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~mr—lll. I ■ ■ i i i i■ ■■ _ __ J__L_l__ ® 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