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FROM EdRoPfi THOUGHTS ALC. - Ftreigu Correspoodeoce'of the N. Y. Express. !rsa, st Manufactures, it Slop The hippy Ujioftke Viennese Tbliteness of & Viennese ,I)&ice Security inert The Emperor of Au trt only 24 year of age The Empires only '17-Xririf to Sckonbrun Incident there A glance at the little Empre CourUhip and ' xtdedltfe in Germany. . . Vienna is not only rich io shop jewelry, showy silks, 4a, &a bat rich in manufactures, toe I had no idea that Austria wu each a manufacturing eoantrr; and now here in the cubital, in the focus of Austrian represented j mdnttryv 1 sea the reason why Austria declines to eqter into the Prussian Custom House Union, the Zoll Yerein" as it is called; for, quoth -V. ? . I 11 " I I !..., ' - I the. Austrian, "we axe greater and better manufacturers than the Prussians aDd North Genpana, and, therefore, we will not put our selves on a par with them." How this may be, I ca¬ say, but I can say, that in the shops ' and warehouses of Vienna are representatives vf industry, taste and skill, of which any country might be proud, and whioh, upon a courf (Peril only, I may pronounce superior to anything I hare .seen elsewhere. There are the rich productions of Venice, of Lombardy, (which are worth something,) and here are the ticbj productions also of Bohemia (the glass for .example) and of Moravia, which are worth morft. I read now the secret of Austrian ability to keep up its gigantio armies, for in these manufacture are seeds of wealth, and, of course, of taxation, to support such an army beyond what could be supported in any mere agricultural community. There are wines frotft Hungary, silks from Lombardy, wool from Gallioia and Moravia. In short, ienna is the Paris sad London of Germany. The wealth is rrait here. The commercial and manufactur ing classes are among the wealthiest on the Continent, and the nobles the wealthiest in Europe, out of Great Britain. It m also a duty to say, that, on the exterior, never did there appear to be a happier people than these Viennese. Of the despotism that oer-rides them, they appear to be utterly un ososoious. Whoever let the government alone, to dp jut what it pleases, without balding it to abY accountability, is let alone in all social, doqtstle, and business relations. The Vien tfit dafcet as much as they please, smoke as faueh at they please, (never in the street, how- , aing as mucn as tney piease, ino mar- song, aowever,; m snort, ao just waai am: nro Tided thev never conflict with Castrian formula. Hence, having arrived i conclusion to ignore the existence of Go imant, beyond absolute and cheerful sub- i to it, tney Become nappy ana prospe . all their basinets relations. All affairs WMnerlv condacted seem to prosper. 1 Have lively-seen a beggar in the streets, or in the eabjrbaC If there is any great extent of poverty, it i not visible in the streets or alleys, where my researches have penetrated. Such a govern ment and such a people are anomalies to me, wTijch I eannot well define or translate, with my prevent ideas of a government and a people. I kinaot' understand this prosperity and this flatfpiness under absolute despotism. I cannot aaderstand bow a great, lively and intelligent pfQple can thus ignore the very existence of the uovernment over them, or how that govern naestcan exert its absolute authority without Baling itself harshly felt. Our race could not endure it without one everlasting struggle and yet-here is a race prosperous under, and ap parently enjoying, it I It seems to me, all put tied as I am, amid these anomalies, that I am In the veriest land of liberty that I ever saw judging, only by the exterior of things about me. intra are soiaiers aroana, to oe sure; oti in the' suburbs they are, and they are troubling nobody." There are Police about, but they let us shout and bellow, laugh and roar, and drink wjne and beer, and sing songs, and they seem to. he happy, the happier we are. There is a Police Office, and a Passport Bureau, and I mast go and report myself, and I cannot stay here long without a police grant or permission, but I have just returned from that passport man, and he is so civilr so obliging, and gave me so little trouble, that when I take into con sideration the security his police regulations give me, I am very glad to have the trouble, in order to be under bis protection. If I leave my purse, or my handkerchief even, in a hired cab or a drosky, I have only to go to the police man next morning, and he will return it safe to me I can wander all about the crookedest and narrowest streets of Vienna with the ut most safety even at midnight. If I should be los in the " spider's web," as these streets are sometimes called, the policeman, a most perfect gentleman in his address, in the blandest and softest manner, would show me the way home. N of murders! no assassinations 1 no fights! no brawls 1 no seduction and robbery of strangers ! no burglaries I no arson! no private watchmen necessary to guard your bouses and shops 1 Bat, I dare say, it is a very miserable govern ment to live under, and yet it is certainly a most convenient despotism for a mere sojourner and traveller, auch as I am. The nighty Emperor of all this Austria, this Hungary, Bohemia, Lombardy, Gallicia, Sic., is ony 24 years of age ! It not being court sea sol, or fashionable season while I am here, the fashionables having fled from the city some tilde ago, I could not well satisfy a curiosity I had fesee this very young man, the master of about 40,000,000 of human beings. But the J oung Empress and the mother of the Emperor fell upon in a very odd, and some will say, I fea, impertinent way. I was at Schonbrunn, (tlb word means M a beautiful, living foun talfi,'') in one of the remote suburbs of Vienna, (b the way, Vienna overruns with these sub urbs,! and upon a range of hills that overlook thtj plain of the city proper hills covered with woods, sprinkled in with villas and chateaux. (The great Empress, Maria Theresa, first fixed upon the fountain of Schonbrunn as her summer residence, and resolved upon having it convert edjnto a mansion worthy of an Austrian Em peror.) I got into the Gcsellschaflswagen, (an ugly omnibus wagon,) bound for Hitting but the rain pouring down with a fury, and the Ge WbcaataMoeii leaking like a sieve, I jumped out and ran into the palace bf Scronbrunn for a reftige from the