Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-28

sing Of human feeling, priests that preach the re
gion of mercy, the wealthy who pity the sorrows
of the Door the sentimental whose hearts are touch
nv the tale of woe-and none of these shall heed
him: and he may retire at night to his bedless
garret and sit cold and hungry by his empty
crate: the world may be busy and cheerful
and noisy around him, but no sympathy shall
reach him, his heart shall be dry as Gideon's
fleece while the softening dews of humanity
are fallen around him.
Religious Education of Children.-In Bavaria,
if nothing be fixed in the marriage settlement,
the son must be brought up in the fathers, and
the daughter in the mothers faith. lllsgitimate
children follow the mothers religion; but in Aus
tria, if the father be Catholic, all his children
have to follow that faith. In Prussia legitimate
children must be brought up according to the ia
theirs teDets, and natural born children in con-
formity with the mothers's. No agreement to
the contrary is binding. The most rational rule
is probably that established by law in SaXony,
where the point left to the choice Of the parents,
or guardians if the former die without having de-
cided.
Moorish mode of Courtship.-When young
man becomes attached TO girl, and wishes to
mary her, he seeks her in secret and obtains her
consent. That point secured, he commissions
marabout to treat with the girls relations, as to
the presents which he is to make, the number OF
oxen he is to give to the BRIDES mother, &c.-
This being arranged, the marabout who has un-
dertaken the negotiation informs the other mar
abouts, when they are assembled to prayer, the
lover himself being present, From this moment
the lover is not to see the father and mother OF his
future bride; he takes the greatest care to avoid
them, and if by chance they perceive him they
cover their faces, as if all the ties of friendship
were broken. tried in vain to discover the origin
of this whimsical custom; the only answer could
obtain was, IS 1t is our way" The custom ex
tends beyond the relations if the loveris of diff
ferent camp, he avoids all the inhabitants of the
lady's camp, except fe" intimate friends whom
he is permitted to visit. A little TENTS general
y set up for him, under which he remains all day,
and if he is obliged to come out, or to cross the
camp, he covers his face. He is not allowed to
see his intended during the day, but, when every
body is at rest, he creeps into her tent and re-
mains with her till day-break. This indiscrect
method of courtship lasts for month or two; af-
ter which the marriage is solemnized by mara
bout. Cables Trarels in africa.
1t appears from some parliamentary returns,
that the use of coffee in this country has increas
ed considerably during the last few years. still
erlands. The quantity of coffee consumed there
annually is %, 500, 900 lbs. of which seventeen
millions are used in the southern provinces. The
consumption averages above lbs. ahead.
Sir Walter Scott, in his History Of Scotland
states the astounding fact, that Just before the
Reformation, half Of the Kingdom belonged to
the church!
1t appears by an account presented to Parlia-
mani tha tho total oynanSo nf tho Hnpyicf HILL
established in England, for the half year from
the lst day of July to the 5lst December last,
was Al 1901. as. ID; of which sum 2OOl. was for
the superintendent salary; superannuated al
lowances, 1901. 15.; and contingent charges,
6OOL 2s. I'd. The total amount of the earnings
of the convicts with that period was S0,66OL l8s.
Cd.
The total of the persons committed for debt in
Ireland in the last year was 2,617-of these 1879
were committed to the several prisons of Dublin.
The persons in actual custody at the beginning
of the present year were 577, Of which 18l were
confined in Dublin.
On Wednesday week, the London Police tri-
ed the effect of the wire-gauze fire dresses re-
Gently invented by Frenchman, and from the
success OF the experiments that were made it is
supposed the commissioners will approve of the
men being supplied with fire dresses. 1t ap-
pears that, with one of the dresses on, a police
man held red-hot poker in his hand till it cool
ed.
\ plan has been for some time in progress for
forming, in the vicinity of the metropolis, GEM
etry which will be an improvement on the Pere la
Chase.
Sic,liaa Statistics. to the last CEN
sus, Sicily contains 100000 inhabitants, of
whom 100000 are ecclesiatics, or persons living
on ecclesiastical revenues. There are in the
island liz converts containing $4,000 monks
and $4,000 nuns The nobility of this small
population consists of six dukes, 2l7 princes, eli
marquesses, 1000 barons, and the same number
of an order called gentlemen. In Palermo. the
Formulation of which is only 100000, there are
SSS churches.
Private accounts from Naples, alluding to the
extraordinary severity of the late winter in that
part of Italy, mention, that mount Vesuvius was
covered with snow for ten days. most unusual
occurrence-and that during the whole of the
period, the column of smoke from Its crater.
which usually serves the Neapolitans as a wea-
thercock, had entirely ceased to issue; while not
an explosion was heard from the mountain
The Barrache del Carmine and the Convent ofl