THE COUNTY OF PERTH HERALD, STRATFORD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1864 0 > on Sa BOC Eg AN - Doings in the South. PROPOSED INVASION OF THE NORTH. (Correspondent of the New York World.) Wasuinctoy, March 23. PROJECT OF INVASION BY THE REBELS: The most striking. and unexpected piece of Southern news .I have to-day to record is. the intelligence that the rebels are now contemplat- ing the project of an invasion of the North, and of re-enacting on a large scale the onward moyve- ment which resulted-in the double repulse of Antietam "and~ Gettysburg, and ~crippled -their resources in. men and transportation for two successive campaigns. .This project is, of course, still in -its incipient state, and will not reach its maturity until it has been thoroughly canvassed and adopted by the managers of the rebellion. But that it is making rapid strides and engrossing. every day more and more. the attention of the people, is a fact which even the most, superficial observer will not dare to ques- tion. The motives which have provoked the resurrection of a. scheme which every Southerner thought to have been forever buried under the thirty thousand soldiers who fell at Gettysburg are numerous.| Among: the masses they. origin- ate in the hatred of the Yankees and inthe dis- reputable wish to. retaliate upon the North the kind Of warfare waged against the South by the Union armies. Amongthe Southetn-officers they spring from a sentiment of self-esteem and wounded vanity, which make them long for, the opportunity of proying their military, superiority not only at home but on Northern battle-fields ; while»among the chiefs*of the nation the de- sire of invading the North, although by no. means certain, is attributed to strategical con- siderations, if not to, political reasens of the highest order, HOW THE INVASION IS TO. BE CARRIED OUT. The strategical considerations which, inde- pendently of all motives. merely. sentimental, are said to influence Jefterson Davis' cabinet, and which may induce them hereafter to yield to the simultaneous desire of the soldiers and to the people, rest, I understand, upon a double |: conviction: the efficiency' of the Southern' armies and the weakness of the federal administration. To this may be added the recent success of the confederates in Mississippi and Florida, and the handsome Mmannérin which General Johnston, against whom the whole efforts of the winter campaign were directed, drove back General Palmer from Dalton and paralyzed fora while the energy of the Cumberland army, in whom so much reliance was placed. These three ar~ guments, the truthfulness of which no one, ex- cept Mr. Lincoln and his partizans, will attempt denying, are urged by Mr. Davis's friends as a conclusive evidence of the power of the South to undertake an invasion of the Northern soil, and to dictate terms of peace on some Northern battle-field. Should the president of the confederacy yield to the entreaties of his friends, and an invasion of the North be resolved-upon,-the plan to be followed in the execution of that project would not, as heretofore, be limited. to the invasion of a single point of our frontier, but would embrace a whole system, of operations by which four states would be either threatened or invaded, In) view: of this emergency, never entirely |) abandoned by the rebels, the army of General Lee has been increased to an' unprecedented figure and made efficient by all the means which military science can afford. That army, which now numbers between sixty and seventy thou- sand men, has a twofold object in view--first, to resist General Grant's advance upon Rich- mond; second, to march upon our line and threaten Maryland and) Pennsylvania. This last movement will not, however, take place, except in the event of General Grant's defeat, or in the more probable occurrence of Generals Longstreet and Breckinridge's advance upon Kentucky and Ohio. As soon as their advance upon these two' states shall have been. resolyed upon, then the plan of General Lee is, I under- stand, to ,abandon his present line of operation and march at fullyspeed: upon Harrisburg, and thus make'a strong diversion in favor of his two lieuteriants, to whom he: will leave the doubtful hohor; and profit-of invading the West. and of attempting to provoke a revolution among its inhabitants, represented as being; if not disloyal. at least. so hostile to the present federal ad- ministration as to, prefer to live under Jeff, Dayis's than under Lincoln's rule. Of course, this demonstration of General Lee upon our frontiers will open us the way to Richmond, and expose that city toa certain loss, But as General Lee does not intend to occupy either Maryland or Pennsylvania, and will move on these states simply to assist Longstreet in his march through