The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1853, Page 2

Nee eee TUTE UU TERI EE Sn=s=== = ==ar EC ee eT ee eee eee ee TY “HE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Ynhe Persongel and Materie! of the Bussian and Turkish Armies, &e., &0., &o. (From the London Chroriste, Nov. 3. We bave much pleasure in pnbdlishixg the follow- ing communication with which we have been favor- ed from Sir Charles Shaw, to whom our readers are indebted for the interesting and valuable letters which have recently appeared in this journal, on the Camp at Helfaut, by a “ British Solvier”’ Su Phares’: intimate practical knowleige of m/litary Béffairs gives pecuhar value to his opinion: — TO THE EDITOR OF Tak CHR NICE Sir—The despatch of the Consu!-General to the French government shows tbat hostilities have com menced batween these two powers, and it may now be interesting to consider whether the general feeling or fear of the public is well founded, that the Turks, if single handed, have itile or no chance of success ainst their powerful adversaries. This opinion of ¢ weakness of Turkey has been produced to S very great extent by a certain part of the European press under the control of Russia, writing in such a manner, not only to frighter fhe Turks, but also to infiuence other governments | the Turkish dominions, their real use will that, through her internal weakness, the Turkey was doomed, aud that the Musselmen ust be driven from Europe. To combat this gen- of the immense and overwhelming power is difficult; but, in spite of this, [ shall en- Gesvor to Dot entitled to be considered invincible. In speaking Ruasia, we must never lose sight of the fact, all depends on the Emperor Nicholas, and query may be made—have his former acts ghown that he is the noble. magnanimous charac- the n press have triei to ve him? What have the successes of the Russians i im the field been, during the Jast sixty years? the rash into the centre of Europe of the barbarian Snwarrow, with his blood:hirsty crew, @till reeking with the b'ood of the 30,000 women and Children of Ismail, threw a temporary éclut on the jan arms. But what did the Russian army gccomplish during the revolutionary wars of France? Alt they, with great courage, stood steady to be down or sabrei, what success did they gaint Did not Napoleon, wherever he met them, them heartily? Did he not, »y sheer hard —_ drive them to the other side of Moscow? doing this, in less than twenty-four hours Na- 30,000 of his horses by the sever'ty of the weather, and eventually, through the same means, the fineet army the world ever saw assembled. But , and Europe accorded, the credit of Napoleon’s army to the superiority of that of Russia, while every impartial man, at this dis- tance of time, must allow that the destraction of the army and Napoleon's power would net have ed at time except ugh the instramen tality of Providence, almost independently of the Rus- @lan army. But upon this basis of ice and sn>w has fhe terror of the Russian arms been built, and the Question is now about to be solved if this basis is Bafliciently strong. Those of your readérs who hive visited Riga must | e immense column erected in that city, | The hosts of twenty kingdoms and natiors rushed into ja, with fire and sword, and fella prey to death or captivity. Russia conquered the destroyers aud broke | Prussian officer may ndex I | faiced ber with bis triumphant han‘, and restored to | ta ae 1852 | public the power of what is uow called ‘“ the Minié ‘the fetters in which Europe lay enchained. Ale: & their sove rcignties and to vations their native imsti- ma. ey a But upon this pillar there is no mention of Poland having received her institutions nor of the cause of the war being the refusal of Napoleon to fulfil the Secret article of the peace of Tilsit, then agreeing to the cession of the Turkish provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia to the Emperor Alexander. But the suc- ees of Alexarder, even though owing to a severe winter, covered many iniquities, and induced him to think more than buman and I believe on rly one occasion did he ever find a human show that Russia, by her former acts, is | | Q@MER PASHA, ABDI PASHA, AND SCHAMYL, | seems animated with one spirit—that of hate and re- sistance to Russia; and in looking to history it will be almost found an axiom, that though @ regular | army may overrnn a country and hold the ground upon which they are encamped, that a nation true to itself is in the end successful. But, independently of | this invine ble national feeling, Turkey during the | last twenty years has been making rapid progress ia | her commerce and in her civil and military institu. tions. Her army has been iustructed, and is partly commanded by brave and scieutific officers of all na- | tions, consequently, if a fight takes place between Turks should be at least sonal to the Russians. But the succees of this war will depend principallypupon the irregular troops. The Cossacks, owing to the peculiarity of the war during the three years prior to the fvll of Napoleon, attained a higher character in European warfare than they deserved. Their supe- riority in a friendly country a8 outposts and a pro tectien to an army in quarters is undeniable; bit as soldiers in action, they are of comparative little value. But if a pepe et a country is ey them, they would be massacred in detail. When they left Russia in 1812, the population of Germany received them with open arms, and thus they were to be found scattered everywhere in tens and twenties, the people giving them true informa‘ion and receiving them as friends. True, en entering France they were obliged to bea little more cautious and to hold themselves in greater num ers, althongh at that time (1814) the population of France, exclu- sive of those with the army, consi-ted enters of old | men, women and children. But if the Cossacksenter be loat, as | they will be under the necessity of acting asa ‘~A { lar force, thus becoming an actual incumbrance. The | Russian troops have already shown that the irregu- lar forces of Turkey are most formidable, as, after twenty years of actual warfare against this species of | force; the Russians have made litte or no progress | and if they invade Turkey, these irregulars will inflict the same punishment on them that their Cossacks in- fiieted on the French in 1812, 1813 and 1814. The noble Circassians, who have been Sighting. against Russia, independent of a sp been within this | shart time taken into the Turki ey and it may be interesting to give a description, by a Prussian officer, of the Circassian cavalry, who are about to take a prominent part in the coming conflict. He says :— The Circastian wears a pointed steel helmet, with » Jong horse-tail pendant from it. A net of steel work | hangs down from the lower part of the helmet, protects the frontand nape of the neck, and is looped together under the chin, underneath a short red yest, cut in the Polish fashion. He ia clad in species of coat of mail, con. sistirg of small brigh* rings of steel intervened. His arms, from the wrist to the elbew, and his legs, from the foot of the shin bone to the kree, ure guarded by thin lates of steel; be also wears close pantaloons and laced ts. Two long Turkish pistels, as well a3 a poignard, are stuck into his girdle. He hase leather strap with noose, like a Mexican lasso, hanging at his side, which he throws with great dexterity over the head of his enemy. A Turkish eabre and a lorg Turkish muaket are slung behind his back, and two cartridge holders across his | breast, The skil with which the Circassians use their | weapons is really beyond belief. I have seem them re udly fire ata piece of card lying on the ground, ai full speed, without ever missing. They will pick upa | piece of money from the ground while executing a charge, by bending themselves round below the horse’s belly, and after seizing the piece, suddenly throw