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COLTJ MUTTS:
Holiday Morning, February 1, IW3 "’
, iAB UKST CITY CIRCULATION.
Crisp’s Athenmum.
Mr. Crisp will re-open his Theatre in this
cit v this evening, and the popular and much
admired tragic actress, Miss Kl.za Logan, will
appear in one of her favorite characters, ihe
company embraces also Mr. A. T. Morton and
several other actors of distinguished merit.—
Mi C. Ims done and is doing much to levivc
chaste dramatic entertainments in the South,
and iroare glad to sec the high popular apprecia
tion with which his efforts are received. Our
citizens will manifest their good taste by giv
ing him an encouraging reception and sup
port.
Uov, Johnson has appointed A. A. Allen,
Esq., Judge of the South-Western Circuit of
Georgia, to fill the vacancy caused by the re
signation of lion. Win. C. Perkins.
We had a real thunder storm on Friday
night, and a genuine hard spring rain. The
severity of the winter is evidently dispelled,
and the season for ploughing and gardening
lias come at last. A continuance of this weath
er will soon start tho grass and the buds, but
frosts yet to come may destroy tho early prom
ise of the fields and the orchards.
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Not Dead.
The statement that Mr. Caldwell, Represen
tative from Pike county in our Legislature,
was dead, is now contradicted. His death was
at first reported atMilledgcville by passengers
from Macon, and has since been denied by
other passengers.
Cotton.
Up to the latest dates, the returns from all
the ports show that there is a large increase
over the receipts to the same dates last year.
In Virginia only has there been a falling oft'.
The following are the figures : Increaso at N.
Orleans, 263,675 bales; at Mobile, 235,5*05;
at Savannah, 04,225; at Charleston, 38,002 ;
in Florida, 27,1*08 ; in North Carolina, 039
total increase 048,01*3. Dccrense in Virginia,
1,500. Net increaso, 047,097.
It may also lie added that in most of the
interior towns in the Eastern planting States,
as Ibis city, Montgomery, &c., the stock on
hand is larger than it was last year; but prob
ably a larger amount lias been brought from
the Red and .other Western rivers, to Now
Orleans, than at corresponding dates in 1855.
Some of the citizen** of Savannah, wc ob
serve, tire urging the abolition of the practice
of inspecting flour, nml weighing liny, kc,., in
transitu through that city for some other mar
ket. As these operations involve foes, they
ire really n tax or charge upon the produce,
•'ml it is urged that they are injurious to the
transportation business through Savannah.—
Vs a proof of its injurious operation, one of
the papers publishes a letter from a house in
Augusta, inquiring as to the legality of such
inspection and charges, and stating that the
writer had freight to send to New York, and
desired to ship by way of Savannah, but would
send it to Charleston if it would have to un
dergo inspection and expense at Savannah.—
The Republican advocates the removal of the
restriction complained of.
Vessels at the Several Ports.
There were on tho 9th instant, in port at N.
York, 713 vessels; at Boston, 148; at Phila
delphia, 05 ; and at Baltimore, 92 ; and on Ist
instant, at Charleston, 05; at Savannah, 50 ;
■it Mobile, 85; and at New Orleans 298.
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The Paeilic and the Persia.
Very little doubt is now entertained that the
Pacific has been disabled by the ice, which she
must have encountered in extensive fields and
Inigo ftnating masses. The Persia with great
difficulty forced her way through these ol>-
tructions, and finally arrived tit her wharf
with about one-third of tho buckets broken
from her paddle-wheels, and the huge iron
bars composing the frame-work curled and
twisted up. Mr. Collins, in fitting out the
Alabama to search for the Pacific, supplied
her with extra coal and a large amount of
provisions, to meet the necessities of the mis
sing steamer and her passengers, when found.
If her machinery is disabled, she may be for
weeks nt sea, unless encountered by another
steamer.
The Persia, it is stated, made fourteen miles
an hour before she encountered the ice—which
uniform rate of speed would have enabled her
to make the trip in a little over eight days.—
She made her lust 300 miles in 24 hours, in
her disabled condition.
