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® cfh lij Co nstitutionalist.
BY JAMES GARDNER.
From the Baltimore Pat riot, April 17.
Costa Rica and trie Defeat of Colonel
Schlessinger.
The news brought by the steamer George Law,
as it relates to the operations of General Walker
against Costa Rica, and mors especially with re
ference to the force of Pol. Schlessinger, if true, is
certainly of a very unfavorable character, but
those who are best acquainted with the grandilo
quent bulletins of Santa Anna and his Generals,
the style of which is common to all the Spanish
race in America, will be disposed to receive these
late flashing accounts of Costa Rican heroism with
considerable distrust, and believing them to have
been written by the enemies of Walker, they will,
no doubt, if they receive them at all as true, make
many grains of allowance for the bias of partiality.
If the bulletins of such a race could have gained
credence with the public, the Texan independence
would never have been achieved, and Generals
Houston and Rusk would have been very ordinary
men now, and the Texans have been driven by
the overwhelming force of the Mexicans East of
the Sabine. The people of the United States look
ed on in despair at six hundred Texans coping
with Santa Anna's hordes, but the Texans wore
undismayed, like the Greeks at Marathon, aud their
independence was won on the plains of Sau Jacin
to. And so it may be, perchance, in Costa Rica,
and will be, if France, England and the United
States continue to play the neutral game.
That Col. Schlessinger lias met a reverse is not
to be doubted, but no man who is acquainted with
the character of such men as compose W'alker’s
army will believe that five hundred Costa Ricans
could scale the fortified walls of Hacienda de San
ta Rosa, and, witji knife and bayonet, defeat four
hundred Americans hand to hand— Credat Jamdas
Apfla. The last accounts from Col. Schlessinger
left hirn in possession of the town of Giianacasta,
with a force of two hundred and eighty men, from
which he probably advanced to the fortified Haci
enda of Santa Rosa, where lie no doubt has been
attacked and been forced to retire before a very
superior force. The whole affair lias doubtless
been blown into undue consequence, and bv the
next steamer it will probably be found that lie has
retreated on Walkers main body, who stiil holds
his position intact, awaiting the arrival of the rein
forcements known to have been en route for Nica
ragua and which by this time no doubt have effeH
# ed a junction with the army of Nicaragua, to wit:
/»o0 from New York, 400 from San Francisco, and
200 from New Orleans, under Gen. Hornsby—ready
to resume the offensive as soon as he reorganizes
his forces.
In fact, the truth of the reports brought by the
George Law is ahead}’ contradicted by an agent
of the Nicaraguan Government, who has publish
ed a card stating that Col. Scidessinger’S whole
force was only 250 men, which was attacked by
3,0(>0 men and retreated to San Juan; and this
tallies well with the previous account, giving him
280 men, and swelled to 400 by the account receiv
ed by the George Law, which puts down the Costa
Rician force opposed to him at f>#o men. It is
further reported that General Walker has seized
the English mail from Grey town for Costa. Rica,
a fact which is very questionable. lie may have
intercepted it for the purpose of subtractfng let
ters of his enemies vvhifh might unfavorably in
fluence his military operations, but. that he has
done anything likely to interrupt or injure the En
glish commercial interests in Costa Rica is very
unlikely. Such an act could in no wi-e benefit
him, but would certainly be productive of injurious
consequences to the success of his cause. It is not
probable that Walker will take any decisive step
until all the force he expect* this season shall ar
rive and be organized for active operations. IK*
will quietly maintain his present position, occupy
ing tfi • leading mountain passes in his front, or
ganizing :Uid equiping the new accessions to his
force and striking n blow, w hen ready, on the
most exposed and vulnerable points of the enemy;
and we cannot expect anything very important to
transpire there under throe or four weeks, by
which time lie will accurately know his resources.
He commands a class of men who have before met
the degenerate Spanish race in Texas, Mexico and
California—men who know their superiority and
never have quailed before numbers; and who, if
they have “naif a ehanee” will compel victory to
perch on the standard of the Red Ribbon.
Further by the Baltic.
New York, April 17. —1 tis rumored that the
matters to be settled by the Commission of the
Conference are the organization of the niiucipali
ties and the free navigation of the Danube.
TheTurkishjMinisterhad embarked ai Marseilles
for Constantinople with the treaty.
French officers of rank hud embarked on a spe
cial mission to the Sultan from Napoleon.
In the Conference the Count Cavour, of Sardi
nia, endeavored unsuccessfully to have the Italian
question decided. lie said that it would force it
self on Europe in two years.
Mr. Dallas writes that he has been treated with
marked courtesy in England, inclusive of the
Prime Minister and Cabinet.
EXGLANp.
Lord Palmerston in Parliament said that it would
be found that the objects for which the war was un
dertaken* were fully accomplished. It would be
found that the integrity and independence of the
Turkish Empire nad been secured. That the
treaty is honorable to all the contracting powers,
and that while on one hand it has put au end to
the war, which every true friend of humanity must
have naturally wished to see concluded, on the
other hand it will lay the foundation of a peace
which he trusted would be lasting and enduring.
INDIA.
Advices, by telegraph, via Trieste, from Hong
Kobg to tlu» 15th of February' and Bombay to the
r>tb*>f March, have been received. The annexa
<u#r of Oude was completed without anv distur
bance, and Lord Cunning was sworn in us Gover
nor General of India on the Ist of March., The
Sautal districts were quiet, and a scarcity was ap
prehended throughout India in consequence of a
want of rain.
Trade had improved at Bombay. Money was
easier.
At Calcutta trade was inanimate. The import
market had improved.