storm. Entperors and kings on the continent of Europe, you should know, by the way, are a very obliging kind of people. They almost keep open house for you. They will let ycHj into almost any part of thir establishments except their bedroom and private parlor, and yofc can get into them by feeing the servants, when the masters and mistresses are out. I sought Schonbrunn as you would seek a big elm tree in the midst of a field, when in a thun dei storm. I did not really know when I en tered under the huge galleries and arches that I was breathing the very air of Austrian royal-ty.t-but I soon found out that I was in that ele vated atmosphere. I kept marching and march ing till there burst upon my astonished eyes the whole parterre (a picture book garden of hedges, flowers and clipped trees, forming arched roofs impenetrable to the sun,) and the it "Ulonetta," a temple with a colonnade of Doric pillars ascended by a fine double flight of marble steps, on the high bank immediately Vk:j l. 1- 1 iu: .l. Uerman, and who answered me in Enirli.h ...v. ""-vvj v.....wiu u nucu -.v .0 impuooiuic to uuio me nearses v ana paiace peneain ine metropolis also, the ; are constantly wending their sad way through ' ,h hi i w ----. uy ; cocneu oai ana assumea command of the ar ' 1I,e auinc,r 01 iniB nu otner religious works Kahlenberg chain and the Hungarian moun- our streets, and every day more frequent, with- here is the smaUest S of AdminUtT.f-" mj ? 1(?'091men Blgoe. We shall not is now the greatest pulpit orator in London Urn ridge in the distance. The Emperorthrows ! out feeling that we, too, are afflicted Our so L . 1 Jw .aile8: ptl Administration predict his failure as a military chieftain It II.;. nilu,i ...i, ' . , 7 open all this, wide open, to Tom? Dick, and son, which opened with such fair Lmise ha, it t' 1? SS,!"" If 'NT DOt Tut true he h t little miliary expence p , - P F t&mn f lUrry.-wiu, fountains, ponds, terraces, pheas-j been darkened by a cloud of mf.f5es." " uered by it Zm Jt9 diuUi and i fj?1 3 purest form. His church, antry abynntb. groves, covered alleys, majes- When we thus sum up our sorrows, we are re- Dattered bv t often Now .hill- , ' whole world b hl8 ci?il. career- th' we are 18 8 18 densely crowded by the most intel- tie old lima trees, nay all and everything.-and minded of the history of Job, as messenger af- fehsvll we make war nn' Ji . 7g7 i Pr,ePared ? ! from him apparent impossi- lectual and thinking part of that crowded city all persons behaving like gentlemen can walk ter messenger followed each other in quick sue- Shall Je innonrinlnL eT'a.tban rT hihues. Since the coup d'etat, when he caught while his writings have reached a R1 nn 1 in hi. comdor. and ramble in tnese luxuries at cession, with their tales of disaster and distresl fd I harZ in huUv "L-h" m0Uth the beet KeneraU of Fran" pping. we are lis 1 i 111 f have reached a sale unequal- . ed by those of any theolog.cal writer of the Well, pushing out, and pushing in, I fell up- "Mosquito Club" is the name of a serenading t m.Vnt b! Onl'tUll" 0"r.,mP1,". DQ As a civil ruler he has equalled his uncle. He Present da- -h T ' Wh, -"r IookiDgir. PrtJKorfolk. Mosquito serenading parties usT-Jestirfw nJ not disgrace his name as a soldier. , In the The work is comprised in 1 vol. 12mo 380 whom 1 Ueaa plyine with oueston. in k.h ! have been Derforminir for th ntrtiJrJT-. -r u ."stai 01 wniggery. Now this hookine case of anv other man .,.-.:.-.:. t. , . mo., osu much to my surprise. The man was an Italian ; Dart of another sort have been found necessary !fj V d his wife an Austrian woman, who to exclude their music. They are not very skil bad been long a governess in a distinguished ' ful " 'ocaliate, but their tragic power is im tataUy, in Columbia, S. C. We rapidly enter-1 mense. Instead of singing such sentimental ed into conversation, of course. The Columbia i 0DK M "c"n bower," the burden of cuor4 was a sympathy touched at once. The 1 lbir oat "Come to the tcratch." i great bell .of the , Palace was sounded, and ih terrapted us, and the drams were roiled tnree times. "Something is going to happen." Mid my new' friends. . "That , bell means some-, thing," and . these rolls - of the dram mean more. "Let as ran." My coriosit j was now excited, as I saw the' soldiers mastering, at the Schonbrunn gate, and a royal equipage, six grey horses, postillions, and other pompous men in livery, muster Dp. Italian man, Aus trian woman, and I, Republican American, pushed on after them, to the great steps, in the inner court of the Palace, without much re gard to guards, who gave broad hints for us to keep off, but which I very poorly comprehend ed, and, to fact, disregarded, while the Italian man, retreating back, left me in the advance with his Austrian wife, both of us chattering English. oon down came the Amperors Dro- ther (inv friend acted as Cioerone) the Empe ror's mother, the Archduchess, and the tiny li'. tle Empress, just 17 years old, giving a broad btare at the unexpected proximity of two strange people in the very pathway to her car riage. Off went the Prince's hat to us three, and the Archduchess gave us a gracious cour tesy, and the tiny little Empress, recovering frrui her start, oourtesied and sm&d outright, probably at our impertinence. had a full, g'xid look at this little Kaiterinn of all the Aus-u-ians. She will pass for pretty, if for no other reason than that she is an Empress. Her fig ure is petite, and she has all the look of a school girl, in the beginniug of her teens, and not yet free from the age of "bread and butter." Just a year ago, the Emperor met with her at a lit tle watering place, in upper Austria, called Is chil, where her mother, a Bavarian Duchess, and cousin- of the Emperor, bad gone to try the baths. The Bavarian mother brought two daughters there, to the Imperial market, inten ding the eldest for the Emperor, if she coald get him. The Emperor's mother (the Archdu chess) gave a Ball, and invited the three Bava rians, mother and two daughters. The Empe ror instead of opening the Ball as everybody expected with the eldest sister, invited the younger to dance, in violation of all etiquette, and all expectation, whereby a great commo tion was created at Ischil, and he then presen ted his dancing partner with a bouquet, whioh was construed into a great mark of signal fa vor. In a few days afterwards he onered ner his band and his