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From the London Times, December 26.
Important from England.
The Return of Lord Palmerston to Office — Antici
pated Declaration of Mar Against Russia.
It became our duty, iu consequence of intelli
gence which had reacuod us to state on Friday,
the 16th of December that Viscount Palmerston
had tendered his resignation of the office of Secre
tary of State for the Homo Department, and had,
therefore, ceased to form a part of her Majesty’s
government, if his resignation was accepted by
the crown. Tnat announcement was strictly ac
curate, and accordingly Viscount Palmerston has
not attended the meetings of the Cabinet which
have been held since he expressed his intention to
resign. It is, however, well known that the im
portant office of Homo Secretary has not been
filled up or accepted by any other member of the
f government; and we have now the satisfaction to
earn that the resignation of Lord Palmerston hrs
not been definitively accepted, but is withdrawn,
and that the Secretary of State for the Home De
partment will retain—we can hardly say resume—
nis former position iu the administration. Expla
nations, honorable alike to all the parties concern
ed in this transaction, have been exchanged ; and
as the difficulties which had arisen between Lord
Palmerston and his colleagues were limited,n we
have already stated on a former occasion, to the
question of Parliamentary reform, as dealt with by
Lord John Russell, it has been found possible,
without any sacrifice of principle, to place the go
vernment again on a united, and we hope a per
manent basis. To be candid, there had been too
much precipitation on ail sides in this matter.
Lord Palmerston expressed his intention to re
sign, as if some vital principle of the constitution
were in dispute, and the provisions of the now
Reform bill were irrevocably settled, neither of
which suppositions was true. This ditferenco of
opinion -was thought to be more serious and more
fatal to the union of the cabinet tliau it has since
proved to be, by those members of the go
vernment who were alone in full possession of the
case.
But no cabinet councils were sitting at the time,
and the step appears to have been taken without
a distinct communication on a question of such
extreme importanee to all the Ministers of the
Crown, several of whom were not in London.—
Upon a fuller consideration of the whole subject,
and an explanation of the condition in which the
projected measure of reform now stands, it was
found that no imperious dictates of conscience and
of duty, by which alouesuch a slop could be jus
tified, did iu this instance, require so great a sac
rifice. The zealous mediation, of the Duke of
Newcastle, the sagacious and patriotic advice of
the Marquis De Landsdowne, and we must add,
the excellent temper and public spirit shown by
the Ministers most nearly engaged in this discus
sion, have led to this satislactory result; and it
would have been utterly unworthy of the high po
sition and motives of these statesmen if they had
hesitated lor a moment to retrace a step taken un
der some misconception of theeause to which alone
it was attributable.
In proportion to the regret which we expressed
when the retirement of Lord Palmerston from the
ministry seemed to beiuevitable, we now rejoioe to
find that he has risen above a step so injurious to
his own reputation and to the country. If any
proof were needed of its mischievous consequences
it might be found to satiety in the gross and ab
surd misrepresentations on this subject, which
were greedily adopted both at home and abroad,
in preference to the plain truth as we ourselves,
had related it, and in the frantic exultation of the
most depraved organs of faction, who fancied they
saw in this change au event favorable to their
passions or to their interests. We hardly know
which we are to describe as most ridiculous and
contemptible—the ultra liberal party, who atfected
to hail with rapture Lord Palmerston’s secession
from the Ministry, on the avowed ground that he
is decidedly opposed to their own extreme doc
trines of Parliamentary reform, or the rump of the
tory party, who, in their utter destitution of men
of character and ability, were eager todcclare their
allegiance to a statesman who has figured for up
wards of twenty years among their chief opponents.
Applause from such lips, support from such hands,
tells it own tale ; and it was alike degrading for
Lord Palmerston to descend from the position he
deservedly fills among Englishmen and in Europe,
in order to bead the turbulence of one faction, or
to gratify the rancour of another.
But we readily believe, and for the honor of this
country and of its statesmen, we dare assert—that
throughout this transaction both Lord Palmerston
and tlie colleagues with whom he is aerain united,
have been actuated by higher motives of public
duty. So far is it from the truth that Lord Pal
merston resigned on the foreign policy of the cabi
net, that we cannot doubt the position of our
foreign relations at this moment in the cause of all
others which chains him to the helm. Ho is a
great master of diplomatic subjects ; he brings to
them an extraordinary amount of political experi
ence, combined with great fertility of resources and
natural energy. He contributes to the service of
the crown, not only the advice he may tender in
the cabinet, but his eloquence and popularity in
Parliament, and the confidence he has obtained
from the nation. We may say of him, as Sir Ro
bert Peel observed in a memorable debate, with
the courtesy due to a great antagonist, that wc are
proud of him even while we oppose his policy.—
But are these forces, are these powers, are these
energies to teturned against the services of her
Majesty’s government when they are most needed
and most useinl ? Is this empire, at the moment
when it is about to stake its honor and its power
on the hazards of war, and reluctautly to take up
arms, for the first time these forty years, against
one ot the greatest States in Europe to exhibit to
mankind the weak and pitabie spectacle of a com
monwealth divided and weakeued at its very
heart ? We hope not, for unquestionaby those
who are so eager to paralyze and overthrow the
administration aie virtually the allies of that
foreign enemy, against whom they launch their
invectives, and, in order to conduct the atfairs of
the country abroad with firmness and prudence,
the first condition of success is strength and union
at home. Iu comparison with such considerations
as these, which must be obvious to every person of
common reflection and ordinary patriotism the un
defined provisions of this or that measure of legis
lative reform for the nextsession of Parliament as
sume a secondary importance, and the path of
duty lies for the present, along a higher and more
rugged track. If we are about to enter on the
state of war, of which this generation has never
known the pressure, we must prepare for the sac
rifices it imposes alike on high and low. It re
quiresof some their lives, of many their strength,
of all larger contributions to the exigences of the
State; but above all, it requires the sacrifices of
petty differences, of personal motives and of pri
vate interests, to the paramount rights and neces
sities of the country. A year will have elapsed,
this day, since Lord Aberdeen and his colleagues
received the seals of office from tho Queen.
The nation applauded the spirit which had
brought together men so much opposed to one
another in their former political lives, and united
them at last for the welfare of the country. Butfif
that union was desirable then, it is necessary now.