Election of Printer.
After a protracted contest in the House of
Representatives at Washington. Mr. Wendell,
the Democratic candidate, has boon elected Prin
ter to that body. The Domucrats aiul most of
the National Know-Nothings finally united on
Mr. V\ ctidell, and secured liis election.
♦
V New York paper states that of the dele
gates selected in that State to the Know Noth
ing National Convention, 28 arc for Ex-Presi
dent Fillmore, and <> for George Law, for the
Presidency. If this be true, Mr. F. will have
very strung support in that body, as lie is pop
ular with tlie order in the South.
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I hackery says he once had an idea of Col
lecting all the lies the English told about the
Fruueli, and the French about tlie ilnglish,
in the Napoleonic period—but he shrank from
the task. Wc wonder if he, or any oilier au
thor, ever had the courage even to enttrtaiu
1 lie idea of collecting all the lies which the
Ilnglish and the French united report about the
Russians ? If a literary Hercules could be
imuid to carry out the task, n second Noah’s
ark could not float under the load.
Tlie lower Mississippi is again open for
•‘team navigation, and loats were last week
passing Memphis Loth up and down the stream.
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I'lie Senate of Tennessee lias passed the bill
from the llouso to purchase the “Hermitage”
estate, including the tomb of Jackson. We
presume that there is uq doubt of the Uovei
nor’s approval.
Tho President’s Proclamation.
The Proclamation of President Pierce, warn
ing alt persons ami organized societies to de
sist from “unauthorized intermeddling” and
“armed intervention” in the affairs of Kansas,
as well as threatening the exercise of the Fed
eral power to put down resistance within its
borders to the Territorial laws, is copied in
another column. It is not clear from the
phraseology of this document that the Execu
five means to denounce and warn the compa
nies of armed emigrants now forming in the
youth as well as the North. Rut if this is the
meaning of the Proclamation, it ought to have
been issued long since—indeed, when Massa
chusetts first organized her “Emigrant Aid”
societies and sent out the bought-up paupers
and fanatics who have produced all the mis
chief in the Territory. The New York Tri
bune and other abolition presses contess that
all the strength the North now has there
she has obtained through the operations
of these societies; and it is lute in the day
now for the general government to be waking
uji to the Long-neglected duty of restraining
organized emigration—if indeed that is com
prehended in the denunciation of the procla
mation. The tardy and yet faltering move
ments of that kind in the South have been in
stigated (we may almost say necessitated) by
the precedent aggressions of Massachusetts
and New York ; they arc but instinctive mo
tions for sclf-dcfcncc, and would never have
been resorted to, had the Federal Government
at once asserted its right and duty to keep the
Territory open for settlement by all classes of
citizens, with their movable property of every
kind whatsoever, as was clearly intended by
the Kansas-Ncbraska act Associations in uuy
State, whose object is to send one class of set
tlers there for the purpose of excluding anoth
er class, arc certainly inimical to that act and
to the spirit of the constitution. But associa
tions having this object in view are confined to
the North, and have noVer been formed or pro
posed in the South.
We rejoice to hear of the President’s deter
mination to put down any “attempted insur
rection” in the Territory and to “execute its
organic law.” There is an open movement on
foot in Kansas to overthrow the legal Territo
rial government by revolution; a defeated
faction have gotteu up a constitution through
a convention informally and illegally called —
have taken a vote upon it and declared its
adoption, and are about to elect officers in ac
cordance with its provisions. Even the vio
lent and bloody commitants of a revolution nre
not wanting, for those they have resorted to in
their resistance to the laws at Lawrence and
elsewhere ; and every day adds fresh proof of
their preparations speedily to resort to arms
and bloodshed in their organized resistance to
the laws and to the constituted authorities. If
a stronger case of rebellion and treason could
be made out, wo arc ignorant of the requisites
yet wanting.
Legislative News.
We have the proceedings of Thursday and
Friday before ns, but they reached us too late
to be copied in detail in this paper.
(In Thursday, the Garnishment or Retaliato
ry bill, introduced early in the session by Mr.
