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Thn Kiprrlmrnt Mud by tlio UnlUil HUtt I tutor Ihn Civil Wnr Inaiiltlns Conduct lUrltlra of Cntnrlm IHprctal OnrnwpomlrncA ) Wasiiimiton, Oct. !. Admlrnl l'ot ter octuiplpK ono of tho most luteri'Htlng oft1cen In Wnnhlngton. It la n largo room, nlKit )20 hy 1)0 feet, built over tho carriage gato nt Ills homo on II ntreot. Among tho thounnnrin of souvenirs of tho mlmlrnra career hero preserved, repre senting every Ktngo of IiIh public ncrvlceii during tho past sixty yeara, nono nro more Interesting than n nerloHof pictures of catnola hanging upon tho walls amid pictures of ships nnd guna. Curious to know what a navnl olllccr could liavo had to do with animals which no stretch of tho imagination could associate with tho navy, I questioned tho old ndmlral nliout them whllo paying him a visit bov oral months ago. TIIK UN1TKD BTAT1CU MACHINK OUN UAT TKUY MOUNTED ON CAMEL "Thnt Is nn old story," aald tho ad miral. lighting another of tho littlo cigarn of which ho has ntuoked twenty or moro a day for a quarter of a century. "TIiobo pictures recall ono of tho Btrangest Incidents of my career, nn in cident in which JeiTerson Davis boro a prominent part. In March, 1853, con grcsa np)ropriated $J10,000 for tho pur chaso of camols nnd dromedaries to bo employed for military purposes. Jeffer son Davis was then necretary of war, and If I mistake not tho Idea was his. At any rate, ho entered heartily Into tho experiment, for of cottroo uxperiment it was, nnd dotailod Maj. Wayno to go to Asia for camels. I was dctaitod for a similar service, nnd Wayno nnd I sailed together In tho steamship Supply, which I commanded. I remember now that wo were much laughed nt by our brother ofilcers', and they mndo many jokes nt our oxpenso. Yet tho novelty of tho ex pedition attracted us, nnd wo went away determined to do nil in our power to mako tho experiment n success. Wo ex pected to hnvo nomo fun, anil had it." Hero tho old ndmlral laughed heartily, and after procuring another match with which to relight his cigar, proceeded to tell tho story of tho expedition: "lyiriy in August wo arrived nt Tunis, and bought there n camel, which we waun.ii lor too purposo 01 making a study of tho best manner of keeping tho animals on board ship. Tho boy of Tunis, hearing of tho purposo of our visit, pre sented two very lino aulmnls to us. It was ut Tunh we llrat learned thnt in tho orient u camel trade is n good deal Hko n horeo triulo in tho Occident. Wo bought a camel of u trader. The animal had ft lino pedigree, nnd was warranted sound and freo fiom disease. Wo had not hud him long before wo discovered ho was diseased, nflllcted with tho itch nnd lame. Wo dually gave him away, nnd ono of those presented us by tho Iwy of Tunis nlso went wrong, and wo sold him for a souir. It did not tuku us lot..' "to get our eyes open on tho camel busi ness, ana boioro tluishing our trip wo bo came pretty sharp traders ourselves. "An instanco of this occurred nt Alox undrla during our second visit to tho orient. Whllo wo woro in that part we received word from our consul gonernl that tho viceroy of Egypt desired to show his esteem for tho president of tho United States by presenting us with six flno dromedaries. Wo wero naturally much delighted at this, for wo know his highness, tho viceroy, had many dno animals, and that ho had been engaged in drilling u dromedary corps on tlio Per sian system, each animal to carry two men armed with carbines. Wo were also aware of the fact that oriental po tentates, in making presents, tako prido In giving nothing but tho choicest Our joy was, however, soon turned Into chagrin. "When word came that the six flno dromedaries awaited our pleasure in tho palace yard I sent an officer for them, lie camo back in a fow minutes and told mo tho animals woro bo wretched in appearance and so rotten with aBTTINd TUB CAMHL, ON BOAIU), disease that ho would not tako tho responsibility of accepting them without further