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t tilt I Bo tiers.
A Perfumed Breath.—What lady or gentle
man would remain under the curse of a disagreea
ble breath when by using the •‘Balm of a Thong
and Flowers” as a dentrihee would not only render
the breath sweet but leave the teeth as white as
alabaster? Many persons do not know their
breath is bad, and the subject is so delicate their
friends will never mention it. Poor a single drop
of‘‘Balm” on your tooth-brush and wash the teeth
night and morning. A fifty cent bottle will last a
year.
A beautiful complexion may easily be acquired
by using the “Balm of a Thousand Flowers.'’ It
will remove tan, pimples and freckles from the
skin, leaving it of a soft roseate hue. Wet a tow
el, pour on two or three drops, and wash the face
night and morning.
Sharing mad*, easy.—Wet your shaving brush in
either warm or cold water, pour on two or three
drops of “Balm of a Thousand Flowers, run the
beard well, and it will make a beautiful soft lather,
much facilitating the operation of shaving. 1 rice
only fifty cents. Sold by all Druggists. Beware
of counterfeits. None genuine unless signed by
W. P FETRIDGE & CO.,
lg Cm Franklin Square, N. Y.
Sl'FFERERS with diseases of the Bladder, Kid
neys, Gravel, Dropsy, Weakness, Ac., read the
advertisement in another column, beaded “Helm-
bold’s Genuine Preparation.” 32 2m
The Pii.es.—Our readers will notice the adver
tisement of Dr. T. II. Cavanaugh. The prepara
tion which is designed to bring into more general
notice, has been in use here for several years, and
in no case of which we have heard, has it failed to
•ffcct a radical cure. The certificates appended to
the card are all bona fide, and signed by persons
who are well known to their fellow citizens, as
men who would not lend their names to the promo
tion of fraud or humbug on tlie afflicted. We
cheerfully give it our recommendation.—Jackson
ville (til.) Constitutionist.
For sale in this city by E. J. White A Bro.,
F. G Grieve and James Herty. •*•”> 4t
Grf.at Cure of Rheumatism is Cincinna
ti, Ohio.—Convincing Evidence.—For more
than three years I have been suffering with rheu
matism, and enlargement and pain of the bones
and joints. I have strictly followed the advice of
physicians, and at other times used such family
medicines as had been recommended for the cure of
rheumatism; still I did not improve in the least,
and was frequently'compelled to keep my bed,
and thereby was prevented from attending to my
business. Some weeks ago I was induced by a
friend to try Carter’s Spanish Mixture. The effect
was miraculous. / felt considerably improved af
ter I had taken the fourth dose; I have only used
one single bottle, and .»m entirely free from all
pain. I feel better than I have felt for years, and
I attribute my completely-restored health solely to
the use of Carter’s Spanish Mixture. I consider
it a most excellent medicine for rheumatism and
all diseases of the blood, and cheerfully recom
mend it to the afflicted.
D. BURRITT,
South-east corner Fourth and Walnut-sts.
Cincinnati, March 17, 1855. 36 4t
Sold by E. J. White & Bro., Milledgeville.
II. R. R.—B t. O O D FROM THE THROAT OR
Lungs.—Radway’s Renovating Resolvent and
Ready Relief is a sure preventative and cure for
bleeding, weak and ulcerated Lungs—bad coughs
and difficult breathing—hoarseness and sore throat.
There are many people who are said to have the
consumption, whose lungs are said to be so far
gone as to prevent their being cured. We do not
claim that our remedies will cure those whose
lungs are all ulcerated and mostly rotted away—
but we do claim that ninety-nine out of one hun
dred of those who complain, and who are troubled
with weak lungs, who sometimes bleed at the
lungs, who aro troubled with night sweats, who
cough much, and who suffer great pain and dis
tress in the side, shoulders and chest, that with
Radway’s Renovating Resolvent and Relief wo
will make them well, and free their bodies from
every particle of consumptive material.
All the difficulties of the lungs or throat, that are
caused by colds, these remedies will cure. Do not,
therefore, be frightened into the belief that you
have the consumption so bad as to be passed cure.
It is the cue of these inhaling doctors, to pronounce
the most simple cases of difficulties arising from
coughs or colds, either in the lungs cr throat, Con
sumption. We do not believe that one ease out of
ten that are set down as dying of consumption,
died of any worse difficulty than bad treatment
for a complaint the doctors who attended them
knew nothing about. It is an everyday occur
rence with us, to receive testimony of persons who
claimed to have been at death’s door, under the
treatment of Hunter, Fitch, and other consump
tion doctors, that were cured by a few bottles of
Resolvent and Relief. No rnattar how bad a cough
you have got, or how severe pain you may have in
your chest, or whether or not you bleed from your
lungs or throat, Radway’s Resolvent and Relief
will cure you.
Sold by druggists and merchants everywhere.
E. J. Wiute, Ag’t, Milledgeville, Ga. 38 2t
We think we are justified in saying that
no other pill, or remedy for liver complaint, has
gained, so deservedly, the reputation now enjoyed
by Dr. M'Lane's ccUbratc/l Liter Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh. As an evidence
that they will cure, read the following certificate
from a lady residing in our own city:
New York, Jan. 23, 1352.
This is to certify that I have had the liver com
plaint for six years, and never could get any medi
cine to help me until I commenced using Dr.
ML aue’s celebrated Liver Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros. I can now say to the public, that
they have completely cured me; and I do hereby
recommend them to all persons afflicted with a
diseased liver. They icill cure you. Try them.
Maria Evans, No. 93 Lewis st.
For sale by E. J. White, James Herty and F. G.
Grieve, Milledgeville.
C®” 1 Purchasers will be careful to ask for Dr.
M’ ’Lane’s celebrated Liver Pills, manufactured by
Fleming Bros, of Pittsburgh, Pa. There are other
Pills purporting to be Liver Pills, now before the
public. Dr. M’Lane’s genuine Liver Pills, also
his celebrated Vermifuge, can now he had at all
respectable Drug Stores. None genuine without the
signatnre of FLEMING BROS. [do]
Messrs. Perry Davis & Son :—Having wit
nessed the beneficial effects of your celebrated
Pain Killer in several cases of cholera morbus,
within a few years past, I most cheerfully recom
mend its use, as a safe and effectual remedy.
About four years ago I used it in a case of Cholera,
and it proved an effectual and speedy cure, and in
many cases of rheumatism and in one case of ca
tarrh ; -and sometime in December last, six of my
children were taken down with scarlet fever or
canker rash, my only medicine was Pain Killer
and Castor Oil—the Pain Killer operating to a
charm in cutting the canker, and throwing out (be
rash, so that in about five weeks my family were
entirely recovered, and I recommend the same as
a safe and sure cure for the very dangerous disease
of scarlet fever, by giving one teaspoonful three
times a day, every other day, and every other day
Castor Oil.
C. G. Vandenrurg, Saratoga Springs
Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain Killer, after a thor
ough trial by innumerable living witnesses, has
proved itself to be the medicine of the age.
Although there have been many medicinal prepar
ations before the public since its first introduction,
and large amounts expended iu their introduction,
the Pam Killer has continued to steadily advance
in the estimation of the world, as the best Family
Medicine ever introduced.
Sold by F. G. Grieve, E. J. White, and James
Herty, Milledgeville. 38 2t
TO relieve suffering has been the object of the
humane and philanthropic in ail ages; before the
practice of medicine became a science the sick
were publicly exposed in the open air, and every
passer by named the remedy he considered most
suitable for the complaint. We possess at the
present day through the agency of the press a more
reliable mode of conveying information to our
suffering fellow creatures. Those afflicted with
scrofula, cutaneous and eruptive diseases will find
in the columns of almost every newspaper and
Periodical published, certificates and testimonials
from those who have been speedily cured of these
dreadful complaints by tile purifying and power
fully regenerative qualities of Sands’ Sarsaparilla.
Prepared and sold by A. U. & D. Sands, 100
r ulton St., New York.
STATISTICS OF GEORGIA FOR 1856.
*5 #
Taken from the l ax. Books, in the Comptroller General’s office, and showing the following property,
ant the value placed upon it by its owners, on the first of April, 1856 :
2 !
