Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              C• • :4 . . . -1 ' . f J — -1'!!_■-C M. • i; r '•"• .' ■ \ \ Jt-- Cut WHOLE NUMBEJ1.15^ 1. ■ -  ol the them; explaining alt when she could unning choosey favourable time for so doing. th» iliiy ol young mother could not bear the thought hiluted, °f parting with her little one: but feeling 1 rece- that she oould never forgive herselfshoml erience her mother die before she could return to , ius, it receive her Jol-g'vencss and blessing, it against j appeared her duty to sacrifice her own I feelings, and she at last consented. . -.f ' • AND SUSQUEHANNA ANTHRACITE JOURNAL % Hfaklij to $hm, ITifrrntrnt, Ifinffltyfyt 3ftfrrrnntiltf, ftimittg, ftlfrjintri'rnl, iiwt 5lgrirnlturnl Snttwqte nf tlje Country fa PITTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1853, VOLUME 3. -NUMBER 52. THE PITTSTON GAZKTIE, From the Niw York 'jTfrE ®§@SMS SEME®. c°"m~ Infantry, constituted of cemponent part# so despicable as the Russian levies, is yet, a* a whole, comparatively formidable, not. withstanding the inefficiency of their officers, for tha sciple reason that experience tenches and history shows us, that these Russian troops will preserve their line, and continue to move on in unbroken column, when tliej are commanded to do so, where the Austriansand Prussians give way. The Russian soldier, uninspired by any military enthusiasm, or any patriotic feeling, or even stimulated by any spirit of natural pugnacity which with more energetic races invests the very aot of strife and contention with a peculiar charm, and pleasing mode of excitement;—the Russian soldier stands aloof from these natu- the Tartars. Preview Id'this, we find the Stretilze* the flower 8 the' army, cruol, turbulent, but never br«rt(—alike terrible to their as they were to the people. At Narva, they. fled, with the rest of the army 80,000 strong, although posted behind strong entrenchments, and protected by 100 pieces ol cannon, before the attack of 8,000 Swedps. When ihey afterwards revolted against Peter, they made a feeble resistahce against the' handful of regulars of General Gordon, though fighting-for their lives. As long as anything depended uponttny individual courage, the Russian troops cut a very sorry figure.— With the introduction of European discipline, a new era commenced for the Russian arms. At Pultowo the Muscovites were three times the number of their adversaries, entrenched, and protected by 140 pieces of cannon, against an enemy who had none. Their forts and entrenchments were carried, their cRvalry routed j and here, for the first time, the Russian infantry, in masses, decided the day against the worn out, inferior army, and its great leader, Charles XII., who was carried into battle on a brancard. From this time forward, Russian armies took an important position in Europe. Under Marshal Municli, we find them already placing the crown tff Poland on the head, of Augustus ; but though their discipline rendered them formidable in Europe, Munich's campaign with the Ttfrks and Tartars shows that no personal valor animated (lis troops. He found so many falling sick, to avoid encountering the dangers of the southern steppes that lie resorted to the most barbarous means to strike terror to the breasts of these truants. He caused soldiers falling sick to be buried olive ! in t%e front of his army ; and he caused the general officers to bo chained to tjie guns, on the line of march. At the storming of Ochacow, he was obliged to turn his own cannon agaiTist his own troops, to compel them lo enter the breach !• Yet these were the troops whose discipline and steady masses Poland could not oppose. Wc find after this the Russian arms successful against Frederick 11, notwithstanding that Frederick had brought aritllery practice almost to its present state Ctf perfection. In 1828, the Russians, in the Turkish war, entered Turkey with 165,000 men. The Turks only proved spirli and energy hadjJsjed away, vvnicn naa nnnuoioi iiiem during the last wars—depending as they did, for defence, ou badly fortified towns, pestilence and climate. Before the small town of Brailow, the Grand Duko Michael failed for many weeks, to take it. Notwithstanding the Grand Duke ar.d his army were o!way« beaten, the town capitulated. The Empe ror Nicholas commanded his army in person, which fought the Turkish forces near Boulanlouck. All their efforts only com. pelted them to retire to the circumvallation of thcij camp, where Nicholas was afraid to attack them. The fortifications of Varna wore besieged by the Hussions nine weeks ; and its defender, Yeussouf, only gave them up for so much Russian gold, which proved more potest than their pow. der and