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lire Hediln limes & Sentinel. By LOMAX & ELLIS] Volume XVIII. Cimes ant) Snitmel. the’ TIMES&'SENTINEL Is published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY EVENING. THE WEEKLY TIMES & SENTINEL Is published every TUKSDA YIMORNING. Office on Randolph Street, ‘tpposite the P. O. TERM 3: TRI-WEEKLY, Five Dollars per auuum, in advance. WEEKLY, Two Dollars per annum,in advance. J3?” Advertisements conspicuously inserted at One Do! !ar per square, for the first insertion, and Filty Cents for every subsequent insertion A liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertise ments. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Adminisirators, Execu tors and Guardians, are required by law to be held on the lirst Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in the county ir, which the property is situate. Nosticeyof these sales must be given in a public gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice for the sale of Personal property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will he made to the Court of Or dinary for leave to sell Lanu or Negroes, must be published weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration must be published thirty days—for Dismiesion from Administration, momnly six months—for Dismission from Guardianship,forty days. Rules tor Foreclosure of Mortgage must he published monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers for the lull space of three months—tor compelling tit tea from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been giv en by the deceased, the full .-pace of three months. Publications wilt always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. ~~ BUSINESS GAEDS. PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING. HAVING connected with our Printing OHiet a full and complete assortment of Book Binder’s tools and toes, and also added to our Printing materials, we arc now prepared to execute,in good style and with despatch .every kind of work in cither oranen of the business, on the best terms. BLANK WORK, of every description, with or with out printing, made to order, in the neatest manner. WARE HOUSE PRINTING, Receipts, Drafts, •Notes, Bills of Lading, &c., &e., executed neatly and promptly, and bound in any desired style RAILROAD IXU STEAJMfOAT BLANKS, ot all kinds got up.with accuracy and dispatch. Bill ileittls. Cards, Oircnlars, Hand Bills, Posters, Programmes, dec., dec..printed in thosho. est notice and in the best style of agaxin ami Pamphlets pc’ up n every style o binding. Bookso all kindsiebonnd strongly and neatly. Cos MAX *, ELLIS. Columbus, Apr • lb B. Y. MARTIN. J J. MARTIN. ~ MARTIN & MARTIN^ - Attorneys at Law, eOXTTMIiTTS, GA. Office on Broad Street—Over Giinby dfoDaniel. Columbus, Jail. 9, 1857. w&twlv. HAMILTON & PLANE, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, COLUMBUS, GA. riNHE above firm have renewed their Copartnership, and 1. will devote the most assiduous attention to the pro fession in the counties of Muscogee, Harris, Talbot and Chattahoochee, in this State, and in Russell county, Ala. Office, front room over E. Barnard’s Store. January 28,1857. w&twtf. M. B. WELLBORN. JERE.N. WILLIAMS. WELLBORN Sc WILLIAMS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Clayton, Alabama. *ir--'| {,l, give prompt attention to the collection of all claims W entrusted tot heir care in Barbour county, i ct 4 wtwtuu MARION BETH UN E, A TTOR Nfi Y AT L A W, TALBOTTON, Talbot County, Ga October 24th, 185 G. wtwtf. W. S. JOHNSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. CUSS E T A, Chattahoochee County, Ga. | ilYes his ontlre attentionto the practice In Chattahoochee adjoining counties. aj>26—wtwly* ROBERT N. HOWARD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CRAWFORD. ALA. v 8, 1555, —tw&wtt. S. A. M’LENDON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Fort Gaines, Ga. L ..VTIM, promptly attend to ailbusiness entrusted to his p£’ care—particularly Collecting. novFwtwly PEYTON H. COLdUITT, A T TORNET T LAW, OOU MBUS, GA. S Office,upstairs,over Col. Holt’s office, Randolph st. may 26, i855 wSrtwt! BAUGH & SLADE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. \T7"iLL practice law in Muscogeeand the adjoininucouuties TT of Georgia and Alabama. nr Offlce over Bank of Columbus, Broad Street. ROBBRTBAUGH. J. J. SLADE. £ Columbus, Ga. March 27 1557. wtwtf A. B. % SEALS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, H VJirLTON, GEORGIA, December 3, 1557. —wtw3m WHISKY, “I AA BBLS. Pure Tennessee W II'I S|K Y, lUU 10 bbls. Old Vlonongahala Whisky, B On Cousigament, and lor sale at very low rates, by D. P. ELLIS, f| septl7..twtf Auction & Com. Merchant. ELAM & OLIVER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA. WILL practice Marion, Macon, .newart j'ayior, Chattahoochee, Kiucbatoonee. ami any of the adjoiniugcountteewhen thoirservices mav be reqnired. % VVM. D. BLAM. THADKI S OLIVER. November SO. wtf JOHN V. HEARD. ATTORMK v at law, Colquitt, Miller Cos., Ga g. January 20, 1857 wly. OTMM Wo (Ml, ATTORNEY AT LAW, PRESTON, Webster Coanty, Ga. WILL practice in the counties of Clay, Chattahoochee, Webster, Early, Randolph, Stewart and Saunter. I Particular attention given to collecting and remitting. I January 27,1357 —wtf. SMITH & WAGNON, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SjAgents iur Green & PulaskiUonument Lotteries, DRAWS EVERY DAY. H Tickets from 25c to *2O. Address SMITH & WAG ■ NON, Columbus, Ga. nov3—wtf. S. s. STAFFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAV, BLAKELY, EARLY COUNTY, GA. • wtf. TANARUS, J. GUNN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAMILTON, GA. WILL attend promptly to ail busioeess entrusted to him. January 26, 1853—wly. H. IB&lK?®®©* ATTBIiZYIiX AT LAW: CUSSETA; • feuttahooche County, Ga. Will give prompt ‘attention to the collecting ot all claims entrusted to his care. jaDs—wly. DUNCAN H. BUSTS, A T T ORNEY A T LA W, C U S SE T A, Chattahoochee Comity,Ga. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. September 1,1857. wly. W. A. BYRD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CUTHHBRT—RandoIph Connfy, Ga. ITT'ILL practice in the Patauia and South western Circuits. tv All busiuese entrusted to his care will received prompt ttention. maAl9—wly. GRICE & WALLACE, BUTLER, GEORGIA. WILL i<ive prompt Attention nil imsineas eutrustedpto them. VV. LJGRICE. WM.H. tv M.LACE. DeceinYwir I —wU THOMAS A. