Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-04-10
TUE eIrTTAN OF TURKEY.

tians and especially in his protection OF the Amer
lean missionaries and the Arminian Christians. HIS
attendance upon a Christian marriage as descnoeo
by the correspondent of the New YORK Dally LINES
increases the favorable opinion before entertained
"You can have little idea of the agreeable sur
prise created in our minds by the intelligence that
the Sultan had been present last Sunday IN the
house of one of the Christian subjects at the mar
riaoe of his daughter. 1t was step OF tanlliaf
condescension, for which there never was Prece
dent with his predecessors and which accords htte
with all our previous ideas of what the uran -
Turk might do with propriety or consistency: II
portray to your readers OF the scenes o. Ine
OCCASION it is because that the event is not as re-
mote from politics as a skirmsh with mountaneers
or a change in a cabinet of ministers. The orlde
on this occasion was daughter to Greek Cnrlstian'
formerly Prince of Samos, named Stephen Vogo'
redes. The Sultan, personally, is evidently as
posed to treat all his subjects, without regard TO
their religion as alike worthy of his favor and OF the
favor of God. And, though he is aware that the
ceremonies of a wedding are religious and sacfa-
mental performed by priests, who, in the tancles OF
Islamism, give companions to- the Deity, and that
the rites are to be performed in the very room
where he will be- he does not recoil from the polu-
ton. Hewent some five miles IN storm OF ram,
and descended at the portal of his humble SUBJECT
the highest in rank nevertheless in the Greek
nation. From the gate to the house the pavement
was spread with velvet. The patriarch OF the Eas-
tern Church, with all his bishops, who also honor
the wedding with their presence range themselves
upon the line he is to pass Their sovereign ncnes
his head to them, and asks of his attendants who
is that venerable MANI 1.-THE spiritual head OF TO-,
100000 of his subjects) the patriarch, who never
before stood in the Sultan's presence.
After entering the mansion, he declined remain
inc in the room set apart for him, and entered the
grand hall. When the clergy entered to exercise
their functions, they approached him to kiss the
hem of his garment. He protested, saying they
! had come to worship God, and that there was
greater present than he or they and gently repealed
them by putting his hand upon their shoulders.
From the commencement of the religious service,
which, with the ceremonies peculiar to the occasion,
lasted two hours this king of kings, and sun OF
the world remained standing with one hand rev.
erently folded on his breast his left hand under his
cloak, resting on his sword. Repeatedly he was
urged to be seated, but he replied sublmely,
UiU neuer be seated aChere any an my presence are
calling upon God.' The gentlemen who waited
upon him-relatves of the family-then signihed
to the clergy tina. they should shorten the service.
As they now reached the lines where, according to
CUSTOM the chanting is more rapid, His Majesty
suspectinc that this was lest he should be weary of
standing ordered that the service should not be d
minished in the least on his account. With the
remarkable royal curiosity described in the poems
of Peter Pndar, he inquired the meaning of each
ceremony-the kissing of the Holy Gospel, exchan-
cling of rings the browning of the bride and bride
groom with white flowers in garland, and the
EMBRACES that the bride received from her own kim
dred and applauded much the significance of each.
When the bride and bridegroom drank glass of
wine out of the same glass towards the conclusion
of the ceremonies, and solemnly broke it on the
floor, though may suppose that he had subtlety
enough to trace the connections between the act
and the symboizing by wine of the inseparableness
of the marriage state, yet we must also suppose
that his public conscience felt slight twinge when
he echoed on this occasion the other occasions
when his questions were answered, Very we'll, very
WE'LL At the end of the whole, the new married
couple come up before him and bow their faces to
the floor, when our affable and gentle monarch
greets them with the wish, May you be prosper
edr In leaving the hall he expressly desires that
he may visit the other rooms of the house. He
then descended to his own department. accepts of
pipe and coffee, orders food, which of course is
served with magical promptness, and did not hest
tate, it is privately whispered to quaff beaker
two of champagne to the health of the new mar
ried pair. His visit continued four hours.
AS all the guests on such occasions make an Of
fering of good will to the parties in some substan-
tial form, our generous and too lavish Sultan be-
slowed $4,000 upon the bride and $4,000 upon the
bridegroom, Mr.. Photiades His own impulses
Eoud carry him much farther and he would have
done it too, but fo" his Secretary of the Treasury,
who though dependent upon the will of his abso-
lutte master, yet is firm and uncompromisng man,
who will not hold his Office unless he can withstand
successfully the extravagant expenditure of the Sui
tan. He can be the more stern, as probably,
cordng to all accounts, he hardly has in these days
any money to watch over. But reserve, for anoth-
er moment, speaking of the finances of the en-
pire."
The NATURAL BoUNDARIEs OF THE U. STATES
story in print wants the manner, tone, and life
like humor OF the narrator, yet at the risk Of in
Justice to Lieutenant NJ, venture to publish that
which he told at the dinner of the Chamber of Com
merce.
Soon after Texas was annexed, an officer named
BOYLE, commanding an American vessel in the
Mediterranean, touched at Gibralter; was invited
to dine with SPoFFoRD, commander of an English
vessel then at that place. When dinner was over,
and the wine flowed freely, the subject of the an
nexation introduced.
"And So" says Spofford, L see you of the Uni
ted States have annexed Texas"
eyes, we have" says Boyle.
WE'LL you are peculiar people,"
Yes, we do every thing in peculiar way"
"Do you intend to 60 annexing?"
" Certainly"
And when do you mean to stop?"
"Stop! Why when we get to the natural bound
ries of the United States"
"The natural boundaries of the United States
and what are they 2" says Spoford.
The Equator and the Aurora boreals," replied