Appling
Baker
Baldwin
Berrien
Bibb
Bryan
Bulloch
Burke
Butts
Camden
Campbell
Carroll
Cass
Chatham
Chattooga
Cherokee
Clark
flinch
Cobb
Colquitt
Colombia
Coweta
Cm w ford
Clay
Calhoun
Charlton
Chattahoochee
Coffee
Cut<*osa
Dade
Decatur
DeKalb
Dooiy
Dougherty
Early
Effingham
Elbert
Emanuel
Fayette
Floyd
Forsyth
F ranklin
F ulton
Fannin
Gilmer
Glynn
Gordon
Greene
Gwinnett
Habersham
Hall
Hancock
Haralson
Harris
Heard
Henry
Houston
Hart
Irwin
Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson
Jones
Laurens
Lee
Liberty
Lincoln
Lowndes
Lumpkin
Macon
Madison
Marion
McIntosh
Meriwether
Miller
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
Murray
Muscogee
Newton
Oglethorpe
Paulding
Pike
Pulaski
Putnam
Polk
Pickens
Rabun
Randolph
Richmond
Scriven
Stewart
Suinter
Spalding
Talbot
Taliaferro
Tattnall
Telfair
Terrell
Thomas
Towns
Troup •
Twiggs
Taylor
Union
Upsoa
Walker
Walton
Ware
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Webster
Wilkes
Wilkinson
Whitfield
Worth
470
569
306,295
393,539
291.647
? 62-
S 2,353
6111,958]$ 214 135
S 905.411
6-9
2,395
1,340,980
313.073
1,414.218
32.052
35.060
437.972
279.309
3 542.793
589
4,437
2.062.550
374.978
9.18,632
267,33?
180,194
1 117.763
220.158
4 901.630
441
303
178.374
232,325
393,424
5,350
16,450
181,823
165 758
941,183
1,058
4.992
2.791,257
327.324
1,059.888
1,489,165
691,507
2.108 527
280 978
9,436,381
259
2,259
8! 5.030
196.034
514,745
7.226
6,200
93,737
124 244
1,561,183
55?
1.686
885,346
544.709
596 839
3,150
9,400
257 695
264 326
2,018,713
856
11,358
4,531,274
375,415
2,817.650
40,445
26,129
1,172 225
589.597
9.573.912
G55
3.135
1,687,170
151,199
787.620
119,275
54 74‘-
439.10."
230,220
3,393.790
214
4.17-
1.705.760
238,185
873,592
130,72-"
29.40c
228,3*6
120,729
3 137.699
1,130
1,884
1,063,799
283,295
1.099.222
75,94*
50.460
482 117
236,413
3,023,041
1,448
1.814
813,865
262,457
1.218 628
52 354
73.075
553.44?
283,907
2,991,754
1.377
3.921
2 099.080
206 379
2,584.010
182,56?
124.964
1.069 20."
363^359
6.751,3-0
2,127
11 270
4 886.563
532,830
2.621,839
7,705.85!
1.965,45?-
1,718 7131
664 358
23.705,689
868
2,106
1.050.937
151.576
1,092,439
22,94;
:;•) t
340 163
231.894
2,861.940
1,85)7
1 .763
782 955
220.973
1.430.388
42,08“
27,060
492 527
314,403
3,2-48.345
832
5,129
2,414.501
319,677
1,023,859
594,981.
204,714
1,455.334
258,18?
6,23!“.690
414
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263,16!
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584.542
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1.160 934
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1,639,763
140.931
1,737,682
431,43--
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302,100
5.766,335
16?
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108,756
20(
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260.401
725
8,106
3,861,547
289.237
1,680 689
66,9 1;
30.733
1,201.633
393,883
7.164.995
1,427
6,332
3.336,106
262.96:
2,131,799
323,611
111.61 '
1.402,726
471.81.
8.154 35 4
611
4,358
2.255 050
208.977
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284.800
4,42.3 407
446
1,816
938.730
110.700
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395 659
104,629
2 160.358
369
1,704
816.181.
135,24i
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22 47.
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197,07?
137,100
1.890.845
198
370
184,800
130.970
70.113
11.031
19.900
169.318
76 561
531.721
5 8 2
2,699
1.3U7 839
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829.48r
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16 658
325.554
217 049
2 904,196
262
467
225.354
254.483
208.659
1.419
4.150
90.606
160 200
690.590
692
651
346.798
90 662
756,800
76.52!
45,601
31 7 20f
140 23<
1,667.377
412
231
123 608
78,66’
375,510
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16,100
1
100,381'
721.581
933
4.59b
2.322,668
134.261
1.379.470
130.721
fir-9.7 44
399.847
5,014,050
1,114
2,014
i 025.270
189 606
1,077.47e
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40.601
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24 1.864
3,123 611
875
3,341
1,715.616
348.87*
1.205.575
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434 ?<67
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3,662,033
386
4,428
2.230.711
2N.698
1,781 88!
221.3U1
75 73
650,567
305,32?
5.278.838
270
3.568
1,6-7.721
167,300
99 4,031
38.551
15,92k
376.117
231,171
3,436,162
375
1.919
790.515
266 070
526.703
13.753
none
219.95.
] 93.672
I 816.823
91?
5,575
2,651.175
296,665
l,506.k'4 4
71.475
42.763
921.573
k-91,389
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745
1,285
64 4...09
648.372
684.372
5 504
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224,5! 5
294 741
1.839,724
1,101
2,475
1.301 66o
207.950
1.216 iat,
76 666
59.493
621.127
260,39k
3.171,535
1,355
4,578
2.250.555
287,247
2.056 096
329,220
215,495
1.208.01 >
339,40?
6 482.692
1,313
1,049
544.400
158 667
786 *>*28
35.79k
46.897
390 74!
229,507
2,046,592
1,311
1,967
1,116 976
3U9.890
1,076.157
23 360
17.339
421.734
268,719
8,789.260
1,642
2.132
1,105.880
184.667
856.912
56^,974
370,132
732.660
171,913
4,950,152
777
120
62.625
106.502
516 61-
14,975
8 800
86.535
105.65?*
811,419
95?
147
75,275
146,32**
472,101
19,375
12,276
116.22k
135.666
865,501
190
5.158
1,392.230
520.344
867,860
358,305
15,840
141 019
93.27-
2,915,272
1,372
1.533
805,855
273,789
1,3725.0
81.959
45.541
535;938
265,929
3,264,631
738
8.510
3,701,85!
317.249
1.639 152
268,995
53,40?
908,522
355,467
7,305,116
1,753
2,732
1,395,311
317,843
1,345.948
76,211
38,138
690.bOH
398,196
4.053,229
1,318
1.153
483,621
337.564
774.318
44,590
38 ( 916
197,861
98,441
1.645,186
1,284
1.221
598,849
282,373
839.564
36,700
25,754
483,209
240,556
2,220.037
594
7 445
3,547.715
340,334
1.430,272
140,897
71,400
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374.718
6,611.132
388
196
102.700
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655
1.660
66 906
68.803
547 902
1,125
7.357
3.975,079
278,794
1,651,891
45,801
58,770 1,083,654
448.30?
7,231,744
843
2.66-
1,377,300
167.649
888 033
25,580
31,729
400.691
241.013
3.004,634
1,341
4,619
2.450 954
271.315
1 631.754
53,665
43 140’ 512,046
429,451
5,418,8u2
937
10,137
4.991.237
460,867
2.665 271
204.294
99.762
1 202,415
551 U«4
9.742.9GU
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1,396
720,301
160,018
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13,620
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129 156
1.748 434
347
483
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416.799
288 719
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109 309
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1,476,557
230,984
1,086 692
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260.136
3.407 902
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6.689
3,246,280
264.407
1,568.605
65,650 113.246 1 105,018
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6,542,723
626
5,696
2,750,647
394,549
1.522,892
40,403' 33,128
686.935
354.163
5.399,573
644
6,036
3,121,579
265,56?
