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COLITMBTJS: Tuesday morning, Nov. IS, 1850. IjAKOK.S'I’ CITY CIRCULATION. Shooting. On Buutiuy evening last, an altercation occur red in this city, between Mr. Jeptha Wiggins and Mr. Gaines Chisholm, during which Mr Chisholm was shot in the wrist. From what information we could obtain, we learn, Mr. Wiggins noted on the defensive.— The pccurencc is more to be regretted in ns much as the parties were old friends. We trust the difficulty will be honorably and ami cably adjusted between the parties. Odd Fellows’ Celebration. Musoogee Lodge No. 0 1. O. O. F. celebrated their thirteenth Anniversary on Monday last the 17th inst. Headed by the celebrated Hand belonging to G. N. Kldrcd’a Circus and Menagerie, they pro ceeded from their Ilall to Temperance Hall, whore l)r. W. W. Flowelien delivered the most chaste, beautiful and appropriate address as was over our pleasure to hear. It was redo lent with the choicest similies, and abounded with bursts of oratory, worthy of the champi on of such a brotherhood. He depicted with a master mind, the benefits derived and the honor attained by becoming a member ol’ tlie fraternity. The orator eloquently convin ced the delighted auditory how “Eevci-d in age, beloved ij* youth, Aro holy friendship, hove anti Truth.” We should stato in this place that many iil mannered hoys whose faces scented of “the earth earthy,” annoyed the audience by con stantly tramping in and out the hall during the delivery of the address. The seats of the llall too seemed to have lmd been neglected by the dusting brush. The ladies present did not much relish their condition. After the delivery of the address the proces sion moved to the l’crry House and partook of of a splendid dinner; and just such a dinner as Mr. l’erry and his amiable lady and the Messrs Bass can propare. There was no inci dent calculated to mar the pleasures of the day, aud all things went ‘Merry as h marring* liell.” - . After him with a Sharp Stick. The following which wo clip from the Dal las (Ala.) Gazette is pretty tight papers on Captain Suggs. Jonoc’s sad mistake is equal ulily to that’ of a certain paper not u league from this vicinity. We hope there will bo no enquirer for the name of the sheet which bat tled shoulder to shoulder in the Presidential contest with the Montgomery Mail. Some guessers they! LKT THE “MAIL” LOOK OUT! A zealous Know Nothing was bitter in his complaints against the Montgomery Mail a few days since. Ho made numerous bets on the strength of the brags of that paper, and has lost them all. He said something about reporting our funny and “romancing” contemporary to the Grand Jury, so he had hotter look out. A Golden Gift. A female friend of ours just entered into the matrimonial state, and who received a splendid copy of the Bible as a Bridal gift, has kindly furnished us a paragraph from the note accom panying the magnificent aud appropriate present. Here it is : “I can think of no more suitable gift than this. Take it and make it the rule of your life. In prosperity, iu sickness, in health may its counsels be your guardian angels, near to instruct, to solace and strengthen you in all the dutios of your new life; aud when our lit tle course of life is run may it bo the happi ness of the giver to meet you- and yours iu the upper and better Land.” Are not these beautiful sentiments, so feel ingly uttered, “like apples of gold on pictures of silver ?” Apollo Abroad. Maj. Jones of tlio Savannah News notices thus a part of the advertisement of our fascin ating friend Apollo. No doubt Major but the appreciative gentleman will render you his thanks for the kindly aid you have given him. Who will give Apollo the next lift ? “A Wife WANTEn.-Some genius advertises iu the Columbus Sun for a wife under the age of 30, of good temper, good figure, and posses sing a moderate share of worldly goods. So far the advertisement follows the usual form. But now soe how modestly the gentlemen hints at his own qualifications. “The advertiser is about 28 years old, of good height and figure, fair complexion, dis position kind, has moustache, goatee, and long hair—-all black—a fair share of jewelry, aud a wardrobe of fine clothes. Can sing and dance perfectly, and performs on several musical in struments. Being at leisure at present, ho will bo pleased to hear of any propositions from his equals.” Will not some fair damsel take pity on the lonely Condition of