Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18

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Wehad already sent early in the NOR
ming to request an interview with the
Pacha, and now received a message from
him to say he would be happy to receive
us. We proceeded through large open
square, and on arriving at the official
residence found il TO be merely strag-
Cling, whitewashed building, construct
ed regardless of design or uniformity,
but covering considerable area. We
entered by a long covered archway, and
then passed through a doorway into a
garden, at the end of which, and at the
back of the building, we found long
stone-built verandah. Here were seated
about in groups a number of officials
and soldiers, the latter not dressed as
the so-called regulars, but in their ire
gular and extremely handsome costume
of loose white robes, bound round their
waists by colored sashes. into which
were thrust ornamented daggers and
crooked cimeters. All had hanging
from their shoulders, but open in front,
long dark-blue garment of fine cloth,
and their head-dress consisted of a snow
white turban wound round a tasseled
fez The tout ensemble, as the men were
was picturesque i'm the extreme, and
well became the wearers, who were all
handsome, soldier-like looking fellows,
with dark boards and mustaches
neatly clipped after the Mohammedan
fashion, and bronzed, intelligent coun-
tenances. Among them was the khalifa
or second Pacha, a cleyer-looking young
man with cunning, rather Jewish fea-
lures: he requested us to be seated, and
apologized for the absence of his chief,
who, he said, would be with us shortly.
Perhaps | may as well here explain
that every Paeha of the district has for
his assistant a lieutenant, or khalifa as
he is called, who appears to take the
place with reference to the Pacha that
the buffer of an engine occupies in con-
nection with u railway train; that is to
say, should anything 60 wrong in his
chiefs department, tits he, the khalifa,
who bears the shock of public outcry,
on the one hand, and the far more power
full shock of the Sultan's ire on the
other. In the latter case, he is tolera-
bly, well sure of being invited to present
himself at court and explain his con-
duet, which, il he cannot do I'm a salts
factory manner, j. e.. if he has not the
means TO fee the ministers and court
officials well, he enters into the seclu-
sion of prison, which, in some cases,
he only leaves for the place of eXecu-
ton, i'm others TO govern and plunder
another district.
We mad not been waiting long, when
the Pacha made his appearance, an
elderly, intelligent-looking man, with
an easy gentlemanly manner, which is
characteristic of the upper-class Moors.
We cOnyersed with him for some time,
one of the party acting as interpreter,
and then took our departure, In order to
have a stroll through the city. What a
labyrynth of streets and lanes Tetuan
is, to he sure; what studies for an artist
are to be found there; what picturesque
costumes we encountered as We made
our way among gayly-dressed turbaned
MoOrs; Withholding rufiians in short
wooden tunics, with bare legs and close
cropped heads: Israelites in their dark
colored garments and black skull caps;
women enyeloped in long white haicks,
their eyes only exposed To view as they
wandered silently about with that noise
less gliding gait which seems peculiar
to ghosts and Eastern women. Our
guide conducted us at length to the
house of wealthy man, who having
amassed fortune by trade, had retired
from business and settled in Tetuan.
We entered by a narrow lane into
house which outside presented nothing
but high whltewashed blind walls, and,
passing through a wooden doorway. we
found ourselves in handsome build
ing, constructed and decorated in the
t,-la nt xtn
stories, having all the doors and windows
of the different rooms opening into the
court, which was paved with aZulejos or
glazed cOlored tiles; marble fountain
was playing in the centre, and plea
SAINT shade was produced by four acacia
trees growing up round the fountain in
places which, for a space of three or
four feet, had been purposely left I'M
tiled. Running round the court was
veranda supported by the usual horse
shoe Moorish arches, its roof forming
the floor of a balcony into which the
upper rooms opened. The walls were
decorated with pretty arabesques, and
the carved wooden ceilings of the long
narrow rooms were inlaid with a color
ing of cinnamon and gold.
During the visit three or four negro
slave girls came in to have a good look
at the strangers; but with the excep-
ton of lovely little Moorish girl of
about eight years of age, the daughter
of the master of the house, the females
of the family had retired to secluded
room, and shut themselves up, so that
we saw nothing of them.
In walking through the town it SEEM
ed as if | were surrounded by everyday
scenes and characters reproduced from
the pages of the arabian Nights. At
one place was the storyteller, surround
ed by a silent crowd, who listened with
rapt attention, sitting cross-legged in 4
circle round him. There again was the
barber, who, in this country, acts also
as blood letter and dentist, employed in
shaving the head of a pensive Moor;
here come Ayesha and Fatima, demurely
wrapped in their wells and attended by
slave girl as they wend their way to
the baths; and, rs live, there is the
famous hunchback himself, but he now
ofliciates as porter at the doorway of the
jewish quarter-a hideous, handy
legged dwarf, armed with a long gun,
who grins horribly rs he opens the gate
for us on our return at night, and on
being rendered coin deposits it for
safety i'm his mOuth.-Frdser's Magazine.
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