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(Uchrobag Amnion, November 0,18k7
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DuiaLsca'Hirrin.; VERA. Car; October te, 1847.
• Enrroaeorrite REPORTEIV—A few evenings since
I was engaged in writing to you, and unexpectedly
•f brought up" at the bottom of the fourth page,
'without having near finished: what Idled contem
plated edrnornnicating. ' , Save me from my friends,"
von titni,triobably - ready to exclaim, but don't des :
pair. This is probably the last missile, for some
tithe at Iftst, there being no communication' with
• the interior-, and may. not be for some time.. It
• n ow more than five Frionths since any person has
returned front 'the Army under Gen: Scott.
The inhabitants "long the coast are darker' }than
tile Italians of the Mardi ; they'_ have straight
black hair. Ins this class hat -compose y the
I., , uorilla parties, anti do the siealiug generally.
They furnist the town with Vegetables, and a great
variety of tropical fruit, also with I charcoal, which
itc(l fur all culinary purposes:. The business of
the country is done with half starved looking park
It is common for the females, to ride, like
ilreir lords and masters . astride of the saddle. With. ,
tilts class, as with all castes and elalses elsewhere,
there is a species of aristocracy, and it consists in
,hess. and ornaments. In the ve g etable market.
ou will see • women • wearing gold combs worth
!lint slon to $2OO, with necklaces . of equal value,
,t -:d costly ear and finger. kings. Human nature
seyns to be the same the world over:
illte mean fewskerafure since the Ist inst., has
bet:u . about 80 digre4 The mercury never fall
-1.11,,, Lel 75, and that . only fora few days in mid-
Winter, nder the influence of the NRrtheri. And
1111 S too within of the` snow-crowned volcanic
inount rizaba r vrhielfitf old shone star-like through
• . die dar ness, lighting the mariner on Ibis. way and
the pit m to his shrine.
I hays intimated, if not Said thet the Azetc race
was thriftless iithd. apparentl i y worthless.tf may
be well entprire how came they so degraded,
to ; God made man iu his own image, and this race
sadly degdpemted, The conquerors rektoced
• l':otti to the mast abject state of slave y,. tasking
their physical powers to , the utmost limits of
hu
endnrance. Thousands fell groaning 'under
• .'.,; Cuinnlative weight of Spanish _avarice and ven
.:oarictT!.• After a vassalage of 300 years, the Atoxi-
S • rovolution set them free, since which time they"!
1. toe had one iong MAterrupted :holiday. Those
Itoast having the pure Castilian blond cours-!,
vr,..; through their vems,,are the men who have nits-
gi,iernc.l this ill fated republic, since the days, of
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tic s.e-royalty, and if they boast of freedom, 'lts
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only in the name,. the shadow without the sub- I
Kance. The country has been so fearfully conculs
oil from the centre to the circumference, that no
onprovements have been Made, even those com-
ntenceii under the Spanish goVernrnent, hae gone
1 , 1 decay. One instance must suffice. Under the
• Vico-royalty an aqueduct was commenced to bring
waterintii this city tram a river some 8 or 9 leagues
A duty of .•'2,00 per sack, was levied on '
a: ivr to complete their work. The M-xican goo
iornment eontinued this • duty, and although-live or
-ix enough a-as raised, not a dollar was - ex-
pentled on it, and ik the work is where ft it was le
:hid!: or forty yearsago. I had almost forgotten
improvement I have seen. Santa Anna tias a'
Rail Road on his-" own hook," nmning,from this I
place, to his hacienda of Mange di Clavo. a distance
'et about three leagues. a query in my mind
whether it was not thought best to invest the funds
in a private Railroad to .supplying the city wih
water. Santa Anita is the owner of enough land
to impoverish any man in tax burthened Penns3 - 1-
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The latest intelligence in regard to Gen. Santa Att
ila here, is - that the ftlexicaaCongress which was to
as=emble atifibteretarn en the sth inst., ordered hint
there with hiearmy. Ilis was however at Puebla
.Pll the loth-ult.., at camp Ilelgam, three miles be
low-the town. There are some 3000 soldiers for the
,interior, waiting transportation to more forward.
