The Spirit of Democracy from Woodsfield, Ohio • Page 2

$rit, of Sit. R. MORRIS. ERE. WILLf AMS.

EDITOR. ASSISTANT. WOODRFIKI.U, WHO, JAN. 3. 1883.

A Lecture. HoRTON will deliver a Lecture in Court-House, in this place, on Tkurilav evening next. (4th inst.l Sub- a -x 'jact Know-Nolhingism. rr A general attendance is confidently expected. Mr.

Horton is en able lecturer. custom from "time of man runneth not editors on the com- It has been, a 'Whereof the memory 'fo the' contrary," for nenccmenjjf a new year to write something sentimental. But the subject, like rMfourtb. of July" speeches, has beoome so hackneyed and rode to death that we will "gratify our readers by omitting it. 'American Sympathy and theEast- eTSL War.

1 A few years has wrought a very great 4 nance in public opinion in tho United 'States in regard to the affairs of Europe. 1 During the tour of Kossuth through this and even as late as when the Turks were engaged single handed with the Russians, there is doubt but that eur sympathies were with the Turks. The 'pithete'of "tyrannical," "despotio," the name of Czar so universally, that persons might have been led to oppose that they formed a part of his name. After the unnatural alliance of France and England with Turkey against 1 Russia, our zeal for the Sultan sensibly declined; and for some months past it has been aquestion of doubt which of the parties had the moat friends on this side of this water. The recent allianoe with Austria, however, has solved the problem iibeyond all doubt.

sympathies 'Vry naturally enlist for the people who naye' been 'endeavoring to form governments Bimilar to bur own, Aside from the our, own revolution, no political topic so thoroughly arouses an American's feelings, as the tale of the fall of Poland arid Hungary; Notwithstanding our dis appointment in their former struggles, we though somewhat of en afteriact wis still cherished hope that the time was doin, come out too late. But if it be "just, not far distent when both should be free. 1 ThirJ when the present convulsions of Europe should cease, despotic dominion and Hungary should cease with tbem. But there is now scarcely a bopalaft; France and England guaran- ft'tjT Austria against insurrection, in other Kossuth and the Eastern War. At a recent anniversary, of the Poles, Kossuth made one of his extraordinary addresses.

We have read it with a mixture of astonishment and admiration astonishment for its wonderful research and profound insight into the future admiration for its beauties of expression and elevation of thought. It breathes a sad but a lofty tone. It is full of love for his Hun gary. It arraigns with most searching inquisition, the policy of the Allies, which by neglecting Poland andjhe nations, has sought an alliance with the perfidious thrones of Austiia and Prussia. The fol lowing is an extract Sir, I can tell something of what is he roism.

1 he unnamed demigods ol 11 un gary, who fought the gigantic struggle of 1049, may well claim a peace or immortal renown in the ranks of tho bravest of the brave. And who have witnessed thiS 1 say history must go back for centuries to find out a battle like that of In- kermann, where 14,000 men resisted vie toriously the valorous attack of 60,000 well disciplined troops, and where almost every man who tougtit on your side laid low one of the enemy, the battle ot Al ma, defective as it was in dispositions and and therefore barren in its results, has been glorious in execution and covered with a lustre of immortality the renown of the British and French soldiery, but the battle of Iukermaun, from the first in rank to the last, was a ptodigy of valor, scarcely interior to the miracle of Agin- court. the history ol 1854, whatever may be its records about the states wis--dom of those who rule, will hand down with imperishable renown, to tho admiration of posterity', the impetuous ardor of the French and the stern and impassible courage of the Britons, who fought ia the Crimea. However, they fight on a battle field richer in glory than in possible, results, and richest in death. One more such victory as that of Inkermann, and the army is lost.

It is a sad consolation to know that the tombs of the glorious dead around Sebastopol can say, like those of Thermopylae, "Wanderer, tell England thou hast seen us lain obedient to our country's laws." The Enalish public have been told of late that there never was a position of more pressing necessity, that demanded so imperiously a mind that can forestall instead of waiting on events, and can avert "evils: which it may be impossible to repair, than the present position. That is perfectly ress with a garrison, as your Government seems to have anticipated, how new ar mies are pouring upon your shattered ranks, as your Government appears not to have anticipated, or it would be more than an error to act as they did. All 1 have wanted is to quote from publio reports these words The question is no longer whether we shall take Sebastopol or not the siege of Sebastopol, though not. raised, may be regarded as at a standstill. We are reduced to the defensive." Such is the situation the leaves have turned; Russia is the besieger, you are the besieg ed.

