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Politics*
The American and Whig State Convention in
Tennessee has nominated Robert Hatton, of
Wilson county, as their candidate for Governor at
the ensuing election in August next.
The Nashville ha nner says of him:—“He is a
gentleman of whom much can be favorably said,
and absolutely nothing disparaging. Robert H at
ton is a self-made man. Upon the very threshbold
of life he was met by those formidable obstacles to
young ambition which comparatively so few over
come—a lack of pecuniary k meana and adventitious
opportuuies. Alone and unaided, except by the
strong resolves aud determined purposes of a lauda
ble ambition, he struggled with these adverse cir
cumstances. The menus of his own education from
comparative boyhood were the hard earned pro
ceeds of his own labor. His native talent was not
long in making itself felt in the circle in which it
n*oved. Step by step he ascended the toilsome
steep—round after round of the ladder was pressed
by his untiring and undaunted step, until to-day,
as ; de from the position assigned him by (he great
party which he is called upon to lead, there is no
man of his age in Tennessee who more fully fills
the measure of a stasesman. Through a'l the scenes
and viaissitudes of his life, while tbe natural cheerful
ness and good nature inherent in him has been unre
strained by any affected austerity, he has ever re
membered the leasons of morality which were
breathed in his willing ear by a beloved mother and
venerable father , and as happily preserved an uu
spottted and untarnished character—justly a guer
don which be esteems of infinitely more value than
all the transient political honors in the gift of his
fellow-citizens. ”
-Mafiame D’Anfgri.
It will be seen by the advertisement that our
citizens are to have the privilege of a first-' lass
Concert before the season closes. We have had no
musical entertainment of a really excellent charac
ter during tbe past winter, and we take pleasure in
announcing tbe coming of a brilliant and charming
cantatrice, one whose voice many have said they
“have never heard equalled.” The Philadelphia
Bulletin, speaking of her opening night in Philadel
phia, says :
The debutante , a fair Grecian, possessing a form
of exquisite and rather voluptuous beauty, a lace
classically lovely, “eyes of dangerous darkness, and
teeth of nearly whiteness,” and a l<rut ensemble, ca- j
pable or inspiring a young poet with the mo- 1 ar J
dent phre-'Zy, received of course, a cordial welcome
on her appearance. Her coijlure was superb, her
dress in the most elegant tante, and her presence
dramatically tmpieseive, gracious, and winning.—
Thu audience,much interested, awaited in breath
less suspense for the first sound of her voice. The
first few notes that floated from her throat, con
vioced all of its transcendent quality. It is one of
the greatest volume, richness, and passionate ex
pression we ever beard. Her ample chest seems
to give her great power, and she sings with no phy
sical effort, but with much spontaneous feeling and
impassioned declamation.
in her expression of the pathetic she was perfect,
and her execution of many floral passages was mar
vellously certain and raviabingly sweet. Her sus
tained notes inci ease in brilliancy, intensity, and
power, till the last moment they are held, and when
she breaks them up into those spray like cadenzas
and roulades, they fall iu liquid succession, clear
and brilliant as dew-deps descending a sun-beam.
Her lower tones are profound, “bass,” almost mas
culine , her upper register lucent, ringing, but not
cuttingly sham, equalling a high soprano her mid
file rioti-s mellifluous, full, earnest, and syujpathic.
W« have much we should willingly say of ihts beau
tiful c&nt&trice, but we have not space to speak
more specially at present.
.tlnlical \\ orlis.
The North American Medico Churgical Re
view.—The May number of tbit valuable bi month
ly is promptly on our table. By a refference to the
table of contents we are pleased to see that it pre
sents a grunt variety under each of its departments,
viz Analytical and Critical Reviews, Original
Com mun trail on x.
Bi Monthly Periscope and Necrology.—We
oarmot recommend this Journal too strongly to t he at
tention of the profession, in fact, it is a valuable work
and should be in the hands of every practitioner.—
It is conducted with ability and industry, and has
a list of collaborators unaurpased by any work in
the Union for their ability as writers and teachers,
we hope therefore that it will be well patronized.—
It is edited by S. D. Gross, M. L)., professor of Sur
gery in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
and S. G. Rich a rdsnn, M. I)., professor of Anato
my in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania
College, Philadelphia, and published Hi monthly at
$1 per annum in advance. Each number contains
159 pagesi it is printed on fine paper, and the typo
graphical execution is in good style. All letters on
business affairs of the Rtwinr should be addressed to
the publishers, .1. B. Lil'l'lNcott & Co., Philadel
phia.
The Charleston Medk al Journal. —The
May number of this truly valuable Medical Pe
riodical is promptly on our table. Its table of
contents presents a rich repast to the practitioner,
of medicine. The original articles and reviews are
well written, and the selections are well made.—
This is a valuable work, and we cordially recoin
mend it to the profession as every way worthy of
tlieii patronage.
The present number contains a spirited engrav
ing of Professor E. Geddings, with a Biographi
cal Sketch. It is edited and published, bi-monthly
by C. Happolijt, M. D., in Charleston, S. C., at $4
pel annum, in advance. Each number contains
one hundred aud forty-four octavo pages, and is
accompanied with a Steel Engraved Port rail of
some distinguished medical mail. All letters eon
nacted with either the editorial or business depart
ment, should be addressed to the Editor. All
remittances of money by mail, when the letters
ooutainiug it are registered, will be at his risk.
The Southern Journal of the Medical and
Physical Sciences. —The April number of this
valuable Medical and Scientific periodical was
promptly on our table, ami should have been no
ticed before, but it was mislaid. It, however, af
fords us pleasure, eveu at this late hour, to call at
tention to so valuable a work, and we hope that the
profession will sustain it well, as it is truly a deserv
ing work. It is edited by Richard O. Curry, A
M , M. D., and is published in Knoxville, Tenn., at
$3 per annum. Address R. O. Curry, at Knox
ville, Tennessee.
Large Strawberry. —Yesterday, G. A. B
Walker presented us with one of the largest
Strawberries, grown in his garden near the city, we
have ever seen. It was of the Ilovey Seedling va
riety, and weighed 168 grains, aud measured four
inches in circumference, hours after it was
plucked from the viilfc.
Salk or Stocks and Bonds.— W. B. Griffin &
Cb., Auctioneer,sold yesterday five shares of the
Capital Stock of the Bank of Augusta, at $lO6 per
share five East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad
Lpne thousand dollar Bonds at S7OO each twenty-six
shares Atlanta At Lagrange Railroad stock, at
slo6.‘Jo per share ; seveu shares Georgia Railnead
and Banking Company's stock, at SIOO per share ,
ami t wenty-three shares of the same at SOO/Of* per
share
Samuel Nicholson, Esq., one of the ol the
banking house of Brown, Brothers A: Co., died at
his residence in New York Wednesday foreueon.
He was about sixty years of age. and widely known
and esteemed.
The ** Niao au a.” —The editors of the New York
Journal of Commerce have seen a letter from an
ofiioer on Doard the “ Niagara,” dated the day sue
squared away for Europe, after discharging the pilot
off Sandy Hook, which says that the officers gene
rally are very much pleased with the ship, but that
some of her light spars are of white pine, and alto
gether so frail to afford a fair trial of her sailiug
qualities. He says that on the day before he wrote,
one of her top-gallant masts dropped over the side
in a light royal-breeze. And he is of the opinion
that her top masts ure also wanting the strength
necessary for a fair trial of her speed as a sailing
vessel He says “the ship is very stiff under her
canvas, aud will bear more sail than she can carry
in anything short of a gale.” It is also intimated iu
this letter that some of the iron work of her rigging
is more or less defective, in consequence of the in
ferior quality of the material, aud not of the work
manship During the short trial trip, some of the
iron work bent very much ; and it is said that “the
topmast staysail-boom irous were straightened out
under a moderate strain.”
Thf New Cent.— The Philadelphia mint will
begin on the 25th day of May to pay out cents of
the new issue, iu exchange for Spanish aud Mexi
can dollars, 25, and 6$ cent, pieces, aud at the ;
nominal rates, or iu exchange for the copper j
cent, now in circulation. The director of the mint \
•ays
Such pieces of silver as are mutilated, or so much
worn as to be illegible, or as have any appearance |
of being counterfeit, will not be received for the new
cent# . but packages containing the same may be
exchanged at another office iu the mint for silver
coins of the United States to prevent uncertainly as :
to what parcels i containing mutilated pieces or such
as ars worn smooth) will be rejected, it may be stated
that if five dollars, by count, of quarter dollars,
•hall outweigh $i 30 ot United States silver coins of
the preeeut standard or if the same amount, by
count, of eighths shall outweigh $4 50 or if the
same count of sixteenths shall outweigh $1 SO, they
shall be received at their nominal value in exheange
for the new cents, aud it may save disappointment
if holder* will ascertain this before offering them,
vi bich may readily be done by the use of an ordi
nary balance. _
Fires in Afiul. —There were thirty-two fires in
the United Stated last month, according to tele
graphic and newapaf v reports, occasioning a loss !
iu the aggregate losses less than SIO,OOO exclu
ded of $1,520,000. The largest fire was in Balti
more. the loss amounting to $340,000 a fire at Ma
rietta. Ga., destroyed $125,000 and ©there at North
Adams, Mass, and at Atlanta, Ga., each SIOO,OOO.
Tui Toledo Tragedy. —The Sparta Georgian
says that Mrs. Ward, the unfortunate woman who
was horribly murdered by her husband at Toledo,
Ohio, a short time since, was a native ot Taliaierro
county, iu this State, aud a daughter of Win. Peek,
Esq . now of Cedar Town. Polk county Her first
husband was Joseph Evans, of Hancock county,
and Ward, her second husband and murderer, was
formerly a carpenter in Sparta.
A little girl in Syracuse, Wednesday, got hold of a
bottle of corrosive sublimate, used as bed-bug poi
•on. and drank a portion of it. She was rescued from
certain death by the immediate swallowing of the
white* of several eggs, which were thrown up from
the stomach after absorbing the poison.
Great Walking Feat —A citizen of Annapolis,
Md., left that city & few days ago, on a wager that
he oould walk from there to Baltimore in 11 hours,
carrying with him forty pounds extra weight. The
task, rather a difficult one, was duly undertaken,
and performed m nine hours, thus winning the bet,
not, however, without considerable fatigue The
distanoe is about forty miles, making over four
miles per hour.
An April Storm. -On the 2lat f lom 6 to
10 inches of snow fell in Jefferson county jj-entu. u .
and during the night it froze hard. The sauie day
\X rained, hailed, and snowed in Louisville.
Fraction! Medicine and Fntliolony.
We clip the following extracts of Dr. E. H. Bar
ton’s essay, read before the New York Academy
of Medicine, from the Southern Journal of the
Medical and Physical Sciences, for April, publish
ed in Knoxville, Tennessee, and hope our city au
thoritien will give it a careful perusal, and profit by
its suggestions. Dr. Barton has paid more atten
tion to this subject than probably any other man in
the country, and his opinions are entitled to great
credit, as they are the result of long and patient in
vestigalion :
1. Cause of Yellow Fever. —The following ex
tracts from the published proceedings of the New
York Academy of Medicine, contain a summary of
the views of Dr. E. 11. Barton, of New Orleans, on
this interesting subject. I>r. Barton baa had the
moat ample opportunities for observations concern
ing the cause or causes which originate and propa
gate the Yellow Fever, aud has improved them la
boriously and carefully. His opinions are, there
fore entitled to much consideration.
“ * Cause of Yellov Fever —There are two con
ditions necessary to the creation of yellow fever :
an elevated t emperature and a high dew-point,
form tbe blades of the ‘shears of fate,' united by
miasm and filth. Tbe report of the sanitary com
mission had stated this fact, and that whenever tbe
d»-w point fell to 00 . the fever ceased invariably.
The experience of the subequent years had corroo
ora*ed this view, both in New Orleans, Savannah,
Charleston, Ac.
“ 1 The condition of the atmosphere was very im
portant. He hail frequently known unacclimated
persons, visiting an infected district, to be attacked
in two hours when the d*w-point was high.
‘“I predicted the yellow fever, of 1853, in May.
The spring was dry , the rainy season being but
seven days and seven nights, but in June and Au
gust there was much rain . for thirty days and
flights it rained, and the dew-point averuged 70
71-100. Yellow fever depends on meteorological
changes, and as the dew point rises and falls this
disease varies. A few cases may occur sporadical
ly, but there never will be an epidemic.
“ He wished to correct one very prevalent idea,
that drouth aLd dryness are synonymous. A hy
drometer is tbe only test of this atmospheric condi
tion. Rjjpid rains deplete the air and leave it dryer
than before. Sandy soils absorb it, while clayey
oue> retain it, and the air is, consequantly, corres
pondingly more or less dry. It is well known that
foggy weather is generally without rain, yet no one
would pretend that the air was not ladeu with mois
ture. llurr ; dity is a necessary constituent in many
diseases, as cholera, cholera infantum, sun stroke,
Ac.
“ 1 Wherever yellow fever occurs in any place
for the first time, it is always accompanied by
marked atmospheric changes the changes are no
ted at its departure, and these show how futile are
the term* indigenous imported aud the like. A few i
cases may occur after a frost, but there is uo epi
demic So we see cl olera occurring in cold weath
er, and even in Ku-sia, where the thermometer is
n ;ar zero; but it is forgotten that this is the out
door temperature, where the disease actually oc
curs. is about 8(P, or summer heat. The seasons
when yellow fever is rife in New Orleans, are pecu
liarly damp. The city is always damp. Goods
spoil kept in our stores one year, and flour frequent
ly in a few hours . for notwithstanding the peculiar
dampness of oir city little or no efforts have been
made in the cons* ucaonof our warehouses to coun
teract it. The dsinpuess, however, ot itself, be it
remembered, will not cause yellow fever, if the
other elements of high temperature and filth be not
added.
