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IIANPIIILLS, POSTICUS. lll.ANKS, CARDS, ClUCl'IAItS, PAMPIII.ET-WOUK and other kinds, dono to or.lcr, nn short notice. THEVUtE WUKAB MO BUOIXD How li.tle reeks il where men lie, , When once the momenta putt In which the dim and gluJng eye . IIiu looked ou earth iU last Whether beneath the sculptured urn Tlio coffined form shall rest, Or in its nakedness roturn : Rack to its mother's breast. . Death is common friend or foe, As different men may hold : And at his stynmons each must go t ' The timid and the bold ! ' ' ' ' Rot when the spirit, freo and warm, ' Deserts it, as it must, What mutter whero the lifeless form ' Dissolves again to dust 1 The soldier fulls, 'mid corses piled, . Upon Iho battle plain? .. Where reinless wnr-sleeds gallop wild. Above the mangled slain ; But, though his eorsa be grim to see, Hoof-trampled on the sod, What recks it, when the spirit free Has soared aloft to Uod ! The coward's dying eyes may close Upon his downy bed, And softest hands his limbs compos, Or garmeiits o'er them spread ; But ye, who shun the bloody fray Where fell the mangled brave, Go strip his coffin-lid away, And see him in his grave ! Twere sweet, indeed, to close our eyes ; With those wo cherish near, And wafted upwards by their sighs, Boar to some calmer sphere. But, whether on the scaffold high, . ' Or in the buttles van, The fittest place where man can die - Is, where he dies for man ! SucrrAaes of Team. Dr. Johnson observes : Thero is a sacred- ness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. Tliey speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, of 'unspeakable love. If there were wanting any arguments to prove that man is not mortal, 1 would look for it in the strong convulsive emotions of the hrnast, when the soul lias been deep ly agitated, when tlio fountains of feeling are arising, nd when the tears are gushing forth in crystal streams. Oh, speak not harshly to the stricken one, weeping in si lence.' Break not the) deep solemnity by rude laughter or intrusive footsteps. De spise not woman's tears they are what maao an angel, bcott sot it the stern heart of manhood is sometimes melted to tears they are, what help to elevate him above the brute. I love to see tears of af fectiun. They are painted tokens, but still most holy. There is a pleasure in tears an awful pleasure. If there were nono on earth to shed a tear for me, I should be loth to live ; and if no ono might weep over my grave I could never die in peace. : One Uanpy Uearl. Jlavo you made one happy heart. to-day? Envied privilege. How calmly you can seek your pillow 1 how sweetly sleep 1 In all this world there is nothing so sweet as giving comfort to the distressed, as getting . . i i ... . m.:i.i f A sun ray into a gloomy m". unuivu ui sorrow meet us wherever we turn : there is no moment that tears are not shed, and sighs uttered. Yet how many of those fears, those sighs are caused by our own thoughtlessness! llow many" a daughter wring thn very soul of a fond moiiiCr by acts of unkindness and ingratitude I How many husbands, by one littlo word, make a whole day of sad hours and unkind thoughts' How many wives, by angry recriminations, vjstrango and embitter their loving hearts ! How many brothers and sisters meet but to Vex and injure each other, making wounds that no human heart can heal I Ah! if each ne worked upon this maxim day by day "strive to make some heart happy" jealousy, revenge, madness, hate, with their kindred evil associates, would forever leave the earth.' Our minds wonld be so occupied in the contemplation of adding to the pleasures of others, that there would be no room fur the ugly fiends of discord. Try it. to discontented, forever grumbling devo tees of sorrow. selfcaued : it will make that little part of the world in which you move as fair as hIen. 3TVhile I am ready to adopt any well grounded opinion, my inmost soul revolts against receiving the judgment of others rHnrrtin!? nersons : and whenever I have lone so, fcave Utterly repented of yitbuhr, -'.- it, V. 1. ADAMS, F.dllor Proprietor.' VOL. 1. 