And at what price has this situation been purchased Gentlemen, on the 5th of July, ten weeks before'England embaraed on that expe dition, ill-advised as well as ill-prepared, in a speech, the contents of which it would have been well for Great Britain to mind, spoke these words to Glasgow "Not one out of five of your braves will see Albion again." Of course I used the word figuratively, as indicative of a great loss. Now it is a sad reality. Number your dead, your wounded and your disa bled more thau 20,000 men out ot J'J, 000 arc already lost. My sad anticipations are literally lullilled. And hero, at home WhyJiere the number of widows and or phans applying for support to patriotic charity amounts to 11,000.

Such is tho position, gentlemen. Now with that position thus analyzed, I call on cotemporary age, and on history, to say whether 1 was exaggerating or too harsh, in saying that Eighth of January Democratic State Convention. At a meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee, held at the Attorney General's Office on Tuesday, December 1 2th, 1854, it was ordered, That a Democratic State Convention be called, to meet in the city of Columbus. on Monday, the 8th day of January, 1855, for the purpose of nominating the follow ing democratic candidates For Govern or, Lieutenant Governor, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Secretary of State, Attorney General, two Judges of the Su-Dreme Court, and one member of the Board of Public Works. It was also ordered that the ratio of re presentation in the Convention should be, one delegate for every five hundred Uemo- cratic votes cast in each countv tor Gov ernor et the election of 1853, and also one additional delegate for every fractional vote so cast exceeding two hundred and fifty.

Here follows a table showing the num ber of delegates to which the several counties in the State are entitled, which we omit. The Committee invoke the Democracy of Ohio to respond to this call, with the unanimity and promptitude which the ex isting political crisis demands of that pa triot party. We have been defeated, bu we confidently believe for a temporary pe nod only. Uur late overthrow was ocoa sioned by agencies which, with due vigi 6th. The third clause of tho second sec-I tion ot the fourth article ot the Constitution of the United States is the only author ity for the restraint of a slave by his owner within this State, which, being a provision denying a general right, must be strictly construed.

6th. When a slave is brought into this State by the owner's agent, the agent at the time pursuing the general object of the azencv. construing said clause ol the Constitution of the United States strictly the slave cannot be declared a "fugitive," having no wul of his own in the matter, but controlled by tho agent in the further ance of his agency; that if the agent, in somo particular, violates me instruction given to him, it becomes a question between them, and not a question under the said fugitive clause. 7th. In cases, where there is a connict the common law yields to the statute, and England's policy has been wrong; that it lance, can never successfully confront us words ffuaramv that at the close of the war Austria shall hold the reins and the lash over her portion of Poland and Hun "gary, asnow; that the clanking chains of 'th Poles and Hungarians shall still make jmusio jfbr, the Austrian monarch's ear.

VcWbat wonder then that honest chniild excited France and arms. And that was. the answer three months later. Kin Oscar cave to abandon the oppressed and join the al nara2uav D'Hilliers. You have doubling and trebling the taken Bomarsund a small matter for chain which weighs down republican feel- In Europe! ten there is no nood service to England in lulling publio opinion to sleep by ad' visine it to let bygones be bygones.

A forestalling mind must look to the past for instruction. 1 he great lesson ot accom plished fact is, that. England's policy in referenoe to the present war has been wrooein its direction, and inefficient, un successful, and disastrous in details. Let us analyze the situation. gigantic armada in the Baltic is nearly without a laurel to rest its head upon.

To do some thing effective there, the co-operation of Sweden was a matter of prime necessity, England did not get it, because England a poliqy was wrong. I told England six months ago, that the co-operation of Sweden is to be got only by calling Poland to Which, vy. Western Utah Carsou Settlement, in the Western portion of Utah, is said to' number seven to eight hundred souls not They begin to feel the, necessity of gov ernmental protection, and intend apply-tag, ii'ia stated, to bo annexed to California, This, however, will probably not aa already large tonbugh, and -as- the Carson -people will bV needed to balance the Mormons at Salt It seems probable now, as an officer of the" army has received the i appointment of Governor of Utah, that a that a tolerably strong military force will tia annt over the plains next spring, to manifest to the disciples of Brigham Young that Uncle Sam a long arm upon occasion. It is about time the were given a bint that they must either -prepare to abandon their polygamy, or fl.T;iake op their line of march for some oth er oountry. r-We wonder they do not purchase' the sovereignty; ef some island in lae Pacific, and erect an independent government of their own.

