Southern shield., 1851-07-26
Travels in Java-its Tigers,

f 1 believe the Island of Java to be the ': most beautiful country in the world, thai Island which we at home usually regard as a land of savages and cannbals, but which Is far from being such. l am now at the i house oi an American gentleman, (Mr. Fo-
 resterO with whom am staying for few
 days, after which 1 shall 20 to Solo to see some festivities of the natives, and then
 shall return to Batavia again; after that l l cannot speak for myself
 This place Is ia taa-iatarieT ofsEaya, and contains none but native population, with the exception of Mir. and Mrs. Forestier.-
 Mir. F. was formerly a merchant of Batavia
 and few years since, retired upon this plantation for the cultivation of coffee, in which he is still engaged; his lands are some what extensive, measuring from twenty to twenty-five miles in circumference, and lv- ing at the foot of mountain side: most of
 the land is cultivated, but there are some ] portions yet wild, covered with jungle grass, and higher up, with forests. These places
 with the deep ravnes, furnish fine retreat tor the tigers, which of late have become
 unusually troublesome, for they carry off man and beast. Mir. F. has ten traps set for them-one was lately caught, very T large one, and was destroyed bv drowning
 the place being damned up and the wa
 ter from small stream turned in until il covered the trap. During the last year, thlrty-seven natives were carried off by the
 tigers; only month since, native was taken while sleeping in his hut; on the fol- l lowing morning the people turned out in a
 body and made search for the man. Fol | lowing the course of the blood to a ravine,
 they found nothing left but one leg, and the l tiger not to be seen. Not long since two | tigers jumped into an enclosure occupied | by Javanese and attempted to carry offa horse, but before they could kill it the peo-
 Ple ran out with torches and frightened them away. The tigers, in giving up the horse, determined to have something, and content
 ed themselves with taking an old women's dog. The other day one of Mir. F.'s cows was attacked, but the tiger missed his hold and the COW escaped with the skin torn down on the side of the head; the boy, who was tending the cattle, and who saw it, 'I came home in great alarm. Last night,
 one ot 6e' traps when was i6iItd' i6aiitd WtTIa WtTIadd live goat, but they were too cautious to ven-
 ture in. At each of the traps men are sta-
 toned to keep watch; these men sit in tree or bamboo hut, raised upon high poles, and
 remain there night and day. If there is no one watching through the day, often some of the natives will steal the sheep or goat away. l
 Around the trap of the one which wasl caught, three tigers were seen in the night endeavorng to release their companion.-I | They scratched so violently upon the bars that they left the ends of their claws broken and bruised in the wood. Their great strength is surprising, almost incredible, did one not have it from good authority. They have been known to enter an enclosure l2I feet high, and take out horse; the next day the body of the horse was found partially | devoured. One would think it would be asI much as the tiger could do to get out with out the incumbrance of the horse. YouI can only judge of their great strength when you see it displayed. l have seen two t-
 ger fights, and shall see eight others in a
 few days at Solo, Notwithstanding theI numbers caught every year, they are still
 very numerous in all parts of the iSland.-I They are very rarely to be seen except af-
 ter dusk, and then only to make their at
 tacks, which they do by coming stealthily behind As vet 1 have seen but one, and
 that when 1 was travelling, at about seven at night, with a carriage and six horses;
 there were five natives with me, and he pro-
 bably did not like our appearance well en- ought to make an attack; besides, as the hor- ses were going at full speed, it would have been rather difficult for him. Horses gen.
 orally will not pass when the tiger is near, ! L..t n 4h;A .I.a1. -~>~l~ 1v7l at the on
 poste side of the road, and being direcriy brought in again without any accident, they sped along, making the carriage whirl with their leaps.
 Just behind MT. Forester's house rises up the Marabarbo, an old volcanic mountain,
 now nearly extinct, and partially behind stands it's twin brother, the Marapee, which continues to send forth huge volumes of smoke and vapor. They are about ten thou sand feet high; though the Marabarbo is the highest by about a thousand feet, and both have their heads far above the surrounding T clouds, which appear to rest upon the sides
 of the mountains half way up their heights \ Cor. Of the Boston Post. : -~~~~~~~-~~-~~
 5 Another Bloomer dress appeared in the t Bowery, N. Y., on Wedn esday evening, the ? fair wearer accompanied by a gentleman. ? A mob soon surrounded them, and the cou-
 pie took refuge in a milliner's shop. Two t of the crowd were arrested and sent to pris- on. The milliner's shop was so soon sur l rounded that the proprietor had 10 shut up. 3 ~~~~~-~-~~~~-~~~
 ? A SENSIBLE MERcHANT.-An old Mer- -I..