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No. 44.
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Cedar Crree-, Inn. 23.1, 1658,
Editor or The Arous Sir: Having
, boon for nearly three ysars a subscriber to
, your valuable paper, and alio been tolern.
bly puootual In " paying the primer," and
. never troubling you with any cummiinlea
t lions, inquiries, suggestions, or advice, or
. In any manner middling w'ub eilhor your
publio or private affair, except upon three
occasions whan I to fur Intruded uponyaur
notice a to request you to credit the am
onnlef my subscription, I now claim tba
. attention of one of your " hundred eyes"
long enongli to reconnoiler the Pott Office
at Portland, and tea if you can discover
any hole, crack, or corner, empty box, out
of the-way place, or any thing of that tort,
into which audi a piper ai Tho Argue
, would be apt to find in way unaided. For
certain it ii that through tome (to me) un
explainable meant it hat contracted the
habit of keeping bad company and loiter
ing at that office longor than ia at all ne
cesanry or agreeable. Surely, the very
gentlemanly Post Master at Portland would
, not detain the paper, if he knew it was
iktrt, any longer than was convenient.
But from tonio cause or other it due es
, cap hit notice, and lie concealed two,
three, and sometime four weeks, although
, called fnr every woek regularly. To day
I received two papera, one Jan. 10th and
one Dec. Sih. I thought it very kind of
lnm In send the old one. He mint hare
bad quite a lime looking for it. Perhaps
though, the " book trade" was not o bri.k
dining the stormy Weather, and ha had
more time to look over the mnil. I think
ho would be ft little more careful if he had
time. Dut thn book atoro is an much in
Ilia way that it is impossible for him logive
the oQke that attention he otherwise
would, provided he felt disposed to.
Now, if you can find the hole they hide
in, just pleaso fill it up, or tell me how,
nd I will. Yours, Sio., Cumtux.
Xy Our friend ia informed thiit we send
his paper to Portland regularly by tla
Jnnnie Clark, which reaches Portland ev
ery Saturday aseeily w think n twelve
o'clock, and gtnerally at ten. If The Ar
gus it called for nfW the arrival nf the
Southern mail, an t la not liunded out In
subscribers, it is owing in the culpable and
shameful negligence nf thn Puaiiusster.
We hear constant complaint of villainous
carelessness in that direct inn. Will ituii
Postmaster repent of hia sins, and mend
hi ways! He certainly needs to be
prayed for.
A. turd.
Editor of Thk Argus ! notice in that
foul Five Point tdicet, the Portland Times,
that the bombast ia James A. Ilubbina haa
seen fit to apeak nf my ferry charges for
crossing, 5to. I will "answer a fool accord
ing to his folly." tto tllakea charges that
cannot be substantiated, no says hia
neighbors all havo to pay seventy-five
cents fur crossing a span nf horses or a
yoke of cattle and wagon, during low wa
ter, I never have charged seventy-five
cents for crossing any such team and
wngon. If any of hia neighbors say so, I
pronounce It false, My neighbors con
aider him a neighborhood liar, and say the
truth is not in him.
His father, an old gray-headed man, also
falsified facts by stating to my neighbors
that I charged him double ferriage. That
is false in toto. If he had paid up his dues
as lie crossed, it would not hare come
double; but it was the tlerk't duty to
double it when he had mud two erodings
without " anteing up." He has got mad
at me, " Dutch Pete," and, for the ak nl
revenge, circulated a petition to vacate the
controverted road. In this, he failed be
fore the Legislature.
your friend and subscriber, .
Pete A. Wbss,
. Feb. 3, 1858.
"WAT THE UNITED STATES ARB WoRTH.
'The national wealth af tha United
States is thus calculated by the Boston
Post:
(Fatsos and cultivated soil, 5.000,000,000
(Horses, attl, sheep, Sic, 1,500 000,00(1
Agricultural implements, 500,000.001)
Wines, 4,500.(100,000
Dwelling houses, 3,500.000,000
Rail ways sue canal, 1,100,000,000
Factoriea, mills, and ma
chine shops, ' 400.000,000
Commercial marina, - 200,000,000
Agricelturel produce, -domestic
manufactures,
nd foreign roods OH
hand, . 1,000,000,000
Cold and silver coin and
- bullion, 300,000,000
Pufclis laaids, ship of war,
fortifications, navy y'ds,
public buildings, dec, 4,000,000,000
Grand total.
