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(Ti mts axib £enliiul. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ~ i FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 19. 1855. BYTRLEGRAPII, Expressly for tlxe Times and Sentinel. LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP CANADA. Cdtton unchanged-Important War News—Negotia tions at Vienna further postponed—The Allies making preparations to storm Sebastopol. Coi.UMorA, (S. C.) Jan. 17. The steamship “Canada” has arrived at Halifax. Cotton unchanged, but a better feeling manifested. Sales of the week 36,000 bales. Fair Orleans sid. Middling sd. Breadstuff? quiet and unchanged. Consols‘JOl. Money Market unchanged. From the Seat of War. The Allies have now three hundred guns ready to oi>en fire on Sebastopol, and after forty-eight hours’ bombard ment, they will •term on the south tide. They are only awaiting a favorable opportunity. Negotiations at Vienna are further postponed two weeks, thus giving one more hope ol Peace. Heavy Failure. —Rogers, Iron merchant, London, has failed for a very large amount. SECOND DESPATCH. Columbia, Jan. 13. Brown & Shipley quote Cotton as follows: Middling in demand. Oilier grades easier—not lower. Middling Mobile 4rd. Breadstuffs were very quiet. The Representatives of England, France and Austria have drawn up an interpretation of the Four points, and presented i: to the Russian Ambassador, who has asked for. two weeks’ time to obtain a final answer from the Czar. It is reported that the terms presented by the Allies are neither hard nor humiliating to Russia, and that the Russian and Allied interpretations of tne Four points are hut slightly different. Constant fighting before Sebastopol. Gen. Canrooert reports the Allies largely reinforced, 3nd ready to resume offensive operations. Muscogee Superior Court— eutence of Prisoners. On Wednesday morning the Court it ,u was crowd ed with an eager throng of visitors to witness a mo<t solemn and impressive scene—the sentence by the Court of the long array of criminals who had been convicted of felonies during the; term. At ten o’clock the Sheriff entered the Court Room accomoa nied by David Wright, a young man in the flush of a vigorous manhood, convicted of murder, by Hi i a slave, the property of Hatcher & Fitts, a youth who li3d hardly reached his majority, convicted of murder of a fellow servant, by Johu Deaton, a boy in Ids teens convicted of robbery, by Francis M. Payne, also a young man, convicted of forgery, by David Clark, a man of middle age, convicted of simple larceny, and by .James Robinson, a venerable old man, convicted of assault with intent to commit murder. Tho prisoners were seated in front of who. after disposing of a motion to set aside a judge ment nisi for SIO,OOU against John G. Winter, upon a forfeited recognisance, proceeded to eenieuce them jfl order. By the C >urt—“.James Robinson, stand up.” By Jno. A. Jones—“ May it please your honor, Counsel are preparing a motion for anew trial in this cause and would be glad if your honor would pass it by for the present which was done. By the Court —“David Clark will rise. Have you anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon you ?” By Prisoner—“ Yes; the testimony upon which I was convicted was false.’’ By the Court —“Have you anything more to say ?*’ By Prisoner—“Nothing.’* By the Court—“ You have been convicted by a jury of your country of simple larceny. On the 18th No vember last, you stole a bale of cotton in Chattahoochee county, and, while in the act of conveying it to Co lumbus, you were overtaken. The evidence upon which you were convicted is clear and plain. There is no doubt of you guilt.” The Judge then read the sentence of the Court in the usual form : Imprisonment in the Penitentiary for five years. By the Court—“ John Deaton stand up. Have you anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced against you By Prisoner —“Nothing.” By the Court —“You have been convicted of robbery. ‘ A simple countryman came to town ; was inveigle by you into a gambling shop, from thence to a house of ill fame, and otherwise imposed upon. In the dead hour of night you presented a pistol to Ids breast and demanded his money. You look not only the little money he had, but his cravat, handkerchief and shirt buttons. I have made enquiries about you : you are a bad boy ;no one can say a good word in your favor. I 1 am therefore convinced that the longer you rent tin in I the Penitentiary the better it will be for you and tln state.