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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
MADISON, GEORGIA:
SATURDAY, MARCH 15,1856.
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ROME SOUTHERNER.
Wo are pleased to see that the publica
tion of this paper, which litis been sus
pended for some time, lias again been
commenced under the auspices of its old
oditor, J. IV. Dodd, Esq.
NEW PAPER.
IVo have received the first number of a
anew paper just commenced at Bainbridge,
by IVilus M. Russell, entitled the liain
bridge Argus. It is a large, well-filled
and neatly printed sheet, and, judging
from the Editor’s salutatory, it will he
ably edited. We wish all hands engaged
in the enterprise abundant snccess, hat we
are fearful that they will find “Jordnn a
hard road to truvel.”
NEWSPAPER FOR SALE.
Simeon A. Atkinson, proprietor of the
Cherokee Georgian , at Marietta, wishing
to reniovo to Kansas, to commence the
publication of a paper devoted to the in
terests of the South, offers for sale bis
printing establishment, upon favorable
terms. The Georgian has a patronage
of $4,000 jier annum, and is the only
paper published in the beautiful and
flourishing town of Marietta. Terms—
half cash, and the remainder at the end of
the year.
THE BEAR WOMAN.
Miss Julia Pastiiana, the Bear Woman,
will visit Madison next week, and lie on
exhibition at the Town Ball for two days.
We liavo seen several favorable notices of
this nondescript in our exchanges, hut
we know nothing of her from personal
knowledge. It is our opinion tlint it smells
very strongly of humbug.
GEORGIA MILITARY IFSTITUTE.
IVe learn from the Federal Union that
Gov. Johnson has appointed the following
gentlemen ns a Board of Visitors to the
Georgia Military Institute, at the next
annual examination:
Col. Wm. S. Rockwell, Capt. John IV.
Anderson, 001. John Millodge, Gen. Geo.
R. Jessup, Onpt. Peyton H. Colquitt, Capt.
Capt. Benjamin F. Ross, Capt. John I’.
Screvin, 001. Hardy Strioklaml, Col. A.
A. Franklin Hill, and Capt. Tlios. Harde
man.
PEACE PROSPECTS.
Wo begin, says the Charleston Mercury ,
to believe in the probability of pence,—
tlint is, a sort of pence that will deliver
Turkey over to the protection, keeping,
and, probably, military occupation, of the
Christian Powers. The independence of
the Ottoman Empire is forever gone. The
reign of the Osmnnli is ended. Who is to
derive the greatest benefit from it, remains
to ho seen. But it is manifest, from the
general tone of the British press, that they
do not expect to draw the first prize in
the lottery of peace—no more than they
have drawn in the lottery of war. They
contemplete poaco on the basis of the pre
sent negotiations, with alarm and repug
nance. This will be seen by a very pointed
article of the London Herald , which we
copy, and which, not without reason, in
sists that a peace thus patched up, enu be
little better than the prelude to auother
general disturbance.
ANOTHER INDIAN MASSACRE IN
FLORIDA.
A correspondent of the Charleston Cour
ier, writing from Fort Myers, on the 26th
ult., gives the following account of another
Indian Massacre in Florida:
“ We have to record another massacre
by the Indians. A Mr. Hudson, a resident
of this jiost, accompanied by his negro,
Sam, left here some fifteen days ago for
the oyster honks, in Charlotte harbor,
with the intention of gathering a load of
oysters for this place. Their protracted
stay excited suspicion that some accident
had befallen them, and consequently on -
Sunday last, Capt. dispatched an
armed party in search of them. They
proceeded to the banks, and found their
vessel, a schooner, of twenty tons burden,
dismantled of her sails, and the dead bodies
of Hudson and his negro on the deck, hor
ribly mutilated', near by, another boat,
burnt to the water’s edge, was discovered,
and on 6hore the body of an oysterman
named Martin, was discovered iu the same
condition of the other two.
“ The Tampa Peninsular reports that
William Roberts, a man for many years
In the employ of Henry Brown, who re
sides on Pine Key, has been missing for
three or four weeks. The circumstances
are these:
“ Brown, about a week since, went to
in liiiiii Him
Key West, leaving Roberts and another
man, whose name is not known, in charge
of his place. Shortly after his departure,
Roberts went to a neighboring key to
have a hunt of a few hour's duration. He
has not since been, heard of, and the prob
abilities are, that he has fallen a victim to
the remorseless enemy.