bullets. Youssmif retired with the Russians into Russia, where ho lived jipon a pension granted by the Emperor, and long after the peace the Porte was compelled lo receive back this traitor Youisouf. So with the Hungarian traitors, Gorgey and others, Russian gold did more than their arms to overcome their great bravery, energy, greatness, and wonderful endurance. We will not dwell upon, or even speak of the constant, overwhelming ■ and disastrous defeats the Russians have constantly met with, and still daily mret, at the hands of a few isolated semi-barbarian mountaineers, the Circassians, on their own borders. m We will now cdhtrast thesa with the campaigns of the great Suwarrow and Romantzow, who, with men they commanded in that day, never united one-fourth of these forces in the field, against Turkish armies more warlike arid more numerous. Yet Suwarrow stormed th? strong, well garrisoned, and desperately defended Ismael, (so graphically, poetized by Byron,) while in 1829 the army of Nicholas cannot carry the feeble mud walls of Brailow, neither can it succeed in defeating in the open field those very Turks whom Romantzow attacked in their own entrenched camp, when, with his own small army, he beat the vizier, commanding 120,000 men. The war proceeded as it had begun ; the Russians repulsed the Turks at Tchorlan and at Schoumla, without being able to defeat them, at a most prodigious loss of men and without obtaining one single advantage. The inanity of their adversaries still allows them to advance. The next campaign opens with the Russians under Diebitch ; anj the commander of the Tur. kisb army, Reschid Pasha, takes the field with only thirty thousand men, (irregulars) consisting of the very worst, the most Undisciplined and badly Armed men. The .of (he power of the Ottoman Einit's enfeebled condition, requires SflpTcOmrtllW't. When we find that this was all 4he force the Turkish empfre could bring together, with her u;most efforts, in such an exigency, need we wonder that Turkey, being assured of English protection, "refused lo surrender Kossuth—that the mere name of English protection, prevented Austria from crossing the Turkish borders—a great illustration of .Kossuth's reljance and hopes of the Anglo-American influence in the cause of Hungarian free, dom t Near Devno, at Yeni Bazar, the demoralized Ottoman army easily gives way.. At Koutefcha they make' a morb spirited resistance—they were defeated ; the best military authority asserts that the turn ol a straw would nave decided the affair in their favor. Diebitch crosses the Balkan, and advances on Adrianople, which he occupied, and Ihe panic ol the Turks induced th(;D, C0 sue for pPace the very moment wfiu (rom tho effeoVirf, their fatigue and ariainB out of causes already mentioned,S:s p03flt0n |,ad beceme critical in the degree.  The success of Paskiewitch in r • n c|,an. ged the disasters which awa''et into a triumph. Of 40,0ti0 men H'fn.,|.os sod the Balkan w ith Diebitcb, 13,000 w_e lying sick in a few weeKq. Of the troopu drawn from the ihteriorof Russia to march upon the Turkish frontier, 120,000 men had melted away upon the road ; of those who entered the Turkish territory in Europe and Asia, during the two cartipaigiis, 150,000 men perished trom fatigue, dis. ease und pestilence, and 35,000 by the I hus Russia, the ''old bogy' , wo'rld, kept alive by Russian c "working" Oprfn the (ears and imbei burrounding despots— will be ami. as the "old bogy" of our childhoo derf r-Dm our fears, as years and ex; taught us that to get rid of an incu is only necessary to test flicts ideal fancies. AND dttsqucliiina Anthracite Journal PUBLISHED WEEKLY DV G. M. RICHART ds H, S. 1'HILLIPS .Character of tb« Officers and Soldiers. OJlet Wtnt »idt of Main Street, tram* story of the *f H'tiner 4r H wJ. r To form a proximate idea ot a Stale ro essentially military and warlike in all its institutions «« the Russian Empire, it is not only necessary to acquire a correct knowledge of military strength, but we must also investigate tlio. latent elements which may be called into action to increase it, and to what extent they are, or may be, fitted for tire mission of extensive conquest which the apprehensions of the civijited world ascribes to them. If we examine dispassionately and calmly the military history of Russia during the last century, we shall find inoTe causes of alarm than have ever been admitted. Yet, if we continue out investigations as for as the late Polish, Turkish and Hungarian tvars, and combinc their results with the observations which the aspect presented by the Russian army to the eye of an observer, we shall find our apprehensions rapid, ly disappearing before the researches whieh have led to the explanstion of facts apparently anomalous and perplexing.