Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-14
ADDITIONAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The CAPTURE OF SCHAMYL.--Le Nord con-
tains the following letter from St Petersburg
of the 17th :-"Lieutenant Colonel Grabbe,
who has just returned from the Caucasus, has
brought details of the capture of Schamyl.
He has made no written report, but has YER
bally communicated to the Emperor what has
| taken place, which is as follows After series
Of defeats, Schamyl, finding no other means OF
| safety, was obliged to shut himself up in the
fortified village of Gonnib, with four hundred
Murides who remained faithful to him. This
place was considered by the Russians as COM
pletely impregnable, and SO strong that a sim
gle company of well trained soldiers might
have defended it for months against whole
army. The only approach to it was steep
path, so narrow that only two men could
walk abreast. In the presence of these
difficulties Prince Bariatinski determined to
make the attack by means of having the
surrounding rocks scaled, and several hun
dred men volunteered for this desperate SER
vice. The assault took place on the It'll Whilst
one column advanced by the narrow path
above mentioned, which the Murides had pre-
pared to defend to the last extremity, the vol
unteers bravely scaled the rocks on the oppo'
side of the fort, and, in spite of all the difficult
| ties which impeded their ascent, suddenly ap-
| peared in the rear of the small band, and a
desperate struggle took place. The Murides
saw that retreat was impossible, and fought
with fury. Out of the 400 men forming the
garrison only AZ remained alive, and pieces
of cannon fell into the hands of the Russians.
! As to Schamyl he had shut himself up in one
OF the houses cut in the rock. All the ground
before it covered with dead bodies the
| Russians had 100 men killed. Prince Bariatin-
ski soon after arrived, and gave orders for the
| firing to cease. He then summoned Schamyl
to surrender. The Imam, showing himself
at an opening cut in the wall of the house,
asked what conditions would be given to
| him. Surrender Internationally, replied the
| Prince, and he came forward, the office RS round
the general advising him to be on his guard
and not expose himself to the danger of being
a victim to the treachery of Schamyl When
the chief advanced, the Prince said, Are you
| Schamyl? Yes replied the Imam. well,
then, said the Prince, your life shall be saved !;
you shall keep your riches and your wives. l
shall send you tomorrow to st. Petersburg,
for it is on the Emperor that your fate will de-
| pend Schamyl bowed his head without
speaking a word. The Prince added, Il have
long expected you at Titiis, where | had hoped
| you would have come of your own accord to
make your submission, but you have compelled
me to come and fetch you Then, turning to
Colonel Grabbe, the Prince said, Set off imme.
diately for st. Petersburg and report to the
| Emperor all that you have witnessed. a de-
tailed report will be sent to morrow, at the
same time with Schamyl himself Such has
been the deaoaen,ent of the sanguinary drama
which has been so long going on"
CHINESE Accounts OF THE PEIHo AFFAIR
The China Mail say that the Monaghan Prince
Senn-ko-lin-sin, is believed to have command
ed in person at the Peiho, and is described as
dark, taciturn, determined and energetic man.
| I 4. l. 1
the Emperor. He is a Prince of the Empire
and severe in his manner. The Chinese are
unanimous in thinking that the Emperor was
afraid of being ousted from his capital by large
force of foreign soldiers, and, relying upon this
fear Sem took the responsibility of the affair
| upon himself. A haudbll with rude litho
| graph (not Il purely Chinese work. Of the
fight, making the cannon balls nearly the size
of the ships, has been largely purchased here
and at Canton. The following is an accurate
translation of the account it gives, in Chinese,
| of the fight.
"Ners from Tien- Tsn-The barbarians
started from Shanghai on the 18th day of the
| fifth month, and on arrival communicated with
Sem Wang (Paince Seem and allowed him
three days to take away the wooden and iron
obstacles in the river and he answered that
| they must stay i'll the outer ocean until the
commissioners, Kwe-liang and Hwashana, ar
rived in Pekin when they would be invited to
| go to Pekin. The barbarianS were not willing
to agree to these terms. The same day they
tried to pull away the stakes, by means of their
gunboats and men of war. The forte fired
upon them. The battle lasted from the 23d
to the morning of the oath. Five or six hun
pred of the Sons of Devils (Kwei-chee) were
killed, and one head officer (Ping-tan), with
more than 30 of the officers ping chung).
They 1.-THE foreigners), seeing that the fire had
Stacked in the forts, called their sampans to
land to attack the forts, but the slackening of
the fire was device (Kei) of the Chinese
soldiers; and about 400 of the Devils soldiers
| (Ping-kwei) were killed. Their boats were
knocked to pieces. We have heard that the
men-of-war are to rendezvous at Chusan, but
do not know what they will follow"
| BRIGANDAGE IN THE RoMAGNA-A letter
in the London Morning Post dated at Flor
ence, Sept. 70, says:-It may seem, indeed
the most exquisite irony, to affirm that with
the cessation Of the rule of the Vicar of Christ
lin the Romagna), bandits and brigands have
suddenly become honest men. But the con-
current testimony of all travellers establishes
that in the provinces which have thrown off
the Papal yoke, you may now do what you
never could do before-you may travel through
the length and breadth of the country without
encountering any risk, without receiving iniu-
ry from single human being. Crimes prin-
cipally arose from the influence of that afro
cous and accused governments govern.
ment of which the maintenance was quite i'm.
possible without the general continued, and
| systematic decentralization of the people.
From the Providence journal, Oct. 49,