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KERAMOS,"

DY MENAY LONGFELLOW.

Cloister and castle, street and mart, Are garlanded and gay with flowers That blossom in the fields of Art.

Here Gubbio's workshops gloam and glow With brilliant iridescent dyes,

Turn, turn, my wheel! Turn round and The dazzling whiteness of the snow,

ext round

Without a pause, without a sound :··

Bo'sping the flying world away !

This clay, well mixed with mart and sand, Follows the motion of my hand;

For some must follow and some command,

• Though all are made of olay t

Thus sang the Potter at his task Beneath the blossoming hawthorn-tree, While o'er his features, like a ronsk, The quilted sunshine and leaf shade Moved, as the bonghs abeyo him awayod, And blothed him, till he seemed to be A figure woven in tapestry,

So sumptuously was ho arrayed

In that magnificent attiro

Of sablo tiesno flaked with fro.

Like a magialan be appeared,

A conjuror without book or beard;

And while he plied his magic art For it was magical to me- I stood in silence and apart, And wondered more and more to see That shapeless, lifeless mass of olay Rise up to meet the master's hind, And now contract and now expand, And oven his slightest toach obey; While over in a thoughtful mood Ho song is ditty, and at times Whistled a tune between the rhymes, As a melodione interlude.

Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must

change

To something new, to something strange:

Nothing that is can pauss or stay? The moon will war, the moon will wane, The mist and cloud will turn to rain, The rain to mist and cloud again,

-To-morrow be to-day,

Thus still the Potter esng, and still, By come unconscious set of will, The melody, and even the words, Ware intermingled with my thought, As bits of colored thread are caught And woven into nesta of birds. And thus to regions far remote, Beyond the sccan's vast expanse, This wizard in the motley cost Transported me on wings of song, And by the northern shores of Frisco Bore me with restless speed along. What land is this, that seems to be A mingling of the land and sea ? This lund of sluices, dikos, and dunes ? This water-net, that tessellates

The landscape this unending mate Of gardens, through whose latticed gates The Imprisoned pinke and talips gažej Where in long summer afternoons The sunskine, softened by the haze, Comes streaming down as through a screen; Where over fields and pastures greck The painted ships float high in air, And over all and everywhere The sails of windmilis sink and Boar Like wings of sea-gulls on the shore? What land is this 7 Yon pretty town Is Delft, with all its wares displayed; The pride, the market-place, the crown And centre of the Folter's trade. See! every house and room is bright With glimmers of reflected light From plates that on the dresser shine; Fingons to foam with Flemish beer, Or sparkle with the Rhenish wine, And pilgrim-flasks with flours-de-lis, Aud ships upon a rolling ses,

And tankarda pewter-topped, and queer With grotesque mask and musketeer 1 Each hospitable chimney smiles

A welcome from its painted tiles; The parlor walls, the chamber foors, The stairways and the corridors, The borders of the garden walks, Are beautiful with fadeless flowers, That tover droop in winds or showers, And never withor on their stalks. Turn, turu, my wheel! All life is brief 3. What now is bud will soon be leaf,

What now is leay will soon decay; The wind blows east, the wind blows west; The blue eggs in the robin's nest Will soon have wings and beak and breast,

And flutter and fly away.

Now southward through the air I glide, The song my only pursuivant, And see across the landscape wide The blue Charonte, upon whose tide The belfries and the spires of Saintes Ripple and rock from side to side, As, when an earthquake rende its walls, A crumbling city reels and falls. Who is it in the suburbs here,

This Potter, working with such cheer, In this mean house, this mean attire, His manly features bronzed with fire, Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to day? This madman, as the people say Who breaks his tables and his chairs To food his furnaco fires, nor cares Who goes uniod if they are fod, Nor who may live if they are dead? This alchemist with hollow cheeks, And sunken, searching eyes, who seeks, By mingled earths and oras combined With potency of fire, to find

Some new enamel hard and bright, His dream, his passion, his delight?

