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Intelligence by the Niagara.
For tile following items ot intelligence by the
• Niagara we are indebted to the foreign corres
pondents of the New York Commercial Anver-
The interval between the commencement oi
the bombardment ol Sevastopol and the '
of the Alma has been tilled b: the public■ » .th
an ea»er contemplation ot the details ot the uu
ter. and of the masterly strategical movement
by which it was followed in the capture ol the
port m Balaklava, so as to gam a command ol
the fmtiess from the South. The march on that
occasion was of the mos‘ remarkable kind, train
the nature ot the ground and the absence ot the
topographical knowledge on the part ot the al
lies "a full description ot it has been published,
and one incidents circumlstance attending it
was the capture and destruction ot the ammuni
tion of a portion of Menschikofl's defeated ar
my.
The arrival of the French and English forces
at Balaklava appeals to have been sv totally un
locked for, as to have spread panic among the
Russians, and the fort at that point, which was
only garrisoned by two or three hundred men,
scarcely offered any resistance. This place be
ing secured, and a communication with the fleet
ha ing been instantly' opened, the m>ans not
only of disembarking all the siege material with
ease and rapidity, but also of moving it by a
good road to the heights above Sevastopol seem [
to have been attained. The only question then
remaining was to the time in which all the pre- !
parations. for the attack could be completed— I
the utmost'swiftness being desirable, so that it j
might take place before the expected Russian re
inforcements from Odessa could arrive, and this
appears to have been settled by an announce-i
meat received yesteiday, that the bombardment
had commencedon the 4th, and that an I
assault was considered probable by the 12th.—
The public, how ever, have learned to distrust all i
telegraphic news, and will therefore not rely
upon these statements until they have been re
ceived by other means.
Austria has congratulated the English Court, j
as it lately did the French, on the success of the j
allied aims in the Crimea. This would seem to I
settle the vexed question of her neutrality. It |
is ceveitlieless said that upon the' fall of Se
vastopol, she will make a supreme effort to in- j
duce Russia to yield. The Frankfort Gazette,,
in an article which has created some .sensation, i
that it is not unlikely that a catastropholike that '
no.v imminent in the Crimea, would provoke I
a violent and prolonged revival of the war on the I
part of Russia, now threatened in its existence i
and wounded in its self-love.
The operations of Omar Pacha indicate a pro- >
bable invasion of Bessarabia by the North, the:
Dobrudscha, and by sea. Prince Gortschakofl’ is ,
also taking serious measures to resist the attack. I
The garrison of Rem, Baltic. Ragul and Leut- j
chen.are double. There will doubtlesss be hard |
lighting yet in this quarter, unless the. capture!
of Sevastopol disheartens both officers and sol
diers.
Besides the depatches of the generals upon the
battle ot the Alma, we have a mass of private
letters, from eye witnesses: full ot interesting de
tails which an official report could not touch
upo i. I may sav at once that public opinion is
agreed to consider the loss on the side of the Al
lies as greater than that reported. This is
unanimously acknowledged, both from the na
ture of the battle held, and the tremendous ad
vantages of position in favor of the Russians,
and the belief that the Government would be
disposed to conceal a portion of the destruction
in the first coilission with the enemy. It is
worth noticing, too, that the Prince Paskie
witch, in his report published, at Warsaw on the |
2d, gives the Russian loss at 100 killed. Gener- 1
al Thomas, wounded and conveyed to Constan- |
tinople, writes h me that the Russians fought I
bravely and obstinately, and that for two hours j
the hail of projectiles seemed to create no void '
in their ranks, but that they were finally com
pelled to yield before the tremendous impetuosi- ,
ty of the Allied army. The Russian officers are
disguised as simple soldiers, by the order of the |
Emperor, who dread any further decimination I
of their ranks by the Turkish sharpshooters.
The death of Marshal St. Arnaud is stated>o
have resulted from disease of the heart, termina
ting in water on the chest. His age was 53.
The death of the Marshal will be an undoubted
relief to the Emperor upon whose purse he was
a sore burden; certain complicities between
them rendering it impolitic for Louis Napoleon
to repulse bis contact exactions. The loss can
make little or no difference to the operations ot
the army : having been foreseen, Gen. Carjrobert I
held the order to succeed him, before the expedi- ,
tioa left France. At the Bourse, the death of the ;
Commander-iu-Chief was regretted, but it ex- I
ercised no influence, the fuilds rising slightly, j
The body arrived yesterday at Marseilles, and ;
was received with all possible honors, salutes, '
flags at half-mast, the tolling of bells. By a de- 1
cree ot the Emperor, in consideration of the :
eminent services oi the Marshal, in Africa, in ;
the War Department, and in the East, he will i
be buiied at the Invalides, at the expense of the :
State. The papers are creeting for the deceased I
warrior a reputatii n for piety arid probity ; a re- I
putariou which it will be no slight upon his me- i
mory to say he enjoyed during his life.
