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I'nder the impression tli a t nothirg before in would be of more interest to our readers, we continue our extracts from Limncr-mi I.ettois from the .F.gean. To frrv person who ha a taste for history,; and wishes to learn the ptcseet situation of that pait ofournlohe of which our early p units wi ic the inhabitants, and where the Ap r ties best preached the doctrines i t t hi t-1 i nit , the following1 deerip!lon will alio id nun h entertainment; to :dl our tfnptur.it ieu!ei lt.r must ncccssaiily be the) lv mtt resting. "After a -let ph S night, we rose to co nti me cur urvey ot Avoa!ook and Fh u; tli- former now conists of a l.Mit'hrver frt wretched hou-e-, chn tl I'Uilt of mud and mutilated m tr tl", cr fiagmci.ls from the wretk'of II p'.isu. Around It in every iliiccttoo fpr id et nsie niitm ol hrmer edilii . ii rite cohiions, and d sedated wad-; w hib i t a-tlo, in inouldeiiig I I do. fiow i the un trit c! a i cighboi it g tul : and tl.ee, tocether with the t i' of a eh'iteh dedicated to St. M'l. ai d the i m tii ii'ir aiches of it.1 j ! mil 1 aqileduef, Srpt-ak the follD'T c xt i.t an 1 importanee of the widow d c i ' A a il k nni d te it origin, o nt h"it i's form-r r;reatne, (rem the t- , uiMoiti'Mi f f t!o turteenth or the b.' guo i' g of tlie tdfoei t!i cei'lury, when I. ,'. u beioc destiotdh the rat - ot M Mv ,i t and ,n t. it it h ibita t- ? nr I ! tt'er trom t' ir de(dati il a d t:ej ai il' c. i wl i h the pto ;;i-ie ,auin'ioi, i f 'h pUin, tiom i' v t tie I. i t r and the S h' i-i ta I k . i v ot- d t eir n tui i.t o : , a.v! to t'n 1 c t'l'o p' i ' f ' p t i I in n ? thu.k, bo attributed th" I t. tint not o im lit i 1 i 1 1 n o,v i:,h tbits t!ie Solitai I! v o d Itim el ilphe-u-. ;t- r tli it period, A a-;dook "uff-T r 1 i. urn r'u v n i-iitud tlurit g th v tr ol I'nn ui I tite and S..mm; but hi Us itnpi 1 1 it ( e gr tdu tll di d awa wtta t'i" dop riure of c nntio icfi and v ii r i -it it at lencth f. II to time, f res,..s i oi i j 'j. i r of a'!, and now v-; i but a land mrription on l!ie J .- of hitor. and a mutilated fkeleti f it ei'di e rnti mS-d in a sepulr r- h" iped around them h their own d w. "h t impo'sihlo to conceive a ir.itr b pi sit g or me! tn hoW p'ospeci; oi e er sidtMli" peaking monuments ol ! - av, a m ihh ritig anli, a tottering i lutnn, or a ruined temple. S ilitu le seen. t rt ig't triumphant ; the w retched inhabitants of the villigeare seldom to he seen, ve in earlv morning or iii th v coo! of evening, w her they til v Ir tm their mi I lv h b:t atiorn to I aboi in the p iiti, which would be impoihle ! irii the burning meridian heat . Net tfc-r m t'lou nor sojnd h di-ccrniM- . mV-' tie; ci V of til" so.t-hii d o t the khore or the lit khng of a sheep h II amid the ruins; all, all is silence and dec.iy."1 A vi il ick. it w dl f e ( c n, i a vdlajje a b "it half a nolo from KpheMi . to the rum of w htr h tli tt a v die r proceed, ati i w Inch be tl.'is ill rriSe "I'rf-.ing the theatre, we teachrd the r. ti row V alleV hid we.: n 'i ;en arid ui id Coii-mh, whiih, I. lie all the suirund ing spo's, is strew ii w ilh the ruins of j' ihitp, 'hrisiiattity, Htid Idimisrii : one ot itmo-t rn I tncholv olip cfi is the vi -tig" of the city g tte, which stands u ttltiu it like a mouhh iing britlgc a h ve a ctreamle-s. ravine ; the living current that once' r died b neath it, ha lor;;; .tr.ee swept p lit to the sea (d eter nit). A tempi'! of the Corinthi m r lb I l 1 at th" opposite side (d the Val I-V .whit h w a ota e d 'tlir ited to the god Jului1: fcc m e a pde-ta i, now bt. Hiding: tie ti ir.ple h is f ob d the' olhip 'd its p itoi. At m, toe distant e round the l -o of the hill la an almost dcettS. r ) d '.' tl ir.li.it it ml ' .till !, uv t: i' ! ire I ol tl r i :i,c i.t , Itilei., m H ! " ' 1 1 ' v li .. i' I. , ii l 1 1 1 klio ii ! II tt Oil 1 ) I.' I W t i n 'I, r,M i hi .1 II. it ,. ii I -U I'.? t ' ir. or, :r, ..r I iii In f t i ii. t oi t'.i M,. i,, 1 1 1, n, usi ,oni loo1 -n -bt-n ": " " :: t 1 . l ' , l ! I . -1 ' ' "t til! I ltl.l I..I I'-.MH, II I'-c . , ,.i ' .. . , v ot ! r. t.r. ,i t,, it., 0 i v . I r i i t 1 1 i , , t i r t l.e t , r Oi t iiuk.i ! i .it I , ni i," 1 tl, ,,i 4 it!i 1 1, ai e r ..I j uin'triMis !.... t. " I l-i-i , r -vi or, ir tr .! c f ?ir; in rcnrtnl t l',i Ii ..ti t .Ii. lit i'.ir '! it. to'..- ( ills ut 1 'I'iC't ! !(,, Mel riittiiin-tiri . a tilmSr i Oo?. I t II ri i;m nf tt i- I'.n.j rur Theth n' pf .M,i...t (.,, ..itritu't- t ,t! d, I'l', .oirii,.' 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ed bur) inj; ground, with a few cypresses and monument?. "Of the temple of Di.in.-i, not a stone remains: some nrches in the morasg arc conjectured to have once supported it, as it was built in this situation to avoid

