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THE OllEGON AHGUS, ... ruiumiKO avaxr iATuur mosnino, BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS. Oflice-GooJ'4 Building, Main st. Edilo , , rial Room in first story, tF.KMSTlie Asaus will he furniehed at Fire Vullttri per Annum or Six Montke : fur Three Dollars. V Suieeriptione received fur Uu thtn Six I.,; ,i , , SloHllltl i 12T No piper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unleu at the option of the publisher. ' Amt.-nTMlNfl KATK8. Olio aqiiart) (12 linoa less) one insertion, $3,00 , ii i two insertions, 4,00. ii , it . throe insertions, 85,00. V.adh aulucimcnt Insortion, &1 ,111), ttemmniule deductions to those who advertise by the year. Job Printing. Tint raormTO or Tim ARGUS ! haw to Inform tho public that lie has just roeeived a iui-ira stock of dOU TYPE and oilier new print ing material, and will bo in tho speedy receipt of nd.liliom suited lo nil llio requirr-meins oi m io tuility. llAiNDBILl-S, POSTIiKS, IILANKS, CAUIW, ClItCULAIW, P A M l'l I LET- V OUK uinl oilier kinds, done to order, on short notice. . - i-- , V W v II II II W 11 II (1 II 11 Vi f! II A V I. U UlU X VOX, l. . row Me Zcac Ztfcr 0c. j D lo Col. Uro. VV. H- l. My excellent friend, anj my dear Irish brother: ,, I have time jusl to write you a line ; l-'er I hrar our petitions have raited suek a bother, Good democrat! don't like to sigu. Coufonud tho Know Nothings, and Cimnv to boot, ; One of ui should have ituck by hi tide i . Such men aa ho pull Into office dun't mit, , And the only true way Is to hido , Kvery thing that we cuu . ,, , J'roin so honest a man, For be'a honest if we eland aside. The only chance left is to get every name That we can to thaw papers of ours, Andinrenl just a few it will be all the snme- r And cause more renpecl for our powers. The f nme that we played in the spring wus a trick , That we practiced with splendid success; ''Xcver stuud for lies when the putieul is sick." As for liii between us, I confess That yon did it up brown j ' The K. N.'s you raked dow n Just as well as 1 did with my press. Don't Target the petitions tlicn. Send them around And soon these k. N.s wo ahull see Much against their consent or (heir will, I'll bo i . , bound, Take another and final degree. The Democracy know thai it's yjm, George, and 1 More than any one else, are hard trying To rout the K. N.'s from alf office, iinJ why Should wostop for a morsel ef lying ) There's Belt and Sam May, .. Slatkii, DANroimi are they i T bold office without,!) its buyiug? I poked fun at the wars just ns long as I dared, . . And supposed they werewuiting forme To advise what to do and but little I cared If a chance fur a spree I could see ; We still can regiiin, if wo munage aright, All the consequence lost to us yet ; So attend the petitions by day and hy night, Wherever the right crowd are met ; If they only can write, 'Tis no mutter how light, And tho Governor shan't soon forget. . I have heard of your fracas in court t'other day, - How Jim V and you hud a spat, And the Judge shook his fiat in nn impudent wuy " And placed you in the key of "A flul j" ' The first musical phase in your life, expect. ! 1 They say Joe is a nnuicul chup ; . AVe ueitlier hnve ears that are very correct, .,. And in music may meet a mishap III the "key of A flat," A nd a brick in one's hut, ' The position' not very elect. . i I don't go a cent on that Jog or tho Judge, I'or I hear thut ihoy neither will sign Tliofo Know Nothing petitions so wo both owe grudge, Vh ch we'll pay when it comes in our lino. - We ge for the party the purty for us And we claim all the plun.lor for ourselves ; ' That Jos, at best but au "urnary cuss," Wo will lay high and dry on the shelves; And the Judge, with lite rest, ' . If they know what is best, ': Will bo apt to look oat for themselves. , . Cobvallis, Nov. J Oth , 1855. V. I- AW1MH, , Kdltor Proprietor. AMfr'.KU'.V .liw woukHIoI gutAra proatset of k.Uu, Knows boukM of Coronet, aid Hlam, aid