Gen. Canrobert, his successor, is in every way |
a different man. He has risen by merit, and
has won his several successive grades ; St. Ar- j
naud owed his rather to favor, chance or intrigue, i
having been in every sense an adventurer. |
Canrobert lived for ten years, when a Lieute- i .
nant, on 5,000 francs a year, never owed a debt, | ,
and never ventured into speculation. It is not i .
known, and the papers are calling upon the Mo- ' ,
niteur for information, whether he has become : (
General in Chief of the Allies, or only of the j |
French army. I ,
Young Jerome Bonaparte, from West Point, '
has left Marseilles for Constantinople, this week; i ,
he has with turn 200 dragoons, ot whom he is |
sub Lieutenant. j ,
The Mouiteur declares itself authorized to an- i i
r.ounce that no negotation whatever has been I
entered into between the United States and the ,
Prince of Monaco, for the cession of the princi
pality by the latter to the former. This is true, ,
but the offer was none the less made by the ;
agents of the Priace, to the American legation
in this city. _ :
The conference of American representatives:
in Europe, which was to have taken place at j
Basle, in Swiss territory, had assembled at Ost
end, on Belgian territory: any where but on I
French ground. They are to discnss the proper ’
attitude of America toward Europe, it seems, as
if the only attitude proper for America, were notl
the exclusive minding of her own business here. |
Americans here, nine out of ten, speak of the :
conference with ridicule. Our ambassadors cer- j
tainly could not have selected a moment when
they can collect and talk demagoguy with closed I
doors, with more total indifference on the part i
of the genera! public than the present.
3JIt would seem hardly possible for an operatic
event to emotionize Paris just now, but we have i
certainly been considerably stirret by an extra- j
ordinary act on the part of Mlie. Cruvelli. She I
was announced to sing in the Huguenots,, on
Monday night; instead of which, she j
Northern rail road and crossed the frontier, with- j
out giving notice. She has not written since. |
The most rational explanations is that she was
offended at the Governments order that the ,
names of all the artists be printed in type of the '
same size. A law suit or a fine of $2,500 is
talked oi. But 1 think it doubtful if she can
make her peace in Paris again. M. lould will
probably draw a pen through her engagement
and the Opera will survive without her.
The commercial difficulties at Liverpool still
remain unsettled, and the impression is that the
talked-of arrangement in the case ol Mr. Edward
Oliver will not be carried out, t.nat his name is
upon a larger amount of paper than was at first
supposed, and that the hope oi a surplus will
nove altogether de usive. He was, mixed up
with McHenry and Co . and Allen and Ander
aon. With re per' to the affairsol McHenry it
is now commonly reporter that he owes 11500,'
000, and that his assets will not yield more than
5 per cent, of that amount It is to be hoped
these stateru*?iits may prove fatae, but i< t.'JTe is
really truth in them, the prospects ot liquidation
in the case ol Allen and Anderson must also be
very bad, as they are understood to have commit
-1 ted themselves with McHenry to the extent of
making themselves liable as partners.
The London money market shows rather
more ease. In the funds there has been a sin
gularly small amount of business for some time,
, but they remain steady. At the last date Con-
I sols were quoted 95 J, and they have left off this
evening at the same price.
The Eastern War and the Future.
The British Government is already making
arrangements forthe next campaign. The Dub
lin Daily Express says that, early in March, the
18th instant, the 51st, the 54th, the 56th, the
76th, tile 72d, the 80th, the 82d, the 90, and the
94th regiments, will be in England, and prepared
to proceed to the Baltic, it would thus appear
that a long struggle is anticipated. The cost in
the end will be immense, and unless the Allies
should be discomhtted. an effort will, no doubt,
be made to obtain restitution from the Czar.—
Such is already the sentiment of a large body of
the people of England and France. But should
Sevastapol be taken —what then ? Nicholas
will then accept a peace dictated by the allies—
or he will not. If he should refuse, the war, of
course, will be continued. The Liverpool Journ
al. alluding to such a contingency, says it is very
puzzling to decide how the contest is to be
carried on. The editor adds :
St. Petersburg can only betaken by an army.
Have we the army ? Have the French and
English together, an army such as the great
I Napoleon considered requisite for a conquest of
| Russia ? They have not together 500,000 men ;
j and Lcuis Napoleon is not so foolish as to empty
France of soldiers. He fears the Monarchists
snd he fears the Republicans, and he is bound,
also, to fear the Prussians, who might-diverge
out of neutrality into Russianism. We might,
i together, collect an army sufficiently' strong to
j beat Nicholas out ot his capital—probably he
I would be Fabian, and retire with his army to
Moscow. He will, we are told, never give in :
and he has a large territory to retire on. So
I long as the war is merely a military war. there
! is, then, no security whatever that we can
i bring him to the conditions we require.
: Inasmuch as at present we are riot feeling the
cost of the war—are revelling in corn prosperity
| and are beginning to see that commerce does not ,
j necessarily suffer in war-time —the chances of i
J prolonged hostilities may be discussed with con- -
; siderable phlegm. The alliance between Eng
i land and France seems stable ; and there is felt
in that, a vast security for the future. But we
I should begin at once to realise what Sevastopol ;
I leads to. and to consider what next. Os course, '
I the Crimea could be taken possession of by an |
I Allied A'rmy, and the Russian fleet destroyed.— I
i Turkey would then, be safe. But can we keep ,
lan Allied army' in the Crimea forever. Is a \
j Turkish army to be kept in the field forever, or
j at Bessarabia, and are the Wallachians to be ;
I sentenced forever to a military occupation -1 Are j
I we equal to the weight of keeping Russia down?
For she would lose no chance of getting up.
Our ministers feel the difficulty, and will be
compelled to throw themselves on the country.
