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4 lire vet Major Harriftoo, 63 i Regiment, was kiilai
on te ever >ng of the 7th mat., while
t tranches. He wa< a moat exce.lent officer,
( i'l i i . . rious l.ysa to her M .jeety « eervice.
It .ill K ve your .Lordship sincere pifiiwore to
I .s-ii the Jtnpro.emonu in tiie genersi health of
the troop*. . «
At fl -e o’clock thia rooming a h.avy fire was
ooetie J upon the Kedan 1 y the allied batteries.
1 I bate, fc, JftMta Mureo.-f,
Lientenant Gaoert. Commanding.
PE.et.a orr the I’ow.t or Gemti iusk, July 4
riir: -1 i.ava the honor to inform yon that on my
arri'ftl *f tins place I immediately proceeded to
m.-j uI 1 ■ ) ex.mine the comma ric-.tiou between the
town and Art hat bpit, and, on bo doing, found it
to * a by means ol a ferry of two large flits end
h .wsera, which I determined to destroy, if posei
bl©.
Accordingly! on the forenoon of yesterday I dee*
■ veiled my gig, under Mr. John Hayies, acting
u,-Tot ibo ship, and paddle box boat, under
Mr. Martin Tracey, midshipman of the Vesuvius.
1 r ave mac i p.ensure in reporting that tneyauc
c -y it; l evireiy in destroying it by cutting the haw
fccr- and ea*n g tn© boat* adrift, which was done
c , ;©r a heavy tire of musketry at about 99 yards,
.7, , >} .m completely lining the beach, and the
w -\ cent ho fee»eg tided with riflemen.
ti f <4i* u» dee to Mr. Hayi#© tor hia activity
a r din >1 iu destroying the same, and to Mr. Mur
fl, f ;. > fer 'he eff otaal ti'e he kept up in cov
er,i. * retreat, the tiring from the ship arid pad
d / ; x boat at lue same time causing great con-
, u .' ..i lOH-t among tne enemy a» they retired
f'o u Uieir exposed position.
V. r H -yie# hpeaks in the highest terms of the
H.V ere*, t-j.oc.aily ol Joseph Trewavau, ordi
nary seaman, leut from the Agamemnon, who cut
the hawsers. . . . . .
I , , io-o a hit of casualties, which, 1 am happy
to aaj, I very small, although the gig and paddle
\ *. oi*t war: n died with i.msket ball*. I have,
W. N. W. Hewett, Lieut. Comd’g.
lira patch h'uau Gen. pELLiaaiEa.—Tne Moni
tr- r c mituna toe following despatch from General
p oi ,.' tr, dated July 28, 11 P. M—“ The enemy
•- • vh-' j 1 ' " r ’ laat night, and «?perr»-d
fc 'v,,r Oiwl hie on the right Mjd Ult of ■ or Hues
*'7 »- hawgfroc- ‘r.« *- from Yenikal#.
£ W r. wh.ng there ** ge*ng , . web, under the di
Hgioq ot
uii'fM*u.ea mi •. i*e> wrtfc." *u -jftech.'
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t ,i t m dated the S.«-• of July. B f*. M.:—
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an 1 the army continues iu satisfactory health.”
ii© correspond#ut of the Times alludes to a
rumor that the naval preparations in the iilack boa
are » ot making with a view to an attack on Odes
sa, but on rtovastopol itself. A bold attempt, it is
»aid, wii he made by 100 vessels of every kind,
with 4 v>oo meu to force the passage, land in the
mi I t ol the place, wnile a simultaneous attack will
be merle on the land side.
i’Aiim Ju'y 27.—The Monheur of this morning
lfio Ulowing despatch from General
JV• ; " r. - —AfLor a brisk can-
ye i'um*A July SS/>. 8 A.M.—After a brink can
merle a eortie eboat mid
ti n let; <i/ the little Kudan. As we uro
to them it did not take the enotny
: ' ~ , u u*to ranch onr gabions. They w^ro
iv ru , alstd by the foot Cbetsenre ot the
1 1 ard, and by borne companies of the
•J.j k .,n,(.nt ot Ibo line. Tho Kua.iarm beat a
y re' re t, iltlnr.gh there were homo wounded
~,! u.iri ' hilled between our ambuscades and the
I‘e ul iho place, a very dark night enabling
in mi to carry oil the others. This affair does
honor to our officers.”
Pneloaure in Atmirai Dundeu 1 Letter .
Hill HA j sty's Suit AiiKooaur, orr Wiaoae,
Jul. !4 -dir—l have the honorto acquaint you
v? ui prooeeditigs daring the woek.
T Mavicienuo rejoined mo on Wednesday,
„ ,( | piece . 1 dire, 'o K junda Bay, on tho
south coast, W.-I.re I had roanon to think that
tr , were ’concentrated. It turned out to be a
•moment, on a commanding pc
~ whence l dislodged them with shell and
r, ek. ’ < from the Ruby and ships’ boats. Homo
opposition was made to our landing, and shots
flo d trora behind hedges, Ac., but I succeeded in
c« ■ • mug the place, which 1 did not injuro, us it
ot W contained private property.
01. I'.llownig morning 1 anchored at tho mouth
o f*. .. Ky, r Porlao ki, and, landing on its right
tiai k •: o' roved a Cossack barracks and stab es,
,1 ~ ’ , Ui't soldiers into tho country. 1 then
came on hero.
Having anchored tho ships as close as I could to
the I nf H'r.ilaund, I procoodod in tho Kuby,
acc.. i|.,.i iod by Captain Vansittart, of too Magi
ciennn, and Captain Boarder, Koyal Murines, of
tV . i.’ip, i lie Inner officer having under his com
mand a strong detachment of Marines. We
tow. i with ns the boats of tho ship, under com
ma I t I,'OnteuantH Haggard and Woolcotnbo,
| .: ot the Magicierine, uudor command of
Ueot 1.1. i« Kmg and Lundy.
Huvi g opened tho liay called Trangaund, wo
tmvi h K man of-war steamer, with two large
j, U] i, , hi tow, not lar off; this most novel and
urn xj clod sight of a Bussiuu mull of war for once
of r *»f n stone wall, and to all uppearanee in
clin I 'ogive us a fair and honest fight, created
II :,‘ulust onthuaisbm among tho men and
dii • ra.
1 cto 1 Mr. Ilalo, commanding the Kuby, to
open fin- nil tier at once, but sho very soon retired
o;r o- range, having, 1 think, received some
dan. go. Wo had now reached the ontranee of
the mid; Wib irg wbh in sight, and a fair pros
p. i atiu. king tlnoe Urge gunboats, lying with
dtothor steamer under an island about one mile
oil. V o were hero brought up by a barrier, im
ped".g the pai-sago of tiio gunb mts and launches.
A i this mo mnt u masked buttery on the lett
bin if, i. t more than 85J yards off', opcuod on ns
an, -ivy lho of n usketry, round, andgrapo; this
w . ...sistttly retnrued and kept in cheek by a
rapid si d well directed fire from the Kuby and ad
the b uts. The e-emy’s stonier and gunboats
t'ln,, inu Iran uudor tho island and also opened
fire on u«*.
A < was impOß&iblo to get tho Ruby through
tho burner, 1 returned towards Slrnlsund, the
nnrfi v’l r Union following ns along lho banks,
but 1 liven from tboir positions us lost as they
tool! . by ttie fire from the Ruby and boats.
A explosion took place in one ot the Arrogant s
r li lnch swampod the boat; the meu wore
save I, bit I re trot t say that Mr. Story the mid
Shipman command ot her, was killed.
I m dcavor igto s ivo Hio crew, tho bout dnit
-0 lidHl the battery, and would havo t.-.llou into
Uni | „r..is , I tho enemy had not Lieutenant Hug
: . t t> is snip, and Lientenaut Dowell, It. M.
a’ , V the Mag .iO.ino, in tho Kuby’s gig, with u
vol’i , to u r clew, lowed her out under a very heavy
U Krom the voat of war in Asia new* has arrived
that (I "-r.il Mnravicff had abandoned tho siege
of K 1 was, however, supposed that the Hus
eimn intended to surprise Erxerouin, or to attack
the Turks m tho Oeld Troops ware cousoque.itly
1, K < „ »tatitii\op e for ttio Asiatio seat of war.
Xhfl Urliliti Work*.
Caui- iie/oh* .'tv* toPol, July 7. —Thoabandon-
moi t yosterday, of the poiiiiou ia the ueighbor
boodul Haitlar has givou rise to some speculation;
bn'' ;m> true cause eoesnest pr sent unknown. The
10 li II a*‘, however, have come iu to join the
cam,. B „d the Turks who woro at Haider now oc
cupy ilio old red able The withdrawal of the
l(i b is att ribated by some people to the failure of
the land transport corps; but inadequate us this
service would be, 1 tear, at present to tuko the
ti .1.1 it s cma scarcely credible that any difficulty
should bo experienced ill so easy an undertaking
as f ii.port mg supplies for a small loreo only a
low iu. *■ . There is much talk oflho whole ot our
a-mv i t o relieve! irom tlio treuchcs by the
pi. neb, o . rdor that we may t ike the held, but X
fear it is ,m ! y talk. Eupatoria is the place named,
lr. ill which we should advauco to their north aide.
July B.—lt is said to day, and 1 think without
doubt it is the case, that a French division isabout
to be landed at Yalta. On the arrival ot the 92d
11 g landers, » hioli regiment is immediately ex
pooled iron) Gibraltar, a Highland divisiou will be
Ini mod under Hoc. uiniaud of Sir Colin Campbell,
a: .or' Will bo tlieu Highland regiments ouougli
for two brigades —the 42d, f 79th aud 98d, tho
Ordinal brigade, and lo 715t,72,1 and 921 will
fori.. the new one. The Guards will form a seps
rats command under Lord Kokeby. The woathor
has to day been Somewhat hotter than we have
of la experienced, but tho night is agaiu cool.
Much Hi ing, as usual, g ilia on in frout. Tho
K a lia 0 cornice c.d flr.ug grape out ot
m i in., into tho treuohee, whioh is unlortnuately
as hole to be guarded against as shell. Our casu
aUt.cs are very great.
J uly 9. —A sortie was made last night by the
Russians on tho klamolon. The musketry was
tioavv lor some time, but 1 do not hear that the
French have suffered severely. Hoyond this there
is again inching to record on another day of this
w.-ary and monotonous iite. bouv) new batteries
are about to be opened on tho Uedan.
July 10. Faeeing to a narrative oi tho operations
oft io so go, 1 have lo report little more than the
Omni nuance of tho same stand still rate ot things
Pat .hall, grayed and discourage! everyone
w. on l last wrote. To bo sure tho same resullless
and nual scale os of cannonading are kept up by
dav with variat.mw of musketry by ii'ght; snd
having state.! this l 101 l little untold. We hommer
aw»v . spasmodically, at the everlasting Kedan,
wi ,ci i,. turns quite as good as it gets; or help our
nelg , •ro i. i 1 ranch by practising on the equally
re r i v, yi.-iakolJ—.i either case without raa
k g t . sma... st measure of headway towards the
Kip ,ii Trey beyond. As the moon, however,
ha~ w niacheovi her lost quarter, the garrison
takes ere as,. < advautagea of the darkness to at
temp- I igntly mischief against both oar own and
the Fro co hues, uo the night betore last rather
a bris-. all'..ir took ; lace between tho latter and a
strong party of the enemy, who salved irom the
Maiak ts to * s-sy .be destruction of the French ap
proocl e* towards tliat revioobt. it will be remem
bered I nat oar allies, soon af.er their own and our
detest on ih, moumrahle 18. h, commeneed a sap
from tho Mamolcm to it r i* a-xU the Malakeff. As
this » 'rk ius been with ui. ro or le*s
saooes* every i. has ut present penetrate.!
over i »!t the di* auce be.ween the two redoubts,
sir-.d a: i'» tvirther exirau.i.y ia within some 850
yard:* of the Bi Asian embrasures. To stop its lur
tL >r ad vauce, th rotors, the enemy made a Airong
.'• tie . Sunday n ght, but after a sharp light
v ro .!r.\en back into their own works with ev»n
si Jerab e loss. The attempt was repeated soon
• Her, hot w:.s repulsed after another deter
mined niggle.
1 (Mxdit m tin i another
jjrra \ . rui’. 'iio: #h»: an untravelled Miiesiau
would os 11 t ;.t“mOi*t beautiful*’system of blon
de' *. iu w eh there seems to be an understood
rivalry otween cur adiea and ourselves After
the atf. tbe 18:n, 1 tuay remark, oar artillery
nieu is the i*»enty-one gnu and other neighbour
ing erica t**o rece ved orders to train their
giiue a night on the approaches to the Quarries on
tne ot e hard and on the' between the Mstne
lor. u d Maiak if on tie otnar ; m this case with
out th * srna le- arraugemeut torsiguais with the
Frt ,h. Acc. r. : .ir gly, on Sun ay night, when a
strong f'roe of Freueh deployed oat from the
Mann : >n to support those who’were already en
gaged in reps in? the enemy, cur twenty-one
gun ba’tery jir* on t hem, and kept it Wp
11.. s: ed o \\>y t . a hr eat hi os* messenger arrive!
to give not es of the murderous mistake. The well
timed blunder, I learn, atforded the enemy most
▼alaab’e aid, at) J had it been much longer contin
tied would have resulted in the repulse of our allies
aud the de-tru: ion of their hard‘worked sap.