Kentucky, and Breckinridge in his march thrcugh Ohio, he will be always near enough to the capital of the rebellion to fall back upon his own line of defence and come to its rescue. Besides, Richmond's fortifications are such as to remove in the minds of the rebels any fear of its being taken without along siege, which would require all the materials the fed- eral government can dispose. of.» The rebels are also of opinion that the advance of General Lee upon our lines would be immediately at- tended by a similar movement on the part of General Grant, and that the battle would, like Antietam and Gettysburg, be fought on Northern soil and far from the vicinity of their beloved city. What still adds to the plausibility of this plan, which I believe to be now under consider- ation ofthe military authorities of Richmond, is the strong desire manifested in all classes of Southern society to see the extreme South re- lieved from the pressure of Northern armies. This part of the South is now the agricultural and manufacturing district of the confederacy. In it are produced the food which supports its ' armies, and the cloth which covers it. There is not a farm, a garden, or a plantation which has not been devoted to the cultivation of ce- reals, not a house which has notits loom, hand- cards, and spinning-wheel. Hence the desire of the rebels to remove from that precious spot all menaces of danger. It is their hope that by hurling Longstreet's corps against the North, he will be followed there by most of the troops located in the South ; that Sherman, McPherson, and Hurlburt would follow his track, free the extreme South from their presence, and operate a thorough revolution in the military occupation of the Southern States. Such are at present the projects, I might say the illusions, now current among the Southern people. Whether they will come to be ever realized, or laid aside as many other schemes born from the evanescent effervescence of popu- lar passion, is not for me to decide. I allude to them here as a glaring symptom of public op- inion in the South ; as an expression of senti- ment to be met among all classes ; and, assuch, I believe them entitled to the consideration of our government and of our people. Generals Lee, Longstreet, Morgan and Breckinridge may remain it is true, in their present position ; they may confine their operations toa strictly, defen- sive policy, as generals use garrisons, for the simple purpose of repelling .the enemy and of making oveasional sorties. This opinion is gen- erally accepted 'in, the Northas the only one. the present reduced condition of the rebels can satisfactorily explain or justify. Unfortunately this kind of optimism is confuted by the formed able preparations of the rebels, and by what we know of the disposition of a large portion of the people in Tennessee and Kentucky. We. must remember that the invasion policy of the rebels does not rest upon a vain and boastful sentiment of vindictiveness. and hatred, but upon, the more solid. foundation of an army of three, hundred and fifty. thousand men, well equipped, with provisions and munitions.of war, behind, which there is a population of boys. fast. coming, of age, and upon a system of fortifications, .in- trenchments. and. earthworks..which will. re- quire all the material of a powerful artillery and an army of halfa million of men to carry and occupy. The rebels know their resources, and it, is because..they. know, it that we are called to witness that extreme confidence in their own strength which goes to the length of abandoning their own hearth-stones for the rash and visionary scheme of invading the North and retaliating uporus*thetreatment they have received at our hands. Gen. Johnston's Official Report (From the Richmond Despatch.) The official report of Gen. Joseph R.Johnston, of his operations in Mississippi, although called for by Congress on the 11th of December last, has only made its' appearance in print Within the last few days. In, referring to, it at present, itis not for us to attempt to account for the delay in its publication. Many. of the facts embraced in this report have already been given to the public in the synopsis of the .correspond- ence between Gen. Johnston and. the govern- mentauthorities: in Richmond: Passing over these, wé come to the despatches between Gen, Johnston and Lieut. Gen. Pemberton, with reference to the operations around Vicksburg. On the 5th' of May. Gen. Johnston, then at Tullahoma, received. a dispatch from »the See: retary of War directing him to proceed jat. once to the Mississippi, and take chief command, of the force there. On the 15th of the same month he received a dispatch from Pemberton, dated Vicksburg, May 12, asking for reinforcements, as theenemy in large force, was moving) from the