through the crowd, now through the hushes, 
now through a forest of rags hung out, now j ou 
hold your nose, and anon hrealho waves of per¬ 
fumed air. From the glowing light of an elevated 
open space whence can he seen the Bosphorus, 
Asia, and the Infinite sky, you drop hy a few steps 
into the gloom and obscurity of a net-work of al¬ 
leys, flanked hy houses falling to ruin, and strewn 
with stones like the bod ol a rivulet. From the 
fresh and pertained shade of trees into suffocating 
dust and overpowering sun; from places full of 
noise and color into sepulchral recesses, where a 
human voice is never heard; from the. divine 
Orient of our dreams Into another Orient, gloomy, 
dirty, decrepit, that gradually takes possession 
of the Imagination. After a few hours spent In 
this way, should any one suddenly ask, ** What is 
Constantinople like?” you could only strike your 
hand upon your forehead, and try lo still the 
tempest of thoughts. Constantinople Is a Baby¬ 
lon, a world, a chaos. Beautiful? wonderfully 
beautiful. Ugly?—it 13 horrible!—Did you like 
It? Madly. Would you live lu ll? How can 1 
tell!—who could say that he would willingly live 
In another planet? You go back to your lun full 
of enthubtun and disgust; bewildered, delighted, 
and with your head whirling, as If cerebral con¬ 
gestion had begun, and your agitation gradually 
quiets down into a profound pfOHrallon and mor¬ 
tal tedium. You have lived through several years 
In a few hours, and feel old and exa listed. 
*'To seethe population of Constantinople It Is 
well to go upon the floating bridge, about one- 
quarter of a mile in length, which extends from 
the most advanced point, ot G data to the opposite 
shore of the Golden Horn, facing the great mosque 
of the Sultana V dirt". Both shores are European 
territory ; but the Ullage may bo said to conuect 
Asia to Europe because lu Stamboul there Is 
nothing Europem save the ground, and even the 
Christian suburbs that crown it are of Asiatic 
Character and color. The Golden Horn, which 
lias the Look of a river, separates two worlds, like 
the ocean. 
“ The newsof events lu Europe wblchelreulat.es 
In Galala and Pera clearly and minutely, and 
much discussed, arrives on the other shore con¬ 
fused and garbled, like a distant echo; the tame 
of great rueu and great things in the West Is 
stopped by that narrow water as by an Insupera¬ 
ble barrier; anil over that bridge, where ever/ 
day a hundred thousand people piss, not one idea 
passes in ten years. 
“standing there otic cau see *11 Constantinople 
goby In an hour. * " * Whatever can be im¬ 
agined that l.i most extravagant in type, costume 
and social class may' there be seen within the 
space or twenty paces and ten minutes of time. 
Behind a throng or Turkish porters who pass run- 
nlug, aud bending under enormous burdens, ad¬ 
vances a sodan-cbalr. Inlaid wllh Ivory and 
mother-of-pearl, and bearing an Armenian lady: 
and at either side of it a Bedouin wrapped in a 
white mantle and a.Turk lu muslin turban and 
sky-blue can an : beMdo w horn cantors a young 
Greek gentleman followed by his dragoman In 
embroidered vest, and a Dervlse with Ills tall 
conical hat and tunic or camel's liair, who makes 
way for the carriage of a European ambassador, 
preceded by Ills running footman In gorgeous 
livery. All this Is only seen In a glimpse, and Ike 
next moment you Unci yourself in the midst of a 
crowd of Persians, In pyramidal bonnets of Astra- 
kan fur, who are followed by a Hebrew in a long 
yellow coat, open at the sides,; a frow/.y-headed 
Gypsy woman with her child lu a bag at her 
hack ; a Catholic priest with breviary aud staff; 
while lu the midst of a contused throng of Greeks, 
Turks and Armenians cornea a big eunuch on 
horseback, crying out. , Larva! (make way!) and 
preceding a Turkish carriage, pointed with flow¬ 
ers and birds, and Idled with the ladles of a 
harem, dressed lu green aud violet, and wrapped 
In large white veils; behind a Slater of Charity 
from the hospital at Pera, an African slave carry¬ 
ing a monkey, and a professional story-teller In a 
necromancer's habit, and what Is quite natural, 
but appears strange to the new-comer, all these 
diverse people pass each other without a look, 
like a crowd In London; aud not one single 
countenance wears a stulle. The Albanian in his 
white petticoat and with pistols in his sash, be¬ 
side the Tartar dresBed tu sheepskins; the Turk, 
astride of ids caparisoned ass, threads pompously 
two long strings of camels; behind the adjutant 
of an Imperial prince, mounted upon his Arab 
steed, clatters a cart idled with all the odd do¬ 
mestic rubbish ol a Turkish household; the Mo¬ 
hammedan woman a-root, the veiled slave woman, 
the Greek with her red cap and her hair ou her 
shoulders, the Maltese hooded In her black fal- 
deffa, the Hebrew woman dressed in the antlquo 
costume ol India, the negro wrapped lu a many- 
colored shawl from Cairo, tne Armenian from 
Treblzonrl, all veiled in black like ft funeral ap¬ 
parition, arc seen in single flle, as If placed Ikero 
on purpose to be contrasted with each other. 
