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Late Foreign Intelligence. By Tiltgrafi M '** '/!nrlC11"' ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. O.V? WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE. important from the east. Battles betwcciTihc Buwlan and Turkish ArmiM CTI'.c JTuib7?(ctnpt0BS: ku.mored movements of the czas. a CAlXS-f BRITISH india I ^ Warlike attitude of Louis Napoleon. yijynVAL OF TuIToVeBLAND MAIL. Halifax, Nov. This Royal mail steamer Canada ar rived this morning, bringing dates fr?m Liverpool to ilm 12th inst.. hetngone week later than pievioua ad "ices, one brings 100 passengers. The Eastern Qncillon. The Emperor nf Russia has issued an arrogant manifest", in which the lea dine points of the controversy with Tur key are recapitulated. He commences I,/saying that Tu.key having enrolled in the tanks of her army the revolution Bt* of oil countries, has commenced hostilities on the Danube.?Russia, pro voked to a combat, has no other means left than a recourse to arms to compel the Poite to respect treaty obligations, and to obtain reparation for offences against the'Orthodox faith in the East. The note is dated Barakall, Nov. 3d. The French Consul at Buchares. sends the followingtelegrsphic dispatch, dated Nov. G : " The second and third division of ,!,e Turks crossed the Danube from Tortukni eighteen thotisand strong. 1 ho fourth division of the llnssians attacked ilietu wiili 9000 men, and after a busk J cannonade a close combat with bayon ets ensued. The battle lasted three ii,,ur.i, when the Turks maintained their position nnd the Russians retired. Uf the Russians several officers, and 130 private were killed, and six superior officers, IS subalterns, and 479 privates were wounded. Ty.e^ Turkish loss is not stated." -v$S& Another accnuntggp Vienna, states that 14 Russian su'pferior officem were killed. The Turks were let; makers ot I lie field, the Russians retreating towards Bucharest. Before the Turks crossed the Danube, a body id' Cos-acks came to the river bank, and made insulting signs to the, EgviUiaus, who ruahet! to their boat*, rowed acrons the stream in the face ?>t the Cossacks" fire, and punished them severely. They chased them some dis tance iiilaud, and then-returned to their camp in triumph. It was lumored that a Russian steam er at Horsova had been destroyed by the Turks. Advices had been "received at Con stantinople that Selim Pasha, the com mander of the Turkisflltrrr.y in Asia, hau crossed the K'is?ian frontier. A battle ensued, in which 5,000 were en gaged on each sido. and after a despet ate conflict.' on the approach of night. Hnth armies fell back. On the follow-, mg day the battle was renewed, when j the Russians were defeated with con siderable loss. On the 20th of October Masco 13ey. an officer of Selim Pasha's stuff, with a small force, was suddenly attacked hy a bodv of Russian cavalry. I he l5ry fell back, fighting, in the direction of the main body of the Turkish arm} The battle speedily became general. Fifteen thousand Russians were enga ged. The con'est was a desperate one, but the Russians were finally defeated, and fled, pursued by the Turks, who planted their standards at the Russian head quarters, at Urelle. The Russian force, defeated and beat- j en back to Bucharest, was tho main body under1 General Uamenhurg, and v.as from 30,000 to 40.000 strong. The position of affairs may bo thus summed up:?Tho Turks hare beaten the Ilu?6tuns in Asia,?the Tuikish left wing in Europe has beaten the Russian right wing, comprising their ptincipal force. The Turkish centre has whip ped 9000 Russians at Tortukai, and is now pressing upon Bucharest. The efforts of diplomatists to end the difficulties were now considered hope less until after a decisive battle. Tho typhus fever was raging in tho Russian ranks, and had reduced their fighting men to 85,000, and it would bo fix weeks beforo they could roceive any reinforcement. -The Porte haij decidod that foreign refugees cuuld not bo employed in the Turkish army in Europe, but might serve against the Russians in Asia. Constantinople was quiet. It was ex piesily contradicted u\ Constantinople that Persia was hostile to Turkey. Austria was concentrating a force on she Servian frontier. The Servian gov ernment hud ordered the population to at:n?, and had informed tho Poito that neither Austiia or Russia would be per mitted to occupy Servia. Tiie Poite has informed Austria tint Turkey would expect her to prohibit tho Russians from supplying the Mort uucgiius, tvitli arms, through the purl of CattHri. Anuria offers to remain entirely nou trsl if the Porto will refrain from em ploying- Austrian refugees in her army. A Crush levy of troops was" being mJo in Egypt. IXDI.I. T.'ie overland mail frmn India brings the imp.utnnt repoirthit'lhe Emperor of Russia had formed an alliance with I>ost .Mahommed, tn piuclaim wtr a giitist the British in India, if Ureal ii'.iUioM .!