— We shall tJien, at first, find ourselves startlevl by lite conviction that the Russian armies havebeon much more formidable than we have ajcustotied'ourselves to believe. A curcful perusal of ilnpartiul histories shows us liat eighty year* ttgo, ol two great ba'tleafought with almost cr,uttl forces, by the tuisians, against an army us highly disei:D\t«d as any •which has ever been collected WEurope, and commanded by ono of the gbalest captains the world has ever produutf—Frederick the Great— one battle remaied undecided, and in the other they oblaied tlio victory. VVhcn we rcfleet that Swarrow, with less than 40,000 men, dto* out of Ituly 120,000 troops of the Frenti. Republic, commanded by such men asloreau, by Mncdonald and by Joubert ; wc-n wo reflect, therefore. on wlicl the Kt,.jun soldier has proved himself, ami pan* to consider that the Umpire which t!realty to send forth Its hordes to conqu«l or i crush the sfirit of liberty has-now ubom a million of men under arms, tbeie Motyl ajipear to be. in conjunction with Vne facts, most serious, cause ot alarm. Nf\)acutely, however, for the liberties ar\ Independence of Europe, th« Russian sddie'tof to-day is no longer the Ru-sinn si\Clietaf the last cen tury—he is no longer \Mjivt V was—di/iiteri as the military vigor C4 y overgrown masses of the Russian compared to the small brave armies of VijsubC-th and Suwarrow. This, with inanyi|lf rS) |)nvp concurred and united to rend ,|ie ]jIlg. sian soldier and armies much U f'0rmida- Wte than formerly ; as, by u cor,arjson 0f their former with their recent Waigns in Europe and Circassia, wo sVi vCjry eosily demonstrate. We may ve» readily understand the reasons of this kaVor. t«« fc 1. pabll.h^•wry Fr^«y, •t Two DoLURt per ttnnuin. Two lhDUar* und f"1) Oent» will bo ctmr*«d if not paid within tho year, too nnncr will b® discontinued until nil nrrenmgei^art* paid. Adv*K[.««". «« ■C««»"»c«.u,|Dicuour1y i ** per wiu:ir« of fourtoen line* for throo ,UBerl,r'"'/ C.ST. aUdlltonnl fore,erv iirtrrtmn. A liberal drtluclluii lu iUo»o who »ir« r.w»tx monitor iho whole jenr. .tlnlillnhlMH' lu. have coimecle.l wlih o1'^'11 „ D wall •olncU*Cl aiwortmcnt ut lot T*", f 5hi intoe«Mttte,t0 the w • A. C. CASTLE, M. D New York, Friday, July 20, 1853. D"' __ ____ riion occurred the question—will whom could the precious babe be-trustek \ The inhabitants of the place were mostly French, and they knew no trustworthy person who could be prevailed on to take charge of it, A young man, Mr. L—'a only intimate friend, was acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. May, and suggested that they would be ceriain to treat the child \Vltli all" the tenderness its own parents could lavish upon it, if their humanity were appealed to in its behalf as a deserted foundling. He engaged to deposits the infant, with all due circumstances of mystery, at their door, and report the man' ier of its reception j also to look after it uithfujTy- in the absence of its pareis. * consented to the romanfitf m§me, and; packing the basket with 8* in thrf:'0''1C8 88 would hold—placing set out U'?m a Purse 'u" of money—she the nifiht", 'ier husband and his friend, in short distaoot**«?'• house. Will)in A with foreboding v 8. ,"?ey topped, and babe's smooth . Jieir friend, endeavori?nC* retired -*» M ielves with the belief tri? conso,e them* k. farthest would restore tV^6?' "l B D heir arms. In a few davs . 'n£ inlled on Mr. May, saw howD,r ,'e"d ihlld was doing, heard the fqftter-rt!^"* iay sne loved and would cherish it ... iwn, and made a satisractory report to it* • . pxious parents. " ' ro,H(tg_ Kllet'8 Summer Rambles in the West. THE FOUNDLING. , in the history of a fami® which 1 hSrA „ i ■ j I i curiously roma^-rela!edf hereabouts, are shall eall May, w°; J JJ' ' »'e than most new «Xm^ns,Uere ®Tf',er . w, • lived in ISIS in II inois, about six nriTks , n St. Louis.— One mornine early, a peWK. ., . , . in the house, who °. tion, heard Mrs. May's voice '1V"'or™- tones, calling ■ to her husband11 °.r "What noise is that ?" The drowsy "s £ band answered, that the cry- was probn'i?" that ol an oppossum or a screech-owl.