory, who found, Samuel Halliday came to his deato by trace ture of the skull, caused by the breaking of @ rope sup pots § pow in the store of Messrs. Loaer an { would command the confidence and sup- porvoten those who believe thas the present course of the republican party 18 ruin instance, to KWON, 4 95 Franklin sireet, on the | RerorTER—Have you any ticket, for iyo fine tar, cama | mason ey a rin for mn ron iol Biter belog notided that Tope was unsate,* aa Ci Adams, of alaswachue The Anti-Grant Movement Talks with the Liberal Leaders in ‘The brief but pithy response of afew leading re- Publicans in this city to the Missouri project of a liberal republican convention to be held in this city on the 1st of May next, is, just now, @ good deal talked about by the large number of dissen- dissatisfied Americans and a nondescript class of disappointed oMce-seekers, wire-puilers, caucus therefore, why the task of interviewing them was it an easy one, for each of the distinguished signers was found in the United States Court deeply in- Volved in litigating the claims of a once wealthy cotton owner, who 18 suing forthe recovery of Wwar—a case involving nearly a million of dollars. The ex-General, ex-Governor and ex-Secretary of the Interior was seated at the bar with ex-Governor busily taking Notes for his side of the case; but, In response to a whispered notification as to the nature of the re- between the lapses of duty to express his view of ness in hand; 1n fact I have hardly any time to think about anything else; but if it will be of any service to you I will give you ina few words all Ihave to In the first place I signed the card you speak of be- cause I heartily approved the movement inaugurated in Missouri, and hail it as the starting point for re. forms in the administration of the government. I See Se Proteome, ne Wiliam &. Groesbeck, 0 Moumraenie ou, Teaity thnk, Judge, that the would be the ery others, | would ually Cues Justiog Chase or Lyman Trumbull or oluer niative men of that class; but 1 am iree to say” that the firat-named ticket 13 my first caoice. Well, woat is to be accomplished by the movement or your party ? Ji MarrHews—What | should hope to accom. plish by the success of auch a would be the permanent establishment of well considered prinet- tne Gireck lon of es of civil service reform in onesty and efficiency, abji ne tice of appointing and dismissing from office sab- ordinates in the civil service on grounds. In the second atl ‘ud coa- sistent revision of the whole revenue syatem, bots of tariff and internal revenue, upon basis of Mr. Wells’ reports, 80 a8 to relleve the producuve imdustry of the country from the unequal burdens of excessive taxes Imposed as jobs lor the beneds of classes anc sections. ‘Third, a return on the pars of the national government to the constitutional mit of its tunctions in reference to affairs pi belonging to the States themseives, and @ univ amnesty for all political offenves growing out ol the Tebellion, 80 as to eaable the peopie of the Southerm ‘States to rid themseives of the extravagant and cor. Ap administrauons now oppressing them, Judge Stal eaponded Ty dace to my Inquiry a8 judge Stalio repo! a to what ne thought of the new party. He speaks with @ strong German accent, but his language us well chosen, duent and forcibie, He 1s a scholar. J will give the pith of his remarks, ‘The republican pans he said, was perverted irom the purposes of its formation and mude to subserve tue purposes of Certain monopolists, namely, the prominent leaders Of the party, who, under the pretext of anes revenue to pay the national debi, are enri themselves at the expense of tne laboring classes; Imposing taruf ostensibly for the revenue, while tue real eect 13 to make the poor poorer and the rick richer. He used the simile of the idol of Baal to illustrate this idea, Tne people vrought their oferi to the idol (public debt), but not the idol, but the priests (monopolists), consumed the people's substance. He believes the masses are ail, right on these qapesione, aud that an appeal ought to be made to them, to the honest democrats as well asto the honest repadiicans, He disapproved of the new departure repubiicans because they ex- cluded men who had been acting with the democratia: party and called themselves democrats, but, sald’ he, disuncty, “when I signed the call ior the May Convention it was with the distinct understanding: that When the Convention meeis tt will divest itseif of its character a3 an association of liberal repubit- cans, aud address itself to all men concurring in the principies of the reunion and reform platiorm, be- tween which and the platform of the so-called libe~ ral repuolicans of Missouri I understand thera 1s no substantial difference. And,” he added, “B shouid regard 1¢ as calamitous if they should pro- ceed W nominate a ticket and make preparations for @ Presidential campaign without addressing themselves to all citizens, whatever have been thes former party afliacions, provided they agree to the ropositions embodied in that plattorm of the issouri Conveution.”” Judge Stullo expressed ata intention to continue out of politics, and above sik not to make speeches, He thought he nad deae enough in the earlier struggles of freedom, aud pro+ poses not to enter the arena again under any oif- cumstances. I have given these men’s words carefully, stances as precluded the poss ta ing what tte other said. None ol them hagzarded an opiaion as to the success of the new party, nor could | elicit a single expression on that aspect of the subject. POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND VIEWS. Democratic Prospects Looking Up. [From the Louisville Ledger (straight-out democrat, * Feb. 1%] Carl Schurz and those who honestly mean what they say about Grant and his