Jones of this county, was taken up, and after
a short debate, defeated by a vote of 50 to 55.
The members who voted against it did so be
cause they thought it unconstitutional. The
House passed a resolution to submit again to
tho people the question of moving tho soat of
government from Milledgeville. The Senate
proceedings were not of much interest.
On Friday, the House killed tho bill to prohib
it the running of Sunday trains on the railroads;
also a bill to make anew county out of Mus
cogee, Harris, Talbot and Chattahoochee, and
another to make the county of Johnson out of
linker and Early. The committee 011 the Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad reported in favor
of soiling tlie road for $11,000,000. The re
ports on the Atlanta Bank were taken up, but
not disposed of.
TitlogrnpßeJ for tiro Savuunttlt Daily News.
From Washington.
The Stamluii/ Committees Announced—Black
llcftuhlieans in the Ascendant !
Washington, Feb. 14.
The standing committees of the House were
announced to-day. The most important com
mittees are constituted as follows :
COMMITTEE OF WAVS AND MEANS.
Lewis I*. Campbell,* of Ohio, (black rop.) ;
Win. A. Howard,* of Michigan, (k. n.): How
ell Cobb, ot Georgia, (deni.); Henry W. Davis, !
of Maryland, + (k. 11.); Russell Sage,* of New
\ork, (k. 11.); John S. l’hclps, of M issouri, \
(deni.); Alexander DcWitt, of Massachusetts,
(k. 11.); James 11. Campbell,* of Pennsylva
nia, (k. 11.) —one vacancy. The majority arc
in favor of a protective tariff'.
[Of tho above committee, tivo voted for
Ranks for Speaker, two for Aiken, undone for
Fuller.—Ki>. News. ]
COMMITTEE ON FORI’.tON HRLATIONS.
A. C. M. Pennington,* of N. Jersey, (k. n.);
Thomas 11. Bailey, of Virginia, (deni.); Thus.
L. Olingman, of North Carolina, (deni.); Wil
liam Aiken, ot South Carolina, (deni.); llenftv
M. Fuller, of Pennsylvania, n.); O. li.
Mattcson,* of Now York, (black rep.); John
Sherman, of Ohio, (k. n.); Anson Burlingame,*
: of Massachusetts, (k, n.); Benjamin 11. Thurs
ton.* of Rhode Island, (k. 11.)
[Of the above conunittee, five voted for
Banks, two for Aiken, who with Mr. Fuller,
did not vote.]
COMMITTEE OX TERRITORIES.
Galusliu A. Grow,*of Pennsylvania, (deni.);
Joshua R. Biddings,* of Ohio, (black repub.);
Samuel A. Purviance,* of Penn., (k. n.); Win.
A. Richardson, of Illinois, (dem.); George S.
Houston, of Ala., (dem.); Amos P. Granger,*
of New York., (black repub.) ; F. K. Zolli
coffer.J of Tennessee, (k. u.); Justin 8. Mor
rill.’ of Vermont, (k. 11.); John J. Perry,* of
Maine, 11.)
[Of the abovo committee, six votedfor Banks,
two (or Aiken and one absent. Mr. Zollicoft'er
(k. n.) voting for Aiken.]
COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS.
Israel Washburn, jv.,* of Maine, (k. 11. J ;
A. 11. Stephens, of Georgia, (deni.); Cooper It.
Watson,*of Ohio, (k. u.); Francis K. Spinner,
ot New A ork, (dem.); Mordecai Oliver, J of
Missouri, (k. a.); Schuyler Colfax,* of Indi
auau, (k. 11.); Wm. R. Smith. + of Alabama,
(k. 11.); John A. Bingham,* of Ohio, (k. n.)
*Ju<lic*U'K th(ifl who votedior Mr Banks, tlie Blin k
Ifi'inißlirnii nnti-Ncliraskii crunlidttr for J^H'iiker.
4 Kiuiw -NothiiiK” who voted fur Fuller.
! Know-Nothinp* who votwl fur Aikon
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GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
l'nire*|M)ii<li , iic(M>f the Sitvitiumli Journal.