^'.id sjp;ju:iljj fu'!c?i*. I A large Russian force was to in*ede Bakhardi, and a Persian army was col lecting in the valley of Sooltania, toco* operate with Russia against Turkey. ENGLAXD. The British fleet at Spithcad has Wn ordered to get ready for sea by the 11th. Its destination was unknown. Mr Buchanan attended tho Lord May* or's Banquet, and made a speech, hut it was merely of a complimentary char acter. The Earl of Aberdeen referred to hie known peace policy, hut he said it was not impossible to encage in war to prevent greater evils. Other Minis tern were in attendance but made no political allusions. A full Cabinet Council was held on the receipt of the news from India. Tho weather in England was very favorable for the sowing of wheat. FKASCE. The trial of the conspirators for an attompt to assassinate the Emperor at the opera, was proceeding. The evi dence was clear that a deep scheme had been laid to assassinate Nopoleon. Tho metal foundetiesof France were strongly urging the Government to re duce the duties on metals. This had caused speculation in British iron. LATEST B1" TELEGRAPH. From Paris to Loudon and Liverpool. Five Russian officers, prisoners of war, had been brought to Constantino pie. The allied fleets were anchored in the Bojphorus. It was rumored that Bucharest had been stormed by tho Turks. A son of Aras Pasha had been named as Minister of War. Tho Turkish troops were paid prompt ly. Vienna, Nov. 10, P. M.?The follow ing conditions were insisted upon by Omar Pa*bain his note to Gortschakoff, the Russian General: "All the strong holds of the Principalities were to be immediately surrendered, and a com plete evacuation <>f the Principalities effected as speedily ns possible, and a guarantee by all the Powers to be given against a similar invasion." Paris, Nov. 11, P. M.?The latest accounts from Constantinople state that the Sultan had positively rejected all the proposals that the diplomatists had submitted. It was freely reported that 25.000 French troops would he sent to Turkey, i t oiders would not be given until the! overnment received dispatches from eneral d'Hilliarsat Constantinople. , FURTHER BY THE CiSADA. The Latest?Declaration of War bv the CZAR. War has been declared by ibe Empe ror Nicholas of Russia against Turkey, J ami the Russian troops have heun de feated in both Europe and AsiR. The Czar has issued the following ar logant manifesto:? " By the graco of God, we, Nicholas tho First, Emperor and Autocrat of nil the Russias, by our manifesto of the 14th of Juno, lit" the present yoar. we inform ed our fiiithful and well beloved sub jects of the motives which made it in cumbent on us to demand from the Ot toman Porte, inviolable pmrf.ntecs in favor of tho sacrcd rights of tho Ortho dox Church. We at the same time an nounced in them that nil our efforts to firing the Porte, bv means of amicable persuasion, to sentiments of equity, and to a faithful observance of treaties, bod remained fruitless, and that consequent ly we deemed it indispensable to order our troops to the Danube. Hut. adopt ing that measure, we still entertaind the hope that the Porto would confess its euors, and would resolvo to give satis faction to our just reclamations. Our expectations have been deceived. It is in vain also that the groat powers of Europe have endeavored, by their ex hortatious, to shake tho blind obstinacy of tho Ottoman Government. It is by a declaration of war, by a proclamation replete with iatal accusa tions against Russia, that it replied to tho pacific efforts oi Europe, to our for bearance, finally enrolled in the ranks of its army, tho revolutionists of all countries. The Porto has commenced hostilities on the Danube, Russia is pro voked to the combat?no other means is left them than a rocourse to arms, to compel tho Ottoman Government to res pect treaties, and to obtain from it the reparation for tho offences by which it responded to our moderato demands, and to our legitimate solicitude most for the defence of the Orthodox faith in the East, which is also the religion of the Russian