Ob Monday the Lord Mayor of London made an
official proclamation of peace, from the portico of
the Mansion House, and afterwards at the Ex
change. The Tower and Park guns fired a salute,
and flags were generally displayed in the city, and
on the shipping. In other cities similar displays
were made, but not much enthusiasm was shown.
ITALV.
The latest advices say that the state of siege at
Parma, was being carried out with the utmost
vigor. Everything was subjected to military dic
tations. The Austrian General, Grenville, appears
to be the real Governor of the city—upwards of
three hundred arrests haye been made.
FRANCE.
The bank of France had reduced its rates of in
terest from 6 to 5 per eetd.
Congressional.
Washington, April 17.—Senate.— On motion of
Mr. Sumner, the Committee on Commerce were
directed to inquire into the character of the com
merce known as the Coolie trade, by which Chi
nese in large numbers are transported from their
native country in American ships on alleged con
tracts of service in distant places. Also to ascer
tain if the same is not conducted in violation of an
existing treaty with China, and consider if any leg
islation is expedient with a view of prohibiting
this commerce or prevent the abuses incident
thereto on board American ships; or extend to it
the provisions and penalties of the recent act of
Congress regulating the carriuge of passengers
in merchant vessels. ~
The Senate then resumed the consideration of
thebouctv land bill. . , , _ .
HousE.--On motion of Mr. Pnngle, the President
wu requested to have prepared statements show
ing what appropriations were made during each
session of the last three Congresses, particularly
distinguishing those made on the recommendation
fit the President, Heads of Departments, and
Chiefs of the Bureaus; likewise, what expendi
tures were made during the same period.
Let us honor God’s truih by believing his word ;
Christ’s blood by hoping ft»*mly in the divine mer
cy; tnd all the divine perfccVGns, by lovmu Gya
with all our hecrU, aud one Another as Christ
Joved us.
From the Mobile. Register.
Monument to Henry Clay.
Saturday wus a great gala day in our sister city.
There is enough French blood left in that place
to enable them to get up a pageant with the taste
peculiar to that people—and on this occasion the
enthusiasm of the whole population was aroused
to do honor to the great rnan whose memory they
were about to perpetuate, by the erection of a last
ing monument.
The detachment from the military companies of
our city wus received with distinguished honors,
and moat hospitably entertained during their
stay.
The monument is to be erected at the junction
of St. Charles and Royal streets. The ceremony
of laying the corner stone was performed by the
Grand Lodge of the State of Louisiana, of Free
aud Accepted Masons. After the ceremony, an
ode, in French, was sung by the artistes of the
French Opera Troupe, accompanied by the full or
chestra of the Theatre d’ Orleans—followed bv an
oration from the Hon. Judge McCaleb, after which
tiie following graceful tribute to the occasion, from
the pen of iMadaine Octavia Walton LeVert, was
read:
While the patriotic sons of our country are uni
ting in a testimonial to the memory of Henry
Clay, shall not woman be allowed to place the flow
ers of gratitude and affection upon the altar of bis
fame?
To none were the genius and services of the il
lustrious statesman and orator more dear than to
his countrywomen ; with all those lofty and com
manding qualities which sway Senates, and guide
the course of Empires, he had a heroism of heart,
a chivalry of deportment, a deference of demean
or, which, while forming the soul and secret t of his
impassioned eloquence, were irresistible talismans
over the minds of the gentler sex.
Great as he was in the “ forum of nations,” or
before multitudes of men, controlling them by his
“gleaming fingers,” as with the wand of an en
chanter, it was in the home circle, by the domes
the fireside that his character was seen in its true
grace and loveliness ;*there his voice, that lately
rang like a trumpet amid his assembled peers, and
whose undying echoes (the richest symphonies of
patriotism) are still reverberating from the white
hills of New England to the parapets of the Pacific,
was turned to ail the softest cadences of social and
intellectual intercourse. How delightful it was
then to listen to the playful repartee, the genial
anecdotes, t!»e sparkling bon mots, the vivid re
miniscences of European and American society,
the always elevated sentiments of one who had
, mingled in the most prominent scenes of his time
jin both hemispheres, without losin- in the least
the lofty manliness, sincerity and purity of his na
ture
Rousseau once said: “There were no compli
ments like a King’s; but how much more fascina
ting and even royal jtlian all the persiflage of a
Bourbon or a Hapsbuvg were the graceful praises
and felicitous commendations of such a man as
Mr. Clay, an unquestioned king of mind by the
true right divine, when, with eyes beaming like
gems, his high white brow—
“ That dome of thought, that palace of the soul,”
radiant with benignity, and encircled by his sil
very locks as by a crown, his aged lips wreathed
by the gentlest of smiles, he stood before you in
tall and stately majesty. At such times he seemed
to blend the graces of Sheridan with the dignity
of Washington. Thousands and thousands of his
countrywomen will long thus recall him to nund.
But not alone in this bis more private character
does woman appreciate the excellence of Mr. Clay.
His public life in many of its . spects had all the
romance of chivalry. He stood among the orators
aud statesmen of hf* time as Philip Sidney amid
his cotemporary kings ami barons. History has
already placed bis statue in the pantheon of Im
mortality !
Our country’s records, from the purchase of Lou
isiana, (this lovely land of the si)gtft* cane and
magnolia), to the great pacification of 18.50, are
vitalized by his glowing words. The mighty Mis
sissippi, upon whose margin we now stand, bears
in all its waters a full remembrance of his early
efforts to give freedom to its commerce and to
bruit! its million streams into a mighty band of
union and prosperity for our glorious country.
