Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-09
THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.


given up our keys, in one Of the ' hite washed eel.
lars IN the basement of a building on the Lyt'S.
katd Ad0e3endid or English Quay, and when those
%othcials proceed to the examination of our luggage
Either they bad read Mr.. Letch R;tcie's lile Of
Schinderhannes, or they had an iutuitive percep-
lion OF the modus dgend, Of the Robbers Of the
Rhine, or they had some Masonic sympathy with
the Partisan police agents for such q turning up
OF boxes and turning out of their contents, and
mixture Of their severalities. pell.mell, h~iggeldy-
piggeldy, helter-skelter, jerry cum. tumble, butter
upon bacon, topsy'turvy, muck, mess and middle,
| never saw in my life. There was q villainous
douanier, who held a bandbox under one arm. ard
seemed desirous of emulating the popular hat,
trick OF Herr Dobler for he kept up a continual
cascade Of gloves, collars, eau-de. Cologne bottles,
combs, hair.brushes. guide. books, pincushions and
lace cuffs. till | turned to look for the accomplice
who was supplying him with fresh bandboxes, Now
:he custom'house officers Of every nation | have
yet travelled through, have a different manner oil
Examining your luggage. Your crusty, phlegmat-
10 biIgllshmnn turns over each article separately
but carefully. Your stupid Belgian rummages
your trunk, as ii lie were trying to catch n lizard
your courteous Frenchman either lightly and
gracefully turns up your fine linen, as though he
were making q lobster salad, or-much more IRE.
quently--if you tell him you have nothing to de
clare ana are polite to him, just peeps into one cor
ncr OF your portmanteau, an says, CeSt dsSez !
Nour contentious German pOnders deeply over
your trunk, pokes his fat forefinger into the bosom OF
your dress shirt. and motions you to shut it again.
But none Of these eculiarities had the Russians.
They had a way of their own. They twisted,
they tousted, hey turned over, they held writing
cases open. bottom upwards, and shook out the
manuscript contents, like snow.Aakes. They held
up coats and shirts, examined them like pawn
: brokers. They fingered ladies' dresses like Jew
clothesmen. They punched hats, and looked into
their Innings passed Cashmere slawls from one
to the other for inspection opened letters, and
tried m road THAR rOntantg (nnsidc dawn drew
silk stockings over their arms held boots by the
toes, and shook them ; opened bottles. and closed
g them again with the wrong cOrks LETT the impress
t of their dirty hands upon clean linen and virgin
e writing papers; crammed ladies under garments
into gentlemen's carpet bags forced n boot.jack in,
/ to the little French actresses rccticule, dropped
n things under foot. trod on them, tore them, and
n aughed split enu-de, Cologne, creased silk with pc
t matum. forced hinges. sprained locks, ruined
springs, broke cigars, rumplej muslin, and RAISED
a cloud of puff powder and dentritce, all this wa
done perhaps not wantonly, perhaps only in igno
rant savagery but, with such a reckless want o
d the commonest care with such a hideous vicarm'
$ of shouting screaming, trampling, and plunging
that the only light l could view the scene in--Ge
sides the Schinderhannes one-was in the imprOb
Y able event of Mr.. and Mrs. Keely travelling throug'
the!country of the Patagonians,t fall into a giganti
ambuscade, and having their theatrical wardrob
overhauled by these overgrown savagcs.
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There was a gentleman on board, of the IIsbre1
n persuasion-a very different gentleman, however
from my genial friend from Posen, or from tn
lie merchant in cat-skins at Stettin-whO had 5rOugh
10 with him-of all merchandise in the world n cor
signment of three hundred canary birds, Thes
little songsters hal been built up into quite a ca.
tie of cages, open at all four sides the matches c
hold had been left open during the voyage and
was very strange and pastoral 20 hear them execut
their silvery roulades in the beautiful May even
ing. and to see the Hebrew gentleman he wore
white bat, q yellow waistcoat, { drab coat, light
gray trousers and buff slippers, and, with hi
somewhat jaundiced complexion, looked not ur
like a canary bird himself, go down the ladde
into the hold to feed his choristers and convers
with them in a cheerful and friendly manner
But he was in n pitiable state Of tribulation frs
I ly, because he had Harmed that the customs dutie
on singing birds in Russia were enormous, ant
secondly because he had been told that the Jew
were not suffered to enter St. Petersburg. Ii
turned his coat-colar up. and pulled his hat owe
bis eyes with a desperate effort to make himse
look like n Christian but be only succeeded i
trnversitying, not in Disgusting, himself; fc
whereas, he7had looked a frank. open Jew, say
like Judas Maccabens be, now, with his cove
ing an furtive mein, looked unspeakably like j,
das IScari1t. lie was sorely annoyed, too, at tn
proceedings of one of the policemen, who havin
probably never seen n canary bird before, and in
agining it to be a species of wild beast of a dimir
utire size, was performing the feat of stirring it u
with a long pole, by means OF a tobacco pip
poked between the wires Of one of the cages, an
was apparently much surprised that the little CT
nary declined singing under that treatment. Blu
courage, my Hebrew friend you have brougl
your birds to a fine market, even if you have
pay fifty per cent. ad raIo,em duty on them. Fo
be it known, a canary sells for twenty five silvt
rubles in Russia-for nearly four pounds and
for a parrot, | have heard of one and two hundre
rubles being given one that could speak French.
A NEW SONG,