Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-04-28

suppose you don't know that give tile
first hint of these gGlas to the Pink
! am, best Of men, yours truly,
ANNE ROYALL.
The description of Greek weddings in the
annexed extract from letter bya young
officer of our Navy, is a lively picture of
the manners of the Leyant. The letter
is dated Smyrna, Dec. !, 1928, and adj
dressed to one of the writer's nearest rela-
tions Chronicle.
81 was invited, the other day, to a
Greekswedding, and was a kind Of grooms-
man on the occasion. After collecting
all the company at the house, amounting
to nearly forty, we each took lady, and
commenced our procession to the church,
about furlong distant, aanked on each
l~side, and at distance from each other of
ten feet, by boys carrying large lanterns
with three candles in each. The streets
of this place are about ten feet in width,
very dirty and very badly paved. On our
arrival at the church, we entered the
chancel, the bride and the groom knelt
down, and the Armenian Bishop COM
menced in modern Greek, interspersed
here and there with Latin. the marriage
ceremony. No one said.a word save the
Bishop and his assistant, who made regu-
lar responses, and told the bride and
groom when to exchange rings, which
was all they did in the. ceremony. After
at least twenty minutes he declared them
man and wife, and we entered the vestry
room to witness the signature ofthe mar
riage contract. That done, we departed
in the same manner as we came.
4 Meanwhile, the inhabitants, of every
house, which we had passed on our way.
to church, were prepared for our return,
and we we were deluged with ottosof
roses, diluted with water; and pelted with
sugar plums Of all sizes and kinds. |
received blow on my cheek, the effects
of which felt all next day and several
of the ladies were hurt, though better pre-
pared for the pelting, as they expected it.
On our arrival at the house, we were re-
ceived by. the band Of an Austrian man-of-
war, playing Hail Columbia and marched
up stairs-(every body lives on the second
foor) Ito that tune. As soon as the
bride was seated, the fun commenced.
The groom kissed her first, and then eve
ry body followed so good an example SO
that she received about forty kisses. At
ter all had kissed the brida, we commence
ed kissing the bridemaids, and then every
woman in the room,-old and young,
handsome and ugly. The handsome girls
received at least dozen times as many
as the ugly ones, as we, being strangers,
were not supposed to know that one kiss
was all that was necessary, and therefore
gave them three or four. In fact, never
saw real kissing match before. The la
dies took it,all in good part, and put out
their lips, as much as to say-kiss away.
Sugar-plums, coffee, liquors, &c. were
; then handed round, and as soon as we had
drunk to the health. long life, &C.
of the bride, she commenced, and
was followed by all the other ladies',
throwing handfuls Of sugar plums at us.
We returned the salute, and for FIVE or
ten minutes, there was grand discharge,
When our ammunition was exhausted, we
commenced dancing, and kept it up until
: half past three, A. M. The bride retired
! at eleven, and was put to bed with all the
old ceremonies of throwing the stocking,
breaking the cake, &c. have been to
church every Sunday since my arrival
here, and have been much more pleased
with the clergyman, (Mr. Hartly.) than
! with any | have ever heard, except Mr..
-. He yesterday gave us sermon,
in continuation of the preceding Sunday,
upon the dissemination Of the chris
tian religion in all parts of the world, in
the last "a years, and more particularly
in the Levant, the Morea, and the East.
> In the course of his sermon he paid the
: Americans the highest compliment that
was probably ever paid them, SO that eve
: ry one of us, land there were about twen-
: ty of us present. felt very much inclined
to call out bravo! am, in company with
Lieut.. --, of the Warren, going to
: call on him to-day, and will request him
. to give me copy"
i ANOTHER STEAM Boat LOST. The last
( Cincinnati Advertiser informs us of the loss
! of the Steamboat Talma, on her passage
from Pttsburg to Franklin Missouri She
took fire in her hold, and was scuttled ant
! sunk. Her cargo was principally dry goods
4. and insured in part at the Ohio Insuranc,
Of Office, for $4,000; and on the boat at thu
y same Office for $4,000.