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KUSOPKAN INTmiGHKCE.
UV THE AHA.
Halifax, May 7.—The steamer Asia arrived h*re
'VO g, at 1 > o’clock, wi;h L verpool date*
t-> A r 1 28 r, sd*y< Is'er-ban last advice*.
The Bremen s*e rn-Hp Hermann Bailed from
So • - arapion for New Y rk on the 25th April.
The A* a, on t e 29th April, 7 P. M., pa:-.»ed
gtearner Ea tic, rff Tonkar. May 5, lat. 48 20, ion
51.54, exc" auged signa s with the Robert Low it-.
The ia'©*’. intelligence from the Crimea only
comri* down to the 19 b alt. from Lord Raglan,
hr f to he 22 1 tr.-m the R mesian Commander.
Jut. Vienna Cusp hence —The s’eamer Atlan
t:-tCok m.: *no niw of the total failure of the
V.eona Conference. Since then there have been
Bcpp cmsntary mootings of the Four Power®,
vri . ul at»y re-alt being come to. The plenipo
a" «d o' Tcw-day afterm/on, of the
231, sn<l -igned .» protocol of the twelf b, or last
T. is ...rating, it wen agreed, should
r, v' c >n*idereii *>Ri thirteenth Conference. An
O'* r .r .cling of the repre nnutivp-s of the F'jar
Power*- * , held on Thursday, the 2>Lk,atlke re
. Prince Gor’a'hikoff, whcc * >me iur»b'.r
jcu-i*:,.>Vjbit proposition* were rnrde by the R le
. pt> o .t .;iuri h and rejected on the part of
p. . En.'.dnd and Turkey.
L>rd Jo‘-a Ris-elI had left Vienna, bat previ
oj • leaving h had a private interview with
Count 8001.
[jrovyn do l 1 Hays’ departure from Vienna ib
to ponei for a f«w day® to discus* matter with
the A -man Government. One report say* he
had left.
At Sevastopol the bombardment was being con
tinne ». The general tone of opinion in England
iw ; -it war rnu-v continue for a lengthened period.
sos t! t*»r Al usnder is ipokio of by
the L'."id > i Times a* a new a d more audacioae
policy than tha' parnae i by hie father, and it ia*o
regarded throaghout Earjpe It ia difficult to
form an estimate of the r*al program of the siege.
A com pane ,n of toe various account* prodac-atne
imp r ev'ion that the fire of the Al.iea is superior to
that of the Kustsiana, but the Rouaiane return the
fire eteadi'y.
T- a Independence of Brussels has received from
Vienna a <!• aoVch alleged to be from the Crimea,
stating that the Allies nave suspended the bom
bardment. It iw not stated on what day %he fire
ceased, but the Independence believes that the
date ot the despatch is posterior to that of the last
offi -id u t g‘ i.eo, namely, to April 22d.
The detailed report* from the Crimea are sub
fttan’ .al y a- follows:—Fr m day-break of the 9th
np to the morning of the 14’ b, the bombardment
and cannonade wam continuous, each of the five
hundred gene firing one hundred and tweo’y
rounds daily, when the evening comes on, the fire
ih u <,t mu ii reduced. Although the Mamelon
Towis silenced and some of the Round Tower
guns dismounted, yet the Redan and Garden Bat
tenon still keep ap a heavy fire, no sign of an im
rnediate aoaault. Daring the night of the 14th, the
French dislodged a rifle ambuscade, in frontof the
M»i»k jff Tow r.
A rrible battle between a Ki-biad sortie and
the French raged durirg the night, perhaps the
mo J . sanguinary since Inkormann. April 17—A
despatch 10 th® French government, says the fire
of the French batteries maintains its superiority.
The French have *akon the Russian ambuscade*
in fr nt of the MslakofiT Tower, ard have added
th-M Li-.. Iff : oh lino-*, and have ah-> crowned
a ravine runn.og along the fortifications to the
cny, where the UuaaiAua formerly kept their re
; ;rvo®; they have also sprang a mine before the
i< ag tt.ff B ittery, at a distance of fltty metres,
th : eby op ng u now parallel, which ha* b* en
guct* -fdliy joined to the others. From the 12th
to the 14\h in French lose was only 800. The
situ- !• affair, consider d satisfactory to
fho French. April 19. Tho French Minister of
War learns that the besiegers w<*ro still advancing
and their position.
On the night of the 18th the Russians made a
utrong aortic, but wore promptly repuiAed. Prince
GortschakotTs account of the same date ways :
" Tho beHiogerß , fire on the 16th, 17th, and 18th
■was Ira:* vio erd. Our batteries replied succeflstul
ly. On the night ot the 18lh one of our battalions
ma'lo u sortie to destroy tho enomya’s most ndvan
ed works. Our ohjeot was fully attained. Moreo
ver, the loss of tho garrisou the last few days hus
boon le*2. n
The latest dispatch is also from Gortschakctf,
dated the 22 d. Jt slates that aftor twelve days’
bo: . ardment, the fire of the Allies had become
wc'k a d c-iu- od iittla damage.
T* " telegraph is now complete from London to
the Crimea, except a few miles between Bucharest
and Ruschuk, * ut tho Briti -U Govemment keeps
the r x I isive uso of it.
The Grand Gabon Michael and Nicholas have
ttg*in set cat for the Crimea.
Mot: is not de.id. Tho St. Petersburg
Jour a 1 publishes rr> Imperial rescript expressing
tho Euipcror’s miisfaoiion of Mensohikcff’s con
duct, with tho hope that he would soon bo re-
Bto rod ! o healt’!, and bestowing on him and his
descendants a paiaoeat bt. Petersburgh.
M' heniot Al», the Bultan’s brother-in law, had
been arrested and sent £9 ISinope, for being trou
blosome.
Thk Baltic —Tl.o blockade of is au
sonneod from ha 17th, and of all the fort* to the
cr.tr.' 0 • of R ga from tho 29 h of April.
Gitx.iT liiuTAiN.—ln I’arliunient, much energetic
qn'Hio.mg of the Minister! hail taken place on
tne vunou aubjociK lespecting the war. The
scope ot ail tl v questions licit g to bastan uiatlers.
Fir (ieorgo (ircy stated that authority wuh given to
Governors cd the American Province to enlist men
for the regular army, not tor the foreign legion,
inasmuch all the colonists was British sui t :Cts.
The Roebuck Cora mitt ee continued. The Duke
©t Newcastle hsd been <‘XH :iined, and his evi
clet.ce tended to exculpate himself
Notics are given of s motion fora decimal coin
ag-s a; d to invite a congress to ea’abjiab a uniform
dconnal ay lem throughout the world.
fcj one iK*t oe hss been excited by tho report that
x n rm'r -mu q” (Iron is to make demonstrations
aga'L t 1 f nt donbted whether a war be
two. Iho Untied States and Spain would n uch
con pi " da j resent European poinno.
! /. u,.- l is still icq or 'd, but m conNid. red
doubt H.* 1 - "ot Napoleon will comma id the Allied
urines. It i l *. 8 b been officially announced that his
vlop* rturo f r the Crimea is postponed for a short
time
T elate Mi r.istcr Ducoa wus buried at the ex-
ot tht* Slate.
Gr-n. Fora i* commandant 01 t)rah» Algeria.
The clipp ir ship Great Republic b4 H boon char
tern * by the French Government for the convey
ance ot t oops.
Pkloium—Tho new M nister has declared hi#j
mtcf.i on to adhere to ilia principles of freo trade.
Marsh;. l San - f inz, the Brazilian Envoy, has taken
leave of the K ng
Sr*in —s mo advantages nre granted to foreign
imp-’ trade, and consular forms are simplified.
italy. — !ho Sardinian Ministry ha- resigned.
The can o 'or doing su was not known. Gon. Du
rs.' do had been appointed to form a now Govern
ment.
T. «< Hug''sh ship from Genoa for the
Crimen, with tin.' Ruian troops on bourd, w.as burn
od. No lives wero io»r.
I'bdmia and Auitiia.—Berlin correspoi.dence
»»y» it hardly hJnut* of doubt that an apT' o *' l ! 1 *
tion ha.- icccn; y ti kon piece between the Austral!*
uiu\ I'ruHHian Court*, which bodes uo goood to the
Wester" i\>worn. Baron Hess, with u wholo staff,
would k > 10 C4:*iticiaa May 2d, but probably only to
review the jo my. Ho is reported to have stated
that 'li. Austria 1 ar ny, under no circumstancos,
oould bo ready to take the held before August.
India and Irina. — The overland mail has been
tel<vr»p< ed. Hnanghae, dates Muroh 9; Bombay,
April B—Persia openly avows her adhesion to Rus
sia. Trade in India dull, monoy scarce.
The Chinese insurgents have evacuated har.g
hao.
A Russian frigate has boon lost noar Japan.
Tho Living Ago was wrecked on the Prahas.
ThO ratification of tho American treaty with
Japan was concluded at Smioda, Fob. 21.
Latest Df^atchss —JPbom Lard hag lan,
Baron* bHYAnwroa, April 10.
Mt Lord—ln accordance with thoarruugemonts
made between Gen. Canrobert aud myself, tho bat
ter cs of the Frenoh aud Knglisk armies opened
upon Sevastopol soon after daylight yesterday
morning.
The wv .her w .• pxtrecne’y ucprcpitlcn*. 21nc*ii
r. iti ».a.i faiio.i darii.g the night, and eer.dnaad
du*i. g t'o dsy, acccuipfttfivil *>y a toaifUfstaiirs
wit d at d a be-jvyinist which obscured everything,
and rendered it impossible hj ascertain with any
degree «»t accuracy the effect of the Are, whieh Las
been continued with little or no intcrrvptlon since
its commencement, and h:is been superior to that
of the enemy, wh rvsro evidently taken by eir
pr sc, !.. !,♦ icepi upo:- the extreme left, did not
Hipo&d lo Ui tlaek i nearly half an hoar.
iV : ;orni: g has been hacy, and for some time
there was a drinUng rain ; but it is eleariug this
utter 'ou, and there is again a prospect of fine
weather.
lie country yesterday was covered with water,
aud tho ground was again very deop. Thetreuch-
Cf. were likewise extremely muddy, and their oon
d tion added greatly to tlra labor* of the men em
ployed ill iLc baiLerica, who soueialed chiefly of
sai ors, attiderymsu a.:J sappers.
They conducted their duties admirably, and 1 am
sorry to say th»t the two former, particularly thp
navy, sustained considerable losa.
1 iisvo not yet received returns of the casualties
botoiui thu 9.h inst., which art herewith enclosed;
but tho ocAih of Lieut. Twy ford, of the royal u*vy,
» most promising * tficor, and greatly roapecied by
all, has been notified to me; and Captain Lord
J »>n Hoy, who hs taken a moat active partin the
gallant uni distinguished services of the naval bri
gado, wo* wounded almost at the very moment, I
belicvo b> iho same shot. 1 hope the injury he
has r> ocivsd is not very serious, out the lo;sof his
aasisiauwe, even tor a L me, is much lobe regre 1 tod.
1 have, «fcc., Raglan.
The Lord Pann.ure, Ac.
K ,v - urn of casuaiti s from the 6tU to the Bth
of April, 1555, incueive; 8 rank aud fils killed;
15 rank and five wounded.
Bator* Sevastopol, April 14.
3tj Lo rd, —Since 1 wrote to you lordship on the
ie.lt instttn', a stead)' aud heavy Pro haa bisn
main amid irom ail tho batteries o the siiies.
Tho re oi tho Br ti»h artillery bom* caieflv direc
lot acini'! the Garden batteries. The Birrack
Batt< ry, tho Bodan, the M .sk if Tower, and the
Maine: 'V have b,.ou meet affected, and the enemy’s
works Lave sufl ied very goDsid rably, tllhoogh
they have, as usual, withstanding the vertical fire
■ as been continued throughout icji twenty f.'ur
hours. The prs -lies both of the uaval bngjje and
tho aridiery h;.a iveeu erce lent.
The cvsuilnea have not been very numerous,
l>ut tt e loss • as m ien heavily upon the sailor*, as
your L 'rdship will s.e by tee secompanyiug re
turn*, and the liya. Nav\ haa to deplore til’
dea hot L ‘at. Dougins, who haa served with
arrest aoi.ry ai’da-al irom the commencement of
ot f o ■ L*- tvs. Urniston and Death, B-yal
bir.y, :• c s s, II y- M-ritu Ar.il er., all van
able off er>, have been wouudad. Th* Koyal Ar I
( L ei; Cl- Cli ent mo ilo hel Lm- L ice,
orho it' • x erof much promise, » n ,t Lents.
Sinclair an 1 !.. Eslraigcr are among the won Led.
'.fee I '-gi.'- has .- .stain* t a-verai hy.tr:*, but 1 ara
Cap pt 1 * fct tner * ** over;, hope ot hi* recov
ery Tt" »'• b " ! - 11 shly r entoricus officers.
Captain C> ’ ' E i of li ' ‘ Euirinesre, who had
>ut o 'our*e or I s * pre'racted o(>eiat ori» betore
Bevas’.op'Vrc l.r-t mo-t asseutial aervica*, ha*
also reoi.ed a wound, *‘ llch ’■‘-J '.' , . ar ’ deu,i;
him f- m duty for a very con
O r battarie* rLd p: ia)>et.- con- ttuue .o *.ard re
jnar.ai y w.- i; , notw -sts-. drg the Vi<r > nr ‘‘V*
ab etc elite wcai.er. The (i.cmt * “•*
reea c-.mi;wr**-iveiy but the If 000
Bud wing to ti e.r having «scertAi!ied the ru >l F e
« . oar battex as w.th great oi e*.y, Btnitl wbf ■
raw beta disabled in both the right aad lelt At
tacks.
T wards he Tcherraya nothing import tut has
beer rvc»»; but Mnail bodies of men, from 1W
♦o 5 i. h.ave r o v. &eci wfth a heavy gun and so ; e
orvb a“c> earn* go ruoviog sloug ti e Inkermsau
Heights toward' Macker.sie's ksrrn road, iicat
which it has been pl.-.ced in position.
