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The steamship Washington arrived at New
York on Thursday afternoon from South
ampton, which port she left on the 12th Sep
tember.
The Washington brings the important in
telligence of the tali of Sebastopol. On *h
Bth utl., the Allied forces attacked the de
fences ot Sebastopol, and the French succeed
ed m gaming possession ot the Malakoff
The English who attempted the Redan
were uwi successful during ihe night. The
Russians m Ibe exacerbation of despair, be
gan to Sii.k theil ships, blow up their maga
zines .no burn the.r City, and on the follow
ing mot oing Sebastopol was evacuated and
•ommu.iicaiton between the north ibi\a and
the town w as broken off.
The following telegraphic despatch, re
ceived by Lord Furniture from Gen Simpson,
appeared in the English morning journals of
the 11th inst:
“ S. bastopol is in the possession of the Al
lies. The enemy, during the night aud morn
iug, evacuated the soutli side, after exploding
their m ig azotes aud setting lire to the whole
of the town.”
All the men of war were burnt during the
. with the exceptiou of three steamers,
winch were plying about the harbors. The
bridge communicating with the north side is
broken.
Gen. Simpson repons that the casualties
in the attempt on the Redan were some
what heavy, but there was no general ofii
cer killed.
In a supplifftorit of the Moniteur the fol
lowing telegraphic dispatch, received by
the French Government from Gen. Peliasier,
appears:
K-arubeiu i aud the South part of Sebasto
pol no longer exist.
The enemy perceiving our solid occupation
of the M..ukutf, decided upon evucuatiug the
place alter U..vuig destroyed aud blown up by
mines ueaiij uli the detences.
Having passed the night in the midst of
my troop , i can assure you that everything
in the k ii .tbeluai is blown up, aud from w hat
1 coulu see the same must be the case in front
of our left tine of Hack. This immense suc
cess does the greatest honor to our troops.—
Everything is quiet on the Tchernaya.
The assault ou the Malakoff was made at
noon of the Bth iust. Its redoubts and the
Redan ot Cureeniug Bay were carried by
storm by the French soldiers with admirable
intrepidity to the shouts of “ Vive i’Empe
reur. The Redan of Careening Bay was
not tenable owing to the heavy tire of artil
lery v\hicti was poured upon the first occupi
er.- ... .hat work.
O uehoidmg the French eagles floating on
.ic .u.viukoff, Gen. de Sulles made two attacks
on tue Central Bastion, but did not succeed,
flic French troops returned to their trenches.
The losses were serious.
The plan of the battle appears to have been
as follows: The place was attacked in four
sections. The British troops attempted the
storming of the Redan, the French attacked
the Malakoff. The extreme right of tue
French made a diversion of the Little Redan,
and a united attack of the English, French
aud San’ niaus was made on the central bat
tery.
All the attacks were made simultaneously
with great spirit and energy,but the one which
was eminently successful was led by Gen.
Bosquet and Gen. McMahon, on the Malakoff'.
Bum the Redan and the Central Bastion were
at tunes in the hands of the storming parties,
but mi accurately did the guns ol the Rus
sians cover these, that as soon as the English
h..d gaiued possession of them, it was found
impassible to bold them.
l’uc following despatch is from Prince
Gortschakoff, dated the night of the 9th :
The garrison of Sebastopol, after sustain
ing an infernal lire, repulsed six assaults but
Could not drive the enemy from the Malakoff*
Tuwvr. Our brave troops who resisted to
the last extremity are now crossing over to
the northern part ol Sebastopol.
Tile enemy louml uOthmg in the southern
pail but blood-stained rums. On the ‘9th
Stptemocr me passage to the northern side
Was atcon.p siitai wan the loss of 100 men.
VV\ lei., 1 i'„.ei a say, 500 men, previously
Wounded, oa luc sou.burn side.
Tin ... tell.gence of the fall of Sebastopol
vv. s reco.veu ... L * u*.n with demonstrations
ol gitu. j..y. .vi .he various theatres and
pi..ccs oi pntn.c amusement the fact was offi
cially announced, ami the bauds at each place
immediately played tlie national anthems of
England ana France.
Throughout E grind the demonstrations
The Ei gl.sh hiss in the assault on the
Redan is estimated at 2,000 killed .md wound
ed.
i . A.nerica arrived at Halifax on Thurs
ilaj ... u nnu h ', uriugiufc turee duja laier in
teiugc.ee. Her news confirms that received
by the Washington and gives some addition
al details.
TUB SARDINIAN REPORT.
Gen Marmora writes that the Russians
have withdrawn from the town after having
set it ou lire, blown up ail the public build
ings und works of defence, and sunk their
last ships. The Sardinians have lostTo men
in the trenches.
FROM GEN. PELI9SIER.
Sept 9ih,B o’cik.P. M. —The enemy has sunk
his steam-vessels. •he work of destruction
continues under the fil e oi ourmortarsas mines
are successively sprung at different points. —
it in my duty to defer entering the place,
which has the appearance ol a great furnace.
Pi me Gortsch k If, being closely pressed
b\ >.u. hie, lias demanded au armistice to
carry .ts ui> wounded. The bridge near the
fort ot Si. P..ul has bt-eu destroyed by the
l>*. ‘ imuj? ■■■....,?g 01. .veil. IVeare
w .tclii. g tile movements ol the enemy on
the Telici nayu.
Fit M ADMIRAL BBUAT.
Crim. a, Sept, io, li P. M.—l inspected
10-u \ Seo .atopol l.d lis lines Ol deletiee.—
Tbe n.u.d ca... ot lorm au exact picture ot
our viet. ry—me lull extent of it cuu only be
under.si od by ail examination of the place it
self. The multiplicity of works of defence
aud tue material means applied thereto, ex
ceed by far anything seen in the history of
the war. The capture of the Malakoff’ bus
placed m the hands of the Allies a large
amount of material and immense establish
ments; the importance of which it is not pos
sible to state exactly. To-morrow the allied
troops will occupy the Karabeluaii and the
town, and uuder their protection an Anglo-
French Commission will be occupied with
making out a return of the material aban
doned to us by the enemy. The exultation
... our soldiers is very great.
•September 12th : The enemy has destroyed
Hie remainder ol his fleet. Nothing now re
mains afloat.
the allies are hastening preparations in
case of Gortschakoff attempting to reach
Perokop or to unite with Liprandi.
RUSSIAN REPORT.
The Russian paper, the Brussels Nord,
says the resolution of Prince Gortschakoff
exhibits the energy of a great. Commander
It waves Russia from an inextricable position,
into which a false interpretation of u point ol
honor would have thrust her. The Russian
army centra ted north of Sebastopol will
henceforth have that unity of movement and
action winch until now it has wanted. The
Sebastopol of the South is replaced by Sebas
topol ol ibe North—a formidable position,
bristling with innumerable guns which a
compact army henceforward will defend.—
Impartial history will do justice to Prince
Gortschakoff’, who, by making a momentary
sacrifice, aud avoiding useless effusion ol
blood, has preserved for Russia an army
trained to war by a struggle of a year’s du
ration, and placed taat army in a position
which enables bim to command tbe situa
tion.
TFIE BALTIC.
A dispatch from Dantzic, under date of the
14th iiisiaut, suys that the block ships are
expected to be * ordered home on Monday
next.
