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At 4 o'clock the bells of the churches in

s* laying picket of the Light Division heard the sound of wheels in the valley below, as though they were approaching the position

Up the hill. He reported the circumstance to Maj. Banbury, but it was supposed that st the sound arose from ammunition carts or ®. atabas going into Sevastopol by the Inkera man road. No one suspected for a moss ment that enormous masses of Russians were creeping up the rugged sides of the heights over the valley of Inkerman on the undefended flank of the Second Division.

There all was security and repose. Little did the slumbering troops in camp imag'k ine that a subtle and indefatigable enemy were bringing into position an ovenvhelmming artillery, ready to play upon their tents at the first glimpse of daylight.

It must be observed that Sir De Lacy Evans had long been aware of the insecurity of this portion of our position, and had repeatedly pointed it out to those whose duty it was to guard against the dangers

,toward

m,i. lead up to the crest and the summit,

abattis, or outlaying defense of any kind. I

Every one admitted the truth of thercprc-!

Mutations addressed to the authorities on

vS dence led to indifference and procrastination. A battery was thrown up with sand bags and gabions and fascines on the slope of the hill over Inkcrman on the east, but •no guns were mounted there, for Sir De*

Lacy Evans thought that two guns in such

A ht*avy responsibility/rests on those I

US behind entrenchment. We have noth-.

ing to rcjoicc over, and almost everything to deplore, in the battle of Inkerman. Vm.A

inr

del of Sevastopol. We have abashed, humiliated, and utterly routed an enemy strong::

must give us more

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ny round at last, and retraced his steps I

He had only proceeded a few paces when a

Light Division. It was here that the pick-

eta of the Second Division were stationed.

his division. The Russians were advancing

in foree upon ns! Their grey greatcoaU

seh es with

Sevastopol were heard ringing drearily battle, supported by field artillery, through the cold night air, but the occur-,a'

rencc has been so usual that it excited no sweep over the heights and cut our retreatparticular attention! During the night, I troops to pieces, should the assault on however, a sharp-eared sergeant on an out-

our

r'o^''

,i t: i. r\* 1 liar] lwpn nn tVi hpirrhts of Tnk-^r-

s: which threatened us. It was the on mu i_ !presence. They had abundance of a coarground where we were exposed to surprise, is a a a a for a number of ravines and unequal curves1 .1 ti .i was found in their canteens and nasks and the slope of the lull, the val ey, 11 ,u r.i in.'

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against1Church

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false security and nn overwhelming confi-, _•!

position, without any works to support: them, would only invite and capture.! ... y.. _!L.,rattack I Lacy Ev} command of the second

position, without any works to support! "-*a»ci»S

jm, would only invite attack and capture, ^Bncfat,her'

had been erected on the heights of Inker man in communication with another on the hill over their position, from which the intelligence of our defeat was to be conveyed to the Cavalry General, and the news would have been made known in Sevastopol by similar means, in order to encourage the garrison to a general sortie along their front.

A steamer with very heavy shell guns and mortars was sent up by night to the head of the creek at Inkerman, and caused much injury throughout the day by the enormous shells she pitched right over the hill upon our men. Everything that could be done to bind victory to their eagles—if they have any—was done by the Russian Generals. The presence of their Grand Duke, Micholavitch, who told them that the Czar had issued orders that every Frenchman and Englishman was to be driven into the sea ere the year closed, cheered the common soldiers,who regard the son of the Emperor as an emanation of the Divine

above all, the priests of the Greek Catnohc

ru ««ui i».i »i .'

., "blessed them ere they went fortn the adverse side of which our right flank' .1 ,. .,i upon thc11* mission, and assured them of musketrv on theri[rht and bv the sharD rewas resting, without gnus, mtrenciiments, I,

men. She must be

prodigal of her sons, as she is of her money and her ships, and as they have been of their lives in her service. ss It was a little after 5 o'clock this morn

Vhcn Brigadier General Codrin-ton, in ac-1

cordance with his usual habit, visited the

outlaviiig pickets of his own brigade of

*i ii ousJy used to repel them.

was rcmarked that it would not be at all gjr

°f

tbC ,n

P0S,tI°n'

