The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-03

whole of the premises were alive with her servants and
others assembled on this mournful occasion Now
dog cat even lizard appears to relieve the utter soil
tude The tomb also is sadly changed was then EN-
powered in dense shrubbery and an arbor
and the stones of the vault itself broken
There is no inscrpton-no word in any language and
unless more carefully protected than hitherto the last
resting place of her ladyship will soon be entirely lost
The history of this place is peculiar 1t belonged to
house, to which Lady Hester added some twenty or
thirty rooms AT his DEATH after that of LADY Hes
ser ne % was lett to an only son. who quickly
spent 1t all by his extravaganza He then turned Moslem
and not long ago hung himself in neighborng house
HIS Mosem wife-a low vulgar creature-fearing that
the Christians would day deprive her of place tore
down the buildings and sold the the people
OF June Thus the destruction has been Intentional ra
| pid, and complete.
The British consul at Beirut requested to perform
the religious services at the funeral of Lady Hester
was an intensely hot Sabbath in June 1889 We started
on our melancholy erand at O'Clock reached this
| place about midnight. After brief examination the
consul decided that the funeral take place imme
diatey. This vault in the garden hastily opened
and the bones of General 10 of his SON forget
| which-a Frenchman who died here and was buried in
| the head
The body, in plain deal box was carried by her SER
wants to the grave, followed by company with
torches and lanterns to enable them to thread way
through the winding alleys of the garden. / took a
wrong path, and wandered some time in the mazes of
these abyrnhs When at length entered the arbor the
FIRST thing saw were the bones of the general ghast
ly heap, with the head on top having lighted taper
| stuck in either eye-socket-a hideous pripninp
spectacle 1t difficult to proceed with the service
under circumstances novel bewilderng The CON
sui subsequently remarked that there curious
condolences between this and the burial of Sir John
Moore, her ladyships early love. In silence lone
mountain at midnight our lanterns dmly burning
with the flag of her country over her, she lay like a
warrior taking his rest and left her alone In her
| glory There was but of her nation present,
| and his name Moore.
The people of June that village the wady made
large profits from the beraiity and extravagances of
Lady Hester and they are full Of wonderful stories about
for years, and from them, and from others still
closely connected have had abundant opportunity to
learn the character of this strange being
ec she not merely sane but sensible well informed
and extremely shrewd She possessed extraordinary pow
Of conversation, and perfectly fascinating all
with whom she chose to make herself agreeable She
however, whimsical imperous tyrannical and times
revengefu IN hgh degree Bold as lion she wore the
to rule her Albanian guards and her with
lutte authority She kept spies in the principal Cities and
at the residences of pashas and emee and
thing that was going forward in the country Her gar
den of several acres walled round like fort and
GROWING the top OF this conca HILL with deep wadies
all Sides the appear from distance quite i'm
posing But the site badly chosen The hill has no
relative elevation above others the prospect is not nyit
ing the water distant far below and had be carried
up on mules. She, however, had the English for
beautiful grounds and spared neither time labor
pense to convert this barren hill into wilderness of
shady avenues, and paradise of sweet flowers
succeeded. have rarely seen more beautiful place.
The morning after the funeral the consul and went
round the premises and thirty fue rooms which
robbery They were full of trash. One had forty fifty
ojars of French manuf'G ture old, empty and dusty
Another was crammed IN Arab saddles moth eaten tat
tered, and torn. They had belonged to her mounted
guard. Superanuated ppestems without bowls filled one
room. Two devoted medicines; another
to books and papers mostly in boxes and ancient chests
Nothing of much value found any where and the
seals replaced to await legal action The crowd
greedy retaners had appropriated to them
selves her most valuable effects One of the wealthy cit
zens of Sidon is said to have obtained his money this
way She told Mrs. T that once, when she sup,
posed to be dying of plague she could hear her
breaking her chests and ripping off the embossed
covers of her cushions. " Oh didn't vow' said she
| fLati
and she performed her to the letter. But each sue
ceedng set like the flies in the fable of the fox
lingering disease they had time enough to work their
will and nothing valuable escaped their rapacity What
death! Without European observation-disclosures a
friend male or emale-aone, on the top of this bleak
| mountain, her lamp Of life grew DINNER and more DIM
until it went quite out in hopeless rayless night Such
was the end of the and brilliant niece of
presiding in the saloons of the masterspirt Europe
and familiar with the intrgues of kings and cabinets
With Mr. Abbott and his lady she would sit out the
night talking those stirring times of the last
fury and the beginning of the present. with exhaustess
back Engnd. At length her income was greatly cur
tailed in order to pay off her debts She
furious, but unsubdued In her mountain nest and all
alone she dragged out the of her days naughty
pride and stubborn independence.