I “The Doctor then weqt on to speak of the man
ner in which the disease attacks a neighborhood,
and particularly in the case of the lien Franklin ,
which, it is alleged, carried tbe yellow fever to Nor
folk, but which he said was not the case.”]
‘ It. is the fault of the City Authorities if Yel
low Fever invades a city ! The disease is entirely
in their hands, and they inay have it or not, as they
wish. The ‘shears of fate’ which is to cut the thread
of their lives is formed, as I have said, of two blades.
The one is high temperature, the other a high dew
point. But the rivet of these shears, without which
they cannot act is filth. The authorities can so drain
the city and so thoroughly cleanse it, that one blade
will be dulled,.and the rivet may entirely be want
iu j<-
“ ‘ Millions for Cure , but not a Cent for Preven
tion, seems to be the motto of our city authorities.
Faith is the electric spark which fires the other ele
ments. Typhus, small pox, yellow fever, measles,
and many other diseases, as well as all intermit
tents, may be, in my opinion, generated without
foreign importation. A study of raeterology was
absolutely necessary for the safety of a city. Not
withstanding tbe proximity of government institu
tions to the infected region around Norfolk, no such
observations were maae, and in some places where
this was supposed to be done, they were made at a
distance of a mile from the location were the dis
oase raged, upon a hill, or in a healthy locality.—
The reports, therefore, were not the reports of the
infected locality, but of a proximate healthy one,
and a comparison would show a marked differ
enee.' ”
A Short cut Criminal Life. —The sentence of
Romulus S. Chip man, to bo hung on the 15th of
May, in Guilford, N. C., for murder, has been no
ticed. The Goldsboro’ (N. C.) Tribune gives a his
tory ot his crime .-
The case excited intense interest, not only from
the youth and respectability of the accused, but
from the cold-blooded circumstances under which
the crime was perpetrated. Chipinan, who is scarce
ly twenty years of age, seduced a Miss Penix, then
living as a domestic with a farmer in bis neighbor
hood. Worried with her importunities he promised
to marry her, and it. was to rid himself ot this en
gagement that lie committed the crime which has
placed him in his present awful position. Some
tune iu November last, he wrote a note requesting
her to meet bun at a certain place iu the woods.—
She went, but not returning, a search was made and
the body discovered with a gun shot wound and the
throat cut. His note making the appointment was
found in her pocket. The proof was entirely cir
cumstantial. Sixty-seven witnesses were examin
ed, who brought, the crime home to the prisoner.—
The culprit's father offered ten thousand dollars bail
when his son was first arrested, w’hich was refused.
Billiards. —Three match games of Billiards
were played in New York last week at the Irving
Rooms, iu which a Mr Price, an amatuer from Bos
ton, made the following very handsome runs while
playing a carom game against a New York ama
teur's full game : The first game he closed by a run
of 76, the second 81, and the third 87. He then play
ed with the owner of the rooms, Mr. Higham, the
well known Albany player, aud though Mr. H. dis
counted him, he was beaten. This is what is term*
ed among the “fancy,” “tall play.”
The Hon. James Guthrie has assumed the Presi
dency of the Nashville ami Louisville railroad, and
is taking a very active part in its management.—
Confidence is now felt that the great thoroughfare
will be completed iu two years.
Strike at Wheeling. —The boilers in the roll
ing mills at Wheeling, Ya., are on a strike for $5.75
per ton, instead of $1.*25, heretofore received. The
Times says the strike is general all over the city,
and unless the owners and workmen come to terms,
the suspension of all the mills will result as a conse
quence.
Marine Losses for April. —The losses for the
past month have reached the large amount of $1,351,-
800 by American vessels alone, and it to it were ad
ded that of British vessels plying between this
country and England, the aggregate amount for
that period would not fall short of $2,000,000.
Defalcation in the Long Island Bark. —The
President and one of the Directors of the Long Is
land Bank have made oath before the grand jury of
Kings county that the defalcation of Wm. B. Smith,
late first teller of that bank, exceeds $26,000. The
amount for which his securities are liable is only
$20,000, and it is said they have proposed to com
promise by pay ing $15,000.
Death of a Well-known Writer. —W. H.
Buchanan, Esq., of Marshall county, Ya., a well
kuown Yirgiuia poet ami author, died suddenly at
Wheeling, Va., on Thursday, of disease of the heart.
Mr. B. was 63 years of age, and had long been coil
uected as correspondent with the National Intelli
eueer amt Horae Journal.
Heavy Damages. —A ease was tried last week in
the Common Please of Cumberland county, Pa , for
slander, in which Abraham Swartz was plaintiff ami
Jacob Renuenger defendant. The latter, it ap
pears, declared in the public market iu Harrisburg,
before a number of persons, and iu other places,
that he believed the former had a hand in a murder
committed in that county a year ago. The jury
awarded the plaintiff $2,500 demages.
Horrible Occurrence. —At Sandusky, Ohio,
last Suuday, a boy, five years of age, son of Mr.
G. W. Stewart, an old citizen, was so dreadfully
torn by three dogs as to occasion his death in a few
hours. The little fellow was horribly bitten. One
of the dogs, a bull terrier, belouged to the father of
the child, aud the ethers to a neighbor. They were
shot.
Loud Call. —Rev. Dr. Scott, pastor of Calvary
Piesbyterian church, San Francisco, has received a
call from the West Arch Strcat Church. Philadel
phia. The cal! was declined. The salary aud other
inducements held out to Dr. Scott, were equivalent
to $12,000 per anuuin.
Curiosity. —We understand of Mr. William B.
Brawner of this town, that he has on his farm, in
Culpepper county, a pig with six well developed
feet, and another with five.
Died of Poison. —The Danville (Pa.) American
says that a post mortem examination of Mr. Mont
gomery, the member of Congress lately deceased ex
hibited extensive abrasion of the mucous or lining
coat of the stomach, and the entire destruction of
the membrance, both at the cardiac and pyloric ori
fice. with a general less tone, or disorganization of
the thracic aud abdominal viscera. The physicians
ascribe his death to poison. Mr Montgomery stop
ped at the National Hotel, Washington, duriug the
inauguration.
Water in the Mississippi.—The Mississippi, at
New Orleans, is now five feet four inches below
high water mark At the same period last year it
was six feet below.
Ravages of Intemperance among Swine.—The
hog cholera is creating au excitement not only out
West, but in New York and the Eastern States.—
At Brighton, on Monday last, the alarm was so
great that 2,500 hogs offered for sale met with no
b vers at any price. In Greenbush we understand
that the sick’hogs arriving from Illinois and Ohio
amount to one hundred and fifty a day. A large
number of them are slaughtered in the village and
seut to New York aud Boston. The reason of this
malady at the West, we are told, has at last been
found in the intemperate habits of the swine. They
are very much addicted to the slops of the whiskey
distillers, a barrel of which is said to contain
enough strychnine to kill thirty men. That, there
fore, which is at first merely a pleasant ripple, final
ly briugs death, not only to the porcine, out the bu
man family. May both hogs ana men take warn
ing and mend their ways ! —JY. Y. Post.
Law —The Legislature of Ohio, just ad
whiskey U v ?S£*V e lu t ! ie ® an ®*RCture Ot
| voiKm mix«J with toW-coj^
! half that amount. It was the drainage from
j strychnine distilleries that killed the hogs, c&uane
; the hitherto mysterious disease known as hog ehoi
• era. Fish have also been killed in the Scioto river
at Cbihoothe by the drainage from distilleries in
which this delightful beverage is prepared. A
I chemist says a barrel of it contains strychnine
enough to kill thirty men. Do the Kentuckians
use this poison in making the “pure Bourbon V' In
\ the name of outraged humanity, what shall folks
; drink whose stomachs require something besides
water ?— Boston Post. _
The Slaver Cases —Another Slaver Caught. —
! Capt. Rynders is determined to distinguish himself.
He says he has his eye upon five slavers —he knows
j they are slavers—which are all ready for sea. and
waiting for an opportunity to slip off to sea after
cargoes of blackamoors’ for Cuba. Besides the
Merchant which he captured the other day, the Cap
tain has been on the qui nre after the brig Ellen,
Capt Van Yvchteu- and on Thursday afternoon, just
as she was about starting with a fair wind and
pleasant prospects for Loan do. W C A.. Captain
Faunee. of the Revenue Cutter Washington, quiet
ly overhauled her, and brought her to under his
guns in the East river. Her officers and crew were
provided with lemporary lodgings in Eldridge
street. The examination of the Merchant captain
an 1 crew was to come up Friday at 11 o'clock A. M.
— N. y k Express.^
Destructive Fire at Oxford, N. C.—On Sun
day morning last a fire occurred iii Oxford, N. C.,
destroying all the houses on the west side of Main
street, from Mitchell’s drug store te Williams Ho
tel C. Hernden 8 store aud stock were destroyed
Tie entire loss is estimated at $40,000.
For the Chronicle 4* Sentinel.
The Very Cool Spring.
Mr. Editor; —A writer over the signature of
J. C\, in a letter addressed to the editor of the Nash
ville American, and which I find copied in the daily
Chronicle A Sentinel of yesterday, has advanced
rather a strange conjecture as to tbe cause of the
low temperature experienced in the United States
daring the past winter and present spring, and its
protracted continuance for “five months' “in place
of three. A t his own suggestion the following brief
article is respectfully presented :
Unfortunately for the theory advanced, it will
not comport with the facts in the case.
Ist. There is not, nor has there been, within the
period specified, any cometary body of euch mag
nitude and brilliancy, as the star seen in upparent
’ proximity to Venus. True, two comets are now re
motely visible in our hemisphere—the one receding,
the other approaching our department of the heav
ens, but neither, even distantly, resembles th£ beau
tiful and luminous orb referred to.
'ld. No visible comet of large dimensions having
intervened between us and the sun. his beams, con
sequently, could not have been arrested, and pre
vented from reaching the earth from that cause. —
And a smaller, nebulous an visible mass, would have
produced no sensible reduction in temperature. In
deed, the transit of Mercury or Venus across the sun s
disk, has never produced such decided thermal effects
as are attributed by J. C., to the star in question,
: and is only marked by a s mall black spot upon his
j surface, although the latter of these plannets has a
| diameter nearly equal to that of our earth,
j 3d. The superior planet, Jupiter, was at that
1 time approaching his conjunction, and was in that
part of his orbit which gave the apparent relative
position, observed by J. C.
4th. But because the orbit of this noble primary,
lies beyond the earth s orbit, it is physically impos
sible that he could obstruct the flow of sun beams to
our world, and consequently effect a reduction in
our Thermometers.
sth. If the sun has appeared to shine dimly, and
“as in eclipse,” it is perhaps in every instance to
be traced to the action of meteorological causes with
in our reach. The atmosphere has been charged
with condenced vapor, m the form of finely diffused
cirrous clouds, or with volumes of smoke, the result
of imperfect combustion, and arisiivg from thousands
iof farms iu the process of early preperation for
planting the comiug crop—a result by no means un
common at this season of the year.
YVe must look, therefore, as I suppose, to other
causes than planetary interference, to account for
our severe and protracted winter and late Spring
Were the writer allowed to venture an opin
ion upon so recondite a theme, he would be
more inclined to refer it to the action of astro
nomical laws, operating slowiy but surely, for
centuries, on a magnificent scale in changing
the elipticity of the planets’ orbits, and gradu
ally approximating them more nearly to a circle, by
which our earth’s poeition becomes more remote
from the solar center in the winter season, and cor
respondingly nearer in the summer, a change, which,
in the maintainance of the stable equilibrium of the
heavens, will probably in cycles of ages, reach its
extreme, and then retrograde.
Causes of less general extent, however, but opera
ting within our atmosphere, and over large tracts
of ouwearth’s surface, such as Electricity, Ice drifts,
Polar seas, Ac., Ac., may produce marked local
and temporary depression or elevation of tempera
ture, which we cannot now attempt to trace.
Oxford, Ga., April 29,1857. A. M.
For the Chronicle 4* Sentinel.
Mr. Editor : —While both parties in the different
sections of the State are naming their favorites as
candidates for Governor at the approaching elec
tion, allow me to suggest one whose claims should
not be overlooked, and whose popularity, growing
out’of past services, and devotion to his party, to
gether with his known ability and amenity of man
ners, would no doubt unite the whole American
Party on him. He is well known, and favorably
in the mountains, and on the seaboard, and espe
cially so in the Southern and Southwestern portions
of the State. 1 mean Col. John Milledge, of Rich
mond, county. A mericanuh.
From the “Slates.”
The National Hotel Poisoning.
It is high time that some thorough investigation
should be made into the causes of the recent sickness
at the National Hotel. It seems as though a great
abiding calamity had fallen upon the city of Wash
ington. Many noble lives have been sacrificed, one
of the largest hotels in the city has been closed, and
the usual influx of strangers to this place deterred
and kept away. In the meantime, the whole affair
is shrouded in darkness. There has been as yet no
apt solution of the mystery. The victims Dine away
in ignorance of the cause, and medical skill professes
its inability to classify the disease.
We do not wish to blame the Washington Board
of Health for either its action or its decision in the
matter. We know that that Board is composed of
inen who have the true interests of the city at heart;
and we believe that their decision was as full as
possible under the evidence; but we respectfully
submit that the evidence was entirely insufficient.—
Investigations were commenced to establish the cer
tainty of a presumed opinion. The testimony sought
and the examinations made seem to have been
rather ex parte in their character. The atari ling
point was wrong, and the conclusion was necessari
ly the seme.
Whether the sewerage of the National Hotel was
or was not defective, has nothing to do with the im
mediate question. Defective sewerage must always
produce general ill-health ; but it was not the cause
of the sickness at the National. Physicians tell us,
that in all cases of miasmatic affection—in all cases
in which the patient suffers from foul air or unwhole
some stenches —a change of place only is required
to remove the effects. Nature recovers herself so
soon as she escapes from the presence of the delete
rious influences. But, in the present case, each and
every one of the victims suffered long after leaving
the hotel: and many of them died, on returning to
their homes, after a lapse of t ime that would have
completely obliterated every trace of a miasmatic
attack.
