E JOURNAL. JOHN 8. MANN, EDIT9Ipt. 011:11)ERSPORT; PAC 4 Htiilol3 - Af'Blltnt.NlNG, NOV. 22 1855 lar t ylic f ponneautville Republicap. PaAftict_.p.rszposes a State Convention s eeditoralispliosed too' the Nebraska. ;riot!. ;A ni‘et it „Huntingdon, Oil the . 19titssf:Decembeis • Such: to Conven= Jinn raiglit'do.'ultieh good,ibut it will' )14114 11)4, 7 ..4;0d. If Harrisburg had ... , tpliTiraniod as the place, and January •gia the:time, it would have pet with `xi:lore:favor:'.: But 'our planTto form a "union:is :more' liknly . to be effective, Svc tisioic.. That is. for the Antillsle• Israskainembais of the Legislature to ialEssr--Dalegate Convention - for the 1 .4 surpisses t of nominating a State and lectorai•ticket; and of harmonizing the .pari,4l:ebraska t fordea of the State. ' :if thi s isisini Clone, We hoiethße fublicim State Committee will•call . a sipustuican eonventiOns to meet early iu4beli'srason. The:Philadelphia San. .....-.. .. e Vezcs, and others who."thinti• this' Ire- Inthlii.an vote is of no cortsetinehois. 7jvill get their eyes open some day, and 4/...ra . tie shrill have an effort to carry 4.13? State, that will be successful. tr pre Warren Zedger sap ; i. qiillrarnson has'anstained any pa fOnikry damage cchiFne tnentita& ',titn t ioubledly tras, let his d abo lition friend • make*tbem syyje to him." And pray, sir, why should bpiitiuu friends"; Er; ••. • ' Apike up a' p lati - (i ainage nc r. liy' Judge.ea -IJ° 'illegal im 13rsoirment of au honest mati? To Tour Understanding of things, Bross ';uen 'who 4esire to save Judge Kano i fruna . ' paying for a gross outrage, 'eto - tile make up .the damage. We :submit that the Warren . Ledger is un .friiiiuitir as muchsebligritiou 10 make 'pis tlasloss a as 'we Ric: . If William taoesteeds any fimds io 'aid him in resecliting the tyrant Judge,' we 001 VlYVerfully• ethitt , ibilte 'our . share Attsuch fund;6t4l hot a- cent to make 'it dirthriges . fer which Judge Kane is responsible. jar The Winter 'A'erm of the r " 4ers port Academy will commence on he ;id - day of Decembe: next.". The %adding is undergoing repairs, and 14 trelu good conditiuo fur the cont . , prt .an d convenience of the scileal. )ye Mips and expect that at least filly istudents _will enroll their namos thu ;lrbt day of the term. r. . t 'he union qf.ulalia Division b. of T., on Saturday evening Just, was "inuiti . than' usually interesting. We ihink our. sessions during the winter }will • bai 'full of interest ; and We re ,. bpectfully invite the attention of all the et : Oire'sS iu this community, the claims of tho order upon them. ‘Thuse who are not members, we think Might to lose no time in becoming • I.". Or There - will lie services this ('Thanksgiving) returning, at ia'- eiticit;' 'at the Methodist Chinch, by itev. W. H:ShaiV: • ,11Cr - 7 The comrrignica.tiou of I-I.qmer, li,reathes.tile true apirit, and is thank lfglly inceived. We desire to hear tiirmers much oftener than it has * - 40fgre 1/QOEI Our . p.riNiipge• •• p '7 The members of Couderspoq, h r 3. iP : unio n Asau i '' vti t t i ' h ! The y Literary t'ha ;li 'view to tss t o t c fr ' t e t lien; adjourned to meet on Wedues 'clay 'evening ki llec. 5, at which liirici We hope to iff a general atketitliinCe x. 6f those who'desire to enlfrenibe long 4 .v . even in gs h —later wi th . literary enter 'elements. a Chtudt that - has salt in The laitUiPline of the United Broth, ren miles elnreholding a bak tri church ihertiiiership:' The time 'll6ll soon cotiite tvtiO t lite - Elhuil.ll; which does hot eiclude slaveholders from ' its aommuaion; will - have no power to do tea:. • •.', • : ' • We fiug in the jest .Theligiout Tele-. intdreeting letter in ref •rence to 'the IdissourilConferetice of the United: Brethren' Church, from lehich - we'extract the follotiini: . In ,stmag fopetts Ole past . year hes been a hard Vile for Western Mis eienarie!k, ;wring to the almost fan3ine "mincing-di:Ought "id the year pra . ceeding ,- -it,' - and - 'the great incciretrien'e on the subject of slavery. Yet amid 41 their discOurateinents;fatirithe, k,kreatening's of 'mobs; 'our' bra:bred ?have not only been able to holditheir 'own, but:they have bad quit anThen,. cottraging increase.' They Ihave _not enck been drixen.fronithe post:a-du . du.tj; they have made no compromise 'with slavery - noy pro-s,laie)y influen s;. }jut have caaed2l* thoAso : -.. plhic in 16 letter and spirit. No one .ponnected with slavery in anY wax. has been able' to' find adinisSionluto the societies., Truly,'ltnii-;slaveiy . isters and churches slave State,' are:lightti place. I am more thaii ever conv inced , that. anti.slavery cchurches , to sustain missions and 'plant churches in the Soilth. 