O Pallasy i within thy breast

Burned the hot fever of unrest:

Thine was the prophet's vision, thine

The exultation, the divine

Insanity of noble minds,

That neror falters nor abates,

But labore and endures and waits,

Till all that it foresees, it ands,

Or what it cannot find, creates !

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Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar

A touch can make, a touch canyar j

And shall it to the Potter say, What makest thou Thou hast no hant da men who think to understand, · world by their Creator planned

Who wiser is than they.

Still guided by the droamy sung, As in a transe I fost along Above the Pyrenean chainj. Above the folds and farms of Spain, above the bright Majorsan fale That lends its softened name to afh A spot, a dot upon the chart,

Whose Bitle towns red-roofed with tile, Are ruby-lustred with the light

Of blaring furnacer by night,

The cobalt blue of summor skios; And vase and scutcheon, cup and plate, In perfect finish emulate. Fanza, Florence, Pesaro.

Forth from Urbino's gate there came

A youth with the angelic name

Of Raphael, in form and face Himself angelio, and divino In arts of color and design.. From him Francesco Xanto epaght Something of his transcendent graco, And into fictile fabrics wrought Suggestions of the master's thought. Nor loss Maestro Giorgio shines With madro-porl and golden linos Of arabesques, and interweaves

His birde and fruits and flowers and leaves About some landscape, shaded brown, With olive tints on rock and town. Behold this onp within whose bowl, Upon a ground.of deopost bino With yellow-luatrod stars o'oriaid, Colors of overy tint and kuo Mingle in one harmonions whole! With large blue eyes and steadfast gaze, Her yellow hair in net and braid, Necklace and car-ringe all ablaze, With golden lustre o'or the glaze, A woman's portrait; on the soroll, Cana, the Beautiful! A name Forgotten save for such brief fame As this memorial can bestow A gift some lover long ago

Gare with his heart to this fair damo.

A nobler title to renown

Is thine, O pleasant Tuscan town, Seated beside the Arno's stream; For Luca delle Robbia there Created forms so wondrous fair They made thy sovereignty supremie.. These choristers with lips of stone, Whose music is not heard but seen, Still about, as from their organ-EOTOON, Their maker's praise; nor these alone, But the more fragile forms of clay, Hardly less beautiful than they, These saints and angels that adorn The walls of hospitals, and tell The story of good deeds so well That poverty seems less forlora, And life more like a holiday. Here in this old neglected church, That long eludes the traveller's search, Lies the dead bishop on bis tomb; Earth upon earth he slumbering lies, Life-like and death-like in the gloom; Garlands of fruit and flawers in bloem And foliage deck his resting-place) A shadow in the sightless eyes, A pallor on the patient face, Made porfeet by the furnace heat; | All earthly passions and desires Burnt out by purgatorial fires; Seoming to say, "Our years are fleet, And to the weary death is sweet." But tho most wonderful of all The ornaments on tomb or wall That grace the fair Ansonian shores Are those the faithful earth restored, Near some Apulian town concealed, In vineyard or in harvest field i Vases and urns and bass-reliefs, Memorials of forgotten griefs, Or records of heroic deada

And drowned by day with wreathe of smoke.

The eastward wafted in my fight

On my enchanter's magic cloak,

I call acress the Tyrchene Sea

Into the land of Italy,

And o'er the windy Apennines. Mantled and musical with pines. The palaces, the princely halls, The doors of houses, and the wall. PI thurshes and of baldry towary

Of demi-gods and mighty chiefs; Figures that almost move and speak, And, buried amid mould and weeds, Still in their attitudes attest The presence of the graceful Greek: Achilles in his armor dressed, Alcides with the Cretan bull," And Aphrodite with her boy, Or lovely Helona of Troy, Still living and still beautiful 1 Turn, turn, my wheel Tie Nature's plan The child should grow into the man,

The man grow wrinkled, old, and gray: In youth the heart exults and sings, The pulses leap, the feet have wings; In age the cricket chirps, and brings

The harvest-hume of day.

