Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-17


sunday Appeal.
Faom the c0nsisteuce OF the new
kingdom Of Greece 20 many things
lsve been written about the city OF
Athens and the whole country 20 that
some one might think that nothing has
been left 20 be said In my journey 10
Greece ] described the county. The
CITY 81 Athena, which, not only for
fsv-ra' ages was the ceuter OF Eurol 9 an
civilization. but still, la many respects
pariicu srly u the scholar and art st,
within forty years four'olded the pop
ulation and teufOlded the industry and
rrcgress A century sko GiUbon, the
historian, said that in the whole Greece
he could not fnd copy OF the diA-
l1gues OF Plato, ard of the uTati0ns OF
Demos hence, nr n man Rtle 20 under
sod them To-day the tning IL very
different. The learned Creek vene-ates
AMI hOnOTz the traces ~ the anClents
The hisorv and The ancient language il
taught in the University # Athens ard
all over the country Win great zeal.
Homer, sophocles and TnucydiIss are
interpreted very we'll; slso good many
otrer poets and philosophers. The
AtheniAT- love their city aud every
thing in y They feel modest on the
great exploits 81 The ancient days; they
chC.ish tie re.ic- OF ancient al aud
they punisb heir export TO the foreign.
In the year 1892 SIR. Wordsworth wrote
that Athens as in rufus; almost all the
huu.a- So g. without IOOfs, Of tie m
pl-- only tssa val, We're saved. A yesr
sf -r he ~ -E.. 'ns.taer books, nor car
riages uor windows, nor Postoffices,
nor newspaper, Tor torches could be
fnuad there To-day Athens has over
fiK.y thou and inhabitants; streets broad
and clean, lighted with gas; fine hotels
and electrical bells. they have
several public and private educational
iAstulionf; a university, the fin at mod
EN- building, containing al auGt Dmicsl
theaier; aga !emiss, orphan a-ylums, OBJ
strvst ~, poly te ehnis, 'emsle institute,
seminary, pOOE-uOuse hospitals, b tAuic
gsrdeas royal palace (Which is a quad
TangulsT building, three HUNDRED feet in
leuVhth by two hundrei aId eighty feet
in hTcaiIh, with tTO Int -rnal court, a
prrtcg f P-utslican msTOie and richly
decorated apart ments,) fine pOstoffice,
military hat tute, small tut well-orgsn-
izef army aud Dsva' force, naval sta
tiGis ship building, and several manu-
factories; Ct the many newspapers,
some are lubij he'd twice or thrice a
week and some daily; railroads, tele-
graphs connected with central Europe
aud the Indies. The progression, how
ever, consists Of many parts and, Ell
IDENTIFY, 30 long as tls Turks gov I'd,
Information snd Irlgress were lmpO Il
BILE. When Greeks emancipated them
selves they rTiet to heal the wounds Of
long cut jgga-ior. OF course many things
srs waning yet to be done, but the sh-
vancemeut ~ some way Is wO1dtr'ul.
UYtiI the year 1852 the AcrOp1lis was
covered With the Furnish trea tGOTss,
which then were { ken away. The ru-
lbs Of Odius, Heroces, Atticu5 reappeared
IN tue yesr 1857; the magnificent theattr
o. B4cchUs wa Discovered in the yesr
1862: a a'er date The ancient Genre
terry near the holy ad was discoyere ;.
Tpscruti lie the city Of Athens one must
STAY there several months, but IN We &
o. two The traveller can see what Is wor'
tpv 81 being seen. 10 the foreigners the
attraction Of the AcropOlis is teyOnd d.
scrjption We love the country tia.
has Teen loved by innumtTab e
pCe.s, orators and philosophers. We
love the city which for one
thousand years was the treasury Of
al. ana % which in twenty Centuries
The architecture was marvellous aud was
inflated all over the civilized world.
Thinking snd observing all these we
had forgotten the distance and suffering
from our travelling. We took Mr.
