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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ~
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY il,
FOR governor:
111 HSI 111.1, V. ,SOIJ\M>Y.
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FOR CONGRES*S
- District—James Ij. Seward, of Thomas.
3d. “ James M. SruMli, of Upson.
4th Hiram Warner, of Meriwether.
sth ** Jno. 11. JLumpkni.
fflh “ Howell Cobb, ol Clarke.
Congressional Convention, *Jd District.
We suggest that the Democratic Congressional Conven
t ion for the Second District be held at Americus, on Wed
nesday, 11th July next. The Supreme Court will be in
session at that time in Americus. What say our Demo
cratic cotemporaries to this suggestion t The time and
place ought to be agreed upon at once. wtwtd.
Great Northern and Southern Mail#
The transfer of Southern mail to the lower
line of Railroads in the State of Georgiy has given rise to
unjust and unnecessary diatribes against the Post Office
department and some untrue statements as to the South
ern route. The Atlanta Republican is conspicuous \
for its hostility and inaccuracy. We notice and correct
a few of its “facts.’’ The Republican says:
“Now let us see how far and how much the lower
route is to gain in travel when the facts and advantages
of the two routes are understood by the public at large.
On the lower route passengers pass over the Waynes
boro road, tlm Central road, the South-western road,
the Muscogee road, and the Opelika road, live different
roads, and a drayage of two miles and passage of a
river in boats at Columbus, and the distance is some
twenty miles greater than by way of Atlanta. By way
of Atlanta passengers pass on the Georgia, West Point,
and a part of the Montgomery road, to reach Opelika.’’
There is an attempt here to create the impression \
that there are five changes on the lower and only three
on the upper route. This ia not true. The same cars
run from Augusta to Columbus. There is but one
change on the whole route.
It is directly charged that there is “a drayrge of two
miles and a passage of a river in boats at Columbus.”
There is “a drayage of two miles/’ but this will bo re
duced to 1-4 of a mile by the Ist October. There is
“no passage of a river in boats.” The passage is made
in large and commodious omnibuses, over as fine a
bridge ns there is in Georgia.
Again it is charged that “the distance is some 20
miles greater.” This is not true, as the following facta
and figures will show :
UrfER Route.
Augusta to Atlanta, 171 miles.
Atlanta to West Point, 88 “
West Point to Opelika, 22 “
281 miles.
Lower Route.
Augusta to Atlanta, 53 miles.
Way n esbor oto Mac on, 112“
Macon to Columbus, 100 “
Columbus to Opelika, 28 “
293 miles.
Difference in favor of upper route, 12 miles.
\Re publican further charges that “this upper
ould easily be run through from four to five hours
jthan the lower route. This can hardly be true.
.aynesboro road is the best in the State. The
will compare very favorably with the Georgia
have passed from Macon to Columbus,
is i. . ,
gall in five hours, and from Columbus to Opelika,
aß ( in one and one quarter hour. Can the Geor
o,“ta and LaGrange, and the upper part of the
£ ‘ry and West Point roads make better time ?
&s';v tot. That the Government acted wisely in
itttaLjiM* the route of the great Northern and Southern
jbe made apparent by the following statement
Jiblished in the Savannah Republican on the
of R. R. Cuyler, Esq , the able, honest and
yible President of the Central Railroad.
lyjifL.sentral Railroad Company and the Augusta
bm^W. Jfiesboro Railroad Company offered to carry the
mails at $237.50 per annum, with a provision that if the
Postmaster General would put on this lino the great
New York and New Orleans mail, they would carry,
so long as it continued on the line, at $l5O per mile per
annum. The Muscogee & South-western Roads from
Maeon to Columbus offered at S2OO per mile for single
eervioc, or S3OO per mile for double service, with proviso
to carry the great mail at half these rates.
“The Georgia Railroad Company bid $237.50 per j
mile, and the Lagrange Company also bid $237.50 per
mile for double her vice.
“The Postmaster General accepted all the bids, and I
gave to the line through Macon and Columbus the great j
New Orleans and New Yolk mail. That mail is car* ;
ried at $l5O per mile per annum, between Augusta •
and Columbus. i
“For the four years ending with June 1855, the Cen- j
tral Company has performed double service, daily, at
$175 per mile per annum, making annually $33,600.