Ihe streets are daily full of teamsters breaking the
for itraught,.;: A vessel has been due some
...t) . .froht Tampico'. with a load of .mules. when
airivc then the army will,probably be put is
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c. hl4 the opinion of some Well informed gentle''
, Len item, that the Mexican rulers are prepared for ,
',. l:.r overtures of peace, which 'they rejected recent
.., 1r God grant that it may.. be. so, and that no tar
e •... 1 sacrifice of life may he necessary. It is a ios
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'•'; `.business to both governments. The United
i *.area. can never be indemnified for the great loss of
',.. Lie .incident to the war; to say notbing - of he itu•
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1 ' Se-expense incurred, which 'Then ottddea up
"i:i pmdue& an - aggregate but few anticipate. To
'he Mexicans the picture is still worse, if hostilities
tiatA continue, her nationality is gone, inevitably
One. and blie must become merged in the Azieri
e:m. Union, .ot throw 'herself into the arms of some
Eur6 PPan Power. Either event is to be deplored—
PsPeeially the latter, for the war would have, rela
ttvrly speaking, but just commenced. , If " to the
victor belongs the spoils," and I confess the apho
rtFm Is less repugnant in military thcivic affairs,
t in
th e Ur fates government is e tled to a very
lade, e, d England will pro bly claim the
thtiance, f
The !Intl h mail steamier arrived'here the 15th.,
a '''d the English eourifir left immediately for the
flapitol. .He is described by a friend who saw hint
en route; is - a singular looking speelmenl3l4Ghti
ki• Ile was the courier of the Duke of Welliftg
during the peninsulartwars, and was sent over
b?te by the 'British government. ' -
in a Clear morning snow cm] now be distinctly
*ell on the Perote mountains, near 8000 feet above
th'. While here, (exebpt whgn a norther is blow;
. 4 g) the weather is then too alfarim to be very Com
65eable.
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY; PA., BY E. S. GOODitICII & SON.
It would be a vain task for mg to attempt a de
scription of the gorgeousness, and magnificence• of
the Mexican churches; There are I believe 6or
7 chapels, ara
,onescathedrai in this place. Two
of the chapels were once convents, now used as
Hospitals for the American soldiers when sick.
One venerable and somewhat dilapidated looking
chapel, I see was built in 1631. The Cathedral
was erected in 1721.1-But my sheet is full
Work tor November.
As this month is 'one in 'which, in the natural
course of the season, the farmer has a right to ex
pect severe frosts, if not snow; it should be the du
ty of each and all to so put forth their strength as to
be able to husband every thing the,product of the
farm which is liable to be injured by' exposure to
the weather. To toil as agriculturists do through
the year-to make a crop, it would seem to be sin
ful in the extreme, suer having through the kind
ness or Providence succeeded in our efforts, to let
it by neglect become impaired in valur. There is
no class of society whose busness requires •
adherence to system more than that of the agricul
tural ; a few days delay in - doing a thing will often
operate as'a, bar to full success throughout an entire
season, and hence the applicability of that apo
thegm, which is so cherished by systematic farm
ers--Ido ,everything at the right time— and we will
add, do it well.
Accumulation of Illanture.—A§ manurc is the gold
'Thine of agricultors, and as this is the season whim•
the materials for forming it may be gathered to the
best advantage, we shallcominence our hints of
the work to be done, by recommending that all
should lay themselves out to collect and deposit in
their cow yards every description of substance with
in their reach, which by decompositioe is capable
of being converted into manure, as leaves and
mould from the woods, pine sbaners, marsh mud:
weeds of every kind, scraping from the lanes and
roads, chips from the wood cut'ings, and- all kind
red bodies, as all these by being Spread in basin
like_ form over the surface of the cow-yard, so as
to prevent the escape of the liquid voidings. will
nut only !weenie valuable manures by the process
of decay, but act as absorbents and retainers of the
nitrogenous or votatile portions 9f such substances
into the food of plants. It would be better to have
the cdinpost heap under cover, as that would pre
vent the deterioratiou consequent upon exposure to
the:rains and snows, but as that is more than- we
have a right to expect in the,prusent state of agri
cultural improvemeut, we will corrent ourself with
respectfully requesting that the materials we have
named should; be collected • and deposited as we
have pointed out, and that the yards thus provided,
be Occasionally sprinkled over with ground plaster,
to aid the other materials in the office of fixing and
Preventing the escape of the ammonia horn the
decaying bodies as it may be formed.