And now the winds that southward blow, And cool the hot Sicilian isle, Bear me away. I see below The long line of the Libyan Nilo, Flooding and feeding the parched lands With manual obb and overflow: A fallen palm whose branches lis Beneath the Abyssinian sky, Whose roots are in Egyptian annds. On either bank huge water-wheels, Belted with jars and dripping weede, Send forth their melancholy moans, As if, in their gray mantles hid, Dead anchorites of the Thebaid Enelt on the shore and told their beads, Beating their breasts with loud appeals And penitential tears and groans. This city, walled and thickly set With glittering mosque and minerot, Is-Cuiro, in whoso gay bazarE The dreaming travoller first inhalos The perfume of Arabian gales, And soon the fabulone earthen jars, Huge as were those whorela the maid Morgians found the Forty Thieves Concealed in midnight ambuscade; And seeing more than half belisras The fascinating tales that ran

THE CHINA MAIL.

Ara swopt along the avenues, And lie in heaps by hedgo and wall," So from this grove of chimneys whirled To all the markets of the world, These porcelain leaves are wafted on-- Light yellow leaves with spots and stains Of violet and of crimson dye, Or tendor azure of a sky

Just washed by gentle april rains, And beautiful with: cóludon.

Nor less the conzoor household wares→→→ The willow pattern, that we knew In childhood, with its bridge of blus Loading to unknown thoroughfares; The solitary man who stares At the whito river flowing through Its arches, the fantastic trees And wild perspective of the view; And intermingled among fliese The tiles that in our nursorios Filled us with wonder and delight, Or haunted us in dreams at night. And yondor by Nankin, behold! The Tower of Porcelain, strange and old, Uplifting to the astonished skies' Its ninefold painted balconies, With balustrades of wining leaves, And roofs of tile, beneath whose payos Hang parcelsin bells that all the timo Ring with a soft molodious chimo; While the whole fabric is ablaze With varied tints, all fused in ono Great mass of color; like a maze Of flowers illumined by tho sun. Ture, turn, my wheel ! What is begun At daybreak must ut dark be done,

To-morrow will be another day; To-morrow the hot furnace flame Will search the heart and try the frame, And stamp with honor or with shame

These vessels made of clay. Cradled and rocked in Eastern sead, The islands of the Japanese Beneath man lie; o'or lake and plain The stork, the heron, and the erano Through the clear realms of azure drift, And on the hill-sido I can see The villages of Imari, Whose thronged and flaming workshops lift Their twisted columns of smoke on high, Cloud-cloisters that in rains lie, With sunshine streaming through each rift, And broken arohoe of blue sky.

No. 4546-JANUARY 26, 1878.

Early on the morning of Friday, Novem bor 9, a plokod body of Russian, Infantry. not out from their camp, which la situated

the general surrender, marched back and Duke's Lancars pursued them and killed a ¦ ita being built of tiles or brick. - On the laid down its arms with the rest. ; 17 few. Sover battalions Iald down their northern and southern sides Erzeroum is I send you some details of the battle of arms, and, to judge by the appearance of protected by a long line of rampart, arrang- Gorny Dubnik on the 24th. The place was the men, were not sorry to exchange stared on the modern system. The forte, the centre of the defences on the Nolls road, vation and cold for better fare and a life ramparts, and redoubts are, moreover, this place, Dolny Dubnik on the east, and free from abells; but Achmet Fevzi Pasha armed with powerful ordnance, the majori Tolis on the west, being its outlying posts, behaved with great dignity when questioned ty of which comes from the satablishments” It was strongly Intrenched, with a principal in Goorko's tent. Thus the persistence of of Krupp of Basen. redoubt of 400 yards outside and a small the men turned what would have been an- high redoubt fugide. This was Janked | other bloody repulse Into a great success; again at about 1,600 yards on each side by but this paltry earthwork most the and a smaller redoubt, while lines of shelter Division of the Imperial Guard 164 officers on the Toul Dagh, between the Doviboyun trenches and detached rife plts, extending and a little over 3,000 men. It was not positions and the Turkish forts on the over two miles, made up a very formidable General Gourko's fault. His attack was eastern side of Erzerown, and proccoded position. The whole of this faced south, admirably planned, and would have been towards Fort Azizio, Mehemet All Pasha covering the little village of Goray Dubaik, well exouted if the irrepressible Impetuositella me that they wore the fez and Turkish which lies in a hollow behind. It was held ty of the young Grenadier Regiment had uniforms, that they spoke the Turkish by about 12 battalions of Turks, under not spoilt all and allenced half his guns for language fluently, and that they were either Chefket Pasha bimself, but who left the the whole day.

