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Jolin Mitchel's Reply to the Rev. H, W. Beecher. KevkrkndSir: You will be surprised to seo a letter addressed to you by one whom you supposed to be dead. In your antislavery lecture, us reported in the Tribune, I find that you announce my decease to a largo congregation: and with christian meekness repressed the loud hisses of your hearers, in consideration of the respect due to the deceased. This morning 1 have road my own epitaph in tho Tribune, mid oven an account of Coroner's impicst, which must have greatly affected my friends, if 1 hare any left. I find myself, therefore, in tho position of Partridge, the Almanac maker, who had to come before the public to piovc himself alive, notwithstanding the obituary notice of Dean Swilt, and had even much trouble in establishing the fact. Ii is a hard necessity. You may be difficult to convince, and may choose even to re gard this communication as a de profundi* daman, or voice from the tombs; bui 1 will try to satisfy your reverence. The New York Tribune first, next ? fma'.l fry of newspapers whose names 1 forget, and lately your factious reverence, in your paper, the Independent, all have have poured out on me a torrent of virtuous indignation, simply because I refused to brand as criminal a Urge portion of the citizens of this republic, and about one halfof all the human beings who have ever lived in the world besides. You and the Tribune and the "benevolists," of this enlightened eantury, have found out a new crime, as if there had not been enough before! and, when any man hesitates to load his fellow citizens, and fore fathers, with this lately-invented sin, over and above all their other sins, you cry out that lie is a 44 cat iff," a 44 thistle," a 41 hideous hag," and a dead man. Von write this epetaph and find n ver diet o ffelo de ae upon his corpse. It, seems also that I have disappointed you and the Tribune ; which is paiufu' liut what if the disappointment is owing not to niv fault, but to your stupidity For hero is your reasoning: I tried U destroy British dominion in Ireland, but I to ?t.?f l.- if !.? A citizens are vile criminals; therefore "there could he ho principle in my struggle with Kngland." (I quote from your article in the Independent) And the Tribune makes no scruple to say "that if liberty for Ireland and the Irish is sought in the spirit evinced, and on the principles avowed by the Citizen, it can hardlv be necessary to say that the effort will be fruitless and the hopes of its champions a mockery. Alas, for the aspirations of the oppressed and exiled if their incitement to struggle for liberty is the horrible desire of buying, selling, and lashing each other." I confess that I can make no sense out of such language. Kcncvolence is good, but a lit tie logic also would be no harm. Let us see how it would apply to another case. General Washington, the Father of his Country, saw no crime and no peccadillo in holding slaves, and in making thorn work on his farm. General Washington wished to possess, and did possess till lit died, and always took good care of a plantation stocked with negroes, not in Alabama, but in Virginia. Nay he wished to possess more plantations; otherwise he certainly never would have offered $8o00 far Mr. Clifton's. Thomas Jefferson, the greatest of the founders of American democracy, lived and died a slaveholder, and bequeathed his slaves to his relatives. Therefore, " there could bo no principle in tl.eir struggle with Kngland The " eff rt ought to have been fruitless, and the of its ell amnions a mnelrorv f'.ir " tfieir incitement, (Jefferson's ami Washing. m's incitement) uto struggle for liberty was the horrible desire of buying, selling each other." If your reverence would boldly speak your mind, you would tell your hearers in the Tabernacle that Washington was a cntiff and Jefferson a thrisllu or a hideous hag. I know what you will say?that those ill istrious men, those slaveholders, always felt and said that slavery was an incubus and a curse to the country. Possibly it may be so. That is a subject on which 1 give no opinion. But the national debt is an incubus and curse to England, and yet many g<x>l men believing it to be so, Jroiti debentures, and even go so far as to buy stock in the three-and-a-half per cents. But you crusaders of abolition are not content to rest the case on grounds of policy. You wilt have it that those who differ from you, and agree with all the wisest of mankind, nre tools and villains. You have a number of exclamations and interjections alwavs readv. mid von s.-.