e morning twilight to dispel the mists of fiction.

It is above forty years that men have been debating the question:--Who
were the parties that burned the city of Moscow?--without ever
thinking of the preliminary question, whether it ever was burnt at
all. And now at length we learn that it never was.

The following extract from a New Orleans paper contains the
information obtained by an American traveller--one of that great
nation whose accuracy as to facts is so well known--who visited the
spot.

INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL--CITY OF MOSCOW.

Senator Douglas is said to have made the discovery, while
travelling in Russia, that the city of Moscow was never burned!
The following statement of the matter is from the Muscatine
(Iowa) Inquirer:

"Coming on the boat, a few days ago, we happened to fall in
company with Senator Douglas, who came on board at Quincy, on his
way to Warsaw. In the course of a very interesting account of his
travels in Russia, much of which has been published by
letter-writers, he stated a fact which has never yet been
published, but which startlingly contradicts the historical
relation of one of the most extraordinary events that ever fell
to the lot of history to record. For this reason the Judge said
he felt a delicacy in making the assertion, that the city of
Moscow was never burned!

"He said, that previous to his arrival at Moscow, he had several
disputes with his guide as to the burning of the city, the guide
declaring that it never occurred, and seeming to be nettled at
Mr. Douglas's persistency in his opinion; but, on examining the
fire-marks around the city, and the city itself, he became
satisfied that the guide was correct.

"The statement goes on to set forth that the antiquity of the
architectural city--particularly of its 'six hundred first-class
churches,' stretching through ante-Napoleonic ages to Pagan
times, and showing the handiwork of different nations of
History--demonstrates that the city never was burned down (or
up)."

The Inquirer adds:

"The Kremlin is a space of several hundred acres, in the heart of
the city, in the shape of a flat iron, and is enclosed, by a wall
of sixty feet high. Within this enclosure is the most magnificent
palace in Europe, recently built, but constructed over an ancient
palace, which remains, thus enclosed, whole and perfect, with all
its windows, &c.

"Near the Kremli