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fclh fam MIMH4 118 BY JAMES GARDNER The Arctic Calamity. CAPTAIN lick's STATEMENT. Quebec, Oct. 14. ISM.—E. A'. Co/L'ns.—Dear | Sir —lt becomes my painful duty to inform you of the total loss of the Arctic, under my com- i mend, with your wife, son and daughter. The Arctic sailed from Liverpool on Wednes- I day, Sept. SO, at 11 A. Al.. with -33 passengers • end about 150 of a crew. Nothing of special ; r.ote occurred during the passage until Wednes- i day. Sept. 27, when at noon, we were on the.j Banks, in lat. 46 45 north, and long. 52 west, ste°rlng west by compass. The weather had been foggy during the day ; 1 generally a distance of half to three quarters of a mile could be seen, but at intervals of a lew , minutes a very dense tog, followed by being suf- • fieiently clear’to see one or two miles. At noon | 1 'eft the deck lor the purpose of working out the position of the ship. In about fifteen min- ’ u‘es I heard the cryo: “ Bard starboard,' from the officers or the deck. I rushed on deck, and ha t just got out when I felt a crash forward, and | at the same moment saw a steamer under the | starboard bow: at the next moment she struck ; against the guards, arid passed astern of us. 1 :ie I bows of the"strange vessel seemed to be literally ; cut or crushed oil tor toll ten feet; and seeing i that she must probably sink in a few minutes and taking a hasty glance at cur own ship, and ’ believing that we were comparatively uninjured, my first impulse was to endeavor to save the I lives of those on the sinking vessel. The boats I were cleared, and tire first officer and six men | left with one boat, when it was found our own [ ship was leaking fearfully. ; I The engineers were set to work, being in- I structed to put on the steam pumps, and the four : deck pumps were worked by the passengers and j erew, and the ship headed for the land, which I | iudged to be about fifty miles distant. I was I compelled to leave my boat with the first officer | and crew to take care of themselves. ( Several ineffectual attempts were made to ! stop the'leak, by getting sails over the bows; but finding the leak gaining on us very last, not withstanding all our very powerful efforts to keep her free. I resolved to get the boats lea l}, , and as many ladies and children placed in them , as possible : but no sooner had the attempt been made than the firemen and others rushed into them •. in spite of opposition. , i . Seeing this state of things, I ordered tne boats astern, to be kept in readiness until order could ; be restored: when, to my dismay, I saw them cut the ropes in the bow. and soon disappear astern in the tog. Another boat was broken | down by persons rushing at the davits, and many were precipitated into the sea and drowned This occurred while I had been engaged in get ting the starhoard guard boat ready, and placed i the second officer in charge, when the same tear- : ful scene as with the first boat was being enacted men leaping from the top of the rad twenty feet, pushing and maiming those who were in the boat. I then gave orders to the second effi- ' eer to let go, and row after the ship, keeping un der or near-the stern, to be ready to take on • board women and children as soon as the fires • were out and the engines stopped. My atten- I tion was then- drawn to the other quarter boat, i which I found broken down, but banging by one tackle, A rush was made lor her also, and some fifteen got in and cut the tackle, and were soon out of sight. I found that not a seaman was left on board, or carpenter, and we were without any tools to assist us in building a raft, as bur only hope. The only officer left was Mr. Dorian,the I third mate, who aideO me, with the assistance ot many of the passengers, who deserve great praise for their coolness and energy in doing all in their power up to the very last moment before the ship sunk. The Chief Engineer, with a part of his assist ants, had taken our smallest deck boat, and be fore the ship went down pulled away with about fifteen persons. We had succeeded in getting the fore and main yard and two top gallant yards oveibnard, and such other small spars and materials as we couid -collect, when I was fully convinced that the ship must go down in a very short time, and not a moment was to be lost in getting the spars lash ed together to form a raft, to do which it became necessary to get the life-boat, our only remaining boat, into the water. This being accomplished, I saw Mr. Dorian, the chief officer of the boat, taking care to keep the oars on board to prevent them from leaving the ship, hoping still to’get most of the women and children in this boat at last. They had made considerable progress in collecting the spars,when an alarm was given that the ship was sinking, and the boat was shoved off without oars or any thing else to help themselves with, and when the ship sunk the boat had got clear, probably an eighth of a mile to leeward. In an instant, about a quarter to five P. M . the ship went down, carrying every soul on board with her. . * , I soon found myself on the surface, after a brief struggling with my own helpless child in my arms, when again 1 felt myself impelled downwards to great depth, and I reached the surface a second time had nearly perished, and lostihe hold of my child. As I again struggled to the surface of the water, a most aw ful and heart rereding scene presetfted itself to my view —over two hundred men, women and children, struggling together amidst pieces ot the wreck ot every kind, calling on each other lor help, and imploring God t;> assist them. Such an appalling sconce «nay God preserve