The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-27

sometimes, as a favor, with a gunny
sack, having the hay stuffed into it.
The driver-having a bell hung to
the wagon pole to warn others out of /
the way, and armed with a whip, and /
calling pur-r-r to his horses, instead |
of our whoa, when necessary, to stop |
them-starts, without locking (not- |
withstanding sign at the top of all |
steep hills, bearing the painted figure |
of the old fashioned wagon shoe and |
two links of chain as a warning), |
dashes down, with loose rein, from |
heights that command the Black
Sea over a sharply winding road,
that often over hangs precipices of ma
ny hundred feet, with a speed that al
most raises the wheels of the outer
curve from the ground. aud swings
the traveller who has neither seat
back nor wagon sides by which to
hold on, until his head leans over the
abyss, and he calculates on a grave at
the foot of a magnificent palisade with
his bones in the condition of a wheel
condemned hereto. Yet there is an
| intense pleasure, somewhat akin to
| that experienced In descending a Steep
snow mountain In sledge, as the tough
little Tartar horses tear away down
these mountains, missing the side
rocks by six inches and knocking off
| fifteen wersts within the hour.
The variety, however, was not so
pleasant, when the stupid authorities,
because our Podorogna read: from
Sebastopol to Simferopol Jy. The s0ay
of Yalta, &C., insisted on Monday
morning, we having arrived on Satur-
day evening at Yalta, on sending us
back to Sebastopol, before we had
been to Simferopol, Baktschisarai,
&c, and the driver, to whom we could
not speak In Russian, could by no
signs or imploring looks, not even by
the remonstrance of German whom
we had met on the road and who ex-
planned in Russian, be induced to
stop until he took US twelve wersts to
the next station. There we FORUM
ately found a traveller speaking
French, who explained the mistake
and we were sent back, having, how
ever, to pay both ways, as If no mis-
take had been made. But this was
nothing compared to the astonishing
fact, which we discovered on our re-
turn, that
THE POSTMASTER AT YALTA DID NOT
While waiting for our post horses,
I concluded to send a few lines home.
in order TO mention our change of
route, as this tartaro. barbaric portion
was not In the original programme /;
therefore taking Russian who spoke
some German, and another who spoke
some French, we assaulted the worthy
dignitary in his full official uniform
of blue cloth and silver lace; having
previously requested the Russian, who
spoke German. to write beneath the
full English address. to which had
: added Flats Unis de PAn1sr que du
Nord, the words North America
, in Russian. The Postmaster was
evidently puzzled, not so much to
know what to charge as where to send
it. Opening his printed catalogue, he
: read aloud in succession, Colum bia,
Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru, Republica
Argentina, Brazil; and, as [ still
: shook my head and made a rough
: drawing of North and South America,
he finally found Canada in his book,
and when / still tried to show it was
; next below Canada, he read New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfound-
; land, aud at last said it must Do n
: interpreters, but admitted it was close
to Canada, he concluded to send il
there, and to Canada / suppose il
] went, as I paid my thirty-five copeks
and bowed myself out, with an ex-
3 allied opinion of official ignorance.
may add, however, that the letter
r reached home through Canada.
THE PALACE OF THE KHAN, THE
UsPENsKI MONASTERY AND THE
CARAIM JEWS.
: We had been highly pleased. as VIC
! passed along under the Palisades
: which tower over the north shore Of
= the Black Sea, protected from the
north wind, to observe, on those
basaltic spurs, vineyard slopes and
: sites for superb Summer residences
We had seen most inviting chateaux
= and some princely palaces, smiling
: beneath the rugged coronet of ma.
= lures adamantine materials; we had
! viewed the rich vineyards, and heard
of Prince WoTonsof's palace, costing
: twenty one millions of francs, his
botanic gardens, with one hundred
and twenty varieties of the Crane, his
. vast wine cellars, from which he ships
:. to Petersburg and Warsaw, buying
: up the entire wire product of the
! Crimea, over what is raised on his
= own estate; we had wondered at ma.
ny things, new and strange to US ia
Yalta, Aluschta, the capital, Sim
feropol, and upon the route to and
: from those places; but newest, most
! wonderful, and most interesting, was
Baktschisarai. with its surroundings
the cave-dWelling monks and Tai
/ - L 4. 4
Kaleh." meaning, when translated
: from Tartar into English, Jewish
Heights"
Having, through the politeness of
Colonel Schostak, who Is commits
! stoned by the Government to super
: wise the Palace, received permission
Z to sleep there, as there is no hotel in
Baktschesarai, we wandered through
the ancient residence of the last ru-
!, Ter of this part of Tartary, and saw
the rooms occupied by his christian
! bride, whom, according to the Russian
poet Puschkin, be so loved that be
. imprisoned her until he fairly won
! her love by his devotion. only for her
too soon to be poisoned by a Jealous
> rival, and long to be mourned by her
disconsolate lord. In the mosk ad-
joining, rest the remains of many a
\ death dealing scourge to the Western
: Empires, in solemn turbaned state.
The quaint, arched doors, the satin
f and silver covered divans, the cupola-
s shaped fire. places, and many other
: oriental varieties, speak of barbaric
a splendor and despotic power; yet
/. from the well kept grounds, its name
0 Baktschisarai is well deserved, mean
}, ing Garden Palace" From here,
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