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THE TEXAS SUN.
EDITOR-
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•and after tbe 1st day of January, 1856, tlie
;ription price of tlie Sun will l>e 50 per an-
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.ce.
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teal co'irse, as-that is suSBcioutly indicated by
-• - jriaripiea hereto lure advocated in our columns.
r~ . " ,'has bean in the past, so will it be in the fu-
: " Independent in every thing, neutral in no-
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it point in every direction West; surrounded by
planting community whose intelligence, wealth
ifcnd refinement are not surpassed by any in the
Union, and above all, noted for its healthfulness,
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1855.
•ibculation.— The Texas Sftn com-
fcd with a circulation of eight hundred,
,¿.a afairprospect of its increasing to several
• thousand daring* 18-55.
. It is the largest paper published on the
Brazos river.
WSjfc
Proceedings of the Democratic
Meeting.
At a meeting of the Democratic party of
Fort Bend county held at the Court House
on Monday the 29th inst., for the purpose
of selecting delegates to represent them in
the State Convention, to be held at Austin
in January next. Judge Mitchell was
called to the Chair and Wm. Lowther ap-
pointed Secretary. Jiulge Mitchell ex-
plained the object of the meeting in a most
eloquent and appropriate speech. A com-
mittee was then appointed by the Presideut
to draft resolutions expressive of the sense
of the meeting. C. W. Buckley, R. II.
Rawlings atul M. II. llarper constituted
a committee for that purpose. The follow-
ing preamble and resolutions were then re-
ported by the committee, ar.J advocated by
Judge Buckley as its cbairairn in his usual
eloquent and "Impressive manner. The re-
solutions were adopted, and ordered to be
pnblished together with the proceedings of
t us meeting in the Texas Sun.
Whereas the Democratic party of Fort
Bend county, in accordance with ancient
usage, and for the greater perfection of its
organization, are called upon to appoint dele-
gates to represent it in the State Convention
. whose duty it will be to appoint delegates
to the National Democratic Convention in
1856, it becomes the duty of this meet-
ing to indicate the principles and policy
which shall guide their representatives in
these Conventions: Therefore be it
Resol red, That the great principles
wjiich conducted our party to victory in
1852 are still the guiding stars of the Demo-
cratic party; that time and experience have
proven these principles to be sufficient to
meet the wants and exigencies of the age
in which we live, while the present prosperi-
ty and greatness of the Republic are monu-
ments of their wisdom and beneficence,
equally visible to the native and foreign
born.
Resolved, That Franklin Fierce merits
the commendations of the whole American
people for his unflinching defence of the
rights of every section of the country; for
his strict adherence to the principles of our
party as embodied in the Baltimore Plat-
form, and for his untiring zeal and energetic
efforts to allay scctional animosities and
preserve the peace, good order and integ-
rity of the American Union.
Resolved, That our State Executive,
Elish M. Pease, is entitled to the highest
consideration with the people of Texas for
his wise and efficient administration of their
affairs, while his fearless advocacy of
genuine Democratic doctrine entitles him to
the confidence and support of the people.
Resolved, That *Le compromise measures
of 1850, whose consummation demanded the
temporary political sacrifice of Cass and
Doaglass at home, and the dying eucrgies
of Clay and Webster who, forgetful of sec-
tional animosities and old party lines, boldly
flung themselves into the breaches of the
Constitution and rolled back the waves of
mad fanaticism which threatened its entire
destruction—are based upon the only true
and correct principles by which our differ
enees of opinion upon the subject of slavery
can be harmonized and settled, and have
become political axioms with the Democratic
party.
Resolved, That the secret political order
which has sprung up so suddenly in our
midst and claiming to rise upon the ruins*
of the Whig and Democratic parties, being
alike intolerant in its principles and fanati-
cal in its policj, dangerous iu a republic
and totally uncalled for where there is a free
press and a ballot-box whose purity is guar-
anteed by the intelligence and patriotism of
those to whose care it is confided by just and
impartial laws, meets with the unqualified
of the Democratic party,
which has declared its eternal hostility to
every form of tyranny over the minds of
men; that our natural feelings no less than
our party ties, prompt ns to oppose by all
honorable means, the progress of a party
which in order to gratify the ignoble am-
bition of a few political hacks seek to de-
stroy the peace and harmony of families by
forcing the brother to proscribe the brother,
and the son the father, and therefore in a
spirit of commiseration for those misguided
Democrats who hastily and without thought
plunged into the K. N. councils we invoke
them by all they hold dear—by the Con-
stitution of our country, which was the com-
mon work of Protestant and Catholic; 1iy
the memory of those gallant spirits who
stood by our fathers on the battle grounds,
in the dark and troublous times of the
American and Texas revolutions, when
native and foreigner vied with each other in
devotion to liberty—to leave its ranks and
once more do battle nobly in behalf of De-
mocracy—the cause of all mankind.
Resolved, That we deem it expedient
and proper to have the Democratic party
organized throughout the State and hereby
instruct our delegates in the State Conven-
tion in January next, to use their efforts to
bring about such a result.