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW CUTHBERT, GEORGIA. WILL praeiicein the Pataula and Southwestern Circuits. Refers to Hon. David Kiddoo, J. S. 0. P. C. CuihlierL February 24, 1857. wly SAMUEL H. HAWKINS, . ATT T ORNEY AT LA W, AMERICUS, GA. WILL practice in the counties of Sumter, Webster, Terrell, Lee, Baker, Worth, Randolph and Cal houn. Refkrenm —Ingram,Crawford & Russell, Columbus. Col. Henry G. Lamar, Macon Ga. VI r. W. L Johnson, Americus. May 12, ISO'?-root r-y, J. FOGLE & SON, DENTISTS, OFFICE on Randolph Streeinear Broad, Columbus,Ga. Columbus, May 9, 1857. w&twtf ■gjgFfc, WM. F. LEE, D. D.S. SURGEON. OFFICE corner of Broad and Randolph Streets, Columbus, Georgia, December 17,1850—w&twtf. TOWII S. KIHG fc SORiBY, WARE-HOUSE & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, COLUMBUS, GA. ISWV^PARTICULAR attention given to the storage selling ofCotton. Liberal advances made. •' 7 '™ lß ßaggingand Rope supplied’at the lowest market prices. Julyl7—wtwly. J. W. KINO, B. A. SORSBY. GKEAT ATTRACTION ! Bargains ! Bargrins ! Bargains ! ffiEßS* ©SSSMJ, WISHES to inform her friend3, and .the public generally of Columbus and the vicinity, that she , is now offering for sale a complete assortment of GOODS, consisting in part of— NEAPOLITAN BONNETS, from $2 00 to $2.50. MISSES GIPSIES 81.00 BLOOMERS, from 87ic to 5i.25. Handsome Gause RIBBONS, 25c per Yard. And a large lot of Swiss Trimmings at 20c por yard Call and see. Cheap for Cash. July 23, 1857. w&twti. LIVERY & SALE STABLT. THE undersigned having this day pur \(/A c.hased the Livery Stable now occupied by M|C S. Hart Cos., and formerly owned by & Pit's, will continue the business uniter the name and style ot !V EY & WILKINS, and by giving their personal attention to the same, hope to re ceive from the public a liberal share ofits patronage. J. R. IVEY, July 16, 1857. F. G. WILKINS. HAVINGsoId our Stable, as noticed ahove, we take pleasure in recommending to our friends, all drovers, and the public the new firm, and solicit for them a continu ation of the very liberal patronage heretofore bestowed on us; believing our successors will anticipate your wants and attend to them personally. julvl7—wtwtf. C. S. HART & CO. Prof. DeGrath’s Practice. A SHERIFF CURED IN ONE NIGHT BY PROF. DeGRATII’S naR H rsc, <ga rye Q csa CD fill-.. LETTER FROM DR. KEYSER. PrrusßUßG. May 29, 1856. Prof. DeGrath,39, South Bth Street, Philadelphia. I have a remarkalile cure. Deputy Sheriff’ Kerr ol Pitts burgh,had a very swollen and painfnl hand. I applied the Oil personally, which gave instant relief- He has re commended the Oil to others afflicted with Rheumatism, in which the results were most satisfactory. I am vours, truly, GEORGE H. KEYSER, M. D. Great Cures—Citizens Read!—Rheumatism.— Mr, Joseph D. Barrie,9 Myrtle Street, says the Electric Oil cured him immediately. Piles —Charles Sexton, Esq., ex-Mayorof Camden, says six applications cured him. Also, cured his Rheuma atism. Neuralgia. —Mr. David Mann, 499 Vine Street,says, he was a great sufferer, but the Electric Oil cured him.— So says E. H. Grant, Esq , 517 North Eighth Street. Croup —This Oil is infallible for Croup. Ask a lady at the Girard House. CAUTION. There are numerous imitations sprung up on the reputa tion that my article has acquired. The public must be ware. They are worthless. Philadelphia, Sept ],1556. Prof. DeGrath —Dear Sir—l must inform you of the great benefit a patient of mine has experienced from the application of your Electric Oil. The case was that of a girl of 8 years of age, who was terribly afflicted with scro fula, and a discharge from the knee. The leg becamelso contracted as to literally bury the heel in the hip. It had been in this condition about 12 months, and 1 could find nothing in the whole materia mediea to have any effector give relief. 1 finally procured a bottle ol your Electric Oil and gave it to toe mother directing her to apply it to the parts along the contracted sinews, which had the ef fect of making the leg nearly one fourth straight in about six hours. The application of the Oil was continued for about 3 weeks using only six bottles and now the leg is nearly nerfectly straight JOHN H. McEWIN, M. D. 162 Callowhill st. Caution. —There are numerous imitations sprung up on the reputation that my article has acquired. The public must beware. They are worthless. RHEUMATISM.—Deafness, Neuralgia, Swelling, Stiffness and all pains, cured by one bottle of Professor DeGrath’s Electric Oil. This letter is one of the many received recently: Philadelphia. June 25, 1856. Prof. DeGrath: I had a swelling in my limbs nearly a year. After using many things without benefit, the first bottle of your Oil I used cured me entirely. 1 shall over remember you as mv restorer. J. E. NOLAN. 528 Chestnut Street. Sold Wholesale and Retail by BROOKS it CHAPMAN, (sign of the Negro and Mortar, corner ot Broad and Ran dolph Streets,) sole agents for Columbus, and by Dr gists and Country Merchants Generally. Jan. 15,1858 —w&tw2m. “the UNION or THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES. 5 ’ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1858 MUSCOGFE RAIL ROAD! |, Change of Schedule. aud after this date the Day or Express Train will JT leave the depot at 4.00 P. M. and arrive ai Macon atl()sh P. M. Leave Macon at 1.30 A Jl. arrive at ColutoLub at 8*52 AM Morning or Accommodation Traiu will ai J.SSA.M* and arrive at Macon 8 56 A. M• Leave Macon at 11.30 A. M. arrive at Columbus 6.33 F. M J. Ji. MUSTIAN,Supt. Columbus, Nov. 14—tw&.\vt 1 CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE. MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT R. R- CO., MONTGOMERY, Nov. 19, 1857. ON and after this date the PASSENGER TRAINS xniAhib road Wt.ibe governed by tne ioiiowu-jj SC-RLLLJ.i DAY TRAIN. Leave Montgomery 8.30a.m. Arrive at West Point 3.30 p.m. Arrive atOolumbus 2.50 p.m. Returning—Leave WeßtPoint 9.30a.m. Leave Columbus 16.00 a. m. Arrive at Montgomery 4.( 0 p. m. NIGHT TRAIN. Leave Montgomery 5.20 p. m. Arrive at VVest Point 12.50a.m. t; Columbus ......1.00a.m. Returning—Leave West Point 7.30 p.m. Leave Columbus 7 30 p.ro Arrive at Montgomery.. ... ,2.3ftfa. m. Through tickets can be obtained (io Double Daily Connec tions) to Atlanta Chattanooga and Nasny iile, and daily Acon nectione to Huntsville Memphis atxd Knoxville. S. G. JONES Eng’r .