1.515.306
41,82.5
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841.024
330,150
5,968,097
633
3.228
1,445,455
635,295
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17.573
19 975
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296,795
3,079 012
448
3,836
2,079,593
136,803
1,502.139
29,64--
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4,108.2- 6
389
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2,657.321
404.911
713.259
73,135
4,000
320 999
273,399
4 099 -->94
359
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1,710,017
183,313
765.539
7,7001 16.500
392.974
157,145
3,054.373
823
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1,995,275
543,458
1,559,283
26,617
J 47.207
665.960
440.063
4.736,675
247
700
362,107
521.725
723,011
36,0*0
J 30,712
273.76
167,294
1,095 861
669
3.981
2.171,809 208.570
1,271,527
43,517
j 57.9H?
1 451,112
273,105
4,223.016
620
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2,036,504
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329.350
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2,673
136,108
1 82,339
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529,270
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6,381,692
898
1,325
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2,226,179
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5,769
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137.036
1,168,658
972
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223,225
1,390.103
97,141
35.972
858,932
196,626
4.930 679
721
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1.802.825
418 47(
1,221,443
24,797
10,950
553.893
140,777
4.003 305
560
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4,172,873’ 258,3 45
1,619,271
199,503
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1,233 589
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7.114.560
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1,130,1961 122.291
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36,490
440,540
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2,776.067
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178
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83,044; 278.069
12.332
12,358
105,618
89.925
660,530
569
176
87.875
199.998
224.513
12.325
8,692
81.788
86.801
481.366
1,181
5,156
2,941,349
315,720
1,611,909
192,72k
84,974
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433,413
6.227,313
2,216
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3,357,746
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339,179
2,137,814
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3,460,281
375 599
2,161.927
533,660
158.311)11 177.513
508,62.1
8,237,947
820
3.441
1,855,463
191,102
936.624
413.911
119 685
944.131
217,013
4,639,358
816
7.632
4,147.049 284 4 17
1,744,171
94,250
87,801 1.246.615
443.548
7.b06,266
346
2,832
1,342.022
132,870
577,018
31,133
24,11)0
272,387
12^,284
2,402,820
452,
1,067
562,660
513,788
499,201
3.950
3,450
235.459
233,507
1,564,642
309
736
364.450, 229,981
252,500
6.350
6,945
122,914
120.598
874.257
466
1,883
985.801| 122.185
649,070
11 455
7.400
332.993
212.386
1,181,721
934
6,538
3,157,838
610,99!
1,948 k'54
209,572
95 324 1.208 836
536,240
7,618,566
170
7S
46.100
52.715
199.540
none.
. -6.750
56,539
70.749
374 028
1,297
9,404
4,987,257
312.995
2,855,977
489,385
327,810 1.094,857
572.925
10.9r4.243
522
4,654
2,234,771
202,717
1,348,201
11,425
9,010
695.386
288,9:i2
4,543,407
592
2,230
1,164.095
163.485
763.392
41.778
24.710
351,741
173.259
2,522.107
718
131
68,345
130.454
355,020
17.613
14,755
129,420
143,2-9
732.070
909
4,862
2,477.961
223.721
1,269.984
105.046
56,778
879,565
345,153
5,281 500
1,351
J ,.409
804,791
243 001
1,671,252
65,835
39,139
509,460
326,253
2,975,124
1,142
4 173
2,178.335
296,568
1,210.764
58,160
55,350
875,395
339,809
4.789,843
430
338
175,455
306.639
337.875
2.424
6,582
121,012
16*<,498
847.327
920
5,244
2,655,795
335,226
1,260 853
81.181
49,251
942,286
344,916
5,4*28.709
1.049
1,149
3,300,120
411,788
1 864,503
86,652
61.458
703 579
572,969
6.4-8,525
215'
431
196.903
225 686
176,387
2.600
9,494
92.938
113,101
595.324
525
1,709
987.677
139.163
576,037
33,203
24.475
284.659
192,756
2,169.247
635
8.02!
3,475,158
346,947
1,502,113
176,630
94.00u!i 140 770
336,596
6,701 710
9301
3,311 j
1.831,592
304,546
1.299.021
32.175
28.350
48 J 67G|
384,169
3 8-9.306
1,211
1,405!
728,202
170.414
1,095.324
170,070
84,184
453.591
186.060
2 902,948
315!
4571
254.250
131 720
339 855 J
5.341
2,550
1 42,5-3
1 k’fi 765
855.450
RE C APIT L'L AT ION.
No. of Polls — „
“ “ Slaves
Value of Slaves
No. cf acres of Land
Value of Land
Total value of City and Town property
“ Merchandise..
“ Amount of money and solvent debts of all kinds
Aggregate value of all other property not before enumerated, except planta
tion and mechanical tools, annual crops, provisions &c $ 31,591,813
Total aggregate value of whole property $495,516,224
105,750
416,735
$210 538,634
32,034,413
$131,720,986
$ -26.179,614
$ 9.197,098
$ 78,075.766
A Miserable Swindler.—A wretch was f t Quaker Marriage.-
admited into tlie Massachusetts General 1 ^ antlK 'k p t last wee
Hospital about five weeks since, and while
lying on his bed of sickness managed to se
cure the confidence and affection of his
nurse, a Miss T. The unsuspicious woman
revealed to her loved patient the fact that
site had saved out of her earnings over
$400; and this financial statement induced
Mr. E. to make a declaration of his love,
whiclt was joyfully received and reciproca
ted by the nurse. As soon as the patient
became convalescent, a week before Christ
mas the wedding came off, and the ‘happy
pair’ took lodgings at one of the best hotels.
On the morning after the marriage the
husband proposed to his wife that it would
be more convenient and safer to have her
little fortune,then represented in hank bills,
changed into gold. The wife assented
and handed him the hills, which he left
the hotel with and has not been heard of
since. By this rascally swindle the wife
was left completely penniless, not having
money enough to pay the hotel bill.
b J E - J-White. Agent, Milledgeville.
bold also by druggists generally. 38 It
Tae Sugar-Cane Expedition—A letter Hit-A
November 27,1856, has been received bythe'fW
taryof the Navy, from the commanding officer of
tno expedition which was sent to South America a
few months ago for tne purpose of procuring a
supply of sugar-cane cuttings for the use of four
own citizens in Louisiana and rhere places where
the cane is now cultivated. The expedition had
then reached Georgetown, Demarara, after a pros
perous voyage, and the objects of the expedition
^pjikely to be speedily attained.—Washington
Life Insurance Gambling.—The Newark
Advertiser alludes to a novel bill which
has just been repoted in the Legislature of
New Jersey:
“A bill entitled a supplement to the laws
for tli© prevention of gambling lino been in
troduced, which has something of a singular
interest. The enemy of man has often
been represented as gambling for the souls
of various deluded individuals whom he
could entice to throw dice with him; but
it is not, perhaps, generally known that
human beings gamble in the lives of each
other; or in other words, invest their money
in life insurance policies on the lives of in
dividuals in whom they have no interest,
and who, they think, will die soon enough
to make the investment profitable. The
bill proposes to render criminal such pro
ceedir.gs.”
A common mistake—Some simple souls
imaginehluntuess and honesty to he con
stant associates but if they expect to find
the pair always in company many and
rrevious disappointsment await them in
this uncertain world. There are rude
knaves as well as polished ones, being,
doubtless, adapted to the varieties of men
they arc destined to do for. A man can
chisel (the phrase is more expressive than
elegant) quite as well with had as good
manners, and if one’s fingers are doomed to
he cut, who would not prefer a keen razor
to a rough saw—a Damascus blade to a
Butcher’s cleave?
A marriage took place at
, in the Friends’ Meeting
House. Tiie prescribed preparatory forms having
been complied with, after a pause the parties rose
(being seated side, by side,) and took eaclt other
by the right hand, when the bridegroom said. “In
the presence of this assembly, I take this, my friend,
S B , to be my wife promising through
Divine assistance, to be unto her a faithful and
affectionate husband, until death shall seperate
us.” The bride then said:—“In the presence of
this assembly, I take this my friend, P
W , to be my husband, promising through
Divine assistance to be unto him a faithful and
affectionate wife, until death shall separate us.”