Oircassians in disguise or people from the place early in the day. His troops fought While this action was going on, the 1st | neighbourhood of Alexandropol, but I can- under Achet Feogi Pasha, a very respect Division of the Guard, under Ranch, was not guarantee the exactitude of, this In- able soldier of 6o who did his duty well blooking the Plavna road, and the 4th of formation. Be this as it may, the party Obefket's absence did not make much the lat Division, known in our books as | reached the fort between two and three difference to his men, who fought well for the Gachins Regiment, but which has o'clock in the moring." It was pitch dark. seven hours, as Orientals always do behind recently received haar its old title of The Turkish sentinela were poignarded, or walts. Thoy had only four guns in all in the Jagerski, which it bore under Paul I., was at all events, killed without firearms belug contral redoubt. General Gaurko crossed detached an a flanking party to the west to used and before they could raise an alarm. the Vid at the shallows near the village of observe Telis, where five battalions of Turks The Russians, who had brought long lad- Chiratoo at 6 A.M. on the 24th. The troops were intrenched with only three guns. ders with them, immediately hoisted them engaged were:-The 2nd Division of the Precisely the same thing happened there. against the walls of the barracks and enter- Guard-vix, the Moscow Grenadiers, Pau- What was intended for a reconnoissance ed the building by the windows. ** The loff and Finland Regiments, and the only was converted into an assault by the garrison, aclzed with panic, bogged for | Preobajonski Regiment of the 1st Division, dash of the young soldiers, who got under meroy, and were locked up in their dormt- oach of four baitalione-and the Guard rifle-fire, and then broke out of their officers' tories while Russian sentinels were placed Tirailleur Brigade, 24 battalions in all, with hands. Their rashness, however, cost them in the corridors and round the building. 64 guns and one regiment of Cavalry, the dear. After getting within 500 yards of the In spite, however, of the enemy's precau- Lancers of the Grand Duke Nicholas. The works, they were withdrawb with dificulty tions two or three Turks succeeded in attack was ordered for 1 o'clock, so as to at dusk, and the Turks, thinking they were effecting an escape, and ran to the Med- give the artillery full time to operate; but retreating, sallied ont after them with the jidien Fort to give the alarm. Mehemet the same mistake occurred here as at Pisvna bayonet.

Ali Pacha, who falls in for every dificult ou the 11th of September. The impetuosity

tank, and who certainly deserves the utmost of young troops. feebly handled was not to

praise for the pluck and energy he has bo restrained. At 11 A the Grenadler |

shown on many an occasion of late, was Regiment, which was on the Rusalan loft,

immediately despatched to the Ariels Fort took the right redoubt with a rush. They

with three battalions of infantry. He immediately came under an awful fusillade

arrived before the Russian storming party from the central redoubt commanding it, |

had received reinfordements, receptured" and what was worse, the whole artillery

the fort, put all the Russians he found fire of their left wing was at once noutra

within it to sword, and was ready to show lized. Consequently, the fight languished,

a bold front to the enemy's troops, wha The Mescow Regiment, which followed the

were now hurrying up the hill to swell the Grenadiers, took mors to the right, and on-

ranks of the gallant for who, by stratagem deavoured, under cover of the banks and

or otherwise, had for a moment gained ditches of the chaussée, to etorm the central

possession of this important position. redoubt; but they only added to the slaughter. The Turkish rifle-fire from the left reiloubt took them in flank and rear, and strawed the road thiol with corpses The artillery fire of the Russian right wing was continued all this time; and the right colam, consisting of the Fauloff and Finland Regiments, getting round by the ravines of the little stream on which Gorny Dubaik lies, swarmed up to the glacis of the great redoubt to within 200 yards; but the commanding fire of the indão redoubt kept them also in check, and losing hundreds of men and scores of officers they could not gain an inch of ground.

