MIMI F. READ Fe H. H. PRAZIER,-EPITOFtS. Per the bulepeadt Rep4/frese. EARLY DEC AY. , DT YR4. BRCNDASIL Los 'math the Clods of the aalle7, Manhood Tien down his prime; youth in the flush of Its beauty, :Childhood in life's morning time. Lone and bereft la the , lover. Stricken and widowed the bride, _ Fistem bewail the young brother, - Earth and the add marble hide. She that ails Csir as the lily, Blooming beside the home hearth, Faded as early, as atilhr Sank to a pillow of irauth. • They that shmild longer hare tarrhxl, Guarding the babes of their lore, Left them to orphanage lonely, Weeping the grave.eod above. ° Many, oh ! many a mother Calla up the lisiOn•toilay, • Of a heart-treasure tlePartcd- Taken in childhood away.: Why, old so early, so eaily, Yleemth mortality's breath! Where Axe this sorrowful blending. Union of Beauty and Death! • Earth should not bury, her children Thus in the bhaosa - of thcir years ; Never a loving All-Father Made this a valley of tears. ' Et'Tor, the child of Transgression, • Ever bath led us.estray ; . Far have we wandered fur pleasure,'. 'Far have we strayed from her way. Armine with ter*ole weapons, Luxury, fOyiand crime, Death, the slow-coming 'Avenger, • ' :Long in 111:3 missions :young piitne. Fail. we again would disarm him, Leave him his _mission divine, Tears, not disease,, for his weapon, Age, and not beatity, his sign. !, Science, Fair Daughter of Heaven, "Meekly w•e Tuiten to thee ; ' Thou Who art Truth, never changing, Thou cant from Emir set free. Say; by a triple salvation, Man by a triple &lab slain; Sminp the lost image of Heaven Back on our being again! `'JOURNAL I=M=l MEV. H. H. JESSUP. lent:talent to Hebron. .TEarsAt.i3t, Friday, March 13, 1857. There are so many points of interest about Jeruqtlem, that_ I hardly know which to de scribe and which to omit, as' it Is quite im. possible for me •to . attempt to exhaust the .. - su i jest. (ia our return front Jericho to-day, we reached the city at half past' one. We 'rested about . an hour, and • I then 'walked out .with Mr. Thom son.. ' We first (%.ent through the bazaari which are so similar to. the busi ness streets of Tripoli and Beirut, that I need not describe them. We then passed down a long street running Eastward towarth the Haram-ish.Shereef, to lout at some ancient der-ways and arches, after which we took a hos for a inside and threaded our way through . the reiparkably narrow and crooked streets ass. s'fi to the , old wall of • e Temple enclosure, ' where The Jews mbhal to weep. over the fall of Jerusalem , destruction of the city and the dispersion of. their natiein.... As it is Friday to-day; and Consequently,' the preiet ration fur theJewhoh Sabbath, these. wretched ' people assembled to unite their voices in la-' tuciitstionspver the fall of Israel. As it was late when we arrived there, I saw but one; a, raiddle-aged irian who held an open book in, his hand, And, with his head bowed upon the book against the wall ; was uttering the most tnelimeholy groant. Whether' the man was sincere or not, it would be difficult to say,- but it *as certainly an, affmting sight. These blinded, deluded people, weeping and wailing for a loss which was riecasioned by the iniq-, tiity of their own ancestors, and persisting in the . rejection. of the Messiah, which was of all others the. sin which brought judgment and destruction Upon the Jews,: present a spectacle which may well' fill a Christian's • heart with sorrow. This is a place where others than Jews may weep, twat that tempo. nil power has pissed from the hands of God's ancient people, but that' human beings could - be so guilty as to crucify the Son of God, and that even at the present day there are '.. so many thousands in this very land who ei ' ther reject the Messieliship and: divinity of Christ altogether, or 'by calling themselves • Christians bring. His pure and .holy name indeed, into shame and contempt. every. inch of &mid in Syria aPalestine. it trceping ,round; if one milintelligently on the condition of the people. ,Christ wept aiier Jerusalem 1800 years ago, and the con dition of the people is: sueti'to-day that one 1 who loves the appearing tif -Our Lord, cannot 1 refrain from some manifestation of his deep emotion as he feels the 'sadly truthful appli: cation of the Savior's. words, " Behold, your house is left unto iou. desolate." . "How often would I have !gathered thy children to . gether, and ye . - would not." • . Leaving_this place, we visited the old etch or rather the springing.stones ' of, an old etch which is suppoted te, have belonged to the viadruet which connected. the• temple with Alutintgion. From this place .we walked plot)" the Southern wall of the city, a part of the tune walking on• the top of the city wall, until we reached the lepers' quarter again when we descended to,the street and returned home. During our elegem*. Quirlee Smith,' son of Dr. Eli Sinitl4,llrlita Mitt.*ll 1111 Amer imui lady limn Philadlphit,anjil . ..Miss Wet son an English.lady whe is• teaching the Mis sionaries' children, arrived from Beirut. ' The -. • steamer•on which- they came dolts': to Jaffa took fire on the way during-the night, and they were greatly alarmed, but Providentially but . . slight damage was done and the fire was anon extinguished. Chatles is staying at Bishop Gobat's, and the ladies art with some Ger man people at what is called the Jintpice, What the Hospice :is, I dO not I°.°wg SATURDAY, March 14th, 1 85 7. To-day has been a very pool, raw, cloudy day. The streets are crowded with pile-luny and the mud is quite uneotutortable. 1 On '''''''' ' •-• at the Hotel this monling,,l farad our h- r..4riends' still here' as they have not vet 1 - . M. TiOo get a , dragritaan.for the over land journey 'Went, kis a great cots. .4.1. fort to be sufficiently . la6he w* Ara. bie to _get stung without- a drard T h i s .forenoon I went with Mr. Thom ~,,, syn . ;ere - . ru t s h o p s olive wood articleilih ss A s „ and then to the open square in frdiVii; church of MA)! 