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O O LU M.B XJ B : Tlinriday Morn Jug, Dte. **, 1850. LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. Eclipie. The Sun will be in eclipse until Monday morning next. Those who desire to observe its re-appearance with Holiday Telescopes must get up before day, provided no egg nog was before on hand. However, new cash sub scribers are always attended to with punctual ity and dispatch. No incessant darkness from this eclipse of the Bun. x Christmas! We look on Christmas as a period of pleas ure and exluliratiou. The rich have a knowl edge that none can enjoy life without they possess its luxuries: and the poor have the ooudoleuce that “ the rich cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven./ The young folks are now and were yester day highly elated with the visitation of Santa Claus, bet him come down the chimuey or creep through the cracks with presents for the •• loved ones at home” lie is cheerfully wel comed. We hope them all (whata printer never en joys) a Merry Christinas. Those who wish to inauU us umy “ lead us up to the trough” of plenty, or “send round.” - -♦ The Crowd. At I. 0. Strapper's Stovall's, Celia’s and J. B. Thomas & Co.’s we notice great crowds last evening. These men do right, and are rightly appreciated. The property on the Corner of Broad and Randolph Streets, sold at auctiou yesterday, and was purchased by Mr. Lambert Spencer, at SIO,IOO cash. Owner informs us that he refused $13,000 for the property last summer. This will give an idea of the tightness of mo ney at. this point now. Pork. • We were told yosterday by a gentleman from Talbotton, that three droves of liogs had been sold at that place recently at $0.50 per buu dred. It is exceedingly singular that there should oxist such a difference between Tnlbot tou aud Columbus. The lowest price wc have beard any offered in this market, is $7.50 per hundred. Drovers would do well to turn their attention to this market. ♦- We learn from the Columbia (S. C.) Times, ‘of Monday, that the Hon. Joseph A. Black, lute Senator from Richland District in the State Legislature, aud for several years a pro minent member of the legal profession in Col umbia, died at his residence at Spring Bluff, oil Saturday night. A tire occurred in Savannah, on Monday night, in the Livery Stable of Mr. Stevens.— The building was consumed, together with about 40 horses, several vehicles and the stock of provinder. By the timely presence and ex 'ertions of the fire department, the fire was confihed to tho one building. The Cheraw Gazette states that an affray oc curred in that place on the evening of the Itith instant at the auction sale of Mr. Odoms, and Mr. Matthew M. Sellers was stabbed so badly that he ss not expecten to live. Rail Road Decision. A case of damages was recently tried at a special Court ut Sheveport, La., on the 28th ult., in which Wm. C. Beek sued the Vicks burg, Shreveport aud Texas Rail Hoad Compa ny, for damages in running said road though his land. The damages were laid at $25 per aero for the laud, and slooo’speciul damages. The jury rendered a verdict of SSO for the laud, and $75 special damages. False Packing Gotton. We notico iu several of our country ex changes, severe strictures on tiie article copied into our paper some time since, from the Man chester Board of Trade, about the amount of false packed cotton, which lias made its ap pearance in that market. That the practice does exist to some extent, we know from observation. Several instances have come to our knowledge in this market. The CAses have, we believe, been generally settled between the planter and buyer, and left to rest. Iu our opinion, the planter who is guilty of such uu act, should forfeit the cottou and have his name given to the public. A few exposures through the public prints, we think, would check the practice. But a few weeks ago, while iu the oflice of a buyer, we wore shown cottou drawn from a bale which sampled well in the usual way, but the dirt of which actually weighed more than the cotton. The Western Territories. There are uow open for settlement the ter ritories of MinnessotA, Oregon, Nebraska, Washington, Now Mexico, Utah and Kansas. These territories oohtain according to a com pendium of the census df 1860, the following area: Sq. Milos. Minnesota 166,025 Oregon 585,036 Nebraska 385,882 Washington 133,022 New Mexico ,207,007 Utah 209,107 Total 1,280,079 Kansas 144,789 The first-named six territories contain 1,- 295,069 Hquaro miles of land, and a total urea of all tho States and Territories belonging to the Union, is 1,930,100 square miles; they run through some seventeen or eighteen de grees of latitude. These territories will form with a fraction of thirty such States as Ala bama. Coming it Strong. Little Cent of fifteen ; “Mother, you must allow me more funds; 1 can’t go among our fellows if you don’t. Indulgent Widow— ‘Why, my child, you have three dollars, a week pocket money uow. You surely canuot spend more than that! ” Little Gent—“Yos, that’s all well enough; but where’s my cigars and smushes to come from? and that Newfound* loud dog has such a devil of a twist, I’m sure he'll eat me out one of these days.” Supreme Court of tho United States. Washington, Dee. 18.