-m to think tiiAt people will take them for reasons. " What I" you crj, "can a man l>e a chattel ?" To which I answer, why iiotl The Legislator of the Jews saw no hann iu it. " Would you sell a being vith an immortal soul ?" Certainly ; Moses and the Prophets did the same. "Would you send back a fugitive to his master?" Assuredly; Paul the Apostle very honestly sent back the absconding 0:i(ttiinu?, and begged of his owner the worthy PhileinonjPaul's dearly-beloved and fellow-laborer, to forgive his returning slave. Was Paul a hideous hag? Believe me it is your rcvereuce that is an old woman. You will never get a new code o( morality established among inen. We will never consent to believe that you are u butter Christian than the founder ol thfl religion ; that you love liberty better than those immortal Creeks who invented it; that yon are a truer republican than mi uic reinioiiciiiin ot ancient anu modern times, unit of both hemisphere*. This ii undoubtedly a great century, and thinks it knows much ; tut I huve always been accustomed to thank God that I am behind my nge. it ie a matter of taste. 1 do not affect to be ignorant that your v , little school claims the founder or the Cliristiun ml igloo as an abolitionist; not by roaaon of anr positive condemnatkn * or prolilbition of slavery or slave-bolding, but by virtue of what yoa call the development of the religion which you suppose to bo growing and advancing as man crows and advances. Especially you dwell upon the great precept "do unto others as veu would that other* should d6 unto you ;w and you say here is abo lit ion in e in brio. Thouirh a laic I shall notnr* to ouggaat to fan, moat !?arft?d ol?rlr, a ??pfa explanation of thai text, which pcrliaps never occurred to you be- lent fore. It means do unto others as you Llel , would wish (if they were in your circum- sell stances and you in theirs) that thoy should the do unto you. If you are a creditor, treat c;is< your debtor with that forbearanco and is f consideration w hich, if you were the debt- he or and he the creditor, you might reason- inei ably wish and expect him to use towards pro you This does not mean creditors dis- ! oth charge your debtors free. Again, if you ' Ag i are a slaveholder, use your slave with gen- | ing lioness, humanity and kindness, reward Isrt him when he does well, never punish him j sell wantonly or oppressively?in short, just I (I)< as you could reasonably wi?h, were you | pro the slave and he the master, that he would j kct behave towards you. Therefore the in- con junction of the New Testament is not, ! lcii i masters discharge your slaves, but be mer- | tioi , ciful to your slaves?slaves be obedient to I pro ; your masters. slai But 1 said somelbing of slaves being i eve . j lasbed. Yes, the very idea of a lave in- dn\ I .1.- :.i c 1 ... 1 I ? villus IIIU mcrc Ul ? imTllUII, Ulll uurs IIOl I put at all include the idea of cruelty ; and mo i when I wished for a plantation of negroes, ted [ your reverence and the Tribune with great ant , candor proclaim that I want slaves in or- ma s der to have the luxury of Hogging them, slat Does any one marry a wife that he may hiu have the pleasure of beating his children ? falsi Yet he who spareth the rod spoilclh the pre child. Does any man buy a horse for irnj the sake if shipping him ? Did Wash- 2 ington keep negroes merely that he might ane indulge himself in threshing them? In his fact, I wanted to set down the principle, law as nakedly as possible, that it is not wrong me to hold a slave. From the principle it a n , follows that it is not wrong to make a slai slave work ; ami there is no way of ma- his , king them work (in the last resort) but the i dread of the lash. she This is an ungracious task I find my- am . self forced to undertake. On my side, olli in this controversy, everything sounds ] I harsh and looks repulsive. Your revcr he; . ence has chosen, if not the better, at bet ; least the balmier part. Yours is the priv- am ; ilege, dear to the enlightened modern no ? heart, of uttering kind-looking sentences, in 1 , It comes easy to you (for all the prevail- resl ing cants are w ith you) to assume for your* cesj i self and your followers the credit of bencv- bin olence, and philanthropy, and cnliglucn eve ment, and ' progress," and all the re*t of t it. While I, to escape the charge of bar- nat barous cruelty ami blood-thii6ty atrocity, thii am forced to shield myself under the an- "Li thority of mere ancients; persons behind Cat the century ; persons who had not'the ad- wot vantage of hearing your lectures at the or I Tabernacle; persons, like the legislators and of Jews, and the w ise men of the Creeks, tau ami the trainers of tlic Declaration of for; Independence. It would be easy for mo and also, and it would be true, to assert that I of tl am not cruel or tyrannical by nature; that hon I hate all oppression ; that if I had slaves, iug. I would influence and govern them uni- wril forinly bv kindness, instead of coercion ? 