THE PERRYSBURG-JOURNAL.
27
Arrival of the Pacific.
War in East—Manifesto of the Czar
Nicholas.
" We, Nicholas I., &c.
" V have already informed our beloved
And faithful subjects of the progress of our
disagreement with the Ottoman Porte.
"Since then, although hostilities have
commenced, we have not ceased sincerely to
wish, us we still wish, the cessation of
bloodshed. We even entertained the hope
that reflection and time would convince the
Turkish Government of its misconceptions,
engendered by treacherous instigators, in
which our just demands, founded on treaties,
have been represented as attempts at its in
dependence, and veiling intentions of ag
grandizement. Vain, however, have been
our expectations, so far.
"The English and French governments
have sided with Turkey, and the appearance
of the combined fleets at Constantinople
served as a further incentive to its obstina
cy ; and now both the Western powers,
without previously declaring war, have sent
their fleets into the Black Sea. proclaiming
their intention to protect the Turks, and to
impede the five navigation of our vessels of
war for the defence of our coasts. After so
unheard-of a course among civilized nations,
we recalled our Ambassadors from England
ami France, and have, broken off all politi
cal intercourse with those powers.
"Thus England and France have sided
with the. enemies of Christianity against
Itussia, who is combatting for the orthodox
faith.
"But Russia will not betray bcr holy
calling; and, if enemies assail our frontiers,
we are ready to meet them with the firm
ness bequeathed to us by our forefathers.
Are we not the Fame Russian nation of
whose exploits the memorable events of 1812
bear witness ?
"May the Almighty assist us to prove
this by deeds. With this hope, combatting
for our persecuted brethren, followers of the
faith of Christ, with one accord, let all Rus
sia rxclaim '0, Lord, our Redeemer ! whom
f hall we f'nr? May God be glorified and
bis enemies be scattered.'
"St. Petersburg, 9th (21st) February,
ISM."
The Danube. There is nothing new from
the Danube so far us the relative position of
the two armies arc concerned. Operations
of magnitude are. retarded by the bad weath
er, but a constant succession of minor en
counters are reported. In almost all these
conflicts the. Turks tire the aggressors, and
generally come off victorious. From all in
dication?, however, the Russians are prepar
ing for a grand stroke, notwithstanding that
Russian dispatch from Krajova, Feb. 21th,
guys " that they still maintain the defensive,
nd as yet show no disposition to attack
Kalafat." Other letters from Bucharest, Feb.
11, say that at Brailow and near Guiurgevo
they (the Prussians) were still busied in pre
paring pontoons and other means of passage
of the. river.
A Battik in the Dark. On the 17th of
February a conflict took place by mistake
between two columns of the Russian army.
The Turkish positions are extended in an
easterly direction as far as the village of
Oiiiperrcni, which is about a mile distant
from Kalafat. For several days a Turkish
corps, 1. 000 strong, under the command of
Col. Mirolai, hail been posted in front of
this village mid in the direction of the Rus
i;m outposts. On this corps the Rus
sians determined to make an onslaught dur
ing the night of the 115th. For this purpose
two Russian columns were brought up, each
from 4,000 to 5,000 strong, one by the road
which leads to Kalafat from about the vil
lage Sriberzi, and the other from the leftside
of it from about Poisna, (Prince Milosch's
property,) to advance, unexpectedly upon the
Turks, tt) surprise, inclose them, and cut
them to pieces. The. Russian columns com
menced their march at 3 o'clock in the morn
ing, and by 4 o'clock reached a position
from whence they were only half an hour's
inarch from the, Turkish pickets. The sec
ond column seems either to have, missed the
direction by mistaking the road, or to have
come up long after its time. Be that as it
may, the latter column, in the obscurity of
foggy night, concluded the former one to
be a body of hostile Turks, and instantly
opened upon them a terrific cannonade,
vvnich'the others, who labored under the
same mistake, returned with yet more deadly
effect. Pressing toward each other, it ere
long came to a close fire of small arms.
The ill-omened combat lasted for an hour
and a half, until, when day dawned, the
combattants saw, in horror the error they
had committed. The loss in killed and
wounded in the course of the night's encoun
ter is reckoned by the Russians themselves
at several hundred. The Turks were natu
rally alarmed at every point; and at Wid-
din, which is but a league and a half dis
tant, Omer Pasha, on hearing the cannonade,
took all the requisite measures for defence.
The Turkish corps stationed at Cuperceni
stood to arms in readiness for action at any
moment, but did not advance as it was at a
loss to imagine or comprehend what the
Russians were about, murdering one another
in mat style, it was not till between 7 and
S A. M., that the Russian columns with
drew to their respective positions, carrying
their wounded along witli them.
Prussia. The two couriers appointed to
convey the ultimatum of France and Eng
land to St. Petersburg!! passed through Ber
lin, March 3d.
Prussia still refrains from indicating its
course in the coming war.