'For up on the subject Of: alaverY theie• is a vast amount of ignorance even among the most intelligent. ' Every „effort is mad e to exclude, every ray Of light upon this subject:' Anti-Slavery hooks and papers are not to be found there, while the teaching and practice Of the church, of nearly_ every denomination, go to sustain the peculiar . int+titgtion as it exists' among them. If the church es" of the South 'will not reform; of which 'I see no hope, and lake Bible 'ground on this' great' sin, Alien the churclie of th'e, North who shaye the truthi'onght to go - duth, and spread, - it 'ahraad; It is as much their duty- to do this as it is to endeavor to redeem Ole 4 9 . 4 00 4 ,0 f distunt countties from idolatry, caste, and polygamy, . • S - M 1 riMIZNii The Constitution and By-lavis- of this society, Gave been remodeled and greatly in; ovecl,.-as we I.liink. At a meeting held on the 12th instant, committee was, appointed Jo. , wait on our citizens for the purpose of :in creasing the, numbet: of the stockhold ers—tlie money raised by this increase to be appropriated to the pdrchu.se of a staiidord Encyclopedia, and other works of a 410,0m:oaten. 11Ir. Vim. Hamilton, Actuary. of Jaw Franklin, lUsli.4te, has kindly offered to. Atteral a haul: auction on the - 6.14 . of-123incern,-. ber, and purchase for us,fi•ee ofchargei such works as our L t ibrary Assucation may direct. Under these circumstances we trust our citizens will respond in a liberal spirit to the request of the committee to take stock in the Library. Rees' Encyclopedia of 41 volumes of 500 pages, will cost about $5O.- It is a work in which every person will be interested. No village making. any pretensidnu to‘progress in education, Can, afford' to' do without it. CM A share in the . Library prigs : , but two dollars, and . .thd quarterly tax,. is but t : ; twnnty-five . cents. Every friend of : educp,On # . nd of progress Ia litera ture in this village, ought to become a member, and we invite our friends in the county•to examine the Library and the Constitution of the Association, and see if it is not to their interest .to become Members.. The Americans of New Hampshire,. in State Council, have adopted a plat form on which all Anti-Nebraska men can Stand. if the Harrisburg. Tele graph, Warren .tail, add papers of that stamp, desire 'union in I'euns7l - let them tecommend the adup titin of a similar course by the Ameri cans of this State. , Tho following is the New Hamp shire. platfor'm entire : Resolved, That we cordially approve the Course of the ,delegaiits from this State, who attefided the National Coun cil at Philadelphia,. in June last, hind must heartily sustain their action in severing their connection with the present national organization. . . • •Aesolved, That- freedom being na tiotial and slaVery sectional, While the latter is left in the exercise of all its strictly constitutional rights, in- the States where it now exists, •its Inrther extension and longer punectiou • with the general government should be uu ebnipromisingly opposed and resisted, iind'•the for ttie. exectitiol4 of its elistingpiiyilegas rode to' conform to the dictates of justice and.humauity, • Resolved, That .the questieg of the extltsiou et alavem,aoioWpresented to the country the repot' of the Prolibition, by the `outrages practicedK. • ausaa, under the Sane, tioti 'of the. administration, - and' - by -die decision of an arbitrary and tyrannical Federal Judge, which, if ikatlptect as the . judicial doctring of goyeru• meta, will • make every Free . State in Flie Uhion, slave ' - terlitory, 'la' the piiransouut• 'question ..now before' ttie nation, and tha; tee hclieve* the tine has arrived job"; oppose the further on s koAamonit of AloOt',V , and .wotilcl restore the policy of the' Fatheii of tie Republic, should unite their dreitiand fo-operatcfp o r that purpose. 