May each of them bring back the wisdom
of Ulysses.
The Foreign News. —The Arago
brings important foreign news. The diffi
culty between Switzerland and Prussia has
been settled. Our old friends, the Circas
sians, have been again trimming up the
Russians. Twenty thousand of the Rus
sians killed. The British and Chinese are
still Latticing at Canton, and the Ameri
cans are in for it as deep as the British.—
The French, also, were asking for a chance
with the outside barbarians. Tho difficul
ty may be long and serious one. It ap
pears, that a price having oeen sent by the
Governor on the head of every English- j
man, those who were iu search of the arti-;
de made a mistake, and took.some heads;
from American shoulders, and presented
them, claiming the reward. Such mistakes
would ho likely to lead to difficulty, as
might be supposed.
Death op Preston S. Brooks.—Pres
ton S. Brooks, a Kepreilsentative in Con
gress from South Carolina, died at Brown’s
Hotel,in the city of Washington,on the 27 th
day of January, 1857, after a severe illness;
of three day’s duration. He had been ,
sink with a severe cold, but supposed he
was recovering, when on the evening of the
above day ho was seized with a violent
cough, and died in intence pain, in a few
minutes afterwords.
