Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-19

TIfEBEs AND rs RuINs. noticed The other
day that 3Ir Williams. Editor d lie Itiea n
v, HerdL5, had extended his foreign trnYcl to
Egypt At last accounts he was down among
the dead men of past centuries. His sketches
are graphic Of his ramble IN Thebes; lie says:
The next day, visited several of the Touibs
Of the Priests and People. on the western side
Of the mountain. The largest-that Of Assessed
covers an area Of Orer one acre, and Is the
lUrgest OF all the TOmbs of Thebes- The srulp-
lures and painting Of many Of them are highly
interesting In one we find ueabinet guakerSRHd
carpenters at ,rork. One IS heWing piece of
timber; another IS hammering away At sofa;
another Is chiSclng out Sphynx; another Is
putting picc ofiurnituTe together by means
Of glue; another Is engaged in blowing glass,
while party are making brick Here Is the
interior ofthc house Of a wealthy Egyptian. A
lady Is making call; servant offers her some
wine; black slave stands near with plate in.
her hand; while several musicians are entertain
ing her with what were doubtless airs from the
last opera.
The TnInbS-upon which the .lirst families
OF Thebes 80 much prided theniseives-are now
occupied as COW and donkey stables and huts,
bv the IniseTable Arabs with which the neigh
borhood Is infcsled. And as the traveller wand
ers about from tomb 60 tomb, he IS dOgged by
squad of vaga6UudS with arms and hands and
eet and heads Of uluuiniie hOEn they have sac
TIleElQufly uu1AlAlGug ulAl ~ ouI
those gim relics bought the head of-a
''pruminent citizen" for three Piasters, while
the fine Htaper hngers' ofa Thebes belle were
offered me for an equal SUN. Our cook bought
whole mummy for six psstoles, which be in
tend 10 take home as present to his children!
The reader must do his own mOralizing.
After spending two days among the'tombs Of
the great was desirous Of looking IN upon the
''pits" Of the ''eommon herd" Ny guide led
me by narrow path thicllly strewn with frag-
ments of muininies-hands. feet, legs, arms,
trunks sclttercd about In charming confusion
to a small opening in the side Of the mountain
Through this was compelled to crawl ike
crab, some fifteen or twenty feet to larger OPEN
ing Lighting a torch, we continued our way
until we came upon a chamber filled with liu-
man mummies piled one upon another, TO q
depth of I know not how many feet. Walking
remorselessly 0reF these, We came to another
chamber similarly filed; then another and au-
other, all tenanted by the same ghOstly deni-
zens Sometimes / would sink upon my knees
into this mass Of withered human carton; some
times my cruel heel would unwittingiy crush
in grinning face or '.gn through mass OF
blackened bowels. There they lay peii mel,
half a dozen deep, some headless, some ting
hnIf upright gTinning at vacancy: some lying
hupeIessly with face downward; some with feet
cpperniost There was one huge fellow without
a head, who measured over SIX leet rom the
4leeL 70 the toes. VIC turned him over laid open
his poor chest, and left him to his fate. did
not take the census Of this HiOtey congregation,
but there were seTeral hundreds Of them IN this
single apit''
LIKE provisions dressess coming down
The signs before the door afa mantpa makers
shop, reads thus Dresses made lower than
eve"
After the clergyman united happy pairs
not long ago, an awful silence ensued, which
was broken BY the impatient youth exelairn-
ing-- s-
aDon't be 50 sunspeakably' hapPy.
TINS poetical affection was the amulet that
wore constantly about me- and oh, the great and
good and glorious charm that Il was and has
been to me-.
,.cr,r,a,te * said 10 he n ueflsef incarnation