'Reioired; Thatin,the judgment of this.Siate.Counsil, all,cereptuitics, of into the A.niericau pifty, and THE LIBRARY AtROCIATIOL THE BIGHT 8P,., as the councils or clubk . it jheir xe- - 1 8ploctivciFwas shall thiiik M•Oimr to, adopt fdrAtheir owe gofvernOeut, te• discontinued and renaovo: • Resokid, ,That this State ICoun'cit fully and wiequivocalli.-re-affirmiiihe `semi mentiati'd principles ofthe Ariteii- can:party, and adheres to the great •fundamental &thine, that Americans' -should rule Resolved, That these 4•esolutions pu4lished-in the -various-newspapers of the State. . ' Ilk: MANN Pleasn give' the- follow ing a place tl476:iinat.: Although it is a very large 'statroent, yet' it la' corract: l 'Mr. D. H.4rr, of this plabe, raised'fiftY-five bushels of Potatoes this year, on one:eighth lof an acre ; and Mr. P. M. Paltaer, his neighbor, sowed one half rod to yellow Carrots, which brotight him six bushels, 'after using them occasionally through the sun mar. That would he at the rate of 1920 bushels per acre. ' L. WAREEIQ Pleasant Valley, Nov. 17, 18.55. MR. EpITOR : The township of Ho-, mer, your reSders are Otero, is, situa-. ted,near the great.lumber region of the Sinnennahoning creek.and.branch es., •Farm. (produce has .heretofore been such as was in the: greatest de reand„by. lumbermen, -viz r . hay, oats, and :potatoes. These, were easily. raisert.trad readily.disposed of. Yet, taking everything into consideration, this system of farming was. probably the worst. that could have been pur sued. The land rapidly deteriorated, while for nearly every article of food and clothing the farmer was depend ent upon a foreign market. But thanks to hard times and high prices, 4ra bet ter time is coming, boys ;" for farmers haye commenced raising their• own provisions. A large proportion, of them the past year raised a quantity sufficient for family use, while there-, mainder intend, with the bleasing "of Providence, to patronize the flour .merchants on longer ;hap the present year._ ,A large quanti4y of winter grain has been sown this ffill--trobat bly double the amount sown any year previous. We have no extraordinary crops to brag of this season. Suffice it to say our crops of . wheat, rye, oats, and corn, wore . full average,ones for potter county, or any other county in Northern Pennsylvania. The spirit of improvement is touching with ifs magic wand the fair fields of our coun ty. " May its shadow ngver be less." NOY. ig, 185&. • • MORAL EFFECT OF THE STATE ALEcTIOIf It is evident that the recent elec tion in this State has emboldened the run:lst:hers in this city. Liquor selling has increased, cud the traffickers are more defiant than formerly—expecting doubtless, the removal of all restric tions, Upon the sale of liquors. As a consequence, drunkenness js, increas ing to an alarming extent. One night last week seven persons were bronght into the lock up drunk. Among theso, was Charles E. Wells, son Of . Judge Wells, democratic candidate for Guy= ernor ; who doubtless in a few mouthi expects to occupy the seat of Chief Magistrate of this Coinmonwealth.• • Another. was-Nathan Clifford, son of Hon. Nathan Clifford, ex-Attorney- General of the S., es-Minister to Mexico, and chief jugleinan at the bogus inquest held at the City Hall, and Counsel for the O'Neils, and Du gans, and Dumphies, low Irish rurnsel leFs who figure so frequently at our Felice C6urt. It is a sad thing . , that these young men should 'be the victims of the de grading nice of intemperance i and for their sake and that of their : 'families, • We would, could we consistently with our duty to the ,cause, withhold their names., Ott the position of their fa thers with"ieference to the liquor laW requires its qii a temperance journalist • . to