empire, and she became what in Germany is called "Bride," but, on account of her extreme youth, she was not married till a few months sinoe. The Germans, by the way, have a queer way of making "Brides," and of doing some other things a the courting and marrying way, whioh may interest you, perhaps. When a maiden is betrothed, she is called "Bride," and ao con tinues, till she becomes "wife." All the while she is engaged she is a "Bride." The lovers, immediately upon the betrothal, exchange plain gold rings, which are worn ever afterwards, till death parts them- The woman wears hers on the third finger of the left hand, and the man his, on his hand. When the "Bride"' be comes "vi ife," her ring is transferred to the third finger of the right hand, and there it re mains, the husband always wears hit ring just as the wife wears hers, so that if you look upon a man's hand, yon can tell tchetJter he it mortgaged or not. There is no cheating for him ever after, no coquetting with the girls, as if he were an unmarried man, for lo ! the whole story is told by his finger ring ! A Viennese married lady was much amused when I told ber that in our country we only "ring" the wo men, and let the husbands run at large, un marked ! "Oh, that is dreadful," said she, more than half shocked. " Think, there is Frederick, my husband, only 24, so young, so handsome, and all the girls would be ta king him for an unmarried man, and be ma king love to him !" " Oh, it is dreadful !"' " is it not ? " They would never know he was ' married." How can you do so in your coun try ?" " I would not live there with Frederick I for tae world." Thinking over the reasoning i ol my t&ir lennese, l could not but come to the conclusion with her, that in her country there was more security for the wife, and that, therefore, her cutom was better than ours. But would not there be a rebellion among the men in America, if the wives there thus put a public stamp of "property" upon the husbands every step they took ? The Germans have other agreeable customs in their silver weddings (silberne hochzeil) (the first twenty-five years of married life), and their golden weddings (got dene hochzeil) (50 years) ; but of these so much has been written that I can probably write you nothing more. If I ever get time, I will con secrate a whole chapter to you on German courtships and German wedded life but this letter is just now medley enongh. J. B. From the Charleston Mercury. THE YEAR 1854. The memory of the present year will linger long and painfully in the hearts of men. Turn ing in almost any direction, the eye is met with the traces of pestilence, desolation and death. In the West Indies, the dread cholera has mowed down its thousands; and in the is land of Barbadoes, above seventeen thousand victims in the last few months sadly attest the might and power of its arm. On the banks of the Euxine and Bahia, from the ranks of the various armies marshalled for glory and con quest, one hundred thousand soldiers have fallen by the same unseen, yet resistless foe. They have been denied even the hero's despe rate wish of dying at the cannon's mouth, with the music of battle sounding in his ears; but iigloriously, in the dense and plague-scented hospital, they have made the last sacrifice to fame and country. And at our own doors, what a BDectacle 1 The last fall and winter weie almost unprece- 1 dented in the destruction of life and property ! oynreain tne Aortnern cities, and by storm and shipwreck along the extended path of com merce. It cannot be forgotten how, day after day, we were called on to chronicle the loss of some noble ship, gone down, with her crew and cargo, to the chambers of the deep. Spring returned, and with it the labors and the hopes of the husbandman. The seasons were pro- Sitious, and all things promised abundance. In outh Carolina, never before did the prospects seem brighter. Cotton, rice and the provision crops all looked well. And this condition of things continued with but little change until one week ago, when a storm unparalleled in the memory of the present generation swept over us, leaving in its track desolation and ruin. In our city, its work is to be seen in almost every object which meets the eye, while from the country every mail brings in the most sickening tidings of loss and destruction. The rice crop is cut off one half. The Sea Island cotton fields are strewn with their just maturing fruit. The entire low country of Carolina and Georgia has been severely and bitterly visited. But our disasters have not stopped here. A worse calamity is upon us in the ravages of the Yellow Fever. Our sister city of Savannah has been a lazar-house for a number of weeks past. Her people have fled by thousands from the jaws of the unsparing pestilence, and stand afar off, watching, while it sweeps away the few who remain. It is a spectacle to excite the deepest smypathv. and call forth our hOQt ' aid. Charleston, in abundant gratitude be it spoken, has thus far been less sorelv stricken : r. : :li . ' "-cu. rhich 1 our citizens all the past summer. inaomnoK TIH5 MbsSTEBBOLL FI&HT. . " ,"! - The following, is from our Madrid correspon- If the last London papers areto be believed, denes fUn 23d : v - : - v v SirCharlee Napier ha' found his way back. to "If the Derby Ys the blue tibboa bfthe turf. England long before this. There was a rumor. theCdrdfTwoa of Monday last was .assort since that' nTHUd uno EE suredlv the 6 d'or of .all the bull-fights of onal!y displeased with the small and unprofl th- ..I. Bill-, in flinntinr and rlarinir col- ors, iniormea we muy ner,nca puuu . . i I'. r..i..: , Madrid, on Saturday last, that on Monday fol lowing the grandest bull fight ever witnessed j in Spain waa to take place. The performance j was announced for four o'clock, but so early as 1 two, with the thermometer at 110 degrees Fab- j renheit, the streets were thronged with people hurrying towards the scene of action. ' Mojo and majas were there in their picturesque dress- es jackets covered with laoe and niiagree ana silver buttons, the. tight-fitting bodies and short dapper petticoat, set off forms in which nature had led little for art to do. A more beautiful sight (ban sueh an arena on such a bright sum mer day oannot well bo imagined. It is rarely that the place is so thronged, bot on this day there w as not one seat which did not add to the general effect of the mass of