The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02

people are required 70 pay no tax to the
Brush crown, and they are in good
humor with the British flag
l addressed an audience last night, Cd
my right hand the United States flag, on
my left hand the English rag. and yoa
ought to have heard them shout when at
the beginning of my address l said. when
IN my church at home ] pray for the
President of the United States, l am very
apt to add, God save the QUEEN
Many of the streets of New Zealand
cities are called after the generals and
prime ministers of Great Britain, and
| Wellington, and Palmerston, and Glad
| stone, are the names of great thorough
| fares. New Zealand feels the financial
! depression very much as the whole world
! at this time seems suffering an epidemic
| Indeed the world is now a compressed
/ and interlocked affair Out of the hold
/ OF our snip arriving in New Zealand were
/ nIteo rakeS. psoughs, and various agri-
| cultural implements of American manu-
| facture. To-day all New Zealand is re-
/ lolclng that the American congress has
| put wool on the free list and the value of
/ mented
| Among our most interesting hours in New
| Zealand were those spent at the bishops
| mouse IN Aucklanu. Lord Bishop Cowie
/ is man Of marvellous attractiVeness, and
| MS nome Is an enchantment, adorned
with many curios which he brought from
| india, where he served as chaplain during
That war which interests and appals the
world with its tales of mutiny While
chaplain he rode with Sir Colin Campbell
| and his historical host for the capture of
| Lucknow, that city whose name will
| stand In the literature of all ages as the
| synonym for Sepoy atrocities, and
womanly fortitude, and Christian heroics.
! he told US most graphically how the
women waiting for death at Lucknow
| tore up their underclothes to make ban
dages for the woundt of the soldiers and
| that when at last these women were
/ rescued they appeared in the brilliant
| dress of the ballroom. These dresses
| formerly worn by the convivial having
| been suddenly come upon, and when the
| wives and daughters of missionaries and
Christian merchants had nothing else to
wear
Lord Bishop Cowie also had on his
| walls pictures of some of the most stir
ring scenes of the Russian war with which
the military friends of the bishop had
| been cognizant. Here is a pictured scene
| where there was no retreat for the
English, and yet their standing firm
seemed certain destruction, and their
| general cried out, Men there is no re-
treat from this place, you will die here!"
and the men replied Aye, aye we are
| ready to do that" And yonder another
pictured scene of BalaklaVa after the
| famous charge of the 600, and the com
mander said to the few men who had got
back from the awful charge, Men, it
was mad-brained trick" and they re-
piled, Never mind, general, we would do
it again" The bishops walls in other
places were made interesting by swords,
belts, aud torn insignia of battle from the
fields Of India, all the more interesting
because we expect in our Journey around
the world to visit Lucknow and Gavin
pore and Delhi, and many of the chief
places made immortal by the struggle be-
tween British valor and Sepoy infamy.
And here from the bishops own words,
got satisfactory answer TO question
/ have asked many times, but for which [
never received a satisfactory answer l
said, your lordship knew the chief men
of Balaklava, and will you please explain
to me what have never been able to find
out, and to which Tennyson makes refer
ence in his Charge of the Light Brigade, ;
and in that line where he says, Some one
had blundered' Do you know and will
YOU tell me exactly what that blunder
was?" He said. II can and will" Then the
bishop illustrated with knives and forks
and napkin rings on the dining
table the position of the English
guns, the Russian guns and
the troops He demonstrated to me
| plainly what the military blunder was
| budb CduSGu JI6 udSn anu havoc OF GldU
cavalry regiment whose click of spurs
and clatter of hoofs, and jingle of bits,
and spurts of blood you hear in the poet
/ laureate'S battle hymn. Here was the
line of the English guns not very well de-
Tended, and yOnder was the line of Rus
sian guns, backed by the whole Russian
army. The order was given to the cav
airy regiment to take care of those En-
glish guns and keep them from being
taken by the Russians, and the command
was: Take care OF those English guns -
But the words were misunderstood
and it. was. supposed that the or
der was to capture the Russian
artillery. Instead of the command, Take
care of those English guns" it
was thought the command was, Take
those Russian guns" For that CHASTITY
and horrible assault of the impossible,
the riders plunged their spurs and headed
THAR horses INTO certain death. At last
l had positive Information as to what the
blunder at Balaklava was. At Edin-
bur h, Scotland, years ago | asked one of
the soldiers who rode in that charge the
same question, but even he, participant
in the scenes OF that fiery day, could not
tell me Just what the blunder was.
Now l nave at last not only told in
stirring words of natural orator and
magnetic talker, but On the dining table
of the Lord Bishop of Auckland l had it
set out before the eye, dramatized and
demonstrated by the cutlery on the white
tatle cloth: out, instead of the steel bay
onets, the silver forks of a beautiful re-
past, and instead of the sharp swords of
death, knives for bread-cutting, and in
stead of the belchlng guns of destruction
the napkin rings of hospitality the mem
DRY of which shall be bright and fresh
as long as l remember this visit to
New Zealand.
7. DEWITT TALMAGE.
A PIRATES COOK.