&Sup. FREIGHT ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN ATI.AN A AND (OU 51111S. 1J Y an arra.igeinent between the Raitroa* Compauietcom _> posing the two routes tr; m Atlanta toCohtmbus,coßCHi* ded at their Louventicn at Savannah on the Kith instant, it was agreed that ih- following rales between Atlai ta and Co lumbuw shall govern, taking effect \nv. tl t frst day o< -Pay 1857. VIA WEST PoINT. Corn per busbc', 1 Ic. Wheat 2. Oats 8. Bacon W hisky Flotn- in sacks or barrels, per 100 lbs. 35c Bagging, Rope Lard in cans or bbls.,per ion lbs 45c. Coal, Pic Iron, by car load, per ton of 2(MH lbs. $3.75. VIA MACON. Corn per busel 14c. Wheat 15c. fiats 10c. Bacon,Whis ky, Flour In Sacks or Bblrs., per lftO lbs, 44c. Bagging,Rope, Lard, in cans or bbls.. per iftft lbs 55c. Coal, Pig Iron, by carload, per lon of 2000 lbs $4 08. J i. :1 STIAN, President and Supt rintendent Muscogee R. R. GEO. YV. ADAMS, Superintendent Southwestern Railroad. EMERSON FOOTE, Superintendent Macon and Western Railroad. GEO.G EITLL, Supcrinteiideut Atlanta and LaGrange R. R. SAMUEL G. JONES, Engineer and Superintendent M. & e \V. P. Railroaa. May 3ft, 1837—w&twLt. MOBILE AND GIRARD RAIL HOAD. ’ HE Passenger & Freight Train willieave Girard hi 2 P JL M.daily, connecting at Silver Run with a daily line el Stages to Villula, Glennv!lle,Eufaula, Fort Gaines, and Mari anna,Fla. And at Gueryton daily, with the stages for TJchee Olivet, Fiuon, Chunnenuggee, Midway. Hardaway. Perote and Union Sprin s. LeavingGueryton at 4 A. M., daily, the Cars will reach Girard at 7 A. M., connecting with th< Opelik; ano Mus cogee Train e. Duplicate Receipts must accompany Freight shipped. | AH freight must be paid before goods will be discharg ed. Freight delivered at the Depot before 4 o’clock P. M. will be shinped the following dav. Fjeights for stations No. 1 (Fort Mitchell,) and N0.5 (Poi sons’) must be prenaid. Wav freight must in ail cases be paid in ajjvanck. /OHN HOWARD, mar251857-w&.twtf. Engined &£up. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. SAVANNAH j& CHARLESTON STEAM- PACK ET LINE. RUNNING IN CONNECTION WITH THE North Eastern R. R. of South Carolina. _ THP SPt.KNDID AND FAST > RUNNING STE AMER GORDON, F. Barden, Coramau !er * >eave<a Savannah for Charleston every Sunday and Wednesday afternoons at 3 o’clock, and connects at Charleston with the morning train of the North Eastern Railroad, going North. K< turhuig leaves Charleston every Monday amt Friday night at 8 o’clock, (after the arrival of the car* on the N. E, R. R.) and arrives at Savannah early next mornings. By this route passengers can obtain through tickets to and from Savannah, Ga. and Wilmington, N. C. Having a through freight arra gement with the Central R. Road and its connections, all freights b, tween Charleston and the Interior of Georgia, consigned to the agents of Inis line, will be forwarded with despatch and free of charge. J. P. BROOKS, Agent Savannah. E. LAFiTTE & GO, Ag’ts. Charleston. Jan 15—w&twtf New Orleans nd ApaUchisola STEAMSHIP LINE - ga. The well known steamship AMERICA, jcSggiSgSlßj O. N. NELSON, Master will resume her regular trips between the above ports for the season commencingou the 9th January instant. WOOD & L< >W. Agents, New Orleans* Wm* G. PORTER & 00^,Agents, Apalachicola. New r Orleaus, Jan. 9, 1858. jan!2—wtwlm A Medicine that never Debilitates! DR. SANDFORD’S INVIGORATOR, OR LIVER REMEDY, rpHISIS ONEOF THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC MEDI- J_ cal discoveries ever made, and is daily working cures almost too great, to believe. It enres as if by magic, even the first dose giving benefit, and seldom more than one bottle is required to cure sany kind of Liver Complaint, from the worst Jaundice or Dyspepsia *to a common head ache, all of which are the result oi a diseased Liver. The Liver isoneof the principal regulators of the human body, and when it performs its tu ctior.s well, the powers of the system are fullv doveloped. The stomach is almost en tirely dependent on ;the; healthy action of the Liver for the pr per performance o f its functions. When the stomach is at fault, the bowels are at fault, and the whole system suffers in consequence of one* organ—the Liver—having ceased to do ifsduty. For the disease ol that organ, one of the proprietors has made it his study, in practice of more than 20yefirs, to find some remedy wherewith to counteract the many derange ment s to which it is liable. To prove that this remedy is at last found, any person trou bled with livercoitoplaint in any of Us forms, has but to irya bottle and conviction is certain. A compound has been formed by dissolving gums and ex tracting tbaPpart which is soluble lor the active virtues of the medicine. These gums remeve all morbid or bad matter from the system, supplying pn their place a heaithy flow of bile, invigorating the stomach, causing food to digest well, purifying the blood, giving tone and jhealth to the whole ma chinery, removing the causes! o the disease,and effecting a radical cure without any of the disagreeable alter effects, felt by using Calomel or Mineral Poison, that are usually re sorted to. To all who will follow these directions a cure is positively guaranteed. Siek Headache can be cured by the use of I or 2 tea-spoons ful taken as soon as the attack is felt. The invigorator never fails to cure sour stomach, or the bad effects.experienced after eating. Billious attacks yield readily to oue bottle, and Chronic Di arrhoea, difficult as it is UrcurCjls never trouolesometo those who take the Invigorator. For Dyspepsia, Jauudice, nothing in the kuown world acts so fullyor cures so quickly as the Invigorator. it removes all yellowness and unnatural color from the skin. For Nightmare, take a dose bef*.re retiring, andit is war* ranted a sure preventative. For Female. Obstructions, it jisasafe and sure remedy as it removes the cause ot the ‘disease. Lostiveness cannot ► exist where the Invigorator sis freely ta ken while cholic yields readily to a few doses. It must be known that all these are Liver Diseases,or caus ed by a deranged Liver, and to cure them needs a Liver med icine and one of great power. The