Prince Frederick of Prussia, is at present
on a visit to Queen Victoria.
The Times suggests the celebration of a
day of national tlia..k.>giviug on account of th
fall of Sebastopol.
It is rumored in the clubs to-duy that the al
lies found 1,‘20U guns within the lines of Sebas
topol, aud also ihut the Russiaus are falling
back upon Baktsch.serai, but rumors from
Pans ure to the effect that Prince Gortscha
koff w 11 certainly hold the uorth side of Se
ba ;topol to the last extremity. From the
Same source we learn tbe allied Admirals
have sent a dispatch, stating that it ts not
expedient to enter the burbot of Sebastopol
unto Fort Constantine shall have been silenc
ed.lt is conjectured that the Allies will attack
Fort Constantine from Fort Alexander and
Artillery Bay.
DENMARK.
A leterdated Berlin. Aug, 4, nays: Aus
tria is said to huve offered her mediation to
Denmark, in her difference with the United
fcjtutea* Doubts are eutorUutied as to whether
SAVANNAH DOLLAR NEWS
the United States will consent to the com
p: .mbc which Denmark intends proposing,
of lowering the Sound dues generally, but j
Prussia would be quite ready to accept it.
RUSSIA.
A telegraphic dispatch from St. Petersburg j
states that the Czar intends leaving there on
the 13 h for Moscow. At Warsaw he will be ;
attended by Count Nesselrode, who will it is (
thought, arrange an interview for him with
the King of Prussia.
FRANCE.
On the night of the Bth inst., while the Em
peror of the French was at the door of the
Theater Italian, at the moment the carriage
containing the ladies of honor of the Empress
stopped at the entrance of the theater an in
dividual who was standing on the trottoir
discharged, without taking aim, two pocket
pistols at the carriage. No one was hurt.
The man, who hau more the appearance of
a maniac than an assassin, was immediately
arrested. The name of the individual arrest
ed is Beilewarre. He is about 22 years of
age, and was burn at Roueu. When 10 years
of age he was sentenced to two years impris
onment for swindling.
ENGLAND.
The funeral of the late Mr. Feargus O’Con
nor took place at Kensal Green Cemetery on
the afternoon of the 10th ult., and was at
tended by a large multitude of his friends and
the supporters ol his political principles. A
complimentary address was delivered by Mr.
Junes, late of Liverpool, to the people assem
bled around thegrave. It was estimated that
not less than from 15,000 or 20,000 persons
were present at the cemetery, all of whom
vuietly separated at the close of the proceed
ings. *
Queen Victoria has sent an address of
thanks to her army, and directs Gen. Simp
son to congratulate Marshal Pelissier on his
brilliant victory.
THE LATEST.
[By telegraph from London to Liverpool.]
London, Saturday, Sept. 15, 11 o’clock A.
M.—The Paris correspondent of the Times
says it is reported that 25,0)0 men have em
barked at Baluklava fur the uorth of Sebasto
pol ; also, that the Russians are in full re
treat toward Perekop.
At one o'clock P. M., on the 15th ult., the
America passed the Collins steamer Pacific,
Capt. Nye, from New York ou the sth ult.,
goiug iuto Liverpool.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGECE.
In the English Money Market the animation
at the receipt of the news of the fall of Sebas
topol was very great. Consols for money
closed at 91 to for money, and 90% to 91
for account. Exchequer bills (March 11,) to
47. Foreign securities showed a slight ad
vance, but there was subsequently a reaction.
In the Corn market the demand for new
English Wheat was brisk, at an advance of
fully 2s. per qr. Foreign Wheat command,
ed a steady sale at 2s. advance. Prime coun
try Flour had also advanced in price. There
j was an improved demand for Barley at au
i advance of Is per quarter.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Messrs. Brown, Shipley & Cos. report the i
j market easier in consequence of the increased {
I stringency in the money market, and the ad
j ’-aiiced rate of discount by the Bank; prices, I
j however, were not quotably lower. Messrs, j
! Dennistoun A Cos. say that the market open
| ed at an advance of %and but afterwards rece
j ded and became dull at last week’s prices.—
! The sales of the week amounted to 46,000
bales, of which speculators took 6000, and ex
| porters about the same quantity. The sales
! of Friday were 6000 bales.
The following were the authorized quota
; lions : New Orleans Fair, 7%; Middling, 6%;
Uplands, lair, 6; . ; Middling, 6% ; Mobile,
| lair, 6%; Middling, 6 3-16; Ordinary to Good
| Ordinary, 5%(£5~ 4 ; l .ferior, 4@5%. Messrs.
Dennistoun A Cos. quote Uplands, fair, 6%.
Tbe stock on hand amounted to 514,000
bales, of which 329,000 were American.
LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET.
The quotations vary materiilly, but most
firms report the market suffer and in some
instances slightly u’gher, with a buoyant
tone at the close, especially for wheat, which
is generally quoted at an advance of Id. to
2d. Brou n, Shipley & Cos. call the market
dull, ana other circulars say that it is quiet
aud unchanged. Western Canal Flour is
quoted by Brown, Shipley A Cos. at 40s. a
415.; Philadelphia and Baltimore, 41s. a 425.;
Ohio, 425. a 42. Od. White Corn, 455. ; Yel
low Corn, 395. Gd. a 4us.; Mixed, 395. a 395.
Od. White Wheat, 12s. 3d. a 12s. 7d.; Red,
1 Is. 6u. a Us. 9d. The weather had been
very favorable and the crop accounts were of
a satisfactory character.
ENGLISH VIEWS OF THE VICTORY.
The London Times of the 12th has the fol
lowing article on the present position of af
fairs in the Crimea. It will be observed that
“ The Thunderer” is far more sanguine of the
ultimate success of the Allied forces than it
was some few weeks since. This great aud
almost unexpected success of the Alliqp has
given a more hopeful tone to the English
journals; aud even those which have been
most violeut in their attacks upon the gov
ernment, have ceased hostilities while they
rejoice over the victory.
The first question which presents itself to
our consideration, after we have given ut
trunce to these feelings of exultation and of
gratitude which the glorious termination of
tlie siege of Sebastopol excites at this moment
throughout die Empire, relates to the military
consequences of this victory, and to the strate
gettcai measures best calculated to bring the
campaign and the war to a speedy and tri
umphant termination. A tremeudous blow
lias been struck at the military power and
fame of Russia, and her naval forces in the
Black Sea huve been annihilated.
The courage, the preserverance, and the in
cessant labors of the allied armies have al
ready disposed of the arguments of those
who contended that Sebastopol was impreg
uaule until it should be invested, and that the
Russian soldiers were invincible within its re
doubts. li now appears from Admiral Bruat’s
despatch that the mortar boats of both squad
rons took part in the attack, aud threw shells
against the marine batteries, so that from the
heights of lnkermanu to Streletzka Bay the
whole fortress was encompassed with a storm
of fire, aud au enormous number of men must
have been engaged in the works.
Nevertheless, upon the final establishment
of Gen. Bosquets division of the French
army in the Malakoff’ tower, Prince Gort
schakoff instantly proceeded to execute a pre
arranged plan for the destruction and evacua
tiou of the town. All that night the harbor
was illuminated by the lurid glare of burning
ships, and from time to time the explosion of
vast magazines rent asunder enormous piles
of masonry, while au all-devouring conflagra
tion swept like the scourge of Heaven over
the devastated city.
