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DEMOCRATIC jHEETING.

The Democracy of Montgomery county •arc requested to meet at the Court House in Crawfordsville, on Saturday the 25th of November. A general attendance is requested, as there will be business of importance to transact.

By order of the CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

JtgT The New Orleans Bee has a letter from the city of Mexico to the 5th ult., which states that there existed a marked coolness between Santa Anna and the entire diplomatic corps. Mr. Gadsden, the American Minister, was an especial object of displeasure, for having refused to illuminate his dwelling on the 27th Sept., in obedience to S.inta Anna's decree.

MEETING OF CONGRESS.—rlhe last session of the thirty-third Co-gress commences on

the first Monday of December, five weeks from Monday last, and closes on the night of the.3d of March following.

J&T The war taxes now imposed directly on the British people, and paid for in hard cash, amounts to fifty millions annually. This is about equal to the whole amount of annual taxes levied by the United States Government on its revenue duties.

S3T A meeting of Know Nothings was held in Walnut Township on last Thursday right, in an old building owned by Jacob Christman. About 3 o'clock in the morning they wcro discovered by several farmers •who had been out coon hunting and who were returning home, when alight was discovered in the building, and upon a near npproach a voice was heard declaiming in a very violent manner. The speaker seemed terribly agitated—spoke ot the vast quantity of arms stored in the Catholic churches of the State—of the danger of waking up some fine morning and finding their throats cut from ear to ear. He said

had as much contempt for an old line national whig as a democrat—that the Order iii their proscriptivc policy should make no difference between them, but nail them alike to tbe wall. lie hoped before two years to see every office filled tv the brethren. Here the meeting was disturbed and broke up in a tumult, the sentinel a

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dow .having discovered the intruders and giving ifihc alarm, they rushed out of doors nad commenced throwing rocks of which they had bountifully supplied themselves with. The hunters quietly retreated, thinking of the gullibility of some men and the knavery of others.

£3T The New York Herald says that one chapter of the Know Nothings whose constitution has recently transpired, has added to the list of the proscribed *11 Socialists and Univcrsalists.

(Kr A counterfeit five dollar note on the City Bank, New Haven, was detected at he Suffolk Bank, Boston. It is an exact copy of the genuine five, but the engraven of the vignettes is poorly executed—at least it is far inferior to 4he genuine. The lettering is well done. The paper is of a lighter cujor and of an inferior quality to the genuine, and the bill is about a quarter of an ineh longer than the true bill. It is on the whole well calculated to deceive.

Jf&~ A ficticious bank, pretending to have an ggcncy in the city of New \ork, called ^Merchants Exchange Bank, Annacosta, D.

C., was broken up a few days since. Bills to the amount of $100,OtX) are circulated Southwest, mostly signed F. E. Curtis, Cuhter II. Dcwoy, President. They are utterly worthless. Some of the parties are .' underarrest and warrants are out for others.

OirThf Stato Elections in New Jersey, Illinois and MieMgan take placc Nov. 7th lh Maswchusetts, Nov. IP in Delaware Kov. H.

GREELY OX TILE KNOW-NOTHI XGS.

The following extract from a recent number of the N. Y. Tribune, will give the reader some idea of the estimation in which Greely holds the infamous Order of KnowNothingism. He says truly, that no man of honesty and self-respect can longer maintain any connection with it. Now as Greeley is the great mouth-piece of the People's Party of this State, and the oracle oi the various writers of the Montgomery Journal, aii well as the officers of the wigwam in Crawfordsville, what will they say of Horace's opinion of them? That it is a correct one they dare not deny, but admit by their own actions. Charge them with it, and the blush of shame mantles their cheeks, while the more hardened strive to hide their guilt by affecting anger and indignation, and endeavoring to brow-beat and frown down their accusers. Threats already have been thrown out that the least said concerning their Order the better. How far such threats will go to intimidate us in the discharge of our duty, the public must judge hereafter. But if untiring energy, stimulated by a Carthagenian hatred of the Order, will avail anything, we intend to lay them open as daylight. Our motto is lex talionis, like for like. But to the extract:— "The pitiful tricks, the base intrigues, the gross impositions on the masses, which have notoriously marked the recent management of the Order, and which only form a part of the policy all along contemplated by its leaders, have never been surpassed in the worst degredations of whig or democratic wire-pulling. If the Order had a single respectable trait before, it has none now. It has sunk below contempt, and has not only committed political suicide, but has done it in the least decent and creditable manner. No man of honesty and selfrespect can longer maintain any connection with it, or receive with any feeling but disgust the command to vote for the candidates it has been used to put in nomination.

