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Madison, Georgia;
SATURDAY, APRIL 5,185 G.
A3ENTS FOR THE VISITOR:
Mr. Wn, B. WiLinr, Agent for the Fort Gaines
Ac nictny Lottery, for Greensboro, Eatifnton nml
Madison, is authorized to collect and receipt for
this payer.
Thomas Fi.emimo, Atlanta, Ga., is an autorized
agent for this paper.
Mr. I) win A. Crockett is authorized to receive
ani receipt for subscriptions to this paper.
Wm. M. C. Nebl, is our authorized Agent in
Jackson County, Fia.
G. tV. Wtatt is our authorized agent atKbcne
ter, Morgan County, Ga.
L. C. Paulrtt is our authorized agent, Troup-
Tllle, Ga.
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0. P. CULVER, I). I). K.
IVo would cull tlie attention of our
renders to the advertisement of Dr. C. I’.
CcLVP.it, in to-day’s Visitor, who proposes
becoming a permanent citizen of Madison.
He brings good testimonials both as to
character and qualifications as an operator.
BRUNSWICK HERALD.
Benj. F. Griffin, formerly of Macon,
proposes to publish a paper, about the
first of May, in tho city of Brunswick, en
titled as above. It will he a commercial
and family pn|>cr, neutral in polities.
LES ARTISTES REUNIS.
Avery few of tho citizens of our town
had tho pleasure of attending a Soiree of
tho above named company, on Thursday
evening last. The programme was a very
good one and the performance throughout
creditable to the artistes. Asa danscusc,
Mad’lle Duoy liurre lias but few equals in
this country, and she is well supported by-
Mr. G. W. Smith. We wero particularly
struck with tho violin solos of Mr. Roths
child. For brilliancy of execution we
have never heard him surpassed. Alto
gether tho performance was a very cxeol
ent one and the company deserves to be
patronised wherever they may go.
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BUSINESS IN MADISON.
From present appearances, wo think
that tho people of Morgan county will
have no cause to go away from home for
anything that they may wish to purchase
either in the Dry Goods or Grocery line.
Our merchants have all got home, and are
now receiving the largest and prettiest
stocks of goods that we have over seen in
Madison; and wo know that they will
give the people as good bargains ns can be
had in any other intorior town in the
Stato.
Besides our old merchants, thero lias
been two new Dry Goods and Grocery
stores oponed ; but wo wish to call par
ticular attention to the one of Messrs.
Swanson, Jett & Cos., who lmvo fitted up
a beautiful store on Main street, and are
now opening a large and handsome stock
of everything usually kept in an up-ooun
try store. Give them a lift, for they are
clever fellows; and we, will guarantee
that all who patronize them will go away
satisfied, both as regards the price and
quality of goods. Tlioy know how to do
business—for proof of which see our ad
vertising columns to-day.
There are numerous other Dry Goods
houses in town, and wo do not wish to
appear invidious in noticing the firm above,
but as it is anew one, with anew stock,
we thought it our duty to give them a
shore, if we could do so.
Messrs. Fears & Swanson, J. Mar
shall & Cos., Shepherd & Fitzpatrick,
Robson, Fitzpatrick & Cos., Copeland,
Harris & Cos., P. R. Tiiomasson and R.
Goldberg have also full and fashionable
stocks, and we have no doubt that all who
patronize them will he liberally dealt with.
They have been in business some time and
there is no fear but what they wijl have
plenty of patrons. Os one tiling we are
certain, they know how to get enstoiners,
for they believe strong in Printers Ink,
as the advertisements in to-day’s paper
will give ample evidence.
There are also other merchants in town
who will doubtless give good bargains, hut
as their advertisements do not appear in
the Visitor wo cannot say what their
s*toek< consist of. Our rule thus far
through lile has always been to patronize
those who advertise, believing that tlioy
were anxious to secure customers, and
would therefore give better bargains than
the one who, through parsimonieusness,
could not afi’ord to expend ten or twenty
five dollars per annum to let the people
know what lie had to sell.