colors ; the various dresses; the beautiful countenKuces of some such as Murillo loved to paint; the excitement of expression ; the noble appearance of the men (for they are a nobis race ;j;the.baughty brow and dark eye of the Spanish beauty ; the softer grace of the Italian ; rv was our own fair En glish blood wanting. , i reeisely af &ur o'clock the trumpets sounded, the sentries rushed to their respective posts, e band; played Riego's Hymn, and the mount" i 1 atiooal guard entered to clear the ring, hei: 1 1 " the alcaldes, in their old fashioned, sole a, , t..a c,. turns, of block, with Vge white 'fri, with cooked hat and different eolorwi r&etber! tasking as if they had stepped out of one of the frames consecra ted in the name of the Museum to the classic pencil of Velasquei. The national guard were admirably appointed in all respects ; the horses would have done credit to any regiment of vet eran cavalry, while the men rode with a grace and manoeuvred with a skill which can only be understood in countries where every beggar shoulders his crutch, even though he cannot show how fields are won. The place was soon cleared, the head alcalde made his obeisance to the Governor, and received the key of the bulls' cell, which was on this occasion festooned in the most gorgeous manner, by some fair hand, devoted to lot Toro, or the popular cause. The first bull did honor to the occasion, and rushed into the arena with all the ardor of a young garde mobile. He was of a tawny brown, with a wild thick mane, and a neck of wondrous strength. He looked around, as if with aston ishment, at the scene, and at his own strange appearance, for be had fastened on bis back a mona of great value presented by the Countess of Locena. Its estimated cost was 40,000 reals, ($400) a surprising sum for what appears an immense rosette of ribbons, fringed with gold, with feathers intermixed, the end of the rib bons nearly trailing on the ground. The name of the animal, (for on this occasion its parent age, its owner, donor in a word, every fact in which he and the public can be supposed to take an interest, were all given,) was Poderoso ; and he did ample justice to it, for at the first rush he cleared or broke down the inner bar riers, to the consternation of National Guards, water carriers, cake sellers, alcaldes, who, in general, fill the space between this barrier and ' the ranks of the people over they all jumped into the arena, cakes and baskets tossed about in wild confusion, and back they jumped again, when the bull stalked a second time into the are na. This feat oPPoderoso's being repeated half a dosen times during bis presence on the scene, to the great delight of the spectators, and to the infinite annoyance of those who were expected to make such escalades of the barrier. If any bull was ever animated by the spirit of the 9cen.e il w" lhi on- Horse after horse fell a viliuu iu iiiui. 1 w u picounri were inrown un der their horses, and narrowly escaped being crushed or trampled to death, and were Cirried out fainting; but the greater the danger the more the people applauded, and "Bravo Toro I" resounded through the arena. But at last even the bravest bulls must die, and the trumpets sounded for the bundarillas, to be followed im mediately by the milador. The bandarillai, which are sharp darts, stuck with great address into the bull's neck, were on this occasion pre sented by the Count de Salvatina, and were very richly ornamented; but what was the sur prise of the spectators, when they stuck into the bull, by a secret spring, half-a-dozen birds flew out of each of them. The bull seemed as much astonished as bis tormentors, and again rushed to the charge ; but when the matador appeared was the moment of greatest excite ment, for this was no less a person than the torreo Pucheia, the man who has at the present moment two thousand scoundrels in his pay, who can dictate even to the Supreme Junta, and through the Junti to the Government. It is the same man who has ordered several men to be shot by Lynch law, and who waa the first to oppose Queen Christina's departure. He was received with loud acclamations, and, to do him justice, he despatched his victim with as much resolution and address as he did the po lice agent Chico the other day, in the Plaxa de Gerbada. Seven bulls succeeded each other in rapid succession. There were to have been eight sacrificed, but one of them wisely antici pated his fate ; but still the people insisted on his dead body being brought in, to satisfy them selves that they were not cheated out of one mo ment's savage enjoyment. The decorations of each animal diversified the scene, even when the bulls themselves bad failed to contribute to the amusement ; the mono were on all occa sions worthy of the Caatilian noblctn, who to love the purple, lhe bandanlias at one time produced noble plumes of feathers to adorn, at others fireworks to frighten and singe the bull and a new feature was added when a man in ilain clothes, with a long pole in his hands, eaped backwards and forwards over the bull as he was in the act of charming him. At last the light faded away, the performances were al most at an end, when such a storm as is rarely witnessed in Madrid came up ; the sky became livid red, and the clouds of dust which rose in a whirlwind. blinded the spectators with fiery particles. In a moment every one was rushing to the doors; the last bull terminated his ca reer before the almost empty benches. The strangeness of the scene passed to the outside of the arena, where the wind drove fair forms of black mantilla before it; blinded with dust, the vast multitude struggled homewards, and such a Babel of voices, such rattling of ricketty carriages, such fuming and itrnggling as can only be witnessed in a tropical storm after an exciting Toros." Pbst. The New York Courier and EnnmB speaks thus of that bugest and loudest of spout ers, the Washington Union Mr. Pierce's head organ grinder : "We find no fault with the gulf that screams through the ooze of the river, when the water is at an ebb ; 'tis its nature. Nor do we com plain of the Union for spouting mud, now that the popular tide has left it in the lurch ; 'tis its business. Tho Union must spout ; it is the Ad ministration whale ribs, fins, whalebone, blub ber, and spiracles, it all belongs to the Admin istration and it must spout; it was made to rpuut , 11. in mib anu is Bet wnere