Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-06-29

ROME. In letter from Rome, of the 18th o
May last, Mr.. Bryant, editor of the New York Eve
ming Post, notices the preponderance of the militia
ry costume the ecclesiastical and the restraints
on public intelligence, but adds:
" In the midst of the evils of this false system
OF political organization, there are some tokens o
prosperity to be seen at Rome. have no doub,
that the population of the city has considerably in
creased 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 few years since stood vacant in the pala-
ces and other large houses, have now their inmates
This is owing, no doubt, in part to the general
growth Of the population 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 ecclesms
tcal world is setting back towards the usages and
opinions of the middle ages, no doubt floats many
hither, and adds something to this new growth of
Rome. Those who foretol6 that the Eternal City,
in the unhealthy air of her Campagna, would at
no distant day become unpeopled must be con-
tent to look to very remote and indefinite futuri-
ty for the ful6Ilment of their prediction.
Meantime the city is somewhat beautifed with
almost every succeeding year. Statues and COL
umns 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 a smoother one, COM
posed Of small rectangular blocks of stone, like
those used in paving the streets of Paris; noble
causeway, with parapets and pavement of hewn
stone, has been lately made over the low grounds
just without the gate, as the new Appian way
and the public garden and the Monte Pinco has
been embellished with rows of busts, in marble, of
the ilustrious men Of Italy, her ssgs, artists, and
authors. Workmen are now occupied in the gar
den, forming its walks and planting them with
trees, among which perceive the evergreen mag
nolia the bayonet-laven palmetto, the date palm,
and other trees of the palm kind which do not
find the climate here too rude for their growth"
CoNsrANr1NoPLE. The late important news from
Turkey in Europe, was, by a somewhat startliug
coincidence, received here the 4OOth anniverss.-
ry of the conquest of Constantnople, and of the
final destruction of the ancient Roman empire, by
the Ottomans or Turks.
The city of Constantinople, founded more than
$500 years ago, and during the first 1000
years, known as Byzantum, was subsequently to
$50 A. c., called after its restorer, the Emperor
Constantine, who removed to it from Rome; and it
continued the seat of government of the Eastern
Roman empire for about ], 900 years after the Wes-
tern had been oyerthrown.
According to Gibbon, the city, which had been
already beseged for So days by the Ottoman troops
under the Sultan Mahomet 2d, was stormed; and
after glorious defence, taken on May goth, 1853,
0. S., which corresponds the difference in the
L 5th century between the styles was nine days
to June 7th, 1853 of the Gregor:aa Calendar, or
exactly 400 years ago. The name of the last en-
peror who was killed in the assault was, like that
of the first, Constantine. Since the conquest, the
city has been the capital of the Ottoman empire
and is known by its possessors as Stanbou or Istan-
bol; 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 ofthe book
of Daniel and the Apocalypse with regard to the
Ottoman empire, aud tile calculations are somewhat
in this strain:
The power of the Turk to continue ascsndency
over the third part of men for an hour, day, 8
mouth, and a year, or three hundred and ninety
one years and thirty days, began May Goth, 1853
That period ended in June, 1914, or by ccrrec
ton OF the true year to make it concide with the
vulgar era, in June, ls4s, when the Russians in
| vaded the Danubian provinces and laid CONSTANT
nople open to their attack. Again they find pc
Rod of one thousand two hundred and ninety years
during which the desolation of Israel was to in
crease until that determined shall be poured OF
the Dictator The beginning of that period is sup
posed by them to coincide with Nowsheerwan o
Persia, in A. D., 53l, and the end Of it with the
year 1881, and the Greek revolt from the power
of the Porte"
It:wl however, be recolected that the presen
is not the first occasion on which the occupation O
Constantinople by the Russians has seemed immi
nent. In 1929 they advanced to and occupied
Adranople, within one hundred miles of the capi
tai, and there believe the treaty of peace of tha
year was signed. Boston Traveller.
CURE FOR HYDRoPHoBIA. The season of hydro
phobia is at hand. Half dozef specifies for it
cure have been given to the public from time t.
time, yet we do not knoao of any cases of confirm
ed rabies having been cured. Still, it become
men to prove all things" and we therefore Civ
what correspondent of the National Era write
from Millbury, Massachusetts,, as follows
81 am now in my eightieth year, and have OF
tanned what information could both from obser
vation ard critical study. 1t has lately been dis
covered that a strong decocton made of the bar
of the roots of the white ash, when drank as a me
J;o;no will ura tho bite of q mad dou This mn