The Indianola Bulletin. (Indianola, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1855 Page: 1 of 4
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INDEPENDENT IN EVERYTHING, NEUTRAL IN NOTHING.
ANDREW MARSCHALK,
EDITOR, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR
VOLUME 1.
CITY OF INDIANOLA, TEXAS, JULY 20, 1855.
NUMBER 15.
3®ist?lte0ti0.
From Prime’* Travel* in Europe and the Ea.«.
Visit to the Seraglio Palace.
"Where the Golden Horn sets up
m the Bosphorus the old city of
zantinm stood, and Mohammed
selected this unrivalled site for
palace, and laid out the grounds,
d prepared a residence that had
equal in the Eastern world. Ar-
id senthiels admitted us. by the
at pavilion, called the Porte—a
icli gate; from the Of toman
pire takes its name. Fifty men
the usual guard at this door.—-
were at once in the midst of
ast court-yard, (the whole palace
unds arc three miles in circuit)
passing across it we were con-
cted into the palace. A flight of
irs brought us'to the audience-
amber, a wide apartment, carpet-
and surrounded with a rich divan,
e throne room was furnished with
airs and sofas, showing a conform-
to Western customs. Another
d another chamber, and we enter-
the Sultan’s batlq luxuriously fit-
up, but without some of the con -
vances for comfort which poorer
ople enjoy. A brass bar acres', a
or we were passing told us, or at
le guides informed us, that
is was the entrance to the harem,
o profane foot may cross that
hold.1 Homan but the husband
allowed to enter the Turk’s apart-
mts for his wives. But a long gal-
opening near, was now entered,
ng on one side with engravings,
iefiy of Hapolcon’3 battles; and
tlie other side, a row of windows
,ked out on the court. This is'the
which the hundred and fifty
ves of the Sultan are daily assem-
%>
id for the amusement of their
mmon lord. Here each one of
jem may exert her art to win his
vor; and it is said that he drops his
ndkerchief at the feet of the ones
> have been the most suecess-
%
Through this hall we were led
ong to the private armory of the
ultan, and while admirin.
our way out; and the harness and
trappings, covered with jewelry, are
displayed in a room oyer the stalls.
It required an hour to look through
the old armory, containing one of
the rarest, anct richest collections of
helmets,greaves,breast plates inform
of stars, guns of sEunge patterns in
use before locks were invented, and
implements of war now obsolete, but
terribly effective in then* day, and
very curious The stacks of
arms already for use were fast dimin-
*>
ishing by the daily demand for the
Mintwrott!
The Way they Manage in Arkansas.
A gentleman away off in Arkan-
sas, who had been stopping at a cross-
country tavern about two weeks,
writes to a friend about tfrfe manner
in winch ‘hotel allaim’are conducted.
He says:
The regulations of the house are
written in a bold round hand, and
tacked on the door of each bed room. £ muis
* Adventures ok A Letter.—The
Tolland county (Conn.) Gazette gives
the folowing particular of a curious
affair connected with the transmis-
sion of letters:
A letter was written and duly
mailed.at the post office in this town,
directed to a lady in Hew York State
—the town we do not remember.—
Hothihg was heard from it, and the
writer had no means of knowing
whether it reached its destination or-
not. Sr ne iime after one ot the pa-
The Finger Ring.—The idea
wearing
on the fourth finger
war; and probably some of the ! Tim rules are r gidlv enforced, and
poor fellows that came on the steam-1 ^ie slightest deviation is met .vilh
er ■with me, were b this time ei
this
town
receiver
;qn rp-
cliine.
lie
coi-
ped from this armory and marc!
to the field. In a gallery was a
lection of the famous swords of suc-
cessive Sultans from the splen-
did Damascus blade of Mohammed
II. Here, too, are the kovs of nil
the cities of Turkey, mounted with
gold, and deposited in token of their
fealty to the Porto, For days one
might be amused and interested
among these extraordinary curiositii s
of ancient and modern times.
ast
penalty. Here they are: •
1.—Gentlemen will black their
boots before leaving their rooms, or
they will not be admitted to the ta-
ble, without an extra charge of a bit
a meal.
.2.—Gentlemen going to bed with
their boots will be -fined a quarter
for the firs*, offence, four bits for the
second, mid turned out and sued for
their beard for the*third—the land-
lord holding on to the plunder.
3. —Ho person allowed to call
twice for the same dish, without pay-
ing an extra bit. * «•*.
4. —Gentlemen not on hand at
meal times, cannot come to the ta-
ble, without in extra bit.
any
Indie/
going
c o
gentlemen found
rooms, will be fined
, and perhaps turned put,
Aliuldi. , the Yankee Bey.