Then no one would disturb them in their sins, and they could go to perdition as rapidly as they were inclined to. "45. Sdpfhbssion or Small Notes has been successful nowhere but lnefli- oient, unsuccessful, and disastrous every where But you are told, for all consola tion, that no "human foresight could have fully anticipated that position-" for one, have foretold it, fact by fact, word by word, and I wonder how any thinking msn could do otherwise but to know all this. Yet if such there wore, thoy could have used the modest light ol my poor eil-lamp. It is true, the people cf Great Britain gave me tremendous cheers in return, and went home to toil and then to sleep It is as if I would have been mendicat favors for me, whereas it was Eng land's honor, dienitv.

interest and suc cess, that'l held up before their eyes Th9 Kao Nothing Organ. The Washington correspondent of the Pittsburg Gazelle (Whig) speaking of the new Know Nothing paper recently estab liahed in Washington city, and said to be tho National organ of the party, writes as follows The Know Nothing paper here' called the American has bhown its colors on the sectional question and proves to be one of the most bitter and reckless pro-slavery sheets in the country. Aside fiom dispute about foreigners it re cognizes no policy except what is dictated bv and devoted to 'the which is with it, as with so many others, only a convertable term for slavery. It is said to be very prosperous, receiving for sub scriptions Irom SI 60 to $200 per day, chiefly from the South. This latter cir cumstance is perhaps what makes it an exclusively Southern Organ.

Native Americans and Know Nothings in the North will understand that in supporting this print they are furnishing means for the crusade of slavery upon all free territor ies, and for the enforcement ot every in solont pretension of the South against the Peace and equality ol the North, as the fugitive law the Le mm on claim, ore. A pood manv Northern subscriptions have been obtained upon the implied under standing of neutrality on these issues. They will be withdrawn Of the Order, the same correspondent again. INeither an unprincipled coalition ol inharmonious tactions, nor an unscru pulous secret political society, in combina tion or otherwise, can venture into tl field against usi if wo resolve to go before tho world united in lull array upon our established principles, fully appreciating the exigency of the times, and resolved to apply suoh policy to publio affairs as the known sentiments ot the people de mand. the very day upon which we meet in State Convention, is full of vie torious promise Tho Committee earnestly trust that the Democracy of every county will hold their delegate conventions early, and send lull representations of picked and chosen men, whose wise counsels shall result in an old fashioned victory, and thereby in ure to the public weltare.

William Parr, Chairman pro. tern. Jas. 11. Smith, Secretary.

FOREIGN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. Halifax, Deo. 23-P. M.

The steamship America has arrived, with Liverpool dates to the 9th being ten days later than the last advices. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Brown, Shipley report the Liverpool Flour market unchanged. They nuoto Wpstfirn Canal at 41s 6da42s. and good Ohio 43s Gda45s.

Wheat had de clined Id, with a moderate demand. White is quoted at 1 Is 6dal2s 7d, and i i red 10s buaiis vu. inman iorn was unchanged, with a moderate demand; Western mixed 43sa43s bd, and do white and yellow 43s 6da44s. I he transactions in lseef were small, but prices were firm; old was quoted at 90s. Bacon was unchanged, with a mod- they are both superceded by constitutional erate demand.

Lard was dull, and prioes 't if hi- tr-r. ooth vet when the time comes, when necessity will force you to remember Po land, and shall have to thank for the ad vantage of getting Sweden over to your side, then Bomarsund will have proved an acceptable offer, to Sweden but you blow it up, as if afraid of you? own victory as if bent on the purpose not to have any thing to offer to Sweden. What a gigan tio blunder f. England pretended to strike a blow at the commerce of Russia, blockading her Rossis and Encland iust succeeded to turn Russian commerce to. Prussia.

England bent her mind on bringing Austria over to herself she has sacrificed to this one aim every thing -numerous millions spent in vain i lae Hie ciooa oi me iiuwei ui j-ie land spill in vain; principles, reputation, the liberal character of jvar, ana tne very issue of the war nearly her national honor included and has vour Government gained that Austria Has it gained that Austria to whom it has sacrificed everything that Austria, of ham vien the Times (see November 10) i. hnnnil nt last to acknowledse. that New Cent Pieces. This coin, it 4wom are fighting her battle more than your said, will be issued from the Mint in the .1 Tti.n nrs own VYhat a proua sneering more course oi a iw uajo. says In respect to 'Know it is quite time that some decided "action were taken to render the people ashamed of this order of American Jesuits.

