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ed Into ditches of trouble, distress,
and dispair.
One Stab alone never led its ga
aers into difficulty; and though many
have followed its light through rugged
paths and thorny mazes, its lustre
has been sufficient to dispell the sur
rounding darkness, and reveal the pits
and snares near the path of life. The
light of this star is never uncertain,
but will lead all its fullowers to life
evferlastiug:—it is the Stab of Beth
uhbm.
Foreign.
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From the United States Telegraph.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY,
We are gratified to have an oppor
tunity of laying before the public,
some intelligence of the proceedings
and expectations of the belligerents
in the East, on which some reliance
may be placed. The following ex
tract of a letter from an officer of the
United States Navy, to his friend in
Washington, dated Smyrna, 18th Feh.
1829, will be read with deep interest.
It gives a very different account of
the last campaign from the one gen
erally credited. It confirms the pre
vailing belief of the warlike character
and disposition of the Turkish ruler,
and renders the ultimate success of
the Russians somewhat dubious. As
for the Greeks, if the suspicions that
Capo d* Istra, in but the Agent of
Russia, be correct, it would seem
that they are doomed merely to
change one taskmaster for another.
Smyrna, Feb. 18, 1829.
“Sinre my last by the Palestine, we
haVe been lying at this place, irnpa-*
tiently awaiting intelligence from
Constantinople. The tardiness of
movement and habitual indolence of
the Turks, make us apprehensive
that the specific negociation will not
take place for some time. The fact
is, they have matters of more impor
tance Vthis rnsis, to occupy their
attention, th; a a commercial treaty:
the Russians nvading them on one
hand—Mi** E iglisli and French com
missioner pressing a definite aud
favorable peace for Greece on the
OHI r, leave them but little time to
conclude a convention, which under
tin’, most auspicious circumstances
can be of little or no direct benefit to
tn ir national prosperity.
By our last advices from Constan
tinople, the most active preparations
were making throughout Turkey in
Europe, for the receptions of the Rus
sians. The Grand Seignior has pro
claimed, 111 the most public manner,
that the war, has no other end than
the destruction of his empire and Is
iamisin—that all true followers of
Mahomet are called upon, by the
most sacred duties, to defend their
property, children, and religion—that
all fathers who have two sons, are
bound to send one for the country's
defence—that all mothers should r.
joice rather than mourn the loss of her
offspring who may thus gloriously
falL 400,000 troops have, in conse
quence, been assembled at their vari
ous posts to await the first spring
month, the intended period, by the
Russians, for the opening of the se
cond campaign.
Vrom a people possessing physical
‘Ability —fatalists in their religious
creed—taught by the Koran, that he
who dies in warring for the defence
of Mahomet *shall ascend to Paradise
and have the perpetual enjoyment of
honor’—and aided, as they will be, by
the tactics and experience of Euro
peans amongst them, we may antci**
pate at least, that they will offer a
sanguinary and obstinate repulse to
the premeditated iuvaslon.
The accounts that have been pub
lished of the success of the Russians
in their last campaign, are far from
Wing true; Skirmishes have been
magnified into general actions, and
the boasted acquisition of Varna into
the result of a siege, rather than the
inglorious consequence of treachery.
Their defeat of Shumla, the only ren
countre that sarvored of a genera!
engagement, has been artfully pro
claimed, a nocturnal skirmish—when
the fact is, the Russians suffered
themselves to be susprised and whip
ped out of their very entrenchments,
occupying three distinct and formida
ble positions, meeting hand to hand,
man to man, Mahometan fatalism u
gainst Russian chivalry. The Yata
gahan, notwithstanding the prejudice
of Christendom, must be admitted to
have signally triumphed.
The Ottoman i\rte has ever • nee
his ellevation to the first of the descen
dants of Othinan evinced a sagacity
and determination that would be wor
thy of the most enlightened Prince of
Europe. The first great act of his
reign the expulsion of the turbulent
and overruling Janissaries, has been
followed, even to the present period,
by a train of conduct, which must
claim after a reasonable and gener
ous allowance for the iniiuence of su
perstition and ignorance, a large por
tion of our admiration. The combin
ed intelligence and arms of the most
powerful bands of Christendom direc
ted to his destruction, have been una
ble to swerve him from a single pur
pose. With the same Inflexibility
that lie received the information of the
u ijustifiable destruction of his Egyp
tian fleet at Navariao, he maintain-.
