New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-11-23
sJugglers In India.

"a party Of jngglers being introduced, the usual
prelimnafies took place, such as swallowing swords
eating fire, and few other tricks, common to every
exhibitor At the provincial fairs in England After
which, Of the men, taking large earthen vessel
with d capacons mouth, filed Ii with water and
turned It upside down. when all the water flowed out;
but the moment it was placed with the mouth upwards
it always became full He then emptied it, allowing
any one to inspect it who chose. This being done,
he desired that one Of the party would fll it; his
request was 0beyed STILL when be reversed the JAR
not drop Of water flowed, and upon turning it, to
our establishment it was empty These and similar
decepti0ns were several times repeated and so skill
fully were they managed that, although any Of us
were allowed to upset the vessel when full, which
did many times, upon reversing 1t there was no
water to be seen, and yet no appearance Of any hav-
empty, but detected nothing which could lead to a
discovery of the mystery. / was allowed to retain
and gil it myself still, upon taking il up all was
void within yet the ground around it was perfectly
'dry--so that how the water had disappeared. and
where it had been conveyed, were problems which
none Of US were able to expound. The vessel en-
ployed by the juggler upon this occasion was the
common earthenware Of the country, very roughly
made and in order to convince us that it had not
been especially constructed for the purpose of aiding
his clever deceptions he permitted it to be broken in
our presence; the fragments were then handed round
for the inspection Of his Highness and the party pre-
sent with him.
The next thing done was still more extraordinary.
ASlarge basket was produced, under which was put
lean, hungry, parish dog After the lapse Of about
minute the basket was removed and she appeared
with litter OF seven puppies. These were again
covered, and upon raising the magic basket goat
was presented to our view this was succeeded by
pig in the full ygor Of existence, but which, after
being covered for the usual time appeared with its
throat cut it was, however, shortly restored to life
under the shade OF the wicker covering. What rem
dered these sudden changes so extraordinary was,
that no one stood near the basket but the j1gger,
who raised and covered the animals with it. When
he concluded there was nothing to be seen under
and what became Of the different animals which had
figured in this singular deception question that
puzzled us all. s.,
A man now took a small bag full of brass balls,
which he threw one by one into the air, to the nun
Der of thirty6ve. None Of them appeared to return
When he had discharged the last there was pause
for minute he then made a variety Of motions
with his hands, at the same time grunting forth
kind Of barbarous chant in few seconds the balls
were seen to fall one by one until the whole of them
were replaced in the bag this was repeated at least
half a dozen times. No one was allowed to come
near him while this interesting jpggle was performed
s gauntlooking Hindoo next stepped forward
and declared he would swallow a snake. Opening
box, he produced cobra di capelo not less than five
feet long, and as thick an infants wrist He Stood
however, apart. at some distance from us, and like
bis predecessor, would not allow any person to ap
proach him, 50 that the deception became no longer
equivocal he then, as il appeared to us, took the
snake and putting the tail into his mouth, gradually
lowered it into his stomach until nothing but the
head appeared to project from between his lips, when,
gusting process of deguttion, and to secure the
odious reptile within his body After the expiration
of few seconds he opened his mouth and gradually
drew forth the snake which he replaced in the box,
making salaam to the Rajah. This was by no means
pleasing sight, but his Highness laughed heartily,
and threw the performer handful Of rupees, thus
clearly showing that his pleasure was no counterfeit
like the juggler's trick.