Invigorator is suchja med icine; it has medical powers never before discovered, that will cure all diseases, of the Liver, no matter of how long standing or what? may be their form. The active medicinal virtues extracted from the gums used is such as to be aston ishing to all who see their effects,* tor none can use the medi cine without receiving benefit. It acts as a ‘gentle cathartic, and should always be taken in sufficient quantities to oper ation, the bowels gently. The best to take it is to take the medicine in the mouth, then takesume water and swal low both together. lix this way the medicine will scarcely be tasted. SANFORD & CO. Proprietors, 345 jftroadway. New York. S> J by Pemberton, Nuckolls & Cos. and by Danfnrth & Uage: Columbus. Dec.B—w&tw3m* (xRORGIA REPORTS, THE 20th VOLUME GEORGIA REPORTS. Oue of the iiest. Longfellow has had the misfortune to see his finest pie ces parodied; but the origiual has not suffered on that ac count. The following parody on his J’Psalm ot LLe,” is too good to be lost. A PSALM OF LIFE. What the Heart of one Egg said to Another. Reported by Brown fellow. Tell me not, in mourntul numbers, Life is but an empty dream. Chickens in their oval slumbers Are by no means what they seem- Life is real, life is earnest; And this shell is not its pen; Egg thou art, and egg remaiueat, Was not spoken of the hen. Not enjoyment and not sorrow,] Is our destined end or way/ But to scratch, that each to morrow Finds ns fatter than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, Beourbill then sharpened well; Not like muffled drums oe Seating On the inside of the shell. In the world’s broad field of cattle, In the great barnyard of life, Be not like the lazy cattle, Bea rooster in the strife ! Trust no hawk, however pleasant, And yet never be it said, When Birds of prey were present, You were skulking in tho shed. Lives of old cocks all remind us We can make our lives sublime; And when roasted, leave behind us Bird tracks on the sand of time. Bird tracks that perhaps another Chicken drooping in the rain, A forlorn and henpecked hro.her, When he sees shall crow again! Let u? then be after hatching, V\ ith a heart forevery fate, Ever crowing, ever scratching, Learn to cackle and to prate Interesting Account of an Almost Unknown Country. The San Francisco Herald, of the sth ult., an nounces thearrival in that city of Mr. P. McD. Col lins, on his return from one ol the most interesting expeditions of modern times, overland through Northern Russia, from St. Petersburg to the Amoor river. The journey occupied exactly one year: Twelve months ago Mr. Collins left St. Peters burg, traveled from thence to Moscow, by railroad, and Irom thence through Siberia in sledges and telegas, to Clietah.lhe capital of the Trans-Baikal province, situated on the river Ingodal, one of the main sources of the Amoor, where he waited tor the breaking up of the ice in the river, and then, accompanied by four Cossack soldiers, and by Air. Fulhelm, the Governor of the Russian-Amnrican Company at Avan, proceeded down to the Amour and along, the river to the Pacific. From Mr. Collins we have obtained much inter esting information in regard to the vast region through which he traveled, and about which so lit tle is known. He speaks in the highest terms of the Russian officials with whom he had intercourse. Americans are everywhere highly regarded by the Russians, and are always treated with every cour tesy and respect. The party of which Air. Collins formed one were not molested by the Nomadic tribes who inhabit a great portion of the region through which they traveled. They found it nec essary, however, to be cautious in their intercourse with them. During his journey, Mr. Collins stop ped for some time at Kyackta and Miamattschin. — These towns are located side by side. The former is inhabited by the Russians, and the latter by the Chinese. The boundary line ofthe-Uvo nations runs between. It is marked only by a board fence. They are both walled and fortified. At this point all the legitimate trade of the two countries is car ried Oil. To Miamattschin the Chinese convey from the interior their teas and other goods on bullocks and camels, and to Kyackta the Russians bring their commodities, and in this way the exchange is made. The trade which centres at this point is estimated to amount to c ver thirty millions of rou bles per annum. While at Kyackta Air. Collins es sayed to enter the Chinese dominions, and proceed to Pekin, which is about eight hundred and fifty miles to the south. He joined an ambassador, sent out by the Russian Government to treat with the Emperor for the purchase of the country lying along the Amoor river. The whole of this region, according to a treaty made in the reign of the Empress Calharine, be longs to the Chinese; but the Russians are now in possession of several portions of it. They are willing to acquire it by purchase; but if an over ture to that effect is rejected, they are prepared to take it. Neither the Russian Ambassador nor Mr. Collins could obtain permission to proceed to Pekin, and they were both obliged to return. The Rus sians have greater facilities of obtaining correct views in relation to matters in China, than any other nation in the world. There is in Pekin what is termed the Russian College. It is consists of ten missionaries of the Greek Church. These ten missionaries remain for ten years, and are then re placed by ten more. During the decade of their sojourn, they are not permitted to fill any vacancies that may be caused by death, or any other casualty. They are treat ed in the Chinese capitol with respect, and are al lowed a guard of honor. Through the agency of this college, the Russian Government obtains reli able information of everything that transpires at the court of his Celestial Majesty. After his unsuc cessful attempt to penetrate through the Chinese territory to Pekin, Mr. Collins proceeded to Chetah situated at the head waters of the Amoor river.