The fame of Henry Clay can never die. As our
our most gifted southern poet bus said :
Long ’mid our gallant, great and good,
Like Washington, he nobly stood ;
While trembling on his burning tongue,
Truth, justice, peace and freedom hung.
Thrice when our storm-tossed ship of State
Seemed sinking with its priceless freight,
His guardian spirit, firm and free,
Walked o’er our troubled Gallilee.
Through all the world his glorious name
Is whispered by the lips of fame;
For long in every kindling zone,
Ilis voice was freedom’s bugle tone!
The Greek girl, kneeling by her seas,
Deemed him a new Demosthenes ;
And young Bolivar’s patriot ray
Was light-like caught from Henry Clay.
How appropriate, then, is it that a memorial of
this model statesman, patriot and orator, should
be erected here in the ores •*!« bend of the
sissippi.'
Not fur off rises the sculptured image of his
great rival compatriot; the one was the sword and
shield, the other the mind and the tongue of tin;
country. Side by side they stand in the temple of
fame.
Glorious in their lives, let the noblest of the
fine arts here place their sculptured forms togeth
er, that future generations may gaze in love, grati
tude and veneration upon them, and be nobly stim
ulated in the paths of patriotism, while they fbel
the refining influences which the beautiful in art
always exerts upon its votaries.
The statute of Themistocfes long greeted from
a promontory in Greece the home returning voy
ager, and fired afresh his love for Attica ana Ath
ens. So may the stauie of our patriot orator ever
inspire, with emulous fervor, the citizens of this
land of liberty, -and especially of this * prosperous
city of New Orleans.
The Evacuation of savannah, by the
British Forces, in 1783.
We have lately had our attention drawn to this
historical event. In McCall's history of Georgia,
the date of the evacuation is recorded as having
taken place on the llfli day of July, 1783. We
| should be obliged to any of our correspondents,
who will favor us Gy indicating the official author
ity or document, upon which tins historical date
is founded.
The Legislature of Georgia was, at that time, in
session at Augusta, rt s we learn from a file of
“.The -Royal Georgia Gaaotte” now in die posses
sion of Gov. Edward Telfair’s family, for the years
178i,’82 and ’B3. But no allusion is made in them
to this important event.
These tiles contain the proclamation of Govern
or Lyman Hall, convening the Legislature in Au
gusta. Another proclamation alludes to an act of
the Assembly, passed at its last session in Savan
nah, in February, 1788.
If then, the Georgia Legislature was in session
at Savannah, in February, 1783, and the evacua
tion took place in July of the same year, it must
be inferred that the American* held Savannah in
February, and the British in July.
Does there exist in Savannah, Augusta, or Mil
ledgeville, any record or document, to show the
date of evacuation ? We should lje obliged to anv
correspondent who will kindly give us this infor
mation. The Histo-ical Society i* j n honor bound
to supply the deficiency ; aud \vc recommend this
quautw vexala. especially, to the worthy Corres
ponding Secretary of the Georgia Historical So
ciety.—Savannah Republican.
The South-Side (Va.) Democrat says that Hen
ry Clay, in a letter addressed March 23, 1850, to
Gardner Jones, President of a southern University,
writes as follows of Catholics :
“ I have never believed that that (creed) of ‘the
Catholics was anti-American and hostile to civil
liberty; on the contrary, I have, with great pleas
ure and with sincere conviction, on several public
occasions, bore testimony to tnv perfect persuasion
that Catholics were ns much devoted to civil liber
<v, and as much animated by patriotism, as those
who belong to the Protcst<ni creed.’”
YTTGTTSTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2S, 1856.
On the Death of Jlrs. Walter Stillman.
A daughter of the sunny South,
In }outb and beauty blest,
Came hither, with her bridal wreath,
. Like song-bird to its nest;
The idol-joy of rnanv a friend,
From her bright elime she past,
The jewel *bn,a father’s breast,
Os all his house, the last.
Yet, in tliQr strength of wedded lore,
A distant home she sought,
And blent the fondness of the dove,
With woman’s earnest thought.
And well she lov’d our breezy hills,
At Summer’s fervent hour,
Delighted, mark’d autumnal lines,
Or cull’d the wintry flower.
Oh Christian Faith—be strong! be strong !
For sounding in her ear
There is a whisper’d midnight call
That none beside, might hear;
Is it an r.ngel mother’s hand
That beckons thus on high T
Or her young Sister, reaching forth
A white rose from the sky ?
To them she goes,—the pong is past, S
The strife of earth is o’er,
A new-born infant’s helpless wail
Detains her soul no more;
Unto her trusted Saviour’s hand,
Unto His Cross she clung,
The smile of peace upon her brow,
Its triumph on her tongue;
And casting tender memories back,
Like garlands spirit-wove,
She rose from Love’s embrace below,
To perfect rest above.
Hartford, Conn. L. H. Sigourney.
Keep Watch I'poii the Tongue.
People are often subjected to extreme morHfica
tion by indulging in disparaging remarks of stran
gers, and learning subsequently that the persons
themselves or some of their intimate friends were
within hearing of the remarks. Such unpleasant
occurences rarely have so pleasant a termination
as the following singular reneountre between Dr.