'rigl in short that I would use them as humane- mat ly as JetFerson himsel', whose enthusias- gen tic reception by his attached negroes, on by his return to Moniicello, forms so agree- hen i able a picture in Tucker's life of that il- stru lustrious man. It would be easy, but I nuJ do not condescend to treat the question i* a ' in this personal and restricted manner, and i My position was, and is, the naked as- sooi sertion, 4,that tlaveholding is not a 1 crime;" and that nobody has ever thought is a it a crime until some time towards the of a close of the last century. his i For the sake of undeceiving your disc5- of a pies at the Tabernacle, I think it right two now to inform them (and I do it with re- is cj gret) that you are in the habit of giving mm so erroneous an account of slavery among Got; tho Hebrews, that Moses himself would ! pa) not know Ins own laws if he hoard them day described in one of your revelenco's lee- shoj tures. You say that the Mosaic law (I d abu not indeed prohibit slavery, but surround- 1; ed tho system with such restrictions as to for ; make it very inconvenient, and finally to keel aboli>h it. Tin very ingenio is anthore-s yon of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in her "Key" to win the same, has asserted, quoting a Mr. is ir Barnes for it, that although Hebrews by might buy slave*, they could not sell them; tho and again, that there was an enactment tiin requiring llebrow slaveholders to liberate hat their slaves every fiftieth year. These are aide statements which you and your school anc seem to take on trust from Mrs. Stowe and tior Mr. Barnes; hut you will find that it is out unsafe to rely for facts of this kind upon tnoi pamphleteers or lady-novelists. Undoubtedly sotne of your hearers and some of mei the readers of "Uncle Tom" will be sur- gin prised to hear that there were no such sup { enactments at all, except in reference to to t j that class of slaves who were childrcn of sitit Israel. ted, The Mosaic law commanded the Israel- I itcs to buy slaves from the "heathen who to c j were round about." These slaves it coin- got | manded them to take as an inheritance thu for aver. "Ye shall tako them as an in- |h>si heritanco for your children after you, to out inherit them for a possession; they shall and be your bondmen forever. But over your will brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall lion not rule over one another with rigor." its l (Lcvit. xxv. 40.) ask In tlio year of jubilee liberty was to be tell proclaimed throughout the land, "to all nga the inhabitants thereofbut is it possible prii for a !eari?ed theologian like your rover- iiav enee not to be aware tbat foreign slaves kne were never sjwaken of as inhabitants of the win i land, but as strangers and sojourners ? It Ycl is in this verv same chapter that foreign thr< r slaves are declared to be their inheritance acti ' and their possession, and their children's erai possession forever. "Moses," says the aior learned commentator Michaclis, "specified mei two periods at which the Hebrew servant sph i was to regain bis freedom?the 7th year Hri and the 50th"?that is to say, as he explains it, at tho end of seven years from Iris the date of the slave's falling into slaverv, tyri (the sabbatical year had nothing to do the ' with it:) and at any rate, in the juhil.-e ' i year, whether ho had been with them tho . seven years in slavery or not. Butnotli- like ing of tl is applied to the slaves purchased you from foreigners or taken in war, or to the (scs children of such slave*. ' did It is precisely as if there were a law in dee America, whereby alt American citiz?n\ fort who might have fallen into the state of so 1 slavery, were to be set free at two slated me periods in each century. Yo< I/you know of any commentator worth out At k. 1-1 k !!- ? ^ * |i?'u-nu<>n i?n<> ink** Numereni tmw of tM joui matter, rrodooe liiin. And it h not true, nt* \? th?ne tfic mtj?!- | J foundation for tli* statement, tluit u [ brew slaveholder was not permitted to his foreign slave. On the contrary, re is one very peculiar and exceptional p, (Dent. xxi. 14,) in which a master brbidden to sell a female captive whom had taken to wife; he shall not mako rchandise of her. And this exceptional hibition lends to the belief thnt of all er slaves he might make merchandise, aiu it is said, "If a man be found stealany of his brethren of the children of lei, and maketh merchandise of him or etii him, then that thief thai! die."? nit. xxiv. 7.) Which seems to me to vc that there were regular slave mars in Israel; otherwise the kidnapper Id not "make merchandise" of his stobrethren, and could have no temptai to steal him for sale. And lastly, in viding for the moderate punishment ol res with rods, the law declares that, 11 if the slave die of his heating after a or two, yet his master shall not be lislied ; for, saith the text, "ho is his noy." The learned commentator I ei? before remarks on this passage: "In nation where slavery is established, a j ster must have a right to chastise his re. If they arc obstinate, and provoke j i into a passion, his blows may prove | il, contrary to his inclination; but aj, determination to kill a slave will not be | , >uted to him," for he is money. Sow, if a man's slave was his inherit- i e, and his childrc i's iuberitaiice, and j . money, and if in the