Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-05

rors, the pictures, the vases, Of the boulevards OF
Paris. Squeeze yourself into one of the perambu
lating cotins called palanquins, and suffer yourself
to BIO borne and josiled through the Burrn BAZAAR,
"Copitollab," or, "~Raheemoody Gulley," and 10
you feel that Cairo lives, and moves, and has its
being about you. In the most fashionable quarter
of the city-Chowringhee, the Belgravia OF Cat'
Icutta-you find African huts, and Caireen bazaars,
Iiostling London mansions, and Partisan hotels.-
England supplies this metropolis of the East with
coal, and steam with shipping, and warehouses.
France supplies the dim street-lainps, the a%queduct
the luxury, the gaiety. Cairo contributes the noise
and hustle, and dirt, Timbuctoo waters the high.
ways and byways with the fostering stream of the
Hooghly, squirted, dark and loathesome from pigs
skins slung across human backs.
This blending Of nationalities may be found in
TIE institutions of the land, not less than in its edi-
fees, and in its daily life. Europe imparts vitah'
ty to the Chamber of Commerce, he Press. the
superior court. Cairo tinctures, with its eifecte
despotism, the proceedings of tho municipal com
missioners, and the legislative council. u minence
a correspondence with the supreme governmental and
you find yourself in close contact with red tape,
reeking with tho caterpillar dye of the Timbuctoo
Downing Street. Institute proceedings in the
Company's Sudder Court, and behold 1t presided
over by judges possessing the sagacity, the SOUND
ness, the integrity, the industry, of Timbnctoo
LAWYERS. Examine the Company's colleges, and
you find their chair filed by professors, and the
department presided over by men who have tax
en- exceedingly high honours at Timbuctoo; the
tree OF knONieuBe tueTelu CultlNtlcu, a. OSo'
transplanted from the Great Desert of Sahara the
learning, the order, the wisdom, the utility, and
above all, the cost, are deeply imSued with the
spirit of Timbuctoo,
If we could weed out the Cairo and Timbuctoo
thorns and thistles, Calcutta might become n gard
en- of pretty palaces. A good fire on u very windy
day, might answer the purpose in some respects.
But we must, for our present. purpose, take 1t and
describe it as existing in the year eighteen humid
red and ffty-seven.
hftn, N 1,pr oro ro Gil or ,,,o.rn ar1 so
ninety miles of dull uninteresting river navigation
the traveller greets every novelty with the warm.
est admiration, Shady creeks become picturesque
bays. A clump Of stunted trees are converted
into a magnificent tope or grove. A knot Of mud
huts are looked upon as model villages, singularly
picturesque. A bungalow of larger dimensions anc
more than ordinary ~refulgert green and white. be
comes a palace. The Bishops College, with am plt
lawns and pretty landing the Botanical Gardens
with towering trees and shady walks and thei
the Mildaun-the Hyde Park of Calcutta-bound
ed on one side by tho river full of shipping, an'
on the others by lofty mansions and gigantic palm
all these cannot but strike the new conner will
some admiration. He must be, indeed most diff
cult to please, who can look on this, and remalI
Indifferent to it.
Take your way along the we'll watered carriag
drive which skirts the Midaun, ON any fair Novem
Der evening, and you will find the City of Palace
on horseback, lolling in carriages, or lounging Il
gigs. enjoying the cool crisp air after the hot glar
VI % OliS 10y OhS Ah'3HN iNNy
Row-so many and gay are the equipaSes-wer
it not for the admixture of races. The haught,
civilian, stiff with the pride Of the covenanted ser
vice-the white mans high caste-is jOstled b.