08.Ha ON From the Aryut Extra, of Saturday. Latest News from the Mining Re gion Everybody ia not com ing home, na wna reported Humored Massacre of Gov. Stevens and Escort ! ! ' Wo received the following loiter from Mr. D, F. Cooper just as we had nearly finished working off our paper, which con tains news of a character that will bo of interest to ninny : Tr.n D'OiiKiu.i r.AKC, Aug. 21, 18j.". Mr. Atlnmi t Dkar His : Presuming that yourself and rcuders would like to hear from Ibe wuudcrcrsin the golden regions, I improve this op rtunity to drop you a few lines. We ai rived at this point on ycsti rduy, mid intend to lemaiu in cump for two or three day to rent and recruit unr jnded auimnls. Tlio country over which wo have passed since we left the Umatilla has becu broken and rough, cut up with fearful canont, rock-hound, and al most sunless. If an individual wishes to see na ture in all her rugged grandeur, let l.iin come liore. As you journey along, for more than a hundred miles, nothing but bold and blackened cliffs sur round you, and loom iu the distance as fur as vision extends. The silent, yot powerful, agencies of heat and frost are fust crumbling these rock mountains buck to their native elements again. As we pass ed along on the edge of some fearful abyss, and lis tened to the roar of the cataract beneath,- the boys wonld often amuse themselves by tumbling vast masses of rock over the edge, and down they rush ed with thundering roar, leaving a ntrcum of fire iu their track. This country has the appearance of being very old.- Not many cycles of rolling years have passed sway since vegetation first made its appearance on the soil fo;msd by decoyed rock. This whole country at some indefinitely distant day has been torn asunder by the action of volcanic fire. The rocks are cellular, having very much the ap pearauee of cinders. But enough of this. I'en d'Oreille Luke is a beautiful sheet of water, as clear as crystal, and moderately cold. It is from six to eight miles in length, and from a quarter to a half mile in width is ninety miles south of Ft. Colville. Elk, deer, and bear are found in its viciuity, and it is literally covored with ducks, and abounds in fish. The new from the mines is rather discouraging. We have met a great many returning, some of v lioni have been to Iho mines, but the most have never seen the river on which the gold is said to be. A panic bus seized the gold hunters. Their golden visions have been dissipated. Their chick en lit arts quailed before the returning host, and they have turned their faces Willuniettc-ward. But we arc determined to go on, arc in good spirits, and design to eal up our provisions in making ef forts to obtain means to purchase more. The following companies are going on, to wit: John R. II. bier, Cook and co. ; Win. Junes, E. T. Delong, Wm. Kane ; A. Boss &. co. ; T. J. David son and Brother ; John Vernon ; B. F. Rector &. co. ; B. F. Cooper & co.; S. Smith J Dr. McCurdy and co. ; C. Kiser & co. The Indians have brought in the report that the Blackfcet Indians have killed Gov. Stevens and company. The report is very generally credited in this region. If it be true, why not sweep the perfidious race from the face of the earth 1 Yours, B.F. COOPER. A Romantic Incltlcut. A correspondent of tho Manchester Mirror re lates an interesting incident, which he says occur red in Manchester. He states that in the fall of 1847 a young man came to the city in quest of em ployment. After weeks of unsuccessful search he found himself without prospoct for work, and con siderably in debt for board.. In despair, he had made arrangements for disposing of his clothes by auction in order to defray his debts, when a letter was sent to him containing a twenty dollut bill, and directing him to apply for the situation of cord-stripper to the overseer of oue of the corporations. The letter also requested bim to sign a note of hand for the amount loaned, and to place it in a certain un occupied box in the Poatoffice, when it would be called for by the lender. Tlie young man did as requested, and received the situation for which he bad applied, the overseer stating that it bad been procured for him by tho earnest solicitations of a ybung woman. Years passed away, and all at tempts to discover tho name of his creditor were unavailing. The young man prospered in busi ness, and at length plighted his affections to an es timable young lady with whom he had accidental ly become acquainted. On the day before their ,.,;, ),s received a letter requesing him to call at a certain place, and pay the note for twenty dollars, with interest, which he bad signed some years before. Anxious to settle an indebtedness which, from the mystery of the whole affair, had occasioned him many honrs of unhappincss, he has tened to the place indicated, and was ushered by a domestic into a parlor where, to his infinite aston ishment, he discovered in the person of his unknown benefactor, the lady to whom, upon lha next day, he was to uuite his