New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-08
BY GREELEY & McELRATH.
vel. MI. no. $50.


sympathy, especially at Syrian School in Edes-
sa; and great numbers Of young men being educa-
ted there warmly espoused his cause and planted
the seeds of that Church, once powerful in Persia,
which now survives among the HISTORIAN Christians.
From this brief notice may readily be inferred
the many point. of interest connected with this
mysterious people, their history as a tribe, their
language and its changes as throwing light upon
their origin, and these features of their character
which have enabled them thus to maintain their
religious Independence, even when their civil and
personal freedom had been completely crushed
Mr. PERKINS says tha. they hne-leoking peo
pie, of fair complexion, bold, generous, kind, art,
less for Asia,ics, and extremely hospitabe. Even
those who dwell among the mountains of koor
distan, rough and even fierce as are their general
habits with alacrty divide their last OF bread
with stranger in want or suffering foe. As
field for Missionary effort, it will readily be seen
how many attractions they present. Instead of
meeting them as do many of the Heather among
whom Missionaries of the Church, with heroism
worthy the days OF martyrs and the lnqpistioa peril
their lives for the good of their and the glory
Of their faith, the HISTORIANS have welcomed them
to their midst their instructors in knowledge and
religion. Placed they among crumbling ma
tons and tottering false religion their reawakening
to the life of the faith is looked upon with deep
interest by Christians here as important elemont
Of that advancing Reform which to plant upon the
ruins Of the Crescent the eternal standard Of the
Cross of Christ.
To this people az Missionaries Mr.. PERKINS and
his Lady were sent in the latter part OF 1888 by
the American Board of Foreign Missions. After
Preliminary Sketch Of the circumstances under
which he went, and the general character OF The
people among whom he expected to pass his life,
MIR. PERKINS gives history of his voyage to
Malta, thence TO Constantinople and Trebizond,
his Journey thence to Erzroon Erivan, Tabreez,
the ancient GAIA where Cyrus deposited the trea.
sures of CrGsus, and thus to Oroomiah. OF all
these ourneyings he presents most interesting and
valuable account, introducing TO scenes and des-
crbing lands with which this region of the world
Is but slightly acquainted, and depicting his own
adventures in simple and familiar style, leaving
upon the mind convictios of the fa,igues and
sufferings he and his wife so well endured, and g
pleasing image of the unwonted scenes through
which his journey led him. In his account OF
Persia we have been greatly interested. Broken
and changed as have been the territorial limits OF
this ancient dynasty with almost every successive
reign, the people yet retain to degree unexam-
pied in any other permanent Asiatlc nation, the
character Of their progenitols we find it sketch
ed in classic historians and some of the sacred
writer's Divided into ten provinces il numbers
about ten millions Of inhabitants. Blessed with
healthy though varied climate, and luxuaant in
all the fruits and vegetable productions of the tenn
perste zone, it ubounds in mines OF lion, copper,
and coal to some extent iis animals are OF an un-
common size and beauty, and few countries boast
a more robust, active and well-formed race oil men
Tabreez, like most of the Persian cities, SITS IKE
monarch at the elevated extremity OF an extended
olain. sume four thousand feet above the level oil
the ocean 1t is surrounded by a wall, entered BY
eight gates, enclosing nearly eighty Thousand IN
habitants, of whom perhaps one thousand are
Armenian Christians, and the rest followers of The
Prophet. This city is the great mart for European
merchandise: shawls and silks are manufactured
by the natives, and its transit trade is mmense--a
most beyond conception. ;" 1t is, says Dr. FER
KlSs, "a grand depot, into which Europe pours
the fruit Of its industry and enterprise, To u, DIS
tribu,ed throug hout the whole country, and vast
regions beyond. The goods imported ate mainly
broadcloths, co,ions, chintz, loaf sugar, crockery
glass, tea and various kinds OF fancy articles
The principal ex ports from Persia westward are raw
cotton 10 limited extent, great quantities OF SIR
both raw and manufactured, carpets and shawi'.
The Persians are iine-losking people win orign',
ipnuistiye minds ahable manners, and surPass all
other nations in external ease and ARTIFICIAL polite
ness. Yet" says Mr.. PERKINS, their real char
acter is that .of ,reachery and talsehood IN the
extreme; They are naughty TO their interiors oo-
seauious to their superors, cruel vinoic''Ve'
treacherous and avaricious, without faith, friend
ship, gratitude or honor" They have ranks OF
nobility. subject, however, 10 the priesthood whose
Influence is commanding and terrific when de-
yeloped in the excitemcn, of mobs, who neYe Ike
vanes before the wind at the slightest brea'h Oh
hierarchal dictation" Full descriptions OF their
houses. modes of life, Sc are gwen by Mr.. PER.
K,Ss. The death Of the King Feth Ali Shah oc-
Cured while Mr.. F. was there, and gave rise, as
such an even, always does, to the most fris httll
anarchy and confusion. The succession was IN
fac, determined mainly by The efforts oil the tngiish
and Russian Ambassadors, of whom Mr. / Err
KlSs speaks in the highestterms. Suspected rivals
10 the throne are treated with the greatest cruelty
and as an evidence of tue stateot royal morals In
this respect MIR. PERKINS relates an anecdote OF
friend who visited the royal harem and was saE'
prised TO see all the young princes at play bf'nd
folded. On inquiry why this was done, their mo-
theirs composedy answered that they were merely
.r.c,ic;na IN acnuira dexteritv thai in case their