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DAILY Cllliim I SEXTIXEL. BY WILLIAM 8. JOiVBiS, DULY* TBI-WEEKLY AID WEEKLY. TEEMS: DAILY PAPER, to City Subscribers,per annum, in advance #6 00 DAILY PAPER, mailed to the country 7 00 TRI-WEEKLY PAPER, mailed to the country... 4 00 WEEKLY, (a mammoth sheet J “ ... 200 CASH SVSTKM. —In no case will an order for the paper be attended to, unless accompanied with thk musky, and in every instance when the time for which the subscription may be paid, expires before the receipt of funds to renew the same, the paper will be discon tinued. Land UUlee Report. The Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to Hon. A. 11. 11. Stuart, Secretary of the Interior, is a document of much interest. Wo therefore iay before our readers the following pret ty full exhibit of its contents. The commissioner commences as follows:— Halt. Sun. Genekal Land Office, ) November 29, 1852. ) Sir;—l have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this office during the past year, with such suggestions as seem to be proper for further carrying out the .system of dis posing of the public domain. Within that period, 9,522,953 acres were survey ed, and 8,032,483 acres advertised for sale. In the last fiscal year there were gold 1,553,071 acres. Located with Bounty Land War rants 4 201,315 ;1 Located with oilier certificates.... 115,682 “ Making a total of 4,870,067 “ In addition, there were reported under swamp land grunt 5,219,188 “ For internal improvements, rail roads, &c 3,025,920 “ Making an aggregate of 12,115,175 “ Being an increase in the amount of lauds sold located with land warrants over tne previous year, 569,220 acres. The whole amount thus sold and located, report ed under the swamp land grant, and selected for internal improvements, railroads, &0., exceeds that of last year by 3,342,372 acres; and the sales would no doubt have been much heavier but for the extensive reservations for railroads, in Missis sippi, Alabama and Missouri, for the quarter ending 30th Sep tember, 1852, there were sold.. 243,255 acres. Located with Bounty Land War rants 1,337,116 “ Located with other certificates'... 15,649 “ Making a total of 1,646,020 “ There were reported under swamp laud grant 2,435 233 “ Making agere. for the quar., of. 4,131,253 “ Daring the past year 25,000 letters were received and answered; 1491 accounts were adjusted and re ported to the comptroller; 21,502 certificates of land sales, 29,226 bounty land warrant locations, 9,318 declaratory statements, 50,000 swamp land, internal improvement and other selections were posted ; about 70,000 cash bounty land and other ?atents were written, recorded and transmitted ,654,519 acres of swamp land and other selections were certified to the States, and upwards of 20,C00 pages of letters and accounts were recorded. Among the accounts adjusted as above mention ed were those ot the land officers, under the act of 22d March, 1852, “To make land warrants assign able, and for other purposes,” by which those offi cera were entitled to the same per ventage for the location of warrants since the 11th of Feb., 1847, as for cash sales. As the law provides that all such fees for loca tions made prior to its passage should be paid out of the Treasury, most of the accounts there tor were made up at this office from the returns of the seve ral officers and involved a great amount of c ireful Igbor, and an entire revision of all the accounts ■' 'lptLrled since January 1, 1847. The whole amount thus paid out of the Treasury to 13ch November, 1852, was $110,816 91. f This law, which wa- an act of simple justice to ' the district laud officer, and only a reasonable com pensation for faithful services, limits the amount of fees paid to each person from every source to $2 ,500 per annum, aud requires that those for the location of land warrants made after the p tssago of that law should be paid by rhe persons who made those locations. The consequence has been that in several instances the aggregate of foes paid in for military locations exceeded the maximum com pensation of the land officers, and the excess has gone into the pub ho treasury; and therefore the government, to that extent, has been reimbursed on account of the above mentioned expenditure in the first in -lance. The survey of the northern boundary of lowa has been completed a" required by the act of 3 I March, 1819, the monuments have all been erected Afiod a full report of the whole work, with maps of showing fie topography of the conn- BHBKUI be specially co u tmealed at an early la\ session of Congress, energy hao been i-\ C .