The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1870, Page 11

TRAVEL IN PERSIA. Tspahan and the Eighth Paradise---Its Ancient Glories and Modern Aspect. The Hall of the “King of Kings’ and | the Palace of “Forty Pillars.” | A Lock at the “Throne of Steel” and the “Sublime Gate.” AGALLERY OF MAGNIFICENT PAINTINGS, Special Horald Report from the Thousand Valieys. SOCIETY, CHEY LIFE AND RELIGION. Cathedrals, Churches, Congre- gations and Priests, The Well of An-Keodonia, or Way to Amenca. INTERVIEW WITH AN ARCHBISHOP. By way of Europe we have the following special correspondence from Persia, dated in the ancient city of Ispahan September 22, The writer presents @ finished and most attractive picture of that part of the Eastern world as it was and as tf 18; its past glories, its romance, its mighty ruins, and its stern material realities to-day, What Is Werth Seolug im {ypahanIts Ane cient Giery—The “Golden Wiver,? or “River of Life ¥—The ar-agh, or Lour Garéens~Reyal College of shah Hussein= Sho Highth Paradise Uashtel-Bebosht—Won- derful Palace of the “Borty Pillars? —Alud= din’s Palace Excelied. ISPAMAN, Persia, Sept. 22, 1870, It has been a serious questirn, long debated with myself, how to coutiae my description of Isprhan to one letter, At last 1 decided that it were better, in order not to curtali the picasure Which many of | your readers must derive in wandering under my Buidance through tue mteresting scenes of the city Of Abvas the Great, that L shouid dosertye Ispahan in one speciai letier, excluding everyting extra. neous froin it. How shail I descrive Ispahan? How shall [ pic- ture it so that your readers shali welcd ter, a8 a palpable ploture of wh: It 8 beyoud my powers to do it jus quires a peet to do it. However, 1 Tate what 18 worth seelag, and t our journey arm within arm, and let each reader call to his ala whate ima fon he may have, in order to assist the spare outlines which I under- take to turnish. for it re- ‘st cnuime- We shall begin cury GUIDE. First.—Theve 1s Chebe! Sittoon, or the “Palace of Forty Pillars,’ with its pictures and dens. it by Third.—Is the sion of Felictiy.” Fourth. Fifth. —Tala, Pavil Steth.—Goold-es-te’ Bighth.—The Cha Ninth.—The Maidan § Tenth. —The Bi Bleventh.—The Cathedral and town of Julfa. Twelstn. Kitei-Rustam, or *Rustai’s Throne.'? Thirleevh.—The Five Bridges of Ispahan, Fourwenth.—Te Cusile of Javaras. Fiteenth,—The Thousand Valley Sixteen(h.—ihe Rocking Minarets. Seventcenth.—The Pire- Worshippers’ Temple. Eighteenth.—The Mesdjid-t-Shah, or “Shas Mosque,” Nivetecnth.—The Medresseh Shah, “College of the Shah’ Twentieth Sefirds Woere-are twenty objects to be deserived, besides number of oihers less intevesth ié 13 evident then that! shall have to be brief, i “Hie who has not seen Ispahan has not half the world,’ is the boasted sayty Persian writer, Yet the writer may have right, for Ispahan in lus days was a most wonderful city. Shah Abbas raised it te its zenith of prosperity until ats population almost doubled that of Constantinople, and Baghdad Was but a small town in comparison, One writer estimates the Inhabitants tg number 1,109,000, while the plain around it eontamed 120 villages. Another writer set the populatton down at only 690,000, while Ouseley, in 181, states it to be 200,000, In the 17th century there were 16) mesdjiils or Mosques, Over 80 medressehs or colle, and 273 public baths, Its palaces were very numerons, there being seven nelonging to the Shah of unrivalled splendor, with gardens atiacied Which stretched far and wide, where who ente! them might forget tnat he was within a great city, so large were tey, 80 dense the foliage, so tail and numerous the trees. Its Char-Bagh, or Four Gardens, caunot be excelled in any ciiy. These gardens ave four long avenues, each having four lines ef chenar or plane trees, with flower-plots extending between the pedestrian and the equestrian paths, ‘Lhey are about one hundred feet wide and a matic long, and at short intervals on either side are the King’s lodges, palaces of the ministers, royal colleges, or kiosks; 80 one may imagine, from these salient points alone, what such a city may have been, To comprehend its glorious extent one must needs ascend some high building or one of the mountains on the western Side, From the mountain tops one but sees a vast area teeming wiih verdare, irom which it ls diMecult to distinguish even the numerous minars, let alone the obscured houses, Culy from the root of Ali Capee Gate may the scene be corifprehended justly; where {nu aggiomerate of beautiful views of the special racteristics of Ispahan are presented; where the ety gathers itself, with all that is bright and great ig i, Within the scope of the eyes. MISTORY—SUAM ABBAS THE GREAT. Vothoroughiy uuderstand what Ispahan was when it was the emporium of Asia you must, of course, have frat read all about Shah Abbas the Great, of ismael, Tahmast, Sefl Abbas the Second, Shab Suleiman, Shah Sultan Hussein, Hamas and Nadir Shak; you must have read of the siaughter of 70,000 Persians within the spacious area of the Castle of Tabarak, of the fearful Afghan invasion and the destruction of the city by them, and its subsequent abandonment as a royal city by the Kajar dyuasty, & prince of which reigns to-day at Teheran. You must have known of these things in order to kindle Proper sympathy with wnat remains now of Ispa- han just as much as you must know what Jerusalem “Wes in the days of her glory in order to comprehend tho\rhapsody of David when he says, ‘Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion.’ One may ve pardoned for being sceptical as to tae beauty of Jerusalem, as it presents such a picture ‘ef uller contrast to what is writien in the sacred Forse. But about tus city of Abbas the Great, the Jaded splendor of ts numerous palaces, the miles jor ruined villages, the crumbling bridges, the Bparseness of the populatien compared with’ the Dumber of lofty and magnificent bazaars, the vacancy of the royal colleges, the soiltary minars, © biead ayenues, exclude Acepticisia and com- nsion of Victory.” “Hall of tiie Stat ‘Bunch of Roses.” —The Seat of the last Sed, on the Tain nes seen ol a beon | garden NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. pel you to acknowledge thata great city is falling to utter ruin while yet in its youth, A MODERN TOUR AND VIBW.. In company with Mr. Stephen Aguew, the British agent at Ispahan, I found myself riding over the bridge of Ali Verdi Khan (so-called from a general Who built 1), Which connects Julia with Ispahan. ‘The bridge 1s considerably over a quarter of a mile long and crosses the Zanderood. Hew poetical a name. “River of Life,” or Zerinrood, the “Golden River,” It is all in the name, however, you will think, if you but look over at the broad bed of it, utterly dry, save when adeep depression in the gravel retains a stagnant pool, But to preserve the forest of vegetation whic embowers the city the river has already been distributed into the thousand channels by which the irrigation 1s matatained, Krom the bridge we emerge into the magnifcent Char-Lagh, Those who have been to Cairo will re- member the Shonbra road; those who have been to Madrid well kuow the broad Prado; visitors who have seen Paris will remeiuber the Champs Klysées, The Char-Bagh is to Ispahaa what the Shonbra road, tue Prade aud the Champs Blysées are to their respec+ tive ch Bul the Cazt-Ragh 1s mach