Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-10-04
TERREs OF ADVERTISING /:
THE ORIENTALS.

An interesting letter from Asia in the New
York Evangelist, thus speaks of the travellers
experience
81 am in another world, and not new world:
but as ride ont every evening, see the wreck
of a nation hundred years older than Chris,i-
| anity. see the river that flowed through Par.
adise, and so, in our streets, venerable gray
boards daily present themselves, like fragments
from the wreck Of the oldest born of nations I
see many Cain, and there comes along now and
then, stately figure, like Nimrod, the mighty
hunter; or like him who sold his birthright. I
seemto have dealings with the brethren of Jo-
seph; and while Abraham has not appeared to
me, yet many Lot walks before me. My Arab
| steed was sold to me by Ishmael himself, in all
the rich and graceful costume of wealthy
child the desert. On the whole, however,
must confess, that think the godly have ceas=
ed from earth, and that the specimens see of
patriarchal and antediluvian men and manners
are certain lewd fellows of the baser Sort
4 x
This is slow country Has not the Tigris
been running since Adam cultivated Eden, and
yet it has not passed by Why should we hur-
ry. Let the poor people born yesterday in A
merican woods hustle and make haste to catch
up with the stream of time. To get ANYTHING
done is like digging to the central earth, or lay
ing foundations for the Alps and Rocky Nouns
tans. To get at the head of to-day, must go
back to Noah, at least, and trace the race down.
| needed home--a simple matter-when hum
dreds are going to decay. 0, smpleton, look a
gain. The approval of the bishop is requisite,
and his reverence is not disposed to tolerate my
stay in Mosul-anathemas hang like the mour-
tain FORM Wo to the luckless blacksmith that
dares to lift hammer for me. Wo to the wit
loo,, - 4. ]. Al.
to the wight who shall rent house, and to rem
der his soul forever portionless. Treaties are
to be formed, councils to be held-and moving
with the ponderous roll of a world upon its rusty
axle, the affair moves on, and finally, after a
month of negotiation find my house and pro-
pose my terms. -Four families are interested,
they assemble, fires flash; there was not more
passion or words in a council of Jupiter and his
peers--butI was spared the hearing, and the re-
suit was favorable.
Now what have to do but move in? Stop,
American! You have gone back some centu-
ries and here men move, calculating upon at
least the days of Methusaleh. Blot out the word
go ahead from your vocabulary. Well, what
next? Here are donkeys in the best room and
nota little hay, straw, brush, stone, and other re-
fuse. See the walls are bare.
Allow, at least, one week for cleansing and
repairs. Let me hire masons to complete the
whole. No indeed They will assent to no
such terms. You must buy lime for them, and
when all the work is done, then first you will
know the cost. So lime is bought and water to
mix it from the well, and each night you will pay
off all hands, beginning from the head to the
least boy, in true scriptural style, and notice,
you pay certain toll for the rope and bucket
with which the water is drawn.
The carpenter who comes to make the book
shelves, expects you to pay the porter who bro't
his boards on his head and shoulders instead Of
wheel-barrow and as he sits at his work, flat
on the floor, notice how handay he uses his feet
for a saw horse. You can Pay him according to
the number of boards and the time spent