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LAHUKST CITV CIRCULATION.
The Races.
The spring races over the Chattahoochee
Course, near this city, commence to-day.
We understand several stables of fine racers are
on the ground.
A dispatch from Washington states that the
Baltic brought no communication from Mr.
Buchanan to the State Department, and that
our Administration does not feel any alarm on
account of the concentration of British troops
in Canada.
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Prices of Western Produce Palling.
Cincinnati papers of the -id inst. report sales
of Flour at $5 40; Wheat dull at $1 10; large
sales of bulk Shoulders and Hides at 5] to OJc.;
Bacon Sides at 7,Jc., Shoulders OA to 7 *c.; and
Cheese at 10 to l‘2e.
It is said that Mr. Singleton, of Mississippi,
has declined the Consulate to Havana, lately
tendered to him by the President. It is not
often that this lucrative berth is declined, and
we presume that it will not long go begging.
Hon. Robert Toombs of the Senate, and Hen.
Ilowell Cobb of the House of Representatives,
arc both at present in this State—private bu
siness having called them for a lew days lrom
their posts at Washington.
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Vessels report that the ice-fields in the At
lantic are more extensive and dangerous than
ever before known, along the Northern route
from the United States to Europe.
Singular Fact.
No citizen of the UnitodStatcs was ever con
victed of treason.
We find the above remark in a number of
our exchanges. We would ask them, l'or what
was Aaron Burr sentenced to death ? What
was Dorr, of Rhode Island, imprisoned for ?
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The Warrior river, on the 4th inst., had
risen thirty feet at Tuscaloosa. The < ibserver
reports the arrival there of quite a number of
corn and coal boats from above. Wc believe
that such arrivals at Tusc tloosa have been
very rare for the last three or four years.
The Georgia Penitentiary.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, mentions a
report that Gov. Johnson has vetoed the bill
providing for a lease of the Penitentiary. As
the same bill provided first for a lease, and in
the event that could not be procured, for tbo
removal of the institution to the Stone Moun
tain, the effect of the veto will be to retain
the Penitentiary at Milledgeville, under State
management, until the next meeting of the
Legislature.
The latest advices from Havana inform us
that a largo British fleet was hourly expected
to arrive at that port, and that its destination
was supposed to bo Nicaragua, ft may be
that those of our citizens who are emigrating
to Nicaragua will not be at all too fast in their
movements. Perhaps some of them may even
find the ports blockaded, and receive a polite
notice that “filibusters are not admitted here.”
Does anybody know anythingof a stray dogma
known as “the Monroe doctrine ?”
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A gentleman, who has recently visited many
of the sugar parishes of Louisiana, informs the
Frankfort Banner that the complaint of the
destruction of seed cane by the severe winter
is general. In many places, also, tho stubble
(ratoons that remain in the ground during the
winter ami produce several crops without re
planting) had suffered severely, lie con ider
ed the prospect for a full crop this year ns
very unpromising.
New Orleans Cotton .Receipts, etc.
The receipts at New Orleans up to the even
ing of the litli ins 1 , amounted to 1,321,727
hales. The lied, Ouachita, White, Tennessee
and Cumberland rivers were still open, and
steamboat arrivals from ports ou all those
s reams were reported on that day. The stock
of cotton on hand on the fith inst. was 237,1 t) 1
bales.
Sugars had slightly advanced—quotations
7J to 7 Jo. for fair to fully fair. Other leading
articles remained at about the same prices as
our last report.
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A New Motor !
We learn from the Selma (Ala.) Reporter,
that the stream of water from an artesian well
in that city has been turned upon a large
wheel at the Central Warehouse to draw up
the freight car from the river to the top of the
bluff. The power was sufficient to draw up
the loadod car, and the Reporter anticipates
that the proprietors will find the experiment
entirely successful. This enterprise of going
down five or six hundred feet into “mother
earth’’ to tap and bring up one of her natural
elements wherewith to work machinery, is a
striking instance of the power of human ge
nius. There is a well at Caliaba which dis
charges a still larger v \ume of water, and it
was at one time intended to operate a factory
by its stream, but we believe that it has not
yet been applied to this purpose.
Thunder Expected.