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( - ... _ open area before the door of the church is so thickly covered with men seated on the ground displaying their wares that one can lewdly get througlyand it requires but little exercise of the in3apriaiion to think of the. crowd of buyers and sellers in the Temple of ,old. The church itself - was closed; and I several Turkish soldierd stood lounging about the door. At two o'clock we went to Bishop ' Gobat's, where we were Milted to dinner.— We found the Bishop,aa usual, in good 'health ana spirits, and be welcorned us with a truly warm and brotheey , welcome. Mrs. Gubat is, eviaently one of,the excellent of the earth, and her daughters are very lady-like and in= telligent persons. One or two of them have ju%t returned from a' Moravian School in Germany. The Bishop is a tall mat; rather portly ii appearance, and - his short black hair, and ,somewhat full face, give him a decidedly I Gerntan !Sok. Ile is an 'eminently magi; entirely, destitnteptatTeetation, ern 4 O one would ever drear 4 froiri his conversation that he was an English Bislinp,appointed,l4 . !the king of Prussia. He is so theroti4hly. I evangelical that he must bitterly oppoecl• by the High Chord' Party in England, ana inasmuch as he believes in preaching the gos.. pal to nominal,Christiaus in rulestine - as well as to - Jews, he is also.treated with none too much suavity by, the. Jeiv.sh party. in laud, - who believes that all Missionary move inentalu Jerusalem Should have sole refer. wee to the Jews. 1 was greatly reirezted by this visit at the,Bishop's, and I Judi always rejoice to remember him in prayer as a good man laboring earnestly - luta:intelligently in a good; work.. • On leaving the house of. the Bishop, we walked out in a rain,storrn about Mount Zion for half an hour• and then returned to our The mail arived from. Beirut to-day, but, brought no letters' or us. It begins. to scent . like s king' time since I heard front home, but one wItO visits -Jernialent. cannot expect to receive news with any regularity. Mr. Hurter has probably 4xecluded that .we are on our way.back. This - evenin g Mr Veneta; -tins the Prussian clergyman called. Ile is one of %built tnertaborn you love and admire. He remained somitime,corive.raing with Mr. Thomson op the.topog,raphy of ancient Jeru: salem, a sutOct, which fear understand, which requires-.deep study and research, and on which opinions are almost as numerous as the men who have expressed them. It is a cold rainy evening, and our room has been filled with smoke, Its our only fuel consists a. the roots of olive trees, which burn uot "much better than. wet lawddst. ,burn Craw ' Wrd the pastor of the English church has re quested me to preach tOmorrow evening. Which I have consented to do only in- view ut the fact that Mr, Thomson and Aiken both decline.. As w&retire.to rest t he rain is falling in torrents, and the wind blows cold , from the West. , • SADDATR Div, March 15th, 1857. This morning the air was cold and cloudy, but before night the sun shone clear and bright. 'Mr. Thomson preached in the Arabic in the forenoon, and I heard Mr. Crawford preach in the English church. It was .an earnest evangelical sermon. Mr. Tines was not well enough to go out. This evening I prraclied in the Chapel or Lecture roam of the Church, to an attentive congregation.— Mr. Thoinson took part in, the -services.— Quite a number of the congregation seemed to be Germans who understand English. . It was my first sermon on Mt. Zion, and it may be my last.: God grant that the time may come when the multitudts of tieople now living within sight of , the English Evangelical Church, may learn to " trust in the Lord," ,that they may "bet as Mount Zion which cannot be•removed but abideth forever."-- "Tray for the peace of Jerusalem !" lilostorr, Larc h 16th , 1857. It is cloudy and rainy again to-day, and the cold„ raw wind. this morning filled me with apprehensions as I saw Mr. and Mrs. Pruynne setting out fur Jaffa. Mrs. P. went over to Bethlehem on Saturday and was compelled to remain there some time on account of the rain. I must not omit to tell you that Mr. P. insisted - on peying the entire bucksheesh to the guards who went with us to the Dead . Sea and Jericho, and thus by this his second kind act of the same character, he has placed us under great obligations. Our other Amer ican - friends, Messrs. Ca' rruth, Erben, and Twombly 'also set out this morning to go by land to Beirut. _ We walked out again with Mr. Thomson, and went through the Church oldie lloly epulehre, and after I had exam ined everything us carefully as I could, my only conclusion was that neither, the place called Calvary, nor the so-called Sepulchre of Christ are really what they are claimed to be, butte priestly devices for imposing upon the ignorant. - A full description of all - the holy places foOnd within the church itself, would require more time and space than I could possibly afford. There is said-to be between sixty and seventv,all of them veritable, and I doubt not but that there , will be as many more a cen tury hence. The door of the Church is guard ed by Turks, and it is a strange sight to see Moslefis opening and closing the doors of what the nominal christians of this land con sider the most holy place on earth.. The first thing which arrests littmtion:as you en ter, is a fiat slab of marble of -a reddish yel low, color, highly pcilisbed. Around it stand huge a:iudles fifteen , or twenty feet high, and numerous hanging , lamps are burning above it. This is called the " stone of unction," aid it is said that the body of our Lord was laid upon this after it was taken down from the cross, to be anointed for the sepulchre.