Mississippi, south of the Big Black, ap- parently in the direction of Edward's Depot, and expressing the belief that that point would be the battle-field, if he cowld. foward. sufficient force, leaving troops enough to secure the safety of Vicksburgh. On the 13th Gen. Johnston dispatched Gen. Pemberton, notifying him of his arrival at Jackson, informing him of the occupation of Clinton by a portion of Grant's army, and urged the importance of re-establishing com- munications, ordering him to come 'up, if practicable, on Sherman's rear at once, and adding: " To beat such a detachment would be of immence value. The troops here could co- operate. All the strength you can) quickly assemble should. be brought, . Time. is all im- | portant." Subsequently, Gen. Johnston. ordered Gen. Pemberton to exacuate Vicksburg and.to take the road leading to Clinton. This order was disregarded. In. concluding his report Gen, Johnstopysays :-- : Convinced of the impossibility of collecting a sufficient force to break the investmeut of Vicksburg, should it be completed--appreciat- ing the difficulty of. extricating the garrison, and convinced that Vicksburg and Port Hudson had lost most of their value by the repeated passage of armed yessels and transports, J ordered the evacuation of both places. Gen. Gardner did not receive, this order before the investment of Port Hudson, if at all. Gen. Pemberton set aside this order under the advice of a council of war; and though he had in Vicks- burg eight thousand fresh troops, not demor- alized by defeat, decided that it " was impos- sible to withdraw the army from this position, with such morale and material as to be of further service to the Confederacy ;" but to. hold Vicksburg as long as possible, with the firm hope that the government may yet be able 'to assist. me in keeping this obstruction to the enemy's free navigation of Mississippi river." Vicksburg was greatly imperilled when my instructions from Tullahoma, to concentrates were neglected. It was lost when my . order, of the 13th and 15th of May were disobeyed. To this loss was added the labor, privations and certain capture of a gallant army, when my orders for its evacuation were set aside. In this report I have been compelled to enter into many details, and to make some animadver- sions upon the conduct of Gen. Pemberton, The one was no pleasant task--the other a most painful duty. Both have been forced upon me by the official report of Gen. Pemberton, made to the War department instead of to me, to whom it was due. Gen.Pemberton, by direct assertion and by im- plication, puts upon me the responsibility of the movement which led his army to defeat at Baker's Creek and Big Black. Bridge--defeats which produced the loss of Vicksburg and its army' This statement has been circulated by the press, in more or less detail, and with more or less marks of an official character, until my silence would be almost an acknowledgment of the justice of the charge. A proper regard for the good opinion for my government; has compelled me, therefore, to throw aside that delicacy which I would gladly have observe towards a brother officer, suffering much undeserved obloquy, and to show that in his short campaign Gen. Pemberton made not a single movement in obedience to my orders, and regarded none of my instructions; and, finally, did not embrace the only opportunity to savezhis army, that given by my order to aban- don Vicksburg. me ey Food and Finanee. FUNDING TREASURY NOTES. (From the Richmond Whig, March 21) The amount of Treasury notes funded in Petersburgh, up to one o'clock yesterday, was $2,200,000 with numerous applications still pending The amount funded in Columbus, Ga,, at last report, was $1,350,000, The Swn says the large corporations have not yet commenced funding ;when they do, the aggregate sum will be very large. The Petersburgh Register says that between $9,000 and $10,000 are now in process of disbursement in the way of dividend among the shareholders in the stock ofthe City of Petersburgh steamer--an immense dividend. The Lynchburgh Republican says the money market in that city is growing 'tight,' and is destined before many weeks are past to be much " tighter." The Mobile Register .of the 11th reports.a sale of goldin that, city .the previous day at. 16. for 1.