&3F General credence is given to the reported discovery of the reimins of Sir John Franklin and his comrades, the account of which will be found on the first page of this weeks paper. If any doubt previously existed, the reliability of the evidence furnished by Dr. Rue of the terrible fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions, they have been removed by the fact that the English Book of Heraldry describes the crest of Sir John Franklin as precisely like that described by Dr. Rae, in number five, and number four as the crest and motto exactly of Lieut. Fuirliolm of the expedition. The initials on one of the forks, H. D. S. G. are evidently those of Assistant Surgeon H. D. S. Goodside, .and that of A. McD.# those of Surgeon A. McDonald. These relicts recovered by Dr. Rae serve as confirmation of the story of the Esquimaux, and identify the party beyond the possibility of a doubt. The long search, and the agony of suspense will now be over.

&3T The London Times, the organ of the British government and the English aristocracy, speaks thus of the Know-Noth-ing movement in this country: "Our translantic brethren are evidently awakening to a just sense of their danger. The moneyed classes of the States to whose hands properly belongs the administration of government, are determined to check if possible, the collossal power which the elective franchise has given to the unlettered and ignorant masses, who in their folly have filled the highest offices of the country with corrupt and unscrupulous demagouges. The Order under the euphonious name of Know-Nothings bids lair to achieve this happy result, the consummation of which will be hailed with pleasure l)y her Majesty Government."

Who would'nt be a Know-Nothing when her most gracious Majesty smiles so approving? upon the Order. Surely the days pf English flunkyism and bigotry are dawning upon us.

GREELEY'S ADVICE TO THE KNOW* NOTHINGS. What will k?iow-7iu/hiiiy T. W. Fry say to this wholesome advice of Greeley's?— Will he admit, like an honest man and a christian, that Greeley speakt? with truth, and that the advice is good? We pause

for a reply: -"Withdraw frankly, promptly and Utierlv. Your duty to your country and your i"j t. 1— „i,i: now atau

fellow beings is paramount to any obligation imposed on you by a secret society, and where the two coine in collision the latter must give way. This is the dictate of Religion, of Patriotism, and of Common Sense. Keep out of all traps henceforth but, if you have heedlessly run into one, gel out as speedily as possibile. Having got out, you will not need our advice to stay out."

ONE FOOL LESS.—Wm. Hulling, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, committed suicide last monday week, under the following singular circumstance. He had been paying his attention to a young lady, and seeing her ride past with another gentleman, nnd knowing that they would soon return, he went and hung himself upon an apple tri by the road-side, in full view of his lady, and rival as they passed by. He was 22 years old.

B£*T The steamer Arabia arrived at New York on the 3d., with Liverpool dates to the 21st ult. The allies had opened fire upon Sebastopol wilh 200 pieces.of cannon, The Russians have received reinforcement.

TERRIBLE COLLISION ON THE GREAT WESTERN (CANADA) RAILROAD.

The Express train over the Great Wesj tern Railway due at Windsor, last Thurs^ day night, at 11 20, came in collision with a gravel train at half past 5 on Friday morning, about one mile east of Baptist Creek, or nearly 31 miles from Windsor.

The collis'on was the most frightful affair ever known on a western road. The Express consisted of 4 first class, and 2 second class cars, all full of passengers. So forcible was the shock that the car next to the baggage car was jumped completely over the second car killing or wounding nearly all the passengers in both cars, and smashing them to atoms. The front first class car was also dashed to pieces, and the passengers in the front part nearly all killed, or badly injured.

When the daylight dawned through the dense fog, the most heart-rendering scene presented itself. Amid the confused pile of fragments, scattered in every direction, lay the mangled remains of more than fifty persons. Here lay the corpse of a mother mangled beyond description, while a few feet further on, was a mass of flesh and blood, which had once been her loving child. Here lay a leg and an arm, or a head, while the body to which they belonged was buried in the mass of fragments now smoking with human gore.