— Hundreds of poor ignorant people were bilis- lug down and kissing this stone as they clone in; and many would rub their faces over its surface _again and again, as if they expected t o absorb personal I holiness from the stone. If you are not too heart-sick at such heathen ish conduct, we will pass on to the Sepulchre. This is _in a little oblong building in the cen tre of room above which is an im mense dome 150 fest high. This little build ing is of marble, higWy, ornamented with Amodio', gold end isilvar lamps, and .every variety ,or tawdry display. We wok offour shoes at the door, !palmed through a smell room in which isa Moak of marble-called the stone which was rolled away from the:mouth of the sepulchre,"Aind then went through s very low door *a . --tbe small . room which contains what the lernesiders fought for, and what these deluded thousand' Inakittilgrim ages-to see, tim - iie4Oled Holy Se arc:- It is a Marble saroophagus, with, or miutile lid, It is about.nix feet in length, tied the IFERIEI36fa aRgE): tatglcT :-..ACADA:04.',04.4.10,1*.0'.f:;44.0:::**0RTaci7 room lila is so small thatnnly three Or hair can stand in it at the - same time. Amonk is present to sell wax tapers to pilgrims, which they light. and put upon the tomb to burn. The monk 'extinguishes them 'irtien about half burned out'. and keeps the rest,. and when There are ten ; or fifteen, thousand pilgrims, is there are this year, his gain must be ,coneidarable. Forty three lamps burn continuallyabove the tomb. The walla of the room ,arc of a greenish marble knositt'ai -nerd antique. The tomb itself. stand; not under ground in a cave, buts above the keel of the- marble paeeinent of the Churek• and' under the tomb there seems to be it floor -also above the pavement. I regard it as a most transparent deception, ands must say that my feelings were more of indignation than of reverence,as.l gaied upon the tnercx narj, fidlaw_clad in the-attire of a Trieit, re ceiving money over what he beliiived to be the tomb of the Savior .of. Mankind: I be- Here, the evidence unanswerable, that' the site of the present Church 'of the 2 HOlr chee.must have been 'Atkin - the trails el _the ancient city, and as the Gospel assert that the Sepuichre . ,atid_ • place of crucifixion were icidout the walliefleruSalem, the only con-, 1, elusion is that the present- IlolY 'places are' i all an inipitien.. It seems a- wise ordering 1 of Providence that the exact site is unknown Among otherihings.crowded together in the church, tire 'the follsivtl4 ,- ; The. Greek chapel, the. Latin chapel, - the 'chapels of the Ai-inertia:ls, ° Syrians, and Cepts, the tomb - of Nicodetenc.the tomb of Joseph of - Arimathea, the " i pot where Mary watched the crucifixion. afar (4". the spot where Christ appeared to thO Virgin , Mary, .the pillar of ' flagellation,- the • stone :on which . Christ was placed when He . -iva.S pot - into the stocks' (something not Mentioned in the. Gospels,) the stone where the soldiers parted' His lei- nieut, the "chapel of f Fthe.,,/drention . of the true cross,' where theXiepress Helena foetid ' or invented the true cross .' They also show you Mount Calvary, which is in a room at the top of a, flight of eighteen marble steps. They claim that the room is all cut out of the solid reek and- that the stair-LeQe • is of one stone, but I proved the contrary by putting my knife blade between the stone sterits They skew you the places where the three crosses stood,- and the rock Which was rent by the earthquake, and in the rear, behind a thin wall ; is the rock upon which Abraham . Laae to seer:lice him. In the room un-: der the rooin assigned to Oslvnry tare monument over the grave' of Adam 1- ,In another spot is what the y claim to be the centre of the world. • . By the time I reached this last place, I. Was so heartily sick and disgusted with the idle superstitions of the place, that I made the best of my way to the door. ,No man ' of enlightened. Christian edueatiOn can regret that heis to, see the C'hurch of the Holy Sep ulchre fur the last time. Greeks and Latins may bow down and worship at a shrine of their own manufiteture, but a true disciple of Christ will shrink from such vain idolatrous rites. - One of the first things - which I observ ed to-day in the church, was an extensive fraeftire in the lamedonie through which the rain was descending to the floor of the Church. I asked the reason of its remaining thus with out repairs during the season of the pilgrim age, and was told that the Greeks wish to repair it, but . the Latins will not.allow them to du it, fearing that it Will give them a strong er hold upon the Church, and the Greeks hsve the 'sante objections to any repairs being made by the Latins, so that it remains m,tonehed. The quarrels of (=reeks, Latins and Armeni ans in this Church are proverbial, and, furnish one of the most; striking proOfs of their cor - - -tuption. Who can Wonder that the-Moslem soldiers destase. Christianity, When it is pre sented to thm in such a garb. . As this is. our last day in Jerusalem, we have been et eeedingly busy. I have walked about, until I can think of nothing which I have not seen. This afternoon the l'rurati2in clergyman, Mr. Vallentina, called.to walkout with us to the North -side of - the city. We all took our umbrellas, and Bro. Aiken put on his India Rabbet dress, and with all our precaution we had to take refuge for n time under a wall, to avoid the violenee - of the Northwest storm. After the shower had passed, we slanted on through the olive orchards to the . Tenibi of the Kings, where Brother A. and I spent some time in . explurin% ,tbuse interesting tombs under ground. We had eandles t and we were greatly astonished at the extent ant.' excellent-state of preservation' of these sub- terranean excavations. 'These tombs are called the Tombs of the Kings, though they were probably those of " 'Helena Queen of Adiabeneend her children." 