Its pay for the coming four years is $29,100. The
Company considered that Macon and Columbus should
have the great mail passing through them and did not
hesitate to give up four thousand live hundred dollars
per annum, to obtain the carriage of that mail,’’
The Columbus Enquirer.
The last issue of this paper contains the Valedictory
■ of Hon. Joseph W. Thomas, who has conducted that
paper for about a year past with fairness, tact and
ability. Having committed himself to the Columbus
Movement in good faith, he could uol he whistled off
the track by the self constituted leaders of the Ameri
can parly who recently met in Council at Macon and
nominated Garnett Andrews for Governor ; hence his de
capitation. VY e take leave of him with regret. He
was an ornament and an honor to the profession.—
Ho is succeeded by that old political veteran, Samuel
Flournoy, Esq., w ell known bv the Democracy of Geor
gia as one of their sturdiest and most uncompromising
opponents. His opening address is in character with
his antecedents. He is quite as bitter against his “old
enemy” in hi* new character of Know Nothing as he
was in his famil ar impersonation of whig. Wo con
gratulate him, nevertheless, on his recovered health and
welcome him to the “held of his fame imd glory.”
The Speaking Saturday Night.
The Democracy re-aseeinbled in force at Temperance
Hill according to adjournment, and were entertained
until 10 1 2 o'clock by J N. It unsay, Esq., of Harris
eounty, aud Samuel Hall, Esq., of Mariou county.—
Both speeches were capital efforts, and added to the
deservedly high repetitions these gentlemen enjoy qr
forcible popular oratorp
Pennsylvania Politicians*
We the proceedings of the State Conven
tion of the Democratic and American Parties in Ptnn*
sylvania.
The American Convention or Council adopted the
Philadelphia platform except 12h resolution on the sub
ject of slavery, whieh waa repudiated by a vote of 143
to 30. The Missouri Compromise, by which slavery is
excluded from all territory north of 36 degrees 30
minutes, was then adopted by a vote of 133 to 53.
Pennsylvania Know Nothings have thus placed them
selves in hostility to the Nebraska-Kansas act and to
the admission of Kansas into the Union as a slave
State. ■-
Tire Democratic State Convention adopted a series
of retolutions “pretermiting any expression of opin
ion on the Nebraska-Kansas act” by a vote of 89
to 19.
| It will be seen that while the Know Nothings of
i Pennsylvania are in direct opposition to the South and
; her institutions, the Democrats do nothing to defend
i them. They are both alike unworthy of the confidence
of the Soulh. The Georgia Democracy, at least, are
pledged not to affiliate with any party occupying the
position of the Pennsylvania Democracy.
(From the New Yoih Herald.)
The Know Nothing State Convention of Fennsylva- j
nia.
Philadelphia, July 5.
The Know Nothing State Council, now- in session at
Reading, lias divided —Governor Johnston leading oil’
for a Northern party. A number of delegates are also
organizing a State Council on the Philadelphia platform. !
Governor Gardiner, of Massachusetts, has written a let
ter to Gov. Johnston, urging Pennsylvania to join the
Eastern wing of the party. There is much excitement
amoug the members. The Council has repudiated the
Philadelphia platform, by striking out the twelfth article.
Freesoilism destined to rule the State.
Reading, July 5.
The S.ate Council of-the American party has been in
session here for the last two days. The convention re
pudiatedthe twelfth section of the National platform by
143 to 30.
After this anew section, re-enacting the Missouri
Compromise, and opposing Slave States north of the
Compromise line, was adopted by a vote of 133 to 53.
The Eastern delegates stood 73 to 37. Thirty Western
men opposed the platform, as not strong enough.
Last night, resolutions calling a national convention at
Cincinnati, ou the Bth of January, on the Pennsylvania
platform, were offered. Ten delegates seceded.
The Couueution are now discussing resolutions which
will certainly pass.
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM ADOPTED——A BOLT.
Reading, July 6—lo P. M.
.
The platform adopted by the State Council .is that
adopted by the National Council except the 12th section,
for which the minority resolution proposed in the Nation
al Council was substituted.
Ten members only seceded, and they adopted the na.
liona! platform.
The Democratic State Covention.
