Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-12-25
JERUSALEM.

ton Post, now on his travels, draws
sombre picture Of tha, famous place,
once the joy Of The whole earth. Az
ter the first few days OF excitement, which
every visitor to Jerusalem must experi-
ener, there succeeds an inexpressible sad
ness, settled melancholy, which appears
10 be impressed upon the eountenance Of
every iuhabitanj.
\ walk through the filthy streets is
horror--the heaps Of garbage leit to rot
IA tie sun; the slaughter-house in the
centre oi the city, the tannery adjacent
20, and polluting the Holy Sepulchre
the skins Of animals, yet warm from their
bodies. and covered with veimin, exposed
at every corner for sale-and vet worse,
If possible, the abomnhby filthy jew, the
hall-nake ed Arab, ihe horrible peasants,
whose skins are hardly TO be distinguish
"a from the bcaslly rags which cover them
create loaghiug in the mind Of tic
strnnger. which cannot be better deserib-
ed than in the words Cd tho prophet
They le down ia their shame and their
confusion covereth them will make
this city desolage and an Kissing every
one thai passeth thereby shall be aston
ishcd, and hiss because OF theplague there
of"
II what our traveller asserts abou, tho
ACCOMMODATIONS in Jerusalem be true, We
should not iaucy a long stay there, how
| ever anxious we might be 10 examine the
topography Of the dolly City aud its sur
rouudings. There are no furnished lodg-
Iings 10 be had. The visitor is either
obliged TO hire house, furnish il, and
servents, or 90 to the hotel The hotels,
winch are private houses changed TO pub
lie ones, are Of the most wrCiched des-
criptlon. There is moi house IN the
city, except those built by the coasels for
4 their respective governments, as good as
that Of an American baekwoodsman.-
In the winter the houses are cold, and the
roofs Let in the water. The floors are
made slanting that the water may run
loF In the summer they are unInhabit-
liable from the heat There are ia the city
three miserable hotels in which the fare
is poor and the charges as high as at the
. Astor House ID New York.
But the worst feature about Modern
Jerusalem is the everlasting broils and
dissens0ns among the different religious
serts which are almcs, nnumerable. IL
is only the dread Cf the Turkish power
that keeps them from literally devouring
each other. The Turk sits at the door OF
the Church Of the Holy Sephulchre,
smoking his pipe, slipping nIs black cof-
Zee, and viewing win equal indifference
the Latin, the Greek, the Armenian, ths
Cupt, the Chalendesn, and dozen others
who pass by him on their way TO differ
ent altars, while the jew who ventures
into the open square in from the
Church, exposes himself 10 great peril,
If not to certain death, from the hands Of
both Turk and Christian.
The Christian cannot enter the Grand
Mosque Of the Turk. The Greek. the
Latin, and the Armenian are engaged ia
constant dispute among themselves. IN
the meantime, the Church OF the Holy
Sepulchre Is falling 10 pieces, aud the
AitH anu ram W e hNuAltiH Atitti htiI AAbiJ
Sepulchrc itself There Is Of course no
society-no common ground On which
all may meet.
The unsocial Turk iuhabits Lis own
quarters. aud scarcely every leaves it exc
cept to give some specimen OF his tyran-
ny. The jew lives in bis own filth in
another quarter, or sneaks about the city
ia li,tless manner, until some charity
sent from abroad gives him excitement
enough to quarrel about lis share
The Christians have their own quarter,
which Is somewhat less dirty ilan the
others
Our traveller announces the recent ar
rival Of new Pasha who seemed dis
posed to aid in the work Of cleansing tho
city yet he might turn out, Ike other
ruuetioraries before him, but ne,e Jroom'
Still be appeared less opposed to innova-
ton than bis predecessors.