Bui sadder yet was the appeals of the wounded, who lay groaning under the broken cars, and writhing in pain, worse than death. Then the pleading, tearful entreaties of mothers for their darlings, which this calamity had rendered unsightly and unknown. Their shrieks even chilled the hearts of the bravest, and unnerved many a strong arm. He who hap seen the sight, or heard the appalling cry, will rcmemcber it to his dying hour, but the hand of Divinity would fail to do it justice.

Several of our citizens were upon the train, of whom the son of S. M. Holmes, and also Robert P. Toms, Esq (who is our informant,) have returned to us unhurt, but impressed with the saddest picture of human suffering that has ever fallen beneath their notice. Mr. Toms says that among the whole number unhurt, very few had the nerve to handle the mutilated forms of those who but a few minutes before were as full otiiio aucl hope as they, But there was one whose heroism is worthy of particular notice —Thomas F. Meagher. No sooner was he clear of the wreck than throwing aside his coat and vest, and seizing an axe, he began the humane work of helping the the suffering, and never did a man work with abetter will. Others, and Mr. Nutteer, the conducter, among them, worked as men never worked before. The cries of the wounded nerved their arms, and disregarding fatigue and their own bruises, they worked for four hours as earnestly as for the lives of their dearest friends.

When Mr Toms left, there had been 22 dead men, 11 dead woman, 14 dead children, 21 wounded men, and 20 wounded women and children teken from the mass of ruins—making 89 in all killed or wounded. The ruins had not all been removed, and it is probable that this number will be increased some ten or fiifteen. Of the killed a large portion are foreigners. It is thought probable that two-thirds of the wounded will die.

Mr. Toms says that nothing was omitted which could be done to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded. The killed were removed on one side, and covered with canvass. A hand car was dispatched for physicians, who soon arrived, and the wounded were spread upon the cushions of the broken cars, and made as comfortable as possible.

There could benopossble blame attached to conductor Mr. Nutter, or engineer Mr. Thomas Smith, of the Express train. The fault lay with the engineer of the gravel train who should have known whether the Express had passed before coming upon the track. His name has not yet been found out, as he immediately left the ground.

Since writing the above, we learn that eleven more have died, making fifty-eight

I)j*. Watson and family, of Williamsburrrh, w.ere on the 11 o'clock train, and rendered great distance to the wounded LIST OK WOUNDED Di«AD AS FAR AS C0TTZ*D

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Geo. Hester, German, bsdly injured. Charlotte. M. Sipe child, Chicago, badly injured. Francis Galligcr, Ireland, badly injured. John Galliger, Chas. Koliell. Germany, JohnW. Sougbny, leg broke, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Peter Galliger, dead. Ellen Galliger, and baby, dead. James Fermoy, fireman knee hurt. Engineer badly scalded. Thomas Boshardi, Pa., badly hurt. Geo. Boahardt, Williamsport vr Catharine Boahardt, Margret Watson, Courtland county, N. Y. badly hurt. Harriet Maria Watson, badly hurt. Three colored men dead.

The Express had been delayed at various the firm of F. P. Furman & Co.,. New York, points by other trains off the track. At St George a gravel train had got off, and baggage train was behind. One hour and a half was spent in getting the train upon the track again, and then, the Express was obliged' to follow the baggage train to Princeton, at a very slow pace. The train left London at 1 o'clock, and when out about four miles the cylinder head burst, and it was necessary to procure another engine from London, to draw the train back, in order to change engines. The train again started with a new engine, and was ordered by the conducter Mr. G. T. Nutter, to run slow as the night was dark and foggy. By means of these delays the train was now. 3:35 behind time. The train came up to the scene of disaster, at about 25 or 26 miles per hour. The gravel train was backing into Catham, the engineer supposing that the Express had passed.

One child, parents dead, sljghtly injured. Eustis Roberts, badly injured.

Eliza M. Boshardt, slightly Thomas Boshardt, *, One boy seven years old The latest intelligence says that the dead and wounded have been taken to Chatham, where all proper attention will be bestowed upon them. -j

We learn from Ur. Wm. H. Weed? of

that Mr. Randall Watson, of Cortland county, was detained at Suspension Bridge to look after baggage, and came with him on the following train, and witnessed the heart-rending sight of his wife with both legs broken and otherwise injured, his daughter badly injured, his son with a leg broken and one or two members of his family laying dead and mangled in the ruins.

Dr. Jackson, of Hartford county, Connecticut, who providentally came up on the morning train, was unremitting in his exertions to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded and dying.

