The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-30

IullaDy-"He that keepeth tnee W1tA h"o DA~N'
ber." 81 viii both lay me down in peace ana I,
sleep: for Thou, Lord, only makest me dwell
in safety"
The sun had already risen on the morrow
ere we awOke, refreshed, to CONSCIOUSNESS
The lullaby with which we had closed our
ewes was succeeded now by the words of praise
~ laid me down and slept awaked, for
tba Lord sustained me-" What a glorious
sight met our first upward gaze
The snowy crown of Ararat was blazing
beneath the morning sun-tOo bright for NOR
tai gaze, while its lower sides, bathed in The
dreamy witchery of lavender haze, seemed
though distant still, to be almost casting its
shadow over us. Our earthly vision shrank
quenched, absorbed by the flood OF light that
trembed in mid-heaven. The sun had now
scattered the shades and mists of night, and
was reigning cloudless and alone, in the deep
blue vault above us. If the form of Ararat
showed so witchingy, living form against
the sky, alas for us, when we looked upon
'the garden" upon which our room opened
1t was the receptacle of everything refuse and
vile in the place. A few shrubs rose here and
there amid the pestiential heaps but as to
odors, there was but one, and that of foulest
miasma. We fOrswore the garden in conse-
quence, and welcomed the noisy, dirty street
in front.
In the course Of the morning we went to
pay our 1espects to the Governor. On our
way to tie Place we passed through a
miniature edition of st. Petersburg. Dros-
khes in full career and square built, square
faced men, in red cotton shirts, their trousers
tucked within their high boots, met you
at every tun. The features of this arant-
gdrde of Russian encToachments reminded
You of the captive Dacians, with which one
is so familiar in the galleries of Rome.
There was no lack of soldiers: stolid-loolling
men, in that unsightly undress which is
part of Russian military costume-a long,
drab-cOlOred coat reaching to their heels, and
buttOned up to the throat, while German
cap, with large visor, shaded their beetling
brOws. Almost every soldier we met was
decorated with Crimean medal.
The Governor, apprsed of our coming, re-
ceived us courteously in sale de reception, a
sort OF a state chamber, in which articles of
comfort and Oertu were jumbled together with
the ruder necessaries of life. Our converse
tion turned upon mere common-places. The
letter we presented to him showed him we
were true men, and no spies, and so he pro-
ceeded to fulfil its requirements more honestly
than, on like occasion, we had experienced
at the hands of French officials in Algeria.
Orders were given to facilitate our progress to
the mountain, and to insure consideration and
respect to our persons. Not the least ac-
ceptable of his attentions was letter to
Colonel D, the officer in command of
the camp at the mountain itself AS the di-
rections for these orders were given to an aide
de-camp, in writing, who would have to dis
tribute them through a variety of Russian
channels, with Isl chasse, 81 chasse," ap-
pended to each, we considered ourselves
doomed, in consequence, to lengthy stay in
the city of Noah and accordingly resigned
ourselves patiently to our fate.
The next day, to relieve the weariness of
delay, while the promised papers for our jour
ney were preparing, we proceeded to the cele-
hro tpd mn M HpI lad zin IN nTNnT
respects to the Patriarch of the Armenian
Church, an account of which may be reserved
for the future.
We were agreeably surprised upon our
| return to find the Governors ukase lying
upon our table. We determined to start
| on the morrow. To pass the following day.
the Sabbath, in the quiet shadow of the
mountain, instead of within the house of the
| chef de police, exposed to every intruder, and
| all the shock of life, was too blessed an
alternative to forego.. Our skill and patience,
however, were long and severely taxed, in
slowing ourselves and baggage within our
| carriage, to which the level plain of our
route, it was said would present no diff
Guilty. So simple a matter, however, in
| volved a world of trouble, for not only was
! the preparation novel to those employed,
| but our HISTORIAN servant became so scared
and incapable, through dread of Russian
| officials, that we had to think and act for
| him. Wnen, alLer WOrlu OF LABOR ana
strife, urging here and threatening there, we
finally reduced chaos to order, we found at
the last moment that the Bazaar had failed in
! its promise so that we were just issuing out
into the wilderness not only without certain
creature comforts, upon which our famished
fancy had feasted on entering Erivan, but even
without the necessaries of life. No kid to yield
us 'savory meat" nor meal for the cake,
which is still as much the food of the land as
when the first patriarchs of mankind spread
here their dusky tents. Diligence and labor
removed even this difficulty; but so slow, in
different and stupid were those we had to move
and alas so feet the hours, that we saw days
shadows already lengthening ere our carriage
numbered out of the town through filth anC
mire, gaping crowds and barking dogs. W.
Jared we'll enough while we moved along
through the new "Quartier, with, as is usua
in new Russian settlements, only house hert
and there at long intervals; but when W.
neared the river, which dashes its way
through a rocky defle under the old nativ'
castle-crowned crag above, our movement
became slow and difficult. The Persian, lik
all Easterns, having once reused himself to
purpose, built there his eyrie and shaped tn
intricate approaches to it; then, leaving castle
town, and roads to care for themselves, re
lapsed into his usual languor of repose. Ant
SO we struggled on, our wheels at all angles
and our carriage now in trough from whicl
we feared to rise, and now on crest on whiel
we hung quivering over the yawning gul
below.
The old Persian town was not without 1T
points of interest for its houses like littl
souare boxes heaps upon heaps, were huddle