The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-11-10
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THIl DISPATCH.


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rverv one has seen or heard speak .. aae e,,
80. .,n,Aln lnsides beiog the prince OF COLI
ssrars he ia an able mathematician ANU us. =.
Si.n and his electric clock. snsae '' ,s ,,asi
Nile of his native town OF niois, .sssII,. = ,s,
a, the paris exhibition. IL u hot A"W"
~ -. - .as ..ot 10 Algeria by the trehch uoNefh-
sweat on A mission connected Win ehe eiaeN a'e-
.ar,I,ahix the frat time that coi1uret ms beeh
p,'ss anon TO exercise his profession ia govern
-, .,nn,ny Some details of his expedition have
trr t,,en uublisaed It's object was To destroy the
ioaueece exercised among the Arab tribes by The
m.fab,nts~-au iatiaenee often niischievousIy ap-
plied By few eiansy tricks and impostnres,
ia.se n,ar.ooGts pass themselves OF as sOrcefets'
no one il was justly thought, was better aoletfo
eclipse their skill aud discre,iit their science '"'
the nian of tuexhaastible bottles. -,
Was 70 iayuinrcabiliIy. At the moment ths ma !"
loaded n,uskrt AIRED at him, and the uisB"i -
he pronounced few caoaistle wofds, an" III "a
rN,ti did NO, go off Houdin detec'ea tno Vi 81
showed that the touch h0ie vas pI n,S rrench
Arab wizard was furious and sous 1w ",S ra
rival I. You may revenge yonrsei,, qHteis
80 1o,Si,,, take a PISTOL load ~ your se'i'
here are bullets, put one III t'le "S'' s'' ""'
doing 81, mark t With your Au'''' .x, ~. o,i,e
lfp Arab did IS he WAS '"i"- y. ,s.,iI =,
80, ~ said Hondin, "that the pistol Is
loa1 ana will 20 eff, Ieii me, DO you ieei NO ~
u,srxa IN atii,g nae thus notwithstanding ma
-, - Van. You are my enemy" cooiiy re-
-. IN. If,n i viii xiii yon' Without reps-
L., i, .a,iiH siueA apple on Tue point OF KIM
All eslrlly -Sve the word - hf"' ih' Pls'"l was
a,.eas .ei th- apple new tar away, and there alr
p,nsi .n is p,ace stack on tae point ei tue hhi''
The bullet the mai about hai MARKED
.rl,. .n,ctat. q emained mute for stupe'acto on;
the ,narabsu, bowed before his superior :--"A""n
is area,,'' he said, Il am vanquished lhste"'
of the b,ttle from which, In Europe, ROBERT ii IT,
din pours AN endless stream OF every description
IF xine and LIQUOR, he called Tor an empty now
which he kept continually fall oil boiling Gomez.
hat fay Of the Arabs would taste II, Tor tey "aut
IL N Z.
"a ,,nt He then told them that II was IA
mar IN dsorive tn IA of all strength, aud TO Ec-
store it Ia them will and he prodneed "a shl'ii
bx so isht that child could liz II win its nh-
ger; bur il suddenly became SO hfaN9 'nS, !pr
srrons est man present could not raise 1t, and /
ANS wh,rprtLe physical strength above every
thin, looked with terror al the great magician
win, they doubted not, could anhihiiate tneIn Uy
the mere exertion 4 his will.
Tnry expressed this belief; Houdia conhrmci
them in H. and promised that, on IA day appointed
hs would convert one Of them into smoke. II 9
dav came. the tlnOug was most pr"dg0us; lanai
Zeal niarabJut hai agreed 10 give himself up 10
tina .orcerer. They made MIN stand upon table
and covered him with "A Transparent gauZt; then
Hoaien and another person lifted the table by the
two ends, aud the Arr disappeared In cloud l
sm ,ke. rhe terror # the So 'ctat'rS was lndescr-
baol,; they ru Nhed out of the place ana ran lpiS
,uce -fJrs some OF the hOiest thought OF IT
IN az n loln after the marabout.
uav f,upd him near the pl zee where he had
been evaporatel; hut he COULD tell them nothing,
ard was like Il drunken man, ignorant OF what had
b ,npened IN him. ThencefoTwdrd Houdin was We
nerlted and the narabouts despised; the object of
the French ,yerament was completely attained.
TIE fashion of Testimonials" having, it appears,
isf cted even the Arabs a number of chiefs pre-
suited the French coujuror with piece of Arab
wri lug wonderfully decorated, hypothetical aid
e.to.l+tic and TO which they were 80 attentive as
[ sTpend French Translation. Besides this me-
moral Of his Algerins trip Honda has rosary
which he on. lay borrowed from an Arab to per-
form trick with. aud which the owner. persuaded
that sneitau in person was before hiaI, refused 20
receive back-IImeS Paris Cor.