The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-04-05
From Ito Cleveland Herald.
INTERESTING LETTER.

heen permitted to publish the following letter
from the Rry. Levi Tucker. formerly Pastor of
The First Baptist Soeiety in the city. II will
be read with pleasure by his smanv friends tho
the pleasure will be mingled with regret at
learning of his declining heaIih:
CAIRO, Upper Egypt January 20, 1853.
In these distant parts of tho earth l have
seen many lonely hour. and my thoughts are
very often 'homeward bound" and in imagina-
ton l visit very often the land of my nativity
and tho friends love, but have left far to-
wards the setting SUM- Since left home
have seen many strange and many interesting
sighs. an constantly surrounded by Turks
and Arabs Mcmlachs and Copts. Nubnns end
Greeks. and ArInenians. Albanans and Syraus
"a filthy. mrtley amalgam of ignorance. bg-
oIry and observation-disclosures which you havc
TO nriie your way with fist and foot, and cane
wcnnons which they think every foreign Franc
ha- perfect right to use. n
have learned TO enjoy many things which I
should once have deemed impossible. l have
crawlcd into mud hnts. some ten feet square
and five feet high with little elevations of mud
covered with rags and straw for seats, bed and
table, &C.. and disputed my way with DON
KEYS and dogs pigs and chickens, children and
feas and then shutting my eyes have drank
with good relish a cubo goats or butfalo's or
camels milk. 0, this is the land to cure all
fastidiousncss! l have often stood amid the
subimity and grandeur of ocean storms when
in tho wild uproar of elemental strife, / have
seen mast and sail. and rigging. go overheard;
and yet enjoyed the terrific scene. have
walked the crowded streets of busy cities and
watched tho great nmazons If life pcrpetually
rolling through them, md felt myself n mere
drop absorbed and lost in rushing torrents -
have wolked amid extensive gardens where
every thing was redolcnt of beauty. ard GRIM
son flowers. even III January. were blooming
and bhs,'ihs in all the gay freshness of Spring,
and exhalinga fragrance so rich and sweet as
as to load the air perfnme.
Here gushing fountains and .spoutirg jets
srarklc in the sunbeams, and water n mphs
and colossal statutes. and green arbors and'vcl-
vet lawns spicy shrubs golden fruit are scat
tered profusely around. while tho stately palm
tree waves his graceful plumagc in The evening
breeze,and nothing but beauty meets the eye.
and no sound but sweet music on the soft air
reaches tho ear. Oh il is luxnry To wander
in those Oriental Edens amid the soft m,enif-
icence of nature and the rich artistic skill of
man. But amid all these enchanting scenes,
have theught Of YOU. and m ny. many other
friends and my own dear bnt scattered family.
my wasting health, my departed wife; and have
hurried me To- my solitary room iG room in
n land of strangers. commended you all to
God. and nmil sighs could not rcprcss ]
have sunk ihc rest. f24
For hours and for miles, have walked on
tessolated pave, men,s, wrouoht with magic
skill. and in brilliant colors. in al tho fablcd
devices Of heather mythology: in gorgeous
halls &C kisg-. here the lofty ceiling was pam
nelled, embossed. clcern'lv eildcd. and cxquis-
floor on elegant Gardens. and fountains and
groves, and flashing mirrors flew back uron
tho eve the sn-pnssing hrilliarcv Of massive
gliding Of wi'lc aHd polished piasters. the
most beautiful paintings and faultlcss sta
tnarv the immortal nrmen'os If the Old mas
ters of world wide celebrity and fame. Every
where around YOU In these galleries OF art are
the finest conceptions Of genius and the hap
pifst executions of artistic skill, on glowing
canvass, and breathing bronze and speak ing
marble. In such wilderness of curiosites. |
have hccn lost fer hours 10 everything else on
earth, nor could tho merry laugh Which ranT
through these almost endless coonnales rouse
me from my rcvcrv.nor vet the solemn echo 10
my solitary football call back my Intensely ex-
citcd mind from tho absorbing object AROUND
me.
7 have stood alone IN thc deep hours Of
uiu Int while The glorinus moon. in qucenly ms-
iestv. was riding Along her briililpt pathway.
and hosts Of brf, ht stars we're tro ping across
the intcrnincablc fields of spscc AID sitting S
rrrct of diamonds upon the brow OF niaht
nt tlis lone hour have wandered IN tho decp
sliadnws of Sa-arercc palaces amid the ruins
If Roman tcmplts and among the fragments of
long buried Egyptian cities. whose s'upcndu-
ous walls and crumbling towers were reared
centuries before The advent Of our Savior uron
tho earth. AT such moment. and in such
place, how vain appear lie. and wealth, and
fame, What now arc all tho objects of earthly
ambition. or the toing ambition. or tFo toing
pursuits Of manto these silont sleepcrs beneath
nay feet, or in the rocky sides of these circling
hilsl
Who now can determine tho scpulchre Of
the king from the humble grave of The sub
ject, who once ,remblcd at his word. or the
dusty bed ofthe master from tho some dream
less ballet of the slave? / have stood where
the fatal guillo,nc stood on which tho kind
hearted Louis the Sixteenth and his nmiablo
Queen Antoinctic Cherlottc Cordav. Robes
pierre. aad three ihonsard Others. suffered in
fifteen months i'm tho French Rcvolution.-
Have cimrd the tower of Notro Dame, stood
under the great hell which struck tho signal
for the bloody massacre on the fatal night of
he eve of ~. Bartholomew; ascenGed the
heights of Fourhiors, traced out tho vants
where the earlV OniSIlonS met IN inc nlgnt 10
wer. hip and where thousands of them wero
burchcrd. Have examined tho obclsk of Lux
or. erected before the great temple in Thcbes,
more than ffftecn hundred years before Christ
Have Watched the pale moonbcans struggling
through tho opening tissures in the ivy-man-
tied arches; or glapcine from some PROSTATE
column of tho old Roman palace in which
Claudus and Caligla were born, or OF tho
moulding walls of the old Forum Vetus, built
by Trujan. and the spot wlcre Augustus and
Sevorus lived. followed the four great roads
construc,ed by Anthony, all radiaiing from
Lyons; and have read the celebrated Bronze
Tables, ON which the speech of CIaudious is
recorded, which he made when consor of the
Roman Scna in tho year As, on moving that
provinces Of Ga la be admitted to the privilc-
e, Of cil i1en,hip., sf
spent somo iimc in Malta: was delighted
az; n TIM cEo,a. n tho ffut aud bca,,fv of this