Harrisburg, July 4.
j The delegates to the Democratic Stale Convention as
sembled in the hall of the House of Representatives at
ten o’clock, and were tailed to order by the Hon. Fend
rich B Wright, who nominated John B. Guthrie of
Pittsburg, as chairman pro tern. Thomas McGuire and
Mr. William B. McGrath were selected as secretaries.—
The morning session elicited no particular feature of in
terest, beyond the enrolment of the delegates, until the
double set from presented their claims. The
schism iu this county, it appears, is purely Cameron and
anti*Cameron, and two separate county conventions were
represented by delegates. After a very animated discus
sion, in which various resolutions were offered and with
drawn, relative to the taint of Know Nothingism, the
subject was finally disposed of by ejecting the Cameron
delegates by a very large majority, and afterwards re
ferring the anti-Know Nothing resolutions to the com
mittee on resolutions.
This action of the Convention virtually excludes Si
mon Cameron and his adherents from all communion
i with the Democratic party.
The Convention, on reassembling for an afternoon ses
s:on, organized by the appointment of lion. J. Glancy
Jones, for President.
A committee on resolutions was then appointed, rtpre
! t enting each Senatorial district, when the convention pro
j ceeded to vote viva voce for a candidate for Canal Com
| missioner. On the third ballot Arnold Plummer having
j received 77 votes and Wm. J. Campbell 46 votes, the
first named gentleman w'as announced as the candidate
of the Democratic party at the ensuing election. The
convention then adjourned until o’clock this evening,
when a very animated discussion is looked for on the
j resolution to be offered by the committee, of whieh I
i shall duly apprize you in connection with ether matters
j of interest.
Harrisburg, July 4.
The Democratic State convention to nominate a can
didate for Canal Commissioner, met here to-day—Hon.
J. Clancy Jones, presiding. Arnold'Plummer, of Ve
nango, received the nomination on the third ballot. The
Committee on Resolutions made two reports. .That ot
the majority avoids tho liquor law aud the Nebraska
I question, but the minority report takes strong ground on
; both subjects. The majority report was adopted by a
vote of 89 to 19, after being amended by the insertion of
| a resolution against negroes voting.
Foreign News—Very important I
i A despatoh was received in town last night, to the
effect that the Russians had met the allies, in the open
j field, before Sevastopol, and repulsed them with terrific
| slaughter.
Twenty thousand men killed on each side,
j Louis Napoleon has]had an attack of apoplexy.— IMont
j gomery Mail, July 9.
iiD
Good News from Below.—We are happy to learn
; that the only Know Nothing Council in Pulaski county has
| been disbanded. A reliable authority reports that every
i Democrat in Dougherty county who had been inveigled
| into the Councils of the Know Nothings has withdrawn,
i except one. YVe also have very cheering reports from
Dooly aud YY’erth counties. The Democratic column
; stands firm.
City Physician.
On the 9th inst,, the City Council elected W. YY.
j Flewellen, M. D., City Physician, to supply the vacancy
: occasioned by the resignation of Dr. R. H. Lockhart.
There were three ballotings, as follows :
Flewellen, 6 6 7 elected
Tuggle, 33 2
Hamner, 112
Blackford, 1
Ellison, - 1j -
YY*e congratulate Dr. Flewellen upon his Llusbing
| honors. At the last meeting of the Georgia Medical
j Convention he was elected Anniversary Orator ; he
’ wes chosen by the graduating class of Atlanta but yes
. terday to delivers Y T aledictory Address before them :
|he now beats all competitor* for city Physician. YY ell,
I we are happy to believe that all these houors fall upon
\ a worthy and capable man.
j Political Discussion at Girard. —Messrs. James
| F. Dowdell, the Democratic, and Thos, H. YYatts, the
Know Nothing, candidates for congress m the third dis
trict of Alabama, will address the people at Girard on
Wednesday, (to day) lith inst. Both the gentlemen
are able and eloquent advocates of the cause they es
pouse. YVe presume the hospitable citizens of Girard
will welcome any of tieir Georgia friends who may de
sire to witness the discussion.
Democratic Nominations.
