II lifil II 0 111 =EI . , . • tritARLES V. READ: & II I. tDITOR s §-. , r 'Rob) $Pl`l4. MITI= PROW Itlf.E.E. JESSUP. • Mr. I..zsAsolt. 8 niA. Aug. 19;1856. Mr DEAR, Fent/in-:7-1n accordance with Our Plan mentioned in a previous letter; and suggeated no less by . ' the interesting nature of the scene to be visited than by ~.tt regard for our own health; we setout this morning from; Our mountain hoine in Dunia, for the os d a ra 'of Lebanon and the Ruins of Baalbek. . When .oue has been applying hire Self con stet:l4lY to books and study for a Long-time in this climate, a kind of_nervonS Vieakness. comes' upon the system, bringuThg with it, an indifterence to mental' pursuits ,which the experience, of Missionaries in years past, and our oWn brief experience, proves to be •most effeetnally relieved by a change of :air and occupation. _This is found in Syria by , tray elingover the mountains, and as we are just beginning ajourneY which will continue for a week if our lives and- health are,' spared, 1 wilrWrite the journal from day to day for the benefit of the loved Ones at home. 'Setting out upon a journey in Syria is a far difterent thing. fronrianything you have 'ever known, unless it were in those . early daysof Montrose histor when lall traveling was Cm horseback., and tg:. lawyers accompa nied the judges from town to' town, carrying kheir baggage in saddlebags. I think that a Syrian Missionary would make a very good 'Western Pioneer; This morning ire bad no railroad , tickets ito buY, - no depot to reach, no carriage to put WO , Rtaiite: - to perplex us, 'month plank- road before is to efil our tastes and unfit us for;the Steep 'of life.; The first bnemess johrrk . , *provide 's torenzO has j ti horse, which Mrs. Lyons ride. We must have `then,:ahorse for . Loren* and inyselfaAule 'for Shehedaniu4 Mennie eabh,,,,and,inulste carry Our beds, bedsteads,kitehen apparatus, • pro Visions and tent. He is not a Wise tray 'tier who neglects his overcoat,: white, embrel-' ',a, drinking:dip, 'Straps; strings, papers,draw ing PalLii, (if he can sketchy geological ham ireer, (if he be given to\ scientific. 'research.) mariners' compass, i'py. glass, :painphlet fir pressing flowers, and a full supply cif cloth adapted to the coldest anal the hottest'ex krenies of weather. The peeket Bible,lrymn Arabic Testament and Psalter are 'quite indispensable. • , 7/er,nlulete-ers:bavTng . ng'redd the night be fore,to-be ready at sunrise, appear, at that but, without , mules enough, and we arc 'elayed until 'nearly nine u'eleek: Syrian . Muleteers are men of a characterl-I.::"grneris. 'hey, re like the rriiiiiirs of ivli&..rn the P.D . 6,5,- tle:speaks, prOverbially faithless, and if one makes extensive caleulaitions based upon their word,lie Will suffer the consequences. For our tiadclle animals they brought a fine bay Uwe, and 'a little aslecxdored sleel-skinned • tneieWhich We thought best Lorenzo should ride is the mule. was not strong enough for the At-a little before nine we, set out.-7-• The "cedars" are a little-North of East iron; Dui a,hitit in order to cross the fearful ravine 'which lies to theN. E. of us, we had to make a gtadual descent for an hour in a N. Wester ly direction and then ascend again ttiree hotirs before we were out 'of sight of our own Viltage. With the burniniT suh upon 'our heeds, and sio* paced itiials, It was tedi ous, enough. I took my saddle, which I fitid ;doe's very well. Meanie °carried little Mary in her arms on the back of a Mille.. Arab . :feraale.s ride on mules withotita side-saddle, 1;4 ; 4 a cnshion on the top Of the pack-sad dle„:, without stirrups, and keeping themselves falling,by holding on a) a rope which secures the,eushion in its place. It is not. ;surprising that they sometimes. fall, especial ly when carrying an umbrella. and st ',and traveling over a Mt. Lebanon toad: • Men nie7a.s thrown before welled been two hours en the road: ItideseendingtheDurna moun tas we of the mulberry ,fig and tgral)e, and the What plitht, Irish potato, In diint °tin, cobaecti, beans, 'squashes, and egg plait were•growing side by side rngreat lux-, urianc, while the hedges were covered with 'i refit clusters of ripe blackberries. This is lhel,Season of figs and grapes, both of which nrenoW in their prime. How I Would de: iglu to - welcome yon to these beautiful gar.' Beihe and vineyards and show you the tempt , ,hl4clasters•of large white and - purple gr apeS,. suet the red and-white 11,s which melt like nney Pti the tongiie. These are` the native .. tui.uris - of Syr* and the season pf vintage `.he; jubilee'of the Mt.. Lebanon 'peasantry, Ayther descending the mountain, Passing ;the old convent of Mar tobarma (St. bill]) ;w here two poor ignorant monks eat arid. drink 'and sleep, we reach the beautiful level IValiey about a mile .and a half long and 'an 'eighth of simile wide, through which floiis a 'little river of clear coldwater, irrigating the large'fields of Indian corn, which seem much like home, that I almost forget that I • 'urn; in'SYrilk--- The fragrance of the tassels ,and silk in the morning breeze was almost t(Ilial to a visit to the old farm at home. ( 'Put hew seen the scene changes Leav iin4 this heaatiftd valley, We thread our way ithrough a dirty- village of the.lifetawalis,tuad Nil a ! ,street so harr,ow that the baggage oh finaiti are 4 ,36441410 Muni and End' an tOter 'routes ' I We then attend the inountain Zoe f .1 1_ r 0 ` 0 Eef oorr-paissing old ttlins—sh late atone eaeophs4m.izi the field, *m•ined coat/ int with ha' old oak tree, : the illtamt universal accompaniment of al•nin in -* _ . • 51; • , , . . . _ — ---- . - . — - ----:„.. . . . • .