° A gentleman who has recently returned from a trip to the United States,. ascertained; from authority, that the gold which the Yankee papers claim to be in the Treasury vaults, is not. there at all--Secretary. Chase having long since thrown the bulk of it upon the market. clan- destinely, at different times, to keep down the premium. His anxiety for the passage of the bill authorizing the sale of the, gold was. to cbtain the sanction of Congress 'to an act al- ready committed. The Yankees are too cute to be long bamboozled by such trickery,'and we therefore look for a sharp reaction after. the premium of gold in Wall street has been reduced 15 or 20 per cent. under the influence ot Chase's gold bill. ; " PRICES TUMBLING." Twosales took place in Petersburgh, on Friday, March 12, at which the following prices ruled, as reported in the city papers :-- Common tobacco' from 60¢, to 80c¢ per Ib; mediun do, 80c to $1 50; do good to prime, $2 to $4 per lb; table salt, 42¢ per lb; quinine, $75 per oz ; nails, $175 per keg; brown sugar, excel- lent quality, $8 per lb; loaf do, do, $14 75 per th ; coffee, $11 25 per lb; cognac. brandy, $80 per gallon; . peanut) oil, $46.) per' gallon ; apple; brandy, $61, per, gallon; . striped domestics, from $6 60)to, $710, per, yard; 4-4 bleached cotton, $3, 75. .per) yard ; 4-4 unbleached, $4.40 per yard ; brown sugar $7 50 to $8. per lb; . package' pins, $18. 50; black thread, $15°50'; sorghum molasses, $32 25. per gallon. ' The rapid decline in sugar, market! is 'attrib- uted to the fact that the price had been run up beyond the means of the comunity in general to purchase. 'Inj, Lynchburg, Virginia, om March: 19,0 beautiful article of coffee sugar, sold in 100- pounds parcels at $7.50, In) Petersburgh, Va, on Friday, cotton shirting,sold) at, $550. per yard; and osnaburgs at $3).85.) to $4.25. In Augusta, Georgia, in the public market, pork is selling at $1.50 to $2 per lb; and beef at $1 40 to $2.. Corn-meal is quoted at $13 to $15 per bushel. l The Augusta, Ga., Chronicle says :--We are happy to note a sensible decline in the. price of the necessaries of life in this'maaket Yester- day morning good beef sold at, $1 40 to $2 per pound; and the . market was well supplied. Nie was also plenty, at: $1 50: to $2) per Corn in the ear sold yesterday 'from wagons at $13 per bushel--decline of, $3, Corn-meal sold,at $14 to $15 per bushel ; considerable was purchased at the former. figures. The Scheme to Colonize th Negroes, , The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says :--- Mr. Lincoln's theory, that itis well to send the black labourers out of the country, and policy to get rid of the free negroes, has re- ceived a shocking rebuke through the coloniza- tion scheme of Forbes and associate, which he patronized 'and carefully superintended. New Yorkers must recently have noticed that Sena- tor Wilkinson introduced a resolution which was adopted, calling upon the Président for information relative to the expenditure of six hundred thousand dollars, appropriated by the last Congress for the colonization of coloured persons free by the Acts of Emancipation and Confiscation. The President reported in re- sponse to this resolution that 450 freed coloured persons were embarked from Fortress Monroe in April last, under a contract with Messrs. Forbes and associate of New York, for the Isle persons were the victims of misfortune from the day of their departure. On. their voyage the small-pox. broke out among them They suffered beyond description. Through the mis- management of the agents in charge, their suf- ferings were increased after their arrival at the island, from want of attention and of acommo- dations, Their hardships were so great, and the prospect of their amelioration seemed so slight, that Secretary Usher despatched a special massenger to enquire into their condition. Mr. Lincoln thought best to have them returned to this country without delay. Accordingly the ship :' Marcia C. Day," was sent to Avache in February, and Yesterday the vessel got back and cast anchor in the Potomac near Alexan- dria, with the surviving colonists, only 368 in mumber. Forney's Chronicle well says i-- "Tt is to be hoped this experience will teach us the folly of attempting to depopulate the country of its valuable labour." The National Debt of the United States Measured and Weighed. Mr. John Fair, a calculating machine of New York city, thus measures and weighs four thousand millions of dollars, which he assumes is, or is to be, a national debt :--It has been said that this debt, is so great that it is too vast for comprehension. Now as a practical man [ pro- pose to weigh it and measure it, that we may thereby' obtain a more definite idea of its im- mensity. A silver dollar measures 1 inches in diameter. $8 placed edge to edge will make one foot in length, $24 so placed will make one yard in lengh, and $24,240 so placed will make one mile in length. The earth is 24,600 miles in circumference. It would therefore require $912,384,000 to go once around it. This vast sum must be multiplied by 4 and 4-10 to make it equal the amount of our national debt, which would make the silver dollars go around the earth's circumference four timessnd cover 8,640 miles besides. Allowing a silver dollar to weigh an ounce, 16 to a pound, 2,000 pounds to the ton, our debt would weigh 125,000 tons, and would require 125 ships, of 1,000 tons bur- den each, to carry it. It would make 62,600 truck loads, of two tons each ; and calculating that each truck will cover a space of 30 feet they would stretch a distance of 355 miles, and make a chain of trucks which would encompass the great cities of New York, Albany and Troy in an elliptical line. It would take a man 365 years and 40 days to count the amount of this vast debt, estimating that he would count $60 per minute, working ten hours a day and six days a week, be dig Stl Goon ror Horses.