It must fall i 1 or tiie wnoie national cnaracter musi ue changed. The idea of this country, a nation of high minded, proud, educated and thoughtful men, being governed by the paltry machinery of secret cabals, un der the juggles oi granu councils, pass words and associate looleries, seems an atrocious libel upon all Americanism and all Republicanism. Let the humbug, have its run, but for the sake of all that is de cent, manly, and honorable let its run be short. Put forth, transparent as the day. a native American platform; excluding foreigners from political power, and asserting the right of Americans to govern their own country, and stand upon it.

is was in official quarters when three months aco. 1 told the zood people of England, thai it helievea to Dav. and to bleed for while, in realitv.it is made to fight for Austria I Now it came out at'last Truth will come out, iust as muruer wui Well, has your Government gained Austria Go and read the well-lounded la mentations' in the organs, even the minis- are smaller than the old pieces, and form an attractive copper coin. On one side is the head of Liberty, and, the thirteen stars being omitted, the surface is plain and polisned. The reverse is the same in design as the old cent, but brighter and much more finished.

There is a certain amount of alloy mixed with the copper, and the perfection ol the die gives to the coin a finish that DlSTSICT OF IN THE -The bill to sup- the 'circulation of small notes as a -currency in the District of Columbia, which passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, may be considered as a law, it having passed the Senate at the Kj last session and there being no reason to doubt that it will receive, the approval of Prestden t. terial organs of publicy, about the treach- has never before been attained in our cop erous altitude and the overbearing inso- per coinage lence of that Austria which your govern ment has courted with so much submission ,1 ferThe pieyeland Herald of tlie 21st We are informed that; the absconding Tfeasurerof- Holmes county was caught 11 Yesterday id New York' '0 Several prominent citizens of Holmes county are SUSpeotea or ueiug cuouipiices ui una pilfering runaway Treasurer. Cholera. A letter from our Consul at Messina gives a frightful picture of the ravages ol the cholera. The population was reduced about one half by death and emigration.

Twenty thousand died between the 22d of August and the 10th ol September. tttr Albert Greenleaf, has been appointed by the President to the office ol Navy Agent for this District. His nomination is confirmed. i GST Mf Brodhead's bill to establish a board of claims has passed the Senate by handsome majority. It was a good day's work.

The bill is now in a good bp to pass the House. Lobd Raglan. This gentleman, Com- mander-in Chief of the English forces in the Crimea, ia 'said to be no other than Lord Fitzroy Somerset, whose name oc curred so frequently, with honorable men tion, in Wellington dispatches relative in the Peninsular War. He is the son of the Duke of Beaufort, and thus one of the highest aristocracy. The family name is Somerset, and we wonder inanneir lami appellations are not preserved by the nobility, even if titles innumerable are tagged to it.

Raglan Castle is one of the possessions of the Somersets. fr7-The rumor, mentioned in the pa pers this week, that the British and French Governments had entered a romonstrance against the acquisition by the United Si a ton nf thA Sandwich Inland, ia withnnt I va mere you nave uie spirits oi foun(lftllon. It iss true, however, that there and which, in return, facilitates the enter Drises of Russia, insults your Allies, and counteracts your combinations 1 It is not only that you have not gained over Aus tria, but-there you1 have the lutks arrested in the midst of their victorious course; there you have the fruit of their heroic struggle poor Wallachia placed over into the treacherous hands of despot io Austria, there is the army paralyzed, on the one and there is, on the other hand, the Czar made and left free to throw overgrowing upon the flank and the rear of your gallantrank in the Crimea. There you have the spirits of the Turk ish army, high flowing as they were at the victories at SilUtria and Giurgevo, now depressed the Russian army, depressed as they were, now restored. And oh I could tell you what it is to neglect the moment of spirit ed excitement in a victorious army, and could tell you what it is to give time to a demoralized enemy to resume its spirits and to take breath.

One such moment's neglect in a warand it is not battles, cenllemen not battles but empires that mav be lost by it. And last alas 1 not least, thfcre is Sebastopol. Every Brit ish heart has watched the great bloody drama there with intenso anxiety. I am not wanted to, tell you the tale of your heart. 1 am not -wanted to describe how your braves have found there an entrench ed cump with an army, instead of a fort- has been a correspondence onthe subject.

The ministers relerred to have modestly asked what are the intentions of the S. Government in this matter. The inter ference of the British Consul General at Honolulu will not be approved by his own government. 07-Washington National Monument is now full 170 feet high. The work for the winter is suspended.

