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The ®nd of a Romantic Adventurer. DEATH OK HENRY BUROEVINK, rilE “lIF.no OF CHINA." How a North Carolina Boy Became r. Mandarin of the Bed Hutton. From the Washington Morning st«r Late arrivals from China bring oonfit mation of the death of tit is romantic anti C'~ed voting man. A prisoner in tne daofhlseruel and treacherous enemies, heavily ironed and subjected to inconoerv able hardships, death by drowning or any means, must have been a welcome rebel. But what a sad termination to the wnu and favored dreams of his boy!mod where in he loved to picture himself us the A >' ter or Nations, the Architect of l.ni/dn s. Thecarec. of Henry Burger me is more than romantic, “stranger '‘ u f n .^ io ?,’ and deserves a better record than the meager and often iucorrect paragraphs which have from time to time appeared m the columns of European and American naners. He was born in Newborn, North Carolina, in the year 1836. His father was a Frenchman —an officer in the uranu Armv of Napoleon. Subsequently he "as in the service of Spain, and came to Amer ica in the capacity of Surveyor General or Florida, married an American lady, ana died In 1843, leaving a family, consisting ot his widow, two sons and a daughter. Ihe eldest son was, if we mistake not, a briga dier General in the Confederate service, and is at present a citizen of Arkansas, where the daughter also resides, being tlie wife of Mr. Thomas P. Watson, late ot Washington city. Henry Andua Burgevine, the youngest of the family, came to Washington City with his mother and sister in 184*>. ' ,r '; B. having been left in very straightened circumstances, had in view the prosecution of certain claims against the Government, growing out ofthe purchase of i- loridafrom Spain. Being unsuccessful in this, she, through the aid of tlie Hon. A\ illit- P. Mangum, obtained a situation as page in the U. 8. Senate for Henry, and on this pittance, increased by the product of teach ing a small school, the widow and her two children lived for many years in quiet ob scurity, (on the west side of 1-th street, nearC.) „ .. , , From his earliest years, Henry displayed a great love for books, and left no.opportu-1 nity unimproved to store liis mind with useful knowledge. At 17 he understood j the Greek, Latin and French languages; j wan proficient in the highest branches ol | mathematics, an accomplished draught#-] man, and studying civil-engineering and) naval architecture. During the interval : between the sesions of Congress, lie was among the students at the Washington | Seminary, (Catholic.) but he accomplished more by night study and a systematic j course of reading, having access to the Congress library. In these days of his early youth the wri ter of this sketch hasoften heard him speak of his plans for the future, in such terms hs would lead a stranger to suspect his sanity. Now it was to build up an Empire in Egvp l ito tmite nations of the Orient; to regenerate China and found an enlight ened nation of 400,000,000 of people; to found anew Assyria, with a Nineveh for Its capital, and so on through a long train of schemes, all of which were sublime, if not practicable. In the spring of 1853, Burgevlne, whose settled purpose it had been to seek his for tune in foreign lands, bade farewell to mother, sister and friends, and arrived in New York with a few dollars in his pocket. No one know exactly where he was going, or for what and it is likely his own plans were somewhat disarranged by the fact of his being without a penny in a few days ; and compelled either to return to Washington or take passage in some ship and work his way. He did the latter, and six months after wrote from Ban Kran eiaco, then from the Sanwtch Islands, next from China, then from Australia, where lie worked in the gold mines for a few weeks with success. , The next we hear of him he had been "wrecked on the ooaf.i, forty miles from Bombay.” After this he was six months in Calcutta, learning the Hindostanese language, and regretting he did not under stand the Arabic, that he might take "command of a sob all vessel trading to Judia, on the Red Sea.” Next ho was on a British man-of-war as sailor. Then for a few months, weary enough to be sure, with his head shaved in the hospital at Naples. And next, tcmpora mutantur , leading the life of a quiet gentleman in London. And finally, after more than four years of wandering, he appears like an apparition to his friends at Washing ton, bronzed, and bearded like n pard. Remaining a few months at the capital, he removes to Detroit, Michigan ; accepts a position as Clerk in the post office, and edits the Vindicator, a Democratic paper in that city. And here it may be as well to Btate, tliaf in matters of literature Burge