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ALTTORIffEYS. .1 G. RITCHIE A A. MAYAN. PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Ps. ErAll business in Greene, Washington, and Fay gate Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. .1. A. J. Ilvttuackti BUCHANAN & LINDSEY, ATTORNEYS ANI) COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Mee on the South side of Main street, in the Old Bank Building. Jan. 1, 1862. it w. nowyrr DOWNEY dr. MONTGOMERY ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, irrOtßee in Ledwith's Building, opposite the Court House, Waynesburg, Pa. E. A. M'CONNELL. J. .1. EUFF3IAN. ZIVOCINNELL & surrralAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT !LAW W ayuesbur Pa. Elars — ollice in the "Wright 11. se," East Door. Collections, &c.. will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg, April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' Building, adjoining the Post Office. Sept. 11, C. 8. SLACK. JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PHELAN, STTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AI LAW Othce in the Court House, Waynesburg. • Sept. 11,1861-Iy. PHYSICIANS B. M. BLACHLEY, M. D. • riairsumeuvr a. SITILGEOIL Ogee,,-Bisiyakiees Building, Main St., SSPECTFULIX announces to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity that he has returned from t Hospital (lova of the Army and resumed the prac tise of medicine at this place. Waynesburg, June 11, 1362.-13. DR. D. W. BRADEN, Physician and Surgeon. Office in the Old Bank Building. Main street. Sept 11, 11861-Iv. DR. A. G. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciabon of human life and health, and strict attention to hlllsiness , to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1882. DR. A. J. EMIT ItESPECTFULLY offers his services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and t zi l e t o b a y . a Office opposite p o r p e p c i) a s t it o e a t the u ff i e e p ;lb w ] i s ca a n f o h ffi m c e e a . e r e and health, so native medication, and strict attention lb business, to merit a liberal share of public patronage. April 9, 1862. DRUGS M. A. IiARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and (1118, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. I I, 18151-Iy. MERCHANTS. WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Denlet in Foreign and Domes tic Dry GOMA. Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. ANDREW WILSON, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, Hardware, queensware, Stoneware, Looking Glasses, Iron and Nails, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, *tin street, one door east of the Old Bank. Sept. 11, MI —1 y. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite the Court Holm, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods. Gro eerier, hneensware, hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House. !Hair, street. Sept_ 11, 18011-IY, °LOTS:IMO N. CLARK, Dealer in M:9l's and Clothing, Cloths, Cassi meres, Satinets, fiat' astcaps, &Lc., Main eirt.et, op. poeite the Court [louse. dept. 11, 1861-Iy. A. J. SOWERS, Dealer in Mn'es and Boys' Clothing, Gentlemen's Fur ishshing Goods, Boots and Shoes, Rata and Capa, Old Bank Building, MAW street. Sept. 11, 1861-41 u BOOT AND SHOE DZALEDA. J. I). COSGRAY, Doohand Shoe maker. Main street, nearly opposite the 'Witmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style of ISimts and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. It, 1861-Iy. N. H. McClellan 11nOt and Shoe maker,Blachley's Corner, Main street. Roots and Shoes of every variety always on hand or madam order on short notice 3 • •Sept. 11. 1861-Iy. GROOBRIES & VARIETIES • JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries mid Confectioneries, Notions, Madicines, Pvribmvries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Giros of all sines. and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. -fterCash paid for good eating apples. gapt. 11, 1861-Iy. . . JOHN MUNNELL, °Niter in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Millridleasnerißly. Wilson's Nr w Building, Main street. 1801-Iy. BOWEL acs. " . LEWIS DAY, Alleieol and Mieeeneneons Books. Statien 4rt Idaerasiernt and Papers. S One (Nor ea ees 1 1. 1861 1 s 1 t et tillnas.disin finest, . 