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VOL. XV.
m GORGIA JMWSONIM.
IS H!3USHGD EVf.Ht TMCnil>At MORNING
BY WIIiUAM CLINE,
At Two Dollata and Fifty Cent* per an
nam. cx-Tw Collars paid in advance.
A ,)VKI! l KN I'-S :r* insrr'i'd :it O.V/C
IK pr s]'iarr, lor the lin<l insertion, unrl
FIFTY r/:.V TS per eipinr**, for carh insertion
Ilirreuiler.
A .■><>- y .. tteitiieuan will tie ma.lc to those
who ahrerTW • Wv the year.
Alt mil * not otherwise orloif‘u, in ill
!:r ..or tin'.eit till fie-tmt.
’f f tAI.F. S OF ! hv Aiiininistru'ora,
Ksa. .tors or Gii". rr li:>n> are rei|iiireil lit law to lie
le|.| on the first Tuasdnv in tlie month, hetween
ih.? hours o'ten in th toienonn tmil three in tin
nlitrnoon, at the 0 >nrt-1 lon-e, in the county m
whieh the ‘am! i* ■‘limited. Notice nt those sale,
hi m! be oiren in a im'die ea7.ette FORTi
p*e"i,->ii4 ’ii flic <tav of •‘ale.
5 n n S’ OF .YEGROF.R must he made nt p m
In: auction on the first Tuesday nl the month, he
tween tiip usual hours gs sale, at.ihe plareot puh
j. t . c.tli-s io the count v w tie re the letters Testa
oen’ar/, nr’ Administration or Giiicitmnnlim mu
h.'.v# been granted; fiir-t •mvii’c i OR7 I I*l l
police tl.er.nl in one of the public i!i7.ctirs nl lit
Sirs’ . t:: J at I lie court Imttae uhe e sm h falcnrri
la h* J-.‘.rl. ‘
Nf/Ve for llus silc of personal Property nin.'l
tx p.een in li‘,e manner FORT 1 0.1 1 -S previous
t t Mils dav ol’ sale.
Notice*to i>rMor and Creditors of an estate
*nnt he pnMndied FORT 1 V S.
No’ini that application will he made to the (mint
Ordinary for lkavr to ski.i. i.c.no must he piih.
isS .and for ‘Ttt’O MOXTW*,
Notice Tor i.imsk to sili. xConors must he
p'di’ish'd TH’O MONTHS before any order ah
►n’oie aha 1 1 he made thereon hv the Court.
Ctr.IVIOXS for L<-M-rt r Administration
(•■Hi be puhlislied tiiIRTT OaV; tor Dismission
fr.i'ii AdminiatraMon. Moxrm Y siv months; lor
|>;s oMsion from <1 nardianehip. rnai T oav*.
ftnles lor'he I'oreelosurc ot iMortirnire must he
p ddishft'l Moxrui.r i-on porn months, estah
i.bins lost papers, lor the lull space ol Tlini'K
months: for rorn.idlinir titles from K.n-caitma :
HUren'sliCite.r®, v.hrten I rid I nt Imn i ivc t ■
• 111 In BM fiil.ie ‘l.ll sjr.fl 1.1 711.1 K MCNTIia, ,
(Communication.
TO TSEE PVm*IV,
;\HI (.’llizfHH ot’ A J latitn in par
ticular. • i
The undersigned having boon ponied j
the liberty of speech by an iudividtru!':
claiming to control Parr's Hall in the a
tiore city, after an appointment to speak j
in that Hall had been published; ami also, j
after the back out, to debate the cjucstions ,•
contained in the advertisement of Brown-1
low and Hates, by Mr. Brownlow, precc-1
ding the sarid appointment, although:
Brovcnlow was the challenging party.— |
And also, forfher, that one Heynean whilst j
speaking on the subject of the passage 01,
n prohioiotry law, in respect to making, j
selling - , having, and drinking ot ardent
spirits,’ insisted that the opponents of this i
doctrine were unable to get any speaker, or ;
ivr.y person to oppose their views. All of j
which was said by the said Reynem with j
a full knowledge of the fact that the said;
Par son Brownlowhad refused, after giving!
the challenge, to debate the questions in-;
eluded in the advertisement of Browrdow ;
and Bates. So much at present for the
misrule of the priests. After awhile, and i
i the proper jilace, more anon.
Then to begin onr side of the questions i
involved, we* say, to the first position,j
which is as follows: That wc stand indc-j
fence of onr country, and of her standard j
maxims and rights, which are briefly eon-!
tained in her constitution and laws in con- i
formity thereto. And hero let it bedis-j
tinctly understood, that we admit that j
intemperance is an evil, and that this evil •
exists lo an alarming extent every where,,
and is practised almost by every person
to seme extent.
But what is Intemperance?
