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•1 1 Fur stood ancient well,
c-:' • • Vito. some eaeltanted water sprite, .
The rr.. - y sunsei round her kit, •
1' lashing her Form with glowing light. •
No rUstic was she, though she dipped •
tier bucket in-the fountain deep, .
Linghing to see:how..silvery dripped •
•Th,, water, from the bending sweep.
If eveiinge) troubled p6o •
Vac , old legends love to Av—
_tnan.D..lsstitr.V-the waters cool •
• lVithin that well at close oftlay.
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The suaset's gZIIII was not more bright
_ Than the rich tresses:of her hair,. .
.•
Sa4Twhere they, rounded to the light,
While nestling on her shoulders fair. •
Eyes laughing, and -yet full of pride,
• • And fuller Still of lore and hope.; _
And cheeks as delicately byed
• Ai dowers which in the mooligltope. •
The lips halt partcd,;and yet mute, ..
The dazzling, slender form, •
L;ghtperchetfupon one slender fclot--• .
All bathed in rosy radiance warm!
..ts if to greet her own bright eyes,
'She bent; abore'tbe inossy etirb, •
I longed, yet fe'ared, by ,some surprise,
`Tile beauteous „vision to disturb.
•
n wilt give a thirsty traveler dripk
tvith a blush divine ;
IVilich blinded me, th;it I did think .
risrAsllebe standing on the b4nl:
Of lielicop,iuml dipping wine
Ingeblbts that like golddid shine.-
loURALL OF RIM H. a J'ESSITP.
nurtna, S s yria, June 9th, 1854.._
I . c.7rNrrAv We sent about - one lymdred
it kllers home. To,-day Mr. Lyons
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on a little. Nigr to, some of the villages.
wet,t Kith hini, and much to our , sur.
v i se, so did Salefi, our 'Moslem 'friend'. it
rotr-blv the first time that a. Moslem has
;1 •- , :onwatiled a missionary on tf. preachFrig'
The7y visited 'the Convent of Belmotide,
three lours.south of Tripoli; and,Sa
tr.tniß:!les.f" in the discussion with the Greek
rebuking them for their picture w0r
.14 and ruin drinking. This Salelt is tun in
tt.7e,ting man, of a gefiereats dispogition and
Ls yeti- warm friend of ours, declaring every,-
'uliere in the city that the Protestant religion
its to only true relig,ion. besides, Islamism,
even may be right and the religion of
in the wrung: c..has Walked out with
ne to the gardens to-day to, &joy the his
-o,•sl?•ii..ots,wltich are now . fully ripe,—
was with us, and told, us that the ma.
s.:• why the'paghdad Moslem -Yusef did not
Y,ta.tht;French steamer was that the French
Go:1;1, Mr. "Blanche, refused to give the
e. etks a passport for him telling them that
was a Protestant, and he .was not go
to make the . Anierican Consul his :enemy
tending away by force an avowed Prot
?t:tta. At sundown Lorenzo returned, lutv
t%:,..l:i,lyed the. day's ride,. and Sakti seemed
have enjoyedas much as tinny of them.-
cus iv; une MO ing ; while
1 w:v.stud . ing, Saleh came in and spent two
in - discussion with Mr. Lyons. Ile
,::ends his O - W ti religi on 01.,3
)f-t s:oetvls Willing•t& hear abut Christianity,
tllzt tt,o with -candor and attention, lie is
tl-ariess, and ears what; he thinks iii
'and at all times. Some of the
begin to fear that he is 'gi)itig to
ize,•but he tells them that that is none
their business.
r...fturnpfit), I called on Abu Belim,and
.r!lei lbw.. the school is prospeliiig. This
t-,,t;i1:12,' Limns the •plaNt.tr . : lr and Giurgius
hare been -in to taiji about
.:nmeacala work on the church on .Ikronda - ,-
;
We are all well as uf.ual. \V. have rib
rain in fhese dayt, and do; not expect any
until next October -
EizinAr, June 11.—Clear, North windA
7..ther'warrn. The Nortli'.wind here is
enervating, while the'Weq winds are
:wd &hateful. This morning Sheikh
Abu Il:irnid. the, Metwaleh from Kefr
vi!loge near llama. raped io...see ,He
man who ti-lt ao badly last Summer - at.
:!:e3i.s, of his wife, because • she "cost him
thousand piasters.' - lle is also the man
+%hoth I Sent the garden sand.,
co -the
_mountain. He .ts-a - most invete.,
ratehe ,,, rar: Ido not think' that he -ever
Fair l k;tiusveitiaout wishing to biirrow mon
laid he ha ...4 never obtained any vet. This.
he wished about •ee dollars to
iLt‘..! sword "reraired, Now
irmadji, it is only a little, 'find I, have no
as ntr. silk crop has 4tiled, inid I love
Aus Much." :As he is'never known- to
the truth to excess, we did not-teliMie
1,1(t. 'advised him to . 'srflf -hia - •i:swlifd and
a peaceable'inati. At first. he asked.
Tr trVijity-fie pagers and tlicrie'atne down.
to ten, which we wouldnut 4ive. him. Tie
left 'us, beWing triest'obs:equieuslv, and'
:I:2C:iiritiz, that lie love . O.ts intife than Ire' co'd`
' s 'aiAl that' lie:hoped rte would still
0;; . -riArllini, in the circle of Cur friends. Ile
trai_of ilietudd characters whotit we Meoit
in our Syrian life. .