--Mr. Morrison, Philadelphia Lightening Rod Oo. having oc- casion to employ a great number of horses, found Henry's Vermont Liniment superior to any gargling oil he had ever used. It was not originally intended to be used in this way, but was designed for the pains and aches to which human flesh is heir. It cures tooth-ache, head- ache, neuralgia, and the pains and diseases of the bowels. It is a purely vegetable medicine. and no harm can result from the use of it, John F. Henry & Co., Proprietors, 303 St. Paul St. Montreal C. E. agent of the of Avache, Republic of Hayti. These coloured: ENGLAND AND EUROPE, England's Position!! PRUSSIA, AND AUSTRIA ATTEMPTING TO CRUSH OUT (LIBERTY !! The German Liberals false to their own Interests, PROBABLE RESULT OF THE DANISH QUESTION. -- (From the Fvening Mail.) The condition of England 'seems rapidly re turning to. what it was in the old times, before the Roman Conquest. If the world means the world of politics, we are almost as completely separated from it now as then, Such dismal la- mentations and melancholy predictions as Lords Derby, and Ellenborough, and Grey uttered in the House of Lords lately abound on' every side, and it seems to be supposed that we are involved in some new and unheard of calamity. We look 'around in vain for sympathy or assist- ance, and have no course left, after a'succession of anxious though ineffectual efforts, but to watch the current of events, which have escaped from our direction, in more or less sulky inac- tion. Nevertheless, for this state of things, so ironically commiserated by our enemies, so ill- acquiesced in by some among ourselves, there is no inconsiderable amount of consolation. There is, after all, a commercial'as well as a "political world, and from that we are not only not' shut out, but are becoming more and more its active and thriving centre. If we cannot have our own way in politics, we, at any rate, possess a number of good things which no political com- bination can bestow--wealth, peace, prosperity, and good government. The isolation of which our Peers complain has not been brought about by any fault or crimes of our own, but is rather the result of an honest desire for peace and good will among the nations of the earth, in which we can find no one to agree with us. ' Neither is this by any means the first time that such a tem- porary estrangement has overtaken us, nor, unless we or our Continental neighbors greatly change, is it likely to be the last. The main- spring of our Government is different, and our thoughts and aims are diametrically contrary to theirs. It is scarcely likely that we should tread the same path for long together, and our doing so at all must be a mere matter of accident. It is rather more 'than forty Jyears since Eng- land found herself situated very much as. she is now, and then, as now, for a cause for which she had no reason to be ashamed. The people of Spain had risen against the wretched King whom our success in the Peninsular War had im. posed on them. The Holy Alliance determined to trample out this first spark of a conflagration, . which they saw might overrun all. Europe, England was at that time under a Tory Govern- ment, but she was a free country, and her foreign affairs were under the control of Mr. Canning. He did not allow his composure to be ruffled by the overbearing violence of the Holy Alliance, or by the isolation in which England found herself. He did not feel it his duty to imperil the destinies of the country by. embark- ing in a war in which England's interests were but remotely concerned, and herslender military resources would haye been completely over- matched. He was content to stand aside and let the tempest sweep past him and. expend itself, He was isolated, but. was not dismayed. | The Holy Alliance had completely their own way, and swept the Spanish patriots before them from the Bidassoa to the Trocadero, as the Germans are doing with the Danes. . But it, was a barren triumph. The legacy this high-handed proceed- ing left was civil,war to Spain, revolution to France, and eternal obloquy and disgrace to the Powers which constituted the majority at the Congress of Verona. | England emerged