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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.