They then unclasped their hands and set down.
A document (expressive of the willingness of tlie
parties to the union.) than received their signatures
which was attested by two members of the meeting,
of each sex, being what might be called an inves
tigating- committee. The document was then read
aloud by the clerk which was the completion of
the simple and interesting marriage ceremony of
the Quakers—Nantucket Inquirer.
Pork Trade of Canton, Illinois.—Canton
is a flourishing town of three thousand inhabitants,
in Fulton county, Illinois, and a place of considera
ble business. tfhe Canton Register, in speaking
of tbe poik trade, says there has been hut little
more then half as much packed as was last year.
The total amount of hogs is ten thousand and
seven hundred. Total weight in pounds is two
million five hundred and thirty-seven thousand and
forty. The principal packers are Groencndyke,
j Ingersoll, and Graham <fc Wills. Price dnriDg the
present season have ranged from $4 25 to $6 20.
A Nice Place to Board at.—A lady, who has just
opened a boarding-house in Philadelphia, and
adopted the following rules: The gentlemen must
not put their feet on the mantle in winter, nor out
of the window in the summer, and the lady must
not write her name on the glass with a quartz.
If she uses an air-tight, she must regulate the
damper herself, and not ring every ten minutes
for the chambermaid. The single gentlemen must
not play the trombone nor make love to the ser
vants, nor comb his whiskers at the table. If he
does, he won’t answer. The lady must not turn
up her nose at anything upon the table, unless
she has a natural pug,and none of the party must
<1 rink with a mouthful of victuals, nor must they
fight for the top buckwheat cake. Terms liberal,
and board to be paid weekly in advance.
By counting the knuckles oa the hand with the
spaces 1ictween them, all the months with thirty-
one days will fall on the knuckles, and those with
thirty days or less will come in the spaces. Jan
uary, first knuckle: February, first space: March
second knuckle; April second space; May third
knuckle; June third space; July fourth knuckle;
August first knuckle; September first space; Octo
ber second knuckle; November second space; De
cember third knuckle.
The New State [louse of Ohio.—The new capitol
building at Columbus, Ohio, is the largest State
House in the Union. The appropriations already
made amount to $1,104,700 35. The architect
estimates the additional cost of completing The
building at $369,589 04, and of enclosing, grading
and ornamenting the grounds at $150,000 more,
making the grand total of the whole cost of the
new State House to be $ 1,622,889 50.
The Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton Aries, under date of the 4th*inat., thus notices
the first appearance of tin- lion. J. V. Wright, of
Tennessee:
“1 was in the House to.day and heard the yonng-
est member of the body speak. I ascertained him
to be the Hon. John V. Wright, ot Tennessee,
whom,judging from appearance, is about twenty-
six years of age. He was attracting great at
tention by the able and eloquent vigor of style
with which he was exposing the aims and purposes
of the Black Republican party. You should have
seen the galled jades wince under the conclusive
exposition of their infamous designs. Mr wright’s
speech was listened to attentively by a full house.
His efforts to-day marked him as a debater, who,
if lie continues in Congress, is destined to make
no ordinary mark upon the legislation of the coun-
try ” <
Proposed mission to Japan.—The Baptists of
this country propose a mission to Japan. J. Goble,
who visited the country with Commodore Perry,
brought home a native Japanese, with whom he
has been studying at Madison University, to fit
him to preach the Gospel at Jftpan.
From the N. Y. Evening Post.
Late and Important fronrSlearagna.
By the arrival of the Cahawba, from Havana,
we have intelligence respecting affairs in Nicar
agua, later by several days than any which lias
been received previously.
Mr. E. N. Stagers, United States mail agent at
San Francisco, who left Greytown on the 22d of
January, states that advices had been received
there from Gen. Walker to the 16th of that month,
which is eight or ten days later than previous ad
vices.
Fifty-one men who had served under Walker,
and been discharged upon the expiration of their
time, had found their way to Greytown, and re
ported that Walker’s position at Rivas had been
undisturbed, and that he had from 450 to 500 ef
fective men under his immediate command.
Capt. Scott was at San Juan with two hundred
and fifteen men, fitting out a steamer with four
pieces of artillery, for the purpose of recapturing
the boats from the Costa Ricans. Four hundred
men were expected from New Orleans, and ninety-
two from California, in the steamer Sierra Nevada
A correspondent of the Times, writing from
Greytown, under date of January 21, says:
“It is said that the Sierra Nevada has been taken
by the Costa Ricans. She had not been heard of
since her departure from San Juan del Sur, and aj
it was known that the Costa Ricans were at San
Juan del Sur in large numbers, and as two Chillian
men-of.war were supposed to be on their way to
blockade that port, it is thought she had been
seized.
“On the other hand, there is a rumor that she
lias been taken by General Walker, for the purpose
of conveying troops to Costa Rica, with a view of
attacking San Jose, and thereby ‘carrying the war
into Africa ’ Both, however, are rumors, and the
latter has been in circulation long enough to have
been confirmed by official news, had it been true
The friends of Walker here, not having heard
from him, conceived the idea that lie had chosen
to march into Costa Rica, instead of proceeding to
attempt to retake the Transit. And, assuming
such to be his course, they arrived at the conclu
sion that he must have taken the Sierra Nevada to
convey his troops.
“Again: four days ago some Costa Ricans, who
came down, stated that General Walker had been
forced to leave Kivas with all his force, and take
position at San George, where he was surrounded
by the allied forces, and, being nearly out of pro
visions, had offered to capitulate.”
The Costa Rican papers [mbli.-h tke most mag
niloquent proclamations respecting their recent
successes, and to the effect that their old enemy.
Walker, is hemmed in and cannot get out again.
On the morning of the 16th January, a boat from
the British man-of-war Cossack landed at Punta
Arenas, where Lockridge and the recruits, who are
waiting to go up the river to Walker’s assistance,
were quartered, and Capt. Cockburn, the officer in
charge, read the following
OFFER OF BRITISH PROTECTION.
By John Eiphinsfon Erskine, Esq., Captain of
Her Majesty’s ship Orion, and Senior Officer of
Her Majesty’s Ships and Vessels Employed on
the Coasts of Central America.
Representation having been made to me that
there are at present at Punta Arenas, among a
body of armed men landed from the American
steamer Texas, (which had been represented tome
as emigrants waiting au opportnity to proceed to
their destination, but whom Mr. Joseph N. Scott
lias since stated to the United States commercial
agent lie has employed to protect his property, and
who have not been recognised as citizens of the
United States,) several British subjects who aro
detained and forced to bear arms against their will,
you will proceed to the place where these men are
at present quartered, and having ascertained who
is tlie officer commanding the party, you will re
quire from him a list of all the men under liis nom
inal command, and in the event of your obtaining
such a list, y- u will call the men together and
read to them this my order to you. Should any of
the party in question claim protection as British
subjects, and their claims appear to you to lie well
founded, you will acquaint the officer commanding
that these men must be permitted to withdraw
from their present position; and you will (in the
event of his acquescence) either give these men a
passage to Greytown or take them on board her
Majesty’s ship under your command to await my
decision as to their disposal, as they may desire.
In the event of the aforesaid officer resistii g such
a course as I have pointed out, you will inform
him that, in the. first place, no person whatever
under his command will be permitted to leave
their present position to proceed up the river or
elsewhere until my demand shall be complied with;
and, secondly, that I will adopt such measures to
enforce the rights of British subjects as I may
think best adapted to the purpose.
Given on hoard tlie Orion, off Greytown, this
16th day of January, 1857.
JOHN E. ERSKINE.
To James H. Cockburn, Esq., Captain of her Ma
jesty’s ship Cossack.
The number of men at Punta Arenas composing
tlie party in question was stated to be about 175,
of whom 150, or thereabouts, are fit for duty, the
remainder being sick.
The Times correspondent adds:
“You can imagine the feeling the reading of the
above created. Ten men stepped from the line and
claimed protection. Many were indignant at such
interference, and others did not very well know
how to regard it. The right of those who claimed
British protection appeared sufficient to Captain
Cockburn. tlie men were moved down to tlie boat,
and the others were further informed of the perils
that awaited them should they remain in tlieir pre
sent position.”