the effects of earthquakes. This cnor mnn edifice, of four hundred leet in length, supported hy one hundted and twenty seven pilhus of sixty feet in height, and only finished in two hundred and tw niy years after the commencement of it erection, lias vanished like a temple of ire. It? site was form1 1 1 on the edge of the sea; it is now neatly three imls removed from it, by th intervention of hanks formed hy the Mteam of the Ciyster. Its sinuul ir disappearance is in sfme degree ac eounted for, hv the sea haiii allrded

a ready means for the icmoval ofitsjhc S,ird,5.-' Occasionally the time

material) in the eailv stagei of its do c , at d by the portion not used for l.i t r erectioi s or ihu trarspt ited. havit 1 1: In n fii.ee buried hy the encroachrneiiis ol the plain. "A more thorough change ran scarce be eoeieived than that which has actu.ilU occurred at I!p'nsu. O ce the s at of actue commerce, the very sea has shrunk tiom its sohtarv shores; its streets, once popuh -u with the devotees of Piana, are now ploughed over t the Ottoman ot f, or brow Md by the s .e p of the y ;ti:. Itwaseatly the 'tioni: bold of Chi istianity , and stand at tho head of the Apostolic Churches of Aril. Il w as there, that, as St. Paul

s.,'thc word of Cod grew mightilv , I, , . t(0 ,.?nr;4 0f the palace of the and pr vailed. M Not a Hngh- Chri-tian j j A ,jj U) Kings are too con used t sugnow dwclU will in it! Its mouhiei iog j t,A the siuhte-t idea of its forinor ex

