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" " 'fiftTffS WRONGS . - > . -. rfvr-souls who bore the name Th nf CfSon earth , though oa them hurl'd * l „ nt and fetter , sword , and flame , ^ ig of a > less-worid , - 1 heard beneath the altar cry ff cTr vengeance on their guilty foes ; iidSfte ^ . sthft j fil , the J 8 ky Tha thrUti 0 ? voice of thousands rose , Tnin'd w'th the grateful song : __
" « Qo « f long—oh Lord—how long I j « nge;—the earth hath drunk 3 * ajf | j ^ j we shed in joy for thee ; . j » * ath the cold swift waters sunk , j , trmr 'dthc ¦ 5 * B tnatedg ' the sea ; ctill do thine eyes behold the spot That ma" $ 8 eefe m Tam t 0 ^' » Thv marrvr ' s blood can perish not , Though swept beneath an ocean ' s tide ; Baste t hou lo jndge the wrong : —
> i flow long—Oh Lord—how long I " H eaven hears their cry;—yet not alone Rings through its courts that awful pray ' r j jartb hath her slaves , whose feebler moan , With anguiah'd note , ascendeth there ; Ton dreary home , and cheerless hearth , Where patient grief sits down to die , Worn by oppression , pain , and dearth , Respondeth to the heart ' s sad cry : — Judge thou the proud and strong ; " How long—oh Lord—how long !"
The o ertask d men , whose days are given To heaping wealth for others use , By niggard hands repcll'd and driven From life ' s pure joys to its abuse , — Who pant for time , the richest gift That'God bestows on man , to learn How they their hearts to him may lift . And thence for peace and mercy turn , — Cry out , —a mighty throng ;—" How long—oh Lord—how long I "
The infant things , -whose trembling feet Can scarcely tread their native soil . By whip and hunger forc'd to meet The lengthen ed hours of daily toil , Train'd to deceive , and pity gain With gashing tears , and . stifTd moan , And simulate the racking pain , — An easy task , with all their own , — Cry out , —a mighty throng , — " How long—oh Lord—how long I "
From darken'd mines , and barren hills , J ? rom swelling waves on ocean ' s breast , Ironi unsown fields , where famine kills , And camps "with toil unraark'd by rest , "From every spot where slavery wears The life of man , and wrongs oppress , A sob ascends which heaven hears , Though utter'd in the heart ' s recess : — Judge though tbe proud and strong ; " How long—oh Lord—how long !" Dear ye tbe cry—whose homes are set Among the proud , in wealth array'd ; "Redress the wrong and woe , while yet The dreadful fire of wrath is stay'd : For not in vain shall man send up
His voice and tears to pitying skies ; And ye shall drink the bitter cup Of heaven ' s revenge for guiltless sighs ;—Hear L for the cry is strong ;—•• How long—oh Lord—bowlong I "
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An Excursion To California Over The Prai...
An Excursion to California over the Prairie , Bock y Mountains , and Great Sierra Nevada . With a Stroll through the Diggings and Ranches of that Country . By William Kelly , J . P . Two Vols . Chapman and
Hall . Jfe . Keixt started for the United States in January 1 M 9 to seek fortune in California , From New York he made his way to the Western waters , by Albany , Buffalo , Detroit , and Chicago ; he descended the Illinois to St . Louis , and thence ascended the Missouri to Independence , the starting-point in that quarter for adventurers who make the overland passage . En route , Mr . Kelly had fallen in with different persons bound for the same El Dorado , possessing education and " means to fit out" according to bis ideas of " the ri ght thing . " They prepared for their journey in good style , —a species of green uniform , waggons , mules , outfit , and provision of the best
quality ; a kind of military order was established , and a ballot placed Mr . Kelly in command of the expedition . Tbe event seems to have justified the choice ; for although he , like the rest of the company , was without experience in desert travelling , he successfully carried the expedition in one hundred and two days over a distance exceeding two thousand miles , across the Prairies , the Bocky Mountains , and the terrible country between the city of the Mormons and the gold district . ^ Within easy reach of the city of Sacramento , the band separated , and Mr . Kell y passed the time of his stay in exploring various diggings , and di gg ing himself ; he also visited Sacramento , St . Francisco , and other places , before he took leave of California .
Through the Prairie , the difficulties -were considerable , but usual in travelling with waggons for many hundred miles , when the only road is an indistinct trail , the country continuall y intersected by streams and rivers , that have to be crossed in spite of precipitous banks or deep waters , with barren land occasionally occurring "where water and pasturage are scarce . Natural obstacles increase on
approaching the Rocky Mountains ; but soon after they are crossed tbe traveller is involved in an inhospitable region . Heavy sands , scanty vegetation , water impregnated with saline particles , sometimes so potent as to be nndrinkable , rugged ways and precipitous mountain-paths , characterise the country for about six hundred miles ; a desert of sixty miles intervenes without any water whatever , and the most arduous difficulties of the road
occur when the animals and the men are almost worn OUt Although the party started early in the season , and from tbe completeness of their outfit pushed on rapidly , the summer was well advanced before they reached the worst part of the journey ; and their sufferings ia crossing tbe desert on the North of California were ray great . The direct flames of the solar fire seemed absolutely to carl around us , creating a wavy visible sort of atmosphere , as if we were moving through transparent smoke ; and this at length produced a stateof insensibility in some , and madness in others ; four of the men coming up to mo and demanding water in a most peremptory tone , as if I had a sapply , and denied them access to it . About twelve
o clock we halted , to administer the gruel to the animals , but there were only seven men ont of the entire able to lend a band . Some were howling for water , and some threw themselves in a fainting state under the shade of the waggons . I never felt myself so nearly overcome ; and only for a great effort I made , feeling that , as the conductor of the company , it was incumbent on me to set a good example , I should also have sunk in the str aggle . As soon as the poor brutes in harness heard the 4 ffirgUago ! ihe . water from the kegs , they brayed , as I thought , in a piteous tone , saying , " Oh I let us have some ; " while the others pressed around , bemg with difficulty restrained from trampling on us while we were draining it oS ; and it was a matter of no small trouble to give each his basin , from the manner in which tbe other would poke into it .