Sebastopol has perished, like Moscow, at
the hands of her defenders, while her success
ful assailants witnessed the awful spectacle
unscathed. Means of retreat had been secur
ed by a long bridge of rafts across the great
harbor, and for many hours large masses of
troops were removed by this passage to the
northern side; hut at 8 o’clock in the morn
ing of the 9th this communication was stop
ped, the whole of the works and town be
ing then evacuated, if, as is probable, anv
of the Russiaus remained on the south bank
after that hour, they must either have perish
ed in the lire or fallen into the hands of the
besiegers.
About 500 of the wounded, we know, re
mained m the Fort St. Paul, und for them
au armistice was asked ; but, with their ac
customed indifference to the preservation ol
life und property, the Russians were deter
mined to destroy the city rather than to
capitulate, aud they executed their design.
The positiou of Prince Gortschakoff’s army,
after the main body had effected its retreat
across the harbor, was therefore as follows:
His extreme right, consisting of the corps
most actively engaged in the defence of the
place, rests upon the Severnaia Work, or
Star Fort, and holds the strongly intrenched
positions on the north shore, where, no doubt,
considerable preparations have been made
for this emergency, llis centre covers the
Belbec, and is protected in front by the field
works thrown up along the ridge of Inker
mann.
i1 is left wing consists of Liprandi’s corps,
occupying the ground from Mackenzie’s Farm
to the heights of Altador on the Backshiserai
road. No uttempt was made by the relieving
army under Liprandi to direct a diversion
during the assault of the Bth, and the severe
defeat of the 10th of August appears to have
satisfied the enemy that the lines of the
Tchernaya were not* to he carried. But the
result of the general assault and the occupa
tion ol the southern side by the Allies en
tirely changes the strategical positions of the
combatants, also the objects of the cam
paign.
The struggle for the possession of Sebas
topol is at an end. That prize is in our hands,
and us the defence of the fortress und the
harbor was the grand object of the enemy,
they have nothing left on that spot to contend
for. The mere occupation of the north side
of the port is a barren advantage, for though
it might hold u garrison, it cannot shelter a
defeated army ; aud it is obvious that after
tho failure of the maiu object, all the ability
and geueralship of the Russians will be re
quired to save the whole body of ttieir forces
i tn tlie Crimea from destruction.
We therefore infer that the northern forts
will either be held for a time by a limited
garrison, or more probably, altogether aban
doned, in the hope of saving the army.—
Never was an army m a more critical posi
tion. They are confined within a peninsula
which affords them no other fortified posi
j tiop, no sustenance for the troops, and no
Water beyond a certain line. The sea, cover
| ed with hostile vessels, surrounds three sides
of the theatre of war, and the fourth is sepa
rated from the Russian base of operations by
steppes und marshes.
The allied armies already occupy strong
positions at Eupatoria and Yenikale, which
can be reinforced in a few hours by sea, so as
to threaten the Russians in their fiank and
rear; and while it is impossible for the ene
my to hold his ground in the south of the
Crimea—for which, iudeed, there is now no
further object—to retreat iu this season
across the country is a formidable undertak
ing, while the loss of a battle in the open
field would be absolute destruction. The
Russians are in a trap, from which the Chan
gar road and the Isthmus of Perekop ure the
only means of escape, and even there their
communications may possibly be intercepted.
No doubt all these contingencies have beeu
foreseen; Prince Gortschakoff’s plan of cam
paign has long since beeu made. Judging,
therefore, from the accustomed tactics of the
Russian army, as well as from the extreme
difficulty of his present position, we incline
to the opinion that be will adopt the course
ot a general and immediate retreat.
To hold the Crimea without Sebastopol,aud
eveu after the harbor of Sebastopol itself has
been transformed by conquest into the base
of operations of the invading armies, would
be a bootless and unprofitable task, and the
danger is greatly aggravated by the fact that
the whole body of the Allies, with unlimited
means of naval transport at their command,
will shortly be at liberty to advance upon
any part of the peninsula which is accessible
from the coast.
These immediate consequences of their own
success in the siege operations -must have
been considered by the allied general*, und
the moment is now arrived when they may
proceed to open the campaign of which the
reduction, of Sebastopol was the first prelim,
inary. That field operations of this nature
have long been contemplated by the allied
governments is obvious from the large cav
alry force they have continued to send to the
Crimea. The British army alone can bring
upwards of 3,000 sabres and lances into the
tield, and the French cavalry is still more
numerous and impatient of the inaction to
which it has hitherto been condemned.
Hitherto the contest in the Crimea has been
confined to one single object, und with the
exception of the action of the 20tb of Septem
ber on the Alma, and the flank inarch to Ba
laklava; it has been a war without a single
tactical movement. Gen. Pelissier lias shown
iu our humble opinion, very admirable mili
tary qualities since he assumed the command
and he has been ably supported by Gen.
Simpson; but the present state of our affairs
! deserves to call forth abilities of a still higher
! and more brilliant order.
| The Russian army in the Crimea is proba
! bly not superior to the forces of the Allies in
j numbers, aud it is measurably inferior to
them in resources aud supplies, as well as in
those moral qualities which at once constitute
and enhance Xhrjirestige of victory. On every
occasion ou which they have encountered an
enemy in this war—whether Turks, French,
English or Sardinians —the fortune of war has
deserted the Russian eagles. For them to ad
vance is impossible, fur the whole coast is
guarded by the enemy, and no Russian ves
sel floats on those waters.
The stronghold on which the Czars had ac
cumulated during the last two reigns an in
calculable amount of warlike stores for the
subjugation of the East has been reduced to
a blood-stained rum by tbe troops who were
glad to escape with life from its burning
walls; and the question od which the atten
tion of Europe is now fixed is so longer the
fate of Sebastopol, but how is the Russian
army to escape from the Crimea; or to main
tain itself there ? We trust that no consider
ations whatever will prevent the allied gen
erals from giving the most vigorous and im
mediate effect to the great advantages they
have won.
Beyond the time absolutely required for
the removal of the wounded no armistice
should be conceded. To give the campaign
its full effect its success must now be ren
dered absolute and complete. The Russians
are a people who will deny to the last
that any advantage lias been gained over
them, and Prince Gortschakoff’ boasts in his
account even of this sanguinary defeat that
he was extremely successful in carrymgofhis
army.
Fighting, as they are, in closed lists, with
out the means of escape, the defeated Rus
sian army should be compelled to lay down
its arms, or to light a general action, which
would crown the series of our success by a
still more decisive victory. The Peninsula
itself is besieged and well nigh invested by
our lieets and armies, and if the command of
a single road be lost the whole line of retreat,
and the ouly line by which supplies and com
munications can reach the Russians, is gone.
Such we take to be the relative position of
the belligerents in tlie Crimea, and, with the
means of action at the disposal of the French
and English Generals, we have confident
hopes of a glorious result.