While on the subject of Stores and Dry
Goods, we would not pass by the hand
some Drug Store of Dr. W. S. Meieue.— ■
lie Inis lately removed from his old stand
to the lmuse formerly occupied by the
Messrs. Gjjiffex’s as a Jewelry Store,
which he lias handsomely fitted up, and
where lie is prepared to amiiinnodnte the
people with anything in the Drug line.—
i you wish to buy Drugs or Medicines,
ill on the Doctor, where he will receive
you with his blandest smile and put up
y our art icles as cheap as they can he laid
anywhere. If he is out of the way Lvm
will do just us well.
i-W Hon. II W, Milliard, of Alaba
ma, lias accepted the appointment to de
liver thy annual address before the I)emos
thenia and Phi Kappa Society of the Uni
versity of Georgia, at the approaching
commencement iu August,
Hi 111117 ¥lßl®
ENCOURAGE HOME TRADE.
As there is more Goods in Madison this
season than we ever remember to have
Seen before, the stocks as well selected and
the merchants as accommodating as can he
he found anywhere else; we believe it to
j he the duty of the people to patronize
tlieta. How can we ever expect to build
up a home trade, if we send to Augusta or
Charleston for every yard of calico, half
pound of tea, or a quire of paper that we
wish to purchase? What inducements has
a man to bring a stock of goods to our
market if he sees people who ought to pat
ronize him sending otf for every article
that they wish for either household or
culinary purposes? But the plea is we
can buy our articles go much cheaper in
Augusta or Charleston. Dear friends,
have you never taken into consideration
that when you buy away from home you
have to pay the cash, while here you buy
upon one year’s credit, and at the end of
it the merchant takes your note and waits
one or two years longer; then, besides,
the freight is nothing—the Rail Road
companies do not charge anything. If
you have the cush and will go to any of
our merchants and if they do not give you
as good bargains as you can get away from
home, then wo will acknowledge that we
are deceived.
We believe it to be the duly of every
man who lives in a community to buy all
he needs there, and by that means we
build up a home trade, and all kinds of
business prospers. Our money is kept at
homo instead of being sent oil’ to build up
already overgrown towns. We arc all,
more or less, dependent upon each other,
the merchant upon the planter and me
chanic, and the mechanic upon the mer
chant and planter. Jt is all humbug for a
man to talk of bis independence, bo may
liavo plenty of money, but still he is de
pendent on someone. AVe are put into
this world dependent beings and wo con
tinue so until death ends our existence,
and it is useless to talk different. Wo be
lieve in buying everything at home, pat
ronizing our own mechanics and workmen,
even if we do have to pay a little more for
it, for tho money remains with us, and we
stand a chance of getting it back in some
way.
Wo have known men to send off for ar
ticles and pay ns much, or more, for them
than they could have bought them at home
for, just for the eclat of saying, “ I sent to
Now York, Philadelphia, Charleston or
Augusta for it.” It is time such things
were stopped if we do not wish to see our
beautiful and flourishing little town going
down hill. You have no oxcuso for it, and
we repeat, you ought to stop it.
Moeting of Commissioners of
the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road Company.
Tho Commission assembled in our city
on yesterday. At least two-thirds of
the Commission was present.
Present, Hon. E. A. Nisbet, Dr. J.
I’. Screven, N. Collier, Hon. W. J. Law
ton, Joel Crawford and E. C. Anderson
C. J. Manerlyn, Esq., E. R. Young, Esq.,
W. B. Hodgson, Esq., lion. A. 11. Col
quit, J. M. Calhoun, Tlios. Hamilton,
Charles Spaulding, Alex. Atkinson, C-
J. Jenkins, and Maj. J. 11. Howard.
Judge Nisbet was called to the chair,
and J. W. Duncan, Esq., requested to
Act as Secretary.
The minutes of the previous meeting
having been read and adopted,
On motion, a Committee was appoint
ed to prepare business for the action of
tho hoard. After consultation, the Com
mittee, through their Chairman, report
ed resolutions, tho substance of which
are as follows: That books of subscrip
tion to the Capital Stock of the Atlantic
and Gulf Railroad Company, shall he
opened at the following places, on Mon
day, 12tli of May next: Milledgeville,
Augusta, Savannah, Columbus, Tliomas
ville, Albany, Troupeville, Waresboro’,
Bainbridgo, Brunswick, Magnolia, Ma
con, Newton, Ft. Gaines, Blakely, Atlan
ta, Morgan, Isabella, and in tho counties
of Telfair, Appling, Coffee, Irwin, Ran
dolpli and Lee, under the suporintend
anee of certain Commissioners, and to
remain open for three months.
The Commission also -provided for
the advertisement of the times and places
for opening hooks, for the re assembling
of the Board on the 20th of August, or
such earlier day as may he designated,
when the Secretary is notified that the
required amount lias been subscribed.