This done , the word " Move , " was passed ; but 1 found one of the teamsters altogether incapable of driving , and sore against my grain , bad to place him and the two insane men in the waggons , the latter having become so restless and outrageous that I was reluctantly constrained to resort to the disagreeable alternative of tying them down . Those that were under the waggons did not appear . to hear the order , nor could they be got to beed its iteration ontiltbe waggons weremovcd on , and they were left exposed to tbe sun ; when they arose , but
in a dreadfully enervated state . I implored , I exhorted them to straggle on for two boors more , when we would reach relief ; but they were deaf and insensible , and had to be lifted > nto their Baddies . At length we all got in motion , and three of the least exhausted men rode ahead on our best horses , with directions to return and meet us as soon as possible with water , which I knew , from the rime of travel , could sot be more than ten or twelve miles off , unless we missed our way ; an idea I would not listen to , for it involved our entire destruction . * , ¦ * . - *
, I heard from the same parties who gave me tbe information respecting Ifnmboldt river , that . the scenes and occurrences in the Desert [ by succeeding parties later in the season ] even transcended the others in melancholy horror ; the whole line being narked with putrid carcases and deserted waggon ? , while-the air was filled with the moans of the d ying , the wails of the suffering , and the wild
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screams of tbe maniac . Few , if any , had teams in » state to . take them orerthe barren waste jit one fli g ht , "the nine-tenths being obli ged to wait in the middle of this oven , and send on the animals to recruit for a few days ; when some few that were ; in a position to do so , commenced a trade of packing small kegs of water on their mules and retailing it at exorbitant rates ; but their heartless extortions drove the sufferers into an united exertion to sink a well , which was rewarded by a moderate supply of tolerable water . I have no manner of doubt , that had we proceeded without lig htening our loads , we would also have been obliged to halt , for even with what we carried we had very little indeed tospare . - . ¦ = 8 Bwa « l 8 oft ! l' ^ lnaaia ¦ 3 " — "" T TirMr ih
Dinicult passes or passages of rivers had been encountered on both sides of the Kocky Mountains , but the pass of the Great Sierra Nevada was the worst and the last ; - '" . - ¦ Towards evening we came to a lake close under the main ridges of the mountain , which explorers call Beed Lake—from the broad margin of reeds that surround it ; and a short distance beyond the lake came to the foot of the steep , where tbe trail curled up to the formidable pass , at the foot of which we halted for the night to make preparations for the undertaking . Had we met such an ascent in the earlier part of the journey , I fancy we would have pronounced it insurmountable and turned back in
despair ; but having encountered so many dangerous places , and overcome so many difficulties , we became inured to hazard and toil , only regarding the greatest obstacles as merely perplexing but never impossible ; and as this was the only remaining one , we were resolved not to be stopped , if recourse was to be had to the agency of powder . By way of experiment , in the evening , just to see if the animals could clamber up or work in such a perpendicular posture , I tried my horse with a hold of his lariat ; but when I brought him to the base of the ascent , he had as little idea of facing it as he would have of climbing a good wall ; for , as one of the party said , "It was not only right np and down , but leant a little over . " I tried to persuade him
first , and then to whip him ; but neither wasef any use : he did not comprehend me . ' A ot so old Sacramento ( the mule ) , who , like a practised hodman , reared on end as soon as he was * brought to the base , and commenced the escalade without au instant ' s hesitation , clambering frequently ^ in a position that made me fear he should have fallen backwards , until he got to a ledge or shelf , where there was a narrow . resting-place . It was quite clear from this essay that we could not calculate much on draught , when the animals would find such difficulty in getting up themselves ; ao we were all reconciled to the alternative of dismounting the waggons , and hauling them up : piecemeal by ropes , only determining first to try one in the usual way , and if it failed , then resort to the other mode .
The judgment pf Mr , Kell y upon the agricultural capabilities of California , is opposed to that of Fremont . The soil in many . places is indeed excellent , capable of producing anything ; but the seasons , and the duration of the winter ,, render wheat cultivation impose sible : indeed , bread-stufis , rice , & c , can be imported cheaper than they can be grown with labour at all approaching present wages . Of the golden capabilities of that country , Mr . Kelly thinks more hi ghly than many people . He considers that the deposits are not merel y superficial , but that the earth teems with the precious metal . This , however , can only be
extracted in the regular way by sinking mines , smelting the ore , and all the other mining processes , whicb require so large a capital that few individuals can attempt it , and absorb so much money that few , whether individuals or companies , can be certain of much profit . The diggings , or superficial : deposits , . were exhausted in . some p laces when Mr . Kelly was there— -that is , for extraction by rough processes ; but he is of opinion that gold may yet be profitably obtained by scientific methods . It is , however , a remarkable fact ,
that neither Mr . Kelly nor any other writer who records his experience of and his opinion on the gold region stops there . The company , it is true , is none of the choicest , - the , work is very bard , and the deductions owing to the hig h p rice of food and merest necessaries are very great—reasons enough to deter a man from going there . But Mr . Kelly was there , was accustomed to . Vrongh it , ' and had got acquainted with the work . Still he left the diggings , and he advises others to stay away . This is from some sensible parting advice to emigrants .
The labourer , who all his life has "been accustomed to bard toil and exposure , whose frame has been casehardened by snows and sunshine , whose constitution will not shrink under the ' vicissitudes of diet and climate , is the proper manner of man for a miner . He has shivered tbe rook' in the quarry at home—he can do the same in California ; he has worked in mud and water digging tbe canal in his native state , and can endure wet feet in the vocation of a gold-digger . He was never over-daintily ministered to in food , nor does he pine at the rough fare of the mines . But take the carpenter from behind his dry bench , tbe smith from bis warm forge , or the spruce clerk from his high
stool , and place them in cold water , with a red-hot sun glaring down upon them , —let them strain every muscle in this novel sphere of labour , rough it on bard bread and salt junk , seeking repose on the damp earth , and , believe me , they will soon exhibit tbe sad effects of so radical a change . Besides , steady employment about the different cities will enable a man to enjoy more comforts and save more money than , he can as a general thing by the precarious income of the diggings . The average daily income of miners , embracing all the diggings ^ has been computed , by persons in a position to make the calculation , at eight dollars ; which , from my own observation , taking good
mines and bad , energetic men and slothful , good workmen and those unused to toil ,-1 consider tolerably near the mark . Let me next see tbe number of days this income can be reckoned on : we first subs tract fifty-two Sundays , and at least ninety-one days for the winter and high-water season , making together one hundred and forty-three daya ; those from three hundred and sixty-five leave two hundred and twenty-two days , or within a fraction of thirty-two weeks ; then all miners allow at the rate of one day in the week for prospecting , seeking new ground , which leaves a residue of one hundred and
ninety working-days ; from which ; I might , and should , dednbt largely for sickness and other contingencies ; but admitting one hundred and ninety days as the yearly average , at eight dollars per day , it yields a total of 1 , 520 dollars , showing that something over four dollars per day , for the year round is the miner ' s income . . Let the mechanic or clerk , in following this calculation , also bear in mind , that while he in Francisco or Sacramento lays in his necessaries at reasonable ' rates , the miner has to submit to the most usurious exactions ; and , after a little sober reflection , I conceive he will come into my view of the matter .