{■ it. - ■k wore long since exhausted, and will not admit of his completing his report; and hence an. item is runmitted for the purpose in the estimates of ap propriations for the next fiscal year, and also to cover the expense of a recon uoissuuoe of the “Mau vai-es Torres,” in Nebraska. The final report of Messrs. Foster & Whitney, on the geology of the Luke Superior land district, for the completion of which an appropriation was made at the last session of Congress, will be com municated in the course of the next session. This report will embrace the most recent infor mation -in relation to the copper and iron mines of tha interesting region. The whole of the mineral business connected with the sales of the public lauds in Michigan, ; Wisconsin, Illinois, &c., has been brought so near ly to a close tiiat there is no longer any necessity j tor the employment of a mineral agent in those re : gions, and 1 therefore recommend that the services of the one now employed there bo discontinued. The business connected with the bouhty land divisions of this office has been pressed forward as rapidly as possible. The following table exhibits the number of warrants issued under the acts of 1847, 1850aud 1852; tiie number ot those warrants I that have boon located and the number now out standing, viz: act of 1847. I Grade of No. Acres cm- No Acres *m- No. Acres em- Warrant, i-sued braced located, braced out- braced the eby. thereby, st'd’g thereby. 160 acres-•■ 76.871 ia.599.540 69.415 11,111200 7.459 1,188640 ■ 40 *• 6,264 250,500 5,075 203.000 1,189 47 560 Total, 83,138 12,550.400 74,320 11,314.200 8,618 1,236,200 ACT OF 1&50. 160 acres--.-20 8-6 3 341.760 8,832 1,413.120 12,054 1 928,640 SO “ 41232 3 510,160 14,194 1,133,520 30 058 2,404,640 40 -‘ 73 5-0 2 912 400 23,430 939,200 50,030 2,003,200 Talal, 133 698 9,824,320 46 506 3,437,840 92,192 6,336.480 ACT OF 1853. i 160 acres •••.None i so • 171 13.680 171 13.680 40 “ l,oor 40 000 No Rsturns. 1,0 0 40,000 Total, 1,171 53,6-0 1,171 63,680 SUMMARY. Act of ’47 - 83.138 12 550 400 74.520 11,314,200 8,618 1,238.300 Act of ’50—133 691 9,821,320 46 506 • 3.487,810 92 192 6,366 4«0 •' •’52- 1,171 53680 1,171 53,680 223.007 22,128,400 121.026 14,802,040 101 981 7,626,360 Notwithstanding our stringent regulations re- I spectmg the assignment of warrants, frauds are ! sometimes perpetrated, and patents issued on j fraudulent ssiguments. In such cases it has been held that this office can affqrd no relief, and that the only redress for the warrantees is through the proper judicial tnbu- I nals in a suit for the title to the lands located with their warrants. This is expensive, and may be un certain where the holder of the patent title sells to rq innocent purchaser, who has no knowledge of the fraud. The examinations of the transfers, moreover, materially retard the issuing of the pa | tents, us nearly all of them are assigned, and with the greate-t cure, frauds of the character above mentioned cannot always be detected. To avoid these evils, as far as practicable, I re spectfully recommend that an act be passed by Cmigre-- authorizing this office in all cases to is sue the patents to the person who rendered the i service for which the warrants were granted, with the proviso that the title shall enure to the benefit of the parties contemplated by the act of 1847 and 1850, tiieir heirs, assignees or devisees, as the case may be. The United States would thus bo divest ed of the fee in the lands, the rights of the soldiers and t use holding under them would be secured, I i as tii -ule of “ caveat omptor ” would apply in all i j cases, and the questions connected with subse- ; ! quent transfers could be adjudicated by the courts. I in this way the landed titles of the country would be rendered secure and permanent, much vexa- I tious litigation prevented, and the warrantees ; Qouli sell and assign as usual. In the present ' prosperous condition of the country, the extent of I the sufferings and sacrifices endured in the service I fur which these warrants were granted, and the value of that service, are almost inappreciable. Dur ng the war of 1312 with England, justly styled tiie second struggle for independence, our I patriotic cilizms, on land and water, were ever j ready at a moment’s cull to strike for freedom and shed tiieir best blood in defonee of their country. Mayy of die sepatriots have passed away, leaving their families in