“ It Is a changing runs do of races and religions 
that is composed and sc Altered continually with 
a rapidity that tlie.eye can scarcely lollow. It. Is 
amusing to look only at the passing feet and see 
all the foot-coverings in the world go by, from 
thatot Adam up to the last fashion In Parisian 
boots—yellow Turkish babouckes, red Armenian, 
blue Greek and black Jewish shoes; sandals, 
great boots from Turkestan, Albanian gaiters, 
low cut Sllpptr.-i, leg-plcoes of many colors, be¬ 
longing to horsemen from Asia Mtnor, gold em¬ 
broidered shoes, Spanish allwryntos, shoes ot 
satin, of twine, ot rags, ol wood, so many that 
while you look at one you catch a glimpse ot a 
hundred more. Qoe must be on thoalart not to 
be jostled anl overthrown at, every step. Now It 
Is a water-carrier with a colored jar upon Ids 
back; now a Kusslan lady on horseback, now a 
squad of Imperial soldiers In zouave dress, and 
stepping as If to au assault; now a crew of Ar¬ 
menian porters, two aud two, carrying on their 
shoulders Immense bars, from which are suspend¬ 
ed great bales of merchandise; and now a throng 
ot Turks who dart from left to right of the bridge 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. JUNE IS 
to embark In the steamers that lie there. There 
Is a tread of many feet, a murmuring, a sound of 
voices, gutteraI notes, aspirations Interjectlonal. 
Incomprehensible and strange, among which the 
few French or Italian words that reach the ear 
seem like luminous points upon a black darkness. 
The figures that most attract the eye In all this 
crowd are the Circassians, who go In groups of 
three and live together, with slow steps, big- 
bearded men of a terrible countenance, wearing 
bearskin caps like the old Napoleonic Guard, long 
black caftans, daggers at tbelr girdles and silver 
cartridge-boxes on their breasts: real figures of 
banditti, who look as if t hey had come to Con¬ 
stantinople to sell a daughter or a sister—with 
their hands Imbued with Russian blood. Then 
the Syrians, with robes in the form of Byzantine 
dalmatic, and tbelr heads enveloped In gold- 
si r I perl handkerchiefs; Bulgarians, dressed In 
coarse serge, and caps encircled with fur; Geor¬ 
gians In hats of varnished leather, their tunics 
bound round the waist with metal girdles; Greeks 
from the Archipelago, covered from head to fool 
with embroidery, tassels and shining buttons 
“ From time to time the crowd slackens a little; 
but lust antly other groups advauce, waving with 
re 1 caps aud white turbans, amid which the cyl¬ 
indrical hats, umbrellas and pyramidal head¬ 
dresses of Europeans, male and female, seem to 
float borno onward by that Mussulman torrent. 
It Is amazing even to note t he variet y of religions. 