it is vestal of whieeerv. First, it i lrJS. 1 . oo--r- "wvi - ji i, . . . r 1 dov- SfSATZSa lB-Ch". -iD 1 ML 1 1 1 iiKrimininir m n n mo m k - 1 uavra, uiu iinn v u, iiihck Mrttnn k'iini.i l - r v iuk ojuu IT Vintr ia no nrnnnnnnA 1 r o (f.l r.. . . . uuauciuuu UUUUCM 1UI mmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmm CON- '.'NAPIER'S - 'isiETirffSr.' table results of tne naval expedition w tn - 7 V" r 4f,':rai Jn command. Ln ftnrt hart intimated an OD10 ion on me un 'ri.:. c-- n...KKi. f ho fault wherever 1 riciv ua 1 1 mm uy nuuiuci AAuu.a.. mo is lai iruui uiuwauio. - - it be, rests not with tho Admiral, and, of all the caval commanders England possesses, the country and the sailors think highest of "Old Charley Napier." Whatever the failure, En gland is highly dissatisfied, and rather blames Napier for not having long since captured Cronstadt. Before his departure for the Baltic, winch took place with a great flourish of trumpets, (the Queen herself going to Spithead to see the old Admiral depart, and bid him "God speed.") Sir Charles Napier is said to have suid, in his usual and euergetic manner, that, within forty eight hours after he reached the Gulf of Fin land, he would be "either in Cronstadt or" the place unimmed to ears polite. He has not gone to Cronstadt, and, as yet, has not gone to the other place. He boasted, without having a due knowledge of what lay before him. When he came so near Cronstadt that he could examine its position and defenoes, he found that the channel was too shallow for even his steamers to run ton ugh (to say nothing of heavy men of war) ; that Art had assisted Nature in render ing the place almost unapproachable ; that a naturally good situation has been fortified so as to be nearly impregnable; and that, in a word, there was noetting up to ihe place, at a propinquity within which sbot'oould tell. It is very fine, 00 the part of Lord John Russell and others, to complain that "the Russians shelter themselves behind granite walls, and will not come out and fight." Amiable Lord John, of whom Sydney Smith reported that he would take the command of the Channel Fleet at a moment's notice, evidently would treat the Rus sians as Susan the cook did the ducks, when she coaxingly scattered food in the farm yard, and called out, in a persuading manner: "Dil ly! Dillyl come and be killed." But the Czar does not want to expose bis men to slaughter and his ships to destruction, when he can avoid it, and keeps them safe and sound behind the granite walls.. Supposing that Cronstadt was inaccessible which it would not have been bad the English Admiralty provided the necessary vessels adapted for traversing shallow waters there were other points of attack, nearly as impor tant, which Napier has unaccountably allowed to remain unassailed, and even unthreatened. There was Riga, one of the greatest commercial ports of Russia in the Baltic; there was Revel, within whose harbor even yet rides a Russian fleet unable to get out, from the fear of cap ture. Either, or both of them, might have been assailed. Instead of this, the petty for tress of Bomarsund was attacked and destroy ed the assault being delayed until the trench co opera ea. xne issue is tnat r ranee cm tne chiet merit of the victory. Its fruits are I nnthinr Sweden to whom th Alonrt I .! ! The were offered, has declined accepting them, and therefore the Anglo-French fleet cannot calcu late on being allowed to winter in any Swedish ports. In hve weeks the winter will commence in the Baltic, and, shortty after, all ships there will be frozen up. V hero will the Anglo French fleets winter? To obtain an answer to ani decision ou the question, may be assumed as the chief reason why Napier returns to England. If the Minis try have common sense, they will order the frVet home to Portsmouth and Plymouth, to re turn to the Baltic (perhaps) nest Sjri 11 . At present they have been traverfin tht Bailie "with better hope than fortune." But Sir C. Napier must Ite prepared, wliiie he questions, to reply. The question will be put Why did you not attack hovel and Ki-ja? What if he should allege tliat he had secret or urs to damage Russia as little as he could. Thousands believe that he has held back under such orders. As matters now stand, Napier and the combined fleets of England and France, the finest armament ever beeu, perhaps, appear likely to return home, without having accomplished more than tho destruction of a petty fortress. To the mighty preparations by which this combined fleet was sent to warfare, a ""most lame and impotent conclusion." En gland must not brag again of her "wooden walls" they may be defensively useful along her insular shores, but are powerless before the Czar's granite. Nicholas, like the old man in the spelling book, finds that there is great virtue in stones. JV. Exchange. AUTUMN. Like some richly illuminated manuscript of cloistered art, the wonder book of Nature is spreading out its autumn pages in all their wonted brilliancy of mingled coloring; every mountain is a swelling mound of jewelled lustre, and every vale and clump of woodland a blend ing of rich rainbow tints, over which a bright suu warmed haze is spread, just as the old mis sal painters used to canopy the heads of saints and apostles with a halo of golden light. The hoar-frost covers the meadows in the early morn ing, and lies in crisp sparkling wreaths upon the fences and barn-roots, while overhead a sky of the deepest blue is beginning to soften under the sunshine. Not a leaf quivers, and the pale cottage smoke curls up in a straight unwavering column through the frosty air, while cloudlets of mist rest lingeringly on the lake, or creep lazily up the hillsides. There is exhilaration in the air, and a new life in the wind that comes careering from the northwest, bearing frost on its wings, and bright ness to the autumn woods. The farmer is early afield with his cheery call, as he guides his oxen to the late harvesting. The maize fields display their tent-like rows, with garniture of yellow pumpkins scattered between ; and the buck wheat patches, no longer yielding their "honied fragrance," are falling before the quick swing ing cradle, and lie like red spots upon the land scape. The orchards are brimming with rosy fruit, and the chestnut burs are showering down their treasures in the woods. Plenty seems to reign, and the fulness of the year has put its stamp of gladness upon all. "A mellow richness on the clustered trees And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods. And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds, Morn, on the mountain, like a summer bird Lifts up her purple wing ; and in the vales ' The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate rover, Kisses the blushing leaves and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep crimsoned And silver beech, the maple yellow leaved ' Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside aweary. Through the trees The golden robin moves; the purple finch That on wild cherry and red cedar feeds, A winter bird comes with its plaintive whistle And pecks by the wych hazel ; while aloft From cottage roofs the warbling bluebird sings." Longftllow. Napoleon. Louis Napoleon is appearing in anew character, lie ha. nut nrw. k; i,.. Kly alnorl . ! ,.waoJDas s vuuiwuu oo o iji v 1 ham. in Annan. 