124,000,000,000
A National Foc.tDt. The Secretary
f War, in hia Annual Report, recommends
the establishment of a National Foundry
1 tor tha manafacture of small arms, and to
raise the standard of Iron Manufacture in
rata country to 1 leva! with thai of any other
ti?B.
Later frees lbs Msrsaea War.
Tha following letter, from tht cftrres
pondenl of the N. Y, Tribune in tha regu
lar army, ia the latest we bsve sect from
that quarter.
Camp 0.1 Ulaci'r Fori, Nov.5, 'fi7.
I have been permitted to day to read
some nf the papers found on tha person of
Joi'eph Taylor, the Mormon prisoner,
agninst whom a writ was issued yesterday
charging him with high treason. I regret
that it is nut in the power of Cot. Johnston
to allow me to tski copies of them. It is
deemed advisable, fur various reasons, to
withhold them at present from publicity
lam, however, permitted to stale the sub-
si a nee of ona document, which was a let'
ler of instruction! to hint from tha Mormon
Commander-in-Chief, dated October 4. It
directed him to harass tha troops in every
posaihln manner nn their march, by stain
peding, stealing and maiming cattle, burn.
ing grass wherever found, and especially,
if possible, on the windward of trains, so
as to envlop them iu the flames ; by hang.
ing on the rear of the army and cutting
off any wagons which lag btliind ; by fell-
ng trees to at to block the road, dec. It
slated, further, that similar orders bad been
issued to William Hickman, Potter Rock
well and Col. Denton. I should like to
hear any remark which the Cut. Benton of
Missouri may be pleased to make upon the
commission of his Mormon namesake.
Tliis interesting document is signed "Yours
in Christ, Daniel II. Widl," and in a poat
script Mr. Taylor is reenj'iinod to do every
thing in his power- to cripple the army,
short nf taking life
It is piobablethat all ihe banditti who
have been hanging around Col. Alexander's
command for the last month are acting un
der precisely the same instructions. A
yet they have taken but one soldier pria
oner ilia assistant hospital steward of Ihe
10th Infantry who was captured a fort
night ago, whilrt passing from the camp ol
his own regiment to that of the 9th Infant
ry, four or five miles distant. They have
been more expert in stealing cattle, and in
addition to the principal robherie, which
I Iihvb recorded, tln-y succeed in running
off a few head almost every niffht. On
one occasion, I am told, they stole twenty
itne brail of hurscs and tntilet within 500
ynrds nf the camp.
What constitutes the basis for the dis
tinction between their present system nf
lOxtilitiea, and the shedding of blood, I am
unable to umer;and. Out whatever it
may be, they jsivn us official information
that it wi!l cease to exist tho moment we
attempt to force a passage through the
mo'iniain. If it lies 111 a belief that they
do not become traitors till they take human
life, the; are greater fouls than I am will
ing to believe. No such scruples exist on
the siils of the army, and on the first occa
sion on which n soldier a musket can be
leveed at any of the banditti, the trigger
will certainly be pulled. In the present
crisis there is no longer room for child's
play. There ii but one alternative. Ei
ther the laws of the United States are to be
subverted and its territory appropriated by
a gang of traitorous lechers who have de
clared themselves Iu cunstiiuta -'a free and
independent Siate," or Salt Lake City
must be entered at the point of the bayo
net, and the ringleaders of the Mormon re
bellion seized and hung. Whether such
an entrance can be effected this year ia a
matter of great uncertainly. My own
opinion is that it cannot. Even after Col.
Cook shall have arrived, the strength of
the regular army will not exceed 2,000
men. The dragoon horses will be unfit for
soivice, and an enormous train will embar
rass all operations nntil a depot is formed.
The force which the Mormons will be able
to put under arms, I judge, after careful
and extensive inquiry, caanot exceed 5,000
men, and of these not more than one-half
will be formidable adversaries. If an
Aineiican army numbering hardly 0,iuJ
able-bodied men, was able to rtorra out
work after outwork, and at last to enter
and occupy the capital of Mexico, garrison
ed by 40,000 regular troops, and inhabited
by 200,000 sou!, the 2,000 win) will soon
be gathered under Col. Johnstons command
have little reason to fear a foe only twice
their number, with whom religious fsnati
cinn supplies the place of military disci.
p'ine. But tbe season is in war against
us, and thai is, among these mountains, a
more formidable enemy. Ever since the
storm of October 15 and If), wo have been
remarkably favored by the weather, as we
were before. But last nigh came another
heavy fall of snow, and ihe sky ia still low
ering. Before we can disencumber our
selves of the hundreds of wagon's and ihdu
sands of cattle which are entirely dependent
on military support, it is too certain that
the Wasatch Mountains will b covered lo
the depth of several Crtt with Snow. The
utmost, in my opinion, which Col. Johns
ton can ba expected to efT.-et withia the
next three weeks, will be to pat himself
into posttie t0 taks advantage of any
favorable turn that may occar thereafter
in tha weather, for a rapid movement upon
tha Mormon capital. The loss of lbs three
trains by Irs proves to ba far less serious
then at first appeared, although tho value
of tha property destroyed, enhanced at it
was by tba cost of transportation, must
exceed 11,000,000.
