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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Birds killed on our prairies, packed
closely with paper in barrels, and with
out any freezing or other artificial pro
cess of preservation, now go regularly to
Leadenhall, and are eaten in the dining
rooms of London and the West Knd side
by side with the much more expensive
partridges and fowls which are reared in
England.
There is an almost complete equality
in the world’s sexes. In France this
balance is most nearly attained, where
for every 1,000 men there are 1,007
women. In Sweden, to 1,000 men there
are 1,004 women, while in Greece, to
the same number of males there are but
093 Greek women. In Paraguay there
are only >,OOO men to every 2,080 women,
a state of things mainly due to the rav
ages of the Brazilian war.
Beaver hunters in California live in
arks or floating houses, in which they
move from place to place on the streams
and ponds. The one small room on such
a craft contains benches for several men,
cooking utensils, hunting articles and a
stock of provisions. The hunters are a
lazy, card playing and careless lot, but
live comfortably and make the business
Dr. Richardson, ot England, who is
now recognized as a high authority on'
matters of domestic hygiene, says that
sixtv-two degrees Fahrenheit is the right
degree of temperature for health, and
that those engaged in literary or artistic
work cannot possibly be to careful on
this point. If their labor be prolonged
or severe, the temperature may be al
lowed to run up to sixty-five degrees, or
even seventy degrees. The same rule
applies to all sedentary persons and
children studying. Our rooms here are
apt to be at least ten degrees too hot for
healthy persons.
The ld hymn, “ Rock of Ages Cleft
for Me,” was written by Rev. Augustus
Montague Toplady about one hundred
years ago. During these hundred years
it has found its way into almost every
land and every tongue. Some time ago
an American _cle rgvin:tn attended an
Armenian church in Constantinople,
and heard a hymn which in a foreign
tongue seemed to produce a powerful
impression upon the congregation. As
he left the house what was his surprise
to learn that this affecting hymn ivas
none other than “Rock of Ages Cleft for
Me.”
A French authority recommends the
use of sawdust instead of hair in mortar
to prevent its peeling off. His own
house, exposed to prolonged storms on
the sea coast, had patches of mortar to
be renewed every spring, and after try
ing without effect a number of substi
tutes, he found sawdust perfectly satis
factory. It was first thoroughly dried
and sifted through an ordinary grain
sieve to remove the larger particles.
The mortar was made 'by mixing one
part cement, two lime, two sawdust and
five sharp sand, the sawdust being first
well mixed dry with the cement and
sand.
IGNATILFF AS A RUSH-ING LI All.
General Ignatieff, of whom w r e have
heard a great deal lately in connection
with Russian and Turkish diplomacy
and ante-war movements, has gained
with the sublime porte the reputation
of an extraordinary economist of truth.
He seems, according to report, to have
such a fondness for misrepresentation
that he often tells an untruth when the
truth would better serve his purpose.
Indeed, he is so unguarded and reckless,
they say, in his statements, that his
weakness is invariably discovered. He
is so undiplomatically diplomatic that
he wishes to make each representative of
a foreign government believe that he
and his country stand higher in the
Ignatieflian mind than any other repre
sentative and country. For example,
when Boker was our resident minister in
Constantinople, Ignatieff called upon
him, and said that he had honored him
and the United States with the first
official visit, although, a little while be
fore, Boker had seen the general enter
the British embassy. The American
knew the Russian’s peculiarity so well
that, having heard one day that the
latter had so bad a cold that he had lost
his voice completely, remarked : “If
that is so, the recording angel will enjoy
a respite.”— N. Y. Tribune.
CIOOD WORDS AUOUT WOMEN.
“ There are but two fine things in the
world,” says Malherbe, “women and
roses.” Lessing exclaims: “ Women is
the masterpiece of the universe.” Bour
don says: “The pearl is the image of
purity, but women is purer than the
pearl.” Thackery writes: “ A good
woman is the loveliest flower that blooms
under heaven.” Bolzae says: “ Even
the errors of women spring from her faith
in the good.” Coltarie declares: “All
the reasoning of men are not worth one
sentiment of woman. Lamartine asserts
that ‘women have more heart imagina
ation than men.” Otway exclaims:
“Oh, women! lovely women! Nature
made thee to temper men. We had been
brutes without you.” To which Mark
Twain adds: “ But for you we should
be nothing, for we should not be here.”
€1 )e ikoitj! Sentinel.