whole Mosaic there is to l?e found but one enact- i 1 lit against selling?that is, forbidding j ! inn to sell his wife if she was ii'i > his j re?forbidding it not because she was slave, but because she was his wife? ; ii clearly we arc entitled to assume that ' ( res were a marketable commodity | ong the Jews, as they were among all i icr nations of aulinuitv. [ hope, therefore, you will tell your j"1 ircrs at your next lecture that you have | n misrepresenting Moses all this time; | I that, in fact, the Mosaic law imposed j restrictions upon slavery at all, except i the case of Israclitisli slaves?a class of ( Irictiotis which are hero happily unite- i vary, as no American citizen can sell j iself into slavery, or become a slave , II for debt, a-* a Hebrew citizen might, io much for authority. And as to the , ure of liberty itself, I believe it is a lg little understood in tin Be times. ) lierty requires tuw definitions," saith lyle. "The true liberty of a man, you 1 ild say, consisted :n his finding out, I v using forced to find out, the right path. < a I to walk therion ; to leain, or to he c ght, what work he actually was able j ; and thus, by permission, persuasion, even compulsion, to set aU>ut doing ho same. That is his true blessedness, or, liberty, and maximum of well be" Wisely, as it seen is to me, the same :er again exclaims: "Surely, of all l its of mail," this right of the ignorant i to be guided by the wiser, to be J ^ tly or forcibly held in the true course i him, is the iiidisputuhU-st. Nature lelf ordains it froin the first. Society f iggles towards perfection by enforcing ^ i accomplishing it more and more. It < sacred right and duty on both sides; S , the summary ofali social duties what- ' r rcr between the two." j ( 'hustne ideal of a slaveholder's position i true patriarchate. He i* tlie father ' n family. And how much higher are ] j duties and responsibilities than those mere employer for money wages, Ik-- i cn w hom and hi* laborer the sole nrxm . tsh payment! If he do his duty, how ! |, h higher he stands in the scale o! I's creatures, than the man who merely s his workmen their wages on >atur night, and dismisses them to the grog p! If ho do not his duty, or if lie se his power, may l?'*l forgive liiin ! tefore closing this letter, I sha'l quote you a sentence or two from another ii observer of the world, Father Ken; "In general," he says, "I regard the i rle question as one whose importance rich exaggerated bv fancy?perchance fanaticism. We are all slaves, in a : uhmixI souses of tlx; word; slave* to e, to place, to circumstance; to tlio ?its of our great grandfather* on either !, ami to tlio whim* of our maternal esters in all their nonsensical genera- 3 is; to fire, air, earth and water through- 1 all their analyse*; to tailor*?a ? st galling yoke; anufif, washer women, t icks, policemen, umbrellas, London reliant*, native miller*, and royal en, eers. If to all the*? slaveries there crndded one another?namely, slaver? ilavehohler*, I cannot see that onr jh>- < >n will be very essentially deteriora- i tl ifow, your reverence is a slave: a slave | ertaiu words and phrase*, which have * the master} over your pair mind, and * over your laxly too. You are a* one ^ sesscd by them. They make you cry , and gesticulate violently, and toil ' I sweat, ami revile passers by. Who emancipate you, unhappy congruga- ' tal pastor! You call these noisv suir ihat posses* yon, principle* ; nrul you I mo where is my "princip le." You . mo thai you thought I had risen up ,inst English dominion in Ireland "for ? K'iplo." (if*! foriiid! I trust that 1 o no principle* of this sort ; but who 1 >\vs hi* own heart? Who can tell ' ether he is truly emancipated or not ? I , I do flatter myself that, in seeking to < >w of)* the dominion of Englnml, I was i Hated by no other principle than intol- | ace of insolent and ignorant op pros- , i: my principle was simply that Irish | a were fitted for a higher destine and ere, and that they all ought to feel lisli dominion as intolerable as I did. ( principle was, that eren if all other limen chose to submit to that mean 1 snny, I, for iny part, would choose ra* 1 r to die. 1 foil see I am but narrow-minded. My < uglit* are not world-w ide and aky-liigii < ) vour reverence's. Vol I ubmil that ( I have no right to call me Ma prete ider," ; ?the Independent,) because I never , pretend to anything higher, wider, or , j>er than the above. Spare me, thereif your righteous indignation. Aa I nin *r U-hind the age, do not try to drag on?I can never keep up ? ith you. ir reverence, indeed, will eoon be clear 4 of my right: and I wieh yon a good t rncy. Adieu! < JOHN MITCHEL. t few Yorlr, Jan. 28, IBM. ? [H8 LEDGEf LANCASTERVILLE, S. C. WEDNESDAY? FEB. & ks APOLOGETIC. Ilaviny been obliged to remove to our ionic the past week, we have been ent tnuble to make even ?n attempt at wri ve hope our renders, will excuse our a ent negligence. The selected matter in this p:;per is utorcsting, on the outside as well as in llltl Wo (Iniiltt not Knt ???!r f-.nlt K ? t itloncd for. Our thanks to tho Hon*. A. I'. Bi I. J. Evans, L. M. Kvitt, mid 1*. S. Rr< for public document.