— intiiiK. I word. ral charms of other men j he will stand passively to be cut to pieces, or he will In Napoleon,s retreat from Moscow, the loss of men was always (if it Hid not sur pass) equally disastrous to the Russians as it was to the arruV of Napoleon, calcula ting upon the relative posiiions of the ar. mies as the pursued and the pursuers, with the advantages of rest when they pleased, and supplies at their command. What the tdrrible loss to the Russians was Ctn thai occasion, perhaps never will be ktiftwn. The Polish revolution in 1830 next led to the invasion of Poland by an army of 140,000 Russians, ui\der Diebiich. „At this time the predilection which the Emperor has always evinced lor the Jjrermans was so strong, that more than three-fourths of the chiefs of his forces, including their commander, Diebiich were Germans. The Poles, Crho wrra nevfer able to tr uster above 80,000 regulars altogether, and 20,600 auxiliaries, in the shape of badly armed volunteer patriotic Polish citizens, at Gobie arfU Okouniew,  alter a desperate resistance, made against the most fearful odds. The battle of Wavre lasted two days ; alter the most Sanguinary combat, perchadoe, on fecord, both armies retnined their position,though the Russians had 70,000 men upon the field, against a mixture of 45,000 ! of their brave adversaries. The fifrssian i army was now increased to 200,JW/men, besides reserve corps, which placed this grand army effectively 1ft the di«Dosnl ol Diebiich. At Seroczyn, Grismaif'was defeated by Dwernicki, and »l ihe'bntile -of Growehow, victory seemed) firsCto declare for the Russians ; for a moment it was Cmnnnspil :liaiJClifiliitrJ) wtuiJd have taken possession of Praga, theD suburb ol yie capital, but alter a dreadful siruggle he was repulsed, and forced to retire. Grisman and Rosen are defeatefby Sknzynecki before Warsaw, with considerable lo«, and again at Kostrzyn, a.ld at Inganie.— After many surti indecisive affairp, « e find the Poles defeated at Osirolenka, and oblig ed to retreat to Warsaw, Notwithstanding all this, Diebiich couid effect nothing decisive till death, by poison, or from naiural causes, removed him from the scene of strife ; and Paskiewiich* the favorite of the Muscovite army, took the command, and instilled a new energy. The Poles, now, on the contrary, divided amongst themselves, and dispirited, who had lost all confidence in their leaders, and the flower of their army in the successive and desperately fonght battles against overwhelming numbers, siilf more reduced in numbers by their divisions,'were compelled to succumb lo the organized, overwhelming, concentrated force of the Russian army. Let us ask, where was the immensity of the Ruauian arms, when Napoleon invaded the Russian territory with 400,000 men, wtrfi England renjptely to back her 1 The Russians retired constantly before the Fr»nch. They burnt the city of Smolensk], alter a dreadful bailie, and retired because they could not hold their own city, within their own teriitory, with all the immensity of their own native Russian army. Moscow presented the same spectacle after a terrific baitle ; and a Russian winter, more powerful than the Russian Grand army ;— «s the convulsions of nature In the Red Sea overwhelmed Pharoah and his hosts— so did the interminable Russian snows and intense cold qqpihilate the French hosts. From this impel feet retrospection ot the military annals of cruel and ambitious Russia, amid the accounts of fearlul waste of human life, we may then, with the illustrious Kossuth, deduce this conso. ling fact, thtt the armies of Russia are weak—they are no longer what they once were ; and if they are still to be dreaded, it 'is only when assisted by circumstances and opportunities, or by the aid of other powers, in connection with Russian cold, Russian intrigue, and Machiavclian policy and diplomacy. It the Russian arms have grown stronger, and are more to be dreaded, it is because the surrounding nations havo grown more despotic, therefore more cowardly, and, naturolly speaking, weaker ; who are all alike, afraid to fire, or even'to hear tho booming of the first gun. Ru««ia may outgrow hersell—she may still add to her army by the numerous dilutions of half starved, ill conditioned serfs and conquered nomade tribes. These will not add to the power of the Russian arms, but like a venomous plant, its expansive growth only weakening the virulence and amount of the poison oiigina"y. 'n *'s youthful sap. Russia and Austria nriay, in parallel lines, march into the Turkish territory. Wiih England and France united. the first gun will only awaken the spirits of millions to freedom. The fleets of England and France, with their armies, and the untold oppressed of every nation of Europe, may yet release unhappy Hungary the noble Poles, and the Germans and Italians, from their abject political and social misery. France and England will retrieve the error committed by the battlo of Navarino. The crescent will ■All float, and Turkey will make amends to the w«rld for her history of tyrannies, by being the happy cause of giving Con, stitutional Liberty to Europe. POETRY. udvancu as he is directed ; his arm may be paralysed, indeed, by his individual terrors, but still he keep* his jflwee; the (jian is there at his post, forming'part and parcel of n very formidable whole—a whole whtch stands unawed by danger, on COURAGE. Courage!