The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

BERLIN, Thursday.
The Emperor of Russia is on his return from Nicholaieff.
He will visit Kieff, where large reserves are forming; but
it is not certain whether he will go to Warsaw.
General Mouravieff's defeat at Kars has put an end to the
idea of his supplanting Prince Gortschakoff.
It is now said that General Perowsky, who commanded the
expedition to Khiva, is to supersede the Prince.
The summons of Generals Benkendorf and Stackelberg to
Prince Gortschakoff's head-quarters is held as a proof of his
very critical position.
THE WAR IN ASIA.

TuEBIzoNDE, October 8.
The Russians are supposed to be preparing to attack Kars
again.

BOOTY FOUND AT SEBASTOPOL—The Moniteur publishes
the inventory of the different articles (the guns not included )
found at Sebastopol by the allies, and forwarded to the Minis-
ter of War by Marshal Pelissier. The principal articles were
round shot, 407,314 ; hollow projectiles, 101,756 ; canister
cases, 24,080; gunpowder, 625,000 lbs; ball cartridges for
muskets and carbines, 470,000 in good condition, and 160,000
damaged; wagons, 80; yawls, 6; logs of lignum vitae, 600;
anchors of port moorings, 400; anchors of different sizes, 90;
grapplings and small anchors, 60; chains for anchors, 200
yards ; old copper for sheathing, 104,000 lbs ; old ropes,
100,000 lbs ; water casks, 300; new ropes of different sizes,
50,000 lbs ; pulleys, 400; spars, 40; tools, 300; bar iron and
steel, 1,460,000 lbs ; iron wire, 400 lbs ; iron checks, 320 lbs ;
sheet iron, 16,000 lbs • tin plate, 14,000 lbs; red copper,
120,000 lbs ; nails, 6,000 lbs ; firwood, a large quantity ; pitch
and tar, 200 barrels; barrels of paint, 150; small boilers,
6,000 lbs ' • the remains of a steam-engine of 220-horse power,
taken out of a steamer burnt by the Russians ; large copper
boilers, weighing 100,000 lbs, S ; old copper, 100,000 lbs ;
copper screws, 10,000 lbs ; old iron, 160,0001bs ; large bells, 6 ;
small bells, 10; hospital beds, 360; iron forges, in great num-
bers ; main tackles, 12 ; coal, 2,000 tons ; steam-engines, of 30-
horse power, for the basins, 2; large pumps, for the basins, 3;
iron boilers, 3 ; 1 high-pressure engine of 16-horse power, for
the basins; iron cranes, 17; an engine of 12-horse power in
the military bakery; 2 dredging machines of 30-horse power,
unserviceable; a still, a clock, six marble statues, two sphinxes,
a large basso-relievo ; biscuit, 500 tons ; flour, 150 ; barley, 9 ,
buckwheat, 117; oats, 18; millet, 54; wheat, 20; peas, 12;
salt meat, 60 ; wheat in the granaries, 600 quarters, &c.

,
THE COMMAND IN THE CRIMEA.—The Times announces
that General Simpson has either resigned or been dismissed
from the command of the army in the Crimea. The Globe
contains the following observations on this subject:—" We
have not the advantage of knowing the ' little bird' to whom
the Times professes itself indebted for all its information, but
we are strongly inclined to think it a pretender. In inform-
ing our contemporary that General Simpson has been recalled,
or has resigned the command in the Crimea, the bird has, we
take it, simply availed itself of its knowledge that General
Simpson's state of health is such as to render his resignation
a matter of probability, in order to pass itself off as a very
well-informed bird indeed, by making the announcement be-
forehand. General Simpson is not recalled, nor is there any
intention of recalling him ; but he labours under physical dis-
ability, which unfits him for active service, and we should not
be surprised to hear that he had made such an intimation up-
on the subject as to induce the Government to make arrange-
ments for providing a successor to him in the command-in-
chief in the Crimea. These arrangements are not at present
matured, and though the name of nearly every officer com-
manding a division has been mentioned, we do not believe
that any decision has been come to regarding the next com-
mander-in-chief. Whether it be, as is rumonredi General
Codrington or not, the country may rest satisfied that the
successor of General Simpson will be the man considered
fittest to direct the operations of our troops with honour and
efficiency, and that no consideration of seniority or routine
will be suffered to influence the selection." The Morning
Post announces that a new commander-in-chief has been ap-
pointed in the Crimea, but does not give his name.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC.

