The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-31
We acknowledge recent of the advance sheets of


quite as great as that which greeted and still greets
''Up and Down the Irrawaddi" The scene of
the "New" is California in "the torty-nine," and of
the "Od'-India, subsequently. The chapters of
the New are "Introductory," "The fate of the
Farleighs" "The old Adobe" ''Pintal," ''The
Green Cloth" s'Mr. Karl Joseph Kraft" cover
the Pahri." The Old embraces "Mamoul," ga
Tifn of Talk" "Child Life by the Ganges," "Asir-
vadam, the Brahmin," "The Baboo's Nautch"
and "The Aduants Grave" We make space for
two passages-no not selections in any sense of prefer
ence, for better are left
'The Green Cloth from "The Newly
In the Bella Union, the California Exchange
aristocratcally pitched on the Plaza, the STYLE of
conversation across the green cloth, in cases of
difficulty" was different, being debonair,
not so broad
ga moment, if you please" quietly remarks an
almost beardless desperate, covering his pile with
a firm hand, and fixing dangerous eyes on the bury
dealer of monte whom he addresses-''Y on can stop
! there"
"Well, sir ?"
cards."
81 believe not. Pll take your pile, if you please;
the kerwaiyo takes it."
f"Two carGsp
| "Your moneyv
Andin each case the words are accompanied bv a
quick but quiet movement which discloses a revol-
yer. With the appearance of these two new dis
putants-polished, curt Of brief but sbarp am,
downright speech-there is quick but fussless stir
among the spectators around the table. In mo-
ment clear space is formed, in the midst of a still
circle OF flashing eyes, compressed lips, and clench
ed hands. You may count twenty, deliberately
ere you hear breath drawn, see the slightest
movement.
DWELL, sir?"
"Wellw
"Your monevp
"Your cards!''
Up steps observation-disclosures cool, steady veter-
an, expert in the game, and versed in the law of
difficulties man of awful nerve, whose tym-
panum, accustomed to'the crack, no pistol-shot
alarms
"Gentlemen," says he, ''try arbitration first"
Another quick exchange of inquirng and res
ponslve glances between the disputants. Not a
word; but the ewes of each plainly saw Agreed -
Both throw themselves back in their chairs. and
withdraw their hands from the table. with the air
OF men inviting examination, and resolute to abide
| the result. The veteran calls up two Brothers of
the Green Cloth, competent to act as umpires; and
| three minutes, fraught with mortal danger, are
passed in deliberately counting the cards they
lie on the cloth, and naming them slowly-like the
tolling of bell, or the measured pronunciation of
death sentence Except that, there has been no
noise but the simultaneous clicking of two pistol
locks The dealer and his young Wis avis seem
ingly strangely unconcerned for the event.
"Iou are wrong, my friend, says Veteran; "no
double card was drawn here Mistakes will hap
pen to the most careful gentlemen "
From that decision there is no appeal. His fin
ger on the trigger after that, would have cost the
young fellow his life. So pistols go back to their
sleePing-places hands are shaken across the table,
drinks for the company, at the expense of the
"bucker"-as ne who play against the bank is call
ed; and the game proceeds with better under
standing.
Had the result of the examination been other
wise a man two would have been killed pres
emily"
uchua cha c,,,.o,,, lsror, serho o,a -,
~ W 'n' 'Anse' N"0 Ou
Many and grievous periis do enSiron naoy-ite by
the Ganges-perlis by arg nurses, penis by wolves,
erils by crocodiles perils by the Evil Eye perils
by kidnappers, perlls by copras, periis oy devils.
GU are nvlns at one OF tne up country STATIONS,
where Ihe 'reer ar OF tne jungle 'pa9ls 10 paoes
anu sucKhhgs Voracious appetite' Desiaes your
own dnye' Drought from Csicutta, there is not
another wet-nurse to be had, for love or money
Immediately Dhye strikes for higher wages The
Baba Sahib she saws has defled her rice; yester-
day he put his foot into her curry; to-day he wash
es the monkeys tail in her consecrated lotah-
What shall she do? she has lost caste; the presents
her, will consume ali her earnings from the BEGIN
ming. Gu.reeJ- perauan o munificent and merciful!
what shall she do? She strikes Cor higher wages.
But you are hard-hearted and hard-headed;you will
not pay-by Gunga, not another pice bv Latch
NEE, not one cowry more! Oh then she will leave;
with heavy heart she will turn her back on the
blessed baby; sh" will pour dust upon her head be
fore the Mem Sahib, at whose door her disgrace
| snail lie, ana SDe VIII return 10 ner klndreu NOT
| she! the durwan, grim and incorruptible, has his
orders; she cannot pass the gate. Ohio! then i'm
mediately she dries up; no 'fount," and Baby fam
ishing. You try ASS milk; it does not agree with
| Baby; besides, it costs a rupee pint You try
goat; she does not agree with Baby, for she butts
mn tremendously, ana, ieap1ng over MS PROSTATE
body, scampers like Leigh Hunts pig in Smithfeld
| Market, up all manner of hgurative streets. Then
you S send r"r D Wi ana say MIX or l shave
the "fountn ainI-Rabv 10 saved ~ LII '''''
! What was, then, the conjuration and the mighty
magic? In the folds of her saree the dhye conceals
&C., VI 1e indiah essamlne roofs oil
bell and hungry Babv STRUGGLING for Tho e.fonnt ,,
is nsulted with apples of Sodom; she swallows a
portion OF dhallapee and he is RECALLED as with the
Soms fine off a ", ~vy, no,r noh taboo
Johnny to stroll by the rivers bankNto watch tbe
green bndgerows, as they glide, pulled by singing
to Patna,o watch ,ba hrovn nerssas are ahe up
silently do from Benares. At night the ayah
returns, wFinglng her bands. Where is your mer-
asl The a7ii snr;tsi q Sab;h oo crr nntn 60, 20
go accuse the greedy river, and say to the envi-
Gus waters, "Give back my boy!" She had left
him sitting a stone, she says counting the sail
ing corpses, while she went to find blue-ay's nest
among the rocks when she returned to the stone
snatched him away? He that skipped and hum
! med. like a sippinp-top. where is he gone?" A
| month after that. your dandees CAPTURE a crocko-
die, and from his heather nav recover familiar
coral necklace with an inscription on the clasp
.To Johnny, on his birth ay." A pair of little
silver bangles, whose iocund ngling had once
| been bappy household music to some poor Hindoo
mother, have kept the necklace company"
n, ~, -, oo "
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