It is cemented by past success and by the immedi
ate prospect of far more arduous duties ; and the
anniversary of the foundation of the government
could not be celebrated in a more fitting manner
than by this fresh proof that party intrigue® and
even temporary differences have not dissolved it •
that the spirit iu which it was founded is unbroken
and that with undiminished strength it is resolved
and enabled to persevere. Lord Palmerston’s re
turn to office is not the triumph of one section of
the Cabinet over another, nor lias it been pur
chased by concessions or arrangements which
can produce any alteration in the course of public
policy: but it is the triumph of union and public
spiritjover a partial dissension and it gives a fresh
security for the duration of a government which is
identified with the best interests of the country.
From the London Times December 28
War Inevitable all over Europe and Aala.
The time is approaching when we may exoect to
learn the answer of the Porte to the 10
transmitted from Vienna on the 7th P iri P ' option
already known that these communication's find
been received at Constantinople on the 15tb that
Redschid Pasha had been induced by the repre
sentatives of the Four Powers to give them his
support, and that they were to be taken into con
sideration by the Divan a few days later. Indeed
according to one telegraphio communication, re’
ceiVed through Paris, but as yet unconfirmed, it
is stated that the Great Council had ? on the 18th
iust., authorized the Turkish ministers to open
negotiations. The questions put to the Porte by
the Collective Note, are, in fact, two; —Whether
the Saltan will consent to treat for peace at a con
ference to be held with the Four Powers and
Russia; and what are the terms ot peace required
by Turkey, in the event, of the opening of such a
negotiation ? It is probably that the Turkish min
isters will insist on the evacuation of the Princi
palities as a preliminary to negotiation; but as
is a condition precedent which evidently could not
be enforced, it is hoped that the Porte will content
itself with a formal assurance that the restoration
of those provinces forms in the eyes of all the
Powers an indispensable condition of peace. In
other respects Turkey will name her terms of
peace, subject, of course, to future discussion, but
we hope the Porte will not overlook the impor
tance of pledging all Central and Western Europe
to her territorial security, by adopting the spirit o*
the conference to which she is invited, for though
the Porte may have little confidence in the success
of such negotiations, she loses nothing in dignity,
and rather strengthens her causo in the eyes ol
Europe by allowing them to proceod.
But we do not conceal from ourselves t hat the
real obstacles to any beneficial result from these pro
positions lie with Russia, and arenotlihely to be re
'moved. The protocol of the Four Powers records
and assumes ns an indisputable tact that Russia has
repeatedly expressed lior readiness to treat, and
that the assurances of the court of St. Petersburgh
are, iu this respect, to be believed; but we have
no reason to suppose that those assurances are
worth more than tho declarations Russia basso re
peatedly broken; and,if the language of the Rus
sian State papers be carefully examined, it will be
found that she has constantly evaded the recogni
tion of any European rights in this question, or the
authority of any conference at all. Her policy has
uniformly been to tie the Porte down by separate
conventions to concessions giving her an oxclusivo
right of interference ; and, though she lias failed
in preventing the Four Powers from uniting in
support of the principles on which peace might bo
restored, wc have ceased to believe that more rep
resentations will suffice to carry those principles
into effect. Moreover, tho progress of the war,
the vast extent of hostilities or hostile preparatinß
now in active progress, and tho passions, religous
and national, excitod by the contest, effectually ex
clude the idea of an armistice., and have rendered ne
gotiatiation far less practicable than it has been at
any previous moment. It the Emperor of Russia
had desired peuee ho has had ample faoilitics to
insure it; but every day brings us fresh evidence
that he has availed himself of these pretexts chiefly
to keep in check his most formidable opinions, to
carry or. his own plans of operation, and to bring
the whole question in the spring to a more positive
issue.
Tho Austrian government, already beginning to
find that the hopes of pacification have come too
late, and that the time for energetic measures is at
baud, has published in tho official correspondence
which is prepared at Vienna under the eyes of the
Minister, a mean and drivelling article, dictated,
to all appearance, by the Russian embassy. After
stating that the Four Powers are endeavoring to
effect by pacific measures and moral influence the
restoration of peace, the Austrian Cabinet express
ly denies that “it has assume 1 a less friendly or
menacing attitude towards Russia, and declares
that she mos not in the least renounced her friendly
sentiment' towards Jur allied neighbe r, and will not
have to renounce them in future .” The article adds,
that tho “intimate friendship botweon these two
great monarchs is the surest guarantee for the
peace of the world and for the conservative inter
ests of Europe.” The appearance of this declam
ation at Vienna at such a moment, is, wo fear, an
evident proof that the independent portion ol tho
Austrian Cabinet is unable to hold its ground, and
that a decree of pressure has been applied which
the enfeebled empire cannot resist. The ink is
scarcely dry on the protocol of tho sth of Decem
ber when the Cabinet of Vienna are ready to repu
diate its spirit, andto defeat the influence it might
have exercised on Russia. We have not to learn
anything of the faithfulness of that Court; all his
tory is full of it; but, if the conduct ol Austria
opposes herself to the genera! interests of Europe
in this conjuncture, and thereby greatly extends
the disastrous efieets of this rupture, she may rely
upon it that on her < um dominions the first and heavi
est retribution may fall.
Iu the North of Europe the influence of Austria
: is exerted with the same activity, for it is every
where based on dynastic intrigues, opposed to the
; true interests and desires of the people. Thus in
Sweden we learn from good authority that an at
tempt has been made by a mandate from St. Pe
tersburg to engage the Court in this contest, with
a view to closing the Swedish ports, and eventually
the Baltic itself, agaim-t English and French ves
' sels. The Sweeds are a gallant people, stoutly on
! posed to the influence of Russia, which has already
robbed them ol Finland, and is oven now press
| ing into its service, by land and sea, men whose
! forefathers served in the ranks of Gustavus Adol
’ phus and Charles XII. To themaud to the Danes
’ the maintenance of neutrality and independence is
1 of vital interest; but, if that becomes impossible,
1 their existence as freemen depends on the preser
vation of their ancient alliance with the maritime
1 Powers. The king of Sweden recognised in his
i speech from the throne the importance of defeud
> ing the independence ol the country, and we trust
- that he will not betray it to Russian counsels.
’ If these things are already beginning to manifest
r themselves in Europe, the same policy is pursued
J with equal activity in Asia, and there it is obvi
| ously directed against the interests of the British
* empire. Persia has fallen under the joke, and
1 the troops which once followed the standard ol
! the Sophis are now to be led b>’ a Russian general
against the Turks, and to display in provinces
: already wrested lrom their own empire their zeal
! in defence of tho “Orthodox Greek faith.” In
Affghauistau we hear ol a renewal of the intrigues
‘ of 1838, with which we had to contend when first
• wo encountered the hostility of Russia in Central
> Asia, and even the distant expedition to Khiva is
reported to be renewed.