- ' ' 2 ,:d ,' ' : , ;, :: . i •., -. ;- ,' .• .. -.. .. ... .. .. . :-;.: ; ' ,Y .. ..- - . : , : ..''' .., ..-. . . . - : ' ' . - • . .. . .. . . . . ' • • ' ' ' .. . '' ..i. '' - , A : 11 " . 2 -, ' '.l . P - ~... ': ' ':': • .V. 1 :: ''''':, . :'..: ~ . . ' '-' .', '', .. • . ~.. . . (1 ,4 - - • , . .. . .. .. —, . .. . . , .i ' . .„ ... .. . I . lii - +t-. ~ ' ''. , ': ''...'. '•.', . - .-. ..- , •.. ; ' -... . .. . , . - • .- -• , , -..' . . . .1„;...;. 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'We are now riding over strata Of limestone roCk,,all 'Of' Which Slope upward froth the sea to • the. mountain • top at an angle '(if befiteeti twenty and. thir ty degrees.' OCeasionallyeyou come to abed of iron ore, 'a vein Of whitiSh yellow - sand istOnefOr - a. trap-dyke, and' then conic - baek a :pinto the original limestone rock. These, - trap dykes or - nnisses of - igneous rock, seem. to . stand like mentinients on -a' great . battle. :field; telling the'historY of telian'On in lan-, - gnage not to he 'mistaken. . here is a, vast black mass of trap, standing g all alone among' the shattered masses of the - white limestone strata, seeming to , ,exult in a consciousness of strength and to rejoice at. the -havoc it haS made—and perhaps- it. would thus`tell its own story: ‘• Long, long .agoi when the sea slept on he ,face of yonder mountain sum mit, and all these rocks reposed beneath its crystal . ' waters, I was a molten 'shapeless mass. in the Ner, -- center of the earth. Ileay i lug, restless, burning for distirietion, I asked ler a - corOrnission to do as others had done, in breaking up the.surface of the earth. request was granted.' And 'forth 1.. can* , seething, bubbling, ;heating ,up' the mighty ! rocks, breaking-thrfitigh the'eruet of the earth, Nrhile the sea tbained ,and boiled, and dashed , , 1 - away in wild confusion as I raised on my shoulders the vast range of - ..kbanon.' : Y . i.at see- yonder trio or mountain peaks, ilerpion, Smly-pi, and • Waknici,„.. On each of those the. strata lie horizontal d' from the Prim- . pices at 'their, sides were broken 'off those litige etiffs'Nthich noty slOpedoivn to the. East and West, forming a kind of' parapet of Ae- , fenee;on either side, A the - great center of the range ir4.las raised steadily-up from unknown depths beloW. This black Mass upon - ititich you now stand extends blit it lett rods On the Surface, and - then again - the White limestone seenis to:be the prevailing. rock. 'But. you will find again a feW fiirlongs away a va t aler • . . . extent of'mv oWn'fiery 'Substance, and jour ney where - yoii Will on Libation, you .;will • find everywhere-pt. - 90s of my . presence, fray' merits of my . shattered body'. ' You .:may think me insignificant, perhaps a niece 'The m:l-tenon. But go down along ray black - , . crystalline sy=stem;-follow 'One .of'thesepen tagennl eolumr6, and after descending, many thiJusand tOeit, fir below this liniestone Which on the surfaee,makes such a magi]," fiteent, dis play; you "will still wonder at -my vastness and strength; and when you-, approach the reilien of perpetual tire, you will feel throbbing ptise and ;understand that the Same great force, Which under the direction ari the great Creater of the Universe, first upheaved mighty Lebanba and made it the' gloiy of the earth, is still working far beneath the sur fam,and-in.its giant pulsations shakes the sol id. crust :with earthquakes and devastates it with liquid volcanic fire. Now you may Intim that lam Lebanon,' for . I .elevated his giant, ranges,, and new Sustain them upon my soitzred and blackened_ body. 14 . 05 , hardly noticed by the haitening traveler, *bile yonder . , hefty - snow-white cliff elicits bis adrnir r ation and enjoys an immortal name. , Learn from.iny experience that one may Arid antibei• reap the fruitS of his labor. One may tc,il and Suffer,:and another reCeiVe the praise. • For, i, who constitute the t mass of crust 'of-the earth ant cornpamaively' unknown. -While this superficial : film of lime stone strata which I have, toiled to shatter and-. uPheave,- dwells - .sunshine above .the clouds, clad in. a ;Mantle of glory, a narneand a prait:e in the earth." • ' : In: snch unspoken language have , these rocks discoursed to me as, I have journeyed along to-day on the, toilsome ascent of Lobs-. non. . • . .. . , We are now on onr *ay to the ( "ce:cial ( s)l , whreh are sublime: in !lair' antiquity, and: i'' . 1 Baalbeo which is equally - interesting troth the strange mystety •*hreh bangs • about its-Ori 9 e . gin,: but here are locks Older and More 'i,i - en., , erable than either; rocks • oin' which the ce . Bars grow,nnd from. Which Baalbee ikai firs balk i . The cedars are 'but the growth of ,i 3 l day, and 13aalheels but. the child of an hours; coMpared•withither ! e rock-ribbed mountains'' tinetent .1.8 the - tluni , • But We must journey on. -After reathinr• -4! the summit of the j rairte N. E. of Duma,auf e. in a SoutkEasterty direction from TripO l 4i) 'we have a magifilieentprospect . on everysider;l :After looking - at - he sea,the Southerly monfi;i tains, Tripoli, and the coast sweeping ha li Sharply defined curve toward Latakiali, yoh . , turn and gaze toward the cedars. There the Deo' little dark Oven - clump. of trees, fi hodis or nearly filik*.n miles away. On the - East, North and' ,i South of them the gr t summits of Lebanon, smooth and round , ' the shaven held, Of Martmite :Monk,.