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Jl" i n .-re c-ha l 6lM> re'.urnod to Paris.
Tne Bri-isa buiget for tbe war had passed bo.b
H-uikih ot Parliament with but little opposition.
The K.ng of Prussia at the latest dates was quits
•il with a fever, and some fears were entertained
for his recovery.
Progress of the War.
Xhe latest dates from Sevastopol are to the 4th
r.st., one day preced ; rg the sailing of the steam
,.r ieceived per telegraph. The AJiies were
joining ground, all the Buesiin outworks having
uien 'aker,. Sanguinary encounters were tre
qu nt, and the loss on both sides was immense.
T ere was nothing, however, in the siege yet to
warrant an assault, and tbe bombardment had
much slackened, not having produced the result
ant cipated ; indeed, the po itinn of the allien was
regarded at» critical, no*. Withstanding tbe advanta
ges* they had gained. A large numoer of Russian
mortars had been taken, wiih many prisoners.
Daily te egraphic commanication between Lon
don and the Crimea was fully established and con
unu* d uninterrupted. The Government, howev
er, was very cautious with the news, and made
public bat a very small portion of that received.
The general impression in England is that the
•lege will he abandoned for the present, and the
whole of Kumie*ch and Baiakiava loft to the de
fence of a few corps, wnile the main portion cf the
allies try to penetrate the interior aDd cut off the
supplier cf Hovastepol, and then completely in
vent <he town.
From thk • bixea. —The position of the alli f s
wa* regard ;d a* critical. Although th'-y had made
great prcgre-s toward the cay their bombardment
Fiad much blackened on the 28'.h, so a* not to waste
the.r ammunition. An immense Russian force
wa* reported to be coriceutrating near Sevastopol,
sai l to l»e 100,000 strong.
Lord Ktgl and ad mi’s that the bombardment of
Kevantopol had ru t produced the result looked for
The list of canualitiew to the allies ww not heavy.
Numerous reinforcements were constantly reach
ing the allies, and the French reserve of B>,ooo
men near Constantinople, were expected to be sent
to Balaklava.
Russian offlc al accounts to the 24’h uit., repre
sent the damage** sustained as huiof little account,
and ail were actively repaired, whi e theskirmishea
Were generally successful. The loss sustained by
the garrison from the ll»h to the 15th ultimo, was
seven Hub.nieri H, and 485 men killed; 8 suporior,
84 -u'»aitern officers and 1,889 men wounded.—
T o E glmh captured the flrrt Russian rifle pit on
the night of too 17th after a desperate encounter.
Col. Graham Egerton, the Held officer in command,
wan killed.
Un the 2oth, an attack was, made on the 21 Kus
sitt'i r. 11 p. which wa-» almost immediately aban
doned. According to the statement o. two Polish
deserter 100,<>i0 Risaiaus were in tbe vicinity of
foeva-to,»ol.
Tfie forts on the north side of the harbor had
tukon part iu the cannonade carrying shots clear
into the lir es of the allies.
JK■.gland.—Despatches train the Crimea were
reaching the British government iu a few hours
by telegraph, but their purport was not generally
commonicuted to the public, although nightly
questions wore asked in Parliament lor informa
lion. The mini ten* declared that they should
exi-rtisodue discretion in the publication of the
news.
Lord John Hassell had re appeared in his heat
in Parliament and staled the subrtauC'i of the ne
gotiations at Vienna, intimating that proclocols
would he submitted to Parliament.
Sir John Burgoyn , as a witness before tbe Roe
buck committee, gave important evidence in relu
lion to the conduct of the wav in the Crimea.
The now loan bill of £16.000,000 sterling passed
on the Ist iu the House of Corn..ions, and ttie same
nigh* was ordered to a committee iu the House of
Lords.
The budget has virtually passed both Houses
with but little opposition or modification.
Throughout the country a strong feeling against
the ministry has been tr anifested by indignation
meetings, regarding the conduct of tho war, held
at v.-rious places. A mouth gos tho inhabitants of
London was to be hold, at which an Aministrative
Reform Association was proposed to be organizid.
Bimilar mootings were promoted by the principal
men of all political partios and would be bold at
Liverpool and other towns.
The weather has been unusually dry and cold
■with a hard frost on tho Bd.
France.—The Emperor of the French had a nar
row < « ipo Irom assassination iu tho evening of
the 28th till , while on his way to jo : n the Empress
in her usual ride on the Champs Elyseos. The
Emperor was accompanied by two officers of his
household and when near Burriene de I’E'oilo ho
was approached by a well dressed man with 'he
action intimating a desire to present a petition.
]le advanced within five or six paces of the Kmpo
ror, who did not observe him, whou ho wus dis
covered by a policeman. As the policeman wus
proceeding towards tho man a cab was driven ra
pi.ily between them, and, in the interval, the in
dividual drew a double barrelled pistol, and aim
ing it point blank at the Emporor discharged both
barrels without effect. In mediately he w s seized
by the police but not until he had drawn another
pfft’nl and made a second attempt to shoot. It is
said that one of the balls grazed the Emperor’s hat.
The w mid be assassin is an Italian named i ianozi. 1
lie was a volunteer in Garibaldi’s army; aud he
waa i i London whilo tho Eraporor was making
his visit. He would have made tho attempt on the
life of the Emperor thcro if ho had not been pre
vented by the concourso of people*
The Emperor proceeded with his tide and visi
ted the opera m the evening, where he wes greeted
with immense outbursts ot loyaltv aud enthusi
asm.
Th© Emperor deoldod not to rocoive the formal
addresses of congratulation on his escape, though
an eacoption was made in regard to the British ro
hidenia iu Paris. The Corporation of London had
alao prepared an address of congratulation.
i’lauozi wee iu clone confinement, and would
bo tried about t'-o middle of May.
The Funionist md Orleaniat papers puhliah the
ofli jiu aoooautH from the Moniteur without a word
of comment.
The cans » of the attempt ie understood to ho
personal revenge and nothing of apolit:oal nature.
I»e*j-atcites per telegraph from the Crimea re
port a sharp engagement on the night of the Ist of
Muy,in h front ana left attack which ended in tu
whole of the Hessian rifle pits being taken, to
gather with eight light mortars and two hundred
prisoners. The whole affair was a brilllaut one of
tho allies.
i. oN-TANTiNorLK, May 2.—Lord Stratford Do
Bedel’tie has returned to this city.
M.d e sot Ali has be n roca lea from exile.
BkvaßTo*ol, Vluy 4.—On We loss lay night, (2nd
Just.,) the French troops u dor Gen. Pehasier at
tuck ul tho advanced works of the quarantmo baa
lion, carried them at tho poiut ol tho bayonet, ta
king twelve mortars a«d establishing themselves
\n the positiot s. On tho following night the
Russians made a sortie to ‘•ho regain their dosi
lions, bin alter a sanguinary eilCounter were driv
en back.
Th© Briti-h Baltic fleet hail loft Riot, *nd the
french fl ot was about to sail fratn Cherbourg.
An iusurreotiou in Ukraiue, Ku-eia Poland, had
broke n out and extended to three other govern
ments. Twenty landed proprietors with their
wiv« a und amtlies had been destroyed.
At Si. To ersbnrg every arliele ol eoueumptiou
was at fauiiue prices.
Marked.
Liverpool, Friday Lveuirg, May 4.—Cotton—
•aio- to vi*> of 16,000 bales, the market cloeiug ac
tive.
Ai Manchester business was dull.
Breadstuff*.—Brown A Shipley ’a Cireular quotes:
Tho nnvrk« t opo- od c ve and olo*e i stoady.
Bales of Phil • i-hia ai d Baltimore Flour ai 41
a 4'2 . t>r new: Ohio 44 a 46;* White Wheal lie.
a li-. Sd.; red bm •1. a 11a 9J. White Corn
47a 8 1. a 495; mixed 45*.
K char 'sou, 8| etioe A Co., unote Breadstctfs
at an advance, which checked busines . Phila
delphia and Baltimore Flour, extreme price 465.
without buye a. White Wheat nominally IS a
18 , yellow Corn 49
Provisions. —Kiokardsou, ftpeuce A Co., quote:
Beef has au a Wauling teudoi oy. Pork is ie*s
depressed. Baoou is improving with prospects of
an active temai.d. Lard is firm at 49- a 60.
Wheat had advanced 41. a Bd.; Fiour 1 a 2».;
Corn 2**, and the market aotiv .
The Colton market was active, w th sales during,
the week ot li-7,000 bales at an advance ol
Iron shows » d dining tendency.
London Markets.—Barii g’s circular quotes
American suxk- inactive aud the quotations un
changed and uomiual.
Metals in the Eug.ish markets have expevieneed
a great decline, owing to tho diminished demand
for iron from tho United Stales.
Monet Market. —The market is easy. The
bai k : a- reduced its rates to 4 per cent., oausiDg
a >p*v uiaiion in cotton and bread-tuft.
Ck i.'«ois clewed at ss}£•
iiiw-VoBK. May IS, 9 P. M.—The following is
ga hcred tre.m the latest papers, iu addition to that
above >ent:
Ike C rimea.— she condition of the allies is de
ci ied.y more cntvu.' than that of the enemy.
Fifty thousand Russian reinforcements had ar
rived at Sevastopol. The allies thus far have uot
destroyed a sing e Russian battery.
Six th >usaud Turks had oeeu sent to join Omar
Pacha at Bdaklava.
Russia —Apj»earanoes M S‘. 1 e erabnrgh de
note*.! groat activity, and anergetic eoutii uanoe
of the war. i'heCxar devdtoa his whole lime to
miitary preparations. , r , w
The easantry of the Rassian provinces* w art ne
had risen in iusn r rection.
Turkey and Hues la.—lt wa* rumored tha’ •
aeparaie treaty wvuld bo sigue l between Turkey
and Russia, terming part of a Kir peas treaty of
peace. The first division of the Austrian army
Lad received ma»ching orders.
Franck—Francs ha« ordered another levy cf
2'.iHJOtroope for the Crimea.
The Emperor Napoleon made the following
speech in the Senate, iu reply to its congratula
tion* for his escape from assassination :
* 44 1 it’s- k the Se* a*e for the eentiments express
el. I fear nothing from attempts at assassination.
T ere are existences which are decrees of Provi
denes. As long as 1 shall not have fulfilled my
mission, 1 run n-' danger.”
* uSTRIA A Vied a despatch says that an im
perial decree ia shortly to be issued, Cdling out
So,iXh) troops.
Dispatch for ths £*Uimor< American.
i'HU-EDKLFuiA, May IS—ll P. M.— The package
ot K- gnah papers by the Bal'ic for the Baltimore
American uavr g arrived here by spec al messen
ger, 1 have cabed frem them the follow.ng im
I .nant and interesting details of foreign intelli
gence, which 1 forward by telegraph :
or thk Sites.—The English papers
lave Out hi ie detailed near* in relation to the
bym bard me ct. On :he 13 h a despatch trom Lord
K vglan was revived by ?be government, confirm
ing the news of the suspend.*® ll llie bombard
l. ent. Tne non-cfficial advicCJ* from Sevastopol
report that the bombardment was drawing to a
c *• trom tue exhaustion ot men ant m >teri&» : ?
lust it had not attained its object, and ‘hat the
assault coold not L>e attempted.
On the 24". h, a Russ.an despatch was posted at
Odessa, staling that the French and English guns
v ere ei ent ; that cot a angle Russian battery w. s
demolished, and that 60,000 Russians had arrived
iu tbe neighborhood of Sevastopol.
B-alaklava,
t‘ eir iirst rewnneiasanoe on the 19th towarda the
vdlej of the The Loudon Times ol
t e 6 hia not received*. There is no comments on
t o bo nbardment in the issue of the 4th. The
latest from the Times’ correspondent at Balaklava
is to the 21 at. It aav* that ou the previoua night
tie Rmsian waich fires ahone brighter than for
a me time previous, a d thst appr Lensiocs were
entertained of au a t* ck on Eiigiish lines. The
Turkish caviJr * A exchanged shots with tbe
C ossseks, but enc >« ate red no army. The firing
was diminishing at right. The musketry, bow
ev*r, became more brisk af.er night set ih.
Wi m r A Bmith*s European Time* of the 6th,
says tu»t i ,/h dea trAUspired to prove that Be
vastopoi o. ’ • ot be t»k* n by the meana adopted,
and not., g but a ba tie iu the open field and a
th<voov»' I’iVes’ment of the fortress on all sides,
will effect the desired conaumtnatton. The ad
▼Autntie of >»k ng ire field would be to prevent
es. and the ndnior emetiia advancing from
r 'h ; n* nevsnlopol, by intercepting them at Pe-
T x \ v v* ci d * s r -r been removed
from bevasLop* 1 in anticipation of au a sault.
jLvery door and window briaUea with eanuon and i
The Bmish government communicatee des
patches tardily; and the belief ia tnat they are
suppre»ft*‘d.
On the 15th of April the French exploded the
•nine® under the bai.er es oi tne Fias*at) Bastion,
»lowing up the parapet* and platforms of the ov
erworks, and lay ng it in mins. The fourth and
principal mine was not exploded, as it was *oand
-» be c'ose to the goliery of the R jssian mine.—
foe French were an abb to make their anticipate
odgin tit, but rushed in and eslabiis ed
tbemaelve* in the eou»Be ot tbe night in tne outer
work. Tho Rue-dans be iov-ng that the explosion
wm» the s'gnnl in a general assault, ran to 1 heir
and for an hour poared a tire from the whole
xteDt of their lines. The f>rce an i fnrv cf their
fire was a-. 10 rid ug, but it caused but little dam
age to the Allies.
