Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-08-03

III DOulhdlpNoii' EnptdHu, anu htNlng COi-
versed with her long time in the language
of Hindostan, declared that her people must
have once known that language well.
Lord Teignmouth, who Knew the Indian
language, once said TO a gypsy, . Tue burra
tcctur that is, Thou art thief" She
Immediately replied, " No am not thief
| live by fortune-telling." Wandering tribes
have been found in Nubia. who have
for ceniuFies conyersea in the same dia-
ieet.
The name of this people has induced
mauy TO suppose that they had an Egyptian
origins but there is nothing ip their ha-
bits, or language, or "reminiscences that in-
dcates such fact And yet they may
have derived their name from the fact of
having passed through Egypt into the Eu-
ropean nations.
1t is believed by those who have had the
the best Opportunity to study the matter,
that in the earliest years Of the fonrteenth
century there was a general migration Of
the Sudars, & caste among the Asatic In
dians, occasioned by the ravages Of Timur
Beg, who, having become Mohammedan,
took up for arms for the purpose of making
proselytes to that faith. These Sudars, be-
ing of the lowest caste, and unable to end
sympathy or shelter among the other castles,
fed, and having escaped the armies of Ii
mur, found their way into the neishhoring
countries. They were degraded people !;
considered as the lowest of the human
race, and with an army seeking their des-
truction, they had every motive to leave and
none to remain, in their natiye land. Per-
haps the most nqtral course for them on
their way to Europe was over the Persian
desert, along the Persian Gulf TO the mouth
of Arabia, and thence into Egypt by the
Isthmus Of Suez.
But few years from this period they
were spread into all the European nations.
| They never visit the norman isles, and but
few visit Ireland. They consider the name
"Gipsies" as disgraceful, probably because
it seems to be synonymous with crime and
yagrancy. Their Indian name is Zngarce,
or Cinoari. Along the Ganges they are
| called North or Beania-the former signi-
flying rogue, the latter dancer or mmbler.
Having escaped the sword in their own
country, they were obliged to live by plum
der in other lands. Indeed, in the 18th
century, they became dangerous and bur
densome in the nations which they visited
They came by thousands over the Pyrenees
into Spain, swept along the shores of its
rivers, and plundered the husbandmen who
were without defense.
Throughout Hungary, France, and Eng
land, they were like SO many locusts.-
Laws were enacted against them. They
were at length not ONLY resisted and brought
some what under legal regulations, but
measures were carried to the extreme, and
they were prosecuted. Every crime in
the land whose perpetrator was not discov-
cred, was charged upon the gipisos. They
were executed for the smallest offense and
even on suspicion, or on the most fimsy
and even false testimony Until at length
they were obiigek'to live by cunning and
plunder. Within few years the English
and Prussian laws have been more lenient,
and the result is that the gpsies are more
submissive and less troublesome. In Eng
land they have come Under the influence Of
Christianity, and many have shown truly
religious spirit. We hope for them at
length a Christian civilization and the
blessings of refined nationality DOmlea,y
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