me from ever witnessing again. I was in the act of trying to save my child when a portion of the paddle box came rusuing Up eJgewfße,riust grazing my . • its whole wait on the head of my darling child Another moment I beheld him lifeiess in the water. I succeeded on getting ri to the top ot i the paddle box, in company with eleven others: i one. however, icon left for another piece, find- I ;ng that it could"not support so many. O ners -: remained until they were one by one relieved by death. V.'e steed in the water, at a tempera ture of forty-five degrees, up to our knees, and freq. ently the sea broke directly over us. We I soon separated from our friends cn the other • parte-of the wreck, and passed the {right, each one ci us expecting every hour would be our ! At last the wished lor morning came, surroun- I ded with a dense fog—not a living soul to be seen but our own party—seven men being left. ; In the course of the morning we sa w some wa- i ter casks and other thingc belonging to our ship. I but nothing tnaj we cou.d.get to afford us .any ; relief. Our raft was rapidly settling as it absorbed ’ water. About naon Mr. S. M. Woodruff, ot New York, was selieved by death. All the others be gan to suffer very severely far want of wafer, ' except Mr. George F. Allen .and myself. In that respect we was very much favored although I we had not a dcop on the raft. The day con- i tinned foggy, except just at noon,, as near.as we j could judge, we Lad a clear horizon for about , half an hour, and rmthing could be seen but wa- ; ter and sky Night eame on thick and dreary, with our minds made up that neither of us would again see the light of'another day. Very soon three more of our suffering party were re lieved by death, leaving Mr. Allen, a young man and myself. Feeling myself getting ex hausted, I now sat down for the first time, about 8 o’clock in the evening, on a trunk, which pro videntially Lad been found on the wreck. In this way I slept a little through the night, and j became somewhat refreshed About an hour before daylight—now hriday, I ;:.e Wetair a veNei’* light near to us.—- : We all three of us exerted ourselves, tothe ut- ' most of our strength in hailing her, until vve be- ' eame quite exhausted. In about a quarter ot an ; hour the light disappeared to the east of us.— ; Soon after daylight a barque hove in sight to the northwest, the fog having lightened a little —steering apparently for us ; but in a short time • seemed to have changed her course, and again j we were doomed to disappointment; yet 1 fplt hopes that some of our fellow sufferers may have been seen and rescued by them Shortly after we had given up all hopes ol be ing rescued by the barque, a ship was discovered I to the east of us. steering directly for us. We now watched her with the most intense anxiety as she approached. Tne wind changing caused ter to alter her course several points.- About • noon they fortunately discovered a man on the i last near them,and succeeded in saving him by the second mate jumping over the side,and mak- I ing a rope fast around him. when he was got on board safely. This man proved to be a I ree.ch- • man. who was a passenger on board the steamer j which we came in collission with. He informed the Captain tnat others were near on pieces of. the wreck ; and. or: going a oft !he saw us three others. We were first to whicn • : the boat was sent, and safely taken on board at is p. M. The next was Mr. James Smith ot I Mississippi, second class passenger. Ibe others j | saved were five of our firemen. Ibe ship prov ed to be the Cambria, ot this port, from Glasgow ) bound tor Montreal, Captain John Russell, who I commanded the barque Jesse Stephens, and was I rescued by Captain Nye, of the Pacific. Os . i Capt. Russell it would scarcely be possible to • i say enough in his praise for the kind treatment i we every one of us have received from him during the time we have been on board hisship. Hisown i comforts he gave up in every respect for our relief. I The Rev. Mr. Walker, and another gentleman, j | who were passengees by the Cambria, have been I unceasing in their endeavors to promote our com | fort. To them aud all on board, we shall owe a i debt of gratitude for their unbounded kindness to j : ns. From the Frenchman who was picked up, we ‘ - learned that the steamer with which we came in I collision was the screw steamer Vesta, from St. - j Pierre, bound lor and belonging to Greenville, : i France. As near as we could learn, the Vesta , i was steering east southeast, and was crossing I our course two points, with all sails set, wind j west by south. Her anchor stock, about seven , by four inches square, was driven through the : bows ofthe Arctic, about eighteen inches above ; j the water lineyand an immense hole had been 1 I made, at the same instant, by the fluke ot thg i anchor, about two feet below the water line, : raking fore and aft the plank, and finally break- ; j mg the chains, leaving the stock remaining in i ; and through the side of the Arctic, or it is not ; I unlikely that, as so much of her bows had been I in, some of the heavy longitudinal pieces ; of iron running through the ship may have been i driven through our side, causing the loss of our 1 ship, and, I fear, hundreds of most valuable lives. I have safely arrived at Quebec, and I am left i without a penny in the world with which to J help myself. With sinccere gratitude to those I from whom I have received such unbounded j kindness since I have been providentially thrown amongst them, I am about to separate to go to Xew York —a home of sorrow. I learned from the Doctor, at quarantine, last ; evening, that the Vesta had reached