iridic and diliptdafcd w tih mere!) w hisper the tab ol if gl r ; atul it te pnres the a umen of the g'cgr tphei , and the act.ve sf rutin of the e;dorn g t ra Her. to bo m a prb ibh co j t tor i- to the vol site of the "l iist U ondcr ol the Well I." "The rrmiin f L iodic, w nh ate aliout tbn e mib s distant fr.m Pen 'Zh. are situated on a low hill at th" t x Zll. are situated on n low hill ;,t th" ( x treii.ityof a pi tin, on either side ol , w tiir h tlow me A'opu ami iaprn join the Lvcu a short distaru e Irotn th ttilns. The ii m tins of .in aqueduct an the first which meet the eve on ap pr..n hing from Peiiiz'i ; hut around th hill, in eve ry direction, are r m- ants of theatre, an amphitheatre, anodeum, .c. all which, from the s lidity ed 'heii materials , or the cirou n-tanci s cf their 'trmg -unV: into the hill, have hi en entbled torostt the shocks of earthquakes or of time. Interspersed with th, are the vetig s of ruii ed w all-, art lies , in i ribed s! tbi of stone, fallen coluim s, and sarci phagi; but not one perfect .i verv -Inking object tm ets the ee all is alike desolate and decaved. The nil appears one tumulus of ruin", fr nt whiih the mas-es of bided bu b'i g that preent ;h' ins Ives seem hur-tiog above the surrounding soil. No w rett h i outcast dwell in the tiudt of it: it

has bu.g been ad andoned to the cw I and s lh,nit ,0 l'1,C(' " ,,'' -Imi-tr ; to the b x. I 'II -tgri t n g 'hat the present Lord Chan To l.todicca the mort summary of!" l1, 1 riuft nit; and almost all assert the denunciations contained in the ine- ' ,ns lli lt Hu.-kisson was to be hrout

agcs to the ApocaUptic (hurches i - directed that of total subversion. It has b'.'cn awfully accomplished. The name of Cluiitiai.ity is forgotten, and th ; (nly sounds that disturb the silence .f it-. d a( rt ion arc the tones of the Mu o7. n, whose voice from the distant vil lage proclaims the ascendency of Ma h(ui' t. I. aodicea is even more solit a ry than Mphesus: the litter has a pros peot of the rolling sea, or a whitening sail, to enliven its decay ; the former sit in widowed loneliness its walls are grass giown, its temples desolate, its very n.tuiu has perished.' VUladrlphvu "Like the other individual churches of the s u rt d Heptarchy of tin- Apora Ivp-e, lh ancirnt history of Philadelphia, down to the conclusion of the tbir teenth ceidurv, is cotdaiiied in a sr ries of ib atating wars and ruinous vicissi tud s, though its opposition to the es tal li hint id of the Ottoman e mpire w a nioic fiim and energetic than that of an) of it.contemporaiies. , J . "Iiifpite, litAvever, of thp conspiring pne. However, oi uip conspiring Hurts; ol her natural and political rne: mies, Philadelphia still survives, and when all her sbter edit g have crumbled to decay, she alone remains, "whether aved by prophecy or courage long lines of her shattered w alls utill htretrh along In r lopii g hills, and the rem nan's of her Christian tempi a riiie a midst ti e waving olive groves which u:round the modern representative of the hiKth seminary of Christianity, Her situation has bti many charmn to inter est he r visiter; Iter widely hcattered huil lings, i-preadii g over an eminence at the base of Mount Tmolm, are thrown into the most picturesque points of view, to which her minarets an.d cy presses jjive t. n,u , charactetistics of Orientalism, while the remnants of her churches, and her associations with time and history, confer on her an interest beyond the power of modem incident or adornment to bestow."

Sard is. j "This melancholy city afforded us no other accommodation than the shelter of a mud-wall hut, on the floor of which we spread our carpet, stowed away our luggage, and leaving it to the care ol Spiro, sauntered out to view the ruin9 ol SudH. A reat portion of the ground