— The case of Dred Scott vs. Sanford, was resumed. Mr. John son presented precedents in support of his views on the question of the citizenship of the negro. Mr. Blair said his colleague (Mr. Cur tis) proposed to argue merely the constitution ality of the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Cur tis then proceeded with his argument in sup port of the jurisdiction of the Court, and the claim of his client to citizenship, mainly on same grounds as adduced in his remarks of Monday last. He instanced various authorities in support of his propositions, and defended at length the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise, he said, was a sectional question such as calls up the passions of all sections and all countries, tinder the co lor of construing a word on deciding upon a resolution in tho policy of this country. No body ever questioned its constitutionality until a brief period. Mr. Calhoun, in 1838, though believing it to be a dangerous measure, did not say it was unconstitutional. That record con tinued until 184‘J, when that distinguished mail broached the idea that slavery may ex tend into tho territories. The Court is now called upon to sustain an institution, which, by an act contemporaneous with the constitution is declared utterly viola tive of the institutions upon which republics aro founded. It is now asked to change a pol icy, and upon the construction of a word in tho Constitution, “territory,” to decide wheth er this be a slave or a free continent. Judge Marshall says the Government has a general sovereignty over this territory. His friends on the other side of the case say that Marshall was an inspired man, but in this language he was loose. The looseness is not with the Judge’s words, but those who impeach them. Judge Marshall says that upon the words “rules and regulations ” is founded the right to govern the territories. Does not the language war rant the conclusion ? If any man can conceive any other “territory” than that separated from political government over it, his vision is clear er than mine. Judge Marshall says the pow er of Congress is unlimited and supreme, sub ject only to certain limitations imposed by the Constitution. It is known that there are no limitations forbidding the prohibition of slave ry. Mr. Rcverdy Johnson submitted the evi dence that President Madison did not believe the restrietien was within the true scope of the Constitution. Also, a rough draft of the veto message written by President Monroe, of this very bill, saying, that if not violative of the Constitution, it is repugnant iu its provision to the general sentiment of the States. Mr. George T. Curtis, of Boston, made a powerful argument in favor of the constitu tionality of the Missouri Compromise. He would confiuo his remarks to third section of the fourth article of the constitution, which gives Congress authority “to make all needful regulations for the government of the territo ry.” lie claims that there existed full legisla tive power; that the question is eminently an historical one ; aud when you have placed the facts in their historical relation, you have gone far towards settling the coutroversity. The great unoccupied lands within the boundaries of the older States were almost the only sub ject of contention between those States. No sooner had Virginia made a cession of the land beyond Ohio, than the question arose what disposition shall be made of it. By the deed of cession the United States were clothed with power to erect it into Re publican States. When Jefferson, iu 1784, moved his resolution, it was the greatest possi ble doubt if Congress had the power to pass it. Iu 1787 great emigration began into the terri tory, which rendered Jefferson’s measure en tirely inadequate, and the ordinance of 1787 was established. The act passed Congress in New York on tho 13th of July, and was pub lished verbatim in the