orders. I went to look at tho animals, and found them in finitely worso than they had been repre sented. They are not dromedaries at all, but tho common strcot camel of Alexan dria, tho most ill-used and wretched looking bcust in tho world. To mukc mutters worso, two of thcM camels had been purchased by Maj. Wayno at Cairo and Icfgo bgolrrnt Alexandria be cause they wero diseased. Actually, theso two animals which wo had already rejected wero' tho best in tho lot of six offered" tis ivjtlr'gnnt ilourlsh or triun peta by his higlinesH tho viceroy. "You cau linafdno how nngry I was," IwJkJk IMP W J tld tho old admiral, savagely biting the nd ofT n cigar. "It lookctl llko n studied Inmilt, drolgnod to turn tho wholo expo dltlon Into rldlonlo. I refused to ncccpt Iho nnlinnln, nnd nnttlnwn mid wroto tho viceroy n letter which must havo mado Jils cars tlnglo. Ono paragraph of it, I remember, wiw llko thin: 'Wo hnvo too good n country, my dear nlr, to allow any otio to dcprcciato It With mich offer- Ings. Crowned heads In their Inter course with each other omit no courto sles, nnd mako no present thnt thoy may hlush to show, There Is ns much duo to our Intelligence an to any crowned head of ICurope, and wo will not accept any gift uiiIchh mndo In n proper man ner.' "Perhaps tho viceroy was startled to receive such a letter from a young lieu tenant of tho American navy, but ho promptly sent us nn apology, and sought to mako nmends by sending for moro nnimnk Tho viceroy nlso said ho would severely punish his servants for tho shameful manner In which thov had ex ecuted his orders. Ho did Rend us somo moro animals, which wero fairly good ones, though not such ns wo should havo purchased. "Of course wo learned n grcnt deal nbout camels and dromedaries," ndded mo uuiiurni, "nnu i must say that my respect for tho animal was greatly In creased by familiarity. In all my ox pcrienco I invariably found them tho snmo enduring, uncomplaining, gentlo creatures. They labor on from day to day, under brutal drivers, nnd kneel down nt night, nftor n hard day'8 work, tho pictures of meekness, to chow their smnll nllowanco of food, always ready to start at a moment's notico, and rarely exhibiting signs of fntlguo. Tlioro nro two kinds of camols tho Dactriau, or two humped, found In Tnrtary nnd tho northern jwrtlons of Central Asia, and tho Arabian, or enmel with ono hump. Tho dromedary is simply a ono hump camei usou as n Bwitt courser, or racer. "A burden camolcnn carry moro than half n ton of load, though of courso not at great speed. I havo frequently seen them loaded with 1,500 or 1,000 pounds nnd moving off nt n fair gait. An aver ago load, under favorable circumstances, Is nlxnit 000 pounds, nnd this n camel will carry easily, without pushing, twen- ty-llvoor thirty miles n day. Col. Mo Mlndo told Maj. Wayno thnt In Gen. Nnpler's campaign against Slndo they had nn efllclent corps of 1,000 men mounted on 600 dromedaries, two men to each dromedary, both armed with rifles nnd sabres. In battlo tho animals wero mndo to kneel in n square, under tho charge of 500 of tho men, forming n base of operations from which tho othor 600 oik' rat od as lnfnntry. "In casoof extremity tho thousand men could And shelter behind tho animals, which wero prevented from rising by a hobblo on tho fore leg. This corps fre quently marched Boventy miles in twclvo hours. I havo heard somo romarkablo tales of tho speed of dromedaries. An Arab told mo ho had traveled GOO miles In a week on tho back of his dclool, but this was simply an cxamplo of tho ori ental habit of amplification. Ah, what liars thoy aro in tho east. It Is true, however, that whllo a horso can outrun a dromedary in a short rnco, tho latter will tako a load of four or flvo hundred pounds nnd mako his tlfty miles a day for a month. CAMEL ON BOAltD SHIP DURING A STORM. "An odd thing in camel driving is that they must not bo pushed. They will set their own gait, moving slowly whero the road Is unfnvorablo and making up lost