The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-08

Thebss The mountains each side protect it from the
deserts That city in former days had the entire COM
of the East Indies Persia Palestine and the ie
want and there, in the great city OF Thebes was de-
posted the richest merchandise from all parts
Of the kingdom. The temples Of Thebes in q re
markable sta to of preservation and remain living,
speaking monuments of what they 1000 years ago.
Thus you find those walls Of the Kurnak the history
of Egypt well as 1t be found There are but little
remains of grand private houses except in the region OF
Kurnak where there some magnificent remains Of the
residences Of the powerful and rich; their tombs, with
abundance II the traveller should go there he should
first visit the tombs Of Thebes which would take whole
day He should also visit Kurnak which would take him
at least two days. He had inquired of the oldest nhab
tant (pontng TO the staue and yet he told me
anything of the nineteenth century His time was nine
teen centuries not after but before Christ The traveller
nee is not steamboats, when you can go up the Nile in
forty days What want they of railroads when they had
was nothing to telegraph What needed they of
penny newspapers, when they read nothing but those
century compared with that of Egypt You may talk Of
Broadway and its churches in this city why all the stone
materials used in their construction would not build the
Temple of Kurnak. Why, Thebes could hol New York in
lap Yet Kurnak, which began in the nineteenth
fury before Christ is not mouldered await fresh
the rich merchants of New York could not begin build
the great temple Of Kurnak You might stand at Of its
walls and looking back you can see the outer wall two
vera space OF two miles But what that in those days.
when 1hebes could forth twenty thousand chaots
in here all the uxuries could be brought into the
midst of her city from Ethiopia Persia Palestine and the
Levant. Egypt the mother of all the artswas tho
school of all the arts-panting sculpture poetry and
philosophy What is then the nineteenth century If she
pay attention to religion she may become prouss in
her arts as Egypt but # she neglect God the msansst
Applause He then went back to the early history of
Egypt recorded in the Bible with which our readers
remnants of Christianity, but the greater portion of
which were swept away during the Mahomnedan inva.
n Thus in those ruins can be found history Of all
He then went on to say that he, with some of his
friends while visiting the ruins of Thebes by moonlight
struck with at the grandeur of its obelsks and
the immense size of its temples which, at this day,
after the lapse of perhaps 200 years. fresh and
little decayed as the build ngs of modern city In
very beautiful he then reviewed the past history
of Egypt dwelling upon the power and spendor Of the
soveregns of that country and of the number Of large
ed. He attributed the downfall of Egypt to the cruel
and unjust in which they treated the Hebrews
whom Of the Ptoemys means OF restoring Egypt
to its former grandeur endeavored to exermnate But
little did he think that would spring from that
before whom all will one day have to appear to answer
was just the sp day Before left Thebes that hired
Arab boy to scramble into the top of the structure
and presently there grated upon my sharp ringing
noise such grated upon the of those who lived
two thousand ago the top of the structure
sounding stone which when struck with hammer gave
loud and ringing noise, somewhat like the toll of bell
He then concluded by saying that the structure Of Mem
which sounds upon the dismal plain of Thebes,
echoes the fall Of Egypt for what was that cry but
''Buckshee! BucksheeF"
The Law COurts-The Late Judge Paine
OcT Chief Justice Oakley, taking his seat the
bench of the Superior Court announced that in
quence of the amented death of his late associate Judge
Paine, the court would stand adjourned until Monday
morning The special term before Judge Duer also
adjourned for the day The general term of the Supreme
Court before the five judges, was, motion of Mr.. Bid
WE'LL adjourned to Monday The Court of Common Pleas
part first motion of Mr. Girardus Clark, seconded by
Mr. James T. Brady, and after few feeling remarks from
Judge Woodruff adjourned; part second, before Judge
DAILY and special term before Judge ngraham were also
adj nf tn he ATE .Juaf icap
The U. s. District Court, before Judge Belts, ad
journed the motion Of Mr. j. OSullivan seconded by
Mr. W. O. Morton; Judge Belts remarking that it pc
culary appropriate for this Court to pay respect to the
late Judge Paine, he at one time the official
porter of the Circuit Court.
The Marine Court paid similar tribute to the memory
of the deceased judge.
Death has, within fourteen months claimed four vic
Tins from the judiciary of this city, namely Judge Sand
ford Chief Jus ce JONES' Judge Lynch and Judge Paine
and also Judge Judson (of ConnectcuD who occasion
ally presided here in the United States courts.
There will be meeting Of the bench and bar held at u
O'Clock Saturday, in the general term room Of the
Superior Court in respect to the memory Of Judge Paine