“The volunteers have taken the field,
but as yet have accomplished nothing.
“ The country is inundated with water,
which prevents the regular United States
troops from taking the field In fact, the
number Jicre is totally insufficient to even
keep possession of the posts already es
tablished.”
[communicated.]
DR. SMOLLETT ON METHODISM ONE
HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
In Writing the History of England,
Smollett tiins notices “the progress of
religious fanaticism
“In the reign of George 11., many
thousands in the lower ranks of life were
infected with this species of enthusiasm,
by the unwearied endeavors of a few ob
scuro preachers—such as IVhitfield and
the two Wesleys—who propagated their
doctrines to the most remoto corners of
the British dominions, and found means
to lay the whole kingdom under contribu
tion.”
Historical philosophy will not do to
rely upon. If Dr. Smollett had lived fifty
years longer, lie would have used very
different language; und if a hundred
(which is just about the time that has ex
pired since he wrote his history), he would
have seen the disciples and followers of
these “enthusiasts” numbering millions—
his high church notions lowered, and these
“lower ranks” enjoying privileges gained
by the great diffusion of Gospel light,
which would never havo been spread
abroad, hut for these Godly men—Whit
field and the two Wesleys. Their doc
trines have acted upon the people of the
earth, not only witli hope of eternal sal
vation, hut they have stayed the ruthless
hand of destruction both upon govern
ment and the social interests of humanity.
R.
Savannah and the Main Trunk
Road.
The characteristic energy and forecast
of Savannah, arc indicated in the prompt
ness displayed in following up the ad
vantages offered her by the Atlantic and
Gulf railroad act. We see it stated that
on the sth inst., tbo Directors of the
Savannah, Albany and Gulf liaiiroad
Company resolved to put their entire line
of road to the point of junction witli the
“ main trunk,” under contract. This
lino will bo about eighty miles long, and
will boa puroly Savanuah enterprise.
It is not to bo doubled that our enter
prising sister of tlio seaboard will accom
plish the work with all speed, but tiiat
by her example, if not by material aid
she will stimulate those on the line to
the rapid completion of the great Atlan
tic and Gulf road. Funds sufficient, or
nearly so, nro already subscribed for tbo
construction of this eighty miles of road.
Let Brunswick now look well toher own
interests in this matter, or she will be
outstripped in the race for a connection
with the main trunk. Though Savannah
has double tbo distance to traverse, the
likelihood is she will first reach tlio point
of junction; and if sho doos, farwell, at
least for a long soason, to the brilliant
hopes of Brunswick, of achieving com
mercial rivalry with Savannah.
Trade once formed, and commercial
relations firmly established between
Savannah and the counties of southern
and south-west Georgia, Brunswick will
afterwards find it a heavy and weary
task to divert the stream to herself.
Though she were to start now in the
race, so far as having her railroad com
pleted, and with her conceded advantage
of harbor, she has yet an enterprising
city, witli large capital, and established
commercial connections with all parts of
the world, as a rival. A race of com
mercial rivalry against such a competitor
will be under disadvantages that will re
quire many weary years to overcome;
and, if overcome at nil, this will not be
until after many sad disappointments
and heavy sacrifices of time and many
blight hopes.
We do not speak thus from ill-will to
Brunswick. On the contrary’, wo not
only hope, but fully expect that she will
one day become a flourishing city. Na
ture seems to have pointed out that lo
cality as the future seat of a great and
flourishing commerco, if art and enter
prise and the judicious application of
capital second the decree. But wo
speak of the difficulties in the way to
cool tLe ardent imaginations of those
who think Brunswick mustier se become
a great commercial emporium, on the
building of the contemplated railroad to
tbe Chattahoochee, and that every man
who owns a Brunswick city lot, or who
shall go there and rent an office or store,
and quietly wait for the flowing trade
from the West, is bound to become rich.
No thoughts of breakers and bank
ruptcies, and bubble speculations disturb
the fair picture that many futurecitizens
of Brunswick are drawing. But they
will find out that cities are not built like
air c; sties. — Cons <(■ Rep.