Capt. Lockbridge has sent an indignant protest
to Capt. Erskine, in which lie states that he yields
to liis demand, because he is overawed by superior
force, but that had he one-third of the force of the
British lie would not yield.
The steamboat which the “emigrants” are get
ting in readiness to carry them up the San Juan is
not yet completed. The blacksmiths and carpen
ters, under direction of Col Lockbridge. have been
busy making carriages for tlie cannon named
above, aud they are now nearly ready.
From the Wash. Union.
Reception of Hr. Forsyth.
Several errors having occurred in the address of
Hon. John Forsyth to President Commonfort, of
Mexico, as published by us a few weeks since from
a translated report from a Mexican paper, we give
below a corrected report of our minister’s remark
on the presentation of his credentials to President
Commonfort:
Your Excellency : I hold in my hand a letter
from the President of the United States accredit-
me to the government of your excellency as
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
from tlie United States. I gladly seize the first
official opportunity offered me to ass.ure your ex
cellency that my own ardent desires and fixed
purposes to that end are seconded by the earnest
and positive instructions of tiiy government so to
shape the mission confided to roe as to bind onr
two countries together in the enduring bonds of a
cordial good-will, amity, and peace. I beg that
your excellency will receive this assurance, not as
the expression of a mere diplomatic courtesy, but
as the reflex of a genuine sentiment, deeply rooted
in the bosom of my government and people, and
founded upon the most catholic principles of hu
manity, good neighborhood and sound policy.
The destinies of our two great republics are in
dissolubly linked together iu the horoscope of the
future. The two great powers of the North Amer
ican continent, separated by similar and successful
struggles for independence from the dominion of
the old forms of the Old World ; together treading
the hitherto untried path of republican self-gov
ernment; natural allies by geographical position,
and, from affinity of political principles, mutually
dependent upon each other for the good offices ot
wise, liberal, and reciprocal laws; and in a condi
tion to bless each other by a free commercial and
friondly intercourse, thereby increasing the happi
ness and redounding to tiie prosperity of the peo
pie of eacli—there are a thousand good reasons
why our two republics should be friends, and not
one why coldness and estrangement, much less
enmity, should exist between us.
X conic to your excellency, as the representative
of my government, deeply imbued with tlie spirit
of these friendly sentiments; and it will be my
constant study and the object of my heartfelt de
sires to endeavor by all honorable means to culti
vate. such relations with your excellency's govern
ment as shall expunge from the diplomatic records
of the two countries, by fair and liberal adjust
ment, every cause of difference that may tend to
mar the unity of that noble accord which is de
manded by our positions, by the obligations of
ood neighborhood, and by the manifest will of the
Deity. That I may be the humble instrument of
accomplishing so much of good to the millions who
compose the constituency of our two republics,
and that I may be met in a corresponding spirit of
good-w ill on the part of your excellency’s govern
ment, is what I most ardently desire.
1 have now the honor to present to yonr excel
lency, first, a letter from the"President of the Uni
ted .States, which his excellency, Gen. James Gads
den, late envoy from the United States, was com
missioned to deliver, and which a severe domestic
bereavement prevents liis delivering in person, and
mypwn letter of credence from the President oi
the United States.
Liverpool, Havre & Savannah, Ga., 1. S. Steam
Packet Company.
It is proposed to establish a fine of ftteam Pack
ets from Liverpool and Havre to Savannah, Geor
gia, United States. It need scarcely be observed
to those acquainted w ith American affairs, both
politically and commercially, that Savannah, in the
South, like New York, in the North, is destined to
become the great Maritime Emporium of the
Southern States of the North American Union.
Situated, only seventeen miles from the Atlantic,
upon a noble River (the Savannah,^having at its
entrance from the sea a depth ot fifty teet water,
accessible iu all weathers, and at all states ot tlie
ftde for vessels of the largest class ; healthy, from
its elevated position, forty feet above the level ot
the River; the termini also ot the extensive Rail
roads of the State (Georgia), and in communica
tion with those of Tennessee, North and South
Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and the Western
and South-Western States;—thus opening for it
self more extended sources of traffic than are en
joyed bv almost any other of the Sea-hoard Cities.
Likewise, the proposed New Packet Line, if car
ried out, will materially increase the prosperity of
Savnnah, from its being the port of embarcation
and debarcation of the Steamers, making it the di
rect route for Passengers and Goods to New Or
leans and Mexico, via. rail to Mobile, avoiding the
long and dangerous passage round Capo Florida
and" through the Gulf of Mexico. The advantages,
in fact, of this New Steam Packet Line are so ob
vious that, with proper management, it cannot fail
to rank as one of the first class of the largest div
idend-paying Lines.
To establish this Steam-Packet Line a Company
should be formed (limited liability,) with a capital
(half to be subscribed in America) sufficiently
large to purchase eight First-class Steamers: two
to sail (monthly) direct from Liverpool to Savan
nah; two (monthly) from Havre, calling, out and
home, at Southampton. If an addition was thought
desirable, one or two Packets might hail from Ant
werp, calling .also, out and home, at Southampton.
The Freight for the Outward-bound Packets
would consist of the numerous Passengers, and
the vast quantities of Dry Goods from Europe,
which now reach Savannah and Charleston via
New York, all of which, owing to the great saving
of expense and time, would certainly find tlieir
way by this direct line to Savannah; also great
quantities of various merchandize, that are now
frequently detained for months (particularly in
Liverpool) for want of a direct transit,
The Freight of the Homeward-bound Packets
from Savannah would consist of Cotton, Rice, To
bacco, Turpentine, Bread-stuffs, and various sorts
of lumber; and from 200 to 400 Passengers per
week, who arrive from the Interior, from the
Southern, South-Western and tbe Western States,
would, it may be fairly assumed, take their passage
by this Line to Europe, to make their purchases
first-hand, in preference to, as at present, being
obliged (from having no other market) to go to
New York, where, they say, the “extra price” they
are forced to pay (arising from the profits or com
missions charged by the various parties through
whose hands the goods pass before reaching the
merchant wlio supplies the consumer;) would be
more than sufficient to leave them a handsome pro
fit, and besides, pay their expenses to and from
Europe. Such was the opinion of the numerous
planters, merchants and others, with whom the
writer held personal communication in Savannah
and Charleston during a sojourn of some months
in 1852, at which period so anxious were most of
tlie merchants of Savannah for the establishment
of the Line, that they were willing to subscribe
for half the capital necessary to carry it into effect,
and its Corporation to grant to the Company vari
ous fiscal privileges for the Packets; hut, unfor
tunately, on his return to this country, Russian di
plomacy put a stop to everything.
To carry the project into immediate operation
and to secure possession of tlie Line with its at-
tedant privileges, it would be advisable to des
patch an Agent legally accredited from the London
Direction, with full powers to act according to
circumstances—who, on arriving at Savannah,
would immediately wait upon certain influential
parties, indicated to him, who would obtain the
various privileges alluded to, and have them con
firmed by tbe proper State authorities; after which
to organize a Local Board or Direction, in confor
mity with the formula of his London instructions
—have the amount of Capital subscribed, requir
ed from the Americans (which the writer feels as
sured would, if necessary, far exceed the wishes
of the English Board,) settle the Local (Savannah)
By-Laws for the Administration of the Compa
ny, and finally submit the Prospectus for perusal
to the most influential Editors, requesting their fa
vourable support, and then publish in the various
newspapers. In conclusion, the writer begs to ob
serve that these arrangements can only be effect
ed and earned out by personal intervention, and
will be happy, if desired, in promotion of tlie en-
terprize, to proceed to Savannah, or in any other
way makes a tender of his services here towards
its establishment
Any communication addressed, “ Georgia,”
North and South American Coffee House, Thread-
needle Street will receive immediate attention.
London, January 1, 1857.
*>
From the Lecompfon Union, Jan. 8.
The Shivery Question in Kansas.
Stop the Lie.—A desperate eflbrt is being
made upon the part of abolition papers to make the
people iu the State believe that they, abolitionists,
have tlie ascendancy in population in Kansas.