vine possessed a most excellent taste. Had he adopted that as a pursuit, his suc cess would have been certain. He wrote much, and published enough in prose and verse to exhibit hi# talent in that line. But he preferred a life of action, and was frequently heard to say he would rather "make history than write it.” Burgervine’s manner of life at Detroit - was too tame for him. He groaned under the common-places of every day life, and longed to be yet again chasing the phan toms of ambition, which had already led him so far out of the beaten paths of life. As yet, he had accomplished nothing. He j must be up and doing if a name were to be I achieved lor himself. In 1859, Henry Burgeviue again left the shores of America, alas! never to return.} This time his schemes were more tangible. History could give him notable examples , of men who had risen above their kind a#; ( if by magic in the great political convul-!, slons of the world. China should be the j field of his glory, for here a gigantic war ~ had raged for years, and here, If any where, was the place to win distinction.' power, \ empire! To China he went, and the rest of his story is the history of China for the \ last five year. Whether Burgevine went with "Ward from this country, or met him ‘ first In China, the writer cannot say. At all events, they were friends—Ward being I first in command and Burgevine second. I In a great and successful battle Ward was I killed, and Henry Burgevine became com-1 mander in chief of an army of 160,000 dis ciplined men, mostly Europeansand Amer- 1 leans. In the eyes of our hero it was the first step to a throne. After setting forth these facts in. a letter addressed to Thomas Young, Esq., of this city, he says ; “After years of patient labor, watching, waiting and suffering, my day has at last come. In two years I shall rule China !” The and ream was never realized; the life | which was all action, all hope, and all am-1 fcition, has gone out in wretchedness al- j most unparalleled. The mother, to whom in his palmiest days Burgevine transmitted a sufficient sum to make her comfortable j in her last hours, was spared the misery of} outliving him and of knowing how hej died. Sne expired peacefully in this city j about one year since, and lies in Green wood Cemetery. It is almost impossible to estimate the advantages to the world which have been lost by Hurgcvine’s failure in China. Had he achieved all his ambition hoped for, civilization and the highest enlightenment would have followed him, and an empire such as Napoleon might have dreamed of, would have dazzled the eyes of the world, wd the name of Burgevine, which in a few years will be lost to all, save a few that JbMwaad loved him, would have appeared among “the few immortal names that were not born to die,* 1 Burgevinv wa« a scholar, a mno of re fined tastes and literary habits; modest, simple and unafibeted lit his manners; in clined to he silent and gloomy nt times, but generally nffhble ana pleasant, seldom speaking ot* himself; indeed, it was with she utmost difficulty his most intimate flieuds could get at'his history. No for eigner, who has, up to this time, been iden tified with the Chinese war, has had » tithe of the ability of Binge vino. Nor has the world known the real scope and extent of “that ulc^pU'! B * m>ul wliii-h perished in its 1 ' * ... ;i w, \Vftl*jl UULllltll.il Burgevilie succeeding ard, assumed . command of die Imperial army, which I post lie tilted with great credit and din-1 tinetio/i for over a year, when, unfortu nately, he had trouble with the Imperial authorities in relation to the payment of) his forces, and finding his career ham pered, his restless ambition led him to take service with the rebels. A large reward was offered by tBo Imperialists for his head, and, after several months lie was captured; but owing to the protest of our ] Consul ids life was not taken, but the Im-, pe rial is Is resorted to an old and barbarous mode of punishment, of kicking open the wounds lie had received in battle, and then turned him over to the American Consul. Burgevlne then went to Japan, where he remained unlit he bad recovered from the brutal treatment lie had received. Some eight or ten months ago lie returned to China to try and retrieve his fortune, But lie was very soon taken prisoner by the Imperial Government, amt, as we are in formed bv late advices from China, was drowned'while in irons. Burgeyiue, while . he was in favor with the Imperialists, was a mandarin of the “Tied Button,” and bad 1 the power of life and death over two large ■ j cities. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. SENATE. Milt.kdofat li.k, Jan. 27. 