Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-11-08
Increase Of Jews.

srican hefio" o"Ff m
;mmiorants has increased more rapidly IN
ln ae,,ntry than the Hebrew. l" 1880
'n' .,n might count upon his fingers all the
" in the land; now there are al
,!.., quarter of million Jews, from
l: :ah,v to ninety synagogues. and multi
.Sa If smaller communities where nu'
'u ,."s exists which will soon grow into a
sDa,oocue. The city of New York alone
~ twenty synagog"es and thirty thou.
I'D Jews-about one.twentieth part ol
m, I population being such.
n NAV not be inappropriate to add to
4. above statement respecting the pro-
~, "'s.. Of the "ancient people" in oul
sauoiry. the annexed historical and Stats.
.;..l PARTICULARS from an article in Black.
woods Magazine:
Vast as IS the period and singular as
.,e The changes of European history since
n. Christian era, Judea still continues the
most interesting portion of the world.
Among other purposes, it may be for the
n,roose Of fixing the general eye upon
his his extraordinary land, that it has been
Deriodically visited by more striking
,,uccession Of great caiamities than per-
han. any other region. With less to al
,r,ct AZ invader than any other conspicu-
on, land Of the East, it has been constantly
e1nosed TO invasion. Its ruin by the Ro-
mans in the FIRST century did not prevent
its being assailed by almost every barba
nan, who, in turn, assumed the Precarious
sovereignty Of the neighboring Asia. After
AGES Of obscure misery . new terror came
n tho Saracen invasion, which. under
Amroa. o. the conquest Of Damascus,
rolled on to Palestine. A siege Of four
months, which We may well concisve TO
have aboundd iahouors, gave Jerusalem
into the hands Of the Kaliph Omar. On
the death. of Omar, Who died By the usual
tateIof Eastern princes, the dagger. the
country was left 10 the still heavier mic.
government Of the nsoslem viceroys-a
race Of men essentially barbarian, and
committing for their crimes BY their zeal
in proseiytism. The people, # course,
were doubly tormen,ed.
A. new scourge fell upon them in the
INVASION of the Crusaders, at the begin
ming of the twelfth century, followed By Z
long succession Of bitter hostilities and
public weakness. After almost a century
Of this wretchedness, another Invasion
from the Desert put jerusalem into the
hands Of il. old opprkssor, the Saracen !;
and 10 1857 the famoas Saladin, expelling
The last Of the Christian sovereigns, took
possession Of Palestine. After another
century Of tumult and severe suffering, &C.
casioned by the disputes Of the Saracen
princes, il was visited by still more for
midable evil in the shape Of the Turks,
then wholly uncivilized, a nation in al the
rdeness and violence of mountaineer life,
aud spreading blood and fire throughout
Western Asia. From this date (i3l7) it
remained under the dominion Of the Otto
man until its conquest, a few years ago,
by that most extraordinary Of all Mussul.
mans, the Pacha Of Egypt-a dreary peri.
cd Of 500 years, under the most desolating
government Of the world. 1t is equally
impossible to read the Scriptural refer.
ences 10 the future condition, OF Palestine
without discovering crowd Of the plainest
and most powerful indications that it shall
yetezhibit totally different aspect from
that Of it, present state. Enthusiasm, or
evea tie natural interest which we feel in
this memorable nation, may color the FL.
ea'e tous too brightly but unless language
q The most solemn kind, uttered d the
most solemn occasions, and by men d..
wisely commissioned for its utterance, is
wholly unneaning, we must yet look to
so@e powerful, unquestionable and splen.
I'D display Of Providence in favor Of the
PsoPle q ,lsael. I s
h remarkable determination of Euro.
Pem politics toward Asia Minor, Syria,
~ Egypt within these few years; tho
a0e leg unexpected change Of manners
and customs, which seemed to defy all
change ,spd the new life infused into the
aaesaA Gbvernments Of Asia, even by
tesshaelag fsag into tho whias Of Euro.
peaa interests. look not unlike signs Of the
:. -: nay b no dream to imagine in
vi paenomena theProofs Of some mem.
~eo'e change in tho interior Of things
.ese Pseparatives sor that great providen.
M ~ Of which Jerusslen will
Jsnue tcene, Il not the centre, and
u. ~ ll;. !. himsclf Tie especial agent q
. cs A.1sf.c,ios. which; sban make
-, ..n. : The Religion of - lands, les.
,"s z. dismaatled ,besifx Of all earth,
$. !. nake man what he was created to
AnnER \ l:Aala 49, III. >,