Philadelphia papers of the 25th, when the Convention was engaged in making provisions on this subject. Among the resolutions offered was one by Edmond Randolph, that provision ought to be made for the admission of States. That resolution pass ed, and was sent to the Committee of Detail. It afterwards became article 17th, viz:—New York States, lawfully constituted, shall be ad mitted with the consent of two-thirds of States with the consent of the Legislatures thereof. Mr. Madison said instantly that the Conven tion had done nothing to provide the power to superintend the public lauds, and moved a pro viso giving Congress power to dispose of the unappropriated lands, to institute temporary governments, and provided for new States therein. The 17th article was finally reached. Amendments pending in all directions, Govern or Morris rising moved a clause as it now stands, viz: “Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules aud reg ulations respecting the territory or other pro perty belonging to the U. States, and nothing iu this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any of the claims of the United States or of any particular State.” Consider ing the relations of the United States to Vir ginia, it was to be expected that- the Conven tion would create Buck a power—first, because there must bo an interval of time before States ean be established ; second, because it was ne cessary to superintend them under the cession of Virgiuia: and third, to subject them to the control of tho United States, who are tho trus tees under tho deed of cession. Recording the word “territory,” if construed in the power to dispose of, it means land, for in those words Congress has all necessary power to dispose; but in the other words, “rules and regulation,” you have a totally dif ferent power. Let us suppose the words only to refer to municipal governments, Congress makes a law which somebody resists. A writ of error is brought before this Court, and it is alleged that Congress has not the needful pow er to pass such a law. Suppose the same case with respect to tho lands. The moment you undertake to reduce the words below their na tural import, you bring before this Court as a judicial question what is purely a political one. If the cluuso only embraces a few spe cific objects, somebody must select the objects. What constitutes the ditt'erence ? Roth are equally matters of legislation, both equally af fected by the grantees of public and private right. Are they not both embraced in the pro position ? Are they needful ? All undeniable rest in the judgment of Con gress as to the necessity. They refer to the standard of what is needful, and that standard is fixed by the grant in the judgment of Con gress. Tho counsel on the other side allege that, if general, the legislation becomes per petual. The very terms of the grant limit the power to territorial existence. The word ‘for ever’ is paraded before us from the Missouri Compromise: hut there is nothing to prevent its being expunged, for nothing can be enacted upon the character of the institution during territorial existence, which cannot be changed immediately on its becoming a State. Con gress has no power to dictate as to the Consti tution of of any State. Mr. Curtis concluded with a tribute to the learning and justice of the Court. Adjourned. A wife full of truth, innocence and love, i the prettiest flower a man can wear next In* heart. For the Dally Sun CHRISTMAS DAY. ItV MBS. C. A. I.KHTAUJKTTK. Comeback daysof my youth, baautitul days cnee mere rut n rn.— Extract. Old memories, they are twining a heart-wreath for my brow. And other days are Dinging their freshness o'er me now: I hear the children’s tiny feet like music pattering by, And happy childhoods gleeful tone* resounding gaily nigh, With eager speed they hasten on, their faces beam with toy, They long to taste the tempting fruit aud grasp the paint ed toy, Ami then like those of riper years, when sated turn awuy And sigh for pleasures to he found another Christmas •lay.. My thoughts aro turning sadly to happier by gone hours When life’s dark path seemed covered o’er with bright and blooming flowers, In fancy. I'm a child again in youths green bowers i stray, And mingle with the merry throng to welcome Christ inas day. I eat again the snowy leaf (nostint was shown tome,) How sweet the morsel tasted beside my grandam’s knee, With grief my heart Is swelling (bright hours ye could not stay), , 1 11 never be a child again to welcome Christmas duy. Pile on the crackling fagots, and us you circle round, If ’mongthe loved