At re ugh the duties have been ucoAUAIIy severe
liiid . U'b tt by day aud night during the
vvotk, they have been carried out with the utmost
<*hoett'jii ess and z.tJ, refieeiitg much credit both
on oflie«n» and men.
Tie submarine telegraph has safely
wrought to the u.ot artery from Cape and
»* so >u as i* is established at the former pkce, the
eugi*. rs w'!l
lo the immediate rorhcod at Varna, where
hope i' ma> be it n state lo act in a week or teu
clay» fr- m tl is time
The first divisions of the 10th Hussars arrived
triad*? at Bn'hk’-v*. Ra.fi la n.
Kr. c v■ k tut ary Case ALTixa.—K.i! :*d, Lieut
J-. Luo* . _ fi>v*j *: ■. IS r-.uk-:. : fi;-*. Wonr i©-*
•j\ M. C . v s. sli.hiv, m d C*pt. G. Crcftou, se
t< *1 e:> neers; LieaL J. Sinclair, severe
i\ \ Lieu . i\ W. L Estrarger, severely, rcyai ar
li'lnn; 1 rergcaut, 51 rank end fi ewounded.
In a d*i»* j *H'ch <a *e I “ AVya/ Albert, off fee vasto
* -0, Apr;! IS.” Edmund L;ons eaya, “I grieve to
Iy t . (>.p r nel'iw bfve been severe, though
j . r .■ *■ ght have been expect
< , v -1,. :- • of *QII»vMOMi fay
t amen. The services of the oihoore end seamen
tri the naval brigade have been invaluable.”
Rbttrh oi Caacaltix* ir thx Naval Bbioade.—
Lieut. Twyford, of the London, and 15 men.—
Wounded : Lieut. W. K. of the Queen,
and 58 men, of whom five died : 14 contused.
The Moniteur publishes the following de*patch
from General Canrobert, the Commander-in Chief
of the Army of the East, to the Marshal Minister
of War:
Bdobx Sevastopol, April 17.
Our fire continues to maintain its superiority,
without our hav ng been prodigal, as yat, of our
amnnition. The attack was made chiefly by oar
Artillery, but ;he Engineers combine their efforts,
and make approaches, which bring us nearer to
the place. These works advance regularly, not
withstanding the difficulties of tne ground.
Advices from before BevastopoT, of the 17th,
state that the waul of amnnition had been felt by
the beeieg- rs. On the 18th and 14th the Allies
gained an important advantage on the left attack.
The French twice drove the Raasians out of their
embua< > ade», and, after an obstinate oombat, ob
•airiod possession of a height which it is expect*.d
will give them great advantages. The enemy’s
fire still sever . The cholera has broken out
among the French troops, and on the 17th was
raging fiercely.
SliAcellaTuotu Dapatehe*.
Ft. Petebkblbo, April IS—The Grand Dckes
Michael a lid Nichols* have aet out for the Crimea.
I’ABifi, Apri 25—The Moniteur announces that
the M ninter of Manco has received the following
despatch from Admiral Brua' ;—‘‘On the 17tb the
fire o* our batteries maintained its superiority. In
front of the Central Tower we have carried a series
of ambuscade*, and those works where we have
established ourselves are now comprised in oar
lines. We have crowned a ravine in that direc
•ion, which run slo g the fortifications of the town,
wbeethe enemy formerly kept the in
sulety. Before 'he Flagsttff B*.-tion we sprung a
mine {fourntaitx de mine) at a distance of about 50
metres. This operation, which perfectly succeed
d, gave us a new parallel, and was successfully
j fined to the others. From the 12 hto the 14‘h,
notwithstanding the renewed attacks of the Rus
sian*, we had only about 800 men A art dec/ntbat.”
i’he commander of the frigate which brought the
news added that the situation was generally con
disered very satif-factory.
I’eba, April 21—We learn by tb6 Asmodee,
which left the Crimea on the 19th, that the be
seigers were still advancing, and were consolida
ting their position. On the night between the 18th
ana 19lh the enemv made a stroDg sorLa, which
was promptly repulsed.
Berlin, April £4.—A despatch from Bt. Peters
burg, dated the 28d inst., says that the following
despatch had been received from Prince Gortscha
kotf, >.ated Sevastopol, 19th April: 44 The firing
of ? he enemy on tho 16th, 17th and 18th was le*e
violent. Our batteries repiied successfully. On
the night between the 18th and 19th one of our
battalions made a sortie to de-troy the most ad
vanced works of the enemy. The object of the
sortie was fully attained, and with amall loss. The
loss of oar garrison has, moreover, daring the
last f’.w days been less considerable.
Bjzblim, April 27.—The following despatch has
boon rcoeive 1 here from Bt. Petersburg, dated
Ap»il 26:—“Prince Gortachakoff writes under
date of the 22d of April, as follows: The fire of
the enemy on the 22d was slacker. Duri igthe
1j:» t two dsya our loss has been much less than on
the preceding days.”
An alarming fire occurred at Havre. April Ist,
by which 250,000 f. worth cf property was destroy
ed.
Tne Bank of Rome, (Italy) is in so precariousa
situation that it is preparing to wind up his affairs.
It is to bo me ceded by another bank, to bo est*b
iibhed by Priuce Torlonia and Messrs. Koiiichiid.
The convention between ;|ie Governments of
France and Holland, for the reciprocal protection
of literary property, was signed at the Hague, on
the 29th of .March, by Baron d*Andre, the French
Minister Plenipotentiary and M. Van Hall, the
Du'ch Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The King of Hanover has conferred tho grand
cross of tho royal order of thaGuelphs upon Gen.
Do Bad'uerg, Adjutant General of the Emperor ot
Russia.
On tho 22d ultimo, the Pope held a secret oon
sistory, in which he announced th‘- death of the
Patriarch of the Maronies of Sviin, and the elec
tion of Mac r . Missad, Archbishop of Tnarsus, in
paroibus infi-UUum, in his stead.
A difficulty has arisen between Sardinia and Na
ples, respecting a suit at Exequatur.
Napoleon’s Consulate, at Genoa, is withdrawn.
POMnAKDMBXT OF BKVABTOFOL.
The English papers contain loiters from the
Crimea, giving datads of the Bombardment of Se
vastopol, up to ho 14th of April. TYe maae; the
following selection :
First Day—Openino of tee Fib*.— Before Se
vastopol, Easter Monday, Ap il 9, —This morning
at 4*>b r eak the allied b«tteries simultaneously
opened fire on the defences of Sevastopol. It is
now four o’clock in the afternoon, and the rain,
which began to fall last night. 5* descending in
torrents, accompanied by a high breeze of wind.
So thiok is the atmosphere that even tho flushes
of tho guus are invisible, and the gunners must be
firing by guesswork at the flashes of the ba»teries,
as it Is impossible to see more than a few yards in
advance. A driving sheet of rain snd a Black Sea
fog whirl over the wnole camp, which has already
resumed the miserable aspect at well known to us
of yoro. Tent# have beau b'own down, the mud
has already become several inches deep, and the
ground, so tar as it ia visible, looks like a black
luke, studded with innumerable pools of dnn
cjloured water. What effect this sudden change
in the weather will produoe oa the fire of our bat
tories it is now beyond mv pewor to s*y, nor am 1
Vo a position either to judge if we have suffered
any <lisaa<va f ntage from it, or to form an opinion ae
to the relativo force of our fire compared with tha*
of the enemy. lain new seated in a hat, into
which the storm and the rain drive at every gust.
Man or beaal could not remain without some
shelter on auch a day as this. AH around us there
is a dense veil of gray vapoar, sweeping over tho
ground and concealing from sight the tents which
arc close to our camp. The firing has slackened
oor.aulerably siuoe twelove o’olock. It is not eaa>,
so muThy ia tbp sky and so strong the wind, to boo
1 ho flashes cr iicaf iho jreport of the Russians guns
or of the French cannon on either flank though
the hut is within a couple of hundred yards of the
enemy’s range; but we oan tell that our batteries
in front ure thundering away continuously in irre
g U ar bursts, and aro firing sorno 25 or 80 Phots
per minute. Early in tho morning they were fl.ing
from 70 to 80 shots per minute, but, as it is no long
or nec**ssnry to press our guu»iers i they have re
duoed tho rate oi fire. From the time oar battories
opened till throe o’clcok, the wind blew from 6.
and W. and was right tho back of our artillery
men, so that tho smoke from their guus was cariod
nwuy towards the enemy, aua the smoke from the
Russian Euibrasuaoa driven back upon tho men
behind them ; the wind now veered round moro
to tho wet.iwi;rd, and at timoH takes a little north
ing, so that he smoke is swept away pretty equal
ly from both lines of betteria* towards Inkermanu.
The enemy were taken completely by t-urprise
when we open©*!fire. They replied, indeed, pret
tv briskly lit once to the French fire on our left,
aud the flagstaff Battery and works were manned
immediately. The Garden Battery, and Redan
Battery, came into play Boon after we opened fire,
hut some time elapsed before the Round Tower
works or the Mamelon answored, and for halt an
hour their guns were weakly baueded. Tho Ink
ermaun and Oaieeuiog Bay batterica were almost
ailenf for three quarters of an hour bofore they
-"w worefl t I.C French batteries op our right. The
knoll and riges iff ** "blob
hitherto! been crowded, thermae asjiarp
tire, with spectators, are now uiiSfl? departed no
a human creature is out, except the
sentinels and the men who are engaged in the o*.
I, cries. At four o’clock on Monday a small party,
disguised in waterproofs and long boots, left the
camp for tho frout, as it was quite certain that or
ders had beou sent to the batteries to open fire at
dayb*enks. The horses could scarcely get through
the st cky black mud into whioh the hard dry soil
had beou turned by one night’s rain, and. al
though it was early dawn, it was not possible to
see a man 2D yards off. A Scotch mißt, mingled
with rain, sett led down on the w ide camp. As
wo approached the front there was a profound
eilouoc in’* « camp. Suddenly throe guns were
heard on the lell towards the French lines and
the whole lines of cur batteries opened at onoe.—
Tho vclnmo of sound was not near so great or so
doateniogas that of tho 17th of October, and the
slate of the wcathor rendered it quite out of the
J question to form a notion of the gradual effect of
j car tire, so that the most interesting portion of tho
1 day’s pr< uecdiugo wa« lest. J ust as the cannonade
opened the sailers same streaming over the hills
jroni tho batteries, whore they had h#en relieved,
and a fr w *wen tnrusd out of tho huts iu the
Th'r t Division io the front, evidently much aston
ished at the s idden opening of the fire. The rain
then descended in torren’, and, a* there was noth
ing to be teen, heard, or learned, every one with
drew to shelter, alter a long and hopeless struggle
with the weather. The »tor» was so heavy that
•onreoly s soul stirred out all dsy. It wss dark al
in-'st as night. About five o’clock the sun slowly
docended into a rift in the dark gray pall which
covered the sky, and caat a pale yellow slice of
liiht. barren here and there by columns of rair.
r-asses of curling vapour, across the lino of
batteries.
Bunikt and Midnight.— The llttlo details of ruin
and destruction which moat have t ken plr ?o
to-day** fire could not bo ascertained. The eye
of pointer never rested on a more extra rdir&ry
effi'ct. and his art alone could have ret.dared j is
tfop to the which slione out on us tor r mo
mout, iw tho sickiy tun, flattered out, as it were,
between bais ot p'oud and rain, eoetned to have
forced its way through the leaden sky to oast cue
straightened look on the ooi.flict which rrg-d be
low. ike pla'ean beneath our =tauaiug p)-ce wts
lighte i up *t>r iaoessant fiisiies of I.ght aud long
trails of white smokg streamed across it, spirting
on »u thick masses tinged wiih fire, for a nu tent,
till they wora whirled away in broader vclu:: is by
the wiud. Iu the deep glow of the parting Jeara
of sunaet the onlyimsge suggests * to me oalou
lated to convey tho actual etfeet of the fire of the
batteries to our friends at home was a visiou of the
Potteries* as it is seen at n’ght, all fervid
with flra and pillars of smoke, out of tho windows
cf bii express train. Tide glimpse of the batteries,
brief as it was, proved extremely salietactry. On
the extreme left the Fret*- h batteries were firing
with energy on the Irng line of batteries in trout
of the loop-holed wall, and on the Flsga'sff and
Garden Batteries, which were replying very faint
ly aud feebly by one or two .-cattaring guns. Our
left attack (Greenhill or Chapman’s Batteries)
working with vigor and decision, was principally
directing its fire against the Redan, which only
answered by five or six gaua, which did not ap
pear to be remarkably well served or • itned. Our
right attack (Gordon** Batteries,) aidsd by the ad
van o3d battery and by the French redoubts, had
silenced the Mamelon, and fired some three or four
allots lor every one from the Round Tower, and
the tfessian batteries to the right of the Mamelon
wore v0»0e*259. So much could be seen, when
rain and mfet, io once more, and shut out all
fro ’ vi.'w. save oce im*T Mear of yellowish hare
to the w‘«L _ . .
Halt-pa*. Eleven o’einok, P. M —Tu« ri’O fca*
cesse.l,and ihe night is fine. A tremendons can
| ona 'e has raged aioo# our lines sines six o’o ock,
to whieh the enemy reply feebly. Great qaatiu
t- of shei.s have been thrown into the place
w'.ttvn the las’, four hours, isospe trifling i.ffairs ol |
p. sis have tasen place io the ravines,
but as yet there is no appearance ot a strong
-ir: e. Tho Kn-eians feeoi to la.b ammisilior. ;
No fires are virible in the town, nor can it be as ;
certains. i if the cannocade haa eassed much
damage.
bre so Day—Tbs Halt, ow Shot April 10.—
Dune* the wr.o’e cf tho morning, the firing con
tinued on car side with little intermission — while
i ot the Has* ans was evidently slackening. At
atxiut tour o’clocs however, all the enemy’s lines
an.i batteries suddenly sprang into life and vigor.