Resolved, That the chairman appoint
six delegates to represent this county in the
Democratic Convention to be held in Austin
on the 8th day of January next.
The following gentlemen were selected
to represent the Democracy of Fort Bend
county in the Austin Convention, C. W.
Buckley, R. H. Rawlings, M. H. Harper,
Josiah Kuykendall, E. L. Walker, J. S.
Sullivan aud any other Democrats of the
county who may feel inclined to attend.
On motion the President and Secretary
were added to the list of delegates.
Wm. D. Mitchell, President.
Wji. Lowther, Secretary.
Richmond, October, 27th, 1S55.
Facts for the People.
Some of our Know Nothing presses and
orators deny the identity of their party with
abolitionism; but here is more evidence of
their true position. The great Know Noth-^
ing State convention of Massachusetts nom-
inated Gardner for Governor, S12 out of 820
delegates voting for him on the first ballot.
In this convention Mr. Shed used the fol-
lowihg language.
"Mr. President—I am very glad I tread
in such good footsteps; and I am very thank-
ful that I stand here where Mr. Cary has
stood. He and I can sympathise. He is
the representative, and the noble repiaseu-
tative, ofthe Native American sentiment,
and I a hmnblff representative of the anti-
slavery sentiment, and hence, sir, both of us
can shake hands." [Mr. Shed here took the
hand of Mr. Cary, amid loud applause.]
Is not this sufficient to convince the peo-
ple of our latitude that Knownothingism and
freesoilers have shaken hands and become
sworn brothers 1 Bat evidence of this tact
is cumulative. Senator Dixou, of Ken-
tucky, the successor of Henry Clay in the
United States Senate, thus writes to the De-
mocracy.
, Henderson, Ky., Sejlt. 21.
Gentlemen : I am in the receipt of
your favor of the 15th inst., requesting me
to be present and address a mass meeting of
the. Democracy, to be held in Paducah on
the 27th inst. Yoti are right in suppos-
ing that it is my intention to co-operate in
future with the Democratic Party. The
Whig party, with which I have so long act-
ed, has no political existence, I have no par-
ty now but my country. To this J shall not
cease to be faithful. The American Party,
divided as it is into two great sectional par-
ties, the one Northern and the other South-
ern, can only inquire where it would serve
the country; for instead of strengthening the
national men of all parties, it can only di-
vide them in all the elections, when union
and concert of action are necessary to the
very salvation of the country. As far a¿ 1
can judge, the Democratic party, although
weakened in the tree States, is still nation-
al, and still co-operates with the Southern
Democracy, in oppositian to tlie Abolition-
ists and Freesoilers of the North, who to de
strov the institution of slavery, would rend
the Union asunder, and bury beneath the
ruins of the Constitution the liberties of the
country.
I regret, gentlemen, that circumstances
over which 1 have no control will prevent
my being with yon on the occasioa allud-
ed to.
I am, very trulv, your ob't serv't.
ARCH. DIXON.
If Dixon's letter is not sufficient to con-
viAce our Southern friends of the suicidal
course they are pursuing, then we hope they
will give their serious attention to the fol-
lowing extract from the Hqntsville (Ala.)
Advocate, a staunch Whig paper, whose
editor has just come over to Democracy, and
thus denounces Know-Nothingism:
"When Know-Nothingism first manifest-
ed itself, it couie wooing the South with the
soothing, sweet aud affectionate voice of
done, no progress could be made, until the
several councils of the city, after learned dis-
cussions as to what the ritual allowed, should
take action thereon—the probability being,
too, that said councils at the time would not
be composed of more than from fifteen to
thirty members a piece. We give this as
an illustration ofthe delays and obstructions
which must necessarily be encountered, if
the friends of tlie American party have
always to await the formal action of the
Know-Nothing councils. We humbly sub-
mit that there is no sort of necessity for any
such childish fumblingand piddling. There
is no reason in it, no common sense, no no-
thing—but unadulterated nonsense and ridi-
culous tomfoolry.
But it may be said that all this will be
gotten rid of at the meeting of the State
Council in January.—Grant it. But why
hasn't it been done before ? It has now
been nearly five mouths since the election,
and we aré told that we shall have to wait
three more, before anybody "will have
power to act upon the reforms proposed." In
other words, the party hacheen on a dead
stand for five months and must remain in the
same interesting situation for three months
more, because it is positively against the
"ritual" to relieve it of its embarrassments
sooner! All this may show a wonderful re-
gard for fhg authority of the "ritual," and
an exorbitant interest in mere child's play
and an exceedingly morbid devotion to naked
flummery—but does it show common sense,
or wisdom, or policy ? We tell you, gen-
tlemen of the order, in all sincerity, frank-
ness and good nature, that you will have to
come out from your dens and holes in the
ground. You have tried darkness, starlight
and moonlight,—and what have they profit-
ted you? Suppose now jtou try the sun-
light awhile—do you think your fortunes
would be worsted? We make these re-
marks, we assure you, in no dictatorial or
improper temper; but from an earnest wish
that promptest steps should be taken to put
all Conservative, Whig, American, and
Anti-Administration forces in the best pos-
sible condition to make common war npon
our common enemy, the pseudo Democracy,
the party of proscription and the spoils."