Railroad Enterprise.
The following extract from Col. Gar
neit’s report to tbe Virginia and Tennes
see Railroad Company, shows tbe won
derful progress of railroad enterprises in
the South during the past few years:
The close of the present year will
find the vast system of Railroads con
necting ours with tbe South and South
west, progressing rapidly towards com
pletion. Between this place and Atlan
ta, in Georgia, the only gap will consist
of about 40 miles of the Virginia and
Tennessee road, all graded and ready to
receive the rails, and 95 miles of the
East Tennessee and Virginia road, a large
portion of which is graded. Looking
towards Memphis, there will be another
gap of 80 miles in the Memphis and
Charleston road which is now undir
construction. It is now probably that
one year—certainly less than two years
—will see every link closed, and our
lines to Atlanta and to Memphis com
pleted. When this is dooe a locomo
tive placed on the rails at Lynchburg,
can visit Nashville, Mcmohis, New Or
leans; Mobile, Savannah, or Charleston’
without leaving the rails. Thus will
the tide-water of Virginia, at Richmond,
Petersburg and Norfolk, be connected by
Railroads of a uniform guage, with the
entire Mississippi Valley, the whole Gulf
coast and the Atlantic coast as far North
as Charleston, present a net-work of
allied roads unrivalled in the history of
such enterprises.
The Paris Press and the United
States.
The Paris Constitutionnel, in an ar
ticleupon the difference between Eng
land and the United States, signed by
the principal editor, —tbo usual form,
when it is wished to be understood that
the publication has a semi-official char
actor, —say 8:
“If tlio United States arc determined
to be warlike, they will find that not
only England, but France also, will be
opposed to them. The Cabinets of
Flu rope can never view with iudiffefance
the danger with which tlio American
Government threatened the independ
ence of the weak powers and the peace
of ail the world. It is in vain for the
United Stales to imagine that America
belongs to them exclusively, and that
Europe lias no business whatever to in
termeddle in the affairs of the American
Continent. Tlio doctrine proclaimed
and accepted by some of hoi statesmen
is utterly untenable. The affairs of
America are the affairs of the whole
world ; —of England, of France, of Spain,
of Holland, —because they have botli
commercial and political interests to de
fend, numerous colonies to protect, a
direct and indisputable right of inter
ference,
* * * * * * *
“The Anglo-French alliance will sur
vive the war in the Crimea. The United
States ought to know this, and be more
modest, or at least more moderate in
their bearing towards England and the
rest of Europe."
Testimonial to Dr. Means.
The Students at Oxford, on tbo retir
ing of Dr. A. Means from the Presi
deucy of Emory College, determined to
afford him somo evidence of their affec
tion and esteem for him as a man and
Christian gentleman, and their high ap
preciation of him as a Preceptor,
procured as a fit testimonial an elegant
Gold Watch, which was presented on
the 20th Novemberjast, by R. W. Cars
well, the representative of the Students.
Mr. C. accompanied the presentation
with a very handsome anti eulogistic
speech, to which Dr. M. made an elo
quent and appropriate response.
Both of these speeches were received
by usa few days since, with a request
to publish; but the demand upon our
columns at this time, of matter of more
general interest, necessarily excludes
them.— Chronicle <(• Sentinel.
Married and Single.—How is it
that girls can always tell a married man
from a single one ! The fact is indis
putable. The philosophy is beyond our
ken. Blackwood says “ that the fact of
matrimony or bachelorship is written
so legibly in a man’s appearance, that
no ingenuity can conceal it. Every
where there is somo inexplicable instinct
that tells us whether an individual (whose
name, fortune and eircumstancee are
totally unknown,) be or be not a mar
ried man. Whether it is a certain sub.
dued look, such as that which character
izes lions in a menagerie, and distin
guishes thorp from the lords of the
desert, we cannot tell ; but that the
truth is so, we positively affirm.
A wag in Detroit has been taking
liberties with tbe reputation of the Pon
taic railroad. lie was asked whether
he knew of an accident on that road,
and replied—“ Never, but once ; a mid
dle-aged gentleman left Pontiac for De
troit, and died of old age at Birming
ham, half way! ’
The Central American Ques
tion.