St. John’s ! with several passengers from the Arctic, but | could not learn thq particulars. As soon, as I; : can get on shore I shad make arrangements to ■ leave tor Mew York with the least possible de lay. 1 take the steamer for Montreal this after noon. I am. very respectfully, lour obedient servant, Jaaies C. Luck. The Vesta. • The ship which came in collision with the Arctic, w ith such fatal consequences, was, as we have said, the French propeller Vesta, built in : 1853 at Nantes, about 240 tons, and furnished i withan engine of sixty horse power. The Vesta - belongs to one ot the wealthiest houses of Gren- . vilie, which equips vessels lor the fisheries of Newfoundland. She went to St. Pierre with a ■ '! load of salt, and was returning to France with : one hundred and forty-seven passengers, (fisber- , men and sailors.) and twenty of the crew. At the time of the accident the Vesta was travelling at the rate often knots. Exteriorly I she has even been worse handled than the Arctic, lor her bows were literally carried away; but the : division of her hold into compartments saved her. The water which was precipitated by the large • opening into the forward part of the ship was ar i rested by a compartment of plated iron. i By relieving the centre and stern of al! that could be thrown overboard. Captain Duchesne at • first lightened the ship, and afterwards caused a j sheet to be passed over the bows. Thus guarded ! against the most imminent danger, he made for I St. Johns, travelling with great precaution, and increasingor diminishing his speed according to : : the pressure of the water on t.r.e sheet. He thus I reached St. Johns on the 30th of September, at ! ■ the very moment when a tempest sprung up, j : which would have caused the inevitable loss of ; the Vesta ifit had overtaken her atsea. The Vesta carried written in ineffable traces j the history bl the naval drama, in which she has played so terrible a part. Her hold open to the • light, and one of her masts broken, tell how vio- • • lently must have been the collision. But what j tells more are the bent sides of her iron compart- I i ment, in which she still carrfes pieces of wood j I from the Arctic—the last and melancholy rem- ( riant of this magnificent ship. The Vesta lost in the collision thirteen of her men, who. seized with fear, either threw t.-iem i selves into the sea, or were in the boat destroy- I ed by the Arctic. Furthermore, the ‘fishermen who had with them all their little fortune, composed 01. barrels j of oil and fish, are ruined in consequence of the • necessity of throwing overboard ail that was on 1 deck. We regret being obliged to contradict the rur mor announced that thirty-one of the ship j wrecked passengers of the Arctic had been saved by the Vesta. Captain Duchesne treuer saw t/ie \ steamer or any of her boats after the collision took i place. The Elections.—We give our readers this week as much Intelligence on the subject of our j State Elections as we have been able to gather, i Ifwill be seen among other things, tbatour imme | diate fellow citizen, Hon. P. 6. Brooks, has been • elected to Congress, over his opponent, Gen. I Garlington b*y .3,098 votes. This isquite acorn- [ • plimentary majority. The most actively canvassed contest in the i : State has been that for the Senate, in Richland | : district. Col. John S. Preston achieved the I ! victory at last. So far as we can learn, there has been little or i j no excitement, except at one or two points. I j Nor does it appear that any political i-sue has | • had much influence at the poll;, tn a few dis- | tricts the qneston of giving the election &f Pres- I idential Electors to the people was mooted : but, I i unless it were in Richland and Laurens, we j doubt whether the people have taken any inter- I est in Hie matter. From a cursory glance at the list of well, known names in the election returns, we must think that our .Legislature for’s4 and’ss is to be one of high character-for intelligence and in tegrity.—Edgefield AvSrlistr. I ‘'Live and let Lr.vn". —This, though an old I and good maxim, is fjeqe.ntly disregarded now-a- ' day-. Once there was a t.'me when—But we n.'.itt now go to repining on account of departed 1 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1854. daysour business is with the i resent. ‘ Live I and let live,” is one of those mottos that may be variously exemplified. We give but one instance: Suppose there was a village, and in that village suppose there was a newspaper that had an ex tensive circulation. Suppose there was store keepers also in tha‘ same village and that tiey 1 had a great many goods in their stores to dispose of. Now suppose that the Editor, Pulblisher, Foreman and Compositors attached to the afore said newspaper, were in the habit of trading With these same shopekeepers whenever they I happened to need any thing in the mercantile line. And suppose that these storekeepers, to save a few dollars, should fail to encourage their home newspaper by their advertising patronage, thereby injure themselves and defrauding (as it 1 were) the printer of his just and righteous Sunpose all this, and yon have a case which is thereverseof' Live and let live.” It is easy enough from this to guess how the thingshould be. Toap- j ply these remarks, we ask the leader to see bow f many ofthe Edgefield merchants have thought 3 proper to advertise in our columns. No wonder we have an auction or two every year, We-P boldly take the ground that the merchant who . refuses to encourage the printer deserves not to j he encouraged himself. Copper Mines. • From the Mining Magazine for the present month, we glean the following in rt’grird to