The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-11-12

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The women never eat with the men. I
they have servants in the family, these frs
wait upon the father and sons at their meals
and then upon the mother and daughters
Ii they have no servants the women are ser
wants.
The Bey is absolute in the fullest sense
OF the term. The lives and property of al
his subjects are at his control. He takes
the whole produce of the country at his owr
price, and disposes of it at such an advance
That large revenue comes to him annually
from this source. Besides this he collect
an annuity in the following manner A
regiment Of Moors is sent out to make a
demand upon all the people. These are
succeeded by regiment of Turks, and the
rear is brought up by the Bey and a compa.
ny OF guards, who gather rich harvest as
they go. The Bey has love for building.
ami Is transporting marble in abundance
from Italy and elsewhere to erect fine coun-
| try seats about his empire.
When at home, the Bey every day except
Friday, which is the Sabbath, in person sits
/ IN judgment on criminals. Each man pleads
! his own cause, as lawyers are not known
here. Whatsoever crime Christian or a
Jew may have been guilty of, if he turn
Mussulman he is at once set at liberty
AS | was passing grave yard | saw
half dozen persons kneeling round grave
engaged in singing. When a person dies,
males and females meet in separate apart
ments, and prayers being said by the minis
ter, the body is carried to the tomb by the
men. After they are out of the house, the
doors being shut, the women set up a loud,
doleful halloo for half an hour. The women
never 60 to the Mosques. There being no
bells to the Mosques, crier is stationed on
the top of the walks around the dome; five
times day, as their times ofprayer return,
he cries aloud. The three grades of Turks
are distinguished by the color of their fur
bans-the descendants of Mahomed those
who have made pilgrimage to Mecca, and
the common people.
IDIOTS are regarded as Saiats-treated
with reverance-do as they please without
restraint, receive splendid funeral at death
and distinguished monumental tomb. The
parent who has an idiot child is regarded as
greatly blessed
The population Of Tunis at present is es-
timated at 10000, but accuracy is not at
tainable. There are great many Jews
here, who are treated worse than the dogs.
though some of them are rich.
Though treated with great kindness in
the Consul's family we were all glad to get
away from the town. Having procured
mules, seven of US and two guides set off to
visit the ruins of Carthage, 10 miles distant
Having proceeded about half way, great
numbers of ruins appeared at our left stretch
ing ON for miles ahead. We directed our
course to the hill on which is supposed that
the Citadel and some of the principal tenn
pla
of subterraneous arches running parallel
and intersected by dividing walls. 1t aD-
peared to me that the buildings all had arch
ed cellars which still remain entire, and are
now inhabited by wretched set of Jews.
We rode over these arches on plain, and
only had to avoid the openings where they
bad been broken through to admit the light. !
No man can fairly describe the emotions
produced by standing on such place. The [
objects most worthy of notice are the i'm
mense cisterns which in the days Of its pros
perity supplied the city with water, and still
remain almost entire. Coming to the shore
of lake whose border all around was white
as snow for two or thee rods in width. and
all its rocks that rose in the interior, crust
ed over with the same substance, l dis
mounted to examine the phenomenon. II
found it was crust Of salt sufficiently stiff
to bear my weight, but as | stamped hard
it broke like the crust of snow, and l took
some specimens-but steering for nv mule, |
which had LEFT loose, he turned and show
ed me that liberty was dear to him, and it
took two hours, and all the Turks that could
he mustered, to deprive him of it. The ia
tigue cost me several sick days.
New ENGLAND. Our manufacturing in
terest is beginning to wear shape that
will not bear to be tempered with, or trifed
with. New England is alive with machine
ry-the machinery of waterfalls, and con
gregated seas. The whole seaboard is
awake to the privileges which have been Sc
cured to her by charter, as old as the
skies and as secure as the foundations of
the earth, and her whole interior is lighting
up with a new spirit-a spirit that will not
he rebuked. Her woods are beginning to
roar like the sea when it moves WITH slow
-steady-uninterrupt heaye along the
whole verge of the Atlantic. Her waters
are travelling into new channels, and her
woods are vanishing as before a storm. A
| few years more, and the toughest parts
of this rude country will be roaring to the
blast of furnaces, and sounding with the
din of wheels.
But comforting to the very soul of a New
Highlander, as every such view is, and invig-
Grating as it is to our best energy and
proudest hope, there is yet another Of more
Importance, and better established foun-
dation-better by far, inasmuch as intellect
ual supremacy, or to speak more cautiously,
intellectual elevation is more to be coveted
than either riches or gold. New England
has had her day in the councils of our coun-
try by direct and palpable authority-her
day Of indirect and invisible authority is vet
to come. Nor is it far off--nor will it be
slow in its approach. Of invisible authority