W e have beet' . trying to get a 'little piece
r.f ltttail of one of the property owners, ne.i!t.
ta Oar church building s in order : to have a
far an - entrance and room to put up a'
• 1,, 11. ds eis, we ha've the door on 'the
. .b:reo, and are to:l:ace -two, -doers inside •
icillnecesSittite a partition,- and th u s
trihii u p mUchiCif • our room. fro-day .I went
ti; Yanurs to confer-With a Moslem Moelab,
Aht 11 . -i;san, about bUying from him .
a little strip of laud about ten feet front . and
-tire arty feet deep, lying -next • to • our church; -
n n the sobilt side.: I expected to get it' tos j
forty. dollars. then, was my:j
uHazentent when . he charged• three hundred 1
diil . l4rs ttir it just us it is,:wheress ouriehurchi
eitwets six times as much spade next `to it, I
4:la vie paid only tie - o. hundred and nighty .
for it; building: and . I told' the
luau that I would have no -more - to .say to
L au shout the land; tor, even supposing that
he would corue'down one half, as is 'usual. An
, the East, it would then . be three times as
smelt ae . we think right. The man then went
on t o f.:ty that .the tw o walls :of our - church.
irii.iitiMz.his land both belonged' to him, and
bloilild.forbid . ps• from 'opening - _windows',
to . -rar . his 'property. I told Mid that the '
ti . alls of our lauise . F.ilonged to us; . An . . the
the stond masons . and builders;
\ve -should make as inany Windows as we
without referring to him, for we- 19%'e
the light iind not 'darkness. The. old man
tried to intimidate f us' by -saying . that' he
should stop up the Windows; - hut- we . told
Lim to be careful how he interfered with
-American prOpertv4 There has -been itt great
stir, iii the city to4t - ii. - . The IdiAern. 'Effect;
- 4is are netOriousty. the most conceited and
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ittnoltot clast of men - in the city . . "they lose
no oppOrtunity to oppress the poor, and. int
. pot•e upon - those who have no means of re
! dress.. This morning a dozen Moslem foul
:•eteers'froin one of the villages south of Trip.
'Oli ' brought into the city twelve mule loads
Of lime for a Greek. nathed Mattel Tromb,
who is . 'tinder American protection. The
Moslefft Mulls have a custom of seizing
all of tile-lithe whin comes into the city and
then selling it out at their own price. It is
a most iniquitous business, but the govern- '
meat is so despicable that in most cases there
is tie redress. So this morning the Mos
lems seized the mules, and took the lime to
the house.of a fattioils Effendi named Sandra-
sy, who - is the most iniquitous of them .all.-'
His daughter is engaged to the Governor's
sun,-end he shares the bribes which the Gov
er»or*reeeries, so that he is generally assist
ed by ; tit§ Governor in all his -iniquity. As
awn atYannilleard of the matter, he dis
patelA one of hit Canvasses named. Khaleel
is recover-the lime. The Cawass marched
boldly to . the Effendi's house, and seized the
-mules, ordering the muleteers to go at - once
to th 4 honse of Tromb, in the name of the
American consulate. _ About twenty Etfen.
.dis were standing around, and two of them
seized the Caws's and shook him. The Ca-
wass did nothing an( said nothing, but re-.
turned and told Yanni f who at once deniand
ed an expliriation from the Governor., We i
tell Nanni that there is' little hope of fretting 1
an answer from; such a man, and he he% bet
ter let it go - , but, he says that it will not do
to let the Etfendis go on at this rate, or there
will be more trinible in the future. - A Gov
ernor who
,steals from his own people the
means for bribing his Superior the Pasha, to
keep-him in ofqee., cannot be expected to be
very strictly Conscientious in doing his duty.
This evening we have Arabic prayers as
usual. • -
SATCIIDAY,,JUIIe 194—The affair or wester.
day is making a weat stir among the Etfen
dk:„ The -coinmon people all hate the Effen
dis for their haughtiness and abominable in
iquities, and the Oothmon name given to
them is *Pliariseeyeen, or Pharisees. The
Effendis and the GoVernor to-day sent out
into the village for she man who sold ' the
lime to Tromb, and offered him large bribes
if lie - ;_would take an oath , that he sold the
lime to Sandru - sy, and not to Trotnb. The
man, 'though a Moslem,e would ndt do it, but
,went • intritediately to Yanni's and there testi
fiedin the presence of a great muWttide that ,
he sold it to Tromb alone, and then he told
the crowd what the Governor had offered him.
Did you ewer hear of a more, rotten Govern-
Anent ? There is now war in three or four
places north of Tripoli, but. the imbecile Gov
ernor of Tripoli pay's no attention to it. •
- This:afternoon we gathered plums and
green corn in Yanni's garden.
• Afaxim.v, Jane Ft —Yesterday was an unu
sually warm day.NYanniwent to the Meena
to conduct thi Bible class in the morning, and
_i preached he the lafteenoen on the text.
wnat Is war. to 'Li:nee, Inn ow tnou „,,„_,, _
Our Metavtaleh
.frtend from Kefr Hilda, left
us.very early in the morning. The .number
of persoirs present was not as large'as usuaj,
owing totheleat and .the fact that many, of
the :people spend hit Sundays in . the gar
dens, in, the fruit season. , In4-he evening we
read one of Dr. John Taulet 's Sermoni which
w•'is - written 800 scars ago. Aladullah Zeidan,
I.
one o f the Protestants here,- is much perse.
i ettled• by the Greeks in these days. They
have taken - his apprentice - at the shoemaker's
trade from-him, And are trying- to prevent
his gettieg a house. . .
This morning (Monday) we were gladden- ,
ed by, the receipt of a package of
_letters
'horn America. We are ;lad to.bear of the
safe,' arrival of our'Maita letters, and that
you have already rejoiced with us in- our:
pleasant.passnge. •• We also rejoice to hear
of the: progress of the - good work among
you, though there are still some names of
loved ones, *bleb are not found-in the list of
those who have begun to live. fur Christ.—
, We do not cease to pray, forithem, however,
•eor fur those whOlfave found the Savior. I
o
have fait believe - that the.; Lord's arm is
.not yet gtened that it cannot save. The
~' day when our letters come from home is al.
' ways*,,layof gratulation and joy, especially
when ',such good 'news arrives as has come ,to.
1, day./.We both send our chriatian salutations.