It is an excessive indulgence (by the
particular actor,) of any of the senses, or, 1
gratification ot any passion, or habit, to
his own hurt and injury; or to the hurt or,
injury of any other person or persons. j
Then, intemperance is not alone con-j
fined to tlie excessive or constant habit ofi
nting, or drinking ardent spinl*, but to ‘
every thing else, which, when done, results,
i.i an injury to the actor, or some other ■
person. j
An example may be the excessive zeal j
of the priesthood, by sects or en mnssr. , to!
establish their opinions and force them on j
the people; if by no other way, then, by I
the word—by lire —by the slow pan and |
gradual fire, or by any oilier means liow-j
over cruel, Savage or barbarous. Cases, j
or examples might not bo wanting from I
the earliest dates we have of Bible priest
-Jtoods down to the present time, but which
wo shall forbear to refer to on this occa
sion, believing that it may answer our
purpose, and servo to elucidate the gene
ral character of tlie priesthood, simply to
inquire, whether good men could or would
have slain the innocent and unoffending
women and children for the sake of gain,
or to establish their own opinions? Look
to it ye who speak for “.Maine Law,” and
beg for money. But other examples ofi
intemperance “may exist,” in over eating,
ovex sleeping, over zeal in any matter,
which may consist in want of water, want
of gold, want of popularity, want of office,
want of friend*, want of honesty, want or
desire to travel, desire to misrepresent,]
and all oth*r acts or things that men or
women do, or may do under the sun, by
which, either the actor or someone else, is
injured by the over action of the actor.—
Even the practiced beggar may, by his
on tor t'on* ; ‘grinaces, horrible jesturca,
so work upon the passions of persons dif
ferently constituted from himself, and much
poorer, to throw in his all to a man richer
than himself. Example, the widow, who
Mrording to the Now Testament, throwed
in her last mite. And here let me add,
this case is every day referred to by our
b:gging priests, who have plenty, but yet
want more, and refer to this passage, to
induce even the poor lo part with thdr
last cent, to them, the rich clergy.
This disposition and practice of the
priests refreshes our memory as to what
csolomon says about a generation “whose
jaw teeth are as knives, to devour the poor
from off the earth.”—And also, of what
he says about the horseleech, that “she
hath two daughters crying Give! Give!”
Pot. xxx, 14. So do these priests cry
give! give! throw into the Lord’s treasu
ry, so. And here let inc further add,
lor the purpose, of showing th differ-
ence in the disposition of mankind
That we have heard the maxim
among roquets,' 1 ’ which, if applied here, we
1 might with safety remark, that a highway
\ robber, or a thief who had any respect for
himself and the above maxim, would dis
dain to rob or steal her last and only cent;
and yet, we have not wanting men in these
United States, who wear fine clothes and
preach for the million on Sundays; and
’ who hesitate r.ot, under pretence, that tlie
.] same is throwed into the lord's treasury,
i to beg tlie widow for her last and only
1 ] cent obtained by sewing or honest indus
” try. But further, ns if this were a very
! ] small matter, missionaries, (abolitionists,)
i; on the subject of total abstinence, mis-
I named Temperance, as well as the clergy
’ of our dear and sunny South, not unfre
; qucntly call upon (he poor slaves for them
mite; and who are addressed in the same
‘ 1 style ns the poor widows are for their last
]} cent—viz: That your gifts, t having given
! till,) are greater than those of the
’ man of wealth who has given but a
! small portion of his pocket change; and
that such gifts as these thrown into the
; Lord’s treasury, will surely be gathered
i again after many days—that it is bread
j cast upon the. waters, &e.—'l hat it is seed
j sown in good ground, which may yield the
j giver an hundred fold, if not in this life per
j imps in the world to come, by reaping
I Heaven’s fullest joys after death Let
I mo add, those facts tell a tale “that pure
i and unde ft led religion” w ill make * no cloak
j for.” ‘1 hen tell me not that it is the
[ classes who make, vend, buy, and drink ar
j dent spirits or malt liquors, who are the on
]ly intemperate persons that lire; nor the
i only persons who send orphans into the j
1 streets crying for bread ami clothes, and i
1 who turn widows out of doors, pennyless, i
‘■ and houseless Xo, there is the landed ;
j man. there is the. miser, who hoards his !
J tliousands’in the vaults of chartered mo-j
j nopolies called Banks, and under cover of j
trunk lids, and within strong iron chests.;
’ There, too, are the hosts of black gown ;
! gentry, who move in the circles of fashion, j
: and keep the company of millionaires; but
. who never remove the burden of the poor i
| with the tip ends of their little lingers, and j
; who eagerly join and mingle, in the crusade j
jof speculation upon the ignorant. Hark
! yon, reader! Wc do not mean to say that
I all priests and clergy are so! Xo, far be
jit from us: N-or do we mean to say, that
| all priests are of this description. But
!we do say a great many of them are of
| this description. It may be, howcvci*!
