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FAMILY VISITOR.
PUBLISHED BY \
BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
3kT3.»lße3Cr, 6EOH.GIA..
SATURDAY, JAN. 5, 1856,
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THIS WEEK’S “VISITOR.”
We visit onr friends this week in some
what a different garb from onr last. We
have adopted new headings in launching
upon our tenth voyage. There are few
papers iu Georgia that have weathered ns
many storms, and successfully sailed upon
th«..tcuublod sea of literature. Now wo
feel that »’c arc in better trim than ever,
and hope that the year 1850 may not
close upon us without a realization of our
wishca, —to please aud instruct t tic seeker
after knowledge. Our course is steadily
onward, but we would be wafted by a
steadier wind than the promises of many
who have blown upon us. Our decks have
been cleared for action, and with no stint
of ammunition, wo hope to gnin a victory
over ignorance and error. We war not
against any institution that tends to ad
vance our people in religion, morals, in
telligence and virtue. It will he our aim
to
11 Condemn the unjust, confirm the wise,
Ami shoot passing folly us it flies.”
As it requires a good marksman to ho over
sure of his object “on the wing,” it must
he expected that wo may now and then
fail to bring it to (lie ground—although,
wo might sometimes “ run it into the
ground;” hut we trust that it may not ho
so far that it cannot he extracted by some
more experienced marksman, it. will bo
scon that we have increased the amount
of our reading matter, and improved the
general appearance of the paper. After
this issue, wo design giving onr country
friends a series of articles relating to the
farm and the garden. The general nows
of the day—foreign and domestic—will ho
given in sutlicient quantity to enable onr
readers to keep “posted up” in passing
events. Short stories, with pointed morals,
will ho given, weekly, in order to sustain
the character this journal has assumed us
a companion iu the home circle. Wo re
turn oursincoro thanks to those who have
patronised us during the past year, and
trust that wo will deserve an increase of
the snmo for the now year. Every family
iu Morgan county is interested in the suc
cess of our enterprise—it gives character
to the county and town, abroad, and does
no small part in advancing the interests
of the whole.
To a generous, intelligent public, we
appeal for a more extended patronage, and
now that all (except the printer) arc
realizing the fruits of last year’s business,
forget us not —but come up manfully—pay
Us our small claims upon yon, and we
shall go on our way rejoicing. There are
some who aro in arrears for <.■>' i! gears,
and wo expect them to shorten them as
speedily as possible. An editor never
makes an appoal for justice without an
earnest sense of its absolute necessity—
frequently produced by the gnawings of
hunger upon his stomach, and poverty
upon Imyioekels. His is a hard lot—no
matter if every body dots not believe it.
"The fact is too stubborn and , serious to
admit of joking or doubt.
AVe look for the “ good time coming,”
when our pack-horse business will be
made lighter—our duties less onerous.
To each and all of you, ladies and gen
tlemen, and young folks too, we wish a
“happy new year.” May 1850 prove one
of peace, plenty and prosperity to nil, and
that our duties to each other as Christians
and sojourners in a vale of sorrow, may
not be forgotten in our business cares.
We expect to visit you regularly every
week, and that our pleasures and profits
may be mutual is our earnest wish. Am
retoir.
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.
This long-looked for document lias,
at length, been given to the press. We
have seen hut one copy of it, and the
length of it precluded our diving into its
depths to learn its import. Frank Pierce
became impatient, and could not wait for
the election of Speaker. A just rebuke to
the members, we think. We will give a
synopsis of the Message in our next.
The Nobtii Carolina Cultivator, De
voted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and
the Mechanic Arts. Wm. D. Cooke, Pul*g
lisher, B. S. Iledrick, Editor. Published
in Raleigh, North Carolina, at $1 per an
num in advance, 6 copies for $5; 10 for
$8; 13 copies for $10; 20 copies for sls.
This valuable agricultural publication is
before ns, and we commend it to the libe
Itad-patronage,of (be Georgia planters.—
?rof B. S. Hedrick, Professor of Agricul
tural Chemistry in the University of
North Carolina, has been engaged as the
editor of the Cultivator, and his high
character as a gentleman of undoubted
erudition makes the publication a valuable
off*:
in mMmmmm Maui visit®*.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
It affords us pleasure to c.JI the readers’
attention to our list of new advertise
ments. Remember, this is anew year,
when new business arrangements are be
ing -made, new firms coming in, new
goods receiving, and—and-so-forth.