VOL. I.
ms COM t*ASSIGNS FAIL NOT."
BY JOHN W. CHADWICK.
The farmer chides the tardy sprint;,
The sun wit holds his wonted ray,
1 he day3 are dull and cold and
No shadow doth the maple fling.
From snow-Tad peak and icy main
'i lie north wind cometh wet and chill,
And evermore the clouds distil
The horded treasure of the rain.
But still, <> miracle of good !
The crocus springs, the violets peep,
i he straggling vines begin to creep,
The dandelion gilds the sod.
The rain may fall inconstant showers,
'Phe south wind tarry on its way ;
But through the night and through the day
Advance the summer’s fragrant hours.
And though the north wind forces them hack,
The song-bird hurries from the south
With summer’s music in his mouth.
And stu is with songs in his airy track.
What then, my soul, if thou must know
Thy days of darkness, gloom and cold,
It joy its ruddy beams wit hold,
And grief compels my tears to How ?
And what if, when with bended form
1 praise the gods for sorrow past,
There ever comes a fiercer blast,
And darker ruin of the storm ?
As tarry not the flowers of June
For the ill the heavens cau do,
And, to their inmost nature true,
The birds rejoice iu sweetest tune;
.So, Father, shall it be with me;
And whether the winds blow foul or fair,
1 hrough want and woe, and toil and care,
Still will I stiuggle up to thee ;
That, though my winter days be long,
A ml brighter skies refuse to come,
My life no less may sweetly’bloom,
And none the less be full of song.
THE JEII S or EUROPE.
Their Strength and Power in Times of
Peace and War.
The London Examiner last week an
nounced that a Berlin firm of publishers
intended issuing next winter a work en
titled “The Political Influence of the
Jewish Race in Europe.” Our cotempo
rary observes that, “ leaving out of .con
sideration the power of Lord Beacons
field (Disraeli) in English, and of M
Gambetta in French politics, and the
growing Hebraic dominance in Russia,
particularly in cities like Odessa. Ger
many itself would hardly have been the
Germany of to-day but for the exertions
with pen and tongue of such liberal poli
ticians as Jacoby, Sonneman. and, above
all, Edward Lasker, the ‘natural leader’
of the national liberals.” This is a very
poor summary of the political influence
of the Jews in Europe, especially the
production of M. Gambetta as an ex
ample of their influence in French poli
tics. There are many more Jewish poli
ticians in France of much greater impor
tance, prominent among them are MM.
Cremieux and Jules Simon. Austria
has been entirely forgotten by our cotem
porary, notwithstanding that the revolu
tion which necessitated the flight of
Mettemich was organized and led by
Jews, and that among the most popular
members of the Austrian parliament are
such Jewish statesmen as Hirsch and
Kuranda. Then, again, the Italian as
sembly contains several Jewish members,
whose opinions are of great weight, and
the city of Rome itself—the stronghold
of that power which, throughout long
ages, attempted the extermination of the
Jews —numbers among its legislative rep
resentatives a Jew horn and partly reared
in the Roman Ghetto. While we are on
thissuhject, we cannot help remembering
the enormous political power wielded by
the Jews throughout the medium of the
continental press. In Germany and Aus
tria the majority of papers belong to
Jews, and the most brilliant journalists
are children of Israel; and then —finis
coronal opus —where in the Examiner’s
short summary is any mention of the in
fluence of the Rothschilds ? The politi
cal power of this family can hardly be
estimated. It reminds us of an anecdote
told of the wife of old Meyer Anselm
Rothschild, which is sufficient to illus
trate it. To her dying day she lived in
the Ghetto of her forefathers in Frank
fort, and attained such an age that she
saw her sons rise to the position of the
greatest financiers in the world. She
never renounced her old gossips, and one
day, in 1830, one of her friends came [to
her erving, and told her that her son
was ordered to join the military, and
might be killed in the impending war.
“Be comforted,” answered Madame
Rothschild in the homely patois of her
district, “I will tell my sons not to give
the princes money, and then they will not
be able to go to war.” —London Public
Lender.
THE CONSUMPTION OF COTTON.
The supply of cotton goods to the
world is mainly furnished by Oreat
Britain and the United States. The
consumption of cotton goods in this
country is equal to twelve pounds per
head of the population, while in Europe
it is only equal to five pounds per head.
The cotton manufactured in Ureat Britain
and retained for home consumption is
about six pounds per head, and on the con
tinent of Europe not over four and a half
pounds. The exports from Great Britain
to countries other than Europe and the
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 23 1577.
