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France and the United States. A late number of the New York Herald contains some interesting speculations in regard to the proba ble future relations between this country and France. The subject is an interesting one and cannot en gage too large a share ot tno atten tion of our countrymen. V e an nex a few extracts from the Herald s article * It is hardly time to determine the policy of the present Cabinet Oi the French Emperor m regard to the United States. •' 7 ' " ilU; elder Napoleon sought,_ by every means in his power, to aid. encour age, and enlarge the United States, lie’foresaw the future of this Re- public—its commercial and mari time power—its vast internal re sources, and above all, that at an early day in the history of the world it'would constitute a perma nent check to the British aristocra cy. lu no possible contingency can the United States and I ranee be come antagonists, if their respective Cabinets pursue a line of policy .dictated by the superior interests of the two nations. There is no con ceivable condition of things, indeed, m which France will not be behe- fitted'by the continued growth and extension of this Republic. The present alliance with England may or may not continue. It will cer tainly continue so long as it is the Guano—its History. Guano, as mosl people under stand, is imported from the islands of the Pacific—mostly from the Chincinv group offthe coast of Peru and -under the dominion of that government. Its sale is made a monopoly, aud the avails, to a great extent, go to pay the British hold ers of Peruvian government bonds, giving them, to all intents and pur poses, a lien upon profits of a trea- suie intrinsically more valuable than the gold mines of California. There are deposits of this unsurpas sed fertilizer in some places to the depth of sixty or seventy feet, and over large extents of surface. The guano fields are generally coneeeded to be the excrements of aquatic fowls which live and nestle in great numbers around the is lands. They seemed designed by nature to rescue, at least in part, that untold amount of fertilizing material which every river and brooklet is tolling into the sea. The wash of alluvial soils, the floating refuse of the field and forest, and, above all, the wasted materials of | great cities, are constantly being carried by the tidal currents out to sea. These, to a certain extent at least, go to nourish, directly or in interest of the parties to maintain it. directly, submarine vegetable and ■That it will be used by England, if j animal life; which in turn goes to possible, to act upon American affairs, is also certaiu. But all the aid which shall be given to our ri vals by France, iu opposition to the United States, will only serve to weaken France, by removing from England her only rival on the. sea, and the only power which, by jts industry is capable of holding the British aristocracy in check.— We hold England within the grasp of American industry—our agents are at Manchester, the second pow er of the Jvingdom—the power of trade—the great bond of peace and of good faith. In this regard we are as-much, in the interest.of France as in that of our own. 'The true policy, then, of the .present French Emperor, is the policy of the old Emperor towards the American people. It is so, whether we consider the interests ; of commerce between the two coun tries, er the political well-being of the two nations. There is to be no such thing any more as absolute sur-remaoy of any one nation. The ^enterprise aud inventive genius of ■the age. if not the increase of popu lation and the powers of doing mischief to each other, are enough to insure this. It is not possible, then, for Europe to secure a posi tion of absolute security in Europe, ■whatever may be the success of her government and the extension oi her dynasty: She is now at peace with England—but there is not a tithe of the .assurance that it will continue to exist between the Uni- 4ed States and England. Our poli cy is exclusively American. There i: nothing in it in conflict with the interests or the honor of France.