Of the state of society in California Mr . Kelly gives as bad an account as well can be , not only in the diggings but everywhere else where Americans are found . The peculiar " smartness" in Francisco , Sacramento , and the mines , seems characteristic of the . Yankee ; bnfc the civilised world appears to contribute its quota to the gambling , and the . blasphemy and ribaldry of the miners are not peculiar to congregations of Americans . Passage after passage might be quoted descriptive of the state of society as to morals , but we will rather qnote one indicative of manners . The scene occara at San Jose , ; a . p lace where the Spaniards are numerous . One main attraction of the festa was a horse-race between Spanish and American owners .
Write the ground was being measured , hundreds of speculatorg , carrying : about their dollars and doubloons in shawls and handkerchiefs , kept np a stormy vociferation , in which it was apparent the American horse had the call ; and after all the money was staked , horses , mules , and accoutre ments were betted one against the other , until four-fifths of those on the ground were implicated in the issue . During the excitement the lines were somewhat broken , and the principals , with some special friends , rode along to have them readjusted , affording an opportunity of contrasting the demeanour of the Spaniard and the Yankee ; the one all courtesy and urbanity , politely motioning * thfl people back ; the other , in a tone of vulgar
insolence , using tho most frightful imprecations , and plunging their hor ? es amongst them whenever they came to a Spanish group . I never remember to bave been more deeply impressed with ineffable disgust than while witnessing this exhibition of arrogant brutality . Talk of Americans ' going ahead !' but in order to be unencumbered in the strife , they cast aside every figment of olden civilisation , not even retaining the fig-leaf of decency or decorum , —at least so far as the Californian emigrants are concerned . The Yankee u j-roar was terrific , and the inherent bad taste and under-breeding evinced at the triumph , was the more repugnant from the placid and good humoured temper in which the Spaniards bore their defeat . ""I knowed we would whip them damned tawneys , " and such like expressions , met your ears at every turn , and as they led off the
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Pri - 'l i \\ ¦ i ¦ , Spanish horses past their late masters . ' who were 5 S * ft HSS , - on fP 0 t to the town , they let slip no opportunity of venting their bbacene ^ and ribald buffoonery . ¦ ' :.- ; , ... ; I was induced by an indescribable feeling of attraction , as if to fill up tbe measure of my loathing at their day s conduct , to look on at a Yankee drinking match , perfectly in character and keeping with the teriour of their other goings on . "fit took place at one of . the open booths on the course , attracting a great crowd , and giving rise to fresh bettings . The man who won the toss for choice of fluids selected port wine , each tnmbler to have a raw . egg broken into it- * -a potion that appeared to
take his opponent by surprise ; however , they went to work , aud ; with the short necessary pauses , got up as far as tbe ninth glass each , when one betrayed symptoms " of 'distress , and , to , make use of Lord Norbury ' s ' pun ; could not * ' be egged on " any further ; ' for , in attempting to . raise the tenth to his mouth , the stomach rebelled , after a fashion that communicated a spasm of nausea to me , which . it required all the muscular power in my throat to subdue . I afterwards heard the victor vauhtingly proceeded to the baker ' s dozen , and wound up by drinking the spectators' health in a bumper " of brandy and water . ;¦
Journals Of A Landscape Painter In Alban...
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania , fyc . By EWARb Leah . Bentley . Amon g our writing painters Mr . Lear may take hi g h rank . Mr . Lear ' s , journals began in the month of September 1848 , when be left Constantinople in an over-crammed steamer for Saloniki;—noting on his voyage Ossa and Olympus , which looked out over the Gulf till they were shut in " by a thick scirocco-like vapour , "—and in a few graphic words giving us a lively p icture of his fellow-passengersa hareem of Turkish females , ' who covered one-half of the triangular quarter-deck " with a diversity of robes , pink , blue , ' chocolate and amber , pea , sea , olive , bottle , pale and dark green "—Wallachiaris , Bosniacs and Jews .
The disembarkation at Saloniki was ' a scene of noisy bustlel Cholera had made travellers with tmnetftmehio * , or baggage , scarce at Saloniki . Accordingl y—There were literally crowds of blaok-turbaned Hebrews at the water ' s edge , speculating on the possible share of each in the conveyance of luggage from the steamer .. The enthusiastic Israelites rushed into the water , and seizing my arms and legs , tore me out of the boat , and up a narrow board , with the most unsatisfactory zeal ; immediately after which thoy fell upon ray enraged dragoman in the same mode , and finally throwing themselves on my luggage , each portion of it was claimed by ten or twelve frenzied agitators , who pulled this way and that way , till I , who stood apart , resigned to whatever might happen , confidently awaited tbe
total destruction of my " roba . " From yells and pullings to and fro , the scene changed in a few minutes to a real fi ght , and the whole community fell , to the most furious hair-pulling , turban-clenching , and robe tearing , till the luggage was forgotten , and all tbe party was involved in one terrific combat' How this exhibition would have ended 1 cannot tell , for in the heat of the conflict my man came running with a half score of Government Kawasi , or police ; and the way in which they fell to belabouring the . enraged Hebrews was a thing never to be forgotten . These took a deal of severe beating from sticks' and whips before they gave way , and eventually some six or eight were selected to carry the packages of the Ingliz , which I followed into-the city , not unvexed at being the indirect cause of so much strife . - .