earthly fortunes. She was awaiting him with the note iu her hand. It was her first business transaction, aud the partnerehip which followed bidsTair to continue happily through life. t3T The liquor dealers of New York are calling npou their fellow-sufferers throughout the State, to subscribe $80,000 to start a daily rum paper with. Mr. French, one of the city rnrasellers, agrees to give $-20,000 when the sum is raised and the paper starud- .A paper devoted exclusively to the Inter est of the ruin traffic will be worth having. We may then expect to hear all about the benefits of rumsellin g, rom-drinking, drunken rows, rum-murders, ic., ic Cayuga Ch:ef. AMt.Uli.Vt.kaowt ous.al Itaows nnunril of C.eroaru. CITY, O&BOOH SS&8.XTOB.Y, 8ATPKPAY, BBPTBMBBB. 8, 1858. .1)t Voa Taka tlie Vaier 1" One of our exchanges lias a good story about a man who never took a paper, but depended upon his neighbors for the news. Il is worth being t. .Id over a dozen times, so we repeat It for lha enjoy, inent ol our readers. "Exciting times, these,' said we to our neighbor Slow, after running a hasty glance over the late foreign uews. "Kb r said lie, as if he didn't exactly under laud. "About (he war In the East, we mean." "Hadn't heard of it What's It all about! Well, them Pown Euslers always was quarrel some setoff Iks." 'Oh, it isn't they that are fighting ; it's Tuiksy and Russia, and England and Franca have de clined iu favor of Turkey. ' Napoleou hus scut out quite a' fleet." "Napoleon I Why, I thought he was dead long ao. The history says so." - ''Yes, but this is a nephew of his Louis Napo leon, they call bim. lie is tlie Kinperer of the French." "Why, I thought Louis rhiliipo was (be Em peror." ; . "Yes, so he was, but he's dead now." "Well, that beaU all.'; "It seems," we continued, after a pause, "that the Nebraska Bill has been disposed of." "Hung, I suppose you mean. Well I'm glad of it. He deserved it" "What for V asked we, puzzled. "Why, any body that'll keep a dozen wives do- served to be disposed of, as you cail il" "What do you mean Yr ; "Why, isn't this Nebraska Bill (he same man I've heard tell of, that has set up for a prophet somewhere, and married I don't know how many wives t" "Oh, no ; that's quite a different man, Brighani Young, who lives up in Utah." ''Then, who is Nebraska Bill, anyhow t" "It isn't a man at all. It's a law proposing to annul the Missouri Compromise." "Oh," said Mr. Slow, in a manner which showed that he was sliil puzzled. "Well, I reeken Daniel Webster had something to say about that lie's a great man, Daniel." M "So he was, Mr. Slow, but he is not living now." "Dead ! Gracious, you dou'l say so. When did that happen ?" "About two years ago." "Two years ago 1 And I never heard of it. I'll have to tell Polly of that. By tlie way, Where's your bro(Jjer." "He's hi Washington. We heard from him half an hour ago. He had just arrived there at daylight this morning." . "You dout mean to say that a letter came from Washington in half au hour V "No, of course not The news came by tele graph." "Telegraph!" "Yes ; it doesn't take over a minute to come that way." ' ' "How yor talk ! Five hundred miles iu a min ute! But you're joking r ' ''Joking, Mr. Slow? Assuredly not. I thought of couse you understood tlio rapidity of the tele graph." , ' "Then its true T Five hundred miles in a min ute! Well, that beats the Dutch. I must tell Polly of that" "Mr. Slow, I want to ask a question." "Certainly, as many as you like." "Do you take the papert V "No, I dou'l ; but what makes you think of that?" ' "I thought you didn't. I should think you woul d wish to do so, in order to get the news." "Oh, I get the news as quick as most folks. I hear the people talking about it, and learn it that way." "And yet you hadn't heard of the European war." "Well, no, I didn't happen to hear of that." "Or about Louis Napoleou V "Why, no." "Or the Nebraska Bill, and the death of Daniel Webster J" "No, but" "Or the telegraph t" "No. That beats all. Five hundred miles in a minute! Won't it make Polly stare 1" And Mr. Slow forthwith belied his nnme, by walking rapidly home, full of tho intelligence that was to overwhelm Polly with surprise. Tue Home of Ura. Pierce - Burial Place of hit Hun. A correspondent of tho Portland (Me.) Argus, writing from Concord, Now Humpshire, says! " AU strangers visiting here make a pilgrimage to the home of President Pierce and the resting place of his son, who met with so meluncboly a death. The former is situated on the lower end of Main street It Is a plain, uupretcuding, though nicely