\ obeys ot tr.-m Uh) to 150 gars were fired at once
from the Kedan, the Flagstaff, Bvrrack, Garden
*cd Msiakoff batteries; even the Mamelon, wlLeh
alt Vb nght destroyed and untenable, fired five or
*;X gu'hs in succession- Their shot came in apoo
our worTs ke h:... On ever point along oar lines.
b». * were tc be seen bounding and plunging ac d
shells bursting like fireworks in the air. Neve,
g eras such a Ojncentratedand destructive
cannonade *ith."«* d **«• U e commencement of
ths sb-ve Al! te.t tt* l if it continued twoor three :
£ls*& works woa.u be levelled with the dust,
as though both Ergh.h ar.o French kept up a ter
rific fire, the enemy, iu spite ot nr ut “ oe ‘
five guns in reply to our one. The rapidity
*rd deafening uproar of the fire brought a., who
were at leisure to the front, and the oldest
oust experienced artillery officers argued very uh
f*vorabiy of our prospegt of taking the fortress
which could command such a fierce cannorsde.
Suddenly, and in the raids tof inch remark.*, the
enemy’s ba'.taries made a dead pause. For nearly
' quarter of an hoar not fi gun was fired. The
» nos kept np their bombardment; the French
baitered the Fiaastaff and works of the left ; cur
»hot ploughed into’he Redan and Mslakoff, and
our IS ’r.ch shell® burst in regular sncceeeioo in
the centre of the Mnmeioc; fcmt not five gone did
the &us*iar.« give in reply. twenty mm*
ate® passed ou their side in this state cl unac
countable inactivity, when igain suddenly the Re
dan and Flagstaff browe oat m heavy volleys, and
maintained tlem. This was about five o’clock,
and from this until the fire oi the long guys diir
oont!oue.i for the night, except by oeca*io*»l guns,
lew and far between, no other Russians work* nut I
the Redan and Flagstaff took part in the contest,
It was difficult to ascertain the cause of such ex
trsordinary manoeuvres. Beyond'a coapie of *
hours, at two o’clock, the weather was slight
ly cleared, it was almost impossible to ascertain,
wi'.b anything like certainty, the mischief we had
done to the enemy’s w rks. From the advanced
trench, where the Guard* were within a few him
dred yards, it was reported that the werks of the
Mdf-k' ff, though injured, were still perfectly de
fensible ; that some guns which were unservicea
ble had been wi hdrawn on one side, and that
some 25 or 80 still remained in the embrasures,
quite ready and fit for use. The Mamelon. also,
which this morning was almoat dismantled, had
had several freah guns p!aoed, instead of those
which had teen injured, and that altogether the
Russians were still strong in that point.
NieHT and the Trail of Fire.— The weather was
stdl thick, and matters still uncertain when night
cloeef iD. Oar long guns ceased firing a little after
seven, the enemy’s about eignt, and then both
Russians and allies resorted to their mortars. The
fire of these latter was maintained all night. Every
five minutes onefof our 18 inch shells was dropped
into the Mamelon, and from the advanced work,
st the same interval?, 10-inch wore t’.rowu into
the Maiak'ff. The French directed tbeir bombs
into the F'atn’aff, and our left stuck threw them
?nto the Redan. On the ex reme left of alb the
French rocket battery sent their burnir g missile*
ia all directions, except into the town, ’he orders
to spare that being still in fail force. Tre enemy
replied with mortars from the rear of Maickoff,
the Redan, and Flagstaff works; but we were
evidently two to one superior to them in each
ordnance. This deficiency they occasionally com
pensated for by the u?e of their guns, which,
»h"n fired in volley a, are by no means to be triflad
wi n.
The advantage of the whole day’s fire is evi
dently with the allies.
Bat while I write, the fire is going on with s ve
hemence which must somewhat weaken tho value
of tbb* latter suppos.tion. It is something awful
to stand upon the hills which overlook the town
and watch tho progress of the nightly bombard
ment. The Congreve rockets rush from the French
batteries with a "deafening roar, leaving a light trail
of fire behind, ju»»t sufficient to trace the course of
the missile as it darts vaguely hither and thither
through De air, setting down at last with a load
crash in tie Flagstaff.
This w« d erratic course occasionally lands them
outside tho Russian lines, aDd now and then forces
them olear over everything into the very centre of
the town. Freer both right and left the mortara
are discharged with a heavy painful explosion, and
with a flash which,- jven at a distance, is almost
blinding. As the dull boom shakes your very
frame, you hear the shell with a kind of whistling
roar moant higher and higher into the air, till
having reached its zenith, it descends with re
doubled speed end force into the enemy’s works.
The shoe* with which it strikes the ground can be
distinctly heard, even in the allied camp, followed
in s second after by the shorn ringing explosion,
in the bright glare of whiehthe earth isthrowQ up
like a cloud. The enemy are replying to each shot
with many loDg guns, some mortars, but use no
rockets at all; and whenever a pause occurs in the
cannonade, the sharp, quick rattling of the mus
ketry makes itself audible in the advanced trench
es, till the re-oommencing roar of artillery drowns
all other Bounds. Bach a contest is going on now,
and will go on all night and each night, until the
town surrenders or is taken. The casualties in
the batteries to day have been slighter than those
of yesterday. The left attack has sustained some
injury iu guns and works ; both will be repaired
to-night. Captain Binolair, of the Royal Artille
ry, wuw severely wounded with & splinter of a
shell through the thigh, but is doing well. I be
lie-.e no other officer was wounded. Om r Pacha
and staff are ciiLing to night with Raglan at head
quarters.
1 aut o Dat— Eyfect of the Shot.— April 11.—At
daybreak this morning the fire was resumed by the
Allies and Russians, and for gome time with equal
vigor on both aides. In spite of the firo of our
mortars, tLe enemy during the past night have
managed to repair much of the damage which the
Mamelon suiUmed, and also the works of the
Fltgataff Battery opposed to the French.
For the firet hour of hostilities this morning, ell
the Russian works were fought wi'-h vigor ana de
termination, but after that time, (about ha’f past
six o’clock,) the gnus round the Malakoff Ma
melon again otaaed their cannonade, and from tfcii
poriod until in tho day, seemed perfectly in
different to oar fire.
As to day the weather has been perfectly fin* and
dear, a perfcot vier/ of the whole fight could be
obtained from tbe hills. 1 availed myself of the
chance to wa r ,ch the progress of the eiege for some
hours, and au 1 had u po vcrful wuo f»bie
o see minutely everything which went forward in
the batteries of our a 'tagc-iiists. First, then, at tc
the real amount of mischief whioh our fire has in
flicted. On the extreme lot , whore the French are
attack ng, much harm bas undoubtedly been do*'!.
The Mud Fort has received some hard knocks,
«ivi>ral guns have been dismounted, and are not
yet replaced. 8011, as a battery, it is perfectly de
fensible, and the Ruesiuns cousid«r it soj as, when
I looked, and during the rest ot the day, it was
hotly engaged with the French, and appeared giv
ing gun for gun with the battery attacking it.
Next to this came the Flagstaff, one of the most
formidable of the Roark n delences, snd the same
which blew up ail the French batteries on the 17th
oi Qclobi.r lafet. Since that attack its strength ha*
been increased fourfold; then it mounted 45, cow
it mounts upwards of 160 heavy guns, st some
parts in three tiers, and at ethers in two. This
work has sustained much damage, more perhaps
than all the other Russian batteries put together.
Its mure advanced teir of guns are quite silenc
ed. The guns themselves are overthrown, the ern
brasure*- destoyod, in somo cases shot quite away,
and in others ho damaged as to be mere piles of
black iarlh from which tbe remnants of white
sand bags poop out here and there. The second
tier is also much kncoked about, and one or two
of the guns silent, and the slopes of the earth
works much damaged. Still this portion is good
and servipeable, and some 00 to 40pieces ordinance
in position in it maintaining a hqt cannonade. The
upper tier of about 80 guns was almost uninjured,
certainly none ot its guns wore touche 1. It was
into this upper tier that the French last night
threw their bomb ah eels, which of course mast
have oansed much damage inside the parapet, but
as yet there is no redu tion of its fire. The two
smaller button*?, which flank the lower tiers of
.he F ngctaff, are more out of the direct, lire of fire.
They h-daaff-.red very little, and continued <o in
fl ct some mischief upon the French. ;0: e face of
the Barrack Battery, which adjoins tho Flagstaff,
bad neon hit hard by the F ouch, but wat-still
firing. The other two sides of it wore si most un
scathed, »ud seemed even to be making bead
against a French battery on our left, and part of
our left attack. to this camo the Gordon Bat
tery. It suffered much yesterday, but, from its
position in roar of the other works, the Humans
have been able to repair it easily, and thia morn
ing it was again in active operution. The Redan,
the enemies piece dt resistance, l rogret to say,
shows but little tokens of injury. Its front face
was considerably marked, and some three or fonr
of its gn-is quioted, but this was ell. It wus still
firing 80 or 4“ guns a minute. The Malakcff Tow
er—the key of the whole position, the point on
wuich formerly the enemy appeared to concentrate
a'i the vigor of their delousive energies—was si
lent. It was undoubtedly much injured, and half
tho guns or the semicirou sr battery gone, but still
very, very far from being untenable or incapable of
formidable opposition. Its two flanking batteries,
mounting each some 10 or 12 guns, were untouch
ed. The Mu me! on was very much injured. Its
purapets were mere loose piles ol earth and the
fire of our mortars plnyed so direct into its centre
that the enemy can cr:»y retain it by an immense
sacrifice of life. It wui i impossible to judge of the
Stale of the enemy’s works beyond the Mamelon
by fire, which was incessant, and ap
peared fab to*ovfr*power tho French batteries op
posed to them on th« Ihkwmann heights.
How Sevastopol Locked. —During a portion of
the day every part of Sevaaiopol, eveu to the north
side, could bo most distinctly seen, even with tho
naked eye, Tho W'orka rornd the MaiakofF were
lull of soldiers, wfcp pi most treated our fire with
perfect contempt, lounging about in the embra
sures, and scarcely moving when tuo shells drop
ped amongst them. Some of these fellows paid
for their temerity with their lives, and the enemy
then generally retaliated with one gun.
Some of the honsfta \n the town, which have
hitherto escaped without damage, to-day showed
distinol traces of where stray shells have, fallen.
Soldiers were in the streets apparently uo Ad
eemed, and a small steamer p'ied to and fro across
the harbor. On the north aide of the harbor, es
peeiaiiy on the heights facing iakermann, there
were several new and powerful bu'-turics, which
fired heavy volleys every quarter rs an hotfr or so.
Their range, however, was too long, and their
shot, though they reached oar batteries, effected
nothing. Indeed, their works seemed more
as a bravado, and aa if to show that that sid-3 com
m&ndod every part of the town. On the slopes
below these ‘batteries was a dummy camp of
about ethonEttnd clean white tents, but tho most
careful scrutiny filled at any time to discover
soldiers either In or aboil thorn.
To-day *o have had to deplore the lose of a most
active, brave, and energetic officer of the naval
brigade, lieutenant Deugiasa, of tne Quean. Whi'o
superintending th* vnwaiog of a gun in the left
attack, he wus struck in the head by a round shot
from tho Sedan, and killed in a second.
Focbth Pat—A. Maud Eattkbt Opeiw.—
Aprjl 12.— Daring the whole of last night the fire
o: our mortars r. aa incerfujat, and this morning the
long gu; s reoommaooed with renewed energy :
brt. in spite cf os.r bombardment tho oneroy ha d
evidently boon ha?y daring tne night, and part of
.1.0 Flagstaff and nearly ail ct the Mamelon embras
ures were repaired. in riio former, apparently,
no new gun* na-i been rr canted, but in the latter
wore two. The fire to-day has betn ( much tbs
same as during yesterday—via: a well-sustained
cannonade from tho allies throughout, and tho
enemy replying very s!cck : y; except from the
F’sgstsffsnd Redan. Occasionally, as since we
first opened, nearly all works gave forth tremen
dous volleys, almost naiubaneoaely ; but tha»r
spirits, though terrific, never las’ed above half an
hour, after w ich twc-fiirdft of their lines relapsed
into comparative silence. Ono of our batteries on
ihe Biopes at lukermann, moenring sixty-eight
oigbt pounders, and which has hit: a* to been
masked, wa.-opened this morning on the flick of
the Maiakofl. But th. position of this work has
been most unfortunately choeen. As it com
menced ite fire it was discovered, not only that the
Malakcff couid and would reply but that two other
«>f the enemy’s works bore lull up n the spot.
The result was, that it had to maintain a most un
equal contest, and before twelve in the day three
or its guns were so injured as to be unserviceable,
and the rest of the work seriously damaged and
the men exposed. Accordingly, the artillerymen
were withdrawn* and the battery remained silent.
St. 1, bo ore this step was taken its fire had wrought
considerable mischief in the Malakcff, shattering
the chevaax and abbattis, and almost
destroying one part tho parapet. During the rest
of the day the figuring principal y between the
F.agetaff and French Batteriea, and the Redan and
enr right and left attacks. The Fiagstaff each
hour teemed te suffer more and more under the
incessant cannonades cf the r renen, and towards
evening its fire was most considerably slackened,
its flip is certainly not now more than one-na f of
tOat i ; - jraintaioed on the morning of the
dtn. Owir*g L> ino ?reatei distance of the
Redan from our work* it ha* »^bts : ned lees lam
age out s‘U cur ueavy guns tie evidenby teliu g
upon it, The other Russian batteriea took iitvTe j
part in the cooteM. Oar own morurs ti.v» been .
Is.ive «J1 d.v, »nd in »pibs of tot night a r-pa.r.
ihe Mamelon is cow as bad »s ever; mach n jury ,
has ai<o been done to tbe Jia abcif in this m«ui-2r. (
Oar CTsaaitto during the d=y btve not been j
very severe, except anions tbe eaalors of the naval j
brigade. One snail from the Ueaan enters-., the j
left attack killing two men on the spot, »ud juvere j
ly wounding seven otbere; all these poor fel «w* ,
were sxilors. —L'entenaut fjrms-er n, of the |
was wounded, and L.enten&nt Orothon, c .he j
E'yai S"j-neers, w»s severly wounded tot night.