This we pronounce false, and the best argument in
favor of our assertion is, the fact that they have so
little confidence in their numerical superiority,
that they are afraid to test the question at the bal ;
lot box. If they have the majority of population
in their! favor, why did they refuse to vote at the
last election for delegate?—Had they done so aud
beaten ns fairly and squarely, we would have
yielded to the will of the majority, and the question
would have been put to rest. They cannot say
that they had shown a disposition to vote at the
last election, that hordes of Missourians, would
have invaded the Territory, took possession and
stuffed the ballot box with illegal votes: fur it was
not known uutil after the election but wliat they
would vote, and yet no Missourians came over to
counteract their tremendous majority. We say
unhesitatingly, and without the fear of successful
contradiction—that if any—not more than fifty
Missourians voted in tlie last election. Every vote
was cast by bonafide citizens of the Territory, and
the election was an expression of the will of the
real citizens of the Territory.
In every election—where they leave dared test
the question—they have been badly beaten.—
Since then some pro-slavery men have left the
country—others have come in and taken tlieir
places—Free State men have left the country, and
others taken their places, so that the ratio of pop
ulation is about the same, and if they dare to test
the question again we will beat them badly as be
fore.
Had things been left to their natural course
Kansas would have been a slave State without a
serious struggle, and it v. iil he a slave State yet
notwithstanding the unconstitutional means taken
by aid societies, to crush slavery out. The Teri-
tory of Kansas is to-day a slave Territory—her laws
recognize and protect it—her office holders are in
favor of the institution—and her population is
emphatically pro-slavery; but if the [Abolition pa
pers can succeed in making it appear that'they have
the population, and by this throw in tlieir scale the
weight of administrative influence, and force sla
very out of Kansas, the South will be robbed and
plundered ot her fairest and richest heritage.
Holloway’s Pills.—Persons of billious habit,
or who are liable to attacks of dyspepsia, should
fortify their systems against the relaxing heats of
Summer by a course of this mild aperient and al
terative in the Spring. It not only regulates the
secretions, and removes obstructions from the
bowels, but braces arid revitalizes the digestive
powers, when weakened by indulgence, or ren
dered torpid by a sedentary life. The testimony of
inavlids of both sexes and all ages in every part
of the globe, demonstrates beyond question that
all internal diseases not resulting from malforma
tion, are capable of being cured by this great
remedy.
n»— ■ ■
Great Mouse Hunt.—“A great mouse hunt,” says
a Bridgeport (Conn.) paper, recently came off in
in this vicinity, consisting of two parties of forty a
side, with a large number of dogs, which succeeded
in killing, during a day’s sport 959 rats and 21 j
bushels of mice. The captains of tins two parties
were Joseph Fletcher aud Chas. H, Hill; aud Mr.
Fletcher’s party won by 65 rats and 4] bushels of
mice.
Desiuclioii of Hie national Theatre.
At three o’clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke
out in the upper part of the National Theatre, and
a few minutes afterwards the whole of thisspaci-
ous edifice was in tiames. The alarm was quickly
ommuuicated to all parts of the city, and in an
almost incredibly short space of time, engine,
hose, and hook and ladder companies were on the
spot, and engaged in the most earnest and dariug
efforts to extinguish the fire. From the combusti
ble nature of the materials within the building, tlie
fire spread with the greatest rapidity, and soon en
veloped the whole of the immense edifice in one
mass o.f flame. The efforts of the firemen were
mainly directed to the preservation of the adorning
house; and when we add that tbe printing and
publication offic«s of tlie Union were ouly separa
ted from the buriiig edifice by a narrow alley, tbe
lively interest which we felt in their unflaggiug
exertions may be naturaly inferred. Fortunately,
the fire was confined to the theatre; and although
the Union office was several times on tire, through
tlie well-direct< d exertions of the firemen, with the
generous aid of hundreds of eur citizens, on ser.ous
was sustained. We take this occason to offer o.r
most heartfelt thanks to tlie firemen of Washing
ton, and to tlie scores of kind friends w ho had re
paired to the scene cf conflagration, for their zeal
ous arid successful efforts to save our property
from the impending danger.
The Old National, as it was familiarly called in
Washington, although unpretending in its outward
appearance, was one of the largest theatres in the
United States. It was destroyed by fire’ou the 5th
of March, 1845, the evening after the inauguration
ofPresident Polk, and, although there large audi
ence in the building when the flames were first
discovered, all escaped without the slightest injury.
Then, as now, the Union office was in imminent
danger of destruction from the speading flames;
but then, as now, it was saved by lhe skill, zeal,
and noble daring of the firemen of Washington.
[ Washington Union.
Tlie strange and mysterious murder of Dr.
Bnrdell, iu Bond street, is the one theme of con
versation. There are three persons upon whom
suspicion of guilt rests, in the minds of almost
every one. Dr. Burdell w as a good, easy soul—a
man of excitable aud passionate temperament,
independently rich, but mixing little iu general
society. His first manage was unfortunate—a
divorce having been granted his wife. This will
account for the seeresy imposed upon Mrs. Cun
ningham, when she became his “second love.”
Others can draw their own moral from the hor-
ribele event, but any student of life and nature
will at once see, by just such develonients as these,
tiie true state of society in this city. One-half
the world does not know how the other half lives,
aud in New York, in these matters, ignorance is
frequently biiss.
The Burdell Case.—New York, Feb. 11.—Mrs.
Cunningham has been comniittei to the Toombs
on the charge of being engaged in tbe murder of
Dr. Burdell.
Arrival of the Arabia’s Hail.
Perils of the Americans in the China Seas—Details
of Operations of the United States Forces!
The mails by the Arabia are received. The
China news and commercial intelligence, below,
is all that is of importance, in addition to the sum
mary by telegraph heretofore published.
Great Britain.—Queen Victora’s accouchment
was expected to take place in March.
Redpath, the ex-Secretary of the Northern Eng
lish R. R. Company, who swindled his employers
out of nearly a million of dollars, was convicted
by the jury after an absence of five minutes. His
alleged accomplice. Keut, was acquitted. Red-
path was immediately sentenced to transportation
for life.
The returns show that one hundred and fifty
vessels were driven ashore, and eighty totally
wrecked, w ith many others damaged, during the
late frightful gale on the coasts of the United
Kingdom, involving a large loss et life.
A terrific hurricane devastated the Phillipine
Islands, on October 27th. All the suburbs ot
Manilla and tiie neighboring villages were reduc
ed to heaps of ruins. The number of houses
destroyed at that- place alone was above three
thousand five hundred. Official returns show that
more than ten thousand houses were destroyed
within a circuit of -about eight leagues around
Manilla. Six foreign vessels were also driven
ashore.
China —We have received, says tlie London
Times of January 17, the China Mail Extra, dated
Hong Kong, November 24, being nine days’ later
intelligence than that received by the last mail.
We extract the following:
“The most stirring of events have been an in
sane attack by the Imperialists on boats from the
United States ships of-war, and the well merited
punishment Which followed tlie tiring on them.
“The Berner Forts being entirely demolished,
the Americans intend to retire from the quarrel, it
is said, and await the issue of Admiral Seymour’s
demonstration before again operating. The
French have also withdrawn their meu-of-war’s
men from the factories, and. report lias it, have
taken possession of the Liptat Forts, on one of the
branches of the river. This they intend holding
pending the arrangement of some matters which
they, too, have to present to the government of
China, the recent cruel torture and murder of the
missionary Cbapdelaine having yet to be explain
ed, the authority qualified to receive the explana
tion—M. de Montigny—being now on his way
here from Coehen China.
Disappointed in the hope of bringing the Can
ton Government to a proper sense of duty by tbe
harsh measures reported iu our last summary..
Admiral Seymoui now relies, apparenly, and with
reason, on coercion by tlie people. With this, oi
some such view, his Excellency is intrenching the
foreign quarter, has had captured junks tilled with
the remains of demolished forts, and is sinking
them in those parts of the river where danger from
tire-rafts was to be apprehended—booming off
those tracks which it may be round necessary to
open on an early occasion. Every native boat
that approaches the factories is fired on; though
few, since the Niger has been guard-ship, have
had the temerity to come within reach of her un
sparing sharpshooters.