* kindly furnished By reference to our advertising coin it will ho seen that Faust & Wincbreni Philadelphia, hive associated with tl Win. M. Carter, and have removed to New Store, No. -15, North 3rd st., lower iLove Market, Philn., erected on the City Hotel lot, a very convenient loea ivhere, with their increased rrom and f: ies they will no doubt render that sati ion to their customer*, for which the) 10 celebrated Wo lea:n that their store is 2b feet front, and 200 feet i villi very complete internal arrangein* I'o tl ose who are not acquainted with irin we can safely say that they are vho arc up to the time*, keep n sup itoek of good*, do a large husincs* >ur section, and arc satisfied with modi irolits. Call and sec them. EDITOR^TABLE. Catalogue of South Carolisa i xoe.?Son c one has kindly sent us Catalogue of the Trustees, Faculty Undent* of the South Carolina Col anu.-.ry 1851." It is rcrv neatly potter rem the Proas of R. W. tiihbc* & iVe find there are UJ student* in the 'lass, 85 in Junior. 55 In Sophomore, (7 in Freshman.. The Carorinian sa) eforcncc to the new Professor, C. F. 'or, * All the department* ?>f Instrot ro tilled, and we arc happy to say thai iov Professor, who succeed* Major ianis, i* giving the highest degree of * action as an able and accomplished teni Kdinbckg Review.- -The January rc| in* hecn sent us. costest*. 1. I/ord John RiisHeil's Memorials of ?ox, nnd the Buckingham Papers. 2. The blind, their Work* and Way 3. KcclciUtiticnl Kconoiny. 4. Public Woiks in the Prenidence dad ran. 5. Government Education Measures lich and Poor. 6. Thackeray's works. 7. The Machinery of Parliamentary slation. 8. The Ottoman Empire. 9. Note to Article I. These Reviews can be obtained at 8 year, or any \wo for 85- Blackwood's i i/.ino and one Review $5; Blackwood ill four jf the Reviews 810- See Ai isetnent Address, I.f.okard Scott it Co., New Yoi f i. i.n ess of Faskv ForrmtRII.?Mr C. Judaon, known to the lltenry wor Fanr v Forrester, is said to bodying in son village, N. Y. Her disease Is eons POtl, The Columbia Carolinian h from a private source that two of the m nent men in tireat Britain will visi United States the ensuing apring. Richard Owen, the eminent Compa? Anatomist, and Dr. W. B. Carpenter, known as the author of the latest and ipproved work on I'hyaiolntfy. Cir.o. I.aw's Gun SpRctn. atiok.?It It ted that Mr. (ieo. I,nvr, of New York.li lly disposing of the txvn hundred thou jnns, he some years since purchased o [government, and is getting for them <) uble the sum he paid for them. Thedei 'roin abroad for American msnufart nuskflta and other firearm* is represent >c far greater than the supply. Thr Mii.lrritrs Aoai*.?It seems .he Millerites are renewing tlieir vati iona in the State of Maine, predicting, heir usual confidence, the end of the n his year. They do not venture to foi the precise day. No donbt the Ru Czar will be encouraged in hie mart Constantinople if he should hear tha dilleritea had utte.red the prophecy whi nentinned helow. Their general plan >P?*n* 01 ine great event HW occur i imo the present year. 8??e, bowere the firm to be oo the 20th of M?y, i he greet eclipse occurs. The profre vente in Rsrope, they ssjr, esrely ind'r he fulfilment of the prophecy. The >f Resale is mehing hie bet gigM^b a <R*ards Constantinople, which #hen n 4 will dmt th. boolt of time for ? . I . * # &m? ' "f # h hw ) TELEGJUPIIIC. I Telegraphic Summary. [From the Charleston Standard.] FOREIGN NEWS. Arrival of the steamship ? AMERICA. =* Steamships Nashville, Canada and wr Baltic. r ? New Yohk, Feb. 16?11, A.M. The steamship America reached her dock this morning with Liverpool dates up to the 1st instant,being four days later than those brought by the Africa. 54. ----- Cotton Market. On the day the America sailed the Cotton new market was quiet but unchanged. The dc irsly mand was increasing daily. The sales of ting, the day amounted to six thousand bales, ppa Four was steady but no further change had taken place, very Corn was lirtn at previous prices, side, Wheat had advanced a shade, once Money was in fair demand. Consols were quoted at 91 5-8, and advancing. i tier, mks, Political. us. The French and Kuglish reply to the last Russian note is firm and decided. imtlM Authentic letters received from Bucharest, r, of dated 13th, states that the advanced guard Item, under the command of Oaten Sacken had artheir r'v*'d at Bucharest on the 4th, ami the m iin aj,^. body of the army on the 11th. The soldiers Old nro represented us being in a miserable cuntion, tcilU Ciortschakoflf was preparing to leave sfac. Bucharest for Little Wallaebia, the cam. ...? naiiru not bavimr a<.?iim?.l f.n.r ki.. .... ^ew pearance. It is confidently stated,however, hep- ,h .it he has been privutcly ordered to uiinuts. dcrtakc the direction