— The province, of which it is the capitol, is rich in mineral resources. It is about as large as Califor nia. It abounds in mines of gold, silver and cop per. The gold is found in river beds and gulches. There are no quartz mines. The annua! yield is estimated at five millions of roubles. The silver mines are very rich. They are both worked by the convicts transport ed to Siberia by the Russian Government, under the supervision of military officers. Private parties are not permitted to take out the precious metals in this section ofthe country. la dther places they are allowed to mine under certain restrictions, and are obliged to pay the Government a certain per centage upon ail they take out. We have received a great variety of interesting information, particu larly in a commercial point of view, from Air. Col iins, the publication ot which, as we have already reached our limit, we must defer till to-morrow. Rachel's Last Hours. — Parting with her Jewels In the early stages ot Rachel’s final (illness her fondness for gold and jewels did not desert her.— She frequently had her jewels and rich garments brought to her bed, and beguiled the weary hours in looking tuem over, and on one occasion, after taking one long and lingering look at them, she exclaimed, with a sigh of heartfelt'distress, “Ilf out done quitter tout?’ (“Must I then abandon all!”) Her death struggle was long and severe, and her last hours are described as agonizing. Cannes, that town in which Rachel breathed her last, is, as a French journal assures us, “a paradisai cal resort in the south of France, the honor of whose discovery belongs to'Lord Brougham, who hasforyears had his country scat in it, and reco mended it to his countrymen as a winter residence.” This winter Cannes has been overflowing with visitors. Since the occupation of Nice by Russians such as formaly wintered there have resorted to Cannes. The recent reports of the improving health of Rachel—for up to a few days previous to her death hopes had been entertained of her recovery attracted crowds of consumptives to the charmed spot. Rachel leaves two sons, the eldest of whom, it is alleged, is the grandson of the great Napoleon, his father being Connt Walewski, Napoleon’s son by his Polish mistress, and now French Minister of Foreign affairs. jg!F°Some one asks, “is it lawful to hang clothes on Mason and Dixon’s line?” Just as lawful as planting beans around the North Pole. Anecodote of Alexander Hamilton. The following anecdote of this great Statesman is taken from a collection of English newspaper cuttings in the possession of the New York His torical Society : “General Hamilton, the American, when a youth of seventeen, was cheif c.erk to an eminent nter chant in St. Eustatia, who being absent, the busi ness of the counting-house, of course, devolved on young Hamilton. He had presented to him a let ter directed to his master which, supposing it rela ted to mercantile concerns, he (opened ; but hi.-L surprise was great when lie found that it contain ed a challenge jo his master, whose proxy he was. The young hero answered the challenge in the name of his master, and the time and place er.- mentioned in the reply. “Hamilton appeared to the antagonist of his mas ter on the field, and, to use his own words, ‘did his business in his -absence,’ and would not agree to any compromise, except on the express condi tion that the challenger should acknowledge iu wri ting yhat he had received suitable satisfaction from Mr. , that he was a gentleman of honor, and lurtlier, that he (Hamilton) should never be known, in the business—which terms the challen ger wasoblidged to accede to, or fight young Ham ilton : fiejehose the former and the parties separa ted. In a few months, however, it came to his master’s ears, who was so struck, with the magna nimity ol such conduct, that he gave him the liber ty to go to the continent, choose what profession lie pleased, and draw on him to any amount. Per haps to this anecdote, America is indebted for the service and abilities of a man who has not his superior as a soldier, a financier and a statesman.', A writer from Washington to the N. York “Express” lately attended a reception'at the Execut ve Mansion and thus naughtically describes. Navigation In the East Boom. And the ladies! What a variety of crinoline, from measureless diameters and circumferences to ludicrous contractions! Hoops of brass and hoops of steel—hoi ps oi reed and hoops of cord—hoops of wire and hoops of india-rubber—dresses starch ed and dresses wilted—dresses crushed and dres ses torn—muslins under the heavy heels of heavy, clumsy fellows, and under the toes of those who understood skimming a surliice of gossamer-work as a duck over a pond. Navigating Scyila and Chary Ulis, along the Wandering Rocks, immortali zed by Horner in the Odyssey, was very respectable on the water, but navigating the White House on reception night, and coming forth with whole limbs and whole clothes, is a labor far more skill ful. If one moves in the current, up one side of the East Room and dowm the other, along with the up and down couples of the grand hall, or array themselves as wall flowers to be gazed upon by the thousands of passets by, steady nerves and sharp eyes may take you through the great stream in safety; but if tire wind don’t happen to be fair, and'any sort of tacking or steering starboard or larboard is necessary, look out for squalls, and breakers. The ladies whose dragging trams come in contact with the tip end of your toes, or whose exuberant flounces catch your buttons, look unut terable things; and one might as well look a bright sunshine or a stroke of lightning full in the face - as to stand the encounter. Mem. —Ail sorts of gossamer, perishable, airy nothings, are out of place in a Washington party. Nothing but brocades and stout silks can stand the rush and crush of the crowd. It is amusing to hear the tales of woe uttered by the ladies over the damages received at these receptions, which are nevertheless fascinating enough to keep the rooms thronged. New Phase of the Hoop. Everybody, now-a-days, has something to say about the ladies’ hoops. In fact, (it ‘S asserted by high authority,) no one must be ignorant of that “circle” around and within which all that is attrac tive moves—the outskirts of society having be come the very centre of civilization. Douglas & Sherwood, of New York, are the Napoleons of the manufacture of this curious appendage to a lady’s toilette, and they have just invented anew style .ofskirt, which they call the “Expansion.” Not feeling exactly competent to descant on the in tricacies of a lady’s toilet, I will allow one to speak who is competent to judge of this new invention. No one will doubt, that good taste and judgement of Mrs. Stephens, and she, in herexcelent monthly says: “The expansion skirt is perfect, in form, material, and finish, and infinitely superior to the French ones which are imported into this country ami sold at double the price. It consists of eight small flex ible steel hoops, encased in a covering of fine cot ton, which is woven over the hoop by machinery ; these hoops are supported by upright bands of inch wire tape, and finished at each end by a silver clasp/ which enables the wearer to increase or di— minis!) the size at pleasure, and without the possi bility of their becoming disarranged, if reasonable care is taken to secure the clasps- It is also sup plied with an adjustible lournoure, the end of each hoop being furnished in like manner with clasps The waist is gathered into a band, and fastened in front by a clasp.”