The question of the day, then, is—as Russia is to
be conquered, effectually, neither in the Crimea
nor at St. Petersburg—ought we not to attack
her via Poland ’ That is to say —is the war to
be ended only by a European co..flagration 7 In
other words, must we enter on a political war
against Russia ’
There is another method, and one that re
commends itself to the sentiment of the time.—
We need not invade Russia; we need not take
St. Petersburgh, nor provoke another conflagra
tion at Moscow—we have only to wait where
we are and Russia must submit. Sevastapol
dismantled, and the Russian fleet in the Euxine
destroyed, we have cnly to blockade the Baltic,
and keep a few ships in the Bosphorus, and the
Czar will have to endure the clamor and hatred
of an oppressed people—a terrible enemy.
The future, indeed, so far as Europe is con- !
cerned, is involved in doubt. Should Nicholas !
persist, there will be exhausting and bloody I
work for years. Important changes will also,
no doubt take place; and, driven to extremity,
the Allies may endeavor to establish the king
doms of Poland and of Hungary, and thus to re
volutionize Europe. The latter, however, will
depend upon the course of Austria. But this is
not all. Finland would probably be restored to
Sweden, and Courland would again become a
seperate nation We repeat, the solution of this
Eastern Question may yet involve the most im
portant consequences.
Plvnderisg the Wreck of the Sure Delia
Maria. —It will be remembered that this vessel
I was wrecked on Martin’s Industry during the
I August gale, while on her passage from Liver
: pool to Charleston. A portion of her cargo was,
we understand, taken off, and having been
1 bonded at our Custom House, was sent to
Charleston, for which salvage was paid. Since
then it has been discovered that a large amount
of goods have been carried off from the wreck,
and for the past two or three weeks the Custom
House officers, assisted by several of the City
Police, have been zealously engaged in searching
for and recovering the property. We learned
yesterday that they had succeeded in getting
possession of some two thousand dollars worth of
goods, consisting of dry goods, hardware, china ;
ware, carpeting, &c., a part of which was found :
buried and secreted on Tybee Island, and the I
balance in the possession of parties in this city. I
A portion of t“e property taken from the ship
was brought up to the city in boats, and landed
under cover ol the night, and has since been
traced to the possession of various parties in
town. The officers, both Os the Custom House
and police, have been indefatigable in their
efforts to trace up the missing goods, and have
succeeded in obtaining information which will
lead to the recovery of most of them. We
understand it is their intention to pursue the
matter vigorously. We hope they will be en
tirely successful, and that whoever the guilty
parties may be, in a transaction so manifestly
dishonest and disgraceful to our port, they may
be dealt with as they deserve.— Sav. News, 31.
City Amusements.
The past week has been one of unusual inte
rest to such of our ci'izens and country neighbors
as aie in the habit of indulging their taste for
Drama'ic representations, or the lighter and
scarcely less popular entertainments of EHifov
pian ministrelsy, with both of which classes Br
amusements we have recently been highly favor
ed. With Mr. Crisp and his talented Company, -
at Concert Hall, and West and Peel’s Campbell
Mintrels, at Temperance'Hall, the vexed ques
tion with our people seems to have been, not
which they had better patronize, but which they
. could consent to forego.
Os Mr. Crisp and his Corps we can only say,
| that throughout their somewhat protracted stay I
of two weeks, they have been uniformly met by ’
: large and appreciative audiences, who Lave free 5 -
j ly expressed their gratification at the continued
j and successful efforts of the Management for
j their entertainment, both as regards the judicious
: selection of the pieces performed, and the very I
, effective manner in which they were placed up- .
on the stage This Company, hitherto popular
in our city, have made many additional friends
i during their present visit, who, we doubt not,
; will always be ready to meet them with a hearty
; welcome and liberal encouragement, whenever
they may think proper to appear upon our boards.
Mr. C., we learn, has an engagement in Macon
the present week.
Ol the Campbells, it is almost unnecessary to
I speak, further than to say, that they are the same
fun-loving and mirth-provoking band ol good
fellows as ever. They are well known through
, out this country as one of the very best compa
i nies of Minstrels in the world. Possessing as
- they do an infinite versatility of talent and fund
' of humor, every thing they do is well done and
i funny; and if, as the old maxim has it, every
good laugh draws a nail out of one’s coffin, then
i ot a truth are the fast houses of a goodly portion
' ol our people in ruins, and Mike Mitchell and
, Matt Peel must take the responsibility of the
■; destruction. To ail, then, who enjoy an hour of
.yinnocent relaxation and a hearty laugh, we
' would say, go and hear the Campbells, the fust
! opportunity—secure an eligible seat, loosen all
I obstructions to cachinatory exercise, and leave
the result with Patt Peel and the rest ol the
boys.— Columbu- 'Ast.
[From the Charleston Courier, Ist inst.|
The Fire in Meeting Street.
: The fire mentioned in yesterday’s Courier as
| having broken out on the premises of Mr. F. P.
Seignious, west side.of Meeting street, was not ef
fectually subdued until nearly seven o’clock.
We mibjoin an account of the damages sustained
and the amount of insurance thereon.
The interior ot the brick building lacing on
Hasell-st., adjoining the Pavilion Hotel, owned
by Mr. Geo. Thompson, was entirely destroyed.
The upper portion of the edifice was not occu
pied. It extended back on the North line about
130 feet and was recently fitted up to connect
with the buildings occupied by Messrs. 8. and E.
