The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-12-29
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houses as also many heads e Bureaus,
having gone - their respective homes
10 enjoy themselves during tbe holidays,
the facilities for getting news lrou 81
binary sources are quite meagre i
was. therefore. with great pleasure thai
I beard, lAst night vhis thinking q
shat 10 write about q interest 10 your !
readers. that Hon John IL GoodeuoW
q Maine. Qua Consul General a. Con
staauna;l5. Is ID present j. Washing
ton lie is on ia Y5sl. 50 bis native
country, on fariough. after an absence
81 bis foreign post Tor about tore, years /
/ aymled myself Ola social evening with /.
him al a mutual friends to make my
self mquis,uye concerning the tar-east .
land, to which the extreme western ma
h0a sends, iu him, at once her offer Of +
amity, acd an Illustration Of her civil
cation Besides the enjoyment Of ez-
iraordluaTy opportunities for informa-
ton, Mr.. GoodeuOw has superior en-
dowmpnta and culture TO ouutlo his OBJ
seryatons to special respect
Turkish civilization, he says is doubt
less inferior to that OF western Europe
and the United States; hut not 50 low
as it is supposed to be by most Amori"
cans There was less knowledge
and more misrepresentation in this
country regarding the Turkish nation
than in relation to any othernation Of
Europe. Among the higher classes
Of Turkey, there were to be found res
pectable attachments in knowledge cul-
tivation and general intellectual and
moral development Neither in nu-
mcrical proportion, however, nor IN
degree Of excellence in these respects,
would they bear well comparison
with corresponding classes in western
Europe and the United States. The
greatest distinction be made in our IN
yor was in the departments Of exact
knowledge--in science, physical and
metaphysical, and of human develop
ment--eleyahou- for its own sake. or
the difference between the respective
social and political systems, and the
various customs, conyentionalsms and
institutions existing thcreunder-cz-
ceptins 50 far as they were affected by
| the greatly superior material appliances
Z in this country, resulting from greater
inyentiyeuess and more prevalent gen
eral skill and thrift-he did not make
so much account.
He surprised me by the generally fa-
yorable description be gave Of the Turk
ish men. One Of the fayorite argu-
ments used against polygamy is that its
unnaturalness and sinfulness ia proved
q in its injurious effects upon the men
that the Turks are a weak, eHerminate
enervaled, effote race, not TO becompared
b ia any respect With tho men ofolfg mon
e. ogamic nation. BIT if Mr. Goodeuow's
opinion is to be trusted this is cAieAy
a gratuitous fancy a thought to which
the wish Of our good people who enter.
tain Il. i3 the father Mr.. GOOdenOW
Il saws that the wcll-off classess-aud they
b are the very ones who are most indu!
gent in their polgamic custom wonle
beremagEed by any strangers from west
. eru Europe or America, as fine set o
L. men-large, well made figures, ant
:. eood-oo4ing faces, with distinguishing
dignity Of manner and appearance,
- Moreover he says the women are + II
looRing. Respecting their faces, how
IF ever, he speaks with less confidence
:. their features all, excepting Their eyes
being pretty well concealed whenever
they 90 abroad ont Of their harelns, o
-, are liable to be seen by men. And be
IN log bachelor, Mr., Goodenow had III
10 convenient wife--iike Lady Mary Mont
ague, for example--to enable him oh
serve by proxy. But this privation,
IL may venture, has not been withou
ID. some compensation. Tie alert eyes,
handsome bachelor surely has not-al
ID WAYS, even under Mussulman instltu
rs tions, had to penetr&s wells, Will
ro their owners had nimble fingers, promr
o- ted by womens hearts and vanity, t
y lift them.
p- Georgian and Circassinn women just
ng ify in reasonable degree their world
% vide reputation for beauty; but h
was not all enthusiastic on the sal
joct. He thought the Hungarian We
20. men tue handsomest Of all the nation
ng alities Of women lie had seen.
vi The national legislature Of Turkey
ar; body Of about 100 members, appoint
DE- cd severally by the different muninc
pal,ties Of tie empire, to enact u
,st laws therefor. The Sultan, in his al
On solutisrn, can AZ pleasure, reject or n
move any Legislator, but be cannot,