1111111M_IIIPP, 3 4i.11011_, sAwum, wrAL I4 LISTER, Thu* sok, 014 *at build- The women of America have played a most important part in the present war, and their services are no less valuable than those of their husbands, and sons, and brothers in the tented field. Rev. Robert Col lyer pays the following deserved tribute to our countrywomen: Then the women of our land have distanced all their sisters on the earth for generous, steady devotion to the material needs of the soldier. We may challenge any people to show such a perfect devotion mani fested in such a way. When the history of this war is written, the Sanitary Commission will take a large place in it, and the Sanitary Commision will have to write : "We should have been able to do very lit tle for the comfort of our men, had it not been for the untiring devotion of our women, and their generous, boundless gifts of what was most needed." Of the part taken by wo men in that which pales all gifts of food and garments, I cannot at this time adequately tell. Mothers gave their sons, wives their husbands, L.nd then sat down to their daily life.— "That is the portrait of a young man, the only son of his mother and she was a widow," a friend said to me one day, opening her album. "They are a rich family • be was educated in the best schools, had just come back from a tour in Ettrope when the war began ; he went into the army at once, and was killed at Ball's Bluff." • WAt. C. LINDBILV SAMUEL MONTGOMERY A lady, now the widow of one of our own State who fell at Pittsburg, went up to the field on one of the first boats, and when she arrived found her husband dead. The novelist, who professes to give us life as it ought to be, will say : "Then she sat down by his bleeding corpse all night and wept." The angel who writes down in the book kept in the ar chives of heaven life as it is, has written out in fair, golden charac ters : "The wife of Gem Wallace, of Ottawa, went to Pittsburg to fled her husband, who was represented wounded, and found him dead.— Then she looked on the face of her dead, and wept for a little season.— But she saw all around him on the boat the men who had fought and fallen with him there yet alive, in pain and thirst, with none to help them. So she turned away from the dead, sent back her tears into her heart, and turned to the living ; and all night long she went from man to man with water and words of com fort, and the holy succor that must come out of such an inspiration in such a place." A correspondent of the . Boston Transcript, who is the Topographi cal Engineer of New-Hampshire, states that one of the most wonder ful geological discoveries ever made round the White Mountains, has just been brought to the notice of scien tific men. Two young men of Ber lin Falls, in sliding down the cliffs of a rugged mountain, two miles from that town, found the entrance to an enormous .cave, the existence of which was unknown before. Wm. 1). Sanborn, a noted guide in that region, made a thorough exploration of it, using candles to light his way.— Finding in it a beautiful mineral of bright color, he reported the fact and the cave was visited by Mr. E. S. Brown, a mineralogist, who found the entire cave was made of jasper, of magnificent color and quality.— The entrance is so small that a man can barely enter it on his hands and knees. About ten feet from the entrance it is nine feet high and fifteen wide opening into a fine apartment sixty feet in length, formed of jasper of a delicate blue ash color, striped with fire red, so exquisitively beautiful as to draw exclamations of surprise and admiration from the student of na ture. But the wonders of the cave do not lie in the fact that it is formed, but in the fact that the long-disputed question is now settled where the In dians of New-England got their jas per to make their arrow heads. It has never been known until now where this jasper of a blue color which they used came from. There can be no doubt that the Indians, hundreds of years since, commenced the work of chipping off pieces, and continued their work until a cavern sixty feet in extent was cat out of the rock, for the top and sides of the cave all show it has been chipped ir. many thousand places. In many pla ces the vein of jasper has been cut to its intersection with the granite and there the work stopped. An Indian axe and tomahawk were found in the bottom of the cave, such as were used during the French and Indian wars, when the Pequawhets, Pennaeooks, and Androscoggins wandered in this beautiful region— is which their savage implements are now, found in A bnach ka pe. Ber lin Palls is in Coos malty, Nov liatipshire, within an howl' ride of Gorman. WOMAN IN THE WAR. A JASPER CAVE. EMI WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1862. DANIEL WEBSTER IN HIS COFFIN. We find the following account of the private funeral of Col. Fletcher Webster, and of the inspection of his illustrious father's remain s,in this week's issue of the Plymouth Rock : The tomb at Marshfield once again opened wide its portals to receive the last of the sons of the "Great Ex pounder." The funeral of Col. Fletcher Web ster took