1866. The Senate met at 10 o’clock. Mr. Turner moved to reconsider the Bill (lost on yesterday) for the relief of Arthur Hutchinson—passed. The bill to punish seduction with death was laid on the table for the present. Mr. J. A. \Y. Johnson offered a resolu tion for the appointment of a joint com mittee of the two houses to visit Stone Mountain to see " hat arrangements canbe made for the establishment of a State Pen itentiary ai that place. J leave of absence was granted Magars. Mims and Gresham fora few d.ivV Mr. Bedford introduced a bill to define and punish capital and minor offenses when committed by persons of color. The bill defines as capital offences punishable with death ; insurrection or attempting to excite it, poisoning, or attempting to poi son; rape on white or colored females, as sault on a white person with attempt to kill; maiming; burglary, arson of any' description; murder of any person; rob bery by open force. The bill provides to punish minor offences with corporeal pun ishment in the judgment of the court. Air. Brown —A bill to provide for the payment of oeffiers presiding at the polls; Mr. Owens —A bill to repeal section 2635 of the Code and to substitute another therefor. Mr. Strozier— A bill to incorporate the town of Smithville. Bills were then read the first time, and House Bills the second time. The Senate, on motion of Mr. Bedding, adjourned till 10 o'clock Monday morning. The House met at 9 o’clock. Prayer by the (Chaplain. Mr. Dorsey, of Hall, moved to reconsid er so much of the action of the House on yesterday on the passage of the bill amend ing the road laws of the State. Carried. The bill to alter the salaries of Solicitors from SSOO to $22-5, -was taken up. After some discussion the bill was put on its pas sage, and the yeas and nays being ordered, there were yeas 74, nays 74. The Speaker voting in the negative the bill was lost. In this bill the salaries of Judges ofthe Su preme Court Is fixed at $3,51>0 per annum; those of the Judges of the Superior Court at $2,500; those of Solicitors at $500; those of Secretaries of the Executive Department at SI ,800; that of Governor’s Messenger at $950. A bill for the relief of T. \V. Flemingand all others similarly situated. It contem plates reimbursement- by the State for money taken by him while acting as Col lector at Augusta. Considerable discussion was had on the bill, which being put on its passage was lost. Mr. Ridley, of Troup, introduced a bill to prevent the spread of small pox in this State. ' 'Leave of absence was granted to Mr. Hol lis, of Marion. House adjourned till 9 o’clock, Monday morning. SENATE. MIEEEDUEVIELE, Jan. 29, 1866. The Senate met at lot o’clock pursuant to adjournment. The hill to alter th* ;in<> between Irwin and Wilcox countie-. was passed. Mr. O. P. Beall iut induced a bill to alter the charter of tin- town of Outhbert in Randolph county. 1111.1.S ON THUtn BEADING. Bill to authorize ordinaries in certain oases to issue letters testamentary. Pass ed. This bill coni' mplates case s in which testatoi s, through over-sight, have omitted to name their executors. Bill to amend section 2430, of the Code. Passed. Bill to amend section 3452, of the Code. Dost. , * Bill to appoint certain persons therein , named, trustees of the Knoxville Camp Ground. Parsed.* The bill provides for j die sale of the Camp Ground. | Bill for the relief of Arthur Hutchinson, j !of Campbell county. Passed. Hutchinson I living in Campbell county and having re- | dueed by sale his land in Clinch county be i low s,hub acres, asked to be relieved from j . tax fi fas. ; Bill to amend the charter of the city of • Amerieus. Passed. Bill to change the place of holding Jus -1 Bee# Court in the 9”th district of W asnChg } ton county to Bandersville. Passed. Bill to prescribe the oath to be adminis- I ten dto voters. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. j Bill to authorize the several counties of this Btate to issue bonds for the purpose of raising money for immediate use, Passed. Bill to extend .lie corporate limits of the town of Forsyth. Passed. The bill ex- I j tends the limits one-half mile in every di rection from the court house. Bill to suspend the operatiou of the 1528 section of the Code in certain counties. — | Passed. It refers to such counties in which , the standards of weights and measures | have been destroyed. ] Bill to legalize the issue of bonds and bills j by the City Council of Atlanta. Passed. NEW MATTER. The rules were suspended and Mr. Gib son, of Richmond, introduced a bill for the relief of the banks of this Btate. 50 copies ordered to be printed. Also a bill to release the banks from the payment, of debts created so: war purposes. 50 copies ordered to be printed. Also a bill to release from personal liabil itiy the stockholders of banks. 50 copies ordered to be printed. Mr. Strozier—A bill for the relief of the officers of the banks. 