- By attention to the, duty we have here pointed
out there is no farm which may not be made to
furnish a full supply of manure for all the crops
usually put in in the spring, as corn and roots
generally, for of a truth it may be said that any stiti
stance which will rot is capable of being convert
ed, by, the means we have indicated: into good
manure, and this will not be censitlered an exar
getated opinion when; we state the fact, that each
head of - stock voids urine enough almost daily to
nourish by its ammonia a bushel of grain, hence
the imperious necessity which addresses itself to
the mind of the economical farmer to avail himself
of all practicable Ineanis to preserve it. from loss by
evaporation or by behig , washed au-ay. We do
not pfetend to say that, by adopting our plan. the
whole of the ammonia may he saved, but we do af
firm that so mach may be as will renc.er the ma
here in the yard in the spring filly pei cent better
than it would be if the old slovenly habit of man
aging the cow-yard, of permitting each succeeding
rain to wash away ice. enriching salts, should•be
continued.
Corn Stalks.—As we are aware that the hay-crop
thioughout a very considerable extent of our coun
try has been a short one, we are apprehensive that
the provender of stock will be limited, and, thertl;"
fore, recommend that so soon as the corn may be
safely gathered, that it be so ,' and thesom stalks be
cut down and stacked secure from the weather and
kept in reserve to feed the cattle with. We do not
pretend to affirm that -they will make as nutritive
kind- as clover or timothy hay, but we feel prepared
to advance the opinion, that, it cut in inch pieces and
steamed, they will make a very good-substitnte for
either, and will be found talk equal to straw in
every quality calculated to sustain the animal sys
tem. They should be however gathered and pro
tected •as soon as possible, in order that their vir
tues may not be leached out of them by the winds
and the rain .
Can Huska and Corn Cobs.—As the economy of:
cattle feed comes commended to us, we will here
take time by the forelock to say that all of these
should be carefully preserved to be fed to the cows
and oxen. The first r♦`e know are cared for with
that view. but the latter too often find their way to
the fire of negro-quarters. This is a practice which
should be abandoned, as t'.-e com.cob contains no
inconsiderable quantity of nutrive matter, besides
possessing very decided traces of phosphoric acid,
a substance vastly important alike in the mainte.
mince of integrity of action , in the formation of ani
mal beres. Corn-cobs betore being fed should be
crushed and steamed, and would be still more de
sirable as food, if a small portion of. bran or meal
of some'kind were mixed with them. For milch
cows the latter mode of feeding them is particular
ly desirable.
Roots ofall kinds.--Theseehould be taken up and
put a4ray-with care before they.abreive injury from
frost--if i parked in the opeO air, not more than
fifty or a - hundred bushels at farthest should beput
in a single heap obey should have sand put be- .
tWeen each layer and at the top, an, then coveted
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with several, say 8 pr 10 inches of '4ll,lh,fiso folrn
ed qs to carry off all rains at the surAitie drauw
should be constructed to convey away the water as
it may fall, and the preservation of the roots would
be promoted by having a ventilator to carry off the
air as it may be formed in the heating process to
which all vegetable bodies are subject. ,
• In adj-Cows and fleffirs.—As the frost has or soon
will havedespoiled your pastures of their verdure,
and your woods uo longer furnish a supply of nu
..trirnent to your cows and heifers in calf, be careful
to provide additional food, as it is important key
should enter into their winter quartets in good con
dition and vigorous health, these being essential
prerequisites to carry them well through the win
ter and spring, as well as to ensure them that vigor
and energy of constitution necessary to enable them
to meet those denmnds upon their strength which
are made when they are about to become mothers.
Such animals should invariably hau te good warm
dry quarters to protect them from the elements at
this season, as well as by night=-without they are
thus Provided, a portion of all the feed you may
give them will. be expended in furnishing heat to
their bodies..
Yours, S
" Working oxen and other block..---These animals
should' be provided with quarters at night either
in a stable:or good warm shed--it is important
that they should be able to sleep both dry and warm,
and be provided with plenty-to eat, and good- bed
ding.