of operations, this England uud Prance appear to he much tni.n excited, although it in quite apparent that prior l',cf "re detenuined and tirm in their pur with l>OKt's SECOND DE8PATCH. Prince Gortschukofl* has t een dismissed and ordered to return to his estate*, and General Sealdcr has been appointed in his place. Con- The Russian* are p-eparing a bridge in the order to effect a passage over the Danube, and It is rumored that a collisi n had taken lege, place between the stilled fleets and the Rus) up, sians in the Black Sea. Co. The Turks have taken possession of Jan* . nior iir.a, and great excitement has been pro. ,and ducod. *, in Servia letters recciv? d at St. Petersburg, Sfe- state that extreme measures are resolved uprtimi on, if thu explanation of the Western pow. t the ers should prove unsatisfactory. Wil- Fort; thousand Russians are quartered atis- near Kalaful, and a desperate battle is exdivr. pectcd. p int 4 DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the Steamxhip Canada. Mr. Daltimohe, Feb. 17?10, P. M. s. The Steainsaip Canada lias arrived nl | Halifax with four days later news from E y of; ro|?e. At ihe sidling of the Canada the Cotton for market was steady but firm. The sales ol , the week amounted to 41,000 bales, of which njjceuiamrs lutm i ,.hju imiv*. I?eg? The Havre Cotton market remained quiet. Manchester Trade dull. Flour had de clined hut had ngaiu advanced. Westcrr 3 |x>r Canal, 4:1s. 6d,; Baltimore and Philadelphia Slug- 43a. 6d. All dvacriptiuna continued in ne I and I've demand. liver- ColTe was quite firm and advancing. Tobacco unchanged and dull. Conaola cioacd at 9If. rk. All dvacriptiuna of American Stocks wer< quite active. *, E. ? II as Political. Mad- The Queen's Speech was delivered lc j in ft- Parliament on the 31 at, and makes moder nte mention of tho Turkish difficulties? congratulates England on the alliance witli pnrns France, and recommends an increase of the most Army und Navy. t the The departure of the Russiun Ministeri Prof. froin Ixtndon and Paris were hourly expec afire ted. well It is reported that the French and Engiisr most Ministers have been recalled from St. Pc tersburg. Franco sends eighty thousand, and Eng sets- land ten thousand men to the assistance o imp- Turkey. isand It is also rumored thst Austria and Prus f the sis have co-operated with France and Eng Iqm). land in the enterprise, nsnd The very latest accounts from Vienm iired state that Bnval has drawn oat s deelsrstioi od to neutrality, hearing towards the Western Powers, " hieh had been given to (!ount Or lo(T as their final answer. OrlotT'a misaioi i that hod, therefore, failed. cina- The proportion of tha Cmmt w?n to font with a league with all the German power*, and i rorld any one of them were attacked by thv Wra retell tern Power*, Ru*aia would make eommm saian caum with them, and woald not eoneed* :h on any peace without consulting them. I the The proportion wa* definitely refuse* ich I* by tha German Power* through Austria ia to The Ctar is, therefore, left to hi* own ro tome source* r, (is England and France are to demand th< t hen | nmediate evaeoitioa of tha Principalities a# of Tha Russian Minister had paid hU final catea formal viait to tha Foreign department U Ctar London. tridr It i* reported at the latest moment thai rack* Aoatria and Prussia, had dfstorod in %vm of the Mttrprin of the Wcotprn Poe era. Jm** ? [ Steamboat Explosion?Twenty Lives 4 Lost < Baltimore, Feb. 17. < The boiler of tho Steamboat Kate Krar- i ney exploded at I/)uisville to-day, killing 20 ' persona. Major Beale, of the army, la dangerously I wounded. ' i [Telegraphic Extracts.\ \ FURTHER BY THE AFRICA. \ Nf.w York, Feb. 15. 1 "Xhe mails by the Africa did r:>t arrive un- ! j til this morning. The English papers fur- ' ^ nish some highly interesting intelligence from the East A Paris despatch nnnonnccss that n great ( battle took place nt Kalufut on the 26th, ' in wl ich the Turks were completely victo- I ( rious. The Turks had also re-taken two Islands I on the Lower Danube, which had previous- | ly been taken bv the Russians. The Turkish Convoy reached Batoum in ! safety. Hostilities in Asia will bo immediately I resumed. The London Times anticipates no favora- j ble result from the mission of the Russian Count, OrlolT, to the Courts of Vienna, Lon- I don, Paris, and Berlin, and expresses the bo- I lief that, failing to obtain n declaration of j neutrality, the Russian Ministers in Paris j nnd London will demand their passports ? 