'amf,and-b5s PTVn y Pii- on the ! liWMu ua ui m great soiaier i that Louis, when he las. But, remember- 1 .v 1 nothing, Rich. Di. TiiettLEIGiRlGi , the plan, of fair. MifW. by party rage, to live Me brother. 'Our' are Vnwarped "TaITejuij. c. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 27, 1854. NEWS OF THE DAY. The small probability that the affairs of the European belligerents will draw to any event ful crisis during the present season has greatly diminished the interest taneu "jr the proceedings on the other side of mihlic in .... Ati,ifl. At home, we bare three topics which, though thread-bare, afford matter for speculation and serve to occupy the attention of newsmongers in the absence of more stimu lating themes. These are Cuba, the Sandwich Islands and Greytown. Abundance of com ment, conjecture and positive assertion is daily put forth upon each of these subjects, but we are not aware that the public get any light re specting either, beyond what existed a month ago. Whether there is really a project on foot for the purchase of Cuba remains yet to be de monstrated to the satisfactitn of those who wish for something beyond flying, rumors as a basie for their belief. At present hose who are most positive upon the matter seem to know the least about it. Whether the Sandwich Islands are to offer themselves for annexation to the United States is also a point upon which the public will do wisely to suspend its opinion, as every statement touching this matter is pretty sure to receive a flat contradiction by the time it is twenty four hours old. Greytown is a like un certain affair, and fluctuates in the popular ap prehension between the two extremes of conjec ture, being the foundation of a war at one mo ment and the occasion of an amicable adjust ment of the Mosquito dispute at another. The plain truth is that all three of these subjects are involved in just as much obscurity as ever, not withstanding the oracular statements of the would-be knowing-ones, who, after all, cannot see deeper than common mortals into the great millstone of political affairs. THE STATE FAIR-ITS ADVANTAGES. The Lexington, Va., "Star" has some remarks upon the beneficial results of the last Agricul tural Exhibition in that State, which are every- way appropriately descriptive of the state of 3 Kl j til inffS in OUT Own midst. The happy effects (says the "Star,") of the I last Fair have been felt throughout the entire I State. Men from every part of the State met j together and held a free interchange of views; ! the merits of different systems of tillage, of im- provement of stock, were freely discussed ; new j ideas were given and received ; the practical operation of theories set forth ; the views of all ; were expanded and enlarged ; the finest display ' of resources that the State has ever made was exhibited in her agricultural productions and i useful inventions; the dignity and useful j ness of the employment was set forth ; a just ; and laudable pride was aroused, and the agri- cultural interests of the Stat6 received an iin . pule for good that could have been communi ! cated in no other way. It was a grand exhibi j tiiin of the power and resources and capabilities I of the State the wealth of her soil and the pride I of her mechanism were at once brought to view, j And fanners returned to their homes, and, irr I fusing the enterprise of their own spirit into ; neighbors, county after county has been in- duced to establish agricultural societies, and fair after fair has been held in different counties with the most encouraging and gratifying suc cess. This is exactly the result which the State Exhibition should bring about. Every county io the State should have its Agricultural Socie ty and yearly Fair, for the purpose of develop ing the resources, testing the capacities, and bringing into active exercise the full measure of industry and talent at home ; so that the Coun. ty Societies, being the offspring of the State Society, may also prove to be its most efficient auxiliaries, enabling it to present at its annual Exhibitions such displays of skill and talent, of industry and prosperity, of agricultural pro ductions and home manufactures, as can be surpassed nowhere on the continent. Upon the agricultural interests, all others are more or less dependent. Let the farms of our counties be brought under the most judicious system of cultivation, the soil be improved to its highest fertility, so that they may yield abundant harvests, and increase the stores of the farmer, and all other kinds of employment will receive a quickening impulse ; for all our tradesmen and merchants, and those engaged in other useful employments, most look to the farmers of the country for patronage and sup port. If the lands lie neglected, or are injudi ciously worked, so as to render the agricultural interests anything but prosperous, there must be a corresponding want of prosperity in all the other employments and interests of life. It is the duty, therefore, a duty which self interest prompts, binding upon all, of whatever em ployment, to aid in forwarding every scheme which is wisely designed to benefit the agricul tural interests of the country. Let our farmers, then, again send in the choicest specimens of their crops, the finest products ef th9 orchard and dairy, their best stock, their brag poultry, with th e nicest, best, and most substantial articles of domestic manufacture ; and thus thoroughly identify themselves and