Across the street is Aladdin’s
house; he is a Yankee boy, and that,
you know, is the type of success.—
He began by bartering jack-knives,
and getting the best; he gathered and
sold blackberries, and greased the
bottom of the measure so as to carry
a little capital to the next transac-
tion. He learned at school to prac-
tice addition for himself and subtrac- .
tio.i for his neighbors. The whole f 7.— Loud snoring not allowed, and
world became fo: him a large mar-1 of a bit for every offence,
ket in which to buy cheap‘and sell I S.—Country soap for washing giv-
to UiO
five dollars
if the case
0.—All travelers are expected to
treat before leaving the house—*-the
landlord holding 011 to the ulinulcr
o
until lie corpes out.
uvm Boston a quantity of waste pa-
per, iXc., in bales, to be used as stock
in their manufactory. One of the
bales was found containing a lot of
letters, with the post office stamp, in-
dicating that they had been mailed.
The letters were mostly sealed and
the workmen amused themselves by
opening them. In some of them
.was found money, in small sums, and
strrnge to say, one of them proved
to be the identical letter mailed in
tliis town and directed to Hew York.
The letter was returned to the writer
after having been for some months
in the care of the United States Post
Office, Department, and at last re-
turned to a paper mill not two miles
from where it started to be used iu the
manufacture of pulp. How, what
explanation can be given of this mat-
ter ?
aggravating,
travelers
An
been
English
travelling
course,
gives
writing
the pis
Is, swords, dirks, yataghans, mine-
rs, sabres, etc-, of elegant work-
anship, adorned with gold and pre-
ous stones, my attention was called
an adjoining apartment—the Siri-
n’s bedchamber. Two janizaries
ith bayonetted guns, stood before
e open door, and permitted me to
ok in, but not .to enter. It was re
orted« among the company in .the
ther room, that ‘gentlemen were
ot allowed to go in;’ and the ladies,
resuming on their privilege, hasten-
rd to step in, but the crossed guns of
he guards brought them to a sudden
»alt on the threshhold. We could
the lyagnificent couch and I its
fold and crimson damask . canopy,
bid the sumptuous tnrniturq of the
chamber, where the most uneasy
lan in the Turkish empire has often
jn vain sought sleep, that comes un-
rodded to him who earns it with the
sweat of his brow; and does not wear
crown.:
In the gardens of the palace, and
icar the water’s edge, are many beau-
tiful but small cottages, which from
ime to time have been erected at
le desire of one or another of the
sultan’s favorite wives. Fitted up
tccording to the taste of each fair in-
late, we1 could see, in the Tow win-
lows that open on the walks, that
they were very elegant and very ori-
ental. The Sultan has the range of
lem all, as cages in which his pet
>irds are confined. And then we
gathered some flowers; for in the
last of December the roses wero in
ill bloom in the open air, and e*re-
tliing was fresh and green as May.
Fnderneath the palace was the kitch
m, and fires going on as if an army
rere to be fed from the great range
id fnmaices on which the dinner
ras even now cooking. Some ol
le pastry was served to us, and pro-
id to be excellent, though we did
>t eat in the kitchen.
_ Von Hammer says that there ire
ie several kitchens, and that for-
thousand o£en are yearly killed
ire and cooked, two hundred sheep
ily, one hundred lambs hr goats,
id eight hundred and fifty i fowls —
!ut the Sultan does nob reside ; in
ie seraglio; he is at one 0# his ifia-
ly palaces5 along the Bosphorus, and
'thacooking now in process was mere-
ly for the retainers of the palace,
future residence will
dear; for him there w: -i no beauty,
no poetry in the universe. AY ith Bi-
ble in hand and quid in mouth,
he wanders Jerauilcm through, and
‘calculates’ the site of the holy pla-
ces. He '•hrves his name beside
that of Rapie-ses, and awakens the
quiet of Thebes with the whistled
strains of Yankee Doodle and Dan
lacker. Ho returns to liis native
village, an example of success to’
the voung Aladdins. He owns a
million, and of all the companies of
which lie is not president he is a di-
rector. He has bought houses md
lands, pictures and ornaments of
costly
Mas.
price/; lie lias also bought a • fA\re
Ybtfluin. lie goes to church
on Sunday, clasps his hands in pray-
er but ibi^ets to open them when
the collection-box comes round. At
last lie dies—for even like him are
mortal—and the commercial newspa-
pers record the virtues of the suc-
cessful merchant, the good husband
and father, the firm and generous
friend. Aladdin was a gross, ignor-
ant, coarse man, who was sly. and
made money. But is that the kind
of success that any man of nobh
mind is anxious to pursue?—Geo. IF
Curtis.
en tree; a.bjt a week for town soap.