Twiggs.—At a meeting'of the Democracy of Twiggs,
held on the 4th July, Eli S. Griffin, Esq., was nomina
ted for the Senate, and Henry Faulk, Esq., for the
House of Representatives. Delegates were also ap
pointed to attend a District Convention to nominate n
candidate for Congress in the 7th district.
New Music.— The Cascade Polka, by E. O. Eaton :
La Ghasse fufcrnale, by ITeuri Boblman ; The Swing
ing Polka, the Sparkling Polka ; Clarenoe : a ballad—
all by Thomas Baker. For sale by T. 11. Vauden Berg.
The Know Nothing Convention. —We learn from
the Enquirer that in the late Convention of this body,
Hon. Hines Holt of this city, received over 20 votes for
Governor. His name does not appear in the record of
the ballot. The Georgia Citizen says the “omission
was entirely accidental.”
New Tactics of the Know Nothings. —lt ie report
ed in the streets that the Know’ Nothings are now rop
ing the boys into the first degree without regard to the
usual tests. The policy is said to be to commit men
! by this movement, while all the honors of the party
j will be confined to the members of the higher degrees.
[COMMUNICATED ]
Chattahoochee Democratic Meeting.
The Democratic party assembled on Friday, 29th June,
to ratify the nomination of Herschel V. Johnson for Gov
ernor, and to endorse the resolutions of the Milledgeville
Convention. The meeting was one of the largest that we
have had since the exciting contest of 1850. Judge Rerifroe
was called to the chair. Mr. Parker was appointed Sec- j
retary\ E. G. Raiford offered resolutions approving the
nomination and endorsing the Milledgeville resolutions.—
The sense of the meeting was taken and the ratification
w r as unanimous and enthusiastic.
In answer to a call of the meeting, Janies Hamilton,
M. J. Wellborn and R. J. Moses, Esqrs., addressed the
meeting. A vote of thanks was tendered to these gentle
men, and the meeting was about to adjourn, when Thomas
Wooldridge proposed that Sanders Johnson, Esq..should be
heard ; this act of courtesy was freely extended, for although
Mr. Johnson has lately left the Democratic party and it
might have been deemed a little ungraceful in him todesire
to have the concluding speech in a Democratic meeting to
the principles and purposes of which he was avowedly op
posed, the Democratic party having no secrets from the
; people, accorded to Mr. Johnson and his friends an oppor
tunity of being heard.
When the speech was over, we had nothing to regret: it
consisted of a mass of vaped declamation, the principle top
ic of the speakers discourse being to show’ that he was not
• Know'Nothing, and that while the Democratic speakers
| were denouncing Know’Nothings, their ranks were swelled
! with them, the speaker asserting that of his own knowl-
I edge, more than half of the Know’ Nothings of Chattahoo
chee were then and there acting with the Democratic
party.
This brought E. G. Raiford to his feet, and then ensued
a scene that should be touched by the pen of Hooper, for
really, no one less gifted than the biographer of Simon
Suggs can do justice to the rise and fall of Know’ Nothing
ism in Chattahoochee county as depicted by the speaker.
Mr. Rayford said that as he had been a Know Nothing and
was now acting with the Democratic party, and as Mr.
Johnson had denied himself to be a Know Nothing and had
cast some imputations upon him, the speaker, as being a
Know Nothing in the Democratic ranks, he lelt that bew’as
bound to make an exposure of the advent of Sam in the
county of Chattahoochee, and the auspicies under which he
came. He said that in that county, Mr. Johnson was
Sam’s daddy, and ho was astonished to hear him deny his
offspring. Mr. Raiford went on to say that once upon “a
raw and gusty day,” Mr. Johnson told him that Sam w’as
among them, that he was powerful though yet but in the
gristle of his manhood, that old political parties quailed be
fore him, and wherever his mailed heal thundered upon
the earth his opponents fled before him like “chaff before
the wind that those who followed in the train of his tri
umphal car were sure to taste the sweets of victory (mean
ing the spoils of office) and that those w’ho opposed him
would be apt to be “no vvhare” w’hen the votes were rolled
up.
Mr. Rayfud said that he was opposed to tying on to this
strange God and so expressed himself, but when Mr. J. in
formed him that it was necessary for their self defence that
they should go in and learn his secret ways, that they
might the better guard against his evil doings, and that
they could quit him if they didn't like his company, he
agreed to join the order ; that they then had a meeting of
th Know Nothing party in Chattahoochee county ; there
were three of them, Mr. Raiford, Squire Mason and Mr.
