Show I 1 fron from the london illustrated illustrated news I 1 I 1 the white sea I 1 the miranda has had three months month of unremitting work within the arctic circle in the white be sea 1 a the russian coastin that sea is completely at our mercy escat arch angel for the present that being protected by a bar which the miranda could not pass the places she called at had the temerity to fire on the english flag and of course coarse paid the penalty this ship I 1 during tho the eighty days she was in the white sea anchored forty eight times and while I 1 under der way and at anchor has boarded ships and vessels showing the immense trade that will be lost to russia in consequence m of F t the h e war with england only three were captured and those fell to the miranda and are on their way home laden with flour fish and oil russi h hns bus sustained a severe loss by the destruction 1 of kou kola described by russian admiral butkes as the celebrated capital of russian lapland which under peter the great became a a fortified e city ity and which in 1809 was visited hy the english who sent in two gun bo ts its to destroy two vessels but who made no direct attack upon the town and expunged it from the list of capitals having had thirty miles of a difficult river to navigate five miles of which are laid down in the chart as uh navigable the r river iver i in sonic some places is so narrow as scar scarcely eely to admit of the ship swinging with a current running of seven knots an hour the uncertain knowledge of the strength of the enemy offered no check to his determination to place his ship alongside the battery sue success cess attend hie daring dairing the tha miranda lay within point blank range of the battery the governor of the city would not come to terms the guns were manned and every tower and building filled with men but they could not stand the shot and shell and shot within musket range in less than an hour their guns were dismounted their batteries in i n ruins and their city in flames one tower i of the fortified cathedral alone now r stands ta ads to mark the spot e kola oncel once had iad been another account states 1 1 on the of august 0 at a in we bored off kola in i n five fathoms water we shortly after observed a fla flag g of truce com coming ingoff off from the fort we li hoisted criste d a aflak fla c of tru tiace ce in return our third lieutenant mr 0 W buckle went away in the gio gig 11 to ta meet the flag of truce with a letter in i n which we understood from the quarter deck ers an immediate surrender of the fort garrison and government property was vas demanded we could see the different forts with the men at their guns kept at quarters during that night no answer being beina 1 returned i in in the morning we hauled down the flag of truce and opened fire with grape and canister to 10 dislodge 3 musketry from the batteries an and d stockades stockade es our s ship hip was got up within yards of the batt battery ety our first Lieuten lieutenant ani mr air john johnf F C mackenzie and charles W manthorpe mate accompanied us in command of the shore party part y on landing our gall tnt first lieutenant headed our party of blue jackets and marines who rushed up sword in hand to dislodge za the enemy from the ruins of the batteries and t to 0 seize their guns upon our oar pulling palliD gin in shore the enemy opened a sharp fire upon us from the different parts of the towers and the monastery our ship continued fire to cover us it was about whet wo we landed headed by lieutenant mackenzie who was the farat into the battery which we found completely complete lv destroyed by the ships fire the enemy was going off beyond double quick time wo took on board one by a shot ahk from 0 our u r p a l 0 taci 0 I 1 v were ere completely buried in the ruins all tle tl e government stores were destroyed by am on the we had destroyed the v whole hole of the town it was a tremendous scene of destruction the buildings stores and monastery all in flames and each bell as their stupendous beams burnt through fell to the bottom of the tower tolling its I 1 last as tk knell tie 11 there were seven bells one of the these has been brought home by the miranda it is a very ancient bell it measures in extreme e circumference 6 feet fedt four inches arid and the internal depth is 2 feet I 1 inch it has a magnificent tone the i date on it is anno 1656 around the upper rim in beautiful relief is a hunting party with flags horsemen and dogs and around the outer oater base is a splendid raised wreath of grapes and pineapples pine apples which is only broken by the figure of a priest holding a cross in his bis left hand with a book in his right hand laid over his left breast the following in 0 letters are raised in old roman character characin 1 K 0 OR R D T K L E M A N M E F E 0 J T 4 I 1 A OAT GAT extraordinary A gentleman living at elk run 1 in the lower