The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-10-11


two or three days since from Varra, who told
me the English as we'll as the French army was
demoralised and greatly discouraged The
English had lost one thousand and The French
four thousand men by cholera. They were il
want of every thing and the roads were de-
testable, In marching to the Danube, wherv
they expected to have brush witht The Russians
they suffered dreadfully. Such was the scarcity
of water that at times only one battalion could
march the same day. He says tha Scbastopol
is under mined, though they do NOT care tor
that as their engineers can discover those works,
but he fears the expedition will be failure and
gives very sad account of the discourage n1ent.
of the troops, the sickness, want Of forcsigt
in. the arrangements, etc. The expedition
against Sebastopol he says, is delayed not for
the motives stated, but from the state Of the al
lied army. Lord Raglan is no doub5 a brave
officer, probably good one, but no one thinks
highly of the talents of the French marshal i'll
command. There is no doubt that The c1opc-
ror of Russia is playing deep game J ou
will soon hear OF cries and lamentations iu
England among the higher classes, owing to-
the deaths of many frstrate officer in the
crack regiments now in Turkey.
In France every thing is tranquil and solid.
No better proof of it than the emperor's pro-
longed residence at Bayonne, and every thing
here moves like clock-work. He is undoublc1-
ly an extraordinary man.
The harvest is very abundant, the like not
known for many years, all over Europc Wheat
will be low, and if exports are permitted from
the Black sea l shall exroct to see large ship
ments Of it to the United States. | send you
some extracts from various public journaIS Oh
! the subject of the crops which it might be we'll
to have published for general infornatjon, as
there will be no demand in Europe for bread
stut1s from the United States.
The attention of the government at WASH
ington should be called to the subjec. Of pass
ports issued by its diplomatic and consular
agents in Europe. Some of them, it is uc, OBJ
serve a proper caution in granting them onty III
American citizens, but others issue them with
a recklessness that is utterly disgraccfuI, &S
any vagabond can buy one at a price varying
from ten to thirty dollars Furnished witFp
these documents the parties think they can act
with impunity, and enter into plots ard c0nsp5-
races against the constituted authorities, and
you will probably hear that persons with Amcr,
can passports, and claiming to be American
citizens, have been shot or hung as traitors Oh
reyoutionists. great clamor, no doubt, w'''
be raised on the subject at home over the sa-r-
fee of some of these fellows, who have never
been in the United States and are the scum os
European population.
Mr. Marcy's circular on dress, which excited
such general ridicule, receives but little atten.
ton from very large portion of his European
subordinates. None are so marked for tbcig
ridiculous prominence on every public occasion
-, ri ! oE, lie
broidered gold eagles and stars on their coats
and gold mounted swords at their sides. Tbev
appear and act as if like Louis XIV--mol ic
suis 'etat.
Connected with the passport system, would
mention "the bearers of dispatches" which
swarm in absolute hordes. Every steamer from
the United States brings two or three, and thc1
our ministers, and even our consuls, are da5lY
and continually granting passports of the
same kind, until it has become matter of be
and jeer all over the continent. One of oug
consuls in the south of Europe, during recent
visit there, told me he certified in one month
the passports of twenty three bearers of a1s-
patches issued by the department. of state &.
Washington and different American minis ~
in Europe, some of the bearers being no credit
to the country, but giving themselves all tho
airs of great men,
The disease in the grape has again appearcd
and it is really a most severe scourge to Fr3ncr
and a great pccuniary loss. Wine will be very
high,
The cholera is abating rapidly in this cost
try, and it is hoped will soon disappear. 1t has
prevailed over a very large portion of the en-
pire.
TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMGRG
cA.--The London correspondent of the New
York Herald, says that the project of conrect-
ing England and America by telegraph is SeH
ously engaging public attention in the former
country. The practicability of laying a Sub
marine cable directly across the Atlantic, from
Galway to cape Race, in Newfoundland, has il
advocates among some of the most daring On
gineers. 'The principal question:" says thc
correspondent, ''is whether if line were ajd
an electric current can be passed through 300G
miles Of cable? BY an enormous battery pew
er this possibly can be accomplished, thro14h
wires suspended in the air, but can it be ef1v.
ted along vast length of gutta percha coatc4
wire, passing through salt water? Thelo i*
such thing as too great an insulation, a1I
professor Faraday has shown that in such IT,
cumstances the wire becomes Leyden jar tlJ
may be SO charged with electricity that cut
rent cannot, without the greatest dficulty,r ov
through it. To escape this, another propos "9H
is to carry the cable from the northernur,
point of the highlands of Scotland to lcel2flI-
BY way of the Orkney. Shetland and FHr>a:
islands, to lay it from Iceland across the near
point of Greenland, thence down the coas'o't
cape FAREWELL when the cable would again r.
to the water, span Davis straits, and IA
right away across Labrador and upper CaAa.4
to Quebec. Here, that it should lock in ,;'
the North American n1ess-work Of wires W '3ch
hold themselves--so to spcak-like an "r"'e
hand for the European grasp In this wa ll"
cable required would in no point exceed oT"f
nine hundred miles in length.'
MONUMENT TO PULAsM-The State of Ceor-
gia some time ago authorized the erection ot
in honor of the heroic service #
Pulaski during the revolutionary war, and l..1
ticularly Of his gallant conduct in Savanna@
at the siege Of which he fell, on the 9th of 0c'
toher 1919 The Journal of Commerce saye.