This brawling entry of our landscape-pain ter into the arena of his labours , gave no false augury of what manner of incidents his journey ; would y ield . Saloniki is a dull and peaceful haunt , its inhabitants at once thinned and cowed by- the presence of the cholera ; and Mr . Lear was . free to roam about and to sketch , bad he so pleased . In most of his subsequent stopping places—as often as was raised the cry of y Scroo « scroo ! " ( a short arid easy Albanian way of saying " He writes" ) , our artist was not only pressed on and peeped at , and ignominiously pelted , like one who was about some evil work , but
assailed also by fierce dogs . r Frantic Dervises howled and g rinned in his face , —sometimes even threatened him with their , knives ; and it became necessary when he wished to sketch to appl y for a Kawas , or armed attendant , to stand by and keep at bay the crew of men and brutes outraged by such "unhallowed FfanMsh proceedings . A horse is the convey ance in Albania ; bat the roads are wretched —oftentimes even perilous , especially after heavy rains—sometimes down tangled lanes , recalling what we read of the close paths which thread the Socages of La Vendee—sometimes along friable mountain shelves , where no General Wade or Macadam ever comes , after
a storm or landslip , to clear the path and make it practicable ^ Then—day ' s fatigue overan Albanian khan is as rough a place . for a night ' s lodging as can . be conceived . The sleeper is sheltered , it is true ; but from the crazy rafters above his bed and his supper-tray and his fire with its blinding wood smoke , spiders , bens and cats have the habit of tumbling at all hours of the night ;—and he must dispute his quarters with p igs . and donkeys—to say nothing of rude bipeds , who sleep , with the bare soles of their feet close to the fire . Of course in places thus furnished , the food is . not . likel y to be either various or clean .
Such are the general difficulties under which art is pursued in Albania : —let us illustrate from a later page of Mr . Lear ' s journals : — ; 0 the khan of Tyrana . ' with its immense stables fall of uproarious horses ; its broken ladders , by whicb one climbed distrustfully up to the most uneven and dirtiest of corridors in which a loft some twenty feet square by six feet in height was the best I could pick out as a home for the night . Its walls , falling in masses of mud from its osier-woven sides ( leaving great holes exposed to your neighbours view ; or , worse still , to the cold night air ); —its thinly raftered roof , anything but proof to the cadent amenities resulting from the location of an
Albanian family above Jt ; its floor of shaking boards , so disunted that it seemed unsafe to' move incautiously across it , and through the great chasms of whicb the horses below were open to contemplation , while the suffocating atmosphere produced thence are not to he described ' . * * * 0 khan of Tyrana ! rats , mice , cockroaches , and all lesser vermin were there . Huge flimsy cobwebs , banging in festoons above ; my head ; big frizzly moths , bustling into my eyes and face , for tbe boles representing windows I could close but imperfectly with sacks and baggage ; yet here I was prepared to sleep , thankful that a clean mat was a partial preventive to some of this list of woes , and finding
some consolation in the low crooning singing of the Gheghes above me , who , with that capacity for melody which those Northern-Albanians seem to possess so essentially , were murmuring their wild airs in choral harmony . " * * "Even with a guard , " it was a work of trouble to sketch in Tyrana . ; for it was market , or bazaar day , and when I was tempted to open my book in the large space before the two principal mosques —( one wild scene of confusion , in which oxen , buffaloes , sheep , goats , geese , asses , dogs , and children , ' were all running about in disorder )—a great part of tbe natives , impelled by curiosity , pressed closely- to watch my operations , in spite of tbe Kawas , who kept as clear
a space as he could for me ; the women alone , in dark feringhis , arid g hostly white muslin masks , sitting unmoved with ^ their wares ; Fain would I have drawn the exquisitely pretty arabesque-covered mosques , but the crowds at last stifled my enthusiasm . Not the least annoyance was that given me by the persevering attentions of a mad or fanatic Dervish , of most singular appearance as well as conduct . His . note of "Shaitan" was frequently sounded ; and as he twirled about , and performed many curious antics , he frequently advanced to me , shaking a long , hooked stick , covered with jingling ornaments , in my very face ; pointing to the Kawas with menacing looks , as though he would
say , " Were it not for this protector you shou ld oc annihilated , you infidel ! " ' •• • ¦ Ho sooner , after retiring to my pig-stye dormitory , had l put ont my candle , and was preparing to sleep , wan the sound of a key turning in the lock of the next door to that of my garret , disturbed me , aud io , broad rajs of light illumined my dete stable ledging from a large hole a foot in ' diameter , besides from two or three others , just above my hea * £ ™ . *™ same time a whirring , humming sound , followcaoy strange whizsings and mumblings , began to pervade the apartment . Desirous to know what was going
on , I crawled to the smallest chink , witnoui encountering the rays from the great hiatus , and wnat did I see ? My friend of the morning-t he maniac Dervish—performing the most wonderful evolutions and gyrations ; spinning round and round for _»» own private diversion , first on his legs , and tnen pivot-wise , sur son slant , and indulging in numerou s other pious gymnastic feats . - Not quite easy at my ricinity to this very eccentric neighbour , an " . ' " '' } anticipating a twitch from his brass-hooked sticK . i eat watching the event , whatever it might he . "
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• Dirfcv anrlm , /» i 8 U PP ° . to .. be . about tofo low , better thanCnf ! , this Place i 8 > ** * ' « all aboutVnA ! S a d fine subjects for ' painting him nrefer kS 5 egard t 0 the natives , makes Suon «< AoSLi & ? ea at the outsat - ^ viou * iy SrS ^ nJ ^ Sf Zinani P yed abundantly , going SofammedT ^ Afce ? thTfh ? L de 0 tlon ' in th 0 wmtreof . the . rpom . ffi £ S ea ^ menced . The plan of Ktaitm ? and htffi ? f ™ th is : the ? uesfc buy 8 a fo " ««" WcWsita iin ^^ Vi and to'P-hhn -to eat it . . M « 1 J ? QU ? - d the dl 8 h > and I . Propping myself wSTt nl ^ T ' made shift to partake of it as iTlKlottedi A sm ? ™» "o , beingtheonly Lvi ^^ ° " ^ i ' ' who fished out the most interesting parts of the excellent ' . fowl-mmmt with
astonisning dexterity and success . The low round plateot tin was ' a perpetual shelter for eight or mne httle cats ; whom we pulled out from beneath by tseirtailsat momentary intervals , when they wailed aloud and rushed back-again , pleased oven by feeling the hot fowl through the table , as they could not otherwise enjoy it . After the ragout had nearly all . beendeyourod , and its remains consigned to the afflicted cats , there came on " a fearful species of cheese soup , with butter , perfectly fabulous as tofilthmess ; and after this there was the usual washing of hands , *' , a la tnrque , " and the evening meal was done . Supper over , we all sat in a serai-circle about the fire . Some six or ei ght of the towsmen came in—a . sortof soiree—and drinking cups of
, coffee was the . occupation for some hours . Albanian only is spoken , and very little Greek understood here . About ten or eleven all but the family gradually withdrew ; and the old gentleman , Aohmet , and thereat of the ; Albanians rolled themselves up m capotes and ^ slept ,. Anastasio placed himself across my feet , with ; his pistols by . his side ; and as for me , wHh . my head on my knapsack , I managed to get an hour , or two of early sleep , though the army of fleas which assailed me as a new comer , not to speak of the excursion cats , who played at bo-peep behind , my head , made the rest of the night a time , of real . . suffering , the more , so as the great wood fire nearly roasted me , and was odiOUS to the eyes ; as a wood fire must needs be .
