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Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
Arrival of tlse Arctic.
WAR DEEMED INEVITABLE
COTTON UNCHANGED.

New YoRK. Oct. 31.-The Arctic arrlv-
cd yesterday, with Liverpool dates Of the
18th. Sales of cotton for three days, 20
600 bales, Of which exporters and specula-
tors took FIVE thousand Prices remain un-
altered.
Intelligence from Paris,
BY telegraph. says the Bourse was dull at
opening on the 18th, but became gradually
steadNand closer, with an advance.
CoNsTANTINorLE.-The city i tranquil
a part of the Russian army will 60 into
winter quarters at Bucharest and Odessa on
tie 9th. The Turkish declaration Of war
has been received. The corps Of General
Linders is still in this vicinity, expecting
marching orders The greatest confidence
prevailed in commercial cities. The Lon
don Times says the Turkish manifesto is
one Of the strongest and most unanswcrable
State papers issued during the present cen
tury, in point of logic that morally, Russia
is already defeated, and that she will be SO
materially Hostilities on the Danube and
the shores Of the Caspian Sea are ineyita-
BILE. a dispatch from Vienna, dated the
11th. says Gortschakof had replied to the
Turkish summons that he has DO authority
to commence hostilities, make peace or evac-
uate the principalities. Therefore, he refu-
ses to do either.
The cholera has subsidcd. The demand
for shipping at st. Petersburg continues un-
| abatcd
Russian subjects in Turkey have been
placed under Austrian protection. Turkey
allows neutral flags Oh the Danube until the
25th Nov.
Some agitation has been manifested in It.
ally.
Two hundred political arrests were made
in Paris, on the night Of the 10th itstant
Among them Mons. Goudchoze, Minister
Of Finance, under the Provincial Govern.
ment.
! When the Gar heard that Turkey had
declared war, he fell into violent rage, and
! swore he would wage war Of determination
against Turkey
Omar Pacha notified the Russian comman.
der to clear out Of the Principalities before
the 18th, or he would commence hositilites
1t is not supposed that the fighting will com
mcnce on the Danube, but in Georgia or OIL
the Black Sea
A battle was fought on the 9th, between
the Circassians and Russians. The Circas
slams retired into the mountains. There
was heavy loss on both sides
All quiet in France.
Prussia and Austria give indications Of an
intention to remain neutral The French
and English diplomatists, therefore, consid
er that the war will be confined to Russian
frontiers, and not spread over Europe.
Commercial adyices from China and In.
dia arc comparatively favorable.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
The Northwestern Passage.

The solution of the great geographical
problem of northwestern passage from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean has occupied
the civilized world for more than three hun
dred years. During that long period, al
most numberless efforts have been made, at
an immense cost of money and comfort and
life, to fad point at the north, correspond
ing to Cape Horn in the South so that the
navigator, on turning it, might enter the
broad Pacific, whence he could easily bear
down upon japan, China and the East In
dies. 1t was in the prosecution Of this en-
terprise that Sir John Franklin went upon
the expedition, in which, in all probability,
his life was lost.
The last arrival from Europe brings in
teiligence that this northwest passage, so Of
ten attempted, has at last been made The
New York Journal of Commerce saws that
the Investigator, Commander Mcclure, dis
patched with the Enterprise, Capt. Collin
son, to Behring's Strait, in December, lS49,
was the only vessel Of a squadron consisting.
besides the above named. of the Herald and
Plover. that succe dod in the summer If tie
succeeding year in penetrating through the
ice which blocked up the entrance of the
strait. She had not been heard of from the
4th of August, 1850, when she was seen
by the Plover to the north OF Point Barrow,
under full sail, standing eastward. till the
return to England of his second in COM
mand, Lieut.. Creswell. on the 7th instant
a period of more than three years Lieut..
Creswell, as we are informed by the last in
telligence from Europe, came home with
Commander Inglefeld, of the steamship
Phenix. which they left at Thurso, n b.,
bringing dispatches from Commander Me-
Clure, and reports the passage through the
Arctic ocean, from Behring's 70 Davis
straits, to have been completed by the In
vestigator. The details of her voyage will
be looked forward to with much interest.
Lou. JonrnaL.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

