. - tip Republican (Compiler. esTitiv4futqt MONDAY 31ORNINO, SANt 11:7WOOD1.-WOOD14 WOOD -wood—hiekory or oak--and the sooner it comes .the better. this cold weather. Will not those of ,env. ends who have . the (by us, at least) nueli.needed article to Spare, 'britig a supply ? . 0::7 - Our Carrier• fnte_nds to present his friends, as usual, with a New-Year's greeting. 11le iispeets: tO" . see ..a power of good" result irOnn„it—inlining his pockets with such “con trivanci'l is -4 4p . i." ••lenies"atid "quarters.''-- s:7'Bear in mad, that another sole of Burn lots in Ever Green Cemetery takes place to day; p.rionday.) And bear in mind, that a meet ingof* Adatils County Agricultural Society, to talk-about-the application-of Lime ; to laud, wall* held at the Court-house, in this place, on Saturday next. ' IKAUGUILATION! — C OM. AMES a °GLOM., WI be inaugurated into the Gubernatorial chair, on Tuesday, the 16th ofJatMarY. not the 9th prox imo, ss stated by several of the papers. Show OWL Carruasn.—,A white or snow owl, measuring 4 feet 8 inches from wing to wing, was shot in the wing, and brought down, on Monday last, by , Mr. Wxwam Join4s, of Petersburg, (Y. S.) The bitd is• still alive, and becoming quite 4.tame." , -It is said to be the most beautiful of the owl kind. PRONTSMOti Marv:G.—The members of the Prohibition County Committee are requested to meet at the office of R. G. McCreary, Esq., in Gettysburg. on Tuesday, the . 9/h day of ,January, at 1 o'clock, P. M., to appoitit dele gates-to 'the ;State Convention, and to adopt such measures as the interests of the cause may require. fr7'lt is a rule with publishers of newspapers to bestow no attention upon anonymoui com munications or r requests—particularly when ixtstige is not pre 7 paid. . „ - • Q^ 'The' Committee on Foreign 'Relations in the . National House of Representatives have had Mr. Clingman's resolution, to offer the me diation of the United States to Russia on the one side, and to the Allies on the other, under considema ion, and have agreed unanimously to eport_in_itslavor— (C7Hon. Thomas- W. Dorr died at Proii deuce; L I, on Wednesday last,. after a lin gering Hines* He played an important - part in the Rhode Island rebellion. pr,i rate letter from Mr. Behn. the Uni ted States Consul at Me.sina, gives a frightful picture of the ravages of the cholera in that city, the mutation having been reduced by death and, emigration to less than 50,000. No $Ss than 20,000 persons died between the 22d of Angustand the 10th of September. 0 7A boy about nine years old was Cholsed, to death on Sunday, at 43elleville, N. J., 'by . a • , piece of hickory nut shell, which flew into his throat-vibile he was cracking the •nut.between , , - 117"Energetio measures are ,on foot for the relief of the poor of New Yorh. The members of the Corn txshange have appointed commit tees,to raise 'funds, and the Board of't'en Gov ernors recommends the expenditure of , twenty thousand dollars in providing nutrioious food • to the - deserving poor. . "-Tag CONVENTION or OLD SOLDIERS.--The president of the Pennsylvania Railrcuid Com pan y baa.agreed to permit the soldiers of the war of 1812 to pass over that road free of charge, on their tiay to the convention in Washington criithe tith'ofJanuary. Many of the Virginia roads will reduce their pricb one-half on that occasion. The Baltimore Steam. Packet Corn- Pany proposes to transfer the delegates 'from POrtsmouth to Baltimore and back for one fare, , The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will furnish round trip tickets on the Washington branch for 'SI '5O, (good for 6 days,)'and on the niaht stem,. from: _Baltimore to Wheeling, at once half the usual rates.. Other roads will no donbtAte equally liberal towards the old vete rans. :a7VACIEES HA NN'A.SA 'I, living in York, re cently Slaughtered two hogs, weighing together 1682 Pounds., One of them weighed 870 and the:other 812 pounds. lia — Wlt.t.i.e.ht U. MARTIN. a clerk in the post office at Balthnore, who was recently detected in' purloining letters from the mails, was on Friday,week convicted of the offence before the United States Court. The penalty is ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. SERIOUS A eCIDENT r . Philip Handly, 1 near Cresgerstown, Frederick county. Md., whilst digging a well a - few days ago, was very seriously, if not fatally injured, by the prituatUre discharge . of ti blast. The Herald says that one of eyes were knocked out, the other badly hurt and possibly lost, one of his arms much bruised, ant/ his hand shod:- ingly mas . • ANOTHER. DISOOVERX.