The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

FO-REIGN MiriSC_ELL42(I.

"SI/IBIT RAPPINGS."—The.Paris correspondent of the
Literary Gazette writes, "And such is. the terrible effect
has created, that it has. altogether weaned some
from their ordinary avocations, has bewildered
Ptfool:Lot its women, and has, actually sent an eminent Paris-
banker, a departmental prefect, and, two or three high.
functionaries, stark staring. mad."
THE GERMAN GOV4R,NMENT.S A THE PAPAL HlLar-
ARCHY.—The conflict hetw.eenithe Archbishop of Friebnm
and the government of Baden is assuming an aggravated.
character. Riots have. taken place, bi Baden for the rescue
of the priests arrested by the order of the governmenkund
a number of ecclesiasties have been placed under arrest.
The Romish Bishopsin other parts of Germany are canning
pastorals in suppc'rkof the efaDsns of the papacy, and in
opposition to the civil, power to be read from the pulpits..
The Archbishop of Posen, the Bishops of Mayenve, Lim-
burg, and Rothenburg, and all the Austrian Bishops have
declared themselves. The government of Baden has issued
a decree for the expulsion of the Jesuits within ten days.
AN AMERICAN. LOVE TRAGEDY.—A melancholy affair
occurred in this county about eight miles from the city,on
the Bardstown: turnpike, on Saturday morning. A man
named Christian G. Martin had been teaching school there,
and engaged. himself to Miss Emily Shaw, also a teacher,
whose parents resided. there. Martin had, in, fact, obtained
the marriage license. Afterwards he concluded not to
marry her, and to screen himself from the consequences
presented a paper to her for signature, in which she was
charged with having exercised the grossest improprieties.
She, of course, refused to sign it. Martin and a brother
of Miss Shaw then got into a fight on the road. Shaw
drew a pistol, which Martin attempted to wrench from
him, and it went off, accidentall,y,the ball entering in front
near the shoulder, and lodging in the back. Miss Shaw,
unconscious that Martin was wounded, then jumped the
fence, walked up to Martin, and shot him in the side.
He died in about fifteen minutes, though it was thought
that the first wound would have caused his death.—Louis-
ville Journal.

STRANGE SIIPERSTITIoN.—The following incident is
reported from Lower Bavaria :—A peasant died, and was
laid out for burial. His niece, who lived in the house,
watched an omrtupity when she believed no one saw her,
and then stealthily pinned a letter to the graveclothes. That
letter was addressed to her mother, who died 14 years ago,
and it was the poor woman's belief that her uncle would
find means to deliver it in the land of the dead. It is to
the following purpose Dear Mother,—As there is now
such a good opportunity, I send you this little letter, with
the request that you will cause me to dream three numbers
in the lottery, for I suppose you are aware that I am very
badly off. Mayl?e that this paper gets rotten, but, as
is impossible with God, please to entreat our Lord
(Hergott), and give me news of the three numbers
nwdGoahioduthigehhntger._mAßlA.
are sure to and so, I remain, your faithful
The direction was, " To my dead
Mother in Eternity.' —Kolner Zeitung.
TILE BOYS DUEL.--Two boys, named Dubignon and
Males, one of them 14 years of age, and the other only 11,
were tried by
.the tribunal of correctional police, on a
charge of stealing a brace of pistols from a stall on the
quay. It was shown by the evidence and the confession of
the prisoners
that they had quarrelled at marbles, and
had resolved, in. imitation of older but not wiser persons,
to Oglit bd. Being witholit arms, hQwcycr, they could