M. Gilbert, fronting on Wentworth street, so as
to form a continuous sales room, opening on both
streets. This property, which was insured in
the Fireman’s liisur race office for $5,000, had
been leased to the Messrs. Gilbert, and was to
have been turned over to them yesterday.
The bolding lacing on Meeting-st., occupied by-
Mr. Leonard Chapin as a Cariiage Depository',
owned by Mr. F. P. Seignious, were destroy efl.
It was, however, insured in the Fireman’s Insu
rance Company for $5,000. Mr. Chapins stock
was insured for SIO,OO0 —$5,000 in the R°y a ‘
Insurance Company, and $5,000 in the Girard
Insurance Company, oi which J. H. laylor is
Agent. The building north of the above, owned
and occupied by F. P. Seignious was, also, con
sumed. It was insured in the Fireman’s Insur
ance Company for $3,000, and the shop for S4OO.
Mr. S. Mowry, Jr. whose lesidence is next
. North of the above had the wood work of the
I piazza charred by the flames. Hisstable, which ■
! was destroyed, was insured for SIOOO in the
i South Carolina Insurance Company.
A biick building lacing on Wentworth st. im
' mediately West ol the Carriage Depository of
Mr. M. H. Nathan, owned by .Mr. S. Mowry,
Jr., and occupied below as a blacksmith’s shop by
; Mr. Chapin,and above as a dwelling by several
i familws. was consumed It was insured >n the
; South Carolina Insurance Company tor $2500. 1
! A brick building adjacent to the above,owned
! and occupied by Mr. Chapin for purposes con
i nected with his business, was destroyed. It was
j insured for SSOOO io the Home Insurance Com
! pany. of which J. H. Taylor is Agent.
j A brick building West of the above owned
i by Mr. Samuel Meeker, of New Haven, was
! slightly injured. It was, as previously men
• tioned occupied by the Messrs. Gilbert, and
connected with Mr. Thompson’s building. In
! this large and commodious sales' room were a
j number oi carriages and other vehicles, many ol I
I which were removed. The insurance amounts
i to SIO,OOO. SSOOO in the Monarch office, New
| York, ana 55000 in the Fireman's Insurance
i Company : bet a small amount, however, will be
required.
The large building extending along the north
i line of the premises on which stands the Pavil
| ion Hotel was nearly entirely destroyed. The
greater portion of the roof has fallen in, and in
! the upper stories little is standing but the na
ked walls. It is insured for S2OO in one ot Mr.
J H. Taylor’s agencies, and S2OOO in the
Charleston Insurance and Trust Company, which
amount, we believe, will fully cover the dama
ges.
IxL-o'aMATiON Wantko.'-—The Warrenton, N
C. News, says :
Os O. Hanffock a Journeyman Printer, v
left Warrenton, N. C., in July, 1853. Hi :
about five feet six inches high, medium . s
a scar on his face, and has but one eye. II ,- i s
ast heard of in Wilmington, N. C. Any. for
mation concerning him will be •thankful y re
ceived at this office.
Papers throughout the South will coufei < favor
or. a distressed mother by copying the a .ve no
tice.
Telegraphed forthe Charleston Cot: . r.
Further Intelligence by the Tyrifle.
New York, October 30.—The i-i'i-liigence re- i
lative to the war is conflicting, l.'p to the 9th
inst. nothing had been done. The A ites num
ber 90,000, and have a strong posit lon on the
South of Sevastopol. The siege apparatus has
been landed. Menschikoff holds the field,
North, with 30,000 men, and is expecting 30,000
more. It was reported that he had said the city
coaid not possibly hold out more than twelve
days longer, without substantial reinforcements
and assistance, which he wasauxiouly expecting
daily. The Allies were in good spirits and con
fident of ultimate victory.
The Baltic fluffs will return home.
Omar Pasha is preparing for extensive prepar
ations on the Pruth and Dobrudscha.
The Russian forces are being doncentrated on
the Austrian frontiers.
It is surmised that England and France are
secretly organizing an independent Kingdom for
Poland.
James McHenry’s affairs are less unfavorable
than they were at first represented to be.
A number of firms in Dublin have tailed.
Intense anxiety prevails throughout England
and France, to hear from the Crimea Expedition
Austria and Prussia were more favorably dis
posed towards the Allies, but still maintain their
previous dispositions.
Affairs in Spain exhibit no special new fea
ture.
The Hungarians were exhibiting symtoms of
uneasiness.
The weather in England was fine and the sup
ply of breadstuff’s good.
The very Latest.
Lord Raglan, expected to open fire upon Se
vastopol in a few days.
It is reported that 20,000 Russians had made
a sortie from Sevastopol, but had been driven
back.
The Russian garrisons and armies in the Cri
mea are 90,000 strong.
The cholera is spreading in Dublin, but disap
pearing from London
The insurgents in China had made three Un
successful attempts to take Canton.
The hostilities at Shanghai were going on, but
the Imperialists were still unsuccessful.
The American ship Lady Pierce had arrived
at Hong Kong, after visiting Jeddo and Samodi.
She reports that she was favorably received.
All foreign refugees had been ordered to leave
Madrid, or give security for their good conduct.
Worcester, Mass., Oct. 30 Violent Jlssaidt.
Xtsa O, Butman, who arrested the fugitives Sims
and Burns, was nearly beaten to death to-day by
a crowd of negroes. He was rescued and secret
ly conveyed out of the town.