superior to the SLonbra road, and not quite so pew and wim looking as the other two, but in & month its re- embellishineut would be pertect. ‘Lue Jugh, lowover, Is deetdedly Oriental; it is @ Wieck of magnificence, but many a century musi clapse before the prige of Shah Abbas will lose jus Stately grasdear. The central road between the douvlé rows of gigantic chenars is 1p a very dilapi- dated stale, ils Square biecKs Used for pavement are in a very bad condiueu, aud equestrians, to save their horses’ fect, rite careiessiy ever’ the dower plots, This neglect of this avenue evidences the neglect, indolevce aod rapacity of Persian goveriercs; fer the governor of the city receives 10,U00 Tunas xnuually to keep the hing’s pala wud gardens in repair; bat it were well for Ispahan if Narsed-deon Shah could summon energy Cavugh Lo Visil tt Once a year. ROYAL COLLEGE, Mearesseh Shah—the Royal Col- wah Sultan jiusseia, the last of 3, Who reigned trom 1U94 to 1700, | bee ‘The porta; ts sunply magnuleent, deep and OL ulabasier, Carved With the Cimuugest art, all weil preserved. ‘Two lofty folding deors, ver heavy and sold, plated watt stiver, ornamented Witt many® Varied design, permit ingress within, In the doorway, on cither side, some Yersian shop. mien have established themselves for the selling of Sweeuinesls, fruit and sherber. Beyond the door. way 38 & quadrang a th a reservoir in the middle, surrounded Ly lofty eruuge, poplar ana cypress trees. ‘The sides 0: thé squa re died in With the rooms of the college, tue Hbraries and studios, and the mesdjed of the Medr i. Ever. portion of the walls was tiled with biue an yellow tiles, of deeper and lighter shades, one inch square, Worked ito mosaic, zigzag anes, or verses of the Koran, espectally the purposes of the establishment, very elegant—1 8 portal and int both roof and walls. seciied rather in walk around the applicable to ‘The mosque was Ulea ull over, As the fanatical Merivis ont at my tassection, after one quate L prudently retired, * PARADISES. es furcher on along the south- agh irom the Medressel 1s vave—to the fasht-i-Bebesht, or, ag [think itought to be, » A large garden, socked with 3, SUN-Seeded Apricots, oranges, chest- Tries, is scen us we enter, and Ia the intddie, Where the avenues centre, is the large Kiosk, designated jor its rich ornatare the Eighth Poradise, the kiosk in Centval Park 1s # minia- ture of If, but 18 not so elaborate nor so adapted for the conveniences of & suminer Louse as its ispahan prototype. In the middie of the marble oor, Girectly, under H around the ingrooms. Avove, fo galleries and secret © pily woven # dei is “Mirza.” Ke: treat, ¢ Lady Suttaua ot galiery abo’ cand and EtG About a hundred pa ern wail of the Cha the eniran retire run some ambers, Mericr has bap whtfal charm wbeut this Kiosk in Huag OL Carpets In this supery re- ry fountain, he has placed the Abbas the Great, wile in the he has stowed the Prince of samar- as gerdever, Wao feast their eyes upon they ufies of the “Pearl of Uarem,’’ aud one day Princess having tal- jo love with the Prince, and her maid with the i— Comes the; who, with is avout to do terrible things; but for sof executing the lovers in the Maiden the murder, hes soun the pieasur Shaat he de: On the Walls guid a variety tistic efforts in bright and fiortd j 1 gold are tyo ptcturca— eof Fath Al Shan, Known by his cataract of card, WAO hunts Ue iAneless loa of Le! with whom reptlog Fath Ali aud iis beauly, die Is here an hat, with an os ieather, Qnd ina James Court costume of rly part of th s century. PALACE OF FORTY PILLARS. From this Suitana’s bower, happily named, per- bushes wich ciluse graceful in lulong a avenue lcadiag east, then across a desolate enclosure wWrougid an ugly rent into the garden of the Palace of Chehel Sitteon, or of “Horiy Pillar You will know yuu are on royal! grounds by the extravagant extent of the gi deus, by tie jealous neight of the wails wich sure round ii, but ue grovuds are foul will wee. tne inexpressibie veaaty of the ga aly marred by neglect. We waik towards the end of the reservorr Which lies beiore Uie front of the palace Wihout looking vehind, so that the eff may be tulland complete, Having av furthest end ef the exteassive reservon x may 100K around to behuld tae Puiace of the Forty Piburs. We are tol | in the “Arabian Nights’? how the Sul- tan stood myuonless With 25.000 sh ton behold just ihe wonderful palace of Aladdin. {am inclined to taluk that J aiso stood in just the same way When I held this palace of Shah Abbas the Great. What would be the ‘ou, MH the entire front of covered with untra d sun and 5! quirror 8 of 4 (OI ©) his Vizier) fell tn jove tor repre in it of New York were reflecied in Wo i Would the Mew Lorkers say eifort of deseribing the e: vO ust such @ predicament, flere , lofty and spacious pittazed hail, forty e forty feet High and sixty tect long, with (wenty tal, slender piiars upholding the reol, the whoie open to the Vv sun, sky and ervelr retiected teu thoveand tines by the stall Mirrors Which over= lay every ineh of pillar root apd back walls; here is a docd Of brightuess per/ecuy dazzling, am ocean of ciear relecons suffasing the while of the gardea in iront Of the splendid labor, playipg upon every tree, nay, upon every Jeat aud bran unliterrupted gush of cle And there has lisp is laying on of murrors, for Uey spire upward diamond: shaped round the piiiars, Witch rn: rom their pedestal of quadrupled Lowel ba Ler, to tie reef, Which is covered with sinalt mur. forming vine branches, corollas of ilowers, racenic yatterns and frets innwnerable, and streams of brightness, will say it t# git very simple—cover the nd reo! and pillars with stucco, lay on the looking glass Im any design you wish on the nvist plaster, Yes, but tile elect of aU tuls—it is unply indescribable. It ts called the Paiace of Forty Pillars, yet there are y; the others ave in the water of the re- hich 3 tlese pillars, and these make aud splencent poitico or talar scene of gayety of Oriental lite, of an orgy and tragedy, and Morier bas added to it a comic picture, where be describes ta entertainment which was given to thet ollahs by ne i oi-disson had abducted the daughter vd, lo the great scandal of the 1s, in ala- stare so «ire the walls perpel You has witn of the old Mo. pious priest ‘he building designated thus euphoniou wortiuly, 1s Oriental, yet not saraceuic. Dismiss all ideas ofthe Aluambra or tie Seviliean Alcazar, or p you wil never be abie to imagine it. It is a ave building, about 200 feet long by perhaps 150 wide, Ia Jront the mirrored tatar occupies sixty feet, perhaps mor i side it is winged. ‘The rool, so far as yous ‘om the garden, is fat— it may not be quite Nat—and spreads out beyona the perpeudicular of the walls into eaves a yard in dept ch al sides, The wings present blooming ex: panses Of ioral tracery—faded ratier—puinted in ull colors. ‘The windows, except the largest, appear tu have been made more tar convenience—for airi- hess than Jor mere beautityiug. The largest present us specimens of Persian windon ‘chitecture, Which delights in wide arches and colored gl ent inte a multiplicity of shapes to form the intricate de- signs of Oriental thought. You must not stay to criticise the mode or the taste and compare It With your bigoted Suropean tastes; hut yeu must re- cognize It as Persian, an Oriental novelty, amd as such a ting to be admired, INSIDE THE BUILDING. Having