Important to Shipowners. —The fifth sec
tion of the Registry Act,approved December,
31, 1792, requires that “every owner resideut
within the United States, of any ship or ves
sel, to which a certificate of Registry may be
granted, (in case there be more than one
such owner,) shall transmit to the Collector
who may have grauted the same, a like oath
or affirmation with that herein before direct
ed to be taken and subscribed by the owner,
on whose application such certificate shall
have been granted,and within ninety days af
ter the same may have been so granted,which
oath or affirmation may, at the option of the
party, be taken aud subscribed, either before
the said Collector, or before the collector of
some other district Court of the United States
or of a Superior Court of original jurisdiction
of someone of the States. Aud if said oath,
or affirmation shall not be taken, subscribed
and transmitted, as herein required, the cer
tificate of registry, grauted to any such ship
or vessel, shall be forfeit aud void.”
Iu the instructions of the Secretary of the
Treasury, which were issued on the 2d of
July last, the collectors of the different ports
in the United States were notified that the
law of 1792 is still in force, and the duty of
seeing its provisions executed, was strictly
enjoined on all officers of customs. It ap
pears, however, that here, and in many other
places, but little attention had been paid', for
many years, to the mode of registry above
prescribed,and on this accouut it was deemed
inexpedient by Mr. Redfieid, the Collector
of New York,that a sudden transition should
lie made to extreme severity, which would
have had all the apparent odiousness of au
arbitrary revival of a dormant enactment.—
Mr. Redfieid accordingly wrote to the Secre
tary of the Treasury, requesting that his in
structions might be modified. The conse
quence of his representations has been, that
the Collector has this morning received a
letter from the Secretary of the Treasury,
authorizing him to give notice, immediately,
to all parties who have not complied with the
provisions of the sth section of the act of
1792, that their Registers have become forfeit
and void, and that unless they take out new
Registers, and fully comply with the require
ments of the law, within ninety d/iysfrom the
date of such notice, their vessels, will, after
that time, be charged with tonuago duties, on
every entrance from a foreign port. This
modification of the instructions of July 2d
includes the relief sought for by tbe Collector
fur our shipowners. Y. dour. Com.
Condition of the Free Blacks at the
North.—Of all tbe papers in the world, we
should have expected the New York Tribune
to be the last to represent the true condition
of the free blacks oi” the North. And yet,
even that violent Abolition sheet, in its issue
of Saturday last, thus portrays the character
of this class of the Northern community :
“Nine-tenths of the free blacks have no idea
of setting themselves to work except as the
hirelings and servitors of white men ; no idea
of building a church, or accomplishing any
other serious enterprise except through beg
gary of the whites. Asa class, the blacks
are Indolent, improvident, servile and liceu
tiu|j| ; and their inveterate habit of appealing
to white benevolence or compassion, when
ever they realize a want or encounter a diffi
culty, is eminently baneful and enervating.—
If they could never more obtain a dollar until
they shall have earned it, many of them
would suffer, and some perhaps starve ; but
ou the whole, they would do better and im
prove faster than may now be reasonably
expected.”
New Post Offices. —The Postmasr Gteene
ral has established the following new Post
Offices in this State and Florida :
Guy’s, Ware Cos., Georgia; Win. Guy,
postmaster.
Pine Mountain, Rabun Cos., Georgia; Jas.
Billingsly, Jr., postmaster.
Aspaluga, Gadsden Cos., Florida; L. C.
Armistead, postmaster.
Mount Pleasant, Uadsdeu Cos., Florida;
Gen. W. Fogg, postmaster.
Hanging In Old Times.
A correspondent of the Bostou Transcript
?ives the following incidents:—While John
lancock was Governor of the Commonwealth,
Rachel Whall was hung in Bostou for high
way robbery. Her offence consisted of
twitching from the hand of auother female a
bonnet, worth perhaps 75 cents, aud running
off with it. The most urgent applications for
her pardon were unsuccessful. I metitiou
this not to the disparagement of the Governor,
lie doubtless acted from a sense of duty—
thinking it best for the community that the
laws of the land—however frightfully severe
—while they were laws—should be executed.
A lad of eighteen years of age was hung in
Salem lor arson, during the administration of
Governor Strong, similar appeals iu his favor
beiug considered and overruled. Yet the in
telligence and humanity, alike of the Execu
tive and of the Council, notwithstanding the
result arrived at in both these instances, were
unquestionable.
, Within the same period, a gentleman of
this city saw a girl oi 17 hung in London for
stealing a silver cream pitcher. Edward Vaile
Brown was hung in Boston for burglary com
mitted in the house of Capt. Osias Goodwin,
iu Charter street, and stealing therefrom sun
dry articles. I once owned a set of the Old
Baily Trials, (1775, 1825,) embraced in a
series of perhaps 58 quarto volumes. The
earliest ot these volumes containing the de
tails of the unfortunate Dr. Dodd, for forgery,
whose touching appeal lor mercy, here recor
ded, was fruitlessly enforced by the splendid
eloquence of Johnston. In a late volume,
long after the commencement of the present
century, eight separate capital convictions are
recorded us one day’s job of a single tribunal,
the culprits being all boys’and girls between
the ages of ten aud sixteen, and their offences
petty thefts.
Ouc case I remember of peculiar judicial
atrocity. A young girl of 17 was indicted
for stealing a roll of ribbon worth three shil
lings. The prosecutor’s testimony was to this
effect: “The prisoner came iuto my shop and
bought some ribbon. 1 saw her secrete this
piece also. I personally knew her, and was
in the most friendly aiyl sociable terms with
her. When she left the shop I accompanied
Lor, and her i*,y arm, which she ac
cepted. We chatted together. As we reach
ed the corner of a street leading to the Bow
street office, I turned toward it. She said
she was going in another direction, and bade
me good morniug; I said toiler, ‘No! you
are going with me ! I saw you steal a piece
of my ribbon!’ She immediately implored
me for God’s sake to overlook it, and restored
to me the article, 1 said to her that I had
lost mauy tilings in this way, and was re
solved to make her an example —that I was
determined to have her life !’ and he got it.
1 can never forget how my blood boiled us 1
read the testimony of this cold hearted wretch.
In view of the judgment of a merciful God far
rather, it seemed to me, would I have beeu in
the place of that poor, frail, erring girl, even
on the scaffold, than iu the place of her heart
less accuser.
1 rose from tlie perusal of these volumes,
horror-struck with the continuous record of
unconceivable legal cruelty. It appears to
me that the 70,000 hangings in the reigns of
Ilenry VIII. were matched by an equally long
list of persons condemned to be hung in the
reign of George 111. Since this time much
has been done in England by Romilly,
Brougham, Mclntosh and Sidney Smith, and
as much—perhaps more—by kindred philan
thropists on this side of the Atlantic.
California Waterfalls.
J. M. Hutchings writes to the Mariposa
Gazette a description of the Yo-Semity Val
ley aud its waterfalls. Mr. Hutchings, Mr.
Ayrus, and Mr. Millard, both of San Fran
cisco, and Mr. Stair, of Coulterville, for a
party to visit the pluce named. They appear
to have started from an Indian village on the
Fresno, where they procured two Indian
guides. Mr. Hutchings says :
From Mr. Hunt’s store, we kept an east of
north course, up the divide between the
Fresno and Chowchilla valleys; thence de
scending towards the south fork ol’ the Merced
river, aud winding round a very rocky point,
we climbed nearly to the ridge of the* middle
or main fork of the Merced, and descending
towards the Yo-Semity valley, we came upon
a high point, clear of trees, from whence we
had our first view of this siugular and ro
mantic valley; and, as the scene opened iu
full view before us, we were almo-t speech
less with wondering admiration at its wild
and subliup grandeur. “What!” exclaimed
one, at lellgth, “ have we come to the end of
all things Y’ “ Can this be the opening of
the Seventh Seal?’’ cries another. “This
far, very far, exceeds Niagara,” says a
third.