The official proceedings of the Board
will he furnished our readers in our next,
by a special resolution to that effect.—
Federal Union.
Every-day Facts in Science. —ls a
tallow candle he placed in a gun, and
shot at a door, it will go through with
out sustaining any injury; and if a mus
ket hall be fired into water, it will not
only rebound, hut he flattened,as if fired
against a hard substance, A musket
hall may be fired through a pane cf
glass, making the hole the size of the
hall, without cracking the glass; if the
glass be suspended by a thread, it makes
no difference, and the thread will not
even vibrate In the Arctic regions,
when the thermometor is below zero,
persons can converse more than a mile
distant. Dr. Jamieson asserts that he
heard every word of a sermon at the
d.stance of two miles.
Mixed Cotton.
The article below, which is extracted
from the New Orleans Price Current of
the Bth iust., throws out some valuable
hints to farmers in the packing of their
cotton. “Although intended for another
meridian,” remarks the Apalachicola
Price Cnrrrent, it is equally applicable
to this section, and we hope may be the
means of calling their attention to the
subject, and inducing greater care here
after. The evil coinplaiued of is a great
and growing one, and unless soon re
medied, will tend to destroy that good
reputation for correct packing which our
rilanters have so justly earned. Wahave
never kn6wn so large a proportion of
“Mixed Cotton ”* as this year. It is
almost impossible to buy a list of one or
two hundred hales, without finding sev
eral mixed bales in it, or bales w th two
qualities of cotton in them ; this should
not be, and the sooner thy evil is cor
rected the better it will he for ail parties
interested in the great staple:
The frequent complaints which we
hear, induce us again to call the atten
tion of planters to the existence of an
evil which we have often before adverted
to, and which loudly calls for a remedy
VVo allude to the culpable negligence of
many whose duty it is to attend to the
packing of cotton, as shown by the fre
quent disoovery of mixed hales, viz;—
bales found to contain two, three or
more qualities and colors, This negli
gence often leads to vexatious reclama
tions, and sometimes to expensive law
suits, a- it frequently happens that the
discovery is not made until tho cotton
reaches the hands of the manufacturer,
at a distant market. But it also fre
quently happens that the discovery is
made here, by drawing samples from
different parts of a bale. In such cases,
the cotton is thrown hack on the factor’s
hands as unmerchantable, and when re-
sold as mixed cotton, the factor can sel
dom obtain more than the market value
of the lowest quality found in the bale.
Besides all this, when tho irregular pack
ing is once discovered, as it necessarily
must he somewhere and at some time, it
throws discredit upon the planter's crop
generally, and thus operates to his dis
advantage. It also introduces confusion
into a most important branch of trade,
and one that can only bo conducted with
facility mid economy upon the basis of
good faith in tne honesty and integrity
of the planter. These virtues being ac
corded to him, ho owes it to himself, to
his factor and to his purchaser, to exer
cise more care and vigilance over tlioso
who have his interests in charge.
Tho Harbor Defences.
The first tier of Fort Richmond is
nearly finished, and it is hoped tho forti
fication will he completed during the
year. Tho work was begun about eight
years ago, hut experienced a delay, from
1851 to 1854, for the want of appro
priations; tho original estimates, $205,-
006, like most government estimates,
proving too small, an additional $135,-
000 has been appropriated, and it is now
pretty certain that $300,000 moro will
he required. Wo see that tho estimates
lately submitted to Congress by tho War
Department, include $75,000 for this
Fort. When completed, Fort Richmond
will he one of the most substantial de
fences of our coast. It is built of stone,
eight feet thick, with accommodations
for 140 guns, in four tiers. On the sides
exposed to a sea attack it will he capped
with a stone arch covered with several
feet of earth, so as to render it bomb
proof. The details of tho construction
comprise all tho modern improvements
in the science of naval defences.
The system of defences projected upon
Staten Island, include the rebuilding of
Fort Tompkins, upon the hill in the rear
of Fort Richmond. This Fort, which
was built in 1810 by the State of New
York,’is now little better than a mass of
ruins, and it is estimated cannot be
placed in a state of efficiency for less
than SOOO,OOO. The Secretary of War
has recommended its re-coustroetion.—
New York Express.
Things Two Hundred Years Hence.