indulged the eyes sattictently with tne ex- ternal decorations of the palace we ascend some steps to tie tuiar, tread its marble floor, look up and around*and see ourselves redected’ in most grotesque fashion th the half miltion mirrors avout us and enter the great all of assembly, wich also served a8 a banquetttiug chamber when Suah Avvas Sat on the throne as “kiag o Kings,’? wortiy, for for his wealth, munhidesnce and to the extent of nis for his power, splendor of his court, be called so every sense of the Ww This hall at a giunce may be said to be sixty feet square, The rool, Convexed, blazes in goid work of frets and borders and flowers, surrounding and ramifying through pictorial scones m green, azure and ver- Bullion, There are six great pictures on the watis, not of a very high order, as you may magive, ung more tian are the Egyptian pictures in the Theban tombs, The great lanit of Persian artists les ia them ignorance of perspective. Outlines they can draw very well; with the uses of paint they are ac- qualuted, aud are very skuliul in sketching faces and flowers. One of these pictures represents Sbah Thomes, catied the “Great,” giving a feast. Hou- Dhayann, the indian King, Sits next to Nim; there ave dancing girls in the act of dancing, postured as perigot wantons; thore are beautiful Georgian pages, earig Ways loaded with frult and wines; on the flowered t, before the Shah and his isa profusion of goblets containing the forbidden liquor which thebriates, Despite ihe unskilful hand of the artist, he has been able to throw an utr of utter liceutlousness on his canvas. While looking atthe royalties and princes around the carpet one cowuntons, for his the mn may fancy each ono singing, with Anacreontio Horace, ‘I will, 1 will be nad to-night.’ Opposite this is Shah Ismael, founder of tho sefl, or Sulfaveen dynasty, of which Shah” Abbas the Great was tho Aith monarch—Mahiing with Abdul grand | 5 be | he of | Azziz Rnan, of Turkestan. ‘This Shab ts in the act of cleaving a Turkoman from ehin to chine, whilo mounds of ghastly dead, whose heads invincible arm bus sheared off, le beliind tim, ‘This picture gives an idea of veriect carnage, pajuting its atrocl- les Most iutnutely, and presents us with views of the mailed warriors of Persia, who carried terror $nto the fartherest East. Another picture represents Shah Ismael fighting With Su.tan Seliin, of Turkey. Each monarch makes his’ way towards the-other with uplited sword, Which Has done havoc on tue sinalier fry of thelr an- tagoulats aleady, as tho headiess dead tumbled Inte Consused Beaps behind their horses tell you. Opposite this is Nadir Slah, conqueror of Delhi, spurring on with herote vigor and vindictive air against Mohammed Shah, the unfortunate Pmperor o! the Mogul empire, Close to it 1s a tull length pleture of Nasr-Ed-Deen Shah, the present monareb, whom, in the language of the Kngiish court, “May God — preserve” and make wiser, Another ts a picture of the great Abbas entertain- ing Abdul Azziz, Ambassadt-r of the Uzbegs, Opposite to It 1s the eifemiuate and vicious des- pot, Abbas the Secend, giving an entertainment to an Indian Ambassador. Wanton nauich girls, or “almehs,” wna effeminate boys employed as Gane miedes, are depicted here, ‘The ban yaet is mostly ever aad Wine of Shiraz, of the color of the ruby, and Hamadan wine of a lighter hue aud not half 50 strong, and Ispakan, blood red, 18 being drunk as the grosser dishes are carried away, with extrava- gant gestures and roliing eye: THE MART DEST, OL THE “S8VGNTH MALL,"? situated close te the deeply vordured banks of the “Godden Stream,” jast below the idge” called ‘Takht-t-Vollatt, or the ‘Throne of Steel,’ is a paras i nest for royalty te love and die, satiated al- ready with every pleasure of which the human breast is susceptiiie. ‘The “star of auspiciousness and good fortune,” as the Pe ns have it, led me tuither in the early Merp, beivre the sin rose tov Ligh to Kill all plea- sure in tue outer world, We knocked at the rade | gate which barred ingress Grom outside and a porter With just a shade of suciiness on his Md the door, but after he haa opened it wide eived wao the peremptory knockers were you suould bave seen how qulekiy the surliness vanished and how sinooth and affable his front became. Already he ried lids pala adorned with the tiny eirciets of culied Kerauns, and, of eourse, bis Ad *Hisntcakh” were delivered with real aud We were permitied to behold the glort- ysium, splendid, yet serene.” spain cane not bowst a scens superior to that which the Hatt Dest and its gardens present; not the Teheran Negaristan, OL the royal gardens O/ the present mouaren within the ciiadel can excel iti beauty. 1 would pail the reader's appetite and indeed my own were to enter tito dennis, were I to sketch each glory and rhapsodize repeatedty over ven paradises, Bit the Mart Dest is an Hiystuin, uf there Was one on earth There is notin: s ons about it: on the contrary, it bs ail tendesne: whieh seems to be unsading; the trees, the 1 te shade, the ligh's, tue shadows are‘ tender; u gcutine outburst of feheitows verdure, mort green and young and springiik: There are winding paths among dense trees, and aiong the borders are clumps of violets, of 8, OF lotus honeysuckle, hyacinth and y follow these you go, from one extremity of » other, you are in the eovlest shade, With the warblings of nimhtingales, chirp of Jarks and swellows and tirushes breaking out on your ears with the pleasaut fulners of paeans, Myrile and Ilac, white and red rose bushes, bow mimosa, chenar, cypress, plaue, apricot, orange, lemoa, and applic Cxude thew owb parlicular aroma @nd jragrance, and your lungs tahale this mixed | fragrance with an tastinetive Vivaelty aud over your Jace insensibly has grown one great quict simile of gratitude. JOY, GLORY AND SONG, It is ascene were anything but fulness of joy has no place. No sombre ‘tioughts can ¢ pe sent Jeeiiig of Dliss, no disiual shadow ¢ " biy biur your happiness alter you have ente within, You will bd your heart burst iio » such a8 Hafiz sang:—0 my heart! Lf you deter tl | pleasures of t until tie morrow, wito is tie Who will msure your existence? I le t from ¢ that gayety ts Littholls BMG Experienced af vit happh for ihe } ¢ im tie shell. Por w whither Kanz the Kayanian 1s gone? What lias become of govlet of And the palace of stafl Pest, and its harem? For @ very Bul Sun Of moORey, My Ittend, You may Wander through their brillant cuambers ior hours and conceit yourself with tne idea for the being that all this vewiderment of lixury, painted cages of royalty, these or; love, this splendor upou Splentor are You tay value your bedy in any ef shects of water Which have boen the de rauions Of kings and prices and love: and rest your Limbs on those marble flags, andl in‘o the clear depths of the reservoirs, tn perte | Seclusion, l, if 80 talided, like another Narcissus, die of cuvy a& your own shadow, RIDING TO THE CITY, From the Hatt Dest 1 rode towards the city, de- ined to have a view of the city, which was ful- x bit by bit my dreams of the Orient, from it Capec, the “sublune, or lolly gate.” Along the banks of the Zanderood, covered with depths of planted forests and cool winds in the branches: ol whch sang the birds their uaceasiag imciowes, uprightand paited ferred tm this imate p { to With none to applaud them, buder Which the vivid | herbs and grass grew with an inordinate