this poorl'ellow, with dispo sition, moustache, goatee and long hair, —all black, and a good lot of “store clothes.” “Ilia equals” should not let this chance pass, for it is not often suoli a bargain is offered, —long hair, moustache, goatee, singing, dnneing, per forming on several instruments, good clothes, and at leisure at present. Wonderful man!” - • ------ ♦ - • We learn from the Advertiser that the work on the Chattanooga and Clevelaud Railroad is progressing rapidly ; ns much sons the nature of tiro labor will permit. The tunnel is under way on each side of the ridge, with as large a force as can be conveniently eniployod. In twelve months the cars will be running between the two cities. THE CIRCUS. Last night the Circus wns filled, cumpaetly filled. The audience seemed perfectly delight ed with the perforumuces, and the wit and humor of the Clowns (particularly that of Jim my Reynolds) was received with great ap plause. Mons. Franconi and his wonderfully trained horse, arc a groat addition to the cir cus, and elicited much praise. The most perfect order seemed to prevail, I and up to the tirno of our leaving every body appeared to be enjoying themselves finely. P- T. Herbert at Home- The people of Mariposa, for eight years the residence of Mr. Herbert, have without dis ’ tinetiori of party, endorsed and sustained his ; course. Here are the resolutions unanimously ■ adopted at a meeting of the citizens of that place, irrespective of party : j Resolved, That irrespective of party, we tho I citizens of Mariposa, are gratified at the re turn of the Hon. I*. T. Herbert, ourßeprcfien j tative in Congress. We welcome him home to California and to Mariposa, and to reqew to ) him our friendly greetings and hospitalities, j Resolved, That we emphatically deuuunoe J the conduct of certain newspapers in falsify ing aud distorting the facts, and manufactur ing prejudice against tho lion. 1\ T. Herbert, evidently for tho purpose of precluding a fair j and impartial investigation of his recent diffi- I culty at Washington'. The meeting was presided over by Mr. A. J. Gregory, a whig. ♦ Lancaster County? Pennsylvania. The official vote in Lancaster county, resul ted as follows: Fremont fusion ticket 0,608 Fillmore “ “ 3,015 Straight Fillmore ‘ ‘977 Buchanan “ .8,781 A serious accident occurred to the Columbia train of the South Carolina railroad, nine milt# below Branchville, on Saturday last. A rail broke ami three passenger cars were thrown off the track. Mr. Ryan, and a negro woman were soverely if not fatally injured, and about twelve others were more or less wounded. ♦ The Atlanta Intelligencer says William and George Illackstock were badly injured on Fri day last, by tho accidental explosion of a blast, while they were at work at a rock quarry, in this city. The first named, very seriously in jured. Tho Tuscumbia Alabamian says tho burglar who broke into Mr. Ross’ Drug Htoro, last week, and got pretty soverely hatchcted, has so far recovered from his injuries that lie was takon to Frankfort and lodged in jail on Tues day last. He will probably “do the State borne service” yet. ■*-— — Gen. Bankhead- This officer of tho United States Army, fa miliar to many who served in the -Mexican War, died iu Baltimore on the 13th inst. Gen. Harney. The Key West Key of the Gulf of the Bth in stant, announces the arrival of this okl cam paigner at that place. Nicaragua Correspondence. Sax Carlos, Nov. 2,185 G. Editor New Orleans True Delia : The enemy, 1,500 strong, were as good as whipped out of Massaya on the 12th, when General Walker received the courier from Granada informing him that 900 Guatemalans and 800 Chammo ristfts, the latter from San Jacinto and Tipe tappi, had entered that city soon after his de parture, and that the citizens, and clerks, and officers of departments, together with the sick in the hospital, were all that were left there to defend it. He counter-marched early in the morning of the 18th, and after a half hour’s struggle fully put the enemy to route, killing at least 400 in Granada-aud 100 in Masaya, aud taking 58 prisoners in Granada. The Americans counted 100 of the enemy dead in Masaya in the parts of the town they oecu pied, but the enemy pertinaciously drag in, bury, and hide their dead, and many a poor fellow falls by the American rifie in the time ritous attempt. Tho Americans lost four kill ed at Masaya, and ten in Granada, with thirty nine wounded. General Walker holds (in