The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-10-27

From ,ae New Bdf,ri Me4eury

Homer calls It the land of the Lrsbrigoni-
ans. who We're giants and ate mems flesh and
from whom the '.much enduring lysses
escaped with some difficulty. The Crl1nea
Is also known ia tragedy as Iauris. ana the
custom of sacrificing all strangers upon It's ai-
tars, which then prevailed, shows that from
ae earliest ages il WAS = very dangerous
place for foreigners. Then il was called the
Csmlnelia, the land Of darkness II the
sun-l3ying Islanders Of the E-ean. nigh, ana
storm and eternal winter dwclt beyond thai
Aaxiue SEA, which only a few adventurous
mariners dared 70 penetrate. Cinmeria!
there IS meaning IN that name. Il is only
Grlmca IN its ful Developments u w9s en-
81 the halts Of the Caucasian tribe Ia their
irst western migration. The Tartars Scy-
-hians they We're theu Called, drove them
out, and on they went these wanderin. tim
merians. They called themselves Cimbri
when they arrived il Europe. 4 portion of
them N Wales, with fantastic legends If tho
fall of Troy ia their early and mythical his
tory. are still known a. the Cimbli but tSs
are the parents Of all tho race Of the tclts !:
and now The invaders, English, French.
scotch and Irseh. are emily seeking their an-
eestral place and making themselves Il home
Ifter teIeruhi5 long absence The h4ve
found there the Oh Scythian tribe Mo re-
ecteI them. 10 l4e sure their former con-
4ugrors have not been in possession the
whole time, nor very much al it. Liz. ia
more III fact than hall century is Il -f4ce
theg finally took il into their keeplnp for.
after driving ont the Ctmmerians, thew (these
Gythtan Iartar~) We're themselves exnelleI !;
but they have come back aud got tAe start
OF the origtnalowners, who noN. after near
I t~o thousand years, have just returned to
look after the oil homestead.
There IS another little association with The
Crimea that 10 us Americans is interesting
one John smith, the joan smith. the atiyeu-
| turoas captain Of Virginia, WAS also wiz
nor against the Turks Or fartars. H eur q I
10y erssi Mos.em tunbaus Wits heads lasi,ls III
/ tneh, but was uniacAtly captured ANA sole Il,
I j 8iaNe lie WAS carried ~ lhe >sra j. nf
! hertseh and INTO tne sea Of Axol. sem
/ where IN the Irimea, Or rhereabouts ea,,-
/ 6vi.y ceased. II killed his maSter .aigad
! as horse and clothes, aad rode r .ls8r tlf4
/ anu the nearest Russian post, D { tia, sim
nearly synonymous ideas. He was kindl, m
/ eelyed, ANA passed along fro4a on4 Na.r6yit.
station to another back To ri end. ani ...iti.
cation. With every step 3 new instalman,
d gratitude became due g,.orn him. which n.
duly discharged throut-h his hers and assigns
Tor hc founded Nirgi ma Virginia one dav
with her sister coiGnes. became the Gntel
states OF America. ngland was III war witt
France and her OWN etolted colonies. Thu
aousa 81 Bourbon ard the house Of GueIpE
aad no leisure 10 iook eastward. In facJ
there was fot an ''Lastcrn question: at ait
Hhanne Of Russia stepped in with her NJ.
fases, at4d the Crime was hers. France cam,
70 the rescue 700 late. English country gen
tIemsn were too full of the Milllesex e,e.
ilo4 ana tn Amerlc IA war. the 'sno-popery
riots and the nation al debt. 10 think much VI
the schemes Of The Czarina. Their lHdluI
empire was hut us, beginning. and no N4no
leon had taught them the value of tn pas
e.lallA Of Egypt 80 the overland route ~ III,
East. The fall of he Crtmea was but IN,
annexation Of 4 urrcn khauet. reyolte,
State OF Turkey. the Austrian Empire eoul,
hardly have taSen more interest ia tlle annex
atton 81 Texas than England then did in tn
Irlmean transfer ID Russia The seeds III fiji
ture calamity are sown in silence .Th
tempest i tofetold Ny little cloud no VIZ
ger than mas hana' which comes out .
'ha sea- but tp-day the Crimea II thn centr
81 ihe Aorii's gaze, aud what Is now pas>int
~ ~ sai mas I'D changing tine wA3io ,sibl
current 81 affairs.
We have made, In the foregoing. larc
dranghts on i very entertaining and able mr.
= 'cie ID the North american for October.