( .:, ging pardon of the mountaktus for the cbm • ison,). look dote in silence On the sole, ' while toward- the West, the iiiniihithe* ,opens upon the sea tai away and far bel*. ti; The mountains are so lofty and grand ' this little cluster of everezteni, seeros of 1 ' ' th • rocky: *do in like a spotmoss on their sides t. the distarioe. But &w ire the cedarig ll a 0 . ~, , we, will journey on, hoping soon to staiAd pi. , I , lr 66 [P I 14 )1 Epon alma gasUNIF aaametir @LL,MErr2V' &Obeli 'linden+, " bop .., • and• enjoy their sweet iefreshing- shade. • [ ', , -- ' • _, '- . ~,rat is.nowtweidelock iP; lci., and we arp le t. atOt fiV a houra xlistap ' from them. Our nilbteers, who are paid ;.by the. day, seem drnined to lengthen the road , and by de-. laps . innumer.able, .. contrive' to disippaint "o hopes of spending tlie.nightatour place (101,. estinatien. ;We givO. them Potiee; .6w: ielo,. that-if they do not!j;et.timAgh,weshall ...,a t ii., On our *ay, we win the afternoon, , in 4 ia.y them co . more hin.oni.qiiy far the ljo-irney_ from Piiina' .. tie cedars. . This. *its their latent energy but they-finally fall . b 'OE. again, and* are uompelled to pinch l c tent in an open fief. ~ near a little • foun t ; farmers in one.field 'eaping and -thresh i* their grain, and . in another plowing.. and tzl i i, se,iing the cheat just 'hen 'from the thresh ini. floor. The ',season i ' so. short *On th ese h ghts six or seven the sand feet above the that harvest and 'se - come in th e p..i . Ole:Week.. The. great part of the wheat in ' - 'l3 , ,is i'.§ 'pinter; *heat.i. On the plains be tA"U'en Lebanon and. ,Anti 'Lebanon (Called the , 'nkaa) they SuW their Itio snow, but:here th • j seed before cold' ~ . ~. -- ia;)iniountain Storms p event all ,out door la i5r.. - . As i‘e . came through the wheat-fields to4ay, the little girls . tairraged in the harvest' w iild bring a handful 1 4 - .:f wheat ,to our hor se.;.i - .expect . ' '-L - and- a pre,hrit. The enstom. is pe -, ;nliar to this portion i . f Lebanon, and some of Ourinen who came ftom Southein - 8 yria w ' quite offended - by t, - ,'• thinking it 'a dis te. gr : ,to the, people. . 'f i et we, gav' i e a little coin to the Children,- and I thought! it by no means s great a . • disgrace . as these Arabs secred o think. The tnountaincers of Leb anon are ani industrion4., bard , working. peo pleil but they are ~ ' exeeedingly ignorant.— Nnien the gospel shall have taken hold of the pc le as it hasln .A.inerica, there'-will be a stye. of Character dev4iped here which will i be.truly noble and' comntandin;:. • The Arab mid has capacity enough; It ueeda the light . Of, • th, education . and 'cleVatiOn. As it .is tiov . 7 the great part of 'the females.. think that Ile . t have no souls,and them entreat them like slat. - One learns frpm such a state of thi‘ i how suggestive itn index degree of ivilization and.-nioral elevation..in a conn • - the position of, WOIIiSTI. 1 Must not forget to iilludectone of the, t.; s tile thing. , ,.; ofto-day i g experience. Many Plc think that the "cedars" of Lebanon .Found in but one pace. This is a This ta y. f4n our road to-lay, we thave passed th'(isands of young cedars, 'and some of con siell rablc size,.all groiving vigorously. They 1 ,, arotereen s and beautifPl, having the same b4t, leaves, and conks -with what I have settn and s heard of qiceirn ens of the true cedar. •Tiorrow -will:decidei r : . re 7, - ih e o r l e ms .7 o e r s t e h v e er e 'a ea l a s' i rn , al art l N d 'ill o a u or r es m w u l l t e h te in ers a• se n - i eci Peteraimed: to . S I :op at one of them. 1 ; s1 s . .. , k - - and T 'his we. objected, Mr. add Mrs. Ly lh one and I pushed on, I!lpingsto get through tiffiriiebt. This we fouPd to he impossible,as o l ittent'and baggage, land above all, little M fy, were about an lour • • -behind us. As • w i slake:tided a small .W 1 above . the Village, w`llooked back on the 'road ; but nothing was t( .I.)e seen of our eonipany— The'sun was ' 4 iidly descending tOvVard the sea, the'great I s dows were stealing pp the .ravines-shelow u l ?the purple hue Was deepening.. on the g . 41it mountain 4umtni!is alone, and the. air as growing very .. chilly 'and' damp, when i J J renzo ProprisCA Icavlng Me and Mrs. Ly 4is to wait, while he vv.ent back to hurry up 'e muleteers. II shou,d have gone back but .