straitened circumstances, and oth ers are struggling, in the autumn of life, under po vert\ and sickness, to obtain a scanty subsistence. When the act of 1850 was passed, length of service appeared the most Just, if not the only criterion bv which the extent of the bounty should be mea stirml. Experience, however, has since proven that many ol those whose actual setvice in the field was the briefest, endured the greatest hard snips and rendered most valuable services to their country. It would seem, then, to be just, that the same liberal provision should bo made for them as was extended to the soldiers of the regular army, and that each should receive 1(50 acres, whether his service was long or short, or had been rendered on land or water. In addition to those above mentioned, warrants and scrip have been issued by the division having cnarge of the Virginia military and bounty lands, under the war of 1812, amounting to 27,766 acres. That division has also been actively engaged in indexing the old volumes and preparing new re cords and abstract*!, &c., so as to be ready tor the | is ue of scrip to the holders of Virginia military warrants, authorised by the act of 31st August, 1852, as soon as the proviso to the 2d section of that act shall have bean complied with by that State. Tiie execution of this law lias been devolved by yo i upon t iie General L ind Office, and from the exp rience alrea ty had, it is evident that the pro viso in it, requiring you to be satisfied “ by a revi j sion of the proofs, or by additional testimony that any warrant * * surrendered (under the provi ! sion of that act) was fairly and justly issued in pursuance of the laws of said commonwealth of Virginia, for military services so rendered,” will i be exceedingly onerous on this'ofL.o, and on the | holders ot the warrants, and will materially retard the completion <>t the business under it. 1 would, therefore, respectfully recommend that the said proviso be repealed, and the issuing of the war rants treated as prima facia evidence that the ser vice was rendered by the person in whose-'name it > \\ a> gianted. It wnl then be difficult, in*all‘cases* I ' to a-cci ain satisfactorily who are the present pjgjß as required by the act, that the scrip ifl| 11 e i’c 01K the correction of errors in making entries of land,” to all cases where the locations have been or may be made with bounty land warrants or other scrip. The revival and extension of these laws will af ford relief to many meritorious cases where inno cent persona have been led into error by circum stances beyond their control, and will remove a cause of much labor and correspondence to this of fice by the final disposition of such cases. Every principle of justice requires that the some facility and indulgence shall be extended to those who lo cale land with warrants or scrip as to those who purchance for cash. Cases of great hardships have arisen where bona fide settlers have endeavored to secure their home steads by warrants, and why, having been misled in the description of the tract, have located their warrants upon lands that were comparatively val ueless to them, leaving their own improvements subjects to sale or location for want of the means of securing them. By the treaty of 1832, the Chickasaw ceded to the United States their lands in Mississippi and Alabama, containing, according to actual survey, 6,718,586 27 100 acres, and pursuant to the treaties of 1832 and 1634 with that tribe, there has been disposed of, by granting individual Indian re serves, and by public and private sale, the greater portion of the whole cession, leaving in fact but a little over 200,000 acres indisposed of. These un sold lands under the graduation principle ift the treaty of 1834, and now liable to sale at 12j£conts an acre, except 640 acres known as the “Land Office” section at Pontotoc, the sale of which is specially provided for in the supplement to the treaty of 1832. By the 11th article of the treaty of 1834, it is provided that should the expenses of ibese lands “prove greater than the receipts,” the Chickasaws may declare the residue of them abandoned to the United States. This office, from time to time, has reduced the expenses of the land system in the cession by dispensing with the service of such offi cers as had brought the branches of business en trusted to them to a close. In order, however, to conduct thcsalesiu the cession pursuant to treaty stipulations, it has been necessary to continue the Register and Receiver at a salary