—The scientific world otbuisisspecially interested at this nismient in a subject whieh has an immediate i nee for the industrial world—the fabrication of su gar and alcohol from wood. lapnbe Cincinnati Commercial says , that mew batch of conntet felt tens on the Stattel3a f)f - Oliiii, - ire getting into circulation. Thy are exceedingly. well done. Look out for them. 0:7 - Local polities run iii4gh in .the_soestern country, A candidate , fior county - Clerk in TPxas offered to register marriages for ft His - opponent, undismayed, promised to do the +saw and ammo a cradle in. •11:7•Tht merchants of Cincinnati hate just contrititted $5,300 to the relief of the poor in *bat city., c.C7' An, excellent en hgt tit te for coff , a hRR Leon found in the seeds of 2sp2ratns. .., The New European Alliance. - - Some of our cotemporiries do not think much Of die Nustrtan atrabee ttie Evrtfpean al= agaittstAussia. A New York paper says ‘!nol?ts4l7 api*ra..to imagipe:that_Attskis_en i tars into that.,Alliance otherwiiej than. under. thirpreiiintre of,itewasity. Sha -appears to. skit! with France and England because Palmei•ston arid LouirNapoleon say to her, 'we can stand your neutrality no longer: you mutt side with us, or we raise Hungary, Italy, Poland, against you.' It is probable also that a heavy subsidy froth the' British Exchequer is a part of the con sideration for this engagement. Austria ob tains this money, (which she sorely needs,) a guaranty of, the maintenance of her gotten and worse kept possessions, and prtsent im mu- nity from the ReVolutionary tempest lowering darkly on her horlzen. In return she engages to do—what ? To make war. on Russia, next spring, in case the Czar does not meantime ac cede-to reasonable terms of peace. Well, sup rose a coquetry 16 negotiations should be car ried on at Vienna for two or three months, and • , • • . :hada decider - that — the — Czar': propositions are reasonable, and, that but for the obstinacy and extreme preteritions of the Allies, peace might be made then? There will be loud talk of Austrian perfidy, of course; but there is nothing novel in that. We'suspect Count Boul would 'Survive it." Kossuth on the War. Kossuth has delivered a great speech in England on the war and the errors of the Allies. His view, enforced with his peculiar powers of oralory, is that the only means of securing the west of Europe against the encroachments of Russia. is the reconstruction of Poland, .fol lowed by the restoration of the other lately sub jugated and suppressed nationalities or the continent. He argues that the war has not been properly directed by the Allies, having made their attacks in the wrong places—where the Czar was best able to meet, and probably defeat them. lie, months ago, predicted many of the disastions results now apparent. The speech has made an impression. • SEVASTOPOL.—As there seems to be' some doubt as to the correct pronunciation of Sevas topol; we would inform the curious that ac cording to the Penny Cyclopcedia, and its 'de cision is adopted by other authorities, the right pronunciation is Se-vas-to-pol, the aceent being on the ante-penultimate, and the fin.ll syllable pronounced as if it were written pie, and notpoi._ The pronunciation of Constantinople, Adriano ple, &c.', may serve as a guide. The word is now indifferently spelt Sevastopol and Sebas topol—the letter b among the modern Greeks", having almost universally the sound of v. - FLORIDA U. S. SENATOR.—On the 16th ult., the legislature of Florida elected the Hon. David L. Yulte„dem., to the United States Senate for six years, in -the place of Mr. Morton, 'vvhig, whose term expires on the 4th of March next. The Otestood 7 —Yulee, 31 ; Brown, Whig, 21. ILLINOIS LEOISLATURE.—According to a state ment in the Washington Union, the "fusion" majority of one on joint ballot in *the Illinois Legislature has been_changedinto a Democrat._ is majority of one. in this way : Mr. Lincoln, a member from Sangamon county. seeing that he held the balance of power, and desiring to be a candidate for United States Senator, but not liking to vote for himself, resigned "his seat, under the impression that a personal and po litical friend would beelected to fill the Va cancy. The election came on,_ when the Dem ocrats united, and returne d one of their own party, thus giving them a majority of the Legis lature acid probably the United States Senator. TILE CIIIEF GRAIX PORT OF VIE WORLD.— The Chicago Press of the 1 4 th ultimo says that a thorough investigation establishes, the su pretna-cy of Chicago as a grain port over all other ports of the world. According to its cal culation the grain exports of Chicago exceed ItbOse of rear York by 4,296,393 bushels, those of St. Louis by • more than two hundred and fifty per cent., those of Milwaukie nearly four hundred per cent. Turning to the great grana ries of Europe, Chicago nearlyAlotibles St. Pe tersburg, and exceeds Gatatz and [brain). com bined, 5,406.727 bushels. GLEASON'S PICTORTAL.