Scene: Bailor in the house of an
elderly gent in New York. Old gent
telegraphs to the kitchen and waiter
ascend in a balloon.
Old Gent—John, fly over to South
America and tell Mr. Johnson that I will
bo happy to have him sup- with me.
Never mind your coat now, go.
John leaves, and at the end of five
minutes returns.
John—Mr. Johnson says he will come;
he has to go to the North Bole for a
moment, and then he will he here.
Old Gent—Very well, John. Now
start the machine for setting the table,
and telegraph to my wife’s room and
tell her that Mr. Johnson is coming ;
then brush up my balloon, for I have
and engagement in London at twelve
o'clock.
John flies off to execute his orders,
and the old gentleman runs over to the
West Indies for a moment to get a fresh
orange.
Russian Royal Marriages.
Letters from St. Petersburg!! contain
descriptions of the marriage ceremony of
the Grand Duke Nicholas. It is often
observed what endless matrimonial al
liances, Russia continues to- contract in
Germany; but it is not sufficiently ob
served'how these alliances are almost all
formed with the smallest and poorest
sovereign families. One reason is the
change of religion, which is indispenable;
and another is the slightly inviting na
ture of the climate. It is certain that, if
you examine all the houses of Romanoff,
for the last hundred and thirty years,
you will find that Prussia is the only
first-rate power which it has ever been
able to intermarry; all the rest are either
second or third rate States, like Holland
and Saxony, or the smallest of the small,
like Nassau, Darmstadt and Oldenburg.
Quantity has the quality here; for if no
li >usc is connected by marriage with so
few great thrones in Europe as that of
Romanoff, none has such a multitude of
ramifications among the lesser States. It
is not uninteresting to remark how ex
tremely distinguished have personally
been nearly all the German Princesses
who have entered the imperial family
of Russia.
Few women, in any age or country,
are to he compared to the Princess Mary
of Wurtemberg. Mountbcliard (the
smallest subdivision of Wurtemberg pos
sible !) who, as wife to the unfortunate
Emperor Paul, was known under the
name of Maria Ftedorowna, and was
mother to the late Czar and to his bro
thers. Upon her, renown and history
have hut one voice. The present Dow
ager Empress (Nicholas’ widow) also
strikes all who have ever seen her as one
of those angelic beings, whom long, pa
tiently borne suffering has detached
from earth long before they became
bodily detached from it. The reigning
Empress, again—who was of so second
ary a family that the Emperor Nicholas
consented but very hardly to his son’s
marriage—is allowed on all hands to be
exceedingly superior in every way, in
tellectually as well as morally; and now
it is reported that this young Princess of
Gldenbttrg is more of a saint than a
mortal. Certainly, her antecedents are
remarkably good ; hut she is the poorest
of tho poor, poorer even than the Prin
cess Helene, of Mecklinburg Schwerin,
when she came penniless, dowerless, and
trousseauless, to her bridegroom, the
I )uc d’Orleans.
The Emperor Alexander 11. has, it is
related, undertaken the entire furnishing
of all the young bride requires; and the
letters from St. Petersburg are full of
the magnificence of jewels and the trous
seau thus presented to her. Probably
the Emperor, in doing this, remembers
his own marriage, and feels considerable
sympathy with his brother, Both Prin
ces will have made decided love-matches
and the present Czar has not for a mo
ment thought of thwarting his younger
brother in his inclinations, as their fa
ther tried, for some time at least, those
of the heir to the throne. It seems to
he commonly said of the new Grand
Duchess, that “she has more virtues
than money”—a sufficient eulogy for a
Princess. In the catalogue, however, of
tho “lucky hits” made by Russian Prin
ces in regard to their wives, there is one
exception : —The Grand Duchess Con
stantine, handsome as women can ho,
had that quality only to compensate for
her poverty ; and I do not fancy those
who know her the best could point
out one intellectual or moral superiority
in her whole composition, unless it may
be her affabily and good nature, both of
which in reality are attributable to her
utter want of dignity. She would, liad
some of the stories been true which used
to circulate—touching the plan for call
ing her husband to the imperial throne
—have been not one of the least, misfor
tunes necessarily attached to tho rule of
Constantine; whereas, it is no less un
deniable that nearly all that is advanta
geous, both to internal and external
policy, in the present Czar, is attributable
to the influence of the Empress Marie.
The Mountain of Gold.