United Slates is 809,000,000 pounds,
while 40,000,000 ]>ouuds are sent from
the United states. The exports of cot
ton fabrics to Asia, Africa, South and
Central America, Mexico, and Australia
is less than one pound of cetton per
head to the population. It follows, then,
that only one-fifth of the population ol
these countries is supplied by machme
made cotton. There remain, therefore,
outside of the United States and Europe,
800,000,000 of people jrfjosfyclothi^g'^m
sists mainly of cottommotli, who are yet.
supplied by hand-spun and woven cloth.
To supply these people with machine
made cotton at the rate of five pounds
per head will require 4,000,000 addi
tional hales of cotton a year and 40,000,-
000 additional spindles.
IS A PORTION OF MEXICO TO HE
gohhlkd:'
There is a movement on foot against
Mexico. The objective point is Sonora,
and the purpose, from what can be gath
ered here, seems to be to annex this
province to the domain of the Texas and
Pacific railroad, and incidentally to
Uncle Sam. The movement is said to
have wide ramifications. The deposed
President Lerdo, who is living here in
seclusion, is a silent partner in it. The
headquarters are naturally in Philadel
phia. New Orleans is the basis of active
operations. The interested parties here
are trying to see how much toleration
they can count on from the national
government when they begin active oper
ations next autumn. They propose, it
is understood, to colonize the state of
Sonora with some thousands of Ameri
cans, and to set up an independent gov
ernment there. Then they will play the
role of Texas over again, and endeavor
to secure admission to the union as a
federal state. The Texas Pacific rail
road at one point will run along the
southerd borders of Arizona, and almost
touch the territory of Mexico. The an
archy that prevails in Mexico opens the
way for this new colonization scheme.
There is said be a great deal of money
available to carry oat the enterprise. If
anew government should be established
in Sonora, Lerdo will undoubtedly he the
nominal head of it. The means for es
tablishing it will be furnished from this
side of the border.
The capture of Sonora would inevitably
carry with it the control of Lower Cali
fornia ami (lie addition of the territory
to the American union, and will extend
our territory two degrees south on the
Pacific coast. It is a highly attractive
scheme. Sonora is the state in which the
Mexican national authority is naturally
the weakest. The defenders of the
scheme say that the Mexican authority
is at an end, and that there, can be no
government there unless it is sustained
from this side of the line, and that the
time has come to make another huge ad
dition to our territory on the southwest.
You will he likely t hear a good deal
about this matter before the summer is
out. —Chicago Tima.
WHAT MAN CAN STAND.
An accident recently occurred in Hun
terdon county, a railroad employe being
thrown from a train by a sudden jerk
with great force, his right shoulder
striking the iron rail, his body and limbs
partly on the same, and between the
wheels, one car passing over the unfor
tunate man’s body, the next car resting
upon his chest and stomach. Under this
tremendous weight (six tons) he suffered
several minutes, until his fellow-work
men, with a ■ united fort*, lifted the car
from his body. His face, when the car
was removed, was perfectly black and
his vision entirely gone. His injuries
were supposed to lie fatal, consisting of a
fracture of the thigh bone, a dislocation
of the same at the hip-joint, making the
limb, by measurement, one and a half
inches longer than the other: also, a
fracture of the collar-bone in two differ
ent places; the ribs where the wheels
rested upon the breast broken, five in
numlter, and pressing upon the heart and
lungs; a flesh wound several inches deep
in the right thigh, and the eyes partly
protruding from their sockets. The doc
tor immediately set the fractured bones,
and with the assistance of those present
succeeded, after several persevering ef
forts, in putting the bone to its place by
rotation (which is said to be one of the
most difficult operations in surgery, and
probably one of the very few of the kind
ever performed in the state bafore).
The remarkable part is that the patient
is improving and will probably get out
again. —Cincinnati Commercial.
The custom of serving dinners to th e
mourners at funerals still prevails in por
tions of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania.
On one occasion lately nearly five hun
dred persons partook.
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
Ml ans *ind Frit*.
Hansnml Frit/, were two l>eutehera who .lived side
iALt. bv aide,
Remote from the world, its deceit Hiul its pride ;
With their pretzels ami beer tne spare moments
A were spent,
>dd the fruit of their labor were pence and content.