The young should be kept in a separate yard from
the old, and if there be any master -beast among
them he should be tied up to keep him from woe
tying the more docile animals, as well as to pre
vent hint from appropriating to himself a-larger por
tion of teed than is rightfully his own. Indeed, it
would be good policy to accustom all the young
cattle to be tied up at night, as it tends to-tender
them more tractable and easier-handled when it
may become necessary to milk or break them.
When tied up, good beds of straw materially add to
their comfort. - •
S 1 eep.- 7 -The Sheep should be istavided with a
good shed into which they can retire whenever
they please ; without being entirely chimed, it should
be sufficiently so to keep them from the injurious
effects of rain and snow. In this racks and troughs
should be provided to feed them. They should be
weakly provided with fresh straw for bedding, and
especial pains should be taken to keep the place•
clean. They should be regularly supplied with salt
throughout the ,season, say three times a week ; in
a trough to be under corer there should be weekly
supfilies of fresh tar to be spread over with salt—
to this they should be furnished with boughs of pine
trice a month. Where wool is the object small
qu4ntities of bean meal should be allowed thew-in
addition to their long root feed, as the beans con
tain more of the wool forming principle than any
other vegetable food.
Silting of Stock.—We desire to impress this truth
upon the minds of our readers—that, to preserve the
health of stock, it is necessary they should receive
salt at short interval—say at least three times a
week. A very excellent substitute for salt may be
found in a mixture of equal quantities of salt, ashes
and lime, (lime made from oyster shells preferable
on account of the phosphate it contains.) The ash
es should be sifted before tieing 'mixed with the
other substances.
Chapping Fecd.—As grain when chopt goes fur
ther than when fed whole, by at least 25 pr cent.,
we recommend that all grain fed to horses and cat
tle s'hould be thus prepared and mixed with cut
straw or hay. This saving in the consumption of
grain is worthy of be ng attended to ; as it will ena
ble the farmer to sell so much more than he other-
Wiser could, thereby putting so much more money
into his pocket. But independent of thesariug, by
chopping the grain von present it in a form to the
stomach of the animal which is easier digested, and
Ni•hich, consequently, tends more to encourage the
elaboration of flesh and fat..
Orchnrds.—Dig, around each tree for some four
or five feet from its body, to the depth of three
inches, turn out the earth, mix with it a gallon of
unslacked lime, and leave it in pie until the lime
Slacks then ihorotighly incorporate the earth and
lime together, and return it to the place whence it
4was taken. If your trees have not already been So
treated, give them a coat of the following mixture,
first rubbing or scraping off the coarse bark, 1 gal
lon of soft soap, 1 lb. of sulphur and 1 pint of salt.
;Stir the whole together well and put it on the body
of the tree with a brush, from the roots as far up as
Ethe branches.
Corti ITomsk—Examine these, and if you find
rat holes stop them up. Then thoroughly, cleanse
out your corn cribs, by sweeping and washing with
strong ley ; that done give them a good white wash
ing inside and out, so that they may be thoroughly
clean and dry, ready to receive your corn when
gathered. Fresh slacked lime spread in a circle
aroimd the corn cribs an inch in depth it is said
will keep off rats and mice. We do nut vouch for
its efficacy, but as an experiment is a cheap one it
might be tried..
Poithry Houses.—Those should be thoroughly
cleansed and white-washed, walls, roosts,:and hest.
At this ressod there idiptild be kept convenient to
the-hen boils*, both hue for fowls to pick at and
ashes for them to duet in ; and he who desires his
bens,talairkLrough the Winter must feed them well,
akenultitttelheir feed between corn, oats and.buck
whelkihc) give them, say once a week, small ine*-
Oft alfriath meat chopt up very fine.
Fanestifig Bogs.--.As seen as the mast and tuns
of yout- woods cease to afford food for your hogs,
pen them up ; --first providing their pens with ma
terials to be converted into manure, ns earth, mould,
!paves and weeds. When you first pen your hogs
give to each a spoonful of flour of sulphur in mes
sesof moistened meal or bran---repeat this every
other day, for a week, , say three times. Then you
way Commence your regrdar feeding. • It is best to
cook whatever pumpkins you may have to\feed,
mix a little meal with each mess, which should be
seasoned with salt. The hogs should be provided
with a t- rubbing-post—having. dry covered apart
ments to bleep in, receive daily portions of charcoal
11110ARDIXO8 OF acmiscassioN ram sift laliurtza."
and 'often wood, as these are necessary to keep the
stomach in tone, as• corn and• meal are to make the
hogs take on flesh and fat. A handful of Well sift
ed hickory ashes given In mess feed occasionally
will be found to be conducive to • the health of the
hogs.
