The Arkansas banner., 1850-05-28
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 RIVER DAxusr, lsS9
 The voyage down the Danube is ia 1 St insesesf and inconvenience. And restless genilsnan whose go-ahead," AmeTieaa sseisng wilt brook to delays, , hose peculiar condemnation of ifags aoes { uOi n ike hitn as InperVioWs Co smeke hssasAs sausage, or hose augplari'y csla,bs Niii not admit ot ais being pided up ike pocket rule and slowed away in remote corners wonla most earnestly advise to proceed from Vienna 10 Tre$te anA there take he tsrtaHed Lloyd steassefs Iof the Ottoman capital. Few travellers, fear, will be sufficiently Tonaitc 10 forget. amidst the glorious associations with winch lis banks a'e rife, the vsfy sericas an no5 aHees ol the Danube. 3aiaas ea
 Although Il $ the second river of Europe. ant is nnnoefed among the great rivers 0f the wogld yet limited continues the know ledge of the nattga. ton of the Danube that the boats nssef fan aftsi dark aud rarely after taRset. Then they gre wi,h- 0ll sleeping aceammodailonS oi sny kiHd. and have noihtng essb te remind q their absence except the ts Ffsnninz aFesassl tlse sHasi eabin winch Is below decks as iH the steasaeFss An individual Who seeDrss on this resting place room enough 10 sit l reclining position, Mitn lis pofulaniean and his cloak of pillow anal bjs legs cooked ap on easop-stoe has every reason 10 consider asrf peculiarly ihe iarorite a the dfow. sy good Morpheus The flaming anGauHc nae It over the door of this iigle eabn n four languages and as many different coioipd letters si smoking was pos,tpeiy forbidden, seemed bat eHcant age oar passengers ia ihIs annoying hIKary, for every i;Sii;, immediately after tea, ihe4e vas general drawing forth of long pipes and short pipes and gafs stuck into anbrr holders, which soon pro- duced an aip posphefe that woaLi have rssIrrscted smoked herring, and made him capable o; most elo queny protesting against so yitlainons a (aIngaiiop coughet aud snerZed mys ysflf almost into state oi iasensibiiiiy. Opened windows and caught cold -tIt, alter te~ nights, 1 fsli inlo the habi, of dreaming as quietly oi beIHg old cob pipe or the exiingnished stump Of a very co,ninou sesar az fl the smoke had saot been slinnsi stiaity
 ls-s miles. IS ahont the that IToln Louisville To New Oreans, bat how different are the two voya- gss in speed, price, and accommodation. That down the Danube 10 ConstshtnopIe we arcor- pl,shed Iii thnIeeea days, at expense ct nearly seventy dollars, and without the comfort ol bels except daflng The Two niE ts passed on the Black sea, when we had another steamer. Excepting lts boats and is size, thefe is mueh however about he Danube 10 remind sn American of our uxn gteai Mississippi. The wildly rushing current and huge sddes dotted with dark yellow ioam; the low cav tug banks, subject 10 overflow and lever and ague; and the lInuneGse sasd bars giIsening in The sun beans and stretching far into the stream as if they would usiirp the rivers righinI realm: line fJequent willow groyes and the 8oodysrds Of Bea;ly cordSd wood, ali speak 10 an AmeTran of onr glorious rifer But here his weary eye searches m yaia for those smiling evidences of industry anu prosperity which or every side meet t al home No quist tarin hou. surrounded with orchards and tiails or waving corn, no paHsations ol sugar and caitoh with their ~blte coltages aud heat negro qlaurr halt bntied in and orange blossoms, croAd upon the view. All IS here waste and desoi1tien except where miserable village has sprun. ,Ip in the shade of iew hil,s whose sides covered with hAii teaevs EeJariS, or where city bAs grc8a up uadeI ihe patronage oi the noble rusIsvrIs ot he people. In tine rich valleys. which Should present every spe- eses oi cutls alton. tue only signs of life .he ocsasionai HGBgarisn peasants ID ihei' sheep skin jackets and large p3Daioobs, idly !oliiag among their HPftS r.d aud the large haeksof sheep which they tend 4 nd the numerous fiects oi waleI-mIlis wbteh turned by