All the bright flowers that fill the laud, Ripple of waves on rock or sand, The snow on Fusiyama's conc, The midnight heaven so thickly sown With constellations of bright stars, The leaves that rustic, the reeds that make A whisper by each stream and lako, The saffron dawn, the sunset red, Aro painted on these lovely jars; Again the sky-lark sings, again The stork, the heron, and the crane Float through the azure overhead, The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in Art. Art is the child of Nature; yes, Hor darling child, in whom we trace The featurce of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature. Never man, As artist or as artisan, Parsuing his own fantasies, Can touch the human heart, or please, Or satisfy our nobler needs, As he who acts his willing foot In Nature's foot-prints, light and fleet, And follows fearless where she loads. Thus minsed I on that morn in May, Wrapped in my visions like the Seer, Whose eyes behold not what is near, But only what is far away, When suddenly sounding, peal on pest, The church bell from the neighboring town Proclained the welcome hour of noon. The Potter heard, sud stopped his wheel, His apron the grass threw down, Whistled his quiet little tune Not overloud nor overlong, And ended thus his simple song: Stop, stop, my wheel! Too soon, too soon, The noon will be the afternoon,

Too esen to day be yesterday: -Behind we in our path we cast The broken potsherds of the Past, And all are ground to dust at last,

And trodden into clay 1. -Harper's Magazine. ·

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All this occurred at the dead of the night, while the people of Ergeroun, Mahometzun and Christians alike, were slumbering peaco fully on their divane. Between three and four o'clock in the morning 1 was aroused from mine by the landlord of the house in which I reside bursting lato my room with the ory, “Effendi, Effendi, Kharvogah, Kharvegah which meant that fighting was going on. I raised myself on my elbow and Hatoned; and then I heard a sound that is very, very familiar to me.

Nearly 400 wounded remained on the ground close to the works. Then occurred one of those' abominable scenes of horror which would be incredible if It wore not testified to by our own two young country men Dra Douglas and Vacholls, who stated voʻuntarily when prisoners in the Russian camp what they had seen with their own eyes. Not a single dead man was touched, but the hapless wounded who fell into the hands of these brutes, worse than savages, underwent the torture of having their ears and noses cut off, of worse and nameless mutilation, and, in one or two cases, of being fastened down and having fires light- ed on their stomachs. I do not relate what I saw myself because the bodies were all buried before I arrived ; but I tell that which was related to me and to your Special Correspondent by the frank young Englishmen who saw it, and who vowed that no consideration on earth should in duce them to serve with the Turks again. They said also that they ware useless in the hospitals, for whom they wished to ampatate to save life, they were expressedly forbidden by the Pasha, who told them Volley after volley of musketry osten they had special orders to prevent it, ochoing through the stillness of the night," Those unfortunates," so may these wret and thousands and thousands of missiles Such is the effect of broech-loading rife- ches, “will never bandle rifle again. If dew into the darkness on their mission of fire out of the feeblest intrenchments against they die now they will go to Paradise ; If ] death, to the dull accompaniment of heavy men who try to rush over the intervening yon save their lives, the Sultan will have ordnance, which shook the house to Ita ground. It is more butchery all must go to pay them pensions for 40 years, and foundations. "Peckes" (very good), I said down before the bullets; and the Russian Turkey is not rich enough to afford that," to my landlord, an Armenian, who was in Infantry lone so many mon broause, magni- This would be fuoredible If I were not a very excited state of mind, as I drew on ficont on parado, and drilled to mancouvre attested by Englishmen whose honour is my trousers and slipped my arms into my on smooth ground to an inch, they have beyond question,