themselves | back into the saddle They form the choloest body of | cavalry in the Turkish service, and I have watched them and all right feeling men on their side. All Purkey officers who have visited his camp, have the regular armies, nearly equal in numbers, the | expressed not mn but astonishment at the skill displayed in all his arrangements of defence and of tactics, and are confident that he will make a stand worthy y European army. He displays the ac- tivity of a youth in ali his movements, and is eager to commence the contest. Omer Pasha is now fifty-two old. He is a little below the medium height, but be bas a martial | pbhysiognomy, full of expression, He ‘speaks with | equal facility, Servian, I and German. He has been frequently offered portfolios of state, by the | Sultan, but always refused, preferring to remain in the sre After the insurrection in Huvgary, he took in hand the defence of the rofagees, whose ex tradition had been demanded by Austria and Rus- tia. He went in person to Shumla, where he made the acquaintance of Kossuth, aud the other priasipal members of the refugees, and upon his arrival at | Constantinople, he actively intervened in their favor | with the Sultan. He brought several of them with him into Bosnia and Montenegro, and confided to them important posts. Several of there distinguished themselves, and have remained in the service of Turkey. The distinguished Hungarian oflicers, Dewhbinski and Klapka, who fought so nobly for the | independence of their country, were amongst this number. and they now have the command of 20,000 meu in the camp of Omer Pasha, There are other. foreign officers of distinction in his staff, mostly re fugees from Russian and Austrian oppression, aud it | will be safe to predict that these men will show little | cowardice when placed once more face to face with their old and bated enemy. ABDI PASHA. The Asiatic division of the Toe mey that di- vision of it which is now collected at Erzeroum, Mount Ararat, in Armenia, and destined to prevent an invasion of the Russians from the northeast shore of the Black Sea, commaxded by Abdi-Pacha, an Asiatic, of the same age and youthful activity as Omer Pasha. This officer's 38 will be ‘Eu- ropean, half-Asiatic, and his mili education has been such as to well fit him for the of warfare which he will be compelled to adopt in that country, and with the kind of soldiers under his commend. 1¢ is to him that are flocking the hordes of Circassians, Georgians, Syrians, Arabians, and other uncivilized tribes beyond Jerusalem. The latter fight because itis under the standard of the Prophet Mohamed that they are called and the Ci ns and Geor- gians, because, like the Poles and Hungarians, they have an old enemy to deal with. It isin the moun- tains or the coiines of Georgia that the skill of Abdi Pasha will be first tried, and he is said to be pecu Marly fitted for this kind of mountain warfare. He bas surrounded himself with a staff of officers of lke stamp, mapy of whom are Circassians and Geor- gians, and have already distinguished themselves in the long contest which has been going on between them and Russia. SCHAMYL, THE OIRCASSIAN LEADER. In the staff of Abdi Pasha, is Schamyl, the Circas- sian, the most remarkable and desperate man with whom the Ruseians will have to contend. The fol- lowing biographical! details of this man, who has now for 80 many years successfully withstood the on- slaught of Russian armies in the Caucasus, and who has just been placed by the Sultan. in a position where his tatents will be more fully developed, will, | no doubt be read with interest. It is derived from a | source worthy of credit. The first time we hear of Schamyl is in 1832. In when charging, attack their opponents with a sab:e in each hand, managin, | their reins with their mouth; | they will spring out of their saddles take aim and fire | from behind their horses, then jamp int) their saddies again, wheel round and reload their gun as they retr-at | in fullcareer, They are perfect madmen in the attack, | danger they evince. @resture bold enough to speak to him asa) tan. The celebrated French general Vandamme, after a rate resistance, on the 29th and 30th of August, 1813, was taken prisoner at Culm, and @ragged before the Emperor Alexander and Arch @uke Constantine, the latter taking from him his ord, while the former abused Vandamme as a rob- | and @,brigand. The French General, in reply, | d, ‘Sire, I may be a robber and a brigand, | there are crimes still greater with which I have | ver soiled my hands.” ‘‘ Off with him to Siberia!” ited Alexander, on this allusion to the death of father, the Emperor Paul. On Alexander's ith Constantine was the heir to th» throne; put presezt Emperor Nicholas managed to oust his | @lder brother, and has now taken upon him:elf to | Beze these provinces, 89 coveted by his brother Alexander at Tilsit. Much has deea said of the Bavege and cruel character of Constantine, ia order 4 attempt the justifiration of Nicholas, An eye Witne:s, in bis account, written in 1830, of the extra- Ordinary events at St. Petersburg, in 1325, when Nicholas possessed himself of the throne, gives the then public opinion of the characters of the two brothers, and cites as an examvle that Constantine, at a review, seeing a soldier with | his stock carelessly pui on, rashed at him with his cane and struck te soldier violently on the Beck, but on its being explained to Cocstantine that the cause of the stock being so put on was owiog to 8 wound the veteran had received in the neck, the archduke felt so deeply his own injustice aad cruelty thai, before all the troops, he threw himself weeping into the arms of the veteran, asking forgiveness with every sign of contrition, aud as an atonement, pro- | ed a commission for the soldier. Nicholas on a | = Occasion was displeased with the appearance of the whisker of asoldier. The personal strength of the it emperor of Russia is perhaos equal to that any man in Europe. Hz dashed at the soldier, seized him by the wh’=\;er, and never let go his grasp till he tore the whisker from the chee! with the flesh attach to it; and actually boi Of this feat, a8 4 mani‘estation of bis strié attention to disoipti.e. Although Nicholas has peace and Mercy i”, his mouth, and astempts to cover his mis- des*'s with the mantle of religion, can it beexgec’ed Sata man whose despotic will is of twenty eight | years’ growth, will hesitate in entering upon abloody war with any nation who attemps so make him diagorge Tis long-coveted booty? But the Turks, though Musselmen and Payans, as Prince Gortechskott calls them, are a brave, and not ® stopid unthinking peovle. When they were shamefully and treacberously attacked at Navarino by the combined English, French, and Russian fleets, | and after the Turkish admirsi had surrendered, a | Britieh lieutenant was ordered t> conducs the admi- | @al’s secretary on shore. Seeinz 4 mast with about | | every attention. Sir Charles has seen much service, | | con | comi This account of the Circasiian cava'ry by the | appear incredible to our Life ies; but I do not forget that, | I first brought before the | ea: Tifle,” the admirers of old Brown Bess attacked it | right and left, and now there are nearly, in 1853, | 4 upwards of 40,000 of this improved musket in the British army. The greater proportion of the irregu- lar and regular cavalry ot the Turks are Asiatics. Hear what the most intelligent and experienced off- | cer, Captain Nolan, of the 15th British Hussars, says in his admirable book on cavalry tactics. Speaking | of the British cavalry, he says:— | By taking a lesson from the Asiatics, England might 60 arm and instruct her dragoons as to make them equal to | any of the people of the East in single combat. | Of the Russian cavalry, Captain Nolan says:— | Heavy Russian cuirassiers, when opposed to the Turks, | were obliged f ‘orm in close colamns, or in aquares, re- | quiring arti‘lery