finished wooden house, surrounded by a row of large and noble elms, affording a delightful shade to the tastefully laid out garden and walks adjoining. "Sunday, after church, I took a w alk tlirough tho cemetery. At a lot enclosed by a rich iron fence, arched over by the drooping limbs of spreading w eeping willow I noticed nearly all pass-em-by paused. Here isthe gravoof young Pierce, whose sudden death while traveling with his futh er called forth the sympathies of tlie whole nation. A plain marble obelisk, about five feet in height, bearing the truthful inscription, "Only and well beloved," marks his grove. A lesser one by its side is erected in memory of a younger son, who died ten years before." rGrcit men never affect anything. It is your three cent folks that put on airs, swell, aud try on the pomp. The difference between the two is as great as between a barrel of vinr"wand an angel's dif osition. ( folilra promises or Klaus, 1 and Mr. ant Hirlacs." j "' Tho, currency of a popular saying is no proof of its trui.h. lVople pass it as they do a had sovereign, beciiuso their own in. torest is concerned in turning it to account. Evory ngn lias itn fnvorito fallacy suited to tho favoiito foible of the period, which is passed eagerly from mouth to mouth, till soino one comes who can nlford to detect it. Thus, for centuries, it suited us tocirculuto a well-turned set of fallacies respecting wom an's incapacity for keeping a scewt the motive being merely thereby to secure an innocent scapegoat on whom to l:iy the shamo of our own indiscretions. Now we are too happy when ono of the sex will con descend to becotnn tho confidante of any secret we may possess, and fuel honored by acceptance. Fur centuries, wo agreed that education was a dangerous thing for her, only wo fi ll how much butter use she would iniiko of it limn ourselves. Now we not only niuko (hern welcome, to help tliein solves to any of the fruits of science, or flowers of literature, as plentifully ns they please, but are too linppy, as all editors and publishers will testify, when we can prevail upon them to help us as well. Thero is one fallacy, however, still current against women, which we mutt take this public op portunity of denouncing. A certain old father, soured by Ihe circumstances of his lot, relieved some of his spleen by dunning womai4'an animal that delights in finory ;" and this saying, naturally so acceptable lo disappointed gentlemen of all orders, con tinued nn authority even in the time of the amiablo Spectator. 3u. it is pretty clear that, in all that appertains to finery in drc, the sex to which the father himself belonged has not only always kept pace, but fre quently outstripped tho other; and that while our poets, moralists, and clergy uavo been satirizing aud denouncing tlio extrav agancies and absurdities of female apparel, we have been flaunting and strutting away, under cover of our own 6re, far mora ex travagant than they. It appears, from Mr. Pluuche's Hrstorv, and the other meritori ous works now before us, that wo can not point to one single excess or caprico of dress which has appeared on tho person of woman that has uot had its counterpart, as bad or worse, upon the body of man. We liavo had tho same efll'ininnte stuffs, the samo fino laces, tlio same rich furs, the same costly jewels. We have had as much gold and embroidery, and more tinsel and trumpery. We have worn long hair aud largo sleeves, and tight waists, and full pet ticoats. We have started stays and stom achers, muffs, ear-rings, and lovelocks. We have routed and patched, and padded and laced. Where they have indulged a little extravagance in one part, we have broken out ten times worse iu another. If they have had head-dresses like the moou's cres cent, wo have had shoes like rams' horns. If they have lined iheir petticoats with whalebone, we have stuffed our trunk-hose with bran. If they have wreathed laco-rulTs around their lovely throats, vq have but toned them about our cluntsy legs. If they carried a littlo mirror openly on their fans, we have concealed one slily in our pockets or hats. In short, wherever we look into the history of mankind, whether through the annals of courtiers or tho evidence of paint ers, we find tho two nnimals equally fond of dress. Quarterly Review. , ' A ncautltul Tnanglil.