The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-03-24


killed in its turn, amidst the shouts and
applauses of the crowd.
Zone of the 6aRderiHeros now came
forward, provoked the bull to rush at him,
by shaking his cloak before his eyes, and
leaping aside, planted one Of his barbcd
shafts with its paper streamers, in each Of
the animals shoulders Others followed
his example, till the bleeding shoulders Of
the bull were garnishod with FIVE or six
banderiYoS on each side The creature,
however, was evidently becoming tired,
and the signal was given to finish him;
natado' came forward and planted Il
sword in his heart, but he made violent
effort to keep his legs, and even while
falling, seemed disposed to rush at the
chnloS
{" | had now seen enough, and left the
place amist the thunders of applause
which the creatures fall drew from the
crowd / heard that afterwards three
more bulls and six horses were illed,and
that an addition had been made to the
usual entertainments OF the pi0eG, with
which the people were not well pleased.
A class of combatants appeared, called
pegadoreS, who literally took the bull by
the Horns allowing him to toss them in
the air, and one of them was much hurt
by his fall 1t is a Portuguese innova-
tion,' said my friend Don Pedro, rather
innocently as it Sc, med to me, and is a
horrible sight for us Spaniards. We do
not like to see man tossed like dog"
Damascus is the oldest
city in the world Tyre and Sidon have
crumbled on the shore; Baalbec is a ruin ;
Palmyra is buried in the sands Of the
desert; Nineveh and Babylon have dis
appeared from the Tigris and Euphrates;
Damascus remains what it was before the
days Of Abraham-a centre OF trade and
travel-and island of verdure in desert
-" a predestinated capital, ," with martial
and sacred associations extending through
more than thirty centuries. 1t was near
Damascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the
light from Heaven above the brightness Of
the sun the " street, which is called
Strait" in which it was said he prayeth,"
still runs through the city. The caravan
comes and goes as it did thousand years
ago there are still the sheik, the ass,and
the water-wheel the merchants of the
Euphrates and of the Mediterranean still
occupy these with the multitude OF
their wares.
The city which Mahomet surveyed rom
neighboring height, and was afraid to
enter, because "it is given to man to
hove but one Paradise, and, for his part
he was resolved not to have his in this
world" is, to this day, what Julian called
it, " the eye of the East as it was in
the time of Isaiah, - the head of Syria"
From Damascus came the damson, our
blue plum, and the delicious apricot Of
Portugal called Damasco -; damask,
our beautiful fabric of cotton and silk,
with vines and flowers raised upon 4
smooth bright ground the damask rose
introduced into England in the time of
Henry VIII; the Damascus blade, so
famous the world over for its keen edge
and wonderful elasticity, the secret of
whose manufacture was lost when Tanner
lane carried off the artists into Persia
and that beautiful art of inlaying wood
and steel with silver and gold, kind of
Mosaic, engraving and sculpture united
called Damaskeening-with which boxes
and bureaus, and swords and guns are
ornamented.
1t is still a city of flowers and bright
waters; the streams from Lebonon,"
the rivers of Damascus" the "river of
gold" still murmur and sparkle in
wilderness of Syrian gardens -
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| A writer in the National I,telJgeucc,.