once occupied by the imperial city is now a smooth grassy plain, browsed o vcr hy the sheep of the peasantry, oi trodden hy the camels of the caravan. An ordinary mosque rears its domes a midst the low dingy dwellings of the modern Sa'diat s; and all that remains to point out the. sde of its gliry are a ; ff.w di-jointed illais and crumbling irocks cf the Acropolis. "The first emot on on viewing these miserable relies i. to inquire, "Can thi? w orn capital of a ponderous column, or the sculptured surface of a shattered marble, appear rising above the weedthat ovcrshadov them, incongruous massesof overthrow n edifices aie uncovered by the plough, or the storied in si ription of some hero's talc is traced upon the slab imbedded in the mud ol the cottage-wall ; but S trdis poseses hoj n mains to gladih n the eve of the pry-, leg travt-lh'i, and no comforts to requite his toilsome w intlerii gs in their scan h. The walls f f its frtr ss, that bade deliane to the sue esie arms ol Cjrus, Alexandria, and th. (i.ths, are now al most I' Te with the surface of the clitl on whiih ihev were once irnudl reai ,,1lt (, , ;ri:i 0f ti,P amphitheati( is sib id as the voiceless grave. "There were more varied and more vivd reno' idtr.trces associated with the l-ight of Sud.s than could pnssildy be tt u bed to ar: ether spot of earth ; bu' II wi re mingled w ith a feeling of di gus at trie Ii;i"ne-s o g.rv all. all a r I it I .,. p;S .j ;W :ty There aerobe (),r v( ad ad religion, ,. ,i,a f in,,,,,!..,, mot.nr. md )0 fore the .lfniu nf (, u .rn monan bs.' and the ,jm ,M t, w ,v,., ,n ,,.e MqIHl ' !, ,i , f L,ih: v bile the fet Ii g of deso Iri'.n was (h-ub h ightened hy the l .U'll ( l SK,.I U.T ."'"-",""-; unf trling b ightties. -1 ! I I . , l l now a lo n it beamed upon the golden I ir a" f C'ou FOREIGN. ywow r.L'Koi'i:. Ni.w Y"Rk, September 8. Wo had hard) time )est, r la to an noutice tl c arrival cf the Columbia, without scarit l; looking into the pa p'-rs. The folL'Wiiig is a summary ol tin ir contents. There is net much news. The Jhi'v'j .Ministry. For some months p it, the pu'di. mind has been git ited ' continued report' of chan J1" - 'The Fictuh .Ministry. Paris letters of the CTth Jul), state the following as the new appointments in the riench Ministry : M. Pulignac, to be President of th-. Council, and Minister of the; Uous' hold; M. llurnahan, to be Minis tor of Finances ; Martignac. to he at the head of Foreign A flairs; DehelhmeJ Minister to the Interior; the other Mm isters to remain as before. A Paris paper says: "It seems that the sum of 175,000.000 of francs, w hich has: boon offered to the Spanish Govern ment for the conquest of Mexico, would be produced by a loan, to bo made b) the ancient possessors of that country, who have b rn t xpt lit d from it. Th? Crop in Etiglurv!. The crop appear every where to he promising, and the barns and granaries are pretty well cleared. ipiinanri Mrxico. The London Cou rierofthe 31st states that some ri idle men from the cit) had an interview with Lord Aberdeen the day previous, on the subject ef the inva-ion of Mexico hy Spain. "Lord Aberdeen gave the most s.itisfactor) assurances that the: British govert ment would take the most vtY ct ual measures within their reach for the protection of Ui itish persons and prop erty in Mexico. It was suggested to his Lordship that Great Prihun having. two or three vears since, intimated to Colombia ai d Mexico, when an expedition against Cu a was preparing, that she r-'tild rot sec with indifference any attack upon that island, it setnu d to he only reasonable that Spain should on her pa it he prevented fiom attacking Mexico and Colombia from Cuba; to which Lord Aberdeen replied, that the circumstances of this armament having been fitted nut from Cuba, materially altered the position of aHaiis, under which the kind of prohibition alluded to had been imposed on Mexico and Colombia, and that the Government would .not fail to take into consideration the