Its treasury isemp ty. The board of managers still look with conadenco to the American people for the means, to finish it. It is thought that Congress will appropriate fifty" or a hundred thousand dollars, which will en sure its early completion. Slave Case in Guernsey Oonnty- The Cambridge papers, (from which we copy,) contain a report of the proceedings in a case of Habeas Corpus before James Delong, Probate Judge of Guernsey county, Ohio. As the case has attracted the attention of our readers we give tho report in full: This writ was issued for the purpose of taking from the custody of A.

W. Graham two negro boys, ana cringing them before said Judge, to try the right of said Graham to said custody. The principal faots, as they appear upon the papers on nie in me case, weie these: "One of the boys, whose name is Enoch, aged ten years, is the slave of N. M. Lee, ol Richmond, end.tne other, named Lewis, aged 9 years, is the slave of Nowdigate, ol Kentucky.

That about' the fifth day of December, 1854, the'owners of said boys put them in the charire vof said N. W. Graham, at Richmond. for the purpose oi nav- iue thorn taken to Kentucky, at the time mslructing said uraham proceea oy the way of the 'Ohio river. That said boys wore not taken to Kentucky for the DurDose of sale.

That A. W. Graham, having said boys in his charge on his way from Richmond. to Kentucky, came to the Ohio river, but finding it notnaviga ble, without the express consent, or knowledge of said owners, proceeded through the State of Ohio upon the Central Ohio Railroad, and that by reason ol an acci dent to tho "train of oars in which said Graham and said boys were travelling, he was detained at Cambridge, in said Guernsey county, during which detention this writ was issued end said boys were taker, from his custody. W.

R. Buchanan, John Ferguson and J. M. Buslifield, were counsel for the State, and J. W.

White, W. R.xWag- stalT and H. J. Jewelt, counsel for N. W.

Graham, the Respondent. The cause came up tor final heating and decision on tho 21st of December, IC54 Before the argument was commenced, the counsel for Respondent moved that the boys be brought into Court Tor the purpose of making their election to go with their masters, or remain, the decision ol which motion was reserved by the Judge till after the argument of the case upon the main questions. 1 All the questions involved in the case St as were tuny and amy- argueu Dy Messrs. Ferguson and Bushfield on behalf of tho State, and W. R.

Wagstaff and H.J. Jew-1 ett on the part of the Respondent. Judge Delong, in deciding the case, held: lsti That the States of the American Union, upon the subject of slavery, stand as independent governments, each being sovereign within its own limits and subject to no control, except that contemplated by the third clause of the second section, fourth article, of the Constitution ol the United States, by which a person held to service or labor in ono state, under me laws thereof, escaping into another State, shall not, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered upon claim of the party to whom the service or labor may be due. 2d. That the relation of master and slave does not exist upon the principle of natural and general right; that such relation is the creation of positive law, which is of no force beyond the limits and juris diction of that State or country in which it is enacted.

3d. By the sixth section of the thirteenth article of the Constitution of the State of Ohio, it is declared that "there shall be no slavery in this State, nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime, lrom which it follows that slavery cannot exist in this Stato for a moment; and that when the person is not a fugitive, he and his master stand as man to man that the master has no power or authority to control him within, or remove him witn out, the jurisdiction of this State. 4th. That ail persons within the limits of this State, even for the shortest period, become subject to all the municipal laws, civil and criminal, and are entitled to all the protection which these laws afford, and this is the case ue the person ichiic or black law. Whatever may be the rule ol the common law upon the subject of the Iran' sit ol the properly ol the citizens ot one State, within the jurisdiction and over the torritorv of another, with reference to slave property, the question is settled by the sixth section of the first article of the Constitution of this State, most clearly against such right Cth.

That to be protected, under the claim of necessity, it dvolves upon the Respondent to show to the Court that it was such a necessity as entirely prevent od the Respondent from any even the slightest volitipn; that such proof not being made, his coming within the territorial limits of this State must be held to be voluntary. Whereupon the boys vtere pronounced to be free from the control and power ol Respondent. The Judge was of opinion that they wore too young to malm the election ask ed for by the Respondent's motion, and overruled the same Whereupon, on motion of the counsel for the Stato. Dr. M.

D. Daldridge, of Senecaville, was appointed guardian for the boys, who immediately took them into his charge. Russian Spies. A curious incident is said to have taken place within the lines ol the allied army before Sevastopol, on the 3d of November, only two days before the buttle of Inkermann, which shows the coolness and astuteness of the Russians, and the want of presence of mind on the part of some of the allied officers. It is thus related by a correspondvnt.