The Washington correspondent of
the Charleston Courier speaks fas follows
of the position which Great Britain oc
cupies towards Nicaragua :
The course of tbe Nicaragua govern
ment for the extension of its jurisdiction
over the Mosquito Territory, gives rise
to surmises of the probable interposition
of Great Britain for its prevention. Re
ferring to the treaty of 1849 between
Nicaragua and Great Britain on tbe sub
ject, I find that the treaty contains a
stipulation that if Nicaragua should at
tempt at any time “to exercise sover
eigntv over any portion of the Mosquito
Territory, or to retake San Juan del
Norte, it should be consideied as ade
claration of war against Great Britain.”
It is also known here that the British
Consul at San Juan has orders, in the
event named, to enter his protest against
the act, and to advise anv one command
er of 11. B. M.’sships of war on the West
India station of the same ; whereupon
the attempt is to be prevented or resisted
by force.
Thus the extent and character of the
British Mosquito Protectorate may soon
be practically tested.
And if the fleet on the West India
station do interfere we may soon have
our willingness and ability to enforce the
Monroe doctrine “practically tested.”
Horrible Death in Thomas
County.
The Thomasville Enterprise records
the death of Mr. Daniel Kornega of
that county. Mr. K. was engaged in
ginning sea island cotton on a roller gin,
when he was informed by a servant in
attendance that the lint was on fire in
tbe room below, where it was received
from the gin. He immediately plunged
into the lintroom through a small aper
ture left for unclogging the mouth of the
gin, for the purpose of extinguishing
tlio fire, which had not yet caught in
flames; but shocking to relate, his en
trance into the room produced a cur
rent of air which immediately fanned
the fire into flame, and involved the whole
in conflagration. Mr. K. attempting to
escape, rushed to the door of the lint
room, and called out for assistance ; but
most unfortunately the door was fastened
on the outside with a padlock, and the
key at the time in his pocket. The un
fortunate man was taken from the de
vouring elements, a few hours after, near
ly consumed—both arms and legs burn
ed entirely off, and only a small portion
of his body remained to be iuterred bv
his weeping friends.
The Crops.
The New York Historical Society has
furnished the following estimate of the
crops of the United States, for the year
1865:
Wheat, bushels, from 168,-
000,000 to . . 186,000,000
Indian Corn . . . 2,000,000,000
Oats .... 400,000,000
Rico .... 225,000,000
Rye, from 16,000,000 to 18,000,000
Barley .... 2,500,000
Potatoes . . . 115,000,000
Beans and Peas . . 9,000,000
Sugar, lbs. . . 545,000,000
Cotton, bales, from 3,000,-
000 to 3,500,000
Hay, tons . . . 15,000,000
It will be seen, said Mr. Osgood, that
our crop of Indian corn, if we value it at
but one half the present market price,
amounts to more than all the gold from
California, and that our wheat crop, at
tbe most moderate estimate, is worth as
much as all the gold in the country;
while the moderate growth of oats, with
all reasonable allowances, more than
equals any two years’ produce of tbe
California mines.
The Czar Nicholas.—lt is said that
tbe Paris Conference twill be carried on
as though Nicholas still lived. The Al
lies not having been officially informed
of the death of Nicholas and the acces
sion of Alexander, are supposed, diplo
matically, to be ignorant of tbe change.
And should a treaty of peace be signed,
one of tbe first acts of the Russian Gov
ernment will be, on resuming diplomatic
intercourse with England, France and
Turkey, to inform those governments
that His Imperial Majesty, the Czar
Nicholas, is no more, aud bis august
son, Alexandor, reigns in his stead over
all the Rnssias.
People a’ Coming.— A German
peasant, newly enlisted in the army, had
scarcely arrived at the regiment, when
he was sent with others upon a skir
mishing party. Approaching a wood in
which a party of the enemy were posted,
who immediately fired upon the Ger
mans, and while the musket balls were
flyiag very thick, the honest peasant
stepped out of the ranks, making a sign
to the coming enemy to desist, at the
same time bawled out: “ Why, what the
d—l are you firing for; don’t you see
there are people a’ coming!”
NEWS ITEMS.