Lord harian is busy everywhere riding and :
oonenlting —ith tbe engineers, geners.s, and t-e
princirs l obioe-s of tbe army. Canrobert seems
never c$ bis horse. To day between Ns) and 6-0
scaling ladders arrived at camp, atm wi.i ne
forwarded to tbe advanced trenches to-n.ght,
A new bafery also will be completed hetore to
morrow momieg. It is to mount eight 54 pound
ars, and wi.l bo placed in tha most advanced
trench, near the middle ravine. Ail the emcrasares,
gunways, and o her preparations l° r the ordnance
are compio vd j in feet, two of the piecee are al
reaiy placed. The remaining six will go down to
nignt, acd the battery ocon? with the rest to
morrow morning. It will t-l’e- k only the Malakcff,
and great things are expected from one of such j
sticrgth, fiitnated within 500 yards of the enemy’s !
works.
FifTa Dat—Thx Nrw Batott.— April Is.
This morning, when our batteries recommenced,
the effects of our assault* were still more apparent.
The fire of the Fiagataff w* 3 *v.dent]y slack—even
more markedly so than on the previous uvenirg.
It scarcely one gun to the French tnre®.—
The bevasKAUng trace® of the shot were almost ap
parent. Hot only arc the Uw.er tier of gnus quite
destroyed, but the oppar Li • fairway of
follow ing them. Two or throe ot tce**i are already
dismounted, and the earth of the ptrapeis *o
seamed and torn that the rest of the ordnance ap
pear a9 if pointing out between loose piles ot earth.
The flanking batteries are now being fired at, and
apparently with much effect. The Barrack work
is aiso suffering much, and nearly one third of its
embrasures are empty. The Redan 6till thoaa a
bold front. As 1 fca*e already said, this ooloeeal
•work i 9 at so long a range from ours (1250 yards)
and moanta snch an enormous mass of ordnanoe,
that it would ataud its present battering ior two
or three weeks to come, without reoeivin* such
i jury as to render it untenable. But this is a
matter of no moment. The Bedan, per u is a
strong battery, but unlike the Flagstaff or Malakoff
it is by no means so importantly situated as io ne
cessitate our taking it by storm. The former werki
are the keys of the enemy’a position ; when they
are silenced or ctptured, the Bedan will fall of it
• Jt, as it will oease to be tenable. The new bat
tery which I mentioned last night as being tormed
in the advanced trench, was completed and opened
this morning The tremendous volley with which
it commenced, quite too a the Bussians by surprise.
Each day they have been accustomed to see our
10 inch mortars tire from the same part of our
works, and doubtless, for that very reason, never
anticipated further molestation, (which, indeed,
was almost unnecessary, so well were our mortars
manned) from the some quarter. The Budden
and continued fire, therefore, of 8 enormous guns,
in addition to their old assailants, the mortars,
was a complete and unpleasant surprise. At the
firi ri : frMaige oae of their gun? was dismounted
and aiiotier injured, and then artillery mcl either
ranaa&for concealed themselves a* they were
not to ce Only one gun w*s fired in reply.
bo that icr five or ten mioutes our battery haa
nothing to do but to bl: as away without fear ot
t pposuiOii. Al.er that time the enemy appeared
to heart, and several guns were fired, but it
was fully half an noar beiore they made anything
like a vigorous defence. Then, indeed, the lire
they maintained showed that very many of the
embranures whicn were supposed to be silenced
baa mereiy had their guas withdrawn, and those
tney brought forward and well mauned. For
about an hour the enemy lought with great deter
mination, but from the first they bad no ebanoe
ot being able to maintain it long. Directly it was
seen that the MaUkoff works were determined to
engage our advanced battery, oue taoeot Gordon's
li-Oery, mounting ten guns and two mortars, was
directed upon it, and the three 18 inch mortar
battei y at ihe picket bouse also threw its missiles
against the Bound Tower. With these, and with
the acsietanoe of the 10-inch mortars near the ad
vanced work, and several cohorns throwing 821 o.
shell, a ported hail was poured into our old
enemy.
As i have said, for a time it w&a well fought, but
our immense shot dismounted the gune or cut up
the earthworks, while the shell drepping over
burst continually among it* defenders. To
wards eight o’clock its ire had slackened con
siderably, and before nine the ensmv for that time
gave up the contest as hopeless, and such guns as
cou.d still be sed were withdrawn from the em
brasures, and our batteries left to do their worst
upon the earthworks. During this battery fight
the Mamelon, as usual, revived from it* state of
inaction, and, to the astonishment of every one,
put forward five guns and fired them oonVnnaliy.
The demonstration, however, did little good, be
yond drawiog on it, when the Malakofi was quiet,
the fire of the mortar-battery at the pick*t-hoo*e,
and under these tremendous bomba was soon
reducod to its former inaction. Our advauced
work then continued to fire at the Malakofi, which
never offered any serioua resist**. ..<■ re
maiuder of the day. Every twenty miwutes or ao
two or three of its gone were run forward and
fired, but beyond this it was quiet and seemed to
have no more than 20 or 80 men in it.
The result of this day’s bombardment has again
been m >st favorable to the Allies. The Flagstaff
still makes a heroic defence but is evidently sink
ing fast. The Bedan ia atill vigoroua, but on th*
whole lin* tka enemy’s fire is not half that of the
Allies. To-day our superiority h«s basn mueh
mere marked than ever, the Russians not replying
one gun to our three or four. Our daily casualties
are, us usual, heaviest amongst the naval brigade,
which, though, less than a sixth of the force
amongst the ov.terles, furnishes rathor over cue
third of our total lc*s. The average each day has
been about 80 killed and wounded, and about ICO
French. To-day Lieut. D?ath, B. N., and Lieut,
ttteele, of B. M. A., wore wounded, but neither
very severely.
Te-day Omer P&cba, at the head of 15,000
Turks, moved down to Btdaklava, and relieved the
Zouatse arid French regiment* at Kauikoi. The
Turks looked £n* and are the same fellows
wii9 have just given so good a specimen of their
oooragt fit ffap*toria. At Kndikoi, the weakest
gs rixomd portion of our liuea near Bx’aklava 8,-
000 have bye a posted behind atrong breastworks,
which the Tnr.e ie-dsy still further defended by
the addition of thirty pieces es artillery. These
ought to secure our position at that point, if it is
m in® power of earth-works and gone to do it.
While the transfer cf the troops was tailing place,
the Busaians showed in large foroe in the plains,
and on the summit of Canrobert’s hill, where it is
uow again for the 50. h time asserted that they are
getting up guns. On oue hill, however, the enemy
showed lor the first time to-aay, and their pres
ence there wrs regarded with some inquietude,
though a y efforts they quo now make from that
point must be quick indeod to be in time at all.
This evening 200 of the picked tailors of the
Rodney marohed across from Kamiesch to rein
iorea the naval brigade. The Rodney, while being
towed into Jt&miosch to disembark the men, was
very cleverly towod ashore by the Farious, and
not got off for some time, and nntil the Triton had
also came to her assistance. With the sailors were
sent a number of wh*t at© called paunch mat*,
made of thick double platted rope, which are to
bo used in hanging across the embrasures. These
mr-.ta a-e of such strength and thickness that a
splinter ot shell, a Minie bullet, or small grape
shot fired at a hnndre i yards does not penetrate
them. They have worked holes in the lower part,
made for the musale of the cannon, the rest of the
embrasure hoi ng completely closed by them. They
will principally be used in the advanced batteries,
where the incessant fire of the enemy’s riflemen
ceases much annoyance, and has gained for these
batteries the nick name of le»d mines. Besides
the shelter thus given to the men working the
guns, the dark oolor of the mat similar to that of
the earthworks, renders the embrasure more dif
ficult to be bit by the enemy.
The telegraph will to morrow be carried into
head quarters, whore one to the trenches is already
la d down, ao that the field officers in command
during the Dight will at the tame moment an
nounce a Bonin to Lord Raglan a< d to the Prime
Minister in Downing strett. After this, I think a
correspondent’s r eoopntion’e gone. The first mes
sage was uunt horn Kali&cra, and contained the
important intcbigeDce that “Corporal Somebody
was not well and had Jast taken a dose of castor
oil.” The reply from the Monastery w mb :—“ Hope
it may do him g <»d. Our bombardment is goiDg
on n:OPt successfully.”
Sixth Day— Sobtie on the Fbench. —April 14.
—I have only time lo add a line or two bofore the
mail start*-. Our 1 omtardment continued the
whole of last night, with much effect, and this
morning the guns again recommenced. The Are
qt the enemy slacken* more and more each day.
There was a slight softie last night upon the
French, who are supping up towards the Flegataff.
It was instantly repulsed, with a loss often or
twelve killed to the Russians.
there is no uew foaturo in the cannonade of to
dey, beyond that our advanced 84 pounder battery
is doing considerable havoc to the works of the
Malakoff. Col. Dickson, K. A., one of the most ao
live and indefatigable of our artillery officers, is
perpetually an portending the progress made by
this advanced work.
A lettor dated Sevastopol, April 10th says At
120 rounds a gun per diem, w* oan Are for about
10 < ays without much carnage to our guns. If
the place does not tall then, it ia not in the power
of artillery to take it, and we must either getrea y
to invest the north and south, or try the dreadful
alternative of a general storm, nnai led by the
ships, which seem ut present all bat useless.
hpsaiA.—Private letters received in Berlin, April
2sd, from Bt. Petersburg state that the appearance
of that city denotes the activity displayed for the
energetic continuance of the war. The Cgar de
votes hia whole time and attention to the military
preparations that are going on. The to *ns and
villages around swarm with militia, clothed in
their half military dresses. On their caps they
wear a oross, underneath are the words, in Russian,
1 • For Religion and the Czar.”
'£i;e whole of the extensive territory of Bessa
rabia, and tho prpyincea of Kiew, Podolia, and
Cnerson, are placed under the military
authority of Go eral Lnders, hitherto provisional
ly commander-in chief of the army of the South.
' A private letter from St. Petersburg in the Kreuz
jkaitung, in speaking of a regiment of Basohkira,
400 horses string, that had just arrived thore from
Moscow, says that the men much less aston
ished at the Moscow railway, by whioh thpv were
conveyed, than had been expected. They affirmed
that it by ne meats went so fast as the breeze on
the step pea, and that a goed Baschkir horse could
heap np with the train. The locomotive was,
however, pronounced to be sorcery, bp; the Baa
successors ©cqld do some clover things also.
On ihoir entrance into Bt. Petersburg!! anompty
barrack wtc assigned them, they begged, howevej,
to be allowed to teke up thoir quarters in the open
air, if an can - qc&ko carre, the walls of the build
ings might fail rad crush them.
On being required!*) resume their march in the
"rorni'ig after itv,T bivouac in the capital, they
were mooli saat down, &nd| eventually refused to
leave, as they had been promised that when there
they should so* the Emperor. On this circum
stance being made known to the Emperor (Ales*
.rider) ha immediately rode down to the place.
Their'delight at seeing their Caar knew no bounds;
they laughed, they eobb3d, they threw themselves
on the ground, tfiav kissed Aral eajh other, then
the Emperor’s beoto. then hit horse; they c?spt
u and put between the horses legs, which they
embraced from tipne to time, and conducted them
selves entirely a*'children highly delighted at
n-ee ing a long bsent parent. After receivipg the
Emperor’s blessing they marched cff.
Spain. *~-Senor Madcz has succeeded in negotia
ting a loan o!' *0 millions of reals, at the rate of 9
percent. He is, however, to receive only 23 mill
ions in sr-eci:.
The roport was again current that a Spanish le
gion ws> to be raised for Berviee in ike Crimea:
and two Catalan members of Cortes was named
ue having applied to the Minister of War for li
cense to raise recruits in Catalonia. It waa thought
that the Government would hot refuse permission,
and in certain quarters it waa even said that Spain
was disposed to join the Western allianoe against
Russia
Reinforcements are to br sent to Mellila, in Afri
ca, for the protection of the presidios. Government
prisoners.
Madkid, April 21.—An interpellation relative to
the Bishop of 0.-una has given rise to a very ani
mated debate in the Cortez. It aeemß probable
that an extraordinary tax will be levied, re-payable
from the proceeds of sale from the national pro
perty.
Madsid, April 84.— The Cortez have approved
articles of the bill for tbe sale of ecclesiistioal pro
perty.
April 28. —At the Cortez to-day the report on
tbe bill brought forward by the Government rela
tive to the creation of Protestant cemeteries was
presented and read. It is favorable to the meas
ure. Some advantages have bean granted to the
foreign import trace in Spain, and Kime cf the
oonsular tormalitiea have bean simplified.
Some of the Vienna journals state that the Dan
ish question it to be one of the sabjeowconfiden
tially discussed am'ng the allied powers, shoo'd
pcsce not he re estab ished. According to the
protoe 1 o ' London el May S, 1554, Prince Chris
tian of Giucb'burg, is to succeed the present uion-
I arch, Frederick VII.
1 Fixes.—At half past il o’clock yesterday fore
nooh the alarm of fir# was given from Adgei’a
I north wharf. The fire was found in the sample
| room attacoad to the counting office of Messrs.
1 Mottet A rancher and was extiegaished with
i less 0! destruction than wga feared, from the lo-
I cality.
.One of the cle'ka, we learn, having ooeauou to
| examine some papers, found it neoes&ary to open a
window of the sample room, te admit Tight. ' The
’ room was foliy stored with samples of ootton on
i shelves, and aiso on the fiber, add ths young gen
! tleman reports hearing tinder hie feet a noise, like
! the explosion and ignition of a friction match. In
l an iusunt the ccpor. parcels on the floor ercund
I n:m were in ivr.ee, and after exerting himself to
! extieguah the fire, the clerk rushed fprth and gave
j tbe aiarm.