She could be extremely sarcastic, and her satire
often terrible Many of her letters, and the margin of
books which purchased at the auction are 'illumina
ted' with her caustc criticisms There her
an unbeever in many. She read the stars and dealt
in natvties and sort of by which she pre-
tended to oreel coming She practiced alchemy
and in pursuit of this vain science often closeed
with strange companions She had a mare whose back
bone sank suddenly down at the shoulders and rose
abruptly the hips This deformity her vivid imag
nation converted into miraculous saddle, which she
was to ride into Jerusalem by the side of
sort of Messiah. who was to Introduce fancied men
mum. Another mare had part to play in this august
pageant and both were tended with extraordinary
lamp was kept burning in their very comfortable apart
ments and they served with shebet and other
cacies Nothing about the premises excited my
passion as these poor pampered brute upon which Lady
Hester had lavished her choicest affections for the last
years. lhey were soon atter SOLD at auction
when hard work and low living quickly terminated their
miserable existence. Lady Hester doctor, and
positive in her prescriptions to herself her servants her
horses and to her chickens and often did serious
tests of character both feman and least and of
was often deceived by both to her But end
these random sketches. To draw fulllength portrait is
aside from our purpose and beyond She was
wholly and magnifcenty unique. Now riding at the
head of wild Arabs of the desert, visit to
Palmyra; now intriguing with mad pashas and vulgar
emeers at time treating with contempt consuls gene
rails and MOBILES bidding defiance law and thrashing
the officers sent to her lodge at another resorting to all
sorts of mean shifts to elue confound her creditors
day charitable and kind the poor oppressive
selfish and tyrannical in the extreme Such was LADY
Hester in her mountain home Lebanon should like
to read the long dark interior life Of such being
not to live it. Alas she must have drained to the regs
many bitter cup Her sturdy spirit here fought out all
alone thousand desperate battles and lost them all
those who are tempted to revolt against society and
with nature, God, and man, come to Dahr June-sit
the fragments of this broken tomb amid ruins without
beauty to charm age to make venerable-itself ruin
OF yesterday, and sinking fast to hopeless oblivion Will
such an end pay for such lfe2 But enough OF Lady
Hester Poor wandering STAR struck from the bright gal
axy OF Engands happy daughters to fall and expire
this solitary summit of lebanon drop upon thy
lonely grave, which, living thy proud spirit would
scorned
The book we think is over illustrated-but the ext
gencies of the Harpers' seem to demand books fol
illustrations, we'll illustrations for books We
do not see why that same villanous old centipede
which has made our flesh creep in The Monthly, to-
gether with certain familiar threshing floors
"crocodiles' trees''- "serpents. &C., &C.
should be SO often pressed into the service Orni
biologists at least will thank the Messrs Harper fol
an admirable engraving, large as ife-of bird sale
to be very abundant in Palestine and, of which, 6
specimen has occasionally been seen here-we re-
fer to the sparrow. The wren has been overlooked
not being perhaps mentioned in the Bible-bu
we can inform readers that sit is a small bird
which builds its nest in the hole of tree >, &C., &C.
ride CoMLYs spelling book. One thing in this book
we object to-the udo-dialogue form in which il
is written. We have an especial disgust for lug
ging in an nerocutor for the purpose of extracting
information to which we are entitled at any rate
making that pump, which should be a fountain
| Wayne and Chicago Railroad has been effected to
be carried into effect, after the first of January.
| The road has been divided into two distinct sta
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