Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-04-04
A letter from Balaklaya says:

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General Forey, of The French army, has been
riving information 10 the Russians, and will be
shot, or perhaps exhibited to the gaze OF won
dering folks, that such Z thing is possible as
traitor. 1t is hoped none may be found in the
English camp am in q TREMENDOUS hurry, as
we sail for some place in the Gulf of Burgos
tomorrow, 23d, and have good quantity OF
gold on board TO pay for the cattle, if any can
be got.
The following is the London Times version
of this extraordinary affair: General Forey's
return 10 France is announced. This officer
commanded the corps employed at the siege be-
fore the arrival Of General Pelssier from Africa,
and is rumored that he has fallen into disgrace.
To him is attributed, justly or otherwise, the
failure of the bold coup de 1cain attempted by
General de Dourmel, and in which The latter
lost his life. There is now in Paris an officer
who states that he was one of the number who
actually entered Sebastopol on the occasion"
The gallant effort referred TO was made on the
glorious, though terrible day of lnkermann,
when the French, in repulsing sortie, followed
the retrealinr Russians into the town. General
Forey is therefore, if what is stated IS true,
chargeable with cowardice in not maintaining
the advantage he had gained, for it is presumed
that, if he had done 80, Sebastopol would that
day have fallen, and he would have been the
greatest man of the campaign. If ne threw
away then the chance fortune had thrust into
bis hands and sacrificed himself, and, for the
time, the allied army, such man deserves the
severest punishment; for, had Sebasopo been
occupied on the 5h of November, 10000 brave
English and French soldiers would not have
sickened and died, from starvation and disease,
on the barren hills before that beeaguered city.
We cannot believe it is true, at least we hope
it is not; but we have given tho authority for
the statements which point to an adverse con-
clusion.
GEN. QUITMAN-A Natchez correspondent of
the Boston Journal, in reply to the Washington
rumors that the Government has positive assu-
rance that General Quitman has nothing TO do
with any filIibusterng expedition against Cuba,
says:
"Quitman is as dearly engaged in his piratical
schemes rs ever. He left his home few days
since for New Orleans, where the expedition is
talked Of rs certain-all the "positive assu-
rance" of the United States Government to the
contrary notwithstanding. 1t is matter of
surprise and grief to many of our citizens, that
twenty or thirty young men OF this city have
within two or three days left their homes to
embark in this enterprise, risking therein their
lives fortune, and what is more, their honor"
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THE great California tree will be exhibited in
the Park at New York previous to its removal
to the exposition at Paris. This tree cost the
owner $4,000 to cut it down and transport it
TO New Y ork 1t is in sections, and it will take
ten men at least ten days to erect the tree in
the Park. The body of tits thirty feet in diane
ter and ninety feet high. Senator Gwin, of
California, i, is said, saw the tree growing ut
Sierra Nevada. 1t is said that there is indispu-
table evidence of this monster of the forest be.
Dg three thousand years old.