mrim.n MtBHt'.tUPTlOS, Ktve Itotlara Year. ORBOOzv ciTir, oaaooar TBaaixoaY, iatprday, wbkmi 2, lass. wo. 3a Salem, Nov. 10, 1855. , Mb. Adams Dear Sir: Thera is in lute number of tlia Corvnllia Statesman an editorial, which, in whatever light it may be viewed, is tho most extraordinary docu merit that it crcr baa been my fortune to road- .'ItU cstraprdinary, not in il logic and rhetoric, for they are common enough, Unit in llio nature and extent of its domand. The editor really deserves credit for some thing new, to wit, a document whoso logic aa only equaled by its meanness. It pur yorts to have been written by an American, but it is utterly destitute of the spirit of pa triotism. Its author claims to be a demo crat, but this editorial is tho essence of fed eralism. Tbo federalists sought to cripple tho energies of the General Government in the last war with Great Britain, and the ed itor of tho Corvallis Statesman seeks to cripple tho efforts of the Executive of this Territory in the prosecution of the war in which tho citizens have been involved by 4ho murderous policy of the savages. What jf the blood of our murdered fellow-citizens rotie from the ground for vengeance ! W hat if fheir manglud bodies lie nnburied on the . .plains ! or are cut to pieces and carried jabout as bloody trophies of savage tri itimph ? What if a savage foe hovers on ; ,jur boHsrs, nd threatens our ft'ermina Hon t n foo that duvlnres war with the war- hoop and seals it with the scalping-knifc, and is over ready to start up like the felon olf at midnight, in a war of murderous plunder on tho defenseless cradle nnd hulp- .ss innocence I These nro minor consid erations in comparison, with the appoint- munt, by n Democratic Governor, of a sur geon, who may differ with the august edit or of the Corvallis Statesman in matters of politics U .' . .. The contest in which wo are engaged in- ulves no pat ty issues. It is our country calls, not our party. Gov. Curry has obey ed that call with a commendable prompti tudeobeyed it not as a pariizan, but as the military Governor of Oregon. We will do him tho justice to believe that he acted from motives of patriotism, not from party con siderations. These appointments that seem to be so obnoxious to tho editor of tho Corvallis Statesman were made, not on the ground that the appointees were Whigs or Demo crats or Know Nothings, but because of their fitness nnd abilities. The Governor wanted rofessionnl abilities, not party wranglers. Ho found such abilities in the appointees) and very properly employed. A Governor who would have acted otherwise would have deserved the execralion of every hon oruble man. A?ain Whigs and Know Nothings have boyed the call made by the Gov. with as much promptitude, and with as great asao rifice of time and property, as Democrats- TVy are just as willing to encounter the prils and endure the hardships necessary in avenging llieir country's wrongs as the dem ocrats. The question will never be asked by those brave men, bo they whigs, demo crats, or know nothings, what were thepol ilics of their fellow-citizens who have bpen slain. It will never be asked by tho soldier what is the politics of his commander, or by the officer what are the political predilcc. tions of his men. Aud no mau, unless lib is lost to every emotion of patriotism, every feeling of humanity, would ever ask tho question with rcfereiico to the surgeons who lime been appointed to dress tbo wounds of the brnvo men who have gone forth to avenge the wrongs of their country. But tho editor of the Corvallis Statesman has made the discovery that some of the ap pointees are not dcm"cr.'its, ornt least don't come tip to his ideas of democracy. And this pretended governor of the, Gov. of Or- gon imperatively demands their removal. And he modestly tells Flis Excellency that ho has ever used him as a tool, ns a hunter uses his rifiV, and although this tool, "rifle," has missed fire this time, he intends to chuck the "flint," that is, frictinnize him