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Russia Under Nicholas. The last days of the Emperor Alexander perhaps among the most anxious and Us lile. Conspiracies bad been formed in K e army which threatened the overthrow government, and were aimed even at his pie. day had been determined on for a geseral out break, when the unexpected news arrived at St. Petersburg that the Czar was dead. He had undertaken a journey to the Crimea, but illness compelled him to retrace his step*, and he died on the 30th November, 1825, at Taganrog. As soon as the intelligence of his death reached the capital, the Grand Duke Nicholas presented him self before the Senate in order to take the oath of allegiance t« his brother Constantine, who was then at Warsaw. A package which Alex ander had left in charge of the Imperial Council, endursed with an order in his own hand-writing that it should be opened in case of his death, was, meanwhile, unsealed by Prince Lapuchin and found to contain three documents, viz., a writ ten resignation of the right of su cession to the Russian crown by Constantine, the acquiescence of Alexander, and a decree, dated August 28, 1823, that Nicho'asshould be his successor. Con stantine had written in his renunciation of the crown: “As I know that I possess neither the intelligence, talent or energy requisite for the sovereign dignity which I am entitled to claim by birth, I pray your Imperial Majesty to trans fer it to the next in order after me, that the sta bility of the kingdom may be secured.” Nicholas, nevertheless, refused to accept the crown until his brother should again give up bis claim to it; and the Senate, the Imperial Council and the holy Synod took the accustomed oaths of fidelity to Constantine, until his will should be known. On the 13th of December, the reiteration of his determination, confirming the decree of Alexan der, was received from Warsaw, arid eleven days afterwards, the Grand Duke Nicholas became the first Emperor of that name. The reign of Nicholas was inaugurated by the most dangerous conspiracy with which the Rus sian throne has been threatened curing the pre sent century. The elements of disorder, which had been gathering to a head during the last weeks of Alexander’s life, found a vent, two days after the accession of the new Autocrat. On the 26th of December, when the oofh of al legiance was administered to the army, several regiments lushed from their barracks to the Senate House, crying “Hurrah for Constantine”; the tumult rapidly spread among the people, who were persuaded by the revolutionists that Constantine had been cheated out of his rights; and, but for the moral courage and cool determi nation of Nicholas, the first week of his ru'e would have been also the last. The faithfulness of his Finnish troops, and the timely use of ar tillery, in a few hours restored order in St Peters burg; but the revolution had also broken out in ’the southern and western army ot the Empire, and it was not until the insurgents had risked a battle that the revolt was effectually suppressed. Rigorous investigation was then made as to its authors, and at the end of five months one hun dred arid twenty persons were accused of parti cipation in it, and most of them were condemned to the severest punishments. Os these five were hanged, and although the Emperor affected cle mency towards the remainder, no one was in reality ever forgiven by him who was known to have favored that insurrection. Not only the soldiers engaged in it. but even the regiments to which they belonged remain to the present hour affected by the disgrace consequent upon the im placable hatred of the Imperial despot. Nicholas was crowned at Moscow, on the 3d September, 1826, the Grand Duke Constantine taking part in the ceremonies, and contributing all in his power to the popularity of his brother. At the very moment of the coronation festivities, territ- rial jewels were being added by Count Paskiewitch to the Imperial d adem The son of the Scbah of Persia, who had suddenly invad ed Georgia, was driven from that province, and bythepeaceof Turkmantschai, concluded the next yeur, the Czar gained, besides an indemni fication of sixteen millions of dollars, the pro vinces of Eriwan and Nachitschiwan. England had already sent the Duke of Wel lington to Russia, in order to prevent young tiie Czar irom making the terrible condict which was then raging between Greece and Tuikey, the pretext ol a religious crusade; and at this early period Nicholas demanded that s h.“ Wes tern [towers should expressly obligate themselves to take under their projection, with energy and decision, the interests oi Christianity in the East. He declared, however, that he would never permit the slightest interlerence of any ip-v ,-ompr ..