The Arkansas banner., 1849-06-05
COnStantinODlP.


 No city of the East which how exists has under. gone so many vicisSitudes of fortune has Consan l tinopie. It has been beseiged lour-at,d-;neniy times, and devastated by fire and pesileuee as mat more. From the East and the West, every nation when 1t began 10 exuit in its strength has turned ii, longing eyes and iis arms towards Es .sfair city o | the sea-" The Greeks and Persials, Bulgarian. and Arabs, Romans and Ottonen, besides many others have pitched their hostile tents about hei and glTded her with men at arms; and six times she yIelded herself up to the sway of toregneIs Since l543 the crescent in a crimson 6eid has waved about her battements and ,he golden barges of the sultan, have swept iearessy over the glassy waters ir which she seems so dieamy to float
 The splendid appearance ot Cons antinople from Scutari, Pera, the MaFmora, and more paiicuiaIl, from the BosphoTus as you approach from the Black Sea- has been so often so graphically described ,ha will not myself attempt II; yet cannot help but eontesS that inc power of that coup dgii when one winds along those neighboing banks, floats rapidly down with the swift current from inc Euxine Is Ihrll Ing iu the extreme, and cannot be without thai cdie.frto ot the soul whose silent, happy quvcrng' arc more eloquent than words From the last posi- ton, the city bursts upon the sight Just at sufficient distance 'O lend all the eDchantment approved space can give to one of the most picturesque portions o the globe, seeming bright chIystal vision hanging along the distant horizon which reeede as you advance, and which can never be reached.
 II Is not that COHSisnlnople stands on an elevated olht o dhu snfIOhndeu, Ot tHe slhOonest Of waters which reflect her gorgeoussefaglio, gardens mosques and mnarets lt IS not that she IS beautiful in her ssli oI has on her opposing shores far villages ad loved classic spots, sacred iom their antiquity, hal lowed by those geniuses who have clothed them anew for our memories--ba all of these combined: and when the mellow morning or evening light rests on her marble dOmes, her giided spires, her green trees and fountains, aud in the glowing and gently ,undulating bosom of the Mafmora and the GoIien Horn, Il so blends and harmoniZes the whole, that when once beheld it becomes, like the scenery ol cara Genoa, an inspiration of the soul, and with II will lve forever.
 If New York city stood on a lofty range of land rising gradually from the Battery, and had her high est point crowned with hundred domes besides the church towers which now adoIn her-if the loved Hoboken was as elevated as memorable Brooklyn, il would oh approaching her from the harhor remind one of Constantinope; for the East river would an- swer for the Golden Horn, and the Hudson for the Marmora, or inc entrance 10 ii, which appears but narrow when first seen from the Bosphorus.
 When the poet, the painter, the enthusiastic lover of the beautiful, descending from the Black Sea, first catches glimpse of this tme-extolied pano- rama which, independent ot lis intrinsic charms has had an imperishable halo thrown aIonud II by some of the mos, gifted pens of our own age, let bun land at a lovely spot on he leit bank where curious structure. reminding one oi pagods, rises near the water's edge, and bete in ls wooded walks lrt him spend his days enjoying ayison cf beauty which i; is painful 10 destroy Bot it, like The young gifl who also wished 10 see the ioes of lie her mother had seen and was advising her 10 avoid, he chooses 10 be dsenchaned, he proceed on 10 the city itself and. wadng through The narrow and filthy streets. can be successful without an efofi for gardens cf the Ssraglio which occupy her most attractive and aung site he will noi be allowed 10 nhablt though he may ardenty desire II. Should ihe magnlfcence of the mosques the beauties Ot the fountains, the brightness ot the women's eyes and tie outlines Of then fine features perfectly well through theii very thin muslin. veiis bandages, suTpsss his ex pectstons and en,hrai him loI moment the muddy allyes the dwellings. the sHaring dogs, will act as counter charm, and fortunately, perhaps, aiIay an enthusiasm which make too sensitive man as seemed the learned and eloquent Paul.
 Boston Evening Gazette.