*’ The Court then proceeded to sentence the prisoner, I in the usual Grin, to five years imprisonment in the j Penitentiary. By the Court —‘‘Francis M. Payne, rise up. Have you anything to say why sentence should not be pro nouueed against you !” By the Prisoner —“Nothing.” By the Court —“It appeared in evidence that a Mr. Morton had cotton stored at the ware in i®o of Stewart. Gray & Cos. This fact was communica ‘o you by a negro. You either forged, or caused too. rged, an crder upou Stewart, Gray & Cos. You then went to the warehouse and represent* and yourself as the son of Mr. Morton, elating that he owed a debt and had 1 starttd to town to sell the cotton in order to raise money to pay it, that he was thrown from his horse on the way, and had sent yon, his son, for the in mey. Upon th . forged order and fals representation, you procured the money from Stewart, Gray A Cos. l r .ur reputation j is had ; since the commission of this offence, l learn that you have committed other crimes, which subject ‘ you to imprisonment in ti e Penh* otiary. I therefore conclude that it wiil be best for you and best f, r the ■ Siate to confine you in the Penitentiary as long as the law allows. The object of the law is not revenge, hut ; to deter others from die commission of crime. Until! the administration of mv immediate prod*cesser, the ‘ practice of the Court in this circuit h:.s be n to admin ister the lav | ••..- far as practicable, in favor of the guilty. Thi# practise ta at at) cod. . i arji determined that for thv fcisl you* ibe i*i>r U a Ln,f tw ?i,! doers. Hitherto life and property have been insecure. \ Itis cow time lon> st men should be protected in their * rights ” • - j The Court then sentenced the prison to sevtn years i confinement in the Penitentiary. By the O urt —“David Wr ght stand up. Have ; you any thing to say why sentence should not be pro nounced against yoo ?” By Prisoner—“Nothing.’’ By Messrs. Holt and Wellborn —“Counsel for the prisoner have prepared a bill of exceptions which they will, at a convenient time, hand to your honor.’’ Sentence. The State vs ‘j Murder in Muscogee Supe- I David Wright, Principal, j rior Court, and verdict of in the first degree, and J- Guilty, against David John T. Boyd, Principal | Wright. in the second degree* j Whereupon it is considered and adjudged by the j Court that you, the said David Wright, be conveyed, by | the Sheriff of said county, to the common jail thereof, ! where you be kept in close and -safe confinement until { FiiJay, the sixteenth day of February, in the year of our > Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, when j you, the said David Wright, he taken, by the Sheriff ui • said county, and by him conveyed to a gallows, to be by him, on a spot not less thao half cf one mile, nor more thau one mile, from tho Court House in said county, then and there erected, and tint between the hours of i ten o’clock in the forenoon, and two o’clock in after | noon of said day, you, the sdd David Wright, be, by ! the Sheriff aforesaid, by means of the gallows aforesaid, ; and a rope of hemp, to be by said Sheriff, then and there provided, hanged by the neck until you are dead.’’ By the Court.—‘‘Bil l , stand up. Have you anything to say why sentence should uot be pronounced against you ?’* The prisoner remained mute aud did not seem to understand that the question was addressed to him. A. MuDougald, Esq , his counsel, gave notice of a bil! j of exceptions which he would preseut to the Court at a convenient time. The Court then proceed to sentence Bill, in the very words of David Wright’s sentence, changing the name only. After the sentence was finished, Bill bowed to | the Court and took ltis am.t, which caused laughter in I the Court room, in which the prisoners at the bar, 1 under like condemnation, joined. | Thus eadt-d this most impressive and awful scene. ! “The wages of sin is death.” I _ j The Blakely Orchestral Chorus Company. j By reference to our advertising columns tha lovers j of good music will see that this talented company wiil j give a conoert in Concert Hall on Saturday night next. ! The following very complimentary notice of their per j formatters we extract from the Georgia Citizen : i Tk lilakelys. —Our citizens during the present week, I have been favored by this Company with four oft he most i delightful nnn-.