• that the disproportion is very great. Per- j
i haps if may exist in the same ratio or pro- ]
j portion as those who stand opposed t> law]
and order, as those who stand contra in j
; the abolition states-Say, between three
j and four thousand petitioners, all priests, j
against the Nebraska bill; consisting of j
; all orders or sects, to the Senate of the
! Tfnited States, after the bill had passed
1 the Senate and but one counter, (I want
! special attention paid to this point, as it
j will be of much use in nearly ull the eight
i divisions of this subject, but especially in
i the fourth,) Which, among other things,
; insists that modern temperance lias come
? from the enemies of the government and
] northern abolitionists. Nevertheless, while
! this startling fact appears, allow me to
’ cherish, in my heart, the bel cf of the
1 Spanish maxim, viz; “that there are good
I and l bad of all orders, sects aad classes of
! mankind.”—Still, the disproportion here,
(is rather too great. I also make an e£-
! cuse for quite a number, who, I suppose,
j must be deceived by their leaders; and
• act, believing themselves to be in the
! right, while their leaders know better
It is computed from the Journal of Com
merce, that in the abolition States, and
especially in N-?w York, where anti No
braska sermons are preached continually,
| that in the last six weeks, there have been
; 2263 sermons alone, in tlie latter State;
and, he adds, that the 9th Commandment
j had*been violated* in the same time at
■ least 50,421 times in the same State.—
! Such is the work of priesthood North, at
| tlie present day. Haste not! we will put
things in their right place, and do justice
!to the good and'to- 1 the friends of onr com*
I more country.
But, in the meantime, let us trace
the intemperate doers (who arc now
sailing in the ship “Abstinence ”) a lit
tle further; for this purpose, in order to
ascertain their character more fully, and
in connexion with our premise at the be
ginning cf this article, we will simply
refer you to the following mutters without
remark or comment. We ask, at whose
instance were tlie ten crusades brought
about? How much misery, human woe,
widows and orphans, were in these cru
sades inflicted and made? How much of
the same has been done and completed by
the Catholic world, since the supremacy
of the Tope to the present day? Where
is the slow pan and gradual fire, Holy In
quisition, with ten thousand other instru
ments of torture and cruelty? How many
heretics condemned to be burned, or whose
| heads been severed from their body? Go
read the history of the martyrs. See who
was the cause of their death. Go read
Benedict’s history of the Waldcnscs and
other sects. Go read Jones’ church his
tory. Go read D’Abigtioi'ks history of the
1 Reformation. And answer me: Who
brought all tlie evils herein enumerated
upon tlie human race? Go read the his
tory of the persecuted of all nations, and
t *ll me, who v ere the persecutors? An
-1 swer me, and say, how many thousand
millions of human beings have perished by
lire and by tlie sword, and at whoso com
mand/ How many millions of the human
race have been put to death to establish
Judaism?
How maty Mahoinmcd.uiism?
llow many Jmrgevnautism?
How many Presbyterianism?
How many Quakerism?
How many Mormonism?
How many Normonism?
How many by and of all other sects?
How many persons have been burned
and drowned both iu the old world and in
this country, and who was the occasion of
it? Answer me. Ye are all interested
in this matter.
( This division of the subject to be conclu
ded next week.)
The Atlanta papers will pleaso copy,
and by so doing will oblige the public, &c.
P. B. COX.
THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN.
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, MAY Jl, 1854
From tho Times & Sentinel.
Loiter from Bishop Scott.
San Francisco, California, )
March 31, 1854. \
Messrs Editors : I penned a brief note
lo you as we were about to enter the Car-!
ibbean Sea ; and now here I am writing
from the Metropolis of the Pacific coast.
But how many weary miles lie between,
and what a variety of scene and incident
one passes through in traversing them.
The first relief we experienced from the
weariness of a rough sea, was our arrival
at Aspinwall, a small town springing up
on the eastern shore of Navy Bay, at the
point whence the Panama Railroad com
mon jqs. The bay itself is a beautiful
sheet of water; and the bright green of
a coast covered with tropical verdure was
a welcome sight for those who had seen
nothing for ten days but the waste of rest
less waters. It was hot almost beyond en
durance; but in a few hours wc were on
board the cars, whistling through an un
broken forest of great beauty But arriv
ed at Obispo, what a scene ! Our own
crowd of passengers seemed quite too
great; but here we met those from the
I other side *f tlie Isthmus. Such a scene
jof turmoil and confusion, no pen can de
j scribe ! One would suppose this was the
j place where Pandemonium had discharged
its population.
However, those Northward bound pass
ed on in the cars, and notwithstanding it
was nearly night, many of onr company
, mounted their mules and passed on to Pa
nama This gave the remainder a little
more room; but still the few board shan
ties and thatched bamboo sheds were
janrbed full You may well imagine there
was but little sleep, and especially as a
perpetual jargon was kept £*> of horrible
profaneness and shameless ribaldry. Yet
every one seemed buoyant in the morning,
and ready for tlie adventure’ of a mule
ride. Accustomed as myself and wife
were to the saddle, this was no 21’cat mat
ter. Our principal trouble was that some
of the ladies of our party had never'been
0:1 horseback; and as-their husbands had
to lead tl eir mules ali the way, this re
tarded our progress, and wearied us the
more But tlie road was in fine order—
that is for the Isthmus —and there was
much to elmrm in the scenery. Much of
the land is evidently fertile, although ex
tremely broken; and yet from Aspinwall
to Panama, excepting the Railroad, there
is not one mark of civilization. When one
looks at the state of things, he is inclined
to think leniently of the filibasteros; for
however bad they may be themselves, in
their wake we speedily find Yankee enter
prise and Protestant Christianity trans
forming the entire land.
