The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-02-01
EUROPEAN ENTHUSIASTICALLY the Amer

Richard CODuen mas puDllsheu new peace
pamphlet.
EUROPEAN lNTELLIG EHcE.-[B By the Ameri-
ca, which left Liverpool on the 9th inst.
- The London Times is indignant at the
circular of Count Nessclrode, to which allusion
has already been made, accepting the third
point with important restrictions. The Times
aflirms that such proposition is not an over
ture; it is an insult, a new outrage, fresh
provocation to war. 1t says:
"What can be hoped from negotiation with
a power which, after such series of reverses
rs have fallen upon Russia since the close of
the Vienna Conterence-her armies defeated,
her finances deranged, her fleet destroyed, her
coasts ravaged, her rivers beset ana bIocknded
Gan find no terms except such, as she might
impose had victory followed her standards as
pertinaciOusly as defeat2 To exclude the
Allies from the sea which they have made
their own, in order To give back the dominion
over it to a fleet that is buried beneath its
waves, to regulate the equipoise OF power be-
tween herself and Turkey by n convention to
which the principal belligerents are to be no
parties, to leave the cause OF European indie
pendence to the keeping of the treochery. the
timidity, or the venality of the Divan, are
terms 80 disastrous and ignomnious that we
% must lose more fleets and armies than Russia
has lost before we can stoop so Ow-before
we can regard such terms rs anything else
than fresh outrage and fresh provoca-
ton"
The London Morning Post says this prop
osition was communicated to Austria when
the Cabinet of st. Petersburg heard of the
intended movement of that Power, but that
Count Buol did not venture to submit to the
Western Powers "a proposition which sayors
more of useless impertnenee than of the art
full plausibiIity in which Russian diplomatists
are generally such distinguished adopts"
CASUALTIES FOR A YEAR.-lt is not sur
prising, says the New York Observer, that in
these days of traveland of peril by land and
by sea the chapter of accidents and casualties
for the past year should be long and sad
We have gathered from reliable sources the
facts and figures which are appended, al
though il is highly probable that the number
of deaths by fatality of travel is somewhat
greater than is here represented:
During the year 1855 tho number of rail-
road accidents in various parts of the coun.
try, resulting in losses of life or limb, was
l42, BY which l16 persons were killed and
539 badly wounded. More than 60 EN-.
ployees ofthe railroad companies are included
al. 4. RI LII Il nf al ~
were engineers and 6 conductors
The steamboat accidents have not been so
numerous, amounting to 81, but resulting in |
l76 deaths, IN increase Of 50 over those eaus-
ed by rail.
The loss Of property ocessioncd by de-
structive fires has been enormous, amounting |
to more, than Sl3,000,000. This is the est.
mated loss Of about 200 extensive confngra-
tons. The figures do not embrace the vast
amount of property destroyed by almost in
Vulnerable smaller fires.
Disastrous MS these results seem to be,
they are happily far less in magnitude than
those of the former year, 1854. During that
year the railroad accidents numbered 81 more,
while the number of the killed was 20 and
of the wounded 80 greater than in the last
year.
The steamboat accidents OF 1854 were 49,
diminished in 1855 to 27;thc killed were 5S7,
to l76; the wounded 2a5, dilnin-
ishcd TO 107 .n
The number Of fires in 1854 was 223,
which decreased by 30 in 1855; and the loss
of property amounted to S20,000,000, which
was reduced to $l3,0a0,000 during the last
year.
LATE CAMPAIGN OF THE NIssoURIANs IN
Editorof the st. Joseph (Mo.)
Cycle, who participated in the "Kunsas re-
belion," gives the following history of the
campaign:
"Warriors numerous; seven hundred ut
Lawrence, seven hundred and fifty at Wa ,
karusa; tho first above and the second below
Lawrence; scouting parties securing the coun.
try; prisoners brought in daily, pale, scared,
surgeons solicitous; Governor and
staff negotiating in Lawrence; expresses pas
sing hourly; warriors painting for battle; spir-
its up, spirits down. schnapps; weather cold;
storm RACES; hail, rain, snow, wind; tents
blown down, sheets ard blankets blown up;
fires blown out; ardor cooled; warriors shiy.
ering; no sleeping; much complaining; action
desired; Impotence growing; provender scarce
corn for one horse stolen for another; officer
tried for petit larceny fried oysters; prose.
cution to furnish liquor. Various skirmishes;
an editor worsted;an official corned; schnopps;
guns firing, warriors drilling patience ex-
housted; going to charge; express arrives;
peace declared, home, scattering; covered with
glory; victory; and end"
sts- 1t is stated the Queen Of England
would not see her maid of honor, Miss Muir.
ray, upon her return from the United States,
and slgnled to her that if she published :
defence OF slavery she must resign her phase.
Miss Murray has done so, and is no longer q ,
member of the royal household.
1B- Ajury in New Orleans las. week re.
fused 10 allow the liberation of twenty b
slaves by theIr mistress, unless they would c
leave the State. The slaves declined leav. e
ing. 0