New York, Oct. 31.—The vessels sent in
search of the Arctic’s boats have returned to St-
Johns, but have brought no tidings ol them.
New York, Nov. I.—The British mail steam
ship Africa sailed from this port to-day for Liver
pool with $913,000 in specie. Among her pas
sengers was Arch Bishon Blanc,of New Orleans.
New Orleans, Oct. 30. —There were 243 in
terments in this city last week, including 107
rotn yellow fever.
Z 1 -Cotton is in active demand at previous rates,
ne sales to-day, comprise 6000 bales at 9 cents
per lb. for Middling. Mess Pork was worth
sl4 per bbl. Corn was quoted at from 80 to 85
cents per bushel. ,
New York, Oct. 30.— Neto York Markets.—
Cotton is in moderate demand at previous rates.
Good Ohio Flour is worth from $8,87J to 9,181
per bbl. Spirit of Turpentine is steady. Crude
is worth $4,50 per bbl. Rice is in limited de
mand at previous rates.
New York, Oct. 31. Cotton was unchanged.
Flour declined |2J cents per bbl. Good Ohio
was worth $8,87i to 9,124 per bbl. Spirits of
Turpentine was steady at 51 cents per gallon.—
Rice was in limited demand, at from $5 to $5,50
per 100 lbs.
New York, November I.—Cotton was firm
today. Flour has declined from 25 a 374 cents
per bbl. Lard is higher and quoted at from 92 alO)
cents per lb. Rio Coffee is dull with a declining
tendency, and commands 10J a 10J cents per lb.
Spirits of Turpentine was worth from 51 a 51J
cents per gallon.
New Orleans Oct. 28. — Meiv Orleans Mar
kets.—Colton is unchanged. The sales of the
week have comprised 22,000 bales. Middling
Oilcans is quoted at 7 cents per lb. The in-
crease in the receipts is 46,000 bales. The sales
of Cotton to-day have comprised 1500 bales.—
Flour is worth $8 per bbl. New Molasses is de
clining.
New Orleans, October 30.—The steamships
Star ol the South, and Mexico, and the barque
Moses Kimball, have arrived from New York,
and the ship Houghton from Boston. The Star
of the South reports that the ship Iconiau, from
New York tor New Orleans, was ashore on Loo
Key. west of Florida Reef, and will probably be
a total loss.
Ihe New Hampshire Free Democratic State
Convention have nominated Asa Fowler, of
of Concord, formerly a democrat and law partner
ot President Pierce, as the candidate for Gover
nor. Hon. John P. Hale addressed the Con
vention.
The Depots for the Rubun Gap Railroad
and the Knoxville and Kentucky Road, (a con
tinuation of the-first,) have been located at
Knoxville. Col. M. Churchwell, the pre
sent Congressman from the Knoxville district
has been elected President of the latter road.
At Bath, Maine, Edward Z. C. Judson,
alias Ned Buntline, the obscene novelist and the
founder ot the Order of Know Nothings, who
was arrested a few days since for shooting a
colored man named Freeman, has been acquit
ou the ground that he committed the act in self
| defet.ee.
The “Oyster Cholera’’ Panic in New York has
played sad havoc with the dealers in oysters.—
For several days past there has been almost a
total cessation of business in that line, but the
panic is now nearly over. The city is supplied
principally by some sixty oys'er planters, who
sell daily on an average S3OO worth, at the aver
age rate of $lO a thousand. That would make
the daily average sales of each dealer about
30,000, and for the whole sixty about 3,000,000,
and worth about $30,000. This is an important
and extensive branch of trade, not only in New
York, but in Baltimore trlso, and the panic must
of course seriously affect the interests , of thou
sands who are either directly or indirrctly con
nected with it. The excitement in that city
has no reference to oysters from southern waters,
as they do not usually begin to arrive thereuntil
about the middle of November.
Pennsylvania Coal Trade.—The anthracite
coal trade in the Schuylkill region was very light
last week. The Reading Railroad brought down
some 28,500 tons, and the Schuylkill Navigation
11 380 tons. On the Lehigh Navigation the
- weekly shipments were 39,697 tons.
Hoge.
; LoursvtLLE, Oct. 24.—The packing season is
{•rapidly approaching, and our country readers
j wish doubtless ty know something about hogs,
i I’here is truthing doing, however. Packers un
' der present circumstances, with a tight money
i market and large stocks, and great depression in
I prices of last year’s product, are loth to enter the
market at the rates trow demanded. The crop,
it is-now gener illy admitted, will show not so
large a deficiency i s supposed some time ago.
Some are offering $4 net, but this we think a
little too low. We are confident, however, that
no sales could at present be effected at over $4,50
net.
The Alton Telegraph says :
We hear it rumoured that five thousand hogs
have been contracted for at Springfield, Illinois,
at $3,50. The represented seller is a packer of
that place.
- The St. Louis Inteiijgencer says:
■ Here packers talk of $4, and so far as we have
heard an egression of opinion, none calculated
at less than that will be paid at any time during
the season. A drover was in the city yesterday
offering to contract 1000 or 1500 head at $5,
but found no buyer.
At Cincinnati $4 net is offered.
LouisvilLe Cattle Market, Oct. 24. —
Beeves—We quote 4f to 6c as the range. The
prevailing quotations have been 5 to 6c for lair
to good cattle.