(tEjiMA-vT.—The movemen*a of Pricco Peter of
Oldenburg, in Germany, are exciting much a ten
•ion. He is makii g the t.ur of Germany witb he
proposed cbje t ot consolidating their t o-:
to any ami Russian proposition which Austria
may make in the Diet. Diaturo&Dces had occurred
in the Ukraine, canted by the complete exhala
tion of tae means of the peasantry by the immense
supplies for the army teken without remuneration.
The insurrection had extended throughout the es
tates of Count BrairieUki, a relative of the impe
rial family.
ArrmiA.- I The departure of General fieea wsa
deferred to the 6tb.
pßneiA.—The session of tbe Chambers closed
on the third. The ministerial speech promised
that the greatest economy will be u«ed that is cou
a.stent with duty in tne presence of an army pre
pared for war, so as to vindicate the independence
of Prussia as a great power.
teAßbiNiA —The former ministry resumes office,
no agreement with biahop6 having been come to.
Poland.— Letters from Warsaw*, epictin mourn
ful colors the situation of all classes in Poland.
ommercial credit wa l * destroyed and the mercan
tile houses hid suspended. Great masses cf peo
ple, in terror of the conscription, were flying from
their homes.
Great Britain.—' The ship yard of John 8. Rus
sell & Co , at Mill wall, was destroyed by fire on the
81 uißtant, together with tbe new floating battery.
The loss is stated to be one hundred and twenty
thousand pounds.
A British Engineer's Account of the Defences
ok nevabTopol —The London Times of the t >ih of
April, says: —“The following important and in
terestiDg information is contained in a letter just
received from a captain in the R< yal Engineers, in
a letter wfiich is dated the 6th ot April. It may be
stated that the officer in question is one of the
three soperior engineer officers upon whom it will
devolve to lake a la ding partin the assault upon
deva-topol. He says:—
“On the extreme right of the Russians, and
consequent y exposed to our extreme lef , is a b&s
tion, called by the F eneb the Bubtion Du Mat, and
by us the Fiag-tafl Bas'ion, owing to its having,
when we first came, a flagstaff in the salient. This
bastion is one large battery, or rather succession
of batteries, and the French left attack is princi
pally directed against it. Next come what are
called the Garden Batteries, which are a succes
sion of batteries in three tiers, aud very pov erful
butteries they are, well supplied with 18 inch mor
tars, of which our left attack ruaps the entire ben
efit. It was one of the shells from these batteries
’hat wounded Armet yesterday. We oppose these
batteries with the right portion of the French
Just ut ack and the left portion of the English
leit attack. 1 ’
Nr.xt cornea the creok that rune up towards ua,
m which the Russians cun pat ships that can hre
on our camp. Then comes the Barrack Battery,
a mod powerful assemblage of caunon, against
which the principal force of the English left at
tack is directed. We have the battery ail to oar
selves, as wo get the entire benefit of its fire.—
Next comes the Redan, consisting of two sue is,
one of which is directed against our left attack,
and the other against our right, (l mean the En
glish right.) You must know that the English
left attack and the English right attack join each
other from the centre of the entire attack, the
French left attack being on the left of us, and
their right attack on the right of on , including
Inkormann and all that part. Wr ,to proceed.
Next to the Redan comes the Mulakoff Tower,
which is the key of the whole position, and the
spot where the assault will be made. It is consid
erably to the rear of all the other butteries, so
that if wo obtain possession of it wo could see all
thoir other defences in the reur.
“In front of this tower, and about ha'f way
between it und the udvai ced works of the French
right attack, is the far famed Mumelon hill, which
m now causing such a stir. It is a knoll which
commands most of the Russian works about the
tower, and enfilades many of our advanced
trenches. It was always considered our weak
point. About five weeks ago the Russians made
a lodgment about ha'f way between the tower and
the M 1 melon. The French tried to drive them
out of this and failed. Since that the Russians
hive advanced on the Mtnnolon itself, and in spite
of all the efforts of the French, have retained it,
and constructed on it a battery of 18 lurgo guns.
‘‘My principal duty hero is to be in the trench
os. There are four captains to Lake command of
the works, each of whom remains 24 hours down
there, so that uiy turn comes one day in four. We
have asubulturn under us, who only stays 12
hours, so that I remain through two reliefs ofsub
ftlterns. The working purties are rohevod every
eight hours.
“Now, as our advanced works are within 200
yards of the n ain batteries of the place, und they
keep up a constant fire on < ur working parties,
you can imagine how harrussing this work some
times is. No man, be be ever t-o bravo, can stand
under fire for so long a time, inactive so far as
fighting is concerted, without finding it a great
wear and tear to his nerves. The first hour is the
w rst,»as after that one gets more used to it. The
Russians treat us to a pleasing variety in the wuy
of projectiles. First comes the round f-hot of all
six i », which rushes past you with a shriek some
thing Ike a railway whistle badly blown. Next
comes the grape, which flies slower and round,
like a large covey of strong birds, flying vory
swiftly. Then comes a gun shell, which approaches
likeu round shot, but has the pleasing trick oi
bursting when it reaches you; so that you have to
run a double risk—first of the shot itself, and then
of the pieces.
“Next comes tho mortar-shell, which, though
really tho worst of the large projectiles, 1 some
whut dread the least; it remains in tho air for
nearly half a minute, and in tho night you can sen
it quite plainly, owing to its heaiing the fuse. It
f;luncos alon* vory gracefully, rising to a great
might, and making a gentlo whistle overy now
and then like a peewit or plover, which bocome*
loader and louder till it drops. Although you
can see it all the way, it is a most difficult thing to
tell where it will full; and none but the oldest
hands (men of whom it is 6&id that they have got
so inured to tire that a cannon ball would hop otf
the pit oi taeir stomachs) can roallv make a good
guess as to where they will drop. What makes it
worHo than a gun shell is that the former flying so
low retains its impetus, so that if it is once past
you before it bursts all the pieces will continue to
fly forward and you are safe.
“Whereas >»s the mortar shell is pitched as high
as it will go into the air, and thou drops, the pieces
have no other impetus than what the bursting
charge gives them to fly in every direction toi a
radius of upward of 200 yar s, and sometimes con
siderably more. But my greatest horror of all,
and the deadliest foo we have, is tho Russian rifle
bullet. It is not so perfect as ours, but as Mer
cutio says, ‘lt wiH do well en< ugh.’ 1 give you a
sketch of it the sixo of lite. (Hero is given an ari
miraole pon and ink sketch of tho bullet, which
is, like tho English, conical.) This little guullo
man gives you no warning, but flies about all day
loug, and ranges 1,200 yards. At a quarter of
that distance it will go through iwo men.
“ You ask me ray opinion about the siege. In
the first place, I leel great diffidence in speaking
about it, having had no previous practical know
ledge of the subject. Then, again, our informs
lion concerning the resources of haememy inside
the !own is so uncertain and so contradictory, that
one haa no guide to go upon. No one who has
seen tho awful strength of the refeuces, stretching
as they do completely around this side, with tiers
ot batteries and intrenchmeuts one behind tho
other, and frequent salient points flanking the
cut re line, and bringing a tremendous cross fire
upon evory point, but must feel, that an assault
now Will >e amended with lar greater carnage thuu
it would have been six •months since.
“ And yet that assault must be made, and, in
my bumble opinion, within tho next ton days.
God giant that it may be successful, for on it will
depend.the safety of the entire army. 1 know
that the assaulting colums are told off, und tho
et g neer officer who has to lead them, but it ia
kept secret. There are at the present mome it in
the left attack only three engineers between whom
it will lie, for it will be a eaplaiu, and one of our
captains was wounded three or lour t ays ago.
Ihe chances arc therefore two to ono against it
being me; but if it is i shall, I hope, io my duty,
and if I survive 1 shall have certain promotion.
Anyhow wo shall ail get a clasp for the business,
aud it is one that must be doue sooner or later.
“1 am very glad that our present harassing work
is drawing to a dose. Since we have brought our
ap pi each os so rnuoh nearer tho enemy our
neeiri'g casualties have greatly iuci ase-l, and
within a fortnight, out of a strength or Sit engi
neers, only 28 of whom did trench duty, aud were
uuder fire, we have had two killed, two wounded
and one taken prisoner. The weakest poin f in the
Russian Hue is most undoubtedly the Mdakoff
fewer, and this they have lately strengthened by
establishing forts and constructing a most tormida
ble battery on the Munition-hill, so calied from its
round and knoll like appoareuce. I fancy this will
be the point ot the mam assault, though 1 make
ne doubt we shall assault in many other places.
We shu.l then push on aud try to euter the tower
works with the retreating Russians.—Once within
the tower, we shall seize all the rest of their lines
in reserve, aud the south side of the town nr. tbe
ours. Then comes the prob era, for the north >ide
is a still more powerful fortress thsu the t nth,
ai d unless the fl et can help us we shall be v orn
plcteiy under their fire, aud unable to retain pos
session of the place. Time, however, the disposer
ot even's, will show ; and in the meauwhile we
had better set our houses in order, and prepare to
do our duty as all Englishmen should.”
The Vienna Confxrrenoe —Th« negotiations at
Vienna, in wh'.cfi L rd J ‘bn Russell and M.,
Drouvn d’Uuys took part, have proved a com
plete failure, aud these statesmen have retried
rose ctively to London and Fari>. The rcquititions
of England and France, tar milder the people
of tbo>e ountries ever expected to have beer,
having been abruptly rejected by the Russian
plenipotentiaries.
The foiloxnug extracts from the speeches of
L»d John R ifts«!l and L rd Ciareudou will suf
fice to show hew the peace negotiations stand.
SFKXOH OF THE EABL OJT OhkRKNDOS.
E-use of Lords, Jfjyd.—The K*rl of clarendon
lords, a." a proof of the spirit in which
the negotiations at Vienna were carried on, and of
the de>:re of the representatives ts trance and
England odo Delhi* g which could oaeud the
onor and oiguity of Russia—as l mentioned the
otb.r evening m answer to a question put to me by
my noble tnc-nd—tbe Ku-eiau Plenipotentiare
were invited themselves to take the initiative, and
to propose some method by which they thught
they ooold ca rry out the princ pie to which tbey
had assented. The Pienipotedtiari g ac
know.edge:—as, indeed, they could not help ac
knowledges—tbe spirit in which that proposal
wae made; but, somewhat to the surprise ol their
colleagues, annocoed that they were without act
instructions upon that important subject, and that
it was necessary for them to refer lo St. Peters
burg The lime necessary for that purpose was
given to them, but in the meaulime the represen
tatives of England and of France declined to alter
ti e order in which the four points stood, or to take
any discussion on the fourth point until some settle
ment had been arrived at with regard to tha most
important subject, the means of attaching i arses
lo the European system.
When the conference wsa again exiled to receive
tho which haa come irom Si. Petersburg
the Riw''*n Fieuipolentiar ee said that they
no dreposale :•> make. The allied r.-enipotenuanes
“h«r rented to them a scheme wh.ch they
thought tnat Kussis d'lghl have consented to with
out soy hurt to her dignity, and in a manner
highly honorable to her as a hmt class European
I'owor, if aka had been to prove to the
world that her policy wa* jts pacific os she tad
always dewi.ared it to be, or to remove the uneasi
ness of £atop* by givii g guarantee* against future
acta of aggression which »-he declared ffce did not
contemplate. The Kate*ian lienipotentianes uaked
for 48 hour** to coi aider the proposals which was
made to them ana at the end ol mat lime absolute
ly rejected them, aa well another proposal
bro’ ghi forward by the French Amt as.*aoor 4 *cd
agreed lo by aa—to exclude all vessels of war
from the Biack laea, and Co reader it a sea for
commercial purpose* alone. The coherence wa?
then suspended, loc actoa’iv brt ken otf. M>
robio friend Lord J. Russeil left Vienna on the
$Bl of last month, aud M. Brcnvn de L k &>* re
msmed behind for a tew day.-, and that plenipo
enUarj and the Earl ot Wt»imocJai d were »u
--vited, on the pari of Russia, to attend another
in order to receive some proportion*,
and M. Drouyn de Lhuya and the Earl Weetmor
land agreed io attend. We are in poegeaaion of
the terms of thoae propositions, but apt of the
discussion which took place upon them; but the
representative of the allies have unanimously
agreed that the proposals made were not likely to
My lord*, this is the present s’ate of to'Eg*; j
although we are prepared to consider f.ny distinct ;
prop' al on the part of R'uw*ia. still it s not
sidcred desirable that these negotutiona should be j
continued with in; the probab ; > of tte r lead; g
to any saiishvcb r y re it. Vo ir I -rdshir-.- wid
find in the proio'jo«e to belaid upon the »*o *», not !
nmply the record of a couciasion which h«e oeen i
arrived a', bat a report of the diaeowMOi.a that
took place, and of tbe feelings that exp'e.-sed
by the representative-* o? e-eh Power, (dear,
• ear.) I toink your lord-hits mty not consider
tbe st teruent I have had tbe h n >r to m k sto be
either sail-factory or cji. elusive. «.onclua : ve I mean
Wi st ha-sc Qoly uk.n p'ftc.— u -s I am ;
able to infirm y u ol the course w.i.ch Austriiain- \
.end*' to ifcku be real c-r (h i«r, hear); and i is on
’his part e d r point that l hope that cr-at nrudence
may oeobeervo l which, I think, <r ecircumfitancea
f the Case ready demand. 'My rev on lor -a i g
‘his is that at the c -uclu ion r I the cv f re-ice-<, or
ween they wee suspei/ded, C un’. Ba<l
stated tn*t he considered mat the me. ns for obtain
iug a peace was not wholly exhausted, and that it
would be tbe special doty of Austria to endeavor
to discover some model of attaining that end con
sistently with the engagements mto which she had
entered with the other Powers. My lords, whether
any proposal that may be thus fram'd will be like
ly to be satis factory to her Majesty’s Government
I am sure I cannot venture <o ssy ; but on a ques
tion of such magnitude, as whether it may be pos
sible to conclude a safe and honorable peace, I am
persuaded that your lordships will feel that any
proposition that may be made to us should receive
a patient and unprejudiced consideration from
Her Majesty’s Government (hear, bear), and the
more so, as that oonv.deratiou is at the tame time
quite compatible with the vigorous proaecution of
military operations.”