That such an error couM srise is about equally
the turn of ou seive* and the sufferer?, for the
arrax g'a. ct of sc- e system of signals to distic
tirgui> a friendly from a hostile party on groutd
on whigfcjt was mutually understood that our
g-rns sh. i:d be prepared to p’ay at night seems so
much a n.u ter of course, that the rawest recruit
th*T was ever c:n acted with a marching regiment
would ! ave thought of it as a first step in the plan
U b,p, what.r
very fro.-* officio: ~ ucticed in m, , '
S.over' news *e- m’ to have pervadadeverva«.H;
docaruent that emanated ir m iw ,»
ri iriiii tbe lets regime; ?nd it the i‘« Vb
tu.nd-r’* present attack cf (rent 1,« cf fre<)aem
c. ui recce, we can burd’y tope lor much itnprove
roent in tire respect. I: remains to be eeeu how
tbe lew miii'ary secretary —Colonel Sievenson,
pf (be Gaard*—will compare with hit* predeces
sor, who, *t ell events, *s. generally prpetar end
bore th* name of be: if » hard working matt.
JeW 10.—A powerful fire was opened againet
the Redan at three A 11. this morning, from both
tbe !eit and right British attack*, and was oon
tinne i about nine boons. Thß Bedan answered
uu'k'v and vigorously. Oor practice Was most
Tbive of the moet powerful mortars in
tfce Green bill attack were OOBfltantl# di*cbarg«d
tokelher, and the effect proceed by the afceus ;
falling within the Redan at short distance# from |
each ether was strongly marked. They reached
thegrbund almost at instant, and clouds j
of dust arose ufter their explosion. Frequently
the shot from the Frenchman’s hill batteries were
noticed to paoe right through the embrasures of
the Redan, plowing up the cheek* of the openings
as they paa»#d along. Yet it is doubtful whether
much damage was done to the eneoty’s guns.
Os ca when our aftiilerymen had supposed that
certain guns, from their continued' silence, had
been knocked over, these gifts would suddenly
appear in their embrasures, and open fire. Even
late in the evening, after the fire had been re
newed in the afternoon against the Redan, the
guns appeared able to reply whenever it suited
the purpoee of the enemy that they should. It is
evident that the enemy possets os some means of
speedily dxawiLg the guns away from tbo em
brasures and placing them under • »<fe cover;
where they can be loaded and kept ready for nse,
and afterwards of spe di y replacing them In the
embrasures. What kind of 44 b.ind«ge” is ua d
cannot be di»tingui~i.ed. After a gun from the
Redan had been fired, the sp *ce in the embrasure
was often observed to become vacant, and only
re-occupied ju*t before another dxsenarge took
though the guns may have re-nstned for the
most part uninjured, it wa* seen that the artille
rymen Muffled -eve/ely. Behind the hollow be
tween the Redan and Ma:akoff hills, part of a
broad road is visible. This road eme»ges from
behind the Redan yard wail, and is lost to view
behind the Malakcff bill. Along this way men
bearing stretchers and ambulance wagons were
observed to pi>a and re pace in unusual number,-*.
Nor coaid it be understood how the reqaisitflP
number ot men for working tuegans pouid re
main within the Redan and great loss not oo ar
among them from the discharge of auch an over
powering weight of metal.
The tire from our. batteries against the Redan
ceased about noon. 11 was resumed between throe
and four o’clock F. M., and prolonged till sanpot.
The object appearel to bo to silence, if possi e,
the tire which for some time pa«t the Redan had
kept up against oar working parties. The gens
of the enemy failed to do ar-y execution against
our batteries. In the course of the morning alO
iDch gun in the right attack burst, killing one
sailor and wounrlini two others. It is remarkable
that the MalakotJ batteries did not fire.
Three new embrasures were discovered thia
morning on the proper right of i he Malukoff work a .
They must have been opened during the night.
The line of fire appears to be against our quarryr
work.
July 11#—One result of the fire opened against
the Redan yestefday appeal a to have bean a con
siderable diminution to tUo degree of'opposition
j made by Hr guneagi o our advanced works, and
; ; h« -uppoactf 4tt# of oparaiiuD# iu pr 'fr#aa by our
w. f iking paries. The tire was less vigorous tnut
t had nee* tor itany nigh'a previously. TLc
«>neiny made frequent use of flrehidbq as f tAsre
1 were some npicica that to# fye of tb© viwt o,v
J eti, intended yy bo preliminary ..tugik at
nighu
! (lapt, Beauchamp MaonseH, of the 30th Reg
• ' t te i k i.bd lasl sight, oi© was on
dary in the ©f the left attack.
About 10 F. M. a fir© broke out in the town,
which threw a bright glare for a wide distance
round. It appeared to bo near the ravine, at the
head of the south harbor, and was very probable
ar. intentional destruction of some of the bouses ot
the suburbs which were in the way of the Ru.-sian
works.
The fire in the batteries has been very slack ail
day. The weather has continued oppre-si«ely
hot. It appears strange that at this period of the
hot season the is*ue of summer clothing to the
troops is not yet completed. In the light divis
ion the was only commenced within a week
past, and as yet summer tr users only havo bean
given out to the men. It is stated that the suits
will be completed within a short time, bat two
months ago they might have been distributed with
advantage. The soldiers who havo lately joined
have brought their canvas dress with them, and
all the meu who aro wearing it describe it to’be an
easy and cool attire, especially when on fatigue
duty. Flies now infest the camp in an eh count
less myriads that they almost amount to a plague.
They chiefly consist of the same species as the
common bouse fly in England. Mosquitoes and
sand flies are also annoying, but do not exi t to
such an extent as to cause inconvenience worthy
of note.
The execution of a French soldier took place
this afternoon, in the plain of »va. The un
happy criminal belonged totho7Bd regimontiof the
lino. He had stubbed the captain bf hie company,
nud caused his death. The law of retaliation v/as
executed with the characteristic promptness which
exists in the French army. H«j wus conveyed in
an artillery wagon to tho - pot where life wa
to pay forfeit tor the act ho had committed, and
was attended by a priest. Three, sides of a hoi
low eqnaro wore formed ; tho whole ot tho 73d
regiment, and one company from every other regi
mont in the plain, *being present. T*"o fourth
side was occupied by the culprit. Ho knelt down,
and his eyos wero bandaged. Ilis hands had oeen
previously s< cured behind him. After a tew
words from the priest, a crueitix was presented to
him, and ho kissed it. Tho priest then kissed tho
soldier on tho forehead and left him. Only a Lw
moments of suspense followed. A firing party ot
twelve men had been drawn up in trout of the
prisoner. Ton ot these men wero to fire ; tho
shots of two wore reserved in case of tho execu
tion being incomp.eto. Tins proved to be a pru
dent precaution. The order to fire was made in
silence—signalled by a movement o? tho sword of
tho officer in command of the firing party. At
tho first wavo ot the blade tho arms were “carried,”
at tho second they wore brought to the “present,”
at the third tfro shots wero discharged. There
wore a sow quivering movements, ard tho soldier
fell forward. A surgeon advanced and found lito
not quite extinct; but one of tho two raon left n
re.-orve being ordered forward, speedily c inclu
ded the tragedy.
July 12.—There was again a very sharp fire in
the batteries last night, but for every shot or shell
of the enemy our guns sent two tack ; and this
practice, if continued, considering our superiority
in weight ot metal, must iu tho end, it is presum
ed, cause tho Russians to think twice before they
fire.
The French works aro advancing considerably,
both those destined to act rgainst the shipping,
and those more directly against tho M i akoff itself.
Tho works above tho Car* ening liay ravine are
approaching completion. Tne now battery in ad
vance of tho spur, on which was lho small 5 gun
battery dosorted by the enemy after their loss of
the other redoubts in this situation, is progressing,
notwithstanding tho difficulties connected with its
position, very favorably. But it will requirehome
time for i’s completion. Iu consequeuce of* the
vortical flro brought upon it by tho ouomy from
some of the batteries on tho north si 10, it is no
cossary that lho guns should bo protected by a
bomb proof blindage, and this is a work of much
labor. Tho guns me to be en barbette , and will he
elovated very little above tho level < f the water of
tho harbor. It is said that ted hotshot, as well as
howitzer shells, will bo made use of. The 12 gin
battery on the hoighl opposite has sought to im
pede the progress of tho work, but unsuccessfully.
Tho French have completed another approach,
across the Mu aki ls Hill. It is connected with the
large ambuscade which they throw up a low nights
ago, and lho site of an old Russians trench has
been taken advantage of iu its formation.
Major General Barnard is appointed chief of the
stall under Lieutenant General Simpson comman
dor in chief.
July 18.—The flro from the batteries was exceed
ingly heavy ou both sides last night, but our casu
alt os havo been very fjw in number.
Fort Paul fired a salute ol ID guns t>day. Some
cf the guns on tho roof, as well as others faciug
tho harbor, wero used. The object of the salute is
only a mattor of surmise.
A communication was obaorved to take place be
tween Fort Ooustantine aud one of our blockading
vessels.
The French toward sunset, and for about an
boor afterwards, flrad a number of incendiary
rockets against the town. They wero discharged
from one of the redoubts ou tho east side of Careen
iug B y ravine.
July 14.—Heavy gusts of wind and occasional
rains occurred during tho night. Tho tire from tho
batteries was loss heavy than on tho preceding
night.
Tho general health of tho troops engaged in the
siego oporutions continues excellent. Dysentery
and fe.ors are the prevailing diseases. Cholera
seems almost to Lave ontiroiy quitted the front of
our position, although it still clings to aomo pecu
liar situations. Tho toinporataro bus continued
very high.
Tho Journal do St. Potorsburg, of the Tth of
July, publishes a long slaiomont relative to the
Haugo affair, as also tho corrospoDdonco on the
same sur jeet between Admiral Dundas and Gen
oral De Borg. The semi-official Russian organ
donios that tho Cossack s boat wus entitled to be
respected. “No signal,” it says, “was made to
givo timely iu formal iou to our authorities of the
approach of a Hug of truce to parley. No consent
was ask*.d, no permission granted to autboriae a
landing; the boat ran on shore, tho crew lauded,
the officer advanced into hostile territory without
auv legal recognition of his quality—in a word,
at his owu risk and peril. He fell iuto our pow
er, oxposiug his lito u”d the lives of his crow to
the chances of a surprise. The S aporor, in de
fonding his country against hostile aggression,
which he did not provoke, maintains, sword in
hand the dignity of his crown and lho honor of
Russia in honest war, by the aid of God. If the
ouomy makes us of artifices, it is for us to counter
act them by every moans in ( ur power, conforma
ble to the law ot nations. We have j :st done so
a: llaugo. Wo declare it openly. The enemy
regret the failure ot an expo Lion he thought he
could carry out with impunity under cover of a
white flag; but it cannot be 'ullowel to revenge
himself by injurious language aocusing Russia of
having infringed the laws of war, whilst he is the
first to transgress them by overstepping the limits
of what isjust aud legitimate iu legal warfare.”
A Russian official acoonut of tho loss sustained
by the garrison ot Sevastopol on the 17. h ard 18 h
of June, when the attacks were made upon the
Malakoff Tower and the Redan, has found its way
to this country; and we learn from it, with no
small surprise, that the loss on that occa«ioo was
very little loss than that of tho allies ; whereas it
unusually happens, when a serious assauit ou a
fortified piece is repulsed, that the loss of tho as
sailants, who are necessarily uilyexposod o fire,
is very much greater than that ot ttie defenders,
who light under the protection of their work-.
Notwithstanding this advantage, the Russia* • h .
no less than 797 officers aud in \\ killed, and 4,797
wounded ; numbers ci nsidetab'y trae *y r. «;.•
tin of the allied armue in the bioody Daitlt of
Jfdbtrmann / This loss nuv : have • o*u c.- n ,i
chiefly by the heavy fire ol artillery which sue
cceded the repulse of tho assar. ts ; for neither
tha Ragtiab uor tbe French troops attained any
position from which their musketry fire could have
been very effective.
Austria and Kua§u—The same writer refers to
a commuuiCAt ou which, according to a Vienna
letter, recently passed between the Empre-s
Dowager of Russia aud the mother of the Emperor
ol Austria. The Austrian Archduchess rad .-up
plicated for the return or a letter >he hid written
to the i&te Czar, beseeching his aid to pat down
the Hungarian insarrectton. This document had
been carefully kept as evidence for tha obligation
of Austria, bu; tne widow or Nicholas has re
turned it, and she now a.?ks that Austria will be
firm in maintaining- the propositions she main
tained at Vienta. The terms used by the D. war
Empress are such as to in Loan anyth i: g bu: c u
fidence in t e result cl the war. The death of
General TodL ben, who had acquired great fame
lor the scientific manner in which the defence or
Seva*;opoi was conducted, is announced iu several j
of the German papers.
Holland.—The Hague, July IS.— Two men,
serving in the Dutch marine, have becu apprehen
ded in route foi Eug.aud to join the foreigt Legion.
They had beeu enlisted by »n agent here.~vbo
seems however, to have **sme;i a rat,', and e-eap
ed. The authorities, I hear, have given rrict
orders to prevent any attempts to enlist Du chmen
Into the Foreign Legion. The affa*r at Cologne
will serve as a precedent here fur the conduct of
the Dutch officials should auy agent be delected in
executing aDy instructions for obtaining recruits
in Hcllaud.
Russia.—A letter from Odessa, of thol4:h, in
the Saint Public of Lyons, says - “In the appre
hensions cf a speedy attack from the vessels of the
SvaofAxuff, the Ko&aiun* ?. r e actively fortifying
Bestow, at the mouth of the Dou. The channel
has been obs.ructed by lar»re stones, which have
been thrown in to prevent the river lrom being
ntvlgable. The town is n.ied with Cossacks.”
Tukksy.—A letter from Varna, in the German
Journal of Frankfort, says:—“lt new appears
positive ih»t a French ccxpe wi.l land here about
the end of July. Preparations for thoir reception
are being made both here aud at Baitcbick, an i a
hltih.s OJlon l: ‘° surrounding
aiderabiy “a “ !s ° b f° U
2 000 min • a * ■ ? have here only about
6 (So ?f our aar risen, about
tiliaUia, the hc^t^^Tdacha via
betak<*c. Our town r«r»
ind tie C r r L Ca T ero ' 1S
.. W UUtT lrum tU to Petueier.