and infantry to protect them from the sbarp scimitars of the Moslem These Turks had no dis- | cipline, no lancer; bad nothing but their own good swords and steeds to trust to. | All accounts lately received are unanimous on the | superi © equipmeat and efficiency of the Turkish | aitilery, and the opinion of Sir Charles O’Donnell, of the lurkish army, now in the field, is worthy of and he has lately been visiting the greater part of the European armies. He says:— | ‘The Turks are physically a fine race of men, capable | of eaduring fatigue, sober, patien , intelligent, and alto | griber well conducted. All is completely Nuropean, and | the spectator may bere fancy himself amougat the Prus | sian cr French soldiers in their en:ampmen's. They are | aied by @ laudable fervor for their religion and thir ly, and aware of the consequences ty them of the | rgcrisis Their fatalism has exalted their courage, | and they «ay they will c: nquer or die with their arms ia their honda. The Turks have adopted for their cavalry | and infavtry the French rystem, and for their artillery | the Prussian system of orgenigation avd manceurre Toe | whole army is well armed, equipped, acd organized, and, | upow the whole ip good order. instructed by Europeans in the various branches ef the military art, the Turks have totally given up their formor system of warfare and have made rapid strides towards efficievey in Euro- pean tactics. The artillery is the arm in which they most excel: it is numerous. well managed, aud under- | stood. The equipment of the mountain guns carried on mules is wel! arranged. In 1815 the Duke of Wellington reviewed the Rus- sian army of 100,000 men. He expressed admiration ef them as a body, but was struck with the slowness of their movements, and said to the Marquis of Lon- donderry, “ Charles, my little army could move roand them in apy direction whilst they were effecting-a single change.” The navy of Russia is powerful in men and guns, but, having only one or two months in manceuvring during the whole year, Admiral Napier need uot have much fear of that much dreaded twenty-seven ships of the line in the Baltic, of which he speaks 60 much ; as one might say to | him, “ Charley, with five ships you would sail round | nd through them whenever you choose.” But the Russian fleet in the Black Sea is om and well manned, and, for the sake of Turkey, it behoves ua not to talk and diplomatixe, and nothing more, but to follew the hint given by Lord Palmerston in his | letter of 19th Octoler, to the Edinburgh Presbytery— “ Don’t talk, but keep your powder dry, gentlemen.” Crarues Saaw. THE TURKISH MILITARY CHIEFS. | OMER PASHA, twenty wounded and exhausted Turkish soldiers The commander of the European division of the ig to it, attempting to save themselves, the | Tarkich army, now posted on the Danube, is a Croa- having been strictly invested on all sides, it was cer- Sctaee said be must rescue these poor fellows. “Never mind them,” said the secretary, “they are | poly common soldiers.” e | Fiume. ‘drow et “I would be a disgrace to the service if Idid not | Lieutenant Administrator tian, and was born in 1801 at Viaski, a village situated in the circle of Ogulini, twelve leagues from His famil s Lattas. His fasher was of the circle; his uncle was them,” cried the lieutenant, and rowing tothem | a preacher of the United Greek religion. While yet | stowed away the poor creatures in the bottom of | very young, he attracted the attention of some boat. The secretary burst into sn immoderate | officers by hie great talent for drawing. Through | of langhter. a God!” says the lieutenant, “what is there bere to laugh att’ »” exclaimed the Turkish secretary, ‘“yes- | ferday you English came into the bay while we were qQuietiy at our coffee; you koocked our ships to | | aw killed and mavgied all our men, till our fleet one vast slaughter-house, and this morning you | pretend to be so humave that you cannot pass a | Score of wounded soldiers without pusting yourself @ut of the way to save them.” Nicholas ascended the throne in 1825, and even on he wae such an adept in diplomacy that le con- ived in 1827 to use the British and French fleets at | Naverino, to weaken that country which he had ce- | @olved sooxer or later to possess. In 1823 and 1820 | She Russian army was -accesefal against the Turks. But under what circumstances? Turkey appeared | gt that time fair game or every one (0 aitack ber, and the mora! courage of the nation was weakened, | mot only by the loss o: her fieet and by her own intes- | fine Gi a, bu’ by seeing almost ‘al! Enrope com- against her. Let a comparison bo made be- Turkish and Russian armies of thai day. ly before this, the Sultan lai disbanded and ed the Janisearies, who were considered the of ‘the Turkich army, and those whom he fht into the field in 1#28-'9 were either re- the old regiments Which had been newly and consequently unfit, in 2 great mea- actual warfare. The Rasstan army, on the , were composed chiefly of those men who in — warfare against the French army to Hg ue z E till after twenty-five years service ; private soldiers, the greater part of joned officers, and a large proportion icers, in 1828 and 1829, were veterans cou- st recruits. Bnt,even with these ad- es, it was with great dificulty the Russians suc. led; and now it is a matter of history that ian gold bad not been used in bribing the gover- to surrender the fortress of Varna, the Russians Id not have succeeded. We must recollect that splendid Russian go great yr? in 330, in overpowering new levies and disor- ized forces of Poland. As far a3 one can judge ita arance, eqaipment, and interior ecoao- , the army is most formi ; but the ation is, “Is this immense machine s0 well ar. mged and have ‘the sinews of war’ so wall koitted together that it will be able to work when removed its own locality?” Comparatively few of the in soldiers of 1553 have been in actual warfare, ira 2ese: ie 328 i Ey Ceyrrrrerit? mi a Ni brave. who feel they ure fighting for thelr ¢ | re-crasnization of the Turkish ar: 4. The Ruasian soldier is not entitied | withstanding the difficulty of managing the suscepti- the influence of these gentlemen, he was admitted into the school of mathematics, at Thurm, near Carlstadt, in Transylvania; and after having finished | his studies with distinction, the young Lattas entered | the corps of roads and bridges, which in Austria has | a military organization. Towards 1530, after having bad a dispute with one of his chief officers, he passed | into Torkey and embraced Islamism. Chosrew- | Pacha, who was then General-in chief of the Turkis! forces, tock bim under his protection, placed him in the regular service, and attached him to his per- son. He even made him marry one o° the ric’ heiresses ot Constantinople, davghter of a Janissaries, whose nead he had cut off in 1827, at tne time of the revolt of this body against the Sultan, Mabmoud. In 1833, Lattas, who had taken the name of Omer, was Chief of Battalion, and was designated by Chos- | rew Pasha as aide de-camp and interpreter to Gene- | tal Chrzanoweki, cbaryed with the instruction of the | Ottoman troops united in a camp near Constantino- | ple. Afier that, Omer was actively employed in the | and, constantly | a, he obtained suc- | pushed forward by Choerew Pasha, cessively difficult niasions aud important com nanda. ‘The troubles in Syria and the Albanian insurrec- tion in 1846 gave Omer the opportunity of distin- ishing himself, aud of attracting the attention of | the Sultan. Sent into Kurdistan, he succeeded in | a to submission this province, which was al- mos; independent of the Ottoman Porte. In 1548, called to the command of the army sent into the provirces of Moldavia and Wallachia, not- bilities and the privileges of these provinces, placed under the double protection of Tarkey and Rugsia, he soon made respected the anthority of the Sultan. The year 1851 is the most brilliant epoch