9. —A Half dime will be charged
for the privilege of the back porch
or. sflady afternoons.
10. —Liquors with white sugar, a
bit a drink; with common sugar,
live cente).
11. —Tme landlord trusts that his
boarders will observe the above
rules, and say nothing, or means will
be taken to see that they do.
Two Spanish officers met to fight a
duel outside the gates of Bilboa, after
flic seconds had failed to reconcile the
belligerents.
Q
wish
fight
fight—to
death,’ they replied to the represen-
tations of their companions.
At tliis moment^ a poor fellow,
like the ghost of Romeo’s apothecary
approached the seconds, and in a la-
mentable voice said: .
‘Gentlemen, I am an artiz.an, with
family, and 1 would^-
don’t ti*oublo
a largA
‘My
now,’
man,
good
cried one of the officers,
Are You a Lady!
The term ladv is an abbreviation
the Saxon word, ‘Leofday.’ ,vluc».
means breadgiver. The ‘lady of the
manor,’ was accustomed to move
one j a week among the poor as an
alms-giver, enriching their fables,
and bearing away the blessings.
She moved in qifiecrH* ‘ beauty,
and to her robe clung the children of
the lowly, looking at her as if their
little eyes could never be satisfied by
seeing—■ - 1 *
There little hearts could never utter
How well they loved her bread and butter.
But they loved her smiling face
more. They needed none to tell them
how priceless is a smile. It was May
day with them whenever she came
among them with smiles and bread,
and it always was Mav-day with her,
and crowned her queen of all the
year.
Reader, are yon a lady ? A. 3 yon
a queen among the poor ? N o the
children of the poor put a crptvr on
your head? Do they r’rf:e yonr
hair gleam with" Ferns, or is it burning
with diamonds that the fuigers of the
us
don’t
you see tny friends are going to split
each other? AYc are not in a Chris-
tian b^ynor.’
‘It is not alms I ask for,’ said the
man, ‘I am a poor carpenter with
eight children ; my wife is sick ; and
having heard that those two gentle-
men were about two kill each other,
I thought of asking you to let me
make the coffins.’
At these word9 the individuals
about to commence the combat,
burst into a loud fit of laughter, and
simultaneously throwing down their
swords, shook hands with each other,
and walked away.
Rev. C. L. Brace gives a striking
illustration of the demoralizing ef-
fect of the Sunday bigptry. For-
merly the Duke of Devonshire kept
his gardens open on Sunday, and tnc
manufacturing people, from the
neighboring towns, came in, with
their families, and spent a portion of
the day quietly, often attending the
village church. AVithin a year he
was induced by some of his stricter
friends to close them on the Sunday.
The result was that the people came
over as usual, hung about the pail-
ifigs. fcnd then went to the taverns
and .nk, until the offenses commit-
ted n the village increased to an
alarming degree—the arrests being
sometimes like 100 per cent, more
than under the old
clergyman who lias
in America, and, of
a book about us,
an account of an interview lie
had witli a Maryland planter. ‘I sat
at breakfast,’ he says, with a ‘stout
good-humored man, who told me he
was a Maryland farmer from near
Baltimore. He had slaves, (he ad-
ded) and a bad kind of property they
were, and people were getting rid of
them, and were taking to free white
laborers instead. There was not one
kept now where there wrere twenty
some years ago. The Methodist
preachers, too, were • preaching
against it. He w*ould emancipate
all of his, hut, in that case, he would
be liable by law for their mainten-
ance if they could not support them-
selves. He had, however, intimated
to,them that they might run away if
they chose, and he would promise
not to reohiim them, but they had
not chosen to do that. He owned,
however that the slaves were treated
dreadful bad down South, explain-
that each received only six herrings
per week, and fourteen pounds of In-
dian corn, or two pounds per day.
Hext lie told me of the great simpli-
city of manners in his part of his
that cirls worth $20,000
the left hand, because of a supposed
artery there which went to the heart
was carried so far that, according to
Livinus Leminus, this finger Was ci4-
led MeTicns, and the old p^yskuahs
would stir up their medicaments and
potions with it, because no venom
could stick upon the utmost part of
it, but would offend a man and com->
municate itself to t;he heart. * * *
It is said by Swinburn and cithers
therefore it became the wedding
ring. The priesthood kept up this
idea by still keeping it as the wed-
ding finger; but it was got at thrp’
the Trinity, for in the ancient ritual
of English marriages the ring was
placed by the husband on the top of
the thumb of the left hand, with the
words. “ In the name of the Fath-
er;” lie then removed it to the tore
finger, saving; “In the name of the
Son;” anti to the middle finger, add-
ing; “And of the Holy Ghost:” final-
ly, he left it, as now, on the fourth
finger,
with the closing word ‘Amen.’