—Thia favorite illus trated journal for the new year is to be greatly improved, and one additional page of illustra tions added each week, making from one or Iv. hundred more illustrations per annum. The price is to remain the same. though the work will be printed henceforth on find satin-surfaced paper. M. M. Ballot], Esq., the proprietor, is resolved to make an illustrated journal which shall be-a credit to the whole country. its lit erary character. ill also he greatly improved. and more attention given to its descriptive de partment and editorials, for which purpose the proprietor has associated with himself, as as- . sistant editor,' Francis A. Durivage, Esq., a gentleman well-known in the literary world as a ripe, scholar, a graceful and ready writer, and an author whose fame is already es tablish- I ed. This arrangement will greatly enhance the intrinsic value of the Pictorial. The pub lic may be on the look-out for a magnificent per on the first of January. General Agent for Philadelphia, A. Winch, Esq., 116 Chesnut street. ALBANY' ITENts.:--On Tuesday afternoon the Iltidson River Railroad Sleigh, containing 20 pit.sengers, broke through 'the ice while cross ing, the river, submerging the horses. sleigh and pitsengers. All, however, were rescued -Mrs. J Reynolds and niece, of Hudson, and Mrs. E. W. Wilson, of New_York, , just as they were sinking. The Common Council of Albany have appro. pria tett five hundred dollars, and ordered two hundred tons of coal for the poor. CRC-EL CONDUCT OF A STEP-MOTIIER.—A man 1-named-C.-Guilphor. of Butler county, Ohio., lattly married a second wife. Soon after, it is a; lc 7, ed. she commenced treating his three smell children in a most brutal manner. A few days _ago_they_were_taken-w ith_ sudden a nd-violent Illness. A physician waStalled. and the cause i was attributed arsenic. The mother was no where to be found, and in a few hours the young ' est child, a little hoy, was a corpse; but the other two were saved. Officers have gone in pursuit of the mother. Ant Assessoa PUOSFZUTED. —We notice that at the- late term of Court. in Lehigh county; Judge 'McCartney fined ierhach. the. .As:iesgor of Upper Saucon township, ; 4 ;51) and Gists, for neglecting to attend the election as red by Las. A. Million and a Half in Treasure. aThe steninship George Law, Lieut. Fox, fl -- L - , commander, left - Asiinwitll - ,onthe-26th utt., and arrived at New York on the afterown of the 25th." She brings the California mails of the. lst/u:t., $1,4G1 t 464 . in .treasure on freight. and 224 passengers, Mr. Tierkins, of Lexington, Ky., and 'three other Americans, and one Swiss, had dug a monster lump of gold in Calevaras county, weighing 1604 pounds and valued at $26;262. It has been sent on to New York. The San Joaquin Republican says of this "big lump:" "The length of this immense mass - is about 15 inches, and its width from five and one half to six. As cne side is extremely irregular and uneven in its formation, it is difficult to arrive at the thickness but it will .robabi • avers.° four inches. The other side is almost flat, and presents a solid Mass of pure 'gold; the only quartz perceivable is• on. the upper or ragged side, and some pieces are so loosely imbedded in the. precious metal that, with the aid of a ;iointed-instrument, they might be- easily re moved. The whole mass, at some period, has apparently been in a fused state." , Who-is -Right 1- Tha Millonian. regarded as the home organ of Mr. Pollock, states,that Mr. Cu'rtin is no lon ger a candidate for U. S. Senator, but that be has declined in favor orex-governor Johnston. To this the Bellefonte Whig, which we pre sume is the "home organ" of Mr. Curtin, re plies : "NOT CORRECIT:—The Millonian states that Col. Curtin is no longer a candidate for U. S. Senator. The editor of that paper is misin formed. Mr. Vurtin is still in . the field, and his friends will press his claims with earnest ness and zeal. - As we do not believe either of them will be elected, the decision of the question isirnmate rial.—Dena. Union. Decision under the Lien Law. The Sureme Court, now in session in Phila delphia, h %ve decided that no lien against a building,is good unless the lien is filed within six months after the delivery of the material. .A .builder may make a contract for lumber or brick, and obtain the!article as Wanted, and a lien filedsix months after the last delivery, is good for the whole bill ; but in the absence of any such contract,each delivery becomes Li new contract. It was the case of George Duncan vs. Elias Philips. error 'to District Court in Allegheny, In which judgment was reversed, and judgment ordered to be entered for $25,53, the _only...item in the account filed Which had been furnished within six, months of filing. the lien. It is supposed to invalidate one half theliens file.l. Ths Honnons-ov—W-An.—ltris-estimatiel-tla in the Chinese wars of Races, over one hundred millions of human beings perished by fire and sword: in the Napoleonic wars, inclusive of the French revolution, sixty millions, and in our American wars, over thirty millions. This lit ter' estimate, of course. includes all the wars with the Aborigines, the French and Indian, Revolutionary. 1812, and 'the Mexican war. A REMINTSCENCE.-It is said that in the war of 1812 when the British troops entered Wash ington, and destroyed the • public buildings: that the Patent Office was saved from destruc tion solely • by- the eloquence of Dr. Thornton, who made nn appeal lathe commanding officer, representing that, if he burnt that office, he would be ranked. with the Goths and Vandals, and with Oniar, who burnt the Alexandrian -li brary._ A NoBLE Yomt.