SPEECH OF LORD A BUSSELL.
ocruse of Common*, April Bu.—Lord J. Russell
said ; “The first muetitg ol the conference took
place on the 15th ol March. The negotiations
with respect to the first two of the lour points
lasted, a a the hen-e is aware, until the i6Ui of
March. On the 26ih the third point came under
consideration ; it was then suggested by tbe pleo
ipotentiaries ot Austria that the
ot Russia should themselves make proposals of a
character likely to satisfy the exigencies of tho
case. The plenipotentiaries ot Russia said that
they had no instructions to make any proposals,
and R-kei for time to refer to their gov rnment.
The conference was in consequence adjourned,
and no conference for the transaction of business
was held until an ant-wer was heard from St. Pe
tersburg. On tbe 17th of April a conference took
place, when Lhe plenipotentiaries of Russia in
formed the conference chat they had received in
structions from their government not to take the
initiative in any propositions, but they wore ready
to discuss any propositions which might come
from tne other side. The representatives ot the
Allied Rowers then requested forty eight hours to
consider the term in which they would make their
proposals. On the 19th the plenipotentiaries of
France and Great Britain supported plen
ipotentiary ol Austria, laid their propositions be
fore the Conference; the Russian plenipotentiaries
on their side, requested to hi ve forty eight hours
to consider their answer.
On the 21»t u*ey laid their ahbWer before the
Conference, totally selecting the propositions
which had been made. They said, however, on
the other hand, that they hud to otler other pro
positions on the purt ot their government, which,
us they oonceived, would be in accordance with
the demands, that Turkey should be united more
closely with the buiai.ee ot power in Europe, aud
that an end should be put to the preponderance
ot Russia in the li ack Bea. The plenipotentiaries
of Austria, France, aud Great Bnlaiu found these
proposals entirely unacceptable, and refused to
consider them iu detail. The Plenipotentiary of
Austria then said that although these propositions
bad b.ion rejectei, he trusted that all means of
reconciling me buligerenl parties by petite wore
not yet exhausted; to this the PJeuitentiaries ot
France and Great. Britain repi.ed that their in*
rtructions were exhausted,§and that they had no
jurthtr power toeonsider tbe-*e proposals. I con
sidered n to be my duty, as tho best inode of per
forming tho change entrusted to mo, to repair to
my own government ami day before themth*
wnole of whak had takeu place with regard to the
negotiations then going on and the manner iu
winch the conference ha 1 boon suspended. The
Mi ister lor Foreign France two or throe
duys after, having requested the orders of his Em
peror, came to a similar determination, and 1 be
iieve ho arrived in Pur s last night. No doubt ho
will lay before his government hi * account of the
occurrence which have takm place.” *
The monthly returns ot the Board of Trade have
been publisned. Iu pursuance of the recent act
that all such documouta arc henceforth to be made
up to the lust day of the calendar instead of the fi
nauoial months as heretoiore, the prosent accounts
ox eud ou'y to the Bi»t of March, instead of the
sth of April. They are,' herefore, five daya short,
as contrasted with those for the month ending-sth
April, 1864. Hence the totals present an undue
diminution, and-*he declared value ot exports up
nears to bo only M 1,811,805 agaiuM £10,042,754 iu
the corresponding month of 1854; whereas, by
allowing for five days extra, tbe amount would be
raised to about JB‘J,OOO,OOO, showing an actual fall
ing oil of not more ibau A1,u00,000 —much losb
* hau it wus in the preceding month, when it was
£2,470,406. Metals have experienced the greatest
decline, owing to the diminished demand tor iron
ror railway works in tho United Statos and else
where. Woolen, cotton, iineu, und siik manufac
tures have likewise been much depre.-sed.
Too “Army Inquiry ” Investigation by Mr. Roe
buck’s (Jommil.ee is still proceeding. The most
important evidence adduced since my last is that
of Lieut. General Bir John Burgoyue, who had
charge or the engiueerirtg works in tho Crimea at
tho \ eriod under enquiry, it was never contem
plated, be said, that tne allies would have to winter
before Sevastopol; the opinion of the military au
thorities boiug that the place would have speedily
L elded. When tho army landed iu the Crimea
ord Raglar, and-evory o'ber officer, were igno
ra tof the Russian strength. Bir John admitted
that the who e of the military organization con
nected w'th the troops in the field, was inefficient.
There wus a great defieeucy of eni Peers, and a
great want of suppers.—The London Times, com
men ting upon tho evidence of the witness as to
tne delay which to »k place in* making the roads
from Balaklava to Sevastopol long after it was
known, that the place could not be taken except
after a protracted siege, says:—
“ It is unhappily only too evident that our gal
laut army has boon sacrificed, first to an over
weening ana UHrca-onable confidence, and then
to that want of promptitude and decision which
make men the slaves of an idea which they have
once taken up, and which forces them to adhere
to it after all the.circumatances whjph have induc
ed them to entertain it, have been altered cr re
versed.
Amongst the miscellaneous items of nows are
the following:
The purchase of tho Birkenhead docks by the
Liverpool Corporation is all but ralifi d. The
sum which it is proposed 0 give for the property,
which includes also 200,000 square yards of laud
on the Liverpool s do ot the Mersey, is £1.145,0i 0
payable in bonds. Os these boi ds £250,t'00,
bearinguterest at the rate of 4 per cent., are to
be payable immediately ; and tho V&muihing & 08,
Oi'C'm* when the Corporation has
ter bong gradually
n c» u te 4 per cent, during a period of 7 years.
Telegraph Line rRi'H the f rimea
The line of telegra, h from tho Crimea to London
aud Paris is now complete, with tho exception of a
portion across the Danube. Though the whole
line is not yet completed, a message cun betraus
mitted from the camp to kite homo Governments
in a tew hours. Since tho opening of tho commu
nication, questions have been asked in the House
of Commons every night, whether there Whs any
now* f and the answer has almost invariably
—Nothing worth communicating. An impression
however prevails in vhe country, that ttie govern
ment has received information of a not very plea
sing character, and which it does ivot think it pru
dent to communicate. On Thursday night, Mr.
Whiteside asked the usual quewtion as to news,
and Sir Charles Wood, ia-aepiy, said, it should bo
dearly understood that the Government must e*
erciao the meat comp.ete discretion aato wkat in
telligence should bo given to the pub ic. They
would not, howover, reserve any information oi
interest to the public which it would bo prudent
to communicate to the House.
glEGU OF feKYAfeTOPOU
The correapoucicnf ot the London Times writes
as follows Irom the camp before Sevastopol: *
Saturday, April 14.— Tho swore and protracted
conflict on the left, yhieh kept us upon Cathcart’s
Uill last night beydtid the small boars, originated
iu a very resolute aud »ugry sortie ot t* e Russians
from ti e Flagstaff batteries on the left ot tho
French. At first, the weight of the torrent of
armed men which ewept out of the enemy’s lines
boro back the Fro ich in ths advanced works,
where th« covering parties are necessarily thin,
and many lost their lives by the bayonet; but our
gallant a.lies contested the ground desperately,
and having received tho aid ot au inconsiderable
reserve, charged-the Russians and drove them
into their own Hues, to frhich they fiid with
su?!i precipitation that the French eulered across
the parapet along with them, aud reached their
advanced guns, which they couldhave spiked, had
the met*beeu provided with the necessary rnegna
of doing so.
The enemy poured such volley sos musketry,
grape, canister, ancLrouud shot o* our ames that
they wore obliged to retain their own works, and,
indeed, no steps had been taken to enable them
to secure their hold of tne pla e. As they were
retiring under a heavy fire, the enemy made an
other sortie in greater strength and with more de
termination and fury thau before. A sanguinary
fight look plaqe between tbe works, in which the
bayonet, tne niuskep stock, and the bnl-et were
used in a pell-mell struggle, but the French asser
ted their supremacy once more, and in spite of the
fierce changes of tbe Russians, in defiance of the
stubborn resistance evoked Vy the cries and ex
ample of the euemy ’s officers and by repeated
cheers, forced them battling back across their
trenches once more, and took possession ol a little
advauced work, which they b«id all night* iu deli
acee of the enemy’s efforts to dislodge them By a
vigorous cannonade, to whicn the allies replied by
incessant shells.
In order to distract the attention of the enemy,
and prevent too many of them crowding over to
the lelt ol tho town. G peral sent down
word to the men in the trenches on bur riwlit to
keep np a constant fusillade cm the Russian work.-.
The 10-s of our allies 1 regret to sav, oous d
erable in this brilliant affair, hhe report is, that
. they hsd six ofti era and 800 men hors <iu combat ,
bat l br ieve there weie six officers ki.led and
nine officers wounded. Tfte energy aud spirit with
wnicn the Frenc fought ar4 beyond ail praise.—
The remarkably quality of the metal of the
Russian gun* —in other words their excellent iron
—give.- them great advantage bg eoab.mg thepi to
fire rapidly f.nd continuously. Beside*, irany ct
their troops are under cover in caves, pits and
galleries at the back of the batteries and of the
elevated ground on which they arc built. Not
withstanding all this, the resolution, strength, in
d omits bo perseverance, aud devo ion of the allies
give them the superiority an evary kind ot contest
with th* enemy. Every day fresh mice are acm
mn'ated around tbe Flagstaff Battery from tbefi’e
of French guns, and there can be no doubt what
ever that the enemy are exposed tq very great loss
from the fragments of stones and timber stru.k oy
our shot.
A peil 15.—1 t appears that car fleet M *ct quite
idle. Every night one Engl sh, a- d poesib y one
French, man of- war runs in and dire urges a broad
side into the South side of the town. The W rarg
ler was the flrst, and she opposed to bsye done
some mischief with her heasy guns. Tbe Y a.oroua
went m so close enemy caught sight ot
her, and as see discharged her broadside they sent
the very first shot slab through her padd>eboz,
and obliged her to haul off as well as she could.
The batteries continue their fire ail day as usual.
The Redan, Garden Batteries, Round Battery, and
Barrack Battery, were worked with activity
throughout the day. The Round Tower has bad i
enough of it, and is nearly shut up; and the fire
on the Mamelon is ro bq*vy aj*d constant that the
enemy cannot gel up guns to it.
It was stated that the French would explode
their mines this eveniLg a: four o’cl ck ; ths: the
time vs' deterred tiil six o’clock, and finally to an
indefinite period of the evening, end the groups j
of spectators, tired of waiting ou the hills, retired i
to their tents. The fteid marshal aud hi* staff were
amongst the number. At half-past eight o clock, !
however, three pillars of red flame hurled through ,
the air with an appall»?g crat-h from under the j
batten 5b ot tbe i gsiaff bastion, blowing np tne i
parape a and UMSfarai* of the outer works and |
itying nin raina. The fourth and principal mine |
wee act exploded, as it was found to be glose to :
the gallery oi a Russian mine, and so for the ex- j
plosion failed, and the French were unable to j
make such a lodgement was anticipated, but
tfcey rushed in and established themselves in th
oourae oi the night iu a portion of the outer work, ]
and, to tbe be. tof my o.'ie*, they are there at*
presei t- tt s.- i-ne, believing, the expioeion j
was the signal for a general assault, ran to their ]
guns, a.* d lor au hour their batt&ries poured forth j
prodigious volumes of fire and smoke agauiat oar :
lines trom one extremity to the other. The force
and fury of their cannonade were astounding, but
notwithstanding the leglb and strength of the fire,
it caused hut huie damage to the works or the de- i
April 16—T«.» r i wa- a ooocci! at L rd Raglan’s 1
to day, ut which Omar Pacha and the /"Tench gen- ;
emis *.*-« *ted. The canonsde on both sides w-vs .
very heavy throng u* the day, and it w&scalm *
and line the Fror.ch ro-.k ;t battery opened in the j
ng and fired into a dockyard l.ai ding »ith '
effect. A small tire wcs observed to break oat j
unorwerd, ana 11 were observed is-ait g from
toe r:ri*re of one of t'.e ships late iu the evening, !
hat it j snppo***d this wu.- fina’l/ extinguished by j
the morning. The rai way accumulates more shot j
and shed at the t rim: u«:haa oar men caa car ,
ry bw iy. Oar fire ha 3 been diminished to 80 1
ronn-'s per gun a day.
Ap il 17 —There is a c?csiderabie diminution ;
in tli - 12 •« of tfaj batteries on both sides ibis mar
ni* sr. Toe ht 21. whic:. lasted all night, Las been
S'ipated by the son, and baa enabled as to see ,
that thit g*- in and ab*>u’ Sevastopol are very much I
•s n hi. The brer-ch are still iu the rail lofig
men* whi h trey effected, if one is tc j i-ige from
’ ‘ a dircc ion of toe fire of the Russian catteries.—
The suburb opposite the French is redaced to
beat s of rubbish, ap to the lines of stately honees
and ranges of buildings which constitute the Bel
gravia of Sevastopol.
The batteries have commenced (noon) firing
with treater energy. There is a report that orders
have been issued to reduce our lire to thirty rounds
per gan a day. It scarcely seems probable that
such ao order should be given unless our gun 9 are
booming shakv, tor it certainly will encourage the
enemy, whose firei* slackening.