It took me about three Germany has remen- coat sleeves. not yet learnt even the elements of the now strated forcibly against these barbarities, minutes to dress, and then I hurried on to tactics. An Infantry oorps which is not in We were told a few weeks ago by the Porte the roof, for people in this part of the world the hands of its section commanders in that they were the work of a few Ciross-go on to the roofs of their houses at the anch a case is helplessly destroyed. Each slans and Bashi-Barouks, who could not be present day just as Scripture tells us they I had not been auccussive wave of men in disorder marely restrained like Regulars, and that strict did thousands of years ago. adds to the casualties. It makes no impres-orders had been given that they should on the roof many minutes before it became elon on the enemy; and the more gallantly never bappen again, but all the garrison of evident that a very covero fight was going it is guided by its young officers the more Telia were Regulars, under regular officers on, and that the town was in danger of be it awells the death-roll. Let us la England and commanded by two Pachas. When ing captured by assault. From the forth- profit by the lesson. Unfortunately, you questioned by the Russian Staff why they fications covering the northern slope of the cannot teach it in peace mancaurrea, how permitted such barbarilies, it was the old Top Dagh, which rose up before me at a ever mnob umpires may gallop and storm, story--they could not hold their men-sud distance of only a few hundred yards, You want the bullets in the rifles to teach they declared solemnly they had never volley after volley was poured down into young soldiers. If, as old Marshal Foy heard of the order said to be issued by the the plain, while the artillery of the different said in the Peninsula 60 years ago, the Ports. The purpose of the reconnaissance forts and that on the ramparts was firing in British Infantry are the beat in the world, being accomplished the Regiment of Guard every direction. I have been since told only, fortunately, there are so few of them, Hussars in scarlet uniforms on gray horses that the Turks Imagined that they were bas let us teach those few so thoroughly that made a dash to try and pick up the wound-ing attacked on every side, and that in

ERZEROUM.

(From the Standard's correspondent:)

Erzeroum, Nov. 10.

fire, bursting from the muzzles of the rifles as our men blazed away at a real or imagi- Dary foe. The roofs of the houses around

in the day of battle they will not throwed and bring off as many as they could; order to keep the enemy off the ramparts away a man. Let us deeply improns apon but wearing a uniform which makes them they fired at random into the darkness. I them the saying of Bugasud, "Se faire almost as good a target as it is possible to have already sald that it was pitch dark, tuer, ce n'est que l'enfance do la guerre." conceive, the rifio-fire from the works There was no moon, and not a star to be If I am so urgent about this, and venture, drove them back at once, after losing many soon anywhere, but along the brow of the through your columns, to press the lesson men. Thus the Turks wereleft to work Top Dagh, in front of us, ran a long line of upon men much older and more experienced their cruel will on the belpless victims. than myself, my excuse must be that I am the only representative of the British Army but one that saw with his own eyes the THE FIRST RUSSIAN ASSAULT ON me were crowded with men, women, and slaughter of the 11th of September, and the only one who has soon the fields of these last three fights, and I therefore deem it a public duty that I owe to my camrades of the Army and to England at large to tell faithfully all I have seen, so that I may not at some future day have the mortification to ace 15,000 young Englishmen sacrificed to fales tactics and a bad system. This is a now that there is no danger of the former, lag the Russians to enter the town at every The following letter from the Times is digression which I trust the vital import at least for the time being, as the Russians moment.

ace of the subject will excNKS. interesting not merely for containing an

There do not seem to have any heavy guns, with I stood upon the house-top, looking into can be no more useful study for our officers them, and their deld pieces and mountain the night, watching the flashing of the rifles account of the battle at Dubnik, the detalls than to m ster thoroughly the principles of cannon do not reach the town.

