i=l=== Abyssinia. , / q Theban, a traveler who has spent Mica \ \ Urn In Abyssinia; gives the following ciketcli. otthe Xing and MS pecullarittea; drawn frank' Thnal Obeervation: e King's idea is that the existence of no other power Should 'be recogniied n the country besiddbia own. and that all persons residing in his territories; nativbffor foreign= , eke; friust obey the laws of the land; and be' subject to him entirely. It is' an instance of, his singularly jealous Character, of his view of desp6ii: . If, therefore, a consul ventures into ° country, he must not do. so Witk the idea t at his person will be con sldereci sacred, or that the power represerkted by him will impose awe; .but , he, mint; prepared to stand oh the same footing as a native of the country. Hence the subse quent imprisonment of t3ap French and Eng lish in whatever light we may choose to regard-it, was not looked upon by Theodore an:infringement of the rights of nations; fort sghts of this nature he had never recognized, .I believe, however, with regard to ambassadors the case is different, and, that the • custom of ancient nations in respeet to them holds good in Abyssinia; at all events the peraons of messengers passing between • two contending armies are held Oared. The consul seemed at first as uncertain to make obeisance as I had been my eli', Tor several of his Majesty's nobles being dressed in gay-colored tunics the king ap ',Pitted the last person of all! to be the one who, claimed regal honors. M. Lejean's hesitation, however, was but momentary, for a word from one of the Europeans Soon enabled him, with a profound bow, to ten der homage where homage was due. The king merely : responded with a few words of welcome) and then asked the consul whim he would wish to be: received officially. M. Uygur of course made answer that it would be when it should please hiliMajesty. The king accordingly appointed the day following. His manner was familiar, not imperious in any degree. He now, passed on to the en closure where the last mortar had ,been turned out, and proceeded at once to inspect the furnace, while the various processes were explained to him by his "children." During this ceremony a slight incident happened to mot?, which might have brought me into trou le. The enclosure which contained the furnace was surrounded by a light frame work of bamboos. It happened that I was following some few yards behind the King; my foot slipped, and I fell against the frame work in such a manner that the end of a long bamboo flying back, struck his Majesty on the back of the head. Nobody \ appeared to have noticed the affair but the \ King. lie faced about quietly', and gave me \e. mild glance, I suspect that he must have &eased at once how I had blundered. It was a very peculiar, benevolent, transitory look. I translated it implying forgiveness readily. What grieved me most was that the great rush of people prevented me from getting stfficiently near to ask his pardon. He Seemed to have forgotten 'the circum stance immediately. after. The King now expressed a wish to see a few bombs fired from the recent issue of his foundry, and we all • accordingly adjourned to the conrryimi of Mr. Batilemuller's house which offered the best advantages for the Object in view. A carpet was brought out and spread upon the ground, on which his Majesty seated himself, and he also bade M. Lejean be seated on the same. The remainder of us squatted down where we could find room. Europeans occupying the inner circle. The 'mortar was brought out and placed, though not fastened, in its carriage; when it was duly loaded and primed, Mr. Bender was deputed to fire it. The trial on the whole was very successful, though, as the mortar had not .been fastened, 'it kicked to , such an extent as to fly a few feet out of its carriage, to the imminent danger of Mr. Bender. While these bombs were being fired the king seemed buried in deep thought; his head was bent, he spoke to no one about him; I did not see that he opened his lips at all. I had begun to watch him curiously, and I was much struck by this profoundly meditative• expression that had come on him. The fit lasted until the experiment had ceased; he then looked around, and fixing his eyes sharply on one who sat near him, fell into an animated conversation on the subject of artillery. All the Europeans joined in this conversation. The king said that he desired to have still larger bombs made, for which purpose he would build them extensive workshops, and supply, to any amount they wished, the metal required in Weir manu facture, & Three Hours? Combat with an Elc. Mr. Hyatt Frost, of Van Amburgh's menagerie, gives the Cincinnati Commercial the particulars of a terrible fight with Tippoo Sahib, the well-known elephant, which occurred at Connersville, Indiana, last Tues day. The menagerie had gone into winter quarters at that place, and the colossal animal is chained in a small building, where he will be kept until