Os Panama I will say nothing While
there ore many things venerable iivits ap
pearance, there seems litile to’ relieve its
stagnation except the perpetual tide cf onr
people passing to and from California.—
l he bay is very beautiful, studded as it is
with numerous islands, and Hie town itself
in other hands, will, no doubt, become a
place of some commercial importance.
OUr voyage up the racific was-less in
teresting than we anticipated. Although
we repeatedly had striking views of the
bold coast range, yet our vessel steered at
a very respectful distance, for fear of the
fogs and islands, which, I am told, con
stitute the principal danger of this coast j
And yet this Ocean is not as pacific as 011 c
might suppose. Vessels often experience
severe gales, and many have been serious
ly damaged—some n recked.
Our view, as wc approached this bay,
was exceedingly beautiful The sun had
just arisen, and cast his almost horizontal’
rays over the bold hills which here close
in on either hand, and then stretch awav
along the bay eastward as far as the eye
can trace them. Although these hills are
destitute of timber, at this season they
are covered with a rich carpeting of ver
dure, tlie product of the rainy season just
closing But while we feast otrr eyes up
on this rich landscape, we pass through
the narrow Golden Gate, and this far-fam
ed* San Francisco’ is full before us. The
telegraphic signals had announced us some
time before, and thousands arc crowded on
the wharf -some as mere loungers, some
from curiosity, some to greet their coming
friends. Hundreds board the ship the mo
ment she touches the wharf, and march
unceremoniously over deckhand through
cabin and saloon, to the great annoyance
of the passengers, who arc completely shut
in until the visitors see proper to retire.
One cannot look over this city without
emotions of constant surprise and wonder.
It has sprung up as in a day; and yet its
fifty thousand inhabitants, its crowded
and busy streets, its numerous buildings
of the first class, both public and private,
the crowd of shipping at its wharves, of
every description, all would indicate a city
of mature growth. And this I understand
is of a piece w ith the rapid growth and
prosperity of the entire Stale. This is
mainly attributable of course to the abun
dance of gold in its mines, although it con
tains a larger amount of rich, arable land
than was formerly supposed, and much
more attention is now paid to agriculture
This, of course, will contribute largely to
change tlie entire character of the State.
It will make homes and organize families,
without which there is no permanent civili
zation. Without these, and their necessary
consequences, schools and churches, altho’
gold may be so abundant as to be weigh
ed 011 the grocer’s scales, or mcasuced in
the spade, it is, after all, but a state of I
fiercer barbarism, a scene of conflict for
tho wildest passions of fallen humanity.
It requires no prophetic iusp.ration to
sec that trouble is silently growing up be
tween this State and Mexico, and that an
eruption will ensue at no distant day. —
True, a jury in this city a few days ago,
brought iu a verdict of guilty against a
loading officer of Walker’s expedition, and
a determination is thus exhibited to keep
the peace. But the distracted state of
Mexico is constantly inviting adventurers,
■ and Anglo Saxon cupidity is ready to avail
itself of any pretext, however flimsy, for
acquiring more territory. And indeed it
is not t be believed that any people can
live as the Mexicans are now living, with
the example of our people before them.—
They must assume a different position in
the scale of nations, or else be overrun and
absorbed by their more enterprising neigh-
bors. Whatever the faults of California,
or of the other States, may be —and they
are great and numerous enough—no one
can help seeing the astonishing change for
the better which has taken place. The
Mexicans and Spaniards, a%r long occu •
pying this country, left it as tlit-v found it;
whereas five years nuder the hands of An
glo-Americans have wrought an entire rev
olution. 1 wosjld to God that our people
wonld rightly .estimate the fearful respon
sibility which they thus assume. Much
has been given to us. and much will be re
quired of us. Yours very truly,
T. F. S.
San Francisco -From the peu of
Bishop Kip.
The fallowing extracts from a letter
from Bishop Kip, appears in the Albany
Journal:
You speak of tlie refined society nno’
marble palaces of San Francisco. It is
tilerally true. There re more splendid
tuilriings there thin in Albany. One
built of brown cut .-tone for offices, <jv.,
is as and fully equal in exterior to
Metrop ditan Hotel, in New York. As
to the society, there is more active in’eN
lect in it than any society I have ever
seen. There are more men of disti.i’
guislred talents gathered from all parts of
the Union—ex-members of Congves*,
tike Governor Foote, Stanley of North
Carolina, Ouei of New York, Bailie Pey
ton of Tennessee, &c. You may think
it a si range declaration, hut is literally
true, that I never preached with so much
diffidence hvfote any congregation as
those in tlrs city. I see before me on
Sunday an array of talent and intellect
that 1 never did before in any church.—
lean select men here from any part of
my co.ig.’fgatjor. whose name* have been
celebrated for years in the politics of the
count ry from some of the old S ales.
And then 1 think the elegance of liv
in<r would somewhat astonish you. I
have been at dinner parties where you
might easily imagine yourself in New
York, for they were as handsome as those
I have ordinarily been invited to there.—
I’heie L ail easiness about society here,
rather European in its tone, which reliev’
ed us ftotn all the stiffness of the E-ist.