— ( Qur extension, if it acts at all upon European nations, affects alone the •interests of England. W e believe this, e-yejv, to be wholly imaginary, .certainly so, viewed as an industrial operation; but perhaps not so when regarded iii the light of a naked conquest of neighboring States ; because England not only maintain the allegiance of American Colonies, :but looks to an extension of her dominions pat this side of the iu- ter. jpjpMr. Locke, formerly editor of the'Savannah Republican, in a letter to that paper from Europe, giving an account of a recent visit to Venice, says: >‘A strange occurrence took place while I was in Venice. On the same evening, in different parts of fils town, two young girls, nine or ten years of age, were enticed away to a solitary abode, where they were blindfolded and conducted to another -retired house. Here they were well treated for twenty- four hours, with enough to eat and drinK, put mey were prea several times almost to the point ot faint ing, and when they had no more' to spare, without endangering their lives, they were restored to their homes by night, in the same mys terious wav. Everybody in town was startled by this singular occur rence. The most common explana tion was, that an old sorceress had recommended to some deluded be ing, jobbing in the blood of young and healthy persons, as a method of restoring exhausted nature. A bashful printer refused a situ ation in a printing office where fe males were employed, saying that he never ‘ ‘set up” with girls J n h i s Jjfe t l IJunting.—“Well farmer, you told us your wood was a good place fox hunting. Now, we’ve tramped tffraugh it for three hours, and found no game.” f -Just so, >Yell, calculate, as a general thing, the less game there is, the jnore hunting you have.” feed the birds, which at our own day are brought away by the ship load from the Chincha iflauds. The bird is a beautifully arrang ed chemical laboratory, fitted up to perform a single operation, viz :— to take the fish as food, burn out the carbon by means of its respira- tary functions, and deposit the re mainder in the shape of an incom parable fertilizer. But how many ages have these depositions of sev enty'feet in thickness been accumu lating? There are at the present day countless numbers of the birds res ting upon the islands at night; bat, according to Caron Humboldt, li.e excrements of the birds for the space of three centuries would uot forma stratum over one third of an inch in thickness. By an easy' mathematical calculation, it will be seen at the -rate of deposition, it would lake seven thousand five hendred and sixty centuries, or seven hundred and fifty six thous and y'ears, to form the deepest gu ano bod. Such a calculation carries us back well to a former geological period, and proves erhaps both, of two things—first, that m past ages an infinitely greater number of these birds hovered over tne islands; and -secondly, that the material world existed at a period lohg anterior to its fitness as the abode af man. The length of man’s existence is iufinite- cimal, compared with such a cycle of y'ears; and the facts recorded of every leaf of the material universe, ought, if it does not, to teach us hu mility'. That a little bird, whose individual existence is as nothing, should in its united action, produce the means of bringing back to an aetive fertility whole provinces of waste and barren lands, is one of a thousand facts to show how appar ently insignificant agencies in the economy of nature produce mo mentous results.—London Farmer's Magazine. Beet Sugar of France. France is the largest producer of beet sugar in the world. A favor able soil and climate, and a rural and industrious population, contri bute to the successful prosecution of the beet sugar manufacture. This manufacture originated during the reign ofNapoleon Bonaparte. His continental system raised colonial produce to an almost fabulous price. Tire high rate of sugars induced many to look around for the means of producing sugar at home, and an impetus was given to the search by the offer of a magnificent premium by the emperor to the successful discoverer of a permanent home source of supply. Of all the plants ruemeerproveci xne most promising, but forty years elapsed before the manufacture of beet sugar was en able to cope successfully with cob onial sugars, From France the cul ture spread through Belgium, Ger many', and far into the interior of Russia, and now there is produced of this kind of sugar on the conti nent of Europe three hundred and sixty million's of pounds, nearly one-half of which is manufactured in France, in three hundred and thirty-four manufactories. In the vicinity of Lille the average yield of the sugar beet is sixteen tons to the acre, and at Valenciennes nine teen tons. In some localities twen ty five ions are produced. To Color Butter.