— Washington States. Kind Words—Why Use Them. —l. Because they always cheer him to whom they are address ed. They s othe him if he is wretched. They comfort him ifhe is sad. They keep him out of the slough of despond, or help him out if he hap pens to be in. - 2. There are words enough of the opposite kind flying in all directions—sour words—cross words— fretful words—insulting words—irritating words— over-bearing words. Now let kind words have a chance to get abroad, since so many, so different, are on the wing. 3. Kind words bless him that use them. A sweet sound on the tongue tends to jnake the heart mel low. Kind words react upon the kind feelings which prompted them, and make them more kind. They add fresh fuel to the fire of benevolent emo tion in the soul. 4. Kind words beget kind feelings toward him that loves to use them. People love to see the face and hear the voice of such a man. Kind words are, therefore, of great value in these hard times. A Skillful Detective. —A ship was about to start from Havre to America. On board was a young German woman, who, having deserted her hus band and taking with her her little girl, had em barked with her lover. The ship was about to weigh anchor, when the telegraph brought an order to arrest the mother er and the child. It chanced that three or four young German women were on board with their children. The description of the fugitive was in sufficient, ail these women having clear complex ions, and her identification was in consequence very difficult. To get out of this embarrassment the officer bethought him of a ruse. He assembled together (he women with their children, and, when the group was formed, ap proached them and said in German : “Think of poor dear papa, who is crying far away for hisjittle girl.” “Oh, mamma,” said one ofthe little innocents, bursting into tears, “papa is crying far away; let us go back to him.” The mother betrayed her emotion, was recog nized and detained. Was Solomon more ready than this officer? A Sleepy Bride. —The Paris Journal des De bats tells of a young couple who went to a church at Lyons to be married. During the time the ecclesi astic who presided at the ceremony was addressing them the bride fell into a most profound sleep which lasted till the moment came at which the young husband was to put the nuptial ring on the finger of his drowsy partner; but, on perceiving her state of unconsciousness, he was, as may readily be believed, shocked and irritated at such a flagrant disregard of all decency. After the conclusion ot the’ceremony he informed his bride’s friends thathe would not live with her; and, giving them 2000f. tor her, as stipulated in the contract, left her. Charles Dickens on Horses.-r- 1 object to the personal appearance of the horse. I protest against the conventional idea of beauty as attracted to that animal. I think his nose too long, his forehead too low, and his legs (except in the case of the cart horse) ridiculously thin, by comparison with the size of his body. Again considering how big an animal he is, 1 object to the contemptible delicacy of his constitution. Is Ire not the sickliest creature m crea'ion ? Does any child catch cold as easily as a horse? Docs he not sprain his fetlock, for a:l his appearance of strength, as easily as 1 s ran my .nkle? Futhermore, to take him from anoiher point of view, what a helpless wretch he is! No fine lady requires more constant waiting on than a horse. Other animals can make their own toilette he must have a groom. You will tell me that this is because we want to make his coat artificially glos -y. Glossy ! come home with me, and see my cat—my clever cat, who can groom herself! Look at your own dog! see how the intelligent creature curry-combs himself with his own honest teeth! Then, again, what a fool the horse is—whata poor nervous fool! He will start at peice of white paper in the road, as if it were a lion. His oue idea, when he hears a noise he is not accostomed to, is to run away from it. What do you say to those two com mon instances of the sense and courage of this ab surdly over-praised animal? I might multiply two hundred, if i chose to exert my mind and waste my breath, which I can never do. I prefer coming at once to my last charge against the horse, which is the most serious of all, because it affects his mor al character. I accuse him boldy, in his capacity of servant to man, ? ofslynessaml treachery. 1 brand him publicly, no matter how mild he may look about the eyes, or how sleek he may be a’bout the coat, as a systematic betrayer, whenever he can get a chance, otthe confidence reposed in him. The French Slave Trade. —According to letters received from Alarseiiies, transportation of free negroes from the coast of Africa, for the French colonies, on board of French vessels, lias nearly been the cause of a serious conflict between the French and the English navies. A ship belonging to the port of Marseilles, and which was taking on hoard, on the coast of Madagascar, a cargo of nt gros for the Island of Bourbon, was threatened to be dealt with as a slaver by English cruisers, and was obliged to return to France without having accomplished its object, although a French rnan •if-vvai’ interfered, and endeavomd to make its rights respected. Admiral Ha molin'’ gave jway to some excitement on the occasion, and explanations have been exchanged on the subject between the Secretary of the Navy and Lord Cowley. As a sort of conciliatory measure, the British cabinet has proposed to the French to employ, instead ot free negroes from Africa, sepoy prisoners to be pro vided by the East India Company. The role ol ailer for England, would certainly not he favorably .viewed by our planters. The iwo cabinets will J probabiy come to an understanding, but in the meanwhile, a steam frigate has been sent toAlada gascor to protect our flag in case of need.