INCIDENTS OF TIIE BATTLE OF THE ALMA. At the commencement of the action many ladies were on the hights. Prince Menchikoff had given them to understand that, on his part, it would be a mere review— that the allies would not be able to meet his heavy artillery and would retreat—A scaffolding had been erected for their accommodation, but they appear to have retreated in great haste when the enemy got too close, for the next day we are told the French had great sport after the battle with some women's clothes which they found near the redoubt where they lost so many men.

One officer, says an eye witness, lay dead with a lttle dog sitting between his legs, a positon from which no persuasion could move him. He had been mortally wounded, and hid given his gold watch to a soldier who kindly gave him a draught of water. Another quite a boy, lay with his hands clasped in the attitude of prayer

It appears that a certain class of visitors made profitable day's work by visiting the field of battle. Almost every one "found" something. One picked up nine revolvers ^nd fifty sovereigns and one, a Malfese was reported to have realized upwards of £150 in gold. Coats, boots, &c. were all taken off by pillagers, and in many cases the gold lace ripped off the uniforms of the dead.

A great many rifles of superior workmanship were picked up maker's name, Malherbes, of Liege."

A Russian general was captured after the battle under rather singular circumstances. He had heard the firing, and perfectly confident that the action must have resulted in our repulse, came with a single attendant to the heights tocongratulate, as he believed Prince Menchikoff upon his victory. To his intense surprise he was made prisoner, and brought in by Sergeant Trotter, of the Coldstream Guards, who was on duty at one of the outposts.

Another general officer was captured in tne redoubt. He was stretchd on the ground beside his fallen horse, apparently dead.

An artilleryman, who had taken a great fancy to his coat, was about to divest the supposed corpse of it, when the body began to move and nearly frightened the man off-

It was soon discovered that no harm had come to the general, and on his coat being opened, two stars announced his rank.

The general's object was to be quiet until night, and make offIt is confidently reported that Menchikoff was suffering from illness during the battle so that he had to be supported. There are also reports of his having been wounded—one account says in the feet another in the hands. During the retreat he was in the square, formed by a brigade posted on the road from Kanatal, where the English and French cavalry broke the square, and he did escape without difficulty, owing his safety to the swiftness of his horse.

The enemys troop's continued during the whole night to make for Milie, and at last threw up entrenchments in that place on the Belbeck—It is said that during the combat a great number of Poles belonging to tha Russian army passed over to the allies.

jr^-Tbe New York Tribune calls the "Know-Nothing" conspiracy a cut throat affair. Here are some facts, comments and questions concerning political affairs in New York, to which we call attention:. "Meantime, let us look dispassionately at this state facts. "There are in this city, for example, some ten thousand voters who have joined various lodges of the secret order known as "Know-Nothings." Nearly all these are members of the Whig or Democratic parties and most of them are active, aspireing politicians.

These have taken solemn obligations to support and vote for such candidates as the superior Councils of the Order may nominate. In the face of these obligations, these members attend the primary meetings of their respective parties, and there help to make nominations there, too, they obtain nominations when they can. But it is a "patent safe" operation: they seem to be

partizans of Clark, or Bronson, or Seymour but in secret they are pledged to.Ullman, and must violate, either their solemn oath as members of the Order, or their honorable obligations as members of the Whig or Democratic party who have chosen to take part in selecting its candidates. A "KnowNothing" m»kes a rush for the Whig or Democratic nomination for some office if he gets it, he runs and, with the help of the masked brotherhood, may be elected but if he loses the party nomination, he opposes the party nominee and goes in for his secret opponent, who is thus elected.

Is this fair plav? If a man should act thus in his business, who could respect or trust him?"

0^7™ Crawfordsville will furnish two candidates for United States Senator, Henry S. Lane and Dr. R. T, Brown. If we are day of departure to Lave abolitionist elected to that bigb po-» dozen are be.ngdmly forward?^ sition %re are distinctly in favor of Julien, th'» company.-:*. /'ma, .!».