The assault on the Top Dagh, and listening to the boom of which reach us now for the first time, the modern Infantry attack, and then came yesterday morning, and although ing of the great guns of the town, when but also for including the horrible story to formulate them in drill booke and in gallantly repulsed, after a tremendous deal about the alleged ill-usage of wounded by manuals of question and answer, till the of fighting, it may be renewed at any mo the Turks, to which our London corre- spondent has already referred :—

THE BATTLE OF GORNY DUBNIK

I told you in my laat letter that we had plenty of provisions hore in the event of our being besieged, but that what we feared was bombardment and assault. It appears

youngest soldier can get them by heart, ment. Let them be thankful that they have not

even children, who, notwithstanding the dreadful state of terror they were in, had turned out of bed in the hope of being able to see something, and stood pressing against each other like a lot of frightened sheep. They were all Armenians, for I live in the Armenian quarter, within a few doors of the French onsulate, and were all expect

along the streets came a turbanied host, calm, but determined in their demeanour

with their rifles on their shoulders and PLAYNA, November 2nd.

In order to give you an idea of the bold their bayonets and cartridge-boxes by their Dolny Dubnik, the place from which I the devoted, simple, but beary Russian ness of the Russian plats I must commence side, hurrying to the soone of combat. now write, was taken yesterday by General peasant to deal with, but in English, with a brief description of the position of What were they? They were not soldiers, Gourko without the loss of a single man.

Scotch, and Irish lada, even of the poorest Erzsroom. Imagine a rectangular plain, for they bad baggy breeches and flowing With the 2nd Division and part of the 1st class, an intelligence equal to any demands with its sides facing north and south. At gowns, and many of them wore long tunles Division of the Guard (Infantry), and 64 that can be made upon it. We never the north-eastern angle is the mouth of the in gulse of pantaloons. What were they, guas, he attacked yesterday at 8 A. M. The stands the question botter, and then it will Erzeroum. The road to Baibourt and men of the town. They were men who that is, until the nation at large under. Olti valley, while at the south-eastern is then They were the Mahometan trades. Through all the Thousand Nights and One, place was fairly intrenched, and held by wonder it never saw the simple solution Trebisond passes at the western and. The passed their lives in weighing out ounces of

about 5,000 Turks, under the command of before--I say we never for the next ten plain is bounded on the northern and ten and sugar, in cutting up meat and bak

Pasha. After two hours' sharp cannonade and protty closo rifle firing, the Turks years can put more than 90,000 Infantry southern sides by mountains an exceeding bread. They were patriots in the no abandoned the position and fled to Plevna. en to any Europeau field. Let us take ingly precipitous nature. On the eastern blent sense of the word. They must not be care that every lad of them is taught to te slae of the town are some rugged hills confounded with Bashi-Bazouke, although As the place had not been surrounded, as the rifle to the highest perfection of which bending slightly round from east to south they were, of course, irregular troops, for there were no Cavalry present except a the weapon is capable, and this involven east and then to east again in the direction they were not variens of their villages, small escort, and as they had the direct the minute but rapid and practical study of the Deviboyut Pass, where they fala professional robbers, or people with a love road into Plevea, only sis niles, open of ground, behind them, it was impossible to intercept their retreat.

Told by the fair Scheherezade.

More strange and wonderful than those Are the Egyptian deltior

Ammon, and Emoth, and the grand Osiris, holding in his hand

The lotus; Isis, crowned and voiled i The sacred Ibis, and the Sphinx Bracelets with bine-onameled links; The Scarabee in emerald failed, Or spreading wide his funeral wings): Lamps that pershanes their night watch

kept

D'er Cleopatra while she lopt All plundered from the tombs of kings. Turn, turn, my wheel - The human rate, Of every longus, of every places

Caucasian, Coptic, or Malay, All that inhabit this great earth, Whatever be their rank or worth, Are kindred and allied by birth,

And made of the same slay. O'er desert ande, o'er gulf and bay, O'er Ganges and o'er Himalay, Bird-like I fly, and flying sing, To flowery kingdoms of Cathay, Above the town of King te-tching, And bird-like poise on balanced wing

A burning town, or geoming so Three thousand furnaces that glow Incessantly, and fill the air

With smoke uprising, g‡re on gyfa, And painted by the lurid glare Of jets and flashes of red åra.