only obtain them by theft. Provided with pistols, they
obtained by similar means a small quantity of powder and
a little lead, which they cast into balls, but they were
arrested at the moment when they were about to resort
to the ordeal of honour. Males, when asked by the presi-
dent why he stole the pistols, replied, " Because I have a
big brother, who is a corporal in the line, and who has
always said to me, Moutard, you must never allow your-
self to be insulted, but fight like a trooper; when you are
insulted, fight like a man, and do not be afraid."' The
mother of the younger boy, Dubignon, having promised
that if he was discharged she would take greater care of
him, the court complied with her wish; but Males was
sentenced to be sent for three years to a house of correc-
tion.—Galignani.
ROMANTIC WEDDING.—A marriage took place in Bos-
ton, last week, under the following romantic circum-
stances :—A young clergyman, resident in Canada, was
engaged to a lady in England. Circumstances not favour-
ing his undertaking the voyage to his native: country, in
order to meet his lady-love, she took passage on board the
Canada, to come to her future home, alone and unattended.
Arrangements had been made to have the marriage cere-
mony performed in a church in this city upon the arrival
of the bride, and the rector was ready to have the church
opened at an hour's notice. The steamer reached East
Boston about eleven o'clock on Friday night. The bride-
groom was upon the wharf, anxiously awaiting the ap-
pearance of his betrothed, whom he had not seen for three
years. The parties soon met, and a friend was despatched
to have the church opened and the clergyman in attend-
ance. The arrangements were made after a short delay,
as the bishop and the priest who were to officiate had
retired for the night. The bridal party drove from the
steamer to the church. The candles gave but a dim light,
and the scene was quite peculiar. During the marriage
ceremony the clock in the church struck the midnight
hazer, so that some confusion arose respecting the proper
date to give the marriage certificate. The party in the
church consisted of but five persons—the bride and bride-
groom, the two clergymen, and one witness. The married
clergyman took part in the. religious services of two
churches in this vicinity on Sunday, and left for his place of
residence in the early train yesterday.—Boston Traveller.
A LONE WOMAN.—The Placer Times, a Californian
newspaper, contains an extraordinary story of an Indian
woman who has lived alone for eighteen years on the
island of San Nicholas, one of a cluster in the Pacific,
some leagues off Santa Barbara :—"About the year 1824
or 1825, nearly all the men of this island were murdered
by a Russian ship's crew. Ten years afterwards the
remainder of the inhabitants, being desirous of deserting
the island, were taken on board a small schooner for
that purpose. After they had all got on board, one of the
Indian women discovered that her child was missing, and
asked permission to go on shore and look for it. A gale
sprung up and the schooner was driven away. Abort
three months afterwards, it is said, the schooner agaiiv
touched at the island to bring her away ; but she could
not be found. Since that time, her foot-prints have been
occasionally seen on the shore, and other indications met
with showing, that she still existed: Recently, an Ameri-
can resident of Santa Barbara, engaged in Otter-hunting
off the coast, touched at San Nicholas. While travelling
along the beach, to his great astonishment, he suddenly
came upon this woman. She was engaged in cleaning or
curing birds' siting, which she sewed tether to serve as
a covering, and in a garment of wilach she was then
dressed, She did not manifest much surprise at seeing
him, and readily assented to his proposition to leave the
isiank of. which she had been the sole inhabitant since
1834. Among the articles she brought along with her
from, the island were several needles, with which she
sewed the birds' skins together. These needles are beau-
tifully made of fifth-bones, and shew a surior degree of
ingenuity. Thelhreadi which she used vas, as thin fibre
of the sinews- of a whalk She had also several fishing-
hooks, made of oldnaile, that she probably found in some
boards piekedup on the. shore. These nails, were well
bent and sharpened, and attached to a line =db• of fibres
of whale sinews - beautifully twisted together. She had a
knife also, about an inch /Ong, which seems to have been
a piece of iron hoop, set in. aiwooden handle. Shehrought
with her soute•seal-meat, and a quantity of roots-;"

THE STIeUGGLE. BETWEEN 2KE
CHURCH AND ST. iTE IN 8ADE21,5.-

THE2E has barn some talk of the archbishop's flying:for
refuge from the perseention into the Principality of Holien-
villern, which no belongs to the'liing of Prussia, whose
"'elevated wisdonu'l in his treatm eut. of the Roman Catholic
Crierch in his don ions, the archilshop holds out to the
Grand Duke of Baden as an example-to be followed by him
It re, believed, however, that his gram will not meet with
any encouragement- in 'his refractory proceedings at tie-
hant's of Friedrich.: Wilhelm IV. On the other handlu
Austria has offered her mediation bettveen the conflicting.-
partiis, and it appears- to have been accepted. To which'
side weeh an imparter }umpire, or daysman, is likely to,
lead,• may be inferred from the circumstances that the-
official Wiener Zeitzeng 'has already repressed itself in:
favour of the episcopal party while Vie conflict was only
the preliminary stages, and that Austria cultivates an
influence in the Protestant States of thesouth of Germany,,
and even in Prussia, by putting herself forward as the
tector and champion of the Romish Church. At the lire
Vienna Ctonference of thevarious Roman Catholic Societies
in Austria, it was a stifle& of the GranckDuke of Baden,
•Professor:Zell of Heidelberg, the president of the confer-
ence, who closed his address-with the words—" Salvum
fac imperatorein nos-train Franciscgen Josephuna,"
alluding-ttothe Emperors of Austria as thirreal defenders
of the faith.

The lasicstep taken in,this struggle, which reminds
one of the times of Illblebrand, is the or
' a pastoral' letter from tie archbishop, which contains,
in addition, to a somewhat- one-sided historical state-
ment of the, subject matter ef the conflict, a few axioms
which may be interesting-to the governmcnt of any land
in which the'Romish Church has any fixed hierarchy—for
instance, that Christianity teaches us to render obedience
to the autLeritiew only in things permitted ;:brit that it is
not permitted to infringer the rights oP. the Roman
Catholic Church—that it is a sin not to cloy the arch-
bishop in thiii matter. Oratlao part of the government an
edict has been published for the expulsion of-ithe Jesuits
from the country, giving them only ten days' notice to quit.
As may he- 'expected, the .feeling among the people, and
even among,thC clergy, iii ;divided. Among:the latter,
the elder priests are, for the most part, averse to the agi-
tation, but the younger are impelled by zeal :for their
church and a- desire of prefekment for themselves : it is
they, at the-instigation' oftlae Vatican, who' are making
use of the Atchbishop of Freiburg, an aged, feeble man
of eighty add, as their too/. One ordinance recently
enacted by this aged pectoris, however, calculated to do
the church some service.._ With reference •to the house-
keepers of Roman Catholic: priests in his.diocese, it is
enacted thatixt fttture no.priest shall have tore than one
woman servant, and she le required to have attained the
shady side, of 'thinty-five,,,looked on as a canonical age..
There are to lie no more ma'amselles---a species of young:
lady corresponding to thapriest's " niece"' in Ireland..

