Litchfield enquirer., 1854-08-03

 and all of the same kind. They are about equal in point of composition to the worst of our street ballads; full of the same coarse wit and low trickery. They are sung to dreary monotonous airs; and al- ways through the nose. Never had the national songs of people so little charm or distinctive character. You seek the strong sweet language of the heart in vain among them. They have neither grace nor fancy.
 With all this, the Greek girl is pious She would not break any of the severe lasts of her church, even for money though they condemn her to dry breac and olives for six weeks at a time; nol would she neglect going to church on certain days on any account. She has a faith in ce' ceremonies, and in charms, relics and saints. almost toucEing bat there her belief ends. She would not trust the word of her own father or the archbishop. She cannot suppose it possible that any one would speak the truth unless he was obliged; and she judges correctly, ac cordlng to her own experience. She her. self would promise, and take an unmixed delight in deceiving her own mother on a question about pin: but she would scrupulously avoid doing any thing she had promised and the only way to pre- vent her accepting husband. would be to make her say she would have him be forehand. From that moment her fertile wits would toll day and night to find means of escape. And find them she would, to change her mind the day after she was free.
 She has one hope dearer than all the rest. Ii is that she may one day wear Frank clothes and see the Greeks at Con- stantinople. This is no exaggeraiion the wrongs of the rayah have eaten into all classes of society in Turkey. until even women lisp and children prattle vengeance. It is so strong that it has made the Greeks hate one of the prettiest remaining cos tunes in the world, as a symbol of thelr most bitter and cruel servitude.
 By and by the Greek girl will grow old. From household servant she will sink into drudge, and her head will be always bound up as if she had the chro- nic tootkache. You will see her carrying water on washing days. or grooming and squabbling upon others as she cleans the herbs for dinner. She will have become so old even at thirty. that it is impossible to recognize her. Rouge and whitening will have so corroded her face, that il looks like sleepy apple or a withered medlar. Her teeth will have been eaten away by rcughe wine and noxious tooth powders. She will be bald when she does not wear a towering wig. that only comes ou! St. Every ybody's days The plump figure and all it's bumps will have shriveled into mere heap of aching old bones. and her only pleasures in this life will be scandal and curiosity.
 You will find her croaking about and watching her neighbors at the most un- reasonable times. She has wonderful perseverance in ferreting out secret.- She will thus know many more things than are true, and tell them with sngu- lar readiness and vivaci.y. She will be the terror of her neighborhood. and the'e is no concililaling her. Kindness, good humor-even money, which she prizes as much as she did when girl and grasp. at it as eagerly-will have no effect or her. She must speak evil and hatch trou bles, or she would die. The instinct ol self preservation is strong so she will go upon her own old course, come what may. She will be terror even to her own daughter.
 She has been reduced to this state by having been thing of bargaining and sale so long, that she has learned to con- sider money the chief good. She has been subject to insult {; 10 be beaten: 10 be carried away into the harem of man she has never seen, and whole mankind she despises; and has lost all natural feel ing, All grace. tenderness, and affection have been burnt out of her as with a brand. She has been looked upon as a mere tame animal until she has become little better. She has been doubted un- til deception has become her glory.
 She has been imprisoned and secluded until trickery has become her master passion. She has been kept from healthy knowledge and graceful accomplishments from all softening influences and enno- bling thoughts until her mind has fester- ed. When she is young she is kept shut up until she becomes uncomfortable from fat; when old she is wo, ked until she be- comes skeleton. None have any res. pect or love for her. nor would she be worthy of any. if they had.
 Bat drop the pen in weariness. only saying that if a Greek girl be such as ] have described her, what must Greek boy Dickens Household Words. New Sort of Preaching.