The Washington correspondent ol’ the New
York Evening l'ost informs that paper that
our Ad • Lustration sent a printed copy of the
correspondence on the Enlistment question to
each member of the British Houses of Lords
and Commons, by the steamship of the Ist
inst. This mode of semi-official communica
tion with a foreign legislative body is, we be
lieve, a novelty in international intercourse,
and it will not bo very apt to improve the tem
per of Lords Clarendon and Palmerston. It is
justified, however, by the attempt of these
Ministers to impose upon Parliament an in
correct statement of the matter and to misrep
rensent the character and progress of the ne
gotiations. Should the statement of the Post's
correspondent prove to be correct, we shall
probably have anew and more appalling “tem
pest in a teapot “ when the Engl sh papers of
about the middle of this mouth are received.—
The great “Thunderer’’ will no doubt “spread”
himself to do justice to the occasion, and timid
poople would do well to stop their cars with
cotton and brace their nerves for the shock.
“An Unfortunate Affair.”
Garland, the thieving New Orleans Treasu
rer, lias been bound over lor trial in tho sum ol
$25,000. His stealings, it is ascertained,
amount to the sum of $200,000. The law, we
believe, terms his proceedings “embezzlement,”
and the press gingerly calls it “defalcation.”
Had he been a low-bred, poorly-associated,
moneyless scamp, and stolen ahorse, he would
not have been allowed bail at all, or if granted
it would have been in eight times the amount
stolen, instead of only one-eighth.
<• Dimes amt ilolUrK, and dollars aud dimes.
An unjity jssskcti the worst of crimes;”
j As we have stated, Garland tool: flight in a
1 schooner which sailed from New Orleans, but
i was overtaken and brought back to the city.
I The Captain of t lie schooner has also been held
to bail on a charge of being cognizant of his
crime and aiding him to escape, and the ves
sel has been seized. Garland, wc suppose,
will be imprisoned for a few mouths for the
crime (unless ho pays up tlie bail-money and
absconds); and should it be proved that any
poor devil “without friends” carried his trunks
or otherwise knowingly aided his flight, he will
be sent to the Penitentiary for half a lifetime.
*• The law is the perfection of human wisdom.”
Another Leap Year Movement.
A GUI was last week introduced into the
Kentucky Legislature, imposing a tax of $0 on
each SI,OOO worth of property owned by all
old bachelors in th ■ State over thirty years of
ago, to be applied to the education of the
rising generation. This proposition to tax
men to pay for the education of other people’s
children is about as cool a proceeding as wc
have heard of lately. We arc bound to regard
it as originating in envy and prompted by the
audacity peculiar to leap year. Should it
succeed, we suppose the next step will be to
mulct the unyoked male community in a further
heavy sum to pay for the silks and satins, the
jewelry and flowers, and even the enormous
hoops of the married ladies, it was ordained
of old, because of the transgressions of the
first married pair, all the pleasures and enjoy
ments of life should he mingled with penance
and punishment, and perhaps it is impossible
for bachelors to evade this law by remaining in
a state of “sing e blessedness.” If the bill
passes, the old bachelars of Kentucky will
have to take choice of two taxes.
Wc find the following in the Wilmington, N.
C., < Commercial:
Wilmington, March, 4, 1850.
Mr. Loving—Dear Sir: By this morning’s
package of German newspapers, published in
my birth place, 1 find a positive statement
that tlic notorious Robert Schuyler lives
iu the town of Brugge, in the principality of
Rmlolstade, Germany. There has been some
two months ago, a report in this country of
his death, at his villa near Florence, which
seems now to be a real hoax.
Yours truly, 11. L. Sciikeineb.
Steamer South Carolina, Chas. Fry, master,
arrived here on tlic morning of 25th inst., with
a cargo of 1,280 bales cotton. This is the
largest cargo of the season, and our friend
•OLiarlio’ has fairly beaten ‘Tom.’ Try it
again ‘Tom,’ ‘Charlie’ is ‘after you with a
sharp stick.’ Berry good boat the Ben Frank
lin, and wc don’t Mehin to Tampa much with
her, but wc must tell you, ‘Tom,’ tlic ‘Old
Nullifier’lias got you this time, and if you
don’t beat her, there'll be ‘other fish to Fry.’
—Apalachicola Adv.
The South Carolina has already carried into
Apalachicola, this season, 15,320 bales of cot
ton. This tells well for the popularity of her
courteous officers.
Tho Reports on Kansas.
