Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-24

TILE INTELLIGENCE.

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AIouNTaCALvARYeASD THE Holy SEPULoHER.-
AIr. Williams, of the Utic7, (N.Y.) Herald, now
travelling in the old countries, and writing from
thence some ofthe most delightful letters any
tourist has ever furnished, narrates thus his
painful Disappointment at visiting the holy pal.
aces of Jerusalem:
Even Jerusalem loses something of its ro-
nance by the time one hns threaded its streets
and. .foughtits feas q few days Tho holy pla-
ces have, to your youthful Imagining, been in
vested with unutterable sanctity. The Calvary
Of your dreams has been steep aud rugged
mountain that looked frowningly on the city
from afur off; the Holy Scpulchre has. been mn
hnmblc cavern in the mountain side, bcgirt by
green pastures or deSOate wildS; Mount Zion
Won have seen only asa holy eminence standing
beautifully Gpurt from the hum of the busy
town; aud Mount M0riah you can think of only
as.tlle sOlateheight where Abraham offered
up Isaac, and the lamb was slain every morning
and ijevenng by Jewish priests. You may have
cad differently III YOUR bnOkS of travel but
somehow the old faith OF childhood clings low
ingly To the heart and makes you quite its slave
thr0hghzaii y"ur altuT'vearS. Aud so YOU come
to Jerusalem full of this sweet deluSion-come
hnIvt have your idols slnttercd-and leave it
wiser and prosier man. YOu enroll Yourself
rs Il transient hUaI der at some one or other of
he boarding houses OF the Holy CITY, and start
III 10 see It's SlSntS. You dlrect your guIC to
conduct ypn to the Holy Sepulchre. Passing
through labyrinth of dirty streets, you enter u
~tntel, chapel richly giIded and glittering with
gOlrlen tapeStelieS and silver. lamps: But |
wish To go tnstle tomb of Christ You pceyish.
lysexciaim. Isl Signeur,' quietly, replies your
.uide, aS he conducts you into a gorgeous
rcll, partly SubIerIaneous and partly above
srOuud.
A vision oCrich affairs ndhurning tapers, and
ytnrrS ofghas,ly bodies, writhing the cross,
aud a marble tomb, this is all yon SEQ OF the
ll"lv Sepmlchre. You try to realize the start
ling truth that here thu REDEEMgK vas laid, but
v"m cannot. aud s" mnve on To the next ll0niof
'he place. A stupid Greek priest thrnsts an iron
r"lt againstaS Spiliar whiclIyou cannot see, and
rere you are called to believe that Christ was
bound. Yuull ay tie Flitst lis foe, (yuu can't
wen see the scene Of your Redeemer's last ago
nv without Paving for it.) and ask to be led to
the steps Of Calvary. Another priest takes you
i'll charge, leads You up a flight of stairs into
mot er chapel, l'ctOre another altar, anC there
Won lause Overwhelmingly, wandering what is to
come next. Tpur guide pnints to a round hole
surrounded by IL polished brass plate upon
which Is engraved in large and Scrupulously
respectable characters that here was inserted
The cross upon which JESUS CmgIsT was cruci-
lied. Two similarly polished plates, on either
-ide attest the sites nt the SLiferings of the two
unmcky gentlemen who satisfied the vengeance
If the Jewish Law on the same occasion. You
cannot see the rock even-iutO which the cross
was inserted; vOu see only round holes and
brass sncket- and g"rge"uSt altnrs and silver
humps aud lnrg-robrdr priests. and cockneys
SUukIug through eye glasses.