Smyrna times., 1867-04-10

ldfClucCH uOu6 COulu IuC panic route have OHly
0een stayed for halt an hour-what years Of
battle might have been spared had our SOL
1iers only known that day how near they were
to victory-it is hardly worth while to con-
slider. The effective force of the Confederates
after the battle was about q 900, and during
the next six weeks they received not more than
{, 900. When Mcclellan took command oft
Army of the Potomac, on the 9th of July, |
1861, our forces in and around Washington
numbered $1,000. We don't like to fight !
against dead generals; but if Mcclellan has
be enough to finish it?-N. T. Tribune.
The IS Donkey BOys'' of Cairo.
A Cincinnatian now travelling in Egypt
writes as follows about the donkey boys OF
Cairo and other cities of the Nile:
One of them invariably accompanies your
hired donkey. They are sharp set of little
rascals Standing by their animals, they sa-
lutte you as you pass along the streets, 4" Nell
key" Yankee Doolch )" BILLY Barlow
''Ride?' They never mistook me for an En-
glishman. When you are fairly mounted they
begin whacking the poor brute on the rump,
right and left, and punching it with their
sharp stick, at the same time vOclferatlng
".A-hY' and away you 60 at a gallop. You
can neither hold nor guide the little brute with
any success, and for a time it seems matter
for great gratitude that you don't run into the
procession of Games with the huge burdens, or
are not run over by the carts or carriages
But the donkey is sagacious and the reckless
boy is yet careful and while he applies from
time to time the riS U-tergO, also yells his di-
rectiOns to the animal, and his warnings to the
passer-by, and somehow you reach the end OF
your ride in safety.
These boys do not resolutcly object to bdcE-
SheeSh. " Nay, on the contrary, quite the re-
verse" They have been known even to sOE-
cit it. A young lady in our party to the Pyra--
j mids related the sly and amusing attempts OF
her attendant to ingratiate himself with her
Thus ran his talk Z" Good donkey, eh? Lady
ride very well, eh?'' Slight pause then SottC
roice, Backsheesh, eh ?"
These boys may be regarded as inciplen
dragomen. They are walking or rather RUM
ing polyglots. Ask one of them, . Do you
speak English ?" and he answers, . Yes sir.
Ask Parez voun Francais?" and he prompt
ly answers, "Oui, monsieur" Ask him
" Parlate Italiano?" and his answer is : 81
signor" Change the question to = ''Smcchc:l
sic Dcutsch?" and he returns, ia, mel
herr" And in any of these languages he cal
manage to hold a conversation on backshccsl
and donkey.
These boys, and indeed the outdoor Arab
generally, seem insensble to fatigue. Our boys
when we neared Cairo, on our return frol
1 the Pyramids, seemed as fresh wlndcd as |
the morning. | said to one Of thean, " DO 10
never get tired 2" and he answered most EN-
phatically, "NO, never" The runners i'll irOl
n of fast carriages are as fleet and as untiring Z
the carriage horses. At the Pyramids lam
Arab entreated me to hold my watch and Sc
him run up the Pyramid to the top, and bac
in ten minutes. For a shilling he would II
doubt have done it.
StupendOus Lifts.
In the year 1882, Cathariae, Empress
Russia, erected an equestrian statue OF Pct'
. the Great at st. Petersburg. The statute
. which was erected by NJ. Falconnet, was raj
- cd on an enormous pedestal OF granite.
). When Falconnet had conceived the desll
;. of his statue, the base of which was to i
J." formed of a huge rock, he carefully examine
~ the enyiron3 of the city, and, after consider
= ble research, discovered stupcndouS mass
i granite half buried in the mOrass. The e
" pense and difficulty Of transporting it were !
!, obstacles to Catharine. BY her orders Il
=, mOrass was Immediately drained a road W
: cut through the forest and carried over Il
=, marshy ground, and the stone, which, after
= had been somewhat reduced, weighed titte
- - hundred tons, was removed to st. Petersbur
- This was accomplished In less than SIX mont
. after the rock Was discovered.
a 1t was removed by means OF a wlndlass al
IL large friction balls, alternately placed and
~ moved, along grooves fixed ON each side OF t
~ road In this manner it was drawn, with lC
III ty men seated upon its top, about four mll'
. to the banks Of the Neva, where 1t was e
lis barked in vessel constructed on purpose
a. receive it, and thus conveyed about the sal
nc distance by water to St. Petersburg.
&C. When landed at St. Petersburg it was for
% two feet long at the base, thlrty-Slx at the t.
m twenty-one thick, and seventeen feet. high,
lli1Gi l1G bulk greatly surprising in weight the m
III III boasted monuments of Egyptian or Rom
. 1c grandeur, On this pedestal Falconnct ral'
re- granite statue, of colossal size, of the fOur
VIC er of st. Petersburg.
In the year 1895, priest OF Bologna,
81 Italy, invented a machine to remove walls ir
~ ;ti one place to another. y trial being made
ltn enlarge BY this means the choir of st. Mlcha,
a' Church, wall, fourteen feet long, twenty 1
al- high and thirteen inches thick, was remove
as distance of three yards i'll the space OF se'
nn minutes.
md Six or eight men, with their faces black
vas ed, attacked the watchman at the office OF
oc- Paymaster of the JetfersOnvile, Madison,
ON indianapolis Railway, at Jcffersonvllle, II
i'm early on Friday morning OF last week. ana
ted ter throwing him down, tied and gagged hlm
fny Two OF the men Jncn StOOu MdCCh O'CA
us while the rest entered the office, blew open
hat safe, and took between $4,000 and S2O,t
hey Most of the money was done up in brown
rio velopes, ready for delivery to the employ
re- of the road, whose names were on the en-
on lones. A reward of $1,000 for the arrcs
,ur- the thieves and the recovery OF the none
our offered, or 81, 500 for the money and the S;
pro- for the thieves.
t ort Lawrence Hart, who murdered a little cl
nv, No four years of age, near Warsaw, Ind, on
trno l4th of February last, was arrested at the
su;t dence of his sister, in Independence, Ohio
al Friday. The boy had been taken by him t
"a the poor-house, but in three weeks disapp
tho ed. Hart told his mother, who inquired
rmv INV it, that it had been given away to a man rC
her ing in Ohio, but she being dissatisfied ca,
,;za. search to be made, which resulted in fin
tho the its body, shockingly mangled, in an old
that The testimony before the coroner shows
H." the tortures to which it was subjected du
S','" a. shnrt tima n waa IN Harris nowar