, 1866-04-06

| ~AH NtAo Aa1LeT Hatn Lue tomb
Thcmisthoc'es); Of Eleuais; ofthe Bay :
salamis Of the battlefield Of Marathon : I
Mounts Pentelicus and Hymettus, and til
plains of Attiea, while Plato's house an
gardens are still pointed out, a. well ss th
place trom which St. Paul addressed th
Athenians. It may be that these c3o1iou
and hal1owed yestiges Of civilization eontr,
butte as much in making the Greek proud a
his nationality "a he Is Indifferent to uate,ia
! progress. From the moment, however, tha
lie e1patuates himself and ceases to be unde
thst influence he gains In enterprise which b.
loses In romance. Tho Greek merchants. /,
foreign ports, most OF whom haf
from scio, where the homestesds q
the Rail-, Rodocanachl, schlllzzi, and othe
founders Of great commercial houses, are stil
eAis'lng, are among the ablest merchants O
the present day. They are tbs carriers be
tween the Orient and Occident, and hayt
branch houses at TFetizond, Teheran, BeIrout
Smyrna, Constantinop1e, salonic, Alexan
dtta, Odesso, st. Petersburg, Tassnroc, Cosfu
Marseilles, Trieste, London, Manchester
Liverpool, New York, New Orleans, Rio
Janerio, Melbourne, Bombay, and Calcutta a,
Their power extends from the Pe.sian t;ul,
along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azofr tbs
Mediterranean and Adriatic, and the Eurlisb
and French ports to the farthest limits of The
New World. Tie great trade between the
produce and manufactures Of the Eastern and
Western hemispheres Is carried on bT tbeso
Greek merchants aud their relatives sll over
the world, the establishments beiup cnn.
Quoted like those Of the Rothschild., Nv mem.
ms IA .,f4
Igioo, with the precision Of clock-Hork and
the secrecy aud affinity of ffce masonrv.
They consequently do most brilliant busl-
ness, and the paper of the Rail- stands =.
high az That of the Barings. They are mt
good looking, contemplative men like the
political and agricultural Greeks; but dimfn-
ut1se' astute and restless They speak half a
dozen languages, and are altogether
Tie Yankees Of the East, ~ far
as smntncss goes. But though
some OF them, and particularly Baron
sina, Of Vienna, are liberal in endowfnr iust,.
rutions In Greece. They are, as a GENERAL
rnle. nothing but plain and g.asplug business
men, whose Life Is welded to money rather
than to country and so, however great their
wealth II tends only to their individual 40.
gTandszement and not to the prosperity Of
their country. in Athens, too, The financial
notabilfties exert an equally baueful inau-
ence- They are mostly like the sutxo. aIus-
sufi, Ypsilanh, etc, the descendants of fnau-
ential byzantine Greeks, who, after the fall OF
their empire obtained diplomatic and
financial Turkish Offices In consideration of
using their great influence in recopcil,ag the
masses OF their compatriots TO the amenities
OF Mahommedan barbarism. TheY are called
to this day Fana1iota, after the Greek suburb
fanar In ConstaptiAopls, formerly inhabited
BY the rite, but now rather by the drecs of
the Greek population Of stamboul, While
some OF the Greek grandees In Constautinople.
az for instance Battazzi, still coalesce with
the Turks, and the Greek merchants in Europe
are Of no avail for the cauee of their country.
the Fanariot moneyocracy Of Athens, led by
Soutzo q Co., positively works Into the
hands OF the rcactionists, and present as
great contrast from the historical
md Intellectual, political, and professional
|amilies Of Greece proper, RS the society of
tennessee or Arkansas To that of AIassa chm
;etts or Maine. !.
Nor can 1t be forgotten that there arc two
hundred thousand semi.sayage A1banfans
one-flfth OF the whole popula,;on
md furnishing recruits for brisaudase, while
here arc about hundred thousand Lcyan-
Ines, Armenians, Turks, Frenehmen, Italians.
Bavarians, &C., to which must
low ba added small sprinklfng of Danes.
sow, many Of these foreigners reside in
Athens, and while many of the Germans arr
employed, other FOREIGN.
rs are schem1ng with the small diplo-
1ats, the most retrogressive Of whom is
the Austrian Ambassador Testa, who
prtngs from LcEantine stock. While the
tile society ol Athens is thus constantly
o1n by the Greek Copperhesds,a and by sinister
,relgn Influences, the other parts of the conn
= are less subjected to these alien elements
Mt yet the difficulties Of Greece are~ great,
'hen Lie dread Of Russia, England and France
! taken into consideration.
The lovely Turkish Islands Of Metelin.
amos, scio, .Cypau, and eren Gambia.
re N reality nothing but Greek settle
cents; the Greeks also prcponderate In
acedonia and Asia Minor, and are
owcrful In Constantinop1e and Alexandria,
he accession Of the 1ouian Islands, has also
ven new power to Greece, md she com.
ands now the splendid harbors ot Corfu.
'phalonta and Zante, besides her old principa]
Tbo1s OF Plraeus, Syra and Naup1ia, while
c old battle-ground Of Nsyarino and The To-
an Island OF Santa Maura, offer excellent on
'rtuntties for operations against Turkey. the
1rklsh town Of Preyesa, being within short
'tancs of that Island, and but poorly pro-
cted. u It were not for the jealousy OF Eng
i'd. France aud Austria, the Greeks would
enabled 10 Wrest Turkey from the Sultan.
der the auspices, and with the cooperation ]
the Car. But while these jealousies curb !
: extension Of Greece abroad, they also c
Ugh, like q nightmare, upon domestic \
litics, and culminated but lately in the
bstitution Of boyish Dane FOR an imbecile q.
yarian Prince upon the throne Of Greece. | :
yertheless the Greeks arc tangh. great les b
Is BY their repeated revolutions, and must c
length emerge from this tutelage of foreign
ncea.
With the exception Of 7o, 600 Roman catho- p
Greeks, who are great bigots, the masses e
deyotees Of the Greek Russian Church are =,
ito tolerant, and while the country -
free from religious strife, II increases Il
~ day IN intellectual greatness. Their
tezia1 prosperity has also been advanced l.
the cultivation Of cotton In LaconIa aud b
,olis, while that Of wool, wine, tobacco, 9
silk and cereals Is In high state Of pros " =,
ity. The island Of Sa1os, and other parts - -
Greece, also abound in valuable minerals. y,
ways and foreign capital are now required \.
live fresh stimulus to material develop is
ut, while political Progress can hardly bo ii
'ected until the Greeks have emancipnred a.
mse1fea from the proteetorate OF foreign
wers. d.
III
20 an interesting case was decided recent =, n
Deaofe saoge Trieg, of the United States NJ NJ
cnil Court at Memphis. The bill Of the ~
intH hichmond, states that certain prop il
= was leased by pln5nffF e.,,, A. | OF