Johnson ; that the Squire was elected Presideut ; that after
that, Sam began to spread himself, the boys began to come
in and the thing was evidently growing. About this time
Mi. Raiford became dissatisfied with some of Sam’s bad
habits and determined to withdraw, and in order to get the
thing perfectly dead, he burned up the records and consign
ed to the ashes every vestige (documentary) of the order.
About this time he remembered that he paid into the lodge
some dimes which he desired to get out again, and so he
called on the President and requested him to write Sam to
meet his friends again and pay the “silver o'er.” The Presi
dent replied that he had quit tho concern ; that lie, the
Squire, had gone down to Columbus the other day to
Squire McKendree to have the third degree administered,
but that bed be d —d if he could swallow any such oath,
and he would have nothing to do with calling them to
gether ; that from that hour the spirit of Sam had departed
from the county of Chattahoochee ; that now and then in
some dark corner or secret hiding places, unearthly echoes
might be heard reberating Sam, Sam, O ! Sam, but that the
substantial, living, conquering, proscribing God of the Know
Nothing brotherhood had since then been heard ofno more
in the venue of Chattahoochee, and that as to his where
abouts since his mysterious absquatulation with the funds
of the order the deponent knew not. Mr. Raiford further
said that it was strange to him (if Mr. Johnson was not a
Know Nothing) that Mr. J. should be so sensitive about
the 9th resolution of the Democratic Platform because it de
l neuuced the Know Nothings.
The last scene in the drama which was not announced
in the bill of the play, caused a terrible scattering among
“the discontents” of the meeting. Mr. Johnson’s ball had
re-bounded and hurt no body but himself; its effect on him,
however, if not fatal, was to say the least of it, debilitating;
no body seemed amused but the Democrats, and they, des
pite thoir usual magnanimity, could not restrain a quiet
smile, although the dying and the wounded of Sam’s little
househould seemed, in their very midst, to be suffering pains
intolerable. There is evidently a fund left, as the estate of
Sam in Chattahoochee amounting to sl.lO, and as he seems
to have left no next of kin, and his creditors have shown no
disposition to move in the matter, we do hope that the Or
dinary will see to the goods and chattels of Sam, and after
giving him deceut burial, report the balance to the Bxecu
tive as apart of the ©3cheat fund ; the intestate being an
alien to the sentiment of GEORGIA.
Democratic Meeting in Randolph County. -
Cuthbert, Ga., July 3, 1855.
According to previous notice, the democratic party, of
Randolph county, .met this day at the Court House for
the purpose of nominating candidates to represent this
county in the Legislature.
The meeting was organized by calling Lewis A. Goni
ke, Esq., to the chair, and Jacob H. Jeffries to aet as
Secretary. The chairjnao, iu an eloquent and impressive
address, exphined the object of the meeting and the dan
gers to be apprehended in the event of the suocess of
recently Secret oath-bound set of politicians, called Know
Nothings, or American party, whose tenets were anti-
Republican and violative of the principles of the American
Government, the paramount policies of’whose politics j
creed is at variance with the constitution as well as with
the Declaration of American Independence. At the con*-
elusion of Mr. Gonike’s address, five delegates from each
D’strict, who had been appointed by the people, come for
ward and balloted for a Senator aud two Representatives,
which resulted unanimously in favtfr of Theodore L #
Guerry, as candidate for Senate, and Manning G. Stain *
per and George W. Christie, as candidates for Represent
tatives, which nomination was adopted with entire unan
imity and applause by the’meet'mg.
Ou motion of George S. Robinson Esq., the following
resolutions were read and adopted by the meeting :
1 Resolved, That we approve and adopt as our own, the
platform of principles set forth by the Democratic party of
Georgia, at Milledgeville, on the sth of June last, and that
we cordially invite all the citizens of Randolph, without
distinction of party, to act with us upon that platform.
2 Resolved, That we regard religious liberty as one of
tho main bulworksof Atnericau freedom, and that we look
upon any attempt to proscribe a man on account of his
religion or birth place , not only as violative of the consti
tution of the United States, aud of the State of Georgia,
but subversive of the best interests and future welfare of
our Government.