the Collector at New York, and prescr;b.,
a new rule for him alone. These f".. Ysl
need 10 comment,-they speak for tLora
selves
AS to the motive of this movement /.
others jndge- n
This is, | believe. the first instance :;
which a member Of the cabinet has in..
fcred with the discretion Of Collca..-
Marshal, Postmaster. or any other ooro,.
ment officer having patronage to bestGvr .nI
laid down rule for his government N II. ,ba
selection of his deputies, clerks ~ AIM
agents; and it certainly is the first ins.sns. 80
in which public officer has been instrnrteS
to 60 into ar inquiry about sections. and -. y.
that just distribution Of Offices WA ,,.s.
between them. You have right. bv-ls,r
to give instructions on many subjects con
nected with the collection of the rpro,.'-
and such instructions it will be nv dnty ].
follow. But when you go beyond that al
undertake to direct in matters which tba I'll
has con6ded to my direction, no such obr
cation exists.
As to the officers of the customs n,
Collector has the right Of nomination apJ
the Secretary the right Of approval or u.
lection; and, as to other officers, the powers
of appointment is vested in the Collect
alone 1 shall not interfere with the erer.
else Of your powers, and / trust YOU Win
render the ike justice to me. Ii Won o.
any other high officer Of the Government
desired the appointment of a particular IN,
dividual, need not say that it would cira
me great pleasure to comply with his wish.
e. But / respectfully deny that yoa bave
any right to issue instructions for the GOV.
ernment Of my conduct in making selection,
| for office.
So far as 1t relates to the mere dispens,-
ton Of patronage, without regard to my re-
sponsibility for the acts Of the persons AZ
pointed, would gladly transfer the trust to
another. have no taste for such matters.
and my comfort-aspirations have none
would be greatly promoted if some one else
would perform the service for me But the
law and my commission has cast the burden
| upon me. ana / cannot surrender it to an
other without a derelection of duty.
AS you have given your letter to the press
saying "the subject Is public one, shall
/ give the same direction to The answer
| am, very respectfully, your cbt servant
GREEN u BRONSON.
Hon. JAS. GUTHEIE. Sec'y Of the Treasury
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

Carpet for tie Presideat's House
The Edt',burg Ne,cs describes magnii-
cent carpet just completed by TEMrLEToN
4 Co, INLAND, Glasgow, to order for the
White House. This carpet is Of the pat
ented Administer fabric, and is the largest
ever made by Messrs. TEMPLEroN, being
eighty feet in length and forty wide The
portion woven in the loom without seam is
seventy-two feet by thirty-one. and the re-
mainder consists of a handsome border,
scwed on. The ''filling-in'' is ruby and
crimson damask, with three tasteful medal
lions in the centre, and rich corner pieces
to correspond +; the medalions are filled with
boquets of flowers designed and executed
with exquisite TASTE The entire piece
weighs upwards of a ton, and its value is
between e450 and $500 sterling-s2, 400.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

THE BEDlNr CoNrRovERsy-.Tbe n
Y. "Eco d'Italia" mentions report that
the Pope's Nuncio and Special A gent Cor
the United States (My Lord Bedini) is
about to commence two lawsuits, one against
the editor, and the other against somebody
C, concerned in some plot against hinself-
The editor of the Eco declares himself
ready. to give Bedini wider range
than ever for prosecution, publishes list
of Italian patriots and republicans shot in
Bolosne while My Lord was Governor of
that city with absolute powers. The names
OF the victims are given and amount to one
hundred and thirty-thrce. Most of them
were young men. One, female. was re-.
prieved, for time, because she fell in n fit
OF convulsions at the place of execution
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

FAMINE IN RAGooN AND PRoME.-A
New Haven paper has information from a
commercial house in that city, that a famine
is raging in Ragoon and Prone, Birman
Empire. The most deplorable and heart
rending accounts of its ravages are given.
1t is also attended by the usual concommit.
tants of desperation and reckless crime
Robberies and murders are things of every
day occurrence. These places were recent
ly assailed and oyerrun by the British, and
their crops destroyed. The bark Henry
Towbridge, Currier, of New Haven, which
was lying at Coringa with full cargo of
rice on board, though bound for Barbados
Immediately, on the receipt of the above
intelligence concerning the famine, changed
her destination and proceeded at once to
Ragoon,
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