spenk a few words . te the publ ic. We set• down nothing in malice -or anger. • Pint asjhese - meivchave ex erred themselves to the extent of their polyer and indusece, to defeat the tem perance movement—they cqmpassed sea and land,' during the last campaign to make proselytes against t the:Maine: Law, palitieularlY the • farmer gentle ntan-n ye pairnot jn , iustjcg to. the cense,, we adv,ocate, Iceeu.silen;. It is .right that . the public . should %nosy that these inee whose sorts are the victiiiis to the infamous liquor traffic, are themselves its stromnius : defenderai as strange its it-may seem. ~.Ere two „months ..have,,passed by, singe tfie : election, , those, , in yonng men are found in - the Streetstate or beastly intoxi4tiou. Safely there is such a. thing - as. Maine Teraperance Jpu in!. c' COAL - AHD IRON 16105 r PESNSYLVAiIIi. On sewal tratirs of,latp we f hants;l referred 4_ 'which recol' IntlVcoOpen'tte;d'ini the , ,beighborfinud tif•Snietkprort,”iicl<eatc= : - coutt i y ,4141 a. Some; time 81nc~o Di: 'J oh R.:; ; ;Smith, of Ri•ka, ;ThOotio6!o Witiatik;:of Rush;lin - d Z`. -- W. and Co., of Honeoye Falls, organized thernaelvesrinto:a. , .company 'snit; putt., chased - severalthousand - atres-ofirmd;• ...npon!'hhicb'fifefinitnensn iron ore- and. coal- , of -various -qualities:, Spesimens of ; both, of,.these,Articles. have heenlelt . with us,, and ii only re- .. quires th e et:lMO:Alen of the""lrdlrey: Canal to Olean, or a pith& high - er: the' Allegany deemed Preferable, to bring these : products ,roadily ! l9,; ortrt Market. The iron: : Ore, samplek , are very rich, 'and — the - supply' abundant' for ages tti. thorn.' The stone 'ill' true , of the coal, the layer of the bituminous being nearly. eight feet in thickness, and furnishing cannel where, it erop's out. A.change in the Canal— making its'switherrif terminus at Pert vale, would strike the . slack*ater gation upon the Allegany, and enable the boats to load ;near :the' ruines - and proceed directly,. to this city—a dis tance of about 103 miles Meastires 'have been - adopted to secure slack 'water navigation, and sko to construct three short railroads,•for the purpose' :of - facilitating the transportation of the products they the . mines to the points where' they may be readily moved tb :market, The' samples orbituminous coal furnis hed, ignites with great-readi nese, and burns out without leaviing thto.laige' amount of ..!clinker7. c opa - men .with, ether : descriptions of coal. This variety can, when the canal - is . l finished, be fli!ni,lied to our 'citizens at $3;75 per ton—a price at Which the , . company are ready to ,contract, as above stated. 'We .expect to see au active trade, opening up in this dire-c- : tion,, before ninny months, not only in thoarticlekmentiorted;: but in lumber large' forests of vit•gin pine will R c iiioligiat -within reach through: the 'Cliannelsupplied by the-Genesee Val ley Canal:—Rocliester Republican. For the Journal For the Journal LECTURE OF MISS WRIGIIT.7---It has seldom been our privilege to - li4ten to an 'address froth a lady—not from lack of opportunity, but inclination, as we are free to .confess. that hitherto we were prejudiced against women ap pearing to such . f ositions, and thought it was net their proper' sphere ; and it was with all these prejudices impress ed upon our mind,:that we.entered the Gunft Rouse, A.s.we listened .to, the palm. dispassionirt.e argument, and very frequently eloquent naetaphorical coinparisima of this fair. champion of the-Temperance RefOrm, otzr • prejti dices melted away like snow-before a autniner's sun, and we.soou litund our selves among her Most attentive -hear ers. Lectures like this are calculated to carry conviction, and we cordially recommend her to the temperance people of the State, as an able advo cate of this great: refurm.- At the close of Miss Wright's address, speeches were delivered by Messrs.- McMinn and Youngman, who acquitted them selves in their usual happy style.