"A man in the uni form of a French officer sauntered coolly through our lines lo-day, was civil and polite to all he met, entered into conver sation with those who were walking about, smoked, and chatted, and laughed, and at last got into a sort of discussion respect ing the strength and weakness ot our post- tion in the rear towards liaiakiava. rsotn ing doubting, our officers expressed their opinions freely, pointed out our weak parts, and spoke plainly, oi me uuncui- ties of our position. At length, an officer of the 79th, who had a more practised ear than his comrades, was struck by the strange accent and curious idiom of the soi-disani Frenchman, which in any one but a Frenchman would have excited no susDicion: but still he was afraid of mak had declined to 51s 6da52s Trade in the manulacturing districts had slightly improved. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. According to the latest advices from the seat of war, affairs at Sebastopol remained unchanged.

Negotiations of the most important character have been progressing. A treaty of alliance has been signed between Austria, France and England, binding, it is supposed, Austria to declare war within one month, end England and France to guarantee Austria against invasion and Austria calls on the Germanic States to support her with federal troops, but Prussian influence opposed it. Count Nesselrode has published the basis on which Russia will accept peace, viz: a joint protectorate of the five powers over the Christians in the Principalities, a revision of the treaty ol 1841, and the free navigation of the Danube. Prussia and a'l the German btates are hastily putting their armies on a war foot Omar l'acha. with 40.UUO troops, is about embarking for the Crimea.

The Spanish Chambers have decided to support the present dynasty. The Minis try had resigned on a financial dimculty, but have resumed their olfices. Mr. Soule had arrived at Madrid. The Danish Ministry have resigned.

Saturday, in "Washington. Saturday, in Washington, is a peculiar day. Congress is seldom in session on this day. its members cieier attention to various out-door business' until then; and when the day comes, there being plenty ot time, they do not walk out so early as usual. Being out, and under a conscious ness that thev have plenty ol time, they tarry in the streets and good humoredly suffer themselves to be bored nau to oeatn bv-a set of persons who have been grab- .1 -11 bine at the buttons, oi tneir coais uu ivrnk.

ns thpv have gone to and iro be tween their lodnines and the Capitol Noon arriving, very unexpecteaiy, an hour- or two before its time, many conclude that it is rather too late to transact much business, and the few hours before three o'clock are passed in a say-nothing sort of sociability with everybody, anu manv one who is nobodv. And then dinner, and a siesta, is a serious after noon's work with many, while others dis the Crimea, "and a Turkishlnan 'onwafiy be lost. The Turkish flagship is certainly The Retribution, Capt. Drummond, was; obliged to throw over her upper deck The duke ol Cambridge was on board, and still remains there. The Vulcan rode oat -the storm with three anchors.

The Sampson steam frigate lot her masts. The French line-of-battle ship; but both vessels escaped, fortunately, 1 with Prince had her masts cut away and her steam up, but the rigging the mizzen-mast fouled the screw, and it oould.not work. The vessel then ran on shore with a terrible shock. J- The Resolute was taken with "powder and shells for the siege. By loss of this vessel and the Prince, the British army is deprived of the means of continuing the siege for the present, even, if such an idea were entertained.

With regard to the hutting of the troops, I am sorry to say, that the prospects seams rather gloomy, as no foresight has been shown in the matter, and every tiling re mains to be done. The order for the tools with which to construct this large number of buildings is dated the 12th of Novem ber, and was not received in oonsianun- ople until the 17lh' The list of' articles required is of enormous length, and it is totally beyond the capabilities of this part of the world to furnish them. Orders will be sent off to Malta and other places, and with great efforts the thousands of trow- i i i eis ana nammers anu me nuuureoa oi thousands of nails may be furnished within a month from the present timeT The wood will not be forthcoming even at so early a date, and the loss of so large a portion of our transports will "still further retard operations. Then comes the period necessary for the construction' which will not be less than three or four rwgsks. considering the difficulty ol bringing.

everything six miles along uneven ftnnorroaalnnal. Dec. 27. Senate. Mr.

Badger Senate be adjourned till Fridayf observing that during the holidays very lew Senators were in their seats, and they wanted and took relaxation, and that it was not right to transact any important business; fore he hoped the Senate would adjourn until Friday, and then until Tuesday, wtten the Senate would be full, and thrptejn-bers prepared to despatch Mr. Johnson moved a recess pending the territorial bill. Agreed to. Ci Mr. Fish moved that the- comrhitteebu Foreign relations, be instructed to enquire ttrkatKof anu atwl uKnt rtnmnftniAtlAII 1,1 It, 1 i 11 should be paid; to Commodore jPerry.br the late treaty with agreedo.