of SI2OO each as authorized in the treaty. If no steps should be taken at an early day in the way of finally treating with the Indians respecting the residue of their lands, I recommend the passage of a law authori zing the Executive to attach these lauds to a con tiguous district, and to sell them, free of expense, to the Indiana. In this way they would be relieved at once from the annual expenses now incident to the employment of a Register and Receiver at the salary specified in the treaty, and the “Land office section’ could be sold to 'the best advantage—a measure not only beneficial to the Indians, but doubtless desirable to the town of Pontotoc, to which it is adjacent. [concluded to-morrow.] Cjjnmidc & Sentinel | j AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. | THURSDAY MORNING DEC’R 30, 1852. CS*” See Fourth Page of Daily. New Books. Bianca. A Tale of Erin and Italy. By Edward Maturin, j Esq., author of “ Montezuma,” “ Eva,” &c. New York : ! Harper & Brothers. Erin and Italy ! those lands of poetry and wild romantic interest, afford a fruitful theme for the pen of the novelist; and Mr. Maturin has man aged the tale .before us in his usual imaginative and glowing style. It will be found highly inter esting by all lovers of the dramatic and fervid style of writing. : j My Like and Acts is Hungary in IS4B and 1849. By Arthur Gorgei. New York ; Harper & Brothers. Notwithstanding the speeches of Kossuth, and the sketches of Hungarian history in the “iuter j vention ” journals of the day, we opine that very ; little is yet known by the masses respecting the “rights” or “wrongs ” of “poor Hungary.” The present volume professes to boa veritable histr -y of the stirring and troublous times of 1848 aod 1849, by one who deeply participated in those movements, and as such is well worth reading, even by those who kept themselves aloof from the Kossuth ovation. Mr Novel; or, Varieties of English Life. By Sir Edward Litton Bclwbr. This interesting work, which has been running through a multitude of the back numbers of Har- I per’s Monthly, is now issued as one of the “Select Novels” by Harper & Brothers. All the above may be found at the Bookstore of Jos. A. Carrie & Co. Firemen’s Benefit. The Fakir of Siva gives an entertainment this evening for the benefit of the Augusta Fire De partment, on which occasion Miss Ella Bkcce has kindly volunteered to sing a few of irer favorite songs. We anticipate a crowdcdkhoML The following correspondence i; i 1 J I 111 111 ■ '“mBBBB—aU The Cincinnati Fraud- W e published a day or two since, a telegraphic j dispatch announcing the development of a mou- ! strous fraud perpetrated in Cincinnati by certain parties, some of whom were arrested, iu the In surance Companies, in the insurance of freights ! on the steamer Martha Washington, and who are charged with colluding with the officers to ! destroy the boat in January last. The Cincin nati Gazette of the 22d inst. contains reports of William Kissane, of the firm of Smith & Kis sane, soap and candle factors, Lorenzo Chapin, shoe dealer, and James W. Chandler, of Coving ton, Ky., whose business is not mentioned. It also gives the followingparticulars : The developments of this strange affair show that in December of last year, certain parlies bought the steamer Martha Washington, of James McGregor, of this city. J. N. Comings became captain, J. G. Nicholson, clerk, and W. H. Hol land, mate. The boat was loaded by different par ties ofthis city, and left our wharf in January, and on the 14th of that month, in the neighborhood of Island No. 65, on the Mississippi river, the boat was burned—boat and cargo a total loss. The charge against the parties arrested is, that they, by collusion with the officers of the boat, with fraudulent bills of lading, and false oaths thereto, obtained insurance in the following offices, when iu reality there were few or no goods shipped. James Chandler had secured SI9OO insurance on pistols in the “National” of this city, when the supposition is that none were shipped. The office refused to pay—Chandler sued. Capt. Cummings secured $4500 insurance on the freight list of the boat in the Firemens’ & Mechan ics’, of Madison. W. B. Casilly, Agent iu this city, promptly paid it. Lyman Cole secured SBOOO insurance in the Firemens’ Insurance Company of this city, on boots, shoes and Kossuth hats, said also to' have been shipped. This sum was paid by Josiah Law rence, Esq., before he died. G. I*. Stevens insured $5,369 on an Invoice of boots and