county with the great enterprise we have before us ! j Ccmminc's Minor Works First Series: I The Finger of God Christ our Passover The j Comforter; by the Rev. John Cumming, D. D., , Minister of the Scotch National Church, Author of Lectures on the Miracles, Parables, Daniel, d'f., tt c pages. .Lindsay & Blackstone, Philadelphi Publishers. We are indebted to Mr. Pnm.. a PX - EST The receipts of the collation at Smith ville, in behalf of the Mount Vernon Associa tion, amounted to upwards of $100. THE EWhYbRKWlirOt STATE CTWeio inated Myron H: Clarke, of Ontario county, for Governov and Henry JReymondrEciitor of the " New York Time', for Lteotenant Garer- nor. ' " . ; ' The resolutions adopted on the occasion were of the most ultra aoti-slavery character, and of such h nature as to cut off those V ho adopted them from all claim upon the sympathies, good wishes and co-operation of the National Whigs of the country. We sincerely trust that the nominees of the Convention may be defeated, . , - . 1 1 r if the success of the Hards, under tne ieau 01 Jndje Brwison, can be thereby pecurea. . . . A Be- j noQJ;n,et, of the Whig, and those of the Soft Conventions, there is no choice. The resolutions of the Convention, says the " Petersburg Intelligencer," were seasoned with a bit of irony that serves to make the compound a very queer one. It is aa if a scene from one of the merriest -old Farces the 'Liar,' for in stancewas wedged in amongt the tragic rep resentations of Macbeth. ; This comical inter section, (which reminds as, by the way, of the language employed by the Fire eaters of the South during the Compromise excitement, when they were busily engaged in stirring up the embers of civil strife,) is in the following words : Iiaolreu, That the Whigs of New York che rish nowas they have ever done, a cordial and immovable attachment to the Federal Union, and to the Constitution, as having been framed and ordained to establish justice, insure do mestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity, and that they will resist any attempt from any quarter to divide the one or violate the other, or to divert either from the beneficent purposes for which they were estab lished. We have seen eats very often playing in an extremely amiable manner with mice, previous to tearing them to pieees. The Constitution seems to be a similar sort of pet with this fe line Convention. We should just like to hare scrutinized the visage of the satirist when he penned that part of the Resolutions comprised in the phrase "in sure domestic tbanqcixitt." If he did not shake the table he was writing on with open convulsions of laughter, be most have been most painfully racked with suppress ed ones. The Resolution about the African Slave Trade, adopted by the Convention, is ridiculous enough, although intended only for Buncombe. If ever this traffic is re-opened ly an Act of Congress, it will be by Northern votes and for Northern purposes. There are ten New En- j glanders and Gothamites to one Southerner in favor of such an Act. The old profits upon black cargoes have not been forgotten bj the descendants of Yankee adventurers that once crowded the coast of Guinea. We should not trust even Mrs. Stowe to the mammon tempta tion. We have our doubts whether Garrison himself is not engaged in a secret correspon dence with Dahomey's Sovereign, with a view to turn a penny one of these days by a ship ment or supernumerary royal captive to Cuba. There was one redeeming feature, at least, in these Syracuse proceedings, and it gives us plo.iMire to notice it. We quote the following item fr.m the New York "Tribune :" " Mr. Milliken offered a resolution taking radical ground against the Fugitive law. (Hisses, and loud calls of " withdraw," " withdraw." He did so." s-' NE USE RIVER MANUFACTURING CO. We availed ourself of the polite invitation of Messrs. James F. Jordan Sb Co. to pay a visit, on Saturday last, to the splendid Mills at present in progress of construction at the Falls of the Neuse in this County. The Mills are three in number, (Paper, Flour and Saw,) and are most advantageously located. The Paper Mills are built of substantial and beautiful granite, of which there is a very extensive quarry upon the spot. They are supplied with every convenience necessary to an establishment of the sort, and the latest improvements have been consulted in their construction. When completed (which will be in the course of a few weeks,) they will be fitted up with the most perfect machinery now employed in paper-making. It affords us pleasure to record such instances of enterprise and improvement. The owners are all men of energy, industry, and the best business talent, and there is every assurance that the enterprise will prove profitable to them, as it will certainly prove a public blessing. The benefits to the country immediately sur rounding are already visible in the air of busi ness which prevails there. SQUATTER MEETING IN KANSAS. ine squatters ot xkansas neld a meeting on the 1st instant, about three miles from Fort Leavenworth. The committee appointed to give expression to the views of the meeting re ported two sets of resolations. The report of the majority was rejected, after a long debate, and that of the minority adopted. The account from which we copy goes on to say : " There being a desire on the part ef some persons present to ascertain how many Aboli tionists or Freesoilers were present, the sense of the meeting was taken as to whether Kansas should be slave or free territory. All those present who were favorable to Kansas rinr made a slave State were requested to raise their nanus, a. countless number of hands were raised in response to this call. All those pres ent who were favorable to Kansas being made a free State were requested to make it manifest by a similar sign. But four persons in that vusi asseruDiy were lavorable to that motion." The " Favetteville CArni;nin K- been purchased by Mr. Yates, formerly associ ar ' so ate editor. Mr. Bryan retires from the estab lishment with the good wishes of aU who know him. The Newbern Atlantic," we are sorry to see, has been sold out and converted into a democratic paper. The name has been changed to the J ournal." We wish friend Clarx hap piness in his retirement, and Buccess in the pursuit of his profession. 