The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-12-31

gle with the colder water of the brook beneath
and coats the rocks in its course with a GIN
| red tint. Its virtues are greatly esteemed b
the natives, who bring their sick to battle i
! the " havoose."
! A little further on, the gorge narrows o
suddenly, that not space enough even for
horseback is left beside the tumbling brook
that makes its its wild music far down in tn
hiding shadows of the hill. sides, here only
few feet asunder. Suddenly the gorge termi
mates; the regular lodges break into confuse
ridges, and recede to the right and left. w
stand, looking down into beautiful, willow-doi
ted valley, waving with wheat fields, and encir
ced on all sides by hills, but hills of very differ
ent character from those which tower and gloon
behind us. All is greenness, grace, and beau
ty, before all is wildness and waste behind
The very horizon line, though still a hill line Il
far different thing. We christened this spo
after the Happy Valley" in Rasselas
| Fair weather and our mode of life fitted to
gether finely. But on the last days of oul
allotted time the skies began to frown. Cole
winds shook our frail root, and colder showers
here and there leaked though. Baby, though
bundled TO the chin, and kept close prisoner
IN the cloth cell, caught terrible cold. Our
frames were shivering, and our spirits shared
the chill. 1t was hard to give up this newly-fcund
liberty; but the attractions of house walls a.
length proved superior, and we babe adieu fol-
that time to " tent life in Turkey"
Mounted on horses somewhat heeter of pace
than our former slow team of buffaloes, we hast
ened home. | will add, for the benefit of all
the mammas among my readers, that baby, -
bound to pillow, and presented with the end
OF the bridle.rein, performed the journey with
great credit to himself) A magnificent thun-
der cloud canopied our little company, but was
magnsnimous enough only to display it's light
nlngs for our benefit, reserving the full torrent
OF It's rain.drops until we were once again safely
housed. Apropos of lgbtning-I wish some
philosopher would explain how it is that so
many accidents from that cause occur in Amer.
lea, while here, in a country destitute of light
ming rods, and presenting here and there many
a tall minaret and solitary tree as mark for
the electric fluid, stroke from the heavens is
thing almost unheard Of
The house looked uncommonly ample in its
proportions, as it opened it's doors to receive
us; and we suddenly and unanimously came to
the conclusion that our days were better, after
all, than the "days of DID," Think of life
time under tent! The days (rainy DAYS ex.
cepted) might pass delightfully."- enough, If one
were willing to undergo q perpetual browning
process. But, the nights Why, in those few
days, our slumbers had been disturbed by more
chronological Investigations than some of us
had ever before attempted $50 many "bugs"
with unknown names, crawling lizards, intru-
sive field mice, spiders seeking shelterl Glad
enough were we to lie down and sleep for once,
again, without danger of such company. Baby,
shouting to the forgotten echoes of the great
hall, was himself again at once
But, even while / am writing. come to ma
tidings of the worse than savage-worse than
rehensible--scenes being enacted in India.
The soul sickens and turns away from even an
attempt to realize such horrorsl Oh, is it not
q blessing, that while India is thus being con.
Vused with the throes of Mohammedan fauati.
cism, lfor all our accounts go to prove the
movement one Mussulman ra her than Hindoo-
fsnat'cai rather than patriotic,) we in the heart
6. spn u aar outward desncss AROUND rs
widely scattered and few as we are, are vet thus
free to come and go from city to country, and
from village to village? The religion of Mecca,
like that OF Rome, is the same in all ages and
all lands, and knows no quarter where limited
by neither power nor policy. Superstition and
falsehood, once firmly rooted in the hearts of
nations, seldom quit their hold without fierce
struggle. 1t will yet probably come to this
land, in spite Of Haiti Sheriffs," or any other
concessions of the Government to religious lib
erty. Let US pray the Ruler of Nations SO to
override the present rising in the East, that no
tempting precedent be given to similar surge
Of fanaticism in other lands. Truly zoe, of all
others, have reason to cry, God help the Eng.
ish in Indial" Not because we believe their
conduct gives no cause-perhaps great cause
for criticism, bat because, in spite of all this,
we are not anxious to see the Indies nor the
world lapse into q state seven fold more horri-
BILE than barbarism in its normal state. If the
dominant nation has deeply erred, it is accord.
ing to the law which awards retribution in this
world to nations, that it be meanwhile punish
ed. But the punishment is too terrible to think
upon Well may every other Government,
instead of casting a store at the suffering, trem-
BILE for its own turn, when, like Jefferson, it
remembers that God is justl" n
Yours, as ever, MARY IRvING.