place in Marshfield on Wed nesday, September 10th. The body was brought down from Boston in a richly caparisoned hearse, with four horses, by way of Hingham and South Shore. Several coaches con veyed his Boston friends from the Kingston depot, where a large assem blage gathered from the neighboring towns. Rev. Mr. Alden, the village pastor, conducted the services, the body resting on his father's writing table in the library, according to his dying request. A large procession followed his body to the tomb, where the coffin was deposited with the fam ily whom a nation mourns. By .request of Peter Harvey, Esq.. and others, the oaken box containing the great statesman's coffin was open ed, and the metallic cover of the glass removed. How were the feelings of those personal friends stirred within them to find those lineaments and features which no man ever looked upon to forget, retaining the same color and impress—natural as when ten years ago they gave him up to the grave. The eyes were more sunken, but the heavy shadows beneath the brows were allays there in life.— Even in death, and for a decade the captive of a grave, that kingly pres ence inspired the same deep rever ence and speechless awe as when in the living • temple of his matchless mind. Said one who looked upon his face again, "I forgot all else, and cannot tell you any thing of surrounding ob jects." The velvet pall, with its rich embroidery, was in perfect preserva tion, though deprived of its primitive gloss. In silence the lid was dropped and the box reclosed. Farewell, thou great departed ! Earth's communion with thee is o'er. No more shall human eye behold that face, over which thought and feeling once flashed the light and shade o that "imperial mind." Rest, noble statesman, with thy patriot sons. Thy memory "still lives" enshrined in a nation's admiration and gratitude. THE DEAD ON THE BATTLE-FIELD. It is strange what a difference there is in the composition of human bodies, with reference to the rapidity that change goes on after death.— Several bodies of the rebels strewed the ground on the bank, in the vicin ity of the bridge. They fought be hind trees, and fence-rail and stone heap barricades, as many a bullet in all these defences amply attested; but all that availed not to avert death from these poor creatures.— They had been dead at least forty eight hours when I looked at them. Almost all of them had become dis colored in the face and much swol len ; but there was one young man with his face so life-like, and even his eye so bright, it seemed almost impossible that he could be dead.— It was the loveliest looking corpse I ever beheld. He was a young man, not twenty-fire, with soft, unshaved, brown beard hardly asserting yet the fullness of the owner's manhood. The features were too small, and the character of the face of too small and delicate an order, to answer the requirements of masculine beauty.— In death, his eye was of the clearest blue, and would not part with its surpassing gentle, amiable, good and charming expression. The face was like a piece of wax, only that it sur passed any piece at wax-work. One other young man, beardless yet but of a brawnier type, furnished another example of slow decomposi tion. His face was not quite as life-like ; still one could easily fancy him alive to see him anywhere else than on the field of carnage; and strange, his face wore an expression of mirth, as if he had just witnessed something amusing. A painful sight especially was the body of a rebel who had evidently died of his wounds, after lingering long enough at least to apply a handkerchief to his thigh himself, as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. His comrades were obliged to leave him, and our surgeons and men bad so much else to do that they could not attend to tuni in time. Perhaps nothing would have saved him; but, perhaps, again, a little surgical aid was all be need• ed. How long he dragged out his lessening pulse in pain no one can tell. i A Ploughman was hung at Warwick. England, recently, for shooting his fellow servant in the back while bent over the washtub, according to his own confession, be cause she would ,never draw him enough beer! He also stated that before committing the'crime he had "tossed up" whefier he should' kffl the girl or not sad the obese* light , /as of the inkOrmetit be tosiod Adie. cared the poor girl's fate. SECRET OP MoOLELLAN'S POPU LARITY. The secret of such popularity-with the troops as McClellan has, is sim ple. He takes pains to be popular. He forget West Point when he got among his volunteers; and was as careful of securing their good opinion as a politician before election day.