The celebrated banking house of the
Rothschilds loaned during tbe past year,
$515,000,000, as follows:—England,
$80,000,000; Turkey, $40,000,000;
Sardinia, $10,000,000; Austria, $120,-
000,000; Russia, first loan, $130,000,-
000; Russia, second loan, $100,000,-
000; England, on exchequer bills, $35,-
000,000.
Hoa Charles J. Jenkins, of Au
gusta, has been elected, without opposi
tion, to fill the seat in the Stale Senate
vacated by the death of Hon. A. J.
Miller.
More than one hundred hands are
now at work on the Georgia and Florida
railroad, near Americos.
We see it stated in a Florida paper
that the Hon. A. E. Maxwell, tbe Rep
resentative in Congress from that State,
declines being a candidate for re-election.
Ex-Governor Reeder, says tbe
Washington Star, is understood to be
the author of the majority report in the
case of his contested election.
Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain Kil
ler posesses virtue, which not alone re
moves pain instantly, but regulates the
stomach, gives strength, tone and vigor
to the system. It is one of those medi
cines which is worth more than gold.
Sold by druggists generally throughout
the United States and Canadas.
A man named Miilican was killed,
on Saturday last, near Ocala, Fla. The
deed was perpetrated in the dark, and
appears to havo been a cold-blooded mur
der.
A writer in the Federal Union
suggests the Hon. Charles J. McDon
ald as a suitable candidate, on the Dem
ocratic ticket, for the Vice Presidency.
Here are a few simple remedies for
very prevalent disorders, which we have
no hesitation in recommending as infal
lible:
For sea sickness—stay at home.
For drunkenness—drink cold water.
For health—take “Ayer’s Pills.”
F'or accidents—keep out of danger.
To make money—advertise in the
Family Visitor.
F’or Coughs and Colds—lake Cherry
Pectoral.
To keep out of jail—pay your debts.
To be happy—subscribe for a news
paper.
To please all—mind your own business.
To have a good conscience—“pay the
piiu ter.”
—At a meeting of tbe Board of
Trustees of the Savannah Medical Col
lege, held a few days since, Wra. B.
Hodgson, Esqr., of this city, was unani
mously elected a member of the Board
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
lamented death [of the Hon. Jno. Mac
phorsoff Berrien.
—At a recent lecture at the Royal
Institution, London, the fact was stated,
that (lowers during the day gave out
oxygen gas, which supports life, and that
during the night they emitted carbonic
acid gas, ooe of the most deleterious and
poisonous gases known. The headaches,
and other aches usually following balls,
large parlies, &c., where it is now tbe
fashion to display, and ladies bear with
them large boquets, may be caused iu
part by tbe gas emitted.
The Mobile Register of the Bth
inst. .says : A fugitive slave, now in Can
ada, has written to his former master, in
Bowling Green,in mostdespondingterms,
lie winds up by begging him to send
some little means, by which he can be
kept from starving or freezing to death.
A large and enthusiastic Fillmore
and Donnelson ratification meeting, the
Richmond papers say, was held in that
city, on Wednesday evening.
Francis P. Blair’s republican party
in Maryland turns out to consist of three
persons, and tbev say Blair exceeded at
PiLlsburg tbe authority delegated to him
Tbe Democratic party "of Pataula
Circuit meet at Culhbert on the loth
inst., to nominate candidates for Judge
and Solicitor.
Tbe British ship Morning Light,
for Liverpool, cleared at with
five thousand eight hundred and sixty
nine bales of cotton, averaging a portion
over five hundred and eleven pounds per
bale.
Fifty dollars, from the profits of
the Bachelors Ball in Savannah, have
been appropriated to the Clothing and
Fuel Association of that city.
Governor Chase, of Ohio, says that
Senator Toombs’ speech, at Boston, de
serves to be studied, because it is a clear
and able statement of the doctrines of
the party with which the Republicans
will have to contend during the next
Presidential campaign.
The Central (Sparta) Georgian,
says that pneumonia and influenza pre
vailed to a considerable extent’ during
February, in that locality.
A bill has passed the Kentuoky
Legislature prohibiting billiard-tables
and ten-pin alleys in that Stato.
Torture in India.