It appears from the evidence that a number of
drowned rats were discovered in the cistern of the
hotel. But this fact throws very little additional
light on the subject. We have kuown such occur
rences in many hotels, iu many private houses, aud,
indeed, iu nearly all establishments where large cis
terns are kept; and yet the effects have never been
anything more than temporary. It was after the
rats had been removed, and the water renewed in
the cisterns of the National, that the sickness raged
with so much vigor.
We have looked, with deep interest, into some of
the circumstances connected with this singular af
fair. All the testimony that has fallen under our
observation goes to prove that the sickness result
ed either from drinking the water of the hotel, or
from eating at its table. The waiter at the ladies’
entrance declared that, having been on duty for
many hours without food, he went into the kitchen
aud took a small plate of soup, and that he was
shortly afterwards attacked with violent pains and
paroxysms, which confined him to his bed for days.
Most of the physicians iu attendance on patients at
the hotel concur in the statement t hat all the symp
toms indicated poison taken into the stomach. Un
der this theory the whole matter may be explained.
If poison was mixed, in greater or less quantities,
with the food; some persons, of course, received
more of it than others. Those who received most
were most dangerously ill; those who were fortu
nate euough to avoid the poisoned dishes, either es
caped altogether, or were but slightly assailed.
Thus, too, we can account for the intermittent na
ture of the disease. Sometimes whole days would
pass without any fresh victim ; aud then the sick
ness would break out agaiu with renewed force.
We cannot refrain, in this connection, from re
probating the course of any journal or journals that
may have consented to give a false color to this af
fair, and keep off the public mind from investiga
tion. Such conduct betrays either the darkest
malice or the sheerest tolly. The well-being of a
city should not be sacrificed, that the preconceived
opinion of an editor may stand good. We are all
aware that the falsest reports have been circulated;
that the sickness at the hotel has been represented
as an epidemic; and that persons at a distance
have been taught to look upon our beautiful me
tropolis as a plague house aud a sepulchre.
Whether the poieon was accidentally introduced
into the food ; whether It was a reckless system of
wholesale slaughter; or whether it was aimed at
some particular lives, must, as yet, be undetermin
ed. But each of these suppositions is, to say the
least, probable; and there are a thoueaud suspicious
circumstances that may hereafter be developed.—
The astounding atrocities brought to light ou the
trial of the murderer Palmer, iu England, but a few
months since, point out the necessity of bringing to
the discovery of the truth, not theoretical opinions
merely, but the aid of the best practical chemical
and medical science.
We hope that some of our leadirig citizens will
take hold of the matter. The business interests of
the city, and justice to the suffering, and the dead,
demand a rigid examination of all the facts.
Since writing the above, we learn that a general
meeti ig of the Merchants'Association will be held
ou Tuesday next, to discuss the subject, with a
view of creating that interest in the public mind
which will lead to such necessary experiments as
may tend to unravel the mvstery iu which this hor
rible disease oxiginated. The matter should not be
allowed to wander to oblivion, while any human
means suggest themselves as likely to trace it to its
source. We are pleased to chronicle this spirit of
anxiety displayed by the merchants, and sincerely
trust the property-holders will join with the former
iu a movement which is so inseparably connected
with the interest, progress, and future of the city.
We are all equally linked witli Che destinies of the
metropolis, aud cannot too strongly incite our fel
low citizens to a complete investigation of a matter
which has brought death to many, and disgrac? on
the locality.
The meeting will take place at the oorasr of 10th
street and Pennsylvania avenue, at 8 o'clock, p. m.,
and we are requested to urge the merchants to a
puucteal attendance.
Emigration Southward—Opinions or George
Peabody, the Banker. —Mr. George Peabody, the
eminent American banker .“whose visit to this coun
try has been the subject of frequent newspaper
comment —both in consequence of the reception he
lias met with, and the generosity he has displayed
in the endowment of several admirable institutions
in return—is reported, since the completion of his
tour in the Southern and Western State, to have
expressed some opinions which, from such a source,
and relating as they do to subjects which he per
fectly understands, aie entitled to considerable at
tention.
This gentleman finds the United States in a con
dition ot general prosperity of which he had no
adequate conception; but as a whole, he considers
the Southern States as occupying the most solid and
permanent position of them all. The greet staple
of cotton makes the whole world forever tributary
to them. This is something which at present they
alone produce in such quantities as adequately to I
supply the looms of Europe and our own country, \
and without which we may almost say the world !
would go naked. In the Northern States the indus- j
trial pursuits of men are liable to great commercial
changes. The form and the character of manufae j
turedarticles, the course of trade, the demand for |
shipping, and the price of flour, are all matters of
frequent and dangerous fluctuation; but cotton, un- |
,; r the impulse of an increasing demand and the
cUeapness of its machinery, formed novelties, is a
*° Udly &nd
seen”a regu*m d^r^rd^fX 1 A,“ te^ en . Ce !j
from which it appere that there wa. eatkier 1D .I*®-
and P|" ec,s |-'y s| wh a spring as 6 that "year*®! I
cept that the last two days of April, 18M werf
warm.
Oysters.—lt is reported from Ocean county
N J„ that the oyster trade is reviving there. In
several parts of this county, especially around Ce
dar Creek, some years ago this favorite sheil-fUh
had perished from some unknown cause, they are
said lobe, however, very abundant this year", and
are selling from 41 to 50 cents per bushel, with
the appearance of an inexhaustible supply.
Attempted Assassination by a Female. —On
the 23d ult. James Andrews, keeper of a daguerrean
saloon in New Orleans, was attacked in the street
by a woman named Charles, with a knife, and
wounded badiv in the neck, arms, side and thigh.
Mrs. C. is a young widow of most attractive appear
anee and highly accomplished.
Evansville, April 27.—The steamer Julia Dean,
when below Mount Vernon yesterday came in col
lision with the steamer Rainbow, and the former
was sunk Five or six persons were drowned, in
cluding four of her deck hands. The Rainbow is
but little damaged. The J. Ds. cargo is a total
loss but insured
From the Falmouth (Jamaica) Post.
Cspt:U'f of an American Slaver.
On Tuesday last, the 16th inst-, the inhabitants of
St. Ann's Bav were thrown into a state of conside
rable excitement by the arrival of a schooner—evi
dently American—towed into port by her Majesty 's ;
brig Arab. It was soon ascertained that the schoo
ner was a slaver, and that she nad on board a large
number of captives. It appears that the Captain
of the Arab lad received information that a bark
and a schooner were expected in Cuba from the
Coast of Africa, each with a cargo ot staves. A strict
watcL was therefore kept, and on Monday, the 13th
inst.. a suspicious look.ug craft was seen with a tu.* ;
press of sail, making the best of her way to her des
tined port. She was closely pursued, and the Lap ,
tain finding that there was no possibility of escaping |
from the Arab, deserted jher, taking with him in,a
shallop his crew, money, chronometer and other ,
useful articles. The commander of the Atab dfa- i
patched his gunboat, with fifteen men. under the I
command of hi? Firs! Lieutenant, with orders for .
the capture ot the shallop. The chase continued .or ,
nearly three hours, and a shot having destroyed the i
rudder of the shallop, the Cantain. who was owner j
of the slaver, surrendered. Two of his principal j
slaves and an interpreter were taken from the sha: ;
lop, and the crew were left in it to make the best ;
of their wav to Cuba.
The firet’Ueutenaut then boarded the schooner, i
and found her tilled with young Africans, males
and females, to the number of 373. no less than Id.
having fallen victims to the horrors of the middle
passage during a voyage of 29 days. The poor cap
tives were ill a wretched condition—all of them |
were naked—and the greater part seemed to have ;
! been half-starved. They were packed closely to- ;
gether and c.-vered with dirt and vermin. On the ;
arrival of the schooner in St. Ann's Bay, several j
gentlemen went on board, and their sympathies !
were excited at the ur»ery they witnessed. Messrs.
Bravo &c Br< suggested measures which were ■
adopted and with their usual libel ality, ordered a !
steer to be killed, and soup prepared for the suffer- i
era other gentlemen furnished ground provisions,
bread Ac and while the food wasbeiug prepared, |
the whole of the human cargo was brought upoh j
deck washed and had blankets given to them uu- j
til clothing could be procured. Thirty of them ;
were in a dyii g state, but the most humane atten
tion was paid to them, and up to the time when «ur
informant left St. Ann’s Bay they were all alive, and
expected to do well. ,
The captain of the schooner refused to give his
name or the name ol'the vessel, but stated that he
would be a loser of s3o,ooo—a loss which did not
cause him much concern, as be had made other and
successful trips A great deal of information, how
ever has been obtained from the interpreter, who j
mentioned that several vessels were left on the Af
rican coast—that they were to have sailed soon 1
with full cargoes—that, upon an average, (wo ves- '
sels departed weekly, each with ~110 to /00 slaves on ,
board—that the trade tvas rapidly increasing—and i
that the slaves on being landedm Cuba were worth I
from SOOO to s>" each. With regard to those that
were captured iu >be schooner, there was but one
day’a supply of provisions on the day of capture,
and so limited was the quantity of food doled out
to them during tie passage that when they saw the
soup, bread, yaffil- Ac , which Were sent on board
by the gentlemen at St. Ann’s, they made a rush to
get at them, at it tvas found necessary to exer
cise a rigid discipline, in order that the numbers
that were the most enfeebled should be the first sup
plied. ►
The slave schocuer had two decks, and between
them the captives were packed iu such a manner
that they had scarcely room to move. During each
day of the voyage they sat in a painful posture, 18
inches only being allowed for each to turn in, and
in a deck room of thirty feet in length three hundred
human beings were stowed away, and brought up
in platoons once every day to get a small portion of
fresh air. The schooner draws but six feet of wa
ter, is of great breadth, and flat-bottomed, and was
thus built to enable her, ill case of pursuit, to run into
a port where t here is not much depth of water. The
interpreter states that when slave-trading captains
cannot escape cruisers, they make their way to a
particular point of laud on the Cuban coast, run
the vessels ashore, and leave the slaves to perish.—-
The nlaee alluded to is surrounded with rocks—none
but hat-bottom boats can get in—and the whole
of that portiou of the coast is blanched with human
bones.
The commander of the Arab is in pursuit of the
bark that sailed in company with the schooner, and
we hope that we shall soon have some accounts of'
her capture.
Kansas Adairs.
Address of Hon. F P. Stanton, Secretary and
Acting Governor to the people of Kansas 7'crri
tory.
Fellow-Citizens :—Hon. Robert J. Walker,
present Governor of the Territory, accepted his
appointment from the President upon condition that ,
he should not be required to leave Washington un- I
til the first of next month, and circumstances be- i
yond his control render it impossible for him to start 1
before that day, he may therefore be expected here t
about the middle of next mouth, and will then us- <
sume the Executive authority of the Territory. t
During the absence of t lie Goveonor, by the or- 1
ganic law of the Territory, the whole duties and re- i
sponsibilities of tin Executive are devolved upon i
me, by viitue of my commission as Secretary. On 1
assuming to exercise the functions of this high of- j
fice, at this critical juncture in the affairs of the
Territory, it is not inappropriate that I shall briefly c
indicate the course which 1 shall pursue. J
The Government of the United States recognizes
the authority of the Territorial Government in all
matters which are within the scope of tlie organic I
act of Congress, and consistent with the Federal
Constitution. I hold that there can be no other
rightful authority exercised within the limits of
Kansas, and I shall pn :eed to the faithful and im
partial execution of the laws of the Territory, by
the use of all the means placed in my power, and 1
which may be necessary to that end. ;
The Government especially recognizes the Terri- r
torial act which provides for assembling the Con
vention to propose a Constitution, with a view of J
making application to Congress for admission as a 1
State into the Union. That act is recognized as
presenting the only test of the qualification of voters ??
i'or delegates to the Couveutiou, and all preceding *
repugnant restrictions are hereby repealed. In 11
tins light the act must be allowed to have provided 1
for a full and fair expression of tiie xvill of thepeo- .
pie through the delegates who may be chosen to *■
renresent them in the Constitutional Convention.— 11
I do not doubt, however, that in order to avoid all
pretext for resistance to the peaceful operation of }
this law, the Convention itself will in some form ®
provide for submitting the great distracting ques- _
tiou regarding their social institution, whicli has so ,
long agitated the people of Kansas, to a fair vote '
of all the actual bonaJidc residents of the Territory *
with every possible security against fraud and vio
lence. If the Constitution be thus framed, and the r '
question of difference thus submitted to the deci /'
eiou of the people, 1 believe- that Kansas will be ad
mitted by Congress, without delay, as one of the 11
Sovereign States of the American Union, and the !!
Territorial authorities will, be immediately with- 1
drawn.
I need scarcely say that nil the power of the Ter- !'
ritorial Executive will be exerted with entire impar *
tiality to prevent fraud, to suppress violence, aud v
to secure to every citizen a fair opportunity for the
safe and peaceful exercise of the election privilege; T
and it will be no less the duty than the earnest de j!
sire and great pleasure of the Governor, or acting .