A synopsis of the report made by the Free
soil majority of the Committee on Elections, on
the Whitfield and Reeder contested election
case, has reached us; and as the question is
likely to be an exciting one in the present
Congross and throughout the country, we copy
the synopsis, which wc find in the Charleston
Standard. When we receive Mr. Stephens’
minority report, we will also copy or condense
it. The majority report was signed by Wash
burn, the chairman of the committee, and the
other Froesoilors, and tlic following is its sub
stance :
It starts out by representing that the alle
gation on the part of Gov. Reeder is, that the
Legislature which passed the election law, un
der the provisions of which Gen. Whitfield was
chosen, was imposed upon the people of the
Territory by a foreign invading force, who
seized upon the government and have exercised
it ever since, aud that the people there are in
a subjugated stutc. It then discusses at length
the following questions:
Ist. The necessity of having ail investiga
tion of the facts in dispute.
2d. The effect of the act of Gov. Reeder in
issuing certificates of election, to a portion of
the Legislature.
3d. Whether the evidence to establish tho
facts can be had satisfactorily by depositions.
Upon the first, it is urged that the state of
atlairs here has excited the feelings of tlic
whole people of the Union—that it is the theme
of a I'residcutinl Message and proclamation,
and that sovereign States in different portions
of the Union have considered the propriety of
an interference by men and arms—that the
question 10 be settled is whether military pow
er has seized upon the territory and governs
it by a strong hand—that this question in
volves the existence of self-government and
cannot be settled by groping among assertions
and denials, but only by facts proven.
Upon the second point it contends that the
people of the Territory cannot be prejudiced
by what Governor Reeder did as Governor—
that the people are now contesting the seat
through him—and that if it was not so, still
Congress could aud should investigate it, if a
reasonable doubt exists as to the right of Gen.
Whitfield to a seat.
Upon the third point it argues a commission
to tnke depositions would be fruitless—that
the President regards tho presence of the army
there as necessary to preserve peace, and the
execution of the commission would bring the
belligerent parties face to face anil incite to
hostilities : that it would be equivalent to an
effort to obtain testimony on a battlefield, and
that the commissioners would be powerless to
preserve peace.
In the course of the argument, the commit
tee allude to the fact that, ordinarily iu despot
isms their subjects enjoy some degree of
peace and quiet; while in Kansas the settlers
arc not only alleged to be reduced to a state
of vassalage to a foreign power, but that per
sonal safety is unknown, and murder aud out
rage arc said to be the almost daily record of
its history.
We copy from the Official llepor of the
City Council tho security offered by Patten
aud Mustiun and accepted y the City Cou -
cil.
State of Georgia, 1 This Indenture,
Muscogee County. / made this the 25th
day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1850,
between Richard l’utten and John L. Mustian,
of the county and State aforesaid, of the one
part and the Mayor ar.d Council of the City ot
('olumbus, of the comity and State aforesaid,
of the other part, witnesseth that the said
Richard Patten and .John L. Mustian, for and
in consideration of the sum of five dollars, to
them in hand paid by said Mayor and Council
of the city of Columbus, as well as for the pur
pose of securing the performeuce of a certain
contract made by the said Richard Patten and
John L. Mustian with the said Mayor and
Council, hereinafterwards more particularly
set out, dotii hereby bargain, assign, tranfer
aud set over to the said Mayor and Council
of the City of Columbus and its assigns 1800
shares of Stock in the Muscogee Railroad
Company -for which SIOO on each share has
been paid to said Company. To have and to
hold tlie said 1800 shares of stock to the said
Mayor aud Council of Columbus and its assigns,
to their use aud benefit forever, subject, how
ever, to tiie following contract-, conditions and
defeasance, to wit: Whereas, the said Mayor
and Council of the City of Columbus have here
tofore solil to said Richard Patten and John
L. Mustian, 1800 shares of stock in the Mus
cogee Railroad Company for tlic sum of $155,-
000, payable as follows: The said Richard
Patten and A 0)111 L. Mustiau agreed to pay on
the Ist day of January, 1850, the sum of
j $25,000, it being the last July installment.of
bonds issued by the Mayor and Council of the
1 City of Columbus to said Muscogee Railroad
! Company, and the sum of SIOOO additional to
; cover interest and expenses—makings2o,ooo;
! and the said Richard Patten and JOIIIIL. Mus
tian further agreed to pay the City Ronds
