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Show Ttlh. 1'ALk.STl.M; I'AliTY. ! Tho following extracts from a letter, received yostorday from prosideot Geo, A. Smith, by Mrs. B. W. Smith, is tho latest to hand from tho Palestine party, and will bo read with interest. Tho letter bears dato Corfu, Ionian islands, Feb. 2 : I aui in tho classio laud of the Greeks. Wo left Naples on the 3Uth at four o'clock, expecting to ride all night for twolvo hours. About nine o'clock tho train stopped, oud wo were told that we must remain there until morning. Wo found a hotel ; but it was such a filthy place and so crowded with lazzaroui and vermin, that wo went back to tho station and spent tho night in tho waiting room as best we could, highly olated at our escape from the horrors of the hotel. The seats in tho waiting room afforded us some ehanco for sleep. Wo arrived at Briodisi at about four o'clock in the afternoon, and went immediately on board of the steamer Xre blonde, of the Austrian Lloyds' lino. Wo went on Bhoro in thcoveoiDg and got a good tablo d'hote. We sot sail at twelvo o'oloek, had a pleasant run across the Adriatic, and arrived at Corf u about two o'clock p.m., ami put- up at the St. George hotc'. None of the party were sea sick, and the views of the mountains on the Albanian coast, dur- ing the day, wcro quite pleasant. In tho af ternoon 1 got a carriage and drove about seven miles screws tho island. It is reeky and uneven; much of the laud is covered with oliva trees, ttjux which a great quantity of oil is made. We saw tlax patches ju?t in bloom, appla trees and grape vices looking as it it was summer, while the orange,ihe lemon, the olive and cypress were perfectly per-fectly green, all but the cypress covered with fruit, much of which ws rip?. We attended a Greek church this miming. The service consisted of reading, or rather singing, (rem the Evangelist. It differs from that of the Latin or Catholic, by being in tho language which the people understood, otherwise other-wise it much resembicd the Cathoiic service. The church was ornamented with pictures and crosses, and wax candles burning in great numbers. The ecclesiastics were fantastic dresses; the ! service was attractive from being suns to music Since I left Kome, I have been annoyed an-noyed with a coid in its various phases. We expect to sail at twelve o'clock tc-night, tc-night, and in four diys to arrive at Alexandria, in Ecypt ; on the l3rd of Feb. to arrive at Jaila ; and two days after in Jerusalem. Vatil then we shall get no more letters. Corfu is said to contain 74aa inhabitants, and ' sends nine members to the Greek pariia- i rucnL It does not seem that the j highest civilization of the known word, '. which the Greeks had obtained 2."J . years ago. has eoabied them to main- j tain power and progress to bo com- j pared wiih the more northern nations of Europe, with which they now compare com-pare unfavorably, physicaliy, mentally ' or morally, iji-ter Eliza, and all of J the parly, arc iu good health. Love ail. Oto. A. Smith. |