the Tennessee Copper Mines: The most prosperous mining is yet to be found in the Tennessee and Lake Superior regions. To \ give the utmost effect to the development of the i Tennessee.mines, a Smelting Company has been formed at Ductown, in Polk county. We learn : that its buildings and works are nearly finished, . ! and will be ready for commencing smelting fully • lon the first September. Trials have been made, ' which prove satisfactory. The Isabella Mining i ' Company of Polk county, the richest of «ll the | rich mines ot that county, is erecting ovens or | : floors for roasting their ores ; that is, burning out >1 the sulphur, and reducing them to thirty or forty I per cento! metal. A distinguished and experi enced geologist and mining engineer, Mr. Bray, of London, has spent about two months in Duc- • town, expb. ring the copper mines of that town ship. . I The following is an estimate made by him of j the capability ot the Tennessee mines tor pro : ducing copper ore : I mis monthly., Tennessee Mine. : Cherokee Mine 300 I I East Eennessee Mine 800 Hancock Company 500 Isabella Companylsoo j Mary’s Company4oo Callaway 100 Polk Countylooo 6000 or 75,000 tons per annum, yielding 20 per cent, of I metal, is equal to 1,200 tons monthly, 14,400 tons I pure copper, valued at S6OO per ton. .$8,700,000 Cut. 1,700,000 Estimated profits7,ooo,ooo i Mr. Bray left New York by the Arabia, on the 1 23d of August, to report to the Geological Socle- ' ty of London upon the geology and mineralogy of the- Polk Town District. He is connected with some of the largest, mining companies in the world. One of his objects in coming here was to select tracts of mineral land for purchase,: on account of an English company. We under ■ stand he has made preliminary arrangements apd has agreed, subject to the approval of his princi pals, to purchase the following properties™ Ten nessee : The St. Mary’s mines, East Tennessee. Calla way and some others. The plan is to compro mise the whole properties so brought under one company, to be called the Great Consol’s Com pany oi Tennessee. The purchase money is to be partly in cash, and partly in the shares of the new company. [Erom the London dfeuti, Sept. 23.] Interview with Her Majesty. Mr. Nathan Thompson, formerly engineer of the Collins steamers, recently came to England to exhibit a safety seat. He andeavored to pen etrate into Buckingham Palace, to exhibit it to her Majesty, but was referred to Captain De man, of royal yacht. Off went the American to Osborne, and found his way on board the yacht,and explained his object to Capt. Deman. Shortly after the royal party arrived, the yonng princesses each seized upon one of Mr. Thomp son’s seats, aud rocked themselves to and <ro With true childish simplicity. Presently one of the crew was ordered overboard to try the mer its of this novel life preserves, and the exper iment evidently was looked upon by the ladies! and gentlemen v*!:o accompanied the Queen and Prince with great interest. Mr. Thompson, ! meanwhile, was standing amidships, much dis- j j appointed that he had not been spoken to, and ] I fearing that, after all, he should not accomplish • the great object of his journey. f At that moment, much to his delight, Cap : tain Denman touched him on the shoulder, and : I said, “ Mr. Thompson, I have permission to pre sent you to her Majesty.” ‘‘l shall be very | happy, sir,” and, amid the smiles and tittering of the party who surrounded the Queen, he ap proached. and was introduced-by Captain Den i man, “ I have the honor to present the inventor lof the 5 li r e-buoy to your Majesty.” “How d’ye l do, ma’am ?” said Mr. Thompson. The Queen I bowed and the ladies suppressed their merriment ias well as they could. “1 have brought, ma’am,” i said Mr. Thompson, “ one ol my seats as a pres- I ent for you and your husband, which I„hope you. will accept.” At this, further attempts at re pression of laughter were unavailing; but tbe Queen with great good nature, smiled, and con descendingly said, “ I'hank you Mr. Thompson, it is a very interesting and useful invention.” After replying to a few inquiries Irom Prince i Albert, whose rank he was not aware cf until he saw the Queen leaning on his arm, Mr.' Thompson withdrew, and waving his hat in ex uberant spirits, embarked in one of the Fairy’s boats kindly provided for him by the captain: RnvERstNG TRAbE.—In conversation yester day with one of the proprietors of the Pioneer Paper Manufactory, at Athens, Geo., he inform ed us that he has recently made a number of shipments of printing paper to the northern ci ties and has received more orders from New York than he could possibly fill without interfering with the supplies for his regular Southern cus tomers. A short time since nearly all tbe pa | pers used in this and a number of the Adjoning states was imported from New York and ,Phila- I delphia. ! Life in New York.— Eighteen thousahd people in the city of New York live un ' der ground—that is to say, in cellars, vaults and I holes. So Rev. Mr. Cuyler asserts, and his in i formation is said to be derived from actual inves tigation. He tellsol one neglected quarter—a I sjngle lodging room or den—in which one hun ! died outcasts of both sexes held together, indis i crimiuately, every night. That may be called lile in New York underground. Washington National Monument.—The I Washington Sentinel says:—The work has at tained a height of one hundred and sixty-six feet, not quite one third of that which is contemplat ed. We trust, however, there is patriotic feeling enough in the country to complete the column, without subjecting the managers to the hcrnilia- ' tion of aguin appealing to Congress to vote the < •supplies necessary for that purpose. J National Baby Show. The Rising Generation in dims—lntense Excite ment.