Above all things let not the farmer forget that the
hog is one of the best animals, ti manufacture ma
nure, and that every cart load of mould which he
may supply to his pen, that ; he will every seven
days clawed into good meanie. The hog should,
at leastltwice a week, have salt feu in his trough,
that being first cleaned out and dried. He should
also receive fresh water twice a day.
Fall Plowing—As all stiff clays are greatly hu
proved by being subjected to the action of frost; if
you have Any fields of that description have them
forthwith plowed, lapping the furrows at an anghrl
of about 45 degrees, so as to expose to the act/' of
the weather the greatest surface. But • must
bear in mind that stiff clays should ne rbe p10w
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ed when they. may be said to be et, but that you
should select that period whe . - ey are neither wet
nor dry. -
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Cow Sheds.—lf you 're not , already provid,ed
your cattle with co 'sheds, do so with Out delay—
humanity Lc7sts, as well as interest to yourself,
call for the' erection.
WI, Carts, Gearing, Implements of Husban
dry. ace all these collected together, examine
h carefully, repair those that need repairs, and
Husban
dry.
have the whole put away safely under cover.
Substances for Manure.—Hare ilk loads of earth
hauled convenient to your dwelling, make it up ia
to a cone-like form, hollow obi the top so as to form
a kind of basin. Intothis birt'have all your cham
ber ley, soap-suds, and dish water, poured from
now until spring. Immediately after emptying,
have half a gallon or gallon of planer strewed
thereon, and next spring these fifty loads of earth
will have been converted into so many loads oTthe
very richest *mature you ever had on your place.
Try the the experiment, it will cost you nothing but
the labor, and our life on it, you will practice
during the residue of your life. The heat
mixed before being used.
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We have thus sketched such . as presented
themselves to our mind,' njoining it upon you.
to Supply everything w may have omitted, we
shall conclude by wishing you health and liappi
ness.-4merican Farmer.
Bethany, and Plain of Jericho.
HY HARRIET MARTINEAT
We made an excursion from Jerusalem to the
Jordan and the Dead Sea; going by way of Betha
ny and Jericho, and re inning by the convent Of
SL Saba. There is at this day so much danger of
falling among thieves in going down from Jerusa
lem to Jericho, that travellers join parties when
they can, and unite their guards into a corps of arm
ed men. Our own party of four joined the ten with
whom we had travelled in the Desert: and four
strangers—European gentlemen—requested per
mission to ride with us. Thus we were eighteen :
and the dragomen, cooks. horse-keepers. and mule- ,
drivers, who took charge of our tents and baggage,
and ten armed guards, swelled• our number to that
of a caravan which no robbers were likely to at
tack., indeed we scarcely saw any body the whole
way. The dangerous part of the road appeared de
serted, and the plain of Jericho. once studded with
towns, and filled with fertility, lay before us almoz,t
as lifeless as the basin of the Dead Sea.
We left Jerusalem by St. Stephen's gate—my
three friends, myself, and onr servants and bag
gage, and met the rest of the travelling party at the
bi-idge in the valley of Jehosaphat, at 9A. xt. We
proceeded by the camel road to Bethany, which
Winds np the sido of Olivet, and crosses its ridge to
the east. As soon as we had passed the ridge, Be
thany came in view, lying on the eastern slope of
the mount Olives, and, as we all know, " fifteen
• furlongs" distance from Jerusalem. It is now a
village inhabited by abont twenty families; a very
poor place; but looking less squalid than might be
expected, from its houses being built, as every.
where in that country, of stone—square, substantial,
and large, compared with cottages in England. Its
position on the side of the hill is very hue, seen
from below.