50 copies ordered to be printed. Mr. J. A. W. Johnson Introduced a reso- lotion i in lieu of one he had previously fared) for the appointment of a join (com mittee, to examine into tire condition of the Penitentiary buildln* “tthis place, as certain at what cos* they may be made suitable for the reception of convicts, in quire into <Oe cost of erecting similar building' - at other places, and reqiort the result t<> the Legislature. The resolution ii as agreed to. Oil motion of Mr. Moore the Senate ad journed. HOUSE. The House met at 9 o’clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Brooks. Mr. Snead, of Richmond, moved to re consider the action ofthe House in the re jection of a bill for the relief of Thomas \V. Fleming, of Augusta. The motion was lost. - Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Baynes, Frost, Durham. Kirby and Mc- Whorter, of Oglethorpe, foi a few days. NEW MATTER. Mr. Womble, of Epson—A resolatiou ! tlint from and after the 10th of February no new matter should lie introduced in the House. Also, a bill to pay some lit and proper person to keep in order the State House Clock for the present year. Mr. MeCutliins, of Pickens—A bill for the relief of orphans. Mr. Woods, of Morgan—A bill for the j relief of Asa T. Zaeliary of the county of ; Morgan. Mr. Moses—A hill to authorize Ordimu j ries to administer oaths and receive the same pay therefor as Justices of the Peace Mr. Howard, of Lumpkin—A resolution. ; that the call of counties shall be made but 1 once a week hereafter. Mr. , A resolution that a commit tee be appointed to inquire into the order given by the Governor to pay over to the principal keeper of the Penitentiary $lO,- IHKI. Mr. Johnson, of Henry—A bill to define j vagranev, and to punish the same. Air. Phillips, of Habersham —A resolu tion, that whereas, this House lias not re solved itself into a debating society, no member shall speak more than once on the same subject, nor longer than five minutes' A motion to take up the resolu tion was lost. Air. Ellington, of Gilmer —A bill to in corporate the Ellijay Alining Company. Air. Williams, of Dooly—A bill to pre vent the distillation of corn, without a license. AB - . Adams, of Clarke —A bill to levy and collect a tax for the county of Clarke for the year 1866. Mr. Harrison, of Chatham—A bill to define the mode of paying the Solicitor of the Eastern Circuit. Also a bill to in corporate the Savings Bank of Savannah. Air. Kirby, of Chattooga—A bill ttj give Attorneys time to make out bills of certio rari in certain cases. SENATE BILES .ON THIRD READING. A bill to change the line between Worth and Irwin. Passed. A bill to amend the 10th Paragraph, 2d Article, Part Ist, Title 16th, Chapter sth, of the Code. Passed. Bill to prevent the granting of licenses to retail spiritous liquors in Louisville. — Passed. Bill to establish a seal to lie used by the Secretary of State. Passed. Bill to allow persons living on the Wes tern and Atlantic Railroad to build stock gaps on the same. Passed. Bill to punish the felonious taking away from the premises of another, timber, rails, fruit, cottou, etc., and hunting and fishing on the enclosed and unenclosed lands of others, fixing the punishment for the same at $-500 fine and imprisonment. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. Bill to fix the ages at which persons shall work on public roads. The Bill fixes the ages at from 16 to 50. Passed. House adjourned. Tinkering the Constitution. That monument of human wisdom and statesmanship, the Constitution of the United States, as it came from the hands of the great political architects and con structors of the olden time, is threatened to be such a piece of patchwork before long, that none of its friends will know it. The triumphant sectionalism and fanat icism of the day, which lias so long brand ed that instrument ns “a covenant with Death and Hell,” intend, before they get through with their improvements, to make it a faithful transcript of the crutfe and morbid fancies which flit through the brains of a modern reformer, bent upon realizing his Utopia by force of law. The Constitution, as it stood, was not only an original, grand and harmonious system of purely fundamental law, but it was a carefully digested and settled com promise between sovereign and independ ent States, each paragraph of which had been made a subject of long and earnest deliberation, in connection with the other parts. It constituted a solid and consist ent structure, designed to last until the end of time, and, therefore, wisely divest ed of all cumbersome detail, and every thing in its nature temporary and fuga cious. While it laid down all the grand limitations and grants of power with une qualled precision and clearness, fit design edly left, where necessary, a wide scope for construction, in order to adapt it to the exigencies of a long and eventful ca reer. What a magnificent retrospect, to recur to that era of great and good men, so ear nest —so wise—so careful —so profound pursuing their patient and original elabor | at ion of anew and nobler system of gov ' eminent yet known by man, anxious only ito be unprejudiced —to be right—to be ju dicious—to make a permanent and satis factory government for themselves and their children. What we see now is just the converse.