New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-15
An AMERICAN IN THE EAST
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
KoUTCHOUK kAINARDJE, !

KOUTCHOUK kAINARDJE, I
Bulgaria, April, 1855. I
The Turks rise early in order to pray to the
Prophet; and the CanGs of Iabrim, the Kahn keep
err led to my room by some mysterious agency,
woke me at an esrly hour Tie shouldered my
carpet. bags and followed him to toe Kahn,
where, as he declared, he had been waiting an
hour for my arrival.
O. 1hc delusions of Oriental exsggeration! :
The escort to guard me against the Bashi-Ba-
zouks had windled down to two Turkish soldiers,
of whom one was sick AM another was charged
with large bag of opper p'asters for Turkish
merchant in STEAMBOAT. Tue latter had to be
convey ed hundreds of miles in default of bank
ing system and | looked upon the same as a
capital temptation 10 those who get living by
octiciDg upon tho Creek verb kieP''n
The magnificent horses promised the day before,
which were to equal Arabians, found TO De
wretcbed backs of The vilest Bulgarian blood. l
am confident that taken together they did not ex-
hibit one of the seventy good qualities which, ac-
cordpg to the best Turkish and Arabian Judges,
belong to every good horse. NO magical Wand
conld have converted the creatures OF my lInag-
ndtion into such detestabe hirans They seemed
10 be composed merely of Osseous tissue Win the
organs of respiration all packed tightly In GU
taneous nteeument the solution OF whose CONT
puity revealed here and there the mysterious
workings of the systems within. Baron Mum
chausen would not have entertained for mo-
ment the thought of reaching Narna with
such animals, TO disturb whose stable
equilibrium but single breath of air seemed
necessary. But the ARABIA TO which these promls-
ing steeds were tied-what beautiful word could
express more perfect delusion Not particle
of iron or metal of any kind had been employed in
the construction Of that nonedescrpt roitaTe, good
for nothing but in name. Upon four wooden
wheels which looked exceedingly musical, was
balanced rude box composed OF sticks OIL WOOD,
interviewer with pieces of bark. Bows we're bent
over the top so as to support coarse mat, IN the
shade of which the weary traveller might reposo
according 20 the idea of the architect labrlm
looked upon me with lofty contempt as with sim
gle effort of the hand | produced luxatlon IN
almost every joint of the curious structure.
"Bosh % | shouted into his ears, 8 Turkish word
spnifying all that is worthless, superficial and con-
temptible in things moral, verbal or material L
saw il was OF no use TO rouse up the ianatcal III
lbrsim. was tired of Silistria, and probably not
another ARABIA could be found in the whole city.
"Pskee pekee very good, very good, whispered
the Turkish soldier with the pasters, who, instead
Of drawing his cmtar in order TO force me into
the ARABIA, iDgeniously threw his arms around my
neck and besought me to go. Under the clrcum-
stances meekly inquired of brain how long 1t
might take 10 reach Narna by such conveyance
as the one before me- His answer gave me a
clearer comprehension Of the Mussuman charac-
ter, than medcating a whole regiment of the
MAN, or p0Iing for months over the pethOric
tones Of Won hammer Drawing himself up 70
his full hight, and Selling with one hand his
magnificent beard, he almost shouted am
" not Allah! how should comprehend time and
distancel 2" and meekly added, there is bat one
ID E.la al med 4. 40, hatff
which cuts the Gordan knot OF all Ottoman diihcul
ties We started the very dogs barked at US until
they lost the power of uterauce, and vailed women
looked upon the departing HOwadji as If he had
been Mszeppa dashed upon wild steed of the
Ukraine. / could only wonder whether the swk-
ward, waddling bundles of clothes before me
yeloped the bushes of sweet seventeen or the
frowns and wrinkles of hundred Winters. We
passed through the southern gate of Silistria and
fook the road which winds up the rayine between
Arab 1abia and the Mediidie. Looking back, |
bade fnnl sdeu to Old Danublus, the one great
river of Europe, who receives hundred trlou-
tsries snd along whose banks are clustered a
hundred nstions. The days OF NymPhs and Naisas
are past but the mighty rivers have soul ana ell
oouepce Of their own. ike the hoary temples,
ecboing beck the voices Of ages and the eserias1-
ing mount sins the silent orators OF God. L nave
always had passion for pressing my lips to tue
bosom of great rivers. Thus have drank OF the
waters Of the Thames the Rhine, the RhOne and
the Danube, and thus hope 70 driak of the Nile,
the Jordan, Of Ilissus and the Gauges. It was
along the Danube that | had enjoyed the most
magnificent scenery Of Europe hsd there be-
come acquainted with all the beautiful features OF
German socisl life aud there learned 70 honor
Hungarian virtue and iOv? of liberty.
Amid the strata Of expiring civilizations, l
had seen much which carried the mind back
to the time when the tramp OF Roman le-
Mons was heard along the Danube, ard Roman
HE tbrobbed IN the busy camps and cities Of the
lister, now long given up to desolstOn aud solitude
Even in those distant regions The victorious Eagles
lift the impress Of civilization, for. as Pompey