We live with an independence in our own
mite of apartments, just as 1 used to do in
Florence or R one, and do j Ist as we
please in a way 1 never could do in the
East. Our s tuation is delightful. Sn
Francisco is built on a succession of bills,
and our street is half way up one, so that
we overlook the whole city and bay, just
as if we were living at Mr. Oicart’s Arbor
Hi 1. 11l addition to this, we have had
every attention we could imagine, and
were it not for the se pat at ion from tnv
friends in the East, nothing could be
more pleasant than tny residence here
Toe people themselves certain y orbited
nothing to* make if so.
There is an ut'er disregard of money
bore, which is rather strange to one from
the East. I know two gentlemen hei , v,-
the income of one of whom is estimated
at slßoo’ a dav, and (heather at 1000.
We are going to start a diocesan college*,
and I sent a clergyman to one of these
gentlemen (Tnomas 0. Larkin) to ask
what he would give us. He at once of
fered a township of C-10 acres of the best
land in the State for its site, and 1 am to
go up to Sonoma soon to chose it. This
land is exceedingly valuable, and could
he sold at any moment for ftom sl2 to
S2O per acre. When they take an inte
rest in anything- here they put their hands
in their pockets in good earnest. You
may depend upou it, that much as you
abuse C.i!i:rrnia, were you living here,
\ ou would enjoy the society, climate, ijv.
in a way you cannot now imagine.
Uses of Cotton. — Mr. Wallis notices,
in the report of his visit to America, at
the time of the New York Industrial Ex
hibition, that the cheapness of cotton in
the United States, as a raw material, cau
ses it to be used for many of the purposes
for Whiclrthe fttix-and hemp are alone em
ployed in Europe: The *e was cotton sail
cloth at our own great Exhibition in l’Sof,
and in the Exhibition at New York there
were very excellent speeimeus of the use
of cotton in the manufacture of cord age
and twine Fishing nets of cotton twiue,
woven on r. loom, at Baltimore, are stated
to be quite equal, in every respect, proba
bly superior, to hand made nets. Seam
less grain bags arc another novel and im
portant article of trade, and a company
at Manchester, New Hampshire, have
one hundred and twenty-six looms em
ployed in producing them. The inventor
<of the seamless bag loom has lately patent
ed an adaptation of the invention to the
weaving of cotton hose for fire engines;
and Mr. Wallis states that there is no
material escape of water when the hose is
filled, as the fabric swells, and it is as per
fect a duct us the ordinary leather hose,
and there is no oiling required to preserve
the elasticity. A perfect imitation of mo
rocco leather is produced by the applica
tion of a preparation of gutta perch a to
the surface of plain woven or twilled cotton
cloth. The surface is corrugated in imita
tion of morocco, and is colored and var
nished so as to present all the external
appearance ot that kind of leather; the
elasticity is perfect, and the cost is less
than one third that of morocco. Mr. ‘\al
lis describes it as coming largely into use
in the covering of articles of furniture, and
for carriage liuings. London Times*
Piuintc Flags.—The St Anthony Ex
press, a newspaper published at St. Paul’s,
Minnesota, says that for several da vs
past the'citizens of thnt place have been
enjoy wff spectacle of a prairie on fire
When evening sets in,- the whole' horizon
is belted with a wall of flame now shoot
ing heavenward in vivid streaks,- and a
gfti.n bending low like a reed before the
blast. At one moment it rushes alontr
with a hoarse roar, lanping up eve r y
blade and twig in it* path, and iu another
it resembles the camp fires of a tented
host, dotting every knoll and mound.—
As the red flame glares upward, now
deepening; now paling, it far surpasses
in sublimity and grandeur the mightiest
pyrotechnic efforts of man.
PUKTHfillt NEWS BY THE
ARABIA.
The War.
Vievna, Thursday, April IS. —Advices
from St. Petersburg, of the 6th inst. state
that a ukase declares that, as danger
threatens the Empire, it is ordered that
the four reserve battalions become effect
ive, and that two new ones be organized
for each corps.
The War in W.tllachia —Bucharest let
ters of the 6th inst. contain no accounts of
any further progress of the Russian force,
which was still at Trajan’s Wall. The
rumor of an affair at Ilassova appears to
have originated with Turkish agents, and
seems to be devoid of all foundation. O
mer Pacha is said to design attacking the
Russian troops under Gen. Luders. The
Turkish forces at Trajan’s Wail were re
ported as 80,000 strong.
Advices from Lower Danube of tlie 3d
inst. state that the Turks succeeded, on
the Ist of April, in destroying a Russian
1 pontoon train, near Kalarsch. The fight
which has been waged there since the 2-Bth
of last month, is still undecided*.
Our former communications —those,
namely, that the Russians intended cross
ing the Danube at Kalarsch—are now
fully confirmed by later Bucharest letters,
of the 2d instant, which bring tlie addi
tional intelligence that the passage of the
Russians would probably be undertaken
even before the arrival of Prince Paskie -
witsch. Investing or siege artillery, pro
bably destined for Silistria, is collected in
great force at Kalarsch. Prince Gorts
chakoff is shortly expected there. Silistria
lias been barricaded since the 18th ult. its
garrison is 10,00 J strong, and two Egyp
tian regiments are among them.