—On Saturday evening week, as some lads were skating on the Back Bay, at Boston, (Mass.) Edward WeitskY aged 13, 'fell • th-rOugh_ an air-hole. and sunk. A young man named George E. Porter, instantly pulled off his coat and plunged after the drown ing boy, Who had been carried under the solid ice, and after a desp6rate struggle, succeeded in bearing him back to the air-hole, when they were both soon extricated by the by-standers. A nobler act was never witnessed, nor one of truer heroism. QUICK WORK. -Mr. John Ward, of Whitby Grove, Manchester, (England,) undertook. re cently, to make 2000 quill pens with a knife in ten hours for a wager. At the end of Live hours he' had succeeded in making 1129" and at the end of nine hours 4nd a half he had made 2030, being 30 over his 'task, with half an hour to spare. ' The conditions of the match were, that. they should all be tit for commercial use. Q,l Someof the English papers threaten to dethrone the Emperor of Russia. The Northern Daily_Times said, "France is ready to a man to embark in the overthrow of Russia's power ; and England only waits for the call to hurl the Czar from his throne." Considering the small progress, yet made in the war by the allies against Russia, this threat is not likely to be realized very speedily. When cannon balls fail to make an impression,' hard words are not 'likely to frighten. SATfANIC REVOLVERS.—The Russians, it is said, call the, revolvers infernal machines, which have been given to their enemy by the devil, and imagine that they will go off when ever'required, by invoking his aid ; hence the great ter& always evinced whenever these weapons are brought forth. • fl:7 - The Sum eme-Court of Rhode Island gave an opinion. on_ Tuesday, on. the Lipuor Law. and the proceedings in the Tarticular case tried were pronounced correct, but the clause that authorized the seizure and detention of liquor was declared unconstitutional. THE EXCHANGE BANE ASSIGNMENT.—The Washington Globe says the grossest error ex. ists in the schedule of the assets -of Selden, Withers & Co. The late Gen. Armstrong is put down as owing the firm $32.000, when his estate owes it only $1,400. It further says that the preferred creditors who claim $55,000 are, in reality, &Aden. Withers & Co. ' A PREDICTION.—The Ledger's Washington correspondent predicts that during the ap proaching set:Situ - I of Congress, ‘. the Sandwich Islands will be peaceably annexed, and will hereafter constitute, not the garden spot, but the paradise of the - t United States." CALIFoirxiA.--Californitt is the living wonder of the world: Governor Bigler says, that dur ing the past season, California has produced the astonishing, yield, in one instance; at least, of eighty-two and a half — busizeterof—wheci fh acre. PRETTY NEAR DRUNK.—A German employed in one of our hotels, was sent one or twbemnf ings since tbr a bucket of cistern water. Re tnaining longer than was necessary, the land fbrd, who knew him to be pretty well filled with lager beer. went out to see what was the ,utter, and found him industriously turning the wheel of a dray, which had been propped up to be greased, with his bucket placed under the hub. Mynheer complained that the water was very low in der cistern."—Louisville paper. r7A man has just been fined slon at St. Louis for insulting ladies in the street. ....S.Tved him right. An Appeal to.'all Liberal Minds. President'Pierce has spoken for the Demo cratic party;,,ier - hisistat annual message. on the great questions of the day, and be has also spo ken for thousands ofpatriotic Whigs, who have resolved henceforward to wage uncompromi sing warfare upon- secret political parties, pledged to the proscription of religious belief on the one hand, mutt° the disfranchisement of all citizens of foreign birth on,the other. On this issue, although the message does not go out of the way to rehearse the current argu ments of the day, it assumes a position alike unequivocal and impregnable. The flag of the equality of the States and the equality of ( indi viduals is bravely - unfurled, and all who believe ' in these cherished doctrines should at once ral ly under its folds.. Let not faction or fanaticism deceive itself, that that flag can ever be per manently prostrated. When the dilirium of the thour haspassed away. the ranks ever_ waves will be found decimated, perhaps. but Unbroken and confident ; and when those who are about to assume command in'the several States in which they have recently been view. rious, shall fall to pieces of their own accord. because there is no- element to unite them to. gether, then the party that stands up for these doctrines will re-assume the power which fa naticism will have disgraced. Well is it for the country that we have now in the Presiden tial chair a citizen who so boldly avows -Ina resolution to stand by the imperilled rights of hi nscience and universal equality. Well is it - for the nation that this citizen does not forget the sacred guaranties if The past, or the glorious hopes of the future. While he stands firm we have a leader; and we prophesy that the time will soon come when those who resist present combinations will find themselves