from her isolation unscathed, with character raised and influence augmented. Something similar is taking place now. Those who most loudly be- wail our present isolation will be, perhaps, con- vinced of its necessity and consoled for its con- tinuance when they find, what must soon be- come evident to the world, that this year has witnessed the most startling of all anachronisms, the most violent of all anomalies, in the re-es- tablishment of that very Holy Alliance which it was believed so many years ago had fallen never to rise again. The three eagles of Austria, Russia, and Prussia have met in ominous con- clave over the palpitating body of Poland. They have awoke to a sense of a common inter- est and a common destiny. They are acting in digffrent places and in different ways, but all animated by the same spirit. Prussia and Aus- tria are seeking for unworthy laurels in a shame- fully unequal contest with the little Danish nation. Austria no longer withholds her con- currence from the invasion of Jutland, and has, besides, her own work to do in her own province of Galicia. Russia has placed her army on a war footing, and is approaching the frontier of her two allies, ready to lend her aid, whenever itmay be wanted, to load subjected races with heavier and more intolerable fetters. Can it be wondered that there is little sympathy between England and nations so employed, and is it to be regretted that all community of action be- tween us and such allies is impossible ? But it may be said, that if England has no sympathy with the despots leagued together for the overthrow of freedom in the North and East of Europe, she should at least be on good terms with the Liberal Party throughout Germany. Alas! this, too, is impossible, and this also through no fault of England. We learn from the unguarded conversation of M. Bismark, re- ported in the Papers recently laid before Parlia- ment, that the provinces of Holstein and Schles- wig and the harbor of Kiel itself were not the real objects of attack to the confederate forces of Austria and Prussia, Denmark might have re- tained her German Duchy had it not been for the free and liberal spirit of her institutions. It was the contagion of Danish liberalism which Austria and Prussia were determined to arrest. They are enemies of freedom in the North just as_ they were forty years ago the unprovoked destroyers of freedom in the South, and the blood that is shed flows in the ever-renewed and never-ending quarrel between liberty and despotism. But it is entirely peculiar to the present conjuncture that the Liberal Party in Germany, false to its traditions and its principles, has given despotism the excuse for this attack upon freedom, and is now hounding on the agents who go north to propagate the doctrines of arbitrary power to the completion of their odious work. Deluded by the empty jargon of nationalities, and blinded by a childish antipathy of race, the so-called Liber- als of Germany have actually led the way in a crusade against the liberty of Denmark, and sharpened with their own hands the sword which will soon be turned against their own breast. Is it to be wondered at that England should have little sympathy to spare for men who are thus working out their own destruction in the effort to accomplish the destruction of their neighbor? Isolation may be an evil, but it is far less an evil than co-operation with the crafty politicians who have planned this Alliance, or the simple dupes who have lent themselves to them as tools for its . accomplishment. We have the utmost conf. _ dence that those crooked paths will only lead - those who tread them to disappoiutment and disgrace, and are well satisfied to bear a far heavier evil than seclusion from such unjust. counsels rather than be accomplishes in that sad_ drama which is being acted by the selfishness of - Kings and the madness of nations. Terrible Inundation at Shefiield, England, BURSTING OF A RESERVOIR COVKRING NINETY-FIVE ACRES-----VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY AND HUNDREDS OF PERSONS. DROWNED IN THEIR BEDS. Shortly before one o'clock this. morning (March 12th) a great reservoir at Bradfield, six miles from Sheffield, burst its embankment. The area of the reservoir was ninety acres, and. bat just finished. This enormous body of water rushed down the valley of the Don, sweeping away all the bridges over the river, a great number of houses on its banks, and destroying, it is feared, scores of their inhabitants. , The lower part of Sheffield was submerged, several feet deep, and hundreds of families driven from their homes, The flood has not yet subsided, and. the dam- age is incalculable. el The Sheffield Telegraph gives graphic. 