.. That the Albanians are as proud of a good keen-er as the . Irish , Mr . Lear had opportunity of observing at . Tund , where the death of one of Anastasio ' s cousins had taken place inst before his arrival . — . A few Khimariotes * were idling below the shady trees , and Anastasio was soon surrounded and welcomed back . to his native haunts , though I perceived that some bad news was communicated to him , as he changed colpurduring the recital of the intelligence , and clasping his hands , exclaimed aloud with every appearance ofreal sorrow . The cause of this grief was , he presently informed mo , the tidings of the death of one of his cousins at V " un 6 , his native place , a girl of eighteen , whose extreme beauty and good qualities had made her a sort of queen of tbe village , which , said Anastasio , I shall find a changed
piace , owing to her decease , "Ilovedher , " said ho " with all my heart , and had we been married , as we ought to have been , our lives mi ght have been most thoroughly happy . " Having said thus much , and begging me to'excuse'his grief , he sat down , with his head on his hand , in a mood of woe befitting such a bereavement . Meanwhile I reposed till the moment came for a fresh move onwards , when lo ! with the quickness of light the afflicted Anastasio arose , and ran to a group of women advancing- towards the olive trees ; among whom was one who seemed to interest him not a little , -and as she . drew nearer I perceived that she was equally affected by the chance meeting ;—finally they gate down together , and conversed-with an earnestness which convinced me that the - ' new-comer was a friend , at least , if not a sister to the departed and lamented cousin of Tund .
It was now time to start , and as the mules were loading the Ehimariote girllingered , and I never saw a more exquisitely handsome face than hers * . each feature was perfectly faultless in form ; but the general expression of the countenanco had a tinge of sternness , with somewhat of traces of suffering ; her . raven tresses fell loose over her beautiful shoulders and neck ,. and her form , from' head to foot , was majestic and graceful to perfection . ; her dress , too , the short , open Greek jacket or spencer , ornamented , with red patterns , the many folded petticoat , and the scarlet embroidered apron , admirably became . her . She was a perfect model of beauty , as she stood knitting , ' hardly bendinir
benenth tho burden'she was carrying—her fine face half in shade from a snowy handkerchief thrown negligently over her head . She vanished when we were leaving Palaaa , but reappeared below the village , and accompanied Anastasio for a mile or more through the surrounding olive grounds , and leaving him at last toith a bitter expression of melancholy which it-was impossible not to sympathise with . "Ah , Signore / ' said Anastasio , " she was to bave been my wife , ; but now she is married to ; a horrid old man of Aylona , who hates her , and she-hates him , and so they will be wretched . all their liyes . '" Corpodi Baccb ! Anastasio , why you told me just now you were to be married to the g irl who has just died at Yun 6 !"— "So ; Iwas , Signove ; but her parents would not let me marry her , so I have not thought about her any more—only now that , she is dead I cannot help ' being very sorry ; butFortimt , the girl who has just gone back , was the woman-1 loved better than anybody . "— " Then why didn't you marry herf ' - ^ 'Perchd , perchd , " said the afflicted Anastasio , "perchd ; I have a wife already , Signore , in Vun 6 , and a little girl six years old . Si , signer ,
Publications Received. Z7te Borne. ' ¦ N...
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED . Z 7 te Borne . ' ¦ Nos . T , II , and HI . Edited by Richard Oastler . Published at 2 , York-street , Strand .
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Surrey Theatre. On Monday Evening A New'...
SURREY THEATRE . On Monday evening a new'domestic drama , of that peculiar c l ass which has long found favour amongst the admirers ; of the non-legitimate , was produced here under the , unusually modest title of " Michaelmas Day . " The period of the play is fixed a hundred years ago , and the ' action occurs in the vicinity of Carlisle . - ' The principal characters are an old miser , his daughter , her accepted suitor , a rejected lover ;* a " village scamp , '' and an officer of the law . Theje various personages are brought together under circumstances which lead to the impression , that they are sufficiently acquainted with each other ' s peculiarities , as to render it somewhat difficult for any very violent contest to arise amongst them .
Nevertbeles 8 ,-such is the maeio power exercised by the dramatist , that a murder is committed by one of the fraternity , and the murderer is supposed to be the accepted lover of the victim ' s daughter Jealousy has been the causevol ' this accusation , and a prison the effect of it ; The real culprit , of course , remains unknown till the conclusion of the piece , whilst the innocent lover , who ; is made to answer for the charge , is exposed to sundry trials of patienceand endurance , which are sufficient to drown all his hopes of a satisfactory termination to his attachment . The scenes ofleve and revenge which take place in the meantime are necessarily of the most distressingcharacter , butin the , end ; the virtuous are rewarded ,, and the viciqus very properly punished , by command of the law , and to the satisfaction of the audience . The
serious portion of the piece is , " as usual , relieved by theexphdes of buffoons ; who appear ever and anon for the purpose of raising / a ' laugh , ! often at . the expense of common sense , but still to the delight of the contented occupants of pit and gallery . The drama was very creditably represented , and , as the production of a young writer , it may bb said to give some promise , inasmuch as its chief merit does not lie : in prolonged' dialogue , but in a satisfactory attempt at dramatic action .: The play was quite successful , although the applause at the conclusion was not of that vehement character which marks ah undoubted " triumph" at this theatre . ' Astothetitle —Michaelmas Day—it has nothing . whatever to do with the piece , which might just as appropriately be called " Good Friday" or V Shrove Tuesday . "
Strand Theatre. Xensinotort Gardens'- A ...