spon | peity and B 1 LO Man soULht; over tue | brie cl spaus that river, Which vivites te gardons and pla @t Ispal through the Ciarbagh, whose prai sing overmuch, Whose palmaie leay. an ever- | lasting Ihvouga a deserted » the | aicos deipiy, bie road all dusty: with | pulyerized ashiav and brick, tie noble and lofiy | root, Miough yet intact, showmg heipient signs of | decay; past runs Upon ruins ol mighty eure | serals, shops and stately 1 M | aiz-2ug lanes, invo the GLOKIOUS Spanish eiiies are fainous for their great squares, especially Valiadold, § aud Madrid, They ar wounded wy buildings: of great height, three and four stories high, in these squares were formerly burned the heretics, or they were the scenes of jousts and tourieys, of coronations or bull lights, wile the die were com- Joriabl) seated in the baicontes of the houses which surrounded the squ A Persian maidan ts sin, Jar lo @ Spauisit square. The Maidan sta “slals square,” is of te largest class; th qual Lo it either im Spain or in any other part iv is 2 tong by 700 fect broad; hof it bemmg irom evet to West, te brenitit th tosouth, In tie centre of the matdau is Xecnbion pole, wit Uleves are exec he pole and suddenly let down to the ground vy the great iail, or where ticy are pcapitutea with the scimitar, On the easier side is the splendid mesdjed of Lovti Ullah, and colleges jor its nfeitabs. The occupied by Mesdjed shalt ed by Shai Ab i@, aud handsouy of any in Ss Medressets orm fic wings to tho sialely Structure, Ou te south side is the entrance to the bazaars, While opposite to it on the south side Is te “sublime gate,” winch towers to the altity 1 the munac tops, and Which in former times sery a kuid of lofty throne wherelrem the great might view the scones cuncted in tie spacious muudan. itis called a “gate, ut had te si ranger not known that it was bul a “gate he might av called itaptly a palace. It is a square to ft Duildiig, our stories or i0v feet high, fect m depth and beeadif. Lhe portal ts 40 high, ted with exquisite tasie ln mosaic designs, and Uis may be said to oceupy the ground story Of the ‘gath;? the second 1s occupicd by @ magaibes en to all quarters exce; tie north, where the taroue Was wont to be placed; benind are tie retiring rooms, painted all over ia gold wna other tints, ‘The third and fourti stores coniain a series of habiiable chambers, large and small; the roof contains a turret and is waiied round, and ailords Ube best view Which may be haw of Ispahan, I could pass my life away dreaming on the roof of A-all Capee; lor tt is he Which appeais to tue tendernesses aud 20) Ieclings Of a man’s heart, of a ereat cily sorrowing its life away qmety despiie that strong glare Of suplght and graceiul sweeps of verdure, of sad, sad decay ol magnifl- cence Wept over by millions, and forest shades and tue solbrous lines of mountains wh see Watch for the commng of the Inevitable, and ‘hing pitiis and desert Witose dim waves seem il Wailing for Wie hour. AS a Whole the Scene presents alver set and green, gold and azur willow, tie poplar, the cicuar, the elu and the Sombre cypress spilng upward witt gracetul elasit- city, overtopping the irait trees, which are scat- tered everywhere, fike buouches of verdure, The muuerous bazaars kKnowh by the methodical Ines of budding cupolas, tie houses by ticir acre- age of gray Mat roofs, the mearessehs by their height aud solklity, Uae mesdeds by their upright mivars and mighty domes fiashing gicams trom vheir rich casings of vari-colered tle; the palaces by their dark Waves of foliage, penctvated by erys- talline rays trom their burniseed mirrors, You will contess there 18 harmony in it, aud that whatever beauty there may be in itis natural and unatiected. Below us is the great vacaut area of the Royal Maidan, squared by upright banks of buildty modeled into w series of two-storied arcades, and the expanding domes of the mesdjeds of Nogora Khaneh, Imauint-Jumpah and Shah Abbas, dome surmounted with its golden wire and eres- cent. The Mesdjed of Shah Abbas is a glorious spe. cunen of Persian mosque arcliteciure, Four minars spring upto a lofty height, the two ia front abeve one of the most maguificeat and majestic portals I have ever seen. It is las- truows In turquoise blue, deep azure, yellow and green tiles formed in frets which look like painted icicles aud vems of rich but quiet colors, and mosaic expanses wherein lengthy in- scriptions from the Keran find place. Cempared With the lofty netght of it, the ge Muslims are but miniature shadows of inen, We Christians may not enter, but there 1s bot an inch of its large exterior that we cannot scan with our glasses, Entering beneath the portai unother richness of tiles like frozen streams of colors unfold to your view. This 1s the Sarda She- bestoon, or summer place of prayer, a large square open to the sky, the walls of Which preseut a mar- Vellous display of tile Work—you may cali. it a veil of azure aud yellow. And beyoud, yet another portal richer than the first and outer one, more minute in its pendent frets and curving cornices, rofounder in its manifold lines and conception. ‘This adinits you Into the sacred interior, wich 13 roofed with a loftily swelitug dome topped by a golden rod, which bears au open hand, on which 13 inscribed “Yah Ali’? (I am Ah), On the southern bide of the mesdjed is they winter place of prayer, @uotler apacious courk h court bas @ reservoir lons of ruse green and gray. The , Cordova, Sevilie | the blood takers aud | Where the ablntioffs are made before commenci: their devotions by the Mushims, id THE BAZAAR AND THR CASTLE, Beyond the Mesdied Imaum-i-Jumaah, “Ohureh of the Chief Mollan,” 18 the body of the extensive bazaar, from which escape the murmurs of vivactous trade, and beyond the bazaar the Areg, or “Oitadel,’” called the Casue of fabarak, which is very ancient, And occupies a remarkable place in the history of [spanan, Within its walls there werd 70,000 citizens = maseacred =by that cruel man whose — very maine conveys something sinister with it, Thmour Leng, ‘rong 4 cailed Tameriane, It was @ very strong ‘place, with Very tuick walls and bastions and a deep, wide itch, aud within were the royal palace, the treasury @nd records of the ancient rant. 1 ruins are vast and have remulned warepaired ever since the Afghan invasion, which occurred at the beginuing of tho eighteenth century, and struek the vital blow at the Splendor of Ispahan, Around it 18 a sea of domes And roels of baths and mesdjeds, snd slender minars, folded in and intersected by dark bands of follage, aud rains of suburbs stretell south as far as the eye can reach, PALAORS, GARDENS AND FLOWERS. Immediately to the north the view has a@ happter phase, for In this direction aro the palaces and thetr extensive gardens, Chehel Stttoon, with 1s lustrous pilare, twinkitog brilvantly beliud the netwerk of eaves, disclosing oue or two Wittch, bems so slen- der, appear iike lances of erystal; then to the right the winter palace, built by Mahomet Hossein Khan for his aster, Fath Ath Shah, which he furnisied so ‘completely that ' there was hothing to be desited for the uses of ume Ktoy and his women, An eblong court is before it, Where a tranquil sireteh of water, green from the superabunaant brauches refected therein—trom this a passase leads to a area obscured by a large curtain of Whive clot, decorated by crimson flow: ers. iis harom was the scene of the murder