A covered way from the British factory to the
southwest corner of the city wall is in contempla
tion too, it is reported, so rending the next attack
on the city a work of comparative ease and safety.
In the place of the withdrawn French and
American guards, some companies of Her Majes
ty’s 59th Regiment have been sent hence, though
but few are required, 100 English bayonets,
properly disposed, being sufficient to keep at bay
as many Chinese as can be brought against them
on the land side; and it would be quite possible
for Admiral Seymour, even with the force at pres
ent under his control, to take possession of and
to hold securely all the quarter of the new city ex
tending west from the Governor General's official
residence, and north up to the wall of tlie old city,
distant but a few yards fr om the extremity of the
building spoken of.
Details of the Capture of the Barrier Forts by the
Americans.
“Tbe future plan of operations having been
agreed upon by Uie three commanders, early on
Friday morning the Cum-fa towed the Levant into
position much nearer the forts, the Barrier stakes
alone preventing further progress. The boats ot
both ships were then manned with a storming
party, aud the capture of the fort at tlie entrance
of Fidler’s Reach revolved on. At 8 A. M., the
little Cumfa, (under the able direction ofVolun-
teer Capt. W. M. Robinet,) with the launchers and
cutters in tow, started for the fort under the cover
of the Levant’s guns, and in the face of a galling
fire from the three forts. The shot whistled and
roared over and around her, but she escaped with
out injury, and returned to the ships unscathed,
after having been exposed to a sharp fire of up
wards of an hour, amid the hearty cheers and con
gratulations of all hands. But not so with the
boats. A large 8 inch shot struck the San Jacin
to’s launch, in charge of First Lieutenant Lewis
of that ship, on the starboard bow, killing one
man instantly, mortally wounding two others,
who died shortly afterwards, and wounded two or
three slightly. The shot was a hollow one, and
after striking the bread bag in the stern of the boat,
quitly reposed there, and remains a captive to the
boat's company. The landing was effected with
out further trouble, and, although the men had to
cross a deep ditch up to their knees, and some to
their w aistbands, the stars and stripes were upon
the fort in ten minutes. The landing party reach
ed tlie fort with but one man injured by a rocket
from the retreating Chinese.
“The party entered the fort at about 9 o'clock,
and the work of destruction commenced. The
buildings were all set fire to and destroyed, pow
der and shot thrown into the river, and every
thing that could be burnt was destroyed. Such
guns as could be burst were sent into fragments:
those that could not were spiked, trunnions blown
off, and so defaced as to be made useless. This
tort mounted 48 guns, none less than 24 pounders,
some as high as forty catties. Two of them were
beautiful brass guns, which the landing party
turned upon the opposite forts with much effect,
to which the Chinese replied with vigor, but with
out loss to the American side. The work of de
molition occupied till past noon, when it became
necessary to take measures for further proceed
ings, and the capture of the Island, or Round Fort,
was then determined upon. Through the sole ad
vice of a gentleman volunteer present, well skilled
in Chinese warfare and local information, a plan
was decided upon, and at about 3 P. M., tlie troops
sallied out of the western gate, aud, under cover of
the raised bund or road along the river's side,
marched up to a point opposite to the southern
door of the Round Port and in the line of the
Square Fort, while the boats were being tracked
up along th<‘ shore. While here, waiting for the
boats to come up, some Chinese soldiers made a
sally from behind the hill at the Lob Creek Pago
da, and discharged volleys of arrows and rockets,
but with no effect. They were speedily driven
back by tlie mariners and the Portsmouth’s how
itzer, arid made good their retreat to Honam Is
land. By this time the boats had arrived at the
embarcation, seeing which the Chinese troops in
the Round Fort, knowing that it was all up with
them, speedily took to tlieir heels, and the forces
lauded without opposition at 4 P. M.
“Thus three of the four forts were captured with
the loss of five killed and five wounded, on boat and
ashore, duty, and two wounded on board the ships.
The Levant suffered but little, two shots in her hull,
one through into her berth deck, mainstay shot
away, and one 32 pounder materially injured by a
round shot striking the muzzle of the gun and
splitting it to the muzzle ring. One man lost the
calf of Ids leg by a caunon ball. This last fort
contained 38 guns, some of them were of enormous
calibre, and the approach from Whampoa was de
fended by a veritable leviathan gun. made of brass
or copper, eight inches in the bore and 24 feet iu
length, its construction showing marks of being
of recent castings within a few years,) and upon an
improved model. It would well repay one to visit
it, and it is to be hoped the victors will use every
effort to bear away such a magnificient prize.—
Everything appertaining to this fort was destroy
ed as far as practicable: but the work was not ae-
complished; there remained one more fortification
to be captured, and Chinese could be seen reinforc
ing it with powder and shot during the day, and
showing every determination to maintain a vig
orous resistance.
The commanders immediately determined upon
tlieir plan of operations, and by 12 o'clock at night,
the Fidlcr's Reach fort was vacated ,tbe total force
quietly bivoucking in the Island fort. About mid
night the moon arose, and although Chinese
soldiers might be seen hurrying to and from the
Square Fort, not six hundred yards opposite, at
four A. M. on Saturday, all hands were called,
after a few hours repose on the cold granite floors
of the fort, and the separate divisions were ordered
quietly into their respective boats. Ail prepara
tions were made for the attack by the dawn ot
day; three howitzers, with their crews aud ammuni
tion, were stationed iu the ports on the northern
side commanding the Square Fort, and at 5h, 45ui.
the boats pushed off-
As they opened out from the fort the order was
given to lire; and, under cover of the three howit
zers. which kept up a withering fire of aharpnel
upon the opposite fort into its centre, through the
port holes, am! upon the retreating troops, the
boats touched the shore after having been exposed
to tlie raking fire of eight guns, loaded with round
shot and grape, aud 15 minutes from the embarka
tion, the flowery flag was upon the ramparts of
their last stronghold. Although it was a perfect
shower of grape, over, about and around them,
the boats escaped without injury or a mr.u wound
ed.
The Island Fort kept up a fire upon the retreat
ing Celestials until they were out of reach; and,
although they rallied once or twice and honored
the victors with a shower of rockets, tbe advance
howitzers drove them back several miles under
cover ot the villages in the eastern suburbs of Can
ton.
The rest of the day was occupied in the destruc
tion of the two last captured forts; and it is to be
hoped that ere the ships withdrew they will raze
them to the ground 'I hey were defended by guns
ot enormous calibre—say from 8 to 11 inch, and the
labor of destroying them in earnest cannot he well
motived. There were—5
Guns.
Barrier Fort, 38
Fidler’s Reach Fort, 48
Island Fort,,.... ..38
Sqare Fort, 4j
Grand total
Which are either destoyed, or rendered unfit f
service. The fortifications were injured by tl *
ship’s fire, and the loss of 165 guns, and the destu' 9
tion of his most important defences, must teach tu"
Majesty’s Honorable Member of the Privy Conn q*
Mr. Ye'h Ming Chin, a lesson in foreign diploma
the will not soon forget.
“All the officers as well as men vied with i
oth.-r in acts of daring, and too much pa rise cann
be bestowed upon the gallant Coniffimders F 0 „ t ot
Bell and Smith, for tlieir courageous determi ’
tion; on Lieutenants Lewis, Watuiangh,Gurtl r Ua
Davenport, English, Carter and Simpson, f, Jr t jl* >
gallant manner in which they led their 'separat 6
divisions into action; on Masters Adams, Shena I
and Lieutenant Belknap, for their very able J, r f '
manceson that musical instrument called a i ^'
itzer, which sounded the death knell to ln ., nv
fue; on Captain Simms and liis gallant corns of
Mariness, who were ever ready to mete wit to g .
foe his deserts, and to preserve the honor of that
flag untarnished: and lastly, on the rctnaiiiin-
fenders of tie- ships, who did they p rt u and
eager for the fray.”
another account.