}tad just been bruised, by the falling of my iirse, s and ni.v side s kv . f ► too- lame to admit of . s l' l 'r So LoreniO ref -led ',over one of the . • W ' lied 1 I ir. Tughest roads :1 r p... ei t seen... . e watcl titnJuatil he (Ilia ealtd below the hill, and then turned to eonvers -with the people 'who athered around us, a . they. returned with 'heir sheep and goats nd' bundles of grain ~ grass, - I,4ind from': the tne. of the labors of I the day. After half n hour we saw. the , : intiles coming bUt tore zo was not with them. !.They had-titken' a difrei•ent road; and he had. .;not seen than. !I immediately looked around 'for.'a spring,- and with_ the aid of a bOy, soon found a little Wbblini fohntain of water so cold that my attempted to re We pitched ou a fire, a shephe and after. putti ing .a' few mom supper 'of•rice, tired to rest, ju enough to diap, hanging over ti Nir . anszsnaY ing we arose breakfast: 111011 days. - ',Chet' w :re in s _... we were nearli two h i 1 zigzag couii3e among hnmded koolb4 . which 1 of the Cedars. The gr, fragrnenta df iclinitie 1 ails :find . crumbling '1 wheit and ht* et' 41 , 1 isrre .of the ancient es . : . eedars,you - astonis tire tiblittion.:l'Theie ..... for .. , __ . , vuuble miles, we' in the *tie . vi lage, flit down. the-ImA Ttow , certainly - but: . -oh, edge within two mil_ ground is 4; . ,f pelt ye .. ing stone' h. ois ii: ROSE, TIOSP2O7-„:-NOVE'N.13,qt.'13, ODE wheatlater; as there :hasten 6 ptit in winds, and!the driv- ire benumbed when I dhe stones from - it.— tent a onee, Shehedan made d's bo brought goat's milk, 1 , up o r bedsteads and wait ; nts to Lorenzo ) we ate our .ggs, b ead and milk, and re: •t as t e moon had'risen high l the s 4 ows which had been e eeds;is of Lebanon. 1 ,nds w I MO th, 1856.—ThLs morn luck our tent, ate, our .were off for the Ce • ug. 2 rly, st, tad an "_ht all of the. time,yet urs in gbing about in a e little hills t or rather, abound in the vicinity tind was covered with ock and iron bre, lbs. 1 mestone. There are .s within twenty rods you approach the ed iit their almost en is hardly another" tree iting those which grow uttered here and there IP. the-Bea.. There is tree -to- my knowl: 1 The !Wade of the , l "w eolob . the preven- It —tone, and a more arid, diy, uninViting so . 'could hardly, be conceived. Thorns and thistles 'abound,= There are great thickets of a dwarfed species of the barberry high up under the 'ledges near tha summit of the 'loftiest M01'111 . 61111. Thete is one peculiar species of ,thorn (for almost every shrub on Mt. Leixmon produces thorns) which grows in little round moands, 'alinut• foot in diameter and perhaps eight inches Ugh, *Of a 'tea green: color and:covered with beautiful fro'Wers. The Tiowerssre dry like silk paper, and are very tempting, but the moment your . hand apprpachei them it is met by innumerable thorns or spines like needles,- which teach you circumspection zn the. future. We are now entering:the'anCient.groVe of the 'efflara. 'The Muleteers are far behind, and in the still . sweet air of the morning, we enter .that'saered shade. Sacred indeed butnot--as these superStitiouspeoplebelieVe, on 'account of any sanctifying virliie in the trees themselves—for this is blaSphemy— bnt sacred in their hiitaiy, - their : interesting association's, their mondious antiquity. 'The. birds are singing in' their. branches,. and the ,breeze sighs in plaintive, melancholy • music;ilike the voice of the' pine in a Novem ber's, night, as we - ride. slqwly - through the grove, over the undulating surface,- to: the: level spot used froth time immemorial as a . camping ground by".travelers from all parti of the. world.. The''tent is soon pitched,' a - wpm= is despatched to bring a jar Of water &one the fountain more than a half hour dis- . tant, our things ace all arranged, and away we go,. one to one place, another to another,' to take -measurements, to sketch,to meditate,- tO 'Wonder, and toßraise. : . The reiolts of seme of our investigations are somewhat as fvlitiws: ,. The grove of the. ceders stands in vast ampitheatre of lofty mountains . whieb border it in grand magnifi cence on the North, East' arid South. The slope of these mountains downward is at an angle of nearly fiorty-five degrees, Veirig cov ered with a lalse sliding soil, of a light yel low color. The cedars are nearer ,to the Northern range than to either of the other's, and nearer'to the Eastern than to the South ern. It is perhaps one hundred rods to the base of the slope on the North side. Thi: .width of the valley from North to South, I shotild think must be about tivo mid a half miles, perhaps less. The surface of the val ley between these three ranges, is very un even consisting of innumerable small rounded hillocks, covered with loose stones, thorns and thistles, but without rocks of a very large size, though some of them are simply rough ledges of limestone rounded by the action of the sun and snows and storms of ages. The ground on , which the cedars stand is-of the same general 'chow:ter. They occupy about six of these mounds, the distance, from out side to outside ir. ati easterly and westerly direction being about fifty rods, end nearly the same from North to South. The differ ence in elevation between the top Of the high est hillock and the lowest intervening valley in the grove; is about one hundred feet. I' infer this from the tact that we could look down from our encampment which was •ciri about the highest level, upon the tops of soilie quite- tall cedars hi the valley.belott. -The nurriber of the ceders is about 400, or as Mr. Calhoun counted them exactly, sW. tlf these, the greater part are quite lir& and high many of them being straight ennugh for a ship's mast and spars. The leiVes awl bark are almost exactly like the Americtm Fir tree, and the cones of the ..oilager dregs als'o re semble them. One peOuliarity 'of