Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1880 — The Historical Fertrese of Janians. [ARTICLE]

The Historical Fertrese of Janians.

obtained from the Porte a confirmation of hia conquest. The readers of “ChUde HaroM- will remember the portrait which Byron sketched of thia remarkable mm when he visited him at his btrthplaceof Tepekn. His enurprisins career began while he was yet a boy, and after making himself master of Epirus, and other portions of Acarnania and .E toll a. he annexed the Pshealik of Bkodra and reduced the towns slang the Quit of Arts, one of hia moot daring exploits befog the storming of Prevesa. Though at one tune in league with them* he subsequently gained much credit from the Porte by breaking the. power of the Klephta, the robber clans of Whom we ahaU probably hear again before ths Giasco-Turkish boundary la finally Mfr tied. Had the Turkish' authorities ventured to avail themselves freely of the extraordinary influence which their formidable vassal had acquired, they might have succeeded in crushing the Greek revolution, but the fall or All Paaha proved the opportunity for which the Greek patriots were watching. As Janina was the scene of the Pasha’s early triumphs, so was it of Ms death. When his ••lawless law” had become embarrassing to the Sultan, he was attacked by the Ottoman troops; and having been shut out ot the fortress by hia own, followers, he retired to the little island on the lake which lies at the foot of Metyikeli. And here his wild career was terminated by assassination in his eightyaeoood year. In its palmy days the Pasha's capital boasted a population ot 50,000. If the Greeks make their acquisition Europe will look to them to fulfil the boasts of which they are so prod leal, and restore somewhat of its lost prosperity.— London 3.