— Williamsport Press. We learn from the Pittsburgh. Pa pers that the Darlington Cannel Coal Railroad Company, of Beaver county, are now in successful operation, send ; ing out about one hundred and fifty• tons per day, but cannot half supply the demand. A - .large. amount of it is carried to Allegheny. city, and :sold for domestic purposes, for the largo bakeries and fur tempering glass. For this last purpose bituniinotis coals'dri• nut answer, and , glass manufacturers have heretofure been compelled to use wood. The cannel coal is ~pw used in two of the Pittsburgh glass, IiQUSWS. and at one in Bridgewater, Beaver county, •and it is said• to be better and I , cheaper fbr tempering than wood. A party of Pitt.burghers, Messrs, CCENT, WATSON & Cu., have purchased a site at the junction of the Darlington road with the Ohio and Pennsylvania road, and have commenced the erection. of a. large manufactory for the, purpose of distilling oil from the cannel• coal, and entered into arrangentetiti with that Company for the supply ortual. actual experiments it has been ascer tained that it contains at leastiortx gallons of oil to the ton, and the ex pense, of making it is not more' than fourteen cents per 'gallon. The Sit is of a superior 'quality for light;' when. burning emits neitheramokutiorsthe4lo and is not explosive... It is now menu-. factured'succemsfirlly in Islew York and sold at one dollar per . so valuable for machinery, as ft neither gums nor does: it: congettl . mercury .sinkitat / 0 5. deg.. _below hero.. From the:cheapness wittk which it pan be made it is evident that it, willition be produced in:tiantities,' tending greatly te'rechiPe the pricea very desirable matter.. The Darlingtoh. Company own, five hundred anti great acres ,of, c,anuel! coal—have At a great expense completed their road, and are .now lit, fgll oentiectiorr with tie Lakeiv and . the Ohio rivera-central-position , that must seouruthem great advents-, The ; vein of cannel cuul averages, -from fourteen to ktfieenfeet in 'thick neati, ant is 'civei•lan.l O' rein cannel' coal `shale' of ten feetin PENNSYLVANIA CANNEL COAL ness, laliChalthough not good for fuel, on . s much cdas.hite era. -441 e 8' e ng carclitisettmainbd of i 1 ati4 eitt, ly mattet, and, the cottl of Or- Inltt-a4 oil. It, is computed !bat, , -- g.. a low eiqmste, there, is- to eveiy acre forty tiOusund tnt of ilie oiltytelditig •sub.tanee: . a minta ---- riiiter'-inw•ciflth than the-gold-yielding quartz of Cali . ornia.- T7 P/ti/gde/p?ti . e Sun. Frpoi 66Ni-et:welt Free State, October 29. CONQtritIT 6F filis ' iitti STATE PARTY. No p,arty hap been more,,successful in „its conquest il.an Tree 'State party; sitfce . ille,l3ig . Spriit CMii4lf tion'tivaei "Called. We find •trieii:in its. rinks ntY,' Nyho - Nverothe . .most::rabid. Oro-slavery men,at that. time. gin with, the ,Territoriul I:tegister, which iva:;a"real 'pro-sh:44 sheet, of the . Wriest kind,' viz : one' of that Oiss that sails. under the bogus name of Na-• tional Democracy,.:deelaring itself, in nearly.every, issue, a,.,pro-slavery ra •per, and devoted to - AIM interests of the South, has; the last few 'weeks, completely turiled• over to the .free state side of the question. Thus we °find now,of all the pro-slavery Na tional democrats enlisted on tae side of the. Free •.Stlite pity, ' and' , nOw 'actually control its every movement. - Many good free s tate men think that "all this is a - ,gruat .victory.. These . menlabored hard.to establish a democracy. in Kansas, that w.6uld cetiiiive at all the outialges the people had suffered—being at first fascinated. by 'the. apparent 'victories of -the pro slay.ery, party ;,- ; but the : moment they; found .there„ was -no . hopes et'. favors, freMthatfiarty. as' the great niass . tif the . people of Kansas were eguinSt they came out at once highly in favor of-the platfebrrn: of the free state party, and imagine that they,'cau make the . most by going in with that party, and forming a state government. Every sane roan can foresee the're suit. The design is to administration ize the, free state, party—,as it is' now, at this.very.mument ele;riting, under -the .contrel of pro-slavery democrats— and in the process, of time the true