And yet our Know Nothing friends in
Texas, will insist that there are no oaths
now and that secrecy has been abolished.
When doctors disagree who can decide?
Our Texas friends say this "flummery" has
been abolished : the Whig, tlieir champion
in Virginia last Spring, says it has not, and
cannot before January next. We also find
the following information in the published
proceedings of the Virginia State Council
which met in Richmond on the 22nd day of
August last.
"An inform.il resolution, or rather a re-
commendation. was presented by Hon. John
M. Botts, embracing the sentiment that both
the secresy and the religious test of the
party ought to be abolished, and that the
naturalization laws should be totally repeal-
ed. The object was merely to ascertain the
sense of the Council on the questions, and
it was unanimously in the affirmative."
And who is Jno. M. Botts? lie is the
man who said ill Congress that lie would be-
head John Tyler, and who in the ridiculous
attempt to do so, politically beheaded him-
self. But the above extract shows that it
was merely proposed to abolish the secresy
and religious test of the Order. It was not
done. The Kanáwlia Republican reports
the following resolution which was adopted
at a rcgtá^r meeting of the J'Litile. Gayan-
doite Association of the American Parity."
The resolution speaks for itself.
2. That we arc wholly nnable to express
our disapprobation of that impolitic and sui-
cidal,—'/formal re'olvtton or recommenda-
tion. offered by the Hon. John HI. Botts, em-
bracing the sentiments that both the secresy
and religious test of the Party ought to be
abolished"—also the action of the State
Council on the same. And we unreserved-
ly- declare that should the sentiments then
and there recorded, be adopted, they will
turn out to be the funeral obsequies of the
Great American Party."
From the above facts would'nt it puzzle
a Philadelphia lawyer to say which horn of
the dilemma the Know Nothings will take?
On the one side, if its midnight secresy bo
retained, the party must go by the board;
on the other, if the same secresy be abolish-
ed, nothing can prevent the funeral obse-
quies of the great Sam. Is'nt the party
now between Scylla and Charybdis ?
Jacob; we lent a willing car to it, hoping
that it would be a power iu the North to
master and swallow up abolitionism. But j
its hands have been the handsof Esau, strong,
rugged, agressive, warlike, striking down
the rights, outraging the (celings, and pros-
trating the interests of the South—tender-
ing nothing in exchange but a mess of pot-
tage, seeking to bribe the sons of the South
with hopes of the inheritance, while it rob
bed them of all. As soon as the mask was
thrown off, and Know-Nothingism at the
North and abolitionism became 'one and in-
divisible,' we washed our hands of it." It
was not the feast to which we were invited."
The Richmond Whig, of Virginia, a
paper that did more for the American party
last spring than any other iu the State, thus
speaks of the oaths, ritual and secrecy of
the order, in its issue of the 10th ultimo:
"We arc sincerely the friends of the prin-
cipies and objects of the American party,
as we understand them. But we do regret
to see its principles, objects, and success
l. r/>t in perpetual jeopardy by the miserable
jlurnntfry of rituals, oith and the like. It
almost appears as it' nothing on earth can be
done to advance the vital and essential in-
terests of the party without first consulting
the ritual and taking an oath in secret.
That is, though everv Know-Nothing in
w • •
Hiclimoufl and every man who sympathises
and co-operates with them he should meet
in tlie African Church, and recommend
measures ofthe first importance to the wel-
fare of the American party, nothing could be
The New York Tribune has about a dozen
of its columns filled with the speeches and
letters delivered at the ratification meeting
held in the Tabernacle, on the 9th inst., by
the Free-soilcrs of New York. Henry Wil-
son, the great champion and leader o£ the
Know Nothings in Massachusetts, was the
principal speaker on this occasion and used
the following language in reference to
slavery.
"Let it be understood that within the ter-
ritories of the United States we intend to
prohibit forever the existence of human
Slavery [Loud cheering]. Let it be under-
stood by the country precisely aud exactly
what we mean. We mean to restore free-
dom to Kansas [Immense and long continu-
ed cheering]. We mean that Kansas shall
sever come into this Union as a Slave State.
No, never. [Cheers and cries of "Bravo"].
We mean to restore freedom to Nebraska
clear un to the boundaries of the British
Queen* [Applause]. We mean Nebraska
shall come into the Union a free State with
a free constitution [Continued applause].
We tell Atchison, Stringfellow and other
border ruffians that they may violate law,
honor, everything but that Kansas comes
into this Union clothed in the garments of
liberty [Renew applause]. We mean that,
Utah, if she comes into this Union ever,
shall come into this L'nion a free common-
wealth. We mean New Mexico, Minisota,
Washington, Oregon, every foot of the ter-
ritories of this republic shall be consecrated
forever to Freedom and free institutions for
all men, and chains and fetters for none.