“Monsieur le Commandant-general, 1 desire
to offer to you and to the brave army placed under
yourcfi#r*, oudwbiob the emperor, i&y#oga#t
and firm ally, has ordered for the defence of my
cause, a public mark of my high satisfaction and
my sincere congratulations for the new feats of
arms which you havo just added to the many
previous striking acts that have covered with glorv
the allied troops fighting in so a cause, and
braving with such intrepidity the rigors of a se
vere climate The blood shed on tieids of battle
for the defence of that cause which is now become
the pledge of the maintenance of legality in Eu
rope will certainly have for it* future precious re
euit to unit nations who are eapatye of apprecia
ting that legally, to cement their alliance by in- 1
dissoluble bond=, ior the all powerful sympathy of
nations is the most natural :-nd legitimate of aliian
eße persu ded that the admiration which I
feel for the warlike and moral bravery of the hero
ic soldiers ot tne Crimea, new extends it*>elf to ail
the populations which God has confided to me,
aad henceforth wa cannot make any distinction
between any of the soldiers who fight for the com
mon cause.
Tne whole wDrld have their eyes on the soldiers
ol those great allied cations who tight side by aid©
for the giory of their country. I doubt not that the
cases troops who diaiinguished themselves so muen
under the brave General Canrobert and who con
tinue to fight so brilliantly under >our commaud,
will soon obtain with your hr them in arms, by a
definite victory, thoee laurel# which they so we 1
merit for their incomparable courage in surmount
ing so muny dangers and undergoing so many suf
ferings. 1 am proud to see my soldiers take part in
thi# pure and sacred oontest. 1 charge my hi.le de
camp, E nem Ftcha, to deliver this letter to you,
and to convey :o your army tto expression ot my
gratitude. The sentiment of affection which I feel
in a,y heart for them is the stronger that the na
tion to which thus© brave soldiers belong is the
oldaSt aM> of my empire. I pray God to grant you
the n o-1 glorious success, and to have you in li:s
holy keeping. ‘*ABi>-uL-Mih#iD.
“Given at the PalftOO of Icheragan,
* 12th Sctewai, 1271.”
The White Sex. —£ommoscial letters from
Arc .angei, of Ja>y bth, mention that the allied
squadron in the White «4ea consisted of six ships,
and they had captured two or tliiee vessels laden
with grain. There remained at Archangel, and
ilia ether ports, only enough grain for current sup
ply, the main stock of breadstuff's having been
re uoved into the interior previous to the opening
ot navigation. Several battalions ol mhilia were
in camp near Archangel, ai*o regular troops to
the number of 12,000, namely, two regiments of
light h jrse, and tour pulksbf Don Cossacks. Tne
harbor was bwrioudao and and no appre
hensions were entertained of an aitacs. None of
the inhabitants had left the city. Admiral
Oruflchtschew, Governor of the district, hud his
headquarters within the ci:y of Archangel.
Miscellaneous Wab Items.— Col. Desusieau de
M&iroy u> appointed Tronoh Co itmissiouer at tne
E».g:iei, r ©*.jquarter., and Cap*, rasiyraud Feri
;;or«i ir appointed to the same office at the Bar
i dmiai headquarters.
I A French steamer haa been sent to Ma!*» for
| "toot stu. aid lit* Bey o-J.Cr.poii. Ts im* wn
j • ,k A province fc^^sadm* 1 4 u r: /uipcc:. —
ka were defeated
gen*. Arabs.
In me House of Commons on Friday night, July
27ih, Br J. Walsh asked as to the truth of tne
rumor that Omar Pacha had returned to Constan
tinople, and about to tender his resignation ?
Lord Fulmernton replied that Omar Pacha had
returned to Constantinople to hold consultation
with his government on military matters. It wa-i
not true that ne had any intention of resigning,
and be (Lord Palmerston) hoped he wou d long
continue to hold hisc ornmaud.
The iSashi-Bazoukß have been again behaving
badly. A party of them, (in English pay, under
Geu. Beatson) mutinied in the town ot Darda
uelie , pillaged the place, and committed murder,
violations and all sorts of excesses. Two French
frigates tired on the scoundrels, on which they left
the town and dispersed themselves over the coun
try. Troops have gone iu pursuit.
Fbanoe.— Queen Vi toria is expected in Paris
on the 17 h of August. Bhe will make her entrance
by the fetraaburg railway and the Boulevard de
btrasburg, arrangements having been made to
allow the train to pass from the Northern to the
S.rtisburg line, a-i the more eligible entiance.
A letter from Paris, td the 25th, says:—l was
assured yesterday, by one of tne people charged
Wuh the preparations at the Proiecture ot the Beiue,
that the jen’s entrance is to be a sort of triumphal
one ; what is called uno entree soUnueUe, with can
non firing, bells ringiug, &c. Now, at the same
time, my informant added“ These are the pre
sent decisions upon the matter; but there is some
discussion upon it; for many ol the e»'*peror’s
entourage think it may bo unwise to award public
honors to a loreigu sovereign, however closely
allied. The Paris population is jealous and touchy,
and it is just possible this might not please its
humor. However, for the moment, it is tixod that
<T loeu Victoria shall, lrom the Fabourg St. Denis
to the Tullorios, doscond tbo Boulevards in tri
umph.”
Gebmant.—All the Hanoverian Cabinet, with
tbo exception of the Minister of War, has lesignod.
Tbo new Cabinet is formed :
Prussia has issued another long circular docu
ment, defending ita position ol neutrality.
Russia. —An Imperial ukase forbids Jews to pur
chase lauds or to settle as agriculturalists in the
Governments of l cheouigott and Goltawa. It is
reported that the local boards ol administration in
Poland aro to bo dissolved and the administration
will be henceforth directed from Bt. Petersburg.
Polish political offenders are to bo tried by material
law.
Letters from Prussia speak of the Czar’s cease
less energy iu the management of tho war, but
make no ullusion to his rumored ill health.
Marshall said to havo asked
leave to resign.
The news of the fire at Novogorod is. contradic
ted. It is to Wiadimir, in tho government of
Volhyniu, that .the statement applies.
{Spain. —Cholera is spreading desolation and dis
may through the fertile provinces of Navarro, Ar
ragon and Andalusia.
Tne band ol CarJista commanded by the broth
ors Hieros still wander in Old Castile, evading pur
suit by tho celerity of their movements and the
assistance given them by tho peasantry. The
captain general of the province has therefore is
sued an edict enacting line, imprisonment, court
martial and compulsory service in the army to all
who afford (Ja> lists concealment or aid. To this
proclamation, the Carlists reply by the most san
guinary threats against all who shall betray them.
It appears from correspondence found on the
person of a Cariist chief belonging to Marsal’s
band, and who was killed in the recent conflict
[• with the Government troops, that iho Cariist move
ment was intended to bo ou a largo scale, and to
\ take place simultaneously in various pails ol Cats
, lonia uud tho Nprthorn urorinpe*.
, % some further diotui WancQ3 had occurred at
, Badajoz, but they aro reported “ non-political.”
Prince Adalbert, heir-apparont of Batavia, is to
ein fan l&ari; Amelia, the kind’s sister.
, Tho dilficulty with Romo continues.
. Advices from Barcelona speak ol the ruinous
f cfleets of tho insurrection. Many of thoinflaen
s tint manufacturers and opulent individuals had
i lelt,or wore preparing to leate that city; 500,0u0,-
000 nui.-i had been withdrawn from circulation;
und thousands of the workiug population had
been reduced to hopeless beggary.
; Italy.— The condition of liuly is extremely un
j satisfactory. Rumors of plots*and conspiracies
j pervade the whole peninsula. Cholera is virulent
iu Lamburdy. In Naples numerous arrests ol
, oilicors ol the army have boon made, and Govern
m nt is at present suspiciously kind to the iaz
z ironi.
The Very Latest.
By Telegraph from London to Liverpool .
The Baltic.—Dantsio, Friday.—Tho “Light
1 uing” has arrived from tho fleet, and reports that
ruin for cements had reached the fleet. The order
1 to attack Ravel was still lookea lor.
Asia. —Tho Moniteur cou tains the following:—
Emlboum, July B,—Yonikeni, a village distant
I about eighteen leagues from tizjroum, containing
largo stores ot provisions for the army at Kars has
1 boon occupied by a Russian division, composed of
four battailions ot iniautry, 8500 Cossacks, six
regiments of cavalry, and 18 pieces of artillery.
The whole force is about 12,000 men.
The Turkish army is in a manner blockaded at
1 Kars. The Cossacks oocupy the' entire plain ol
1 K irs, but no new attack has been made since the
ufiair ol the 19th. It is feared that the Russian di
vision at Ba>u»id may effect a junction with tho
forces encamped at Yenikeni to march ou £it>
roum.
Tbi Six of Axon.—Prince Lebanofif Bostons
ky writes from Gouitschi, that on the 27th ult. 9
steamers came in sight of that place, and tho next
day a scr w steamer and gun boat approached,
and opened fire on a convoy ot salt wagons, sever
al of which wore burned.
From the 28th of Juno to tho 2 1 of July ho says
the squadron kept up a constant bombardment ot
Genitschi, and tho boats detached from it sot on
fire tho farm houses to a distance or 8 versts. On
tho sth of July tho squadron left.
The Prince aays tho Gouitschi detachment has
since been roinforced, and the bridgo of Tchongal
protected by now fortifications.
Ho further mentions the visit of an enemy’s
steamer to Poronsky near Budiunski.
A cannonade was kept up for four hours and a
• half, and the Rass ani had one officer and 8 men
wounded. 17 houses and a church wore injured.
' The vessol had been joined by lour other steamers
on the 25‘h ult., when the report left.
• An Italian Legion. —Tho London United Ser
' vice Gazette announces tho intention of the British
‘ Government to form an Italian Legion, it is to bo
> raised at Novara, where the head quarters will be
stationed, under the supermtentence of the Brit
ish Minister at tho Court of Sardinia. The com-
J maud is to be held by Col. H. Manners Percy, and
: thoclficers are to bo partly Italian, and partly
’ British gentlemen who speak the Italian language.
Commercial IntelL'gence.
f The London Daily News of Saturday says that
a during tho previous day tho English funds were
4 free from fluctnat on ol moment, and business was
circumscribed. Tho steady absorption of stock
l seen gto point to higher prices, but this tendency
, is checked by the wet weather, and by tho appre
3 hensica that money will become dearer. Consols
ranged between 90% to 91, and were last quoted
| at 9i %u9t-Jj.
, St. Petersburg advices the 19th inst. quote
• Exchange on Lcudou at
~ At tho cohni&l wool sales very considerable pnr
. chases are still made for the continent. The wet
weather, however, has checked the upward tenden
cy, and pricas are rather in favor of tho buyers
[ within tho las: two or three days,
i The decrease in the bullion is again heavy, and
amounts to £ J54 ; 774. In addition to tho aflat
j to the continent, considerable shipments of coin
• i have ir.te'y boeu made for our expeditions abroad.
I j The Trade Ketubn*.—The total value of British
produou exported daring the month ending June
• 80th, 1555, was f 5,187,595, showing a decrea ea
compared vcLb tho same period of last year or half
From J an nary to J nne, 1555, our exports amoun
ted £l4. which co > pared with the first six
k months of 1854,showsa falling vfl of £4,489 800.—
; The decrease is shared in by mezt articles, cotton
■ i being ' o principal exception. It shows rather ail
increase.
Tax Great Canon or tbe Colorado Eiyer and
tul Llano E;tacado of the uerritcbycf New
Mexico.— Th.s Ligniy interesting geo.ogicai feature
ia the topography or the eastern {rottiers of Cali
1 forma, s.rusted in t::e portion of tbe
count., ct St. B raardino, has been lately, t hrough
| \be exp orations of Captain Si greaves in 1851, for
t the first time acurately located on a map. It lies
Ivory rear the latitude cf thirty six degrees north
latitude, a d about 114 degrees 30 minute
we.-: from tue meridian of Greenwich, as laid down
or the map ct Capt. R. JB. M*rcy, 1854, lately pub
j fished by order or the Secre'ary of War. * Capt.
Sitgrcaves, it appears, only explored a small part
of the southern portion of the Great Canon. It
is asserted, by the fj* old hunters and trap
pers who ha\e strayed into its deserts and inhos
pitabie vic nity, to be about ISO miles in length.
Through its whole course, the Colorado River,
from tho n rtb, is violently forced through a rocky,
narrow bed, or rather box of volcanic formation of
A-s&nlt and igneous upheavals. This highly curi
ous feature ot our physicial geography isoueof the
great wend, rs of the a theme of marvel
ar.d daring exploit at the camp of every old hunter
of New Mexico and Cali:onus. O.d mother Nature
appears to have been ic a desperate fit of urgev
erab’e rr-ga whan she ma le this p-*rt of earth's
turt&ce. It lies across the Eastern Sihara, about
three hundred mi.es in a north by east direction
from the Mormon settlement of Sau Bornsidino,
or some four, huudred m.les from Los Angelos.
Oa Captain Marcy’s map, aforesaid, is laid down
also ler the first time with any ar proach to accu
racy, that erther physico geegraphkol feature of
our new western territories, caned by the {Span
iards the L’auo E> acado, or Staked P.uin-*. It lies
at the altitude of 2,500 feet, and between the me
ridiaus of lc2 and 104 degrees west es Greenwich,
tni is enclosed by the north parahels ot £2 and 86
degrees. It is said to be entirely desert, and is ,
coinpc -cd, like many parts of California, cf hard
beds of clay, and ou its edges of sulphate of lime ,
or gypsum. Cap-aln Idarcy in 1852 explored along its
centre on tne tine of Red R:vur cf LcuieianLa, for *
a distance of over 100 miies. .