the show season opens next year. Tippoo Sahib, by the way, is now the largest elephant in America. He is thirty-six years old, and weighs ten thou sand pounds. The battle with Tippoo resulted from a change in his keepers. Frank Nash, his keeper for ten years, was recently supplanted by Charles Johnson, formerly of Barnum's menagerie. The elephant will not accept a new master Without a battle, and Mr. J ohn son prepared himself for an exciting encoun ter. The elephant was in particularly bad humor with all mankind. He would allow nobody in his quarters, striking at every in truder with his trunk and tusks most vici- ously. On Tuesday morning last, at ten o'clock, the combat opened. The new keeper, with nine assistants, had fully equipped himself with chains and cables for tying , and spears and pitchforks for subduing Tipp . oo. Tne first thing done was to fasten a brickbat to the end of a rope and throw it over the end of the tusk chain, which latter is fastened to one leg and one tusk. By means of this rope, a twenty ton cable chain (formerly used to subdue the famous liannibal) was slip .neosed around. the tusk. Next, an exca vation three feet deep was made under the sill of the house, and while the elephant's at tention was attracted to the other side of the room by a pail of water poured into his trough, the cable chain was passed through the excavation and fastened to heavy stakes outside. All this time the infuriated monster struck all around him with terrific ferocity, and tugged at 'his chain with incredible mo mentum. The next thin accomplished was the snaring of his hin dlegs. This was consum mated by the slinging of fresh ropes around those two stately pillars of elephant flesh, `bone and muscle, and finally . by the stealthy strategy of the keeper anti another man, these ropes were fastened to stumps outside. The elephant was now sufficiently pinioned to allow the order, "charge pitchforks" to be given. Ten men, armed with these ugly implements of offence, plunged' them into the rampaging beast, taking care, of course, to avoid penetrating his eyes or joints. The tenderest spot in an elephant is just ' behind the fore-legs, and that locality' was prodded unmercifully. By means of a hooked spear sunk into his back, Tippoo was brought to his Muses; ,but he surged up again with such airlift Strength that he swept his tormentors of their feet, and Made his chains whistle like Addle4trings. After an hour's fighting he rig brought down on his 519—but for two , with' bottis longer he - tugged tit his chains h IfrenOied obstinacy. He pulled so bard at times that his hind legs ,were straight out be bind himc-andllireeleetoff thet roOnct At the end of the three hours,the giant gave in by "trumpeting," which is the elephant way of crying "enough." The moment this peculiar cry was heard the battle ceased. The Keeper made Tippoo get up and lie down a number of times, and he *as as obedient to the world of command as a gentle pony. The animal was then groomed and rubbed off with whisky. He allowed all manner of lib erties without so' much as flapping an ear. He was a subjugated elephant. At ono stage of the fight the, dog ``Jack," elpmp_tuflon of the elephant,) thought some of the tying bfisiness foul play. He flew upon Johnson's back and tried to sink his fangs into his neck, but was pulled off and dragged out of the room. "Jack" evidently sympathized with his big friend. The Hawaiian Volcanoes. The Sandwich Islands correspondent of the Chicago Post Bus: The island of Hawnii is about ninety miles in l-ingth and seventy in width. The land rises gradually, forming three lofty moun tains, two of which are covered with per- petua snow. Leaving Hilo one morning we proceeded on horseback through a rough country covered with a dense vegetation. Now we , pass through a strip of woods so matted with brush and vines that a bird can hardly fly through them. Reaching the more elevated regions, we enter forests of giant ferns, with trunks from five to thirty feet in height, and leaves fifteen feet in 'length. A rough ride of a, day and a half across the plain; and we are near the crater. Suddenly we find ourselves on the brink of a precipice nearly one thousand feet in height. Instead of a mountain with rugged sides, a fearful pit yawns beibre us, seven miles and a half intircumference, and one thousand feet deep. Smoke rises at intervals from the black lava bottom of the crater, and on our right the bank is rent with fissures, from which clouds of steam ascend incessantly. A perildus descent brings us to the bottom of the crater, and a rough walk of an hour more to the lake of fire. We find the surface of the crater, which from the brink of the precipice seemed smooth, walls of ' rock three hundred feet high. The caves which had looked like little huts from above were not less than fifty and a hundfed feet high. Each was a. volcano itself. One was emit ting steam; froth another were rising columns of smoke hundreds