— We liad an admirable illustration of the way to cultivate popularity among the soldiers the otherevening, when our troops began their march up the river. Halleck would have qui etly issued his order, and paid no further attention to the movement. So would Pope, or McDowell, or nearly any one of our unpopular offi cers. Not so with McClellan. His first care was to see that the soldiers should march past his headquarters, and to that end they were taken two or three squares out of the way.— Next, he placed himself so that the troops could all see him as they passed; and then, as the accustomed cheers began, off came the fatigue cap, and the popular General was smilingly bowing his acknowledg ments to the hurrahs of his pleased soldiers. And if the cheers were a little slow in coming, he knew how to start them. A regiment came marching by in almost moody silence. This would never do. "What regiment is this?" said McClellan, looking not to the officers, but into the ranks. "The 3d Vermont," was the reply: "And a gallant regiment it is," exclaimed the young General, with an enthusiasm apparently as natural as if it were the very regiment over whose ser vices he felt the proudest. Out burst the "hip-hip-hip-hur rah !"—of course, the "gallant" Ver monters must respond to so flatter ing a compliment—and the young General's object is gained. Now, all this may be very transparent, but if it gains its end, if it inspires con fidenee among the men, if it puts them in a better frame for do- I ing their difficult duty, who shall say it is not wise; or that some of our abler but more unpopular Generals would not do well to imitate their popular brother's example ? It is ' here, if anywhere, that McClellan is Napoleonic, and right here is the se cret of the hold he still has on pow er, in spite of his disastrous failure on the Peninsula. A SET-TO BETWEEN BLIND MEN. The following good story is told by the "local" of the Courier des Etas Unis : A few days since a poor blind man, having on his hat a placard stating his infirmity, and carrying a box with confectionery, stood on the corner of Broadway and Rector street. At the same time another blind man, with the words "1 am blind," on his hat, was coming down street in another direction. A little case containing cakes and confectionery, was sus pended from his neck. Suddenly a cry of distress arrested the passers by, and turning, they beheld the two blind men on the ground, struggling in a mixture of candies, cakes and bon-bons. To add to the confusion the two men, exasperated at the di saster, were hurling at each other epithets more forcible than polite, and had it not been for the interfer ence of some gentlemen, they would have come to blows! "You blockhead," said one, "why didn't you get out of my way ?" "How could I when I am blind ?" "You blind ?—so am I." In short, this explanation was follow ed by a good understanding between both parties and the good understand ing by a touching recognition.— "What is your name ?" asked one.— "Otis Bush—and yours ?" "Theobald Harvey." "Theobald Harvey 1 " "Otis Bush !" "My dear comrade !" "My old friend!" And the two com panions in misfortune embraced each other. Their story is short. The men were natives of Ireland—had come together to America, and were companions in arms in Mexico. One had lost his sight by a wound, and the other by an explosion in a mine. They had been separated for a long while, and after the lapse of years met in the singular manner above re lated. MASTER AND SCHOLAR. "When I was a boy," said an old man, "we had a schoolmaster who had an odd way of catching idle boys.— One day he called out to us: "Boys, 1 must have closer attention to your books. The first one of you that sees another boy idle, I want you to inform me, and I will attend to the case." "Ab," thought I to myself, "there is Joe Simpson that I don't like. I'll watch him, and if I see him look off his book, I'll tell. * It was not long before I saw Joe look off his book, and immediately I informed the master. "Indeed," said he, "how did you know he was idle?" "I saw him," said "You did ; and were your eyes en your book when you Caw him ?" • 1.