'I'hc Tunes also intimates that, in the prcs- 1 ent erisis, the Four Powers will not lie justified in waiting for a fresh proposition from St. Petersburg. Tho Paris Bourse closed w ithout nnitnafSitn Congressional Wamiixijton , Feb'y 15. A letter from the. proprietor of tlie Union, j jinking to W relieved from bis engagement | to publish the debate* and proceedings of i the Senate, was presented. A bill making further appropriation for the improvement of (Tape Fear river, in North Carolina, was considered and passed. The French spoliation bill was passed? veas 26, n:iy* 17. Mr. Houston comnv need his rvm.vrkn on the Nebraska bill, but, without concluding, he gave wav, and the further consideration j of the bill was pos'poned until to morrow. | After the consideration of executive bush n? a<, the Senate adjourned. The nomination of John I.. O'SoIlivnn. as Minister to I'ortugnl. was confirmed in tl e Senate to-day bv a decided vote, but subsequently reconsidered ami laid over. The nomination of George Saunders, as Consul !o Is.ndon wus rejected by a laige vote. The Committce on Foreign Relations will have a meeting to-morrow on the G. dsd< n I treaty. The friends of the Nebraska Mil in the Senate w ill have another caucus to-morrow , 1 New York Feb. 15. It Is reported that the New Slcj.iner. now building j.ceordi ?g to the plan of lien Norris, of I'hil. delpbia, whi.lt is int uded to make the run to Kurooe in six da; a, is sold to the Suit .n of Turkey. She is n? nrly completed. Tlio \e**el wid be 530 feet long, 80 feel beam, ami w ill draw 7 feet 6 inches water. She will Ire 1,100 tons burthen, with m draft of l.0< 0 ton*. Her keU sons are made of nictal, hollow, j mi mane < other parts of the ship are alike. She is old to the Sultan for 8230.000 without " i any trial. It u expected she will soon put j to sea. HEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. Court of Inquiry?Unsoldierly Conduct? I Evidence against Col. (Jutes?Hoax?The llediiti King?Mud ltuiup.int?I'ho Contract S\ stein- Resignation of the Street Commissioner?Small I'ox?International * opyright?Tlio l'ir..U* in Aruis?Click, ling Extraordinary?Bantam's I'oultry .show?Vote on the Canal enlargement Grant?Peculation in High Places?Sultan of Turkey in our Sh'li Market?Pur clime of a now Sieiuucr?Flour uiui Cjt* ion. j New Voiik, Feb. 13, 1834. Mk. Ko'Tor:?The examination now go* I ing on at Gen. Fcott'o head quarter* info I the conduct of the hi my officer# on board ? the Si n Francisco, bear* somewhat hard < n - ! Col. Oatoa, the commander of the regiment. Without wishing to foreNtall the judgtu nt i of the Court, I would merely say th t, m i 1 Far aa present appearances go, there is erery I prospect of his being severely censured. It i seem* from the evidence that he left the die aided steamer in the second boat without I giving any orders to the oflicers that remain* i ed, that throughout tho whole duration of the trying scones ho guve no commands and paid no personal attention to his men; and . that on board the Kilby, when all were put f on short allow unce, lie drow mars water than hia shnre. All this was, to say the . I.taut, unaoldio ly, and will hardly pass with . such men as compose the Court f Inquiry. The rest of the officers, it would appear, i conducted themselves uncxreptionably, and i it is probably owing to their zealous endea* , vors that the ill-fated vessel was kept above . water a sutiicicnt time to ensure the traosl fer of her passenger*. 8ome one got off a clever hoax. a few | i days ainee, at the expense of oar Mayor, f which is not unworthy of being recorded . Th a dignitary waa rather surprised about i 10 o'clock in the morning to eee a number of i hie fellow-citiscn* pouring into hia ottt-e one after another until the concourse mustered | nearly two hundred strong. What was 11 . the wind I Wan it a riot, nr a petition! At , lost he took the liberty cf asking "W# h ?vesome to the auction," waa the reply, j j What surlion T interrupted the Executive, WJxinf indignant. ' Why the sole of the rtaf tiMt Hodini guru your IbtnUry Bor, dctt for showiaf hint round Un public build* .. cm m >u Lt^k* M m Aa * d? t _ .. Bud >v nicFi *4.* ?niiii^ 10 ra BO* vniiif l omI In tbo fiA^rw k to In mM torn# ibU r MorningIt hi hurdly Mcnonry to add I but tc Win Hm \Xter* wl not (Wring (hot m I .' . old this time. Some wag, taking advantage >f the Bedini eacftement, had inserted the rard in qnestion, and no doubt from aome dy corner heartily enjoyed tho success of lis joke. The miserably moist weather which we inve had for a week back has brought out be latent mud in all its glory, and our streets will coinf nrc for filth wilh the Augean staples of ancient fable?only that we have no Hercules to clonn them. Never before have bey been so profoundly dirty, and at no former time have our citizens been so much ihirmcd at their condition or complained so oudiy thereof. These complaints have at ast been held by tho worthy Board that presides o"cr our municipal affairs, and they liave directed tho proper authorities to proceed against the oflending parties. No sooner was this resolution passed tlmn our Street Commissioner Arculurius resigned his post. Contented to enjoy a well-paying sinecure, the moment he found he would be compelled to do his duty he abdicated. The present system has proved a miserable failureTho four contracts, on which the eity pays from 9*25,000 to $30,000 n piece per annum, have been given to