The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-08-06

Egyptian women not kept in the ecuded
nor as those OF ancient Greece who, besides beirg
hnd to particular part of the house. the most remote
from The hall of entrance and generally the uppermost
part 81 the building not allowed 10 go
9ors without veil as is the case in many oriental roun-
tries at the present day Newly married al
most as strictly kept virgins and by the laws Of Scion
no lady could go out at night without lighted torch be-
fore her chariot leave home With than three
ments. They guarded by men, and oftentimes by
old men and eunuhs and the secluded life they led
very sims 70 that mpofed upon females among modern
Mosems. Bui the Egg piians treated their women very
dherently, and IN manner much more worthy Of civil
ized people,
The leny and indulgence of the ancients did not
tend so far to blind their eyes palpable crimes hch
the ladies of old Egypt sometimes had the weakness to
barbnrous feeling that eryades the breast of oriental r.
lers OF our time, than of the highly cultivated state of
cety which supposed to have existed in Egypt thirty
five hundred years ago. Death was seldom exacted as the
penalty OF crime, except in cases OF murder
A more common way of Furnishing women for the crime
of adultery, was to cut off their noses Whether chas-
tsement Of such severity had the effect to restrain crime
and enforce chastity not all must concede tina. the Pc
nalty was savage in the extreme.
Male delinquents in all of this kind. suffered
bastinading TO the amount OF Thousand bloss exce
cases where violence had been used against free woman
when they were punished in asignal annes.
In the loss of the nose it supposed hs' the fair
would be deprived Of most useful and II ar,a the
last that she wculd desire to part with In any Gaze. it
could hardly fail aetract considerable from her
al beauty.
The women however did not enjoy an undivided mo-
nopoly ofhaving their noses cut of. The pSilege
sometimes conferred uron the who, BY their dsvte
rity in woodworking and their skill in robbery exhibit
TED claims sufficiently strong 10 merit that distincon
Dio lorus informs that Just aud strict inquiry
and certain knowledge Of their guilt they ordered
10 have their cut off, and to be banshed into the
ermos parts Of the desert TO city built FOR them cali
ed from the cutting of the Of the nhab'sn Rh
nocorura which situated in the confines OF Egypt and
SYRIA in barren place, destitute Of all OF pro,
sion.v
Thus the lives ofhe culprits spared and, they
allowed to return again their native land
but obliged to support themselves by industry IN barren
and inhospitable region all must admit that their punish
sufficiently striking to convince all that "the
way Of trangre ssors is hard"
GENTLEMAN EGYPT, WITH OuT-RuNrERs.
Aner parted with Nebby, my wife and got into the
carriage with Mrs. yrkns who had Just driven up with
two outunners take 10 the baths of Cleopatra and
the catacombs OF Alexandria. for the first time
witnessed a custom, which, in my subsequent wander
ings, found to be prevalent throughout the eastern
countres and is doubtless very old onehat OF runners
by the side, before carriages after the manner sup
pose OF Elijah running before the chariot OF Ahab Mrs.
Frkns had two but have as many as four, and
six of these attached TO the skirts Of dis
nguished parsonage in the East who never Stacked the
speed Of his horse Of the runners and they
bearing the pipe tobacco etc. of their master
dure fatigue Of running in this way at the top Of their
speed for a long distance, without apparent inconve-
nience. These runners accompany individuals horse
back we'll in carriages. recolect seeing the go
vernon of town in Upper Egypt mounted upon horse
back gaoping at full speed with no less than six