shoes, bought by Lyman & Co., in the Protection agency of this city. He also insured in the ..Etna agency $4,874 on goods purported to have been bought of John Edwards. Lyman Cole insured $5500 on boots and shoes in the Cincinnati agency of the Detaoit Insurance Company. Cole sued the company, and this has had a long exam ination in the Courts of Detroit. Capt. Curniugs effected an insurance, through an innocent person, of $4,500, in A. S. Chew’s agency of the Phoenix, of iSt. Louis. Also, a large amount in the Charleston company, which is in suit. The Union Mutual, of New York, had SIO,OOO i —54,600 on 1,600 doz. sheepskins, and 6,200 on j 26,000 white sole leather, said to have been shipped, i Chas. Lane & Co., of Boston innocent parties, advanced Kissane $4,800 on the 9th of January, ' on a policy in the Equitable Insurance Company, ; of Boston, of $5,934, on 300 packages said to have j been shipped on the Martha Washington, j James Leo, of Boston, innocent party, is insured 1 to protect drafts, for $5,900, on 167 bbls. of pork, ; said to bo shipped by Cole, and S 3 bbls. of pork ' and 100 tierces of lard, by Kissane. i Adam Chapin effected, as the boat passed Louis ' ville, insurance with the Louisville agency of the Madison Insurance Company, for $4,200 on 200 j cases of boots and shoes, said to have been chipped j by said Chapin, iu Cincinnati. This claim was ! sued by Kissane. Mr. Filler, partner of the Chapins, is reported to havi been opposed to the scheme, and to avoid the threats of parties, to leave the city, to have secreted himself in Illinois, to escape violence, that on his dying bed, on the 24th of last October, he charged these parties with this conspiracy. There were other insurances besides those j noted, swelling the pretended amount of shipment I to an nggregrte beyond the reasonableness of or | dinary shipments. Capt. Cumings and Holland the mate are at i present up Red River. i Mr. Lyman Cole, brother of Horace Cole, and formerly merchant on Pearl-street, was no doubt arrested at Oxford, yesterday on his way to Co lumbus. The Attorney General. —The Washington cor respondent of the New York Courier and Enqui rer says :—“There seems to be a general under standing in political circles here, that Senator Butler of South Carolina, will be invited by Gen eral Pierce to accept the Attorney General ship in the new Cabinet. Yet there is no war rant for saying that any direct overture has yet been made or is positively contemplated. Intima tions have been thrown out, which are regarded as I significant by those who profess to be well advised. Mr. Butler is now at the head of the Judicary Com mit Lee in the Senate, and before his election to the chamber, was long a distinguished Judge in the Supreme Court in his native State. Few men in public life enjoy more personal popularity, or art less free from the political prejudices which are so j apt to warp the judgment and to pre vert the high purpose of opponents.” North-CarohCsa Railroads.-— The Raleigh and Gaston Road o7;A Load 220 mi e on \, Sleigh .‘.f 160 MgBHBW—i ; —BB—Eg—BaMMMmiUJkjMWIkHWUEiMS For the Chronicle <£ Sentinel. j Mb. Editor:— There must be a considerable re , duction in the annual income of the City from j bridge tolls, and from the loss of interest on some two hundred shares of Georgia Railroad stock, which Couucil has given for the establishment of ! an Orphan Asylum, whilst the expenditures will be materially increased by a largo annual interest upon the bonds recently issued for repairs upon the Canal. The deficit thus created can only be met by a retrenchment of the expenditures, or by a resort to additional taxation. This last mode we presume will have but few advocates either in or out ofCoi ncil, as we are now taxed to a most bur densome extent. It is, therefore, only by a rigid economy that our credit can be sustained. Among the expenses which might properly be curtailed, are seven.! of the salaries of certain officers. We now pay annually over twenty thousand dollars IN SALARIES TO THE OFFICERS OF THE CITY. Some of these are higher than are paid for similar services in other cities having a larger population, and where living is equally, if not more expensive. Contrast the salaries paid in Savannah with those paid in Augusta for the same kind of service-, SAVANNAH. AUGUSTA. City Treasurer, S6OO & fees. CityTreas’r, SI2OO, no f?es. Clerk of Council, 400 & fees. Clerk of C uncil, $Sv) 4 fees. City Marshal, 600 & fees. City Marshal, SIOOO 4 fees. Deputy Marshal, Deputy Marshal, 800 & fees. 5 City Constables, 800 & fees. 8 City Constables, 750 & fees. A comparison with the salaries paid in other cities would doubtless exhibit a similar dispro portion. We have not specified these officers as those only whose salaries should be reduced. There are others which call equally for reduction. Wo hope that Council will not be deterred by a fear of losing the present incumbents. We venture to as.