people. We are firmly con vinced, that our faithful subjects will join in the fervent prayer which we ad dressed to the Most High?that he may deign to bless our arms in the holy and just cftuso which has at all times found ardent defenders in our pious ancestors. In te dominc tpcravi non confoundar a ttrnum." Done at Barskol, the third day ol November, in the year of Grace, 1S53, and the twenty-eighth of our reign. Nicholas. The Tactic*--?Tho policy of tho Rus sians is supposed to be, to draw the Turks from their present advantageous positions to bring ihein to a battle that shall deride the campaign. Tho inten tion of Omar is to keep his promise to drive the Russians from the Principal! lion, and to moke his headquarters at liu chares!. .'??? . ? . * Diplomacy lags.uselessly in the roar of the fighting, and even yet hopes to ntjust matters,?bni not till nAur a do ciJivo battle shall have been fought. A" condition is, that to save the Czar's nr novr propre, negotiations shall not be reoorttaenced after any engagement in r-.'UicM a?'<? The Czar has requested the Monte negrins lo operate against the Tu?ks. Abdel Pacha is tn be removed from the Asiatic Command. GREAT COLLISION. About six o'clock, on Wednesday evening, the express train from Buffalo came in collision with a tree blown a cross the truck, three quarters ot' mile East of Springfield, a station twenty-five rnilfS West from Erie. The severe gale I from the Lake had torn up a hemlock 'two feet in diameter, and cast it angular jly over the track. The tree struck the i i nils about twenty feet from its roots, the evening was dark and stormy, the | accident occurred in the woods, which j rendered objects less distinct. The train jhad been delayed some hour and a half at Erie waiting the arrival of the Buffalo train. When the collision happened, ir. j was moving at the velocity of forty miles per hoar. The crash was awful, Thetree,two feet I in diameter, was broken in three places, | and shivered as if struck by a thunder j bolt. The locomotive was smashed to I pieces and destroyed. It turned over land over three times The boiler was j broken, letting the steam and scalding ! water out, to add to the alarm and dan j gel*. The tender and two baggage cars : were hurled upon the fragments of the locomotive, and smashed into one com mon wreck. The first three passenger j cars, filled with people, were dashed up j on the ruins of the baggage cars and ?engine. They were badly broken and j turned bottom side up. The last three ! cars of the train were not thrown from ? the track, nor very badly disabled. 1 The horror and confusion of the scene wore incredible. The train had 400 i passengers. Tho shock hurled them j from their seats, and piled them up a | mong seats in terrible confusion. The I collision occurred before the engineer | had time to whistle down break, let off steam, reverse motion, or even jump ' for hid own life. He ivaj pitched out I head foremost into the ditch among the limbs. The fireman followed suit, and I the baggage master piled after them, all of whom received severe flesh bruises, | but btrange to say, escaped instant death ! and managed to crawl from under tho ! ruins of broken cars and fragments of smashed baggage. But, more miraculous j still, none of the passengers were killed, or even had broken bones. Many re I ceived slight injuries, and ail were more ior less shocked und scared. | The train made three or four rebounds I and advances, after sinking the tree, before it came to a halt.?Free Citu ; Democrat. G?* On Monday last, Wm. Whalon,! alius Pulton, was brought into court to ; receive his sentence from the Judge.? i His counsel moved for u new trial which ! the Court lefused. This gave Judge i Summers an oppoitunity of reviewing ! the te>iimony in the ca.?e?and we un I d?*rata:jd that ull present were well con j vinced that there was no! n shadow of ground for a new trial?which had ore:)! asked on the plea of a want ofsutfieieut I evidence. We regret that we could not have been present to hear the masterly | exposition of the whole case by his Hon I or. No one present, we learn, retired from the Court House with the least j i doubt of Whulau's guilt of the mosthor-j | rid murder. We regret that the Jury, | that rendered the verdict of murder in j J the second degree, and fixed the punish ment at thirteen yeaia confinement in the Penitentiary, were not ptesent.? ' They would doubtless have deen reliev I ed of much of that "mawkish humanity," i and that wondrous bugbear, the "corpus1 ' delicti," that the prisoner** counsel had [filled their minds with, which probably' I prevented them from weighing the evi dence in the scale of common sense?and of doing justice to an outraged commu nity.?Kanawha Republican. ? Maine Law in Scotland. On Mi in Jay evening, says a Scotch paper, a meeting fur discussion on the above subject was helii in Hammer-1 man'* Hall, Barrack 6treet. The hall was filled to overflowing by a very at tentive audience. Mi. J. H. Donnaii ocupied the chair. Addresses were de livered by Mr. Lighthunn, Manchester: and Messrs. Mcl.une and Brown, Dun dee, which were enthusiastically receiv od by the audience. At the close, a vote was taken en the question, when every hand was held up for the entire suppression of the strong drink traffic, except so much as druggists would re quire to koop for medical purposes. Maine Law in the Cars. A correspondent says that a few days since, as he was coming to the City on the Erie Itoad, a lad came into the car distributing the prospectus of an Ami Maine Law tract, whereupon a gentle man proposed to take a vote of the pas sengers upon that law. On requesting thoso in favor of such a law to rise, the passengors rose with one consent, and the pamphlet seller, as he entered the car again, was met by thiee cheers fur the Maine Law, during which ho learn ed that his room was better than his company. CUBA AND CANADA. Upon this subject the Quebec Morn ing Chronicle has the following:?" The Americans want Cuba, anil they want Canada, Canada is fast going to them. Our lumber goes to Neiv York, nut Hour and cattle to Boston and Portland; out very steamships go to Portland in the iv inter; and it must be borno in mind that a commercial is (he most solid ofall political annexations. Canada is already part and parcel ofthe United States, and we are sorry at it. Nothing but a rush of immigration can save us. The tide of public power is on the turn. Loyalty xo Great B;i:ain is sic sTV' MONONGALIA MIRROR. PftAISE VTHtaE WE CAN A*D CtftSl'lle WHERE WE Mt'iT. MORGANTOWN, Va. Sntnrdny, Dccembor 3, 185R. OUR AGENCIES. nrMr.C.PIERCE, No. 46,South Third 1 Philadelphia, ii one of our most obliging and attentive Agents. E. W. CARR, Third street, opposite the Ex-, change, Philadelphia, is also our Agent for that; City. Dr. E. PARSON'S, Glady Creek, Barbour co. has kindly consented to act as Agent for the Mirror. D. M. AUVIL, XestorviMo,Barbour co., Va. G. CRESAP, E<Q.,Kingwood, Preston co., Va. ISoroisgla Election. On Saturday laot, according to previous public notice, u vote of the taxable citizens of M??rguntown was taken at the. Court House to obtain their assent to a tax to be levied on all subjects of taxation?said tax to ba applied to carry on the suit against the Monongabcla Navigation Company for a violation of their Charter, ordered to be instituted at a previous public meeting ? The proposition to tax was acceded to by ' our citizens almost unanimously?but one solitary dissenting voice heard at the polls, j Some persons, who are not citizens of our' borough, but who possess and act upon the dictates of a lundable public spirit, came forward and signified their willingness to; bear an equal portion of the expenses of the i suit, by voting in favor of the tax. This may be regarded as an indication of public feeling in this quarter, as indeed it is the feeling, iu all the valley of the Mon ongahela. uboiv the Slack water. The citi zens of the Monongahela valley have borne with the subterfuges and crafty cunning of the Slackwater Company untiil ' forbearance has ceased to be a virtue." Year after year has come and gone, and the terms of their Incorporation, which required them to ex tend the Improvement to the State line, have been utterly disregarded; while we have been compelled, in finding a natural market j for our produce, to pay tribute to an obstacle in the way to that market, which the pres- j ent incompleted work is, since, when our river is beatable to Brownsville it is to Pitts burg. Hence, our motto, ''Slackwater com pleted, or a clear river to Pittsburg !'J This is the sentiment of our people, and it is the sentiment which will govern their future action* in regard to the Improvement. But the time for talking on this subject is gone by, and the matter of our grievances will be brought before a lesal tribunal.? The preliminaries of the suit are doubtless arranged, ere this, as Mr. Dunlop, our Coun- i sel at Pittsburg, has been fully empowered I to proceed asniust the Company, as will be i most likely to redress the wrongs we have but too patiently suffered at their hands.? We have the money pledged? good Counsel gprur?"'