A Polish deserter has come in, who reverts that
we mir-Bed a golden opportunity last Monday. It
app. ars that the Russians were apprised ol the
landing and march of the Turks, and received Fn
formation which led them to believe we were-about
to attack Liprandi’s army. Every available man
was sent out of Sevastopol on Bunday last, and
when we fire on Monday morning they
fad only 8000 men in the placel This accounts
for their silence and for their surprise. For two
dsysthey were working might and main s o get
their men back from Liprandi’a army to the town
again, and they have now 28,000 men inside. Tbe
says, the place is a** perfect bell." There
are 6>;o French sick and wounded in the hospital ;
n E gliob. The hospital i- exposed to tire. All
h* P iles who have deserted are sent to Varna to
join limoiriki’e Poli-h Legion. Ab >ot 600 Russian
civalry, escorting a largo staff, are no v making re
oonre-isance of our position in the Talley of
Balaklava.
Another English correspondent writes as fol
lows :
Before Fevast'roL, April 17.—The siege goes,
on as usual—that is, there are many guns fired
every day, tons of powder are discharged, hun
dreds and thousands of tons of shot and sh II are
hurled againat the Russian earthworks, and the
French are making some progress in establishing
themselves in front of their lines toward the ene
my’a batteries, and have gained a bit of van* age
ground from them iu front of the Flagstaff Batte
ry. A ship steals cloee in to the entrance of the
road* at night, fires her broadside at the town and
departs. The railway groans beneath the weight
of' *ho tracks fall of ammunition sent up by it;
and the electric wire cable has beou landed at St.
George’s to convey the news of our gracd-eucoess
to Cape Kaliakri, when we are fortunate enough to
achieve it.
We have made a much more serious impression
on the own and the batteries than we did last
j oar, and our allies, instead of being ‘’snuffed
out” by the Russians, have established to a certain
extent a superiority of the, and have maintained a
vigorous cannonade and bombardment against the
place, without remission or f ebleness, since this
day week, inflicting thereby great lose of life and
damage to th enemy’s stronghold. The Russian
army in the field seems to be dwindling away, or
to be doomed to inactivity. We hear of men
marchir gaway to our rignt flank and rear, and of
o hers descending from Mackenzie’s Farm toward
Baidat and Tchorgoum, but they are swallowed
tip, as it were, when they enter the ravines behind
us. The of the Tchernaya is visibly de
•reased. Ti e men are probably draughted off te
the North aide of the town, for the encampment of
the enemy at Hollandia has been sensibly ang
men ted, and the force at the rear of the Round
Tower has likewise heon strengthened.
Tholin sos tbe Russian huts on the heights
over Inkermann, a>ong the Tchernaya, remain un
charged, but I do not see many men in them.
They have a respectable force of .cavalry picketei
outside Inkermann, and numerous batteries of
artillery, and their men are employed incessantly
in throwing up great earthworks to the east and
north.ea-t of the place. These works are all be
yond the range of the batteries on our right, and
can only bo intended to resi t any attempt on our
part to march round to the North side, or to turn
the left flank of the enemy. Our right flunk is
protty well defended against any attack at p r eseut,
by the swollen state of the Tchernaya, which has
flooded the valley of lukermann troin the marshes
at the end of the roads of Sevastopol, up to the low
ground below the famous Sandbsg Battery. The
Lighthouse Batteries are nearly silent now ; but
the reflemen on both sides keop up a constant fire
01 each other, from the caves and rocks at each
side of the valley whore its sides contract at Inker
mann.
A correspondence which appears in the Courior
do Marseille contaius the following from the camp
before Sev *stpc J, dated April 22: —
General Delesmo takes the command of the en
gineers in the Crimea, vacant by the doath of Gen
(■ral Bizot. Our soldier* are admirable for their
coolness and courage. When they return to camp
after an action, they set to and make gardens,
which they adorn wi'h flowers and shrubs, with
out thinking for a moment that many of the poor
nd'ows may be dead bofore the beds are finished.
The ravine which separates the Flagstaff and Cen
tral Bastions from our las l parallel was long full of
the dead bodies of the Russians; the soil was lit
orullv encumbered with them, and the garrison did
not dure to romovo them.
The enemy must lose an immense number of
men killed by our shells. The fleet remains still
drawn up in line of bottle, and ready to take part
iu the action. The works on the loft in front of the
salient of the Flagstaff Bastion are terminated. In
fact we have a parallel at 40 m tres fiom the bas
tion. The taking of these outworks ought to be
very important for the roadstead being cut in two,
the Russians would bo forced to evacuate the South
part of the city, otherwise they would he exposed
to bo driven from one moment to another into the
soa. If this takes place, as lam of opinion it will,
we shull ha e half of the city.
DKtPAICHES FROM LORD RaGLAN. —Before S&0O8
topo,\ April 17, 855.—Mr Loro: The tire of both
the French and English armies has been continued
upon Sevastopol since l your lordship
o'i the 14 h instant, ani though superior to that
of the enemy, it has not produced tlmt permanent
effect w ich might bavo been anticipated from its
constancy, power and accuracy. The guns of the
Russians have been turned npou some of our ad
van cod works in vast numbers, and in one particu
•»i 1 in tu: ce the it j iry sustained by a battery was
■ o Treat that the unremitting exertions of Captains
Henry and W» ! cot, and the gallantry and determi
nation of the artillerymen under 1 heir ordefrs,alone
enabled them to beep up the fire and maintain
themselves in it. In another battery, yesterday, a
shell burst close to the magazine, which in eonse
quence, exploded, killing (l am much concerned
to»*y)ona man, w unding two more severe'y, and
soven in a less degree. Both the batteries men
tioned ha vo been repaired and restored to their
ordinal condition. I enclose the list of casualties
that have arisen between the 18th aud 15th,
The French blew up several mines in front of
the Bastion du Mat, after sunset on Sunday evening,
with a view to establish a parallel on the spot.
This greatly alarmed the enemy, who at once c rn
mouced ah.avyflreof cannon and muake’ry in
overy direction from that part of the t' wq, which
they k pt up fora considerable time. It occasion
ed no ha’in on our lefo attack, upon which a part
of it was directed ; and I hope did little injury to
our allies.
Sever: I hundred of the Russian cavalry, aud a
small body of Cossacks, appeared on the low range
of the heights in front of the Balaklava this morn
ing, and r inained about an hour; when they re
tired, a greater portion to the Bridge Trachea—
tl 0 object of this movement probably a recon
nolsanco. I have, &c., Raglan.
Lord Pan mu re, Ac.
Before Sitastofol, April 21,1856. —My Lord,
—Om r Pacha having considered it exoodient to
make a recounoisanca in front of Balaklava, with
0 view to ascer uiu whet force the euomy had on
tl «: Tchernaya, he proceeded at daylight on the
lfth in.:tart, by the extreme right of Sir Colin
Campbell’s position, towards Kumara, with about
twelve battalions of Turkish infantry, having in
the plain ou his left a body of French oavalry and
u battery of horse artillery under General Feroy,
and two squadrons of heavy cavalry, and two
squadron* of the 1 oth Hussars, the whole of which
•regiment have, I am happy to sayj arrived, and -
half a troop ot horse artillery under Colonel Pnrl
by, these uetaohiuenta of French and English
troops having been placed at his Highness’s dis
posal by General Canrobert and myself.
The enemy showed only a few Cosaques on this
si lo of the ri/er, who remained on a height over
looking Chugcuria til' driven from it by a few dis
charges of rockets by the French artillery, and on
the other s de, behind the village, a small force
with tour suns only was visible.
Omer Pacha did not think desirable to move
accross the river, but withdrew after he had satis
fied himself that the enemy were not in strength,
aud the troop returned to their camps, the infan
try covered by the cavalry and artillery. The ap
pearance of the Turkish army was very saliafacto-
ry.
The rifle pHs r in front of the approach from the
advance of our trenches on the extreme right, were
attacked and carried by assault the night before
last in the most gallant manner by a detachment
of the 77th regiment under Colonel Egerton, for
ming part of the additional force sent to reix
lorco the guard of the trenches in the evening.
The resistance of the enemy, although obstinate,
was speedily overcome by the impetuosity of our
troops, and the pit, which it waj desirably to retain
was, without the loss of a moment, connected with
our approach, and thereby furnished protection to
the working party to continue its labors without
interruption tor a considerable time. At the in
terval, However, of about three hoars the enemy
brought a heavy fire of artillery and musketry
upon tho party in advance of the pit, into which
they retired, aud which they effectually defended
and maintained; bat this briUiaqt achievement was
not accomplished without considerable sacrifice of
life, and it is most painlul to me to have to an
nounce to your lordship the death df Colonel Eger
toD,ot the 77th, who was unfortunately ki.led,
when lormicg troops for the support of those on
the extreme a ivance, and of that of Capt. Lem .
pdere, of the same regiment, who tell in the first
affair, in which also Colonel Bkerton received a
contusion that only incapacitated him for duty for
a sow minutes; and five officers were wounded,
three of them dangerously
Col. Egerton was an officer of superior merit, and
conducted ali his duties, whether iu the camp pr
in the field, in a manner highly to his own honor
and greatly to the advantage of the public; and
her Majesty’s service could not have sustained a
more severe loss, and it is so felt in this army ,
and in the 77th, where he was much beloved, and
is deeply lamented.
Captain Lempriere was a very yonDg, but most
promising officer.
In my de patch cf the I<th, I informed your
ord>bip that a magnz ne had exploded in ooe of
our batteries ; but I omitted to state that Captain
Dixon, ot the Arti.lery, availed himself of that op
portULity to eviLce the coolest judgment and most
dele-mined gallantry, by in-tantly opening a gun .
upou the enemy, notwithstanding the confusion
which the burstii.g of the shell had occasioned, the
number of men who bad suffered from it, and the
great damage ths battery had sn-tained.
1 have tbe satisfact.oo to report to your lordship
the arrival of the 49th and regiments from
Corfu, in her Majesty’s ships Leopard and Sidon.
1 have omitted to mention in the body of this
letter, tba’ two squadrons of Turkish cavalry were
aiso in ti e plain. 1 tTave, <fcc., Raglan.
The Lord Panmure, &c., <fec.
Russian Account or the Bcmbabdment.—The
Journal de S‘. Petersbcurg of April 22 publishes
Prince jrortschak.ff’s full report on the first three
days of tbe renewed bombardment (April 9th,
10th, and lith). The allies, he says, opened fire j
with, in a. , 250 guns, and in the course of the 9:h
threw 2 ,(00 projectiles into the town (la viiU)
An active bombardment was also kept up during
the night. The next morning, the 10th, the can
nonadc was resumed, a: d “it was evident,” say?
the Prince, “that the object of the en-my was to
dismount our guns, as they employed their batte
rie? so as to enfilade our an llery. We replied
with success, considerably damaged their works,
and in the coaree of f. ur hours silenced 50 oi their
guns. Their loss must have been serious.
In the first two days we had soar officers and
141 men killed, and 15 officers and 878 men wound
ed. Id these two days the enemy dismounted
some guns, but they were immediately replaced
by otners, and ail the damage done to the epanie
ments of cur batteries—which, in fact was insig
nificit.’ was repaired with equal success. On the
night cf the loth the enemy again bombardded
the town with much vivacity, but without doing
us any great barm. On the 11th, six picked
French companies precipitated them=elves upoD
oar lodgments in front of the Fiagst-ff Battery.
T: ese they occupied fer a lime, and were proceed
iug to convert them into trenches, bat we drove
them onl with grape.
Two encoaDters with the bayonet succeeded,
the result of which was that the lodgments were
re occupied by oar rifle*. On the morning of the
11th the enemy opened a cannonade of extreme
a.ackeued, butb.crme very hot toward
evening. Our f'arripon comports itself m the most
heroic : '»nmr.”
The lovaMde Russe gives the following particu
lars 01 the R*i stun 1< -. mt Sev&'Topo 1 , from the 2lh
to th- 15 s h of AprilK !el, 11 effi-* rs. and 5t7
sous -flie rs a?sc idiers; vr unced, 55 officers
an-* 2 72 sons officers and so :ers.
A report of Ai ie re Camp (Faneral Prince Gort
schakc ffuoctains the follov-ing detaisS. which com
p ete his leletfruptnc duspuch conccrumg the ope
rations b-f.:e Suvuv.cn i. from the 15th to the 12 h
of Ap ii *
“Oa the 15’h of April, ft 7in the everin«r the
enviij} exploded tbr*-e nor■'rir chsmoers, at 80 or
40 sage bri t (1 s gvi*j—7 Eg sh feet) from the
»nhe it a :g e of the Flagstaff Bastion, and during
the night advanced his commanicati ns toward
onr ap. ro a.3 tar tut 15 sa*eues Worn the near
e-st 1 i fotm dhv h eap!os , ‘ ,, s
“Daring the 16 h, 17 h.\ ”d 18th of April, the
besieger continued h s can.iouade and bombard
mom, hut with i*6-* violence, i ow.ver, than on the
preceding days. Oo our side, the firiDg was a’so
somewhat less warm, except't the spot ir front of
tbe Flagstaff bastion, against which a very neavy
cannonade was kept up day and night, in order
to prevent the enemy maintaining himsslf in the
pits above mentioned.
“ Toe damage infl c*:ed on our batteries was re
paired each night with tbs greatest activity, and
tbe dismounted guns replaced by new ones.
“ Chi the whole, since the 15th of April, the loss*
es of the garrison of Sevastopol have been le-s
tuan those sustained on tue previous days. Its
courage and indefatigable activity are beyond all
praise.
“In other parts of tbe peninsula nothing re
mark »ble has plane.”
M hit art Convention with AnrßU —The Con
stitutionual Contains ibe important announcement
that the military convention between F'auCh and
Austria had been signed; tend that Austria will
'probably take the field earlier than was expected,
that is, about the beginning ot June. It is re
ported that wbiie the Austrian army under Mar
shal will operate on the Fruth and Polish
frontier, a French ar?uy, supported bv the Sar
dinian contingent, will lard in Baisarabia under
the orders of Marshal Valiant.