To day, Sibley tents have been issued 1
all lbs companies, both lor officers and
men, and the loading of the trains shifted,
so as to render it at compact as possible
and to-morrow the whole army will be put
in motion toward Port Rridger,
In the action which Congress must taks
at iu coming session concerning the eitra
ordinsry condition of affairs la this Terrl
lory, there is one subject which perempto.
rily demands attention the present insuf
ficient rales of pay of ike Territorial officials,
In tha first place, it it no holiday work in
which they are engaged. They require to
exercise all tha ability which they have
acquired by nature and experience in the
daties which devolve an them. In the
next place, their life during the coming
winter will necessarily be subject to many
privations, for which they deserve recom
pensa ; and, besides, their present sslaries
are entirely inadequate to support them
properly, enhanced at are the prices of all
ariiclet of food, clothing and furniture by
their exclusion from the valley of tbe Salt
Lake. Every mouthful which they eat
and every coat which they purchase du
ring tha next few months will cost them
about two hundred per cent, more than the
price of the same articles in the States.
For instance, the price asked by tbe sutlers
for blsnkets is from 918 to 923 per pair ;
for cape, 95; for common woolen gloves,
from 92 to 4 per pair. Such ratea are
absolutely neeeasary to guard them from
loss, for it is probable that almost all tht
oxen which they have employed in hauling
their goods from Missouri will perish with
iu two months, and their wagons also will
be a perfect loss. The United States is no
pauper. Iris competent to furnish a pe
cuniary equivalent for all services of iu
officials which can be bought with money.
It will not furntab such an equivalent to the
officers of this Territory unless thtir sala
ries are raised.
CO" The force of tho Mormons are esli
mated ta amount to about five thousand
men, officered as followt ;
Daniel II. Wells, Lieutenant General ;
Jemes Ferguson. Adiutant-General : A. P.
Uockwood.Commioaary-General J Goo. D.
Grant, Brigadier General of Cavalry; II.
II. Clnwsnn, Aid-de-Camp; L. W. (lardy,
Division Commissary ; W. H. Kimball,
Lietitennnl-Colonol of Cavalry; Wm.
Ilyde, Livutenant.Colonel nf Infantry ; R
T, Bunon, Major of the Lift Guards.
The Acquisition op Cuba. The Now
Orleans Courier, the Administration paper
of that city, arguing from the stsnd-iieint
that Kansas will likoly, at least, come into
the Union as a free State, presses the ac
quisition of Cuba during the present term
of Mr. Buchanan, to supply its loss to the
South. It ttyt :
We learned many yeart ago from his
(Buchanan's) great speech on the Panama
mission that the Moro Was practically a
fortress at Ihe mouth of the Mississippi.
It oujtht, therefore, to belong to the Uni
ted States. The acquisition of Cuba is a
question offer greater importance lo us
than any other now before this Adminis-
I rat ion. It would be a peculiarly fit lime
to annex it as a slave Slate, when it could
be made a twin sister to a free State from
ihe West. All partieaouzht to be satisfied
the great majority of all paniet would
be. Mr. Buchanan would earn the crown
ing glory of his life, and the whole Missis.
sippi valley would embalm his name among
tnose 01 her neroes. feace and quiet
would be restored to the North, security
would be given to the commerce of 'he
South end West, and the people of Cuba
would prosper at tbey never prospered
before."
Twenty Years Hence. " Ion." cf tbe
Baltimore Sun, reasons that there will be
another financial revilsion in the United
States twenty yeart bene tsy in 1877.
It will be attended by greatly dilfsrent re
sults from those which mark tbe present
one. Through the agency of immigration,
and by the rapid development of internal
elements of wealth, the United States will,
by that time, have become the most pros
perous and powerful nation an tbe globe,
commercially, industrially and politically.
The throne of Commerce may even be
transferred from London lo New York, and
financial dominancy from Europe lo the
New World. A crarb here, then, will be
a crash in the centre of the business world,
which would be followed by a disastrous
prostration in Europe.