[Loud cheers]. Standing here to night,
gentlemen, 1 proclaim it, aud let the country
understand it, that we are opposed to slavery
everywhere, and if we had the power we
would abolish it forever [Cheers]."
This cry, Know Nothing abolitionist, then
feasts his party upon a dish of slang against
Gen. Pierce and the. Democratic party.
Read the following extract from his speech,
ye Know Nothings of the South, and then
tell us in candor whether you will not side
and, gentlemen, from the 4th of March, '52,
up to this hour, he has been the veriest tool
in the hand of a set of bold, aggressive,
domineering chiefs of the black power of
this Republic [Cheers]. He is the tool of
the embodiment of sectionalism of this re-
public—nothing more and nothing less. Hit.
administration, in obedience to the sectional
spirit that governs it, has thrown open nearly
five hundred thousand sqaare miles of Free-
soil territory—larger than the Roman em-
pire when Caesar held legions by conquest—
a territory larger than that of France when
Napoleon cast his eyes on burning Moscow;
he has thrown this vast territory open to the
inroads of Slavery. All this, gentlemen,
has been achieved nnder the plea of "nation-
ality!" Nationality! we hear a great deal
of the nationality of the Democratic party.
I tell you, gentlemen, to night, that the
Democratic parfy"has passed under the con-
trol of the Slavery propagandists of this re-
public; that in 1850 your politicians of the
Democratic party will go to Cincinnati and
bow in abject submission to the domineering
chiefs of the South. I tell you, gentlemen,
the Democratic party has its head in the
South; it has nothing but its tail left in the
North [Loud cheer ]. But, gentlemen let
me tell you there are iron heels here on that
tail. [Cheers]. The Whig party, gentle-
men, has passed from eaitli. I do not know
whether it has been translated or not, but it
has passed away—it "exists only in history."
Peace be with it!
Democracy not "in Ruins."
With the Gazette and Ledger in the
West, the Ciyiüaa, <a«d Sun in the South,
the Republican £fitf Herald (Jefferson) in
the East, and the Dallas Herald in North,—
besides the "ItciSl man" (who grumbles so
about the high prices of "bacon-sides" and
"feathers") and tlie of us b'hoys more in the
centre of the great political field, who can
make the good old democratic trumpet sound
alarming at times in the ears ofthe goaffers,
that they hunt their holds, and hide them-
selves for darkness to overshadow the earth
before they can venture to poke out their
"cloven foot" and show their naked deformi-
ty,—with these able untiring journals, assist-
ed by the many eloquent and spirited ora-
tors in the State, what have we to fear ?
Gen. Sam Houston to the coutrary, notwith-
standing. Surely the party is now safely
landed on the other side of the small river
Know Nothingism, into the democratic Can-
aan, and there anchored, both sure and
steadfast.—Freestone Jourual.
A Stand.
Under the above caption, the Houston
Telegraph comes out in a fiat footed manner
for Democracy the following extract is tak-
en from its editorial upon this subject.
But docs the Know Nothing party prom-
ise anything iu a national point of view !—
Already do we see that party in the free
States shivered into fragments on the slave-
ry qucstiou, and the bulk of the party, as in
'the recent elections in Maine, Pennsylvania,
Indiana and Ohio, gowing with the. free-
soilers and abolitionist. They have "fused"
until their is nothing left of them but dross;
and the Southern politician who would ad-
vise his countrymen to rely upon such a par-
tv for assistance against Northern aggres-
sion, is either unaquainted with the antece-
dents of the party* or wishes to deceive. In
the next Congress an attempt will he made
to repeal the fugitive slave law and the Ne-
braska Biil. The fiat has gone forth from
the Northern fanatics, and the South will
have to meet her enemy face to face. In
such an hour, whom shall the South con-
fident, those by v.:;io.se aid she secured the
passage of 'hose laws or those who have so
I often "fused" with her enemies that she can-
not distinguish betwee them I t
The Democratic patty has ever been an
eminently national party ; its leaders North
and South l.'.ve come together on the broad
ground of equality of rights and privileges.
To that party the Union is this day indebt-
ed for its existence. Pursuing the land-
marks of the great fathers ofthe Republic,
with the constitution in its hand as the chart
of its voyage, it has gone steadily onward,
defeating all the hydra-headed monsters of
civil and religions intolerance which have
sprung np in the land, and carving out for
itself a high asid noble destiny.
The new steamer Grapeshot, built at
Louisville, for the Galveston and Brazos
trade, via the Canal, arrived at Galveston,
last Sunday, under command of Capt.
Magnire.
We have already given a description of
this fine steamer, and find her ail that she
has been represented. She will carry 1,000
bales cotton, on three feet water; is staunch,
fast, and finely furnished and finished.
The Grapeshot will leave on Thursday
for the Brazos; but, in consequence of the
low stfige of the river probably not go higher
than Bolivar,—Ct rUicm,
[ Contra urticotcd.
To the Surviving M'.er Prisoners.