new position in which affairs had conse

quently become placed." Portugal The accounts irom tinoppressod countiy are of the same pair, ful nature as before arrests and in. prisonmcnts continue to take place. A degree of dissension, however, has oc cured among the troops at St. Michael's, which may perhaps tend to something good. There have been timely arri vals at Terceira, which will btrcngthei the Constitutionalists. The Oporto Correo, of the Cth, con tains a resolution of the Tribunal, for the trial of 20 persons, of whom six are under arrest, and fourteen have fled. Those w ho are at present here have five day 9 allotted them to prepare for their departuie. FROM THE SEAT OF WAR A London paper, of the cveLing of the :0th, 6ys: "The c ontents of the continental journals received this morning, lead us to expect some very important accounts from the theatre of war in the East, and that, too, perhaps, before many hours have elapsed: fcr, notwithstanding the rumoied ru gociations of peace, which by the way are not so plentiful as the) were a few da) a ago, there appears to be neither sleep nor slumber, no relax ation of activity, in the respective ar mies of the le lligerents , indeed it is not improbable that the standard of the Prophet has been already unfurled on the plains of Adrianople, w ith what re ult a (r w da)s will inform us. "The accounts from Odee?a, which are to th 8th it st. state that, accoiding to the latest aivi( e s from Mara-c h, Gen ral Count Pddeti had penetrated to Siliatio fwc mi-i ect there n ust he uu-tak" in the name of thi pi ne) and Gen. I'lineo Matadotf to the neighbor noon oi .iiiiti-, fov j'i--khij 1. ( ouvqutiitlv, sanguine in. their xp-ct ations i f h('inr; enable il la reach Adri hood of Aid?. The Ku-ians wcic,! ancple before the leniiiii'ition of the prescot campaign. "The udvues from tb.e frontiers of Moldavia, which are of the lOih in stant, mention that a second arm) of r.--erve, consisting, it is said, of 40 000 men, were in full inarch towards the principalities of the Danube. On tin mmiii I iiiiru, iU l nui.is i:.'u i-i-i;i.vt:w .111 . r . . . , .1 ,,,.,... ,1 ,,rl,..,l ( r..,.,,l "I L ILI'lUi; III' 111 IMIIIll UIU'I'I- . n I.I i i . v ( . i , t w -.ir i t:il lint ttiJ I I'fiO vl llw f Reserve at Adrianople, had r Ceied orders fr m the Sultan to marrh irnme liatelv upon Sound t. It was al-n tin d' rstood at that date that the Sultan would immediately take the field at the head of the corpsd'armee, which had 'ten colieott d at Tempi t. The most active preparations w ere making for his depart tl t e.M Iirs-iMN VICTORY IN" ASM. Th- Loudon C tiiier, of July 30. sas: "Suteess has also declare d for the Ku-sians in A-i-, where the) claim a victor) of some important e. It ap pear-, however, 'hat Count Paskew itst h had not moved forward, and that tin a lion, en the contrary, was the rtsult of the (nlvancc of the Turks against him ; arul as the Seraskicr was at the head of 50,000 men, at no great distance, tli1 is.-ue of the campaign cannot he considcied as influenced in the least by a first advantage.' The following is the St. Petersburg account: St. I'ktt li-ru'iiu, Jci.y 10. The da? before veMi tda. the bnth day of her M.ij'-ty. the general pleasure was grcatl) heightened by the am val of the news of the taking of Sihst i ia At the same time with this wilcornc in telligence, news artived from Tiflis, of a new victory gained on the 14th ult. by the united detachments of Map t General Murawi.-co and Hurzow, ovei large bodies of the Turks, w ho had as somblcd in the defile of lY-ztow. Tin enemy lost their rich camp, which was taken by storm, a large qu mtity ot am munition and provision?, 100 prisoneis. live standards, and all their artillery. I he 1 inks, whose f rcc amounted to 15.000 men, lost I 'JOG in killed and w oundid. Our !o.-s is small. The de tails of this action are not known. The St. Petersburg!! journals contai; detailed accounts of Ins Majesty's tout in Poland. He had repeatedly express ed his satisfaction to the (irand Duke Coi stantine, in consequence of the ad mirable order w hich he found in all the branches of the administration, under his Imperial Highness' dire ction. The I'mpress of Russia arrived at Kingsburg, on the 13ih of July, on her return to St. Petersburg!!, from her visit to Perlin. Tin: i;itr.EKs,Tiir. iorte.and the A Id. I IIS. It was repoited in tome of the Paris papers, of the J7th ai d JCth of July, that the Porte had rejected the prcto eel, of the '2Jd of March, the object of winch is asserted to t o. to push the de mand of Li gland at d 1 inr ce, without any reference to those of Russia. A London paper, of the 31st, however, makes no allusion to the subject, and we are, of course noway bound to receive a rumor soertireh unattested.

TEXAS.