MtTHonlst Statistics. Tbe member,
whip of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
ihe United States is said lo be 820,319
an increase of 30,192 river last year. Tbe
number of traveling preachers is 6,134,
and of local preachers, 7,169. The number
of ch arches it 8,333 ; and the probable val.
oeof theenurchet atid parsonage it esti
metad a! 917,008,184.
Tke Merasea Bible.
At tha Mormons are just new attracting
considerable attention, it may not ba amiss
to publish what Is generally regarded as
the history of the book called the Mormon
Bible. Tht lime has not yet arrived when
a formal disproof of its being an inspired
work is necessary, and a plain story will
not be denied on tha ground of its exclud
ing the supernstural.
Tha opinion is of many yeart' standing
that the uborijfiuet () of America are de
scendants of the lost tribes of Israel.
Adair, in his history of the North Amori
can Indians, adopts the theory, and takes
great pains lo prove it. It givs a minute
account of soma Indian dancee, where cer
tain words art used (yo ho-wah), which,
by a little torturing, he supposes derived
from lbs word "Jehovah," Aerebre
very cogenl reasoning the Indians came
from the lost tribes. Whether this ao.
count is mors scceptable, or less so, than
that of Mynheer Diedrieh Knickerbocker,
in his veracious history of New York, the
learned must judge. Diedrieh speculates
far and wide lo acoount for their being
people on this continent, bul found the
problem attended with as much difficulty
as other ethnographers have experienced in
accounting for a race of bipeds on the
Eastern continent. Me finally cuts ihe
knot by tho sage conclusion that tho peo
pie of this continent came here by ac
cident.
Be this as it msy, the opinion of their
Israelitish descent has had many support
ers, and it so happening, an ingenious
young clerical gentleman by the name of
Spaulding, In the Slate of Connecticut, be
ing out of health, determined to amuse
and occupy his leisure hours by writing
remance upon this idea of the Jewish da.
scent of the North American Indians.
Upon this idea he wrote the book known
as Ihe Mormon Bible.
The writer of this article lies been as
sured by a gentleman of intelligence and
unquestionable veracity, that he came from
tha town where Mr. Spaulding lived, and
that he had teen persons of that town who
declared that they saw whole chapters of
the Book of Mormon, when in the course of
composition, shown to them by the author.
Mr. Spaulding finally emigrated, either
to improve hit fortune or his health, or
both, and went to the interior of the Stale
of New York, where, it seems, be has
been lost sight of. He no doubt died with
out being able to find a publisher for his
romance, which ultimately tumed up am
ong some rubbish in the garret of a print'
ing establishment in Pittsburg, where it
was found by a cunning rascal by the name
of Sidney Rigdon. This Rigdon meeting
with Joe Smith (or Joe Smith meeting with
him), the two rogues together determined
to turn the work to account.
The book ia written in Scriptural phras
eology ; " and it came to pass," that Joe
and Rigdon made a bungling addition by
way of preface, slating thai certain me-
tallio plates had been mysteriously discov
ered under a certain bill thus and so
all scribbled over with certain characters,
and that, in short, Joe had been illuminated
from heaven and empowered and instructed
to " read" ; whence, according to their ac
count, lo and behold, the Book of Mormon
came forth, of course from heaven ; though
some think the other place has a higher
claim to its paternity.
The book, in itself, is not a bad romance.
The author takes up the lost tribes, and lias
them marched to tho (or a) coast, where
vessels are constructed, upon which they
embark, and, guided by a miraculous nee
dle, supernaturally provided by which the
reader may see that the mariner's compass,
though without a name, is older than any
thing of the sort known lo the Chinese,
who know everything except a steam en
gine; guided, I say, by a mtraouloua neo
d!", tbey are conducted to (a) coast where
they land. That coast is our Awn. After
landing and occupying tha country, the
author, to provide himself with incidents
for 'chronicles," introduces the serpent
discord, and brings about a separation and
a long series of wars snd conflict!.
The author, knowing by an easy method
of foresight (after the fact) nil of the con
troverted poinU of theology, has taken care
to solve them by indisputable authority.
The question of the trinity, the doctrines of
free agency, baptism, dee., are all definitely
settled beyond any dispute for those who
accept tbe Mormon book as ihe fruit of in
spiration ; a very easy method.