—Nothing can withitand Long a wronged, undiluted land ! It the heart* within her be True unto themselves and thee, Thou freed gian% Liberty !„ Oh ! no mountain nymph art thou When the helm U on thy biow, And the sword i» in thy hand, Fighting for thy own good land ! Cournge—nothing ere withstood Kite men fighting for their good ; A ruled with all their father'* fame, They will win and wear a numc That shall go to endle* glory, Like the gods bf *hl Greek story, liaised to heuven and heavenly worth, *♦ For the good they gave to ourth. SY BARRY IORMYAI.I. which itself advances, threatening with all the moral as well as their apparent physi "Ah, no, John !" exclaimed the wife, "it is n young child !" . She sprang from the bed, ns did her husband, and both ran to the door; a basket was set on. the door step,.covered wiih a blanket, which Mrs. May removed, and there lay, embedded in snow while muslin and lyien, a beautiful infant! Lifting it in her arms, she ran/ into the house, and laying it on her la examined ils feature*.With delighted curiosity. "Js it not a beauly 1" she cried, i/oklng-ffp into her/husband's face; "and te waJF it has'corife is so funtvy !" The s'ntn/Tarmcr replied, that he could sen no fuh in hitting other peoples brats thrust up6n him his grumbling washished by woman, whose whole sotTT.\OriVjlforth in kindness towards the liltle-tMpless crcature (evidently not more than"€iur weeks old) thus cast on her maternaP'care. Notwithstanding the dis. pleasure of Mr. May, which she knew to he more in appearance than reality, she kept her resolution of adding the trouble of providing for it 'he charge ol her oirn four children. cal force. This negative quality is of vi. tal importance in the presence of an one. my, because if one does not give way, the other must, or will. It is not on record that their troops ever crossed bayonets, as the Ameriuun and British troops did during the last war, on oj/r Northern frontier. The Russian* soldier, whether infantry or cavalry, is almost invariably taken from iho class of serfs, though all who are not noble arc liable to the conscription,' Eve- ry proprieter of "Sclaves," or slaves, is bound to furnish a yearly per centage on Courage—There i« none *o poor, (None of alt who wrong omlurc,) None so humble, none so weak, But may flush hi* futher'* chf tk ; And hi» maiden* dear and true. With the deed* that he may do. Be hi* day* a* dark a* night, He may make himself a light. What! thosgh sunken be the sun, There are stars when day in dune I Courage—who will be a slave, That hath »trengtli to dig a grave, And therein hi* fetters hide, And lay a tyrant by hi* side 1 Courage '.— Hope, howe'ere lie fly For a time, can never die ! CMivige. therefore, butlur men.' Otj •• Ourt" and to the tight ugaiu I the number he possesses, a proportion which varies according to the exigencies of the State. The proprietor, consequent. ly, generally selects the most idle, the most worthless, and the most useless of his pea- Mr. and Mrs L ■ immediately set off for the East, separating a few davC before fheir arrival at the house of thai wife's father.. She was joyfully welcom* ■' ed, and Mr. L soon after received 4" a letter inviting him to join her. It was now about the commencement ot * ' * the war with Great BVitain, and as it lyiown the Indians would be troublesome on the frontier, it nag arranged that Mr, "" 1' should go immediately to tha Westy-and bring the child to its mother.•— tie reached St. Lquis at a time when ft getjerfll panic 0 account of the Indians had scattered the " * had joined Mi'Tang be found. Mr. Mr appeared ; the neig in forts; and the failed in procuring After some narrow dians, he was of search and return, ited, to his unhapj the war, both set o lauded a^fiawnee they tjwvelled noft.. . ..ough in... making diligent Inquiries in every direc lion; for'lhe hope of finding (hr lost one was not yet extinct in the mother's breast. After travelling through the country for nenrly a year, they discovered May*i residence; and had the happiness of emfacing the child whom separation had the more endeared to them. She was even more beautiful than the promise of her infancy, and very happy with her kind foster-parents , who had been preserved and prospered through all the troubles and dangers by which they had been surrounded. Mr. May was one of the most thriving farmers of Michigan. This little roman. tic episode in his history may not be known to iiis neighbors—fur by was never yeiy communicative —but it. gps the grould of a Jasting friendship between, bis Hpjpily and that little adopted «|e; both acknowledged from it a profitableleeson in life. —« :—-i-J— C»■' Singular Occurjiencb.