We had been out from Mariposa about four
days, and the fatigue of the journey had
made us weary and a little peevish ; but when
our eyes looked upon the almost terrific gran
deur of this sceae, all, all was forgotten. “1
never expected to behold so beautiful a
sight!” “ This scene alone amply repays me
for my travel!” “ I should have lost the
most magnificent sight that I ever saw, had I
not witnessed this!” were exclamations ol
pleasurable surprise that fell from the lips of
all, as we sat down to drink in the varied
beauties of this intoxicating and enchanting
scone.
On the north side, stands one bold, perpen
dicular mountain of granite, shaped like au
immense tower. Its lofty top is covered with
great pines, that by distance become mere
shrubs. Our Indian guides called this the
“ Capitan.” It measures, from the valley to
its summit, about two thousand eight hun
dred feet.
Just opposite to this, oil the south side of
the valley, our attention was first attracted
by the magnificent waterfall, about seven
hundred feet in height. It looked like a long fc
broad feather of silver, that hung depending
over a precipice; aud, as this leathery tail of
leaping spray thus hung, a slight breeze
moved it from side to side, aud as the last
rays of the setting sun were gilding it with
rainbow hues, the red would mix with the
purple, and the purple with the yellow, aud
the yellow with the green, and the green
with the silvery sheen of its whitened foam,
as it danced in space.
On rushed the water over its rocky bed,
and as it reached the valley, it threw up a
cloud of mist, that made green and flourish
ing the grass, and flowers, and shrubs that
slumbered at the mountain’s base—while
towering three thousand feet above the valley
stood the. rugged and pine-covered cliff's,
that in broken and spiral peaks gird.e iu the
whole.
Passing further up the valley, oue is struck
with the awful grandeur of the immense
mountains on either side —some perpendicu -
lar, some a little sloping. Oue looks likfypj
lighthouse, another like a giant fcapital of
immense dimensions; allure singular, aud
surmounted by pines.
Now we crossed the river, and still advanc
ing up the valley, turned a point, and before
us was an indescribable sight—a water!all,
two thousand two hundred feet in height—
the higest in the world. I rushed over the
cliff's, aud with oue bold leap falls one Uhou
sund two hundred feet, then a second of five
hundred feet more, then a third of over five
hundred feet more—the three leaps milking
two thousand two hundred feet.
Standing upon the opposite side of the val
ley, and looking at the tall pines below, the
great height of these falls can at a glance be
comprehended.
About teu miles from tlie lower end of the
valley there is another fall of not less than
fifteen hundred feet. This, with lesser falls
and a lake, make the head of the Yo-Semity
Valley, so that this valley is about teu miles
in length, and from a half to one mile in
width; and although there is good land
enough for several farms, it cannot be con
sidered, upon the whole, as a good fanning
valley. Speckled trout, grouse, aud pigeons,
arc quite numerous.
Independence of Nova Scotai.— ln the
late Legislature of Nova Scotia, Hou. Joseph
Howe, of Halifax—a member of the Cabinet
—made a speech in favor of the independence
of the Province from British rule. He said
that the British Americans have but a slight
chance to rise iu the army and navy; that
companies have for thirty years beeu allowed
to monopolise the mines and minerals of Nova
Scotia; that the interest of the colonies may
be seriously affected by the decision of the
mother country to engage in wars in which
they are not consulted ; that there was a fail
ure of government to support the schemes
for railroads throughout Nova Scotia; that
the colonist has not the same advautageas an
Englishman in attaining political eminence ;
that but little attention is shown to colonists
in England, Ac., Ac.
A Windfall. —We are informed that a
young lady, one of the assistant teachers in
the Webster Grammar School, of Cambridge,
has received information from the proper
authorities in Para, Brazil, of the death, at
that plaee, of a Mr. S., who has left property
to her, by will, to the amount of $70,000. —
This bequest, so unexpected, comes from it
disappointed suitor or the lady, who, in de
spair at his rejection som e eight years ago,
wandered away to South America, and made
a fortune t here. The teacher referred to is a
lady of estimable character, who has many
qualities of head and heart, that endear her
to a largh circle of friends who will rejoice at
her good fortune. — Telegraph.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1855.
S E BASTOPOL..
As Described by an American.
The Nashville, (Tenn.,) Gazette publishes
a letter from Sebastopol, written by Dr. John
H. Morton, of Williamson county, who is
prosecuting his profession in the service of
the Czar, iu Sebastopol. We make rome in
teresting extracts from the letter, which was
written at intervals betweeu the 4th and Bth
of July:—
* * * * * * *
You have no idea how much destruction
one bomb will create, if it be a large oue,aud
tbe French are helping us to them at present
of enormous dimension and in considerable
quantities; the effect of which is, we have
onsiderable numbers of men wounded and
killed every day.
I had formed a very erroneous view of Se
bastopol from the different drawings I had
seen of it. You remember one we had which
represented the city as if it was situated on a,
level plain, Ac. You a 3ee a little engraving
but very bad, and one that docs not represent
one half the ground, over this sheet of paper
Nothing but a sight with the natural eye can
give a man any idea of the place anv way cor
rect. It is naturally a very strong place, but
I cannot see that the Russians have any ad
vantage in the location of ground, the hills
all around on the south side are equally as
tall as those of the city, ami those that arc
held bv the Russians. One thing, they have
a decided advantage in surrounding com
pletely, as they do, three sides of us, and with
their vessels half the other side. All their
tiro is concentrated to one point while that of
the Russiaus has to be divergent in all direc
tions. You see the advantage at once that
this gives them; when our men are off” duty
they are nearly exposed to the same danger
as when on, because the bombs and cannon
balls are whizzing and bursting all over the
city all the while. When the Freuch, on the
other hand, ure off duty, they go back to
their camp, which is situated without shot of
any of our guns.
I believe that there is at least half as many
killed in the city while off duty, as there is
at the bastions at the present time. During
the time that they are attempting to destroy
a battery, of course more are killed at the
bastions. All the fighting, save that which
is done during an assault or sortie, is done
from behind the bastions. You know some
thing of the construction of a bastion, 1 sup
pose. Tt is nothing more than an embankment
of dirt, with places cut through for cannon.
The French have the same as we do, aud in
this particular we have no advantage over
thenqand then they have a decided advantage
ot us in their artillery, which will carry much
further than ours; we have excellent artillery
though, but it is very heavy. Another thing
they have that does a great deal of execution
—the Minie rifle. You have heard it spoken
of in high terms, but its value as an instru
ment of war has never been spoken of in
terms too high.