Dwight and Mr. Dennie :
As Dr. Dwight was traveling through New Jer
sey, he chanced to stop at a stage hotel, in one of
its populous towns, for the night. At a late hour
of the same, arrived also at the inn, Mr. Dennie,
who had the misfortune to learn from the landlord
that his beds were all paired with lodgers except
one, occupied by the celebrated Dr. Dwight.—
Show me to his apartment, exclaimed Deume ; al
though I am a granger to Hie Rev. Doctor, per
i haps I can bargmn with him for my lodgings. The
* landlord accordingly awaited on Mr. Dennie to the
Doctor’s room, and there left him to introduce
himself. The-Doctor, although in his night gown,
cap and slippers, and just ready to resign himself
’ to the refreshing arms of somnus, politely moles
ted the strange intruder to be seated. The Doc
tor was struck with the literary physiognomy of
his companion, unbent his austere brow, and com
. nienced a literary conversation. The names of
Washington, Franklin, Uittenhouse, and a host of
literary* and distinguished characters, for some
time gave a zest and interest to their conversation,
* until Dwight chanced to mention the name of
Dennie.
‘ “Dennie, the editor of the Portfolio. s tho
Doctor in a rhapsody! is the Addison’ot iadjurnted.
| States -the father oi’ American Belles <cvs. But,
* sir, continued he, -‘is it not astoniehmg, ttwj.a
l man of such a genius, fancy and feeling, should
abandon himself to the inebriating bowl, and to
bacchanalian revels ?”
[ “Sir,” said Dennie, “you ore mistaken, I have
been intimately acquainted with Dennie for several
J years, and l never knew or saw him intoxicated.’’
“Sir,” says the Doctor, “you err; I have my ip
’ formation from a-particular friend; lam confident
that I am right, and that you are wrong.”
’• Dennie now ingeniously changed the conversu
‘ tion to the clergy, remarking that Doctors Aber
crombie and Mason were amongst our most distin
guished divines; nevertheless, he considered Dr.
Dvvight.jPresident of Yale College, the most learned
theologian—the first logician—and the greatest
poet that America has ever produced. “But, sir,”
continued Deunie, “there are traits in his charac
ter undeserving so great and wise a man of the
most detestable description—he is the greatest
bigot and dogmatist of the age!”
“Sir,” said the Doctor, “you are grossly mis
taken. I am intimately acquainted with Dr.
Dwight, and know to the contrary.”
“Sir,” says Dennie, “you are mistaken. I have
it from an intimate acquaintance of his, whom I
am confident would not tell me an untruth.”
“No more slander,” says the Doctor, “I am Dr.
Dwight, of whom you speak !”
“And I too,” exclaimed Dennie, “am Mr. Den
uie, of whom you spoke I”
The astonishment of Dr. Dwight may be better
conceived than told. Suffice it to say, they mutu
ally shook hands, and were extremely happy in
each other’s acquaintance.
Mrs. Tillman, of South Carolina.
In the House of Congress, on the 16th inst.,
when the bill appropriating a monthly pension of
$3 to Mrs. Tillman, was on its final passage :
Mr. Brook a, of South Carolina, asked the atten
tion of the House to a few remarks which he
wished to make in behalf of the bill. The bill
was the unanimous report of the committee to
which was referred the petition of Mrs. Tillman, a
widow lady of his district. When a requisition
was made upon South Carolina for services in the
Mexican war, she gave to her country every mem
ber of her family capable of bearing arms, her
husband and three soqs. All went, but not one
returned to dry ft mother’s tears, aud gladden her
heart with the*gallantry of her soldier boys. The
bones of one now He at Saltillo, another fell at Ja
lapa, another lay buried by the castle walls of Pe
rote, and the last found the close of his earthly ca
reer and the goal of his youthful ambition at the
capital of Mexico. By a strange fatality, the only
remaining son, a boy too young to provide for the
support of the family in. the absence of his father
and elder brothers, by an accidental fall from his
horse injured his spine, and was now a paralytic
for life. This ladv was thus left in the decline of
her age with a helpless child and a little daughter
entirely dependent upon her exertions for their
and her own support, and the bill proposed to give
her a pension of $8 a month.
This was a narrative of her petition, and on it
she based the hope that her country would remem
ber her sacrifices and reward her services. By the
laws of society a parent was entitled to the services
of a child while a minor, and tliev who were the
representatives of the country, and had been bene
fitted by the services of the husband and sons of
this lady, ought not to forget what was due to her.
It was his misfortune to be a witness to the tacts
he had stated. One of her sous enlisted In the
Alabama regiment, and the remaining sons were
mustered into the service of the United States in a
company under liis own command, and it was but
the pure reflection of that friendship which that
father and those boys bore to him that constrain
ed him to do for their mother what she would not
do for herself. She appealed not to their charity,
but to tbeir magnanimity; and he appealed to
both. He asked them to put bread in the mouth
of the widow and the fatherless. She appeared
before them with the confidence and the dignity of
the mother of this modern Gracchi, and demand
ed that her name should be recorded on the stat
utes of her country; and he appealed to the gen
erosity and the noble instincts of the members to
come forward in her aid.
Mr. Mace, of Indiana, moved to amend the bill
by striking out eight and inserting twenty dollars.
Mr. Gidaings, of Ohio, took occasion to condemn
the Mexican war generally, although his feelings
would not allow him to oppose the bill.
The question wa9 taken, and the amendment was \
agreed to.
The bill, as amended, was then read a third time
and passed.