Wkdnesday, Feb. 12.
The Atlantic and Gulf Rail lloail project
grows in interest every day among the mem
bers of tho Legislature. Every intelligent
man in either branch, warmly commends it as
an important movement, not only to devclope
the country through which it will be located,
to increase the population of the State and
augment its taxable resources, but also to
reach a rich agricultural producing country in
Alabama, and draw through our State from
the Gulf of Mexico, the most valuable traffic
of the world. The great benefit to be derived
from the construction of this Rond can hardly
be over-estimated. It is certainly a work which
may well be looked to by our Legislature, as
an event in the history of the State. We be
lieve such is the feeling, and whilst it meets
with opposition from those who have been
warmly devoted to the interests of Brunswick,
we believe those gentlemen must be satisfied
that this Rail Road will command a much
greater support, than one so entirely local as
Rrunswick, and will he of much greater advan
tage to a larger portion of the State, while it
gives the bona fide friends of Brunswick an
opportunity to connect themselves, by a road
i forty miles in length, to the proposed main
j trunk.
Those who were so much alarmed at the
prospect of embarking Georgia in our exten
sive scheme of .State aid without limit, are now
favorably inclined to this great work, because
it is tangible, without committing the State
to anything that might be ruinous in its ef
| t'eets.
This report is the creation of the able Sen
ator from Mclntosh, Mr. Spalding—the worthy
successor of an illustrious parent.
BILLS TASSED.
A bill to exempt certain household property
from levy and sale, under certain circumstan
ces.
Rill requiring persons owning lands in this
State, to give in the number, district, and sec
tion in which they lie.
The IToljsk or Representatives met this
morning at 10 o’clock, and reconsidered the
rejection of the Rill to incorporate the Han
cock Internal Improvement and Banking Com
pany. This bill proposes to confer upon this
Company exclusive privileges in the loan of
money at usurious interest, for the purpose of
aiding in the construction of a Rail Road for
the county of Hancock.
On motion the bill to incorporate the lli
wassec Railroad Company was taken up, out of
its order, and as it is a bill of considerable in
terest, an animated discussion ensued. Messrs
Phillips, Lawton, Pickett and Millcdgc op
posed its passage, in its original form, though
they expressed a willingness to support the
same, if so amended as to protect the interests
of Georgia. Messrs. Ward, of Butts, Crook
and Smith, of Union, advocated the bill with
out amendment, and regarded it incompatible
with the equality of the citizens of this State
to impose upon any portion restrictions in re
gard to their commercial interests, which re
quire them to pay tribute to others, &c. They
contended with enthusiasm for “free trade
and sailors’ rights,” which being interpreted
means, every one in the State should be allow
ed to trade where he pleases and with whom
he may please, whether the consequence be
promotive or injurious to the Railroads and
cities of our own State. The bill was passed.
The bill to appropriate money to repair the
Capitol of the State has consumed the remain
der of tho day, and as yet nothing definite has
been accomplished on this subject. I can only
conjccture that the question of removal will
be again submitted to the people, when with
facts clearly presented, they may decide this
question, the agitation of which is so extreme
ly unpleasant to the ancient and magnificent
city of Milledgeville.
It is said by some, that the people have al
ready expressed their feelings, and that it is
useless to submit again. Others allege that
the people were deluded l>y the representation
that the repairs necessary for the present
Capitol would require a very trivial amount.
There is no doubt, from the* vote on this sub
ject in many counties of this State, that there
was an indiffcroncc on the part of the people
which is mysterious, when the importance of
the question is considered. If the proposition
to build anew Capitol at five hundred thou
sand dollars cost, or reconstruct the present
at a cost of one hundred thousand had been
submitted, I am of the opinion tbc vote would
liavo greatly exceeded the one to which lhave
referred. The rapid increase of members as
a consequence of the creation of counties, de
mands greatar accommodation than the pres
ent building can afford. Whether the seat of
government in the future be, this city or not,
Georgia should construct a Capitol commensu
rate with her necessities and compatible with |
her greatness. The pride of every true Gcor- i
gian must cause him to blush when he gazes j
on this dilapidated edifice as the Capitol of his
State.