A sample room where the fire originated waa en.
tire ! y destroyed and the eoun’ing house was seri
ously damaged. The total lose will perhaps not
exceed SI2OO, whioh ia oovered by insurance—the
buildings sue the office furniture being separtely
insured in the agency of the Royal Insurance Com-
later a second alarm waa heard,
and ueced to Boyce & Co.’s wharf, where several
hales of ec ton were found to be burning. From
the promimity to the other Ire, at which engines
were atifl working, attention was soon given and
' tbe danger averted by the throwing overboard the
cotton that was on fire. This will De the only lose,
and the quantity of cotton is reported not to ex
ceed from eight to ten bales. It ia believed by
some that this fire waa the result of an incendiary
A third alar".’ waa heard in the evening about
eight o’clock, and severs) of our fire companies
hurried out. It was sscerts’osd, however, to be a
false aiarm.— CL Oovier, Monday.
Bxatw 9» D. J. MoCgxd Esc.—'The South
Carolinian informs of the death of David J.
McCord, Eaq., a prominent and long a moat active
and influential citiseD, who expired on Saturday
morning, at his residence in Cel am bis.
From ikt St. Lmk lnUlUgtntor, Hay 5.
rrom .« Le.T.B
worib City, H. r.
We .re indebted to passengers on the Missouri
Biver packets down last eveinug for the following
aooounLof a homicide at Leavenworth City, which
has created the most intense excitement in and
around the town. It eeems that there was a meet
ing of aqnatters aud citizens of the town and
neighborhood generally in Leavenworth Uty on
Monday last, for the purpose of making a
anbli- demonstration of opinion with re.ardto
the olaims of the squatters, the election, the slave
ry agitation, and oiher prominent questions agi
tated in that section. There was a large attend
ance of both pro-slavery aud anti slavery men,
and the meeting was characterize i by uproanooa
nest bickering, confusion and ebullition of am
tnoeity between the two factions.
A question among others was pat to vote by the
chairman, and the vote being close, a division was
called bv ordering the ayes to onoside of the honsj
and the noes to the other. Malacca Clark a promi
ses politician ot the pro slavery faction, and a
large* wner of or squatter on land in and about
the town cried ont, “We have the majority to
wtioh a lawyer named McCraa, a leader ot the
Free -soil faction, answered, “ It’s a lie;” where
upon Clark s vsnoed upon him, and eirnck him
wiin ac ub w. ion would have felled him had he
not sU--gered ag».n*l the wall. As soon as he re
covered *rom the stun, McOrem drew a revolver
and shot Clark, killing him instantly. MoCrea
tnen fled, hotly pursued by a number of Clark's
friends, who fired several shots at him, none of
which, however, took affect. He ran to the river,
and sought Bbelter behind the bank, whioh was
abrupt tad high, wbenoe his friends took him in
their protection, removed him to the fort two
miles distant, and d livered him to the military
authorities, who locked him np in the guardhouse.
Great excitement ensued. Threats ot mob vio
lence and Lvneb law were circulated, but no un
lawful demonstrations were made. A petition
wua r'.tsii up by the mob, and signed by three or
tour h—dred namea, requoating tha officers in
command at the fort to give up the prieoner, pro
mising to give him the benefit of i n impartial tri
al by jury. The petition was not acceded to, and
the prisoner was still eorfiued in the guardhouse
at the time onr informants left.
A handbill was printed and circulated all over
the country, up aud down the river, calling upon
all pro slavery men, all true friends of the South
and of slavery in Kansas, to meet on Thzrsday at
Leavenworth city, to take into consideration the
aspectof affairs, and to adopt measures of proceed
ing in tfce present crisis. The handbill ia signed
B F. Stringfeiiow and John W. Kelly, editors of
thaSqnatter Sovereign, J. Marion Alexander, aud
a numbei of others. W e give the handbill entire:
To thh Public I— Gexat Indignation Mvinsa—
Asouax ,SD AVkN.lt THE BLOOD OT TtDB FALLOW
Man 1— Whtrtas, Malcomb Clark, one of onr most
wortny tnd estimable oilix-na—a man whom it
was impossible to see without admiring, or to
I know without eateainicg, and of whom it might
be said &|i> those who knew him beet.loved him
most, was consigned to an untimely grave, killed,
atrociously murdered, without any juat cause or
provocation, in this city the 80th ult., by the
violent and ruthless her . of an assassin, C. Mo
Ursa. A meeting of onizens is hereby oalled in
this place on Tneaday, May 8, for the purpose of
taking some action in relation to this foul and atro
oions crime, by which a happy family bus sustain
ed a sad and irreparable btreavement, aud onr
oommunity been deprived of oue of her most use
ful aud enterprising citizens.
Here ia another life that has been taken by the
murderous hand of a treacherous villian ! Where
will these fatal coi sequences end, God only
knowsl Ariec, fellow-men, and trample under
vonr feet tha hydra headed monster Abolitionism,!
D. Scot! Boyle, John Harris, James M. Lyle, If.
J. Johnston, U. L. McAleer, Jairett Toil if, Juo.
H. Mcßride, members of the Coinmitte sppiout
ed by the citizens of Leavenworth to frame a
call for a public meeting.
Leavenworth City, K. T., May 1, 1855.
From tin Wtelly Plates Argus, April 28.
Mows of the Pabxtilue OuTßAexa. —At a moot
ing of the citizauß of Parkviile, held in the office
of Col. Win. 11. bummers, on Wednesday evening
April 25, 1855, J. B. Ewell was called to the chair,
and F. M. McDonald appointed secretary.
Col. bummer*, in a few remarks, explained the
object of the meeting.
Tie following resolution* were presented by Mr.
Miller, which ware almost unanimously adopted :
Whereat, There aie abroad impressions preju
dicial in the extreme to the citizens of Parkviile,
brought about from the tone and sentiments of the
public print which has until of late been publish
ed in our €ity. Therefore, be it
Unsolved, That we, the citizens of Parkviile. ut
terly repudiate such sentiments, emphatically deny
that the said paper was the true exponent of our
principles upon the subject of slavery ; that on the
oontrary we arc now ana over have been through
out this contest, pro-slavery men in principle, feel
ing and aetion
2. That we do most benrtily rejoice in the result
of the recent election in Ka» sas Territory, and hail
it as a signal triumph of the South over the insid
ious machinations of our enemies at home and
abroad. That we did all in our power to effect
that desired end, and that wo will continue to
labor for the extension of slavery in that territory
believing as we do that the interosth of Missouri
and the ontiro South require that the institution
of slavery should exist therein.
8. That we are Missourians inspirit and feeling,
and that we are ready at all times and under all
circumstances to heartly 00-operale with our fel
low citizens of Platte county and throughout the
state to secare and maintain our rights as pro
slavery men. This wo pledgo ourselves to do.
4. That we are Southern in feeling, principle and
interest, and that we do most cordially approve
and indorse the recent action of our friends and
neighbors, in removing from our midst the means
fbr the publication of the iuoendiary sheet, Tho
Parkviile Lnminaiy,
6. That those who are not for us aro against us,
and that he who evinces by his acts or words his
opposition to the institution exists. That we, as
oitizona of a slave-holding state, deprecate the set
tlement of those in our midst who are opposed to
onr p -ouiiar institutions.
On motion, the foregoing resolutions were adop
ted as a whole.
On motion, they wero sent to The Plate Argus
and Western Reporter for publication, with the
request that the newspapers throughout the State
and Kansas territory, favorable to the institutions
of slavery, publish the same.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
J. B. Ewell, Chirman.
F. M. MoDonald, Secretary.
The Faixtilli Outbade.— When our printing
office was destroyed. 1 was absent in Kansas terri
tory, and returned forthwith on recaivinginforma
tion of it. lam filled with the deepest concern for
the events that have transpired, and the passions
that baarsWMy—premeditated, as they have been,
by a largo and powerful secret association. lam
happy to know that the citizens ol Parkviile and
vicini f P>ok no part in it; and why my life and
prope.tr should be destroyed by any portion of
this community, I cannot tell; the charge ofabo
litionbm is false; I have never harbored a thought
nor meditated au action, etrimeutai to the honor,
the interests, or institutions of Missouri; bnthave
labored unceasingly to promote her prosperity. It
is true, I hive not believed the honor ana interests
of Missouri to be in that course of policy marked
out by som' politicians—duty has compelled me to
cross their path, which has brought on my devoted
head the bitterest persecution.
Our paper can be read—it will speak for itself.
It does not olaim perfection—the leading objects
have beon to promote the principles of temperance,
morality and virtue ; to take a conservative politi
cal stand ; and, by moderating the extremes, and
by softening sectional asperities, to promote the
general g od of the country, and the perpetuity of
the American Union.
I love the South, and have spent the best ener
gies of my life to advance h r interests and her
glory. The battle-fields of Texas are eternal evi
dences of the faot; where individual enterprise
gathered around the gaMant Houston, and by in
credible hardship and almost snperhuman exer
tion, the independence of that vast oountry was
achieved —now one of the brigetest stars in the
constellation of states ; and I refer to my fellow
citizens to attest the faot, * hat, while I have resided
in Missouri, I have labored unceasingly to promote
her interests.
I love the North too ; while life lasts shall I
forgot tho green hills of Vermont, where rest* the
grave of my mother; nor the deeds of the men of
’7fi nor the virtues and energies of the men who
have made those states a beacon-light—the won
der and admiration of the world, and I shall ever
look upon their glory as the common inhoritanoa
Os every Amerioan citizen.
With regard to leaving this oommunity, I would
do so cheerfully, as soon as I conld dispose of ray
interest* here, wore I satisfied that a further resi
dence was not agreeable, but. to leave the grave of
my wife, the home I have toiled years to embel
lish srd improve, apd many interest* interwovon
with the growth and prosperity of the country,
and flee fi>r no offence, like a base culprit—l cn
not. I would prefer death at my own home amid
the flowers end trees planted and consecrated by
affection end upon the soil of the country I have
toiled to build up.
Oar press has been thrown into the Missouri
rivtr—l rosy be buried there too—an humble in
dividual is ’in the power of hundreds of armed
men—hut his death will net destroy the freedom
of the American prossl Independence of thought
end action is inherent in the bos' m of every fr.-e
man, and it willgueh up like a perpetual fountain
forever J God hu3 impressed on hia universe the
principles of truth and jastioe, and they must pre
vail.
If there is no sooarity in the land of Washing
ton —if an American homo affords no protection—
if the time baa arrived when this Un.on must be
dissolved, and ail its kindred ties aad mighty in
teres’s broken and destroyed, and onr lai d
drenched with fraternal bicod, then let me ba bu
ried baneath thp tnrbid waters pf tho Missouri,
rather than five to behold suoh a scene. God aave
the country. Gxo. 8. Cara.
Parkvilia Mo., April 28,1855.
Fatjpib Immigration.—The following correspon
dence which was received at the Mayor’s office on
Saturday shows that more “pauper immigrants”
ars expected to arrive from Antwerp;— T.
Com. Adv, _
Custom Hcusr, hrw iorx, #
Collector’s office, May sth, 1856. f
£ have the honor to enclose herewith a copy
of a letter under date of the !9tn inst. from Alois
D. Gall Esq., consul of the United States at Ant
werp, which was rqfeived yesterday.
He states that he is credibly informed, that a
large number of foreign paupers, sailed from Ant
werp tor this city in the Belgian ship ••Leopold.”
As I said in former instance, as this matter does
not come within my jurisdiction I send you the
enclosed for you information, and such action as
you may deem proper. lam very Reap tyour
Ob nt hervt, Tlruiil j Rsdeield, Collector.
Son. Febnando Wocd, Mayor.
Consclate ot the United States, 1
Astwksp, April 19, 1855. [
Sib—l consider it incumbent to inform yon that
the Belgian ship “Leopold," sailed heDoe on the
15tb inst., for New York, having on board said
ship from three to four hundred passengere. lam
informed by good authority that among said paa
asneara are a great number of pauptn.
The vessel is bound to Cuba, and wjl tas I an
demand) land her passengers at Staten fcland. It
is, of ooorse, nlteny impossible for me at any time
to prove my statements by witnesses, nevertheless I
I have very good grounds to belisve the ststemont
to be correct, and inform yon in consequence
thereof, that you may take such measures relative
the-eto, as you may think advisable.
It appears to me, that the emigration of what is
termed the “middle classes” has been to a great ea
tent disco: tinned, and the present average rate
of paasega money not being more than 8 or 9
dollars e’ear money to the snip, tenoe these low
rates .wire to suspect that passengers of all
grades a*id descriptions will oe sngagSQ, if only to
ill up the Ship’s complement.
1 have Ike honor to be, jour obident servant,
A. D. Gau.
To H. J. Reditxld, Collector.
A CorNTEBVEiT—How to Detect It.—The coun
terfeit SIOO bills on tbe Bank of Hamburg are
said tc be very exactly done. Everything appears
right about them, signatures and all except a very
•mall inaccuracy in the engraving. To discover
this, observe on the genuine bill the ropes at
whieh tbe ship hsndß are pulling about midway
of their vessel. You will see that they sre attached
to a teickle or pulley above. This, in the counter
feit, ia omitted. But for this slight defect, the
cheat would have been perfect. Our people wo dd
do well perhaps, to watch that teickle. As ths
Saluda nigger said about ths North Star during
ths meteoric shower years ago—“As long as yo .
•as dst dar, dere’s not a sign of danger.”— Bdqt-
JMd Adt.
It is stated in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that
the scarcity of food for stock in Trumbull, Geau
ga, Ashtabula, Portage and Summit oouutiee,
Lhia, has been so great that a meat unparalleled
low has occurred rmong the stock of oows of ths
dairtmen. More than four thousand have died
in tbs oounty of Trumbull alone, and from all se- j
counts it ia supposed the number lost on the West- i
era Reserve will cot fUI abort of sixteen thousand.
WEEKLY
Cjjnmide & Sentinel.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA^
WKDHESDAY MOKNING, MAY 16, 1855.
CHRONICLE A SENTINEL FOR SALE.