Governor of the Territory, to carry out in good 1
faith, the policy avowed by the President of the
United States, in his recent inaugural address, in
which he declares it to be “ the imperative and in
dispensable duty of the Government of the United
States to secure to every resident inhabitant the [’
free aud independent expression of his opinion by ‘
his vote. Thus sacred right to each individual must
be preserved, ’ and “that being accomplished, no
tiling can be fairer than to leave the people of the
Territory, free from all foreign influence, to decide b
their own destiny for themselves, subject only to li
the Constitution of the United States." p
Nothing is wanting but to secure the confidence is
of the people of all parties in the sincerity of the deli
dared intentions of the Territorial Executive to w
carry out those principles ia good faith, in order to A
induce the co-operation of all good men in the pend- o
ing measures for adopting a State Constitution. The tl
principles themselves cannot fail to be acceptable u
to the sober judgment of tlie people, and I ardently li
hope, for the sake of the paramount interests invol- ii
ved, that the necessary contidence will not be with- ti
held. c
The deplorable events which have marked the a
history of the Territory up to this, have doubtless d
left their natural results of enmity and heart-burn
ings among the people, as also upon the criminal v
records of the Territorial Courts. Indictments have c
been found against many of those who acted in a si
military capacity under the authority of the Terri- a
torial Government, for acts and excuses alleged to o
be wholly illegal and unjustifiable. On the other u
land, similar prosecutious have been instituted p
against those who resisted the Territorial authori- tl
ties,and who undertook to retaliate fertile alleged ji
wrongs committed against them. tl
It is my deliberate opinion that, in order to pro- il
mote peace and harmony, and to secure the future s
repose of the people, there ought to be a general fi
amnesty in reference to ail these acts on both sides c
which grew out of the political contest, and xvhich a
were not corruptly and feloniously committed for b
personal gain and to gratry individual malignity.
These measures, if adopted at all, ought to be adopt
ed generously, without any consideration of the ori
gin of the difficulty, or without question as to the
party which may be responsible for the wrong. It
will involve no concession or advantage to either o
party, but will be merely an act of clemency, de- h
signed to obliterate, as far as possible, from the hearts li
of the people, all memory Os the disastrous and la- a
mentable contest which has heretofore desolated this h
unhappy Territory.
If it shall have that effect, though it may pardon a
some instances of gross wrong and outrage, it will 1
tend to calm the excited passions of toe people, and
to prevent similar occurrences in the future. It will t
be a measure of conciliation aud peace, but will
leave the people free from apprehension in the fu- t
ture.so they can securely devote themselves to those f
important labors which are destined to make this
Territory a great, prosperous and happy State. <
Fred. P. Stanton, J
Secretary and Acting Governor. t
Leeompton, April 17,1857. (
False Education. The early breaking down i
into invalidism of our American woman is the sub- I
jeol of frequent remark. Our young maidens are ,
as a class, beautiful but delicate, and hardly do
hosts of them get out of their teens, before they be
come more or less the victims of disease Several
of our contemporaries, we perceive, are calling at- 1
tention to one cause ot this evil, viz : the overwork- '
ing of girls at school. Where the blame of this is to
be laid we are not prepared to say. We doubt, i
however, wuether it is all to be put at the doors of :
teachers, for we have heard many of them lament it
especially those having charge of public schools
The docility, love of approbation and emulation
quite characteristic ot the sex, taken in connection
with the early age at which they are seated at the
desk, and the early age a; which they are called
from their studies, may account lor much of the
error. Not only the acquisition of the common
branches of education, but i.kewiee the aequsition
of accomplishment, is crowded into a few years, and
this, too, with a premature entrance, oftentimes into
the excitements of society. Natural consequences
of this are headacues, crooked spines, disordered
nerves, weak eyes, debility, chronic- complaiuts.
that occasion more mischiet. moral as well as physi
cal, than many may imagir.e.
What must follow where the wife and mother is
the victim of ill health, can be easily fancied. And
how many instances there are of his ill health tracea
ble to the grievous mistak- 0 f parental vanity or
thoughtlessness, in subjecting mere children to the
inevitably deleterious effects of over-tasking the
brain, keeping to sedentary pursuits, involving con
finement, unnatural positions, unrelieved by vigo
rous open air exercise. This is not a subject on
which it is our province, were we competent, to
speak in detail. But it is a 'ubiect which demands
very serious consideration. It concerns the pros
perity and happiness of thousands. It concerns the
comfort and joy of numberless homes. It concerns
the cause of humanity ; inasmuch as the abuses al
luded to threaten tc bring on, in some respects, an
alarming degeneracy in posterity—and that posterity
only a generation or two be..ind us. The hosts of
physicians, the statistics of the death of infants,
daily occurring facts within the observation of eve
ry one, are all indicative of a great which
threatens to produce bitter fruits, to disappoint
many of the hopes of a progressive and prosperous
civilization. —Boston Couro
Richmond, April 27.—The Abingdon- Democrat
says that during the week preceding Tuesday last
snow fell daily m Washington ceunty. The fruit is
generally killed, and vegetation is very backward
through the south-west portion of the State. Many
cattle are dying.
Toledo Ohio, April 27.— The boiler J in a steam
| placing mill exploded here this morning . killing one
i seriously injuring four persons. The building
was demolished.
1 >--^P ril 27 • —A battle took place lately
t rKfc the volunteers, under General Dodd, and
! were kthedh’ M WalbeDa Twelve Indians
frrqnrf 27.-—The Herald has Advices
from Apnl 1 8L Mr. Seymour, the
SK Br ™* h Superintendent. was sworn in on the
30th and on tne next day he was sworn as her Ma
jesty’ Lieutenant, Governor of the Bay Islands.
It was rumored that the Guatemala army in Ni
caragua had been defeated. Also that Salvador
had declared in favor of Walker.
Mobile, April 28.—A fire in this city to-day has
destroyed two warehouses and four thousand baiee
of hay, together with other merchandize. The lose
is estimated at s3o,ooo—insured for 20,000. One
man killed.
' : t. Liramula Imbroglio.
j CorresporJer.ee between Ike Am, ican aud _Ycu
’ I adian Commissioners.
i ..The reject: .11 by the New Gnui&dian Couunis
- Burners of on tiie part ~f the Cubed States to
j obtain mdemr.kication for the Panama massacre
i of the 26th of April, 1856, has be-n published. As
the case appears to be nothing left for
this country. Etft to take possesion of the Isthmus.
1 Toe Granadian commissioners were extremely anx
: tons, while refusing t<> treat with United States alone.
! to bring I ranee aud England into the matter. To
I this attempt the U. S Commissioners reply:
j , *fearthe close of your communication we find the
1 k t y i the^1 ? e meaning which seems to be. that
| Granada refuse* postiveiy to treat with
! tne l uittd plates unon the subject of indemnity for
, the p& ? t and security for the future, “the idea of a
j f )et J re ®4 tin? two Governments and
. tnoce ot fcngiaod and France which might lead to a
| complete guarantee without prejudice to the terri
tonal sovereignty, of the liberty and free use of the
! way, OU the baa of perfect equality of
’ ®JJj»fto«s, is tendered as the base of another and
• ainerent negotiation.
To this we can only say, that at present the road
i ls owuc<l American citizens’ and much the lar
gest portion (probably nine-tenths,) of the passen
i ? e,E an '! commerce belong to the United States. It
iJ 5 1101 w,t hm our instructions to enter upon any new
j bast- Oi negotiations in which England. France or
any other nations of the world are to decide what
| guarantees are sufficient for the safety of the proper
! ty and lives of our citizens. * r K
; Indeed, we may as well say, once for all, that our
! Government has now every possible guarantee
which New Granada can possibly offer, and finding
j at 6,e ls e , ltfc, ‘ r or unwilling to ensures
■ thMti guarantees, or give such prop - lion as by the
.r-aty and the character of the Railroad Company
j she is pledged to do, the United States, as the guar'
j dian aud protector of the three-.., passengers wh..
; pass monthly oyet the route, must have something
| ' nor ? tan P! b ‘ R than paper pledges, and written con
tracts, which can only give rise to useless and end
j less discussion. - *
! „ To sh e demand by the American oommisaioi'ens
I tor $400,000 idemnity, the New Granadians return s
j refusal and say:
The controversy relative to the said occurrences
of Panama, having reached the position of an ulti
matum, inasmuch aa’the government of the United
Ma es, has made the cause of the North American
citizens m\ oived in those occurrences every way its
own, the undersigned is instructed to add, that it
being notorious aud according to the investigation
made, that citizens of die United States were the
I cause botho! the antecedents and of the immediate
| origin of the attempts against life and property which
j occurred iu Panama on the 15th day of April, 1856.
; and who rendered altogether impossible the
i thorough'y salutary intervention of the authorities
I and of the public force, the Executix-e Power finds
itself in the compulsory position ot considering the
government ol' the United States responsible for
those attempts, and that consequently it ought to
claim and does claim it byway of indemnification
tor damages ttpd injuries experienced by the city of
Panama, by various of its inhabitants, "by the fam-
Ites of the natives killed or wounded, and by sundry
inoffensive foreigners of other nations in their p-f.
sons and pr qterty. the sum of one hundred una fifty
oosand dollars.
Iu addition to th s, the Government of the United
States owes, in justice, reparation to New Grana
da, for the rutk- protest, dated 21st of April, of Con
sul Thomas William Willard, and for the proved
falsity of his official assertions regarding persons
wearing masks and respecting rapes, which he did
not dare subsequently to maintain in the certificate
which was required of him, and which he gave un
der his signature, on the sth of August; and for the
digrespectfilmess of Cotn'i T. Bailey towards the
Governor of the State of Panama, in the communi
cations which he addressed to him on the 24th 25th
and 20th of April.
Subsequent facts, and which are connected with
those of the 15th of April, in the complaints and
claims of the official agents of the Government of
the United Slates, have also given a right to that of
New Gtanada to claim from it the damages and
losses consequent upon the non payment of tiie legal
tax ot luteroueanie postage on letters and dispatch
es conveyed in the North American mail-bogs, aud
the national impost of tonnage which the vessels of
the United States have desisted from paying in
consequence of the threats ot Com. Mervine. The
Executive forthwith formally establishes this right,
and will make use of it at the fitting moment.
It is exceedingly painful that, owing to substan
tial mistakes, aud in consequence of unjust preju
dices, v disturbance of so grave a nature should
have arisen in the old and constantly friendly rela
tions between? two Republics of the New 'World
very disproportionate, it is true, in actual power,
but called, by their geographical position by tbe
nature ot their political institutions, and by the pro
gress of philosophical, and humane ideas, to march
together towards a smiling future. The Govern
iiient of New Granada expects, nevertheless, from
the wisdom and high social Position of the Presi
dent of toe United States, that upon a new and ca m
examination of the facts, he will give to his coil
temnoraries and to posterity the noble example of
rectify decisions in ! he deplorable affair form
ing the subject ot this note, with the regard due to ,
reason and principles of honesty, which are, aud
have been at ail times, the best basis of good
policy.
The undersigned has the honor to be with feelings
of distinguished considerations, the Honorables 1
Messrs. Morse aud Bowlin’s obedient servant.
Lino De Pom bo.
To the Honorables Isaac E. Morse aud James B.
Bowlin, &c., & c.
From the Tampa PeninsvlaJlbth nil.
Army .Neffs.
Capt. Buliock.s Company of Mounted Volunteers
has been ordered to march laster having finished
his present scout) direct upon Fort Mcßae, without
returning to Forj Gatlin.
Companies D. & K„ 4th Artillery, and 11, Ist Ar
tillery, are ordered to move, without delay, from
their positions to scout the llalpatuoka Swamp.
- Gen. Harney has issued orders to multiply the
numbers of parties sent in pursuit of tiie Indians.
He fecommmends the Commanders in the field to
act with energy,‘and to follow up and annoy the
Indians as much as possible.
Information has been received that there is a
band pt Indians in Koontee seuna-paloo-wah Ham
mock.
Private James Ilarrill, of Cant. F. M. Durrance’s
Company, is discharged from tne U. S. service, and,
being a deserter, losl all allowances dne him.
Mai. Morris, 4th Artillery, has been ordered to
Fort Kissimmee, for the purpose of directing the
repair of the causeway on the other side of the river.
He expects to leave in a few days.
A circular has been issued by Gen. Harney, di
recting that Lewis Dougherty and James Beezly,
who have expressed themselves «tiling to attemp'
to communicate with the Cemiuoles. shall be per
mitted to pass, unmolested, through the Indian
country, and has also given orders that any white
flag from the Indians must be respected.
Col. Loomis, of tiie sth Infantry, has received a
leave of absence for 60 days. During his absence,
the regiment will be commanded by Lieut. Col.
Waite.
The premium for every living Seminole, warrior,
woman and child, who may be captured or induced
to come in for emigration to the West, is fixed at
the following rate, aud will be paid by the Special
ludiun Agent at this post :
For each Warrior $250 to SSOO
“ “ Woman Jsoto 300
“ “ Child 100 to 200
Infirm, bedridden, aud helpless are excepted,
but in these cases, the rates will be decided by a
Board.
The Honest Newspaper.
A vast concern is instant ly expressed for the li
berty of the press, and the utmost abhorrence for its
licentiousness; but by the licentiousness of the
press is meant every disclosure by wnich any abu» c
is brought to light and exposed to shame. By fee
liberty of the press is meant only publication's from
which no such inconveniences is to h m apprehended.
A sham approbat ion is employed us a mask for real
opposition to all free discusjwon. To write so ?11
that nobody will read—to censure evils in terms so
weak that no hatred is excited against them—this is
liberty. To write boldly and well, to strike terror
into the guilty, to rouse the attention of the public
to the defense-of their highest interest—this is li
cense. This is the crime which is punished by timid
and corrupt men with the greatest severity they still
dare to iuflict.
Whoever writes or speaks iu a plain, straightfor
ward maimer is immediately hunted down by the
cry, “He has gone too far.*’ Nothing is more ab
surd than this charge, which is always brougnt
against sincerity. It is bandied about also by lire
oddest people. Even Jeffrey .taunted his colleagues
with it. But if every man who attempts to do a
public service is to be hooted at, under the pretence
that he has gone too far, perhaps some gentlemen
jobbers will kindly state how far a man may go on
the right road before lie reaches the wrong one. Is
it when he goes too near the goal and puts their
spoil in peril ? Every hearty writer has gone too
far to please bigots and cowards. Swift, whose per
ception was peculiarly keen, saw through this trick
at once, and appealed to public prudence for pro
tection :
If not quite lost to common sense,
Assist your patriot in your own defence ;
That stupid cant, “He went too far/’ despise,
And learn that to be brave is to be wise.