We lose a great many men from them, aud
these French know so well how to take ad
vantage of every little rise in the ground to
make a rifle pit; four or live of them get in
here, and one shoots while the others load
lor him, and they do a vast deal of execution
to artillerymen. These pits are thick all
round the city, aud you may shoot at them
with a cannon, but with little effect, for as
soon as he fires his rifie he dips down in his
hole,and you see nothing more until you hear
the crack of his rifle again, and they are pret
ty sure to get a man; and the balls, which are
conical aud very heavy for a gun,generally go
through and through; you never find them
lodged without they had struck a bone,
which is sure to be broken and shattered in
every rendering amputation neces-
But Russia has the best soldiery in the
world. They have no fear about them iu this
particular. They are different from the sol
diery of all countries; it is impossible to get
up a panic in the Russian army ; they will
stand with the stubborness of a mule, and be
shot down by thousands, aud never think of
running, without they ure ordered to do so.
They know nothing hut to obey; you might
order out a thousand of them against a mil
lion, and tell them to stand and fight; if they
had au officer with them that would stand, 1
believe the last one might be shot down, and
you would never see the least movement to
wards running. .
Although we lose a good many men, I do
not think more than the enemy when thej r
make an assault upon us ; then we rake them
down—yes, by thousands. 1 have seen two
assaults made, with the attempt to take the
Malakoff’ hill, or tower as it is called, fthe
tower that stood on it has been knockea to
pieces some time ago, but it is now fortified
with bastions,) ou the 15th of June. Y'ou
have long since read accouuts of it in the
newspapers. They made two desperate at
tempts to take it, during which their loss
must have been truly immense. I never wit
nessed such a sight before. One of them
took place about daylight, and lasted until 8
o’ciock, and when the sun was two hours
high it was as dark as midnight. We rather
got them, though—drove them back over their
dead, which lay in heaps all over the hillsides.
This must have been a bad day for them.—
We lost a great mauy men, but we cau afford
to lose a huudred where France can oue. The
Russian soldiers are like flies—kill one and
ten will come and take his place.
By the sinking of the ships, thereby form
ing a barricade, we have no use for only two
of our fortresses, those nearest the sea ; by
this means we can take the cannon from the
others to fortify from the land side, which we
have done, but the cannon of the fortresses
are most too heavy is the ouly fault one could
have using them on land ; but. although we
have taken a great many cannon from the
fortresses tor this purpose, there is enough
left here to sink the whole of the immense
fleet that is lying out here, if they were to at
tempt to enter the harbor. The fortifications
for this purpose, I think, are on a scale too
grand. Y ou can form no idea from engravings
what an appearauce these fine fortresses make.
A cannon ball makes but little impression ou
them ; in fact, none of importance.
On the north side of the bay is also a suc
cession of hills, some of which are very high,
and running in every direction. Y'ou find on
them all bastions, facing in every direction.
These bastions aud redoubts extend up the
bay for a mile or<*su from the city, and some
of them are very effective, pouring nearly a
continual stream of balls across the bay into
the enemy’s battery, which is nearest the bay.
I think it very doubtful whether Ihe French
would be able to hold this city, for any length
ot* time if they could get possession of it, from
the fact that the hills ou the north side are
taller than those of the south, and the city
and the batteries on them, I think, would
force them to leave it. In the main they
have been attempting this, from the land on
the south side. I will finish this by saying
it is the best fortified place 1 ever saw.—
There is nonfTtill or mound where a cannon
could be placed where a cannon could be
placed with advantage, but you find them.
Russia has a hard hand to contend against
France. England is not known here in the
fight at all; you never know her name but in
derision. Even the French prisoners that are
here in the hospital refuse to eat with them.
My word for it that all this friendship that
exists between France and England does not
extend to the hearts of the people. I believe
the Frecnh have more amity for the Russians
than they have for their colleagues.
A man naturally feels a little lonesome here
when he is by himself in a place like this,
with no other American. Lam the only man
left. Those who have been here are either
dead or left for home. When J arrived here
I found two American physicians, but they
left soon after. They were not well pleased,
and before I saw anything of the benefits to
be derived by being here, they prejudiced me
a great deal against the place ; but I fear it
was their own fault, in fact I know it was, if
they had anything to complain of.
’Tis true, things here are not as one could
expect to find at Paris. Every thing is very
dear here—you pay 25 cents lor every plate
or portion of your soup, your beef,your bread,
mutton, butter, Ac. Coffee and tea every
time you order is 25 cents. They pay a man,
however, enough for him to live on the cheap
scale, and make his dinner off of two plates,
but an American must not do that. The of
ficers of the Russian army ure the nobility,
and although they receive but little pay from
the government, they spend a great deal of
money. And another thing, they are all edu
cated men. You find scarcely any of them
who do not speack fluently two or three dis-i ■
forent languages besides their own. In this* ‘
respect they are superior to us. Tbe Polish
officers are, if any thing, superior to the Rus
sians. They speak all the European langua
ges except the Euglish. I cannot account for
this fully that so few of them speak English.
There is one Pole who occupied a bed in my
room that speaks well six different lan
guages.
For a description of Sebastopol, it is im
possible for me to give you it in full. It is a
very pretty place even now, although it has
had a shower of bombs and balls poured into
it for the last ten months ; but you know that
this would alter the appearance of any city.
One of our cities would have long ago been in
ruins, from the fact that we used a great deal
of wood in the construction of our houses,
which is not the case in Russia. I have no
idea there is a house in this _place covered
with anything made of wood. Tin and brick
are used fur that purpose altogether; if it
was otherwise the place would be burnt up in
a day, for when the rocket falls In a house
everything of a combustible nature goes.
There are some beautiful buildings here,
bath private and public ; some line churches,
one magnificent one. The library building,
which is situated on the highest point of the
city proper, is a beautiful edifice. It con
tains many valuable things, models of ves
sels, Ac. The books are all taken out at
present, but you find them iu most of the
newspapers of tbe day. The Maison Noblique
is another beautiful building, situated near
this port. It is a kind of assembly or club
building. I roomed in it for a while. The
buildings of the place are mostly made of a
kind ot stone that abounds here to a great
extent—a white soft stone, that resembles
marble much, and which can be dressed up
very easily.
.Sebastopol is situated on three hills, or
rather covers one hill and the sides of two
others, and on the south side of the bar or
harbor, aud about two miles from the sea.—
The harbor is about a mile wide, with several
little inlets, one of which runs out between
the two hills, and separates Corobe hut, as
this portion of the city is called, from -the
city proper. Across this little inlet is a tem
porary bridge, a little south of east from the
Marine Barracks, and about a verst or three
quarters of a mile from them is the billon
which stood Malakoff tower, and which s
now defended by a bastion on a grand scale.
The Maison buildings are situated as it were
at the foot of the hill, and from them to the
tower is the portion of the city called Coro
beina; a ridge runs down from the Malakoff
hill to the bay. On this ridge we have two
excellent bastions, but the ground where
they are situated is considerably lower than
the hill fronting them, which are held by the
French, ancf on which they have some excel
lent guns. From the Malakoff’ tower, run
ning all round the city, is a succession of
smaller hills, those immediately adjoining the
city being held by us, aud the others by the
enemy. We have ten bastions besides the
Malakoff tower on this side of the bay ; these
form a complete semi-circle, or encircle the
city on this side.
Death in tlie Midst of Life.
This is the title of a Sermon preached on
Sunday week by the Bishop of New Jersey,
in St. Mary’s Church, Burlington, with refer
ence to the late catastrophe on the Railroad.