-i.d entertainments, that wejiave ever had ; the pleasure io hear. \\ e believe wo but speak the gen j era! sentiment when we say that better music and more perfect “harmony of sweet sounds” never floated on mortal tongues, than that given in those Concerts. The music, both vocal and instrumental, was of the highest order, and executed in a truly artistic and finished style, l 1 hero was “au unction power and mellowness” in the l performances ulvfeh pervaded the inmost soul, and lin ? gered about our ears long after the hist strain had died j away, iti the distant echo, but tho pieces which delight- Jed us most, were the Chant —"i le.tr Father, Hear our | Prate,” and the former Ftvnch National air, the Mar j settles Hymn. The former was inexpressibly grand and sublimely melodious—just such an anthem ui’ praise to | Deity, as would cause t!w fountains of living waters to | swell up from die most obdurate hearts, in streams ol i gladness and gratitude. The hitter, one of the most stir* | rm ? odes to liberty ever set to music, was su'.'t’ better by j lint lilakelys ifeut we ever heard WW. It m per'. | formed with matchless skill and soul stirring power and j effect upon an enraptured audience. Mr. iTiiSVird’s Vmiiu solos were in our opinion, equal j to those of Sivori his preeepvir, and not inferior to tile | belt efforts ot Ole Bui!. Our friends in Columbus and elsewhere, who may receive a visit fr< ni this talented company should not fail r< attend their concerts. Our word for it, they will be delighted. j Violation or Professional Etiquetts —The | Southern Recorder makes the following reply to the I discourteous attack of the Chronicle <§■ Sentinel upon j many of the leading papers of Georgia, contained in a j series of articles upon Wild Cat banking in the State : “The Chronicle Seniinel may hope to succeed by j awakening prejudice against honorable and high mind ed contemporaries, and unscrupulously giving them a • false attitude before the people. But it will find itself in : the unenviable category of a willful and gratuitous ca luminator of its brethren. Its rude and discourteous i hearing renders the Sentinel an unfit monitor of the press, whilst the financial record of its editor annuls his arrogant claim to the exclusive guardianship of the people’s pockets.” David Hubbard and the Governorship —David Hubbard, having been mentioned as an aspirant for ihe j office of Governor if Alabama, comes out in a letter very much to the point, from which vve make the follow ing extracts : “The present Governor is a democrat—so am I. lit is opposed to endorsing the bonds of Railroad compa nies, by reason of which the citizens become liable for their debts—so am I. 1 am, therefore, politically, as j well as personally, his friend. Why, then, should men possessing the same political principles divide among j themselves, unless they desire to be conquered, and to ! put the State in the hands of an Internal Improvement j parft ? And when has it happened that an internal , improvement party obtained power and quit creating i debts, as long as the people could carry the load ? By : no act of mine shall they have power to make the ex periment in Alabama.’’ Augusta Races —The four mile race over the La Fayette course was won by Griff Edmondson, the ! j roperty of Col. Cheatham in two straight hea’s. 1 i.ne : j Ist heat Tin 41s. 2d he it Trn 495. llis competitors were James B. C'arke’s Black Prince, and Col. T. Bacon’s horse Henry. The colt stake was won by John Campbeli’s Fitly, by G 1 n.-o-. Time: 1.50—1 51 1 55. The first heat was won by W. W. Wool folk’s , Colt Invincible. The ottier entries were John Ilarri- i sou’s FJiy and T. 11. Goldsby’s Colt. Building and l.oan Associations The Building As • ■ci itions of New York, which during pr sp* rotts tones, received prompt monthly payments, are now tfF cted | by the stringency *f the money market, for the me chanics and workmen who contributed so them are not able to continue their payments. The ! liter are propo ! sing to get hgishtive action requiring ali these organiza tions t° report immediately ;h*ir condition to the legis ! *tur*>, with a view- to the devising of a plan for the winding ur* of thtir affairs upon some equitable prinei ji‘l. ‘ ‘ * Nominee for Governor. —The Mountain Signal nominates Hon. Garnett Andrews as a suitable cand - date for Governor of (J .org'a. Il don’t ray what party spreii# fwr or W. j Under which Kins 1 The Mobile Register and Tribune are twitting each other with being Know Nothings. This does not suit the open temper of John Forsyth, E-q. In Lis issue of the I4>b inst., he uses the following emphatic lan guage: You, Mr. Tribune, insinuate that ths editor of this paper is a Know Nothing, and that you are not. W e challenge you to the proot. We dare you to drop the masks o: speech, and answer truly, on you word ot honor as a man and. a gentleman, whether you are, nr have been a membei of any Know Sol king Lodge or Society? It you will answer, we wi:l, and we propose to do it with you simulta neously, and on any morning that you propose, i t you de cline, you must be put q-jwu as a Know Nothing; for except the oath of secrecy imposed by such an order, there is no reason why you should stand mute. We are ready to an swer ‘yea” or “nay,” not only “like a man,” but like a “ woman ” ot truth. C-otne up to the scratch,"friend, and prove your position You never had a better opportunity to show your “inde pendence,” in contradistinction to your “neutrality.” We