The Nevada Journal

Hungarian Gipsies.—A people of mysterious origin, inaccessible to all civilization, and insensible to all religion, after a repose of four hundred years, has once more grasped the pilgrim's staff to fly beyond the reach of modern legislation, and seek out for itself a new country. Alarmed at the re-organization of the kingdom of Hungary by the usurpations of the Austrian government of that country, where they have so long enjoyed the immunities of an uninterrupted freedom, they have been for some time wandering in swarms, and in all directions throughout the Austrian monarchy, seeking an outlet into another more friendly land. Accustomed for centuries in Hungary to live apart from the rest of its population as unmolested dwellers in holes and caves, earning the scanty necessaries of life without much exertion, they have found themselves narrowly watched. Averse to, and incensed at this state of surveillance, it has wrought them into unheard of excitement, and to the desperate resolve to leave forever their wonted hearths, to seek out once more the ancient country from which, so many centuries ago, they were driven by some unknown power. To see this people in their present impulsive act of emigration is said to be truly wonderful. Like the wild denizens of the forest enclosed on all sides, they seek an issue out of the frontier pale of Europe. Numbers have penetrated on their pilgrimage as far as the Tyrol, and even Switzerland; Bohemia and Austria Proper swarm with their hordes, and numbers have penetrated southward across the Turkish frontiers. They speak of nothing but of their new country, where there are no frontiers, no passports, and no gendarmes. They say they came from Egypt, and must now return thither.