The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
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/. pur1ties the latter, and the Offering is
eaten bg the priests; the fsrmer, inca
pable of purifcation, are charitably Civ
en- to pariahs. The ground around the
hall of sacrifice is rank with the odor
of putrefaction One hundred and If
| ty Branins and their families live IN
and about this temple. They seem to
be supported by contributions Of pill
grir1ls, and by deprecatory offerings Of
merchants who are engaging IN business
enterprises r4T zasl aFGs a9iss
I-ZU1 go TIE KING OF GUIDE. -- F-E
/ The majestic declamations, of Burke,
in the trial of Warren Hastings, have
made the civilized world familiar with
the tragic story of the kingdom of
| Dude We may, hereafter, have uocca-
sion to speak, not of the kingdom, but
of the king. The last descendant of
the native king who freigned at Luck
now under. the British protectorate,
joined the mutiny in 1857. On its sup
preston, he was deprived of the king
dom, but was allowed to retain his SOW
ereign rank with a munifcent pension,
though obliged to reside. in Calcutta
under government surveillance. Yes
terday, we repaired to his palace on the.
bank of the Hoogly, in compliance with
his invitation, The royal residence
consists of twelve stately ed1fces with
collonades, which accommodate retain
ers, servants, and soldiery, numbering
in all ten thousand. A regiment of
native troops gave Mr.. Seward a salute
at the grand gate, and we were received
at the palace by the kings eldest son,
the heir-apparent, who announced that
his father, being very i'll, had deputed
him to be his representative on the oc-
casion of our visit. We ehave never seen
handsomer youth, although he is
swarthy. Dressed fully up to his char
acter he wore flowing robes of blue
velvet, embroidered with gold, and his
fathers jewelled gold crown, The tt
tular King of Dude is probably theonIy
monarch in the world who wears such
antiquated head-gear as this. Doubt
less, however, it is a pleasing reminder
of the palmy state from which he has
''fallen, fallen, fallen. --h#
The prince, in most amiable and
communicative temper, conducted US
through the extensive flower gardens,
immense menageries as well as aviaries
and aquariums, neither of which, we
imagine, has au equal in any part of the
world. An account of the animals ex-
hibited would be little less than a ca
talogue. ''z We saw huge boa-constric-
tors sleeping in their cages. The
snake-charmer skiIfully drew the cobra
de caps 10 from its prison, stretched it
on the ground, and then with great dex-
terity seized it by the throat, and at
pleasure made it open its mouth and
show the strong. sharp, white fang,
whose stroke is instant death, and be
meath it the small sac in which the fatal
venom is secreted. The ostrich, the
bird-of-Paradise, the pelican, the fla
mingO, the eagle, and the swan, are as
dOmesticated as if they had known no
other home. We counted one hundred
species of the pigeon, nor can we recall
the name of any tenant of the air which
is not represented there. The aqua !
RUINS are lakes, each covering an acre,
and ten feet deep. Their inhabitants
of all kinds came to be fed from our
hands An immense green tortoise was
tempted to the shore by a bunch of ba-
nanas, and walked back seeming not at
all oppressed by the burden of an at
tendant, who stood on his back, and
who weighs nearly two hundred pounds
The English people here tell us that the
munifcent King of Dude is treacherous,
and that his handsome son is graceless.
But when has conqueror confded in his
prisoner? r.....
A NIGHT on THE GANGEs.
A continuous railrOad-journey of
twenty-five hours, fatiguing everywhere,
is doubly severe here but how could
we decline a compliment from so high
native source, or how forego an occasion
SO novel and interesting as night on
the Ganges Two officers of the
princes household bearing silver maces
six feet long, with twenty servants in
scarlet and white, met us on the river
bank and placed us in cushioned chairs,
under gay canopy, on the deck of
graceful yacht We fioated leisureIv
downward with the current. The first
part of the voyage had no special inter
est. The night was dark, and the dim
lights around us gave us only. spectral
gimpses of the terraced banks. When.
howey,r, we had advanced a mile, we
saw, on our right, at the rivers edge,
the blazing, cracking flames of seeming
bonfres. The portion of the banks
thus illuminated seemed to rise to the
height of hundred feet, and were
thickly crowded. with massive struc-
lures and, over all these, the cleaning
dome and ninarets of Aurengzebe, the
great mosque of the city. What was
our surprise to find that the fires, which
we had supposed kindled for a Temporal
ry illumination, were funeral-fres!
Chants are built on the banks for the
sole purpose of cremation. The spec !
tacle turned our thoughts, for the mo- |
ment, upon the strange process of dis
posing of the remains of the dead. |
% What, " we inquired, "is done with
the ashes which remain from the fires %
g They scatter them ON the bosom of
the sacred river" lLll
At this point we entered crowd of
Observation-Disclosures and gayly-deco-
rated barges, SO dense that 1T was not
without difficulty that we made our way