with a few petitions, then if he misses fire, refuses to crouch iu humble submission nnd ick the feet of his pretended master, his po itical damnation is senled. Who is the Gov. of Oregon ? the editor of the Corvallis Smtesnmn or Gov. Currv. If the editor of the Corvallis Statesman can control all the executivo appointments, and undo I hem af ter they have been regularly made, then he is the actual Governor, nnd his famous com parison is truthful and just. But who be lieves that ho possesses this power ! No one. Tho editor of the Corvallis Statesman's demand is unparalleled in the history of this or any other country. These appointments were made, not by virtue of the Governor's character as a civil magistrate, but by virtue of his character as a military commander. Politics regards tho civil rights of men, their military duties aud powers are settled by organic law. There is no dispute Ion. coming them ; they never have entered ns elements into political organizations, and of right ought not to. Is there, can there bo any difference of opinion in regard to the duty of the American citizen to defend his country when her rights are invaded ? Political considerations have never been the avowed basis of military preferment or re- i o.-A. I 'IV...1 a . movnl. uenerais ocou unu injur, m host of others, commanded in Mexico under n.mnr.ralie AJniinisiration. No Demo crat was found senseless enough to object, or to petition for removal. The policy which tho editor of tho Corvallis Statesman has broached is Catiline, and dangerous in the extreme. If it did not lead to the dis organization of the army, it would effectu ally cripple its energv. It has ever been the glory of tho American people that how ever great their difference of opinion on questions of civil policy, in military matters they were a unit. Political rancor never reached the camp political animosity was hushed in view of danger. What does the I iocs ho mean that Whigs and Know Noth ing' should do all tho fighting, and that democrats are to havo all tho offices, enjoy all tho honors, and get nil the pay I Shame on such democracy 1 We venture the as- Late from the lnata War, Worth Letter from Ma). Ratal to Oov. Mate. Yakima Camp, Mo. 11, jf Roman Catholic Mission, Monday. Nov. 12,1855. S Governor Here we are, without a bat sertion that there aro not fifty men in the tie, except a skirmish four days since, with some inuinns, wnooanoi us as on'irunen ed ths Yakima river. We thought at first Territory who agrco with him. E PLURIBUS UNUM. it was a prelude to a bier battle with the whole of their force, and forbid the stream to an island with our mounted troops 18 dragoons and 8 pioneers. Here we com menced the action, firing on the enemy, and ordered up our artillery and infantry to ford the stream. Uur troops maae a rusn wwj From the Aryut Extra, Tuesday. By Telegraph. FKOItf THE WAR! For f As Argue. K Horry Picture. Jlfr. Editor: "But yesterday, the name of Cesar m'ght have stood against the world!" but now. alas! how fullen! hew drplorablo! lie is a husb.ird a father, a lovely, loving, intelligent woman, sustains . , . . f , . li - ; toward him the relation of wifej an innocent, ami- n(j -n ,0 crMg ,he river bu, faie J( the able, prattling mrant is liie.rsi and wiinin una lum-ijj curfent gW0Cping away two of our ily circle Is found a peaceful, an exemplary home, l , m. who wer0 f,,,, drowned, where- Young just now approachiug the maturity of sol- j 8ent t0 Colonel Nexmith for !j i. a. !..-: . i lie.! rn.n..ui. .' . . ...... M:,L iu muiiiicuu, luiciiigom, uimj jiiamicTu iu, f.mi iw0 companies 01 volunteers, wihcu nun usciuiness, ana social Deneni; anpiring iu pvimbm our (jraeoons, drove UPaaionu into lie lutiur distinction, with all the requisite qualifications tsl : torrent, and reached the opposite shore success, exeept perhaps, the one of all the most es- charged the enemy, who fled away over the . I .... a ... 