New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-12
ASLEEP Or AWAKE.

4 ASLEEP Or AWAKE.
H ad been in India little more than
hears, when l was sent to frontier
Ia to take charge of half company
hlive artillerymen and two guns. 1t
about the smallest command that an
ees could hold but it was to great
ls6t an independent one, with very little
io except to attend musters on the first
OIrory month; and both the independence
!, iIsisure had great charms for young
n. sho, having been early snubbed for
NH had made up bis mind to let militia
"A les interfere as little as possible with
usements. To keep the guns in re-
!, was allowed an establishment of
Ti..Ire smiths and carpenters-some six or
\. hen; but as the guns we're only used
y Darade, and at other times were kept
' Isr cover, they never wanted repair,
MI Employed the carpenters in making
nj, tables, and all sorts of furniture,
Tile smiths in making brass-work bits,
IS lp irons, and, among other things, the
, eads of.spears for pig-sticking. But
one of these last plays a part in my
II should not have entered into all
NJ Details. A choice specimen had just
Ii finished after new design of my
. "a modification of the laurel-leaf pat
il -and my bearer had placed it on a
OF liable, or teapoy, by the side Of my
where must leave it fer the present.
p he house next to mine (our compounds,
in Enclosures, surrounding the houses, being
sSrated by a mud-wal) was occupied
d tho padre, as parsons are generally
We'd in India-a married man with
,tI|y. and it was his wife's nydh, who,
y morning about q week before | had
u Hing to do with the matter, was found
-loutside her hut stabbed apparently
Nd eome instrument that had passed com
rHely through her body. She was good
ting young woman, the vile of the
Is slie, or water-carrier, and they lived as
9 1o bily as natives of the two sexes ever do
r tOgether, their occasional domestic
W aences eliminating in nothing worse
Ia The customary slanging match, in
uaa the native female almost invariably
ySssJees her male antagonist by the force
of piercing falsetto, com
IavM with a power Of barking sarcasms,
BAD nared with which the nagging of the
a H ID Naggleton is agreeable banter. The
us nd was, however, arrested, but speed
Az 5eased for want Of any evidence to
'unate him; nor was he able to point
I1eou to any one as the possible Gull
Il The police were completely at fault,
Nd BE murder, too common an event to
n to be even a nine days wender, had
Ios e been forgotten,
I'M mas one of those terrible nights OF
~ when the air, after the blasting, hot
i n b the day, was US still as death, and
b. b, Lib heat that was sitting, Not the
Ii beat of big fire, nor the singing
,rP1 a the hottest room in the Turkish
are put heavy, habby, edgeless heat that
rs rs, pltlcdhs and taties at defiance, aud
Ieid ned upon the brain till helpless and
feeling of lassitude akin to de-
nil made the ftful snatches of sleep re
,hle painful intervals of prostration
/ d debility. In the next room-the bath
nsm burned wick in clay saucer full
iii 1.-THE native Chirdgb), and by its faint
ed. coming through the halt-clOsed door
b, ,ad so many times taken up and admir-,
LGly Examined the spear head l have be,
Ja1 mentioned, that my hand had got ia
: n with its position,
I'd must have been about midnight, wher
y wv ktate OF seml-somnolenee, became
tioI lcibus, or rather felt the presence o.
!, a one by my bedside. l fancied
IN, lF-fOr the lamp had gone out--a hur
s s1s Afeathing aud the rustic of foot or
i'll bkish mating. Not month before thi
i0 u been robbed, and rather cruelty fo
il di0f subaltern; a rife dressing case, ant
s NJ things had disappeared, and | had il
Of y nade every effort to discover the thle
eng eeover the property,
. Vas not unnatural, therefore, that my
We end only thought was of robbers, as
no ng my pet spearhead, I plunged i
in into the darkness. It struck some
jug aye, it stSSck flesh, for as leaped on
HidAssd, and made for the door, felt il
issut wet and sticky with what could onl,
, S hn'hlocd. When l say door, l mean tn,
itiosanee into the centre room of the house
Of .1door was open, but in the space hun,
him, ding bamboo curtain, or chick, as IL i
,lod The house was the ordinary can
Vii ent bungalow, bedrooms on each sid
ths'centre room, the latter extending til
X \ OF the house, and opening back an,
' .lc lnto the compound. As | lifted tn
Of III hesitated at all in which direction
senAulsue, it was for less time than hav
- "a 70 write the word for cut on the step
H-N'1E from the front door. between m
"a starlight, stood figure envelopet
Il II ~ ordinary ebUddd (sheetl of a nativ
:. ~ The blood rushed into my face a
4 hAlIRatant thought that | had stabbed
issAAl, but if recoiled for moment wit
IAN Si lnse OF my eowardice and shame; in tn
J O1 was in pursuit, determined to hav
f1n med this midnight visit, / called t
propA l stepped over the threshold, bu
NV tSs Assed down the steps and rount
ais a. the back of the house, where wer
. 20 bles and some outhouses in Whic
ter, wants lived Barefooted as | was
~ lowed, and though the stone
L Of md cut me. swiftly as she wen
aseh' sllll refusing to answer me, kept he
- ght until she disappeared into tb
)N-l q my tahtlaidgar Hingun. The doc
.Trs Aut IN my face, and fastened, too, 70
Of u not till after fruitless hammerina
:, ~ pen was on the point Of bursting
81 L It was opened by my own servant.
iss1 man had come up the country wit
n n. Y he had been recommended BY th
j p Of friends as an exceptionally goo
4 slS n fr' lpaee Buxton; and be had full
perry lined his character. Indeed, had
~ " liking for him. for he never gave m
:, VIZ 70 doubt his honesty. and 1 ha
1,siaS his courage as well as Il hoped) hi
sntyt nent to me. When travelling up th
n e. We were caught in one of those TT,
let q Us nOr'-westers, which, destructiv
saSei are on land, are d0ubly SO on th
Der boat was driven on a san
@hleh caused it to leak; and it W.
Oh again, which caused IL to il
QUE ew and all my servants but HiBgl
s ;. Z the bank, only some hundred yarC
!. ., and the boat was floating IN d
hs' 4 ailors would call awash. / had n
ufAct TO the roof Of the nahins arl., III,