—A («* "days since, twrt necro boys belonging,fo Robert A. Mayoftlf Powhatum, "Virginia, about one Richmond, were drowned - in the James riVer. VThe Sotiihern Era states that they came to their death in the following singular manner! , f " They had taken a dog down to the river with the intention of drowning him.—' When they reached tbe water one of lhe twain went in with the animbl, and to drown him more effectually, got upon hia back. The dog attempted C0 escape from the hands of the bov, and while doing so dog and boy got deeper into the wateri where the dog got away, levirig his murderer to his fate. The other negro oil the bank, seeing his comrade about to drown, plunged in to his assistance and vainly essayed to rescue him. They both perished by drowning while the brute reached the house. Such an incident we 3o not remember ever to have beard or read. sants. The recruit (!) letxves his family, with tho regrets of the separation, to be forever man ! but he is fprwarded to the head lie is told that he is now a free- quarters of his regiment, and chained to •sonio other equally unfortunate Russian freeman The average pay of a Russian Matters went on thus for twojOT three years, when the foundling, increased in beauty, becfitne the pel of- the household. Mr. Mav,* however,-treated the Jittl#? jd'l with an fndifterence disl3Te, find manifested annoyance particulinly when his wife would tell her visitors the child's brief history—always prefacing it by the exclamation, "THie way the dear little thing came to us was so funny !"— One day while he was alone in the room, he was playing with little Mary, when hearing his wile's step, he set her down quickly pushing her from him. The child cried. Mrs. May took her up, and spoke complaininglv of her hlisband's unkind treatment of iho little desolate creature, whom he seemed to hate. "You are mis. taken, Nancy," replied the farmer: "I do not Imte the child ; see, she lCnows I love her as much as yourself," and as he smil8d and held out his arms, Mary sprang from the lap of her protectress, and came to him laughing merrily. soldier is about three dollars per annum, which he can add to by any employment he can gain, by work obtained not interfer- ina Willi hi* military dutiea. Tiiia brings him m ttrr ninmjm ticneatlt uuilce. His food in garrison consists of sour rye bread, (which is always more or less inju. nhabitpnts. His Iriend sr»,-imd-ca«M.iiowh«r® r'a familjmad aUqdMs? 't I ibors had taken rfl Jgfe f Cnost diligent inqiijtfes J n fbrjpa  escsifmmfym tliaM^ 'ifjed .to abanden tha Jisappointed jind dispir/ wife. M the end of »ut for 4fte WeM, and .own. /From this point Ward through Illinois, PROHIBITION—A SONCt rious,) fermented cubbage, buckwheat grits, and hempseed oil, The '•Guards" attending the ICmperor receive one half pound of indifferent meat twice a week.— His drink is called quaas—two slices of sour rye- bread bring allowed to ferment in a half bucket of water—which they drink In large quantities. Some temper. BY JlKtl CHALLR*. Prohibition ! Prohibition ! Let u* form a coalition. Strong and Ulighty as our mountain*, Thundering as our gathering fountainn, Flowing now and flowing ever, Till it swells a noble river; For « voice is heard in sadness, Heard in wailing and in madness, Which shall turn to joy anil gladness, * t.ouder still, and louder sounding, O'er the hills and tallies hounding, From our sisters and our brothers, From our fathers and our mothers, Prohibition, sternly crying ! Prohibition, sternly dying! Prohibition for the sighing ! Sec, the foe is from us (lying. ancc philanthropists endeavored lately to debar them even of this beverage. The Russian infantry consists on paper of 500,000 men ; each regiment being di- vided into six battalions of a  men each. To sum U)D, the military force of the Russian as it is said to stand at thi8~|Dr«sent moment embodied, consists of able change. All their ?uccossoijlav, been chiefly paving to a pood and infantry, anil probably tlicy have ,ve", had but one General Suwarrow. Tc|,c alents of their chiefs, excepting m ,e jase of this remarkable man, they leldom been indebted. -This infantry sv lonlinuaM lu rouJflc iJ»o llu»-iiin nrtni* s r pectable, but its officers, who have at ti imes been indifferent, aro row most I nentably deficient in intelligence. TI anatic confidence in the holiness ol the agd the belief in fatalism vhieh formerly animated the masses o he Russian iiTfamr^^ami-supplied tlx Dlace Tspitiq, enthusiasm, yoti xi.itIs 110 longer. 