— Instead of a compromise between indepen dent Btates or statesmen of different sec tions, the new Constitution, to be embod ied in numerous amendments, is to be the arbitrary dictum not alone of the mere pol iticians of a single section, but of a single party, inflamed with all the pride, preju dice, liatred and eontemi t engendered by a bloody and victorious war. Instead of rest rioting itself to fundamental principles and organic institutions; there are half a score of propositions to incorporate in the Constitution more or less of the mere party riff-raff of the day—measures and expedi ents which can have at best, nothing but a temporary utility, and therefore should have as little place in the written funda mental system as a sumptuary enactment in the Decalogue. It would appear that the politicians who are strutting their brief hour in the Capitol, solemnly impressed with the idea that wis dom will die with them, and the country be unable to take care of itself after they have left the stage, are determined upon making adequate provision for the future safety, by putting all their peculiar notions and nostrums Into the Irrepenlable shape of or ganic law. We have not undertaken to keep count of the Constitutional amendments already on the tapis, but it strikes us there can hardly lie less than twenty; and yesterday we were duly and solemnly notified in ad vance by telegraph, that one more and a stunner was shortly to issue forth from the Reconstruction Committee—an amend ment for the protection of whites and blacks alike, which the Committee hither to lacked the Constitutional power to re port. That Constitutional power they must now, of course, derive from the anti pttlavery amendment, and we presume the protection to white and black contempla ted by the forthcoming amendment, is some new and striking development of the South-hating negrophily of Messrs. Ste vens and Sumner. We apprehend that this whole batch of amendments, when perfected in Congress, " ill lie presented to the South as a nine qua non to re-admission to that body; and in Tr.is shape the Constitution lose its last semblance of a voluntary compact, and so far as one great section of yie country is concerned, be nothing more than a mere capitulation, extorted by force from a de fenceless people, by the haughty and ty ranieal dictation of conquerors. Such is the Constitutional statesmanship (so-called) of the present day, as contrast ed with the wisdom of the fathers. Aran and his passions soon puss away, but na tions are immortal. The haughty and vindictive politicians of to-day arc possess ed by one all-consuming passion—tosweep out from the organic law every tiling stand ing in the way of inflicting a satisfactory retribution, and of burning into the body of that instrument the resentments, the passions, fancies anil conceits of a person al, political and sectional triumph. What a fell precedent, where the victim may in the lapse of time become judge or execu tioner! Truth is said to be eternal and omnipotent, and public justice certain. The Southern States will one day be in the Union —will one day hold the balance between the East and the West—will one day lie powerful, and how much better that they should remember a generous for bearance in tlie hour of their humiliation, than a relentless and haughty proscrip tion. — Journal & Mcxsaigtr. Immigration. There is yet little northern or foreign im migration to Georgia, except what may be discovered among the traders anti mechan ics in the town, or is embarking in the lum ber business near the seaboard. We count ed upon a large accession by immigration to the population of Tennessee ; but the newspapers of that State say there is none worthy of mention. One would naturally suppose that a fertile soil and a mild and healthful climate would at least divert a portion of the stream of foreign immigra tion which is pouring into the hyperborean regions of the northwest; but so far, not a rill tends southward. Is this the result of mere temporary causes —the unsettled con dition of the country and the absence of ad equate protection to property rights ? or i it the working of a general law of coloni ration, apparent enough when we look at it, but which lias