—Take some round carrots, express the juice through a seive, and mix it with -the cream when it enters the churn, which will make it appear like Mav butter. jJjiTTiough your lands deep and you will make more by the opera tion. Humors of Congress. In the absence of a speaker and an appropriation bill, Congress gets ill-humored and good tempered by turns. *The following is the after- piece to the scene between Messrs. Barksdale and Kennett, described by onr correspondent, after the mutual explanation of those gentle men : Mr. Pennington, of-New Jersey, said that his at'.ention had been called to the question proposed by the gentleman from Missouri on Saturday last-. As he was not in the House at the time they were propounded, he ,/ould take this oc casion to answer them. The question were: “I should like to know of each candidate for the Speakership, including my friend from New Jersey', whether he believes in a future state or not ? And then, provided he answers that question affirmatively', I desire to know whether he believes it will be a free or slave State. Now, (said Mr. P.) 7 am some what versed in the Westminster Catechiem, and have learned from .it that there is a future state. I be lieve it. But I understand that there are two states in that future state—one the beautified state, the other the state of the damned. One is a free state; the other is a slave state. [Laughter.] One of these States is on one side of a certain line, and the other on the other side of that line—not exactly a compro mise line, I believe. [Renewed laughter.] But I have always un derstood that that which lies on one side of the line—the side on which is the damned—is the hot test; and I therefore conclude that must be the southern side- of the line. [Great laughter.] But'there are those who believe that there is a third future state, ora third divi sion of the general future state ; that is, the state of purgatory.— [Laughter.] Now, with that’state I have no acquaintance, except such as I have learned from the course of purgation that has been going on in this House. [Renewed laugh ter.] I know certain gentlemen have been in a state of purgatory here, and [placing his hand upon his heart] I know one gentleman which is past praying for. [Great laughter.] Mr. Kennett, I beg to say one word in reply to my friend from New Jersey, who seems so well posted up iu his catechism and in regard to those future states, the north side and the south side of the line aud purgatory. He has been kind enough to bind some ot us hand aud foot, and in advance to pitch us into the dark place. 1 would like to know of him, in re gard to Iris catechism, whether, when he informed us on Saturday last that he had got beyond “effec- sual calling,” he was able to see his “election sure ?” [Uproarious and prolonged laughter.] Mr. Pennington, (rising amid great laughter.) I owe the gentle man one. [Laughter.] Mr. Crane Walks Out. We give below one of the most amusing of the Bedott papers. The widow had an affair with Tim Crane, and elderly widower for whom she had “set her cap,” and who was extremely polite to her because he had a secret fancy' for her daughter Melissa. Mr. C. asks a private interview with the widow when the following scenes ensued: “Oh, no, Mr. Crane, by r no man ner of means; t-ain’t a minnit tew soon ibry'ou to begin to talk about gittin’ married again. I am amaz ed you should be afeerd I’d think so. Sec—how long’s Miss Crane been dead? Six months!