A Proclamation
.% the President of the United States of America.
Whereas, indications exist that public tran
quility and tlie supremacy of law in tho Terri
tory of Kansas are endangered by the repre
hensible acts or purposes of persons, both
within and without the same, who propose to
I direct and control its political organization by
force : It appearing that combinations have
been formed therein to resist the execution of
the territorial laws, and thus, in effect, sub
vert by violence all present constitutional and
legal authority: It also appearing that per
sons residing without the territory, but near
its borders, contemplate armed intervention
in the affairs thereof: It also appearing that
other persons, inhabitants of remote States,
arc collecting money, engaging men, and pro
viding arms for the same purpose: And it
I further appearing that combinations within
1 N ,c Territory arc endeavoring, by the agency
i °f euimissaries and otherwise, to induce indi
vidual States ol the Union to intervene in the
affairs thereof, in violation of the Constitution
i of the United States:
And whereas, all such plans for tho deter
mination of the future institutions of the Ter
• ritory, if carried into actiou from within tlie
same, w ill constitute the tact of insurrection,
and, it troin without, that of invasive aggres
. sion, and will, in oither case, justify and re
quire the forcible interposition of the whole
power of the general government, us well to
maintain the laws of the Territory as those of
the Union;
Now, therefore, I, Franklin l’ieroc, Presi
dent ot the United States, do issue this, inv
proclamation, to command all persons engaged
in unlawful combinations against the consti
tuted authority of the Territory of Kansas or
ot tho l nited States to disperse and retire
peaceably to their respective abodes, and to
warn all such persons that any attempted in
surrection in said Territory or aggressive iu- <
trusion into the same will be resisted not only
by the employment of the local militiu. but
also by that of any available forces of the U.
States ; to the end of assuring immunity from
violence and full protection to the persons
property, nnd civil rights of all peaceful ami
law-abiding inhabitants of the Territory.
If. in any part of thp Union, the fury of fa- j
naticism, inflamed into disregard of the great
principles of popular sovereignty which, un
der the constitution, arc fundamental in the
whole structure of our institutions, is to bring
on tbc country tho dire calamity ot an arbitra
ment of arms in that Territory, it shall he be
tween lawless violence on the One side and con
servative force on the other, wielded by legal
authority of the general government.
1 call on the citizens, both of adjoining and
of distant States, to abstain from unauthor
ized intermeddling in the local concerns ot the
Territory, and admonish them that its or
ganic law is to he executed with impartial
justice; that all individual acts of illegal in
terference will incur condign punishment; and
that any endeavor to intcivcne by organized
force will be firmly withstood'.
1 invoke all good citizens to promote order
by rendering obedience to the law : to seek
remedy for temporary evils by peaceful means;
to discountenance and repulse the counsels
and the instigations of agitators and disorgan
izes : and to testify their attachment to their
country, their pride in its greatness, their ap
preciation of the blessings they enjoy, and
their determination that republican institu
tions sliall not fall in their hands, by co-oper
ation to uphold the majesty of the laws ami to
vindicate the sanctity of the constitution.
In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed to these presents.
Done at tlifecity of Washington, the eleventh
day of February, in the year of our
[seal.] Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six, and of the independence of
the United States the eightieth.
FRANKLIN PTE RUE.
Ry the President:
W. L. Marcy, Secretary of State.
Astronomic Progress.