-itb J(h * affairs ;•£. the Rii»«uui. Empire itsell. The celebrated treaty between Eng'and, France and Russia, winch was lollow ed by the battle of Navbrino, was concluded on the 6th of July, 1827, and, under the auspices ol the three powers. Greece became a kingdom The Czar, soon alter, in consequence of the non fulfilment by the Sublime Porte ot the conditions of the treaty affecting l,is own interests, com menced the celebrated war which terminated with the treaty of Adrianople, concluded on the 2d September, 1829. Paskiewith had conquered Asia to Erzeroum. and Diebitch, at Adrianople, thieatened the Turki-h capital By the treaty, the Czar restored the Principalities, between the Danube and Pruth, to Turkey, but retained the control over the mouths of the Dai übe, and caused the Asiatic boundary to be so regulated that the Caucasian tribes became isolated, and their future conquest by Russia apparently secur ed. The years 1830 and 1831 were two of the most eventful iu the reign of Nicholas ; the at tention of the civilized world being attracted to the Western portion of his Empire, and univer sal sympathy aroused for the most unlortunaie and oppressed ot people. The Polish parliament assembled on the 28th of May, 1830, and it was evident from its first proceedings, that resistance was intended against the tyranny which had oppressed the Kingdom. Every precaution against outbreak was tgken by the Russian Gov eminent; but, on the 29th ol November, revo lution began at Warsaw. The Grand Duke Constantine had scarce time to escape with ms lif# For some time,success attended the efforts of the Poles, and had unity been preserved among their leaders, it is not altogether impossi ble that the result of the revolution might have been more favorable. The victories ol Prague, Wawel, Grochow and Ostrolenka,over Diebitsch a well as the Grand Duke Constantine, holerain June, 1831,J where, however, by the siege of Waisaw, by Piince itch, on the 6th and 7th of September, sntire subjugation of the Kingdom. Now ■came the days of terror and misery for poor Poland, and as long as the name of Nicholas shall be known, the diabolical cruelty which he authorized against the conquered patriots will exci.e bo.ror and disgust in the hears ol men. Not to speak of the multitudes who were sent out to Siberia, the dull sound ot the knout was, week after week, heard upon the bodies of those who refused to take the oath of allegiance, and hundreds perished by this punishment w ithin a lew miles of the palace where Nicholas resid ed, and yet he never gave a sign ol mercy. The groans of those who perished, alter the Revolu tion in Poland, were stifled as carelully as pos sible by the Russian Government; but enough transpired for the world to know that the history of those days, if truly w ritten, would form one of the bloodiest and most harrowing pages in the history of the human race. Alter the conquest ot Poland, Nicholas began to throw aside the mask with regard to the purposes he had long cherished against Turkey, and assumed towards the Sultan the tone of a liege lord to his vassal. With the exception ot the strife in the Caucasus, Russia enjoyed peace, and full leisure was given to the Court of St. Petersburg to plan the “road to Constantinople” for which Catharine 11. boasted she had prepar ed the way. During the period, from the treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi, concluded ou the Bth ol July, 1834, by which the Russians gained Anapa and the keys to the Caucasian mountains, until 1848, strenuous efforts were alto made by Nicholas for the social amelioration of his people, for the consolidation of the Empire, to procure uni'y oi religion throughout Russia,and to establish crim nal and civil legislation upon a higher and more just basis. Railroads wete built, telegiaph lines extended edicts concerning agriculture and lor the benefit of the serfs were issued, commerce was encouraged, and the genera! welfare of the Empire industriously cared for : but the cream of Southern conquest was never lost sight ot, and all the artsot diplomacy were used tu pave the way for the acquisition of Turkey, without kniolestat:or. from the Western powers. The journey of the Emperor to England, in 1844, is to have had this purpose for its end. Bn IS4S, the French revolution threw Europe ii*» convulsions. When the news of the fall of I-4is Philippe reached the Czar, |he exclaimed officers of his Guard who were present: P xP* emen ’ pre P are to mount your horses.” He alreAiy foresaw that Russian interference would probably be required to quell the disorders whlfc. we* arising in neighboring kingdoms. Even in RuAja a revolutionary plot was discovered, for participation in which twenty-seven conspira t°r* condemned to death by a military commisAnp. Their sentence was commuted to punishmenVcerhaps still more cruel. The first event which paused the intervention of Nicho las against thVprogrees of revolution outside of his own territo«Tr was the outbreak in Bucharest, which he claimed the right to put down as Pro tector of the Principalities. Soon after, be was called upon by Austria, to assist in suppressing the revolution in Hungary, the continuance of which would have endangered the peace of Po land, and which the Czar, therefore, had viewed with anxiety and alarm. Prince Paskiewitch marched from Eriwan into Hungary, commenced operations in concert with the Austrian army, and the result was the surrender bv Goergey to General Rudiger, on the 15th August, 1849, by which the integrity of the Austrian Empire was once more established. After the close of the Hungarian Revolution no marked external events characterized the history of Russ a, with the exception of increas ed efforts to subdue the mountainous tribes of the Caucasus, until, in 1852, the arose with regard to the Holy Places, between the Porte and Christian Powers. Such a mis understanding had been loDg foreseen by the Czar, and his own course of policy fully deter mined on. The mission of Prince Menschikoff in March. 