Sheep—Dull. We quote at from $1 to $2,50.
Lambs sl.
Hogs—The butchers are paying as high as 3Jc
for fat corn fed; slop-fed 3 to 3jc.— Nashville
Whig.
Our friend' Mixer, says the Charleston Cou
rier, has, we are gratified to perceive, repaired
the damages the Charleston Hotel suffered from
the great storm, and has again everything in first
rate order. “The Crystal Palace,” was re-open
ed on Saturday.
The King of Bavaria, it seems, is a suitor in
the courts of justice of New York, an action
having been entered in the Superior Court, on
Wednesday, in the name of Alaximilian, the se
cond, King of Bavaria, as plaintiff, against Jacob
Neustadler, (now established as a merchant in
New York) to recover thirty thousand florins
(about $12,000) alleged to be due and owing to
said plaintiff. The Express understands that
the claim is on alleged advances in establishing
a silk factory at Bavaria some six years ago. The
answer has not yet been put in. -
The Alexandria Gazette says the oysters from
the Chesapeake and its tributaries have proved
poisonous this season. The Baltimore papers
say that several who have eaten raw oysters, of
late, have suddenly died soon after; and a cor
respondent of the National Intelligencer quotes
the authority of an old fisherman, that they are
not safe or wholesome eating this year.
The New York Tribune of Saturday says:
We are informed that there has been another
case of overdraft discovered in ope of the City
Banks to an amount exceeding $100,009. The
name of the bank has not become public.
During the quarter ending 30th September
there entered at New York 667 United States
vessels, and 475 foreign vessels; total, 1,142, a
deciease of 123 compared with the same quarter
of 1853. Cleared, 373 United States, and. 464
foreign vessels; total 837: a decrease of 117 as |
compared with 1853. The coastwise tonnage
entered and cleared at the Custom House du
ring the quarter was ; entered, 425 vessels, with
347,723 tonnage. This, however, is only a par
tial exhibit of the coastwise trade, as vessels I
from or to a domestic port, having neither foreign I
goods or distilled spirits on board, are not oblig
ed to enter or clear at the Custom House. The
figures show a general decline in the coastwise
trade as compared with the same quarter in 1853.
The value of the foreign imports in American
vessels was $43,125,716; in foreign vessels,
$14,456,305. Exports in American vessels,
$19,098,219; in foreign vessels, $8,829, 506.
The Journal ol Commerce remarks that the dif
ference between the exports by each class of
vessels, great as it is, i's less than usual. The car
rying trade has been very much depressed, ai d
British and Continental vessels here hava been
obliged to accept such rates for outward cargoes
as they could obtain, while United States vessels
j have been a littleTnore enterprising in look
ing up business elsewhere, and many of them
have been withdrawn Hom regular lines which
I usually send out large cargos.
The Missing Passengers of the Arctic.
—Wm. Rathbone, of N. Y., who was a passen
ger i n the Arctic, has written a letter to E. C.
Benedict, of that city, which would seem to
leave little room for doubt that Mr. A Benedict
and his wife, with a number ofother passengers,
embarked in the boat that left the ship in charge
of the butcher. He says:
1 saw him (Mr. Benedict) in the dining sa
loon after the collision, and said to him ‘‘ We are
lost ” He replied, “Yes I fear we are. I then
said to him, " I always expected to die a violent
death, and the time is now come.”
When the two quarter-boats on the larboaid
side of the Artic were filled—principally with
passengers—and the forward one and largest ol
the two, was being lowered into the sea—w hich
was done safely—l was near the side o the ship
and saw Mr Benedict and his wife seated in that
boat. That I recollect very distinctly, and also
that they were the only individuals of all those
in the boat with whose countenances 1 was fa
miliar.
He adds that there were 30 to 40 persons .in
the boat, and among them 10 or 12 females. —
He has a strong hope, he says, that they were
picked up and taken to Europe.
Among the recent failures in Cincinnati, was
that of the banking house of P. B. Manchester,
in which many persons in humble life had placed
j their savings. His affairs are in the hands of
I assignees, and the assets have been lound insuf-
I ficient to meet the liabilities, the failure being
caused by stock speculations and extravagant
I living. Since his failure it has not been sale for
! him to be seen abroad in Cincinnati, and accor
j dingly he left the city. At Lawrenceburg he
j was arrested by one of his victims, just as he
i was stepping on board the mail steamer High-
I flyer, and having a large trunk with him it was
( attached by the Sheriff'. The claim was about
S7OO. and he tried hard to evale the payment,
saying that although the cas - was a hard one,
there were many widows and orphans among
his depositors much worse off, but finally, as the
claimant was about to force open the trunk, he
produced a key, opened it, took out a large pack
age of securities and paid the amount, after which
he was allowed to depart. Subsequently, he ar
rived ata hotel in Columbus, registered a false
name, was detected,and another depositor pre
ferred a claim of seven hundred dollars, accom
panied by a threat of lynch-law unless it was
paid. This was done, and the fugitive allowed
to depart.
Miss Eliza Logan.—VY’e perceive by the St
Louis papers that Miss Logan is playing in that
city, where she is quite as great a favorite with
the theatrical public as she is in Savannah. The
press is unstinted in its praises of her, and by the
published correspondence, we observe that a
complimentary benefit had been tendered to her,
in the most flattering terms, by a number of the
leading gentlemen of St. Louis. The. benefit
took place on th.e 21st ult. The Democrat re
lates the following :
Good.—During the performance of London
Assurance on Fiiday night, at the People’s Thea
tre, a little trifle was introduced, which, forthe
moment gave a pleasing interest to the play.