A Baby St vked > gainst a Dollar.
—AYe nrc informed On good authori-
ty, says the Baltimore Republican,
that the following circumstance real-
ly transpired on Saturday night, in a
low street in Exeter:
A card party played for various
stakes until one of mem—a- woman
—becoming, in her language, ‘dead
broke,’ offered to stake her infant
child against a dollar, upon the issue
of the next game. -£Ue proposition
was agreed to by her Opponent, who
was a childless mother, and being
favoied by fortune, the conclusion of
the game found her the winner of
the babe, a bright and healthy male
infant- The child was 'delivered
without a murmur to the winner,
and we judge, front the heartless con-
duct of the unnatural parent, that
her off spring will find with its new
custodian a better homo than the one
from ^liich it was ruthlessly staked
and lost.
An
country;
girls
went out milking the cows everv
mor. ting.’ Rather doubtful some o*f
the above statements.
The
poor n. % er set there ? Do the poor ™ j^i .T^TTToriT
the duke was led to open his grounds
man’s cluldren cling to your gown,
and find a protecting shade in its
folds? *
irble
*-V-
Are your jewels the grateful hearts
of the poor ? If they are, then they
will never lose their luster, but shine
brighter and brighter the longre you
wear them. * I would rather have
one grateful tear from a famished
child I had fed, than all the
again on the Sunday, which he has
since continued to do.
The French government, is about
_jo ask the Chambers, to register an-
other loan of 700 millions of francs,
equal to about 138 millions of dol-
that glisten on a
quedff
s
ie jewels
brew/ I
i *TS.
v- I
o-Franklin
has recot
Germans have some very
agreeable customs. A writer says:
‘They have a peculiar sensitiveness
as to money; or at least in the hand-
ling of as a thing of transfer, they
often show a degree of delicacy quite
beyond the finest instincts of other
Europeans. For instance, is a lady
teacher to be paid for a quaster’s in-
struction do you think that the gross
and bare money is thrust into a lady’s
hand, with the request superadded
thereto, that she would count itf
Delicacy and good breeding forbid 1
They put the disgraceful commodity
into an outside wrapper; this again
into an invelope, and then seal it up;
they then send it to the righful per-
son, or else with the greatest delica-
cy, slipt into her hand while they are
talking about something else.
‘A reduced German lady of the
best German family, wIiq had been
compelled in this country tp make a
profession of an accomplishment and
teach music, told me she never was
more inexpressibly shock than at the
uneermonious manner pf an Ameri-
can gentleman on the occasion ef re
ceiving, for the first time in her life, the
wayes at .the end of the first quarter.
The cool and business-like manner in
which he took out his port-monnaie,
counted through the bank-notes and
handing her a crumpled parcel re-
quested her to count it herself to see
that ‘all was right,’ well-nigh
came her.’
over-
rAATT Decision.—The Cincin-
>urt, not very long
Wit a broker who, re-
a note to sell, having no sus-
picion that the endorsement was a
forgery, was pot responsible to
assay office during, the past
week, has melted up a curious depos-
it of some hundred gold nose and
ear rings, such as are worn by the ne-
groos of the African coast. They
were deposited by Mr. E. Littlefield,
of Hew York, for one of the express
companies to whom one of the col-
lection was entrusted by merchants
engaged in trade with Africa Some
of the gold is of remarkable fineness.
The entire value of the deposit is
about $1,400 the value of the separate
articles varying from two or three to
one hundred dollars. These rings are
made ot four twisted strings of gold
wound round each other, like the
strands of an ordinary cord. Tlie
perfect circle is broken so as to allow
the ornament to clinch the ear or the
cartilage of the nose without perfora-
ting. They are generally of very
rude manufacture.—Ar. X. Post.
The Bloom of Age.—A good wo-
man never grows »old. Y^ears may
pass over her head, but if benevo-
lence and virtue dwell in her heart,
she is as cheerful as when the spring
of life first opened to her view.
AYlien we look upon a good woman,
we never think of her age; she looks
as charming as when the rose of youth
first bloomed on her cheek. That
rose has not faded yet; it will never
fade. In her neigborhood slie is the
friend and benefactor. AYI10 does not
respect and love the woman who has
passed her days in acts of kindness
and mercy ? vYe repeat, such a wo-
man cannot grow old. She will al-
ways be fresh and buoyant in spirits,
and Active in humble deeds of merey
and benevolence. If the young lady
desires to retain her bloom and beauty
ot youth let her not yield to the sway
ot fashion and folly; let her love truth
and virtue, and to the close of life she
will retain those feelings which now
make life appear a garden of sweets
ever fresh and ever new.
