Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-07-18


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ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.
More Particulars Of the Siege Of Silistria, sc.
New YORK, July s.
The steamer Baltic arrived in this port at l o.
clock this morning.
The damage BY the blockade of the coast of the
Baltic and Black Seas may be estimated nearly
according to the ordinary rates of exports and
imports. Thus, in 1852, 800 freighted vessels en-
tered the ports of the Baltic, and about the same
number left these ports. Two thousand and six
hundred vessels entered the Black Sea. Total,
100000 tons.
The Russian squadron is supposed to have ia
ken refuge on the coast of kampschatka. One
of its vessels was seen about 80 DAYS since at Os
rim, where she had put in for intelligence.
THE SIEGE OF SILIsTRIA.-As per private letter
from Constantinope, dated the l4th, contains
from Silistria, of which the following is
brief summary:
After the attack on the Doth of May, which was
described sanguinarv, the Russians retired to
prepare for Il fresh assault.
On the 3lst they advanced with force and re-
newed the assault in the same manner before.
After prolonged and bloody struggle the Rus
slams repulsed, and on the evening I'M
der flag of truce, demanded permission to take
off their dead, who not less than 1000.
On the 2nd, the general assault took place and
the whole Russian fotilll bombardcd the town,
but thanks to the truly heroic intrepidity Of the
Turks and the excellent management of the Gen
cral-in- Chief the Russians were again victorious
lv beaten OF. The victory, however. cost the
Turks dear. they lost their gallant chief, Mussa
Pasha, who was struck in the side by the fragment
of Il grenade. On the same night min, which
had been carried By the first Turkish battery was
destroyed by counter nine and 400 Russians,
the foremost who attacked the moles, were blown
into the air.
Under cover of this explosion and the confusion
foil l,n1n Tl,,.
envy reused in all directions, and the en-
trcnchmentS taken.
The total loss of the Russians in their assaults
is from 500 to 5000 killed, while the Turks lost
little in proportion.
Resin P;ischa, who had left Shumla for that
purpose, approached Silistria with divisions of
10000 men.
Letters received at Constantinoplc from Shumla,
dated June 18th. announces fresh attacks against
Silistria the 3lSt of May and 2nd of June in
which the Turks obtained the most brilliant sac
cess.
LIVERPOOL. June q.
We had heavy gale Of wind last night from
the 5. w. to the west. This morning the weather
has an unsettled appearance.
Our market is moderately attended this morning,
principally by those of town who purchased wheat
in small quantities only, of the best description.
We cannot quote decline in prices.
On Friday midilng parcels were much neg
lcctcd.
Sales of flour were effected only to limited
extent and those principally to customers at 37s
for Philadelphia and Baltimore for ordinary quail
tiles 3Sa59 for good parcels, sour held at 34a
3js.
Indian Corn-Not bat slow sale at 377s for
yellow 36a36s 81 for white.
Oats and meal dull 4; sales at former quotations.
WHAT THE ENGLISH THINK OF Us.-In the
Wc>tm n>;er Rerie,c find the following Just
views of American progress and promise:
We need not wait TO add to the whole civilized
world our testimony of respect and gratitude to
our brethren tho Atlantic, for what they
doing in education. They exhibiting to
the glorious spectacle of thoroughly nation
al education no State central machine for grind
ing out loyalty and religion from the mass, of
special kind and in fixed gu lntites but some
thing like real training of mind and heart, for
free use, personal and social. We, alas have
little to say that is credia5lc under this head, and
not very much that is Immediately hopeful
When we think of our thousands of tOwn-Arabs,
and tens of thousands of our rural innocents: in
state next to idiOcy for want of education, we
find our spirits decline rapidly from the sanguine
pitch to which they had been raised by less import
ant returns of the census. There can be Ques-
ton of the advancement of the national intelli-
gence on the whole The spread of books and
newspapers in spite of many disastrous restrict
ions; the spread of the associate principle, in
gard to the purchase of land, the saving of funds
and the prosecution of business; and, yet more,
the improved temper and conduct manifested in
recent strikes-ul testify to the improvement of
the popular intelligence. But still, we have death
lists, and an immense infant mortality in
burial clubs we have complete population of
juvenile delinquents: and the State has not vet
desistcd from its wrong-of first leaving the pa
rent generation in the dsqua LITIGATION of ignor-
ance and then failing to stand in loco parents to
the children. However we may, on the instant
exert Observation-Disclosures we may from the instant
succeed, we must bear, for another generation at
least, the difficulty, burden, and shame thus rest
ing upon us. In the United States nearly four
millions of the youth of the nation at school
in June, lS50-that is, nearly in every five Of
the free population.
As for what the American nation, as whole
is to become at its present rate of progress, it is
really an overwhelming idea. Sir Charles Lyell,
who has been four times to the United States
within a dozen years so, has said in a public
speech, and on other occasions that he had to
open his eyes and his mind afresh every time he
went, if to observe nation, so vast We're
the changes in every department of social life.
The computation is, that at the present rate OF
progress, the United States will contain lOO, OOO,
900 at the end of the century. a democratic re-
public of l00,00Q,000 citizens will certainly be a
new spectacle on our globe and rare privilege
it will be to some of the youth now at schools
and universities to see it in their later days.
Nhen we consiuer that. OF TINS growing natlon,
all the in6rm and imperfect in body and mind are
cared for, all the children educated, and all GRIM
inals taken in hand to be made the best of,
shall not wonder that there are many expect
ants of the millennium on those shores. 1t is not
quarter of century since the dim, solemn
islands of Manatou, in the great lakes, were like
our Mona when the Romans were in our south
eastern district. There was the great spirit to
be consulted and propitiated by the Druids of
that western region, while the invader lived afar
of; and now the country has the aspect of ours,
after q lapse of fifteen commissioning good
things TO show which we do not yet possess.