The war will then be wtged on four different
points—in the Crimen, in Bes'-arabia. in Russian
Poland, and in the Baltic. Notwithstanding all
the signs which prece ie this conflict of g'ants,'some
of the French and Belgian papers still cling to tbe
floating debris of the wreck of tbe Viennaconf r
enoes with all the tenacity of drov iog men, and
prognosticate that the Russian e». viys will accept
the term* proposed By the Western Bowers, which
hardly more than a week ago they pronounced a»
inadmissi le.
ihe Allied Force in the C rimca —The Paris
corres-pondent of the London Times, writes—“ The
announcement of the suspension tire b f for©
Sevastopol has produced an uniavorable effect
here, and has given rise to a variety of rumors,
more or loss unfou ;dod, reepeolitig the losses of
the army, the state of our works, and the want of
ammunition. With regard to this last .point, I
am informed, on good aa hority, that there ta no
security/ Ammunition to an <ei ontious amount
haa bten sent to the Grimes, and isstdl seat with
out intermission ; and with the reinforcements it
is calculated that the ’otal force, including the
Sardinian contingent and the reserves at ( onslan
tinople, will be little, if at all, short es 2tK»,000. —
Such an army, the greater part composed of
French aud EugliMt, ought to be able to do any
thing and goanjwhere.”
'lhegraph Despatches.
Paris, May I.—The Mouiieur of this morning
contains the follcwiug despatch:
Sevastopol, April 23.—A despatch from tbe
British Lead qfl&rters of the army before Sevasto
pol, dated Monday, April 80, states that the Rus
sian force stationed hctwcou ihe Belbeck aud Mac
kenzie’s Farm hid been reinforced by two divis
ions. Noznanticn ia wado of the renewal of the
fire.
Vienna, Wednesday, May 2.—Baron Hess’s
journey to the amiy iu Ga'icia is postponed. Au
ihen ic information has reached me that the bom
bardmeut of Ber; stopol, which had beeu susp n
dod ou the 28 fc, was to be resumed in a lew days.
The Latest InML>^ence —By Submarine Telegraph.
Before Sevastopol, Friday morning, May 4.
On the night ot Wednesday bat, Muy 2, the
French, under General Pelissier, having taken up
a position before the (Quarantine Bastiou, advanced
briskly upon the Bastion No. 4, attacked the
advanced works which the Russians had raised to
protect tho bastiou, and carried them at the point
of the bayonet.
In this attack, the French took twelve mortars
from the enemy. Tho engineers immediately oc
cupied the ground, and began to carry on a flying
sap. At daybreak, th y had succeeded in estab
fishing themselves in the conquered works.
Last night (Thursday) the Russians made a
general sortie, with tho object of retaking tbe lost
ground. After t sanguinary combat, they were
driven back into the place.
Our losses have been great, but bear no propor
tions to those of the enemy, nor to the advantages
gained.
This (Friday) morning tho Russians have neither
a man nor a gun outside the regular enclosere of
the place.
Rbssia and Poland. —Private letter* from St.
Petersburg are said to confirm a previous tele
graphic announcement of the insurrection of the
peasants in Ukraine, and state further, that it has
n'ready extended to ti e governments of Boltawa,
Tohernigotfand Kharkoff. The numos of twenty
landed proprietors, whom tho maddened inor jiks
have destroyed, with their wives and children,
have reached St. Petersburg. M. Poletien, one ot
the richest proprietors in the government of
Tchernigoff, was burned alive in his country house
at Baletz. The same severe pressure caused by
the war, which has driven the peasants of Li'tie
Russia to insurrection, is stated to ba felt at St.
Petersburg, where every article of consumption
is. at a faun!. 0 price.
Letters depict in mournful colors the situation
of all classes of tho population in the kingdom of
Po and. Commercial credit is all but desiroyod,
and mercantile houses in great numbers are sus
pending puymont. The mass of the people live
in terror ot the conscription, and fly from their
homes and country in hope of escaping military
service.
Letters from Warsaw inform ns that great pre
paratiou are making there for the corouation ol
the Czar as Kng of Poland. The ceremony is to
be performed in June.
Tbe Countess Z.Krovsky, wife of tho military
Gove no General of Moscow, -has transmitted to
the government of the (Jzir 51,4 *0 silver roubles,
received by her and o'.Ucr ladies from various in
habitants of Moscow, for the assistance of the fam
ilicaof thoe* o» those killed or wound* d in the war.
St. Petersburg, April 20.—Telegraphic des
patches from iSevastopol arrive now three dajs
earlier than formerly. Siernons has carried the
direct electric line as lar Kief. Tho two last deß
patches, the 178th and 179i.h since tho beginning
of the Scige, transmitted direct from Kief to
St. Petersburg.
The opening of tho navigation of the Nova was
announced at St. Petersburg on the 22d ult. by sal
voes ol arti lery.
An imp eriul ukase declares the government qi
St. Petersburg to be under martial law, under the
command ol G< 11. Rudiger. Another ukase places
the government of Courtland L vonia under mar
tial law, under General Sievers; and Esthoniu,
also, under GOll. Grabbe.
Schedule of the Great Aoriheru and South
ernJVlall.
It will bo remembered that tbero was a meeting
in Washington City, the 801 h nit., of the Squtheru
Railroad Association, composed of the Presidents,
8m erintendonte and Engineer? ot the several lines
of railway from thut city to New Orleans. The
meeting, of which R. R. C yler, E>q., of this city,
was ch< sou President, appointed a committee to
ollect the necessary information, and prepare the
best practicable schedule between Washington and
New Orleans, and report to the President ou or
before tho 22 I inst. Tout committee, consisting ot
Messrs. Griffin, Wudley, Fleming, Jones and
Peake, met iu Savannah, tho present week, and
agreed upon The schedule which will be found be
low.
The A?BoeiatiQn will re assemble at Washington
nex f week, and should tho report of the Commit
tee be adopted, it will then bo laid before the Post
master General for appiova. It was understood,
We are informed, that tho Department would ac
cept suy schedule, that migt be agreed upoi> by the
Association. As it was lljp interest of the several
railway companits concerned to put their passen
gers through in the shortest possible time, all the
Postmaster General required was, that they should
do the same with them^iis.
Should the schedule bo adopted, it will plage
the principal New Orl ans mail in Savannah, and
consequently at all other points served by this
loute, twelve hours in advance of the present
time; while the delivery of the Northern mail
will be rendered more regular and punctual.
It may be well to mentibn, that the distance by
river from Montgomery to Mobile is 459 miles,
and by stage route 180 miles. It has'beoH found
necessary, owing to the drought in the to
abandon the river in part, at least %r tho'present,
aud we now learn that a recent arrangement has
’ been made, to go into effect the lutli of June, by
which a line ot boats will be put on between Mo
bile Mi l Claiborne, there to connect with stage
coaches to Montgomery-thus reducing the sta
gings 50 miles. Tho river, from Mo ile to Clai
borne, is navigable at all times. This arrange
ment will contribute much to the comfort of pas
sengers, and will materially shorten the time re
quired to got through Alabama.— Savannah Re
publican.
GOING NORTH.
Proposed Schedule from New Orleans to Wash
ington, May 15, 1855, showing the time spent in
running and slopping:
Suminer—Ut Nov ter—Nob 1 >-tto June Ist
Leave New Orleans 12 Mj cam- New <;j\eaas 4 pm
Reach Mobile 6 km. He .ch Mobile 10 am
Leave do 7 a m cave do 11 a a
Beech Montgomery J pm] icah Montgomery 11 pm
Leave do 6X p R £av3 do
Reach West Point j=
Leave do * Si. ah -rave do 134 pm
Reach Atlanta r *-Ma m! leach Atlanta 7>.p m
Leave do 9>.am! -cave do Bvp«
Reach Augusta f s p«| Reach Angus ‘a Jo. am
Reach Columbus P 2 JJa m R-aeh eolumbas 1 pm
Leave d. 9 Leave do M
Reach Macon. •" Ha m Reach Macon 9 pm
Leave do arlllaA wlLrave do 10 p m
Reach Augusta 9 9 pm Reach Augusta 7)4 am
Leave Augusta 1(T pm! '-eav® Augu*ta &s<am
Reach RingfeVille m ieach K ng*>ille 4>jp u
Ltave do 7 am .eave do by pm
Re*c Wi miagton s%p ui Reach Wi miiigton *%a m
Leave dj 4>s,pm *e»ve do Ss p m
Reach Wfldon ] am eich Weicbn . ljtfp M
Leave no cave oo T> a m
Rea-h Petersburg 5 am| <°a h Peterabarg 6\p m
Leave tff <-etfve do 6pm
Reach Ric'&moad 7 ah» ReAC’> Richmucd 7>sp sf
Leave de m L are do S pm
Reach Wtahiagtoa 4 pm, wca-.h Washington
60LN* s»OCTH.
Proposed Schedule troin VVarhicglon to New Or
leans*, fiUj;
running and shopping:
Summer-'s' June to 1 8t Nor' Winter — Nor I si to Jun».
L ave w h*’ iag'.on 7 a m Leave W-shngton 8 pm
Reach Richmond 2 pm irach Richmond sam
Leave do '<eave do m
leach Petersburg 4 p m‘letch Petersburg 7 am
Leave do 4&p m.eave do 754 am
Reach Weldon S pM{ v«h We-ion 11 am
Leave do 9 p m Leave do 12 M
Reach Wilmington *e ch Wilmington m
Leave do L-ave do &.&***
Rea h Kingsville 5* p m R ach King vi'le m
Leav- do 6 p m L sve do 8 am
Beach Angus ta 4>..i a Re ,ch Augusta 8 r m
Lei vs Augusta a 6Jsa m X ave A-gosta ® Pl<
React A.iicta .* 6 e m Retch Atlanta | i<
Leave do p« teave do
Beach Weft Point "» m«’ ' Reach West Point B>t a m
Leave do •* a Leave do 9 am
L«ave Aogjita P ( av Lei ve Augusta 5 r *
B ach Macon 8 p 4'iesch Macon 1 am
Leave do Z 4 pit Leave do 2am
Beach Oelnmbaa ~pjspm -ie»th Colcmhos 73$am
Leave do ? 12-tig i Leave do 6Xam
Beach Montgomery SX4 m Reach Montgomery 2Kpm
Leave do Leave do 5 P a
Be; ch Mobile I Reach Mobile sam
v . d< > Leave do 1 <■ *
B;aeh New Orleans hea-h New Orleans 7 am
INote —1 he : Bi iala “G. B B. K’te ’ surd for Georgia
Bsi road Route, and “C. R. R. B’te.” fer Central Bai.road
Route.]
Debases against Hailload-.— Railroads receive
but little mere,- at the hands of juries. Seldom is
it thxt they do not have to pay when a suit is
brongi* against them. So probab eis it that they
will be mulcted, that in very many instances they
come down to Captain Scott before he raises his
rifle. They pay op tor cows and calves, for eontn
sions, mashed toes, fractnres of limbs, detentions,
Ac., withont s grant. Why shon d’nt they! reason
the considerate public. Ain’t lhey stn iess cor
porations! Why, certainly. We have just heard
ofa CSS» in California, wbereio Mr. Harvey O.
Weed recovered *2,000 of the Panama K.ilroad
Company for detention on the Isthmus, whereby
ha contracted Panama Fever. The jury dec a’®
that the Plaintiff had bran wilfully and tuedleasly
WEEKLY
<£jjronidc & Skutkl.
AUGUSTA. GEuKGIA.
WFTDT7ESDA i MUBHINO, KAY 23. 1855
buberußiur *! toiiveuiiaa.
The Columbus L quire r?, we ore pleased to ob
serve, thus endorses our proposition to hold a
Gubernatorial Convention:
“The Chron:cle «fe Sentinel of the 18th inst.,
calls the attention ot the opponents of tbe preseut
State and Natiocal Administrations, tin construc
tors and supporters of tho Georgia Platform, to
tbe necessity and importance of holding a Conven
tion to nominate a candidate for Governor. The
suggestion meets wkh our hearty approval. We
think the time is now approaching when the peo
ple of Georgia should know who are to be their
standard bearers in the important oontest which
awaits them in October next. The man for tbe
occasion must be selected by some mode—either
through the medium of a eoaventlon, or by in
dividual suggestion or nomination. Notwith
standing the convchtion system is subject to some
objections, of whi*h it is not pertinent now to
speak, still we are ot the opinion that no more
practicable means can be adopted to ascertain the
pr ferences of the people upon he preliminary
question of candidacy, which at the same time
would be equally free from the embarrassments
that would probably attend its adjustment iu any
other manner. We there foie second the call for
the Convention, and as the period in cheated?—tbe
18th July—will afford ample time for the prelim
inary arrangem nts in the various counties, as well
as tor suitabl reflections and the ascertainment of
the public choice, we thiuk the day is well chosen.
“As a full and ffcir expression of the will of the
people is essential to the complete efficiency of
smell conventional action, it is much to be hoped
that if held at all, the Convention will be a full
one, and that no oounty in the State will fail to
bo properly represented.
“As to the man to whom shall be entrusted the
honor of bearing aloft, in the ominous future, the
standard of the Constitutional Rights of the South
—all andifingular —we have our preferences, and
on appropriate occasion we shail freely express
them. FSr the present, wo await the decision of
the preliminary we have a 42on_
ventionf”
Now is the time for the opponents of the pre
sent administration to move in the matter, to the
end that every ccnnty- injlhe State may be repre
sented in the Convention. Let there be a general
movement, and concert of action everywhere, and
Georgia will repudiate now and forever the Pieros
administration with all its Freesoil affinities and
associations, and appointment of incompetent
Fore ; gners and Ked-Republicans to represent the
country abroad. Let the oolumn advance, and
•the ides of October will show that Georgia has no
afliuity except among the spoilsmen for Pijlboe,
Van Loren, Soule & Co.