one's ut your hearth a vacant place is found; Unite the bond nor let the links, corroding rust away With love ami kindness keep it bright to welcome Christ mas day. Mourn not so deeply for the lost too fair on earth to stay, Let times'soft touch upon your |lieurt its soothing unc tion lay, A tide loner draw the cords of love, and cherish while you may Tiie dear one’s that around you cling, to welcome Christ mas day. Should flcklo fortune on your head her wrathful vials pour, And poverty (man’s direst curse,) sit glaring at your door; irrqw on, luijK ever, trusting still, her frowns limy pass away, Aud she may greet you with her smiles another Christ, mas day. Then gather round the social board, hearts that are light and true, M itli gentle pressure clasp the hand which friendship oilers you, And let the present hour impart a warm and genial ray, The future may not bring to you another Christmas day. And oil! remember those who have no friends or shining gold, That e’en this joyous holiday seems dreary, sad .and cold, Whom God has blessed with bounteous gifts ah! dare they turn away, Nor free pale want from wastingcares this Merry Christ mas day. Messrs. Hill and Stephens. The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel of Tues day, contains a long publication from B. 11. Hill, in reply to the card of Mr. Stephens, pub lished in our paper a few. days ago. Includ ing the correspondence between them, it cov ers four and a half columns of that paper in small type, which bars its publication in the Sun. In his statement Mr. Hill says: My private character is thy jewel 1 prize abovp all others. 1 was born, raised and edu cated in Georgia, and if tho man, woman or child can be found whom 1 ever wilfully de ceived, in private or public life—in politics, law, or social intercourse—l hereby unseal his lips, aud authorize him to speak. It is a real consolation to know, that on this subject, at least, I can defy the slanderer, mock the tra ducer. and despise the venom of even jllexan der 11. Stephens. I hope no one will suppose that even now, I entertain any thing like a feeling of hatred for Mr. Stephens. Far from it —1 would not harm a hair of his head. Up to the Lexington discussion, 1 entertained something of respect for him, though the char acter of many of his statements prior to that time shook my faith in hint considerably. Since 1 saw him, felt him, and weighed him and knew him ns at Lexington, all the depths of unutterable contempt are exhausted in the idea 1 have of his utter want of fairness, and can dor, and truthfulness as a debater. In our discussion at Lexington, I deemed it a duty in reply to his Blunders of honest men, to draw a picture of his own course, and show it to him. Tho very sight of his own picture run him mad. ‘ft was true to life, and therefore the more hideous. Hence his sore, lie had been al lowed to misrepresent until he concluded he had a right to do so, by lapse of time and im memorial usage. His adverse possession of falsehood he deemed furnished an absolulte bar to the entry of truth by the statute of limi tations. We also copy Mr. Hill’s reply to the chal lenge of Mr. Stephens, and which closed the correspondence: LaGhanuk, Ga., Dec. C, 1856. Dear Sir: Your letter, of 2'Jth November, was handed to me, a few moments since by lion. Thos. W. Thomas. You say that my letter of the 24th ult., “has in it much, both in tone and matter, personal ly offensive in itself, &c., and without specify ing any tiling which you designate as offen sive, you proceed to ask of me “ that satist'ac tiou which is usual between gentlemen in such cases. It might be some satisfaction for you, to shoot at iue, though 1 should entertain no great* fear of being hit ; but candor requires me to say, with my present feelings, 1 could not de liberately shoot at you, and for many reasons —a few only of which 1 will now give: Ist. 1 might possibly kill you, and though you may not consider your life, valuable, yet to take it would be a great annoyauce to me ever afterwards The ceaseless accusations of my conscience that 1 was a murderer, would be the bane of all iny future happiness. 