administration must naturally gravitate to the democratic party, The An- zeiger points out that the Ledger, after the Novem- ver elections, was @ decided ‘‘passivist,” aad expresses surprise that such a change should come over its policy. Surely the editor of the Anzeiger could not Lave read our article carefully and noticed the facts therein stated o1 our constant gain and the loss of the radicals and their palpable divisiona in several States. ‘Ihe editor cannot hee the signs of the times lo perceive the wonderful changes oft the past sixty days. So, if we, in November, considered the democratic chances in a despondent manner, we beg to assure our neighbor that all suctz ideas have been banisned from our sanctum. We do not ‘set up our wishes in place of our jadgment,'” jor the latter teaches us, from ali present indica- tions, that the demoaratic organization will receive the ae tes, of the people, with or without we help of the liberals. What the Democrats Hope from New Hamp= shire and Connecticut. {From the Mobile Register (straight-out demccrat); Feb. 15.j Should these two States go democratic this spring 1t would cause a terrible rattling among the arr bones of a ‘passivism” that demands ail the sacri- fices and patriouism and giving away on the one side of @ proposed coalition, and that side the strongest and the largest, and insists, as a sine qua nom of the trade, that the mountain shall go to Ma homet. Victories here would go far to shake the postulate of “passivism’ that a democratic victory single-handed over Grant ts a simple impossivility, and should be rigorously ignored in every specula- Uon about the contest. Siace the evb tide of Grant’s popularity nas begun to flow there has been no election to measure the sirength and abrasive effecis of the curreat, These New Engtand elec tions will pe interesting and instructive on the point, if they teach the right lesson perhaps there wili be more alacrity on the part of the liveral re~ pubilcans to meet democrats at least half way in @ treaty of allauce, offensive and defensive, to save the country, Let us notleap in tne dark, but wait and see, The New Engl Sumner Anti-Grant Moves ment—Its Failure. {From the Boston Advertiser (republican), Feb. 18.) Mr. Sumner should have withdrawn that portios of his preamble the moment the proofs of its incor- rectness were placed in his hands. It was not in~ genuous in him, after giving such an endorsement tothe malignant rumor which has been floating about for several months without an endorser, ta Dass it by with the remark that he was technicaily right, and leave the disproved charge to be still & subject of controversy. Mauy other things were made clear jn this long debate; not tne least of which 13 the fact that the President's opponenta have determined to leave no stone unturned to bring bis administration under reproach, Those who know now long this grand assault has been im reparation will appreciate the closing remark of Renator Morton:—1 have heard that it was coming; ‘that 1t Was a yreat mine by which the administra- Uon was to be blown into the air, and that aiter tms mine had been exploded General Grant could no longer be regarded for a moment as an available candidate tor the Presidency. Well, sir, the mine has been exploded; instead of Geueral Grant being hoisted 1 think it is the engineer,’’ Miscellaneous Political Notes. The latest ‘What Is It?”—Colonel Forney’s poste tion. The amendments to the city charter of Loutsvilie have passed the House by 67 to 17. It was not much of @ fignt after all, The Louisville Courter-Journal says the ward meetings in that city to appoint delegates to the Radical State Convention nave developed a remark- ably strong anti-Grant sentiment, which proves in- tensely disgusting to the office-holders. Tnese patrle otic geatlemen, it seems, ‘‘have signally failed to con- trol the negro element,” The colored troops do not seem inclined to fight nobly for Massa Grant, The St. Louis Democrat is “indebted to some Con- gressman, whose able frank it cannot read, for an enthusiastic pub, doc, of a nundred pages about a Soutnern contested election case.” We are fre- quently complimented in the same manner. The latest document seemed at first sight to be endorsed “By Brett & Co., 0. 0. D.,”” which we supposed meant some express company; but, after a iitue scrutiny, we devipbered it to be the official frank of “Benjamin F, Butler.’” ‘The Louisville Courler-Journal (democratic) seems to be m a quandary about General Grant. I¢ wants, and yet does not want, him to be the re- publican candidate for President, if we are to judge from the following closing sentences in a long edi- torial on the subject:— Grant has now about as neavy @ load as he can stand under in the Philadel phia Convention, and let it be remembered that it is very important to the democratic party that Grant shail be tne republican nominee. We feel confident that he can and wiil be beaten if nominated; bat if some other and less ob- jectionable candidate should be put forward there is no knowing how the contest might terminate, The Washington Chronicle (republican) says ‘James F. Wilson, of lowa, seems to be the selectea opponent of General Grant for the republican nomination.” Next! Judge Wilson, the present incumbent; Sexton, of Rush county, and B, F. Claypool, of Fayette, are understood to be candidates for the republican nomination for Congress from the Indiana Fourtn Congressional district. There may ve a demand for more than one party sexton next November, A Western paper states that General Grant was once @ compositor in & printing office. If his lever to Colonel Forney be taken as a sample of his com- position he must Dave been a rather voor one ‘Groesbeck content to alr bis TORRONE SNOE ORE es eat ow makin atin pees. You T am only