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PJJ1U3.A vith ‘Oli ‘‘In about one hour We descended .i 0 iuu, alia . aiuo 10 luioiiier oi most: ici iiic ana kukiy plums i\ IHv.ii abuuiia every n tieie in Hie recesses ol these maamal.is. Ii *vas leu or twelve ni.iOs laiig, and iliice or lour broad, wwa a liver wiikimg lls way through lue centre it w.is tilled with v n- lyii^es, cattle, eum fields, uiieyuius, a ad irujA-lrees, all whuh wort; in tin; Highest suite o. rural beauty. Tfie I iv*.' J a a ii lust none 01 liieir foliage, the wilder corn was springing above I ground, and the, pasture was iicli ana the seeds wc reap in this | verdani; bul the circumstances inosi I slriKing was, tne inaccessible uroun- I a ke.l a dyin-sinner, on* (he stroke | lailw VVl , Uc1 ' 11 80U "'«<J l« »>« sur- Oi‘ vithlew death life’s golden bowl had rounded. It Or. Johnson Intel ever b oke,” | travelled through these countries, I I a be I hi n, what is time? “Tun !” lie . should have suppos d lie had d. scrib ed ms valley of II sscias from the WHAT IS TIMM I a*ked an a I man, a man o cares, Wr.ii'ii* and curv’d, and vyli.le h uiry hat - s; “Tail** is'tlie ww/» of life,” he sa !; tell The ron vr, the fair, the gay, to w are it well!” I a«. in • ancient, venerable dead, S,l- whew vto. "■irri.vre vva) Died, v.J.n jm co. i grave a hollow inurinar ilow’ !, “Tune sow’ abode.” ■ replied, re Wt It!— ih! the lie died! what is time? treasure!” and I asked th" golden sun and silver spheres; Those hr,ght chronometers of days ami years; an wvei ed, “ Time is hut a meteor’* TV An bade me for eternity prepare. .’ I the seasons in their annual round i .’Ii beautify or desolate the ground; - ' th"v r°p! >> 1, (no oracle more wwe,) i’i d!y’s blank. and wisdom’s highest prize.” T as 5 1 a spirit lost—but, O! Ill" shriek That pierc’ 1 «; soul! i shudder while i speak! ft crieo, "Aparticle! a speck! a mite Of endless years, duration infinite!” Of things inanimate, my dial 1 C insult d—an I l ma le m ■ this reply: “T ne is the s°a'<on fair of living well, The path to Glory, or the path to 11 ell.” I a .M my B hie, and metliinks i( said, rt T n * 1 is the pre-ent h >ur, 111" past is fled; L v"! live latidny! to-morroio! never yei Ou any human being rose or s..-t!” X ask'd old fatlwr Time himself, at last, 13 c in a m i n«»nt he il--w swiftly past; H s char.ot wa a clou 1, h- vncvvies., wind II noiseless steeds, winch left no behind. trae i ’ 1 ill" mighty Angel, who sli.a'l stand i' oat on sea. an i one on solid a , 1; By ll'aven’, gr*at K.ng 1 swear, the 111 t Tv ’ o’er! i’un ■ mis” lie erie !; “but Time shall be no more.” , JOSHUA M t USD o\. sx j no ja. From ne: SouUiern Review. Til i BALKAN MO UN PAINS. The 13 clc.au mountains have long been e nsiilei ed as on.: of t he most Ibr- tti l.ule oarnors. o.i lite side of Eu rope!, of tin; Fui'Kisii cm, ire. They have been reprose net] as impractica ble anil idipassa lie, ii skilfully and g wiantly defended; and iuey have, in i’a.-t, arrested tint progress of the Riisian a r n i sons v ova! occasions. 13 ;t allliougn l.ie inouiitai is are sleep 0 i , lofty, ilie ravines and gorges lew. n ■ otv, precipitous and difficult of a.' ’ess, the roads iniseraiile, the cot,dry desolate, yet no one who re- cell • ts the events of the last thirty years who reme.noors that neither l*. ei''S ior A >p.minis, nor the Ai ps the ns elves, i o aid oppose any in iaeiide obsla lo, to die career of di i.’iplined troops and able command ers. vil 1 view* tins range of monntains as off.iring any ins innauntable difficul ties to the in well of an invading army. Indeed, when we are told that in lod), clouds of Cossacks passed the I) -1 kail, and advanced to Burghaz, we It iow not why mo ulted infantry might no. iheii have borne them company, in iamb as s iHi ient to have secured tlie most im lortant points oi’ the de file, by which they traversed these monntains. The real obstacles are, p • naps the deep snows of winter, t!i ‘ sickliness anti scarcity of .vater in th • simmer and autumn, causing a g e 11 waste of life to northern troops, an I the character nnd liahi's of the To s themselves which adapt them be' r f>r the defen-e of mountain pastes for irregular warfare, where tb • ‘ontest is between man and man. Ilia a for the taeti s of regular wa - f.and the evolutions of a day of k ittle .We will give Mr. Walsh s de- s intions of one of the passes; and his observations on the chain as a weans of military defence \t Fa- ki i. the mxt post to Drol h-H ghe, the lotv 13 Ikans commence, a id con tinue about thirty miles to Ifaydhos n largo Turkish tow n, where the high Balkans commence. k -We now ascended the first ridge of the High Balkan, and had a spe cimen of its rainv character; the wind Ji ul changed to fh“ South nml dark h aw m sses of mist were hanging on the hiils. aciu.il scenery of mis place. On looking rou.id, I could not see where we ,oi in, and fiow we eouhl get out. — )V e followed, however, liie course of the river, till we came to the per pendicular front of the ridge at the opposite side ot the valley. Here, as ifuy sum,.