How can the charge of severity be avoided 1 No
one will accuse Maria Edgeworth of virulence in
her writings. She was assuredly no ferccLus ca
lumniator. That admirably balanced mind, that
sweet and temperate nature,-never indulged one
hateful thought. Yet the geutle author of the moral
tales gives us, in one of the best novels we possess,
a conversation well worthy of recording for its home
ly good sense:
‘ Frankly and sincerely/’ said Mr. Percy, “I de
test and despise the whole' system of patronage.”
“That’s very strong,” said Mr. Falconer, “and I
am glad, for your sake and for the sake of your
family, that nobody heard it but myself.”
“If the whole world heard me,” said Mr. Percy,
“I should say just the same. Strong! very strong!
lam glad of it; for (excuse me, you are my rela
tion, and we are on terms of familiarity,} the deli
cate, guarded, qualifying, trimming, mincing, pou i
cet-box, gentleman-usher way of speaking truth
makes no sort of impression. Tm'ifchould always
be strong, speaking or acting/’ —F rum 'the Press
and the Public Service.
A Fountain of Buhid in a Cavern.— E. G.
Squire’s notes on Central America describes a won
derful effusion of a fliril resembling blood near the
town oi Vitud. in thv State of Honduras. It ap
pears that there is continually oozing and dropping
from the roof of a cavern there a red liquid, which
upon falling coagulates so as to precisely resemble
blood. Like blood it corrupts, insects deposit their
larva* in it, and dogs and buzaids resort to the cav
ern to eat it. Attempts have several times been
made to obtain some of this liquid for the purpose of
analysis, but in all cases without success, in conse
quence of its rapid decomposition, whereby the bot
tles containing it were broken.
The small cavern or grotto during the day is visi
ted by buzzards and hawks, and at night by a mul
titude of vampire bats for the purpose of feeding on
the unnatural blood, it is situated on the border of
a rivulet, which it keeps reddened with a small flow
of the liquid, which Las the color, taste and smell
of blood. In approaching the grotto, a disagreeable
odor is observed, and when it is reached there may
be some pools of the apparent blood in a state of
coagulation.
The peculiarities of this liquid are considered due
to the rapid generation in this grotto of some very
Srolific species of infusoria The California State
ournal remarking on the above, observes that the
estero of the town of Monterey contains a species of
blood red infusoria (the larvae of water insects)
wh.eh at certain seasons of the year smell precisely
like fresh fish, or on exposure in a vessel, like putrid
fish. In some seasons it has been found dried in
flakes, and of the intense color of vermilion.—
Scientific American.
Washington, April 29. —1 n business conversation
to-day the President said that the Comptroller's ju
risdiction under the Ramsey and Carmick law i 3
absolute, and that he, the President, must -enforce
the law as enacted. The matter causes much talk,
and is generally considered to overrule the opinion
of the Attorney General on the subj ct.
G. Augustus Johnson, confirmed by the Senate on
the last day of its session as Consul at Beirut, will
not be commissioned.
Asa Beale has declined that appointment of dis
bursing agent for Mr. Magraw’s section of the pro
jected wagon road.
Somerville, April 27.—The water in the level
in which the wreck of the Fanny Garner lies was
drawn off yesterday, when the boat was found to
be a total loss, she” being shattered to her lowest
timbers. The bag stuff under deck was taken out
in a damaged condition. The Coroner's inquest
has adjourned until Thursday, in order to obtain
further evidence as to the cause of the disaster.—
The bodies were all recovered, and given over to
their friends for burial.
i Boston, April 27.—We learn by private letter
I from Liverpool, dated 9th inst.. that the ship Ellen
j Oliver, from New Orleans, grounded on the Sker-
Iries in a fog on the 4tL. and when about to be aban
doned, war-brought off by the Montague steamer
and was towed to with fifteen feet of wa
. ter in her hold She is now discharging her cargo
j which is in a damaged state.
Phuadelphia. Apr'u tS.—Douredineir’e soap
and candle woika ou Market street, near the bridtre
j over the Schuykilt, was destroyed bv fire early this
. morning. Loss $50,000. insured for $30,000.
1 i - Ap - r H- 11000 —Flour superfine,
> j 6,0Ga0, 10 Extra b,20a6,80: Whiskey 23* , Provis
ions quiet, Groceries firm
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARMVaL OP THE STEAMER
AFfil C A.
New York, May I —Th steamer Africa has
arrived with Liverpool dates ol the 18th ult.
Liverpcnl Market.
Liverpool. April !B.—Cotton was quiet and
slightly easier. Sales of the week 42,000 bales, of
which exporters and speculators took 6.500 bales.
Fair < »r!eans''ld, Middling 7id; Fair Uplands 7|d,
Middling 79-16 d.
Breadstuff* steady at a slight advance.
Money tighter. Consols 93.
The steamers Arago aud City of Baltimore had
arrived out.
[second dispatch.]
Stock of Cotton at Liverpool 560,000 bales, in
cluding 403,000 of American.
Money was very active.
It has been resolved to double tiie'capital of the
Bank of France
Queen Victoria has another daughter.
Political affairs quiet.
Napoleon was about to visit Algiers.
Rumors were rife of other conspiracies in France.
The ship seen burning at sea was the Robert Par
ker from Mobile for Havre.
Additional by the Africa.
The Canard earner Africa arrived at New York
Friday afternoon, bringing Liverpool dates to the
18th u!t. The steamer Arago arrived out on the
same day.
The City of Baltimore arrived out on
the I4tu.
Sp-un and Mexico.— The Paris correspondent of
the London Tijies srys that Marshal Serrano had
an interview yesterday with Count Walewski on
the subject of the quarrel between Mexico and
Spain. M. Walewski is extremely desirous that
this unfortunate affair should be amicably arrang
ed, and is leaving nothing undone for that purpose.
The English Ambassador, also, is lending his co
operation. and both governments will leave nothing
undone towards the pacific solution of the difference
between the two countries, which would be attend
ed with 'Uch a serious complication of affairs. A
great deal depends on the Mexican envoy himself
and tin the instructions he has received.
The latest despatches from Madras have corro
borated the m< 'derate views ol the Spanish Govern
ment ami their anxiety to settle the affair if it can
be settled without dishonor.
Frano —The French Government has decided
that the introduction into Algiers of Indian and Chi
nese field laborers shall be encouraged.
The French Republicans are determined to ascer
tain the.: strength at the approaching elections by
putting up M. M. Carnet. Caraguac and others,
as candidates fv the Legislative Chamb r. They
intend proposing them in Paris and in the Depart
ments.
t Austria —Accounts from Vienna represent the
Council < t th* Empire busily engaged iu preparing
constitutions which the Emperor is to carry with
him as presents to his subjects in hi* l projected
journey ** Hungary aud other parts of his empire.
The preparations for the Emperor’s journey into
Hungary are goiug forward on a graud scale. His
departure was fixed for the 3d of May.
Naples. —The conservative papers in Lombardy
assert that at the suggestion of the Emperor ot Rus
sia a semi-official French envoy has been despatch
ed to Naples with ti proposition which may be ac
ceptable to all parties
Letters from Naptes, dated April 9th, say that the
spirit ol di. gust and discontent are spreading among
the Neapolitan troops, aud that they are ripening
into a state which may be the precursor of some
important movement.
Italy —There have been some disturbances at
Bologna and \ itereo, in the Roman States, the pre
text being the payment of certain taxes, but they
were put down, aud energetic measures were ta
ken to prevent a recurrence of them.
Sardinia.— A private letter from Turin, dated
the 4th, states that the departure of the Austrian
minister and the rupture of diplomatic relations
with \ ienua produced but slight impressions in the
former *ity. The Sardinian Government will re
main firm, though quiet aud moderate, unless wan
tonly provoked. Sardinia proposes to resume ne
gotiations with Rome.
A /irtumberg has concluded a concordance with
Rome.
Persia—The demand of Turkey on Persia for
the restoration of her territory has been referred to
France and England.
Russia.— According to the St. Petersburg letters,
the administration of Poland is likely to be separa
ted entirely from Russia. It is also stated that di
rectly alter the marriage ot the Grand Duke Mi
chael, he will be appointed Stadtholder of the king
dom of Poland.
England. —lt is re affirmed that France and
England are mediating iu the Spanish and Mexi
can quarrel.
Political affairs are quiet.
I Rom Asia.—Trieste, April 16.—Later accounts
trom Circassia have been received. The Circas
sians were attacked bv the Russians in their last
day s march, but repulsed the strong columns which
had penetrated into the mountains of Tuab. The
Russians lost 700 men and the Circassians 300 men.
Mehemet Bey is giving Circassia the benefit of
military organizations.
The tribes of Daghestan had captured the fort at
Saliah aud massacred the garrisen. The garrison
and neighboring villages surrendering.
The Latest.— The Roman Catholic Church, for
the protection of her numerous missionaries in Chi
nn, has made urgent representations to the Empe
ror to take an active part iu the war.
It is stated that Lord Elgin will demand of the
Pekin Cabinet a renewal of the former treaty, with
the following amplifications of some of its provi
sions : —As regards commerce, the number of ports
to be opened to Europeans is to be nine instead
five ; and Diplomatic Missions are to be established
at Pekin on the same footing as those of Persia.—
As regards offence aud defence, the English Go
vernment demands the right of establishing military
posts wherever they have Consuls and that vessels
ot war may enter any port whatever.
London, Saturday.—Her Majesty’s health is fa
vorable. The infant is well.
The Spanish ambassador at Paris has had an in
terview with Count Walewski and Lord Crow ey,
on Mexican affairs.
In the event ot the pending pacific negotiations,
the Spanish Government will address a note to the
other powers setting forth her moderation and de
claring that in the event of hostilities, the Cabinet
ot Madrid is not responsible for the consequences.
Austria is negotiating a treaty with Persia simi
lar to that with the United States.
Washington, April 30.—Chevalier Ilulsemann,
the Austrian Minister, is making arrangements for
an absence of four months in Europe.
Bushrod B. Howard has been appointed Postmas
ter at Galena 111., vice Bernhard Gray.
The number of land warrants issued during the
present month under the act of 1855 is over 3,000,
requiring nearly half a million acres of land. Alto
gether more than 200,000 warrants have been issued
to satisfy which 25,000,000 acres of land will be nec
essary. Six thousand warrants were issued under
the same act to persons who rendered milMft*/ 01
naval service in tne Revolution, or to ri-'* widows,
requiring nearly a million acres 18 fy-
J. R. MeCay, of Georgia oeen appointed phy
sician to the El Paso «“d Fort Yuma wagon road
expedition.
James R. Ap»“n> of Cumberland, Md., has been
appointed coursing agent for the Fort Kearney,
South P-** B mid Henry Lake wagon road expedition,
v i c< , Aza Beall resigned.
The President has recognized Ernest Augelbrodt
as Consul tor the Electorate of Hesse Cassel, at St.
Louis, Missouri.
The Board to examine various plans for Revenue
Cutters had concluded their labors and sealed their
report, which will be opened by the Secretary of the
Treasury on his return from Georgia.
Wm. Medill, vice Mr. Whittlesey, enters on his
duties as First. Comptroller to-morrow.
Halifax, April 29.—The schr. 11. W. Benedict,
from Fall River for Chesapeake Bay, arrived at St.
George’s on the 19th inst., leaky, and with loss of
foresail.
The ship Rebecca, from New Orleans for Liver
pool, also arrived at St. George's, leaky, on the 19th.
The brig Isabella Reed, from Porto Rico for New
York, put into St. George's on the 19th, much strain
ed aud leaking badly.
STILL LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER
I N II I A N .
—■ ♦ i
Quebec, May 4.—Thesteamer Indian has arrived ;
with Liverpool dates of April 22.
Liverpool Market.
Liverpool, April 22 —Cotton was dull and quo
tations barely maintained. Sales of three day,
IS,OOO bales, including 4,500 to Speculators and Ex
porters.
Flour quiet. Wheat advanced 2d and Corn 6d.
Itosin 4s. ltd. Spirits Turpentine 40s. 6d.
Money tighter.
Consols 93. j
Miscellaneous.
The English House of Commons is thus classified, :
viz;—Palmerstonians 265, Derbyites227, Keformers
110, Liberals 53.
England has rejected the Central American ,
Treaty.
France has adopted the English system of trans
porting criminals.
The Spanish and Mexican Difficulty wore a pa
cific aspect.
Itailrond Accident.
Baltimore, May 3.—The early morning stock
train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
thrown off the track this morning, by a bar being
spiked across the road, near the city. Several ears
were smashed. The military lias been ordered out
to protect other trains.
Conseerntion.
Baltimore, May 3.—The Rev. William H. El
der, of Mount St. Mary ! s, Emmettsburg, Md., was
to-day, consecrated Bishop of Charleston.
New York Market.
Saturdat, May 2.— Cotton— The market is
quiet Sales to-day 500 bales. Flour is firmer—
Southern $7 @57.50 perbbl. Wheat is buoyant—
White SI.BO d $1.83. Mixed Corn 81c. Rice is
buoyant and active.
Monday, May s.—Cotton is quiet. Sales 1,000
bales. Flour unc hanged, tirain firm and holders
asking an advance. Spirits Turpentine advanced j
cent. Freights firmer.
Charleston Market.
Mosdat, May 4,1, P. M.—Cotton— There is
only one buyer in the market. Sales to-day 800
bales. Extreme rate 13J cents. No change in
price?.
Monday, May 4,7}, P. M.—Cotton—The mar
ket is firm. Sales to-day 1200 bales at full
prices.
Tuesday, May s.— Cotton —Sales to-day 1,200
bales at advanced rates.
Washington, April 28.—The War Department
has completed the arrangement for the construction
of a agon road from Fort Defiance to the Majon
river Edward F. Peaie is the superintendent. S.