men who have sought the maximum of profit with the minimum of consideration. Sweepers are among tho things that were. The envious cobbie-stont a are unable to lift the! heads above the superincumbent mass. If the mud were only snow, wc should hnve capital sleighing till Michaelmas. Heaps of filth are made tip in the streets by waggish householders wilh a Suit at one end and boots at the other, and labelled ''Sacred to the Memory of the Contractsrs." Hut alas! neither irony nor supplication can move these rhinoceros-hided gentlemen, and the city will huvo to adopt t ie best reinedv in its nourr. A en 11 noil man suggest* as an improvement that each housekeeper bo required to have the wnlk in front of his dwelling swept once a week, and that the Corporation carts be punned around to take up the refuse; but this plan would unquestionably lead to difficulties a* great as those under which we are now laboring. Out of n aggregate of 497 dnaths reported in the city last week, 57 arc from sin,.II pox ; even consumption, which usually heads our list, yields in fatuities* to the dangerous epidetniu. The Mayor has issued a prodain .lion advising all persons to get vaccinat-d, and informing the poor that they will b ' after d.sl o fee ?f expense at the various city dispensaries. The report tiiat the International Copvright treaty is again before tho Senate has revived the hop. s of all friend# of American literalnrv, tli t at I. *t the stigma of leg disod |>ir..rv nosy b- wiped from our country's escutcheon, and that eneour geiucnt and protection extend, d to our authors without which we can never have an indi pendent literature of our nw n. The publishers are moving heaven and earth against the proposed m-wwire. It would go mightily again** their grain to pay cash for tho product* of Englishmen's hr- ins w hich thev have so long enjoyed the privilege of stealing without a thank yon. It would cut this overlw ring and * orae*oiiH class to the heart, to he ob'i red. having it no longer in their power to draw gratui'ously from the F.ngbsh market, to puv our own writers t rates commensurate with their deserts. They h.ivr pursued th ir skin-flint conae b>ng enough; it '* tiin? fh t they share their enormous profits w'th the men who are th real product r? of the wares w hich they are mer. ly the insigi.t. fie! nf means of rirenlating. It is not to Ixv wondered that thev struggle hard again t any measure which will have a tendency to curtail their unrighteous grin*. Car? and Hart, of Phikwh-lphi.-t. and a few of the small fry that follow in their wake, openly oppose the ('opyright treaty, and have issued a memorial to the Senate, which they nre circulating for signaturea among their fellow roe. mornnts. Our New York firms are all. with th" single honorable exception of Mr. Pn*n m, understood to he violently opposed 'o he law. The p per making interest is also strongly arrayed ng inat It, not from any considerations of public good, hut simply b cause less paper would be consumed and th# interests of tho rr ft would suffer prnpn-? tiomtely. It remain* to he seen whether the Rcnnte of the U. H. will allow soeh petty considerations to wrioh with ?K..m uk..? jostle*, an well am their country's ultimate good requires st their hands s prompt eoncnrrenee in the proposed treaty. On Monday list, and ever since lh?4e hre iM-en a cackling In ihs city th# like of whh-h his net. r before disturbed our metropolitan musing*. The great poultr show hss opened st the Museum, and Barnnm may be emphatically called the cock of the walk." Pour thousand specimens have been entered ss competitors for the variow prtres. Tbey comprise every variety of feathered fowl, including "swans, shanghses, dcrkiaga, ban. tarn*, pbeasr.nlS muscovies, wild geese, rsbIdto. and terriers? though why the lost two lasses arc ranked in the category of "pou'? try" it idghtpnisles naturalist to t il. The show is a tine one. end enlculated Is do oar farmers much good by calling their Attention to the Importune# of improving the breed of their domestic fowls. Pome of the ohangbaee are lordly fel'owa, weighing over 19 pounds spies*. The went her has Keens/* f \ vetse to the exhibition, yet in spite ef thin dt the fair attendance proves that s eommend. ''. able interest is felt in its objects. To day the people of oar state are to dee'd# st the ballot-box whether they will pet 910,000.000 In the hands ef speculator# aed peculators st Alkanr for the enlargement of ik. r.i.. n?i n - ?<*<> p ii'iiiM'n iwwwiifwHiwU am th'a great wnrk rnl proved bv (be ostba of par. llva reqm'.nted with all the pctVbjn onght ?o m t as a veto on all further perani; nr prints; jrrt tbe peopl*. dmW bjr the bon.-fu wblt b U U dmiiet-d aro Mrs to (be Oanil enterprise, ? ill no d?*abt rash blindly Into the appropriation. It la fratifyiag to see tkrt the poteatr.t of Earepo are beginning to appnrtato Mt sopefloritjr h? ship bnildtng. A fear weeks aloe* I mnoeneed thearrkaHf ?cr*r?| Ron* tflT < t/5- VA. Jjb il &