1 to those who have began.to follow Christ in
I,'earnest. I hope that the young men will go
forward at once in the disetarge of active
,
Christian duties. - ,
Today, has been a busy day. , ` We have
at length secured a boy. to cook for us in Da.
.ma, as- we are to keep-house by - ourselves.--
His rtarne is Elias id Deeb, or, Elias the
Wolf. He iS'from -one of the villages of the
felfalim, and says that he is a dee, only in
name, and not in nature. We ate to pay
hint sixty piasters or two- dollars -"and forty
cents a month. He cannot read or write,but
seems very willing to learn. He is to take
lessons of- Shebecian until we go up -to the
mountains on the 6th of July, and by that
time: we hope that be will have learned t \ o
Wash his hands, and keep:things clean enough
toile tolerable.' I like - itts appearance thus
far. -He is ,very ignorant, and: a bigoted
Greek, but we will give him constant instruct;
tion. -
This morning :work was commenced. in
earneston our church. The carpenters emu
tifen-ced-getting out the boards for window
frames, and the masons -dug holes - through
the wails on one side, and began to remove
the waif on the side . next . the sre t. - Lumber
is very high. We pay twenty
boards three-fourths of an inchin thickne ,
five feet long, and from six to eight. in es
wide, and sixty cents for a joist fifteen feet
long,,and three by seven inches.
,The Work - -
inen , _ move very deliberately. -We are
obliged to furnish them With el the tobacco
they, use while - in bur employ. This is ans.
tom,, Custom. is king. The master ear
.penter has seventy-two cents - a day. The
nu4ier mason has sixty-eight cents a day.—
The carpenters all sit on the floor, and saw
boards by holding them with, the left hand
and the right toes. C. has been greatly di
verted by the novel sight of a •eompany . of
. carpenters sitthie '' on the floor; planing boards
While sitting On them, and 'doing other things
in like manlier.
afternoon; our Protestant friend, Mi-
Giurgius froin Gheriooz, came to visit
us. He conducted the evening prayers in
Arahic.. "lie says that thektamel driver who
was made priest iu Gherzonz, comes to. his
house almost every night fur instruction in
the Gospel. lie ,(Kichniel) 'was givatly . in
. H FRIEEDOTA GQ D Roarmr aaatmalrEmr ampw\momaung
terested in the Revival news from AnteOea,
and said, " Would that hhe: Lord would Visit
us here in the same manncr, for 'surelkt we
need it enough." Andiso we all thinl? and
pray.
TUESDAY, June 15.-4 The church work i 4
going on as'rapidly as We can reasonably ex
wet. I have been to call on Yanni with our
Gherzooz friend. itas received, as yet no
answer from the Governor about the insult
to his Cawass. In thisi land " truth has fallen
M the streets, and equity cannot enter."—
Sheikh Owed; a Ikloslein teacher who Often
comes to -see us; has bOotne greatly offended
with the Governor on )rte s eount of.an insult
offered him by the same Sandrusy, and for
which the Governor would give him no re
dress;;so Sheikh Owadi . has • left the city -in
contempt, and gone aWayifor four days to a
neighboring village. I •
This afternoon, two Of the girls who attend
ed Sada's school, came to stay two hours
-with C., to receive i t stildetien in worsted
work and reading.. evenivj had a
long talk with our Gherztioz friend:.:who in.
tends to unite with the Church in airut, on
the.tirst Sabbath in Jitiv. .
ArEntiEsnxv, June; N.—After sending
several hours as usuali in study this morning,,
I. went over to superintend our
They need constant Watching or they will
spend their titre in j spuiking and talking
with the crowds who,:arei attracted by curios
ity to see what kind o'f a church the Protes
tants are going to make. Saleh, the . Mos
lem friend, spends tnUcli of his time,, , in the
-building, and argues With all who qnne,
sisting that Protestantism is the truelfaith, if
any form of Christianity .be true.' Ile 'is
physically one of theistrongest men in the.
city, and .to-day wlien they were tearing
down the wall next t‘e street, he took the
huge stone slab which was over the door on
his head, and lowered it to the ground. It
will weigh about thicie hundred pounds, be:
ing of compact limestone, seven feet long,
stud about a foot-stiOre. To-night, Saleh is
intending to sleep in the church to keep
watch, as the front Ivan is removed. The
Moslems say, " Whqrs_lecp in a church, and
you a Moslem ?" "11 es," he says, "and to
morrow I may Dray it, and who will bin
der?"
THURSDAY, June
i 7. --West- wind. Mer
cury at 78°. I pe t two hours overseeing
the workmen.
C. studied Arabic], four hours without ces
sation, andl told her that she must not do'it
again, as we cant beer as much here as we
can It hen in Anid irt ieft.
Saleh has been terifying to the trnth to
day in an argument (With the Bishop's Shem
ma4 or deacon front( the Greek Church.
I.saw a boy und4going punishment in the
street tbr abusing his, mother and sister.—
Ills feet were in iroh shackles, and a chain
around his waist Ay:is fastened tp them. A
Man walked behindlhim with a WWII, driving
him through the principal streets ih a e city,
and compellir.g him to kiss the hand of every
Mail, woman, and ei i d , lie called nut the
oat me onm.iiiis,
anc', made the troy kiss them: From what I
could learn of the boy-, I judge, that the pun
.g.hment was none t l pu severe. 7
mamas. June IS.—Cool west wind. Mer
cury 7*.1". After the u,tial study this thorn,
- ins, I prepared fur lthe Bible lesson on Sun
day,. In the afternoon at half past ,four, C.
and I went to the l iMi•ena. She rode Mr.
tyon's White-hoisq, and I intended to ride a '
donkey front tho gate, but the donkeys were
all at thci - other end of the route, so I walked,
by C's side to the'tMeena. We - called on
Abu &Ann, and I left C. there to talk with
the ~ , •otne,l-1, while I went with Abu Selim to
look after
. a box containingi some cooking
utensils which•we Sent fur to Beirut. 7 I -bu t
two or three fine sponges for daily use, as
this is- the seasuti of the • sponge fisheracs,
when immense qutntities of ttierit are gath
-ered. by men wh.,idive fur them in the sea.