'On our return from this- spot, Mr. V. gave us -a mime full account of his views of the topography of An cient Jerusalem. He makes the area of the old City much larger than Dr. Robinson; and as he is a very careful observer, a faithful student, and a man of honest, christidn con scientiousness, his views are worthy of great consideration. I doubt whether the topo graphical question here will ever be settled; We returned through the Damascus gate just before sunset, and- wound our way .home through the slippery, muddy, streets: This evening, Dr. 11.1cGiliWaticall(43,and he regards Mr: Jones as too feeble to go with us to He bron to-morrow, so he will remain and per haps meet us in Jaffa. I have been packing up a' box of stones collected on the journey from Sidon, to Jerusalem, as well es a quan tity articles. from this vicinity, and,. I shall send them direeity across tole& to-mormvr. I have omitted to speak of the Pool of Silo- , am and various other places, but my journal is already becoming so large that' it few omissions will be a merit pad not a fault.: ' I will send you a flask ofwater from the Pool of Siloam (which is now oee4owing) endip . so sr,iter troth the Sca . Of Ti ids, the River JOrdan and.the Dead Sea. Iji,otithe least in teresting- object in my bot.fof. stones, is a fragment of the original rock of 34. - Moriah, on 'which Stood the Temple of Soloinon: . . . • Tursnsy. Marek.l7 l / 7 , 1857. • The wind blew cold rind raw front the North West as we left Jaffa Gate this morn ing, at Of o'clock, and bade farewell to lent-1 astern. We took the *a . road to Betide- ' hem, but did . not pass" through the town,: as our road turned down the vallerto the South of &okra tomb; leaving 'Bethlehem on our left to the East. At twelve o'clock weretieb• ed the Pools of Solomon, froin•which tbelrq ueduct runs around the East aide of Bethle ' hen' to the: city of J Out, 'elem. - I was ''utter, itatnitfed at the'timoitinte Mid magnificence 1!.of these vast Pools. The'y rise 4:A041761re the 1 Other r three in number on th e side of a hill MONTRit).S, THIT-RSDAY,,.,,ocToBgRIS;'IBS7-; which slopes down'towards the East. Their lengths are respectively 880,_425, and 582 feet, and their widths 230,-250-and 207, filet. The two upper ones wereuverflowing with water, but the lower one wasuearlY empty. An old castle stands neartbouppeepool and has probably been used fi+e_purposes , of do. fence when an enemy "might try. to- Miter the supply kof water. The depth of thabug est is about fifty feet. , • • From thialtoint we rode on toward He.. brim through in exceedingly bairen sod un interestingcoinitry, and were almost through by the driving wind. We met a company Of Hindoo MAMA -pilgrims, .who . had come on.. foot, either *ll diet way - from India, or from the Red Sem.'; They . were'the most k)rlcim creatures in appearance, that I ever'saw. They seemed vibe wretchedly poor, and had come all , this rong distance Col see the Mosque es Sukhare, which is, next to Mecca, the most holy place of the Moslems. At half past three-we came into the Valloy of .Eschcol;so famous n the place where the Spies found clutters- of grapes go large that it required the strength of two -men 'to :carry one Ott a pole. "'fire was called the valley Eseheol; beenuae , if 'the 4)040 vr grapes which the children of Israel cat down from thence."' The whole Valley is - now fill ed'rrith'vineyards, and many of-tbe vines are so old 'and large that, they 'resemble abort, ; thick tem., with a vine thrown over the top. At this season the leisvestavenot yet begun to - smear.' From this valley we rode auto. ward Ilebron for a half hour over's paved road betWeett the vineynnla,occesionally rid- ing a.stream of water where the pavement was broken. We-• reached Hebion lit • four-' o'clock. Our baggage' animals were a fell half bout behind, and we Waited for them in the street with a crowd gazing at n:,• while Mr. Thismion went to look for a town, kw the night,'as it was qiiite;too cold to spendl the night' in; our tent. Just as' the baggage arrived, we killed a meat In the home ef Jew, named Naser, who seemed 'accustomed to entertain travelers. I There is ; not a nom inal Christian in the town, the'population consisting of about,o2oo Moslems, and 630 Jews. After . - arranging' ; otir "room for ,the night. we took a guide, and walked aboutthe town: The great object &interest tit Hebron, is the (treat Mosque or Hamm, under which is the cave of Mailpetalt, where Abrahans, lease, and Jacob list buried. Such is thhhig-'I otry of the Moslems bore, that no one but a Moslem is permitusi to enter the Mosque, and none but the pnvato , :+..... lv e a, are per. twitted to descend to the tombit. This is said to be one of the feW.UenUisie historic localities in Palestine, and tor this reason we were the more anxious to visit it, but it was . impossi ble.. We only were able to. rook in at the door, which was by no perms satisfactory. In passing through the street we saw raisins ; made from the. grapes of Escheol, and Our- chased a few. pounds for our friends at home. We next visited die glass Works, and I was quite astonished to: witness the skill of the workmen. The, materials froin which the glass is made,are found in this vicinity, and the chief articles of manufacture are glass bracelets, glass finger rings and little candle sticks. These articles are taken to Jerusa lem and sold to pilgrims. The pilgrims take them to a priest who blesses them, and then ,the deluded creatures carry them home to weariCatarms. Near the Southern extrem ity of the town, we saw. the 4 .Large pool, 135 feet square, over which David hung up the assassins of Ishbosheth the sou of Saul,as stat ed in 2 Samuel, iv, 12. In one of the , streets We SAW a flock of sheep, which the Steep ' herd' said were from Southern Arabia. They were certainly the most beautiful sheep I ;ever saw, and I would delight to take one to lAmerica with me, but that is quite impotisible.. They were as black as jet, and the wool was of medium fineness and very glossy, and to make the deep black more striking by contrast, their heads and fa ces were as white &Bartow They were • very clean, and seemed to be of a very supe-. tier quality. On our'return to the bouse,we found a Bedouin Sheikh, - or one ofhia family, waiting, to see us. .He wished to take us down to Petra, to see the ancient rock sepal clues. We told him that we had heard that the country was not safe, and that one com pany of travelers had!been attacked there by the Arabs. He said that the difficulty to which we re fe rred occurred ;between Petra and Si nai, but that the road from Hebron to Petra was quite safe and the Sheikh would ensure our safety. But we have no time for the ex cursion, however interesting it may be, and the Bedouin concealed his disappointment by a flood of complinienti and good wishes, wben we told him that. _We could not go.