The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-08-02

The n Y. Tribune, of the 2jth ult :,
publishes important aud highly interest,
Ing statements made to one of its cor
Respondents III Paris by gentleman on
his way to this country. charged with
propositions from the Car to the Ad.
lninistration at Washington, for the sale
of Sitka, The Tribune says
The name and antecedcnts Of this con.
fidential messenger are we'll known to
us. and We can vouch for his character
and the gcnuineDcss of the statements
which our correspondent details from
him. He has been chosen for this mis-.
sion, as we have reason to presume. not
only because Of the confidence the Gar
rcposes in his devotion to the interests
of Russia in the pending struggle, but
because the character of an American
citizen, TO which we believe he ha. per.
feet right, enables him to pass through
Europe with greater facility and free.
dom from annoyance. He is to arrive
here in the screw steamer Indiana which
was . sail from Havre and Southampton
on the 10th, and may be expected to ac-
complish the voyage in some fifteen or
sixteen days.
The point on which these confidential
statements particularly vary from the
moro ordinary accounts of the state of
affairs, is that which represents the Car
as exceedingly outraged at Austria, on
account Of the ingratitude and nsub-
mission with which he has been treated
by the Emperor, and as in the habit of
menacing that he shall march upon vi.
emma. and raise Hungary. Nothing is
more certain in the event of serious
junction between Austria and the west.
ern powers,-in which we are not vet
able to believe,-than that Russia will
take pretty nearly the course here indi-
Gated and transfer the war from the
plains of Walachia and Mo.davia to the
banks of the Thesis and Waag, floating
her double eagles alike from the citadel
of Buda, the spire of St. Stephens and
the Hradshin in the ancient capital OF
Bohemia Then indeed, the genius OF
destruction will be let loose on Europe
and the ten years which the Car con-
templates as the duration of the war
will surely pass away before peace cal
be restored
The proposition for the cession OF Sit
ka which is about to be laid before ouI
Government is only natural under the
circumstances. Territory in America
can be of little value to Russia, and il
the present war cannot be maintaine ed
except at cost greatly disproportioned
to its worth. To surrender it to tho
United States for reasonable consd
Grafton will not only put something il
this Imperial treasury but will afford t.
America pledge of friendly feeling
which power in want Of allies, Of means
and of moral support can very well af
, ford to give, as may be seen in tn,
Russian neutrality treaty just negotiat
f cd at Washington. To Messrs Pierre
and Marcy, however, We dare say thi
new pledge will not be very seductive
Sitka is too far north for them to pa,
= for, since they believe in buy ing no Ter
ri,ory where Slavery cannot find foot
hold and besides the principal trad
of that colony is in ice and fish Will
California and the advantages "the par
ty" could derive from tho acquisition
must accordingly be small Nichola
. will probably fluid that Jonathan can
not be dazzled by his offers, that he viii
mako treaties forever provided he find
an advantage in it, but after all, govern
bis foreign as we'll as his domcsti