A fool’s tongue is long enough to cut his throat; j
a tattler’s long enough to cut half the throats of a <
whole neighborhood. (
News by the Baltic. j t
SIGNING OP TUB TREATY. I (
Tit* London Ton*#' Paris correspondent savs: j<
“A Council of Ministers was held at the Tuile* | e
riea.at o’clock and remained sitting till lt}£. | (
The Emperor presided and gave his last instruc- ' r
tions. Count Walewski returned to his official i
residence to receive Plenipotentiaries. They ap- \
peared in full uniform, and wore all their orders c
and decorations. They assembled in the Salle de i
Conferences before 12*-£, and after the Treaty was i
read over proceeded to sign it in the same alpha- t
betical order in which they have been wont to i
take their places during the Conferences. Crowds j
of people had been out from an early hoar, as it 1
was known that something important was to occur, !
ami numerous groups of spectators gathered on ■
the quays opposite and close to the Foreign-Office i
to see the Plenipotentiaries pass. These were re
ceived, both on going and returning, with marks
of great respect from the people. Everything
took place as mentioned.
“The moment the signatures were completed
the expected signal was given, and the cannon
from the esplanade of the Tnvalides proclaimed
the news before the Plenipotentiaries had quitted
the hall. Soon tiltor the following notice was
•posted up on the walls of Paris:
“ ‘Congress of Paris, March 30, 1356.
“‘Peace has been signed this davatl o’clock,
at Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Plenipo
tentiaries of France, Austria, Great Britain, Prus
sia, Russia, Sardinia and Turkey, have affixed
their signatures to the treaty which puts puts an
end to the present war, and which, by settling the
question or the East, establishes the repose of Eu
rope on solid and durable basis.
“ ‘Pietre, Prefect of Police.’
“This notice was read by thousands with in
tense curiosity and with great satisfaction. Soon
after appeared a supplement to the Moniteur con
taining the same-announcement. The effect pro
duced is of course all that could be imagined, and
the feeling would very probably have been much
more strongly expressed, had it not been that for
two or three da vs past the conclusion was confi
dently expected for this dav.
“ The weather is fine, the sky serene, the sun
warm and undimmed, and all the thoroughfares
are thronged with people. Already preparations
are made for the illuminations of to-night, which,
it is expected, will rival the display on the birth
of the imperial prince. I should not omit the
coincidence that the Countess Walewski, wife of
the Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of
the Congress, was delivered of a girl this morn
ing at nine o’clock, only three or four hours before
her husband affixed his signature to the treaty of
peace.
“ The Plenipotentiaries will continue to meet
during the present week, as before, for the settle
ment of other matters not of a light cr unimpor
tant character, which have not yet been settled.
They and the resident members of the diplomatic
corps dine, in full uniform, with the Minister of
Foreigu Affairs to-morrow. The treaty will not be
made public until the exchange of the ratifications,
and, as Constantinople and St. Petersburg are dis
tant from Paris, the Plenipotentiaries remain still
bound by their obligation of silence for two or
three weeks to come.”
THB PEACE—SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR.
Ttye Time# Paris correspondent writes that, when
the news of the signing of the treaty was announc
ed to the Emperor, he expressed himself to the
following effect: He thanked the Plenipotentiaries
! for having come in person to him with such agree
able tidings. He observed that the result of their
] labors during the Conference was the complete re
l j alizAtnm of the speech delivered by Lord Claren
> don m the House of Lords, an*l that the peace
i which the Allies were determined on concluding
[ was one which earned with it ao humiliation to
i Russia, and which did not compromise the dignity
or independence of any one. It was, in fact, such
as a great nation might propose or accept without
degradation • and it, therefore, had ail the ele
ments of solidity and durability. And, lie added,
that so favorable result was, in a great measure,
owing to the conciliatory spirit and the moderation
which marked the policy of England, and which
was particularly felt in the course of the present
Conferences.
The same writer says there are other questions
of paramount interest pending, and it would not
be proper for the plenipotentiaries to leave without
taking them into consideration :
“ I understand that Lord Clarendon has no in
tention of quitting Paris for the moment. I be
lieve 1 am not in the slightest degree mistaken
when I state that the best feeling prevails here
among all classes, and almost all parties, at the
conduct of England throughout; and the impres
sion is that the peace will be found honorable for
all concerned, and satisfactory.”
The Post Paris correspondent writes :
“ If we make up accounts, perhaps the contract
is in favor of Russia, to whom more has beeu giv
en up than she has renounced. Such a result is
naturallv the case, because it was never the inten
tion of England and France to punish Muscovite
aggression with conquest involving loss of territo
ry, or permanent occupation.”
PROCLAMATION OF THE PEACE.
On Monday, the 31st, the Lord Mayor of Lon
don, accompanied by the civic officers, appeared
in citizen’s costume on the portico of the Mansion
House, and read the following letter:
* “Home Office, March 31, 1856.
"My Lord Mayor: I have the honor to acquuint
you that a dispatch has this morning been received
from the Earl of Clarendon, dated Paris, March
30, announcing that a definitive treaty for the re
storation of peace and for the maintenance of the
integrity ana independence of the Ottoman Power
was yesterday signed at Paris by the Plenipoten
tiaries of her Majesty, of the Emperor of the
French, of the King-of Sardinia, and of the Sul
tan, and also of the Emperor of Austria and the
King of Prussia, on the one part, and the Emperor
of all the Russias on the other.
(Signed) G. Grey.”
After cheers for the Queen, Army and Navy,
and the Allies, the spectators dispersed.
At noon a large crowd assembled at the Ex
change, in expectation that the Heralds would ap
pear in full pageantry, as in days of old, to pro
claim peace. So one appeared* however, except
the Mayor, who again read the above letter. At 1
o’clock the Tower and Park guns fired a salute
of one hundred and one. Flags were generally
displayed in the city, and from the shipping. In
other cities tlie same displays were made, quietly
and without enthusiasm.
Parliament reassembled on Monday evening,
March 31, and proceeded with ordinary routine
business. After the lapse of some time,*
Mr. French said it was without precedent that
the war should be concluded without Her Majes
ty’s Ministers condescending to inform the House
of the fact.