— Paris Correspondent des Flats Unis. American Ocean Steamers, —A recent American writer on ocean steam navigation says that the United States have only fifty-seven steamers, meas uring 94,795 tons, while Great Britten has one thousand six hundred and seventy, with an aggre gate measurement of 6(16,330 tons. We have twenty-two steamers, of 46,000 tons, engaged m the foreign and domestic mail service, while Greal Britten has one hundred and twenty-one, of 235 488 aggregate tonage, engaged in the foreign mail service almost exclusively. We have thirty-seven steamers engaged in the coasting trade, while she has one|tliousandfive hundred andtorty-eightsimi larly employed. The steam mail service of Great Britten costs that Government nearly six millions of dollars annually, while the direct returns in pos tage amount to very little above that sum. Pho same author says that American steamers do not last on an average more than ten years’; that to put anew set of boilers in one of the Collins steamers, which must be done every six years, costs about one hundred and ten thousand dollars ; that a trip of the Arago or Fulton to Harve and back costs,about forty five thousand dollars; and that, while to tuna Collins steamer of 3000 tons at the rate of fourteen miles an hour, as has fiequent ly been done, consumes one hundred and twenty eight tons of coal per day, she can be run at twelve miles an hour with a daily consumption ofßo tons, or eleven miles with 61 tons. The power or coal necessary to produce speed increases as the cube of the velocity. The Royal Bride. —Our lady readers will be interested tn the following description of the Eng lish Princess Royal, from the pen ot a correspon dent of an Aberdeen journal: With the rememberance, as if it had been yester day, ofthe boom of the guns which announced her birth, I was scarcely prepared to find her a full grown woman, taller by a couple of inches than her mother, and carrying herself with theease and grace oi womanhood ! It is no stretch ol loyally or courtesy to call the Princess Royal pretlv. She is perfectly lovely. The regularity of her features is perfect.—Her eves arc large and full of intell geuee, imparting to her face that sort of merry aspect which indicates good humor. Tne nose and mouth are delicately and exqu sitely formed, the latter giving an effect of great sweetness. The Princess is more like her lather than her mother. Siie is like the Queen in nothing hut her nose. In all oilier respects slie is a female image of her father I should add, as interesting to your lady readers, that she wears her hair slightly off her forehead; not pushed back in the Eugeniefashlon, but brush ed latitudinally from tht temples, and raised at the sides above the ear in bandeaus, (really the ladies must excuse me if I am talking nonseee, f r I have not given that hostage to fashion which would en able me to speak ex cathreda.) Well, at any rate the Princess is fair enough to be the heroine of a fairy tale, and the Prince Frederick should consider himself a lucky fellow. What Will a Glass of Water Hold !—lt is gen erally thought that when a vessel is full of water any solid substance immersed in it will cause it to over flow, and such will be the ease if ihe substance is not soluble in the water : hut the philosophic truth that in dissolving a body yon do not increase the volume of the solvent, may be proved by a simple and interesting experiment. Saturate a certain quantity of water, at a moderate heat, with three ounces of sugar, and when it will no longer receive that there is room in it for two ounces of salt of tartar, and after that for an ounce and a dram of green vitriol, nearly six drams of nitre, the same quantity of sal ammoniac or smelling salt-, two drams and a scruple of alum and a dram and a half of borax; when all these are dissolved in it, it will not have increased in volume. [Scientific American. “But with the Morning, Cool Refection Came.” —The Daily Advertiser says a well known gentle man of that city, who has no insurmountable oh jections lo the fascinations of female society, enter ed the cars at a station on the New York Central, with a friend about midnight; the lights had burn ed down, and our hero, descrying a lady alone in a seat, slid quietly in beside her, his friend taking that next in the rear. Gradually as the night wore on, the gentleman gently drew his Companion to wards him, until, unconsciously to her, without doubt, she reclined her head in quiet slumber upon his shoulder, his arm resting protectingly upon hers. The late dawning threw a gray, cold gleam through.the car window, which enabled our hero to catch a glimitSe of his new acquaintance—she was eighty if she was a day, with nary tooth in her head ! He stole one glance at his observing friend in the rear, and made a break for the fire. “Archdeacon Jeffrys, a missionary in tho East Indies, states that “for one really converted Chris tisn, as a fruit of missionary labor, the drinking practices ofthe English have made fully one thou sand drunkards in India.” What a melancholly commentary on the boast ed progress of civilization and religion ! P. H. COLQUITT, Editor. Beach of Promise Case. —slo,ooo Damages Awarded. —Mary Jane Cribbet sued Wm. Mathers in the Court of Common Pleas at Cincinnati, for not fulfiling his prommise to marry her, and in aggravation of damages, it was in evidence that the defendant was the father of an illegitimate child born on the 22d of March 1857. The complainant is 19 years of age, and quite good looking. She testified positively to the marriage contract, and to the various subsequent acts of defendant, which resulted in the present suit. The jury, after an absence ol half an hour, returned a verdict for ten thousand dollars against the defendant. Melancholy Death of a Miser. —A few weeks since a Spanish gentleman of high connection, named Stephen Despratt died in London, under circumstances of a most extraordinary nature.