—Beautiful Babies and Proud Mothers.— .Awards of the Premiums. We find in The Cincinnati Times of Fiiday last the following account of one, of the most re markable Fairs of this go-ahead country, held at Springfield, Clark Co , Ohio, on Thursday of last week. It is a refreshing change from the dry columns of political resolves and convention speeches. The Arrival of the Babies.— Decidedly the greatest feature of this Fair was the National Baby Convention, which took place yesterday. It attracted people, adults and babies, from all prrts of the Union. No less than 12,000 or 50,000 visited the Fair to-day, (excluding babies) all of whom appeared to be excited as to the display of innocence and infantile beauty. The novelty bf the exhibition was ot itself sufficient to create a general interest, but to this was added three Services of silver plate as prizes. The managers if tbe “show” appeared to be taken aback at the c .rarest taken in the affair. They had supposed that even their liberal premiums would not tempt more than a dozen babies or so, and had made arrangements accordingly. 10 o’clock yes terday morning convinced them that they had underrated “the importance of the occasion.” Devoted mothers and doating fathers, with their little pets in their arrhs, came pouring into the Fair grounds, each, no doubt, confident of leaving, it with one of the prizes. A small canvass tent had been assigned as the receptacle ofthe entries, and into that mothers, babies and nurses were ushered by gentlemen wearing rosettes upon their breasts. Soon there was “music within.'' Young America's Voiceis Heard — Astonished, | probably, at finding themselves in “mass meet ing assembled,” the little ones sent up a cry, | which shook the canvass-top and pierced the (ears of the people. In vain did the brass-band toot their instruments to drown if possible “the 1 piercing cry.” Young America was aroused, and scorning to be beat, sent lorth notes which shamed the keys ofthe bugle and made the trom bone blush for its weakness. “The “babies I the babies!” was on the lips of every one. Ploughs, embroidery, reaping machines, fancy goods, me chanical skill and agricultinal success, were all forgotten in a moment. Blood horses and short horn-cattle were no whar! The people—men, j women and children, ladies, gentlemen, and grow ling juveniles, made a rush for the “Baby Tent." I Being barred admission, however, they were 1 obliged for the present to content themselves by j listening to the music. Some more anxious than l the rest—gentlemen, we mean —climbed tbe I adjoining trees, and enjoyed free gratis for noth ing, a stolen'peep at the Baby Convention •which, from their expressions we judged was j highly gratifying. The Scene in the Tent. — The tent presented a novel, amusing and interesting sight. The moth ers and nurses were seated and had the “little darlings” all ready for inspection, that is as near I ready as could be. To see so many babies to jgether was novel; to note the maternal efforts to i present them in the best mood, was amusing, •and to gaze upon their innocent faces and purest 'ofcharms was certainly interesting. There sat a mother, her eyes directed alter nately on the judges and on a little cheiub which lay in her lap. By her sat another, holding up proudly a lovely little girl, whose flaxen curls and sweet blue eyes would soften the heart of the greatest baby-hater in Christendom. Next her a nurse was enffeavering to quiet a stout, black eyed,, rosy-cheeked “one year old,” who insists on pulling the jet black ringlets ot another one about its own age. One lady pointed with pride to the chubby legs of her darling boy, while another glowingly refers to the delicate but well formed features of her sweet babe, One boasted of having the largest of its age; another of the smallest and smartest. Some of the babies seemed to feel their importance on this occasion, and, in spite of the most earnest entreaties, would be in mischief and keep up a continued noise. Others appealed unwilling to“beiieve their eyes,” and lay quietly in their mother’s arms, watch ing the proceedings, with apparent interest, while others insisted on hiding their innocent faces in i their mother’s bosoms, as if they knew their re fuge was there. Young America's Vernacular.— Then the ex pressions which tell on one’s ears ! “Tome “to mudder’s arms, mudder’s ’ittle pet.” “Oh! “you darling ’ittle toad!” “B’ess its ’ittle heart, it “shall have some tandy.” “Tot, tot to Baridy boss, “on its mamme’s ’ittle boss.” “Stan’ up, muzzer’s “ittle pet.” “Its sweet, so it is, mudder knows it “is.” “Dump ifit wants to, tause it tan dump.” “Ties mamma now, wont it tiss mamma?” “Bouncety bounce, bo.incety bounce.” ! “Now what a “naughty boy, see, the gentlemen are coming.” “That’s a good bady—nurse can tome its hair, an’ it “don’t try a bit.” “Sweety, [ sweety, mothei’s sweSt,” and an hundred more i just such expressions. Where the Babies Come From.— One hundred I and twenty-seven babies were entered foe exhi bition. And they came from almost every where. [Several counties, including Hamilton of Ohio, were well represented, and then there were ba bies from Indiana, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. We would publish the names, but for the serious protests of the parents, who dp not desire the world to know that their babies entered for the prizes and did not get it. We appreciate their feelings and submit to their re quest. I'n such an immense crowd we could not with any propriety get anything like a personal description ol the babies, but we will mention a few which attracted general attention. The Prettiest Baby.