? r.rul ?ha j^de of the question? and we are determined to maintain it.? ' Livo or die. sink or swim, survive or per ish, we cive our hearis and our hands to this declaration:" "Slack-water completed or a free river to Pittsburg!'' THE W AR, Which ha* ben so long threatened between ' Russia and Turkey, has at length been cominen- j ced in downright earnest, both in Europo and j Asia. The Turks hare been signally successful j thus far, having defeated their enemies in several j desperately fought battles. It wou!d teem, at ? a first view of the subject, as though the myriad ! hordes of the Czar might sweep down all before ; them, and make a triumphant march to Constan- j tinople?but a " sober sccond thought" argues j otherwise. The Turk* have the sympathies of the world, with the exception of Austria, and perhaps Prussia, on their side. The noble Hun garians and Poles arc panting for a part in this contest, and so ate the enslaved masses in seve ral ?f the European States, as well as tens of thousands of expatriated heroes now in tho Uni ted States?who will hasten, singly and in bat talions, to the seat of war. We are not at all surprised that the crowned heads of Europe have labored earnestly to pro vent this appeal to arms. Xot one of them but presses, with aching head, a pillow of thorns.? The war will, in all probability, become general* and last for a number of years. Whether it will eventuate in favor of the cause of liberty or des pot ism, time will determine. We believe the former. Interesting particular* of the progress of the War will be found in this week's paper. I ?>? ? The Pittsburgh Post vs. Morgantown. There is a paper, published in Pittsburgh, en titled the " Post," which is famous only lor nien j dacity and obscurity. This paper, which claims i to be an organ, is played upon by a certain Harp er, who goes it blind in whatever direction his 1 fate or fancy points. We do not roccivethe Post, ' nor do we wish to?but a copy of that paper has strayed into our bailiwick,?(not, however, near ! enough for us to Jay hands on)?in which tho a ! foresaid lJarper indulges in a broad grin at our j Slackwater movements, and endeavors to be wit | ty over the names of some of our citizen*. This looks very much like adding insult to irtfury.? Were we disposed to adopt one item of the ad vice of Solomon, and " answer a fool according to his folly," we should say, that in our contest I with tho Monongahela Navigation Company and | its apologists, we may encounter More-head, and | yet find brains enough on our side to put us thro', i We may hear of hostile Harpers 1 harping with ; their harps,' and yet they may not be lucky. The Company, after all, may have to dance up to our , music ! i As to tho 'Madera,'?we have it here, it is ! true, and we have no reason to be ashamed of its ( quality,?but we do not use it with the ojsters, to corrupt members of the Legislature, and cob ble Charters, to defeat a useful work! j C7" We ar? happy to have it to state that | our community lias resumed its accustomed healthiness?the fever which prevailed since ; the first of August, bringing so much suf fering Hiiii Kidney to many a Household, t.'.iiu' juti iJH.iifiy abt'cJ. Steamboat Company Election. At a meeting of tbe Stockholders of the Morgantown p.nd Pittsburg Steamboat Com pany. held ot this place on Thursday last, the following named gentlemen were elect ed Directors for the ensuing year. Meter*. Wm. F. Coplnn, of Brownsville : Geo. Morris ami J. W. Ham, of Greene co. and E. W. Tower, Isaac. Scott, Lee Roy Kramer and Geo S. Rav.nl Morgantown. Wm. Wagner, Cashier of the Bank here, was elected Treasurer of the Company. OCR MERCHANTS Owe us a d*>bt of gratitude, for certain. We, rather playfully, took our contemporary up street to task, last week, for publishing a put!" from which an unfarorable inference might be drawn, und now the ? Republican' cornea out, right man fully, and endorses for the honesty, smartness, &c., of the whole brtch, although they are tho rough Whig/, almost to a man I Well, that is generous in the 4 Republican,' and as to the Mer chants, n vote of thanks, or ' the oysters' will he forthcoming, sure! C7" Bills of indictment were returned by tha Grand Jury the present Court week as follows Against John Smith, for horse stealing,-? acquitted on the ground of insanity. Against Mary Lemley?four separate