-ert that they would all be candidates for re-election, even should their salaries be reduced. But should we be mistaken in this matter, we have no hesita tion in saying that our city has many citizens equally capable and honest, who would gladly ac cept the offices at salaries materially reduced below the present rates. Tax Paye:.. An Estaordinaby Lock. —The editor of ■he American Artizan was recently shown a piece of mechanism called Yale’s magic lock, which is abso lutely nnpickable as the kernel of the walnut would be without damaging the shell. The c ily opening is a circular orifice, half an inch diame es, for admitting the key, and through which ther- is no possible access to the tumblers by any inst u inent whatever —not even by the key itself, strai ge as it may seem. By a singular contrivance, a y >r tion of the key is detached after insertion, id sent to a distant part of the lock, where it moves the tumblers, ana where the tools of the bur*, ar could neverarrive except by first buttering the 1- _‘k to pieces. The key-hole resembles the interior of a small pistol barrel, and liavirg no opening iu the interior basin of the lock would not rcct.ve powder enough to blow it open. The lock is the e fore absolutely gunpowder proof. Among ot. er peculiarities, the key is susceptible to from so :y thousand to one million of changes. A changt of the key changes the lock also in the act ot lock! g, so that one may have a new lock every day ft a hundred years! By a change of the key a er locking, it is rendered impossible to unlock, oven with the same key, until altered again. One n iy thus lose the key,*or have it stolen, and still enter tain no fears of the locks being opened with it. The proprietors offer a reward of five bundled dollars to any one who will pick it through the key-hole, using whatever instruments he plea u - s, anil taking any length of time that he may desirr. Good Price for a Shad. —A shad caught in * he Ogechee River by Patrick Cody, and which weigh ed 4 lbs., was sold in our market yesterday mr n iugto the proprietor of a hotel in Columbia, S. •'., for thirty six dollars ! We understand that the purchaser was in ‘ ic market before it was fairly light, and spving he shad, asked Mr. Cody the price of it. Being i formed that it was valued at S4U, he closed at once at that price. In making the change it was inc a • venient at that hour to get at the precise sum, a id the owner of the shad, in a spirit of liberality ac cepted $36. He sold the balance of his shad at one dollar a piece. It is an old saying that “ he eaily bird gets the worm.” In this case, we thh <, he got the bug, that is to say, the bug was put n him in the fish transaction. —Savannah Xeus. The new steamer Carolina, Capt. Coxetter. In tended to run between this port and Jacksonville, &c., in conjunction with the steamer Florida, C ot. Willey, arrived at her wharf in this city yester a> evening about six o’clock from New York, wh oh port she left on Saturday last. We have not as et seen her, but understand that she is in every re | sped a fine boat, and does infinite credit to ihe ! judgment and skill of her worthy command- r, under whose superintendence she was construe xl —indeed the very fact that Capt. Coxetter super vised the building of the Florida is a sufficient guaranty that the Carolina will be fully equal to :he most sanguine anticipations of her enterprise' ig owners. — Char. Char. v The Brig ''Pedraza.— Wo learn that the • ai -1 graut.passengers that arrived in this vessel, from to be landed atat the Lazaretto, e id has beenor will be libelled by ie Government, for a breach of ft;e yws, in bringing iulojlicUftr P -yd p 9 JBapttif CfUgrapl). Charleston Market. Wednesday, Dec. 29.