Sweden. It was reliably stated that the
Russian Government having declared that it
cannot accept or recognize the announce
ment of neutrality on the part of Sweden,
the Swedish Government has replied that no
change can b?. made; further that Sweden is
prepared to defend that policy, and has com
menced to make defensive preparations ac
cordingly. The Russsian Government con
tinues negotiations with Norway but with
out prospect of any altered result, as the
government of Sweden and Norway are quite
decided and united. Should Russia persist
in refusing to acknowledge neutrality of the
Baltic powers it is believed they will for
mally join with France and England.
Russia. Direct advices from St. Peters
burg are to February 24, at which date
scarcely anything was doing in produce.
Telegraphic accounts from Odessa repre
sented business os almost suspended and
further stated that an order had been issued
totally to stop the export of wheat.
Further, the Gazette de la Baltique an
nounces under date. St. Petersburg, Februa
ry 27th. that the Russsian government has
just prohibited the export of corn and bread
stuffs by the Black Sea and the Sea of Aaoff.
Government is indefatigable in exertions
to inflame the minds of the people. Every
day processions of priests traverse the streets
of St. Petersburg, exhibiting relics of the
saints of the Greek calendar, and the clergy
everywhere preach to arms in support of the
orthodox faith. These demonstrations dis
pirit the mercantile and wealthy classes.
Walker's Expedition to Sonora. One
of Colonel Walker's party, writing to the
St. Louis Republican, says ot the party:
Pillaging and stealing has marked their
whole course since their landing in this
country, and no one can deny it.
One of their companions was in town a
few days ago, and stated that he considered
the object of the. expedition to be stealing
and robbery, and lor that reason went with
them : that he believed he would be about
the. king of trumps in such a party, but when
he came to know them, he was not as much
as the duceof spades torn in two.
Tree Societies are being formed in various
parts of New England, with the object of
planting shade trees by the road side. All
the avenues leading from Boston to its beau
tiful surburban towns will soon be lined
with them. TI12 "EastBoston Ornameutal
Tree Society " has resolved that "every street
in East Boston, this spring shall be. orna
mented with thrifty shade trees." This ex
ample is worth imitation here. We see
that Mr. Allen, (not the " city fathers," as
a cotemporary states,) has done a liberal
share towards beautifying the Park on Eighth
street. Now is the very time to do these
things. Let every one who has a rod square
of yard, put in a grape-vine, fruit or orna
mental tree. They will grow while we
sleep. Cin. Gaz.
Ben.ton and Nebraska. The distinguish
ed Missourian is prepared to 6ay hard things
of the Nebraska bill when it shall come up
in the House. The New York Tribune's
Washington correspondent in a letter, thus
speaks of Benton's intentions and belief in
the premises :
Mr. Benton says the bill will be defeated; he
declares that he does not know how, but that
it will be he is certain. Such wrong as it med
itates, he says, never does triumph. He will
speak, but he says he shall not speali out of
order, nor over his time, lie wants but an
hour, he says, to destroy it before the people,
and that hour he proposes certainly to occu
py, for he says that he will kill the bill and
write its ephitaph. " Yes, sir," in his own
language, " the bill will be sent to h 1, sir,
and its authors will sent there with it, sir.''
Of its principal author, he expresses the pro
foundest contempt. "Sir," said he, " the
meanest man in our country is a poor white
man who marries a woman with niggers.
He is not allowed to associate with gentle
men, sir. Ha is hooted off the court house
green, sir. We have nothing to do with
mm, sir.
Stephen Arnold Douglas, United States
Senator from Illinois, was born in Rutland
county, Vermont, on the 22d of April, 1813,
and is, consequently, 41 years of age. His
father was a physician. At an early age he
was apprenticed to the business of cabinet
making, which ho soon deserted to enter an
academy. Mr. Douglas afterwards read
law in Canadaigua, New York, and Cleve
land, Ohio; alter which he went to Jackson
ville, Illinois, where he divided his time
between teaching school and the 6tudy of
law. In 1834 he began to practice law, and
in less than one year, was elected State's At
torney, by the Legislature of Illinois. At
twenty-three he was in the Legislature, and
afterwards was Register in the Land Office.
Columbian.
It has been decided by the Court of Jus
tices at Worcester, Mass., that the authority
of a teacher does not extend over a scholar
after the school has b?en regularly dismissed,
either at noon or night, and that it is illegal
to keep children in after school, as a pun
ishment. J
We respectfully call the attention of our
School Directors to the above. We know
it is one of the grounds of complaint against
our public schools that the children are kept
after the regular hours of dismissal.as punish
ment for some offence committed during the
day. The above decision is no doubt strictly
according to law, and w-e think according to
right. It is not pleasant to parents to have
their children kept in school after the proper
time. They cannot know whether they have
been injured or detained by the way, or not.
They very frequently have duties, chores, as
the Yankees call them, for their children to
perform, and they need them at home. If
the children require punishment, let some
other system be adopted. This is clearly
illegal, and wrong in the abstract, and should
be changed.
We are so decidedly friendly to our pub
lic schools, that we desire to see removed
every cause of complaint. We trust this
will be considered at some future meeting of
the .board. U. s. Journal.