We returned-in the cool of the evening, and
I was more fortunate in getting a donkey:
SATURDAY, June 19.—C001, windy dav:—
As *usual, we have had our door washed to
day, to-get rid ()lithe fleas. The box arrived
safely lion, Beiruf. The church work Moves
on in goodstyle, ' l and by
.keeping a constant
watch on the wor r kinen, we get a tolerable
amount of work oat of them.- Yawn's
mother, lin Antottius, has been unwell
to-day, and C. hap been over to doctor her.
She recommended certain remedies, but Ins
tkntonius was very eltildish, and refused to
take them, but at length consented, and this
evening she is better. The whole expenses
of the week in our church, including the wa
ges of four carpenters, three stone cutters,
the price of fiftefti hundred pounds of lime,
and -all the nails; boards, and other materials
used, have amounted to about - eighty dollars,
or two thousand piasters. One of our Prot
estants; Abdpllali Zeidan, has been in troub
le to day. ihro 4mys, a Moslem and a Greek,
were quarreling, when he interfered and
shookohe Mosittn,.boy. ' A Moslem then
came up and etirseAhdullah and his father.
A Walsh lost +IN! of himself and answer
ed cursing with cursflig, so that the Moslem
knocked bins duwn . and kicked • him. Poor
Abdullah caniti to Yanni for • redress, but
Yanni told bitulthat he bad violated the coin
noands of. God loy cursing and being angry,
and he could ncit promise to give ,nim any.
-redress. It is }Try difficult for men in this
land to give up! lying, cursing, and stealing,
and even thosti whti are tr)ing to follow
Christ often 6:0 themselves going far astray,
so that We can (understand the frequent ex
pressions in Paul's epistles with regard to
lying, stealing,l6ze., as applied even to-those
who had received the , gospel. Elias, our
teacher, has W i en in a great discussion hi-day
with the Greek Priests and Bishop.
' •
Moto sr, June 21,—Yeiterday was a very
hot day.- I rode to the Meena to preach in
~e
the morning,s Mr. Lyon had . a headache
and was not mule to go. We had the usual
Bible Class h in the-afternoon. A .- Greek
priest was present in the Meena;and I asked
him if he ever worked on Sunday. He said
no—never, urilesithere,was some money to
--be shade. ' TI is morning, a paper from the
Greek Patri, rch was read in the Greek
Church, thun ering against the Protestants.
Itcommand the people Lever to send their
_ . • . -
children to otir school again", and to have no
more to d.cr viiith us. Many ,of the Greeks
are greatly enraged at such an interference
by the. Patriarch. - The Patriarch saw the
notice of o r .examination in the Arabic
t
newspaper, a d was offended that such pub
liciiy should ;be given to the work of the
Protestants. The fact, too, that we arc go
ing ,on . steait l ly with the building of our
church, excites the anioaoiity of the Priests
AIOrROSE, THURSDAY, ATIGUST 19, 1858.
and the Bishops here, and they are doing all
that they, can to oppose us. But the thun•
dcrs of the •Patriarch came in a •ery good
time for Our school is suspended fur
three months, to allow Sadit to go to Hums;
and we are just going to Dutna, so drat the
people can afford to obey the Pattiarch for a
few months.
Saleh said in the afternoon that the people
we'te beginning to call Lim Protestant, but
he did not fear to be'called anythirg. We
asked him if he kept the Sabbath, he said
no, as he observes Friday, the 'Moslem Sab
bath; " but," said he, " perhaps theldommand
which is binding on iou, will soon become
binding on me also, if the Lard_so wills it."
In the evenirg we had our usual English
service, and I read " Religion in Common
Ole." To-day, I have been studying Arabic
and beginning a sermon on the text, " Art
thou he-that troubleth Israel "f" .
• The work of our church has been going
on. The front wall is finished. It is a thi,i
wall built up under the great grctinsikarek
The upper part belongs to another pityssii-e* , :t
\Ve hare h (loon, two windows, and a little
Ventilator above. When the whole is done
inside, I. will - send you it hill plan of it. The
seats are to be somewhat like those in the lec
ture room'Montrose, tlionah stronger. The.
pulpit will have an arched recess belliwrit,and
two windows above, tinder the gr,iined arch.
TUESDAY. June 22.—One year :I,gri at this
time, I was near Malta on my way .to Amer
ica. To-day we are'all well, true: flit: Lord
is prospering us as much as all can desire.
We only need the outoyuring of GOd's spir
it upon us and this people that -we may be
more flithful.
LETTER FROM REV. H.H. JESSUP
Tuirou, Syria, June 19, ISSS
MY DEAR FATHER :—I write to send yon
a copy of the contract which securci. to us
building which kVe are now tilting up fur a
Church. As I have stated before, it is -about
thirty feet by forty and .plite high. It is in
an eligible situation, and we made a remark
ably good bargain in getting it fur 'twsis hund
red and eighty dollars.
The business transaction by which we se
cured it, is notninally a lease for seventy
years, but in reality an out and out purchase,
as.thirty years possession gives the tight of
ownership in this land. The Mo-lems all
,:ay to us: "You ha;:e made 'agood bargain,
and the property is flip-1y yours," and they
very truly say, " Who will claim it after you
have had it for seventy years r lit the-tenth
article of the Contract, )cm may tie surpris•
ett to read that we utterVignore and disavow
all connection .with the Mohammedan law
although we :areunder a Molnuninedan Gov.
eminent. This is because the contract was
drain up at the Belgian Consulate, and all
parties agreed to let the Moslem law fake
tare of:itself, as in the first place it is utterly
crooked and involved, and secondly, the only
.inic who can lgally seal a contract drawn tip
under Mosiem law, is the city Judge ~r
(11"1./) ) tiu generally denies his 9 wn seal
after a week of ien day c, and ee T itres you to
bring four witnesses to swear that they saw
him sign it. Moslem law 1% °tad be a win d
study kir a " rhiladelphia lawyer, - as the
proverb has it.