—land o’ Goshen! why I’ve knowed a num ber of individiwals get married in less time than that. There’s Phil Bennett’s widder’t I was talkin’ a- bout jest now—she ’t was Louisy Perce—her lmsban’ hadn’t been dead but three months, you know. X ikmlc it loolro w cli COl* <1 WO" man to be iu such a hurry, but for a man it’s a different thing—circum stances al er cases, you know, And then sittiwated as you be, Mr. Crane it’s a terrible thing for your.family to be without a head to superintend the domestic contarns and tend tc the children—to say nothin o’ y f cr- self, Mr. Crane. You do need a companion, and no mistake. Six months! Good grievous 1 Why, Squire Titus didn’t wait but six weeks arter he buried his fust wife, afore he married his second. I ther wan’tno partickler need o’ his hurrydn’ so seem his family was all grow’d up. Such a critter as he picked out, tew! ’t was very un suitable but every man to his taste, I han’t no dispersitfon to meddle with nobody’s consarns. There’s old Farmer Dawson, tew—his part ner haintbeen dead but teu months. To be assure he aint married yet, but he would a been long enough ago ifsomebody I know on’d gin him any incurricgement. But taint for me to speak of that matter. He’s a clever old critter, and as rich as a Jew—but, lawful saJj&s! .he’s old enough to be my' father. .And there’s Mr. Smith—JufiTtcr Smith, you know him, Mr. Crane, his wife (she ’twas Aurorv Pike) she died last summer, and lie’s been squitin’ round among the wimmin ever since, and he mav squint for all the' good is ’ll dew him as far as I am consarned-—though Mr. Smith’s a respectable man—quite young, and haint no family—very well oil tew, and quite intellectible—bnt I t«ll yer what, I’m purty partickler. O, Mr_ Crane! it’s ten y'ears come Jin- niway’ since I witnessed the expi ration ofmy beloved companion ! an uncommon long time to wait, to be sure—but’t aint easy to find an\bo ly to fill the place o’ Hezekier Be< ot . I thidk you’re the most like Husband of airy individual I ever s>e, Mr. Crane. Six mouths ! mui de ration! curus you should be afrearid I’d think ’twas tew soon, why I’ve lcnow’d—” Mr. Crane—‘ t Weli, widder, I’ve been thinkiu’ about takin another companion, and I thought I d ask you.” Widow.—“0, ’Mr. Crane, excuse my cemmotiou, it’f so unexpected. Just hand me that are bottle o’ cam- fire off the mantletry shelf’ I’m ruther faint—dew put a little mite on my handkerehier and hold it to mp nuz. There, that 'll dew, I’m obliged tew ye; now I’m ruther composed, you may' pjoceen Mr. Crane,” Mr. C.—“Well, widder, I was going to ask you whethe—whether’ "Widow.—“Continuer, Mr. Crane dew; 1 know it’s terrible embar- rassin.’ I remember when my de- zeasyd husband made his supposi tion to me, he stammered and stut tered, and wns so awfully flustered it did seem as if he’d never git it out in the'world, and I s’pose it’s j generally the case, at least it has ! qecn with all ;hom that’s made j suppositi ms to me—you see thny- ! ’re generally oncertain about what i kind of an anser they’re agwiue to J git and it kind o’ makes em narvus. I But when an individiwal has rea son t.o s’pose his attachment’s recip erated 1 I don’t see what need there is o’ his bein’ flustrnted tho’ I must say it’s quite embarrassiu’ to me; pray con tinner.” Mr. C.—“Well, then, I want to know if you’re willing I should have Malissy ?” W i dow—“The dragon! ” Air. C.—“I hainjt said anything toiler about it yet—thought the proper way r was to get your consent first. I remember when I courted Trvpheny, we were engaged some time before mother Kenipe knew , anything about it, and when she j found it out sha was quite put out | because I didn’t go to her first. So i when I made up mv mind about : Melissy, thinks me, I’ll dew, it right ! this time and speak to the old wo- ■ man first.” Widow.—“Old Woman, hey, I that’s a purty name to call me! n- | mazin perlite tew! Want Melissy", j hcv? Tribbleatioji? gracious snakes ! alive! well, I’ll give it up now. I ! always know’d you was a sirnple- j ton Tim Crane, out I must confess j I didn’t think you was quite so big ; a fool—want Melissev, rlew ye? | If that don’t beat all? What an i everlastin old calf you must be to | s’pose she’d look at you. Why' i you’re .old enough to be her father | and more tew—Melissy aint only i in Imr twenty- onetli pear. What | a redickiloas idee fora man of I vournge! as grey' as a rat tew ! I wonder what the world is cornin’ tew; ’tis astonishin what foofe old widdiwers make, make o’ them selves! Have Melissy'! Melissy!” Mr, C.—“Why, widder, you sur prise me—I’de no idee of being treatek in-this- way after you’d been so polite to me, and made such a fuss over over me and the girls.” “Widow.