: If we place these facts in the scale and weigh
i them against the Russian assurances that the Em
peror Nicholas is ready to treat lor peace, all such
declarations will stand for very little, and we must
’ look to other modes, of arriving at the termination
of this dispute. The course to be pursued by the
Maritime Powers is no w clear and straightforward,
and instructions are on the way to Constanstinopk
which will cause the decided measures now agreed
upon to be carried into immediate effect.
! Scgah Statement fob 1853.—From the annual
| statement published by the New York Commer
cin' List, it appears that the total receipts of fo
reign sugar into the United States for the year end
ing December 31, 1853, were 212,746 tons, and the
. consumption 200,516 tons, against a consumption
of foreign of 106,558 tons in 1852, 181,047 tons in
1851, and 143,045 tons in 1 Sou, being only an in
crease of 4,057 tons in 1853 over the consumption
of 1552, or a fraction over 2 per cent., while the to
tal consumption of foreign and domestic cane su
gar in 1853, (assuming the stock of Louisana, <&<s.,
lat January each year to be equal,) is 372,989 tons
or an increase of nearly per cent, ovei the to
tal consumption of 1852; and though tho receipts
of foreign were greater than ever before recorded,
yet owing to tho unprecedented crop of domestic
the consumption of foreign descriptions was but
liltic larger than iu 1852—the bulk of the excess of
imports having been shipped to European ports,
leaving a stock of foreign of 14,020 tons, against
13,212 tons 31st december, 1852.
The increase in the consumption of the United
States, for the last few years, has been at the rate
of 9 a 10per cent, per annum, but this increase
has been nearly doubled the past year, though ai
most wholly made up of sugar of domestic growth,
this largo increase is doubtless attributable, in a
great measure, to the great and general prosperity
that Las pervaded all classes, especially the agri
cultural and the laboring interests, and which has
placed tho article within tho reach of manyconsu
raers whose ability has been hitherto restricted or
that have been wholly debarred from its use. ’
The quantity of Sugar manufactured from Mo
lasses, is steadily on tho increase. For 1552 we
estimated it at 13,058 tons, for the year iust closed
it is estimated, by those well informed, that 66 500
hhas. Molasses have been so refined, 3000 of these
being concentrated, and yielding 600 lbs. to
Hie cask, and the remainder 500 lbs. to the "cask.
,- ? »^ voul<i £ sve a Production from this source of
i4,J77 tOES—add to this the yield of the Maple
iree, say 12,500 tons, and the estimated cousump
tion of California and Oregon, 4200 tons, and we
have the total consumption of Sugar in the United
States, 346,894 tons, which, assuming the popula
tion to be 25,50u,000, would make a per capita eon
sumption to lbs. In the table published in
.London, ol the consumption of Sugar in the Unit
j-Clingdoru’ tl ) e quantity of Molasses taken for
edible purposes is included, allowing io a pound of
Molasses three eighths of a pound of Sugar - and
were we to do so, it would be found that the con
sumption of the United States would bo larger
than that of Great Britain, but as we do not think
that this properly belongs to a statement of con
sumption of Sugar, wo have made no calculation
of this kind; we may remark in this connection,
however, that the quantity of Molasses taken for
domestic purposes is steadily on the decrease.
The present crop of Louisiana, &c., will equal if
not exceed that made last year. In relation to tho
crops of Foreign, and tho quantity to be expected
the presen} year, we give no opinion, as those who
are interested are probably as well advised as we
Exthaohdinaby Geological Discoveries.— ln the
courso of the proceedings of the German Associa
tion for the advancement of Science, lately held at
lubingeu, 1 rotessor karnat announced that Ger
many had coal enongh to supply herself and all
the restof the world for the next 500 years. The
great fact elicited at the meeting wus tiie clearing
up the mystery of the fossil human teeth found in
the k wabian Alps, in strata of the mammoth pe
riod, and doubts expressed as to their bein°- hu
man teeth, as man was not believed to have exist
ed in the time ot the mammoth. Sinc3 the meeting
in 1852, a number of perfect human skulls have
been found in the same locality with teeth in them
which discovery, if correctly reported, would na
turally lead to the conclusion that a race of human
beings was in existence contemporaneously with
inimX!° d 0n ’ £Ud ° ther ofthe larger
the editotsoTumNew York ? riCBBOD ’ in a note t 0
The new engines P[ 6SS "ff *“ v,
at work for several days have b ? cn
conclusively, that tho pr’aSTffionir pr T -C f
attended the first arrangement Waft 8 W 1
come. The new engines are much • °'- er *
whilst their principle of action is the im* £ B1 w®»
fore, with this exception only, that ccZenTed « '
mospherio a,r is employed in place of the o" dinar*
atmospheric, for producing the motive pow or
This modification admits of an increase of power*
limited only by the capability of retaining the
pressure in the machine. Some difficulty has bo«n
experienced m this respect, and it is this which
has caused some delay recently. The obstacle is '
however, nearly removed, and the public will
shortly have an opportunity of judging by practi- i
cal evidence of the merits of the Caloric ship. 1
Cjpmtle # Smtinel
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
MORanw«...T ~ jaa "v 20, issi.
Sew Boons.
Reader, would you enjoy a good laugh—aye, a
number of them ? Ifao, call at McKinsk & Hall’s,
and purchase “Scenes in the life of an Actor , by
Yankee HUlf und Mrs. Partington's Carpet bag of
Jun, and it they do not excite your risiblos to
your heart s content, set yourself down for an in
corrigible misanthrope.
Ole Bull's Concert.
It will bo seen by reference to our advertising
columns, that this great Master of the Violin w ; ll
give u Concert in this city to-morrow (Saturday)
evening, assisted by Signorina Patti and Stka
kosch. Such an entertainment, it is rarely the
good fortune of any community to enjoy. The
lovers of music should not, therefore, fail to im
prove it.
Ok. L. Pierce and the Rev. A. P. Mann, were
announced to preach in New Orleans on Sunday
last.
Georgia Railroad Stock.—The attention of
Capitalists is directed to the sale of 200 shares of
this Stock to bo sold in this city, on the 15th day
of February next.
The Boston Transcript states that “ several of
the most sagucious managers of the Boston offices,
have declinod much business the past season, upon
the ground that tho current premiums were not
sufficient to pay for the risks. Time has proved
the truth of this position. Several offices have
saved their dividends by this shrewd manage
ment.”