The contract Is as follmi`s : I
" Reasons of the ta filing and order - a f its7ines."
" It is this :—At the time of this writing
there were pre-cut at the Vice Consulate of
the Kingkjten of 'Belgium ,(the exalted) in
Tripoli of Syria, all of the sianers of this in-
strument, namely : the Ilowadji Antonio I
Yanni, Vice Consul of America (the exalted)
irt Tripoli. and the Ilowadjis. the Missiona
riesthe Americans Who are, flaind in Tripohl, I
and they, the Missionary Jerre Lorenzo Ly •
otts and the Missionary Henry Harris Jessup,. I
of the first part, aid Saieed Mohammed and
his brother Saiced Ahmed, the sons of Saleed I
Ibrahim Shellaby of 1 It >dam - of Tripoli of 1
- the second part; an of thest in the 4
per
fection of their health and in successful busi- i
ness in respect to the laws of the city, made
an agreement (et the rental' and hiring - of the
place herein described .for the tern' of seven- 1
tx years. And this was done of their full )
pleasure and acceptance and choice, without' )
violence or threats, according to the terms of';
agreement which tallow : viz:-Ist- Saieed'
Mohammed and Saieed Ahmed She!laby .1
above mentioned, according to their propric-1
torship and right to lease, have rented to the
American Ilowadjis above mentioned the I
house - arched with groined arches, built.
of cut stone and lime,. which is called the Ba
keet
(or great Magazine) of the House of.
, Shellaby, and which is a :house of a great i
, arch, and which also has a door and window
on the atreet, situated in the Greek quarter
' of the city, near the Birket (or - pool) Boorta
seever, and bounded' on the south and west ,
by the Magazine the Moolah Mustapha Abu I
Hassan the Butcher,. on the east by the Htli. s - e
of Shellaby which leases this house, and north,
by the traveled street, and on jt the hoer.:.
And this is of the ' Wukoth' or property!
standing as an inheritance perpetual in the
family and belonging to these twa' owners,
without their sister the Sit . Ammlone or any
others, according to the legal division of the
property during the year. past. And they
have the right to dispose of it lawfully, and
this on' a lease ofseventy years, the begin
ning of the lease to be on the first of June
(western time) in the year of ;funs Christ
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight (1858)—and.
~ this month happens in the Middle of the
month,Shodwal, the year of the Hegira one
thousand two hundred and seventy-four,
(1274) and the end of the lease will be in the
year of Jesus Christ nineteen, hundred and
twenty-eight (1928)-3 legal lease,. confirm
ed
by acceptance and acknowledgment, and
by giving up and receiving the amount of
seven thousand piastres Osmanli (080,09)•
paid in advance at the rate of 100 piastres
(or four dollars) a year rental, and ten pias
tres (or forty cents) to be paid yearly, be
ginning with June Ist,lBo.
' 2nd. The Howadjis above mentioned have
leased the place above mentioned, through'
their control of their oWn . affairs, and their
office as agents of the Missionary Society in
America :—that is, the whole of the arched
room mentioned, for the price above stipulat
ed, a part in advance and a part yearly, in all
pleasure and acceptance ; 'and paid the seven
thousand piastres in advance in, current and
lawful money,. and covenanted to pay yearly
ten piastres, now and henceforth to the end of
the 70 years. .
3d. After the leasing of the room,above
mentioned the room mentionedshall become,
in all ownership and right, uucter thextiatrq
and authority of the llowadjis the lessees
above mentioned, just as-if they had bought it
by a clear stile. And this authority extends
to its removal, rebuilding, changing of its
shape, or uniking it in-What style they wish,
this is the object they had in view it leasing
it. [I may as welt remark here, that there is
another house above our church, which- does
not belong to us, and yet %I.e. have a' legal
right to remove ours if we wish, and let the
upper one take care of itself. ' Of course we
shall never remove it.l 'And all which they
expend in this way, be it more or less, with
out limit or question as to how much, shall
be flow, their own purse (the lessees) and
shall be clorged to the lessors, as a debt up
on them to the lessees, without either per
mission, or knowledge or investigation on.
the part of the lessors or their successors, or
any others or those who have charge, of the
workof (or tax,) - nor can the lessors investi
gate the accounts of the lessees or what they
expend, but must leave all to the truth and
honor of the leSsees, who keep their accounts
it the Consulate in Tripi,li, -
4th: All the rights of the lessees shall also
be the rights of their children or 'successors
in the Consult p and in the Missionary of
that is the rights of lease, and control of
the building and the payment of the ten pias
tres yearly, in this manner. And all that is
binding on the lessors shall also be binding
on their iseirs children and successors, and
whoever,pkes their place.
- 51 h. After the-eNpiration of the
. 70 years,
the lessors have ITO right to take the. house
.mentioned, or to increase the rate of
rent, in ease the lessees or their successors
wish to rent the house - again, either for one
year or many years, for the above mentioned
price, that is flO piastres a year, without in
crease or decrease.
fith. The lessees above mentioned, and
their successors and they alone, havd. the
right to return the property et the end of
seventy years, and they catkonly be required
to-do this in ease the les-ors or their succes
sors, pay back to them or their successors,
the amount which ha been expended upon
the house frofft the time of the beginning
of the lease to its end, according to the 6c
count the book kept under the seal of the
American Cultsufate above mentioned, with
out interest or an appraisal (by the lessors)
or diminution.
7th. lii case the lessors or their successors
will not receive the house and pay this minium.
(at the end 4'lo years) or have- not means
to do it, the lessees cannot 'compel them to
pay the stmount expended on it, but it- 1 , 14
remain in the hands .5f the lessees, their heir;
or successors, to let it, or sell out the ex
penses on it, without objection or hindrance.
And there shall be no need of asking permis
sion front their successors ; provided the
sees pay yearly the one hundred and ten pi I
aetres above mentiongd.