chain gang) fifty-eight Guatemalan prison ers, takeu in Granada, and lias executed two —a Colonel and one Captain—of the enemy, prisoners, to compensate one American execu ted by them, whom they promised to return ■ for a bugler, but whom, after General Walker had sent in the bugler, they confessed they could not give him up—they had killed him ! Tho Americans hurried over one hundred of the enemy’s dead iu Granada, while they had filled three wells capable of containing one hundred each, besides filling privies, cesspools, and burying very many in tho yards and su burbs of Granada, rendering it impossible to furnish anything like a satisfactory list. The coullict lasted but a half hour in Gra nada after the arrival of the forces from Ma saya. The General will probably soon move on to Masaya again, whence, after routing the euemy, he will pursue them to Leon, and driv ing them thence, will occupy that city with a strong garrison, which will hold it permanent ty- The army is in very excellent health and has an amply supply of munitions and arms for its present number. The rainy season is rapidly closing, and the “crossing” is extremely facile anil plonsant. As ever, yours, Okanuo. Pennsylvania- In thirty-four countirs, the official vote stands, for Buchanan 177,899 Total opposition 101,151 Democratic majority 10,748 Iu the above counties, and. included iu the opposition vote, the straight Fillmore ticket received 23,331 votes. A late dispatch from Harrisburg, Fa., (Nov. 12th,) says, in fifty counties Buchanan has re ceived 218,514 votes and tho fusion ticket 190,472, (in tlie later vote the Fremont fu ion claim 137,700, and tho Fillmore fusion 52,772) and tho straight Fillmore ticket received 25,- 510 votos. Tho remaining counties will in crease the democratic majority about 2,500 votes. Mr. Buchanan’s plurality in Pennsylvania will bo about 57,000, and lie will have a small majority in the State overall the opposition.— Augusta Constitutionalist . - ■ Important Agricultural Movement. The two excellent agricultural works, the Soil af the South ami the American Gotten Planter have been united, or emerged, and the publication is to be ebutinued in this oil) the Planter being the work to bo continued. This arrangement secures tho best periodical ever published in tho South. Wo do not know nil the arrangements of the plan, but we aro glad to learn that Mr. Peabody is to remain in Ids position ns Horticultural Editor—and also , that Dr. Cloud will maintain hi.* old place.— The work will be worthy of the South, and will chjoy au immense patronage. —Montgomery Meteenger. —~ A hog exhibited at Chilicothe .(Ohio) Fair, last week, weighed 1,185 pounds, and meas ured nine feet in length, and about the same in girth- He wns two years and three months old. South Carolina Agricultural Fair. Among the Premiums awarded we notice the following to.citizens of this State: Best Cooking Stove of Georgia Iron, Silver Medal. W. 11. Goodrich Best Washing Machine of Georgia Iron, Sil ver Medal. W. H. Goodrich & Cos. Best Band Saw, Silver Medal. 11. Williams, Georgia. The best Bull Calf; G. H. Waring Geor gia. The best Cow, three years old, S2O. G. 11. Waring, Georgia. The South Carolina Paper Manufacturing Company, at Bath, near this city, received pre miums for the best Book Printing paper, the best News Printing paper, and the best Manilla Wrapping paper.— Augusta Constitutionalist. i The Petersburg South Side Democrat is re sponsible for this one: Palming it off on a Neighbor- We met yesterday n gentleman from Chestftr tield,Gained 11. Tlioruwell, who had not for some days back, till this recent change in tlie w eather, yesterday morning, used his overcoat. ’ ( hi putting his hand into one of its-pockets, he j found therein a wallet containing papers and bank bills amounting to nearly SjjjjOQ. He can only account for it as follows: Last week while going to the State Fair on tho cars 1 a gentleman from the Soutii discovered liis ; money gone, and on some excitement being raised as to the certainty of the thief's bciugin the cars, u resolution to have a general search was carried, though not put into effect. Mr. T. thinks that a tranquil looking stran ger who sat next to him must have been the thief, wlio becoming scared at tho idea of a search, quietly poked the wallet into the over coat packet of his neighbor, and then found no opportunity of re-picking it from Mr. T. “”i'is a bud wind that blows nobody good.” Mr. T. thinks