-was °aught, and never watched • • for idle boys again, If we are isnificiently arenehht over enr own conduct, we eh* • no time to find fault with the of other*. GENIUS AND STIMULANTS. While such refined men as Cowper and Schiller found in tea and cham pagne the favorite means of nervous stimulation, morbid natures like those of Johnson and Byron, rich or ganizations constantly drained by mental excitement as in the case of Fox and Burns, were liable to similar craving, and were more or less warped and wasted by its indulgence. Who can read Elia's quaint, yet pro fondly tragic, and .De Quincey's metaphysical and imaginative "Con fessions," and not feel how near to the most gifted of our race is this terrible scourge ? Yet, in the last analysis, disease is frequently at the root of the evil. Byron was liable to epilepsy ; Johnson was a hypo chondriac : Cowper trembled on the verge of insanity ; Pope's misshapen body cut him of from the excite ment of athletic exercise, and drove him to the gratification of his palate; Coleridge was a martyr to pain, which opium alone relieved ; Burns suffered from disease of the stomach and fits of melancholy, and what con vivial associates first suggested as a respite from pain, the life of an ex ciseman confirmed into a fatal habit. In these and other memorable instan ces there is a vast difference in the degree of self-control, and in the kinds and measure of alleviation sought ; but they indicate the same abnormal tendency, which circum stances and a more or less energetic will can encourage or restrain. We know of no problem more difficult of practical solution than to reconcile justice to others with humanity to the individual, in the course pursued by kindred, friends, and society to wards inebriates. Those who be long to the poor and ignorant classes have, indeed, long been suffered to incur the judicial consequences of their habits, to people the station house and the jail, or to suffer the ex treme penalty of the law for mur ders committed in the frenzy of al coholic delirium. Among the edu cated and more prosperous, the long-life grief and shame entailed by the excesses of a single member might challenge angelic pity, borne, as it often is, with martyr-like si lence, and the forbearance of mater nal devotion or conjugal self-sacri fice. The difficulty which baffles the affectionate and the conscien tious, when thus afflicted, is to re gard on the one hand, the claims of personal safety and domestic well being, and on the other those of a husband, brother, or son, who, pro scribed at home, becomes a reckless outcast ; and cherished there, is a dangerous inmate, a perpetual care, and a fatal example. Hence the weary and tearful vigils, the inces sant anxiety, the lonely struggles with pride, love, hope, terror, and despair, which, in the secret annals of domestic misery, attest the rav ings of intemperance. GEN. RENO'S LAST WORDS. When Gen. Reno fell, Gen. Sturges was within a few yards of him. He was in command of the division formerly commanded by Reno, in creased by several new regiments, and the men had just distinguished themselves by driving the rebels from the summit of the Blue Ridge. These Generals were bosom friends; had been classmaets at West Point, and graduated together. When Reno fell, Sturges ran to his assist ance, had him picked up, and said : " Jesse, are you badly wounded ?" To which he replied : "Yes, Sam, lam a dead man." Gen. Sturges had him placed on a litter and carried to the rear, where he died in an hour. His last words, before leaving the battle field, were:—"Boys, I can be with you no longer in body, but I am with you in spirit." THE BILL FOR BURN'S OOFFIN. A gentleman in Dumfries, in look ing over some old papers bought at auction there lately, lighted on a mournfully interesting little scrap-- the veritable bill sent in to the trus tees, of the poet Burns for the ex pense of his own coffin and the cof fins of two of his children. There can be no doubt of the genuineness of the document, which isin the fol lowing terms: "The trustees of the late Mr.. Robert Bums, to Thomas Boyd—July, 1796, to a covered, full mornted coffin for Sir. Burns, £6 6s ; April llth, 1799, to a coffin for his child, £1 is ; July 11,1603, to a cof fin for Mr. Francis Burns. £5 55..£12 ..£12 125." The dates tally with those in the inscription on the orig inal tombstone, erected over the remains of Burns by his widow.— Dumfries' Standard. COLOR OF THE EVA That the color of the eyes should affect their strength-, may seem strange, yet that such is the ease need not at this time of day be proved ; and those whose eyes are brown or dark etilored, should be *- formed that they are weaker and more rmiceptitle of iniqty, *din 'm om mallies, Ikea grey diofte eyes.