— Soleytnan cooked our supper for us in a lit tle nook adjoiting'our room, and we retired early, inrly, as the cold drivina d had made us all unusually weary.. : Wznar.sosr, March 18th. Hebron is one of the oldest and most in teresting spots mentioned in the Bible.— Here lived Abraham; Isaac, and Jacob. Here God gave them the promises and sealed to them the covenant. !The spies that went up to search out the land, came to Hebron; then inhabited by the gigantic ions of Anak. (Num. 13.) it was destroyed by Joshua, and Or-. en to Caleb as a irewiud fur his fidelity. It was one of the cities 'of refuge, and a Leviti cal ;city of the sons of Aaron. David' was here anointed King.over Israel, and here he reigned seven years end six months:. Abner Was here assassinated byJoab, and Absalom made it his hesdlumters -in his rebellion against his father.. • _ The: building over the graveof the patri arehi; was originally called the Castle of Abtaltatn.' The' name of Abraham . among the'licalems is." sAalil," or" the Fried" (of God) and the only name by which the city is known at the preseuteday by those speaking the Arabic language, is " is Khalil." We were told this morning that It Is theca& torn Of the . Jews cf Hebron to go every Fri 'thy to -the old will on the 130uthwest side of the Mosque of Machpelah, and Weep , there for the departed glory of their nation, pet ss the Jews weep_st , the old witinn Jerusalem The boasel In Hebron hive the same low, flat roofs surmounted by. little 'domes, which I Mentioned. as peculiar eri Jerusalem. On the . West of the city le's large walled enclosure which is used as Oplarintine in times of the prevalence of the i lplagoe or other epidemic diseases. The countryr, is now very healthy, and there is fintintately no need of a quanta. tine. We left Hebron this morning at si o'clock for.Eteutberopolis. 'Our first plin was to 'visit - . Beersheba, -Gaza,' Ashdod and Askettiti but the; itice, the oxiritt i r and 94r =1 limited time compelled unto alter oor plou and takea Nortltelestt crease &Oen HeWou. to Ramleb passing thteught Date Jibrin •or Eleutberopolis. _As none of WI knew the road,- we took a Raids named lonsicen, a strong, healthy. looking Moskin,. who tarried sst $ : big bad neither gun.iu* pistols.,, We integral from his.willingness to go. anarnted,tbs4.ll4e country =wit be ink is• ilwAY* l 4 l proof akti. Stfltp of ",things„ it is difficult to procure guides, it is not gen, orally safe to go ,irithout a guard in addition. In a : half bqur after. leaving Mahn" wa eaten to Abrahtun's oak,. a faittouirold tree, which the people say has stood bare .since the dap; of 3.l:prahaut„ Mee_ no otasen „why it :rip.y, not be true.„. If tbacadars-.44 were ... , . . . . . . standing In ,the day* of ,Solomon, as there ii good, reakon . to , billeie, Oda` )inTensii 'Oak. niay, , Zito have beeti standing in the days of Abraham, _The eircumferFuce'or tbo „tree a . Ilia above the grouwit nine inches., The distance semis fr9m 'the • • outside of the bmilehei- on ; inle ty th 4. ,ii outside branch opposite" :ninet-three feet p-m Theind underneath ' the tree is level and covered with a benutifnl_ green turf, and 'in this region,'where Areci sic . so' scarce, not wonder that the peoples regard thii mlg nifleent oak , with feelings bordering on rever ence. A few years• ago a large limb 6f 'the , tree was blown down in aterrific , stornyind several persona in Jerusalem bought , the wood. I obtained . some small - , blueks of it when I was- there, and tO•day' I •pieked Op soine-cff the - .acorns and broken twigs . which ley on the grontui. *We. , ienudned nearly half an hour uuder..the tree, and thin set out again on out -journey:. -The: *hole , toiletry for About two miles distance from •llebron, covered with fine vineyards, but beyond.. this we MOW into the same drearYtultintereaking region through which-w ott aveled yeaterday. Hebron stands on very highgro.und,suld,ltir, Tivmsort's Aneroid barometer, kiltitik utsle,l it higher than Jerusalem:. % It is Certainly a very cool place at this season of the year.-- We , ascended about three gtiarters - Of an hour in a Nortli.Weisterly direction r and. then com menced a very. pleasant and - gradual deKout toward theWest, - ,Which.eentinued 'Until we reached Beit,librin or:Eliiitheropolis at 24- p. in.' 'We -passed thrOugh several beautiful valleys where the . farmeri - were 'Proughing 'their fields for the corn .erop: . .Therre; are no fences in this, part of the country, and the , fields are divided by stone nillara Which are, the "ancient landmark's." In one valley we snw twelve fanners ploughing with.. oxen, and tutu- with carnal,. _The ox e n have yokes of a very rude and uncomfortable ! eharaeter, the bows being of rope or rough witbes of oak. The plmighman holdis . tfie handle of the ploW . in one hand, -while with the.other he holds nal lung staff br pule With it.iherii iron point at one e.ua;ind a piece Of ,ir . ou.like a chisel 4 „ the other, This is the cix-goad, and OW Mel/ are constantly plying it to urge the cattle for ward. One of the oxen bad fallen down and front his conduct seemed lie a very, mall cion's animal, fur he. was constantly kicking and floundering without any apparent ruvon. The : ploughman stoOd behind him, thrusting the sharp point into his halinches until he found that it was hard to kick against the pricks," when be sprang up and went on with his work. In a few minutes we saw that be had tallest again., The Arab plough is a very frail, ifight instilment, and would never suc ceed in our country. The ground, here is very light, and the furrois are so •shallOw that it seems more like - watching the sung" than genuine ploughing.. 