Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-05-03
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COMMUNICATION.
For the Gazette.
AMERICAN PERIODICALS.

Among the multiudinous periodicals
issued at the present day, from the
American Press, there is one which
particularly attracts my attention.
The specific design Of this one is to
promote one Of the greatest schemes
of human improvement and christian
benevolence, that the world ever wit.
messed. But let that pass. now
speak of the periodical in question, on
ly as vehicle of interesting and USE
full information. It is n journal ofarts,
sciences, and improvements, as they
now exist in the four quarters Of the
globe. 1t contains running history
OF the manners, customs, religions, Ian
guages, the political, social and domes-
tic condition of almost every nation on
the face of the earth. II is the only
publication throughout this wide land,
that introduces me from month TO month
into the inner court of such distant and
different nations.
Through this medium at one time, |
am conveyed to the great and interest
ing country Of INDIA, once the land of
wealth and oriental magnifcence, but
now the land Of splendid ruins and cost
ly monuments of ancient greatness
Here | am conducted from village to
village from the stately palace TO the
miserable hut; am taught the charac-
ter Of the present government ; the
condition of the present race OF lnha-
bitants; am introduced TO the Raja,
the prince, the priest, and men OF eve-
ny rank in life; view those stately
monuments Of their former greatness
and folly--temples, mosques, tombs,
excavations and gorgeouspalaces, some
in perfect repair, others in ruins.
am again transported to the walls Of
the :. Celestial Empires" or set down
in the interior of Africa. And there
mar CRAFTY travellers curiosity in
witnessing thousand objects Of intor-
est in real life and present history
History informs me what these coun-
tries ,eere; this magazine exhibits them
as they are.
To say nothing of the Christian and
the philanthropist, who always desires
to search out, and to become acquaint-
ed with the objects OF their benevolent
care, il is not little astonishing that
intelligent men, gentlemen ofthe world,
who love to read--men OF curiosity
and research, should not be more ar
dent admirers, and more constant rea-
ders Of this periodical. II is a very
cheap publication, widely circulated,
edited by men, themselves of sound
erEdition, and who from their official
standing, are in circumstances TO Gull
out from abundant resources, the most
rare knowledge Of men and manners
from the four quarters of the earth. 1t
contains an amount and variety of in
formation seldom to be met with in any
other periodical. 1t is published by
Croker g. Brewster, Boston, and may
be obtained ($l SO per anhum) by ap.
plcation to its agents, who are TO be
found in almost any town, village, or
county in the United States.
AS single specimen of this valua-
BILE work, allow me to transfer to your
columns the following notices OF an
ancient city, once the proud capital of
Mohamedon power in India, but now
presenting to the eye of the traveller
little else than the splendid ruins Of
former magniicence. 1t is from the
pen OF an American gentleman. now
resident in India. INDICUS.
BEEyAPooR. Prom Shalapoor TO
this place, seventy miles, the country
is generally level, slightly cultivated,
and thinly peopled. In some villages
we fonnd both Mahratta and Canarese
languages used in common intercourse,
but reading and writing, with few ex-
ceptions, are confined to the former
language. Beeiapoor, sometimes CAL
led by the English writers on India,
Viziapoar,) was ior nearly two hun
bred years the capital ofa Mohammed-
an kingdom. 1t Yves then one Of the
largest and most splendid cities in In
dia Native authors of that neriod saw