Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-06-27
YOUTH.

suppose that hold that youth is gent
US, When Young, is divine. Why the
greatest captains Of ancient and mod
era times bo1h conquered Italy at five
and twenty Youth extreme youth,
ovegthrew the Persian Empire. Don
John of Bustria won Lepanto at TWEEN
ty-hve--the greatest battle Of modern
time; had it rot been for the jealousy
Of Philip, the next year he would have
been Emperor of Mauritania. Gaston
de Folk was only twenty-five when lie
stood ayictor on the plain of Ravenna.
Every one remembers Condo and Re-
croy at the same age. Gustavus A
dolphus died at thirty eight. Look at
his captains, that wonderful Duke of
Weimar,o nly thirty-six when he died.
Banter himself, after all his miracles,
died at forty-hve. Cortes was little
more than thirty when he gazed upon
the golden cupolas ofMexico. When
Maurice Of Saxony died at thirty-two,
all Europe acknowledged the loss Of
he greatest captain and the profoun-
dest statesman of lineage. Then there
is Nelson, Clire-but these are war
riors, and perhaps you may think there
are greater things than war. do not
worship the Lord of Hosts. But
take the most iliustrious achievements
of civil prudence. Innocent ILL.,, the
greatest ofthe popes, was the despot
Of Christendom at thirty-seven. John
de Medici was a cardinal at fifteen,
and, Guicciardini tells us baff1ed with
his state craft Ferdinand of Amagan
himself. He was pope as Leo X. at
thirty seven Luther robbed even him
of his richest province at thirty-hve.
Take Ignatius Loyola and Wesley,
they worked with young brains. Ig-
natius was only thirty when he made
his pilgrimage and wrote the "Spirltu-
slExercises." Pascal wrote a great
work at sixteen, the greatest Of French
men, and died at thirty-seven!
All! that fatal thirty-seven, which
reminds me of Byron, greater even as
a man as writer. Was it experience
that guided the pencil of Raphael when
he painted the palaces Of Rome? He
died too at thirty-seven. Richelieu
was secretary Of state at thirty-one.-
Well then, there are Bolingbroke and
Pitt, both ministers before other men
leave of cricket. Grotius was in great
practice il seventeen, and attorney
general at twenty-four. And Acqua-
viva was general Of the Jersuits, ruled
every cabinet iii Europe, and colonized
America before he was thirty-seven.-
What career! the secret sway Of Eu-
rope! That was indeed a position!-
But it is needless to multiply instances.
The history of heroes is the history of
youth.-D'Isroeli's Coaings6y.
More Massacres Of the Christians
We have received accounts from Al
bania Of another dreadful massacre
The Greek town Of Egri Palanka, stu
ated between Uscup and Guistandie, in
Roumelia, is said to have been attacked,
pillaged, land burnt, by a large body of
insurgent Albanians; and it is added
that upwards Of two thousand of the
Christian inhabitants were mastered.
The Turkish troops, which have been
marched into Albania, and ter thou
sand of whom have been concentrated
at Monastir, appear quite unequal to
the task Of quellingthose ferocious ma
rauders, who, while evading an engage
ment with them, ravage the country and
murder the defenceless inhabitants
The only judlclous measure adopted is
the military occupation of the de6les of
Kiupriuli, which may have the effect of
combining the depredations ofthe Alba
mans to their own province. The re-
bellion has extended to every part OF
it, and intelligence has been received
of the investment of Seroda by force
1900 men. A Turkish commander Of
the name of Ali Bey, attempted to re.
heve it, at the head OF 2oOO regular
troops, infantry and cavalry. Ate
some very hard fighting he is reported
to have cut his way through the be
siegers. Eight hundred Turks, how
ever, are said to have fallen in this &C
ton, and Ali Bey himself was sho
through the body while entering TIL
gates Of the town.
Beder- Khan-Beg, the Kurdish chief
tain, who commanded the expedition
last year against the mountain Nestori
ans, has been plotting similar scheme
of vengeance and massacre against tn
Jacobite Christians of LABEL Tour
Recent letters from Marain state tha
the emisaanes Of this man had succee
ded in inveigliag the Patriach into a
ambuscade, where he was taken an
murdered. His head and intestine