3rd Resolved, That we heartily approve of the notnina
tion for Senator and Representatives to represent the
county of Randolph in the next Legislature.
4th Resolved, That the proceedings of this convention
be published in the Columbus Times & Sentinel and Al
bany Patriot.
Upon motion of Richard Davis, the following resolution
was adopted by the meeting :
Resolved, That the nominees of this Convention be re
quested to use their influence, if elected, to- secure new
counties upon the Eastern and Western portions of Ran
dolph, should the people generally residing in those por
tions of the county desire it. and should either of the nomi
nees he opposed to it, that he is recommended not to ac
cept the nomination.
Arthur Hood Es j., who was then called on by a unanL
mous voice of the meeting, made an able argument in sup,
pert of Democratic principles, and requested Whigs and
Know Nothings to point out the first objectionable feature
in the present Democratic platform of principles, and j
should those principles be acceptable, the right hand o
fellowship was ready to be extended by the Democratic
party ; r tliat this was not a Secret party, bound by oath to
support measures which were unconstitutional; its member
were not restrained under the solemnity of an oath to
proscribe any class of citizens on account of their religious
opinions, but all ti were expected to exercise their own free
| volition. Mr. Hood called upon Whigs, as they had no
| party organization, to join the Democracy on equal terms
! hut very few*, if any Southern men could object to :
j the Democratic platform, and the Southern people
! could never unite upon a better one. from
each district were appointed to make suitable arrange
ments for a public barbacue on the 14th inst., at which
time Governor Johnson has promised to address the peo
pie at this place,*’ On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
LEWIS A. GONIKE, Cha’m.
J. 11. Jeffries, Seo’y.
Further by the America.
Important from Sevastopol.
ANOTHER BLOODY BATTLE!
The Allies Defeated with [lmmense Lou.
BRITISH LOSS 4,000 MEN AND 76 OFFICERS.
GENERAL CAMPBELL KILLED,
Columbia, July 7.
‘I he accounts of the Foriegn news received up to this
date are scant but highly important.
The French and Englism Btormed*the Redan and'Mala
koff towers on the 13th ult., but were defeated with
enormous loss. The particulars of the action had not tran
spired, but it is stated that the English had lost no less than
4,000 men and 76 officers, including General Campbell.
la the British Parliament Mr. Roebuck had moved anew
| vote of censure ot the Ministry.
Halifax, July 5, 1855.
The Royal mail steamship America, Capt. Long from
Liverpool at 1 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, the 33d ult.,
arrived at this port yesterday afternoon, and sailed shortly
after for Boston, where she will be due at an early hour
on Friday morning.
The Allies had metwith a serious’oheck before Sebas
topol.
On the 18th June the French and Engiish’respectively
| attacked the Malakoff and Redan towers, but were both
repulsed with great slaughter.
According to one account the British loss alone was not
short of four thousand, including amonst the killed Gen.
Campbell, and upwards of seventy other officers.
Contradictory rumors prevailed, and it was thought that
the above was somewhat exaggerated.
la the British Parliament, Mr. Roebuck had moved a
vote of censure against the Ministry.
A large new French loan was to be immediately nego
tiated .
In the. Liverpool cotton Market depression had succeed
ed the buoyancy lately exhibited, and with a very limited
demand prices had considerably declined—in some eases
to the extent of one farthing per lh.
The week’s business has been restricted to some 24,000
bales - mostly for the trade.
Breadstuff 1 !, with the exception of Indian corn, which
had slightly advanced, ranged at about the rates current
on the departure of the Baltic.
Provisions generally were steady at former quotations.
The London money market was still Con.
sols had declined to 90|.
The War.
The Seige of Sevastopol—Repulse of the Allies—The
Mamelun Tower Re-taken by the Russians.
I/rd Raglan ! s despatch and the newspaper correspond
deuce are to hand, describ.ug the gallant capture of the
Mamelon and the quarries. The details are highly inter
esting, but the main facts have been already stated with ;
general correctness.
The allies have made an unsuccessful attempt to 6torm
Sevastopol. The most sinister rumors prevail in regard to
the transaction. By some accounts the English loss is
set down at 4,000 men, but the report is bel eved to be
much exaggerated.