bills for retailing spirituous liquor* without li cense. Against Peter Smith and Margaret Smith for unlawful cohabitation. Against Eli lost and Kelly Wells for un lawful cohabitation. Beside the trial of Commonwealth cases, the Court transacted a consideiable amount of other business, such as appointing Ad ministrators, admitting Wills to probate, &c.. &c. In the care of the Overseers of the Poor vs. Shively, for bastardy?the Court, after a full hearing* found for the Plaintiff. N. B. Persons having any remnants of character or sensibility, had much better set tle such cases by compromise at home.? When taken to Court they produce disgust ing disclosures, and by no means help the cause of public morals. JThfnas about Sjomc. CT* "White Hall" is again illuminated by the smiling faces of the "fairer portion of creation." The Winter session of the Female Seminary opened on Monday, 21s* of November, under a continuation of for mer promising auspices. Mr. Emery, who has entered upon his first term us Principal of this Institution, is a gentleman ol un doubted qualifications lor the position he occupies, while his urbanity of manners and prepossessing qualities of mind and heart will endear him alike to the School and the community. CCT John* Smith, as hi*numerous friends will be happv to learn, has had a hearing before their Honors, the Justices of our Quarterly Court, aud there not being suffi cient evidence adduced thereat of John's having stolen a horse, he was discharged Irom the custody of the law, and is again at liberty. Well, John has certainly had his share of "the ills to which flesh is heir." and many huir-bretuith escapes! C3" If, according to the old rule laid down in Greybeard's Almanac, and adopied by ' many of his descendants, the first three days of December give premonition indu- 1 bitable rif the succeeding winter weather, th?n, wo may look out for a rough season ahead. Old Boreas has been sprinkling the , earth with snow Hakes, and blowing his frosty breath ''as is his wont though not so severely," since the advent ot December.? A blazing hearth to sit at?the 41 Mononga lia Mirror" to pour over?and smiling ejes i to echo back the social sentiment?and who doee not welcome the frosty days that bring 1 the long winter evenings'? | QT* That old barrack, at tho upper end I of town, begins to give promise of something | more modern in appearance as well as com i fort. It has been stripped of its weather i beaten and time-honored garniture, and the frame, if considered good enough, will ; be covored and the inner apartments refit I ted for future habitation. A neat dwelling I on that site will greatly aid the symmetry i of the view in that very pleasant vicinage. IA little more of the "go-aheadativeness i of the age,' infused into our property-hold jers, and its concomitants diffused among |our mechanics,?masons, carpenters, pla6 i terers, &c.)?would add much to the conve | r.icnce of the present tenants of rented prop i ertv, and at the same time open tho door to on increased population. We need more houses, and our town is not so near finished that there is not room for them. A house ! a house! -my kingdom for a1 house! Junior Ed. E7" The Board of School Commissioners ! have re-appointed W. T. Wij.ley, Esq., Su 1 periniendent uf Schools for Monongahia j county. A good appointment. I C7" There has recently been a very dis graceful row among the students in the U uiver&ity at Charlottesville, in this Slate.? As notoriety is one ot the objects ot most rowdies, the less Eaid on ?he subject in the papers the better. i Ep* Wo loam that James E. Hall, ! Esq., has been uppoint Postmaster at ' Melon, Barbour county, in place of Tho mas Hall, resigned. ?7* A Post Office i.< established at Littleton ' Station, B. & 0. R. R., in Wetzel county, i near the Monongalia line. The cholera had swop: away nop.rly I "no-third ot' tho hands oti th? sugar i estates in tho neighborhood of Cardun'j, ? C'jbn. and labor was very high. OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE, NEW YORK, Nor. 22,1S53. Messrs. Editors:? Storm, rain, sprinkle anil m :st, quickly following one another, have been a wet blanket to the hopes of pe J destrians for two weeks past, and have i also materially contributed to increase I the " horse distemper," as the influenza is sometimes inelegantly denominated j by the " last men " of Gotham. Such I weather is destructive to gaiter boots, horrifying to the wearers of long 6kirts, i and dampening to the ardor of maiden hood. The