'Yet I must give credit .to these farmers' of ancient - Philistis, for running as straight furrows as I ever saw at an American plowing Muds; I could not help exclaiming with.admiration as we rude by the fields, to see how "well the furrows were turned, and how uniformly excellent. was the,..work in all of the fields. Some one has said‘hat an Arab emote; put more than two things in a straight . line, but whoever made that remark had not seen the work of these ploughmen of Philistia. The most gro tesquesight of the day was the new spectacle of a aunt! ploughing. The camel is sufficient ly:awkward when in his legitimate business of bearing burdens and marching With slow pace in the long winding caravan; But im agine one of these unwieldy creatures' in har ness, a rope collar and traces, and a . small cor fur the reins,Slrawing a plough through this sett, yielding soil, swinging his long un manageable neck to the one side and the oth er, while theploughrrian pulls at the string, like a boy trying to 'guide a locomotive' by pulling on the bell-rope. The wonder is not bow he can plough so much, but how he can plow so little; and yet run so straight a fur row. We saw but two teams of this kind, but in a field beyond where there were sot enteen ploughmen working 'side by side,: wet saw' an - ox and a .donkey yoked together.— The whole country about Eleutheropolis is clad . in smiling green, .and under proper treatment would he the Paradise of Syria. THXZBDAY., Mitch ithh. We rode over the Magnificent plain of Ga za, and the plain of Sharon, in the midst of a vast flower-garden miles. in extent. Tulips, roses, Mignonette, petuniss,.&e. &c.,. in end 7 less prOfusion; - i We spent the night h Ich.i . . FRIDAY, MIMI 20th. Bode to Lydda and Jaffa and embarked on_the steamer .fin seicnt. - Tux Suelati.—The number - ot Shaker So. cieticszow In this country is eight*, locat ed in seven diffet ant States. There are none in any foreign country. The denomination was founded through the instrumentality of a female, Ann Lee, who was born in 11W-- She we* as she Ulleved, Into the spirit-world, and received communications from Christ. and Mose, from when , she re ceived instruction.* -regard to the thoprin cipleC °file dispensations whith they uelter• ed in. The. Shakers hold that there him been four dispensations of God to man—the first beginning with Adam.and extending to Abu*: bar ; the second extending from .Abrabain to - Jcsus ; the third from Jesus to,Anu Lee; amithe fourth from Ann Lee onward. The 'first society was established in 1788, new Al- • igr Coleman, tlie:dthunaOst,. W4O 'asked if be knew Theodore Hook. ;"Ares," replied . the-:atit,',llook and are old associates." • • : t ay Boys" said a eoloredt diselosmg s small -*Afar which eli& cat ied Went Broidsiay , under bis cduak,:4 7 l.Boys, 4nn't funeral," '• . • • IC H. FRAZIER,' PUBIAISKER - VOX , - 8.1 gt 494 • .11 'I •7,El '3 - r{, T.ziiiib • • • -•:: • ••,- r 13111:11 VROIIIEVIZIMPOIL'a rig Dias; Mt Lebanon,' / .. Y.' • . July 31, 1857. .!.: I ..-- 1 . M.x.,Dasa t rittiters t--- 7 We promised a long tithe Sign - Ili give yolk's joitinaroNnr ;rota° Acne; =lint: yarionCeirentraitepreli vatted thefulfillment . nf the-promise.;. -Slope. *tiny . left, wi, l!basejted.mnish , more,to„do than usual; •Lesides we alWaye.have to spend a great deal .o . P tirneA in making preparations to come totbe mountains. .41111 one woolen &Mies - which *we le.ave, rues be iietticed frMrt . the . ravagesfitie ;'otthe moths, .Sitien 'itlideL sirablir to teive a 'family - in the tiOttsb during: our absence, it is sary- to vacateentirely, two or three rooms. There is -a great deal 'of - labor involved-in thisanutad migiatidn").o .themountaitia, but we are :grateful , that' we _have act Seeessiblw andeOriveatent a plai.,,Ni„efd . :refuge from the oppressive summer hea- But tO coffin:tend& my Promieci - jiiiirnal.-' It was a beantjtal morning in the latter . part'ef April, viten, having 'got our baggage, ,proviiv. shins, and animals ready, - we passed 'out ,, of. the northern gate of the, city, and suon.enter 7 , ed upon. the exeMisive plain whie.h stretches faraway ; into -the: interior_. Our. company consisted of lif.. and : Mrs. ,Wilson,: their, 14; 7 . tie girl, an Arab bay, Mr. 'l...yons. and' my-, Self,' Mary and Menny, 'and . three inflieteers' - Werwere mranited' on , varibus deseriptionsiof submits, 'horses; donkeys; nixl mules, and With our-train : pi' baggage aninielain ,ille,..reer, we. Isouldno doubt . have presents .d to a stranger a semiewhat never, not to,say . formidable ep pearatiee':- After riding' saitiii flairAninrs,' , *0 dismounted , in order to' partake: of a little lrefreshinent, About the middle ofthe after , norm wearrived.atthefonntain of;Sheikk. Ai,. ash,mi named tram atoted, Arab chief who was, buried ho'e, and'whise tamb; a large oblong ,Structure; surmounted by a dome; standi . iir a conspicuous 'place ' by' the roadside. , Not' far front , the: tomb are the ruins of an old khan, or4rab lodging ; place, standing owther edge, of afireen grassy field. Here "we de. terminedAo pitch,our tent for the night. ~ Mr.. L. stood the journey better than we had feared, having beenrl-raised -so recently froM a sick lied: - : ,Miss indeed all , bore ' the-, journey witlicompaiatiVely` little fatigue, for we bad been travelaig , rdl - : day over a level plain_, and in comparison With journeying:up on the Mountains, we found it .attended with little wearinessor danger. Having Partaken of our-simple repast of cold meat and bailed rice, and made arrangements far the nigh; and it,being not yet late in the afternoon, we strolled (lea little distance from the tent, to cull the wild flowers Which grew in thick pro fusion • all around us. PreStsuly directing. our steps-tii the fountain where the waters_ gush out friiin'beneath a ledo of- higkroeks, we dikoveiedjust- beiond. -a 'series Of an.: went arches-:ivergroWn wiih Liniss end -,ttrulx bery, and on farther examination fatindwhiit appeared to have been an - ancient temple, of peculiar design. Its foundation- was of a sin . .... gular shape, being in the form-of. Wheagon, and the arches were .probahlV` the -remains of an aqueduct extending toward the river Whieh flows beyond. ' Returning to the tent we Were much chagrined-to find a - company Of strolling Arabs, who - had takei up their quer-. ters fur the nigh; in the tomb or the old Sheikh. We had promisedourselves a *ee- . ful night, but the appearance' of these Araba give indications of anything rather than'quie tude and repose.. They bad brought'with cm various rude musical instruments; L such kettle-drums; tamborines, Sze., and had,. come, as we 'ascertained, tO celebrate' the nuptials. of one*of the chief Men Of their elan. We were afraid they might prove unpleasant neighbors,'and might perhaps be disposed to enter our tent by night. But they occasion= ed us no other ( trouble than keeping us:awake' till midnight by their incessant - and eliimot* 'ous music and dancing. '1 heir peculiar dance which was performed around a blazing fire, reminded us of accounts of Indian war dances which we read in our childhood. - . * . - TillitSDAY 29.—Resiumed our journey an hour or two after sunrise --this morning.--, Various novelties tended to beguile , the tedi, um of the way. Now _and then we met -a lung train of 'camels, bearing heavy loads .of wheat, barley, - and other produce. In one place we saw a flockOf . vultures flyhig.about and frequently alighting; evidently - in. quest of prey. We gathered some 9f -their-quills which had fallen by. the roadside, which.were - nearly two feet -in length. We saw alSei a drove of wild buffaloes. The ; people in this region eat the flesh of these animals,.andtheir r milk is considered by them a valuable article oldie; A - part of our day's journey lay -over an ettended -Gable-land;. thinly over grown with a species of low , Oak, iiiiihv be neath the trees, and oil every side, the - ground was literally. covered with varjous wild .flow-: era, forming!' vast carpet of green, yellow, rind reti,extending far as the eye could - reach. At noon We-sat down under the inviting shade of a large tree, where' we enjoyed i en'agieea-• ble respite from, the burning Intai-of ;the sen, for though early in . the! season, the sun is very . powerful. - From this place we proceed. ed some three hours farther, aid having erbssi ed a large stone liridge; . 'ind ascended Whin; we reached the little - village of Neese, where we tmeamped. for.-..the -night. Throngs of. women and children gathered around us while -we were 'effigagedin pitching our tent, till anxious htitriatify-their - ettrkity in gazing upon the Frank travelers - and- ii , was only-by repeated conttnand• -sad ..threats that. Mr. AV ili!,,tiOndi•orenzotre.re able to.keep them * a respectful 'distante. :. _ We enjoyed . sp, pe.tcful night's repose, and the' elt inoniing. at - 6 o'clock, having taken W hasty . hreakfietti , we were once more On . Our , ..wiy. ' The . -. lust day of out-aide led - 'us moss a dreary plain; with notrtvii, no .yillagesino cultivated. fields to relieye-the eve, and with nothing save here and there the liliekletiiis - of - the Bedouin Ar.. itbe,Orit laiy herd of 'wild 'buffaloes, to break the deli monotony - . Of •tbo . landsotpe;- : This plain hid t once,been under caltivation,.kint.ai the poor peasants found „no protection front the government, and the - wandering Arabs Were likely at any time. to come -upon them, and Welt away ,tbehk eattlei, :owl react their harirests, — therabandotied thoeuit,in'ileapair! and beiook - themselves to the'oafer: abodes'. - furnished by thi.:eitiist or the ivillageafon•the. mountaine: ! Within lawbouri of ••flotris: . efe , crosseit thitivii Oreintegyisofanledin diaiti . me lose, - tuni - immediately entered upon the.ivide -Indbeetitifut avenue . on - either , sideior which, - both up ; anddniti' the , givers wieri , teautiful gardens; idled. - Avlttr warioas Aregatibles; and .thee., aniung:the2letteedweltialced.theandl - k' ' ; berry, applei arrienveindelmond , F,Urftluwn -;:e =id MI ~J ; ;1: ; 1:: , , . A . ~..... , hours put, the city With its ancient fortr ,, es s ,: derail's', and minarets -had .becm idis • y , iri;viuw, ancient-threerin the afternoon. we e!tered its semetherhgate. On appipech , ing the city, theitfuet thiauthat ittrulef the attenii Le of a stranger i s iut ieuneese anific- Mi. in rid, the histor3r. of.. which isi marl: well. ' settle dated. .It:hrvery eitteesiimUllY d • 1 40% . . fsrell;( l 4lralsa• eld is. telsouLtO an eleiriition evinere annum Jiinidred hi* On intetingithe.eity,_the.eniesmnee; of the streets is gfixicsy, and uninviting,for the Wild. lags are very loW, l pnly one story high,wah • saintly an wincitows And the, streets *re - rendered still more dream by -.the' fael,:that , , the extereaLiwallssreplestered with si..lthick_ . , met: of mud. - which at first-sight leads the strangerto believe thatater whole city. lerbuilt • of that eiaterial.i.