The following are the only official “notifications of the
event: —
‘’Lord Panmure regrets to have to announce that he has
received information that the English troops attacked the
Redan, and the French the Malakoff towers, at daylight
on the morning of the 18th, without success, which has
hitherto attended our efforts. Both the French 3nd our
selves have suffered considerably. The names of the offi
cer* who have fallen will be forwarded immediately, but
it will bo impossible to receive complete returns of all the
casualities before the 30th inst., (June) at the earliest.”
Tho Moniteur announces that the government ha* re
ceived two despatches from Gen. Pelissier. The fir-?
dated the 17th, informs of operations concocted between
the General and his allies, and that the Turks and Chas
seurs made a recon noissance towards Aitodar, General
Bosquet occupying the Tchernaya. The next d;iy at
daybreak, the French and English were to attack the
Malakoff Tower. The second despatch, dated the 18th,
announces that the attack had failid, and that, although
the troops had showed the greatest ardor, and gained a
footing in the Malakoff Tower, General Pelissier was oblig
ed to order their retirement into the parallel. This was
effected with order, and without molestation by the enemy.
Private accounts, published in the London Standard ,
say the loss of British officers, in killed and wounded,
amounts to no less than seventy. Among the killed and
wounded are Gen. Sir .T. Campbell, Col. Yea and Col.
Shadforth. From the obstinacy and courage with which
the combat was maintained by the British at the Redan,
and the necessity of eventually retiring from the attack, the
slaughter on all sides has been immense ; and if the in
formation be correct, the loss in killed and wounded of the
British alone amounts to very little short of four thousand.
The greatest portion of the loss was experienced in a
ravine, where a powerful and unexpected battery was
opened on the tivops. There is reason to fear that the
loss has been very great, ,but Lord Palmerston said on
Friday night no additional information had arrived. The
allies lost terribly by the Russians springing a mine, and
during tho confusion they (the Russians) recaptured tho
Mamelon tower:
Previous advices were to the 17th, stating that there
had been smart firing on botli sides, but without any result
of importance.
All the camps are healthy excepting that at Batakla
va, where choler# prevails. The Sardinians are suffering,
and General Ma.imora, the younger, is dead.
Operations against Perekop.
A despatch from Bucharest, via Vienna, confirms tho
report than an expedition has been undertaken against
Perekop. Pelissier is exceedingly savage against the tele
graphic messages which Napoh on sends him. He is re
ported to have recently replied, that when anything oc
curs he will let the Emperor know-, but that he has not
time to act as a telegraphic operator. This, according to
rumor, accounts for the rePent absence of news in tho
Moniteur.
Russian Accounts of the Allies ’ successes in the Sea o f
Azof.
The Russian account of the successes ot the allies in the
Sea of Azoff is published.
Gortschkofl’confirms the success claimed by tho allies,
but says that operations against the Sea ot A/.ofl were ex
pected—that not having means to oppose the hostile fleets,
the garrison had orders to blow’ up the batteries and re
tire—that the grain stores burned by the allies were most
ly private property, and do not materially affect the supply
of the army, inasmuch,as anticipating such an attack, sup
plies were mostly conveyed by land, notwithstanding the
facilities offered by sea.
The correspondence represented horrible atrocities per*
petrated by the French and Turks at the capture ot
! Kertsch. A boat expedition is rumored to be preparing
to enter the river Don, but the Russians have the entrance
defended by twenty seven gun boats,
i JJGeu. Adujanow, Vice Hetman of the Cossacks of the
Don, has issued au address for their general enrolment
’ as militia.
j Reported Recapture of Anapa by the Russians — As.
fairs in the Principalities.
The Russian forces have advanced and encamped near
| Redout Kale. The Turks have evacuated Batouni and
t Chourouk Su. Nassif Pacha lias advanced with his shift
: to Kars.
A despatch from Varna, dated June 17, which was re*
i tarded on the way, says the Russians had made an unsuc
| eessful attack on Kars, and it was reported they had re
) taken Anapa.
The Austrian commander has proclaimed martial law
i iu Moldavia, but the Moldavian authorities refuse to pro
mulgate the order unless authorized by the Sultan.