I
\ienna, July 26.—Simultaneous accounts from <
Broie and W arsaw state that the prohibition to ex- ’
port corn has been taken off by the Russian Govern- \
ment. \
from thi L-witvilte CourUr, 7 th ifuU
LOIHVILLB TIOTH.
We paf.'ed, yeetorday, through the forms of an
c! c iou. As provided by the s'.atute, the polls
T?ere opened, au i privileze graated to such as were
“ right upon the goose,’’ with a lew exceptions,
to exorcise tbeir elective franchise. Never, per-
Lupr w!»* a greater tarce, or as we should term it
tragedy, enacted. Hundreds and thousands were
deterred Irom voang by direct act 3of intimida
tion, others through fear cf consequences, and a
multitude irom the lack of proper facilities. The
City, indeed, was, during the day, in possession of
unarmed tuob, the base passions of which were
iumriated to the highest pitch by the incendiary
appeals ol the newspaper organ and the popular
leaders of the Know Nothing party.
On Sunday night, large detachments of men
were sent to the First and Seoond Wards to see
that the polls were properly opened. These men,
the •* American Executive Committee” supplied
with the requisite refreshments , and as may be im
tgiued they were iu very fit condition oa yester
day mornii.g to see ’hat the rights of ireemen
we/e re-p cted. Indeed they discharged the im
portant trusts committed to them in such a manner
as t-j commend them forever to the admiration of
outlaws 1 They opened the polls ; they provided
way* and means for tneir own party to vote ; they
bulled and bullied all who could not show the
sign ; they in tact converted the election into a
perfect farce, without one redeeming or qualifying
pba e.
Wo do not know when or how their plan of
operations was devised. Indeed we do not care to
k/.ow when such a system of outrage—such per
ndy—such dastardy—was conceived. We only
b ash for Kentucky that her soil was the sconce
ot such outrages, and that some of her sons ware
panic'pacts in the swindle.
It would be impossible to know when or where
this riot commenced. By day-break the polls
were taken possession of by the American party,
and iu pursuance ot iheir preconcerted game, they
used every stratagem or device to hinder the vote
cf every man who could not manifest to the
‘guardians of the polls” his soundness on the
Know Notaing question. We were personally
witnesses to the procedute of the party in certain
wards, and of these we feel authorized to speak.
At the Seventh Ward we discovered that for three
hours in the outset in the morning it was impos
sible 10 r tfo e not “ posted” to vote, without the
r a’est d ffieulty. In the Sixth Ward a party of
ij diioft were masters of the polls. We saw two
lore gners driven from the polls, forced to run a
gauntlet, beat unmercifully, stoned and stabbed.
In the case of one fellow the Hoc. Wm. Thomas
sod, formerly a member of Congress from this
*.kblret, ime.ferod, aud while appealing to tno
maddened crowd to cease their acts of disorder
and violence, Mr. Tbomasson was struck from be
' d 1 heat. Hi : gray hairs, his long public
j .-«• -v , f manly presence, and his thorough
j Americanism, availed nothing with the crated
i mob. Hher and serious figh's occurred iu the
j s»x of which we have no lime to make
•be mordser . > disgraceful dUtnrhaoess
ccurred in the per wards. The vote cast was
■'Ut a partial ud nearly alto/ether on one
- ...art tO LUe it leads vi IT Oo
ton, who were largely in »he mojority but who in
the lace of cannon,’ muskets and revolvers, could
n ?, being an unarmed and quiet populace, con-
Iron the mad mob. So the vote was cast one way
and the result stands before the public. # *
In the morning, as we started elsewhere, George
Borg, a carpenter living on the corqpr of 9tb and
Maiket, was killed near Hancock street. A Ger
man named I?ilz, formerly a partner at the Gall
House, was severely, if not fatally beaten.
In tho afternoon a general row occurred on Shel
by street, extending from Main to Broadway. We
aro unable to ascertain the fads concerning the
disturbance. Some fourteen or filtefn men were
shot, including officer Williams, Joe Selvage, and
others. Tw or three were killed, audajmmber
of houses, chiefly Ge/inan coffee houses, broken
into and pillaged. About 4 o’Jock, when the
vast crowd, augmented by accessions from every
patt of tho city, and armed with shot-guns, mus
kets and rifles, wore proceeding to attack the
Catholic church on Shelby street, Mayor Barbee
arrested them with a speech, and ihe mob retain
ed to the First Ward Polls. Presently a large
par y arrived with a piece of brass ordinance, fol
lowed by a number of men and boys with mus
ic is. Iu an hour afterwards the large brewery on
Jefferson street near the junction of Green, was
set lire to.
In the lower part of the city, the disturbances
were characterized by a greater degree of bloody
work. Late iu tho afternoon three Irishmen
going down Main street near Eleventh, were at
tacked, and one knocked down. Then ensued a
terrible scene; tho Irish firing from the windows
f their houses, on Main street, repeated volleys.
M . Khodee, a river man, was shot and killed by
one i n ho upper story ai d a Mr. Graham met with
a similar fate. Au Irishman who discharged a
pistol at the back of a man’s head, was shot and
lieu hung. He however, survived both punish
ments. John Hudson, a carpenter, was shot dur
ing the fracas.
After dusk a row of frame houses on Main
street between Tenth and Eleventh, the property
of Mr. Qainn, a well known Irishman, was sot on
lire. Tho flames extended accross tho street and
twelve buildings wore destroyed. These houses
Wvoro chiefly teuauted by Irish, and upon any of
tho tenants venturing out to escape the flames
they wero immediately shot down. No idea could
bo formed of the number killed. Wo are advised
that five men were roasted to death , have been so
badly wounded by gun shot wounds that they
coaid not escape Irom the burning buildings.
Os all tho enormities and outrages committed
Ty the American party yesterday and last night
wo have not time now to write. The mob having
satisfied its appotite for blood, repaired to Third
stroet, and until midnight made demonstrations
again t the “Times” and “Democrat” offices.—
i'he furious crowd satisfied itself, however, with
breaking a few window panes, and burning the
signs of tho Times office.
At ono o’clock this morning a largo fire is raging
in the upper part of the city.
Upon tho proceedings of yesterday, and last
night, we have no time, nor heart how to com
rnent. Wo are sickened with the very thought of
the men murdered, aud houses burned and pillag
ed, that signalized tho American victory yester
day. Notle-s than twenty corpses from the
trophies of th a wonderful achievement.
Tho Courier has tho following parabraphs:
Vote of the City. —The election yesterday in
this cly was a period farce. The Knew Nothings
polled their full vote, and then prevented all the
others from voting. We have no time to give de
tails this morning, and mußt defer until to-morrow
►all wo have to say.
A rokoehsmo. —Threats ropeadly made during
yesterday ovo/iing, and last night, that tho mpb
would attack our office, created such a stampede
among our printer*, (many of whom by the way
aro Know Nothings,) they could not be induced to
work. We are consequently unable to give all the
news we have collected this morning, and must
l.tow ourselves on the clemency of our readers.
Tho Democrat has the annexed:
Louisville Disohaoed.— No respectable man can
ft! e eenes, of yesterday, without shame.
Wo had a farce, or rather a tragedy, instead of an
election. A complete system of terror and blood
was established by the Know Nothing party or
faction. Tho details ore disgusting.
The law'ossness wa3 provided for by the au
thorities, iu allowing but one voting place in a
ward. The upper aud lor.er wards were taken at
au early hour, and the middle wards were not ex
empt.
We have had no election in any American sense
of tho word. Our city isgovarned, not by law, but
by a sot of hirod scoundrels who obey the sacret
commands of lawless men. It is not worth while
to try to disguise the character ot this city. There
is no law, no police, no justice hero. Our poll
books speak not tho voice of the people, but the
dictates of a mob.
Wo never beard of Buch scenes, much less have
wo s:ea thorn anywhere. Nor have such ever
boon witnessed in this country. This sort of pro
ceeding was not anticipated. It came fully up to
uli thut had been threatened, and surpassed any
thing anticipated, unscrupulous aB we knew the
;; orot party. It the election in Louisville yester
day was legal and is to stand, then the right of
suffrage in Kontucky is a mockery. There is no
freedom nero and no law. Scoun.relism is tri
umphant.
We have found means to subvert the law of
numbers at the polls by violence, and passed off
as legal. If the ex imple of Louisville were gene
rally followed, the liberties of this country would
bo ended. We shall hear from Kentucky, how
ever, .11 a few days. Perhaps wo shall have good
now , when it will be necessary for the State to
tako this city in hand, and reduce her to obedi
ence, to law.
From the Louisville Journal of the B th.
Farther Particular*.
Wo hnvo taken pains to ascertain the correct
version of the origin of the riots on Monday. We
have conversed with a number of persons who
were witnesses of the beginning of the affrays in
both the Fir-d and Eighth wards. We havo been
well assured that those scenes of violence were
altogether disconnected with the election, and that
ail this bloodshed and destruction of life and
property were occasioned in every instance by
unprovoked and murderous assaults of foreigners
a on native born citizens. In every instance
where death has or blood has been spilt,
Americans were first fired upon and cut, stabbed,
or beaten by foreigners.
There is vory strong ground for belief that these
attacks were not occasioned by anything that htp
poned on Monday, but that all the arrangements
were made for them several days before hand—
that they were premeditated and preconcerted.
From several sources we havo been informed that
the Catholic Irish in the neighborhood of Quinn’s
houses, on Main street, had f rranged for and con
templated an attack upon the American procession
on Saturday night and were induced to defer the
execution of their murderous designs only by
their fe rs excited by the immense and unexpected
number and character of those who composed the
procession. Two of the Irish women living in
thut neighborhood have admitted that they were
cognizmt of this design.
A gantlemau informs us that on Monday he was
warned by a German friend, a gunsmith, not to
a; p'C: cb the portion of Main street between Tenth
and Twelfth otreets during the day, as he had
within the previous ton days cleaned and put in
order quite two hundred guns for the Irishmen
living in that neighborhood. We have been told
that there were several Irishmen engaged in the
riot who did not belong to the city, hut had been
eumi ned here for the especial purpose ol aiding
their countrymen in the outrages contemplated by
: them on Saturday night ad actaally perpetrated
| or Monday afternoon. It has also been ascertained
beyond any doubt that there was a large quantity
of arms and ammunition contained in the houses
-of Quinn, whichjwere destroyed. We have also
been informed that threats had been made by
Catholic Germans in the First ward that they
would kid any German who should dare to vote
the American ticket on Monday, and we learn from
the statement ol one of the men who were wounded
upon Shelby street that this threat, in one in
stance, at least, was actually carried into effect on
Monday afternoon. Wo also know that in conse
quence of these threats and of information that
those wno have uttered them were assembled to
gether, tally armed and bent upon the execution
of tceir bloody purpose, a number of respectable,
orderly Germans who voted the American ticket
were actually afraid to go to their homes and d:d
no' go there until yesterday.
For more than a week past we have received
mtima ion from different sources that there was
in ti e First ward an organized force of Sag Nichts,
! a: i that every effort was intended to be made by
j :he leaders of tho Anti American party to induce
he foreigners in thia city to effect by force what
j they mignt not be able to do by peaceably and
I quietly depositing their votes. For weeks before
the el ciion, most outrageous, inflammatory, and
; incen diary appeals had been made to them in the
I speeches of their party demagogues and through
I their party press. They had been induced to be
j iieve, what is nDt true, that the American party
| nought to take away or interfere with some of
; the:r vested rights. They were thus wrought
u : n and their most violent and basest passions
nflamed almost to madness, until murder and
i crime were the consequences. Even if it were not
true, that (as many believe and not unreasonably,)
these foreigners were instigated to and abetted in
these acts of violence by others who are not now
known, but who ought to have had more sense
and patriotism, still enough has been said and
done by the leaders an t demagogues of the Sag
Nichts party to attaeh to them great part of the
b ane lor these lamentable and disgraceful riots.
We hope the investigations of the Coroner may
bring to ight all the facts and ihe cause# and the .
antecedents of these occurrences in order that the
terrible responsibility of having incited these acts
cl v._.lenee may rest where it properly belongs .
ana that public condemnation may fall upon the
hea s of the really guilty.
It is certainly true that the election was passing
eff without more violence or disturbance than al
most invariably attended the elections in which
tho old political parties were contestants. The
election had proceeded thus quietly until between
three and four o’clock in the First ward and until
near 6 o’clock in the Eighth ward. The voting
had slackened. There was at that time no diffi
culty for any one to gain admission to the polls.
The foreigners- who commenced the firing from
the windows and behind gateways and fences were •
fully armed and acted in conceit, while the Amer- '
Scans wars od prepared »nd unzuspidow ofjny
attack Thev were unarmed and were obliged to
goto their homeato arm themselves in order to
defend themaeises from
.laughter. There is indeed not a shadow of doubt
that there would not hate »»eo any
or murders, or house burnings, or note, if it Lad
not been for the wholesale and unprovoked killing
and wounding of*unoflending native
can citizens by the bloody minded foreigners who
commenced this hellish * or *- . j the
Since writing the above, «
Mr Era’a BsS,« d
ssK&bs
pened in the First ward on Monday, foreigners
born citizens prevented from ™
a^heSeventh*werTpolls, for the fi ™;^reehouni
n SJSfSj b i
gentlemen who were present, » , a *
seven o’clock some twenty Irishmen voted at tnat
poll, and that Americans who were there at seven
o’clock were, by the presence of "f D9r9 J, J™
vented voting until after nine. A - the J°° rth
ward we ourselves saw, early moving
American citizens thrust aside and pushed and
crowded ont by a body of Germans who we:re
pressing toward the entrance to P
At different times during the day , , those
several of the polls, and after the crowd of “SJJ*
who came early to vote had cast their ballote,
there were a number of Pines during the day
when scarcely any one but Ihe officers °
election were present at or annul tho P ■ ’
obstruction whatever was ° fi er«l o t h e entrance
of any one entitled to a vote. For thefirst three
hours of the morning all the . ba .
with voters seekinv to deposit their ballots ds
fore nine”’dark?" 1« «*■» pr«*ure foreign-born
as well as native citizens partook.
latter" *ttto" # pstrf plan of operations of the
to some shadow of ex
ense for their oomplete defeat by falsely
that foreigners who would havevotedthe Sag-
Nichts ticks' were prevented from voting.
