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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. - - 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. - - 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. - ♦ .■ ■ 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. ♦ —. 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 t 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 >