The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-11-20
VOL. /. NO. 80.


She heard it with terror, wcp and trenbcd but
when the first alarm was past, she showed that |
had not been deceived in either her heart, or her
understanding
you must 60 said this noble creature. Life
is cloudy at best, but we have no higher guide
than duty. The man whom love carries my soul
with him into the battle, or tho desert, or the tomb;
but shall never suffer his love for ne TO emblcr
his life by furnishing his honor
The Moscms are not supposed to rank women
too highly; yet they have heads and hearts well
as The rest Of the world If the Franks doubt this,
cannot help them, but the sultan knows better
and his messages for the heads of the pushas,
whenever he has occasion for their purses, prove
the reality OF his belief in one-haf of the matter
As to hearts, | presume the truth is pretty much
the same nj both ends of the Medileroneam-ex-
ccpt that the Moslems pay for their wives, instead
of beng paid, and thus have the question Ct value
ON their side, so far zechins settle the ques-
ZION. However, had not much time for either
love or philosophy; for while | was gazing on the
slar-likc eyes and satue-like form of my beautiful
bride, and listening to language which would have
made me listener till dooms day; rocket burst
across the sky roar followed it galloping of
horses followed the roar, aud ] found a crowd of
the JanZury officers mounted at the gate and clam
orng for my appearance How they had found ne
out was Il matter Of some srrpriSe at the time.
1t was ailerwOrd fully explained, Ogou was busy
among them; and soon heard from him and the
anxious circle round ne, the true history of the
hour
The Sultan had long resolved on restoring the
levies Of Rim, and reducing the corps Of .ani2a-
RES. his we had 70 desire to hasten, as may he
supposed /; aud we had taken the usual means of
telling our minds. All nations speak their grieyan-
a 4 Al L.. q
them, I he Russian ties a cravat round the cars
throat which he eau never unite. The German
quits the land Of sour kraut, aud goes 10 dig his
grave in the desert, The Frenchman shoots his
king in his coach, and proclaims the liberty Of his
country in a cOtte-house. The Englishnan lihcs
him in newspaper. The Moslem way is the SIM
pcr one after all. lie sets fire TO ConslaElinopc.
The thing is easy for the houses are of wood; 1t is
expressive, for the scragiO may be burned ~ east
" as the streets; ard it is ccctua, for Sultan
on record has ever stood three substantial fires
1t has however, one objection, and but one. We
cannot burn, where there is nothing 10 consume,
and where thrce-ourhs of the city were in ashes
already, the moral was not easily rencwabe,--
Mamoud, too, was the most stubborn of men,
lie had become alarmed as the flames shot up from
time to time. Ills eve told him that we were in
il-huuor with him; and he privately brought troops
to Scutar, and waited only his opportunity TO
strike. mounted my horse, and desired Olympic
as to get herself in readiness for the chances of
our adventure promised 10 make sultana OF her,
if we should succeed hnmri If we did not; aud
to place me either in palace at her feet, or in
paradise by her side, by the time the sun was shi-
ming on the hcsphorus. She was silent, but her
tears said what was forbidden to her voice. She
threw her ivory arms round my neck, and Moslem
as | am, fully believed, in that houl at least, that
women could have SOUL,
drew my scmctar, and we set of like a flight
of lelons, for the rendezvous of the regiments |
found them drawn up on the shore in font of the
Seven Towers They were steadily waiting our
return, and was received with accanations,-
The sight was gallant one Not less than forty
thousand Of the finest troops that remained 10 the
empire, stood to their arms before me- 1t is true
that some Of the Janizares had adopted the low
professions Of the city; but those were not the men
to meet the danger of the night; and every man on
| whom now looked was Il true soldier. asked
what hid become of the General. An aga brought
forward sack from which he produced head.
1t was the seraslicrs. lie had been sent for By
the Sultan early in the evening" and had returned
10 announce to the corps the Imperial deternl-
nation to disband them. The agas, in circle,
/ calmly demanded his own opinion on the subject
| The serask:rr had been court barber and was
| #, for nothing but to handle the shaving bruSh,-
| He advised them Ike the slave that he was, TO
submit. Ottoman councils of war may not be re-
nowned for etiquette, hut they have the merit of
proceeding at once to the point The srraskicr
was instantly ordered TO make his will in favor OF
| the rcgncntal chest, knec down, and have his
| head cut of. All was over in lew niinules and
the head in the sack was my commission.
| rode along the ranks, and spoke few words
to the first Oda. Look on those towers, soldiers
/ 4 \ Hl,p, ,t,1t lt
Ianizary Of glory. 1t was here that Sultan 9th
man dared to defy the mpjesty Of the empire. No
man has ever delcd it without paving for the in
suit in hi, blood But the lnniznry drums beat TO
arms. The Sultan fed 10 these walls. They be-
siegcd him. and in our-and-twenty hours his
corpse was rolling under their feet No speech
was ever more apploudcd'
7 rode to another. The subject was now ven
gcnnre - ook here said |; on that spot where
this mouddrng pillar stands, was proclaimed the
mramous decree which e>iingushcd the siNty-fllh
Oda. Trcachcry alone had bailcd the J0ni1aries;
their champion, the Nizier Daoud, had been strip
ped Of his turhan his scImcar broken, and his lips
forced 10 swallow drarght from the fountain,
where he had mixed the waters with the gore Of
Gilman Perish the mcmory Of those who have
no honor for ii friend lie was reyenged, but the
Oda never was restored. The time is now come.
This night there shall be sXty-ih Oda.'
Nv c,oquence was irresistible. It might not
have shown in the presence of Suans, nor perhaps
would it have made great figure even in he court
of the cadl but with the brave, hot. and angry
multitude before me, nothing could be better
, now rode on and if dreams Of sovereignty
could ever enter the brains of son of ISLAM, they
might then have entered into mine. When look
ed round ON the deep columns that filled every
street as we passed along, saw the glitter ct the
h,vonets. an absolute sea Of waving steel. the ios-
;nr Of rho Standards and the gallant and dctcrm-
r ned .isagcs of the new army, Of which moncn,
= bad made me master; might have been entitled 30
think Of being something more than january for
lic, But the Moscms are above the rhsurdity of
tho Franks. who think That have all the troubles
of a kingdom on OR heads, is 10 be free from all
. earthly care and that To have nothing either 10
hope or desire, is 10 he happy. We leave to the
descendants Of the caliphs, 10 orr magnificent Sui
+ fans themselves the exclusive ieht of living with
out enjoyment and dying without carse'-cf be-
i ing cloaged with pleasure until they are as weary
u