the letters in the wallet will en able him to find the right owner, but any com munication directed to the Democrat otfioe on the matter will be forwarded. The-farmers of our county arc preparing to start with their hogs to the Southern market, ami in the course of ton days, all will be upou the road. The great drouth of tho past season has cut short tho corn crop even more as it turns out, than has been expected, fewer hogs will be driven South than usual, and yet the corn has been fed awey until it will require rigid economy’ to make the remainder answer tho demands for our home consumption. The price now asked by the farmers for corn, is fif ty cents at the field. Some of the traders have bought corn in North Carolina at forty and fifty cents per bushel, and driven their hogs there to feed them, tlie crops in North Caroli na having been better this year than the crops of our country, and such a thing as driviug hogs there from this section of the country has never been known before. We understand that some hogs have been sold here at $5 25 per hundred gross.— Damlridge, (Torn.) Statesman, Nor. 7. Tlio Seven Hundred Milo Rifle. This extraordinary gnu was carried iu pro cession on Thursday flight last, and visited Germantown yesterday afternoon and evening. It is certainly a great curiosity. The idea of the gun belonging exclusively to Mr. Campbell: his inventive genius having first added length to the barrel of the ordinary rifie. But to Mr. Fair, who is an excellent mechanic, is due the credit of the first practical application of the fighting Congressman’s idea. The gun is about forty feet long. The cock one foot and a-half high ; the triggers about a foot long. The cap is something of tho size of a small flower pot. The bore is about four inches; calculated, when properly loaded, to carry something over seven hundred miles.— It is designed to accomodate such fighting Congressmen as Burlingame and Campbell, who, being uiost capital shots, admired a long distance. The gun is something nnwieldly’, it is true, requiring a squad of some ten men to manage it, but its long range well repays all trouble. We understand that a patent is to be taken out—tho profits to be- divided betweeu Mr. Campbell and Mr. Fair of cur city.— Dayton ( Ohio) Empire. * Light-fingers Successful—A Back Set. We learn that two ladies were robbed yes terday at the Fair Grounds; one of SI,OOO, the other ot an inconsiderable amount A gentleman also, had his pockets lightened of SBO0 —Mr. Barton, of the “Fork,” in this county. There were probably other cases of which we did not hear. Isn’t it strange, that, with all the warning, sensible people will con tinue to carry large sums about their persons in a crowd known to be well sprinkled with thieves? McGikoney “spotted” a fellow yesterday on the “Grounds,” whom he had warned the day beforo not to attend. Satisfied that he be longed to the “operators” of tlie day—though there was uo legal proof—ho took him to a re-’ tired spot and, with a heavy wagon whip, trotted him down the first quarter stretch of the “Jordan Road.” Mac, we are told, never showed more unction or impressiveness thau in I tho performance of these services.—Montgome \ rtf Mail. A Curiosity. The vegetable world not less that the human has its freaks of form ; and as there are iu the latter bearded woman, so in tho former, there are sometimes seen the likeness of things on earth, if not above, which oauuot “overcome us without special wonder.” One of these has been sent us for inspection ; being a carrot, a l forked thing, but resembling the human form divine of tho gentler sex, though like the effigy of tho “good woman” divested of the head. Its resemblance also to the human anatomy is almost :is closo us that borue by the monkey to the man. —Mobile KcgisU r. Poor Fellow! We sincerely commisserato the erudition of our cotnuiporary of the Knoxville Register. To be enlisted in a bad cause.—to be thorough ly defeated, and then be oblige ! or required to get up an Interesting paper immediately there after, is indeed a sad ease. Hear him ! “If every one of our readers had ever been compelled to niako up u paper for a week or | two, immediately succeeding a Presidential ’ oletioii, and especially after being most outra geously thrashed, it would not be necessary for us to apologize for our stupidity this week.” But we are glad to see that hois sick of tlie business and will probably ‘never do so again.’ Hear him again ! •*Our readers, wc ku<>w, at e surfeited with polities—if such a thing is pro lieahle of such nauseating food—and we arc quite certain that no one is more disguslcl, at present, with “dabbling in the dirty pool” than ourself— more especially when we contemplate the re- . suit at which we have arrived.'' —Atlanta In- ‘ telligcncer. The Young Men's Fremont Club met, in Uhicag'i, on the 11th instant, uhd re-organiz ed. T roy appointed an executive committee and st i -Jed the nomination of the Young Men’s i Ural Union of Now York, of John 0. Fro,., ml for the Presidency iu 18(50. GENERAL ITEMS. The result of the presidential election has advanced eteoks two per cent, in Wall street. In Prussia,males are not permitted to mar ry under tweuty-five, nor females under twen ty lour years of age. The Nashville Union and American, of 13th instant, says Buetnmau’s majority iu Tennes see will fall but little short of 8,000. Miss Margaret 11., eldest daughter of Gen. Twiggs, U. S. Army, died at New Orleans, on the2oth u!t., aged twenty-four years. The illness of John G. Saxe, the poet, is of sucii a nature that his recovery is looked upon as doubtful by his friends. Uov. Win. D. Walker, for nineteen ‘.years a Methodist preacher of considerable note iu Tennessee, recently united with the Baptists. Reuben Haynes, an old mid respectable cit izen, and one of the first settlors of Atlanta, died at his residence in that city on Thursday morning last. A small drove of hogs, numbering only forty head, reached Spartanburg, S. U. last week. The whole Ayna purchased by Dr. Lamb at of cents per pound. ‘ Someone has said of those who die young, that they :rrd like the lambs which the Alpine shepherds bear in their arm* to higher, green er pastures, that the old flocks may follow. A yankee being asked by a Russian the boundary of his country, said it was bounded ou the north by aurora borealis, and the south by the day of judgment. Mr. Smith, you said you boarded at the Co lumbian Hotel six months; did you foot your bill ?” “No sir, but it amounted to the same thing—the landlord footed mo.” The Columbia (Pa.) Spy acknowledges the receipt of a sample of what it considers very superior molasses, manufactured by a gentle man near that place from the Chinese corn stalk. A short time ago George Russell was put in the jail at Huntsvill, Alabama, for killing John Henry, and on Thursday last Hash An derson and Crockett Sterling were also put in jail for killing John Howell. The gross receipts of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for the month of October have beon very large, exceeding by about teu thou sand dollars the receipts for September, which were $459,849.18. “How is you husband this afternoon, Mrs. Squiggs? ” “Why, the doctor says as how as if ho lives till morning, he shall have some hopes of him, but if he don’t, he must give him up.” A lady with a flushed face and carbuueled no3c consulting Dr. Chyne, exclaimed : ‘Where iu the name of wonder, Doctor, did I get such a nose as this ? ’ “Out of the decanter, mad am out of the decanter,” replied the Doctor. The Yorkville Enquirer mentions the elec tion of Dr. John B. Adger, of Charleston, to tho Chair of EcclessiastiCal History in the Theological Seminary, vice Rev. B. M. Fainter, who has accepted a call to New Orleans. Hon. James Buchanan and Hon. Lewis Cass passed through Philadelphia on the 13th inst. on their way to Dover, Delaware, to attend the furneral of Hon. J. M. Clayton, which w-as to take place that afternoon. Ou the day of the election, a difficulty oc curred in Maysville, Madison county, Ala bama, between W. A. Wortham and two men, Murray by name. They both attacked Wor tham with knives, when young Wortham shot one of them, inflicting a dangerous wound in the head. Oh, if there is a jewel in the human charac ter that excels in brightness, it is that spirit of independence which enables its possessor, at all times, and under all circumstances, to utter his thoughts and lift up his head in fa vor of all truth and justice, unmoved by cith er the frowns or flatteries of man. In the case of Merick vs. Sunderland, re cently decided by the Supreme Court of Cali foriuia, in favor of tlie plaintiffs, involving the title to one-third of the city of Sacramento, valued at $3,000,000, Joseph G. Baldwin, Esq., author of “Flush Times in Alabama,” got a contingent fee of upwards of one hun dred thousand dollars. The Surveyor General of India has