generally escaped obser vation and remark. Whatever may be the reason, the fact is too plain for dispute, that tlie white race shuns approaches to tlie tropics, as a gen eral tli ing. The Spaniards and the French have to some extent colonized southern lat itudes, but it has been comparatively a slow and feeble process, and the mongrel popu lation of Alexico and Soutli America dis- plays but little of the foreign stock. Noth ing like the broad, constant and ample tide of foreign immigration displayed in the north-western regions of the continent, has been visible any where else, although the cheapest and most fertile soils —the most salubrious climates—the richest crops—the most valuable mines and inexhaustible storesof vegetable wealth, have been tempt ing the world of adventurous poor for a century. Such an effect as this would seem to challenge inquiry after a cause more radi cal than any hitherto assigned. In the South, in the days of slavery, the existence of that institution was assigned by its ene mies and accepted by its friends as she all sufficient reason why the foreign emigrant seldom or never crossed our borders, and we were told and believed that when sla very was gone, the labor vacuum would be filled at once by a rush of white men from abroad. Bo far, we see, this expectation was erroneous; and we might have been led to doubt it originally had we but at- tentively considered the ease of Mexico and other equally salubrious and inviting countries of the South, where slavery had long been abolished. If we had studied the case of Jamaica alone, that would have proved peculiarly embarrassing to this the ory. There is no spot of green earth more tempting than Jamaica, and it has the ad vantage of being a British dependency un der a British administration. How, then, did it come to pass that British emigrants turned away from Jamaica to seek our Northwestern territories and Canada, leav ing their government to the doleful neces sity of drumming up Coolies to cultivate the soil of that fertile island? Ts there not in the Northern races an in stinctive aversion to tropical climates or anything bordering on them ? If not, can it be a settled indisposition to live among the hybrid races which pre-occupy and doze away existence in those favored re gions ? If this be the reason, the emancipa ted blacksof tlieSouth will provea more fatal oar to white colonization than did the race in a condition of legal subordination to the whites. It is to soon yet to come to settled con clusions about our Southern future in res pect to foreign and Northern immigration, but experience, so far, it must be confessed, is well calculated to awaken reflection. The practical question is, must tropical, or approximately tropical, countries forever remain unimproved, unless cultivated un der a system of compulsing labor —like that which has perished in the South, or which now exists in the East Indies, per force of the teeming native population? It is an uanlterable natural fact that the teeming plenty of Southern latitudes, not crowded with population, shall .shift them into thriftless poverty and sloth. — Journal and ’ Mnmenger. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL Weokly Review of tiio Macon Market. Journal and Mhhkenofr Office, 1 .Monday, January ii*, 18*16. I GENERAL REMARKS. Tlie past week's business will not proba bly balance with that of the previous week, although there is ns good feeling in financial affairs and in the market gener ally. The weather for toe most part lui* been fair, and favorable. Tin recent pay ing off of U. 8. troops at this jioint lins rendered money somewhat easy second hand circles. CITY COTTON MARKET. The decline in the New York and foreign markets has had a depressing effect upon the cotton market generally. Transactions have been very scattering and decidedly cautious. The total sales of tlie week will not reach more than 265 bales, at figures ranging from 34 to 38 cents —tlie best arti cle in tlie market only bringing tlie latter figure. The market is somewhat unsettled, but the following may lie considered fair quo tations : Ordinary 30©32 Middling 34© 35 Strict Good Middling 36© 37 Receipts,soo bales; shipments, 460. MONEY MARKET. Little demand in the market for sight exchange, with a good supply, which may 1 be quoted at par. The following are the quotations of our principal brokers for Bank Notes : GENERAL REMARKS. WORTH. WORTH. GEORGIA: Bank of Georgetown,...lo CR R & IFk Cos 95 “ $ Vowlx’ref re GHR&Bkco f, .. osVV,::::::re Marine Bank, 75 .. )fs 1], 8 Mji'dle Georgia 70 Commercial Bank, 10 0 ml Exchange Bank....’. 