issued to said Railroad Company, amounting
$125,000, to become due, and the interest
thereon, as tlie same shall fall due, interest on
said Bonds against the City; And whereas
the said Richard Patten and John L. Mustian
have paid to the said Mayor and Council of
Columbus the said sum of $20,000, according
to the said contract, and have this day entered
into Bond in the sum of $300,000, conditioned
l’or faithful performance of said contract, and
binding them to pay off and discharge the said
City Bonds, amounting to tlic sum of $126,000
and the interest thereon, as the same shall be
come due; aud to save the said Mayor and
Council, harmless, for and on account of said
Bonds for principal, interest and expenses:
Now, if the said Richard Patten and John
L. Mustian, their heirs, executors, and admin
istrators, shall well and truly perform tlieir
said contract and faithfully and punctually
pay all sums of money, which said contract
aud bond requires and obliges them to pay, at
the time and place therein specified for the
payment of the same, then the said bond and
their assignment shall be null aud void. But
if the said Richard Patten and John L. Mus
tian, their heirs, executors and administrators
shall fail or neglect to pay the said bonds aud
the interest accruing thereon, promptly, at the
time and place and in the manner said City
Bond 3 and said interest arc required to be paid
by tho terms thereof, then upon such failure and
fur every sueli failure the said Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Columbus, after thirty days’
notice in one or more of tlic papers, published
in the City of Columbus, of the time and place
of sale, shall have and are hereby invested
with full power and authority to scl), at pub
lic outcry, at the Market House in the city of
Columbus, to tho highest bidder, the said
Railroad Stock, or such portion or shares
thereof, (to be offered and sold in lots not ex
ceeding five shares at a time,) as may bo suffi
cient to satisfy and pay the amount of princi
pal, interest and expenses, due by reason of
default or failure of payment, as required by
the contract and bond aforesaid ; and the said
Mayor and Council of the city of Columbus
are hereby fully authorized to transfer the
stock which may be sold, as aforesaid, to the pur
chaser thereof, upon the Books of the said Rail
roadCoinpauy, and to use the names of the said
Richard Patten and John L. Mustian for that
purpose—which transfer, made iu pursuance
hereof, shall operate as a full, lawful aud com
plete bar to the claim or right of the said Rich
ard Patten and John L. Mustian, their heirs,
executors and administrators, aud shall invest
the purchasers thereof with full and legal title
to tho same ; and the said Mayor and Coun
cil shall receive the purchase money for said
stock, which may be sold as aforesaid, and
shall apply the same to the payment of the
principal, interest, and expenses due by the
default aforesaid ; and the said Mayor and
Council shall have the full power and authori
ty to make a like sale for each and every de
fault or lailure of the said Richard Patten and
John L. Mustian, their heirs, executors, and
administrators, to make the payments afore
said, according to their said contract and bond.
And it is further provided, as a part hereof,
•hat if the said Richard Patten and John L.
Mustian, their heirs, executors, and adminis
trators shall well nnd truly pay off and dis
charge the installment of City Bonds, afore
said, falling due on tho first day of July, 1856,
the same being $25,000, together with all the
interest on the whole of said Bonds which
slia 1 then become due and payable, and shall
return or deliver or cause to be returned or de
livered the said city bonds and Coupons, or
interest warrants, then due and payable to the
Mayor aud Council, to bo cancelled, that the
return and delivery thereof, having been paid
by the said Richard Patten and John L. Mus
tiau, as aforesaid, shall operate as a release of
000 shares of Muscogee Railroad stock from
all lien or liability by virtue hereof, being one
third of said shares of said stock, and corres
ponding with cne-third of the purchase money
which shall hive been paid by the said Patten
& Mustian, which 000 shares of stock shall
revert to aud become the right and property of
the said Patten & Mustian, and exempt and
free from the power and trust herein specified;
and upon the payment by tbo said Richard
Batten and John L. Mustian, their heirs, ex
ecutors and administrators, of each annual and
subsequent installment of $25,000 of said city
bonds with the interest due on the whole of
said bonds, and tho delivery thereof to the
said Mayor and Council, as paid by the said
Patten \ Mustian, to be cancelled, a like pro
portion of said stock, to-wit: 300 shares shall
be exempt and free from all lien or liability by
virtue of this assignment, and shall revert to
ar.d become the property of the said Patten &
Mustian, free from the power and trust herein
specified.