The Atlanta hxauituor mill in Error.
The Examiner, while it accepts our correction of
Its error, persists in assigning the Chronicle db
Sentinel an erroneous position in relation to Know
Nothingiain. It says:
“We read th ourselves, and its articles
in defence of eLmfgia against the order, and its tri
umphant crewing over Know Nothing victories,
have not been So ambiguous as to admit of more
than one interpretation. We may not have beeu
carolul enough in.our statement and shonld per
il ps have said that withoutt>penly advocating the
Know Nothing candidates in the city election, its
course indirectly influenced the election in their
favor, by its advocacy of the principles of the party
which nominated them; and we would suggest to
tho committee of “readers” who are to decide this
question between us, to examine the files of tho
Chronicle during the contest, to see if this is not
true. Re ibis as it may, the exulting tone < f its
announcement of the result of the election dearly
indicates he prefereiioe of the Chronicle.”
The Examiner very strangely seeks to hold us
responsible for publishing extracts from other
journuls, as items of news and public interest,
in relation to the principles of the Know Nothings
and the results of elections. It will seaich in vain
for any editorials in tho Chronicle 4k Sentinel wus
taining its assertions, of “ triumphant Growings
over victories,” and indirectly influencing the
city election.” The results of elections are almost
invariably received by telegraph or extracted from
other papers, and published as we receive them
without alteration or comriient. Os the city elec
tion we said not a word before or after, except to
aunoucco the result in tho following language :
“The Know Nothings wore overwhelmingly tri
umpbant in every Ward, oxcep'iug the second,
oleciiug their Mayor and eleven of the tw lve Mem
bers of Council. Walke*, the Anti Kuow Noth
ibg CouMcilmau elected in the second Ward, had
a majority of three votes only.”
This is a simple statement of the facts, as shown
by ihe polls, without a word or tone of exultation.
Tho Examiner , in conclusion, remarks:
“ Wo would not have again referred to this sub
joct, had not the editor charged us with misropre
senti g him—we did not intend d Jug so, nor do
we think we have —and, without desiring a con
we cannot allow ourselveß to bo viewed
in any such light. Wo endeavor to treat every
subject we discuss fairly; and the Chronicle has
no one but Itself to blame for the construction we
have, in common with its other readers, given its
articles. But wc are gratified with the course it
now pursues. Convinced, at last, of the corrup
tiou of the jrgauization, the editor, with commen
dable frankness, promptly withdraws his sym
palhy, and instead of its apologist, is now its
open enemy. Would that every other Whig press
m the State would as promptly and honestly ro
1 spond to its conviction. But the contest iu the
next election must be between the Damocraey and
the Know Nothings; and the old prejudice of
these men against the former, outweigh even the
most convincing arguments against the latter,
urged a* they may be by their political oracle, Mr.
Stephens himself.”
The Examiner is quite as mush at fuult in as
signing us the new position of an “ open enemy?'
as it wae in asserting, that wo had been “Jiyhting
under theJlay” o\ tho Know-Nothings.
We have, on this subject, as on all others, neither
desired or sought concealment, and have express
ed our views, when sought, with equal freedom
and unreserve, both to the members of the order
and OEtsiders, on all proper occasions. To a’l such,
we have communicated our aversion to the secrecy
cf tho order, and the system pf giving pledges,
and our opposition to proscribirg any class of reli
gionists, whose faith was predicated upon tho
Bible, or any class of men because of their nativity.
For while we have always favored (long before
Kuow Nothingism sprung into existence,) a modi
fication or change of the Naturalisation Laws,
which would effectually protect the ballot-box
against the frauds practised by designing and cor
rupt demagogues, through the instrumentality of
ignorant foreigners, who aie uninformed as to the
character of our institutions, many of them unable
to speak the language, and incapable of exorcising
the oleotive franchise intelligently, there are thou
sands of alien born citizens to whom we would as
cheerfully, and with as much confidence in '.heir
patriotism and fidelity extend all the rights of oiti
■snship as to natives. Nor have we failed to com
municate both to members of the order and their
opponents, that in all the proper and legitimate
efforts of the order to eject from power and place
the present administrations of the Federal and
State (Georgia) governments, they should have
our heutty co operation. As between the Know
Nothings and that vile compound of Free
soilism, Socessionism and died republicanifpi,
“ held together by the cohesive properties of the
publio plunder,” known as the Pierce, For
ney, Tan Bukxn and Soule democracy, we are
with the Southern Know Nothings who will adopt
a broad, national, conservative platform, suoh as
the Georgia, heart and soul.' But wo will not, bt
caueeof our objections, unite with them as a mem her
of the order, nor will we fail to condemn that spirit
of proscription, which many of them foster and
cherish, of repudiating the ablest, the purest a id
the most conservative men of the country, equally
opposed as they to the present misrule of the
and Federal Governments, simply because
those meu are not members of the order. Such a
policy, in our opinion, is anything else than con
servative, of which the order boasts as a cherished
principle. These aie our views and this our
position, which we jegard as conservative and
national.
Mr. Stephens for Congress.
The Columbus Euquirer conolndes a brief notice
of the letter of the Hen. A. H. Stephens, whicji
it publishes entire, with the following remarks:
“ We should exceedingly regret that any circum
stances should have the effect to deprive the State
and the country of the services ol Mr. Stephens
in Congress, where he haß so long and so satistac
tcriiy represented and defended the rights and
interests of the South. We do therefore hope
that, how muchsoeverhe may differ in some points
with a portion of his former constituents, there
may still be fennd common gtoand sufficiently
broad to sustain, yet many years, the cordial and
responsible relations which have hitherto subsisted
betweeil tflem.”
The Mac' n Meatenger, the editor of which is
said to be a Know Nothing, expresses the hope
that “no complication of cixcnmstance, or oonflict
of opinions among ns, may deprive ns ol the
benefit of his eminent services in the House ol
Representatives.”
The Savannah Courier copies the above and
adds:
“ We are gratified to see the Messenger taking
this positive. We trust tba‘ its forbearance to
wards, white differing with Mr. Stephens, may lie
an indicatioh of the course, wh'ch not only the
Know Nothings bnt others against whom be has
in time pas' f ught, r. ay now pursue with reference
to him. Knr.to Sottir.g or AxtW-Kncw Sotting,
Whig or Democrat, we wish to see this geutlemai
in the next Cc egress. He will be needed there to
meet the Kansas issue. That be will meet it
boldly and fearl sslv, may be inferred from pas
sages which appear in his letter.”
“Dead-Head Con6bessmen ooino to Europe —A
Binghsmpton paper bays that the extraordinary
em gration of Congressmen by the Collins steamer
will surprise no one who is aware that every one
of them voted for the Collins appropriation in the
last Congre s. The implication, of course, is- that
they are provided with free tickets.”
ttW e are pleased to see the above paragraph going
the rounds of the Democratic papers. We hope
their readers will not forget that the last Congress
was overwhelmingly Democratic. The ITebca
Democracy had large majorities, two to one, in
both Houses. This party came into power, prom
ising “retrenchment and reform”—and the above
paragraph, which we clip from a Democratic jour
nal, tells bat too truly the character of the reform.
This is the party, with its Van Queens, PRxstoi.
Kinob, and other Free soii associates with which
the Democratic journals of the South seek to affi
liate the Southern Whigs, whD are not members
of the Know Nothing order. Verily, soch cool
impndenoe is refreshing. Who will,after such an
illustration of bruzen-facedneae, deny or question
Grcrsl* Uatiroa* Coßvenlicn.
The Annual •J'mveutiou ot tbe Stockholder* of
the Georgia Ral road and Banking Company as
sembled, and was organized in this city on Tues
day the 15th iust.
As there were no new projects before the body,
its w*re confined to an investigate on
of ts iff airs. We ?u*'j )in the report of President
Kin s, w aioh 1 resents a very full statement of the
business of the Company for tho pa3t year, und
the prospect ior the tu ure:
Office Georgia R K. and Bankhto 00., )
Algc*ta, Ga., May 15, 1855. J
To the of the (Georgia Bailroad db
Banking Company s— ft appears b> the aunoxed
sta emeutot dieGnuerirrendeut that—
The Or »Ea-n>rg rs the y-*#recdiDg 8 *t M-rch last
bar ee $906,66141
Charged -itho d na yi£ip n-ti of
mauagen ent $874,556 73
Const uo’ion account also charg* i
to Expenses M5.T06 88-600,986 U
Nett from Boad after charging all expendi
tures on road acoount $806,40$ 80
By the financ al statement of the
Cashier the Grew Earning* of the
Bank have been.. 866,906 86
Charged with iDtereet on
Bond. $49,859 61
Baiariea, Agent* 1 Ooaunis
•i*>n% T xee,kc 34,579 19-78,904 76
Leaving deficiency in bank receipt* 6,693 94
Nett * from all sourcee SSO -,796 86
Add amount tu credit of Profit and Lose, 81et
Mar h T7,«09 06
Total to Profit and Loss, 81« t March 877,914 41
Frona this a dividend of $869 per Shore was
declared iu April last 145,460 00
Leaving a reserved f*nd S3B ,464 41
It will be perceived that the usual sami-annual
dividend was not paid in October last, though ibe
nett profits were fully sufficient to justify it. The
omission was occasioned at the time by the preva
lence of the i pidemic in Augusta, and the south
ern seaports, by which all business was nearly
suspended. Tie income of the Road is need by
tbe Company in its banking operations, aud the
maturity of its business paper so timed as to meett
dividends at the time they are usually declared.—
This paper was permitted to lie over almost with
out exception, and much of it, though good, is
still unpaid. It was expected, doubtless, by many
that this dividend, thus permitted to pass, would
have been added to the April dividend, but the
Directors, alter full consideration, have deemed it
inexpedient to do so. In view of the financial dif
ficulties of the country, and the large amount of
the Company’s bonds which falls due in July next,
and also in view of the necessity of laige outlays
lor the renewal of the Iren ou <he Roud beyond
Madison, the Directors have deemed it to tbe in
terest of the Stockholders to strengthen the reserved
fund to the amount of the dividend passed over.
With this increased strength, it is believed that
the Company will be able to meet all these heavy
disburse men is without any interference with divi
fiends hereafter. In coming to this conclusion the
Boat d have assumed that the prefits of the last year
(thelowest for the last three year*,) may be safely
lolie.l on for the future. If there be no mistake
in this, the Profit and Loss account for the next
two years will stand thuß in round numbers:
Gross inroree from road for 1855 $906,000
Orriioary Expenses—say 874,000
Extraordinary Expenses as estimated by
Superintendent 146,000 — 530,000
$886,000
Dividend at 7 percent 59n,930
Add to reeerved fund $96 080
The expensive work of building stone culverts
aud substituting embankments for temporary
bridges and missels which Lave been a heavy draft
upon the profits of the road lor years past are now
near completion, aud all other necessary expendi
tures that will be required for some years (except
renewal of iron,) will be found in the estimate of
tho Superintendent for the pr Bent year. The es
iraate for 1856 may then be stated thus:
Gross Income $906,000
Ordinary Expenses $814,000
for New Traok—tay 100,000— 474,000
$483,000
Dividend at 7 per cent 29 ',930
Carry to But plus fund $141,060
It will be eeen by ref rence to the bonded debt of
the Company that if these estimates even approxi
mate accuracy, the present reserved fund aud fu
ture surplus profits will be abundantly sufficient to
pa> as it falls due, after paying 7 per oent. divi
dend and providing an ample fund to relay the
road with new iron beyond Madison. It is as
sumed iu tbe above estimate that the Bank profits
wifi provide for the interest on the bonded debt.—
It has douo ao for some years, and afforded a sur
plus. The small defi iency of the past year is ac
counted for by $358,000 of Stock held by the
Company being unproductive, which had previous
ly afforded au income, and it is h jped may again
be profitable after the present year. It is also to
be considered that the interest will be reduced as
ihe principal debt is extinguished.
The Board is aware that rival improvements have
recently been completed, and others are in pro
gress, which may affect our income, as compared
with forme r years. The completion of the
Waynesboro’ Railroad, aud the extension of the
line to Columbus, took from our liue a large local
travel, aud the recent completion of the road to
Opelika will affect our through travel to some ex
tent. The completion ot the line ot road through
Virginia and Tonnesseo to Knoxville, will also,
when completed, still further affect our lon£ trav
el. But by tho completion of the Memphis and
Charleston Road, the extension of Railroads north
and northwest of Nashville now in progress, and
the extension ot Railroad improvements beyond
Montgomery, in the direction of Mobile and Pen
sac la, now also iu progress, the Board hope for
such an increase in the business connected with
these regions of country as to compensate for these
lossos.
80 large an interest as this Company has in other
Roads requires a brief notice from the Board.
The Rome Railroad is now paying 7 per cent, and
it is hoped may continue to do so. The Atlanta
and Lagrange Railroad has never paid loss than
7 p r cent, and the Board are assured *ill here
aderpay 8. The Nashville and Chattanooga Rail
road lias paid no dividtnd since Jan. 1, 1854. By
unexpected mountain slides that Company has
oeon put to vast expense aud subjected to much
embarrassment. The Board are informed, how
ever, that the present year’s business will proba
bly place it in a condition to divide at laast a por
tion of its earnings among the Stockholders
Several important feeders to that Road are near
completion ; and a Road with such connections,
and running through a country so fertile and pro
duciive, must do a heavy business, and pay good
piotits a no distant day. The profits of the
Waynesboro’R ilroad are said to bo increasing;
but the lease of that Road to the Central Railroad
expires in January next. The future profit* wi 1
probably have to do applied to the purchase of
outfit for some time to come. The loss of interest
on those large unproductive investments is ot
course seriously felt by the Company, but it is
Loped the loss may be only temporary.