Many of my comrades, who have surviv-
ed the perils of the unfortunate Micr expe-
dition, have requested me to rewrite Its his-
tory- When I reflect however, that two
thrilling narratives of that ill-fated enter-
prise, both of which have elicited the uni-
versal encomiums of the American press,
are now in general circulation, I am almost
induced to shrink with distrust, from the con-
templated task. But this extraordinary in-
cursion into Mexican territory, by a little
band of undisciplined Texan volunteers,
abounds with a variety of details sufficiently
ample to form materials for books, much
more voluminous than any now extant. Fol-
lowing the adventures of the detachment of
1842 through all the vicissitudes of its long
and tedious march over the mountains and
valleys of Mexico. History and Romance be-
come convertible terms. The battle of Mier
and the surrender, the rush upon the guard
at the ranch Salado, tlie flight and pursuit
and stirring subsequent events, in point of
genuine interest, challenge competition with
the most popular and exciting works of fic-
tion. . To commend the story of the pris-
oners to public favor, the historian is not
thrown upon the resources of Invention.—
There is no need to step out <f the way for
ornament and embellishment. Flowers are
not wanting, though dyed wife the crimson
hue of blood.
In fulfilling the task I hav" consented to
undertake, I shall rely griitly upon the
courtesy of the press and th assistance of
friends. Details of facts, fron any reliable
source, connected with the ¡Mer expedition,
will be greatfully received. My contem-
plated sketch, though it mayjrove from the
Incompetency of the writer, dstitute of eve-
ry other attraction, shall at l«st possess the
merit of truth. F. i GIBSON.
groes the political privileges of white citi-
zens !"
We have not seen anything so elegantly
expressive for a long time.
[ From the G ihston Cicilian.
A National Afnr.
Recruiting for the Brush Army
in the United S ites.
Among the incidents of he day, not
the least is the late conviion, at- New
York, of an agent cf the íritish Gov-
ernment for a violation of e neutrality
laws, and the complicity of th British Min-
ister at Washington with theaffair. The
accused was a man named llrtz, and the
Government's council put in tli'confessioii
[From tie X. O. Picayune. ]
TELEGRAPHIC.
NEWS FROM EUROPE.
BY STEAMSHIP ATLANTIC.
By mail yesterday we received full details
of the news from Europe brought by the
steamship Atlantic, which left Liverpool on
the 6rh inst. and arrived at New York on the
morning of the ISth. Below we give all the
intelligence of interest for which we have
room this morning.
JIanifrsiq of the fzar-
The Emperor Alexander accompanied by
the Grand Prince Michael, left Moscow on
the 20th of September for Nicolaieff. after
issuing through the Military Governor of
that city an address to the Russian people
Russia.
A letter from St. Petersburg states that
the evening before the Emperor's departure
for the south, a grand council was he'd, at
which it was decided to carry ou the war
with the uiinost energy.
The Emperor had arrived at Nicolaieff,
the great Russian naval depot near the mouth
of the river Bug, where on the 22d uit, ac
companied by the Grand Dukes Constantino
Nicholas, and Michael, lie made an inspec-
tion of the troops, fortifications, and dock
yards. The fortifications, it is stated, are
to be greatly strengthened and extended.
Various Russian accounts states that the
war is to be carried on with the greatest de-
ter mination, and that the Crimea is to be de
fended to the last extremity. Gen. Moura-
vieff, now in Asia, will, it is intimated, take
the place of Prince Gortschakoff, who is to
become Minister of War.
Moscow advices state that 193,000 men
have been added to the military force ot
Russia.
It is said that the discontent in Poland
and the Ukraine has risen to a very serious
height. The successive calls for enlistment
has also deprived those parts of Russia of
the young and able-bodied men, as was se-
verely felt during the recent harvest. A
Government survey has been ordereed to
know whether Poland can furnish sufficient
corn for the supply of the army during the
next campaign. It is thought that the re-
sult of tlds inquiry will greatly influence the
decision of the Russian Government as to
the continuance of the war.
On the 2d inst. Government notices were
published at Warsaw, announcing the abo-
lition of the restrictions on the sale of salt,
of Hertz, remarking, as lie di«o. tiiat "this I *ini^ that purchasers would be permitted to
prosecatiou lias not been men local in its | import any quantity as might suit their con-
tendencies, nor are the infiuetes of its re-
French had passed Constantinople on their
w®7 tbe Crimea, and others were expect-
ed. It was stated that the English cavalry
would winter at Scutari.
It is said that the Russians Ion daring
the final bombardment and assault was 20,-
000 men.
According to the Krcmz Zeitung, Gen.
L ma soft was killed and Gen. Chruleff had
died ot the wounds lie received at the storm-
ing of Sevastopol.
Among the wounded In the attack on the
Redan, who have died of their wouuds, ia
Liet. Col. Gongh. (nephew of Lord Gongh,):
who commanded the 33d.
Grra! Britain end Ireland- ^
The revenue returns of the United Kift*.
doui, made up to the 30th September, chow
a net increase upon the last quarter of dCl .
924,924,124; upon the half year of $2 936^
<399; and upon the year of $8,344,781. This-
is chiefly made np by the income ta*, the
increase upon which is «¿£6.484,147.