Rumors having from time to time
reached England, that the tax gatherers
in British India were in the habit of put
ting the natives to the most frightful
torture, in order to extort from them the
annual tax to which they are subjected,
a committee was appointed by the House’
of Commons, to investigate the matier,
chiefly through the pertinacity of Mr.
Bright, M. P - for Manchester, who would
not let the matter rest The Commis
sioners have now published their report,
which fully verifies the darkest suspi
cions as to the fiendish cruelty practiced
on the poverty-stricken Asiatics. The
Edinburgh Review thus comments on
the subject:
The tortures which the commissioners
find to have been employed, are of vari
ous kinds and of different, degrees of
severity. Some of them are so light as
to amount to little more than a menace.
Some are so severe as to cause not only
extreme present pain, but permanent in
juries, mutilation, and even, not unfre
quently, death. Some of them exhibit
an amount of diabolical ingenuity on
the part of the torturer, and a degree of
moral abasement and degradation in the
victim, of which our western minds can
hardly form a conception ; some, in fine,
are so loathsome and indecent, and at
the same time so excrutiating, that, al
though they are set down nakedly in the
Report, we must abstain from any spe
cific allusion to their nature.
The two most conormonTorms of tor
ture appear to be the Kittee (in Teloo
goo called Cheerata) and the Anundal
which, in the same language, is called
Ginaeri.
The kitlee corresponds with the thumb
screw of the European torturer. It is a
wooden instrument somewhat like a
lemon squeezer, between the plates of
which the hands, the thighs (in woman
also the breast,) the ears and other more
sensitive parts of the body, are squeezed
to the last point of endurance, often to
fainting and even to permanent disable
ment. In many places the kittee has
been superseded by the more simple
plan of violently compressing the hands
under a flat board, on which a heavy
pressure is laid, sometimes even leg the
peon standing upon it ; or compelling
the sufferer to interlace his fingers, and
delivering him over to the iron gripe of
the peon (or policemen,) who sometimes
rub their hands with sand, in order to
give them the firmer gripe. In other
cases the fingers are bent back till the
pain becomes unendurable.
The anundal is a more purely eastern
torture. It consists in tying the victim
in a stooping or otherwise paiuful and
unnatural position, generally with the
head forcibly bent down to the feet, by a
rope or efotb passed around the neck
and under the toes. The posture, how
ever, is varied at the caprice of the exe
cutor. Sometimes the poor wretch is
made to stand on one leg, the other be"
ing forcibly tied up to his neck. Some
times the arms and legs are curiously in
terlaced, and the frame, thus violently
distorted, is kept bound up for hours, in
a condition little short of dislocation.
Sometimes a heavy stone is laid upon
the back, while thus bent; and it often
happens that the poons amuse themselves
by sitting astride upon the nnhappy suf
ferer who is undergoing anundal. More
than one of the witnesses depose to the
infliction of this torture under the fierce
Indian sun, upon a number of defaulters
placed together in rows, for two, three,
four, and even six hours; and this in the
immediate vicinity of the cutcherry, or
revenue office, and in the presence of
the tahsildar, or native collector, of the
assembled villagers.
Will it be credited, for example, that
it is not uncommon to apply to the most
sensitive parts of the body (enclosed in
a cloth or a cocoa-nut shell, or other
similar receptacle), a biting insect or
reptile, such as the pollah, or carpenter
beetle, and to leave it to gnaw the flesh
of the miserable sufferer? That by a
further refinement of cruelty, meant to
combine both pain and humiliation, the
defaulters are sometimes tied by their
hair to the tail of a donkey or a buffalo ?
That they are occasionally hung up with
the head downwards? And that it is an
ordinary practice to put pepper or pow
dered chillies into the eyes or the nostrils,
and to apply these and similar irritating
drugs in other ways too revolting to be
even hinted at?
Thus we find an unfortunate man,
Nangun Chaloovun, subjected to the
anundal, tortured with the kittee, and
exposed to the burning sun during four
hours, in order to compel payment of
an illegal demand of ten annas (fifteen
pence)! Another Ryot, named Singu
riah, who refused to pay the sum of one
rupee four annas (two shillings and six
pence), had his bands tied behind his
back and his head bound down to his
feet with a coir rope, for tw-o hours.