of the mili career of Omer Pache. Named Comman- der-in Chief in Bosnia, of which the principal Chiefs bad refased to recognize the Tangimat, that isto say, the new organ‘sation of the Empire, he combatted witb success against the Beys of that country, with much inferior forces. Lastly, he was gent into Montenegro, where he found bimeelf, for the first time in his life, the com- maxder of a regular army of 30,000 men. As will be recollected, the intervention of Austria put an end to this expedition before he could commence any deci- | cated | verging upon famine, came before a week had passed. | eral at whatever hour of the night the capt are of the | the surprise, as was euppored, that he was Schainyl; | trick that had been played him by shouts of “Scha- that year, a devout Mussulman, Kasi-Mollah, held a chief command in the bands of Lesghians, Tchet- chentzes, aud other tribes of the eastern chain and the ste abutting on the Caspian and traversed by the Koieu. Kasi Moliah’s reputation for sanctity and few troops could withstand the utter reckl of | Was greater than that which he acquired for the high- | P' fos esiaeeal cs anes sesnest Of | er militar qualities, although adaabing Teader, aad | in the same individually one of the bravest of the brave. He was | ht to bay in 1832 by General Rosen, at a place | Gumri. Encircled on all sides, almost the | last scrap of food devoured, nothing remained in | the opinion of Kasi-Mollah, and about thirty of | most zealous disciples, but to hew for them- selves a path through the Russian bayonets, to freedom or to Paradise —either alternative a wel- come one! This resolution finally taken, they sud- | bers. ‘The State who, like her, can roll up a majority of | set, for this standard denly emerged from the fastnese they could no longer hold, and burst upon the Russian troops with | the shock of an avalanche, and the furious, dis sordant yells of a troop of madmen. For one or two brief | moments, it seemed that they must escape, so far through the beleaguering circle of their foes did they cleave their desperate way, before the momently-re- | coiling ranks reclosed around them, and they fei! by twos and threes, Seep ett a the last, riddled by musket balls and bayonet stabs. Kasi-Mollah | ‘died with his hand on his beard, and a last prayer murmuring from his lips;” and his pupils perished with him, all save one, and he the bravest and fiercest of them all, who broke through the enciy- | cling bayonets, dashed at headlong speed past the more distant lines of running fire unharmed—reined suddenly up as he reached the angle of a mountain george, into which he knew mone dared to follow, shook his red scimiter, and hurled a defiant execra- tion in the faces of his baffled foes, and the next mo- ment, with an exulting shout of “ Allah! [1 Al'ah!’ disappeared in the dark mountain pass. This fortunate horseman wag Scbamyl, the future Imam (preacher)—the prophet-soldier of tae Cau- casus, whose escape, as just described, many of his followers to this day firmly believe was due to the direct interposition uf the angel Gabriel! Schamyl, who is one of the dark-haired, dark-eyed, par‘ly Tartar race of Tchetchentzées, was born at Tschir- skei, a place of about three thousand inhabitants; and, afier his escape from Gumri, he employed seve- ral years in perambulating the mountains of the Les- ghian chain, preaching wherever he went, with fer- vid eloquence, upon the sacred duty devolved by | God upon all true believers to extirpate the intrusive infidel, and the paradisal rewards which death In so high and boly a cauze must Sept insore. This prophet-call,as it was deemed, to battle, from the cupolas and minarets of the sublime aud towering Alps, gradually kindled the latent fanaticism or the mountaineers toa flame, which soon communicated | | itself to the dwellers in the cities and steppes of Daghistan, and the adjacent valleysand plains. The | story of Schamyl’s miraculous escape from General | Rosen, by favor of the ge a Gabriel, was re- | peated from mouth to mouth with endless variations | and additions—his daring, skill and suscess as a | soldier confirmed the illusions of a credalous bigotry, | and he gradually drew around his standard, and bent | to his sway, the multitude of rugged warriors whose swords have inscribed so many victories upon the bscks of the Russian armies, and to this hour present an invincible front to their distaayed, and practically | discomfited, adversaries. | Many well authenticated instances of his daring | are related. One or two of these may interest the | reader at this joncture :—In 1830, Schamy] tound | himeelf surrounded by Gen. Grabbe, and_t velve thousand veteran Russian troops, at ‘Achulko; a kind of mud encampment perched upon the top of a rock | on the banks of Koisu. The position of this place | was £0 strong, that the attempt to storm it was aban- | coned alter the loss of fifteen hundred men, but | Scbomyl bad socn a deadlier foe than Gen. Grabbe | and bis army to contend with—bunger ; hunger, This was known in the Russian camp, and the place tain that the surrender could not be long delayed. On the last day but one of August, Gen. Grabbe learned from an emaciated Lesghiav, whom his sol- diers bad caught whilst attempting to crawl past the blockading lines,that not a particle of food was left in Achulk», that Schamyl Bey propored to Looe that | very vight, with one or two chosen comrades, by means of a rope lowered down the face of the rock to the Koisu; and Achulko, he added, would be sur- rendered immediately afterwards. <A strict watch was immediately ordered to be kept at the indicated spot, end dire:tions were given to awaken the Gen- redoub‘ed Schamy] might be effected. Just before awn, one—twe-—three men were seen to cautiously descend by a rope, let gently down on the river side, as predicted, who were of course in stantly secured, and hurried off to the General's tent. “ One of the captives admitted, in the flurry of ond this was confirmed by the Lesghian, through whore information the important prize had been se- cured. Gen. Grabbe was delighted, and an estafette was forthwith dispatched with the tidings, that” the netoricus rebei, Schamyl Bey, had been canght, and ordered to be shot out of hand. Whilet all this was going on, the rope which bad been quietly drawn up again, wes once more lowered. and this time ouly one man descended by it who reached the river un- Observed, leaped A mn a ratt that just at that criti- cal moment swept by, and the too hastily exultant Roesion General was aroused to a knowledge ot the my]! Schamyl!’’ from the mud walls of Achulko, in exulting reply to the waving of a small green flag, by the true Schamy!, as he swept down the s' oisu in the dawning sunlight, presently to find himeelf amidst bills and amongst friends, that would Tender successful pursuit, if attempted, impossible. Achulko surrendered at discretion, the huts were burned, and General Grabbe retraced his steps isa very angry mood, which a daring attack on his rear- guard, by the ubiquitous and indefatigable Schamyl, at the head of a large body of horse, exasperated to fury. The Imam was besten off with some difficulty, and the victorious General's march was sullenly resumed, and concluded without further molosta- tation. THANKeGTvING IN Matre.