Show A RUSSIAN Ri REGIMENT risible GiBlE T LA A ietter tetter from orom burch burah in speaking of ofa a regiment of basch kirs horses strong that had llad just arrived there from moscow says that the men were much less astonished at the moscow railway by which they were conveyed than titan had been expected they affirmed that i by no means went so fast as the breeze on the steppes and that a good bascakir Basch dasch kir horse could keep up with the train the locomotive was however declared to be a sorcerer but the bascakir Basch kir sorcerers could do some clever things also on their entrance into st petersburg an empty b arrack barrack was assigned to them they begged however to be allowed to take up their quarters in the open air if it an earthquake came the building might fall and crush them on bein being required to resume their march in the mornin morning 9 after their bivouac in the capi capital a they were much cast down and ev eventually nt u ily lly refused 0 o go as they had been promised that that when there they should see the emperor on this circumstance being made known to the emperor alexander he immediately rode down lo 10 the place their delight at seeing the czar bounds they laugh iau lau ed they sobbed they threw themselves on me ilia ground they kissed girst first each other then the emperor s boots and then his horse they crept I 1 in and out between the horses legs which they embraced from time to time and conducted themselves as children highly delighted nt tit meeting a long absent parent after receiving the emperors blessing they marched off |