2d. lam not conscious of having given you uny just ground of offence. In my letter of the 24th, l uuthoii/.e you to construe my re- : marks by the meaning of your own charge, to which tho remarks were intended as a reply. If the reply, then, was offensive, it only proves that you so intended your charge, and in that ; view you are entitled to no satisfaction, and I am satisfied with tho reply, further than this 1 distinctly disclaimed any personal allusion cr unkinducss, and notwithstanding your “belli gerent message,” feel none now. 3d. If the invitation to mortal combat is in tended ns a mere formal occasion, to exchange a few harmless shots and then have an adjust ment, 1 can only say 1 never engage in farces, nor make feigned issues. If 1 coul i be made conscious that I had done you injustice, 1 should deem it a duty to repair it, and should not wait first to be shot at. If you did me in- j justice, i met the occasion with the remedy, | and it toes seem, made a shot which produced awi bo) if not deeper sore tlmu any within the |.. wee of powder and bad to produce. j. , sir, (as I always speak plainly,) 1 will only add that I know nothing which lifts occur red between you and me which could author ize or justify a duel: and while I have never j at any time had an insult offered me, nor an insult offered me, nor an aggression attempt ed, I shall yet know how to meet and repel any that may be offered by any gentleman who may pie=ume upon this refusal or otherwise. Yours, respectfully, Ac., B. H. HILL. Hon. A. H. Stephens. ~ TELEGRAPHIC. From Charleston. Charleston, Dec. 24. The sales of cotton to-day foot up 1500 bales —for the week 7,500 —market closing firm this evening at a quarter advance for the week Gooi Middling 12j|e. ■ -*■ Expert Roguery. Some expert rogue entered the store of Messrs. Stow & Rhodes, on Friday evening lust, between G and G o’clock, and emptied the cash drawer of its contents, amounting to about one hundred and sixty dollars. Mr. Stow, who is- generally allowed to be tolerably wide awake business man, and several other gentlemen, were seated round the fire at one end of the store, which was lighted, when the theft was committed, but the scamp managed so dexterously us to make off with his booty unperceived. People should be on their guard against light-lingered gentry, — Eufaula Sjiiril. A correspondent of the Now York Tribune, writing from Canada, “as I make my way to the ferry of the Champlain Rail Road, 1 read with a sad sense of its realities, the proud boast upon a banner across the street, which de clares that among her other advantages, Cana da possesses ‘The Freest institutions in tho world ’ ” The New York Day Book thinks that a sufficient answer to this English Aboli tionist is, that Canada still retains the statute of imprisonment for debt, and if Mitchel or Meagber was to step on its soil, he would pro bably be arrested by some official flunkey of the Queen. The Paris correspondent of the Courier des Etats Unis states that the Empress of Russia, while passing through Switzerland, came near losing her life. The horses of her carriage backed over a precipice, and she was only sav ed by the presence of mind and promptness of one of the members of her suite. She remain ed calm during the critical danger in which she was placed. Interesting Documents. The New York correspondent of the Nation al Intelligencer says it is stated that Mr. Buck ingham Smith, an attache of the United States Legation at Madrid, has, after a long and toil some research in the Spanish archives, brought to light a large number or highly interest doc uments relating to the discoveries, explora tions, and conquests of the Spaniards in the Southern parts of the United States and the adjacent territories. Many of these docu ments are represented tohave written by those who figured in the events recorded, and let in a flood of light where hitherto we have had but a dim outline of important transactions in the early history of this Continent. Selections from the documents in question are now in press at Madrid, and a subscription list has been opened in New York city with a view of having tiie same published in this country. Practising for the British. John Mitchel, the Irish patriot, now a resi dent of Tennessee, but who is on a lecturing tour in New York, says the warlike hunters of the county of Blunt, amongst whom he resides in Tennessee, have had no idea until his recent settlement amongst them, that the British Go vernment survived the charge by which their fathers drove the Red coats over their native mountains, aud lincl positively imagined that Andrew Jackson made a full end of British power for ever ? but sinco they find there are still more British regiments in existence, they are at sharper practice with their rifles, with which already they were so expert as to shoot a squirrel in the eye at one hundred yards. FOR RENT. V COMFORTABLE Dwelling with four rooms adjoin ing the dwelling of S. Ogletrec. For terms apply to the suhscriber or S. Ogletrec. J. A. McNEILL. Dec. 25, 1856—(it UNSURPASSED. No. 42 Broad Street. A COLUMBUS, GA. ('? ELATIN’ DATES of Meat, (lame, and Fowl, always T on hand or made to order in the shortest notice. Onreook, JOSEPH PI/ZANI, knows how to please the greatest epicure. Tier 25-ts J. 11. THOMAS & CO. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. r PIIK PEWSofthe Presbyterian Church will be rented -L on Monday 28th Dec. at 11 o'clock, A. M., for the next year. Dec2s-2t A Destralilr Residence In Wynntou, FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE, For Town Property In Columbus. r T’ , IIE house and lot is situated in a 1 good neighborhood two miles AAfSfrF—O from the city—the lot contains 5!l tjSj i ■ rjfe- l- ; acres—about half cleared—the house has four rooms, and twelve foot pa- KlnjJgCQrSSs sage—good double room framed kitchen, smoke house barn, carriage house and stable. The improvements are ali new, having been built within the last two or tlirce years. If not sold by the first of January the place will be rented. JOItDAN L. HOWELL, Trustee. Dec 21-ts Times and Sentinel and Enquirer copy 2t LOOK OUT FOR SOMETHING RICH FOR CHRISTMAS. THE LARGEST BEAR f 1 111 IT ever was killed in these diggings, will he serv- X od up in STEAKS, ROASTS, Ac., to suit the people, on WEDNESDAY AFTKKNOON (Christmas Eve)at 2 o'clock, at the Market House. All lovers ofthe KICII and HARK will not tail to be on hand. Dee :;.:-2t CUAS. 0. BIZK. .11 NT RECEIVED. A 111)1. Irish Potatoes. aJvs 25 bbl. Red and White Onions. 25 Boxes Cheese. .1 Trs. Rice. 50 Bbl. Paragon and Family Flour. JUO Bush. Bolted Meal. 100 Hush. Hominy. Low for cash. 11. M. A E. L. GRAY, Agt Dec 23-ts in Broad -tn-ct. CLEAR THE Til AC K FOR SANTA CLAUSE! I st* I am ’rcund again. and with clear Kkie* 1 uiil good n>ad* I expect to arrive at STOVELL’S CORNER, ll.v the 25th of December, where 1 have promised to distribute the nicest.i|Ueresl,eurlouseat,beantifuleat woioleifulest. ami suiashinest lot of CHRISTMAS PRESENTS that ever made the mouth of a Juvenile “witter.” I hope to meet all my young friends there, for T nm confi dent that the handsomest favors will he found ut that Corner. Count and see the splendid CHRISTMAS TREE 1 have prepared for BTOVKLL. There Is nothing like it this side of Satitu lUnsdolii. Dec 22-It. M VI A CLAUS. A OT ICE. tpilK tilm ofß. A. RICHARDS A (XI., Is this day dls- I solved hi mutual cunmuit of parties. H. A. RICHARDS, iHcI.VJt W. S. NKLL. The bn shuttle will Is* routitiued at tlieold stand by Dec 17-6 t I! A. K.ICHAIiIIS. daily SUN OIFIC! I Columbus, Due. -25, \,;, h ‘ I COTTON—The article continues in KO o<l dc, B out alteratiou in prices- I MACON, Dec 21—There is a Tail- demand , 1 generally irom 9to Fine qualities ? u K to higher, am) would probably bring “ * “o** price. H Wood’s Hair Restorative. I This wonderful preparation is beginning m , I and appreciated iu this and tiie neiah Uni. . kll ">B Its excellence has been attested by the c some of our best and most honorable citizen' 1 ' 0111 '*’ I '* ■ selves have tried it aud found it to possess V, ■ cuious properties ; restoring color and hetdtiu ‘ :l *■ and sculp, and impairing adelicious freshriM / l ! [t -‘M ness to the hair. We advise all who are in preparation, to try the infallible Huir KesmJi 1 “ u hß Wood. None will ever regret the price lad ufl ß perior composition. See advertisement in’ . lIIK B until. —,Salem Advocate. ai "hWr.^H CHRISTMAS GIFTS. r T IIE most beautiful and appropriate Chri K _L one of those superbly colored PUOTiU'ml'Hil be obtained at the PALACE DOOMS Tli,° ‘ AP|: ’ I make a present which will confer a histi, I the recipient, would do well to avail the.,, 0 I’ *■ opportunity. The public arc respectfully n l /Il’ 1 l ' , 1 " 1 hH and examine specimens * “"liedt.-.H Docl6 - tf JUSTIN IIME. ANEW assortment of Handsome Christa,.. , 1 dreu s Carriages, just come at I,l ’ I Dec *2b-4t DILLINGHAM A d K N wn I UAFFLE!BAFFLE!> I T|riLLbe Baffled, at ,1. H. THOMAS & HS *|m balance of the chances are take. ‘'"‘""B did central lire SHOT GUN. Bentlev a- s ‘ ll ‘HoM London, and GOLD W.NTCIf and V I noth to hi* superior artifice. ‘ * ‘ Vil,r Juii ■ bec"”0 tO 4 t r UlU ’ ptace Christn ‘“* Eve night. I ~ smith I EGGS. 500“’ , ' r ‘' K,, K(!(! %n Ty'Y 1 ’ Dec 23-ts A *’ (GUV. ■ venison hams! r\( I VEN ISON HAMB—fresh-just receive,! <■ I tJU rida, for sale by n Map. 1 ""“ ‘ I Dec 2s-tf • 4 L 1 CAUL AT J. 1., CELIA’S, I IF you want something nice for Chrislm,, , D l ec ¥^-tf flDe ,otofErui ‘“'ia Confectioneries. ‘"I FOR SALE. THE owners of the UNION DRAI’ LINE will dispose rv ,rj ot the wholo stock, or any nor- uO-i-Y'- tion thereof, at a reaaonah.e j] -y / I price and easy terms. ‘ln 1 **nr , I ~ a division amongst the owners. Kmiuir, ,Y I TUnes ~tn„ Enquirer copy, J ’ W ‘ *** I CANARY BXFIIds FOR SALE. \ F!NE collection of CANARY’ BIRDS, good *>, singers, just arrived from Germany. Sins.