The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-03-28

4PprOUed, March S, 1916.
We maketh following extraets from Eoib.D,
. book Of Eastern Travels, which next u AN.
%aSiasius, is the most lively picture or Easssrn
NE and manners with which we are aequaiR,.
eds
y could not help looking upon ,hs Jews Of
Jerusalem, as being in some sort the represen.
~tatlves, i not the actual descendants. Of the
rascals who cruciied our Saviour. supposino
this 10 be the case, / felt that there would 10
some interest in knowing how The events AZ
lhe Gospel History were regarded By the Tsroel4
lses Of modern jerusalem. The result. or nv
inquiry upon this subject, was, 50 far a. il
vent, entirely favorable to the truth Of Chris
t!an'ty' ] understood tina. Ne performances of
ne miracles Tas not doubted By any Of the Jesol
IN ne place; all Of them coneurred II atirbu,.
ing The works Of our Lord ID The influence n
magic, but they we're divided a. ID the soee;s.
Of enchantment from which The power pro.
ceeded; the great mass Of the Jewish peoplA
believed, fancy, shat the miracles had been
wrought by aid Of the powers Of darkness. but
many, and those the more enlightened, would
call Jesus The good Magician.' To Europe.
ans rePndiating the notion of all magic, pood
or bad, the opinion Of the Jews as 10 the acen.
cy BY which the Miracles were worked. !, /
matter Of no importance, But the circumstau.
ces OF their admitting that those miracles ,eere
IN fact performed, is certainly curious, and perA
haps not quite immateriahn
"7Ae Sphyna. ~ And near tue Pyramids
more wondrous, and more awful than ali else
IN the land Of Egypt there sits the lonely
sPhynx' Comely the creature is, but the coma
illness is not Of this world; the once wOrship4
PED beast is a deformiiy and a monster 70 this
generation, andyet you can see that these Inns,
50 thick and heavy, were fashioned to some
ancient mould Of b~eauty-some mould ofbeauA
y now forgotten forgotten because that
Greece drew forth Cytherea from the flashing
foam IF the Egean, and in her image created
new forms Of beauty and made ii 4 law among
men that the short and proudly wreathed liz
should stand for the sign and the main condiA
tlon Of loneliness, through all generations to
come Yet still there lives on the race Of
those who were beautiful IN the fashion Of the
elder world, and Christian girls or Coptic
blood, will look on you with the sad, serious
gaze, and kiss you your charitable hand with
the big' pOuting lips Of the very sPhynx.
"Laugh, and mock il you will al the worship
stone idols, but mark ye this yo breakers Of
images, that in one regard, the stone idol bears
awful semblance Of DeityAunchaneefulness
in the midst Of change4-the same seeming win
and intent for ever and ever memorable, Upon
ancient d%ynasIies of Ethiopian and Egyptian
kings-upon Greek and Roman, upon AraA
and Ottoman cOnqueror- upon Napoleon
dreaming Of an Eastern Empife-upon battle
and pestilence4-upon the c~easeless misery az
me Egyptian race-upon keon.eyed travellers
yesterday, and Warburton to-day
all.and more this unworldly Sphynx has
Watched, and watched like a Providence with
he same earnest eyes, and the same sad, tram
mlen. And we, we shall die, 4ad Islam
will wither away, and the Englishman, leaning
ar over TO hold his loved India, will plant 4
irm foot on the banks Of the Nile, and st in
seats Of the Faithful, and still that sleep.
ess rock will lie watching and watching the
works Of the new, busy race, with those Same
ad, earnest eyes, and the same tranquil nisn
,verlasting. You dare not mock at the sphyn4,
G@Xa ETchsRaR ia one Of his letters 10
A. Pakert can upon the Oregon controversy
tated that a globe constructed in London, by
Dr. Malby, set forth the boundary line on tho
'aclhc coast in ccoTdance with the claims Of
he U. States.
The statement excited some attention in Eng
and, and one Of tie managers ofthe Society
Or the diffusion Of Useful knowledge writes 10
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