10 t)i„. LL tV-Li ’ Farmer s & Ex. irk 10 llanter * Bank 10 Merchants - Bank 10 Meh t» A PFU Bk . .10 , VopU .. s BnnU 30 Thriher - & Mecii’s B'k„ls limner Cutter sB k o Planrs - B k p a i r neld,..ls 8 ?. ,,k <>f Athens, SB state Bank lh .. °i 1.1V.V f- southwestern It RBk 25 of Columbus. “Ll'ninn K-inL- fill “ of Empire Xtate...lO 1 nlon BauU 011 “ of Augusta,.... 2»> ALABAMA: Aug ta Ins. A Ok (_0,...1ti Pi tv Kk of Augusta 10 Bank of Mobile 66 Mechanic’s Bank 10 “ ot Montgomery...,.) Union Bank, 10' “ , ® B k State of Georgia,....2a C enti nl 8ank,.... SO 'Commercial Bank, 20 south Carolina: j Eastern Bank, 45 Bank of Canulen, 15 Northern Bank, 45 “ of Charleston, 10 Southern Bank 65 Bank of Chester, 15\ DRY GOODS. A lair business is reported both at wholesale and retail, with no material change in figures. The following are the quotations of leading houses : Wamosetts Prints, 25 27J Americans, 25 30 Richmonds, 25 30 Phillip Allen, 274 32} Pacifies, “ 274 32} Spragues, 28 35 Merimacs D 274 33 “ W 28 33 Scotch Ginghams, 45(2 60 50© 85 Lancaster ’ 30@35 40@50 I>. I 35(2)37} 40© ; 45 J bl’clid 45©50 50©60 27} ©3O 30 ©4O 32© 37 38© 40 ...An 55©60 60©75 e oat*spool cotton, 125 DOMESTICS : The supply is good of Sheetings. Jobbers quote Macon, 35; Augusta, 34}; Osna burgs sellin at 35. Tlie stock of yarns is light at $3 55 by the bale. GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS: There has been an average business done in Hus line. Large stocks are being re ceived by our merchants since the rebuild ing of che bridges above. No material change in the prices reported last week. Bacon, —Hog round, 20c., Hams 22c., Bides, 22c., Shoulders, 20c. Average rates 22c. Flour. —Extra family, 810 to SIT; Extra superfine, sl3 to sl3 50 ; good superfine, sl2 to sl3. Good supply. Corn. —Wholesale, $1 50; retail, $1 75. Price looking downward. Supply aqual to demand. Sugar. —Brown, 21 to 20e.; crushed, powdered and A. from 27 to 300. Stock fair. Coffee.— Wholesale, Rio, 35 to3Sc. ; Java 50 to 51c. Retail. Rio, 45, Java, 05. Sup ply good. Tobacco. —Wholesale, 50 to $1 ; Retail, $1 to $2. Stock not very heavy, but equal to the demand. Candy.— 3B to 45c.; stock light. Cheese. —Wholesale, 28 to 32; Retail, 50 to 50c.; stock coming in, ami equal to the demand. Ilutter. —50 to 65 cents. Syrup. —Sorghum, 60c to 75c. Best ar ticle, wholesale, 75c. to $1 ; retail, $1 25. Lard. —Wholesale, 20 to 25c.; retail, 25 to 60c.; stock light and demand good. Pice. —Savannah, 20c.; country, 12to 15; scarce and in good demand. Sweet I'otatoes. — Wholesale, $1 ; Retail, $1 50. Supply good. Irish Potatoes.—Wholesale, $1 50; Re tail, $3 per bushel. Stock small. Mackerel.— No. 1, $5 to $5 25 per kit; No. 2, $4 .50 ; No. 1, bbls., S3O ; No. 2, $25 to $27. Cod Fish.— Light demand at 20c. Herring. —Sl 50 per box. Light demand. Candles. —Wholesale, 32 to 34c.; Retail, 45 to 50c. Stock large. Soap. —According to quality, 15 to 25c. Stock, light. Apples. —$6 to $8 per bushel. Very scarce. Dried Fruit. —ls to 25 cents per pound ; stock light—good demand. Fagging.—Gunny, 41 to 43c by the bale ; market well supplied. Kentucky, 40e., scarce ; retail, for Gunny, 4|Pe. Said to be advancing. Worth 30c per yard in New York. Dope. —Machine, 24c ; Richardson, 25c ; stock not heavy—demand light. •Salt. —Wholesale, 3 to 3sc; retail, 44 to •se. Stock not so heavy. Snuff. — Wholesale, 80c to $1 ; retail, $1 25; stock good. Pea.—sl 50 to $2 50, according to quali ty ; stock equal to demand. “ ' ‘ Liquors. —Whisky, rectified eorn-essy [ i S3 .50 ; Rye, do $4 50 to $7 ; , T 's3 50 ;j 1 Brandy, $0 to sl2; Gin, S3 ; T>er gallon ; ’ American Brandy, $4 to f per case, SIT.’ Wolf . Scb-Fort Wine §376 to , fr V de stock of Liquors In 1 market good and equal to demand. All brands of fine Whisky are looking up, caused be a scarcity in the Northern nut kets. J. W. Fears «Sr Cos., Third street, give the following r.s the actual figures at which transactions aie taking place in the fol lowing articles at their wholesale house : Oils, White Lead, Glass and J'ut/y.— linseed $2 50 per gallon; tanners’ bank, $2 50; White lead, $32; Glass—B bv in, $8 50 per box ; 10 by 12, $9 50 ; 12 by hi, sll ; 12 by 18, sl2; 11 by 15, $lO 50 ; 26 by 35, $25. Putty, 20c. per pound. Miscellaneous. —Concentrated Potash S2O per case; concentrated Lye, $lB ; lump potash, S2O; small packages, cask, sl7 ■ Soda, keg, $18; in 1 11) papers, S2O. Palm soap, $lB. Turpentine soap, 16c; Hliot, $5 50. Powder, keg, $lB jquarter keg, $5, Half bbl Butter Biscuit, 18c; do Sot la, 26c per pound ; Soda biscuit by the box, 23c. Pepper and spice, 45c per it. Ginger, 40c. Oysters, 2lb.cans, $7 50per dozen; Oys ters In 1 lb cans, f t 50. Can fruits, $8 per ilozen. Pickles, pints, $5 per dozen ; quarts $7 50; half gallons, slo 50. Starch, 16e. Nails, 4d to l()d, 13} per lb, by tlie keg.— Tumblers, per doz. $2 25 to $2 50. Wes tern reserve cheese, 28c; Hamburg. 