-*- |
Several weeks since, the wife of
ono Golderman, a tailor, petitioned
the Supreme Oourt that her husband!
should advance the necessary sum to
pay the preliminary expenses of a
suit which: she nkd commenced
against him for divorce, and that
Court ordered that he shonld pay into
>f $75 within
/nr tk. jfartnrr.
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SAX^.-^-Salt is iudispensible to man
as a paYt of his food. It is stated
that With every bushel of flour one
pound of salt is usedjin making bread
alone. Everv adult consumes about
«/
two ounces of salt weekly. The
omission of a proper quantity of it
In our food favors the engendering of
•disease. AYe read that when the an-
cient laws of Holland ordaiuecLumil
to be kept on bread alone unmixed
with salt, as the severest punishment
that could be inflicted upon them in
their moist climate, the effect was
horrible. The wretched criminals
are said to have been devoured by
worms. Mungo Bark mentions that
he suffered great inconvenience from
the scarcity of this article: ‘The
long use of vegetable food creates so
pailful . a longing for salt that no
wo^ils.can' describe it. ‘Almost all
graminivorous animals seem to have
the same necessity lor the use of salt
in their food as man. An exemption
from the rot is generally enioved bv
sheep ted on the salt marshes, or
when salt is regularly mixed with
their food. In the States of La Pla-
ta, in South America, the sheep and
cattle,! when they discover a pit of
salt clay, rush to feed upon|it and
many are trodden to death. In up-
per Canada the cattle have an abun-
dance j of wild pasture to browse on
in the woods; hut once a fortnight
they return to the farm of their own
accord, in order to obtain a little salt;
and wlien thew haije eaten it, mixed
with their fodder, return again to the
woods.! *SaIt is now used extensively
in England and all Europe for fatten-
itie. In Spain they attribute
a
cr
inn cat
uan-
the fineness of their wool to the qu
ty of salt given the sheep. In Eng-
land oi]ie thousand sheep consume at
the rate of a ton of salt annually.—
Louisiana Farmer.
The theatrical critics of the Tribune
tries hard. The following is one of
his recent efforts : ‘Giuiletta Capul-
etto, created bv the beautiful hand
of nature, warm, tender, lovely, en-
thusiastic, lay and laved in.the lav-
ish luxury of her love. Romeo was
struck witli her eyes, she with his
voice. Love grows on obstacles.—
The fend between the families fed
the flame, Juiletta is the very im-
personation of love.- Hot too intel-
lectual, nor too exalted, nor too poet-
ical. Through the fiercest stars of
passion I her mind is beautifully bal-
anced. Her every act is sensible;
her every thought is true. It is only
when that which to her was life is
gone, that her life ceases too.’ It is
not everv body that can write like
1 aJ
that. JS o,
sir.
lorciiixo Ari’EAL.—Sergeant
the Court the sum o
given time. This morning Mi. GoL
aerman, not haying pajid up, and the
Court being aatisfie *
bo was committed
fctfi
f his ability,
the Suffolk
A T
AVilkins (a noted barrister in Eng-
land), in pleading lately for a pris-
oner, bis client, called on the jury in
most eloquent and touching terms,
by tbeif verdict to restore, him to the
bosom of his wife and family, and
dwelt with great pathos on the ef-
fect the result of the trial would
have for happiness or misery on those
who were so dear to him. AYlien
the learhed Sergeant sat down, wi-
ping his forehead after his great ef-
fort, lie was not a little surprised to
learn that his touching allusions to
wife and children had been made <m
behalf of a bachelor! —American
Phonograph ic Reporter. t
It is isaid that between two thou-
sand and three thousand tenements
are labelled‘to rent’ ini Hew York
city, and a large number are for sale.
The locusts Avhich appeared in
some parts of Alabama about the 1st
inst., aye dying out. In some x>la-
ces the dead locusts cover the ground.
Among the deposits, at the Assay
office, in Hew York, wc notice that
of 300 ounces of ‘native silver from
Lake Superior.’
‘The last period fixed by the Mil-
lelrites for the destruction of the world
wus the 10th of June.
I ! ’ I .1 .( , ; • . • \
One of oiir exchanges says that
Fort Scott, in Kansas Territory, with
all the fixtures was sold lately for\
$5,000 and that it* cost the Uii’ted
ivernment, not-long since, the
175,0001
States i
sum-
A-bcfyer of dispatches from Gen.
our Minister in Mexico, ar-
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