tlmo of their own volition on tho good Btrctchos, Tho camel has ono great ad vantago over n horso. Ho can llvooff anything, llko u goat. Hd browses on overy shrub nnd plant that grows, even tho thistle nnd tho prickly pear. Ho can also travel, in emergoncy, three, four, oven six or Boven days without water or food. It Is his ugly looking hump thnt enables him to do this. Com losed of gelatinous fut, tho nnlmnl lives off it by reabsorptton. In tho cast tho condition of n camel after a long jour noy is judged by tho slro of Ida hump. "It is not uncommon to seo camels como in, after long nnd painful jour neys, with backs almost straight, their humps having nearly disappeared. I was much surprised to learn that tho hump does not Boom to bo intimately connected with tho animal's vitality. Linant Bey told mo ho had often opened tho humps when thoy became so large from high feeding as to prevent tho saddle dttlng properly, and taken out largo pieces of fat without injuring tho animal or affecting his health. It Is generally supposed, too, that tho camel thrives better in hot than in cold coun tries, but this is not true. I seo no rea son why tho camel should not do well and bo vory useful In tho climato of Texas and on all of our southwestern plains. "Thero is much to commend tho cam el. Ho is always gentlo and submissive. His only fault is stubbornness, but ho is not as bad as tho tnulo. Ho kneels to get his load, and will carry all ho can riso with. Ho eats littlo more than the horse. Ho is bo patient that ho will march until completely exhausted, then falling, never to rlho ngnlu. "As a result of our two voyagos," con cluded tho ndmlral, "wo landed in Texas soventy-flvo cumels. Wo had somo very rough weather at sea. und several ani mals died, but wo actually landed with ono moro than wo had started with. In storms tho unlinala kneeled on deck and woro lashed to a spar. Our experiment in Texas did not turn out successfully. Ono uftor another of tho nuimals died I for lack of intelllgent'curo and -feedlug, i ueiicve, nun niter mo war began in 1601 nothing more was heard of the piojeet. Hut for several years a number of ihonuimuUdid very well, juul tlfejr usefulncbx w.a put to many tests." " WALTKIt WlUXMAN. RU8SIAN PEASANTS AT HOME. An Kntertalnlng fatter from the Pen I)tI(I Ker. (Special Correstndenco. ' New Yohk, Oct, 54. "These nro tho men who carry tho wholo Russian em pire on their shoulders," said n noted Nihilist leader to mo ono flno summer evening in tho Russian vlllngoof Ostnsh koto, ns wo stood watching n passing group of mujlks (peasants), "nnd tho mo ment thoy dud thnt out and feel tholr backs beginning to ncho with its weight, down comes tho wholo concernl" Theso prophetlo words camo back to my momory with ominous forco n year later, as I sat in front of my tiny log hut In tho hamlet of Dogorodskoo (on ono of tho tributaries of tho Upper Volga) to watch tho red sun sink lmhlnd tho shad owy pines, whllo tho peasants of tho littlo village, men, women and children, camo filing past mo, somo hot and dusty from their labor In tho fields, others looking pnloand tired after sitting nt work all day in their closo nnd unwhole somo huts. There thoy go, tho sallow, (warded, low browed, heavy look in ir tollors. with hard wooden faces and shaggy hair, who "carry all Russia on their backs." Somo of tho younger nnd moro well to do men wear red calico shirts outsldo their other clothes: but tho majority keep to tho traditional sheepskin frock (swnrmlng with "indigenous creepers") which serves Ivan Petrovltch nil tho year round, tho wool lHslng worn outsldo in summer nnd insido in winter. Tho short skirted women mnny of whom, though barefooted, wear showy earrings havo their sunburned faces turbaned with Bcarlet handkerchiefs, for tho Russian is as fond of bright colors ns tho negro, und his word for "very beau tiful" means literally "bright red." Tho unmarried women aro distinguished from tho rest by tho peculiar plaiting of their bnck hair, and