once more in the majority in all the States of the Union. . Apart from the repulsive exclusion enforced by this new order, apart .from its unmanly and anti-republican secrecy, one of its achievements is calculated to inspire almost universal indig nation and alarm—we allude to its studious proscription of soim , of the purest statesmen of the land. If Gen. Washington were now alive, and avowed his celebrated "letter to the Oath(); lies.'' he would be discarded at once. Jackson would be disfranchised because he was the son hof an Irishman ; Jefferson Would be repudiated for the pledges of his inaugural - address; and that earlier patriot, Roger Williams, would be outlawed because he dared toannounee and to suffer for the holy principle of religious tolera tion. Take the trophies of Know-Nothing ven geance already secured. Joseph R. Chandler, of Pennsylvania, a Whig of distinguished abil ity, was remorselessly sacrificed for his reli gion , •in the house of his friends." Following this connexion, look utile result in Massachu- setts, Two of the most esteemed and efficient representatives in the present Congress, lead. ing members of the Whig party—we 'mean Charles W. Upham and William Appleton— have fallen before this unsparing proscription. In the Democratic party, that which we note as an exception in the Whig ranks, becomes the inexorab'e_rule . . Men who have-reflected - lustre upon the American character, whose ex periencetlearning, and devotion to the couatry, have made their names "household words"— such men have fallen before the tempest of prejudice. But proudly do they bear them selves! You would take them for victors, not victims. They feel that they have gone thAfb in a good cause, and they know that their banner , stilt waves. When those who have been misled into op position to such men as these fully recover from their delusions, they will start with amazement 'at their own work. They will find that in losing their old and well ried servants, they have gained a host of reckless demagogues— the mere traders of politics, the mere charlatans of fanaticism. It is right that all men should aspire to a station in a tree country ; but the day that sees this great nation permanently transferred-to-the - hands of - men — who - have - no claim upon the people but,that of being able to flatter a popular prejudice—that` day will be a. dark' day in cats history, for it will be the starting point in our downward career. You cannot ignore high talents; long services;, ripe experience, without wounding yourself and your country. There is no Democracy in ele vating men unfit for station, simply because they have never been able,-till prejudice took the place of reason, to attain position. These are truths which it would be madness and. treason to conceal. When the men who have been overthrown in this storm of proscription shall return to their homes, and mingle with those who have aided to swell the storm, it will not be long before they will find public opin ion returning to its accustomed channels. Their own services will be "freshly remember ed" and fondly recalled ; their wrongs will be so many arguments for , their restoration to power; and the errors of their successors will arouse, in all breasts, sensations of shame and remorse. The hour will soon be here. Let us be patient. —Let us confide in the leader who avows a persecuted principle, and stands for the riglit'amidst inflamed antagonisms. The tempest is not yet &Yu ; but there is a bright spot. in one part of the horizon, at least, which shows that the sun is not yet blotted from the heavens.—lt tells us that the Democratic, party still survives!—Washington Union. "A Miserable Sham." A correnkondent of the New York Tribune, writing - from "Washington last week, declares it as his firm conviction that "Nriow-Nothing ism at the South is a miserable sham." Right, as far as it 'goes ; but iS'nt it a "miserable sham" at the North, tool Is'nu it a'"miser able sham" every where ? Is'nt its principles "a miserable sham"? Is'nt its objects "a miserable sharn"—its leaders a "miserable sham"--their claims to honesty of purpose a "miserable sham ;" and worse than all. its "fears fur the supremacy of Protestantism, a "miserable sham." If it is not, in all these particulars, a -miserable sham," then there never was a "sham." Said a dligusted Know Nothing to us the other day, "my experience in tile Order, is, that every third man at least is an office-seeker. And as to the honesty ut this new party, it is all pretence. There has been more knavery-. more dishonesty,' more corruption in its brief existence now, than can be laid at. the door of both the old parties put together." And this is undoubtedly so ; our friend was right. It is a "miserable sham." Under the banner of Protestantism, with "Fox's Book of Martyrs" for a text book, it seeks to enlist the prejudices of the ignorant and bigoted against Catholitisin : not because it believes Protestantism in danger. but be cause its . every "third man" wants office, and to get that otLigT nothing is too sacred for its unholy hands." Erie Observer. Joseph Ritner, a grandson of Ex-Gover nor Ritner, was recently crushed to death by , I •I'lo., i ~ . at . . ma cart, near Crescent City, California. t 13unkley is said to be writing a long letter iu reply_toAlie_Superioress of the Sister hood at EtniniLsburg. INsANß.