- Shortly after her arrival in Ireland, where Mrs. Ilcmans died, sho was extremely unwell. When among the moun tain scenery of the fine county of Wieklow during A storm, she was struck by one effect in tho hills. It was produced by a rainbow diving down into a gloomy mountain pass, which it soemed really to flood Willi its colored glory. "I could not help thinking," she remarked, "that it was liko our re ligion, piercing and carrying brightness into the depths of sorrow, and of tlie tomb." All the rest of the scene around that one illuminated spot was wrnpied in Ihe profoundcstdurkueHs. - Even. Mag America Onu-ers la llussla. We are glad at length to have something definite and reli able respecting tho three American nrmy officers, Mnj. Delufield and Captains Mordecai and Mc Clcllnn, who were sent out by our Government some moutlis since, to inspect the fortifications and operations of the belligerents in the Host. They went first to I-omlon and then to Paris, at both of which places they seem to have been received rath er coolly. They then went to Berlin ; and the re port has been current, tbut the Russian govern ment had also given thorn the cold shoulder, and they were about to return home wilhoutfccom plishing tho object of their mission. But the Washington Union contradicts this last report, aud says that so fur from having been coldly received by the Russians, they had been thus far treated with distinguished consideration by the representa tives of the Czar. On their arrival at Berlin, it soys, they were welcomed and entertained by tlie Russian Minister in the most cordial manner; and when they reached Warsaw, Prince Paakiewitch greeted them with splendid hospitality. lie gave them a grand review of the troops, and ordered an engineer officer to show them the fortifications, See. They had been offered a choice between an iuvi- Ltntion from the Emperor, first, to visit the Russian capital, 8t Petersburgh, or to bo espressed to the Crimes, Thry had chosen lo go on, first, to St Petersburg, w here tliey had arrived, at previous ac counts, and have donbtless received from the Czar every forility for pursuing their mission in (he most satisfactory manner. ilotton TrarAltr. fJJ" Madame do titael says, there is often in Ibe heart some innate image of the beings we are to love, tliat lends to our first sight of them almost tn air ef re cgniiion. HI HSt.RIf t ION, " Five Hollar a ear. NO. ai. Mike Flak ana Ike Hull. Tho story of Mike Fink and tho bull would make, a cynic laugh. Miko took a notion to go in swimming, and had just got his clothes off, w hen ho saw Deacon Smith's bull making at him die bull wus a vicious animal, and had como near killing two or lliroo persons consequently, Mike foil rath, cr "juhiin." lie didn't want to call for help, fur lie was nuked, aud tho nearest place from whenco assistnncn could arrive was tho meeting-house, which was ill tho time filled with worshippers, among whom was tho "gal Miko was paying his devours to." So ho dodged iho bull as tho animal I'.itne ot him, and managed to catch him by tho tail, llo was dragged around till near ly dead, and when ho thought ho could hold ou nolonrer. ho made up his mind ho htnl bettor "holler." And now wo w ill let him tell his own story : "So looking ut the matter in all its bear ings, I cum to tho conclusion tliut I'd hotter let somebody know whnr I was. So I gin a yell louder than a locmnotivo whittle, and iu warn't long before I seed tho Deacon's two dogs acoinin'down liko as if tliey war seem' which could get thar fust. I know ed who they wore nrter they'd jine thn bull agin mo, 1 was snrtin, for they wero orful wenonious, and hud spite ngin mc. So says I, old Rriudle, as ridiu' is as cheap as wtilkiu' on this route, if you've no objections, I'll jist take a deck passage on tlmt ar back o'yourn. So I wasn't very long gettin' as tride of him J then, if you'd bin thar, you'd have sworn thar warn t nothin' human in that ar mix, the silo How so orfully as tho critter and I rollod round tho. Meld one dog oq ono sido, and ono on the other try in' to clinch my feet. I prayed and cussed, and enssed and pray od, until I couldn't tell which I did at last und neither warn't of no use, they war so orfully mixed up. Well, 1 reckon I rid about half an hour this way, whan old Brindle thought it war time to stop to take in a supply of wind, and cool ofla littlo. So when wo got round to a treo that stood thar, ho naltcrally haltod. So scz I, old boy, you'll lose one passenger, snrlaiu. So I jist clum up a branch, k til ko la tin' to roost thar till I starved, aforo I'd bo rid round that ar way any longer. I war a makin' tracks for the top o' the tree, when I hoard suthin' a lnnkin' an orful buzziu' overhead. I kinder looked up, and if thar warn't well thar's no use o' swearin' now, but