Canton, Nov. 19,1856.—On Saturday, the 14th
ins;., the first cutter of tlie United Stares ship p,,V» S
mouth, containing Capt, 1 oote and others, uasn ru t
eroding from Whampoa to Canton; whi n she
fired upon by the Barrier Forts. It was halt-past 4
in the afternoon when this occulted. The Ameri.
can flag was in a position that does away with a 1
chance of a plea of mistaking it, while no l efs tin n
two round shot aud three charges of grape, aft, r
the round shot, were tired into the boat by tL,
Chinese “braves.”
At the first discharge of the grape the boat was
turned for the ships, where she arrived at fioVlerh,
and after an hour Commodore Armstrong ,j
upon taking possession of the two forts, aud tin ,
advising the governor of Canton of what had
curred. The insult having been avenged, the
“property” might have been returned to its
fill owner, or retained, according as the reply than
Gov. Yeh might indicate a wish for war or p, at „
with the Americans.
At daylight on Sunday, the San Jacinto’s cutter
commenced sounding the river from Whampoa to
the Barrier, which was aceoamplished after the los,
of a man troin a shot while throwing the lead. At
4 P. M., 24 hours after the Portsmouth's boat l ad
been fired into, that ship and the Levant were
nearly in position to open fire. With only water
enough to float the Portsmouth, she was towed up
to her berth by the Willamette, in the most gallai t
style on Capt. Curry’s part, who was for mntr.-
minutes in tbe midst of a hot tire from the forts',
which had opened long before the ships w as near
enough to suit Captain Foote. After the steamtr
had been ordered to “cast off and take care of her
self,” Captain Foote dropped with the flood for five
minutes until within 450 yards distance of tlie
nearest fort, (the largest one at the right end of the
Barrier,) having then been under heavy fire fir
some time. “Starbord”—“let go anchor”—hanl
in spring”—fire!” came in quick succession, and,
to cut my story short,* the ship fired 220 8-inch
shells in the following two hours and fifteen min
utes.
All were well placed at their nearest neighbor
and at the Round Fort oil the left, some ],4110
yards distant. At dark firing ceased, the forts keep
ing it uptill 15 minutes before the "ship stopped,
and giving a sample of what is in store at tho
French Folly at this time. Tlie two forts are said
to be filled with English guns and junkmen crew-,
and certainly we have never seen anything in the
way of Chinese gunnery before equal to them.
During this time the Levant was aground, out
of fire, and could not take part in the action. The
Portsmouth was hulled three times, oue marine
mortally wounded, aud her rigging badly cut.
After the tire it was not deemed prudent to send
away boats from the ship, as the latter required
tlieir whole crews to take care of them in the posi
tion they held, and having no steam to move down
with. On Monday morning the Cum-fa embaik d
the balance of men from Canton, for tbe purpose
of manning boats and taking possession.
Hon. Hr. Etheridge,
Tho Independent Journal, published at Ternton,
Twin., is very severe—though not more severe
than just—in its strictures oil this gentleman, for
hisYo-peration with the Abolitionists and against
the South, during his entire term in Congress, and
especially with regard to the recent inflammatory,
injurious and uncalled ior resolution relative to tho
reopening of the African slave trade. The Journal
is published iu Mr. Etheridge’s district, and but
echoes the general feeling of indignation with
which liis recent conduct has inspired the great
body of his constituents, irrespective of party:
“During the last canvass in noticing a speech of
Mr. Etheridge delivered at this place, we saw
proper to term him the Black Republican Repres
entative of the 9th Congressional District of
Tennessee. To this some objections were made
by his friends here that the epithet was too harsh
and severe. If the classification was wrong, all
that was necessary for Mr. Etheridge and his
friends to do, is to show wherein he differs from his
northern friends with whom lie acts, votes anil
speaks. Every citizen of this District who has any
sense of shame, cannot but feel mortified at his con
duct as Representative.
Mr. Etlieridg’s ambition is insatiable, and he
seizes upon every fitting occasion to urge his
claims upon the attention of those with whom lie
is acting, and for whom he seems to make such a
sacrifice of southern sentiment. During the mem
orable struggle for Speaker last winter, Mr. Ether
idge on every ballot was found among the scatter
ing, voting for Pennington, Haven and but very
seldom for Fullar, and when it se.uthought that it
was impossible to unite the opposing forces upon
a northern man, he very modestly intimated to his
northern companions, that an election could only
be effected by uniting upon asouthren anti-Nebras
ka man. This was a very modest hint, for Mr.
Etheridge, when it is considered that he himself
had the Tumor of being a southern anti-Nebraska
man, hut the Republicans and northern Know-
Nothings would not take the hint, as they were
determined upon the election ofMr. Banks, and
that southern Know-Nothings should indirectly
contribute their aid.
Greeley thinks that an attack upon Mr. Ether
idge’s official course, may induce him to reconsider
his determination not to run again iu this district.
Althrough his constituents may he opposed to the
revival of the African Slave trade, yet they see no
necessity for the introduction of such a resolution,
merely to gratify northern fanaticism, lie may
rest assured for doing this, his official conduct will
be thoroughly scrutinized by his constituents, and
should he again be induced to become a candidate
in consequence of the attacks, he will receive that
rc-buke from an indignant constituency, which he
so richly deserves. But we opine that Mr. Etber-
idg'' will not, under any circumstances, be induced
to abandon his present determination, not to be
come again a candidate for re-election. Whatever
may he his feelings, the cliivalric sentiment of his
party, ever will forbide his entertaining any such
absurd idea. To do so, would be incurring an
overwhelming di feat, which they are not willing
to risk with the present odds against them in the
popular vote.
The ICcst India Sugar Cane, Per U. S. Store-ship
Release.—Townsend Glover Esq., the United States
Agent for the selection of specimens of West| India
sugar cane, to be distributed among the planters in
the Southern States, favored us with a cr.fl last
evening. He informs us that the store-ship Relca-o
is lying close to the French Market, in the Second
District. Tho Release comes from Dr-marara and
Caraccas, at which latter place, Mr. Glover informs
us he found the cane growing 4,500 feet above the
sea, sweet and hardy, and from nine to twelve feet
high. The Luba is brought from Demarara. Tho
store on board consists of 30 tons in bulk and 10rt0
boxes of cane, packed in layers of earth. These
are selected from many rarities and are of a prublo
hue. Mr. Glover is of opinion that tlie cane will
be admirably adapted for the climate of Louisiana.
There are also specimens of West India fruit tret s
on board.
At Demarara, Mr. Glover was an eye witness of
the working of the. British system of the Coolyism,
a:.d the demoralising effects of emancipation. The
Cooleys, he informs us, are hardy and industrious:
they live on the coarsest fare, dress in a most
primitive manner, and save monev. Their labor
un certain plantations is in a small degree reme
dying the.evils that mock-philanthropy brought
upon the island. The black population he found
idle, worthless and debased. The position of
white minis not to be envied, as the negroes look
upon them as almost as good as themselves, hut
not quite.
The gallant commander of the Release is Lieut.
Simms, formerly of the Arctic, who accompanied
Dr. Kane on his memorable expedition. After
dwelling in regions of snow, the sunny landscape
of the West Indies must have had a peculiar charm
to him.—N. O. Delta, Feb. 7.
1 know a great over grown, first rate man
in this place, writes a correspondent!, en
gaged in tlie mercantile business, who is
muc h troubled to recollect names, and wlm,
one morning, with pencil in band and quid
behind his ear called out to bis partner,
“Billy, what is Join Supplebeom’s first
name?” and lie neverdiscoveied bis mistake
till be began to write it, when be forgot
tbe last name; and with the same unconsci
ousness, sang out, “Excuse me, Billy, but
I have forgot John Supplebeam’s last name
now!“ The roar of laughter which ensured
restored his memory.
Singular Accident.—At the Lafarge House
in Saratoga, last Wednesday, the water
works had become frozen, and a sort, of
kettle, prepared for the purpose of thawing
it out by steam, was obtained and attach
ed to the Croton water pipe. Fire being
applied, steam was raised to a greater bead
than it would stand, when it exploded,
scalding Miles T. Bliven very severely
about the face.