The Bank of England has raised the rate
of interest another ¿ per cent., and it now
stands at 5j per cent. There has been a
good deal of commercial uneasiness in con-
sequence, particularly, as the stock of bul-
lion has been decreasing at an alarm rate for
several weeks past, the Bank of France bay-
ing np all the specie it can. Several of the
journals arc crying out for a repeal of Sir
Robert Peel's bank act. Tlie stock of gold
and bullion iu the Dank of England on the
4tii"was <£12,36S,255.
Gens. Combermere, Earl Stafford, and
Viscount Hardinge have been made Field
Marshals.
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venicnce.
The Czar was expected to arrive at Odes-
sa on 7th inst.
Ail ukase, issued at St. Petersburg on the
28th of September, ordains the establish-
ment of two military academies for engin-
eers and artillery. There is further a con-
firmation of a decree that every day's and
every year's service of the garrison of Se-
vastopol shall count as twelve.
War in lite Crimea.
infiuetes
suits likely to be confine 1 toie sphere of
an ordinary prosee ition in district, but
arc of afar more extended ¡instance."
The attorney for the Govament stated
that he liad writen to the Attocy General
ofthe United States for inslctions as to
the course to be pursued witli gaitl to the
remaining indictments, and |d rel ieved
replies from Mr. CushL.g, v. hii lie read to
the Court.
The Attorney General s?m that "the
Government has addressed toiat of Great
Britain such demands f>r p'uhlre lress and
satisfaction in the premises, actional hon-
on requires," and adds, i:i ctít, that the.
British Government has deemit sufficient
to reply "that it gave instijions to its
agents so to procced as not topfringe our
municipal laws." 'j ho Att«rv (hühhI
thinks that if "by ingenious «rivalices"
the British Govcrnineut, whiHceomplish-
i:ig the work it had in hand, ¡¡inst ali the
principles of n.teniaíion .l ¡¡v.ind comity,
"it has, iu so d ilng, doubled t magnitude
ofthe national wrong isiílicteéi the Unit-
ed States." And ii this lie J the writer j niines, to destroy the splendid docks, arse-
nals and shipbuilding yards of Sevastopol,
' and thus destroy the fitness ofthe place for
naval stronghold. Though there is no of-
ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF TBS AFRICA.
DECLINE IX COITO .
Halifak, Oct 24.—Tbe Canard steam-
ship Afrfca, Capt. Harrison, has arrived
with news from Liverpool to the 13th
one week later than that received
Atlantic at New \ork. Her commei
telligence is of considerable importan,
the information from the seat of war, tl??
of course correspondingly later and not
out interest, comprises nothing of do;.
Liverpool Cotton larkct 1
The reports of the Liverpool cotv
market are very unsatisfactory, and by
means consistent beyond agreeing in gr
a considerable decline, with a dull mark<
According to some circulars the dc
was from ^d. to gd. per pound for
and Mobile produce, while buj*ers wt
«landing a reduction of ¿d. per pound on thf
quotations by the Atlantic.
Others report the decline generally
from ¿d. to 3-16d. per pound, with th
market dull.
The sales of the week are reported to h '
amounted to only 31,000 bales.
The War. *
From tlie Crimea, the Africa brings little
or nothing of importance or much interest.
At Sevastopol there was an occassional
exchange of shots between the Allied force
and the Russians.
Near Kerteh there had been a slight en-
gngement in which tlie Allies had the ad-
vantagOi but the affair was of no moment.
The Allies were threatening to attack
The latest official despatches report the, „ , ~ —
south side of Sevastopol occupied bv detach- ; i,4.'1 , °'1* also to bombard Odessa again,
ments of French and English troops, who j letter operation was expected to be soon
have had distinct quarters of the town as-
signed to them
The Russians concentrated their forces
in the Northern forts and were occasionally
firing upon ¿he town, to which the Allies re-
ptSteO from tli nvfl w remnineri \:£
tact, (Nicholas and Quarantine) aud from
the ruins of other forts. Priv.ee G
in his reports, described the fire of iLe A I- I
lies as heavy.
The Brit i h and French engineers are mak-
ing preparations, by the sinking of ininienss
ortsciiakoh j condition
Sale of Negroes in Virginia.—On
Monday last in front of the Court House of
Loudon county, four negroes were sold at
extraordinary prices. A negro boy, 15
}*ars of age, brought $1,000. The negro
girls, 10 and 12 years of age, were sold at
seven hundred and ten dollars, and size hun-
dred dollars respectively ; a small boy about
7, commanded seven hundred and seventy-
five dollars. .
During the pestilence in Norfolk, one in
three have died in that city. Some idea of
this fatality may be gained by remembering
that during the great plague in London
only one iu seventeen died. The New
York Herald computes that, if the city ot
New York sbouhrhe visited by a plague as
fatal as that in Norfolk, the deaths would be
twenty-five thousand a week, or a hundred
thousand a mouth during the period of its
continuance.
intimates that, when the trialire over and
the facts appear, "the President the Unit-
ed States will have the clem<j of a decis-
ion before him, as to what ¡¡national ac-
tion it becomes the l.nited its to adopt
in so grave a matter."
