The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-17

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Our dispatches from Washington, published in
today's paper, contain q variety Of interesting
news relative to political, diplomatic and personal
movements ut the seat of government. Read them,
by all means.
Senator Toombs, Of Georgia, has accepted the
invitation of the Boston Committee on Slavery Lee
lures to lecture in that city, He will deliver his
address on the Gath Of January, and has selected
for his theme, i" The consistency Of African slavery
with the constitution Of the United States and re-
publican institutions, and the effect Of the Ameri
can Revolution upon the African race"
The evidence before the Court Martial instituted
to investigate the charges against Lieut.. Horace
Haldeman, Eighth Regiment of Infantry, stationed
upon Governors Island, terminated yesterday Six
teen days have been occupied thus far in this inves
tigation. During the entire time all the officers OF
The army-thirteen in number-constituting the
Court Of Inquiry, have been untaterng in their at
tendance, and shown marked patience in listening
to the protracted testimony Their decision OF the
| multiplied points referred to therein have been
characterized with unusual promptness and impair.
| TALLY The Judge Advocate-Capt. Samuel Jones,
First Regiment Of Artillery-has performed the
onerous labors devolving upon him with unwearied
and faithful assiduity. The Court meet again on
Friday, when counsel for the accused will submit
their written defence. The Judge Advocate viii
then sum up for the prosecution, when the evidence
and accompanying papers WIN be laid before Gen.
Scott for his decision in the case.
The Unfinished Work OF the Allies In the
Black ses--An0ther Ugly job at Nik0laiefr.
We publish elsewhere in these columns an
article from the London Times, and another
from the Illustrated London Ne,cs, specializing
upon the prospects of the war in the East since
the reduction of Sebastopol. From these arti-
cles it appears that after the Allies shall have
conquered the northern forts, and cleared the
whole Crimea of the Russian army, they will
yet have very nice job Of work to do in the
destruction Of the Russian naval depot Of
Nikolaieff. To give our readers some idea Of
the place, we also publish, in connection with
the aforesaid extracts, a description of Niko-
laisff, from the splendid work of Count Demi-
doff, on "Southern Russia and the Crimea !"
rounding country.
Into northern arm Of the Black Sea, ION
the left or west bank Of which is the CONNER
cial port Of Odessa,) q bay, or liman, some forty
miles long and from five to ten in width, comes
in from the east. This is the outlet of the
great river Dnieper. Midway, this estuary is
joined by another bay, coming down from the
north, broad, shallow and tortuous." On
ascending this some twenty miles, we reach the
junction of the rivers Bong and Ingoul, and at
this point was founded by Potemkin, in behalf
of his mistress-Catherne- city of Niko-
laieff 1t is branch of that naval establish
ment for the Black Sea Of which Sebastopol
was but the completion. Nikolaieff, from
its convenient water communication to
the immense resources of timber hoated
down the Dnieper, and from the difficulty to a
hostile feet Of reaching it, on account of the
"tortuons and SHALLOW" liman which connects it
with the sea, was the very place for a Russian
naval shipyard-while the bay of Sebastopol,
from its convenience to Constantinople, its
depth Of water, its rocky surroundings and
narrow entrance, was the very place for the
equipping dockyards and the fortified rendez-
vous of the Cars Black Sea squadron in times
Of war. With the destruction of this rendez-
vous. the naval vessels which had sought for
shelter within its circle of Notifications have
been destroyed but we have no information
that This disaster has annihilated the Russian
Black Sea feet. How many of its ships have
found refuge at Nikolaief, how many Others
are there upon the stocks or in progress of COM
pletion, il is now the business of the Allies to
discover.
From the situation of Nikolaicf, however,
and from the information received of the move
ment TO that quarter of the Grand Duke Con.
stantinc, chief Of the Russian Navy, aud the
Emperor Alexander, we may safely conclude
that the French and English will find it and its
approaches in posture of defence which will
admit of no holiday operation. Every point
of that tortuous and shallow bay will probably
he found strongly fortified and even should
an allied lotilla cut their way through to Nj
kolaief, they may arrive there to find themselves
before a still more formidable nest of earth
works than those of Sebastopol and with aa
army behind them and in the plains Of two or
three hundred thousand men. At Nikolaicif
we enter from the southwark into Continental
European Russia, and into the midst Of those
extensive mixed colonies agricultural aud
inilitary-the resources o. which have by no
means been exhausted by their contributions to
the defence Of Sebastopol.
We presume, in this view, that the Allies,
from their past experience, will not venture
upon either naval or land expedition to Nj
koaef short Of the reduction of the forts on
the north side of Sebastopol harbor, decisive
meeting with Gortschakolf in the Crimea and
his expulsion from that territory. But, with
the absolute occupation of the Crimea, the
next question to the Allies is the invasion Of
Russia proper at Nikolaief They may seize
Odessa--they may send a squadron of steamers
up The Dnieper, and lay the commercial village
Of Kherson in ashes; but their next importaut
military movement in the East must, from all
present appearances, be Nikolaiea, whittier
the Car and his brother, the Grand Admiral