1853, followed by the invasion of the Principalities during the summer ol that year, was no sudden or hasty movement of imperial passi' n, but part of a plan which had been ma tured for years in the mind of Nicholas. It is not probable, however, that he anticipated the strile with the rest ot Europe in which his em pire is involved; least of alt did he look for the obstacles he has met with from the side of Eng land and Austria The past of that conflict is well known; what its future will be, and how far it may be modified by the changed relations which the death ot Nicholas will create, is hid den for the present by an impenetrable veil. The ambition of the one man who has so recently and suddenly passed from the world, has conjur ed a storm over Europe, the desolating effects of which have been felt by four nations,and which threatens to be a prolific cause of disaster to the civilized world. The peaceful progress of his own States has been interrupted ; the agricultur al districts of his empire have been draineo of laborers; its commerce has been annihilated; disaffection has grown up among his subjects; and his own death may have been caused by conspirators, who resorted to assassination, as a desperate remedy against a suicidal national po licy. The present war has brought with it de plorable disasters to the Allied Powers; but they are smali compared with the evils which have resulted to Russia herself, and in all prob ability, it cannot close, whether now or at some future period, without conditions involving her humiliation and the destruction of the hopes with which it originated. Southern Railroad Convention at Augusta. We mentioned a few days ago, that an im portant Railroad Convention had been heid at Augusta, at which a new schedule between Washington and Montgomery, to go into effect in July, was adopted, and a resolution agreed to, d scontinuing the Express business over the roads represented. A pamphlet, containing the proceedings of the Convention, has been laid on our table by R. R. Cuvier, Esq., the President of the Convention, from which we gather the following facts: The roads represented at the meeting are the Richmond, Fredericks! urg and Potomac Road, the Richmond and Petersburg, the Wilmington and Raleigh, the Wilmington and Manchester, the King’s Mountain, the South Carolina, the Georgia and La Grange Roads, the Waynesboro’, (he Central, the Macon ar.d Western, the South western, 4he Muscogee ann the Montgomery and West Point Road. The existing rate of fare of $15.50 from Wil mington to New York, and s2l 50 from Wil mington to Montgomery, were re-affirmed.— Messrs. Pollard and Jones, of the Montgomery and West Point Road, were requested to use their best endeavors to obtain a reduction of the fares between Montgomery and New Orleans, so as to make the rate from New York to New Orleans just SSO. It was also decided to appoint one efficient agent at New Orleans, at a reasonable compen sation, to be paid by all the roads interested in the through ticket, from Montgomery to Wil mington, in proportion to the amount respective ly received by them, and that no other agent or drummer be employed by the companies south of Kingsville. Baggage will be checked be tween Montgomery and Augusta, and between Augusta and Weldon. .It was resolved unanimously, that the system of private Expresses which at present prevails on the various railroad lines, is injurious to the interests of the companies, depriving them of the emoluments of a large and profitable portion of their business; and the companies present agreed to recommend to the respective boards not to enter into any new contracts, or extend existing ones beyond the first day of March, next. It was further determined, that the companies represented, will be responsible only for through baggage, consistingof ordinary wearing apparel, not exceeding SIOO in value, for each first class ticket, and half that sum for each second class ticket, and that the baggage ot each first class passenger shall not exceed in weight 123 lbs. and that of each second class passenger 50 lbs. The charge on extra baggage will be one cent per 100 lbs. per mile. _ Schedules for double daily mail service be tween New York and Montgomery, and single daily service between Montgomery and New Orleans, were adopted. The Northern mail for Savannah will arrive at Miller, at 7 45 a. m. and at 830 p. m. The hour of its arrival here is not giver., but we presume it will be deliver ed as soon as possible after it reaches Millen.— The New Orleans mail will arrive at Millen at 4.30 p. m. and 5.15 a. m. The Convention adopted a resolution declar ing itself a permanent organization, to be known as “The Southern Railroad Association,” its objects being to promote the interests of South ern Railroads, and its members are to consist of the Presidents and Superintendents of the same. The next regular meeting will be held in Au gusta, the 2d Wednesday in December next. Spring—Frost—Crops, &c.— -But to descend to plain prose, we were visited on Sunday night with heavy and we fear destructive white frost. The peach, plum, and cherry trees, were, many of them, in full bloom, and we fear that they are seriously damaged. The " cold snap” was preceeded by two days of most refreshing and greatly needed rain, but the sun is once more beaming upon us, and the weather is again pleasant, though colder than it was before the rain. With proper seasons, we learn that planters in this region anticipate large crops, the coming season. Never were lands in better condition for cultivation, owing to the frequent and thorough freezes of the past winter, and the en tire absence of heavy, beating rains An old resi dent and experienced farmer told us, a few days since, that he had never known better prospects for large and remunerative yields to the agricul turist We sincerely' trust that they will not be disappointed in these “reasonable expectations,” and that abundant harvests will crown their ef forts.