Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-10-26

ecutive government is to remain as at pre-
sent.
Paris papers of Thursday, 9Th October,
state that, after much hesitation, as it ap-
pears, the Government, at Cabinet Coun-
Gil, has resolved to support, by all its avail
able means, an amendment of the article of
the Constitution, respecting the election of
President. The amendment is to be pro-
posed by M. FIacon, and is to the following
effect:
1.-THE National Assembly shall delegate
the Executive power to a citizen, who shall
receive the title Of president of the Re-
public.'"
The Government has, therefore, taken up
definitely position in direct hostility to
the moderate party in the Chamber, and
to the believed known majority Of the ma
ton.
GERMANY.
Germany is still in an unsettled state
The standard of revolt has been again raised
in the Southern provinces, and again the re-
bells have been signally discounted.
Prussia has escaped the danger of another
revolution by the submission of the King,
at the eleventh hour, to the wishes of the
National Assembly.
Anarchy in the Austrian Empire appears
to be nearly complete. In Vienna we have
a spectacle of reactionary court, waiting
for the concentration of large military
force around the capital, to carry on its re-
trograde policy and of a triumphant Nation
al Assembly in Hungary. One distant de-
tendency is almost overrun with the troops
Of another Austrian province. The Ban of
Croatia, elated by his success, is no longer
willing to act as tool to the Central Co
vernment, but threatens to set up on his
own account.
The Vienna Cabinet alarmed At the new
turn Of affairs, has sent, perhaps "too late,"
commissioner TO stop the further progress
of the victorious barbarians."
The Regent of Germany has issued to
the Government of all the German States a
circular or manifesto, officially recounling
the facts of the rising in Frankfort on the
18th of September, and lis promps suppress
sion BY his Government.
The attempt of Strive to proclaim re-
public at Baden has utterly failed. General
Hoffman came up with the insurgents near
Staufen and completely routed them. On
their passing Crotzingen, he advanced lhro'
the Hexen.hel, or "VaIley of the Witches,"
in the division Of Ssaufen, which he COM
pletely surrounded, and after a somewhat
obstinate resistance, the town was taken by
storm. Some houses were burned down, a
great number Of insurgents slain, and some
hundreds of prisoners taken among the
latter was Slruve himself. He and eight of
his immediate followers were Immediately
tried by a Court Martial, condemned and
shot.
A corps of about one thousand escaped
into the Munzer Thale, but they are said to
be surrounded by large body of Wir!em-
berg troops.
10 the sitting of the Constituent Assembly
of Russia, on the Cd, the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs declared, that he fully expected
tina. the negotiation with Denmark would
lead to a peaceful arrangement.
The Frankfort Journal, Of the Sd inst,
says that the diplomatic relations between
the Central Power and the French Repub-
lie, are now completely regulated, and that
in Frankfort, as in Paris, permanent Minis
tiers vail represent both countries.
ITALY.
Nothing yet is definitely known Of the
state Of the negotiations, relative to the af
fairs of N orthern Italy but from the remarks
of Gen. Cavaignac in the French National
Assembly, on Monday, End of October. as
we'll as from the rumors that are afoat, there
is good grounds for hoping the pacific solu-
ton of the question is near at hand.
In Southern Italy matters do not look so
promising. The King Of Naples refuses the
meditation of France and England, between
himself and his former subjects in Sicily, and
threatens an immediate resumption of hos
tilities.
LArER.-It was reported at Paris that
Austria had rejected the meditation of France
and England, and proposed Congress of Eu-
ropean nations, to meet at lnnspruck, to
settle the question.
The Ban of Cro,ia had been defeated by
Hungarians.
Switzerland is virtually at war with Aus
tria, for Radenskys continues the blockade
of Tecino, which infringes the treaty of 1915,
by cutting off all postal communication
Hostillies will probably follow.
The U. S. frigate St. Lawrence has arriv-
ed at Cowes from Norfolk.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.-We regret to
state, says the St. Mary's Beacon, that dur
ing the gust on Tuesday evening last, Mr..
PETER L. THOMPSON, barkeeper at the u
Mon Hotel in this place, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed. He was standing
in the door of the stable at the time, holding
a lantern SO as to enable negro boy to put
away the carriage which his master had been