The Sacramento Union has been in
formed by a gentleman, who has just ar
rived at Sacramento from the New dig
gings in Table Mountain, that the ex
citement among all classes relative to the
richness of the auriferous deposites there
in buried is intense, and increasing.
The mountain, which is seven miles
in length, has all been staked off, hut
many have exceeded in extent the legal
limits, and it is supposed that they will
be forced to yield the overplus territory
to others. Some of tU4 shafts are sunken
to the depth of eighty feet, at about
which point is a belt of black mud sixty
feet in width, and from eighteen to twen
ty feet in depth. In this are contained
those fabulous amounts of gold, which
far surj hiss in richness the deposites dis
covered at the outbreak of the California
fever. This laper of mud is filled with
sticks and other foreign substances, and
has every appearance of having otic-.-
been the bed of a stream.
NEWS ITEMS. ‘
Gen Twiggs, of the United States
Army, has been proposed as Mayor of
New Orleans. His friends urge, as a
reason for his "election, the lawlessness,
rowdyism and crime so prevalent in the
city, which requires a strong hand and a
resolute will to cheek them.
The City Council of Memphis have
decided against a re-tender of the Navy
Yard at that city to the Government,
ujion the faith of its re-establishment by
Congress.
The next State elections are those
of Rhode Island and Connecticut. In
Rhode Island the election is on the 12th
of April.
Mrs. James Thomas died on the
23d instant, at the residence of her son,
Col. John S. Thomas, of Midway, near
Milledgeville, at the advanced age of one
hundred and ten years.
The value of flour annually manu
factured iu Philadelphia is $7,093,888,
and of flour barrels, $250,000.
Enoch W. Perry, Esq., of New
Orleans, has been nominated and con
firmed as U. S. Consul at-Venice.
Dyspepsia can he, and is cured
every day by the use of Perry Davis’
Pain Killer. This is the most wonderful
and valuable medicine ever known for
this disease, its action upon the system is
entirely different from any other prepara
tion ever known. The patient while
taking this medicine may eat anything
the appetite craves. Get the People’s
Pamphlet and look at the directions.
The Kansas investigating Commit
tee are about leaving Washington City,
for Kansas, and expect to reach Jefferson
in Missouri, about the 10th of April.—
There appears to be soma difficulty now
in regard for the finances for the trip.—
An appropriation of SIO,OOO from the
contingent fund was voted for the ex
penses of tho investigation, but all the
money belonging to the contingent fund
has been exhausted. But that trouble
will he remedied in some way.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Timessaysthatau American com
mercial company is about to he formed
for the purpose of promoting direct trade
between America and Austria, and im
porting cotton and other products, lie
also intimates that a commercial treaty
will he concluded shortly between the
two governments.
The market at Washington, it ap
pears, as in New York, is being over
stocked with Land Warrants. The Star
reports a further decline of four to five
cents per acre.
The case of F. A. Luinsden, of the
N. O. Picayune, charged with aiding and
assisting certain unknown parties who
assaulted Dennis Corcoran, of the Delta,
was called up before Recorder Bright, on
tho 20th. Mr. Corcoran being sworn,
avers, in effect, that there is not, and
never was, any basis for such charges
and innuendoes. The case was then im
mediately dismissed.
The “Georgia Hussars” from Sa
vannah, are in Charleston as the guests
of the Charleston Light Dragoons.
Mr. Wright, a member of the Nen
tian bar, and several voting gentlemen of
Newnan, passed through Atlanta a few
days ago, on their way to Kansas.
Col. White, of Kansas, addressed a
large meeting of the citizens of Colum
bus, on Friday night last.
The timber and trees on the moun
tains, surrounding Chattanooga, are on
fire in several places.
Mrs. Rachel Rowean, a cousin of
President Pierce, and mother of Thomas
Rowean, Esq., of Boston, died on Monday
evening, aged 86 years.
The case of Bell vs. Hufty, both of
whom are now acting as Sheriff of New
Orleans, is before the Supreme Court for
advisement. A decision is expected to
be rendered to day.
A bill to prevent prize fighting has
been lost in the New York Legislature
We learn that a party of emigrants
will leave Calhoun on the 10th of April
for Kansas.
Col Forney has withdrawn from
the Washington Union.
The number of cadets in atten
dance at the Georgia Military Institute
is 110 with accessions constantly com
ing in.
The Missouri Legislature, which
has just adjourned, passed seven hundred
and seventy acts!