enf- . ti-slavery men who have been faithful to .theright' in the' daritest hour, •and - from the moment the Compromise Was repealed, will be set down these bogus democratic leaders as fanatical abelitioniSts, and such men as 'have been heretofore pro-slavery or on the feuce,.will a regarded as sound "eon .servative" men, and of course arc en titled to all the credit of the working of popular sovereignty. We throw these feats out that true men may be *on 'their 'guard: Some say that it is well to --"use" certain men to make !Kansas free. But so far,us this is con cerned,, these "certain men" areuseing the free state patty to promote thiair own political inter estS, • Kansas will bo free, despite all the pro-slavery democrats in the world, and the combined powers of his Satan ic Majesty thxuttgliout .Christendom, so that, it is useless for u.s to give an inch to any ba4ely corrupt and dema gigging scoundrel. • Let the fieriest men ofthe Territory mark our :words, and consider well these . things.- NVhen we named our paper the Kan'si2s Free State,. we in tended that it should advocate the free dom of the white men, ai wall as that of,"groev.• Some men, however, will not believe until it is forever too late. NATIONAL .WOMANS'Ii RIGHTS CON VENTION.—Phe Cincinnati Gazcetr thus speaks, of the Woman's Rights Con 'veritionAately held in that city : • "Among the celebrities in attend ';atice are Mrs. F. D. Gip of St. Louis, - 11Us.gruestine L, Rose of NeW York, Mrs. Lucretia Mutt of Philadelphia. The 'proceedings yesterday consisted :mainly of sPeeches; Mrs. Gage was the .first speaker, and very well she spoke, She is the 'wry impersonation, of strong-mindedness,' She has the countena,nce of a . rescdtite, decided man, rough and strongly marked. She speaks with great fluency,- clearness, and point, rarely boggles fur a %Nord, and never talks nonsense. We doubt if she be not the ablest advoca.e of her views in the country.- " Mrs. Mutt is a venerable Quaker lady, with a tine, benevolent face, and a genuine. Quaker pleasantudis of manner. We have riot yet heard her in 'a set'. speed]. If there is any 'truth in:Phrenology, she has, a very superiorintellect. From ;he N. Y. Tribune • , /qatOlt 4,vatirs. • The Pacific arrived at an eat ly hour yesterday .morning with a budget of Anteresting news. The most .proini 'nen; fad 'is the 'pani6 in England Odin lwat. With' the• 'United' States. 'The article of The London. Times, which we, copied jast, week, 4nd the burden of whicli - was a filibuster • in vasibir ofrelded 'ft:Om:this, side Of' toe' .oceinititi . been followed - up; by' two 'ether;s-in the same journal, which we nqw transfer to our columns. The textofthese disquisitions is. Nulcif Mr. Caleb _ Cushing's , instructions to 1114 afttciiil suhordinates . concerning :the enfoi cement of the neutrality laws. 'Starting - limn. this text, and including in-the;aecount the other, causes of dif 7 ference between the two governments . The Times makes out, if not an imnic-• diate cam belli, at !least 'a ground of quarrel of sufficient importauei—to hay,c_alarmed all England, Not only The Times, but very respectable jour nalas oilt of London, propagate this curious delusion, while all sorts of fa tneis are thrown iii . to highten the ex citemelt—as, fur instancet`that Mr. BUChanan bad actually. hrokeu off di plomatic relations and demanded his passports. The alarm, howeier,• ' seems-to be rather_noisy_than .real since it had no effect on the stock mar ket. For the rest; so absntd• and gri . iitaless-on.agitation must Fireietit 'iti end, - Whether The • Times can, OM :ttn_ything. by. .making secips disturbance about nothing is - a question we di) not undertake tuaettlo Journalitim would .rather seem to be degraded than elevated by such a course. From the Crimea we have at last . the details of the expedition to Odessa and Kinburn. They add nothin g o f strategical interest to what we hare had occasion to obserVe before with. regard' to that expedition. The rapid destruction of the defenses of Kinburn is accounted for by the fact .that the ramparts were riveted with masonry oti the mitsib and .filled up within with sand - only. The -two-feet-thick rivetment was of course 'speedily bat tered doWn, and the loose sand rolled down as soori'a'sthe widi had ceased to hold it. - Another re:tiltleas expedition Was undertaken froni Eupatoria toward Sympheropol. The French and Sar dinians have retreafea - from their ad vanced positions, and again 6ccupV ti the Chernaya. According to' a 'dis patch`from G-orchakoff, • however.they have again appeared on the upper Bel, bek.