— Leek i►l oyes. are itsvoftuy t h e mewls:v*6AM) the"' veo %theee are grey. The lighter the pupil, the greater tension the eye can sustain. WHO MURDER THE IYHOOENTB.? Mr. Slashaway, who writes for the Ocean Magizine, says the teachers murder them. Mrs. Prim who picks the mote out of other people's eyes, says the same. Mr. Tradewell, who comes home at night with the head ache, and does not like to be trouble with the children's lessons, iterates the same charge. And all lazy boys and girls offer themselves as the liv ing witness that they expect to die of hard study. We protest. Who sends the children to bed with stomachs overloaded with in digestible food ? Not the teacher. Who allows Susan Jane to go out in wet weather with cloth shoes and pasteboard soles ? Not the teacher. Who allows the little child, in cold weather, to go with its lower ex tremities half bare, or but thinly clad because it is fashionable ? Not the teacher. Who allows John and Mary, before they have reach their "teens," to go to the "ball" and dance until the cock c: iws ? Not the teacher. WLo compels the children, several in numb, -1. perhaps, to sleep in a little close, unventilated bedroom ? Not the terch3r. Who builds the schoolhouse "tight as a drum," without any possibility of ventilation? Not the teacher. Who frets and scolds, if "my child" does not get along as fast as some other child does ? Not the teacher. Who inquires, not how thoroughly "my child' is progressing, but how fast ? Not the teacher. Who murder the Innocents ? Teacher and Pupil's Friend. "OANAIID." This word, now popularly used fo a hoax, is the French for duck, and the origin of its new application is said to be the following amusing "sell" on the pub lic:—To give a sly lift to the ridiculous pieces of intelligence which the journals are in the habit of publishing every morn ing, Cornlissen stated that an interesting experiment had just been made, calcula ted to prove the extraordinary voracity of ducks, twenty of these animals had been placed together, and one of them having been killed, and cut up into the smallest passible pieces, feathers and all, and thrown to the other nineteen, had been gluttonously gobbled up in an exceedingly brief space of time. Another was taken from the remaining nineteen, and being chopped small like its predecessor, was served up to the eighteen and at once de voured like the other; and so on to the last, which was thus placed in the remark ble position of having eaten his nineteen companions in a wonderfully short space of time! All this, most pleasantly narra ted, obtained a success which the writer was far from anticipating, for the story ran the rounds of all the journals in Eu rope. It then became almost forgotten for about a score of years, when it came back from America, with amplification, which it did not boast of at the commence ment, and with a regular certificate of the autopsy of the body of the surviving ani mal whose easophagus was declared to have been seriously injured I Every one laugh ed at the history of thetanard thus brought up again, but the word retains its novel signification. AN EXPENSIVE HAT, John J. Arnold, a rich old bachelor, who lived some years ago in in Pittsfield, Mass., in making his will, left one thou sand dollars to a clergyman in question, for whom he entertainedgreat , regard.— One day during his last illness, the cleri cal gentleman came to see him, wearing an uncommonly seedy hat. Mr. A., no ticing it, wrote him an order for a hat, of which he begged his acceptance. Shortly after be ikad a severe attack, and was thought to be dying, and the clergyman, upon learning the fact, hastened to the hatter's and ordered the most expensive hat that could be made. The price was ten dollars. Mr. Arnold lived, and when he learned of the clergyman's cupidity, was so disgusted that be revoked the be quest. Management of Ohildron. It, is a popular belief with mothers, that washing young children daily, in cold water makes them hardy.— This is a grave mistake; the feeble circulation of some children requires the Eid and assistance of warm water and warm clothing. The greatest medical man who ever lived—John Hunter—recommended three rules for the management of children, and they express the substance of a vol ume, he says—" Give them plenty of milk, plenty of sleep, and plenty of flannel." DEATH OF GEL ILLWBFIELD. Gen. Mansfield, killed at . Sharps burg, dined with the Hon. Eli Thay er, in Washington, on Saturday last. He was in good spirits during the day, but just before taking leave he seemed to have become abstracted, and after a- few moment's silence, he said: "Mr. Mayer, lam going fate battle. If fall, hare my body seat to my ffkendkla Chsen." He lav - itemocwiterr low making the request. NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NQ,, W. THE CHRISTIANS 01' THILIESIL The capture of Garibaldi has prehilliy put off at the same time the solutitni of two difficult questions of European pifliti l es, the Italian and the Turkish. It is etpial ly doubtful whether another leader of the ' progressive party of Italy can Air soapy months to come succeed where Ciariboldi failed, and whether any other name than that of Garibaldi can inspire the Christian tribes of Turkey with sufficient comßcksice to embark in a simultaneous and combin ed revolution for the overthrow of the