The Dirodors refer to the Superintendent’s Re
port for the details of business of the past year,
and for tho al eged causes by which it has been
affected. Among these causes the most important
is the partial obstruction at Augusta. The Board
do not dwell on this subject, because they have
ao independent power over it. It is the right aud
the fiuty of the city, as they understand them.
But there seems to be a growing conviction every
where that the prosperity ot a commercial oity de
pends mainly upon its capital, the probity and en
terprise of its merchants, and above all upon the
natural advanta esof its business location, and that
it is actually injured by any of those obstructions
which tend to throw it off the great thoroughfare
of traffic and travel. Should Charleston hereafter
cousent to the extension of one or more tracks of
the Bouth Carolina Railroad to the business
wharves of the city, and Augusta permit Buch ap
proximation of tracks, as indicated by the Super
intendent, it is believed by many that bnth cities
would be benefited, whilst the advantage to the
line of Roads from Charleston to the Mississ.ppi
can scarcely be appreciated.
Qur Company, in common with most others at
the Sbuth, has suffered a good deal by fire during
the late dry weather, and we met with some othef
disasters of au unusual character in September
and October last, which have been mentioned by
the Superintendent in his Report. By these mis
fortunes the expenses of the year were considera
bly increased, though the damages were by no
means as great as by many supposed. With the
exceptions referred to, the traina have run the past
year with great regularity, and freedom from acci
dent of any kind. Jno. P. King, Prea’t.
The deliberations of the Convention were very
harmonious, and the body adjourned yesterday,
after electing tho following Board of Directors for
the ensuing year:
JOHN P. KING, President.
DIRECTORS.
Asburt Hull, E. E. Joneb,
ARICINE i’OI'LLAIN, HaTS BoWLRE,
Ws D. Conyers, B. H. ’Warren,
John Bonis, A. J Miller,
John Cunningham, We, M. D’Antignao,
James W Davies, GEo T. Jaoebon,
Samuel Baknett, Biohard Peters,
Thos. N. Hamilton, Thos. 8. Phiniey.
Hegistration of Valuable Letters. —We pub
lish this morning the instructions of the Post-Of
fice Deportment, in relation to the registration of
valuable letters, for the purpose of securing their
safe which is particular!; interest
ing to commercial men.
Cherries. —We are indebted to Mons. F. A.
Mace for a few very fair specimens of RapoUon
Biyartau and Early Enylith Cherries, gathered at
his Nursery, tear this city. We presume Mons.
M. can supply trees, at the proper season, to such
as desire them.
Bishop Barry. —lt will gratify the numerous
friends of that estimable man and worthy prelate,
Hev. John Barry, that he has been appointed
B. C. Bishop of this diocese, vice Bishop Beynoldc,
deceased. The distinguished office could not have
been conferred on a more deserving man.
Large Strawberry.—We are indeDted to Mr.
Geo. A. Oates for a Strawberry (Longwortht
Prolific,'') which weighed six penny weights and
five grains — measuring 4% inches in circum
ference and Iyi 10/ig.
« Cool and Beireshing I”—The actions of some
brazen individuals are sometimes thus character
ized—the wind is often complimented in the same
way—the shade of wide-spreading and thick leafed
trees are so considered, and the 11 north side of sn
iceberg” hss generally the reputation of being on
the same order—bnt for a delicate mingling of the
■rigid, the saccharine and the sparkling I commend
us, of a day like yesterday, to the bnbbiing fluid
that gushes from Plumb’s Soda Fountain 1
Fire in Pettrsburg. —A destructive fire occurred
in Petersburg, Va., on Thursday night, which de
stroyed property on Bollingbooke, Sycamore and
Old Btreets to the value of $1.80,000. About nine
o’clock Fri ay morning one of the back walls ot
the burnt buii' ing fell, burying three or four boys
under it. One of the boys was taken out, fearfully
injured.
What la Baggage?—ln a recent suit in New
York the question came up whether a gold walch
is an article of wearing apparel to be deemed bag
gage. A passenger on the Hudson Biver Bailroad
lost nis trunk, and brought suit against the rail
road oompanyto recover the value of its contents,
among which was a gold watch. In the lower
court judgment was given for t e-full amount
claimed, and the company appealed to the Supe
rior Court. The decision was sustained, the court
deciding that a gold watch is an article of wearing
apparel, and when not earned about the persoD,
but in a trunk, while traveling, is to be deemed
baggage.
Government Stoci Bank, Michigan. —Letters
received from Detroit dated 81 May, state thai Mr.
Hoi ues, the State Treasurer of Michigan, admita
that an overissue of the stock of this baok has
taken place to the amount of $58,000 ; and
it ia his intention to postpone the declaration of
a dividend for present, that he may hare time
to find out who has committed the fraud. Some
bills sent to him, he declares to be fraudulent,
having forged signatures of the Treasurer, though
fbci lost of Government.
Tb« Kdtional JnUll gtnvr <rf Saturday fays:— j
Wo issue to-day, in a tupplomeutal skeat acoom- •
panying this paper, and filling -some twenty fo'.r 1
of onr large colutnDS, a Litt of Appropriations
made at tno late Session of Coogrers, and prepared
and published sgreebly to law. This document
ought to possess interest tor every reader, and ought
to be examined by every one, as exhibiting in the
main the obj ctsou which the public revonre is
expended. The aggregates of the e'.astifl.d heads
of expenditure ere as follows :
Cvi’.dlpl'nia la. and mifCsUaneoes fIT cap 9 8
srmy or Isl a'. ona, vfiftary >c >dem., 4c 12,67.,496
Indian d par' m nt, naval, levu.uumary, ,nd
other i> 4, . r B,M6
Naval e vice *
P it CSI-e trepirtme-’ lb,® b -4t
Ccran i-tcmmail aervtce 8.87',4 '
Taxai T,l.‘> .0 .
$71,674 667
Thla vast sum of $71,674,867 is only the amount
of spsci/Ud appropriations. The great mass of
contingent objects of expendi'ure, of which the
sums were unascertained and could not be speci
fied, may swell the grand total of the expenses of
the year to perhaps seventy fins millions of dollars.
Although the Government expenses mnst neces
sarily increase with the growth of the coun
try and the corresponding necessities of the
publio service, one can hardly imagins the
necessity of so vast an angmentation of the neces
sary expenses of the Government as seventy five
millions of dollars; and the immensity of the sum
mnst arrest tbs attention of every intelligent
reader.
The plain and frugal John Quincy Adams was
assailed by bis fierce opponents and defamera on
the soore if ex ravaganoes because his prodigal
Admsnistration required twelve millions a year;
and oommitees of inquiry and retrenchment, and
almost of impeaohment, were raised in Congress
to search ont the corruption of bo lavish a dis
bnrsement of the publio money, and all sorts of
reform and eoonomy and “good times” were prom
ised the dear people if they would only turn out
the extravagant aristooratic Pnritan and put the
Eeformersin. Well, they did sc; a “go*d lime”
for the viotors certainly followed; but a yearly ix
penditure of seventy-five millions tells the rest of
tne story. This comparison is not however, ad
verted to for the purpose of proving extravagance
in one party more than another, but only to re
vive a single instance of the unsparing injustice oi
P«rty.
The Massachusetts Bill to Nullity the Fugi
tive Slave Law.—The seventh and eightli sections
of the bill, “to protect the rights and liberties of
the people of the Commonwealth of Massachu
setts,” which passed to a third reading in the Sen
ate of that State on Friday, provides for the pun
ishment by fine and imprisonment of all those who
shall bs instrumental in transmuting a freeman
into a slave, whether by sending into slavery any
man who has always been free, or by returning
one who has escaped, either to a person other
than the slave master from whom he escaped, or
to any one to whom his “service or labor” is not
“due,” and to enable the alleged slavo, who is
injured by suoh unjust rendition, to recover dam
ages therefor. Tho tenth, eleventh, and twolftn
sections deprive of all State offices tho man who
grants a certificate for the return of ax alleged
slave, and the attorney who acta as counsel for tho
claimant, incapacitating the former from thereafter
holding any office of trust, honor, or profit uudor
the laws of the Commonwealth, and the latter from
thereafter practising in the Conrts of the State.
The bill, it will be seen from the foregoing ox
trao.s, virtually ignores the fngitivo slave law ou
aoted by Congress, and was undoubtedly conoocted
for that very purpose. The Boston Journal, re
marking upon tbs matter, very candidly and justly
says:
We have no love for the fugitive slave law, but
we deprecate this proposition to array the State
against the federal anihority. The people or Mas
sachusetts have condemned in the strongest terms
the nullification movements of South CaroliniauH.
We do not believe they are now prepared to ap
prove the principles by which tho nulliflors wore
guided, and to place themselves side by sido with
the fire-oaters of the present day in their hostile
altitude towards the general government.
Fbisomebs hade Slates. —On Friday, the 12th
inst., there arrived at Havana, the Spanish brig
YneEteoo, Vladomonte, master, with 191 passengers
—men, women and children, prisoners of war, sold
to contractors with or by oonsent of the J’r sideut
oi the Kopnblio of Mexioo, for labor in Cuba.—
These oontraots are fraudulent impositions upon
the ignorant Indians from which they find no re
lease while they are able to labor.
Memphis end Chableston Koao. —lt appears by
the report to the officers of the Menphis and
Charleston Railroad, which is two hnnndred and
eighty Biz and three quarter miles in longth, is cx
peeted to be ready (or business through the whole
route by next November. The entire cost of ti e
road is estimated at $1,840,288, or $16,228 pi r
mile for road construction, and $17,228 per mile
for construction and equipment.
Governor Gardner, in bis m. assge to the Mas
sachusetts Legislature, giving his reason for vetoing
the resolution for the removal of Judge Luring, ro
fera to the dangerous precedent it would set, even
if it be constitutional, and says another objection
with him is that no crime is alleged agaiust him,
in offiae or out, and no intimation is given that he
has not satisfactorily and faitblully performed his
duties as Judge of Probate. We quote from toe
message on another point:
“To the allegation that Jndgo Luring has shock
ed the popular sentiment of Massachusctis, it may
be pertinent to ask what the duty of Judgos is?
Are they to expound the laws as made by the law
making power, or are they to construe them in ao
oordance with popular sentiments? When the
time arrives that a Judge so violates his oath ot
fffite as to shape his decisions according to the
fluctuations of popular feeling, wo become a
government not of laws, but of men.
“Supposing, as iB alleged, that according to the
ordinary balancing of ooufl otiug testimony, the
deoißion of Judge Loriug was erroneous, no one
asserts or believes that ha wilfully adjudicated
wrongly and corruptly. The error, if error it be
considered, was a mistake. Isa Judge, then, to
be removed trom office, even if in the execution of
that office he gives a mistaken judgement. Such an
impractical and dangerous policy would lead to a
daily removal among judicial officers of our inferior
courts, so often are decisions overruled by higher
tribunals. 1 '
Thi Know Nothin# Convention of N. Yore. —
The Know Nothing Convention which recently
met in Syracuse, N. Y., has adjourned. Tho re
porter of the New York Times in the convention
says that after the explusion of Mr. Chubbuck, the
members of the body devoted themselves to tho
transaction of the legitimate business. The debt
of the order iu the State was slo,noo, and the sub
ordinate counoils were to be oalled upon to con
tribute to its liquidation. The Silver GreyH and
Hunkers wanted a series es national resolutions
passed, but not being certain of Bucoess, mado no
effort to attain their object, and the convention ad
ourned without any action on the slavery qaes
ion.
Extensive Financial Operation.— Some two
months einoe, Joseph Hoxie, a drygoods mor
chant of Now York, purchased SIBO,OOO worth of
goods from various merchants in New York, and
directly afterwards sold them at a sac. iflee for cash,
and made traoks for parts unknown. The credit
ors invested one of their number, named Lynch,
with p..wer to arrest him, which he did in Buffalo,
andosrried him as far as Philadelphia, whore he
let him sail for Cuba. The other creditors, sus
pecting Lynch of having taken oare of number
one, by getting his claim, and then letting Hoxie
off, have had him arrested in New York, where he
is now in prison.
Box* Ground.—Orestes A. Brownson, a some
what Doted Koman Catholic writor, recently lec
tured in New Orleans. The Creole reperts hitn as
follows on tho destiny of the Bomish Church : ll lt
must become the arbiter between the Stateand the
subject. It must guard the man by interposing its
flaming sword as a defenoe, It must construe
constitutions and expound laws, deoiding where
is the limit of centralised power, and what is itfs
absolute duty to perform."
How tsi Ekeris* Ecsrnir w a Ails hib Bo.nnzt.
—The London Morning Tost was very great,
during the late Imperial visit, upon matters of
drtu; and ; s regarded as high authority upon all
questions oonneoted with that important subject.
The journal says:
“In regard to the muoh-mooted question as to
whether a bonnet should be worn on the bead or
off it, it may not be amiss to take advantage of the
actual presenoe of her Imperial Majesty, who is
said to have introduced this popular feminine
eccentricity, to plaoe on reoord that, although the
nonnet of the Empress Eugenie displays fully het
face and hair, it does not oonvey to the beholder
the idea of its being likely to fall from the head
behind, but rather seems to ding to and support
the hair in that poe'tion. This gives a lightness
and grace of carriage to the head totally distinct
from that boldmss and barefacedness which have
characterised the English adoption of the French
. Imperial fashion.”
Liberia has thus far only the narrow strip of
land forty miles in breadth along the eeaccast of
Africa for its civilised settlements. Settlers from
the United States have lingered about the ccean as
though afraid to venture away from it. The effect
of this is visible in the fevers which prevail among
all the newly arrived emigrants, some of whom
sink under them. The republic has now perma
nent possession of the oosat, and it has been
thought advisable for sanatory purposes to com
mence settlements farther in the interior, and to
this end our colonisation societies have taken tbt
requisite steps, so that a few years hence we shall
And the frontier, of the Bepublic fast extending
into that vast domain which is bo proliflo of ani
mal life.