Bmr-dier whn

a.nd. 95th

1 -i .1 their flank. 1 hev were at once met with a

have deleateu the enemy, indeed, but have ,, .i •. tremendous fire of shell and round shot not advanced a step nearer toward the cita-

c* iir trom guns which the enemy had posted on the high grounds in advance of our right, was soon found that the Russians

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ana it

in numbers, in fanaticism, and in dogged, i„it ,»

resolute courage, and animated bv the pres-., °e ,, "i heavy artillery to bear, upon us. once ot a son ot him whom they believe to

th® vls»on

C.Upied

fi^wn

alculatm 0n

wiiriImpmiml 0".^

wcaPons"excel-,I

Bngadier. who has proved a most

cool,'and brave officer, turned his

4 -"SA"*-

'[Special Corro*pondence of the London Times.j close at hand. The pickets of the second Brigadier Bentinck—all of bis division now said cooiy': 'Have you got your bayonets?' FULL DETAILS OF THE BATTLE OF division had scarcely made out the advanc- left with him, as the Highlanders are un- As he led on his men, it was observed

drawing up their cavalry in or-

ne°k

of the valley, in readiness to

successful. A Semaphore post

ild and

A ma was sa,cl

,JOfS

this subjfct but indolence or a sense of:17 ,•

Ev.ans. h.ad

whose neglect enabled the'tfnemv to attack ,, ... ... •, got the troops under arms. One brigade, us where we were least prepared for it, and n- under Bngaoier-Generf whose indifference led them to despise pre -cautions which, if taken in time, might have saved us many valuable lives, and shave trebled the Joss of the enemy, had they been bold enough to have assaulted

AT TT- I

Pr0tf-10n

of the

{ull th.e

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wer(

hol7 fagllt»

and th

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to.

hom the

division, at one

arms. One

General Adams, consisting

of the 41st, 47th, and 49th regiments, was rushed on to the brow of the hill to check the advance of the enemy by the road through the brushwood from the valley.

,, I he other brigade (Brigadier-General Pen-

on., _tl

nefather own) consisting of the 30th, o5th,

had brought up at least forty pieces of

Meantime the alarm had spread through

by lhe colu ns of thc

SI01?*

uuder

Light Division. It was reported to him S°.Ve,.m !,uPPort °*, jj® J*is.a

T* front with his brave followers of the li*ht

and

across

-j ictiawu ins situs 11 „„j

through the brushwood toward his lines.—!

unseen

uncliange(1-

tbe

m3* soi1'

ing line of infantry, who were clambering der Sir Colin Campbell, at Balakava. These that another body of men had gained the a up the steep sides of the hill through a splendid troops, with the greatest rapidity top of the hill behintHftem, on the right drizzling shower of rain, when they were and ardor, rushed to the front on the right but it was impossible to tell whether they

CAMP BEFORE SEVASTOPOL, NOV. 5, '54. forced to retreat by a close sharp volley of side of the second division, and gained the were friends or foes. A deadly volley was •"$ It had rained almost incessantly the musketry, and were driven up toward the suflSrnit of the hills, toward which two col-' poured into our scattered regiments. Sir night before, and the early morning gave brow of the hill, contesting every step of|umnsof the Russians were struggling in George cheered them and led them back no promise of any cessation of the heavy it, and firing as long as they had around of, the closest order of which the nature of over the hill, but a flight of bullets passed showers which had fallen for the previous ammunition, on the Russian advance. The! the ground would admit. The third divis-! where he rode, and he fell from his horse four-and-twenty hours. Toward dawn a pickets of the Light Division were assailed ion, under Sir R. England, was also got un- close to the Russian columns. The men