Marine Disasters on the Florida Reef.—Twen
ty-eight vessels, it appears from a record kept at
Key West, were wrecked on tiro Florida reef
during the last year, and twenty-nine arrived at
Key West in distress. The estimated value of
these vessels and their cargoes was $2,082,500, of
which only about $830,100 was tho less of under
writers. The amount paid for salvage was $174,-
350, and for repairing, &c., $155,750.
From a tabular statement, which is given in the
\ irginia papers, it appears that, up to the close of
the year 1850, there wore 1,041 miles of railroad
built and in use. The roads comprised in this
account will, when completed, bo 1,549 miles in
length. Many other important roads are in pro
gress in the commonwealth, but are not included
in the statement, because no portion of them is
yet in use.
The Savanuah Georgiau says that tho buildings
consumed by lire in that city, on Monday night,
were fully insured, and that the total insurance on
goods destroyed is $50,000, which will probably
cover the losses—as quitoalargo proportion of one
or two stocks were saved.
One hundred and seventy-three German immi
> grants arrived at Charleston on Wednesday, from
1 New York, in the steamship Benjamin Franklin,
| C'npt. Adkins, and lelt in the 4 o’clock evening
, train for Columbia, en route for Anderson C. 11.,
i in which vicinity thoy are to be employed in the
construction of tiio Blue Ridge Railroad.
For the Chronicle aud Sentinel.
Macon and VYarrenton Railroad.
The reply of‘‘Nous Verrons" to our communi
| cation on this subject, undoubtedly mikes the most
[ of tho case in favor of tho road, and is also much
to be commended for its good temper and cour
-1 tesy.
i Ist. In relation to the absence of any public ne
> cessity for this road, (the first of our throe posi
j lions,) if the most untenable of the three, it is
certainly that in the correctness of which the
Georgia Railroad has tho least interest. Wo shall
not, therefore, dwell upon it—observing by the
way, however, that the Macon and Waironton
Road proposes ‘.osave 20 miles of staging by build
ing 70 miles of Railroad, and that every purpose of
public convemenee would bo better served, by a
road from Eatontou to Greensboro’, or some con
’ tiguons point on the Georgia Railroad, of less than
one-third of its length.
Wheu drawing the pleasant picture of Georg ; a,
with Milledgeville as its great “heart,” giving life
and vigor to its extremities, the intelligent writer
must certainly have indulged himself in a hearty,
though quiet, laugh in his sleeve.
2d. In relation to the inadequacy of former esti
mates, and especially of that made by the Georgia
Railroad in 1-44, we remark that an estimate note
and then are very different things. We have been
guided by no viow of theexisting business between
Warrenton and Macon. “Nous Verrons” has
pointed out the sources of travel. Wo cmcede
them—and therefore concede, in our estimate, a
travel equalling tho highest realization of the most
prosperous road for travel in Georgia.
Again, no considerable development in the way
of creating produces for transportation, can bo
expected in the old country through which this
road passes—analogous to that in Cherokee Geor
gia. All the cotton is raised in it now that can bo
raised, and all carried by rail already.
We have been guided in our estimate, therefore,
not by the past, but by the developed business,
finding data in the actual experience of successful
roads. Our estimate , too, conceded the through
travel. It gave tho Macon and Warronton Road
the full benefit of tho enormous development at
tainod by the Georgia Road in travel.
In relation to down freight, “Nous Verrons”
docs not fairly slate the rolativo costs of transpor
tation from Augusta to Charleston and Savannah
respectively. Including not freight merely, but
insurance and wharfage, it sometimes costs more
to get cotton to Savannah than to Charleston, and
rarely above 25 per cent, (instead of 100 per cent)
more—that is to say, 6% cents per hundred. At
present rates from Macon to Savannah, the cost is
50 cents per hundred. From Macon to Charles
ton, it will be (at present and proposed rates,) 12%
to Warrenton, 25 to Augusta, 2% (we bolieve) for
drayage, and 25 to Charleston —making 65 cents,
ora difference of 15 cents per hundred, or 60 per
bale. The Macon and Warrenton Road cannot
well reduce its ratos, nor can tho South Carolina
Road permanently reduce its rates; and the Geor
gia Railroad can scarcely make tho requisite re
duction (even supposing the Central to remain
as it is,) to secure any largo share of tho freight.
It is certainly in the power of tho Central Road to
reduce as much or more than the othor roads, and
thereby maintain its command of substantially all
the freight. Nor need tho reduction be by any
means ruinous. A reduction of 15 per cent, could
better be afforded, than the loss of 25 per cent, of
its down freight. This would put it beyond com
petition, othor than those occasional chances,
which would carry bales by hundreds, instead of
by tens of thousands.
Add to this the increased chances of delay and
detention in Augusta, and the fact that the South
Carolina Road is not less crowded than the Central,
and tho latter road must command tho cotton, oven
if it all started from Macon. The effect of “entang
ling alliances,” however, seems to us to liavebeou
decidedly underrated by “Nous Verrons.” As to
travel these might be less troublesome; but they
would certainly bo troublesome customers in ar-
rangeraents for through freight.
As to up freight, we are of the opinion still, that
its quantity has been over-estimated. Of course,
the Macon and Warrenton route would have the
monopoly of what was bought in Charleston, but
not even that beyond the competition of the Millen
and Branchvilie route, if built. Nor is the amount
large, when we consider that Savannah supplies
most of the country this could supply, and busi
ness relations are already established.
Freights from New York or Boston, (and we be
lieve, Philadelphia,) are the same, both by weight
and measurement, to Charleston and Savannah.—
However, Savannah being equal as to water freight, j
and cheaper by Railroad freight, would have the i
monopoly of such freights still. Jt is an error,
therefore, in “Nous Verrons” to consider them
equally divided.
Bd. As to the relation of the Georgia Road to
the Metropolitan, ( j omowhat ludicrously so call
ed,) if we are right in supposing, the latter would
do a small business itself, then it would, of course,
bring a small business to the Georgia Road. If it
does a larger business it is by lowering rates, and
therefore, profits.
The Piedmont route is considered by “ Nous
Verrons, “ a wild fancy,” because tho links from
Chester to Newberry, and from Abbeville to Wash,
ington, would be “ across the country with not a
single town of any size in the route.” Now, the
idea of a railroad winding about in quest of large
towns, we think pretty well exploded. They are
generally regarded by the travelling public, rather
as toll gates, to be avoided. We think tho Macon
& Warronton Road, itself, if built, would be better
located by choosing the best ground, without re
ference to towns—probably from coming to Macon.