SCHAMTSL;,THE:CIBCASSIAX- CHIEFe.

TILE French .Constilaaionnel gives thfiefollowing inter
esting account of Schamyl, the celebrated:Circassian chief,
whose recent appearance in the plains, of Georgia, and.
victory over the Russians, we mentionedlast week :--
" Schamyl has. been, often compared to Abd-el-Kader,
and there- is, in. fact, some analogy between. the two
leaders. Both arrived at the chief command by the
prestige of their religious inspiration, more even thai-aby
their courage and, personal ability. Both have had; for
object the enfranchisament of their intee,..and the fasion
of the, tribes which, compose it, under the authority of
their sole chief. But Abd-el-Kader was only a hacla4 and
he waa,obliged: to, borrow from civiiisatien, a part of his
rosoimees to maintain himself so long.. Schamyl., aimed
higher; he set himself up as a second:prophet of.lslamism ;
he (telexed himself sent by God to. complete the work of
Mehemet, aud•praticularly to fuse into one the two great
divisions., of. Omar aud Ali : he persuaded his flallowers
that Allah ,dictated to him his wilLib periodiealviaions, and
in, that way he succeeded in creating, round him an indo-
mitable,and. deeoted body of troops, whose blind, obedience
does not give, way before any danger, and, whose, religious
enthusiasm is, capable of the greatest efforts. Schamyl
present fifty-six years of age. He is a man of middle
size, but of a determined appearance. His private life
resembles that of Abd-el-Kader.; being, sober- and austere,
and. divided between prayer and. action. His career as a
warrior began in 1834. His predecessors in the war
were, first, Scheick-Mausour, then Khaei Mollah, and
then Ilameal Bey. The death, of this last gave him, at
the age of thirty-seven, the supreme authority over the
Mussulrean tribes of the Caucasus ; and then began that
struggle of twenty years, which has already cost Russia
more than the subjugation of Poland,. It would be wrong,
however, to look on Schamyl, as. the uneontested leader of
all the tribes of the Cauaasne. That chain of mountains.
separating Europe from Asia, between the Black Sea and,
the Caspian Sea, is itself out into two parts by the narrow
pass of Darien, through. Which winds the military road
ftom Musdok to Tiflis. To the right of that pass, coming
from Russia to the Caspian Sea, extends the real empire
of Schamyl, inhabited by Tehetchens. On the left, to
the Black Sea, the, tribes known by the generic name of
Tcherkesses (Circessians) do not recognise his antiority„
and are not even at' open war with Russia. Only,, as the
national hatred and the religions creeds of these, two fac-
tions of the Caucasus are nearly the same, it is easy to
comprehend that, if circumstances favoured a general
rising, the Sultan and the Prophet of the Daghestan would
soon become the Sultan and Prophet of all the Circassian
districts, and in that case the fine provinces of Georgia
and of Inertia, left without communication. with Europe,
might very easily pay Turkey the cost of the impious war
now stirred up against her. As to the incidents of the
war between Schamyl and the Russians,, they are but little
known.. The Muscovite policy is to conceal its internal
wounds, and to allow Europe to hear only the bulletins of
victory, often without foundation. But there are certain
details and. certain results which always in the end come
to light. The war of the Caucasus has lasted for fifty-
three years, and has worn out the ablest generals of Rus-
sia—Zizianod, Yermoloff, Grablee, Sass, Neidharf, Rosen,
and Paskiewich ; it has destroyed her best troops, and
has become a complete object of dread for the regiments
sent in that direction.- It has cost immense sums to the
Russian empire ; and notwithstanding all the efforts made,
it is at present so little advanced that the General-in-Chief,
PrincelVoronzoff does not consider himself safe in hispalace
at Tiflis, and asks for 120,000 men from his Government to
maintain himself in Georgia.. The Prince, still Gover-
nor-General of the Caucasus, if caught between the horse-
men of Schamyl and the regular troops of Turkey,
would find himself in a very critical position. The Otto-
man Empire has three fleets on the Black Sea, to keep in
check the two squadrons of Russia. It is known
already that amunition and officers have been sent by the
Porte to Schamyl. Should hostilities commence, the
Tcherkesses could not resist following in the wakp of
their co-religionists, and yielding to the prestige of their
leader, and in that case there would, perhaps, commence
for the Government of St. Petersburgh, one of those
expiationof Providence which avenge the public feeling.
The Caucasus, besides, has nothing to gain in civilization
by its connexion with Russia. There will always be more
true liberty, more justice, and more enlightened reforms
on the side of the young sovereign who protects equally
all religious, and who carries out the promises of Gulhand,
than on the side of the autocrat, who has never respected
the independence and nationality of the nations in the
vicinity of his vast empires"