Mohammedan rule. ~, 1 One thing seems to be certain. `'l'e rule of the Sultan over the several times of European Turkey is today as hilly Ain dermined as that of the petty prinoep_rnf Italy was on the eve of the revolutionary movements of 1858. The work of amaa cipation has made considerable pragtoesa during the past ten years. The two north ernmost provinces, Moldavia and Widljt ehia, which bad always maintathed - a semi-independence position, have eftee in spite of the strong protest of the Dir . - bit, ish Government, a political uttionotad now constitute a powerful state, watt population of about four minions ofin habitants. The principality of Servia Is making strenuous efforts to place' itself, in point of civilization, on a level With the larger states of Europe. It has ati efficient military organization, and hits never assumed so defiant an attitude' to ward the Turkish Government at present. Montenegro has just demonstrated, b 7 e war of one year's duration, what woad* of bravery a population of only •s talw hundred thousands can achieve agoinatro government ruling over about thirty mil lions. Bulgaria, with a remarkable !Wit ness and unanimity, demands the prtiii ege of the exclusive use of its native lan guage in Church and school, and" aims at obtaining the same state of semi-independ ence which has been enjoyed by Moldavii, Wallachia, and Servia. Bosnia, herdiy subdued, is still in a state of fermented** it is traversed in all directions by l! tarifa* agents ; and at the first intimation Pi* Prince of Servia, all the Bosnian lisAl will rise like one man against the Vuirjorat rule. The kingdom of Orme. which ha. recently reoeivevd for the SW. tin a* lional guard, burns with impatiens to kindle and support a revolution in tits' neighboring provinces of Epirus, Mae*• donia, and Thessaly. Even the southern tern provinces of Austria could furnish a large contingent of volunteers, in case the Christians of Turkey should rise for a wait of Independence. For with the awakening consciousness of their nationality, a strong desire has sprung up among them to bit united into one political body with their kinsmen in Turkey. During the war in Montenegro, thousands of Austrian Dalid matians are said to have joined the make of the Montenegrins, and the Servian pop ulation at the prospect of a war with the Turks communicated itself at once to the Austrian Croats, who in their capital, Aram, tore down the Austrian eagle and hoisted the Servian flag. .. This internal danger which threatens the existence of the Turkish empire, is not the only one. In 1854, Russia was the only power which floored and encourage"' the aspirations of the Christian *vibes, while France and England found it to their advantage to save Turkey from the apparently impending ruin. Now Franca has found - a protectorate over the Cotholic tribes of Turkey, who are constantly Wil ing to some extent over those beloagint to the Greek Church, of sufficient imports= . . _ to form an alliance- with Burnie.. pretectorate of two such powers, of tareane, greatly increases the hopes and beklatego of the Christian tribes. Italy, which is , compelled to act on every oecasieasa the vassal of France, and Prussia, have Wit their influence on the same side ; and only Austria, which is afraid f of !allot Iter South-Slavic provinces, and Etighinti. which has to keep th lonian Islands lA' bondage, lend their iutluence to the Turh-, ish Government for the oppression of gni Christians. This influence is powerful to prevent any open measures of Raasiaaad France for the expulsion of the Tarim from Europe ; but it proves unable to -Ow rest the growing aversion of the Christititt tribes to the Turkish rule, and will net tit strong enough to prevent the success of a revolution in which all the Christie. pop ulation should join. The single-headed war of Montane.* against Turkey, as was to be expected,.he s been unsuccessful. The Mauterragetae have had to accept the Turkish ultitaarato, and one of the proritions compels thaw 1i acknowledge the sovereignty of thathiltatt. 4 Notwithstanding the terrible sufferings which the war is known to beFi upon them, we see another.tribe, tha rians. ready to take up arms. It is: great difficulty that the ardor of the ` ' , 1 I * 7 and the people are restrained by the 42 oils of a European Congress, Creekinitie" settle the difficulty. Like slll4s the people of Be rvia lope that the air id war will call to arne :and to their , so* * tango scans of: fire other tribes. Atagrimi paper., whicki i re unfriendly to .sam or meats of the Berviaas, ready guerrillas havebeen amp mountains of Bulgaria; l7 l " Att even speaks of the eeneeetratitta of as Ell MINI
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