This would, with less expense, give tho Georgia
Road an advantage of some miles additional trans
portation. On what would the proposed route
lrom Manchester to Aiken, have to rely other than
what the above routes would have. (It is about as
long as them both.) The secret of itail lies in the
idea well expressed by Nous Verrons. If tlio in
vestment paid no direct interest, the capital is al.
ready invested in tho long route between Rieh
mond, Va., and the Georgia Road, excepting the
three links referred to, and no interest need enter
into the estimate. If it bo to the interest of the
Georgia Road to retain the through mail on
130 miles, instead of on 50, so far it is her interest,
as well as that of the Groenvillo and Columbia
Road, &c., to invest in tho one r therthan the
other of these routes. If tho prospects of the M.
& YV. Road for any other than passenger business
are gloomy, as we confess they appear to us, then
it is cortainly the interest of the Georgia Railroad
Company to exert itself rather for the fonnor route
than the latter. It is erroueous to suppose there
will bo little travel on tho latter, except from the
North. From Abbeville to Washington, by stage,
is about 42 miles, by Railroad, about 106x140x75
815 miles. Most of the travel so well described
by “ Nous Verrons,” as stimulated by the M. &
W. Road, between Virginia, North Carolina, and
South Carolina, and South West, would be hotter
accommodated by this than any othor route, even
supposing the Chester and Newberry road not
built. There may be temporary difficulties in
, procuring the charter in North Carolina, but we
cannot suppose a state of things so at war with
public interests and rights, to be permanent.
But we do not wish to bo too tedious. Wo are
asked what we think of the Eatonton and Monti
, cello Road? Wo certainly think, that if it be a
poor investment, that furnishes no sufficient rea
son why the Georgia Road should also cripple
itself with a liko one. So, too, (while no bitter
. ness is exhibitel,) we are suspected of conflicting
interests. We certainly have made no appeal to
J uuy illegitima‘e intluonce. The matter is before
. the public. It will be some months before the
, Georgia Railroad Company can act decisively up
on it. Private capital has, as yet, shown no indis
creet hnsto in seeking this investment. We trust,
- therefore, that the action of all parties in the pre
i premises, may be
Slow and Sure.
1
Correspondsnee of the Commercial Advertiser.
’ Details by the Steamer Eur-spa.
London, Dec. 30, 1853.
There is still an absence of any fresh news from
the contending armies, either on the Danube or in
Asia. The intended movements of the allied fleets
in the Black Sea also remain unknown.
Under those circumstances the stagnation in
business, usual just before the commencement of
( the new year, has upon the present occasion been
i complete.
The money market, however, continues to show
great steadiness and is beginning to feel tho effect
of some recentgold arrivals from Australia. Every
- day there is an increasing impression that direct
. hostilities between Russia and England and France
cannot bo much longer delayed, and that intclli
' gence ol the first blow may arr.veat any hour, yet
s the funds display undiminished firmness aud are
1 still 4 per cent, above the prices to which they
, dropped in October from the mere apprehension
of war, wheu it had not boon actually declared in
1 any quarter. The panic at that time was pro
• nounced to be an unworthy one, and the result has
f shown that such was the case.
Notwithstanding tho popular sentiment both in
1 Franco and England, that the united Governments
* are bound to ac: promptly, thec-lfortsof diplomacy
i are still in active progress, it is to be hoped,
however, that thoy will not be made subservieutto
the views of the Czar, by enabling him to carry on
i all Ins operations, both of attacK and intrigue,
i while his opponents are trusting to pacific protesta
r tious. Tho negotiations now pending are simply
those which were commenced before the affair of
> Sinope, for bringing about a direct conference be
tween Russian ana Turkish plenipotentiaries on
some neutral territory in the presence and with
tho assistance of the allied powers, and which it
1 was not deemed expdient to break off, although
’ subsequent events have set the baseness of Russia
[ in a still stronger light than before. That no hope
can bo entertained of any advantage from it is the
opinion of nine porsous out of ten, but there aro
1 nevertheless somo who still cling to tho belief of a
possible adjustment. Accordingly, when any
fresh statement regarding tho progress of these
negotiations is circulated, it is not without an effect
upon the funds.
At first it was announced that the Sultan had
agreed to the proposal for sending a plenipotentia
ry on his side, but with the stipulation that tho
principalities should first bo evacuated, and that
the conference should not bo held on Austrian soil,
or at all events not at Vienna. This concession
seemed virtually a calm mode of declining tho
matter, since although tho Sultan undoubtedly
owed it to his own dignity to refuse to treat with
a power already invading his territory, it was well
known that Russia would not make any prelimina
ry movement of tho kind demanded, while the
objection to Vienna as the place of meeting was
also a severe demonstration against Austria.
Later accounts, however, seem to note that Turkey
has given way upon the point of the previous
evacuation of tho principalities, on an understand
ing that she is to receive from the allied powers a
guarantee that there is to be no ultimate question
of tho aggressor being brought to retreat, oither
spontaneously or by force. Revived hopes have
therefore been manifested that during the pause
caused by tho frost and suow on the banks of the
Danube a treaty may yet be concluded.
That tho Cabinets both at Paris and London
havo not wholly discarded such a prospect is
strongly believed, and it is also to be added that
notwithstanding the indignation with which Rus
sia is regarded, they will not bo condemned by
tin public for their persevorauce, if they are in a
position eventually to show that while they have
still hesitated to abandon a single efi'ort that could
avert tho final necessity of a different struggle,
they have not been permitting tho delay to inter
fere with vigorous preparations for the worst, and
to bo turned, after tho mauner of all previous de
lays, solely to the use of their unscrupulous foe.
The stealthy but vigilant nature of tho prepara
tions of Russia during tho whole of the past year,
from the time when the Czar first instructed his
ambassadors to give particular assurances at the
various courts of his unalterable determination to
maintain peace, has since been proved boyond all
anticipation. The only mistake he appears to
hare made is in not having been sufficiently
prompt id getting a loan from England. He had
ooimnonced negotiations for one of six millions
sterling for a railroad, but while he was haggling
about terms his designs were exposed and the
opportunity was lost. Hence with insolvent
Austria by his side, it is the money question that
is likely to prove the best element in bringing
about a paoilication.
At the wind up of the year tho statements from
all parts of the United Kingdom are uniformly fa
vorable, not only as to tho extent of business en
joyed during the past twelve months, but also of
its present position and prospects. A period with
such a total absence of commercial failures has
never been known, it being a fact that the only
suspensions which have taken place havo been a
few of small amount in the London Stock Ex
change among the speculators for a fall. No one,
therefore, has suffered except those who refused
to believe in the general soundness of affairs.