—“Shot you head, Tim Crane—nun o’ yer sass to me. Teere’s ver hat on that ere table, and here’s the door—and the soon er you put on one and march oat o’ t’other, the better it ’ll be for you. And I advise you, afore you try to git married agin, to go out West and see if yer wife’s cold,' and axier vc 5 io ooticlrcci cm tlvat pint, jest put a little lampblack en y'er hair, ’twould add to yer appearanee ondobtedly, and be of sarvice to you when you want to flourish a- mong the gals, and when y'e’ve got yer hair fixt, jest splinter the spine of yer back, ’twouldn’t hurt yer looks a mite’you’d be entirely' urt- resistible if you was a little grain i straighter.’ Mr. C.—“Well, I never!’ Widow.—“Hold yer tongue, you consarned old coot you—T told y'er there’s yer hat and here's the door, be off with yerself, quick metre, or I’ll give ye a hist with the broom stick.” Mr. C.—“Gemmenifi Widow, rising.—“Git out, I say, I aint agwine to stan here and be insultad under my own ruff, and so git along along, and if ever ye darken my door again, or say a word to Melissy, it’ll be the wust for you—that’s all.’ Mr. C.—“Tremenjous! What a buster!’ VVidovy.—“Go ’long—go ’long— go ’long, ye everlastin’ old gum. I won’t hear another word—(stops ]ier ears)—I won t I.ivpu’t, I w-pn’u’ [Exit Mr. Crane.] A Lawyer Posed.—“William, lookup tell us who. made you, William. Do you know ?”. William who was considered a fool, screwing his face, and looking thoughtful and somewhat bewi!d : ered, slowly' answered, “Moses I s’spose.” “That will do. Now,’ said Coun feller Gray, addressing the court, “the witness says he s’poses Moses made him. This certainly is an in telligent answer—more so than I supposed him capable of giving, for it shows he has some faint idea of Scripture. But I- submit, may it please the court, that this is not suf ficient to-justify his being sworn as witness in this case. No sir; it is not'such an answer as a witness qualified to testify, should give.” Mr. Judge said the fool, “may' I ask the lawyer a question ?’ ‘Certainly',’ replied the judge; ‘ask h : m any question you please.’ ‘Wall, then, Mr. Lawyer, who do you.s’pose made you?” .‘-Aaron, I s’pose,’ said the coun sellor, imitating the witness. After the mirth had somewhat subsided, the witness exclaimed, “Wal, now, do read in the good book that Aaron once made a calf; but who’d a thought the tarnal critter had got it here ?” he intends' to fleece them. The ponds he. has locked tip and laid an embargo upon the, rills, which can hardly' run without freezing; and branches ancf creeks gurgle slowly on as if throttled in the last agony. The wind sighs a melan choly moan through the icy gloom, and palsied nature seems to say: Come'ye gentle Southern breezes Oolite and pOrce the heart of lee King, Marble heart of cruel North wind, Melt oh melt him into tear* '. ^EDNESIMY, MX, jp ^ E. wl^PENDLETQN, EDlfOft Meteorology. Why was the first day of Ad am’s life the longest known ? Be cause it had no Eve! entosamamimfwisarae3g«ji^miftw i *i ririnri CENTRAL GEORGIAN S'AJYDERS'&iibljE, THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 1850. P. C. PENDLETON, EDITOR, Charade. I sit her', on a rock while I’m raising the wind, But the storm once abated, I’m gentle and kind. I have Kings at mv feet, who await bnt my nod, To kneel in the dust on the ground I have trod. I mn seen by the world, I am known but to few; The Gentiles detest me! I’m pork to the Jew! I never have passed but one night in the dark. And that was with Noah, all alone in the Af' c , My weight is 31hs! my length is a mile;' And when I’m discovered, you'll say with a smile, M v first aud ray last are the besfSn our isle. A friend has called our attention to" the above puzzle, in Harper’s Magazine. We are posed. How is it with you reader? We will give a year's subscription of this paper to any one who will send us the correct solution, if the charade itself is not an absurdity. Frozen Reflections by a cold Poetaster. We have often heard of the Storm King and his wonderful feats of conquest and destruction when with his marshalled army he strode over the prostrate forms of the tall majestic denizens of the forest. Sweeping through ocr hills and mountains Sweeping o’er our fields and fences, On his wings