—Ephraim f.ittlefield. somewhat no • torious as the chief witness in the trial for the murder of Dr. Par•kman, has. in consequence of a painful disease of the ear, become insane. [Li—Brigham Young. of Utah, says that St. Paul's declaration that a bishop should have •one wife'' does not imply" that he should have but one. It means simply, according to Brig ham, that he should not have less than one. fr_i — The cholera is prevailing at Nt..w Orleans to a coasiderable extent. ARRIVAL OP THESTEAMRI,JOISItiCL. -,-Ten- Days -Later-from" Eirope. Atistrian Jlllianei with Franc anttlEngland— . Conditions ff the Trea4—kusisiun Peace Propesitions—Prassia and the States - Preparingfor - War —The Siege of Sebastopol ...Some Fighting Still Going an,i—lleinforce tnents On Both Sides—Mr. Soule at .4fodrid and Corn Steady—Wheat Declined. HALIFAX, Dec. 23:—The steamer America arrived here at noon to-day, with dates from Liverpool to the 9th instant, being ten days later. She brings news of the greatest importance to the future progress of the European war. Though there is little news of interest from the, seat. of war, negotiations are becoming most complicated and critical. On , the 2d of December =atreaty - of alliance'Was signed at Vienna between "Austria, France and England. The -exact terms are not known,-but are sur mised as follows•: Firstl,—That Austria regards the violation _of the Turkish territory as a war against her. self. Secondly—That Austria will augment her forces in the Principalities so as to enable the Turks to resume offensive operations. Thirdly—That on the demand of France and England 1 20,000 Austrians will be sent to the Crimea. Fourthly-,france and England guarantee that the territorial possessions of Austria shalt, under all - circumstances, remain undi minished. Fifthly—At present is secret. Sixthly—Prussia shall be invited to join the Alliance. Seventhly —The treaty to come into-opera tion on the part of Austria, should Russia not come-to-terms before January the second. There is also published a letter from count Nesselrode, setting forth the terms on which the Czar will assent to peace. namely : Firstly—A joint guarantee by the five pow ers, of thelprotection of the whole christian population in Turkey. - Secondly—A joint protectorate' of the five powers over the Principalities subject to ex isting Russian treaties. Thirdly—The revision of the treaty of 1841, to which Russia will assent, if the Sultan will likewise do so. Fourthly—The free navigation of the Danube. The speech of the king of Prussia to the Chambers is also published. The king says the army shall be made ready, for. War. but be retrains from indicating the codise, which Prus sia will adopt. Meantime.-the 'Berlin papers publish a dispatch from the Benin Von Man teufuel,, Nov. 15th, to the Ambassador at Vienna, expressing the determination of the Prussian government not to demand from Rus sia any concession beyond the four points. It is, indeed, stated, but should be received with caution, that at a council held on the 6th,'the kin_ of Prussia determined_to uniAe in the treaty with a view to bring the war to a close. The deliberations - of the Germanic Diet Committee are most important. The actual position of affairiseems to be, that Prussia in sists on a declaration in favor of Prussian poli cy, or at least of neutrality, while on the con trary, Austria insists that the following point' shall be decided—whether the Northeastern frontiers of Austria are not sufficiently threat ened to warrant an immediate support from the federal troops. Most of the Germanic States are with haste putting the armies , on a war footing. The present opp„rt•.inity for peace is probably the last, and if this be rejeot-, ed we may be prepared to see, next spring, military operations on as large a scale as they were during the great wars of the French Em pire. -Affairs • before —Seba stopol are -n ncba nged.- There has been some fighting, but none of im portance. • The garrison continue to make sor ties. During the night of November 14th, in a hurricane of wind and rain, the Russians made a sortie from the city on the , French camp, but were repulsed. On the 15th of November, several men and horses died in the camp from cold and exhaus tion. The Russians quiet. 16th.---Fire very slack. A few redoubts were completed by the British overlooking the Inkertnann road. Some reinforcements reached the French. 17th--Men and officers are constructing for the winter. An order has been issued by Lord Raglan that no officer shall leave the camp un less sick or wounded. Rain is coming down in torrents. November 18th . .