ViSSsA, A nrii 9. —- I lie Wanderer, Ost.
Deutsche l\>sl and P.csse, of to-uny, con
tain important advices from the scat ot war,
of which the following is a 3ummavy: On
the 29th and 30th of March, the ttte-du
pmt at Czernuvoda was continually bom
barded by the Kussiun gunboats, and the
little redoubt, which is outlie road leading
to llirsova, is said to be already in tlie
hands of the Russians. C’zernavoda is
known to be an untenable position, and,
indeed, there is so no reason to fear that
Gen. Luders has already broken through
tlie Turkish line of defence at the Wall of
Trajan. Until now we have no particu
lars relative to tho battle at Bassova on
the 2d; but if it really took place, it must
have been the result of a combined move
ment, as both Gen. ClirulefT and Gen.
Engelhardt arc said to have shared in it.
Trie former commands in Wallarhia., to
the north of Kalarsch, and the latter, as
|ha already been related, was the victor
at llirsova
The correspondent of the Wanderer,
writes, that after the Russians on the 23d
had succeeded in getting possession of a
battery “after a loss of more than 1500,”
the Turks, to the number of 2,000, retired
into the citadel, which they maintained
until the afternoon of the 2!th. During
the live days the Turks made seven sallies
and inflicted on the itussians a loss of
i,OOO men.
Tne accounts relative to the fate of tlie
citadel and its brave garrison vary much.
There are three reports in circulation, 1.
The garrison surrendered; 2. The Turks
set the place on fire, and endeavored to
escape (lur'ug the confusion; 3. The fort
was blown up by tho Turks. The Bucha
rest writer adds—“ Something dreadful
must have occurred, for the Russians arc
as silent on the subject as they are about
their discomfitures 011 the 12th, 13th, 17th
and 23d, at Olenuza.
On the 31st, according to correspond
ence from Bucharest, Gen. Luders stood
with the right wing of his corps before
Ssclioniawoda, his left before Karassa, in
front of Trajan’s Wall. At tlie same time
a brigade of Gen. Oostensaeken’s corps
Was about to enter Kustendje, and so
complete the line of occupation from tlie
Danube to the Black Sea. It is said at
Bucharest that the Turks at Kustendje
could not reckon ou the help of the allied
fleets because the port was too shallow to
admit of any thing lisvgtir thlib ts boat.
Ihe garrison of Kalafat, according to
intelligence which has reached Vicuna,
made a silly 011 the 30th ult. I0,00t)’
foot, 2,003 horses and 60 guns advanced
against the Russians, who were posted in
force at Skripetz After a sanguinary cu
gagement, which lasted four hours, the
latter were routed and pursued to a con
siderable distance). The loss of the ‘Turks
is estimated at 203 and that of their ad
versaries, at 600 men. From the 28th of
March up to the Ist of April, there were
engagements of greater or less severity.
A surgeon who is with the Russian ar
my iu Wallachia, writes that tho prepara
tion for feeding and doctoring the soldiers
are upou a scale unknown in previous Rus
sian campaigns. Provisions are accumu
lating as if the men were going to march
into a desert. The chimneys smoke day
and night with the baking of biscuits. —
The slaughter of cattle at I brail and Ga
latz is incessant. This witness mentions
the left wing of the Russian army as con
sisting of 84,030 men, referring doubtless
to the corps at Kalarsch and in the Dob
rudscha. lie accidentally mentions that
the hospitals tire till crowded, a large pro
portion of their tenants being wounded.
At Kalarsch, where the Russians are
preparing to cross into Bulgaria, the
Turks succoedeJ on the Ist inst. in totally
destroying a whole bridge equipage, which
the Russians had brought up to throw a
eross the Danube.
Austria and Prussia.
1
It is stated, on reliab’e authority from
Berlin, that the secret convention just con
cluded by the Austrian aud Prussian Go
vernments at Bcriiu, guarantees in effect
the integrity of Russia more decidedly
than the protocol signed by the same Pow
ers with France and England at Vienna,
guarantees the iutegrity of Turkey. One
of its secret articles is believed to stipulate
that Austria and Prussia will not permit
a peace to be imposed on the Czar at the
expense of a portion of his territory.
Vienna, April 10. —The Prussian Go
vernment has sent back the draft of the
treaty of alliance, hampered with condi
tionsVhick, if accepted, would defeat its
purpose and bind Austria to neutrality—
The Austrian Cabinet has refused to agree
to them.
England.
Parliament—State of AJfairt in lh’
East.—h\ reply to Lord Beaumont, the
Eirl of Clarendon in the House of Lords
stated that ft protocol had been signed a*
Vienna on Sunday last, the tenor of which
was as satisfactory as he could have anti
cipated. The assent of Prussia had not
yet been announced, but it was certain
that that Country had not gone over to
Russia. Rumors had reached England
of the recall of the Prussian Ambassador,
of which the Chevalier Bunsen had aiso
heard, hut he believed the only foundation
for that loport to he that the despatch of
a special mission to the Court of St.
