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' Thd letter of ilw Mnperor Napoleon to the Czar.
Wo nffiSiah ft tratidlalidn of tfrB Ehiperor Napoleon's Letter
tffthoifcfor gfBupsia Ithnd been previously reported tb at
.ir i.tTi..i iMA. Wriftmi. hhf. ffa nxistenco had been sub-
guontly denied. But hero is the letter ;
gdrr . : Palace of the Tuillkries Jan.29 1854:.
SraE The differonco which has' arisen between your Majesty
r "rind the Ottoman Porto has assumed such a grave aapoct that
. '-I thin&Mght myself to explain directly to.your majeBty the
part which Prance has taken in thiB question and tho moanB
' winch suggest themselves toono in order to avoid tho dangers
which irionaco tho tranquility of Europe.
; The note which your Majesty has just gent to my govern-
. inent and to that of Queen Victoria endeavoring to prove that
"$t was tbo.Byatdm of pressure adopted from tho commencement
rny the' two marltimo powers which alonq involved tho question
matter would havb continued a cabinet question if the occupa-
. tiou of tho two principalities had not suddenly transfored it
' fr"om the region of discussion to that of fact. Nevertheless al-
gy though your Majesty's troops had entered Wallaohia wo ad-
vised the Pprte not to consider that occupation as a warlike act
' thus proving our extreme desiro for conciliation. After I had
' ..consulted England Austria and Prussia I proposed to your
'- .iaTostv a note designed to give satisfaction to all. Your Ma
jesty accepted it. We had hardly however "been informed of
s 'this good' news when youV'minister by explanatory commen-
y paries destroyed all tho conciliatory effects of it and thus pro-
yeutedjns froin insisting at Constantinople upon its pure and
- s simtilq adoption. Tho Porte for its own part pronoeed some
F ''jhadificatioiiB in tho note to which the representatives of tho
'4:our Powers at Vienna were not disposed to agree. They were
" .not howovor agreed to by your Majesty. It was then that the
Porte wounded in its dignity its independence threatened
1 fJ 5nd being compelled to raise "an army to oppose that of your
4 'Majesty preferred to declaro war rather than remain in a Btate
of iincortainty and humility. IMio Porte.had claimed our sup-
l)6Vfc'thotcaus6 of tho Porte appeared to bo a just one $nd the
KugliBli 'and If ranch squadrons wero therefore ordered to the
Bosphbrous.
"Our attitude in referonce to Turkey was that of a protector
hut it was passive. Wo did not incite her to war. We unceas-
ingly addressedtp the ear of the Sultan the advice of peace and
jnodoratioupersuaded that this was tho best mode of coming
-to an agreement and the four Powers consulted together again
and submitted to your Majesty- Bomo other propositions. Your
Majesty on your part exhibiting tho calmness which arises
from tho consciousness Of Btrongth contented yourself with re-
pulsing from the left bank of tho JDanube as in Asia the at
tacks of tho Turks; and with a moderation worthy the chief of
agfea(; empire your majesty declared that you would act on
'the defensive up to that period then I may Bay we were in-
itorested;spectator8 but merely spectators of tho dispute when
' 'tho affair'of Sinopo compelled us to tale a more decisive part.
Franco and England had not thought necessary to send troops
'to the assistance of Turkey. Their flags; therefore wero not
engaged in the conflicts which took place upon land. But at
..eeajiwaS veTy; different. There were at tho mouth of the Bos-
phorojis 8000 guna the existence of which proclaimed loudly
'.enough to iWkoy that the twomaratime powers would not al-
$plr to be attacked by sea. The affair at Sinope was to us
"pinful as it was unoxpopted; for it matters little to us whe-
iliQr or not tho Turlcs wished to convoy munitions of war to tho
Bussian territory. In fact Russian ships attacked Turkish ves-
jels ih tho waters of Turkey while those vessels were riding
r Jquietly at anehorin &Ttt?kiBh port. The Turkish vessels -were
aufestroyed iu spite of tho assurance that there was no wish to
Cpnitncnce an aggressive war and m spite or the vicinity or our
efiuadrons. It was no lonsor our nolicv which received a check
!3$fcwa8"pur military honor. Tho Bound of the cannon-shot at Si-
7 HpiQpo reverberated painfully in the hearts of all thoso who in
"-England and Eranpo respect national dignity. There was a ge-
neral participation in tho sentiment that wherever our cannon
v can-reach our allies ought to be rcBpoctod. Out of thiB feeling
3V-ar030 tho order civon to our squadrons to enter tho filack Sea
ran& to prevent oy force if necessary tho recurrence of a simi-
fj
uimuiuiiuuco oi oruor mo love oi peace
reciprocal cood feclinff." This wrocri
Bdvercicn who trnccd it and I do not
1853 in which you write " Oiu rotations ought to bo sincero-
ly amicable based ao they are upon tho same intontions-tho
respect iorH'oaue8Hu
ammo is worthy of the
hesftato to declaro that I
remain faithful to it.