1 lsHgprtQjashcs4SCto seer it the battle of Borodina, wlTlfte  just recruiteJHiom the peasantryj 3klDei(J n their gray dresses, Napoleon*says, mov id steadily on unflinchingly in the face o from '.heir entrenchments rembliflR and crossing themselves, oR ■till persisting arijjfr pushing forward ii heir first and last field, to the death bee hat awaited them. The Ilussian pensantry, wl.o, when dis jiplinrd, constitute some of the best infan ry in Europe, superior in steadiness to any !xcepting the the Swedes, and the are nuturaUy a most pacific people. Feeble in constiiution, they can ncithe: •ndure long marches, nor resist the hard, ships of a campaign. Accustomed to « veak and watery food, of which they re. |uire gteaf quantities, they soon fall vieima to famine, disease, and epidemics, vhich rapidly thin out their numbers when 'Xposed to scarcity or fatigue. How different. in reality from the picture we |i«r\'e »een accustomed to contemplate, «f bold ind enduring barbarians, whose iron Tames set at defiance jl' privation#, atmospheric vicissitu'1-11' ('anKers 3'1" faigue. Their siven0«ly consists only in j,jg flxy areJie nf obedience—r-ihey serve wiiK,ut * murmur. A Russian regiment.-* destined fof a lor.g march, cannot rJ'more than 25 yersts (IfiJ English jj.ies) per day—marching two days, and esting the thirii. if extended beyond his, too many men are left on the road. iVith sour black (rye) bread lor his food, md over eighty pounds weight in arms, nunitions, «nd equipment,, ft, is not surmising tjiat seventy-five miles in 8|x days ihouid be the limit of the Ilussian colliers physical powers. History v%Us us, n fhe annals of the two last Russian Daigns with Turkey, the Russian arm-, ost 150,000 men from sickness and faigue alone. Montecueuli, in his spirited nilitary memoir, says, notwithstanding he European tactics enabled the Rusliatis to every victory, a little firmtegs and"a short prolongstloff of the war in the part of Turkey would have con- Vuered-them. Infantry of the line, fc - 500,000 /Irtillcry and Knginccrs, - - 50,000 Regular Cavalry, ... 85,000 Imperial Ouurd, - - - - 40,000 Irregular Cavalry, about - - 135,000 Army of the Black Sea, - - 00,000 1 Miliary Colonics, effective, about 2(10,000 1 Total, 1,066,000 !e The three last are. »in*a measure, furished by the NomaBe tribes, of which "But why, John, do you always ireat the poor thing so unkindly V! asked the wife. "I will tell you wltv, Nancy ; because you tell everybody all about her ; and it frets me to have people to suppose I am tiringin* up nobody knows »ho, au my own, besides it is a disgrace to the child I Now if you will agree to what 1 propose, I am willing for the child's good, to sell out and move to one of the northern terrilories. Hut you must promise n'ever to let any one know that we are no: her parents, and never again to ,allude to the "funny way" in which shppame to us." ■ Prohibition 1 ' l.ct u« form a coalition, , c oUt. V»luD, in ««y, f Won immortal fame and glory ; When their right* had been invaded, Chained, insulted and degraded, . Up they rose, like clouds in lieuveo, By the gathering tempest driven, e Cossucks of the Ural mountain*—the st warlike—furnish eight regiments.— fueling tliese Nomade recruits, they re. the number ef the Russian army to umber Btated by Kossuth in one of his a"Sses, viz :—700,000 men. Of the nat«i and tribes who furnish an irregular °°nl-ent to the military ol the Rust, Empire, the Kerguise, the Nogai ail!*and the Baskira are the best—use- 4P,SS Ipver, to their European army.— 'ley y be valuable for Easter.i conquests.en the gnarled oaks are riven. xtk ! The voice is loader sounding, J'ertha hills and rallies bounding, Krom our sisters and our brothers, From oar fathers and our mothers, Prohibition, Stefnly crying f Prohibition for the dying ! Prohioition for the sighing ! See, the foe is from us flying. Mrs. May readily agreed 10 this generous proposal t the farmer sold out, anpl removed'to what was then the territory of Michigan We"will now take up another portion of the *lory. In oiiq of the Eastern citics, a Mr. L——— and Miss C , both of highly respectable families, had formed a matrimonial engagement with their parents consent. But a wealthier Suitor came, to whom the father, a stern and violent man, determined to wed his daughter. The lovers were secretly married, and arrangements were made with a respectable family going to Missouri, to take the bride wiih them, the husband who cailed himself her brother, promising to join them shortly. He left the city sometime before Miss C 'a disappearance, and all believed that he had gono on a se» voyage. Soon after leaving home, Wiss C wrote to inform her parents she wtfs safe with friends, and (led to avoid a compulsory marriage. After » journey of several weeks, the vounf couple