bewitching faces of our la dies are now only lobe seen peeping from parlor windows, looking as dis consolate as if tliev had lost their beaux. Now that the excitement of the late election has passed away, inactivity is | masterly everywhere, if f except the preparations that are being made for thanksgiving. There are already appa rent, however, symptoms of what will soon grow into an outspoken anxiety to know what is to be the fate of the two great political parties; and it is thought that the course pursued by the incoming Congress will, in a great measure, de cide the question. It is thought by many intelligent persons that there will he a tendency among honorable mem bers to look with contompt upon old party lines, and that new issues will be created. Perhaps the most important subject that will come unde r the consideration of Congress, will be the great Atlantic and Pacific Railway, the most gigantic undertaking of its kind ever projected in this or any other country. The con struction of this road was thought desir able years ago ; and it is now regarded as an actual necessity, and must soon j be commenced and finished, with or ! without the sanction of Congress, be- j cause the people want it, and will have J it. When it is considered that we have i a surface of country, between the old ! States and California, without a paral-! lei. for tbo construction of easy grades,' nml thut tlie time lequired to reach San ' Francisco by the present means of tru-: vel is so unreasonably long for this age,; the advantages of a rail-road to the Pa-1 cific become obvious to every Ameri- j can mind. There is a growing disincli-j nation to remain contented with the te- j dious routes by which alone San Fran-; ciaco can be now reached. To go round ' Cape Horn will never do for ?' Young ' America,'1 The overland route is yet more tedious and dangerous. And the Aspinwall and Panama, and Nicaragua routes, although much shorter, do not by any means come up to our present ideas of perfection in locomotion, to say nothing of our being obliged to pass through forei/n territory. There are so many more and equally cogent rea sons why we should have a railroad to the Pacific, that 1 feel confident the Ad ministration and Congress will not fail to see, that, if they refuse the mail con tract to the lately incorporated Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, they will slip an opportunity that may not soon occur again, of making posterity look back upon their brief reign over the destinies of this Republic, as one of the most glorious and beneficent recor ded in history. ? ! The amusing canard got up by the Cleveland Plaindealtr, about alleged ! interviews between Senator Douglass . and the Emperor Nicholas and between : the same Senatot\and the Empress Eu genie, lies not only been very generally , copied in American newspapers, but i has been translated into the French journals; and from conversations with a number of persons, I find it is actual I ly believed to be a truthful narrative! I How astonishing it is that people can ; be induced to believe such absurd and incredible stories I Nothing seems too extravagant for credulity, provided it is in print. Therein, lies an element of ! the power of the Press?a power which has, indeed, grown mightier than the I swnrd?a power, which, when used for j base purposos, is as dangerous to tho ! miud, as tho subtlest poison that chem I istrv can devise is to the bodv. | Writing of hoaxes calls to mind an j | invention hoax, of which news comer to | us from England. It is said that WU j liam Johnson, a cabinot-maker iri Dur ham, has invented a razor-chaiy, or ma ! chine for shaving. This (so runs the j story) is of singular construction, and i perfectly adapted to its do&ign. It re | setnbles an arm chair in t'.ie old style.? ' Razor blades are fixed longitudiually upon cylinders frr.m '.nreo to six inchca | in length, four upon each cylinder, at I angles of sixty degrees. The blades i are interspersed with fino brushes of camel's',iair. The chair simultaneous ly lat'aeri and shaves any man who sits I in it. The soap revolves in the cylin ' ders, which are hollow. The chair is put in motion by the feet of the person j who wishes to be shave!. Mr. Johnson ,' has shown the delicacy of his taeto by 1 H'taptitig to his chair a muaic-box,which performs various aii? timing the opera lion. The occupant of the chair may control i's motion, so as to trim bio beard in any etylo lie pleases. Alter,;!