Six hundred bales of Cotton, the
largest load of the season, were received
at Chattanooga on Friday by the steamer
Chattanooga.
At the celebration of St. Patrick’s
day, in New York, on Wednesday eve
ning, by the young friends of Ireland,
Mr. Dougherty, the corresponding secre
tary of the association, suddenly fell on
the floor and shortly after expired.
The new Atlantic steamer Emeu is
named after an Australian bird, of the
Ostrich species.
The Foreign Enlistment cases have
been dismissed in the U. S. District
Court of New York.
lt snowed heavily at Norfolk, Va.,
Pottsville, Penn., and over a large por
tion of the Northern States, on Thursday
the 27th ult.
The blacksmith shop of Messrs.
Wilson and Maxey, in Penfield, was en
tirely destroyed by fire on \Y r ednesday
night hist.
There is a rumor afloat that Mr.
Behnont, our Minister to the Hague, is
about to be recalled, and that the Hon.
Howell Cobb, of this State, will take his
place.
Slaves for Kansas.
The Highflyer, in this morning from
Louisville, brought between 50 and GO
slaves belonging to families who are on
their way from Kentucky to Kansas.
The slaves who came in the Highflyer
consisted of all ages, sexes and shades
of color, and were a good looking, well
dressed, and apparently well-fed party,
and came cabin passengers.
Since the opening of the river, fulj
500 slaves have arrived from the Ohio
river on their way to Kansas. The J. 11.
Lucas took up nearly 100, the Star of
the West 100, the Chambers 50 to 75>
and almost everv boat that has started
up the Missouri River, since the opening
of the river, has taken up a large or
small number.—-The slaves are almost
in every case taken in the cabin, while
poor whites families going to the same
place take passage below, on deck.
One gentleman from South Carolina )
who, with his family, went up in the
Star of the West last week, had 50 slaves
in the cabin, and another 30, and still
another had 20.— St. Louis Evening
News.
Facts inßailroadManagoment.
The following facts regarding eight
of the principal railroads of Massachu
setts aiv developed by the reports to the
legislature, and furnished by a non stock
holder :
1. Ihe cost of passenger transporta
tion is 1.062 cents per passenger per
mile.
2. The cost of merchandise transpor
ta'ion is 3.005 c n s per ton per mile.
3. In passenger transportation 41,98
per cent, of the receipts therefrom are
absorbed in exiienses.
4. In in-.-rchandisc transportation 89.
52 per cent, of the receipts therefrom
are absorbed in expenses.
5. The expenses of railroads areal
most invariably determined by the weight
carried over the rails. For instance:
the east, rn road, upon which pas- engci
traffic predominates, is operated at an
expense of ?C!,670 per mile of the length
of the road; whilst the Lowell, upon
which merchandise traffic predominates,
is operated at an expense of $ 12.478.
C. The cost of renewals of iron upon
railroads is an infallible index of the
magnitude of expenses.—For the preced
ing reason, the cost of that item on the
Eastern road is but $390 per mile of
the length of the Road, while upon the
Western it is $1399.
7. Os the expenses of railroads, thirty
per cent, are absorbed in maintenance
of wav, or road bed; twenty percent,
in repair of engines, tenders and cars;
ten percent, in special freight expense!>
and the remainder in passenger, and mis
cellaneous expenses.
8. The weight of the engines, tenders,
and cars upon passenger trains is nine
fold greater than the weight of the pas
sengers.
9. The weight of the engines, tenders,
and cars upon freight trains, is scarcely
onefold greater than the weight of the
merchandise.
10. For cheapness, railroads cannot
compete with canals, in transportation
of heavy descriptions of merchandise.'
The cost of carrying merchandise upon
the Erie canal ranges from two to sixteen
mills per ton per mile ; whilst upon sixj
teen of the principal railways of New'
Yol k and Massachusetts the cost of car
rying merchandise ranges from thirteen
to sixty-five mills per ton per mile.—
Boston Post.
Do Good. —Thousands of men
breathe, move and live—pass ofl the
stage of life, and are heard of no more
Why ? They"*do not a particle of >od
in the world, and none were blessed by
them, none could point to them as the
instrument of their redemption; not a
word they spoke could be recalled, and
they perished; their light went out in
darkness, and they were not remember
ed more than the insect of yesterday.