Before descending the hill. however, we alight
ed from our horses to visit an old tomb which is
called the tomb of Lazarus. No enlightened travel
ler believes this to be really the place where Laza
rus was buried : but to see any ancient tomb on that
spot was an opportunity not to be missed; and we
gladly went down the dark rock-hewn steps to the
little chamber where some corpse had been laid.
have often wished that the old painters had en
joyed such opportunities; and then we should have
had representations of Lazarus coming forth from
chambers in the rock, and not rising from such a
grave as is dug in European church-yartls. The
limestone rocks of Juclea are full of holes and ravr
etts; and we know from the Scriptureshow abun
dandy these were used by the old inhabitants as
dwellings t for themselves and their cattle, as ashel
ter to the wayfirer, a refuge to the fugitive, a hid
ing-place for robbers, and a place of deposit for the
dead. Where a cavern was found with holes or
recesses in its sides, a little labor would make it an
extensive place for burial. By squaring the en
tranct'T;lnd giving some regularity to the arch of the
roof, a handsome vestibule was abLied . and then
the recesses were hewn into form for the reception
of:bodies. Sometimes these recesses had pits;
sometimes niches in their walls, so that each re=
ems would contain several bodies : and sometimes
they were small, so as to contain only one each.—
Sometimes the vestibule opened out into passages,
which bad recesses on each hand; so that a large
company of the dead might lie hidden in the heart
of the mountain. The whole was secured from
wild beasts and other intrusionsby a stone door fit
ted to the entrance, or a large block rolled up
against it. Those who have seen•theee Eastern
tenThs can never again be puzzled, as in my
childhood, when•reading of " the chambers of the
grave," and of the dead calling to one ther in
the house•of death, and of the 'atone being rolled
away from the. mouth of the sepulchre. Many a ,
child wonders, as I did, how the u‘y was made
clear for Lazarus to come forth
/ ftterely by fie re
moval of a !done: but, once having storirk looking
in at the door of a sepulehre v how TWA becomes
the picture of Jesus standing th . ,-, and calling to
Lazarus with " a loud voice'' come forth! How
one hears that voice ec ' through the chambers
of the tomb, and ‘
"e dead man in his cere
merits appeariii in the steps of the vault, or the
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shadow of durtec.ess.
In thr‘b which we explored at Bethany, the
vaulw "eat dp<vn a considerable way into the rock. I
Opellight of deep, narrow steps led us into a small
vaulted chamber ; anti two or three more steps,
narrou ei 'up], into the lowest tomb, which had lit.
`tie more than room for one body. The monks
when taken as guides, show in the village what
the'y call horses of Martha Mut Mary, and that of
Simon the Leper : but we did not inquire for these,
having no Wish to mix up anything fabulous with
our observations of a place so interesting as Bethany.
We looked back upon the village again and
again as we descended into the valley; and it was
painful to lose sight of the place where Jesus was
wont to go to solace himself with the friendship of
f-s...arus and his sisters, arra rest from the conflicts
1 which beset him in the great city over yonder'
ridge. But we were now on the road from Jere•
salem to Jericho, and about to pass. among the fast
-1 nesses of the thieves who seem to have ink.*
this region in all times. After riding along
ley, :sometimes on the hill alit' uometi
other, for throe or tour tniles, we
on the
us the
_nil of the valley,
"flow . way which is
tgerous spot of all. Here
.4iker was stripped and left dead
an 1820. His - terrains fled and hid
scanty tillage spread along th
and bep
at to wend to
consul!
Sir
es on the first alarm. When they return- .
hets lying naked and bleeding in the sultry
road. ey put him on a horse, and carried him
to Jencbo, where he found succor. Perhaps he
was thin i king of the parable of the Samaritan when
the_acetilent befel him. - 1 was thinking of it alnico,
every stt-p of the way.
ktWarr story was preeentiy after full in my mind :
—a beabtiful catholic legend which was told the
by a Orman friend in America, when I little
dreame# of ever travelling over this spot. Our
read no gradually ascended the high ridge trom
*lath +e were soon to overlook the plain of Jeri
cho. Tare track was so stony and difficult as to
make ear progress very slow ; and the•white rocks
under 4e mid-day sun gave out such heat and
glare 4 made me enter more thoroughly into the
story oiPeter and the cherries than my readers can
Perhapti do. And yet the many to whom I have
told theg legend in conversation have all felt as
beauty It is this: -
Jesus and two or three of his disciples went down,
one summer day, from Jerusalem-to Jericho. Pe
tel---tht) ardedt and eager Petervvwas, as usual, by
the Te4cher's side. On the read on Olivet lay
horse-slioe, which the Teacher desired Peter to
pick but which Peter let lie, as he did not
think worth the trouble of stooping for. The
Teachtir stooped for it, and exchanged it in the vil
lage fob a measureof cherries. These cherries he
came (as eastern men now carry such things,) in
the boom-folds of his dress. When they had to
ascend the ridge, and the road lay between heated
rocks, land over rugged stones, and among glaring
white (lust, Peter became tormented with heat and
thirst, and fell behind. Then the Teacher dropped
a ripe cherry at every few steps; and Peter eager.
