The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-12

war with. But they were a gentle
manly race, and did no work. They
lived on the natural products of the
land. Their kings country residence
was at the famous Garden of Hespe-
rides, seventy miles down the coast
from here. The garden, with It's gold
en- apples (oranges,) is gone now-no
Yestige of 1t remains. Antiquarians
concede that such parsonage as Her
Cules did exist in ancient times, and
agree that he was En entertaining and
energetic man, but decline to believe
him good square eout-and-out-god.
Down here at Cape Spartel is the cell
ebrated cave OF Hercules, where that
hero took refuge when he was van
quished and driven out OF the Tangier
country. 1t is full OF inscriptions in
the dead languages, which fact makes
me think Hercules could not have
travelled much. else he would have kept
Il journal.
Five days journey from here-say
200 miles-are the ruins OF an ancient
| city, of whose history there is neither
record nor tradition. And yet it's
| arches, its columns, and its statues
proclaim 1t to have been built by an
enlightened race.
| CONCERNING FINANCE, ETC. TO.
! The general size of II store in Tangier
is about that of an ordinary shower
medan merchant, tinman, shoemaker,
or vender of trities. sits cross-legged on
the floor. and reaches after any article
| you may want to buy. You can rent a
whole block OF these pigeon holes for
| fifty dollars a month. The market
people crowd the market place with
their baskets of figs, dates, melons,
apricots, ETC., and among them file
trains of laden jackasses, not much
larger, If any. than n Newfoundland
dog. The scene is lively, Is pic
turesque, and smiles like the San Fran
cisco Police Court: The Jewish money
| changers have their dens close at hand
and ali day long are counting bronze
coins and transferring them from one
bushel basket to another. They don't
coin much money nowadays, think
| ] saw none but what was dated four or
| five hundred years back, and was badly
worn and battered. These coins are
not very valuable. Brown went out to
get Napoleon changed, SO as to have
money suited to the general oheapness
| of things, and came back and said he
had "cieaned out the bank; had bought
| eleven gallons of coin, and the head OF
the firm had gone on the street to me-
| gotiate for the balance of the change" !"
! ] bought nearly half a pint of their
money for shilling myself.
| The MoOrs have some small silver
| coins, and also some silver slugs worth
a dollar each. The latter are exceed
inBly scarce-so much SO that when
poor, ragged Arabs see one they beg to
| be allowed to kiss II.
| They have also small gold coin
worth two dollars. And that reminds
me of something. When Morocco Is in
| a state of war, Arab couriers carry let.
| ters through the country and charge a
| liberal postage. Every now and then
they fall into the hands OF mAraudng
! hn rnNlNa1 ThnrafnFn
warned by experience, as soon as they
have collected two dollars worth of
money, they exchange 1t for one of
those little gold pieces, and when
robbers came upon them, swallow il.
The dodge was good while it was un-
suspected, but after that the mnrauders
simply gave the courier a dose OF physic
| and sat down to wait.
MOORISH CUSTOMS.
| We visited the Jail, and found Moor
! ish prisoners making mats and baskets.
| This thing OF utilizing crime savOrs OF
civilization. Murder is punished with
| death. A short time ago three murder
ers were taken beyond the city walls
and shot. Moorish guns are not good,
and neither are Moorish marksmen.
| In this Instance they set mp the poor
criminals at long range, like so many
targets, and practiced on them-kept
them hopping about and dodging bull
| lets for half an hour before they man
aged to drive the centre.
| When man steals cattle, they cut
of his right hand and left leg, and nail
| them up in the market-place, as u
warning to everybody, Their surgery
| is not artistic. They slice around the
| bone little, then break off the limb.
| Sometimes the patient gets well, but as
general thing he doesn't. But the
Moorish heart is stout. The Moors
I 4 .g0.,s ln
undergo the fearful operation without
a vince, without Il tremor of any kind,
without groan. No amount of suffer
| ing can bring down the pride of a
Moor, or make him shame his dignity
with cry.
| Here, marriage is contracted by the
parents OF the parties to 1t. There are
! no valentines, no stolen interviews, no
riding out, no counting in dim parlors,
no lovers quarrels and recOnciliations,
no nothing that Is proper to ap-
preaching matrimony. The young
man takes the girl his father selects for
| him, marlies5 her, and after that she Is
unveiled and he sees her tor the first
time. If after due acquaintance she
suits him, he retains her; but II he sus-
poets her purity he bundles her back to
| her father. Ifhe finds her diseased the
same; or IL, after just and reasonable
time is allowed her, she neglects to
home OF her childhood.
Mohommedans here, who can afford
| IL, keep good many wives on hand.
| They are called wives, though believe
| the Koran only allows four genuine
| wives-the rest are concublnes. The
| Emperor Of Morocco don't know how
many wives he has got, but thinks he
| has five hundred. However, that is
| near enough--a dozen or SO, one way
or the other, is near enough. Even the
| Jews in the interior have plurality of
| wives.
have caught a glimpse of several
Moorish women, (for they are only hu-
| man, and will expose their faces for
the admiration of a Christian dog when
no hs.Moor is by,) and 1 am full of
| veneratiou for the wisdom that leads
them TO cover up Huch atrocious ugli-
ness. If had a wife as ugly as some
| ofthose have seen; / would go over
her face with a nail-Rrab and see II
| couldn't improve 1t.
| They. carry their children at their
backs, in a sack, like other saVages the
world over.
Many of the negroes are held in
| slavery by the Moors. But the mo-
ment female slave becomes her mas
| teris concubine her bonds are broken,
and as soon as male slave can read
| the first chapter OF the Koran, (Which
/ contains the creed, he can no longer
idea to apply this educational test to
| his race in America.
They have three Sundays week In
TanSier. The Mohanmedan's comes
| on Friday, the Jews on Saturday, and
that of the Christian consul's on Sum
day. The Moor goes to his mosque
I about noon on his Sabbath, as on any