—Weather more temperate. Russians in the valley. Observed to have re ceived re-inforeements—supposed 20,000 u nder General Li prandi— - November 19t,1i:- 7 -The French made a re connoissance in-10*:iiWound the Russians busied in repaii*.y.:= 'Artillery damaged in the previous battl • :' November2Oth.' - ":,*P th Britishßegiment landed ex-Orinoco steamer. The Queen of the South .arrived with various drafts of British troops. The French landed considerable re-, inforcements at Katneisch 'Bay. Firing very brisk from the town, and warmly replied to from the French and - British lines. November 24.--Bombardment continued weak on the part of the allies. Their fire did little damage, and that little was constantly _repaired. The allies were mainly occupied in strengthening their positions against attack, and in establishing ' new batteries, the fire of which had not yet been opened: MenschikOff reports that the English had attempted to es tablish themselves • near the head of the dock yard, but were-repulsed with loss. Further reinforcements had reached the allies, , November 25.—The Russians made a sortie, were repulsed by the English, who, in pursu ing. took and retained 9 guns which the Rus sians forgot to spike. Another account says two seven gun redoubts. _ • On the 26th part of the garrison attacked the French lines, but retired with a loss of 230. The French lost 75. The defensivq, work of the English between the right of their line of attack and the left of the French lines bad been greatly damaged. The Arabia having taken in shot and am munition at Kingston, would proceed to Mar seilles to embark French troops for the Crimea. The intended augmentation of the British army was to the extent of 65,000. Twenty-two of Mr. Oliver's ships were sold at .i.1.03,000—a1l being bid in by bill-holders. The Spanish Chambers have decided to sup port the present dynasty. The Ministry had resigned on a financial trifle, but have resum ed 'office. The crisis, however, still continued. Mr. Soule bad arrived a t Madrid and resumed his post. [From the London Times.] The Terrible Slurm in the Block Sea-4uful Destruction bffe and Property. - - The total toss of men at the various stations on the coast of the Crimea - on the disastrous 13th of November cannot be less than a thou sand. besides those who have fallen into the hands of the Co,sacks. The loss of vessels was thirty British and French wrecked, and half as 1 many dismasted at Balaklava, and eighteen wrecked or dismasted at the mouth of the Katcha.. Our men of war have come otf with no further damage than the loss of guns or of masts, or of riggings. the twisting of their rud ' ders, or the springing some leaks. The French have lost the Henry IV., a noble three-decker, , and a favorite war steamer. Thus far we have TUE WAR. 'ENGLAND SPAIN. sustained no loss beyond the ordinary drain of war ; but the greatest calamity,ist ; that of which we scarcely now know the folk' , :'file Prince, a magnificent new screw steamer of 2,700 tons, carried' out the other day to Bat aklavit the 46th regiment, all thevyinter cloth ingfor the troops engaged in the siege. inclu ding '40,000 great coats; flannel' suits. under clothing: socks, and gloves, beef, pork, and other provisions. hospital' - stores for Scutari, and a vast quantity of shot and shell -to carry on 'the siege. These are wholly lost, and no thing remains of the Prince bat half a dozes of her numerous crew, who managed to get on the. cliffs when she was mhrokepi,to powcler"a,gainst. then,. The Resolute, wittr 900 tons of gun powder. also went to the bottom. Thus, it seems, all the materials - for carrying- on the siege and providing against the severity of the winter have beenearried off at one felt swoop-; and-even_ityve think to_oontent Oursell&s. with merely maintaining our position on the heights. before Sebastopol', it is evident that we are not. in a Condition to stand our worst fee, the cow mg winter. Everything seemsto have conspired, under a mysterious dispensation of Heaven, tomake the loss of the Prinee the greatest possible disaster. She could not stop at Scutari e land the hos pital stores, so greatly_ Wanted there. When she arrived 'at Balakiava, it was. blowing fresh,. and she did not venture within the narrow tor tuous channel of the harbor. , All she did was to land the 46th; though it is said, besides I very large crew, some sappers and some medi. -cal and other officers were still on board. - - - On attempting to anchor, the whole of the cable. ran ant, rot being properly clinehed. A second cable shared the same fate. - Tlie Prince _ then steamed out, while a third tible was got up' from the hold, - and with this she was brought to, though with a smaller anchorthan those which she had loSt. — This 'answered. fir 'a while. On the dreadful morning of the lath, however, it proved utterly inadequate. "'The* Prince cut away her masts, and put on her steam ; but the wreck of the mizzenmast fouled the screw, and the noblexeSselhecoining help less, immediately drifted against -the rocks. Figures are but feeble language fetifie descrip tion of such a catastrophe, but the value of the Prince, as she floated, is put at £150,000, and her cargo at half a :million. There must have been nearly 200 souls on board. The thirty transports uttcrlylost, with most of their crews, at 