A few days ago, John Kul5s, German
near Aurora, Ohio. shot himself, leaving
this memorandum behind him-"Go baeE;
to thy mother earth, poor body, so that YOU
can come up again in another form" We
are sometimes almost afraid to remind our
beloved neighbor of the Democrat of his
awful ugliness, lest he also may kill himself
in the hope that his body "may come up in
another FORM Don't do it, neighbor.-
Perchance there may be an ugliness even
beyond that which you now exhibit, though
mortal eye has not yet had the misfortune
to look upon it
LouisutUc .Touynal.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
The y. Y. Courier speculates as follow
on the war news:

The y. Y. Courier speculates as follows
on the war news:
"Rnssia has been fighting a handful Of
Circassians for more than twenty years, and
she has not conquered them. Those greatly
mistake who believe she can finish Turkey
in one two, or five campaigns. For tho
present at least, the chances are altogether
in favor Of Turkey. even if she has to fight
her battles alone But she will probably be
assisted BY France and England certainly
by muItitudes of revolutionary adventures
from all parts of Europe, filed with ha-
tired of the autocrat intenser even than her
own. The chief danger Of war, in fact, con-
sisis in the stimulus it will give to the revo-
lutionary energy which is latent in almost
every country on the Continent II y
known that the revolutionary leaders are
watching passing events with the utmost in
terest- Louis Napoleon. if he joins against
Kussia, has nothing TO fear from this for na-
tlonality is the strongest feeling Of French
men. and always subdues every information
al revolutionary impulse when the nation i
involved in foreign war. But in Germany
there is no such sentiment. for the German
race has no national unity In Italy and
Hungary. which are under foreign yoke,
there is no nationality which il not essential
ly revolutionary. II is hardly possible that
o war should be carried on between the
Eastern and Northern powers of Europe,
without stirring up vehement and fiery
eiiervesceDee among the people, and creating
opportunities for a most terrible retributiOn
upon their oppressors- Considering the pre-
sent state OF Europe, we cannot wonder that
such extraordinary efforts have been made
to propitlate the ambition and vanity Of tho
Gar, and avert the war which MS outra.
geous Pretensions could not fail to provoke.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

VoTE ON RAILROAD TAx-The citizens
of Montgomery county. Tennessee, deter
mined by public vote on the Goth ult.,
whether or not to subscribe $780, 600 to the
Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad.
The result was that 1,516 votes were polled
of which 1, lis were for the bonds and 43l
were against them, leaving a majority of
674 votes in favor of he county subscrip-
ton. There is now 100000 subscribed
towards this road in Montgomery county,
independent Of $4,000 per mile, State aid
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

The Washington correspondent of the
N Y Times reiterates the assertion that
the State Department has information rela-
tive to the British scheme of Africanizinc
Cuba, and that the Administration will find
sufficient excuse to interfere with and pre-
vent the British scheme. The difficulty
will be to make the opportunity, as Eng
lands movements are discreetly secret He
also says, letters received from Havana not
only confirm the statement of the appren-
ticeship scheme, but show that many
leading planters favor it. 1t is also
stated that the Cuban Government is
apprehensive of detection in some regi-
ments oftroops, who were promised disband-
ment for putting down the Lopez expe-
dition, which promise was not fulfilled.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

HE ARCHITECTS OF THE BUFFALo PLAr.
FoRM.-Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York,
in speech he recently delivered at Roches.
ter, gave the Buffalo Convention of 1913,
the following first rate notice.
L would be rich treat to the curious to
unearth the remains Of the Buffalo Conven-
tion of 1913; but that Office will be left to
those who are less fond Of pure atmosphere
than am. Whenever that putrid com
pound of treason, envy and malice-of re-
venge, hypocracy and delusion; of ignorance,
error and knavery; of fanaticisn, Stupidity
and ambition. Of white, black, and rrizzled
spirts-shall be exhumed, as it will be, it
will, for pure, and unalloyed rascality, as
tonish even those who were looking on at the
time ofits sublimest brilIiancy, and yet the
chief actors in that disgraceful scene, now
with big swelling words and brass enough to
establish bell foundry, play the censor over
democrats who resisted their infamous efforts
at disunion, and who have been true to their
professions and faithful to their country
through long and exemplary lives.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
The Japan Expedition.
EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED
Napa heung, Great Lelc, Chee,
June 30. 1853.