1, 1 . P sential, " Aony is the beet policy," our neroap- Dills, one Of tueir tails siriKiup, oni loriu pears before us. He assumes the prerogative of Lately not wounding Colonel Nesmith's nnnminrmnr himself a candidate for an important horsa. public position, and accordingly, solicits the sudra- Lnto in the afternoon, after recalling all gcaof our citizen voters, receives enough fur a lib- our force to the south bank of the Yakima eral defeat, which ma account for his late deplo- river, we heard, some distanco in the prairie, rable aotion. While canvassing fur the desired the reports of small arms, indicative of a post of trust he did not publicly commit himself up- nglit ; ana WKing .wo companion, prv . ,1.- T-mB-,.. i-. i.,.. n-it.t.lv. .nd o-. cceded in that direction, until some time af- hap, trappingly, affected friendship fsr prohibition ter uipht, when the firing censing, we re- iugard to liquor vending. Se.f-grandizement turned back to the. edge of the timber, and predieated upon to faces, was th.ug.it to be per- and b.voucak.d for he mg l.t JS day " .... . ., . ji.i. we found a number of Indians around us on cepnoio. n naiever mo moiives mai uciuaicu i, ,. , ...! i i...h.r .h.v . .uoh a. wft horse-, which were gallantly driven off ,, , j - j a .u. by our mounted volunteer companies, nnd .re capable of supermducng virtuous deeds, or the J lb mounlaingorr;0i fonnd ,eve., certain .1.. that one allsost of hi. iUe. tm j,,,, about 300 in number on the queni acts, represcm. mm u . .ncuu . .n- m thcir Jrums Bnd ghSoting ranee! Whatever his feelings, b,s views, during , T, d from his candidacy, on the subject, his present ones are ;tion 8nd 8c,a,erefJ with discharges known. By a deliberate, long-to-be remembered f()m our DOwilerg( we cut otr some 0f them act, has he declared in favor of rf. He has pe- . R Q Jisp0sition of our troops, and Utioued the ' powers thut be " to open in our midst 'f mon W(jre mpdt y6 continued a fiend-making, poverty-cuusiiig, nian-destroyiug ftllrmllreh lo this nlnce. sweeping the plains Ael-pit, a low, rag-tail, rot-gut doggery, that its wjln our c(lvalryi dispersing, killing and "liquid fire and distilled damnation" may lawfully wounintr ul the enemy we saw, and found ooze irom lummy, nauseaung, coo-comeu uouuu- jjjQ nl,8S,0U auandoneu, apparency prcci' lers into the stomachs of some of our misguided, un- L-itatelv. fortunate fellow-beings, whose animal appetites CiWt. Malonev not havinff arrived, in coa control their judgments. Surely, sir, is he a pub- junction with Col. Nesmith, we dispnlchcd lie Knefuctor ! a philanthropist! Well has he 108 volunteers nnd regulars on our best contributed to pave the way for the lurking, blood- horses, to proceed in the direction of tho e.nivinrr snvmre. whe waits but for an oonortunitv Nnchess rjass. and ascertain his where to imbrue hU scalping-kuife aud tomahnwk in tho abouts. We are awaitta'.' their report, for heart's blood of ourselves and our families '-and we cannot tell where the large bony of the to lay wusto our once secure dwellings! He has, cnmy is, unless gone that way to attack Wt liia nnnimntinn unlit t)inl iinfitli ftumnintf tint I. Cftlt Maloner's command. iin. Avowed himself in favor of imDov.ru,hinir finn- Our force has alarmed the Indians much, ilies,of auementing the mother's miserv, tho child's and they may have scattered. nukedueiM and hunger. Hn may delight in caus iug a portion of our children to grow up in igno rance aud destitution ! He may find pleasure in that heartrending spectacle exhibited by that moth er who mourns the premature death of an inebria ted son ; in witnessing that disconsolate, careworn destitute, yet faithful wife, who has been called upon to see her once noble, once loving, once ro- spected hnsbnnd prematurely deposited in a drunk ard's grave. It may be, I say, tlmt ho delights in sueh j)eaig',soul-elirring ethibilious. Perchance he would rear his little inuocout child under the in. fluence of the profanity, the debauchery, the ex treme wickedness incident to intemperance. Ho may wish to afford his wife the