Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-02
GAZETTE.
From the Hiaois Monthly Magazine.

an ordinary library, or IN jOurneying to the next
market town, and to vegetate on his paternal
acres. with the CATTLE horses and pigs of the es-
Enlistment. Was there ever one, who had not .
..l,eiIe notion to see how things went in other
parts;" and did not feel kind Of itching, to try
lis hand at driving bargain in the West. or at
the South: In shoIt, was there ever one of the
whole race, who had not an Ishmaelitish fond
ness for roaming about the world, IN search OF
curiosities aud speculation>? Tue kentucSians
are afraid Of them, the Cardinals hate them,
and
'The Virginans look
Upon them with as favorable epes,
A. Gabriel on the devil IN Ps'sdse.
That propensity for novelty, with which nature
has endowed our speciess has fallen with a dou-
be portion on this enterprising people. They
unite the perseverance Of the German, with the
facility Of the Freuchman, in CONFIRMING them
selves to circumstances, and retain, withai, a
large share Of that independence aud obstnacy,
so esitimately derived from their John Bull fore
fathers. With these qualities, thew have become
the leading business men in British North Ame-
rica--they appropriate the New-Engand sta es
exclusively to themselves-they are numerous
aud respectable in New-York, Pennsylvania, and
MARYLAND they are the merchants Of the whole
Southland four. ffths Of the influential men IN
the western states, can trace their oris.n TO New
England.
OF the individuls composing those swarms.
which are constantly issuing from the northern
hive, many 90 forth 50 deeply imbued with the
principles in which they we're nurured, as to be
governed by them in after lite, aud become the
pillars OF society wherever they reside. Others
recede from that strctness of conduct so uuiver-
sally ascribed 10 the Purirans, aud maintain sort
Of middle ground, Iii there is such thing,l be-.
tween morality aud vice. They are ready for
speculation which promises success, and seem
perfectly indifferent whether they
'Are nedlling
With books, law. physic, merchaadiz, or peddlng,
81 long as they do it upon a consideration
A third class consist OF those, who shave gone
out from them, but are not of thcm.' These are
they, who have, by their conduct brought st
much opprobrium on the name of Yankee.
Many OF them are persons Of education ant
respectable connexions; but IN leaving New
England, they appear TO have lett ali moral re
sraint behind Them. At their outset, they be
lieved they had only to 81 into the southern o.
western states, aud slsnily their pleasure, to be
come any thing they chose. SItIo't the least re
gard TO the suificlency Of their acqulrements.-
Here, for a time, they hang upon the skirts o
society. waiting 10 Jump into the fortune, or no
uorabe station, which their imasinatons had pic
aret. and which they believed TO be their JUS,
due, until they are unwillingly convinced tina
ueIr hopes are prsposterous.
Hurning.--A French writer gives neat sum
mary % the different oOservances among man.
kind, relative To mourning and funeral ceremo-
MES. All the world, says he, is acquainted
with the masnificence Of the Roman obsequies
and funeral games. The Greeks also burnt the
corpses Of distinguished men, with funeral feas,s
ana the lamentations Of hired weepers, though
they generally displayed a less sumptuous grel
aud better regulated piety. The Perslans bu.
RED the bodies of the dead; the Scythians ate
them; the Indians envelOped them, tor preserva.
tons sake; the Egyptians embaimed and drie,
them, exhibited them on festival days. placed
them at their tables among their guests. guarded
item as their most precious Possessions. and lent
and borrowed money upon these pledges. In our
time, the custom of dancing at funerals is only
Pracuced IN India and among some savage ma.
lions; but funeral entertainments still prevail in
many European countries Among others. the
ceremony OF interment is solemn. and silent.
Watch nevertheless does not Interfere with the
wish that all may be forgotten as speedily as pos.
s!Ose. We observe more osteutatious rites for
persons OF consequence; their carriages follow
"em to the grave, aud sometimes their horse is
paraded, which having beea made to fast, seems
10 partake OF the occasion. The Orien,ais. from
"hom we borrow this custom, wcat further: they
made their horses in funeral professions weep,
blowing particular powder up their ncs,rils
IN Italy, the mourning was toruerly white for
women and brown for men; in Chins, It is white;
n Turkey, Syria and Armenia, it is blue; IN
Egypt, yellow; in Ethiopia, grey. Each of these
S W. had originally its mystical signi6cation.
M@'e is the emblem Of purity; celestial blue in,
IcaIes the space where the soul ranges after
aeaih; yellow, or the tinge Of dead leaves, exhib
s Sueath as the end Of all human hopes, and man
a,l'ns like the leaf Of autumn; grey presents the
Saor OF the earth, our common mother; and
sscS' the funeral costume now adopted through
Europe, is an allusion to the eternal night.
- N England, the king never wears black; he is
sS'ned IN dark purple as mourning Till the
IN OF Charles VII, white was the funeral CART
range The Emperor Leopare, who died il