Thi Mnrdav would have been much
larger and*at teaat several hundred more American
votel would have been polled if the disturbance
m ZXsi ward hXct taken place in the alter-
U00n " From th( Louisville Journal.
ACCOUNT.
As we slated yesterday, there were several fist
fights at the different polls on Monday morning.
Immediately after dinner matters assumed a more
violent aspect. Th. first serious difficulty .ccurrnd
in the upper pan of the o,ty. A couple if gen- ,
I tlemen were ridiag along in a carnage, when they
! wore fired at iroia a boose by German* or Irish j
I and one cf thtm wounded. Tho firing was re j
! wt+d Ed ? & watchman m ihe be- I
| jo ad w bsd, Jt seph Salvage, and John Litta, -
ricana, went tnere. Latu had his -battered |
shots about bis body, and Williame was slightly
injured.
The report reached the lower part of the city
that six Americans had been shot and were lying
in Dr. Pyles’s office. This caused the assembling
of a large crowd, wliich proceeded up town. The
first attack made by the crowd was on a German
named John Vogt, iu a house from which shots
had been tired upoa Americans, on the corner of
Clay and Madison. He was shot, stabbed, and
beaten. Another German, named Jacob, who
was sitting on a staircase, was dragged out, stab
bed, and beaten. His recovery is doubtful. Every
thing in the lower part of the house was broken to
pices. _,
The crowd proceeded to tho corner of Madison
and Shelby, where firing from the houses had
taken place, and they riddled two groceries. A
Gorman ropemaker named Hein, who was walking
along the street was beeet by tho crowd aud terri
bly beaten.
The crowd then ransacked a German beer-house,
corner ot Walnut and Sheiby, kept by C. Kizzlar,
and two houses occupied by Germans on tho
corner of Shelby and Marshall. A German named
John Feller was stabbed seven times, but not
dangerously injured.
The next scene of the riot was on Jefferson
street, near Beargrass creek. Here a party of
gentlemen coming into the city was tired upon by
foreigners from the houses, and some of them
seriously wounded. Armbruster’s brewery and
several houses from which the shots were tired
wore attacked, and the contents demolished. The
brewery was afterwards fired and burned down,
with several other houses. A number of window
panes in other houses were broken. Several
Germans were veiy badly beaten, and an Irishman
named Patrick Murphy, was shot; he died this
morning. On Preston btreet, below Main, John
Sutherland, au American, was shot, but not dan
gerously injured, and an Irishman was shot and
beaten.
All the German houses attacked were those from
which shots had been fired by tho occupants.
While this was going on in the upper part of the
city, several persons wero fired upon on the lower
part of Main street. About five o’clock, two
Americans were shot from an Irish house, while
going along on Chapel street. This at once
brought the excitement to tho highest pitch. The
Irish row, on Main street, above eleventh, wus at
tacked and fired, and several persons were killed
and some burned. A large number wero wound
ed. The Irishman who shot Graham, while he
was taking care of Khoads, an American who had
been shot, was hung, but cut down before he
died. At least thirty shots wore tired from houses
on Chapel street. It is impossible to ascertain all
that were wounded. Mai van H. Scott, Amerioau,
had his arm badly shattered by a ball.
Seven or eight houses on the north side of Main
street, above Eleventh, and two on tho south side,
were burned. A man named Kiehard Black
burn, who had hold of the pipe of the American
Eagle Company, was shot about 8 o’clock this
morning. Tho houses wore nearly all owned by
Francis Qainn, who was killed.
Later at night, one of the groceries ransacked
on Madison street was burned down, and also two
Irish cooper shops on Main street. There were
several German cooper-shops in the same vicinity,
but none of them were burned. We are credibly
informed that the mob had nothing to do with
this fire.
There wero some warlike demonstrations this
morning on Fifth street, near Main, bat better
oouusel prevailed, and the crowd finally disper
sed.
We have given tho above hastily and obtained
tho particulars From sources which we consider
most reliable. A
Tho coroner hJ? held an inquest on the lollowing
bodies:
William Graham, an American and foundry man,
was killod on Chape! street, by being shot in the
stomach on Monday evening, anu died immediate
ly. The Bhooling was done by an Irishman, who
was shot aud hung, but before life was oninot ont
down. He died in a sow hours afterwards. Ho was
buried, but the coroner will have hiß body taken
up.
Theodore Khoads, an American, aged 80, resid
ing on Main Btreet, below Eleventh, was shot and
stabbed in the street in the Eighth ward. He leaves
a family.
John Hndson, an American, residing on Green
street near Preston, was shot in tho back of tho
bead in the Eighth ward.
Powell Eothhaupt, a German wagnnmaker, was
stabbed at Schardein’s precinct. Died iu about
eight hours afterwards. Leaves a family.
Joseph Allison, an Irish Protestant, was shot on
the oorner ot Market and Chapel streets. He and
his wife hsd secreted themselves nnder a bed, bat
were dragged out.
The bony of Francis Quinn, an Irishman, is de
posited iu the Court-house. The coroner has not
yet held an inquest on it. He was shot in the
groin.
The bodies of a man and a woman burned, both
Irish and residents on ,Main street, abovo Elev
enth, are also deposited in the Court house.
There is one mau dead in the hospital and two
are not expected to recover.
There is also an Irishman dead in the jail.
A German, namod Jacob, corner of Madison
and Sheiby, is not expected to recover.
The ooroner was summoned at noon to hold an
inonest on tho body of an Irishman named Put
rick Murphy near tho brewery that was burned.
XUKTHEB FABTICCLABB OX THE MOT.
W e Btated yesterday the particulars of the bru
tal attack by a party of Irishmen upon Mr. George
Burge, an American born citizen, Jon Jackson
street, between Jefferson and Green Btreete, and
also the firing by Germans npon American citi
zens Irom the windows ol the brewery on Jeller-
Bon street, and various houses on Clay and Madi
son and Shelby streets.
After this firing from windows and behind wails,
the Germans, armed with guns and rifles, began
to assemble iu large numbers at the intersection
of Campbell and Green streets. While thus as
sembled, they attacked a wagon coming down
Green street containing four Americans. At this
period Thomas Selvage and Edward Williams,
policeman, accompanied by George Latta, Charles
Jones, and a few others, all Americans, went from
the oorner of Green and Shelby toward the crowd
of Germans for tho purpose of commanding 'he
peace. As they approached, some 12 or 18 gnns
and pistols were fired at them by the Germans.
Selvage was wounded in tne face and breast,
Williams in the back and legs, Latta hsd a leg
crushed by the shot, and Jones was wounded in
the legs.
About the same time Mr. Wm. Kichardson, a
teacher in one of the public schools, was passing
on Shelby street, and found a party of Catholic
Germans dragging out a German from a house,
the door of whieh they had broken open, and
beating him cruelly for having voted the American
ticket. Mr. K. and the persons with him at
tempted to interfere and were fired upon and
sevorely wounded. Mr. R. then procured a hack
and placed the wounded men in it. While pro
ceeding in the hack to the surgeon’s, in passing
the corner of Madison and Jackson streets, the
hack was attacked by a number of Irishmen from
Irish Kow, on Jackson street. A number ot shots
were fired, the driver aud a boy sitting beside him
were wounded, and the wounded men in the back
were shot iu several, places. The Irish followed
the hack firing at it for a whole square.
Soon after this the crowd of incensed and infu
riated Americans went to look after the aggres
sors, and tho riot ensned in which the brewery
wss burned, several bouses mobbed, and a num
ber of persons, Americans and Germans were
wounded.
About half-past six, on Preston Btreet, near
Main, John Sutherland, an American, was -ho at
from across the street and wounded in the head.
The Irishman who fired at him was subsequently
pursued and severely beaten.
The disturbances in the Eighth Ward occurred
very nearly in tho manner stated in th© Journal of
yesterday morning.
Mr. Rhodes and ilr. Dougherty, Americans
were just leaving an acquaintance on Main street,
near Eleventh. They were fired at from the win
dows of Qninn’s house, both fell, one ot the Irish
men ran out of the grocery in Quinn’s house kept
by a Catholic Irishman named Kennedy, and shot
Rhodes, who was lying upon the opposite pave
ment. An American named Wilson, coming np
Main street in s buggy, was fired at by an Irish
man in the same neighborhood. Two other Arne
riesns, in a wagon were also shot at by the same
party. This was the beginning of the riot there.
Young, Graham and HobaOD, Americans, were
killed soon afterwards.
We have the names of over thirty witnesses, by
whom it can be proven, that in every act of vio
lence, which tended to produce these riots, for
eigners were the aggressors, and peaceable, un
armed Americans were the first victims.
The result, as far as we can learn, is that fourteen
men have been killed, six of whom were Ameri
cans. Three others are expected to die. We have
not been able to ascertain how many have been
wounded; we have hear lof about thirty, more or
less, wounded.
From the LoumiKe Courier Uh
At none of the places of voting, save the Sixth
ward, was there any unusual degree of d sorder. In
fact, there was but little opportunity for fighting,
as the polls in every ward had been taken posses
sion of by Know Nothings, and though, with the
exception of the Sixth, they used no violence to hin
der any one in the exercise of ther,r:ght of suffrage,
they did thst which was worse. Avery possible
obstruction was thrown in the way or those voting
who were not recognized as Know Nothings.
Large crowds were stationed at the entrance to shove
back Preston voters , while side and back doors were
provided for Marshall men. In this way, unusual
jaciitiUs were extended to the American party , being
in itself an outrageous course of action, with sud
complicity in which we charge the Know JSothing of
ficer* of the elution, ,
In the Sixth ward, one of the most quiet and re
spectable in the city, foreigners were driven from
the polls and then beaten for presuming to do
that which the Constitution grants them. About
the Court house there was stationed during the day
a party of worthless bullies, who disgraced the city
by the demoniac yells and acts of ruffianism.
The first severe fightmg occurred near the corner
of 6helby and Green streets, about 11 o’clock in
the morning. In this Germans, Iriah and Ameri
cans actively participated. The foreigners were
wonted, and several of them, taking refuge in a
house, had to escape the rear way with broken
bones and bruiMd bodies. Thia pertly subsiding,
lady and gentleman were ruling out. Another
man was also shot while driving aiong iu his
buggy.
Intelligence was immediately communicated to
to the Lafayette and Kentucky engine houses, and
instantly a force was armed and marching toward
the scene of the reputed outrages. Going up to
Shelby street this body of man and boys became
3 ild with exoitement, and when they reached
Green street wore panting for blood. Here it was
that while the preliminaries of battle were boing
arranged the Americans received a volley of shot,
an.’ then the engagement followed. In this flret
shot officer Williams was peppered with small
shot; Joe Selvage rgpeived ten shots ; Frank
Stoat was shot slightly in tho arm and side;
William Richards received a charge of small shot
indiscriminately over his body ; Vard. Morris.was
slightly injured, guifcWiliiam Atkinson received
several bad wounds. In the same melee Mr.
Ether was wounded .y a ball that crushed the
bones in one of his legs, rendering amputation
necessary for the safety of h s life. Having dis
persed tno Germans, the mob immediately went to
work demolishing tho corner coffee house, kept by
Chris. Mein. The windows end doors were bro
ken iu, the counters and shelving demolished,
the furniture smashed up, and the inmates forced
to flee. Iu a short time this army of Yandals,
receiving constant armed accessions from ail quar
ters of the city, as the nows was spread, took up
its.inarcii, stopping next at Conrad Kitzler’s, corner
ot*Walnutaud tihelby, who was sitting in his
house quietly enjoying his pipe and beer. His
neighborhood had not previously been the sene ol
any disorder, and he had particularly abstained
from going on the stroet daring tne dsy. No at
tention, however, was paid to Mr. Kitzler’s good
behavior. The property for which he had labori
ously worked wav nearly demolished, his furni
ture cut in pieces, and the lives ot himself and
family threatened.
At this point a fight occurred in the street, in
which a German, residing on Shelby and Madi
son streets, was ki led and several injured. R. M.
Saalkamp, a German barber on Walnnt street, re
ceived soveral cuts in the head. Having finished
the work of destruction at poor Kitz'er’s, tho mad
mob rushed lurlhor out Shelby street, and had
nearly reached the Catholic church which they
proposed sacking and burning, when Mayor Bar
bee appeared in the crowd. His efforts at pacifi
cation were for soma time fruitless, bat at last he
gained the multitude’s attention, went aud exam
ined tho church, reported ‘‘no powder found,”
and then having assured them that they had won
the election, ordered them, under the command of
Captain Koursean, to return to their respective
wards. With much trouble Captain R. marshall
ed the large foice and countermarched to the La
fayette Engine house, the riolets as they returned,
knocking down signs and breaking windows.
I’oaee was bit partially restored in tbit section j
: when a cannon, fuliy manned for action, followed i
by fifty men, armed with baskets and bayonets, I
I came up the street at a furious rate. This party, |
! under the command of Captain D. C. Bio ib, pro- i
I ceoded up Main street, crossed over to the head j
j ot Jsffernon, and whilo in that vicinity the follow I
j ing property wa U-slioyed, vizi
! Ambiewster’- -large brewery was fired,workmen j
severely injured; stock ana machinery totally
burned. Loss ovor $8 000. Mr. A. was out of
the city at the timo. The pretext for destroying
his property is that some person had shot Irom
one of his brewery windows at a crowd who was
pursuing a German.