Toward dawn a pickets of the Light Division were assailed ion, under Sir R. England, was also got un

heavy fog settled down on the valley of the soon afterward, and were also obliged to der arms as a reserve, and one portion of it had to fight their way through a host of Inkcrman. The pickets and men on the retreat and fall back on their main body, comprising the 50th, were engaged with enemies, and lost fearfully. They were outlaying posts were thoroughly saturated, and it was evident thst a very strong sortie and their arms were wet, despite their pre- had been made upou the right of the position cautions and it is scarcely to be wondered of the allied armies, with the object of forat if thero were some of them who were cing them to raise the seige, and, if possible rot quite as ak-rt as sentries should be, in of driving them into the sea. face of an enemy for it must be remembered About the same time that the advance that our small army is almost worn out by of the Russians on our right flank took its incessant labors, and that men on picket place, a demonstration was made by the are frequently men who have had but a cavalry, against Balaklava, to divert the atshort respite "from work in the trenches, or tention of the French on the heights above, from regimental duties. The fog and va- and to occupy the Highland Brigade and pors of drifting rain were so thick, as morn- Marines, but only an interchange of a few mg broke, thai one could scarcely see two harmless rounds of cannon and musketry yards before him. yy took place, and the enemy contented them-

regiments, was led to operate on in the lines were killed or mutilated.?

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It was intended that one division,

Brigadier-General

T°r.rens.

under

division -the remnants of the 7th fusileers,

of the 19th regiment, of the 23d regimen!

of tfae

33d

regimenl( and of the° 7?ih

and 88th regiments, under Brigadiers Cord-

Buller: As tfcey began to move

the ground of the second division they

a once

ike a

t0^"c'1

®ffe.cton

our

wielding his favorite weapon, and that at Maida alone did the enemy ever cross bayonets with him, but at the battle of Inkerman not only did we charge in vain—not only were desperate encounters between masses of men maintained with the bayonet alone—but we were obliggd to resist bayonet to bayonet the Russian infantry again and again, as they charged us with incredible fury and determination.

The battle of Inkerman admits of no discription. It was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary hand-to-hand fights, of despairing rallies, of desperate assaults—in glens and valleys, in bushwood glades and remote dells, hidden from all human eyes, and from which the conque*rers, Russians or British, issued only to engage fresh foes, till our old supremacy, so rudely assailed, was triumphantly asserted, and the battallions of the Czar gave way before our steady courage and the chivalrous fire of France. No one, however placed, could have witnessed even a small portion of the doings of this eventful day, for the vapors, fog, and drizzling mist obscure the ground where the struggle took place, to such an extent as to render it impossible to see what was going on at the distance of a few yards. Besides this, the irregular nature of the ground, the rapid fall of the hill toward Inkermann where the deadliest fight took place would have prevented one under the most favorable circumstances seeing more than a very insignificant and detailed piece of the terrible work below.

It was 6 o'clock when all the headquar ters camp was roused by roll after roll of

Most High. port of held guns. Lord Raglan was soon

the

frccl'

to 1 sc

to those who might survive the bullets of Brigadier General Strangways, R. A., and a heretical enemy. several aides-de-camp. As they approachThe men in our camps had just begun a cd the volume of sound, the s'teady, unstruggle with the rain in endeavoring to ceasing thunders of gun, and rifle, and light their fires for breakfast, when the, musket, told that the engagement was at alarm was given that the Russians were Jits hieght. The shells of the Russians,

L1Ine®f

of Slr

mformed that the enemy'were advancing in

force, and soon after 7 clock he rode to-

«j ward the scene of action, fol owed by his

U1JU

Brigadier-General, thrown with great precision, burst so thick-

b' among the troops tnat the noise resem-

given for the time the bled continuous discharges of cannon, and

the massive fragments inflicted death on every side. One of the first things the Russians did, when a break in the fog enabled them to see the camp of the second division was to open fire on the tents with round shot and large shell, and tent after tent was blown down, torn to pieces, or sent into the air, while the men engaged in camp

consisting of the 30th, 55th, duties and the unhappy horses tethered up

Col. Gambier was at once ordered to get up two heavy guns (eighteen pounders) on the rising ground, and to reply to a fire which our light guns were utterly inadequate to meet. Ashe was engaged in this duty, and was exerting himself with Capt. E'Aguilar, to urge them forward, Col Gambier was severely, but not dangerousl}-

be God's Vicegerent on earth but we have, auflercd a fearlul loss, and we aro not in a' camps. Sir George Cathcart, with thfe wounded, and was obliged to i-etire. His exploded in Capt. Somerset's horse, ripping! Lord R-iflan for much of the early part of position to part with one man. England £Je,ltest.promptitude, turned out as many place was taken by Lieut. Colonel Dickson,, him

the fire

as were not employed in the and the conduct of that officer, in directing leather overalls of Capt. Somerset's trou-1