I beg your majesty to "believe in tho sincerity of my senti-
ments and it is with these Bontiments that I am Sire your ma-
jesty's good friend. NAPOLEON".
Trading in Ladies.
Many rich Turkish ladies carry on a trade for which we
have no name. Thoy keep what may bo called Nurseries of
Wives aud Mothers; and find both pleasure and profit in
training their young proteges to tho duties of married life.
Their agents go about collecting the raw material of theii
manufacture picking up orphans foundlings or the children oi
poor parents ; for in tho East thero is noprojudico of birth
and tho Jady is distinguished from her servant only by
education or wealth. The task of training is not difficult
Not much knowledge ib expected from an oriental matron ;
and in this case at least neither tho idea of virtue nor content
ment is iuculucuted. We have already hinted in what way the
flock of young maidens is made to contribute to the develop-
ment of tho.yonng masters of the house. The rest of theii
instruction is simple enough. They are early to bo sold as
wives or mistresses.
Beautiful girls are ofton bought by these professional farmers
in high life for eight or ten pounds and afterwards in high life
for eight or ten bounds and afterwards sold for four or five
hunderd. The profit constitutes the nin-monev of tho lntrom.
A number of old women brido brokers carry on the trade
wliieh not tho slightest idea of shame is attached. They dis-
cuss tho price of their merchandise as openly as if they were
selling a pair of slippers or a parcel of berfume. Sometimes
they act as agents Jor some old gentleman who finds his house
lonely and his purse sufficiently full to enable him to indulge
in the luxury of a companion : and sometime they undertake
tho still more equivoal task of going about warming the
imaginations of the caged beauties. They generally take
money on either hand and it must be aemitted that many good
matches are struck by their care.
Thero is no prejudice against partners obtined hy these
means. On thecqntrary many Turks prefer damsels pronght
up in this way perhaps because they aro without thecumbrauce
of relations especially when they come from the harem of
a minister or other great functionary. The wife of Rescind
Pasha who by the way is no polygamist has generally
8oms forty young creatures to dispose otj and finds no difficulty
in getting rid of them. Tho demand is always equal to the
supply.
JFrom this class and from the Georgia slave markst most of
me consorts oi persons nigti in ranKS are taicen. ouch are the
mothers of the Sublime Porte ay and all of the sultans that
have ever reigned on the shores of the Bosphorus ; for the
snltan does not in those simple countries either bear the hand
of the princes he has never seen or imitating a common man
chose a wife among tho conquettes of a ballrom. The state
provides the of his couch. At various periods of the year
fixed by law the Council ofvMinisters and the TJlemas in
conclave assembled note as it were a subeidy of girls bought
at tho public markets or at private sales and send them with
high Bolejnmties into the arms of his Sublime MajeBty. On
these occasions the sultan goes in pompous processioh to the
mosque ; and no doubt thauks Heaven for the supply of which
have come to illumintae his solitary hours. Life in tlieEast-
Correspondence of tho Picayune.