his original positions—and strange as
it may appear, I have been told by
more than a few Greeks, that their
system of govermrifent, whilst under
the dominion of the Turks, was far
less oppressive Mian at present, direc
ted by Capo o’istra, whom many of
them'believe To bo anting in concert
with the Autocrat of Russia, to the
end of the latter finally possessing
their Country, The inhabitants of the
lonian Islands are much in favor of
this object. They have, it may be
said, a superstitious reverence for the
Emperor of Russia, he being the head
of their church. A stronger proof of
this attachment need not to he adduc
ed, than that, upon a Russian frigate
visiting, a short time since, one of the
Islands, tlip populace flow on board,
prostrated themselves before the Cap
tain, and begged of him protection
and an asylum. It was indeed earn
ed to such an apprehensive extent that
the iuterferance of the British Gov
ernment became necessary, who po
litely requested, for the preservation
of tranquility, that the frigate would
immediately leave the port.
The General peace of Europe is
threatened by this war. Happily
however for us, whatever dissenfious
may arise among them, wc stand a
loof.”
United States Ship, Lexington,at
Smyrna, March 1.
Since I wrote last, nothing of any
consequence has occurred. The Com
modore is still iu this |Hace—having
left Mahon in the Fairfield. He is up
here for the purpose of attending to
the Treaty that we are about forming
with the Ta rks, which no doubt, will 1
be affected, as the Turks, are partic- :
ularly partial to the Americans—
more so than any other nation. The !
Turkish character I am very much ,
pleased with—more so than with the
Greeks. If we form this Treaty,
which we will certainly do, one of our
ships will go to Constantinople, which
will be a very remarkable event, as
not any armed vessels are allowed to
pass the Dardanelles. They had been
particularly successful in their en
gagements with the Russians. The
Emperor is collecting an immense ar
my to attack the Turks. The Grand
Seignior is to head the Turks in per
son. We have nothing to do of any
consequence; now and then we covoy
an American vessel to the mouth of
the Levant, and return immediately
to Smyrna again. All the piraces
have beentrtippressed. We do not com
plain of the dullness of the time, as
it is taken up with giving and go
ing to Balls, and there are musical
I parties Bere very often.
CABIN IST.
tVAUHEYTON, JU VH 6. ■ s >.
With the present numb r couiineti
ces the second year of the existence
of the Rural Cabinet. To our pat
rons, the punctual in partLul ir—we
tender the homage of our acknowl
edgments and thanks. Altho’ the
patronage we have received has not
been as extensive as we could desire;
yet it lias exceeded our anticipations
at the outset. We enter on the se
cond volume, with assurances of re
newed exertions to render the Cab
inet worthy of a continuance of the
support already accorded, and to me
rit a more extensive share of public
patronage.
For the C \BIN£T.
A distinguished writer has said that
man is a ‘ bundle, of habits One has
said, • Fell me whom you live w ith, and
1 will tell you who you are.’ It is in
disputably tiue that the manner 4, the cus
toms, and the sentiments of those with
whom we associate in early life, are like
ly to go with us down even to old age.
l’hougn we may not, in every instance,
be perfect samples of our youthful com
rades, yet there will probably be enough
discoverable about us to identify our char
acters. To be properly guarded and in
structed by the parent, in toe days of boy
hood, is of vital importance to our well
being in riper years, It is rare for those
vho have been neglected in their raising,
to become eminent either as profession
al characters, or as patterns ol piety and
virtue. When veuth i tiifled away
in idleness, folly and dissipation it is
a task for manhood to reform and sur
mount the many difficulties that lie in
the path to [Domotion and fame. There
will then be too much to learn—too l
much to unlearn. It will not be an in
considerable job to abandon the maonei*
f the society in which he iias unfortu
nately moved. The looks, the gestures;
and even the un-moth phraseology of
his rude and vulgar as< dates will harijz
about him, so as to tell at once where
he has Wen, and what he has been do
ing. Like Peter, Ins -peech will be
tray him. Though he .-nay be careful
to conceal his ignorance at and want of
ta 4 te, yet his effo twill h fruitless; his
exertions will but fa.’ lit the disclo
sure of his’tiue character.