When the cold winds of November

howl around our coasts and dwellirgs, let us who are on the "solid land" be-think us of the perils of those "who go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters." Here is a native poet who has had them in mind, and who has drawn

a Very vivid picture: "God help the Mariner! Over the sea

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Cometh the winter wind, Howling and free Like the strong maniao

Torn from her child Bippeth the gallant ship Low in the wave Risetli unhurinod again, ,Proudly nnd brave

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Loosed from his chain, Moving all terribly over the main 'Hurling the mountain wave, "Writhing in foam,

Driving the mariner *r Leagues from his home Lo, it breathes mournfully, Sobbing aloud, On bow-sprit and mizen-mast, Halyard nnd shroud. Hark 1 on the fore-stay, Shrieketh it wild, j. As shrieketh tho young mother,

Flingeth tho hissing 6pray Off from the prow, Straining the martingale Under the bow Pushing along her course Like to the steed Urged by its rider, And proud of its speed Yet doth the freshened galo, Following fast, Strain at the bellied sail,"4' And utter its moaning wail, Bending the mast.

"Cold doth the sky look, And eolder the sun, Glad is tho helmsman now, His watch is near done Slipping his icy feet, lie graspcth the wheel Kumb though his hands aro, 11 is grasp is like stocl. -.f

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West nor'west'b no'th1 and 'A-q\iartcr the wind,1 And a wake like the malestrom sk s'Is foaming behind. Slowly the starbord watch Come from below, Warned by the larboard watch 'A rough night in tow.' Tlio spray on the dock now Falleth like hail, And the coats of tho sailors Have frozen to mail"

MASSACRES IN OREGON. By the late arrivals from California we learn that the Indians are very tronblesome in Oregon. On the 20 of August a horrible massacre was committed by the Snake Indians, about 25 miles from Fort Boise. A party estimated at about 60 warriors, that had been encamped near the emigrant trial, in the vicinity of Fort Boise, attacked a train of emigrants consisting of nine or ten men, two women, and eight children, and killed or carried into captivity the whole number save two boys.

Seven men from Boise, who, on the day of the massacre were in pursuit of a cow, ran upon the Indians in the very act of plundering the wagons and driving off the cattle. They charged the Indians who fled carrying off the women and children. Not deeming it prudent for so few to go in pursuit, they immediately returned to Fort Boise, taking with them a boy named Newton Ward, who had been wounded, and left by the Indians for dead.

On the morning of the 22d, a party of men left Fort Boise for the scene of massacre, with the hope of recovering the women and children, who were supposed to be captives in the hands of the Indians. Upon arriving at the spot where the attack was made, the bodies of six men were found, and in the bush near by, the bodies of four more. Not far from that place was found the body of Miss Ward, a young lady of about 17 years of age. Her body exhibited signs of the most fiendish violence and cruelty. About a quarter of a mile from this place, the body of Mrs. White was found—a lady who was coming to meet her husband, who now resides in Umpqua valley. She had been scalped, and her head beaten to a jelly and other violence inflicted on her person.

About a half mile from this place, and on the opposite side of Boise River, was found the encampment of the savages then vacated. The encampment numbered sixteen willow lodges, in the centre of which was found the body of Mrs. Ward, who had evidently suffered the most violent torture. Her body was covered with scars made with a hot iron; her flesh was cut in many places, and a tomahawk wound was inflicted upon the right temple. In front of her lay the crisped bodies of three of her children, who had apparently been tortured and burned alive in her presence.

Three more children were missing, together with a lad about 15 years of age.— The lad, however, came into Fort B. four days afterwards, wounded, and with an arrow still sticking in his body.

The wagons belonging to the train were burned. The stock, together with the clothing, money, and light articles, were all taken away by the murderers. It is supposed that the band who committed this outrage belong to that division of the Snakes who live between Fort Hall and Grand Round. They are hostile to the whites, and are at present well armed with American rifles and Hudson's Bay Company's guns. Ammunition they are said to be supplied with by the Hudson Bay Company's posts. -----

FOR KANSAS.—The "Kansas League" of this city, will dispatch another train of emiorants to Kansas on Tuesday next.— Abrut 150 persons are already booked for this train, and it is expected the number will be considerably increased before the

Small parties from one by

'KRONSTAtKT.