Washington March 1G 185-1. Tho President's message relative
to the Black Warrior case continues to attract .much attention. In
deed scarcely anything else is talked of to-day. Giddirtgs the abolU
tionist thinks he sees a " nigger in the buah" and so made a motion
this morning to reconsider the vote by which the message was yes.
terday referred to the committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. Bayly
the chairman of the committee responded briefly indicating a dispell
tion to recommend to the house some most decisive measures to ob.
tain redress for the past and security for the huure. In conclusion hj
moved that the vote to reconsider be laid on tho table which wa3
agreed to almost unanimously. In the course of the brief debate it
was stated that when the Spanish authorities seized the Black War-
rior her captain exclaimed "You may confiscate my cargo but
thank God you cannot confiscate my flag." This sentiment " brought
down the house."
The Committee on Foreign Relations held a meeting this mornhifr
to consider the message but as the accompanying documents had no!
been returned from the printer no definite purpose was agreed upon
Several members of the committee are in favor of a suspension of the'
neutrality laws. In our controversy with France the old hero of
New Orleans with far less provocation threatened reprisals upon
French commerce in the matter of French indemnity. The result
has indicated the wisdom of that soldier statesman. Wo obtained
our just rights and maintained the best relations with France ever
since.
I do not wish to be understood as advocating reprisals in the pre-
sent instance. It is the bold decision of Jackson that is to be admired
tic proposed reprisals because it was the readiest and cheapest mode
of bringing France to terms. France at that time had a commerce
greater than our own and would have suffered serious injury at our
hands had General Jackson's system of tactics been carried into effect.
The commerce of Spain is as nothing compared with onrs whoso
sails are spread on every sea. By a system of reprisals our commerce
would be apt to sutler severely bpam though we should annihilate
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Byron and Mary Glisfworth.
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!lar soyont.. Thoneo arose tho collective notification sent to tho
fcabinofc atSt. Petersburg announcing that if wo prevented the
vurks from rriaking an aggressive war nppn tho coasts of Eus-
y pit. vu tvuuiu iwou uiuvuuu tuu jluiivo uuvit uuvii viii mmiui y.
tAs to the JKussian fleet in prohibiting 'its navigation to the
x v sr i rt - . "i -1 A i.ii. j. j.j.. 1 ..
J.W19.GK. ooa wopiucea ic upon a amerenc contusion uecanso ic
4p3iinnortant duringjthe war to preserve a guarantee oqniva-
lelit in tbrco to tho occupation of tuo Turkish territory and thus
Miacuicaro tup conclusion oi peace Dy uavjng xne power to maKe
MSdesifahle'oxthange.
vy Such Sire 1b tho real reBiilt and a statement of tho facts. It
iBelear that having arrived at this point they must either bring
. bout a dcoidod rupture or a definite understanding.
jj our majesty has givoilo many proofs of your solicitude -for
susiranquuity oi iMiropo uuu uy your uonoiiceuc muuonce jjhb
Wjipowovfiiily arrested tho spirit of disorder that I cannot doubt
asjo mo courso you win xaico in mo alternative wmon presents
ifflelfrto your choice. Should your majesty be as desirous as
inySelf.pf a paoific conclusion what would bo more simple than (
v 'Holdoclare that nn armistice shall now bo signed that things'
. 'shall rdsuma. their diplomatic course that all hostilities shall
'ceiise and that tho hoi igerent forces shall return from the places
-Ho'whlch motives of war havo led thorn ?
1 Thit tbeiltussian troops would abandon the Principalities
nS &pqnam'ons tho Black Sea. Tour majesty preferring to
''ftfoajaifejly with Turkey might appoint an ambassador who
uTd negotiatewith a plenipotentiary of the Sultan a conven-
tion which might bo submitted to a conference of tho Four
ggyora Lot your majeBty adopt this plan upon which tho
jueoaof England and mysoif aro perfectly agreed and tran-
'quUity W'U) bQre$8tal)Uauod and tho rworld satisfied. Thoro
- is nothing in the plan which is unworthy of your majesty no-
hjng w.hich. can'w.oujul your hbuor hut if from a motive dif-.
iilculfc to nna$8tandYQur majesty should rofuso this proposal
ten'Ffnite&i os well England will ho compelled to leave to
uio fato'of arms and the chances of war that which might now
ho decided bv reason and iuBtieo.
