Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-09

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adventure Away we dashed, through chapperals Of
prcky pear over bitches and dkes out upon the rolling
sand plan looked and bshsd cloud Of dust
ing The next moment a. voice shouted Badra Badra
the battlsery Of our drsgoman and then Yussf himself
whirpg his stick his head passed like shot Ba
dra, Badra sounded again in the distance Saladin
wheeled and darted mady after him while T. cutching
the saddle with hand just saved my balance in time
" Badra Badra p shrieked Yusef whiring again and
perfectly blinded by the furyof the battle Come on
come on thousand of you at time Die, villains!
die" Again he dashed furiousy by, covered in cloud
Of dust and again he returned the charge and again
driven to the last extremity by the terrific in
which Saladn wheeled and followed every charge
seized hold Of the bride and tried all my mghtto stop
him. but this time he only danced about his hind
legs but made broadsde charges to the left hundred
yards stretch and then turned the right and made
hroadside charges again for another hundred yards and
then reared up and attempted to turn back somerset
All this time there the slightest doubt that sooner
later should be thrown violently ON the ground and
have my neck at least Of my limbs broken In
vain called to Yusef in vain threatened to discharge
him the spot; sometimes he half mile off, and
sometimes he passed in cloud Of dust like whirwnd
but might just well have shouted to the great King
Of Day to stand still to Badia the conquerer BY this
time finding it impossible to hold saladin by the bride,
let 60 again, and away he dartsd faster than ever
Badra, Badra!p screamed voice behind it was Yusef
in full chase Away flew, up hill and down hil over
banks Of sand down into fearful holIows and up again
on the other side and still the batte-cry Of Yusef
resounded behind, Badra, Badra foreverl lHlgg13
On dashed till the pine grove doomed up ahead on
and still on till close up and the grove stood like
wall of trees before us. ssThank Heaven said l. "wen
stop now Hold Yusef holdl" "Badra, Badra /" cried
the frantic horseman, dashing by and plngng in among
the trees Badra, forever p Saladin plunged after
him. flying around the trees and through marrow passes
in such manner that, if feared before that my neck
would be broken felt certainty now that my brains
would be knocked out both eyes through by some
projecting limb In the horror of the thought yelled
to Yusef for Gods sake to stop but by this time he had
secured out on the plain again. and engaged in
going through the exercise Of the Dereed with party of
country Arabs scattering their horses hher and thher
and fourishing his stick their heads every time he
came within reach They seemed to regard it as an
excellent joke and took very good part but for
there joke about the business and resolved as
chance occurred to discharge Ysef the spot
Saladin, becoming little tanned by his froc, slack
ened his pace that got my feet back into srrups
and obtained control over him. There Syrian
cafe and smokehouse not far off, and thther directed
my course. dozen boys out from the grove, and
seized him by the bride, and at the time Yusef
coming up, both horses resigned to their charge
and dismounted Hello, sir p said /, sscome this
wayn' aa .8t el g f
:" Bless me what's become of your hat 2. cried Yusef
greatly Surprised thought your excellency had put
it in your pocket to keep it from blowing away /"
" The devil you did Send after it if you please; it
must be mile back on that sand hill,
boy Immediately dispatched in search of the hat
Meantime, while preparing words sufficiently strong
to express my dspleasure Yusef declared that he had
American ride better than did, only the
horse not used to being managed in the American
fashion.
"Eh Perhaps you allude to the way let 90 the
reins and seized him by the manes'
"To that most certainly do refer" replied Yusef
he doesn't understand it Of the horses in Syria
understand it, g.
''No, said |, every few horses do. None but the best
riders in America dare undertake such thing as that
Did you see how let my feet out of the srrups
and rode without depending at all upon the saddle
"Most truly did md exceedingly marvellous it was
to me that You not thrown Amy but a very prac-
tsed rider would have been flung upon the ground in an
dangerous wayg'
Because it lifts the horse from the ground and makes
him so faster Besides, when you don't pull the brdle
OF course you don't hurt his mouth. I'll
Yuse assented to this with many EXPLANATIONS Of sur
prise at the various customs that prevail different parts
Of the world; maintaining, however, that the Syrian
not being used to it, perhaps would be better
for me in view of our journey learn the Syrian way of
guiding and controlling horses which agreed to do
forthwith. We then sat down and had coffee and
| chibouks and while smoked Yusef enlightened me on
oil the points Of Syrian craftsmanship how was to raise
my arms when wanted the horse TO 90 on and hold
them up when wanted him to run, and let them down
when wanted him to stop how was to lean little
the right the left and by the slightest motion of the
bride guide him either way how to lean back
forward in certain and never to rot at ALL that
was most unnatural and barbarous gait, unbecomng
both to horse and rider Upon these and great many
other points descanted learnedy, till the boy arrived
with my hat when paying all actual expenses for coffee
and chibouks distributed small amount of backshish
among the boys who had attended horses and mount
ed once This time under the instructions Of Yusef
learned how to manage Saladin and the ride back
to Beirut was both pleasant and entertaining. JRB.
EfutatQg sTgEt
SHOE AND LEATHER TRADE,--A Boston paper furnishes
the annexed account of the prodgous manufacture of
| boots and shoes IN Massachusetts,
:" In every and city in Massachusetts, the manu-
facture OF boots and shoes is carried considera
BILE extent The statistics of population show that
onetwelfth Of them engaged in this business 1t is
emrhaticaly the leading branch Of industry, the
value of the goods manufactured exceeding by several
millions the value of the cotton goods manufacture or
| the North American, count workmen by hundreds
but by thousands the number employed In the bust
ness being upwards of IS 900 males and females and the
yearly value Of the goods about S25 600 600 II must
also be considered that manufacturers do not limit
their operations to this State They find employment for
thousands of workmen in Maine, New Hampshire, and
Vermont We are aware Of manufactures who alone
employs about three hundred persons in the State Of
Maine, The stock is cut up and forwarded to the
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