pleasure of rising from her bed at midnight, and fleeing to some neighbor's to escape being burnt with her own dwelling, which has been fired by the drunken in cendiury ; or, at least, that she may be euteriuiut d by their very refined conversation, and dignified demeanor. Yes, if we would make men fit to visit our fumihes, to hold converse with our wives and daughters, we must first intoxicate them. In. deed, our picture of you is a "sorry" one. But let us hope for a refoimation, my brother! Come lo Very respectfully your obedient servant, G. T RAINS : Major U.S. A., and Brie. Gon. W. T. volunteers. To His Rxcellrncv U. II. Mason, Governor of Washington territory, Ulympia, w. i. Col. Nesmith went himself Id command. Oregonian. lsthmas News. We have full files of the Panama ''Star & Her aid," from which we make the following extacts : The old bronze guns on the Buttery are about be. ingscntto New York for sale, and the offioersW (he Railroad company are engaged in transferring them to the station, from whoncs they will be sent to Asninwall, and shipped on llio "J!. Urummona for New York. Solno excitement was created whon the first attempt to remove the large guns was mode, and many absurd reports were spread amone the natives, It is reported that the Pacific Mail bleamship company purpose soon putting on a lino of steam. era between Panama aud San Francisco, expressly Through tho politeness of Mr. Charles F. Johnsox, of the Pacific Telegraph Com. pany, we have been faverod with the fol lowing news from the Indian war in the North. The intelligence was telegraphed from Portland at half-past 3 ibis afternoon, and was furnished to the operator there by A.J. Price, Esq.: Portland, Nov. 208 p. at. The "Belle" has just arrived. Col. Nesmllb's command la within 35 miles ef the Dalles. Maj. Chinn was at Well Springe Nov. 17th, and sends a messenger to the Dalle. It seems the whole Indian forco have concentrated on this side of the river. Chinn's letter to Col. Kelly says "The messenger who bears these letters arrived In my camp, bringing news from N. Raymond of tho dangers ef tho settlers, the destruction of Brooks and Bumford's projierty, and the seizure of Fort Walla-Walla. The position of "Pee peu-moi-mox'' is inaccessible with my force he hav ing 1000 men. At present ths only plan which presents itself, Is for me to move at one to the Umatilla, and fortify myself, and there wait uutil reinforcements cart reach me. 'With two field pieces I might lake Walla-Walla.", UF-Grovsr, bearer of despatches, furnishes the following: He left the Dalles at 3 o'clock tliismor ning. Col. Nesmith and command arrived at Klikatat river on tho evening of the 18th. They went North 130 miles found snow one foot deep, The troops aud horses could not subsist. Col. Nesmith thought it advisable to return to some poiut on the Columbia for olotliing and sup. plies. A part of ths command will move forward to reinforce Maj. Chinn at once. Maj. Rains' coinmaud are at the same place where they were. Cool iMTODiNca. The Chicago Tribune has the following account of a game played by one of the President's former law clients, which is about the coolest specimen of impudence extant. It says : "Some years ago a fellow by the nam of Brown was arrested for forgery in New Hampshire, and retained 'Frank Pierce' to defend him. After a full investigation of the affair, it wa ascertained pretty definitely that it would gohard with Brown, and that with ull the abilty of his advocate, a trial would quite surely end in a conviction. In this ai lemma he emigrated to the West, leaving his bail to foot the bonds, and his lawyer to whistle for his pay. A while ago a man by the name of Walker, being about to visit Washingtou in connection with some railroad project in Minnesota, Brown, on the strength of claiming an acquaintance with (he President, volunteered a letter of introduction, to the bottom of which ho added, as a P. S.i 'Give me a fat office, and 1 Will pay up the old score. The letter waa handed to the President, who after reading it and remarking upon tho peculiar eool. nesa of the request for an office, explained to Walk er his acquaintance with Brown. ...... r..,,ut the altar of outraged justice, and theio atono, if ' Pl ,,, . .,.. o,cg.