The purchase of Texas, hy the Tnited States, is becoming; a subject of Newspi. per discussion. The Nashville Republic contains a long but interesting article, written by one who lias lived some time in th it country, intended, most likely, to call tie attention of cur gov ernment specially (0 the subject. Il is so long that we can or.Iy siv e place to a few extracts from the not interesting parts of it. "That delightful portion of the world known hy the name of Texas, varies h w idth from three to four hundred mile. Its length from the Gulf of Mexico tj ils Northern limits, is not nscertair.fd. Its most Southern latitude (at the mou'ii of the Rio Grande) is in twenty-six j?. grces, and its most Northern, in about thirty-three. Within fifty or sixty rr.ibj of the Gulf, the country presents the appearance of a plain, after that it i; gently undulating, until, about two hundred miles from the Gulf, we ap. proach hills of moderate magnitude. The general face of the country presents three varieties: 1st, the alluvial lands on the water-ccuries; 2d, prairies; 3d, the timbered uplands. "The first description of lands is t hick, ly timbeied with the different varieties of oak, ash, elm, cedar, box elder, dog. wood, walnut, cotton-wcod, and peccn. The soil is equal to any in the woilj. The prairies are carpeted w ith a great variety of the most luxuriant gia-sc?. Some cf the prairies are literally canrbrakes. Many, of ir.feriorqriality, ld been cultivated, and fout d to produce tonishit.gly. The thirddescription cf lands is al.-o cove red with era.-?, ni.J j imhei ed w ith post ok, a w ood w LicU ii'iri ithes lite most durable fencii g. i nil - i .j.v. ....ii ', tour dith rent poii'-uits, namely, ' o'lthem pai ts to the growing cf " 1 tis provime is adapted to thieecr tie rotton. sugar, indigo, -c. Tr r the North rri raits to the grow ing of v. heat, corn, nr d the dith rent kinds of provider ;i;,d the wh'de; country to grazing and t:.e i uWivation of flu; grape. Fit-m tie latitude, the t harartci of the s-'il, kfu the spontaneous grape, this countty n '.'. ih-u.'-th F3 one da) vie ith the South ol" Frar ce. and supply the United SlaM with wine." The w riter next draw s a ccrEpsrisor. Ictween Texas and Lou;s:ana, in which le tr'.vesa ten-lol l preference to the forme:, in every respect in whi;h he views their., and then describes its inhabitants "In regard to popul ition, there arj frorn twelve to fifteen hundred M- x j in Texas, (including the garrisons') n;r e-tecn-tw ei.tieths of whom are settled in the tw o villages of St. Antonio ai d Nacogdochese. The emigrants frcm ll.e U. States amount to five or six theus."! i, souls, more than half of these nie situa ted in Austin's grant. The remdrcer principally occupy ungranted Luc?. Fiom this it will be seen, that the bs? sustained by Government, in c.n-e-cjuei ce of the numerous squatters, wIm seated themselve s upon lands to wh;:3 it was entitled in Louisiana, are r ot !o be apprehended to any xtrnt her. There is a l umber of Indian tribes :i this countr), most of w hich, liitvii g removed In in other parts of Anur:d, w ithin a few cms past, make no c'a z o the soil. The idea tha rains are t:o iinfiequent here to mature a crop, is, crtnel) unfoui ded. An t xperience cl 1 or 8 ) ears has ivsullcd in tb,e production of crops, comparable with those of t;.e most highly favoretl poitions of tv globe ." fie now comes to the point, and urtJ the practicability and m ot ssity of the I "r. ted States purchasing-Texas from the Mev ican governrneiit. We give his reascr.s w li y it cculJ easily be obt.iinetl, but L-; reasons why it shouJ.l belong to us are many and so long, tb;t we can only say them that thev appear to be good, and 1 eidorccd "The country above described, ontend, should belong to the U n'tc Mates, if its procurement he possil In the first place, we will give some rci ons for thinking the obtaining it cn ea sy terms practicable ; and then, rea5ci why it ought to be obtained. 'First, then, the Mexican Govcrr.mer! is at this time in a state of unexami hi financial embarrassment. This circumstance has caused the breaking up ct her Navy, the diminution of her Ar.T)'i and has disseminated a spirit cf 3 s trust, dissatisfaction, and dissension, amongst the citizens generally. The el posed situation of Texas requires twJ garrisons, attended with considerable expense; and unacquainted as the) are wit!) a land tax, this expense is incurrtw it bout ary pre fit ; betide s, that rourtrj is adapted to agriculture, of w hich they are entirely ignorant. In additicn, the weak condition of the Mexican Govern ment, and the defenceless situ

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