STRAND THEATRE . Xensinotort Gardens' - a topic of the day just nowwere on Monday evening made ihe subject of a sparkling little comedy , in two acts , by Mr , Rpbert Brough . The fun is based upon the lady-bunting propensities of a gentleman , who afterwards meets in a drawing room the young ladies , he has annoyed in thegardens . Mrs . Seymour , as a dignified married lady , and Miss
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Marshall , as a pert waiting maid , acted well . The S ^^ S ^ ff ^ ' and tt « performed to a full house .- Mr . " Robert Brough , at itsconKn was called upon . to . bow his acknowledgments before the curtain . . !•; ' '' ¦!¦;• .
Father Gavazzi.On Auricular Confession ,...
FATHER GAVAZZI . ON AURICULAR CONFESSION ,. This address , ' to which his countrymen listened with dee p interest , offered no passage of exciting eloquence , no appeal to the feelings of an impassioned auditory , being a simple recital of doctrinal proofs , and a calm exposition of scriptural authorities . The theory of the confessional was admitted by its advocates to he enveloped in mist and mys tery , it s warrant unsatisfactory , its origin indefinable , it ' s development gradual , Us yractieal working surrounded with objections . The council of Trent had , neverbelesa , not hesitated to assert its institution to be of divine right ( 14 th session ) , and scouted the suspicion of its merely human enactraent . But in that tumultuous assembly , swayed by
a preponderating and compact majority of interested Italians , it was far easier to put a matter to the vote , than to the proof ; and of all the oppressive machinery by which priestcraft grinds down the laity into abjnet dependence , this engine is the most notoriousl y traceable to mere clerical ingenuity . Its pedigree was sought to he established by over zealous orthodoxy in connexion with the old law ; and the acknowledgment of sinfulness , on the part of the guilty , on , which Job and Ez- 'kiel frequently laid emphasis , as ari essential preliminary to pardon , was tortured . by scholastic argumentation into a precedent for " auricular " confession . To illustrate this supposed analogy a multitude of passages of the . Old Testament were , brought forward , amongst others Lev . xvi . 21 .
These and similar inconclusive references were to sane logicians so obviously nugatory that Thomas Aquinas had fairl y given up the matter 88 not pro . ven . Thecaseof patients afflicted with leprosy or elephantiasis , who were commanded to exhibit their symptoms to the Judaic priesthood , ' was clearlr a sanitary regulation , these functionaries in the Hebrew . theocracy being invested with municipal administration , and it being indispensable in the civil and social economy to prevent the spread of a contagious disease so fatal at that period among Oriental tribes . The fitting corollary would be public dispensaries , not private confessionals . But , dismissing all these allegorical reasonings , and com ' ni ;
to the supposed allegations found in the Gospel , he found that allegory was still the predominant element in the sustentation of . this claim , and the famous " power of the keys" the main groundwork of its assertion . The ceremony of presenting conquerors with tbe keys of a subjugated town and the constant allusions in scripture to tbe gates of a ctiy as the emblems of force and authority , were overlooked in the construction of these passages , tbe literal . interpretation of which would involve the manifestly inadmissable theory of man being completely at tbe capricious mercy of bis fellow mortal for admission into God ' s inheritance in direct contradiction to tbe solemn and inspired announcement . Revelation-iii . 7 .
The text of 16 th Matthew , it which this metaphorical transmission of keys to Peter occurred , was next sifted with masterly criticism , and its bearing on the exclusive and individual perogatives of the presumed successor of Peter shown to be hardly compatible with a general participation of the priesthood in the prerogative of forgiving sin . An intimate acquaintance with the writings of . August in , Chrysostora , tremens , & c , was evinced in the crowd of quotations which the speaker , flung . into bis argument . Nor were the . less conspicuous and more modern authorities of Bonaventura , Peter Lombard ,
Maldonatua , and Denis the Carthusian , less copiously drawn upon for corroborating testimony . Cardinal Cajetan , whose name was heard frequently amid the din of controversy at the outbreak of the Reformation , and admitted that the New Testament furnished no direct warrant for , auricular avowal to a priest ; that the words of Paul as to the preparatory process before a fitting reception of the Lord ' s Supper , " Let a man examine himself ( probet seipmm ); and so let him eat ot that bread and drink of that cup" ( l Cor . ; ii . 28 ) , seemed to point to a quite different conclusion ; but the pertinacity of the schoolmen when direct evidence was either noi
forthcoming or broke down , still took convenient refuge in allegory , and a fanciful inference as to the necessity of a power in man to- unloose . from sin even when God had forgiven the repentant sinner was drawn from the injunction of Jesus in the case of the resuscitated Lazarus . ( John ii . 44 . ) Of equal value and corresponding relevance were the other scriptural attempts to vindicate this pre posterous assumption . The total absence of any allusion to this secret practice ia the records of early Christianity , while the frequent reference made to public declarations of guilt be / ore tbe assemblies ot the faithful in tbe first centuries went to demonstrate the nature of
church discipline , salutary and inoffensive in the one case , and indicative in the other of the tendency to degenerate to which all human arrangements are liable ; for nothing could be more clear than the gradual subsidence of public confession ( a voluntary self-humiliation ) into the private abuse of auricular and compulsory disclosures . The evidences of this comparatively modern substitution of a demoralising and repulsive practice for an ancient edifying and impressive ceremony were abundant . in the pages of ecclesiastical history , and it required no less audacity than that of Pope Innocent III . ( the contemporary of John Lackland and Cardinal Pandolfo ) t » exercise over Christendom the same tyranny that be attempted in England , and openly incorporate the confessional into tbe dogmatic teaching of Rome , by insisting on its first formal establishment at tbe
fourth council of Lateran , A , d . 1212 . The speaker ' s object in this first part of bis inquiry into a painful subject being merely to elucidate tbe facb and arguments usually alleged for its acceptance as a Christian institution ( of which we can only givr the above meagre outline ) , he reserved for next occasion the development of its moral and social inconveniences and evils , from a long personal experience of its working . His discourse , whicb had been singularly dispassionate , kindled up at the close with a glowing picture of the , weeping penitent of Bethany at the feet of tbe Redeemer , anointing them with the precious perfumes hitherto lavished in extravagance and guilt , unabashed by the presence - of the Pharisees , who rebuked her , and seeking forgiveness from him alone whom she had offended . .