these trees is their angular appearance. The limbs of the olderlrees grow at right angles With the trunk, and that too at the very top of the tree, where the limbs arri ()hen 'Very large,•'giving' the tree top the appearaht,e 'of aground mush room, or an umbrella. The top of one of the' twelve largest trees sends out branches horizontally so numerous and regular that one might make a floor ttf great uniformity, and almost perfectly level, by simply laying beards from breath,lo branch. The top of the tree above the limbs, where the silvery green leaves seem Matted together and springy kled with' the dark .brown cones,' is like a Dariutscus earpet.of the finest teiture, and 'is remarkably beautiful, The tivelve largest trees are catural wonilera. The people have a tradition with regard to these twelve trees that Christ and the eleven Apostler once vis ited this spot, and stuck doivil their walking staves in the earth, and front thelii sprung the greatest and oldest trees. Now such a tra:i dition as this is Sitrto ly ridiculous, like the most of the traditions Of' tbe East. These twelve trees are undoubtedly of great antiqui ty, the oldest trees in the group., This being so, the rest Of the group haire grown up since. Now if Christ and eleven of his afiostleseVer came over these tertihc mountain pedalo such a spot as this,-it Was probably to visit the ceders, but according to-this traditionle planted the eldest of then; and hence none of this group were standing before the time of Christ a conclusion which is falsified by tile plainest proofs from the structure of the tree's themselees. Mr. Calhoun who has 'ofter. vis ited the spot, and has counted the rings Which indicate each , succimsivo years, growth, infers . Gom this indiention, as well as hoist the fact tha these Older trees !mire not increased In :size for two hundred years, as known from a 'mune in the send lir pod, ,that the tritee are at bast as old as the days of •Sbloirion.. were to give' a name to ihe tvielve trees,lt be the titelve*Patriarehs, and , not the Apostle& I have -enjoyed this day's visit beyOnd all MEI description, and I 66211 ever 'treasure lip the meditations and meth 176 connected with.my first visit to the ced rs of Lebanon. - Ninio I 'can Ittirigide -- a more. _lorious scene' than-this goodly Lebanon. wit -n all itsmountain val leys were filled and ifs hill tops ermined with; such trees as thesel e " glay of Lebanon" must hive been som thing gloriOns indeed. But how much of its lory has departed, and ';'h this solemn, solitary grove, 'seven thousand feet • above the sea, in die 'rc:gion 'Of the snot's, on a sterile soil, without a fountain or;a stream to give it vigor-,.seen s to flourishin perpetual verdifie and ever-ren wed strength, a eMO . m iial of the past, a glo y in the present, and a promise for the future shoWing forth the great ness, the majesty;'an thesovereigntyot God, to all generations. he' cedar of Lebanon in its glory 'Was used' y the . Psalmist, as the syrnbol_of a righteou Man, and the judgment of GO opon the unr ghteousness of , his peo ple is given thus in th : . 10th chapter of Isaialt : " The rest of the tre .s of his forest shall be few, that, a child ma write them." I would , gladly linter longer here and speak of the numerous all sions to fhese "cedar . trees," " cedars of ebanon". the " trees of the Lord which he bath planted" Sze., but time will not permi ' . I have nuMereus . from various poitits mosses, stones; gum ers from the grove, due time. I hive. the two largest trot circumference and to ty to fifty feet., not to :rOutittae the lip es in the trunk of it his liusiness , to ft and water trove .• bucks 4 hees'h in retur saint' and trees, and the•ignot receive a Viessiirg I . to these scenes with stition :Which while blessings brin - gS mighty ! Peaceful. is o'ur al for our coventlnt:k. Tn UItSD AY, Aag, friend and brother 17hderi,'his summer from which Brothe 4 7 violence a few y night with us.: We intended visit here, soon an.t so we.lost on Tne6day with te dignity, brought a in honor of us, - on a fire made of c our arrival. - .As w ed..the' men and the they ate and were fi' yesterday - :(three h( we expressed our re, so much trouble on, ly, that we lost the e the 'night with us, to hitti farewellaP . 'we est, ridge of , Leban bee.,. . I Will pins° in my journal here for a time, and keep only a pencil' diary as'it -ii much easier ip travelling, and when' illY journeying is over,ll will lie ibe the visit to. Baalbee, as I tioie 'so s'o'o'n tt,: see it. ' I teel i •invigorat by this (raveling on the inbuntain heights. There is something in- Spiringtn•being abl to see seliind sky, moun tains arid valleys,lo many, many miles dur ing the!whole, day a you journey alohg. Perliips this wilt suffice foronce.' . I will hold, it in. readiness For the first mail after my , a lp :W grate, ful, J..,,0v0 to al. n With prayerful, grate 7 ful, afne:ionate ie embiande, ever your son. '.. •' . fiENRY IlAitkui Jissup. THE tdornzies I . iirsica.