In the course of this statemlor "confes-
sion" of ILartz, above ailudedbe said that
when he went to Washir.gtonlconfer with
Mr. Cr&mpton, lie (11.) asketie Minister
about the law, to which Mr. Uplied :
First, that the law was esdingly lax ;
and secondly, that it' anythiishonld hap-
pen, the British, Goveinuienftmld not al-
low any one to suiter who lupeen engag-
ed in assisting them in furnig the men.
I replied that the popular is against
this matter;" but Mr. Ciamplsaid, "nev-
ermind about the popular v. if a house
in Liverpool fails the wholeiitcd States
tremoles,"
Hertz; concluding thisstatjnt, sumsnp
all as follows:
All that I did in procuriáiyl sending
men to Halifax for the Ftfrp f&jjjroif,*was
done by the advice and reo endation ot
Mr. Crampton, [British Mini: Mr. Howe,
[the Nove Scotia agent] an •. Mathew,
¡British Consul at Philadca.j I was
employed by Mr. Howe, a icted as his
iipprobation
. thew. Mr.
(peditions I
uraged me
encouraged
Important Verdict.
We have alresdy briefly alluded to the
trial óf Hertz and Perkins for enlisting men
in this country for the foreign military ser-
vice in the Crimea, which has occupied the
time of the United States District Court at
Philadelphia for a number of days past. It
will be seen f¿uui the subjoined despatch
from Philadelphia, which we received yes-
terday, that one of the parties (Hertz) has
been found guilty on all the bills :
Philadelphia, Sept. 27,1855.
The several indictments against Hertz for
recruiting, troops for the British service in
the United States were given this morning
to the jury, who, after being out fifteeu min-
utei returned a verdict of guilty against
Hertz on all the bills.— Washington. Union.
Electioneeitt.xs in Louisiana.—Col.
Claiborne writes to the Delta:
"On my travels just- now I hear of noth-
ing but politics. A story is told of two op-
posing candidates, who lately
met ou the
with us against this Northern baud of high- j "ver. The Nnow Nothing won all
~ . . ° i hearts by the caresses he lavished on the
waymen and cut-t iro.its. j t],¡¡jrcll> Xlie next house they halted at,
\es, General Pierce, fetched from the ¡ the Democrat picked up the youngest child,
hills up In New Hampshire, where lie was a j laid it upon his lap, turned up its little shirt.
famous man among seven or eight politi-
cians of that little State, carried to the city
of Washington on the wave of popular favor;
and icent to hunting
red bugs!
The moth-
er was in extacies, and the Know Nothing
sloped."
agent with the knowledge
of Mr. Crampton and Mr
Mathew knew of both th
sent. He approved and
in sending them away.
me by his advice and couns^d in giving
me money to send thcin aw;
The True I.*-i ií.—Rus ed for the
Nebraska Bill, aud the so < Í repeal of
the Missouri Compromise
thus open-
ed a vast territory equally 1 > the Slave-
holder andthose from the fr< ites. Rusk
voted with Cass, Douglas) the entire
Democracy. Houston vc igaiust this
measure and in alongfanf:i le sympathi-
zed with the "poor Indian I the negro
loving Seward aud his alii* iouston then
joined the Know -\othiii¡ >ade, which
had its organ in the succes ¡ii eminent-
ly Southern measure. Eiiress in 1 es-
as condemned General I If and appiov-
ed of General Rusk at t'.ii What will
Know Nothing do now ? ftbey by their
votes in the Legislature ami iiu-'k and
approve Houston I llerfi issue which
no oaths can dodge, "ifcr i'uijs shall
ye know them." The jvill tc!l who
are for and who agaiustjitioiiists. No
speculation about "loriiul Come to the
mark.
The Compliments ¿e Season.—
The Ohio politician's araig a nice time ^
just about now. One ofepublican pa- •
pers desires to have it
"Before the people tliüam Medill is
in favor of hors-stcalin* favor of poly-
gamy ! In favor of negllgamation ! In
favor of depriving peoihe electiv fran-
chise !" 1
Medill is the candi J the nnferrified
Democracy ; and liiJn comes back
upon Chase, the reji leader, thus:
"Keep it before ti#'e that Sainton
P. Chase is in favor i > suffrage ! In
favor of negro jurorgpavor ot negro of-
fice-holders ! In favJnferring upon ne-
a
iicial information on the subject—the Allied
generals. Tor obvious reasons, being silent on
their future operations—there are the vari-
ous premonitions of a vigorous campaign in
the open field.
Prince Gortschakoff, on the 231 ult„ re-
ported that 26,000 men had been landed at
Eupatoria, ami that on the 2Gt!i this force
was increased to 33,000 men. He has since
ii ported ha' "imposing masses" of the Alli-
ed troops continue to threaten the left wing
of the Russian army, from the valley of Bai-
dar, while a force amounting to between 30,-
000 and 40,000 men threatens the risrlit wins
ofthe Russians from Eupatoria.
