Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-11-25
Later From The States And Europe

from the Atlantic States and Europe
The whole number of emigrants arrived in
New York, in two days, from Europe, was
| 1854.
A letter from Marion, Ala, Oct. 18th, says
that Howard College had been burnt to the
ground, and that twenty-five boys were great
ly injured by jumping from the windows.
Two Of the number were reported to have died.
PENNSYLVANIA ELEcrIoN.-Pollock's
(whig) majority is $500. For Canal Com
missioner, Mott, (dem. has majority of
l9O,7ls over Dorsie, (whig.) Majority a.
gainst a prohibitory liquor law, 5,l6s.
A Know NOTHING NEwsPAPER.-The
first number of new American organ, daily
evening sheet, to be edited by Judge Ellis. a
(know Nothing } will be issued at Washing
ton on the 18th November.
The REMAINS OF SIR JoHN FRANKLIN
AND HIS CREW DIsCOvERED.-A Geographic
despatch from Montreal gives us news respect.
ing the fate Of Sir John Franklin and his COM
pany. A letter received by Sir Geo. Simpson,
Governor Of the Hudson Bay Company, from
DR.. Rae, the celebrated explorer, dated York
Factory, August 4, 1884, conveyed the inte!li.
gence OF the discovery of the remains Of the in
trepId navigator and his companions who starv-
ed to death i'll the spring Of 1916, to the north
ward OF Fox River. The information is re-
garded as perfectly reliable. The expedition
commanded by Sir John, sent out in search of
a northward passage through the Polar Seas
comprised the ships Erebus and Terror. 1t
left England in l645 and from that time until
August of the present year no trace of them
had been found. The vessels were probably
ground to atoms amid the ice foes of the Arc
tic region, and the unfortunate company, in
endeavorng to reach the settlement of the
Hudson Bay Company, after exhausting the
scanty supply of provisions saved from the
crumbling ships, lay down to perish. No
event in history affords parallel to the uni
versal sympathy felt for the fate Of Franklin
and his companions; and even at this moment,
as is well known, an expedition, commanded
by our countryman. DR.. Kane, is exploring the
ice-locked regions of the North, to effect their
rescue or verify the fears now fully realized.
The great news brought by the Bal
tic, of the blowing up Of Fort Constan-
tine, the sinking Of ten Russian ships of
war, the fall of Sevastopol and the
slaugh Inter oftwenty- five thousand human
beings, turns out to be false from begin
ming to end.
Cholera was very severe in the garrl-
son of Sevastopol. 1t is stated that the
city is provisioned for only three months,
and that the crews Of the feet are al
ready on three fourths rations.
The London papers of the 9th contain
an extraordinary gazette, with the de-
spatches from Lord Raglan to the Duke
of Newcastle with the official report of
the battle Of Alma The struggle was
a desperate one, and the loss of the Brit
ish army was 26 officers, 10 sergeants,
9 drummers, 5000 rank and file killed =
70 officers, 96 sergeants, II drummers,
1927 rank and file wounded; 2 drum
mers aud ! 6 rank and file missing. The
loss of the French was not so great.
The Russians were completely routed,
but there is no doubt that the allied
commanders were unable to follow up
the victory so successfully as they wish
ed in consequence of the deficiency Of
cavelry.
The allies had changed their plan, and were
to attack Sevastopol from the south, where it
was found to be weaker. The base of opera
tons is Balacava, where the cavelry and siege
artillery are landed.
Marshal St. Arnaud is dead and Gen. Can
robert is chiefin command of the French army.
After the battle of A Ina, the Russians burnt
all the villages which they passed through. In
their flight they left about 5000 wounded be-
hind them.
Prince Menschikoff had returned to Sevas-
topol, where the Russians had shut themselves
up. The allied forces were on the point of
commencing the seige, having crossed the riv-
ers Katscha and BeIbeck without opposition.
Private dispatches state that great democrat
had destroyed an aqueduct which supplies the
fortress. Eight thousand cavelry had been
landed in the Crimea.
The Greek houses report news from Odessa
to the effect that Generals Osten Sacken and
Ludcrs had entered the Crimea at the head of
forty battalions, besides the garrison of Odes-
sa, 10000 strong. The inhabitants of Odessa
had given pledge that they would burn the
place rather than allow it to be in the hands
of the allies. Menschikoff was said to be look.
ing for reinforcement of 10000 men from
Anappa.
yice.Admiral Dundas reports to his govern.
ment the Russians had sunk eight line of bat
tie ships across the entrance of the harbor.
Eight sail of the line were moored east and
west inside the booms, and three of the ships
were heeled over to give their guns more ele.
Walton to sweep over the land to the northward.
TIE BALrIc.-The news from the Baltic,
is that everything remains as per last advices.
Position OF PRUssIA.-Prussia has been
authoritatively summoned by the Western
Powers to assume determinate position eth
er in favor Of or against Russia. 1t is be.
lieved that she will adopt policy similar to
that taken by Austria.
SPAIS-A telegraphic despatch from Mad
rid of the 10th, states that the elections were
Progressing quietly, and with advantage to
the progressionists.
The firm Of James McHenry & Co., of Liv.
erpool, has failed for ten millions and a half
of dollars.
uMajor Vanarsdale, will please accept our
thanks for Atlantic and California papers by
the opposition stage line from Stockton.
IOur thanks are due Adams & Co., for