Messrs. Fears & Swanson are before our
readers with their cards, and'offor induce
ments not to he slighted.
There are other new cards in Ibis num
ber which ’wo cannot Ji particu!arise now,
for want of space.
Onr advertising friends need not he
afraid of crowding our columns—we have
a way of making room for nil, without
encroaching upon our space devoted to
reading matter.
A NEW AND GOOD THING.
Among tho many improvements and
inventions of onr day there is none, among
the fine arts, that surpasses tho picfnri s
called Photographs, taken by Daguerreo
typists, with the ordinary camera, upon
paper and al t a wards colored in oil. The
likeness, as a matt r of course, is true to
nature, and has the advantage of being
durable and softer than canvass pictures
in oil. A splendid specimen of this beau
tiful art may be seen at our friend A. B,
Hi tunings’ room, Town Ilall, where lie
also exhibits Ambrotypca—another va
riety of Daguerreotypes.
TIIE TEMPERANCE CRUSADER.
In our advertising columns will bo found
the prospectus of the abovo named jour
nal, “y Konilam" “Temperance Banner,”
published at Ponfiold, Ga., and Edited by
John H. Souls. The now Crusader is pub
lished on a large sheet, at the very low
(too low) rate of $1 per annum, in ad
vance. It advocates a glorious cause, and
ought to receive a hearty support front all
temperanceadvocates in this great State.
May its crusade against tho infidel monster
(Alcohol,) never cease until tho enemy is
laid low—to rise no more.
MAMMOTH POTATOE.
The largest sweet potatoc wo liuvo yet
seen is now pendant in our office. It
came from the plantation of Col. D. E.
Butler, in Lowndes comity, in this State.
It is of the kind called “ nigger killer ”
measures thirty-seven inches iu length and
sccenteen inches in circumference. If any
readers of the Visitor in the country can
beet our “ 'later ” we would like to aeo tho
vegetable that can do it.
OUR COLLEGES.
The Madison Female College and the
Georgia Female College, located in our
beautiful town, will both resume exercises
on Monday, tho 1-ltli inst., wo are confi
dent, with an increased number of pupils.
These institutions aro tho pride of Madi
son, and justly so, for they are not sur
passed by similar institutions in Georgia.
See their advertisements.
If tho matter in this week’s Visi
tor should not interest you, gentle reader,
attribute it to tho want of a good pair of
scissors. Wo have an exceedingly dull
pair, with both points broken off, and the
whole a little rusty—-so, you perceive, we
have had onr patience tried liy our “Asso
ciate Editor,” to say nothing of tho “clerk
ol' tho weather.”
jgy" You might as well try to stop wa
ter from running down Niagara Falls, ns
to keep people from running to the stores
and shops of tlioso trailers who avail them
selves of the printing press to let the
world know what they have got and
where they are.
jJ-£7" Bee fourth page for reading mat
ter. fine column of that page will here
after ho devoted to agricultural matter,
for the benefit of our patrons in the
country.
Sponging on the Printer. —Here
is a little article, says the Memphis
Eagle, wo think something of framing,
to hang conspicuously over the editor’s
table: “The public have a funny notion
about printers. They think it posts no
thing to puli', advertise, etc. And thus
ono and another will sponge an extra
paper, a puff, or some benevolent ad
vertisement. They forget that this bu
siness makes them known. They forget
that it is the printer’s ink that makes
nine-tenths of their immense fortunes.
They forget that it takes money to pay
compositors, to buy ink, type and paper;
aud lastly, they forget even to thank you
for working for nothing, by gratuitously
puffing their business.”
Medical Virtues of Parsley. —Two
physicians of Paris have published a me
moir, the object of which is to make
known tho immense resources which the
healing art mays draw from the seed of
parsley. This common indigenous plant
possesses kjcojntcstible febrifuge qualities
or properties; the decoction of its seed
may be substituted for that of cinchona,
and the active principle which has been
drawn from it, and which they designate
under tho name of apiol, is equivalent
to quinine in the treatment of the local
intermittent fever.