29c. Macon candy, 45c; steam, 40; fancy, 55- East India Rice, 25c; Layer raisins, whole, $9. Wire sieves, NO. 14, $6 ; 16, $6 50 ; IK $7; 20, $7 50; 24, $8 per dozen. Axes, S2B per dozen; Sweede Iron, 14c ; Wide Iron, 14c; Steel, 15c ; Hoes, (sl4 per dozen,) uml Axes very scarce. Wide Plow Steel 16c; Trace chains, 6 feet, $2 00 ; 7 feet, $2 25. Gunny Bagging, 41c. per yard ; Hope, half coils, 22}c ; coils, 22c. Milledgeville Correspondence. Mileedof.ville, Jan. 29, 1866. Tlie bright and beautiful Sabbath called forth saints and citizens to the house of God. The churches all were well attended. Dr. Lovick Pierce preached in the Metho dist Church in the morning cud at night ; his sermons were clear, strong, pointed and practical. In the afternoon, all the Sab bath Schools of the city assembled togeth er in the Methodist Church, and after sing ing by the school, addressee were deliver ed by Mr. Stewart, Representative from Spalding county, and Messrs. Butler and O. L. Smith, of the Senate. The occasion was pleasant, and no doubt profitable. There, perhaps, never was a tirno when the true interests of Church and State so urgently demanded that special attention be given to the intellectual and moral cul ture of the children of the country. In the Legislative halls nothing of spe cial interest is now transpiring. Since some bills have been introduced proposing to hold the Railroad companies of this State to the tariff of charges allowed by their Charters, several of the officials of these Roads have visited us, and are now here looking after their interests. The State should deal liberally with these Roads, and yet rt is true, no doubt, that their charges for freight and passengers are extravagantly high and should be reduced by Legislative action, ns they cannot be reached otherwise. To-morrow is the day appointed for the election of United States Senators. The canvass is very active. It is now thought that Mess re. A. H. Stephens and Joshua Hill w ill be run for tlie long term; ami Messrs. Gartrell, Jas. Johnson ami Peeples for the short term. Mr. Stephens is not a candidate, he does not seek the position, but the general con viction as to his ability and his accepta bility both North and South, prompts his friends to elect him even in the face of his expressed wishes. What will be the result <>f these elections no man may predict. Tlie result of the former elections before this I legislature would certainly deter any man from risk ing a prediction ip this ease. . L. Loss by the War. In an article upon taxation, the Consti tutionalist furnishes the subjoined state ment of the losses of taxable property in Georgia by the war: At the beginning of tlie war, the taxa ble property of the State was $644,049,(MS Os this sum there has been lost by confis cation, value of slaves, $572,0h>,490. Bank capital, $17,162,072. By fortunes of war, money at interest, $112,261,877. ItesUm'- tion of property, $75,000,000. Total sbjv 539,439. Leaving a balance of $167, 609, or about one-fourth of the property taxed by the Slate as enumerated in in« digests. That is a bad showing, but it does not comprehend the sum total of property losses by any means. Add cities, village*, and isolated dwellings burned by tlu ‘ thousand; mills and manufacturing estab lishments burned, railroads and bridges, hundreds of miles of fencing, inconceiva ble amounts of household furniture, weal ing apparel, jewelry, etc., etc., stolen and destroyed. BriV- An imposter sty'iiig ' imsclf G. K McCook, of the celebrated fmnfiy of Ohio, was arrested in M tty*? ll * Vlou J Wednesday. He has been tra “ 8 ()l£ the country personating Gcneif and carried on very boldly. A Ic’U r was found on hts person indicating n< gaged in counterfeiting. gress'who" voted fr/Sp "nffrage here but whose constituencies oppose it <*» ht “lf it were only possible for the Rep“£ beans t<> be as honest in regard to juffrag so Connecticut in New York, in M for instance as they arc in a where they have no interest except as* it would he an encouraging «£*’ | hut in the present infirmity of hßinwt ture we must expect to see them. removing motes from eyes j D Potomac, while they wink of th* i eyes east ot' the Hudson ainJ.yj K , na nie9of | Ohio. It is refreshing from ODn- I the four Republican f£ V or of a measure necticut recorded '‘Republicans of tlieii repudiated by ~owsbow careful we ar« | own Btate. Uncos of others, and b<>w !of the oerf our own. —National fntelh \ mlnxll' *’ it***. A report was in circulation two weeks ago that the President would speed j ily issue a proclamation declaring the | hellion at an end, and civil law restored throughout the late insurrectionary Stale*- His delay in so doing is now attributed to | the non-arrival of expected official cort'es pondenoe from Prov isional Governor Haw lltou, of Texas.