Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-07-16
HUNGARY APPEALS TO FRANCE.

The minister Of the Hungarian Government al
Paris has addressed the French Minister of For
sign Affairs, M de Tocqueville, asking for aid
from France in favor of his country. We make
The following extract:
Our army amounts to very nearly 100000
men perfectly drilled and disciplined, together
with an imposing force of artillery. The force
of Turkey is hardly inferior and she has, be-
sides her fleet and the Egyptian contingent
This strength is more than is required to resist
the Russians. The intervention Of Russia could
not take place at all events, could not succeed,
IF advantage were taken of these forces, if pains
were taken to invite them. France has only to
will it. Let me hope that she will not look on
with an Indifferent eye upon this intervention
that she will have the will TO prevent it,
For the policy of Russia, at last unmasked BY
fha manifesto of the Gar Nicholas, proves sui
ficiently that he looks upon himself as the natur
al enemy of all civilized people, and, as final
consequence. OF France. Improves that in her
present attack upon us, Russia is only taking up
d strong position, by rendering Austria suject to
herself.
Let me entreat you TO take into consideration
the respect for existing rights, which the nation
al government OF Hungary maintains, even a.
gainst its own interest. While the Austro-Rus-
sian troops were violating the neutrality of the
Turkish territory inWallachia, the General ofthe
Hungarian forces made it his duty to respect it
h. halted his men upon the frontiers OF Tran
sylvania, 81 moment when by initiating the
enernv's example, and pursuing him into the
Turkish territory, he could have put the Austro-
Russians i'll a condition to do him no further mis-
chief.
. Pardon me, M lie Miaistre, fos having troubled
> ven with so many details but this was for me a
sacred duty which | could not avoid fulfilling.
am Hungarian--1 owe myslf to the cause
Of my country. lam the representative Of her
interests-it is my duty to defend them--and
do SO, in the intimate conviction that the inter
sets OF all humanity are silarers in our own.
Your own feelings toward he cause represent,
are pledge that you will give favorable recep-
ton to these lines.
DESTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN WHEAT CaoP,
The Columbus (Ohio) Journal, Of the 18th inst,
says:
'PThe news pours in upon US from almost every
quarter of the State OF the terrible destruction of
the wheat crop, by rust and fly, (Red weaYiL)
Thousands upon thousands of acres are not worth
cutting-whole fields remain untouched by scythe
or sickle. Our own wheat is pretty fair crop,
and about the only one we know of in this re-
glon.
The pittsburg Gazette of Saturday says:
"The wheat crop, ID many parts of our county,
has been very much injured by the hy. In some
sections, the farmers have abandoned all hopes
OF harvesting ii, and haze turned cattle into the
fields
ON the Western Reserve Of Ohio, however the
crops are said never to have looked bettern
MoRTALixy At SIS. LOUIS AID CINcINNATI.--
During the nine weeks ending July LIST, the num-
Der OF nterments reported III the city OF st. Louis
was :, 435 or rather more than one-twenteth
of the whole population In Cincinnati during