Nay, in the terrible case of Yencata
chella Rajadlee, in which one of the
parties actually died from the effects of
the violence employed, the sum demand
ed was but ten rupees !
ARRIVAL OF THE
One Week Later.
Halifax, March 12. —The steamer
Arabia has arrived with Liverpool dates
'of the Ist.
A quantity of cabin wreck was seen
in lat. 40, 36 long. 49, 40, on Feb. 7tb,
which may possibly have belonged to
the Pacific.
The Peace Conferences were progress
ing favorably.
Consols closed at 91£ to 91£.
Cotton opened active, but closed
quietly at steady rates. Sales of the
week sixty-six thousand bales.
Breadstuff's lower.
Farther by the Arabia.—Foreign Mar
kets.
Cotton. —Ofthesalesof theweekspec.
ulators took 13.000, and exporters 3,000
bales. The quotations are Fair Orleans
Middling 5f., Fair Upland 6f,
Middlings 13-l Gd., Stock 400,000 bales,
including 170,000 American.
Breadstuffs closed dull at a decline of
Is. per bbl. in Flour; Is. in Corn, and
3d. in Wheat. Ohio Flour 375. 6d.
American stocks quiet at unchanged
rates.
At Havre, Cotton was steady. Sales
of the week 9,500 bales.
Peace Conferences.
Three meetings of Conferences had
been held at Paris. Although nothing
was allowed to transpire, reports were
generally favorable. An armistice had
been announced,, to end in March, and
not to affect the existing blockade. H
was doubtfully reported that Russia con
cedes the required limitations, but re
fuses to give up the protectorate ove* the
Greek Christians.
It is generally believed that when
Peace is concluded, a European Congress
will meet to adjust the balance of power.
The excitement relating to .the Amer
ican difficulty had subsided. Mr. Bu
chanan had dined with the Queen.
The resignation of Omar Pasha had
been accepted. Russia, the Allies, aud
Sweden, continues active warlike prepar
i ations.
A dispatch received by Brown and
Shipley at Liverpool, dated Glasgow,
Feb. 27, says that the steamer Erl in burgh,
from New York, passed on th« 7th inst,
large quantities of broken ice, on which
were seen pieces of cabinet furniture,
five ornamented doors, with white or
glass handles, a lady’s work box, and
other articles pertaining to the cabin of
a first class steamer.
Latest.
Alarming rumors have been circulated
that Russia has raised objections which
! will break up the conference; but they
are regardod as the mere reports of stock
jobbers.
New Hampshire Election.
Concord, March 12. —The opposition
have carried both branches of the Legis
; lature. There is no choice of Govern
or by the people.
Northern Settlers in the South.
We are informed that some of our
heavy business men are about removing
to the Siati of Georgia, for the purposo
of developing some fine natural advant
ages peculiar to the locality there select
ed. A fine climate and abundance of
raw material for nearly every depart
ment of manufactures, with great de
mand for products of skillful labor, render
the project feasible and attractive in a
pecuniary view, while at the same timo
it has a large moral bearing that should
not be lost sight of. To build up a cen
tral city by New England energy and
enterprise will be no little achicvment.
And this, we understand, is what the
company proposes to do :—to establish
a trading point around one of the finest
water powers in the South, where will be
manufactured to a large extent such
goods as are wanted there, and are now
brought from the North. A plain and
simple course enough yet requiring skill,
good management and good judgment
to carry it properly lorward. Southern
interest will be admitted to sufficient ex
tent to win active aid from the locality
around them, and to secure a wide sup
port from those who might otherwise
look upon the movement as a Northern
invasion. Yet it is much lass likely to
be deemed so than ’many here will sup
pose. The inhabitants will welcome
those who go among them as friends,
until they show that their motive is not
a friendly one. Good feeling between
the different sections of our country will
be strengthened by such a movement,
and the bonds of union will be the strong
er for every such enterprise. We trust
it may have a large success.— Boston
Courier.
Cassius M. Clay Las failed, in *
large amount, by an unlucky hog specu
lation.
COTTON MARKET. ”
Friday Evening.
The last steamer’s news has caused a dcclin#
in the Cotton Market of %c. from prices of lad
week. There has been but little coming in. 8
quote from 7%c. to 9c.