of Shah Sullan Hussein, founder of the Koya Med+ Yessen, already deseribed, by Ashroit the’ Afghan Usiiper.s Whi e aes of Walls in arcides, painted With buncies of noscvays, separate these palaces one from the otuer, ARADISE, To the leftis the “Hightit Paradise,” the ornate kiosk, more thau half covered by Its forest dud beyond lyons the stately Noyal Cotleg two epirmg minars. ‘This to the nerth 18 a most pleasant v.ew—tit haunts of royalty, bowers of iove and pieasure; and bey them, hortherly, extend Streains of verdure, Ww as the deialis fade with distance, con: Gail forest, bounded by ine Atesit Kul, or “Lt! of the Fire Worshippers.” Hast, oureyes ¢ the Chenar colonn: ing **Kiver of Life, the ext res of the’Cha the Armeniza saourb known as the fez he wind- of Julfa; ar Jercb, or the nd 83° Yakht-t-Poulaad, in which is the Kabristan-+-Poulad, the “Cemetery of Pou- lad’—the Armenian Cemetery; the Kitlei-Suii, “pell’s Hill,” “Rustam’s Pucoue,’ and tie Wonder: fully sirange scenery of the “Lhousaud Valieys’? (Hezar's Derren). WHRONE OF RWSTAM. fi's Hil is # sorrated, loity ridge, whieh awith the Zauderood, abous fiye miles nk. The rood thither leads over expanse, with a gentle and even slope up bo Li oi the lil. At the northern ex- tremity of this ridge ts the strange limestone reek formation, known as the “ihrone of Rustam.” ‘the summit of the rock, or ridge, #t tis end appens to be of a mneh harder ‘material than the slope, and bit by bit, during the centurt h have passed, the sides have been eroded by ows tui! now th summit overian ali sides the slope, like the eormiee of a }, and presents the appearance of & tar, The sumunt 1s fat, and on it hi been built, either by te Worshippors or Seti ere- mites, 20 ordinary looking house i dome. From tite base of the hill to its ove cap may be 350, porbaps 400 tect. ‘ns legend and superstitious admiration of Hereuies have deuominaied is wit the Persian ‘Pak hod usiain— THOU rs AND PLAIN OF ISPAIAN. Tt Was au evfort or agility requirimg a cool He end 10 if, aud K had teen evutent tome cepi for the fine view noting would be derived | irom (he tro or ti ei. Bot when ene is | travelling to see thtogs he might as well set his mung upon seving everyting — notable with that view phaed. AS up from the we: side I pasced some caves and rock cut tank as I firmly either protesting ims or Fire Worshippers. mally Larrived upou summnt ot the *Piaroue,”? and tie “Paousaud Valleys" and tie whole piati of | paban were beore me, ‘The Isp a Ob about a handred square dan pal is au | jotted with aren hills, somet Tasulated othem li serrar ‘Ss Witt the p! hand height 0! Bj: 3 again as mere dark and billo of rock nd be- tween these n nd and ramity the Valleys, eal susceptible of high culit vaiion.” Hei Yhousand Valleys.” it Isa very + Ispahan is seen to ade Vantage, Dui nou With the graceful details whieh pre selves from the lop of A-all Capoe. It is ong 1 and large par immed with’ we wari ba Which hangs above jorest and uiunar, dome and palace, city and plain, during the inom. \ ing hours, and ihdistinet aud Unreal appears the great dun ‘plain arcuad it, decked by its thousand craggy hills, LEGENDARY STO! Amusad by the legends tolt about tht rocky avidanche on which 1 sivod, ft tura ret asked pup:— dangerous: ul ty my is No, it is Rustam’'s throne. “and who was Rustam?’ Tasked again, though I knew very weil, hay ud that wonuertul produc. tion, “Shah Nameh,” by Ferdous-e “Rustin was one strong Mian, sir; stronger than @ lion; much sironger than on elephant. fe was stronger than a thousand living Persians.” “Ladee , Sir: he td tearup big mountains and throw ‘theni at ms enemies, He had a sword, a dreadfully long sword, and with that he couid cut a thousand men down at one blow !"* “He must have been a very strovg and big man, eh’ And this louse was the place he tived tn, I sup. poses? ‘ Yes, sir’? “Bat don’t you thir for such a man as Re desertbe him Tdon’t know, sir’? “And I Suppose this was the room he slept in tis smooth rock his dining table, apd wher good Musstliaaa, he ehi? cn &@ good Mossulman, | s Yes, sir, this: where he prayed be- | | fore going to fight, and i the morning and evening, and just below lieve 14 the p.we where he got its waier to drink and wash, Allah blew on the rock | andit spit, @nd from tue crack there came water y Sve NOW a iow feet and Alias, that it is rather smal a, Whe Was so big as you and | i he ust have spread his. am sur the crack | and the water Which pious Alias believed unplicily Was caused by the breath of Alla THB QUESN OF SiED Another legend about the re is that Ball, Queen of Sheba, being very i with a strange Gisoase, WAS 8ERE U ied to Tspaiun, as the only | distiiet thea Known where the climate Was undlorn, | | where the seasons came aud passed in regular | lutervals, without being subject to vi le weatiers, and Uiat Solomon built her iis house that she wight | enjoy & 04 Jie Queen ot Shek , it seems, Is a great cha | ter in ine Hast. ‘The “Abyrsians claim he their country. Theodorus, the unforimmate E ror of Abyssinia, ¢ od Lineal de t trom her, Prince Menliek, King of a. ‘The Arabs of Arabia ‘elix have also many traditi about ty HILL OF THE P10 RSMIPP ‘ From Takht-i-) ain we rode to the Atesh Kiln, “Hill of the Fire Wershipper and bere again my inordinate ticisma clasked with the traditions of the natives. It stands northeast about three miles | from TakhttRusiam., On iis southern and w ern sides it seoms that it Has been used as a q by scores of generations, But the wonder is whe 1 the mass Gf ston taken from the tnimense rvy has gone te. We do not see tt im ispaban pt in the pavement of Char-Bagh, the ci qu exce stones and bed of the reservoirs, the lintels of leors and windo and the stiles and cofin-ska.ed | biocks of the Persian and Art a CemMelert u away must lave suillced to’ While the stone ty butid a goor dd city ail Of stone. We ascended the eastern face of the Ate: Kah to the sumimit. Al tiree-fourths of - the ase We passed throught & gap 1a a wail fi/teen feet thick, buuit of large adobe bricks, cach brick about four- wen inches square by avout six in ttickuess, and between each brick were layers of straw, Thus style of building fortress Walis is Very anctent. You may see it surrounding the site of an acauthus gveve be. fore coming to Abydos m Egypt, at Kliages, at Echatana, now calted Hamadan, at Takht-t-sulet man, xt Hila or Bavyton, at Khorsabad. — If so, then we nay dechire these inassive walls and more Iassive towers to be contemporary with the Men- desian and Schermyte dynasties of kgypt, with | Derokes #nd Cyaxares of Assyria, and the reign of Cyrus over Persia ayd Belsiazzar over Babylonia, that they are much older in faci, not unproved upon or deviated from even in those late yeurs. This is only my guess work, voluntarily given, but coniirmed by What t have seen, ‘Yo invite your beltef in these deductions of mine, made, a8 they are, from ocitlur observations a t in studies, let me describe the position of this hil 13 probably 300 yards in length by about breadth, tising above the plain from 250 to 800 fect; the elrcumterence of the Mul at the base being about @ mile; of the west aud southwest itis perpendicas lar and very rugged, feasible, possibly, for one or two er a dozen men to climb in one or tive places, but impossible for an attacking force. On the north, and east and southeast the hill affords suMcient slope for an ascent, but on those