It thus opens :
It is related of the distinguished Robert
Hall, that having written a Funeral Sermon
from the words, “Iu the midst of life we are
iu death,” he searched the Bible long to find
the place to announce them from, and won
dered that he could not. They are in that which
is ouly not the Bible, the Book of Gomtncn
Prayer, and if not Scripture, were conceived
aud born of it. 1 venture the opinion that
they have been uttered from more hearts
within the last four days than any other sen
tence iu our language. And I have been so
perfectly possessed with it myself, that it
must be the theme, although it may not be
the text, of what I say to you this morning :
“In the midst ol life we are in death.”
You all remember liow beautiful a day was
Wednesday. We may suppose such weather
constantly in Paradise, i spent the morning
on our unsurpassed Green Bank with two
friends, one more than thirty years, who had
come to put their children at the College.—
They left me, with their little sou, in the
most perfect enjoyment of all that makes up
life, to return to their home in N. Y. In less
than an hour, I heard of what had happened
on the Railroad. 1 thought at once of them,
and rather flew than ran to find their mangled
bodies. God had preserved them perfectly
uninjured.
There came to me, from Boston, twenty
years ago, a young man,* who had early
taken a high stand at the Bar. He was of
patriot name; the very blood of Bunker Hill,
llis father bad adorned the Bench, llis
brother has not been surpassed, as a histori
an, iu modern times. He had lived carelessly
and away from God. But his heart had been
touched. It had melted under tbe Gospel.
It yearned to preach Jo others the unsearcha
ble riches which ban been more than rubies
to itself. And he asked me to receive him as
a candidate for Holy Orders, i did. There
are many here who must remember him. He
studied faithfully, and well. He was ordain
ed. He went to Salem, as the Minister of the
parish. He was most acceptable as a preach
er ; and, as a pastor, most devoted, lie mar
ried as lovely a woman as ever lived, llis
life was filled to overflowing with the double
tide of usefulness and happiness. But, “ this
is not our rest.” llis health failed. He sought
in vain its restoration, lie went to sea. He
died on board the ship. He left a widow,
without children. Possessed of a handsome
fortune, and what is better, with the sense
that it was not her own, she was another Dor
cas, in the “ good works, aud the alms-deeds
which she did.” At ten o’clock on Wednes
day she started, with two dear friends, upon
a tour for health and recreation. And, iu
little more than an hour had yielded up her
soul to God. Is it not true, that “in the
midst of life we arejin death ?” Do we or can
we know “what shall be on the morrow?”
Which one of us might not have beeu in that
disastrous train ? Which one of us might nqt
have been of that dead company which tilled
our streets with coffins, and hung our houses
and our hearts with sackcloth?
My brethren, there can need no preacher to
bring this mournful Providence home to your
heart of hearts. Those nearing trains. The
signal to break up. That carriage on the
track. The crash. Cur mounted upon car.
Car rushing through the midst of car. The
cloud of dust. The storm of splinters.—
The groan. The shriek. The wail. The
wounded. The mutilated. The crushed.
—The torn asunder. The buried alive.—
That fearful row upon the bank. The hurt.
The dying. The dead. Our public houses
filled with the maimed aud mangled. Our
public hall a receiving vault for unknown
corpses. Our private Houses so many hos
pitals. Every man a servant. Every woman
a nurse. Through that whole day business
checked. The social current all directed to
one point. Not an act, not a word, not a
thought, but of the wounded, of the dying, oL
the dead. The very centre of our city ir
choked grave-yard. There is no human elo
quence that is not beggared by such sermons
as that scene preached to every heart. God
spoke, and man was still. “In the midst of
life,” all felt— “ in the midst of life,” —“we are
iu death.”
Hu then draws the following lessons from
this fearful disaster:
I. As teaching so strikingly the uncertain
ty of life. “What more familiar thiug than
to get into a car? It is as common as com
ing to church. Who among the happy, the
gay, the thoughtless, that crowded the cars
on that day, for one moment entertained a
thought of what should be before many hours
had elapsed. All ages, every condition, either
sex, involved in oue promiscuous ruin.” No
time to say farewell —an instant, and an end !
Is it not true that ‘’in the midst of life we ure
iu death ?”
11. “We learn from this disaster tlie terri
ble violence of death J’ “Wiiat au exponent
of the awfulness of sin,” he goes on to say,
after rapidly sketching the more prominent
features of the scene—“what an exponent of
the awfulness of sin by which so foul a blight
was brought upon this beautiful creation !
What an index of the sorer curse which it has
brought upon the soul which was the image
of its Maker!”
11L “Aud then another lesson of this fear
ful Providence, what at’ veller is Death —
And the Bishop dwells ou the complete dis
regard of woruly distinctions and classes,
where the high born and the lowly, rich and
poor together, wore gasping out their lives,
side by side ! and for all one Judge, for all
one issue or the other, eternal happiness or
everlasting misery.
IV. And then he says, “What a lesson of
the sublime powei * of a, great sorrow!
Throughout the whole community not a
thought but for the sufferers. Each heart
and hand open —self for the time forgotten.
1 never saw so perfect a reflection of the
first community of Christians. I never im
agined so many reproductions of the Good
Samaritan.
V. “ What a lesson of the nearness of the
judgment! My beloved, what a fearful
thought! We rise up, in the morning, with
our sins. Our thoughts are of the world, and
self. We are engrossed with sense. We
step into the train that is just starting from
our door. We are whirled off’, a mile or two.
Our mind is set on our business, or our pleas
ure. Our heart is far from God. There is a blast
Pfitna that shiill whistle. There is a jar.
There is a crash. We are crushed with the
ponderous weight of au iron wheel. The
body has made its own grave iu the loose
sand. The startled soul wakes in another
world. And the appalling wail, which knelled
it out of life, is only lost in the clang of
the archangel’s trumpet.”
VI. “My beloved,” he concludes, “there is
one more lesson : that, to prepare for this
there is but now. Tn the midst of of life, we
ure in death.’ ” And lie goes on to urge the
necessity of not trusting the precious gift of
time, but to begin at onec, aud fight the good
light.
So ends a sermon of singular force and
beauty, which we regret our limits will not
permit us to quote more at length. It is al
together a deeply impressive {Sermon, and
we are glad to see it in print.
CU Frescott, Esq.
[From the X. 0. PicayuneJ
Napoleon’.** Revenge—The Humllta
-11m? of i jogland.
The Corsican t - nddfa is neftrlv accomplish
ed, for the humiliation of E’..grind approach
ed its consummation when Queen Victoria
stood reverentially before the tomb of her
country’s mortal enemy in the wierd torch
light which flickered along the walls of the In
valides. She stood there as the dependent of
his nephew—a suppliant to the mercy of the
Napoleonic race, {which knows no mercy for
its foe—a Queen in name beside an Emperor
in fact. Did the spirit of Sir Hudson Lowe
hover around the scene? Did the laugh of
the “ old guard,” which, according to the
German legend, attends the nightly reviews
of L petit corporal ou the dreary shore of St.
Helena, ring scornfully through the sombre
walls ? No'; it was but fancy, but the ven
geance of the Napoleons was a reality.
The visit of Queen Victoria to Paris was
little more than a conqueror’s pageant, iu
which she acted tlie part of a dist inguished
captive, which could not be endured by her
for a moment, if a single drop of Boadtcea’s
blood remained in the veins of modern royal
ty. She was received with a magnificence
which threw her efforts at display on the oc
casion of Napoleon’s visit to London into the
shade and showed, as Sterne says, that “they
do these things better in France but the
cheers with which the Emperor was greeted
in London were not bestowed upon the Queen
in Paris, and she passed onward to St. Cloud,
s spectacle to be gazed at, and not a guest to
be honored.