Wor s~o.th and Mr.. Smith and went
10 France thrOugh Msrse.les. -Four
DAYS after this, on New Years day, VI
sailed fnT TauarOs. Toe ky was clear
aud .ha air warm, as If it was the first of
Nav. and 50 Gear that Ue could see the
H. d IRON great distance. Alter We
v.spl Il PIie l., Greece. Going on to
the civ ~. obze gvei the fine temple OF
II e-eUs Snd IGs AgrOpOlis, ana we de-
ci.,rd u Examine il stteDuvely from ali
direcdons. Aiistides projected the Ac-
youpli- for 9 cen.Tai zone, surrounded by
four other zones: second, Athens; third,
z tt:ca; fourth, Greece, and last Of sll the
world. Aud tlus, Greece bzilg The CEN
TT % tue world Att!Cs Of Greece, Athens
o. At,ics, sud AcTCpoiis Of Athens; ard
80 ia five zones ge divided 1t Ourselves.
We were III Is center OF plain eur
rounded with mountains from three
pats From the west We saw AchelOns
aud Salemiua; from the northwest, Par
nitna: fcom the east, Ericsson; from
the northeast Hymeltus; from the south
I'd sOutbu 1T, the Egean, with many
ward the shore We alsO saw FhalerOn,
Municha AID Puau-. Within the sec,
ond zone appear the plain Of Attics, eX-
tepiipg between the mountains and the
CITY. The plain is without Iets and de-
serted. IVES. to northwest there Is
q very old olive grove, and the color Of
its leaves is Teslly beneticeut to the eye9
tired OF the view Of barren mountains
aud deserted plains. Within this grove
is the Academy of Pia o, and around
there sre vi Is aud tie cephi7us l.
some places spp,a- vlllsges, p-lllssia,
colonOs, etc The third zone lead- Us 10
the immediate vicinity Of Athens; from
the southwest is the crest Of the mu-
scum. with the ruins of monument,
which WIS erected to the honor Of the
family Cf Antiochus the Tenth. Here
Il is said that the poet Musseos was
buried. Near the AcrOI OILS is the AreO-
psgus, where Paul had preached 20 the
exec sively sup stitjOus Athenisns, and
tn pHyX. where popular meetings ware
held. Thence nom the AcTopolis is the
crest f the Nym bes, on which summit
il tn OBJ, rvstoTy now North OF the
Acrspoli- i the Lycabt us, nine bua-
die feet higher than the Acropolis, a I'd
Il gives a magu iticent view from lts sum
nit. Toward the south we zee the royal
garden, the Greek and Protestant ceme-
teries, the AID rus, and the ruins of the
Stadium, having the form Of the Latin
L, length seven hundred feet, and width
one hundred and ten feet, built in the
ya.r $50, b G The fourth zone leads
Us 10 avil!age which formerly con1passed
the walls OF Athens. Little toward the
north OF the AreOpsgus we saw the most
elegant DOric temple Of Theseus, pre-
served almost entire, dated from the
year 470, B. C. Still northerly We dis
cover the most pgrt OF the new Athens,
tie new metropolis, the old ByZsuuc
churches the long street Of KOluz,
ending nesr the Acsopolis, close 70
which is the clock Of -AGronicus. To.
ward the north this street extends to
the town Of Patissia. To the right, not
far from Lycabitius, we see the uniyer-
sity and the academy; from the north
east augle Of the AcropOlis We see the
remains % sixteen columns OF the width
ofths temple ofJupiter Olympus, having
seve lteea feet hight, ma te o. Pentclican
marble. sculptured according TO the Co.
riLthian manner. In the rear are the
currents az Ilyssus. Nearer the AcropO-
IL, aud toWsrd the southeast, is the fine
monument Of Lecicratas, from the year
1856. ir-t model Of the use of the COrinth-
ian Columrs. Farther is the thester OF
Bscchus, and another of Herodus Attl-
cus. both discovered a few years ago.
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