June 30, 1858.
This island of great Lew Chew is remark
able for its picturesque appearance, its pecu-
liar laws, and the extraordinary perfection
to which the cultivation Of the land has been
brought. The prcjudices Of the people
against us are strong, but Gem. Perry has
done much to remove those preiudiccs.-
They objected to the least intercourse with
strangers, but a proper admixture Of firm
ness. persuasion and kindness, has succeed
cd in removing many Of the silly restric-
tons, and they now furnish the ships daily
with such supplies as they can provide, and
receive payment for the same.
Our Commodore is on the best terms
with the Regent Qhe King being a minorl
and has been received and feastcd at the
Royal Palace, with an escort of fifty officers.
Some OF the dignitaries have been on board
and dIned; on which occasion presents were
lnterchangod, and everything went on swim
mingly.
"Grcat Lew Chew is kingdom directly
dependent upon Japan, and having as de-
Tendencies the Magicorsimi islands and 9TH
ers lying south Of this latitude. We sec
here the great empire of Japan, but We do
not expect to make such progress in gaining
the good will Of the officials and people Of
the imperial government as we have with
the more simple inhabitants of this island.
I'VE expect to sail on the End of July
for Jeddo, in company with the Mississippi.
Plymouth, and Saratoga We have not Vet
heard anything Of the ships which were to
have followed us Immediately.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
The Pacific Railroad.

As we predicted some time siEce, the
whole of the capital stock of the Pacific
Railroad, one hundred millions of dollars,
has been already subscribed.
We rejoice at this in national point
of view, and especially do we rejoice at it,
on account of the glorious prospect that it
opens for Arkansas The many and obyi-
Gus advantages which the Southern route
offers over any other, together with the
grant of lands made by the GeOal Gov
ernment to Arkansas, and the lands which
Texas viii so literally contribute, will set
tie, in our opinion, the route the Pacific
Company will select Should the route
through Arkansas be selected by this COM
pany, Of which we entertain no doubt, to
what utter insigni6canee will the factional
controversies which have so long disguised
and divided the people of this State, sink,
when regarded in the light of this mag
nifcent project. When the commerce of
the world shall be transmitted through our
borders; when the worlds highway shall
pass through our midst, dispensing wealth
and prosperity to the energetic and indus
trious, and affording profitable employment
to all who are worthy and deserve it,
the petty struggles for political position,
which have SO long disgraccd the State,
will be forgotten, and every vestige of them
be obliterated by the march of progress
and improvement
For ourselves, we would care but little
who occupied the Executive Chair,if, by pru-
dent and timely action, the State would avail
herself of her manifest claims and advan-
tages, and secure the passage of the Pa
ciGc Railroad through her borders We
have made Arkansas our home, and expect
it to be the home of our children, and
could we see her mighty resources devol-
opcd, and her slumbering energies aroused
by the consumation of such a magnificent
project as the Pacific Railroad, we would
be willing to bury in the tomb of the past
al eliHioai1iCS, anu tlC DdiiilCc
of our days. live in political peace. And
we ferycntly hope, when a stake so vital
and important to the best interests of the
State, is to be won or lost, that those
whom the people, for the time being, have
placed in power may be endowed with
wisdom and prudence to meet the great
exigency, and inspired with such a de-
gree Of patriotism as to cause them,-
forgetlul of self,-to bend all their ener-
gies to secure for Arkansas the prize
The Pacific company will doubtless Or
ganize and commence active operations with
as little delay as possible. and we hope those
| in authority in our State will fully appreci-
ate the crisis and feel with all its weight,
the great responsibility that rests upon them
that they may be governed by enlarged
and liberal views, and guided by enl;ghten-
ed counsels, and that their course may receive
from the people the welcome plaudit, well
done thou good and faithful servants, and
rebound to the happiness and prosperity of
the State.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

The National Democrat says that the
papers of New York city are united in favor
of Judge BRONSON, and that the public
opinion Of the city has declared itself all
but unanimously" in the same way, and that
"they all shrink from the monstrous propo-
sition that the whole patronage of the coun-
try should be concentrated into one anibi-
tious head at Washington
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
The London "Athennumu

The London "Athenaum" SAYS. "sTr
Wise, the American aeronaut, proposes 70
take advantage Of an air current from wast
to east, and establish line of balloons he
tween the United States and Europe. It is
true, they cannot return by the same route
but Mr.. Wise is at no loss on that acconnt .
there is, he says, nothing to prevent thcm
going forward and returning clean ronnJ
the world lie undertakes to circum.aero.
naut the globe at three thousand dollars ne
trip. Per
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

LITTLE Rock & FoRT SMITH RAILROAD
The eTrue Democrat of the Sth instant,
contains letter from Col JOHN DRENNEN,
the President of this company, from which
we learn that within few days $4,000
of stock in that road had been taken, and
that it was confidently expected that the
subscriptions would be increased in short
time to 100000.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
Fire at Louisville.