And it is hereby further provided, that the
proper officer of the Muscogee Railroa Com
pany. in charge of the Stock Transfer Rook of
said Company, shall have notico of this assign
ment and the trusts herein specified ; and shall
not permit the said Richard Patten and John
L. Mustian, their heirs, executors and admin
istrators, or agents, to transfer on the Books
of said Company any of the Stock aforesaid
except those parcels or shares thereof which
may become exempt and free from tho lien,
power and operation hereof, by the means and
in the manner herein before provided aud
specified, nnd to that extent and for that pur- j
pose the said Muscogee Railroad Company and
the officer aforesaid, as the agent of tlic said
Richard Patten and John L. Mustian, is made
a party hereto, and is bound hereby.
And it is further provided, that the said
Richard Patten and John L. Mustian, their
heirs, executors and administrators shall have
and do retain and reserve the right of voting
and representing said Stock in all meetings of
said Company and shall be entitled to receive
and appropriate, ns their own property, all
dividends which may be made and declared
upon said stock, by said Company, until the
same may be sold by the Mayor and Council
for and on account of the default of payment
of said city bonds and interest, as is herein
before specified.
RICHARD PATTEN, [l.. s.’
J. L. MUSTIAN. [l.. s.;
Witness: R. R. Rutherford.
M. G. McKinnie, Notary Public.
Tlic resolution of Aid. Hall in connection
with this Deed of Trust, was then adopted.
Yeas (7) Aid. Bunnel, Chapman, Hall, Hun
ley, Pease, Slade and Thompson. Nays (5) Bar
den, Harris, Jones, Lee and Ligon.
Additional Items by the Baltic.
A mulatto girl was found secreted on board
the ship Asterian, which arrived at Liverpool
from New Orleans.
An article in the Asseniblee Nationalc,
touching the defensive works constructed at
Portsmouth in England, lias elicited some re
mark, and is looked upon as an exhibition of
French jealousy.
On the sth of January, six battalions of
Russians surprised a battalion of Turks near
Zudgdidi. The latter retreated, leaving their
guns and baggage. The 1 ussians subsequent
ly burned the Pacha’s palace and several vil
lages.
Grand Duko Nicholas, abrotherof the Czar,
has been married to Alexandra Petrowna, the
Princess of Oldenburg.
Further by the Africa.
Cotton was quiet owing to the stringency in
tlic money market, and there having been large
receipts of middling and lower grades of Or
leans cotton, tho c qualities had declined l-16d.
Other descriptions were steady. Sales of the
week 50,000 bales, including 7,000 to specula
tors.
Breadstuff’s had slightly advanced.
The quotations of cotton are Fair Orleans
tV{d., Middling Upland 5 13-16d., Fair Upland
6Jd. Stock 430,000, including 285,000 bales
of American.
The general news is unimportant.
The whole amount of subscriptions to the
English loan reached £30,000,000.
Russia continues immense warlike prepara
tions.
Congressional.
Washington, March 0.
The Senate passed the fortifications bill.
Mr. Brown introduced a bill for a railroad
to the Pacific, to be built from a point South
of latitude 37. It grants about forty million
acres to the company, at fifty cents per acre,
the company to deposit $500,000 as security
for the fai.hful performance of the work, be
fore obtaining a title. One hundred miles
must be completed in eighteen mouths. The
Government to pay SOOO per mile for carrying
the mail until the road is finished, and for ten
years thereafter. The road is to be forfeited
if not finished in ten years. The right of way
covers a width of four hundred yards.
The House passed the Military Academy
and the Invalid Pension bills.
Mr. Stephens, from the minority of the Com
mittee 011 Elections, made a report, containing
an able argument in favor of sending Commis
sioners to Kansas to take and positions in the
contested election case. The subject was de
bated.
Washington, March 7.
The Senate was not in session to-day. The
House discussed the Kansas election case and
adjourned to Monday.
The Gulf Road.
Our young friend, Milner, (by the way, one
of the finest practical engineers in the coun
try,) was in town a few days since, aud gave
us some little information touching the pros
pects of the “Pensacola Connection.” Mr.
Milner is the son of Mr. Milner of the firm that
has taken the contract for the grading from
Pensacola to the Alabama line. The company
will commence operations very soon and push
them with all their energy.
The gap from the State line to the point at
which the contracts now existing terminate, is
about 70 miles in length. Os this, the younger
Mr. Milner informs us, twenty-five miles can
be graded at an expense not exceeding SI,OOO
per mile. The next ten miles will probably
cost $5,000 per mile; and the remaining 35
will average about SO,OOO, per mile.