—Charleston Standard. The Locust in the South. To the Editor of the Baltimore Patriot: —Besides the seventeen year Locusts, Cicada Se/ilcmdecim , already announced in the Patriot to appear this Spring in Massachusetts, Eastern Shore of Mary land, from Baltimore to Carlisle, Pa., a portion oi Kentucky, and a portion of Western Virginia, there wilt be several extensive districts of the Southern family of Locusts that will appear this Spring. These Southern Locusts only require thirteen years to complete their existence, and their name, I suppose should be Cicada Tredecim- I have on my Register the location and dates of ten districts of this family, some of them very large and one or two very small. The districts that will be occupied this year by them, areas follows: South Carolina—Chester and adjoining dis tricts, extending into North Carolina. Georgia—in Newton, Cobb, Coweta, Carroll, Heard. Merriweather, Campbell, Fayette, De Kalb, Gwinnetfe, and Murray counties. Alabama—in Greene, Sumptei, and Marengo counties. Louisiana—in Union, Caddo, Claiborne and Washita parishes. Mississippi—about Jackson, and probably all adjoining parts of the State. Arkansas—in Union, Lafayette, Hempstead and Saline counties. Tennessee—from Nashville to the Mississippi river, and extending into a portion of South Western Kentucky, probably as far up as Louis ville. In the extreme South the insects begin to ap pear about the sth of April, and some may ap pear Ist of that month. Their appearance is later and later as we come North, about a week for every hundred miles, until the most Northern will appear from the Ist to the 10th of May. I should be very glad if persons in the South where the locusts appear this year would inform me of the fact, stating the exact time of their first ap pearance, and the counties occupied by them. There is no difference whatever between the Southern locusts and the Northern insects, ex cept in the time occupied by them in completing their existence. The districts of the Northern locusts|extend far into tne territory of the Southern in many places; and so do those of the South extend far up into the Northern territory, interlocking and lapping over each other sometimes for more than a hun dred miles. This has caused great confusion in tracing out the true history of the insects, and the family and districts to which each visitation be'onged. North Carolina, Tennessee and Ar kansas appear to be the middle ground between the two laige families, and nearly the whole ol those States are occupied alternately by the Northern and the Southern insects, interlocking each other, &c. Yours, Gideon B. Smith. Rains of Ancient Cities in America. Extraordinary Discoveries in the Country of the Navijoes—Another Petra—Strange Fashion of Building, etc., etc. On the 17th of October last, a party of twelve Mormons and one Indian,headed by W. D. Hun tington left Manti, one ol the most southern set tlements in Utah Territory, by request of Gov ernor Young, to explore the southern part of the territory, of which nothing is known, and if possible open a tiade with the Navajoes, who dwell in that quarter, (or sheep, goat and horses, of which it is known they have an abundance. I bey have, besides, considerable skill in man ufactures, and make all their blankets, leather, bridle-bits, &c., many of which are executed with most curious workmanship. They also work iron, gold and silver into a multitude ot forms, and articles for the warrior, husbandman and tradesman. The party returned to the Mor mon settlement on the 21st of December last, having on their trip made some most remarkable discoveries. They found, in fact, the ruins of a city built in the rocks, very similar to the far famed Petra in the Eastern Desert, and even surpassing it in the extent. From Mr. Huffting ton’s account, furnished the Desert News we take the following highly interesting particu lars. On the 17th we left Marti with our full fit-out o! men ar.d animals, and with five wagons. We never felt more gloomy and doubtful, or under took what appeared to us a more hazardous work during at; experience ot twenty years in this church. A wild, mountainous and dreary deseit hiterto almost entirely unknown lay hetbre us, and what was still nr?re formidable, Indian Walker and h,s allies had decreed that we never should pass, and with twenty Spaniards had posted themselves on our route, and their rally Slacks I.