Adolph Fetor's Brewery, adjoining, was fired
three times, but unsuccessfully.
Charles Hey bach's estaolishment was complete
ly riddled, and a man named Fritz shot iu the
breast.
The confectionary of Daniel Smook was at aok
ed, and the females driven to the garret, where
they wore nearly suffocated by the smoke Irom the
burning brewery.
..Baker’s house, next door, was stoned and other
wise injured.
In tho attack on the brewery, Saddler, the cart
driver, was badly wonnded, and his wife, being
driven ovor the bridge, Bhe could not gaiu any ad
mission into the housei of any of her friendß, for
fear of their being mobbed.
The bakery of Charles Beckers was attacked
and stoned, and the windows in Charles Drout’s
barber-shop broken. These houses belonged to
Mr. Raymond, who lives in tho country.
The grocory store of Fred. Bnrghold was com
pletely gutted ot its contents, his damages being
tally SI,OOO. Adjoining, the shoo store of Joseph
Hook was similarly treated. These houses are
the property of Jacob Stealer.
W hilo tho mob was at its highest pitch of exoite
ment, engaged in this work of destruction, the
moat painful sights were witnessed. Poor women
were fleeing with their children, and little memen
toes ot home that were brought from the father
land ; men were cowering before the mad multi
tude, and hiding thomselvea wherever opportunity
olferod, while most painful of all sights the stars
and stripes waved at the head of sacrilegious mo
bites. Visiting, yesterday, the scone ol these out
rages, wo wero sickened at the ruin that had been
wrought, tho housos devastated, furniture broken
and burned, and the poor inhabitants gathered
about the remnants of their property, terrified at
every sound lost it might be the signal of another
attack. Whatever may have been the provocation
of any ono man in any one honso, there can be no
excuse, no palliatiou for the indiscriminate burn
ing and plundering of houses in nowise connect
ed with the property of the said to be aggresßing
parties.
About 12 o’clock at night a frame grocery on the
corner of Madison and Shelby Btroets was burned.
On Main stroet, just above the Woodland Gar
den, a coopering establishment, belonging to Thos.
Garreiy, was set on fire between twelve aud one
o’clock yesterday morning, and burned to the
ground. Mr. Garrety was sick in bed at the time,
and had been confined tor several days. His loss,
th iugh small—some SSO0 —leaves him aud his
family destitute.
On Main stroet, a little farther abovo, on tho op
posite side of tho street, the coopering shop of Ed
ward Prim was burned totheground. Lossabout
S6OO.
During tho trouble on Monday afternoon, a
German named John Vogot, residing on Clay
blivet near Madison, was shot and killed. His
wife was cut aeeross the breast and her young
child injured. A German named Koiser, living
on Marshall street, wus killed.
Walter Murphy, au Irishman was chased by a
large party and shot on Monday evening, near
Owsey’s, Kinuard & Co.’s pork house. He died
yesterday morning, having previously stated that
Jas. Genet was his murderer. *
George Edgerton, whilo conversing with some
ladies on Green street, roceived a shot just below
the chin.
John Fellor, a Gorman, was stabbed aoven times
in tho fight on the corner aud Marshall,
and Hein, a Gorman ropemskor, while walking
along the street, was attacked by a crown aud ter
ribly beaten.
The above, wo believe, oomprises an account of
tho occurrence in tho east end of the city, as full as
could be gathered. A groat many, whose names
we could not ascertain, were more or less injured.
In tho Fifth ward, batweeu 1 and 2 o’clock
Monday, a distardly attack was made on Henry
M. Smith, a worthy gentleman who has resided
in that ward, and whose residence is next to the
engine house where the pods wero held. For no
offence whatever, ho was grossly insulted by
thoao who wished tc create difficulty, and without
resenting it, he was pursued in his own ward; and
had it not been lor the efficient exertions of
Messrs. Kirkpatrick and Bacon, he would doubt
less havo been mnrdered, despite the fact that
his fainting wife threw hersolt with her children
between him and his assailants.
Late in the afternoon, in the Sixth ward, an
Irishman was peaceably walking along tho pave
ment in front of tho Court House, whon he was
assaulted by a gang of men standing by. He at
tempted to escape, but was pursued by some thirty
men who had concealed on their persons short
sticks, with one end loaded with lead. He was
knocked down and brutally beaten and one man
actually thrust a large pitchfork into his person.
He was then taken up and dragged to jail, the
man marching along with t o pitchfork on his
shoulder, blood running lrom its prongs. While
the victim was placed in Jail, the attempted mur
derers were permitted to go along undisturbed in
search of other subjects.
In the lower part of the city, as stated yesterday,
the difficulties originated near the corner of
Chapel and Main streetß. About 5 o’clock a man
named Kboads pursued an Irishman into a house
on Main street, was fired at and killed. John
Hudson residing on Green street, near tne corner
of Preston, was abot in the Eighth Ward, about
the same time. William Graham, a foundryman,
while assisting Bhosds, was Bhot in the back of
the head by Barrett, an Irishman. Barrett was
immediately seized, shot and hung, but, not dying,
he was taken to jail, whero he expired during the
night.
About eight o’clock, tho block of brick build
ings on the corner of Main and Eleventh streets
were surrounded by a very large, excited, and well
armed mob. The cannon was Btatioued in the
street, and the corner building occupied as a gro
cery store by Mr. Long, an Irishman, was fired.
His three sons wore in the house at the time, one
of whom escaped with the assistance of C. W.
Field, while tho other two perished in the flames.
The fire jimmodiately extended, burning the ad
joining three story .brick house, occupied by D.
Bicrdan, an Irishman,|as a feed store. A frame
building occupied as a boarding house by Charles
Kyan was next consumed. Two vacant houses
tuen caught andiwere burned. Next came a brick,
occupied by McKinney, a cigar maker and Sad
dler. Adjoining w-s a brick, in which Patrick
Flynn lived, also tenanted in part by Mrs. Henry,
Mrs. Wheeler, McFiuty and Mrs. Dowd. The
house next was occupied by Dennis O’Brien, Mrs.
Hanery, Mis. McGrath. Farther up the street two
brick stores, one used by John McDonald, grocer,
was nearly demolished. On Eleventh street, the
tire destroyed two houses occupied by Dennis Dig
gings, James Welsh and Mrs. Monohan. All tne
above twelve houses were tho property of Patrick
Quinn —broth rof an Irish Catholic priest. Mr.
Q. had a room in one of his houses, was shot and
beaten and then burned last night. On the oppo
site of Main, two houses occupied by John Fitz
gerald and Mrs. Trainer were burned.
Tho acts of incendiarism that we have just re
corded, while outrages in themselves, do not com
pare in atrocity with the dreadful murders that
were committed at the same time. Seeking to
escape death from the flames, the wretched in
habitants reached the street only to meet death in
another form. As soon as one appeared at the
door he wa» fire f at and generally killed. A num
ber were taken off badly wounded, and others, shot
to pieces, returned to the burning houses, prefer
ring rather to be burned than to meet the infuri
ated mob. One man escaped in woman’s clothes,
was detected and shot. Another, who came out
covered with a blanket, and leaning upon the arm
cf his wife, was torn away and deliberately shot.
To escape from within to the street without being
killed was almost a matter of impossibility. How
many of these miserable people, thus caged in
their own houses, were burned alive, there can be
no computation. The blackened and charred re
mains of some have been d scovered, while we
hear of wives and children, whose husbands and
fathers are not to be found.
The Effect.— Yesterday most of the business
houses in the first ward were closed, the populace
being in fear of another outbreak. Over
one hundred German families left the city, many
with their furniture and goods. Others had the
remnants of the damaged household possessions
taken to auction stores for sale. The effect of the
terribie riots of Monday on the prosperity of
be perceptible for many, many
years.
Police Cutjet.— The Police Court yesterday
morning was thronged to its utmost capacity by
persons anxious to witness the examination of the
parties arrested for participating in the election
disturbances. Judge Johnson, _ in view of the
highly excited state of the public mind, and in
order that ample time might be given the accused
to obtain testimony, has postponed the examina
tion until Thursday.
From the Louisville Journal,
THE FIBBT BLOOD.
The Anti-Americans may assert and protest and
swear as strongly as they will, that the fearful
rio's of Monday were begun by the Americans,
but. in disproof of this, the broad, palpable, and
undeniable, and undenied fact stands out, that tho
first bloodshed, the first kill ng, the first murder
ing, both in the upper and in the lower parts of the
city were the work of the foreign-born population.
The foreigners may have imagined that they did
not have lair play at the polls, but they were the
first to resort to assassination. They may have
erroneously supposed that they were rendering
an important service to God and mankind, but
they were the first to resort to assassination.
And when foreign born citizens, with not the
shadow of a justification, assassinate American
citizens in our streets, what can be expected but
that the aroused spirit of our countrymen will rage
and thirst for revenge? _ . .
Even by the admission of one of the Anti-Amer
ican organs of yesterday, the Irish in the lower
part of the city on Monday evening, with no other
provocation than the knock ng down of an Irish
man in the street, opened a general fire f'° Kl f^r
sXs of enr countrymen, enrag
ed by the spilling of the blood es their kindred t
under such circumstances of atrocity, took quick t
vengeance into their own hands aud carried it to a
lamentable extent!
The disparity between the number of foreign
born and native born citizens killed is but small,
aud the ooroner can bear witness and many hun
dreds of others can bear witness that the first per- '
sons killed in both extremities of the oity were <
Americans—shot down like dogs by unseen foes. |
Unquestionably a large number of the Amerioms, j
infuriated by the massacre of their friends, havo
evinced a disposition to go much too tar in the '
work of reliation—and heroin they are guilty; but i
this Bhall not deter ns from the asiertion and reit- ,
oration of the great faot that American bosoms
were stained with blood before American hands '
were. <
Card of Bishop Spalding.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Fellow Oitizene. —ln the Louisville Journal of
this morning l find the following passage: “We
ere not now preprared to say that they (assaults
committed by foreigners) * * * were instiga
ted by direct instructions of men with fiendish
hearts who control in a great measure in the pas
sions, and are able to dictate actions to the German
and Irish, who made these attacks.”
If—as some have understood it—this passage
was ment to reter to Catholic Bishop and Priests
of this city, I beg respectfully, but most distinctly
and earnestly to deny the troth of the injnrioos in
sinuation conveyed by this language. I have
myself been until the last day or two, oonfined to
my room for two weeks by illness, and I have
tbemoat positive information that none of the
Catholio clergy of this city have had any agency
direct or indi root, in bringing about the recent
lamentable outrages, which no one deplores more
than we do. Our voice has been uniformly for
peace. We have not even in any way interfered
in the late election, being overwhelmed with labo
rious dntios iu a different sphere altogether. I
venture also to appeal to the senate ot jnstioe and
fairness manifested for so many years by the ed
itor of the Journal and to ask him to correct this
impression so injurious to us, if snoh was the
meaning of the.passage—which I would be loath
to believe.
To all whom the influenoe of my voice can in
any way reach, 1 beg to say that I entreat them,
in the name of Jesus Christ, the God of Peace, to
abstain from all violence, to remain quietly at
home or attending to their business, to keepaway
from all excited assemblies, and if they think they
have been injured to return good for evil, and to
pray for those who have wronged them. I appeal
to them and to the world whether this has not
been always the tenor of my instructions to them,
both pnblio and private, and also that of all the
Catholio clergy.
I have too high an opinion of my fellow-citiiena
of every e!°;“ to believe for a moment that the
threats which have been made by some will be i
carried out. I entreat all to pause and reflect, to j
commit no violence whioh they would regret in {
thei t cooler momenta, to believe no idle rumors, i ;
aud to cultiv- Mat peace aud love which are the
character all-; of the religion of Christ. We arc
to remain - rth but a raw years; let ua uot add
ui the ueoe -rir - ill- of life those more awful ones
of <:i .U fends aid >.-■ - , --ife I 1
M. J. SraLDiNe.
Louisville, Aug. 7,1855. i
The Journal publishes this oard, accompanying
it with the following remarks:—
We publish with pleasure Bishop Spalding’s oard
to tho pnblio. We have not, in aught we have
written, intended to make any imputation npon
him. We have not for one moment Bnapeoted him
of instigating men to riot and blooahed. We have
felt grateful to him for the Bervioea he rendered
upwards of a year ago in allaying public exoitemeut
to the extent of his influenoe, when our own pro
perty was thought to be in danger from a mob,
and we have never thought him otherwise than as
the friend of law and order.
WEEKfiT ~
Chronicle & JStnW.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 15, 1855.
Our Position.
Soun days since, a friend writing to ns on busi
ness desired to know our position, or rather what
candidate we will support for Governor, to whioh
we very cheerfully respond, Garnett Andrews.
We belong to no party as at present organized—
we are, therefore, what is very significantly term
ed an“o«fsW«r,” and occupy a Ltrictly independ
ent position. Judge Andrews is an original friend
and supporter of the Georgia Platform, a man of
high character and sterling worth in sll the rela
tions of life, and thoroughly opposed to the State
and Fedoral Administrations. And as reform,
thorough and complete reform, in both adminis
trations, is what wo most desire, we shall aid to
elovate him to the Executive Chair. In doing so,
howover, we shall not commit ourßelf to the sup
port of the principles of the Platform of the Ame
rican party, further than it sustains the Georgia
Platform, and makes war upon the State and
Federal Administrations.
VVa* u Bribery 1 ir not, What U 111
The Johnson organs seem to hope to evert tho
odium of the Johnson and Cooter bargain, by a
considerable bluster and flourish about the fcigli
character and great moral worth of Messrs. Johnboi r
aud Coofer, and that, therefore, the charge iB too
absurd and contemptible to merit notice.