- possible, for the great wrong you have done your countrymen. Come to the nltur of our holy reli gion, and ask af an insulted God Hit pardon! Lot me invoke you, by the sanctity ef our common humanity, to retrace your steps, to reclaim your former virtuous position. With the tender feelings and sensitive Sympathy of a brother, let me invito you tg -come out from among them and be no longer partaker of their evil deeds." Aye, let me ask, can you, for your life, reooncile your connec tion with that low-lived, debasing-lendeiiey petition, with those virtuous principles so fondly aud early impressed ujwn your mind by a doting, intelligent mother! Man, couldst thou now go to that sacred pot where rest her ashes, without contaminating it with Ibe odor of ichiehy 1 Couldst thou kneel ever her grave to moisten its rose-clad vesture by tears of filial affection, without feeling the bitterest re morse? Canst thou recall to mind ths early efforts to educate thee in virtue's ways, without experien cing a sense of shame? . Let not pecuniary csnsiderations uodermiue thy The Slur of Oct. 3d says: On Saturday night the Assembly discussed the law regulating muuiuipa affairs, aud a cluuse was inserted and passed, grant ing to foreigners resident on the Isthmus tho right of voting for, and being elected to ofiice as mem bers of Cab.ldo, thus granting the power lo regu late their own local affairs. We thsuk tho Assem bly for this concession, which, we must confess, we did not anticipate J aud, wo believe, it i one that will tend much to establish a better understanding between the citizens aud foreigners, than has hith erto existed. The law will, of course, only have effect in places like Asp nwull, where the foreign population are iu a mnjority.and it now reinaius for thein to show, by the way they avail themselves of the privilege conceded, how beneficially il can bo made to work for both parlies. We have not yet sceu a copy of the law, or do we know the "certain conditions" it contains, but in any way it is a great step n advance, and again we thank tho Assembly for it. hclemtlAc Prof. Alexander makes a singular rrirard for virtue, let not professional eain too much ;nfl.,nil,v.lne. Remember, "the wav of the statement iu regard to the ever-inereaeing aster transirre-or is hard - and that "the wicked shall ..ids. Ho says that by the skillful use of delicate not go unpunished!'' TsstraaANca. Captain William Allen, of the British navy, has published a book advocating the conversion, of the Arabian Desert iuto an ocean, lie believes it was once the bed of an ocean, and might be rfladeauch again by canals from the Mediterranean, which u 1,300 feet above the level of the desert, i ne ad vantages of such an ocean would be, making the navigation lo India as short as ibo overland route, spreading fertility over a now and country, aud opening op the fertile regioua of Palestine lo set tlement and cultivation. The conception is a magnificent one, but no suf ficient survey has bees made lo determine lU praC- editor of the Corvallis Statesman mean f-j t.cabil.ty or insert. circumstantial evidence he bos arrived at the abso lute conclusion tlwt Ibe asierods between Mars and Jupiter were once, not a globe, but a disc, sev euly thousand roi.es wide and eiglil miles in thick- new, nvolviug in about llireeuiida half days, lis says it met such a fate as might havo beta antici pated from so thin a Uidy whirling o rapidly, aud hurst, as irrindmoiiea sometimes do. The idea of a celestial grindstone is cert.uly original. A new j theory of meteors is uttiibuledo Prof. P.eree, of ' It usaid lhl be is of the opinion mat VJVRIOVS lTCstSt A gentleman writing from Cuba, on the 8ih inst., says that the sugar crop now grow x" on the island ef