ly stooped for them. When they were all done,
Jesus turned to him, and said with a smile, "He
who is above stooping to a small thing, will have
to bend his back to many lesser things."
Front the ridge we had a splendid view of the
plain of the Jordan--apparently as flat as a table to,
the very foot of the Moab Mountains, while the
Dead Sea lay, a blue and motionless expanse, to
the right—(the south)—and barren mountains en
close 'the whole. The nearer mountains were
rocky, brown, and desolate, with here and there
the remains of an aqueduct, or other ancient build.
ingir marking the sites of settlements which have
passed away. The distant mountains were cloth
ed in the soft and lovely hues which can be seen ,
only through a southern atmosphere. The plain
was once as delicious a region as ever men lived
in. Josephus calls it a " divine region,'' and tells
of its miles of gardens and palm-grove ; and here
grew the balsam which was worth more than its
weight in silver, and was a treasure for which the
kings of the East made war. Jericho is called in
the Scriptures the City of Palm-trees; and Jericho
was but one of a hundred towns which peopled the
plain. Now, all near is barren; and equally
bare was . the distant tracts at the foot of the moun
tains ; lint in the midst was a strip of verdure, broad.
sinuous, and thickly wooded- where we know that
the Jordan flowed. The paling are gone ; and the .
Sycamores, and the honey (which the wild bees
made in the hollows of their} stems. The balsam
which Queen Cleopatra so coveted as to send mes
sengers from Egypt for plants to grow at Heliopolis
has disappeared from the face of the earth ; ana,
instead of these, and the fruits and sugar canes
which were renowned in far countries, we find
now little but tall reeds, thorny acacias, and trees.
barren of blossom or fruit. The veidant prici, bow.
ever, looks beatitiful from afar, an 'hews that the
fertility of the plain has not yet de sB. There is
enough for the support and lnxn of man, were
man bat there to wish for and en' y them.
We descend, by a . road like 'irregular stair
case, the steepest hill I overrode own. Thegen
demen dismounted; .but the heat was E 0 excessive
that I ventursipo keep my seat. ;Whets Iglinced
up from. the button, and saw the laSi of the party
beginning the descent, it looked so fearful , that I
was glad to tub away. We were now at the foot
of the nicuntain, called quarantiansa, surrlecl
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the denser olit is probably orrioctO its elormind
log the plain. of the Jordan and its icities—ones no
unfair specimen of that, "Kingdom of- thiveszth,
and the eery of thew" The amens, its 'he t (ace
of this mooMaitt, once used as dweirogi t ie . korobs,
are now the abodes Offal:eta Who eerie ofour
party showed a desire to teach thelower oasts, the
Arab Vhiehir whe was responsible for dm safety of
our party drew has sword aereashiathroat, to show
the danger, and barred the fray.
It may be remembered, that the men of Jericho
complained to Elisha the prophet that the water of
their spring was not good, either to drink, or to wa
ter their land for tillage, (2 Kings 1 ii 19,) ind that
though their city was pleasant, thy could . not en
joy it for this reason : and that UAL% purified the
spring, ,‘ so that the waters were healed trait this
day," Beside this spring, now called Aitißi
we encamped in the Amgen; and found its
truly delicious. Nothing could
to contrast
y Weeks past.
of a clear rush
mcessive that we
tent, and . our dieter table
tree, whose roots were washed by
. Broaddights gianceitupon the rippling
~ and deep green shadows lay von tripods.
