The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-14

DR.. BACON ON TRAVEL AND TRAVELLERS IN rm
EAST.
lecture delivered Friday evening at tho BrSad-
way Tabernacle by the Rev DR. Bacon tho subject o
Travel and Travellers in the East" before
and intelligent audience lie observed that tho Amed-
(who called Yankees when away from homej
addicted to travelling than any other people
the face Of the globe 1t would not be difficult find
one thousand Americans in Paris but of hem were
naturaized They would never find an Amoriaan
turalizcd out Of the Union. (Appausc) At Rome and
Naples they may count the Americans by hundreds and
any OF the great lines Of communication they would bo
to fall in with of their counrymen. Now, amsst
everybody Ind been to see Queen Victoria and trips
the Atlantic were quite common What numbers
Of American writer's had made retaliation on the Eng
French and German writer's who had committed their
blunders That retaliation considered ample and
plete Uaughter) What newspaper was there which
did edfy its readers by letters from travelling
pondcnts He expected to find some Of his countrymca
in every part Of Europe but no did not expect to find
them in Syria and Egypt When he embarked at Naples
he found himself quite in with native travelers
two from Massachusetts,, who had wandered year OF
two and then intended to visit Turkey and also q
planter from Alabama rich enough to buy up the
Italian Counts II time was given him to pay out
English propeller bound for Beyrout Though there
were no accommodations, yet being desrow of pro-
ceednE BY that t route E. he engaged his passage He
Virginians who were on their way to Jerusalem.
lie found them at the Holy City in their hired
house and he enjoyed the vginan hospitality to which
they invited him lie met ut Jerusalem another Aneri
can whom he had often in the streets There
ao there excellent lady but OF unsound mind That
lady had been more than twice supplied with
means to leave Jerusalem matter Of charity but her
occentrces had brought her back again She had been
born before her time Had that not been the CASE
might have attended convention on 'womans rights"
minnie genius She was an itinerant lecturer On ons
occasion she took for text the passage from st Paul
ating to women being forbidden to speak in the church.
Uaugher) Seven days after his arrival In Jerusalem.
he met gentleman from Boston who had grown rich In
California and had determined upon enjoying his pros
pery 1t there that he and those who accompanied
him. heard Of the letter Of the Secretary State
to the Austrian representative They repeated to
greatest enthusiasm lie recoeced afterwards hearings
commentary that letter had provoked:-An officer who
had been In the Hungarian army had entered ths
Damascus; having become Mahommedan he said. i
should like to have heard that they had hanged Mr.
Mann for that would have been the last act Of the Houss
Of IIapsburgn Those little incidents gave them
scousnes that Europe beginning to the shadow Of
excursion to Jericho few weeks afterwards and again
to Beyrout where there come fresh arrivals from Ame
rica and while there he OF tho company assent
bcd at the house Of the American Consul where there
were thirty Americans and they might have thought
themselves at home. but for little incidental cir
eumstanccs. .He Americans travelling.
other than missionaries till he arrived at Constantinope,
where he told that large company Of Americans
had traced out line Of travel In Asia Minor, and
were returning again to America. 1t seemed likely
to become fashionable tour, and railways between
the cities Of the Holy Land getting quite
those to Albany and other places.
AlludiDg to distinguished American travellers he
that first there was Stevens whose volumes were
full Of personal adventure Professor Robnsou
aided by DR. Ely Smith The reader Of the solid volumes
compiled by them was reminded OF the man whom ths
length and breadth thereof After him Dr. Cling
and Dr. Durbin their writings had the advantage Of being
generally interesting The expedition to the Jordan
and the Red Sea under command Of Lieut. Lynch could
not be forgotten for IL conferred honor the
pnal fhaf kv man hnf<yR
battle After him came DR. Wainwright. who gave o
picturesque and interesting account Of the pathways Of
crcasng-sruck the imagination with prophetic changes
which were to come from the young West. Coming
like the limbs Of life attached to the body OF the dead
Tho American missionaries in the Turkish empire
body Of men, and the state Of American
in these parts another very encouraging feature.
II they would have the reward Of labor real enjoy
ment they must prepare thorough intellectual cquiva
lent; travelled for what he could merely see OF
simply to see what had been he went on bootless errand
He felt his deficiencies when he upon ruins and
monuments he felt that he had had time to have been
posted in what he wanted to he could have enjoyed
without preparation, and back little the wiser.
Steamers conveyed to and from the scaports the Med
erranean crossed by British French aud Austrian
steamers and Malta chief centre focus of all
that steamboat navigation But when they where
steam they not far out Of America Let them
90 to any Of the sseports where there regular
steamers and they would find it appear strange After
great revolution should have penetrated the con-
tnent by its influence. 1t only few years since
that began plough the waters Of that great
The American traveller impressed with the idea "
antiquities standing In strong contrast with the New
World man born In the country would go into thu
town clerks Office and clasp his hands in astonshment
upon seeing documents 200 years old and feeling Of tho
snme kind pervaded the American mind when contem-
plating the monuments Of the middle ages What struck
the American mind was the scenes Of ruin decay ana
progress that presented There decay In this
country. The Mahomedan empire dying by inches.
Another feature was its and ignorance and our
ciSzaticnits want Of civil order and organizations
want Of the arts and Of industry and then came tho
contrast Of the poverty there with our unlimited riches
The poverty and rags that existed in Ireland existed an
over the Turkish empire But this not once The n
reason Of this state Of things the want
want OF government to protect life and property Inc
yerpment existed for the purpose Of punder Incrv
also the want of a religion which should give ssnu ~
the domestic affections and intellectusi s.'m
The Mahomednn Law which existed between nv nu' Vs .S
wife would account for almost all the esiLs .nse Pr
vailed The reverend doctor denounced ths manoeuss
rgious nractica and demonstrated It's VICIOUS innucncc
=, - * manper and concluded his lecture smia
much Applause The period Of the Doctors travel wa