Beneziot Arnold, the traitor, at one time en -
joyed tho reputation of a pure patriot and honor it
man—yet he fell a victim to hie ambition and lo*«a
ot money. Thousands of men, enjoying reputa
tions for honesty and integrity as high or highe r
than either H. V. Johnson or Marx A. Coofer ever
1 did, oven before the bargain, have been sacrificed
at the same altar. Their friends too, doubtless,
thought that the oharges against the patriotism O's
Arnold and the honesty of the thousands of others
were too absurd and contemptible to merit notice
Tot an investigation of the facte established, be
yond doubt, their guilt. Wo warn the Johnson
organs, therefore, that they cannot escape by any
such means. They must come up before the peo
ple and demonstrate to tho honest voters, that H.
V. Johnson and Mark A. Cooper can exhibit clean
hands in this transaction. Their former charac
ters, whatever they may have been, cannot and
will not protect them against the ioroe of the facts
which have been developed in this act.
In the height of their affected indignation, they
pretend to regard it monstrous indeed, that any
man Bhould presume to charge Mark A. Cooper
with being bribed, or H. V. Johnson with bribing
him! Woll, if it is not bribery, what ie it! and
what is the difference between it and bribery!—
This is what the people want to know—and they
want to see some explanation and defence of the
transaction. What then ie the difference between
the act as developed and admited by Maj. Coofer
and a direct, plain cose of bribery ! Let ns see.
No one pretends that H. V. Johnson, Raving
heard that Major Coofer was opposed to hie re
election, and wonld oppose it zealously unless he
was bribed, and that therefore he went to Major
Cooper and offered to pay him six thousand dol
lars a year as long as he held office for his vote.
If such a thing had been done it mast have been
a plain case of bribery, and punishable under the
law of the State. Now what is the difference be
tween this act, and what has been admitted to
have been done by these men ! Let the people
investigate and determine.
About a year or more ago, the freights were
raised on the State Road, and Mare A. Coopxb
made to pay a corresponding rate with other
people. At this he complained to Gov. Johnson,
and demanded a reduction, whioh would make a
difference of five to seven thousand dollars a year
in his favor. This Johnson refused to do, and
persisted in that refusal, (although frequently im
portuned by Coofer) until after he was nominated
bb candidate for Governor. Then Cooper publioly
proclaimed his hostility to Johnson’s election, and
hie intention to oppose it, “unlees justice woe done
him which meant, nnless five to seven tbonßand
dollars s year was put in his pocket by the redac
tion of freight. Johnson was informed of Cooper's
position, and immediately the freight waa
reduced for the exclusive benefit of Marx
A. Cooper, and forthwith presto, change is the
word, and Mark A. Cooper, proolaims hie
intention to vote for H. V. Johnson, for Governor
of Georgia 1 If this is not bribery, what is it f and
what ie the difference between it, and his going to
Cooxer and proposing dlreotly to pay him an
equal amount for hie vote f These are the facta.
Let the people decide.
Ju.ge Warner Won't Dl.enu-
Judge Wabnxb the nominee of the Piuok and
Bkeukb democracy, in the 4th Congressional dis
trict, declines to discuss with his opponent, B. H.
Hum, the political qnestions of the day before the
people. This certainly indicates little confidence
in the justice of his oause. The LaGrsnge litpor
ttr Bays:
Mr. Hill, the Americsn candidate, confident of
the correctness of his principles, and the firmness
of the basis upon which he stands, has proposed
to meet his adversary when and where he may
choose, npon equal terms, and the result of the
proposition has been what will be Bhown by the
following correspondence. Wears authorized to
state, that as Judge Warner declines the dißCos
sion on the ground that he had previously made
his appointments, Mr. Hill proposed to accept
Judge Warner’s appointments and consider them
as mutual. Judge Warner also declined this pro
position and said he woold not discuss with Mr.
Hill at these appointments, t xcept upon his (Judge
Warner’s) own terms, one of which should be that
he (Warner) should always have the conclusion,
and have as mnch time as he wanted. Mr. Hill is
that driven to make bis own appointments, to all
of which Judge Warner is cordially invited upon
equal terms. It must be evident to every refleot
ing mind that Jndge Warner holds one of two
opinions: either that be is inferior to Col. Hill in
debate, and is therefore afraid to meet him in a
public discuseion, or el e he fears lest the sophist
ry with which he would seek to bolster up a bad
cause, would be unmasked; or that the chaff which
he would pass off npon the masses as pure grain,
would be thoroughly sifted by the searching argu
ment of onr S’ and: rd-bearer. Which is it f
But we forbear further remarks, and point o«r
readers to the correspondence.
La (iHANes, Ga., July 17,1855,
Hon. Hibam Wabnzb:
Dear. Sir: Circumstances have so conspired as
to make me your opponent for Congress from this
District. It seems, also, thst the grest issue in
volned in this canvass, is the correctness
or incorrectness of the principles of th. American
party.
I believe the American platform, as put forth at
Philadelphia recently, is the salest, the best and
most practical ever adopted by a national party.
Its principles ought to be discussed.
I hope you will not consider me hasty in address
ing yon this rote. I understand you have com
menced giving out your appointments, and my
purpose is to Bay, that if you are willing we will
canvass the District together—entereing into dis
cussions on equal terms.
Please answer me by return mail, as I desire to
make my arrangements, and if yon agree to the
proposition, we can make the appointments mutu
ally convenient.
Yours truly, B. H. Bnj..
Grbsnville, July 18th 1856.
Lear Sir: I am in the reoeipt of your letter
of the 17th inst. Not anticipating . nominal
congress, my professional and other
U 0 l°'JrZ prior thereto, will neceaea
rilf fompel me to decline making any contract
or agreement to convene the District in the
manner propoeed by yon. My appointments
already baen msde in view of my other
engagements, and shall endeavor to fulfill them
by the merits of the Philadelphia plat
form to the best of my humble ability, leaving you
to do the same at each time* *nd places *9 yon
may deem proper.
Very respectfully your ob’t. serv’t.,
_ „ HIBAU WABNER.
B. H. Hill, Eaq., bad range.
This is tho most oomplete baok out we have
ever seen or heard of. We never before knew a
candidate for Congress to decline meeting his op
ponent, if a respectable man, in discussion. Per
haps the J ndge fears he might be driven to the
wall on the Johnson and Coopib bargain, and the
appointment of Cowabt ; or be forced to defend
those two aots before the people, which he knows
oannot be done. “Something rotten in Denmark,”
ctriain.
The Louisville Biol.
In addition to the Telegraphic dispatches, we
publish this morning the account given by the
Louisville Journal, of the disgraceful riots which
oocurred in that city on election day and night. This
is only one side, and we presume the other aide
will present probably a very different aeoount. In
such an affair at such a time, it is very difficult to
arrive at the troth, and we think it quite probable
that both parties were at fault in the beginning—
oertainly so in the continuation of the disgraceful
scenes.
That a riot was anticipated, perhaps premedi -
tated, there can be no doubt, from the fact that
such a quantity of ammunition and arms had been
previously procured and stored away in convenient
places. With such a feeling prevalent it required
little to set the ball in motion, and it is not im
probable that parties thus prepared courted an
opportunity to commence the deadly strife.
Such scenes, whioh only oocur in locatlities
where there are large bodies of alien oitizens, af
ford a most powerful and conclusive argumont in
favor of a modification of the naturaliz ition la * s—
an extension of the time, in order that they may
become Amerioanized before they are allowed to
exercise the privilege of voting.
The Louisville Hiots.
W> have devoted considerable space to tho ao
counts, given by both sidos, of the lato riots in
Louisville. £ach insists that the other party is
responsible for the c ommencement of them. Not -
withstanding the contradictory reports, however,
we have been disposed to regard the Journal 1 ) as
more reliable than the Umrior’t, and this opinion
has been fortified by the subjoined ovideuoe wh'ch
came to hand yesterday.
The first witness is a correspondent of the Jour- i
vai, eho is said by the Editor to be “o jmt'nmn I
rj vary ruptotaUXitp whose name is at the !
sol vice 0! all concerned
Lottie Juniors oj iu . u
ding lha article in the Courier ot Thursday—an
article pietonding to give the tacts in regard to
Monday's disturbances. I was rnuoh surprised to
see, even among bo many miatatements, the as
sumption containe 1 in the following sentence:
“la the prcsenoe of heave n and before this com
muuity we deny, ntterly|den.v, that the aggressions
in the lowor part of tho city on Monday afternoon
came from the foreigners."
1 ought not to have surprised, perhaps, at this
additional evidence of the recklessness of the
Courier, but this statement is given forth as it
founded upon the facts gathered by the reporter
for that paper. Now witness those ifacts: 1 met
one of our most respectable citizens. lon Tuesday
evening, who had spent the entire day with tho
reporter of the Courier iu gathering evidence in
regard to the riots, and I askeii him what conclu
sion they had come to. He rep'ied : “ We found
that in seven ease* tut of eight the foreigners were
the aggressors."
I then asked him if he thought Mr. llaldomau
would state those facts as they were' given. He
replied that he did not think he would, and said that
he had urged the reporter to oome out with the true
statement of the whole matter. The twisted and
garbled statement of the Courier has shown how
those facts were used, and how that shoot is “jeal
ous of the fair fame of the city." It is to bo re
gretted that Mr. Haldeman has not a better opin
ion of “high Heaven and this community,” that
he might thereby be induoed to publish the truth.
Ohs oy this Community.
The other witness is the editor of the Louißvillo
Indiana Journal, who was in Louisville on the day
of the eleotion, who furnishes the following ac
count through his paper:
Last Monday about noon, we visited the polls
of four wards, all of which we had learned at the
Courier office, were in possession of tho Know
Nothings, and that none but Know Nothings could
vote there, <fco. We found everything poaceable
at these polls. (Foreign-born oitizeus came up in our
presence and voted, and voted white tickets open
ly while all the Amerioan tiokets wore yellow.
There were a few druken men about, but othor
wise we never saw more peaceable voting. Dur
ing the morning there had been probably half u
dozen fights, but nothing approaching a riot, nor
were they on account of Bsg-Nichts voting. Lvo
rything promised to pass off comparatively peacea
bly, and good citizens were anxiously watching to
quell disturbances. When we returned, the Cou
rier had issued an extra which was headed with
the following inflammatory paragraph :
“ Infamous Outrages.— As was anticipated, tho
Know Nothing bulließ took possession of tho polls
early this morning, and have kept them up to this
hour. They have brutally knooked down and
maltreated hundreds of voters, among them many
’ of our best oilizons. Thoße opposed to them are
beaten and driven from the polls. Mob law is tn
i umphaut, and Louisville is dishonored and dis
’ not language to express tho footings
of those acquainted with the facts who read this
utterly unoalled for, unfounded statement, and
. so much calculated to arouse the feleings of thoßo
, opposed to the American party on that day. Tho
polls were not in the possession of the Know-
Nothings, ar.d there had only been about the usual
' number of election flg/itß. Wo mention this ono
subject to prove that even when the election was
hall over, the basests arts waro used by the oppo
site party to arouse the worst passions. Hut w
let this pass for the present.
About 3 o’olock there were reports of a mob in
the hirst ward, tho extreme upper part of the oily.
At onoe with many others we went to that ward.
There were assembled a large number of native
born oitizens, among whom were several slightly
wounded. They had riddled several houses occu
pied by Germans, but, so f..r as we could learn,
had destroyed no hie, though they had badly
beaten several Germans and Irish who had fired
upon Americans. The account given by the Louis-
Mle Journal agrees almost exactly with the particu
lars as gathered by us after as (A'/roupA tn*«« iya
tion as circumstances would admit. Tho flrbt at
tack waa made at a point fa* distant from tho pol b,
and by Germans. They fired upon innocent per
sons who were offering them no insult, but were
quietly walking or riding along the streets. A baser
outrage was never committed than this aot ot the
Germane, utterly without provocation as it was, and
oommitted upon respectable and qniet citizens
who were committing no wrong and BuspectiDg
no wrong. There were five American citizens
lying in a doctor shop at one time, severely woun
ded by those oowardly miscreants, and a Bigth one,
an officer, waiting for his turn.
From the above faots, the intelligent readors
will easily determine how much credence should
be given to the statements made by the Courier.
The Journal contains tho following paragraph t
"We find by perusal of the comments of the dia
taut papers on the riots of Monday that they are
under the impression that there was but one not.
For their information we state that there were two
distict Boenes of riot, that oconrrod at different
times and at distant points. The riot in the * irst
ward occurred about two o’clock, and was all over
at o’clock; that in the eighth ward began
about six o’clock. The plaooß are more than a
mile and a half apart, ana in the First ward the
chief aseailanta were Germans and in the latter ex
clusively Irish. _
Death of L. O. Kxtsolds.—The Savannah pa
pers announce the death on Tuesday tho 7th inßt..
at the Hot Springs, Va., whither he had gone for
his health, of L. O. Kxynolds, President of the
South Western Bailroad. He was a native of
East Hartford Conn., and was 58 yean old. Ho
came to Savannah in 182#. The papers psy well
merited tribntes to his private and pnblio worth.
His remains were carried to Savannah for inter
ment, in accordance with his request,
Kentucky Klee lion.
The latest intelligence from tho Kentucky oloc
tion is up to Saturday—which is summed up
thus:
Eighty counties heard from, giving MoxxnxAn a
majority of 9,481. The twenty-three oounties to
hear from gave Pierce 1,220.
The 2d, Bd, 7th, Bth, 9th and 10th districts have
gone for the Americans. The Ist, 6th and Bth
have gone for the Democrats—the 4th ie doubtful.
TennebbekConobxmionalEliotion. —The Nash
.ill. papers ol Saturday xaiinounoe ih. result oi
the Congressional election, as follows. This is a
gain of one to the Enow Nothings.
American. Democrat.
Ist District. N. O. Tatlob.
2d “ W. H. Sneed.
gd « 8. A. Surra.