1 Constantine Balshe. -on of the reigning prince, was
! killed at Jassy, in a duel, by the Austrian Major Stalberg.
i The eflair had caused considerable sensation in the Prin
| cipalities.
The Massacre at Mango Operations on the Baltic .
Admiral Baines, with a squadron ui v.-venteoii steamers,
! has left Kiel for the Baltic. The i* -t of the fleet lay eft’
I Seaker Island.
The recent attack on an English boat's c-r. w at ilango,
under a tiac of ti uee, causes much excitement in England,
Evidence rests solely on the authority of a negro, the sole
survivor, who asserts lie heard the Russian commander
i say, ‘‘l don’t care a damn for a flag of truce.’’ Unpre
| judiced supposition is, that the Russians su( j.t so the boat
! was taking soundings, as recently was done at Kcrtcli.
■ Admiral Dundas has communicated with tne Russian
! authorities and British government through ihe Danish
; Minister at St. Petersburg, and demands redress. The
Russian account in the Invalide Russ says six were kill*
, ed, and the remainder are prisoners. A despatch from
i Dantzic confirms that the officers of the boat, L : < ut. Gen*
j est, Dr. Eastins, Mr. Suiivan, atnl all >t the crew, except
J six, are prisoners.
Diplomatic Matters.
! Prince Gortscliakoff is appointed resident Russian
; Minister at Vienna, M. Titoff to Wurte-mbeig, and M.
; Fonton to Hanover. t
| Russian influence is very active even in the smalles
German Courts.
The Journal of St. Petersburg publishes the semi-offi
( cial discussion ou Count Walewski’s French circular of
j May 23d.
i The Journal also semi officially says that peace is pos
! sible,if France and England are walling, inasmuch os the
fourth point is morally, although not formally, fettled,
j and the other points, namely, the navigation of the Dan-
I übe and the evaevation of the Principalities, are also set
tled leaving only the Vienna third point to be arranged.
; Hali Pacha remains in office. A national monument it
i to be erected to the English dead at Scutari.
Significant. —A lecturer iu New York named Adams
has delivered two lectures there upon the anti-Kepubli
j canism of the Methodist Church. Do our Methodist
‘ friends not perceive in this the advance of that proscrip
tive spirit, which has begun to persecute the Catholic t
Health of Savannah. —The health report for the
week ending on the 3d, shows eleven deaths, nine of
j which were of children under four years of age. We can
offer uo better evidence than this of the continued good
health of the city. Thus far the season has been bound.
! ful, and a grateful sense seems to pervade all olasses tor
the blessings enjoyed.— Sac. Jour, Cour., bth.
Decrease of Immigration. — Recent statistics show that
| there has been a considerable falling off of immigration to
! the United States during this year. Jt has been stekd
that the Know Nothings kept the immigrants away, but
such does not scent to be the fact, as there has been a still
j greater percentage of reduction in the arrival at Quebec,
which amounted on the 10th instant to about five thou*
i sand, a decrease of over twenty thousand compared w ith
j corresponding period of hist year.
i We opine that the large enlistment bounty oft’ered in
| the United Kingdom has had the effect to cause many a
j fine fellow to become food for powder, who would other-
I wise have cast his lot on some of our lauds at the West,
j The aet in relation to encumbered estates also had a
very prosperous eff-rct in Ireland, and altogether, that un
happy country is in a better state than it has been at any
time during the past two or three ceaturits. These, w ith
other causes not so important, have caused the numbtr of
immigrants to be reduced this vt-ar. It is siiil large enough
; for all practical purposes.
Female Medical C llegk, Philadelphia. —There
are now thirty-five ladies attending lectures in t iis insti
tution. At lite last commencement the degree of M. D.
was conferred upon six ladies, graduates. Os the ten pro”
tcseoisin the College, four are ladies
Railroad Iron to be Made in Alabama.--A con
tract fur railroad iron has been ma de by Pi of. Garland
President of fit;# North East and South West Alabama
Rtilroad. The iron is to be manufactured along the line
of the road, and to bo furnished at the rate of S4O per ton.
So says the Tusealooso Obsrrter. If the figures be cor*
l'tCt, the price is certainly very low.