Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1836-03-18
NO 27.-,WHOLE No. 70.

| '""'' o"u al'eT ulsWahIlhS you VI
your customary dress, he sa1rds you a
similar covering. After you have been
seated for some minutes on a bench
inhallhg The vapour aud persplring
plentifuIIy, he throws warm water
over you,-rdbs, or rather scTApes The
skin, pats and paws the whole body
except what the cloth covers, as it he
were kneadrng dough, siging al! the
time an Arabian song, < fnaily dries
you with towel It. an old account
of Algiers BY an EngIishroan, fad
that this operation in The baths used
10 be alite Formidable to a aslranger-
there was such rubbing with pumice
stores, and stretching the joints till
they cracked. The treatment now a
days is sufficiently gentle, bat (eIt
myself less iOHiSorared by it than by
the cold or tepid bath.
The cof.e houses and shops Of Al.
siers are rather amdsins-l mean
those that exhibit the old Alserihe
manrers 10 the best French coffee hoG
ses observed several Moors. bdt yod
recognized them at once, by their 6ne
! by white ttrbans and dresses,a we'll az
the: manners, 10 be men Of the upper
class. The other evening took my
coffee near two Of the M each Of whom
| was told was supposed to be worth at
least e 1000 sterling. was, at first
Englishman enough to laugh at tho
idea of men worth s 10000 going
about with bare legs but, recolIeclIng
my own Highland origin, SAID to
myself, ,=and has not lhe chle(ain of
) my own clan, in the best old tines
! shewn as much Of his naked Iimbs9 I
! have seen Highland clergy man
! mount the pulpit in fla6eg | Was
struck with he perfectly gentleman
: like air Of these Moors. There was
; grace in every movement Of theiE
white and shspeIy hands. By Ihe
, tones of their voices, knew tnat they
o We're arguing, bot it was @ilh ihildness
and light pleasantly, and their Arabic
sounded like Musical language in
com parison win the Cultural harsh.
! ness of the common speech. These
, gentlemen Meurs sat in chairs like the
D Europeans
! In The naive A'serins coffee houses
h YOU Rnd The Modrs and Arabs Sd 'tting
them selves for hours on benches, smo'
king and slipping BLACK s1garless coffee
E which 20 lssio much resembles %orfn'
i powders. There thaV also play at
II two games which as Ear as could Ola
serve, are like drafts and chess They
i,sten meanwhile to tn vocal and in'
!. strumentaI music Of their ingenion.
minstreIs-a music which, 10 an kA'
e ropean ear, If may judge BY my own
/. is uninte Iigibe aud execrabIe. They
# have fnger guitar, with FOUR, strings
d a Il Idle with only t@oS and Rageofe(
# which is their best instrument, thou Sh
d bad Is the best. have seen thenh
also use drum made OF parchment
stretched over er Of buFGt clay.
II The lar mi sht indeed be painted as a
n symbol of theiF music. Really against
}, an Algerine concert | would almost
II pit the bag pipes of Lochabar. A
n Highland piper gives you atleast soma
IS idea Of lilt or rhythm in his rudest pi.
t. hroch-something to which you could
q dance or beat time: but In the Algerihe
4, airs | could discern no rhythm. -
N What, you will say, melody without
ts rhythm 1t is impossible, and the Tadll
h was in your esrss Well, own ID yoI
e the utter difficulty of imagining utdsid
!, without rhythm, and | thought at trsI
h that the fault lay wholly in my owl
h ear; but wher spoke on the ubIett
with q Frenchman here, who is the
Fs leader of resinental band, he told
It me that The rhythm id Moorish hiel'
odies is so tapritious as TO puzzle
Il him.*
% The natives have also a SOFT OF opes
ra.houses Of lheir own, where MoOreA'
,e ses dance unveiled-if their t1on6to:
# nous; see.saw movements can be called
,r a dance. Of course the reputed puri.
70 " of those ladies' cannot be compared
q with the ihstnhed snow, bit in Justice
n to The beauty of the AISerihs fair sex
a which have impeached Upon sHspi'
" cion, ought to say that more ihah
,s one Of these opera-Womeh appeared ID
,e me exceedingly handsome.
Is The shops that have been opened
h by the French are OF course after tht
e fashion Of Eur6pes but those of tbs
I Moors and Jews are in general formed
:, by Fecess in the side OF hcuse, SONS
e four feet deep. and seven feet long
Il and raised a step above The ground