—Sales of 2200 bales at 7>f to 9% cents. Prices aie fall, the market haviug recovered the decline. Middling Fair i» scarce at 9 cents. From the Charleston Courier —By Telegraph, Baltimore, Dec. 28. —The U. S. Mail steamship Uncle Sam has arrived at New York, bringing half a million in gold, and advices from San Fran cisco to the Ist inst. The steamship Panama left San Francisco on the Ist of December, with £2,700,000 in gold, for San Juan. General Pierce’s majority in California is about seven thousand. The intelligence of Mr. Webster’s death was re ceived at San Francisco on the 20th of November, and minute guns were fired, and every mark of re spect shown to his memory. A great earthquake occurred at Acapulco on the evening of the 4th inst., destroying the largest buildings, causing considerable damage to proper ty. Fortunately, however, no lives were lost. Baltimoke, Dec. 28.—The health of the Hon. W. K. Kind is much improved. Both Houses of Con gre-s adjourned early on Tuesday, having transact ed little business of interest. In the Senate a resolution of the lion. Lewi* Cass of Michigan, calling for information relative to the establishment of British Colonies in Central America was adopted. Baltimore, Dec. 28.—Advices from Norfolk, ' a. state that the British steamer Mountaineer, from Liverpool for New York, was totally lost on Christmas day, near Curratuck Inlet. The crew, however, were saved. [We mentioned, it will be recollected, in the Courier of Thursday last, that “the British steam er Mountaineer from Liverpool, bound to St. John’s, New Brunswick, in ballast, put into Nas sau on the sth inst., in distress, having been out seventy days in consequence of her machinery having become order. W e presume, however, that she could not obtain the necessary facilities for having her machinery repaired at Nassau, and therefore proceeded to ew York, which port it was fated, it seems, that she-sliould not reach.] — Eds. Courier. New Orleans, Dec. 25.—Saturday being Christ mas day, business was suspended. The Canada’s advices were more unfavorable to Cotton than had been anticipated. Their effect, however, will not be developed until Monday. The U. S. mail ship Empire City. Capt. Win die, is to leave New Orleans for New York via Havana at eight o’clock on Tuesday morning. MARRIED. On the 18th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Edwd. W. Jones, Mr. JOHN R- SMITH, of Columbia, and Mias VIRGINIA J. f. MORRIS, cf Warren county. Oh the evening of the 23d inst., by the Rev. Mr. James M. S til well, Mr. JAMES J. MONTGOMERY, of Jasper county, Ga., and Miss ELIZABETH JANE, daughter of Mrs. Margaret S. Welborn, of Morgan county, Ga. SPECIAL NOTICES. EAR DISEASEB Deafness Radically Ccred !—Dr. LE BRDNN offers to those suffering from Dea r ness, Aural Remedies, which have been successful in nearly three thocsako cases of confirmed Deafness. These remedies have been pronounced by Drs. Kramer, of Berlin, Itard and Detau, of Paris, and Curtiss, Pilcher and Yearsley, of London, as th* most valuable and effectual ever applied for diseases of tht internal and middle Ear. They comprise three different courses for the various diseases that effect the external, middle and internal Ear. If the disease is confined toth# external Ear, their effects are apparent on the fifth and sixth day. Dr. Le B. warrants a cure in every case, when the ear is perfect in its formation. He has eighteen cer tificates from those who had lost their hearing in infancy, whose hearing is now completely restored, and are now enable! to learn the language. Over twenty seven hun dred certificates of cures may be seen on application. r«- tiente, by sending a few particulars of their case, can have remedies sent to any part. Terms:—Five Dollars Consultation Fee. Ten Dollars Fee to be paid when the bearing is restored to its original acuteness. Addre»s Drs. LE BRLNN Si DUFTON, Union Place, Mew York City. N. B.—A Treatise on the Nature and Treatment of Dea* ness and Diseases of the E;.r, with the Treatment o. the Deaf and Dumb. Price one dollar. 2m-dBO MAC ALLIS HR! THE GREAT EUROPEAN MAGICIAN, Will appear a% CONCERT HALL, on SATURDAY EVE NING, January Ist, ISSB. dSO PELOTS COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, Masonic Halt—A Second Class in the BOOK KEEPING department will be formed on TUESDAY night, 4th January, at 7 o’clock. Gentlemen wishing to unit# themselves to this Class, are requested to leave their names with Messrs. Giraruy A Parker, Augusta, or T. StpriMfS Heriot, Esq., Hamburg; or apply at the Hall. Terms for the Course sls. Gentlemen composing the Commercial Debating Class, are requested to meet at 8 o’clock, as above. d29tw4 WILLIAM M. PELOT. We are authorized to announce the names of <B. H. WARREN, G. F. PARISH, J. B. BISHOP, and THOMAS SKINNER, and MARTIN McNAIR, as candl vdates for Judges of the Inferior Court at the ensuing elee - d 23 ' ‘.v 1 ' m