James was contemplated by the King of
Prussia. Ho could give no official infor
mation touching the terms of the treaty
between Austria and Prussia, but had
reason to believe they were dictated bv
ihe former power. According to the last
accounts the fleets were at Varna. On
receiving news that the Russians had
crossed the Danube, the admiral had des
patched a squadron of observation to the
Vicinity to'Che scene of operations. ‘1 he
Austrian troops, he added, had not yet
entered Servia, hut the st*-p, if accom
plished, would be taken mainly fuf the
purpose of protecting the territory.
TIIE RUSSIAN INVASION.
The latest accounts from Bucharest
state that large bodies of Russian troops
continue to puss the Pruth. Between
the 30th of March and the Ist of April,
10,000 Russians are said to have entered
the Principalities.
It appears that when the news of the
Russian passage of the Danube in force
at Galt'z reached Constantinople, im
mense excitement prevailed there, aud
the Turkish population of Statnboul
cro\v:!“‘ l * r, tt> tee Christian quarters with
threats and abusive hnguage. To obvi
ate any mischief, the beraskicr at once
or lered the garrison under arms, and a?
strong patrols were posted in the sir eels
and public places, all tendency to excesses
was checked.
Letwrs from Constantinople fully con
firm the previous reports of four English
vessels having been fired upon by the Rus
sian batteries on the Danube. The Bed
lington, first reported, received no less
than seventeen shots, aud sunk* in eight
minutes; tbs Crescent received seven,
and the Annie three shots, Tne Utter
two were boarded, and the crews taken
prisoners, but were, on the following day,
released. The master aud crew of the
Annie then took possession of their ves
sel, and arrived safely at Constantinople.
Toe Crescent, however, was so severely
disabled that it was found impossible to
bring her into port, and she was sitter
wards seen stranded within three miles
of the batteries.
PsASTU OF PROVISION'S AT Cd.VSAJfTIJfO
pIe. Provisions are rising to an enormous
price, and the merchants have reccivod a
notification prohibiting the export of any
kind of grain. Even what has been im
ported lor the purpose of re-shipment is
not allowed to leave the country, and it is
thus endeavored to alleviate the sufferings
of the capital, and’so quiet the dangerous
discontent es a hungry mob.
France. —The Mouitcur of the 11th,
mentions the report of a Russian victory
on the banks of the Danube, but adds
that the Government has received no in
telligence through an official channel 1 of
this alleged victory, nor even of a battle
having been fought. A report from Con
stantinople by way of Malta, states that
the Russians had been driven across the
Danube.
The London Chronicle's Paris corres
pondent writes—“Tne only news of any
importance which reached Paris on Wed
nesday, is the report that the Russians
have passed Trajan’s Wall, and have ad
vanced beyond it towards the Balkans. It
does not appear that there has hitherto
been any serious resistance on the part of
the Turks, who probably wish to avoid
riskin'*- anything in the shape of a pitched
battle°until the arrival of the French and
English* attxtHrie&. n
The same writer- say a “All the
which reaches u.s from Germany tends
to confirm the accounts,'-which 1 was una
ble to send you some time since, of the un-*
satisfactory attitude assumed by Prussia
and Austria', and their determination not
to make cause with the Western Powers
in repelling the aggressions of Russia.”
Russia —All travellers are forbidden
by the Russian authorities to cross the
frontier. A messenger, bearing a Swedish
passport, visited by M do Budborg, having
beeu permitted to pass, was sent, back to I
the frontier.
Spain. —Madrid, April t.—The day be
fore yesterday, M. Soule, the American
Minister here, received despatches from
his Government with instructions of a strin
gent nature with respect to the affair of
the Black Warrior. To-day I learn that
the matter was settled yesterday. Such
business-like promptitude is so unlike what
we are accustomed to in affairs where
Spaniards compose one of the parties con
cerned, that I can hardly bring myself to
believe in the correctness of my intelli
gence.
I am assured, liovrcvar, that it is to be
depended upon; that M Pezucla, the Cap
taiu General of Cuba, was found to be in
the wrong, and that the Spanish Govern
ment at once admitted this, made the need
ful amends, and granted a pecuniary in
demnity. Tnis, however, does not settle
the other point mooted at in the Presi
dent’s message—namely, that power should
be given to the Spanish authorities of Cu
ba, to settle disputes arising there. This,
I apprehend, will be more difficult to ar
range, the Spanish home goverument be
ing traditionally jealous of its colonial del
egates, and unwilling to increase their
powers.— Correspondence London Tmes.
New York, April 28. —The caloric
•hip Ericcson was sunk on the Flats, near
Jersey City, yesterday afternoon, during
the storm. She had just returned from
* trial trip. The accident was caused by
the carelessness of leaving the portholes
open. A large number of ladies and
gentlemen were on hoard, but all were
safely landed.
The Cagle and the Wood Thrush
BV 33. AUDCBOV.
The American white-headed eagle, the 1
not so noble a bird as the great American
‘eagle, is, nevertheless, n most magnificent
bird. Go with mo, and view him in his
own native woods. (Jo see him in* his
haunts on the banks of the Mississippi:*—
See ! he takes wing, and there you have
him whirling up into the air a nob!
swan comes in sight, and now there is the
screamin'? pursuit and the fatal struggle!