Hans purchased a horse of a neighbor one day,
A lift, lacking a part of the Geld—as they say—
Mauc a call upon Frit/, to solicit a loan,
To help him to pay for his beautiful roan.
Fritz kindly conse .ted the money to bud,
And gave the required amount to his friend.
Remarking—his own simple language to quote •
“ Perhaps it was bedder ye make ysuL
The note was drawn up in their waitivr^Wy
“ 1, Hans, gets from Frit/ feeftyToilars to-dav ”
When the question arose, the note being made,
“ Vich von holds dot baper until it vos haul ?’*
“ You geeps dot,” says Fritz, “ und den you will
know
You owes me dot money.” Says Hans: “ Dot is so;
Dot makes me remembers I hnf tint to bay,
Und I prings you der note und der money tome
day.”
A month had expired when Hans, as agreed,
Raid back the amount, and from debt lie was freed.
Says Fritz, “ Noiv aot settles us.” i * tins replies,
” Yah ;
Now who dukes dot baper accordings by law ?
“Igeepsdot, now, aind’t it?” says Fritz; den
you see.
I always remembers you bald dot to me.”
Says Hans, “ Dot is so, it vos now shust so blain
Dot I know vot do no veil I porrows again.”
— AJournal.
The Council of the Trees.
The throng was great, for jieople of all
classes had crowded together to consider
how the life of man might be prolonged.
Old Gasper was full of years, and well
known for wisdom ; lie waved his hand,
to secureattention, and thus meekly,iby a
fable, reproved the folly of the multitude:
The trees of the forest assembled in
council, for they heard that the wood
man was come up against them. “ Make
me your king,” said the Oedar, holding
up his head, “ for 1 am the stateliest of
all trees; the woodman will be humble
when he regards my dignity, and obey
me.” So they made the Cedar their
king. The woodman came. As far as
he proceeded he leveled the high and
the low. No tree stood before him.
Again the forest trees assembled to
gether. “ You have done wrong,” said
the Oak, stretching out his arms, “ in
making the Cedar your king. The wood
mart respects not his dignity; let me
wear the crown. Who so fit to be the
monarch ol the woods as tlie oak ? My
strength will compel him to obedience.”
The trees heard the words of the oak,
and applauded them. The cedar was
dethroned, and the oak appointed their
sovereign ; hut still the ravages of the
woodman prevailed
The forest trees met again in disorder,
when thus spoke the aged Yew. “It is
not dignity and strength that will arrest
the woodman’s arm ; let me be made you r
king; he will respect and reverence my
age.” The Yew was made king, but
still the woodman’s axe resounded
through the forest.
The next king was the Cypress, who
contended that, though dignitv, strength
and age had been despised, his solemnity
would awe the woodman and dispose
him to obey. The woodman regarded
not the Cypress, and the trees fell as be
fore.
“You arc wrong,” said the Birch, in
thenextcouncil tiiat was held. “Though
the woodman cannot lie opjiosed by
strength, nor awed by age nor solemnity
yet may be won by beauty. My silvery
bark and slender boughs would gently
incline him to obedience. Let me wear
the crown.” With universal applause
the Birch was crowned; but in vain.
Tree after tree still fell beneath the
sturdy stroke of the woodman.
“How long will ye follow had advice
and neglect wise counsel ?” said the Fig
tree. “Know ye not that the woodman
i guided by his interest? Ye should
have made me your king. My fruit
would have allured him. It would be his
interest to obey me.” With one aecord
the trees chose the Fig to rule over them
but the forest still grew thinner and
thinner.
“ Hear me,” said the Aspen, in a
whispering voice, “ and despise not the
counsel that I give. Let me be crowned,
for when the woodman sees me quiver,
ing in the blast, he will pity me, and
grant, for my sake, what he has hitherto
refused.” The crown was placed on the
Aspen, but the trees that fell were no
fewer than before.
Driven to despair, another council was
assembled, when the prickly flramble
contended that a.different course should
be taken. “If ye make me your king,”
said he, “ f will defy the woodman; I
will resist him in every quarter. He
shall find me armed for your defense,
and be will retire.” The courage of the
Bramble was highly applauded, and he
was crowned, but the woodman’s course
was not arrested.