Cuba will probably bo the largest ever gathered on the island. Tho cana was already grown, and only wait ing for the concentration of the juico. Nothing but a tornado enn deluat the hopes of tho planter. At the municipal election hah) en the fld lilt at Leavenworth, Kansas, tho freo slat candidates were all ciiosen by largo majori tics. lion. Snm'l Merrill, for many years troas nrnr of the slate of Indiana, and l'resiuen of the State Batik at I ndianupolis died rccnt ly. Fifteen hundred and eiglity -seven persons have been killed or muimed, during tho ycur 1854, by railroad accidents. The Secretary of the Treasury has caus d tha name of 2d Lieut. Henry Wilkinson now attached to the revenue cultor Jefferson Davis, in Puget s Sound, to be dropped from mil nt the officers of tho United Stales Kovenue Marine sorvice. The charge under which he is dropped is unuurstoed to be "intoxication." asli. mar. The sides of the public lands for tho h rul venr endintr June. 1855, havo bocn lur ger than ever before, with tho exception of the year of speculation, l8do, wnn mere were sold an aggregate of over 29,000,0(10 acres. There have beon this year 15,008, 3H0 acres, yielding to the national treasury $10,572,010. A modern philosopher, taking the motion of the earth on its axis at seventeen milts a second, says thnt if you take off your hat in ,Uu .irPPt m how to a friend, you co seven teen miles baru-hcaded, without taking cold! Cist's Advertiser, Cincinnati, estimates the wheat crop of this year in the United Suites, at one hundred and etgniy-nve mil lions of bushels 1 Tho defects of the mind, like those of the face, crow worse as we grow old. Punch thinks that caroafre drivers would make tho best soldiers in ibe world, as no satellites, though too small to be wen, and that we r, ... r.,., ... "1 satellite, furnish lb, meU.r. wuicu fall . Y "PP ej are found ,u tb. Book I of Common Prayer. Ute earth- ' rati ef Hthtopol-mhrmel las ths AaH. , Seftrmber 5. At dawn oh the tnoroiutf of ibe 5lh of S. ptHwys the correspondent of the London Times the French upenud fire. The air was pure and light, aud a gMitU breeze from the southeast, wtiiik continued all day, drifted over the steppe, and blew gently into Scbnstopol. The sua shone serenely through the vapors of eirly , morning and wreaths 01 snowy tiouns usi the lon lines of white house inside those rugaed defences of eertb and gsbioeedaj which have so long kept our armies gaxintf in nii n on this "august city." The ship lay floating on the waters of the roads, lich were smooth ns a mirror, and, like it, rej fleeted them, nnd outaido our own fleet and that of the French, equally inactive, aud not quite so usuful to us, wore repes'intf frem Kazntch to Constantino as idly a. though they were "painted" Ukii " pant, ed ocean." From Calhcart's Hilt the eye embraces a portion of the defences of the Qnarantloe the French approaches lo it and to the Flag staff Batteries uplo their junction with our left attack across the ravine at the end of the Dockyard Creek. One can sweep over the Flugstaff Batteries' works the suburb of ruined houses, or rather the sites of cot tages and residences, which are all that le now left of long streets by the fire ef euf allies.enclosed between the Flagstaffand tht crenellated seawall, and, looking over tha wall, lake it in at a coup Wail the civil town behind it, still presenting I stately hp pearanre as it rises en the hilUide, tier ever tier, full of churches, stately mansions, aud public buildings of fine while or red suud stone, with gardens interspersed and tree growing in the walks. The bombardment is begining to tell otl these buildings. A church, decorated witU many small pinnacles at the angles of tha roof, has been struck by a shell, which has burst in the roof. Some of tho best man sions have been split open, or fcape fiorw their cracked walls on the any j oiuers r perforated ritihi through with shot-holes, through which the light is visible win dows, doors, pillars, and columns aro