In order to carry out a resolution long since
formed—that of retiring from the printing busi
ness—the undersigned now offers the above estab
lisment for sale. It is one of the best appointed
offices in the State, with, perhaps, a larger circu
lation than any other. Attached to it is a large
and extensive Job Office and Boos Bindert,
and all the machinery propelled by steam. Pre
suming that those desiring to purchase will call
and look for themselves, we deem it unnecessary
to say more than that the terms will be liberal and
that a bargain can be had. Wm. S. Jones.
Mr. Stephens' Letter.
Wx shall offer no apology for occupying so mnoh
of onr paper this morning, with the letter of the
Hon. A. H. Stephens, in which he makes public
his opinions aud views in relation to “Know
Nothingismfor we aro not aware that we coaid
present any matter, that wonld be read and sought
after with more avidity by the great mass of read
ers. It ie a calm and diapaasionate review of the
whole question, and in such a spirit and tone as
all muat approve, even though they may dissent
from his views.
The Atlanta Examiner—Corrected.
Tme journal ia either rather oblivions of facte or
very reckless in its statements, when it charges the
Chrontile <t Ssniinsl with having been “an off- load
er in the Georgia team ” of Know Nothings, and
“now kiokiog out of the traces,” and “fighting un
der the Know Nothing flag in the city election.”
The readers of the Chronicls need not be told that
all this ia a mere oreation of the Hxamintr's imagi
nation. We have never been in any way connect
ed with the new order, and have at no time been
“ in the Georgia teamand ao far from “fighting
under tha banner in the city election,” the Chroni
eU d- Smtinsl took no part whatever in it, exoept 1
to report the resalt ojisr the the election. Will
the Examiner oorrect itself with its readers.
New Jersey Know Nothings—Slavery.
An exchange says a convention held at Newark,
New Jersey, May 2nd, took what ia called national
ground on tho slavery question. They appointed
seven delegates to the Philadelphia convention.
The Htrali't report Bays :
Tho delegates to Philadelphia will go to that
Connoil fully prepared to elect liio Massachusetts
heretics from the party, and go in for the Union—
a Union platform, a Union candidate, and a gener
al clearing oat of the official loafers at Washington,
big and iittle.
It is very apparent that Slavery is likely, indoed
almost certain, to bo the rock on whioh the new
party will be split and rent into fragments and
faationa. As al present organized they can nevor
form a National orgsnisition, for Southern men
cannot affii'.iate with the New England fanatics.
Tho Southern wing moat repudiate and ejeot the
New England delegates or abandon the organiza
tion themselves, one or the other is inevitable.
Ruow-ftiothlngisni—An Kxpoae.
Tub Pitifiburg Gaseite, u violent Free-Soil, Anti-
Enow-Notning journal, has recently got into pos
session, by aocidont, of the “Ritual” of the Ameri
oan or Know-Nothing party, and published tho
obligations that the applicants for membership in
the first, seoond, and lhi< d degree* enter into, be
fore they can become members. The great inter
est universally felt in tho principles of this new
party, induces us to publish the following article
from the Louisville Journal , (we do not exchange
with the Pittabnrg GantU,) as a part of the histo
ry of the times. Tho public, who are not initiated
in the secrets of the order, oan judge as well as we
of the probable genuineness of the disclosures
made by the Gazette. In the absence of any posi
tive knowledge on this point, we may be pardoned
for tho expression of the opinion, that to us, it
bears tho marks of being a genuine document, and
in this opinion we think tho oandid and impartial
of all classes will concur:
From the Louisville Journal.
HieiiiY Intk**'Tin# Document, if Genuine.— We
have often stated, upon the authority of informa
tion whioh we believed to be entirely authentic,
that the Know-Nothing or American party of the
oountry adopt d measures a few months ago in its
National Council for establishing and securing its
own na ionality of character everywhere through
out the Union. We have not known, however,
whether we should have an opportunity to lay be
fore the people of the nation the proof which we
fully believed to be in existence. The opportunity
is at length offered us—that is, if an ouemy of the
Know-Nothings is to be believod, and wo gladly
avail ourselves of it.
The editor of the Pittsburg Gazette, who ia an
enemy of the American party, has, ho says, got
possession of one of the cooks in whioh the rites
of the order are contained, and publishes what he
asserts to be “ the genuine Ritual of the First,
Second and Third Degrees as now administered
in the several councils.” He does not tell how he
came into possession of the Ritual, but another
Pittsbnrg editor states that it was among the con
tents of a lost packet-book which the finder took
to the editor of the Gazette, who attracted the
document therefrom and laid it before the public.
Whether the abstraction of a document from a
lost pocket-book for such a purpose is an act of
theft or ot honesty, and whether the document, as
published, is a forgery or a genuine paper, we pro
tend not to decide, but we ao say, that, assuming
the document to be perfectly authentic and genu
ine, it allords the most overwhelming nationality
of t <e American party that could potsibly be pre
sented to men’s minds. It tho evideuoe hitherto
given was not wholly satisfactory, the desideratum
is now supplied by an enemy. Let us see what
this “Ritual,” so called, is.
The chief obligation imposed on members of
the First and Second Degreoa is, according to the
publication in the Pittsburg paper, to support na
tive-born Ameticun citizens for all offices of honor,
trust or profit in the gift of the people, the exclu
sion of foreigners and aliens, Roman Catholios in
particular, and without regard to party predilec
tions, and to dismiss foreigners aua Roman Cath
olics from office when the power to do so is posses
sed by those taking tho obligation. Bat it is to
the Ritual of the Toird Degree, as here given to
the world, that wo particularly desire to call the
public attention and invite the public scrutiny.—
The whole country will sec on reading it, that it
embodies, whether genuine or not, the strongest
and moat solemn anti-Northern abolition obliga
tions and the strongest and moat solemn anti-
Southern secession obligations that could be ad
ministeied “in the presence of Almighty God.”
All suoh of tho members of the American order
as could be driven ont from it by a distinct an
nouncement of stern and undying opposition to
the deigns and purposes of the Abolitionsts and
Frecaoilerß must, if this publication is true, have
abandoned it months Ago, for words oould not ex
presu a more determined opposition to such designs
and purposes than is expressed in this obligation
of the Third Degree and in the eloquent and im
pressive oharge that follows it. Fellow citizens,
you know what human nature is and how moat
men regard the awful solemnities of an oath, and,
if any editor of any party undertakes to tell you
that the masses of those men, who have taken
such an obligation a* wo are about to lay before
you from the Pittsburg p»qer, are Abolitionists,
or that they favor the designs of tho Freesoilors,
or that they are the eupouragers jf agitation upon
the subject of slavery, you may well treat the as
sertion wich the acorn and contempt due to men
dacity and calumny. Whatever may be the errors
of the Know-Not binge, the masses are at least
national in their purposes, as thoy are, even ene
mies being their witness, bound to nationality by
ties that the boldest man would tremble to sever
or disregard.
Here ia the dooamont of which we have been
speaking, and we need not invite to it the attention
of the American party’s friends or the American
party’s enemies 1 It is a olincher—a of
Anti American tongues —a shutternp oi Sag-Nichts
mouths:
Ritual or the Thjbd Dieree.
T*nu> DieiEi Council.— The President admin
isters to the candidates elect the following
CBLISATtON.
Yon and each of you, of your own free will and
accord, in the presence of Almigty God and these
witnesses, with yonr hands joined in token of that
fraternal affection which should ever bind togeth
er tho States ofthis Union, forming a ring, in token
of your deteimination that, ho fa r as your efforts
can ayil, this Union shall have no end, do solemn
ly and sincerely swear (or affirm) that yon will not
nnderany ciroumctanoes, disclose in any manner,
nor suffer it to bo done by others if in yonr power
to prevent it, the name, signs, pass works or other
recrets of this Degree, except to those to whom
you may prove on trial to be brothers of the same
Degree, or in open council for the purpose of in
strnction ; that yon do hereby solemnly declare
your devotion to tne Union of these States; that
in tne discharge of yoqr duty aa American citixens
you will uphold, maintain, and defend il; that you
will discourage and discountenance any attempt
coming from any and every quarter, wbica you
believe to be designed or calculated to destroy, or
subvert it, or to weaken its bonds; and that you
will use your influenoe, as far as in your power, in
endeavoring to p r ocure an amicable and equitable
adjustment of all political discontents or differen
ces, which may threaten its injury or overthrow.
Ton do farther p.omise and swear (onffirm) that
yon will not vote for any one to fill any office aof
honor, or profit, or trust of a political character,
whom who know or believe to be in favor of dia
solution of the IJaion of these States, or who is
endeavoring to produce that result; that you will
vote for and support far all political offices third
or Union Degree members ot this order, in prefer
ence to all others; that if it may be done consist
ently with the Constitution and laws of the lan-',
you will when elected or appointed to any official
station, which may confer on yon the power to do
so, remove from office or place, all persona whom
you know or believe to be in favor a dissolution of
the Union, or who are endeavoring to produce that
result; and that you will in no oaae appoint such
persons to any political office or place whatever.—
All this you promise and swear (or affirm) upon
your honor as American cities ns and friends of
the American Union, to snaiain and abide by
without any hesitation or mental reservation
whatever. Yon also promise and swear (or affirm)
that this, and all other obligations which you hsve
previously teken in this Order, shell ever be kept
sacred end invioiste. To all this you pledge yonr
lives, your fortunes, and your scared honors. So
help yon God and keep you steadfast. [£ach one j
shall answer, “I do."] j
After the candidates have been instructed in the
mysteries of this third degree of the Order, the fol
lowing charge ia by the president:
Bbotbiss : It is with great pleasure that I con
gratulate yon upon your advancement to the Third
Degree of our Order. The responsibilities you
v, S te now assumed are more serious and weighty
than those which preceded, and are committed to
such only as have been tried and found worthy.
Our obligations sre intended as solemn avowals of
our duty to the land that gave us birth ; to the
memories of our fathers; and to the happiness
and welfsreof our children. Consecrating to your
country s spirit unselfish, and a fidelity like that
which diat'nguished the of the Revolu
tioo, you have pledged your aid in cementing the
bonds of a Union which we trust will endure for
ever Yonr deportment sinoe your initiation has
atteited yonr devotion to the principles wedea.re
to establish; and has inspired a confidence in yonr
patriotism, of which we oan give no higher proof
than your reception here. T
The dangers which threaten Amenoan Liberty
ariae from foes without, and from enemies withm.
The First Degree pointed out the »pore« and*
the°ftret > mass ore * o f"eafo ty !** pke Seam 4?^^ *
Third Degree, whieh yew have just received, not
only reitiratee the lemons of the other two, but it
is intended to avoid ted provide for a more re
mote but no leas terrib'e danger from domeetio
enemies to our free institutions. g
Oar object is briefly this: To perfect au organi
zation, m xieied after that of the Constitntion of
the United States, and ooexteusive with the confe
deracy. Its object and principles, in all matters of
national concern, to be unilorm and identical,
whilst in ali local matters, the component parts
sha'l remain independent and sovereign within
their respective limits.
The great result to be obtained—the only one
which can secure a perfect guaranty as to our fu
ture—is Union; permanent, enduring, fraternal
Union 1 Allow me then to impress upon your
minds and memories the touching sentiments of
the Father of his country, in his tarowell address :
“The Unity of Government which constitutes you
one people,” says Washington, “is justly dear to
you, for it is the main pillar in the edifice of your
real independence, the support of your tranquility
at home, of your peace abroad, of your safety,
your prosperity, even that liberty you so justly
prize.
* * It hos influito moment that you should
properly estimate the immense value of your Na
tional Union, to your collective and individual hap
piness. You should cherish a cordial, habitual,
and immovable attachment to it, to think and speak
of it as the palladium of your political safety, and
prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jeal
ous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may sug
gest even a suspicion that it can in any event be
abandonc 1, and indignantly frowning upon the
first dawning of every attempt to alienate any por
tion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble
the sacred ties winch now bind together the vari
ous parts.”
Let these words of paternal advice and warn
ing, from the greatest man that ever lived,
sink deep into your hearts 1 Cheri h them, and
teach your children to reverence them, a-* you
cherish and reverence the memory of Washington
himself. The Union of these States ib the groat
conservator of liberty so dear to the American
heart. Without it, our greatness, as a nation,
would disappear, and our boosted self government
prove a signal failure. The very name of Liberty,
and the hopes of struggl ng Freedom throughout
the world, wu-t perish in tho week of this Uuion !
Devote yourselves, then to its maintenance, as our
fathers did to the cause of independence ; conse
crating to its support, as you have sworu to do.
your lives, your fortunes, and your sacred honor 1
Brothers ! Recalling to yout minds the solemn
obligations which you have soverally taken in this
and the preceding Degrees, 1 now pronouuce you
entit.ed to all the privileges of moinbershio in this
orgauixaticn ; and take pleasure in in forming yon
that you are now members of the Order of * * #
The Nashville of the Bth inst., copied the
foregoing article from the Louisville Journal, and
the next day tho 9th, tho Manner had tho following
article :
We re published yesterday, prefaced by an edi
torial commentary of the Louisvillo Journal , ex
tracts from certain documents recontly published
in the Pittsburg Gazette, whieh that paper alleged
Iwero truly copied from one of the books of the
American party, and which constituted “ the gen
uine Ritual of tho First, Second and Third Degrees
as now administered in tho several Councils.”
Thau this “Ritual of tho Third Degree,” as pub
lished by the Gazette, nothing could be more na
tional. Well might the Journal pronounce it “ a
highly ; ntero3ting documnet, [if genuine.” Well
might the Journal proclaim it, if genuine, a
“ clincher—a paralyzor of anti-American tongues.”
The question, therefore, of its gonuineures, in one
of the deepest interest and highest importance.
The Gazette, a strong Freesoil anti-Know Nothing
paper, insists that it is genuine, and tolls how it
oamointo its possession. Astor re-publishing in our
paper yesterday the article from the Journal , wo
received (by Monday night’s mail) the Gazette of
the 4th inst., in which the Editor has a column of
additional remarks in continuation of the subjoct.