It is but just to say that the book con
tains nd immoral doctrine, or anything to
shock delicacy or refinement. That the
customs of iu followers do not precisely
indicate its character, may readily be be
lieved by those who are acquainted with
the multitudinous forms in which, under
the notion of following the Lambj the
world bss been astonished by men of Vast
pretensions and little brains.
Mormonism, a few years ago, was almost
too contemptible lo ba noticed. Tbt
"Saints" firtt established thsmielvct
Ohio ; (ben moved lo tbe western part of
Missouri. Driven from this latter place,
they settled in Illinois, and founded Nau
voo, where they toon made themselves of
fensive to their noighbort, and finally
aroused an opposition which eud.-d in the
death of Joe Smith and his brother Ilyrum
and in a new exile. At last they fixed
upon Suit Lake, in '.he remote and then
unknown West, where they hoped lo live
apart from ihe " Gentiles," as they call us
At Salt Lake they have accumulated in
numbers to an extraordinary extent, most
of their accessions being from abroad, in
cluding Englmli Wel.b, Danes, and others
They are absolutely blind lo everything
but Alormonism, to which they are fan at
icnlly devoted, under their recognized
prophet, Hrigham Young, whose word is,
to tliem, Ihe word of God.
Uriguam loung has now raiaed tho
standard nf rebellion against the United
States, and wo are about lo enter upon a
war which ia likely to attract the notice of
tbe civilized world, and possibly may cost
much life and treasure; and then, and not
not till then, will the end be known.
It is not generally known, and yel il ia
true, that Mormons are scattered through
out most or our Northern cities. They are
counted by hundreds in this very city of
St. Louts, though they keep very still, and
are often employed for whole months with
out their employers knowing who they are.
In our country we can have nothing to
uo, governmental, with the Mormon faith
or roligion. The question is purely one of
civil polity, and it is hoped that the Gov,
eminent will vindicate the cause of civili
ration, ns it is bound to maintain its civil
supremacy. Missouri Republican.
OCT The New Orleans Delta estimates
Ihe number of slaves at ihe South at over
three-and a-half millions, and their aggre
gate value, at present prices, st fully six
teen hundred millions of dollars. The cot
ton plantations in the South are estimated
at eighty thousand, and the aggregate
value of their annual products, at the
present prices of cotton, at fully one bun
dred and twenty.flva millions of dollars.
There are over fifteen thousand lobacco
plantations, and their annual producU may
be valued at fourteen millions of dollars.
There are two thousand six hundred sugar
plantations, the products of which averaco
annually more than twelve millions.
There are five hundred and fifty-one rice
plantations, which yield an annual revenue
of four millions of dollars.
Rising in the World. You should
bear constantly in mind that nino tenths
of us are, from the very nature and necssi
lies of the world, born lo gain our liveli
hood by the sweat of our brow. What
reason have we, then, to presume that our
children aro not to do the same I If they
be, as now and then one would be, endow
ed with extraordinary powers of mind,
those extraordinary powers of mind may
have nn opportunity of developing them
selves ; and if they have not that opportu
nity, the harm is not very great to us or
them. Nor does it hence follow that the
descendant of laborers are always to Le
laborers. The path upward is steep and
long, to be sure. Industry, care, skill,
excellence, in the present parent, lay the
foundation of a Had under more favorable
circumstances, for tho children. The child
ren of these take another rise; and by and
by the descendants of the parent laborer
become gontlemen. This is the naiurnl
progress. It is by attempting to reach the
top at a single leap that so much misery is
produced in the world. Society may aid
in making the laborer virluout and happy,
by bringing children up lo labor with
steadiness, with care and with skill ; lo
show them how to do as many useful things
as possible ; to do tlicm all in the best
manner ; to set them an example in indus
try, sobriety, cleanliness end neatness; to
make all these habitual to them, so that
they never ihall be liable lo full into the
contrary; to let them always tee a good
living proceeding from labor, and thus lo
remove from them the temptation to get
at the goods of others by violence and fraud
ulent means, snd to keep far from their
minds all the inducement to hypocrisy
and deceit. Colbelt.
Waeefclnf.ss. Sleeplessness is the
result of over effort, bodily or mental.