“ The shining bald head ot the Capuchin friar, 
the towering janissary turban or au Ulema, alter¬ 
nate with the black veil of an Armenian priest, 
Imaums with white tunics, veiled uuus, chap¬ 
lains ot the Turkish army, dressed in green, with 
sabers at their stdes. Dominican friars, pilgrims 
returned from Mecca with a talisman hanging at 
their necks, Jesuits, Dervlses, and this Is very 
strange, Dervlses that tear their own fl jsh In ex¬ 
piation of their sins, and cross tUe bridge under a 
sun-umbrella, all pass by. If you are attentive, 
you may notice la the throng a thousand amus¬ 
ing Inelden's. litre Is a eunuch, showing the 
white of Ills eye at a Christian exquisite, who has 
glanced too curiously into the carriage of his mls- 
treet; there Is a French cocotte, dressed after the 
i i8t fashion plate, leadtng by the hand the be- 
glovedand bejeweied son or a pasha; or a lady 
of stamboul, feigning to adjust her veil that she 
may peer more easily at the train ol a lady of 
Pera; or a sergeant ot cavalry In full uniform 
stopping In the middle of the bridge to blow his 
nose with his fingers In a way to give one a cold 
chill; or a quack, taking his l ist sous from some 
poor devil, and making a cabalistic gesture over 
his face to cure him ol sore eyes. * * • • 
"Seekers after the beautiful or the horrible 
will find their most audacious desires fulfilled ; 
Raphael would be In ecstaeles, and Rembrandt 
would tear his hair. The purest types of Greek 
and Caucasian beauty are mingled with flat noses 
and woolly heads ; queens and fairies paiss beside 
you ; lovely faces and faces deformed by disease 
aud wounds; monstrous feet., aud tiny Circassian 
feet no longer than your hand, gigantic porters, 
enormously corpulent Turks and black sticks of 
skeleton shadows of men that fill you with pity 
and disgust; every strangest aspect In which can 
be presented the Ascetic, life, the abuse of plea¬ 
sure, extreme fatigue, the excess ot opulence 
and the misery that kills. Who loves colors 
may here have his fill. No two figures are dressed 
alike. Here are shawls twisted around the head 
savage fillets, coronets of rags, skirts and under- 
vesta In stripes and squares like harlequins, gir¬ 
dles stuck full of knives that reach to the arm¬ 
pits. Mamelukes' trousers, short drawers, skirts, 
togas, trailing sheets, coats trimmed with er¬ 
mine, vests like golden cuirasses, sleeves puffed 
and slashed, habits monkish and habits covered 
with gold lace, men dressed like women, and 
women that look like men; beggars with the 
port of princes, a ragged elegance, a profusion ot 
colors, tags, and fluttering euds ol childish and 
theatrical decorations, that remind one of a mas¬ 
querade In a mad-house, for which all the old 
clothes dealers In the universe have emptied their 
stores. * * * 
“ The Hist amazement over, the festive colors 
fade; it. Is no longer a grand carnival procession 
that is passing; It ts humanity itself filing by 
with all its miseries and follies, with all the Infi¬ 
nite discord of Its beliefs and Us laws ; It 13 a pil¬ 
grimage of a debased people and a fallen race; 
an Immensity of suffering lo be helped, of shame 
to be washed out, of chains to be broken ; an ac¬ 
cumulation of tremendous problems written In 
characters ol blood, which can only be solved by 
torrents of blood ; and ltls all horribly sad.” 
-- 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Adventure* ol an American Consul Abroad. 
By SAMUEL SAMPLETON, late United States Con¬ 
sul at Verdeuuuriio. BoBton : Lee A Shepard. 
Those gentlemen (their name is Legion) who 
are so solicitous of representing their country 
abroad, and whose Ideas of the duties of repre¬ 
sentation are “a good salary and no work,” will 
have t.ho keen edge of their desire somewhat 
blunted It they read the truthful narrative of Mr. 
Sampleton. To start with hts salary vms munifi¬ 
cent—fl ,coo per annum! out or that he was ex¬ 
pected to pay house and office rent, servant and 
clerk hire, beside all other expenses Incident to 
his position—cab hint, uniform for official calls 
aud receptions. As may be expected, it required 
not a little very exact calculation to keep ills ex¬ 
penses within llmtls or his Income. Some of the 
make-shifts he had to resort, to were extremely 
amusing, but for the most part the narrative Is 
one to make an American feel humiliated that a 
representative or our country at a port whose 
trade Is valued ut fs 000,000 por annum, should be 
forced to present such a pitiable figure before the 
ambassadors ot European governments. 
So much for the salary: now for the duties. 