• Whether the Allies will be in a position;•even if willing, to attempt anything serious against the Russians in this quarter. 'depends so much ,on the weather that .all speculation on this score is useless. • It is certain that they have lost, seven oreight valuable weeks in furthing platia and counting .the cannon balls linind in Seliastupol. •Gorchakoff, armed ivith dicretiunary ,powers frum the Emperor, declares he will bold the Crimea at' ell hazards", hut we strongly suspect this is to be a feint. The preparations for war still con tinue, but along with them rumors of peace extend quietly mole and more over Europe. If any belief is to be attached to the statement, the powers of the second order, especially to Ger many, and the King of Belgium ire among trio busiest pacitica tors. How fur these-rumors are cred ible it is difficult to say, but their to petition 'shows that on buth sides the. belligerents are tired of the war., Paris and Louis Bonaparte are visited t)y special and extraordinary envoys,, whose visits at this stage of affairs seem of a peculiar character. M. Von der Plea-then, president of the Bava rian cabinet ; de Beu,t, premier of Saxony, were recuivtd at tne -Tuile ries along with Gen. du %Vittisen, the ancient mediator between his master the King of Prussia, and Louis Buna pt they were there not mere ly to pay a courteous ‘isit, The two ti:st: were the principal movers and wto kers of the uppiLitiun of the Ger man States to , tow active , alliance of • Au•tria With the West—the mire as tonishing, then, their actual presence in Paris. At any rate, htIWCYUI should it Lome in reality to negotiations, the difficulties appear still greater than previous ,to the • fail of Sevastopol. We cannot imagiae what coucessiuns the Russian Emperor could make af ter the partial debar of his armies. Hu cannot now recede ur yield with out endangering his popularity with the nation, excited to the utmost.. Not on account or the war, but by his sign ing a dishouurable peace, would ha run the risk of a revolution in the pal ace and hi the squares and streets of St. Petersburg, and of an indignant rising against him of the whole nation:, Thus we are almost sure that he is far frem thinking'uf concessions, and his acts show it. A new recruitment of ten in the thousand is decreed. It is also rumored that. Alexander intends to spend a great- part of the winter in Warsaw, ‘vhich is nearet to the theater of war; and lastly that in the Spring he is to lead the army in person any rate a noble and-manly do cisiun, fctr now as of old sovereigns as w e ll as their subjects should yersunally face death. • Shuuid there b,e - nify titith in the .preparatiuns for peace, whieli we ac cept hesitatingly, at any rate it is no t Vienna that is likely t.O'beCome• their center. The confereuce will meet in" some other. spot; or what is more probable,, the powers will try, to , avoid publicity, and the noisy, boisterous interference , of. public opinion Aitlt the negotiations. Most probably the, affair will be carried ou by unknown secret mediators ; and whoever such may be, the negotiations will be cov ered by an impenetrable veil of silence and mystery, and only when the nfraire are . brought to their finality will the. doors be thrown ope,n, the :public.ad:. mitted, and some city, chosen - for, the meeting of the diplomats, giving , thus a legal formal consecration to things secretly predetermined'. In whatever way they.are to. bp- conducted, - open or occult, peace is desirable.r The in terest.of the masses can only be .ad vanced by peace. - •
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