—Theaolid rock which urns the ed 4 0 e of the chisel, bears for everi t impress of the leaf and the acorn re ceived wig, tong s n'ee, ere it had bbcome hardenld by time d the elements. If we trace Itek to its ro main the Mighty, torrent which. ertilizes th land with its i copious streatit , 'clf.siiteeps ver it with a devastating flood, • e shall fin it dripping in ' chrystal drops, r f om some easy crevice among the distant hills ;-„ sO, to., the gentle feelings and affecti s that enrich' and adorn the nears, and. th mighty pasz ions that sweep away all the ha Tiers of the oul and desolate society, may h 'ye sprung u. its the infant bosom in the sh teed retire' 'ent of home.. "I should have b en an atheis ," said John Randolph, "if it ad hot been for one recollection ; and 1 that W's the memo y of the time, when my depart d mother sed to -take my hands in hers, d Cause' .eon my knees to say, 'Our ather.iihich' art in Heaven !' " Ft-4148L S or surnme , ext tha.skin 1 1" lodien," 11,i , thus causi od to the sin een that is t " red," for w • r, and bee° •sous.. Cot isture from conveys it roes ow thf4 the ()Whiar y. its nearer • tied iiithot g these prof ors even in ies. Wear , .ffusei Jos mu!) mer. A are el steel for have steal, WAN B teen istabt n our count 14,11 e best (nee Dit)::-.©40.4w 1856: sketches of the cedars of. vie*, an 3 t'he_eones, rorri the trees,-and flow- ' will send or to .you.in 'milted to meutioulthat - arc aboUt i s lity feet in . others yary from.twen peOple ire very 'careful tree; and in old monk • 'no of the.tree; mak:ng rnish . honey, milk, fruit le r; and then . C.:tpect.a There is a church fur. rship under one of the tit people 'Celine:here to . Thank God WO - can come ut that idolatrous super. I • t professes. to expect _the vn the curse of the Al-- ep Under this cool shade, ping God is here. t 41556.--lesteiday our Glitri . tui 'came up from sidenee,Sthe smile town Wilson was driven .out 'ears ago,) and' spent . .the had informed him of 6tir int-he came one day too a grand least. Ileearne men in all his honsuiar sheep,. and slaughtered-it er - the''cedars, roasted it e branches, and awaited did not come, he lurk- monk .to the feast, and ililed: lle came Up again urs on a'hard road)-and rcts, firstly, that, he had our account, And !setond 6ntertaiument. : Ife spent d this morning iao bade tired to bliintt the high- . 1 n oft oUr Wdy to. Baal:, tars..--Put it oii . at once, nothing - better can he than a loosc, red woolen it has rootn'to move on ig a iiiilation which drawi dam and keeps it there; e case no-one can take its flannel fills up, mats es tight ,stiff, heavy and .n wool merely Absorbs. the surface, while•wcilen. om the skin and i:tuposi is utaide of the , shirt, front, cotton _shirt absorbs it, exposure to thi air,• it is t injury to the _body.— rties ' red woolen is worn id.summer of the hottest thinner material in sum , 1 of Malik • Mmtanctului.r—There i shrnents for mantifiteturlOg these lave -. eaptte*y, 4 Was . pet iinnuat. We. in the world for making TER, & smrrn PUBLISIIERS--VOL FItAZ MiseOliplepit,s, - --.' .: THE .SANDHILLERR. WANT SLAVERY DOES YOE THE POOR. *MITE MAN. A correspondent 9f Life' Illustrated, trav elling in South Carolina, : thus ,describei the c4dition of that, miserable class Of witites, Studitillers, whom the employment of l slave' Tabor. by the Wealthier 'elass,has driven into vagabondage: Shall another such ownmuni tyibe 'raised ufi in &moss!' Betivien the " low - country,"' as it is cal -1- and the "upper country;", of South Car, ()lip; lies the middle or sandhill region; A large portion of this tract, which varies froth ten to thirty miles, is covered with forest.s of pine, interspersed here and there viitikd ety of other trees. Where it is tindeulti vation, the principal crop js . cotton. But the !and is not generally fertile,' and much of it is likely to remain for a long time a partial wihlerneis. . The country itself presents few - intereSting , features, but it is the hotne,of al singularraee of people, to whom may 'profitably devote a few paragraphs of destriptiOn . .•, In travelling through the:" ritiddle.Conntry," I often passed the rude ; squalid, cabins of the - Sandhillets. - All the inmates flecked_ to the door of their windpviess 'doinicile , to stare at. me: And such lank, scrawny, 'filthy aif.beings I never beheld elsewhere--'tot even Within the purlieus of the " : Five Points . .." Their • compleition is o ghastly Yellowish white, without.the faintest tinge of wholesome mi. The hairof the adultsis generally Sandy,. and that, of thcv children nearly ,as. White as. cottor. ..The children are even -paler, if -pos slide, than the adults, and often painfully hag gard.atid sickly looking. They- are entirely: tmedneated, •and sena. barbarous in all . their habits, veryklell and stupid, and . , in' general social position; far-be loic the slave popUltition around them. . fact the negroes - look down. upotyhem with . mingled feelings of pity and contempt. They are"squatters" on lands belonging-to others, either with or. withou t their -consent. They sothetitnes. cultivate,; or rather plant a small patch of ground near .their a bibs, raising a little corn and a feir cabbages, ..ttielon4"imd sweet 'potatoes., The .agricultural operations never extend any beyond this. Cort-bread, pork, and :cabbage.' (fried in lard;) seem - to be their principal articlei of 'diet. To procure the' latter, and hat few clothes .they require; they make: shingles; or baskets,. 'Or "g a thei:, 'pine knots and ber ries, 'which they.sell \in the Villages'; but be yond what is ret - juired to'supply' their very' limited actual •ndcesSities, they will nt.t ivork. , - • . Their principal employments are hunting I and fishing, and_their •staudard amusements drinking whiskey - and . fighting.s-„ - . • .