are very happy to have it in our power to place the able editor of the Register right before the Demoo racy of Georgia. lie is not, he could not have been a Know Nothing. Neither indeed is the editor of a sing e finding Democratic paper in the United States. ’The Know Nothings area political party, and n> democrat can join them without forfeiting his standing in the Democratic party. The mists ore at length clearing away from this new order. In Virginia the Know j Nothings are, to a man, in the field 4 against 11. W. AY iso, : the Democratic candidate for Governor. In Alabama I they are opposing John Anthony Winston, Democratic Governor of the State, than whom a sounder Demociat never trod the earth. And so it will ba in every other Stato. Whatever the Know Nothings may be, they are the sworn foes of tho Domoeracy. Their triumph will result in our defeat. The Washington Union, the Richmond Enquirer, tho New Hampshire Patriot, the Savannah Georgian, the Georgia Telegraph, the Fede ral Union, are all sworn fees of the Know Nothings. The blindest can now see that if they join the secret oligarchy, they must desert the banner of the Democ racy. If, therefore, any unwary Democrats have joined the new order, the best thing they can do is to quit them at once and return to their first love. The Acacia. As this shrub is one of the most ancient and impres sive of Masonic emblems, the following inscription of it. which we t ike from the Acacia , a monthly Masonic magazine published at Natchez, may prove interesting. “The Accaeia, is a species of the Mimosa, belonging to the class Pblygamia, and order Monoecia. It is an humble shrub, but with long spreading branches, cover ed with spines. Hence its name, aleukia, thorn ; sometimes called the Egyptian thorn. Bro. Mackey says : ‘According to the Jewish law, no interments were permitted within the walfe of the city, and as it was unlawful for the cohens or priests to pass over a grave, it became necessary marks wherever a | dead body had been interred, to enable them to avoid i it. For this purpose tlie acacia was used.’ It still I crews abundantly, as formerly, on the batiks of the ! Kedron, in the valley of Jehosophat. 4 The Acacia is one of the most ancient of tho Masonic emblems, and speaks of faith in the immortality of the soul. It has performed an important part in the history of the Craft.” Theatrical. —Mr. Crisp has re-opetied Conoert Hall at Augusta. Miss Louisa Howard is the particular star in that locality. Miss Eliza Logan was greeted with tin? most raptu roua applause ant! a crowded house on her ro*ajipear* ance on the Savannah boards. i).uix RoMMT,-ta old gentfemaii from Satan j nail was accosted by a stranger in Charleston on th& j loth and asked if he had uot lost his pocket book, and ’ at the same time shown a pocket book apparently full of j money, which he was induced to take with a view to I advertise fur the owner. As the old gentleman was j paying five doUars to the scamp as a reward, an ac j complice seized his arms, while the other grabbed hi* | pocket book and made off. \ Knoio Nothings in Virginia.-— The election in : Parkersburg, Ya., for Councilmeii, resulted in the en | tire success of the Know Nothing ticket by a majority |of 113 to 17. At Fairfax Court House, Va., at the election of | Commissioner of Revenue for that county, the Know ! Nothing candidate beat bis opponent rnsre than four I votes to one. - Steam Sloops of War. —The Secretary of the Navy ; lias recommended to tho Committee on Naval A flairs, the building of seven new skam sloops of war. Correspondence of the North American. Washington, Jen. 8. The Tariff Modifications —Tht Secretary of *the Treasury. j The Secretary of the Treasury, unable to resist the ! fervor of free trade fanaticism, has consented to a com promise with the ruing faction in the House, by which ! he hopes to save himself from that which a democrat I . most abhors—a minority. llis plan, submitted with his first annual report, and modified by various subs quent j I communications to the House, was calculated to produce ; j $4 7,000,000 of annual revenue, on the basis of the im- j portatioi a for 1853, or of $10,000,000 for the average of I the past six years ; and provided for but two rates of du , | ties, to wit—loo per rent, upon luxuries, and 25 per i j cent, on the mass of importations. He now proposes to \ j introduce a sumptuary 1 st, subject to an intermediate rate j j of duty. s3y 35 or 40 per Ct-nr., to include such articles j as laces, certain kinds of jewelry, ready made clothing of [ a certain sorts of wines, as Burgundy and Tokav, : j cut glass, ornamental china, See., dec. It may be ,-ist.u ) ! med, with confidence, that the two wings will unite up- j lon some scheme for tue effectual repeal of all the pro- S j tertive features of the present act. N.H. Senator. — It is thought in Washington that it is I ; not improbable that Henry F. French will be app dnted by j the Governor of New Hampshire to fill the vacancy oeea- ! sioned by the death of Senator Norris. Wisconsin Legislature. —The Legislature ofWiscnn- ; sin assembled at Madison, on Wednesday, 10th inst. The i most important business will be the election of a United * States Senator to succeed Mr. Walker. Colonists for Central America. —The Washington s Uni-in announces that the first vessel, with the colonist-’ ; for Central America, will sail from Baltimore on the2oth | insf., liie second i.i a few days after from Mob ! , and the j third from Br.