of mighty power Rushing screaming like the engine. Rushing round about our dwelling Rushing through our habitation. And much more of the same sort that the Poet left unsung. But nevertheless his old Borean majes- ! tv of terrible memory has been de- i throned and the Snow King bear- ; ing the scepter has usurped domin ion and extended his conquest far down South where before he has been unknown and unheard of. But the Poet ever true to his mission has seized upon the occasion to bla zon' his deeds in somewhat Hiawa- than style. Hear him. Grasped a waterfall congealed, Rtre it with him from the mountain, Boro the symbol-of the snow king, Bore the ley scepter onward. Touched with it like wand of wizzard, Touched potatoes, eggs and turnips, Touched the water in the cistern, Touched onr feelings, toes and noses, Touched our doors, our walls, and windows Chilling! freezing' petrifying! Nu wonder the trees are bowed to the earth and the branches bro ken and dismantled and their trunks lie scattered in our southern forests thick as leaves in Valamhrosa. What better could be expected when this merciless Snow King has been raining congealed water falls upon us so repeatedly for some weeks passed. And though there has been a cessation of the cold that showered upon us they having the wonderful property of adhering to everything they touch, his majesty though departed has left an Ice Regent behind him more ter rible than himself in that he envel ops in his cold embrace houses, fields, woods, trees and tender herbs; together with cattle, porkies and fowls, not omitting man him self whom he attacks with the cool impudence of a pickpocket driving him under cover with as little cere mony' as a shepherd his Bheep when Frozen Again. We are again in the mid another extraordinary sleet. On rain, and soon after, to freeze, was followed by what.is-common ly called a hominy' snow. Before night-fall the trees, houses, and everything else out of doors were enveloped with a coating of ice.— During the night the sleet, contin ued to fall, and Sunday-morning- presented us with a scene never before witnessed in this climate, if we are to credit that most impor tant individual, the oldest inhabitant, whose “memory runneth not to the contrary.” A solid sheet of ice near au inch thick, almost uniin- pressibie to the tread, covered the earth. The trees laden with the unusual burden, are, many of them, broken and prostrated on the ground, some torn up by the roots, others dismantled of many of their branches. Monday' morning pre sents the same unvaried scene.— Tuesday morning, and -no signs of a thaw—the clouds all the while hang.ng dark and lowering, keep ing the sun from view. At this time there is no prospect of a change How long it will be before there is a release from this icy dominion our weather wisdom sayeth not. 1 Barom- 1 cter. 1 Sunday.. Monday. Tuesday. Wedn’y.. Tours’v.. Friday... Saturday. ‘J9.43. 29.47, 29.42. 29.39. 29.42. ■29.44. 29.26. Inferior Court. By reference to another column, it will be perceived that the Inferi or Court of this county stands ad journed to the 11th day of Februa ry next. Perhaps' the Court ex pect a “warm spell” about that time which will supersede the necessity of chimneys in our Hall of Justice We would advise suitors, jurors and witnesses not to come without their over-coats, india-rubbers, and mittens; and the lawyers uot to leave their shawls behind. For we know not what a day may bring forth. Pre-calculations that have reference to preparation- are worth something—those having reference to the weather about as worthless as a thermometer to John Blank, who, “would’nt give a fig for a ther mometer that could only tell how the weather was to-day and knows nothing ’bout to-morrow”. Ifo^rTt is exceedingly- to be re gretted that our wise legislators have not deemed it prudent to cut down the list of Senators in our State. We will give them the ben efit of Tully’s opinion on the sub ject of qualifications, (and no better can be given,) remarking that the whole people in this State coincide with this view as to the character of the senator, and if that be true, it will be impossible to get such an army of senators together as is ne cessary', in the view of the Legisla ture, to make laws for the. State : “It is necessary,” says he “for a Senator to be thoroughly acquaint ed with the Constitution ; and this Ls a knowledge of the most exten sive nature ; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection ; without which, no Senator can be fit for his office.” The following Bill was intro duced into the House of Represen tatives by R. L. Warthen, Esq, of Washington.