 he cuneui ,oi the rver are the only indications ot any thing resembling industry. But, as These inllis are one ot the pecuiiariiies of the Dahube, will g,ve You bfIei description of them. Two boats joined og rihrr about twenty feet apart, oh oae s built the mti-honse, and between item Is sus- pgt,!ed the large, rudely-oonstrnctsa wheel which. slowly tarniag nthe oi the river grni' ihe niIl. Betng anchored in lines along ibe banks oi he river, sometimes extending six seven deep far into the stream, they present very novel appear. adce, and make even greater chatter than batter constructed mills are wont to do
 Al other tunes, the banks of this great rger are clothed iH dense forests. the deep silence Of whose solitude is oEly broken by the-horn ot the Setvian sNineberd az rude and as wild IS bis sSush charge and whose only habtaiions are the scattered straw huis of the suTgeon fishermen, whose nets are hung ia gracefgl iesiOons the bushes to dry. aad whose iiues are indicated for miles by the ceanfless goufds that float on the broad stream of The river whilst they themselves are padding about i1 thier canoes, which look natural Il they iloaied on some quiet Arkansas lake. Sixteen ceuturRs have slided slowly by since the Danube was first known 10 civilization and the Romans. and vel in many places ihe dark fosesss ciSthe its banks which were miriored ih it's hosou. then. How dl- ieTent have been the results in land where eneI- prise animales aud freedom protects its citIEens. 4 little more than three ce'iafiss ago, and such eountry as America was not knowa io rxisf; only hall a century since. and the great Southwest was a wilderness, and now he valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi an extended garden. Yet the val ley of the Danube possesses The same advantages oi soil and the sane variety of climate bu, the genial influence oi liberty is wanting to develop ,h.m.-- The people have long been cursed wlth the worst of governments Ffom the fall of tn. western em- pire, the HungaFiaDs were consistently haIasse, and finally overcome by it's eouquerors, the Forks; and the donlinaiion of the MHs.Hlnan only yielded 10 wuEse tyranny under fine AusrtsHs. By the bon dae of the peasants to the nobies 10 the Ansirians every incentive 10 industry is destroyed, every of prosperity removed, ard the Danube remains, with its s+Sanisges as httIe inprove,i when the Roman first found II. And, even when their fine climate rather than their inisry, does give them B surpIas that might with pIoGt be exported, use short sghei iicy of their Austrian masters pro- hibits their seeking foreign mafkets with heiT pfo- dpets. Though every hillside, ssiost without the sii ol mae produces yine equal II not snpetior te ihe bghi German wines, ye, ey this strange PTrhi- bIion if remains shut hp the cou0try, 10 sceem- nodate Aus,rian winsbibbefs, 5y hoM il IS bought at incredibly cheap prices.
 Ther. was much, too in The appearance of inc half savage and thoroughly miserable psasant scat
 tered ih small villages along the banks of tbe Dan uhe, to remind me of those lBd,sas among us who
 finger on fhe outskirts of civilization, where they acquire al his worst vices. wihon; that industry ai,ch so eonuees to the comfort of The white man The WaIlaehiso. with his nBshorn beard aad matted lneks, in his skall-csp ef sheep-skin, wbosr long shaggy wool d4ngied about his eyes fniiered iH inc ehll autumn wind woHh not give one very exalted impression of the degree of advaaepmeai fn de hy the people of these parts Hts person en- veioped n a much worn jacket or taiiered hisn- kei conEned about his waist by rope-his legs stuck into breaches of msay eoiofed patches, and his ankles s~aihed il ssoeiea rags about which are wrapped again aad again the iwine strings. which