*z>s Santiago. In ail seven hundred nun will start in these vessels. Colonel Ramey will hirrseij j j sii! about the beginning of next month either from New ’ j Y rk *r Philadelphia, in a first class steamship. Dr. Graham's Conduct in Prison. —Dr. Graham, who I jis now at {ring Sing, New York, is add to have had a i setii usdiffi ulty with the officers of the penitentiary. He | was select- and, ot account of his professional knowledge. u> ! | prepare and adm. nister the prescriptions of the attending ; j physician.’ Antorgthe medicines ilnrd ws a rriant ity .| j i br.oidy, Wish tins the Doctor made lire, and wa* era*, I drunk, raving up and down the hospital ro m, brandish ; ing a knife, and threatening the Ives of any win m'g | | moh st him. Os course he was secured. * ijlji’i.ii i CuxrißjiEP—-The If, S. Senate on Thursday uonfimt #4 Ww, IlavMvy a* vtrict ut T Commercial Convention—From Cuba—Failures—Mar kets. New Orleans, Jan. 15- In the Southern'Commercial Convention to-day, noth ing of motm at transpired. The Empire City, with Havana dafesof the 12th, and the California mails has arrived. The rumor that Concha has b.-en suspended for his conduct in tho San Roman affair is renewed, though ills successor has not been an nounced. The story is not ertd ted here. Shultz, Hadden & Batting, the largest Commission louse in the city, failed to-day. Cotton, b-.-low'Good Middling, has declined Sa’e 7,OKU bales, middling c!*n*fcd at 71 to 8 cents. Sti rling exchange close at 73- Fire aud Loss cf Life. New York, Jan. 13. Th- country residence of Mr. John ilavou, at Fort Washington, was destroyed by tire to-day. Three of hs daughters perished in the flames. Congressional Prcceedirgs. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Washington, Jan. 11, 1855. The House went into committee ou THE PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL —fdußlTi-D DEFENCE OF CATHOLICITY —THE KN >W NOTHING QUESTION. Mr Chandler, (whig) of Fa , ros? to reply to the Know Nothing speech of Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, who, hc said, had made special and inculpatory remarks regarding die Roman Catholic church, involving in the inculpation a charge of latent tre ison agaifist its members, or at least au im.-uiation that there is au article of their religious faith which overrides all sea ty to this government, and which would render them unworthy of public trust, suspeettd citizens, and dangerous officers. Standing here almost alone in the assertion of a fact, wh eh seems to be doubted, he was without the sympathy of a host of pariizms to *us~ tain him, and to pardon he infirmity of his defence of tht principles which ho advocated. He denied that the P> pe of Rome has, or claims for himself to have, the right to in terfere with the political relations of any other country than that of which he is personally a subject ; and he de nied the right of the P pe, resulting from his divine office, to interfere between subjects and their sovereign, and eit.- zens and their governments. While he made this denial, lie acknowledged all his obligations to that church, of which he is an humble member. lie would not yitld a single dogma, nor explain it away, to suit the spirit of the times. He believed all that the church believes mid teaches as religious dogmas. He must regard himself as involved in tho general censure of the gentleman from Massachusetts. He clearly and distinctly denied that the power of the Pope extends one grain beyond hisspitifu.il relations, or infriugts in the least decree ou the duty which any Roman Catholic owes to the government under which lie lives. If, he said, by- the Providence of God, the Bishop of Rome should possess himself of an army with the views of invading the territory of the United States, or assailing the rights of our country, he would find to more earnest antagonists than in the Roman Catholics.