There is a probability that nearly all
that part of Florida west of tho Chatta
hoochee will shortly he ceded, by mutual
consent, to Alabama, to which it belongs,
geographically.
From the American Union.
The Spirit of Speculation.
If we fire not much mistaken in the
signs of the times, there is a spirit of'
speculation rife in the community which j
may tend to unhappy results. For years j
past our planters and business tnen gen
erally have been pretty sedulously em
ployed in making “ both ends meet,’’
but now prospects are brightening. The
past season having been a favorable one,
the granaries of the farmer are full; his
cotton crop is abundant, prices are good
and he can look ahead with some degree
of satisfaction at the prospect of better
times. The merchant, too, who has had
to hide the result of “hard times” and
“ short crops,” inay with propriety,
upon a speedy settling up of “ old scores,”
and promise himself “indemnity for the
past, and security for the future.” In
short, the condition of our people, both
in town and country, is a flattering one.
But wiil it remain so ? That is the ques
tion. Almost every man we hear of
who finds himself with a surplus dollar
in the treasury, is on :i sharp look out
for a land, negro, or some other specula
tion. Wo do not object to the purchase
of land, negroes, or any thing else that
a man needs; but to purchase from ne
cessity and to purchase on speculation,
are two different things.—“ Every man
to his trade ” is a good old axiom, and
one very appropriate to our sultject.
There are men who make speculation a
business; they do nothing tdso. They
study upon it in the day time and dream
about it at night. They arc in every
crowd, at every public and private sale;
they have the exact number and district;
quality and condition of every lot of land
within fifty miles round perfect in their
memory. They know who is “hard up”
for a little money, and wliat he has got
to sacrifice to obtain it. Should a tyro
at the business offer to trade with one of
them, ho would probably affect great, in
difference upon the subject, while in Lis
heart, lie was bent, not only on making
tho trade, but on making such an one as
would yield him an enormous profit, and
at 11.0 same lime exalt, his character
among those of his profession as a “ sharp
fellow.” Such men, regular speculators,
have no hearts—no sympathies to expend
upon a man’s necessities. To obtain an
advantage, is the sine qua non of all
their transactions. 'They will do you a
favor as readily perhaps, as any one else
but not in the way of a trade. That
would he “unprofessional.” Willi such
men, then, speculation is (we might say)
almost a science.
Hut it is altogether different with per
sons who, simply because they happen to
have more money at some particular
time than they have immediate uso for,
seek to invest it, upon a venture, in some
species of property, with the hope of
realizing a profit, became others have
douo so. Monoy itself is worth from
ten to twelve per cent. How many
speculators, except, it bo that class to
whom wo have above referred, will be
likely to make it nett them as much in
the purchase of land or negroes I Time
and circumstances must he calculated
before a man can trade with impunity.
Are negroes nnd land likely to advance
iu value? If so, why, when, and how
much ? What aro the causes upon which
you predicate a calculation of their rise?
If you cannot answer, do not venture to
speculate, for yon are operating in the
dark. If you depend upon chance to
make you a profitable return, why not
buy a ticket in the lottery ( You may
chance to draw a prize (others have done
so) —you may chance not to! So with
your land or negro speculation, if your
criterion of success he based upon the
result of a similar trade by some of your
neighbors, who may have had opportu
nities of judging which you had not.
We deprecate a mania for speculation
among our people, because past experi
ence lias taught a lesson of its baneful
effects. It lias been said of Georgia
planters, that they never fairly recover
from tho effects of one season’s over
trading before they engage in another.
We all know that the improvement of
our agricultural interest has been much
retarded by tho demand upon the plan
ter’s resources for purchases of lands and
negroes made a few years hack, when
cotton was high, and its further advance
anticipated. Money and credit were both
exhausted to procure more negroes and
more lands, with which to raise more
cotton. Wliat was the result ? Cotton
went down the very next season, and to
this day, some of those who then “ spec
ulated” are in debt, while many have
had to sell not only the propetty thus
bought on speculation, for less than it
cost them, but even that which they had
before, to make up the deficit. Lot our
planters learn something from experience,
and not veuture the means which they
now have, and which may be profitably
employed in improving their lands and
increasing their productiveness, in wild
speculation.
