The Litchfield County post., 1828-10-02

ment! The dog endured both!" This was
agood practical lesson, the record of which
no doubt will have better effect than
volume of ethics.-LondOn pap.
! From The Boston BuNetia.
Police CoURT.--DOnaLd M'DOnold,
lO7 gears of age.-ThiS walking record of
the past-thls memento of ages gone by
this descendant of the land of ''cakes and
kall"-this speaking chronicer of the e.
vents OF the past century's youth, with the
lamp OF memory shining brightly in his
oraln-thls eyewitness Of the passage OF
human lives, as they bubble onward on the
stream of time--this lone pine, which has
survived the decay of the forest, green at
his birth, was brought before the court this
morning for being common drMnkord!
Where now are the companions of his
youth ! those young loves, which chung a.
round the hopes of his boyish DAYS his
companions in arms! the Highland heroes
OF Fontenoy, with whom he fought? ask of
their rnouldered bones-of the grave; dark
ness and silence engross their story. The
folly OF life, the atomness Of Time, in COM
'parIson with the magnitude of ETERNITY, the
| trailty and nothlngness of earthly amhl-
'lon, The dignity of man-are all illustrated
and exemplifed in the person of Don'ld
M Donald, at his age, before the bar If the
police court, on the charge of drunken-
ness
The eye of wonder gazes upon him AZ
ne seemingly steps forth from the recess es
of an age which is known only by history;
on him alone rests the correction of MANY
errors which have crept into its pages
What he has witnessed he describes dis
tinctly, even So far as it relates to persons,
laces, time and circumstances and un-
less they are now embodied as they fall
from his hps,error goes down to posterity,
as error has come to us. Donald was sent
t" the house of correction, whence proba-
bly, he will be removed to the house ofin-
dustry, and his remaining days made COM
Portable. He accompanied the officer with
almost as erect person as that of the Off
Ger himself. Since last released from the
house OF correction, he has been d travel
Ter, and can walk 20 miles per diem,
although upwards of forty years older
han the venerable Judge who sentenced
him.
THE GREEK HEROINE B0BOLINA.
Tripolitza is situated in the central part
of Pelopponesus, of which it is one of the
most considerable towns. Ii was besieged,
and, after an obstinate resistance, was ia
ken by the Greeks in 1921. Fifteen thou
sand Turks lost their lives here. In his
account of the siege, Dr.. Howe presents
the following picture of Greek heroine
of some celebrity. She is not the most
charming and romantic of heroines. accor-
ding to the Doctors description, but this is
no disparagement to the Greek cause
She is somewhat of the Amazonian cast,
but sufficiently good heroine in war a.
gainst Turks.
Amid this motley throng, [of besiegersl
one was particularly remarkable: the IA
nous heroine Bobolina, the modern Arte-
misia of the French and German writer's,
who have represented her as beautiful, and
brave, and disinterested; giving up her
great wealth to her country, and leading on
her ships to battle in person. 1t is really
pity to spoil SO fine picture; but it
would be carrying respect to imaginative
female heroism too far, to allow it to gloss
over the abominable conduct of Bobolina
at Tripolitza. That she was brave cannot
be doubted, for she defed alike danger and
shame; but she was old, and ugly, land fat,
and greedy; and as for her disinterested-
ness, she owned that her sole object in
leaving her vessels and coming to the camp,
was to get her share of the expected plum
der. She was the widow of rich Spezzi-
ote merchant, who, dying about the com
mencement of the revolution, left her in
the management of all his property. She
then, following the bent of her bold and
masculine disposition, as we'll as thirst
for gain,6tted out two briggs and went with
them herself to the fleet; nor did she shun
any danger. Her vessels we're now blocka-
ding the gulf at Napoli dl Romania.
The rich Turks took advantage to make
their peace with Colocotroni and the other
Chiefs; they heaped upon them presents
in money,plate, and jewels, to an immense
amount, hoping to secure friend and by
sacrificing part of their wealth, buy pro-
lection for the rest. Mules and horses
loaded with plate and rich goods, were
nightly sent off BY the Greek Chiefs to