complet ed his labors in the Himalayas mountains. •Ho has demonstrated that the highest moun tain iu the world is 29,002 feet above the level of the sea, and he has named the peak Mount Everest. Kinchinjinga, the next highest peak, is 28,150 feet high. Dewalagril, the highest peak put down in geographies, is only 20,82(5 feet high. S. A. Atkinson, Esq., late of tlie Cherokee Georgian, at Marietta, has issued a prospec tus for a Daily paper to be issued about the first of January next in the city of Augusta, under the title of the “Daily Evening Dis patch.” It is designated to be strictly a news paper, eschewing political turmoil, and will be published at tho low rates of $1 per aunuui. A wrought iron cannon has been manufac tured iu Liverpool, England, which weighs twenty-two tons, and sends a hall of three hun dred pounds weight a distance of four miles. Gen. John H. Eaton, of Washington, was stricken with an apoplectic fit on Friday last, and little hope is entertained of his recovery.’ Religious Liberty in Germany. The question whether Baptists shall be ad mitted to the approaching meeting of the Evan gelical alliance is regarded with groat interest iu Germany as a sort of test question respect ing religious freedom. Tlio controversy is warmly waged, and among the new and impor tant adherents to the side of liberty aro Dr. bchoukol, of Heidelberg, and the celebrated Brummacber, court preacher. The King Is said to still favor the toleration of the Bap tists, A Crash. The new brick walls of the passenger depot, in construction for tho different railroad com panies at this point, foil in w ith a great smash on Tuesday last. The building was over B<K) foot iu length and uot covered, and the heavy rains of late settled the foundation on tins in side, causing both the side walls to fall for 250 fqpt. The depot was too much contracted in the first place, and we trust that the wisdom and liberality of tho companies interested, will replace the entire building with another more suitable in all respects. —Chattanooga Adver tiser. ♦- • Crimean Soldiers. The New Evening l’ost, of the 4th inst., says: - “A great many non “ho left our shores during the late war with Russia to join the British army in tho Crimea, have now returned and enlisted in our army. Many of these have the Crimean medal bestowed by the British Government, which they arc still permitted to wear. Ten or t welve of them made applica tion at tlie rendezvous in this city on oue day last week, and wc are told that some are enlis ted almost every day. Telegraphed to tho X>:i;y s, , s From New York. ‘ New York, Nov. j*. I The tales of Cottou to-dny foot up lii( I three thousand bales, market firm. ‘ | From Charleston. I Charleston, n ov -- ■* The sales of Cotton to-day wore thim hundred bales. No change in prices. Dreadful Collision and Losa of Lite Mew York, Nov. 15.—The French steamer Lyonnais, lienee for Havre had ~ I lision off Nantucket, on the 2d inst. uit] . unknown vessel. The latter is suppes e( | have sunk. The steamer commenced sin! i on tlio following day, and was abandon,.: ‘ I The passenger's and crew took to the b . I One boat containing fourteen person wiiai ! ’ ed up and brought to this city. The „t‘;. ‘ ■ numbering over one hundred, and utikno, are doubtless lost. The following were *< lV Mr. Shaffer nnd Wife, Flora, Solomon Li ~ V go, Earnestine Bollatt, and balhnice wev, T j crew. The steamer was valued at $251).p J Among the missing passengers, is Albert (h, j ner, (brother to Senator Sumner) and ], i One hundred and fifty passengers are mb,:.’ I and it is feared all have perished, as the if was very boisterous. Second Dispatch. The steamer Marion has been chartei-i--! • proceed in search of the Lyonnais, which ,;,.’ agents believe is stiff afloat, and tit ai.y i, may hear something of the missing survivin'. The vessel th*at came in collision with the [/ onnais is supposed to have been a huge hi,,,,', can dipper, which immediately after the dent disappeared. —Augusta JMmstitiitimuilix! The Three Washburnes. livery one of the three Washbui ue-b, elected to the next Congress. Israel in \| by 5.000; Oadwullader U., iu Wisccus.i. 1 5,000; Auid l'ffihu B. in Illinois by 11,5. ; jority Army Resignation. Our distinguished fellow citizen Major VYr. H. Chase, says the Pensacola Gazette, late the U. S. Army, has resigned. Tlie Top.,, graphical Corps, with which he was connect, has lost one of its m st efficient and scion;!:.! members. We anticipate much benefit to im ; Railroad from the undivided attention whi,-;,. as President, ho will be enabled to bestow up on it. Major Chase has long been identitki with the interests of Pensacola and the W generally; and has always been a prominent and active participant iu every euterpii,-,- which had for its object the building up of our “aucieut city,.’ and the development of the re sources of Florida aud Alabama. 11c lias la bored zealously and incessautiy to roi sc Un people of this section, and of Alabama, to flu paramount importance of a Railroad connip tion between Montgomery and Pensacola, k. the'tone of Central aud South Alabama pic.-:-, we see ample evidence that in his recent jim-. ney homeward from Washington he has ü been idle. The papers of that region seem alive to the importance of the enterprise, ana arc urging the people to take hold of it, subscribe the amount required to comylete tin whole line from Montgomery to the State line, which we understand is less than $400,001). We feel assured that under the Presidency of Major Chase, everything will bo done that can be accomplished by indomitable eneiy. to secure an early completion of the work. . A Potatoe Story. The Concordia Intelligencer may well &-k he deliverance of the Lord after getting off suedi a whopper as the following; Judge Bullock, of the Weymouth estate, in Natchez, the other day seut oue of his negm-- to dig a sweet potato or yam for dinner. Tic negro commenced at tlie top, and dug down into the “bowels of -he land,” at least tli;-,- feet, and found the potato growing larger mid larger the further he went. He ran away in fright, telling his master that tlie l’rince of Evil had hold of the other end of that pota! . A second negro with more moral courage broke oft’ the potato, at a length of two and a tia.i feet. The other end is supposed to have con e up somewhere in China, on the opposite side < ■; the earth. / “I say, Mr. Printer, do j’ou ‘take Alnbai “• Money?” “No, sir, not often.” What’s the reason?” “Can’t get it.” A CARD. MUSCOGEE LODGE Xo. G, t. (-. 0. i. November 17,1E50. At a meeting of the Lodge this evening,- n- v-! 1 “ thanks was voted to tlie Manager of the Oireus ot Mr. l N. Eldreil, for favoring the Order with the se-,-vie- • hisexce!lcnt Band on the occasion of our (\-lehr- , to-day. B. F. COLEMAN. ,\. ('■ NOTICE. THE eiiqnirtnerohip heretofore existing between u undersigned under tlie firm ofKiviiu, ‘i'b- niii- * 1 was dissolved ou the 16th instant, by mutual om- i-- The unsettled business of the concern will be -1 - J Joseph IV. Thomas, who alone, is authorised to sign uk name of tho firm in liquidation’. A. C. Kit IJ.’ . JOS.W. Til “MAS, Columbus. Nov. 17. 188. In* T. K. TUGGLE _ OYSTERS. VFK*I-:SII supply received every morn- / ing hv express from Savannah. * .1. 1(. ‘pIOMAf a i • November 17. 42 Brusd M CARPETS AT COST! TIO dose cht tho lot. vve will sell our entire stock “ CA RPETE AT COST. „ , Nov. 17. 1861. i.AiiX ETT. ELLIS* *■’ < “•. BUSSEY 4 HULL., Wholesale and Retail Grocers and Commission Merchnnts, VT the old stand of D. Ellis & Cos., 14 BroadTvjjjjL’ street, Columbus. Georgia. Nov. 18— if •LUST THE PLACE. BRASSILL & CO., OtTOStTE THE TOST OFFICE, COLUMBI’S “A • UAVKJust re oived utid offer for sale, a fresh lot of Potatoes. Cat drags, Apples. tWanges. • l.euions, Figs, Kuiun*. Cranherrivi*, all kinds ofvajflV j. Nuts, Dried and Dr.-served Fruits. Dickies, choice cured Hams, Beef Tongue.. Bologna Fuu-Mgcs. - Pin” Apple and Goshen ClieeS", Fresh Northern I-’ 1 Fardlncs. Lobsters, Catsups, Sniicns, Veriuaeilli, “ roui. ripublkh Beans. YVusl IMwdors, Mustard, Butler, Soda aiul Sugar Cracker*) Elite URANMES, WINK.-. ALE. DOKTKR. TOBACt’O, nnrt every mod tiling flint enild be “’ iu tM- gastronomic 1 ini*. Every article war; un ted us reproseuted. November 17, lb.’> ■ id CL tell 17 NH ip i\ a stub \ YOUNG-MAX’ of three jeers experience situation as salesman. oj clerk in any r--P'‘ biyjinerfi, vit!c*r lii thi* Mucou 1 Best of dtr reference can be given. Address Nov. i;., I.vv>—A. Columbus. I FULTON MARKET liUEi - / illOlCt Fulton Market Beef and an Extra ‘ I , Tennessee Hams, just received by Bcpt. 13. __ <jUNB’ THE CRIMINAL COURT. rpHE Criminal Court of the City of Colnmbn -1 postponed till the Util Monday in V'fVcuo-'-- Parties interested, jurors and witnesses will at • 1 eordlngly. „ „ , : Hy •ik'd, r ut tue ilvirornblc I’cJ ioiill ‘, ..I said Court. CALVIN STKAfTGN, Nov .12—It