The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-18
GRANT IN THE EAST.
The EX-President Visits the
Holy Land.
l. A N DING AT JAFFA.
" isit to the House of
DOrcas.
RIDE TO JERUSALEM.
Triumphal Entry Into the
Sacred City.
VISIT TO THE HOLY PLACES.
Bethany, Gethsemane, Mount
Zion and Calvary.
Triumphal Entry Into the
Sacred City.
VISIT TO THE HOLY PLACES.
Bethany, Gethsemane, Mount
Zion and Calvary.


JERUSALEM, Feb. a. 1875.
am living In a small hotel looking out upon
o. en- street or market place where Arabs selling
fruits and grain and heavy laden peasants bearing
skins 1lled with water and wine. The market place
swarms with jews, Arabs, Moslems, Christians, and
horscmen prancins and comey young officer
sits waiting In command ana calmly smokes his cigar
elite. group OF beggars with petitions In their
hands crowd the door OF the hotel waiting the coming
Of the man who having ruled forty millions people,
can by a wave Of the hand alleviate their woes The
General Is putting on his gloves Tor the ride 10
Bethlehem, and this is tho guard that will him
company. Mrs. GRAFT, by various friendly processes
ts secure In her donkey, and the General is in
The saddle the rest OF the party will be up and away.
Tho market place Is under the walls of o tower-a
huge weatner-peaten mass-which ovsrlooRs the
other side pool The tower Is called the Tower OF
David aud the pool Is that in which Becrshebn was
bathing II was hero that tho King Walked when bis
eyes fell upon Urah's eve lamb A step loads TO
AVAIL and gate. Beyond the gate a camp Of Be-
douins arc gathered over FIRE you hear the
sound OF the forge, Tor they are striving TO fashion
hammer into shape. This gate 10 the gate through
which simon Peter passed on his way to the seaside
when he went out into the world to preach the Gospel
oil Jesus. If l 90 up pair Of narrow stone
steps, as did this morning ABOUT sunrise, l am on
the roof roof OF stone with barrier It, In
these Eastern houses the root is the drawing room
and can well fancy as pace over the honest floor
what fne company one might have with tho stars
and the hills. and above all with the memories that
rest upon these domes and roofs, these valleys and
hills this gray, sloping OF houses aud churches
You have for company all the memories that come
10 you IRON the pous hours OF childhood; Tor your
root IL on the crest OF Mount Zlon and DO meath you
Is Jerusalem.
MEMORIES OF JERUSALEM.
or course, to feel Jerusalem, must come with
faith. And II There be hoathon questionings any of
company, for this day least VIC give ourselves
up to faith. When was the Nile l found how
much easier Il was to be In accord with tho monu.
mens and the tombs. to 60 from Memphis to Thebes.
believng-humbly bciiovng-in every stone. But
Egypt was tho house OF bondage after all, and when
same 10 Suez and looked tho shallow water and
tho sandy stretches to the grove Of palms where Moses
rested after be had crossed the Red Sea- all my SYM
pAthies with the lsraeltes who had escaped and
not with the hosts upon whom the waters rolled IN
desolatinR food. That Ia question upon which
one takes sides early in lite; aud although you
come to SEQ and boar many things the other sidc,
and 10 wonder at the many cruel necessities OF the
eariy dispsusation, your feelings arc set-they are
part OF your life-and no amount Of reason his
toricai research away with the Impressions that
came In the fresh young hours OF your Sunday school
existence. Egypt always the house Of bondage,
and you looked at the OF Rameses and Sesos-
srs with cold curious feeling-as you would look
any extraordinary work OF man. II only history
alter all But you to the Holy Land with some
thing OF the feeling that you come TO
your home. Somehow you always belonged
here-ior every name is memory, and
avery step awakens the long-forgotten dreams and
prayers Of childhood, aud over all, the very air
you breathe, that supreme that gracious that holy
presence folding you wore with incensc-thc
presence OF Jesus Christ This the city OF great
kings Of dynssties Of kings. OF prophets and judges
founded by Nelchize governed by solomon, con-
Quered by Alcxanderwith annals SURPRISING In his
torlc renown that Of any city In tho world. But all
arc forgotten In the OF that name which
smbodies the faith and the hopes Of Christendom.
THE JERUSALEM
We came to JaGa on the ing of Sunday, the
10th OF February Tho Vandaa was waiting for us
ut Port Said, and soon embarked she put out
to We had been absent just month on Milo
aud other excursions, and It was something like
coming home TO ind ourselves tho old deck among
the familiar faces Of navy friends. The sea haa
been stormy, but the General is fortunate traveller
and IL went down In honor oil his coming. We ran
over to JANA on a calm sea- and when We came TO tho
town the like mIllpond. This had net
been before during the winter. aud 1t was
with feeling Of relief, amounting, per-
haps, to thankfulness that shot through
the jagged rocks scrambled up the side into crowd
Of greasy, bowling Arabs, and walked into one OF the
dirtest streets In the world We at last la the
Holy Land. We went TO Vice ConsuIs (Mr.
Hardegg), aud there found welcome and entertain
ment. There was a little archway OF flowers and
branches over tho road, surmounted by the inscrp-
ton, ''welcome. General Grant," and all the town
mediatoly upon every point OF interest, went TO the
house oil Simon, the tanner the house by the seaside,
70 which Peter came when he raised raotha from tho
dead and preached that nne Gospel truth-thc finest
oil oil political trutns--that God respectcr OF
persons. The rain was Iaing. but the wind from
the shore and kept down the sea- Our party tor Jeru
Balem Included TOUR OF the vandala's officers
Lieutenant Commander A. q. Caldwell. Lieutenant
4. W. Miller, Engineer d. N. Fulmer and Midsnipman
William s. Hogg. All that Jaaa contained worthy OF
Interest had been and prepared the Holy
City. We had three clumsy open wagons, each drawn
by three horses and we drove out OF the town into
the plain Of Sharon at about four In the afternoon.
SOON.
II was too early In the 10 see Palestine In It's
glory but the PLAIN was rich and fertile. sparkling
with iilies and scarlet anemones. with groves OF
orange trees bending under their yellow iruilage,
with almond trees coming into bloom. We had been
these many days In Egypt with no forest companions
but the dropping date palms, and we had been
lamcntina the parched and barren fields that
from tho bad Nile II was grateful TO see
Palestine therefore, in It's Rreenness, ana even the
rum was so homelKe that we welcomed u and drove
steadily through ~ until, when the sun went down.
were In the town OF Ramleh, where we renamed
for thc night Our nrst lodging in the Holy Land was
humble enough, and BY the time wo reached Ram
LII nj An Tho rna
cheerful humor. ready only see the bright side.
Even CALDWELL VINO had 10 put on his Uniform and
sword and 90 out into tho mud with an Arab, carry
a lantern, walking ahead and two soldiers be-
hind, and various dogs bowling in escort
even Caldwell, who had to call the Cover
nor seemed TO think that there never 70 Jolly