- r •.' : Vie,.. S.itl WC JRU V 'U- */.y~ resolved tc go ahead, and our enemies tied tc,ore we reached iheir position, the Spaniards their way and Walker his, leaving our path perfectly open. In this and many other instances., in our tour, we pubk-kly acknowledged our wonder tul protection and deliverance by the hand and power of God. We followed Gunnison’s trail to within 23 miles of Grand River, which, according to our calculation, is 350 miles Irom Great Salt Lake City. 1 his road, so tar was a tolerably good one, hot the country has little or no wood, grass or water. There is a beautiful valley on Grand river, twenty miles long, and from five to ten miles wide. It has (good soil and grazing range, is very well timbered and watered, and is about fifty miles from Eik Moua tain. From here we travelled 110 miles to St. John’s river,* over a very rough ajad mountain ous region, difficult to pass over even with pack animals, being covered with dense forests of ce dar. It is forty miles from St. John’s river to the nearest Navajo town. RECEPTION BY THE NAVA JOES—-CANNIBALISM. The Navajoes met us with very hostile feel ings, as they are at war with the whites, and three days before we arrived, had killed, boiled and eaten, a white man, so great was their ex asperation. Bv the persuation of two friendly Indians with us—our guide and interpreter— they listened to an explanation of our business. We were finally enabled to form a treaty, and did some trading with them, while they were doing some tall stealing irom us. They were highly excited, but the chiefs were more cool, appeared quite lriendly, and wished us to come again and trade. Trade is the best letter of in troduction a white man can take among Indi ans. Their great Captain wished us not to go among their towns and villages, as there were some that could not be controlled, and be did not want to fight us. He said we had come a very great way, and he wished us well, and sent to his town end brought out an abundance of corn, meal, flour, bread, beans, dried pump kin, dried squashed, pinenuts, with sheep and at meat of the finest quality, to fit us out for journey home. FIRST DISCOVERT OF RUINS. On the north side of the St. John’s river, and about five hundred miles southeast from Great Salt Lake City, we travelled ove. a section of country mo tly among the mountains, and about foity miles ir. width, covered with the ruins of former towns and villages. The walls of many buildings are still standing entire, seme of them three or four stories high, witii the ends of the red cedar joists yet in toe wall, some projecting eight or ten inches, but worn to a poiutat their extremities. Every building was a fortification built in the strongest manner imagina ble and in a style that the present age knew nothing of; many of them still plainly show the whole manner of structure and even the marks of the workman’s tools. The first ruins we discovered were three stone buildings, crum bled to mere heaps. Oue appeared to have been a pottery, for in ar.d around it were loaJs oi tragments of crockery of fine quality ornament ed with a great variety of figures painted with variois colois as bright as if put on but yester day. * Si. John's River, called by the Spaniards and VDown on the maps as San Juan River. It takes its rise in the mountains on the west side of the Rio Grando nearly opposite Taos, and running aimest due west, empties into Grand River, just adiove the point where Grand River and Green Rivor unite and lorm the Colorado. The San ■Juun passes through a country which has been rarely trodden by the white man, and of whieh nothing is known. Its junction with Grand River is in about the latitude of Monterey A FORTIFIED CITY. * | 3erc we traveled ten miles, with ncca sicryi ruins by the way, and entered a deep can* on, projecting shelves of rock, and under these sheNes were numerous bouses or fortifications. The one we examined was divided into twenty four rooms, each nearly square, and enclosing an area of about 144 square feet. The front wall was built up to the over-hanging cliff, which formed toe roof, and was curved and full of port holes The stones were all squared and faced, were of an equal thickness, and laid up with joints broken in a workmanlike manner. The only entrance we could find was a hole about two feet square, and eighteen inches from the ground, which is the usual size of all the doors, both in the outer and partition walls, with the exception of Borne subterranean entrances, which were yet smaller and difficult to find. Through the perfection of the rocky roof, there was very little rubbish in the rooms. From the first room we passed through a small hole in the right-hand corner to the second, and there through another hole into the third, and so on, from left room to right and right to left, all through the twenty tour rooms, and every wall was supplied with port-holes. Fifty yards above this was a large cave with a narrow winding entrance, guarded by a high wall; near the mouth of this entrance is an opening in the rock, leading off into the moun tain, which we did not explore, and after a little looking and rumaging about, we lound an out let to the cave. For three or four miles up this canon, buildings were everywhere in view, of various forms and dimensions, and in almost every stage of decay. From here to St. John’s river, a distance of ten miles, there were scattering ruins; and from there, in twelve miles northeast, we came to the head of a canon, whose sides of banks, even to the very head, were perpendicular and shelving, and near the banks there was no soil on' the rocks. Right on the brink of this precipice, and under the shelves of rock beneath, were the best building sites for those beings who built and dwelt here ages ago. ANOTHER STRONGHOLD. All around the head of this canon, and down on either side, as far as we could see, were booses of every conceivable form and size, and in p'aces where the soil was sufficient, they Wttri overgrown with sage and cedars, in eve ry respect like that on the