The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-02

nbout 10 sail from San Francisco to Japan, and OF
sourse could not back to visit Hayti. Yet it
was manifest that Hayt ought to be visited at once
and very peculiar state OF things existing there
Illustrated in such manner as to give the American
public a better appreciation OF it than they could
gather from mere frozen facts and figures I'm the
New York papers Therefore the undersigned has
attended 70 it,
TROPICAL ASPECTS.
Ar SEA, Orr PoRr-AU- PRINoE.)
October D.
As ] stepped ashore at the above-named
place to-day, was assailed by swarm of
darkies of all ages and all degrees of hiarity
and raggedness But it was a peaceful as
sault. They wanted to carry my valise to the
hotel.
In the midst of the clamor felt that the
valise was passing from me- l was helpless
simply followed it, making no complaint.
1t was on the head of bright little darkey
who depended solely on his personal come
Illness for attractiveness-he had nothing on
but shirt. And the length of time that
had elapsed since that shirt was at the laun-
dry was longer than the shirt itself, L should
judge.
We wound in and out among the narrow
streets bordered by small houses scantily fur
nished, and generally with pigs, cats, and
parrots, and naked colored children litterinp
the dilapidated little front porches q mon
key or two making trouble with all these par
ties in turn; glimpse through the open door
of an insignificant stock of wares for sale
such as oranges, pine-apples, cocoanuts,
bread, sausages cigars, brooms, herrings,
cheap prints of saints carrying their bleeding
hearts outside their shirt-bosoms-and
tending the grocery, a stout wench in
parti-colored turban, calico dress wide
open at the breast, cigarette in mouth, no
shoes, no stockings Occasionally we passed
genteel houses, entirely surrounded by We
ran1nhc nD1 ithaca n5ohu n1o
to keep out the heat In the yards attached
to these houses were TALL thick bodied cocoa
palms, with foliage like bunch of swamp
flags exaggerated-the cocoa peculiar to the
West Indies. And of course in these yards
was world, of Towering tropical plants
curious, gorgeous, notwithstanding things
that had the air of being glaringly out of
place with no greenhouse glass arranged
around them.
oDORs OF WAR.
It was the hottest part of the day, and so
there were not many people stirring. We
met two companies of soldiers on their way
to embark for the northern coast, where the
Quaker City is bOmbarding Fort Picolet The
Quaker City 1t seems strange to speak of
her as being engaged in such worlk-the very
ship in which hundred of us pilgrims made
a famous picnic excursion half round the
world about two years ago. But she seems a
good warrior She just riddled one of Sal
naves war vessels in a sea-fght two or three
days ago.
A NEAT SPECULATION.
The third citizen met addressed me in
Spanish, and said he was going down to
Bear to post himself on a hill and observe
the battle which must come off there in
day or two, between the insurgents and the
Government troops, and he would take it as
very great favor if / would sell him the
held-glass that was suspended from my
shoulder.
said 1 did not care particularly to part
with it, but still-what would be give? He
said:-
81 am willing to pay forty thousand dol
lars"
''What!"
''Forty thousand dollars.
''AIy friend, are you insane 2
He took package out of a sort of KNAPP
sack which was slung about him, and delibe-
rately counted out forty new and handsome
one thousand dollar Haytien greenbacks. We
exchanged. felt small and mean thus to take
advantage of a lunatic but then, what would
You have done ? l then resumed my journey
with an unusually sneaking expression in my
countenance.
EXToRTIoN.
Arrived at my hotel, l asked the small
colored boy what owed him for carrying my
valise.
mine hundd dollahs, sah'
tainted.
When came to, number of people were
about me, applying restoratives and doing
what else they could to help me. That soul
less colored boy was standing there, cold,
serene.
I said:--
''How much did you say, boy?"
mine hundd dollahs, sah-reglar price,
sah."
appealed to the bystanders for protection.
An old gentleman of noble countenance and
commanding presence said the boy was right
he was charging only the usual rate l
looked at the other faces They all mutely
endorsed the venerable conspirators state
ment.
1 sadly handed the boy thousand dollar
bill. He walked off.
l was stupifed with amazement. ''Gen-
tlemen," / said, ''what does this mean
There's hundred dollars change coming to
me"
"True,' the old party said, ''but it is not
the custom to regard trife like that
Stunned and dizzy, | hurried to my room
and threw myself on the bed, almost satisfied
that had lost my reason. applied tests.
l repeated the multiplication table without
making mistake. 1t was plain that my COM
prehension of numbers was unimpaired
repeated ''The Boy stood on the Burning
Deck without blunder. 1t was plain that
my memory was sound. / read one of Mrs
Brownings poems and clearly understood
some of it. II was plain that my intellectual
faculties were in a condition of even unusual
,s;oor Than what in tha world yvnc ba mot