The last number of the Edinburgh Review,
in an article on the Plurality of Worlds, thus
speak of the comparatively recent date of as
tronomic discovery and the great progress it
I has made:
“ It was reserved to the renowned Coperni
cus, some two centuries and a half ago, first
distinctly to demonstrate that the apparent
terrestrial plain was really a free and inde
pendent material mass, moving in a definite
path through space. Then Newton explained
that this independent mass moved through
I space because it was substantial and heavy,
i and because it was unsupported by props and
chains; that, in fact, as a massive body, it is
falling forever through the void, but that as it
falls it sweeps round the sun in a never-ending
circuit, attracted towards it by magnet-like
; energy, but kept off from it by the force of its
j centrifugal movement. Next, Snell aud Pi
card measured the dimensions of the heavy
and falling mass, and found that it was a sphe
rical body, with a girdle of 25,000 miles. Sub
sequently to this, Bailly contrived a pair of
scales that enabled him approximately to
weigh the vast sphere, and he ascertained that
it had within itself somewhere about 1,256,-
195,070,000,(*00,000,000,000 tons of matter.
To these discoveries Foucault has recently ad
ded demonstration to the actual sense of the
fact that the massive sphere is whirling on it
self as it falls through space, and round the
sun, so that point after point of its vast sur
face is brought in succession into the genial
influence of the sunshine, an investing atmos
phere of commingled vapor and air is made to
present clouds, winds and rain, and the in
| vested surface to bear vegetable forms and an
imated creatures in great diversity.
“To Copernicus occurred also the idea that
this heavy mundane sphere, which affords
convenient and substantial support to the
footsteps of man, might possibly be not the
only body of this kind contained within the
wide realms of universal space. lie knew that
if he could get far enough from its sunlit form,
he must see it dwindle down to a shining point
or star. He perceived that the transparent
regions surrounding the earth are crowded
with such shining points, which become visi
ble when the observer is protected from the
glare of the sun by the nocturnal shadow of
the globe.
“ He watched these shining star points night
after night, until he ascertained that some
i amongst them, at least, move in space, as the
earth does, and round the sun. From these
; simple data, with the bold dash of genius, he
leaped at the conclusion that man’s world was
not solitary in the infinite wilderness of space;
! that it lias companions and brethren amidst
; the shinining hosts of the sky ; that there are
other orbs of substantial material, whirling in
the sunshine, and capable of affording all the
conditions which life of the highest kind needs
for its development and support. Year after
year, as fresh appliances have been brought to
bear upon the advancement of astronomical
science, new arguments have been furnished
in favor of the sagacious surmise of Coperni
cus.
“80 soon as the telescope was added to the
instrument of man’s research, new worlds and
systems of worlds were revealed to him.
“In this way has gradually matured tho
idea that there arc in the wide universe count
less myriads of linnamental star clusters,
which are themselves, severally, what the
cluster is that is seen by the naked eye to
spangle the surrounding heavens at night;
that there are tiunilies of firmaments, as there
are groups and associated clusters of stars or
suns. But immediately upon the recognition
of this idea followed, as a matter of course,
the extension to these external firmaments of
the same condition with which the near one
has been already clothed. If they are all in
dividually groups of mighty and ponderous
suns, they too must be looked upon as having
life associated with their substance. Either
of these stars must be a world inhabited by
organization and sentient intelligence, or it
must have its own special world brotherhood
circling around its light giving orb. Such is
tho magnificent sketch which astronomy,
whether in accordance with reality, or in er
ror, has exhibited as her representation of na
ture—space thatisimmeasurablobythc sensos
of man, containing ponderous orbs in myriads
that cantfot bo numbered by his arithmetic,
scattered hither and thither in connected and
associated groups, aud all, directly or indi
rectly, concerned in the development and
maintenance of some form or other of organic
life!”
Land Warrants.
The Washington Organ of Tuesday says:
The Laud Warrant market was much depress
ed to-day, the dealers having large amounts
on hand, and no buyers or orders on hand.
the dealers in New \ork and Boston continue
to scud here their surplus, which further de
press this market. Wc quote the market to
day dull at §1.05 a §1.07 for 80’s and 160’s •
$1 a §l.Ol for 120’s.
I nless orders come in largely from the West,
a considerable decline is looked for by tlie
dealers.
Appointments by the President,
By and with the advice and consent of the
Senate -George P. Scarbrough, of Virginia,
to be Judge of the Court of Claims, in place of
Joseph H. Lumpkin, declined.