As leaves that in the sutomu fall,

Spotted and veined with various kuu)

the bills through which the pass ruus. "On for travel and adventure, who had gone to these hills are three forts. On the one the war to satisfy their particular proclivi- nearest the town, which is called the Top ties. They were men who had stores wall Dash, or the Mountain of Canons, sad stocked with articles of general consumption which overhangs the artillery and cavalry men who had left wives, children, and pro barracke, at present the head quarters of perty to defend their towa against the Ahmet Moukatar Pacha, is the Karabasch Muscovite invader. They were the impers Tabia to the south-east of it stands the sonification of Ahmet Moukhtar Packs a Madjidieh Tabia, on what la dalled the answer to the Russian parlementary Ogian Voron, while away to the eart, In shall hold the town so long as I have a the direction of the Deviboyun Pass, a the soldier to serve the guns."

BERKELEY, Sept. 1860.Gentlemen, I

After the capture, therefore, But to ratura to the Gorny Dubaik fight. of Telis on the 20th ultimo, of Gorny The Turks with their four guns, and their Dubnik on the 24th, and of this place 12 battalions, in a dirty little earthwork, yesterday, the investment of Plevna may held their ground from 10 am. till 5 p.m. be regarded as complete. The Solla road against 01 guns and 24 of the finest batta is now entirely closed. If Cemen Pasha lions of the far-famed Imperial Guard of has still 70,000 men, including sick and Russia. Night was drawing on, sud Gourko, that is calculated to be his strength even despairing of success, assombled the brigade after the capture of 19 battalions during commanders, and gave the order to draw the last week-his difficulties from the want the men off under cover of the evening, of provisions will soon become serious. He when all of a sudden the men took the thing Azizio Tabia. These hills are connected is supposed to be yet supplled for one into their own hands. The Trailleur by undulating ground. Is the little plain month but even now, after every heavy Brigade those four splendid battalions on the southern side of them, which is fall of rain, Turkish deserters come over in which I described in a telegram from Gorny really a continuation of the plain of Erzer feel it a duty I owe to you to express my thoals, They say they get nothing to eat, and Studen three weeks agorept round by cum, is a small fort, mounted with three gratitude for the great benefit. I have da botng but very barely clothed they cannot the ravines and village completely in rear or four heavy guns, which was constructed fived by taking Norton's Camomile Pills, stand cold and starvation combined. The of the redoubt, and the men, breaking out by the inhabitants of the town and at their I applied to your agent Mr Bell, Berkeley, deserters are principally Redifs or Land of the hands of the battalion commanders, pwn expense. 1t is aalled the Djebri for the above-named Pills, for wind in the wehrmon the troops of the Line, being rushed up to the glacis, and lying down, Kapou Tabla, by some, and by others the stomach, from which I suffered exorudla well clothed, hold together better. Awept the whole roar parapet with the firo Gamusch Tohumbah Tabla, or the Fort of ting pain for a length of time, having tried pregnant sign of the general demoralization of their Berdans. At the same moment the Silver Tomb, from the fact of a treas nearly every remedy prescribed, but with ls that for the first time in this war, at least the Vinland Regiment entered a break sure having been found in a tomb near out deriving any benefit at all. After la Europeau Turkey, seven battalions at where the ditch and parapet bad not been there. This fort commanda the entrance taking two bottles of your valuable Pills, I Gorny Dubnik and £ve at Tulis laid down completed. When the Turku saw them to the Deriboyan Fass on the Erzeroum or was quite restored to my usual state of their arms without attempting to out their selves outwitted and outambered they lost western side of it. On the western side of health. Please give this publicity for the way through At Tells a ludicrous incident heart, and Achmet Ferzl Pasha at 6 p.m. the town is a bill defended by some rather benefit of those who may thus be afflicted. happened. A Turkish battalion which had hoisted the white fag. Those who were in formidable-looking earth works, and sur--I am, Bir, yours truly, BENET ALLPASS, retired from the Geld carly and secured its the rear works made their escape under mounted by a fort called the KiremidligTo the Proprietors of Norton's Cakes retreat, on hearing an hour afterwards of cover of the darkness, though the Grand Tabla, or the Fort of Tileg en semount of Miss Prum."—HempTË,