Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-08-28

covered with skin. Their music and
mode of playing were as wild as them
selves. They play only the old Hunga-
rian tunes, those singular melancholy
airs, in which the genius Of the race and
country is reflected, but with passion
and pathos that passes into souls OF the
listeners. Afterwards at Pesth, those
bands we found at every dance and con-
cert of the middle and lower classes
Theirmus is always the same, and to
stranger, grows somewhat monotonous
but the natives seemed never tired OF
listening to it. With them it is point
Of honor to uphold the old national tunes;
and while the gipsies are generally look
ed upon as hardly possessing souls, the
gypsy musician, if possessed Of talent,
soon rises into consideration, and is often
to be met with in respectable society,
and even possessed of considerable pro
perty.
" A zigeuner was once driving his
horse and cart loaded with all his family
and goods, axle-deep in mud, down a
narrow lane. Slowly and painfully went
the wheels round-slower and slower
still-and at last they came to dead
lock. Tie horse pulled and pulled, the
man forged and Aogged, and swore and
swore, as only a Jew Or gypsy can fog
and swear. It was of no use the cart
was immovable. One last tremendous
r cut of the whip but the poor animal
only ell forward on its knees and nose.
1t vas perhaps, the fall of his beast
that made the zigeuner for once look up
wards, and turn in his distress to the holy
ones. but the Virgin above all. Though
he had never prayed before, he now made
a SHIFT to pray; that is, he used all the
words he had picked up here and there
from Christian men, with stray impre-
cation or two intermixed but that was
from habit. {" Help! blessed Lady
= help and I will give to thy altar wax
- en- taper as thick as my body" Whether
=. the Virgin had heard him or not, the
horse had by this time had little space
- to breathe, and when the whip again des
cended, the cart moved on few steps,
-. The heather fancied himself already on
- of the predicament, when, it stuck fas
once more. He took again to his pray
r ers but as half the way was over, ant
wax expensive, he vowed this time
= taper only as thick as his arm. He ha
no time for amen, but took to his viii
- more vigorously than ever and the car
r step by step, at last had prospect of be
e ing eventually clear of the mire. T
make all sure, the zigeuner repeated hi
vow; but the good road was now so pea
20 that he limited it to a taper as thick g
ou his finger. The next minute, he We
out on the road and few minutes MOI
: brought him to chapel of the Virgin
As he passed the door, he took off h
cap and drove on, saying to himself
the good lady has something else to {
m than to be looking after poor devil liz
~ me? p"
" Rascals as the zigeuners are, and Ii
" ing in the greatest misery and filth
- fact the dirtier their huts the better the
y like them-they are still very han
some race, the women especially. TT
burning sun scorches their faces MOI
and they are therefore much darker
100 Hungary than in England but the fr
life they lead gives them an unconstrai
a. ed and independent bearing, which t
constable, the stocks, and the prison ha
0A0 long taken from their island brethren.
lly' These bold, brown, beautiful women or
the make one astonished to think how su
Is eyes, teeth and figures can exist in +
leir sitting atmosphere of their tents. I
'o' beautiful they are, and their beauty |
, DIS sometimes led to unions which have
; Id most always resulted in misfortune.
ms, Stefan B., a young and very rich p
'ths prietor Of the Banat, having lost his W
-un- in the chase, had to pass the night il
one gypsy tent. A young and beautiful 8
the was there, with the deep eyes and sedl
heir tive smile of her race, and her pare
nes' had the true gypsy guile to fan the gre
as ing passion Of their guest. He '
iieS' wealthy, passionate, an orphan and
ans controlled and within week the gyI
OF was his wife, and in a few days more
AM stalled in full possession of his beaut
ther chateau on the banks of the Temes.
long Within ten days, in fact, the git
clan had reached fabulous fortune. Fl
the smoke-dried tent of her father,
we're was transported, as if by magic, int
lime, noble domain, surrounded with luxur
ovid with trains of servants, and husb
attle, devoted to her wishes. Notwithstandi