The London Times correspondent, writ-
ing on the 21st, is not at all sanguine that
the Russians will be forced to abandon their
position on the approach of winter.
Le Nord, of Brusel, takes a hopeful view
of Russian affairs in the Crimea. A writer
in that journal says :
"The situation is not entirely to our dis-
advantage, and the honor of our arms has
been in no way compromised. Our men
will no longer be obliged to offer themselv es
up as a holocaust, but will now be able to de-
fend themselves in a close fight and sell their
lives at a high cost."
The same paper states that out of the 10,-
000 seamen who had undertaken, with their
officers, the defence of Sevastopol, only a
fourth survive, with six or seven officers."
The Allies are reported to have establish-
ed 130 mortars at Sevastopol, with which it
was expected they would soon render the
north side untenable.
On the evening of the 3d Ir.st., Gortcha-
koff reported that on the previous day the
enemy made an ineffectual flank movement;
that the Russians advanced posts still occu-
pied their former line, and that nothing had
beeu undertaken against the northern posts.
Another letter from Kars says. "Omer
Pasha has arrived at Batoum, and was receiv-
ed with great enthusiasm by the half-starv-
ed garrison of that place. The strength oí
the corpse d'armce, which is represented at
l(j,00U iner. of all arms, docs not exceed at
present 4,000 sabres."
Miscellaneous War News.
Liet. Gen. Simpson has been made a Gen-
eral and G. C. B., and Col. Windham, who
headed the British attack on the Redan, a
Major General.
Major Gen. Windham is likely to be plac-
ed at the head of a division in the Crimea.
Marshal I'elissier has received from (¿ueen
Victoria the Grand Cross of the Bath.—
en. Simpson has received the rare distinc-
tion of the Grand Cross ofthe Legion of
Honor.
Two divisions, one French and the other
English, occupy Sevastopol. The amy <¿1
operation, under Marshal Pelisier, will take
the field. Gens. Simpson and La Marmora
will hold defensive positions. The Allied
i forces arc full of confidence.
Accounts from Constantinople of the 24tli
■ tilt., state that 13,000 men of the Anglo-
Turkish contingent had left for Varna.—
Omar Pacha is concentrating 50,000 men
near Shefkatil a fort taken from the Rus-
sians at the commencement of tbe war. 5005
entered on.
Thr Danube.
Tlie Allies are reported to be actively ei¡-
£n<rod on tlie Danube, and preparing for hos-
tilities thpc also.
Asia.*
In Asia ificre is no change reported in the
f affairs.
j 'I i:e 'i'url- { continued to hold Kars,
í although closely ¿".vested by the Russians.
Fpai:!.
Affairs i;i Spain have assumed a rather
more favorable aspect. Quietness was pre-
vailing for tl.e present, apparently iu all
parts of tlie kingdom.
France.
The Paris Monitetir has ofdeially an-
nounced that the Empress Eugenie is likely
to present the nation with a direct represen-
tative of the present ruler of France.
Denmark.
Denmark proposes a capitulation (?) fo«
the redemption of the Sound Dues and a
congress of all the maritime powers at Co-
penhagen to settle the question with regard
to them.
Bnsslan Lou. 4
A former rumor that Russia is negoti-
in^ a loan in the United States has been i
vived.
More Troops for tlie i'rimri.
Marseilles advices report that every
tion is being made to reinforce the "
army in the Crimea.
The Crimea.
The Russians have thus far 6ucceed :
checking the attempt of the Allies to advat.
upon Perekop.
Gen. Simpson telegraphs that 10,000 mew
were daily employed in making a road front
Balaklava to tlie camp. The Russian fire
from the north side of the harbor, he says,
caused some delay in the execution of the
work, but was not sufficiently serious to pre-
vent the continuance of it.
The Russian loss in Sevastopol during th©
three weeks previous to the commencement
of the bombardment on the 5th nit. is said to
have amounted to 30,000.
The Danube.
French troops are reported to have been
concentrated on the Danube.
An army of 50,000 French troops was.
expected at Sillstria by the end of the cur-
rent month.
The Black Sri.
The Russians, It is said, have an army oC'
45,000 men in the vicinity of Nicolaieff^
The Czar was at Nicolaieff attending *
council of war.
The Allied fleet had arrived at Odessa o
the 8th. An early bombardment of
place and an arrival of an army at the p
were expected.
Asia.
The Turks are reported to have been dt
f'eated iu Asia with a loss of 400 slain.
Austria.
Austria announces that she has a most
perfect understanding with France.
Italy.
A British fleet has been ordered to the
coast of Italv.
The Baltic.
I ne Russians are said to be repairing the
damage done by the late bombaidment of
Sweaborg by the Allies.
Kumored iatirmonial Projrct.
It is rumored that an alliance between
IM¡;c3 Napoleon and the Princess Royal of
England is probable.
The Democrats have carried every
county in Indiana except three or four.—
Then- majority in the State is about 15,000,
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