Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-03-24
6eneral gutelligenes.

6susral gutelligsnes.
Russia.-The Paris correspondent of the Bos.
ton atlas says: g A ukase commands all pen
i stoned officers of the navy of Russia to re-
/ turn to active service. A great many Greeks
| have entered the Russian service. great many
Inducements have been held out 10 the Jews
TO enter the Russian navy. England and France
have sent summons TO the EmperF OF Russia
TO pledge himself, within six days after its receipt
that the Danubian principalies shall be evacu-
ated before the Both of April The bearers OF tins
! summons quilted Paris and London on the 9th
ultimo and they were ordered to spend day or
two in Vienna and Berlin, with the hopes that
4 these governments may send similar summons
similar in substance If not in FORM These bearers
! Of dispatches will reach 81 Petersburg about the
! 9th or 18th Of this month, and the telegraph VIII
/ enable the reply to reach here in a week there
| after; in about three weeks we shall know whe-
/ ther to expect peace or fear we'cannot re-
ceive other than a warlike reply In tins event.
twenty thousand men will Immediately be sent
| from Tonlon uhe arsenals now work day and
| night and Algiers to Turkey. commanded by Mar
| shall de Saint Arnaud, ommander-ln-chef. PrInce
| Napoleon, and Generals Canrobert, Bosquet, Fo-
/ rev. d'AllonvilIe, Bouat, d'Aurclle de Paladnes,
| Dautemarre d'Erville, de Lourme. Espinasse, de
| Martmprey. Cassaignoes, Vinoy, NC, Turkey
| has signed treaty with England and France stpu.
lating that she will engage in no treaty with Russia
without the consent of those two powers, and allow
ing them land their forces on her territory Tor her
defence Sir Charles Napier with the immense
Baltic feet, (now of Sphead) will then lead his
squadron 10 Off Categat, where they will await the
opening of the Baltic, (say the end OF tins month";
/ and if not destroy the nine Russian men-oi-war,
4 now living in Reve hinder il from taking refuge
in Cronstadt, (Revc is free from ice fifteen days
before Cronsiadt.) but the chances are against its
safety, and then, after its destruction, Helsing-
fors, where nine other men oi-war lie. VIII be at
tackled This port is protected by the Notifications
of Sweabuvg, built upon three islands lying at the
entrance of the port, armed with eight hundred
cannon, and with accommodations Tor twelve
thousand men.
] .The Emperor of Russia has changed the names
the regiments ofhis army called after the En-
peror Of Austria and the King of Prussia. he has
interdicted all Russians from wearing Austrian or
Prussian decorations. He has ordered the Rus
sian commssary or envoy, who habuaily resides
! in Berlin, to return to his regiment Three Russian
mcn-cfwar are lying at the quay in Trieste. AFRAID
10 20 out lest they should be taken by the English
or French ships; they watched by three Eng
lish and two French ships. If Austria declares war
against Russia, they will be in dsagreeable pre-
\ dicament. Great fears are entertained about the
| insurrection in Greece, which seems spreading
fast and far England and France have informed
the government of Greece that unless they queled
this ant-Turkish instruction, they would in
terfere'
i Probable Establishment Of the Mexican
Empire.-We extract the following from the
New Orleans Bee Of the 18th instant it being the
article referred to in our dispatches from Balti-
more:
GIntelligent observers, who understandable char
acter Of SAINT, Anna. inform us that no doubt what
ever exists Of his design to assume imperial dgnl
" as soon as he collect the necessary funds
fcia E,r..a tn %
i ance We have good authority for affirming that
Senior Atocba, who arrived here by the Ieras
and left on Sunday for Washington, is charged
with an important mission to Amonte, the Mexi-
can minister the purpori Of which Is that ne Is 70
spare no effort to secure the early ratification Of
the Gadsden treaty and tina. for this purpose he Is
vested with full authority to agree to any modih.
cations that may be proposed, without losing time
to consult the home government. Should the
treaty pass the Senate, Amonte is required imme
: da,ely to transmit one million Of dollars of The
amount to be paid by the United States TO Senior
Rafael Rafael, Mexican consul at New York, who
supplied with this large sum, will embark forth
4 with for Spain. His mission will be TO engage a
competent staff of experienced officers TOR the
Mexican army, or rather for that portion Of il
which is under theseye of and devoted TO Santa
Anna The latter hopes that when the time shall
arrive for him 10 don the imperial purple, his pre-.
torian guards will be thoroughly disciplined by
their Spanish commanders easily 10 put down
execution of his projects
We give these statements without, of course
vouching for their accuracy, though we repeat
that they emana:e from well-informed sagacious
and cool observers If they be founded in truth
we shall doubtless be appraised Of the departure o.
Senior Rafael Rafael, soon after the ratification o.
| the .Gadsden treaty lfby any chance that treaty
should be rejected, Santa Annals ambitious aspi
rations would be cruelty nipped in the bud
Remarkable Suicidc.-A correspondent Of tn.
Cleveland Plaindealer, writing from Clyde, Ohio
on the 9th ultimo, gives account Of singula
case Of suicide.
A man named Chancey II. Reynolds, OF tina
place, went into the woods TO work, in his usua
spirits, and was found hung dead by his pocket
handkerchief attached 10 a limb. When found
his hands were in his pockets, aud there We're M
marks Of struggle on the ground though his heat
was but little higher than if he sat in chair. !
appeared that after going into the woods, he hnt
endeavored TO fell a tree but il lodged on another
} when he tried 10 fell another upon it !; and thu
bring TO the ground, but the tree fell the wren,
way, and another was tried with the same result
In a memorandum-book in his pocket, was III,
following article:
II am tired of life. The Lord suffers ever,
thing 10 20 against me. These three trees al
fell the contrary way yet il is no, that accoun
that / am about TO commit this deed. imput,
nothing 10 my present wife, but It is difficulty witt
my first wife that causes me TO commit this act
My sons live in Whiteside county
Illinois have concluded not 10 go there as
shall see Colonel Secley and shoot him upol
sight. | concluded this was the best course
, hope my wife will not lay this too much 10 hear,
and that she will find friends in this hour Of afic
tion.n
He had been married 10 his last wife only abou
four months and depended on his days work 70
the support of his family.
J Breaking up Of the Ice at Holyoke.-Ol
Thursday, as the noon train from this city wa
turning the first curve above the Holyoke dam
several large pieces Of ice were thrown upon tn
track Just forward of the machine, hinderinu III,
; train some thirty minutes, and afording the pas
senrers n fine nnnnriuniiv 10 see DIR Knn1.,s - ar