°f ^'ose two pieces which had the

second divi- But ere these guns had been brought up, cloth from the skin.

intended that one division,, there had been a great slaughter of the en-

snould emy, and a heavy loss of our own men.-—j

that "all was well," and the General enter- ®na^dJer"General Goldie, but it was They could not tell where the enemy were He was taken down and laid on the ground their crushing r.rtillerv. _j ,u found tnat the enemy were such strength ed into some conversation with Lapt. rret-1,, .... ii nu mat tii whole force of the division which tyman.of the 24d regiment, who was on' consisted of omv 2,200 men, must be vicordutv on thc ground, course of which it,

sharp rattle ot musketry was heard downj The glooiny^character of the morning was ments composing his division were main- was broken and repulsed, another took its the hill and on the left of the pickets of the

Gen. Codrington at once turned his horses ^uss'ans» ^a(^ no doubt taken the He perceived at the same time that the Rus- times they were compelled to retire. Bui head in the direction of the firin^, and in ^®a.nn&3 °f ground ere they placed. sians had actually gained posession of a they came to the charge again. The ad*few moments galloped back to°tnrn out §u"s»

adran,CIDS colur°ns.1

a"f enen?y

was 113,18

m°tion

TCDdertd them almost invisible even when Duke of Cambridge was not behind- head encouraging them, and when a cry courage and steadiness of the few men who hand bringing up u# Guards, uader arose that the ammunition was failing, he were left to follow them in this sanguinary

the rattle of musketry, and the rash of ball

and shel.

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the enemy ere the fight was over. 'surrounded and bayoneted on all sides, and And now commenced the bloodiest strug- won their desperate way up the hill with gle that was ever witnessed since war cursed diminished ranks and the loss of near five the earth. It has been doubted by military hundred men. Sir George Cathcart's body historians if any enemy have ever stood a was afterwards recognized, with a bullet charge wtili the bayonet and was the only wound in the head, and three bayonet weapon employed in the conflicts of the wonnds in the body. In this struggle, where most obstinate and deadly character. We the Russians fought with the greatest ferochave been prone to believe that no foe jty, and bayoneted the wounded as they could ever withstand the British soldier fell, Col. Swyny, of the 63d, a most gal-

every men o: grou

Sir George Cathcart, seeing his mendis- there was no banquette to stand upon, and

•!,, ordered by the fire of a large column of that the men inside could not fire upon the

Russian infantry which was outflanking enemy. The Russians advanced mass upon

them, while portions of the various regi- mass of infantry. As fast as one column

Showers of rain fell through taining an unequal struggle with an over- place. For three long hours 8,500 British

turned the ground into a clam-j whelming force, rode down into the ravine infantry contended against at least four

freshly-ploughed field, and in which they were engaged to rally them, times their number. No wonder that at

random indeed, but with portion of the hill in rear of one flank of mirable devotion of the officers, who knew

his division, but still his stout heart never they were special objects of attack, can

failed him for a moment. He rode at their never be too highly praised. Nor can the

vJ' *L'i? ti'li 9*nir .£ 1 In "vd

lant officer, Lieut Dowling, 20th, Major Wynne, 78th, and other officers met their death, and Brigadier Goldie (of the 57th regiment) received the wound of which he has since died. The conflict on the right was equally uncertain and equally bloody.

In the Light Division, the 88th got so far into the front that they were surrounded and put to utter confusion, when four companies of the 77th, under Major Straton. charged the Russians, broke them and relieved their comrades. The fight had not long commenced before it was evident that the Russians had received orders to Sre at all mounted officers. Sir George Brown was hit by a shot, which went through his arm and struck his side. 1 saw, with regret, his pale and sternly composed face, as his body was borne by me on a litter early in day, his white hair flickering in the breeze, for I knew we had lost the services of a good soldier that day. Further to the right a contest, the like of which, perhaps, never took place before, was going on between the Guards and dense columns of Russian infantry of five times their number. The Guards had charged them and driven them back, when they perceived that the Russians had outflanked them. They were out of ammunition too. They were uncertain whether they were friends or foes in the rear. They had no support, no reserve, and they were lighting with the bayonet