In India, when a horse can but will not
draw, instead of whipping, spurring or burn
ing him, as is frequently practiced in more
civilized countries, they quetly get a rope,
and attach, it to one. of his fore feet, and
one or two men taking hold of it, advance
a few steps ahead of the horse and pull
their best. No matter how stubborn the
animal may be, a few doses of such treat
ment effects a perfect cure. Exchange.
Improvements in Tanning. The Louis
ville Journal says that Mr. h. W. Fiske
has invented a process by which he can
manufacture leather of a better quality than
can be made by any other process, at
cheaper price, and in far less time. He ex
hibits leather of the finest quality made
one-fourth to one-half the time usually em
ployed. The Hale who is elected from the town
ship of Dover to the New Hampshire Legis
lature is not Hon. John I., but a Tegular
Whig, William Hale,
seen.
The Negroes of Jamaica. Jamaica, as
it is, under the favorite British policy of
manumission,' is thus presented by Bishop
Kipp, in a letter published in the Church
man, (mieu at Kingston where the steamer
on which he embarked for California stopped
" to coal." " The streets," the Bishop says,
"are crowded with the most wretched look
ing negroes to be seen on the face of tht
earth. Lazy, shiftless, and diseased, thev
will not work since the manumission act
has freed them. Even coaling the steamer
is done by women. About a hundred march
on board in a line with tubs on their heads.
(tubs and coal together weighing about 90
pounds.) and with a wild songi empty them
into the hold. The men work a day and
then live on it a week. The depth of degra
dation to which the negroe population has
sunkf is, we are told, indescribable. The
inhabitants of Sodom were pure compared
with them. Once,' said a gentleman to mc.
' you did not see an untidy negro in the
streets. Now, look at them,' pointing to &
group of squalid wretches. This is the utt
varying testimony 01 all the residents I have
Eastern Bank. Those having money on
the Eastern Bank, West Killingly. Conn.,
(and who is there that has none) will be in
terested in the following, which we clip
from the Killingly Telegraph :
" The effect of this acceptance is to ei
clude the claims of Messrs. Abernethy
W. E. Chittenden to 1,735 shares of tht
stock, and to acknowledge the. claims al
lowed by the receivers. Wc may add that
th? prospect now is that all claims of bill
holders, depositors and stockholders, which
were allowed by the receivers will ultimate
ly be paid in full."
The Buffalo Rough Notes, draws the follow
ing pen and ink portrait of Bayard Taylor.
" In person he is tall, slendpr, slightly stoop
ing, with a finely developed head, expressive
features, black hair, a squirrel-tail mous
tache, a clear almost musical voice, and
very distinct enunciation in speaking.
Buffalo, March 30. -A private despatch
just received from Albany, states that Gov.
Seymour has decided, and has so expressed
himself, that he will veto the Maine Liquor
Bill, now before him.
March 31. Veto message, sent in to-day.
Sandusky, March 27. This morning an
effigy of Stephen A. Douglas was found sus
pended in Water street. He held the Ne
braska bill in his hand, and attached to it
was "S. A. Douglas, the traitor of the 19lh
century."
WOOD wanted on subscription at this
office. .
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riOLEDO NUUSERY. We are now offering
JL for sale a Large Stock of Fruit Trees, con
sisting of Apple,
Pear and Cherry, both Standard and Dwarf,
reach, rivtm,
Apricot, Nectarine,
Quince, Raspberry,
Gooseberry, Currrant,
Strawberry, Pie Plant,
Asparagus, &c. &c. &c.
Also, a very full and complete stock of
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Plants,
consisting in part of nearly all of the choice eter
okeeks and deciduous trees and shrubs, alt
the clnsses of hoses, the finest sorts strong bloom
ing plants, choice, vines and chuepeks, Honey
suckle, Grecian Silk Vine, Ivy, &c; Piconias.
BEDDING OUT PLANTS,
such as "Verbenas, Petunias, Dahlias, Carnations,
fuchsias. Geraniums. F.xotie Plants, &c. &c. Also.
2f (ireert and Hoi House Plauts.
All orders, whether on the ground or by mail, if
accompanied by cash or satisfactory reference, whf n
from strangers, will receive prompt and careful at-,
tention. With our present largo and fine stock w
are determined to do our share towards supplying
the wants of the "West. , .
We furnish, gratuitously, our descriptive Cata
kgue. '1 hose who may order it by mail should en
close two postage, stamps to prepay postage.
jpT t o the people ot wood and adjoining coun
ties wo offer renewed inducements to plant orchards
of choice fruit.
MADDOX, PERIGO & PRENTICE.
Toledo, March 10, 1854.4n2
For Sale,
A HOUSE & LOT in Rowling Green ; alsa, an
excellent little Farm j of a mile west of Bowl
ing Green, of GO acres, 40 improved, with young:
orchard, &c,fc situated on a good road. For term,
price, &c, inquirt at this otlice. &, CLARK.