sides the hill is de- fended by more stupendous walis and towers which are tweuty, thirty and even fitty feet high, according to the sinuosity of the slope. The top of the walls 1s certainly ten feet thick, the base 13 Irom fifteen to twenty feet thick, butt, as [sald before, of those sun-dried bricks, oue of which would sutilce as & man’s load, It is situated about halt way between two knots of hills, which are an aggre- gation of rough splintered sputs. The Zan- derood passes West of the hill southeast towards Ispahan. Examinmg, then, these characteristics carefully, you cannot but assume that this strong fortress Was meant to guard this wise pass, to In sure safety Against an attack from the neriiwest— from Assyria, perhaps, Of course the bill is rightly named “HUl of the Fire Worshtppers,” for the peonle in those days, when the first brick was. laid down on the substratum of lime rock, were all Zoroasiriaus, Guebers or “Fire Worshippers;” for Zerdusht, the founder of tnat religion, was nearly contemporary With Moses, aud the religion cadured: until the conquest of Persia by Abu-Bekr’s Moslem hosts. But to believe that the Zoroastrian ally built’ this fortress for their worshi is— folly, They practised their worship ol “high places’? Well, this fortified = “high place” presented them with an opportunis 10 80, and, if they were pionsly inelined, er re fortress in thelr poasession must have contained a select place of Worship. Fancy some cepturies hence trae vellers coming to Gibraitar and finding the ruins of & Protestant chureh there. gir oA that fact as the base of a Ayporaas that the British ogeupled Gibraltar solely for their Protestant worsmp) Was Jerusalem bullt solely for the Jowish worslipy {8 Fortress Monrge, because it coutains a chapel, con- structed solely lor reugious purposes ¢ Another writer—Sir Robert Ker Pertor—ecalls Atesh Kah “an artificlal mount?” If itis “an arth ficial mount” Givraitar 14 one g180; the Kook: Mountaius are just as artical. Ouseley says of 1 “A mountain, Uve or six miles distuat (trom Is> Pahan), on witch are some rematus of un edifice not Very fucient, but oceupying, as tradition relates,* the site of a ruined ire temple? Evidently Afr, Ouseley dis not seo it, otherwise he had not called the bit a “mouatain,” aud he had mot sald tt Was “hot very ancient.’ Morler says of it Uhatit “Is @ triangular hill, distincuy seen (rom afar, called the Atesh Gah, ov the Place of ¥ire.’’ It is composed Of soveral strata of rock, and its best ascent 18 by a path to the eastward, Upon its suminit are BOLO old buildings composed of mud bricks, baked in the sun, Dut of a very linge size, between witeh ure layors Of reels alone, without auy apparent cement, The Persians say iat these buildings were the works of the Guebers. Mr, Movier “hag beech on the top, evidently, He is right when he says that there are soiné ruins oi mud bulldiags on its summit; also when he says the best ascent 1s by the easiward, [do not know whether he is right Waen ho says itis “triangular;’? it may be that the slraw I saw are merely “reeds; but he ts very stmple Whon he says that “the P ns say Hat Mese build. ins are the works of the Guebers.’ He does not menhon the strong Walls which mark the hill as being a fort, the only features of it whieh should indeed give it a colebrity; neither do the other writers Whom I have quoted. Go the highest portion of the conteal bill 1s an Octargiiar buslatug once Covered by a cupola, pierced by eight doorways, whence @ splendid view of ispatian affd its surrounding plalus and Luls may be ovtained. THE ROCK i MINARETS, There {s another object of curtosity alinost every Craveller, about ten int Kuh, ‘Vis ts an jusignificant me: Which has two “rocking minarets. f 1 fo AWAKEN CUriosily me ock or shake, ‘The leanin aentione | by s irom Atesh Jed, oF mosgue, here ts 2 title Jable-—minarets tower of Pisa, the y obelisk, yet prostrate; the Strasbourg cathedral tower, the famous Giraldw” of Seville vot one of the rries such signiticance With ifs name as these “rocking minarets’? of the Mesdjed of Jum Jum, You will suppose, not wana- turally, that Shey sha al, OF at least that there is wondertul’ about iescurlal in trombliig rook i eran in the t, or the olving pillar in the of Mohammed Ail at Cairo, No writer has generous Chongh to deseribe this “rocking’ or Kang’? Of the minars of Jum Jun, to satisfy a curiosity whieh becomes prarient upon the mention of the tie. But consider it my duty to tie HiswALo aid is hundred thousand supserivers to deserive this curiosity and to Bay Whether it tsa phovomenon most mysterious or whetiier it Is a trick, IN THE MOSQUB. We dismounted at the of the mosque, and several boys rushed outirom behind the buts around to hold Our horses, und Wo moths and four promising yo imea came out ot the court ef the Mosajed_ to t US With gractous “salaanus—a Uling often done be to curious Feriaghees. The Mokaus and their four neophytes let ime Way thromgh the gate’ int tle moeque. The fall front of the mosque was open ta one wiie areh, It was roofed with a brick dome, At the back of the mosque was a& tomb, and about itandon the walis were huag an influite aurber Of relics or © |, CObsiting of Ol rags, ravelungs of rams’ tails and | her heterugeueous aud {thy ye. After exam. ining the pret secnded by a spiral | staircase one of the two towers which Mankel the mesed and x the dome about twelve feet to the rot. ta youths who hing so lovingly about the skirts of the iol- Jahs (oen tscen ted the muuars, one up cael! aud Maving arrived at the top ticlr bod ‘wards and fort the rick tn which t were to shak This explains the sbaking of the miuvets suiMetenty, but L will give a few more Ge- Will quite explain the “mystery. towe twelve feot avove the roof of | are about thvee feet squire, 8 of one bric y ure crow hh aifords: a gaunt bodied ascend to the top to of the hour of prayer, one of the “Fat ws Ciub? ingiaad could. These stunted minars are | built from the roof of the mesdjed on two iil-shaped scantlings placed tranaver: which jut out irom aM two or three feet, while an abundance of idy mortar Is kin} over them and belweea each ‘They are thas rendered very frail apd unsias Which makes it easy (or the sWaying weight of an hol OLY LO make them Vierale, Wiuch vibra. tion 1s conveyed to the entire body of the mos but to shake them totally over, and the m: tam destruction, ‘Phos ts the ‘gr plained; nevertieless the moilahs 5 travellers beileve that it 15 the soul of t which becomes resiles: enough, I verily believe, to put faith im the story; viso while me tioning the “rocking minarets” ouly courteous to thetr readers to eudeavor ul the causes or boldly state it te be a phe- non. mar, thom sway 3, Which caused of to aro to make saint, ul some travellers are silly cE Y OF THE DEAD. We will now go to Takht-i-Poulad, where the Per- netery Is situated. The Persians care very oul thelr ordiuury dead, less even than the ais Deopie do, Who clear out their vaults and smasi the sknils with mattock and shovel and burn the ghastly refuse to make way for the ater cowers. ‘There is something inexpressibly touching in the respect which Turks have for the dead, ‘The tombs of Ben-! an, Hermopolis and Koorpveh tell us of the fon Techon witeh the yptians inautested for tie depa 3 Sodo the | countless stiles wept over by sombrous groves of cypress near the sweet waters of Job and the lis behind indoul ; the myriads