When it was fouud that the strength
of the Oak, the age of the Yew, and the
solemnity of the Cypress prevailed not;
when the beauty of the Birch, the
abundance of the Fig, and the timidity
lof the Aspen, had proved to be vain ;
NO. 38.
having tried from the towering Cedar to
the lowly Bramble, it was decided that
they should no more oppose the progress
of the woodman, but grow in strength
and beauty; I>loom and blossom, and
liear fruit according, to their several
natures, and so seek to lie prepared to
how down without a murmur when tiie
axe of the woodman approached them.
Be ye high or low, rich or poor, old or
young, wise or simple, learn ye a lesson
from the council of the trees. It is bet
ter to improve your timo by making
your lives useful, than to waste it in the
vain attempt to increase the number of
your days; for, as the trees of the forest
fall before tlie ax of the woodman,so must
ye fall before the scythe of death.
Dear young reader, you may bo felled
next. Do you know three H’s—i Bin, so
as to hate, forsake, and loatne it—the
Saviour, so as to seek salvation, and,
finding it, give God all praise for it—
and Service under the easy yoke of
.(esus. —Old Humphrey in The Little
G tenner.
HOUAKT PASUA AS A ItI.OCKA DE
It CNN Ell.
The exploit of Admiral Hobart Pasha,
of the Turkish navy, in passing down the
Danube under tlie very guns of the Rus
sian batteries at Galatz, as described in
the recent London dispatches, recalls to
memory tlie career of this adventurous
man as a blockade runner in America
during tho tvar of the rebellion. Cap
tain George Forsyth, of Charleston,
formerly an officer in the confederate
navy, and at present visiting this city,
gave to a Tribune reporter on Wednes
day evening the following particulars of
the Admiral,then Commandant., Hobart’s
experience in this country. At the out
break of tho war a number of wealthy
merchants of England formed an associ
ation, tho object of which was to assist
the southern cause. Commandant Ho
bart and several ottier officers in the Eng
lish navy were enlisted in the cause and
sent to the southern states, where their
services were eagerly accepted. Hobart
landed at Charleston in the summer or
fall of 1801, and was at once assigned to
naval duties. lie soon developed a taste
for daring adventure, and attracted at
tention by his success in capturing sev
eral small union vessels and greatly
damaging others. In the following spring
he was placed in charge of a blockade
runner on tlie Atlantic coast, where he
did valuable work for the confederates.
lie was soon after recalled to the gulf
and for nearly a year was oh the staff of
the admiral commanding at Pensacola.
The numerous successful attacks upon
the union fleet and the daring blockade
running in the vicinity are credited in
the main to his planning and hold exe
cution. In 18611 lie was again put in
command of several blockade runners,
and then began the series of exploits
which created admiration for the skill
and bravery displayed in iheir execution.
It is estimated that Hobart was engaged
in no less than twenty such undertakings,
all of which were exceedingly annoying
and in many instances disastrous to the
union .cause. Hobart was about forty
years of age when he arrived in this
country lie was a heavy-built man, of
dark complexion, and was noted for his
imperious hearing and the ardor with
which he prosecuted every undertaking.
He went to England in the spring of
1804, on account, it is said, of a difficulty
with the officers of the confederate gov
ernment. — N. Y. Tribune.
A ITTll.lll Gil Alt IT Y Til It SKIP Tit
I‘HIVATK I‘IWITT.
Many years age the government of
Nova Scotia assumed the project of plac
ing a number of sheep or swine on Sable
island to avert the danger of starvation
to which the seafarers escaping from
wracks had been exposed. Hut these
animals could not subsist on the only
shrub which thrives on the sands of the
otherwise barren island. An old French
doctor suggested a trial of the tough and
shaggy little horse known as Canadian
ponies, and forthwith a detachment of
them was forwarded in the gov
ernment steamer to Sable island. The
unfastidious ponies took kindly to
the solitary shrub, made the island their
home and became wild in time. Recent
exports from the island show that the
ponies are becoming almost extinct,
(owing to the frequent capturing of large
numbers of them for use on Anticosti
island, and for sale among settlers in the
interior of Newfoundland and distant
hamlets of Nova Scotia.— Toronto dole.
Under the modified marriage law of
! Indiana, licenses may be issued to youths
lof eighteen and girls of sixteen. The
tendency of this is to extend the divorce
I business.
GRA VE AND GA V.
..A Nashville hank roblrcr burrowed
under a street for five days, and at length
came up in the coal vaultof a beer saloon
three doors away from the hank, and bit
himself in eleven places with the most
uncompromising dog he ever tried to
conciliate. The next time he tries any
mining operations he will take a practical
engineer along.