• Their dress is, as primitive as their habits. The women and children invariably-go bare headed and bare-footed and bare-legged, their only garments 'apparently 'being a koacse . cal- • ice), The men wear a cotton shirt, 'and\trou-' sers of the cotton home-spun cloth of\khe . country, with the . addition sometimes of an t r ipper garment too • rude and shapeless.to named 7 Ordeseribekl. • . I one day met a MicTratirig family of these miserable people. On . a •most sorry, lung, and 'almost 'fleshless sub4itute for a horse, were peeked the entire household effects of the 'family, consisting of 4 bed and a few, choking utensils. Two .srnall - children occu pied the top of the pack.. Two largertnes, each loaded . With a bundle, 'trudged bdhind theii Mother, Ivho appeared not more. than 17 years of age. The fathei, a gild, sinister loOking fellow, walked a little iii 'adVatiCaof the rest, with . hialong riffe l .on his shotilder, •and his hunting-pouch by his. side, . , ;A:corre.spondent of .one or the city dailies: thus • describes an encounter with a Sandhilt familr • • , Here, on, the road, we !pea a family; wi) Itit've been in. town. A little girl of ten years old, with a coarse old fragment of a dress on, is sitting on the back bone of a moving idcel. eton of a horse, which 114 the additional task of trailing along a rickety lapeciitien of a wag on, in vritich is seated a ratan--a real outside squalid barbarian, Maudlin and ,obfuscated with bald-faced whiskey, - with :a 'child four - or five years old by his ,iiide: Behind this, a haggard-looking ,boy upon another skeleton of a horse is coming. - - - What an old, outlaildish,Tow.Wheeled cart the horse is pulling! , There' sits the old. woman - and' her grown 4 daughter, with nothing on, apparently, except a dirty bon net,and a coarse and dirty gown: The daugh ter has a basket by her side, and the old wo man holdsefitst to a suspicious looking stone jug, of half a gallon Measure, ,corked with a corn cob. Your life on it, that is a jug of whiskey. The family have been to the. vil lage with a couple of one-horse loads of pine knots used-for-light Wood. They have _pro bably Sold them for a dollar, bailor which has doubtless gone for whiskey, and now they .are getting home. Degraded its .they are, you see it is the Man who is . helpless, and the woman who has the care of the jug, and conducts the important e*pedition. There are' hundreds such, people dispersed through these 'sand hills. You see the whole or this party are bare-legged and barefooted, And how bony and brown the" are And it is a curious fact, that in all temperate countries the children of all semi-barbarous white People, (except Sir 'Henry Bulwer's black or red headed Celts,) and all Anglo-Saxon back- - woods, or mountain, or prairie people, have cotton-headed or flaxen : headed children; .- w indeed is theloWest.chise of the white people in the Sou therm States,. though nowhere else have i found them gaiter degraded as in South Carolina...." Poor tinersh. "'poor. white folks," arc the terms by. Which the negroes• designate them, and in. the word " poor"' a great deal is meant hi this &trine°. tion. It. includes hot only pecuniary po-ver ty, tut 'gin:trance, - Worishiresa and general social degradation The Southern negro nev er applies the :word poor to arty, one . who has the manners And bearing of a gtntlerrin, how. over light his Purse.' Poor white man": is an object he looks down Upon---an object of . pity or contempt. .IgrArnOnm -- the other frauds resol ... to yesterday ;by the_demoonte in this State 4 1 .14 county ) was the arculation ef what they .eat: led "at .rieiriont **tie ticket was-not Seined i* the friends efrre' wont; and thOlp• .eni,teged girtntlteenert.. ey knew they, were emid4 4 in'r.a.pteeinf raskality for which a lodgment.in the - pertlten. tiary would be a suitable reward. , - Hones -4/6 Dnitotrat: EOM tea t 4 =I El El ~._ •-.: I2eetionSeente*Ligew York. • Several -very good I.alo49t4mare' reported , .of the Repnbliiia'attaiiii#, for Assenibly in : • the First Distriet. One is, the t iihiteoo ari election tour he dropPed into the "_lie it and 'Chickend" to prevail on 'sortie .dotibtful" who "could appreciate It was , late at. eights ''But, before we,proceed fur- - tber, it is necessary to say that the - Republi can candidatefor the:First AssemblyDistriet is, like many ; other intellectual'rnett, remark able fur brevity of maitre,. Otherwise he is unobjectionable. And afte ll,'a aftfoot or two - ' longer or - shorter than the_ common herd, is a mere matter of taste; for' Whieb.a min is neither to De praised nor blamed; - But all , men, and. 'particularly those ahoynthe ttoin mon height, are not disposed tO look upon . - any large de g ree of srnalyiess ' So thought the 'RqpnblitatC,A*mblyman's. constituent- , -One of our colored brethren, of magnificent proportions, to whom theafort, 7. 'said candidate for .the Assembly Was -intro? ' 'duced while on an , eleetioneering,tour, in the\ \ aforesaid "Hen and Chickena.' Oa hei fig invited to -" take something hot and warm," by the generous candidate..fOr the . Assembly, %, _ he raised himself;to his_fulf height, and with a curl 'upon his. lip2that- rivaled the twist . in his hair, exelairned in a loud•-voice, 41 Mu you de-candidate for 'Sembly,-down town r. 