New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-22

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whom she had blessed as he was going out int
the world, sanguine that such a son would wiz
for himself honor and fame there also was the
| father, poor old man no tear came to retrieve
| his intense agony-erect, rigid, cold and color
| less stood the gray haired sire-the blow seemed
to have frozen and choked up the very fountain
| of his tears. The 6nce sturdy trunk stood
| withered and bare--the lightning's flash had
rent and blasted it.
| THE FoUR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF Tus
| TAKING OF CoNSTANTGNoPLE.-Th late impor-
| tant news from Turkey in Europe was, by q
somewhat startling coincidence, received here
on the 400th anniversary of the conquest Of Con-
stantinople aud of the final destruction of the
ancient Roman empire, by the Ottomans or
| Turks
The city of Constantinope, founded more than
2500 years ago, and during the first 1000 years
known as Byzantum, was subsequently, to $50
a. y. called after its restorer, the Emperor
Constantine who removed to il from Rome and
1t continued the seat Of government IF the East
ern Roman empire for about 1000 years liter
the Western had been overthrown.
According TO Gibbou, the city. which had been
already hesieged for hfty-three days by the OF
toman troops under the Sultan Mahomet "a,
was stermed, and, after a glorious defence
taken on May %, l453, o. $ which corresponds
(as the difference in the 18TH century between
the styles was nine days. to June :, 1853, of the
Gregorian Calendar, or exactly four hundred
years ago The name of the last Emperor, who
was klledin the assault was, like that ofthe first
Constantine. Since the conquest, the city has
been the capital OF the Ottoman empire, and is
known by its possessors as Stanbol or Istanbol :
but by Christians, not subjects of the Porte its
former name Is generally retained. The weak
ness and decline of the Ottoman power, now so
manifest, induced some of the clergy to study
and to attempt TO expound the prophecies in
the book of Daniel and the Apocalypse with re
gard to the Ottoman empire, and the calcula
tious are somewhat in this strain:
Z" The power Of the Turk to continue ascend
ant over the third part of men for an hour,
day, month and year, or three hundred and
nnety-one years and thirty days, began May
~, l403, WHEN the Greek or Eastern empire
was overthrow. That period ended in June
1911, or, by Il correction of the true wear, to
make it coincide with the vulgar era, in June,
lo4S, when the Russians invaded the Danubian
provinces and laid Constantinople open to their
attack. Again they find period of one thou
sand two hundred and ninety years during
which the desolation Of the land of Israel was 10
increase until that determined shall be poured
on the dictator The beginning of that period
is supposed by them to coincide with Nowsheer-
wan of Persia, in A. D. 531, and the end Of it
with the year 1921, and the Greek revolt from
the power OF the Porte,
1t will, however, be recolected that the
present is not the first occasion on which the &C.
cupation of Constantinople by the Russians has
seemed imminent. In 1929 they advanced TO
and occupied Adrianople, within one hundred
miles Of the capital, and there we believe the
treaty of peace Of that year was signed Bos-
ton Traveller
RoME.-In a letter from Rome, of the 18th of
May last, Mr. Bryant, editor of the New York
Evening Post, notices the preponderance Of the
military costume over the ecclesiastical and the
restraints on public intelligence, but adds
6 In the midst Of the evils of this false system
Of political organization, there are some tokens
of prosperity to be seen at Rome | have no
doubt that the population of the city has consid-
erably increased within the last twenty years
The proof of this is to be found in the rise of
rents, and the difficulty which now exists in
finding commodious apartments, ! am told that
rents have nearly doubled, and that the spacious
suites of rooms which a few years since stood
vacant in the palaces and other large houses
have now their inmates This is owing, no
doubt, in part to the general growth Of the pop
uatlon Of Italy during the late long interval of
rest from war, and in part to the new facilities
for travelling, which bring many more strangers
to Rome than formerly as visitors or residents
The tide also, which in the ecclesiastical world
of the middle ages, no doubt floats many hither,
and adds something to this new growth Of Rome
Those who foretold that the Eternal City, in the
unhealthy air of her CAM agna would at no
distant day become unpeoped, must be content
to look to very remote and indefinite futurity
for the tulflment Of their prediction
Meantime, the city is somewhat beautifed
with almost every succeeding year Statues
and columns are erected; the old irregular
pavement Of the streets trodden with so much
pain by those who had corns on their feet has
been taken up, and its place supplied by
smoother one, composed of small rectangular
blocks of stone, like those used in paving the
streets of Paris noble causeway, with para
pets and pavement of hewn stone, has been
lately made over the low grounds Just without
the gate, as the new Appian way and the pub
lie garden and the Monte Pineio has been en-
bellished with rows Of busts, in marble Of the
lllustrious men Of Italy, her sages, artists and
authors. Workmen are now occupied in the
garden, forming its walks and planting them
with trees, among which ! perceive the ever
green magnolia, the bayonet-lave palmetto,
the date palm, aud other trees Of the palm kind
which do not find the climate here too rude for
their growth"
MORALS ~ BRITISH GUIANA late Dem
arara paper tells the following tales of crime in
that locality:
The records of criminal sessions show an
amount Of crime unheard Of in the history of
the colony; for, save the butcheries under mar