Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-04-19

IHE CRiMEA ExPEDrrIoN-A namnble, has
oeen printed at Paris, and suppressed bv order
OF the French government. 1t is rumored that
!. mas been written upon information furnished hv
FRINGE Napoleon. 1t processes to give a b;stoyy
OF the causes Of the war, and, above all the ex.
petition to the Crimea. '''' VA
he idea of the expedition is affirmed To have
ooiIiginaleh at the beginning of Univ with tho
french Emperor, who drew out the plan with
MS own hand, and submitted it TO the govern.
ments OF London and Vienna, both of which gave
'heif warmest approval On its arrival at the allied
camps Marshal St. Arnaud adopted il with en-
thusiasm. He propounded it to council of war
aelu a! Varna on the 10th of August, and gave
IL as his opinion that after defeating the Russians
In pitched battle the allies could march STRAIGHT
10 oeoas'opo and take it by coup de main
AIT eyes were directed to Lord Raglan whose
countenance had for some minutes worn an ex-
preston OF lncreduty. lie objected that we,
were without information as 10 the state of the
place on the land side. The roads. rivers, and
na'uril obstacles were equally unknown. He OBJ
J'cted above all that we were deficient in cavalry,
and that the Russian horse were both numerous
and excellent The game was not equal''
Admiral Hamelin enforced the views thus put
forth by the English commander-n-chief, and
added fresh objections, such as the variableness
Of the climate at that period of the year, and the
difficulty of keeping up communication at sea
during the stormy season. Hereupon, after an
expression of opinion from Gen. Canrobert that
Sebastopol would infallibly fall into our hands af-
ter the route of the Russian army, Lord Raglan
inquired "What if the place reslss and is well
fortified I" Marshal st. Arnaud answered that
that then they must have recourse to siege;
and that when the Notifications on the north
were taken we would necessarily be master of
the town If the Notifications on the north he
continued, were too strong for them, it would be
easy to go to the south and commence a.regulaE
siege with the assistance of the fleets, which
would have a good anchorage at Balaklava. In
the course of the discussion he freely quoted the
authority of the French Emperor in support of
of his arguments; and the final result was that
Lord Raglan, in spite of the objections he had
offered, Joined St, Arnaud, Canrobert and Bos-
quet, in voting for the expedition, while Admi-
rails Hamelin and Dundas, the Duke of Cam
bridge and Prince Napoleon voted against it.
The Ericsson experiment is at an end. The
invention is conceded to be a failure, sand poor
Ericsson is ruined man. lie has spent all his
fortune in building the caloric ship and in the ex
periments he has made on the vessel. He has
done more, he has spent all his wifes fortune,
which is great, and shestoo is beggared. But
the worst of all is that it has led to such recrm-
nation an alienation that they have separated
never to be united again perhaps. Had he been
successful, his name would have been enrolled
with that of Columbus, Newton, Fulton and
other men of illustrous renown. But he has
failed he has lost his all he has introduced
ruin into a once-oving and happy home; and
the world coldly looks on, and says, 81 told you
SO y Boston Journal.
QUEER MATRIMONIAL FREAK letter from a
citizen Of Livingston County, KY, to the Dams
vile Tribune, relates the following bit of family
history in that neighborhood -
ga widow lately took an orphan boy to raise
quite small, and when arrived at the age of eigh-
teen she married him, she then being in her
fftieth year, They lived many years together,
happy as any couple Ten years ago they took
an orphan girl to raise. This fall the old lady
died, being ninety six years of age. and in seven
weeks after, the old man married the girl they
had raised, he being sixty-eight years old and she
eighteen -