The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-02-21
Tss AMERICAN MINISTER AT CONSTANT.

TaE AMERICAN MINISTER AT CONSTANT.
YorLE.-The Albany Argus has been permit
ted to make the following extract from n let
ter Of the Rev Sylvanus Reed, Pastor Of the
Holy Innocents in that city:
JERUSALEM December 90.
We form quite party of Americans in Je-
rusalem. Besides Mr.. D., W. Il,
and myself from Albany, there are i've OF our
country men At this hotel, in addition to the
large party of the Hon. ]. Williams, our Min =
ister resident a. ConstaDtnopie, who has been
on a tonr Of duty through Syria. and who
reached this point the same day with us. The
/ Turkish government has shown him the ut
| most attention, and furnished him with a
guard Of soldiers to escort him from place to
place, and he has thus representeQ our conn-
try in an unprecedented manner IN all parts
Of Syria, and obtained for our citizens recog-
nized position. of which they must feel the
benefit, whether as residents or travellers.
At Damascus, where our Vice Consul had
been refssed recognition, Mr.. Williams visit
was regarded rs public event, and the civility
which was ex tended TO him was spoken of as
Introducing y new era in the condition of the
| Christian population in that Moslem city. lie
was met outside the walls by body of GOO
soldiers and escorted TO the best quarters that
could be provided, and private en- tertainments
We're prepared for him by the wealthiest citi-
Zens as long as he remained. lie was enabled
here to arrange satisfactorily some very diff
cult questions which had arisen, and to obtain
the recognition of the Vice Consul. AT Zalah,
n Christian village of 10,000 people, where,
also, serious and delicate matters were in
volyed in dispute between our countrymen
and the authorities, lin consequence Of the
expulsion Of two missionaries from the place, }
he was met by cOncourse of 8, 900 people, who
came out to conduct him into the town. His
reception was an ovation TO onr flag, and the
whole arrangement of the difffcufty was put
in his hands 1t has been thus a most adyan-
tageous thing for the interests OF our coun-
trymen that their national represen tative has
been respected in so marked a manner, and so
impressive in the view of this people. Dir.
johnson, our Consul for Syria. accompanied
thence to Jerusalem.
We were all at Bethlehem on Christmas day,
and was enabled to hold a service in the ten t
of Mr.. Williams, Tin the grounds of the Ar
menian cOnvent,) under the American flag, at
which sixteen of our countrymen were pre-
sent. In Jerusalem, Mr.. Williams received
the visits of Latin, Greek and Armenian pa
triarchs, as we'll rs of the European consuls.
He was also shown by the Pasha the extraOr
dinary attention offered to Prince Alfred and
the great personages only, of admittance to the
famous Mosque of Omar from which all
Franks are rigidly excluded on other occa-
sons. He very kindly included all the Ame-
riCans in Jerusalem in his party and we thus
shared the unusual privilege with him, and
saw what very few of our countrymen or
other Franks have eyer pcheld, the Rock of
Mount Moriah and the remaining structures
of the Jewish temple contained in the Mosq ues
of Omar and FL Aksa.