mountain.' around. In the centre of this canon, and near the head Wta building sixteen or twenty feet square, four stories high, and.built upon a flat rock about four feet higher than the level of the bed of the canon, and but little broader than the building; to this we could not find an entrance, and, un like all the rest, it had no portholes. One lar ger building, which we entered, stood on the edge ot the precipice, with its front wall circu lar and flush with the bank, which formed the back part, making the ground plan of the build ing, like a half moon. There were no windows in the lower story of any building, and every entrance was made as difficult and hidden as possible. The door, or hale into the one last mentioned, was guarded by two or three walls of different angles; thus making a crooked, nar row passage to the door, and every part of this passage was in full view from the port holes of as the building, the front wall being full ot them like pigeon holes, pointing in every possible di rection ; they were not more than two inches in diameter on the outside, and were plastered smooth on the inside with a kind of cement, with which the stones are laid, and the rooms plastered, and is as hard as stone. The inside arrangement of all the houses was much alike, all having port holes in the parti tion walls, and very small and obscure passage ways from one room to another, and from one or two houses to the mountain. Some on the cliffs above were connected with those below. WHO DWELT THERE? We noticed there was no water about there,and i inquired of the Indians how the lormer inhahit | ants could have managed? They told us that they ' had heard that a very long time ago there was ; wafer running there. We asked them who built j those houses? They smilingly shook their heads j end said that they had never heard, but that ; sure somebody must have built them a very long ] time back. We very readily came to a conclusion drawn ; (rom the Book of Mormon, in the second chapter 1 of the book of Nephi, that the ancient possessors | of the strongholds were rotbers of the Gadian ton Band and we considered this locality as one | of their very strongholds. LAs matter of curiosity, we givt. the passage ,-"«r tb" Book of Mormon, which too writer re ‘fctt'uk as conc'usive oi the identuy won ders he saw :] “ And it came to pass in the latter end of the eighteenth year, those armies of robbers had pre pared for battle, and began to come down and to sally forth from the hills and out of tbe moun tains and the wilderness, and from their strong holds and their secret places, and began to take possesion of the lands, both which was in the land south and which was in the land north, and began to take possession of all the lands which had been deserted by the Nepbites, and the cities which had been left desolate.” COMMERCIAL- Augusta Market, March 2d. COTTON.—Since our last review the market, under the influence of the advices of the death of the Csar, and the consequent hope of a speedy termination of the war in Europe (whieh has now so long depressed tho value of Cotton) has been not only well sustained, but a gradual advance has been realised, and prices now stand ia higher than last week. The Atlantic’s accounts, now over due, are looked for with much interest, and confidence is strong, that the same cause which has operatod to send up the price of Cotton in this country, will hare produced a corresponding effect in Livorpool. We quote: Inferior none. Ordinary to Good Ordinary, 7ja 7J Low to Strict Middling 8 a 8£ Good Middling, 82a Middling Fair, 9 a— Fair 92 a— BACON.—Wc quote Hams 9$ to ll£c.; Should ers 8 a 8j; Clear Sides 92 a 10; Ribbod Sides 92 a 92 ; hog round 9 a 92c. BAGGING—There is but littlo domand for this article, and prices arc lower. By the bale or up wards, Gunny can be purchased at 13 cents, cash— retailing from stores at 14 cents cash by the bolt, and 15 cents on time. BUTTER.—There is a fair supply of Goshen on hand which is selling at 30 cents for a choice arti cle. Country is worth 15 a2O conts. according to quality. CORN—The stock is reducing, and the domand light, but prices are well sustained. COFFEE.—Tho stock is light, and the market advancing. Prices arc ranging from 112 to 12jc, according to quality. FLOUR—The stock is on the increase and prices are some lower. We quote 92 to lOJ for Country, and 111 a 12J per bbl. for Extra Family. MOLASSES.—The stock of Cuba is 3mall, and nohe to arrive soon. POTATOES—The demand is light and thostock small Sales have been made from §52 to ss. ROPE.—The demand is falling off—supply on hand good. Kentucky is soiling at prices ranging trom 10J to 12i cents, according to time, quality, quantity and size—principally at 111 a 12 by re tail. SALT.—We have heard of no wholesale trans actions this week. Demand modorato. Wo quote from stores $1.50 a $1 55 cash and $1.60 a 1.65 on oredit. SUGARS.—Fair stock oa hand, and prices rule for a fair article of New Orleans at 0 to cents, and for Clarified 8 a 9 cents —our first quotations are cask prices. IKTSURANJOE BAIVKL Statement of the Augusta Insurance & Banking Company, February 19. 1855 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock .......... ' ygyr~.c*a- . Circulation Dividends Unpaid 13 000 *,,|S!« r Total Liabilities , - $534,996 43 Notes Discounted and Bills Receivable ~ *143 279 T 5 Bills and Notes lying over ] .! .!!!! 4 411 30 Stocks owned by the Bank au nni on Real Estate.... 