Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-08-28
STATIsT.
NOTES OF TRAVEL IN THE OLD WORLD.
Written for de National h,teHigencer by a Citizen
9f Washington
A pAY-pREAM OF sArEp.

From Liberals we assembled by mountain pass towards
Nazareth. 1t day of deadened sunshine sallcw in
its light but not cloudy still that the hum of life
rose up from the valley and followed to the height
where turned to look back upon the sacred waters
On the right, the mountain, lay the ruins Of
Safed
Years ago. forget many occurred the great earth
quake that laid it desoate 1t was of terror well
remembered by the survivors and by the inhabitants of
Liberals. stopped awhile out the sad havoc
that had been made there and, while gazed upon it's
Wondering vestges the past seemed rise before in
/ all it's terrible reality
| murky gloom hung over the shores of Gailee. No
CLEAN Of sunshine rested upon the sacred The
hot air stagnant upon the mountains and the valley
of Genesareth lay parched in the stiffness Its groves Of
olives were whered its herds motioness its ruin
ed temples without shadow From the heights Of Safed
down into the pulseess below there hush Of
! life; for the presage of Doom spread abroad.
death-pall lay upon the blanched earth
Then there came low signing out of the gloom but
none knew whence it Fear upon the hearts
Of the people, and they fell PROSTATE and prayed There
was feverish trembling of the EARTH and it was still
again. and again it trembed and moaned and again it
was still. The hour come; it not with sud
den shock but with the slow certainty of fate deep
sad wall OF death rose upon the air All living things
fed but they knew where to fee The plains opened
in smoking assures and the mountains were cleft asun-
der by hand that hath seen great rocks
rolled crashing down into the depths below Shrieks of
terror mingled with the crash and smoking of
earth upheave and buried beneath them houses and
temples and all that fed upon its bosom Men rushed
from their abodes and smoe their breasts crying We,
wo Judgment hath fallen upon safed!' Women fed
shreking with their children into the dark caverns But
there death in the MONDAY light, and there was
death in the darkness all desolaton and death;
wherever they fed desoation and death Crushed be-
meath the falling masses they lay buried in sepulchre
Of ruins. The dread DOOM had come; there were no
sounds but the sounds Of Wo to the highest and
the lowest; wo to Safed, all that were there
that fatal day The living buried, and the dead
cast up from their graves and the living and the
dead entombed in the convulsed earth to mouder
together Days after purd eOrpses were drag
graspng of ruin in their cenched hands they
died. the corpses Of mothers, with their skeleton
still twined around their babes blackened and bleeding
some dragged out drink in the light of heaven
once more, and die ravng mad happy fate for them
that crushed rise more For days after the
living lay MANNED in the sad chaos and smothered cries
were heard when Safed more-wang for the lost
that be again for the dead that
more could know the bitterness of life.
| The dream ended: turned and rode on towards
| the plain Of Hatim.
THE NIGHTS OF PALESTINE.
Djenin afforded fair example Of the extent to which
mental and physical persecution may be carried without
absolutely producing insanity Expecting every
be robbed by the natives who the in all Pa
lestine we lay in the hut of Christian Arab where we
literally in danger Of being devoured by asses cows
goats, and smaller animals such CATS dogs rats and
lizards, as well by the vermin, which completely OBJ
liberated all my remembrances of South America and Ca
fornia. Never before had been conquered by annoy
ances Of that kind had always slept through them, and
laughed at my companions next morning for being trou
bled about such triaes But, 0 Djenin To this day l
cannot think Of that miserable little town and the night
we spent there without itching get further away
from it. In the middle Of the night after tossing roll
ling, and groanng without even much o wink of
sleepfor the heas actually covered live coating
of black MALL started up and looked around in search
of sympathy The tall Southerner sitting up the
mud foor his hair dsheveed his eyes wild and haggard
and his face dreadfuy Scared and emacated he was
the act Of aiming blow with empty bottle the head
Of some hungry animal that had been trying to eat him
The English Captain, jolly ever scratching himself
with one hand, while with the other he held pipe which
he smoked with great calmncss and good humor
"Hallo!" said /, " what's the matter, Captain p"
/" The aeas, said the Captain they're quite stun
ming, assure you Never SO many in all my life"
! !" why don ! you catch EN- Z"
Z" Too strong for me; can't hold en- Pom my honor
they won't let sleep wink Awfully ferocious ami
mails stunning, quite stunning assure you Sir L
think any thing short Of hot brandy punch will cure
, them"
The proposition was gratifying that we all nme-
datey agreed to IT, francesca and Yusef were aroused
and commanded to produce FIRE and water in ten minutes
the pain of dispeasure Very soon we felt quite
happy, in spite Of the yernin-happier good deal than
g we did next morning
have looked in vain for scientific description Of the
Syrian flea Surely il deserves place in natural biso
ry and, although unskied in entomology shall here
!, notice briefly this extraordinary animal The puce
Grauda Syrian flea is Of lively disposition and ire
guar in his habits given to late hours and Disturbances
Of the peace lie sleeps occasionally during the dov but
is always wide awake at night when his vivacy is very
remarkable Human blood is his food he prefers Chris
: ans Arabs article Of Diet has great yioor Of
muscle and capacity for digestion carries in his mouth
i Tong harpoon which he throws with great skill uses like
/ wise boarding knife and patent forcing-pump He ne
YER dies naturally but is subject diseases Of III, brain
. from too great flow Of blood the head Wounds pro
duced by this ferocous animal unpleasant but NO
= fatal Constant depletion, however may destroy life
hence by repeated attacks may be altogether dret
\ UP in which he becomes dry subject One should
always when he feels the harpoon thrown into him sciz
hold Of the fen by the hind legs tear him out by mali
Il force and deposit him secretly upon his neghbor al