— lt was- generally admit ted that decidedly tbe prettiest child on exhibi tion was Irom Cincinnati; it is the daughter of Mr. Henry Howe. It is a really a sweet child, and, without pretending to be a judge, we must coincide with the general opinion. Large and fat children seemed to predominate. One from Indiana.one live months old, weighed ' twenty-seven and a hall pounds. Another, four months old, weighed twenty pounds. A pair of twins, ot Clark County, attracted much attention. They were very pretty, and as near alike as two peas. An elderly lady was present with her seven teenth baby. on\y Wto months old. She claimed nothing extraordinary in the child, but thought she was deserving of a premium—andshe certain ly is. Without attempting to particularize, we will just say, that ice think all .the babies presented were really pretty, and that their parents have just'cause to be proud of them. Prizes Awarded —Names of the Victors.— The session was a long one, but about 6 o’clock in the evening the final decision was made, and the prizes awarded as follows : First prize, a splendid service of silver plate, including a large salver, to the daughter of Win. Romner of Vienna, Clark county, aged 10 months. Second prize, a service of silver plate, to the son of Win. McDowell of Fulton, Hamil ton Co , Ohio, aged 13 months. Third prize, a plain service of silver, to the daughter of Mr. A. Canon of Philadelphia. Dissatisfaction —Volunteer Prize. — Great dis satisfaction was expressed at the award of the first prize. It was thought it would be given at once, to the daughter of Mr. Howe, of Cincin nati, and it was even proposed to take up a sub scription on the spot, to purchase her a gift worthat least as much as the prize. It was understood that her claim had been strongly urged, and that the prize was awarded to the other child by a majority of only one vote. Those in the minority were determined she should not pass unnoticed, and after the awards! had been made known, waited or. the little fa- 1 • VOL. 33—-NEW SERIES—VOL.—9—NO. 36. vorite,and through Mr. DeGraff ot Dayton, pre sented her w’ith a large and costly statuette of our Savior Blessing Little Children. This act was highly applauded. Thus ends our report ot the National Baby Show. We understand it will be repeated next year, when with the experience of this year be fore them, the managers will be able to prepare all the necessary accomodations for the “entries.” A LETTER FROM FANNY FERN. New-York, Thursday, Sept- 28, 1854. Mr. J. Faist—Sir: In thanking you for the compli ment paid me, by constituting me one of the com mittee to award tho premiums at the Bbay Convention, J I would also express my deep regret thar my present i engagements w : 11 not admit of my leaving New York. Nothiag would delight me more than to visit yor beau- I tiful city, which I have so long wished to see. and tne I added temptation you hold out,*in the shape of babies! | is almost irresistible. God bless their 4ittle sweetness, But how could I choose ? I, who love everything in the shape of a child—who believe that they are left to us of Ellen, who never come into their presence without a feeling such as a devout Catholic must have, when he. crosses himself before the image of the Virgin Mary ! How could I choose ? I should turn from black eyes to I blue, fronr blue eyes to grey, from grey to haze; I should bo led captive by a dimple, fascinated by a ring let, enchanted by a rosy cheek or a snowy shoulder.— I My dear sir. 1 should be as bewildered as a bee in a ten acre lot of full blown roses. Please except my best i wisheafor the success of your novel, beautiful and ad- • • mirable enterprise. May the anathemas of no disappointed Mother haunt • the sleeping or waking dreams of the awarding com • mittee. - Yours, very truly, FANNY FERN. ! Dreadful Mortality.—A letter from an K officer of the United States steamer Saranac, 11 dated at Spezzia, September 18, states that when • she was at Constantinople, the Combined French J , and English forces had lost some thirty thou- ( , sand men by cholera, and they were still dying , in great numbers. One English frigate hundred and seventy men during one night. | From the New Orleans Picayune, Oct. 14.] Later from Mexico. The steamship Orizaba, Capt. Forbes, which ! has been due since the morning of the 11th inst.,- [ reached the wharf about 9 o’clock this morning. She had been detainud at Vera Cruz tiW the 1 morning of the 10th inst., by a heavy norther,: which prevented her from getting out. She left at 10 A. M. of that day. Capt. Forbes reports having left in port at | Vera Cruz the American brig Nemephar, Capt. • Marthchock. She was to leave on the 10th inst. • We have papers by tbe Orizaba from Vera ■ Cruz to the 10th inst., and from the city of Mexi- I co to the sth. Among them we have received < copies of the new paper, the Correo de Espana. \ There is not much of importance in the papers. • The great features are, as usual, festivities, rob beries, Indian depredations, and an extraordinary i postponement of a ball, which was to have taken | place on the evening of the 27th ult., the anni- I versary of Mexican independence. The Mexican Economist of the 30th ult, whose j account we take for the present, reports the fol- i lowing as tbe manner in which the 27th was celebrated: “ In the morning a solemn mass was celebra- ! ted in the cathedral, assisted by all the civil and I military authorities. Divine service finished, the I authorities proceeded in procesion to the Alame- • da, where an oration was pronounced by Mr. i Tagle. After this the Regiment