Grace Harkaway (Mrs. Potter) says,, placing a
note she had been reading in her bosom, “ What
shall Ido with it? —shall I put in the fireV 1 Just
then an alarm of fire was given, which had bro
ken out qear the theatre, Lady Gay Spanker
(Miss Logan,) instantly replied: “No; it is near
enough the fire where it is.” The house took it.
Kansas Emigrants Coming Back.—Many
of the emigrants sentout by the Anti-Slavery
Society to take possession of the territory ol
Kansas, are becoming sick of the undertaking.
We do not wonder Northern abolition philan
thropy when required to do more than talk and
vote, has usually been found wanting. We find
in the Boston Atlas some accounts from one of
their emissaries. Says the Atlas :
A young Milk street clerk, who went out with
the September party from Boston, writes to his
friends a most doleful account of his sufferings.
He says that, after reaching Kansas City, he and s
others of his party started on foot, gun in hand,
for their new location. On their way, he says,
they were obliged to sleep in the hay gathered
up in the fields, purchasing a quart of milk of an
Indian squaw for twenty-five cents to moisten
their hard food ; that upon reaching their destin
ation they found the accommodations to be a few
overcrowded tents, and they were obliged
to camp in the open air. The land now un
claimed is some distance from the river, and is
bare of wood. -
In addition, he says, it is necesssary to keep a
vigilant eye upon their effects, for fear of their
disapperance. He declares that of the party of
one hundred and sixty w£o left with him, at
least ninety are on their way back to the East
ward, well satisfied that they are rot fitted to
settle a new and unbroken country, and quite
disposed to pronounce the whole Kansas scheme
a grand humbug.
On the 6th inst. an exploring part}- from In
diana, consisting of nineteen persons, represent- ■
ing as many families, passed through Parkville i
for Kansas. They were well provided for a three I
weeks’ tour in the new Territory, and intended ‘
to return for their families as soon as they- found j
their locations. Another large compiny was ex- ■
pected from Illinois.
The Fayetteville “Independent,” states that
numbers of squatters are taking possession of the
“Neutral Land” of the Cherokees, in Kansas,
which has not yet been acquired by the govern
ment. The land thus designated consists of half
a million of acres, very favorably located, which
the “Independent” advises settleis to avoid, lest
they should lose both their time and improve
ments.
The Hostile Fleets in the Pacific.—The
combined English and French squadrons in the
Pacific consist of an English steamer, a fifty gun
frigate, a forty gun ship and a corvette, and a
French sixty-four frigate, another of forty guns
a twenty gun brig, and another vessel, the calibre
not known—the whole under the command of
Admiral Priee. It is supposed they have gone
to Petropoloski, a strongly fortified Russian
harbor on the Pacific coast, where from seven to
“liine Russian armed ships are supposed to have
taken refuge. When, the combined squadrons
arrive at Petropoloski, if the season has not ad
vanced too far, and fogs do not prevent, a general
naval battle will most probably be fought.
The British Government is already making ar
i rangements for the next campaign. The Dub-
I lin Daily Express says, that early in March, the
18th, the 51st, the 54th, the 56th, the 66th, the
| 72d, and the 80th, the 82d, the 90th and 94th
\ regiments will be in England, and prepared to
proceed to the Baltic. It would thus appear
that a long struggle is anticipated. The cost in
the end will be immense, and unless the allies i
should be discomfitted, an effort will no doubt be i
made to obtain restitution from the Czar Such !
is already the sentiment of a large portion of the -
people of England and France.
The Charleston Theatre opened forthe win->
i ter season, on Monday night, under the manage- i
i raent of Mr. Duffield. The Hunchback was the 1
I play, with Miss Ince as Julia.
Mr. Duffield is well known at New Orleans
| and other great cities, as a most able manager, :
I and accomplished performer. He is certain o !
• success in the Palmetto City.
The Indian version of the recent massacree at
Fort Laramie, is as follows: Lieut. Grattan
commenced a parley regarding the killing of the
cow, when Hig Hear, the chief, come up with a
sort ol lance, and struck at and wounded him,
calling him a squaw and a coward, and charged
him with being afraid to fight. Grattan drew
his revolver, fired a number of times, wounding
the chief, and then elevated his cannon and
fired, intending to intimidate the Indians from
further violence without taking their lives. The
whole band of Indians then made a rush at, and
killed upon the spot all but one, who finally es
caped, and live#to reach the fort, but could make
no explanation of the occurrence. He stated
that he had been repulsed by one of the French
traders and driven away; although he lad seve
ral holes shot through him, he lived to crawl
twelve miles to the fort. Lieut. Grattan was
found under the cannon, pierced with twenty
arrowsand a number of balls. He had fallen
across the cannon, where his life’s blood still ad
hered They then filled the cannop with man-
■ ure, and pulled off and thrust in the Lieuteilant’s
I boots.
i The North Carolina six per ceiit.Joan of $260,-
: 000 was taken at Raleigh,on the 2lith ult, at ar.