Now is the moment to witness the display
of the eagle’s powers. He glides through
the air like a falling star, and like a flash
of lightning comes upon the timorous
quarry, which now, in agony and despair,*
seeks, bv various manocuvcrs, to elude the
grasp of his talons. It mounts, doubtless,
and willingly would plunge into the stream
were it not prevented by the eagle, which,
long possessed of the knowledge that by
such a stratagem the swan might escape
him, forces it to remain in ihe air by at
tempting to strike it with his talons from
beneath. The hope of escape is soon giv
en up by the swan. It has already be
come much weakmed, and its strength
fails at tho sight of the courage and
swiftness of its antagonist. Jts last gasp
is about to escape, when the ferocious ea
gle strikes with its talons the under side
of its wing, and with unresisted power for
ces the bird to fall in a slanting direction
upon the nearest shore.
But with me, the greatest favorite of
the feathered tribe, is tl.ie.WQo^-thruSh —
one of the ntbrtt accomplished of minstrels.
How often has It revived my drooping
spirits when I have listened to its wild
notes in the forest, after passing a restless
night in my slender shed, so feebly secured
against the violence of the storm as to
show me the futility of my best efforts to
| rekindle my little Arc, whose uncertain and
| rascilluting light had gradually died away
j under the destructive weight of the dense
torrents of rain that seemed to involve
! the heavens and the earth in one mass of
| fearful murkiness, save when the red
streaks of the flashing thunderbolt burst
on the dazzled eye, and glanciug along the
huge trunk of the stateliest and noblest
tree in the immediate neighborhood, were
instantly followed by an uproar of crack
ling, crashing and deafening sounds, roll
ing their volumes in tumultuous eddies far
and near, as if to silence the very breath
ing of the unformed thought. How often
after such a night, when far from my
home, and deprived of the presence of
those nearest and dearest to my heart,
wearied,’ hungry, drenched and so lonely
and desolate as almost to question why I
was thus situated; when I have seen the
fruits of iny labor on the evtref de*
stroyed, as the water; collected into a
stream, rushed through my little camp,
and forced me to stand- erect, shivering in
a cold fit, likt*. that of a severe ague—when
I hare been obliged to wait with the pa
tience of a martyr tot ffih return of day,
trying in vain to destroy the tormenting
musquitocs, silently counting over the
years of my youth, doubting, perhaps, if I
ever again should return to my home and
embrace my family. How often; as the
first glimpses of morning gleamed dimly
among the dusky masses of the forest
trees, has there come upon my ear, thrill
ing along-the sensitive chords which con
nect that organ with the heart, the de
lightful music of this harbinger of day,
and’ hOw fervently, on such occasions, have
I blessed 1 the Being who formed the woOd
thrusli, and placed it in those solitary for
csts, as if to console mo amid my pri
vations, ‘to cheer my distressed mind,
and to mako me feel, as I did, that never
ought man to despair, whatever may be
his situation, as he can never be certain
that aid and deliverance are nbt at hand.
Maine Law in Indiana. — A citizen* in
Winchester, Randolph county, Ills., died
a few days since ©f delirium tremens.—
A'n hour or two after his death about fifty
ladies collected together, placed the wid
ow at their head, and proceeded to all the
groggeries in the town, and presented
the owners with a piper, agreeing-to sell
no more liquor, which they requested
Jhen. la sign. If anv one retest™
sign they broke all his bottles; and
spilt all his liquor. The first one of
whom the demand was made refused,
but soon had reason to regret if, ns the
incensed ladies soon poured his liquor in
to she gutter. Another barred 1 hiV doors,
and swore vengeance agair.st the’ aggres
sors, who destroyed his establishment.
Another case of a similar Character oc
curred in Easte r n Indiana, several weeks
since, the circumctances of which we
heard related, A lady had called upon
all the retail liquor sellers, and requested
them not to sell her husband any more
liquor, which they promised. One of
them, however, failed to make good his
promise, and continued to dose the poor
inebriate husband with p dson. The wife
risi'ed the establishment’ one even'ng,
and, finding her husband drubk, broke alt
the glasses on the counter, with a club
which she carried with her. Oil the own
er of the shop interfering,- she knocked
him down, and, whilfe her blood was up,
demolished tho bottles, and broke off the
faucets of all the barrels ithe house.—
A large crowd gathered around the doors,
and cheered her on in the work of de
struction. Toe owner of the groggry
left the town. — Exchange.
Peruvian Bat.iixo. —l took a -atoll
along the beach, and was much amused
at witnessing the singular mode adopted
by the ladies for the enjoyment of a wa.
ter excursion. The balhingimen are Indi
ans, very stout and robustp who, being di
vested of eVerj species of covering except
a pair of drawers, take to the water, each
carrying a lady upon his shoulders. The
men strike out to swiin, and do so with
out inconveniencing the ladies, who float
horizontally on the surface of the water.
In this way they are carried for a mile or
more, and appear to er>j<*y this novel
mode of locomotion extremely.— BomeUVs
Travels in Bolivia.
It is rumored at London that Mr.
Thackeray has embraced the Roman
Catholic teligion.
Be ready to hear, careful to contrive,
i and elow to advise.
No. 19.