of the Guards [ marched out to Chapultepec, where a military ; breakfast was laid out, attended by His Serene I Highness the General President, his Ministers, I and other authorities. In the evening the whole I city'was brilliantly illuminated, and presented a I splendid appearance.” I We shall only add to this that a decree had I previously been issued, ordering all persons to f illuminate and bedeck their premises, under pen alties Irom $5 to SIOO. From the Mexican Economist also we take the following account of the sudden postpone ment of the ball above referred to: “In our number of the 9th inst. we mentioned that a splendid ball was to be given at Lbtija on [ the 27th inst., anniversary of the victorious army I of the independence having entered the capital, j This ball, however, did not take place. It was I suspended on the evening of the same day, in ; consequence of some disagreeable occurrences, by j which the families invited and the members of ; the Lonja were the sufferers. “ The corps diplomatique having been invited, were expected to attend in uniform, but having refused to do so, the Government declined to at- : tend the ball, and it was suspended. “ We had already written an article fully ex- • plaining the facts of the case, when We saw yes- • terday in the Diario Official a jMvagraph, stating • that the Government would publish the whole correspondence that had taken place in the mat- I ter with the Corps Diplomatique. We, therefore, | suspend our article until next week, in order to I add a translation of the correspondence in ques- | tion. “In the meantime we only mention wha< is I said in public, and what will astonish our Euro- • pean readers—that an old coat is at the bottom j of the whole story 1” Various other reports are in circulation. One I says that it was intended to proclaim Santa An- ' na Emperor at the ball; another that it was the I plan of Ygeuala that was to be proclaimed. I There is a report that one of the Regiments has already proclaimed him Emperor, but were prevented from carrying out their plans by the double operation of a shower of rain and the re fusal ot the other regiments to join them. We clip the following items from the Mexican Economist of. the 30th ult: “ With the object of improving his health, H. S. H., the President, has taken up IK .residence for a lew days in the Aichbishop’s palace, at Tacubaya, about three miles from the capital. On the 25th inst., at 5 P. M.. a salute of artillery announced bis departure. H. S. H. was accom- : panied by his ministers and stafl, and was es corted by a detachment of Lancers. “ On the 28th a funeral service was celebrated as usual in tnetnery of the victims of Independ The roads throughout the Republic are repre sented as in a horrible condition, trade as fear fully stagnant, and the cholera has been commit ting serious ravages at some points. The New York Cronica has been prohibited from entering the Republic, anjl it is ordered to be burnt wherever found Mulberries and “Peaches” in October.— : Last evening we were not a little surprised at the sight of some ripe mulberries which were handed us by Mr. Thos. Purse, as a specimen of this fruit, from a tree in the vicinity of his resi dence on South Broad street. The tree, Mr. Purse tells us, has a very good crop upon it. The . berries are of the usual size and flavor ol the ' spring fruit. ' , Now, as to the peaches: they’were not sent j I J l3 being too young, as our friend remarked, to ■ : be separated from the “ parent stem.” In a word, ; they were “pcachlings" (to fabricate the word.) , just beginning to shoot. Verily, such a state of things is enough to tempt one to exclaim: “ Thou hast all seasons for thine own, oh”—peaches, and mulberries too : were it not for the unmista’kea ble prospect now that they are doomed soon to “ wither at the North wind’s breath.” 1 he gale ot the 7th and Bth September stript the leaves from our trees, and, immediately alter,» a fresh and beautiful green gave all a spring-like appearance.— Savannah Rep., 19th insl. ” The Argentine Confederation seems to be in trouble about the paper currency issued bv order |of the President, Urquiza. It has become very much depreciated in consequence of the continu ed refusal of the merchants to receive it. European Intelligence Per Baltic. threat Battle in the Crimea— Utter Annihilation of [ the Russians Ten Ships of War Sunk—Fall \ of Sevastopol—City in FAimes—Ten Thousand French and English Killed—Eighteen Thousand Russians Killed—Twenty two Thousand Prison ers— One Thousand Guns Captured—Mmschi koff Refuses to Surrender—Commercial intelli gence, tfc., 6fc., Spc. The steamship Africa arrived at Liverpool on the morning of Sunday, the Ist. Liverpool Cotton market Jd. higher; bread ituffs quiet. The United States war steamer San Jacinto, has put back to Southampton, with machinery damaged, having, when off the Texel, broken one of the fans of her screw. tjhe will be de tained for repairs five or six weeks. A private letter from Liverpool, per the Baltic, announces the failure of Edward Oliver, ship owner, with heavy liabilities. Tun War in the Crimea.