Lord Palmerston replied—The House is perfect
ly aware from the Gazette , that yesterday, at two
o’clock, a Treaty of Peace was signed at Paris
[Cheers]. The* House will have seen by the
announcement in the Gazette that it was determin
ed by the Congress that the particular conditions
of tfie treaty should not be made public until the
ratifications* has been exchanged. And that, in
deed, is the usual course, for it is a mark of ob
vious deference to the Powers who are parties to
the treaty. At the same time, without going into
any details of the conditions, the main substance
ofwhich is already known to all the world, because
it has been embodied in protocols and published
in every country of Europe, I may say at least,
that my conviction is, that the treaty of peace
will be deemed satisfactory by this country, and
by Europe [Cheers]. Sir, it will be found that the
objects for which the war was undertaken, have
been fully accomplished. It will be found that
by the stipulations of that treati the integrity and
independence of the Turkish Empire will be se
cured, as far as human arrangement can effect that
purpose [Cheers]. It will be found that that treaty
is honorable to all the powers who are contracting
parties to it, and I trust that while, on the one <
hand it has just put an end to a. war which every :
friend of humanity must naturally have wished to
see concluded, on* the other hand it will lav the
foundations of a peace-Which, I trust, so far, at :
least, as regards the circumstances out ofwhich the
war began, will be lasting ami enduring [Hear,
hear]. Sir, during the negotiations which have :
led to this peace, l am happy to say that the same
cordiality which has prevailed among the Allies in ;
earn ing*on the war, has also mainly contributed
j to the conclusion of peace, and that we shall leave
'off at the conclusion of this war in a stricter and
j closer alliance with them—and in a more extend
led alliance—than existed during the continuance 1
of the war; and that, therefore, the future perma-
nence, not only of a good understanding, but of an t
intimate connection outlie great Powers of Europe «
will have been cemented and strengthened by the
communications that hare taken place during the *
negotiations [Hear, hear]. Sir, I have nothing 1
more to say except that it must be gratifying to
the country to know that nothing could exceed the ]
ability with which the British negotiations have
performed their arduous and difficult task during
the negotiations, and that Lord Clarendon and '
laird Cowley have not only maintained the honor,
dignity, anu interests of the country they repre
sented, but by their conciliatory conduct have se
cured for themselves and their country the respect,
esteem and good-will of those with whom they
had to do. The ratifications are to be exchanged
as soon as they can be received at Constantinople
and St. Petersburg. The limitation of time has
been four weeks, but I should hope that within
■ three weeks the ratifications will Ik; exchanged at
I Paris j Cheers].
1 GREAT BRITAIN.
The London Time#, after quoting from one of
Gen. Cass’ last war speeches, “his exhortations to
, brotherly love, and his own exemplification of that
virtue,” says:
“ The only comment we make, is to ask the.
I American public—which, on our word, we believe
i to be very like the British public—whether Mr.
; Cass is a genuine specimen of the American dove,
. and his speech is a true sprig from the American
olive ? We have too much respect for the United
States to believe that Mr. Cass is any thing but
. Mr. Cass —a eery intemperate a/ul very foul-mouthed
! old fellow''
The article concludes as follows:
“ To the general question, apart from the agree-
I able episodes imported into it by this amicable
i peace-maker, we nave only to call the attention to
‘ the Americans to two or three points which they
• may take on tlieir word. The British people bear
no ill-will whatever to the Americans ; they have
i no designs whatever against them, and take quite
( as much pleasure in hearing of the unbounded
i extension of the Anglo-Saxon family, language,
, commerce, religion and laws in the New World, as
i the Americans can possibly do themselves.
> “They don’t think it worth while to rake up the
[ histories of the American wars, and are almost to
a man of opinion that the Americans were in the
• right to assert their independence, and deserved
■ all their success. They w ould certainly feel a war
' with the United States* to be an unnatural, dis
. creditable, and inevitably unfortunate one, inas
much as neither side could gain honor by it, nor
- any advantage which peace will not bring spent a
- neously in time. They are of opinion that two
such great, populous, wealthy and energetic States
i could not possibly go to war without inflicting
f great losses upon one another, and that such is our
s common interest in peace, that the triumphs and
, disasters of either side would be almost indiffer
- entlv disasters to the other. They would much
1 prefer that neither side should suffer any loss of
f honor; they are, however, bound to look after
themselves; and are only desirous to make no
greater concessions to the United States than they
n would to any great European State. The gentle
•- man whose speech we have commented on ‘above
c says that the public press, and we in particular,
s are faithful exponents of public opinion in this
.. country. On his own showing, then, we appeal to
r the American public to accept our assurance that
we have no other wish whatever than to get out of
j. these questions without improper and needless hu
;e initiation; but that we certainly shall think it due
g to our character and position not to make greater
o concessions to the United States than we should to
y any other power in the world.”
h A deplorable accident has occurred in Dublin,
it It appears that a large number of persons were as
>. semoled on the second floor of a house on Penrose
j, Square, when it gave way with a terrible crash,
burying all hands in the* ruins. Eighteen dead
u bodies were recovered, and sixteen persons were
1 wounded.
t Accounts have been received of the death of Sir
Charles Gotham, Governor of Victoria.
* News had reached London of the death of the
t lion. Robert Torrens, one of the Justices of the
t Court of Common Pleas in Dublin.
The British German Legion, 9,OCX) strong, which !