— Although in the possession of wealth to the amount ol $150,000, he was so penurious that he denied himself the common necessaries of life, and finally carried his frightful avarice to such an extent that his landlady was compelled to call in medical advice in consequence of his being discovered in an in sensible and exhausted condition in his apartments, the result of actual starvation. On a post mortem examination, the stomach was found empty, and in a withered condition. His apartments exhibited a most extraordinary collection ol multitudinous trash, picked up by the wretched old miser for years past. fW™ According to a Belgian paper, the funded property ol the house of Rothschild, of Paris, amounts at present to forty millions sterling. .1 Saltpetre Speculation. —The Boston Courier says that there has been stored in the U. S. ware houses, at that port, for a year or two past, a large lot of saltpetre, for which the owner some time since refused an offer of about sixteen cents per pound, holding out for an additional cent. At the present time the market price is not much over six cents per pound, the original cost being about ten or eleven cents. Who Would Not be a Prima Donna ?—A cor respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, in a recent letter from Havana, says that a number of ladies of the hautlon of Havana, at the conclusion of Afad. Gazzaniga’s performance of Traviata, went upon the stage and embraced her, and the next morning one of them sent .her a crown, ornamented with gold worth six hundred dollars. JJP” The Albany Knickerbocker says, in going up to Buffalo, the other day, the coupling between the two cars broke. This, of course, broke the bell cord which passes through the cars. The train immediately stopped. An old lady asked, “What’s the matter?” The coupling has broken, marm.’’ The old lady, looking at the broken bell-cord, L said “Don’t wonder, if they tie the cars together with, such a pesky string as that ” ZsNOne of the Princes Polignac was married a short.time since to Victorine, the great dress-ma ker; and a modiste of the Rue Richelieu ha- just bought the hand of an influential member of the Senate, and descendant of one of the noblest hous es of France, by means of the great wealth she has amassed in her calling. The Court Journal, from which we learn these interesting facts, men tions them lo show “the confusion which exists in Parisian society just now.” IJSi?” The last sally we have heard in regard to beefsteak was as follows : A gentleman at a pub lic table, who had exercised his jaws for some fif teen minutes upon a single morsel of steak, turn ed to his neighbor and said ; “What a pity to kill this animal.” “Why ?” responded his friend. “Because,” replied the other, “it would have made such a good working critter. “I thought you were born on the Ist of April, said a benedict to his lovely wife, who had men tioned the|2lst as her birth day. “Most people would think so from the choice I made of a hus band,” she replied. pjy A man, attempting to carve a goose, drop ped it on the floor. “There now !” exclaimed his wife, “we have lost our dinner!” “O, no,” answer ed he, “it’s safe ; for I’ve got my foot on it.” It is much easier to degrade by speaking ill than it is to elevate by speaxing well—from the simple fact that mankind are more disposed to believe evil than good of their fellow-beings. |5gF“ An exchange says that “the cradle is wo man’s ballot box.” If this be so could not proceed ings be commenced against some of them for “vo ting double.” {gif” “William, can yon tell me why the sun rises in the east!” Pupil, looking demure—“ Don’t know, sir, ’cept it be that east makes everything rise,” 0/y“A cotemporary, speaking of the report on gentlemen’s fashion, says: “There is not much change in gentlemen’s pants this month.” Very likely. Pat on Pat. —A one-legged political orator, who was pretty successful in banteringai) Irishman, was asked by the latter “how he had come to lose his leg ?” “Well,” said Jones, “on examining ray pedigree, and looking up my descent, I found there was some Irish blood in|me, and becoming convinced that it had all settled in that left leg, 1 it cut off at once.” “Be the powers,” said Pat “it ’nd ev been a deu ced good thing of it had only settled in yer head.” Theatrical Novelty. —A novelty has been added to the performances at Burton’s Theatre. New-York, two or three times within a week, by the appear ance of the Empire Club, in great force, in the dress circle, who, under the lead ofCapt. Rynders, have joined, together with the whole audience and the chorus on the stage, in rendering the immortal Star Spangled Banner in a manner that would have put to the blush many an operatic chorus of much greater pretensions. Politicts begin with a p, because this letter is the turn-coat of the alphabet; place it topsy-turvy, turn it to the right or the left, and it becomes a d, a bor aq, just as our patriotic statesman vote black or white, according as it suns their interests. Tht Lccompion Constitution. —This famous doc ument is at present in the hands of the President. He has been for severai days engaged in preparing the message which will accompany that instrument lo Congress. It may be sent to that body at any moment. Os course, as the matter approaches the culminating point of action, the greatest anxiety is betraved on all sides.— Washington Stales. In general, what a woman says with her eyes de serves more attention than the words which escape from her lips; therefore, should she remain silent, although you have just asked a most interesting question, perhaps you may find an answer in her eyes. Too Good to Waste. —The medical attendant of tin- St. Louis Hospital accosted an Irish servant at i lie door of the same the other day, with : “Did you give the medicine as I told you?” “Faith, an’ I (jid, sir.” “And the brandy ?” “Share, an’ I tho’t it a pity to waste so much good liquor on the men thai were bound to die anyhow, so I drinked it me self.” A youth smitten with the charms of a beau ►tiful maid, only vented his passion by shy looks, and now and then touching his fair one’s toe with his tfc under the table. The girl bore his advances a little while in silence, when she cried out —“Look here, it you love me, tell the so, but don’t dirty my stockings.” Number 6,