Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-26

rusve or inquisitiye when they can afford to abstain
anu 80 Two innocent people recine within inch and
nan Of each other, and, threading crowded bazaars
pour SOFT nohings into other ears in all the sacred
secusion Of harem. 1t is pleasant TO travel thus
Inc ghare Is small close carriage resembling those
In use by physicians in this country 1t is mounted on
low wheels and four persons not yery uncomfora
bly, Many Of them neat, and no hackney vehicles
can be more convenient They drawn by small Bur-
mese poneys-ough, sureooted quick beasts and end
less bottoms" The driver who IS attired in the cos
tune of the Palkewaas is seated but runs be-
side his horse whatever the distance There is nothing
especially noticeable about him. except his varcose veins
of which he proud and his long wind Of which he h
prouder On the present occasion one of these latter
gentry seized the writer and his friend the strength
of service rendered previous OCCASION and thrust
them bodily into his box. AS rode past the timber
yards stopped to regard an elephant who was
hauling huge logs of teak cut for spars and piles from
one end Of the yard to the other where he piled them
The ends of huge chain cable grded about his bury
body made fast TO the end Of the log and the
word from his driver, Who perched upon his neck was
digging into his skull with sharp stick shaped like
hook he dragged it leisurey enough the spot in
dicated There the chain was unlocked and,
by command of the brute his head, he raised the
huge beam cautiously end at time, and deposited
1t in its place the lazy poems meanwhile sitting down to
rest Wise and gentle and forbearing beast
How kind it was of him
To mind such slender they,
lie OF the mighty limb"
His must have been the SOUL and ne more worthy Of
the saving Offices of missionary than his stod
Whilst thus pursuing his ponderous TOLL the Phlegehon
by let off steam, and the shril unwonted
reached his guta percha lie paused his task
and listened for moment all amazed Then he raised
his trunk aoft and uttered exclamation of astonish
ment, like the Indian "ugh" Anon he turned his little
brisk eyes about seeming seek Daniel who could
interpret the warning his dismayed soul for ,ras
warning of heavy import to him and all his free fellows
in the Jungle and could have prayed for the gift of
tongues that might speak elephant him. and tell
him. in accents forlorner than Cassandras all the dark
prophecy Of steam and teegraphs of desoaton in his
rice fields and mental Offices imposed upon his Calves
Presently he resumed his task longer with his wonted
deiberateness and selfpossesson but with strange
agitation in his soul and wild eye big with
speculation. But he uttered not word.
Moulmein is picturesque place; but all Bur-
villages and in their prominent features they all
alike Select easy rolling slope of knobs and tangled
hickets, gently declining from range of heavily timber
ed hills Flank it either side with interminabe jungle,
afordng secure cover for tigers wolves boaconstrctors
and ackas In front of all train wide, rapid, darky
discoored stream, abundanty stocked with alligators
wateroxen and other such shy game and fill up your
back ground with teakforests and remote mountains,
with here and there paddy feld* between which
shall pasture your wild elephants Cover your ground
with creepers cacuses. and brambes, and various
pcal vegetation in wilderness of profusion In among
these plant your native bamboo huts thcky as you
cas-, and with picturesque freedom of disorders you
will remember that is in Burmah you are, not in Anne
RIGA England consequently you will fit your houses
your trees, not your park to your mansion that,
with eye to future ns you will contrive preserve
convenient proximity to some indispensable guavas,
plantains, and mangoes. You will require three
one which shall be the street of shops running through
the heart of the in the direction of its length In
the busiest part of this thoroughfare you viii require
substantial structures, built Of sort Of half
burnt brick and occupied by Jew and Armenian shop
keepers who traffic in every thing and stick at nothing
Dark and secret the domestic quarters of these dens
suggesting Turkish shadows of eunuchs and sacks and
strings though in awhile the low gigge of
hidden Hagar OF seventeen drops into the strangers
from between the jealous bars of her lattice he catches
glimpse of the heavenly profile of some hafcaste Ar
menian maiden, (such Maddkeen y she
lights her fathers hookah in the backshop Your second
street in Importance will be the street of CHANTS extending
from the environments to the custom-house wharf, and
your last will penetrate the environments themselves.
In American settlement the first public building
erected is always the land-ofice. In Burmah Cat an
English military post) it is first American Baptist
schoo-house, which, Americanike looks to q
sion of improvements, and consequently is fimsiy
struced Of bamboos and differs only from other buildings
in its dimensions The second is the companys custom
house, which, Britshike is fixed, irrevocabe fact,
and not to be re-considered consequently it is sub
santal structure bricks and the beginning
For public buildings and places of popular you
have the environments and barracks where if your
military, you inspect some thousands of red
coated sepoys aud every morning by the sunrsegun
from three to five regiments severely drilled II your
tendencies religious you have the English church,
and the Catholic chapel, and the baptist meeting house
your tastes mechanical you have the
and the docks, and perhaps aship-yard. If they are
geological there stuffed tigers in the barracks and the
elephant who is otng for the artillery stables will
pick up cigar make saaam for you for planain or
two. Besides there is live alligator in the school tank
surgeon StuHS brdS and impaleS
butterflies You may visit the old poonghee houses and
the IDOLS attend parade Wednesday aud Friday
afternoons to hear opera airs from the "1Sth Royal
Irish or some other regmenta band, aud idolze the
girls For society you have the wives and sisters and
daughters and cousins of the British Indian army with
occasional sheadvenurer who is tolerance in
cety and the most agreeable person it, long you
pay her sufficient attention and do not inquire who her
father was, which would imply that she is wiser
child than you will find her. For amusements you
have public days, dinners at the commissioners an
occasional ball 50, private theatricals aJauz
pvGns, charades &C., plenty VI soree and tea at the
mission" Then there elephant excursions to the
caves (Which not wholly incidentless and shall be-
infinitely described soon and an abundance of pic-ncs
which like other mics all the world save that
you ride to them elephants and take guns keep Off
the tigers
Now, to complete your Burmese village on every hill
top, every lofty peak that overlooks your town. let
small white pagoda be SEEM perchcd like beautiful
but lonely bird Crown each of these delicate aerial e
fees with coronet Of tiny gded bells, which shall utter
the melowest music to passing breeze and salute
with silver nkngs the agrantncense which ascends to
visit them from many otos laden lake and panain grove
And you have Moulmen, where the writer must be
permitted TO linger yet little while for there il still
story to be told Of steam and elephants
Fields Of wild rice.
ed with general cargo among which fewer than
four hundred barrels of powder and the circumstance of
such ship taking passengers has attracted considerable
notice. She sailed from London the st of last April
aud succeeded in reaching by the 18th Of June lat 1870 20