— If 1 should not be here to vote supplies for our army, ami too old to take part in the battle, I would be found in the privacy of my chamber, or at the foot of the altar, implor ing God for the safety of my country and the defeat of the invaders. (Applause, which Mr. Orr, the chairman, cheeked, r minding gentlemen it was unbecoming in a deliberative assembly.) Mr. Chandler resumed : If the spir it of conquest should se‘7.3 on the wearer of the tiara, and he should seek to subjugate Italy, provoking the arms cf other nations against his own State, I would lock oti the chances of ih - defeat of his army as coolly and complacently as on the i mischievous schemes of any other ambitious monarch.— ’Tills was his belief, and fully and openly asserted by every Bishop in the United States. In proof of which he read from the writings of Bishops England, Kendrick, Hughes. Spald.ng, Troy, and others. He scorned to utter less than the whole truth, and referred to other times, when she Pope dethroned kings, but only when it was requied by existing constitutions or compacts for the benefit and at the instance of the governed. In the language ot Bishop England ,*‘Gnd never gave the Pope any temporal power to depose* kinks, or interfere with political concern?; and any rights which the successor of St Peter claims f r that purpose must be derived from mo Ollier source lie condemned tho inequality in citizens which Know Nothings Peek to establish, saying, ii this shall be done, b would not be long before that class w ill demand, as a boon, what freemen claim, and in conclusion a:d, “w th my hand on my heart and my eyes towards heaven with re verence, I appeal to God to witness the truth of the as sertion which I have made, with the conviction of knowl edge, and the credibility of the testimony I have adduced from others.” SENATE. Washington, Jan. 15, 1853. The Senate has passed a resolution in favor of sending ; relief to K ine’s Arctic Exploring Expidition. The ocean mail steamer Appropriation Bill, was also taken up and • discussed. Iu the House Mr. Letcher of Kentucky, called up the j ease ol privileges of W. B. Chase, f.r refusing to auswtr | querns before the committee appointed last session, to in | vest'gate whether money or other moans, had been used jto influence the votes of members of Congress. ‘lhe sub | jeet was postponed, when the House went into committee I on the Pacific Railroad Bill. 1 Mr. Stephens of Georgia, argued in favor of the su j peri rity of slave over free labor, incidentally advocating | the Acquisition of Cuba. Mr. Boyce replied strongly in ! opposition to the acquisition of Cuba, as fraught with dan ! ger to the South. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Washington, Jan. 10,1555. j Iu the House to-day a long debate took place on the j Pacific Railroad Bill. All but the first two sections were I stricken out iu order to admit a substitute offered by Mr. Dunbar, who said it was the same as that unanimously reported by tin* Senate Committee. It establishes three different routes for a Railroad and Telegraph,—theSouth | ern commencing at the Western border of Texas—the - Central or Western route from Missouri—and the North, ern from the IN estern border of Wisconsin in Minnesota. ! hey are a’! practicable. Mr, Letcher moved to strike out the enacting clause, pending the discussion of which motion the House adjourned. I he Senate, in Executive session, confirm*, and the nomi nation of Mr. Breckeuridge as Munster to Spain. > Washington. Jan. 14. i Senator Norris of New Hampshire, is dead. lie died from a disease of the heart. ggT The editor of the New Ilampsh re Patriot Bf.ys that he to grow fat as iongas he lives. Ah, yes, but ; when he dies, will not the fat be in the fire— Louisville ‘■ Journal. Philadelphia line of Steamships —Mr. C. A. L. La- ‘ mar, the agent for this popular line, informs us that the * Keystoue State will resume her place on the line ou the ‘ ‘23d inst. ‘i he public wiil be gratified to learn the fact, j — Sav. Journal & Courier. ! Non-Imprisonment of Witnesses —A bill i* before the New York SenYc to and > away with the imprisonm- ut jof witnesses. It provides that the testimony shall beta j Uen de bene esse, within 24 hours, when the witness sha Ibe discharged without b.ii, subject, however, to an ! order to appear when the ease is called. Shooting.— On Friday last the streets of our city n it | Htsitd one of th se deeds of violence, from which thev have, of late, been happily exempt. Air. F. P. Hal! was j fired upon and severely wounded by Washington Kirbv. | B.th are residents of this county, and, for Vme time past, a misuad* islanding of a serious nature is said to hive cx s>d between them. The contents, of the piste] used by K'rby passed through lJai.’t* arm mid penetrated his breast. The wound is said :o be severe, though it is not supposed to be a fata! one. VYe learn, to-day, that Mr. Hall’s condition is more favorable, and thftre is every probability of hi* recovery. Mr. K. was Dot arreted, having and sappeared tamed:* aU-.y after lb wtim-pe#, -Tuscahoeq Monitdr- J*n.