3 4 3 3 sj ” Protest Account ' 2 20 00 Profit and Loss... 75,153 23 Bills on New York 14 879 it Insurance Dues '' ‘ 7 330 23 Due by Banks and Agents i. 1*179,277 4(< Specie. 10’,153 38 Notes of other Banks 9,437 00 Total Assets. *534.996 48 mmmm[ 1 i • ■= : ~ ~ Df RECTORS* W. M. D’Antisnac, Preadent. H. Bowdre, | James Hose, John Kerr, | L. Hopkins. STATE OF GEOR6IA, RICHMOND COUNTY- : ' Personally appeared before me, the President and Cashier of the Augusta Insurance A Banking Company, who being duly sworn, oertify that the above s - tement is oorreot, unsettled acoounts and claims excepted. WM. M. D’ANTIONAC, President. ROBERT WALTON, Cashier. Sworn to bofore me, this 23d day of March, 1855, ) Geo. W. Summers, Notary Public. J LIST OF STOCKHOLDERS IN THE AUGUSTA INSURANCE 3c lIANKING CO?" names. shares. Averell, Edward 10 Alexander, A. L 75 Bones, T. A 9 J Bowdre, H 20 Bale, J 95J Bryson, Mrs. Eliza and children 7} Byrd, Wilson 7} Bulkley, J. R 30 Columbia County Academy 3J Cress, Louis 50 Campbell, Estate J 201 Camptefl, James W 72 Campbell, James 105 Campbell, Robert 13 Clarke, R. C 3 Casey, T. G 183 Cumrning. Estate Mrs. Ann 26 j Camming, Miss Sarah I GJ Gumming, Wm. Trustee S. C 43} Cumming, H. H , Trustee J. H. C 24 3 Cumming, W. and others, Trustee H. H.C. 24i Cumming,'H. H., Trustee Mrs. Smith.... 24J Cumming. H. H. and A. J. Miller 232} Crawford, C. A 37} Deupree, L. J 100 D’Antignac, W. M 210 Dugas, L. A 48} Freeman, Est. T. W 43 Gould, W. T. Trustee 40 Hubert, J. Estate 7} Henkell, Edward 100 Henkell, Edward Trustee 56 Hamilton, T. N 175 Hope, James 20 Hamilton, J. F 100 Hope, John 45 Henry, I. Cashier 653 Harper, J. & W. Attorneys 17 1 Haitridge, Julien Trustee 7} Jackson E Q 5 WHEAT.—There is nono in market, and our , quotations can readily be had, vis: for White $1.75 a $2 per bushel, and good Red $1 50- LARD-—Good scarce and in demand at 11 j to 12 cents. FEATHERS.—This artiole is dull and we quote at 35 a 37c. EXCHANGE.—We have no change to notice in ! rates. Our Banks continue to cheok on New York and other Northern cities at sight at i perct. prom FREIGHTS. —Tho River is now in fine boat-I ing condition, and will no doubt remain so for some weeks to come. Wc continue to quote the j rate to Savannah by boats, 40 conts per bale; per j railroad 62J. To Charleston per railroad $1 per j halo. -..Ai NEW SPRING GOODS. AY 71LLIAM MIKA It has received from. New I VV York, a beautiful supply of SPRUNG GOODS, embracing a gen ral assortment of Fancy aad Sta plo articles, suitable for tho presort season, among 1 which arc Rich Fi enoh Printed Organdies, and Printed Jaco- > nets, for Ladies’ Dresses; Fancy Barege and Grenadine Flounced Robes, of olegant styles; Ladies’ Summer Dress Silks and Fancy Bareges; French and English Briiliantes and English and American Prints; Sup’r Fancy andMourningginghams and Printed Lawns; Superior Brown and Black Mixed Deßege, for La dies’ Travelling Dresses; Extra Black Alpaca and Lupin’s best Bl’kChailey; English Black Crapes, of extra quality, for Ladies’ Y eil and Trimmings ; Ladies’ Wide Hem-stitch Frenoh Lawn and Em broidered Handkerchiefs, of new and beautiful styles, some of extra site ; Gentlemen’s Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs, with Colored Borders; Superior Linen Cambrics and French Lawns; Long Lawns and Bird’s Eye Diapers, of extra qual ity ; Superior 4-4 Irish Linens and Table Diapers; Superior 45 inch Pillow Case Linens and 12-4 Lin en Sheetings; Superior Huckabacks and Creguelas, for Towels ; Allendalo, Lancaster and Marseilles Quilts, of ex tra size and quality; Extra Whito Silk Warp and Gauze Flannels; Black Silk Galloons and Coat Bindings, of the best quality; White, Fancy Striped and Cheek Muslins, of beau tiful styles for Ladies’ Dresses; Superior White Cambrics, Jaconets and Nainsook Muslins ; Plain Swiss, Tarletanes, 16 4 Paris Muslins, for Ladies’ Evening Dresses; Swiss and Cambric Hair Cord Muslins, of extra quality; Black Sewed Lace, for Ladies Veils; With a groat variety of other articles, suitable for the present season, and to all of which the atten tion of tho public i respectfully invited. mh27 dfAc LADIES SUMMER MANTILLAS. William sIIKAK has just received from New York, a supply of Ladies’ Black Silk. Spring and Summer Mantillas, of new and elegant styles; Ladies’ White and Colored Silk Mantillas ; Ladies’Bl’k Grenadine and Crape Mourning Man tillas, of beautiful styles. The public aro respectfully invited to call and examino the assortment. mh27 ENGLISH HOSIERY. WILLIAM SHEAR has received from Now York, a splendid assortment of Hosiery, comprising Ladies’ Plain White and Black English Hose, very elastic, of tho best shape and make ; Hose of the best make, and some at very low prices; Ladies’ Ope- Work White and Unbleached English Cotton Hose; Ladies’ While and Black English Silk Hose ; Misses' and Children's White and Fancy Cotton do , a complete assortment; Youth’saDd Children’s F'cy, White and Unbleach ed Cotton Socks, a very largo supply ; Gdhtlcmcn’s Fancy and Unbleached Cotton Half Hose, of the best make and very clastic ; Alexander’s Ladies’ and Geatlemen’s Kid and Silk Gloves, a beautiful assortment; Gentlemen’s Ladies’, Mis-os’. Youth’s and Chil dren’s Lisle Thread Gloves; Ladies’and Gentlemen’s Fawn and Kid Gauntlet Gloves, a large supply ; Ladies’ and Misses’ Long and Half Hand Black Lace Mitts, with and without Half Fingors, a beautiful assortment; Ladies’ Merino and Silk Game Vests, a superior artielo. The Hosiery is thesamo style which has hereto fore aivon such genoral satislaction, is remarkably elastic, and of tho best shape and make. Tho pub li * aro respectfully invited to call and exam me the assortment. dt<ic mh27 LE AIV A VI4 KICAN SI*<»RTS.VI A.