among them I no tico ono young girl (with a light woodon yoko balanced acrooH her loft shoulder, and a poll of water attached to either end of It) whoso bright fnco and ringing laugh might well nmazo any ono who (likomv. self) was nwaro that sho had been tried only a fow months before for tho murder of her Illegitimate child, and that, al though saved by an ingenious leiral quibblo, sho was believed guilty by overy ono who know anything nbout tho matter. Many of tho faces show consldornblo marks of beauty desplto their worn np poarnnco, but all allko, whether men or womon, are spoiled by tho characteristic defect of all Slavonian races, viz., tho heavy mouth nnd broad bulldog jaw a drawback which marred (in my eyes nt least) ono of tho handsomest women in Russia, a maid of honor belonging to tho household of tho czar's sister, tho present Duchess of Edinburgh, Tho houses of tho "mujlks" nro as queer as themselves. Many of tho tiny huts nro built wholly with tho hatchet, without n nail or iron fastening of any kind, tho ends of tho logs being jointed Into each other, llko tho corners of a schoolboy's slate. Tho crevices nro flllcd with a mortar mado of clay, moss and dead leaves, nnd tho roof is either shin gled or thatched with reeds and dried grass. Tho ordlnury izba (cottago) has two rooms and a loft, but not n few of them (as was tho caso with tho hut which I myself occupied) havo only ono, Tho furniture usually consists of nn enor mous bed covered with a quilt of colored patchwork, which looks liko n colossal map of. tho United States n hugo tiled stove, with n "lojankn" (bed plnco) on tho top of it a rough deal tablo, a stool or two, n portrait of tho householder's pa tron Balnt in ono corner, with a tiny lamp burning In front of It, nnd n pious roach making a laborious pilgrlmago around its gilt f ramo; ami last, but not least, a big tea urn of brass or copper, known as a "samovnr" (self boiler). This last item, indeed, is tho most important of all, tho Russian peasant being bo fond of tea that ho oven culls n present of monoy "nut dial" (something for tea), and ho might fnirly assume a tea urn as his heraldic crest, with tho motto, "Iu tea Bjernvi." I am just beginning my supper when my attention is drawn to n bustlo of ex citement among a group of peasants, who aro having n kind of impromptu tea drinking in front of tho next hut, tho stir being evidently caused by a tall young fellow who has just joined tho party, nnd seems to havo brought some very startling piece of news. "U'b as truo as tho holy book, bro thers," cries the now comer. "I heard with my own ears our starosta (vlllago bailiff) tell it to Feodor Nikeetin just this minute." "What has happonod, thou?" asks tho host, a scarred Crimean veteran. "Theso Nihilist dogs nro nt their tricks again. Ono of thorn throw a bomb yes terday at Father Alexander Aloxandro vltch (tho czar) in tho streets of St. Peters burg. However. Qod saved him from harm; but tho man wasn't caught." "Nor over will bo," growled another: "tho jKjlico aro cleverer at arresting tho wrong man than tho right ono, nnd you may trust a Nihilist to save his own skin I" "Say what you will, though, brothers, our father, the (iosudar (emperor), seems to bo afraid of them." "Afraid?" echo half a dozen voices. "Tho emperor afraid." "Well, why docs ho shut himself up in Uatchlnu and never stir out? And why did ho wait two wholo years before going to 'mother Moscow' to bo crowned lest they should kill him? It's no use talking, brothers when ono Is afraid, ono is!" "Truo," growled tho old soldier: "but to think of n Russian czar fearing any mortal man! What would Nikolai Pav iovltch (Nicholas, son of Paul) havo said to thut? Ho feared no danger: ho mndo dauger fear lihn! He reigned tldrty years, and no ono dart d touch him. Wo hall nover hnvo such another czarl" "But didn't ho opprens tho people, Undo Meeshn?" (Mlclwcl). "Perhaps, but lie let no ono else oppress them." 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