Some years ago this same Victoria refused
to permit a distinguished English actress to
appear at the private theatricals in Windsor
Palace, because her character was not sans
reprochc , and yet she was compelled to accept
the companionship during her ten days’ so
journ in Paris of the Emperor’s cousin—the
notorious Mathilde, who is the Nmoud’En
clos, the most brilliant and brazen courtesan
of tlie present, day. Mathilde is divorced from
her husband on account of her innumerable
infidelities,and is living in opeu adultery with
a “fast” attache of the Court. In the same
carriage with her the prudish Victoria rode
to the Grand Opera and beheld Albert—some
what noted for his susceptibility—exposed to
all her witchery and fascination, while beside
her sat her superior and her master—the
“mad-man of Boulogne,” who was one of
her special constables iu ’4B ! Who says that
truth is not stranger than fiction? Who hints,
after this, that History is not a greater ro
mance maker than Walter Scott or Alexander
Dumas ?
“I noticed,” says a correspondent of the
London Press, “that while the Emperor con
versed wit the Queen in the Royal box at the
Opera, a sinister smile, half of triumph and
half of sarcasm, parted his lips occasionally
and flickered over his inscrutable counte
nance.” What did that smile mean ? It was
a faint revelation of the proud thoughts which
were swelling within his heart. It is said, St.
Helena is isveuged.
The Parvenu is the master of the hereditary
Sovereign. The triumph of France is almost
complete. The houseless wanderer—the
madman of former j'ears—the prisoner of
Ham—the dependent of Mrs. Howard—the
special constable of London, is the ruler of
France to day, and France is the ruler of Eng
land. Craft has done the work of the sword
—but the final retribution—the grand denoue
ment of the drama has not arrived yet—not
yet, Oh, Destiny!—not yet. It advances,
however, darkly and steadily “as the shadow
of the Gnomon. Gaze ou, poor gilded puppet
at the pantomine on the stage, aud dream not
of the tragedy which awaits your country and
yourself. So said that Smile. Such was
the mealing of the faint revelation of the se
crets of that hitherto inscrutable counte
nance.
Victoria has returned to England amid the
congratulations of the London press. But
what has she learned during her visit ? That
France has a magnificent army on her own
soil, while England lias scarcely a single sol
dier; that the French people are aroused and
invigorated by the Eastern war, while the
English are crushed aud depressed; that the
birthright of genius is more potent than the
birthright of blood; that she is a mere pawn
l hough bearing a royal crown, ou the chess
board of European politics, tn the hands of
the most skillful and masterly player of his
time. Such is the bitter lesson she must
have learned, unlqps the imbecility of George
111 be inheritable with his crown.
Arrest oi'Municipal Officers.
At. New York, on Monday, Aldermen Her
rick, Moser, and Drake, and Councilmeu
Wandell, Cooper, and Healy, were arrested
to answer recent indictments by the Grand
Jury, charging them with official corruption.
The charges are briefly as follows:
Alderman Herrick is charged with re
ceiving from Edward Waring SIOO on the Ist
of June last, for his influence in the matter
of the 86th street grade. Also, with receiv
ing similar sums for the same purpose, and
from the same man, or other occasions.
A second indictment against Alderman
Herrick is on the complaint of W. R. Jones,
who charges him with asking a bribe in the
matter of the contract for raising the Joseph
Walker.
Alderman Drake is charged by W. R.
Jones with asking a bribe for his inflence ih
the matter of the Joseph Walker contract.—
Sum not named.
Alderman Moser is charged with asking
SI,OOO for his influence iu the same matter.
Councilman Wandell, of the Finance Com
mittee, is charged with offering to go in favor
of the SIO,OOO appropriation for the exten
sion of Canal street, Ac., in consideration of a
sum of money not named in the indictment,
William L. Wiley is the complainant.
Councilman Cooper is charged with offer
ing, for the sum of SSOO. to use his influence
to release Peter Palm of his contract for
cleaning streets in the 11th Ward.
Councilman Healy is charged with asking
a bribe of SI,OOO tor the farmers ou their ap
plication for a stand or position for their
wagons west of West street, neer Washing
ton market.
The accused were taken before Recorder
.Smith and held no answer the allegations.—•
‘The report that two police justices and some
of the heads of departments were indicted,
is not correct. The Journal of Commerce re
marks :
“The Grand Jury have performed a signal
service at this juncture by examining into
the conduct of several public functionaries. —
They have thus tar only commenced their
labors. - A wild field lies before them ready
for their future action. If the public shall
be equally ’true to their cause of justice, those
will he elected in November who will save
themselves and the city of New York from
the deep disgrace which gross misgovern
ment and corruption have inflicted.”
The Extension of the Capitol Building.
—The work on this magnificent buildiugpro
gresses steadily, developing almost daily
something more, in esse , of the grand aud
beautiful plan on which it is to be constructed.
A well-informed geutlemau, who has recently
made the tour of Europe, remarked to us a
day or two since, after carefully inspecting
many of the detailed plans of the work, that
taking into consideration its situation, mate
rials, Ac., the modern world will contain no
thing besides, in the shape of a building, to
compare with it,when completed, iu grandeur,
elegance, good taste, and the scientific and
mechanical skill displayed iu its construction..
It will be a monument of the eminence of our
engineers, architects, artists and nrtizans of
this particular age, such as will exist in after
times in no other country whatever, as worthy
of striking future nations and generations
with awe; aud as the pyramids are to the
minds of those now living on the earth. We
write in sober earnest ou this subject, as will
be fully appreciated so soon as the work has
sufficiently progressed to permit those who
view it casually to comprehend the minute
style of finish and completeness of the whole
vast pile.— Washington Star.
* A PkrfectCure for Hydrophobia.—Dr.
Clras. Kid, of Kingsland, announces that
chloroform is a perfect cure for Hydrophobia.
The doctor says, a teaspoonlul of either ether
or chloroform is to be sprinkled on a hand
kerchief and placed ou the person’s face to
smell, and a red hot poker is then, within
halt-an-hour, to be applied to the bite. If
these two thiiqgs be donfe, if, in other words,
the bite is “freely Cauterized”—if the poison
ous matter be destroyed, there will be no
reason to apprehend hydrophobia.
A Figiit in High Life.— We learn that a
fight occurred iu Richmond (Mo.) the other
day between Hon. M. Oliver aud Gov. King.
They were separated just as the Governor
was in a fair way of getting well whipped.—
The Governor struck the first lick. The quar
rel occurred in the Court-room, and originated
in the examination of witnesses. The Judge
fined them SSO each.— St. Louis JVows, Sept.
21.
jLgT* It seems that housekeepers who wash
their silver ware with soap aud water, as the
common practice is, do not know what they
are about. The proprietor of one of the oldest
silver establishments in the city of Philadel
phia, says “that housekeeper^'ruin their sil
ver by washing it iu soap-suds—it makes it
look like pewter. Never put a particle of
soup about your silver—then it will regain
its original lustre. When it wauts polish,take
a piece of soft leather und whiting, and rub it
hard.”