of graves th Asia Minor tell us what reverence the Musitus of Turkey ontertain for their dead; so do the Qorat offerings of French peas sce hung over the head- stones ih P So co the tombs and vanits « the undying love tor ad Trends and relatives which the Enghsh people and nothing is $6 teader and touching as the and loving memoris ee th Green- wood Cemetery fo) : trem. among us, Other brutal, and ext may explain ti Orieans just bull ring ¢: nthe re with which Spaniards plunge ther loag 1. mito anviher, New Orleaus people will say, of cour that beeanse their aiy ties ina amp they cannot do othe) but the uithy suburh of Aigters ites opposite. Let them make Mississippi another Styx, and jet ticit modern . r deau 0 ‘owad 18 a Mest curious feat han, es on the western bank of the beiov ebabad (Resi eof Feitcity”), to the right of the £ Dest, th venth Hal) It is a t eld of small cupolas, reetng on insulated lumns of oblong gravestones, headed by great blocks of flag-like stoacs, of huuivle, pameic-s mounds of queer stone lions and stone rams and | stone hondescripls, indicating the resting places of | | Charons fer Takht ‘ood, the dead, which lie beneath, and scattered among distinguished takicks—tombs oi holy 1 mausoleums, The cemetery 13 | much negleeted, and paths, traversed by stray | 4, UL though tie extensive | ny hundreds are trodden out nd there 1s stich a look of desolation | %, but half a dozen cypresses to be A two miles square. It looks so for= gotten, deserted, ax if ruin had taken firm hold of every letorial and Was crushing every and each to powder that is quite woful to see, ‘The Yhiiosopher of Ch: before he had written “Hero Worship,? oughe to have travelled in Persia, as he might then have added scores of in- stances where common clay worships the reflned material even in death, Just as at Kerbele, and Koum and Mesched of Khorassap, wiutuer the dead Sheeabs are carried by thousands to be hud near the acred dust of Ali-fussein, and Fania, and Abdul Az7lni and Sinaum Reza, do the dead seek as close | @ contact as possible to the lesser Satuts which le eatombed in Takht-l-Poulad Cemetery. Here lies the famous dervish Babanouk, under a conspicuous dome, lacquered as usual, surrounded by huudreds of dead parasites; and not far offis Mollab Hussein's tomb, Whence radiates a wide circle of graves, Jnscripuions are above every grave, telling, In chiselied words, what characters lie beneath, de~ seriptive Ofage, life aud virtues, and above 1s the select verse item the Koran. But the poor ile un. heeded by the thousands, themselves, their memories and graves sunk Into emiless oblivion, ARMENIAN BURYING GROUND. North of the Persian Cemetery, with a wide line of demarcation, you may be sure, 18 the Armenian graveyard, covering @ space half a mile square, ‘There gre ho mausvlewns here, but oblong mass of stone resting on the filled-up graves. ‘There are several Russians, Germans, French and two or three English buried with the Armentaus—merchants who were engaxed in business in the city when [spahan. Wis the capital of the Orient. West of this ceinetery, half-way up the Se@’s IZ, isseen a ruined house, which was occupted by a persecuted band of es. There 1s nothing re- Taarkable about the ruin, except the sad story con- nected with it, which [ have no space to relate, The whole piace is covered with caligraphic inserip- tions, by persous of many nations, especially by Englishmen. THE ROAD TO AMERICA THROVGM A WELL, About a mile north of tlis ruin, near the gigantic idea of Shah Abbas the Great, which jies embodied fo acres of cismalest ralas, on the dim slope be- tween Sed Hil and Juifa, the Armenian town, is a very deep well, which, because of its legends, later. ests us—your readers, myset€ and Americans in general. Rather startling, Is tt not, that a well near Ispanan should interest Americans? Yet, ace cording to the Ispabem, tae road to Ankeedonia, or Amertoa, lice through the biack depths of that well | Tcame from the HERALD office through that well, and veing ® superior peimg te any Irani, came through from New York (Avkecdonta) in enue night. So the Persians told mysolf, at least, CIE TRADE. ‘The bazaars of Ispatun are oven longer than those of Telieran, but the half of them are empty and Vacant stalicd. There isa little of evexytiung dig n played in the basnase ne numerous, Eaca u own one you &@ tremendous of pres e cop, 8 aiaend me! loud chorus Of tin-tan, a usand arms dy a thousand heats bob up and down as the process ef mampulating the metals into pots and kettles braater-jogs and yee, trays, dikes, small, gees on. Next to it you hear a! rasplig, rpplag sound, and here are a thi Shoemakers and sandal makers, drawing # through leather and worsted, extending a thous arms over their stalls, and there ts chattert taiking and isnablog and amusing story-telling about dicos and demons, aud Rustam deeds Loklau wisdom und superstitious mythology gol on, In the next, ruonimg out of this shoemaker lane, are the keeu swords, the sharp and cur Selmetirs and the murderous Kuuamers boing made, With lamimer and forge, resp and file, ans Boivon clash oF tempered steel, and quick flashes of ligt Diay upon the dingy aleoves from the slant of ight which ialis on the burnished blades. Ip next are the weavera, Wuo share their apportions ment with carpet weavers and saddie Makers, who ‘use @ great deal of carpet stuff in coverings for the cumbrous but splendid Persian vaddles, and het the ding-donging with mallets @ plenty, Phosphorescent blazoument as the rien glow of vart-colored threats are crossed and woven twisted and knit by human hands into the duravle carpets of Persia. li a short bazaar Ie to my right, the din of witch i brave, is a universal ringing of hammers Upon anvils, Stout, befrocked mon are laying om to some sharp tune, With which (he blaeksmll disciples of Gobud--are acynainted, while rednot sparks hiss and fly like @ stiower of meteors, as they foris the shoes and nails aad rods which seem to be all tie articles factored here, save afew locks, htoges and tatches. Keturmog again up this lang and striking of towards the Toft, the aroma hundreds of spices surcharge iny nostrils and me to coughlag aud sa i Violently, Here are dates from Kausroon and Bastire and Chonchter, raisins from Kasveen and Kashan, ree from aud Mazanderan, Wie @ glass Masks from Hamas dan, Tehoraa, Kasveen aud Shiraz, not forgetting the wie of Ispahan, which is superexcellent; jnnamerable spices ef all colors and all sorts, from luda, Afrhanistan, Arabia Felix, Mesopot Sekhar, Khoondoosh, Khorassan, Kundistan an Belooehin They rise ta linen bags and bot aud boxes, One above auotuer, uke the galleries of theatre. . the Arabian Nights’ Botertainmenta, and instead of Bashdod read Ispahan, and the eity will b@ Lelure you. Hive I not deserived paiacos of Aladdit tor you’ In the Iapahan bazaar you will see Alade li himself, preceded by his handsome pages and surrounded by his servauts, and te on wn atelless horse, with a dozen superb creatures saddied im gold and siiver cloth alter him, You wilisee Now. reddih Ail aud Tis Queen’ of Beauty, and may dine Willtnany a one such as the Parveyor of the Sultam of Cashgar. The caleaders are telling therr stories over asin, but this Uuie not before Zobetde, but to a highly amused crowd, and the governor, who 1s we very picture Of Ginlar, has #& great mind to loo, but he thinks tt would spoil bis dignity. And there is