—Thankagivin; says the Bangor Mercury of the 1sth inat., off very jetly in this city, y » Our le have the eatisfaction of bel of the whole Union, which has selected Thursday next for the observance of this festival. A correspondent of the Boston sive operations. On the 271h vlt., Omer Pasha was ot Kuletat, on the rorthera bank of the Dannbe, expecting a battle with tie B on the next d e i af the are now about to engage with a nation | 48 w it hel ir li zion, aud thatt ey lave jurtye | nia # 5 1 than 190,000 men. He is th mot improved Raropesn tac ee 1 plan ef operations are ¢ Uoglich eud other tuelgn he wai cal | Transcript gives the follow: 8 as our Governor's rea- son for non-conformity with the general nantes :—In e late interview with Gov. Crosby, he mentioned, aa ‘ a resson for selecting another day for Maine, that 80 many of the natives of Massachusetts had settled in bis own State, he wished them to have an opportu nity of joining the family circles they had lett, as | created by necessity. He may, if he shoose, enter Gems from the Sunday Press. (from the Sunday Mercury Nov. 20} A LIB. That miserable perty, or, rather, faction and admin- istration journal, the Washington Union, has at last given up, or for a time abandoned, its infamous lie about the Africanization of Cuba by the British, upon which it harped so long atrociously, for the pur- | pose, we presume, of raising a filebustering spirit at | the North, or for the purpose of arousing the South, | or for the purpose of distracting the attention of the people from the degrading ani contradictory and | anti republican tricks and double-sbufles and thim- | ble-rigging of Marcy, Guthrie, Cushing, and other | little jokers, with and rend paced (price fifty cents) upon their fundamental arrangements. A more disgraceful lie never was more wickedly put | forth by apy journal, high or low, nor was ever lie more impudently or more b smear bolstered up | a8 long a8 it was sup) to pay. The entire story | was engendered in the soul of a huckster,and brought | forth by a wretch with the courage of a mountebank, not that of a bravo. | It was in vain for the British Minister resident at | Washington to protest to our patchwork and domiuo- | playing double-six, gambling administration, against | the gross injustice this lie was doing his goveroment, | avd the entire nation it acted for, in Propogeting | and reiterating so palpable a lie. Our shuffliog ad- ministration denied its control over the columns of | the Union; ao it went on with the lie until the lie ceased to pay, or until it had worn itself out. It was a stupid lie; and yet, stupid as it was, it bad its believers, as any charge against the “' bloody British,” however moostrone, improbable or im possible it may be, always will have. The lis of the Union ran to the effect that Great Britain had agreed with Spain to throw ship loads of negroes, snatched from Africa, into Cuba, to serve a sort cf apprenticeship, and then enjoy a sort of freedom. This was the pith or point of that stupid lie. The throne of Great Britain itself, popular, and decervedly popular, as the present occupant of it is, would not be safe @ day under such a Tillainous and beastly compact as this. [From the Sunday Times. “MR. SPEAKER!” In about a fortnight commences the session of the bre tern Congress. Already the hotel chambers, the lodging rooms. and the private parlors upon Pennsylvania avenue have been fully aired for the reception of members, whose trusks are now being cased and Sain ae for their Cop ie ees the “City of Magnificent Distances.” ‘he bar-rooms are en- during their ¢aily accamulation of loungers ; the backmen are hourly assuming more independent airs; the librarian ot thenew Congressional Library is Preparing to dispense information upon all topiss to agen ra ap and scores of new peat bags gape in the corridors of the Post Office for the loads of public documents which the zeal of naw members dispense throughout the Union. All Ci betoken the ap- ch of that legislative life, which, every December, rings £0 powerfula reaction to the city where, in each congressional vacation, ennui reigns supreme. As the eve of the session thus approaches, the gos- sips of Washington, and the first ent of lobby members, (whose patriotism is only equalled by their impudence,) begin to discuss the positions of the old members, the prospects of the new ones, and the | fesiend problem—‘‘ Who shall be Speaker?” This | functionary will undoubtedly be called from the dele- | gation of some State not represented in the Catinet, | which may shut out Linn Boyd, from Kentucky—and from some State other than the one who shall furnish | the Clerk. If Colonel Forney be the latter--and we | cannot think of any cogent reason why the new House ehould pase over a good editor, a serviceable | 4 artizap, and & gentleman whose previous courtesies | ost are his unquestioned recommenda- | tions—then Pennsylvania will not have the honor of retiding over the representatives of the nation. | g; ikdo presents strong claims for someone of her mem- | sixty thousand votes for a Governor, should be al- lowed to carry the banner of er, without & murmur from her sisters. Prominent among her bearing, are Messrs. Disney, | Olds, and Shannon. The latter fails, perhaps, in his | soci+] antecedents, and Mr. Olds has a contestant for hia seat in Mr. Holloway. It would scarcely be | proper to prefer one whose claims to membership were matters of preliminary dispute; but Mr. Dianey has strong recommendations, in tact, energy, antecedents, and promising congequents. Some Sonthern State possesses its claims for Speaker, also; because the North supplies the | President, and the West furnishes the Vice President. The claims of Georgia, in this respect, were acknow- ledged so recently as the thirty-first Congress, in the person of Howell Cobb—now daily expecting to be elected to the Senate. Alabama and Louisiana have never had a Speaker. South Carolina has not filled the office since her fiery Langdon Cheves succeeded Henry Clay, in the second session of the thir- teenth Congress—excepting that her Armistead | Bort sat in the chair for three days during the ilness of Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, in the thirtieth Congress. North Carolina has preferred no claims for the post since Nathaniel Macon, after six years service, re- signed the busy hammer, in 1807. If the adminis‘ra- tion and its friends desire a most unexceptionable man from the South, they will find him in Jadge Wil- liam Dunbar, just elected from Louisiana. He is skilled as a public officer; his antecedents for scores of years back are without a flaw; his courtesy, united to firmness, cannot be disputed; and he is fresh from the people, with an old-fashioned malty at his back. ng John Wentworth, Old Bullion, and Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, have been named in sundry guerters; but the first carries with him too much of the free soil taint— the second is too old for the vexatious post, and, indeed, would never consent to be gagged when his mind is ready to pour fourth upon bis enemies the volcanic fires which have been pent up since he left the Senate—and the last named 1s needed on the floor of the House, as a debater. It is said, in certain high quarters, that General Pierce will not interfere in thechoice of Speaker. Not to do so would bé a foolish and unnecessary display of delicacy. If he does not, some member of Cabinet will ; and rather would we see the President | openly expressing his preferences, than to think that lesers. Marcy and Guthrie were secretly ene for the elevation of their tool. The new officer should be a thorough Union man ; a cool, patient, ready, de- cided and upprejudiced lawyer, of experience and seniority—one in whom all sections of the eountry may. bave confidence, and rely without fear upou | hisjudgment in the selection of committees—one who | shall vever blunder by making a Western man chair- | man of the committee on commerce, a third-rate lawyer chairman of the judiciary, and By pene a} rash progressive at the head of foreigh 5 [From the Sunday Atlas.] THB ASSEMBLING OF CONGRESS—THE WAR OF THE POLITICIANS. | On Monday, the 5th day of December next— fifteen days from to-day—the American Congress will com- mence the first ression of the Thirty-third Congress. A quorum of both houses will, beyond all doubt, be in attenéance on that day, and both bodies will be | called to order—the Senate by the Honorable David R. Atchi son, Vice President Re at e; the House of Representatives by its clerk, Mr. John