Bth. Before the expiration of the 70 years,
the lessors or their successors have nu right
in any way to break this%untract, even the'
they blp , uld pay back the amount expended
in fern's. ~..a .a._ ......._ - .1.. ;---..t r,nrty that time
onward, excepting that-there should happen
to them violence or threats pr notorious in
jury (al the part of the II wal government, or
from the law or front the wukotf, or frOnl
-the populace, or in ease the At l ican Consul
tiffr;poli or Beirut cannot brut ,t at ;
or shield
fi l
them (the lessors) by all means in t icir pow
er; in which case the lessees or their success
ors shall descend front this,agreemeut with:
out violente, at their pleasure, on the follow
ing terms, %iz : that the lessors. shall repay
Alie . evenscs on the house and the rent re
maining, and all with interest (coMpound) at
the rate of ten per cent. And if the lessors
or their suecessurs.ennot repay tlfis money,
then'the le - ssees-or their
,suceessors lean give
up the house to whatever person may .pay on
behalf of the lessors or thiir successors,
whether-front the MoSli.ms, Or the Govern
ment, or the agents of the" Wukott" '
9. All the money laid out on the building
for temporary or perishable repairs, pertain
leg to ornam&t or beantifying, such as-paint
or white wash, which is not necessary "for the
preservation of the building, ur renewal of
the locks or window gla-s,&c., or repairs of
tliitigs broken—other than durable structures,
and things not connecte(' with 'temporary
It t lottilment, z or things needed to preserve the
Amilding,—this Shall not be—entered in the
account of expenses which is kept at khe Con
subtle—since the amount enended as, found
in the Consulate account, is to be repaid to
the lessees after the seventy years. -
10th. The lessees aforementioned and their
successors to the end of the term 'of rental,
are not bound to regard the oh-rtnntedon
lean; or any objection from it, or any sectari
an prhibition, whetherit confirms or - oppos.
es this contrast, excepting what is mentioned
in the Bth article of this Contract.
And on this sheet there is mutual consent
and agreiemeht and Saieed; Mohammed and
'aie.ed - Mimed Shellahy have received the
amount of s-even thou Sand :piasters (*'280,00)
from the liowadjis above mitutioned,.and
have_delivered up to them the house, by LW-
Aid -trinsfer, that they make of it the above
mentioned disposition, and they.lravo written
two copies of this Contract, one for the les
sors and the other for the lessees.
Gi'ven the 25th day of May, 1855. )
.8581 S
BI( NED BY
r. L. LVONT.S.roIIAMMED SIIaLATV{I..S.I
II.H.JESKP LB. AIIIIZIPSIIELLAIIr 3 LE!.
ANTONIO YANXI, [L S.} .
WITNESSED DY
Saieed Ahmed Raghib Mufti Zattiee-; ;kb•
duilah Scroll; Miehaiel Iloorce ;- Giurgius
; Alexander Catsaflitz Antr it W -
Kawass of A meTican Consul; lbrahtm it
Wawee ; Abd it Wehed it Kittafee (kinairy •
maker) Belgian Kawass ; Michael Zeracionel;
Ahmed Sultan, Prussian Kawass ; Abdullah
Yartni; Yakool Habeeb."
With regard to the cost of our Church, I
cannot state the exact amount. The MisSiou
voted us 8400, which we were to apply fur
'to the Board at home. Thin we hoped - to
get one dr two hundred ,dollars here from''
the Protestant natives and the Erigkish resi
dents of Beirut. Put since heurtng• of die
4initnees of the Board we are going to try to.
raise as much as po - ssible.here; and perhaps
May - not.he obliged to. call on.,lhe Board at
all. We paid- 5280 -for thethouse, Last
week we expended 4.84 in,bnxing.lime, lure.
ber, &c., and paying carpenters did masons.
We hope to raise as much as three
,Ifundred
dollars in Beirut, and perhaps .more; I 'have.
written to the Sunday School children fur a
bell, and I am writing
,to Mr. W. about a
curtain for the partitioninihe Church, • • We
H. H. FRAZIER, PUBLI§II.OR 1 -*OL. 88.:
haye given up the plan of haN ing a ist.Gne
fluor—it is to be made of- a cheap cement,
which will last until the Protestants here can
afford to get the stone necessary. You - know
not howsit gratifies us to see the Church edi
tice so near completion. 'We bought it at
an i.;xeeedingly low price—we would not,sell
it for three times what we gave fur it, and as
Yanni says, "Satan must have been - asleep
when that bargain was made, , or We could
not have got it so cheap." Please' remem
ber inc to my friends among the clergymen
whom you meet in traveli»g- about the coun
try.- Your' afreclionate Sun,
Ilmaty 11 . Am-us JE!,.'s(:lo
NADNESF, OF GEORGE \ 111
1 Little is known respecting the nature of
i•the delusions' whitilt possessed the king's ,
, mind, but the follqwing passage from Lordl
i ,Eldon 's papers indicates one of them': •- 1
"It was agreed that, if any strong featur
of the' - king's malady - appeared during the
pre.senee of the council( Sir Henry Ilalford
should, on receiving a signal from. I
toe, en. 7
deavor to recall front his'nberrtions; and,
accordingly, when his Majesty appeared to
• beaddressinghimself to two of the persons
whom he most favored in his early life, long
' dead, Sir Henry observed, Your Majesty
1- ha , Lbelieve, forgotten that and —.
both died many year; ago. ; "true,' was
j the reply, 'died to you and to the world in•
general,'but not to me, , You, Sir Henry;
are forgetting that I
have the power of hold
ing intercourse with those whom you call
dead. -Yes, Sir Henry Halford,' continued
I he, assuming a lighter manner, it is in vain,
so far as I not concerned, tilat you kill your
pitients.' Yes, Dr. BaillX— but, Millie - ,
Raidie,' pursued he, with resumed gratvity, •
' I don't know. He is an anatomist; be dis
sects his patients, and then it. would not he a
resuscitation merely, btit a recreation, and
that; I think, is,licyouil my power.'