Wekeo or destroyed. , . From Cathcart's Hill, therefore, oil tn eht front of tho fourth divisiou camp, ona can gain nn admirable view of certain point " of the position, from the sea on the left to our extreme right at Iukermanii. That ad vantage is, however, rarely oaiainaui wua thcro is any heavy tiring, as iuo sinuse u erully hangs in thick clouds butweeu tha earth' works, nor can it be expelled except by a brisk wind. If one of the low perseus ho were in the secret ot tne opeuing oi we rench batteries had been on t'alhcurlV 11 : II ik. n,.n',,,iT nt tlin Mh. hit Would 1AIII Ull lug luvniii.g, w. , have beheld then just ere f'i o'clock, tht whole of this scene mnrked ent in keen 0e tails in the clear morning air. The men til our trenches can bo seen silling down be hind the traverses or trolling about in the rear of the parapets. Small t ruins of ani mals and files ol men are psssing over the) ground between the trenches nnd the camp, aud tho onlv smoke that catches the eye risos from the kettles of the soldiery or from a rill in the advanced works. On thcleft, however, it enn Useen that tho French trenches are crowded with meu, and that their batteries are till roaiuicd. though tho men kec-p well out of view, aud the mantles and screens are yet down be fore the muzzles of somo of their guns. The men beneath the parapets swarm liko bees. Alow graycoateu itusswns are iu view repairing the works of the Mngstult Hattery, or engaged in mrowing up nun 'I-, , 1 . . . t A......I.I..M.I.1. work, wnicu promises 10 uo ui vuiiniuiui strength, in frant of their second line of de fences, BUdUcniy Rlong in enriueu curiam, botwten No. 7 and 8 Basttous, three jet of flame spring up into tho air and hurl up as many pillars of earth and dust, which ara warmed into ruddy huos by the horizontal rays of tho sun. Tho French have axplod fid three fotiL'iisses lo blow ill tho counter scarp and to serve as a signal to their men. Instantly Horn llio sea w urn uoca ii Crouk thoro seems to run a stream of fire-, and floecv, curling, rich white smoke, a though tno earth had suddenly been rent- its the throes of an eiirtiiqtinKe, aim wus vu.im ing forth the niuterial of her volcanoes. The lines of ibo French trenches were at once covered as though the very rlouds of heaven had settled down upon liiein, amu were whirled about iu spiral jets, hi lestoous,, in elutterinir bunches, in columns and in sheets, all commingled nHd involved togeth er bv tho vehement flumes beneath.. Tha- crash ot such a ircmcnumis nro mil" ' been appalling, but tho wind and. the pecu liar stale of tho atmosphere did not permit the sound to produce any great ettet in out camp i in the ciiy, for the same reason, tW noise must have been terrible and horribla. The iron storm tor over the Rumn Hues, tossing, as if in sport, jets of enrth and dust, rending asunder gnbions, and "squelching" the parapets, or bounding over among tha houses and ruins in their rear. The lern i.u liin. r'imn. nhoiitfour mile in front. rushed across the pluin, carrying death and ruin with it, swept with its heavy and irre sistible wings the Russian flanks, and searched their contr to the coro. A volley so startling, so simultaneous and tremen dously powerful, was probably never yr, uttered since the cannon fouud its voice. The P.iissians seemed for a while utterly paralyzed. Their butteries were not mann ed with strength enough to enable them to reply lo such an overlapping and crusoing lire ; but the rrencn, leaping n " with astounding energy, rapidity and strength, kept ou filling tho air with the hurtling storm, and sent it in unbroken fury against their enemies. More than two hundred pieces of art illery iu.,,. (.ulil.m. admirably served and well directed, played kiecssantfy en the hostila lines. In a few moment a great vail of smoke "a war-cloud-rolling duu' spread from the gun overon the lett of Sebaatapol; bat tbe roar of the shot did not cease, and the cannonade now pealed forth in great ir Centinittim Fourth P-ife.) ',