'l•he short, but patient--and long-suffering candidate, re7 r ,lied, touching his ,hat,and bow- lag to his colored 'cOnstituent" I am, Sir— won't you talie a smile - Is" , ' His colored constituent raised himself again —again the curl in his hair seized upon his lip, but as the scent .of the ".something hot, with sugar and a slice 'of leniori," greeted his expanded nostrils, he. simmered down, and With a sigh exclainied• " Well, little chap, you may be smari, btit you is darned small—fl take_a drink." 114 smiled. - . • And soon - afterwards the Republican elm- didate for Assembly in the X.irst District found,himself, in ail his `constitutional short ness, attending to his . political' interests in .a lager-bier saloon in Greenwich street. here ' azain his brevity was the cause of wit. - had called for " bier laaer." and in, company..: with three fat and joll y i Teutons, 4 - 0 in the act of conveying the foaming beverage to Ins naming rips, in response to Atoist favorable - to his prospects, When another fat and thirsty Dutchmen asked: • • "Jab tat ter ReptAligangan Ta. ine- Cot, Vet gatididate I .I , coot put hem een my pockets." 1 . "Faith an if ye did," retorted brevity, 4uoting from turran,- "ye would have rnore . 'brains in yer pocket, than ye ever had inlyer hi.ad, ye big Dutch blackplard. l ! The retort took the Gerinans down they , roared and , roaredagiiin, the victitiirjoitiing - When he had recovered" is • ed, " Dunner a veter ! tat is good . pese.r as furs rate. I veel vote. fur you, little feller -zwei lager bier, py tam !", < _ Sit Irpr4llA. "Sit upright t sit upright,. my- soul" said a lady- to her son George, who had formed a, \ wretched habit'Of bending Whenever .he at down to read. His mother, - had told him that he could ; not . breathe right unless- he at upright. Butit was no use; bend over he would \ln spite of ail his mother could say. "Sit bpright, 11 ter George!" cried his teacher, at Geor , bent over his copy book at school. you 'don't sit upright, like Master ,Charl- N you will , ruin - sour health,. • and possibly die, of 'eonsurnplien." This' startled Master George. He did not want to die, and *felt -So after School he said to his teacher t , . °°.` Please', sir, eiplain\fci hoit binding over when I•sit can eause\me.tp have the con sumption." . ° . • ".That I Will, George," rePlied his teacher, With a cordial smile. - .1 4 Theres an element in the air called oxygen, which\is necessary to make your blood circulate, and \ to help it purify itself by throWing off Nvitet\is called. carbon. When you stoop you eStitiot take - in - a sufficient quantity, of air to acconiplish these purposes ; hence,. the blood remains had, and the air Cells in' your lungi The cough - comee on , next, the lungs uleerafe,". aril then you die. 'Give* the lungs rdom,tc, ,inspire pie _ my of air. and you will not be in. s jured by study. Do you understand the matter . now,, George r _ "1- think I do, - sir, and I will 'try to situp- right. hereafter," kaid George. . :LAMARTINE I S OPII9ON OF WOYEN.---NO man with weaker passions than man is supe rior to him by the l sonl, The Gauls attribut ed' to her ati additional seiise, the divine sense: They Were right,: Natu . re has.giveit women *two painful blit 41eavenly gifts which distin guish them, and often• raise them above hu man nature---conipassion and .enthusiasin.-- By compassion they deVote thensobiscli-by enthusiasm they exalt. themselves. Wha t. more bies heraiim require 1' They have more heart and more imagination than then; 4nilusiasm sprifigs from the imaginaticin, and self.sacritice froth : .th e heart; - Women - therefore, more naturally heroic than Men: • All nations hatte in their, annals some of those thiraeles c( patriotism of whichwoman the instrument - in the hand of God. When all is desperate in a national Canse,'.waneed not yet despair while there remains a spark of resistance in a woman's heart, whether she is called - Juditli, Celia, JOaa of Arc, Vittoria -Colouna In Italy,. or Charlotte Corday ,in our own day. God forbid that • I 'Coinprit tht -TBite, Judith and Charlotte Corday siert; -ficed thettiseliw,but their, -sacrifice (Ha not 'recoil at.erilne. Their ins piration: yru . 4ero. le, liut.theirheroism mistook its aiai it took the pol n a r d of the assassin instead of the hero Joan of' Are used only the sword of defence; she was not-merely inspir ed by heroista, but waa inspired by God. AcrroW or SUGAR :ON ?SS' Timm—The Charleston (S. C.)htedicaLicurtnil states, that M. tare; his ;nte A tigationa , on the teeth, art veti`at thi gdictWing.cooltt. sioni ;-- - First-463414d sugar, from aim. cane of beets, is injurious to healthY_ teeth; either by imniedhtte.,t4ntact. with _these. ittatis„;_or by 03 .aeirotoped, owing tti its s toppage in the tOnutork SeCtSl4-.-•.it tooth nteccratectilMt•stitil, rated solution org4 ll . l Vit 400 . 04,i 1 0 is the thorniest - cOtupositioti'o44 , fV`'he , ,Corneti g.,/ 1 0 0)0,1444 . I .t• 61403 0 .91 1 4 4 34ei . : . 5p0ngy; anst Thifit-' 4 4hie modification is dui, out, to free acid, but to a lendeney of anger to combing With thit ealeareouli basis the too* E ril MEM El - L 14r,CY.14 . ER lail R H 121
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