The fiilliming memoranda otitis condition
front 180, till death, arc given by an au
onymous write?, but are well authenticated,
believe, and comprise al! 'that•thave been
able‘to find respecting this period :
'At intervals he still took a lively inter
[est in polities. Ills perception was good,
though mixed up with a number of erroneous
j ideas; his memory - was tenacious, but his
Judginent unsettled ; and the kiss of royal
authority scented constantly to prey upon
I his mind.- his malady seemed rather to M-
I crease,than tombate up to. the yea?. 181-1,
i when at the time'the,allied so‘ereigns arriv-
ed its England, he evinced indications of re-,
tanning reason,. and was made acquainteZl:
with the astonishing events which had receoll,
- occurred. Tile'-'queen. one duy, found the
afflicted - monarch engaged in singing a hymn,
and accompanying himself or, the harpsichord.
1f tes he had concluded the hymn. he knelt
dewn„prayed for Isis tinnily and the nation,
id earnestly supplicated for the consph:se
restoration of mental powers. He tlti•rs
bisrst into tears, and his reason. suddenly left '
fs;so Hut he afterwards had 0 , 2e:1,40t - sail v
moments% tine. mos soss :4 _ 's .ss
'toil he asked who was dead, Please ) our
Majesty, said airattendalit, 'Mrs. ' Mrs:
S. !' rejoined the king . ; ` she was a linen dra
per, at.the corper brought
up her family in the fear of God. She has
gune'to heaven ; I hope I shall soon follow
tier.' He now bee:lnn?. deaf and imbibed the
idea that he was dead, and said, must have-,
a suit of black, in memory of George 111., for
whom I 'know th'ere-is a gefscral
_mourning."'
In 1817 he appeared to have a faint glemer
ing of MISOII again sense of. hearing re
turned nmlc ante than ; ever, nod he could.
distinguish pi-rsons by' their footsteps, Ile
likewise zecolleeted 'that he had made a
memorandum many years beforcand it was.
found directly where he indicated. -After
ISIS 11 : e occupied a long suit of rooms, in
‘‘'hich were placed :Several pianos and liarpsi
ctford:;; at these be would frequently stop
during his walk, playing a few noses from
and thou stroll on. He seeined
cheerful, and would sometimes talk aloud, as
if addressing some nobleman ; but his dis
course bore reference only to past ini.idehts,
for he had no knowledge of recent cirentn- •
stane4 either /political or domestic. - To-
ward the-end of 18'29. his appetnesbegan to
fail.-
,In January, 1820, it was found impos
sible keep him warm ; his remaining teeth
dropped out, and. he was aimoSt reduced to
• a skeleton. On the 27th, he was confined
I Wholly - to his bed, and on the 29th of Janua
ry, IS2O, he died, aged S 2 years."--:kneri
(oo Journal of Insanity. •
I=l
Piquant Anecdote.
A spice merchant of Constantinople, carry
ing a piece of fine cloth too tailor, desired to
have. a cloak made - out of it, and inquired if
there was enough. -Ile artist, having meas.'
nredAthe stuff, declared it to be sufficient, and
then re nested to know the cost of it.
`'-Fi - ve sequins," 'replied the customer,
" was the price; and, considering thyluality,
that is not at all dear."
The tailor paused a moment:
"1 am but a beginner in the
,trade," said,
he to the spice dealer, at length, " and mon
ey is an object to me. Gil o metwo sequins
and I will show you how you may-save three
in this affair."
" 1 a g ree," said the other, and the money.
was pro duced and paid. •
" It is well !" said the man of the - needle.
"lam a person, of my word. Tins cloth has
cost you live sequins, and : 1 haVe propii , etl
to'saye you three. Take it-. to setae other
tailor, and Allah direct ysti to. one of more
experience—for I never made such a
dress as'you avant, ar.d 111 attempt it, it will
• mainly be spoiled."_
eminds us of an anecdote related of
Sheridan, who went to a hair-dresser to or.
der a wig. On being measured, the barber •
who was a liberal soul, invited the orator to
take some refreshments in an inner room.
Here he showed so much genuine hospitality
that Sheridan's heart was touched.- When
they rose from the table and were itbnutsep•
arming, tile- latter; looking the barber full in
the face, said : , ,
1 "On reflection, I don't intend you- shalt
make My wig."
' Astonished, and With a - blank Visage, The
•
other exi:laiined— r
"'Good Unveil- 1 Mr ssherid.in hew can I
have displeased you •
. " Why, look,-you," said Sheridan, "you
are ;.M honest--fellOw; and I
~ !•cpciA. it,. yon:
slaliet make the wig, fur I never intend . to
pay iiir it. .go to another wOrthy
sort'of , -
MEI
ci
INS
The Printerandthe Dutchman:- -
DutehiMin sitting at the4loor of his tav
ern in the far West, is approaeheit•by a tail,
thin Yankee, who is emigrating Westward on
foot; with a bundle on a cane over his shoul
der;
Isiistber Sehticis, vat you
ratlt • , '
" Itest and refreshments," said the printer.
"
Supper lotehin I 'reckon?" .
"Yes, sir, supper. and lodging, if you
please."' .
" Pe ye a Yankee Fiedler, miteliewelry in
your pack, to sheat the gals?".
• -" No, sir, 1 am no Nanliee pedler." -
"it singing -master, too lazy to work V'
No, sir.".
• " A slienteel shoe-maker vat lovessto mons
ure te gals';feet and,-hankles better tap' to
make to shots 1"
" No, sir, or I should have mended. my
own shoes."
"A book nchent, vat boddeis. to -school .
committee till.da do vat you vish 6004 to
get rid of you ?" , 2 .
. .
" Guess again, sir. lam no•bOok agent."
"To tydfels! a dentist, preaking to pee-'
_;,;»
pie's jaw at a dollar a shnag, and running off
'
mit my daughter?" _ , . .
