The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-12-03
The Opening Of MT. Marks Oriental Lee.
tures.


The brave little company OF ladies' and
gentlemen Who faced the storm OF rain and
Wind, and picked their way through un.
laown depths Of mud on Monday night, TO
hesr the opening lecture on "Liie in ORR
enial Lands we're richly repaid. The lee
lpre aboundea ia anus ement and instruc-
ton. The eyening--beng the first oil win
t,r--was an appropriate ~iading up OF this
strange, irclemeut autumn. The weather
was most orbidding--the streets almost i'm.
psssible. The lecture deserved the bright.
Is, night and the fines, audience OF The
year Nothing like / has vet been offered
10 our inielhgen, public. The subject is
one oil novel and continual interest, and the
sisle of thu lecturer fresh. singniarly clear,
and brilliant Mr.. Marks has happy iacul.
~ OF imparliag rich fand oil interesting
and entertaining information. HIS descrip-
tons are very graphic II is nor SO easy TO
lei! story Well 10 small COMPANY as to
crowd, yel he proved himself good story
teser. He o. eriiows with matter Few OF
his audience iaH q he transported 'hso The
,efv mids, 81 Tie strange scenes he paints
insueh glowing cciofs. They are nn board
slip with b!m 10 the Mediterranean and
among The Greek ISLES, zee Africa on The
Que hand, and EaroFe an Iae other as he
saw them, lard with hin' on the muddy bank
at Consisntinope. and struggle through the
crowded ana iumuauous streets filled With
lie motley throng Of all nations and races.
THIS faculty ri windy rsaAaing foreign
scenes and manners, and making others
wildly realize thea, IS prime qualification
Il good lecturer.
Mr.. Marks ID this FIRST lecture Of his
course followed tile path 81 his own travels
through the Straits OF Gibraltar 10 Constan-
nnople, the Gate Of the East. Spain and
Africa were carsorily described--the genial
climate, most lovely scenery. and prodlgal
fertility, with the corruption and oppression
Of the one, aud the gloomy grandeur OF the
oiher,--iis ancient cities in ruins, It's mourn
ful mountains rising two and three thousand
feet oyer the sea, miserable little villages
hy the water side below, the Whole land de-
eayea, desolate, and silent Passing the
beautiful Greek ISLES, ct which he promised
10 SPEAK hereafter, Mr. NJ. took the sndito'
nv up the Derdanelles BY the site Of ancient
Troy. IAN English gentleman living en- the
Dardaneies has purchased OF the Turkish
Government several hundred acres OF land
including the site Of Troy, and the streets
al the ancieat city ate new piougasd aht
planted, and out of the dust OF heroes Rrt
growing wheat and olives and tobacco" 81
complete is the destruction al the plaes
around " hieh Greek heroism once slorme'
and biazed, ihst not a single fragment 0
Trojan antiquity has ever been brought t.
light. Above Troy the AsiAtic shore il
richer and more fertile in appearance thar
the European. They are about four miles
ssunder.--ihe mouth OF The strait guarded on
each side by castles. The European coast
worn and deseFted,-,s strewn with RUNS
ofsremots antiquity. The eohras, drawn
here between the look Of those old lands ID
an American. and the scenes Of HE OWL
country, sac very striking Mr.. III. was /
pilgrim from The newest Of the new wor'
70 the eldest Of the Old The lands and sea
cger which Achilles and Aerxes and Con
s,autine in successive centuries had passed
SCARED with great baules ages ago, sa ut'
The approaching traveller with the most I'm
pressire reeolieelons
We esnnot follow Inc LECTURER tArougl
the crowded and entertaining incidents o
bis passage through the Dardshslies. tn
examination before the Turkish Governor
the cheating or scoundrel officials, th
smoking Of foreigners, Al quarantine, as W
say, the scenery and The gorgeous Orienta
sky, the Turki-h o5bers--"Bashi-Baz
zouks,n the approach t. ConstsntinoPle
SeragEo Point, Ssamboul, The Golden Horn
Galasa and Pera .--tbe crowded fleets Of va
rsous nations ia the bay. the commerce .
the great cily Of the East, the changing ies
lures and curious scenes Of the Orienta
shore, the varied shapes and tints that NEE
the eye, the sleepy, seEsuous life OF the pee
pie, and the strange medley and uproa
where tie lie Of the western nations breaS
10 upon the lie Of the Orient, were vivid
depicted Sketches 81 Russian soldiers, ar
The incidcltal marks 81 the var, with aIat
SING aud groiesqae incidents, varied III
lecturers aarFstise. Street scenes, ciearin
the say foi Tuksh grahdee, the Progres
OF pcriefs laden with articles Of trade, II
neral pFoeegsohs whips OF HiPP0Potamie
hide founslling, gay and strsnge color
Haunting, men fighting fnriously FOR 18th
right Of way" ladies d the Harem passjn.
doukeys vita huge loads Of wood on eitht
flank, widos.s Of French soldiers, children
beggars, camels, all pass before the eye
Such was Constan;inope as Mr. Mari
saw il and made his audience see II, WOE
drous, brilliant, pnrii-c9iored, laughable--s,
scene in which was mingled the brghtes
beauty with the greatest deformitieg, Ia
traces OF civilization and The shadows c
bsrbarism Language cannot paint h
strange life q the East"
Mr. Marks closed By announcing cours
OF seven ieciHres--tle subject Of the secon
10 be the Crimea OILERS vii follow upo
Northern Palestine, commencing with b.
Lebanon, Jerusalem, etc Tie journey iron
Jerusalem - EgyP', Cairo, the Delts Of tn
Nile, the Pyramids, the Nile. Memphis. th
Copts, Thsbes, the Tombs Of Tie King.
Temples, the caiSraets ofthe Nile, and NJ
bia II We can judge from the interest G
the first. they will be tie richest and mos
deHghtul course ever heard in our city
We are sssrel that the interest rises stea
div 10 lbe close Mr. Marks has CON
smong US 60 qaetly, viii hs treasures {
travel. tha, many may be unaware Of III
rich opportunity ofimproVement And plea
sure which now Cffrrf, till il is pgsi.
TIE lRIsa HARVEST or '56.--A regie '
Of the present year, which has been pub
lished in the Belfast Mercury, sage; 18th,
harvest has al leugln been closed, and vii
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