the laughter Baboo, reclining on velvet cushions
and glistening with gold and jowelry. The prince
ly merchant is followed by the country-5orn clerl
in his humble gig. The general scowls upon thu
wealthy English shopkeeper, who dashes past hi
military dignity, only to sneer at the rich Armeni
an dealer driving his grey Arabs at the top of thei
speed to the anger and terror Of the "covenanted'
ladies. In ten minutes you may behold on tn
Calcutta Midaun more gaiety, more pride of plac
more intolerant barbarism, than in any dozen cor
sos and boulevards, or in any score of Timbuctoos
Had the palatial city been emptied out like
sack, it could scarcely have worn u more quiet AM
forsaken air than it does at the sultrv hour OF moo
day in its most fashionable quarters, say on an
es. day in April. 1t might, for any visible signs
life about Chowringhee, be the city we read of
'nu the Arabian Nights every inhabitant of whic
was changed into stone. the granite masses mu
have been removed by the muicipal commissioner
for, in street, or road, Or gateway, there is nothin
but binding sunshine and scorchiDg, choking du
The crows and hawks, though accustomed
warmish weather, and seldom very particular
in their habits, have retired for the day dead bet
en- by the sultry oppression of the hour. One o
ly one huge billed adjutant, rem aims to brave Il
terrible heat:perchcd aloft on the stone dome of Il
Governor Generals palace, it stands erectstif, al
unyielding as if inst cad of an adj utant, the mo
ster bird had been q common soldier, ordered to d
at his post, and infexibly determined to do so.
Sleep-hot and exhaustive-has set its seal upt
the major part of the City of Palaces. 1t mig
be midnight, with the sun shinining down upC
the hushed streets instead of the moon, so still
everything. Timbuctoo dozes in the Presiden'
and Engineering Colleges. Cairo sleeps sound
in the Bazaar and the 'Baboo's courtyard. Pa
and Timbuctoo slumber heavily in the darkent
rooms, and shaded vestibules of Park Street al
Theater Road. From the Member Of Council
his dOwny couch, to the swathy Syce in the stab
from the pailid mother and infant shut in from t
light of the day, to the stalwart Durwahu at t
gate; all ara buried in midday sleep. The unf
ished letter on the table, the toys upon the foo
the open novel on the couch, the empty clar
case. the neglected barrel near the Durwah,
lcdge-whereon those spruce guardians of the sr
are wont for ten hours in the twelve to trim tn,
sable whiskers, and twirl their ga unit moustach
these and others tell how completely the temp
ature of monday in the hot season of Calcu'
|overpowers the faculties of mankind.
You are stiA6gazinS upon the closed window
the shaded doors, and wondering how a fly or
ray of light could steal into one, these heat-bar
caded mansions, when you hear a %rumbling moi
= in the distance, proceeding from the northwest.
1t may be thunder it may the explosion Of sol
powder-magazine, or steam boiler for being
- Griffin. you know nothing of Nor'-westers duri
the hot season, nothing of their fury and their
structiveness. Whilst you are turning the eau
over in your mind, and in less time than | can
scribe it, the sky becomes overcast, the distf
Iere Irumbling noise approaches, and sounds rush do
lly, upon you like a thousand wagons booming a
Gathering over an iron bridge. The whirlwind
,wd upon you; you stagger against q wall or cling
the safety to an iron railing, and ind yourself shrot
Igs, ed in a vast winding sheet of brick red dust. I
'ev- dust cloud rises like a mighty sea surging o,
to breakers it covers and hides everything. Loo
ern ing across the Midaun, from the corner of Che
of ringhee, you see nothing of The cathedral, save t
ler- small cross on Its topmost pinnacle, looking like
ave lone star amidst the blood-red cloud and the Gle
sky above. The Governor-G Generals palace is al
the developed in one mighty rolling dust storm viii
and has swallowed all it's ~grardenr and it's beauty sa
1t the round dome on its summit; which is still gisil
/; Of like a little globe floating on o sea OF tempest. I
|, it bold adjutant struggles with Tapping wings a
ON outstreiched neck, to keep his footing against t
by. raging wbirlwind but in vain. The wagons da
The over the iron bridge more madly than ever, the S