The second division, in the centre of the line, were hardly pressed. The 41st regiment, in particular, were exposed to a terrible fire, and the 95th were in the raid

die of such disorgan.zmg volleys that they

only mustered 64 men when paraded at 2

o'clock they were busily engaged carry-

ing loads of men, nil covered with blood, L„

and groaning, to the rear of the line.

of getting a glimpse of the battle which was

0pen

5,rs it

st 4bth, oah 63rd and 68th regiments most marked eflect in deciding the fate of* horse and killed him at once, and then Bosquet, whose devotion was noble. Nearwh.ch were available against the enemy,, the day, was such asto deserve the thanks blew away Gen. Strangway's leg, so that' \y J] his mounted escort were down beside directing them to the left of the ground oc- of every man engaged in that bloody affray, it hnng by a shred of flesh and a bit of

said

merely, in a gentle voice, "Will any

0,ur Generals could not see where to go.—.one be kind enough to lift me off my horse?" Russians sullenly retired, stiil protected by

—from what side they were coming, nor'while his life-blood ebbed fast, and at The Russians, at about 10, made a sorwhere they were coming to. In darkness, length he was carried to the rear. But the tie on the French lines and traversed two gloom, and rain they had to lead our lines gallant old man had not sufficient strength parallels before -they coul be resisted. through thick scrubby bushes and thorny: to undergo an operation, and in two hours They were driven back at last with great brakes, which broke our ranks and irritated

eoni.-

rest}

the men, while every pace was marked by memory which will ever be held dear bv a corpse or man wounded by an enemy every officer and man of the armv. .. whoso position was onlv indicated by

The fi ht bott lIie balter

all.-J

ps^It Lis-a-ill

against an enemy who stoutly contested began to retire, and at twelve o'clock they

every inch of ground, when the corps of were driven pell-mell down the hiL toward gu)

another Russian column appeared on their the valley, where the pursuit would have right, far in their rear. Then a fearful been madness, as the roads were all cover-

mitraille was poured into them, and volleys ed by their artillery.

of rifle and musketry. The Guards were dead behind them. Long ere they fled tne broken they had lost fourteen officers, who! Chasseurs d'Afrique charged them most fell in the field they had left one-half of brilliantly over the ground, ditiicnlt and their number on the ground, and they re- broken as it was, and inflicted great loss tired along the lower road of the valley, [on them, while the eficct of this rapid atThey were soon reinforced, however, and tack, aided by the advance of our troops, speedily avenged their loss. The Fiench secured our guns, which were only spiked advanced about 10 o'clock, and turned the with wood, and were soon rendered fit for flank of the enemy.

clock. In fact.the whole of the division,^

numoercd only oOO men when assembled ,^

by Major Eman in the rear of their camp

after the fight was over. Ihe regiments did not take their colors officers nevertheless ever they went and it did not require the

nrs in'o battle 'hut tl-p ^(',n

ors into battle, but the

were picked off wher-

color-staff to indicate their presence. Our

ambulances were soon filled, and ere 9

(u tosoo t!le roect

bccame obscurcd

At 8^ o'clock, Lord Raglan and his staff their artillery, we had formed in front of were assembled on a knoll, in the vain hope

our

iiac3

j- to w'liicb I

,. o{ my letter,

aacl

raging below them. Here Gen. S'rang- king advantage of our quietude, again adways was mortally wounded, and I am told vanced, while their guns pushed that he met his death in the following way: opened a tremendous lire up A shell came right in among the staff—it

a portion of the shell tor* off the the day °at once directed the French to ad

Van^

then struck down Capt. Gordon's forts he was most ab!v seconded by General

anc]

The poor old Gene-j slightly wounded. His immediate attend-

never moved a muscle of his fare. He ants suffered severely. The renewed as-

sault

was most sanguinary. It was fouud that

ricf^r u^m^n "Jf "\f -?-T

:-V

to otu struggling regiments, ine Zouaves

service. Our own cavalry, ine remnant cf the Light Brigade, where moved into a posi-

tion where it was hoped they might service, but they were too few to attempt an in a re a

th ]()Jt sover# ]wrx aad some mcl

Comet Cleveland, r.T.s struck

a smali ia shcll in tI,0 Rad

aince Xhero ar0 1!ow

twQ offiocrs

ft wili

ancers

Cornct Gpo Wombwell.