Our horses %rem feeding in the thicket beyond; and
the Arabs sat in groups near the tents. Other par
ties of onr company . were dining or lying on the
brink of the stream. Every encatapment of travel
lers in these places is beautiful ; I but I never but
once saw one so beautiful as this[ s After a walk to
the remains of an aqueduct, and Other traces (mere
traces) of former habitatton in the days when Jeri,
,cho was a great city, I went, with one companion,
to see the spring, which was but) a short way front
our tent., The water bubbled rip from under some
bushes, and spread itself clear and shallow, among
some squared stones which seeeted to show that
the source .had once been enclosed. .By this time
it was dusk ; the evening star hung above the near
est hill. Ail was silent about us, except the'rnstle
and dip of the boughs which bring above tbe wa
ter. My companion and I found the temptation to
bathe quite irresistible. Undeij the shadow of a
.large over-hanging tree there :was a pool deep
enough for the purpose, And thee we bathed, re
joicing with the people of Jericho to the sweetness
of the water.
encampment ; in a spot so forag
strongly- with all we had seen
Our tent yns close ppm
ing brook': but the
could n
placed
The Eastern traveller feels a.titrongtinelination to
bathe in every sacred sea, river and spring. - HOW
great the interest is, and how lke that of a new
baptism, those at home may net be able, to ima
gine ; and such, may despise the superstition which
leads - hundredsof pilgrims every year to nab Into
the Jordan. Bin among all the !travellers Who visit
the Jordan, is there one, however far removed from
superstition,who is willing to turn away without hav
ing bowed his head in its sacred water. ?
There was lo moon to-night!: but the stars were
glorious ; wheq I came out of our tent to take one
more look before retiring to rest. Here and there
the watch fires cast yellow gleams on the tree and
waters ; but there were reacheis of the brook, still
and cool, where the stars glittered like fragthents
of moonlight. The daystands in my journal as one
of the most delicious of our travels..
MOTHER- AND CHILD.—The tle which links moth:
er and child is of such pure and iitunacalate strength,
as never to be violated, except by those whose
feelings are withered by the refining of vitiated sci.
ciety. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construc
tion is the emblem Of all we can imagine of fideli
ty and truth—is the blessed tie whose value we feel
in the cradle, and whose lot* we lament on the
verge of the very grave where our mother moat
dais in dust and ashek. Inour trials, - amid all
our afflictions, she is'our friend. Let the world for
sake ns, sh is still by our side If we sin, she re
proves mar kin sorrow than iU anger; nor can she
tear us train her bosom, nor fotget we are her child.
Boaitownvn.—Mother wantso know if you won't
please to lend her your presenting kettle—'eattee as
how she wants to preserve 4 "We would with
pleasure, boy, but the truth 16, the last time we
loaned it to your mother, she prescrpai it so effectu
ally that we have never item' it sinre.",, u
you need'nt be so rassy aboat your olekettle.--,
Guess it was full of holes when we borrowed it,
and mother would'itttroubledi you again, of ly wo
.see'd you bringing home a neurone."
Too PARricuLAR.--Arl in hmaa ere dreamt
that he-visited the Lord Mayo of Loudon whotreat
ed him with the greatest hosititality,andesked him
if ho wouldn't lake a little sum i thitt. v '
He replied that he •, woulthit mind a little whis
key punch."
hot or cold !" inquired his lordship.
flits guest proferrod it warn{; but whilo the Lord
Mayor was out heating the water, ?he' Irishman
awoke from Ills deficient( tluethcc,—"Och cried
he, eamtirchendirtg what a *lot he Was to trwaittor
hot punch ruriu thz.plccariOnts temne
"how I fah sai,l p:0•14. 4
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Anitts3r.—Nothing.--leye r
enlarges tho gulf of Atheism
passage which lies between,
men pretenclingsto be chtiat
be - true r why are they not •
true, why am they pnitesoe
The he a rt of man 14 elitorl than has head. The
first-born is sensitive, but blii;pl:-liiiiyotmgei broth
er basin cold, but all,comprelentsire glance. The
blind must consent to be lediby the eleavaighted if
be would avoid Tai
Tnosr who place their ea ions at fi'Nt on trifles
for amusement, will find y esti trifles bceome at
last their mrst seTi.‘us
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i►ho'. aillitiglieet,
=Re then the wide ,
the.fsith and lives of
e - nth! , prindpies
b'therY lam not