/ experiments have been made which hava succeeded perfectly ; mid not a aingla chin has been stretched! Although wo journalists talk to our readers, from time to time, of tha bene fits of advertising, few of us, I think, re aliza-the importance of it to business success. I have made this subject some thing; of a study, and could state facta that would hardly be believed by you or your readers. The result of my expe rience and observation is that if a man have a really good article !o soil, it is nearly impossible for him to invest too much money in advertising, or to adver tise in too many papers, provided that these papers are road by persons likely to becomo customers. Now-a-davs, a tnan may have capital, a business con nection, and every qualification for suc cess ; but, if he have tha " old fogy " idea ibat advertising is unnecessary, and a "new-fangled notion," he will be thrown entirely into tho shade by some enterprising "Young American." For example, the most popular Music publisher in New York, just now, is Mr. Horace Waters, who has been dning bu siness only four years here. Tho se crets of his great success are, first, tho capacity to select good music, music that is good, and will sell, and secondly, tho faith he has in advertising. Look at any of your city papers, and you wiU seo in the fact that ho advertises mora than all the other music publishers io the city taken together, the main secret of his success. Ho has sold within ten weeks, ten thousand copies of one song, 14 Katy-did," which is much admired.?? As Mr. Waters is the sole agent for the -Eolian Pianos of T. Gilbert k Co., that are the most popular in use, much of his success may bo attributed to that fact; but it is, as I am sure ho himself will confess, mainly due to advertising. Some time ago, the Catholic clergy in this city forbade the interments of deceased Catholics at Greenwood Cem etery; and, on one occasion, a Air. A. J. Mondron, desiring to bury his only daughter there, the priests informed him that, ill obedience to the disciplinary rules of the Churcl\, their ministrations must be refused at burials made contra ry to tho canonical laws. A few days ago, the French Consul General in this city, M, f.acoste, died; and his remains were received at tho Catholic church in Cnnal street, with honors due to his rank, although it was known that tho coffin ? as to be conveyed to Green wood. Mr. Mondron has therefore pub lished a card to the clergy in which he says; " His the canon law been modi fied, or have tho disciplinary rules that you declared immutable, yesterday,been changed to-day! Tho Faithful are anxious to lenrn, and I await your re* ply." Rather pungent interrogatories, are they not ? It is shameful that iho Census taken in IS50 ba3 not yet been officially pub lished. If the Census cannot hereafter be printed until three years after it i-> taken, it would be as well to abandon the idea of enumerating the population, or compiling any statistics of the agri cultural and other resources of-.^thc Union. In a country like this, (vhera all things progress 60 rapidly, three year-old statistics are altogether out of date. From the specimens oftho Cen sus tables recently published, there is reason to fear that, when tho whole w printed, it will not only be stale, but grossly inaccurate. Yours, truly. RANDOLPH. COURTS,?Our Circuit Court will probably adjourn to-day, and Judge Edraoudson will repair to Fairmont, to altend the District Court at that place. Our District Court will convene on the 15th proxiraa, when, bcnidos their Hon ors, wn mar expect a large gathering of legal talep.t from surrounding counties. This tribunal is destined to become one of tho most useful and important in our judicial system.?Parkertiurg Gaz. On last Sunday, there was a "free fight" neor Claysville, in this county? the Irish and Country-borna being par i ticipants and "co-adjutors against each | other." Yankee Doodle triumphed, tho ! enemy v.ere severely handled, and a brace oftheraare now in custody,? lb. Incendiarism.?On Tuesday morning last, at about three o'clock, the store on Tunnell Hill, kept by Mr. Dugan, was burned tothe gionnd, giving ar.nie young men who sJcpt therein, barely lime So escape. It was undoubtedly, the work of an incendiary. Found Guilty.?We learn from t'uo Staunton Vindicator that Travel' and WiUi,n, charged with tho murder of Coleman, have been convicted of murder in the fiist degree. WOMAN TO BE HUNG. Hc.vti.voocn, Pa., Novv Taylor to-day pronoimcr death on Elizabeth lit' of poisoning hot sisSo'