Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1853-11-12
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WASHINGTON CRY, Nov. 5, 1855.

70 be Of awarlike complexion The Africa has ar
rived with dates from Liverpool and London TO the
22d Hostiliiies were expected to commence the
18th The interesting speculations in your paper of
October &c extracted from the New York TiiJpne
h. ye a strong probability in thern-I regard the
war whensoever it may commence actually as
prolonged struggle There may truce for short
time; or even a peace like truce but it will not
cease until the most mementous results have been
involved. DR. ScnRAAM, the German orator, at the
late meeting in Tammany Hall (see the Onion of
yesterday asks 'shall we not. gentlemen, see once
more a terrible, a resistess arm uphited-the arm
of universal revolution2" 1t is the dread of that
tide of revolution which will set in if the wal is
prolonged between Russia and Turkey which has
produced the vacllating conduct of England and
France on that question
Very recently remarked in one OF my letters to
you, referring to the highly interesting letters in
your columns from Palestine, that Jerusalem is the
most remarkable city in the world; remark echo
ing that of your Syrian correspondent, and prom
ised some observations on this head.
The events in the East now occurring, l consid
er as intimately connected with the ultimate for
tunes of jerusalem in fact leading to that great
turn in her affairs promised IN the last of the
23d ch of Matthew, as well as in the last verse of
the 18Th CHI of Luke
TO any attentive reader of his Bible | need not
say that the three last verses of the 23d CHI Of Mat
thew, and the two last Of the 18th Of Luke, which
are identical in meaning, and nearly so in words,
constitute one of the most impressive and import
ant passages Of Scripture. They do so, as develop
ment of the character of Christ and development
for more than eighteen hundred years of train of
events which is there predicted.
The design of this letter does not lead one to
consider the 9th verse in the 23d Of Matthew nor
the 34th verse of 18th CHI of Luke but only the
extraordinary predictions in the 3Sth and 39th of
Matthew, and the 35th of the 18th CHI of Luke:
alSehold your house is left unto you desolate."
How this is fulfilled even to this hour your cor
respondent "Tennessean" has very recently told
briefly but graphically in his account of the present
situation of Jerusalem. A city once containing
100000 inhabiants-beautiful for situations as is
noticed by your corespondent-now contains not
more than 10000.
venerated by Mahomedans next in sanctity to
Mecca enerated by Christians of almost every
sect beyond any other city Of the world. YET,
since its destruction by Titus it has never risen to
great splendor, and has been subjected to more
thorough desolation than any other city Of the world
that once possessed such grandeur, and beyond any
other city endowed in the feelings of so vast pop
Il, &c
ed with great sanctity in the eyes of the combined
Mahomedan and Christian populations, numbering
for centuries about two hundred millions yet it
1t has been subjected to desoaton for nearly eigh-
teen hundred years; and it will probably be more
than eighteen hundred years from its destruction by
Titus before it shall be to any considerable extent
resuscitated s'Behod, your house is left unto you
desoate;" has been fulfilled in all the periods from
the Roman vengeance until now.
When for brief period it has been restored to
some degree of apparent prosperity, its prosperity
has been as unreal as that of the Antediluyian
race, when the windows of Heaven were opened
and the fathoms of the great deep broken up, and
the rain of forty days and forty nights began to de-
scend upon an unbelieying and astonshed world.
When the Safacens had possession of tat the
commencement of the crusades-t had a popula-
ton of more than seventy thousand When taken by
Godfrey De Bouillon and the first crusades, they
maSsacred 10000 people within its walls, includ-
ing the Saracenic garrison. At earlier period,
when rebuilt by Kius Advican, and called Ella
Capitolins, because dedicated Jupiter Coptonus)
the Jews being permitted to return it soon became
populous; whereupon this miserable
race revolted to throw off the Roman yoke, and
the city was destroyed once more-and not rebuilt
to any extent for many years. The reign of the
Latin Kings in it did not restore it to any consider
able degree of splendor-"B Behold your house is left
unto you desolate."
But there is hope for the desolate city in the
next verse Eve shall not see man henceforth, until
ye shall say blessed is he that cometh in the name
Of the Lord" The seeing here referred to is not /
corporal sight. but spiritual, and denotes undoubt
edly the condition of the Jews 1t is such sight
he Bible means in the 9th verse of the 18th Oh.
If Hebrews: "By faith he forsook Egypt not |
earring the wrath of the King; for he endured as
eeing him who is invisible" or as John means IN
lis first Epstle 90 ch V 6: ''Whosoever abdeth in
Silletn not. WnOSOeNeT ildIu seen
lim nor known him" The sight here referred to
$ spiritual, manifestly-and means that impressive
elief which is equivalent to sight in its effects
inducing individual as fully to realize the subject
natter of beliefas sight does. Moses faith in the
9TH of Hebs was ''Gs seeing The faith referred
0 by john, is seeing its absence, not seeing. The
ews hitherto have been blind to the momentous
eality of Christs coming and character. Hence
he awful sentence: Behold, your house is left unto
gu desolate" What a history must be compiled
D express the forces of those few words. A few
yords of Omnipotence and Infinite truth are suff-
lent to blast or save. But there are many signs
nat this desoation is drawing to close; and, prob
bly,, by the lapse Of forty years more, the Jews
,ill be generally converted, and Jerusalem begin
gain ito bud aud blossom as the rose
SULPICTUs.
Hoes, Prices, Gc-The market here, as well as
sewhere is unsettled, and the buyer and seller
annot come to terms. The nominal rates have been
cents net, but buyers are now refusing 10 make
engagements at over AZ cents. The only transac-
on that we have heard of this week has been made
Y packer, who sold 5000 hogs at ) cents, to be
ken off the hooks by the purchaser. We hear al
of 5000 green hams at : cents 1t estimated
lat -, 900 hogs will be slaughtered at Jefferson
lie Navv A lhanv thiS Sp1Snn and 075 600 in