No Speaker elected yet.
Georgia Conference —Method-
ist Episcopal Church.
This body closed its labors at LaGrange
on Wednesday last, Bishop Early, of
Virginia, presiding. The following list
of appointments of Preachers for the
ensuing year, we copy from the Macon
Citizen: .
Augusta District —Jas B Payne, P E.
Savannah—Trinity—Joseph S Key ;
Wesley Chapel, Thus II J ordan; An
drew Clmpel, to be suppliip: City Mis
sion, James M Dickey
Springfield—TS L Harwell.
Sylvania and Scriven Col. Mis.—D
O’Driscoll and Jas GwVorley.
Waynesboro’—JL'T’ Reynolds, A J
Itnrke Col. Misyon —P C Harris.
Louisville— Harwell.
Jeffersonvjjfe Col. Miss. —D W Cal
houn. jf
Augusfa—St James, Wm M Crumley;
St Johns, Alfred T Mann ; City Mission,
to be supplied ; Trinity Col. Mission, Jas
M Armstrong.
Warrcnton—W T Cotter, I) S Starr.
.Sparta—Wm R Foote.
Hancock—J W Knight.
Colored Mission—D T Holmes.
Columbia-—Wesley P Arnold.
Richmond—Alexander Everett.
Athens District —Jno W Talley, P E.
Alliens—A M Wynn.
Colored Mission—N II Palmer.
Watkinsvillo—l) Blalock, J W Alc-
Gebee. /
Fy»t6'ry Mi-D Ore nsliaw.
./'Madison—Thos F Pierce.
Morgan—A M Rowland.
Kingston Mission—Eli Bennett.
Greensboro’ —John P Duncan.
Col. Mission—To he supplied.
Lexington—John II Grogan, II J
Adams.
Washington—D Kelsey.
AVilke*—W T Norman.
Lincolnton—John S Dunn.
Elberton—W II C Cone, J P Howell.
Broad River Miss.—Henry Crawford.
Jos II Echols, President, and Jas 1/
Pierce, Professor, of Madi-oii Female
College.
Daiilonbca District— Danl D Cox,
P K.
Dahlonega—Geo Bright, AV A Ed
wards, W 1L Thomas, Supernumerary.
Gainesville—John W Turner.
Carnesvilte—J \V Brady, II IL Wa
ters.
Clarkcsviile—Wm Brower, Wll Bub
loch.
Canton—John M Bright.
Kllijay Mission—J II Mnrshbuin, W
J Bailey.
Blairsvillo Mission—W G Allen.
Murphy do John Newell, O
Ogletroo.
Ducktown Alis-ion—Jos Chambers
Clayton do A J Deavors.
Rome District— John C Simmons,PE.
Rome—Lewis B Payne.
Etowah Mission—W P Pledger.
Cave Spring—T B Harbin, W II
Morton.
Cassvillo—A Neesc.
Calhoun—ll F Jones.
Dalton—M A Clouts.
Spring Place—John Strickland.
LaFayette—W, M i > Bond.
Dade Mission—L Q Allen.
Summerville—ll P Pitcliard.
Suhligna—T T Christian.
Atlanta District — ll II Parks,PE.
Atlanta—Wesley Chapel and Colored
Misssion, C R Jewett, J Boring, Super
numerary ; Trinity and Evans Chapel,
L J Davies.
Atlanta Circuit—C Trussell.
Decatur—A Dorman.
Lawrenceville—John W Burke.
Monroe—Albert Gray.
Newton—J W Yarborough.
Covington and Oxford—W R Bran
ham.
McDonough—ll Lane.
Powder Spring —I N Craven, J R
Owen, Supernumery.
Marietta—W J Scott.
Roswell—W F Conley.
AY J Sassnett, Professor, W J Parks,
Agent, for Emory College.
G J Pearce, Agent American Bible
Society.
La Grange District —S Anthony,PE.
LaGrange—AY G Connor.
Troup and Col. Mission—AA’ D Mat
thews, F L Brantley.
Greenville—J R Littlejohn, F AA T
Baggerly.
* Jones.
Beliak.
Griffin—O AV Key.
Fayetteville—AA' P Clouts.
Newnan—AA' H Evans, AY S Turner.