He says:
There is a good deal of spasmodic honesty
about. Hen who ordinar ly mslto but little use ot
that article, aud lay it by as they do their Sunday
clothes, for occasional use, are just now airing il
with a sanctity of expression which would do good
to the heart of au iuuocout Saint who was tot koon
enough to detect tho hypocrisy lurking under it.
The occasion for this sudden and edifying display
ot a virtue so gonorally bidden by them, is the
publication of tho K. N. Kituals iu this paper.—
They are afraid, good, upright souls, tuat we did
not come honestly by them ; and the most pious—
tho Aminidab S'ccbs—of the ghostly crew have
ever gone so far as to hint that wo have boanguilty
of appropriating private papers t >our own use.
The genuineness of tho Kituals is not—cannot
be—questioned. It is, in fact, admitted by t' e
terrible wail which has gone np by the ustouishod
conspirators. Thoir only concern is lest we may
havo dotilod our robes iu getting hold of them.
The men who tnink it is a virtue to lie and to
docoivo ; who ostcem it their duty to deny thoir
membership and conncetion with an order to which
they have surrendered their whole political being;
who, after having abjured all connection with their
former parties, still attempt to retain membership
with them, act with them for tho purpose ol con
trolling them, and tho : betray them; who regard
it a~ honorablo to practice craft and hopocri3y in
political matters among those outside of the order;
who act continually cn the principle that the end
justifies tbo mems; who seek the confidence of
thoir acquaintances and then privately betray it
when it subserve the interests of their Order;
who employ themselves aud one another os asccret
police—spies iu the household and employ of their
enemies, in order that they may bo cognisant of
whatever transpires there; who come upou a man
with the face of friendship, while sworn in secret
to destroy him ; inquiring, Joab like, “ Art thou
in health, my brother V while their daggers are at.
his back—that thete men should lay claim to hon
esty in public, and affect an oxtremo regard for the
sanctity of private papers, is one of the most im
pudent demonstration of charlatanry which it has
ever been our lot to witness.
We bold ourselves under no obligation to
vouchsafe explanations to Bach men, and much
leßa to thopo who, with the glibness of fisherwo
man, assail ub with foul epithets, and imagine
they are advertising their own morality as untain
ted by heaping expletives upon üb. We pass those
latter by a mere scavengers, who, either from ne
cessity or inclination, resort to the collection of
this kind of gj<rbuge. •utin as much as our K.
N. opponents have thought proper, in theoxcess of
their indignation and astonishment, to confess,
practically, the genuine character of the boobs
From which wo extruded the Kiluals of tho Ordor,
and have thrown themselves back upon question
ing our method of obtaining them, wo accept their
confession of t ; »e documents, and stand ready to
vindicate onr course in giving them i üblicity.
The manner in which wo obtained the .ittlo, yel
low-covered ritual books is no secret. The book
were brought to out office by a gentleman who in
formed us that they were found by auothor indi
vidual, in a pocket or memorandum book picked
up by the way-side, and there upon solicited their
publication. They boro upon their face the in
contostible evidences of genniness, in as much as
their contents were a matter of publio interest,
proper and important for the people to know, we
deemed them fit matters for publication. This is
the whole history of the affair, and wo are pre
pared to justify and defend our action.”
After vindicating his conduct in giving,publici
ty to the documents, on the ground that “the
books contained political secrets—secrete kept
from the public by a not work of oaths and obli
gations, and never likely to reach the world
through any direct agency—secrets, moreover, of
vast importance to tho people, whose right* and
interests they wore designed to affect, and a
knowledge of whioh was necessary to a faithful
mair.tenaco of their privileges,” the Editor con
cludes his remarks as foliowa:
“ In this particular case thero is a special justifi
cation. The secret obtained is of more importance
than the ordinary secrots of political strife. It is
one which involves the highest interests of the
country, the dearest rights of individuals, and the
f reservation of the safeguards of political security.
he secrets of conspirators or traitors have no
seal of sanctity upon them ; and regarding Know
Nothingism as a conspiracy, dnty to the communi
ty imposed npon us the task of unmapkiDg it,
when the means was accidentally afforded. If a
band of midnight assassins were lo put their pro
grammoon paper and drop it in the street by ac
cident, there could be no defence of “private pa
per®” sot up against giving it publicity; or if a con
clave of traitors, shielding their plot under the
darknoss of night, should conspiro treason against
their country, make a record of their oaths, obli
gations and purposes, and lose it by any mischance,
i who would respect th6ir right of property in i t f
No one. On the same principle, no aacrcdness can
attach to the papers of a secret political combina
tion. The fau it is not in tho finder or pub
lisher of their seciets, but in thoso whose pretend
ed Ameri# nism and patriotism leads them to have
such secrete to keep.”
A bitterer enemy of tho Know Nothings, it will
be seen, than this Editor is not to bo found evon
in tho person of tho Govs rnor of Tennessee, who
publicly charges them with “going about with a
lie in their mouths.” The Editor isaleo undoubt
edly sincere in tho belief that the books art genu
in#. Ho manifestly does not enterta'n the shadow
of a donbt on tho subject, and, what is more, he
states that the Know Nothings in that quarter
have practically oonf ssed their genuineness.
Now, we think, here is abundant evidence to jus
tify a belief in their genuineness, and their recep
tion and treatment as such, until the contrary be
made to appear.
War Ufon tiis Do#s. —We obeeive that the
Qity Officers, within the last few dayß, havo re
newed the very reprehensible practice of shooting
dogs in tho streets. Lust season the child of a
citisen was shot, and narrowly escaped a danger
ous, if not fatal wonnd, which arrested the shoot
ing for the season. This season it iB renewed to
the peril of persons within their houses, as well as
in the ctraets. All this danger might be avoided,
and the dogs as certainly killed, by requiring the
offitera to carry a small basket, with pieces of meat
on which Strychnine is sprinkled, and give.to each
dog, not entitled by law, to the “freedom of the
city,” a piece. If the dog refused to eat, the offi
cers could easily pick it up and give it to another.
Ey this means the killing would be quietly and
speedily accomplished without danger to any one.
Let it be tried.
Vihsixia Elkotion. —The Eichmond “ P&nny
Pott," the organ of the American party in an arti
cle on the eleolion sounds the cry of “ Press on the
Column,” and says that with already 72,000 mem
bers, the American party is daily increasing. It
is satisfied cf victory by not less than 20,000 ma
jority, and is disposed to think that it will be dou
ble that number. Nothing can exceed the terror
of the foreign party. Their eyes have just been
opened, and they see destruction all around them.
They bluster—but it is with chattering teeth, and
oountenances as white as the wall. They tell us
that hundreds in this place, that and the other
have quit the order. We were told tho same thing
here in Eichmond, and when tho election came on,
we saw how true it was. We were told the same
in Alexandria. Three hundred, it was said, had
left in Portsmouth. The election proves how tree
that was. Bragging won’t do now the triggers ar»
set.
Joseph E. Brown, Esq., of Canton, is the Demo
cratic Candidate for J adge of the Supreme Court in
the Bine Kidge Circuit. Judge Irvin the present
incumbent is bis opponent.
Wk. B. Boott has beenjnominated for Congress
in the Eichmond District. Va., by the American
party.
Tax Wzatwxr —Snow Stcbhs. —The N. Y. Com
mercial Advertiser of Tuesday afternoon, Bth inet.,
says: We learn from a telegraphic dispatch that
snow fell briskly at Detroit yesterday afternoon.
At 9 o'clock last evening, it was still falling. At
the same hour it was snowing at Albany. The
weather was very cold, and the wind was blowing
strongly from the North East.
Post Ozzioz Eoibed.—Last Monday morning it
was discovered that) late the evening before, some
one with false keys, had unlocked nearly ail the
drawers in the Toledg I’tetoffloe, and extracted
the contents, which were found near the office in
a lumber yard opened and Mattered to the wind
and rain.
Know- Nothing Hltual.
A few days since wo published tho Know Noth
ing Ritual of the third degree of tho Order, is it
appeared in the Pittsburg Gazette, and which pur
ported to be authentic. Since then we have foun d
the Rituals of tho first and second degreen, as pub
lished by the Gazette. As before remarked, we
are unable to determine as to thoir
(although wo think them so,) and therefore intro
duce them to tho render aa a part of tho history of
the times:
RITUAL OF THE FIRST DEGREE.
First Degree Council.— To be admittod to
membership in this Order, the candidate shall bo:
1. Proposed and found aeceptablo ;
2. Introduced and examined under tho guaran
tee ot secrecy; , . , 4 ,
8. Plaoed under tho obligation which tho Order
imposes; _ ,
4. Required to enroll his namo and place of res
idence ;
6. Instructed in the forms, usages, and ceremo
nies of the Order;
6. Solemnly charged as to tho objects to be at
tained, and his duties.
The preliminary outside proceedings having
been gone through, then comes tho
OBLIGATION.
You do solemnly swear, (or affirm,) that you
will never reveal anything said or done in this
room, tho names of euy persons pro ent, nor too
existence of this Society, whether found worthy to
proceed or not, and that all your declarations ahull
be trao, so help you God.
The following questions propounded by tho
Marshal, aro to bo satisfactorily answered :
Whore wer. you born ?
Where is your permanent residence 2
Aro you twenty one years of age 2
In religious belief are you a Roman Catholic :
Were you born of Protestaut parents, or were
you reared under Protestaut influence/
If married, is your wife a Roman Catholic f
[“No,” or “Yes”—tho answer to be valued a
the Constitution of the State Council shall provide.]
Are you willing to use your influence and vote
only for native-born American citizens for all
offices of honor, trust, or profit, iu the gilt of the
people, to *hoexclusion of all foreigners and alions,
Roman Catholics in particular, aud without regard
to party prodilootiom-1
(Answer : “I am.”)
The candidates haviug answered ell tho ques
tions, are noxt brought in by the Marshal to tho
President, who, after some preliminary remarks,
addressed thorn with the following :
OBLIGATION.
In the prosence of Almighty God and thoso wit
nesses, you do solemnly promise aud swear that
you will never betray any of the socrets of this
society, nor communicate them even to proper
candidates, except within a lawful Council ot the
Order, that you will never permit any of lho so
orets of this Society to bo written, or in any other
manner to be mad a loariKlo, “for t"fte puTpOsV
of official instruction; that you will not vote, nor
give your influence for any man tor any office ; u
the giL. ot the people, unless ho be au American
born citizen, in favor of Americans ruling Amori
ca, nor it ho be a Roman Catholic; that you will
in all political matters, so far as this order is con
corned, comply with the wlilof tho majority thou pi
it may conflict with your personal proforonco, so
long as it does not conflict with tho Constitution of
the UnitodStates of America, or that ot the 't .to
in which yon reside; that you will not under any
circumstances whatever, knowingly rccomm m.t
an unworthy person for initiation nor sull'or it to
bo dene if In your power to prevent it; that you
will not under any circumstances expose tho n one
of auy member of this Order, nor reveal ’he exist
ence of such an Association; that you will answer
an imperative notico issued by the proper author
ity ; obey the command of the Stato Council Pres
ident or his Deputy , while assembled by such no
tice, and respond to tho claim of a sign on a cry of
the Order, unless it bo physically impo si l- ; mi l
that you will acknowledge tho State Council o;
and tho supremo tribunal of the Order in tho Stato
ot , acting under tho jurisdiction of tho IS .
lional Council of tho United tßtalcv of North
America. Binding yourself in the penalty of e..
communication from the Order, the forfeiture of
all intercourse with its member*?, and being de
nounced in all tho Societies of tho Bums as a will
ful traitor to your God and your Cqpntry.
[The President shall call up every person pres
ent by three blows of tho gavel, when tho candi
dates shall all repeat after tho Vice President in
concort: J
All this I voluntarily and sincerely promise,
with a full understanding cf tao solemn suuctions
and penalties.
The candidates are then invested by tho 1 retrac
tor with everything appeitaiuinsr to tho first <!o
--groo, with the Bigus, countersigns and pa. s words,
with tho “rign ot recognition,” tho “answer,” and
tho “crip,” with the means by which public notice
of a meeting is givon, with 11.0 “cry of di 'r
and “sign of caution;” aftor which the President
impresses on the initiatod the importance of score
cy, the manner of proceeding in roc »mmendinv
candidates for initiation, and the responsibility oi
the duties which they have assumed.
RITUAL OF THE SECOND DECREE.
Second Degree Council. —The candidates hav
ing beon elected to the socond dogrtie aro present
ed to the President aud t»ke the following
Obligation.— You, aud oach ot you, of your
own free will and accord, in the prosence of A1
mighty God and these witnesses, your left hand
resting upon your right breast, and your right hand
ox’ondod to tho flag of your country, do solemnly
aud sincerely swear, that you will not, undor
any circumstances, disclose in utiy manner, nor
suffer it to be done by others, if in your power to
prevent it, the names, signs, pass words, or other
secrets of this degree, except in open council for
tho purpose of instruction; that you will in al
things conform to all the rules and regulations o;
this Order, and to the Constitution aud By laws
of this or any other Council to which you may b«
attached, so long as they do not conflict with the
Constitution of the Unitod States, nor that of the
Slate in which you losido ; that you will, under
all circumstances, if in your power so to do, at
tend to all regular signs or summons th*t may bo
thrown or sent to you by a brother of this or any
other degreo of th s Order ; that you will supper*
in all political mattora, for all political offices,.mem
bora of this Order in preference to other nor ons ;
that if it may bo done legally, you will, when
elected or appointed to any official station confer
ring on you tho power to do so, rcinovo all for
eigners, aliens, or Reman Catholics from office or
place, and that yon will in noooso appoint mob » •,
any office or place in your gift. You do also prom
iso and swear that this and all other oblige Wm
which you havo previously taken in this Order
shall ever be kept, through life,| sacred and invio
late. All this you promise and declare as Ameri
can#, to sustain and abide by, without any hernia
tiou or mental reservation whatever. So help you
God, ancl ko )p you steadfast 1 [Each will answer,
“ 1 do.”]
The candidates aro then invested with every
thing appertaining to the second degree as in the
Art.