Kronstadt, properly the port of St. Peters* burgh, and the principle station of the R\psian navy in the Baltic, is sitdated on the long, flat, and arid island of Kotlin, Hear the eastern extremity of the gulf of Finland, and about twenty miles from St« Petersburgh. The town is built in the form of an irregular triangle, on the south eastern extrmity of the isle, opposite the motfth of Neva, and is strongly fortified on all sides/ on the south side of Kotlin is the narrovP channel, through which only one vessel can pass at a time, from the gulf to the' capital, and scores of guns could here be brought to bear on an enemy, by means of a fortress erected on a detatched"islet or, if arriving on the opposite side, by the batteries ofRiesbank, and the citadel of Kronslot. /, .2

The appearance of Kronstadt is respecta' ble. It is regularly built, and contain» many staight and well-paved streets, and several squares. The houses, however, are all low, being generally of one story, with those siugular red and green painted roofs, common in Russia and are mostly of wood, with the exception of the government, which number nearly two hundred, and are nearly all built of stone. The town is entered by three gates, and.is divided into two sections, the commandent's division and the admirality, each of which is subdivided into two districts. It is also intersected by two canals, which have their sides built of granite, and are both deep, and wide enough to admit the larger vessels. The one, Peter's canal, is used as a repairing dock and the other, Catherine's canal for coramcrcial purposes.

It contains three churches that of tho Transfiguration, a large wooden edifice, built by Peter the Great, and covered with images Trinity Church, and St, Andre w'9 Ctiurh, in the Byzantine style, with a handsome cupola. There are also two Greek chapels, and three other churches, one each for Lutherians, English, and Catholics. Between the two canals stands a handsome palace, built by Prince Menchikoff, now occupied as a naval school, and attended by three hundred pupils. The other public buildings deserving of notice are the marine hospital, fitted up with 25 hundred beds the exchange, custom-house, admirality, arsenal, barricks, cannon-foundry, etc., and the small palace in which Peter the Great resided, and in the gardens of which are several oaks planted by his own hand. The shady alleys of the gardens form the principal promenade.

The harbor of Kronstadt lies to the sonth of the town, and consists of three sections the military or outer harbor, which is the great naval station of Russia, and is capable of containing thirty-five ships-of-the-line the middle harbor, running parallel with the last, and used only by merchant• vessels, of which one thousand might lie in it. Two-thirds of the external commerce of Russia pass through Kronstadt, although the depth of water at the bar is scarcely nine feet and ice blocks up tho harbor nearly five months in the year the shipping season continuing only from May to November. Kronstadt has constantcommunication with the opposite shores, and steamers now ply regular between it and the capital. The population in winter i* npt above six thousand, exclusive of the garrison and marine but including these in summer, it is not less than forty thousand.

The Washington correspondent of the Coos Democrat obtaining his information from Mr. Orsborn, editor of the Kansas Herald, who was lately iu Wsshington, says:

Emigrants from the slaveholding states do not carry their slaves with them. There are less than twenty slaves in the territory, a majority of whom are held by the officers at the Fort, and were there before the territory was opened to settlement. Neither Orsborn nor Judge Bird, a distinguished Missourian, have any doubt but that when^ the Territorial Legislature meets next Spring, slavery will be prohibited in the territory. Both these gentlemen were in tho Territory not two weeks ago one is a northern gentlemen, and the other a southern man. A candid public can judge whether such men as these, or the ranting abolition and venal whig presses—their allies—* at the north, are the most worthy of belief.»,

JE3TDistinguisniN'o Themsklves.—The'n American officers in the Turkish service under Omcr Pascha, in the Principalities, and Gen. Guyon, in Asia, have, in all tha military operations thus far, conducted themselves so well as to win much praise.

Among them is mentioned a Mr. Porter,, of New Jersey, who enjoys the confidence^ of Omar Pascha, and who gave the Rus-, sians the last blow near Bueso, after which' he brought back his squadrons in safety,, although at the time nearly surrounded by a vastly superior force of the enemy.

Two Americons serving under Guyon, in Asia also distinguished tlfemselves whenever an opportunity offered.

Dr. Millman, who. is-writing the History of Christianity in successive volumes, baa published the sixth volume, only bringing^ it down to the time of Rome and the Popes.'

At this rate, the entire work will reach twenty or thirty volumes.

American Conference iu Europe. r«

The London Globe says: "A Conference, is assembled on the Continent which is without precedent, acting, as we understand it, under directions of the President ol the United States. The Ambassador of that country are assembled to exchange information, to consult and report to their Government on the state of affairs on the. Continent. American trade is carried to every part of the world, and the Confer^ ence has in view the due protection and advancement ol those interests in and ,new arrangement of treaties that may be made in Europe. Mr. Buchanan left London &v Saturday, and be has already been met^y.

American Ministers front Parts and'Mud' I rid."