. " No, sir, I am no tooth-puller." . .
"Threnologus, ten, feeling the-young folks- . •
hc`ad like so much cabbitehr . •
`• No, lam no phrenolog'st." ‘, • •
• " Veil, ten, vat to misehief can you be 7
Choost tell, and you shall have the best StlS.
sage for supper, and shtay all 'night, free gra
tis tnyout.a cent, and ri chill of whiskey to
start mit m the morning."
" I am an ha mble disciple of Faust—a pro.
lessor of the art that preserves all arts—a ty,
pographer at your service."
" Vots-ch dat
4t priewr, sir ; a man that prints hooks
and newspapers."
"A. man vot printsh' nooshpapers! oh
yaw ! yaw ! ah, dat ish it. A maii rot prints
n9dshpapers ! - Yaw ! yaw ! Vaulk up! a . man
vot printsh nooshpapers ! I vislt 'I may be .
shot-if [Ad tot tink you vas pocr old di's.
triet sthoc master, who corks for none and
board's round, I thought you vas him."
1:103
A Yankee
. .
Tna Boston 01;ve Branch having called
the editor . Nu' s aYankdo,
the At 4 s tnati s . 010 •ing :
But we own up, to the l'atikee, and feel no
little pride in it ; but *we didn't hail 'frofn .
Berkshire exactly. We have dropped, Punip
-kin seed and have eaten luov pudding and
milk in New llampshire, and . have plowed,.
mowed, reaped, and logged it in the State of - I
Maine. We have fished for minnoW4 with a'
pin-lalk, and carried our bread ,and butter
to who()) I and we have been
the Kennebec river;we hive coaxed a club.
foOtetl i . o . slide cown„ lull made slippery
by the fall of pine leavezt. on her feet, for the
fell of keying her catch her toe and rull-over
and.over, and have gone into the 'swamps
with two yoke of oxen.and a bob tailed sled,
when .the_snow was fiv,p, feet deep, and felled
f!`)(1 " tWitehed - lon - all thy. and went
home, \ at night-tan to -
we ha‘ve been to a few prayer nreetings,that's- .
a factand we've been to ," heel:ins," too, :
and " apple-bees," raisings," atid " Militia
mtv•ters." ' -
- We have helped to make cider,. nd after
wards set "a
-straddle" of a bar •el, and.
sucked it With a straw. We have set up at
flight in a saw-mill, and have set up all night
Avith a." rral." Wet have ,high opinions of
Johnny-cake and " sassenger," anal we- have -
frequently:had a'gagaer in the making of the
latter ;
_we have eaten our share 'of, codfish '
and potatoes, with pork scraps, and we'guess
we have Irelsedja , proper portiorn of 'lasses
candy, and also boys ; we have Pulled iia c .
f;,r ninepence a day, because we l#ld a - sick
headache and could not go to School, and
-have had teeth pulled with a piecel - of strong"
thread, and have popped cord in the ashes . ;
we have turned the' grindstopo'all day to
sharpen a new axe, swopped jackknives,
broken steers and colts, set traps for Skunks•
and woodchucks, tapped our own shock
" licked" the schoolmaster, rObbe.d-the milk- -
pans of the cream and laid it to. the cat,
pitched into-the apple " Sass," hooked -maple .
sugar, and numberless other things' too UU- •
merous to mention:
-,•cc, • -0- • 4,••••-•---:--
.
Juntet A L /1 tMOß.—Tfre Lazo Revive 0 ves
the following as some instances of the humor
of the late M'r. 'Justice Manic: ' May .cioCI,
strike me dnad, toy lord, if I . did. it,"" ex 4:
claimed a convicted prisoner on.the-announce.=
meat of the verdict; for a marked - space the
Judge sits in an attitude of eip'eetation, jury .
and spectators wondering what next; at last,
he breaks the silence :,'''AS . Providence. has
not seen fit to interpose, the sentence of the .
Court is," &e. : " You - have aireadp , read
that section four times, Al r. --- - -= - -1 it'Sitera:
tion ; it's —, Fuse no epithet, it is 'itera
tion !" witirlt look that implies an anathema.,
—A city policeman states that he is' in the
"hen" (N division ;k ".-.Do 'you- mean the.
poultrv.l" inquititii the Judge. `'.Out 'With
it, the ladies-don't mind it, and you needn't
be afraid of rne," was ins exhortation _AO:a
hesitating witness, in a 'ease (tom which-it.
might have bee expected
..that ,thesofter,
sex Would long Mee have retired, but which
in
they were man hotter
slttiiig out, 'while the
evidence grew hotter.iind hotter, and at last •
reached its climax. . , .
EFFECTS OF NeW York Eve.
ving Post, in referrink, to the annual exercises'
of - the liferary institutions anlthe mimber of
graduates thrown Upon the country, gives the
tOl lowing illustra . tion • of the - ,•Magical effectei ,
'which the bestowal.of titles
.sometimes • pro...
duces
" This is the season, too, foistiWing the an
nual crop of doctorates. In the Morning
fly persona will arise men, acid in tfietvetting
will go to bed Doctors. of Divinitror'. Doct- ,
ors of Civil and Canon Law.., Thee
cases • when the' conferying _of the ' . ,depree
Doctor of divinity does great goOd, It somi
times puts a sudden end to the, cotrthlaiti~s of
a too faitlt-finding - eangregittiOnia,Thiyatorr
is told. of a clevoymmiin a.NevAV.PglittlYl l !:
t a p, who had aen-irtthe-shme,pastom,lo.r,
intuit', years, and WlM:fbitild . hii .
length sensibly: - diminishing. , " 111Wpeopfe'8elt
sired techange : =--they .wanted 4 Anaftlifi
Sonic of his - frierrilsOitivroverraigned a yeti:
tion,.eartie44 )NOwf;444 l o* °, .
• and tbialli.tbold449.ro9.. c fN It
the aged, pas
peuc
ii,-h l 4
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