thar war tho biggest hornets nest ever built. You'll 'giri in,' now, I reckon, Miko, 'cause thore's no holp for you. liut an idee struck mo thou, that I'd stand a heap bettor chanco a ridin' the bull than whar I was. Sex I, old fellow, if you'll hold on, I'll ride to iho next station anyhow, lot that be whar it will. So I jist dropped aboard bim agin, and looked aloft to see what I had gained by changin' quarters ; and, gentlemen, I'm a liar if thar warn't nigh half a bushel of the singiu' varmints ready to pitch into mo when the word 'go was gin. Well, I reckon they got it, for 'all hands' Btarted for our company. Some on'em hit tho dogs ubout a quart struck mo, and tho rest charged on Dritidle. This time tho dogs led off fust, dead bent for tho old deacon 8, and as soon as old urmdlo ami I could get under way, wo followed. And as I war only a deck passenger, and had nothin' to do with stceriti' tho craft, I swore if I had, wo shouldn t have run that channel, any how. Hut, as I said before, the dogs took the lead 13riudlo and I next, and tho hornets dre'kly artor. . Tho dogs yclliti' Brindlo bellorin', and tho hornets buzzin1 and stingin'. Well, wo had got about two hundred yards from the house, and tho dea con heard us aud cum out. I seed him hold up his hand and turn white. I reckon ed ho was prayin' then, for ho didu't expect to be called for so soon, and it warn't long, neither, afore tho bull congregation men, women and children cum out, and then all hands went to ycllin'. Nono of 'em had tho fust notion Driublo and 1 belonged to this world. I jist turned my head, and passod tho hull congregnlion. 1 bcc tho run would bo up soon, for lirindlo couldn't turn an inch from a fence that stood dead ahead. Well, wo reached that fence, and I went ashore, over tho old critter's head, Inndiu' on 'tothcr sido, and lay thar stunned. It warn't long nforo somo of 'em as war not scared, cum runnm' to see what 1 war. For all hands kalkclutcu that tho bull and I belongod tog'dlior. But whon.IJrindle walked ofTbv himself, they seed how it war, and ono of em said, 'Miko Fink has got the wust of tho scrimmngo onco in his life P Gentlemen, from that day 1 dropped the courtin' bizzincs, and never spoke to a gal since, and when my hunt is up on this ycarth, thar won't bo any more Finks, and its all owin' to Deacon Smith's Brindle Lull!" VsrHplrllla Russia F.xtract from a private letter to one of the editors of ihe New York Evangelkt, dated at St. Petersburg, June 5 : "I have now been hero thrco weeks, and seen manv thimrs to interest me. I have been well received whercvor I have been J and I assure you thnt I am quite as much a Russian as I was buforo I left tho United States. As for tho war, there appears to be but one feeling hero among all, and that is to fight it out. Tlio nation is with the Em peror, and is resolute never to yield to the demands of the Allies. Everything hero is military, and in preparation for war. A dav or two since I went to the Foundling Hospital, and there found a large number of females making bandages, and other scrap' femaes making bandages, ami oilier scrap- h,g lint, for the soldier, that are wounded."! TUB v.n. The Crimean correspondent of tho Lon don Times, writing under date of June 10, the day after the defeat of the Allies, says ; THI AKMIST1CR. Tho natural consequence, in civilized war fare of such a contost as that which took placo yesterday is an armistice to bury tho ' dead. It was our sad dutv to demand it. for our dead lay outside our lines, and thero wero no Russian corpses in front of tho Re dan or MulnkofT. After tho contest of tho 22d of May (icn. Ostcu-Sacken Is said to have applied twice to our Generals before an armistice was accorded to bim, and in deed (icn. I'dissior expressly says that tlio truce was grunted to the Russian General on his reiterated request. It is no wonder then that tho Russians were rather chary of granting us an armistice, when they had no occasion to go outsulo their lines fur their dead, or dying and wounded. Some how or other, the rumor got abroad that there would be an armistice early in tho day,' and we hoisted a while fhig iu the forenoon, but there was no such emblem of a tempo rary peace displayed by the Russians. Our batteries and riflemen coosed firin. and the Russians crowded tho tons of tho parapets of iho Rodan and of tho Round Tower (Malakoff ) battories, and did not harass us by any fire, but of courso it was dangerous to go out in front of tho lines till they hoisted tho whilo (lag also, hvery moment anxious eyos wore turnod to tho lingo walls of carth'befoio the Round Tow er and behind tho nbatlis of tho Redun, iu tho hope of sooing the answering ll.'UT, hut , our own was tho only ono in vicw,'and tho t' rench were still fir 1112 away on our left at tho Russian works. It was evident that something was wrong, aud it wus whispered . that the Russians had refused our applioa- . tiou lor au arimstico. 