lewer end of this county 0 nty has the good fortu fortune neto to possess the most o remarkable yet known of the cat kind its body is of unusual length its legs like those of a bench legged fise fisc the fur is of a reddish color the ile whole beautified with black spots and streaks of different figures they are long in the back and round on the belly and jaws black stripes run across the ears which are very long and tipped at the ends with a blue alti tuft of hair its physiognomy is fierce and its nature savage ordinarily it is perfectly docile and like Worm Wor leys very sensible cat never says a word though he answers readily quy by the wag of his tail to the name of billy his hie masters house being infested with snakes which had been bred in a neighboring stone fence he took it into his head to eschew such game as r rats ats i and mice and kejwal mak ewar upon the snakes all of which he be soon destroyed having acquired a taste for this thia kind of sport he be extended extend bd the field of his operations frequently making excursions more than a mile distant from the house and returning earh each and every day with a snake ranging from two to seven feet in length he has continued this practice for eight weeks on one occasion lie he returned to I 1 the house much fatigued perfectly wet and covered with fla saliv livai a it was supposed helian he had encountered orne oae of those large but bat rare serpents known as the goodat this turned turne dout out to be betrue ifor the day thereafter mr harvey B ralls rails foid the snake dead and ad signs of a dreadful cobaich in the bandi most or nearly all the had been in flicked on the back of tho iaeck the weight of the hort horrid idse serpent was wag fourteen pounds elev en ounces j I 1 this class of serpents is a 6 native of eastern virginia Virgini ai with a very target jarge head grid and great aws the mouth month is i armed with cutting crooked cracked teeth wong among which are afe two longer titan than the rest placed in the fore part chrtt of the upper r jaw jar r all around ithe month there ajsa is a broad and jbv eyb edjer 0 po o large that they give iw tenable aspect who the forehead is edith large scales agob s idlof adt h I 1 8 J of alloi in P jle a of ef perfectly round a kid like burnished gold known t to 0 swallow small pigs alu sk possums lop ac they avoid sight rf d man anah and eahl eon are rarely seen indeed the ex istance of the goodat has been doubted by many the cat still continues his war amo among the snakes these facts may not g gain ain credence notice at a distance but they are so well known and attested that no one in the neighbor neighborhood doubts them for a moment Warre warrenton va flag X EDITORIAL L AmEN AMENITIES mEs among themselves editors need a code of honor rather higher than has been usual hitherto their thoughts are fair subjects for attack according to the ethics of liter literary arv Oi disputation but this is very different diffie rent from attacking oab another the too common plan is only to use an editorial as a mere occasion or in incident ident the real motive is to assail assoil the edkor editor he is no more dangerous than his arguments his success is the ground of alarm if he had the purest of principles and the best offends of ends the matter of a few thoua thousand tid subscribers would convict him of almost ultra heterodoxy no class of men are sub subjected to more mean n annoyances in in this respect than editors 0 of f new journals selfishness vexed at their bre presumption in appealing ppe aling to the public ear ear embraces or creates every sort of opportunity to hold them ato up to redi idi cule or crush them in the dust but whose business is it let the parties fight it out is the general sentiment where meanwhile meo while is the spirit of the profession where areffi are the e editorial bystanders low s surely u rely e editors might easily become a set sef ot if they woula woul take up the matter properly they are not the worst specimens of human nature the th most of them are well bred and well cultivated but what of it all if editorship editor shi ship P in i its class relations is to be absolved as is practically the ease case from the rigid lawe law of courtesy and refinement whenever editors raise the standard of mutual respect whenever they become in fact what they are in theory a profession whenever they have a common and current cre creed creedon edof of gent gentlemanly levanly beh behaviour avious as editors no less than as men then will the ey evils ils complained of be cured and society spared the merciless infliction of private wrongs upon its notice editors ought to know that the bare fact of their commanding the use of the pen daily does not entitle them to persecute the public with wit h editorial quarrels these are incidents of their private bus business nes and d ought to be so treated N Y times i I 1 I 1 |