. So convinced were these doctors of the law thai an infringement on the attributes of the godhead was . involved in the solemn act of forgiveness ; b condonation vouchsafed to . silent but sincere repentance , unattended with phafisaic conditions , irrespective of detailed disclosures , unaccompanied by irrelevant or loathsome revelations , but elicited at once by the fervour of divine love . genuine sorrow , and contrition .
Democratic Temperance Societies. To Tub ...
DEMOCRATIC TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES . TO TUB ETJIIOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sib , —As there appeared in last Saturday ' s paper an addresfrom the Age of Reason Total Abstinence Society , Cumberland-street , Deansgate , Manchester , requiring aid and co-operation in removing the evils which have long been existing in ternperauce societies generally , "the Eccles Temperance Committee feel pround in stating that they cordially agree with all that , that address contains . They . haye been ! contending with tbe same evils , and a few individuals who have been endeavouring to remove themi have , been charged . with being quiblers , critics ,, infidels , and socialists , for contending that main ought to have free liberty of speech , and be allowed to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience " ; . ' some have
even gone bo far as to say that it is not just for » majority to rule in all cases ; and these , Mr . Editor , are professing liberals . It is the decision of the committees connected with our society that all men shall have equal privilegesj providing that they are for the propagation of the . temperance principies . We need not trouble you with any " lengthen ^/ remarks , but must add , that we shall feel proud in aiding and co-operating with . the Cumberlandstreet Committee in carrying out those principles , which , in our opinion , are calculated to raise the working classes of this . country to a state of happiness and prosperity , if universally adop ted ; believing at the , same time that seotarianisin has bei-n one of tho greatest evils connected , with the aoovf societies . On behalf of the Committee , Jobn Bhimblow , CoiTeBpondrng Secretarj . 34 , Silk-street , Eccles .. ' :.
Street :0r0a»S.-The Following .Memorandu...
Street : 0 R 0 A » s .-The following . memorandum has just been circulated by Mr . Commissioner Mayne , for tbe guidance of the superintendents oi police :- " The police would be justifiedI m stopping music playing in the streets , and , if necessary , removing the parties in cases where , from the loud noise , or other circumstances , danger is caused to passengers in the streets , horses frightened , or the thoroughfares obstructed . Let instructions be given accordingly for the guidance of the . police , "
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Honesty. — A Baker Buying His Sunday's D...
Honesty . — A baker buying his Sunday ' s dinner . Cons . — "Why is a thief who purloins a feather pillow like a tear ?—Because he steals soft down from the head , and—evaporates . What did a blind man take at breakfast , and recover bis fight ?—He took a cup and sato sir . Miiokw " . —If salt hay is placed around gooseberry oushes , i t is said to be a preventive to mildew . Hay from the ' * " kled 0 B H ffiJ 1 l & 30 r b tIi 0 moisture drSf »« » , f BiBsswo .- » What blessings chilta £ ch ri ^ hem ** ^ ^ ' ^ ^ nrSe a I HU . W mP ' 1 - ~ Trast nim Mb ) who thn k in -ff m lG u «™ w « 8 all ; and him least who is indifferent about all .
iSLLE 4 CE-~ A " u mmesce « enceis but comparative . There may be persons who excel us , as much as we fancy we excel the meanest . The Protectionist party is composed of nothing but fops , fools , fanatics , and fox hunters . —Daily News . The Free Trade party is made up of coxcombs , Coukoeys , crazy men , and cotton spinners . —Bristol Mirror , A Similarity . —Cats and pigeons , although they may have nothing of the India-rubber kind in their formation , are notoriously gutter perchers , Usited States . —The population of the United States is returned , by the last census , at 21 , 710 , 000 . Missionary Societies . —Prom 1800 to 1850 the sum of £ 14 , 500 , 000 has been subscribed towards the funds of the various Missionary Societies in this country . True Friends . —It is no less an evil for a man to
be without a friend than for the heavens to be without a sun . Riches . —All the good things of this world are no farther good to ns than as they areofuse , and whatever we may heap up to give to others , we enjoy only as much as we can use , and no more . —Defoe . "The Biugut Side . "—Always do as the sun does—look at the bright side of everything . Forwhile it is just as cheap , it is three times as good for digestion . The RoTHscHiLns . —The richest of the Rothschilds is stated to be Baron Anselm , of Frankfort , : ascertained to be worth seven millions sterling 1 Why does ' nt he come here and enjoy the luxury of I the Income Tax ?