Palmetto—Noah Smith.
Col. Mission to be supplied.
Carrolton—R Strippling.
A’illa Rica—Thos Boring.
Franklin—Jackson Rusk.
C AY Thomas, Chap. U S N.
Macon District —John W Glenn, P E.
Macon—James E Evans.
Col. Mission—Geo G N MoDonell.
Clinton—M AV Arnold.
Monlicello—AA 7 A Florence.
Eatonton —E P Burch. /
Col. Mission —AA 7 D Cook.
Millcdgeville and Bethef—Thomas E
Stewart.
Bethel Col. Mission—W D Cook.
Jeffersonville—P M Rayburn.
Perry—John M Marrhall.
Ocmulgee Mission—James Dunwody.
Fort Valley—AV F Smith.
Colored Mission—To be supplied.
Knoxville—To be supplied.
Culloden —John B AA’ardlaw.
Forsyth—C A Fullwood.
Wesleyan Female College —OL Smith
President.
J Blakely Smith, Tract Agent.
E II Myers, Editor Southern Christian
Advocate.
Columbus District Lovick Pierce,
P E.
Columbus and Colored Mission—E W
Speer, J II Harris.
Factory Mission—M. F. Malsbv.
Buena Vista—S H Cooper, Y F Tig
nor, Supernumerary.
Talbotton —R B Lester.
Talbotton Ct—R A Conner.
Colored Mission—E M Bowman.
Thornaston—J O A Clarke.
Upson and Colored Mission—T II
Whitby, M Hamby.
Hamilton—L Rush.
Harris Colored Mission—AV AA' Tid
well.
AMERiccs District —Geo C Clarke, P E.
Arnericus4-J AV Hinton.
Aniericus (Jit —J T Turner.
Lumpkin—-AA 7 G Parks.
Stewart —Ira L Potter, J 13 Key.
Chattahoochee Mission—J E Sentell.
Cuthbert and Etnmaus—J-B Jackson.
F'ort Gaines—John B McGehee, D
Morris.
Randolph’Col. Alias.—J T Ainsworth.
-Starkville—AV M Watts.
Sumpter Col. Miss.—D AVilliamson.
Oglethorpe—AV D Shea.
Vienna—James A\ T Trawick.
Ilawkinsville—James II Reese.
AV II Potter, President, J II ('aid
well, Professor, Andrew Female College.
Sandersville District —AA'altcr Knox,
P E.
Sandersville—Josh Lewis, II F Breed-
love.
Irwinton—John Patillo.
Dublin—ll II Median.
Jacksonville—ll N Cotter.
Reidaville—AV S Baker.
llinesville—D J My rick.
M’lntosh Mission—Edwin AVliite.
Darien—James M Austin.
Bryan and Bulloch—W C Rowland,
W B Mcllan, Supernumerary.
Emanuel—F W Flanders.
John M Bonneil, transferred to Ken
tucky Conference.
J \V McCrary and AVilliam Davis, to
Florida Conference.
O P Fitzgerald transferred to Pacific
Conference.
Next Conference to be held at Ameri
cas, Ilccemher 10, 183 G.
Hon. IT,, G. Foster.
Whatever may he thought of Horace
Greely as a politician, no one will doubt
his high intellectual ability as a critic.
Writing to his paper from Washington,
lie takes the following highly compli
mentary notice of the “maiden effort”
of our Representative, tho lion. N. G.
Foster, in reply to the apologetic speech
of Mr, Cobh:
“ Tl*e other debutant was Air. N. G.
Foster, of Ga., (a Baptist minister, I he
lieve,) who proved himself just the
strongest man who has spoken for the
Southern Americans yet, unless Hum
phrey Marshall bo excepted. Air. F’oster
is a largo built, dark complexioned,
Webster looking man, still in the prime
of life, with a good faculty of putting
words very solidly’- together. His lead
ing idea was tho impolicy of making a
measure instead of a principle tho basis
of political concord—especially a mea
sure subjected to so many conflicting
Interpretations as the Nebraska bill. His
was about the best first speech I ever
heard made.”
Death of the Hon. John Mac-
Pherson Berrien.
This distinguished statesman and
irreat lawyer, died at his residence in
Savannah, this morning, at 0 o’clock.
