New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-30

eye of The ccpe &c nuch u thi, Je-rsas,n eay,t NJ
can be held uyor stiIiiog Moro eosifcd bv ts yes
snn oosiitst sepuure other lands i the pr;v;Ieo,
humble burial On the rugged slopes Of Olive, and
IN, .sn eyed pilgrim, bent down with years and tba
80. o hs people, repairs 20 the CITY Of esoat,ou
AID have bis Gust mingIe with tia. Of hi,
,o..f,,h,rs. h. siglt Of Zion ard ho,iah.
The Jevisa bopul ation OF Egypt numbers rot more
,b,, 10 coo so,Ir 0f whom nearly 200 live in Grand
cs;,o Tbcveh scw undisturbed in the practice oil
,beir fsi,h. the of,css,e eIactons OF the Govern
.nt and TIE fear Of renevog the prosecutions Of for
urr times have taught .hem 70 dissimuate. Dressing
in Gshy rsgs snd living in houses OF the messest
t.rnel apt tesrnnce, they strive to seem even more
w,etostd than they are ir reality 20 rs not to invite
taxation.
The most lucrative busine . in Which tho Egyptis,
T. are ,reeeed ceased in ne Seventeenth Century,
For lore time mummy vas % article Of great value
IN the practce of nc define T. was fourd in all the
drug shops Of Europe, aud even to this deg nanny
povder mixed with caueps milk butter is regarded by
the Arabs as sovereign remAdy for external snd in
tsrnal bruises.
"Mske mummy of my flesh and cell me .e' the
apo,heca,ies. was not mere figure Of speech. The
rtpulsiye drug was prescrised by the physciazs OF
the 18th century for frsctures, concussicns papitet
tiops Of the heart, ard the like, while Lord b.
cen seys mummy hath great force in sssunching Of
blood" May spectators embarked in the tcade,
and vast sums were expended in purchasing mummies,
principally from The Jews in Egypt. Tonbs and cata-
combs weie searched, and when TIE Government for.
bade the trsusportai!eh of the bodies frora their
sepuchra hsbtstion, the Jews had recourse to fraud
and imposition In oider to supply the great demand
f,r muumT, they embatmed dead bodies AID soli
them TO the Christians. In ike manner the bodies Of
slayes Of executed crmiI es OF unclamsd strangers
and even tie des;coaed corpses of travellers buried in
the sands Of the deser, were converted n.o gold for
II G jew ard edicne for the Gentle.
De Ia Foutaine, phJsicisn to the King Of Navarro,
when travelling IN Egypt made some inquiries respect
ing the supply Of mummy as a drug. The Jewish
deser to whom lie applied for information showed him
thity or forty munmies in single pile The physician
WAS anxious TO knew whence the bodies had been OBJ
tanned ard whether the accounts given by the sncents
relative to the treatment Of the dead and their mode
of senulture. could be confirmed. The Jew laughed,
ard informed Linn that the mummies before him were
all of his own manufacture. To De Ia FOntane in
quiry as to what nation they belonged to- or whe her
they had died Of any horrible disease, such as the
leprosy small pox, or plague, the Jew replied,
matters lot to p1e whence they came, whether they
are old or young male or female or OF what ciseae
they died. so long as l can Obtain them, Tor when
" embslmed no ore can distinguish my preparations
" from ancient mumInissj but 1 greatly maUei how
"ihe Christians WHO are so dainty mouthed, can eat
" Of the bodies Of the dead
Guyop relates by way of anecdote an event which
put an end to the nefarious traffic in mummy jew
of Damietts 10 principally concerned in tie man.
ufacture of fslse mummes had Christian slave, for
the safety Of whose soul be appears to have enter
tanned more concern than for his own. Repeatedly,
and with some success, urging the slave to a0Jure
his rel eon and en- brace that of the true fah the
Jew at last insisted that he should submit to the op-
eratcn of circumcision as the evidence of his sim
certy This the slave refused to do, and in conse-
auence Of bis peIyereness very i'll treated by his
master Going to the Pasha, he represented to hun
tie practices of the Israehte and exposed the frauds
Of which he was guilty in the making of mummes.
The Jew was thrown into prison, from which he 90.
toned bis release only condition Of paying sum OF
three buncred sul'aniLs of gold. When intelligence
of this reached the Governors Of Alexandria, Rosetta,
and other cities Of Egypt delighted with the prospect
of readily obtaining so much money, they exaeted
ransom from oil the Jews who were merchants oil
From that time the traffic ceased.
OF al Mussulmars the Egyptians doubtless regard
the Jews with most aversion. In the year 1874
veurp Captain belonging to respectable family IN
Cairo suddenly disappeared Several OF the resident
Copsus moved by the solicitations of the wretched
mother, requested of tie Viceroy searching invest
caion il 10 the circumstances Of the case. 1t could
on ly be discovered that the young man had gone 10
the Jews quarter from which one had seen him re-
turn He had been missed few sys before the feast
Of the Passover ard the terrible accusation was lst
upon the Jews of having offered the blood of human
victim as holocaust instead Of the bloc of the pas
chal lamb.
Had the Israelites not been protected by the Aus-
trisn Corsul it is probable that the infdraed and
bigoted popuace would have razed their quarter OF
the city level with the ground -Four years previous
a similar event had occurred at Damascus The Pre-
Tbomaa, Christian Priest, greatly beloved by the
people was treacherousy murdered in the house OF an
crulept Jew named Aout -Arari The affair created
n uch excitement even in Europe Two celebrated
French advocates were sent TO Egypt to plead the
Cause of the accused before Mohamned Ali, then
master of Syria The intrigues OF the Austrian Con-
sui and other secret influences brought to bear, pro-
cured an scuuiual of the accused But during the
ju6icial investigation severs important revelations
we,e Obtained Seven Israelites confessed the cine
ar tu,ped Mus ulmaus in order TO claim the clemency
ef the Csdis. From them it was learned
II az a Jewish barber had murdered the Pre-
Thomas in the house of Daout.Aran, and that
the blood of tie prizes. had been mixed WITH
the un,eavened bread. The same year the jews
of Rhodes were charged with like offense Smuar
atiops have been brought aeeias. the lsraees
living in Germany and Hungary. The Greeks Of Con
s.a1tnope sirm that heretofore the jews have oeen
in the habit Of puronipg children in order to sacrncs
them as pashsl lambs This sscriligious cruelty was
r;,,a,ssI,x TALKED of and generally believed a few