- spell of Open Sesame!’ tlie face of liie mountain seemed to gape, as if rent asunder, and present ed to us a narrow chasm, into which we entered along w ith the river. “This ravine is, perhaps, one of the must magnificent and pictures.pie in Europe, and far exceeds the Tro- saciis of Lough Catherine, or any lhat 1 have seen before. Its perpendicu lar sides ascend to an immense height- covered with wood from the bottom to the top, and leaving a very narrow stripe of the blue sky between. Fo some time we pursued the bed of the river, descending still deeper into Ibis gorge; and I supposed tve intend ed lo follow it the whole way, in the dim twilight in which we were in volved, till we should ('merge with it at the other side of the mountains; bu; after a short time we left it, and be gan to ascend gradually, till tve reach ed the summit of this second ridge Here we found the masses of clouds whi di had appeared so picturesque were diffused into a uniform haze ■vhicli ciivunisivibed our view to a very small distance, and poured down torrents of rain. The road was now become disagreeable and dangerous: ii W'as sometimes very steep, and so slippery, that the horses could n t keep their feet, but were continually (ailing. )Ve passed several ravines over tottering bridges of slight boards, which were so closely put together, that they arose at one end, while any weight pressed the other. “In this way we got on till tlie shades of evening warned us to has ten. We proceeded, therefore down a steep, with the rapidity usual to l urks on difficult ground, and were dashing across one of those fragile wooden bridges, thrown over a deep ravine, when it suddenly gave way with a crash, and the s irrogee and his horse, who were foremost, disap peared.— The surrogee was thrown forward, and, clinging to the broken planks, he scrambled out o.i the other side, hut Ids horse went through. His hind feet, however, got entan gled in the framework below, and here he remained suspended.” Here, after some time consumed in extricating the horse, our author adds:— “Had the horse been killed, I was informed that I should have to pay the Sultan for the consequences of his rotten bridge. Wo now descend ed a very steep mountain; the Tartar was just behind me. when the feet of his horse giving way, he tumbled over, an I both he and his rider rolled passed me to the bottom of the hill. I thought they were killed, hut for tunately tlie ground was soft, and neither received much damage. The shades of evening had already closed, when we arrived at a valley, in the bosom of which is situated the ro* rnantic village of Lopenitza, where we proposed to pass the night. * * * “We left our kind hosts before daylight, on a dismal, dark, drizzling morning. We made our way with difficulty, through low rocky hills, stumbling among ravines, and wishing for the light of day. At length it ap peared, accompanied by a hitter cold north-east wind: in a little time it became so piercing, that we all got nninhed and powerless. It was ac companied by a dark dry sky, which seemed to threaten snow , and w as a spe« imen of those Scythian or lfy- ’ eiborean blasts whi< h come srnldrn- ’yrnd intensely over these regions Our road lay still among the last rid.es of the Balkan \ ith occasional plains. In one of these we fell in again with the rtver with which we ciiercd ,ne uiouiiui.us,- it is Here eali- ed tiny uk wnieichie, and runs par- ‘ aieiio liie Balkans'into me Biaek ■bin. t snouid liivc to have traced Ins mysterious stream througn tlie d;/ru, deep, and suoterraneous re- cjsscs through which 1 was told it kissed. One wouid imagine that, Ums running through tne level ground at one side oi tne mountains, and issu ing out at the other, having penetrat ed at their base, and wound its w’ay through the chain, it would ail'ord a level for a road Oeloiv, without the necessity ol carrying it over liie im- meusi ndge; and no doubt, in any oilier country but Turkey, such a road would have been made. It is possible, however, that Hie Turks wo,ltd not wish to remove this formid able barrier, which nature lias placed between them and their northern enemies, or afford them a greater fa cility of invasion by cutting a level road through the very heart of it. Having crossed this river, w T e pro ceeded toShumla, where vve arrived, after a long and fatiguing • ride, at three 6’clock. Not apprised of the* eiiect ol this cold, 1 attempted to dismount, but w r as so entirely depriv ed of leeiing or motion,that 1 fell pow erless