By the United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Capt. Nye,
which arrived on Sunday morning, we have intelligence from
New York to the 17th instant. She brought 148 passengers,
and £4OO in specie.
On the 10th instant the Pacific saw the Jeremiah Thompson,
in lat. 41.13, lon. 66.52, bound west ; on the 21st, at two, p.m.,
passed steamer Hermann, from Southampton to New York, in
lat. 47.45, lon. 49 ; and at midnight, on the 25th, passed U.S.
mail steam-ship Baltic, hence to New York, in lat. 51.50, lon.
24.49.
The Herald states that there is no truth in the report that
the government had demanded the recall of Mr. Crampton ;
but the New York Daily Times asserts that it is perfectly
true.
Since the Pennsylvania election an opinion has gained
.
A steam tug-boat, called the Senecia, exploded her boilers,
presidency, Washington gthnnthtahtaht eMcarnnoßtubeelladneannied's turn has come
and was torn to pieces, at Chicago, on the 16th instant. The
captain (Donaldson) was killed, and the owner of the boat and
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the engineer were both severely injured.
A° order mill at Gorham, Maine, owned by Newhall and
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seven men and wounding several others.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that out of the 265 United
States soldiers in the barracks at Newport, 20 deserted during
the past two weeks. It was rumoured that agents of the
British government had been instrumental in inducing these
desertions, by offering large premiums to the soldiers if they
would enlist for the Crimea.
Dr. Hadel, of Cumberland, Md., and his clerk, named Graff,
were both murdered on Sunday, the 14th instant, near that
place, by a German. They were enticed out to attend a sick
woman, and their bodies were found on the 16th, horribly
mutilated. The murderer has been arrested, and the clothing,
watch, and pocket-books of the victims were found in his pos-
session. The doctor was formerly commissioner of health in
Baltimore. The head of Dr. Hadel was found buried at some
distance from his body. It seems that after the murder of
the doctor, the murderer enticed his student, Graff, away, and
then murdered him, so as to be able to rob the office, which
he did on the same night. The murderer is a German pedlar,
who broke out of gaol recently at West Alexander. Graff has a
mother in New York. Hadel leaves a wife and two children,
who were on a visit to Baltimore.
The trial of Wagner, charged with violating the neutrality
laws by enlisting a man named Cook for service in the Crimea,
was commenced on the 12th instant, in the United States
District Court, before Judge Ingersoll. This was the first
case tried for this offence in New York, and was looked to
with great interest. There was a great array of counsel
engaged for the defence. The jury, on the 13th, found the
prisoner guilty. The penalty is not more than $l,OOO fine
and three years' imprisonment. The case will be argued on
points of law.
Accounts from towns along the Mississippi River, in
Louisiana and Mississippi, are still discouraging. The yellow
fever rages with great fatality in Jackson, Miss., Vicksburg,
Miss., and Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
The latest accounts from Norfolk and Portsmouth state
that the fever had almost entirely disappeared ; the weather
was of a fine, bracing character, and business men were once
more rousing themselves to activity. On the 13th instant
there were seven new cases of fever at Norfolk amongst re-
turned refugees. On the following day there were three
deaths, including two of the new cases.
Some unknown miscreant fixed a rail across the Harlem
railroad track, about a quarter of a mile above Williamsbridge,
14th instant,
on Sunday night, the • and next morning, as the
milk train, due at New York at half-past one o'clock, was
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CALIFORNIA.—The steam-ships Northern Light and Em-
pire City had arrived at New York, with advises from San
Francisco to the 20th September, and later accounts from Cen-
tral America. They had on freight $1,856,460. Mr. J.Neely John-
son, the Know-Nothing candidate for Governor, had defeated
Governor Bigler by about five thousand majority. The Know-
Nothings had also secured a majority in the State Legislature.
The cholera broke out among the passengers on board the
Nicaragua steamer Uncle Sam, on her passage up to San Fran-
cisco, and, before she arrived in port, one hundred and six fell
victims to the fearful disease. A number of the sick had also
died in the hospital at San Francisco. The reports published
in some of the San Francisco papers respecting the mortality
on board the Uncle Sam are undoubtedly exaggerated, and are
calculated to produce unnecessary alarm. There was not a
single case of cholera on board the Northern Light on her
voyage to this port, nor were there any cases on board the
steamer which left San Francisco on the 20th. Two flourishing
towns had been reduced to ashes, embracing a loss of six hun-
dred thousand dollars. The village of Grass Valley was almost
entirely destroyed on the 14th of September, burning over an
area of nearly thirty acres, and the town of Weaverville
suffered a like calamity on the 7th. Seventeen miners had
been killed on Rogue River by the Indians. Two men had
been lynched at Rancheria, for murder.
From San Juan, we learn that Col. Kinney had resigned
the Governorship, and that a meeting had been called to make
a new selection. The English consul had notified the colonel
that, in the event of his re-election, his authority would be
recognized by him, as the British representative.
At the Sandwich Islands a Sailors' Home had been
established.

The United States consul at Panama had struck his flag.
The consul claimed a prisoner as a United States citizen, but
his application not being attended to, the Governor took
offence.

The steamship Senora had arrived at Panama, from San
Francisco, with $221,082,07, on English account.
JAPAL—Advices from Japan state that the Government
had repudiated the treaty said to have been concluded some
time since with the United States ; and the Imperial Governor
of Simoda had issued a proclamation denying the right of
Americans to stay in Japan, except in cases of shipwreck or
distress. None of the passengers of a United States vessel
were permitted to land at Hakodadi. The commander of the
United States surveying ship Vincennes had addressed a
letter to the Governor of Simoda, protesting against the
measure, and mentioning the war with Mexico as an example
of how his Government retaliated on hostile countries. The
French were negotiating a treaty with the Japanese, at Nan-
gasaki. The English treaty had not been ratified, though it
was in possession of Admiral Stirling. Admiral Pontiatine,
Minister Plenipotentiary on the part of Russia, had just con-
cluded a treaty with Japan. Some Americans who had arrived
at San Francisco from Japan give some information respecting
the Russians. "On the day of our arrival, we were visitedby Capt.
Poissett and two other officers of the imperial navy, from whom
we learned that the Russian frigate Diana had been lost near
Simoda, and that all her officers and crew were saved and on

shore, together with Admiral Pontiatine, who had just com-
pleted a treaty for the Russian Government on the same basis
and with the same grants and privileges as our own. The
Russians were destitute of many of the comforts of life, and
were anxious to be taken to some port in their own country.
After a few days' consultation, we, more from sympathy than
motives of gain, arranged to take them to Petropanlowski for
a trilling compensation above the actual cost of our charter to