Tko Santtta orrr nftof House. Mr. from the mittee on territories, reported amendments the Senate bill authorizing the construction of a subterranean line ol telecraDh from the Mississippi or Missouri river to the Facihc Ucean; referrea to-the committee of the whole on the state of lhe Union. Tim House went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, "on Hho i niiuj ojipiuptiaiiuia uitt. The House then proceeded to the eon- ing a mistake, and had no device at hand Datch the meal in quick time, and go forth sideration of tle, bilh making apprppria ver he sent off tol un5n the' avenue to join in the promenade tione for the support, of the army which had passed the committee and was- ordered to Jje reported to the 1 1 uai-uuiuo -a tiiri in will tt a also considered and passed.

Bothere subsequently taken up by. the House and passed finally. to test the truth. Howeve Sir Colin Campbell to say he suspected there was a Russian spy among them The supposed Frenchman was not to be caught so easily. His quick eye detected the dispatch ol the enemy, and ho grad ually drew off from our lines toward the vallev.

but in a manner so natural as to ol the -fashionable and pleasant tnrong, who rightfully hold possession of its broad pavements lrom hall past three clocK until dark. And then at night many of our. honor able friends mingle in the political gossip and small-talk of the hotels; many more perplex those to whom the officer had com- wisely 'visit the places of public amuse- 'Dkoss Alin municated his misgivings; and, when he ment the best of them always taking their choice" paragraph had gained a good, offing, ha quickened his' paco into a run, aud got away into tho Russian lines, leaving his late com rades gazing open-mouthed after him! It argued no common coolness and audacity to undertake such a mission, for, had the gentleman in question been captured, he would assuredly have been hanged as a spy. The French executed speedy justice the other day on a spy, whom they found disguised as a Tartar grabsjoe within their lines, and shot him as soon as they had found out all they could from him. These Russians are very ruses.

The sentinel before the house of the Provost Marshal, in Balaklava, was astonished to see a horse with a sack of corn on its back deliberatively walking past him in tho moonlight the othfii night. He went over to sieze the animal, when the sack of corn suddenly changed into a full-grown Cossack, who drove the spurs into his stead, end had vanished ere the sentry had recovered his speech." Cuba and th9 Slave Trade. Nearlv 1200 African slaves are said to have been landed lately at Cienluegos- only 70 or 80 of whom were captured by the authorities. There are hints also that the Captain General is not seeing out his nroiessions of hostility to the miamoua tratio. The Captain General, like Cassius, is suspected of having "iching palm.

t-, Nevnrthe ess. he lias issued iresii orders lor tho suppression ol the trade. iiic whole number ol negroes landed-during the year is represented to be about 9,343. N. Y.

bivress. VV concur with a cotemporary, that such facts as these, taken in connection with tho recent refusal of the Spanish gov ernnu-nt to declare the-slave trade carried nn hv ths Soanish subjects, piracy, indi cate little cround for hope that the expor- tation ol Africans into tne colonies oi mat nower will be staved at an early day. It r- mi appears quite certain tnai epain win per aist in allowing the secret importation and conniving at the violation of, her own laws. so long as the necessities ot uncuitivateu land and the demand for labor shall make the trafio profitable or desirable to her' colonists, 1 By annexation to the United States, a termination would at once be put to this imnortation. Few will engage in the slave trade, while capital punishment is the penalty of the crime.

No slaves are infn ih United States now. The Rtatsman who should bring about the an of Cuba, would, in addition to securing a splendid possession to the Union, er.io'v the satisfaction of having at once and forever annihilated the African slave. trade. Chillicothe Advertiser. Gov.

Dorr Dead: The Evening Post tlm death, this morning: of Thomas W. Dorr, of Rhode Island, after a In.i and painful illness, on the 27th ult rt-r- Mark II. Izzard. of Virginia, has been appointed Governor of Nebraska. own, or tneir irienos, laminea wuu mcui, while others, perhaps, mingle iu less inno cent scenes.