A. C. Seaman, of the District of Columbia,
to be Superintendent of the Public Printing.
COMMEROIAV
Savannah. Keb. 15.’— Outtmi—Arrived this *
land) 11,21s hales; )>y railroad 5,578, hy river] M
---porti-il K>,857. Stork on linml, 47,830. The a ,j v !’ L®
lowing the l’civia's now s lias hem maintained Hl !
tioiis- Low ’ Muldling'.*( ; MUM. ■'. * ;
tia,; Midd. Fair 10c.
(ittocLUiES, Ac.—lllce, fho.G Jo pur loti.,
red SI 70, white SI So. Com. mixed 7t) ( ■„ (..1•
Flour,NH)ierflne SWtOJextra S'.l%( Jill. M,',]., ‘
Orleans fcfr SMc. Coffee. ltio 12( h(*<ic. lincoiV ‘
shoulders 12) .ie. Suit, SI tOC<isl 25 la snitill lot-*
KliLiu MTS. —To Liverpool, 7-ltitn 15-3:11. | n ii r || l \
L, in American vesselx ; Havre le, ; New York
sailing vessels, and % ill steamers.
Charleston, Feb. 16.—Cotton.—The 111a rk,-t ,
this morning, Buyers not feeling disposed to
tho very high figures which have been ruling for tl,!
lew days. Their'otters, as a cuitaequenee. Were ],
and during thu iln.v sales to tho amount of o 41,,? J
Were effected, at somew hat easier rates, the extivn, A I
price* of the week not Being sustained.
New Vork. fell. U.—Cotton is firm, with ],
ikfiUO Bales. Flour firmer. Ohio ss So ; Souther
Wheat firm. Corn drooping.
Montgomery, Fell. 15.—The cotton market ha- 1 1
quite Brisk since the Persia's accounts, und prices I
advanced. All offering lias Been readily taken nt -1 1
10*4 cents —principal sales to o%c. I
I ! Sales of the week about 2900.
New Orleans, fell. 12. —The cotton market w ,
animated to-day, owing in a great degree to the n’l. J
supplies off ering and the stringent pretensions nf r,.j
and tlie sales were confined to 80)0 hales at yesterdj wl
improvement, yesterday's sales summed up 25,QQ(i|.‘ ■
Inferior Maiding D'/l(u •,
Ordinary VVjfqAjW Good Miihling...lo 1,4.
(loud Ortliiuu'y...BVi@SV.> Molding Fuii\...li;i,
Low Midding 8% f air manim j
NEW ORLEANS COTTON STATEMENT—Jan. 3]
Stock on hand on tho Ist Sept., 1855 j
Arrived since i.rpM j
Arrived to-day • j
Total I,^
Exported to date 573,404
Exported to-day 15,076—HW j
Stock on hand nnd on shipboard not cleared 3.
Sugar—no change.
Molasst s—34@3sc. for prime, for choice.
Flour —retailing at !?S 25 for superfine.
Wheat—declined to $1 60(551 7<*.
Corn—63@<ST<\
Fork —mess $lO 50(7/ $lO 75, retail.
Coffee —ltio 10%@12c.
New Orleans, Feb. 14.—Sales to-day of urns) |„
cotton at c. decline. Middling 9]/4 to 9%c.
Charleston and Memphis Rail Road,
The Nashville Gazette states that the Me
phis and Charleston Rail R oad will be Anisin
to Tuscumbia, a distance of GOO miles fiv
Charleston, and a little less from Savant
iu March, and will be in operation through;
its whole length, from the Atlantic to the IF
sissippi River, by the end of the present y •
Congressional.
Washington, Feb. 14.
In the Senate a bill was presented fori \
I overland mail to the Pacific.
In the House, notices were given that tl j
seats of Messrs. Whitfield, of Kansas, Allt:
of Illinois, Gallegos, of New Mexico, andEt
tis, of La., would be contested.
Election of U. S. Senator.
Baltimore, Feb. H
The Maryland Legislature has elected .1;
tliony Kennedy, American, United States Jyl
; ator.