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jytfjL'iwfel&.'sjyj!qy. MU "."i u siu'a""uulv "
vjraRQ vrrernwoou in ner late visit to England paid a visit to
JNeV8tead Abbey tho well known residence of Lord Bvran. Tn
Speaking of the event she beautifully and touchingly alludes to the
love of the poet for Mary Chaworth :
Strangely sorrowful almost agonizingly regretful were the
thoughts which swept over my mind wave after wave and shook
my heart like a tempest as 1 stood in the place where the young
poet passed many hours of silent thought it may be of lonely wretcbecf-
ness. 1 neves before so deeply felt how passing mournful was the story
of Byron's Grst and only love That Mary Chaworth returned the
passion of hef young poet lover I haye not a doubt ; but like the
Montagues and Capulets tho houses of Chaworth and Byron were at
fuedk Mary had not the strength and truth of Juliet and so they
were parted a separation by far more piteous for her and more
fatal to him tlmn death amid tho full summer brightness of happy
love. Tl'is not Shakspeare's was true-soul tragedy. Might she not
have redeemed even his wayward and erring nature by the divinity
of a pure love and a steadfast faith? But it was not to be. Mary
bestowed hor hand upon a man of whom little better can be said than
that ho ranked " among the most eminent sportsmen of the day"
lived it is said to weep wild tears over the words 'which have linked
her name in sorrooful immurtality with her lover's anddied in broken-
heardtedness at last while he grown reckless restlpss and defiant
tho very core of his heart turned to bitterashes fonrettin"- his God'
and distrusting and despising his brother swept on his glorious
shameful' sorrowful and stormy career till the shadows deepened and
the long nitilit closed in. v
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.TllCt na lm fifa ryilwi trt nracc tm n n?nrk...u.-.l 1 tir. T -r
- .w. ...j tv. uiv. (uing w I'll. y uv viiiuuiieu uy avir. d. lv.
Parker just from Fort Worth of a difficKltv -between n nnrtv nf
Indians and citizens of that vicinity. It appeirs'that Mr. Brinson of
Fort Worth bad ordered two Indians who were at Fort Worth to
lenve and on their refusing to do so ho chastise! and drove them off.
They belonged-to a party of abuot a dozen men and some women and
children who wero camped 6 or 8 miles from Fort Worth. After they
left fearing that tho party would do some mischief party of citizens
proceeded to their camp to watch their movement Qn comin"- in
eight the Indians commenced moving off. . Being ordyed to halt and
refusing thej; were fired upon by tho party. At the fitt shot a horse
was killed under one of tho Indium?. The Indians ih not return
mo ure out vamosca. wo nave 110 room for commett or further
particulars. jjaccas Ucralu
her in the end would have it in her power to irretrievably injure us
by granting her letters of marque to every freebooter who choose
unuer me opanisn nag 10 uespon our commerce vve nave in our
hands a power of retaliation which cannot react upon us. Of courso
I mean the repeal of the neutrality laws.
What objection can there be to this course 1 Our neutrality ldws
are a gratuity to Spain. They are made for her protection. Tiev
are in no way the fruit of any reciprocal obligations we are under to
Spain. She has made no such laws in pur favor. But in pity former
weakness and in a spirit of generosity and a desire to perpetrate
and perserve good neighborhood we have made these laws for herpe-
nefit. She gives us nothing 'in return. She does not even treat 'us
with respect to say nothing of gratitude. On the contrary she enters
into an Anglo-French alliance to carry out the behests of great Euro-
pean powers who are jealous of us and seek to bind our expanding
limbs. Nor does she stop here. Relying upon her strength she bor-
rows from the very desire of England aad France to put us in restraint
6he permits her official understrappers at Havana to imprison our ci-
tizens fire into our ships and confiscate our property. Does not
self-respect demand that we should withdraw from a people who thus
insult our gratituous expressions of affectionate regard? I know that
the suspension of our neutrality laws will be charged to be a mere
scheme for " stealing" Cuba. No right thinking clear minded man
will urge such a. plea in defence of Spain. We have nothing to do
with the consequence of our refusal longer to support the totterin"-
Spanish power in Cuba; at least when we seek measures of redress
for insults and injuries we are not to be told that we shall seek the
blood and all the horrors f war when we have in our hands bloodless
and still honest means of redress. Spain deserves the punishment
and it is" only because her island would be revolutionized on the sus-
pension of our neutrality laws that that peaceful measure of redress
can be made effective.