W. Forney. As there is no Speaker elect, the Clerk of the House, by the law of the land, acts as Speaker till the House elects its presiding officer. The Clerk, whilst he holds this nominal position of Speaker, has | a right to exercise the functions of the office to a limited extent-an extent which, by the way, is tain questions of order and decide them, without in- dulging debate; but he usually declines doing so, and refers everything of the kind to the body for which heacta. Mr. Forney may, and probably will, follow the action of his predecessors; but we shall not be surprised if he takes upon himself the right of acting somewhat independently of precedents. In the year 1839, Mr. Hugh Garland, of Virginia, who was Clerk of the House of Representatives, found himself compelled to act as temporary Speak- er ficm the 6th to thef12th of December of that year; ard would have continued thus to act up to the end of the Congress, if a compromise had not been effect eo, or it John Quincy Adams had not, by an extreme ec.of wurpation, been thrust into the Spesker’s chair against his willand without his consent. Mr. Garland, as Clerk and acting Speaker, was required to call the roll of the House; and this he commenced éoing, proceeding as far as the delegation from bang Jersey, when he stopped. He would gon) further. New Jersey presented two sets of delegates—th: first clatmed seats on the ground that they had been duly elected, and hed in their ion the certifi- eate of the Secretary of State to that effect. They were democrats. The other claimed seats on the ground that they were elected, and had the cer- tificate of Governor Pennington, bearing the “broad seal” of the State to substantiate their claim. Mr. Garland would not decide which of the two delega tions should be called. That, he decided, was a mmestion to be adjudicated by tie House itself. In this he was clearly right, so far, at least, as the mere question of ultimate admission was ooncerned. He could not act oa that point. It was contended, however, that he ought to call the roll as it presented itself, and let one or the other of the parties in, and send the whole affair to the House. This the friends of the administration would not allow; for parties were so eqnally balanced that, ro matter which of the two New Jersey dele- ates obtained seats, they would decide who should fe Speaker. The difficulty, so far as 1t impeded the organization of Congress, was finally disposed of by eth New Jersey in the call altogether, and sut- fering the House to decide the question of the legiti- macy of the two parties. And this was not done till upwards of six months had expired; New Jersey'in the meantime remaining unrepresented in the House If Mr. Garland, the Clerk of led the deleguiion which had the of Representativ the House, bad broad seal certificate of Governor .Pennington. all ty difficulty in organizing that body wonld ha a depend entirely on common pestiomacinry law and = "The constitution ¢ ders him ‘* an officer '” of the House, and a rid that he shall take an oath of fealty and fidelity before he commences bis duties. ‘The outh was reduced to form by an act of Congress, passed June 1, 1789, and ie in the following words : | “1, John Jones, Clerk of the House of Representa- tives of the United States of America, do solemuly ewear, tha! will truly and faithfully discharge the duties of my office, to the best of my knowledge aud abilities.” Beyond that oath the Clerk asknowledges no responsibilities. His office is one of infuence, power and patronage. When, on the fifth day of December, Congress assembles, it will Fags, with an attempt to or- anize. The first officer to be put in nomination will e that of Speaker. Under present iadications, it dves not seem to us that a presiding officer will be speedily elected. There will be variety of candi- dates, no one party being strong enough to succeed sivgle-nanded. There will be any quantity of “ log. rolling,” bargaining and selling; and may God protect and defend the honorable and virtuous ! If the democratic members from the State of New York obey the will and the wish of the constituencies that elected them, they will vote, ia a body, for the democratic candidate, be he who he may ; for, at the time they were elected, tue invidious distinctions and quarrels between soft shells aud hard shells were not heard of, much less recognized. Every democratic member from this State was elected with the distinct understanding that he would support the administra- tion of General Pierce. Be this, however, as it may, the gulf between the hards and softs is now 80 wi that we cannot even hope that they will act together. No man can be elected without forming a coalition between two of the parties that will be found in the House of Representatives. 4 The office of Speaker is one that may elicit the anxiety and awaken the ambition of the ambitious. He wields almost unlimited power in forming the Ponsa! complexion of the House of Representatives. le cannot, of course, change the condition of poli- tics ; but, as he is left to exercise his discretion and will in appointing all standing committees, he may, if he chovses, so construct them that a minority cas usurp the Romer of the majority. No Speaker has thus far hezarded so dangerous an experiment, though several have come very near consummating seach design. §& In a contingency that might oxcur, aud which may occur, before the close of the approaching sestion—though we anticipate nothing of the kind— the Speaker may find invested with the office of President of the United States. By au act ist E CInEtoe approved March Ist, 1792, it is TON Phat in case of removal, death. resignation or inabil ity, both of the President and Vice lresident of the United States, the Presicent of the Senate pro tempore, and, in care there shall be no President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representa ives, for the time being, shall act as Presicent of the United States. until tne disability be removed, or a President | shall be elected. The Vice President of the United States, who was elected in November last—William Rufus King—died after he had been sworn into office, and the adminis- tration of General Pierce commenced. If the Presi- dent should die, and the Vice President pro tempore should die, then the Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives would become President, and, as such, would act till an election to fill vacancies could be had. We copy the 20th section of an act entitled “An act relative to the election of a President and Vice President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President in cases of vacan- cies in the ofices both of President and Vice Prest- .0,—And be it further enacted, That whenever the a offices of President and Vice President shall both become vacant, the Secretary of State stall forthwith cause a notification thereof to be made to the executive of every , and shall also cause the same to be pablished ia t least one of the new: papers printed in each State, spe- cify ing that electo)s of the President of the United States shall pe Leer ver or chosen, in the several States, with- in thirty four days preceding the first Wednesday in De crmber then next ensuing: Provided, There shall be the space of two months between the date of such notifica- jon and the first Wednesday in Decembrr; but if there shall not be the space of two months be ween the date of such notification anc the firat Wednesday in December, ond if the term for which the President and the Vico President last in office were elected #Lall not expire on the third day of March next ensuing, then the Secretary of State rhall specify in the notification that the electors shall be appointed or chosen within thirty-four days pre. ceding the first Wednesday in December in the year next | ensuing, within which time the electors shall accordingly be sppointed or chosen, and the electors shall