4 The New York Evening Post states that "Mr. Soule, our Minister to Spain, has been writing a "Young America" letter to the libe ral press of Madrid, which wiU amuse all whom it does not mortify." r One of our neighbors savs the d;m.. cy are bound together by hook 0 steel I 'This" is something akin to Oalhoun's opinion, that they were bound together by the cohesive povr; er of hook and steal I U at to be uaVted at Tadktnvtlle, to U called the Backwpodsmso. li.S Div That some persons in Canrf. v. .' Upon;the influx of fugitive slaves try a an evil, may be inferred t M made .in the Canadian Iei8iatn7 1 "wti0, same capitation tax now imposed nst & gere entering the Providence bT 1 tXt tore from black immigrants. ft .In Fort Wayne, Indiana, at a late eW " city clerk, the know nothing candidat 0t feated by a large majority. In ! Ws" k y Virginia, at a special election for.t democratic candidate was elected n hff'Hn lar know-nothing candidate. st- THS Two EnrER0B8.-It is repomd Czar regards the successful adventm. copies tne rrencn imperial throne as K. , Statesman in Europe. Thk Messrs. Putnam are the nam,g rf . New York publishers who LavesuanonH j mants. The creditohrElk of granting th P"1' extension of time. tten Hon. John M. Botts, of Virginia hadh' et picked of $800 at the New York The' Monday evening, the opening night. U covering his loss he went to the police oS enter a complaint, and the money Wa, npon a person, who had already beeo '2 on suspicion, named George William Heavy Loss. An enormous locomotWj six five feet drivers and weighing thirty , intended for the Virginia and Tennew, road, while being transferred from a . 1 . v v. : t "8el . uu. river, at Kichm, on Monday, the 10th instant, fell from bers used to sustain it and sunk to th. i.. over $90,000. "M In theFrench coart, railroad acoidsntg, designate them, are punished with JUBUVC, A Mint ..wo a...Y7A SU1UB llUie Z?0 - :i j t 6'lus MmAA ' A man waa Villl worxinz on rauroau onaze. in. .brought an action against the companj for fa ' m - - - a- 1 1 "etl' ages wr negieeii 01 tne signal man, who did not warn her husband in time. The tribunal aa. demned the company to pay the iHn. . hundred dollars down, forty dollars a yttt t, life, and twenty dollars a year to each of u From the 2nd to the 13th of September Mayor of Savannan received contribati, l . -f i ivn w. . " tne amount 01 wore iuu w,uuu tor the reliff 01 uie luuercrs trow Bicaness in tnat city MaetlandCoal Teadi. The amount of i sent from Cumberland to market durinr. tU week ending Saturday, September 16, wu IL 358.08 tons. Since January 1st the amoaM shipped is 444.350.06, of which 235.129 OtZ were transported over the Baltimore "and m,u Railroad and 109,220.19 descended the(W pease ana unto wanai. Francis Graham was tried in New York ot Wednesday, in the court of sessions, on a chirp of manslaughter in the fourth degree, and a victed. Graham and four of his comp&niom were drinking brandy ; a small portion of the liquor remaining, he gave it to a bonbon eight years old, who swallowed it and died ini few hours after. There being no evidence of 1 criminal intent on the part cf Graham, he tu recommended to mercy by the jury. Douglass Jerrpld is never so witty ai when exercised on juvenile literary presumption. When M. Lamartine's merits were being d cussed at a club of artists and authors, '0," said a clever young author, "he and I row ii the same boat." T)ouglas Jerrold, who wu present, turned round and said. "But not with the same sculls." Blackwood for September is accused b; tk Mobile Tribune of a shameless plagiarism. "The Ethnology of Europe" an article of eigh teen pages, is stolen bodily, and almost "pit tuatim et literatim, " from Dr. Nott's "Tjpeisf Mankind." Wind and Wave against Steam.-CipL Bar tie tt, of the steamer Atlantic, states that on the late passage of the steamer Atlantic from Liverpool, she encountered such a gale and oross sea that from noon ofYZthto mo if 13th, the steamer did not make a single milt, al though ber engines worked beautifully six tu per minute ; all that could be permitted ii such a sea. The National Intelligencer remarks that the mails continue to furnish cold comfort for tin famine maker ; either as regards the crop u home or abroad. The crops in England and throughout Europe generally prove to be ana sually abundant. The subscriptions in New York for the reliff of the suffering at Savannah have reached to sum of $10,000. The stockholders of the New Haven Rail Rod have refused to assume the over issued stock. Dead. Harman Blennerhassett, the second son of Harman Blennerhassett, of the island ii ii.. "u.:. u:u noma died is mi 1 n 1 s l. 1 1 1 v rr 1 w. iiii.n uoub luai uvu-w, New York on the 17th ultimo, after s protrad ed illness. He was an artist of very considera ble eminence. The only surviving number the family, Jos. L. Blennerhassett, now lives Troy, Missouri. Rathee Pabadoxical. Miss Susan B. An thony, one of the "strong minded," lately deliv eda very powerful address on 'Woman's Rig but unfortunately upset all her argumentsof woman's independence of the other sex by p ing round a man' hat to take u p the ooUeeuos. Pnooaxss or "Woman's Riqhts."-A w has been elected constable in Perry county Il linois. Shipment or Cowek to the United Sm- The following statement, showing tne o" in the shipments from Rio de Janeiro United States, will not be uninteresting at present time ; . 1 Comparative shipments of Coffee from K10 Janeiro to the United states 1851 1852 I853 ,8ffi SB July, August, September, 117,773 79,964 79,827 277.554 293,687 179. 293,687 179,038 3 years 750,289 Average 250,096 In July '54, 36,780 To Aug. 12, 30,675 67,455 1 CO A ll vot to ship fr0 Aug. 12 to'Sept. 30, 1854, to make the arersg of June, July and August of 3 previous year The New York Evening Mirror think thrt we are going too fast, wd :- art man race, tne American pvi n" -- , , a getting on too much steam. If the 'Q were toe slow, ours is becoming too tssi. men who built the pyramids were , sand, or an hundred years. We are tient in everything we seek to c?on?P1,8n(jij Eealtoget at the end the finishing en such that we sacrifice substance for 8n?" , castles, of all sorts, when the storming ",( hAt mi thAm .mi no better than tne . Bomarsund walls. The granite i stead of solid rock." shell io- thoughtful, and after thirty ,oen7" " heat monuments survive ; but what hastily r . j . , . :11 stand W"" ir ea lemDie or comma 01 ours VERY TIGHTLY BOUND
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