The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-05-04

spared we hope we may be enabled to ac
complish something for our Master. W.
see but little society and miss some of tn
comforts of New England life. We hav,
man for our cook and JANETTE saws sh,
sometimes detects him pursuing cours,
which would not be considered neat by
some people. For example, she came il
the other day saying she foul d him mop
ping the floor in the vessel in which ht
washes the dishes. The other day Mr.
p. and l attended the funeral of chile
of one of the Protestants. The room il
which we conducted the service, land the
only one they had) is about 10 feet sqnare
This is their sleeping, dining and sitting
room. The family consists of five persons
Many of the people of this city and Of
this country, probably the larger par,
have no better accommodations. The
mass of the people are poor, gerry poor,
everywhere oppressed by the governments
and generally oppressed by the rich neigh
bors, if they have any. The soil is pro
ductive but produces little for want of Gull
ture, no plows, all the soil is digged with
the spade.
AS you pass along the roads, you see
no farms, no houses between cities and
villages. For here the people say it wo'd
not be safe to live on account of Robbers.
Most of the land lies unused except for
sheep, goats and cattle to Craze. The
cattle are very inferior to ours. The sheep
are very large, their mutton good, but
their wool very coarse.
No Protective tar If to encourage home
production, but about twice as great tax
upon what is carried from city to city or
from the country to the Capitol as the tax
on the imports. And so you would say
in respect to everything which the Gov
eminent does. it is Just wrong.
On our way here we passed through a
little piece of woods where robbery had
been committed few weeks before, and
we were attended by armed guards given
by government, as other travellers have
been for months through that distance of
atont half mile. Just as if the Robbers
would certainly rob in the same place
again, after the neighborhood had been
aroused and travellers put on their guard.
Again, if a man is drowned by going
in bathing, the Government immediately
issues an order to prohibit all bathing in
shat place. This has been repeatedly done
Perhaps | should say that l have seen
a few wooden p'ows, very rudeIy made
and only able to scratch the earth SO she
will itch, but no able to bring out anything
ike productiveness. When Que sees the
masses of poor people huddled together
in the cities, sometimes ten families in a
house, generally six, leaving the land for
the most part uncultivAed; and the ex-
tortion and anfriendiness of Government
to its own subjects, and no indication of
Improvement anywhere, the prospect for
the future of Turkey is certainly very sad
Yet there is ground for hope that she
may be revived, and that is by the Cos
pei. This is the only ground of hope, l
think. When Miss onary goes into a
village or city, he soon forms church
and also Protestant community, whose
officers are recognized by the officers of
the Turkish Government, and their rights
admitted. Schools also are formed; So
briefly, industry and intelligence take the
places of their opposites. Such is the
incidental good that attends the Missiona-
rvs labors, but this is of small amount
compared with the direct object of his
labor-the salvation of souls.
A few days since, Mr.. Van Lennep
Mr.. Pettibone, Mr.. Parsons of Sinas, and
an English Officer who was in the siege
of Sevastopol, and myself called on the
Dignitaries of this city; ie., the Mudir or
Governor, rich Turks and Armenians.
Armenian Bishops, DC. At each call We
were presented with ''chi6uks" to smoke.
and little cups of Turkish coffee. also tea.
We spent the larger part of the day in
these calls. We do this because we wish
to be friendly with the ''powcrs that be-"
FIR we sometimes need their ass stance to
obtain redress.
A short time before we left CONSTANT
nople. we; ie., the Missionaries at Con-,
visited Lord STRATFoRD, the English
Arlbassa Tor, to pay our last respects to
him before leaving for England. He has
done much for the cause of Religious
Liberty here, and consequently much for
tbe Missionaries. We also met LADY
JouN FRANKLIN last summer at a Hote
On the Bosphorus, where she was resid
ing for short time.
In speaking of Amisia, | intended t
have said it was the native place of SrRABo