The Prealdent va. (he Know Nothing*.
The Washington correspondent of tho York
Courier says: The Exo* utivo has signalized the
occasion of Mr. Wise’s visit to Washington by a
very remarkable act of proscription, as if to warn
all the democratic mombers of tho Know Nothing
order of their fate, if caught in the ranks of o -
position to the Virginian champion of the Admin
istration. Joseph F. Polk, a very worthy, re
npectable, and exoellont man, has been dimisaed
from a sixtoen hundred dollar clerkship in tho
Interior Department, which ho has hold, without
reproach, for twenty-four years. Mr. Polk is a
consistent demoerat, having been appointed in
1881 by President Jackson. Ho has a high repu
tation as a controversialist on the Protestant side
of the religious questions now agitating tho c. nn
try. He is learned, well informod, and courteous
in his modo of managing discussion. As no per
sonul objection has boen or could be made to Mr.
Polk, his dismissal was doubtlessly resolved upon
as a warning to others in office that Know Noth
ingitm must be proscribed and crushed out
wherever the power of tho government can road:
it. His removal will produco no little pousation
in Virginia, wbero the religions feelings of tho
voters have been freoly appealed to by both can
didates.
A few days since, at Buffalo, New York, in pro
paring an article for olcctro plating, the nitric acid
used for cleaning had not been thoroughly wiped
off, and, on placing it in the bath, containing
eyanido of potassium, prnssio acid was evolved,
which slruc tho operator down like lightning
With groat prosonoe of mind, he grasped a botlL.
of strong ammonia as ho fell, and put it to 1 i
nostrils, thus counteracting the otherwise fatal
offects of the subtle poison.
A petition addremod to the 10-dslaturo of Massa
chusetts has been circulated and signed by a hun
dred legal voters from all four of the politic?! . ur
tica in tho town of Hinsdelo, Berkshire county,
and by twelvo other citi»ens of Western
chusetts, calling npon tho two branches to request
Henry Wilson to resign his office os Senator, on ac
count of his political “acta preceding, and which
led to his olection.”
Frost.— We learn, saystl e Columbus Enquirer,
that a slight frost was perceptible on yce.f-ic’ay
(Wednesday,) morning in Kussel county, Ala,
about eight miles from this city.
The editor of tho Eastern Argus, who is at pre
sent Secretary of Legation at London, writes
home to that paper that the French Emperor, du
ring his recent visit to England, received our Min
ister, Mr. Bachanan, with marked civility, and ex
pressed the hope that America and France might
always be at peace.
Great Arrival of Immigrants. —Upwurds of
6,000 passengers have arrived at New York, this
week, from the following ports;—From Liverpool,
2,608 ; London, 408 ; Havre, 1,087 ; Bremen, 516 ;
Hamburg, 188; Rotterdam, 174; Leghorn, 21.
Total, 6,280.
The Jack Tars at Balakiava much dislike carry
ing up provisions to the camp on their backs, whici:
all are obliged to do; and there is a very good story
told of one who was overtaken by a general effi ;or
on the road. Jack was dressed in a soldier’s old
red coat, and had a bag of biscuit upon his back,
when the general made up at a point of the read
whore it was very narrow. The general called out,
“Soldier, allow me to pass you.” Jack—“l am not
a soldier.” General “Well, sailor.” Jack—“lam
notasailor.” General—“Wellthen, whataroyou!”
Jack—“ Why,—acommissariat mule.” The gener
al laughed heartily and gave Jack half a crown.
BzrvxuCANisH in Canada.—A communication
in the Brockville Eecorder, (Canada) broebos, in
the plainest terms, the necessity of incroascd and
accelerated measures toward democracy for the
British possessions. It attacks radically Queen,
Lords, Church, regal Governor, and Council, and
goes for direct popular governmen tin all its da
tails. It assures us that “democracy is beginning
to occupy more attention in Canada, and despite
the hard names it reoeives from Conservative op
ponents, it is making steady progress.” What
Young Canada asks is—municipal government;
universal suffrage; vote by ballot; an elective
Governor; and a written Constitution.
The increaso in the consumption of paper is thus
stated. Forty years ago, three men, by handi
work, could scarcely manufacture 4,000 small
sheets of paper in a day, while now, by the use of
machinery, they can produce 60,000 in the tamo
time. It has been calculated thatif the paper pro
duced yearly by six machines oonld be put togeth
er, the sheet would encircle the world. In France,
only 70,000 tons aro produced yearly, of which
one seventh is for exportation. In Great Britain,
86,000 tons are produoed, while the amount pro
duced in the United States is nearly as groat as in
France and England together.
Tax ExHAiNsof the Hon. Walter T. Colquitt
were taken to Coiambus, the place of hie residence,
and interred there Tuesday afternoon last.
Tbi-Colored s ir n < of ’• 1
U 51-2-3. N; • ; v ' Vo? * ra
We have b ; ~■*,. ,s
and
forth©purpose of
eol has deep .ned tiioia ; , 7.*
formed r«. .pc/i.i; it, A.•
and turbulent dr, o: T .
and of the ma y-Bul > . , 7*
habits, haunts, & , <fc *. t , ’ ,
Fur sale by MoKinn j« , ALLi *
Foster's First Pi inctl .r • r
traP :! by ~. ■ ‘ ** 1
ans brilliant - l< •
New York : Harper A i r O / *5 7 fccicrc *
This capital little weri- <•>. ,■ ~ , f
, . ‘ , for
classes in be no >b and 0 \ • M , ..... ..... , 4
it to tl eatt<
For sale by Hclliw.;., j alc>
Ttvptation; r T V , t
if itbssmox raimi, a n , u" ; ■l 7 „
“ T
& Co. Ituo.
This vary voluminous trr' :r (J. i\ , ~.a
author of a uu. ;b. ref' j
novel r adore—ruin'. ~ ; i, ,
hugely c’oiight in. V>
drum lio, tr-r ’ r u •.> • •,
to kop tho p COl . . 1 0
and in full p! y. W
reading particn! .•!■■ v ■ 't fit
youth fort r*
cannot theroioro co .1 . . . ? o' '7
for exaitsm
doubt'er s fl::d soca '• ! . :■> ,
"or eu'n by icKi.' .n & ..all l ( 0. A.
OaT' ft ! '1:0
Histokt o* • nttu.v. !5yA.; :la-: •
Kruiyrm: « r,lO . ii
now read with g at c;. ... . .u
--pr.sod that tfo. Actcr’c . r' ■ ■ t
production of the poet : ~ .. . I.s
boon doloysd ro long. It io r-r t; ::. ...i: ind
imaginative stylo, in :ro
interwoven tv.!:i ..bo i ; . , it
will, doublo ,bo(
addition to cur ratlu.r I - ..on
respootiug tho iollcw osci tbo - roylrtt „nd Clio
land of tho Cr. sc . ot.
For Bula by 'lnos. BuniAitne h
Lcthira*-!
Ac. By S.S. 1 ouMAca :t f>. I>. i i ;
Lindsay «Sc BLakp-Tv*"
This volume co:.tai; • the “ \ •>- • fos
sion,” and also lb.a for . ' • f f • ->d
ctiscipU'o adopted by Cot; ■o ■' ■ fro
EvaugoUcid L itbcran f u. C .
It cannot ml to prov ; ' ' : . of
Christians for whom it iu espe ... ded, iud
perhaps to many other •, at:cl ia ovj .j. . na
tion of all thcclopi.ins.
For sale by C ro. A. O s
Fhbl . • ,
I* w Y-V • .
AU house
praot’cally fu iliar wi h tho m 5 tho
ouieine; but wo fear ■
of them might ro • ..b y t t ' &
to tho “ Know No' i ‘J • [.
mend this be ! . It: , 3
and plain directions cj , . 3
in the be; t mannor. : •* i—; ad im
prove your style or' liv ;r.
For salo by Thcs. Ric* p.ds & . . ,*.
K! ■ I
Anintere
Napoleon from -orv. .r, : ■ ' a;al and
simple, and tho ton ; i '-■ •.! ' 0#
For sale by Tnon. " ; - ,
lire alt: . i7
Wo ro<rrot to l-.i-; f .1 ( . • th.n'y t! 0
Stone Mountain U d h • d • . • vts
w.'S consumnl b.* fi . ■ . 1
belonged to tho Georgia A....:..... ...a 0 r.ot il
-
Cholera at Jrn : :;
Repnblicoi 3
known for nomo tim' ‘ «■ . ,
the new Tccru 1 .•) .i , d
no' t .
loquiro special no’iv . T odi s
readily to prompt trea m nt, • ti 0 total nu >
ber of persons
fourtoon cases te: ; il.. A u
TIIO little vili nail
oounty, Ga., was entirely cousumed by fire, on
Sunday las f , incl *. f u • d ii its
eontont3« Tho oldc . /A . >cf Mr.
Jonathan Ander n, i . .t, • Ic . no
had, even to hi* vm .i? ; . . Hr, S- *• cy
was also Police oft; . P .. I ■ .1. l : rn
that hiu dockots, , ds\, - ro ! > bun ed.
1 b(
temporarily j rovi . I j :ucd that the ire
is the work of un i-c. y.
Austria and the All t ; f 1! i re
port that Au 'rin will n i
iu thoir war ,- •**, 1 . A. c.i
can remarks, that t ) ;
such a rcßul l , if ii rsr c. • . . . c . to
overrated. “1 .11; .1 Id . \ ’ *
aspect of the strur; to, end » cci ]. .0
1 general war. Pn . ' ■, i . . . i ,r
Uuesian proclivities by ihc j ri. :i'A ' id
an the entire uoutrab’y o o t o • tan
acarcoly bu p'.morva I, : : . . 'a >
moved teem K v :■ .
England umi Frit, a \ ■ o
of circa n ml; me s I ■ ' ’ n 1
projects that war . ..<1 • f a
war, and V \o rt ■ m 'u l * 3
ill"',
would cud ail lb r . L ia
that event would find an eu m to met iff
out go ; ng to tho C 1 ',- : . ' ' •t o
true sentiment of the o pi boa
struggle f r object that ulrc ..j.j t-list
American sympathy.”
Tin English me disc vori t! at » Bi
ble to carry on a eff# war,
ginning to press npon tho i on. ' on
Times, • reflating u, •>* ti.-o : £
nou l a
- order to pay for or. r,
or one : -
an hour, they must • ay •. h t w 1 ur
or fivs families
school, provide an ncti' • ■ f* od
district, or do
will never now be * cm. / - >«-
• fn 1 , in. ■ «.
carry oa tho war •
Restoration.—The Ah-jr.. <J r,. 3 r' cs
that an old and rc pcc.ublo 0.. oi ‘d ' - ’ cc,
•i retipc I mere
letter from JJ- ? on, vj'■ * 1
to show its source, r. Hi . ; * . 0
Globe Bank of IS •, v 1 a
render owed th: . ; ; .
ty of returning it to u.o t ,e.. owu .j: it be
longed.
Wo learn from tho :• * 1 * ; -at the
Executive Commute o of i he Vi? . .1-
tural Society, which la.
ininm of one thousand ... ,<. ?au ou. of tho
funds of tho Society, 'ore hr. £ by ?ul
contribution, on the
here, for d
efficient, practical! • 1 i r ■ ... ' y ■ - p'v.n
r preventing the d • the j nn.
Tbo i; .
Eaton, r highly rcapcc'jib'o ply i • N bb,
Conn., has boon rn ;■
under the prohsi b y —a
man am< li .1 preso n m,
to v/a.ii a broke*! IY
A convert;on Y. ./ : i
Kiugdom of Hanover i' i o 1
criminals, has been .by s . j
tho President.
The amended M... , , . ♦» rates
into operation on he - , i /.-•
sions r.ro of tho m< .
aio enterlai* ed in c , if
not riot and bioo-’ ", k
says that there is a s r ter* 'z t u o 17 ■>: r :i
I i
of liquor destroyed by t c. a aorliY: s will bo tho
signal for action. T ; Mbyor, l ow --ver, s oma
determined to enforce the h- .v, ad. .4' ued his
proclamation call) ;:•< n; n i ? c'd Otb. oi vo
Hi provisio nr, or t;... co:.
Tho Baltimore Sun, o F-1J , says:-—“Mr.
George L. Harrison, taebu •, .c. • > r-r.ld, at
the Exchange, tho fine -id <. t Ten
nessee, ouilt in 18 .4, f r * 1-, Y ,210
feet in length, 84 f..„ u. bi of h *ld,
1149 tons capacity, w b.a ry £u ...■ • ■ [lr:y ;i
vccommodate 100 pn- c* . -a t 1 v
W m. Wallace f0r..59, 0, j .i .i. .r *,d
been in service abe a :w-ve mnt >, in tffo beU
ordor, and co: t SIS - t .
Some sixty of li i,. noro.t’o psr'y
in tho county cf L *d .... , vj - :i h«
Know-Nothing or ga z.ion. 11.,I 1 ., /. f'J .
ford, Miss., also p *
withdraw*.*, an-. giv r., J
progress, and p’. a y •t, . '.y.
——
Q’.oen Viotoiia T.: ! •. . . ' -■
btr ncit, w. c.i ihc i . a
ed. Only ninc.y Aui.....a tavj -J
--plied for Bpaco.
A letter from Turin,
that Victor. • •
t.o to tbo Emperor i»; oloon, cr.:
to accompany bba to ■ b'rir
is said to have been ple;,scd with tho idea, and
readily gavo his oom-c:
The Calcu'-ta oorre»ponc
Time, atotoo that a great eS
toeatablish a direct com uniea »n
tralia and England, aero. « the I : ... ; c. i’ano
mn, as MOB as o • «•«“*
Itailroad in known In those distant ngK... ■
Too St. Louis papers not only report co. »cf
cholera in that city, bat mention the existence of
much sickiicsn among tbo over- I
crowded boats on the rivor.
The London Morning Advertiser, of A; I 23,
baoa strong article rooo. '.oi ling
moval of the baa of ends from WUiiam Bni.d»
U’Lrisn.