- Altar winding through ta- '. • I riUss streets, : we irieached finally,the boast, ii k t, Mr. Wilson._ We found "it in disorder i ss the: envier `was. Making scale rEpairsl'lutwe set imMediately to work and - 'soon :had-Asec,or three mains ready -,for coacupancy.:::Stds- is . the-house which Mr. Aiken. occupied, while in - Homs, and one of the first object. , That at: exacted ourtittentioe was thekmely gran, o f, our dear isister-Aiken. . itisEie-litesinte lot'' . court Of the,bitilding, 'beneath - 04 :shade ' of ar 7 an overhanging grape vine. Th ree& carelessness •of the workmen , some atom* . rubbish: had facts ;vomit, ;ad gave it e:neg ~ lected . appearance ...- 1, turned.-,away .-:. If ith - iaddened heart, but then 1.. thought it is;on y.--,. her.duk that rests here -Her glorified:. rib-, is.'With the saints and angels in her I,' borne: .-._Her slay. with.us was, brief, t-long enunih fiat us to discover hr her those: qualities,' and that devotedness to. her Mei ter's cause; which:endeared-her to us all. We occupied during our -.visit as_Mr. Wilson's, the room in which she died,, and were thus_ daily and alMost hourly reminded- ul. her. How .mad tattle:di:that she should chine here so soon to die, and be buried so far sway' from all her-friends.- But- God's ways . are not our way% and,: we must _not presume to -judge his: mysterious providence% . What seems dark to us now, we shall doubtless un derstand better hereafter.. _ • • - MAT s.—Called.upon some of the Momy people with Mrs: Wilson. - She remarked as we, were walking along 'the streets, "How strange it is nut to be-stoned.' She'teen in- - formed . me that ,when she and Mr: first came to Horns; it was no uncommon oc- • - nurrenee as they passed though the streets to be saluted with stones by - the' Moslem boys. On one occasion Dir. W. having par [ rawly escaped from a shows' of stones from ~s crowd of rud n loys,. pursued them with up lifted cane for / several rods, at which they became thoroughly frightened. He also corn pinined to' the , gOlemment. Since then he and Mrs: W. bevel been , permitted. to walk the streets unmolested. The people at H. 'have three 'market days during the week.— On these days-large numbers of people come from the sulunding villages, bringing va riot's - articles f traffic. We :sent into the market on the occasion of one of these great gatherings. Crowds of men,. women and children flocked around us to see the Franks. Among them were a great many Bedouin Arabs; "See your sisters," : said Mr. W., turning to me, as I was watching theswarthy - worrier' of the desert, while they disposed of their merchandise, or sought to satisfy their curiosity in inspecting the rr .nk strangers. Truly thought 1, they are our sisters, and how sad'to see their degradation, and ' feel that r the y are going down to eternal death. While in Horns, we visited the fortification which I have Mentioned. It is of vast dimensions, occupying an area Of several hundred feet square,-and is built in the form of a frusturiz • of a pyramid, the summit being perhap,•one half the size of -the base. We 'ascended its, steep.heighti by means- of a narrow zigzag path that had been worn or rather dugthrough - the solid exterior masonry of the. structure.: Arriving at the - top we found Tying bere-and there many fragments of pillars, gateways,. and - arches, all giving evidence of the former magnificence and strength of the fortress.-- Some ancient columns and arches are still standing. Taking our position, near one .or these.gsteways, we looked. _down upon the city, and. upon the great plain spread out for nuiny miles around us. On . the North, and . West about-thirty .or forty miles distant, we . noticed the mountains of the . Ansyreye, - not so high, nor so rough' as Lebanon, but they undulating from the - point where they seem - to commence on the - plain and risire , higher as they, extend in an almost uubrolt r en chain to the sea. - :.Ott the South, the termini of the_ two parallel ranges of Lebanon, and Anti- Lebanon, are seen in the di;tance like two knolls rising above' the plain, their tops cue; erect with snow; while below tham lies the great valley opening into the Buka, or Cools Syria. This valley is-known in Scripture-as tbe entering in of Bernath," and was the - great thoroughfare through which passed the caravans of the nations of antiquity,-as.they journeyed from tbe regions of Arabia - lucid Southern Syria, 'to. the great cities of Horn's; . Hantath; Aleppo; and Palmy ra on the North. On the East,lts far as the eye could reach, is one. ezteridekboimdless plain, and its - dull monotony': interrutited .only. oueor two solitary villages,wid-here and there a conical mound marking the', places where stood. an cient towns and 'cities whose • name and his tory are now alike unknown. Tnis plain -is new. only traversed by heal*, wandering . Beddhins.. • Pardawayoon this plain, three day's jOunieY towards-the river Euphrates, lies the. ancient city of: Palmyra. - -Itis.called Tadmor inglderipture, cod. was built by Solo mon as: we learn from 2 Citron: viii. 4, '''And he built Tadmor •in .the: wilderneskand .M 1 the' store Aides which he built - in Bernath." -Palmyra, is seldom visited; pow,. as the attended with .:a great deal of-danger and expense; .our- feat lay the ' - eity _ Hums; as . Immense group of mud and stone housei, mosque and minasets.• - Onritte side and without the city wall,is thee tomb- of Kbalia, one of Malwannted's generals. ; It -is large and imposingodifice, suirriounted: a clonse s and inclosed Within a high wall. In another plow, - Mr.-W. pointed to:us. a. striate( Windings' erected by_lbrahim Pasha, florae years agoi ais•barracks toldiers, whieltara tune in ruins, haViegbeen-dratroy.- ad -by =ties people inofitofiedigiatkni ageing [-the goviniment. Thribeautlfut gardens arid the river Oronteewlndifigitaisaftowardthe Northward, - ;coraplete the landscape. De: ac ndin e g ~i%e'lriQinnd lira pest Idly ihro' 'theratikettiainktiazatiii - Weairfrad - sit'Mr:W's tiAlklififiiiillo'PekitiltiViin estlftlinner. ""I.44lteronciedfcei;nrourit-1 - d r Vifk ENZIE ~' 4 f ~,, s: r: ;: ~. MEE 0
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