I average premium of 14 per cent., the purchasers
: paying the accrued interest from Ist July. No
bids were received frem New York, and the
; whole loan, with the exception of $24,000, was
i taken by parties in North Carolina. A prior
I six per cent, loan for that State was taken by
■ New Y'ork capitalists, in March. 1853. at 105 20
per hundred dollars: another of $500,000 in Oc-
1 tober, 1853, at three percent, premium for ac
' count of the Sinking Fund >of Alabama: and
; another loan of $500,000 in March last, princi
j pally by New York capitalists, at an average of
j 104.25.
I The Isabel.—By the arrival of the pilot boat
( schooner Dart from Key West yesterday, we re
ceived the gratifying Intelligence that the Isa-
I be! had arrived at that port, having met with, as
; we anticipated, an accident to her machinery.
I In our marine intelligence and Key West Cor
! respondence will be found full particulars of the
accident.
The Dart brought the Isabel’s mails from Ha
vana aid Key West, having left the former
port on the 25th instant, the regular day. Capt.
Tittle deserves great credit for the energy and
promptness he has displayed in making the ne
cessary arrangements for the transmission of the
mails and passengers.
W- are indebted to Mr. Mahoney, the Purser
of the Isabel, who came on in the charge of the
mails, for his polite attention - Ch. Cour., Ist inst
The proceedings.under the fugitive law'at
Boston in the case of Jlnthony Burns, not long
since reclaimed by his master, Captain Scuttle,
of Alexandria, Virginia, cost the United States
within a fraction of $27,000 for extra police and
m litary force alone. This does not cover the
usual ordinary expenses incurred in the case,
such as the tees of the regular officers of the
United States employed in the case. The
Washington Star says that $15,000 of the above
$27,000 were duly paid last week.
Gold Scramble at New York. —The de
mand for gold for shipment to Europe creates a
sort of scramble in New York to get it assayed
at the new assay office there as it arrives from
Califi-rnia. For a week or twopast the exports
of gold have fallen off very considerably, one of
j the reasons for which appears to have been a
' want of sufficient supply. The arrival, there-’
fore, of $1,900,000, by the two steamers at the
close of last week, led to the expectation of large
shipments on Saturday last, which, however, did
not take place, the amount of specie shipped by
the Baltic steamer for Liverpool that day being
only $142,000. The receipts per the California
steamers could not be made available in time,
According to the following from the New York'
Post:
“ The assay office afforded unusual facilities to
the shipping interest, keeping the office open till
after dark on Friday, six o’clock, by orders from
the sub-treasurer, up to which time 30,000 ounces
of gold had been deposited during the afternoon.
The furnaces were got leady by seven o’clock
this morning, when the assay was commenced;
and part of it will be finished in time for pay
ment to-day, before 3 o’clock, which will help a
little the bank statement. The whole deposit
made up to twelve o’clock to-day, and including
that made yesterday amounted to 43,000 oz.,
which, at $lB per oz., is about SBOO,OOO in
value. We learn that nearly the whole deposits
were in dust, which is ordered to be put into
bars, evidently being the intention of its owners
for shipment. It will be a better sign for the
money market when dust and bars are sent in
for coinage. The previous deposits of gold only
amounted to $624,000. The price for parting
and putting into bars is 33 cents per SIOO, and
that for parting and coining is 77 cents—making
a difference of 44 'cents per SIOO, or seven-six
teenths of one per cent in favor of bars, which
are equally serviceable for shipment as coin.
Ejectment Suit.
“ Pink," the New Y’ork Correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, under date ot the 26th ult.,
w rites:
“ An ejectment suit, involving millions of dol
lars, has been brought in the U. S. Circuit Court
of this city. The case is brought by the de
scendant of a butcher, who died in iSOI,
who, at the time of his death, owned a farm,
comprising theqiresent Fifteenth VVard of this
city. During the various transfers of this pro
peity from family to family, a widow’ Brown
contends that some of the mortgages were in
valid ; and if such can be proven, some of the
titles to this immense property aie worth the
paper upon which they are written. The pro
perty in dispute is bounded by Fourteenth-st.,
Sixth Avenue. Eleventh-st. and Fourth Avenue,
and is estimated to be worth ten millions of dol
lars. The most distinguished lawyers in the
city are engaged Judge Bronson, Attorney
General Chatfield, and several others for Mrs.
Brown: while Charles O’Conor, Judge Emmett
and a number of others are retaiued’by the de
fendants.
The British steamer Jura, reported by tele
graph as being due at Boston from Liverpool, it
is stated has been withdrawn for several weeks,
and did not leave on the 11th instant, the ad
vertised day of her intended departure.
The Arctic —The late carpenter of the Arc
tic, Mr. Bailey, has published a card in the New
York Tribune reflecting somewhat upon Captain
Luce, in so tar that it indirectly charges him
with inefficiency from first to last. It will pro
bably elicit a response, from Captain Luce.
The President has appointed George I. Curry,
of Oregon, to be Governor of the Territory of
Oregon, William H. Farrar, of Oregon, tube At
torney ot the United States for the Territory of
Oregon; and Benjamin F. Harding, of Oregon, to
be Secretary of the Territory of Oregon.
I At Philadelphia, on Friday, the trial of Ste
phen J. Beale, the dentist, charged with an out
rage on a young woman, was concluded. The
jury rendered a verdict of guilty, but recommend
ed the prisoner to mercy. Mr. Reale was for
merly regarded as an excellent man, anJ had
I been ter some time a church communicant.