\.— An other supply received by mhl4 TUO3. RICHARDS A SON. NAMES. shares. Kerr, John ioo Kerr, S. E., Trustee 33f Kerr, Samuel *0 Longstieet, Miss H 3 Mealing, Est. of H 18} Moore, Est. of Mrs. Fanny IS Moore, Mary J 10 Moore, J. B 10 Moore, Richard T 10 Moore, J. W 13 Moore, Mrs. Eliza 10 Martin, W. M., Trustee 50 Martin, Miss Lucy S 10 Nesbitt, Thos 37} Pope, Alex 50 J Potter, James 28} Potter, Jas., Trustee 9 Pressley, Mrs. Jane 13 Parrott, George 30 Poe, Robt. F., Trustee 24 j Roberts, W. S 7$ Smith, Horace 112} S . Andrews Society 7} Shannon, James 753 Summers, Geo. W 34^ Schley, Mrs. Sophia 53} Starnes, Ebenezer, Trustee 37| Schley, George, guardian 55| Stovall & Simmons 301 Turpin, W. H 138 1 Tubman. Mrs. E. H 75 Wright, D. R 93 Waters, C. A., Trustee 75 Webster, Hosea 18| Walton, W. A., Trustee 10 Walton, R., Cashier 372} ! Wilson Miss C. E 16} Wood, Cary 60 Number of Shares 3 750 Invalids recovering from tbe ctfeots of Fever, Bilious Diseases, or long con tinued illness of any kind, will find Carter's t-panisk Mixture the only remedy which will revive their drooping constitutions, expo! all bad humors from the blood, excite the liver to a prompt and healthy action, and by its tonic properties, restore th< pa tient to life and vigor. We can only say try it. A single bottlo is worth all the to-called Sarsaparillasin existence. In con tains no Mercury, Opium, or any othor noxious or poisonous drug, and can bo given to the youngest infant without hesitation. See the certificates of wonderful cure, around the bottle. More than fivo h'undrod persons in the eity of Richmond, Va , can testify 1 1 its good ef fect*. See advertisement. lm fel>2B if you are sick, the probability isthat root of your suffering is in the JBBBt From a weak stomach preened dyspep sia, languor, oppression in the diaphr fg;r, jaun dice, headache, nausea, bodily weakness, dimness of sight heartburn, costiveness, dysortery, and a legion of other tormenting diseases Indigestion produce:; ‘hit blood and tihereforaLdostrova the strength and vigor of the sysSSL i, “• tone of the stomach and enable it to thr< w off and dismiss forever all those tormenting and dan gerous complaints, nothing is necessary but a per severing use of Hooflund’s German Bitters, pre pared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, Philadelphia There is no mistake, no failure in their sanative effect. mhlfi 12 ___ BANK ROBBERY.—SIOOO REWARD.” ON the morning of tha 21st of March, 1865, the Branch Bank at Washington, of the Bank of the State of Georgia was robbed of $15,226 in bills payable at this place. For the apprehension of the robber, with proof to convict him, a reward of sfoo. or for such ap prehension and proof, and recovery of the money, a reward of SIOOO will be paid, and a proportion ate amount for the recovery of any portion of the aamo. Bank of the State of Georgia, Branch at Wash ington. SAM’L BARNETT, Frosid’t. mh24 d&ctf ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. BY VIRTUE of an order from tho honorable the Court of Ordinary of Columbia county, will be sold, before the Court House door in Blake ley, Early county, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in JUNE next, one tract oi Land, No. 114, sixth dis trict of Early county, containing two hundred and fifty acres, more or less, belonging to th estate of John W. Holliday, late of Columbia county, de ceased. Also, on the first Tuesday in JUNE next, before the Court House deor in Elijay, Gilmer county, Georgia, ene tract of Land, No. 289, 11th district, second section of Gilmor, formorly Cherokee ooun ty, containing one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, belonging to the estate of John W. Holli day, lato of Columbia county, deceased. Terms cash. mh24 WILLIAM F. STROTHER. Adrn’r: GROVER, BAKER Sc CO.’S SEWING MA CHINES. rpn ESE Machines ,p A. roach of all. For aim- plicity, durability, and certainty o 1 operation, no other Machine can stand in comparison. W hile in the boauty, strength and permanency of work exe cuted by them, they surpass alike anything hereto fore done bv machinery. They can be scon in operation daily a t Miss Mitchells Bonnet Store opposite the United States Hotel, where specimens of work done by them are exhibited. Those are the only Machines adapted to planta tion use, and can be manag'd by servants. Exclusive Rights for districts or single machines, forsaleby TIIOS P STOVALL & CO. jan4 dfcc3m HALF INTEREST FOR SALE riIHE I'NUERSIUMED offers for sale a half in- X terest in the Southern Eclectic & llomo Ga zette. The paper is in a flourishing condition, and the said interest will be St.ld upon reasonable terms. The undersigned can satisfy any one who may bo disposed to purchasoit, that it will be a very profi table investment. He will guaranty thirty-five percent, por year upon the amount paid (or it, and* it may yield more than fifty per cent, It would bo a fine investment tor several in the citv who might unite in the purchase The list is forty five hun dred. JAMES M. BMYTHK. Proprietor. _ Augusta, (la., Feb. 5,1855 d* ts Jbi 6 LINEN cambric LAWN.—From #125 to $3,50 per yard, just received at mh2s BANCROFT’S.