It is pleasing to the lov t of religion
and virtue, to contemplate the many
institutions which ae ah. \in active
operation for the bettecin* <n ur hearts
and oir lives. Am the mst benevo
lent and useful, mav P • .-o'd the sab
bath school and Bible Society. The
life-giving rays of the Sun of Righte
ousness, beaming from the Sacred vol
ume, are pouring joy and happiness on
a large portion of the globe. Every lov
er of the Bible must love the sabbath
school cause. There the rising genera
tion become acquainted with the scrip
tures which are able to make them wise
unto salvation. There, like Timothy,
they learn, in their tender years, those
sublime truths which
‘Lay the paths of pevjsh nature even,
And open in each breast a little heaven.*
In the sabbath School, children acquire
a love of reading, a love of character—a
love ofvirtue, and of G.d. Would any
one, with a history of the beneficial re
sults of sabbath schools before him,
raise a solitary objection to them?
surely not. We know that for want o’
a proper knowledge of the subject, some
are opposed to them. But we did cot
know, till lately, that any professors of
religion would raiea single tone, in op
position. To object to this institution
i9 to object to the reading of the word of
God. A sentiment of this kind is suited
only to the dark ages of Popery. For a
Papist to object to the sabbath school, is
I what we might expect; but for a Chris
tian church to object, is what we had no*
dreamed. We are happy to find, a War-
Tenton, but one sentiment in relation t
j this subject* Here we have a flourishing
school of this kind, in which several of the
| young ladies of the place have engaged as
, teachers, whose talents aud whose piety
i are such, as to induce the belief that they
; will be the‘instruments of much lasting
| good to the community. May they go on
iin this praise-worthy undertaking,
j They will have the approbation of the
* wise and the good; and above all, tlmy
will have the answer of a good conscience
and the sanction of Heaven.
BAU-SAMUEL.
JIRVOLUTIONdIIY BATTLES.
The following Table may be useful
for occasional reference*—
! Battle of Concord, April 19th 1775
I Rattle of Bunker Li ill, June 15 1775
i Rattle of Old Hampton, Vir
ginia, where we took 5 deck
. ed vessels, some time in No
vember J 77!
Battle of the Great BHdg*,
near Norfolk, Va. Decem
ber 18th _ 1776
Battle of Fort Washington,
mb November 1776
Battle of Fort Lee, 19th No
vember 1776
Battle of Trenton, when Gene
ral Washington and his ar
my took one thosand Hes
sians. <Scc. 2Gth December 1776
Battle of Priuceton, 2d Janu
ary, 17 77
Battle of Brandywine, Uth
September 1777
Battle of Germantown, 4th Oc
tober . 1777
Burgoynes‘9 army taken near
Saratoga, 17ti October 1777
Battle of the Red Banks, Oc
tober 22 1777
Battle of Monmouth, June 28 1778
Battle of Stony Point, July 16 1779
Battle of Long Island 27th Au
gust 177§
Cornwallis and his army taken
at York-Town Va. 12th Oc
tober 1781
Battle of King's Mountain, i
think was sometime in Oc
tober 1781
Battle of Guilford N. C, 16th
March 1731
The above is a true statement of
the principle battles fought in the He.
volutionary War.
• CR
GOOD REASONING.
The Alabama Journal, of the 24th ult.
save, “We publish but a half sheet this
week. YV edo it, because we have no
p;ipe r ; we have no paper, because we
have no money; we have 00 moil v, be*-
cause those who are indebted to us do
not pay us, and those who are indebted
u> us do not pay us, because. .....the
Loid only knows why.’’
A letter has been received by the
selectmen of Charlestown, (Mass.)
Ir. >n the Agent of General Lafayette
in New York, mentioning the receipt
of an order for a hogshead of earth
from Bunker-Hill Buttle Ground , to
be placed over the body of Lafayette, at
his decease. It is to he accompaned
by a certificate, to be signed bv three
of the oldest veteran soldiers in the
town, and shipped to Havre from New
York or Boston, A reply has been
forwarded to the agent, that the re
quest will be implicitly complied with
by (he authorities of the town. The
earth will be taken from near the spot
where Gen. Warren fell
Savannah Georgian.
Much Truth in a few Words.
From the Literary Cadet.
There is a family in this town, [any
town] with the members of which, how
ever, we haie not the pleasure of an
acquaintance, but whose history and fate
we have carefully observed The father
from small beginnings, by the exercise of
•mum! ami prese eiing industry, injearlf
if', gained a fortune, and was ranked
among the most opulent and influential
merchants of the town. At the Insurance
Office, th at noble seat of intellectual worth
and ‘human greatness,’ he stood in
high estirna ion, ami his op nions were
received as law, and his maxims were
gospel. No man in the community stood
higher in the scale of estimation than he
did. aud on all occasions he was consult
ed with a- much confident; as was the or
oclp <>f Help* i.
But misfortunes came; his ships u*
destroyed on the high sea,* his warehous
es were levelled by the flames and ere bu
was aware oj it, he was a bankrupt.
He bad no sooner tailed than he- wa
looked upon in a widely different light-
It w?s then discovered that he was not
a man of talen’s; his opinions were laugh