. .An honest yoeman, of very correct
habits, who was told that if he smoked
one less cigar a day for two years, he
could save money enough, principal and
interest, to buy a good farm, has made
himself sick as death every day for the
past two weeks trying to learn to smoke.
Thus is the path of honest industry beset
with difficulties.
.. 1 talked with a minion from her ma
jesty’s dominions. Says I, “ Where are
you going ?” Says he, “To hide a hoe.”
Says I, “ What are are you going to hide
a hoe for?” Says he,* , ‘ didn’t say
hide a hoe; I said hide a hoe?- Says I,
“Spell it.” Says he, “ o.” “Oh,
says 1, ‘ldado.’” “Yes,” says he,
“ Hide a hoe,”
..A man out on Summer street has
eight daughters, and when they cleaned
house last week the women raked 9,724
quids of chewing gum down from the
window casings, chair hacks, door panels
and sofa backs, the accumulation of the
past winter. And this does not include
the wads which the man, at various times,
sat down on and carried away on the tails
of his coat, for which no accurate returns
have been made.— Hawke ye.
.. “ I once heard,” says a writer in
Truth, “the following refreshing remark
from a mite of four years. I had been
compelled, having been injudiciously
forestalled by a too zealous nurse, to ex
plain to her the orthodox view of the
ultimate fate ol the wicked, and was
watching rather nervously for some ex
pression of incredulity or alarm, when,
turning to the cradle wfiere her baby
brother slept, the child exclaimed, point
ing to the infant, ‘That’s a had job for
him!’”
.. In the language of the tramps, the
letter “ H ” on the jthte-post means that
the residents will give the caller a hand
ful of grub; “H ” that he will get a seat
at the table; “S M” that he will get a
square meal, and “O I!" that he will
get the “grand bounce.” Now that the
secret is out, let every householder hie
himself to his gate-post and digin letters
deep, and that cannot be misunderstood,
the mystic sign “OR!” Here, at last,
is the complete solution of the tramp
problem.— Chicago Keening Journal.
.. Kladderadatsch represents the way
in which it regards the eastern question
as follows: A man and woman stand be
fore the curtain of a theater on which is
a notice to the effect that “ To-day and
till further notice the Iriental question’
will be played.” They remark that “ too
much of that Hort of thing'grows tire
some,and besides one dosn’t know whether
it is a comedy, a tragedy or a farce,”
when from behind the curtain of the
Turk roars a voice saying: “ Wait til!
you sec the end of the fifth act!”
run tttssnns as ca valry.
The irregular troops, commonly sjsiken
of as Don Cossacks, form the peculiarity
of the Russian army. They are wild
cavalry from the vast plains traversed by
the River Don; and though]there are
similar troo|is from other districts, the
Dons, by number and the perfection of
the Cossack characteristic, have become
the representatives of the race. They
are not imposing or very martial in ap
pearance, being generally small men,
mounted on small horses, with short stir
rups, bringing their knees well up. In a
charge they would hardly stand against
the western cavalry ; but courage in the
charge is not their character. They seem
to ho under nojother discipline than that
of a spontaneous service; and they hover
on the outskirts of a march ora battle,
always as ready to run away, if over
matched, as to advance. Their horses
are as intelligent as dogs. Their paee is
the gallop, and they will go on for many
miles over a rough country, with noses
lowered almost to the ground ; or they
stand erect in the saddle to survey the
surrounding country. They will, more
over, thrive where less hardy horses would
starve. The Cossacks are invaluable as
scouts and light cavalry. They apjs>ar
suddenly to a hostile, now in flank, now
in front and now in the rear, obeying
orders generally, but in their own wild
way, and are especially skillful in secur
ing plunder. They can “move so fast
and so far, galioping over slippery, stony
paths, appearing and disappearing with
out. anv ul sliatD© flt retreating,
that, th.-y would be as unmanageable by
regular cavalry as little boys are by a
policeman.” The dress of the Cossacks
consists of a heavy shirt, loose, bagry
trousers, cloak and sheepskin cap, and
thev are armed with pikes, swords and
carbines. The horse equipments consist
of a blanket, wooden saddletree, two
leathern wallets and a forage rope. Dur
ing peace some regiments, about a third
of the whole force, say 3 ',OOO to 50,000
men, are kept in garrison. The rest are
at home on furlough, but ready, nd
more than ready, for the excitement of
actual service.— Detroit Dews.