arrived at St. Louis. Not- Withstanding the pains taken to conceal their movements, in a few months the father learned that his daughter was in the western country, and wrote to hf.r that her mother, almost heart-broken at her loss, had fallen into ill health. Sincerely regretting his own unfeeling conduct, he entreated her to return in the spring, at which time he would send for her, having no suspioior. that she was married. This letter was received by Mrs. L » short lime previous to the birth of an infant, who was no other than the foundling aforementioned. She resolved to setoff on her homeward journey as soon as her strength permitted. A journey in the spring, at that period, from St. Louis to Pit'-aburg, was both difficult and dangerous ; Mr. L———— eipected to return, and he thought it best to leave their child, urging that the parents of his wife would be more readily conciliated by her returning apparently as she had left !• i ,]ie Russian draws an excellent 'Ditry, so long as they are not employed. jn8l (|le Swedes. In the Polish war proved themselves excellent jn which induced the hmperdj organize a rifle corps.— 1 hpse mcn,wever) w|,en left to their individual which this species ol warfare demiy are entirely useless. i he more rrect t|,e nb0Ve statement onav be, from , Russian official data, it exhibits no pr\0f Russian strength.— 1 lie exhaustion |ier resourees renders Russia weaker w1)e day of lrial I Had Russia but 100,Qmen underarms such as fought under \va4TOW) s|ie would be* more (oi midable,vtause "her finances would be in a —her coffers better filled. If R^a j,ad one tithe of the wealth of United States. wj\li the Wustworthigfyanig those two governments can cot,andD lhe most at. ten.ve meditation on tD8ubject could  covV no human obg.le which co(.ldeveilually arrest the u.ersal 8prCad.of her tyntmon. But as s, ia now situated her Hrves want, and n)uCOntinue wanting, nal power and vigor, in motion this muscular force, »;ch is w fear. ful to even wh .i.;, »iant is in Thie being strength in \jj,y j4 Veiy limited, ,nd sha is only form^ye by the fears ol Europe, in amvthv at disunion, and the of her Maohiavjan poiiey working wilfully upon weakne8and 8UCh treacheries. ll.we8trMB ag brieflD 48 ptisjMe ti,0 'military ,torv of Russia, "•■Whall find the 0f our aseertiol u Before tlD reien 0f peter, we the Muscovites Ury warlike peopliJS run by tf  \ m . \ ».i \ \ The biril that soar* on Uighe«t wing, HUMILITY. KuiUU an the- ground ber lowly nest An3 »he that doth most aweetly sing, Singi in the ■'hade when all things rest In lark and nightingale we gee What honor hath humility.—Mtmlgomery, For the Ladies . Theodore Parker, In a rccei.t "sermon," Uttered the following— There are three classes of Women : Ft'st, Domestic Drudges, who are wholly taken «p with the material details of their housekeeping, husband-keeping, and tilitld.keeping. Their housekeeping is a Wade, and no more ; and when tuey have done thai, Ihere is no more (hat they can do In New England it is a small class, getting less ovety year. Next, there are domestic Dolls, *iio\ly taken up with the vain show which delights the eye and the ear. They are ornaments of the estate. Similar toys, 1 suppose, will one day be more cheaply* manufactured at I'arls and Neremberg, at Frankfort on-i'-J Maine and other toy shops in Europe °ul of wax and papier mache, and noltl" a9*' ton at the haberdasher's, bv ll}' °zeB". These ask nothing beyond" J*" »unctlon as dolls, and hate all at^u t0 elevate woman-kind. \ . Bui there are Women, who order a house "'d not *** j it **re not mere UrD".8! hut Wompr. Some of these—a grev many of Llnm —oDnjoin tbe useful of the drudge jfoii the beautifttl.of the doll into one Woinhood, and have a great deal left  They are not wholly taken up if Junction as housekeeper, wife A good siory is told of a doctor in Ber» erly, who was somewhat of a wag. He met one day in the street, a sexton with whom he was acquainted. As the usaal salutations were passed, the Doctor happened to cough. " Why, Doctor," said the seiton, " you have got a cold ! How long have you had that V The Doctor and the Sa^teiu " Look here, Mr.———,*' said the doctor, with a shd# ol indignation, " what is your charge for interments 1" '■ Nine shillings," was the reply. " Well; continued the doctor, " ju8t'1. come into my office, and I will pay it. I don't want to have you round so anxious about my health." The sexton was eveti with him however. Turning to the doctor he replied ; " Ah, dootor, I cannot afford to bury you yet. Business has, never bee« so good as it has hinoe you began to practice." Since the above conversation, neither party have ventured a joke at the expense of the other.—Lynn News. • 1