\ 4H. ! y 4 th, FURTHER BY THE BALTIC. A high diplomatic conference was tube held at the res idence wt the British Minister at Vienna,on too 28th ult The Amba-sadois ot England, France, Aust.ia, Prussia and Russia weie to be present. Prince Goitschakot! was to take part in the discu.-sion, and the conference was to be ol ;ho most positive character. A aespaich from V icmia, dated December 26th, says that Goitschakofl had presented a note received from Bt. i*e tersburg, to Count Boo! It is believed to be an unsatis factory, bat not a final, reply from Russia. The Prus iau mission to London, of which high expec tations had been formed, it is surmised, was merely the bearer of an autograph letter to tho Queen. The dates from Sebastopol arc to the 20th ult , when af fairs were unchanged, though tho Russians claimed tube doing considerable damage to tho approaches ot the allies Nevertheless, the the third parallel Jt the French Das been mounted with cannon. Ou the I8:Ji ol December, the reinforcements of the al lies had amounted to 18,000. Memelnkoffis sick, and Osten Sackcn has taken the command of tho aimy. Live tiiuusanu J uii\.s had landed at Eupatoria. i tic destination ot Omar Pacha’s army was kept a pro* 1 - ocre ß hut it is thought mat f ie will invest ihe north side ot Sebastopol. i . Ihe expedition lor the building of a railroad from Balak i lava, to fcebastopoi, is now on its way to the Crimea, m ;eye;) steamships ana two sailing vessel-, with all the uia | tenalsrequired. 1 lie w fetched giute of the country, from the incessant ; tams, had put an entile stop to the communications be ! t we “ 1 ereK °P a d bimpheropoi, a week had elapsed since | a courier arrived at Odassa from Sebastopol. i * a - l accounts the weather hud improved, and the , heavy .rosts having hardened the gtouud, both armies were j resuming their activity. Several softies arc reported, in which the Russian? were ; repulsed. 1 hese sorties am made by small bodies ol troops, j and are more lor tho purpose ol annoying iho Allies aud | destioymg iheir batteries, than for am* other purpose. . Dn the Lth December, Umar Pacha left ishumla for j LonstantiuopJc. His proposed iutore movements were un known. lSth** 0 i * roo P 3 to arrive from Varna on the A ieher in the froidaten f reund says ilia* tho defence of the toitress is now to be conducted on anew plan. The costly materials are to be removed from the bastions and waiis, and cairied back to t!io ships, twenty two < t which have been equipped ready for the sea. .. “ e t leinohn Biatt says likewise, that the defence of j teuastopol is to be confined to the forts, ! Diders have been received at Warsaw, to complete the I audit ion ai woiks and the citadel of the city, within the til st | tortnight qi January. Paskiewitch has orueied the imme diate enrolment of three parks of flying artillery. The re j orints of the new levy are to create s second grand army ot reset ve, wiiuh is to bo concentrated in and around Mos cow. 1 wenty ihousand .men are occupied in fortifying Jvier. A Russian Lh.tse has beeu published, ordaining that whoever afior a battle shall commit acts ot cruelty on the wounded unresisting, shall suffer death. f he Chief Engineer who has conducted the defence ot fecbasfopql, is Gene*a! Desticur, (a Frenchman.) hnght bnghsn eteainers have been takinc the soundings off f .tehakoff, and it is surmised that the Allies will make an attach, ou Ivimhuru, preparatory to an attack upon Pere kop. A levy of ten men to every thousand has been ordered in the Eastern halt ol the Empire, to be eomoleted by the 15th ot March. Great Britain. Pariiame t hasadjourned, the Royal assent having first been given to the biil authorizing the enlistment ol foreign mercenaries. This measure continues unpopular in Eng land. It is raid that the articles of the Germanic Confede ration ejtpressJy lorbids German subjects from entering the military service of foreign States. Colonel Colt in a letter to the London 1 lines, that he has offered a supply of pi-tols to the Czar. France. The Emperor opened the Legislative Assembly in per son. in his speech he alludes to the treaty with Austria, a* only defensive for the present. Tie thanks the British Parliament for its cordial, warm demonstrations, and the English army for its invaluable co-operation in the scige of Sebastopol. r l he land army is stated in the Emperor’s speech at 518,- fiC'J, and 113,000 horses, with 62,* ! 