. has been raised by Baron Stutterheim, to meet the j
. exigencies of the war, will be sent, now that peace ■
1 has been concluded, to the Cape of Good Hope, •
» where the officers and men will receive grants of
> land.
The trade and navigation returns just published,
. show that the value of British produce exported in
February, 1856, was £7,725,747; in the corres
ponding* month of 1855, it was £5,032,416 ; and in
, 1854, in time of peace, £7,502,912.
The Queen of England has offered to head a sub
-1 script ion list for the rebuilding of Covent Garden !
. Theatre, with a contribution of £I,OOO.
The Right Hon. Sir Henry Watkin Williams j
. yiynn, K. C. 8., is dead.
The Walker Defeat in Central America.
A despatch from a Costa Rica source, referring {
to the defeat of Walker’s troops under Col. Sehles- !
, singer, says that from information, “which though
not official, can be entirely relied upon,” we find
that Walker's party had allowed themselves to be
completely surprised— their scouts had been taken
and made to confess, and the “dead which strewed
the field” are the sad victims of a bad cause, it is
true, but also of a most culpable want of vigilance
, and discipline in the commanding officers.
I’hc Panama Herald is of opinion that WalkeF
will be overwhelmed by a combination of all the
[ Central American States. It says:
“ He holds a country where no native of a tem
’ perate region can resist the fatal effects of the cli- ]
. mate —where the white man becomes enervated, j
apathetic. On all sides he is surrounded by a peo
ple jealous of their rights, and who have proved
already that they can tight for their liberties and
» their homes; everything is against him, and there
remains, in our opinion, no chance for his success,
- and nothing but the alternative of ignominious re
• treat or death on the field of battle.
Captain Bushnell, a passenger by the George
t Law, states that after Schlessinger was routed, he
i gained a position which he was confident he could
2 hold until reinforced from Walker’s army, which
t was about seventv miles distant. Walker has
1 from one thousand to twelve hundred men, with
f whom to reinforce Schlessinger, leaving Col. Piper
in command of the forces at Granada. Walker’s
. army is composed entirely of Americans, each
j one of whom is considered equal to three Costa
Ricans.
t The military government of Walker has moved
- from Granada* to Rivas, and civil government has
2 been removed to Leon. This was done on the 24th
of March.
General Walker had been quite ill, and the Bisli
> op of Granada ordered prayer to be offered in the
5 Cathedral for his restoration ; and on the death of
i Geo. H. Hutchins, a citizen of New York, the
■ Episcopal service was allowed to be read in the
t Cathedral of Granada.
• It is said that in Leon the people rose against
Walker’s men and killed one hundred, and that a
strong feeling exists against him all through the
State. —Baltimore Sun.
Congressional.
Washington, April IS.—Sen ate.—On motion of
Mr. Seward a resolution was adopted directing the
Committee on Post Offices to inquire into the ex
pediency of establishing a uniformity in postage
throughout the United States.
On motion of Mr. Sumner, a resolution was
adopted instructing the Committee on Patents to
consider the expediency of amending the Patent
laws so far as to allow the inhabitants of the
neighboring British Provinces to enjoy the bene
fits of these laws on an equal footing, in all re
spects, with the citizens ot the United States.
House.—-Mr. Haven submitted two letters, ad
dressed by the Secretary of the Navy, to Mr. Ben
son, Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs,
in which Secretary Dobbin invited Congress to
visitSthe new steamer Merrimac at Annapolis, sav
ing that the President and himself expect to leave
Washington for that city this afternoon, and will
Vait the arrival of to-morrow morning’s train be
fore going to the steamer.
On motion of Mr. Washburn, of 111., it was re
solved that when the Hoiae adjourn, it will until
Monday.
VOL.
The American State Council.
T!;e Council, which convened in Macon on Wed
nesday, numbered “ about thirty or forty,” as we
learn by the Georgia Citizen. We published yes
lerday morning the resolutions adopted, and the
statements of the Macon Messenger, that the dele
gates were in favor of supporting Fillxore and
Donelsox.
The Georgia Citizen, of the 39th inst., after pub
lishing the resolutions, says:
These were the resolutions actually passed after
an animated discussion of the report of the Com
mittee, and the striking out of a resolution indi
rectly endorsing the nomination of Fillmore and
Donelson. Several gentlemen were anxious to do
this, but we are happy to sav, through the able ef
fortß of Dr. M. A. franklin, of this citv, and Jona
than Davis, Esq., of Lee, the American ©arty of
Georgia nave not been blindly eommitteu to*the
action of the Philadelphia Convention. Our read
ers will recollect that the Platform of the Februa
ry Convention expressly places the American party
in opposition to the course of President Pierce, on
ihe subject of Kansas. Now, however much we
have been opposed to President Pierce, and to
some of the features of the Kansas-Nebraska bill,
we are not prepared to make an issue with the
President on that question. It would be folly to
do so. Besides, we do not know whether Mr. Fill
more will accept the nomination, on the basis of
the twelfth section of the June Platform and it
would be premature to ratify his nomination until
his position is clearly ascertained. These were
the views taken by the gentlemen named, and they
are the views, we believe, of nine-tenths of the
, American party of Georgia.
There is also another reason for postponing a
ratification of the nomination. The present body
is only fragmentary. Its President was not in at
tendance, and but few, if any, regularly elected
delegates from living Councils. The object of the
meeting, as we understand it, was simply to dis
solve the organization, formally. It haa therefore
no business with the nominations. The recom
mendation to the Executive Committee to call a
general Convention of the party, hereafter, is,
however, well enough. Let that Committee there- ~.
fore act with discretion, and make a call of the
party at some day, not earlier than the fourth of m
July, when it will he time enough to ratify or dels
otherwise, as the.whole party may desire.