— One of the most sanguinary battles of modern times has been I fought, and Sevastopol has fallen 1 The Gets, as far as known, are that a battle toil: place on the heights, at the liver Alma. ; The French ar I English, with’a loss of twenty eight hundred silled and wounded, stoi med the . Russian entrenchments, and drove the enemy i back. The Russians appear to have made a I stand on the Katscha. Another battle was fought there on the 23d of September, resulting in the defeat of the Rus sians, who were pursued by the allies to the ■ land ward walls ot Sevastopol. More fighting took place under the. walls. On the 23th, Fort Constantine was invested, by sea and land; and, after an obstinate defence, I was carried by storm. The allies then bombarded the city and the | fleet. Ten Russian ships of the line weie burn ' ed and sunk. I The remaining forts were carried, one after : another —eight hundred guns were silenced— i twenty-two thousand prisoners were taken. i The Russ'an loss, in dead and disabled, is esti ! mated at not less than 18,000, in Sevastopol ' alone. ; In the midst of this tremendous havoc, Men- ■ schikotf, with the shattere 1 remains of his force, I retired into a position in the inner harbor, and I threatened to fire the town and blow up the re- ' maining ships, unless the victors would grant him an honorable capitulation. , The allied Generals demanded his uncondi- I tioual surrrender, and, in the name of humanity, I gave him six hours for consideration. I The six hours had not expired, when the last i advices left, but, it was rumored, that he had sur- I rendered, and that the French and English flags i waved over Sevastopol. | Official Account. —The following is the I official account of the Battle : I “The entrenched camp of the Russians, con ! taining 50,000 men, with a numerous artillery I and cavalry, on the heights of the Alma, was at , tacked on the 20th instant, at one P. M., by the ! allied troops, and carried by the bayonet at half ! past 3, with the loss on our side of about 1,400 I killed and wounded, and an equal loss on the side |of the French. The Russian army was forced to I put itself in the full retreat. ■ “The Duke of Newcastle feels it his duty in ( publishing this telegraphic dispatch, to caution i the public against expecting any details for sev eral days. He fears none can be received before I the 6th October. I “ Every thing which is received by the Gov | ernment will be published immediately. I “ War Department, Sept. 30,1854.” ; Details of the Battle.—From other sources 1 we learn that th^Russian artillery was arranged I in three batteries, and that the Russian force was quite 50,000 men, including a fair proportion of cavalry. The battle commenced at 1 o’clock, afternoon, and at 3 o’clock the Russian position was carried by the bayonet. Marshal St. Ar naud and Lord Raglan commanded personally. [ Three English steamers protected the.passage of , the Alma from the sea. General Thomasson. | French, was shot in the abdomen,supposed fatal- ■ ly. and General Canrobert was wounded in the shoulder. I French Official Account. —The following, I from the Moniteur, is the dispatch from Marshal I St. Arnaud to his Government: Bivouac on the Alma, Sept. 20.—Ween* : countered the enemy to-day on the Alma. The I woody ravine through which the river luns, studded with houses, and having very steep i slopes on the left bank, was occupied by the ene imy in great force. These slopes were strongly i entrenched and coveted by a powerful artillery. I The allied armies attacked those difficult posi j tions with unparalleled vigor. Our soldiers ad ' vanned to the assault with cries of Vive PEmpe- I rewr! and carried all before them 1 The battle . lasted four hours, and our Joss was 1400 knled I and wounded. lam as yet ignorant of the ioss sustained by the English army, which fought va i liantlv against an obstinate resistance, j Signed, ST. ARNAUD. I The Battle of Kalantai Plains.—From ! the small number of guns or prisoners taken by i the allies at the Alma, on the 21st, we inter that I their (the allies) success, amounted to no more than driving the Russians from their position on the heights. At all events, Prince Menschikoff had managed again to bring all his forces into order, and on the 23d September he gave battle to the advancing forces on the plain ot Kalantai, on the river Katcha. After a sanguinary en gagement, which lasted some hours, the Russians were totally defeated, and pursued to their en trenchments before Sevastopol. Here they ap pear to have made a third stand, and to have agaih offered battle to the invaders. Sevastopol.—From our scanty materials we I find it imposible to make anything like a con nected account of the attack on Sevastopol. The despatches published in the English papers abound in repetitions and contradictions. A dispatch from Omar Pasha to the Turkush Minister at Vienna is reported to stave, that Se vastopol is taken with all its material and fleet.— The garrison were offered free withdrawal, but preferred remaining prisoners of war. 1 hey sur rendered on the 25th. ’ Paris, Oct. 3d.—lt is telegraphed from Bu charest, 28th September, that Sevastopol was ■ captured by the Allied forces on the 2-ith. De , tails are wanting. The garrison surrendered as prisoners of war. Vienna, Oct. Ist.t-The garrison of Sevasto pol, to which a free retreat, after laying down their arms, was offered, preferred to remain prisoners of war. . , r We have no unworthy intelligence of what part the fleet played in the conflict. One ac count says that ten Russians ships of war were burned and sunk. Another says that the fleet surrendered and took no part in die fig another states that Fort Constantme bb w up, or were blown up by shells from the- o ■ ships. And a statement is made w -hich has some foundation in truth, to the effe e _ Russians were totally disheartened protracted peated, defeats and du! not make the! P™ ra f X distance they might have done 1 ei fid loss (18,000,) however, indicates a sufficient y brave defence. ~ • had his return to Mance <oui ordered to collect Finland take them back to the Gult ot Finland. T»C Danube—The Turks are hastening through Biflgariaf b‘y forced marches on the sea roii ? t