But waiving all that I believe the country would sustain the mea-
sure for the very reason that it would precipitate the solution of the
Cuba problem. That problem must be solved at no distant day. We
have a deep interest in its solution. Cuba once independent will na-
turally seek union with us. Our sympathies aud our interests forbid
that we should turn a deaf ear to her application. We canuot evade
the responsibility which these circumstances will devolve upon us
however long we may succeed in postponing them. .The Anrlo-
French alliance has declared its office to be to prsveut our acquisition
of Cuba. In no other way can we understand the significant words
of Earl Clarendon. That alliance is now deeply involved in the East-
ern question. If we can dispose of the Cuba question now without
wrong or injustice it may be settled without blood; but if the tern-
porising spirit which peryades the President's message shall result in
staving off rhequestion until the hands of England and France aro
free there is little doubt that our destiny is identified with the desti-
ny of Cuba and can only be reached through rivers of blood Whv
should we not then allow the madness of Spain to work its legitimate
results ?
The Senate did not make much progress with the Gadsden treatv
yesterday having called upon the President for all the diplomatic cor-
respondence relating thereto and to the Tehiinutepeo ciuestion which
has not yet been received from the hands of the printer! There seems
to be little disposition to debate the treaty but much to amend it bv
tNs friends of the Sloo aud Gary Tehauntepeo grants. It leoks a little
now as though the provisions of the CoukHng treatv would bo tacked
to it as an amendment or else that all amendments' will be reieetod
including those recommended by the President. The .treaty will hardlv
be disposed of this week. ' uuimy
Pleasure.
Blessed be the hand that piepares a pleasure for a child' for there
is no saying when and where it may again bloom forth. ' Does not
almost everybody remember some kind-hearted tnan slaved him a kind-
ness in the quiet days of his childhood ? The writer of this recollects
himself at this moment as a bare-footed lad standing at tho wooden
fence of a poor little garden n his native villagQwitlf longing eyes he
gazed on tho flowers winch were blooming there qufetly in the
brightness of a Sunday morning. The pessessor came forth from is
little cottage-he was a wood-cntter btrade-and sp S t he who o
week at Ins work in he woods. He was come into his Zih
gather flowers to stick s coat when ho went to church. Ho "aw
the boy and breaking ofT the most beautiful of his carnations-it was
a naked with red aud wlute-gave it to him. Neither the .river nor
the i receive spoko a word ; and with bounding steps the boy ran home;
and now here at a vast distance from that home after so iLny even
r: V ' :' .. '" UJ brri""'"ue which agitated the breast of
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W Jmyaurapiyouicor .oggg.uijg
Tho eight southern members of tho House of RepresnetatWs who
pted to refer the Nebraska bill to the Committee of thevir.i
amed in our lelejiranhic despatches hail as follows: Mr. Frnk-u. ;I
of Maryland Mr Benton of Missouri Mr. Pnryearof NorthVaro-
!ma Messrs. Bugg Cullom ami Etheridgo of Tennessee nndMr
Hunt of Louisiana. There is n Stanton of Tennesseo and a StanW
of Keiujujky and as the Christian name is not given we are unaVe
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withered but now it bloom? afresh. Douglass Jerroltl
Disasters on our Western lliVEas.-The St. Louis Evenin-
News says that during the two mouths of January nTpeZry
twentysthreo steamers wero sunk burnt or blown up on tho Missis!
uppi river aqd its tributaries and two destroyed by firo on the Savan-
na i-myolviog the loss of near two hundred liyes and no o thai a
mi ion dollars worth of property. The records of the preWnt momh
will greatly swell this fearful list of mortality. 'Withi.f tl o laS feiv
auyb Wu uave reeeiveu necounts of the loss of the steamers Carol.
and J. L Avery upon the Mississippi and the Reindeer upon the 01.
river hurrying in all one hundred
I warning or preparation into eternity.
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upon theUl.io
and fifty human souls without
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