'de- tails, and says: About midnight alarge re- servoir connected with the water works, and extending to above a mile in length, situated about seven miles from the town, suddenly' burst in, and inundated the valley of the Don,' sweeping away entire villages, drowning. the sleeping inhabitants by hundreds. Trees were uprooted, and the debris of buildings --carried down the river was immense. In some of the streets of Sheffield the debris is piled up eight and 'ten feet high, and among it are found frag-" ments of furniture and many dead° bodies. For more than an hour the streets near the river were three and four yards deep in water. Great numbers of men are now eagaged getting dead bodies out of houses where they have been drowned in bed. Others have been gathered in from gardens into which: they have floated.' Excitement in the town cannot be described. Business is at a stand-still. Extent of mis- chief cannot be ascertained; hundreds of lives are sacrificed. The dam was a new one. The immense volume of water is still pursuing its course of destruction. Rotherham, Doncaster and many other towns, will suffer ere the river' Trent receives the excess of water which has been set at liberty, THE DEAD, From the Sheffield Telegraph, March 14th. From the large quantity of trees and brushwood hrought down the river, the victims, who were for the most part drowned while escaping from their beds, are found bruised and quite nude, if nude those may be called who have received, - instead of the night dresses the drifting. has removed, a thin clothing of clay. Some of the: dead have an expression of fierce energy upon their faces, and their last act is expressed as: well as words could express, by the expression of the face and the attitude of the arms. In: one the teeth are clenched, and the right arm' thrown forward as if striking at. something ; in others both arms are thrown forward in a swimming attitude and have so stiffened. In many cases the living had died in their beds without leaving any sign to show that'the water had waked them, or that they had consciously. passed from the sleep of life to the long, long' sleep of death. Several of those found have been as much killed as drowned, for one has a - broken arm and-another a broken leg, and some are' so bruised and mangled as to indicate that they had first been crushed under the wreck of: their houses and then washed out when the tor- rent imparted motion to the wreck, or else that" they had been caught between drifting trees and' beams. ' Eck a The number of dead yet known does not ex- ceed 180. From the Sheffield Telegraph, March 15. Up to half-past one o'clock only about half-a- dozen more bodies: were found. About sixty © more persons were enquired for, The Mexican Question, MAXIMILIAN'S ARRIVAL IN AND DEPARTURE FROM LONDON, (From the London Star, March 14.) His Imperial Highness the Archduke Maximi- lian, of Austria, the future Emperor of Mexico, accompanied by the Archduchess and a numer- ous suite, arrived at Calais, by special train from Paris, yesterday morning at one o'clock, and embarked immediately on board a special steamer, the Breeze, the last new mail steamer of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company. The Breeze, against a strong wind and tide, performed the voyage to Dover in two | hours. On arrival at Dover their Imperial Highnesses proceeded to Ship Hotel and partook of breakfast, and at four o'clock left by special train on the London, Chatham and Dover Rail- way for London, the distance from Dover to London--seventy-eight miles--having been run in one hour and fifty minutes. ; The Archduke and Duchess were receiyed at. Dover and accompanied to London by Mr. J. S. Martin, the superintendent of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company. The Archduke has been travelling in Strict incognito, under the title of the Count Lacroma consequently all the usual receptions and salyte', have been dispensed with. * * (From the London News, March 16.) The Archduke Maximilian, the Archduchess and suite left London this morning for Ostend. Their Imperial Highnesses were received at the Victoria Station by Mr. Forbes, the general | manager of the London, Chatham and Dover Company, and conducted to a special train which was in readiness, The train started at nine o,clock; the journey to Dover was perj formed in one hour and fifty minutes. On their arrival at Dover the Archduke and Archduchesg proceeded to the Royal Ship Hotel where they; partook of luncheon. The royal party after- -- wards went in carriages to the Admiralty. pier and embarked at forty minutes past eleven, a,m. Paris Correspondence of London Star, March 13, : bi 4 fbn Beles of Mexico is not at all " andsome. he is round Idered and of -- royal build and plpsionnuiee attoks have been told by persons who have been presented to her that she is not devoid either of sense or wit, ' ;