of feet high; another we found throwing red hot stones high in the air, while the molten lava was pouring down its sides. We were greatly disappointed on reaching the lake to see no fire. A shining floor of black lava was spread out fifty feet below us. Yielding to the suggestions of our guide, we sat clown on the brink, and waited, patiently for nearly an hour. Then the sur face of the lake began to heave gently; and through the opening seams we could see the molten lava gleaming fiercely. Presently, the whole mass began to rise; almost in stantly the entire surface broke up; the black crust disappeared, and the red sea of lava was agitated in furious waves. It boiled like a cauldron, while from the,crests of the waves jets of lava were thrown to the height of thirty or forty feet, falling back into the fiery flood, and the wind drew out the smaller particles into long, fine threads, which the natives call "Pele's hair." Words fail to describe the grandeur , and sublimity of the scene. From under the rocks beneath us we could see the fiery flood pouring forth, the waves dashing fiercely against the banks. The lava of Kilaula is noted for its liquidity, and while.in its melted state it is "red (and even white) hot," like molten iron. Returning to the plain above, we sat down to a good dinner. The turkey was cooked by steam, having been wrapped in banana leaves, and buried in the ground near one of the cracks on the upper bank of the crater. Though we had passed a comfort able day, as the land breeze came from the snowy height above us we were glad to wrap our blankets around us, and sit near a blazing fire atj the door of the grass-hut, which we made our headquarters. Behind us that grand old mountain, "Mauna Loa," rose to an elevation of 13,800 feet. The smoke and vapor from the crater formed a beautiful cloud, tinted with the re flection of the fires below, reminding us of the pillars of cloud and fire, which guided the Israelites in their wandering through the wilderness. At intervals we had splendid pyrotechnic displays. The lake was a literal sea of fire, and frequent eruptions from the cones hurled red-hot stones and lava to an mmense height. A Court Page in the Alps. An English .magazine exhumes a letter written by a page of hOnor to the Empress Josephine, who crossed the Alps with Na poleon. The writer says that "at St. Ber nard the artillery was dragged up the heights by sheer strength of arm, and by efforts almost superhuman, and the descent was perilous in the extreme; the infantry cut short the difficulty by sliding on their backs down the ice; the First Consul followed their example, and in the sight of his army thus descended a height of two hundred feet." lie acids: 'The hope of soon treading the soil of Italy, cradle of the Christian world, 'and witness of our glory, delighted me; but, arriving at the foot of Mont Cenis, my en thusiasm was slightly checked. The weather was cold, and before us I saw nothing but snow, ice and mountains. Nevertheless, a whole army had previously scaled' these heights, andl was curious to see how row it would be arranged for us to mount this mass of rocks, which appeared inacces sible. The new quartermaster of the palace of the Tuileries, who had himself made the campaign of Marengo, undertook to arrange the court convoy, and the traveling-carriage in whiph I and my companions had journeyed from St. Cloud was in the «vont garde of the cortege, but the carriage was now unhorsed, and, being taken to pieces, placed, as was likewise our baggage, On the backs of the mules. For ourselves, we were seated in sedan-chairs, or something resembling them, and did not alight from them until we reached a convent, which, on this occasion, was a general rendezvous, and where, being allowed to rest until over the next day, I. dept twenty-four hours. Waking, I )fouud that the next day had come, and that the descent was at hand. At that moment, I would willingly have pardoned the Grand Master of the Ceremonies had he not placed me on the list for this .journey. My young imagination was full of perilous pas sages stereotyped from books on my memory, and it was a terrible thing for me to rise be fore dawn, and presently to perceive from the windows of our togement, those snowy heights mid icy depths, in which the army of the Emperor, avail manquo d'elre engtou tie. In front of the convent a gray trace was discernible,indicatlng the former line of path way, along which trembling travelers had, in old times, caused themselves to be trans ported in osier baskets, upon the shoulders of mountaineers,who were reduced by neces sity and atmospheric miseries to the condition of beasts of burden." And when - to 411 this, the fear of bears and" wolves was added,' it 'must ''be 4- alJoWed that the •condition: of—the traveling court-page,, was _ 0 anything. but agree able.ttwcsetrA k to the road foriaed by Ids imperi4d Master, the 'only - reatdanger in his d'eseent - liiiii 'the - summitof