A Still Tongue , & c—There are some folks who think a good deal and say but little , and they are wise folk ; and there are others , agin , who blart out whatever comes uppermost ; and I guess they are pretty considerable superfine darned fools . —Sam Slick . " Inexpressibles . " — The Preston Chronicle speaks of a primitive village in Lancashire where the patriarchs adhere to knee breeches . One of them once mounted a pair of trousers , but was laughed out of them by a neighbour , who called them " breeches with sleeves . "
A Conscientious Lawyer . —A laweronhis death bed willed all his property to tho lunatic asylum , saying as a reason for so doing , that he wished his property to return to the liberal class of people who had patronised htm . vVoman . —A mother , She cherishes and corrects us ; a sister , she consults and counsels ns ; a sweetheart , she coquets and conquers us ; a wife , she comforts and confides in us—without her , what would become of us ? Tub Jrws . —Selden says , " Talk what you will of the Jews , that they are cursed—they thrive whereever they como ; they are able to oblige the Prince of their country , by lending him money ; none of them beg ; they keep together ; and for their being hated , my life for yours , Christians hate one another as much . " What rs a Virgin . —A shrewd little fellow , who had only recently "begun to learn Latin , " occasionally mixed his mother tongue with a spice of the dead
languages . It so chanced , as he was reading alone to his master , he astonished him by his translation : — " Vir , a man gin , a trap ;— Virgin , a man-trap . " Charity . —When people are down in the world it is quite as bad to appear to patronise them as it is to neglect them ; indeed , worse to a proud spirit , for the . very sensitiveness which makes them susceptible to insult , enables them better to suffice to themselves , and to reject even kindness that has not delicacy for its companion . —Miriam Sedley . Cost or Crihe . —In five of tho principal towns ia England there are 28 , 708 persons of kuown bad character ; including those in England and Wales , there are probably 130 . 000 living without the walls of the prisons . The Edinburgh Review estimates that each of them costs the community about £ 100 a year while at liberty . The Municipal Council in Liverpool , in 183 ( 3 , estimated the annual loss by crime in that town at £ 700 , 000 .
Coinciding Traditions . —A tradition has been handed down among the Kaffirs similar to a superstition entertained by the Burmese . The Burmese priests foretold that as soon as a vessel without sails or rowers should he seen in the Irawaddy River , Burmaa would fall . The Kaffirs relate that a prophecy exists among them to the effect , " That when sea waggons ( steamers with paddle-wheels ) shall make their resting place in tho mouth of the Buffalo , K-. ifSr Land shall die . "— Mrs : Ward ' s The Cape and TheKajfcs .
A . Tkmpokary Fault . —A young gentleman , of ardent temperament , was expatiating , to a friend older and more experienced than himself , on the matchless perfection of a young lady , whom he was soon to lead to the hymeneal altar . The friend , aware that perfection is not to be expected in woman , slily asked , "Is she thus perfect ? is there nothing in demeanour or conduct that can be construed into a fault ? " "I know of none , " replied the modest youth , "except the love she bears to unworthy me . " " Oh . if that be all , she'll obtain
forgiveness , for she'll sincerely repent . " Fouensic Wit . —In addressing a jury upon one occasion , the celebrated Mr . 'Jeffrey found it necessary to make very free with the character of a military officer , who was present during the whole harangue . Upon hearing himself several times contemptuously spoken of as " the soldier , " the son of Mars , b .-dlinff with indignation , iaterrnpted the pleader— " Don't cull me a soldier , sir ; I am an officer . " Mr . Jeffrey immediately went on— " Well , {¦ entlemen , this officer , who is no soldier , was the sole cause of all the mischief that has occurred . "
" Now . "— "Now" is a constant syllable ticking from the clock of time . "Now" is the watchword of the wise . "Now" is on the banner of the prudent .. Let ns keep to little word always in our mind ; and whenever anything presents itself to us in the shape of work , whether mental or physical , we should do it with all our might , remembering that' Now" is the only time for us . It is , indeed , ¦ , v sorry way to get through the world by putting off till to-morrow , saying , "Then" I will do it . No ! this will never answer . "Now" is ours , " Then " m « v never be .- ~ £ ondof Brotherhood .
Thb 1 ' hieves and the Great Exhibition . —It is intended lo lay down an electric telegraph round the building , having a dial-plate at every eutrance . A number of the detective force are being instructed in the working of this machine , so that on the entrance of any known swindler or pickpocket , information of the fact will be communicated simultaneously to every part of the edifice . In the evt-nt of any robbery taking place , information givii at fine door will be transmitted to the others , and anv known thief or suspicious character attempting ro go out will be subjected to an examination .
Extraorwsart Core op Hydrophobia . —In a letter addressed to the Academy of Sciences , Paris , M . Brussner states that in 1835 he attended a woman dying of hy drophobia , whom he bled at her own specif request . Some of the blood got into a scratch on his hand . He to' > k no notice of the circumstance until one day , while driving in his carnage , he was seized with all the symptoms of that dreadful diseHse . Hopeless of recovery he entered a bath heated to 10 ? deg . 36 sec . Fah ., with the intent of dying easily ; but , to his astonishment , he was not Ion in the bath before he felt himself quite recovered . He ^ ot out , dressed himself , and from that time never had the slightest return of the disease . lie subsequently , and successfully , tried the same remedy with eighty persona attacked with hydrophobia , and only failed with a child , who died in the bath .
Decision of character is one ot the most important of human qualities ; philosophically considere-i . Speculation , knowledge , is not the chief end of mmi- ; it is notion . We may by a fine education learn to think most correctly , and talk most beautifniiv ; but when it comes t ? ! 10 " ' ^* " ! weak and undecided , ' we are of all bungs the most wSX All ninnkmd feel thornse "J ™* . *» t wWu iufirmitWs , and swrouaded with dangers ; the acmes ., minds are the most conscious of difficulties anddansers . They want above all things a leader with that boldness , decision , and energy , which with shame they do not find in themselves . " Give us the man " shout the multitude ,, " who will step forwartSIJd t » He ihe responsibility . " He is instantly tbe idol , the lord , and the king among men . He , t ! en who would command among bis fellows , must v-w f / iem more in energy of will than in power of
intellent .-Bi'RKAP . DisArPBARASpE ov the Fairies . —'' How do von amount . " said the late Rev . "Mr . Macbean , of Alves , to a sagacious old eldtr of his session , "for the almost total disappearance of ghosts and fairies ibH us ; d t ° > be so common in your young days ?"" Tan ' my word for't , minister , " repliedtheshrewd old mm . "it ' sa' owiag to Ihe tea ; when the tea cam' in the ghaWits « nti fairies gaed ont . "Woel do I mind , whan at a ' our . neighbouring meetingsbridals , chrisienmgs , - iykc-wauks , an' the like—we eateuMirtjd awe atvitlw . r wi * rich nappy ale ; and than ihe " verra douit-stV-us used to get warm i' the lace , an' a litih : r . iinfuscd in the head , Htid weel fit to see amaist on . v thing wlian on . the muirs on our way » ame . But t ) i « tea has put out the nappy ; an x have remarked that bv losing the nappy we lest , baith gha-sis '' and fairies . " - * - ¥ « Courier .
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