At the same time, among the operative classes,
there has been general employment at better
wages, taking all things into consideration, than
were over known, for all who wore willing to ac
cept them. Sixty or seventy thousand persons in
Lancashire have been out of work for four months
but tho suffering they have sustained has been en
tirely voluntary. They deemed that by a “strike”
they could get a still furthor advance, and they
have paid the penalty of ignorance, since if their
leaders had accurately estimated the general posi
tion of affairs, they would have seen that tliev
coiiid not have selected a worse moment for the
movement than that which was chosen .-Sj>ecta-
Eastern Affairs.— The report that the Russian '
steamer 1 ruth had set on fire two Turkish villages 1
vr>u° mto r od hot shot, is continue i
There was also a prevalent rumor that the fcsha ]
of t ersia had formally instructed his consuls to I
discontinue diplomatic relations with theQneen of '
( - Tr ® a ] Britain. Ratifications of a treaty offensive f
and defensive, it is asserted, had passed between «
Russia and Feisia. ]
The report that the Sultan of Turkey had con
sented to listen to the proposals by the four pow
ers is repeated.
The news from Asia mentions that the Russians
were driven back at Alexandropol. Selim Pacha
gained a brilliant victory in the neighborhood of
Laffah,
Letters from Trebisoude announce that Daniel
Bey had also been victorious at Terek.
A report that was started in the Morning Herald
that a Russian sloop-of-war, loaded with combus
tibles, had attempted to set fire to the allied fleets
stationed in the Bosphorus, was regarded as a
“pure invention.”
The Russian admiral Nachimoth had addressed
the following letter to the Austrian consul at Sin
ope :
Monsieur ie Consul—Permit me to address my
self lo you as the only European representative
whoso flag 1 see hoisted, that you may make known
to thoauthorites of the unfortunate town of Sin
ope the sole objoct of the arrival of the Imperial
fleet in the harbor. Having learned that the Turk
ish ships which were continually cruising on the
coaat of Abasia to raise the population which bad
submitted to Rusia had taken refuge in the roads
of Sinope, I was reduced to the depiorabie necessi
ty of attacking t hem at the risk of causing injury
to tho town and harbor.
I sympathise in the sad fate of the town and of
the inoffensive inhabitents, for it was solely the ob.
stinate defence of the hostile inhabitants, and par
ticularly tho fire of the batteries, which compelled
us to employ the fire of the batteries, which com
pelled us to employ bombs as the only mode of
silonceing them quickly ; but the greatest damage
experienced by the town was certainly caused by
the burning wreck of the Turkish ship, set on fire
mostly by their own crews- As soon as the ene
mies’fire permitted me, I sent a boat with an offi
cer, bearing a flag of truce, to explain my real in
tentions to the authorities of the town, but the of
ficer remaind there an hour without discovering
anybody.
During the whole of yesterday nobody appeared
except some Greeks, calling themselves deputies
from their countrymen inhabiting the town, sup
plicating me t© receive them on board the fleet;
out my instructions being solely to act against tho
Turkish ships of war, I recommended chose unfor
tunate persons to the European consuls. lam now
quitting the port, and I depended upon your good
officers to make known that the Imperial squadron
has no hostile intention either against the town or
against the port of Sinope.”
The Journal of Constantinople expresses itself
as follows relative to the interruption of diplo
matic relations between England and Persia:
In consequence of a serious difference, one re
presentative of Great Britain in Persia demanded
in au energetic note prompt satisfaction from the
Persian Government. The Shan seemed inclined
to grant it, but the Russian embassy, by its in
trigues, succeeded in turning him away from that
course. In consequence, the representative of her
Britanic Majesty, at Teheran considered it his du
ty to interrupt all diplomatic relations with Persia.
Tho extreme agitation which now exists amongst
the Aifghans disquiets not oii[y Persia, but even
Russia. Something was said sometime back of an
Affghan embassy from Dost Mohammed Khan to
Persia; thatemoassy has arrived at Teheran.—
Dost Mahommed is an implacable enemy to Rut
sia, and opposes with the greatest resolution the
policy of the Czar in Persia, and the rest of Asia.
A letter from Aleppo, 19th November, says :
“The Arabs of the Desert have raised 5,000
men to take part in the defence of the coun try.—
The inhabitants of Aleppo have received an au
thorization to form a regiment of volunteer cav
alry, and in a few days alter 120 J horsemen were
completely equipped. They have chosen as com
mandant the Bimosschi Ahmet Effendi,an officer
of great experience, who has already served against
the Russians.
Soliman Pacha invited the consuls, pachas, and
all the inhabitants to be present at the departure
of the troops, and in order to give more eclat to
the aff air, Azmi Pacha appeared with an escort on
horseback and preceded by a band of music. So
liuiaii Pacha delivered a very impressive address
to the troops.”
Accounts from Teheran have been brought, by
letters from Erzeroum, of the 4th, announcing that
the Shah of Persia had, at tho instigation of Russia,
changed his Ministers, and turned all European
officers, English, German, French and Italian, out
of his army.
A letter from Ibraila states that the Russian
General Selvane, in attempt on Amondan, a Bmall
island of the Danube, had to retire after severe loss.
The Russian army in tho Caucasus has been rc
• inforced by 15 regiments of Cossacks of the Don,
under General Krechatisky.
Tho Paris Moniteur of the 80th of December an
nounces that according to the latest advices from
Constantinople, tho Divan was in perfect harmony
with tho representatives of France, England, Aus
tria and Prussia, as to the conditions on which the
Porte could with honor concur in the re-establish
ment of peace.
A correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette, in a
communication reviewing the prospects of Turkey,
says that “the host under the command of Umar
Pacha is not a compact body like a regular organ
ised European army ; and that it will wither away
as rapidly as it has sprung up.”
Tho mortality among the Russian troops in the
Dauubian principalities had considerably increase !.
Iho London Times has now its special corres
pondent on the Danube, who thus described the
position of the Turkish forces at Kalafat:
®,On the side of the Danube (i. e., to tho N. W.) !
the fortified camp rests on high earthen activities, !
which could not possibly be stormed if decently !
defended ; but a road and a flat space on the shore !
of the Danube leads right into Kalatat; this has j
been stopped by n deep trench, the approach well j
commanded from the heights above. On the N.
E.(_i. 0., in the direction of the Krajova) thegrouui
is comparatively level, and the Turns have here no
natural territorial advantage; but the strong, high
angular fort next the Danube sweens the Krajova
approach, and a sufficient corps of Turkish cavalry
debouching at opeuiDgs made in the breastworks
to the right, an attacking Russian force would run
a risk of being driven down into the Danube.