The Supreme Court of Georgia is still:
session in this city, and will not probably 1:
journ before next week. But few cases lrn
yet been determined, most of the time of tl
Court having been occupied in hearing ti
case of the late Planters and Mechanices’ lte
of Columbus. This case has excited a go*
deal of interest for years in Georgia, involvii
as it does, the liability of the stockholders li
the redemption of the bills of the aforesaid i
funct institution. The Columbus Bar
largely and ably represented. —Macon Mestmf
CRISP’S ATIIEMUI.
MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 18, 1856,
The Manager has the honor of announcing to the ft
zens of Columbus, an engagement for
TWO NIGHTS ONLY,
(which cannot |iossißly Be extended,) with the emiiM ,
Tragedienne,
Miss ELIZA LOGAN,
Who will make her first appearance this Reason, in tl
character of JI'LIA, in Sheridan Knowles’ greatpk
of the
UTINCH3BACK,
Mrs. W. H. CRISP,
As HELEN, (her first appearance this season.) 11
also as Zephyrina, iu the admirable Farce of
LADY AND THE DEVIL
TO-MORROW (TUESDAY) EVENING.
Miss SUIZiL IjOG-AIX
Will make her second appearance.
February 18.
FONTAINE WARE HOUSE.
HUGHES & DANIEL,
VVnidiouse, Commission, Receiving al>
Forwarding Merchants.
UI’IIE undersigned have taken the new Fire l’r
JL Ware House, recently erected in the rear of Me;
Threewits, Holt & Cos., adjoining the Alabama “>
House, and are prepared to attend to all consignment
ami to receive and stoic Cotton. They will do a gem
Commisson, Storage and Forwarding Business, ft* l
culer attention given to the
Sale of Cotton and other Produce,
Tho usual facilities will be afforded and carefulattnil*
given to all business entrusted to their care.
A good supply of Ragging, Rope and Salt’
ways on hand, |VM. 11. HUGH*-
October 1555. ini. DANIEL,
SITUATION WANTED.
4 CITIZEN competent to transact any respwh
ii business (except hard labor,) is out of employ®
aud would be glad to have it for a very reasoimUi 1 a
pensation. Apply at this office.
February IS.
DATES.
I.IREBII Dates just received at
STOYELL’S CONFECTION^’
A SPLENDID SADDLE HORSE
AT AUCTION.
VT 11 o’clock on Wednesday next, the 2< *tli .j’ -
. instant, we will sell in front of our
the well known pacing Ilorse
tempest.
Ilis qualities us a Saddle Horse are seldom equalM;l
----1 icier surpassed. He can Be seen at Vernoy’s Staßh
til tho day of sale.
Terms Cash.
ALSO
At tho tuinie time mid place, 11 large lot of Furiilt |ir ’
Dry Goods, Clothing and Groceries.
IIAKUISON & McGEIIEK.
February 18. Anctieue''•
FLOUR.
■ ill BARRELS 8. F. Flour, just received on C‘ l|,? ‘s
nient, und for sale by
February 14. JANIES LW**^,
CHEESE.
114 CASKS host quality Cheese received nnd sor ■
AU _ JAMES BIGON
DISSOLUTION.
Dlts. BIIOOKS & CARBIOER, having dissolve'! n
partnership from and after the first day of J"'j‘
Inst, will now occupy separate Bnt adjacent office" > 1
old stand, where persons indebted to them can li"' 1 111
accounts for settlement. T. J. BROOKS,
February 18, j jj. CABRW®?
DR. t'ARRIGER,
I S prepared to attend to all Surgical cases coiuue
1 to his charge.
Office ns heretofore, in the old St. Mary's Bank 1,11
ing.
llesidence— Xorthcust coiner of Crawford at"’
svtli streets. Feb. 1- 1
SHAD! SHAD!!
\\ J E are receiving large quantities miff*’’*’
| FRESH SHAD daily. All orders
accompanied with the cash, punctually attended t” ‘ -
to any point on tho Hail Roads.
February 12. 3w 1100 AN A TEKB >