—To explain, and supplimentarv to the Act approv ed Dee. 22. 1855, authorizing the Inferior Court of said county to levy and collect an extra tax for the purpose of building a Court house and Jail. Authorizes the Inferior Court to levy an extra tax not to exceed $5,000 per annum, for each of the years 1856-57& ’5S to be applied to the redemption of the bonds issijed under the above recited act, The following hit at Lord Cter- navon is from the pen of Lord Brougham. It will do: “ClErnavon is so piping Lot, Irascible and jadish; His mother was a mustard-pot, His father a horse-raddish.” snow, of a very nnnsnol eharaet<-r"un;f r ° n “'- I size, perfectly round, aud as light Ls th" i:; snow. Measured when melted .Cl 0 f “nincl. That Poetry! We make room in this number, f ur , which has some merit, It was handed us bv Poem -swell as a fine m 0N a gentleman, who j ' bibes himself, with the request that we - lisli it. At the same time, he reaurked^" notwithstanding from earlr youth heliad 'ts*' ed to drink, and never expected to desi f! tirely, so confirmed had the lmbit becom,> if he could begin life again, with the 1 knowledge of the evil of ardent spirits f - now has from experience, he would takea^ of arsenie in preferance to a single drop oft “perilous stuff” in which the hero of oiu ^ deals- SST* N will be remembered by those interested, that J. B. J 0 i mso j Esq., is the authorized Agent o ; this paper, in this place, to whom all payments should be made. He also has in his hands the claims of the Central Georgian f or ad. vertisements and job printing. Please call and settle. We see from the Netr Or leans Christian Advocate, that t!i e Rev. Wm. J. Sasnctt.has been re commended to the Presidency of Soule College, by the TcxssCon. ferenee. Should he accept the po sition, he will make the second na tive of Hancock county, who has filled tho Presidential chair, (notof I the United States, gentle reader,) but of two very respectable lesres. Cold Weather, The thermometer stood at 12’ above zero on last Wedneslir morning at sun rise. The day pre vious being the coldest day s« 1845, if we mistake not. The mer cury standing at 15° 27 a, and 21“ at the regular times of observation, mean temperature for the day be ing 21° or eleven degrees below freezing. The sun shone beautiful ly throughout the whole day, but failed to modify the intense coldness of the atmosphere to any great ex tent. Commerce of Savannah. We have received the report of the Mayor of Savannah, for the year ending October 31st, 1855, from which we gather the following items : Exports of Cotton for the year $17,766,215, against $15,681- 806 for the year previous. Tho grand total value of exports for the year is $20,129,230, against $17' 881,906 for 1854. In the articled Rice and Lumber there is a consid erable falling off in the amount ex ported, while Wheat, and Copper ore, have largely' increased, and promise to constitute staple article) of exportation from our seaport Tne total tonnage cleared and en- t ered, in 1855, amounted to old,- 475, against 377.876, for the preu ous year. The Imports, foreign and dome' tic, are supposed to be nearly oq mT ' alent to the exports, bringing ^ Commerce of Savannah np toneai forty millions of dollars, annual!)' Courts of Hancock. We are informed that the Ug 15 ’ lature lias passed a bill to eba 11 ? the time of holding the Super* 01 and Inferior Courts of this county the former to hold its Sessions h February and August, the l» ttf ‘ in April and October, just rever ing the order of things. The ne** Superior court therefore sitson - third Monday of February, turn day' having terminated on Tuesday last. Some few indivi u als will be benefitted by the oper 1 tion, having two months g rflce thei r claims, while others will injured. The worst sufferer opine will be our old friend T u | H., in the way of costs. Cban e 7 however, we have no doubt co® honestly by the advantage, an