Aud so. passes Saturday with the manv. But the few are at work at hard, delv ing, persistant, and trying labor. It is from their pens that our aoie reports proceed. It is they who gather up, arrange.

and digest the valuable inlormation which characterizes their own speeches, and which we find at limes attenuated and diluted in the speecbes of others It is thev who are always prepared upon the floor of Congress to guide its counsels aridit, to arrest the injudicious acts of tne impulsive, and to win fr themselves ttie honorable appellations -ot -num-crum oia cogers. "oia logies, anu -iiibh uemuu the times." uut they toil on, witn Rnuieu hrowa and comnressed lips, 'and when thev are dead and gone, the nation ac knntt-lfidues ii9 indebtedness to them, and their children bow their heads with rever enco end gratitude when their names are spoken. Washington utobe. From the London Times, Storm in the Black Sea. Constantinople, Nov.

20th I have to send you the news of a great calamity On the night of the 13th, a great storm burst over Constantinople, and caused much damage to the loftier buildings; the mosque of Sultan Achmed alone losing three minarets. We were accordingly prepared for some lamentable occurrence in the Black Sea, but the intelligence re ceived yesterday by the 'Valarous" tran scends all that had boen leared. Ul the whole extent of the calamity we are still ignorant, but enough is known to give it a place among the greatest tnai nas iBKen place at sea for msny years. The temp- i til est commenceu ai jjaiatuavn ouuui uiu o'clock in the morning, and in less than two hours eleven transports had been' wrecked, and six dismasted and rendered unfit for service. The moct terrible disaster is the total loss of the new magnificent steamship Prince, which arrived here a few days since with the 4bth Kegimenl and a cargo valued at 600,000, and indispensably necessary for the prosecution of the siege and the comfort of the army.

The other British vessels lost at Balaklava are as follows: Resolute, all hands lost; Rip Van Winkle, all lost; Wild Wave, but one or two saved; Kenilworth, all lost; Progress, some saved; Wanderer, all lost; Marquess, all lost; Mary Ann, all lost; Pultowa, all saved; Caduceus, dismasted and abandoned. The following are dismasted end unfit for service. The Pride of the Ocean, the. Medura. the Melbourne, screw-steamer; flaw of Captain Christie; the Sir R.

Sale, the Minchee, and the Lady Valliant. The loss of Balaklava is about 340 At the moment 1 write the mail has just arrived, and 'we are still ignorant of the losses at Eupatoria, the Katcha and Cher-son- The: Heart Quarte, 84,. and the Pluton. steam frigate, are said have gone to pieces somewtiere on uie weai vuaai vi nifvrCnnw Within rr flrtrin What action the taken to purify the party, and 'pufg'4t of such dross and scum; we of naurse not but of this we leel assured, they, nip an to drive Sewardism alias Abolitionism jroni mo Aiiieriuuii uvinp, anu create, lor ma future, an unadulterated and UniDn'pre- serving American party We hope our anti-Slavery have been seduced into I-Tnow NQ.thjngisin -will duly appreciate the kind and fraternal spirit which characterizes ihern1 as 'dross and scum and will tindrtstanrPtho pertinency of the threat to'2rie-1htn from the American camp. Pittsburg Gazette.

ft- The motion for a new triaf in the cas-e of Arison was overruled'hy thtfcourl, and he was smitenced to be huftgswnl RO LL OP OK QBt' Received on subscription to.jjig'Spiri of Democracy," for the week endingSat-urday, Deo. 30, 1854. ..,7 Henry Ford, Center, T. D. Connor, do Armstrong Sc ft J.

N. Harris, JtfferspnjCo.1(,Jwa!(1J Mrs. Naomi Salem 00 00 to CINCINNATI Cincinnati, srJo $7 75, demand limited. Hogs ndaabs buyers and. sellers apart in, ranging from 4 '25, to $4 75..

vV hisky 29. Green hamst to 6 Lar for but generally helfl nigirer. Coffee" 1 1-J to Sugar 13 to Markets generally qtM.x: Ex change firm at to 1 ffremjujft Retail VooisFiELn, 11W4. Flour.per Wheat; per bus. $qil 55 30 ,05 a 60 40 1.

9. a i-j iffijtr 1-M. a Corn, per bus Oats, per Pork per' Bacon Hams, per lb V. Sides Mackerel, per Butter, per lb. uggs, per uoz.

Potatoes, per bus i i Cheese, per lb. Tallow, per lb. Peaches dry. per Annies El i Coffee, per lb iU'WSj, ifi Sugar, N. pr lb i 10 Candles, per 18 Nails, 8 and 9d per it 35 40 1 a 1 8 em 75 4 fc lv 18i i 00 Molasses, per gall Rice, per 1 a a Beans, per Illli'll In IK An.ika nit K.r 1-7 rcth (lallirlitpr nf lidnk nnJ Nancy Norris aged' 21 years Vnd 8 mo'iiths.

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