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Intelligence from the Seat of War
New YORK, September 12-The following
are additional particulars of the news brought
by the St. Louis
The Black Sea.
The damages resulting from the late fire at
Varna are stated at two and half millions OF
pounds sterling. The cholera at Varna is said
by the last accounts to be abatng.
The Danube. m.
Adyices from Bucharest state that Omer
Pacha, with force of 5000 men and thirty
pieces Of can ION, entered that city on the 22d
Of August, d met with an enthusiastic recep-
ton from the inhabitants.
The Baltic.
The latest accounts from the Baltic state that
the cholera was still raging with great violence
at Bomersund
Propositions to Sweden. s
paraguay d'Hilliers has proposed to the King
of Sweden to pay him fourteen millions of francs
for the first month and seven millions for each
succeeding month for cooperation with the
Western Powers The Swedish Diet have pro-
posed that the King should take immediate mea-
sures to prevent the Aland Islands from falling
into the hands of Russia.
Austria.
The German papers announce that q treaty,
offensive and defensive, will soon be concluded
between Austria and the Western Powers.
Ships bound for England
Five ships of war passed through the Great
Belt Lone Of the entrances to the Balticl on the
10th OF August, loaded with prisoners Il bound
for England.
a{ Belgium. ma= .
A dispatch from Brussels announces the re-
slgnation, en- masse, of the Belgian Ministry
France.
The st. Louis brings no news Of any import
ance from France. The harvests were good, and
prices in the Corn markets were tending down
ward.
Asia--Battle of Kars.
The Turkish account of the battle of Kars has
been received 1t states that the result was en-
tirely indecisive; that the loss on both sides
amounted to 5000 men; that among the killed
was Hussein Pacha, and among the wounded
Mustapha Pacha, and that three Generals were
wounded.
The Empire City
NEW YORK, September 12--The steamer En-
pire City has arrived from the Isthmus with one
million and eighty six thousand dollars worth Of
gold.
Steamer Santa Anna.
NEW YORK, September 13.-The Mexican war
steamer Santa Anna cleared at this port yester.
day for Vera Cruz
WEATHER AND WATER. Although we are get
ting we'll into the fall of the year and have
fairly reached period when cooler days and
nights should present themselves, the weather
remains about as sultry as during any of the
summer months. There are, indeed, breezes
from the north and east, but they are rather
unpleasant than agreeable, and do much to.
wards continuing what sickness there is amidst
us instead of removing it and bracing up sys-
tens weakened by long tropical heats A good
heavy rain-storm, with fitting accompaniment
Of thunder and lightning, succeeded by grad.
ual lowering of the thermometer, would be
hailed with general delight Men are not sala
manders, and can hardly endure six or eight
months of steady, uninterrupted summer heat
without longing for breath of cooler air and 9
more invigorating atmosphere. Since last Oc
tober we have not spent night outside of the
nit 70 al
it is with double earnestness we long that the
country may come to us, or at least that por-
ton which consists of cool air and cooling
breezes
A rain storm here would undoubtedly please
and benefit us; but continuation of rains
the Mississippi would undoubtedly benefit us
more. The rivers are all low and many of them
unnavigable. For long series of years tbs
waters of the streams have not flowed in such
diminished tide within their banks Produce
has been locked up by reason Of it, and the
usual facilities for travel and transportation
materially lessened if not absolutely stopped
Heavier rains than usual are needed to fill tbs
channels of the rivers and remedy the evil that
seems imminent Last year we suffered By
reason of low water, and are again threatened
Therefore mot only comfort but business long.
to have the heavens clouded and the fountains
above broken open. Old prophets of the
weather, nevertheless, predict a continuance O
things as they are until late in the season, ant
q consequent rise in the price of produce and al
necessaries for which we are dependent upon
the embargoed regions 1t is to be hoped that
their wisdom may, in this instance, be deceived
and that we shall, ere long, have not only COO
weather accompanied by troops of returning
friends. but likewise high water accompanied
by heavy business, the hum of trade and in
creased activity.
A Coon JoKE.-Horace Greeley has beer
most egregiously humbugged by the Richmond
Examiner That print, in joeose vein, under
took to assert:
"That the shooting of itsnerant Abolition
schoolmasters is frequently creditable ant
laudable act, emitting respectable Southern
man to, at least, q seat in the Legislature, or
place in the Common Council"
The Tribune, surprising this to have been per
petrated in sober seriousness, commented in it
usual meat ak manner on the savage propensi
ties of Shareholders; whereupon the Virgins
editor, laughing in his sleeve at the gullibiity
the great head of the Abolition party, rejoins
"That print must be ignorant, we presume o
how, in the Ouachita country, Arkansas, upol
the Tumbling Fork of Roaring River, they hay'