Each of these cavalry issues is protected by avant
trenches for rifles—bastion fires covering on the
extreme right and lon.
Proceeding round toward the South, wo again
come upon a strong fort or bastion on a large scale
forming an angular limit, and here an inconvenient
obstacle arrests our attention—a considerable hill,
too tar detached from the body of the position to
be conveniently included, and too near not to af
ford a resource to an attacking force. The troops
are therefore actively engaged in raising the arti
ficial parapet opposite the hill so high tnat it can
not bo overlooked. On tho hill a biock-house is
to be erected. All the rest of the way down to the
Danube below Kalafat (we commenced with the
limes above Kalafat) tho breastworks and batte
ries follow the ridges of ground within which
access to tho bridgo and the island is secured.
But works so extensive cannot be covered ex
cept by a very large force, for which Kalafat of
fers no accommodation. Tents are already out of
the question, and the sudden change of the tem
oerature has produced many fatal dysentaries.
Recourse has therefore been had to a resource at
once economical and effectual. Space equivalent
to a long barrack room have been dug out of the
earth and covered in. Suppose a log house ®fone
story sunk to tho eaves, tho solid ground forming
the floors and walls auct tho ridged roof sloping
down to tho ground, considerably beyond the per
pendicular beams, and yon will have au idea of
these Winter barracks.
The rain and damp are thus carried awav from
theso earthen walls; light and ventilation are se
cured by garret and gable windows, fires burn to
consume the earthy odor, mats act as arras, and the
soldier is comfortable in Winter’s cold or Sum
mer’s heat. I visited one, and found brick “man
gals” at appointed distances; a clear space in the
centre for passage, and on either side each sol
dier’s blanket and kit; the centre supporting
beams were rauged round with well burnished ,
muskets, and tho drums at the gables, ready to
beat the alarm and send the artillerymen to the
forts, the infantry to the breastworks while the
cavalry await the decisive moment to clear the de- \
bouchfis.
All these works bear no resemblance to the in
artificial Turkish entrenchments such as one has
frequently seen elsewhere. All are constructed
on the most modern principles of engineering
science ; their wide extent, and the extraordinary
activity displayed in so short a time, have struck
me with astonishment.
I believe that since Torres Vedras, no lines of
so striking a character have risen, as if by magic
in execution, but clearly show'mgno hurry in plan
or selection. This revolt of the Turks against
their own habitually sluggish nature, this union
of a burst of Asiatic energy with the science of
Europe, compels my mind frequently to recur to
the similar phenomena of the Hungarian war.
Gkkat Bbitain. —Letters have been received in
Dublin from Mr. Smith O’Brien, written at New
Norfolk, bearing date the 18th of September
throe days later than the date assigned for his es'
cape. The reports of his escape, emanating from
Limerick, are therefore destitute of foundation.
Shipment or Felons to the United States.—Re
cently two Germans were arrested in New York on
a charge of burglary. When taken before a jus
tice, one of them made the following statement
showing the systematic mode in which the ship
ment ol felons to this country is made. Congress
should take this subject into consideration and
endeavor to prevent foreign governments from
making a Botany Bay of the United States.
Charles B. Bley says—l was born in Brunswick,
Germany, and am 25 years of age; in the month of
September, 1851, Henrich Hondorf, August Mey
er, Ernest Brinker and myself were convicted of
burglary, committed in the city of Brunswick, and
were sentenced to the State Prison for a term of
years; after remaining there until September last,
we were all pardoned by the Duke of Brunswick,
through the influence of a Society known as the
“Directors,” upon condition that we would im
mediately leave the couutry for the United States
never to return; accordingly we were all taken from
prison by the Police and conveyed to Bremen, and
there placed on board the brig Hiram, and kept
under the surveillance of the Police unlil the ves
sel sailed; our passage was paid by the “Directors,”
and we each received from them $5; we landed in
New York on the Ist of December last,
JBagnetif Cejfjpisij.
Charleston Market.
Thursday', Jan. 19 —Cotton. —Prices are un
changed. Middling Fair} 10 to 10% cents. Sales
to-day, 1600 bales, making the sales for the week
9,000 bales, at7% to cents.
Receipts of the week 11,484, against 12,288 bales
samBtime last year. Stock on hand, exclusive of
what is on shipboard, 50,484.
The San IT xncisco Disaster.
New York, Jan. 15.—The steam tug Titan has
arrived up from the ship Lucy Thompson, which
remains below, bringing nearly ail the passengers
taken from the San Francisco by the bark Kilby,
and not the ship Antarctic, as before reported.
The Lucy Thompson spoke tho Kilby at 9 A.M.,
yesterday, 60 miles southeast of Sandy Hock, and
took off all the passengers received from the San
Francisco, excepting Mr. Falcon, the Braziilian
Consul, Madame Reese, Mr. and Mrs. Alvio, and
ten soldiers, who concluded to remain in the
Kilby.
The following is a list of those brought up bv
the Titan: Lieut. Murray, U. S. N.; Colgates',
wife and family; Major Merchant (disabled) and
family; Capt. Judd and wife; Lt. Col. Burke
(severely Yvounded;) Dr. Satterlee, (disabled,)
Dr. Wirtz; Lt. Looeoer, wife and Miss Eaton ; Lt.
Freemout and family ; Lt. Van Yorst (disabled;)
Capt. Gardiner; G. W. Aspinwall; J. L. Mer
chant, Jr.; Rev. Mr. Cooper, wife and family:
Mrs. Major Wyse and child ; Mr. Southworth and
about 100 soldiers. They suffered greatly on tho
Kilby for want of provisions and water, and hud
it not been that part of the cargo consisted of
corn, and that they were furnished with plenty of
fresh water by the abundant falls of rain, they
mast have perished.
The Kilby has probably been blown to sea again
by the violent north-west gale which commenced
yeste r day.
Second Despatch.—The burque Kilby, when
fallen in with, was crippled, leaky, aud short of
provisions. The Lucy Thompson supplied her
with provisions and sails, and 13 soldiers volun
teered to remain and assist her into port, but it is
feared she has been driven into the Gulf stream,
i A steamer has been sent after her. A passenger
from the Kilby states that after parting with the
San Francisco, on tho night of the 29th, she
cruised about two days in search of her, and then
being badly crippled herself, was obliged to desist.
The total number of the San Fianeisco’s passen
gers on the Killy was 108. Those brought here
by the Lucy Thompson arrived after 10 o’clock
last night, in a most pitiable condition, being wet,
cold, hungry, and almost naked. The majority
of them were taken to the Astor House, where
every thing possible for their comfort was done by
the proprietors and boarders. The wife of Major
Wyse remained on board the Kilby, being teo
much exhausted for removal.