From (he N. O. Courier.
Living on Stilts.
Did the reader ever observe the motions of an
aspiring juvenile mounted on wooden continua
tions to his rather short legs? Did you ever ob
serve bow pertinaciously he risks a bloody nose
and bruised limbs for the satisfaction of stalking
awkwardly about some three or four feet above the
ground? ’That boy is the type of the future man. He
may throw away fiis deal-boaid and leather support
ers When hfc ks old enough to play billiards or “run
with the machine,” but the chances are that he
will continue to use stilts all his life; that is to say,
he will always endeavor to be higher in the esteem
. of others than he deserves Towards |he close of
a long life of Ditter experiences he may have ac
. quirea the good sense to kick off his stilts and
walk among mc-r. with his own natural gait. Now
’ and then, too, we find a man who acts and talks
naturally, and who has no disposition to be cs
* teemed better, wiser or richer than he is. But
the greater part of the the world, dissatisfied with
t a just estimation, are continually striving to appear
'j- and be thought better than they are.
That writer who is endeavoring' to magnify s
* trifling subject by long winded essays, or who* ex
r presses his ideas in words of ‘•fearful length and
0 thundering sound,” instead of the plain, simple*
and natural language to which he is most oecus
, tomed, and which is the only kind to attract the
‘ favorable notice of men of common sense—that
p writer is on stilts, and there will never be any com
fort to him or satisfaction to his readers until he
j comes down to the common level. Turgid, heavy,
5 dull and obscure, his essays cost him more labor
than if prepared in a simpler style without being
. much benefit to his readers. There are those of
that class, who seem to spend their whole time m
, ransacking the dictionary’ for words of imposing
* sound. * m
The young man who receives ail he earns, yet
whose income is limited, but who wishes to appear
to have an abundance, and to keep pace with the
extravagance and spendthrift folly or the wealthy
of his age, is on stilts. He must appear a little
higher in the world than he is entitled to, and
therefore must spend more money than he has
earned. His pride keeps his pocket empty, and
prevents him from resorting to such rational and
innocent pleasures as are within his reach. His
position is consequently .as painful as it is awkward
and unnatural. Throw away your stilts, young
friend—cultivate pleasures which are not expen
sive—live within your income, and yon will be
much better and much happier for it!
Fashion-loving and fashion-following people are
all on stilts—run mad with notions of gentility
forever desirous of creating for themselves a pecu
liar circle, and of excluding the great mass of^* 1
mankind from it—a peerage of rag9—an nristoenxfiii
cy of gloves, cravats, laces and jewelrv. Os *
the wild mazes which the votaries of folly d—* ecca
through, that of the people who are on the still
fashion is the most absurd. Tbe love of fin r€r L to
chokes out all that is good in their hearts tl
become identified with their garments—they a.
laced and'starched into nonentities—wholesome*
natural feelings, vigorous thought, generous emo
tions, lofty impulses are all swallowed np in show.
Squallid poverty has nothing half so pitiful as the
state of those whose souls are all taken up with
pomp, parade, show’, style, fashion and eclat. The
wild Indian that hunts his game for food, adores
the Great Spirit, loves his friend and hates bis en
emy, walks on this earth a head and shoulders
taller than the dandy on his stilts of fashion, for
he is twice as much a man. Stiff, awkward and
unsafe is the stilt march es those who chase this
ever-changing phantom fashion. Their heads are
raised above the sphere of affection and of ration
al enjoyment. All the nobler traits of the charac
■ ter in them have been replaced by dilettantism
and foppery. Taste they may indeed have, but it
! is a taste which gives its possessors no genuine
‘ pleasure. Refined they may be, but in tbe process
‘ of refinement their native excellences have been
1 destroyed.
1 Equally to be pitied are those who are raised
1 upon literary stilts—who have imposed upon them
selves, and who are sworn to maintain tbe repufa
-1 tion of “well-read people.” The task they assume.
1 compels them to read or glance over every new
1 book, although not one in twenty is worth a
thought, s Their men s are quite filled with
1 other people’s thoughts, leaving no room for orig
-1 inality. They are compulsory book-worms with
little pleasure, out ofa childish vanity—of no other
use to the world but to serve as walking catalogues.
In shorty »Ifge portion of our people arc raised
upon stilts of some kind or othtr, above nature,
above usefulness, above enjoyment.. The examples
we have presented, are sufficient to convey our
meaning. It is too much, perhaps, to expect that
any great improvement will soon take place, but
it must be plain to all who will think, that man
kind can never begin to fullfill their proper sphere,
or to attain to any great excellence, until 1 they be
gin to follow nature—until they become willing to
be taken for precisely what they are. When men
act out their real dispositions, and cease to set a “
fictions value upon themselves, when they are sat
isfied with simple justice, and are contented to oc
cupy only the space in public estimation to which
they are entitled—then, and not till then, will the
era of true pleasure and real excellence begin.
The great business of life, with too large a class,
is to keep up appearances—to keep themselves
balanced on their stilts. Let them come down to
their true level, and they will find more genuine
pleasure in the real life of truth and naturalness,
m one month, than can be found in a dozen years
of a life of affection.
The following resolution was unanimously adopt
ed by the Democratic Convention of the sixth dis
trict of Maine:
“Resolved, That the confidence manifested by
the people of the United States in the capacity, in
tegrity, and sound principles of Franklin Pierce in
his election to the presidency haa been amply jus
tified by the ability, firmness, purity, and patriot- ■*
ism which have marked his conduct of public af
fairs.” Jj
