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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.
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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
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