meet and give their votes on tke,said first Wednesday ia December, and the proceedings and duties of the said electcra, an others, be pursuant to the direction prescribed in is act. It will be seen that there isan importance attached to the office of Speaker of the House of Representa tives which many people have failed to understand and appreciate. It is, in fact, one of the most im- portant offices in the gift of the constitution. Al- hough we anticipate a protracted contest for the Speal erahips it is possible that a nominee may be elected without any great delay. [From tre Sunday Courier.) GREAT GAMBLING OPERATIONS. On one night last week a celeorated steamboat owner, railroad builder, and general contractor, walked into a highly respectable Meigs house on Broadway, and Diuaped Gown ‘een thousand dol- lars on a card, and won. He then staked a thou- sand dollar bill and won that, and then another, whereupon the bank broke, andthe sport of the evening was spoiled. Another celebrated New Yorker, as well known in the sporting world as the other gentleman, and equal- y in favor of a higher law, went into another gamb- ling house, and won nearly the same amount, with the same result—breaking the bank, for the time be- ing, and spoiling other people’s pleasures. We have not seen any allusions to these two breaks in the money articles of the daly prese, but the facts are as we have stated them, and we might statea good many more interesting particul srs, growing out of these op- rations, if it was not con to our priaciples meddle with other people’s affairs which do not come properly before the public. But we have a remark to make en the facts we have disclosed, for the benefit «ft the public st large. Let no extravagant young man about town, who is impatient to grow rich in the twinkling of a knave of diamonds, make an ex- periment at a gamoling-table, with the expectation that a similar foce of good luck might befal him. Such turns only happen once or twice in @ thousand years; and none but a doubly distilled dunce will venture his all upon the hazard of a die. In the first of the instances which we have given, the gambler had a million or two of dollars to fall back upon if he had lost, and he would probably have staked two or three hundred thousand dollars in bis amiable attempt to break the bank. In the other Ole Bull’s Colony. Jauzs Gorvon Bennzrr, Esq— . ie Sir—Having observed in Your paper pee & letter leaded “Ole Bull’s Colony ia any vania,” I deem it my duty, as the counsel of fie inom absent from the city,) to correct Fe ression which the public would reocive from that letter, almost every paragraph of which is wita- out foundation. It seems the ostensible author of this rich produc- » who @ aad tion is one Yorg, a medical from some place at the west of ‘this col has bean, Bees a nals ane rent free in'a house of r. 's, and otherwise most plenti! of bis bounty. Plentifully partaking While pretending to be a warm friend of Ole Ball and the Morwegians, he has secretly avowed that ne would have all the Norwegians routed, and settle the colopy with Germans, to which race he bel He endeavored t> obtain the situation of overseer, im which he failed. His waole career since his arrival at the colony has been characterized with duplicity and imbecility, never having accomplished anything except to bring a man with him to the colony who has turned out to be of the same stamp with himself, It is so evident that shis letter emanated from, and was written to curry favor with certain parties whe were connected with the late associa‘ion, that justice demands that I sbeuld give a full history of Mr. Bull’s unfortunate connection with it. In the summer of 1852, John F. Cowan, of Wil- liamsport, Joseph T. Bailey, of Philadelphia, and others, procured for themselves an in' ction to Ole Bull, and through the agency of a person who was then his attorney, persuaded him to abandon a pees which he had nearly completed, of purchas- ing lands in Virginia, and to enter into an aseocia- tion with them to found a colony on lands in Potter county, of which they were the owners. Fifteen hundred dollars were exacted from Mr. Bull to the expenses of a trip for the whole party up to view the lands. A farmer who lived in the vicinity, was solicited by @ person connected with the affair—but of the case, the adventurer played with borrowed money, and if he had lost his thousand dollars, would have been compelled to retire with his hands in hs empty pockets. The present is a gambling age, and there are Pat Hearns in Wall atreet as well asia Broad- way. Brokers gamble in stocks, merchants gamble in elipper ships, builders in houses, jobbers in cali- coes, publishers in books, Lat ey in cotton, and politicians in principles. Gamblers, whether with cards or merchandise, are alike a curse to the com- pend they add nothing tothe common Prosperity; and whevever they make a gain it must be to the loss of eome other person. e only valuable mem- hers of eociety are slow and patient'prodacers— the mechanics, the farmers, and regular traders, who work hard, save a little, live con ntly, and die happy. A NEWSPAPER SPECULATION. The Illustrated News, attempted to be established in this city by Beach and Barnum, is defanct—Glea- son’s Pictorial having swallowed the entire con- cern, after a struggling existence of less than a twelve month. Its prospects of success, previons to the issue of the first number, were very great, for the name of Barnum inspires confidence; but the pen fulfiment of its brilliant promises doomed it to any eat and speedy decay; and now, after “« Lite’s fitfal fever, it sleeps well’’—its name, unsold popers, and tke “ good will of the esta .lishment”— beneath the counter of its bitterest opponent, Glea +on,of Boston. Barnuta ccntcadicts the statement that he sustained a loss of forty thousand dollars by this bis Jast literary speculation, and asserts that if every article belouging tv the News were sold, at auction prices, he would not be the loser of two ‘bhourand dollars, calling the good will of the paper nothing —whereas that alone ia worth twenty thou- sand dollars. We have but little curiosity, bat we should like to know if anybody was verdant enough to pay tbat rum for the — will of a dead paper. Tf it be true, we congratulate our friend Barnum om his fortunate escape. We learn, however, that the sum paid by Gleason fer the whole concern was ten thousand dollars. There is yet a fair field for an illustrated newspaper, and whoever should go into it with a sufficient capital, and an intelligent appre- ciation of the wants of the public, will Ce y fortune. A Tarrty-Six Mi.uton Herress.—The Southern papers mentioned, some time since, a ramor that the wile of the Rev. Samuel Clawson, of Virginia, had fallen beir to an immense fortune in England. The Western (Va.) Herald says the facts of the case are as follows:— There was lly the sum of thirty- six millions of dol‘ars in the estate of the Earl of Lancaster, in England; and upon the death of the Farl and his brother a dispute arose between the house of York and the house of Lancaster, (insti- tuted by the former, because of an intermarriaye be- tween the two houses,) the house of York suing for the heirship. The suit was protracted, from the lower to the higher courts, from fifty toa hundred ears, and was finally'decided at the Exchequer, (the ueen’s Bench.) in favor of the house of Lancaster. After this jon, advertisements were scattered ubroad over the world for the heirs of the Lancaster estate; and the mother af Mrs. Clawson, wife of Rev. Samuel Clawson, is one of the heirs, Attorneys avoided. If the Pennington mn had bi » crete be would have called them; but they tia, dd to be sbigs. Of course they would not answer the purposes of the ad mintetration. weil o8 fo participate ia the festival of tucir adopted . homes ve actual duties and prerogatives of the Clerk of ge House of Represegtatives are yuwrit.ea, aud