It will be recollected that, though at
Millcdgeville in attendance on the late
Convention of the American party, he
was prevented by indisposition, on the
first day of its session, from presiding
over its deliberations. The illness then
contracted terminated fatally this morn
ing. Judge Berrien was horn the 23d
of August, IVBl—consequently was in
the Toth year of his age at the time of
his death. AVe are compelled to defer,
for our evening edition, a notice of his
life and distinguished services.
Savannah Journal, I*2 inst.
Everything that conveys useful infor
mation, is a very fit subject for liberal
curiositv.
The “Treaty of Peace” form
ed in Kansas.
A letter from Kansas in the St. Louis
Republican, gives the following account
of the conclusion of “the war” in that
Territory :
A committee waited upon his excel
lency (Shannon), inviting him to come
to Lawrence. We found them entrench
ed, and as well fortified as could be ex
pected for their forces. They were all
well armed with Sharp’s rifles and re
volvers, and other implements of war.
My opinion is they only had one piece
of artillery. I think our forces could
have demolished every building in the
place in half an hour; but bad one gun
been fired on either side, I am also of
opinion that the greater portion would
have been killed, and no doubt many of
our men also would have suffered. We
numbered many more than they did.
Their force was greatly overrated, and
could not possibly have been over four
or five hundred. We also had a great
many of Sharp’s rifles—many more than
they imagined—besides our cannon.
Gen. Shannon brought them to terms.
Theg agreed and bound themselves to
abide the lams and assist in enforcing
them until such time as the Supreme
Court decided the legality of the Legis
lature, and if so, ever afterwards; and
1 verily believe they will, for I am sure
they saw the predicament they had got
themselves into.
There are evidently a great many very
good citizens there, as well as very manv
bad ones, who are always agitating and
keeping the place in commotion. After
the treaty , which is quite lengthy and
has many specifications, and was written
by Gov. Shannon, had been signed bv
Gen. Robinson and Col. Lane, on t lie
part of the citizens, tLey accoinjtiftiicd
us to Frankliu, where they met a large
number of our officers. Many speeches
an 1 pledges on both sides were made
and a friendly interchange and farewell
look place—the “law and order” men
believing tiiat it was better to settle it
thus than by fighting, knowing that
many would have been killed oil both
sides.
Vesterday morning the troops were
disbanded, and the posse discharged.
Gen. I'omroy, who had been captured
with papers indicating a conspiracy, as
well as other important documents found
on him, was bound over to appear at
court. Many arrests were made, and
after being bound over, the parties were
discharged.
Rumors of Peaee in Europe.
Under date of the 7th instant, the
Loudon correspondent of the Now York
Courier and Fnquirer furnishes the fol
lowing information:
“ I think I may venture to assure you
that tliero is a strong probability of an
early termination of the Russian war.
I believe that Austria has certainly
submitted propositions to France and
England for its conclusion, with tiff
assurance that, if accepted by them and
afterwards rejected by Russia, she will
immediately put an end to ail hesitancy
on the subject, and join with the allies
against the Czar.
“ These propositions, I am assured,
receive Louis Napoleon’s approval, and
he expressed his willingness to accede to
them ; and the British government have,
somewhat reluctantly, adopted his policy_
“These proposals stipulate:
“First, To convert the Black Sea into
a commercial one, as a substitute for
the third of the Vienna four points,
excluding forever the navies of all nations
from it; and—•
“ Second. The whole course of the Dan
ube, its mouths included, to be entirely
released from Russian control.
“That the Emperor of Russia will
accept these propositions can hardly be
doubted. By so doing he will preserve
the honor of his realm ; for he cannot
successfully war with the allies, with
Austria also against him. The contest
lias already told fearfully on Russia.
Her resources of men and money are
nearly exhausted; and, disguise it as
they may, the Russian people, like the
English, would hail the return of peace
with acclamations of delight. Should
peace be concluded, Lord Palmerston’s
resignation of the premiership is possi
ble; and, in that case, an immediate
settlement of all the existing questions
of difference between the United States
and this country would probably follow,
and cordial relations thus bo restored
among the leading nations of the earth.”