LOUISVILLE, Nov IA fire occurred in
this city this morning in Main street, be-
tween Second and Third, destroying large
wholesale grocery store, and damaging to
a great extent Basis tobacco factory and
the telegraph Office of the House line. Tie
loss is not ascertained
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

The Richmond Enquirer calls TO mind
the prediction that it made month ago,
that ''the Administration would involve it,
self by interfering in the strifes of New
York politicians. 1t could make no differ
cnce to which faction the administration
might incline in any event the impolicy Of
Intervention was equally apparent, and scar
dal and trouble equally inevitable and 1t
admits that Mr.. Guthrie made great blum
der by writing his letter to Mr.. Bronson
L0u Journal.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

1t having been stated that the opposition
of the New York Herald to the Admin
istration of President PIERCE, arose from
the refusal of the President to appoint the
proprietor, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Min
lister to France, Mr. BENNETT, in a card.
denies ever having been an applicant for
that mission.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

The fall term of our circuit court COM
menced its session on Monday last. Judge
Watson presiding A large number of
persons are in attendance, and among them
we notice many strange faces,-an evidence
of our increasing population.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

TENNESSEE SENATOR Hon JOHN BELL
was, on the 29th ult, reelected United
States Senator by the Legislature of Ten
nessee, for six years from the 4th of March
next. More than fifty ballotings were had
before choice was made.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
ITs,egraale.l q he Ne,s o,leaas Ticay....s.l
Terrible Marine Esisasters.

New YORK, Nov 1.-The steamer OcaE
has foundered in heavy gale. and thirteen
persons who were on board Of her have per-
ished
There have also been numerous other ter
rible disasters on the lakes The steamers
Southerner, Ashtabula, Minnesota. and sew
eral smaller vessels have been totally wreck
ed
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

The SURVIVING Revolutionary PEN
sIoNERs.-We understand that there are
now surviving about 1,l0O revolutionary
pensioners all of whom are regularly draw.
ing their pay from the Treasury of the U.
States.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
Large Failure sn E1iveTpooE.

New YORK, Oct ga large cotton
house in Liverpool is reported to have fail
ed. but is understood to have one thousand
bales of cotton in the hands of parties hold
ing bills against it unsold. The loss is said
to be over 100000.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

ARRIVAL. OF Mr.. SoULE AT MADRID.--
In the accounts by the last steamer it is sta
ted that Mr.. SouLE, our Minister to Spain
had arrived at Madrid, and that the Gov
ernment Of Spain had resolved to receive
him as the envoy of a friendly power, await
ing the development of the character of his
acts
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
Destructive Fires in New York.

New York, Oct. 31-There has been a
destructive fire in Nassau Street. Loss
about S250000 Also destructive fire at
the Atlantic docks. brooklyn
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

THANKsGIv1NG.-The Little Rock papers
publish proclamation of Gov. CONWAY,
appointing Thursday, the 9th inst, to be
observed throughout the State as a day Of
thanksgiving and prayer
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

MONUMENT TO FRANKLIN.-There was a
meeting of Editors, authors, publishers, and
practical printers at Philadelphia, on the
10Th ult., to deliberate upon the ways and
means to erect monument over the remains
of the sage and patriot, Benjamin Frank
lin.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

A man in Cincinnati recently cut his
throat because he lived next door to an am
ateur trombone PLAYER. The coroner held
an inquest and returned verdict of '.justif-
able homicide" Sensible jury, that.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16
The Political pecapitation.

Another scathing letter has appeared from
Mr.. Bronson, in reply to the decapitatinig
communication from Mr.. Secretary Guth-
rie.
Washington telegraph., 1853-11-16

% A telegraphic dispatch from Louis
vile, KY, states that Prof BUTLER, of that
city, was shot on the End inst, by MAT
WARD, author of English Items" &c
Prof B., it appears, in the capacity of a
teacher, had chastised a younger brother of
Mr.. WARD, for which WARD shot him.
WARD and another younger brother, "RoB-
ERT," we're arrested-the latter as an ac-
complice, and bail being refused them by
Judge JOYCE both were imprisoned Prof.
BUTLER died of the wound inflicted.