Alnaschar, haunched, with benled back, near his crockery, dreaming no doubt of what ho wil do when he gets rich, though he does not re- pea! the wretched catastrophe which rained him. quite, As for princes of Persia deep in love, the; are.all about ine aad are passing by the whole tim And Hadj Riba. Why, there ts the caravansert and close to 161s the, old barber his father, busy. a his eld trade of shaving heads, and the greceless son is laughing at his & , putting the old fellow into & miscievous rage. JULFA, THE SUBURE, Fmentionod Julia, tie Armenian suburp leper han, jf was the conqueror Shai Abbas who im- ported this colony of Armeniaué and planted it om the other side of the Zaudervod, so that at least there should be a river between the Shesdks and the Ohristians. They cane, About 6,000 families of them, from Julfa, od the Araxes, in the South Cau- casus. They Were treated aindly by the great Shah, who knew their worth as traders and mechanics, sud daring his rein they prospered. They were permitted to bail charckes and practice thetr rete gion Inthe way they were taught, and they were allowed the sue Legal privileges as the Moslims of his capital, But toe day came when Mahmend, the cruel Afgiia@n leader, with drawa sword, entered Juifa and Ispahan, and then there was slaughter, raptine and spotiation, Though Persian princes Were siisequently restored to power the prospects Of the Armenions were hover rapatred; for not ono of them knew the Ways aud means of government ard in ol tha like Shah Abbas, for he could sacrifice his love of gold to’ the welfare of most promising subjects: but Fath Alt Sh uld no! Mehaumed Shah avi not and Nasr-ed- hah wi not—th: fvotisn despots! The Armenians are now inoed to 600 Iamiies, While Ispaltan has not over Mohatnmedans, ‘4 has five or sIx churches and a cathedral, and ¥ jay Loo many pries i tlo see the cathe. dral, ond for Juifa itis a very superior chureh, If contains a numer of large and sinatl pictures, bas pothing Of a.lizh order, A malt tude of large-eyed, long-latted Saints ioos out from the canvas wie uureoies of glory playing round theirheads, The atmosphere Ja redolent of ineeas 2 rool MM Shectod With gold, and the mystery of the relemp. tion by the Holy One of israck ts everywhere set Torth in paint and silt, In the court of the charch ts burted the traveller, Cheudins James ich, who died at Shiraz, 182i, ang eewaids removed to MIS present resting nls26. There are nine other English graves THM ARcHDIsHor. While looking about onrt 1 was invited to up and see the Archbishop, who governs all U Armenians in Persia and india, His’ palace, a very new offur, very handsome and spacious, is mght al, [found kim ou the foity roof, jooks @ magnificent scene, a tall, stale y najesiic old man, most beneficent lookh aud venerable, My heart weut immediately towards the patriareh, who seemed like a very Abrahams bat when I daw him call tur wine aud arrack, and top the latter Ik veteran trooper, the mortal stood coniessed beneath that Jupiterian aspect, and though be was old enough to be my greatgrand- father 1 felt mysell e} Lightly at witnessing this Weakuess. We sat on ihe housetop until sunset, looking af the glorious prospect, seving the strong broad Hgut over the plan and ocean of greeuness Waning, tue verdure becoming deep green and ribbed with lines of j—the plain losug ts grayishness and bee Norod; tis peaks of Sef Hin, Atesia thyoue, fisting with orange and purple, t s and gteoumg in the fast receding sun 1 We vose to go, atid, a8 i adil old Mina “Goed the Muezsoon across tie river burst out tly, “La Allai, 0 Allah, Mohammed re- soul Allah.’ we turned to bid event GENER SL NEWS (TEMS. There are now less v eancies in tho Boston pulplts than Jor several years ‘Yhe state or ¢ Governor John A, Andrew, of Massactiuset rive in Bostoa next month, The steame: le of New York and the City of i Murtford line, are at 3 and repairs, Wt will be good news to all neat housewives to learn that brooms are fully two dolls dozen cheaper bow than t.ey were wirce months ago, the cord having talicn in price one-haif at least. Mra. Anna Light, wid of Captain Peter Ligh diced im Watd on the ti inst., age uiuety-ulne y i iit months. in early life she a douesc iu Uke family of General Knox, al Thomaston, ‘The Baptist minister at Pittsfield, , has re conily resigned, ow toa controver a CLAUS of the Cuureh covenant that members salt absiain Trom intoxicating dibiks as a beverage, and We un. Willgness of sume to abide by thai law. thought they only joined a chureh, bus tind they also Lecwine Meniwers Of @ Loiul abstinouce society. Vil be in Boston an agnular eclipse soca ntise, On Septeinber 29, 1379; but on July 29, 1578, the gre: lipse of June, 1506, will return for the fourtic tine, aud al in British Columbia, Montana, Colorado, Texas, and im the west of Cuba; A Une list year of tis Coutury, on May 28, 1909, i be wiother total obsduration Of ue sum La tutes, Rear Nortolk, Va. ‘There yet remaim unsold of the Commonwealth's lands in ihe Back Bay, in Boston, exclusive of streets «l passage ways, upwards of ud square feet, which will prouably seil avan average of more than two dollars por ioet, and buta small portion of tls remains fo be filed. The entire proo-eds of sales of hind belonging to tue Commonwealth im the Back They | Bay, trou the begiuuing, have amounted to §2,975,- 1is. On the 16th Inst. © man by the name of Wesley Coppedge was Killed near the Barracks in Atlanta, Ga., bY & wouran named Berneita Hotton. Lt seems from her statement Uiat Coppedge had forsome ume pa been making widue advances toward her, aud ust Might, uuder the influence of Liquor, he weatto Where st 14 stopplug aud reucwed bis famuliart tes, when she sou Oh UX ANd split his Lead open, killing him wstantiy. ‘The San Francisco Butletin states that from July 1 to Hevember 1, 1870, eighty-eight vessels lade with Wheat have satied from that city to various poris in Great Britain and Ireland, The quantity of Wheat exported during the perlod mentioned wounted 10 2,507,360 centals, valued at $4,725,714 The four exported during the same tine amousted to 7¥,002 barrels, Valued at $418,096, The total value of the wheat and Hour exported amounts to $5,141,510, The flour is sent principally to Cuina. The votorious Josepliine Vox, the wife of the man Brown, who murdered fus chiid ia order to obtain the lusurance on its le in the Travellers’ imsurance Company, 1s agala in trouble, Henry 3. Sperry, of Agawam, M is charged with adnitery with her, and she ts ch al with fornication, ‘Té man sentenced in New Hayea, Conn., to tue House Correction tor one year and eight months; and tho Woman, in consequence Of having been ta jail fot months: Cd trial, Was sentenced to one monte condnement. Sie said her name was Josephine Vadar, ant her maiden name Matte Juseptine Fox. There died at the Alms Hous9, in ‘word on the ist instant, the oldest ee arons: rob= abliity—in Connecticut, It was Bitza Letson, Who had reached the great an ‘ena ong pve | age of Lil years and 10 mot » Neariy 112! The is substantiated, 3 son on eactipotes mony. Mr. James Leeson asserts that tle record In the old family Bib!s was true, and that the old | Was. born in Canada, of French-Canadivn anc in February, 1760; that she came ot a very lived ancestry, her father having lived to aboat age of 112, She n Canada to Now York 7, and itved in New York for Fey ae roe Lp she anu her sou ‘ joved to :