On Christmas Eve, the first passenger
train crossed the Chattahoochee river, at
Columbus, on the new bridge just finish
ed by John D. Gray, Esq., contractor,
for the use of the Opelika (Ala.) Branch
Rail Road Company. Only about half
a mile now intervenes between tbe
depots of the Muscogee R. R. and tbe
Opelika R. R.
ne that will “consider of it,” takes
time to deny you handsomely.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE/
PACIFIC.
FALL OF KARS.
AN ADVANCE IN COTUON.
The Pacific arrived at New York- on
the 28th Dec., with seven days later
news from Europe.
COTTON MARKET.
The Liverpool Cotton market accord
ing to Deni-toun & Cos., opened active,
but closed dull with 1 lCd advance,
with sales of SO,OOO bales, including
9,000 to speculators and 5,500 to expor
ters. The stock on hand 334,000 bales,
including 134.000 American.
Fair Orleans
Middling Orleans 5 11-16
Fair Upland 5%
Middling Upland 5%
Breadstutfs are unchanged. Canal
Flour is quoted at 425. 6d.; Ohio 445. 6d.;
Yellow Corn 405.; White 50s.
Provisions are unchanged. The ad
vices from Manchester are more favorable -
Consols closed at 88$-.
The news from the seat of war is in
teresting.
There was a famine at Kars, and it has
fallen. There are no particulars, except
when Gen. Kinety escaped from the city
to hasten the advance of Omar Pasha,
General Williams was sending a flag of
truce to the Russians to offer a capitula
tion.
Nothing else is known, but it is be
lieved they surrendered, as their force
was too weak to cut their way through
the Russians.
Omar Pasha was near Kutais, which
the Russians held with a strong foice. *
In the Crimea the Russians attacked
the extremity of the French lines with
3JUO men. After several hours fighting
they withdrew.
Both the armies are very comfortably
housed.
The tiring continues between the north
and south side of Sebastopol.
The Russians have opened anew loan
with Berlin, Hamburg and Holland of
50,000,000 rubles, a* 5 per cent., quoted
at 85.
The Austrian army is being reduced
to a peace footing.
The Government of Naples lias pub
lished a convention with the United
States, defining the rights of neutrals.
England.—Tins Queen’s order in
council has authorized the Bank of Eng
land to issue £-175,000 in one pound
notes, beyond the amount specified in
their charter.
Respecting the prospects of peace, wo
have a mass of contradictory statements.
If negotiations are on foot, they have
not progressed. It is not known there is
a difference in the Cabinet. Lords I’al
metston and I’aninure urge war, and tbe
rest of the Cabinet support Napoleon’s
suggestions to embrace the present op
portunity for peace.
The Territory of Kansas.
.The Hon. Sterling G. Cato, the Ter
ritorial Judge, in a recent letter to his
brother, of Eufaula, Ala, says :
“ The people here are quiet and order
ly, sharp and intelligent, a little rough
in manner, but warm hearted and cordi
al. * * * This is as flue a country
as any on the face of the earth, and the
profits of its productions would far exceed
those of the cotton fields of the South.
All kinds of grain, grass, clover and
hemp, yield a rich product. * * *
I have no doubt, but that slave labor
would yield in hemp, corn and grain, at
least from thirty to forty dollars per acre
annually. I Lave seen no poor land, it
all seems to me richer than the best
Chattahoochee bottom, and most of it
is just such land as in the adjoining
Missouri counties is now selling at from
S2O to SSO per acre. Corn is now sell
ing at twenty five cents per bushel, and
the product estimated at one hundred
bushels per acre ; and the hemp crop
(six tons per hand) at $l4O per ton, and
vou see at once how labor is more pro
ductive here than at the South. It is
impossible to give an adequate idea of
tbe beauty and fertility of the soil and
country; generally rolling, without a
o-reat deal of timber, but as I under
stand abounding hw-coal*for fires, and
stone for building and fencing; good
wells of water can be obtained anywhere,
besides frequent streams running through
the prairies.”
A few days ago a man was convicted
of murder in the first degree at Louisville,
Kentucky, being the first white man
who has been convicted of a capital
offence in that city for twenty years.
The Deseret News says that beauti
fully white, fine and silky cotton has
been raised at Santa Clara, in Utah,
which a Virginian says is as good as any
he ever saw.