baUje 0 Inkermann £eCmed

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assault on the enemy be sufficiently ndmi-'were buried, together with 11 other officers, red. At one time the Russians succeeded on Cathcart-s hill. At the same time 14 in getting close up to the guns of Capt. officers of the Guards were buried together Woodhouse's and Capt. Turner's batteries near the windmill. The work of burying in the gloom of the morning. the dead and carrying the wounded to Bal-

Unceriain whether they were friends or aklava occupied the dav. '"b-* foes, our artillerymen hesitated to fire, The Russians are quiet. We hear they The Russians charged them suddenly, bore have lost 10,000 men and three Generals, all resistance down before them, drove! yovembcr 7tk.—A council of war was away or bayoneted the gunners, and sue- held to-day, at the close of which the Duke ceeded in spiking some of the guns. Their of Cambridge left for Balaklava, and went colmmns gained the hill, and for a few mo- .on board the Caradoc. His Royal Highmen ts the fate of the day trembled in the ness is, it is said, going to Constantinople./ balance, but Adam's brigade, Penefathcr's It is said we wait here all winter. §g brigade, and the light division made ano- The 46th regiment have arrived here,':: tlier desperate charge, while Dickson's guns also 1,700 Turks from Volo and 2,800/ swept their columns, and the Guards, with French. The Russians fired on our buryundlminished valor and steadiness, though ing parties. There was an alarm last night, with a sadly decreased front, pushed on to The fourth division was under arms all meet their bitter enemies. The rolling of night, and a portion of the second divisions.§ musketry, the crash of steel, the pounding I have no time to add more. We must" of the guns were deafening, and the Rus- have men at once, and abundance of them. sians, as they charged up the hights, yelled like demons. They advanced, halteu, and j£j?"Hgw do our abolition friends like the advanced again, received and returned a

closc and deadly fire but the xuin is the km" of ^reapens—-Inkerman proved it. intended lo secure Southern votes ui the The regiments of the Fourth Presidential canvass, and just as hollow as and Marines, armed with the much-belau-! the talk of this contemptible mob of officeded Brown Bess, could do nothing with seekers about principle? It was difficult to their thin lino of fire against the mudro

About 10 o'clock, a body of rrench in-|find Xo-Xothin^s. But it turns out now fantry appeared on our right, a joyful sight

right on the flank of the enemy, we knew the day was won. Assailed in front by our men—broken ia yr

rihey

left mounds cf

onlv

fra ment of

but ie day Kl)ich

fol. an

,10,Jr

cvio

lr s0 a5 t0

him, again

r„j

fug S(jt in

a we cou!d not tho Kossilin8

lvho wcre retiring u,'lJer (ne ie tcr

-were holding the battle-field

stoutly contested, when the enemy, ta-

j- forward

on us. I.

General Canrobert, who never quitted''

and outflank the enemy In his ef-

behir.e him General Canrobert was

was so admirably repelled that the

leaving behind him a! loss, and as they retired they blew up some j—let them 'crush out'each other should be» mines inside the Flagstaff Fort, evidently the hope cf every patriot. would enter pell-

afraid that the French mell after them. At 1 o'clock the Russians were again retiring. At 1 40, Dickson's two guns smash-1 ed their artillery, and they limbered up, leaving five tumbrils and one gun-carriage

O O O on the field.

Xovernfjer 6.— Two hundred Russian pri-

ail(l

soners were brought in last night to the perfect state of preser\ation. The New-head-quarters camp. They were badly

Jate doJ of the Ns in tb(J adod

distini sb behtcen t,lc

multitudes of the Muscovite infantry, but' the volleys of Minie cleft them like the! ^o-Isothings the last canvass. 'Any hands of the Destroying Angel, and they thing to beat the Democracy,' cried Rever- I fell like leaves in autumn before them. end Preachers who were both abolitionists

man shall have and enjoy his opinion on this {subject but we utterly object to bringing it upon the American platform, or making it a hobby in any manner whatever. I The American organization, its principles, object, aims, purposes, genius, are one thing —slavery is another. It is as much as thoso in our ranks can do to carry out Americanism. Why break our ranks and defeat our cause by outside, furcigu and impolitic issues?'