Will you thus live and die, 0 man im
mortal? Live for something. Do good,
and leave behind you the monument of
virtue that the storm of time can never
destroy. Write your name in kindness,
love, and mercy on the hearts of thou
sands who come in contact with you
year by year,and you w ill never be forgot
ten. No, your name, your deeds, will be
as legible on the hearts you leave be hind
as the stars on the brow of evening.
Good deeds will shine as the stars of
heaven. — Dr. Chalmers.
Atlantic,
The steamer Atlantic has arrive
New York bringing four days l a t cr
from Europe.
Liverpool Market.
Liverpool, March 19.— Cottoiw
market is dull and prices easier th 4
not lower. Sales of the three
20,000 bales. ■
Trade in Manchester is firm.
Consols 911 to 92 J.
Peace.
Peace is virtually concluded, and ot
awaiting the Prussian Embassador to si 1
the Protocol.
Eugenie, the Empress of France & 1
birth to a son. ’ * fl
Washington Items.
1 lie Kansas Commission will not,,
ganize until they reach Fort Leav f
worth. They have mad,, three appoi,- '
ments Bowen, of Pennsylvania; Foj.
of New Hampshire; and Lord’fyJ
grapher,) of Maryland. They are
to meet at St. Louis on the 9th of An r
Messrs. Howard and Sherman left »
Monday tor their homes, and from them
to St. Louis, where the party are all;
meet find proceed to Ivfinsfis.
Captain Ingraham, of Koszta fan,
has not been confirmed by the Senate i
head of the bureau of Ordnance, h
understood, that there will be
difficult in his passing the ordeal of ti
Senate.
Thu report of the Director of tk
United States Mint shows the amount
precious metals received during the pa
year at the Mint and branches to |>
$50,151,902. 1 lie tofu' coinage amount
to |56, 312,733, comprised in 10,907 89'
pieces. The whole coinage of the Unit
ed States since 1793 is $198,806,501
ot which amount there has been rcceiv
ed from California, since 1848, $313
224,502.
Mr. Lane, the delegate from Oregot
Territory, luts introduced a bill in tie
House of Representatives, apjimprialiin
$300,000 to secure the services of friend
ly Indians against the savages m OregSi
and Washington Territories;' A.-cordiii;
to accounts from that region, there i,
imminent danger of ihe white setllen
being exterminated by the hostile tribe,
and it is believed that the friendly Indian
ure the only force which cau successfully
cope with them. I lie chairman of tin
Committee of Ways and Means assured
the House that ihe bill should receive
immediate attention.
Cloudless Peru.
Lieutenant Maury, in Ids Geography
of the Sea, explains why there is 110 rain
i.i Peru, lie -ays :
In Peru, South America, rain isun
know n. Ihe coast of Peru is within the
legion of perpetual southern trade winds
1 hough the Peruvian shores are on the
verge ot the great South Sea boihr,
jet it never rains there. The reason»
plain, llio southern trade w inds in the
Atlantic ocean first strikes the water on
the coast ot Africa. Travelling to the
northwest, they blow . obliquely across
the ocean until they reach the coast
Lrazil. By this time they are heavily
laden with vapor, which they continue
to bear along across lire'continent, depo
siting it as they go, and supplying with
it the sources of the Rio de la Plata
and the southern tributaries of the
Amazon. Finally they reach the snow
capped Andes, and here is wrung from
them the last particle of moisture that
very low tein|>erature can extract.
Reaching the summit of that range,
they now tumble down as cool and dry
winds on the Pacific slopes beyond.
Meeting with no evaporating surface,
and with no temperature colder than
that to which they were subjected on
the mountain tops, they reach the ocean
before they become charged with fresh
vapor, and before, therefore, they’ have
any which the Peruvian climate can
extract. Thus we see how the tops of
the Andes become the reservoir from
which are supplied the rivers of Chili
and Peru.
Post Mortem Compltmekts.—Com
plimentary obituary notices, most of them
in rhyme, abound in the funeral depart
ment of the daily press. In some of
these elegiac productions the disease by
which * the dear departed " was carried
off is adroitly woven into metre. Par
example , a Philadelphia paper furnishes
the following in reference to “ an inter
esting little boy, aged ten months
“ He was a charming boy, very,
And perished by the dysentery.”
In the above specimen poetry and
medical information are exquisitely blend
ed. Ihe old obituary verse cominenc
ing, “Affliction sore long time be bore,"
and others equally venerable, have been
so thoroughly worn out that the intro
duction of the new style is quite a relief,
Young America.