00 sailors on shipboard. He asks lor an additional levy of 140,000 men, and states that the tevenues ed the country remain unciiniinifched. The speech was highly praised; but it caused a slight de piction ol tho funds in Loth h ranee and England. Ontiio T7th, the Minister of Pittance was authorized to raise a loan of five hundred millions ol francs. Ibe report that England will enlist Spanish auxiliaries for the war in the briiM, is current at Msdrnl. The Ci Locemifer 21st,indeed speaks, as probable, of a body of 15,000 for the allies, to be paid by T ranee and England, officered by Spanish officers, and in exchange tor which die Anglo-T icnch squadrons wili ky at the tervice of the Spanish government to let el any tit lack upon Cuba. Such is the etory. ;■ Constantinople, Dec. 20th —lt is confidently asserted | that a resolulion has been adopted by tho allies to storm I Sebastopol as soon as the Turkish reinforcements come up. Sptiin* A letter from Madrid states that Mr. Soule was present at a discussion which took place in the Cortez, on the sale , oi Cuba. No report of the discussion is given. \ It is likewise said that Mr. Soule required the Spanish Government to join in the treaty recently concluded be l tween the United States and Russia, to recognize the prin j ciple that the flag protects the goods; but the Spanish Go i vernnient has declined, on the ground that such a step is at j present inopportune. Neither has the government accepted j the proposition made by the British Ambassador to proclaim i the slave tiade piracy, but it fas given ciders for the strict j execution ol the Conventions already existing with Euin land on that subject. 1 he T rench, it is said, are to storm, while the British and I uikitli forces attack Gen. JMenechikofPs command. it is reported that Umar Pacha lias written to the Sultan, making it a condition oi his accepting the command, that ire shall have two votes in the Council of War, in order to prevent his being outvoted ty General Canrobert. V jen’na, Dee. 28th—A despatch horn Wui.-aw announ ces that the Russian Naval Artillery, taken out of the Bal tic fleet had arrived at Sebastopol, and to their presence is due the recent precision of the fire from Sebastopol, as well as the new-found boldness of the fleet. Another despatch fioin Vienna states that at a cohference held there on the2Bth, nobs were exchanged between the representatives of the three Allied Powers, defining the sense m which the Cabinet understood the four points pro posed as the- conditions of peace. | Gortschakofi; it 13 ur.dt rstood, ha? demanded time to ob tain instructions from his Government. Beady Wit. A writer ;n the Knicket booker thus disposes of a bon mot. which has ali along been attributed to John Ran dolph of Ronunnke. The scent was in the United States House of Representatives some 40 years ago : Tin* parties concerned, (says the writer.) were the late I Mr. S-mythe, ot Virginia, one of the Commissioners of Ghent, if I rightly recollect: at all events, a map of cm • inence and distinction in his native State, the “Old Den : minion,” and greatly respected and deferred to in the councils of the nation, lie w„b a man of some pieten* I Si °ns and pomp, and who, on occasion, knew how to “put on airs” to serve a purpt.se*. He was a man who spoke oft* n, r.ud commanded always the attention of the llouso. Mr. Livermore was a man of plainness and simpllcit’ hut o! great nerve and firmness, and c-ouid not bear to he pushed any more than Use highest Southern blood. He did not often speak, but when he did . he was a man ol invariable ditseines* o( aim, and lie despised the vul gar aris o> rhetoric and political chicanery just about equally. It happened that some measure iu which Mr. Liver more took a deep interest, wjs before th.- House, and the j House was in a good mood h.r favorable action : but Mr. i Smy the, for smo rt*as>n or oilier, was determined to talk it out of time. It became e-t the last importance ‘o strangle him in some way, and this is an operation which I a New Hampshire man cannot ordinarily perform with 1 much success upon a “.u.i blooded” V.rginan, in the full I tide <d successful de-bat?. But Mr. Bmythe careered over the*.whole world a* will, with no leterencs to fie subject h fore the House ; and at the * lose of one of his most eloquent and most satisfactory periods, Mr. Liver | more rose, and ui a tone of groat firmness and determi | nation, called the gentleman to order for thus wandering ; from the busiross before- the ll* u.-e. The hot Vi'gintan 1 turne d up uho New Hampshire intruder with great warmth and idFected c-ontempd. He said “he would ua h i the gentleman from New lidmr shiro n-. t thus to inter rupt him. He was not speaking for the edifi. at nos the Gentleman, or cf the House*, but for all fu'.u e tm*, lot i posterity I” “Yes,” ej eu akd I. vencore, in a voice j vvhich rang through the House tike ihe whistle of a ].- j “Yes, trtdv ; and the gtnilenjfiD in u &tp j way, at this rate, tv hare big mtdiatiCg biter* him itr (fm hi ftie thr*H#h f' }