Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1848-11-09
NUMBER 81.


high opinion Of is value. and would follow sooner
than any other. believe. excepting instances where
he disputed texts about Ebal and Gcrizm are con
cerned.
The presen, inhabitants Of the city hate ,be Chris
ans as heartily rs The old inhabitants used 10 hate the
Jews The Inhabitants are Mahommedans Of most
b'goed character and lhev would ADM, neither Jews
nor Christians within their gates I'LL within few
years, when the Government Of the county Chen f.
gyptian) compelled them 10 better manners They
dared refuse admission; but hey behaved with
great insoence. We had to ride from end 10 end OF
me GUY, cur tents being pitched on green the 9th
er side. Our horses had go az slowly as possible
through The narrow street, which would not hold two
abreast and was paved with large slippery stones.
As we rode along behind another, nj this funeral
pace, all the people came out TO STARE and some
mock. Three times things were thrown in my face
men and women laughed and sneered, and children
thrust out their tongues. fell what lesson this was
70 intolerance about matters Of opinion. And thus il
is, but too oien, in the streets Of other cities where
men ought 10 know better than TO despise each other
for worshpping The same God, in different manner
In the streets OF other cities. take upon themselves
10 pity and despise one another with better know
ledge, in reality, of one another's views and feelings
Than these Mahommedaas had Of ou,s, or we OF
theirs.
Al las. we were throughl and glad | was TO issued
from The gate at the farther end Bu, sad sight a.
waited US there. company Of lepess under
the trees, crying out to for charity. acd stretching
out their MANNED hands. Il is terrible sight. which
we see too often in that couury II saddened us at
jerusalem almost every day.
Our tents were pitched on weedy plct OF ground
among gardens. orchards and ripping streams, and
looking up 10 Ebal on the one side. and GeIzim on
the other. Eba is still the sierner mountain Of the
Two, but uerizm has lost much Of lis fertility. Both
have tombs and yotiye buildings on Them, which
show them TO have hsea places of pilgrimage
After dinner, we asceIded heghl. past The Ma
hommedan cemeiry. whence we had fine view, in
the last sunlight Of this most beautiful city |, was
once the capital Of San,ara and il is sill, and must
ever be, for ia situation, very striking place. Ii
completely Ellis the valley from side side, and
cends lille way up the skirts Of Gerizn. lis hou-
ses. with their fiat white roofs hsdged in by the
groves which surround The towns; vines spread from
roof roof, and from court to court, two or three
palms spring up in the midst, and higher aofi sill,
graceful rnlnaret here aud there.
Then. 10 my delight, we descended to seek HE Sa-
marian synagogue Wa were guided to it, aud saw
nearly all the Sanariians Of the place; good looking
people, the men weaking the high hem-kc turbau.
which we sec in the portraits Of Josephus and other
old Jews. They said their number sixty in this
place, and about forty more elsewhere. ony hun.
bred IN the whole world They declared their chief
priest and the rest OF their TO be al Genoa. They
keep three great feasts in the year, going up 10 Ger
ziIn as The Jews used 10 60 up 10 the temple
The synagogue was small ordinary locking chap
ell, within cnrained recess Of which kept the old
copy OF The PenlG;cueh. 1t was shown 10 ~. after
much enlreaty on our Part; but found il was Inn
possible that | could be allowed to touch il.
felt il great event 10 have il. Ii is written
sort OF vellun 10 the Samaritan text clear, small
and even. The ve'um is tausred but il is well
mounted parchment. The priest hnlsellda res not
touch The MS, without careful publication and he
holds il By the ends Of the rollers which il is fixed
on scroll, like the copies Of the Jewish law in syua.
gogues.
/ We were lighted through the archways ofthc street
on our way home, and down tho hill. BY single
die. which burned steadily in tbs still air.
! Our emp Payment this evening" reading aloud
the history Of the Jewish and Samaritan controversy
and the fourth chapter oithe Gospel Of jcnn. While
we were thus reading in tent, the jackal in
full cry on the slopes of Gc:!zm.