If Heaf, assistant, and James P Hambleton, phy
sician Lieut. Charles E. Harlum has been detach
ed from the navy to accompany the expedition for
the purpose of making geological surveys, Thwty
rive camels and dromedaries are to be employed in
the work, one object being to test then endurance
and adaptability to the climate.
The party will consist of about 50 picked men*
with the necessary implements to break the road
through and will rendezvous at New Orleans on the
■ajth oi Mav. All the parties for the different sec
tions of the road are now organized with instruc
tions to commence operations at the earliest practi
. cable period. It is thought that the work wnl be
finished by next December.
Memphis April 29.—A collision occurred about
nine miles ’ from this city, of the Memphis and
1 Charleston passenger trains.
, St. Loci-. Apr-1 27.—James S. Railings, recently
recommended for Governor by the American Lon
vention. announces himself as a candidate for that
office, in opposition to the candidate of the National
1 Democracy. '
Gov. Jackson has fixed the 3d of August for the
election to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig
-5 nation of Gov. Polk.
Tha election for Judges of the Supreme and
’ other Courts ia fixed for the first Monday in
August.
Philadelphia. April 27. — CoL Forney has just
“ concluded a bargain for one-fourth of the Pennsyl
@ vaniau newspaper. He will assume the editorial
control of its columns on or about the first of May.
The remaining portion of the paper will still contin
- j ue the property of Hon. Wm. Price, the present pro
' prietor
New York, April 29—P. M.—The following are
the demands of the United States upon New Gra
nada, in view of the late difficulties and murder of
American citizens upon the Isthmus :
First. • To constitute the cities of Panama and
Asp'mwall two independent municipalities and in
vest them with the powers of self-government, ex
tending over the territory ten miles wide on each
side ot the railroad—perfect freedom of the transit
route —its neutrality and liberty guaranteed—the
sovereignty not to be changed, aud other nations to
be invited to join iu the guaranty.
Second. To cede to tne United States the full
sovereignty of two small groups ot islands in the
bay of Panama tor a naval station, and all rights
and privileges reserved in the railroad contract, for
ample considerations.
Third. To pay for the damages occasioned Dy
the outbreak of the 15th of April.
Fourth. The sum to be paid to the United
States.
All these demands Granada absolutely rejects,
and claims one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
from the United States for damages done at Pana
ma to New Granadian citizens by Americans on
the 15th of April, and that the United States owes
reparation to New Granada for the rude protest of
Col. Ward, dated April 31st, and for the disrespect
ful letters of Commodore Mervine and Captain Bai
iey. The notes of Louis Pombo and Gonzales are
long, and full of false assertions and incorrect de
ductions.
In the House of Representatives it had been pro
posed to raise a loan of five hundred thousand dol
lars in case New Granada should be invaded by the
United States.
A letter from Aspinwall, dated the 20th says :
“The alarming aspect of our relatione with New
Granada is creating great excitement. Immediate
war with the United States is apprehended. The
property holders of Panama had begun already to
calculate the ehauces of loss during the scenes which
may yet transpire before the settlement of the dif
ficulty. For some weeks they have openly declar
ed that no negotiations could settle the matter —that
there certainly would be a rupture, and the result
would be the temporary posting of the United States
troops on the Isthmus.”
Washington, April 29.—The President has fixed
the 15th of May for considering the diplomatic and
consular appointments. Mexican affairs, aud espe
cially the Tehuantepec matter, will be considered
in the meanwhile.
The organization of the wagon roads is completed.
Beal’s party will rendezvous at New Orleans on the
10th ot May.
The East India squadron, consisting of the Min
nesota, Mississippi and Germantown, are to be fitted
tor sea by the middle of May. A scarcity of seamen
is apprehended.
t Hartstein received his complimentary sword
Washington, April 29—Mr. Morse, United
States Commissioner to Bogota, has informed the
Administration, by telegraph, of his arrival at New
Oi leans. He is expected shortly at Washington to
report the particulars connected with his unsuccess
ful mission.
The President has appointed Lewis G. Pyles to
he Register of the Laud Office at Newmanville,
Florida, vice Mr. Prevatt, deceased ; Abraham
11. Palmer to be Receiver of Public Moneys at
Council Bluffs, lowa, vice Mr. Lowe, resigned.
Richmond, Va., April 29.—There has been a
large fire at Oxford, North Carolina, by which a
square was burned. The loss is estimated at $300,000
Messrs. Herndon, Mitchell aud Lynch being the
principal losers.
Boston, April 29.—Arrived to-day steamer Hausa
from Bremen, with dates to the 9th, short of coal.
She has over 500 passengers, including 8 cabin
passengers. She reports large fields of ice ou the
banks.
Boston. May I—The vote taken in this State on
the House Constitutional amendments was small,
but all of them were adopted by decisive majorities.
Boston gave 800 majority for the reading and writ
mg amendment, and 4000 majority for the amend
ments districting the State for Senators and Repre
sentatives. New Bedford voted against the reading
and writing amendment.
Washington, May I.—There is $23,250,000 in
™ Untied States Treasury, subject to draft. $3,.
out),000 of this amount is on deposit in Boston, near
ly the same amount in New Orleans, and upwards
of $ 10,000,000 in New York. $2,000,000 of the last
amount is to be transferred.
Louisville, May I.—The stock of pork here is
estimated at 15,000 bids. Tiie amount at the same
time last year was 41,000 bbls.
Dunkirk May I.—The Lober House, in this city,
was burnt this morning. It is owned by John Hemp!
lull, of Wilmington, Delaware. Loss $30,000; in
sured for $12,000.
New York, May I.— There is no doubt that the
ship seen on fire by the ship Swordfish a few days
since, was the Robert Parker from Mobile bound to
Havre.
o, J '‘ 1 1 i LA J D 9-J'S, lA ’, A P‘ il letter from General
Shields, dated bairbault, April 15, pointedly contra
d’Cte the reported numerous Indian murders on the
Mankato nver, Minnesota. Reliable information
f om Blue, Earth connty, states that there ie not the
slightest foundation for the absurd reports His let
ter concludes by saying that there is neither hostili
ty "" r Sl « 1 ’ of hostility amongst the Indian tribes of
the Territory of Minnesota.
Ihe Minnesotian of the 20th confirms the above
Washington, Friday Evening, May I.—A re
countre took place iu the general post-office build
ing this afternoon, about three o'clock in which
several persons participated. Mr. Robert Wharton,
formerly a clerk in the auditor’s office, entered the
department on private business. While engaged
m conversation with Mr. Spencer, formerly of Bal
timore city, some difficulty ensued, when tbe parties
came to blows. A young man named James Cul
len interposed aud succeeded in separating the
combatant , when Mr. Cook, of Mississippi, a clerk
in the auditor s office, came from his room, and as
ter some words, got into collision with Wharton, and
subsequently with William Walker, an attache of
ol the general oostoffice. The affair was finally
concluded, and tne report of damages a few bruises
and flesh wounds.
Washington, May 2.—Very late advises were
received at the State Department to-day per
steamer Illinois, from our Minister at Bogota, Mr.
Bowlin, in which he expressed the belief that the
new Government of that country will enter into an
amicable arrangement for the settlement of pend
ing difficulties. It is the general opinion here tlia*
Judge Blacks decision in the Carmick case, ndb
not be overruled.
Washington, May 2.—Accounts from Kansas,
received here from authentic advice*, show that the
Territory is quiet and p-osperous. and affords every
sign ot becoming a fast State. There will be little
occasion for the employment there of the 3,000
troops ordered for Fort Leavenworth, under the
command of Gen. Harney. A few companies, as
garrisons for the forts, will meet all the demands for
this service. That Kansas will come into the Un
ion as a Democratic State before the expiration of
the next session of Congress there is now little
doubt, though it may not be a slaveholding State
at least for any length of time.
Mr. R. J. Walker is to return from * or k
to this city previous to his departure fo*' Aansaß
the lith.
Washington, May *** rails between the
Relay House aud Baltimore, were torn up last
night bv * v ' ters » anc * train haß yet arrived
ftne Diorth.
Halifax, Mav 3.—Parliament has been pro
rogued till Thursday. The Governor has signed the
bill giving exclusive right to the Atlantic Telegraph
Company for fifty years to place cables upon tne
shores of the provinces.
Oswego, May I.—The flour and grain receipts at
this port since the opening of navigation to May 1
are 30,300 bbls. of flour, 197,200 bushels of wheat’
10.600 bushels of rye, and 5,600 bushels of barley.
New York, “May 2. — The steamer Fulton sailed
hence to-day for Havre. Among the passengers is
Clias. Caipenter, the Flench Northern Railroad de
faulter. He ie being sent to France under the Ex
tradition treaty.
Washington, May 3.—The train lias arrived, the
cause of detention being an iron bar on the track
four miles from Baltimore, by which a freight train
W'as thrown off and the engine and six care smashed
to pieces. The damage to the track was repaired
during the day, and the train left Baltimore at five
o’clock and arrived here at seven o’clock. The
track was not tom up as first stated.
Baltimore, Mav 3.—Two military companies
were sent to the Relay House this afternoon, to pro
tect the freight train on the railroad, coming in to
night. The result of their going is not heard yet.
MARRIED
In this city, ou the 30th April, by L. Levy, Esq , Mr.
RUFUS DROVELL to Miss LAURA A. J. FRIDAY
all oi Bash, S. 0.
On May 1, by L. Levy, Esq., Mr. JACOB SHERRER
to Miss CA THERINE A. FORSILL, all of this city
On the 3d inst., by the Rev. Q. D. Adams, at the
residence of Mr. Jesse Carter, Mr. JAMES F. MAR
SHALL to Miss RACHAEL A. MEACHUM, all of
Talbot county, Ga.
On the 2d inst., near Montgomery, Ala., by the Rev.
Dr. Dorman, Mr. EDWARD R. HOLT and Miss MARY
A., daughter of Dr. C. Bellinger.
In this city, on the 23d inst., by the Rev. Dr. Ford, Dr.
WM. JOSEPH HOLT and Miss MARY E., daughter of
Dr. L. A. Dugas.
At Brush Creek Church, on the 21st inst., by the Rev.
E. J. Pannal, Mr. M. M. CARSWELL and Miss M. M.
TURNER, all of Burke county, Ga. *
On the 22d inst., by the Rev. J. E. RYERSON, Mr. W.
E. BARNES, of this city, and Miss B. M. MYER, daugh
ter of the late David Myer, Esq., of Barnwell District,
South Carolina.
OBITUARY.
Departed this life, March 2d, FRAK LESLIE, infant
son of John and Jane Foster, aged one year and five
months.
Mourn not, bereaved ones, as those without hope ;
your inrant has fled guileless to that Saviour who has
said —“Suffer little children to come unto me”—and may
you be enabled, with Christian resignation, to say—
“ The Lord g«.ve, and the Lord hath taken away ;
blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Weep not, mother, that your boy
Was doomed so soon to die;
Thou knowest not the cares and ills
In store for him did lie.
Weep not, mother, that thy son
Was early called to rest;
Thou knowest that in Heaven above,
He dwells among the blest.
W eep not, mother, for thy child,
His sufferings now are o’er :
Thou knowest that in Heaven above,
Thou hast one angel more.
Look up and see, an angel band,
To whom the power is given,
To welcome thee, when life has passed,
Into the gates of Heaven.
* R. M. B.
Died at his residence, near Greensboro’, Greene
County. Ga , on Sunday evening last, Mr. JOHN H.
BROUGHTON, in the 63d year of his age.
Mr. B. was a native of Sumter District, S. C., and
removed to Liberty County, Ga., about the year 1800,
and from thence to Greene County, Ga., in 1606, where
he has ever since resided.
Mr. Broughton was truly and emphatically an honest
maD. a kind neighbor, an affectionate and tender father
and true friend.
Peace to his ashe«. (A.)
Greene County, April 28,1657.
Died, at his residence on Cumberland Mountain, Cum
berland county, Tennessee, of consumption, on the 6th,
EDWARD S. DODGE, Esq., artist, in the 41th year of
his age.
The many warm personal friends, in Tennessee and
Alabama, of the gentleman whose decease is announced
above, will hear the sad intelligence with equal surprise
and regret. The deceased was warm hearted, amiable,
generous and genial, and by his modest and unassuming
deportment, and high social accomplishments challenged
esteem and admiration in whatever circle he was thrown.
He was an artist of superior attainments. Having spent
twenty years in the profession df miniature painter on
ivory, his talents and experience had enabled him to
outstrip all his rivals, save only one, his accomplished
brother, J. W Dodge. Th. deceased has left many
specimens of his genius, which will outlive him many
generations.
Only a few weeks since the deceased established bim
in this city in connection with his brother in the pursuit
of his profession, but failing health admonished him that
the labors of his stndio were too confining, and he reluc
tantly relinquished them, and retired to his mountain
home, with a view of pursuing ame cantile life. He
was only allowed to make the preliminary arrangements
to get his establishment fairly opened, when 1^
health began to fail rapidly, and after only a week’s con
finement be breathed his lust. He leaves a widow and
three children. Peace to his ashes.— Nashville Banner.
Found.—On the 30th day of April a roll of
money containing upwards of Three Hundred Dollars,
was picked up in the back yard of our Store. Which
the owner can have by identifying the same.
my 2 d3t&wlt C. A, PLATT & CO.
Superintendent’s Office, Georgia Rail
road. —Augusta, March 30, 1857. and after Ist
April, prox. UP FREIGHT cannot be pre paid at Au
gusta, buj will be required to be paid by consignee at
point of delivery. Imb3l) GEO. YONGE, fcup’t.
