Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-10

AiS 10 uhty III HIS PERSON anu udDflS, DuJ MOI
untidy or slovenly, for lie seems always on
parade. God only knows what thoughts pass
through his mind, for he never utters any.
He appears profoundly impressed with his own
insignlticance aud inferiOrity to every one
who wears good coat, and he bows down alb
jectly before bit of gold lace and sword,
whoever wears them. He has no solderly
love of pleasure. He loves drink indeed, and
he will sit silently soaking raw spirits as long
as he can get them. but the liquor has no
Frightening effect on him. He is as impassive
in his cups as when sober. He may drink
himself blind, deaf, speeches., motionless but
he cannot drink himself gay. 1t an officer
told him TO walk down a precipice, or drink
glass OF speedy poison, the idea of remon-
STRANGE or disobedience would never occur to
him. He would do either as merely part of
his allotted task in lite-the object for which
he was boSn.
HIS BELIEF
He has been told that French and English
are impious hereticS, a sort of plausible devils
III human shape; he believes it devoutly for
he has nc, reasoning powers, no opinions. lie
believes that he will incur divine wrath by
holding communion with them that they will
poison him if he eats their food; that they
will torture instead of healing him, if lie is
wounded; that their medicines are death in
disguise, their benefits mockery, their kind
ness device of the evil one. He does not
think these things distinctly, and one after the
other; but oh is the general confused i'm.
preston on his AFFECT mind. His clothes are
i'll mae and scanty they are SO Thin that they
seem all outside; broad white band is sung
over his right shoulder and descends to his
left hip; this sustains his sword-it is not a
very good one. The mass OF the Russian ar
my are of course badly armed, from the or.
ganized system of peculation which prevails
in every department. Indeed the Russian
soldier has perhaps never had a full meal of
wholesome food even in his lifetime He was
robbed before he was born, like his father be.
tore him, and he has been robbed ever since.
First by tie baron and disponet; since, by
every one who has had to do with him. In
the army he has had to digest the last subj
mated essence of robbery tor in Russia the
commander in-ehlef robs the generals, and the
generals, after their degree, rob the colonies,
and the colonies rob the MAJORS and the ma.
Jors rob the captains, and the captains rob the
leutenants, but all rob the soldier together.
Russia presents, perhaps, the only example in
history Of country governed by military
despoIism, and in which the soldiers have been
successfully kept in the same state of slavery
as the rest of the community.
THE BAsHI.BAzoUK.
The Turkish partisan captain is a dark
brown, Withholding fellow, in golden clothes,
a modern captain OF free company His
arms are wonder of expensive uselessness.
The settings of his pistols are perhaps solid
gold or silver gilt, inlaid with precious stones,
but their barrels were probably made by some
clumsy Greek armorer during the war of in
dependence; their locks are On the old flint
and steel principle, and bad of their kind vet
the treacherous flint is, of course, fixed in a
silver holder, and the worthless lock has very
likely humping turquoise stuck rudely on
it, The fellow is a barbarian, and looks
like it. He is tawdry, loose, and dirty be.
yond belief. He is fierce, selfish and greedy,
to an equal degree. He is clumsy and awk-
ward. His gorgeous clothes seem to be thrown
on, rather than put on, and his apparel pre-.
SCENTS the same odd contrast as his mind.
HIS COUNTRY AND HIS CLOTHES.
frof tfee HEARS Snles ItaEiaEay eoqatrXi7,
from Syria or where not, 81 that he does not
comply with the modern fashion of the Turks
at Gonstantinople, and cover his head merely
with a red cap but he twines an immense
shawl in picturesque folds round and round
it, till lie looks when sitting down like gigan
tic mushroom. 1t may be said that the shawl
thus apparently misapplied is worth almost as
much, intrinsically, as the useless pistols, but
it is incredibly s0iled and dirty, and twisted
and tangled. The rest of lie Bashi Bauz0uks
dress is contrived, probably, for reasons equal
ly prudent, if one could get to the bottom of
them. An immense sash of thick silk is
wound many times round his lons, and again
above it is girded broad, thick, red leather
belt, with pockets and recepaces Tor arms.
This makes a capital support for man who
sometimes passes twenty hours on horseback,
at time, and who never saw a chair with
back to it,
HIS ARMS
His pistols and silver-sheathed sword las
splendid and untrustworthy as the pistols) are
stuck out so tar, both before and behind, that
he could hardly wear u long coal, or button
even a short one. His waistcoat therefore, is
one dirty blaze of bad embroidery i'll front,
and he has also embroidered sleeves to il;
while his jacket is made something on the
princp pie OF hussars, save that it covers both
sh0ulders-that is to say, the large, open, fam
tastic sleeves hang down behind, like tanci.
fui pair of golden wings.
HIS LEGS.
His breeches are also embroidered, and
they appear, al first sight, too short for they
fasten tar above the knee, and leave the hinges
OF The leg as free as Higllandrr's, and prob
ably for the same reason. A man had better
not confne or cramp his knees who is always
scrambling up aud down mountains, and VINO
must be always ready for a dashlng leap
across SOufc rIOm COHl-
mencement OF the call Of the leg down to the
auke, the limb is bandaged as tightly as
strength can baudage it. Ii is bandaged till
the leg becomes as hard. as shapeess, and al
most as thin as brOomStick Over the ban
dages he wears leggings OF the same eternal
gold tinse, confined by long, gay, Haunting
carriers OF scarlet silk. Ii shoes are curious
ly old and foul he kicks them of, Therefore,
at every opportunity, and curls his knees un.
der him.
HIS IDEAS OF DUTY"
He is a curious study, but he does not i'm
prove on acquaintance. He has none Of the
virtues or vices OF soldier. He avoids fight
ing whenever it is possible, and will think it
an extremely proper thing 10 decamp on the
approach OF danger. His lea OF the duties
OF the military profession is firing telon shot
with long, rusty gun, from rock on the sea
coast, or tree by the wayside. His glory is
to surprise and butcher the deenselass as
they wind through some lonely mountain
| GORGE to torture his prisoners Tor sport;
to rob his friends adroitly. He is mere
| marauder, bandit, rutfian. His savage
heart would make monster OF him, II
it were not so often palsied by bastard
| fear. His love of money is a passion he
clutches it with rapacity, and hoarls it with
secrecy guile wonderful. He would not give
| P'estre to save his comrade from being tlayed
alive; he would rather even suffer torture
than part with it tor any purpose, save that
on which his foolish heart is set. Perhaps he
covets some glitterng ring which he has seen
in the bazaar, and cannot steal perhaps he
wants watch, or more magnificent pair of
| pistols, or new pair OF silver-hted pincers,
10 take little bits OF ardent charcoal out of the
fire and light his pipe. He plucks out his
beard TO look young. He wakes his mus.
taches, and arches his eyebrows with his dag
ger; yet this love of fine appearance seems
strange in man who always leads a solitary