Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-09-20

bic matter will afford more active stimu-
lus to vegetable life than old mould, hOwev-
er rich. The land for beets Must be good,
but it may be too good. In this case it
will produce beets Of an enormous size, but
hollow aud decayed, and affording less sa-
charine matter than much smaller ONES
Very poor land made rich by high manu-
ring, is said TO yield large beets, containing
great deal Of potash and sal anlmoniac,
but very little sugar. At the first wedding,
when The beels are about or LIZ inches
high, they must be thinned SO as to leave
one plant to every IL or Is inches Of row.
1t there be spaces where the seed has nor
come up, some of the plants pulled up
should be transplantcd into those spaces.
N, E, Farmer.
The Tomb of Marco BozSayis.-Mov-
ing on beyond the range Of ruined houses,
tho still within the lines Of cruMbling walls,
we came to spot, perhaps as interesting
as any that Greece in her best days could
show. II was tile tomb Of Marco Bozza.
ris No monumental marble emblazoned
his deeds and fame; few round stones pill
ed over his head, which, but for our guide,
we should have passed without noticing,
were all that marked his grave. would
not disturb proper reverence for the past;
time covers with her dim and twilight glo-
ries both distant scenes and the men who
acted in them. but, TO my mind, Miltiades
was not more Of a hero at Marathon, or Lee
onidas q. Thermopyle, than Marco Boz
zaris at Missilonghi. When they went out
against the hosts Of Persia, Athens and
Sparta were great and free, and they had
the prospect ofglory and the praise Of men,
to the Greeks always dearer than life
But when the Suliote chief drew his sword,
his country lay bleeding at the feet of gi-,
ami. and all Europe condemned tho Greek
revolution as foolhardy and desperate. For
two months, with but a few hundred men,
protected only BY ditch and slight para
pet Of earth, he defended the town where
his body now rests, against the whole Egyp-
tian army. In stormy weather, living upon
bad and unwhoeisome bread, with no cover
ing but his cloak, he passed his days and
nights in constant vigil; in every assault
his sword cut down the foremost assailants
and his voice, rising above tho din OF battle,
struck terror into the hearts of the enemy
In the struggle which ended with his life,
with two thousand men, he proposed to ate
tack the whole army of Mustapha Pacha.
and called upon all who were willing 10 die
for their country to stand forward. Tho
whole band advanced to man. Unwil-
ling to sacrifice so many brave men in q
death struggle he chose three hundred, the
sacred number Of the Spartan band, his
tried and trusty SulioteS. At midnight he
placed himself at their head, directed that
not shot should DO fred till he sounded his
bugle |; and his last command was, +" IL you
lose sight of ME, seek me in the Pacha's
tent" In the moment of victory he ORDER
ed the pacha to be seized, and received
ball in the loins his voice still rose above
the din ofbat.le, cheering his men, until he
was struck by another ball in the head, and
borne dead from the field Of his glory. Z.
Not far from the grave Of Bozzaris was .
pyramid Of SOULS, Of men who had fallen in
The hast attack upon the city, piled up near
the blaekened and battered wall which they
had died in defending. To my wandering.
learned 10 look more carelessly upon
these things and, perhaps, noticing every
where the light estimation put upon human
life in the East, learned TO think morelight-
ly Of it myself: but, then, il was melancholy
to see bleaching in the sun, under the eyes
Of their countrymen, the unburied bones Of
men who, but q little while ago, stood with
swords in their hands, and animated by the
noble resolution 10 free their country or die
in the attempt. Our guide told Us that they
had all been collected in that place with q
view to sepulture and that King Ohio, as
soon as he became Of age, and took the
government in his own hands, intended to
erect monument over them. In the mean
time, they are nj the mercy Of every pass
ing traveller and the only remark that our
guide made, was comment upon the force
and nnerriDg precision Of the blow Of the
Turkish sabre, almost every skull being
laid open ON the side nearly down to the
ear Incidents of Iravsl. a
2sp "A SKETCH.
His morning sun rose fair. No wan
dering cloud Aoatcd across its bright and
pearly surface no gathering storm lover.