employed by the heirs to secure their interests, and tt is au that the affair will be settled during recel Beem at Interest interest will pay nel clear, whose name for the precent I witbhold—to represent to Mr. Bull as he passed through there, that the fencers worth five dollars an acre, and increasing value. Mr. Cowan, who headed the party, falsely repre- sented to Mr. Bull and also to Mr. Dadley,a well krown merchant of this city, who ha: escaped «nly with a loss of $3,000, that certain lands end almost the only level or cleared spot n the whole tract of 20,000 acres belonged to him and his associates, and thus induced Mr. Bull to consent to found the colony there. A large sum of money was immediately expended by Mr. Bull in procuring and Ree) A nd, finally,a meeting was held in Philadelphia, Mr. Bull not being present,) at which Cowan was + ppointed sole superintendeat and manager, Bailey the treasurer, and Mr. Bull president. Ten thousand dollars were obtained from Mr. Bull by Cowan, without giving him any equivalent, not 80 much a8 a8 recep Bailey, through Cowan and another, got from him twenty five thousand dollars more, for which it is now alleged they were to give Mr. Bull deeds to certain portions of the land; but ae ie scratch of a pen was given to Mr. Bull to ow it. Cowan, some ten months after he had received the money, was reluctantly induced to give a deed for about ten thousand acres, out of which he covertly excepted all the tract that had induced Mr. Bull to make the purchase. This cece nein was not discovered until after I was retained as his counsel, and went personally to the lands to ex- amine the validity of the titles, &c., whem I ascertained that Bailey and Cowan did not, and never had, owned a foot of this tract— all.of which belonged to Mr. George Stewardson, of Philadelphia, of whom they had made several in- effectaal attempts to purchase it. Under this dece tion, Mr. Bull had expended, from his own pri’ purse, $20,000 in putting up buildings and satisfying the demands of settlers, who complained to that Cowan did not pay them for their work. Bailey beld on to the $25,000, and still Mr. Boll had never been able to get a deed, or the slightest equivalent; and when he wrote to have the money rewurned, or else a deed, received as his only satis. faction, the answer—* That he was a foreigner, and could not hold lands.” Mr. Bailey, I know, has the reputation of a shrewd artificer in gold and the base metals; but the fact that he did not discover that Ole Bull, the Norwegian, was not a native born Yankee till after he had got his money, does not speak much for his historical learning. In July last I was employed as Mr. Bull’s counsel, and, finding matters in this curious state, I advised him to abandon the whole concern, and demand a return of his money. After See three months time spent in collecting evidence in Potter county ani elsewhere, and in fre- aes meetings of the counse! for the respective , & compromise was effected, by which Mr. returned the deed to Cowan, and received back his $10,000 in the shape of a bond payable in six, twelve, eighteen and twenty-four months; and he retired from the association with a loss, as he aa- serts and can show, of nearly $40,000. By that settlement, Ole Bull was to pay a certaim schedule of the debts of the association, every dollar of which bas been paid as fast as the ne could be communicated with. Bailey, Cowan, &c , assumed to pay the balance of the debts, and have not done 80; and it is the non-payment of these debts alone that has caused all the suffering at the colony, and subjected Mr. Bull to the abuse of some of his colonists. The base atterapt to throw the blame of the mis- management of the colony upon Ole Ball is in keep- ing with the rest of the scheme. Cowan was the superintendent, and Bailey, at his qwn urgent solici- tation, was treasurer of the association that founded the colony; and on their heads alone will fall the odium, and to them alone can be justly attributed at tee repute or mismanagement of the colony. ir. Bull being wholly unacquainted with the value of the land, was induced by these parties ¢o take it at$1l and $1 50 per acre, when it was well kaown in Philadelphia that for years the owners of better lands, in the immediate vicinity have only valued them at from twenty-five to seventy-five cents, This knight of the pill box asserts in his letter that he knows that Mr. Bull lost no money in his con- nection with the colony; tbat he resold land for double the amount he paid for it, and that nothing] buta friendly transaction took place between Boll and the land owners. Now, every word of this he knew to be false, or| else he pledged his word to what he knew nothin about. As to the $1,500 received by his counsel, it seem Mr. Bull considered the amount well earned, aad others agree with him in so thinking, who are better] capable of judging than those who by their base treacbery caused bim not only this ex » bat Bene $40,000 besides, expended in an enterprise which none but a knave or a fool would have advised him to engaze. That Mr. Bull is not a business man is undeniable; but an assertion that he is not philanthropic and be nevolent, requires no refutation but his acts, an comes with an ill grace from a fawning sycophant who sells himself to the enemies of his former bene factor, to obtain a few paltry acres of laud. L. BE. Bouxenay, Counsel of Ole Bull, 49 Wall street. Nov. 18, 1853, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, Srr,—I am sorry to see you throwing, in advance suspicion upon the newly elected members of Common Council. Iam nota member, nor have any relation or connection with any of them, by blood or otherwise; but I have taken great interest in pro moting the reform election, aud I can honestly clare that I have no axe to grind, but only have th| same interest in a good city government that all tay] paying citizens have. Is it not lamentable to find members of the cit! government under indictment for conduct that punishable as felony, daily legislating in the C. mon Council, and who, appealing in their wards be electors for re-election, have been ignomint ejected? and yet, in the face of such a withering buke, have the brass to face honest people? How t that, so much being said in praize of Mr. Blunt @ a foe to evildoers— and I voted for his election—th’ he has not brought these offenders to public tri Is it porsible that he can think the petty la cases of more importance than the conduct of implicated public functionaries? I cannot think & These very men are nightly voting away the righ of property and the people, who have showa want of confidence by rejecting them in every i stance where they have had the presumption to of themselves as candidates. Can ail the members the city government write three lines without m dering ¢ English language? No doubt ma can; but what of the others, as proper persons: meke laws for Laie bande the nd Here it are put,apon commi tees, to make re; w freds or thousands of dollars are at aed of no sensible Man can be mistaken as to the mani getting these reports made. They are written some lobby member, who is patd for it, doubtless, the people whose axes are to beground. I need not say that I am one of your subseril I have been for yours; but I hardly think it fair mon Council @ fair to give the incomii Com I have great faith that they will do their daty If they do not, then where can we'turn? Are we corrupt and debaced that we are unworthy of t privileges? Itrustnot, A Voren ror Rurorw| News From Buenos Aywes and Montevipge By way of Rio Janeiro, we have advices from B Ayres to the 30th of ber, at which time oun remained quiet, and commercial which have aoe been depressed, were their former ectivity. There was no political 'y of importance. There had been another outh | Montevideo, the iculars of which are not bot at last account matters had assumed a q' pearance —Boston Jovrnal, Now, 12. |