13alaklava, ire pnt down at £15,000 each" So here at oncett•million of money went to the bottom, in a form of which money conveys but a feint idea. ' The - other loSses , enumerated Above, the French ship Of . the liner arul war 'steamer, the 'transports lost on' the .western coast, the many vessels of all• kinds disabled, make up another million to' be added to the naked pecuniary . esti mate of the loss. - But - the true way of stating it is, that the army is 'ut terly disabled for the present, and left' no other protection than Heaven and that valor which the British soldier is ever sure to display, in the face of the greatest difficulties, the direSt pri vationsrand-the-most-oierwhelming-number Yet never was the ancient valor of our nwe put to so tremendous a trial. SENTENCE OF Aiunscici, THE "INFERNAL MA CHINE" MAN.—The motion ifor a new trial in the case of Wm. S. Arrison, the young medical student, convicted at Cincinnati, of "murder in the first degree" in causing the death of Mr. and Mrs. Allison, by Means of an "infernal machine," having been refused, he was called up before Judge Flinn, on Saturday, to receive sentence, when 'he addressed the court in a cool and collected manner, giving some of *the,rea sons why he desired 'a new trial, and'declaring that he could, had he a chance, establish his innocence. , When he concluded, Judge Flinu, in the presence.of a crowded court room, sen tenced him to be hung on the lithof May neat. The prisoner heard his terrible doom, witheut,_ -the least apparent emotion; and was*conveyed back to prison in charge •of a strong guard. SELDEN. WITTIER.% & Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia American,. speaking of this exploded concern, 'says “The Commissioner of Patents had $10;000 of the funds of his office in the bank, whieb,•ft. is feared, will be lost to him. - Mr. Forney,. Clerk of the House, bad 59,000 ofpublic money on deposite. It is thought that he is secured. Gen. Dodge, Senator from Wisconsin, is a suf ferer to the amount of $lO,OOO representing a considerable part of his private fortune. 8.-11. French, Esq., former Clerk of the House of Representatives. and now Commissioner of Public Buildings, had a balance of $4,000 of his private funds in the bank. As soon as he heard of the approaching explosion he caused an attachment to be sued out and laid upon the property of Mr. Withers, the senior partner, in St. Louis, by which, it is supposed; that he and others will be secured." The Washington Star states thgli Mr. Forney loses nothing by the concern, and that the Patent office, which is daily in the receipt of small sums, in uncurrent bank bills, which cannot be placed in the sub-treasury, had on deposit only $l,OOO. • A NARROW ESCAPED? b RAILROAD TRAM.* - At Wilmington,, N. C., on'Friday night week, as the train on the Raleigh Railroad approached the depot, the brakes refused to operate, and the locomotive and tender pitched over into the river in ten feet water. Fortunately the coup ling broke, or the whole train, filled with pas sengers, would have shared a similar fate. One man went over with ..the locomotive, but was saved. Mr. Quarks, the mail agent; sprang from the car and broke his arm. WIIAT THE LAW DEEMS LIMCIIIES YOI JD WIFE. —A novel case has jest been decided in New York, which involves a curiosity in medi co-jurisprudence. A mesmeric physician sued a husband for services rendered the wife in his absence, and the Supreme Court say that is the Sth act of Cushing's Report is their opin ion in the case, viz: that the law does not re cognise the dreams, visions, or revelations of a woman in a mesmeric sleep as necessaries fur a wife, for which the husband, without his con sent. can be made to pay. These are fancy articles. which those who have money of their own to dispose of may purchase, if they think proper ; but they are not necessaries. known to the law, for which the wife can pledge the credit of her absent husband. .1 ('as, of Poisoning. ALBANY, Dec. 23d.—On Monday last Mrs. George E. Rice, of this city, died after a very short illness. Circumstances tending to show that she died from the effects of poison induced an inquiry to be made, anal 'a post-mortem ex aminatio'n having been held, such was proved to be the case. Charles Gill, her brother-in law, has been arrested on suspicion of having caused her death. The parties are highly re spectable. Latest European Ondits. Nsw YORK, Dee. 26th.—Private letters re cei v ed-here-from_London, by_ the recent-ar rtiva _ from what is deemed reliable sources, state that England has not agreed to-suppress the apprehended rising of Hungary and Lombardy, as an offset against Austria s joining the allies. It' is also stated that M. Kossuth is in high spirits and hopes soon to. be again in active Operations amongst his Hungarian brethren, and in open contest with Austria. Ca - Governor Manning. of South Carolina, in his message to the Legislature, recommends a repeal of the usury laws. Money, he says, like everything else, should have a relative, not a flied value.
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