The planters in Conecuh county arc likely,
wc learn, to grade the road through their
county, taking their pay in stock. Mr. Milner
has little doubt that this arrangement will be
effected. If so, it will accomplish t e grading
of about 28 of the 70 miles as j ? ct unprovided
for.
Mr. Milner is very familiar with the topogra
phy of the whole route and has great confidence
in the early completion of the work. Things
are certainly tending in that direction very
strongly; and we do hope that our Mobile
friends will early and practically move in the
matter of their connection. It would be mor
tifying, if a railway directly connected us with
a port in another State before such a connec
tion is accomplished as to our own seaport.
All this ought to wake up our people, to the
necessity of the much talked-of Coal Road. —
Our Gulf connections, though beneficial, will
not “make us,” except with the aid of a line
to tap the bowels of the mountains, above.
More Indian Murders in Florida.
Correspondence of tbo Charleston Courier.
Fort Myers, Fla., Feb. 26, 1856.
Gents :—We have to record another massa
cre by the Indians. A Mr. Hudson, a resident
of this post, accompanied by his negro, Sam,
left here some 15 days since for the ojster
banks, in Charlotte harbor, with the intention
of gathering a load of oysters for this place.—
Tlieir prolonged stay excited suspicion that
some accident had befallen them, and conse
quently on Saturday last Capt. dispatched
an armed boat party in search of them. They
proceeded to the bank and found their vessel,
a schooner, of 20 tons burden, dismantled of
her sails, and the dead bodies of Hudson and
his negro on deck horribly mutilated; near by
another boat, burnt to the water's edge, was
discovered, and on shore the body of an oyster
man named Martin, was discovered in the same
condition of the other two.
The volunteers have taken the field, but as
yet have accomplished nothing
The country is inundated with water, which
prevents the regular U. 8. troops from taking
the field ; in fact the number here is totally
insufficient to cveukeeppossession of the posts
already established.
The editor of the Democrat says that nobody
believes us when we speak the truth. He has
no means of knowing whether any one would
not believe him if he spoke the truth. He
never made the experiment. —Louisville Jour
nal.
COMMERCIAL
OFFICE OF THE DAILY M v
Columbus, Ga., March 11 (V.
There was very little done in cotton yvsUrj . 1
actions were limited to 46 bales—26 bales at ga/’
aud 17 at 10c.
COLLMUCS UOTIO.N STATLMKNT.
Stock on band August 31, 1855,
Deceived past week j ’’hi
Deceived previously 90.40u_,.
Shipped past week 30^
“ previously.... f16,088-esjj.
Stock on hand March 8. 777 T
“ same time last year
Deceived to same time last year.
Chattanooga Prices Current—March 5
Apples, pealed, $1 00 Lard, ,
Pi aches, unpl'd,...l 25 (g> Huttcr [A
pealed,...2 00@ Corn, Jf
Bacon, cured 810 Meal,
Wheat $1 26®1 40 Oats v 1
Flour, per sack, s4@s4 50 Feathers
Potatoes, 90@1 00 ) Peas
Letter from Andrew J. Donelson
Philadelphia, March 2, ls’jf,
To the Editor 0/ the Washington Organ:
Sib:—lam referred to in many p] acfi
the adopted son of Gen. Jackson. Pernrt'.
to ask that you will give this note an inserti
in your columns, in order that the mi,/
may be corrected. The adopted son ol V
Jackson bears his own name, and is now l i
nt the Hermitage. The general was niy ttrt j
aud my guardian aud friend from my
to his death.
The mistake lias doubtless originated fa
the fact., that the General was in the habit
addressing me as his son. and that I was!
long and so intimately associated with him
was his aid-de-camp from the time I em
the army until he left it, and his Private I
retary throughout his Presidency, a eonfij
tial relation which was never interrupted
long as lie lived.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient serve
A. J. DONELSON.
Death of Col. Towles.
Col. Oliver Towles, of Nashville, Tennessee, died t|l
llroad Street House iu this city, on the evening ufj
Bth inst., after n very short illness. His disease,,
Erysipelas, terminating in Apoplexy.
Ho was an honest and upright man and a sinen
friend ; had no enemies, but was universally esteem
by all who knew him. He was punctiliously correct]
all business transactsons. Ilis death will be
most by those who knew him best.