When a man works beyond his strength,
or thinks or studies more than rest can
restore them, sooner or later comes that
inability to sleep soundly, that wakeful
ness which is more wesring even ihsn bodi
ly labor, and which feeds the debility
which first gave rise lo it. Tha result is
a man is always tired, never feels rested,
even when he leaves his bed in the morn
ing ; hence he wastea away and finds le
pete only in bis grave, if Indeed insanity
do not supervene. It is too often a mala
dy, itmedilesa by medical means. Avoid
1 ben, as you would a vipr or a rrtraefer,
in all over effort of mind and body it is aui-
cidul. Whatever you do, get enough tf
sleep; whatevor you do, take enough it
to restore tho used energies of taih pri
ceding twenty-four hours if you do no',
you may escepe for a mouth, and If pos
sessing a good conlititlion years may pass
awny before any decided ill result furcs
itself nn your attention ; but rest nssirrj,
the time will come when (Le loo often
baffled system, like a tattle Lor.e, will
refuso to work. It will not take prompt
and sound sleep ; it will not be rested by
repose, and that inhaling wakefulness will
come upon you, which philosophy cannot
conquer, which medicine cannot cure, and
wasting by slow degrees to skin and bone,
rest is found only in tlis grave.
Itadrra Jerusalem.
An Oriental correspondent of thu Bjs.
Ion Post, now on bis travels, draws a som
bre picture of that famous place once the
"joy of the whole earth." After the first
few days of excitement, which every visit
or to Jcruialcoi must exprieuce, there
succeeds an inexpressible sadness, a set
tled melancholy, which appears to be
impressed upon tho countenance of every
iuhiibilant.
A walk through llio filthy streets is a
horror tho heaps of garbage left to rot in
the sun ; .the slaughter-house in the centre
of the city; the tannery adjacent to, and
polluting ihe Holy Sepuluhro ; the skins
of animals, yet warm from their bodius,
and coveredvwith vermin, exposed at every
corner for tale and yet worao, if possible,
tho abominably filthy Jew, the hnlfnnkud
Arab, tho horrible peasants whose skins
are hardly to be distinguished from tha
beastly rags whioh cover them, creato a
loathing in tbe mind of tho stranger, which
ennnot be better described than in the
words of the prophet" They lie down in
heir shame, and their confusion cove ret h
them" " I will make tho city desolate,
and an hissing; every one that pusseth
thereby shall be astonished, and hiss ba.
ctuse of 1I10 plagues thereof."
If what our traveler asserts about tba
accommodations in Jerusalem be true, we
should not fancy a long stay thuro, how:
overanxious we might be to examine the
topography of the Uoly City and ils sur
roundings. There aro no famished lodg
ings to bo had. The visitor is cither
obliged to hire a house, furnish it and pro-'
cure servants, which are there the worst
in the world, or go to a hotel. The hotel,
whicu arc private houses changed to pub
lic oiks, are of the most wrotched descrip
tion. There is not a house in the city,
except those built for the consuls by their
respective governments, as good as that nf
n American backwoodsman. In the win
ter, lbs houses are cold, and the roofs let
n the water. Tho floors are mudo slant
ing, that tho water may run off, In sum
mer they are uninhabitable from the heat.
There are in the city three miserable hotels
in which the fare is poor, and thechurgas
as high as at tno Astor House iu New
ork.
But ihe worst feature about modern Je
rusalem is the everlasting broils snd dis
sensions among lite different religions sects
which are almost innumerable. It is only
the dread of tho Turkish poser that keeps
them from literally devouring euch other,
The Turk sits at the door of the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre, smoking his pipe,
npinghU black collee, and viewing with
qual indifference the Latin, the Greek,
he Armenian, the Copt, the Chuldean, and
dozen others who pass by him on their
way to different altars, wLilo the Jew who
ventures into the open squaru in front of
llio Church, exposes himself lo great peril,
if not to certain death, from tho hands of
both Turk and Christian.
Tbe Christian cannot enter tho Grand
Mosque of tho Turk. The Greek, the
Latin and the Armenian are engaged in
constant dispute among themselves. In
the meantime the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre it falling to pieces, and the wind
and rain are beating upon the Holy Sepul
chre itself. There is of course no society
no common ground upon which all msy
meet.
The unsocial Turk Inhabits his own
quarters, and scarcely ever leaves it except
to give some specimen of his tyranny.
The Jew lives iu his own filth In another
quarter, or sneaks about the city in a list
less manner, until some charity tent from
abroad gives him excitement enough te.
quarrel about his share. The Christian
have their own quarter, which is somewhat
less dirty than the others.
Oar traveler announces the recent arrival .
of a new Pasha who seemed disposed to
aid in the work of cleansing tbe city ; yet
he might turn ou', like other functionaries
before him, bul a nets broom. Still be ap
peared leu opposed to innovation than hia
predecessors.
03f Every day bas its appropriate do- ,
tirs 1 attend to them ia succession.