Notice# —Mayor’s Office, City Hall, Augus
ta. April 27, 1857.—The Mayor is required by the 97th
Section of the General Ordinance, to "examine all Bills
I and Account, presented to Council” For the purpose of
making such examination, all persons having accounts
t against the city must present them to the Clerk of Coum
■ X. on or before 9 o'ciock A M, on THURSDAY before
1 the First Friday in each Month. 1 P X next
. they will no. be laid before Conned
monthly meeting. ’ H „ q A
»p2B dim
COMMERCIAL.
Wild Cal lE:init*.
For the information of the public, and to ]JI Otoe' them
against fraud and loss, we subjoin a list of the Wild Cat
Banks in Georgia, not one of which we deem worthy of
confidence or credit. Let the people therefore, beware
of the bills of these Banks :
Merchants’ Bank, of Macon
Interior Bank, Gridin.
LaGrasge Bank, LaQrauge.
Bank of Greensboro’, Greensboro’.
Southern Bank, Bainbridge.
Cherokee Insurance A Banking Company, Dal
ton.
- Mechanics’ Bank, Dalton.
North-Western Bank, Ringold, Ga.
broke
Manufacturers’ & mechanics’ Bank Colnmbus
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Weekly Report Tuesday, P. M.
COTTON.—There has been a steady demand through
out the week, and the sales Attend to about 4000 bales
at full prices as follows :
Ordinary to Good Ordinary 12
Low to Strict Middling lOilblOl
Good Mlddling.... 13142>13}
Middling Pair 14
RECEIPTS TO LATEST DATES.
„ - , 1857. 1850.
New Orleans, April 24 1,391.954 1,564,130
Mobile, April 24 467,166 579,207
Honda, April 17 114,236 125,746
Texas, April IS 73049 7ii 94-’
Savannah, April 29 ."312,766 362017
Charleston, April 30 361,528 450,834
N. Carolina, April 24 22 747 20 230
Virginia, April 1 l-2>BB 9)40,3
Total Receipts 2,757,131 3,188 569
Decrease 431,435
STOCKS IN SOUTHERN PORTS
New Orleans, April 24 156,042 213 555
Mobile, April 24 57.44(5 81‘.*87
Florida, April 17 17,050 20,258
Texas, April 18 3,454 «i,4^4
Savannah, April 29 32,426 4L912
Charleston, April 30 41,341 77*077
N. Carolina, April 24 450 ’tioo
Virginia, April 1 310 510
Total Stocks 308.510 441,823
New York, April 23 80,010 66,569
EXPORTS TO FOREIGN PORTS
To Great Britain 1.174,285 1,511.033
“ France 352,001 428.375
“ other Foreign Ports 346,120 423,885
Total Foreign Exports 1,873.306 2,362,293
To Northern U. S. Ports 712.764 750,5183
GROCERIES.—The past has been rather a quiet
week in the Grocery trade. There has, however, been
a moderate business transacted. We note a still further
advance in Molasses. Sugar of all descriptions is tinner
and a shade higher. Rice has also advanced. In other
leading articles we note no chauge and refer to quota
tions as a fair index to prices.
PROVISIONS. —Baeon is firmer and some parties are
asking higher prices. The impression is general, that
prices will still further advauce. Flour has undergone
no change, and prices are not very firm. Lard is held
firmer.
GRAIN.—Wc note an advance in Corn, Oats and
Peas, and have altered our quotations accordingly. —
Wheat remains as previously quoted, but prices are not
very firm.
EXCHANGE—Sight Checks on N ew York 1 per cent
premium.
FREIGHTS.—The late rains have raised the River
fifteen or more feet. To Savannah, by River, 30 cents
per bale for Cotion—by Railroad 60c. and to Charleston,
60 cents per bale.
AUGUSTA PRICKS CURRKNT.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
BAGGING.—Gunny ip yard O 16
Kentucky yard none.
Dundee Ip yard none.
BACON.—Hama fft 14 0 154
Shoulders Ip ft lli to 12
Western Sides...... ft l.'l to 14
Clear Sides, Tennessee...ft 14 to 141
Ribbed Sides ft 13* 'to 14
Hog Round 1b 13 to 13*
BUTTER.—Goshen Ip ft 25 'to 35
Country ft 25 'to 30
BRICKS f 1000 600 'to 8 50
CHEESE.— ft 14 'to 15
English Dairy ft 14 to 16
COFFEE.—Rio ip ft lli to 12*
Laguira fft 124 to 13
Java Ip ft 16* to 17i
DOMESTIC GOODS.—Yarns to 1 00
| Shirting yard 5 ft 7
§ Shirting f*' yard 7* 0 8
1 Shirting Ip yard 8* to 9$
5- Shirting yard 12 to 11
6- Shirting yard 14 to 16
Osnaburgs yard 12 to 13
FEATHERS Ip ft 45 to 48
FlSH—Mackerel, No. 1 bbl 14 00 018 00
No. 2 Ip bbl 12 00 'to 15 00
No. 3 Ip bbl 1100 'to 12 00
N 0.4 ft' bbl to none.
Herrings box to 100
FLOUR.—Country ip bbl 7CO to 750
Tennessee bbl 700 to 7 50
Tennessee Family Ip bbl 850 to 900
Canal f bbl 750 to 900
Baltimore .Ip bbl 800 to 900
Hiram Smith’s ip bbl 14 00
City Mills Ip bbl 800 -010 50
Denmead’s ip bbl 800 010 00
Extra Family. ..ip bbl 10 00 010 50
GRAIN.—Corn, with sacks..... lp bush 90 to 95
Wheat, white............. Ip bush 1 50 0 1 60
Wheat, red bush 1 30 0 1 35
Oats bush 65 to 70
Rye f bush 90 to 100
Peas bush 1 25 0 1 50
Corn Meal ..f' bush 95 to 150 f
GUNPOWDER.—Dupont a f keg tSU @:™ 1
Hazard If keg 6H! ®J « 1
Blasting if keir 0 '* ' ,O 1
IRON.—Swedes j? " “« ® “ .
English -•£ “* ® '
LARD . . ▼ ft 16 0 17
i imp r l ,,.—»ry ip box 125 01 50
LIM No- U em... * bbl 200 02 25 <
LTTjuBER *F 1000 10 00 014 00 i
mOLASSES.—Cuba & gal 56 to 60 <
Orleans, old crop <P gal to nous
♦Orleans, new crop ip gal 75 0 80 «
NAILS -P ft 4* 0 44 a
OILS. —Sperm, prime ip gal 200 to if oQ *
Lamp f gal IH> 01 25 t
Train * gal 75 0 1 00
Linseed ** 1 10 0 1 15
Castor £ I*l 200 to 225
ROPE.—Kentucky.... £J* ® J 3 ,
RAISINS ............. ...Ip box 500 06 00 .
SPIRIT®- —Northern Gin *fk gal 50 0 55
num Ip gal 55 0 60 ,
N. O. Whiskey & gal 35 0 40
Peach Brandy gal none
Apple Brandy ♦‘gal none ,
Holland Gin Ip gal 1 50 0 1 75
Cognac Brandy gal 300 06 00
SUGARS. —New Orleans kp ft none.
Porto Rico ip 111 lli 0 124 *
Muscovado ...f 1 ft 114 0 121
Loaf Ip ft 16 0 161
Crushed *ft 15* 0 16 .
Powdered fft 15 0 15* (
Stuart’s Refined A ft 14* 0 15 :
Stuart’s Refined B jp ft 14 0 144
Stuart’s Refined 0 ip ft 13* 0 14 ■
SUGAR Syrup, choice gal 80 0 85
Medium, do ip gal 75 0 80
New Orleans, do gal 75 0 80
Porto Rico, do ip gal 70 to 75
SALT Ip sack 1 00 0 1 10
SOAP.—Yellow ip ft 6 0 8
SHOT ip bag 225 02 37
TWINE —Hemp Bagging Ip ft 22 0 25
Cotton Wrapping Ip ft 15 0 25 ]
rr It is proper to remark that these are the current I .
rates a wholesale, from store—of course, at retail, priceß '
are a shade higher, and from the Wharf or Depots, in
large quantities a shade lower.
LAND AGENCY AND REAL ESTATE
BROKERAGE.
rpilE UNDERSIGNED will buy and sell LANDS
X and REAL ESTATE of all kinds in any part of
Georgia, Florida or Texas. Also, Houses and Lots,
Railroad and Bank Stocks, &c., <fcc. He has now in his
office for sale 1,400,000 acres of land lying in South-
Western and Cherokee Georgia, two leagues of Texas
lands and some fine lands in Florida; one plantation in ?
Arkansas, and several well improved plantations in
Burke, Greeue and other counties in Georgia. Also,
several gold, copper and silver mining interests. Per
sons desiring to buy or sell Real Estate of any kind,
Houses and Lots, Stocks, &c., will do well to give him a
call, as be intends to make his office a medium for sale
and purchase of all kinds of real estate. Office on
Warren Range, Jackson S treet, near the corner of Broad
Street JAMES M. DAVISON.
myO.wly Land Agent and Real Estate Broker.
ON CONSIGN*!!ENT
-30, 000 pounds City Cured BACON Hog Round;
8.000 pounds City Cured Pig HAMS ;
10,000 pounds Tennessee BACON Hog Round ;
10,000 pounds Tennessee Bacon HAMS;
6 casks Western Rib SIDES ;
60 bbls. choice Family LARD ;
250 bbls. “ Extra Family FLOUR,”, various
brands ;
200 bbls. superfine Flour, various brands ;
100 sacks extra Family Flour;
400 sacks CORN ;
100 bales Northern IIAY ;
200 sacks OATS ;
250 bushels Ground PEAS ;
For sale by J. A. ANSLEY,
my6-d6m Commission and Produce Merchant.
J. A. ANSLEY,
f 1 ENEItA 1j COMMISSION AND PRODUCE
l X MERCHANT. Augusta, Georgia.
Office on Broad Street, opposite Union Bank.
myO
EXTENSIVE SALE OF REAL ESTATE,
IN ALBANY, GEORGIA.
rpIIE subscriber will sell, at publie auction, on Tues ,
J[ day, the 12th day of MAY next, in this city,
231 Business and Residence LOTS, of one-fourth, one
half and one acre each. .
These Lots are situated in the most desirable parts of
the city. Sale positive, and to continue from day to day
until completed.
Terms—One-third cash, one-third six months, and one
third twelve months.
The location of Albany being in the centre of the rich
cotton-growing lands of Southwestern Georgia, and the
Southern terminus of the Southwestern Railroad, re
ceiving, as she will do the next season, fifty to sixty
thousand bams cotton, with a rapid yearly increase, of
fers the greatest inducement for a profitable investment
of any other point in the Southern States.
The cars will be running to Albany by the first of Sep
tember next, and to within ten miles by the day of sale,
from which station there will be ample accommodation
by stages tor visitors. WM. W. CH EE VEIL
mh2B d&wtmylO
NOTICE.
ALL persons are hereby forewarned from trading for
a note made by the undersigned, in favor of Robin
G. Carter (of Oglethorpe county,) or bearer, for the sum
of one thousand dollars, dated 27th December, 1856, and
due December Ist, 1857, as the consideration for which
said note was given, has totally failed: and I shall not
pay the same, unless compelled by law to do so.
may2-wlm JOHN B. PATMAN.
DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP.
THE Copartnership heretofore existing between the
undersigned, under the firm of HAND, WILCOX
Sc CO., in this city, GEO. W. WILLIAMS Sc CO., in
Charleston, and D. HAND Sc CO., in New York ex
plred by limitation on the 30th ult , and is dissolved.
Either partner is authorized to sign in li iuidation.
Mr. Daniel H. Wilcox will close up the business or
the Augusta firm, with whom, at the old Bta * d * j
books and notes of Hand, Williams Sc Co., an' <
Wilcox 6c Co., will be found.
DANIEL HAND,
GEO. W. WILLIAMS,
DANIEL H. WILCOX
Augusta, May 2, 1857, my- d&w
NOTICE,
Ao£»CERY the oMs.auA
Augusta, May 2, 1857. m ?~
COPARTNERSHIP notice.
rasTTF undersigned having formed a Copartnership.
1 “ill carry on the WHOLESALE GROCERY BU
SINEsS in this city, under the name and style of
HAND, WILLIAMS A GRAVES, and have taken the
store formerly occupied by Metiers. Belcher A Holl'ngft
worth, Warren Block, where they will keep a large
stock of Goods, and will be prepared to sell them on the
most reasonable terms.
DANIEL HAND,
GEO. W. WILLIAMS,
AZARIAII GRAVES.
Augusta, May 2, 1857, my^twim
DISSOLUTION.
r rpiiE Firm of H. J. AE. A. SIBLEY U. This Day
* I dissolved, by mutual consent. Ihe books*
i and accounts will be found at the Oldl Stand, no *
pied by Henry J. Sibley who U "d'T.Lid
name of the firm in settlement; and all
firm, are respectfully requested to come ‘ " LJJ y
settle at an early day. k.' A. SIBLEY.
t Augusta, May 1, 1857
. a- • „ Ttnrchased from E. A
! rp HE undersigned, having P“ “ of H. J
t I Sibley, his entire Grocery Business in
AE. A Sibley, Bty ‘ C ° f HENRY
ail its branches, unde . the patronage of the for
j. SIBLEY, and would solicit j* 8 , BLEy
*' mer concern.
h Augusta, May L ■
,a -rriVTNG disposed of my Interest in the Grocery
f l-l business to my former Partner, H. J. SibPy, 1
so icit for him a continuance of the Patro
-8 SSSTSf my friends. _ E. A. 81BLEY
1* Augusta, May 1, 1857. May 1-1 m
FRESH CONGRESS WATER.
rp WO Gross CONGRESS WATER, direct from the
1 X Springs, warranted Fresh and Genuine, for sale
by HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO.
ap2b
ADV ERT I SES I ENTS.
BY WM. EL HOWARD
G A. PARKER* AUCTIONEER.
I.arge Estate Sale of Hail road and Bank Stock.
