The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-01-24
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| bGckE00dSDten.-- lie DackW GODS
nan OF The west, as have seen him, i
IgeneralIy an amiabIe and yirtuous man
His general motive for coming here is 4
be freeholder, TO have plenty of rlcf
land, and 10 be able 10 settle bis chill
dren about him. Ii is most virtuou.
motive. And notwithstanding all thai
DR.. Dwight and Talleyrand have said &c
the contrary, ] fully believe, that nine
10 len Of the enigrants have come here
with no other motive. :. You iud, in
truth, that he has vices and BAT barisms,
peculiar TO his situation. His manners
are rough. He wears, il may be, a
long beard. He has great quantity Of
bear or deer-skins wrought into bi;
household establishment, his furniture
and dress. He carries knife, or dirk
10 his bosom, and when 10 the woods
mas rifle on his back. aid pack oil
dogs at bis heels. An Atlantic stranger,
transferred directly from one of our cit-
les TO his door, would .recoil from rem
counter with him. But remember thai
his rifle and his dogs are among his chief
means Of support aud profit. Remem-
Der that all his first days here were
i'assed in dread of the savages. Re-
NE mber that he sill encounters them,
still meets bears and panthers. Eater
his door, and tell him you are benight.
ed, and wish the shelte sof his cabin for
the night. The welcome is iadeed
IseemiHgly uDgracious 9 reckon you
Can stay" or | suppose We must lie.
you stay Bui this apparent ungia-
cIousness is tbe harbinger OF every kind
uess that he can besiow, and every COM
for: that his cabin an afford. Good cot
fee, corn, bread and butter, venison,
pork, wild and tame fowls are set be-
fore you. His wife, timid, silent, reserv-
ed, hut constantly attentlVe-tO your COM
fort, does not sit at The table with you,
but, like the wives of the palriarChs,
stduds aud attends on you. You are
shown 10 the best bed which the house
can offer. When this kind of hospital
Hy has been afforded you as long as you
cGoose TO stay, and when you depart,
and speak about your bill, you are mos
commonly told with some slight mark Of
resentment. that trey do not keep tay.
ern. Even the 1sxen-headed oreAin<
viii turn away from your money"
NAP0I DI RoMANIA, SEPT. IL, 1926.
DEAR SIR: Since The date of nv lasI
| [Aug. IL, affairs have remained il
nearly The same state as then describ.
ed them to you, with this difference,
however, that every day that the enemy
is delayed from important operations
is day gained by the Greeks; for il
b'ings US nearer the rainy season, when
they must necessarily give up, in great
me asufe, hostile proceedings. | then
gave you an acc rInt of the Two affairs
IN the Peioponnessus, where the gallant
Niketas beaI bodies of the regular troop,
OF lbIahim Pacha of the progress of the
latter; his burning AsIros, and his retir.
ing TO Tripolizza. stated TO you tina
Attlca was threatened, and Athens actu
ally invested by Redschid Pacha, com
monty called Cutuchis; also tina, the
Byzantine fleet had made an attempt t.
debark an army of Asrauc Turks at Sa
sos, but that they had been repuIsed b,
! the Greek vessels under Sacturis, assls.
TED by the bold brutOtisr, the famous
ECanaris.
| Athens has been closely invested fol
some time by the Abanians, under Red
SEND Pacha. 10 fact, he has possession
of the lower town; for, the Greeks
! indiog it almost impossible TO defend tht
extensive circuit Of the walls, abandon
ed them and retired into the Accropolis
and body If Turks entered The place
On the 18th Of August ii was resolve,
that an attack should be made upor
them by the Greeks, who were withou
! the town. Accordingly the regulars
under Col. Fa5vier, amounting TO abou
fifteen hundred men, aud the lrregulars
under Canascakis, 10 three thousand
fell upon them, and drove them bach
some miles from The town, and cur then
off from communication with those il
the place. 10 this affair, the corps o
Phiihellenians, composed of about Isl
Europeans, believed in such manneI
RS TO force the admiration of Turks ant
Greeks. The next day, the enemy ad
vanced again, and on the Goth they
were again attacked, and driven back
The affair lasted all day, and at dark i
was arranged that the iIregulars shout,
continue the pursuit, while The tactic
| Irregular troopsl should remain iu som,
gardens, few miles from Athens, a
corps de reserve. But what was iii,
astonishment of Fabvier and his men
two hours after dark, when they though
the Greeks TO be far in advance, TO I'm,
the Turks, in immense numbers, rush
ing into the garden. sabre in hand. viii