&K. day and night. Also GOLD FINCHES Ac fe They will be for sale at tlo- City Hotel until UK] Monday evening. Columbus, Dec 19-dt EAGLE DRUG STORE. BROAD STREET, HW. NANCE having bought out the above t lisbine.nt of Messrs. Kivlin, Thomas & (.’•> In associated with him Mr. WM. OESNEK, whose y known reputation as Chemist Druggist In thi-city t the last six or eight years, will, we trust entitle Jt„, liberal share of public patronage. The busmen. lk* continued under the name of NANCE & GESNER. Our siock consists of all articles usually kept in a Dm. More, a part of which is a general assortment ol bn. Medtcines and Chemicals, Perfumery, Powders. Ilu Brushes, Conibs,Dye Stud, Varnishes. Paints, ami I ter Barticles. Our stork is all fresh and new, m articles gold warranted as represented, or the an taken hack and money refunded. Prescriptions carefully prepared and put up „ times; day or night, p,. L p_ tl AMUSEMENTS. rrilOSE who havenot Visited BIDDLE S NEW C.H . NO at °uce. <*o and see his ink style of AM BItOTYPES, some of which hang at theiiw.i Christmas Cases. A beautiful assortment of new style Cases, just rmeii ed all tor the Christmas Holidays. St. Nicholas Gallery, Col. Jones’New Building overS. B. Purple s .low.lp Store. Booms open from eight A. M. to five P M Dec 18-6 t SEGARS. ANOTHER lot of those fine Segura, better than lie others, just received at the Eagle Dru<>- Store . PcM-tf NANCE A UKSXKK. PERFUMERY. A £ IN T lot 0f ‘Trfumery, Powders, Hair Urn sins Combs, Ac., just received and for sale at the baa I 1 Drug Store. Dec IS-ts NANCE wC.KSXKIt. OILS. JAMP Train and Neat's foot Oil and burning Fluid J just received and for sale at the Eagle Drug Stun- Dec IS-ts NANCE A GKSNEK CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS! “Kills KIIIIM&LE” WILL |BE HERE! Mr. I. G. STRUPPER. PRKfc?LVJ\s his compliments to his Juvenile Frit-mi?. aud has tlie pi ensure of assuring them that hi- <>M friend “K.HIS K.miVGfljE ” vt’ill, ns usual, t. rry with him during the Holidays. IV old gentleman will come heavily, loaded with such Is-oi. tiful and i/uerr specimens of his skill and fancy. I hat 1 feel sure my young friends will alway s retain h pita.-am memory of CHRISTMAS 1856. COME, and bring your fathers and mothers, hrctlei’ and sisters, uncles and aunts —all that you love ami lh ;| t Jove you —bring them along; for although our tiiei. has little to say to biyfotk* , he has a leomVrful faeult* for brightening up sad faces, and taking the wrinkl from old ones—of lightening the burthen of the hi'., hearted, and loosening the strings of the lighhdjitu therefore bring them with you, ami all ‘shall liaw “MERRY CHRISTMAS!'’ WHAT A WONDERFUL CROWD! Little M’lle. Agnes, IN HER FIRST APPEARANCE ! SUE will make her first sublime Ascension on a pended Wire, at I. G. STRUPPKICS during “” Christinas Holidays—her beauty eclipses all her 1 ! 1 • cessors and her “extruskill'’ gives her a surer footing in this perilous enterprise than any of her comped.-. Columbus, Dec. 17-6 t WATT & SAPPINGTON, GROCERY AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS (Next Door to K. jiurmml,) No. 65 Broad Street, Coluuibutf* AU K Hie now opening, und intend to keep c<i*t;n^’ T f on hand, u select vuriety of FAMILY GROCERIES and other articles adapted to City and Country trifle. M e solicit a liberal share of patronage. TERMS CASH. JAMES M. WATT, JAMES W. SAITIV'TOV Columbus, Uu., Dec. 15, 1850. ts A SPLENDID OFFICE TO RENT- , TWTK.VT to the Post iiflice, being the East hall cl 1 J.V olfiee lately occupied as tlie .Manufacturers Uai'j*. Eu<|uire of It. J. MOSES A- K. W. MOl? 1, Dee IT—ts Next to W lir SMYRNA FIGS. V FRESH lot of the last crop just received sf' l ale at ‘LI i. l CALL AT CBLLA’B { MIH the place to please the cyu and suit the tasb 7 Come one come all, laitli great and small. I” 1 ’ ‘ Cidla makes the rail. D>< -■ BOOK KEEPING! BOOK KEEPI-'*’ ! ’ HAVING been engaged in BOOK KEEPING f' ,r 1,1 la-l eight years, aud fully understanding_botn ■ Ide and Single Entry, 1 propose to open a “else, teaching the science tlie first or second week in J a, ‘ ‘’ Those w ho wish to avail themßelves of this opp" l ’ . ** ill leave their names at tlio Express Office w it.. S. H. Hill, who will inform them of terms. Ac. . Dee 23 If H. C. HAYDF-’