“ When 1 was left alone, I began overhauling all 
the books, registers and papers ot the consulate, 
and I was astonished at the amount of work. 
both In reports, statistics, shipping returns, cor¬ 
respondence with the Department or state, local 
authorities and four consular agencies there was 
to perform. The record of correspondence with 
the. different authorit ies of the place and subordi¬ 
nate agencies was a perfect polyglot book. All 
the correspondence with the native officials was 
lu the language of the country; that with the 
foreign consuls In French. I began afterwards 
to look over the register of correspondence re¬ 
ceived. It was still worse; for beside the above 
enumerated languages, there was also corre¬ 
spondence lu German and several documents In 
DutcU that came from the Dutch consulate. I 
could not help thinking that Unde Zack’s state¬ 
ment, about their being nothing to do and plenty 
of money in such offices was all moonshine, asl 
found out to ray cost. A great, number of Amer¬ 
ican ships came Into port to load lor tho United 
States, and the masters thereof would be at my 
olfiee halt of their time to transact their busi¬ 
ness. There was hardly one who didn’t have some 
trouble or other; and they brought them to me, 
expecting that I should settle them. T was con¬ 
stantly called upon to quell disturbances among 
the crews, settle wages and disputes, arrest 
men, scud sick men to the hospital, discharge 
some, ship others, beside tho endless variety of 
papers and documents ot a legal form, each of 
which would take me three or tour days’ work to 
prep ire them, as they were totally new to me, 
who had never studied law, and then 1 bad to 
make several surveys ofahips, surveys ol cargo, 
depositions In cases of crimes committed on 
board, and correspondence with the police for 
disturbances committed on shore by members of 
the crews ot our ships. At times I bad to study 
day and night to prepare a single document or 
give a decision on any caso aod consult those 
duBty old books, the United States Statutes, and 
It often took me long hours to get at a single law 
passed by Congress.” 
Mr. Samflkton concludes fils Interest ing narra¬ 
tive by pointing out the necessity tor retorrn In 
our civil service. "There 1 liow strange ll Is.' Our 
Government sends meu abroad, who, alter hard 
labor and long experience, learn a complicated, 
delicate and responsible business, und no sooner 
have they learned It aud are able to perform, 
creditably to themselves and to the Government 
they represent, all Its Intricate duties, than they 
are recalled aud replaced by Inexperienced men, 
who have to go through the same ordeal and 
never stay long enough to bo of any real value to 
their country." 
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The Eclectic Magazine for June,contains much 
exceptionally interesting matter. The article on 
"The Americans In Turkey,” la replete with au¬ 
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is so rare as to warrant one’s reading Mr. Dale 
if only for the variety ot the experience. Goldwln 
Smith’s paper on "The First Ten Years ot the 
Canadian Dominion,” we wotud commend to the 
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those wbo arc disposed to regard the U. 8. as 
possessed ol a monopoly of political stn. Articles 
on “ Crulkshu.uk,” “ Future Punishment,’’ 
"Round the World In a Yacht,” “Ancient Men 
and Ancient Times,” and " Tho Farmer’s Daugh¬ 
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Dkmorrst's Monthly for June, maintains Its 
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to this is added the latest and most reliable lo. 
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of which are the exceedingly clever illustrations. 
"The American at Work,” the opening paper, 
gives the Genesis and History of a silver Dollar 
The American antiquarian will find “South Carol 
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aided. Among the other prose contributions are: 
"Mrs. Galnosborough’s Diamonds.” " utsego 
Leaves" by Susan Fenlmore Cooper, "French 
Writers and Artists" hy Win. Wlmum, and an 
araii-ingsketch, entitled: “.Socrates a Reminis¬ 
cence,” etc. Poems are oontibutnd by Earle 
Marble, Edgar Fawcett, Marie Le Baron, und 
others. Tho “■Editors' Table ” ts crowded with 
discussions of timely topics, and Books of Ltte Day 
receive their merited attention. 
The opening paper of The Popular Science 
Monthly, Is “ The Age or Gymnastics ” by F. L. 
Oswald, M U., which, with tho Essay by T. Clif¬ 
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Is u timely dissertation by J. Norman Lockyer, 
F. R, S. The “Cardiff Grant and other Frauds,” 
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the day In the scientific world are discussed In 
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