Mr. Longworth says bis grapes were uninjured
by the late frosts in tbs vicinity of Cincinnati; and
that he shall make full as much, if not more wine
than he has any previous year.
Mua Lost Btonx, whose Bloomer dress and
“stroDg minded” lectures on Woman’s Bights,
have drawn public attention to her, was married
some days ago, under protest to a Mr. Blackwell, of
West Brookfield. She protests against the exist
ing laws of marriage, and as a wife, claims a right
to be a completely independent and separate indi
vidual, such as she was before marriage. The pro
teetwas signed by husband and wife.”
'The Saginaw Spirit of the Times, speaking of
the fisheries in that region, says that they have
proved unusually productive this spring. The
ship ments tb us far have been 2800 bbls. The gr Be
shipment will exceed 8500 bbls.
“DoaiTitxa."—We see it stated that Mr. Lever
more, of New York, will soon issue the letters ol
this talented writer in elegant book form.
The wheat crop in Genesee, promises an abun
dant yield. The La Bov Gasatts M v. it
Mr. pi,. ~. i u llrim.i.
Ihl •‘Jir/ip r* State, 1 ' pa 1 li-.a at Griffin, con
tains tho t How:’-: m:co of a publio meeting,
which tin:* jo ;r a- y v ver’l-rve:
I'cbl oV ■ :o-' -n A. 11. rTirnENs.—The
cit E . ' '• l i.io rq I . .1 to meet
at the City li 11, a TJtf oVock thu aiming, tor the
pm pot* •> cot-B d> 1 IV tie pr. prn'y of ratifying
'' a . o .. - i ! i■ii. ahi n. j ts J . v rt’en by
! ■ 1-1 'li. AlJt t. r a, iq a.not Ivuow Nothing-
AA. Wool .1. 88~ ’!, \V, K Mon- lev, K.
g ° M J.B. He ..J.T.RM.J,
-. L .in, J ;; , j P . rd», \\ . if. f{ ucock, D A.
J hn-on, *. A. Biukciy, D. M. Williams, J. E.
Georuo.
I uulio Mietixg.—4 Tavfre end reprecfablo por
iH-n or . voi. r oi t octy ( f c4r ffi , mol in the
14 ii in-?., in
C VV; 1 *V‘ ec \' ' 1 ; 1 ov< * cull mi. ’o b> a nun her
</ lie 01, juritit dl hithds ot U.o lion. A. li. itb
riiKNs, 1- i iho purpose <. t adv piing the sentiinouta
contained in a loiter lately written to Thomas W.
Thomas, Esq., ot Elberton, upon the subject of
Know Nothingism.
On motion tt Judge J. B. Roid, the meeting was
organized by calling the Hon. William Moseley tj
preside; and on m lion of J. B. Beall, D. A.
Johuson, Esq., acted as fcJecrotury.
The obj 'Ct oi the meeting wra then explained
bv the Chairm'in In his usual eloquence, charac
ter st'C of tho “Old Ploughman”—logical and to
tho point, at if-snenow between Whigs and Whigs,
Democrats and Democrats. He in subßtaneo, de
nounced secret oath bound political societies os
dangerous to freedom, and lit lor 44 treasons, strat
agem* and spoils.”
The speaker having concluded his remarks, a
motion i John i’. Hold, that Judge J.
8. Jones, Sr., bo r> quoted to road to the meeting
the letter above relerrod to, of tho Hon. A. H.
Stephens.
Whereupon tho Judge carno forward and pro
cee iod to read ; and being a good elocutionist, the
reading wan listened to wilh d* op and feeling in
terest. and met approval and applause at the con
clusion ot all and every paragraph. The roading
being concluded, ihu following Preamble and Kes
olulions w<ro submitted by L). A. Johnson, E-q.,
and on motion for their adoption, the affirmative
was carried by a large majority.
V hkkjeas, a crisis has arrived in the political af
fairs ot cur common country, which demands of
every patriot u careful investigation rs principles,
which certain po'iticiaus are endeavoring to en
graft upon tho policy of our Nationul and State
Governments, through tho agency ol secret, oath
bound political societies.
Ann whereas, we have hoard, with pride and
pleasure, tho able and conclusive letter from tho
Hon. A. H. Stephens, to Thomas W. Thomas,
Esq., of E berton, upon the subject of Know
Nothingisui. Therelore—
lit* lud, That she sentiments, embodied in said
lottor are our sen!intents, and ure consistent with
Ms pus 1 political history, and in giving utter* nee
toll's opinions he hnsii no departed from the
tenets ol tho W hi': > of Georg iu.
fttsolued, That in thus siennning the current
r.gainst a largo poriionof his politioaUriouds (who
have d«; arled from the lailh of thcir*lathors,) that
ho is w >rtu\ the conli lonce and support of all true
Americans, bo thoy Wh'gs or Doinocrate.
fiesolied, That it< thus boldly planting h mselt
upon true ground, in opposition to what ho knew
was the opinion c t umn> ot liis political triends, he
exhibits a spccti-ei worthy of the days of our Rev
olution—the spectacle of a man w.lling to sacrifice
himself tor principle, and is thorelore entitled to
tho undying gratitude of every man who loves his
couutry, particularly Southern men.
Resolvtd, Thut it is our earnest desire and re
quest that the Hon. A. H.S’.op* ons will not deoline
runuiug for Congress, in tho pending contest, but
will as is coiibisteut with his character, beard the
lion in his den, and in. our (pinion be re elocted,
by a majority, that will put Know Nothingiam to
shame.
Rssoivtdy That in tho language of Mr. Stephens
44 to put down those secret political outh bound or
ders and tbei ben ,11 wl 1 join as political
allies, now and forever, nil tree patriots at the
North and South, wheiher Native or adopted,
Jews or Gentiles.”
VVnereu; on, h >uie one in tho crowd called for a
division The Chairman thon roquestod all thoso
who were opposed to the resolutions, to staud out
side of the Ba . A uteutorian voice culled for
Sum” to come out, evidently thinkingthat“Bam
ivel” and the L.ague Mm had a imjority. But
they failed ; and the preamble and resolutions
wore declared adopted by i\ largo majority.
On m< tion or A. A. \V T ootcn, the proceedings of
this mooting bo published in tho Amoricau Union
and Empire Sluto.
On motion, tho mooting then adjourned.
W illuai Mcselet, Ch’n.
I). A. Johnson, ISoc’y.
The Virginia Election. —Tho Richmond />»#-
patch of the 15tn inst., Hays : In all parts of Vir
ginia the groutest excitement is manifested iu the
presont oloction. Since tho stormy days of 44 Tip
pacanoe and Tyler too,” tlioro has been nothing
ike it iu Virginia. Wo question whether evou
tl at memorablo contest, though it ©be ted more
striking outward demonstrations, eq n.llod the
prosent in deop fooling. This excitement is not
confined to tho cities. In tho most roti*-c.d and
rural districts, it burns with an intensity seldom
equalled iu political contests. Both partioj ore
straining every norve, and tho battle is fought as
fiercely in the most sequestered valley and tho most
obscuro nook in tho mountains, as in tho heart of
tho metropolis. Judging from those indications,
woanticipat s that the next vote of Virginia will
be by fur tho heaviest she has over polled.
Tho p.trngglo is regarded with gonorul interest
in other States, for it seems to bo tho opinion of
both parties thut it will bo f Jlowod by deoisivo re
sults on a rmtionu! arenu. Ah tho day of election
approaches tho oxcitemont iucourfes. Happily,
on next Thursduy week tho turmoil will end, the
popular verdict bo rendered,curiosity as tothore
sult bo satisfied, tho victors exult in their success,
tho defeated submit like good republicans, and
everything settle down into quiet and reposo. It
is not likely that the country will bo ruined by the
success of either purty. The country has been
41 ruined” by political prophets every four years
since the government wns established, but it has a
vigorous constitution and gives no signs of de
struction yet. The Dispatch confesses that it ftels
more apprehensions as to the chinch-bug and the
fly in Virginia, than it docs in regurd to the rav
ages of tho triumphant party in this election,which
ever it may bo.
1 On Friday evening, the anniversary meetings in
New York wore brought to a clone. Ab a general
thing iboy have not excited much interest, uor
been as lulfy attended as in fom<r years. The
following ip a table of tho rocoipts of tho fourteen
principal societies that have held meeting", for the
two years pus*—from which it will bo Been that
there wus u considerable fulling oil in the p&Bt year:
1854. 1865.
American Trfct Society $415,159 $413,174
American Bb o ftoci' ty 894 840 846,811 Afc.
•Am. B. C. Foreigt Missions... 218 20b 2 8 688
Free. Kourd Fnr< ign Missions... 174 458 184,i 74
Am. Home M union Society 1 ill 2*<9 18*' 187
Am. For. and Christ’n Union.... 75,7»>1 62 '67
Am. Bap. Homo Mission 8o *.... 62 780 64 846
Am. and For. Bb o Society 46 097 40,<’84
Am. SoHinen’s Fund Socioty 26,178 22,845
Am. Anti Mavery Sic ety 11,000 18,u00
i N. Y.State Colonizut on 8 ciety.. 17 6'9 17,571
fAm Female Guardian Society.. 17,870 10,869
1 Jews’ Society 14 050 10,000
1 Central Am. E-luct.tion ISoc’y 9,711 4,828
6T. .669 252 1,689,654
• For the first nine montfsofthe financial year.
tFor eight mon'Jn.
Americans jn Chili.— A Correspondent writing
from Valparaiso to the North American, states
that within a very sow years, since tho close of the
tho war with Mexico, from boing the most popular
foreigners in Chili, Americans aro now under the
ban of suspicion and meet with but little favor.—
Tho writor sayfi:
They arc now almost daily assailed
in the gi settes of Valparaiso, and charged with
want of integrity, irreMgion, avarice and iDj'iHtice.
Wo are accused o a Bottled purpose to annex Chili,
and ail the republics of Booth America, and to
display our fl\g n triumph ro»n every peak of the
Andes between the equator and Cape Horn. The
overtures not long since made by one of our ac
credited diplomatists, for the purchase of the Gal*
lipagos Islands, and the right i< nav gate the trib
utaries of tho Atriaz >n, which arise in the Equator,
are co Btrued into irr Iragible proof of the grasp
ing disposition of the government, which needs
only a pretext to seize upon that country by force
of arms. Indeed there seems to be some grounds
for the notion that we ehall overran and corquer
these countries. But it will not bo by exercise of
onr physical strength as a nation; but through the
iDflueuco - f moral or intellectual power.
Bat Guano.— lt iu said that there has been re
cently discovered in tho Island of Sardinia some
caverns filled with guano, the production of hate,
aggregated since the crea' ion of tho world. Chemi
cal analyses have proved that this guano is as rich
8B that of Peru in ammoniac matters and in sul
phate of lime. Several land proprietors aro said
to have already p . rchesed quantities of this now
manure for their lands.
The Oldest Po.-tm steii in the United States.—
The Baltimore Sun gives a list of the oldest Post
masters iu the United States, at the head of which
stands the name of Joho B chel, of J'net-town,
Lebanon Co., Pa. Iu a letter to the Postcffice De
partment, ho spebks of his appointment as fol
lows :
My father’s name was John Bichel, and I was
commissioned “John Bichel, Jr ” My fa her was
in the revolutionary war, and lived to be 89 years
old. He died about 9 years ago. 1 was appointed
Postmaster under Jefferson’s administration, by
Gideo.i Granger, on the 281 ot September, 1802,
so that I have hold the office 53 years next Sep
tember. I am now 82 years old, and do all my
busir e s mys< If.
When rotation in offi e has become a cardinal
tenet with both purti-s, it certainly speaks loudly
for the man’s integrity and capacity, who remains
in office over half a century, throng every change
and under all parties.— Mobile Advertiser.
A Ship Cana Jr m the St. Luwrance to Lake
Champlain wus the t-übject of debate in the Cana
dian ParJimont last Thui&day. The importance of
the measure was conceded, and it was only op
posed in consequence of tho present embarrassed
of the treasury. Tho estimated cost of the
projected canal is about $5 000,000.
Yellow Fever.— Tho Charle."ton Courier, allu
ding to the statement ot the passengers and offi
cers of the Isabel, that they had not heard of a
single case of terror any other contagions dis
ease being in Havana up to tho Isabel’s tailing
says:
Our Havana correspondent, however, iu whose
statement' every reliance can be placed, and o ing
a resident, 1 a* very great facilities for obtaining
correct information of everything that transpires
in Havana, say*, ts wi'l be perceived by reference
to his letter of the 10th inti., the public hea th is
anusua ly good, although there are name case of
Yellow Fever. He also st tes that two parties, who
are said to have been inoculated by Dr. Humboldt,
have died of this dreadful disease.
The Chicago Dear crat says Messrs. Gibb* <fc
Griffin have at present over 400,000 bu&helß of
wheat and corn in their immense warehouse on
North Water street. This is toe largest quantity
of grain ever gathered together in one warehouse
in that city. It would fill 40 vessels, allowing
10,000 bushels to each vessel.
The concourse of travelers at the Falls begins
early this season. A late Buffalo papers says tho
arrivals at the Clifton Hou >e, on the Canadian aide,
averaged fifty day; and that the hotels on the New
York r-ide wore also filing up, tho igh it waß appre
hended that tbe effect of the liquor law would
soon be to drive visitors across the river, for their
accorn mod at ions.
In Chatham county, N. C., Willis Hester wss
exeouteJ last week lor sleu.iug a slave. He denied