4t(l <• Bataoe.
sth “ Chas. Beat.
#th “ O. W. Jonas.
7th •* J. V. WnieiiT.
Bth 11 F. K. Zolliooeieb.
9th “ E. Ethhidok.
10th “ Tbomaa Kivers.
New Cotton. —Seventy-three bales'of new Cotton
were reoeived in New Orleans in the 9th inst., by
the Steamer Louita, from Millikan’s Bend. Fifty
Devon of the balea came from two plantations.
Fancy Ball at Madison Springs.
Tbs Fancy Ball of the Season is postponed until
the 21st inst., by request of a number of friends.
Mb. Fillmore job President.— The Memphis
Eagle and Enquirer runs up the name of Milliard
Fillmore as the American candidate for the Presi
dency in 1868, subject to the decision of the Na
tional American Convention. In connection with
the announcement, the Eagle and Enquirer pub
lishes numerous extracts from letters received
from its correspondents in Tennessee, Mississippi
and Arkansas, expressing the preference of the
people of those States in various localities, for Mr
Fillmore.
American Ison* —The last Wheeling Intelligen
cer says that every thing at present indicates a
prosperous condition of the American iron trade.
Our pig iron is now in far better repute and de
mand than it has been for a long time, and by the
attention of the manufacturers it has been so im
proved as to possess all the valuable qualities of
Scotch pig. The Philadelphia American states
that Mount Hope and Hibernian iron mines, in
New Jersey, are doing a large business. The rol
ling mill at Rockaway, N. J., has been enlarged,
and is now driven by steam, instead of water pow
er, the steam being generated entirely from the
waste heat of the building and heating furnaces, so
that no more fuel is used than under the water
power Bystem. The mill is now constantly em
ployed.
Gi.antic.— A tomatto 'weighing four pounds,
and measuring twenty-four and a half inches in
circumference, has been raised in Lynchburg, Va.
Buch a gigantic Toma’o Bhould be called a tomati-
IMtO.
Memphis and Ohio Kailboao. —The track laying
on the Memphis and Ohio Railroad is completed
some fifteen miles from Memphis, and is progress
ing finely beyond there. The cars will run
ning to Concordia, a distance of thirty mi es, y
the 10th day of October. -
Y L. a Harms, Esq., has declined the nomi
nation tendered him by the K. N's of'thei Sixth
Congressional District, in opposition to the Hon.
Howell Com. Mr. H. assigns, private business
w hiob demands his attention, for deqlining.
Fuslou at A'bany.
It is generally believed that tho Albany Argue
“ t 0 be merged in the Albany Atlas, and that
•ll the present editor of tho Atlas,
will continue at tho holm*, Tho Argus wa for
thirty years, under the direction ot Mr. Crca
well, the most influential Democrats journal in
tho Northern Stutes. it was the org 11 0 the
Albany Regency, and the mouth piteo of Van
liuron, Wright, Morey, OlcoU, and other loaders
of tho old Jackson parly. No other journal in
New York wielded so powerful eh iufluouco us tho
Argus did from 1821 to 1342. In the latter year
tho first symptoms of rebellion against tin Arras
and the Kegonoy wero manifested by the radical
Democrats, under tho lead ot file late Colonel
Young, of Saratoga, the lato ilmiiuel lb finnan, of
Herkimer, and other prominent politicians, with
whom afterwards were united Silas Wright, Mar
tin Van Buren, Joan Van Boren, Preston King,
audothor loaders of tho Free Soil faction. The
division was originally cauaed by a difference of
opinion on the Internal Improvement question.
The Regency favored the vigorous prosecution of
tho canals, while tho Radicals advocated their sus
pension, under the pretence of economy. By tho
election of Silas Wright to the offico ot Governo:, in
1844, the Radicals obtained the control of the State.
and suspended the works of internal impr jvemeut.
Iu 1648, Silus W right wub defeated by the W higs,
with tho aid of tho Conservative or Argus Dem
ocrats.
The Argus opposed tho Wilmot Proviso, and ad
vocated the annexation of Texas. Tie Atlas,
which was established about the year 1844, advo
cated the Wilmot Proviso, and opposed the annex
ation of Texas. The Argus advocated to Com
promise of 1850. The Atlas opposed it. The Ar
gus was displeased with the complexion ot tho
present Cabinet. Tho Atlas whs del glited wiih it.
The Argus turned Its back upon Msrcy, when
Marcy bo.arae a Soft-Shell. Tire A ai lovingly
folded him in its embrace. Tue Argus was in la
vor of tho Nubraska bill. Tho Allas opposed it
to the bitter end.
Thus it wi:l bo soon, that tho Argus, which was
a Conservative, anti Free-Soil and anti ianati al
journal, hus been forced, by tho power of tno ad
ministration, to close its doors, and leave tho field
to its Free Soil opponent—tho Atlas. We say, by
the power of the administration—for it is a woli
known fact that the putronage of the administration
has been withheld lrom the Argue, and lavishly
bestowed upon tho Atlas.
Tho Democrats ot tho South should make a note
of this, for future reference. If tho Southern
Democracy are to bo deprived ot the ablest ally
thoy over hud in New York, by the act ot tho a
- how can thoy consistently snstai.i
the administration in its present contest with the
only cons rvativo and national puny now iu the
field ? Washington Organ..
Tax Southern Democracy wili r aka a note of
this Freesoii fusion, and rqjoioc over it, heouuso
they indulge tho hope that by such means they
| wni tectuo the spoils. They denounooe Bkowson
I and DioxnmoH because thoy would not affiliato
| with the Freesoi ors, and eusU'm Put.. and
| Masuv in their efforts to put down the sound Na
| tiouai Democracy of New York. At first the
(Southern Democracy were ralnei timid, Out tho
odor of the spoils made thorn more bold, and by
degrees they becaino tierce in the delenco of the
Freesoii affiliation of the Administration. Indeed
ono of their loudors Mark A. Cocpkr, sought to
commit tho Democracy of Georgia to tho affiliation,
by opon resolution ; and accordingly introduced
tho following resolution at a Democratic meeting
in Cass county recently.
Resolved , That so long as wo have a Union, it is
our duty to send representatives to Congress who
shall aid and sustain those who from East, North
and West, show a patriotic purpose to prosorvo
the Union, by adhering to tho Constitution, and
these, wo believe, are found in tho democratic
party, whose principles alone, bind them to a strict
' construction of and a rigid adherence to the snerod
chartor ot our liberties; it is therefore not mate
rial to our rights whethor afreosoil or anti slavery
1 man is called or appointed by tho President, pro
> v ; dod ho administers fully and faithfully ou this
!> rule ; if the Constitution is pieservod, wo fear uot
* hiß private opinions.
J In commenting upon this resolution, tho Dalton
. limes portinently remarks:
This is tho doctrino by whioh Mr. Pierce has
* boon enabled to givo “ aid and comfort” to free
t Boilers and abolitionists, whHo he hus made a show
. of friendship to tho South in his support of tho
Nobraska-Kausas bill. Any body who votes for us,
3 is a democrat. And any democrat, bo his “ pri
vate opinions” what thoy may, may bo elected or
l appointed to office. It w» s this policy that filled
- the federal offices under Mr. Pierce with men of
every shade of political opinions. Abolitionist-,
Disunionists, Frceeoilors, Foreign i , Soul born
H Rights D moorats, and Southern Rights Wli'gs,
€ “ Filibusters,” and overy thing elt-o < x opt U nion
v Democrats in tho South, and Hards in New York.
* The latter clasbos, from somo causo or other, have
0 received the least amount of tavors of any cla-s of
r tho numerous factions that supper cd Ins election
" in 1852. Mr. Piorc j sot out in his inaugural upon
* a bold, manly declaration of his determination to
stand upon tho principles of tho Compromise of
1860, but ingloriously do cried the true men of the
* country, who had sustained those moasuros at
r homo.
Had tho President boon loss intent upon build
ing up a strong party, by consolidating end ce
menting logothor by tito “ oohosivo powor of pub
lic plundor," oil tho .fsoliouß that bud united iu
his election without regurd to private opinions,
and refused to have roco ;mzod thos*- uion who hi d
opposed those “ pouco measures,” after tt oir
adoption as worthy of executive favor and the
whole lorco of executive influence been brought
to bear against the slavery agitators, much might
have been done to starve out abolitonism and
chock tho oxhuborant growth ol frees. ilistn, which
has flourished snd iucroased so rapidly in tho last
two years. But unfortunately for the peace and
quiet of the Nation, tho contrary policy his been
pursued.
A liberal sharo of tho spoils has boon imported to
Freesoilers, and John Van Bureu, John A. Dix,
John Cochran, and other Buffalo Platform men
have been in high favor with tho administration,
while auoh sound pro slavory me: as Diokinson,
Bronsou and o liora of tho Hurd Democracy have
boon repudiated; and tor what ? Simply boo use
they refused to sit down in tho groat democratic ,
church, in fellowship with abolitionists without
requiriug them to recant and do penance for their
former sins. It is a significant sac , that whilst
such great liberality has boon shown by Mr. I’isrco
in not proscribing Iroosoilors mid tho o inimical
to the position taken in his iuuugural, i) lias ex
ercised the utmost vigilance in hunting out end,
protending those who have goto into the Ameri
can organization and claim tho right of Americans
to rule their owl> country. Almost evory day wo
hear of removals of Antoricau Democrats from
office.
Wo did not boiiovo that there was any prominent
man in Georgia, of any party, that would thus at
tempt publicly to justify the policy ot appointing
men to oflico on Iho prinoipio that it mat n ed uot
what opinions tho appointees hold, privately , pro
vided they wore democrats.
Tho census of Now York City discloses some
curious facts respecting the social system of that
vast hive of people. So far as reported, every
ward in the city has at least double tho number of
families that it has dwowllings for thoir accommo
dation, and in some wards the discrepancy is far
greater. Thus the first ward has 699 dwellings,
and 2,708 families ; the 6th ward, 1,270 dwellings)
and 5,099 families; tho 11th ward, 2,493 dwellings,
and 11,087 families, and so on. In eleven wprds
heard from, there are 20,522 dwellings, and 68,068
families.
A private correspondent, writing from Malaga,
informs the Boston Mail that will boa total
failure in the grape crop this season. The beat
quality of grape* are badly diseased. Ho also
states that there will bo no shipments this fall in
oonsequenco of the soantineay of this favorite luxu
ry-
The General Land Office machinery costs a
good round sum to the government, annually, the
appropriations for its expenses for tho year 1856
amounting to $1,611,522, of which $618,000 wra
for the salaries and commissions of registers and
receivers, $158,000 for tho salaries of tho Commis
sioners and his clerks, $168,000 for snrvorys and
oßce rent in California, $117,000 for surveying the
public lands, SIOO,OOO for oxp nses of receivers in
depositing public money, $107,000 for surveys and
office rent in Kansas and Nebraska, {95,000 for
contingent expenses, $70,000 for clerks, Ac., un
der the now bounty land, act, and so on down tho
long list of items.
Victoria’* Visit to France.—Tho Queen of En
gland will leave Dover on her visit to I’aris, on the
17th of August. Accounts differ as to the senti
ments with which the Quden submits to thin sys
tem of ‘fraternization’ with a plebian king. Somo
say she abhors her compulsory intercourse with
‘that man and his wife;’ others, that she is deligh
ted with tho fun. The probability is, that she lias
discretion enough to keep her own counsol on tho
subject. Whatevor she may think of ‘that man
and his wife,’ sho says nothing. Why should not
Queens have tho privilege of being as intincero
and hypocritical os tho rest of society, especially
when such groaf interests depends on it ? Ho let
Victoria go over, and like the little girl at the
North, caress tho black enako, and profesj to bo
very fond of it.
Dr. Turnipseod, entered tho Mcdicalsti ffof the
the Russia i army in the Crimea about 14 months
since, with the understanding that he was to con
tinue during the war. But his health declining,
he applied for a discharge, which wan promptly
granted, and he is about to return to his home in
Tennessee. In accepting the resignation of Dr. T.
the Emperor conferred upon him to order of St.
Ann, in consideration of his valuable services, and
as a token of his personal regard, presented him
700 silver roubles.
The authoritis of Wilmington, N. C.have adopted
an ordinance that if any person shall visit tho town
of Wilmington within fifteen days next, after
such person shall bavo been in any place where
the yellow fever exists, or in any family in whioh
it prevails, such persons, if white shall be fined
SIOO for esch and every day he or she may remain
in the town. _
Daring July there were 503 deaths in Cincinnati
—of cholera 86, consumption 40, surr mer complaint
56, cause not reported 112.
The number of deaths in New York, the past
week, was 576, a decrease of 98 as compared with
the preceding week.
Wheat is now worth in this market from 75 cts.
to $1 per bushel. The corn crop will probably be
the largest ever made in this section. The codon
crop looks well, but does not excel that of some
previous years.
Eight Balks of New Cotton, were received In
New Orleans on the 2d inst. by the steamer
Southern Belie from Grand Lake. One of tho bales
was from Vicksburg.
Rxedeb for Governor. —A correspondent of
the Allentown Democrat, nominates A. H. Reeder
for Governor of Pennsylvania. An article in the
Democratic Union tends the same way.
Stage Quarantined. —At Elizabeth City, N.
C. they have doclared quarantine against Nor
folk and Portsmouth, for every sort of convey
ance coming from those plao?s. Last weok a stage
load of healthy passengers from Norfolk, were
warned off by the authorities as Eiizabe h city, and
compelled to return to Norfolk—no remonttrance
having any effect on the fever frightened authori
ties.
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.— The Cincinnati
Gazette learns from a letter reoeived from Vincen
nes that it is probable the trains on this road will
begin to run from Vincennes to Bt. Louia on Mon
day next. The suspension of the trade which had
already sprang up on the part of the road has prov
ed a serious inconvenience.