The following are additional names of those
swept from the decks by the waves:—
Mr. Tenney, Mr. D. C. Stock well, Miss Belton.
Mr. Gates, Mrs. Chase aud child, Mr. Lacrape and
wife, Miss Lucy Moore and Mr, Farnsworth, an
engineer.
The following is a list of the Troops lost, as near
as can be ascertained: from Company A, 10 •
Company D, 7; Company G, 18; Company 1,2;
Company K, 81; Company L, 17; total so far, 85.
The list of Company B, has not yet been fully made
out.
At a meeting of Merchants held at the Exchange
yesterday afternoon, resolutions were passed ex
pressing the sense of tho meeting of the generous
and heroic conduct of the Captains of the ships
Three Bells, Antarctic and Kiiby, aud providing
that a sorvice ol plate be presented to each as a tes
timonal of their magnanimous conduct. It was
further resolved that a petition be presented to
Congress requesting that the losses incurred by the
commanders and OYvners c f these vessels may be
indemnified by Government.
Additional per the Europa.
Baltimore, Jan. 17.—The Sultan has consented
to accept the last note of the Vienna Conference,
as not incompatible with the honor of Turkey, an 1
will send a Plenipotentiary to some neutral city, to
meet a similar Envoy from tho Czar. The Porte,
however, refuses to renew the treaty of Kainardji!
I concluded in 1774, and that of Adrianople in 1839,
both of which Russia has broken, and insists upon
’ the evacuation of the Principalities. There is but
little hope of a favorable rer ly being received from
tho Czar, and should Austria not approve ot these
' terms, a geuera! war is inevitable.
The story that five ships had been seat into the
Bosphorus to intercept the fleets was not credited.
Great excitement existed in consequence of a
report that the Czar had sent a courier to Stock
holm commanding Sweeden to close her ports
1 against English and French vessels.
; j The latest accounts from Asia state that the
Turks had gained several victories.
lt is stated that Louis Napoleon had received a
dispatch, announcing the death ol Mr. Soule ina
duel.
The stock of Cotton at Liverpool amounts to
i 597,500 bales.
Baltimore, Jan. 17. —The barks John Herman
i and Prehistan, arrived at New-York from Ham
| burg, have lost 60 pas angers from cholera.
Mr. Bodisco, the Russian Minister at Washing-
I ton, is very ill.
I The ship Helen sailed from Liverpool for Sa
| vannah on the 81st ult., and the ship Burrell for
j Charleston.
The ship Ark arrived at Leith on the 27th ult.,
from Charleston.
Baltimorg, January',*! 7.— I The barque A7%,
with several passer geas from San Francisco, arriv
ed at Boston on Tuesday. Alt were well.
The merchants of New York have subscribed
#lO,OOO for the purpose of presenting testimonials
to the officers ol the Three Bells, Antarctic and
Kilby.
Baltimore, Jan. 17.—Cotton was active in New
York on Tuesday and 1750 bales changed hands
Corn was lower. Flour declined 62)^cents perbbl.
8,000 barrels of Flour changed hands iu Baltimore
on Tuesday, at $7,50 per bbi. Yellow Corn wss
quoted at from 77 to SO cents per bushel.
I xiANKLiN College.—The Board of Trustees, at
their recent called meeting, postpsned the election
of Professor of Mathematics, until their annual
meeting at Commencement. We understand that
tho postponement was in consequence of the small
number of trustees in attendance. Tho patrons of
the College will bo gratified to learn that President
Church has. consented to discharge the duties of
that chair in the mean time. His ability and
long experience as a Mathematical instructor,
gives ample assurance to the public, that the stu
dents of the University will lose nothing by this
temporary vacancy. He will be pssisted by the
able and distinguished Professor of NaturafPhi 1 -
osophy and Chemistry, Dr. John LeConte.
We understand that the present term has
opened with the usual number of students, and
with every indication of the continued prosperity
of the University.— Banner.
Correspondence of the Baltimore American,
New York January 16, 1554.
The ship Metropolis, hence for Havre, Jan. Bd,
was spoken yesterday morning 49 miles off Sandy
Hook, with everything gone but the stump of the
foremast. The pilot boat that spoke her came up
to the city for a steam tug to tow in the wreck.
The number of burialsm the city last week was
4SB—2 moro than the preceding week. The
deaths were, from consumption 69, inflammations
ot one sort and another 61, convulsions 80, scarlet
fever 19, other fevers 20, croup 14, marasmus 16,
dropsies, general and local, 25, measles 14, small
pox 39, still-born and premature birth 89.
The investigation in relation to the murder of
Dr. Lentoner is not yet concluded, and remains
perhaps still more enshrouded in mystery than
when that investigation first commenced. Mr.
Hays has proved ah alibi, showing that he could
not have committed the murder, and now the sus
picion is divided between Mis. Hays and the
woman Shipman, who attended the rooms of the
Doctor.
University of Georgia.
ATHENS, JAN. 13, 1 ;
The following resolution was adopted by the
Board sf Trustees, at their recent meeting:
Resolved , That in consequence of the small num
ber of Trustees present, a bare quorum, the exam
ination of the testimonials of applicants lor the
Proiessorship of Mathematics and astronomy, be
dispensed with for the present; and that the elec
tion of a Professor be postponed till the anuual
meeting in August nexs—the President, at the re
quest of the Board,consenting to perform the du
ties of the Chair, in the interim, in which duties
he will be assisted by Dr. John LeCont, Professor
of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.
By order of the Prudential Commitee.
Wm. L, Mitchell, Chairman.
A CAEI).
The Subscriber, thankful for the patronage
heretofore bestowed upon him, takes this opportunity of
informing the public that he has secured the services of a
Graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, (where
he has been the past seven years,) who will take charge of
the Compounding Department of his business.
Prescriptions, Family Medicines, Analyses, *c., will re
eive the most careful and prompt attention.
WM. H. TUTT,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist.
0?" Mr*. E. O. Collins has just received a new
supply of fine Embroidered Muslin and Lace COLLARS,
SLEEVES, CHEMISETTES, VEILS and CAPS, Mourning
COLLARS, Silk and Cotton Elusion LACE, Silk and Cotton
RUCHE, Ladies’ Cashmere and Silk GLOVES.
On hand a fine assortment of BONNETS, which will b*
sold very low for cash.
Constitutionalist and Gasette copy, jab d*win