lo the ground, like a sack of corn. * * *• * In the morning we found tlie stable full of horses, that had come in the night, so at day- dawn ive set out -Our way lay over a tiill which commanded the whole countly, and I slopped on the summit at s ilrise to view it. “Behind us lay the vast ridge of the Balkans which u r e had passed, presenting a steeper and more inac cessible face at this side than at the other; running along the horizon in a right lire, like a vast wall which as cended to the clouds. The aneieKis had sipli an idea of the height of this ridge,.that i oniponi ,s Mela affirms the Eu\i it- and Adriatic could he seen mmi it at the same time; and Pliny says it was six miles high Hoemi cxceidti-y vi millibus passman, highci than ihr chain of the Andes or Hyma- laya. It is., therefore, very remarka ble thri Herodotus should have taken no notice of it. though it must have presented so formidable an obstruc tion lo the a.rny of Darius. The mountain was called Humous from .lima the bio d of the Typhnn; be cause he It, d as ended it as the near est way to scale lo heaven, and Jupi ter had there struck him down. The length of the chain is not less remark able than the height, extending for five hundred miles one end resting on the Gulf of V Dili, e. and the other on the Black sea. The chain is now called the Balkan, which signifies a cliliiv iill delile, and it is properly di vided inio high and loo, the latter advancing forward on «*ac Ii side, like outwoii.s before tlie great natural rauipait. The town of Sliumla lies in an angle oi a valley, formed by- two ridges of those low mountains; and they are the last brain li of them at this side, and their extreme termina tion; if, therefore, the whole breadth of this immense chain be taken, it maybe said to extend from Fakih to Sliumla, tliirty-lwo houis or ninety- six uiili s, the country beyond these places being ail level plain, and be- iween them being ail mountain; the tofty ridges, however, extend only from Haidhos to Lopenitza,nine hours, or twenty-seven tnilt s.” and anxieties attendant on the defence ot I,is usurped icy,iiiiiuy VI. uitu in liit. lower, aim as was suppos ed, by violence, iwiwmii IV. was worn out by ms excesses, tuiu l.is son Low aril Y . was murdered by Ins un cle, Richard 111. who alierwarus iell in the battle ol Bosworih field, (-..men Mary died of vexation ior the loss ol Calais, and Elizabeth ironi renioise lor her cruelly lo tin Earl of Essex. —-James the 1. died of the ague, a dis- ea’se which seluoui proves mortal. Charles I. was* beheaded on the seal- fold. Charles II. shortened his < ouise by his vices, and James II. died in ex ile. William 111. expired in . onse- quence of breaking bis collarbone, by a fall from bis horse.—George I. died in his carriage on the road; George II. in a lit; and George 111. in a state ol insanity.—,/V. Y. Mirror. WEST INDIA LADIES. When the young ladies in the YY'est Indies fain y themselves too much tan ned by the scorching rays of the sun, they gently scrape off the thin outside of ilie stone belonging to the cashievv- tre£ (a cenusol tlie polygamia manervia class) and then rub their faces all over with it. Their faces immediately swell &. grow black; & the skin, being poisoned by the caustic oil of the nut. will, in the spare of five or six days, come outirl_y otTin large Hakes, so (but they cannot appear in public in les 1 than a fortnight; by which time the new' skin looks as fair as that ol a new born child. In Spanish S. America, the ladies sometimes ornament their heads with a baudeau of living fire, it being form ed of the fire-fly fastened on a black vel vet band by the w ings, an insect which emi'S a bright eorrusention every time it breathes. What are diamonds com pared to this! There are tw o species of the fire-flv one v hich emits its light from the abdomen every time it inhales its breath, and the other, which is considerably larger, from a round prominence just behind the eye on each side of the head, like a pair of globe lam >s. ! have often read by the light afforded by two or three confined in a glass phi; I. The largest kind are a- bnut two ihirds of an inch in length, the other about one qum ter of an inch Correspondent <f the Athenaeum. gruage, as the whole trust fip orf>n& T —The t: id r will fiowevet do wl.at lie can. X he friends of inoiaut: are particularly called upon to assist m ih.f undertaking lijr their subscriptions, 'films ia,, tlu Phoinix has been a dead expense to the piopne- tors. It is li gluy desirable that there ; liouli! be sufficient patronage to secure it from rfic like pecuniary embarrassment m future, ELIAS BOUDIN OTT. iCT 0 Editors who exchange w.tfi ii>- Phujii x will do us a special - favor b) me sorting th - above in theirpapers. _ Flowers of Liieralme. Hit and Scnli~' A