Col. T. has been long upon the Turf, and was alts
considered a liberal sportsman. Among the mist j|
tinguished of his horses, were Black Satin, a good!
miler, and Cordelia Deed, the winner of the great twit;
mile race over the Columbia (S. C.) Course.
The friend who writes these few lines knew him in
and well, and never knew a better man.
lie was a firm, uncompromising Democrat of the ,y
son school, and in his death Tennessee has lost a dew
devotee of Democracy.
Peace to his dust. Wiiua
Columbus, Ga., March 10,1856.
Jg®” Those who have used Professor AVood
Hair Restorative are sufficiently cognizant t
its excellent qualities, but others may not l
aware that it is no ordinary article. Itm
discovered by Professor Wood, an able da
ist and professor of that science, while expen
menting to find a remedy for the change a®
falling out of his own hair. Its wonderful t!
sects in his own case and that of some prim
friends, and their urgent requests indued
him to offer it to the public.— Balt. Dispatch
An Interest in The Sun for Sale.
The business of The Sun establishment lit
ing more than I can do justice to, I offers
interest of one third, or one half for sale. Th
establishment is one of the most extensive ant
well appointed in the South. It may truly I*
said to be prepared for all work in the lined
printing. The paper has been establish#:
only seven months, and the position it has al
ready attained in public favor, is a sufficien
guarantee of its future prospects and profits.
A person qualified to conduct the editorial de
partment with spice, life aud ability, would bt
preferred. For terms and price, call at th
Suu office, or address
THOMAS DE WOLF.
TWO MONTHS APTER DATE
APPLICATION will be made to the Honorable C
of Ordinary of Muscogee county, for permissionr
sell the Deal Estate of the late Jacob I. Moses.
A. J. BDADY, Executor.
Marcli 4, 1856.
MARCUS fc CHAFFIN
HAVE Just Deceived—
-10 Barrels Apples,
New Fresh Lard,
Large hand-made Hominy,
Fine Havana Cigars,
Sultana Baisins, Figs &e.
Worcestershire Sauce,
Fresh supplies of Maccaroui.
Dried Beef.
Marcli 10.
A. J. RIDDLE,
DAGUERKEAN ARTIST,
HAS closed his rooms over Mygatt’s Store, prepars
torv to re-opening on a scale of magnificence fr
surpassing anything heretofore known in this City.
His new rooms will be on the corner of Broad
Randolph streets, in the block now being built liyC
Jones, and as soon as completed.
March 7,1866 Jf_
NURSE WANTED.
\\T ANTED to hire for one month, a good Nurse*
T V grown woman—white, yellow, or black. Apply
the Oglethorpe House, Room No. 7, to
March 4, 1850. C. W. ASHBURY
CHEAPER THAN CHEAP.
Great Attractions and Bargains’
FRESH ARRIVAL OF
SPRING AND SUMMER FANCY GOODS.
LATEST STYLES.
JUST received on consignment from New York.
splendid assortment of Fancy Goods, to which
call the attention of the Ladies, viz :
Ladies’ Luce Sets.
“ Swiss Cambric Embroidered Collars.
“ Muslin “ “ “
“ Scotch “ “
•• French Muslin “
“ Swiss “ Sleeves.
“ Cambric “
1 Real LePure Lace Set.
1 Maltise “ “
Embroidered Rands of numerous patterns, nnd
dry other articles. (
The above can be seen at our Auction Room tor ll ■
days only, and those who wish to purchase will u° **
to call immediately. ~,,
March 1. 3t HARRISON & McGEIH ’
OATS
600 BUSHELS Oats just received and for
PRINTING AND WRAPPING PAPE R ’
ROCK ISLAND PAPER MILLS.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUIESK MILLS are prepared to furnish the I” ‘ ”
tide of Printing and Wrapping Paper. The pj*
wh ieliThe Daily Sim is printed, is made at these .m
ALEX. MCDOUGALD R. G. CABITHE*’
McDOUGALD & CARITHEItS.
Attorneys at Law,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
\\T ILI. practice in all the counties of the Clit
y\ chce Circuit; in the counties of Chattao;’
Clay, Early, and Randolph, of the Pataula Cirrui
Calhoun and Decatur counties, of the South Vi e>t |r ”
cult.
February 28. 186li. ly