1 louts were at last seen to leave the roads of Subastopel, and to meet boats irora tlie Meet at the entrance, and it became known that tho Russians bad acceded to an armistice, nnd that it was to ' tako place at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. To pass the weary timo away there was nothing to do but to watch tho Russians at work repairing their batteries labors which they continued during the armistice subsequently and to make out the bodies wuicii lay scattered about in front of lha Redan aud Malakoff. It was agonizing to see the wounded men who were Tying there under a broiling sun parched with excrucia ting thirst, racked with fevor, and agonized with pain to behold them waviug their caps faintly or making signnla toward our ' lines, over which they could see tho white flag waving, nnd not to be able to help them. They lay where they full, or had scrambled into tho holes formed by shells ; nnd there they had been for 30 hours oh I how long and bow dreadful in their weari ness I An officer told mo that ono soldier who was close to tho ahattis when bo saw a few men come out of an embrasure raised himself on his elbow, and fearing he should bo unnoticed and passed by, raised his cap on a stick and waved it till he full back ex hausted. Again ho rose, and managed to tear off his shirt, which he ngitatod in the , air till, his strength failed bim. His face could bo scon through a glass, nnd my friend said he novor could forgot tho expres sion of resignation and despair with which the poor fellow lit last abamlonod his uso- less efforts, and folded his shirt under bis hoad to await the mercy of lleavcu. Wheih- , or ho was alive or not when our men went out I can not Bay ; but live hours of thirst, , fever, and pain, under a fierce sun, would make awful odds against him. The red coats lay sadly thick over the broken ground in front of the abattis of the Redan, and bluo and gray coats wero scattorcd about or lay iu piles in tlio rain-courses buforo tho . Malakolf. DIFFICULTIES OF TUB ALLIES. I do notsce any possibility of our boing able to abandon our present position on tho south sido of Sobnstnpol, or to make a gen eral attack on tho Russian armies which are encamped before us. Every ravine has been made another sobastopol by their engineers. Our Lnnd 'Transport Corps is so hardly pressor! by tho service of tlio feicgo Artille ry that, as I am informed, the ration of fuel has been on several occasions recently not forthcoming to tho full amount. Uur Oens. may be influenced by considerations, and may net on information of which we are ig norant, but tho belief of many officers of inferior rank and of great intelligence is, that the proper way to attack Sebastopol is to put tho finger and thumb on its wind pipe, no matter how lar tlie place may do removed from the great organ itself, and let it starve. We are not strong enough, it is said, to invest the placo immediately out side, for wc aro only 210,000 men, and it would require au army of 200,000 or 200, 000 men to occupy the lines, which would etmMo them to resist at all points tho at tempts of 1 lie enemy, whether from within or from without tho cordon of investment. 1'erekop is inaccessible and poisonous, nnd tho shores of the Siwash ore certain death more certain and quick than tho marshes of tho I )obrudscha, at tho recollection of which the bravest Frenchman trembles. It will easily bo soen, by these few remarks, that tho army is not in that position in which we could wish to sco it. Although water has not failed, it is scarco and bad. Guards are placed over tho wells and Btrcams, and each man and horse is sup plied in turn, and they have to form a queue at tho troughs ; and sometimes tlio thirsty man or boast has to remain for an hour cro bis turu cumcs. R'.'ssia Soldiers. A correspondent of the National luUlliymeer, writing from Paris, says: Tho French officers arsure me that tho engineers in ihe Russian army are eqnn! to any in Europe. Their army in the Crimea is composed of their finest tnxips and tight with great skill and desperation. Their rille- ...... ,1 1,1 II,.. '( 'linssclirs (le Vilicen- i ,, . ., nc," and are "dea l hoU," H admit.