EQUANIMITY. The celebrated Henderson was sel dom know n to he in a passion. When at Oxford he was one day debating with a follow student, who, getting out of temper, threw a glass of wine in bis face. Mr. Henderson applying his handherebief, wiped himself, and coolly said—“That, Sir, was a digres sion; now' for the argument.” ROYAL EXITS. It has been remarked that most of the sovereigns of England either died a tragical or uupeaceful death, or de parted this file in a manner that had some singularity attached to it. AYii- liaiut.he conqueror, while riding at the bead of his army, receive d a slight bruise from being thrown torvvaida- gamst tlu? pummel ol his saddle, by the starting of his horse—this o< casi- oued his death. His son. M ru. Rufus, was accidentally shot in New Foust, by an arrow aimed by one of his at tendants at a deer. Henry I. his suc cessor, died from eating toe many lampreys. The end of Henry II. w as hastened by the rebellious conduct of his sous. Richard I was shot w ith an arrow while beseigirg a erstle; and. though the wound was sli. ld. it was rendered mortal hy the nnskilfulness of his surgeon. King John died ol vexation, and Homy III 1 inciprlly from the same cause. Id nidwiw nssasinated n ;■ most shock n manner by order of his wife and her gallant. Richard II. was murdered in piison. aid his successor ’ ■ my IV expiied Irom being worn cm with the cares Warls ami Corns.—It is stated that the bark of the w illow' tree, burnt to ashes, mixed with strong vinegar, and applied to the parts, will remove all warts, corns, or excrescences on any part of the body. CHEROKEE PHCENiX, And 'Indians' Advocate. T HE SUBSCRIBER commenced the duties of his station, as editor of this paper, vviili a trembling hand and a reluct ant heart. Ha had no experience to aid him, and hut limited information to recom mend him to the public. He has however progressed so far, generally, to the satisfac tion of his readers, for which he is thankful. As tlie first volume of the Phoenix is on the eve of closing, the editor has thought best to apprize the public that a new volume will he commenced next month, and that the great object of its founders, the benefit of the Cherokees, will still lie assid uously pursued. Il is unnecessary to re- p- at and particularize (he principles under which (he future numbers of the Phoenix will be conducted—the principles will fie similar to those which have governed the ast numbers. The paper is sacred to the cause of Indians, ami the editor will feel himself especially bound as far as his time, talents and information will permit, to ren der it as instructive and entertaining as possible to his brethren, and endeavor to enlist the friendly feelings ami sympathies of his subscribers abroad, in favor of the aborigines. As ill" present policy of the General Government, the removal of all the Indians beyond the limits of organized Slates or Territories, is assuming an important as pect, the editor will leei himself bound to a before his readers all that may be said m this subject, particularly the objection: agamstthis measure of tb" Government. Particular attention will be given to ju- licous miscellany. Choice pieces on re- I gion and morals, domestic economy &yc. will find a ready admittance in the Phcvnix. The original pa t of the paper will be rendered asint"re r -l'ngas the means ot the editor will allow. Owing to the want of an assistant, ills . < ssihlc to d vote a large portion of the jraperlo tho Cherokee lau ment. PERIODICAL Miscellany, issued monthly, each No. containing48 royal octavo pages of later press, and embellish* ed with one Copperlate, and several Wood Engravings, forming, at the end ol the year a volume of about 000 pages, w hen an el egant title pa^e apd general index are aA. ded. ■* It is now three years since the publicaw t:on ot the Casket commenced, and during' that time it has steadily acquired a patrons age that has never before, it is believed been extended to any monthly publication in this country. The plan marked out at the commencement of the last year has beOn constantly pursued, and such other improvements adopted and engrafted upon the original design, as circumstance have suggested, and experience sanctioned. It is the intention of the publisher to merit' the increased patronage which the Casket is receiving, by correspondent etforls to improve its appear inc 1 and enhance its in terest. M he sonf'ccs whence instruction and amusing ailicles may tie. derived', art* continually multiplying w .th the steady o-d maud which the increase- of general read-' ing causes; and the,publisher ol the Casket: possesses every requisite facility for obtain ing the best ck earliest s lections of foreign and domestic literary productions. 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