\\ * »NBBDAV, the I nil instant, In front of the
at 10 oVlr,nt rg ‘ U *V U ! ro » d 1111,1 Banking Company’s Bank,
at to o clock precisely, will be sold,
Van '?*”• Monies’ Bank .'Stork;
f : 0 sba™! ?G° rgi * Railroad & Banking Co.’s Stock.
SoM .1 i AtUutn * Lalri ' l1 -’<' Railroad ,
roafod property of the estate of Joel Smith, de-
___ May 3
I> ■UHMOND SHERIFF SALE.—WiII be
E sold, on the first Tuesday in JUNE next at the
Hower Market House, in the city of Augusta ' within
the legal hours of sale, the following property, house
hold and kitchen furniture, negroes and stock, viz
Becky, a negro slave, aged about thirty years Sarah
a negro slave, aged about liveyea-s; Mitchell, a negro
slave, aged about 23 yeare ; Martha, a negro slave, aged
about 24 years, Becky, a negro slave, aged about 7
years ; Mary, aged about seventeen years ; Lewis aged
•bont 26 years. Two Cows, one Piano, one Sofa,
two 1 ete-a-tetes, two large mahogany Chairs, six ma
hogany parlor Chairs, and Carpet and Rug fur same;
one mahogany Centre Table, (.even pictures in frames ;
seven Bedsteads and bedding, five mahogany Bureaus,
twenty five W indow-shades, sevou Carpets, one Lounge,
one Book case and Secretary, one lot miscellaneous
nooks, two dozen Chairs for dining-room and bed room,
me mahogany Sideboard, one set dining Tables, a lot of
Andirons Shove sand Tongs, a lotof Kitchen furniture,
one pme Press, and one pine Washstaml, a lot of crock
ery and glass wn-e. two dozen silver Tea spoons, one
dozen Table-spoons, one dozen silver forks, two dozen
knives, 12 iiuen table cloths, fifty towels, two setts of
vases, one work table, six trunks and other articles of
household and kitchen furniture ; levied on as tho pro
perty of James M. Bt lebqr to satisfy a fi fa on fordosuro
of mortgage issued from the Inferior Corn- of Richmond
couuty in tavor of William W Belc'or agaiust James
M. Belcher. The aforesaid property described and
pc in ted out in said mortgage ti. fa, and »evied on this 2d
day of April, 1857.
WILLIAM DOYLE. Sheriff, R. C.
ApTd .3d. 1657,
t Fit'll lloMi > ui he sold
F at the Lower Market House, in the City of Augusta,
on the first Tuesday in JUNE next, within the legal
hours of sale, and it not disposed of, so continue from day
to day until sold, the following property, viz: 44 mat
trasses, 23 bedstead-!. 24 quilts, 21 sheets, 18 blanket ,
17 bed spreads, 26 pillows 20 bolsters. 22 wash stands,
21 wash bowls, 17 pitchers, 10 lire andirons; crockery
and glass ware, consisting ot cups saucers, dishes, plates,
bowls, goblets saltcellars, &c , A-c ; .3 carpi ts, 3 sofas,
12 cane seat chairs i cane seat rocking chair, 1 inaho
gany rooking chair, 2 rocking chairs, 78 chairs, 1 diuing
room dresser, 51 dining room tables, 1 marble top centre
trl'le, 1 work table, 24 tables, 4 setts castors, 18 looking
glasses, 1 cooking range, &<*; 1 washiug machine, l largo
pot, 1 safe, 1 secretary, 17 knives, 16 forks, 12 table
spoons, 21 tea spoons, 13 chainbeis, 2 couches, 2 ebating
dishes, 1 bell, 1 carving kui:e, 1 sideboard, 1 pair scales
3 Tubs, 1 brush, 1 tablecloth, 1 smoothing iron, 1 kitchen
safe, jugs, jars, coffee bt-gpin. 1 roundtable, 4 gilt win
dow cornices, 4 gilt hooks for curtains, 1 mantel orna
meuts, l stool, 8 tongs 2 shovels, 1 crib, gas cbaudel er,
3 spittoons, candlesticks, 1 lot of books. 2 boxes typo
and other articles of like character, w hich may not be
here enumerated, being household and kit hen furui
tore, all ot which are levied «n as the property of James
M Robinson, to satisfy a distress warrant, issued from
the Inferior Court ot Richmond County, in favor of
Turner Clanton against James M. Robin-on, aud levied
this Ist day of May 1857,
WILLIAM DOYLE, Sheriff R. C.
May 3, 18,57.
a 1) >llM.vru.tToil's SaLK. —Wi 1 bo sold at
IY the Court house door in Lineolu county, on the
first Tuesday in JULY next, unless previously dis
posed of, Seventeen Shares of Georgia Railroad Stock,
belonging to estate of Win. W Stoics, deceased.
Terms credit to 25th December next.
\VM. H NORMAN, Administrator.
May 3, 1857.
PEEPLES 6c CABANISS.
Attorneys at law, fomsythe, ga., will
practice Law in the counties of Bibb, Monroe, Up
son, Pike, Spald ug, Butts and lleury. Mr Cabanisa
will give constant and prom, t attention to the collection
and settlement of debts and claims.
C. PEEPLES, GEO. A. CABANISB.
Formerly of Athens, Ga. uiy3
STATE OF GEORG I A, RICHMOND COUNTY.—
Whereas, David L. Roatti has applied to me for
Letters of Guardianship for Mabel E and Sallie B.
; Crocker, minors under the age of 14 years, orphans of
John R. Crocker, deceased :
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and sin
gular, the. kindred and friends of said minor, to be and
apuearatmy office, on or before the first Monday in
June next, to| show cause, if any they have, why said
letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official siguaturo at office In
Augusta, this May 1, 1857.
FOSTER BLODGET, JR , Ordinary.
May 2, 1857.
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY.
—Whereas, H. II Hickman, applies to me for Letters
of Administration oil the estate of Elizabeth Jane Lott,
late of said county, deceased :
Those are therefore to cite and admonish all and singu
lar, the heirs and creditors of said deceased, and all
other persons interested, to be and appear at my office,
on or before the first Monday in June next, to show
cause, if any they have, why said letters should not bo
granted.
Given under my hand and official signature at office iu
Augusta, this April 30,1857.
’ FOSTER BLODGET, JR., Ordinary.
May 1, 1857.
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY.—
Whereas, Malinda Nelson, applies to me for Lot
tars of Administration on the estate of William 11. Nel
son, late of said county, deceased :
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and lingu
lar the kindred and creditors of said deceased, I" be and
appear at my office on or before ti e first .Monday in
June next, to show cause if any they hare, why said
letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature at office in
Augusta, this April 30 1857.
FOSTER BLODGET, JR., Ordinary.
May 1, 1857
/ YGJLETHORFE COUNTY, GA.—Whereas,
1/ Henry Me BOB’*’ a PPU«» to me for Letters of
Admiuistrat 5 '* 4 ° u t ' le 08tato of Felix McEntire, late of
said deceased:
rnaese are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and sin
gular, the kindred and creditors of said doc’d., to be and
appear at my office, within the time proscribed by law,
to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should
not be granted.
Given under my hand at office, in Lexington, this 28th
day of April. 1857. HENRY BRITAIN, Ordinary.
May 1, 1857.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, GA.—Whereas Wil
liam Rollins applies to me' or Letters of Admi
nistration on the estate of Lemon Ruff, lute of said
<. 0 *...iy, deceanoA s
These are therefore to cite and admonish, nil and sin
gular the kindred and creditors ofsaid deceased to lie and
appear at my office within the time prescribed by law to
show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not
be granted.
Given under my hand at office in Louisville.
NICHOLAS DIEHL, Ordinary.
April 30, 1857.
EFFKItSON COUNT Y, GA.—Whereas, Gilbert
F McNain and Samuel MeNain administrators on
the estate of Daniel McNain, deceased, appliy 10 me for
Letters of Dismission :
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singu
lar the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and
appear at my office on or before the first Monday in No
vember next, to show cause, if any they have, why said
letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office in Louisville.
NICHOLAS DIEHL, Ordinary.
. April 30, 1857.
WARREN COUNTY, GA.—Two mon-hs after
date application will be muie to the Court of Or
dinary of said county, for leave to sell the one fifth part
of lot of Land number three hundred and forty-four, (344)
in the 7th d strict of Baker county, in said State, the
same being the interest of William R. and Milly Thomp
son, minor heirs of Robert P. Thompson, deceased, in
said lot of land. GEO UNDERWOOD,
May 2, 1856. # Guardian for Minors.
\\f ARREN COUNTY, GA Whereas, James
▼ T A. Suivers apnlies to me for Letters of Uuurdian
sbip for the person and property of Wesly Shelton, alias
Neal, minor child of Nancy Suelton
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singu
lar, the kindred and friends of said minor, to be and
appear at my office, on or before the. first Monday in
June next, to show cause, if any they have, why said let
ters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office in Warrenton, this 30th
April, 1857.
JOHN J. PILCHER, Dep. Ordinary.
May 2, 1857.
BREAST PIN.
on Sunday Miming, April 19, a BREAST
. PIN. The owner ca i‘have the same by calling at
Apothecaries’ Hall, and describing the same, paying tx
pense* of advertisement and remunerating the linger—a
■negro boy. ap2B a0&wl
MACKEREL. —15(» whole, half and quarter bbls
Nos. 1, 2 and 3 MACKEREL ;
10 kits ank 10 quar bbls. Mes MACKEREL ;
50 kits No. and 2MACKEREL.
Just r ceived by [mbl9j CHARLES ESTES.
SEASONABLE.
YTARIOUfi sizes ot WATER COOLERS
V W LLOW
Barkets, Coaches and Clothes Hampers.
WOODEN
Tubs, Bucket-, Clothes Pins, Churns, Towel Rollers,
Rolling Pins, Spoons, Lemon Presses, Faucets, Ac., at
the China and Furnishing Store of
,ny6 E, MI Sc SON.
CHEAP GOODS FOR GENTLEMEN.
IA!I receiving a large lot of Men’s FIJRKISHING
GOODS, ami will sell them very low foreash
The best “ Danskin” SiilKTi-, at $1 50 and $1.75.
White Jean DRAWERS, at 50 and 75 cents per pair.
UNDER SHI RTS, at 50 and 75 cents.
SOCKS, at 124 and 25 cents per pair.
GLOVES, at 124,25 and 50 cents per pair.
OKA VATS, at 121.23, ami 75 cant*.
Pocket HANDKERCHIEFS, at 25 cents, ready
hemmed
Beautiful Shirt BOSOMS, at 374 cents.
ALSO,
A lot of Canes, Umbrellas, Porte-Monnaies, and Hair
Brushes, which will be sold at cost.
CHARLES W. HERSEY.
mys i tppos'te 11. 8. Hotel.
LINEN SHEETING.
LINEN SHEETING —a first rate article,
at 95 cents, worth 81 50 per yard, just receiv
ed from auction. GRAY 6l TURLEY’S
mys 2w Che ip Cash Store.
BRILLIANT ROBES.
ANEW and beautiful article, just received, and
for sale cheap at GRAY 6c TURLEY’S.
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TWISTED SEWING SILK ROBES.
ANOTHER supply of very elegant Twisted Silk
ROBES, in light colors, suitable for evening
dresses, just received and for sale at S2O, worth in the.
importer’s hands 835, at
GRAY & TURLEY’S Cheap Cash Store.
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PLAIN BAREGES.
IIWENTY pieces Lupin’s best plain BAREGES, in
X all colors, at 25 cents, worth from 37* to 50 cents,
just received at GRAY 6c TURLEY’S.
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SPLENDID SATIN PLAID BAREGES.
AT 374, worth 60 to 75 cents, just received, and for
sale at GRAY Sc TURLEY’S.
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SILK TISSUE.
HI \f’K SILK TISSUE, worth 50 cents, for sale at
is per >ard, at OKAY Sc TURLEY’S.
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HANDKERCHIEFS.
| \ttBUOimiRED HANDKERCHIEFS, at $1.50,
Xj worth $3.
Hemstitched Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs, a fine
article for 50 cents, worth 81, just received at
GRAY Sc TURLEY’S Cheap Cash Store.
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LAWNS.
ONE hundred pieces printed LAWNS, warranted
fast colors, or the money refunded, fine quality, at
10 cents per yard GUAY & TURLEY.
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FRENCH MUSLINS.
THVENT y pieces very fine French MUSLINS,
I worth 25 cents, for »ale at 12* cents, at
GRAY & TURLEY’S Cheap Cash Store. w
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BRILLIANTS.
\iriIITE and colored BRILLIANTS, a fine article,
W cheap,'just received at „ _
1 mys-2w GRAY 6c TURLEY’S.
SILK ROBES.
r«T \y FNTY-F VE S lk ROBES, at $lO.
1 ia “ ’“ Ul ’ erior ' at 81^vtrua£^
LINEN TOWELS.
rMPI’V dozen LINEN TOWELS, at $1.50 per doz.,
F for sale at GKAY & TURLEY’S.
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NOTICE TO BUTCHERS.
rro ARRIVE, a lot of tine Tennessee BEEVES,
I which will be sold upon arrival by
my s 3t BEERS Sc TERRY.
HAY! HAY!!
f JKI3IE Northern HAY in store, and at depot, for
J sale by BEERS 6c TERRY
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TOBACCO.
QAA BOXES TOBACCO, all grades.
OVJVJ For sale low by
inys WILCOX. HAND <1 ANSLEY.
HIDES WANTED.
T'‘ 1: highest Casa Prices
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STuAYED- *1- REWARD.
I TWO YOIM" < o'Y—orn- a Red Devon and tha
hive 0 b h et r n Aprtr t Ten Doll»r. reward
- "'^r d f ° r Iheir U. B. LAMAR
e OI'GAH.-<° hhde. good to prime Porto Rico «nd
a O New Orleans SUGAR ,
M(w “° b ‘ K " Ke ' m9 ' l SUgar9 ' f DAN H W WrLCOK.