This will be a severe stab to some of the 'brethern.' That these fellows who claim so much of the respectability should endorse the Democratic code of f.iiui is complimentary. The Democracy cannot, however, return the compliment. It cannot endorse

Capt. Godfrey Morgan and political intolerance, itcannotendor.se mid-

At 12 o'clock i1

had cleared

,.,,,^1,,

to have Lucases and the destruction of tho

freedom of the ballot. It spurns the No-

Nothing bauble as hostile to Republicanism^

The No-Nothings, however, are killing off the abolitionists in the East—let us 'givo the Devil his due.' Their theory is dia

metrically opposed to that of the Creclyites. Tii'-y refuse to allow the foreigner the right

of American citizenship, how, then, can tho

abolitionists, who belong to the order, ask* this rii'ht for the darkey? Scriouslv, novr

111 a

German, such as De Ka'.b was, or a Frenchman such as Lafayette, or an Eng-

lishir.an such as Owen, or a Pole like Koz-J ciusko, or an Irishman like Meagher, or a

Hungarian like Kossuth, as worthy of being allowed to vote as a wooly-headed, flat-

nosed, black-hided, and bad smelling negro?

It does seem to us that there is neither^ rhymj nor reason in refusing the priviliges

of citizenship to such foreigners and accord-'

ing them to the blacks. Either No-Nothing-isrn is a shame to the country or abolition* ism is a fully. The two principles are at war like the rattle snake and the black snake

SIR JOHX FP.ANKLIK.—We gave yesterday, without having any faith in the report, from the Lake Superior News, to the effect that Dr. KANE had succeeded in .finding the remains of Sir JOHN FKANKLI:(|

l'!S completely frozen, and in a

Journal of Comrjerce says:

wounded many of them, and several died "Dr. Kane was, when last heard from, during the night. jat Smitlrs Sound, and it is improbable that. A council was held to-day at Lord Rag- any of his party should have since the« lan's where General Canrobert, General found their way down to tho Back river Bosquet, and Sir E. Lyons assisted, which where Sir John Franklin 13 supposed lasted several hours. have perished. "We fear th^l'the story wil

At 4 o'clock Lord Raglaa attended the provo to be a distorted version'of the acfunerals of Gen. Sir G. Cathcart, of Briga- count of Dr. Rae, originatingin the substi: dier Goldie, and of Gen. Strangways. They tulion gf hia name for thai of Dr. Kane."

3 3

'.,r-'t ""Y-UJ

abolitionists and the

|alfjrm of lhe Xo Soaii

came on aUhe pas dc charge. The French |of Hie Democracy on Slavery is i-Jen-artillery had already begun to play with tical. Here it is from their Boston organ: deadly effect on the right wing of the Rus- 'We oppose, first and last, all mixing up sians. Three battalions of the Chasseurs the slavery question with Americanism. d'Orleans (I believe they had No. G, on Y*re hold that slavery as an institution, betheir buttons) rushed by, the light of the longs exclusively to those Slates in which it battle on their faces. They were accom- exists and it is entirely for those in the scvpanied by a battalion of Chasseurs Indige-1 cral States to determine, or not, whether it nes—the Arab Sepoys of Al^iera. Their shall have an existence, its manner and how trumpets sounded above the din cf battle,'long. and when we watched their eager advance We are opposed to the agitation of th® subject in Congress, evil. &

are

several placcs by the impetuosity ,our in any part of the new States or Territories charge, renewed again and again -avtacaed present in existence or to came. by (the trench lmantry on the ng.it, a.ul We would rather there was no slavery by artillery ad along the lines, the Russians

It is onlv fruitful in

Qpp0secj t)ie extension of slavery

and s]ayes }n the couutry blacU or white a#

.j.at

matfer

It is unquestionably an evil,

aro no

disposed to increase the evil

by insane attempts to better it. We are for

to a]1 p.,r

iei! the slaveholder as well

t,iC sjavc \,,Te

perfectly willing every

are perfe